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  • Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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    • Professor C. This group wishes to dedicate itself to the spiritual
    • and cultivate in them the spiritual treasure to which we dedicate our
    • spiritual progress of humanity, might ask if we could not cultivate
    • spiritual science without forming ourselves into groups, but simply by
    • know each other to come together and have access to the spiritual
    • spiritual science. It is not without meaning that among us there are
    • human beings who want to cultivate the more intimate side of spiritual
    • spiritual worlds. Again and again, in full consciousness, we should
    • say to ourselves that by the cultivation of spiritual science we
    • within these worlds. In the spiritual world, the work performed by
    • a different significance for the spiritual world than other work we
    • spiritual life primarily concerned with the external and visible
    • Our task in spiritual science is not only to acquire spiritual
    • consciousness or spiritual soul. But what will give to external
    • case today, upon the single individuality. Spiritual science expresses
    • considered to have real knowledge when they recognize the spiritual,
    • when they know that the spiritual pervades the world and that human
    • souls must unite with the spiritual. What is known as science today
    • spiritual world as a whole man. Such a man still connects the idea of
    • his whole form must pass into the spiritual world. He thinks
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  • Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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    • who have been studying spiritual science for some considerable
    • be evident to all serious students of spiritual science. Reference has
    • spiritual-scientific concepts, for they must become actual forces,
    • lay emphasis to-day upon one aspect of what spiritual science must
    • But those who realise the need for spiritual science will
    • movement dedicated to the cultivation of spiritual knowledge.
    • they are related to the spiritual world.
    • the globe as a spiritual movement embracing all earthly humanity, must
    • But what is the aim of spiritual science in regard to the various
    • From what does spiritual science take its start? From the fact that
    • earth. The aim and ideal of spiritual science is to rediscover this
    • particular creed, and to give it again to humanity. Spiritual science
    • Spiritual science regards the religions as so many channels for the
    • possible between them. But spiritual science approaches these
    • continues to guide humanity from the spiritual worlds without living
    • can be as full of reverence as that of a Buddhist, In spiritual
    • spiritual science from the ground of Christianity would ever dream, as
    • civilisation. The spirituality of that epoch will not again be reached
    • decline of spirituality is evident. Then we come to Greco-Latin
    • life, man becomes master on the physical plane. But the spirituality
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • This course of lectures will take us into the high spiritual regions
    • spiritual worlds, from which this whole physical universe has derived
    • When we have to speak of what we call the Spiritual Hierarchies, it
    • primeval world-wisdom and with the spiritual beings that stand above
    • him. Spiritual beings had first those imaginations, inspirations,
    • can penetrate into the world of those spiritual beings. We can,
    • came forth. But this wisdom, out of which spiritual beings formed our
    • spiritual beings have built the world. After this primeval wisdom,
    • have taken place in the spiritual worlds that the Guardians of the
    • conditions of physical and spiritual life.
    • description we have to give of the spiritual hierarchies and their
    • Impulse. Therefore much of what we have to say about the spiritual
    • had to be brought down out of the spiritual heights where the
    • look for the spheres of the spiritual hierarchies — there
    • misconception also of that spiritual act in our earthly evolution
    • looked upwards to the spaces of heaven, to the spiritual hierarchies,
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • from purely spiritual sources of existence. What is so important in
    • always surrounded by spiritual activities and by spiritual entities.
    • this was considered (by that ancient spiritual science) to be the
    • the spiritual investigation of fire. If we want to understand what we
    • useful nowadays for the purposes of spiritual science. All that
    • elements are called Earth, Water, Air, Fire. But where spiritual
    • was called ‘earthy’ by the spiritual science of those
    • then that liquid iron would have been called water by spiritual
    • certain condition of movement. Spiritual science sees in warmth or
    • spiritual science — and fire is so fine an element that it
    • Both ancient and modern spiritual science agree
    • modern spiritual science agree that warmth or fire is that wherein
    • In this way, spiritual science always considered
    • called light, and the spiritual scientist saw the fire in the middle
    • comes before the spiritual eye with particular clearness. Spiritual
    • spiritual science says we pass in ascending order from earth to
    • invisible, into the etheric-spiritual world. Fire stands on the
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • once upon a time and then passed through a spiritual state called
    • Pralaya, in the same way as man passes through a spiritual condition
    • who to-day are above in the spiritual height, were not always gods,
    • of spiritual divine beings. Dionysius the Areopagite and the Western
    • divine spiritual beings. It is the same thing whether to speak of
    • above man. These three degrees of spiritual beings have all passed
    • world in a spiritual sense we arrive at the following: On the Earth
    • been received again into the spiritual realms of the World. This
    • the spiritual world. I shall now make use of a trivial expression
    • spiritual world. The Thrones could now for a season dissolve that
    • into the spiritual world they would not have been tied to the Sun,
    • from the Sun those beings of the spiritual hierarchies, whom we call
    • moved about as men on the Sun. We have now the spiritual idea of a
    • out into that space together with light the life of spiritual
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 4
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • spiritual world. As was stated, this did not happen, but the Spirits
    • is always spiritualised anew by that ancient fire, that which is ever
    • spiritual hierarchies whom we call Archangels, or Fire Spirits,
    • inwardly living and inwardly in motion because spiritual beings
    • It comes from Spirits essentially higher, Spiritual Beings who have
    • his human nature of four parts which are the key to all spiritual
    • spiritual heights, to super-human beings, and these become ever
    • activity, other spiritual beings were necessary who had also had to
    • and longer in the Spiritual World. Who helped them to do this?
    • spiritually into the Universe. The Archangels were helped in this
    • Those Beings who came out of spiritual space to meet the Archangels,
    • spiritual region which surrounded the ancient Sun longer than they
    • the Archangels was vivifying in the highest degree, in the spiritual
    • knowledge of these deeply important things out of spiritual
    • spiritual Beings, high Hierarchies, the Thrones gave out of their own
    • their spiritual existence during daytime, the Cherubim were obliged
    • wisdom, of the way in which certain Spiritual Beings of the Universe
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • have had the activity of higher spiritual Beings within our Cosmos,
    • spiritual realm itself in which these higher spiritual Beings are,
    • high regions of spiritual life.
    • From what has been said you will have seen that spiritual Beings of
    • spiritual Beings who are of a supremely high, sublime nature.
    • Saturn existence, will be spiritualised in the highest degree, they
    • spiritual Beings operating inside the Saturn substance.
    • necessary to presume that spiritual powers are occupied out there
    • Spiritual forces work from without and from within our system. Those
    • itself. Universal bodies do not condense of themselves; spiritual
    • Which are the Spiritual Beings who carried over the condensation of
    • the element of water. Who effected this? That Hierarchy of spiritual
    • rise spiritually as high as possible; others again had remained
    • Thus, we see, when we consider the actions of the divine spiritual
    • outward physiognomy of those divine spiritual beings.
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • spiritual life of Beings who stand above man. Especially such a
    • a sketchy way, those other beings of the spiritual Hierarchies, whom
    • race-soul. For those who penetrate into spiritual knowledge, the
    • the inner working of spiritual life, that which is called the
    • other spiritual bodies. Here again, you all know something of that
    • a reality for those who can look into actual spiritual existence; it
    • Spirit of an epoch is the spiritual body of the Archai or the
    • man will again be so largely spiritualised that he will hardly belong
    • Spiritual Beings must also exist, whose care it is during the whole
    • these Beings. In spiritual science, in that which it is desired to
    • perception of spiritual co-relations and of what lies spiritually at
    • from spiritual observation, when one knew that planets are boundary
    • spiritual Beings who are active within.
    • those spiritual Beings whom we call the Spirits of Wisdom — the
    • exactness the connections between the regions in which the Spiritual
    • the correct one; because Man will again know about the Spiritual
    • to be conscious of the existence of the spiritual world, and that one
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  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 7
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • there is of him upon earth, does not look as if it belonged to a spiritual
    • spiritual principles, which are to be found only in the spiritual
    • spiritual being, the soul of the Angel, you must seek it in the
    • same as with man who unites all in one being. The spiritual part is
    • and only in the spiritual world, the spiritual counter-part of that
    • spiritual world. Such a physical Body can live only in fire; only in
    • spiritual world above I shall find the spiritual counter-part which,
    • Now we come to yet higher spiritual Beings, to those who reach up to
    • documents are taken absolutely from spiritual facts, and correspond
    • a spiritual economy which demands exceptions to the general truths
    • is not lost, but is preserved in the spiritual world. In the first
    • preserved in boxes, but according to spiritual laws. The Atlantean
    • spiritual Beings.
    • possible for a being to be inspired by all three Spiritual Beings.
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 8
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • with descriptions of spiritual facts, when the light is turned on
    • of view of spiritual science this is a grotesque idea — the
    • but for the observations of spiritual science it is nothing more nor
    • consider in the study of spiritual science. For we do not look on the
    • the spiritual scientific sense, the origin of each single globe.
    • Seraphim wielding their power, and they are to us, in the spiritual
    • the Zodiacal circle, in a spiritual sense.
    • ‘animal circle’ or Zodiac, we have to do with spiritual
    • spiritual reflection the essential parts of the occurrences of
    • springing from the spiritual interaction of the Hierarchies, as we
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 9
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    • The Spiritual Hierarchies
    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • as we see them in space, is a result of the action of the spiritual
    • the bearer of the spiritual earth-man of to-day. Very slowly and
    • with the earth, how the higher spiritual Beings — Angels,
    • certain height. These are the spiritual beings of the Hierarchies who
    • spiritual Beings; only then does it become possible to lead the
    • possibility of seeing into spiritual worlds. For it is not possible
    • spiritualised, it has become Spirit-Self, and the whole of it is
    • taken with him by the man to the spiritual world. Formerly that which
    • creator rises before our spiritual sight, and we say to ourselves,
  • Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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    • These lectures take us into the exalted regions of the spiritual world,
    • illuminating the actions of the spiritual beings in the kingdoms of nature
    • spiritually proceeds: Beings arise to higher stages, and whilst they
    • time when the spiritualised men will have risen into higher spheres.
    • spiritually considered. Leonardo da Vinci has risen higher through
    • into the spiritual worlds, then, and not to have anything further to
    • spiritual worlds, whereas you have descended. Other beings came down
    • up again into the spiritual world; when you rise again you must
    • degree at least, questioned ourselves to-day as to the spiritual
    • that all true spiritual knowledge should be a concrete true
    • knowledge. This means that the knowledge gained through spiritual
    • the Spiritual Hierarchies.
    • a reflection and symbol of the spiritual. It draws together in the
  • Title: Life Between ... XV: Intercourse With the Dead
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    • the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
    • All other divine-spiritual beings do not know death. They only know
    • interpenetrate one another but without being aware of it. Spiritual
    • spiritual science, with beings of the higher hierarchies, he would
    • that man experiences in the spiritual world. This fear befalls us
    • of his own knowledge of the spiritual world acquired on the earth.
    • picture of him in our soul and softly reading a work of spiritual
    • man because otherwise we remain solitary in the spiritual world.
    • person to be sociable in the spiritual world. Within our movement we
    • experiences in the spiritual world were different then. Now it has
    • was accepted that could only work through its spiritual content. The
    • apply the impulse of Christianity. That is why in our spiritual
    • thus also carry it upwards into the spiritual world. For if we arrive
    • the forces we receive from the preparatory spiritual powers.
    • the spiritual world than many who cross the portal of death at
  • Title: Lecture: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness
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    • a question with the spiritual guides of earthly evolution as
    • intellect is spiritual it has no real existence, it has a
    • thoughts are not rooted in reality; spirituality is now
    • lacking; man lives in a spiritual element of thought yet has
    • absorb what is to descend from the spiritual world, he will
    • Spiritual Science, and become not merely human events but
    • spiritual world and in this connection we find an extremely
    • Beings to bring messages; to them we owe our Spiritual
    • understanding Spiritual Science which should transform the
    • Spiritual Science. Shock after shock will arise and the earth
    • imagines without Spiritual Science. (Machinery is really
    • Spiritual Beings he will have to unite his own being as far
    • as it is not spiritual with this spider race; he will have to
    • withdrawn and these things known so that Spiritual Science
    • to accept the formulae of Spiritual Science we must see how
    • is only temporary. Spiritual Science can teach us these
    • something of an artistic nature prevails. True Spiritual
    • exists to absorb Spiritual Beings from the Cosmos. The
    • of Spiritual Science is not something abstract; it opens the
    • before all these kingdoms we come to Spiritual Beings. The
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  • Title: Lecture: The Old Sagas of the Gods
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    • quite clear spiritual activity. Logical thought only came
    • little man who is actually the spiritual; he was the spark
  • Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
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    • spiritual originators. If it were not for what is called Higher
    • greater measure of the spiritual currents that flow through human
    • the people are always those who may be called spiritual “Giants,”
    • Spiritual Worlds: But we human beings have boundaries to our
    • was led, was not in some other place. The Kingdom of the Spiritual
    • Greece the spiritual eye of the Mystic was opened. It was shown to
    • teachers and leaders had attained to the spiritual worlds; they
    • associated with Spirits, they had intercourse with Spiritual Beings.
    • the Spiritual World flowed and poured around me.” Plutarch
    • Spiritual in the whole world, then he has attained the first stage
    • Spiritual world. Today in ordinary life man is not capable of
    • experiences as an initiated seer, who could look into the Spiritual
    • new life, he is reborn, he is spiritually transformed. He sees around
    • him a spiritual world of which he had previously no idea.
    • spiritual sight stands John the Baptist, as he baptises the Christ;
    • initiation. He experienced the crowning with thorns; spiritually he
    • experience of a spiritual nature, of which no more than an indication
    • he dependent spiritually on the Spiritual World. When man comes to
    • sun the eye would never have come into being, so would spiritual
    • seership never have been there if Christ, the Spiritual Sun, had not
  • Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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    • The spiritual-scientific
    • would penetrate into the mission of the spiritual-scientific movement,
    • certain somnambulistic-clairvoyant spiritual forces lived in him. He
    • possess a fine feeling for the inner, spiritual and occult power of words.
    • teachings, but in a more intellectual form; the earlier spiritual
    • away from inner spiritual vision.
    • comprehension of the spiritual in this finest distillation of the
    • brotherhood. Spiritual science therefore has only one task: to bring
    • Life-Spirit. The great goal of the spiritual-scientific movement is
    • The modern movement of spiritual
    • The work of the spiritual-scientific movement, is therefore to allow
    • Spiritual science seeks to be
    • It is the task of spiritual
    • and that is why the impulse of spiritual science entered the world at
    • that time. Through spiritual science, something was called into life
    • the counter-movement in the direction of spirituality. Spiritual
    • science is nothing new, and even the spiritual-scientific movement is
    • spiritual-scientific movement in our time.
    • by considering three kinds of Mysteries. Spiritual science must be able
    • can be awakened in all men. This is the task which spiritual science
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  • Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
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    • our soul. It is the only true attitude to adopt to spiritual
    • with the wisdom of worlds. We must regard spiritual
    • say: What is the good of spiritual development if it does not
    • let run to seed in our soul. That the divine-spiritual World
    • to the divine-spiritual World Order. If we work at our soul
    • beheld there his spiritual home. From thence he has descended
    • the purely external world. The door to the spiritual world
    • extent to see into the spiritual world experienced what is
    • spiritual world. In such states he was permeated through and
    • through by the spiritual and this worked as a remedy, as a
    • with the Spiritual, it was able to mould the physical.
    • Intense devotion to the Spiritual can help the Spiritual to
    • himself with the Spiritual, not for the purpose of knowledge
    • men lived in communion with higher Spiritual Beings. When
    • connection with the spiritual worlds, they could not ward off
    • the harmful spiritual Beings. They could be permeated with
    • evil spiritual powers, for example by elementary beings
    • good spiritual influences but he was also exposed to evil
    • spiritual beings. To-day he is less subject to these evil
    • strongly as a spiritual power. It was the
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  • Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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    • will dedicate its forces to the spiritual life of the present
    • and of the future in the way of our spiritual-scientific
    • spiritual wealth within such study groups to which we want to
    • spiritual progress of humankind could ask: could you not simply
    • care for spiritual science, without uniting in single closed
    • their souls get to know the spiritual wealth about which you
    • full consciousness of our attitude connected with spiritual
    • spiritual wealth who vow to themselves seriously to be together
    • our spiritual movement if we understand it in the deepest
    • inside. Our spiritual movement has to penetrate our
    • and intellectual existence of the human beings. Our spiritual
    • true connection with the spiritual worlds through it. We must
    • while we cultivate spiritual science, we transport our souls in
    • spiritual world the spiritual work, which we do, while we
    • brotherly unity has a different significance for the spiritual
    • significant that faced us at our spiritual-scientific work of
    • care for that in culture and in spiritual life in particular
    • is our spiritual-scientific task not only to learn — that
    • is all right — and gain spiritual wealth for our
    • degree than this is the case today. Spiritual science expresses
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  • Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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    • connection with some spiritual-scientific considerations, I
    • spiritual-scientific movement and its efforts of taking up
    • by spiritual science, but that the spiritual-scientific results
    • results of the spiritual-scientific knowledge, and we can gain
    • it. But spiritual science is not to be taken up like another
    • another matter in the world. Spiritual science has to work on
    • flow out of spiritual science. The concepts, ideas and mental
    • pictures which we take up by means of spiritual science have to
    • so that we learn through spiritual science to look at the world
    • it. The spiritual scientist, actually, has to familiarise
    • is possible without spiritual science. If he is able to do
    • from spiritual science.
    • important questions of spiritual science, the question of
    • other. The spiritual scientist has also to be able to prove
    • spiritual science in his feelings in this grievous time. He
    • encouragement; but both should find this also in spiritual
    • understood the intentions of spiritual science.
    • the ideas of spiritual science already that we learn to feel
    • spiritual science about anything in the world. If you summarise
    • within our spiritual science, you can understand what I would
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