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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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These skeptics often say that perhaps one who has developed hidden soul
however, that life itself, if one is attentive to it, confirms what spiritual
can be extremely useful in everyday life. This usefulness, which is not
even for those who are not particularly inclined to concern themselves
alcoholism” that has pervaded the important events of public life. This
cram for it. This cramming, however, is dreadful because it provides no
the opposite effects are obtained, however, when anthroposophy is taken
Often in anthroposophy, even a simple experiment repeated with
to health, and that many upsets bordering on severe illness can be
consider the numerous cases in which people can never find where they
Suppose, for example, a lady is forever putting her brooch down when
she takes it off in the evening, and then cannot find it in the morning. You
put it always in the same place. There is, however, a far more effective
brooch in a different place each evening, but as I do so I will hold the
whenever they are about to write. Actually, with some of them the
when they write, a jerk repeated for every up and down stroke. You can
occult foundation of every form of cramp or convulsion. Here the
the classroom to strengthen the etheric body even in childhood. But, even
anything but foolish. Nevertheless, suppose that children were first taught
Surely, however, the effects of the force, when they become apparent,
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Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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available to everyone.
in intellectual and spiritual work. This is so, however, only
development by the extent of one's disgust, but in this case, so
it is. Diet, through spiritual development, becomes the personal
be seen, however, that particularly in our age spiritual science
has something to say even concerning questions that directly affect
everyday life.
called idealists in that they believe they view the common aspects
of life from a certain exalted level. They raise this objection
material dimension by the strength of one's spirit.” Even a
well-intentioned idealist might level this objection against
to believe that man is indeed physically nothing more than what he
eats. Now, we shall have several things to say on this point.
truth of things. His attitude must never be agitatorial, and he
however, and similarly our bodies are of no use to our higher
is given them. This approach, however, remains an extremely
principle that every material occurrence, everything that takes
spiritual processes. Indeed, even the nutritional processes cannot
man is a unity even though the composition of his physical body
appears to be a conglomeration of chemical events.
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Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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everything which has thus been given in a schematic form. We already
developing in every direction here, upon the Earth; of course, it
develops first of all within the astral body, then within the etheric
individual human species; in the human kingdom, however, we cannot
not hear even such peculiar observations that it is not possible to
have to take away from the human being everything pertaining to
however, it would not immediately take on its own form, owing to the
through the fact that every animal-species has assumed a form of its
own, which it has developed independently into a physical shape.
developed. Indeed, this truth even rose up on Schelling’s
which could not, of course, be developed fully, those who were unable
not as yet grasp clearly, nevertheless lived within his soul as a
human being really consist of animal forms. He even had the courage
Philistines thought about it! If we wish to grasp the development of
put together is our own work, but wood and even iron are raw
live within our physical body, we believe that only the things we
kind of material as clever thoughts). Coarsely speaking, the Angeloi,
world. Indeed, this would even take on the form of a sphere, it would
and even the Spirits of the Will. When after years or decades we have
cosmos. However, this becomes inwoven with the cosmos in a manner
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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nowadays who is not nervous. We can well understand even this
when they are called upon to make some decision, they never know what
manifold forms of disease, even imitating organic diseases —
‘political alcoholism’ with regard to the great events of
such a way that the several members unfold strongly and healthily. If
even bordering on very severe illnesses of human nature would be
Assume, for instance, that a man begins to notice he can never find
somewhere, and presently discovers that she can never find it again
do, and that a picture is developed. This bringing-together of the
more, however, can be attained. Let us assume that it became a kind
this will strengthen the ethereal body. Assume, however, that you
you ever seen people who have to write much in their profession
movements whenever they are about to write? It need not go so far as
condition. It may be no more than this: that whenever they are
repeated jerk for every upward or every downward stroke. You can tell
body lies at the occult foundation of every kind of cramp or
occult facts; we must believe in the existence and activity of the
several members of man's being.
adding: ‘Without making too much effort, try every day —
of the ethereal body. Nay, we may even assert that many forms of illness
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Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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available to everyone.
no true goal can be reached, if we believe that a concept
something distinct and limited. If, however, we send to the
rise and fall of colors and forms, which change at every
every moment. This is what we find in the case of man. But
nonetheless changeable, for at every moment they have a
different shape, color, or luminous force. Everything on the
everything on the physical plane is an expression of forces
emanating from these higher worlds. In everything we see
cannot be found, however, upon the astral plane, but must be
everything of an astral nature must be found upon the astral
— nevertheless, the inner nature of a Being must be
your Ego has no physical nature, and lives nevertheless upon
animals, owing to the fact that every human being has an
however, only when the human being is awake — when he
however, it is the most perfect of all — for it has
Ego craves for wine, beer, etc., whichever destructive
influence throughout life — nevertheless, the physical
everything which today may be called a solid body iron,
copper, tin, etc. Everything solid is Earth.
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Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit,
Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of
available to everyone.
Revelations of the Spirit
following Goethe's spiritual evolution, as revealed in his
ideas continually altered regarding the course of development
Chaos on the way to Hell.” This reveals to us that it
entertained thoughts which led him to believe that knowledge
[Approximately: “He who is ever striving,
are the vital element in a progressive life reveals many
only because he was forced to conquer every truth for
events, is needful for us, in order that we may become human
that life is one and undivided, that everything in life is
involved with everything else, and that life does not ask
in our day, — I mean mathematics, although even here we
which testify everywhere, when examined in the proper light,
remarkable has been the tendency in the development of these
’seventies or ’eighties or earlier, the so-called
everything in the world, in the final instance, by the
atomistic theory, was untenable. It may even be called a
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Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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certainly necessary in every sphere of thought and life to
investigation that error lurks in every nook and corner,
where it is not even easy to recognise. It often appears in
however, employs as means of investigation, what he can
develop out of the cognitive forces slumbering in the human
out of her depths, believes she may grasp this world of
a position to reveal himself, i.e. spiritual beings can now
that some individuality or another could reveal itself with
forces itself into the diminished consciousness. Everything
of consciousness works disturbingly on the revelations of the
mediumistic revelations; but if no such knowledge won in this
does not know, although they reveal themselves through him.
everywhere the sources of error when one has to do with the
into his consciousness. If however one surveys the entirety
of mediumistic revelations, then one will also transcend the
such revelations, it is less a question of the exact,
the path along which one can remove error ever more to one
consciousness is purely excluded, and in revelations of world
the first place one gets in his revelations super-sensible
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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European cultural development when the several activities of the
development, to times when a unified culture, born directly out of
their culture, but they still spoke of religion, even when their
minds were directly concerned with the practical affairs of everyday
life. That very concern itself was raised to the level of a religion,
for religion shed its rays over every experience which man could
influence even brought out in human souls something of which today we
what we are hoping to achieve with today's feeble beginning ...
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
actions of everyday life. Then what we call profane life will became
spiritual-scientifie development. When I myself judged that the time
thoughts about our work to pass through a period of development of
seven years; but the seed which had been laid in our souls with the
developed silently in our hearts, according to the law of the
seven-yearly rhythm. At the end of the seven years we were ready to
that. True occultism at a somewhat higher level shows us however that
believe the best. Anthroposophy is not the only thing about which men
always liable to err, however much we may believe ourselves to be
suited to the conditions which have developed through the centuries,
committing a sin against European civilisation and everything
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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of Agamemnon, Menelaus and Odysseus. Thus every item of Greek
natural wonder. What is really the crucial event of the drama?
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
development and formation of the ego principle, making it firmer and
soul. Thus in the course of the historical development of humanity,
of human development, the soul was robbed of its ancient clairvoyant
no inner development, as later ages will do, in order to see into the
special development to produce breathing, so at that time he did not
present one), I absorb from outside everything that is growing, but
to believe that what he took in as food was only physical substance,
forces which in man develop into the faculty of clairvoyance.
human body, so that we may say that Pluto obtained an ever increasing
For even in the earlier postAtlantean times the human organisation
thought even of people as recent as the Greeks. When the modern man
prehistoric times, it was not even so in ancient Greece. In those
modern man can scarcely believe it. Think of all that I have told you
about the development of the Greek gods. I pointed out how Demeter
to himself: ‘I gaze upwards to the great Demeter, and whenever
spiritual forces which were in them and thereby to develop
of the historical development of humanity. How splendidly those
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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at the end of the course. I want this evening to bring home to you
existence devoid of spirit, but everything which happened in the
today we should call it a miracle if we were to perceive an event in
perceive directly a spiritual event which he could not understand and
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
happenings in the ordering of Nature and rarer events. The one kind
spiritual creation, divine-spiritual activity, entered into every
natural event. You see how these concepts have changed. For the
intervention of the spirit in events on the physical plane to be
line between what we believe to be governed by natural law and what
learn to feel again that the spiritual is active in everyday events
in the soul of Strader. There we see how such an event as Theodora's
vision, an event outside the ordinary processes of nature, affects
such an event acts upon the heart as an ordeal of the soul. This
of the regular, normal course of natural events, events which can be
other events, events which also take place on the physical plane, but
become visible in an unobtrusive way even to physical eyes, should be
did experience this. Even if he could not express it in modern terms,
all that is familiar in everyday life there stands before our eyes
the marvellous bow with its seven colours ... we will ignore all
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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find in evolution that one thing, one epoch, is never exactly like
epoch did not tread the Earth in human form. There were however men
completed his human development on the Moon. This was how the
further its unfettered development towards the goal of the Earth.
stage of Luciferic development, Angel Beings who had not completed
evolution, if they reach their full development. These Beings too
spiritual guidance of those normally developed Beings, he would push
post-Atlantean epoch through the succeeding epochs, inasmuch as ever
we see too how everything in this epoch tends to bring to expression
development on the Moon, the Luciferic Beings. They all appear again.
development of their own. Just as man today is at another stage than
Luciferic Angels. Their achievement in guiding humanity in the
that at that time they had reached a certain level of development.
their own development, but there were also among them a number who
their normal development on the Moon and thus entered into the
evolution of our present Earth as Angels, nevertheless, during the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch failed to achieve all that they could have
achieved on Earth. At that point they lagged behind. Thus among those
Beings who were still in the line of normal development during the
as concerns Earth-development on the physical plane Christ was
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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finished on a note of interrogation as to his nature. As everybody
them thoroughly human traits, one might even say human frailties,
human. The bond between gods and men was looser than ever before. It
know of one nation which had developed to a very high degree a
development had attained the full goal of the Moon evolution. Anyone
reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
that every member of the Hebrew nation was under the divine guidance
elements of earthly life for its own development, and which therefore
their gods did nevertheless incarnate in physical bodies,
about the Earth in a human body. Nevertheless it can be so. For the
formerly he only looked at; and in a way every soul is spread out
over the whole macrocosm, every soul is there within the great
severs his essential soul-nature from his bodily part, as soon as
soul-experiences. You are even told how the human being has to ask
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
looking at the matter in the right light we see that however much
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
Sun and Moon evolutions, in which at a higher level they themselves
mental life has only been able to develop through the intermingling
of these two polaric influences in human spiritual development
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit’, why
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
development would be possible unless contradiction lay in the very
everything remain as it was? It is because yesterday there was a
contradictions? Whenever we look back at the course of our life we
in contradiction to what was. Contradiction is everywhere at the
occurs at once to anyone who studies the world with even a little
intelligence. However widely we search, we shall never find this ego
enlist the help of the clairvoyant eye, we can never observe his ego.
be observed with external physical instruments. Thus, however far we
what a man's normal faculties find within him as his ego ever
cloud, vanishes away, reveals itself as maya. And if we wish
Eve in Paradise before the Fall. We know that according to the Bible
Testament tells why Adam and Eve were ashamed of their bodies after
even the Bible recognises that quite a different bodily form, one
What then did Adam and Eve feel when their relation to each other was
come about in human evolution as the achievement of time. But in
which is nevertheless all around us; for this world is there behind
everything, it is all around us ... but it is covered over
mind what the Greek consciousness added in the further development of
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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severely shaken.
everything which had to do with the upper gods exoterically, by means
everything of which one can become conscious through a deeper insight
human being could never attain to knowledge if he did not think, if
understand thinking is about as clever as looking into a mirror to
In however strictly logical a manner one argues today even with
man on Earth was so formed that he could develop his physical brain
put it today, and it can surely be understood, at all events by an.
developing the passion which must come into play when the soul is
developed into feeling, and then the soul is faced with a hard task
of exoteric knowledge, for that would never have enabled them to lead
oneself understood. Today men try to confine everything within the
light is thrown upon them from several sides, and in a certain way
words in the light of present-day usage will believe that they are
quite trivial but is nevertheless important. If one wants to describe
use of the customary terminology. One has perhaps even to go so far
judges everything in the higher worlds in accordance with it; yet you
intelligence while nevertheless withdrawing from that form of
Here our souls are once more faced by a severe ordeal. In what does
everyday world. And the challenge to the soul which emerges at this
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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Ordeals are what come upon a man whenever he tries to enter upon the
at the meaning of what he reads, as he would do whatever he was
it is however essentially different. The mood of
our souls to be wasted. We come to realise that deep down in every
develops what lies within it, little by little, then the strength
which it feels as yet to be inadequate is bound to become ever
must accept the impossibility of making everything good in this life.
people, even in those who have some acquaintance with Spiritual
better to acknowledge to oneself the truth, that at bottom even the
the question at a higher level. Why is it that we find so much in
developed up to a certain point. The time between Moon and Earth
the Saturn evolution, were further developed on the Sun, and had
already reached a high stage of development on the Moon, we must
nevertheless understand that in the intervening periods between
that had evolved of the physical and other bodies had reverted to
spirit. Everything again passed over into imperceptible
longer physical, everything had been taken up into the spirit again;
form as physical body. What today is physical was at that time, even
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
the way they tended to do at that time, even in his physical
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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I had to point out how a kind of reversal of the forces which led to a
able to develop knowledge which goes beyond the completely egotistic
in the period of Earth-development prior to Lemuria. Before man
entered upon his Lemurian development he was, even as regards his
Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit’ we must look
continued to develop, since it was by no means the solid lump of
Everywhere on the Earth's surface, wherever one goes,
wrong to believe that one can draw a straight line from the very
course of their development been subjected to quite different
it has been influenced not only by one current, but by several
structure of the bird there is something very striking, even to
clairvoyant sight. Whereas in the case of the mammals, wherever we
developed, in the case of the birds the most outstanding feature
one could say that every feather has the tendency to become a hair,
the feather from all sides; and every hair has the tendency to become
to describe man, who really distorts the several streams which flow
shadow-form lies behind the whole of human development, and that into
even into its baser elements, now at the Baptism by John in the
parts. That is a most significant event. These forces from cosmic
will also liberate him ever more and more from what binds him to the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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his senses, or even to his clairvoyant knowledge; he aims at a
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
However it is now a matter of common experience that the soul works
nothing to do with reality — when the man of today believes
human being, came into play in the old clairvoyant days. To achieve
diagrammatically it is like this. The old clairvoyance, even the
with reality. Such a thirst will reveal that it is just what is
illusion, in maya. There has never been in the world such
to develop his present ego-consciousness. He has had to become
which it once passed through. This weakness, which we had to develop,
and shadowy forms they are!’ That sentiment could even be
scientific path which is quite practicable, even though to modern
on every hand; every healthy soul has to undergo the fear of being
world-substance. We meet there everything which has been worked into
incarnations what he has developed in this way has united with what
into our own soul-depths we feel ourselves to an ever greater extent
— they seem at every moment to be trying to capture us. They
ourselves, these instincts develop their full strength, and we cannot
against surrender to egotism. Even higher knowledge is dangerous in
of the gods, we in this world have every occasion for pride, for
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Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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to reveal her open secret feels an irresistible longing for
reveal her secret feels an almost invincible antipathy
reveal, through art, the super-physical,. But it becomes very
which may indeed be raised to the level of art but can never
It is due, however, to a kind of possession — possession
however, is deeply rooted in life; were this not sort through
which in many people has to be first developed — artistic
feeling in life makes its appearance everywhere. Even if not
to the senses. That what is ordinarily physical in everyday
by magic — this is perceived by everyone who confines his
remains, however, that everyone in life, when confronting the
need. For whatever we may think about a great many of the
trends in the art of recent times, whatever we may think
nothing to do with art — whatever we may think about all
may never actually arise.
visionary. I believe that many of the modern ways of approach
however; they do not look sufficiently deeply into the soul,
however, only the one side, and on becoming familiar with
Whoever is able to perceive this will also find — to make
however, because within it a higher life, a life of another
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Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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spiritual world with knowledge. Nevertheless, many people
experiences of the soul in its pure state. In order, however,
Everything that the artist has absorbed in life works on as
mean by seership — even by those who believe themselves
to be adherents. We need not, however, go into that; the
soul are quite different. Those, however, who strive for
The seer is able to eliminate everything that presses in upon
him from the external world, everything that wells up from
of soul; but even when he deliberately puts himself into this
to eliminate everything of a material nature or of the nature
of remembrance of the external world — not, however, in
ordinary meaning. Each of the several arts, from the
and willing develop towards within, an activity of soul that
is full of light and has clear definition develops from them.
seership, however, something quite objective, but no loss
the clairvoyant develops a new kind of thinking that is to
senses, but that he must develop and elaborate this thinking
seer realises: In everything that expresses itself in
spiritual intellectuality develops out of the feeling and
no element whatever of the bodily organisation. Then comes
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Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
in six or seven days. When the man of today calls to life in his
must not be mistaken for a description of things and events in the
never forget belongs to an entirely different world — a world
take the opening words of Genesis as referring to events which can be
to describe to some extent the origin and development of our earth
Saturn; even where it is densest, there is only fire — living,
through the severance of sun and earth, all that was to be found at
reveal themselves in this element which we have had to represent to
as a means of manifestation, a force of very revelation which, as it
— bara — however closely that deed might
the second word of Genesis, bara. However spiritually you may think
spiritual Beings, who, however, in a similar way — save that
musing two complexes arise, one tending towards external revelation,
“Elohim.” Whoever wishes to get an idea of what
Beings. To begin with, however, we can come to know one aspect of
the time when he was created from what had developed out of the
higher level, it is as if a group of men, each with his own special
resolved to combine their several skills in order to arrive at
which did not belong to them, but which they were able to achieve by
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Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
precisely at those points where I myself am able to develop or carry
even in a position to know why this should be so, or to perceive why
controversy about every detail, please take it for granted that
world out of the supersensible. Every single sound in which the
to refer to the character of this language; today, however, let us
forces diverging from a central point in every direction. Thus the
diverging from a centre in every direction to illimitable distances.
it, and rays proceeding from every point inside this sphere towards
and turned back again on themselves from every direction of space
brought us? We shall not understand the sublime process of the seven
condenses to a gaseous element. But every such densification is
detail. But we shall never be able to think of it in the right way
unless we are conscious all the time that air, water and even warmth
even for the mind's eye. In reality this elemental existence is
Elohim, as if they resembled man. Nevertheless in their case too we
even his outer form bears testimony to the fact that his being lives
essential characteristic of life on earth. At that time, however, you
yourselves how it could be raised to the level of the human form.
and reverence for the way in which the world has evolved; and one

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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The Seven Days of Creation
spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
The Seven Days of Creation
event which we can see as the recapitulation at a higher level of an
form. In fact all that is narrated in the Bible of the six or seven
these six or seven “days?” It will be clearer if we put
the events there described really took place in the sphere of
the sensible out of the supersensible, and that the events with which
it opens are supersensible events, even if they are only one stage
higher than the ordinary physical events which proceeded from them
these three planetary forms? On Saturn everything was in a kind of
condition of the planet. Here we must never forget that there was as
denser, gaseous element developed in the Sun, so that in addition to
of the Sun evolution these conditions did obtain, even physically
consciousness there is no sense whatever in this dispute, for when it
even the most primitive forms of consciousness involves very special
term consciousness could develop in it; nor could an astral body,
so develop consciousness, reflect in inner experience what went on
of man — was then developed to the animal stage. You will find
the early stages of earth development it was impossible to
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
describes a repetition within the developing earth of this ancient
Everything of a solid material nature is earth in the sense of
severity of them — and seeks the basis of solidity, when he
permeation by light of our developing earth. That is announced in the
correctly. Even when one takes into account all that can today be
of the life-ether, which evokes everything that is said to have come
stimulate and enliven we see at the same time the development of
[Wherever possible, the designations for the hierarchies
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and eveEph. 1:21).
Exusiai or Powers, or Revelations; when we come to the lowest
evening and the morning were the first day. And further: And
the world in seven such days. You perhaps also know how much labour
identifying the seven days of creation with longer or shorter periods
Now every child today knows that the regulation of our twenty-four-hour
they are certainly not supported by revelation. As to the vagaries of
who entered successively into the development of our existence, and
Aeons, they meant Beings guiding development in succession, one
Yom is a Being. And when one is dealing with seven such
yamim following one another, one is dealing with seven
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Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
explained. What we have so far learnt does, however, make clear that
already repeated several times: that behind the weaving life of
soul-spiritual Beings are everywhere to be seen. We may now see Being
in those expressions where probably even modern minds would be
prepared to recognise it; we must be prepared to find it everywhere.
the development of our planet. As we have often said, we must think
understanding of all development — the fact that at each stage
nevertheless there, the Sun, which I have described as an inweaving
development with Beings who had progressed normally to the Sun stage.
alongside the new and continues to work within it. And so even today
several decades. Anyone who treats of the subject knows that. And the
being, which is to be traced everywhere where the polaric contrast of
the contrary we should remind ourselves that everything happens out
of cosmic wisdom, and that whenever Beings remain behind at a
particular stage of development, it means something; it has
be very badly suited for the instruction of seven-, eight-, nine- and
Personality who reveal themselves not through light, but through
development. They are allotted their proper place, so that they may
make their contribution to the orderly development of our
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Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
course you must never lose sight of our essential preoccupation as
supersensible events, the supersensible facts, which preceded the
of reverence for what resounds in our hearts from far-off ages. We
in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
maya, illusion”; for it is nevertheless through this
maya that the real Beings reveal themselves. And if we scorn
and instruments through which they reveal themselves, we have no
which it developed on Saturn it too has struggled through all these
development on Sun, Moon and earth. They have retained a certain
a much lower level. Let me give you an example. A man goes to sleep
had before he fell asleep in the evening was of a rose beside him.
rose emerges again. Even if the rose no longer remained by him, the
occur even if the rose had been taken away. But if the rose is still
beginning in everything of an earth nature.
— that matter is a low level of existence. Why should we bother
the deepest reverence for the exalted Beings we call the Spirits of
back to our Elohim, to the Spirits of Form. You see how everything
within another, and that warmth permeates everything. We find warmth
everywhere within the other stages of elementary existence. Hence we
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
practice to trace the course of some aspect of its development up to
familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
lower animals and draw the conclusion — even from the
which characterised our own nature in former times has developed into
there — on a lower, dreamlike level — was something
develop clairvoyance.
development in which he is surrounded by pictures, but is unable to
at a lower, more dreamlike level, so that no faculty of
To take an actual example, when the clairvoyant begins to develop
of the truth is that without light the eye could never have
developed; and in the same way without sound there would have been no
Beings who took part in the development of our universe was the
development. We see the outward result of this activity of light in
pictures, but these pictures represented an inner development, an
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it
would be an illness to perceive this inner development as an outer
our present objective consciousness could develop.
repetition of the past never takes place. Each evolutionary impulse
develop at an earlier stage of evolution. To us an object is
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Stages of Human Development up to the Sixth Day of Creation
spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
Stages of Human Development up to the Sixth Day of Creation
evolutions have entered into the development of our earth. We must of
most important, is the development of man himself. We know that man
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
develops as a kind of recapitulation of the Saturn, Sun and Moon
And out of the ground the LORD God formed eveCh. II, v.19
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over eveCh. I, v.26,
earth incarnation. But everything which comes finally to
what has been cast off and is developing supersensibly according to
developing earth, when the upper masses of matter separate from the
soul-spiritual man hovers in the periphery of the developing earth.
He is as it were within the substance of the several spiritual
stage of earth development, they alone are actual individualities! To
in the developing earth!” Thus when we say that on the fourth
activity which it developed was the same.
for the sake of the whole development of man in his relationship with
imagines, could not even be accepted by superficial ratiocination if
it really understood itself. But nevertheless if we study the course
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
from the earth. This was a very important event. It had to take place
distance, so as to moderate their influence on the development of
the earth, the earth forces became ever more moonlike, ever denser.
Consequently, as the development of the earth proceeded, man could
higher regions, continued their evolution upon the several planets
development. Some souls were fitted to pursue their evolution on
important event, which took place as we know during the Lemurian
on using earthly matter, and to remain with the earth. I have even
— that there was such a couple as Adam and Eve, and that the
account refers. Let me remind you that after the six or seven
those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
Atlantis everything was permeated by those volumes of watery
mist developed in the periphery of the earth, and then gradually grew
kingdom visible to the external eye did not develop until much later
geological conditions necessary for the development of the visible
The course of events
at a certain point: “Even after the conclusion of the seven
fact say this. If you read on, after the description of the seven
today as it was at that time, but we can nevertheless find something
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
coincided with the cosmic event which we have called the advancement
into his body earlier, let us say, during the events of the fifth
descend until later. And even on the sixth “day” it was
first. Thus man was not able to descend into solid matter even during
How was it achieved?
group to achieve a common purpose. Man began by being the common
of life. The event which is described as the creation of man by
commentators have maintained — which is nevertheless the truth.
will never give anything other than what I am saying. If it is upon
nevertheless understand clearly that, even as late as the early
a condition that even the division into separate words had yet to be
higher level. It was the deed of Jahve-Elohim which first made man
their various initiation centres — Plato especially, but even
higher levels. The male-female becomes differentiated into man and
of yet a seventh “day” of creation, and we are told that
on this seventh “day” the Elohim rested. What does that
Sabbath day, by the seventh “day” of creation.
attention to something else of importance. If everything that I have
developed further into the unisexual man, the Jahve-man.” Those
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beginning of this cycle should refer to what for several years has
Anthroposophical Movement by our revered friend Edouard Schuré with
be allowed to refer to something personal, which is, nevertheless, by
for my own life of soul?” He can then answer, “However many
pass historically before my soul.” Even the complications that
the souls of those times, even though in many respects they may be far
bear a different relation to each other. Everyday life and all that
might be called the divine enlightenment of everyday life seems quite
age as far back as ancient Rome. In purely historical writings, even
among the best historians, Greek figures, even those of the later
temptation in Paradise, the story of Adam and Eve, into the Greek
instance in the Middle Ages and on even into modern times. Therefore,
it is first necessary even for us to prepare our own souls before we
events that show us the Greek soul in its life of feeling and
feeling to see that the events enacted in the reconstructed Eleusinian
to heights of bliss, experienced, however, in various ways in the
nature, and of all that is concealed in it. The Greeks could never
have felt this in the way man feels it today. At that time they never
her all that man calls spiritual, everything as he says in which
with the Eleusinian Mystery. I should never think of saying that
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makes everything connected with the feeling that flows from the
that we need not develop our subject from the very start, but may
life, too, the several epochs themselves, how they ran their courses,
reverently of all that in the first post-Atlantean epoch the great and
the Indian civilisation was developed. We have remarked how the soul
here, namely, that only in the seventh and last epochs of the
life, seems to descend ever lower, how it takes other forms, but how,
aspect in our last lecture. Everywhere we see the light of the spirit
his physical body,” he develops something in his life of soul
I do not wish to say much that is abstract. Wherever possible I shall
and experiences it just as, on another level, he feels what lives in
then have the distinct feeling that your etheric body never grows
the brain refuses to do. The etheric body never tires. Just because it
I say is fully in accordance with basic facts, and everyone who knows
far higher task than is accomplished by the etheric brain. Whoever has
difference is not great between what may be achieved through a
the physical brain. On the path of initiation not much development of
since it is the least capable of development. On the other hand,
the human personality, like the principle of development elsewhere in
destined to become spiritual leaders in the course of time develop
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that at every stage of its development the human soul should
particularly necessary for an actual description of the Christ event,
For this, we must become familiar with the idea that everything is
nowhere to be found in the universe. If everything is different, why
in the animal kingdom. A simple development of the interpretation of
Then, however, as unprejudiced and thoughtful observation of oneself
worth in human social life. It also makes one able to say that even a
thing to remind us of a fundamental fact familiar to every
worlds. Everyone knows that when he speaks of a “burning
however, of processes in the higher worlds, it is not in the same
would never say that something burned him in the same sense as a man
particular part of it, appears incompletely developed. On enquiring
we find that the reason for the imperfect development lies in a moral
the perfect or imperfect development of man's higher organism —
development of his physical body. A man may even have some physical
not only show a perfectly normal development but, in certain
circumstances, a more perfect development more complete in itself,
is nevertheless absolutely true of the part of man that belongs to
enough to be able to confront us with beings perfect in everything
confront man with a being having in perfection everything in which he
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In literature you will find everywhere where mention is made of
carry over nothing at all into the spiritual world; everything must be
Let us be clear on one point, however. Of all that man knows as
Whatever we can do worthily in the ordinary life of the senses, we
value our experience, we should become idle, dull, and achieve nothing
which he has incarnated. Nevertheless, all this must be laid aside; it
A thought may now occur to you that is quite natural but nevertheless
unsubstantial and unknown; you do not even know whether you can
sensory life and brought to consciousness. This is partly achieved by
Initiation, however, necessitates that not only should this happen,
carried over! We should leave everything behind and yet take something
self. Even in ordinary life, we can be bereft of the continuity of
body. This perception is experienced in the body that, in its several
universe.” Such is the subjective feeling. This is not, however,
that one rushes headlong into the unreal and the vague; everything
in words, but is oppressive and even disturbing during the first
man in life, in spite of the ebb and flow within him of every sort of
disappear lights up again. This produces, however, the significant
That is what is such a strain — so oppressive and sometimes even
enter ever more and more into the etheric world. This is, after all,
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central point. Experience in the astral body, however, appears as a
everything in the physical body that was called oneself is now
Everything to which you are guided in the way indicated in our last
lecture, everything you meet, is being. Wherever there is
to cat. There is not this duality there, for whatever is, is being.
with these beings. Whatever you are in sensory existence you must have
What I have here been describing may not, however, only arise out of
may also occur in another way. However it arises, it depends
ever further into the nature of these beings.
of the hall, seeing everything that is here. He would say that here is
surrounding world. But it is, however, the opposite of the prevailing
felt in face of the world as a whole. You are really everything in
toward all that you experience. You feel yourself within everything to
When the question was put differently, however, something was
Something else, however, is mixed with this mood, this basic feeling;
thing you feel. You find whatever harm you have done and whatever good
rest, you feel yourself with all that you have achieved in the world
“then” in a merely comparative sense) events continue to
round, of being circular. A being who has never walked the earth, who
has never lived in the world of the senses but has always lived in the
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At this particular time there is one thing, however, to which we must
worlds, they expect before everything to be told how, in such
Life is a complicated affair, and every soul, in whatever position it
is found — everyone wishing to start on the ascent into higher
worlds must do so from some particular position in life — every
must be taken by every soul for the ascent into higher worlds, for
to every soul. For the same reason, the necessity also arose of
start from the obvious even though it is not sufficiently appreciated
work through everything, including all the living things that meet us
classification and description of everything that in our age can be
This makes it, however, particularly necessary that we should not form
being yesterday? He comes before the soul as a being forever striving
and revelation in the world of the senses. If you follow Lucifer in
reveal the un-revealed, to commit to the moment all that is eternal
Now a desire exists in every human soul as an echo from the spiritual
un-revealed, to fix the eternal in the passing moment. Hence it is
The self-seeking strivings of every human soul that we regard as human
development of every soul must start from egoism. That is natural. We
Luciferic forces are forever playing into what is fixed in the
the power to develop within him inward greatness that wells forth from
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observation of higher worlds. It has, however, often been emphasised
materialistic or other dogmas, or they may have no will whatever to
“However incredible these things at first appear, it is just this
understanding of them, even though one is quite incapable of seeing
with sincere and earnest intention, will never draw back before the
understanding and with powers of judgement that flow freely into every
to understand things and to grasp them objectively with what every
experience, of everything for which his physical body can serve him as
his ego or thought body. The essential thing at every stage of
bodies. In this connection, however, it is necessary for a man to do
must consciously divest himself, strip himself of everything that
This, of course, is not possible for everyone, especially in an age as
investigation with hatred and aversion even as today? Were there not
themselves of every possible method that hatred, ignorance and
such men, but they never worked in the way they work today. And why?
could often neither read nor write. Their level of education fell
value. There is not much will to develop discrimination so as to come
revealed by higher worlds, there is much to be learned. For instance,
it will have to be learned that even when, through partial schooling
penetrate into higher worlds, even then it may be possible for a good
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Christ event approached was, “Change the disposition of your souls,
place in man's entire soul development at that time. When these words
Dwaparu Yuga. In the latter age, however, it was no longer an actual
During Kali Yuga, however, something did occasionally penetrate into
had been retained by tradition, but in time even these connections
gradually faded. Even the teacher, the preserver of tradition, could
If this process had continued, man would never again have been able to
divine being would reveal himself. This was achieved by submerging
etheric body to the physical body is loosened, even partly withdrawn.
revealed Himself to His disciples.” To them He disclosed that man, in
in the spirit. Now, however, those who sought the Kingdom of Heaven
consciousness souls, the ego, and even the higher soul members —
poor in spirit, for if they develop their ego-ruled bodies in the
purifies himself in his sentient soul and seeks a higher development,
that truly makes him a human being. Before an individual has developed
developed himself in his rational soul, he can perceive the person
concerns what the ego develops within itself. The fifth beatitude
says, “He who develops compassion and mercy shall find compassion in
Contemporary man may well develop the three members of the soul but
not until the distant future will he be able to develop the higher
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The God Within and the God of External Revelation
and significance for mankind in the present age. Whoever occupies
clairvoyance ever more and more, and having to limit his power of
everywhere what stands in the Old Testament, to test it by all kinds
Abraham. There was a real connection between every initiate and the
among mankind, and appears ever clearer and clearer, the farther we go
still not yet overcome, and whoever believes that it is completely
Whoever keeps it in mind will very quickly see that certain human
ever more and more in the evolution of mankind, i.e., the idea
evolution of mankind, we have never employed the idea of race in the
fell into seven periods of time — they were called Root-races
— and each of these Root-races into seven sub-races, and that
would always repeat itself, so that one could always speak of seven
races, and seven sub-races, etc. But one must get beyond the illnesses
in man becoming ever more and more individual. It is only a question
how they remember. Anthroposophical development should give
often said to him: “Look, if you earnestly believe this as a
lied, continually, because he never said: “My brain feels, my
built up a theory which he contradicted with every word — as
every man does; for it is impossible to maintain what one imagines as
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The God Within and the God of External Revelation
great events of existence, and we can only rightly judge our own life,
arises, that within our seven-yearly cycle in the German Section of
Gospels are in all hands, now everybody occupies himself with them.
those people, who endeavoured to grasp the gigantic Christ Event in
reverence, unthinkable today, for the great Christ Event through the
Gospels, they had all the more to revere and value this event. How is
modern critics do not proceed more cleverly than one who, perhaps,
said: the four Gospels are representations of one event, from four
the four sides, do we then get a complete idea of the events of
greater humility, when we see the events of Palestine presented from
four sides. For this event is so great, that one cannot understand it,
have four Gospels, which describe this great event from four sides. We
That which we call the Christ Event is a mighty happening in the
a way that we say: Everything, all that mankind previously experienced
flowed together streamed together into the event of Palestine, in
event of Palestine took place.
of our era, to develop those faculties which he possessed, through
exists in the outer world, spiritual phenomena, facts and beings; even
evolution. Everything which man acquires must take its starting point
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The God Within and the God of External Revelation
spiritual eye the great event of Palestine, the Mystery of Golgotha,
the foundations for an ever-increasing valuation of this unique event.
as inspired occultists, wanted to represent this great event each from
consider the great event of Palestine from one special side. From a
event of Palestine.
the various epochs of human development are very different from each
force, even of radiating power, living within it. Thus the soul lived
abstractions, generalities. One does not even feel that any more.
different in an age when people even begin to manipulate it in
each one thinks he must write something, when everything becomes an
object for writing. I have had to experience that even in the founding
not also believe that one can give everything in our speech? He cannot
understand that our speech says something empty with what even the
Whoever will understand it must really resolve to do something.
Whoever goes sincerely to work, cannot understand anything when it is
Isaiah points to that great, mighty event, which should be the most
significant event in human evolution. What is he really pointing to?
employ his Ego, so far as it was developed at that time. He used his
being, however, when he sought illumination about the world, employed
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of life. Failures are inevitable, and we must not grieve over them. Nature
the things which have been determined. Even so must students of
Anthroposophy learn to wait in faith for events which are to mature
however, we understand the Christ principle in this way, and know it
knows how to wait, not alone for everything which has to mature in
What must, will come; and nothing prevents us from throwing our best
energies into what we believe to be inevitable. Belief is the real
spring courage and perseverance. But courage, perseverance and belief
and must form an increasing part of everything that may be achieved
of never being confused about an idea when once we have recognised
faltering, though we believe that the Christ-force is working in the
unfolding life of humanity in a way which will bring everything to
us every moment as to the rightness and the indubitableness of the
is light, even when to human eyes and understanding all is dark. It
This night, however, is what today is filled with darkness. But if we
however, which comes to us when clairvoyant investigation speaks,
revere as the wisdom of pre-Christian times. To this we must indeed
We look up to Phosphoros, the Light-bearer; and indeed we revere this
warmth of the soul which trusts and believes that that will come
say that any falsification whatever of Eastern wisdom takes place
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today. Humanity never has been dependent on the mere study of truths
Everywhere in the world the current of higher wisdom and knowledge
whoever is willing to exercise it can understand everything that is
normal course of his life man is for some hours out of every
developed to the eyes and ears of the physical body, though the
necessary to develop these spiritual organs. But that is not the only
would, however, not yet be able to see in the spiritual world, or at
necessary for spiritual eyes and ears to be developed in his astral
body to be imprinted upon the etheric body, even as a seal is stamped
fortunate position of being free from the physical body once every
twenty-four hours. From morning when we wake till evening when we go
physical body, which prevent the astral body and ego from developing
these after-effects and enable the astral body to develop its own
course of every twenty-four hours; that is to say we have the
till evening to the impressions of the outer world, which works on
say to the senses and to the intellect, but to what is a revelation
exercises, for however short a time it may be, they affect his soul
the physical body in sleep it develops its spiritual eyes and ears
through which the spiritual world could gradually reveal itself, be
to meet it. Let us suppose that a man with a wrongly developed astral
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named, as everyone knows, the Astral or Soul world; the Spiritual
of the astral world, however, reveals the fact that here the capacity
perpetual metamorphosis. Even the astral body of man, which is of all
astral auric cloud changes practically every moment as higher or
lower impulses develop in him, as he experiences wilder or calmer
and form may continually change. There is, however, a certain
fundamental character and colour in the astral aura of every
the real spiritual world there is permanence, even if it is relative.
him through initiation — through preparation and development of
earth, but also for everything living within us in the physical
must be clear to us that everything which constitutes man in an
incarnation, every feeling experienced between birth and death, every
thought, every idea, is a phenomenon of the physical world. And
may have committed. Most people hardly ever come to the point of
is an inner experience of the soul. The spiritual Seer, however,
which have led to the unjust act other thought-forms develop as the
metamorphosis of the first. Everything that a man thinks and feels
example shows us that spiritual sight reveals a reality very
clear waking consciousness of the physical world has developed from a
developed. What we of today call the psychic phenomenon of conscience
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every external phenomenon, yet there do exist spiritual beings having
Investigation of the Old Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon periods reveals
must be understood, however, that everything in the Saturn, Old Sun
evolution, although in a changed condition; we can, however, instance
however, so it is obvious that distinction must be made between these
received, into her womb, as it were, everything that came over from
relation of three to four. And they turned reverent eyes to the
Earth. The development of the Saturn spirits was such that they could
Earth and to stimulate from within the inner development of man, who,
continents had not separated off from each other everything was in a
are today. These forms have all developed as a result of the
it were, everything that has since arisen upon it and all that
external documents of any kind whatever were left to tell us of the
evolution. Even then the possibility of developing super-sensible
consciousness would not be lost; everything that is said here can be
present time can be studied at its source; even mathematics may also
life even is veiled in much uncertainty. Pherecydes of Syros is in a
lived at a time in Greek spiritual development called the epoch of
the Seven Sages. — This period preceded that of all historical
of the Seven Greek Sages. And Pherecydes could not have made such
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the spiritual world. It has, however, also been shown that everything
perceptions, feelings, will, his thinking and the development of his
cases where the inner life is corrupt or but slightly developed when
being. For this reason it came about that in every age a distinction
events have been brought together under the direction of those powers
future of the Christian impulse depends upon the development of
Atlantis. That an ancient spiritual life developed upon a land in the
A civilisation developed there essentially under the influence of an
and Africa into Asia, and that everything should develop, as it were,
along straight lines. Evolution is never a simple, straight line of
development from a single germ; another factor has to come in, and a
plant. The seed is put into the earth and out of it develop the
stamen, pistils and so on. Now if development is to continue in plant
another, for the fruit could not develop simply out of the blossom. A
development may progress. What may be perceived in the plant is a
spiritual life. It is quite false to believe that in spiritual life a
come in, a spiritual fertilisation of human development. Just as in
plant life the male and female elements develop independently, so in
was necessary that these streams of civilisation should develop
this category belong the beings reverenced as the Northern Germanic
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their development and how they were enabled to prepare future events; and
the senses. Mention has been made of the development in the southern
sun spirit, in the body of Jesus of Nazareth was the great event
perceived, underlying everything, a spiritual world consisting of
long periods of time developed from the first germ of human existence
to develop that of a man on earth, it is necessary for a being to
realised that whatever infinitely higher perfections than man on the
everything existing in the spiritual worlds to be summed up for him
can be applied to everything that in a spiritual sense is spread out
or ego had only developed because of the descent to the Earth —
so-called Apollonian culture and mysteries were developed, and on the
made its appearance in several places. The group gathering round
were a dim realisation of what may be known to an ever-increasing
things which a less developed person also sees, so when the Greek
later was revealed as the Christ, but he could only conceive of it in
embodiment, a fact which is cleverly indicated in the myths when
were united, all the qualities which are revealed to the
event, and this is how we have to conceive it. Whereas therefore all
and enters into the inner nature of man. This has been an event of
the Christ event it — had been necessary to descend to the
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matter of development. And if we wish to understand the old Indian
a seeing of the etheric element, which was spread out over everything
physical body. The normal development of humanity will in the future
constituent parts of his Organisation. Now everything within us is
revelation, as something revealed to him inwardly. These currents
by way of emphasising an event, ‘We have placed our hands in
men, a feeling which gave the stamp of truth to the event. To that
be developed like everything else in the world.
Luciferic impulse, however, which man formerly had in his etheric
reverse process is now being enacted. Mankind is entering a condition
receives spontaneously everything which in earlier times it possessed
physical bodily nature, and they will eventually have the possibility
must provide forces for the physical body even when it is again
Christ event. All association with the Christ principle and the
Therefore the Christ event had to take place; to permeate the human
experiences of Christ through the reversal of the principles has its
adequate to it. Christ was influencing man even before He appeared
is reversed as we have seen; in the future the forces of Lucifer will
straight line, but runs its course, as does everything in nature. I
have given the example of a plant, which grows but cannot develop its
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Everything
beings, however, which to a certain extent were still greater
event of the withdrawal of the moon. If at first we look only at
human soul when it was not yet ripe to receive the revelation to the
is very important to realise that we should never try to encompass
Christ Event. Our culture epoch will be followed by another and this
We have therefore seven epochs of civilisation. In these seven we
civilisation with the Christ Event. The other epochs of civilisation
Chaldean-Egyptian civilisation, but a repetition wherein everything
kind. Many such persons even if they have not advanced to occult
influences which are able to affect even the most distant future.’
a new recognition of the Sun Being who was revealed in ancient
ego-centre, having seven or nine members around it, all of which are
as his helpers, each helper being a single individuality. Even as in
reappear in a higher form during the seventh period.
wrestles with what is revealed in his own soul-world, recognise that
feeling and thinking of ancient Indian times. Even if we only find a
few traces we nevertheless perceive something of the quite different
And this he did. Then, however, living wisdom rose before him; not
thought, fabricated as it is by the instrument of the brain. He never
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seven and twelve, and that this relation has something to do with
understood by everybody, but it must necessarily remain a mere
observe the course of world events in the light of spiritual science.
a framework built up by means of the number seven. We must not build
seven; we must only pursue the facts from the point of view of the
number seven. In the first place this number seven is only a means of
Records of the past. He may use the number seven as a guide and
the number seven; that which repeats itself in various forms can very
well be analysed by using the number seven as a foundation and
for its seven incarnations; Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus
and Vulcan. Because human civilisations pass through seven
number seven as a basis. Let us for instance consider the
more, the sixth and seventh to succeed our own. We can also find our
incarnations, plus the three following make seven again. Seven is a
clue for everything that happens in time.
right way by connecting the spatial relationship of everything that
twelve basic points with which everything in space is connected. This
came in, that is to say in the time element, the seven planets were
given as a clue by a still older science. Seven is here the clue.
even as the intuitions of conscience arose there. And of course all
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their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
must move around them, so to speak, and examine them from every point
more everything in the way of inner movement is excluded, the less we
develop inner silence. Then things will come to us.
world with far greater intensity than could ever be the case in the
him. What we chiefly perceive, however, is what happened between us
even after the kamaloca period we live in the consequences of our
death we expand into the infinite spaces, growing ever larger. When
certain degree of communion everywhere with other human beings. This
This is true also of the further course of events. At a later period,
develop religious feelings during earthly life, feelings of union
the several religions, finding and giving understanding in them.
is achieved in the Sun sphere. For this purpose the Sun Spirit, the
in the course of years, but the Christ Mystery can ever and again be
acknowledged by every religious system just as the Copernican system
this is unintelligible, it is even more so to speak about an abstract
Christianity has not yet made great progress in its development
because even now two aspects have still not been clearly
heathen, these words even today are still little understood. Not
for, but since the Mystery of Golgotha our attitude to every man can
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their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
after death, even of the world beyond the planetary system. In his
development between birth and death the human being is the expression
desires, interests, sympathies, antipathies he has developed formerly
into kamaloca, for the beings or events that he will encounter there
that man is not only concerned with his own development — the
with what we formerly have developed. In kamaloca we are related to
relationship. It remains as it was on the earth. Here we can develop
attention to the following. In our everyday life on the physical
Indeed, he hardly ever lives himself out fully as a conscious being
or even hates something, while in his subconsciousness there is a
Death, however, transforms untruths into truths. Thus one can observe
nevertheless, after death a most intense desire for it arises. During
wishes and desires we have concealed during life are even more active
everything connected with it will, under all circumstances, make an
anthroposophist, however obstinate his opposition, who in his
If we do not stand within the spiritual life, however, the result is
a burden to him. At most, it might be possible, although even in
still in developing anthroposophy so that real powers arise. It is
intellectually. He knows, for example that it is half past seven. He
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their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
gained widespread popularity. Yet, even today this phrase is still
being. The other is that even if he remains unaware of it, he has to
can never be kindled once we have crossed the gate of death, unless
the higher worlds that we have developed on earth. We ourselves have
prepared by the thoughts and feelings that we direct, even if only
worlds it is no longer valid. Supersensible perception often reveals
a soul content that is far below the level of what he could have
forces are even more dimmed, he becomes still more incapable and he
wanders in even greater darkness. One might well despair and think
that such a person will never find an upward path again but that is
plastically what he receives through heredity. Everything that he
previously. Clever egoists who are inclined only to place their
cleverness at the service of their own selfish motives are mostly
directs its gaze towards contemporaries who are said to be clever,
necessary inner physical organs to take an interest even in its
incarnation, because of insufficient development, manifested a dull
prevailed in many parts of the world than is currently believed
possible to study the path of development of the soul as
characterized above, but this study also plainly reveals the lot of
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their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
own cravings for a considerable time. Even outwardly it is easy to
who depend on the appreciation of their fellow men, thereby develop
development to relieve him of this anxiety. We ease the life of
for the child, we relieve the dead person of anxiety, and this is a
of the earth. Eventually he grows beyond this sphere. This process
Descriptions are never quite accurate that convey the idea that the
their faculties and talents they could have achieved in life
something quite different from what they have in fact achieved. Such
greatness that had conceived the plan of the poem prevented him from
prevented from completing Pandora. This is the case with some
demands upon himself that his powers, even in respect of the outer
who does not complete a work such as Pandora, but every
however, is inscribed in the Moon sphere. Anything that affects not
imperfection in our personal development, is inscribed in the Moon
Jupiter sphere, the Saturn sphere and even beyond.
Most inscriptions, however, are made within the Sun sphere, for as we
him to the earth, man journeys through the planetary spheres and even
ever-expanding sphere. His potentialities of soul and spirit expand.
possessed by humanity, about the several bodies composing the
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture I
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
the Egyptian initiation (Scenes Seven and Eight), some people might
subsiding into inner quietness. However, anything formed differently
We see on stage various developments of soul. It should
of the development into higher worlds, and these contain points of
reference for every person on his or her path towards the spiritual
world. Nevertheless, soul development is necessarily different for
esoteric soul development only when we observe its diversity: how
present time. The events of all four Mystery Dramas, with the
between death and new birth. Nevertheless a kind of soul darkness
in Scenes Seven and Eight of
later on) — the Necessities in cosmic events. The
deepest part of the human soul rests. This, however, evades the
physical gaze and also the dawning clairvoyant gaze, revealing itself
at the beginning of Scene Nine. What, however, the soul has perceived
soul ...”). What, however, the soul has to feel in order to
earth life, for here the human soul goes through events which bring
To make this possible, however, there must again have
every human life, and one also discovers the mood that resounds out
must struggle to achieve their feeling for the gods
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture II
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
with the inner eye, for it is only natural that at first everything
spiritual world makes it necessary for the soul to develop quite
its laws, and it must ever and again be able to step back over the
transformation, is never easy. If we are to estimate correctly,
however, the differences between the spiritual and physical sense
pair of scales, were to take off whatever was weighing down the lower
part of the being of the earth. Therefore whatever belongs
everything in it without greedily demanding eternal life for any of
Ahriman, however, can overstep his bounds. In the first
understanding of it will not believe that Ahriman can put his fingers
upon human thinking in a very real way — nevertheless, he does!
but when he oversteps his territory, he develops the tendency to
refuse to believe in a spiritual world are the ones particularly
however, the process is the following: when he succeeds in severing
souls, we have a correct relationship to the sense world. However, we
when they say: “Very well, we shall push every ahrimanic
be brought right down — and whoever through mistaken theories
However, when the human being makes a correct estimate
regulator of death insofar as he affects the course of events and the
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture III
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
consciousness which the human soul can develop in itself will change
nothing in the nature and individuality of a person, for everything
happening to the next, you have these beings and events before you
same when you confront a new situation; you can never lose yourself
wherever you go.
to a being or event so completely that one transforms one's own inner
soul life into this other being, into this other event. We can learn
person within every other being, indeed unless we become similar to a
high degree to the other beings and events.
way that with every step we transform ourselves into every single
happening, creep into every single being. It belongs to the health of
every sort of being if it enters the elemental world in its ordinary
soul has to take part in this ever-changing existence outside the
this would require an enclosed form. Here, however, we must note that
every moment wishing to be something or someone else, someone that
physical body. To put it even more concretely: a person could be,
never live permanently in this mobile element. The etheric body could
world; asleep, we do not perceive it. Nevertheless we have to allow
will of the human being that must be developed and strengthened. For
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture IV
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
higher world, the soul must take into account even more forcefully
to, leaving everything behind it has so far been able to experience
and observe. Nevertheless, when you look into my books
You might well believe that to represent
However, it is necessary for the
that is not printed on the page; it is, however, indicated to you by
world. To receive such hints, it is not even necessary to strive for
who is considered so supremely clever not only by the human beings but
with a certain justification, indeed even with complete
justification. Nevertheless when you go more deeply into such
from all that!” Nevertheless, through what we have known for a
long time we are perhaps able to learn something that we never could
performance but also will reveal itself on every side to the
appeared recently that is worth reading even for those who have
everything attained through sense observation and the ordinary
thinking, feeling and willing of the physical plane and indeed, even
soul leaves behind it everything involved in sense observation and
require proofs of the spiritual world and we have every right to do
the physical world, he would even agree to let himself be convinced
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture V
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
should like to help everyone understand, if I can, the
evolution and in the development of civilization.
shown in detail in Scenes Seven and Eight of
One day, however, Capesius came across some literature
became the argument, with ever more complicated numerical
in combining the atoms revealed itself as a spiritual principle among
mood. You could describe it by saying that he had to strain every
nerve so much in deciphering this complicated stuff that, even though
dream, however, Dame Balde joined them and listened for a while to
other; whenever she did this, she was able to swallow her yawns. And
besieging the fortress from outside. One day, however, it happened
however, found it necessary to provide some explanation for the
is an extremely intelligent man, he never could quite fathom these
multiplied itself. Almost every day he pondered the tale.
aware that every time he recalled the story of the fortress, his soul
all, he now understood everything extremely well. Something like a
he is alone to help him understand the world. Everyone is able to
thoughts, and thus there will come to every individual thinker the
everything in the world to himself without having this impulse coming
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VI
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
physical world as well as everything we ordinarily think, feel, and
have pointed out that everything the sense world can give us, as well
On the other hand, whatever is not an image of the sense
the development of human culture.
on must acquire if our civilization is ever to progress properly.
People will eventually see that they can no longer make do with the
element so far that understanding takes place even in regard to facts
talent — even genius — for superficiality there is in our
development the luciferic element plays a part, that the luciferic
element is present to the greatest extent in the development of art.
dance, we could say, is a combination of several arts. When one
differences, simply because wherever Ahriman is, Lucifer will play a
However, poetry is essentially bound to the luciferic element, which
more dominant than Ahriman. Nevertheless, what we said before is
metamorphosis but one can say, everything is everywhere. In truth,
every spiritual element tries to permeate everything. There can be
on both sides most strongly to their attacks; at every moment we must
this plane even if we don't find music luciferic and architecture
physical, they will nevertheless have to rise above the
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VII
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
just in general terms but dramatically as happens with every soul
Every soul has its own individual spiritual path.
nevertheless thoroughly independent living thought-beings.
as Philia. But it takes an ideal soul development, hardly to be found
hill. As we stick our consciousness into the elemental realm, every
and become independent to be formed by Ahriman and even given human
everything changes as soon as we leave our physical body and enter
tries to squeeze everything to make it conform to physical laws. The
subconscious soul impressions and impulses even to a person who is
development and to the strange experiences he has lived through that
course of the four dramas. A certain stage in his soul development is
Thomasius; he doesn't get beyond this stage in the Portal. Everything
the actor. Even though in the Temple scene at the end of the drama,
New developments come about in
Thus conditions are met that allow the further development of a soul like
Johannes develops an egotism counter to the divine world order. But
self, but even so, confronting the higher world. If I may use a
Eleven, the Temple, in the presence of Hilary, Johannes reaches what
of the soul. Every soul has unresolved karma of this kind.
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VIII
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Awakening, give details of the experience of spiritual development and
arrogantly; even so, we shall not deviate greatly from this custom of
a clear, objective understanding that evolution, the development of
as we are supported by the perspectives revealed by spiritual
science. Ever and again we have well-meaning, good-natured friends
reprint of works that have never been easy to find. But now there is an
that really outdoes everything imaginable in grotesque erudition —
Ego. Everything is and comes from the non-Ego, from outside, from
and everything not a pear, that is, the Other of the pear. We could
value and what is pure nonsense at a low level of literature. Since
It is important to achieve the right attitude to everything in
hailing everything they bring out. One should actually suggest to
development.
Every impulse and tendency of human evolution changes
degree a sort of reversed repetition of the Egyptian-Chaldean age,
but as a reversed repetition the luciferic and ahrimanic forces
distinction, outwardly, could still be made. However, by the
them tangled and knotted together within the development of our
the entanglement and find a way out of it. Everywhere in our cultural
political agitation and even playing into many of the abstract ideas
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VI: The Sermon on the Mount
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
Humanity is challenged not to sleep through this event. Other related
in time humanity is confronted by difficult events. We will be able
Christ event approached was, “Change the disposition of your
significant took place in man's entire soul development at that time.
Yuga, and Dvapara Yuga. In the last age, however, a direct glimpse
During Kali Yuga, however, something did occasionally
of tradition, but now even these connections have gradually faded.
Even the teacher, the preserver of tradition, could not speak to him
It this development had continued, man would never again
however, it had to be brought forcefully to man's attention that the
reveal himself. This was achieved by submerging them in water. When a
physical body is loosened — the etheric body is even partly
withdrew from them and revealed Himself to His disciples.” To
them He revealed that man, in ancient times, could become filled with
spiritual and health-giving forces. Now, however — so said
spirit. Now, however, those who sought the kingdom of heaven could
consciousness souls, the I, and even the higher members of the soul —
beggars, the poor in spirit, for if they develop their I-ruled outer
divine-spiritual beings.” Now, however, human beings should
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Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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Illusory Illness and the Feverish Pursuit of Health
powers. There is the current of events, the steady flow of
inner life. When in his everyday life the human being has taken
every force sweeps outward into space
To live and work; here, there and everywhere;
From every side confines and takes away!
powers that fetter every living being
in him that is continually developing and unfolding, there
then consider the feverish pursuit of health.
Strangely enough, it never occurred to the gentleman that the
Whoever observed these people with an eye for the situation
ruled. These fortresses have fallen into ruins, but everywhere
surely look upon everything theosophical as madness. His kind
school. In the following year, however, there were to be
be deceived by accepting that matters forever continue as they
illusory illness. Whoever has come to the realization, however,
that everything corporeal is the expression of spirit, that
everything that meets our senses is an expression of the
spirit, will not take the matter so lightly. Even in seemingly
body, as is true for every living being. This ether body
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Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: The Feverish Pursuit of Health
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Illusory Illness and the Feverish Pursuit of Health
FEVERISH PURSUIT OF HEALTH
Health is something for which every man naturally longs. We may
considerations today, however, should disclose that health
However remarkable it may be when speaking of the feverish
pursuit of health, the feverish insistence upon health, yet it
do most people today press towards health! Everywhere we find a
regions we find sanitaria. Was there ever in any time of world
evolution such a variety of special efforts to achieve health,
each summer. Whoever cared for this person could well look upon
his feverish search for health in a somewhat sympathetic way.
Infinite” and the like! In short, the feverish pursuit of
Especially among ancient people an age-old saying remains even
overcome by the feverish pursuit of health suffers most from
believe that there could be something generally tagged as
development.
development?” Again it is necessary to refer to the being
battle against everything that would destroy the physical body.
the bearer of desires and sorrow, of every feeling and
transforms the three bodies through development out of the
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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meant the wisdom that is primeval, yet ever new, expressed in a form
lectures; however, it is not my intention to speak of the
rudiments of geometry today know about Euclid? Nevertheless it is
teaching that is accessible even in elementary schools today
developed in the course of history. Just as the pupil learns geometry
so profound that Goethe was never able to recapture the power to
soul and is a book with seven seals for all his commentators. Then,
however, the Initiation took increasing effect in him and finally, as
understanding of them. Only those who have developed spiritual
developed their logical reasoning powers to a sufficient extent —
perseverance can understand what a Rosicrucian teacher has to impart.
appraise what tremendous development has taken place since that time.
Think only of what has been achieved by the art of printing. Think of
discovery, the highest achievements of Culture have been able to flow
sources which enable it to counter every objection made by science. A
to be found even in University Professors, but understanding that is
you by an example drawn from everyday life. The Rosicrucian teacher
course, self-instruction is possible. Equally, every human being,
understand them. So is it with all occult development in the
to flow into everyday life. Rosicrucian wisdom must not stream only
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture II: The Ninefold Constitution of Man
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worlds can be discovered only by the seer, by more highly developed
spiritual faculties, nevertheless the Rosicrucian method is such that
imagined, however, that what it is possible to say in a single lecture
First of all we will consider the several members of man's
man, of how humanity developed in days of yore and of evolution in the
revelation known as the astral world. Rosicrucian Theosophy calls this
A still loftier world, revealed to yet higher senses, is that of the
Still another world, revealed by even higher senses, is known in
in the word as used in everyday life. True Intuition is a
“nature-forces” in this highest world, everything that the
shadow-images. For every concept you have, say of a crystal, or of the
consciousness. You will not, however, find the ego of the mineral
never have assumed the form it actually bears if there were not in the
however, continues only as far as the middle of the body for there is
form of light extending everywhere, but only slightly, beyond the form
an individual ego, so in every astral body there lives something of a
develops astral sight and becomes a companion of astral beings, when
This does not, however, comprise the whole of man's nature. Man had
he passes through successive incarnations, higher development takes
entirely under the sway of every emotion and desire; true, he also had
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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world, in the state of sleep and in so-called death. Everyone is
trail no longer extends into the cosmos and everything draws again
everything that works in upon him from outside continues on into the
everything that streams and is active in the etheric body has been
body — also of the physical body. Everything that the astral body
experienced during the night. Every night the astral body renews its
harmony with the cosmic astral ocean and reveals itself to the
until death the etheric body never leaves the physical body except
human being. It lasts for many hours, even days, during which the
the dead as in a great tableau of memories. This happens to every
confronts a painting; even if this painting depicts a man who is
all the detailed events of his life.
the cosmic ether, but a kind of essence remains and this can never be
the life-tableau, even though he has no remembrance of it. Out of this
“Causal Body.” After every incarnation a new page is added
lives were fruitful, causes the next life to develop in the proper
development, for this leads us beyond the material world. To delight
Kamaloca state, whereas delight in spiritual art lightens them. Every
The journey backwards begins with the last event before death and
are mutual feelings of revenge, pain, passions; the two armies
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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being has to pass after death, when everything that binds him to his
Devachan everything that is truly original, from the most trivial to
even higher region; when, however, the seer has risen to the world of
performed. To observe a specific event in the Akasha Chronicle is not
he gives answer in the Goethean sense; it may even happen that he
utters in his own style and trend, verses he never actually wrote. The
individuality himself. Mediums believe that they are in contact with
inwardly here on earth. If he has harboured revenge, antipathy and
us works upon our being of soul. So that everything a human being has
developed here on earth in the way of good and reprehensible feelings
different plants, different animal forms, even the climate was
continually changing. In Greece, for example, there could never again
something entirely new and his development goes forward quite
When the faculties of the seer develop, he often makes a striking
and correspond with what this soul has achieved in the previous life.
forces they themselves had developed. But the forming of the etheric
being always has a fitting astral body but there is not in every case
connection between the several bodies is not fully established. This

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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firmer relationship than can ever be established here on earth.
regions of the spiritual world, even although, as the result of the
the social connections for the next life develop. By establishing
development, greater or less consciousness of communion with those who
consciousness once attained by a man can never be lost, in spite of
Occultism reveals that the human being in the spiritual world lives
every element of comfortlessness; that the human being, when he ceases
it as a condition of infinite blessedness — even apart from the
richness and an absence of restriction that are never experienced on
and manner in which he has developed his astral body, he is drawn to
was present even in ages of remote antiquity, when the soul descended
This ego has developed through many incarnations; the ego, the
embryo; up to that time the development of the physical body proceeds
onwards these bodies participate in the development of the embryo and
for the physical body and complete suitability is even less easy to
hold good of a man in whom occult development began in a previous
over the physical body. The most highly developed Individualities,
changing; after about seven years, every particle has been renewed.
anew; they are the ever-changing element. What we develop in such a
him, therefore, birth amounts to no more than an outstanding event in
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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human being. Whenever we envisage a connection between preceding
It is so often said in everyday life: Thoughts are duty-free! —
against a fellow-creature, does not hurt him. Those however who have
proceed from a thought filled with hatred than can ever be caused by a
stone. Everything that a man thinks and feels has its effects in the
and is true if it coincides with that thing. Every event that happens
causes an effect in the higher worlds. If someone relates this event
emanating from the event itself, and both are strengthened. These
progress. But if the event is related untruthfully, in a way that does
up against the thought-form that has proceeded from the event; the two
a part of evolution. Everyone who tells the truth actually promotes
the evolution of humanity and everyone who lies, obstructs it.
self-murder. Everyone who lies places obstacles along his own path.
Such effects are to be observed everywhere in the spiritual world. The
clairvoyant sees that everything a man thinks, feels and experiences
thoroughly developed conscience and will be a person of high moral
next life in the physical body. For instance, a man who has developed
person who is disposed to love everything around him, who is loving to
everything, trying to keep aloof from it all, produces, as the result
inner process of development; things are often connected in quite a
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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lasting for hours, even days, according to the nature of the
within every place. The experience can only be approximately
experiencing the event there. If the person you thrashed has died in
everywhere and this gives rise to the feeling of dismemberment of the
them, and you thus form a lasting connection with everyone with whom
bond with everything with which you were associated.
The event observed by occult sight of which I told you in the last
of substance; on the astral plane, however, related yet separated
standpoint we know that it is not like this. We can, however, in a
in others. What is needed here is a special development of the three
space. Special development of these canals determines mathematical
the mother. True knowledge, however deepens mother-love, for it
reveals that this love is present before birth, even before
loves the mother even before birth and mother-love is the reciprocal
a simile from everyday life to explain the working of this law.
once drawn up. In respect of karma, everything good, intelligent and
foolish deeds stand on the debit side. At every moment he is free to
make new entries in the karmic book of life. It must never be imagined
vain, that everything has its effect in the future. The law of karma
is the reverse of depressing; it fills us with splendid hope and
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE SEVEN PLANETARY CONDITIONS
fully aware that these incarnations were necessary for the development
of every living thing, especially of man, and that man's own evolution
We shall, however, only understand in the right way what took place
about in man's conditions of consciousness. Everything in the world
has evolved, even our consciousness. The consciousness that a man has
morning when you awake, to evening when you fall asleep. Let us be
it had first to develop, and he will not always have it as it is, but
science we can survey seven states of consciousness of which our
beyond our sight, others follow the seventh which are again beyond our
These seven states of consciousness are the following: At first a very
lifeless. But then, if from memory or even in this condition they
They are often entirely incorrect, but nevertheless they have
Even today this state of consciousness still exists; the plants have
closer observation this confusion nevertheless displays an inner law.
challenge. He now experiences every detail, until, accompanied by his
fall; the dream symbolises this prosaic event through the drama of the
the dream has reversed time, it does not conform to the circumstances
Not only can external events be symbolised in this way, but also inner
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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But if you picture a state of sleep where no dream ever comes then you
now imagine that the human being has died, that even his etheric body
the physical plane. There is one word however, that can express the
quality of reflecting everything, such as light, tone, perfume, taste,
themselves, however, were embedded in a basic substance of a spiritual
Angels, Archangels, Primal Forces, Powers of Revelation. All these
Physics no longer admits any matter to exist. Warmth, however, for the
everything, of reflecting. Such a body radiates everything; it has no
sense organs. For the soul of man was not yet so far developed as to
stood then at the human level. They could not be formed like modern
intelligence, their ego-consciousness, however, they stood at the
level of present man though they could form no physical body, no
have a member which is higher than our seventh.
implanted, man would never have become an independent being who can
instilled ever since Saturn the sum of forces which stamps you as an
The noble sense of liberty has been reversed into wickedness, into its
gravely into account; they lead to the evil side of egoism, even today
like a reflecting surface, it rayed back everything that it received
Whereas Saturn rayed back everything direct, without taking possession
with taste, scent, warmth, everything, and radiated it out again.
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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developed to the degree of having a physical body and an etheric body,
however, that the passing of a planet through a sleep-condition meant
there in continuous activity, and co-operates in the development of
however, it appears as a much more active, more real condition. All
and that from the Sun there has developed the third stage of our
it now gave up to an independent planet everything that had hindered
the beings in their higher development it became a Fixed Star. And now
and through the former arise the four seasons. This, however, was not
the Sun in such a way as to show it the same side, it never turned its
round itself Such a different kind of movement, however, had a great
the most highly developed part of the physical body, and that certain
has become independent, a deterioration, however, since it has now
It could, however, create higher bodies than those of the present
condition, even on the Sun; it stood between mineral and plant. Thus
on the Moon during certain periods of its development-one could also
earth on solemn oath that not one of them would ever kill Baldur; they
all swore and so it seemed impossible that Baldur should ever fall a
game they threw every possible sort of thing at Baldur without hurting
the opponent of the Asen, cogitated, however, on how to kill Baldur.
kill him. Quite outside, however, there was a plant, the mistletoe,
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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this Old Moon was in a state of not yet developed ego-consciousness.
On the other hand, however, something else was much more fully
developed than on the Earth.
denies everything that cannot be seen with the eye or felt with the
notable book, however, from the standpoint of present-day methods of
book a clean sweep is made of everything which cannot be grasped with
feminine-Isis; Sun Osiris, masculine. An ego-consciousness, however,
Moon-state, where the Sun had already released itself. Everything
his astral body was the bearer of the most savage lusts, for every bad
the terrible instincts and powers, and retain on the Earth whatever
Thus it was everything capable of evolution that remained on the Earth
mass of the spinal marrow into the brain; and yet another development
development of red blood, you would find him very dissimilar to the
present day materialistic thinker. He had more or less the development
animal-plant kingdom had developed more or less to our present plant
behind at an earlier level and since they could not share in the
never imagine that the human being was ever such an animal as those
group nature of the Moon. The last which had almost achieved the
additional principle of the earth, but which nevertheless proved later
present Ape species. They too, however, were never actual ancestors of
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth II
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and in the woman it is reversed; for the physical feminine body has a
power of developing individuality came about.
everything lived on through the generations. The gradual rise of a
and new ones continually sprang forth; consciousness, however, was
of these two points coming together there developed what we possess
only an immensely developed memory, but as yet no logical intellect.
strongest, who was the chieftain. Everything depended on authority,
which however was exercised in a way peculiar to those times.
articulate speech; this was only developed during that period. A
last token of how on old Saturn everything was reflected out into
mirage in the air, in which the air seems to have taken up whatever
from many aspects and that is an important means towards developing
sight, but the longing for what was revealed in it lived on in the
the grounds of a natural science, since everything on the Earth was
their towers show the seven-story development which man first
by the seven Kings of Rome. What are these seven kings?
priest-wisdom is superseded by human cleverness, represented by the
events were outlined that had to happen and in accordance with which
Rome had already foreordained the sevenfold Roman culture as it stands
the seven Roman kings reminiscences of the seven principles. That goes
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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audacious to try to speak about the future, or even that it is
impossible to find out anything of the future of man. Nevertheless if
to future events. He can tell you definitely that if he mixes together
rays by a mirror. In fact, this goes even further in regard to things
future. Here, however, a question generally arises which weighs
combination. Whether you do it, however, depends on your will;
higher a man develops the freer he will be. Nor must one think that it
can see it in advance. Most people, however, have no right
the personal life. Connected with this was an ever-increasing
only then that man entered upon his present earthly, development; and
physical development which contains a mineral kingdom, he too was of a
development.
connected with it which could never have developed without it: —
human independence and freedom, but in its reverse aspect the
always have been impelled to the good; it had, however, to be possible
at the goal of a universal human love. Occultism is never of this
occult knowledge through the world. One may talk forever of Love and
not lead to the desired goal, however well intentioned they may be.
that, but then one of them is false. Even so is it in genuine
occult truth everywhere — right into life — and applying it
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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When mankind had developed to our present stage of consciousness (and
through. Through definite methods the pupil is taught to develop in
himself the wisdom which exists in germ in every human being.
to contents, in the Apocalypse or Secret Revelation.
Christ Jesus. The pupil must at least find it possible to believe that
another method of training. One, however, who has accepted this basic
condition and calls before his soul in meditation every morning
continuously, every day, then they become the forces which the
are seven stages of feeling which must be aroused. In addition are
suited to his special character. It is, however, indispensable to
develop quite definite feelings. Imagine the following: the plant
from which it grows. Nevertheless the plant needs it, the higher could
could not exist without plant life, and even so must the human being
higher, he must say to himself: I could never stand where I do without
without the lower, to which it must feel gratitude. So even Christ,
Feet. The event in the 13th Chapter of St. John's Gospel is not
only an historical event, it can be experienced by all. It is an
sufferings and blows of life broke in on you from every side? You
life, but if even the holiest, your spiritual being, should be
spite of all. His inwardly developed strength must make him able to
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Title: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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sense-perceptible definitions of man and woman to the levels of
sense-perceptible definitions of man and woman to the levels of
But whoever
revealed by spiritual science are already sensed by many today, even
well developed in women, as opposed to others who believed that women
lack this quality entirely and have only developed the capacity for
level, intelligent people are led to opposite conclusions. Those who
through the facts themselves. However this was submerged by
with great potential which, however, he was unable to develop because
such that in every man a hidden woman and in every woman a hidden man
possesses all of these things. These, however came to nothing in him
Beyond that, however, spiritual science distinguishes the
is female and in the woman it is male. However strange it may seem, a
the opposite sex lies hidden in each person. It is no good however to
science however also shows us a deeper reason why a masculine quality
science speaks of how human beings strive after ever greater
Whoever is
a collection of the most varied experiences. However, these
acquired from the viewpoint of both sexes. Hence we can see that even
like Fichte however, would say: The ear does not hear — I hear.
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Fünfter Vortrag
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Wärmeverhältnissen. Derjenige, welcher nach unseren
Wärmeverhältnisse im alten Saturn geben kann.
Wärmeverbreitung ein Mittel der Offenbarung hat.

Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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From the lecture series: The Mission of the New Spiritual Revelation
The Mission of the New Spiritual Revelation
man's real being; and indeed there are numbers who believe that they
members of man's constitution, or even, possibly, to indicate what
consists of these seven or nine members, but how they are
means the same in all human beings, in every epoch. The connections
an entirely new combination of them. New experiences come to him ever
even in the external form of the human being. If we were to go far,
himself to develop those strong forces which were formerly poured by
their physical nature is in every respect stronger than themselves.
times will become perceptible in the external, formative development
should find that in the phase of its development directly following
human it became, developing downwards, as it were, to manhood.
uniformity between the first and the later years of life. Even in
were at first blurred and indistinct, even ugly, in the child, will
beauty even to the figures of his gods; and this same trait continued
genius gave the impression of beauty achieved without effort. In the
immediate future, however, man will be dependent upon inner strength
humanity, these several members of man's being are differently
people to form any adequate conceptions even of the most patent facts
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Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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confront the soul of modern man, even though he may believe he has
words ‘Sin’ and ‘Grace’. Everyone knows that
reflection can lead to no good, because it prevents such people from
The tenets of these religions seldom contain anything even remotely
future. Thus we regard the Coming of Christ as the event of supreme
Why must the Christ Event be given this place at the very centre of
It must not, however, be forgotten that this descent into the
being to develop; the astral body had developed earlier, the etheric
first stage of the development of the astral body preceded that of the
ego-development, he must have passed through a stage where he
and to the whole process of his development before he actually
of the development of the ego. This is of great significance, for if
body only. Everyone who thinks rationally recognizes something about
the animals. Whatever fury may be exhibited by a lion, for example, we
evil, he can sin, he can commit immoral deeds. We shall never speak of
is significant because even if we give no thought to it, we are
physical body, etheric body and astral body, his nature was never the
same as that of the animals as we know them today. Man was never an
would or would not follow Lucifer; nevertheless he could be drawn into
to which man yielded before the period of ego-development but which has
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Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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IT is necessary that we speak somewhat further this evening concerning
nevertheless. We shall start with the evolution of man. We know, of
appeared as souls at a stage of development dependent upon what they had
was formed and developed in each cultural epoch — but note well that
give, they are especially called in our time to develop what in our
preeminently developed; during the Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian epoch,
development in connection with individual souls passing through these
cultural epochs, in one or, in most cases, in several incarnations.
post-Atlantean epoch, that member will be especially developed which
has been designated Manas; and in the last, the seventh post-Atlantean
development through our environment, through the normal conditions of
But now we know that this entire development of the human being, this
earth humanity we bring to development especially this fourth member,
question: Then how does it happen that man had already developed the
development of the same body should take place during the ancient
which man has developed. So that naturally man's etheric body is at a
particularly high development. So we can say that up to the fourth
of developing itself, of building upon itself.
come, if we say that man will develop the Spirit-Self, or Manas, in
matter of fact, man could not in this future develop the Spirit-Self
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Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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available to everyone.
everyday consciousness.
morning when you awake until the evening when you fall asleep
must now realise that everything which is thus contained in
live within the course of events, ascertained through an
everyday consciousness? In materialistic spheres it is held
The materialistic theory in this sphere is not even an
believe that various parts of the brain, or your sense-organs
clever and equally true. The truth, that a mirror can produce
however that our ordinary organisation should perceive these
that the body is a mirroring instrument for everything we
experience within our normal, everyday consciousness and that
most cases, this man would never have been in a position to
longer be reached through normal consciousness, can however
remember, but which is nevertheless active in the depths of
of development it will be possible to have visions —
of development is no longer able to control such a fact
then the Ego accompanies all experiences in every sphere. But
objective outer happening. The observer believes that he can
remember the events connected with Mary Magdalene and feels
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Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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Lovingly scanned, OCR'ed and donated by an anonymous donor, this lecture has been made available to everyone.
during the last few days, that everything comprising our conceptual
sensations — in short, everything that takes place in our soul
(a―b) — everything that is included in the ordinary human
consciousness: that is, everything that a human being knows,
do we not — that our thoughts, and also every one of our
— in short, everything that constitutes our ordinary
parallel lines (a―b), includes everything which the normal,
every-day life of the soul makes known to us.
20th century, an event will occur, in human evolution, which we may
training — that such an event must indeed take place, during
even know, perhaps, exactly what is taking place; yet, nevertheless,
experiencing in his soul. Nevertheless, the very fact of such a
even if it should be wrong, as far as the picture is concerned
either some event which takes place in the physical world —
senses — or an event taking place in the super-sensible world.
ordinary consciousness, we find that everything that takes place here
consciousness — even with all its perception and its capacity
perception. This is not the case, however, with the facts belonging
us even to react upon ourselves, if we simply remain in this ordinary
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Title: Perception of the Elemental World
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consciousness which the human soul can develop in itself will change
nothing in the nature and individuality of a person, for everything
the next, you have these beings and events before you and can observe
you confront a new situation; you can never lose yourself in another
know you will always be the same in the sense world wherever you go.
event so completely that one transforms one's own inner soul life
into this other being, into this other event. We can learn nothing at
every other being, indeed unless we become similar, to a high degree,
to the other beings and events.
way that with every step we transform ourselves into every single
happening, creep into every single being. It belongs to the health of
able to change itself continuously and adapt itself to every sort of
take part in this everchanging existence outside the physical body if
this would require an enclosed form. Here, however, we must note that
move freely, can come back over the threshold in the wrong way, every
To put it even more concretely: a person could be, say, a
of transformation. But the human soul could never live permanently in
perceive it. Nevertheless we have to allow the waking condition to
be developed and strengthened. For the faculty of transformation,
elemental world. There the human being himself must achieve to some
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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These talks reveal a particular aspect of how humankind has been
says that such inspired people are rare today. Nevertheless, we have
an individual's divine ego — continues to develop
second instance, however, such a statement covers the
developmental process was that one group of human beings had
seven oracle centers because the populace in ancient Atlantis
was divided into seven groups according to racial
what we may designate as the Atlantean Sun Oracle. Whatever
to the highest level of cultural life — the levels at
— those who had first developed intellectual
capacities. But those who were then at the highest level of
at the highest levels of cultural life because they will not
nevertheless occupy the same position as their Atlantean
cultures. However, in addition to His simple people, the
as one advances to higher levels of spiritual knowledge. It
those possessed by the most notable initiates of the seven
Atlantean Oracles are valuable. The spiritual achievements of
the Sun Oracle to preserve the etheric bodies of the seven
of the seven most significant initiates of Atlantis with Him.
developed in the mystery centers. You have to visualize this
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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truth, and reverence. Also included are discussions of human character,
Weimar. Holding Schiller's skull in his hands, Goethe believed he could
all those phenomena where something inward is working to reveal itself in
eminent example of this shaping, whereby an inner being reveals itself
man into difficult situations or may even wreck his life. The significance of
who believe that Goethe's innermost intentions are known to them:
To tear themselves apart, forever striving;
achievement, but Goethe certainly does not say so. On the contrary, the
achieve.
However, that is
as he stands before us, and how personality is outwardly revealed.
body and Ego are in a spiritual world. Why does a man return every night to
at the time of awakening from sleep. Everything that a man experiences
mirror. But we must not suppose that this active process, which goes on every
day from morning to evening, requires no effort to sustain it. The inner self
interaction involves a continual using up of soul-forces. When in the evening
When the soul goes off to sleep in the evening, does it carry anything with
we must above all closely observe man's personal development between birth
and death. This development is evident when in later years a man shows
events of great significance for the development of the world took place.
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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truth, and reverence. Also included are discussions of human character,
“Never will you find
the boundaries of the soul, by whatever paths you search; so all-embracing is
a spiritual world behind all that is revealed to the senses and through them
for perceiving it have been developed. Spiritual Science asks: How are we to
comprehensive experience of it? And Spiritual Science must ever and again
point to the great event which enables a man to become a spiritual
investigator and so to direct his gaze into the spiritual worlds, even as a
She will not freely reveal,
Not with levers, not with screws.
reveals itself to his perception. Again, it has often been emphasised here
that not everyone needs to be a spiritual investigator in order to appreciate
function. As a result of observation, however, and not on the strength merely
etheric body in common with everything that lives. As I said, only the
world. When are these physical laws revealed to us? When we have
pain, of urges, desires and passions — of everything we associate with
word we can never hear spoken by another with reference to ourselves; it must
observation of the imperfect developing towards the more nearly perfect. As
develop ever-new forces, so that he may approach continually towards
higher level to human evolution. Most people today are not aware that as late
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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Lecture Eleven
LECTURE ELEVEN
In several
of St. John, St. Luke and St. Matthew and the great event in
growing realisation of the greatness of this unique event. We
wished to describe the great event from a special angle, just
particular of the great event in Palestine.
St. John gives us insight into the great events in Palestine
dramatic way. And so this evening I will take the opportunity
language to express what we want to say and to reveal what
several epochs in the evolution of humanity differ radically
world reverberated in it — not, as is the case to-day, some
example, whenever an ancient Hebrew wrote the letter B — or
when language is used, even for literary purposes, before
masses of printed matter circulate everywhere, when everyone
referring to the event which was to be of supreme
his Ego, his ‘I’, at the stage of development it
revelation, he used his astral body, seeing and perceiving
powerful factor in the development of the ‘I’. If
yet strong enough to reveal it. That was the state of things
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many
the rank of Buddha; thereafter he was never again to appear on the
became, once and once only, an actual event on the physical plane.
development of true morality, when, in the future, he becomes Buddha,
behold Him in even higher forms in the aesthetic and moral spheres.
transmitted to seven of these twelve wise men, the wisdom that had
development was altogether unique; the profound spirituality he bore
body became marvelously transparent. He grew up and developed in such
a hundred years. Even when he was not incarnated in the flesh, he
the development of Christianity in its true form as the synthesis of
it, is a pupil chosen by Christian Rosenkreutz. Even today it is
It is therefore revealed to one who is to become a pupil: You have
sufficiently alert, would be conscious of such an event in their inner
Gospels in their true form. There is every reason and justification
people who never feel the need of religion! Life today is such that

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many details
So we must speak of these inner forces of our own time, whenever and
wherever we meet, in order to understand the tasks of Spiritual
people believe generally that their thoughts and actions are free from
before the outside world wants to develop a deeper understanding for
convinced of these dogmas himself, believes that the others have
you adhere to this or the other principle, but because you can achieve
religion will only be possible if its supporters believe they have a
bring about compromises between the two, even if only in form, is
impulse into the culture of the times. The others cannot even
thought processes in every sect, including scientific circles, and
developed.
it. Even without hypnosis Freud often achieved the same results by
happenings of a largely unconscious kind are revealed in dream life,
correct conception could be started on in Leipzig but not developed. They
incapable of realising that this area is the lowest revelation of
nevertheless became a theosophist later on. That is a short-sighted,
narrow-minded view, however. The books have this about them that
believes itself capable of making general definitions.
the domains outside. Whoever refuses to make any compromises of this
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many details
we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to behold Him in even
Atlantis to the holy Rishis had been transmitted to seven of these
development was altogether unique; the profound spirituality he bore
body became marvelously transparent. He grew up and developed in such
a hundred years. Even when he was not incarnated in the flesh, he
influencing the development of Christianity in its true form as the
is therefore revealed to one who is to become a pupil: You have
sufficiently alert, would be conscious of such an event in their life.
form. There is every reason and justification then for spiritual
and these two-thirds were certainly not composed of people who never

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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you cast even a superficial glance at that which exists in your
without — then you have everything that may be called the
within us, and have, as they exist there, nothing whatsoever to
not even a possible hypothesis. For the materialist in this
before you, then you may also believe that parts of the brain
minds the fact that for all we experience in normal, everyday
which, although in everyday life we are unaware of their
origin, play a part in our everyday consciousness.
— the individual in most cases could never, through
not recognize that in everything working within him he
believe that such things are part of the outer world would be a
ego goes along into every sphere; but as soon as something
believes that she recalls events surrounding Mary Magdalene,
you, must note objects around you, excluding however that which
you relate to yourself, or which is within you, even
general rule, everything as phenomena emanating from yourself.
this field, not however through ideas, but by resolution of
succeeded, it nevertheless did not succeed.” Thus
experiment for everyone. We could gather together all the
and those seemingly accidental outer events for which we know
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture IV: Hidden Soul Powers
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has been repeated that everything included in our
visualizations, every sort of percept. Thus, if we put
through our senses, and procure thereby in every possible
indicated by the parallel lines (a–b) everything belongs of
everyday life.
everything which we may describe as the hidden aspects of
subconsciousness. We know, however, also that the subconscious
We may acquire knowledge of this event by authentic
this must come about in the 20th century. It may, however,
knowledge of the matter involved, but even such an important
picture of a spiritual event. Let us say, for example, that
however, a definite perception, not a vision which may, under
subconsciously, within the human soul, whether developed by
super-sensible imagination or vision of an evil being we develop
develop a sympathetic feeling, the being feels impelled
to a certain sympathy, this sympathy nevertheless affects the
would appear projected into space, but would, nevertheless,
inner forces that produced the feelings of nausea. But even if
nevertheless. They would influence the warmth of his
When, however, the facts of the subconscious mind are really
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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several times. If the human soul should be transformed into an
everyday life are strengthened. In the everyday life, the human
sleeping. Our everyday life proceeds between waking and
the usual logical rules if one believed that everything that
the human being experiences from morning to evening were
extinguished at every evening and originated anew at the next
morning. Everything certainly exists from falling asleep up to
easy to realise that everything depends on whether the human
nevertheless, completely different from it. In this respect,
should become an instrument of another perception. However,
all know one fact that flows through our life everywhere whose
always grasp some sides of it only; however, its being is
unfathomable. However, this one side of love can be symbolised
with the help of the medallion we can study everything that
the everlasting if it gets clear about the fact that these are
extinguishes everything arbitrarily that comes from without and
everything that the reason can think, and all soul forces are
practise it in patience and perseverance repeatedly, then we
for itself. One knows from the everyday life that it is easier
belief in these soul experiences. However, the spiritual
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture V: Errors of Spiritual Research - 1
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is not only desirable indeed in every area of thinking and life
sources of error. However, the knowledge of the sources of
everywhere, so to speak. However, it is disguised in most cases
mediumship. Of course, it is not possible to repeat everything
medium. The medium can thereby reveal itself, but not as an
world reveal themselves. The medium becomes the revelator of
people who like to get knowledge by the revelations of media
reveals that only which has worked before as spiritual science.
every strong imagination works substantially on the
medium. Yes, everybody knows who has experience in that field
bring in things only which are exactly verified which everybody
Thus, everywhere we recognise the source of error by the
that appear, however, in such a way, as the person concerned
almost never escape the errors unscathed. However, the
consideration that even such things can be experienced with
one does not like such matters. One believes that that which he
wants to tell as experiences is anyhow contestable. However,
indicate where the sources of error are. However, it is
spiritual world that is threatened by error, indeed, with every
step you do. However, you can thrust aside the error, the
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Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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AT THE PRESENT time of severe trials it must be quite natural to
present age has been engulfed by catastrophic events. How catastrophic
these events are for mankind has not yet been fully understood, for
without the spirit, however, is to live superficially; and to live
impressions of the events taking place around them. To sleep through
important events is a special characteristic of the human being of the
conception of the severity and incisiveness of present-day events.
develop some fundamental concepts upon which we shall build ideas in
ordinary life we believe that we sleep from falling asleep until
another part continues to sleep even though we consider ourselves to
You know, however, that besides perception and thinking, our soul life
even though we believe we are. The degree, the intensity of
bodily organs for perception and thinking. Many physiologists believe
think do not believe this.
reversed, in a certain sense. We begin then to be awake in regard to
majority of people. Yet, for ever wider circles of mankind and
made every possible effort to cut Europe off from America so that
this or that event because history teaches thus and so. Take modern
and so,” The human being partly sleeps away the historical events
in the midst of which he lives, but he nevertheless forms a judgment
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processes which lie immediately behind the events our age that speak
I have repeatedly pointed to the end of the seventies of last century
and have shown that the end of the seventies was an incisive moment in
end of the seventies as compared to the spiritual life that preceded
people who consider themselves spiritually developed believe that our
to such thoughts as are developed today in regard to evolution, and so
develop in their soul life the most spiritualized concepts, and then
believed to relate only to material things. The materialistic
one lives in the spirit when one develops these rarefied,
refined feeling which did not exist in the art development of earlier
through a quite definite spiritual event which I should like to
seventies of the last century this spiritual being prepared himself
somewhat higher level. These spiritual beings, however, against whom
fact. If this fact, mirrored in the earthly events, is observed in its
you now is only a repetition at a certain stage of a spiritual event
that took place at other stages. It is the event that is represented
upon the earth with everything they could bring with them.
at the end of the seventies; the pushing down upon the earth of
Thus, since the end of the seventies, since 1879, we have two things:
of hindrance, prevent us from looking for the spiritual in our grasp
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multiplicity, where everything is led back to the smallest parts,
even if these things aren't quite right it doesn't harm anything too
one. It has to be like that. But one must never force an esoteric
everything that he encounters is coming.
couldn't it be written in an easier way. I even lifted my pen
several times to do this, but don't think that it's easy to write
don't want to go on this path, I don't want to develop myself into a
collapse. Everyone will have to go on this path sooner or later, and

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works in everything that has to do with the will. He approaches
us in everything that becomes manifest as gesture in words or
writing, in everything that appears as mediumistic writing,
to it, certainly it's true, every little thing in occult life is
should pay great attention to everything and watch and be awake. And
everything will dissipate and we'll be able to see what's right

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attentive to things that usually escape our everyday
always in us, but they're drowned out by the surging of everyday
us notice what submerges in the everyday hubbub. All kinds of
between members of our being changes through meditation. Even when we
do it ever so badly and awkwardly we nevertheless pull the ego,
everything we encountered in life, consciously or not. For instance
etheric body preserved it and through our development 30 or 40 years
out of us, or it can even be the case that the person concerned can
this. This happens when the etheric body is loosened in development,
even stranger is possible. Say we live on the other side of a house's
in spiritual development it can happen that we experience them in our
interest. His ego and astral body are nevertheless there. Then when
person is dissatisfied with himself, reproaches himself severely or
even feels pain from his physical body. Or it may happen that someone
Bible, as everything in the Bible is true. And one who refuses
of this truth, just as little as one who believes in it as a
every little thing, and every little thing can become a whole
came to him in a feverish dream. That this thought came to him in a
discoveries about physical conditions in a fever.
industry, perseverance and energy, for the help of the one who

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esoteric development and noticing the progress. Every esoteric gets
regularly, even if he's dissatisfied with the success of the same.
men through these exercises. This definitely happens even if we don't
ever perceived thinking with your senses? Of course he hasn't. No one
has ever heard or seen or felt thinking as warmth or the like.
might even be good. So we're always in the super-sensible world with
understood by every healthy intellect. And it's important for a
objection that theosophy is based on belief, that one must believe in
the existence of the super-sensible world. That's not true. Everyone
One who can't understand it is foolish, even if he's a
through the organs of touching, hearing, seeing. However in the
physical world we experience everything inside our skin, as for
visible even though the bubbles are much more rarefied than water;
second after the day's retrospect and the third once every few days.
material reveals itself in such a way that it presses into this form.
Floats over real developing being
give one much to think about. They were revealed like that, although
— then it's also something that's revealed: knowledge.
begin with. A seer gets things revealed to him. They stand there.
one meditates it one must speak the words inwardly so that everything
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we'll speak about how easily an esoteric tends to forget even
the simplest exoteric sayings of theosophy, such as: Everything
sensory is maya or illusion. Every esoteric should meditate on
Prayer every morning and draw strengthening forces for the whole day
secret that certain qualities of a man develop too fast during earth
everything that comes under his influence. Now since he mainly
influences our intellect and reason they have developed far in
development? We can't harmonize our intellect with the wisdom
for his influence in everything that becomes mature quickly, and this
development. And namely they're hindrances that also correspond
development. For what does Lucifer do in our esoteric life?
these hindrances, for they must be kept free of everything
Everything around us is maya or illusion, will appear to us in
forget in everyday life that things and qualities that we think are

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the Gods in general, but a theosophist who knows that every time
he must work on himself very seriously so that eventually he'll
seven, and until then, it surrounds the physical body like a maternal
development up to age 14, when the astral body is born. But all kinds
all new things The etheric body becomes completely developed between
pictures, if he doesn't look up reverently to an authority,
develops from age 21-28. The masters of wisdom and of the harmony of
uproar in this astral body, for a modern should develop freely and
it understands everything that happened since Saturn times.

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divine beings. Everything that we think, feel and will in the way of
esoteric training we step out of this general development
Every
Difficult, unpleasant hours come to every esoteric striver, and then
Testament; we find advice and support for every case and situation
and in every weakness; we only have to look for it. And if we
thing but that it's nevertheless in the Bible.
interior that's reflected there. It's even worse with
all deception is: Every path into the spiritual world goes through
every point of the outer physical body towards a center, which is the
are often used as symbols for the heart. Like the heart every part of

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beings there That's why when we wake up in the morning we should never
have banal, everyday, egotistical thoughts right away For if we do,
immersed in those regions. Every meditator should make it his sacred
An even holier duty, if
there can be such for every esoteric pupil, is to make it clear to himself
the latter should be consolidated and developed. But the whole inner
evening with such things. We're polluting divine worlds if we
sleep with thoughts of reverence and thanks towards divine beings
etheric bodies in the meantime. We should go to sleep with reverence
he's different from the ever so high ideas that one can make of
in one's development which is much worse than vanity in outer
things. We can, however, be proud of a clear, logical and correct
experience this event.
gives us a wide view of how we can consciously develop the

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evolution in imagination. This study develops our intellect and also
to be fantastic ideas and dreams or even get angry about them.
wherever an opportunity rises we should quietly let theosophical
everyone will have an opportunity those who resisted them now will be
could only tread the inner path for a long time before the event of
of the seven seals. One can also calculate this time exoterically.
egotism, so that we turn away from everything that surrounds us and
into himself to be spiritual revelations, when they may just be his

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inner development is to create calm, inner quiet and to keep it after
absolutely quiet for awhile. Nothing from everyday life, no memory of
it and not even a feeling of our body should press in there. We must
etheric body would leave the physical body for even a moment? The
contract into a very small space and then to eventually dissolve into
out in space and feels its way into everything. The same is true at
eventually we can't distinguish between truth and lies
immediately dispel these illusory images an to prevent them from
everyday affairs as he listens eagerly to all sensational comments
one must not bring feelings and thoughts about everyday life into them,
everything that comes to meet us from whatever side, with an alert,
everything that this class — which like all esoteric classes

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circle, out to the stars; it's poured out over everything
everywhere.
and this leads to error and deception. However there are threads
After the Event of Golgotha, a man is supposed to exercise this
Even
correctly. To prevent this, an esoteric must devote himself to study.
everything personal is suppressed, if we sense that we must merge
is the incarnation of this or that being, even if it's true.

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esoteric should never answer: “What is the heart?” by
shouldn't give physical causes for things. Everything physical,
Everything that surrounds
like a flower out of the real world so that man develops through it,
everything appears with its spiritual causes behind it.
As we should become ever
can only tolerate what fits into their world; everything else is
have qualities that he's not fully aware of but which work on his development
with a feverish feeling, he can oppose this with a psychic coldness;
feverishness that befalls us as long as we're still full of
causes behind every thing and encounter. Spiritual beings have to do
every day. But it turned out that many of these teachers did not know
esoteric should gradually bring everything into his consciousness,
it — a faint, outer sign. Just as everything physical, also

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What we attain thereby depends on the intensity of the perseverance
with patience and perseverance for years.
esoteric applies forces to his inner development, he'll notice
us suffer and we nevertheless give it our full, devoted
experiences. An undeveloped man almost explodes if he has to keep a
secret, and he feels very relieved if he can get things off his
will see that the soul in such a person has developed a force that
necessary for his soul. Every time we're able to keep thoughts
must incarnate in the physical. Then it's our task to develop

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lectures should get ever more complicated and be built up on ones
strives for ever more deepening. One way to counteract the flattening
questions of esoteric development. Trust is a factor that's
exercises into the center of their life. Others run into events which
gaze at it. Something that especially harms esoteric development is
etheric body more than anything else Even thinking about it hinders
is that when a pupil has developed enough intensity to leave his
energetically enough and if he rates many everyday interests much

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than the one that everything is over at death, and so they tend to
tendency to believe in and defend absolute eternal truths is an
other medieval mystic and who reject everything else. Since the
to turn away from everything that the outer world can tell him and to
Eve had before God, and so we must try to harmonize these three

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we say or think these words in everyday life whenever we have a quiet
connect this feeling with it every time we say the words. It would be
holy devotion and shy reverence. In the Bhagavad-Gita, that sacred
reverence.

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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
in six or seven days. When the man of today calls to life in his
must not be mistaken for a description of things and events in the
never forget belongs to an entirely different world — a world
take the opening words of Genesis as referring to events which can be
to describe to some extent the origin and development of our earth
Saturn; even where it is densest, there is only fire — living,
through the severance of sun and earth, all that was to be found at
reveal themselves in this element which we have had to represent to
as a means of manifestation, a force of very revelation which, as it
— bara — however closely that deed might
the second word of Genesis, bara. However spiritually you may think
spiritual Beings, who, however, in a similar way — save that
musing two complexes arise, one tending towards external revelation,
“Elohim.” Whoever wishes to get an idea of what
Beings. To begin with, however, we can come to know one aspect of
the time when he was created from what had developed out of the
higher level, it is as if a group of men, each with his own special
resolved to combine their several skills in order to arrive at
which did not belong to them, but which they were able to achieve by
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Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
precisely at those points where I myself am able to develop or carry
even in a position to know why this should be so, or to perceive why
controversy about every detail, please take it for granted that
world out of the super-sensible. Every single sound in which the
to refer to the character of this language; today, however, let us
forces diverging from a central point in every direction. Thus the
diverging from a centre in every direction to illimitable distances.
it, and rays proceeding from every point inside this sphere towards
and turned back again on themselves from every direction of space
brought us? We shall not understand the sublime process of the seven
condenses to a gaseous element. But every such densification is
detail. But we shall never be able to think of it in the right way
unless we are conscious all the time that air, water and even warmth
even for the mind's eye. In reality this elemental existence is
Elohim, as if they resembled man. Nevertheless in their case too we
even his outer form bears testimony to the fact that his being lives
essential characteristic of life on earth. At that time, however, you
yourselves how it could be raised to the level of the human form.
and reverence for the way in which the world has evolved; and one

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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
event which we can see as the recapitulation at a higher level of an
form. In fact all that is narrated in the Bible of the six or seven
these six or seven “days?” It will be clearer if we put
the events there described really took place in the sphere of
the sensible out of the super-sensible, and that the events with which
it opens are super-sensible events, even if they are only one stage
higher than the ordinary physical events which proceeded from them
these three planetary forms? On Saturn everything was in a kind of
condition of the planet. Here we must never forget that there was as
denser, gaseous element developed in the Sun, so that in addition to
of the Sun evolution these conditions did obtain, even physically
consciousness there is no sense whatever in this dispute, for when it
even the most primitive forms of consciousness involves very special
term consciousness could develop in it; nor could an astral body,
so develop consciousness, reflect in inner experience what went on
of man — was then developed to the animal stage. You will find
the early stages of earth development it was impossible to
the tendency to pour downward and assume a level surface. Of course,
cohering. That is the course of events which is expressed in modern
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
describes a repetition within the developing earth of this ancient
Everything of a solid material nature is earth in the sense of
seventy of them — and seeks the basis of solidity, when he
permeation by light of our developing earth. That is announced in the
correctly. Even when one takes into account all that can today be
of the life-ether, which evokes everything that is said to have come
stimulate and enliven we see at the same time the development of
Exusiai or Powers, or Revelations; when we come to the lowest
evening and the morning were the first day. And further: And
the world in seven such days. You perhaps also know how much labour
identifying the seven days of creation with longer or shorter periods
Now every child today knows that the regulation of our twenty-four-hour
they are certainly not supported by revelation. As to the vagaries of
who entered successively into the development of our existence, and
Aeons, they meant Beings guiding development in succession, one
Yom is a Being. And when one is dealing with seven such
yamim following one another, one is dealing with seven
everything fits together into one great system, even for our
everything without exception falls into place.
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
explained. What we have so far learnt does, however, make clear that
already repeated several times: that behind the weaving life of
soul-spiritual Beings are everywhere to be seen. We may now see Being
in those expressions where probably even modern minds would be
prepared to recognise it; we must be prepared to find it everywhere.
the development of our planet. As we have often said, we must think
understanding of all development — the fact that at each stage
nevertheless there, the Sun, which I have described as an inweaving
development with Beings who had progressed normally to the Sun stage.
alongside the new and continues to work within it. And so even today
several decades. Anyone who treats of the subject knows that. And the
being, which is to be traced everywhere where the polaric contrast of
the contrary we should remind ourselves that everything happens out
of cosmic wisdom, and that whenever Beings remain behind at a
particular stage of development, it means something; it has
be very badly suited for the instruction of seven-, eight-, nine- and
Personality who reveal themselves not through light, but through
development. They are allotted their proper place, so that they may
make their contribution to the orderly development of our
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
course you must never lose sight of our essential preoccupation as
super-sensible events, the super-sensible facts, which preceded the
of reverence for what resounds in our hearts from far-off ages. We
in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
maya, illusion”; for it is nevertheless through this
maya that the real Beings reveal themselves. And if we scorn
and instruments through which they reveal themselves, we have no
which it developed on Saturn it too has struggled through all these
development on Sun, Moon and earth. They have retained a certain
a much lower level. Let me give you an example. A man goes to sleep
had before he fell asleep in the evening was of a rose beside him.
rose emerges again. Even if the rose no longer remained by him, the
occur even if the rose had been taken away. But if the rose is still
beginning in everything of an earth nature.
— that matter is a low level of existence. Why should we bother
the deepest reverence for the exalted Beings we call the Spirits of
back to our Elohim, to the Spirits of Form. You see how everything
within another, and that warmth permeates everything. We find warmth
everywhere within the other stages of elementary existence. Hence we
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
practice to trace the course of some aspect of its development up to
familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
lower animals and draw the conclusion — even from the
which characterised our own nature in former times has developed into
there — on a lower, dreamlike level — was something
develop clairvoyance.
development in which he is surrounded by pictures, but is unable to
at a lower, more dreamlike level, so that no faculty of
To take an actual example, when the clairvoyant begins to develop
of the truth is that without light the eye could never have
developed; and in the same way without sound there would have been no
Beings who took part in the development of our universe was the
development. We see the outward result of this activity of light in
pictures, but these pictures represented an inner development, an
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it
would be an illness to perceive this inner development as an outer
our present objective consciousness could develop.
repetition of the past never takes place. Each evolutionary impulse
develop at an earlier stage of evolution. To us an object is
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
evolutions have entered into the development of our earth. We must of
most important, is the development of man himself. We know that man
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
develops as a kind of recapitulation of the Saturn, Sun and Moon
earth incarnation. But everything which comes finally to
what has been cast off and is developing supersensibly according to
developing earth, when the upper masses of matter separate from the
soul-spiritual man hovers in the periphery of the developing earth.
He is as it were within the substance of the several spiritual
stage of earth development, they alone are actual individualities! To
in the developing earth!” Thus when we say that on the fourth
activity which it developed was the same.
for the sake of the whole development of man in his relationship with
imagines, could not even be accepted by superficial ratiocination if
it really understood itself. But nevertheless if we study the course
of the earth's development, we have to admit that animals made their
development of the earth to proceed by itself, because it could not
period of development described in Genesis the Elohim had advanced so
air. That, however, did not happen on the fifth day, but only at the
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
from the earth. This was a very important event. It had to take place
distance, so as to moderate their influence on the development of
the earth, the earth forces became ever more moonlike, ever denser.
Consequently, as the development of the earth proceeded, man could
higher regions, continued their evolution upon the several planets
development. Some souls were fitted to pursue their evolution on
important event, which took place as we know during the Lemurian
on using earthly matter, and to remain with the earth. I have even
— that there was such a couple as Adam and Eve, and that the
account refers. Let me remind you that after the six or seven
those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
Atlantis everything was permeated by those volumes of watery
mist developed in the periphery of the earth, and then gradually grew
kingdom visible to the external eye did not develop until much later
geological conditions necessary for the development of the visible
The course of events
at a certain point: “Even after the conclusion of the seven
fact say this. If you read on, after the description of the seven
today as it was at that time, but we can nevertheless find something
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spiritual beings, in this detailed study of the seven days of creation
coincided with the cosmic event which we have called the advancement
into his body earlier, let us say, during the events of the fifth
descend until later. And even on the sixth “day” it was
first. Thus man was not able to descend into solid matter even during
How was it achieved?
group to achieve a common purpose. Man began by being the common
of life. The event which is described as the creation of man by
commentators have maintained — which is nevertheless the truth.
will never give anything other than what I am saying. If it is upon
nevertheless understand clearly that, even as late as the early
a condition that even the division into separate words had yet to be
higher level. It was the deed of Jahve-Elohim which first made man
their various initiation centres — Plato especially, but even
higher levels. The male-female becomes differentiated into man and
of yet a seventh “day” of creation, and we are told that
on this seventh “day” the Elohim rested. What does that
Sabbath day, by the seventh “day” of creation.
attention to something else of importance. If everything that I have
developed further into the unisexual man, the Jahve-man.” Those
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European cultural development when the several activities of the
development, to times when a unified culture, born directly out of
their culture, but they still spoke of religion, even when their
minds were directly concerned with the practical affairs of everyday
life. That very concern itself was raised to the level of a religion,
for religion shed its rays over every experience which man could
influence even brought out in human souls something of which today we
what we are hoping to achieve with today's feeble beginning ...
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
actions of everyday life. Then what we call profane life will became
spiritual-scientifie development. When I myself judged that the time
thoughts about our work to pass through a period of development of
seven years; but the seed which had been laid in our souls with the
developed silently in our hearts, according to the law of the
seven-yearly rhythm. At the end of the seven years we were ready to
that. True occultism at a somewhat higher level shows us however that
believe the best. Anthroposophy is not the only thing about which men
always liable to err, however much we may believe ourselves to be
suited to the conditions which have developed through the centuries,
committing a sin against European civilisation and everything
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of Agamemnon, Menelaus and Odysseus. Thus every item of Greek
natural wonder. What is really the crucial event of the drama?
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
development and formation of the ego principle, making it firmer and
soul. Thus in the course of the historical development of humanity,
of human development, the soul was robbed of its ancient clairvoyant
no inner development, as later ages will do, in order to see into the
special development to produce breathing, so at that time he did not
present one), I absorb from outside everything that is growing, but
to believe that what he took in as food was only physical substance,
forces which in man develop into the faculty of clairvoyance.
human body, so that we may say that Pluto obtained an ever increasing
For even in the earlier postAtlantean times the human organisation
thought even of people as recent as the Greeks. When the modern man
prehistoric times, it was not even so in ancient Greece. In those
modern man can scarcely believe it. Think of all that I have told you
about the development of the Greek gods. I pointed out how Demeter
to himself: ‘I gaze upwards to the great Demeter, and whenever
spiritual forces which were in them and thereby to develop
of the historical development of humanity. How splendidly those
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at the end of the course. I want this evening to bring home to you
existence devoid of spirit, but everything which happened in the
today we should call it a miracle if we were to perceive an event in
perceive directly a spiritual event which he could not understand and
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
happenings in the ordering of Nature and rarer events. The one kind
spiritual creation, divine-spiritual activity, entered into every
natural event. You see how these concepts have changed. For the
intervention of the spirit in events on the physical plane to be
line between what we believe to be governed by natural law and what
learn to feel again that the spiritual is active in everyday events
in the soul of Strader. There we see how such an event as Theodora's
vision, an event outside the ordinary processes of nature, affects
such an event acts upon the heart as an ordeal of the soul. This
of the regular, normal course of natural events, events which can be
other events, events which also take place on the physical plane, but
become visible in an unobtrusive way even to physical eyes, should be
did experience this. Even if he could not express it in modern terms,
all that is familiar in everyday life there stands before our eyes
the marvellous bow with its seven colours ... we will ignore all
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find in evolution that one thing, one epoch, is never exactly like
epoch did not tread the Earth in human form. There were however men
completed his human development on the Moon. This was how the
further its unfettered development towards the goal of the Earth.
stage of Luciferic development, Angel Beings who had not completed
evolution, if they reach their full development. These Beings too
spiritual guidance of those normally developed Beings, he would push
post-Atlantean epoch through the succeeding epochs, inasmuch as ever
we see too how everything in this epoch tends to bring to expression
development on the Moon, the Luciferic Beings. They all appear again.
development of their own. Just as man today is at another stage than
Luciferic Angels. Their achievement in guiding humanity in the
that at that time they had reached a certain level of development.
their own development, but there were also among them a number who
their normal development on the Moon and thus entered into the
evolution of our present Earth as Angels, nevertheless, during the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch failed to achieve all that they could have
achieved on Earth. At that point they lagged behind. Thus among those
Beings who were still in the line of normal development during the
as concerns Earth-development on the physical plane Christ was
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finished on a note of interrogation as to his nature. As everybody
them thoroughly human traits, one might even say human frailties,
human. The bond between gods and men was looser than ever before. It
know of one nation which had developed to a very high degree a
development had attained the full goal of the Moon evolution. Anyone
reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
that every member of the Hebrew nation was under the divine guidance
elements of earthly life for its own development, and which therefore
their gods did nevertheless incarnate in physical bodies,
about the Earth in a human body. Nevertheless it can be so. For the
formerly he only looked at; and in a way every soul is spread out
over the whole macrocosm, every soul is there within the great
severs his essential soul-nature from his bodily part, as soon as
soul-experiences. You are even told how the human being has to ask
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
looking at the matter in the right light we see that however much
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
Sun and Moon evolutions, in which at a higher level they themselves
mental life has only been able to develop through the intermingling
of these two polaric influences in human spiritual development
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World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit’, why
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
development would be possible unless contradiction lay in the very
everything remain as it was? It is because yesterday there was a
contradictions? Whenever we look back at the course of our life we
in contradiction to what was. Contradiction is everywhere at the
occurs at once to anyone who studies the world with even a little
intelligence. However widely we search, we shall never find this ego
enlist the help of the clairvoyant eye, we can never observe his ego.
be observed with external physical instruments. Thus, however far we
what a man's normal faculties find within him as his ego ever
cloud, vanishes away, reveals itself as maya. And if we wish
Eve in Paradise before the Fall. We know that according to the Bible
Testament tells why Adam and Eve were ashamed of their bodies after
even the Bible recognises that quite a different bodily form, one
What then did Adam and Eve feel when their relation to each other was
come about in human evolution as the achievement of time. But in
which is nevertheless all around us; for this world is there behind
everything, it is all around us ... but it is covered over
mind what the Greek consciousness added in the further development of
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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severely shaken.
everything which had to do with the upper gods exoterically, by means
everything of which one can become conscious through a deeper insight
human being could never attain to knowledge if he did not think, if
understand thinking is about as clever as looking into a mirror to
In however strictly logical a manner one argues today even with
man on Earth was so formed that he could develop his physical brain
put it today, and it can surely be understood, at all events by an.
developing the passion which must come into play when the soul is
developed into feeling, and then the soul is faced with a hard task
of exoteric knowledge, for that would never have enabled them to lead
oneself understood. Today men try to confine everything within the
light is thrown upon them from several sides, and in a certain way
words in the light of present-day usage will believe that they are
quite trivial but is nevertheless important. If one wants to describe
use of the customary terminology. One has perhaps even to go so far
judges everything in the higher worlds in accordance with it; yet you
intelligence while nevertheless withdrawing from that form of
Here our souls are once more faced by a severe ordeal. In what does
everyday world. And the challenge to the soul which emerges at this
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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Ordeals are what come upon a man whenever he tries to enter upon the
at the meaning of what he reads, as he would do whatever he was
it is however essentially different. The mood of
our souls to be wasted. We come to realise that deep down in every
develops what lies within it, little by little, then the strength
which it feels as yet to be inadequate is bound to become ever
must accept the impossibility of making everything good in this life.
people, even in those who have some acquaintance with Spiritual
better to acknowledge to oneself the truth, that at bottom even the
the question at a higher level. Why is it that we find so much in
developed up to a certain point. The time between Moon and Earth
the Saturn evolution, were further developed on the Sun, and had
already reached a high stage of development on the Moon, we must
nevertheless understand that in the intervening periods between
that had evolved of the physical and other bodies had reverted to
spirit. Everything again passed over into imperceptible
longer physical, everything had been taken up into the spirit again;
form as physical body. What today is physical was at that time, even
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
the way they tended to do at that time, even in his physical
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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I had to point out how a kind of reversal of the forces which led to a
able to develop knowledge which goes beyond the completely egotistic
in the period of Earth-development prior to Lemuria. Before man
entered upon his Lemurian development he was, even as regards his
Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit’ we must look
continued to develop, since it was by no means the solid lump of
Everywhere on the Earth's surface, wherever one goes,
wrong to believe that one can draw a straight line from the very
course of their development been subjected to quite different
it has been influenced not only by one current, but by several
structure of the bird there is something very striking, even to
clairvoyant sight. Whereas in the case of the mammals, wherever we
developed, in the case of the birds the most outstanding feature
one could say that every feather has the tendency to become a hair,
the feather from all sides; and every hair has the tendency to become
to describe man, who really distorts the several streams which flow
shadow-form lies behind the whole of human development, and that into
even into its baser elements, now at the Baptism by John in the
parts. That is a most significant event. These forces from cosmic
will also liberate him ever more and more from what binds him to the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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his senses, or even to his clairvoyant knowledge; he aims at a
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
However it is now a matter of common experience that the soul works
nothing to do with reality — when the man of today believes
human being, came into play in the old clairvoyant days. To achieve
diagrammatically it is like this. The old clairvoyance, even the
with reality. Such a thirst will reveal that it is just what is
illusion, in maya. There has never been in the world such
to develop his present ego-consciousness. He has had to become
which it once passed through. This weakness, which we had to develop,
and shadowy forms they are!’ That sentiment could even be
scientific path which is quite practicable, even though to modern
on every hand; every healthy soul has to undergo the fear of being
world-substance. We meet there everything which has been worked into
incarnations what he has developed in this way has united with what
into our own soul-depths we feel ourselves to an ever greater extent
— they seem at every moment to be trying to capture us. They
ourselves, these instincts develop their full strength, and we cannot
against surrender to egotism. Even higher knowledge is dangerous in
of the gods, we in this world have every occasion for pride, for
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Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-1-1906
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Satan, Asuras and their human followers intervene ever more mightily
into human life and earth evolution, then good will develop into a
divine good, and evil into a terrible Antichrist. Then every one of us

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-6-1906
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These are four stages to which a man ascends. Every suppression gives

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-1907
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soul. One knows one's name when one is asked for it, even if one
our soul ever more, and that's necessary for the coming time.
here we only see how one event after another takes place according to
events on higher planes of our existence that bring about physical
events. Let's make this quite clear through an example.
An especially important event took place on the astral plane in
now be carried into the world in a freer way, even though only for a
wants to use this to put oneself, one's will and everything one has in
ruling everywhere on earth then. And the human race could only be
into your soul live in you so that it reverberates in your
much wiser than the intellect can ever be. That's why one should let
didn't arise through speculation. Something special lives in every
devotion of the ah changes in ae to shy reverence. In
holy, shy reverence a man doesn't dare to approach God. But in the
completely. And just as the shy reverence of ae in the second
the soul is led (i) ever deeper into the center of the world.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Munich, 3-17-1908
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It's the task of the 5th post-Atlantean epoch to develop
Greco-Roman sub-race spirit self develops in the consciousness soul and
than they ever had before. A case that was investigated occultly can
man and the fourth was a really highly developed man, although he
to express something. The valuable content in everything he produced
4th one, who however didn't have the ability to express
It's a man's task today to free himself ever more from the restrictive
they're deceiving themselves. The masters are silent about everyday

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 6-14-1908
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Impatience slows development of the organs one needs to see into
higher worlds. For many pupils already have spiritual organs developed
For instance, it's important for every pupil to meditate on the wisdom
that are easy to change. Wisdom and cleverness or erudition are very
There are also men who aren't clever or erudite but are wise. Now if one
Every perusal of art also strengthens clairvoyant organs. For

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-8-1908
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and ambitions, but at the present stage of his development these
compare things with a tree here. Even though the bark is the dying
his astral body wouldn't be able to prevent the needles from
permeating it and eventually sickening the physical body.
arises in the soul because one compares one's achievements with those
people have, he must develop others. Some people say that one should
seven-fold nature and his various bodies intensively. If one does this
every time that one especially feels these qualities, one will notice
that they eventually disappear The cure for envy is to meditate on
something beautiful whenever we feel envy, it will gradually
get strength, calm and enthusiasm. Thereby we'll feel ever more
us ever more as a shining star that nothing can darken anymore.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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Every meditation has been handed down by great initiates for
we should try to strip off everything that fetters us to the sense
Meditation should be the most important and sacred event of the day
by thoughts about their surroundings and everyday life. All noises
attack one even more.
strengthened. We often have no feeling that this occurred, but every

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 3-8-1909
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Everything that has a life of its own is enclosed in a skin. Our
ourselves reverently that we're returning to the Gods who created us.
evening and morning meditations and also during them to ward off bad
wood cross with its seven blooming dark red roses before his soul
That's why one should let it come to life within one after every

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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gets to know during his development and through which the masters of
developments. In the northern stream a strong, sturdy stock arose
Christ event in its whole importance flow into mankind. We're told
use the forces that he'd developed through catharsis for an intensive
concentration The earth and everything on it disappeared before his
and an indescribable feeling of reverence and devotion for the Godhead
that revealed itself to him in every thing overcame him. And he
above and below and beside me, who is everywhere whether I look

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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“Become perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
These two words should live in the soul of every esoteric.
Thereby the consciousness develops that what one does isn't so good,
at what's developing in one's soul. God lives in developing things. If
Be it ever so hidden, there's a selfish motive in everything we do. We
us act egoistically. But world karma is God. Everything that God is
self in its striving towards perfection is revealed to him.
There are three revelations of the higher self: Through a dream, an
how to organize it up into the brain, so that it eventually grows
how what develops in his destiny in the outer world must be brought
everything with equanimity.
repeatedly place it before his soul and he'll experience that every
a greenhouse plant that was only revealed to a few mature people; what
revealed to all as knowledge but to no one as a content to be taken on
order to eventually become knowers of truth, to become an instrument

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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that's added to everyday life, so that one does them like some other
connect everything he runs into in ordinary life with his esoteric
them in the right way we're supposed to develop a strong force, a
lotus flowers develop from them. This process is described in the
spiritual beings when we've developed our astral organs, and
esotericism calls this tremendous event that's so sacred to us the
spiritual world won't reveal itself to us in its true form, but all
Adam and Eve is right, even though it's presented in the form of an
Ahrimanic influences possible and everything that helped men to live
disappeared for him ever more, and the latter became an unpenetrable
every spiritual thing that descends into matter. Just as a seed that's

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture One
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
REVELATIONS OF
concerned with seven communities, represented symbolically by seven
lamp stands and seven stars. The stars are the communities' geniuses
written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.”
With the seventh the revelation becomes audible: the seven trumpets
sound forth. Mysterious pictures are then revealed; for example, a being
I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with
evil. It is the beast with seven heads and ten horns.
the ancient commentators were seen as children still able to believe
everything described therein had already taken place when John wrote
one read in numbers? Every letter also signifies a number; the esotericists
the Sun” since ancient times. Every star has its good spirit —
seven seals. “And between the throne and the four living creatures
with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of
The seven corners of the sign are called “horns.” But what
signs of the seven planets are written next to the seven eyes. The seven
eyes signify nothing other than the seven planets, while the names of
planets come from the spirits of the seven planets found around the
all seven. Christ is the alpha and the omega; the seven planets are
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
for example, behind the lamb as the beast with seven eyes and seven
believe.”
(Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believeJohn 20:29)
never placed on the content of this teaching. One can also find this
only a few specially chosen people were initiated. After severe testing
room filled with people; only when they begin to speak do they reveal
fully transformed into new human beings. Everyone who returned in this
containing prescriptions for all the steps. Everywhere, whether in the
characteristics appear wherever the lives of the great apostles of
heroes. Why is this? Superficial researchers have believed that one
borrowed from the other. But that is not true. Nevertheless, all of
were similar everywhere, one heard a spiritual description of the life
first time, something was experienced as an external physical event
Everything that Christ Jesus experienced physically, on the physical
each presented from a different perspective. Since, however, initiation is
described everywhere in the same way, the Gospels are in agreement on
for receiving Christ will be developed. The time until Christ Jesus again
bodies ever more perfect, bodies having a perfection that we today with our
thinking cannot even imagine. We cannot now imagine the perfection of
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
of Theosophy be if they did not enter into every fiber of our hearts and
soul freed itself from her physical body. Even now she is working as
a place in our souls for reverence, love, and devotion, thus creating
Everything, even the religious life, was permeated by materialism. Anyone
sentence.] To him we direct our grateful, revering, and love-filled
take hold of life know, if they strive to evermore penetrate these works,
forces at the disposal of spiritual powers who wish to reveal themselves,
may sound opposed to her, nevertheless we know that we are acting according
of the ram and the number 666, the beast with the seven heads and so
of the fifth root race and are living toward the sixth and seventh subrace,
signifies that a portion of humanity will have revealed to it the mystery
that is still today closed to humankind. The book with the seven seals
task: the development of egotism. This egotism will, at the same time,
and deeper; when it arrives at the bottom everyone will rage against
everyone else. A small part of humankind will escape this, just as a
is up to every individual to find a connection to the spiritual life
First, seven letters
to seven communities are placed before us. If human beings are to find
on to, something that enables them to ennoble the seven sheaths of their
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reflect mighty spiritual events in our time. Our task is to learn to
by a candidate for initiation in order to develop the highest vision
physical plane. This is described to us in a certain way in the seven
letters to the seven communities. Then the enlightenment achieved through
knowledge of the physical plane is put into signs in the seven seals.
of the lamb receiving from his hand the book with the seven seals. As
time, always a prophetic book. One who experiences the events of the
events of the future — a profound mystery of the future is present
eye is opened. Think of everything that you experience on the astral
means, at the same time, penetrating the secrets of future events. Hence,
to us the state of development of the soul. The soul is in a different
soul and racial development can be seen if we look into the past. Souls
present state to a higher one. Souls that proceed with their development,
who rise above themselves, will have, through their work, achieved
that has lived for a long time and found various explanations. However,
are shown how souls climb ever higher. But we are also shown how races
present day evolution is described in the seven letters. We think of
the letters as directed to the seven communities of our earth.
into seven zones geographically, a letter is directed to each. The first
parts of the human constitution: one folk especially develops the physical
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