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- Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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- of ruling thoughts. As if abstract thought could possibly
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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- have a faint reflection, an abstract reflection, in our science and
- ‘chastity’ — as today we abstractly call it —
- abstract, a hobby which one pursues, but that it is related to the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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- figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
- scholarship has nothing but a few abstract ideas to offer in this
- law in a more abstract form through their messengers in the
- abstract, a more intellectual morality, hence the Greeks looked to
- should not take these things in an abstract way. Of course we can
- only express them by clothing them in abstract thought, but all this
- in a more abstract way. This is preparing the human soul for a future
- mythology tells us, were not in Greek times abstractions as the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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- something outside us which we study according to abstract laws,
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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- in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
- abstract, entirely unspiritual. We have the urge to rise to
- defined in this abstract way, as bodies through which the gods
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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- abstractions, over mere ideas, as other men do about real life’
- the journeys of the younger Dionysos; what we in our abstract
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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- dry-as-dust, prosaic, abstract wisdom. And if we want to make real
- aspect. Abstract logic, abstract intellectual thinking, is always
- any abstract concepts.
- imbued with a kind of science more profound than our modern abstract,
- sentimentality, lies in the abstract, empirical science of today,
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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- saying is for most men of today an abstraction, because they have no
- German for what is indicated in an abstract way by geboren werden
- mystery, by not using merely the abstract phrase geboren
- when they are discussed in abstract terms — they were then in a
- surprising to the man who only thinks abstractly; this is especially
- abstract thinker must sometimes be overcome with astonishment when he
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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- respect than our abstract ideas, which are too impoverished to be
- changed by what flows therefrom, not as abstract content, but as life
- superficial, is the contribution of the abstract science of today.
- ourselves down to a few abstract concepts; we have to approach the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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- of all that they represent by their abstract and tidy genealogical
- abstract zoology will one day be very much astonished to have to
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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- lies in the abstract ‘laws of nature’ of today, is the
- tenuous ideas, devoid of reality, and our abstract laws of
- abstractions will not succeed in feeling this great impoverishment as
- path into a much more vital reality than the purely abstract laws of
- world’, along the lines of abstract science, finds himself at
- today — which are bound to be abstract, because they are derived
- world through the abstraction of whirling atoms, as if space were
- different when we permeate our ideas, our abstract laws, with what in
- abstract ideas and concepts which we bear out into the cosmos, but
- longer in the presence of abstract thoughts, but of cosmic thoughts,
- them, for it does not help us to know them in an abstract way.’
- Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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- abstractly but visibly, concretely — to be something
- the realm of drawing the more we enter the abstract
- Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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- self-knowledge is usually something extremely abstract. Even
- and nebulous theosophists are very abstract. Genuine seership
- imagination; it is an inner experience, not abstract but so
- Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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- associate with the opening words of Genesis the abstract, shadowy
- his abstract speech has no inkling.
- Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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- poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
- abstractions, notions. They were already so in the Middle Ages; and
- clairvoyant consciousness were no abstractions, but something
- Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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- abstract concept of time was associated with the word
- abstract designation of time, but conveys the quality of being.
- Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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- yesterday that the word yom does not indicate the abstract period of
- instead of empty abstractions behind much else that comes before us
- abstract man, the man who is concerned only with concepts, to feel
- And lay'lah does not mean our abstract night, but lay'lah are the Saturn
- all kinds of myths, is neither our abstract “night” nor
- Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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- abstract way of looking at things everything gets mixed up. The seers
- Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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- I do not wish to say much that is abstract. Wherever possible I shall
- Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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- the abstraction of a concept. But it is an entirely new inner world
- Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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- life. Such an abstract question may not be of much interest, but for
- Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture V
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- speaking of abstract opposites such as the temporal and the eternal
- Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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- only to the new humanity, to man as such, not to an abstract, general
- Idea, and they confuse it with abstract concepts. Plato
- abstract. We penetrate into the soul of man. And because we penetrate
- Title: The Ego: Lecture 3
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- less abstract idea... but a whole world. Because of this, the vowels
- abstractions, generalities. One does not even feel that any more.
- speech which has become abstract, empty, pedantic in contrast
- is Maya. Well, all right. But that is an abstraction. One must really
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture II
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- death-like condition. And speaking in the abstract, we may say for
- we are not merely in an abstract sense devoted to our physical bodies
- consists, abstractly expressed, in making the active, positive
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture III
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- not given in any outwardly abstract way, but were revealed to
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IV
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- abstract, who had facts rather than conceptions or ideas in their
- times and in all places. In its abstract sense there is not the
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VI
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- periods. The contemplative vision and abstract perception in ancient
- and assert that they will not have anything to do with abstractions.
- abstract teaching. Real Christians today know that humanity needs
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VII
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- experiences would not have been possible at an earlier time. Abstract
- this was realised as an abstract truth; it will be realised on earth
- modern abstract materialistic science, they were always conscious
- their knowledge in abstract formulae and theories, but in mighty,
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VIII
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- abstract. In the Egyptian epoch they were concrete. They were more
- Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IX
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- time and space in an abstract sense and endeavour to understand how
- consider universal space in an abstract sense, but really relate
- considers its real nature — not an abstraction, but something
- Title: Life Between ... V: Life Between Death and Rebirth 1
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- this is unintelligible, it is even more so to speak about an abstract
- abstract similarity among them. The different creeds should not be
- Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture I
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- feel perceptively that what before this were only abstract forces
- What at first was only an abstract soul force now steps before the
- Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture IV
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- world as abstract ideas is more a hindrance than a help in leading
- Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture V
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- not as a merely abstract element of his soul. The more Philia becomes
- at abstract, introspective thinking wherein we shut ourselves away
- Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VII
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- in our souls as abstract subjectivity, namely, the soul forces of
- Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VIII
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- political agitation and even playing into many of the abstract ideas
- Abstract Theosophy can simply say: that is oneself, the
- egoistic self-effacement out of theosophical abstractions in their
- Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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- us consider the phenomenon that the abstract thoughts of today
- in our abstract sciences has the least imaginable effect on our
- cannot be brought about by abstract theories and thoughts.
- abstract, dull, inadequate concepts. This thinking is to be
- begin with the logos and continue in purely abstract concepts
- given us only in abstract concepts. Thereby we would be
- Abstract thoughts are without effect.
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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- free from abstract theorising and materialistic conjectures, standing
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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- of the Folk-Spirits. The Folk-Spirit is not the intangible abstraction
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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- abstraction but is to be taken literally. Christ Jesus healed those
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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- way to vision. We should make no abstract concepts, mechanical
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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- somewhat abstract idea today. Many think nowadays that the individual
- as more or less an abstraction, as a comprehensive concept, embracing
- our abstract objective thinking, since it is written as out of the
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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- It is not a matter of having some abstract knowledge of the truths of
- abstractions, but instead, the study of the problems of everyday life.
- Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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- pictures work quite differently from the abstract thoughts which have
- have been given. If it has been understood, not only abstractly, but
- Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Erster Vortrag
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- abstracto, wenn wir für den physischen Plan reden, als
- Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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- ordinary love, there is an element that defies all abstract
- abstraction, and admits of definition. For the majority of men, what
- they are abstract ideas, lacking the full-blooded vigour of personal life.
- must rise, not merely with abstract concepts but with personality to
- the heights of ideas which are still abstract today. When this
- be a realm of abstraction. He must rise to the Spiritual, and then there
- lapsing into abstraction. How, then, as he rises into the Spiritual, can
- lives in us, abstract ideas are invested with a personal character.
- humanity would reach abstract ideals only, abstract ideas of morality
- ideas in history, it should be realized that these are dead, abstract
- influence of the Christ Impulse. In no other way can abstract ideals be
- abstractions, to unfold abstract ideas of liberty, brotherhood and the
- must no longer hovel before us as abstractions but approach us as
- transitional stage of forming abstract ideals, it is equally true that
- works down from spiritual heights is not mere abstraction but living
- that what they have glimpsed for a time in the form of abstract ideas
- realities, not merely abstract ideals.
- is that there are abstract ideals, ideals of the Good, the Beautiful,
- Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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- no more than an abstract description. If we are to understand how character
- this must be recognised. Only abstract theorists addicted to diagrams would
- Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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- more or less abstract concept. The reason why the vowels were
- abstractions, generalisations. People no longer have any
- nowadays has become abstract, commonplace and vacuous and
- maya, but that is a mere abstraction. We must be able to say:
- Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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- ours is a time of dogmatism and abstraction. The strange thing is that
- wildest abstractions. Therefore it is worthwhile bringing
- these things. We do not see how tied up in dogmas and abstractions our
- civilisation is, until we stop looking at it from the abstract point
- of materialistic natural science and turn them into abstract dogmas.
- drawn from abstractions as the most important thing. This leads to the
- intellectual and abstract.
- thinking, of intellectuality. This is why the abstract sciences are
- Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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- favorable than others for such an intercourse. Abstract thoughts,
- such a way that we do not merely think of him with abstract thoughts
- to mere abstract theology will be helped by these ideas in conducting
- Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- II
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- answer to this in a more abstract form: Mankind today must rely on its
- Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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- associate with the opening words of Genesis the abstract, shadowy
- his abstract speech has no inkling.
- Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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- poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
- abstractions, notions. They were already so in the Middle Ages; and
- clairvoyant consciousness were no abstractions, but something
- Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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- abstract concept of time was associated with the word
- abstract designation of time, but conveys the quality of being.
- Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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- yesterday that the word yom does not indicate the abstract period of
- instead of empty abstractions behind much else that comes before us
- abstract man, the man who is concerned only with concepts, to feel
- And lay'lah does not mean our abstract night, but lay'lah
- all kinds of myths, is neither our abstract “night” nor
- Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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- abstract way of looking at things everything gets mixed up. The seers
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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- have a faint reflection, an abstract reflection, in our science and
- ‘chastity’ — as today we abstractly call it —
- abstract, a hobby which one pursues, but that it is related to the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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- figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
- scholarship has nothing but a few abstract ideas to offer in this
- law in a more abstract form through their messengers in the
- abstract, a more intellectual morality, hence the Greeks looked to
- should not take these things in an abstract way. Of course we can
- only express them by clothing them in abstract thought, but all this
- in a more abstract way. This is preparing the human soul for a future
- mythology tells us, were not in Greek times abstractions as the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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- something outside us which we study according to abstract laws,
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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- in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
- abstract, entirely unspiritual. We have the urge to rise to
- defined in this abstract way, as bodies through which the gods
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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- abstractions, over mere ideas, as other men do about real life’
- the journeys of the younger Dionysos; what we in our abstract
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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- dry-as-dust, prosaic, abstract wisdom. And if we want to make real
- aspect. Abstract logic, abstract intellectual thinking, is always
- any abstract concepts.
- imbued with a kind of science more profound than our modern abstract,
- sentimentality, lies in the abstract, empirical science of today,
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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- saying is for most men of today an abstraction, because they have no
- German for what is indicated in an abstract way by geboren werden
- mystery, by not using merely the abstract phrase geboren
- when they are discussed in abstract terms — they were then in a
- surprising to the man who only thinks abstractly; this is especially
- abstract thinker must sometimes be overcome with astonishment when he
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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- respect than our abstract ideas, which are too impoverished to be
- changed by what flows therefrom, not as abstract content, but as life
- superficial, is the contribution of the abstract science of today.
- ourselves down to a few abstract concepts; we have to approach the
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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- of all that they represent by their abstract and tidy genealogical
- abstract zoology will one day be very much astonished to have to
- Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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- lies in the abstract ‘laws of nature’ of today, is the
- tenuous ideas, devoid of reality, and our abstract laws of
- abstractions will not succeed in feeling this great impoverishment as
- path into a much more vital reality than the purely abstract laws of
- world’, along the lines of abstract science, finds himself at
- today — which are bound to be abstract, because they are derived
- world through the abstraction of whirling atoms, as if space were
- different when we permeate our ideas, our abstract laws, with what in
- abstract ideas and concepts which we bear out into the cosmos, but
- longer in the presence of abstract thoughts, but of cosmic thoughts,
- them, for it does not help us to know them in an abstract way.’
- Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-1907
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- Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Four
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- only an abstract expression in what we call the higher numbers. But what
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