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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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I have previously called your attention to how a real understanding of
When there was still an instinctive understanding of these things, in
of cosmic consonants. Because I stand here on the earth, there sounds
the way it normally confronts us and otherwise stands before us, our
Man standing before you is nothing but the phenomenon, the appearance,
of how necessary it is for him to stand within a divine cosmic world,
understand how, in passing from the Greek to the Latin culture,
understand Goethe's intense yearning for the South. In modern school

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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understanding of man's being and nature.
impossible for our thought to come to a standstill within the limits
not only externally but also inwardly. We cannot understand the life
to confront the life of soul with complete lack of understanding; for
organism stands there as a supporting structure composed of bones,
It is obvious from this that an understanding of man's connection with
understand the connection of the Ego with the astral body and with the
understanding not only of his relation to the surrounding physical
stands on the ground — and no relation is found between the two.

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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when it is a matter of any comprehensive understanding of the life of
understanding — this world-view is unable to build a bridge.
will more easily understand what I shall now have to say on the basis
is nothing but an illusion, a mirage. We can understand the course of
man's constitution. To understand it we must pass from the solid
where the sun stands in the universe; and it was the same in regard to
unveiled. And now you will understand some of the deeper reasons for

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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Man stands in the world as thinking, contemplative being on the one
standing in the world, can bring to realization in himself in such a
between death and a new birth. And just as here the object stands
Let us understand this rightly. What happens when man rises to pure
Thus does man stand within the great process of world-evolution, and
through Man, who stands before us as the supreme achievement of the
points from which we can go forward to a true understanding of freedom

Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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into consideration historical events in order to understand human
history you will find no thought as widely understandable or having as much
Golgotha. Furthermore, we find we can only understand what has happened
in nature. And with a certain understanding of this link between nature and
However, we must understand the mystery of Christmas in a far wider
context, if we wish to understand what should concern us most of all in
post-Atlantean humanity, stands, as it were, in the middle, and that there
increasingly come to understand from a spiritual-scientific point of view
Christian understanding standing at the side of Osiris — Isis — the
imagination, suited to our own times. An understanding must arise again of
wish to truly understand the world, must imagine that Lucifer appears to
enables us to see into the world with understanding, worked in a twofold
ahrimanic. Modern human beings must understand the mystery of Christmas in
problems of modern civilization is not that we have lost Christ, who stands
community should understand the terrible significance for our age that such
should be able to understand that in the future this must not be allowed,
Ask yourselves whether the feelings in your hearts and souls when you stand
understanding of the meaning of its evolution on earth! All the problems
understand him. Just as the Egyptians looked from Osiris to Isis, so we
understand Christmas. If we cannot manage this, we do not understand
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Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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good-will there is even now for an understanding of such things. The
will to understand will come in time, and we must see that it does
we may ask this very significant question: How stands it with death
from this standpoint, whether it be in plant or animal or man.
the same standardised way. After all, we might even conceive as death
This will not only lead you towards an understanding of the mystery of
understanding of history which I have called for in recent lectures
ways of understanding which will be necessary for the future.
is to cultivate this understanding of his picture-nature, and thus to
can understand him unless this that passes by us awakens in us the
things). The second is this: men will understand one another quite
On various occasions, as a first step towards an understanding of this
through this feeling of colour in speech men will learn to understand
understanding through speech, they will have to feel one another in
things if we would gain a foundation for understanding the so-called

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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characterized by all that we see with the senses and understand with
our usual standards, but it meets the case exactly.) The first etheric
understand the astral which man brings with him. We must know in the
found in their real union when we learn to understand all the

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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the course of today's considerations you will begin to understand how
within the organism, and in order really to understand what is going
on, one needs to understand the super-sensible human being, because
this case we need to understand that not enough of the super-sensible
an understanding to arise in wider circles, a common feeling for how
We do expect, however, that there be general understanding of how
understanding. It would be wrong to believe that everyone should know
consist of building a general understanding, based on healthy common

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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understanding the explanations contained in many of my lectures, and
were inspired. We should begin to understand the spiritual world, the
fools, we shall know how matters stand with the evolution of the world

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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cannot lead to such an understanding of each particular age. We may be told
way an animal stands within the course of the year. Now, in order to gain a
by way of all sorts of concepts and pictures, how we stand within the three
plant and animal. We then seek there the key to understanding human life
tried to grasp or understand. He tried rather to follow the flowing, mobile,
himself suddenly at a stand. He had a world of inner pictures, varied,
reveal, at least to some degree, man's being in its fullness. I too stand

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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essential to man, just in our time. In that case it is vital to understand
something. Looking at memory is the best way to understand how absurd
denominations, that they despise material existence instead of understanding
existence on the other, you will never understand man. There is no way
of him you see standing in front of you belongs entirely to this line. But
understanding are super-sensible, that is, everything we make use of for
understanding. And these are the same forces that also form our head. So
we can say that the super-sensible forces are the forces of understanding.
the earth. The forces of understanding come to us from the world's
understanding, purely because of the infectious quality of his teacher's
enthusiasm, he will not yet understand what he has taken in, as people
can understand what he is able to release from the depths of his soul; he
can understand the thing he was taught purely through the force of
inadequate understanding, and which you can now release and absorb
understands — for that will disappear with the passing years, and neither
makes a difference if you understand the kinds of things that are being
put to practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them
you understand it properly, you will find an opportunity to make use of
standardized education still plays a great part, that is, the kind of
education that works with a whole set of standard rules. Education is
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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simply did not know what spirit really is from the standpoint of a man
only a German possessed of sound insight is capable of understanding
the political sphere. Because men had no understanding of the spirit,
thus into the super-sensible world, with understanding for what is seen
understand this, we must consider once more the threefold membering of
everything we say, whether we are walking or standing, whatever we do

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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were through a gulf. We are no longer standing in the world with our
judgments. And only when we are able to decipher and understand the
it was certainly present. To understand the Greek nature we must
is beyond his reach, because the Guardian of the Threshold stands
historical evolution. Julian the Apostate stands as it were upon the
In truth, Julian the Apostate and Constantine stand before us as two
But this the West does not understand. Only when the Palladium legend

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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Let us try to understand how Truth, Beauty and Goodness are related,
As the human being stands before us we see, in the first place, his
Indeed, we only understand this physical world aright when we realize
better understanding of the etheric body than he has to-day. Indeed,
vividly as when this statue stands there before me! Never have I such
we no longer stand within the essential substance of truth. Only
in human life, assume far-reaching significance when we understand the

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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our anthroposophical understanding of times and seasons, if we are really
stands revealed in wondrously beautiful words what Raphael had placed before
the unending inspiration of such as can understand — all his work that
connection in which it is able to stand when it passes through the Beings of
in wisdom to enter into a relation of understanding with such spirits as
understanding. But he does not find the possibility to give a picture of the
Raphael life for which Hermann Grimm had so fine an understanding! His

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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were able to understand him, was of the greatest importance in this
society that does not understand them. We must find again, through an
understand this, we must begin by taking into consideration the frame
modern man finds it very difficult to understand that the first men
necessary for the evolution of mankind that the understanding, or the
express it in a soul-spiritual way, the understanding could come only
stand, seen from a human aspect. But they can also be contemplated
understands this connection between the earthly world and the divine
this esoteric teaching, one must realize that he who understands the
Gospel. But a full understanding can be gained only by penetrating
nearer to the understanding of death. By yielding himself up to the
empty pictures of our understanding. A strong life is needed in order
out of the force of pure thinking, and where we learn to understand

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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basic knowledge required for an understanding of the mystery of
possible; these lectures may not conform to literary standards, but
occasions so that we will be better able to understand the full
have to deal with the human mind as well and try to understand how it
understanding the external aspect of the mind has become possible
healthy left convolution of the brain. We must now understand what it
the matter stands like this: When children cry, the sounds they utter
we need to understand also that this is how the child learns to
education, even in the lower grades, we need an understanding of the
are tremendously significant once we understand that they affect
understanding of what occurs in the brain when we speak, we can get
standing at various points on the earth. And one person, let us say,
can look up to the sun and say that when we stand here at a certain
direction where the strong forces come from. If a person is standing
in order to understand anything. The earth alone does not give us an
understand that people there must constantly re-enliven in their
not worth anything. However, if you understand the full context, the
that will lead us from understanding the transformation of substances
to an understanding of what is really happening and its connection to

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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important truth about human beings, for it enables us to understand
Ego, just as he stands there in immediate reality, is not a work of
to convey information, we do not understand the poem. The poem is
but with the speech-sense alone we do not understand it. We have also
inability to find the spiritual, but also an inability to understand
knows nothing of the spirit, one cannot understand the physical.
nothing can be done with such an abstraction, for one understands
organ for understanding Aristotle was lacking. The phrase has been
like a breath of this deeper understanding of the aesthetic activity
that spiritual understanding cannot reside only in a turning towards
evolution and history. Seen from the standpoint of reality, what is
to see any fine work of art in its reality. You have to stand before
reality — the elemental world. We can stand before the Venus of
in his own way, to express an aesthetic understanding of life in much

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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Grimm — the saying of an outstanding man who lived not very long
structure, freedom is achieved, as Schiller understands it.
man, if he is to stand as a free being in the social structure? A
as the greatest man of his century. Goethe could not understand this.
was clear to him that to understand the human being in his development
of instinct. Schiller was the man of understanding, but not in quite
the usual sense: in him understanding was led over into perception.
something quite different, which can understand the preceding period
nineteenth century. And we can understand this fact only if we ask:
“Tale” with inner understanding, we can feel the presence in
present in even the most outstanding figures today; and it would be
cannot understand Schiller and Goethe. Every scene in “Faust”
essential thing. And without an understanding of this turning-point in
A real understanding of the social organism will be achieved only when
because he has to stand entirely on the single point of his own self
revelation. In between stands immediate judgment.
transform it by my understanding; I take it into my soul, as I take
State. On the one hand we have man, who does not understand himself,
In earlier times, if a man wanted to be an outstanding jurist, he went
wanted to be an outstanding physician, he went to Montpellier or to
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Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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FOR a true understanding of the nature of the human being we have to
stimulation of the feelings. When we understand these things rightly,
age to age; and today we stand at the starting point of a time when
becoming imperative that men should understand these things.
are willing to enter into this matter and understand it, we shall be
are standing at a turning-point in human evolution. I need only refer
see that it has not yet reached an understanding of the Mystery of
Even the consciousness of how we stand in relation to our thoughts
understanding of the world. And here allow me to refer to something
understand me when I say that their theoretical knowledge of time
read with an understanding quite different from the way in which we

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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experience, we cannot understand the further evolution of man's life
intellect of ours a living understanding of the universe. The
realise and understand the connection of the being of man with
anthroposophical literature, we shall be able to understand the way in
respect, Sun and Moon stand in polar antithesis. The forces streaming
If, therefore, we want to understand the human being and the human
understand the being of man by investigating the nature of the Earth
Think of the human being as he stands there before us in his physical
Please do not misunderstand me This does not mean that Saturn is not
understand. Man must realise that the mysteries of his being cannot be

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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that an understanding of life may result from an understanding
human nature, and we can understand this when we consider the
sense of uneasiness and this increases till he stands there in
may dream that we are standing somewhere and a man is
soul which stand behind the dream while the person is wholly
live in these thoughts when they stand on the other side of the
stand within the essence, within the being, of Angeloi,
understand why this or that blow of destiny has befallen us in
are in that world in which we can understand our destiny. We
understand human life if we only observe it externally, as it

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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strained every nerve to understand how a Being like the Christ, Who
in regard to the outstanding figures of the early Christian centuries
Very little real understanding of Plato is shown in modern text-books
Idea of the Good stands above the others. — For what is expressed
is little real understanding of Platonic philosophy. Modern
intellectualism is incapable of it. Nor is it possible to understand
would understand the universe let us not pay heed to space, for space
learning in those days, and one can readily understand that Plotinus
also tried to understand the descent of the Christ into Jesus of
crown of wisdom was to understand how the Christ Being had entered
where they were able to understand the essence and being of the
of understanding the value and worth of personality, of
develop to a point where he will understand how the Christ took up His
been so splendid a preparation for an understanding of the Mystery of
third and fourth centuries A.D. to gloss over a deep misunderstanding.
absolutely objective standpoint, for what comes to pass in history is

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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older faculty of Intuition they were standing within the world of
experience of standing intuitively within this higher Hierarchy that
take pains to understand what we learn; but as we go back over
the evolution of mankind, we can only understand history as
far back as Roman times. Cicero and Caesar we can still understand,
although it must be said that the understanding generally brought to
we cannot claim to understand Pericles or Alcibiades. We understand
them in the same way as we understand characters in fairy tales. As a
that one can come again to an understanding of the soul life of such
mockery for modern man to imagine he can understand anything of the
appellations, one after the other, but we do not understand Aristotle
Try to understand the significance of this change. Something enters
the First. If we have a right understanding for this event in human
The Gods who stand above man in the various Hierarchies knew only of
the Trinity as standing above the First Hierarchy. In reality It only
the Gospel is quickened to life by an understanding of the Christ, an
understanding that derives from the Christ Himself as He still works
that we shall only be able to deepen our understanding of their
man, while he stands right within the decaying processes of Nature,
You must understand that the Michael thought is not a thing to be

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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world-evolution spoke of a primordial Being for the understanding of
required than for an understanding of the events described in the Old
understand that civilised humanity is faced with different tasks
it is possible for the thought of men who understand the essence of
a Galileo, men felt the call to set about understanding the Earth
development stand higher than man but in their development of soul
and Spirit stand lower than man. Throughout the regions of Siberia
faculty of earthly thought and to establish a standard and technique
involved, and which they must learn to understand. If they succeed in
beings once known as the Fauns and Satyrs. And if we understand the
intelligible until we understand them in their astral aspect, their
the sphere of Imaginative knowledge that we can stand with full

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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standpoints different things may be asserted in regard to a myth. It
said, from a certain standpoint — is the Osiris-Isis-Myth
standpoints, as well as in reference to the one I shall take as a
might be as much common understanding among modern men as, let us
particularly outstanding degree. A certain clairvoyance naturally
understanding of the Greek consciousness! Thus the Greek in looking

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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matter where he stands in the world, can be helped by the will to
development of which we are standing, to the Fourth Post-Atlantean
was an expedient, in order to take up a stand on the question: is a
his stand, stretches out his arms and then he is the cross. From
fact that people must understand something which it is above
all necessary for our time to understand: how will Osiris be

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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We have been endeavouring in these lectures to understand something
told you that the divine spiritual Beings who stand at the
an understanding of the present-day world conception. For the world
essentials standing spiritually before mankind up to the new
ancient Egyptian myths standing there at the side of Osiris. And for
For an understanding of
there is to stand before our soul's gaze that which once sounded over
precisely for the better understanding of the Mystery of
Golgotha. There must stand before our soul's gaze all the mystery
do not misunderstand it. This other Osiris-Isis myth is in no way
upon your unbiased understanding. This other Osiris-Isis myth then
stands in preparation, but which also has been read by few. And yet
the inscription stands clearly there, just as clearly as the
inscription stands there: ‘I am Man, I am the Past, the Present
stands far away from reality. The power of the Word, the power of
in the Lauenburg district. Because a tombstone stands there and on
forces of man. And one can only understand reality today for the man
understands that one has once been young. It does not really
understand how to grasp realistically that one gets older with
the new Isis Myth can stand beside the old Osiris-Isis Myth, why both

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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standing outside the priesthood cannot raise the veil of Isis. One
constellations of the cosmos. One must only understand this
stands in Cancer, then this is the
when it stands in Cancer, one says: the moon has its home, its house,
combination which stands in connection with the objects, this does
the Spring equinox stands in Taurus are connected
to grasp the world through understanding and this relationship
understand the Greek culture — that of the Romans became more
understanding into the time before the 14th century and read the
dear friends, stands favourably for this epoch, but this must give no
understand the great impulses which solely and alone can lead
all questions of the war, he had always taken a different stand from
vastly convenient to stand back and say: Yes, negotiations are going

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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one or another standpoint during my present stay here, but which are
essential for a right understanding of the two coming lectures.
stand inwardly.
sought in these lectures to show from a lofty historical standpoint
standpoint from which he viewed world-history, pointed out that when
must really be considered from a different standpoint from the one
all-embracing standpoint in their world conception, which indeed can
only come from an understanding of the spiritual world. Hence, thinks
have everywhere party-standpoints in which everyone looks on his
standpoint and others take others, and an agreement must come
about through life itself. No one stand point should gain a footing
feelings. On the one hand, one says: From what lofty standpoints,
catastrophic events which now stand so terribly before us. And
what did Friedrich Schlegel understand by the Christianizing of
is a trained Natural Scientist, standing in the difficult life of
and it could be multiplied — of the way in which people stand
von Hartmann and said ‘Well, I don't understand Zeller!
standpoint. He has, in the first place, only seen the parties which
by the Representative of mankind who stands in the centre of our
understanding. In any case the matter must not be made trivial.
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Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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has in reality no true understanding of himself. One could say that
difficult to understand. In reality they are not, in spite of the
for a right understanding of something of this nature. The point is,
that what we call understanding at the present day is actually the
result of our always seeking to understand through abstract
concepts. But one cannot understand everything through abstract
concepts. Above all one cannot understand the human being through
understanding of man. One must put oneself in the position of taking
in the position of really understanding the being of man. If we were
and what the intellect can understand. The human being is more than
abstract, it seems paradoxical and hard to understand, but yet the
death, one understands to some degree the speech of the dead, the
cannot yet quite understand. The comprehensions of the dead and the
not understand how to become old — or I could say, to remain
humanity were to understand how to become old, or younger in old age
can give us, man can gain no conception of how he stands in relation
form concepts that lead him to say ‘I do not stand here
earth I stand as human being, but as man I am the expression of the
understand this, my dear friends, because an age has come that could
not understand this, everything that refers to spiritual things
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Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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its own standpoint. In fact the natural science of today only
feeling and experience — with the conception: ‘I stand here on
this earthly soil, but this ground on which I stand, in which I shall
been there and had said to him ‘I don't understand Zeller, who
must wait. And today people want to understand everything all at
understand it. Such a principle is scarcely to be associated with the
general peace. For us the word “separate” stands in
‘... For us the word “separate” stands in
You see, as man stands
relatively early youth. As I have said, the head no longer stands in
but such a poet as Novalis. Then one stands in wonder before the
the standpoint of a quite particular ingeniousness in such an unclear
from which one could understand what actually happened. Where is
world-historical fact. And, on the other hand, one can say: men stand

Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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spirit. By departing from various standpoints, we have gradually
understanding attitude towards the world and man. This does not
different standpoint. The way in which he deals with the problems
century; but we should observe this from a different standpoint.
When Darwinism brought forward its great standpoint, Darwinism, which
wealth of facts had been collected from certain standpoints, when
how the truth, the absolute truth of Darwinism may stand, it
standpoint. The things which appear in material life are an image of
to understand what it lacked, indeed, but what it had to lack, owing
They remained at a standstill by the image, they thought that this

Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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stand upon a firm ground. It was something completely new in
from an aesthetic standpoint. We can bear in mind the monumental
state from his particular standpoint and, in reality, he was
and to consider him a little from a spiritual standpoint. Many people
man of the same type would stand there, he would be exactly the same.
from his standpoint, he praised Haeckel, he praised him exceedingly,
I have explained to you; let us consider it from the standpoint
another standpoint, how certain people, who felt that the head of
which the life of sleep inserts itself, from the standpoint of time,
standpoint, what takes place in that case. Imagine a Moleshott, or a
standpoint of the earth-being, and he speaks of the universe from the
standpoint of the earth-being. Try to feel how this standpoint is,
human being is not only considered from the standpoint of a certain
from the standpoint of the whole year in which he lives, and of its
seasons, from the standpoint of the various localities in which he
standpoint than the ordinary one of the nineteenth century and of the
which may be accepted from a social standpoint.
the form in which we can understand it, if we allow things to take
the head. This is the standpoint from which the whole matter should
withstand, we die in one moment. But otherwise, we die

Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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in their life of soul, it would be impossible to understand them. One
would not understand how they spoke or what they did. Historical
a music-stand and laying upon it specimens of minerals from his
We shall never understand Goethe unless we bear in mind the
and outlook, will never understand him. For an inner change of mental
is it possible to understand Goethe's whole attitude to Faust
Earth can I understand Man. — And many other passages can be
We shall not succeed in understanding such historical records of
limitation, but it is a fact nevertheless. And a true understanding
the spirit of Greece with understanding. Goethe's attitude to
soul was itself living, men were able to understand the living
Three epochs, therefore, stand out before us. — The epoch
anthroposophical Spiritual Science can understand thoroughly what is
where we understand the process wherein sound itself is moulded and

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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you of the three figures whose outstanding importance has lasted from
Boehme. We feel how they wrestled within themselves to understand
man. And so he is incapable of understanding the reality of the
was no longer living in the experiences of the soul. Bacon stands as
man as he stands there with his life of soul on the one side and his
understanding of the being of man was based on what was perceived to
be outside man and in seeking thus to understand human nature by way
across the word ‘salt,’ pretend to understand it, whereas
in reality they understand nothing at all. They come along with their
matters of which Boehme himself had only a glimmering understanding
Giordano Bruno there was a feeling that man must learn to understand
different world. The moment we really understand these salt-and
pre-earthly existence. In other words, understanding of these
understand it and could only express it in faltering words.
understand man if one part of his existence is obliterated,
give birth to a definite and precise understanding of man in the
tells. And when we understand these events we also understand why it

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Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
There must be no misunderstanding about such a fact as this.
we understand how to imbue earth-evolution with its true meaning and
Without the science of Initiation, understanding of these things lies
translated into the language that human reason can understand. The
The first requirement for understanding the super-sensible world is
can have no true understanding of the super-sensible world. However
to understand matters of a super-sensible nature.
From the standpoint of Initiation, therefore, one would have to say:
humanity is necessary for any true understanding of Anthroposophy.
this ego, to feel that we have within us the ego behind which stand
than a relic, for nobody understands what the Liberal Arts really
things are said from the standpoint of a kind of thinking that has
creates out of intuitions, people do not understand it. My
an outer beacon for the signs of the times. This Building stands here

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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will understand what is really the deeper cause of my words. Let me
did not do this, misunderstanding might easily arise.
clearly understand that it is the anthroposophical impulse which
other Movement; and that one who understands what the
understand it grasp its essential nature and do not think that it is
Renewal. If anyone who stands on the ground of the Movement for
Therefore I beg you to understand that it is necessary for the
understand in what way alone it is possible to work rightly in
case stands, for there is at the present time far too great a
I am quite sure that the very excellent and outstanding individuals
so that whenever it is necessary to stand up for the rights of the
is earnestly desired by me. In order that no misunderstanding should

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these ancient seers, felt that the understanding soul was, as it
corresponds to the understanding soul. If you read my lecture
division of the soul into sentient soul, understanding soul and
scission of the soul into sentient soul, understanding soul and
the understanding soul and the consciousness-soul separate and so
Ilmarinen, that endows me with the forces of the understanding-soul,
We can understand culture, even
encounter in Nature as an expression of the spirit, we can understand
thoughtless manner, but if we are able to understand what these forms
to know what the face was really like. We can only understand it if
a time must come when the understanding for the tasks of evolution

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that Christ taught those to pray who were able to understand Him after He had
belonged to the understanding, to the Gnostic understanding that such
not possible to understand this fragment of the Pistis-Sophia unless you
understand what I have just explained to you. Therefore those who come across
themselves that they do not understand it at all. They are not humble enough
O Light, for Thou art my Saviour.” Reading it thus I do not understand
will not desire to understand it until one has called forth in one's self the
possibility of understanding it. It is precisely in our age that such
our day of not being able to understand, but above all that we cannot so
without preparing ourself for the understanding of it. In our day a far more
at present those who do not desire to understand, spread scorn and derision
by words, this we must understand. Further, it is necessary that we should
Newspaper editors thoroughly understand the soul of their readers, they nurse

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matters actually stand in regard to what we call man's Saturn
ancient Saturn laws. If, however, we look from what stands before us
will have to ask the question: How does it stand with what is derived
how does it stand with regard to the Sun part? Can we find the Sun
made much progress in the understanding of such differences, the
believe that they understand what Plato and Aristotle perceived as a
you consider the whole thought-structure of Thomas Aquinas it stands
by the world in his free thought creation. We are still standing in
Hence today we are also standing
wisdom, must understand what it is, must flow into the stream of
Being that stands behind evolves in such a way that its external
longer periods, from incarnation to incarnation. Here stand the
who stands spiritually as much higher than man as a 100 years is

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If we want to understand the impulses in the universe connected with
individualities stands the Sun, creating harmony between the
no-one can understand what is contained in the flaming brilliance of

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contained in everything of a solid earthy nature. The outstanding
One can see already how matters stand. Those who have reached a

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understand man in his real being only when we relate him to the whole
is a capacity of which our own time particularly stands in need. The human
understand the real nature and being of man. The mineral world is the only
understanding. Even the life of the plant remains enigmatical; still more so
language we ought to understand. And this is possible only if we try to grasp
region where the creative fantasy and feeling of the artist who understands the
when he really understands the nature of the concrete realities connected with
understanding for what is truly artistic that man will be able to understand
only by an inner understanding of this wonderfully artistic transformation of

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time of Summer. To understand the essential meaning of these
divine-spiritual-super-sensible reality, and when, understanding what
twilight, the man of today who rightly understands the Christmas
of humanity we can deepen our understanding of what is. presented to
he could point to his own heart, and say: Now I understand the nature
lungs, and so on, and in understanding the organs individually we
come to understand the universe. We study the human heart, for

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If we are to understand what is really meant by these
misunderstand it. These things are a quite inevitable accompaniment
procedure. Although it is understandable that weaker natures would
misunderstand the word — the lawful spiritual Beings of the
But a real understanding of modern life makes it evident that through
through Spiritual Science to an understanding of life, that we should
nobody can understand the jolt that was given to humanity during the
to vision and understanding of life; of how Spiritual Science can

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practically when the human being stands before you, he is that being
to know the true essence of the person who stands before us. We
they continue experimenting, they will one day be able to understand
understand the mineral, lifeless substance; that is to say, they will
were, standing in the dark. If the etheric body were able to cognize,
Now that you are able to understand this upon a deeper foundation,
explained to you, in many lectures, the standpoints which should be
the world. If we raise our soul's eye with understanding to
You can therefore see, my dear friends, how the understanding of the
requirements, but in accordance with standards pertaining to the
far more difficult to understand. But for modern people it suffices
itself, then people say that they cannot understand it, and that it
we are standing under the sign of cooperation in our anthroposophical
the understanding that if anything is to be attained in the social
You see, my dear friends, learn to stand courageously by the fact
be glad for each person who shows but a grain of understanding, and
bad will, or what is more frequent today, lack of understanding
must be done by each one in the place where he is standing. This is

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withstanding men's demand for the Gospels, their desire to be
understand man. Actually man, as such, is entirely excluded from the
to raise man's power of understanding to the point where man
science, the more we learn of nature, the less we understand of
ourselves, the less we understand of man.”
basis of what he is in himself. This stands out clearly as a
to give man an understanding of himself shows itself in all its
positions which imply leadership, and yet understand nothing of the
however, man can already understand that this has to happen; he can
is my task, even now, to understand.”
with earthly humanity.” People will have to understand

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understands his own times, can attain higher knowledge.
We little understand the nature of man, especially
In order to understand what is achieved by this let us look at what happens
Bhagavadgita with understanding one must be conscious of what speaks

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To understand all
understanding of it. The writings of Paul, as we know them, convey only a
fully able to understand the difference between the super-sensible world
illumination, the understanding once possessed by men in an atavistic
spiritual science. This understanding came to Paul in order that he might
recognise man's need to understand the super-sensible world before he can
fact that the figure of Paul stands at the summit of Christian tradition,
the figure, that is, of one who acquired an understanding of Christianity
understand history as it truly is, we must come back again and again to
active strengthening of his own inner life. He had to learn to understand
were able to understand it: that the old spiritual vision brings no
force whereby they might learn to understand what it was that had taken
the conviction that if he would understand Christ, he must develop a new
ago ceased caring whether or not we have a real understanding of the
accounted of outstanding importance. Yet throughout this work we find
of our present troubles unless we develop understanding of the enmity
super-sensible ideas. On the understanding of this event depends whether
‘Easter,’ how do I stand to super-sensible knowledge? For
strive to understand this words of Paul. Not until then will it be

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in regard to his form, and from this standpoint widen and
understand the way in which he is placed into it, and is at
when we weigh a human being, he stands there like a
standpoint of a Greek reflecting over such things, we might
stands for agriculture. In this sign people, of course, see
from the standpoint of the ancient Greeks — Aries,
adopt the standpoint of the Greeks, but today we can no

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purpose and will of existence, we must also learn to understand how the most
all of us are standing within the same spiritual development which Goethe
their descendants. You will accordingly understand that this mystery of how
to be understood if one would acquire an inner understanding of modern
understanding one has already of the French Revolution, in addition to the
history, we must also understand the spiritual effects of materialistic
with understanding the events of history.) The French Revolution strove for a
death — what is lived out here, that one can understand. (Even that of
course is not yet entirely understood; nevertheless one can understand it
an astral principle and an I-principle. For even while we stand here in the
capable of understanding them, but only confused and falsified them, because
soul is able to follow the other with an ever-growing understanding and with
human generation will understand how the three ideals of Brotherhood, Freedom
understand that Man carries in him this threefoldness of body, soul and
unable throughout the 19th century to understand this, was a result of the
an understanding of Man as a trinity and to a reconstruction of earth life
thing. And this is the reason why we can understand absolutely nothing at all
mankind was standing at that point in the world. All through which he had
there the Eternal stands at rest in the form of an enduring thought, and we
understand that he has to pass through the next point, which reverses

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limited to the understanding that he considers appertains to
So, from a deeper understanding of our Spiritual
a year. When we understand this yearly course aright we are filled,

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understanding of spiritual things may again be established, though of
no way tends to a lack of appreciation, or want of understanding of
If someone stands before a mirror and another person
also stands there beside him, it cannot be denied that what is seen
person who stands beside me and looks into the mirror too, gives me a
things of which man stands in need. Objections are ever being raised
able to attain understanding of that which the seer is able to bring
It is not because man is unable to understand with his
to understand — really to grasp the things, the matter taught,
exercise this power from the standpoint of a purely materialistic
privileges, we have to recognise those who stand on the foundation of
material science alone. Therefore, it is our duty to understand that
understand in their true meaning the teaching of Spiritual
Science. We still often think that we understand the great interests
do and of what mankind stands in need. We must in the first place

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same standard of education, the same mood of soul, as those of his
is still repeated — without any understanding of its
wisdom. It is received without understanding, although as an impulse
standards.
standpoint enters into the development of modern civilisation.
never understand one another, because after all with the Asiatic
of our time. Intellectual understanding draws the blood from the living
crude understanding that has been applied in the last few centuries
Mankind stands
ahead. The signs of the times stand with menacing significance before

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understanding, through all the manifold effects they have upon our
symptomatic of our times when a theologian of such standing as Adolf
recognise even in theology only the Father God, and to understand the
experiences each separately, and so he has still an understanding for
distinction between subjective and objective loses meaning. We stand
understand how this really is, we must envisage it in the following way.
an understanding of this inner centre of man in its true significance.
end; only then we shall be able to reach an inner understanding of
activity of the sun. Such is the relationship in which we stand to

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able to understand Him. The Gospels, as you know, make only brief
We must understand
to Paul concerning the Mystery of Golgotha, notwithstanding the
incapable of understanding the esoteric truths. Going further, we
understand this, we must think of the nature of the human soul as
mind to understand, is that the first human beings who lived on
animal to-day understands death when it sees another animal lying
dead, as little did the men of those early times understand
viewed from the standpoint of the human world. But the matter may
the following is known to one who understands the whole sweep of
rate in modern times, do not understand to what they refer. In
had to arise before it was possible for men to understand the
misunderstanding. Esotericism is always a recognition of facts in
operations of pure thinking we understand the reality of freedom,

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able to understand what takes place, for instance, in the case of a
person standing before us, who is somehow called “Smith”,
If I stand on the earth
bearing on reality. However, when they wished to understand the
Spiritual Science alone enables us to understand the entire process
of resurrection — to understand it practically, as an experience.
knowledge. The Nominalists could not very well understand the Three
cannot understand at all that once this was one of mankind's burning
enables us to understand the monistic materialistic conception does
not enable us to understand the anthroposophical conception. You see,
theosophists believed that the understanding of the materialistic
monistic conception enabled them also to understand the spiritual.

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Spiritual Scientific Knowledge and Social Understanding,
always speak of them from the standpoint of our present time, in the
for a definite region of the earth. Thus, certain standpoints of
civilisation, and other standpoints would be valid — let us say
standpoint which I would like to characterize as a historical
standpoint, in order to come to a knowledge of this bridge. You
only if we understand what has really arisen in the evolution
of humanity through the birth of Christianity we shall understand
as possible a picture, from an external standpoint — if we
arises. In fact, we shall be far from understanding human
another standpoint.
to understand them, they are not comfortable for a modern man, who
accessible. Of course, people will easily understand us if we tell
discernment. To-day we must try to stand firmly on our feet, if
necessary to-day to strive to obtain a clear understanding, an
understanding as sharp as a blade, if we wish to gain a firm

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understanding and action in the world to-day. It is not very
instance, understands the grand idea of the Greek
jurisprudence help us much to-day towards the understanding
people who stand for a certain thing say about it, but what
of itself engendered an understanding of the idea of freedom.
crumble; and that man alone understands the present times who
understand each other. But if things go on as they have in
the past, then they will never understand each other,
understand each other as well. The Asiatics look at America,
understanding is all for the things that arise from the
given proof of any very profound understanding of it. Nor
much understanding of how to introduce into European culture
that standpoint, as inhabitants of the universe. Then and

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these things. We must first go through the understanding of
provides. Then only do we understand the physical
philosophic book. Surely then he must understand it. How
should he not understand what he himself has written? ...
and may yet understand nothing of what he has written. It is
understand the first truths of the Mystery of Golgotha. We
that which men were capable of understanding, they would only
impulse of Christ. Truly, these men could not understand what
necessary it is to pass through an understanding of the
only then that we can fully understand the latter.
and intellectual culture of our time. He who can understand
active part through our understanding of and longing for the

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Anyone who understands the human head in the right way can
the Cosmos. As the human being stands before us today, we can
— in the form of a diagram — a man standing on
one behind which the Virgin stands. The moonlight is
accessible to our narrow earthly understanding. We must face
earthly is expressed in our human form. No-one understands
where there is the will to understand this configuration, it
and the terrestrial. There can be no understanding of the
human understanding. Human beings can understand them, but
thought can understand them. Yet one is always hearing that
there can be no immediate understanding of
understand these matters. Just as we have no need for
scholars study without understanding them — are full of

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any understanding at all of the events that occur in the course of
do not misunderstand me. I do not want to be accused in this lecture
soul. We must learn to understand in every detail the way in
sick man leads us deeply into cosmic connections. We understand the
that will have a remedial effect. When we add to our understanding of
social life! There will be far greater understanding in the
pass each other by without either having the slightest understanding
the care of health. Think of the effect which a true understanding of
whole of humanity with understanding! Of course there must be no
if understanding for the health and ill-health of our fellow-beings
can be awakened — understanding that grows from a true
have true understanding. The position of the doctor nowadays is that
human being. But it is only possible to understand abnormal
organism, when they really understand the connection between the
different. A true understanding of his fellow-creatures will arise in
that understands the true being of man. This was the
trying to explain prophylactic measures, with understanding.
health between the doctors who understand the technique of their
profession, and the laity who understand the nature of the
understanding to meet the professional medical men who tell them this
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adapt himself to these earthly conditions as he learns to stand
earth, where it signifies the power to walk and stand. In the
earthly language serves our mutual understanding —
understanding as between human beings, all of whom are living on the
in the cosmic Word. Thus it is particularly interesting to understand
organism as it stands before us here on earth, we know that it is
and fully he is contained, we only begin to see when we understand
these you can best understand by somehow perceiving in their form and
piece of ground, and on it stands a man. The ground is most certainly
not the man, yet the ground must be there for the man to stand on.
occur to you to seek to understand the man by examining the soil
stands on the soil — only in a rather more complicated way the
the soil for the man who stands on it. The sound presses forward to
the air, and the air gives it the possibility to stand. But the sound
soil on which he stands, so, is the sound different from the air upon
which it stands — in which it finds its support though of
Zodiac. Man standing on the Earth sees the planets and the fixed
We do not understand Art,
as he stands before us here on earth proceeds out of the two Cosmic
understand that when we describe such things as these we must depart

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to a certain extent, the capacity to understand our writings, the
understand such teachings as the Gnosis of Valentinus, for example,
the capacity to understand such things that this knowledge was not
longer had the capacity to understand such teachings. Only this could
beings to understand the coming of Christ into the world as a
understand, in a true and profound way, the nature of the Christ
Gnosis had been able to understand the Christ, but they knew that he
earthly evolution. It was necessary to make up an understanding out
greatest possible difficulty in understanding this fact; the capacity
for such understanding had never been so limited.
beings through angels. If people developed the capacity to understand
the message of the angel, they were capable of standing as
importance. What was it that now entered human understanding?
is unimportant. Or we could say that Gnostic understanding is not
capable of understanding it completely. And to this extent we may
understanding of the concept of time to the human worldview in the
completely, but to understand it correctly, we must nevertheless
was, as it were, a kind of understanding of the Christ that went
further than the understanding of the ancient Gnosis. Yet, the
understanding that came from humanity itself and its own forces. This
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understanding when we speak of the physical bodily nature of man on
crudely side by side. For the modern consciousness they stand
on this plane, then you begin to understand why the real world of
understand the material-the material even in its
understands the material, substantial world, but that is
precisely what it does not understand. Many things of real
Suppose that you are standing face to face with the ‘Last
man. Via this two-dimensional picture, our Thinking stands

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that which is to come, by what lies in the future. Feeling stands mid-way
stands mid-way between thinking and willing.
the chemists in such a way that, let us say, Sergeant C. stands here,
that we cannot understand it by means of purely mathematically
constructed thoughts. What we are able to understand by means
understanding of natural law is already past, it no longer belongs to
What you will experience this evening does not stand before you as a
Law by means of the senses. We understand it with our whole human being.
to understand and experience these pictures by means of inner effort
Ahriman. Thus we stand midway between them both. Like a
the Ahrimanic and Luciferic powers, and we learn to understand man only
to understand matter in all its reality, matter as it actually
to-day understands as the
that one understands this dualism in such a way that Ormuzd is looked
stage we cannot arrive at a real understanding of the world. You
and balance. Christ stands there as the Balance between Lucifer and

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in uns abspielt in unserem Wachzustande, ist natürlich niemals
entspricht eigentlich im tiefsten Sinne dem Tatbestand. Wenn Sie

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understanding of an event that appears to have come in with
the West are ill-equipped to understand what wants to come to
want to have: understanding based on the science of the
come until human hearts understand the realm of the spirit.
understand this concrete fact: Longings have arisen in the
People even failed to understand when eighteen months ago it
to understand what is happening, no one is prepared to see
understand them and therefore I will not say anything to
to understand and have an opinion on everything. People find
wants to gain a little understanding of the present position,

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view. So it seems we can now understand why people who have
become so much more destructive. By the standards of those

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lectures which will enable you to understand the present time
collect the material we need to understand the present time,
evil-minded. One can understand people feeling this way. Yet
Someone standing outside can, of course, get it to move, but
— that for any real understanding of the things of the
understanding of the world of the spirit. It must not become
world of the spirit accessible to our understanding, their
objective understanding.
they would make the effort to try and understand just one of
to understand that I cannot let the movement which I have to
development may find it difficult to understand how such

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understand anyone else.
mood where no one can understand anyone else, you see the

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outstanding scientific work
even properly understand human nature. Think of the seemingly
penetrate all these things with our understanding if we are
understanding and so much philistinism. In some respects,
philistinism is the opposite of a true understanding of human
abnormal. But this will not help us to understand the world
to learn to understand human beings so that we may give due

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And we also feel, for instance, that when we walk, stand or
shall not understand how human beings really relate to their
are always, wherever we are — whether sitting, standing
have to be considered, otherwise we cannot really understand
can understand. In certain ages, particular thoughts just
understand that they will find it completely different, so

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want to understand Luther today we must know the inner
feelings, and this meant that he did not really understand
What has been written is not exactly outstanding, however,
faith and without understanding.
weight, and we understand why he said the things he said
on us today. We see him standing in the outside world and he
mood. It is poison to demand that children should understand
pointed out that children cannot understand everything. From
their first to their seventh year they cannot understand at
considered most important today to understand everything. We
without their understanding it. But they do not understand
rather than develop their own understanding. This happens a
understanding of the world. As I have said, this is more
the small things in life. You will not understand this age,
discipline him in some way. Well, of course, I would stand up
must have understanding for the karmic connections, as I have
can stand up for their opponents with ever-increasing
spiritual science is open to our understanding. But it is
understand this.

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want to grasp reality, we cannot throw a general, standard
understand it. We have to consider everything on an
understand the enormous extent to which our whole ideology
understand the present time’ — this phrase has
to experiment, in the desire to understand the present time.
understand many things, even more than I have already
misunderstanding today. People might think, for instance,
come to understand; if they do not, quite different, even

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this, it will give you a great deal of understanding of the
personal inclinations since then, to understand that they
understand a great deal of the inner life of these people,
— they do not normally understand what is going on, but
understand what is really happening.

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Press, which understands everything and goes into everything,
responses and will impulses. Those who understand the
fruition. We cannot stand up to this by putting our heads in
only with what children understand but also with ideas they
do not yet understand, which enter mysteriously into their

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civilization, and stand guard in our most holy, inner human
way that the child can immediately understand; children
understand.
are in accord with their level of understanding, things they
they are supposed to have deeper understanding. Care is
lives they have nothing but the understanding of a child.
fact that only the child's understanding is addressed. This
on that occasion; now at last you are able to understand
to understand them.
from memory the things they could not understand before, this
understanding surely ought to say to himself now: ‘The
really outstanding when they put it in a particularly
withstand this with divine help that is inwardly

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partial understanding of the significant events of the
does not get us far in understanding the real issue. The
based on this. We shall not be able to understand what issued
is not possible to understand the present time unless one
rise a little above ourselves to understand the signs of the
up in earlier times. To understand Darwin, one merely has to
understand Goethe, one has to rise above this to laws which
not want to understand physical life and practised a false

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know, attempts have been made to understand the genius of
field is that people have also sought to understand Jesus
historians, for it is their academic duty to understand such
understanding. Oswald Marbach wrote well about Faust because
relatively little understood. Efforts at understanding are,
misunderstanding. The spiritual atmosphere in which people
live today is impregnated with the will to misunderstand to
are now asleep and they will find it hard to understand how
understand and see through such things in their full
in 1913, in the belief that the understanding they had in
which we are caught up today indicate where humanity stands
now. What matters now is not merely to understand them, but
present age, practical minds will not be able to understand
be rightly understood if people seek to understand, seriously
the spirits of darkness in the autumn of 1879. To understand
the present time, it will be necessary to understand the

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with understanding by discovering what goes on behind the
understand the reality of life.
merely come between the children and their understanding of
understands the whole system which leads to these

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stay where it is, but then places itself completely upon a standpoint
that is possible only if one presupposes revelation. This standpoint
is absolutely untrue to say, for example, that they even understand
the higher animals. They only believe that they understand them.
And so our understanding of
the human being gradually dropped completely out of our understanding
of the world, because understanding dropped out of our concepts. Our
grasped spirit of his own being, man must understand, with inner
really understanding Christ. Those who still understood something
understanding of Christ, and the form this resistance takes is
Christ really is still lived in those who say that they understand
one. We must therefore make an effort to understand him. We must make
knowledge out into the cosmos. We must learn to understand the
elements. We must learn to understand the movements of the
planets. We must learn to understand the star
man reduced to understanding only what lives on earth? Because
by saying: We understand a fish only in a bowl, and a bird only in a
Therefore I had to say earlier that we do not even understand the
one wants to understand the animals, one must take recourse to the
the point now is to understand Christ, to understand him as an
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understand why the child slumbers dreamily and only begins to think
air of the body. Thus we may say that modern man will understand
outcome of the misunderstanding relating to the fall of man. This
standstill and could not go on.
the body of the preceding incarnation, we can understand this
into an entirely different age, if they really wish to understand
to approach a modern scientist, expecting him to understand that his
misunderstandings relating to the consciousness of sin — not
out of the Fall as such, but from the misunderstandings with
understanding of the process of thinking leads to a pre-existent

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humanity finally lost the last vestiges of an understanding
an ancient Mystery-wisdom. To understand, however, even in an
To understand
understanding of the Mysteries was completely lost to
dealt to the understanding of the Mysteries, is entitled
materialism. To understand the root-nerve of the 19th
understand the texture of modern life. It lies not in the

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for us, namely, the complete misunderstanding of the
of the two outstanding festivals of Christianity —
would truly understand the working of events in history.
age only desires, wherever possible, to understand the
pillars of the Christian understanding of the world, —
spiritual Trinity, must stand behind it, — the
to understand the fundamental point. Goethe wanted the
conception. In this sphere, too, rightly to understand Goethe
understanding of man, of the whole man. For, as I told you in
we have the task of understanding man, by a true grasp of
ours stands most in need of the poet's word not finding

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say: over against what stands before man as the visible part
understand. It is essentially Man himself — the
Taurus the neck, and so on. Thereby, man stands in a certain
stand as a microcosm in the macrocosm. In those olden times,
standing side by side, without any bridge between them. Those
stand side by side in the so-called civilisation of our time.

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when we adopt the standpoint of the West. It is a word which is
who understand the true essence of life in ancient Greece will
is set up on Golgotha. How does it stand within the consciousness
decide to gain an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, with
realize that we must first rise to an understanding of Christ's
understanding of the Christmas idea before we are really able to
the following: A real understanding of Christianity must bring
inner understanding of that reality which is still a Maya for us,
we understand this, then the individual Christmas idea which we

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cosmos only if we understand how these different members are
human being, as he stands before us, we find that these four
activity, and in order to understand them we must first study
standpoint.
certain impressions from outside. How matters really stand in
influences the human being standing upon it, differently from the
things which exist in such a way that when the human being stands
standpoint, from the standpoint of a higher world conception, it
But this must not be one. You will therefore understand me when I

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shall view the Mystery of Golgotha from a standpoint arising from
a certain sense make it our own. But insofar as it stands before
stand in regard to the life between death and a new birth? In our
had another direction from that of today. If we remain standing
not enable him to understand human life on earth. If you take the
the situation of present-day mankind from the standpoint of
not really understand much about Christianity. For it is deeply
Christian theology does not understand anything about
thoroughly understand all that is unchristian. Modern theology,

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him say to himself: I am standing here on the earth, but before I
— I am now standing upon the earth, but he said: I, who am
understanding of his folk soul, so that he no longer felt that he
Golgotha thus stands at the centre of the whole human evolution
external culture; he cannot, however, remain standing by this
no real understanding unless knowledge is accompanied by the same
must seek to understand the Logos living in the flesh, by raising
choose the Spirit as our guide, to understand how we should

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those who had to understand the Mystery of Golgotha and its secrets
understand it.
form such ideas as these, if we wish to understand correctly. We must
Science: How does the case stand with those principles which we have
but stands still. We have it always before us, because it reflects
difficult to understand because we cannot grasp the fact that
understand ourselves aright, we continually look back through our
understand as little as possible of the matter and should only behold
there were among the spectators those who wanted to understand
Something must now be said which I must ask you not to misunderstand,
to the laity. And this clearer understanding progressed step by step.
manger. Ear her when they were not allowed to understand anything,
not yet understand how to let that power work on him which has so
holy understanding. Because the learned cannot yet grasp this and
true men do not always know how to understand those who lead them to
understand better and better, may He be with you in the severe tasks

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thought, however, is especially predominant. We think how enemy stands
who were to understand the secrets of the Mystery of Golgotha out of
to understand it. Definite mental images are required if we wish to
understand, to understand properly.
standing in time while time keeps moving. Nevertheless this is so,
If we understand
understand things correctly. And humanity ought to be instructed to
who saw or listened understand as little as possible, that
this was no longer tolerated. The people also wanted to understand
something now that I beg you not to misunderstand. It can be
example, people did not understand initially that in the manger
to understand anything, they just accepted it, but new that they
as he sees it from his standpoint. We know about his standpoint,
one of the greatest scientists. This standpoint leads also to other
educated people do not yet understand that it is necessary to
backward, feeling ourselves back at the child's standpoint?

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human understanding. Nature indeed is far cleverer than man. The egg,
this cannot be accomplished by the sun alone. The matter stands thus: In
understand its significance. For as he spoke this word he saw himself
standing. The down inside is rather sparse. So from where I stand I try
extracts means of nourishment from Nature, but no longer understands its
these are the people who ought to understand such things. One already
studying further will show you that a genuine science which understands

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so vehemently by Haeckel's pupil, Oskar Hertwig. (Our standpoint
We simply take our stand on the real facts.) While on the one hand
stands at his side is not unlike the way the Mephistophelean
bring to light mistaken notions. Those who take this standpoint
then you will understand how many things are working upward
understand spiritual science they have no guiding lines for

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side-track so as to understand the difficulties which confront
really meant. In this way many a misunderstanding can
life, of great or outstanding personalities. Let me give one
grew to be a famous man. We want to understand,
specific individuality who stands there in history as Friedrich
contribute nothing to an understanding of the personality
post-Atlantean age. We cannot understand this age if we merely
human understanding — however limited — of what
all that a modern man's intelligence will understand if he
would say, stands before us with a mighty question; and these
ones who stand in the practical vocations of today, who
around him without prejudice, and his outstanding ability made
after event and understanding nothing of it, like the
event, but fail to understand. For the real point is to study

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understand the content of the booklet on
out once more, from another standpoint, these truths of human
death and a new birth from the standpoint of a higher
understand those that preceded them. For instance, if someone
understands what was spiritually at work in the first centuries
impulses, then he can also understand what social needs can be
Bourgeois and Pilgrim — stand over
understanding of life which is dawning more and more. The
confront life without conscious understanding. For they
life with conscious understanding — increasingly,
unable to rise to an understanding of reincarnation and Karma.
to the point of explaining things from the standpoint of
At the portals of the old world (meaning Europe) there stands
question is: How do we stand in our time with our
we can understand it, if opposition arises on all hands
proclaiming themselves in duty bound to stand up against my
are really standing in the present time. That is a danger for
understanding we have first received of the Spiritual
which will only take its stand on external, positivist
the Chinese standpoint, well enough adapted to confuse those
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are standing on the true ground of Christianity. This Spiritual
themselves are standing on the ground of Christianity.
this is especially sublime: to stand face to face with one's
do we stand face to face with Beings who regulate the
men, who stand in enmity against each other, both to confess
understand, as is often the case in modern Freemasonry, much
words are concerned; but he can understand very little of it.
sacred Mysteries. Now you can understand why they might never
Thus you can understand, not only was it criminal to pronounce
this end, however, we must first learn to understand a little
beyond it, first and foremost by learning to understand
first understand the true interpretation. Watt was not
understands Spiritual Science will realise that these things
that can only be when humanity understands once more the
be met by that understanding of the Spiritual World which

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then do we really understand the cycle of the year.
then the form of Michael stands before us again. If, under the impulse
stand majestically before him, revealing in picture-form the
the standpoint of the cosmos this is a
permeated with iron. We can understand these things only if we
understand their inner spiritual significance on the one hand, and if
and should stand before human consciousness in its whole
understand what is going on in the
understand these things, and to reflect on them with understanding,
Michael Festival, the picture of Michael with the Dragon will stand
shall understand how this impulse points symbolically to

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understanding of the course of the year. And art can really be
from various standpoints; but on the whole we can speak of a work of
us now consider this from a cosmic standpoint. What is this great
stand here on Earth, our head actually projects into a mixture of
piece and would then describe it from his own flea-standpoint,
mineralogy, geology, and so on. It is still the same flea-standpoint,
it. And here we come to something that to present-day understanding
woman of the new human being stands wholly under the influence of the
we understand the depths of winter, how
we understand the cosmos in autumn, so as to represent all its

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failure to distinguish between them comes from the standpoint
which yesterday I called the flea-standpoint. The metamorphoses of
brought to nothing. From a human standpoint one might say —
Earth. For in the perspective of the future this threat stands
Spring. That is how we must picture Him: standing on the earthly,
into summer; and standing over against them is the healing principle

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the feeling of standing upon cosmic Will.
concentrated Imagination of Cosmic Understanding.
embodied cosmic Understanding, this cosmic Intelligence, are woven in
understand this remarkable gaze, directed downwards, and we have the
shapes are human errors which stand out against the natural order of
of cosmic life, cosmic activity. It stands forth with inwardly
Spirit-Father and the Spirit-Mother, stands directly before the human

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we are to arrive at an understanding of the whole place and situation
of old traditions and his feeling for them — all this stands in
stream again into man. In order to understand this, we must see how
man stands within the cosmos in — I might almost call it
understanding, unfortunately, for how things really are. For example,
ensouled: Just as a stove stands towards a lung, so does the
external flame stand towards the living activity that goes on in the
what they ought to do. It calls upon them, if they understand it rightly,
understand the human
the human breathing system. And anyone who understands truly the
eyes of men in the same direction, as he stands close to mankind, the
become healing forces. Anyone who understands nutrition correctly,
understands the first stage of healing. If he knows what salt should
another way. It is true that man, standing here on Earth, enclosed

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more comprehensive understanding of the process of the human soul into
from their point of view — and all understanding for these things,
for enjoyment will stand before the most daintily-prepared repast, that
recognised to-day, because people can no longer understand what they
is not recognized today, because people can no longer understand what
in a sense stand far, or at least relatively far, from the activity
One can thoroughly understand
he understands anthroposophy with especial depth, yet reveals certain
life of our Society — should in its inward construction stand

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comprehensive understanding of the processes of the human soul in
when all understanding for these things and for the finer connections
enjoyment, stand before the most daintily prepared repast, they
can no longer understand what they read of pythic and prophetic
members which in a sense stand far, or at least relatively far,
One can thoroughly understand that just
understands anthroposophy with especial depth, yet reveals certain
inward construction stand before us as an ideal. I should like to

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And, if one is of opinion that one cannot stand for the
stand on a firm substantial point. On the other hand, a men is
simply takes the standpoint of St. Augustine.
standpoint, as I have often told you, if it were
and shall have to say« If one stands on St. Augustine's
standpoint, one must sharply look to this. — that he
belief that one can reach a firm standpoint in one's inner
grasp such a perception, on which one could stand firm, was
who stands ever in the evolution of man as the conclusion of
one does not come to understand this life of Birth in the
possessed by those who stand on an Augustinian basis, one
stand on the basis of his inner experience.
see how from the standpoint we have acquired to-day we can look
back at the standpoint of St. Augustine, how we can understand
could not yet see. Thus, St. Augustine stands for us as a
the standpoint of Demonology to that of Metaphysics. Whereas
told you St. Augustine takes his stand in the twilight of the
which to stand. We now enter on the 5th Post Atlantean age. In
his life, was to understand the intervention of the Mystery of
really understand the life which flows from the Mystery of
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which is to stand as a promise that into the recent development
that loving human understanding which is necessary for human
understanding of the world. The Greek wished to live in the
of the human race to an understanding of this Mystery of
he does not only stand rooted in an earth- spiritual existence
brought to a standstill by the misery of the Thirty Years War
like them. We see here, without yet being able to understand it
many a church building whose pillars we no longer understand
consecration in an understanding of the Greek spirit, of the
actually only shame what they do not understand, as many a
stand before these buildings with a finer sense of art if we
of a new world- outlook. Whoever wishes to understand rightly
three years ago, must understand it by a living understanding
understand how this, no more than a beginning, flows from a
tolerate anything new cannot understand — and naturally
opportunity there was of understanding our movement, how
understanding for the movement, these died perforce on the
to that impulse, to win understanding for the contribution of
world. May this eventually meet with understanding. We
yearnings which do not understand themselves because they do
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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
comprehensible as we try to understand its origin in the
perception of some ten years ago. Now try and understand
theory, he felt: ‘My head stands in the same relation to my
understanding of the evolution of humanity on the Earth by

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
comprehending and understanding the thing. Read my book
heaven and understand by that their own land, the Nature that
you must understand, this condition would have been unbearable
understanding of the transitions that lead over from Asia to
evolution of man, and without understanding them we can really
arrive at no understanding of the evolution we are passing

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
of lectures. Only we shall have to alter the standpoint somewhat.
acquire an understanding for the radical change in man's life
know that from the standpoint of Spiritual Science we have to
grasped, we shall not understand the course of events in the
possessed. He was met with understanding. A test was imposed
When one understands the underlying depths in the souls
understand, as I explained in Stuttgart, all that was working

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
order now fully to understand the course of Earth evolution in
we may the better understand what came later. We shall naturally
understanding of the subject we are treating.
there is no standing firm on illusion! In truth, my dear
understand aright what was in his own being. ‘Within thee is
Ephesus men had a profound understanding of this for they
still akin to the old understanding of all that had come to
stands where it lets the shadow fall from the trees on to the
Standing before that great female figure in the Hibernian
where there was still an understanding for such truths. Thence
Alexander learned from Aristotle to understand how the earthy,

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
more recent times when we understand and appreciate the
outstanding characteristic of all ancient Oriental Mysteries
extraordinary importance for the understanding of the whole
will readily understand how that which in the East had been
is not really possible to understand the spiritual evolution of
name of Christianity, and so on. And we only understand the
look back with full understanding. But we cannot look back to
can look South with the ordinary prosaic understanding, but not
have to see standing in the background the mighty Mystery
was in this world that stands before you in this picture that
the old physical Ephesus stand in men's memory as its centre,

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
importance for the understanding of the history of the
the beginning of the period we are considering, stands the
far away in Asia. Midway between these two days stands the
defined. We shall do wrong to imagine that we can understand
brought it about that a true understanding of Nature was
in the 19th century, when men could no longer understand
understanding proceed from the whole human being. The teacher is the
forth and shows itself as human understanding. The gymnast is
understanding.
From this point of view, we may gain a true understanding of

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
similarly, if we would understand the nature and being of man,
true understanding of man when we bring together in one the
understanding her inner impulses and her connection with the
nevertheless essentially such an object, standing in subjection
Suppose you stand there and ask, what is my physical body? The
tell you these things that you may understand how necessary it
understand them when you know that in them are working together
attainable when we are once again in a position to understand
ego-organisation stand in especially near relation? It stands
understanding of health and disease, and if the knowledge of

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
e stand to-day
understanding and feeling for them, they spoke of them somewhat
and who understand us in the sacrifice.’
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. We have to see
daring, and in spite of the misunderstandings of Gods and
but through spiritual means of communication. Notwithstanding
circulation stand under the influence of your physical body.
a civilisation as I have just described to you. We stand here
looked upon this Goetheanum with feeling and understanding
for the last time it was given to me to stand on the platform
standing, this demand and this call could in this moment be
renewed. It is no longer standing. The same call can, however,
let us understand and know how to keep the promise we have made.

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Humanity now stands in the presence of the guardian of the threshold
primitive in respect of understanding and conceptions of the
the future with no understanding, no possibility of applying
able to contemplate the earthly world and also to understand it
stand the test of all modern clinical requirements, then
the Vorstand in Dornach will adopt in all spheres of
matters stand. We shall not say: let us bring Eurythmy to this
and hearts you can certainly hear and understand.
responsibility of the men of to-day when they are standing

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life he stands in intimate connection with what we must designate
Arch-Angels, who bring this about, stand further away from us than
subject to the same deception as a person would be, who standing
understand many things in the development of man. Above all one
understands why, before the Mystery of Golgotha, those human beings
in the physical world, there should also stand as a copy of the
stands under the influence of our Delusion in Consciousness.
Saint-Simon as well as Auguste Comte, on the one side stand
consciously in the epoch of Industrialism, they stand on the
who stand on a Spiritual basis, as absolutely Ahrimanic. The
Comteism, and Benthamism. These three things stand in

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the Mystery of Golgotha, that we should now understand that
the earth. You then see how we are standing in a living way
forces for sleep which withstand the universal earth-life,
possibility of destroying from the standpoint of the soul the
in Goethe's “Faust” with understanding, The
the newspapers. As a rule they understand the minimum of what
certainly not understand anything and had better stay
new standpoint. Then men will begin to have an inkling of
understanding for that. Hence one sees that in all spheres
man's living world of truth. Then we shall understand. that
MORIMUR. But in the future men must not remain standing on

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opposites. Between the two stands breast-clairvoyance;
often enough that one need not be a clairvoyant to understand
clairvoyant. UNDERSTANDING of spiritual science must
way the spiritual nature standing behind human processes. But
easily understand if we have entered but a little into the
always have the feeling; it is we ourselves who stand behind
those whom the gravity of understanding hinders from
from above, the forces of understanding, of knowledge have

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upon which he stands and from which he can establish
So Goethe came upon the great man without his wig, standing
Homer, or Shakespeare. He stands in a different relationship to
standing alive in the midst of it, to see reflected in a human
itself directly to him. To be sure, he continued to stand on an
Goethe, and he had much understanding of it, for there was much
themselves capable of understanding culture, art, and poetry.
Man stands, on the one hand, within sensory nature, said
Schiller; on the other, he stands face to face with the realm

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been said, is to lead the way to an understanding of the karma
stand to make of them an altar to the great God of Nature? He
understand a man who creates out of the elemental forces of the
world — indeed, we never learn really to understand any man —
same standpoint in the spiritual sphere as that occupied by the
you have then arrived at an understanding of the peculiar
the matter, but rather with an understanding of it. Goethe
see here how a man may stand within external events and how it
he stands among them. It is a complicated relationship that
order to understand the world. But how much is alive, even in
necessary for an understanding of the world! This wisdom must
life? To further understand the life of a man, we must first
understand what such an event means to his life. I know how
of sleeping and waking stands. It is a reproduction within the
philosophers really do not understand, that can be developed,

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understanding, and it corresponds exactly with the spiritual
awake. If we wish to understand the entire human being, this is
psychic with the physical in man if we wish to understand
learn to understand him when we fail to permit these complex
understanding for what really happens here is acquired only
expressions of intelligence, but what stands out is that all
more objective understanding, how much intellect, is actually
this had depended upon a real understanding of number as
only when one thinks of objective wisdom and understanding as
then fully understand what it means for a person to be fitted
spiritual environment. Here you arrive at an understanding of
different understanding of what Goethe, even in youth,
create stands in the same relationship to what the rest of us
side. The world must be protected, so to speak, from standing
It would come to a standstill were all men to dream as I have

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the fifth post-Atlantean period, you will understand how
anyone who wishes to educate children will have to understand
then will depend altogether upon an understanding of the
be said that we must first begin to understand the meaning of
also understand that this meaning is not clarified until we
narrowly educated schoolmasters, understand the
of men. All of human life will deteriorate unless understanding
know that when a workman stands at his vice and the sparks fly
will most clearly understand what I mean if you consider it in
a special context because in all these things we are standing
mechanism standing at rest and will know that to set it in
human ties; people would become less able to understand one
understand it, but they do not understand such foolishness in
human beings when they understand how to observe the signs of

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past, but we stand here in the presence of an actual fact. The
understand that our age has to be educated to a stronger grasp
stands beside him in the way in which the Mephistophelian force
say, then, that for a proper understanding of things some
and if the person comes to understand the matter, then things
discovered and the person can come to an understanding of it
take this into consideration, you will understand that from the
longer in dispute, but because people who cannot understand

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understanding. We have all grown up, in a sense, in the
misunderstandings arise. A certain observation may frequently
accomplished something important. We must understand how he
if we view the matter from a more comprehensive standpoint, we
what to say. We must understand clearly that everything has at
understanding of the personality concerned. When someone forms
everywhere. We do not come to understand this period when we
no meaning whatever. Now, beginnings toward some understanding
the circumference. You understand: 3.14159 ... carrying many
see he understands the various endeavors today to enter the
consecutive events of life, you will understand nothing
understand life at all because what is needed is to view the
very fact because we must understand quite clearly that what

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understanding of the position of the individual human being in
Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan. What may be called an understanding
begins, which stands in opposition, in a sense, to the
life, we cannot possibly develop the understanding that is
understanding since they were guided by divine spiritual
must have understanding.
— to ascend to an understanding of repeated earthly lives and
standpoint of repeated earthly lives. Because of their failure
the portal of the old world (he meant Europe), there stands no
number of individuals might come to understand a little of the
know how they really stand in the contemporary world. This is
the flattening out of the understanding through a scientific
constricted understanding and energy of life to which Mill
refers; rather, they must have the sustaining understanding and
people should understand what the interrelationships are,
brilliant from the standpoint of the Chinese nature, but is it
obligated from the representative standpoint of spiritual
to see these things correctly. The modern world stands in the
Initiation principles frequently stand behind them, though
was to admonish those who stand within our spiritual scientific

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viewed from the most varied standpoints. Thus, we can attain to
single fact, can be viewed from many standpoints. I will relate
more readily understandable from the following. He had a
of understanding them. Since it is known to anybody who can
need this disgust if we wish to stand completely in life, in

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many theologians and others who believe they stand on a
Christian foundation, but without understanding it correctly,
number of hierarchies that embrace beings standing above man in
without understanding, that his own foundation is that of
consider it especially sublime to stand thus, without
is absolutely no understanding of what the spiritual needs of
standing just above man, guide and lead him through the portals
we must understand that, from many points of view, the answer
anything that stands above the angelic level, but assert with
consider this, we are standing more or less within the realm of
already stand in the midst of something of which man knows
nature. Human beings do stand at least in a sort of
the necessary will to understand much, as is frequently the
little understand. Later, it is reported that he has been
now understand that they could not be disclosed or misused. It
can understand, therefore, that it was not only a criminal act
understand a little better how the Christ can be found in the
you yourselves must first understand the interpretation of this
the cosmos. Obviously, anyone who understands spiritual science
understand the Christ principle, if humanity finds the way to
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we seek to understand in a more profound sense what the Christ
being. It is within maya that this human being stands before
world of the senses; then he stands before us as belonging to
is. It is because the archangel and the archai stand behind the
person in this way stands within heredity and hereditary
relationships. Only our shortness of vision — understandable
understand fully what I have just expressed, you must not allow
your feelings. It is necessary to understand clearly that in
upward to what stands above them whenever we are in the
Mystery of Golgotha if we wish to understand this matter
understand the reasons from many suggestions I have given here,
we belong to the earth. The deeper understanding of the Christ
remains here has an understanding for what extends above the
through the fact that both confess Christ, that they understand
brings death. Only through such an understanding of the Christ
again: In Christo morimur — only then do we understand
deeds are imbued by the consciousness that the Christ stands
itself in maya, the great deception. Only a clear understanding
this important realization: Whoever wants to understand
process spiritual science, as we understand it, wants to make a
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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anyone wish to understand the age in which he is actually living,
forces, working into the present time. And to understand what
something that is becoming. And should we want to understand
necessary to understand. In the Christ we have to see the
for: we should stand on the firm ground that spiritual
the understanding of threefold man. Tomorrow and the day
closely connected. Therefore, as the matter stands, I cannot

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
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for the understanding of man's being as it must be grasped
from the standpoint of spiritual science. Nevertheless, we
must bestir ourselves to get a clearer understanding of man's
being. For it is out of the understanding bound up with
only this goes outside. From a certain standpoint
are to understand the important things now to be described,
understanding a matter of this kind.
the matter stands when considered cosmically. To look
otherwise we cannot arrive at an exact understanding. I
Every ego can see that of another man, you can understand the
those of Philostratus. Therefore you can understand when now

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
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the matter really stands with regard to the physical
absolutely nothing strange or difficult to understand when
gradually to correct our concepts. When we stand in front of
where it is red, physical man would stand thus in profile,
I was describing as the normal aura, if you understand what I
being able to understand that extremities man is a recent
green leaf of the plant. We see a man standing before us and
there before the spiritual vision, out there stand the cosmic
abstraction; in the midst stands the abstract concept. And it
it! And you will therefore understand why to a certain extent
arose; what is this actually that stands there on two legs
stands there and there are no concepts with which to grasp
place man into society as a mere animal. Here is man standing
for te understanding of spiritual man. These elements will
men — the sort of men who stand at a machine — have

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develop a true artistic understanding and rendering of
understanding of the art of recitation as it existed in

Title: Differentation of Primeval Wisdom into East, Middle, West
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of the mineral kingdom; at most understanding something of
the middle of the 15th century when the direct understanding
who can read with understanding these speeches of Tagore
everything which develops in the West as the stand-point of
Asiatic, even if he tries to understand it, something which
it always refers him to the standpoint of utility, which can
only be dominated with the intellect, with the understanding.
standpoint, and an the other he rejects the merely ethical
standpoint. You see, this ethical standpoint had once already
another form. And so although this ethical standpoint of the
not only to honour each other, but to understand each other.
upon the Aesthetic education of man. Nothing which stands in
of what stands in them. Schiller wrote a letter to Goethe at
evolution, and brought in the Utilitarian-standpoint, the
utilitarian standpoint would pour out over the West,
cleverness in the utilitarian standpoint, a caricature of the
Spiritual element from the utilitarian standpoint, etc., etc.
say to myself; what stands in these books sounds as if it
can one win a strong standpoint for judging the present. This
members of long standing. There are such written, wherein
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Title: Man and Nature: Intellect in Man and Nature Bereft of the Gods
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understand this let us consider the world as it lies before
outstanding personalities have felt the truth of these
unfortunate German Philosopher, is an outstanding example of
universe. It enables him to understand the words of Christ:
century — either to remain at a standstill with his
he can unfold an admirable understanding of dead Nature. But
understanding of matter. What does science really know about
shall never understand the essential nature of the heart we
burning necessity, the urge to understand the connection of
them. We can also understand the nature of these two extremes
understand ideas such as that of the Temple represented in

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certain other thoughts in order to understand these matters more fully.
utilitarian standpoint and want to make this the essential aim of science
essential in order to be able to speak, to understand what is spoken,
outstanding example of the ‘golden mean’ in this respect.
us here to understand something which it is most essential to bear in
In our efforts to understand the outer world it is possible for us to
extent, but as human beings begin to understand the sense in which Christ

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which interests them from the historical standpoint, then they
that he would have been quite unable to understand it, if he
now stand within the evolution of the world in such a way, that

Title: Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year
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we study the vegetable kingdom from the standpoint of
connected with the development of the Understanding or
other, and which we must understand if we wish to grasp the
really understand the year's course, our hearts will be deeply

Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture I
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really wants. Therefore, if one wants to understand man one
as well for the understanding of the healthy human organism as they
are important for the understanding of the sick human organism. One

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So that tomorrow we can go onto understand something in this direction
as he stands in life from day to day and From the very ordinary side
It enters fully into the spiritual realm. Only one must be able to stand.
Indeed we can understand
the human organism only if we understand its higher organization. You
standstill, becoming more and more irreligious and antireligious, since
These things are standing side by side. Our religious attitude of today
activity takes place. You will be able to understand this if you are
to understand the great historical connections, one has to be able at
But only then does one learn to understand the world. Only then does
science. But this never attains to a real understanding of man.
then one understands ptyalin, pepsin, in the food that has been taken

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think today, is nevertheless true. Only we must understand matters in
a person had become ill in the sense we understand, but one spoke about
the utensils stand in relation to the cake. But what they regarded as
it has brought forth only intellectualism. But today we stand in a transition
man, I have to grasp him in his liveliness. This liveliness I understand
and find today only if I understand the whole world, and man out of
difficult to get an understanding in regard to these things with such
But it is, of course, terribly difficult to come to an understanding.

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worlds in the right way will not misunderstand when I say
dead) by which one wishes to have a mutual understanding with
of the languages used. The dead never understand if one
noun is turned into a verb they begin to understand. Speak to
understand.
the abstract to the concrete the dead begin to understand
imaginative conceptions. For the dead understand only what
the response that people do not understand this, it is very
hard to understand. But he who faces our times honestly will
a principle—“I take a certain standpoint on
secondly “standpoint”. Consider this ghost of a
“standpoint”. It has generated greatly already in
out of a certain standpoint” then the compositor
something from a standpoint”. To speak in concrete
standpoint”, and thereby say something concrete but
when one speaks of seeing a thing from a standpoint—for
one sees something from a point on which he stands; a little
mutually clarified. And a real understanding of the spirit
what they understand by our word geist, and on
get an idea of what one understands by “physical
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Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture II: The Inner Experience of Language
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question from out of a Spiritual Scientific standpoint. For
you see it is urgently necessary that understanding should be
understanding? That must live in the hearts of men and must
superphysical worlds, cultivate a deeper understanding for
saw how matters stand with what plays its part in the whole
What is actually characteristic in the matter stands out
imaginative they have the deepest understanding. But should
more than an animal existence unless an understanding for
understand these surprising things when he can make the
need a mutual understanding; that deeper, inward feeling for
of understanding language in which language is employed
they understand each other. Today it comes to few to listen
other is not thinking! Well now — we understand each
else, it is simply a question of an external understanding,
understandable to wider circles of present-day mankind? They
up with the extension of a real understanding for spiritual
acquire a certain feeling of responsibility and an understanding
problems of the day. One cannot understand the spiritual
science in its reality, at least have no understanding of it
should strive for a specially active understanding of what is

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture I: The Difference Between Man and Animal
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misunderstanding of the knowledge and conceptions of Spiritual Science.
Among the misunderstandings
misunderstanding. Spiritual scientists who seriously and adequately pay
must be paid particularly by those of us who try to take our stand on
present world situation. For there are men who understand how to estimate
for any misunderstanding. It is an article which, it is true, is out of
of the churches. There are people who have remained at the standpoint of
still taking the standpoint that must be taken in Spiritual Science.
as well. He said: “Really gentleman you can not understand me
sound human understanding. And in thus going by the Guardian of the
senses in animals standing in a very pronounced relation to the whole
In man his head stands on
the head organism; man stands with his heed on his own earth. In the
estimate rightly his place in the world, for then he understands how
of active, effective understanding, in wisdom, intellectuality and the
understand. But, my dear friends, we can also imagine that some one may
would be able to understand why this great majority should take him
from the standpoint of abstractions are often quite honest and worthy

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture II: St. John of the Cross
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world, making it necessary at present for man to take a new standpoint
in relation to the whole understanding of his connection with the world
of men and so on. Only a deep understanding of things can help to clear
is exposed. For this deep understanding is well adapted to strengthen
how man, just by standing on the ground of Spiritual Science, can be
has no need to misjudge other spiritual streams. From this standpoint
an understanding about these things. The different currents of world-conception
basis of Spiritual Science, the broad base on which it stands, they
is rare. What as Spiritual Science, according to how we understand it,
attacks, including those, for example. from the standpoint of the Catholic
cleric of Rome considers valid. What does ne understand by it?
a concept of what he understands by it when you distinguish between
of grace upon outstanding men and may not be striven after, accouding
they are standing on the firm ground of Christian belief dictated by
understands it, is held to be heretical; so says the modern cleric recognised
what are we supposed to understand when one of those who write about
against the three signs. One has only to meet them with understanding
will is only there to interpret with his sound human understanding that

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture III: Clairvoyant Vision Looks at Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man
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in the time since the fifteenth century, that man stands within his
you ought to understand that of course when picturing these conditions
matter stands. My explaining what I have just been describing one points
But here on earth man stands
feeling of the solidity of world existence only because you stand with
never be able to stand firm, I should have to sink down; and as I do
recognise if—please understand me, thoroughly he looks back to
from the one you get on looking from the standpoint of life between
being born with our gift of consciousness. We begin ia understand this,
to where, if he stands firmly on his feet, the will plays into him in
you will understand that into the conceptual life of science nothing
philistine conceptions, people come to an understanding as to the possibility
penetrate to the sphere of the spirit so that he learns to understand
man needed for standing here in the world with some measure of security
how the matter stands; it is shown by men's reluctance to think. They
savage original peoples, primitive peoples, so as to understand how
thinking. This is why there is difficulty in understanding my Philosophy
see, Spiritual Science as we understand it here and as in a sane way
if thinking is made active, but men simply want to understand Spiritual
Science in a different way from how they must understand it; instead
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said, suffices for understanding and receiving open-mindedly all things
understanding of the things of the spiritual world today, in a certain
sense through merely understanding, through open-minded acceptance,
will become increasingly so for all men, to learn to understand the
spiritual world, to learn to understand it with sound human intelligence
settle in the right way in his inmost soul when he seeks to understand
their sound human intelligence active so that it may understand, or
is the last thing to bother about if one wants to understand the spiritual
far less liking today for sound human understanding than people imagine,
and they would like to get round this need for sound human understanding
always emphasised, however, that sound human understanding may not be
Now if we seek to understand
to realise why people Shrink from understanding the spiritual world
in spite of the fact that this understanding is to be acquired simply
from in their understanding is what they would not recoil from in external
intelligence, there would easily prevail what is needful for understanding
told them by Spiritual Science out of its most intimate understanding
social questions can come only from the spiritual understanding of world
I told you that actually standing face to face with another man always
to develop mother love in solving their problems; you will understand
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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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here, will bring with it an essential increase in man's understanding
in rightly understanding in a similar way what has happened both in
understanding of the eatery of Golgotha. It is true that you may say
it is only through spiritual understanding of the Mystery at Golgotha
Christianity, true, real Christianity, to have the possibility of understanding
in human understanding. This is why people do not arrive at any living
understanding when they want to give merely abstract, logical form to
this understanding. And because of this a man comes to a living understanding
cannot bring us to a full understanding of the moral impulses in the
can be represented from the most varied standpoints. We have already
and to understand it correctly, and you have in this ritual a reproduction
as the outstandingly illustrious Leader. Something here arose that might
a way that He to come to had to standstill in face of the Conceptual
one thing stands out concerning him that lights forth from the rest
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha? The boy Goethe, the seven-year-old
For Goethe stands as the honest representative of mankind in the fifth
by the Mystery of Golgotha, a striving after a new understanding of
Where Plato stands in the
culture of the Greeks, Goethe stands in the fifth post-Atlantean period.
The question “Where does Goethe stand” leads us on to say:
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standing-by, in all the help given her, how fond they had become of
understanding on this point we must first be permeated by the knowledge
to the understanding which can be employed quite well where nature is
to Nature, must in honesty gradually come to own that he does not understand
he must understand. This is what is essential—to give
understanding. This is essential, it is something that necessarily must
to understand something apparently incomprehensible precisely for the
upon which the flourishing of science depends, the more the understanding
chosen for understanding the Mystery of Golgotha—in the way I
well studied if one comes to a real understanding of the personality,
various minds who were in connection with him, stand as the eighteenth
century passed into the nineteenth; where does Goetheanism stand with
regard to mankind's evolution, with regard to understanding the Christ
reality and its truth, all this no longer meets with any understanding
Europe itself that will be called upon to understand this threefold
will then be the first beginnings of understanding that we have to overcome
the trouble to understand this representative, this most representative
as understood today. There must be an attempt to understand this man
to understand what was in the depths of Goethe's being. For what he
a great scholar, or even as a man of certain culture, is easy to understand
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Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture I: The Goetheanum
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is quite reasonable to stand in some sort of fear of the modern world-conception,
from a purely intellectual standpoint.
be revealed to man. And as we approach the building which is to stand
then develop the right understanding for it. I shall have to speak further
stands as the representative of a new world-conception.
much considered. When the building had to be remodelled to stand upon
Here let us begin by noticing that the building stands on a sort of
Hall. The Building stands rather above the level of the actual surface
of a living organism. No one will understand what I mean by this, unless
order to understand an organic being we must realise that a quite special
he has failed to understand the whole basic thought of what is in question
To be capable of understanding
an organism is a very different thing. For when a man really understands
it only shows that he is not judging of the Building from the standpoint
to East. In the East will stand the principal Group: the Representative
case; but if a man is able really to understand the human form and how
if he understands the whole human structure, the formation of the head,
If you stand here in the Building and feel the Building, that is, feel

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an understanding of what is meant, then you will of course be wrong
and that nomenclature is from a certain standpoint justifiable. But
underneath it and is united with the Mercury motif. Then you will understand
let us understand how the following form grows out of this one. Here
For then we understand for the first time how evolution progresses in
to understand a certain inward power of development that we must learn
images man sought to understand the forces which work in human life.
dear friends, stands the everyday consciousness. For example while a
they say “we do not understand this.” We understand it in
the pillars do not stand there in order to define a limit. But the thing
concavity of the fifth, and the centre pillar with its capital stands
you now) are in themselves an evidence that the building does not stand
energetic stand for the essential. We shall not succeed for a long time
to come with out the energetic stand even if there are only few people
who can follow the things with really inner understanding, for you see
building represents that for which our anthroposophical ideas stand,
this building and what it stands for, then the movement will really

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in the arrangement of the Building, which strives to give an understanding
in the configuration of the small dome. You understand the whole figure
that in which ourselves stand — in the 15th century, developing
with the forces which in perceiving, alone understand death, recognise
you this, I can understand that it does not penetrate specially deeply
stand before this figure and say: What do there two or three heads mean
and everything depends on the understanding of the fact that the initiation
point is that we understand that this current of civilisation crust
the Lucifer-theme. You will only understand the Luciferic and Ahrimanic
Ahriman alone and Lucifer alone you will really understand neither;
to express in a figure standing under the influence of this dual principle.
stands — is here represented in painting where the space is small,
spiritually. But we must rightly understand man and rightly perceive
be said: he who to-day understands and smypathises with that which man
we shall come to the understanding of the Christ. It is just the task
of the fifth post-Atlantean time to attain more and more to this understanding
so that its side-view to a certain extent stands full in harmony with
the understanding of those who are thus placed what will proceed from
remain merely in our understanding. Much of the most important of that
that men let it get no further than their understanding, and then they
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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And many a man stands here alive
bookworm, a theory-monger! And so the two stand there after
Faust standing between the divine, spiritual world that bears
this is the Greek Logos. That actually stands in the John
interwoven with human evolution. The Word stands for the Ego
has entered Faust rebels; he must go deeper to understand the
stands actually facing himself. Now for the first time the
that is still not clear! The travelling student stands before
understand them, the language in which they are written being
believe they understand a quotation of this kind. Let me read
“Grey Wolf” stands for a certain metal found
beautifully it is pictured in the symbol standing for the
standing there in stone, but covered from head to foot with a
stands written — Past, Present and Future; time in its
no one can understand it; it is even a secret for science.
how the matter stands as I have explained to you. We have

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understand. The witch-apparitions did not attract him; in
difficulty of understanding can never be overcome unless we
written out of understanding for what is spiritual. Anyone
is the result of spiritual understanding, or whether he is
Ahrimanic being has no understanding of the present earth; he
Rocky snouts that stand in cluster
stand in their right form. Then I have taken upon myself to
in Evil, Mephistopheles has no understanding; he does not
spiritual science — for how else can we understand

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the second part of “Faust” stand before our souls
understanding in our approach to this deepest manifestation
enthusiasm he spoke. It is very easy to understand how such a
understand, too, how the youthful Fichte, meeting antiquated
can understand that when such a spirit as Fichte was faced
stands to reason that all that is best may be dangerous. And
him. It is in the sense that we must understand all he
kind of understanding, a kind of intellectuality like human
that are powerless to come to any understanding of real-life.
And then stands to-day at the mercy of such concepts. On the
able to understand once again the real, actual, human being,
Mephistopheles does not understand him, shows him clearly how
an understanding of the spiritual.
really immerse ourselves in reality and learn to understand
them. So how can materialism understand the difference we
body? Or how can it understand the following, for example.
understand reality in a spiritual way, to lack upon
as regards knowledge of nature the capacity to understand her
America. Today when it is only of use to understand the
there is little understanding to be found, for today there
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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understand with our intellect, and that world from which the
is necessary that the ordinary understanding, the ordinary
understand that there is danger in the fact that it is
the normal understanding of the senses, but with a condition
of man when this normal understandin is not present. It is
one. What then is our Astrologer actually doing as he stands

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theoretic sense, the great problems of Birth and Death stand
are having to experience Evil have found a standpoint which
enables them to stand not within Evil, but outside it. That
initial experience — which stands before us here. The

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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to the Spirits of Darkness who will stand far nearer to man
the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. These Beings who stand
able to understand what is the nature of their efforts in our
consider an outstanding myth, connected with the very thing I
which stands behind Helena is in reality worthy of reverence,
to point this out, to show how Helena herself stands in
stand with Paris, who is presented to us by Goethe in the
How does it stand with Paris? Here too we are told; he was
easily raise the following question: How does it stand with
Spiritual World stand there if, so to speak, it had nothing
hundreds who stand here below no one is found, then the Gods
guidance of the Universe stands not in contradiction to human
such that the human being stands rather remote from the
Illusion we must also understand; we must only understand it
could say would be that he stands for a policy of Power
does not take one's stand in such a case and frankly say:
“I stand for a policy of Power; I will attach myself to
contrary one says, one defines it thus: “I stand for
these two things side by side. One says that one stands for
Nations, and yet — one stands for a such a policy. One
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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standpoint of art, but from quite another point of view. It
understanding did not reach up to the truths of Spiritual
being. We only understand man by first becoming clear to what
this way — (we wish our understanding of these things
completely untrue. Such misunderstandings often arise and it
stands in a threefold stream, to only one of which he really
“Faust” its most outstanding expression.
artistic standpoint but am relating to “Faust” a
an outstanding Greek about whom so much strife and discord
kind of pedantic, rationalistic, philistine, understands
nothing of him. He understands nothing at all of Goethe, my
to an understanding. Down there in that sphere the words
But we can quite well understand if the old names earth,
stand midway between air and water; it is experienced in this
whirling, As you will easily understand we could not exist in
understanding we turn our gaze back to the primal sources of
weaving element I have described) so that he too could stand
become this solid planet on which man can stand at the same
understanding enough to become man. Therefore his experience
And the only way to understand the scene beginning here, is
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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the understanding or by other forces of the human soul.
but if you will not misunderstand me, if you will apply what
it is from ordinary understanding and from the ordinary life
knowledge of the understanding of the senses, but only by
recent philosophers could produce out of understanding and
which, however, we cannot understand what has to do with the
arisen, we cannot understand”. And in another place:
“Reason as applied to what is becoming, understanding
understanding that is directed to what is nowadays regarded
understanding. It is the shadow form of the concepts of the
becoming, we can arrive at an understanding of this
a personality standing within the spiritual world but only
with his understanding, the understanding that only studying
Spiritual Science, that you can understand how in a certain
understanding or his ordinary knowledge. And then, from all
for present-day man to understand. In Greek thought it was
mysteries. Out of a profound misunderstanding, does not only
Phorkyads: “Done! here stand I” (after he has
“Here stand I, Chaos'
the opportunity of understanding, together with much else

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
Goethe's spiritual life if this is done from the standpoint
unspiritual standpoint we can naturally never find in
understanding. nevertheless, it appears to me of quite
really been a very wide understanding of the matter. Perhaps
the basis of Goethe's whole understanding of inanimate
primal phenomena to have weight, then this understanding and
so little able to rise to a sound understanding of the moon,
understand human life between birth — or shall we say
for the understanding of man, it is necessary to approach him
understanding of man's usual procedure when he wants to
understands the whole matter. This is the way with the
I have tried to understand what comes latest in Goethe's
in his most mature conceptions. We understand Goethe only
man were standing there with left and right side properly
may say the matter stands thus. The conscious is here, the
subconscious lies beneath it (see diagram). Now how stands
speaking peoples, no people stand so high in our affections
round, according to how the matter stands. utereas the result
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture X: Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
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Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself and of the
Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
understand Goethe's Faust, particularly the second part, we
self-knowledge and self-understanding in human evolution? It
senses and the understanding associated with them. True
the senses and the physical understanding are directed, is no
sea-festival? To understand his feelings, we must take
understanding through the senses. When Homunculus, the idea
concerned with in man stands before us in external, physical
look at man simply as a figure standing on the physical earth
put men together out of Axieros standing in the middle, and
Axieros. So the matter stands thus: Of the three, Axieros
about all that Goethe stands for will, as I said recently,
standpoint of Goethe's own conception of the world, we may
Representative of Man there stands Axieros, how he is
idols. This is so because modern man has no understanding for
idols. This is so because modern man has no understanding for
whoever wishes to understand the sometimes grotesque looking
Homunculus is to become man? Nereus has indeed understanding,
noble use of this understanding, but even so does not really
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form that, regarded merely from the theatrical standpoint,
by the understanding, cannot lead to this self-knowledge. For
external nature, the physical understanding was able to put
standstill on the path to becoming man. Goethe wrestles with
the concepts of physical understanding. But he had no wish,
think with physical understanding alone, in these thoughts
possible to grasp with out physical understanding, must be
of understanding. The atavistic clairvoyance adapted to
it hovers so lightly that the understanding, the intellect,
scene. We do not understand it at all if we wish to explain
great gift of human understanding and knows how to transform
understanding to a demonic height that not only runs to dull
so. Goethe has the feeling that, should human understanding
them, the most outstanding of them all, Galatea. Yesterday I
standstill. Then fresh light flashes in. In contrast to all
side, from the standpoint of supersensible knowledge —
they mean, what they stand for, passes over into the
understand it when Schwaben-Vischer, the so-called V-Vischer,

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our stand in life with the will that passes over into action,
already referred to. Men must understand precisely from what
the understanding of man.
only when an effort is made to show him as standing midway
understand life who does not picture it in rhythm, as a
straight line does not help us to a true understanding of
applies to the understanding of man's historical life. In the
Faust is standing before Manto. But Faust, my dear friends,
to that sacred and sublime moment when Faust stands before
understanding of the divine within’, from which nothing
artistically what you can feel as Faust stands before Manto;
spiritual world, we have prepared ourselves to understand
able to understand what this human body is. But alas
does not suffice to think we understand the evolution of
in evolution, that they should learn to understand the rhythm
understanding of this equilibrium is what modern man must
into this understanding when with absolute honesty he tried
permeate our feeling with it, let us learn to understand the

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
such an idea as a theoretical concept. He may even understand
standpoint. It was indeed quite true, how these people felt and
possibility. For especially in the case of an outstanding
movements as we see today. We must understand these too as to
awakening an inner understanding, when we describe the people

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 1
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in the sense in which that title can be given them from the standpoint
of the Medical Section of the Goetheanum. How this standpoint is to be
friends, there must be an absolutely clear understanding in the part of
hygienic standpoint about asceticism. This is spoken about very
physicians understand their profession properly, they realize that
hand, if the physician is a good physician standing squarely within
physician will truly understand the priest, and the priest the

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understanding, since they reach into profound depths, even into the
human being stands before us in a physical body, which has a long
obliged to bring a musical understanding to it.
to understand is the ego organization. For this one needs to grasp
a true understanding of the human being. However, I am convinced that
that Anthroposophy gives us, we can say that the human being stands
sensitive understanding for the fact that pathological conditions can
the queer ones.” This demands an understanding of the subtle
human being that must first be met with understanding; then it can

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for instance, standing before them as a real person. That is the
stages follow in succession. We can understand them clearly through
perception. To anyone who understands these things, the entire
view time is not like that. And one finds little understanding for
understands these things. But the chatter over free will is far
must be trained to understand the conditions under which a person is

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organization, one is not in a position to understand their
teeth. And from that statement the understanding must follow that the
the sunshine. One must understand that — how humanity stands
understand the real nature of the human being.
kind of hypomochlion, a zero moment in time when we stand between

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 5
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understand the first type of person requires the soul depth of the
priest. To understand this second type of person — who often is
intuition. For it is a matter of understanding what they do
people could be helped very much if our medical understanding and the
with special love — but should also cultivate an understanding
an understanding for how these things are brought about.
misunderstand me! I'm certainly not pointing to any of these things

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need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
able to care for humanity properly from the standpoint of the
understand an illness unless one knows its cause.
standpoint there is no great difference between the health spas that
He does what other men wouldn't do. One can understand that. One can
overpowers him. He is standing there, he is bitten by the dog, and
Naturally it is a fulfillment of karma. But one can understand the
who achieve an understanding of these things will find opportunities
geniuses. But not from the standpoint of that arch-philistine
assertions from that kind of standpoint, if one directs one's
understanding behind it. Whether one gives communion to sick people
having an understanding for these things.
physicians also understand these things, if they recognize karma
standing beside the priests and administering the other half of the
anthroposophical understanding. To transform everything in life and

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 7
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would never attain an understanding of the human being. Certainly it
understanding of the external world, either in its evolution or in
karma that is forming, in between stands the human earth-life, which

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must go out beyond humanity. For everywhere humanity stands in some
relation to the forces in the universe, and one can only understand
working. On the one hand if we want to understand the structure of
similar. Now one understands how in ordinary everyday consciousness
of past karma. If we understand the human head properly, we must say
our vision, suddenly the continuity is broken and standing there
carry it into the universe. Let the picture stand before us —

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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
understand how things relate to one another.
the standpoint of truth. Much that priests in the world today say

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understand the periphery of the human being; one has to ignore the
we really understand the place humanity has been given in this world.
then you can begin to understand the present human physical body with
consider from the cosmic standpoint what lies between human
which is connected with how the sun stands in relation to the earth.
Thus we stand first
physician's or a priest's standpoint. But a true view of the world
very distant star, that's what I don't understand.” Yes, of
course it's obvious, the standpoint you've adopted at this moment
when you laugh at Serenissimus. But there's another standpoint: one

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its living activity. But to understand that, one needs to accept the
expression, veiling the facts so that no one would understand them
understanding of those two human conditions, would then see into the
When we understand
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
they stand on a level with nature.
training behind me, I understand all that transpired at the Mystery
death. You will understand the passage of Christ from the Father to
truly related that through your understanding of the processes of

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theologians and the physicians must understand what is now going to
hygienic standpoint about asceticism. This is spoken about very
physicians understand their profession properly, they realize that
hand, if the physician is a good physician standing squarely within
physician will truly understand the priest, and the priest the

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understanding, since they reach into profound depths, even into the
human being stands before us in a physical body, which has a long
obliged to bring a musical understanding to it.
to understand is the ego organization. For this one needs to grasp
a true understanding of the human being. However, I am convinced that
that Anthroposophy gives us, we can say that the human being stands
sensitive understanding for the fact that pathological conditions can
the queer ones.” This demands an understanding of the subtle
human being that must first be met with understanding; then it can

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 3
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for instance, standing before them as a real person. That is the
stages follow in succession. We can understand them clearly through
perception. To anyone who understands these things, the entire
view time is not like that. And one finds little understanding for
understands these things. But the chatter over free will is far
must be trained to understand the conditions under which a person is

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 4
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organization, one is not in a position to understand their
teeth. And from that statement the understanding must follow that the
the sunshine. One must understand that — how humanity stands
understand the real nature of the human being.
kind of hypomochlion, a zero moment in time when we stand between

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 5
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understand the first type of person requires the soul depth of the
priest. To understand this second type of person — who often is
intuition. For it is a matter of understanding what they do
people could be helped very much if our medical understanding and the
with special love — but should also cultivate an understanding
an understanding for how these things are brought about.
misunderstand me! I'm certainly not pointing to any of these things

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 6
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need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
able to care for humanity properly from the standpoint of the
understand an illness unless one knows its cause.
standpoint there is no great difference between the health spas that
He does what other men wouldn't do. One can understand that. One can
overpowers him. He is standing there, he is bitten by the dog, and
Naturally it is a fulfillment of karma. But one can understand the
who achieve an understanding of these things will find opportunities
geniuses. But not from the standpoint of that arch-philistine
assertions from that kind of standpoint, if one directs one's
understanding behind it. Whether one gives communion to sick people
having an understanding for these things.
physicians also understand these things, if they recognize karma
standing beside the priests and administering the other half of the
anthroposophical understanding. To transform everything in life and

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 7
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would never attain an understanding of the human being. Certainly it
understanding of the external world, either in its evolution or in
karma that is forming, in between stands the human earth-life, which

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 8
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must go out beyond humanity. For everywhere humanity stands in some
relation to the forces in the universe, and one can only understand
working. On the one hand if we want to understand the structure of
similar. Now one understands how in ordinary everyday consciousness
of past karma. If we understand the human head properly, we must say
our vision, suddenly the continuity is broken and standing there
carry it into the universe. Let the picture stand before us —

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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
understand how things relate to one another.
the standpoint of truth. Much that priests in the world today say

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 10
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understand the periphery of the human being; one has to ignore the
we really understand the place humanity has been given in this world.
then you can begin to understand the present human physical body with
consider from the cosmic standpoint what lies between human
which is connected with how the sun stands in relation to the earth.
Thus we stand first
physician's or a priest's standpoint. But a true view of the world
very distant star, that's what I don't understand.” Yes, of
course it's obvious, the standpoint you've adopted at this moment
when you laugh at Serenissimus. But there's another standpoint: one

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 11
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its living activity. But to understand that, one needs to accept the
expression, veiling the facts so that no one would understand them
understanding of those two human conditions, would then see into the
When we understand
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
they stand on a level with nature.
training behind me, I understand all that transpired at the Mystery
death. You will understand the passage of Christ from the Father to
truly related that through your understanding of the processes of

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture I: Easter: The Festival of Warning
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To understand all that is implied in this manner of dating the
him at Damascus and to have a right view and understanding of it. The
is plain that he is fully able to understand the difference between
illumination, the understanding once possessed by men in an atavistic
through spiritual science. This understanding came to Paul in order
to understand the super-sensible world before he can have any true
evolution. The very fact that the figure of Paul stands at the summit
understanding of Christianity through super-sensible experience, is
and indeed if we would understand history as it truly is, we must come
inner life. He had to learn to understand the words: “My kingdom
hearers who were able to understand it: that the old spiritual vision
force whereby they might learn to understand what it was that had
to awaken in man the conviction that if he would understand Christ, he
have a real understanding of the Resurrection. We set ourselves at
Central Europe, and is accounted of outstanding importance. Yet
understanding of the enmity cherished by the modern materialistically
super-sensible ideas. On the understanding of this event depends
‘Easter,’ how do I stand to super-sensible knowledge? For Easter should
but Christ in me.” We must strive to understand this word of

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from any real understanding of the Christ Impulse and how closely this
lack of understanding is connected with the symptoms of decline in
understanding the problem of death in a non-materialistic way is not
to understand the divine and spiritual through attributes innate in
able of themselves to reach any true understanding of the Event of
abandoned. But even a genuine understanding of documents came to an
can lead again to an understanding of the Event of Golgotha.
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
of Golgotha. The need for such understanding is urgent to-day, for
knowledge alone can lead to an understanding of what Paul wished to
understanding of universal Christianity. Until then there can be no
It devolves upon those who understand the evolution of mankind to

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the Easter thought. Understanding of the contrast and also of the
of Christendom men were still endeavouring to understand the Mystery
empty of understanding, Good Friday became a festival in which the
understanding of the spiritual, must be perceived with all clarity.
We must learn to understand the Easter thought in all its depths. But
Spiritual understanding finds in the Resurrection thought the first
the centuries. A true understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha is what
yearn for understanding of his own will, for knowledge of his own
mere counter-image. We must gain something from what stands before us
we learn to understand the movements of the hands on a clock. The
the crucifix alone that must stand before us, however grandly and
understanding of what has been created, but that we shall become
that can bring about this ascent. And the moment we truly understand

Title: Lecture I: Human Questions and Cosmic Answers
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for the failure to understand Anthroposophy when it says that the soul
understanding that have been preserved for us in external history. You
way. Man's power of understanding is cruder than it was in ancient
the trouble really to understand the world around us.
world is utterly bereft of the spirit, and he understands nothing of
is much better able to understand the mysteries of birth and death
begun to understand how the element of will inherent in the soul
begins to understand how his soul and spirit stream out into the
Moreover, he learns to understand how spirituality is brought back
stand, as it were, midway between processes regarded as physical and
up to humanity. And such a comprehension and understanding is sorely
been conceived out of a profound understanding of cosmic processes. We
must win back for ourselves once more a knowledge and an understanding
can understand how the human head is actually moulded in the image of

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You will find these thoughts necessary if you want to understand
when Venus was standing in a position facing Mars. The important
interpenetrate, but their concentrations stand at different places in
polaric. And the Sun stands between, preventing the two groups of
stands between them.

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therefore, we are speaking of the universe from the human standpoint,
we are speaking from within the universe, for we are standing at some
considered from the standpoint of Earth-evolution. I explained the way
existence — to understand, by means of all the faculties we
earth by means of the senses. It is quite understandable that he
unconscious understanding he acquired during his life on earth.
but has a certain kindly understanding of them, letting them be as
himself, in addition to the understanding by which his consciousness
understand them, not picking them to pieces with criticism; but as
well as this understanding, in itself an asset to his consciousness,
different aspects. According to a man's capacity for understanding

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We cannot understand a human skeleton if we do not connect it
ultimately with man's will-nature; and we cannot understand the
the signs of the Zodiac. According to whether the moon stands in the
knowledge can furnish a clue not only to an understanding of human
We learn to understand matter only when we learn to know it also from
when we understand the true nature of things; but they also have their
science, for that will not help them to understand things. The ancient

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture I
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stand. He must have felt that whatever emerged from a majority could
but a latter-day observer finds him hard to understand. This becomes
This is what makes it hard to understand a man like Nicholas Cusanus.
scientifically understandable.” This is what Nicholas
to understand what led to the birth of Western science, must
understand this century that lies between the Docta Ignorantia
to understand the true meaning of science, we must study the

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ancient times is necessary so that we can better understand the quest

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture III
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gradually, stands upright, so that this last orientation flows within
As matters stand today, these three orientations in man are regarded
understand the origin of the later mathematical way of thinking that
understand how Spinoza experienced his Ethics, for example, in a
understand all this if I apply Descartes’ space scheme, the
and at one time was, an inward experience) there stands the
understanding of the blood experience. Mathematics no longer goes
this way, out of the truly human element, can one understand what

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standing firmly on it. He thought of himself not just as a being that
because everybody understands them.
namely differential and integral calculus. Please, do not misunderstand me.
understandable. He shuddered at what he thought would come from a
must die, we must look at and understand all that is dead in the
mathematical standpoint, but then he wavered and defined space (which

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture V
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ideas) from his direct experience has proved to be the outstanding
understanding it through the interrelationship of its parts, we find
If we want to understand modern thinking, we must continually recall

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture VI
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horizontal lines stand for the physical and etheric body of man, the
world. The thinkers no longer understand human nature. They did not
could not understand man's spirituality. They would have had to
about nature, all understanding was gradually lost. This is what
historical standpoint, one can clearly perceive how the real being of
to split water into its two components. The point is to understand
for an understanding of man.

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certain amount of human feeling. Just as you can understand the
kind of physics could not longer understand man. What had been
I lose the ability to understand a movement inwardly if I do not
human element. If we want to understand rest or motion, we must

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modern times. Now I will try to throw light from a certain standpoint
concepts. Then we shall better understand what these concepts signify
understand that the phenomena of external culture are inwardly
would only like to say that we can better understand what we are
We stand at the beginning of this development of a new spirit
differently that we can no longer understand such a book. When
Thirteenth or Fourteenth Century, the understanding disappears almost
blackboard yesterday from an historical standpoint. If we look at the
impression that this is all they need to understand the body. But
pumps. The body is viewed from a mechanical standpoint, as existing
order to understand the animal. One had to start somewhere, so in the
understandable from the historical standpoint. It makes good sense
cannot understand the origin of science if we look at it only from
understand the significance of man's historical development.

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We must clearly understand, for instance, that because the formative
processes in the world that we seek to understand, but only in a
understand this by a simple illustration. If you watch a moving
Science will stand on a solid basis only when it fully realizes that
through his physical organism, and you must understand that in man
rediscover velocity in movement. Then, we will understand what this
understand what they observe as nascent states of being. Only then
stand on a sound basis.
discovered but don't understand. Those of us who work in the
realm of technology. Today, man stands in the midst of this realm of
times. He stands atop this purely mechanical world, the grave of all
On the other hand, one need only understand clearly what pure
show you the standpoint of a human being, who comprehends this

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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picture one can no doubt understand the human physical body. But the

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IV: Exercises of Cognition and Will
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life has gone out of it. If we understand the nature of the corpse, we
hidden behind the will stands to thought in the same relationship as,
life on earth, independent of it. So, since we do not stand still at

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture VII: The Relationship of Christ with Humanity
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the physical senses. Now it depends on the understanding which man can
understanding with one's whole nature and being what observation has
which can be experienced with full understanding by the soul in

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IX: The Destination of the Ego-Consciousness in Conjunction with the Christ-problem
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consciousness stand the etheric and the physical organism as
stands before man's soul. For this picture is only the expression of

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture X: On Experiencing the Will-Part of the Soul
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prevented from being resolved into physical activity. It stands back
thought is manifest an ever dying activity while will stands for

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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And, if one is of [the] opinion that one cannot stand for the
that man can gain nothing out of it on which he can stand on a
simply takes the standpoint of St. Augustine.
standpoint, as I have often told you, if it were
and shall have to say: If one stands on St. Augustine's
standpoint, one must sharply look to this. — that he
belief that one can reach a firm standpoint in one's inner
could stand firm, was still absolutely possible in the age of
Mystery of Golgotha, Buddha, who stands ever in the evolution
one does not come to understand this life of Birth in the
possessed by those who stand on an Augustinian basis, one
stand on the basis of his inner experience.
see hew from the standpoint we have acquired to-day we can look
back at the standpoint of St. Augustine, how we can understand
could not yet see. Thus St. Augustine stands for us as a
the standpoint of Demonology to that of Metaphysics. Whereas
told you St. Augustine takes his stand in the twilight of the
which to stand. We now enter on the 5th Post-Atlantean Age. In
his life, was to understand the intervention of the Mystery of
really understand the life which flows from the Mystery of
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Although throughout the whole of man's working life he stands
Arch-Angela, who bring this about, stand further away from us
standing before a mirror, believes it produces him, because it
understand many things in the development of man. Above all one
understands why, before the Mystery of Golgotha, those human
the physical world, there should also stand as a copy of the
Truth stands under the influence of our Delusion in
one side stand directly on the basis of the most Ahrimanic
Science, consciously in the epoch of Industrialism, they stand
Bentham himself nor by his disciples but by those who stand on
Benthamism. These three things stand in a certain sense,

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something of outstanding significance through the centuries which
We must really have an inner understanding of what it signified when
capable of understanding a truth only to be known in super-sensible
sides by the pagan peoples, and understanding of the deep mystery
longer possible. The possibility of understanding the real nature of
Modern Christianity has very little knowledge or understanding of the
tried to understand how the Divine and the Human had been united in
there among the animals who stand round the blessed Mother. It is a
to obliterate understanding of these things. Nobody in our days can
In the course of the centuries, understanding of the Risen One, of the
impulse of renewal, for inasmuch as Christianity no longer understands
Another factor, too, contributes to this lack of understanding of the
but we have no wisdom-filled understanding of the union of the Christ
their understanding of the Cosmic Word.
By a new understanding of the Christmas Festival, super-sensible
brings understanding of the super-earthly Christ Being, the Sun Being
understanding, too, of the unifying peace that should hover over the
need to understand and realise that a new Christmas Festival must
knowledge of the nature of Christ. We need a new understanding of the
the most significant token of this union. We must understand once
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture I
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certain things that can open the way to an understanding of how this
understand how man, standing in the midst of present evolution, can
strange position today because of the possibility of misunderstanding,
understanding of the German nature and am able only to understand the
that there may be some difficulties in understanding me. Regardless of
trying to understand the coarser ideas of outer material reality.
post-Atlantean age. An understanding of them can throw a flood of
Now let us look at Rome, which stands in a different relation to our
also in the method and character. So you see that a European stands in
we must do if we really want to understand things rightly. Placed side
stand before us and we watch them pass. They show themselves to us in
antipathy if we want really to understand them. It is important to
understand them because they play so large a part in our cultural life
Roman civilization. Nevertheless, the way in which we understand right
standpoint for once, we see that we must not correct the facts, but
came when Rome could no longer understand what she had received, and
she no longer desired to understand them. They were felt to be foreign
were slaves, for teachers of their children, which, by Roman standards
for the one view as for the other. So, in one of the most outstanding
heavenly spheres, and by his side stands Aristotle with his conceptual
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revelation of the ahrimanic powers. Although they stand in the
at which we must gain an understanding of the forces that are
operative in our age, insofar as such an understanding is possible
understand these attacks will become ever greater. At the beginning of
To understand how these powers work in the fifth post-Atlantean age,
illumination of a vision standing behind it. We need not imagine that
Goethe had a beautiful understanding of this clear perception, which,
understanding.
time and see him, not as a single personality, but as the outstanding
also Machiavelli's contemporary. He stands entirely within the slow
saying, you will then be able to understand much of what has come
understand that it is only in a limited way that I can speak of the
deepest interest. The kind of understanding men have of the nature and
examples of various kinds of understanding of His nature and being
understanding of Christ that culminates in what Soloviev wrote about
If you want to appreciate rightly Renan's book, to understand it as a
behind every one of their paintings stands the power of the Church.
that there is no standing still in this progression in the
according to how the various forces flow together in writers. Standing
arise in this land. The outstanding character of Renan's description
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that man does not understand certain things that thrust themselves
protected from understanding them because he can only properly evolve
for his understanding of these events, however, have already begun to
can be compared precisely with the world one experiences when standing
sort of ground you were actually standing on.
personality of humanity and describes Him in such a way that He stands
being arises as he stands merely externally in the world.
feeling the need to understand the individual character of those
communicated in our age. When it is possible for outstanding members

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that can contribute to a wider understanding of what has already been
one's understanding the facts that have been presented in our recent
individual forms of the actuating spiritual powers that stand behind
stand behind it, conjuring it out of itself, as it were, just as a
earthly evolution, man would only understand the dead and lifeless.
All understanding of life and the living, to say nothing of the
time. They understand why it is that since the middle of the
efforts to make men understand that there is a spiritual world around
connections is drawn from soul to soul. Inasmuch as we stand within
the world — if, for instance, we are standing here, then we do
judge from the standpoint of human feeling and moral perception the
reveals a man who avoids the mistakes that many make; a man who stands

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our age. As you know, from the standpoint of the science of the spirit
the hierarchy standing nearest to the human hierarchy, desired that
judge the spiritual by human standards. Lucifer and Ahriman have a
the human standpoint what is observed in the spiritual world. If we do
understandable that they are repeatedly disillusioned, but their
green feathered serpent, this indicates to those who understand such
existence on the earth, and to understand the concrete facts. In many
especially in Western Europe; only so will you be able to understand
processes of the human being. Those who understand the connections
In this way we must endeavor to understand how real and concrete
understand many things. Only you must not give way to the delusion

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were not to flee but were to stand firm. In each moment of their lives
maya with spiritual forces standing behind that [which] the materialist cannot
related by history stand active forces, and that human life is truly a
for which gold also stands, hence, “The Golden King of
understanding. I have already shown in certain respects how the
culture toward the understanding of Goethe's personality. We can, of
One book, however, stands out in a quite unusual way. These are Herman
development, as he stands there, as he moves about and comes into
Eternal in their breast it stands upright,
Eternal in their breast it stands upright,
So stands the Cross weighty with solemn meaning

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understand why the things that go on around him are as they are. For
know them in their deeper meaning. One can understand why this
outstanding individuals who appeared in the years following the time
extraordinary has been brought about. In order to understand this, we
If, however, we now turn our minds to the outstanding personalities
to understand and deal with the materialistic relations of the world,
material matters, but they are all thinkers who take a peculiar stand
stand. But neither does one allow the subject to be broached in
that the religious life should stand and be recognized in external
divorced, stands at the source and results in a mood in which one does
not concern oneself with these affairs, but rather lets them stand for
could only have come about through such an historical event standing
arising from their temptations, was understandable, but they also
described if one would fully understand among what thoughts a man born
Our age stands under all these influences — the thinking and the
this age. According to prevalent belief, it stands, not only with both
people believe they are standing deep in reality. They are immensely
established the fact that the sun stands still, or perhaps has a
We are no longer far distant from the time in which we will understand
all stand, as they believe, with both feet, both hands and the body in
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everywhere I met with lack of understanding.
This lack of understanding arises from a definite reason. Human
man really understands it, if he has really taken the trouble to
really stand too intimately in the experiences, too close for the
stand further away. Man is further away from himself when he sleeps
etheric substance of the world; but he feels too that standing on the
from the expanses of space. One feels that if one is to understand
This extends even to the understanding of the human
looked with artistic understanding at the paintings in the small
understand the form of a true Grecian sculptured head unless you have
with the dawn when we stand face to face with the morning glow. It

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and we shall understand what really happens there if we bear in mind
spirit; you will understand me. You will have to raise what I must
contracting a muscle through concentration when standing still). When
undertake these exercises you will understand better that part of my
You will then understand the times when there was a
It is really a question of understanding this union of
understanding of nature, we bring the Luciferic and Ahrimanic

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stand at the door of nature and knock in vain. Just through that
which is our innermost being do we stand in most intimate communion
and there read, perhaps now with greater understanding than was
intensify the forces of spiritual understanding. The following events
If we stand before a tree, something at the top of the

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everyday life of earth. We can indeed understand Goethe quite well
in the cosmos. Once more the world of the stars stands before the
directly understanding the language of the metals, and what he
say, yes, but he does not understand the import of what he is saying.
It does not matter to you whether the speaker understands or not, so
long as you yourself understand when you listen to him. That is the
understand what he says; he speaks from instinct. And even more
understand nothing of what they say to us — from the beetles
If one can inwardly perceive and understand this connection, then at
the raising itself of the child from crawling to standing upright and

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in this way we learn to understand the speech of the metals, then
understand it. We must understand how the earth, together with man,

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obtained which would lead to the understanding of the beginning of
We stand before a human or an animal skeleton. That
us to try and fathom that which stands at the beginning of the John
so that man may gain the understanding of that out of which his whole

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to speak today of another Mystery Centre which also stands in a
say: No one wishes to renounce knowledge, it stands to reason that
path of knowledge. But to him who understands these things as they
light. And in the midst the pupil then saw a female form, standing
that he should get to understand the nature of this riddle — on
the one hand that he should understand the nature of this riddle, and
experiences when it feels: I stand now before the Power which guards
ways to that which we must feel in the words: Now I am standing on
which may perhaps be expressed in the following words I stand on the
I beg you to understand here that nothing dogmatic is
stands in these sentences is not to be announced as a truth, but that

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misunderstand the word “symbolic.” I described to you,
World death and World birth would not meet if man did not stand
between them. For if man did not stand between them — as I have
not stand between them the actual processes into which the pupil
stand between Past and Future. The pupil knew this directly out of
How this Initiation stands in connection with the whole

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speaks to Word. Word learns to understand Word. Man feels himself as
the World-understanding Word, as the Word-world understanding Word.
This reckoned upon the human understanding, which by
the inner meaning of these writings. He himself understands nothing
human heads did not understand it. It went through human heads,
of today, one learns to understand these images of the

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understand what had come over from the Mysteries of Hibernia, but, as
in ancient Greece, and that they learnt to understand how this lead
seriously and without sentimentality. He then learnt to understand:
Then the pupil was told the following: Here stands the
human being thou art not complete. In that which the Father, standing
It is only that which stands before thee, combined with that which he
bears which makes thee man. Thou standest on the earth, but that
her breast a Child, and he was finally led to the understanding of
In this way the Greek disciple learned to understand the
notwithstanding the general standard of culture, was cultivated in
which should bring the understanding of this third figure was still
to understand in its original reality what has been so beautifully
understanding.
understanding will be discussed in the lectures to be given here; and

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philosophies not merely with the intellect and the understanding, but
authentic way about nature, people did not understand by the word
understand; i.e., the merely earthly phenomena from which all the
again silver about the Moon, in so far as she does not stand in close
modest mien and yet proud standing in the world, he actually felt how
From this standpoint, in which the pupil of Aristotle,
Alexander the Great was trained, it is quite possible to understand
fashions a man and that which he does when he stands in the world and

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divine beings, those Gods who stand there as the Essences, the life
Middle Ages. Behind all those descriptions there stands in the
every metal in so far as it stands under the influence of the entire

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other Mysteries I have described in that it stands before the whole
its impulse out into the world. Whoever really understands the
Mystery of Golgotha — and no one of course understands it
anyone who really understands the Mystery of Golgotha understands at
these things from their historical standpoint) now there came this
which gradually those who strove after knowledge had to stand in a
of today. One does not understand the mood of soul of such a man of
time, standing before his retort, asked himself: How does the
to an understanding intercourse with the Cosmic Intelligences.
this possibility of understanding the Cosmic Intelligences. And a
tragic countenance, who cannot understand life, what meets us later
“Here I stand, as wise, poor fool,

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explained to you if I try to make you understand the tragic
which, from that time on, gave him more understanding for certain
sun-preparation, the pupil was led to a deep understanding of the
dimmed direct light of the sun, prepared the pupil to understand the
How then did he understand this? After he had undergone
in the ancient Mysteries, men learnt to understand that there existed
successive phases. Now, no one can understand what lives on the earth
standpoint of Anthroposophy.

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At this point I would like to warn against a misunderstanding, that of
from a viewpoint reaching its understanding instead from a kind of
instinct, but you will see that this understanding, if it does not wish to
This can become clear if one knows and understands rightly the value of
sentence stands as: “To know nature means to create nature,” which we
are unable to accomplish; from the other side the sentence would stand

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understand the relationship between the soul-spiritual and the physical
mad deviates from life's normal standard. Anything unusual is
materialism, that in certain regards it leads to a misunderstanding,
materialistic understanding of history, for example. Materialism was

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Though it will be necessary for such an understanding of the
understanding of medicine that is required in the wider circles of
soul-spiritual stands within the human process of organization; this
has merely shown his total lack of understanding for how the threefold
When an individual really understands this constitution of the human
stage very helpful in understanding how in plant formation during this
formation. We find, if we understand this process of protein formation
add to a general understanding of the human being. Proceeding from
laymen's understanding of medical directions, of medical principles,
for an understanding to grow of what the physician has to undertake

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direction, something that can lead to a general understanding of the
trust between the public and physicians. The better our understanding
come to understand how such intrusions of one system upon the other
this way from the standpoint of a rational medicine, if I may use this
must first gain certain anthroposophical understandings of the human
We can therefore say that if we understand the actual results of
If we understand that we must observe what actually goes on in the
then stand in the background when one wishes to explain a remarkable
shown that it is possible to stand at the pinnacle of contemporary

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beings who would understand the contrasts which must be brought forth
mentioned, we did not yet stand face to face with the monetary
beings to understand such a thing as this in a really practical sense.
meant to do. They did not understand it, however often they declared
masses of Capital. If, therefore, we wish to understand the economic
understanding of the social organism. Yet all the systems of Political
what we really need is an understanding of the social organism in

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artificial measures. Economic Science must stand firmly on its feet,
stands in some relation to other human beings — if only to the
intervals, all this may of course be judged from another standpoint:
factors in Economics. Here Labour stands in the background, and before

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will contribute to a deeper understanding. To understand the present
understanding of the social and economic life. Man may be never so
his fellows. But, economically, how does the matter stand?

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will stand directly after he has finished making the suit of clothes.
loss. But that is not the point; the point is, how will he stand when
understand it, it simply will not do to think — if I may put it
understand the function of Capital in the economic process. The
gives rise, the debtor stands in the middle. On the one hand we have
understand wherein this health consists, we must learn to understand
understand more and more wherein the essential nature of a Commodity
lead you to a true understanding of the economic process.
penetrate the economic processes with conscious understanding; and we
external. In Natural Science, we stand outside the process. The
inwardly understand it. A mathematician may well object: You have
get a numerator and denominator in this way, or to understand that it

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We must try to understand more and more the formula which was
wish to understand this rightly.
degree of value, it no longer moves; for something now stands over
conspicuously and simply where a consumer stands face to face with a
movements of economic energies, you will never understand why the
particular products of Nature; but we can never understand rarity as a
understand how there arises here and there — most of all through
more expensive. When the standard rate of interest goes down, land
high time that we learnt to under-stand the difference between real
Well, ladies and gentlemen, in the science of Economics we stand on

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precisely an understanding of how the whole economic process can be
point, and we must now try to understand its fuller implications
educate stand undoubtedly within the sphere of the completely free
to understand something of the influence of free spiritual life on the

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purchase, loan and gift. The important thing is to understand
cheaper and cheaper. We shall best understand this tendency if we get
must understand them in order to obtain, as far as possible, those

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standpoint of the Trader. Even here, it is not entirely the case. And
it is absolutely not the case from the standpoint of the
quite different is true. The standpoint of the consumer is conditioned
There is absolutely nothing that could figure as a standard of
men who stand in the most varied spheres, are working together.
understand the influence of the second equation; and the producer will
It is really tragic that no understanding should be found in our time
is a real understanding, the thing can be done, not even by the day
gone beyond the mastery of human beings. Today we stand before this

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Today I must say a few things that may gradually lead us to understand
manure a farmer can have. Thus from the standpoint of his accounts he
the economic process; and the least productive is that which stands
standing “between two buffers” everywhere. Only you must

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us, the buyer and the seller, must stand in different economic
the seller stand? If we look at things precisely, we are led, as so
To understand it more exactly, let us turn back to the most primitive
economic process in any case as a consumer. As a consumer, he stands
stand sureties; they enter their names as guarantors. In such a case,
than those which stand entirely under the sign of the division of
You will understand me rightly if you will acknowledge to yourselves
do actually arrive at the truth? You can understand it best by analogy
front, she would be a bus! Truly the premiss and the conclusion stand
organism must stand in the right relation to one another, so that they

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We can only understand such a thing as this if we see clearly the
magnitude is relative, of course; but we must understand that if the
if we wish to understand the economic ideas of Ricardo or Adam Smith.
Only on this foundation can we understand the thoughts which they
the standard for currencies. Her colonies, in the manner of private
standard for currencies, because it was precisely through England that
To understand the economic conditions in a closed economic
their standpoint they came to the conclusion that the intrinsic worth

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relationships in the midst of which the buyer and seller stand. It is

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To understand how the sort of thing we discussed last time can be
for some fresh aids to understanding.
replaced the other in history; they stand side by side to this

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of differentiation in manifold directions so that you stand with them
approach the matter as students, we shall be met with understanding.

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understanding of them. And so today I should like to give you a
make the man of today understand what is meant by “glowing
You must clearly understand
not stand alone. True, he stood alone as one who spoke openly on the
cannot understand! But try for once really to grasp Colour in
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, we must understand these things.
Indeed we cannot even understand the men of still later times, we
cannot understand Albertus Magnus, if we read him with the knowledge
reality for him: only then shall we understand how he expresses
nothing live before this time? My dear friends, you can understand
a chemist standing in a laboratory, making experiments with retorts

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knowledge and understanding of these places disappeared; we may even
but the knowledge is no longer so strict and exact. Notwithstanding
recognise that behind these creations stands the working of
relation with one another. And so, since I do not understand Nature,
since Nature reveals nothing to me, neither do I understand the
answer: I understand you well; it is even so. If you must speak thus,
if it is with your heart and soul as you say, then you, as you stand
in the world today, will not be able to understand either Nature or
understanding in such a way that you may behold in Nature and in
away from it and give you the opportunity to understand Revelation
understanding to the childlike ideas of the Spirit of his youth, and
the result that the pupil came to understand Revelation, the
ended with the pupil saying these words: “Now I understand what
understand Revelation aright. And now I understand wherefore the Gods
maturity. Thus it is really something abnormal, to understand the
understand the connection between these Initiates of whom I have told
Cosmos. Let us suppose, for example, we want to understand the true
line of vision, comes in the way. And if Saturn, for example, stands
cannot understand their light and consequently remain in the dark.

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that no misunderstanding may arise, let me expressly emphasise that
human intellect and understanding will be so constituted that it will
One can understand this, for the true Rosicrucians are
understand when we know how this atmosphere of brotherhood which
understand how to live in ideas. And so, although we notice in him a
One must look up to the Heavens, if one wants to understand what
it is the star standing over you that gives you the impulse to hold
full knowledge, but enacted by persons who stand in connection with

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the star. And together with this knowledge went an understanding of
Intelligence and its Demon. The understanding however for star
understanding. The Intelligence of the Earth star was Man
spiritual realm. The conversation turns on whether Man, as he stands
In order to understand
Sun. And since this is so, he ought as a being of the Sun to stand
stand on the Earth in such a way that it should suffice for the Earth
Goethe himself did not understand this. Recall, my dear friends, how
in mind, we can enter with feeling and understanding into how this
as it were with this feeling, with this deep understanding.
known if one is to understand aright, in all its shades of meaning,
understanding. The common impulse and striving for the Divine that
all this, a seed is sprouting, the seed of the lack of understanding

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secret, often without themselves understanding its wonderfully deep
itself as it were inscribed this symbol. He made them stand with
this in deep meditation, standing in the attitude I have described.
else that will help you to come to an understanding of the matter.
of fact you will not understand what is said in that book concerning
lonely school learned to grasp and understand. For they learned to
spinal marrow stands, as we have seen, in connection with the Moon.
learns to understand the Forms that work in the things of the
man comes to an understanding of the plant, then he experiences its
really stepping over a threshold. And at the threshold stands a

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This is due to the fact that man stands in quite another relation to
and standard: he reveals the way in which an enlightened spirit
are impossible so long as man merely stands there alone — just
experiences of theirs stand written in the astral light. But now, my
reacts in turn on all that stands written on the tablet by virtue of
forth nothing more out of itself; it stands over against what is
which I spoke yesterday, where in truth a Guardian is standing. We

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preceding period of Michael. This is due to the fact that man stands
the type and standard: he reveals the way in which an enlightened
merely stands there alone, — just as little as it is possible
judged by another standard it was empty. So the Initiates of the
thus receive from the warmth-ether reacts in turn on all that stands
independent, brings forth nothing more out of itself; it stands over
which I spoke yesterday, where in truth a Guardian is standing. We

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remind us of the deep and radical misunderstandings that have arisen,
its essence? It is this: Christ Jesus, the Being who stands at the
given to understand that when he was now laid in the coffin, he would
for now indeed he could see it — from the standpoint of
Mystery of Golgotha, had some understanding of this Mystery.
understanding of the heart, which once told them that just where outer
understanding for that outer festival which can most truly be felt
happens to the dead man in the Spirit, behold! it stands before thy

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— he simply would not understand how it is possible for man to
To understand what shapes him in the fulness of his life — what
research alone one simply cannot understand the life of man.
stands in connection with the earthly forces; he bears within himself
In the third Degree man had to understand certain things; above all he
had to understand that for the moments of Knowledge the craving for
Through my Initiation I have come to understand how the Sun and Moon
In this way we shall also understand why man even today looks upward
Stand in the porch at Man's life-entrance,
Stand in the porch of Man's life-entrance,

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clearly understand the following. — When we look at something
which it stands, cannot reveal itself directly. We must now, however,
To understand what this really means we must look back to the event
Thus the facts related to the standpoint of the Moon were taken as the
it. As in former times the Christophoros from his Moon standpoint
human being to understand the fact of death. I told you of how the

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the ancient Mysteries. For a period of time human beings had to stand
Now to enter into these things with sympathetic understanding we must
showed how the other planets are seen from the standpoint of the Moon.
understand how these ethereal forces are transmitted to the human
the standpoint of the Moon.
from the standpoint of the Moon, how the radiant astral light of the
and gladness and inner artistic understanding.
understand what was the real character of the new creation that went
henceforth we understand that we can no longer merely represent an
we stand once more in our different places when this Easter visit is

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worlds. He stands on one leg, the other coiled around it like a
stands there with only his lips moving. The poor from the valley
trying to understand and of which for a certain period in his life he
understands these things it is a most moving scene. As long as the
not understand this and believes that he had allied himself with evil
who understand these things in the light of spiritual science. He
despot stands with a friend, looking upwards towards a high rock
the despot stands there — and sees over this mountain pinnacle

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able to understand it. There are different ways of characterising the
the point of time at which we are standing.
within him the force of these thoughts will be able to understand
But the foundation for understanding this
when these remembrances well up in them: “I do not understand
understanding of what will inevitably come in the future can human
able to understand this Ego. And they will do so if they have worked
any true understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. True understanding
Polish drama: two personalities stand in contrast to one
intensity, lose the Christ. And standing in contrast to them is the
death — out of the vision which the tyrant understands as
little as he understands how to resign himself to death — there
we are to understand them in the light of the conditions
and Luciferic beings, we can now understand better what is called the
time of evolving any outstanding wisdom. But in that Lemurian age a
matter and to understand it one must go deeply into spiritual
necessity to understand the natural-scientific method and to protect
announced itself in great and outstanding achievements:
is to make progress. In other words: we must understand the nature of
standpoint of life we study the different religions of the
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in understanding these matters unless we realise that not many people
when it feels itself standing as it were before an abyss; when it
bound to stand in a peculiar position in the world — for such a
they were inspired. — We must begin to understand the
come of itself. But if we do not make a beginning with understanding

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therefore have great difficulty in understanding pre-fifteenth century
Moreover, the term “abnormal” is an obstacle to understanding; why
As these lectures are limited in number, you will understand that I am
gorilla appears to stand upright only with an effort. But there is the
and which the gorilla appropriates externally only, standing upright
if and when we understand the radical differences, even to the
standing amongst his Bernese colleagues and into the results of his

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effect. You will understand this if you consider the polarity between
description, but we shall understand each other more and more. There
understand man, for there is a fundamental difference between the two
activity. And the key to the understanding of man consists in the
upper and lower sphere in man, by a correct understanding of the
cardiac function, then we can understand the first fore-shadowing of
an understanding of its imprints on the organic and physical
will understand clearly — and I shall not hesitate to come up against

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we have attempted to get at least an outline of such understanding —
There indeed we have a process which is both normal and a standard

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comprehension of what man actually is. You do not understand man's
understand something about the mechanics of man immediately if you
understanding what I have just said. Similarly until we realise that
operation. We cannot stand the disturbance without our health
which the contemporary student can no longer understand anything when

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for the sake of better understanding.
animal, but stands rather at right angles to the animal. He has

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understand the relationship between the plant structure and the human
What of man? We have already maintained that we shall not understand
understand the complex processes in man, if we do not consider the
literature, if you can understand it aright. Thus it is most important
taking us part of the way to our goal. We can take the standpoint of

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chorea, you will be well able to understand their origin, for the
than for pathology. But we must know of these matters and understand
very intricate road we must follow in order to understand the living

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you must, at the same time, understand that tasting is a much more
the Divine in man, if they only understand by that a purely abstract
You can only come to an inner understanding of this function, by
possible to understand the more intimate activities of our organism,
already dealt with from the standpoint of Comparative Anatomy, when I
understand the individual person out of the whole relationship between
crude: — Picture to yourselves man standing looking on into the
infinite expanses of the world; perhaps standing on a high hill,

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understand this fact. And indeed all these organs are associated with
Do not misunderstand the view just stated. I refer to the actual
renewed division after merging and mixing is an outstanding task of
patient concerned. We must only clearly understand what is the point

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more physiology in them than modern science has.” I can understand the
mentioned — as guides to the understanding of the human organisation.
standpoint of spiritual science, we come to a great reverence for

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predisposition for understanding. We find carbon in extra-human
homeopathic treatment (do not misunderstand me, it is necessary to use
understanding of human relationships with the extra-human world The
that we are standing exposed to the light from the external world,
are associated. It is understandable, for instance, that if we need

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standpoint; as lead has been actually found among the products of
his understanding rose in an atavistic way from within and that he
depth of the human organism as a whole, if we would understand what
opposition of “front man” to “rear man” one understands the polar
opposition of bases and acids. And saline substances stand at right

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We can hardly hope to reach the understanding of tumorous growths,
be the first to approach the standpoint of spiritual science. They
Here the need arises to cultivate the understanding of precisely these
must form certain ideas which will lead us to understand this
liver process. The remaining manifestations stand midway between.

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to understand the fact that the ear is incorporated into man as it is
You can reach the conviction that this is how things stand from a
counterpart of every morbid process, cannot understand its place
that early age. We stand here before outlets supplied by nature
in the processes outside ourselves. To understand this rightly means
also to understand the action of some foreign substance in this fine
organisation (which stands a step below the ego-organisation);
In these phenomena we have a standard for comparison of the different
It is impossible to understand the operation of such substances except

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understand; but the blackbird does not find them difficult — but easy
of its easy understanding. For the blackbird is not exactly an ascetic
body, namely the brain; birds' understanding operates more through
their pulmonary system than ours — for mankind understands through
To find the way back to a right and sound understanding of the world
makes, as it were, a double stand against the normal formative process
to these extremely significant affinities and also to an understanding

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soul; so it is a misunderstanding of the whole nature of man, to
will understand what I mean. Let us take an individual case, in which
symptoms. It is easy to understand what the sensations must be, if
the ethical standard of the persons concerned — we can admit that
from the standpoint of diagnosis, there is some truth in

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You will understand the whole process of dental formation, if viewed
be expressed as follows: from the standpoint of spiritual research,

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the entire content of vegetation. We must understand that this flora

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as he is today stands in a certain relation to the outside world. This
We must look into the processes of life from this standpoint. For then
notes, become coherent and unite into an understandable totality, if

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Understanding of normal children helps with abnormal and vice versa.
of a “normal” life of soul (as they understand it) is for
understand me when I say that the nerves-and-senses system is
his soul-life took place. If we want to have any understanding at all
comparing these two outstanding examples, is happening continuously.
has come from the previous earthly life. We must understand why he
understanding what is contained in the liver, the development of the
understanding of how to cope with the inner organisation of the
karma, if we want to understand the child.

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stands the thinking which builds the brain synthetically and the
Public Prosecutor, has made a study, from the standpoint of criminal
science upon which Wulffen takes his stand were honestly adhered to,
of the brain, that underlies it. We must understand clearly what
investigate, with anthroposophical understanding, the being of man,
yourself, standing in front of it, are alive. There cannot ever be in
have an instinctive understanding for whatever debilities there may
impulse comes to a standstill before the actual deed. If the teacher
understanding for the situation the child is in, and will gradually
may one set about acquiring this kind of understanding? By developing
an understanding of such illnesses, we cannot expect to be able at
with the picture we have in our understanding. It is, on this
can we learn to recognise and understand such a condition? It will
once on that occasion quite explicitly: “A high standard of
then it becomes imperative to demand a high standard of
motives and standards that are so deeply rooted in him, taking for
decisions; in regard to each single action, we stand face to face

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nature that, for reasons which you will understand as you follow
we are able to acquire a correct perception of how it stands with the
altogether. When once we understand how to make the transition from
of first importance for us to know, when we set out to understand
direction. When we are awake, we stand up in the direction of the
when I, as an awake human being, stand upright, then for my
matter really stands. When you walk, you place yourself, with your
Our human organisation stands, in fact, in connection with all the
organisation stands in direct connection also with all that is
of our organism. When you have begun to understand that this
of light is not identical with what modern physics understands by the
and 13th centuries, all understanding of it was then lost and people
understanding of organic chemical processes; it has no knowledge at
complete picture of the eye. But there they come to a standstill.
eye, the scientists do, as you see, come very near understanding the
And so, in the case of the eye, a certain measure of understanding is
soul-and-spirit of man lays hold, directly, notwithstanding that it
this organ, with the external world. The organ stands in the way, as
good for epileptics; only, we must understand what is involved and be
moral and ethical standards that one would desire to impart to every
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a similar way, physical body and ether body stand in a certain
have now arrived at some understanding of all those forms of disorder
with him inwardly, that we understand him. But because we are dealing
teacher who can understand these things will learn to find for
one must be able to study it and understand it. They ought to do
notwithstanding, and then it turns out differently from how they
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
He will not be able to do it. He does not rightly understand what he
has to do. That is, he understands quite well the words we say, but

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speak and understand German. There, then, you have the description of
servant of the intellectual system. (To the boy) Stand still a
doesn't understand what we are saying.) I mean that, in accordance
and dislikes having to stand up, the sort of person who has not the
will have to be a feeling and understanding in the anthroposophical
never meet with less understanding than when, in answer to a question

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disturbance. Not until two years old was he able to stand. Throughout
quite well understands; he will just grin a little, he won't meet
falling asleep. Suddenly the child will cry out, wake up, and stand
disordered ought not to be difficult to understand. For if the astral
of anything acid or sour. That again is understandable. Acid
ether body and physical body. When you have the child standing before

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in the womb of the mother a space that stands in immediate connection

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no reason at all why he should not take it. He does not understand
the age of life when it would be important to make a strong stand
we have the insight to see and understand things of this kind when we
must understand that it is impossible to steer clear of such crises —
someone or other who, without any real understanding of the case, is
who have had any understanding of such things have pointed to the
certain measure of understanding. I have in fact never yet come
stand for some hours, it loses its efficacy.

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lead in gently administered doses, then notwithstanding his inherent
help he stands in need of, we shall discover when we begin to make
understand in a general way the nature of algae injections, but you
thing does not stand in the way.
misunderstanding of the Youth Movement of our day, nor from lack of
understanding, but out of a true understanding of it. It is a
extraordinary significance; for those older people who can understand
the part of the older generation to understand this Youth Movement,
figure. And now you must understand: Here you have a circle (yellow);
is a point (yellow). Yes, you have to understand that a circle
deep, inner understanding of this fact.
now, this is really the only way to come to a true understanding of
line of approach, trying, that is, to understand man inwardly, you
will learn to understand the whole of man. You must, first of all, be
the members of the anthroposophical movement stand there as if they
the old. But now consider what it means, That they can stand there so
Uranus stand? Did you not find any special constellations? (Dr.
of man, we find that he stands in connection on the one hand with the

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(You will understand, I can do no more here than indicate the ideal.)
understandable, but sometimes terribly foolish and unwise. The
on. And right in the midst of all these members stands man in
in 1909, Mars stands in complete opposition to the Moon. Mars, which
has Venus and Uranus in its vicinity, stands — itself —
the Moon is at the same time standing before Libra. This means, the
pulls along with it the Luciferic influence) stands in opposition to
the elder girl we saw that they were standing in opposition to the
Moon, which was at the time standing in Libra. On this second
which rightly stands in connection with the growth forces and should
could really have the feeling that the old Hildebrand was standing
would stand there before you as the very mouthpiece of the Church —

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Man today understands human being less than Goethe understood the
life in olden times; and we shall understand how it was that

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the following: They began to understand the inner meaning of the Earth
it stands in the cycle of the year, how it stands in the cycle of the
consciousness, we need to understand that in the last third of the
very real supplement to Easter. For mankind, who will understand
his own soul-being, but he depends upon Michael's standing by him, so
in our time only if we understand that we must add to it today the
If we as Earth men would understand how to make the Christ thought
understand the Christ Impulse in the right way up to our time.

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spiritual world as such in order to understand events which do not
certain understanding of the Easter thought based upon ancient human
Such an understanding became blunted in the fourth century, when
inwardly fortified himself, in order to withstand the attack from all
But with the retreat of primitive clairvoyance, the understanding of
when they no longer understand it. All the discussion that began after
should view this Christ Event also from the standpoint that the Christ
Opposed to this dying away of man in earthly life stands the Easter
earthly life. That stands on the one side.
On the other stands this: There was a spiritual, heavenly Being, Who
Easter thought, as it stands in cosmic records... “Look upon
spiritual conquers death. There stands before thee in mighty images
spiritual knowledge approach him so that he may understand this

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say, at the beginning of the year, they felt themselves standing
First of all, we must understand clearly that during a certain epoch,
a position to understand that actually all life depends upon the
religion, science, and art into oneness, because they will understand
mother — how the three become “sisters” and stand side

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Therefore if anyone speaks, not from the standpoint of the
man must be learning to understand the cosmos, acquire for himself
be sought only out of the Earth, so today, through an understanding of
an inner understanding of what the cycle of the year can mean to man

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standing behind it as the actions of the human organism are the
summer I stand face to face with Enlightenment; then the heavenly, the
The understanding for the midsummer festival has quite naturally
But something else is connected with this which already stands in the
annals in what I might call a spiritual way. It stands there in such a
must understand that the festivals must continue in spite of the fact

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were standing by my side?” This feeling will arise as naturally as
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
We shall understand it if we think of two fundamental and typical
force. The best way to understand this will be to consider the nature
respect, a duality. For think of it. — You stand there as a physical
better of Mephistopheles. Mephistopheles stands there like a second
glimpsed, prophetically, a picture of the human being standing over
will be able to dwell. Understanding what this implies, we shall
outlook — in such a way that they will be competent to understand the
human being may be able to take his rightful stand, fully cognizant of
the nature of the being who stands at his side. If he does not
understand the nature of this second being, he will be spellbound by
to a lack of understanding of the wiles of Mephistopheles.
shackled to the human being, stands at his side.
And now think of Faust standing there with all that the Ego has
him, he may battle with Ahriman, with Mephistopheles who stands beside

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probably not have found easy to understand. You will remember, I spoke
not point to the space where your body is standing and say: “I am
Whence then has man this form and figure? He has it because he stands
throws up his fortifications. And all that you can do is to stand in
right; and no true understanding can come about of the relation
Let us go on, then, to consider how man stands in space with a forward
forward his activity in opposition. Man stands in the middle between
There they stand and fight — not at close quarters, but as though
shooting at one another across the intervening space. And there stand
Gods; and the better we stand our ground in the struggle, the more
across to Lucifer. There in the space between stand we ourselves,
where man can take his stand and hold up the Luciferic influence that
outside itself, and we do not understand the form of man so long as we
consider it merely as it appears at first sight; we only understand it
when you enter the building, what you stand within and cannot see but
core of the moment in evolution in which we stand. This is the step in
the standpoint of the old, we can very easily exclaim: “But I see
cake that is to be inside it. When we once understand this principle
in art, my dear friends, we shall be very near understanding the whole
our outlook and learn to behold man as he stands within the cosmos.
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such recognition can he gradually learn to understand the forces that
thinking. In between stands a region where Lucifer and Ahriman are in
Goethe's Standard of the Soul,
This is then how the matter stands with our astral body. When we are
and uninspired. He hardens in an Ahrimanic sense, notwithstanding that
You see how duty stands, as it were, in a midway position. If we
coldness of Ahriman; in the quiet understanding of what is in the
world, we unite our warmth and our understanding love with the
when we meet what has come about with understanding, when we do not
merely demand our rights out of self-love but understand what has come
to understand the conditions that are in the world, he learns to
understand how they have come about from cosmic, karmic necessity.
equilibrium between Lucifer and Ahriman. We only learn to understand
For just as what is in the external world stands under the influence

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that. It is much more complicated. And if one wants to understand how

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not become toughened up when he is not able to stand anything; the
Dr. Steiner: So — I understand you to say that this person became
that young boy! I don't understand him. I don't want to retire yet, I
understanding for it. And one can understand it in two directions.
moment, it is really so, that one must acquire a proper understanding

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
on which they want to live with such an understanding of themselves
which stand the parents who give birth to them — not only as
It was, of course, difficult at first to understand Richard
One had a better understanding of Weimar when Herman Grimm was there.

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
order to understand their thinking. After all, they gave expression
necessary to understand this.
These ancient doctrines were difficult to understand, even when
lack of understanding, something did rub off on people. One might
simply stand up and and talk into the void — which,
boundary of Styria, stand up on that mountain and there deliver a
did not understand this knowledge but accepted it as holy dogma. In
fact they did not understand it at the higher degrees either, but the
both of them displaying a strong drive to understand the world which

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
objective standpoint of spiritual science, if only as the basis for
spellbound by what is deemed acceptable by these standards today. No
preparation in order to prevent misunderstanding. Even so, it is now
difficult to understand that someone who had come into the possession
is no understanding that the spiritual is present everywhere in
once it has been cleansed and clarified and stands on a firm basis;
generations, but encompasses a true understanding of cosmic
understand the great difficulty with which the revelations of the
the movement are to make sense. You need to understand, above all,
was a fraud. But do you not understand that Blavatsky herself could
A healthy common sense is required to understand what is right.
nothing, and anybody who claimed to understand anything was not
given someone as difficult to understand as Blavatsky — that
If we really want to understand our times in order to gain some
strong and courageous stand we should adopt with something which, if

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
For we need to have a clear understanding that increasing numbers
One needs to have a clear understanding of the way in which the
human beings begin to experience the drive to understand everything
also begin to understand that such absolutes are incompatible with
means in their innermost being to understand Christ on the basis of
means is gone; the understanding of Christ as a spiritual being among
they were able to understand Christ.
understand Christ properly. The people who try so hard to rediscover
clear understanding, that the content of their thoughts and what they
You have to understand that the two most important concerns for a
understand Christ once again.
tremendously partisan anti-christian standpoint, just as it is clear
standpoint was absent right from the beginning in the anthroposophical
is equally necessary to understand why others did not follow this

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
understanding of the impulses underlying the ancient Mysteries, and
the means to understand the Mystery of Golgotha.
pre-empted any understanding of the spiritual world as it developed
that understanding of nature then ascends to an understanding of the
If you bear this in mind, you will be able to understand what
standpoint — that what a modern theologian believes to be true
like Nietzsche, who was serious about wanting to understand the
saying about Christ Jesus. She could not, of course, understand the
the Christian god stands on a lower level than the content of the
the knowledge which she presented, but essentially to understand
the living present standing against something which was based merely
Annie Besant frequently said things without fully understanding
become very anglo-chauvinistic. But it is essential to understand
It is important to understand that anthroposophy grew out of the

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
Besant in particular, had a very primitive understanding of modern
him “Stand on the floor and I will stand on a chair and then I
understand the seriousness with which these things were pursued,
manner which will allow a matriculated schoolboy to understand
theosophy in the same way that he understands logic. That was the
no real understanding in this quarter either. Only as the
spokesman simply as a result of their social standing. That is the
anthroposophical understanding of Christianity was essentially the
together without the slightest understanding. And the whole thing was

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
We have to understand clearly our position at the time when the
understand why that booklet was written.
to count on any sort of understanding. The only proper course we can
itself, and then wait and see how many people are able to understand
understanding of the conditions governing life itself will find it
to stand on both feet at once. That is what many people today
why, if the Anthroposophical Society were standing on its proper
the world at large understand the Anthroposophical Society as an
I can understand very well why someone would not want to be member
begin to be understand the need to recognize Anthroposophia as an

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standpoint through their insight into the necessity of events which need
Anthroposophical Society. In order to gain a better understanding of
those circles where the impulse for a deeper spiritual understanding
us to understand the spiritual element active in the plant or the
understand this in those clever heads of theirs, by which so much
The time had arrived in which a living understanding of the laws
standpoint, is it? It is just as silly to say that it is inconsistent
science was, of course, right. We stand on the terra firma of science
Napoleon could not understand how God was to be found by looking at
It was a terrible stance to adopt, of course, but his standpoint
others. We will not understand the nerve centres of modern
to understand matters of the spirit? They were the people who,
direction of its work, however, had to be to understand natural
introduction of new misunderstandings into the anthroposophical
the person standing at the laboratory bench only creates the
yawning gap today between what people understand and what is produced
stands diametrically opposed to what is popularly acceptable. It
Anthroposophical Society stands for, and when they meet
truth and reality, by the display of a sensitive understanding to go

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understand what these indications actually mean we must
clumsy expression, but you will not misunderstand. This is an
it is understandable that weaker natures prefer to withdraw
can stand any amount of hammering and knocking and are still
— please do not misunderstand the word. When a person
can stand up to modern life. A courageous approach to modern
further misunderstanding of the actual nerve of spiritual
through the world sleeping and dreaming, but understand what
by materialism, people will understand what spiritual science
understand the actual jolt mankind was given in the
language undertones in mind, you will understand why, at the

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of the human being to stand upright. On entering the world at
first step towards initiation is to gain an understanding of
there will be an art of great perfection that will stand out
beyond poetry, as poetry stands out beyond music, music
that these ideas can become alive; a real understanding of
understanding of the human organisation, it is impossible to

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than mere theory, mere understanding, mere knowledge.
sculpture that really stand before our physical eyes as the
mankind of the Sun evolution must stand before our spiritual
eyes, when we understand that the human being of that period
work of Greek art such as the Venus of Milo stands before us
consciously), in other words when with understanding we give
understand why this is so when you perceive all the
building, but outside it, stands the part that must not be
must come when, out of an understanding of the mysteries of
will perhaps understand much of what is meant by them, who
will understand that they were intended as an indication of a
understanding, but I also want to sow it as a seed in your

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to an understanding of gems of wisdom which, in past times,
And stand in mud to his knee
understand the season of the year in which we now are, we
stand upon a rock:
acquired an understanding of the different kind of
stand upon a rock:
the understanding for the spiritual world, mankind has also
understand these words when the threefold membering of the
three words. For the three words, as they stand, cannot be
without understanding them properly, it is possible for us to
understand them, in order that key words of this kind might
lead us on to true universal understanding. We can notice the
spiritual forces were applied to understanding and grasping
material life. Insights, understanding and visions of the
beginning we stand, and the midnight of which we want to
understand worthily.

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understanding of our spiritual-scientific world outlook, the
it is easy to understand or not — we shall always avoid
the strength to develop an understanding for what can
acquire a proper understanding of universal existence; this,
already had various indications showing that an understanding
understand how we can experience a being that radiates
of Form who are the Elohim, and we shall then understand how
We shall also understand something of how the surface nature of
understand the inner nature of things and to unite it with

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more or less theoretically what we understand by the
understanding connected with the heart.
really finished, no one will be able to understand what he
can more readily see that our heart's understanding needs to
all, nor can the person who stands before us, externally, as
only understand this properly if we focus our attention on
That is how the matter stands with regard to the child.
whilst having the greatest measure of understanding for the
office all day, or has been serving customers, or standing in

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we begin to understand what is meant when it says that the
exist today which stand out in stark contrast to spiritual
understanding of spiritual science as Christian Morgenstern,
movement. This, you will understand, is said only to show you
you in understanding our present difficult times. But that
fearful misunderstandings and bad feelings.

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understanding in the world for the significant discoveries
more and more understanding for the way the human soul rises
from their point of view, and an understanding of these
since they have no understanding for what they can read about
thoroughly understandable that just because a particular
that we cannot understand that faults which occur in the
understand it, but we shall also know that we have to combat
should stand before us as a kind of ideal. I should just like

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people think they will be able to understand him by dissecting a
at a real understanding. Just as little can they understand the world
From this you can understand the differences that still
properly, they misunderstand what exists on earth as plant, animal,

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to understand. But I believe one can understand if one looks at

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just standing there. The people come along, do some digging for some
surface layer on which the church or building stands was not there at
one will not understand how the Christian element evolved if one does
children. Well, if a man of seventy stands here and a child of two
next to him, they are both human beings; they stand beside each
sixty-eight years ago. Things of different ages stand side by side.

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extent these conceptions are really false and cannot stand up in face
You can understand how well this agrees with what I have

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that they had no knowledge. They were aware: there stands a man with
must be something that can stand up like a table. If anyone were to
in our picture. Suppose I am standing here and want to paint. I see
standstill.
unused to standing; they had the feeling they were not upright men

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one wants to understand how the human being is really related to

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up when he is not able to stand anything; the person who can endure
Dr. Steiner: So — I understand you to say
understand him. I don't want to retire yet, I still feel so young.”
become a habit; but one must have understanding for it. And one can
understand it in two directions.
a proper understanding for the way it relates to the spirit. When

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knowledge in seriously studying and understanding the writings that
had to say, and rightly understand it, to become aware that actually
race would be those who stand for peace, for the spirit, and for
we can't judge everything by our own standards alone, for then we go
in those times they didn't understand it to be so. They knew: When
withstand this and keep to your path, you may become well or you may
Perhaps this contributes a little to our understanding

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standing where you are, you put your hand into water of, say 79
the flower — just as you stand in your shoes or boots. You are
as Copernicus taught — merely stands still, this does not
transformed into an “intelligence-brain.” We understand
things; the dog doesn't understand things, he smells them. We
understand them because at the place where the dog has his organ of
places where they stand in the heavens. The light of Venus, for
It is very important that you should understand these
You can easily understand this: just think of a chicken.

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understanding of what this means. We must not attach prime importance
understand the character of Mars' relation to the earth. We know that
conditions through which the earth also passes. When we understand
the planets in this sense, we understand them rightly.

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please do not misunderstand this. You must not compare it directly
consideration here. Mars stands in the same position relatively to
unbroken line. To understand how the earth actually evolves it must
obvious relationships in which the heavenly bodies stand to one
when Venus is here, it stands in front of the sun and covers part of
like when Venus is standing in front of the sun. This event brings
From this you will certainly be able to understand where
Later on, people who did not understand the thing at
less able to understand things in the winter than in the summer.
because the power to understand depends upon this. It is because our

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One must go very far back if one wants to understand
brings us no nearer to an understanding.
front the fourth triangle. Can you picture it? It stands on a
joined to one another. We must stand it up on one triangle and the
triangles a little, then it becomes a little different. Now it stands
America and the whole Southern Ocean. So the earth stands in the
Silesia to Breslau, you see a mountain standing conspicuously alone
rocks, you find this dreaded mountain standing there is simply an
remarkable. A monument stands today in Heilbronn — certainly it
is rather dreadful as a work of art, but still it stands there and
that a certain knowledge of geometry is necessary to understand how
talked; that cannot lead to an understanding of what things are in

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to understand.
and there it was: A memorial statue of Drake stands in Offenburg
this simply do not understand the spiritual evolution of mankind. For
People today simply don't understand how things are
is. But that is not true. People must understand how things in the

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an enormous error! Why can a man standing here see the piano over
comes to a standstill everywhere.

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were aware: there stands a man with a bigger head, there one with a
stand like a table. Were anyone to tell me a chair was a table, I
then we do not want to be Chinese! But you must not understand me to
picture. Suppose I am standing there and want to paint; I see Mr. A.
revolving ship to a standstill. You remember perhaps Goethe's
noses, so that they became quite unaccustomed to stand and had the
feeling they were no longer upstanding men but crumpled up like an

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amount of relevant knowledge and study with real understanding the
understand it, to become aware that in reality people up to the
races may arise. One race would consist of those who stand for peace,
understanding, intelligence, goes. Those men of ancient times were
we cannot judge everything by our own standards alone, for then
notion. But in those times they did not understand it so. They knew:
If you withstand this and keep to your path, you may become well or
little to our understanding of how human evolution originated. So we

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understanding of what the life of the bees truly is, when one takes
understand how this comes about, one must say: In the life of the bee
develop love throughout the whole hive. One only begins to understand
When one stands before a hive of bees one should say quite solemnly

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understand in studying the worker-bee that it is unable to see with its
of great importance, and one we can well understand.
Nature is everywhere hindered, though notwithstanding these

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now that we can well understand why you take for example, camomile tea,

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said, “but in that case the horse should be standing in front
then one begins to understand that things really are so, and can bring
stands the constellation of the Ram. What the Ram gives, the Sun

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at the old standpoint, he does not get along. Herr Erbsmehl may
cannot understand that within the next eighty to a hundred years the
whole stock of bees will die out. I really cannot understand what Dr.
charge. How it came about, I am quite unable to understand.
sounds, it is advisable to stand still.
easy. This breeding for milk-production is still of short standing,
today — I do not understand how this will be quite different

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with a true understanding of nature. You see, it is not possible to
understand on what the origin of honey actually rests if I describe
also understand how closely related to this is the fact that the bees
recognition of the spirit in Nature, one merely stands and gapes, and

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because he is able to stand the reaction. It is usually so, that a
reciprocal control by the bee-keepers, because they best understand

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household of Nature, for the more one learns to understand these
stump has been left standing; an ant colony comes along and makes a
“Yes, now I understand why the dead have these forms;
before I did not understand this, because I did not know the

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understands these things when one asks: How is it then with the oxalic

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indeed if they wanted to understand it, but listening for a
understand how the art of lecturing can, in all truth and
lecture, for understanding gained through reading is
something essentially different from the understanding gained
understand quite clearly what is really stirring in the soul
certain understanding for the listener's sympathy and
the finest understanding for sympathy and antipathy in the
mathematicians, or good geographers. We can be outstanding
present, as a rule, all the conditions for understanding. (
woman, will also have to stand his ground in the discussion

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but one is more apt thereby to obstruct the understanding for
stand in the age in which we must absolutely reverse the
which we stand today.
only a pseudo-understanding and pseudo-avowal for these.
understanding for language itself is stripped off. It can no
the standpoint of truth, no human being knows anything about
human being now, proceeding from the standpoint of truth,
much understanding in present-day humanity. For, mostly what
understanding in present-day humanity. For, mostly what is

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which ensue to the point that these things can stand before
serious misunderstandings if we proceed from proletarian
concepts. These misunderstandings have revealed themselves in
one stands so within in life, as for instance the
gathering so that they can at least understand the
the matter when, from their newly attained standpoint, the Communists
and he could well understand that a shoe repairman could not know
understand that in order to be comprehensible one must speak out of
indoctrination to make people understand: The middle class speaks of
all this has no standing in reality by itself; these are chimeras
social standing and is allowed to speak, even in such a venerable academy
The workman understands: When something is being produced, a certain
understands modern life correctly, knows that when he comprehends the
understanding.
be learned to a certain extent by means of understanding how
understanding of the listener; through your experience you

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spiritual life that stands independently on its own. In the second
a mainly Swiss audience; for then we could not understand each
other. Politeness in such matters can never lead to an understanding.
human standpoint, the question of starvation in Russia. Although the
this is quite certainly demanded even from a humane standpoint,
understand their independent position, brought about by world
understand what specific form the Swiss character consists of.
as an element standing on its own ground, is a very stern element, an
free. The human beings who stand within it must experience this
public cultural life really stands under the influence of this
lecturing easier too. The barrier that otherwise stands between
readily understand how much depends on the mood in lecturing. It is
good if they at least retain their stage-fright. To stand up and
take the substance of an effective rebuttal from understanding
But one will understand

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understand each other best if I say that the preparation
stands within the economic life. And just in this way, one
comfortable to remain standing and to speak the way one

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understanding. The more the speaker is appealing to the
understanding through strenuous thinking, the more he must
facilitating understanding. Take, for example, repetition,
understanding to an extraordinary degree.
that it removes the understanding from the organ of hearing.
the listener knows he is to understand the opposite. Thus,
speech will be able to stand on its own two feet.
said that the speech will be able to stand on its own feet.
Imagine in front of you, dear Christians, there stands a
cannon. Beside the cannon there stands a cannonier. The
image which grabs, that is, which stands at some distance
Crown Prince come and we will hear how the matter stands.
the conviction that for the world to understand threefold, it

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the times. He was convinced that study, understanding and enthusiasm for
understanding and strength of will. Saint-Simon was imbued with the
Karl Marx may be regarded as an outstanding figure of this
who genuinely tries to understand writings which deal with the world
was no understanding of the meaning of ‘original sin.’
sin, but some measure of understanding at least must be present in studying
it is only by independent research that we can understand the character
of the human being is permeated by forces of soul. And when we understand
understand the processes at work during the embryonic period of the life
under standing of Manichæan teaching was possible. What, then,
The only hope of understanding
resigning hope of understanding a spirit-filled world of nature, while
to offer, and, to begin with, he cannot accept Christianity. He stands
must try to unfold a sensitive understanding of the language used in
radiant with spiritual light. We must try to understand the meaning
not be debtors one of another, but live as equals. May we stand firm
understanding of these connections is essential to the attainment of

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ideas, if I can use the expression without causing misunderstanding.
to understand the laws of the universe, so these men too tried through what
with understanding. This is the bases of one of the streams which start
clairvoyant experience, if you will not misunderstand the expression.
described. He stands within a spiritual stream which was experienced by
the fourth and the fourteenth stand under the sign of these two parallel
watched something which they could not understand, did nevertheless
if you want to understand figures such as Jacob Boehme, who came later,
from people who had developed without any understanding of the Latin
the formative reality. It is thus that we have to understand modern
spiritual life. We shall only understand it aright if we follow its

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the portentous question: how does it stand with those very concepts
world, however, there stands something entirely different, something
explained by saying that man's need to understand the causes of phenomena
there stands something entirely different. One comes to see that theory
They felt that man should stand in a relation to the super-sensible in
stands at the limit delineated in essence by two concepts:
understand the existence or the essence of man according to the assumptions
actually meant was: we stand helpless in the face of real life; we have
Ah yes, if only we could, if only we could stand before nature entirely
to understand this inner realm, in the Anglo-American psychology of

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confined to the study and the lecture halls but Stands rather within
du Bois-Reymond, concerning the limits of natural science, there stands
such a phenomenon. And thus there stands before us in the first half
soul the need to achieve an understanding of nature that will serve
social chaos we are now experiencing. One must understand this connection
bitter — so we can say that we stand in a curious relationship
by means of the understanding, whereas we are able to assimilate colors
we are able to construct the standard regular solids only because of the
organization of our understanding. No wonder, then, claims Koppelmann,
our understanding.
them. As human beings we stand outside tone, color, warmth, etc. This
this is not the case. We perceive objects in space but stand ourselves
to us. We stand within time just as do the external objects. Our physical
existence begins and ends at a definite point in time. We stand within
stand within color, tone, warmth, etc. is powerless against that objectivity.

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Now one stands before
fabric of mathematics out of these axioms and then stand before an
we must, I believe, have reached a complete understanding of one thing
very broadest sense. We begin to understand how that which is at our
achieves through its sense of balance the ability to stand and to walk,
understanding of
had in order to stand in awe of the inner harmony and — if I may
mathematics one comes to know Inspiration. One comes to understand the
very high degree. One must come to understand how Inspiration arises within
the inner nature of that realm; only then does one begin to understand

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stands, as I indicated yesterday, the pole of consciousness. If we attempt
reminiscences, describes an experience he once had while standing in
the pole of consciousness, as opposed to the pole of matter. To understand
thought about thinking. One must understand what Goethe meant by this,
by understanding that this comprehension occurs only within the realm
be posited if one enters this inner realm and wishes to understand freedom
to object from the standpoint of some philosophical epistemology or other:
feel is difficult to understand — one must have the courage to
enters a void. To understand this one must come to know this psychology

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understanding of consciousness, one must not attempt, as Anglo-American
the phenomena of the sense world. We no longer stand in the same relation
Now we stand in a relationship to this boundary of sense such that the
spiritual content of the world suddenly stands revealed there. This is
— in individuals who have an open mind and a certain understanding
modern science in this way, so that they cannot understand at all how
it consciously. Whoever approaches these matters from the standpoint
is a pathological condition that one begins to understand only by realizing
he was of course completely justified. And actually it is hard to understand
the standpoint of spiritual science and confronted the images and ideas
understanding — this man found only an abstraction to answer the

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nothing but leap up to open the door, for they cannot stand to be in
to understand this immersion clearly. Whoever wishes to gain a true
understanding of the basis of consciousness must be able to effect this
understanding of man and also for a true medical science. One has developed
the external to the internal. The true doctor must understand medications
cosmologically; he must understand the human organs anthropologically,
centuries to see how human beings strove to understand what capital
beings strove to understand in concepts has passed over into frightful
one understands that a proper impulse for the functioning of capital can
else as well. One will realize that one can come to understand labor's
functioning within the social organism when one no longer understands
shall never prove adequate to an understanding of commodities. Commodities,
individuals, and if a solitary man undertakes to understand commodities

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and in order to understand these paths into the higher realms of cognition,
he has no real understanding of human progress. In ordinary consciousness
cultivation in everyday life. We can attain an understanding of this
are: language, the ability to understand the thoughts of our fellow men,
and the acquisition of an understanding, or even a kind of perception, of
as such, if we want to understand within the word the thought that another
words in such a way that one sought to arrive at an understanding of what
attempts to understand anything more by means of it. He permeated the
of development and transformed the soul faculty that we use to understand
toward understanding another through the word; if one has come so far
understand by “authority” First appeared in
to realize this. Goethe seeks to understand how the individual organs,
understand their metamorphosis he is particularly interested in observing
understanding of what the Buddha had actually intended. From this it
is clear that Western civilization has gradually lost all understanding
arrive at a real understanding of our Western religious creeds, for
event. It stands as a fact within the evolution of the earth. Yet the
ways and means of understanding what came to pass through the Mystery
because it will help you to understand what I really mean.
ensure understanding by means of repetitions, so that the deficiencies

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attempted not to understand through the word what one's fellow
man wished to say, what one wants to understand from him, but to live
one's inner being — one must be very careful not to misunderstand
this is something entirely real, and one begins to understand that one
and later can only crawl is transformed into one who can stand upright
Anybody who is capable of applying the standards of objective observation
spiritual understanding of the external world is made possible in turn.

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science if we really wish to understand man's relation to his
stands in continuous interaction with the universe.
understand this kind of de-vegetabilization of the vegetable
understand that when we look at silica or silicon, we see its
head, these processes that we can find around us today stand
to understand it, he must turn his gaze to two processes at
important they are for an understanding of the human
enables us gradually to perceive and understand the
If you understand this, you will be able to see that there is
with fluorine, for example. We cannot understand the entire
concepts like these if we are to understand the human being
the scientist is supposed to understand, and where he has

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you did not understand when I said yesterday, “The ego
You can study it better when you walk than when you stand
being depending on whether he is standing, walking, or even
of course, from the standpoint of one who sees. For those who
understand that when something super-sensible has made an
an understanding of this cooperation if we try to observe
able to understand better my statement that the human being

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a sack to be filled with what one does not want to understand
between the astral and the etheric. Such an understanding
an understanding of the astral. In the interchange of carbon
processes must not be overlooked if we wish to understand the
system. Perhaps we can best understand the way in which the

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must be acquired so that one understands how to relate ertain
you will understand that because we are dealing with the
thing in order to understand this system completely and not
becoming, we can get a hold of what stands spiritually behind

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if instead we acquire a sound understanding of such things we
force, of the etheric body. The etheric body tries to stand
have a basis for understanding our remedies and answering

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I have just said, we cannot understand the sequence of stages
understand the real relationship of the lung to the entire
understanding what I have to say about certain human organs
we wish to understand the human being. In the belief, that
can gain all that is necessary to understand this
the case at all. You will now better understand what I said

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a most instructive plant from this standpoint — the
you will readily understand what you have learned from the
anterior human being. We must thoroughly understand the

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cannot easily understand that what can make a person ill in
understand the effects of the mineral element in the human
understand the human being from within, one must keep to what
understanding of the connection of these facts enables you,
if you proceed in this way, to understand this remarkable

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to understand these cosmic forces (this can also include
process and thus understands formations, then it becomes
is given us here, then we will begin to understand the organs
understanding of organs and their functions.
mysticism in the way many people understand this, because it

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standpoint let us ask the downright question What then
understand by history? Is not what is so often regarded as
the truth is essential, if we would take up our stand on the
I stand, no wiser than before.”
elders stands up excepting Nestor alone, the real Nestor, who
described in this passage, we see that the human soul stands
to know him if we want rightly to understand world-history
out of which the figure of Homer would emerge and stand truly
but spectres. Whoever has any understanding of an
the strength and courage to bring home an understanding that
all the means now at their disposal will understand how in
at our disposal, we can readily understand that human lives

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the spiritual world; meets with little understanding. In
Spiritual-scientific investigation helps us to understand the
understand the particular character of the peoples of the
capacity these particular peoples, have for understanding
found that because Greco-Latin culture stands at the dividing
farther; we can try to understand what streamed through the
things are important for an understanding of the Ego culture,
just as an understanding of the Intellectual Soul is
important for an understanding of the Ego — This is
Post-Atlantean nature which stands entirely and solely upon
world? The man who stands on his own base becomes a
they stand there as if created by Nature herself. We find
standpoint of the spectator or onlooker. What does this
outwardly effective. Think of Goethe's efforts to understand
the most complex. But the world does not understand the
the Ego, and all the world understands it; even the Ego
culture understands it! It is not possible to understand the
understand what really ought to be understood — the
sensitive understanding. For in our Building the endeavor has
spiritual science, a greater and greater understanding of a
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definition he stands. What he would necessarily express if he
an who understands his own nature would have to rebel against
wants really to understand and not merely to judge according
understanding for art after experiencing it in Italy, yet his
stand before us that of being able to play our part in
presses on toward objectivity. The individual man stands at a
passage quoted above stands there for all the world to
Those who stand on the ground of Spiritual Seience must
understand the spiritual relationships between the several
all easy for the European to understand this motif and what
a student of East-European culture, could understand what the
Devil says to Ivan Karamazov? Who could reallyunderstand what
satiety. Man himself is the main thing! Man stands at a
difficult for the West to understand such things, for they
We understand
impossible unless understanding is reached through Spiritual
Spiritual Science men will find and understand one another
words. More deeply than by any words you can understand what
Mutual Understanding among European Humanity”, So it is
humanity will stand in the right relationship to each
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the columns, the columns stand on the earth; the force of
can understand it who makes the effort to go through it as an
into the position of standing or walking.”
the lying position into that of standing and walking. When
of them, for when he is standing or walking the only area of
When you stand
of standing up, we have the experience of Feeling the World,
to realise what feeling is when we make the act of standing
will lead us to understand the form here (see diagram). We
that it cannot stand up but must remain always in the lying
heavenwards. When man standing upright, has a feeling of the
into the standing position, but he must also begin to move,
For he stands at this particular place in the evolutionary
of every cultural community to acquire mutual understanding
motifs which express the principles of mutual understanding
Greek, as if standing by an abyss. This is the culture born
who understand the inmost impulse of Spiritual Science

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understand the real aim of this Building. A person may say to
according to the standard of what he has hitherto regarded as
criticised when it is judged according to the standards of
to understand the point here if we try to find a formula to
of a human being standing immobile bear and support each
which the scaffolding has not been removed but still stands
understanding of colour, which, as it passes over into the
actual painting, simultaneously becomes an understanding of
make our contemporaries understand what is being aimed at
naturalistic, giving the impression that one is standing in
long will people be unable to understand what our painting is
of the serpent”? Then he began to understand what the
things of which our Building stands as the sign and token, we
thinking — we stand, spiritually, at the same point
where men were standing physically when the first ship sailed
rising from the recumbent into the standing position. We
the fact that through the act of standing up end lying down,
for man from this abstract process of standing up and lying
stands up, the Mystery of Golgotha would not have been
which embodies the acts of lying down and standing up.
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technical experts. And then, gradually, we shall understand
that all we are striving to attain in this building stands
understanding of what was once implied by the phrase
artistic back to external technique. The standpoint had
their understanding of the finer spiritual connections of the
once saw a little basket standing on the ground somewhere,
principle, the understanding of the inner principle of
understand what is meant and desired in the forms of our
— will never be able rightly to understand us.
standstill before the portals of the historical evolution of
understand me if you realise that in those times, when there
standing on the earth.’
from an inner perception and understanding of the postures of
leaf. Artistic understanding in future ages will simply be
unable to understand this attitude of mind which in our time
understand their subject, but all artistic creation as well.
get a deeper understanding. One can only think afterwards
about artistic forms; if one “understands” them
my dear friends, we shall understand what really underlies
understand what underlies artistic form — that is to
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task. The site on which our building stands is pervaded by an
greater understanding we shall have. Already now, as we look
these works of art and who have learnt to understand their
want to add something to this. If we try to understand the
stands there, none the less, complete in itself — a
Temple to the Church of Christendom. The Greek Temple stands
stands or is enthroned as Lord and participates in the work
pursuits, pervaded by this unshakable feeling: There stands
the land, for the Temple stands there like an altar for the
He tells us to think of two panes of glass standing parallel
the speech of the Gods. Our age has little understanding for
I have said that those who really understand our building fully
merely take the standpoint of an observer or spectator: for
speak of the real nature of painting we shall understand the
are round about us; it is for us to understand the language
spoken though these forms.” But we must understand it
track. They stand on the same ground as those who interpret
symbolism of his larynx. We understand the speech of the Gods

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the spiritual world, was the Temple standing there like an
where the altar stands.
this requires that we endeavour to understand the Spirit in
its forms of expression. In order to understand the Greek
way. We shall not understand this any better by interpreting
this you will readily understand what follows from it. If the
to ourselves points standing at an equal distance from this
who really understand it, to great profundities.
some of it — to try to understand the following ideas.
people go into our building and stand in the gallery where
the organ and the singers will stand, their souls will be
kinds of ingenious interpretations will Understand our
cannot at first stand upright; lie crawls, and at the very
he learns to control the forces which make him able to stand
alt="Learning to Stand Upright"
horizontal being; then he stands upright — in the
life. What is it that comes to his aid when he stands upright
prayer contains, who really understand the living development
Spirits of Form stand the Spirits of Movement.’ This is
understand the inner meaning and purport of this existence.
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there will be little understanding for these deeper laws of
understandable one from the point of view of external
expansion, and only then will there be understanding of the
heavenly bodies (see diagram) stand in a certain mutual
merely intellectual understanding, will perceive a cosmic
must teach us to understand how art has gradually developed
understanding of the spiritual world imparted by the
perceive in the aesthetic sense, to establish standards of
and in what sense? To understand this we will consider the
which must be ours if we are really to understand the
into the sixth. If we understand this, we link ourselves with

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developed a real understanding of Goethe, placing it about
to the point of understanding the real significance of
Our age is very far from understanding this full manhood that
understanding other souls who specialise in a different sphere.
understanding of spiritual life in its totality. True form in
art will arise from this comprehensive understanding of
better understanding if we start from something near at hand,
understanding.
understand them. Our age holds fast to the most external, the
understanding of these things. Man imagines that if he is
standing near a horse, the horse sees him in exactly the same
similar order but as one who stands higher than themselves
colour. I have already said that our age cannot understand
present age is removed from any such living understanding of
level but as if we were standing either above or below them
That the world has not grown in tolerance or understanding is
attacks emanating from a world incapable of understanding the
their being, to understand something truly symptomatic of our
thing the world must accept if it is to understand us, and
understood even among ourselves. The unshakable standpoint
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indeed if they wanted to understand it, but listening for a
understand how the art of lecturing can, in all truth and
lecture, for understanding gained through reading is
something essentially different from the understanding gained
understand quite clearly what is really stirring in the soul
certain understanding for the listener's sympathy and
the finest understanding for sympathy and antipathy in the
mathematicians, or good geographers. We can be outstanding
present, as a rule, all the conditions for understanding. (
woman, will also have to stand his ground in the discussion

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but one is more apt thereby to obstruct the understanding for
stand in the age in which we must absolutely reverse the
which we stand today.
only a pseudo-understanding and pseudo-avowal for these.
understanding for language itself is stripped off. It can no
the standpoint of truth, no human being knows anything about
human being now, proceeding from the standpoint of truth,
much understanding in present-day humanity. For, mostly what

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which ensue to the point that these things can stand before
serious misunderstandings if we proceed from proletarian
concepts. These misunderstandings have revealed themselves in
one stands so within in life, as for instance the
gathering so that they can at least understand the
be learned to a certain extent by means of understanding how
understanding of the listener; through your experience you

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word, the way it stands. But for England and America it would
good at least to retain their stage-fright. — To stand
one understands how to hold back one's own opinion, one's own
certainly stand in a passage of a drama. And where it stands

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understand each other best if I say that the preparation
stands within the economic life. And just in this way, one
comfortable to remain standing and to speak the way one

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understanding. The more the speaker is appealing to the
understanding through strenuous thinking, the more he must
facilitating understanding. Take, for example, repetition,
understanding to an extraordinary degree.
that it removes the understanding from the organ of hearing.
the listener knows he is to understand the opposite. Thus,
speech will be able to stand on its own two feet.
said that the speech will be able to stand on its own feet.
Imagine in front of you, dear Christians, there stands a
cannon. Beside the cannon there stands a cannonier. The
image which grabs, that is, which stands at some distance
Crown Prince come and we will hear how the matter stands.
the conviction that for the world to understand threefold, it

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necessary to understand that art must be born out of the
man as a whole. When you begin to understand this you sense
understanding of eurythmy is closely linked with discovering

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 2: The Opening of the Christmas Foundation Conference, by Rudolf Steiner
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Anthroposophical Society, stands here on Swiss soil, will be

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in Berlin. You will understand, since twenty
that one day they may stand before the world as fully matured
and in no less a manner also led to misunderstandings. Today,
human beings stand here on earth.
reach this truly human standpoint, my dear friends, we must
difficulties is the following: Everyone who understands the
must stand before the world just like any other society that
essential for us to stand firmly on a foundation of reality,
themselves. Do not misunderstand me; I do not mean that the
rows of figures but not understand a thing. Then suppose his
there is no harm in the judgment of someone who understands
false. Whatever the realm, we must stand in the world under
to spiritual life, whatever his nation, social standing or
regard to nationality, social standing, religion,
this sentence because numerous misunderstandings were
idea of the threefold social order. The misunderstandings
Vorstand.’
be advisory members of the Vorstand which is to be formed
will be this research itself. A dogmatic stand in any field
which time the Vorstand shall present a full report with
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stand before your souls as the most important findings of
stand, a summary. But first let our ears be touched by them,
sure that if man understands the miraculous mystery holding
understanding of our soul we can bring face to face the
Society we may stand on this firm Foundation Stone.
understands the universe looks back to the point in human
true understanding of the words ‘Know thou thyself in

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 5: The Foundation Meeting, 25 December, 11.15 a.m.
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stands on the soil of the spiritual research given to the
2.30 there will be a meeting of the Vorstand with the General
This meeting will be for the Vorstand, the General

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Meeting of the Vorstand and the General Secretaries
Meeting of the Vorstand and the General
freely if they stand by themselves and study the lectures
alone. There are a good many of us who understand how
important it is to stand firmly together and that it is
every effort to help people understand, so that for instance
to bring about an understanding of this matter.
method I have adopted with regard to appointing the Vorstand
the next few days. We could ask whether the Vorstand I have
majority. But those who understand the nature of the human
applied to any university just as it stands. As it stands it
from any conclusion. We cannot avoid having misunderstandings
to attend, indeed he can go to lectures he cannot understand
purposes at all. This Paragraph must stand as it is and so
anthroposophical understanding within public opinion without

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 7: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 26 December, 10 a.m.
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before. There, too, despite the ruins on which we stand, we
need the atmosphere of a clique. When hearts truly understand
following, my dear friends: We stand in the world as a small
world. May they stand as an introduction in our souls again
way each phrase so that it can only stand as I have written

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Vorstand-committee situated in Dornach is to be a true
Vorstand which takes into account the central initiative
Vorstand in such and such a place to which it is possible to
of the Vorstand developing the capacity to have active
Supplement will be found everything the Vorstand thinks,
the Vorstand will
soul with the Vorstand in everything that might concern not
the Vorstand in order to communicate back all that goes on
there are correspondents for the Vorstand which is located in
the Vorstand, people who would take on the voluntary duty of
externally supporting Vorstand that is exactly equivalent to
the central Vorstand which, as I have already said, is
— keep in regular contact with the Vorstand on a weekly
the fact that the establishment of a Vorstand in the way I
this central Vorstand. The central Vorstand will have to
know what this central Vorstand represents, since from the
it will be possible for them to stand on
task of creating a suitable relationship between the Vorstand
done there would have been no misunderstanding which led to
in which I consider that the central Vorstand, working here
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consequence of a whole sequence of misunderstandings. From
satisfactory of all for the Vorstand and myself. Let us hope
social standing, religion, scientific or artistic
years. So this is how things will have to stand.
when we come to include the Vorstand in the Statutes, I shall
Leaders, who administer the School, and the Vorstand, which
Vorstand.’
conditions to be announced by the Vorstand.’ I
really understand the theory of knowledge. I am referring to
a note in order to avoid the misunderstanding that was
order to avoid misunderstandings, to state in a note that the
DR STEINER: What kind of misunderstanding
‘To avoid a misunderstanding’— about
such an authority that they were prepared to stand to
will be this research itself. A dogmatic stand in any field
which time the Vorstand shall present a full report with
communicated by the Vorstand to all members, together with
Vorstand may call special meetings and fix the agenda for
to you that the Vorstand — I hope it will still be
weeks. I have already said in the Vorstand that it could be
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order to create an understanding in wider circles — it
understood. But there would be an understanding for a model
there can be an understanding of these things. There will be
very little understanding in Switzerland for independent

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Meeting of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society
of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society
brought forward which people found impossible to understand.
certain things said met with absolutely no understanding, so
institution of this Vorstand. Looking at the structure as a
itself as the ‘Vorstand’ for the worldwide Society
would therefore be in favour of stating a standard figure and
today, I do believe that a standard figure should be fixed
believe that we could agree on a standard contribution, from
shall be criticized and people will not understand that we
standard. If it turns out to be impossible, it nevertheless
it is necessary to make a statement of where one stands.
may be allowed to disclose that the Vorstand did consider
would simply mean that the standard contribution for
standard at the level that seems to us necessary after making
Anthroposophical Society. Is there any member of the Vorstand

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Vorstand of the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach from the
friends, I now consider that for the moment the Vorstand has
a misunderstanding to arise in respect of what I said here a

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 13: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 30 December, 10 a.m.
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for this above all is an understanding of the human being

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understanding for this time as being something real. There

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the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society present
central Vorstand with other offices. Thus I too would not be
the central Vorstand. I am in the very same position. Perhaps
as members of the Vorstand of the central Anthroposophical
that it is an obvious thing for the central Vorstand to be
Vorstand.
difficult for the Vorstand to make this choice if the matter
Secretary in addition to the present Vorstand.
advisory group for the Vorstand here, three, four or five men
Schweigler asks how he should understand the matter of
HERR GEERING-CHRIST: That is a misunderstanding on the
Vorstand, which I have been so very instrumental in bringing
small task for the provisional Vorstand to find quarters for
This is the very reason why I made sure that the Vorstand
at every future meeting and I hope, knowing the Vorstand as I
so good as to turn to the Vorstand during this Conference and

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We stand
human beings who bring us offerings and who understand us in
words stand out: The envy of the gods.
misunderstandings on the part of both gods and men.
had first gained the capacity to understand the language of
stands today with the memory, which can only be called up in
stand for the last time on that platform that had been set up
this moment! It no longer stands amongst us. Yet I believe
that just because it no longer stands amongst us we are
friends, you greeted me this evening by standing in memory of
Goetheanum. Let us stand once more as a sign that we vow to
understand how to keep this faith.

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of someone who is standing before the portal, about to enter.
once there is an understanding everywhere of what is
the Goetheanum, this Vorstand, will have to take very
with the Vorstand and with representatives of the Swiss
the Vorstand whom I considered to be the right ones —
minimum sum which we need will have to be the standard, and
those friends who are in favour of the standard membership

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physical world at any moment with the full ability to stand
most significant picture meets us today: There stands the
future without any understanding, without any possibility of
earthly world in order to understand it with concepts and
that can stand the scrutiny of present-day clinical
particular field what the Vorstand in Dornach will make its
stands as the foundation for eurythmy, they will take a
stands here once more we shall have worked in such a way that
stands before the Guardian of the Threshold and has to be

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stand grieving beside the ruins of the building that brought that
you will perhaps allow me to recall an outstanding memory that has a
should be standing and indicating in its every form and line and
the new artistic ideal that comes to stand beside the religious ideal
that looks at nature from the standpoint of its seed endowment.
Here we stand, then,

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to an understanding of what came about that I give you a sketch of
standing here in its pristine form, these things would have happened
they want to understand it. That takes quite a bit of doing. For our
standpoint — and the young students. But what the Society was
understand that I am not criticizing, just reporting, for the people
interest in the stand taken by the committee representing the
a tremendous lot of work; in fact, one of their outstanding
They understand nothing of what I am saying, but they do it that very
instant. That is a tremendous difference. The first group understands
immediately, but does nothing. The second category understands
nothing; they only give promise of eventually understanding
things at once. They do everything without understanding it.
radicalism of youth will not be the only standpoint represented, but
have to create something that can really stand the test of life.

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from the standpoint of the mood that prevailed there. The need I
to a thoroughly understandable longing felt by many people of our
anthroposophists must acquire an understanding of community building.
course of meeting and talking, to feel that they understand one
sacrament- or cultus-based community that remains standing where it
conscious human understanding.
Society will have to stand by it in the liveliest possible way, with
soon go dry if it were not to have at least some people standing by
there is no understanding for what a whole human being is. The
longing for that understanding is indeed there, particularly in the
furthers one's understanding of the ideas that anthroposophical
understanding of things among people who share a common idealistic
interpenetrate each other.” It is all one from the standpoint
in such a manner as to realize that it contains concepts that stand in the
understanding of this matter. We have to come to understand what
standpoints. We must make a practice of this rather than of a system

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an experience of climbing or of standing on the edge of an abyss or
account. If one is really deeply convinced that understanding
we do not need to be communicating with or standing in any particular
hostile stand; they just go along with others, finding it comfortable
understandable, of course. But to be informed about these matters is
outstanding congresses and other accomplishments we have to our

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understanding into reality, never schematize, never merely list
the standpoint of thought, but materialistic thought. Hegel
didn't change towards understanding the reality of thought. For
Hegel, felt a lack of what really constituted the understanding
really want to understand the human being you enter into what

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understand this Maya. Some of the necessary concepts will
acquired for understanding the other side of man's life
because it is essential, first, to understand the language
If we understand the language of dreams, we can,
of will and feelings, stand mostly — mostly,
own feelings, frequently stands, as I say, in a very, very
must understand what I mean. — the wishes do not
life, how can it really understand what is actually going
standing at the hedge, has run back. As they approach,
‘Come,’ she screamed, ‘he is standing
standing there, he is touching your knee!’
understand why I did not make enquires about the unhappy,

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learning to understand how we have to thank those who have
loves her. She does not understand his love and out of the
understandable that a true description of the emergence of
point where I am standing I can look, physically, into the
this period. We cannot really understand the nature of the

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say it is an understandable tendency to picture this
imagine, using it in every situation of life. To understand
term — far too simple, for to understand it thus is
first time to one's consciousness. There it stands although
life, but it stands there a wonderfully beautiful event of
stands there as the liberation of the Willing and Feeling
struggle to stand our ground in the consciousness breaking
to stand correctly in the spiritual world. Here in the
have pointed out, thought stands in profusion at one's beck
stands to his surroundings after death and before; how he
by our holding life at a distance, but by understanding
willed picture of how the nose stands out here, of how the
standing within the spiritual world, although the artist is
A crowd of people who are not artists stand there with deep
stands there in his stupidity merely as an observer: Things
must fill us for the purpose of understanding the world we
existence and because then, after death, they stand like
through the Gate of Death. — Thus do they stand as
friend Sybil Colaxxa, she too stands there like an apostle
kind who truly understand ideals in the world, life in
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standing in the world order, not just rising out of nature.
clear understanding of the actual basis of what we are talking
understanding of their own human reality (Wesenheit) by
regions: on the one side stand those who are more or less
other side stand the portion of the population who want to
without calling on the past in order to understand the human
really understanding these ideas of metamorphosed thought, one
considers the shortest route. The human is a being who stands
understand how the physical bodily nature can again be
the physical body on the other, but that we learn to understand
understand the moral quality of love. A principal, important
understand everything which is not human, but people don't. For
understand the human being, to concepts of nature beings, which
do westerners think? Let's take an outstanding, honest social
particular piece of earth, what grows and what stands on it,
think like this, no one understands it. This only appears on
understanding for the human being amongst Adam Smith's ideas.
ones on four legs, then they stand up, become upright instead
alertness then there can be no progress. It is understandable

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It would be a misunderstanding to take it this way. We must
developed in such a way that he didn't stand directly in
is argued that one would understand these things, but in fact
help understand the Mystery of Golgotha. I'm talking about
understand, but took as primitively materialistic and appeared
riddles. We can believe in some understanding in the course of
start to understand something about the practical meaning of

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bearers and that they this up and understand it in the right
understandable, they are usually in all Theosophical Societies
Anthroposophically orientated spiritual science stands in such
What appears to be thoroughly difficult to understand to those
its framework and does not understand what is on the outside
understanding for what is going on, resulting in a point of
him to have to understand something Anthroposophically. So it
serious time in which we stand. This is what we must consider
an absolute misunderstanding for what really should work
“I personally stand completely with Mennikes' point of
their highest lack of understanding nevertheless it is spoken
is exceptionally nice how Ernst Michel from this standpoint of
understand what gift God has given us ...” and so on.
Dadaistic bombast as Ernst Michel depicts. Understandably my
mysteries mean nothing to Ernst Michel. He understands
the mystery.” You see, you can well understand that the
necessary for Anthroposophy to remain standing in work which is
understanding of spiritual life which is creatively active in
understanding of existential mysteries. Because only then, when

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a proof that at the present time the understanding for eurythmy has
not made much headway. It is of the utmost importance that this understanding
certain introductory remarks which in the light of such understanding
will arise of speaking about this understanding at least in an introductory
much can be done with a view to increasing a right understanding of
to understand that the spine is the point from which rays forth that
yourself to the world most purely when you stand before the world in
And when you stand before the world in wonder you break out with the
experience) than that the arms assume a forked angle as you stand confronting
the world. The world is there and we stand facing it. This is why the
confronting the world’. And you will learn to understand the a
he stand upright confronting the world? Does he embrace it? Does he
sound. You stand upright confronting your surroundings and say: ‘I too
the human being. It must be said that in our modern world the understanding
for such things is remarkably limited. But without this understanding,
such understanding is acquired, we shall never be able to stand with
of melancholic temperament. To anyone who has understanding for such
body. Thus ee stands between ah and a on
words, so we may also pass over from the understanding of the elements
minor triads) into eurythmic understanding of the musical realm, the

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You will understand this
We need only to understand what occurs here, and we speak in gesture.
understanding of such an experience already indicates the gesture. You
gestures come about by themselves if we penetrate to a true understanding
seventh, and you stand there as a sort of flayed Marsyas. [12] The skin
things are not entered into with intensity. An understanding must be
Now you must not misunderstand
In order to understand

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in peace and quiet, stand up and try to realize in eurythmy gestures
that we correctly understand the matter out of the fundamentals. The
As far as the understanding
really wishing to promote tone eurythmy has to understand these things.
The eurythmist regards movement as his element, neither standing in,
finished; the piece is over and you stand in the last position until
and think about it a little.’ Standing still may certainly have this

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comparison is not valid. Anyone wishing to speak out of an understanding
understandable. Always show the bar line, and its holding-on movement,
we stand with our physical form, whether slim or short, fat or thin
stands before us in the physical world it is only the corpse, or hardly
first jump into the air and then you stand on the ground. This is what

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not difficult to understand that a man who has developed by himself
itself into movement. Europe possesses very little understanding for
standing. The second person moves on, passing the next metamorphosis
the corresponding motifs while standing. In this simple way (where one
original motifs in standing), we have introduced a new variation into
bearer of the motif in question carries out the movements while standing.
yourselves in such a way that the first person stands here, the second
does make the triad stand before us), then you will say to yourself:
do it well show this in eurythmy, simply in standing: B, A, along with
[36] And you will understand that we can exercise a certain sympathy
have in understanding eurythmy lies in the fact that European understanding

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nonsense may very easily arise when there is no real understanding of
Anyone who really understands the nature of dreams does not take the
to understand the dream, I mean really to understand it by looking at
out the eurythmy in the greatest possible calmness, emphasizing standing
yet at the same time remain standing.’ That is in fact just what you
should do! You should move forwards two steps and remain standing between
should move with a swing from one note to the other, but calmly stand
as possible to stand still, remaining within yourself. Now, the pedal-point,
standing with the sustained note. The movements are carried out so that
the person remaining standing moves a shorter curve, during which time
is very difficult for someone of today to understand. Now, many and
of understanding this erasing of your line in eurythmy, you will also
have reached the point when this understanding of the musical element
necessary, just as necessary in declamation as in eurythmy, to understand
musical element makes a beginning. It stands at the gateway of the musical

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lectures; you will, however, understand how matters lie, and in the
misunderstanding. A better understanding may perhaps be furthered by
at a real understanding of the major (Dur) and minor (Moll)

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Now I must beg you not to misunderstand this, and think that it is my
sitting at the instrument. It is really necessary to come to an understanding

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you today will make it easier to understand certain matters that will
understanding, but to the feeling we will then be able to develop for
we educate ourselves through an outstanding example of this kind to

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to be wrong from the standpoint of spiritual science just because of
But from the standpoint of spiritual science no question will be raised
standpoint from which they are studied to the insights that can be gained
phenomena from this standpoint, you will find them readily comprehensible.
he doesn't understand it and is therefore justified in his apathy. He
enjoyment comes from his interest in himself. So we must find it understandable
ascending order and claims to understand: each hierarchy is one step
with day-waking consciousness. And this helps us to understand an important
itself Beauty. A misunderstanding is at the root of this; the magazine
or how little attention to pay to it, what matters to take a stand on
understanding for such nuances of consciousness.
at the place where it stands; each sentence owes its meaning to its
bring abstract concepts closer to the layman's understanding, making
aspects. Our time often possesses no understanding for these exoteric
only from the usual standpoint, realizing instead that a serious concern
to achieve an understanding of necessity, chance, and providence.

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And an outstanding example is Fritz Mauthner, whose name has often been
recognizes! Now he takes a positive stand, declaring his refusal to
Mauthner — and from his standpoint rightly — professors
And he believes that they can be answered only if he understands “productive
powers and germs,” understands, in other words, how outer experience
from his particular standpoint. Faust would have had to say, I am as
with a truly Faustian intensity, they will be mature enough to understand
Fritz Mauthner's standpoint do if, let us say, he sets about describing

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understanding how something subjective could turn into objective reality.
it from a spiritual standpoint. When the human soul raises a question,
understanding life, we have to deal seriously and conscientiously with
ancient events, will they come to understand necessity.

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standpoint of the present, never from the standpoint of the past, i.e.,
of necessity. This means enlivening the standpoint of the present by
be rigorous in adopting the standpoint that necessity inheres in the
standpoint of the present; the consequence could be looked for further
with these laws to lessen misunderstandings about the flowing of spiritual
prepare ourselves to make the right kind of understanding ascent into
we are to understand how the spiritual world streams into the human soul,
is considered real from the ordinary physical standpoint can only be
standing; it is still there. Time becomes space. The past ceases to

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alternating states of sleeping and waking. We tried to understand how
matters and so prepare ourselves for the deeper understanding of the
understanding of a comparison of this kind, one that I have often resorted
of a watch. If you want to understand a watch, you must study the laws
No such demons are involved. But if someone who understands watches
we have to make a start at understanding such a thing as the gnome world
how superfluous, mirrors are to the objects mirrored, we will understand
feel a general sadness and depression, but they cannot understand how
We understand the mental state of gnomes,
involved. It helps us to understand to say that all our thinking begins
matters entirely without understanding. Kepler, whom even those currently

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in a positive, concrete understanding of the spiritual beings about
understanding. Just imagine, for example, a person being born with a
we grow older and older physically. And everyone understands what is
a thorough understanding of it. But every glance into external science
a person who had strong nerves and could stand a lot was referred to
We learn, too, to understand the sacrifices

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more of our members came to understand this, it would be possible to
We know that the next outstanding event to
When we stand beside one another here on
the physical plane, you stand there and I over here, both of us holding
As I've emphasized from another standpoint,
world. Looked at from the standpoint of the spiritual world, where we
we feel our physical body to be. It is one of the most outstanding experiences
from a higher standpoint, everything that happens is actually good,
and how what remains incomprehensible from the standpoint of the physical
world becomes fully understandable when seen from a higher level. For

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
because in the first few chapters the author, an outstanding
recognize in him an outstanding individual. In the
only to establish mutual understanding. There are different
Today, many people look at statistics as a key to understanding
such a picture will not allow us to understand the human being
understanding the human individual. And yet, if one observes
certain climax. From the moment when the child can stand
might understand this transformation better through an analogy;
if our understanding can penetrate the very nature of the human

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
To begin with we will try to understand more fully the
managing to stand up and take the first steps in order to
because the child stands within it. While learning to walk,
organization. The coarser parts are able to withstand these
animals. This is of immense importance for an understanding of
lively child than its mouth, when it is standing some distance
course, you must understand these things with a certain
this is their tragedy. Materialism has the least understanding
the one view of the world that has no understanding of what

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
misunderstand what I am going to say, for sometimes one has to
Herr von Osten, as he stands next to it. These facial
to stand here and plead authoritarian principles.
happen, they will not understand. If, for example, you
expecting the eye to understand the word red. The eye
can understand only the color red, not the word. A child
cannot understand an ordinary description of a plant. But as
there will be immediate understanding. The child also has to be
treated with an understanding of human nature. We will hear
adults no longer have any understanding of childhood, because a
repeat again at this point, to avoid misunderstandings, that I

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
what we understand as knowledge of the human being. Some of
eyes. There stands a man. He has black or blond hair. He has a
understand that, after having introduced writing by drawing a
withstand modern prejudices. Naturally, pupils will learn to
longer understands the material processes — which it
year children only understand a pictorial presentation.
impressive system, but it would not help you understand the
botanical classification. But to understand why its blossoms
pupils can understand the animal-forms. It will enable the
RUDOLF STEINER: A misunderstanding

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
explanations; they have no understanding for this at all. If a
spontaneously and with acute understanding. On the other hand,
I hope that you understand it.
but laugh. This is very understandable. But considering the
understand the matter fully until sometime around the age of
life for understanding certain matters. It is nevertheless the
mature enough to understand certain things, things that one
understand what I accepted on trust when I was eight.
This ability to understand something that, permeated with love,
present capacity to understand. On the other hand, the opposite
understand this.” One must never resort to such a remark,
understanding for the relationship between cause and effect.
that demands an understanding of causality. Consequently, one
year it is impossible to awaken in students an understanding of
could not stand listening to a description of the human being,
real understanding of this event no longer existed. If someone
one wants to understand the complexity of a child's needs, one
understand this” should never be used when talking to
is also a greater understanding for the musical qualities of
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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
the study of lifeless matter, an understanding of historical
The children certainly would not stand in its way, nor would
teachers stand at the forefront of bringing new impulses into
souls. What they need is a deep understanding of life itself;
stand in front of their classes. All of this has to flow into
a great misunderstanding. What is advocated here can be
that reaches out for human understanding everywhere. It is the
of life we are concerned with only a childlike understanding of
of a lack of effort and attention, “Here the ox stands
means literally “to stand there like the ox facing the
for what one does oneself. At the moment when an understanding
of individuals, and it would never do to stand in the classroom
themselves are. If they can make a firm resolve to stand in the
and an understanding interest in what others are doing.
conversely, their actions may elude your understanding.
understanding interest in what others were doing.
doing and an understanding interest in what others are
of adolescents. To do so we must realize what it means to stand

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
the one hand, we stand on the firm ground of a pedagogy that
time, the standards generally achieved in other schools are to
again the necessary standards of learning that would enable
the required standards for achievement no longer have any
also how to understand at least simple examples of mechanical
required standards of learning for their transfer to a high
based on an understanding of the human being: Will young
who make it their particular task to come to understand the
inability to understand the true nature of matter. Knowledge of
spirit leads to true understanding of matter. Materialism may
time for people standing amid life, since it would only detract
that the circle of those who stand firmly behind our ideals is

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
a useful expedient, but one has to understand it. Using it as
effect a new understanding of the psychological and
understand such matters again.
example, one cannot understand the human gall or liver system
unless one also has an understanding of the human head, because
one does not have an inner understanding of the immense
understand human nature cannot assess how important certain
comment, “The young today don't understand the elderly,
education can stand on its feet again. This has become more
one fully understand an earlier one because of these reciprocal
is possible to understand earlier stages without any knowledge

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Here Steiner presents a thorough and understandable picture of
example, people today would not readily understand why Goethe,
years when it was standing, the Goetheanum gradually came to be
the other hand, while the Goetheanum was standing, the need was
think up all kinds of plans, but if one stands firmly on the
untruth, but who are also willing to stand up for the
qualms. But those who stand behind these lies about Dornach and

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about colors. One cannot really understand colors if one
does not understand the human
things which one learns to understand only when one has
moves and the sun stands still, but how we see this makes no
here. So if first you stand there, you do not see the sun at
understand that?
If you stand there you are seeing the
absolutely black darkness. So that if one stands here by day
surroundings. If you thoroughly understand the red of dawn and
one understands in the right way the morning and evening glow
that when people who understand such things want to be
related here is plain to the real human understanding; whereas
which understands the blue of the heavens rightly, understands
taught which stands in the books everywhere. One can very
But that is how things stand today between
nderstand nature without coming to Goethe's
If one understands, however, that the
then one also understands the healthy rosy color in
hand one can understand the healthy rosy countenance from the
and one can understand paleness from the perpetual intake of
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this a little today because one actually understands the whole
understand the spiritual element if one first studies
there is a tree. It stands at first on the earth's surface and
understand the matter, it all becomes clear. But modern science
And we can understand that quite well when we start from the
race, stand in
Japanese stands and walks that in his bone-structure he stands
Europe is because Europe no longer actually understands
know in life so that one takes the right stand. Men are getting

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enter our sleep condition, understanding realities from there.
Here you stand before what the human being experiences in
system whose content must stand for itself which to some extent
understandable striking traits according to psychiatric
ethically high-standing personality with glowing scientific and
much which is good, noble and morally high standing, perhaps
areas of which it understands nothing, making it sick.

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Three dimensions standing at right angles to each other — or if one
standing at right angles to one another, or even all that geometry has
vestige of the sense of standing with his personality, his human self
dimensions, which have no other occupation at all than standing at right
through eternity, if one did nothing else at all but stand at right
stood the completely free self-movement to right and left while standing
one stands on one's head then the under is above and the above under.
relic of space-experience. In the evolved religions an understanding
for the Oneness of God has taken precedence of the real understanding
of the threefoldness. The understanding for the unity of God has an
of space. If one reads Plato or Aristotle today with a real understanding,
really deep understanding, finds that this feeling for space was still

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would be able to understand what he thought, felt and willed as a child
forces. Only what we experience between the ages of 28 and 35 stands
come to a standstill. It is a profound truth presented in one of the
stand within this reality, and this too appears to us only in its reflected
know the truth means that one knows oneself to be standing in the two
duration. And while we stand within these two realms, and a life goes
a sleeping plant-life and in the second half would look back and understand
extremely clever and understand many things through his own practical
actually standing in between these two conflicting aims of the spiritual
that one stands within it, and in this standing within one must guide
differently from the customary way of seeing it from the standpoint
for it — and one does not understand life if one does not understand
men learn to understand it.
following of Ahriman, Ahriman stands out as a unity, because he strives
stand still, but the clock will be of no use to you, the pendulum must

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only understands that this cannot be the reality if one realises that
to come to an understanding through the following picture. We will approach
spiritual law, and these things must be viewed from the standpoint of
from the standpoint of deeper investigation it is not so. The souls
world today would certainly not understand us.
rather darken understanding than shed light But what does this amount
will never understand reality unless they build the bridge between the
seriously and intelligently with sound human understanding the researches
these things in the most outstanding sense can be thrusting human nature
give a beautiful understanding of Christ-Jesus, or something like that,

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2: The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
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While it is true that for many believers the Christ still stands at
there. In a certain sense we can only understand the nature of Solomon's
prevailing today in our materialistic age. We must understand that all
Solomon's Temple; one only understands Christianity if one grasps
with deeper understanding what is really not difficult to see today,
be able to see a strange figure standing before men: a distortion of
currents of humanity. People will not understand the light that this

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that someone who observes a child with understanding will notice how
we ascribe free will to man? or may we only say that he stands within a
they exist at all—for standing still is ahrimanic! There should
it will be necessary for our understanding of other men, and also —
at which humanity now stands — twenty-seven years — without
his biography. These facts enable one to understand world conditions
it would best be studied from a spiritual scientific standpoint, for
figurative. Anyone who studies gnosticism from this standpoint, who
tried to understand this event. The Romans had little understanding
of it. This thinking power tried to understand the Event of Golgotha
from the standpoint of the thinking used before birth, the thinking
and people were little inclined to apply any effort toward an understanding
power, when it would lack the penetration needed to understand the Mystery
still provided the ideas that allowed some understanding of the spiritual
had any perception of that world. Plato had much more understanding
but declared that they could not understand it. Gradually there was
of supersensible understanding, and therefore had to permit the comprehensive
To that end we must understand the supersensible force working into

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knowledge of his own being to gain an understanding of the being of
I would like to point out what is essential for the understanding of
him. But these earthly substances and forces, so far as man understands
One must understand the inner significance of what can be described
his own existence and those hieroglyphs standing in cosmic space through
first stage how he stands within the world, so he learned in the second
to understand the Greek apollonian maxim, “Know thou thyself!”
in accordance with facts. Only one who really understands the possibility
to understand it. Even were he to go through all the initiation ceremonies,
he could not now approach the Christ in that way with any understanding.
view, in order to prepare you for a deeper understanding of Christianity.
states of consciousness if one really wishes to understand the world.
bringing understanding to the Mystery of Golgotha.
Toward this understanding,
of Golgotha. But all that is needed to understand the Mystery of Golgotha
from the standpoint of initiation. You stand on one side, as it were,
will never give you an understanding of reality, only something to swear
by when you need it. If you want to understand reality, then you must
realize that it has to be presented from various sides. From the standpoint
man must go from man to the world. From the standpoint of knowledge,
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a way that the slightest idea of it is beyond the understanding of
to stand for the true organization of man as body, soul, and spirit,
of the impulse for freedom. An understanding of this impulse is being
of thinking. What stands in the Old Testament and the New Testament,
who are revealed to one who stands within the modern life of spirit:
keep them in their possession, and one must come to an understanding
something wills to happen. But if one wishes to understand what it is
stand at the turning-point of human evolution; and we must fully recognize
did so from the standpoint of the ancient Egypto-Chaldean science. Even
the spiritual. Thus, to understand what is pulsating in the most urgent

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that is really hardly comprehended even by one who wants to understand
and is developing the impulse in himself toward understanding.
trying sincerely to understand, you will surely find much that is incomprehensible
centuries an effort was made to understand the Christ Impulse and its
But now not only the understanding
with these things that there needs to be understanding for the great
also be attained through a real initiation, then we will understand
humanity, if he will find his way to a real, inner understanding of
in this understanding he will have a starting-point from which to press
Here, (see tabulation below) something stands in the way, something
human being can reach a deeper understanding of many things in his life,
were of the very first importance. Only now will he understand what
for the soul-mood indicated. For if he enters into a true understanding
if he tries to start from this true understanding, then much of the
said in that lecture: We understand Haeckel correctly, therefore, when

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and unconsciously. You do not stand in the world as a finished, self-contained
spatial being, but you stand within continual happening, continual becoming,
Life from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science.” From birth to
were standing still. Or if you are traveling in a train fairly fast,
time to understand the thoughts grasped from our own wishes, our own
the standpoint of ordinary consciousness that he has lived in the world
who from his own standpoint is honest. I have often mentioned his name
his standpoint outside spiritual science, what such a man says to himself
were in the wrong and who dares to stand up for the rights of his people.
no illusions, but from his own materialistic standpoint honestly faces
and canals have fallen into disrepair, and everywhere there stand as
or from the standpoint of anthroposophical impulses. From an external
from a more frivolous standpoint what our times are going to bring forth.

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present-day knowledge that mankind is standing before a new revelation.
time there is no desire to understand such a spiritual intervention.
that intellectuality is now the outstanding faculty, but that as it
is so wedded. From such a standpoint, for instance, people even want
stand and do not entirely subscribe to the atomic theory, persons like
you will find something tremendously important for understanding the
four and a half years is only one aspect. To understand this fact of
the waves. These may stand for us as images of the Spirits of Personality.
all kinds of misunderstanding. Objections are put forward which if one
on the surface of existence is not really adequate for understanding
He would have been excellent as such; he would have done outstanding
trivially. The important thing is to understand what has brought about
emptiness. This is the reason why from the standpoint of spiritual science
the Christ Impulse stands in the direct line of formative thinking.
new forms an understanding of the old Gospels is brought about. Actually,
has to be confirmed by their sound human understanding. They do not
and rolls, the writer or the reader stands behind and feels a sensuous
them theoretically and then still do nothing more than stand in reverence

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lose all standards for the sanctity of giving one's word, and may perhaps
fear criticism; true superiority can stand the test of even the most
facts of the case, those people can usually be made to see their misunderstanding
that I do not yet fully understand the case in question, I will gladly
standards that all individuals can apply and must also allow to be applied
As things stand at the moment,
while you stand by, calmly observing this waste of effort. Or, in order
them and taking a stand against them, will be of help to you in the
There are a few other members whom I can expect to understand the matters
how things stand, since each one of you must know what you have been
of the building in Dornach, to take a decided stand on this issue in
many people simply do not make an effort to understand the kind of responsibility
of our members don't want to try to understand what it sometimes takes
than what people seem to want to understand. If I weren't using it the
I also do not understand
was all right for the child (whom I had just seen standing down by the
Society as seriously as would be necessary if the Society is to withstand
it is clear that they cannot understand that Mr. Goesch is mentally

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mentioned a third member of long standing.
requirements of our cause. It is understandable enough that when some
It is understandable that
drives exist and apply their esoteric schooling to understanding them.
about in this letter becomes more understandable.
That is what stands behind taking measures like this. It is impossible
We need to understand how
say something along the lines of, “Well, as things stand now,
the freedom and dignity of others, the standards we must apply will
demands a certain amount of time and will understand that I do not need
what ought to be done. Even so, people do not seem to be able to understand
manage to do anything. Well, that is understandable enough. You see,
to misunderstand a movement like ours. Yesterday, I pointed out that
we have to accept misunderstanding as a matter of course and spoke about
how we should relate to misunderstanding on the part of people outside
a very strange misunderstanding of what is actually going on when we
built on the basis of spiritual science, this Society as I have to understand
have to say things like this, but how are we supposed to understand
you will understand what was meant. These things cannot be judged on
become necessary not to let misunderstandings arise because of things
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practice, to understand the concept of the society needed to foster
weighty difference in mind in order to understand the concept of our
about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to
only if we get used to being exact, to really understanding things precisely.
to understand the spiritual world belongs only in the spiritual world;
what is needed for understanding higher planes of existence is harmful
is needed: in order to keep our ability to understand the spiritual
standards, but that we must rise above it in all respects. That is why
equipped with a certain stock of moral standards and habitual ways of
an attitude we also need for understanding esoteric truths.
will understand your point of view. The main thing is not to let the
hand, how are outsiders supposed to understand that? What can they possibly

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an individual member or organ is ill. It is important that we understand
understand the following. We have three points listed in our statutes.
on the Copernican view itself. And now we must stand firm on one point,
is for us to become more and more able to stand firm when someone from
of them knows. That can easily happen among us. Of course, it is understandable
objective facts. But we have to understand what is objectively true
it stand uncontested. When things like this are allowed to happen unhindered,

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This outstanding scholarly
already an outstanding scholar who had not only absorbed all the knowledge
understand to a certain extent the language of both the elemental beings
an understandable common language — the language of ideas, of
to understanding this language, which is also our basis for cultivating
out that Swedenborg had always been able to understand the language
is how all spirits speak. As I said, Swedenborg was used to understanding
spirits making certain movements, but was unable to understand them;
not understand were inhabitants of Mars — that there were in fact
he gradually realized why he could not understand these souls from Mars.
all there is to understanding language—something of the speaker's
emotional state flows over to us as well. Understanding speech is actually
understand these Mars beings. He could not understand them, nor could
the class of the Angeloi could understand them. This realization was
a very deep and meaningful experience for him. Not being able to understand
something that was quite clearly understandable to the hierarchy of
into certain mysteries of the spiritual worlds. In order to understand
spirits would be just like standing here in this room among physical
in how they speak — he can no longer understand them; they remain
conscientious descriptions, and to understand what Swedenborg's visionary
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of Goesch. He contributed his understanding of Freud's theories and
as such and stands in need of no further interpretation.
All that I have been able to add to our understanding
Notwithstanding all the contributions Nietzsche's genius made
from the right standpoint.
stand up for ourselves. When things come up in disguise as they did

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can really understand this way of looking at the world only if we can
tells the psychoanalyst. A spiritual scientist using healthy understanding
Sunday, he realized that he could not understand these beings because
up into the spiritual world), he would have been able to understand
of understanding the pure thoughts, free of any emotion, that were active
must try to understand, my friends — and the means of doing so
Swedenborg unable to understand their words and gestures?
beings from Mars, but could not understand that they were actual
or even understand them with his ordinary capacity for thought. As I
to understand these beings.
and to understand it from the inside, out of the inner nature of the
We stand at an extremely

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what stands behind both the word itself and actual mystical aspirations.
how much reading material we have to struggle through to understand
if we want to understand the inner attitude
understand a thing when Swedenborg talks about inhabitants of Mars who
perhaps angels might be able to understand it, but he cannot.
man, I knew an outstanding theologian, now dead, who was also very well
in thinking have seldom, if ever, had any understanding of love in

Title: Community Life: Lecture 7: The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being
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Understanding of the Human Being
Anthroposophical Understandingof the Human Being
to understanding any subject, whether it is the world in general, an
source of a great many errors. If we really want to understand something,
is essential to any studying we do; attempting to understand a subject
of understanding simply through having made the distinction between
present. When the people standing at the door have come in, we need
we want to understand how the beings that stand behind certain phenomena
could be further from the truth. Perhaps it will help you understand
was like during that evolutionary period. So if we want to understand
which we understand the makeup of our earliest potential for physical
and undergo a higher form of development in order to achieve an understanding
of physical evolution from the Saturn stage. It is impossible to understand
In order to understand this, we do not even need to leave the physical
We must understand that as they are growing and developing into their
between. We will not understand human physical development if we look
at it from any other point of view. It is only possible to understand
respiratory organs and everything else. And, as we will come to understand
understand, wasn't it? However, the point I want to make is that psychoanalytic
today can our understanding be allowed to lead to name-calling. When we
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for what we so sorely need at present, and that is an understanding
that a right comprehension, a right understanding of life can bring about
for an understanding of the present time.
human understanding is really something which is subject to evolution,
it will be easier to understand many things which are,we can really
say, not only possible, but also necessary to understand, and which
people really do not wish to understand. In a certain connection, we
life! Those who can understand such things, will come across plenty
problem. In the article in question he speaks of what he understands
understanding. The nine tenths of humanity constituting the so-called
so unfruitful in the social field, to-day all these people stand between,the
to develop a social judgment. But if we do not understand the social
wish to understand the social organism, without grasping the truth of
ordinary understanding, based upon the senses and the intellect, could not
anatomy of the stomach, cannot understand the anatomy of the head or
territory, without taking into consideration that from a social standpoint
would imply a misunderstanding of the connections which exist between

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the present. People of every standing, who are now confronting this
the lack of interest and understanding on the part of the leaders of
economic life, a complete misunderstanding arose between the leading
showed (what I am telling you now, helps us to understand its course)
to understand that they should not merely judge the things that lie
people find it so difficult to understand this!
the part of modern men to understand how necessary it is to-day to acquire
from the existing kind. Yet people find it so difficult to understand this,
the metabolic system. And we can only understand the human being within
the course of time if we understand the interplay of these three systems
life, this corresponds to the understanding of the three members of
I am, for at last I have discovered how matters really stand!
from any one standpoint, would bring about the worst possible results
from other standpoints.
matters should be grasped from quite a different standpoint; we should

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from another standpoint.
standpoint must be borne in mind, as well as the one that smaller industrial
a certain definite standpoint. The artisan of olden times produced his
If we wish to understand
being from every personal element. If we wish to understand the social
question, we must bear in mind above all the following standpoint: that
find the possibility to make people understand that a change is needed
of the present. One of the first requirements is this: to understand
socialistic ideal from this standpoint.

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contemplated from the standpoint that man has his place within it. After
being, stands the conception of Spiritual science, which goes in search
For if we remain standing by the external reality, we do not have the

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stand the circles that have hitherto more or less led men's destiny;
the times; on the one side Paris, where the standpoint of the formerly
so often said here, namely, that if we are to understand these things
quite different languages; there is no possibility of mutual understanding
thought first at least to speak to the understanding of part of mankind.
For it is a question of understanding. I have continually emphasised
our appeal to the understanding of a sufficiently large number of men
the understanding and whether it be possible to discover the way before
against anything either left or right. If we would take our stand on
matter with me. Since a spiritual appeal is to be made to the understanding
to this untimely set of antiquated notions, an appeal to man's understanding,
concerned, can be brought to an understanding based on reality. Above
could perhaps be increased by a few personalities having an understanding
I beg you to understand
on life that with vigorous thought strives to understand the forces
to modern humanity. Its Government did not understand how to give the
live in common understanding with other peoples.
found whose understanding was ripening. Thus, naturally it was important
of man's soul something is calling upon him to understand such an affair
from a certain understanding to that courage in life which, in accordance
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in as many people as possible, a right social understanding. You must not
mankind. Help can come only when an understanding of the social relations
only when they arrive at a real social understanding from which man
today — of whatever party — stands very far removed. It
is the most imperative task to spread this understanding. It is a fact
to work above all for social understanding. Even when external conditions
is social understanding. And this lack is due to the whole of human
being applied to this understanding. It is remarkably limited even in
understanding needs some specially comprehensive and far-reaching knowledge
such an understanding. People's thoughts are very different from those
the social problem from some kind of ethical or religious standpoint.
today on acquiring this understanding. I have said that men today in
a question, however, of coming quite simply to a clear understanding
or the other should happen. But at the stage where the matter now stands
of taxation. But what if you were to stand alone with your magnificently
would want were they to understand it. If you find the right way you
in a longer or shorter period, understanding can be awakened when once
the hindrances to this understanding have been removed. Naturally there
are always leading personalities who stand in the way. These personalities
life, then the need will arise in you to have a more fundamental understanding
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possible understanding for what must enter into mankind, to promote
is to be made fruitful for mankind, must be revised from the standpoint
When on the one hand you understand what the threefold social organism
two things you have something important for understanding the matter.
And to understand the present social movement from a serious standpoint
worked for, is by widening the understanding of the social organism,
creating the possibility for it really to be understood. From this standpoint
one maintains that his standpoint is orthodox Marxism, another says
Marxist who best understands Marx, whereas numerous other socialists
and as science from its one-sided standpoint, has justly arrived at
For the urge to understand is not yet very great.
of superstition, which is unable to accept the standpoint that behind
What I have been referring to is a misunderstanding of the spiritual.
that presses into its sphere. In so far as man stands within the economic
understanding the threef0ld nature of the social organism, which enters
misunderstanding this most deeply serious and significant side of our
Anthroposophical Movement. But we do misunderstand it when we allow
I'll stand fast by God: — To deal with the matter in this abstract
we should come to an understanding with ourselves, and develop the capacity
element. The leaders of the proletariat today do not understand this,
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standpoints. What we have learnt about it enables those who can look
or this wood, I am not giving my impression, for while I am standing
consequences before which the bourgeoisie now stand aghast.
highest authority. For whose judgment stands higher for the modern
some understanding of where the surplus value goes.
just stood there! It ought to stand in a connection with the whole of

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standpoint we endeavoured to go deeply into the present social movement.
to have any understanding of a movement promoted by mankind, careful
proletariat have learnt from their leaders, what they understand as the
Whoever does not understand
then theory, endeavours above all to understand how certain streams in the
to understand the historic consequences of Bolshevism, the horrifying
standpoint, and we have also called up before our souls some of his
chief bearer of the sense-organs, by reason of these organs stands in
practical structure, a really practical life, that we understand how
in which men must stand if the social organism is to be realised through
point more closely. The employee stands today in a quite definite relation
the one side man stands on the ground of economic life, on the other
that it can be established only on mutual trust and understanding. As

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man stands regarding it as reality, and he lacks the forces to bring
connection something very remarkable appears. To understand the State
existing between man and man between death and a new birth stand in
to do with spiritual life. It is its very opposite. To understand the
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
In this way we have to understand
of gradually learning to understand a new language. They would prefer
of this particular way of understanding the connection between the material
me to something different, I should be able to understand that too.
stand outside all this. That is why the proletariat have been given
experience where one member of the community stands at a machine eight
being the proletarian does not understand what is now taught in the
child understand less than the bourgeois child? But the bourgeois child
in reality does not understand anything either, for the teaching in
for is something everyone can understand. Much is certainly imperfect
from the point of view of life. And because men have various standpoints
order to one in which men will stand inwardly united with one another!
is united that of standard values. In big things and small, people are
the gold-standard, having had today to follow the leading economic State,
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to any kind of world-outlook or understanding of life. We must continually
only fit to understand what is lifeless. We have brought into being
to become aware that to understand in its concrete nature anything living,
for understanding the social organism. The moment a man acquires a possession,
time to be brought to the understanding of the social organism The social
— when a near, or even distant, relation of a judge stands before

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This is simply an outstanding
are in a certain way a kind of punishment for the necessary misunderstanding
The best groundwork for this penetration is a thorough understanding of
that ideas as such are there. I take up the standpoint that before the
You would never be able to understand how a God could be so poor in
God is understanding but God Himself before the creation of the world.
and imagination of Hegel's sometimes endanger the understanding of what
and philosophy, arise in the life of man they stand above the State
in his own envelope, man who stands at the highest point in nature,
it might be a way of coming to an understanding of the spiritual world,
what stands in our way when we come to pure thought, to pure logic,
of not taking anything as absolute, but of understanding how to place
stand in the world. Up to now people have been able to make do without
in which we now stand.
period that is past, but the thinker who clings fast to the standpoint of

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to an understanding of the karma of the individual human being
collection, and lay them on a music-stand and make an
but we can never understand a man who works out of the
elemental forces of the world, nor indeed can we understand any
spheres the point at which the scientists already stand,
using force with them. Then you will understand the unique way
point at this moment; the point is that we should understand.
Here you see how a man may stand in the midst of external
events and how we must nevertheless first understand the
layers one has to delve in order to understand the world. And
yet, how much of the wisdom required to understand the
that signify in his life? We must first understand what an
Otherwise we can get no further in the understanding of his
brought to an entirely different frame of mind; notwithstanding
which people cannot yet understand to-day; and how he took still

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which alone will enable us to understand them
initial understanding of the matter that is enough, and it is
understand the human being in his totality.
understand what I have just said, we must however also realise
complicated being. We cannot understand him unless we
only begin to understand the matter when we fill ourselves with
the perception that what we call 'understanding' or
it been a question of any real understanding of number as
will understand how such things as Goethe described
quite a new understanding of what Goethe as a young man
man is always standing in the midst of this. What is it in
come to a standstill! The World could not go on. The moment all
standstill. Therefore, not all men can 'dream' in this way. It
standstill if all men were to dream in this way.
by side to start with. For we cannot understand the way man is
cosmic evolution in the midst of which the human being stands.

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grow specialised. You must not adopt as your standard the
understanding of it if they want to educate their children.
evolution? It will depend on their large-minded understanding
World-evolution. All that happens in World-evolution stands in
beginning to understand the meaning of what is so often
we understand it as a whole, in the great World-connection.
schoolmasters generally are nowadays — understands
Spirituality. The workman who stands at the lathe will
it is standing at the lathe.’ They will arise, no doubt. But
evolution which stands directly at our doors. Many a man
stand there and remain at rest. A human being will approach it,
of all bonds of humanity. Men would understand one another less
people understand this. In the Spiritual World they fail
to understand the corresponding ‘crankiness.’
when he has the understanding rightly to perceive the signs of

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However, if we want to understand how the act of consecration
us, four stages in the development of man's understanding of
these acts of consecration of man an understanding of
understanding of the inner nature of what ancient
it were, the moment he could stand before the sacred place or
understanding of sounds and an understanding of the way that

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an understanding of what transubstantiations and apocalypses
earthly materials. If one wants to understand the process
living. There was less and less understanding for the act of
understand apocalyptic things in a new way.
how did one understand apocalyptic things during the third
effort and by a striving towards an understanding of the
This is an understanding of John's apocalyptic things. In the
deeper sense of the word, this also amounts to an understanding

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thoughts which enable us to understand the world. For thoughts
can't understand the content of Anthroposophy. Instead one will
begin to understand Anthroposophy through the fact that its
form: one only understands alpha or A if one knows that a sound
forget that man is standing in the whole world.
basically dishonest when they say they understand the gospels
contemporaries, who take great pains to understand Greek, the
fact is that no one understands Greek any more today, because
European people they can still perceive and understand things
has it if one takes a dictionary and a German word stands on
ego-being. Then he stands before the vision with God's ideas
stands at the beginning of the Apocalypse. For we must
interpret the words which stand there in what we receive in
the book, when he understands it. For the time for this has

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help us to understand it.
can say that our contemporary world needs an understanding of
forgotten how to understand the things which everyone knew
very hard to really understand the Anthroposophical or
this. It only tries to understand what the original text is
misunderstandings which have arisen in the course of time in
stands at the altar he can force God to assume an earthly
really understand this today, there were certain individuals at
understanding for concrete things in those times than one did
it stands there, for this is its true form. The indication is
featured thing is not the candle sticks which stand on the
stands up there in the macrocosm.
has to take what stands there in a literal sense and to really
understand how these things proceeded from the way people used
as such, as one must understand him, is represented among the
grand Imagination stands before us here. The transfigured son

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think of these things, when the faithful are standing before
the work and activity of death itself. He will understand it.
standing next to him of death seem natural, and this is
do something at the place where he stands. Before I went on my
priests should really understand.
understand why plants have colors, for if there's a plant
understanding of the Apocalypse today, namely, to be able to
understand the tasks which are demanding our heartfelt
must understand the Apocalypse so that he can find the right

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a certain understanding for something like the Apocalypse,
helps us to understand this in a certain way. Just consider
oneself that the archangel who stands in the number five spot
secret events which stand behind the public ones said around
understand again what “Michael walks before the
However, something strange stands behind all of what is only
doctor among the archangels, stands behind the sick things
Joachim of Floris, Alanus ab Insulis and other outstanding
began to really understand Luke's gospel of healing in this

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15th century. This year 333 stands right in the middle. The
important. One has to tell oneself that one understands things
Let's look at this contrast from a spiritual standpoint,
understand the inner meaning and the inner spirit of something
understand the Mystery of Golgotha and the nature of Christ. He
who can read in an apocalyptic way understand this quite well.
in the understanding of this transubstantiation. Just think of
on a real spiritual understanding of a Christology which tells
order of the Spirit in the world. In between stands the Son,
the Father force when he stands in the outer physical world
with his actions. There man stands. There are the hereditary
transubstantiation takes place. Whoever understands the one can
understand the other.
an understanding of transubstantiation, because one couldn't
understand the kind of a lawfulness which is present in human
over higher walls in order to arrive at an understanding of
for the closest analog for an understanding of the
transubstantiation teaching is an understanding of the karma
we must inscribe this deep into our souls; If we can understand
one earth life to the next, we also understand what happens at
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give them their human understanding.
directed against an understanding of transubstantiation. To be
but to raise ourselves to the spiritual impulses which stand
the earth? Never anything else than a standing in the spiritual
Apocalypse and if one begins to understand one's age through
and the Soradt mystery as understanding human beings who know

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take the teacher who stands, behind them into account; he's not
ego in the spiritual world, and they stand in that world in
this Apocalypse; with inner understanding were
ingredients as in the old Jerusalem which stands there as the
can understand these things right down to the smallest details
understand them, we arrive at a certain peculiarity concerning
they can't quite understand it. Anyone who makes a serious
effort to understand the Apocalypse cannot help asking himself:
order to understand it? Anyone who seriously wants to
understand the Apocalypse cannot help telling himself: I have
understand the Apocalypse and because one notices: John
This is why one needs the transition; one has to understand the
understand it in an honest and serious way. You notice this

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our souls. If we understand it correctly we see that this last
lecture I pointed out that if one honestly tries to understand
Himself, but where He is the only one who understands it; no
one else understands it.
alone understands. What can all of this really mean? If one
honestly wants to understand it, the whole thing seems to be
which only He understands, what is that supposed to mean? It
understands. How can we relate to this name? It should really
who understands this name becomes united with us and enters our
own self, then this being in us will understand the
name and we will understand it also. We will have Him in us and
us. He is the only one who understands the things, which are
connected with His being; but He understands them in us, and
the world with his understanding and not with our
understanding, this being wears a garment which is sprinkled
should give the light in us through his own understanding fills
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha and of the garment
Christ lives in men with the name which only he understands.
the standpoint on which man is standing — would live over
opened, the one who only understands his name himself comes,
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terrible fall, and it will be necessary for us to understand
spiritual. This is the important thing and we must understand
must understand how mediums get into this condition. Someone is
understand, just as it is difficult to understand what happens
power who stands close to them in the whole world, as it were.
can only understand something like what the Apocalypticer is
presenting if one understands this threefoldedness in the
stand; their organization became weak with respect to these
stand what really, lay in the Christian annunciation who took
Seen from a human, earthly standpoint, this power is a terrible
Michael has a different standpoint than human beings do, and
Satan is a very terrifying power from Michael's standpoint and
be gained through Anthroposophic understanding into yourself
is really true that a real understanding of the Apocalypse

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before us which is very difficult to understand, but which
open-minded person can understand those wonderful paintings of
understand aeriform-fiery and aeriform-warm things.
understanding will radiate from this picture, and it is one
way in the Apocalypticer s vision, through a vision that stands
so. It stands there as a splendid physical vision in the middle
time man had the idea: He's standing here (drawing), the sun is
Christ. One will understand how the kind of metamorphosis which

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in the number seven one can understand Inspirations in many
which someone is speaking in order to understand him, so the
grasps what one is standing in in this way.
We're standing at the beginning of the development of the
prominent way from a purely consciousness standpoint. Of course
seals. One can only understand this completely if one realizes
from Rome. They had an understanding for the God who lives,
will be necessary to understand the Apocalypse in a serious
need arose in you to understand the Apocalypse shows that you

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understand this seal, we will have to discuss something which
being. Quite good philosophers have failed to understand my
misunderstanding after another about it, which shows how
the people who stand within their race in such a way that
way together with inner understanding, that is, they often
lack of inner understanding, for the Slovaks are definitely a
that a really significant person like Masaryk who is standing
rainbow, and his feet out of fire, and he stands firmly in
we grasp what we must stand in in a fully conscious way, we

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you will also be able to understand something else, and that is

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stands in the whole world he basically looks upon the stars and
know about this terminology you will begin to understand a
takes them as they stand.
can understand what happened here if we connect this incident

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we understand the Apocalypticer rightly, he's saying that
path, he's basically standing in the world with his
he might say: Dampen lightning and you will understand color.
the sense world. This is why quite a few misunderstandings
and Thrones stand close to the earth, as the lowest hierarchy,
understand the development of ideas about spiritual things in
difficult to understand, stop thinking about it and start to
That was a time when people gradually lost their understanding

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east today, and priests should understand these beginnings for
a really thorough understanding of the individual case, no
fully understand real spirituality that has an inner order. In
not inclined to develop a real understanding along these lines.
humanity. For this they need the right understanding and a
spiritual and the material are a unity. An understanding of the
understand this and to draw the right conclusion from it today
that the one who understands it finds his own understanding
standing there for the transubstantiation. And as you imagine
that the chalice is standing on the apocalyptic book, you will

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grasp in order to understand this picture, to understand it artistically,
something totally different than it can be today for the human understanding.
standpoint, we can find a name for the content of this picture. We are
with one essential concept which is essential if one wants to understand,
they remain. And we really do not understand the working of the spiritual
standing within all that is happening in the East are really living
On the altar, there stands
for the people standing around left and right, but the host is surrounded
the moment, when those people by the altar begin to understand: There
is a Mystery standing on the altar, here the host is surrounded by something.
live for a long time. And that stands completely under the signature:
understanding view of the world. — Presume that in Raphael's soul,
out of the fourth into the fifth, really stands with his soul in the
able to bring through his own thinking, through his ego standing on
Let us see clearly that the present is only understandable, if one tries
cast if, with an artistic understanding, we reach a true sense for such
to a unified understanding of development.
sensible world as an insight, is different. How Paulus understands,
experience of having understanding grow in the process of reading and

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it seems necessary to me to understand clearly this present, this fifth
post-Atlantean time in which we live — to understand it with all
soul-impulses. They would not have been in the position to understand out
is not a usual German word: Gegenstandlichkeiten, an English
point of view of how he stands in the sequence of events which are suitable
understanding, has created space in Europe through three or four centuries,
receive a deep impression of what stands between the two. For this is
we seek to understand through Spiritual Science are really expressing
and we see how this painter now really stands totally in the beginning,
I wanted to show you that one can only understand what is characteristic
for our age from the 15th century on, by clearly understanding the whole
active still. And to acquire a clear understanding of what pulses through

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seem to stand in a looser connection with the continuity of explanations
was to unveil itself through the understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
the human figure, standing by itself. It had to be pressed into that
attempting understand, through the runes, what the sign unveils, what
sign which, when pictured with under¬standing, comes out of the
the deeply prophetic aspect it contains. Whoever understands the saga
with, how humanity used to understand in earlier times to think even
understand again, that there exists a Mystery of the Gold!

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development of Art. We shall not, however, be able to understand this
standpoint.) With all that has been written and spoken about art, the real
understanding of the principal Greek bodily forms in their works of art
of understanding of the Individual Soul, but he saw the human not yet
This stands out still more
passes over to the West. To understand this we must transport ourselves
Catholic. Here, if we have an understanding

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it is to understand that in the various spheres of existence
understanding of the World which can provide a sufficient basis
understand the matter from another aspect.
mineral processes occurring within us. Please understand me
pre-Christian Judaism imagined as standing under the guidance
merely to understand the meaning of the Bible words aright to
investigator really does not for the most part, understand what
stands in the Bible at all. If one understands the Bible, one
understand it. And those persons who had somewhat transcended
that, in order to understand the Mystery of Golgotha it was
snatched into that Dream-region, he could then understand the
that would only be a materialistic religious understanding; we
Church Communities, but a true understanding of it could no
element; and, because its understanding could not yet expand to
understanding of the Christ, and at most the old Jehovah
understanding still prevails, when men storm against each other
become comprehensible to us through our understanding and
understanding, then the Sun-nature, — which is not a
of this in the wooden group which will stand in our Goetheanum
human soul a tendency to a dry, barren understanding which

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the ego-organisation. But we do not yet understand these
cosmos. Only when we understand how each particular member is
united in an interplay of work, but in order to understand them
earth and man standing on it, then the chief direction of his
standing upon it. And so you must say that the environment
will therefore understand when I say here that those perceptive
stand of Natural Science leads, as I have mentioned in the
an astronomer on the one side, but there stands opposite this
the miner, standing at the side of the astronomer. We might

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“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
[Julian, the Apostate (332–363), Roman Emperor (361–363). Steiner is referring to his lecture of July 16, 1922 (GA213). Cf. Rudolf Steiner: Occult History (Lecture Four), Building Stones for an UnderstandNote 1]
much of the present originated. If we want to understand
the culture of recent times, we must understand the soul life of
[St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354–430). Early Latin church father. Exerted tremendous influence on later Christian thought. Cf. Rudolf Steiner: Christianity as Mystical Fact, Building Stones for an UnderstandNote 3]
beings from a higher world. We come to understand these as the same
were standing in a dark room with no light. However, if they first
westward development, was permeated in its spiritual understanding
properly understand the drive that these northern peoples brought
You will understand the Heliand's concrete description of Christ
among living human beings only if you understand that actually the scenes
living dead are dwelling. You will understand much more, if you
We only understand such writings properly
world, especially outstanding and revered personalities underwent a
understanding, which, to begin with, looks simply and solely upon
understanding ruled the hearts and minds of that time and was the
understanding was reversed, even in the popular conceptions of the
to earth. Then, it was said, one can understand what the human
civilization: We understand the spiritual, if we have first
precisely one who stands so thoroughly upon the standpoint of
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“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
being to the cosmos from a rather simpler standpoint in order to
into genera, so that the various genera and species stand next to
astral. If we want to understand the astral we must go further
understand how the conceptual activity appropriate for understanding
way. If we really want to understand the plant, then we can remain
standing still, as it were; we can regard ourselves, even in thought,
This can be seen from the fact that as the plant stands in the ground
out of their movements begin to understand their form. Here we need
understand his movement if you observe his stout legs, which he
being if you simply observe him as he stands before you and get an
language we must learn to understand if we are to grasp what

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“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
complete understanding and used for the life of the human soul,
understanding of direct expressions of the spiritual faded away from
see how these difficulties of understanding constantly
the Lamb of God for Christ himself. But how are we to understand
them? How do we come to understand them? And out of this
standard of human knowledge that no longer reached up to them. At
Christ, he would have said: This is difficult to understand, but
there are people who can develop their souls so that they understand
have said: If I were initiated I would be able to understand that
Christ, he would have said: I don't understand that but if I were
As long as one stands in the sense world, in this world of illusions,
initiated we will understand this, because then, in our soul
Thus, for external understanding, Gottschalk was teaching a
wished to understand everything with the dawning intellect were
simply unable to understand and therefore contested his teaching. But
to understand that things like this could be the subject of bitter
old, had been an understandable teaching: that in actual fact bread
is not understandable to the human mind. This was how Scotus
people were powerless to understand them. What had been uttered in
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“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
standing above them uniting them all. They saw how one can find in
an expression of essential humanity then we can understand how
understanding of the spiritual out of the life of intellect itself.
only justify his inability to understand the spirit if he ignored the
the human being can understand the super-sensible through the spirit
Christian teaching. One must understand the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit if one would understand the teaching concerning God
understandable. For it is an impossibility that faith alone could
ever really bring understanding. What must be rescued within humanity
reaches to us from Golgotha when we rightly understand it, when we

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is completely understandable that these inner difficulties are
of Anthroposophy. Yet the awareness that humanity stands in the
stands completely in the afterglow. Today we may want to just
understand things but we must open our hearts for the realities
of the spiritual world. Mere understanding, how this or that
in the ritual to the highest degree. Then you really stand
this rests the substantial understanding that it can be met
stand within the spiritual world each time we experience the
more to strive for, more to struggle through and understand

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attention to some difficulties which exist in understanding the
will understand me better if I give you a popular example.
better understanding of the Gospels than what currently exists.
It is really a matter of understanding that the Words of the
was no understanding any more for what was woven into the
non-understanding and started to improve all kinds of things.
about understanding. One can regard this sacrifice of the
can only be based on a feeling of a misunderstanding. As soon
account you will understand that this communion which the
only differentiating in form. They can both stand independently
anthroposophic understanding (of Christ) if you do not come via
directed at Anthroposophists. The misunderstanding came about
not being seen as Anthroposophists but as standing for
(Forstand) of the Anthroposophic Society. What he says is
discussions misunderstandings arrive, but the facts speak for
progress without it. It is far better to be clear and stand
have the task not to clarify misunderstandings but simply to

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himself actually something whose understanding must first be
wrestled with, whose understanding must first be arrived at.
as a human-being, as this human individuality standing on
capable at all of understanding the entire preliminary stages
ourselves: Just like we as human-beings stand on earth today in
happening below in the earth. We must really clearly understand
understand this. Now this word ‘human-being’ need to rise up
possibility of learning to understand it. We really must
must clearly understand that while the fog rises out of the
stars when we learn to understand the great journey of the sun
to understand what the air and the widths of the world are;
we stand, the fixed forms repeated in the world, all that has
will work towards the understanding of the foregoing, when we

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misunderstandings come to the fore. Thus it has happened that
understanding of ancient religious knowledge, also the New
really understanding religious documents. This we can do, this
singular event and for its understanding should not be
understanding the deep sense of the words and the sentence
understanding of the Bible where absolutely no preparatory
understanding is regarded necessary and that it should simply
of the Father God. As long as we stand in the imagination of
misunderstandings of Gospels not taken from a lofty view. One
should overcome the point of understanding the matter in such a
want to disregard the facts that a clear understanding can't
magnificent and sublime through our understanding of its
from the lowest levels could not understand the meaning in it.
If the meaning of the Gospels is so simple to understand, we
you've learnt. They don't understand you. Yet if you go along

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understand the concepts which lived in the souls of these
understand them. One has to look for the special colouring that
can understand his whole personality and his struggle only if
Augustine. We understand the problems that are connected with
Hence, people have difficulties to understand the beginning of
understand it now —
understand the great philosopher Aristotle who concludes the
he already stands, indeed, hard at the
border of abstract understanding that he speaks, however, still
outstanding personality, no longer to experience in the soul as
stand on a firm ground of truth and to get explanation about
modern philosopher to understand Plotinus.
understand the world with sense perception, then we abstract
understanding of Plotinism, even if he could not behold. He
as far as he could penetrate into it to the understanding of
Plotinism to understand Christianity and its contents. Thus, he
understanding. One realises how this works on, because this
stands between that view which goes up to the spiritual and for
In the subsequent time, that understanding

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understand the conflicts that took place in the souls of such
one can understand that Augustine wanted still to adhere to the
one experienced and felt at that time, then you understand what
I can understand that some people of the
You do not understand what he means if you
Thus, the human being stands there as an
the realms of nature. Then, however, we have to understand the
scholasticism stands in the middle of the ecclesiastical life.
the religious contents? First, how can one understand what the
the usual intellect cannot understand the contents of the
intellect can understand only so far that it can say, the world

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culminated in a certain yearning to understand: how does the
Single personalities outstand later, as for
yourself to serious misunderstandings if you are compelled to
one has to make a simple objection to him: do I understand my
Goethe. Since Spinoza understands this intellectualism in such
understand from this viewpoint the historical development of
is that scholasticism with its astuteness stands there that it
believe that someone who studies Kant really can understand him
in such a way, as I tried to understand him in my
speaking understand nothing of philosophy, which degenerated,
one attempts to understand the essentials of the world.
, which people do not at all understand, and with his
of the West seriously that it always wants to stand on the
As well as the opponents understand skinning today, it is

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another, maybe, for reasons based in the under-standing. But
is wanting, to take any sort of stand in proper person, as an
the successive generations, at the end of which stand finally
From facts such as this, one can see how things stand at the
spiritual life. — To understand Richard Wagner's
recognized standing; Goethe was, after all, Goethe, you know!
Herman Grimm was something that made one understand Weimar
very little understanding, — instead of letting them

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understanding amongst those circles which joined together at
For naturally, one could not just stand up and talk into the
makes a theocentric standpoint, to which one can only aspire,
tumbling down! — We must keep to a human standpoint.’
abstraction. At the beginning stands: Outline of
the Animal Species. And now we stand directly before the
make comprehensible to the whole world's understanding, what
soul. But to make it understandable to the surrounding world,
understanding for it; because they were not, there, interested
interesting, if only from a deeper psychologic standpoint.
the lower grades, the people did not understand the things, but
understand the things in the higher grades either. But though
after all, so very easy to understand, since the way is a

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another standpoint still that we may take, namely, of not
he himself need not perhaps even understand), just in a small
really understand how the web of the world is woven ... yes,
measure of under-standing?
understandable, directly there is some point about which one
Monoism only to what the present age understands by it, as
senses and the understanding, — the other half by means
the understanding but that, on its other side, he wanted to
understanding by the displayed truths of revelation. And it was
rightly grasped in order to understand the whole meaning and
understanding to it, and it speaks for itself.
understanding. — It is not exactly sound human
understanding, when people first judge Adalbert Stifter not
things, require sound human understanding. About this sound
human understanding, however, there are peculiar notions. Last
understanding’, and said, that everything which Anthroposophy
human understanding. One of the critics, and by no means the
human understanding was, after all, bait for gudgeons; for
knows very well, that the human understanding, when it is
of an at any rate standard critic only a year ago, you have a
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surface and to people's understanding.
what a storm it burst in: this new demand in men to understand
receive, of understanding the Christ, of actually comprehending
Now, a person may stand here at the present day in two
Understand well, my dear friends, that these were the two most
they could understand the Christ.
understandable; just as it is quite understandable that a
the anthroposophic movement stands therefore on its own
one must no less understand, why it was that the others did

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knowledge which they needed to understand the Mystery of
under-standing the Mystery of Golgotha is lost.
understand what I am going to say, not now about Blavatsky, but
Gospels, of course, she had no means of understanding as they
are understood in Anthroposophy: and the understanding that is
can understand then that the souls I described as homeless
so I could very well understand, when theosophists attended
to stand for, the Anthroposophy which I have to represent,
read it understandingly, with all that lies underneath it, you
the fact of the matter. And no one can rightly understand the

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of the anthroposophical understanding of Christianity.
— ‘You stand on the floor, and I'll get up on a chair and
formula and definitions, etc., did not stand for processes in
standpoint.
least understand why something, at any rate, that in words at
style that an ordinary sixth form schoolboy can understand
theosophy just in the same way as he understands logic. That
side too, again, there was no real under-standing. It was only
I think you will have been well able to understand his clear
anthroposophical understanding of Christianity, the building up
of such an understanding was, in the main, the business of this

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how we stand to-day; and let us try to examine more closely
will understand, that in pointing out these things quite
seeing how many people have an understanding for it. But never
wherever one may be placed, to stand for Anthroposophy and what
that, had we done this, — had we simply taken our stand
who take such a really practical stand in life, that they
tumble down directly they try to stand on their two feet. That
is to stand on its own true ground — there never really
stand for his own opinion and above all for himself, he will
can very well understand anyone being unwilling to join a
under-standing. And it is necessary that this delicacy of
under-standing should be acquired by the Anthroposophists

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to finding understanding.
sorts of works. By “ Goethe ” we understand to-day
constituted, is the great authority. We take our stand
the famous astronomer Laplace. Napoleon could not understand
to be found along any scientific road!’ We stand by the fact,
received a kind of impulse that made them ready to understand
misunderstandings may not continually be introduced into the
didn't even understand it. And when, in course of time, Philip
didn't understand it. There is really an enormous gulf between
what folks understand and what is continually being dug out by
Anthroposophical Society. This Society stands, in a way, to-day
And one must understand that, quite instinctively, this will

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own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
understanding. We shall begin with the words:
spirit-world stands that messenger of the gods, that messenger
better. That messenger of the spirit stands there and warningly
understanding, and can only be revealed by the countenance of
which he achieves when he understands what the Spirit-Messenger
such earnest awareness, we shall stand in thought where the
up from the floor and stands there with his hands in his
blue skin, is verily what rises from the abyss and stands

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spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
mind the fact that the Guardian stands before the [entrance to]
to creative knowledge, we are truly standing in the spiritual

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world to those who are striving to be initiates and stand with
their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
stands to a certain extent on firm ground, for this process has
outward experience. He stands on firm ground because he says to
You could not determine whether a person who stands before you
reality, is also the way the adept feels standing at the
a real spiritual being, a real spiritual fact stands before you
Only by honestly facing these opposing forces can he stand in
evoked in us by what the Guardian of the Threshold, standing
must also advise the person who wishes to stand correctly in
Thus, you have the manner in which you must stand within the
how do you stand within? Not as though you were standing with
in physical life; not by drawing breath. You stand there by
understand.

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Guardian of the Threshold. And we must understand this meeting
world cannot take place without this understanding of the
in understanding true esoteric life as we continue. For what
the esoteric, our very understanding of it brings about a
With this kind of attitude it is not possible to understand
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
merely pours through our understanding, when it should immerse
then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
words. And when we understand the words, the thoughts they are
in ordinary life to the deeper understanding in the soul. And
trochaic rhythm, and we should understand how this rhythm,
stand still when such mantras penetrate our souls, or voice
is different with feeling. We act correctly if, standing below
I said last time, it is not a question of understanding the
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
stands a tree; I contemplate it. I contemplate my hand: it is
stands before us today - its conception originally from the
consciousness. Think, my dear friends, about standing outside
stand on, which we consider to be so important that it only
When you see the third beast's glassy eye, stand firm and feel

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is able to approach and come to an understanding of the
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
the universe occurs. For normal consciousness we stand here in
to human beings. So here we stand, apart, looking inwards at
the senses, and how reason understands it, it is certainly not
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
the person who really stands before the Guardian of the
humans stand below and let the sun shine on us; for the more
be inwardly liberated if we do not stand before the pure
darkness in spirit-land, but when we stand before the
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
matter, our thinking is extinguished. By understanding this,
between warmth and cold is what one must understand as the
instinctive clairvoyance that he could understand the words
understand what was being called out to him. And now we live in
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
out to him and he does not understand them and must therefore
live through the torments of not understanding. And what do
and our willing will be able to understand and to grasp the

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can say: our feet stand on the ground of the solid
from the earthly world where he stands alone, as it were, where
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
don't merely understand this theoretically, as is mostly the
chemical laboratory, where the chemist stands at a bench and
lessons, my dear friends. You should not understand the things
will you experience the heart of the matter if you understand
those who realize that the light is there will understand the

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thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
of the stages from the point where I now stand, at which I am

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(Vorstand) which was formed during the Christmas Conference and
character. The investment of the Vorstand was thus an esoteric
Thus, the Vorstand at Dornach is an initiative-Vorstand, as was
position of the Vorstand at Dornach within the Anthroposophical
rather do the statutes describe what the Vorstand intends. And
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
based upon an understanding with the Vorstand at the
unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
that is, to Mrs. Wegman, in order to obtain the Vorstand's
agreement. It is important that in future the Vorstand at the
work in the world without a connection to the Vorstand at the
Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
Vorstand or they cannot include things which originate in the
unrecognized by it, but must clearly understand that it cannot
understand that [the leadership of] the School must be able to
reveal the grand cosmic script. For one who understands the
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
healthy human understanding of what he has been told, for both
We stand here on the earth in our earthly existence: we feel
we can understand the human being so that we look through the
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desires to understand in the right way must do so inwardly.
With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
the moment when the child stands on its feet and begins to move
yourselves as human beings standing amidst the earth's forces.
it again to a standstill, thus making the earth itself a
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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which are necessary to right understanding and action in the
help us much to-day, do they, towards the understanding of the
not what people, who stand for a certain thing, say about it,
engendered an understanding of the idea of freedom. Mow
man alone understands the present times who has will and
Europe must learn to understand each other. But if things go on
as they have in the past, then they will never understand each
other, especially as Asia and America have to understand each
no taste for all this machinery; his understanding is all for
great understanding of it. Nor have they been in very perfect
showed that they had very little understanding of how to
that standpoint, as inhabitants of the universe. Then, and then

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to go a long way back in order to understand it. One has to

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understanding of the present condition of affairs, it is
history of general evolution; and we can only understand these
difficulty in understanding it, for the simple reason that the
standards, — but that, here, would be obviously
cannot, for instance, properly understand that great
could be made to understand the old traditions of the
the physical understanding that one arrives at what is there
priesthood; and one best understands James I if one looks on
man, was Thomas Cromwell. It is impossible to understand Thomas
social structure. Any really deep understanding of what is
understanding is sought for in a groundwork of spiritual
Rights. We shall never arrive at any adequate understanding of
which is able to stand alone and to be a continual source of
withstand the economic life, then the economic life comes to a
descent, will not be ready either to understand that we are
whit this Spiritual Science of Anthroposophy stands for. it
My dear friends, here stands this Building
of ours, here it stands, waiting for the world to take it
got from the fact that the Building actually stands here. We
forms as people can understand, we must bring this to their

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understand how, from out of the Atlantean civilisation, there
course on a higher stage. And then we tried to understand the
standing to-day. It is important for us to know how our own
(verstand) but that was of quite a different nature from our
Birth of man and to Heredity. One can best understand Western
animal existence. One must say: To understand the birth of man
stands under the influence of the question: “What is
East to understand Death. That same effort is employed in the
East to understand Death. “How does man maintain himself
develop towards the overcoming of life. One understands this
— between these two, Renan and Solovieff, there stands
stands David Frederick Strauss. He does not deny Jesus —
personality. Between these two stands D. F. Strauss, who has
civilisation, it is a question the whole time, of understanding
understand the real eternal needs of the human soul, it
something far more spiritual than Darwinism already stands in
already, whereas the East still stands at the beginning of this

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even possible to understand the elements of Greek civilisation.
understands such figures as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Heraclitus,
one's hand when one grasped it. You can understand that the
from the way it is experienced to-day. If one understands this,
one can understand how it is that the Greeks spoke differently
science, — than it is for the understanding of Spiritual
and what stands in this book of Ku Hung Ming is really
Ku Hung Ming, stands in quite a different position from the
without understanding them. If one reads this interesting book

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that which we call the Cosmos stands in a certain inner
this world?” He sees himself standing alone, sprung forth
human beings to-day understand least of all. They say that a
cure. That is just what stands as a deep absurdity in the
soul. We remain at a standstill in this respect and will not
understanding of the social life. The attempt must be made
That which enables us to understand things to-day
Threefold State” (book) is so difficult to understand,
understand much more easily. But, my dear friends, if, with
should make an effort. Things one can easily understand

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clearly that behind them stands the power of the Jesuits, and
with a right understanding of our Anthroposophical Spiritual
able to understand it, could not bear it. It has been
misunderstanding of what has arisen because the last third of

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be withdrawn from the Earth or to stand in a more intimate
outside the Earth. Here on Earth we stand too close to the
stands before us as a certain danger, — that we may be
of our planet. If you recollect this, you will understand
intellectuality, fill us more and more with understanding; for
utterly with intellect and understanding, to scrape together
This Cosmic Hour of Decision stands to-day before the human
intellect and understanding into it. A nebulous mysticism and
super-intellectuality and understanding will turn it into
understanding and pedantry, which judge everything in
which the decadent Oriental understands to-day by Nirvana is
merely abstract intellectual understanding such as threatens to
but they do not read it with sufficient understanding. If they
understand man aright when we know how to bring him into

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withdrawn from the Earth of to stand in a more intimate
we stand too close to the external, pictorial expression of
which stands before us as a certain danger — that we may
understand that what is finally to become of our Earth is not
fill us more and more with understanding; for our
with intellect and understanding, to scrape together
Hour of Decision stands today before the human soul. Man can
understanding into them. A nebulous mysticism and
super-intellectuality and understanding will turn it into
understanding and pedantry; which judge everything in such a
That which the decadent Oriental understands today by Nirvana
intellectual understanding, such as threatens to happen for
it with sufficient understanding. If they did, they would see
and so on. We only understand man aright when we know how to

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conspiring with France to destroy her? On the one side stand
the other stand the big capitalists. It is the same with
that she cannot desert the old Entente, but this stand
understand now that the English sit between two chairs and, as
done merely from the standpoint of the past cannot
can understand something of the world's problems and who can
where he stands.
all this you can understand the need for a renewal in
prominent financier named William Windom. By the standards of
Imagine, the man stands before his audience and speaks to them
predisposed to health. It is important to understand that the
in this way we can begin to understand the functions of the
body, for example, we must understand what is happening

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in properly. Why? Well, you must understand that what is
through the skin. When one understands the human being and the
reach? You must understand that, while the head is developed in
we have men who understand the world and man, men who know that
from the standpoint of spiritual science because it is quite
have weak heads and do not understand anything about one
another. They separate themselves according to social standing
things stand.

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understanding, but it is nonetheless true that the whole cosmos
divides when, say, the moon stands in front of, or at a
that the knee (sketching), there the foot stands on the
which you may have experienced at some time. You are standing
can understand the other person. In the ear, the element of our
Thus, we learned to understand the other person simultaneously
least understand another person's words and also listen to a
these minute crystals enable us not only to understand
gives us our form and that enables the child to stand upright
a third the nose, one understands how man is gradually built
rather stand firmly on earth and be practical: the bull. The

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understand this matter fairly well. You see, until about
you understand, of course, that administering thyroid by way of
all this you can understand that man's well-being simply
the hormonal glands? Gentlemen, you can understand this
body through the blood. You understand how that worked,
understand, though, that all these matters also have their
standpoint it is a brilliant, remarkable accomplishment, but

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matter, which you will understand fully when we examine the
standing somewhere. When you look at him, an inverted picture
humour. So, if a man stands there (sketching), you have a
is an image that stands on its head. The eye is just like a
experience ourselves as standing within the centre of the
we hear. We can understand a spoken language only because of
understand it either. Special means must be used to gain an
understanding of what has been heard.
gentlemen, that you are standing here in this room all by
we have a little box. I stand with my back to it; I have not
understand a phenomenon like the gradual extinction of blonds

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these facts challenge us to ask how matters stand in respect to
be quite well-educated by accepted standards, but he is not
stands erect. The force through which he accomplishes this and
standing before royalty. It fluctuates. Now it is warm, now a
sensitivity for this fluctuating warmth, who is standing
the sense for understanding other human beings, and that is
body. This will teach us to understand even better than we know
if we want to understand why the human being differs in form

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makes it stand erect it becomes something different. Man has
man of air does, and then there arises in him, understandably
influence of the astral body, and no one can really understand
have just done. This understanding results from a correct
standpoint, we discover these nerve bulbs that I have described

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materialistic means. But the way things really stand, it makes
understand that it comes from beyond the earth. When we
understand breathing, we also comprehend birth and death.
understanding of breathing.
understand the spiritual out of natural science.
themselves, “Well, we must find a new way to understand
they would try to arrive at this understanding through real
is really what those who understand the aims of anthroposophy

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Understandably, however, people generally see a doctor
complicated. You will understand this when you realize that in
you must understand that the human organization immediately
body that is not part of its proper activity; he cannot stand
find this so pleasant to hear, even if he understands what is
comprehensible when we understand how substances
can provide this understanding. It aims at being effective in

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impulses, and is written from the Chinese standpoint. It does not
expressed in the feeling of a human being who stands in the midst
judged by its own standard; but no other valuation is permitted,
world-embracing trade, of never-resting machines, of standing
The personalities who stand at the starting point of our modern
from the standpoint of the bodily mechanisation, but from that of
like manner if we heard it from the mouth of any person who stands
understanding for this whole method of thinking and feeling; that
was speaking within him. Who is there to-day who understands deeply
triviality of his understanding. Here I must speak sharply. It is
of modern Europe. That which stands behind the Asiatic criticism of
phrase if it wishes to stand in this way, without the background of
written from the Asiatic Chinese standpoint, characterises, as I
discipline, combined with a large-hearted understanding of
friends, what this Asiatic puts forward from the Chinese standpoint
do not understand each other. But in Europe there also lives the
What stands behind

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of humanity within those spheres in which men stand to-day. It has
has something of the Spirit in it. We must understand such a thing
understand the Catholic system, the Catholic theory — the
standing! That is the great opposition between Roman Catholicism
Threshold. And so Roman Catholicism stands there as a magnificent
that it is standing before the Threshold, and that this Threshold
friends, we must understand that many trivialities will have to be
consciousness in their soul that they stand in relation to the
alone can understand who has a goodwill for the truth and for the
will therefore understand how the intellectuals in Europe run over

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misunderstand me. I mean: were a wise man of the ancient
civilisation of the East to stand amongst Western people with
and would perhaps give people to understand that indeed in his
the author of “Zanoni.” We can understand him in his
he perceives, with his understanding. He also sees into his own
fear. Thus it came about that man stood and stands under the
people of Asia will never understand each other, for in the
life outside. The coarse, uncouth understanding employed
times stand menacingly and significantly before us and tell us:

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stand within our Anthroposophical movement, often things are
misunderstandings. It is quite impossible, according to the
stands in reality to-day. We must not think of a man born
contradict the very principle on which we stand, i.e. we have
Standard. Those speakers who at that time spoke in favour of a
Gold Standard — you could have heard them everywhere,
Gold Standard in the various Countries. But almost everywhere
fact that the Gold Standard will set Free-Trade on its feet
standard on Free-Trade, one has real joy in seeing how clever
consequence of the Gold Standard, prohibitive tariffs
understanding of a necessary evolving force in evolution it
can compare the extraordinary relation between what stands in

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order to understand what is at work here, we must take a closer
understanding of these matters.
We are led to understand, therefore, that man already exists

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understand why it was easy to fear. It is true, however, that
something special by the layman, are the very ones that stand
bottom of things and understand what really lies at their
you are a bee keeper. Here stands a beehive. The bees hatch.
particularly outstanding manner.
and cannot understand anthroposophy. This is an aspect of our

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understand the entire relationship, it becomes quite clear that
can withstand a good deal, but beyond a certain point the
does not infringe on human freedom, but understanding causes a
gentleman knows it all. A simple person can't understand

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but you will understand what I mean. Man does not become
particularly clever will result. If one wishes to understand
wanted to add this so that you could understand better

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soon as an effort has to be made to understand something, the
quite dislike having to exert themselves to understand
not want to understand anything! This unwillingness to
understand causes their blood to thicken. Such thick blood
understanding the entire human being in order to determine how
Old Testament even from a medical standpoint; then it becomes
From the standpoint of an affluent society, it does not sound

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let's quickly review how things stand today. We have on the one
familiarized ourselves with the liver from various standpoints;
how man stands with the cosmos! He is born completely from out

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in this way is a true understanding of him reached. You see,
stand of waiting until a person exhibits the symptoms of the
demonstrates that today we stand amidst the greatest confusion
love in the entire beehive. One can begin to understand their
the bee must be studied from the standpoint of the soul.

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Mars = iron. For the moon, which stands in a completely
infectious substance can enter through it. You can understand
rather old, and, in writing about it from the standpoint of
the Church to them. When monists stand up against
will help you to understand this. Here is the human being; here

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understand the phenomena of human life, we are wont to speak of
cannot understand it without summoning the whole universe to your
imagine that one cannot understand what is revealed out of the
After all, even to understand a piece of music or any other work of
causes, and you can actually come to understand repeated earthly
stands there before us in its crystals and manifold formations. Here

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
stands in it. We come to the great question, how do the many detailed

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
gradually assumed a form such as the dead no longer understand. Our
man's perception of the earthly world. He only understands the verbs,
two things stand side by side. You have committed yourself to
earthly life this is not a pleasant experience, for when we stand

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understand that in the language of today there are no suitable forms
a quick and ready understanding of man and the world. It becomes the
as we have understanding of the world. If we find interest and take
delight in the conduct of other men, if we understand their conduct
they understand it well — they have attained through love and
instance — he understands it well enough, but it gives him no
based on this; it is not only to enable us to understand life. No, we
are necessary connections. Nevertheless, we also stand face to face
have borne it. You can stand your contemporary; you cannot bear a man
you wish to understand the spiritual world; you must be prepared to

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the aforesaid ‘madness.’ Here are two people, standing
from the spiritual standpoint, this conflict is signified by that
speak of these things, but you will only understand the inner
earthly standpoint, which is certainly not the only possible
standpoint; for, after all, the life between death and a new birth
find the communications convincing, and understand them well. There

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
upon him, simply as he stands before us in the physical world.
the human being as he stands before us on the earth — simply
being as he stands before us in the sense-world. In my books I have
not speaking from the physical standpoint; from a physical standpoint
more, therefore: when we conceive man as he stands before us in
we stand here on the earth, we have the feeling that the spiritual
are standing somewhere or other in the physical world. The sky is

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
today I want to lay the foundations for acquiring an understanding of
for a long time now and, without understanding a single word, have
and of the unveiling ceremony. “This puppet standing in the

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
life in the past, all intellectual reasoning comes to a standstill.
understanding is possible when it is a matter of relating earthly
it is a grand spectacle! There, on the one side, stand the
will understand the desire to see how these traits had developed

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
now, what is the connection? Man as he stands before us as a physical
brilliantly, outstandingly clever. The opponent whom he encountered
came to me for the first time when I perceived: the outstanding
standing by him: He lay there with the remarkable, beautifully formed

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
rules not long after Mohammed. He thus stands entirely within
try to understand the real gist of many a word spoken by the promoter

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
here we come to a feature of his life and character that stands out
Lessing's character if you want to understand the make-up of his
have to find the way over, as it were, to an understanding, for
his intellect and his understanding were so keen. On this account, as
understand the state of mind of such men. They set the highest
treatment of descriptive geometry one could only stand amazed.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the standpoint of the personal psychology of a single earth-life.
standards, and behind you see something spiritual, a spirit-portrait,
not understand this. Why was it? Because, as I have explained to you,
little understanding, by people who have no particular desire to
to understand this. If you take up the book by Erich Schmidt, the two
dear friends, the way to understand this fact is through another fact
without understanding a word of it. If he had understood it, he would
have been bound to retain the understanding in later years. The boy,
mature enough to understand what had been in him throughout his life.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
we look back in this way do we really feel ourselves standing within
Raschid and his great counsellor — the outstanding personality
those of less importance and finally begin to understand one's
a true understanding of history. And the best way to steer clear of
the details of reincarnation, instead of that, to try to understand
importance and standing among them, but he spared none. And there was

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
to understand, it is because they are connected — inwardly,
a really concrete understanding of the connections of destiny in
standpoint that I have placed before you various thoughts on karma.
remember on one occasion I was standing at the entrance to the
observe the shock it gave to those who were standing around us! One
come down after him. We cannot understand the age which succeeds a
written from the pure standpoint of archives. When we read Ranke we
the possibility to understand why Ranke became what he
how we can understand what appears as the spiritually productive
earth. Only then do we understand it — just as we have also
learnt to understand many things by taking into account repeated
stands. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer — or rather the individuality
the people who ‘understand’ him so light-heartedly.
did not understand him. This wonderful inner perfection of form, this
superficiality is needed to imagine that one understands all this.
Ferdinand Meyer. Only now do we begin to understand him. Now we say
understand karma by talking theoretic concepts about successive
earthly incarnations. To understand karma is to feel in our hearts
understand what appears in him only when we develop an understanding
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
outstanding characteristics. What strikes you most forcibly in a man,
feeling, so that it stands before one as a plastic, pliable form,
and it will not be difficult to understand the feelings and emotions
complete accord and understanding between them, coming out again in
atmosphere, when we understand what it means for all our thinking to
when we understand how the Goetheanum will thus be placed in the
Vorstand — I have emphasised again and again that we now have
to do with a Vorstand which conceives its task to be the inauguration
of an esoteric impulse — when we understand this truly, then

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
kindle deeper love and understanding than are possible when account
Pestalozzi, and others — can show how understanding of a
of all this wisdom was an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
many outstanding, interesting incarnations took place, incarnations
intelligible as they stand. For they have been created not only by
stands before us with greatness and distinction. In very truth, the
understand the age in which we ourselves are
understandably, nothing but censure and indignation. And yet all the
understanding of man. When this is the case, life becomes, not
own standpoint, of course, these critics are justified — but
life and human deeds; these, together with human rules and standards
environment, stand the Eternal Ideas.
life separated them. They were able, at first, to understand one
his life of soul to an understanding of the profound wisdom contained
now developed a high degree of understanding of all that has to do
deeply into a knowledge and understanding of the spiritual life. And

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
to light which enable us to understand how certain decisive actions
and the understanding of which requires insight into the deeper
ordinary consciousness. To be able to stand in wonder before so much
understand the further developments. Insight into the things that
clearly, provided one has the faculty for understanding them ... That
should not be allowed to stand. The Hungarian Prime Minister refused
And to understand the further development is much more important than
to understand, let us say, the actual catastrophe at Meyerling. For
understanding of its problems is shrouded in darkness and
created and inspired by a real understanding of man's nature
awaken a vision of karma will again stand before us, at the same

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
not as in the physical world. In the physical world you stand outside
the other man. You stand outside even those people with whom you come
quite indifferent relationships may stand side by side with the most
realise quite clearly how it stands. For these medieval alchemists
strange and remarkable personalities who stand before us without our
points. But we can never understand how to find our way intelligently
criteria for understanding and interpreting life. Life becomes a
understand it only when we see how it connects with what we
dear to one. For you must understand that if one desires to consider
being stands in your field of vision, he stands there before you
not stand objectively before you.
You lose all sense of this. Understand me aright, my dear friends. In
see? You begin to understand that behind the man the Moon appears. I

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
will be able even to have an inkling of understanding of them during
morning, this picture stands there, and in truth you hover in it; it
strongest, somebody fetters me, so that I stand there quite rigidly.
enough to make one giddy to see standing in a row all the

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
certainly seemed strange to those who imagine that they are standing
did not go beyond curiosity and a superficial understanding. He
a man who has an understanding for the grave side of life, who stops
thought to be easy — that is, to gain an understanding of how
understand it; much must be added out of the inner creative force of

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
far deeper, more inward knowledge and understanding than is possible
— from the standpoint of the other man. You live through the
understand in his head how to combine these fundamental concepts as
philosophy which does not understand what was
of understanding. Human beings, who since the fading of the primeval
have not the power to understand the inner soul-constitution of these
civilisation do not really understand one another.
of understanding — it is like someone who lives in a foreign
country and never learns the language; the others do not understand
him and he does not understand them. This, broadly speaking, is the
— the soul-world — but are unable to understand the Moon

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
in mind it will be easy for you to understand how what is connected
is not unnatural for one who stands within the spiritual world. When
which they speak that they stand within the realm of nature. Their
the spirit. These Beings understand magic; but of natural laws they
and desiring to enter earthly life again, we should stand at this

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understand the real nature of karma, it is of paramount importance to
of the higher Hierarchies. And we can only understand human karma in
understand the higher forces operating in the life of
will consider human destiny and endeavour to understand how the
inner soul-forces, less able than he was before to withstand the
plant and mineral kingdoms. As human beings we stand with our
understanding.
this standpoint. For the things of which I have spoken occur in
stand the test of the years. In youth, ideals are plentiful; in old

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
and better understanding of how karma works in human life and in
Please understand
readily understand, Initiation is possible at any age in life, with
wisdom. Picture yourselves standing, let us say, on the Rigi, and
something, it stands there in powerful, living
while you are actually doing it; but once you have done it, it stands
on, and another little snowman stands behind you. And so it
continues, with more and more little snowmen standing behind you. To
contributions towards an understanding of how karma originates and
takes shape. As I said, the best way of getting to understand karma

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understanding of laws and conditions of existence with which,
understand the real nature of karmic connections we must, in the
cognition, to Initiation-knowledge, that such understanding can be
recent lectures and will eventually lead to an understanding of
understanding these things that we can come to know the nature of the
understanding.
life. And without such feelings we cannot truly understand or

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the evolution of humanity it is quite impossible to understand why
Understanding will inevitably be difficult for anyone who comes in
which I urged you expressly to understand me with your hearts rather
Understanding of
another, but it is there, nevertheless. From this you will understand

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
can lead us only slowly and by degrees to an understanding of this
and searching question. For you can understand from what I have told
envisaged by man that he gives up all hope of understanding them and
a thought which finds little enough understanding in our souls on
thought for which, as I have said, there is so little understanding
moon, indeed with all the stars with the outstanding exception of the
later on, when a longing to understand spiritual things awakens
understand the shaping and forming of karma. In the life between
earthly processes. We shall best understand what this means if we
— He would have spoken somewhat as follows: “When I stand
we learn to understand something about our world of thought. We
And you begin to understand the origin of the cult. A ritual is not
What does it reflect? The acts of the priest as he stands before the

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
us, we must nevertheless often stand aghast at the way in which
has indeed happened in some form through all ages, but they stand
earnestly we must learn to put questions from the standpoint of the
must of course be full of understanding for human karma, is now

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
theoretic concept. He may even understand it with the help
— from a more subjective standpoint. It was indeed
standing up for any ideas or theories, it seems as though
especially in the case of an outstanding man like Averroes,
movements as we see arise today. We must understand these
inner understanding, when we describe the men who lived in

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
self-contained being. The Group-soul is standing there
understanding this, that we shall come to understand the
he stands more fully, more glowingly than in any reality of
standing in the midst of them as though they were not there
look at it from a standpoint of reality, we can alter
stands the shade, the shadow-picture of another. There they

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
at our judgments through a deeper understanding of the
below this limit stands under karmic influences, and these
reckoning, their understanding of man, on that which
true stand in the Society. Hence you will understand
spiritual history that stands behind the Anthroposophical
era. But did He really stand before us in all His glory, in
manuscripts which he is hardly able to understand but
practices in which he engages without understanding, he
in the connections of human life if we would understand a
such things as these, a certain measure of understanding is
an entirely new understanding of the essence of this

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
possible for us to understand more closely the karmic
really understanding such a conception had dwindled very
much. It was hard to understand that a Being coming from
Atlantean times — could no longer fully understand
could find no real understanding of the saying that Christ
to understand the Being of the Christ. They had learned to
understanding in their early Christian incarnation, they
by those who stand at its fountain-head. Anthroposophy
life of the senses if we misunderstand them. And among the
pre-destination — stands in relation to this
not go so very deep, when we merely stand for it as a

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
present time. Let us try to understand, my dear friends,
learned to understand what was going on, on earth below.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
shall we be able to understand certain extra-karmic events
he presumed an understanding for such things, Alain de
understands it, we feel the living spiritual breath of the
standing at that moment under a great historic impression,
present-day dogmatic standpoint of Theology, but from the
standpoint of Neo-Scholasticism. It went with full depth

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
which Michael leads and guides humanity will stand in
dear friends, if this earth is our standpoint, then we say:
cause them to understand the greatness of the stupendous
understand if we take the following into account. To think
understanding from within them. The Cosmic Intelligence can
see how they wrestled to understand what is the real and
for a clear understanding of the Intelligence that is
a certain clarity of understanding for these facts.
for the benefit of humankind. Mankind stands in the midst
anthroposophist is to understand this battle to a certain
of the 15th century, there stands a tremendous process
Michael-like again. We must understand the sense of the new
consciousness. He should understand that he is called to
himself: “Thou human soul, if only thou understand,
For it stands written above us in spiritual letters:

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understand with all our heart and mind.
clearness of understanding was the very task of the
understand in the realm of Anthroposophy, and which is
mean, the idea that man does not stand at that high level
at which he could be standing. All teachings about
to take this stand: I am the Ruler of the Intelligence. And
to see how Michael stands there as the greatest opponent in
there stands before us a cosmic Being of the highest
look so strange to one who cannot understand them) contain
something that has still remained of that old standpoint
feel that he can only understand his karma when he knows
I cannot choose. Through my life I stand in the midst of
Anthroposophical Movement stand face to face with others
we shall only be able to understand these karmic threads if
set forth. We shall only understand them when we have

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the lives of those who stand in any kind of connection with
Spirit who stands in a special relationship to the Sun and
though they did not understand it clearly — a strong
Renaissance and Reformation. I want you to understand me
understanding for the Michael element.
the world. They stand in many connections in the world.
to have. The difference between the one who stands within
and the one who stands or remains outside, is of far
decisions. Thus the standing side-by-side today of
anthroposophist stands very near in life to a
this means: — Here is a man who stands within some
those who stand with full intensity within the
This mission we must understand and see.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
stand as teachers or educators beside the growing
own individual initiative.” This should stand written
to set it up so that it would stand. In what I shall now
destiny around us and within us, stands in the sign of
this very act he stands most thoroughly within the stream
thing that hinders our clarity of judgment. Here stands the
standing, side by side with us, men whose soul and spirit
When we stand
these things according to the truth. Our standing beside
stand thus side by side with materialists (who, as I said
others stand beside them, and what will their karma then
who stands outside in the field of materialism to the one
who stands in the field of spirituality, nothing else will
the Spirit, will stand side by side with others who were
who are standing in the field of materialism will have to
see and witness those who stand in the field of
by being able to touch it with their hands. Those who stand
to demonstrate, for those who stand in the field of
understand that since Michael no longer draws out the
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the perception and understanding of the Cosmic Intelligence
wisdom of the Moors, in such outstanding individualities as
that the thing of outstanding value in man's soul, namely
can understand that a man like Averroes in Spain, who did
difference. But we can only understand such developments in
an altogether outstanding event, which I have often
connection we can understand very much, both of the destiny
now to understand. They are striving to maintain even the
aloof; but those who by their karma as Angeloi stand
over it. He went to pieces. We must understand the true
nature of the impulses we are confronting when we stand
there stands at this point the word ‘idiot,’
other things of this kind stand written there. We must
we must look if we would understand what can be the
itself must have the will to stand fully in the midst of
The Art of Healing from the standpoint of Spiritual Science.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
“Practical Exercises for the Understanding of Karma.”
other states of consciousness, the understanding of what the spiritual
maintains that the healthy human intellect can understand what is
language, is this: If a man is not mad, he understands nothing of the
introduction to-day I want to help you to understand the evolution of
vanished before his eyes. A tree standing before him vanished; it was
destiny, notwithstanding all freedom, is spun during our life of sleep,
at some personality of the present or some other age, we understand him

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
direction really flows into our understanding of the life around us. We
It is difficult to understand the origin of the peculiar style of Titus
consciousness alone, can understand an earthly life? It can only be
stands out against the background which I have described.
earnest spirit. They require us to stand with real earnestness in the
for the Anthroposophical Society to-day to take its stand on a basis of
karma may become for the human being who wishes to understand his own

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
understand only the very smallest part of human history and of our own
Mohammedanism. In this connection we must understand Mohammedanism in
earthly epic narrative. Really to understand what this change signified
may receive when one stands at that place, looking down into the sea,
witnesses to its existence, stand there to this day. Gigantic is the
the twelve who belonged to King Arthur. We see them standing there,
Europe in that School of Chartres, where to this day there stand the
in the physical world. Then only do we really begin to understand what

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
stream in which we stand since the last third of the 19th century and in
to an understanding of his life of soul. They made it clear to him: With
this your soul stands under the influence of the planetary world, of
understand the human life of soul.
was a question of understanding the spiritual life (for the teachers of
understanding. We gaze into this living interplay; we see the teacher of
come to an understanding in the spiritual worlds with these Aristotelian
Moreover we can only truly receive and understand the earthly life if we

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
spiritual life to-day must necessarily stand under the influence of
feeling. And we can understand this mood only if we find the way from
of the souls who stand sincerely within the Anthroposophical Movement
And we know that from an understanding of the spiritual stream we may
also come to understand how Anthroposophy, in its real essence,
understanding of the Christ-Impulse.
deep impulse towards an understanding of Christianity. I do not mean so
now mean grasp with real inner understanding the Cosmic Christianity
understand what takes place outwardly on the physical plane if we see in
stands before us within the limits of his skin. But when we become able

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
reappears in the 16th century as Tycho de Brahe, and stands face
striving to preserve it in effect towards a better understanding of
Thus we stand here within the
Michael which has now begun. We stand here in this Movement, called to
understand the essence of this reign of Michael, called to work in the
Anthroposophy stands in relation to it. And well we know how we are

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
domain of the spiritual life. We cannot understand the real working of
To understand karma, therefore, we must
investigated in the worlds of the stars if we would understand karma and
is imagined by the layman who stands outside this Anthroposophical
Over against all that comes from Klingsor's side stands
And in the world of souls, at every step he stands face to face with the

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
to understand more and more what it means to say that the present age
stands in the sign of the dominion of Michael. Thus we were led last
brought from the spiritual world and make use of it to understand the
facts well fitted to enable you to understand the spiritual
understanding for the external features of the cults and clerical
conclusions. But we only understand karma when we can take these most
essence with the Father. The latter was the standpoint of

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
any rate in a few broad outlines, to a spiritual understanding of the
stand in original relationship of one kind or another to the spiritual
Imaginations that now stand before my soul? How great and mighty
Thomas Campanella in so far as is necessary for an understanding of his
stand at the side of this Prime Minister, officials who should carry out
understand this clearly. On this occasion the other individuality did
as to overwhelm with surprise and joy one who can understand the karmic
make us understand that he thought much of himself. He had of course
the standpoint of the psychiatrist.
You will see all the hindrances that stand in the way and prevent his
comes to a standstill. It is just in such interesting phenomena as this
that we can see how it is brought to a standstill.
understand the life of our own time.

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
the souls of to-day are intellectualised, one will understand also in
understand that strength and energy, perseverance and a holy enthusiasm
the Spirit no less than downward into Nature. And if we would understand
understand me rightly. Let us assume that some personality living in the
imagine Plato as a precursor of Christianity is to misunderstand the
must then understand the thing aright.
which we need only understand in the true sense and which also bears
shows, it is like a divination of how easy it is to misunderstand Plato.
stream of Plato. For this very misunderstanding is extraordinarily
misunderstanding.
individuality stands upon earth anew in the 19th century. He grows up
he is a spirit whom one cannot understand with this modern
indeed much grievous misunderstanding, failure of recognition. This poor
came to a standstill before the threshold of intellectualism transformed
understand him. Nor did this picture by any means make things easy for

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use of chalk and blackboard, when simply sitting or standing
Nobody can understand the human being by looking at the
to a standstill. We can
begins to understand what the nature of this life in the
You will understand better what I mean when I tell you, for
idiot. That one can well understand, because when
understanding is lacking when the case is reversed. Therefore
directions. So that in order to understand

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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himself standing firmly on the earth, in this etheric
cruelty cannot be judged by moral standards, because the animal
what man also learns to understand is that he had to be placed
stands behind the breathing engendered by the externally

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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forces, we must understand that this belongs to quite a
perception and understanding which inform us
to sleep and waking were to stand revealed before the soul. It
way if he is to rise to a true understanding
always follow a subject, just as one can understand a
in these days is a much quoted philosopher, such understanding
the physical body. If one understands the physical body one has
understanding of the deeper, inner truths of the Universe in
understanding.
could not understand how anyone could conceive such a primitive
hardly be expected to have a ready understanding

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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poet who understands how to really live with the spirit of
they are able to stand within the life of the folk. Through
understand the manifoldness of life so that they can see the
in order to obtain a real understanding of what is actually
understand how they are brought together in certain
will never be able to understand things from the standpoint
types which you can only understand through the way they are
overpowering by the physical body. A light of understanding
them from this standpoint.
Dimitri is concerned it is understandable that he is
of the holy order, because you do not understand these
necessary that we understand the characteristics of our
Jesus Christ Considered from the Psychiatric Standpoint.
Here you have the standpoint of modern evolution which is the
standpoint which the Theosophists think they are duty bound

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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thinking exhausts itself. Just as we as human beings stand in
process is something not only for ourselves, but it stands
how we stand in the world when we know these things how we
merely physical body that only stands in connection with our
so this soul spiritual man can stand in connection with the
stand within the cosmic all.
lived through here in the physical life stands as a causative
understand something of this life between death and a new
understanding of these processes can open themselves to us.
existence, that he stands within the external world, within a
universal process. However, man also stands in a universal
process in the spiritual world. When he thinks he stands
and he wills, he then stands in a spiritual connection with
tell us that thinking, feeling and willing stand in
the standpoint of the materialistic world conception you
However, human beings will come to a standstill before 50
fructification will make it possible to be able to understand

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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spiritual intentions, spiritual goals stand behind everything
spiritual processes which stand behind historical
occurrences. In order to understand what is going on we must
understand this you must realize the milieu out of which she
way that it is not normal, but abnormal. And to understand
cannot understand the Russians with West European science.
You can only understand them when you know that an ether body
will be understandable from that that with her, the ether
important thing is what lies between; and to understand what
to know how things stand, one must at least understand this
comprehensive working occult schools actually stand behind
stands. I tell you all these things as students of esoteric

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content of spiritual science. In the 1st place you must stand
one knows about, something which one can at least understand.
over the ether body in such a way that be does not understand
otherwise be present his understanding. In the case of these
understand than they were in the original German. St.
knowledge of that which stands in my book
1413 we stand in the 5th post-Atlantean period. This will
really stand in the beginning of our period and in the course
he were a machine. Now, I hope you will not misunderstand me,
the situation stands. Do not just imagine that this person
produce certain work, setting up an understanding with the

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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can understand the development of mankind from spiritual
they do not stand in a direct connection with the spiritual
does not simply grow out of the earth, but stands in a direct
stands in direct interworking with the beings who permit
‘Here I stand as a human being and I, as a man, feel
understand the 15th, 16th, 17th century, you must get an idea
understand that there was a sudden transition from the 14th
get an understanding for the opening up of our soul, our

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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of Hiram. So you see, the Easter thought stands as the center
which are able to understand what is meant by immortality;
life cannot understand this immortality.
itself stands in a connection with the non-earthly, that
moon. After the 21st of March the sun stands in a different
which stands at a much later stage of development and which,
organism and the rest of the organism which stands at a much
standpoint of Prussian patriotism. He attempted to represent
which actually rules in Europe understandable, and can also
bring that understanding which is necessary if a culture your
scientific standpoint. Naturally he could only bring a
stands in reality; whereas the abstract thinking which
itself with whether thoughts stand in reality or not. All
We understand
Festival but also an Easter Festival; that we understand what
in the human being, only then are we able to understand

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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understanding of that which was necessary as a wisdom of the
contemplate that, you can understand that which is, in a very
approach the human being and understand him with these things
merely as words, but we must be able to understand what
indeed standing lower than I am in the row of phenomena, but
beings, who stand upon a lower stage of evolution for our
understanding for this. We are living in the 20th century,
these things into our understanding. Therefore everything
human souls here on the earth who understand this etheric
process and it is those human beings who understand these
understand the words correctly which we have often used here

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VIII: Thomas More and His Utopia
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in the 18th century. No, in order to understand his concept
said about Christianity. How can we understand these things?
Naturally they do not understand the real occultism; they do
not understand how Christ can be found through the real
understand that if he had really written his book
“Utopia” from the standpoint of ordinary
dear friends, in order to understand history, it is not
must understand the existence of this signal in order that
in our times which are so filled with destiny, to understand
historical events. You have to understand these things
all the lectures in order that you can understand the

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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way? How does that happen? To understand this I must first
you understand them. The significant thing in the modern
the fact that we are standing just at the beginning of this
thing but in another way understand how to work much more
order to stand with the spiritual life at present, but one

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture X
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understanding the ideas of Goethe and Schiller existed even
way, people have difficulty in trying to understand that
order to understand the phenomenon of Christ Jesus, we must
in order to understand this great mystery of human evolution,
on the other side we do not receive understanding from the
will be able to understand that there was a quite different

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XI: Fragments from the Jewish Haggada
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the Angel of Death standing before Solomon and laughing. This
important to understand that both scribes, both Moors, are
has to stand upon the earth with his feet. However, passing
understand the human form as it has developed itself in the
a person who stands in connection with the spiritual world. I
that we can understand it when we have insight into the
understand life. Life, when it is only approached with the
human understanding is bound to give many contradictions.

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concept, because it is unable to acquire a real understanding
very difficult in our time for human beings to understand and
everything that exists is subject to and stands under
realize that and to obtain an understanding of the greatness
Therefore we can understand Hammerling's
things in order to understand the Mystery of Golgotha. First
necessary in our time to become able to understand the
Then it will be possible to understand the Mystery of
before the understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha could
understanding through the Ahrimanic powers had to occur. As a
really waiting for mankind to understand the Mystery of
this understanding. They do not want to enter into the
understanding of this Mystery of Golgotha and therefore deny
figure who stands in the centerpoint of this Mystery of
or philosophical aspect and do not have any understanding for
real understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, that
understanding which is so necessary for the present time. I
people from penetrating to the threefold understanding of the
into the earth; to the Christ understanding, to that Power
fructified all earth life. This threefold understanding must
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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necessary for understanding the very different nature of the world
not to misunderstand me. It must not be said that I am denouncing
Post-Atlantean period human knowledge had to come to an understanding
the point of misunderstanding the word. Goethe shows us in this

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture II
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bear in mind if we are fully to understand the subject. An experience
fall into decadence. Understanding of the in-streaming of the truths
threshold of which it is perceptibly standing in our time.
to our thoughts. If people do not quite understand what has here been
understand the significance of what has just been said. It is
understanding of the impulses of Spiritual Science; and we need it
is no possibility of understanding our environment in the time
between death and a new birth, or of understanding what we have to
world. Gradually, as we learn again to understand the universe, as we
unfold spiritual understanding, moral principles will arise which
with a stronger and stronger light of understanding will emerge, if,
understanding of these things awakens can there be anything but
through Spiritual Science will serve to unfold an understanding of
that our Building stands there. It stands there to provide a

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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As we stand in the
understand what is meant. Can we not observe in the hands something
of years ago, the elemental Beings who stand behind the preparation
appear, in times to come, in order to understand the Heavens, men
increase our knowledge and understanding of the Luciferic and
regarded in quite a different light and in order to understand it we
possible degree of consciousness. Understand me well: I mean
the very least understanding pf any harmless delight or amusement
something outside. What he does understand is any emotion that
is kindled by the inner being of man. Lucifer well understands
understand a harmless joke occasioned by some outer event. This lies
Least of all does one find understanding when one tries to give such
reproducing them in ideas. People do not understand that this is
is essential when we really understand this difference between

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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for the first time. It is significant that this house also stands within our
such a house. It stands there as a living protest against all merely
little house stands there as a preliminary announcement of something
think. For this house to stand here is of very great significance!
really understand the world, one must rise above the philistine view
humanity. ‘Women will never understand me’, Weininger told
standing on a mountain. It is spewing forth fire. What he compares
world's lack of understanding and asking himself how long it will be
before the world will be able to understand the kind of things he
quite understandable that a doctor who treats the insane should see
appropriate. But what most stands out as genuinely serious and
get to the bottom of things to understand why an individual of
understand. In the future something will be poured out over humanity;
when it occurs in the present, and to understand it. The literati, who
do not understand him, see Weininger as the genius of the age; the
events with a loving understanding, he is an example of the
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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everyone is aware. If we cast an understanding and observant eye over
understanding, our reason, our capacity for experience and our
The cultivation of an understanding and a rationality divorced of
and who could understand the place of the Mystery of Golgotha in the
Gospels, for they could understand what lay behind the descent of the
cosmic Sun Spirit to Earth. Such an understanding presupposes that the
understanding an event — or for comprehending it at all. What
does this show us? It deepens our understanding of why we should use

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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meetings, allowing the main experience to stand before our souls, we
understand the nature of either mankind or of the world as long as one
nevertheless understand it, when you see that these individuals showed
a lack of understanding for the material world before they were born,
completely failed to understand matter. One is not a materialist when
represented it. Understanding the substantial nature of the material
precisely because he does not understand the substantial nature of
lack of understanding for matter.
I must go into this, as otherwise we will not be able to understand
paradox that it is very important to understand. For, during the
the style of Weininger, by taking some elevated, mystical standpoint
that can help us to understand.
understanding we develop in our inner soul life is not a mere
understanding we develop represents the real seed of the future. The
understanding to the most abstract knowledge — and the two are
would like to describe it once more from the standpoint of these
understands the things I have just been explaining is enabled to look

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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understand the real connections must conceive of the act of speaking
spiritual reality that stands behind him. It must be conceded that
need for understanding how the human head is shaped during the period
keys to understanding the origins not only of humanity, but of the
understanding the whole cosmos.
particularly difficult to understand, for people of today like to
pictorial representation of the spiritual forces standing behind it.
picture of what stands behind it; the head and all that concerns it is
resemblance to what stands behind it than does the rest of the body;
the body our physical eyes see is more like what stands behind it. The
stands behind it spiritually — it is a closer copy of the
but a person who is unable to understand the Sistine Madonna would not
understanding for the connection between morality and the will, or for
In order to understand this matter more fully we must look further
balance on a stand; in the middle is the hypomochlion; forces are
the man who stands here in the physical world: there is a spiritual
take a strong moral stand, this moral impulse has a direct effect on

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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mankind stands in the cosmos, in so far as a human being is a moral
form of the expression, but you will understand what I mean.
When we observe the human being who stands in the moral sphere, you
hovering circle of elves. He represents the human being who stands
occurrences when he stands within the sphere of wisdom and truth, or
not understand much about ourselves. So much, so inconceivably much,
on Moon to understand how the silent floods of moonlight connect outer

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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Now, in order to understand these things better and better, we want to
for understanding what is said, and much, much more. We really do
sense, what we use for normal understanding of the external world is
service. But as mankind comes more and more to understand how Christ
opportunity to deepen our understanding of the human being.

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Seven: The Connection between the Human Being and the Cosmos. The Twelve Regions of the Senses and the Seven Life Processes.
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sense has, so to speak, now come to rest on Earth, to a standstill.

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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cannot be absorbed with an abstract, theoretical understanding. It is
To understand these things in their entirety we must be clear that the
astronomy of Saturn being in the Ram or of the Sun standing in the
ego — that stand over us now and allow as to perceive this
struggles to come to some degree of understanding of these processes
principles to understand it.
written in a philosophical language that is difficult to understand,
who claim to understand this metaphysical language of music experience
into a conceptual form that is accessible to the understanding of
If one understands religion to be a spiritual possession that

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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person becomes powerless if, his physical body is too weak to stand up
against the vision. If the physical body is strong enough to stand up
life processes are ensouled, and there arises a kind of understanding
impossible to understand the full significance of the changes a person
actually lives, standing within the real world. The artist must go
understand it. The poem does manifest itself to the sense of speech,
revive the capacity for grasping and understanding the physical world
understand the physical. The spirit is alive in everything physical.
If it is lost sight of, it becomes impossible to understand the
testify to an inability to understand. The development of humanity in
spiritual understanding of the world.
Poetics you will find a hint of this deep understanding of the
aesthetic man — not understanding in the modern style, but out of
another high point in the understanding of aesthetic man. He lived in
understand life as long as we timidly hold ourselves back from the
will we ever understand art as such until we see that its task is to
Madonna from the standpoint of thinking that accords with reality?
really exists. One is able to stand before the Venus de Milo in
ancient Greeks' understanding of this led them to see how Aphrodite
regency of the Good ... of understanding of the Good, The
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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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loss of the older understanding for a criterion of truth. In
the atom, qualities that will not stand up when, they are put to the
the more agreeable errors is something we must clearly understand.
trying to understand by means of this theory of relativity must be
Schaffle). This outstandingly-written book has since been

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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I have briefly mentioned how things stand with memory, which develops
I ask you, please, do understand what I am now saying. No one should
that stands at the beginning of the Old Testament is an important
required in the fourth post-Atlantean period in order to understand
period needs this knowledge in order to begin to understand the
earlier.) Just as Lucifer stands at the side of Eve, so Ahriman stands
can picture as standing opposite Lucifer, the spirit of temptation.
fall to Ahriman, even in such a matter as the misunderstanding of
impulse resounds here, right into the misunderstanding of ambiguous
ahrimanic impulses are at work. It is very important to understand

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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in mind if one is to understand this matter fully: Conscious
understands it, this special mode of consciousness will also allow
already clearly standing on the threshold of decadence. If men are not
to fall victim to it, they must develop an understanding for how the
Ahriman — are worthless. But, if we understand, firstly, the
desires, it is possible, broadly speaking, to understand thinking as
understand the need for this very thing I have been describing. These
the physical world. A right and true understanding of the impulses of
fact that we will not be able to understand the world which surrounds
this fundamental attitude towards the truth. In order to understand
gradually, as we learn to understand the world once more and as we
more complete understanding of this fact through spiritual science
ability to stand in a living connection with the sense and goal of the
The correct understanding of the Christ principle for our times is
written.’ As regards understanding the Christ, spiritual science
shall stand here as a small, vulnerable point of departure from which

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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of our day. But that is how matters stand: what calls itself science
As you know, the rudiments of an understanding for the relation of the
diagram shows how matters stand.
the sake of understanding them, let us consider Ahriman's character
generate the greatest possible human consciousness. Understand well
lack of the slightest understanding for even the most harmless of
slightest understanding of man's harmless delight in what is around
him. He understands what can be kindled by all manner of inward
things. He has a great understanding for how a person can develop a
lofty wisdom — he cannot understand the innocent jokes that
standing up for the truth today. That other thinking is opposed to
understand this distinction between thinking that is in harmony with

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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laws. But understanding the kind of truths we have been describing is
ability to understand and perceive the thoughts of others. Thus this
It is the sense that enables us to understand what others say to us.
address to us. We would not be able to understand a single word if we
to perceive and understand the words of others; it is also possible
important to understand the connection between our ability to speak
and our ability to understand the speech of others. Please note that I
ability to understand speech. The senses of tone and speech must be
related to the other? How is speaking related to understanding speech?
capacity for understanding speech are based are very closely related
when he understands something that is being spoken. But what happens
the sense organ for understanding speech; but we keep it still while
able to perceive words and understand them. In a certain respect
does something that shows he unconsciously understands what I have
understand it by not making this gesture. Because I do not make this
gesture, but repress it instead, I am able to understand what someone
this motion, I am enabled to understand what is being said. When one
an instinctive understanding for what it means to hold back such a
cosmos, we were given a constitution that enabled us to understand
understand words, but not be able to speak words. But it only seems
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human life understandable. The spiritual science of the present seeks
to understand human life on the basis of what the universe tells us
show that there was a living understanding of these matters just a few
centuries ago, even though it was an atavistic understanding:
understand it, you understand the human life processes. But we have no
idea how one comes to understand such things.’ That is how they
understanding for the spirituality of speech ran parallel to the
stand. For everything materialistic will continue to be a source of
Thus did Bacon, Bacon of Verulam, introduce the misunderstanding of
people, idols of the tribe. Then, once men start to understand the

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etheric realm. You can understand that a disclosure of this
they deal with it differently. And to understand this, we must
brotherhoods. And nobody will understand these matters clearly
cherish. A certain effort is necessary to understand
is the situation in which we stand to-day. Particular
understand the great impulses behind human evolution. During
must learn to understand what kind of spirituality exists down

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 2: Secret Brotherhoods-2, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-2, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 2
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party which stands for keeping certain higher truths absolutely
shall never understand the course of events if we assume a
shall understand one another better if we go into details.
us understand this clearly. Ireland is that piece of the earth
special qualities of temperament to an outstanding degree.
lack understanding — though of course they may be
Machine standards were to be carried over into social life.
these matters must be illuminated from higher standpoints. Next

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various standpoints, but the caricatures only show what
understand them sufficiently. There are many who think they
right way only if understanding goes deeper and deeper,
talk misses the point. If people would come to understand what
shall not understand the events going on around us unless we
modern men speak. They want to understand God through an
secret. Gold stands in the same material relationships to other
birth, and here, real cosmic understanding is sought. All such
understanding has been replaced for modern men by a purely
earthly understanding. If someone wants to investigate, for
and understanding of the world. To see things as they are
powers and constellations of powers are standing opposed to
powers, especially, stand in opposition to each other: the
These are the powers which stand opposed to each other. And

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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spiritual science needed for an understanding of mankind. For
people must understand where the boundary line between the
to understand the world, it is very important to know that
thought really stands more or less where it has always stood
he still stands above the others. The real spiritual element
understand it. The forces working on the plants below this
standpoint, that man must take up again a cosmic way of
know how matters stand, how they are
humanity should be produced, people stand with these
to understand them. If we wish to understand such an event as
the other. Because we understand something in its
says: Now I understand that nothing else was possible except
now understand that a complete, a fundamental alteration of
spiritual life. Those who would understand existence must
standpoint and will show how far certain events have been

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 2: Concerning the World of the Dead
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considerations we shall have to try to understand this
understanding? We continually carry death into life. Even a
understand these thoughts fully when we consider earthly
outstanding cases, which only draw attention to what is

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 3: Our Life with the Dead
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know that he understands what you read to him, in the sense
in which we speak of human understanding; but the departed
the Beings who stand above man, if I may use this expression,
evolution of mankind. We cannot understand this evolution
We cannot understand what takes place between man and man
the man was standing. This cause has nothing whatever to do
with the effect. Ponder this matter and try to understand
have taken exactly the same course had the man been standing
matter stand, from an exterior aspect, to begin with. Perhaps
an inner standpoint.

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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a basis for the understanding of freedom and necessity, so
an occult point of view, in order to understand the course of
Thus we stand
understand the wisdom of the guiding forces of the universe.
an understanding limited to the senses, and what lies at the
able to grasp something else: — You will understand why
this world when we contemplate it from a certain standpoint.
this from the earthly standpoint, but reversed — for
round in such a way that the Lion stands above Jupiter. He
to know through our senses and our understanding is an
understand this, compare once more the idea with the mirrored

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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understand what lies at the foundation of the two impulses
order to understand a clock; someone who has not the
understand these things fully we must grasp thoughts which
is very important for the understanding of the whole of human
someone speaks from the standpoint of the usual waking
what we call our understanding, or our thinking consciousness
of self. When our understanding and our conscious thinking
are within our ego, then this understanding and conscious
of one whose understanding has developed to the age of 28,
only one fourth of this understanding is really his own. It
understanding at 28, only a quarter of this is our own; the
fructify this fourth part of our understanding and soul, and
behind which stand inspirations and intuitions. That is, if
and behind this stand intuition, inspiration, and
appear to us as fantasy. Behind them, however, stand the real
come when people will understand this much better than now.
speak of the spiritual impulses standing behind the
influence real life when this understanding spreads over an
understanding, but goes over into the impulses of feeling and
spiritual science. And he who really understands spiritual
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background of all these considerations stands a question
understanding but also with your feeling, into the depths of
certain sense, exactly to this standing still of life in
human being, such as he stands in the world, is really a
everything possible in order to misunderstand the spiritual
understand the times, however, asks today: — What must
humanity should be educated to understand a very great event
the sense of the spirit of the age — to understand the
which those who love truth and try to understand things
instance like Adolph Harnack, the famous theologian, to stand
course, these things standing on a quarto page are just as
through freedom, and in our modern age we must understand,
become the great impulse for the human understanding of

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understand the nature of man in its connection with the
to acquire a different form of understanding for reality from
man must accept. He who understands this thought can no
do with an understanding of the idea of freedom in its widest
understand freedom, they would not have freedom. Philosophers
in the fact that people have been unwilling to understand not
disintegrating processes. However, in order to understand
perception and understanding. This will give you a conceptual
memories, your own life stands there all the more compactly
on his life not from the standpoint of his own experiences,
but from the standpoint of others and of the events of the
now stands in history books ... but time such as it has
Goethe strive so intense to know Greek art, to understand his
consciousness we can understand his knowledge. Goethe makes
in it. We can only understand a man like Goethe when we

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
know that from the standpoint of spiritual science what is
indirectly to a better understanding of the impulses which
understanding of himself. None the less, a symptomatology of
have drawn to a close and that we now stand on the threshold
completely fail to understand historical change unless we
cannot understand Catholicism before the great turning point
really understand what was meant by intelligence up to the
discuss these matters from another standpoint later on. We
in the standard history books to find that the fundamental
have a clear understanding of these matters from the point of
history. Consider the following: in order to understand not
we see a personality who stands out, so to speak, like a
in the annals of modern history Hus stands out as a symbol of
with from the standpoint of symptomatology. It can hardly be
matters stand in 1648 in respect of this conflict between
different nuances. We can only understand these things if we

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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
the Consciousness Soul, we shall have a clearer understanding
break free, to become self-sufficient and stand on its own
with its egalitarian doctrine, standardizes the personality.
extent. But we can only fully understand fraternity if we
on the spiritual plane. But without any understanding of this
seven-year rhythms. We can best understand this soul if we
be able to understand the whole symptom-complex of
Rome — everything that of necessity had to stand in
Consciousness Soul demands that man should stand on his own
clear understanding of these symptoms which will form the
standpoint, who are aware that time is a real factor and that
bosom of the future — in short, those who stand four

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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
understand the determinative factors here are aware that the
which the modern Consciousness Soul understands this term.
understand the present epoch only if they grasp the right
country where no one understands a word of French. In sleep
outstanding achievements, is destined to remain sterile
everyone can understand. And that is the right approach
at the periphery. He will develop an understanding for what
If in order to understand history we must look inward, as I
understand medicine, for example, hygiene and medical health
have any understanding of these matters unless we are
understand this we must abandon the preconceived ideas which

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
attempted to examine this development from the stand-point of
those who seriously wish to understand the historical
problem of pressure, but of suction. What do we understand by
fact is that the section of the population which today stands
which is most difficult to bring to men's understanding today
Anthroposophy, as they understand it, is a little moral
are most important for an understanding of modern evolution,
outstanding personalities of the bourgeoisie in the forties
aims at enhancing understanding for others. You will find
understanding of the shortcomings of others, when we are more
sympathetic understanding we can break through the barrier
develop an understanding for them. We must say to ourselves:
shall only understand the significance of the brain for the
sympathetic understanding of others. Life uses the crude
concern for our neighbour, with sympathetic understanding for
understanding must take hold of mankind it is so rarely found
clear understanding of forces of birth and death in their
order to acquire an understanding for birth and death in the
understand this — we have already given here and there

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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
which meets with little understanding today. Man's
he who understands these things knows what unplumbed depths
that in reality the will to understand these things scarcely
exists today. But the will to understand will assuredly come
death of other beings. We can only understand the phenomenon
only to an understanding of the Mystery of Death, but also
understand the nature of these forces of evil we must not
acquire a real understanding of the being of man. And the
real understanding of their neighbour. In this connection
understanding of future problems.
understanding of man. He who makes a thorough study of the
enables him to understand the human being in his
principles of this symbolical understanding. When we look at
understand reality everything pertaining to the sensible
an inner sympathy and understanding of a different nature
understanding of man. This second phase of future development
will bring a totally different understanding between men. In
step towards an understanding of this matter.
he who ignores this ‘how,’ fails to understand me if he does
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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
concept, that only he can understand and truly feel what
If we wish to understand how a man's action arises from
let live in the full understanding of the other's will is
and brought them to an understanding of reality. If, instead
contemporaries had little understanding of this clarity and
for an understanding of
deeply spiritual standpoint. This original anecdote is as
understanding clearly what I have discussed with you here in
importance for our epoch and for the understanding of this
of any understanding of their epoch, lacks any possibility of
of the modern labour movement from the standpoint of those
been any understanding of the purpose of this book — to

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
adumbrated. My view of Goethe from the standpoint of
apprehend the symptoms aright, to an understanding of the
developed when we have the right insight or understanding.
throw light on this situation from the standpoint of a young
understand everything in life and one can understand
having adapted himself to it, to have any understanding of
impossible for him to understand — unless he forced
must however give heed to them if we are to understand the
the standard of the Gymnasium education in Austria was not
understand a word, learned it by heart and received high
history we had a man who had not the faintest understanding
individuals who develop themselves and stand apart from it.
Goetheanism stands out as an isolated phenomenon and that is
unreal. These people have no understanding of the source from
there was nowhere any understanding of this affinity. I came
important book on Goethe) met with little understanding or
activities, has no understanding of their real meaning. Under
any understanding of Goetheanism. For Goethe himself is, in
he is from the most elementary understanding of
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
standpoint of spiritual science must really be prepared to
misunderstanding shall arise in the following
understand all that plays into the souls of men of this fifth
concluded today. We must have a profound understanding of
insight and understanding of what is happening in evolution
misunderstand the fundamental principle of spiritual wisdom,
here than the personality of Solovieff, the most outstanding
Christ we shall also be able to understand, as we shall see
the personality, seeking to arrive at inner understanding of
men under His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, under
his standard.’
an exact visual picture of the standard. And one must also
visualize two armies, each preceded by its standard, the
standard of Lucifer and the standard of Christ.
Jerusalem, where stands Christ our Lord, the sole and supreme
order; and another plain round about Babylon where stands
now face each other — the standard of Lucifer and the
standard of Christ.
first part of the actual exercise: the standard of Lucifer;
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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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understanding of the present world situation and provide a challenge
the Christ impulse. This is extremely important for an understanding
understand how Goethe is to some extent opposed to everything that
nature of the civilized world. In order to understand this we
understanding, and the creature.
have a clearer understanding of these questions we must
understand these events we must consider the question: what
understanding for the relationship between human nature and
royal commander stemmed from the inability to understand what
human feeling or understanding; if it is to be incorporated
In history things are interwoven. One can never understand a
understand what is involved here we must be quite clear that
understand events and trace them back to their origin we must
the Lodges, we are speaking from the standpoint of the
understand him we must understand the whole world. It is
understand what it means, does not understand that one can
never had anything in common. Those who understand the
nor have they attempted to understand it. Hence the chaos,
understand and to consider the Anthroposophical
obstacle to an understanding of the fifth post-Atlantean
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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Now this is a phenomenon which we shall only understand if we
Armed with these conceptions they tried to understand the
simply fails to understand this present time. And it is a sad
thing how many people fail to understand it. It is through
not really try to understand their time.
receive higher wages. Their standard of life would be
seeks to penetrate and understand the social structure must
stand, as it were, at the edge of the abyss. He must feel
forgotten. And he alone stands rightly within this our

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standpoint of reality. If we mean: can what the spiritual
conclude from what was said to you: The cube must be standing
at a true understanding of things. In the domain in which I
healthy human understanding, however, is something very
point of view. From all this you will understand that
helpless? Because they are bent on understanding with the
that in this conception of Truth from the standpoint of life,
simply cannot understand how Bolshevism can regard as its own
are still more at a loss to understand how it happened. For
Avenarius — you will not misunderstand my words —
result. You see, however, that if we would understand the
ordinary materialistic historian cannot understand. Today
once more the thing is standing on its head and must be set
might have supposed that they would understand the rudiments
admitted, my dear friends, that we find little understanding
is now a Goetheanum standing here. I called it a piece of
indeed be founded. Therefore a Goetheanum was to stand here

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symptoms and from the inner occult standpoint, the nature of
that is the true social standpoint, so long as we have no
understand, my dear friends, for it will help you most of all
understand one another; we have after all a certain measure
beings with understanding, that is the thing needful,
communities of men with understanding, to have a true
only be brought home to human insight from the standpoint of
observe these worlds with understanding. And then perhaps we
also see from a standpoint of reality the judgment, formed by
things in this direction. We can well understand it for, my
Anthroposophical standpoint which must be put forward in
Science movement should take its stand in the spiritual life
discriminate it as healthy human understanding can
Society, standing entirely upon its own ground, had been
what I from my own personal experience can stand for. Here at
question of how man, as a soul and spirit being, stands
understood how he stands within the social structure through

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confirmed by the scientific standard of our time. But at the
physical plane) has still been said from the standpoint of an
standpoint of an ancient Wisdom. That is to say: Men had
— Who are the Beings of the Spiritual World who stand
so-called “Spirits of Personality” stand within
are creative forces Spiritual Science seeks to understand. In
fails to understand in this sense the task of
use this trite expression, wants to stand on its own feet, does
Post-Atlantean age, there stand certain Spirits of Darkness.
are applied than those that are of use to understand the
the Kingdom of Heaven — think how these two stand
we would understand why the present catastrophic time has
connection. We are standing in the very midst — not at
unconscious instincts are pulsating, there stands the Spirit
brought forth a magnificent understanding of the Wisdom of
the Universe — an understanding of all that is outside
spirits as Paracelsus and Jacob Boehme was an understanding
understanding of the Universe was then applied in order to
understand Man too. Man himself was conceived in terms of the
future. We take our start from Man; we understand first Man,
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 5: Understand One-Another
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“Understand One-Another”
mutual understanding.
true mutual understanding among men coincides with what we
understanding? It is the true — not the apparent and
understanding among men. We must strive for this
understanding of humanity over the whole Earth — strive
existence and so arriving at an understanding of the world
last few weeks, you will realize that this understanding of
least, we have tried to understand what are the deepest
future, men will only attain mutual understanding as to their
such understanding, this understanding will indeed be brought
another as man to man. One who can understand concretely what
who have understanding of these matters express themselves
last two thousand years, we ask ourselves with understanding:
understand one another aright. Needless to say, I will not
true understanding of our time.
are many things against this true understanding of our time.
Towards such understanding, as you know, such things are
order of Nature. Those who have no deeper understanding for
must now observe and understand how the several Archangeloi
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture I: The Dualism in the Life of the Present Time
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Anthroposophical Society, but just as it stands there, in all its
no longer understand each other at all, or perhaps it is better to
from the depths of humanity, but we do not really understand the
prosaic, the arid, and so on, We understand man only when we perceive
to understand clearly how it has come upon a declivitous path (it is
Observe the seven successive columns which stand on each side of our
must understand these things who does not wish, out of some kind of

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actual understanding of these forms through feeling indicates,
an evolution which we can only understand when we realize that we are
completed, something finished, does not understand the forms of
Gothic architecture; just as anyone fails to understand the forms of
understand the form — a Greek temple without the statue
of a god is an impossibility to the understanding which comes through
where the beams of the cross intersect, would have to stand the
stand a little tabernacle, but in the form of the whole.
abstract concepts does not really understand them; but they can be
the desire of each individual to stand upon the foundation of his own
particularly important for the people of modern times to understand
man, and between them stands the essential being of man, seeking
It is in this sense that modern man must come to understand, through

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spiritual world is opposed by those powers which stand for the
sufficient power of will to stand up for our cause. But there are
soul-enjoyment by means of spiritual ideas and concepts. We stand at
the doors between the spiritual world and ours stand open since the
understand that in the depths of his soul he is connected with the
beyond the threshold is of a world in which time as we understand it
understanding of the spiritual world, to begin this training at
understanding of what takes place in the soul. You know from my
understanding of these things do you begin to perceive certain
evolving. If our entire organism (please understand me clearly now) —
body. If anyone understands that perfectly, then he comes to

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their territories whom they could still understand, because they also
decorations. If one understands such things it may often be observed
Latin scholars get the concepts for the understanding of it? They got
Anyone who studies such things and is able to understand them knows
The world ought to understand that such phenomena
civilization will doubtless find it difficult to understand. One I
explaining this Kant-Laplace theory from the standpoint of the
If we study the things that stand side by side in the world we find

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Over against this stands the whole Moral world. Man feels of
compel it to understand — that here no kind of superficiality
takes no account whatever of this concrete understanding of the
process. He does not know how he stands in it, nor that he is as it
seeking for a right understanding of the three dimensions. It is
standing at right angles, but three level planes. Consider for a
aspects so regulated that we can only understand its regulation by
stands at right angles to the first. As our right and left man are
be such that at one time it will stand on the right of this plane and
then go across it and stand on the left. If I simply proceed
will understand how Necessity and Free Will are related, and how
within the Sun's orbit. If one does not understand the
Universe as an organism depends on our learning to understand the
if we are to form aright our general understanding of the world; and
need of such understanding.

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the whole world within abstract lines of space, standing
symmetry, our Willing with the vertical plane which stands
illustrated as soon as man studies them from the standpoint of their
Now, if we wish to understand how all this applies to man, we must
the matters it is necessary to understand in this domain, if we
understand what I mean. You will realise it still better, if you
This has been interpreted as demonstrating that the Sun stands still
should like us to attain tomorrow, namely a true understanding of the

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in Man to the spiritual outside him. You must understand that here, at
ourselves as Man standing on the Earth, surrounded by the planets and
for what have we there? We picture the Earth upon which we stand;
We must above all clearly understand that the full sense and meaning
to understand. Or perhaps you will not say so, but will consider that
from the stars, when we understand the corresponding processes in our
then we would learn to understand the nature of the qualities in the
circulation. If we can understand what the heart is in the human body,
we shall learn to understand also that the Sun is not, as Newton calls
If we understand the processes in the inner being of the organism, we
can also understand from them the processes in outer Cosmic space. The
inwardly, and then turn outwards with inner understanding. They
understand the Sun who understand the human heart; and so it is with
shall understand the Universe outside Man.

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been spoken and written of from various standpoints) we find him first
the laws of another, and which stands in exactly the same relationship
Sun stands over it, we find that at the end of 72 years the star
In our times, when the desire for an understanding of these matters is
understanding must be sought through the recognition of these three
Here we have an instance of the inability of materialism to understand
follows, that therefore materialism is also unable to understand the
today. But to get a real understanding of the Universe it is

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leg, in order afterwards to understand the complete organism from the
understanding of the nature of Man.
that this could be done by first standing upon one leg and then upon
the other, and I added ‘And one ought to be able to stand upon
training, to stand upon one leg for a short time at midnight! Many
stands in a certain relation to these exterior spatial
the other and ourselves stands the Earth. Obviously this has nothing
fact that I stand upon the Earth the celestial influences become quite
inner physical formation-process stands in a certain relation to the
within; and it is again a process that stands in relation with the
comes to a standstill, it undergoes a kind of metamorphosis, and
something which, as you can see from an example I will give, stands in
formation and regulation of fluidic movements, etc., stand in a
to gain an understanding of the connection when we relate, as we shall
And now consider, if we understand the form of Man in all its nature
saps and juices in Man that we shall learn to understand the planetary
shall also understand what goes on in the Elemental world; and when we
are able to understand what happens in Man in the moment when earthly

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begin with, from four points of view. Firstly, from the standpoint of
Now it should not be difficult to understand that these forces of
We shall perhaps understand this point better if we remember the words
forward and another man stands still in the distance while he
organs we have a yearly course. But this course stands in a similar
Sun during the year. We cannot do this, if we understand the inner man
waking state. When you awake, you are, from the standpoint of your
which every point upon which you stand, describes — actually in
Man can we arrive at an understanding of the planetary motions
be studied from the standpoint of Man's connection with the Macrocosm.
understand clearly how Man and Macrocosm are related to each other

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considered as standing in the Universe as modern science sees him
This is only possible, when we have acquired an understanding of Man
standstill; here Man begins’. Natural science does not feel
understanding of his nature is out of the question.
head-organisation, we must be able to understand how it is related to
head-organisation. But if you wish to understand how this
consists in unwillingness to understand the spirituality of the
understanding the world, when it claims that the eyes and other
liver of a man of 50 or of 25, of a musician or of one who understands
act of listening to a symphony. We must clearly understand that the
to which he conformed. Those who have an understanding for ancient
respect to the first dentition stands to the cycle of human evolution
that works up to the second dentition, so does the day stand to the
then understand that the idea of the ancients was quite correct when
much more complicated; for if we do not understand Man rightly, we are
With his head man stands in relation to his outer environment, while
I do not expect any of you to allow your dinner to stand before you

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understanding of the world, we must conceive of heavy, ponderable
matter as ceasing at the ether; for we must clearly understand
ether stands, figuratively speaking, in the same relation in respect
upon the Ego. We must therefore consider man, as he stands before us,
head forward and backward; we stand and walk erect. We
understand that we cannot gain an essential conception of man if we
heredity. For thereby we understand man at most as far as the
understand. The nervous system of the present life is a result of a

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try to understand the Universe through the relations existing between
begin to understand its meaning. These indications of an ancient
hands more so. The reason for this is that, to understand the
inner being of man. As we look up to the Moon, we understand her only
matter from another standpoint and say: If a person acquires the habit
makes to the thinking whether I understand how to move my fingers
our thinking. These things must be followed with understanding and
however, has brought it about that we do not understand man any more.
that it turns its attention to matter, and all the time understands
of understanding the transformation of the lower man into the human
head; but he cannot understand it without filling in the intermediate
however, he has no power to understand how out of what he has before
provide what will make it possible to understand the reality aright.
It is possible to understand the physical man as an expression of the
bridge and understand the event that gave Earth its true meaning —
the event of Golgotha: then we can understand how a purely spiritual event
eliminated, it was made impossible to understand the Event of
which, as we see, throws so much light on the understanding of Man,
of Anthroposophy. They should understand that in a sense, a moral
spiritual-scientific conception of the world stands to the tasks and

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To understand the world without understanding Man is impossible. That
understanding of Man. Let us then start from the disparity between the
These are the Will-forces coming to a standstill, as it were, before
Thus we must understand Man in his process of formation, and look at
namely, that one can only understand freedom by grasping it in
understand clearly how man is adapted to an earthly as well as
speaks of a headless man, it does not understand his true nature at
still find in children, if we understand how to observe them aright,
understand the actual processes in the human being until he is able to
however, which we here approach, is one not very easy to understand.
concerning the effect of the gold-standard upon international economic
would be the result of mono-metalism, the gold-standard. They regarded
world this was predicted wherever the gold-standard was extolled. What
gold-standard, were very able and clever persons, but they had no
we can understand the matter as follows:
that is adapted to the world outside. Thus we must learn to understand

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We need only compare the behaviour of Saturn, who stands far out in
one will suffice for an unprejudiced judgement to understand that we
regarded today as of equal standing with Saturn, are really fugitives
This is not the case; for Venus and Mercury stand in more intimate
all necessary to understand from inner grounds the movement of the
ordinary three dimensions will be right. We must understand this. Just
as in the case of man, in order to understand him as a whole we must
understand the solar-system, we must pass from the three dimensions

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statement in the whole being of the world, for we can only understand
a Roman Jesuit, Father Secchi. There is no difficulty in standing on
a materialistic interpretation of the heavens stands nearer today to
period. In trying to understand the Event of Golgotha, we may say that
be explained today from the standpoint of psychiatry as due to an
Now let us consider this subject from yet a third standpoint. This we
picture world. Do not misunderstand me. We can of course dream of
to understand the Universe. There are other facts too which are also

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that it is not possible to understand the Universe in itself, without
be interpreted — of course an understanding of the truth depends
from the Christian stand-point be rejected. If you follow my book,
to understand better why ill-willed opponents fight so strenuously

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belongs the religious view of the world — stand side by side,
century view although in his case it leads to some misunderstanding.
understand what I mean. There may be something in the action of a
not in a position to understand that principle. Suppose, for instance,
that one wished to make a dog understand that a double quantity of
a man can stand under the influence of a principle without explaining
from Heilbronn — (his monument stands there) — said ‘If
notwithstanding into natural occurrences. Or, suppose that the
Thus we see that even when one stands on purely logical grounds very
are two domains, the natural and the moral, and these stand quite
a man of 36, for instance, understands things he could not at 25.
experience is gained more slowly than understanding. If this were
Understanding travels with the stars, experience with the Sun.
understand our lunar movement aright when we do not think of it as
falls into confusion. We can only reach a right understanding if, not
regard to the understanding of Man and the Universe. Unless man can
never understand unless we begin by learning to understand the Cosmos

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born out of the whole Universe, can a deeper understanding be gained
easily be objected that if this is so, a complicated understanding of
reality it claimed an understanding of the Universe which originally
understanding of them demanded no less than does the understanding of
Christian movement has ever demanded less understanding, less
they had still an understanding of the whole cosmic process, more
Consider from this standpoint how the matter stands with the child.
Golgotha. In order to understand Christianity rightly it is necessary
mankind pointed, namely that the human brain stands in relation to the

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which would so place Man in the Universe that he stands there as a
as I have already pointed out, on the one hand stand ideals, as
in the Middle Ages who wished to understand the Parsifal picture, who
understand that which lives as the Christ in the evolution of
into the physics of our Earth, until we understand how, even in
so stands in human evolution that man's connection with Him can only
still at an ancient heathen standpoint. All proofs of freedom fail;
grasped when one understands the nature of sense-free thinking.
understanding of Christianity. It might at first appear very strange
material. Thus on the one hand stands the advocate of one or other
all else must be grasped by faith alone. On the other side stands the
appreciate Goethe and understand him from the positive standpoint,

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connected with it, means, however, from time to time to stand
powers outside the earth. For here on earth we stand too near
physical materiality, we stand here, as it were, estranged from
birth we stand fully within the spirituality, we live with it,
of man. If you remember this you will understand that what
Men stand today before the decision either to become spiritual
This cosmic hour of decision stands before the human soul
geosophy, and so on. We only understand man aright when we know

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theory on this, and believes that he understands how the
he cannot understand the being of man. But on the other hand there
arise and understand them, he finds a blank, a cipher, he is
the spiritual element to an understanding of the human
man as he stands before us and imitatively model him
personalities who have come to understand something of these
I stand in the world, there I am together with this whole
the time rooted, there stands again a sacred decree
becomes something through which we understand the cosmos
order to understand this one must come to real self-knowledge.
standing within the spiritual world just as he stands as
which he stands. According to what man is has he a meaning for
consciously. In this way, however, men stand
Anthroposophical. That stands in the middle, the truly human,
the Anthroposophical, it stands really in the midst between
cosmic existence, you will understand when you think over the

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his whole being stands not merely in the surrounding
world of physical nature; he stands in a spiritual world as
well. He stands with his whole being, no matter to what degree
cosmic question, was: How does it stand, or how did it stand
see how the Elohim take a middle stand; they would like to link

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it is to understand that in the various spheres of existence
help to an understanding of the world which can provide a
mineral processes that take place within us. Please understand
Judaism — conceived as standing under the guidance of
of Creation. One has merely to understand the meaning of the
part, understand what stands in the Bible at all. If one
understands the Bible, one sees that it speaks with
that in order to understand the Mystery of Golgotha it
understand the Mystery of Golgotha. But now the old Dream
that would only be a materialistic understanding of religion;
communities, but a true understanding of it could no longer be
and, because its understanding could not yet expand to the
press forward to an understanding of the Christ. At most the
old Jehovah understanding still prevails when men storm against
us through our intellect, our understanding, there Jehovah has
understanding, then the Sun-nature — which is not a
an image of this in the carved wooden Group which is to stand
soul a special tendency to a dry, barren understanding which

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not be considered as a final standard. We must consider mankind
above all must be examined from the standpoint of Spiritual
standard of intellectuality and gradually make man into an
strong impulse of inner understanding.
can become if man does not learn to understand how to make
understand better what happens in the cosmos if one looks into
standpoint. For only when the free-will of man invades these

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same time to do something more, namely, to understand this
materialistic world view. First of all, we must understand it
in its content; secondly, we must also understand how it came
the other hand to be able to understand it. But those who
let us now proceed to understand it.
Aristotle. You will only fully understand what I have just
difficult to understand that empirical super-sensible
understand Goethe, Schiller, and Herder simply do not
understand them; they do not see what is most important in
firm a structure as to be able to withstand the effects of
bones, something that stands there like the skeleton of the
no means for retaining anything that stands one level higher.
contribute to the problem of understanding the appearance of
characterizations. We must clearly understand that just
because one understands something, this does not imply that
criticizing accomplish nothing. We really have to understand

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when, from a certain standpoint, we picture once more the
matters stand in regard to our metabolic system, our
processes stand in a direct relationship with our volitional
trying to understand the human head, we should really have to
standpoint in regard to the human metabolism can be none
therefore understand that after the human being had been
We can understand that the human being distanced himself, as

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standpoint that must be designated as pre-Aristotelian
prerequisites to understand Anaxagoras. For what Anaxagoras
understanding for the process of learning to speak. The other
understanding much earlier than the comprehension of the
conceptions of the present. If we attempt to understand the
exposition, one point in particular stands out strangely. He

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however, we have to understand clearly that the historic
form of astronomy, but now not from the standpoint of
we view the etheric body of man, the human being stands in
body, which in turn stands in a more intimate relationship to
whom he had spent his youth, at times without understanding
outstanding minds like Jacob Boehme and Paracelsus. Into what

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understanding of the Mystery of the Bread, which is said to
East, it also did not understand how to listen to the
But they also did not really understand how to ask the
part of it. For if we understand the true, inner call
insight and understanding to the Mystery of the Blood, to the

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based on it must seek to understand spiritual domain. Transition
phenomena of the cosmos and nature. This not withstanding, in
body of wisdom for understanding the Mystery of Golgotha. The
own physical organization. An understanding for this riding
understanding of humanity. We must understand the earth
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha can well up once
again. Human beings must learn to understand why an
understand why it is difficult, when they grasp that the ego
if we understand once again how to comprehend the world
understand Christ if we do not recognize Him as the cosmic
at the right time to a spiritual understanding of itself as a
enjoy a prestigious standing in the world in scientific or
matters is the strength to stand firmly on the ground of what
undermine the ground we stand on. It is up to us to work as

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described from an anatomical, physiological standpoint, as we
twentieth century, stands under the influence of what
assuming our standpoint today in order to biographically
Nietzsche wanted to stand within this experience of world
the human being, except as he stands in front of the machine.
prophesied a great future for him. He stands firmly on the

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underlying reason for this is considered from the standpoint
something that cannot stand for any particular reality since
it could stand for all realities. When we take the arithmetic
finished when we come to the third chair that stands before

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the nineteenth century. How can we understand this
soul-spiritual standpoint? We have to focus on human nature,
other standpoint.
understand what finally came down to us from the Oriental
try to understand them by means of the intellect.
makes the effort to understand it, initially neither agreeing
emphasis is on understanding these things.
you need simply understand them. If you do, then you create
struggled to understand intellectually. With each passing
understand itself. We can only count on the direction in
directions. On the one hand stand people with their
it can fill itself inwardly with an understanding for the new

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our intention to bring about an understanding of what plays
aspects, and throw light on them from a certain standpoint.
standpoint, has no right at all to make itself felt, for it
education. And from a certain standpoint of imbuing thinking
with life — a standpoint we must nevertheless definitely
at least it moves, it does not stand still, whereas the form
sorts of things and are so very clever, do not stand in a
just this, namely, that people cannot understand the nature

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disappeared again. An actual understanding of Goethe never
impossible to understand, for instance, in a country where it
But next to it stands this other idea that I have referred to

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present in it. A proper understanding of what lies at the
not understand much of the course of European development, if
notwithstanding the fact that in reality people are not
present in France that stands in an inner, spiritual, and
wishes to take hold of the spirit that stands above all that

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the life of thought. We cannot understand the evolution of
quite different world of sensations if we are to understand
understanding. Human beings are not primarily a creation of
stands in the middle between physical and astral body.
friends, do not misunderstand this. It does not mean that
it makes a difference whether a person stands at a given spot
matters humanity must once again learn to understand. We must

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age in particular stands in need of this. For, as we have
cannot really understand the human being himself; it
the shadowy intellect can understand to a certain degree.
among us whose language we ought to understand. We shall
understand it only if we seek to comprehend what comes from
fancy, the feeling of the artist who understands the being of
animal. It is sheer nonsense to try to understand the animal
told that this will make them understand something of human
However, by again acquiring an understanding of the artistic
from within, human beings will be able to show understanding

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comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha and what stands behind it.
described from the spiritual standpoint. It depicted how
We simply do not understand him if we try to understand him
with the thinking employed by mankind today. We understand
outstanding minds that with the intellect, which had already
understand, but now had to have the support of abstract
Erigena's and to try and understand it completely. You
understand from a certain viewpoint what it should actually
standpoint of spiritual science. These views are very much in
understand whether our age is not actually meant to to be

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pagan times. In particular, we have to understand clearly how
Christian Sacrifice of the Mass. We have to understand the
and human beings must withstand them.
of expecting the end of the world, did not understand.
entity that is not creating. If we understand the true
was not believed that mankind could understand them offhand.
wisdom — already difficult to understand for him, I
are willing really to understand them, if we are willing

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particularly important to understand clearly what really
we will consider from this standpoint how the study of nature
they had an awareness for taking a stand in life, for
experienced, taking its stand in the world through grammar,

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should be clear that in the way the human being stands before
stand within universal world phenomena as bodily beings.
we stand on a given point of the earth, we press down upon
for we do not attain an understanding of the higher being of
human being regardless of whether he is standing still or
not understand in the least what we thought about
belong to the earth. Of water, air, and fire you understand
Greek's understanding of water was not limited merely to its
understand any of this if you do not speak of water as a
in the life of vegetation and has an inner understanding for
this outer world with true understanding, we can say that
century, that the understanding for these connections has
simply been lost; thereby the understanding for the living
certain understanding of nature and the human being has been
understanding of natural science up to now has limited itself

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is impossible to understand the airy element if we do not
reach such a concrete understanding of the rhythmical
awakening, understanding thereby the outer shapes of the
understand in the same literature that he had read: the
beyond an understanding of merely the earth element. We must
understand again something of the rhythm that plays into our

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world. Indeed, we often block the path to an understanding of
diseased if we consider them from the standpoint of human
hallucinations? You see, we cannot understand this if we know
an effort to understand it. You find it easy to conceive
pictures in space. If you stand before a mirror, you ascribe

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head for the next incarnation. If we understand the human
understands the human organization can read these truths
understand as karma into the next incarnation.
the standpoint of ordinary life. Let us take a striking
let us say, the kidney system, nor does it understand that
entire human being stands in relationship to the outer world,

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human life and nature will be able to stand clearly before
This understanding is what is necessary for a solution to
anything. In reality it is so that we must understand the
lives entirely in pictures. One therefore can understand the
the etheric body, how you stand on your legs. You do not
The animal stands on its legs; the animal is itself a
questions. He posed questions like, “What is standing
able to say that he does not understand spiritual science. It

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among Western people with the same standard of education, the
without any understanding of its innermost nature — in
understanding, although as an impulse it actually often flows
then be judged by other than conventional standards.
stand-point enters into the evolution of modern
never understand one another, because with the Asiatic
intellectual concepts of our time. Intellectual understanding
Humanity stands
signs of the times stand with menacing significance before

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indicate how matters stand with the other side of human
and to understand the Gospels themselves as containing no
objective loses meaning. We stand with our subjectivity
to an understanding of this inner being of man in its true
then will we be able to reach an inner understanding of the
relationship in which we stand to the cosmos, and so one must

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ordinary consciousness; to understand the life of the soul,
the soul comes to stand outside one; then it can be observed.
expression is figurative, but to make this understandable I
one stands as if within something real, dives down into our
understand it more exactly, when we have accustomed ourselves
stand in the sphere of our freedom. Those thoughts that we

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human environment to show how the human being actually stands
forms the animal's soul life, and we can understand animal
on to the beings who do not stand beneath the human being in
the ranks of the realms of nature but who stand above the
understand our etheric body without understanding that we
pressing into us. We are not able to understand fully in our
Existence we come together with those beings who stand at the
the nature of the hierarchy that stands at, the third stage
same time, however, we have discovered the world that stands
stand within it. In rising to a view of the soul we must
for understanding the world and man. Take this as the central

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middle, for subjective experience, stands feeling.
understand it in such a way that we say: in any moment of
investigating particularly outstanding personalities
understand it; we live in such a way that we draw forth what
world becoming. He thus stands within it. These things are

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stands absolutely in relation to the whole spiritual
and ideas at his disposal he is able to understand the
understands the mineral world through this mineral
guide. One does not arrive at an understanding of our present
chauvinism. He who stands within his people with soul —
physical organs, but you will understand me if I present this
to an understanding of what was once grasped in a dimly
these things stand in further relationship to the higher

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first appears to us as world body, we understand it very
nature — which is only an outstanding example — each

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as we perceive him today we are able to understand something
of the cosmos, if we wish to understand in this way these
therefore can say that if we wish to understand the being of
of the human being, we must awaken an understanding in
stand between our present mineral realm, which lies as though
be described only as a realm standing above the human realm.
those higher spiritual realms that stand in mutual
as they were in the past and understand them according to

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in the intellectual age. The human being understands what
able to understand things that you receive as ideas in your
competent modern philosopher he should understand that the
“under the guidance of standard medicine,” about

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to our consciousness. We understand, as it were, only little
understand thoroughly that the content of what is regarded
from a purely philosophical standpoint in my

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standpoint arising out of the study of the value of freedom
certain sense our own. Insofar as it stands in front of us
matters stand between death and a new birth? In our last
human being remains standing by what he has acquired since
standpoint of general consciousness; consequently humanity is
understand in the right way how God passed through the human
that they do not really understand much about Christianity.
fact that modern Christian theology does not understand or
thoroughly understand everything that is unchristian. Modern

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mummies became the dwelling places of the Moon-Beings. Standing with
full understanding before the mummies, the Egyptian Initiate studied
that if we wish to understand historical development during the
in the mummies. We can, in truth, only understand the origin of what is
To understand man in his
in the last two lectures given here. But to understand the historical
standpoint of modern materialism. It is not possible for materialistic
science to understand Homer, and according to a mentality that has
out of a true understanding of the Spirit.

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men right away from the Spirit, from understanding of the truly
because they do not realise that they have no understanding whatever of
without understanding what the Gospels actually say, private and public
understandable, because in speaking of the spiritual we cannot speak as
will understand what kind of fruit is produced by intellectualism, even

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certain outstanding personalities out of the Initiation-teachings given
Earth-Spirits. Think of the wonderful understanding of nature possessed
must be recognised by anyone who desires really to understand the
person who stands in the flesh before the altar, because — apart

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earth and the orbit of the moon. Those who rightly understand how to
pupils: To understand the interaction between the cosmos and its mirror
us to understand its real nature, for the head in itself does not
the necessity of understanding what is contained in the actual forms of
“understand” such rites and ceremonies — what does
this really mean? What does it mean to understand the nature of acts
little understanding of how to draw into their actions the power of the
understanding of this and today there is even less. It makes one's
understood, those who possess this understanding will be able to make
a true understanding of the spiritual world. Through these rites and
Egypt, standing before the mummy, was able to explain to his pupils all
rites enacted with true understanding.”
sacred rite. Men who understand these things can realise what the
brings understanding of the human being. Contemplation of how the
can bring understanding of the cosmos. Understanding of the cosmos will
understanding of the world, for history must be studied in its cosmic

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no understanding of the nature of the living thinking which once
necessary, they say, for the understanding of nature. Yes, but what if
that men will no longer stand in the laboratory or at the operating
these thoughts are the mummy of the soul, and learn to understand the
are as rigid and stiff as the mummy itself. A typical standard work
very clear ... nevertheless it is there, unmistakably, in standard text
understand this we have a picture of a profoundly significant impulse

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illuminating our understanding of particular events. Knowledge of an
understand the deeper currents in the flow of world-history) have
understanding what was working more or less unconsciously through human
the Event of Golgotha from a wholly super-sensible standpoint. Vision of
Aristotle, endeavouring to understand the Event of Golgotha with the
scale the heights of spiritual, esoteric understanding.
because they failed to reach an esoteric understanding of the spiritual
understanding was incapable of grasping what is at once the Mystery of
understanding through actual vision of what was thus proclaimed must be
could still look into the spiritual worlds, whose understanding of
wake of what had once been a very spiritual understanding, and under
century. We must picture the three great question marks standing like

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lengthy duration), we realize with the understanding acquired
birth. Regarded from a spiritual standpoint it constitutes, in
When viewed from the standpoint of the Cosmos in the way I have
understand volcanic and meteorological phenomena, we

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the physical, it is by no means so easy to understand how this
can in reality only understand what goes on in the Ego and
papier-maché husk of the Sun. From the standpoint of
connection man stands, even during his earthly existence, with
stand under the influence of the daily revolution of the Sun,
— If a little child is standing in front of me, and I

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brief remark in order that misunderstandings may be
these two opposing cosmic hosts stands Man. Life in his

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understanding for another human being, is due to the fact that
the power to understand other men. We may say with truth: it is
and how he feels, to understand him with inner sympathy. If we
intimate understanding of the other man. If to the
all-embracing love of humanity, this understanding of one's
into the other man. Those who have the gift of understanding
other human beings will receive from this understanding the
bodies, for in earthly life these bodies could not stand
strongly marked Ego at all. You can understand how memory as an
love. He will be able on the one side to develop understanding,
loving understanding of other men. And on the other side, from
for the first time, to acquire a basis for understanding the
understanding of Spiritual Science. Without Spiritual Science
of tremendous importance to understand such a sentence as this
then living in Time. Hence from from other standpoints I

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properly understand; when we hear only the sounds without
understanding the meaning. If we then abandon ourselves to the
not be able to understand it properly — then we can
understand the meaning but having ears only for its beauty.
misunderstand this whole kingdom. For after all, why do these
power to confront with understanding what actually surrounds us

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things which the Gods are unable to understand, —
broken, this is a language that the Gods do not understand; it
humanity in connection with the Cosmos. What stands before us
the first third of the fifteenth century. Gabriel stands in

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understand how an impression made upon the eye from outside
Angeloi, the Beings who stand one stage higher than man.
you will understand. Think, for example, of the human eye. It
is perfectly accessible to ordinary human understanding,
When I am standing in front of a color, I surrender my astral
standing one stage above man are active in his sense-processes,
so are the Beings of the spiritual world standing two stages
From what has been said you can understand why in ancient

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life during the time of Summer. To understand the essential
divine-spiritual-supersensible reality, and when, understanding
today who rightly understands the Christmas Mystery should feel
we can deepen our understanding of what is presented to us in
could point to his own heart, and say: Now I understand the
and so on, and in understanding the organs individually we come
to understand the universe. We study the human heart, for

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understand how out of the womb of the universe the human
“Hold fast to the Being who stands before the Face of the
understand his writing from the indications that were given in
understand how the secret of the human Ego is connected with
through a profound understanding of the course of the year. We
too must understand what the year reveals but we must also be
to understanding the meaning and purpose of that evolution.
Earth of Christ Jesus, but will understand that ever since
listen. Humanity in our time will then learn to understand that
men will come to understand the spirit-birth needed along their
Christmas festival, but when we should understand in the depths
Then we shall understand the words in the Gospel: “I have
those who would like to remain at a standstill in the
through understanding of the ever-living Christ Jesus.

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understanding either of the physical world or of the world of
understand it rightly in the sense I have indicated today, we
art and science no longer stand in stark contrast as they do in
Nature without which we can never fully understand her. From a
understand the form and structure of the world as artistic
scientific conception of the world to artistic understanding,

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say, you will understand what is really the deeper cause of my
Movement, because, if I did not do this, misunderstanding might
Anthroposophical Movement. We must clearly understand that it
way by the other Movement; and that one who understands what
if those who wish to understand it grasp its essential nature
Movement for Religious Renewal. If anyone who stands on the
Therefore, I beg you to understand that it is necessary for the
the case itself. And it is also important to understand in
the case stands, for there is at the present time far too great
am quite sure that the very excellent and outstanding
Anthroposophists, so that whenever it is necessary to stand up
misunderstanding should arise in regard to this Cult

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bound to misunderstand the essential nature of man. For in man,
organism. Please try to understand this correctly. I said: a
sprouting life, we may learn to understand its real
pictures in the heaven of the fixed stars act upon, or stand in
the planetary movements of the system to which we belong stand
I stand rightly in the world; and I can speak the following
temple of the Cosmos — standing within it as one who is

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
of that divine being who stands for beauty and youth and the grandeur
That impression, that shock, brought the initiate to understand that
the heart's understanding of facts like the following: that
stands before thy soul in the image of the arisen god of beauty and
understand that the ancient Mysteries can live on in the true Easter

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
understand how man could live without an awareness of his
can understand it who know that it goes back to a reality such
You will now be able to understand the whole context of these
he come to understand what today we would call natural science. How
knowledge. That is what he was taught; and he came to understand that
came to understand that by means of all the forces active in the body
will readily understand that in this way we can at least
From all this we can understand why even today we look to Sun and
friends, to collaborate in this way with the right understanding. But
Stand at the portal of man's existence,

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
must understand that if we look out at something as readily
And now, in order to understand the crux of the matter, we must
understanding of man's relation to the cosmos intensified his

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
spiritual significance of outer events, to understand how these carry
their inner meaning if they are to be approached understandingly. One
If we would observe and rightly understand how this light-ether
and little observed by mankind. For you must really first understand
stands in contrast with the direct perception so characteristic
saying, Now we understand that we may no longer represent a mere

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
misunderstandings regarding matters of the highest
stands for beauty, youth, and human grandeur. You see that he
enduring elements of nature, for their understanding of
heralding thought, and must deepen our understanding of
will be able to achieve this when people understand how the

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
times, he would not at all understand how human beings can live
midst, you can ask him how things stand according to his
true understanding of human life.
will be able to understand these things in their full
the third stage the candidate had to understand certain
to understand that the human being, as far as the
and understand substance, to see how the different
From all this one can understand why even today human
Stand

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
order to understand why this is so, it is necessary to recall
by how they view the surrounding world from their standpoint.
to an understanding of the nature of death. I said that the

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
reverence in ourselves by understanding how the spiritual has
understand such matters we must examine them, as I mentioned
understand how the lunar forces or, one might say, the
harmony of the spheres as heard from the standpoint of the
understand just what kind of creation it was.

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
to a radical and profound misunderstanding that has come to
The most essential thing in it is: that the Being who stands in
have even to this day a deep understanding of what happened on
experienced in mind and soul, that made some understanding of
emotional understanding of such things as, for instance, that
also lost understanding of the external festivals of the
year: understanding that the coming of Autumn, bringing
understanding of the body, soul, and spirit of man, and of the

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
understanding of the thought of Easter, I naturally cannot
understanding of life, of man, cannot be gained by a science of
his understanding. They place him as man in the spiritual world
understanding of the matter. If men were only
needed, that people must be able to understand or realize
must therefore endeavour to-day to help you to understand from
Mysteries. They will only approach an understanding of
least to understand what men seeking initiation experienced in
From this we can understand how man still looks up to Sun and
Stand before the portals of the lives of men,

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
man on the earth. We must clearly understand when we look at
we wish really to understand what is brought about through
moon-standpoint out on the surrounding universe — how
standpoint of the moon, so the moon now gazes on the sun
one I then described was that which led men to an understanding
in later ages, when there was no longer any understanding

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Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
we are to enter into such matters with understanding we
which were for the special purpose of bringing an understanding
You must try to understand how this new creation which
go to-day to a Spiritual Being who stands near us, perhaps

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have some understanding of the spiritual process of human
Therefore to understand Plato requires more insight than a
century, and then there is again an ascent. But understanding
from understanding what is seen. In the earliest epochs men
seen that world. Indeed, the most outstanding savants in the
modern parliaments. The esotericists took the stand that only
understand and sympathise with those who said at that time
which we cannot merely speculate; we must understand the
standpoint of the Idealists of the nineteenth century —
instructive. To understand the nature of this compromise we

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questioner did not understand me at all, did not understand
standpoint, no female mediums were ever used for obtaining
Vienna. It is right that you should understand what the

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understanding it himself: “Dissipez vos
humanity stands in need.

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This will help us to understand the character of those powers
materialism. Materialism was to stand on the horizon like a
particular kind of confusion in spiritual understanding. If
a personality of this type there happens to stand some
our own standpoint is based.
counterweight, for from the standpoint of the Indian
understand it — by pursuing a definite course. She came
doubt that among those who, from the standpoint that here lay
that in regard to his evolution he stands under the workings
understand that he could never have beheld the departure of
stands in a special room in the second Goetheanum.

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will be able to conjecture, even if not fully to understand,
visionary-imaginative clairvoyance, which stands there as an
with the intellect, he is standing in the Fourth Sphere, the
we proceed. First of all, you can understand that what is
to reach at least some measure of understanding, the subject
must also be approached from a rather different standpoint.
will understand that what stems from the free will must be
two Jesus children. We must therefore take our stand on the
you not to lose sight of the fact that we are standing at a

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life of soul. But it is important to understand it because it
understand them. In earlier centuries, however, certain
coming to light. And whether we take the right stand in our
is good. I stand for something which I refused to accept,
employed by certain individualities who were standing behind
problem well worth the notice of people of standing and
judge them. We must not adopt the stand merely of studying
certainly make progress. In this connection we are standing
ground on which we stand — the ground of an earnest and

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thoughts that have been produced stand there as living beings
considerable differences. Now please do not misunderstand me
asleep, you will understand why the time in Kamaloka amounts
from the standpoint of occultism it was quite correct. He
however, is not correct — from the occult standpoint,
differences. It is not a matter of outstanding importance,
in this way to how matters stand with the teeth, something

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understand them, they constitute a kind of language which can
caution. The egoistic standpoint of restricting the store of
understand it; these people are satisfied if the symbols
an attentive reader. He may perhaps not understand why his

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gradually unfolds his free will. For while he stands
understand what has to be said about materialistic methods.
understand that if someone says that there is white magic and
microcosm, and in order to understand certain matters it is
be. What matters is that he shall understand the experience
standpoint it is a justified striving — to pour their
you will also understand why Father Antonius caused Paul the

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matter of very great importance for the understanding of
the whirl of the universe, when he does not stand firmly and
sufficient intellectual capacity to understand everything
to understand, in which case they are employing the intellect
beings—in order to understand Spiritual Science, and
may rest assured. If men make no attempt to understand
attained spiritual understanding keep these beings at bay.
thinking is materialistic, who acquire no understanding of
materialistic souls who have no desire to understand the
understand Spiritual Science. Through the strong intellectual
Plays. If you learn to understand and perceive what is
phenomena with love and understanding.
must be kept well in mind. We must also try to understand the
Science steers us in such a way that, if we understand it, we

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order to understand this painting, to really understand it
Mystery of Golgotha came forth which we understand in a
century; secondly the entirely different social understanding
entirely essential if one would understand, would want to
really not understand what happens in the becoming of
being human beings when one doesn't have a clear understanding
made people stand right within events in the East. Yet this
standing within it was really hardly living within it just like
the altar stands the Chalice with the Sanktissimum, the host.
who stand on the right, left and around it, but this host is
clairvoyant understanding of the world. — Suppose this is
against his age — he wanted to stand within its beauty
standing right in the 4th post-Atlantean time but
be painted from a Lutheran standpoint. What would he paint? He
so the man standing in the middle had his book painted over
understanding of the godly. On analysis the seven free arts
humanity who wants to rise to its own understanding of
As Paul understands — you see it here, how Paul teaches

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understand the current 5th post-Atlantean epoch in
which we stand, with all its peculiarities, in order for us to
understanding about it, then compare it with a Russian
impulses which were not in the position to understand humanity
land, lifestyle and place. One doesn't understand the times of
understanding through the three to four centuries created in
understanding of what pulsates through the world, what works in

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live in the 5th post-Atlantean epoch. We stand in
life-giving. The Cross of Golgotha had to stand opposite
standing human figure, which here has to be squashed into
geometric form, out of an understanding of guidelines and only
understand that people had some knowledge, even before
actual symbol which works magic. Understand this well: the sign
understanding than later, of what actually had to happen in the
one considers it in this way, then your mind understands the
without seeing prophetic depths within it. Whoever understands
see how time takes a stand of opposition to the supersensible
had to be offered up to the super-sensory. To understand
real understanding of the history of art in a spiritual sense.
day after day and do not want to understand the necessity to

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image, as it still stands, you see an absolutely antique
model. In order to really understand the most important Greek
that the Greek had no understanding of individual spirituality
transported over to the West! If you want to understand that
Understand, this had to be so, from the second half of the
Here firstly we see — when we have an understanding for

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powers of cognition remain at a standstill with whatever we
understand these paths of development into the higher
that they have no real understanding of human progress.
Some understanding of the ancient path of development
with the outer world of men: speech, the capacity to understand
illusion to believe that understanding of the sounds of speech
to understand what is perceived in the sounds of speech, just
the word as such, when we want to understand through the word
endeavour to understand through the words the meaning of what
penetrate through the word in order to understand what the
from attempting to understand anything else through the word.
understand only the content and meaning of the words, but
for understanding the other person through the word. Through
attention is focussed entirely upon understanding
what we understand by “authority” today
civilisation has gradually lost all understanding of the nature
understanding of the religious creeds of the West, for when all
means of understanding what came to pass through the Mystery of
will help you to understand what I really mean.
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understand through the word what another person wished
without the remotest understanding of mathematical thinking.
misunderstand what I am going to say — it
is transformed into one that can stand upright and walk. When
Anybody able to apply laboratory standards of objective observation
stand naked, as it were, before essential movement,
makes possible a sound understanding of the outer world.
to an understanding of nature's secrets. This line of Western

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for you to understand the character of the Jewish religion if I say something
You can understand
stands in modern versions of the Gospels gives rise to misunderstanding.
recognise any other influence. Real understanding of these things
the other hand they have no outstanding gift for sculpture,
Rome, should stand as the centre and citadel of the Christian

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make letters which stand out a little from the paper it would be
From the statement as it stands, the details could not all be put to
But by that time men had lost all understanding of the spiritual
veneration was paid to Constantine, standing there on the pillar that
knowledge can greatly deepen our understanding of the Mystery of
learn to understand things in a spiritual way, above all such things
From the calendar as it now stands it is often impossible to
understand what really lies behind these festivals.

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did not understand and who did not understand them. The neighbouring
soul, with the intellect. It is easy to understand that this led to
— I beg you not to misunderstand me — that this should be
to understand this. — If I make an image or a picture, even if it
themselves no longer understand, you will find in the very

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sea-water, one discovers that this salty sea-water stands in but
everything through which the earth stands in connection with the
animal also stands in connection with the heavens. I said that it is
not observant of such things one has really no understanding of the

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favourable and calmly stands upright again, as of course you
that when one understands nature, one also really understands what are
the earth. Is that understandable? It is always moving farther round from
there was once life everywhere and will be so again; death only stands
certainly could not be accused of not standing completely in modern
the organism has even become too brittle to stand the cure. But in a
peculiar thing is that if one wants to understand anything, one must
other material. One has to understand flesh colour and then the other

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What we need is a real science, a science which understands how the
matter itself. Physical science does not really understand matter,
because to understand matter one must know how the spirit is working
knows exactly what the watchmaker did. To understand why a watch
mines and the rest of the process, but for any understanding of

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outwardly. We can therefore easily understand that the iron which is
cosmos, between Mercury and Mars, stands the Sun (diagram). Just as
things: one must learn to understand the Mars force in man and then

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people with grossly materialistic scientific views do not understand this,
urgent importance to-day, and it is well that you should understand
only you understand that there are three things: wood sap, life sap,
this way you can understand the form of plants from the nature of the
understand the whole of Nature. It is useless merely to understand
geology or botany or chemistry. One must understand chemistry and be
science of the stars, if one wishes to understand the formation of

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their bodies can stand a considerable amount. Why do they take the
dose is increased very gradually, the organs are able to stand it.
precisely by understanding super-sensible nature that we

Title: Die Soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage: Lecture I
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und es entstand die Absicht, dasjenige, was wir aus unserer
solchen Impulsen heraus entstand der Gedanke,
gewissen Wirklichkeitsstandpunkt stellen will. Der
es verstanden werden kann zunächst von den
war gegründet. In den ersten Zeiten seines Bestandes
seinen Bestand rechtfertigende Zielsetzung. Der Verlauf der
die nicht voll im Sinne dieser neuen Forderungen entstanden
herantraten. Seine Verwaltung hat nicht verstanden, dem Reich
Welt —, bestand für mich die Absicht, schon
verstanden, wozu es überhaupt in der Welt da
der Geist zeigt, daß der Geist sich imstande erweist, die
Meinung nach schlecht — auf Strategie verstanden hat,
aber in bezug auf alles andere ganz fern allem Leben gestanden
fern aller Wirklichkeit gestanden hat, nichts ahnte von den

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irgendeinem ethischen oder religiösen Standpunkte
all dasjenige, was Gegenstand staatlicher Organisation
verstanden hast in einem der geringsten meiner
Brüder, das hast du von mir verstanden — denn
Menschen, als das Christentum entstanden ist, der Christus hat
ein Irrtum ist, das hast du von mir verstanden, und ich werde
daß eine tiefe Kluft entstanden ist, wie ich schon gestern

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ganz auf orthodox-marxistischem Standpunkt, der andere
beobachtend, weiterentwickelt. Nun entstand auf Grundlage des
Standpunkte zu dem Ignorabimus gekommen ist: «Wir
entstanden, weil sie gebraucht wird von den leitenden
Proletarier, so wie er entstanden ist in der neueren
alles gibt keineswegs einen idealen Zustand. Wenn also jemand
bürgerliche Shylock-Standpunkt, der wird sich also in die
ist — von diesem heutigen Menschen, der imstande ist, mir
gegenübersteht, sondern nur eine Ideologie. Diesen Zustand
den Standpunkt stellen kann, daß hinter all der
wird niemals imstande sein, den neuen Menschen wirklich
aufzuwachen gegenüber dem Schlafzustand, der die heutigen
unsere Freunde gerade vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkte

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wesentlichen entstanden aus der begrifflichen Hilflosigkeit der
Offenbarung auf einen macht. Und da entstand die Klippe; man
antisoziale Denkart entstanden; die antisoziale Denkart, die
einverstanden sein kann, verwendet werde. Das wird aber nur
Widerstand des bürgerlichen sektiererischen
wird nur dann richtig verstanden, wenn man den Gedanken hat,

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gestern den Gegenstand unserer Betrachtung bildete, war,
gerechter sozialer Zustand ergeben könnte. Und da
Verstandesgrundsätzen zusammengesetzt werden.
Gemeinschaftsleben entstanden. Das Gemeinschaftsleben des
daß da eine Unwahrheit herrscht. Der Tatbestand wird
anderer Tatbestand vor. Für den, der die

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Menschheitszustand erleben kann, eine Wirklichkeit ist, oder ob
glaubte, einen Zustand herbeigeführt zu haben, der zu
bezeichnen sei als Zustand höchster materieller
gewisses Verhältnis zustande bringen zwischen Seele und
entwickelt werden könne, welche imstande ist, die
heraus entstanden. Wenn es der Proletarier empfangen soll, so
innersten Gefüge nach eigentlich nur verstanden werden
daß eigentlich alles das nicht verstanden wird, was in der
wird nicht gleich verstanden werden, inwiefern es etwas
dem Lebensgesichtspunkte aus kann es verstanden werden.
die alleralltäglichsten Dinge zu umfassen imstande ist,
menschlichen Standpunktes stellen —, daß es heute
dieses Papier liefert, wirklich auch den Goldbestand; daß
sonderbare Tatsache — weil von Staat zu Staat ein Zustand

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Knabe noch war — es ist jetzt lange her —, da stand
Da stand: Der Christus Jesus war entweder ein Heuchler oder ein
Religionsbuche stand, ich hörte es neulich in
oder jenes soll schon im Entstehungszustand, im Status nascens,
Verstand und das abstrakte Denken halten, denn sie kennen
Gedanke des Völkerbundes ist entstanden aus

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sie der Idee nach aus dem Kopfe Wilsons entstand, damals
nur in tiefer Demut, im Zustande der Nötigung und
ruhte, könnte keinen Bestand haben, sondern
Widerstand herrscht gegen die Geisteswissenschaft?
Widerstand sagen kann, zugleich bezogen werden
diese Ideen existiert haben, bevor eine Natur entstanden ist,
Verstand Gottes, sondern sogar Gott selbst vor der Erschaffung
gemacht haben, sondern diejenigen, welche auf dem Standpunkt
des Alten festgestanden haben. Als im

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Gegenstandes von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus anwesend sind.
entstanden zu sein — ich freute mich, als Miß
Anthroposophie heraus einrichten. So entstand die
eben nicht eine Standesschule, eine Weltanschauungsschule
hingebungsvollen Weise an dem Zustandekommen dieses
üben, die Sache ist eine Notwendigkeit, aber verstanden
Menschen standen die mächtigen Bilder, die dann in
und mehr ein Bestandteil unserer Zivilisation in dieser
entstanden ist, man müsse den geistigen Dingen
zwischen Kunst und Religion, entstand die Religion, die
primitive Mensch drinnenstand, wenn er in einer Kultushandlung

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hat. Derjenige, der imstande war, die göttliche
Körpers zur Offenbarung zu bringen, und der verstand,
Leicht ist es, von einem gewissen modernen Standpunkte aus, man
Ideal vor der mittelalterlichen Erziehung stand.
Respektierung des intellektualistischen Wesens. Es entstand ein
das Griechenideal war: es entstand dasjenige Ideal, das vor
Pädagogik das3 was verstanden werden sollte,
Zivilisation gestanden hat, aus welcher die Veden und die
Geist noch voll in dem Körperlichen zu schauen verstand.
Barbaren, der nicht verstand, wie man den Körper

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Grieche stand dem Kinde ungefähr in der Art
entwickelt hatte, stand sie gegenüber dem, was wie durch
Art labiler Zustand in seinem Menschenwesen. Das Seelische

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heutigen Bestand mit dem griechischen Bestand vergleicht,
imstande 1st, ein innerlich ganz künstlerischer, ein

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Sie verlor sich nach und nach, aber nur langsam; sie bestand
diese Dinge werden erst richtig verstanden, wenn man den ganzen
so etwas verstand, wie es noch lebt durch das
16., 17. Jahrhundert der Ruf entstand, man solle in anderer

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Verstände, in einem Schattenbilde des Verstandes, das
entstanden; kurz, es sind Spielzeuge in die Spielweisen

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reich ist als Mensch. Durch den Verstand verarmt man
seelisch, durch den Verstand wird man innerlich öde; durch
wäre keine Welt entstanden, wenn die Götter so
Götterseite her die Welt zustande gekommen. Und wenn

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Sinn und Verstand, Wollen und Fühlen wie von selbst und
die Sinneseindrücke, auf dasjenige, was der Verstand aus
der alten Zeit vor der Seele stand, war nicht eine Seelenfrage,
Naturrätsel stand vor seiner Seele. Und in dem «Ex
Fortgang in der Menschheitsentwickelung bestand dann darin,
bedienen und desjenigen Verstandes, der an die
die menschliche Seele hinrücken müssen, so stand
— entstand jetzt das zweite große Rätsel: Wie
den alten Menschen klar vor der Seele stand, es war jetzt aus
Christentum verstanden, die Hauptsache.
bringen, sie will den in Verstandes-, in intellektualistischen

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Bringt man das zustande, versteht das Kind die Tierwelt als den

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Schlafzustande läßt der Mensch seinen Äther-
ganzen Weben und Wesen des Menschen zustande. Wir müssen
die Zwei entstanden. Nun geht man weiter, es entsteht durch
entstand die Frage, ob denn dadurch nicht zu viel vergessen
Gegenstand gegeben wird, der frühere Gegenstand in den

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erreicht, führen wir es zu demjenigen, was zum Verstand,
aber zum beweglichen, zum lebendigen Verstand gehört:
können. Und so ist das Prinzip entstanden, überhaupt
Proletarierstande herausgebildet hat — sie war die
können wir nur erreichen, wenn wir imstande sind, für

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Extrem entstanden. Man will das Gedächtnis im neueren
drinnen stand. Ich versuchte, ihm den ganzen Geist, aus dem in
Schule eben nötig ist, den Gegenstand jeder
begreift, Widerstand entgegensetzt den Verbindungen von
Normalzustand hinüberbringen könnte, dann sind
abstrakten, durch den Verstand zu begreifenden
unmöglich, alles durch Logik, durch Verstand, durch
Verstand begreifbar. Wenn wir im rechten Momente wissen,
Raffael gestanden haben, in dieser Weise mit der Farbe verfuhr,

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diese Weise aber bekommt man bei dem Kinde zustande, daß
Gefühle zu haben. Sein Verstand, sein Intellekt, seine
herrschend sind, mißverstanden werden, wenn man nicht
entstanden, die Eurythmie ist aus gewissen
Schicksalsfügungen um das Jahr 1912 entstanden, aber
entstanden aus künstlerischen Intentionen, als
Eurythmie als Kunst ist eben um 1912 herum entstanden,
wiederum verstandesmäßig Ausgedachtes. Und
Gegenstand der Einleitungen bei den Aufführungen
Diese Figuren sind auf Anregung Miss Maryons entstanden,
wie Prosa. Dasjenige, was sie zustandebringt, daß
einzelnen Laute in der Eurythmie gerade zustande. Was kommt
zustande, wenn Sie Ihre Kraft in die Glieder hineingießen?
einzelne Erfahrung, die er in der Schule macht, ein Gegenstand
etwas beigetragen haben zum Zustandekommen dieser Konferenz,

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Sprache bestand in Dialekten, die nicht den Übergang
bezeichnen als den Übergang von der Verstandes- oder
Übergang stattfindet von der Verstandes- oder
gehalten werden, die nicht auf diesem Standpunkte stehen.

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unter den Menschen bestanden, die alles, was heilig, wahr und
halbneuen Mysterien stand der Menschensprache gegenüber
Kabiren, die daraufstanden als äußere Denkmäler,

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Tradition, es wurde nicht mehr lebendig verstanden, aber es
allmählich etwas Unverstandenes. Was durch sie erlebt
werden soll, Apokalyptik, wurde etwas Unverstandenes.
wie verstand man in der ersten Mysterienepoche die Apokalypse?
verstand man in der zweiten Mysterienepoche die Anwesenheit der
in der dritten Mysterienepoche, wie verstand man da die
Apokalyptik? Man verstand die Apokalyptik so, daß der
Apokalypse entstanden ist. Wenn gefühlt wird, daß

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dadurch in der Menschheitsentwickelung entstanden ist, daß
nichtsbedeutende Bestandteil des Wortes war, als den wir ihn
Daseinsstufen Mond, Sonne, bis zum Saturnzustand, und es wird
des Saturnzustandes der Erde erlebte, sondern es taucht auch
Saturnzustand zum Sonnenzustand der Erde, und wiederum reicher
wird, während die Erde vom Sonnenzustand zum Mondzustand
sich entwickelt, und vom Mondzustand zur Erde. Und noch reicher
Entwickelung auf dem Standort in der Weltenevolution, auf dem
bedienen darf - gleichzeitige Realität. Der Abstand
Mysteriensprache und kann nur verstanden werden, wenn es aus
den allerältesten Zeiten noch voll verstanden. Wenn der
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ursprünglichen Text den im Laufe der Zeit entstandenen
Er fühlt sich also in demjenigen Zustand, in dem er da
durchaus einen Kern von Menschen, die verstanden, was das
hätte unter den Leuten, die das verstanden, gar nicht
diesem Christentum ganz besonders nahegestanden hat.
alten traumhaften Hellseherzustand, denn gerade diesem
stand, des Artus mit seinen zwölf Rittern. Man sieht es
mit durch elementarische Wesen zustande gekommenen

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immer entstanden durch Inspirationen des Willens. Und hier

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bestand das erste, was er erfahren sollte, darin, daß sein
Fortbestand der alten Kulturen und das Eintreten der neuen
Endzustand. Dem jetzigen ging voran der sechste Zyklus, der
Kräfte, welche aber in diesem Zeitalter wenig verstanden

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Apokalypse entstanden ist. Ich meine das natürlich in
darüber: Die Apokalypse ist ja entstanden auf die Weise,
dar, in dem das Ich hereinschlug in die Verstandes- oder
Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele hat ja eine große Rolle
kam. In dieses Zeitalter der Entwickelung der Verstandes- oder
Hineinschlagen des Ich in die Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele
des Göttlichen zum Menschen unverstanden und wankend und
Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele tauchen im Innersten des
selber zu denken hatte. Und da standen sich die beiden
Fassen wir diesen Gegenstand jetzt einmal vom spirituellen
Standpunkte auf, denn das ist ja vor allem wichtig, wenn wir
Verstandesoder Gemütsseele, welche durch dieses
damaligen Zeiten verstand -, sie gehen in die Freiheit der
Naturwissenschaft, wie sie vor einiger Zeit entstanden ist und
Transsubstantiation dadurch bestand, daß man gar nicht

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daß sie nicht nur den heutigen Zustand der Menschheit auf
heutigen Zustand enthalten ist, daß sie hinschaut auf das,
ist: der Mensch im Vulkanzustand. Wenn wir die anderen Planeten
aus ihrem eigenen Munde kam. Das furchtbare Schauspiel stand
Auftretens der 666 standen jene großen Umwälzungen in
überall so verstanden worden ist.

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namentlich wenn wir seinen heutigen Zustand betrachten, so,
Normalität verbunden trägt. Wenn er im Schlafzustand
eben der Schlafzustand vom Erwachenden wahrgenommen wird, und
astralischer Leib im schlafenden Zustande eine solche
Zustande eine solche Offenbarung hinaus in die Welt der
nicht imstande, wenn er am Morgen mit seinem Ich und seinem
richtige Christus-Gesinnung sich einen solchen Schlafzustand
Natur und konnte damit zufrieden sein. Denn der Mensch stand
hebräischen Geheimlehre verstanden, die sahen in dem, was
und die Häuser des alten Jerusalem, das dastand als die
Jerusalem. Nicht mehr wird man imstande sein, aus den
Ingredienzien der Erde heraus so etwas zustande zu bringen wie

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Verstand, in seiner Intellektualität die Trichotomie der
Welt überschreitet, hineinkommt in einen Zustand, den ich
natürlich der Zustand, der da dem Endbild des Neuen
Himmel ist ihm aufgetan. Er will damit einen Zukunftszustand
Bevor auf der Erde der Zustand eintreten wird, wo die geistigen
werden, bevor dieser Zustand kommen wird, daß die Menschen
dieser Zustand kommen wird - den ja Johannes als einen realen
dieser Zustand eintreten wird, wird ein anderer Zustand da
Menschen auf Erden. Damit wird wiederum der Zustand bezeichnet,
dem Grund konnte die Waldorfschule zustande kommen, weil wir
verstanden werden, nicht bloß mit der Erkenntnis.

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Medium zustandekommt. Nicht wahr, ein Mensch wird dadurch zum
Endzustand kommen kann, von dem der Apokalyptiker spricht. Wenn
richtigen Weise verstanden wird, kann man auch das verstehen,
genommen, bevor die Welt entstand, in der der Mensch seine
Diese Macht ist vom menschlich-irdischen Standpunkt aus gesehen
anderen Standpunkt hat als die Menschen, ganz anders über
Standpunkt aus ist eigentlich Satan nicht eine zu verachtende
allerdings in einer bestimmten Zeit zustandegekommen.

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Wolkenbildung da vor seiner Seele stand, da fühlte er
jenem herabgedämpften Zustande, wie das Bewußtsein
einem verdichteten Zustand. Als der zweite Zeitraum in der
verstanden, sagten sich: Das ist für den Himmel die Geburt

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Standpunkt aus gesehen, im allereminentesten Sinne schon
Verstandesseele geboren und damit die Möglichkeit des
einem bestimmten Zeitalter der Entwickelung entstanden sind und
dazumal geschah, stand durchaus unter dem Einfluß dessen,
das dem Umstand zuzuschreiben, daß man nicht mit solchen
Freunde, gerade die Apokalypse zum Gegenstand dieser
entstand, die Apokalypse zu verstehen, daß Ihr auch als

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sind, welche im Anschluß an die Apokalypse entstanden
entstanden sind, so glücklich seien, aber bei diesem Bild,
das Gefühl. Als Gefühl lebt es im Wachzustande, in
der Bildhaftigkeit der Träume lebt es im Schlafzustande.
daß die Gefühle Seeleninhalt des Wachzustandes, die
Träume Seeleninhalt des Schlafzustandes sind. Das, was wir
dem Verstande gemacht sei und die einen bloßen Formalismus
nicht mit dem Verstande. Aber sie sind nicht nur in der
Verstandesseelenentwickelung. Ich habe es angegeben als den
sieht, eine Undeutlichkeit entstanden ist. Das ist aber etwas,
Napoleon, entstand ja erst eigentlich mit voller Deutlichkeit

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waghalsige, zumeist törichte Hypothesen zum Anfangszustand
oder zum Endzustand der Erde zu gehen, wenn man diesen Zeitraum
wächst, das sei halt entstanden aus den Samen des vorher
Zustand, der nicht ganz bleibend ist. Wir werden gleich davon
gewahr, wie auch das nur ein vorübergehender Zustand ist.
so ist auch dieser Zustand, der uns die Erde im Wandel zeigt -
vielmehr ein Zustand eintreten, in dem etwas da sein wird, was
wechselnden Zustand - ich möchte das ganz fest hinstellen
-, wir haben heute den wechselnden Zustand (es wird an die
herpendelnden Zustand den Herbst und den Frühling. Das
wird, sondern es wird ein Zwischenzustand eintreten, wo das
Göttliche, das im Gleichgewichtszustande, in dem sich
immer wiederholenden Gleichgewichtszustande zwischen dem
Ahrimanisches hereinflutet, auf das den Gleichgewichtszustand
Arbeit, wie Sie sie nennen. Es kann verstanden werden, wie sehr
und es kann auch verstanden werden, wieviele Sorgen eben
verstanden werden. Aber Sie dürfen nicht vergessen, meine
imstande ist, aus der Situation dieser Priesterbewegung das

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Frage formuliert war, und Ihre Frage stand schon in organischem
ob ich die Frage, so wie sie formuliert war, mißverstanden
müßte, in der Art, wie es verstanden wird. Doch, will

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feststand, was wir jetzt zu betrachten haben, wurde von den
damaligen Stande der Wissenschaft das gelehrte Kollegium recht
draußen standen und diesen Lichtregen betrachteten und

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Himmlischen, und wir wissen, wir kommen in den ersten Zustand
nicht lesen können, ohne sich des Umstandes bewußt zu
organisch sich vorstellte. Der Irrtum entstand namentlich, als
nicht mehr verstand. Wenn man die oft vorzüglichen
möglichst wenig von dieser Frage verstand in Wirklichkeit.
verstanden, die aus Sternen, Sonne und Wind spricht.

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seiner Entwicklung gestanden haben.
ungeheurer Schlafzustand da war, in wenigen Tagen [1914] einen
verstanden wird heute - was bedeutet das? Es bedeutet, daß
Euch - nachdem der berechtigte Wunsch in Euch entstanden ist,
Lichtschein der recht verstandenen Gnade zu stellen, so wird

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zunächst mit seinen Gedanken über den Gegenstand zu tun;
betreffenden Gegenstand. Alles übrige interessiert ihn
begeisterter Redner leicht verstanden. Ein künstlerisch

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allen Dingen vor die Seele halten, daß es schwer ist, verstanden
verstanden zu werden, werden wir wohl kaum in einer uns
verstanden werden, während nicht wenige sind, die nur ein
damit ich nicht mißverstanden werde, einfügen, daß die
in Parenthese einfügen, damit ich nicht mißverstanden werde.
gegenübergestanden hat, der wird ebensowenig in die Lage
Wärmetheorie enden wird, vom Wahrheitsstandpunkt aus weiß
Wahrheitsstandpunkt ausgeht, eine Seele hat. Darüber kann man
läßt. Und daraus entstand die Philosophie des «Als
Zusammenklänge aus diesem Krähen Zustandekommen. In
Harmonie zustande, weil der Geist lebt, nicht die einzelnen Egoisten,

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nicht verstanden werden. Es kann dem Zuhörer an einer
welche nur so entstanden ist, daß man einfach eine
Verstandenwerden rechnen. Hervorgehenlassen die ganze Rede
daß man auch da durchaus mißverstanden wird. Man kann sich
mißverstanden wird? –
man nicht mißverstanden wird? – Sie ist nicht schwer zu
mißverstanden wird? – Man sagt den Leuten, was sie
oder so etwas. Dann wird man natürlich verstanden.
verstanden zu werden. Sonst wird man ja sehr bald die folgende
verstanden haben. Die anderen lernt man meistens nicht kennen, weil
sie sich nicht an den Diskussionen beteiligen. Die nichts verstanden
errungenen Standpunkte aus auftraten und nun etwa erklärten: Vor
Standesbeamten sich selber anstellen, denn er sei ein Schuhflicker,
den Verpflichtungen eines Standesbeamten nichts wisse. Er würde
Schuhflicker sei, sich selber als Standesbeamten anstellen! –
gut berufen, aber zum Standesbeamten durchaus nicht! Das war für
weil wir eben verstanden werden sollen, aus der Seele der Leute
Proletariat aber kamen diese Begriffe herauf, und dadurch entstand der
Veranlasser, daß beim Proletariat die Auffassung entstanden ist
Verstande der Zuhörer reden Sie durch die Komposition, zum

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menschlichen Standpunkte aus, nehmen wir die Frage der Verhungerung
das ganz gewiß vom menschlichen Standpunkte aus sogar gefordert
Schweiz hat so dagestanden während der furchtbarsten
anderen Seite wiederum herausgeht, ohne daß es zu Verstand und
den Dingen verstanden in Österreich, die haben oftmals
und nun in schwarzen Beinkleidern und schwarzem Frack dastand. Mir
zustande kriegen das eigene Reden mit Antipathie zu betrachten, bei

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Bestandteil der Rede, sondern die dastehen: erstens, zweitens,
Redeturnen nennen mochte, nur an für den Verstand sinnvollen
für den Verstand sinnvollen Sätzen überwiegt

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in der Lage, wenn er irgend etwas nicht verstanden hat,
Zustand herbeigeführt haben und daß sie ihn verstärken

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described from a standpoint beyond the Earth come before us in
them he looks with loving sympathy and understanding. Going along
the reality of things seen; we see things standing more and more
more we see the human figures standing out as single characters,
understand man as such in a far deeper way. The heavenly domain
to understand the different streams. I will once more repeat
Cecilia there is the central figures standing in the midst; yet
understand the forms of Nature. We see the spiritual content

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friends, that in our time people have little understanding for what is
in former epochs — epochs when the artistic understanding was
forget how much has been done to extirpate a true artistic understanding
True understanding for the manner of representation has been
subject-matter is presented to it. In wide circles, artistic understanding
the week, understands of Sunday. He simply thought, here is the subject;
can we fully understand these artists if we have no feeling for the
time, on the other hand, people fail to understand the artistic element
be living in the whole way of feeling of their time. We cannot understand
their creative work unless we understand the character which Christianity
with outward vision. Man felt impelled to feel and understand external
this feeling of Nature, a conscious understanding of Nature. Because
An understanding of Nature as against a feeling for Nature: this is
understand. And though we need not take it word for word — for
to understand Nature. He tried in an even wider sense to understand
out of the whole man, standing in the very midst of the turning-point
hand was working, therefore, from a many-sided understanding of the
he bore within him. Unlike Leonardo, he did not stand remote from
understand in Michelangelo himself what was due to Savonarola's
say: Leonardo lives in the midst of a large and universal understanding.
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can do no more than emphasise a few salient points. To understand
impulses of the imagination stand in clear contrast to those of a
not understand the medieval Art at all. For the same reason, more
practicality of life, a cleverness in skill and understanding, a
with the later realism; this early realism sought to understand the
mystical element and an intellectual. No one will understand the
contrast it? To understand how Faust opposes the human
doing so he must stand firm and secure within himself. He must not
placed when he would stand firm on his own personality alone. He
could never understand him in any other way. Through the infinite
these few abstract sketches), do we come to true understanding of
fearing neither Death nor the Devil that stand across his path. He
Knight’ this picture should be called. Death and the Devil stand in

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movement in the human soul. We cannot understand what took place
Savonarola. The situation stands before us when we contrast the
for the understanding of whole epochs of History. However we may
erected by Gothic architecture stand there not because the people
have here described. We must by all means understand how these more
attained an artistic height that stands, in a certain way, so
that they themselves stand just a little nearer to the various
only learn to understand these things of Spiritual Science rightly

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Rembrandt, as a human phenomenon, stands, to a great extent, isolated.
more important to see how he himself stands in the stream of evolution
standing beside another in a row, has not its cause in the neighbouring
(I refer to wider circles, a few individuals always excepted) understand
element. He stands on his own ground entirely, creating out of the
pictures or anything of that kind. Rembrandt stands out as the
of artistic life in that age. Hermann Grimm rightly says that to understand
era. Nothing can teach us to understand so well what was living in the
no other than confront the object as men stand outside it. But they still
sets down his figures; he lets them stand there and then he lives and
distributions of light and dark. When we stand face to face with his
him to grasp. The figures merely stand there as a background; the real
must stand over against his object from without. He lets the world work
how he stands out as an isolated phenomenon through his age, though
work, even when we stand before the colored paintings, we have the feeling
stands alone and isolated. In the continuous study of the history of Art,

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of Art an elementary power of understanding — that is to say, if we
relates stand side by side on this flat surface. From our point of view,
A figure that stands in
the way of another, is in the foreground; the other stands behind it.
They have little understanding of the individual principle. Such things
should be taken into account, for Nations will never understand each
this tendency will have a natural understanding for the art of
takes his stand beside the others.
immediate naturalistic reality. Men of the Netherlands stand before us as
On the very soil where we ourselves are standing, the Biblical scenes

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personalities stand before us in a more and more human form.
same understanding, as the appearance of Jesus to the Shepherds according
to St. Luke's Gospel. For the latter is a simple understanding of the
heart, of inner feeling; while the understanding which we must bring
is of extreme importance if we wish to understand the deep, deep truths
above all, must be taken into account if we wish to understand why it

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been attained. When we let them work upon us and try to understand them,
in his works, and how does it stand in relation to the World? Think
Behind the artist stand great cosmic perspectives — world-conceptions
before us interests us, above all, inasmuch as it stands out against
stands unfinished when he leaves this physical plane. In cyclic periods
other Art is measured by this standard. The works of this Art are the
balance. Look at the boy who stands here, in this picture. It is not
soul of Raphael. And, again, he is only conceivable as one who stands
stand before us with any cosmic perspectives in the background. It is,
understanding. They heard that a thing must be done so, and so; but
a picture must somewhat express the fact that one figure is standing
could only understand with great difficulty. To the people of these
their own understanding. To begin with, I will show you an artist of the
crowd of people standing in the background. Look at the faces. Considering
how near some of them are, they could not be standing side by side in
he has been told, but without much artistic understanding. The things
style. The time may come when people will understand what we have been

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to understand the several plant species as diverse manifestations of one
In this sphere, as in all others, materialistic prejudices stand in
of our time: On the one hand theoretically, they are at pains to understand
these matters, to gain some understanding of those noble forms of Humanity
To understand the art of
idea of an age that fails to understand the real depths. Through
Thus we stand in the middle
understand what he meant. The anecdote is interesting, if not historically

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You cannot deal with man through logic alone, but through an understanding that can only be reached when intellect shall see the world as a work of art.
understanding of this quite abstract sentence is a simple matter. You
if we are really to understand the world, we cannot remain at the
really understand nature, really penetrate into the cosmos, we must
understanding of a bird's etheric body. For if, through imaginative
This is due to the fact that, to understand the bird, we must go very,
perception into the nature of the sun's working, we understand why the
lion. We can really only understand the lion when we develop a feeling
And again, let those who have a sense for the artistic understanding
bring my understanding to bear on the nature and being of the cow) all
upwards to the bird-kingdom. If one is to understand the human breast
of the lion. And man must try to understand his digestive system from
insane to an age that has retained absolutely no understanding for the
outward direction, but at the same time stands within the Indian
understand the religious veneration which is paid to the cow in
subject will never enable us to understand.

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bird of Jupiter. In general Jupiter stands as the representative of
counted, science, or what stands for it, is constructed. All this then
the standards of the whole of civilization.
understanding to measure, number and weight, things are not
which stands entirely under the sign of measure, number and weight,
understand the whole organism of the cow as it lies in the meadow
If, with real understanding, one contemplates the eagle as he soars
their connection do we understand the riddle of the universe.
understand the organization of the cow in its inner spirituality. This
secrets of the universe leads into the understanding of the being of
today the alluring calls stand over against each other, their cosmic
negro fable, you will understand that just at the present time these
counting; to understand not merely what lies in the physical
will be able to receive and understand the true calls, bringing him

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soon understand this still more exactly. We only speak correctly about

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ourselves with feeling and understanding for this epoch of evolution,
materialistic understanding looks for it; the sun is actually present
we look up towards the butterfly, and we understand it to be the plant
You see, one must really say that understanding of the world cannot
understanding. Cosmic activity is indeed the greatest of artists. The
satisfaction to the artistic sense. And no-one can understand the
abstract thoughts into artistic sense. No-one can understand the

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if we wish to understand the butterfly in its true nature, we must in
garment, is luggage. We must gain an understanding of what the beings
the details of why it is Maya. We understand Maya when we know that

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understand how it is that in the case of the amphibians and reptiles
Looked at with understanding, butterflies and birds are a memory
entire human being in regard to his inner nature, if we understand

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understanding of the plant-world. This understanding of the
which is at the same time understanding, which does not only
see and hear, but immediately understands what is seen and heard,
preservers of world-understanding within the earth.
Because these gnomes have immediate understanding of what they see,
are the compendium of understanding, they are entirely understanding.
Everything about them is understanding, an understanding however,
understanding as something incomplete. The gnomes laugh us to scorn on
account of the groping, struggling understanding with which we manage
the gnome-world below, with its immediate understanding and formative
Thus, just as human understanding is not subjected to gravity, just as

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stand in danger of losing their substance. Because of this, in order
those animals which stand at a somewhat higher stage, which have
can remain completely in waking consciousness, but nevertheless stand
thinking being, while standing firmly on the earth, then he will
inter-working of both these kinds of beings does one really understand
understanding, we transfer ourselves into this super-sensible world.

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about and stands. For the gnomes it is a transparent globe, a hollow
man, one also gradually understands how they give expression to their
understanding of how the world-word in all its different nuances is
walking, in our standing, in our moving of the arms and hands,

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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.
from a certain standpoint this alteration appears in the following
earth, because there we stand in the midst of it. A Saturn ring is
the adjacent nerves, just as breathing must stand in a certain
If one understands a brain-illness and the means by which
lay beneath a glass on a little stand — the eye does not look out

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And we learn to understand why this is so when, in the evolutionary
avoid giving rise to the opinion that anthroposophy entails standing
You see, to understand man presupposes the understanding of nature. To
understand nature provides the basis for the understanding of man. And

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understanding, mutual human understanding, and, based upon this human
understanding, human love. Wheresoever we may look for the arising of
understanding based upon human love. These are the actual driving
understanding and human love.
said, must be on the tip of every tongue: If human understanding and
does it come about that the very reverse of human understanding and
to human understanding and human love, why are these qualities not
hatred and lack of human understanding? Now, if we are unable to look
for this lack of human understanding, this human hatred, in the sphere
lack of human understanding.
world. And we only understand these things rightly when we can
to that warmth which understands the other man. In the solid
understanding, we must nevertheless be aware that below in the
can, as it were, be infected with the lack of human understanding.
warmth, that is to say human understanding and love, for these must
misunderstanding and human hatred has become imbedded in men's souls.
failure to understand, how much hatred, is present in our
failure to understand, how much human hatred have been implanted into
bodies should deal with themselves. In the lack of human understanding
obliged to carry further this failure to understand the other man,
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emphasized that a person standing upon the foundation of
spiritual research can best of all understand the objections
raised from an external standpoint. Indeed one can say that if
understand his own super-sensible nature. But there are many
understand its innermost being. Consciously, he is never quite
intellect bound up with the senses to stand still. This is the
foundation if we do not remain standing halfway, but use our
science. We can understand this, and, as stated, no objection can
we can only adopt Schopenhauer's standpoint, who says that to
But our contemporaries find it difficult to understand such
standpoint that spiritual science fails to supply proofs. What
only proofs such as those required for the understanding of a

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spiritual-scientific movement and of the way in which we stand within
that they were standing within the whole universe, that they had been
are standing within the cosmos. Science looks upon the human being,
must feel once more that he is standing within the whole cosmos. He
the vernal point in the sign of Aries, where it does not stand, in
Our own calendar, instead, shows how matters really stand. But this
out of the whole universe. Seen as a whole, he stands within the
stands within the whole cosmos.
You see, this enables us to feel that we are standing
are standing within the universe; we learn to know that human life,
organic standpoint, speech is connected with our breathing process.
were standing in the midst of the universe. This, again,
only be grasped from a spiritual-scientific standpoint. For the sufferings

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all, that the Beings who stand immediately above the hierarchy of

Title: Lecture: Entry of the Michael Forces
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who stand in any kind of connection with them.
Now Michael is a Spirit who stands in a special relationship to
though they did not understand it clearly — a strong feeling of
Reformation. I want you to understand me precisely. All the
a real power of understanding for the Michael element.
with, from the world. They stand in many connections in the world.
stands within and the one who stands or remains outside, is of far
the standing side-by-side to-day of anthroposophists
Let us assume an anthroposophist stands
is a man who stands within some national group. We can see at once,
I have said that those who stand with full intensity within the
it with enthusiasm. This mission we must understand and see.

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or that specialized circle of ideas or sensations can understand less
we shall probably understand each other best if we proceed from
instances of those misunderstanding and often ridiculous attacks on
lived in human hearts and souls the understanding for a Madonna,
for the year 2000 for such an understanding to become possible for the
nineteenth century to see how Art stands in this respect.
even if here and there somebody believes he understands it. For our
man. He believes that if he is standing beside a horse, it sees him
How far the present day is from such a living understanding of colour
possibility of their standing still; it is inconceivable. If it were
moment the form receives colour, the inner movement of the colour stands
feel as if you are not approaching it directly, but are standing
does not understand how to live with colour, because for him it moves
understanding is shown precisely in the attitude it takes up towards
wishes. But what it will have to accept, if it wishes to understand
standpoint that something new, that a new beginning is at least
wishes. But what it will have to accept, if it wishes to understand
standpoint that something new, that a new beginning is at least
is requisite to understand such a saying and this is rare in the
nothing; now, when it can see something it cannot understand, it
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The understanding of the spiritual-scientific view of life not merely
derive from this world-outlook can also flow into the understanding of
We can then understand how we can experience a Being who radiates
we shall then understand how the forms of the colours can be realities
understand a little of how the colour-surface becomes something we have
We feel then the longing to understand the inner side of things and to

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understanding of them. So that we may say: psychoanalysis is a
hysteria could no longer do so; she could speak and understand
disposal from this particular standpoint, and found everywhere
The conscious life cannot understand what is surging up. It is
from that standpoint, therapeutically, and that many
possibility of mutual understanding is lost, and the
I beg of you, here you find — here you are standing at
shall return to the matter from the standpoint of

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From the standpoint of Freud or Adler the case is easily
understand and cannot appraise, thoughts continually run
feeling is no longer confined to the physical plane, but stands
standpoints other than the materialistic ones of our own
understand: we are dealing here with real, concrete life, with
understand such a principle for a long time without

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otherwise it will be difficult to reach understanding of these
had to take a stand, they had to ask themselves what could be done.
be understandable as a unity.
the world, you will never understand these events. Only when you take
another, only then will you understand these things in the right way.
must never believe, however, that behind these beings stands someone
spiritual world. We shall understand this better if we enter into
You should well understand that Ireland is therefore
which he stands. It can very well be that the forces ascending from
can be found in the streets today) you must always understand that in
The machine standard was applied through this to human social life.

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understanding of them, people who are inclined to accept them in a
deeper and deeper understanding gains ground and when there is
will not understand the events that take place around us unless one
speaks from abstract ideas. They have wished to understand God
significant mystery. In fact, gold stands materially in the same
God stands to other thoughts. It only matters in which way this
cosmic understanding. Modern man has completely replaced this cosmic
understanding with a terrestrial understanding. When man today wishes
The question standing before humanity is whether to
There are mainly two powers that stand in opposition to
only maya, is only illusion. One can see what stands side by side in

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
grasp what is of importance for the present time unless we understand
Ahriman's incarnation in the flesh. The right stand can be taken only
understanding the whole world over and drive wedges between them,
has become in our time to deepen understanding of the Gospels through
simplicity,” just as they stand. I am not going to raise the
before you the deeper fact, namely that no true understanding of
Failing this illumination, the Gospels as they stand give rise to
standstill at this point, not pressing on to the real Christ but
understanding” — as the saying goes. But there is a far
things and to understand the Gospels themselves from the
You must understand what I
understanding! What people like is to base their religious
Serbs, so many Bulgarians. Nothing can stand up against figures

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
present time unless we understand the intrinsic
Ahriman's incarnation in the flesh. The right stand can be
whatever can alienate them from mutual understanding the
understanding of the Gospels through spiritual science. But
simplicity”, just as they stand. I am not going to
namely that no true understanding of Christ can be reached by
they stand give rise to what is no more than an hallucination
hallucination. If men could be brought to a standstill at
Gospels with “simple understanding” — as
understand the Gospels themselves from the vantage-ground of
understand what I mean by this. — The consciousness of
is necessary for any understanding! What people like is to
so many Serbs, so many Bulgarians. Nothing can stand up

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
longer.” This, moreover, is what stands in the Gospel of St.
make no effort to achieve this objective understanding or to acquire
If the right stand is to be
order that .a new understanding of world existence may arise —
wisdom, no understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha could have been
Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha diminished with the fading
such understanding? The fact that understanding cannot be found
about these things in order that we may take the right stand toward

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
This, moreover, is what stands in the Gospel of St. John;
objective understanding or to acquire knowledge of what is
stand is to be taken to Ahriman's future incarnation, men
understanding of world-existence may arise — that is of
no Luciferic wisdom, no understanding of the Mystery of
early centuries of Christendom. Understanding of the Mystery
understanding ? The fact that understanding cannot be found
in order that we may take the right stand towards what is

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
understanding of truths that must now be given to humankind by
understand the nature of the human being we must be constantly
stands to the surrounding world, on the one side as a being of
realities. People think today that they have some understanding of

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
understanding of truths that must now be given to mankind by
To understand the nature of man we must be constantly mindful
relationship in which man stands to the surrounding world, on
understanding of cosmic processes when they assert that the

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
let things drift on as they are, without understanding and guiding
difficulty is that when they want to understand spiritual science
understanding of the reason why he based the world order on

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compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity
they are, without understanding and guiding into right
is that when they want to understand spiritual science they
never find any understanding of the reason why he based the

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world views to a real understanding of that which so vitally concerns
understanding for the purpose and value of personality in the world if
that we stand within a cosmic evolution. First, you know that this
can understand if we find analogies to our own human evolution and to
conception of the human being; only then can we understand the special
just gained; focus your attention upon the idea that we stand within
the divine beings. Do not misunderstand me: it is not the prime
I am only able to understand the world if I conceive of it in
only arrive at an understanding of the world if we base it on this
always emphasized the fact that it is only possible to understand
duad. If we wish to understand Goethe's Faust, we must realize,
brochure, Goethe's Standard of the Soul.
and the evil principles. But as the matter stands, a duad is assumed,
We must consider such profound aspects if we wish to understand
Standard of the Soul,
standpoint, were we to say: Goethe's Mephistopheles is a false
understanding of those impulses which radiate from the Michael being

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artistically as well as spiritually outstanding products of culture we
been characterized. In order to understand fully the illusion which
thing that must occur through the right understanding of man's
and must not be touched understand them very little. They must be

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order of the hierarchies standing above us, the Spirits of Form, the
which stands here before me visible. You all as you are sitting here
Luciferic development shall we really understand the being of man and
state of equilibrium between the beautiful and the ugly do we stand

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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discernible — it is continued by the mighty and outstanding
through them, out to other human beings. One cannot understand ancient
height. Greek culture stood at an end. We stand at a beginning.
We shall only gain a complete understanding of this placing, side by
understand it. But he becomes aware, or at least, may become aware of
to understand external nature.
walk, we stand, and so forth; we describe certain lines on the earth.

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history, it is also necessary to develop an understanding for the
outstanding spirit of that time. This was a juridical presentation at
beings. To fail to understand these things was tolerable in a certain
this period to understand the secrets of Golgotha through human
We shall understand one another best if I remind you of something
Divine Being if he had an understanding of these matters and really
understand the inner spirit of Earth evolution.
it were, pushed from behind, for behind them there stands the
proletariat of the modern age. Behind this battle cry there stand very

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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necessary, for a complete understanding of the human being, to
be gained thereby was a real understanding of the outer world. For
post-Atlantean period it was no longer possible to understand, with
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. The Church forbids the
the starting point of being able to understand the metamorphosis of
understand the present time. Whenever something out of the ordinary
have to consider time-honored institutions: if one understands the
one understands every single act of the Holy Mass, then one knows that
of the earnestness that is necessary in taking a stand in these

Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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high standards for it, the completion of the first school
had so intimately sought to deepen their understanding of
achievement. Yet does anyone have even a slight understanding
a crucial test as to whether the financial understanding of
kind of understanding that a person today can generally bring
notwithstanding, all that our external senses perceive
I would like you to understand from these implications how
spiritual science is an active knowledge; how it cannot stand
goodness. It is of outstanding moral value, but even that is
spiritual scientific standpoint. Things become serious, yet
becomes necessary really to understand all this clearly, and
understand, namely, that if we wish to escape from the
stand outside the gates; they are viewed merely as a great

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spiritual-scientific standpoint, is not so much concerned
programs is dear to people's hearts. To understand that
the difference between the way these groups stand in regard
logical standpoint. It may not say that materialism is
something that Europeans can very well understand even though
misunderstand their own existence if they make concessions,
village community. Only a person who understands the nature
task of people in the West to understand the means by which
understands nothing of the course of events on a grand scale.
to see that people are so unwilling to understand that

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into the essence of something external when we understand it
between our standing up or lying down, and through which we
perceive when we are standing on our two feet, that we are in
sense of taste that stands right on the boundary between what
whether we are walking or standing still, jumping or dancing.
the spiritual standpoint. I have mentioned it many times. If
words and arrive at a mutual understanding. Then, however,
for he cannot stand it. Were he to comprehend what can enter

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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duty to acquire a full understanding of the fact that we can
Well, an art historian need not understand anything about
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, depends upon our
longer understand how the spiritual, divine principle that is
one who understands the nature of present initiation can
from whatever his standpoint happens to be, wishes to become
misunderstandings, but there are few words in our language
the spiritual-scientific standpoint — namely, the
to misunderstandings, but it must be used. We cannot manage
ought not to adopt the humanly arrogant standpoint and say:
about ideological standpoints. It becomes imperative to grasp

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matter of what standpoint one takes. However, if you consider
than this standpoint.
sound inside. Our understanding must not merely aim for
individuals, standing far in the background of what happens
means of thinking. One has to clearly understand that some of
civilized world unless one is ready to understand it on the
rapture, no losing of oneself, but a firm stand on a solid
always be kept in mind when trying to understand the human
being of the present time, and without understanding him in
the usefulness of the gold standard. From the middle well
most beautiful and ingenious reasons why a gold standard
gold standard would bring about free trade. What happened in

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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reality standing behind the world of phenomena, is just as if
to understand clearly that surrounding us in what we perceive
question then is posed to us: What is it that really stands
boat, or travel by train. It stands to reason that you
all, lives with a deeper understanding of life, a deeper
especially if one stands on spiritual scientific ground and
when one judges it from the standpoint
know what is meant if one understands that every line, every
to view it from the spiritual standpoint. The life between

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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understand one another, that an element common to all men is
another standpoint.
characteristic of him that no one today understands it. It
external form of his words. No one really understands
believe they understand it. A direct line runs from ancient
significance. We can best understand them when we contrast
to understand in what manner one attains to the spiritual
understanding for this mode of thinking, and what is written
example of how matters really stand at present. Indeed, we
wish to understand what is actually happening today. If we
understand anything about the world. No progress can be made
understanding be acquired if one wishes to have a say. The
the whole earth, and can gain an understanding of the matter

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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particularly predisposed to understand that he dwelt in
understands these things views the remarkable poetic
ancient Indian dwelt within his metabolism, notwithstanding
understand individuals who have worked from such a basis as
did Fichte, Hegel, Schelling and Goethe, one must understand
special predisposition to understand earthly life as
notwithstanding
but above all else to take our own stand and on our own to
we achieve a new economic life, if we do not understand that
understanding the nature of the life of rights, of the state.
By understanding the Western nature, we gain a comprehension
could wish people would understand. This is what we should
understand what is really intended here, when sufficient
that shows a lack of understanding for what is intended

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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Therefore, from the spiritual-scientific standpoint, I must
must understand each of the successive stages of this
development. One can say that whoever understands Hegel and
to be sinking into the material element, with Hegel standing
education; he stands there with the kind of reasonableness I
understand that what was present as the special element of
the standpoint of present-day science, there is actually

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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sort of barrier stands between ourselves and a certain region
Thus, man himself is a threefold being. Without understanding
understanding of it, particularly if he presses forward to
organism; for, as we stand, as we walk, we are within this
because people stand firm against receiving anything from the
understand the physical world without knowledge of the other
impulse and therefore, from his standpoint, he is quite
the standpoint of pure materialism. The spirit concealed

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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I first sought to show how man stands externally in the
feels himself standing in the universe and says, “I am
from the social standpoint, from that of the group, it works;
we focus on the individual element that stands creatively in
of circuitous route for a few outstanding individuals. This
way of anybody. What stands here now was placed here, I might
respect as well, established what stands here now. It stands
understanding?” Central Europe cannot be asked whether
the world has an understanding for it. It is crushed to the
now stands here as a question to man's
a question directed to the world: Will this building stand
Or will the Anglo-American world bring understanding to this
building will stand here as a sign that one has no wish to
understand the forces of ascent. Then, however, one will have

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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what we are supposed to understand. One can say that,
the Vedas, the Vedanta philosophy, stand out above all; they
those with which an attempt was made to understand the
atavistic and instinctive, notwithstanding the fact that its
should now try to understand the configuration of civilized
at it from the Darwinian standpoint — we find the
understands the lifeless. Consequently, our ego dwells in the
body and ego. For we do not understand man's relationship to

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIII: The Interrelationship between the Human and the Social Organism
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man. It stands as a unique phenomenon within the natural
human being. This human physical body, then, stands by itself
if we stand in front of a donkey that is eating thistles, our
agreement and reciprocal understanding, is the realm that
through mutual understanding. The dullness of consciousness
understanding with his fellowman. The human being must grasp
human beings, we stand linked together with the three
this context that one understands how it is possible that a
stands indeed in a certain relationship to outer reality,
understands this properly, it gives him a sense of his
and what the human being experiences within himself stands in

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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the forces standing above man in the higher hierarchies. As
standard of what we possessed as spiritual content in our
formations in the sense that the European understands them.
of this comprehension will the human being understand the
meant when we say that we do not understand life. Today we
say that we do not understand life, for we live only in the
understand one another on this particular point! With the
understand just what matters here. In what follows I shall
outstandingly good, but leave the state out of it! Take it
we will understand anew what nonsense it is to speak of the
One who understands this utterance knows that it is a genuinely
now stand.

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ruin. If we understand what spiritual science can tell us
understand a number of things that we have outgrown.
everything from a certain absolute standpoint, a standpoint,
the whole world context; by adopting an absolute standpoint
at any given moment of this life; by assuming the standpoint
epoch, which sets out from this standpoint, and the past
universe; one will only become spiritual if one understands
wanting to judge everything only from an earthly standpoint.
too conceited to abandon absolute standpoints which assume
investigate it in regard to the standpoints which I have
take into consideration more than the singular standpoint of
doctrine of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, stand the most
to an understanding of what can be gathered from spiritual
certain jaded standpoint, one says, for example, “Oh,

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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thing is to be in a position to understand such things by
clearly understand — and the significance of this for
understand the spiritual world when we know that what appears
does one also occupy an intellectual standpoint in regard to
understand this dream life of sleep as the expression of a
stands in place of the content.
Christology to understand the Mystery of Golgotha in a
as a human personality somewhat more outstanding than other
understand that we must advance to a comprehension of the
might and mean to understand something that is
understands the task of present-day man will say: I must
instead a creative understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
are laid down by a government which by its very nature stands
standpoint. Everything that has been written about it suffers

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declamation. We will begin by adopting the standpoint of recitation
intended to stand before us in living reality. The four characters
objects (the sort of consciousness with which he stands in the
physical world) may also stand, with a more highly-awakened
unrepresentational character, stand apart from those which relate
listen, you feel how the contoured word stands out against the more
rooted far within stand firm
of his initial enthusiasm and first understanding – a
perception and understanding) he rewrote his Iphigeneia; so
something which in its plastic contours stands there
amongst other things, stands once more before his soul. She looks
another in the art of speech as we understand it here – as
Der Frauen Zustand ist der schlimmste vor allen Menschen. Will dem
Der Frauen Zustand is beklagenswert.
stand,

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is, shows little awareness of the fact that recitation stands
there is no clear understanding. This is undoubtedly connected with
for the true nature of poetry. There is no doubt that poetry stands
stand in a certain connection with all this. Along with the lack of
understanding that lies hidden behind the opening of the Homeric
Mutter zitternd stand dafür.
Kriegerstand,
Aussen aber stand: Nicht stürzen!
Und auf jeder Kiste stand ‘Espedito’,

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Recitation stands midway between singing and mere speech. In
At the other extreme stands declamation. This is
– how an understanding is brought to art, yet an
understanding that is also a perceptive power, and which thus

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Now let us today, to begin with, understand clearly that we, as human
generation is capable of understanding at all what they mean. I have
than the mathematical ones to understand the world; but what attracted
we were to look at this will from the other side, from the standpoint
And thus man can understand himself only if he takes himself as a seed
blooms. Schopenhauer, as philosopher, is like a man standing in front
one does bend it just because as human being one stands within the

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earth. We stand here now and survey Nature. We can stand like dry,
intelligent things will be found, but we do not stand face to face
world. We do not stand there as complete beings if our attitude is
mingled a loving understanding of life's tasks.

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instrument and its medium. And likewise the reciter must understand
sound. The picture stands there as a picture and has always stood
vowel-sounds – when penetrated by a sensitive understanding,
everything standing before us, the persons on the stage, everything
understanding and discernment. It must be transformed into
French presentation of tragedy can stand before us like a model
uniquely dramatic mode stands out against naturalistic speech, such
as depends on intellectual understanding rather than the element of
spannen. (Stands up).
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra) may stand here as
our going beyond the conceptual understanding of the words toward
this can be attempted in an outstanding piece of prose like the
understand his comprehensiveness do we understand Novalis. Hence
Fenster stand und Rosenblüte an ihrem, und die Kätzchen
ihn mit anmutigen Schatten, aber er verstand ihre Sprache nicht,
auch der letzte irdische Anflug, wie in Luft verzehrt, und er stand

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to understand what eurythmy in its most varied aspects is, one must
first of all gain a certain understanding of the human larynx. We will
it comes to full expression. And if one wishes to understand man, one
find that these things present difficulties for an inner understanding
learn to understand that one thinks not only with the brain but also
figures. He cannot understand a geometric figure by looking at it. However
each organ stands in a certain relationship to a possible form of movement

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call this the movement for children or adults who cannot stand. In the
we have those who cannot stand.
Now not being able to stand is to have weak feet and to become very
easily tired when standing. It would also mean, for example, that one
could not stand long enough on tiptoe properly, or that one could not
stand on one's heels long enough without immediately becoming clumsy.
Standing on tiptoe or on the heels are no eurythmic exercises, but they
standing or who can't stand properly at all. To be unable to stand properly
stand. And for such people the “U”-exercise is especially
“U” would be simply to stand with full awareness
and then trying to stand in this manner and hold one's position. One
must thereby stand on tiptoe, however, and bend outward, remain so standing
But one must stand on tiptoe and lay one leg over the
standing insofar as it is possible on tiptoe. That should also be

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we want to understand the formation of consonants in the field of eurythmy,
one states that one is bringing to a standstill, arresting, that in
of what one usually brings to a standstill is expressed. Thus it is
the sound we use therapeutically when a person cannot stand. You saw
hold one's stand is called forth. This is present in the U in artistic
to become big-bellied, as I would like to call it, it is easy to understand
things if one wishes to understand these matters inwardly.
fastening together of E's which stand one above another; that expresses
truly so: the person who understands that developing oneself spiritually

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tries to stand with the legs together, to hop forwards, and in the course
but, as I said, tranquilly and standing still after each separate hop.
It is particularly important to understand this matter. Then, you see,

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 5
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us imagine the movement so: one of the ladies stands here, the other
that there be no misunderstanding, I emphasize that of course the opinion

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understand that the habitual practise of eurythmy activates the plasticity
instructor stands at the spiritual level of the child. Such things
matters much more consciously. And those nations that stand in the
One should understand that the person who does consonantal eurythmy

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opposition to them stand those forces in the human being and in the
here, then we begin to understand the organs and their functions. This
is an indication of how to understand the organs and their functions.
in this area when we can stand up to the outer world — as we are
are conducted with understanding and not bowdlerized by people without
understanding. Simply by virtue of knowing what is going on in the

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can stand there indefinitely; if they stand there for an hour it does
They may stand where they will, it does not trouble us. They suit the
figures stand there; they take it away with them.
shall not understand the world of colour. If we wish to acquaint
meadow, we should not paint red figures standing quietly in it; they
flesh-colour might stand for all eternity in a green meadow. They are

Title: Colour: Part One: The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours
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We tried yesterday to understand the nature of colour from a certain
following division before you: I differentiate (you will understand
understanding of the colours if we put the following before our eyes.
completely as a surface. We understand it best if we differentiate it
and colour-sense, not with the abstract-loving understanding,) you need
form the psychic into the artistic. And if you so understand the
And the figures could stand out of the background of gold, could grow
But you will notice one must first understand colours in their fleeting
character before one can understand them in solid substantial form. We

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understanding at the colour of flowers; they shine at one.
element by which we can understand how colour is attached to an object,
colours. Why? They stand in a different relationship to the world of
necessary to understand the matter with sensibility. The world of
objects: is there any need to understand whatever you are painting
a failure to understand the inner nature of colour which, as such, is
we wish to understand that particular light that confronts us from the
fixed and firm; whereas it is not living in the colour if I stand there
without this spiritual understanding for colour, especially not
can be painted only if one understands what living with the colour is.
understand colour in its fluctuation, in its life.
colour which the painter can understand; because, if he identifies

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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Therefore, if we understand the building of the human form we
without substantiation, for whoever understands the human
what we understand as karma into the next
the standpoint of ordinary life. Let us take a striking case: A
Since the human being as a whole stands in a relation with the

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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stands a spiritual world, a mighty world, powerful and real, a world
people today because they have no inkling that real forces stand
actual human being standing before us! In just such a way in
understanding. It is right in a certain sense, but not in the sense
within the world as a whole, but spiritual beings who stand behind
though we were standing on a high rock with one abyss on our right
be in a position to gain knowledge of the human being which can stand
understand ever more clearly that in our civilization as it
who believe themselves to be standing in anthroposophical life say:
living reality within which something stands. If we concern ourselves

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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time an urgent need to reach a global understanding. Yet whatever
understanding. The need for an understanding is there. What is not
understanding. We see how attempts are made to consult one another
fully to understand Christ means: to find man as man within oneself.
we can understand the Christ-being, through all the means available
to understand very clearly that there are things which hold sway in
understanding of the question of Christ. I have often drawn the
distinction can be viewed from very varied standpoints. Justice can
fruit, if only they can come to a fundamental understanding of
the Spirit, can stand. But above all it is the task of the West to
Especially the more outstanding spirits in the West — though
and their will, how they are wrestling for an understanding of the
Son God, the Christ. The middle region stands between these two
understanding of the Father and also in its understanding of the Son,
the Christ. Endeavours to find such an understanding are taken
person must stand immersed in his people, a people capable of
intellectual human understanding. Because Soloviev speaks and thinks
be understood world over. This kind of understanding resembles the
learn to understand that two people can say the same thing and yet
our understanding with something which comes to meet us when we look
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an understanding for the present time we shall look at human
understand this properly we shall have to discuss it more
they not only came to know with their understanding but also to love
this divine, spiritual cosmic weaving. They felt their understanding
standing within the realm of divine, spiritual beings with one's
to understand this we must realize that what we today call philosophy
For instance we can only understand what we find in the work of
entering into the fifth post-Atlantean period and standing full
can see how it has come about that we stand today in the midst of
spiritual revelations. But even with this we stand at the very
what we have to say about the spiritual world, the understanding they
a non-understanding. For it can be compared with the following:
suppose someone were to try to understand what I had written down by
is therefore capable of understanding the human beings of the earth
know about how all this has come about can we gain an understanding

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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consciousness and with deep thought, to an understanding of the
reckoned, by those who understand these things, to have started in
understand that these people also spoke about the Christ-being,
comprehensible in the light of a clear understanding of this
to understand, when speaking about earthly evolution, that the
man can we gradually come to an understanding of its essence.
anthroposophical path. Please do not misunderstand me. It is not my

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Seven: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 2
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not misunderstand me, my dear friends. Human beings today are
understand one another: When we think in ordinary life today, our
suppose. To help you understand what I mean let me say the following:
will gradually come to understand what I mean by thinking with
the higher worlds, that is, in order enter there with understanding.

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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the soul during this process, for we must understand that on entering
described these things from numerous standpoints already. But today
fills it entirely. You must understand, however, that fear as an
therefore be strengthened to withstand this fear.
organism resists this. It stands by the shape of its inner organs. It
table) in the spiritual world to stand among the spiritual beings in
feeling of self we have on earth becomes a kind of ‘standing
stand within spiritual beings we receive from them forces which lead
an understanding of these things helps us to see what the human being
understanding was still instinctively clairvoyant. Human beings used
distinct streams which we have described from varying standpoints.
Today we shall approach them from a particular standpoint which will
permeated with destiny, just as natural things stand permeated with
streams and resolve them in a higher synthesis. We must understand

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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understand it if we look at it pictorially. We have to imagine that
important events stand side by side: The period of the Old Testament
an immense question. There stands the human being and, in the
understanding this. Even today it has not yet been found.
understand it inwardly.
of how Cyprianus stands in the spirit of nature is still filled with
hand, stands with his soul surrounded by the spirit, everywhere
sets about this task. Human beings find it difficult to understand

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Ten: The Threefold Human, Four Elements, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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by those spirits who wanted to attain a full understanding of the
Goethe is a personality who stands fully in
Faust no longer stands there as a solitary figure concerned solely
Mystery of Golgotha. He would have had to understand how the
needed is a full understanding of the human being. Not until this
our intellect teaches us about external nature. You must understand
burning of the air in us. You stand within it, in your warmth you
Intuition, in which the soul stands within the object. Only the
understand what Goethe intended with his
He is endeavouring so hard to come to an understanding
he wants to depict the human being as he stands in the
how the human being does, in fact, stand in the world. But he lacks
from understanding the Mystery of Golgotha through which Christ had
Faust say not only, to ‘Stand on free soil among a people
but also: to ‘stand on free soil with
understood it. But he is striving to understand it. He is striving
met with little understanding amongst the people of today.
indications. Yet he was at pains to make people understand that what
yet there is no understanding for the task of the present time, which
and understanding. Long before the war this ceased to be the case.

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This is what people find so difficult to understand. In the tenth,
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries stand as the representative of what
fifteenth century. On the one hand he stands in the midst of the
whole of the Hamlet drama stands under the influence of these two
stands under the influence of these impulses because, when it comes
Greek drama. It is unthinkable without the spiritual beings who stand
of human beings, something that made the outstanding spirits say: I
culmination which could be allowed to stand. On the contrary, he
understanding of the spiritual revolution which took place in the
as a being who stands within a social context. I shall be able to
facts and have no understanding for what lives in the souls of Goethe

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Twelve: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, the Spiritual Struggle of Schiller and Goethe
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Faust stands as a solitary figure wrestling inwardly to find a
souls of the most outstanding human beings. He began as a realist. I
imagine Goethe standing there. If you have a sense for his essential
Thinking comes to a standstill! So then you enter into a state of
imagination? For this was the most outstanding power possessed by
understand it entirely if we approach it from this one angle, and we
understanding of all that is at work in this spiritual history. Only
understanding of what is actually there. Imagine that Schiller, who
cannot arrive at an understanding of the spiritual grandeur present
such an understanding by contemplating the striving of the whole
Imagination. We must understand that the power of the intellect

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Thirteen: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, -or- The Search for the Spirit
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outstanding personalities. Let me introduce today's lecture with a
complexity of intellectual science and here I now stand filled with
depicted artistically in a way which leads to an understanding of the
the Knights of Malta, would have come to an understanding of how, in
understanding of these things gives us deep insight into the struggle
made manifest in such outstanding personalities, how it streams into
towards the world. You can understand that human beings with their
of the spiritual background, we also fail to understand history, and
taking the interconnections into account is it possible to understand
simplicity. How many people today understand what is meant when
of Wolfram von Eschenbach. Before you stands a knight, a rich knight,
the human being towards himself. From an entirely new standpoint he
everything. So from the new intellectual standpoint the question is

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understand that before the time of the French Revolution there was
inability to stand squarely in life. Someone like Wilhelm Meister had
stand in this life as a free being in so far as this life calls for
insignificant for the soul when an effort is made to understand
understand something given through Imagination will have reactivated
medicines. If a person endeavours to understand something given

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture IV
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equilibrium, how it learns to stand and walk upright. The body's
standing as it does here on earth. There, orientation refers to the
particularly interesting to understand the connection between what
what is this human organization? Viewed from an artistic standpoint,
standard musical instruments, a violin or some other instrument, by
means of recalling the experience of pre-earthly existence. We stand
that here is the ground and that someone stands on the ground. Surely
can stand on it; otherwise he could not be there. You would not want
to comprehend man, however, by the ground he stands on. Likewise, tone
needs air for support. Just as man stands on the firm ground, so —
the ground for the person who stands on it. Tone rushes toward air,
and the air makes is possible for tone to “stand.” Tone
different from the earthly ground on which he stands, so tone differs
do not understand art if we do not sense in it the longing to
which we must sing. Man, as he stands before us, on earth, is really
will understand that when one describes something like this one has

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into this matter, one actually no longer understands how human beings
will understand this more clearly if we shed light on it from yet
through it. Such a composition of soul will understand vividly once
understand the past correctly only if we are able to confront it with

Title: Lecture I: The WHITSUN Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension
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materialistic science can understand the Mystery of Golgotha. Hence
perception, of spiritual feeling, in order to be able to understand
the power to understand the Mystery of Golgotha is the sending of the
to each human individual, in order that he may be able to understand
Thus these two pictures stand side by side in the history of the
stands before the soul of every human being who passes through death
too learns to understand it. After death, the picture is as it were an
such forces as will enable you to understand the Mystery of
to acquire, and gain understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
actual understanding of the essence and meaning of that Deed.
understand the relation of the Whitsun Mystery to the Ascension
with spiritual understanding of the festival seasons, it will be
that streams from an understanding of the festival times and from true

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no longer see what lived in those souls, it is unable to understand
standing within this succession of generations.
of the “quickfooted Achilles,” and little understanding of
already so estranged from his earth citizenship he no longer understands

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture II
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in words somewhat like these: “Here I stand in the world, but as
I stand here with a human form in which dwell soul and spirit, I carry
body we can stand upon this earth; can exist among minerals, plants
to understand how the soul, deprived of its body, finds its way back
if we study the way the soul is related to the cosmos can we understand
To understand we must ask: What lies behind and is inherent in it? For
understand it.
To understand a cemetery-surrounded church we must develop a sense for
Goetheanum). But one must understand things; must understand that
mode in which things stand to the spiritual must be found again
It gently recedes. Here we begin to understand the form of man out of

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture III
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understand architecture's artistic element we must consider the soul's
then we understand the head, especially its upper part. If, on the other
eyes, then we understand how this part is adapted to his chest formation,
correctly the lower head, mouth and chin, then we understand that, even
way we can understand the whole human form. Furthermore, the super-sensible
is fettered to earth. In this way we can understand the whole human
Its prime manifestation is the loss of a deeper understanding for color.
blind to spatial perspective, only that, while understanding it, they
while standing at the foot of a mountain, to see in close proximity the
stand) does something absurd. It places behind the world swirling atoms
is able to understand this emergence of greenness sees not merely the
two-dimensionally, and can understand the etheric only if we conceive of
memory: and through anthroposophical vision learn to understand how

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture IV
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been so. For true art stands beside real knowledge on the one hand,
I stand within earth existence, it contradicts that part of my human
An understanding
to the seriousness of art, standing alongside the seriousness of cognition
standing before his senses. Greek art, so abundant in Italy, and now
to stand solidly on the earth without spiritual impulse in artistic
did not rest until, in Italy, he had acquired an understanding of the

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limited standpoint of earth, but when the gaze is directed from stellar
Why? Because they could not understand what is stated above; because they
post-Atlantean period to learn to understand spatial perspective, that
to state the reverse, namely, that the worthy scientists did not understand
they filled their souls in order to understand the secrets of the cosmos.

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paint a flower standing in front of a window; we paint the light which,
on the plane out of this element. For to understand color is to understand
not misunderstand things. If somebody goes wild and just lays on colors
This painting stands at the
To understand
the standpoint of color, for here the three stages of the world are
higher, she must enter where art ceases. Below stand the Apostles. Here
only of this picture and do not maintain that when standing on earth
relationship to the spiritual, you will understand that with the artistic

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colour, etc. — we come to the understanding of spiritual beings.
microcosm than the thing inside his skin that stands where man stands,
Moreover, mankind today can scarcely understand anything of the way in

Title: Lecture IV: The Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science
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the Sun and the relation of the Earth to the Sun. Understanding of the
Thus the Druid priest standing before his altar was concerned with the
his Sun-Initiation — he became able also to understand the forces

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We cannot understand such things today, simply because anyone who does
You will say you don't understand this. But just try to grasp the real
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, one must understand such things in
this way. You cannot understand Albertus Magnus if you read him with
understand the meaning of his words and expressions.
But formerly one did not understand by it the remarkably odd being

Title: Lecture VI: The WHITSUNTIDE Festival: Its place in the study of Karma
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an understanding of the relationship between man as the Ego-being and
for an understanding of the essence of Karma. We shall gain a fruitful
he stands within the Universe, we become able to discover the
by reason of the great majesty with which it stands there in the
that do not lead to any real understanding. Stars that were not there
possible into the situation as we stand here, within the Universe, as
understand how in ancient times, when with the old instinctive
as he stands here upon the Earth with his physical, his etheric and his
understand the traditions of primeval epochs, when we go back to them
reason why it is so hard for us to understand the traditions of
into all this, he can have the experience of himself, standing here upon
half of the year. If we understand that too, there dawns on us the other
aspect of our human life. If we understand the relationship of the
Whitsun festivals we understand the human freedom on Earth. As we
understand man from out of these three thoughts, the Christmas thought,
us the desire to understand the remaining portions of the year, there
stands the whole world of the Hierarchies.
understanding of Karma, you will gain a right foundation of inner
go further in our study of Karma; your power of understanding will be
our anthroposophical understanding. Something must light up and shine

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stand that day I was accosted by one of those who best
understand the word “perverted” in a technical
Is it not understandable that people should encounter spiritual
science and say they do not understand it? It is the most
understandable thing in the world. For what they
understand is what they have learned, and what they have
to understand which one must first enhance his powers.
cannot easily enter into this field. Hence, we stand today
or as a theory. Only he understands it who knows how it appeals
stands in the battle of daily life and in such battle, must

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slightest understanding.
Anyone who thinks thus does not understand upon what clarity of
to understand a sentence written down on paper without first
important thing for the understanding of a sentence written
man. Only one who understands the character of clear, objective
one who understands this begins to realize that the moment we
we must understand that here — at least to the
he rightly understands himself, to bring forth from within
Oswald Spengler understands the matter thus: that because
“Understanding emancipated from feeling is called
The onlooker standpoint of John Stuart Mill, for instance, is
stand there in an inner light, as it were, in complete
he lives in time; he takes his stand in the “When”
like a tumbler, first stand on his head and then turn over, in
speak unequivocally: Understanding liberated from feeling

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therefore, a complete misunderstanding of the true progress of
understanding would have been possible. Then these
no understanding of what to do with their thoughts is
understand. Sulze is something that is made at the time
understand why Oswald Spengler has written two such thick
decline. For he understands all about it; his own inner spirit
is the way the matter stands; and anyone whose basis is
and realize how necessary it is to understand the waking

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture I: Historical Requirements of the Present Time
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understand it if it wishes to advance. Social demands will
his surroundings. If you observe him with real understanding
head-masters; the teachers should stand in a relationship of
is branded as a person who does not understand anything about
say they do not understand this, that it is very difficult. In
difficult to understand, I said to them that I certainly do
accustomed to understand during the last four or five years.
There one thought it easy to understand things I could not
understand — so I said — things that merely had to
They were understood because one was commanded to understand.
What is of importance now is to understand something out of
brain. Therefore, the proletariat still understands what is

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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IF WE WISH to understand the task of the
we want to understand this great change in the middle of which
often stated. Whoever is able to understand the concepts of
really understand how to live in the present, and how to
understanding for these problems. In Stuttgart, connected with
say: The world stands on its head, one has to turn it back on
they say: “We do not understand this. It is

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture III: Commodity, Labor, and Capital
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they are fully understood, can bring about an understanding of
Well, I understand such a judgment. I understand it especially
well when the man is a university professor. I understand it
feelingly understood by a science that gains understanding
the society of the future a proper understanding of labor will
an understanding for the social organism. Only those people
will have such understanding who have heard and taken in those
Above everything, we must understand it is correct to say that
necessary also to understand that the social order must be
It will never be possible to arouse in men the understanding
have a horse that stands on four legs; a horse must be a unity,
lose its unity by standing on four legs, likewise the social

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Every child should stand before the soul of the teacher as a
is important to understand the differences between these three
to understand the world with love, to lay hold of it through
head we would have a man lying horizontally, and a man standing
of something standing behind it: The head the image for the
standing behind them. This will extend the present
imagine you stand before a child with the knowledge I have just
corpse; the outspreading life in him when he stands still, is

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture V: The Metamorphoses of Human Intelligence: Present Trends and Dangers
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Plato: “If I want to understand the living I must

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time a person stands before us we are confronted by these four
little has understanding spread for what is necessary! We must
understand that the presence of the Divine in the soul must be
corpse which can think, can under-stand. In this way we gain a
people say they do not understand it. They consider it
every single individual who shows even a little understanding.
or, what is more frequent, with lack of understanding. Just

Title: Karma: Lecture I
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
just been considering. We stand, at the outset, in space.
If we do not possess these conditions, then we understand
possibility of understanding the past earth lives also in
such a thicket of abstractions, but you will also understand

Title: Karma: Lecture II
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
stand in the service of yet higher beings. What we live
we look into the relationship in which the human being stands

Title: Karma: Lecture III
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
They understand nothing but the verbs, i.e. the words of
understand the human being at all, if we are not clear about
understand correctly.
even in ordinary life these two things stand side by side: You

Title: Karma: Lecture IV
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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
into the physical. You will understand, my dear friends,
understanding of human beings and the world. It becomes the
our having the ability to understand the world. If we
joy in it, if we understand their conduct and take
them, so that they have an understanding for the world, these
understands well enough, but it gives him no pleasure. It is,
my dear friends, the understanding of karma shall not rest only
understanding life, but that we are also able to comprehend it
answer the intimate question: “How do matters stand with
come near you? How do matters stand?” And, after having
it. Our contemporary we can stand. If the one with whom we
relationships. If we wish to understand the spiritual world we
preconditioned to stand a certain pressure of the air in our

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
life. Seen from the spiritual standpoint, this battle signifies
But we shall understand the relationships of karma only if we
standpoint, my dear friends, which is certainly not the

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constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
by directing our gaze upon him, just as he stands before us in
consider the human being as he stands before us on the earth,
the physical standpoint; even from the physical standpoint it
we stand here on the earth, we have the feeling that the
They stand within a certain necessity in regard to their
Let us imagine ourselves standing somewhere in the physical
religious understanding it sounds like an impertinence:

Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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to stand vertically. Now a great deal in the whole being of man is
thoroughly to understand human life.
overcome gravity through our own power of standing upright. These
all-fours, we learn to stand upright and thus overcome gravity in our
and Luciferic forces without any wish to understand them.
standpoint of a nebulous mysticism, or in terms of abstract ideas,
mysteries of life. Forebears would understand their descendants

Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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understand the Semitic
Thales is to a certain extent the first to take his stand solely upon
understand such a figure as Julian the deserter, the apostate, in all
— whoever does not grasp this has no understanding of the whole
lose also our understanding of the personality of those around us.
Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
You may perhaps understand me best if I give you an outline of what
through our earthly life, therefore, without being able to understand
not really understand Him. Right up to their deaths they certainly
never reached an understanding of the Christ Impulse. When was it,
contemporaries of Christ, when were they ready to understand Christ?
people could be given an understanding of the Christ Impulse was to
century became mature enough to gain a full understanding. This
understanding was able to grow during the fourth century, but

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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thing I said yesterday is that man, with the understanding he possesses
through his own understanding developed within the sense-world. I
in the supersensible world, that there develops in man the understanding,
and the forces for that understanding, which can fully make clear the
an understanding until the second or third century after the Mystery of
rightly understand what Tertullian says here about the Mystery of
the world of the senses with his understanding, then among the
understand death; for they instinctively felt that when the human
will understand it only if you allow the spirit of what I have been
to a moralistic world-outlook. For out of this misunderstanding of
You understand nothing about the sense-world if you are not prepared
of the Mystery of Golgotha, stands opposed. I mean this with
serves to understand nature; for by introducing birth and death into
correct from the standpoint of natural science. You arrive at the
No-one understands the Resurrection, which is meant to stand in
senses — no-one understands this truth who does not
to understand these truths, and modern Protestant theologians want to
understand them in terms of theology, with the ordinary human
understand these truths they become followers of Harnack, or
man's task is not to accept them without understanding them.
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. Opposition to the
now the cooks and waiters stand about with absolutely nothing to do.
the philosopher-cooks, and the cooks and waiters just stand around.
kind, he must appear to himself as standing quite uselessly around.
understand himself. And in the age of the Consciousness Soul man can
evolution in which one meets with the least understanding when
can certainly understand the non-spiritual; that is not particularly
against any understanding of the spiritual.
feeling and understanding between peoples! From the beginning of the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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an unfamiliar point of view, but one of outstanding significance. Let
we cannot understand the event if we consider only what concerned us
deal that he could not understand; but one thing he would understand.
— he would understand only what is in any way interwoven with
up to our own time, if we are to understand what has happened in
Western Christian tradition the Schoolman is shown standing there
Christian tradition of the West, and you will understand how there
this. Who would ever really understand, on reading the foolish,
ago: you remember how I took the image of Father Rhine. Someone stands
learning to understand the rhythms in
however, we can never come to understand birth and death, or

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shall understand each other better if we take our start from the
Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha,
— of this no understanding is called forth, intentionally from
was to render inoperative the capacity for intelligent understanding
preferred to keep their eyes on what they could understand and could
standpoint of the Sentient Soul — what becomes of the part that
mention this word and we shall understand what is involved. For this
keep people from understanding them, even from asking what anything
friends, from the standpoint of Spiritual Science, out of which I
been speaking to-day, to be understood from the standpoint of the
meant that cannot be fully justified from the standpoint of
to understand these forms; not to speak in terms of dogma about
it were judged critically by former standards, it would certainly not
and misunderstandings, however, can very easily arise. They can arise
of what can be done to expose men's souls to misunderstandings
— misunderstandings about sacramentalism, misunderstandings
about ritual, misunderstandings about rhetoric, about living in
anthroposophical understanding of spiritual life must recognise.

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faces us today to understand such things as proceed from the
important to understand that it was impossible for me to give
those persons who are unwilling today to understand it. We
continuing to move only if we endeavor to understand these
things, but we shall not understand them unless we really
possibility of our reaching an understanding of the demands
understand human beings. This can be achieved, of course,
social structure is to base it upon social understanding.
lacking in social understanding. It is not surprising,
people who have a social understanding but I fear that people
to develop any social understanding. This image is alive but
enable us to understand what dwells instinctively as an image
achieve this understanding, however, it is necessary that you
Europe. If we view the matter, however, from the standpoint
understand. This is due simply to the fact that people do not
to understand because people do not find it sufficiently
to achieve a social understanding, as I have said in various
acquire an understanding of the human being, interest in
necessary that mutual understanding shall come about between
cliches, programs or Leninisms, but by an understanding
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himself an understanding of the fact that the tremendous need
understanding of real life has been the characteristic of
to work, he then actually stands within life with all its

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of view. I beg you to understand in the same way also what I
proceed from a standpoint free of illusions, but from a point
you do not understand Greek culture if you do not know that
you will then understand why I had to present to you this
can understand with his sound common sense. Within those
luminous and transparent with understanding and insight when
Robert Hamerling and understand him, we shall say to
stands behind the symptoms. This is the really important

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departure is not an understanding of the human being as such,
that can cast light upon the question as to how we stand in
the waking state. Suppose you stand face to face with a
standpoint of conceiving. When you stand as a conceiving,
they will not learn to understand how much self-seeking is
flow. If people do not understand this, they simply do not
understand anything about the world. We frequently hear it
an understanding of life.
for human conceptual capacities. We can understand that there
is always present in many people. We must simply understand
not in the least understand the present time. Now, it may be
another person standing before us a particular human being,
represents. But you must understand clearly that, if you wish
to stand upon the basis of spiritual science, you cannot
standpoint from which anything is introduced 'into the world.
understand how actually to see into reality. To do this
understand everything on the basis of evolution in the
people have so little mutual understanding at the present
stand upon his theory as contrasted with the proletariat way
understand what is necessary in our times and it will never

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to make our age understandable to us, we must ask ourselves
acquisition of an understanding of what we must pass through
the waking state. While man is asleep, he stands in a
expression. Because we breathe, we understand the world
special understanding when this is developed on the basis of
the nature of human breathing. We acquire an understanding of
Testament the life of law, an understanding of the reception
understood for the future. Without an understanding of this
understanding of the Christ impulse because the Christ
place, for the last time, in what the proletariat understands
begin to understand him. This is an essential capacity,
individual person must stand in relationship. But the fact

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cause men to stand on their own feet. They will be overcome
understanding. They are men who, by all sorts of
striving of the individual person to stand upon his own feet,
way that you will succeed in understanding the real nature of
renders understanding so difficult when people try to grasp
individualities stand out prominently who have taken
that always causes only its individualities to stand
politics if he stands within his own folk character. He has
understand the same things. It is by no means impossible that
individualities. On the one hand, we must learn to understand
yesterday and that is the direct understanding of one human

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To carry our spiritual understanding of things farther, we shall need
understand something of what is going on in the world. Therefore, I
for recognizing that if science remains stationary at that standpoint
the world of miracle. The more natural science takes its stand on
only be overcome in the measure in which we understand that
everything in the world stands in a spiritual ordering in which we no
his own inner conscience, through his own healthy understanding, can
he is instructed by Rome to teach, he can notwithstanding remain a
afterwards he speaks the truth.” But Jesuitism stands behind
us and learn to understand it. That is our undoubted duty if we
Now, my dear friends, if Akashic Record had been allowed to stand, I
one of which we can say that, as it stands here, it is strictly true;

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Anyone who understands this grandiose dramatic development will
that we should understand that way, for I have had much to say about
have to stand for. Meanwhile the clouds are gathering. The latest is
Spiritual science, however, as we understand it, has to further the
ethics stands in the same contrast to the social structure fostered by
the Roman Catholic Church as in the last resort spiritual science stands
wide awake understanding for the phenomena of the time.

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initiation, to use an ancient term, we understand a seeing into a
understanding of his real relationship to Christ. We may say, my dear
which the Catholic Church, as time went on, could not stand. And why
dull communal consciousness, from which only those will stand out who
understand nothing about the material world, but become a mystic and

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you to understand something else. If you take what is
kidney with its definite outlines. If we understand this
remembering this principle will you begin to understand the
possibility of illness; otherwise you will not understand.
understand such forces and the connection of the human
not only to understand the nature of the organs with definite
inner understanding of nature is required and a comprehensive
understand when one said to them that the human organism
other things. We can only begin to understand the human being
understand health and disease in this way during the

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stands in the physical world, we must realize that it has
understand illness at all we must have a conception of the
we can understand why illness is accompanied by pain. Without
understand why pain arises when we know that this illness is
understand the human organism. In ordinary textbooks of
about the liver. You will understand them when you know that
substances we take as foodstuffs. We can only understand what
really plays no outstanding part. The relations of the human
other things if we really want to understand the curative and
things are exceedingly important for an understanding of the
science as long as there is no basis for understanding how

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must speak rather crudely here, but you will understand me.
standing in the heavens. The directions from which these
today give no picture at all of the reality. Understanding of
Therefore, so far as understanding of the human being is
at one time people had a great faculty for understanding
times, they would begin to understand what the difference is
cosmic processes is necessary if we want to understand the
as a medicament, you must understand what antimony is outside
delicate processes in nature if you want to understand how a

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something that he cannot understand and only confuses him. So
understanding will begin to realize that with the taking of
will understand that a first, exoteric course of medical
cannot stand the soil, especially not the water, and he will
wisdom and understanding of remedies came from that direct
plants we can acquire an understanding for their scent, if we
understanding of what is growing in the leaf. The form and
us, so that we are able to understand the plants. We must
understand them in their cosmic, spherical form.
understand the forces in them which are striving towards drop
gradually begin to understand everything that works

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indicated as it stands there with its root sunk in the soil.
natural science. What is necessary is to understand, out of
be able to think in any other way than that you stand there
And if you understand the connection, then you say to
certain age. My childhood stands before me; the remembrance
time I understand my head truly, it is like a living
form, the picture of his childhood stands before my soul. I
wrong. If we want to have a real understanding of the Sistine
take what I have just said as a stimulus, you will understand
understanding within you. In this meditation you may proceed
understanding of karma in the world. I shall speak of this

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earthy, all that stands before us with definite contours. For
expressing it, but you will understand what I mean —
grasp the nature of the fluid man and understand how this
help you to understand the muscular system. It is quite
transitions everywhere. It is not possible to understand the
it. This is quite all right. But while you can understand by
help you to understand what is going on in a muscle. Your
that real understanding of the inner organs of man was
therefore, that the whole human organism stands really
understand the muscles.
To understand
Understanding of the warmth involves the application of
to an understanding of the inner organs as such, but to the
organs must be grasped by an understanding of the
knowledge is incapable of bringing about understanding of the
— so warm that you cannot stand it. That is not merely
these things. Medical knowledge was an outstanding part of
subjects are taught is a crude and coarse misunderstanding.
help himself. But you must understand in your hearts what
will be able to contribute to an understanding of the real

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you may fully understand, I want to say something paradoxical
understand the connection, to go among smallpox patients
understand the nature of illness we must say to ourselves:

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turn to karma. Nobody who understands karma can ever be a
life, gives a firm standpoint. The other direction, however,
which the thigh is when the human being is standing or
here, in the physical world. Therefore there stands at the
We understand
said up to now will help you, in a general way, to understand
It is a picture that you must understand. In the soul that is
feel these things, you will also understand the healing

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understanding the world, of really getting to know the world
standpoint of the oriental is this: the human being has come
As a modern person you feel that you must understand every
— not something for you to understand merely —
who stands on the earth. He enters with the tendency to
forces in the human being. How can you understand these force
were developed. For you will readily understand that the
of childhood. Moreover, it is only possible to understand
at one time from the cosmos, but it remained at a standstill,
as one is working with the science that stands outside
in for medicine we cannot stand outside reality. If we do,
then we also stand outside reality in medical practice

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understand perfectly that a new character is to come into the
at which he stands he must find his development, find it in
disease is the question and one remains at a standstill at
know how it can be healed. Understanding consists in the
understand the human being in order to heal. I had not the
understanding — they will be the true pioneers of
understanding of the healthy and the sick human being. But if
should have the intuition to understand a process

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If we want really to understand the being
moon which is standing in front of them and exercising its
Pleiades. The moon passes on and, let us say, it now stands
particular forms? If you remain at a standstill within the
understanding of the form of a living being.
to understand how the human being is actually formed out of
with the heavens. When the sun is standing in Leo, for
only in the place where Saturn stands in the heavens. So far
understand why existence is still possible for the human
Saturn, therefore, are the heavenly bodies which stand
will understand why it has such effect if you really
a far-reaching understanding of the position in which we find
deeply, be realized, and how can we reach an understanding of
shall only be able to act truly if we get to understand our
brought into their earthly life no understanding of the human
for eating, drinking, walking, standing, sitting, but they
knowledge of matter understand the human being least of
were to do so you would fall into misunderstandings. You

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often objective reasons for this and you will understand what
misunderstanding. Faculties for such subjects as political
standpoint of the theologian, the other from the standpoint
of the philosopher, a third from the standpoint of the
jurist, and a fourth from the standpoint of the physician.
earnestness what I said yesterday about understanding the
understand the human being from a fundamental, cosmic point
with health this understanding of the whole cosmos in man
it possible to understand what we really have before us in
this science of fever cosmic, when we can understand how Old
Saturn is working in the human being; we must understand how,
understanding of fever. The divine world order regulates the
must understand these forces of the heart which entwine
themselves around the thoughts; we must understand once again

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from one another. In the human being as he stands in the
seem to suck but stands in the world full of vigor. When you
understands what he is doing with himself. In the East the
standing by an lake — a boundary is there, too. We look
then feeling would flow into knowledge and understanding. And
the modern age was lacking in understanding in this
educate him, that is to say, to understand and guide what is
subjective consciousness, for the understanding of his

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gradually learn to understand plastic things.
course, if you want to understand man in a plastic way you
to understand things, and that you can pass over from the
Here you have to understand the breathing process, and if you
meditative way which ascends to a real understanding, if you
and moon occurs so that man can stand upright and you will

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a better understanding of the human being and nature.
thought to come to a standstill within the limits of the
cannot understand the life and activity of the soul unless we
complete lack of understanding; for it is precisely in these
solid organism stands there as a supporting structure
from this that an understanding of our connection with the
understand the connection of the Ego with the astral body and
understanding not only of our relation to the surrounding
(Ego). The Ego hovers in the clouds and the solid body stands

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is a matter of any comprehensive understanding of the life of
understanding — this world view is unable to build a
this you will more easily understand what I shall now have to
understand the course of the world's development only if we
man's constitution. To understand it we must pass from the
stands in the universe; and it was the same in regard to the
now you will understand some of the deeper reasons for the

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As human beings we stand in the world as
that which we, standing in the world, can bring to
object stands before the mirror and what it presents is a
understand this rightly. What happens when we rise to pure
stand within the great process of world evolution, and what
human being, who stands before us as the supreme achievement
from which we can go forward to a true understanding of

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Whenever we stand in the presence of death, this feeling takes firm
if you understand the heart's language, hear it asking from its unconscious
confronts him; and he stands on the earth, feeling in the depths of
begin with, man stands before the great Unknown, but must regard himself
he stands with his soul in the present. But, in addition, there are
Man stands, so to speak, in double darkness, and the question arises:
a feeling, which, he expressly says, arises when we stand in the
relation in which the human body stands to the world of nature,

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physical world. We call it the physical body because it stands before
condition and consider past stages of its evolution. To understand man
at first. And we understand, too, why cosmic riddles present themselves
You cannot really understand why there is here a form like this:
unfamiliar today. And what usually happens? People say: I don't understand
take their stand on genuine science?’ Yes, but what does that mean?

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a person must first be initiated himself in order to understand what the
say: He stands here on the earth, and looks out on the wide spaces of
last. One need only develop a little understanding of what men once
the super-sensible. One is the moon, the other the sun. We only understand
him in their stirring, yet profound, way, one comes to understand, even
of today, however, is constrained by his physical body to understand,
Now this brain, as his instrument of understanding, has only evolved
something of this wisdom. He received it, not with his understanding
hear outer things with our senses, when we exercise our understanding
in action. Yet, with all that we human beings of today understand through
(Now we begin to understand people like Goethe's friend Knebel, whose
are others, again, who only affect our understanding, so to speak, or
with understanding. That peculiar, intimate, inner relationship in which
who stands beside us speaks to us. Thus the tics of destiny, which are
person works not only on his will, but as strongly as a man standing
way he stirs it. One learns to understand this effect on the will. One
learns to understand what is experienced in ordinary consciousness but
into man himself, the more we learn to understand what the wide cosmic

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opposition between outer perception and inner experience. If we understand
stands between two riddles. He looks outwards and perceives his physical
consciousness our thoughts stand there powerless; they are ‘just
Formerly you felt for example: I am standing on my legs. The ground
offer me this support, I would sink into bottomless space. I am standing
to stand on, nor nourishment, etc. But, in actual fact, from a mere
From this point one says to oneself: If you stand on the earth you see
far spaces of the universal ether. By this term you are to understand
beyond the terrestrial in understanding his form. The moment you come
this we can explain with our ordinary thoughts. But we cannot understand

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how matters stand.
to attain inspired knowledge. Of course, an understanding of such knowledge
can be acquired without pain, and people should acquire this understanding
spiritual perception — not a mere understanding — of what
standing here and I see him, to begin with, with my external senses.
this. You understand such pictures if you are able to perceive, behind
begin with, understand how that to which we feel ourselves morally bound
Nature and from spiritual to physical Nature again. We cannot understand
consciousness. If we really understand ancient records we find a

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the active life of feeling that connects willing and thinking, standing
memories. And, as we formerly learnt to understand and experience through
memory, we now begin to understand what happens during sleep. Thus into
on which we stand, the world which surrounds us as our earthly environment
begin to understand from another point of view than that from which we
understand external things with ordinary consciousness. With
to understand the Spiritual,
perceptions enter our body, whereas our thought ‘stands out’.
come to an understanding of memory. That the thought does not want to
life, with all that has ‘impressed’ him stands before him now.
stand in the universe and say to ourselves, as we consider, first of

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hat.) If we have an understanding of dreams — I say, of dreams,
way, we can perceive and understand so much of the essential nature

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we can have of a physical human being standing before us with his several
When we begin to understand the human head we gaze deeply into these
other hand, when we try to understand the metabolic and limb system
is enriched in a certain way and we accordingly understand many things
now all this stands before us. In our idea of our behaviour we only
others standing above him.
of our deeds, and the lofty beings who stand above us rain down their
we understand these things in this way, we can again turn our attention

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We now stand face to face with these beings of whom we previously perceived
standing in the light or shadow of these beings in whom we are beginning
have lived through this are we really ourselves, standing naked in spirit

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to stand vertically. Now a great deal in the whole being of man is
thoroughly to understand human life.
overcome gravity through our own power of standing upright. These
all-fours, we learn to stand upright and thus overcome gravity in our
and Luciferic forces without any wish to understand them.
standpoint of a nebulous mysticism, or in terms of abstract ideas,
mysteries of life. Forebears would understand their descendants

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understand the Semitic
Thales is to a certain extent the first to take his stand solely upon
understand such a figure as Julian the deserter, the apostate, in all
— whoever does not grasp this has no understanding of the whole
lose also our understanding of the personality of those around us.
Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
You may perhaps understand me best if I give you an outline of what
through our earthly life, therefore, without being able to understand
not really understand Him. Right up to their deaths they certainly
never reached an understanding of the Christ Impulse. When was it,
contemporaries of Christ, when were they ready to understand Christ?
people could be given an understanding of the Christ Impulse was to
century became mature enough to gain a full understanding. This
understanding was able to grow during the fourth century, but

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thing I said yesterday is that man, with the understanding he possesses
through his own understanding developed within the sense-world. I
in the super-sensible world, that there develops in man the understanding,
and the forces for that understanding, which can fully make clear the
an understanding until the second or third century after the Mystery of
rightly understand what Tertullian says here about the Mystery of
the world of the senses with his understanding, then among the
understand death; for they instinctively felt that when the human
will understand it only if you allow the spirit of what I have been
to a moralistic world-outlook. For out of this misunderstanding of
You understand nothing about the sense-world if you are not prepared
of the Mystery of Golgotha, stands opposed. I mean this with
serves to understand nature; for by introducing birth and death into
correct from the standpoint of natural science. You arrive at the
No-one understands the Resurrection, which is meant to stand in
senses — no-one understands this truth who does not
to understand these truths, and modern Protestant theologians want to
understand them in terms of theology, with the ordinary human
understand these truths they become followers of Harnack, or
man's task is not to accept them without understanding them.
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understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. Opposition to the
now the cooks and waiters stand about with absolutely nothing to do.
the philosopher-cooks, and the cooks and waiters just stand around.
kind, he must appear to himself as standing quite uselessly around.
understand himself. And in the age of the Consciousness Soul man can
evolution in which one meets with the least understanding when
can certainly understand the non-spiritual; that is not particularly
against any understanding of the spiritual.
feeling and understanding between peoples! From the beginning of the

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an unfamiliar point of view, but one of outstanding significance. Let
we cannot understand the event if we consider only what concerned us
deal that he could not understand; but one thing he would understand.
— he would understand only what is in any way interwoven with
up to our own time, if we are to understand what has happened in
Western Christian tradition the Schoolman is shown standing there
Christian tradition of the West, and you will understand how there
this. Who would ever really understand, on reading the foolish,
ago: you remember how I took the image of Father Rhine. Someone stands
learning to understand the rhythms in
however, we can never come to understand birth and death, or

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shall understand each other better if we take our start from the
Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha,
— of this no understanding is called forth, intentionally from
was to render inoperative the capacity for intelligent understanding
preferred to keep their eyes on what they could understand and could
standpoint of the Sentient Soul — what becomes of the part that
mention this word and we shall understand what is involved. For this
keep people from understanding them, even from asking what anything
friends, from the standpoint of Spiritual Science, out of which I
been speaking to-day, to be understood from the standpoint of the
meant that cannot be fully justified from the standpoint of
to understand these forms; not to speak in terms of dogma about
it were judged critically by former standards, it would certainly not
and misunderstandings, however, can very easily arise. They can arise
of what can be done to expose men's souls to misunderstandings
— misunderstandings about sacramentalism, misunderstandings
about ritual, misunderstandings about rhetoric, about living in
anthroposophical understanding of spiritual life must recognise.

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Verstand, das ist die Maja, das ist die große
wohlverstandenen Gründen. Daß zum Beispiel in Indien
unhellseherischen Verstande dringt,
unseherischen menschlichen Verstande. Das bedeutet für den
gestanden hat, die es mit der Maschine zu tun haben, dann
vielleicht für den unseherischen Verstand nur geahnt oder
und dem menschlichen Verstande. Das ist das, was Herz und Seele
richtigen Sinne verstanden werden. Eine historische Forderung
Standpunkt absoluter Gleichberechtigung stehen mit den
gefunden, Dinge zu verstehen, die ich nicht verstanden habe
eingerahmt. Man hat sie verstanden, weil es befohlen war, sie
genommen doch nur verstanden werden kann, wenn man auf
Allerdings, es kommt das auf einem Umweg zustande. Die Bibel

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Bestandteile, die wir zum Aufbau unseres Leibes brauchen? Es
Europäer-Verstand, den gewöhnlichen
Umstand, daß es so ist, daß unsere Erkenntnisse
heraus, stand an der Grenzscheide der beiden Zeiträume,
«Jüngsten Gericht» entstanden dadurch, daß
einverstanden — aber so, daß alles beim alten

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vollständig verstanden, zugleich bewirken das
ist, aber welches auch verstanden werden muß, wenn
sozialen Aufbau im Ernste die Rede sein soll. Verstanden wird
ist und daher alles, was verstanden oder besser gesagt nicht
verstanden wird — kindlich gefunden wird. Ja, sehen Sie,
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stand.
seinen physischen Augen und auch mit seinem Verstande vom

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er mit dem oder jenem Tierkreisbilde in Beziehung stand, er
über diesen Tatbestand auseinandergesetzt. Es wurde den

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physischen Leib. Der Umstand, daß wir diese vier Glieder
einmal der Zustand eintreten, daß man durch komplizierte
werde. Dieser Zustand wird niemals eintreten. Man wird auf
Tatbestand, der zugrunde liegt, immer klarer und klarer werden
Weltwesens hineinschauen will. Gerade an dem Umstande, daß
ist, Unverstand der Sache entgegenkommen. Um den Mut handelt es

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the soul if we can understand in detail the particular nature
Augustine can be understood only when one understands how much
material. We entirely misunderstand Greek philosophy in
to understand. When the Greeks speak of ideas, of conceptions,
existing among the Greeks. Neither do we understand that
close to the border of understanding abstract thought free from
scepticism. On the other hand, the feeling of standing on a
equally powerful in his soul lived that philosophy which stands
ancient Greek period. To understand him is really
understanding, of our reason, what we know as the sum of our
say, if I may express myself clearly: we understand the world
which, according to Plotinus stands above the
from searching for an inner understanding of this Plotinism.
knowledge he had through Plotinism to understand Christianity
knowledge he carried also into his understanding of the Bible.
Augustine stands, with what I might call his derived knowledge,
now see how Augustine stands, a vivid fighting personality,
subjective struggle in him. In later times that understanding
soul, could understand the mystery of Christ-Jesus. Such

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but rather that behind it all, there stands a real development
can understand the separate events that occurred in this epoch
we understand what battles took place in the souls of such
that it is possible to understand that Augustine wanted to hold
but rather a question of taking a definite stand, whether
that party-standpoint on the question of Scholasticism —
understanding of the matter. For whoever has a sense of the
understand it, if we consider, looking beyond what I already
Christianity was born can understand it quite well. If one
at the crossing lead to the goal. I can understand how some
stand in the same relation to Aristotle as the present day
differentiates between the active understanding, the active
understand what he means unless we revert to the origin of
points of understanding are active in another metamorphosis in
building up the human soul: — the understanding, in so
the understanding, not like the memory which comes to an end at
— but working throughout life as understanding. That is
understand the working of the Schoolmen's souls without taking
existed; for what we to-day call understanding, what we call
constituted alike, and because the understanding is bound up
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place through the active understanding. He can only imagine
he returned to Nominalism. For Scotus the human understanding
further the development of Western thought. Individuals stand
one is, of course, exposed to grave misunderstandings, if one
survived in another form from the Scholiasts, still understands
following sentence stands out from the writings of the Jew
that for Goethe this book of Spinoza's became the standard.
viewed from the human standpoint, and we must look at the spark
most important sign is surely this, that Scholasticism stands
Copernicus or Kepler; the forces of human understanding had not
knowledge. As they see it, man stands on one side, surrounded
Kantianism and similar philosophies, to understand something of
leave the idea-world on the standpoint of the Fall?
West, how Spiritual Science always will stand on the ground of
the Present, and how it can stand on no other, whatever else

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call human understanding, human comprehension; and
attain to the full understanding of that wonder which is contained in
physical birth.” Our feeling is deepened when we understand in
understanding of what has been traditionally handed down about the
understand human evolution if we do not look into such things. Today
the Magi of the East, through their understanding of the mysteries of
understanding of the birth of Christ revealed itself to man. We have
Virgin and the constellation standing at right angles to it, in
and the constellation of the Ram was seen in quadrature standing, as
understanding was of such a nature that in gazing out into space and
shall rightly understand the mystery of the rebirth of the human

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examine them and try to arrive at an understanding of evolution,
Golgotha, there too we shall find we can only understand it when we
certain understanding of this link between life in nature and
stands, as it were, in the centre, and that there are certain
suited to our own times. An understanding will come again for the
If we would understand the Christmas Mystery, we must
understand things, must imagine that Lucifer appears to him in the
Gnostics and used to enable them to understand the Mystery of
although we cannot yet rightly understand it, is nevertheless in us —
an aura of many shining colours. We must learn to understand Isis
become for us spiritual again. We must understand Saturn, Sun, Moon,
Who stands before us in a far greater glory than Osiris did in the
existence. This community should understand how terrible it is in our
mere phrase. We should be able to understand that in future this must
whether the feelings in your hearts and souls, when you stand before
raise mankind to an understanding of the sense and meaning of its
that we bear this Being within us, but we must understand Him. Just
it sheds an inner peace into the hearts of men. We should understand
love in the great task. Then, and only then, shall we understand
Christmas. If we cannot realise this, we shall not understand
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When it is a question of understanding the Event of
individual, very outstanding men like the three Magi from the East
the right way we begin to understand how the wise men from the East
plumb the depths of the life of soul we begin to understand how the
mathematical, mechanistic world. It is only outstanding persons like
barren, dry; he has no love for it. Novalis, who was an outstanding
understand the Imaginations. Thus by the development of the inner
faculties men will have to seek for the understanding of the Christ
understand how Isis, the living, divine Sophia, had to disappear
We are standing before this very point of time, my dear
knowledge must understand what is there called the meeting with the
chaotic unity in man. The understanding that must come to the pupil
passing over a threshold at which stands a Guardian, a Guardian full
things in our days to bring men to understand this passing through
stands. This Guardian demands of an individual who is advancing to
ourselves at the time of Christmas too, if we rightly understand
threefold. And those who stand properly in the spiritual life
the earth experiences through the Christ. And those who stand rightly

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in his understanding of the world of human beings, of the planet
without really getting to know and understand them. Through the
highlands, if we want really to understand the nature of these
being made to understand the human being, to answer the question:
What is the human being in reality? Efforts were made to understand
applied for understanding the human being than the powers used
for understanding machines. Men were obliged to pass through this
This sheath does stand at the summit of the animal world. But
modern striving for knowledge there is no real understanding of
recognised today — no conscious understanding of the human
mythologies. This is because the author simply does not understand
understand Anthroposophy at all, finds in it something similar to
fully conscious understanding of the world, an understanding with a
field. And then from what follows, we can understand the kind of
understand the connection of their present mode of vision with that
development do not understand what is nearest at hand; we do not know
the workings of many substances we use in everyday life. We stand
understand what it is that will bring healing into the development of

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just as we stand before the outer world and take in a certain part of
order to understand his thought, in order to bring it into connection
from which we receive simply a sensation of standing as man in a
standing balanced, or of being poised, or of dancing in balance, we
life-sense and so on. And you will understand this difference best if
When we picture the human being in this way, we have to understand
It is essential to understand that to assemble an immense number of
is to understand the absolute necessity of reaching clear ideas, ideas
notwithstanding the fact that it is so intimately connected with you.

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man, the content of which stands in much the same relationship to
prevailing, in order to get any sort of understanding as to how the
men of that time thought. To try to understand Plato or Heraclitus or
is an utter impossibility. We do not even understand Aristotle. And
Indeed, a real understanding of the essential soul-life has for the
culture. And you understand that culture best when you understand it
objective knowledge. Anyone who wishes to understand what is contained
understanding of these things, and must take this direction (see
upper man). And whoever wishes to understand what is really to be
And it is interesting to note that it is just from this standpoint

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theoretical standpoint, very misleading, but not more so than the
From this you will understand that ordinary memory, which we have
acquire the ability to go behind this memory, to learn to understand
look at the human head-organisation with understanding to say why.
Moreover this head stands apart from the relationships of the rest of
the human being, in so far as he stands on the earth, has his natural
he did not take what the lecturer had drawn, from his standpoint of
be detected in the physical forms. It is not possible to understand
much head-men, we shall understand a great deal, but remember little
one can really understand the structure of matter — particularly
when it comes to organic life — only if one understands it in its

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looking at a human being he stands there before us in his
the human being comes to a standstill for the rest of his
understanding with these Beings. This is a deep secret of
individuals who achieve no such understanding in the sleeping
which actually hinders their souls from understanding the
world can no longer come to any real understanding with
sleeping human souls, when misunderstandings keep occurring
of life. A tormenting condition of misunderstanding, of a
complete lack of understanding between human souls and
standards that this most often happens when they are called
about understanding between the human soul and the Beings of
impossible for me to come to an understanding with the
extent the young will be unable to understand the old,
and the old. And the real source of the lack of understanding
development. Understanding between youth and age will not be
understanding on the physical plane. As regards declamation
life he understands the ideal content of what is expressed by
longer understand life; and this lack of understanding is
understanding with the spiritual Beings with whom man needs
order to understand life today — if I may use trivial

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clear that if we are to understand the destinies of human
Just as in the physical realm man stands on Earth, perceives
etheric body. Understand me rightly here. — Yesterday I
misunderstand me. Goethe was not an undutiful son or anything
head alone. To understand it fully, no involvement on the
transformation. Hence you can never understand Paracelsus if
stronger effort of will that is needed for understanding
for example, to understand anything at all about the human
organism; for to understand the human organism inner activity
necessary to understand anything about the organism itself.

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fact a more exact understanding can be reached of what man
today no longer have the slightest understanding of human
world. You will perhaps understand this more clearly in your
understanding of something which later became more abstract
of soul which brings a deep and living understanding of what
understand the past aright when we are able to see in

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yesterday to show that we can fully understand the evolution
personality appears who stands with his soul in the conflict
gradually understand them by studying impulses of the
and Spirit man stands within the realm of spiritual impulses,
the physical man as he stands on Earth was worked upon, in

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— you will understand that it is essential to realize that
outstanding spiritual leaders of mankind are the Beings whom
understanding of the great world-problems since they are
Spirits of Form can mislead us, and how a true understanding

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have no aptitude for understanding the living nature of the
question arises: If we want to understand Nature, if we want
understands the real nature of the senses the remarkable fact
understand Goethe's theory of Metamorphosis, we shall say to
other side we must also understand clearly that precisely
acquire no understanding of the life round about him; he can
understand the death around him — and only that.
traditional religious ideas which they no longer understand
longer understand the physical world around him.
they are too spiritual! They would be able to understand
a suitable dosage which the patient can stand — after
all, one can be cured by a remedy only if one can stand it
the living environment. He will, however, one day understand
that animals still understand this difference, for they have
comprehensible. But we can understand nothing truly if we
have nothing living within us. We can understand what is
freedom in face of the interruption in understanding that has
come about, we must achieve new understanding by beginning
realize on reflection that we come nearer to understanding
the world by learning to understand man, and especially the

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come to understand human nature as it was in the second

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its outstanding representatives, as just our own present time.
once again — yesterday I have to speak of an outstanding
and it is indeed an outstanding phenomenon that, with the decisiveness
examples of this for you; so that we stand before the remarkable
spiritual world, such as stand in our Anthroposophical books,
stands for materialism but, that one has fallen so far into
civilisation stands in regard to the past. Because standing for a
wants to stand for spiritual science, that one may not speak to
This it stands in the letter to the faithful by an archbishop
to really permeate with understanding what must stream into the
speeches that were given by outstanding bishops or archbishops at
understands the Mystery of Golgotha in the right way, he is

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So as to understand
and as we ourselves stand within it, Let us disregard the human
truths by single outstanding personalities. Truths that arise in
cosmos. This enables the human being to understand such a thing
vitalising spiritual life. The world today stands not only in
American religious confessions to an understanding that the gods
because it is materialistic, does not understand matter. What
does natural science understand about the function of the human
brain? What does natural science understand about the function of
planet. In that you stand here upon the earth, you will to be
what may stand behind matter. What goes beyond matter, the
inner experiencing, that brings to understanding the concepts and

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Vorstand des Goetheanums? —, und man antworten würde: Der Vorstand
ist derjenige, der Vorstand von keiner anderen Institution ist —,
der Vorstand des Goetheanums ist. So bekommt man natürlich auch
Hochschulkurs nur von protestantischem Standpunkte aus redet und
den katholischen Standpunkt unberücksichtigt läßt. Aber ein Bild
nicht, wenn man nicht auch den katholischen Standpunkt irgendwie zu
nicht vom Standpunkte der Naturwissenschaft entschieden werden,
sondern nur vom Standpunkte der Philosophie aus.
Man kann natürlich nicht von einem eingeschränkten Standpunkte aus

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necessity, but on the other hand can fully understand that this
essential for us at present to understand that if the
ancient Greek knew himself as a human being standing in the
Now, with normal human feelings, it is difficult to understand
describe it so from our modern standpoint, but for those people
the racial wisdom, and of Giordano Bruno, because he stands in
has to understand how radically our modern civilisation has
and behind that stands the table in its reality. Hartmann
“Stickl, stand up.” This is very necessary. And it
valuable through its standing in the service of something great.
ourselves to an understanding of the fact that Anthroposophy

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture I: The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution
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the results, arrive at a comprehensive understanding of
standpoint only.

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in eurythmy. People who do not understand eurythmy cannot bear

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is fairly easy to understand that a kind of photograph of what
easier to understand that the spiritual can be active within
inner being. So, you see how matters stand: The reality
physical organism. It is a question of understanding the
soul. If we cannot make the effort to understand even
must have the goodwill to understand how human nature comes to
it, tried to eat its reflection in a mirror standing beside it.

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within the table at which we stand. We see the outside of these
“the-standing-outside-of-things” becomes
When we stand before this whole world, which is now an external
understand, but not after it has once been thought through as
understand that this is where our soul being goes when in
become understandable to us when it reflects the sun. We have
When we learn through Anthroposophy to understand why ancient

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meet us with understanding, will not always be possible to give
is unable to find moral impulses, when he stands outside
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
stand in the right way within world evolution then there must
understanding, say, how a steam engine works. In my
needed for understanding a steam engine. However, in order to
understand a steam engine, one must set aside one's whole human
Thus, one can take one's stand fully on the ground of freedom
provided one also stands fully on the ground of the Christ
earnest people who have come together to understand something
above all through their understanding of the Mystery of

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we perceive it through our senses and understand it with our
must say — if one observes it with understanding — that
understand the human organs unless one understands the astral
are discovered to be a unity when one learns to understand the
understand what takes place in the heart, albeit in a much more

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described how man at present, when he understands his own
little understand the nature of man, especially that of man in
order to understand what is achieved by this let us look at
Bhagavad Gita with understanding one must be conscious of what

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solid earthy nature. The outstanding characteristic of these
can see already how matters stand. Those who have reached a

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understanding of both. Not only man's view of the world

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little clear understanding of the soul, in genuine spiritual
must stand before the spiritual researcher in transparent
be achieved. From this standpoint I would like to speak to you
standing in the world. They have nurtured the sciences, which,
feel that he stands solidly in reality. Only a person working
at a certain place on the earth, he wants to understand in how
picture that stands as cosmology of the modern age man can
part, I shall discuss how matters stand with the third step in
the way to an understanding of religion.

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mutual understanding about it when confronting it. In
taking it in with his ordinary, healthy understanding he feels:

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the usual healthy human understanding if it is sufficiently
supersensible character. Thereby we learn to understand
word gives rise to a complete misunderstanding of the

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penetrating to the true nature of the soul, you will understand
therefore lost its content and with it its standing. If we wish
from this standpoint will be described in conclusion.
man stands wholly outside this life; therefore, these

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is always supposed — notwithstanding the assumption
planetary system in our solar cosmos stand before the soul. It
destiny that stand before our soul contain what can be called

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understand the eternal essence of his being. For, in
man wants to arrive at such an understanding of the Christ and
understanding this event, might himself experience from outside
understand the Mystery of Golgotha, one started with
spirituality and then, proceeding from Christ, to understand
Golgotha, for no understanding of this Mystery is
able, by means of a power of understanding rooted in the human
come to an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. By
contrast, if one renounces any understanding of the Mystery of
pious veneration and attains to an understanding of what Christ
understanding of the sense world with the aid of that very
understanding of the sense world and develop enough strength to
we renounce all understanding based on the senses and
deeper understanding of the Christ came into being, namely,

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year stand before the soul side by side.
own life's course, he also understands the nature of ordinary
have in relation to the objects standing before a mirror.
understand what it implies to be outside your physical body,
longer possess your physical body. I ask you to understand that
problem of birth appears when it is viewed from the standpoint
death, for if we want to arrive gradually at an understanding
and form of the human head organization. Now understand this
the soul. As I have already indicated from another standpoint,
course in time are seen to stand side by side. Through this

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we learn to understand that death has the tendency to
the astral organism. This is how matters stand with the head
will understand that a true cosmology can only come into being
physical sun, comes and stands beside him, and leads him from
Christ stands as a World Power, a Cosmic Force. His Power can

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state of a man's health. We can only learn to understand
This is quite understandable, coming from people who choose to
can stand to be awake for two, three or four nights. Just as
present it from the standpoint of human earth life in this way
This is spoken from the standpoint of human earth
characterized from the standpoint of the cosmic consciousness
cosmos. Just as we stand here at the center and look out
understanding of the idea of destiny, which traces this idea
wishes to understand this in the right way and be a true aid in
(Gemüt) can understand it. Therefore, the renewal of

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of those who claim to be able to see such things stand in front
standing or sitting in front of you?’ Then — according to
forward if the book had been read with understanding. With
incomprehensible to him; he simply cannot understand it. Among
arranged from the standpoint of the physical plane and with the
the standpoint of the spiritual world and with the methods of
anyone reads my book Theosophy with real understanding, he will
able to read the book with sufficient understanding to discover
in thinking and feeling; standards and judgments otherwise
difficulty still standing in the way of understanding books on
book. It is therefore quite understandable that genuine occult
acquire restfulness of soul, poise where we stand ... then the
Anthroposophical Movement are capable of understanding it.
Understand me well, my dear friends. For this too I have often
stands there, the word BAU (building) and put it in a frame,
understand the question: What is occult reading? Occult reading

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understand. We experience inwardly mobile pictures, all kinds
change something in the picture as it stands before one.
recognise him. As soon as we stand before a being of the
that in order to understand the book, we must first eat it,
until we have given up our whole soul to understanding the
matters about a spiritual experience is that we understand it.
To understand it we must be able to practice spiritual
we are still consciously standing before them, the feeling is
moment I stand at a definite point — A.
completely, we can only stand at one point; we have to build
To begin with I stand outside these pictures, but then I plunge
from many standpoints; we have to go around it. In the

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are sitting or standing somewhere and are sufficiently prepared
begin for the first time to understand why this is so when we
understand, then, why the human being cannot be conscious in
‘Standing before the Gate of Death.’
should at each moment stand before the danger of death.
Again, you will understand why this must be. If we were to
Only thereby can we understand the human individuality when it
understand our fellow-man, we have to use the larynx and other
in our senses and thoughts as if we were standing outside them
for this we must adopt the standpoint therein described —
understand this by thinking of the cases in life where a man on
understand the mystery that it is the highest forces that in

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Archangeloi, we must understand through inner feeling something
that we learn to understand these Beings of the Hierarchies. We
only gradually learn to understand because in the physical
independent of the standpoint of Space, of the standpoint of
feelings connected with the experience of standing at the Gate
of Death, or is able to face Evil with understanding, or when
feeling that arises from the preparation for standing at the
understand him because he speaks to us, perhaps also by gesture
necessary for understanding that soul.
will understand this still more precisely if I tell you about
preparation for unfolding understanding of the vowels of the
will give you a brief example of understanding this
cases speech is not really adequate for understanding these
able to conceive of the soul as a unit. It is understandable

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unreality of thoughts. We gradually come to understand the
in sleep we are driven outside. No one understands the will who
understands the will who is bounded by the human body and does
positive standpoints of individual men are warranted, but not
spiritual world-conception without having any understanding of

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profoundly satisfied on finding oneself once more at this place where this building stands as a
standing out as a symbol of our cause, and free from all that is personal. And what is connected
strengthening and sharpening of the desire for spirit life there stands the terrible confusion
had a glimpse of what is going on here. A new human understanding is already arising from the
have been speaking are present, and how we need to stand consciously within what is essential and
a consciousness that it is very necessary for us to take a decided stand on the grounds of our
In what we do it is only towards the principles for which we stand that must look for
performed publicly. It is just at this juncture, however, that we must stand on the very firmest
remember, especially on meeting again, to conduct according to the standard of spiritual impulses
if they come out of his head. But this is something that modern man comes to understand with such
many of you may feel resentment if I give you a really outstanding idea as an example — I
which our Anthroposophy is devoted, to make a stand against three fundamental evils in the
heard me call Oskar Hertwig's book about organisms an outstanding book will assume that this
itself nicely in bud in the understanding for these ability tests. For these ability tests
those who understand how to see clearly into such matters:
interesting lectures by Woodrow Wilson have been repeated having wide historic standpoints. And
Thus it is a question today of understanding that

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sketch of the human soul, as this human soul stands in relation to the world and to itself. I
of man as a soul being. So that we understand ourselves just as if we were to look at the
2). As you know from the various descriptions that have been given, the soul-and-spirit stands in
a more direct connection with the world of soul-and-spirit than physical man stands in connection
necessary. I shall only paint man's immediate environment. Thus it is now what we may understand
soul-and-spirit. But t also describes where man, the soul-and-spirit in man, stands in relation
with the whole cosmos actually stands out in front of him. If we describe this boundary in
only great significance for understanding man, but also great significance for understanding what
these things we shall never understand how Christianity and the Christ-impulse have entered human
evolution. Neither shall we understand what part is played by the Catholic Church, what part is

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will show itself above all in far more people than we think today understanding from purely inner
You will understand that one is in certain way justified in showing how the ordinary cleverness
what is here is the understanding of the wor1d acquired through Spiritual Science. It is possible
makes it so difficult for a European to understand what is said by an oriental about the
civilisation of the East. If we would understand these people it is necessary indeed for us to
unintelligible. Usually there is no understanding whatever for what they are saying.
most outstanding spirits there rules, as I have shown, what is left over from a previous age,
clearly distinguishable that the most outstanding minds receive a great deal that seeps through
branch of — the English in Europe, and consider that they do not at all understand the
that would have to be penetrated by man for himto understand evolution.
understanding of the world that is scientific and in accordance with time — an
understanding that is easy and universally popular — and the true understanding of the
world. This true understanding of the world must be able to recognise such contrasting things as
the same be harmful to him should they happen. For it is necessary for man to take his stand
far as possible from the understanding of Christ. And the endeavor in cultural development that
took on the task of obliterating the understanding of Christ, of completely eradicating all
understanding of Christ, this is Jesuitism. Jesuitism strives gradually to root out every
possibility of understanding the Christ. For what lies at the bottom of this is indeed closely
value, namely, the understanding of what is known as Spiritual Science. For there is no doubt
something that is not so important as for people to find the intellectual power to understand the
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development, the much-debated question mentioned to begin with was whether the outstanding and
when, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, we look more deeply into the historical development
Catholic theologian shifts the standpoint entirely before he takes it up at all. He does not go
into decadence. In Plato, if we are able to understand him properly, we find the last offshoots,
human being as the spiritual. But it existed in a — I beg you not to misunderstand the word
soul-constitution was completely different from that of later humanity when, for an understanding
It was only through misunderstanding that there
man's being. He had little understanding for what took place between birth and death. And now,
towards the 'I', but he cannot reach the point of really understanding the 'I' philosophically.
far as he can understand it, Kant, if he could really think to the end, would have to think the
still only a reaction, a last reaction to something else. For one can understand Kant only when
understand? There entered into Kant here — it fitted badly in his case because he was too
One will only be able to come to an understanding
respectively. But we have arrived at a point of humanity's development when understanding, a
common understanding, must spread equally over all humanity. How can this come about?
follow from spiritual-scientific training. And we stand here at a point where we must say: In
depths of spiritual science. No good will come from instincts, but only from the understanding
good can be achieved from levelling everything. This is the serious battle in which we stand.
This building stands here,
Entente. Understanding must be developed here for what is to become a unified culture containing
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increasingly educated for freedom, must also take up a conscious stand more and more to what
necessity of founding a social life consciously. And we must take a conscious stand towards
socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
world. The more recent life of humanity can only be understood if one understands this
how, based an a political-military standpoint, Napoleon, with his 'Continental System',
essential task to be able to take up a stand towards life from this point of view.
different types of beings do indeed work through human beings and we understand human character
the first type prevent die emergence of an economic life that stands as an independent entity

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one wants to understand how the human beings of the European Centre are wedged in, as it were,
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
prejudice at the results of Darwin's research will understand that something was present there
most outstanding human beings, of the Centre give weight to: the fact that the human being, as he
understanding. One saw how the German element evolved into the Magyar in an artificial way and
If you go to the East there is no understanding at
understanding at all for what is called rational in the West? Let us be under no illusion here.
The Russian has not the slightest understanding for what, in the West, one calls rationality. The
understands nothing; that is, he does not feel in this word what Western people feel. But what
worlds into human beings — this he understands well. Through the nature of what is spoken
by nature not the slightest understanding for what one must refer to as the relation of the
slightest understanding for this. For this is something quite different from what is given
eleventh and twelfth centuries (it came then in the fifteenth century) — the outstanding
medieval spiritual development, from this point of view. Just study, from this standpoint, such
Ages when one perceives its most outstanding spirits as being those in whom reason from the West
re-fructified. The Orient will understand the spiritual life that blossoms in the Occident only
have a great deal of understanding for an independent spiritual life. And it will also take

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to go no further than these images. For had he, from his standpoint, tried to go further he would
development, these two soul-constitutions, which I have characterized for you, stand side by
Schiller and Goethe they stand in a certain way simultaneously side by side. Schiller and Goethe
(Verstandiges)
really able to understand something like
beings of the Centre; from what, between economics and the reconstructing spirit-life, stands in
did without standing on
American life, into which our emigrants dissolved, stands today under the influence of the German
standpoint is that one hears something, makes a note of it, and then it is over and done with,
everywhere, and yet humanity will not take a stand. Until it makes a stand in all three spheres
Goethe's Standard of the Soul

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faculties that stand in a relationship to nature, he is not free. If he tries to flee into the
precisely through a faculty like the intellect, which does not stand in a relationship to the
in economics. In the future it will be the association. And people must stand together in an
is a matter here of gaining a true understanding of the child one is educating so that one can
perceptive understanding of practical life is brought to bear — especially of the practical
could provide something tangible out of the realm of practical life itself, and which could stand

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If an understanding for what one can call the
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
Thus the first understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
before the intellect broke in and understanding for the Mystery of Golgotha could no longer be
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
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
standard for the world. Just look how easily people are satisfied when they are told somewhere
those circles who had no understanding at all for the Mystery of Golgotha, who had only tradition
to understand this on the basis of the development of European humanity. One must, for example,
understand the development of the universities. How have the universities developed? One should
social authority principle. One must only understand how deeply this has penetrated into the
visionary gift and say all sorts of things they do not understand themselves against this modern
still exist. Human beings can still just about understand it. They set down this understanding in
priest speaks words in a language they do not understand. For it is not a matter for them of
understanding but a matter, at most, of living in the general atmosphere which is directed to the
soon as people begin to debate something it means they no longer understand it. What lives in the
very last traces of understanding for the Last Supper were gone — the play of dialectics
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world-views. But this science has not been capable of raising man's power of understanding to the
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
we hear the demand that man should stand solely on the basis of his own being. This comes forward
weight on the soul. It is here that the inability of natural science to give man an understanding
his being. And let us now consider from a spiritual-scientific standpoint the counter-image of
understand that this has to happen. He can already embrace the thought that it must
understand.'
the earth who has united Himself with earthly humanity. People will have to understand that the
specialized science, is well able to understand what this man can understand. One simply cannot
not understand and does not wish to understand.
the Gospels has come up with, to stand there and say: Our salvation for eternity must come from
understanding it as such.
expectation, develops an understanding for the great experience of the twentieth century that is
that, in all reality, we can move forward to an understanding of Him.

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But for one who wishes to understand the
readily understand that what thus surrounds us when we are born into
surrounds you, this does not stand there by itself but is the result of
understand that someone who takes no interest at all in what surrounds him
with which he must live in order to learn to understand their gradual
understand their destruction and disintegration. Those people, however, who

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this ‘dual’ man, the matter stands thus, for example: That,
stand in a most important and significant time.
just as Spiritual Science of today stands to the materialist; so will,
and B, standing together at a street corner. We go away and relate this
to a third person. But let us also suppose that A has been standing
persons standing together at 3 p.m. But the one who has been standing
without any sort of attempt to understand the other — to

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understandable, one might even say justifiable. But something else
has already been said that may bring us again some understanding of
God Jahve, radiating from the far distance, which stands at the
gradually to reach an understanding of what had happened through the
took pains to understand Nature around them. And so we can say that
understanding and which then gradually dried up and withered into
conception in order to understand what hid behind this Mystery of
despairing struggle towards an understanding, a real understanding of
understanding what is flowing to him from the Christ Impulse. And so
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, then this would have been
trees of Life; ash and elm. And with this the following fact stands
humanity were, in a way, protected from understanding anything that
fundamentally only another way of pointing to the understanding of
One cannot understand Europe if one does
not bear this connection in mind; one can, however, understand Europe
of Europe, if we are to understand this European

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say, the arms of Lucifer. And one can understand the deep mystery
comes in which we must unfathom if we would understand the necessary
realm; and indeed that is very easy to understand since Ahriman as we
developed and strove for an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
outstanding position in our Building. The Archetype of Man in the

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to meet with full understanding when one speaks out of the sources of
forces within us we can hardly reach a right understanding, based on
has neglected to acquire an understanding for the Mystery of
papier-mÃ¢chÃ©; they have little understanding of
us is not exhausted with what stands in the Gospel. He is not among
revelation. One stands as it were ever confronting the Christ, and
Hence we may understand as living
as one has received it to relate it to the world with understanding,
being, then you will understand: In Greece the evolution of humanity
misunderstand what is meant when I speak about it. It is of course
Acropolis, or a Greek Temple, they stand there in order to remain
one day it becomes more perfect, will always stand there in such a
against the walls standing there and in order to dissolve the forms,
— for wherever they stand they really want to be
radically different, and one does not really understand the age of
divine. You only arrive at a real understanding of this
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, that he only saw how human
understanding of the fact that something entirely new had now arisen
old Mysteries, but he had no understanding for what was then emerging
today only at the beginning of understanding what has flowed into
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earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
solved in any case with earthly understanding. But we have seen that
it flow into the world of our concepts and understanding. Thus,
what a man must really understand to comprehend Christology. Why do
so many people not understand it? Why do they connect no right ideas
open to ideas which permit an understanding of the Mystery of
has died, and that they are trying to learn to understand the living
the dead, they are trying to understand and explain the living from
must take pains, always take pains to replace an understanding
through the dead by an understanding through the living. The whole
science must disappear. In its place must arise an understanding of
as the Moon existence, which stands behind them, —
be wanting in an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. For we
be understood, must be really grasped, as standing outside everything
understanding of the world must take in the future. But for a long
by other races if they say things that these people do not understand
or have no intention of understanding — another
not bring it to the world by standing up and presenting their views,
remain in the background as Mahatmas, and those who stand before the
world speak of the Mahatma standing behind them, and what they
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soul, we see what stands behind of great importance: we note how
unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
we consider in a more comprehensive sense what stands in the
— the eyes only stand for the senses as a whole.
already, if one understands things aright, one finds the enduring
us out of the cosmos. The sense-world stands there:
will not suffer it). The little rose simply stands as the
joy; the jubilation of nature when the rosebush stands there with all

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be justified, but all the same Lucifer stands at the side. There is
therefore, to undertake one's self-development from this standpoint,
my dear friends, is necessary: to understand how the impulses of
and who, standing outside, say: these spiritual scientists certainly
can only understand this through spiritual science. The question is
This means, we stand there, we see the

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that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
Indeed, this understanding can only come from Spiritual
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
wine). There was a real understanding of this mystery in those
blood. Standing on the Earth they knew: there is something in
growing faculty of human intellect to understand this teaching
Only in the light of this knowledge can we begin to understand
understand the thoughts of the early Christians but out of this
Understanding these things was hardly possible any longer in
understand John Scotus Erigena when he speaks of the Godhead
only a question of understanding the real meaning of the
begin with, men would be capable of understanding them.
men were not supposed to understand. These dogmas are not
— which he himself found difficult to under' stand
if we really understand them and shake off Alexandrian
from somewhere else, but we stand in dire need of it.
come to an understanding of the now faded wisdom of antiquity.

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understanding. The proletarian masses have increasingly had to regard
literary. Ever less understanding showed itself for the pictorial, for
human beings became less and less capable of understanding each other in
prerequisites of any kind, everyone actually has his standpoint. Today
standpoint with regard to even the most mature way of thinking. The
understand each other so little — indeed to an
conceived of as born out of the entire world. Understanding the human
being presupposes understanding the world. Yet, how little is a real
understanding of the world actually sought (and hence a real
understanding of the human being) in a natural scientific age that enters
to have nothing to do with understanding the social question, it
intimately connected with understanding the social question. This will
once more of calling forth a common understanding between beings that
understand that. A “casting” actually
acquire understanding for the many-sidedness of human beings, and gain
feel ourselves standing within what is comprised by the genius of
rights-genius. We must learn to stand within what is encompassed by the
us a standpoint for observing the world. Then our
person sees it from a different standpoint.
not notice such things. But it is easier, self-evidently, to understand
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historical course of events, that we stand in a very definitive
historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
We cannot understand the old oriental
ruler or the rulers. It is very difficult to understand the feelings
more or less forgotten. Even Catholics understand little of the fact
If we wish to understand such a
necessary because only thus can we understand what tasks and what

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understand the contemporary world under such disagreeable conditions,
exist in Central Europe. And in order to understand what happened in
usually merely tools, the really powerful people stand behind them.
secret societies, whose members usually don't understand them —
stand to some extent the esoteric platitudes of the ceremonies, of
after every third lecture someone stands
matter of standing in reality. Of course the taste of lemonade can be

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necessarily justified, but understandable — later continued on
understanding of what is necessary for rights in society is
new spiritual life. And it is therefore understandable that it is
burdened with the most ridiculous misunderstandings. For this new
will understand me better if you imagine that we try to paint this
only in order to stand with his soul in the service of the whole. He
tell the truth. And we will understand each other best when our
mutual understanding is based on the desire to hear the unvarnished

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own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
understanding. We shall begin with the words:
spirit-world stands that messenger of the gods, that messenger
better. That messenger of the spirit stands there and warningly
understanding, and can only be revealed by the countenance of
which he achieves when he understands what the Spirit-Messenger
such earnest awareness, we shall stand in thought where the
up from the floor and stands there with his hands in his
blue skin, is verily what rises from the abyss and stands

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spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
mind the fact that the Guardian stands before the [entrance to]
to creative knowledge, we are truly standing in the spiritual

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world to those who are striving to be initiates and stand with
their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
stands to a certain extent on firm ground, for this process has
outward experience. He stands on firm ground because he says to
You could not determine whether a person who stands before you
reality, is also the way the adept feels standing at the
a real spiritual being, a real spiritual fact stands before you
Only by honestly facing these opposing forces can he stand in
evoked in us by what the Guardian of the Threshold, standing
must also advise the person who wishes to stand correctly in
Thus, you have the manner in which you must stand within the
how do you stand within? Not as though you were standing with
in physical life; not by drawing breath. You stand there by
understand.

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Guardian of the Threshold. And we must understand this meeting
world cannot take place without this understanding of the
in understanding true esoteric life as we continue. For what
the esoteric, our very understanding of it brings about a
With this kind of attitude it is not possible to understand
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
merely pours through our understanding, when it should immerse
then we will understand something else. Yes, my dear friends,
words. And when we understand the words, the thoughts they are
in ordinary life to the deeper understanding in the soul. And
trochaic rhythm, and we should understand how this rhythm,
stand still when such mantras penetrate our souls, or voice
is different with feeling. We act correctly if, standing below
I said last time, it is not a question of understanding the
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
stands a tree; I contemplate it. I contemplate my hand: it is
stands before us today - its conception originally from the
consciousness. Think, my dear friends, about standing outside
stand on, which we consider to be so important that it only
When you see the third beast's glassy eye, stand firm and feel

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is able to approach and come to an understanding of the
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
the universe occurs. For normal consciousness we stand here in
to human beings. So here we stand, apart, looking inwards at
the senses, and how reason understands it, it is certainly not
is more difficult for normal consciousness to understand light.
the person who really stands before the Guardian of the
humans stand below and let the sun shine on us; for the more
be inwardly liberated if we do not stand before the pure
darkness in spirit-land, but when we stand before the
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
matter, our thinking is extinguished. By understanding this,
between warmth and cold is what one must understand as the
instinctive clairvoyance that he could understand the words
understand what was being called out to him. And now we live in
understand the words called out to them in spirit-language.
out to him and he does not understand them and must therefore
live through the torments of not understanding. And what do
and our willing will be able to understand and to grasp the

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can say: our feet stand on the ground of the solid
from the earthly world where he stands alone, as it were, where
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
don't merely understand this theoretically, as is mostly the
chemical laboratory, where the chemist stands at a bench and
lessons, my dear friends. You should not understand the things
will you experience the heart of the matter if you understand
those who realize that the light is there will understand the

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thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
of the stages from the point where I now stand, at which I am

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(Vorstand) which was formed during the Christmas Conference and
character. The investment of the Vorstand was thus an esoteric
Thus, the Vorstand at Dornach is an initiative-Vorstand, as was
position of the Vorstand at Dornach within the Anthroposophical
rather do the statutes describe what the Vorstand intends. And
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
based upon an understanding with the Vorstand at the
unless an understanding with the Vorstand at the Goetheanum has
that is, to Mrs. Wegman, in order to obtain the Vorstand's
agreement. It is important that in future the Vorstand at the
work in the world without a connection to the Vorstand at the
Goetheanum, they must either reach an understanding with the
Vorstand or they cannot include things which originate in the
unrecognized by it, but must clearly understand that it cannot
understand that [the leadership of] the School must be able to
reveal the grand cosmic script. For one who understands the
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
healthy human understanding of what he has been told, for both
We stand here on the earth in our earthly existence: we feel
we can understand the human being so that we look through the
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desires to understand in the right way must do so inwardly.
With common sense we can understand all of anthroposophy, but
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
the moment when the child stands on its feet and begins to move
yourselves as human beings standing amidst the earth's forces.
it again to a standstill, thus making the earth itself a
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
understand everything offered by anthroposophy, if it exerts
common sense which understands anthroposophy, then at the
common sense which understands anthroposophy is the beginning
starts with this understanding through healthy common sense and
due to purely external circumstances. They do not understand
consideration of earthly relationships one stands spiritually

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brothers, if we are permeated with the will to understand
our earth — in appearance. It can therefore stand as
Here I stand — each of us says rightly — and
understand what the content of this esoteric school is meant to be.

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been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
threshold; that the Guardian of the Threshold stands at the
at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
spiritual world in the right way, and then to stand within the
wants something different than really standing within the
spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the
way. It is better to stand within the tumult of life, exposed
other side of the threshold standing before the Guardian in the
are standing on physical ground.

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first arrive at the threshold where the Guardian stands, and
Who stands before spirit-land's gates,
And to your understanding's power,
Death stands at the long path's end.

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situation of standing before the Guardian in order to advance
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
may lose the everyday capacity for understanding, which holds
Here on this side of the threshold we are standing on the earth,
He stands on the other side. The Guardian of the Threshold
standing on the other side of the threshold. The Guardian
is the case. He calls to us once we stand on the other side
You must understand, my dear friends, the reality that this
I” here in the fourth place when standing before the
present when one stands before the Guardian of the Threshold

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events and cosmic beings, if they can truly understand with
in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
first as the blackest darkness. It stands like a wall before
The first being we encounter stands at this abyss.
enable us to understand our situation once we have flown over
When we stand here in the physical world, we feel
standing among the three kingdoms of nature. We must also
in our souls the sensation of standing in the spiritual world
standing beyond the abyss in the spiritual world still in
surroundings we do not stand alone. We should learn to feel
that we stand within the cosmic process, and that everything,
own souls with which, where we are standing in darkness
Thus we are standing at the Guardian of the
so that we can stand in the realm of nature, but also in the

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who correctly understands the world. But before doing so,
From this you will understand that membership in the School
heart to understand them: the admonition to self-knowledge,
in meditation we imagine the being standing at the abyss of
before us. We must cross over this abyss. The Guardian stands
stands before the abyss of existence; now we are already
are standing within this black, night enclosed darkness,
prepares us for understanding.
human beings, stand between the resounding of the demand for

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understanding of the universe, resounds to human hearts from all
the Threshold stands, appeared before our souls. We heard the
Guardian stands, feels himself to be within weaving, living
Death stands at the path's end.

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This stands before our souls as unshakable, all-pervading truth:
Threshold, who stands at the abyss of being. He doesn't speak
was brightening for us. Now, as we stand shaken by the great truth
“only spirit is”, he stands there speechless,
understand the connection between his earthly existence and that
passes through the gate of death will only be able to understand
And what is extremely important in understanding
understand what is resonating there.
should already have heard here. They don't understand it. When
understand what is resonating there, if we can only hear the
incomprehensible sounds instead of the understandable words of
understand the spiritual world into which he enters if
there, so to speak. We are now standing before the third one,
stands there. On it stands:
Who stands before the gates of spirit-land,
And your power of understanding,
Death stands at the path's end.

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Now we stand within the Spirit-Word, the
fleeting thoughts understand as “I am” is only
lightning, where we now stand. The Word is flame, a flaming
This is what the human being who stands within it all says.
it is a conclusion when we now stand at the place where we
point out to our souls the path to understanding the true
What has been presented to us in mantric words, will stand

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stands, when we consider Michael, we have the Archangelos who
only then, my dear friends, can you correctly understand what
our true humanity flows. To really understand these words means
understand the inner meaning of the esoteric path. This
that it be understood; for such understanding is in itself the
work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
transcendence, magnificence and majesty. When you can stand
deepest darkness. And we stand there, surrounded by the majesty
aware that the first being who confronts us stands where the
Threshold stands before us on this side of the abyss. We call
he stands there — if we have sufficiently internalized
and if we correctly understand the words which resound:
We are standing at the edge of the abyss. The Guardian speaks
beings in our surroundings say, if we understand them

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Guardian calls us to stand close to him. He looks at us with
naught but seeming. But what we feel stands at least halfway

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After he first showed us how we should stand in respect to our
strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
Your selfhood then should understand
we then “understand”, where we gradually come
will. We stand alongside being. Two high-toned syllables
“understand”; It is “grasp”, which is
from above, if it wants to follow a higher striving. We stand
Again, we are standing between polar opposites with our

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
darkness transform us into matter, but to stand firmly in our
contains the force of human will. Once again, we stand face to
bring. We are still standing at the yawning abyss of being, but
seekers after knowledge, we stand now before the Guardian of
standing on the earth, on the element earth. You are standing
feet, regardless of whether you are standing on the floor of a
in standing, that you are touching the earth's gravitational
element. You could be standing above on a mountain, or on a
understanding impossible. Least of all in esoteric matters

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knowledge we have reached the place where we stand before the
death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory
we are to find the truth, how we stand in the middle between
Guardian of the Threshold, before whom we stand as the earnest
But it is just this understanding of ourselves as earthly human
Thus, we may understand what is spoken as having been

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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stand beside the Guardian of the Threshold. The abyss of being
dear friends, when we are standing here in earthly existence
when we walk or stand, when our will pervades us. We must
observe it as if we stepped out of our bodies and were standing

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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the human being experiences when he stands on the other side of
stands there in the region, in which we first were with all our
the person who stands over there, who we ourselves are, in a
back once again at the gray figure that stands over there,
figure is standing. We look over there. There stands the one

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