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Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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come here today for the opening of the group founded by our friend,
lacking in human society nowadays a quality that, in the sixth epoch,
this quality is perceptible in modern humanity. A man today must be
today by the sight of poverty, suffering and misery in the world, but
the well-being of the whole. Just as nowadays the well-being of a
of belief today will depend to a far, far higher degree than is the
case today, upon the single individuality. Spiritual science expresses
Collective beliefs that exist in so many forms today among the various
souls must unite with the spiritual. What is known as science today
epoch. Today we regard it as superstition when, let us say, a savage
materialistically but believes in immortality. We, today, knowing from
days were connected with the mysteries, men cultivated what
outer task of the second epoch. It would lead much too far today to
community between human beings means today. In our time the individual
nothing else. It is a painful experience in our day to see men
different countries and peoples shut themselves off today from one
epoch will be inspired, permeated by the spirit self. Today the man of
East into the dreadful events of today. A war has blazed up under the
today.
public lecture yesterday I mentioned the great philosopher Soloviev,

Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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I SHALL Speak to-day of certain matters in a way that could not be
lay emphasis to-day upon one aspect of what spiritual science must
would not have been possible to speak, as we can speak to-day, of a
as well as this, when we look over the earth to-day we perceive a
of it outside that region. But nowadays, news flashes around the whole
understanding can be discerned to-day in the fact that the science of
plead to-day: ‘Do not take from us the individual, personal Jesus who
As I have spoken here to-day, so did the Rosicrucians speak in
their small, enclosed circles. To-day these things can be communicated

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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expressed itself in a form which the man of the present day can but
could hear anything more in them nowadays than just words and again
to-day the Gospels are, in truth, the most sealed of all books for
of the present day.
for instance, was said yesterday at the Easter lecture. They might
space as they are to-day. The clairvoyant human eye gazed into
physically-limited stars, what the physical eye sees to-day is but
then beheld. When looking to-day with one's physical eye
we look at to-day with our physical eyes? The Atlantean's eyes
would have seen as little of what our sight sees to-day, as we should
have seen that which is also united with Jupiter to-day, which the
man of the present day does not see: the aura of Jupiter, a totality
physical eye was not yet opened as it is to-day. Looking into the
spiritual beings. When those names are used to-day, only the coarsest
Mercury, Venus. The principal part is just what is omitted to-day;
system in that way, as people of earlier times also did. To-day’
reborn or not. I will tell thee: Behold the fire, behold the day,
day, in the time of the waxing moon, those enter through the gates of
he dies in the sign of the light, by day, with the waxing moon,
die in the sign of the fire by day, with the moon waxing, and during

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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useful nowadays for the purposes of spiritual science. All that
materialistic science of to-day. You all know that these four
meaning as it has nowadays. It stood for a certain state in the
earth. Everything liquid, not only the water of to-day, was
that has the character of air for us to day, no matter whether it was
water or air: the physical science of to day sees in it only a
smoke, and it may still be so called nowadays, and the other was
world that produce the day and the night, for instance, if numbers of
day and night could come about. All that takes place is the result of
lowest order, of the messengers. When night becomes day and day
elemental world which have to take part in working at the day and the
elementals who have to do with the day and the night quite
class, just named, who are active during the day, are then in their
tied to darkness; and day could not turn into night, day could not be
imprisoned in night. That man is able to enjoy daylight, he has to
filled with working power, he leads back into daylight. Thus he
gates of death those beings whom we have led towards daylight can now
indicated with the words: ‘Behold the day and the night. That
night into a being of the day through thy diligence; that which comes
forth out of the day enters when thou diest, into the higher world;
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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yesterday's lecture about the so-called lowest realm of the
must be made clear to-day to enable you to gain the proper
to-day, but quite a different being; it was the reincarnation of the
who to-day are above in the spiritual height, were not always gods,
drew the inference that he too would become a god some day. It was
at the present day one differentiates no longer between the various
Angels to-day, if one considers it from the point of view of
stage, they are higher beings to-day, in higher grades of hierarchies
Yesterday, we spoke of the four elements which we distinguished on
warmth, on Saturn. The materialistic philosopher of to-day will say:
observed ancient Saturn with your present-day senses what would you
different conditions from the man of to-day. Man can at present
yesterday that warmth has, so to speak, two sides to it. One side is
soul's warmth to-day, could have been felt by you if you had
happened which I explained yesterday. The warmth divided itself, into
the orbs that are suns to-day are now passing through this same
have approached the Sun then, not only as a man of to-day but as a
that was there, an external body. As you have to-day a body and a
and air. As the man of to-day has a body consisting of earth, water,
forth its light outwards — it was the Sun's day. Thus
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 4
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the liberation of those beings of which we spoke yesterday in
When one formulates an idea to-day, it is formed only in the astral;
those eggs were bewitched, or chained to a further existence. To day,
we spoke of yesterday had not as yet become so complicated.
Sun's day, of the inhalation and the exhalation of light. If it
man himself, for man will also, some day, become a divine being.
We know that the man of to-day, as he stands before us, consists in
to us to-day. A stage higher still than the Spirits of Motion are
Sun-days to Sun nights. It is particularly important to take notice
of those interchanges from Sun-days to Sun-nights. For an enormous
difference between the life of the days and the nights obtains on
the ancient Sun, would during the Sun-days hurry with the rays of
light could be influenced only during the Sun-days, when light
call to-day the animal kingdom. Just as the earliest foundations of
of humanity were first laid down, and the substance which to-day is
random. To-day, when a new planet is discovered out of the planetary
The forms of our animals, even although to-day they are degenerated
next few days. For the sequence of the names has somewhat changed.
days why the Zodiac has passed through this transformation. High
their spiritual existence during daytime, the Cherubim were obliged
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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has nothing to do with the Saturn of the present day. You can easily
that belongs to-day to the whole of our solar system; our Sun, Moon,
to-day was contained in it, this globe, larger than our present solar
And so we heard yesterday, that when that ancient Saturn had
system and to ask ourselves: What will some day become of our solar
To day, we shall omit how the third threefold Hierarchy works, (we
attention to-day, with our newly acquired knowledge, to the
different, through transitory conditions up to the present day; it
imagine that the interior of our Sun to-day is also merely a sort of
world-globe which stretched a far as the Jupiter of to-day. This
contracted it to the boundary of the Mars of to-day. Between these

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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We saw yesterday how the facts of the Cosmos proceed from the
But to-day we shall continue our studies so as to describe, though in
we have indicated already, but whom yesterday we omitted. These are
to whom we referred yesterday as reaching up to Jupiter, Mars, etc.,
also know that the greater number of people have to-day no
the lovers of the abstract in the science of to-day, or for present
day culture in general. On a certain territory, (let us take Germany,
touched on yesterday, the so called Powers, — Exusiai, whom we
or Spirits of Form; yesterday we characterised their task from above
continue to-day in Anthroposophy, and which is at bottom [of] the
to-day. We heard yesterday that the present Saturn represents the
to-day divided specially the realms over which they held sway within
day, it is indicated that once upon a time, in grey antiquity, before
expounds it in the present day sense, is still something quite
draw the Zodiac in the way we characterised it yesterday, we should
interchanged, in later Astronomy. That which is called Mercury to-day
Venus or Mercury for the Venus or Mercury of the present day. That
which is said about Venus has to be applied to the Mercury of to-day,
there, and so on. Now you have the Sun, and Mercury, and the Venus of to-day
yesterday — of the Virtutes or Mights, then the sphere of the
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 7
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should like to make an observation to-day at the beginning of this
lecture in connection with the end of yesterday's lecture. I
then, that which is called Mercury to-day — but which is
To-day we shall consider more in detail the nature of those members
We will draw these schematically to-day, as we have need. First we
in the sense of to-day, or who could develop humanly — in the
sense of to-day.
surroundings. To-day, there is nothing to compare to the obedience,
what was said yesterday, that the Archangels have the task of

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 8
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To-day we have reached a point in our description of the higher
the men of the present day who have received their ideas about the
— one can from the standpoint of the science of the present day
world globes in the way they are considered to-day as lumps of matter
to-day solid, liquid and gaseous, but that it consisted only of
on the spot where the Saturn of to-day is). And as in a certain sense
the origin of our own earth. Even the Saturn of to-day originated in
formation of the present day Saturn is the same. Thus a small
is but an optical delusion, for Saturn is to-day but a body made of
the Jupiter of to-day which is a repetition of the former Jupiter,
somewhat change. For the Jupiter of to-day is not on the same spot as
Mars of to-day is a repetition of the ancient Moon. It stands on the
as the body of the man of to-day is formed out of the substance of
the Earth, so was the body of the man of that day formed of fire,
Word exists at the present day. The first stirring of ‘I am’
see them to-day in the heavenly bodies, in Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 9
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yesterday, numerous questions should arise, and that with regard to
be answered to-day: the question as to the planets which have
accomplished their task. In a certain way we traced yesterday the
the time described yesterday, or are not now coming into being. We
reached that point which we described yesterday. Let us suppose we
Saturn to-day) detached itself from that mighty self-revolving globe
the movement according to which Saturn is revolving to-day.
That which we have been considering to-day as the movements of
after the formative process. — which I described yesterday —
completely justified; for, with the planets of the present day, we
Thus we see, that the planets of the present day which are visible to
happened before. What is called the physical body to-day had its
the bearer of the spiritual earth-man of to-day. Very slowly and
To-day we are still far from understanding this teaching; and if
these things to-day. But we are now at the beginning of an epoch,
of conception, about which people speculate so erroneously to-day,
personalities of later days have woven into them, organised into
minds during these days, our souls might well put the question: What
have become men upon the earth, be enabled some day, perhaps, to

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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Apart from the question put at the end of yesterday's lecture,
present day; but it is good to know that something of the sort
Michelangelo or Raphael which are still to-day enjoyed by thousands
Thoughts in the sense of to-day — I do not mean scientific
understand with the comprehension of the present day. It is a fact
towards the centre, the whole of the earth will some day disappear in
day consider as having the same significance as the other planets
to-day he is not yet so far advanced he will attain to it in time.
degree at least, questioned ourselves to-day as to the spiritual

Title: Life Between ... XV: Intercourse With the Dead
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a Wotan cult today that would be the equivalent of an occidental
forth Christianity as the last flower. Today the task is to form and
everyday language it can only be described as follows. The question
Today we find there a mathematical formula. Originally there was a

Title: Lecture: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness
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Today 27.
into human evolution. For instance, the Moon which to-day
colours we see to-day. Originally man was not destined for
some day the Moon will re-unite with the Earth. This is known
and animal and man; to-day they are merely thought but should
become endowed with being. As the earth to-day is enclosed in
of this lies behind what many people say to-day. Our
mineral is understood to-day. To understand the plant,
his thoughts and ideas into the mineral. The task of today is

Title: Lecture: The Old Sagas of the Gods
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should not have a harmonious organisation to-day, if this
go through a severe test. For nine long days after he had
three days. The serpent is the Self endowed with Wisdom. What
space of a day she fed in this manner, licking the boulder
until the hair of a great head appeared. On the second day
day a noble form sprang forth. He was endowed with great
the days and seasons marked out in due order, there came a

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
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man, behind what comes to the light of day lies a deeper wisdom which
Today it is
sleep or by day when awake; in either case he must learn to carry
Spiritual world. Today in ordinary life man is not capable of
sleep. Care had been taken in the preparation that when the day
consciousness sank down, consciousness did not cease. For three days
Today we will
day by day, then something shows itself in the soul which gives him
personally during the three days of initiation. What formerly was

Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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thought of as lying between present-day Europe and America. This
Simple folks of to-day still
alone awakened forces in the soul of the pupil. A mantram of to-day
permeated by thoughts, as is the case to-day. The influence which
personal, intellectual element. But our task to-day is to grasp the
and with humanity, so all men will one day be one, through this

Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
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one of which gives us our place in everyday life, and another
us. Then one day we may happen to be traveling with someone
degrees. Man's life to-day is such that stimuli come to him
soul to-day is dependent upon stimuli received through the
not the same kind of reality as we have around us to-day.
Everything around us to-day — plants, animals, air,
We to-day look at the mineral kingdom but in those days man
as to-day he knows that he is composed of mineral substances,
to-day called ‘Illness’, illness and death had
to-day. There were intermediate states of consciousness
healing power. To-day, when wan has come down into the
spiritual beings. To-day he is less subject to these evil
Christ at the time of the day when Christ could work most
5,000 years. We are living to-day at the beginning of an

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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come together today, my dear friends, first and foremost, to
humankind. Today the human being must be organised more
have it worse than he has it. Indeed, already today more
as pain what we today feel as pain of misery, grief, and
degree than this is the case today. Spiritual science expresses
respect. Religious relationship, as it exists even today so
calls science today, and what has a materialistic colouring as
level of the fifth post-Atlantean culture-epoch. Today we
today from our spiritual science that we have to separate the
today look at that materialistic faith of immortality as a
those days. That is, the astral body was nurtured already in
human community has today. Today, the human being wants to grow
experience so painfully today that the human beings quarrel on
today, the forces should be developed in this opposition all
develop the forces which exist in them elementarily today.
penetrated by the spirit-self. Today, the human being of the
may remember today as significant. Yesterday in the public

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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live in a grievous time today, in which to us one of the most
also like to explain today not only repeating, but something
Indeed, we have a clue of sorts, while also in the everyday
projecting into the everyday life. The dream experience does
Every day produces not only brochures, but also books et
What I have said today is to be added to the various ideas
speak about such matters today and then also in Cologne the day
at the cremation of the concerning personality a few days later
touches those people strangely even today who are outside our
to these concepts — today this may be still added to our
war. Then the people will say something different than today.
today.
judgments which are delivered everywhere today, because
What plays a role in the world today is a superficial hatred
of today. Thoroughness is necessary concerning a lot of
his heart. Today a lot of views and thoughts are spread,
not be there. Since these destiny-burdened days demand not only

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