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• Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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  • Lecture: Preparing
  • Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
  • PREPARING FOR THESIXTH EPOCH
  • truths we have studied in many aspects during recent years.
  • suffering that is so widespread in the world, but this can only be
  • today by the sight of poverty, suffering and misery in the world, but
  • such individuals will experience the suffering of another human being
  • as their own suffering. If they see a hungry man they will feel the
  • suffering, the need, the poverty or the wealth of the whole. This is
  • and not until the sixth epoch, to bring to definite expression the
  • made to indicate this by including a word that brings out the
  • inasmuch as the term includes a word that glaringly contradicts the
  • bring about the descent of spirit self. Just as it is being striven
  • beings in the future. That is the error that is filtering from the
  • fateful times all those elements are entering of which we have just
  • soul brings a great many other things in its train. This leads us to
  • science, feeling the good spirit of brotherhood hovering over and
• Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture III: The Death of A God and Its Fruits In Humanity
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  • and clothing, as well as with ever-increasing luxury goods. During the
  • wisdom belonging to mankind as one whole and springing from one Divine
  • declaring what he holds sacred, then no understanding is
  • Mystery of Golgotha takes place, because from it alone could spring
  • the impulse of a god Who had endured all the sufferings and agonies of
  • shame that were the lot of Christ. And these sufferings were
  • to larger gatherings of men. Those to whom it has been entrusted to
  • Wandering Jew, lingering on Golgotha; the fourth — a praying
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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  • bring those facts which lie so far afield near to you and make them
  • ancient, holy Rishis, the great teachers of India, during our first
  • Does that man deny the reality of facts who, while declaring that
  • and the Rishis had seen, it would have grasped, while hearing on the
  • during the half year when the sun stands high, or whether he dies in
  • die in the sign of the fire by day, with the moon waxing, and during
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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  • teaching which came from the holy Rishis, during the first
  • When during the time of that ancient holy teaching, mention was made
  • transparent it has to bring forth something not transparent —
  • world-processes of condensation, are continually entering from your
  • surroundings into you. Let us take it that the man staring at the
  • to their own element. During the whole of his earthly life, man lets
  • with the man's death. During his life man is a place of
  • elemental beings which he has not released during his former life
  • released he does not bring back with him for they have returned into
  • What happens then? What happens during such a sacrifice? The Priest
  • class, just named, who are active during the day, are then in their
  • spirits which have entered into us either during our hours of
  • idleness or during those of active work. When we pass through the
  • can come about as they do with all the influences they bring with
  • to be in order to bring about the orderly courses of the moon, then
  • spring can appear and be succeeded by autumn. In order that this may
  • bewitched during the time of the winter sun. And man acts upon these
  • in the Bhagavad Gita. Yes! When one has to bring forth out of
  • wisdom, and only when that which springs from the sources of the
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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  • inhabit the earth as men, so did the Angels inhabit the Moon during
  • voyage through space during the first stage of the Saturn evolution,
  • made this voyage during the very first stages of ancient Saturn. You
  • during the later stages of Saturn you could have differentiated outer
  • of warmth clustering on the surface of Saturn, forming its outer
  • During the Saturn evolution it was possible for the Spirits of
  • is the flowering branch, here am I. I differentiate myself as ‘I’
  • leave them in the general Sun substance. For these Archangels during
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 4
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  • When considering the conditions of Saturn which are still transparent
  • during the Sun evolution.
  • to bring it completely under the dominion of the ‘I.’ Now
  • gradually preparing himself to let his Ego act upon his astral and
  • Spirits of Personality who awaken and bring about the ‘I’
  • the ancient Sun, would during the Sun-days hurry with the rays of
  • have to return to the Sun during the Sun's nights. It would be
  • soared out into the Universe; the flowing outwards, the soaring up to
  • light could be influenced only during the Sun-days, when light
  • skies. During this time, when the Sun-planet was darkened, only
  • the mirroring of the forms of the Cherubim in this Sun-gas.
  • find also, evoked as by magic out of the Sun-gas during the Sun's
  • animal circle or Zodiac? We shall say a word about this during the
  • that an uplifting process happens in the Universe, a lowering process
  • their spiritual existence during daytime, the Cherubim were obliged
  • to continue their activity by night, and bring forth the animal
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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  • view. During the first half of these lectures some things will have
  • through all this, they are gradually maturing towards re-union with
  • Hierarchy we have just been considering. The Beings of the Second
  • gradually split off. At first there are rings. These then contract.
  • differentiate the internal mass, who bring about what we had in our
  • that which the Thrones or Spirits of Will bring down out of Universal
  • the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, bring down to Saturn from the
  • Beings have to bring about this process of condensation.
  • which also brought about the severing of the Moon from the Sun.
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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  • stage during the evolution of the ancient Moon, and are fundamentally
  • speaking, only as far on during our present earth evolution as man
  • will be during the Jupiter evolution. They stand one stage higher
  • do not as yet remember what happened to them during their former
  • bring single lives into harmonious order with the life of larger
  • earth's evolution the Archangels’ task is to bring into
  • Spiritual Beings must also exist, whose care it is during the whole
  • came during Pisces, which began 270 B.C. Add 2150 years and we get
  • through the Zodiac during the course of long years. It is generally
  • B.C. the sun in spring rose at the first point of spring in the
  • Aries, with its rising point in spring-time, it travelled through the
  • whole sign of Aries during 2150 years. Before that, Taurus had been
  • the Zodiacal constellation in the spring during the previous period
  • we find the spring-point in the Zodiacal sign of Gemini. That was the
  • Now you will very easily bring into harmony what
  • young humanity, so that these men, wandering in the midst of that
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 7
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  • circle. You know how the development of man proceeds. During the
  • Atlantis who in reality were Archangels, bearing an Archangel
  • the figure of the inspiring Archangel. Such a personality was of a
  • indefinite Space, was the inspiring Archangel. When such men died,
  • bodies. There were certain hours during which inspiration acted
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 8
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  • Each egg in its wanderings, comes back to the point where it was
  • entering from universal spaces.
  • say this, being conscious that I run the danger of appearing to be
  • too far if I explained to you why the ring formations of Saturn also
  • if one saw a globe of gas with a sort of ring of dust around it; it
  • Scorpion, which brings death, so on Mars these balls of water are
  • reason for this being, that man, during the time these names were
  • Word exists at the present day. The first stirring of ‘I am’
  • which happened during the origin of our heavenly bodies, and all
  • springing from the spiritual interaction of the Hierarchies, as we
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 9
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  • on which was repeated all that had happened during the ancient Saturn
  • That which we have been considering to-day as the movements of
  • have to do with what took place as a repetition, during the fourth
  • there alone; during the Sun development (the second globe), the
  • us in the heavens must be thought of as having originated during the
  • If — trivially speaking — one took an egg desiring to
  • existence; during the Sun formation the Archangels or Spirits of Fire
  • were passing through their human stage; during the Moon evolution the
  • first foundations during the very earliest Saturn formation. That
  • gradually was this physical body organised during the ancient Saturn
  • this moment of its dissolution, what has been built up during its
  • the nation is also accumulating. Just as Karma accrued during the
  • been brought about, so Karma accrues to a nation during the time its
  • give, to bring sacrifices, than merely to store up for oneself all
  • minds during these days, our souls might well put the question: What
• Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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  • man takes with him away from the earth, we are considering the earth
  • it brings back with it all that the beings who have worked on the
  • to understand, because it is in the habit of considering matter only,
  • Beings formed first Uranus, and then Neptune during the Mars
  • worlds which have come into existence because Beings who, during the
  • masked sages. To bring about the necessary temptations and ordeals,
  • their action was quite different, and the result was that, during the
  • stage during the Moon development. There were Angel-men on the Moon
  • put ourselves in the way of conquering the hindrances, we can plunge
  • were throwing hindering influence down into the Moon-evolution. But
  • existence of these hindering influences, something new was infused
  • proceeding on the forsaken Moon, when all the hindering powers held
  • hindering influences that existed there. They had to harden
  • development. The result of all this was, that during the earth
  • The advanced Angel-men approached the men of the earth during the
  • power to follow, or not to follow, the hindering Powers. Those who
  • happened during the Moon development, when Man had progressed as far
  • themselves into that which the Mights produced during the Fight in
  • during the Earth-evolution and gave to men the possibility of evil,
  • during the Lemurian and Atlantean evolutions, and even later we have
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• Title: Life Between ... XV: Intercourse With the Dead
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  • soul during and after death. He describes the states of consciousness
  • stirring.
  • A preparation is made during our life on earth to expand into the
  • himself. This is not meant trivially because it is truly a shattering
  • stage, we may fall into loneliness during the next.
  • departed thoughts we have made our own, always vividly picturing the
  • seek to bring people together so that personal relationships may also
  • souls who have rejected a moral disposition of soul during their
  • we are able to bring understanding to every human soul in its
  • mission of Christianity does not consist in bringing dogma to people.
  • over the last centuries. It is the task of anthroposophy to bring
  • You see, this is the phase during life between death and rebirth when
  • earth for the Christ. We have to bring a Christ understanding with us
  • decided that involves a deeply stirring activity. By means of our
  • hereditary stream is able to unite with what we bring with us out of
  • right way. Only during his lifetime would he be able to adapt his
  • In conclusion, during life after death one first has to overcome the
  • If a human being goes through the stages during which he could have
• Title: Lecture: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness
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  • the fact that the Moon left the Earth. We have to bring these
  • over his being from Saturn, Sun and Moon. During the
  • the human being during the earth epoch. Man as regards his
  • cease to be fertile, another mode of entering earthly life
  • Beings to bring messages; to them we owe our Spiritual
  • whole it ignores them. This will bring the Earth into a
  • thoughts will then bring forth a terrible race of automatic
• Title: Lecture: The Old Sagas of the Gods
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  • consecrated ring. Mead corresponds with the Indian Soma
  • the Sun, the bringer of all life; the active Sun-forces; Loki
  • attained a certain age he was capable of surrendering his own
  • lived as a great Initiate in Atlantis. During the decline of
  • brings Wisdom, the gold. Besides this gold there was the
  • golden ring.
  • through the gates of the senses. The ring signifies the
  • Self a personal being. (Nibelungen-ring.)
  • the ring of his sense-nature this eye drew in; the gift which
  • and the offspring of Wotan, Siegmund, Sigurd, and Siegfried
  • great lumbering clay-giant whose name was Ymer. ------------ More
  • Ygdrasil, pondering and searching out the secrets of the mind
• Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
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  • to bring into being what is called “technics.” If we go
  • the soul which brings about certain intimate processes in the
  • develop this feeling during a period of many weeks — the
  • saw himself crucified. The outer symbol was that during the
  • personally during the three days of initiation. What formerly was
• Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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  • thousands of years! Consider how entirely things have changed during
  • him in the murmuring waves; he could understand the rolling
  • during the fourth Atlantean sub-race, this first school of adepts, would
  • flourish was the Graeco-Latin one, with its personal colouring, and finally
  • writing and thought first came into the world during the
  • to the fore during the fourth, the Graeco-Latin epoch. In Greece, the
  • brotherhood. Spiritual science therefore has only one task: to bring
  • Materialism and egoism bring
  • thus become separated. Wisdom brings them together in fullest freedom
  • by considering three kinds of Mysteries. Spiritual science must be able
• Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
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  • theosophist does well to bring home to himself over and over
  • and then engages in some activity which brings blessing on
  • jumps are constantly occurring. The greatest of all in the
  • physical world, the physical body has become overpoweringly
  • Suffering (Blessed are they that mourn) and
  • upwards through Longing, to overcome through Suffering, to
• Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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  • in thoughts, from the way preparing our other work.
  • suffering, all the need, all the poverty or wealth to a much
  • calls science today, and what has a materialistic colouring as
  • hovering over the souls which should descend in the second
  • preparing the next culture-epoch, and these forces nurtured the
  • perform work which flows up to the growing forces preparing the
  • know from the numerous talks which were held during the past
  • would get a luciferic colouring remaining on a former level,
  • to bring themselves to understand Solovyov to a certain degree.
  • and crushes neighbouring boughs and trunks, and when
  • hovering over them, while they care for spiritual science.
• Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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  • during life while we try to practice self-knowledge. In
  • work, caring work, but during the last years, since longer time
  • during life.
  • During life the human being is often tied up by the
  • has taken up the impulses of spiritual science during life so
  • this in such words during her physical life. Because the
  • Aspiring to work in joy-filled peace,
  • gone through the gate of death during the war this is the case
  • could experience something very strange, for example, during
  • written it. Expressly I would like to stress that you can bring
  • terrifying cheering after great victories. One noticed that