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Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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of Mankind.
of Mankind.
spiritual progress of humanity, might ask if we could not cultivate
narrower senses, associations of human beings who are known to one
human beings who want to cultivate the more intimate side of spiritual
is grasped by the outward turned mind of man, but that through this
truths we have studied in many aspects during recent years.
was prepared. The mysteries were associations of human beings among
the human etheric body, the ancient Persian epoch with the cultivation
in advance. Many characteristics of the sixth epoch of culture will be
lacking in human society nowadays a quality that, in the sixth epoch,
this quality is perceptible in modern humanity. A man today must be
human beings in the world in less happy circumstances than his own. It
such individuals will experience the suffering of another human being
as their own suffering. If they see a hungry man they will feel the
of the other man will be unendurable to them. The moral characteristic
single human limb depends upon the health of the whole body, and when
the then civilized humanity and in a far higher degree than a limb
humanity of the sixth epoch.
men that what a man likes to believe, what religious convictions he
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Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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IIITHE DEATH OF A GOD AND ITS FRUITS IN HUMANITY
A comparatively short time ago in the evolution of humanity it
development of mankind, we shall find that in the comparatively recent
past, the idea of a world-body peopled by a humanity forming one whole
rightly so, of Italian, Russian, French, Spanish, German culture, but
and everywhere else? It is all a means of providing humanity with food
the human soul. The longings and questionings that will arise
increasingly in the souls of men, demand answers. Hence the need for a
as long as humanity was divided into regional civilisations which knew
the globe as a spiritual movement embracing all earthly humanity, must
That humanity is coming a little nearer to this intimate
mankind has originated from a common Godhead and that a primeval
wisdom belonging to mankind as one whole and springing from one Divine
of rays among the different peoples and groups of human beings on the
particular creed, and to give it again to humanity. Spiritual science
Spiritual science regards the religions as so many channels for the
mankind.
from the realm of man and are called Bodhisattvas. Herein lies the
Bodhisattva who arises from mankind and works within humanity. He
continues to guide humanity from the spiritual worlds without living
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
the problem of humanity. In order to make the human being
the sphere of our earth, have a higher existence than man. In the
world, the animal world and the human world. Above man begins a world
world, and man is able (as far as it is possible for him) to rise a
primeval world-wisdom; — all that man can fathom, all that he
it is indeed only this kind of connection that man can have with
we see it, was formed. Man finds these thoughts and ideas in the
world, was imparted to man later. Man with his thoughts could see
this wisdom of the creators of the world had worked through many
forms, it appeared in a form known to many of you: after the great
expressed itself in a form which the man of the present day can but
little understand. The human capacities of feeling and thinking have
taught man in the first epoch of civilisation after Atlantis; and if
to humanity in the first epoch after Atlantis. For all that is found
echo of what this really is which in many ways is but a deceptive,
has been preserved and guarded for humanity; it was always to be
primeval wisdom of humanity has been safely preserved up to our
era. The very holy wisdom which the Rishis gave to man was continued
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
surrounds man in the world was then referred back to the so-called
that we ourselves are in a certain state of warmth. Man feels his own
and the realm of the soul on the other, which can be known by man
lesson of primeval human wisdom.
of fire. It is most probable that many people when asked whether they
the following. A man stands in front of a crystal, or a lump of gold,
or anything of that kind. He looks at it. What happens when a man
object? A continual interplay occurs between the man and the
bewitched elemental spirits. The man and that which is bewitched in
that the man only stares at the object and takes in only what is
elemental being into the man. Something from those bewitched
elementals passes continually into the man, from morning till night.
surroundings into you. Let us take it that the man staring at the
fact of having passed from the outer world into man. Let us take
another kind of man, one who works spiritually on the impressions he
impressions. What does such a man do? Through his own spiritual
to their own element. During the whole of his earthly life, man lets
things, enter into man? They remain at first within him. Also those
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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Düsseldorf, April, 1909. Published in German as:
to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
questions may have arisen in many souls towards the end of
the following lectures will throw light on many points. One thing
it? This question might arise in many minds. As I have said before;
for thinking as the Earth gives to man, these questions cannot really
covered by Maya, and human thought sees things quite differently from
thoughts of man are continually led astray. We get a clearer idea of
things when we go back into more ancient times. Just as man passes
circles. Just as man in this life is the reincarnation of a previous
Pralaya, in the same way as man passes through a spiritual condition
after death. Just as man reincarnates, so this lunar planet is a
task. What is the task of our earth? It is to make human existence
possible for man as man. All the activities of the earth are such
that through them man may become an I-being, an Ego being. This was
not the case in the former conditions it has passed through. Man has
only become human, in the present sense of the word, on earth. The
similar task. Other beings became human on those other planets, and now
stand at a higher stage than man. Perhaps you will remember in my book
once men and had once passed through the human stage. A dangerous
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 4
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
Saturn? It is no other than that which we know in modern man as the
stronger potentiality than is the case with modern humanity. What is
the power behind the force of ideas, or concepts, in modern humanity?
permanence of that form cannot be distinguished in the outer physical
It is perfectly comprehensible that an entity, who is really human
passed through their human stage on the ancient Sun; that there the
passed through their human evolution so very long ago, that on the
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
his human nature of four parts which are the key to all spiritual
science — that the man consists of the physical, etheric and
astral bodies, and of the ‘I.’ We know how a man develops
such a nature that it can contain the Spirit-self or Manas. It is the
forces, the forces of the physical body, then the man has in him the
Spirit-man or Atma. So he should be a seven-membered man when he had
transmuted his physical body to Atma or Spirit-man. Externally, the
Budhi, the astral is astral body and Spirit-self or Manas; the ‘I’
has now become the general Ruler. Thus man pushes onwards to higher
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
to be said which many of you have already heard. But even apart from
the fact that there are many listeners here who have not yet heard
to the opinion of many modern people, our solar system has formed
to express in human words such sublime activities, for which, in
truth, this human language has not been created. No human words exist
naive proceeding. For the man who tries to make the Kant-Laplace
hand of God, must be so appointed that within Saturn these commands
inside Saturn hold, as it were, the highest command, the latter
popular writing — this gas is as thick as honey or tar. The man
in ordinary human life. Where beings are evolving there are some who
advance and others who remain behind, as many a father knows, who

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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spiritual life of Beings who stand above man. Especially such a
lecture, the fight in heaven, which has left, so to speak, so many
the Beings who, counting upwards, stand nearest to man, and are
These Beings who stand, as it were, in between man and those others
naturally stand in a nearer relation to man on the earth itself.
First we have the Angels or Angeloi. They passed through their human
speaking, only as far on during our present earth evolution as man
than man. What is the task of these Beings? Their task can be
realised when we take into account the development of man upon earth.
Man develops from incarnation to incarnation. Our human evolution as
forms of human development will have come in. Now you know that what
we call the eternal nucleus or kernel of the human being, the
What sequence would there be between a man's incarnations upon
have to assign one of these Beings to each man, a being who,
as the man is not himself aware of it. These Beings are the Angels.
Each man is a personality in each incarnation, and over each man a
inferior grades of initiation, man is able, even if he does not
have to keep watch over the whole human thread of life, which is spun
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 7
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
of the Hierarchies, standing immediately above man. It is good to
study this and to begin for once with man. For only if we have quite
nature of man and of his developments, can we rise to the
We know that man, as he first appeared upon earth, and as he has
draw the human physical body as a circle, the same with the etheric
circle. You know how the development of man proceeds. During the
course of his earthly evolution man begins to work on his astral
Generally speaking we may say: as much of his astral body as man has
so much of it is called Manas or Spirit self, this — as has
has entered man, but simply as a transformed product of the astral
applies to man only. It is important that we should not generalise,
very much from each other. Let us then draw the fifth part of man the
transformed astral body, that is to say Manas, as a separate circle:
when we consider man in his perfected state, which he will attain in
when man will have reached his highest perfection in the Vulcan
way: we could say that we have here his Atma, Budhi, Manas, the ‘I’
observe in man is, that with his seven principles he is an entire
the case is different. This scheme applies to man, but not to the
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 8
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
of the human physical body was formed. That first foundation was
formed the germ of that organ of the human body which, when its
human body from rest to movement — this is the heart. Here,
Each member of the human body was given a distinct name in ancient
foundations of the human heart? They pointed upwards, and named the
(Lion). Man received the first outline of his physical body projected
Thus also have all the other foundations or germs of the human organs
man projected outwards into universal space who has given these
an etheric body, which is not so dense. Man already had the
human body to rest; in the region of the Scorpion are these forces
organised into man, so that he received his first consciousness. The
body of that man consisted of the moon substance or moon-water. Just
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,
have called that man the water-man. He became this especially,
because the astral body was infused into him. He was not yet a man
with an Ego, but a man with astral endowments. This entrance of the
Zodiac which is designated as the Waterman. So that you have to see
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 9
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
sort of system. But one question which may arise in many minds must
of fire, thus reaching its highest point. It was in this manner that
Spirits of Personality were passing through their human stage of
were passing through their human stage; during the Moon evolution the
Angels, and on the earth Man, is passing through his human existence.
But it must be realised that this Man had also taken part in all that
the bearer of the spiritual earth-man of to-day. Very slowly and
different signs of the Zodiac slowly revolved, and the human body
the Crab; the foundation of the symmetrical shape of man, that is the
piece the formation of the human body, and when we look up to that
under the sign of the Bull. And when you think of man distributed
of the human organs.
each sign, but the different human members were drawn in the
the lower parts of the legs, for the Waterman; and to the feet, for
Pisces. Think of such a Zodiacal circle as a man designed out there
of the physical human body. This is the great Cosmic Man, the Man who
the great Cosmos; microcosmic man is formed out of this giant. Up
above is the macrocosmic man who is a Creator, who, out there,
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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to humanity in the continuous evolution of this hierarchical world.
man had reached so far in his general development that he had already
one incarnation to the other. But after a certain time that human
earth would become a sort of deserted rubbish-heap when man had left
creations of human thought. Put yourselves now in thought into that
come forth from a human mind, have naturally no importance for the
higher worlds, but have it only for the earth. But when man shall
Earth into dust, and will all that man has made out of the earth
not be one stone of it lying on the other; but the fact that man once
man takes with him away from the earth, we are considering the earth
world's origin have manifold connections, and something which
ourselves: What position has man towards those Beings of the higher
Hierarchies who, fundamentally speaking, were his human forefathers?
Thrones, and in describing them, get a good idea of man. If we could
of GOD.’ That which man has to seek for
Beings. For them, there only exists the sight of the commands of the
which the mind of man could ever imagine. What did this mean? To show
were placed in such a manner within the course of evolution that,
word — ‘adversely-commanded’ Mights were thrown
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Title: Life Between ... XV: Intercourse With the Dead
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In these lectures Rudolf Steiner deals with the experience of the human
theosophical writings one often finds the remark that man's
burdens itself the human soul could disappear in the course of
physical. This fact is particularly moving for the human soul when it
Christ is the only being among all the super-sensible beings above man
Now it is literally true that man, when he has crossed the portal of
have to call it in human language, loneliness. Death can never mean
death, especially in getting to know other human souls. Such a person
It may happen that a person who has avoided any form of human love on
completely dependent on himself because as human beings on earth we
Here on earth man does not truly know himself. Science teaches us
is only the outer aspect. On earth man does not live in himself. He
Saturn so that we become Saturn, just as we are now our spleen. Man
If it were not for the fact that a man makes connections with other
human beings and, as will happen more and more frequently through
that man experiences in the spiritual world. This fear befalls us
however, the mission of the earth that we make contacts from man to
man because otherwise we remain solitary in the spiritual world.
relationships; the friendships that we formed with fellow human
souls in the vicinity of a person whom it can follow on earth. Many
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Title: Lecture: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness
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Evolution of Human Freedom/The Idea of God
Notes on the Evolution of Human Freedom
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN FREEDOM
on colour and the Ego show the real nature of man in relation
super-earthly. Our time demands this. We have seen that human
reality. This points to the fact that man must necessarily
into human evolution. For instance, the Moon which to-day
We know what significant transformations took place in man
cosmic events to an artistic understanding. Man has brought
transformations no mineral kingdom existed in man's
the human being during the earth epoch. Man as regards his
colours we see to-day. Originally man was not destined for
to whether man should pass his existence on the Earth itself
or external to it. That it is possible for man to become an
from the guides of human evolution. Thereby his relation to
the Cosmos was changed. Man was not originally a personal
the exit of the moon. Had nothing intervened man would have
moon but evolution has progressed and man has not remained
ancient times man to a certain extent was endowed with the
gravity; on the other hand as a head-man he is capable of
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Title: Lecture: The Old Sagas of the Gods
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“Oak”. The priest or wise man of the Northern
Osiris and Zeritwen Isis. Man is Horus. There were three
Bards; third, Druids. A man who had been initiated into the
common feeling of human morality will develop, just as
origin of humanity itself. First came our Earth, but without
macrocosmic man. From him the Gods made the structure of Earth.
Uhne, they formed the physical man. The three Gods
constructed the sheaths of man.
human sheaths constructed by the Gods. The dwarf is the
little man who is actually the spiritual; he was the spark
that came to fructify man, who from the middle of the
Lemurian time, is to form Manas, Buddhi, and Atma. The human
permeation of man with the gold of Wisdom. Previously Sthula
Man, before
enclosure of man in the sense-impressions, which make the
race man only possessed one eye, through which he was not yet
what was useful or harmful to him. When man was enclosed by
formless mass took human shape. Thus came into being the
space of a day she fed in this manner, licking the boulder
lick, a head of human semblance was laid bare. On the third
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
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throughout the history of the evolution of mankind under the name of
man, behind what comes to the light of day lies a deeper wisdom which
has hitherto remained unknown to mankind in general.
man would perhaps be of the opinion that such things are accomplished
have been achieved, nor any goods have been manufactured, without the
greater measure of the spiritual currents that flow through human
all the Art that has ever been brought to mankind, all the Justice
unknown to mankind by name. These are they who formed themselves into
far more a question of a man's wrestling his way through to an inner
missionaries to the rest of mankind. They were not allowed to have
to serve and help mankind. They had to be men who would make real the
Spiritual Worlds: But we human beings have boundaries to our
man was enabled to undergo by the training of his inner talents and
It was said that such a one experienced on a higher plane what a man
World is here where man is. As many worlds are around us as we have
him how once in primeval times man had been half animal and how the
soul had striven upwards to that stage of humanity upon which he now
they lived in a very distant evolution of mankind, then forms half
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Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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is connected with the whole evolution of humanity and, as such, it should
we must transfer ourselves into the past and future of mankind.
Just as the individual human
souls from the bosom of the Godhead, so mankind as a whole has also
what we are accustomed to name “mankind” is only the product
of the so-called fifth root-race. This was preceded by another human race,
ancient Atlantis, for man's faculties of thought and feeling were
could pass from man to man, through the force which still lay in the
alone awakened forces in the soul of the pupil. A mantram of to-day
might call this a human initiation through the powerful effect of the
in the evolution of humanity. The task of our race, the fifth root-race,
consists in adding Manas to the four members of the human being. That
post-Atlantean era, must develop Manas, the Spirit-Self.
group of men. Under the guidance of the Manu, this small group
task in the evolution of humanity: What once existed in the form
of the Manas-development. It is the task of our race to develop intellectual
occult truths in Manas, in the purest element of thought. The
Everything that is productive in the striving human being will grow
the disintegration of humanity.
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Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
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has to do with human happiness and human aspirations over and
‘In my inmost being as man I am something different
human beings we live all the time within two streams —
stone. The man who places one little piece into the mosaic is
not less important than the man who thought out the plan of
development in itself as absolutely essential. Many people
fallacy than to imagine that a man can be a good theosophist
humanity as a whole. Everywhere we find humanity progressing
evolutionary process of humanity such rapid transitions and
history of earth-humanity is the one brought about through
remembered that the human soul has evolved slowly and by
degrees. Man's life to-day is such that stimuli come to him
development was possible. The whole development of the human
senses. Man is obliged to depend upon the instrument of his
dreamlike consciousness man looked to the realm immediately
We to-day look at the mineral kingdom but in those days man
man, it was possible for him to evoke a state of
the physical body of man was pliable material which the soul
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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published in German as,
Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by
That human being in our present who generally does not want to
spiritual progress of humankind could ask: could you not simply
groups, while you find lecturers and freely gather human beings
of human beings in the farther and narrower sense who know
science. Since it is not without reason that with us human
and intellectual existence of the human beings. Our spiritual
the last years in manifold way.
us consider that our earth development took place for us human
human beings where different matters were cultivated than the
cultivated the human etheric body, the Ancient Persian one the
Something does not yet exist in the human community what will
be there in the sixth culture-epoch with those human beings who
behind this aim; they are not among those who are maniacs or
culture-epoch the culturally leading human beings will have a
humankind. Today the human being must be organised more
existence he has to look at other human beings in the world who
poured on many human beings in the world — but these must
human beings who are at the peak of this culture not only feel
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by
Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
get the possibility in many fields to think something
physical world only with its ahrimanic image, namely with
spiritual being means something if he manifests himself as a C
Ahriman creates a reflection just of that which I have
physical world is an ahrimanic reflection of this occult
were developed artificially is an ahrimanic activity. Not
felt as an ahrimanic art, as a “black art,” as one
escape the claws of Lucifer and Ahriman using any performances.
Lucifer and Ahriman must be in the external culture. It is only
the luciferic or the ahrimanic side. If anybody did not want to
be touched at all by Ahriman, never would he have to learn
reading. But this is why it concerns not that we flee Ahriman
— that Ahriman also established reading, and we see this
ahrimanic art in the right light. If we do not experience this,
we declaim something about the ahrimanic culture, about the
progress and the splendour of the ahrimanic culture, for
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