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• Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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  • Earth-epoch, but it received its first foundation during the ancient
  • existed in a very ancient conception of man and which brought into
  • Nature and of Mankind”, the words of an ancient Roman:
  • of the ancient atavistic clairvoyance. What Master Bertram
  • to paint Lucifer correctly, in accordance with an ancient spiritual
  • was in keeping with the ancient spiritual science. It is important to
  • bear in mind such a fact. It shows us that the ancient spiritual
  • old inheritance that entered human evolution with the ancient
  • something quite new, he does this because the ancient spiritual
• Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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  • upon ancient Saturn, Sun, Moon, and upon the Earth. The
  • with, there was the ancient Saturn-evolution. This was the
  • were ourselves upon ancient Saturn. These Beings enter into
• Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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  • said to be based on ancient occult traditions. But even these
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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  • according to the ancient Greeks it was Hermes who brought down the
  • intensity which imbued those who took part in the ancient Mysteries
  • ancient Mystery. If we trace it back to its origin, we come to
  • connected with it if we were merely to immerse ourselves in ancient
  • some form or other of ancient occultism, let us suppress this, and
  • Neither ancient
  • been taken along that golden middle road between ancient occultism
  • From earlier lectures we know of an ancient clairvoyance which in
  • later form. The ancient Greek partly felt that in his own time the
  • rape of ancient clairvoyance by modern knowledge was already taking
  • that ancient clairvoyance. He looked up to that goddess called
  • human nature. And then this ancient Greek said to himself: ‘In
  • place of this ancient clairvoyance another culture will become more
  • born of them, born of men to whom the ancient clairvoyance is already
  • which the ancient Greek associated with the names of Agamemnon,
  • inattentive to notice them. The ancient Greek did notice that this
  • traced back, as the ancient Greek understood it, to Agamemnon,
  • wither up. Just as Persephone stands for the leader of the ancient
  • ancient Greece right up to the present time — from the time
  • life of ancient Greece and expressing in the symbol of Iphigenia what
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• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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  • regain through Spiritual Science was still very much alive in ancient
  • Persephone, who represents the ancient clairvoyant forces of the
  • of human development, the soul was robbed of its ancient clairvoyant
  • looked up to the great Demeter, and in ancient Greece man was still
  • has changed since those ancient times. The human body of today, with
  • densification of the human body. And when the ancient Greek feels the
  • prehistoric times, it was not even so in ancient Greece. In those
  • worked in ancient times, how she instilled her forces into human
  • in ancient times. Now there were also other gods working in like
  • ancient wonders of Nature are expressed in the figures of the ancient
  • historical development of mankind; in ancient times man had
  • Science stands before such a statue, ancient Greece will arise anew
  • The ancient Greek
  • modern form what was expressed in the ancient Greek Mysteries by the
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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  • ancient Greece. If we are to grasp the whole mission of Spiritual
  • ‘nature’ if you wish to enter into the thought of ancient
  • Thus in those ancient
  • mechanics, he would say it was miraculous. The ancient Greek could
  • and spirit, an opposition which did not yet exist in ancient Greece.
  • are the two facts of which the wise men of ancient Greece already
  • indeed he probably regards that as a fantastic daydream. The ancient
  • bring forth thought?’ For the ancient Greek it was a spiritual
  • what the ancient Greek pictured to himself as Zeus is the macrocosmic
  • lasting emotion, passion, memory. The ancient Greek was still
  • ancient Greek was really not in a position to examine the microcosm
  • man's attention was turned to the microcosm. The ancient Greek
  • between ancient and modern times, that the Greek felt mainly the
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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  • quote the Greek historian Herodotus. Once when the ancient Egyptians
  • meant these Angelic Beings, and the ancient Egyptians who were
  • he was in the ancient Egyptian time, so also with these Angels and
  • and inspire the earthly realm. When the ancient Greek felt what
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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  • the higher hierarchies the ancient Greeks regarded their gods as
  • ancient Hebrew consciousness of God is wonderfully portrayed in that
  • If ancient Hebrew consciousness was utterly filled with the knowledge
  • Jahve, as the extract of the Elohim, means life itself to the ancient
  • evolution. To the ancient Hebrews, no longer to be permeated by the
  • consciousness, the ancient Hebrew consciousness surrenders itself
  • — the ancient Hebrew influence, which had the very strong
  • which was contributed by the ancient Hebrew civilisation. But from
  • evolution from ancient Lemuria through the Atlantean time and on into
  • ancient times man bore in him from the side of Zeus his astral body,
  • from the side of the Earth, Persephone. The ancient Greek was
  • microcosmically from within man, constitute the ancient clairvoyant
  • ancient ego-consciousness.’ Try for a moment to place yourself
  • The ancient Greek
  • idea that the ancient Greek gods were Atlantean men. ... The older
  • very nature allied with the Zeus hierarchy. Because of this, ancient
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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  • today was quite unknown to the ancient Greek. If we call to mind what
  • the thought and feeling of ancient Greece was really like, we find
  • today. What lit up in the soul of the ancient Greek, what was
  • suddenly confronted by it. But the ancient Greek felt this too. That
  • world-wonders in which the ancient Greek consciousness had placed
  • Zeus and the other figures of the upper gods ... the ancient Greek
  • depths of his soul, the ancient Greek wondered what the human form
  • the ancient Atlantean form. Dionysos had to take with him on his
  • prehistoric humanity. Therein we see how the ancient Greek
  • impressive mythology of ancient Greece.
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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  • of Greek mythology, as the expression of an ancient wisdom, what in our
  • able to understand in this way was felt by the ancient Greek, and
  • soul.’ When the ancient Greek was directing his feeling upon
  • ancient Greece a necessity for the pupil of the Mysteries, and is
  • ancient Greeks acknowledged as the content of the holy Mysteries.
  • see that when the ancient Egyptians said, in answer to a question
  • true! When in ancient Greece pupils were introduced into the
  • The ancient Greek imagined that the present comeliness of the human
  • Those initiated in the Mystery-wisdom of ancient Greece were fully
  • the meaning of Greek spiritual culture in the sense of ancient Greek
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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  • from what he was by predisposition in the time which preceded ancient
  • in ancient Lemuria as a pure etheric stream which had no other
  • making ancient Saturn or Cronos, as the Greeks called him, the
  • disregard his formal consciousness and turn to the ancient gods, who
  • gods, of whom one elected to continue to live, as the real ancient
  • the ancient Hebrew people, Jahve. Jahve or Jehovah is the reflection
  • humanity prepared for the Christ through the ancient Hebrew
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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  • man endowed with the ancient clairvoyance wanted — not simply
  • culture-epoch — for instance, that of ancient Egypt —
  • what in the ancient figure of the Sphinx was the eagle or cherubic
  • to see it primarily as a survival of the ancient Sun, so to say as
  • the ancient Sun planet come to life again, repeating in the present
  • ancient doctrine of Zarathustra, will one day have to say to itself:
  • is the halo which those gifted with the ancient clairvoyance
  • ancient times men actually saw such things, and that the aura which
  • ancient garments, priestly robes in particular, if we want to know
  • auras. For the form of these auras was reproduced in ancient
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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  • In ancient times this
  • instance how the ancient Greeks got rid of this wonder in quite a
  • them as the ancient clairvoyant consciousness and expressing what
  • come to consciousness as our thoughts about the world. But in ancient
  • ancient Greek outlook (more disposed as it was to fantasy) was such
  • this stuff itself derived from the depths of the cosmos, ancient
  • ancient Greeks as a circle,
  • understood that drama originated in the ancient Mysteries. Thus
• Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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  • ancient Indian culture. In Indian culture a considerable part
  • in the form and configuration of the human body. In ancient
• Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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  • scarcely a faint reflection of what lived in the soul of an ancient
  • sound-sequences in this ancient tongue. It is of immense importance
  • gradually learn to comprehend what lived in the ancient Hebrew sage
  • moment to ancient Saturn, we picture it as a cosmic body having as
  • air or water or solid earth is as yet to be found upon ancient
  • something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
  • something approximating to what lived in an ancient Hebrew sage when
  • soul of the ancient Hebrew sage when the words haschamayim
  • lived in the soul of the ancient Hebrew sage when he used this word
  • the potent meaning of the ancient Bible words. Let us consider those
• Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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  • recall what took place during the ancient Saturn, Sun and Moon
  • the ancient Hebrew sage when he thought about this primeval
  • way I have described. What is so remarkable about this ancient record
  • Anthroposophist ought to cultivate when he approaches this ancient
• Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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  • light, warmth and air in the ancient Sun evoluticn. The laws of the
  • the contemplation of such things this ancient record fills us with
  • those who have handed down to us this ancient record the same
  • Does not this document, bequeathed to us by those ancient seers, bear
• Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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  • ancient Saturn consisted solely of interrelationships of warmth. If
  • describes a repetition within the developing earth of this ancient
  • then the recapitulation of the ancient Sun evolution will be the
  • was able to discover quite independently of that ancient record. But
  • ancient methods of naming things. The process of nomenclature in
  • ancient times needed quite a different kind of feeling from what we
• Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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  • the sense of the ancient tradition we have to look for Being not only
  • of the ancient Saturn existence as a condition of pure warmth, and
  • appropriate goal. Thus we may say that during the ancient Saturn
  • very ancient occult truth, a truth to which even modern physiology
  • the words would have had for the ancient Hebrew sage, and with
  • to you in a new light. And this ancient document, which otherwise
  • impossibility of translating the ancient living words into our
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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  • it specially important to fmd confirmed in ancient documents of
  • to base itself as upon firm seats. These ancient expressions contain
  • spiritual insight names were given in ancient times! The seers of old
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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  • there be light he adds: And God saw the light. In this ancient
  • significance of this? In ancient Sanskrit, even in German, there is
  • with immense reverence for such ancient records.
  • from these ancient writers, who really needed to take no oath, but
  • corroborated by the words of the ancient seer who took part in the
  • appreciate the holiness of this ancient document.
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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  • and in the ancient Hebrew priestly language the word “Adam”
  • ancient seers who gave us Genesis gazed with full powers of seership
  • misunderstand the conceptions of ancient times. The Bible is
  • resounds to us so impressively from ancient times.
• Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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  • those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
  • which differed from those of this ancient tradition. Modern
  • with those ancient times which are described in the second and on
  • by the ancient seers and rediscovered in our own day be spiritual
  • those ancient seers were aware how the tidings which made them vocal
  • up in holy awe to those ancient seers, who themselves looked up into
  • awe we feel.’” If we translate that into ancient Hebrew
  • the ancient seers and the name of those Beings to whom they
• Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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  • another parallel between the ancient Hebrew doctrine and our own
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture I
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  • looks back into ancient Greece it becomes quite a different matter. It
  • days of ancient Greece may be as easily understood as Roman times or
  • as the times that followed. When in going back we come to ancient
  • different. The whole life of soul existing on the soil of ancient
  • age as far back as ancient Rome. In purely historical writings, even
  • which begin just at the point where we go back from ancient Rome to
  • ancient Greece. We may then leave it to each individual soul here
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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  • the ancient holy teachers of the first post-Atlantean period of
  • to the ancient, holy, spiritual culture of mankind.
  • We then see the Egyptian-Chaldean culture arise, and the ancient holy
• Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount
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  • memory, more or less, of the ancient dream-like condition in which he
  • moment had been foretold by the prophets of ancient times. It was said
  • ancient times, could become God-imbued during states of ecstasy. While
  • that spiritual land, described in ancient Tibetan writings as a remote
• Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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  • ancient clairvoyance, at the same time, the more we have united with
  • the consciousness of the group-soulness was existing in the ancient
  • consciously felt himself as a member of the ancient Hebrew people
  • frequent among the ancient Hebrews as among other peoples, we could
  • back to ancient times. Groups of human beings then belonged together,
  • really valid for a very limited sphere. In ancient times, when people
  • ancient times, one did not believe one inhaled material air, but then
  • an ancient script in which the greatest ideal for the evolution of the
• Title: The Ego: Lecture 2
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  • who taught in ancient Persia what exists in the ancient Persian
  • Buddhism, Zarathustrianism, and ancient Hebrewism, flowed into
  • ancient Persian people, and then incarnated again and again. After he
  • was now the contribution which the ancient Hebrew people had to make
  • transmit the right body was again the mission of the ancient Hebrew
  • will now seek the mission of the ancient Hebrew people for the entire
  • ancient observer saw the flower and the astral body round it —
  • facts. The ancients did not experience what they sought to know in
  • external observation, these members of the ancient civilisations. They
  • We must be clear that for certain human classes in ancient times, they
  • developed their ancient connection with the surrounding world. They
  • organs, and the so-called ancient clairvoyant organs. And now comes
  • “streamings-in” (influxes) occur in people. The ancient
  • and shone in him, he perceived them as his ancient inspirations.
  • were later transformed in him. These streams in ancient times were
  • a result of the ancient streams. The hair today on a human body was
  • the great teacher of ancient times, with Zarathas. He there became
• Title: The Ego: Lecture 3
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  • or have read it later, has to show how from the people of ancient
  • can say that when, e.g., an ancient Hebrew drew a “B”
  • Isaiah predicted. We can indicate it by saying: In ancient times, man
  • the Ego which employs the instruments of the senses. The ancient human
  • his astral body. The ancient human being saw, perceived in the astral
  • The astral body really belonged to the ancient moon. At that time, the
  • In ancient times, such an event was actualised for humanity, when that
  • truly absolute nonsense. What is meant by it? Everybody in ancient
  • Christ, which is an ancient symbol. For just as in John through quite
  • on two legs. There are three men: The one is an ancient Persian, who
  • Now it is important that in ancient times one was aware of what was
  • that one should have been able to say: An ancient human being at the
  • as in our modern pedantic speech, but as in the ancient speech, where
  • in the sense of this ancient speech, how then the Mark Gospel gets new
  • what was already laid in the words in these ancient speeches, after
  • one no longer has the principle that one had, for instance, in ancient
  • Persia, where from epoch to epoch, the ancient holy documents were
  • no more, but one must attempt to transform the ancient words into a
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture I
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • of ancient wisdom in general, in the light which may be kindled by the
  • ancient times, than it is for us, when studying the great wisdom of
  • the super-sensible worlds, to consider only ancient, historical
  • what the people of older and of ancient times had to say about these
  • been given to humanity in the way of oriental tradition and ancient
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • is different from the consciousness, let us say, of the ancient
  • must have been perceptible to men of ancient times; but they could at
  • ancient language, as research would testify. In the poem of Euripides
  • ancient peoples, expressed in their mythology, confirm what spiritual
  • remained mere form. To understand ancient times aright is to realise
  • earth. That was the clairvoyant vision which the sages of ancient
  • life by the Christ principle. And inasmuch as those ancient sages
  • existence. Ancient wisdom at its highest level becomes prophetic; it
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IV
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • fact was always present in the ancient, instinctive consciousness of
  • instinctive consciousness of ancient humanity.
  • tradition. Suppose for example that the initiate wisdom of ancient
  • investigation has given us and life in ancient times. It is obvious
  • personage who lived in a comparatively ancient period of Greek
  • meaning when used in ancient times, for it was applied to spiritual
  • ancient Greece who know something of initiation recognised in Zeus
  • a further evolution. But in ancient times men did not clothe matters
  • He was an initiate of the temples of ancient Phoenicia and had
  • possible to re-discover original teachings of very ancient times. It
  • epoch, in the days of the Chaldean sages, and in the ancient Indian
  • and it is not at all correct to say that we find in ancient Indian
  • under another form in ancient times, if we look for them there. It is
  • still to be found today in him who in ancient India was named
  • exists for us today as he existed in ancient Vedic times, but we must
  • ancient initiate, but something else as well. To take a rather
  • consciousness of an ancient Indian initiate? Is it right to conceive
  • days when seers of ancient India looked up to him with reverence. Now
  • spiritual consciousness in the soul world to the ancient Indian god,
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • that a distinction was made by ancient peoples between upper and
  • Atlantis. That an ancient spiritual life developed upon a land in the
  • those of ancient Atlantis. Atlantis is the Father and Motherland of
  • ancient clairvoyance, and men possessed a natural and instinctive
  • in the external sense world. He lived there in ancient times only,
  • their unity. The people of ancient India were in a position to
  • the ancient Indian was directed outwards he perceived spiritual
  • of ancient Atlantean culture, preserved over the post Atlantean times
  • ancient Indian culture. But more to the north, in the region of
  • Persia, we find an ancient civilisation known in later history as the
  • is evident why Zarathustra, the leader of this ancient Persian
  • world was developed in ancient Persian culture under the leadership
  • ancient Persians who pressed on to Western Asia. [These
  • are not the Persians of whom history tells but ancient, pre-historic
  • Persia. The ‘Ancient Indians’ mentioned in these lectures
  • vision. Wherever ancient Celticism still shines out as the
  • hermetic science possessed by the ancient Egyptians which amazes us
  • an ancient pre-historic ancestor. In olden times it was the custom
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VI
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • in the first epoch after the great Atlantean catastrophe, the ancient
  • feelings of the ancient Indian when he looked out at the sense world,
  • in high degree of spiritual sight, this ancient Indian soul
  • ancient Indian saw not only the dense elements but also the finer,
  • on ancient Saturn down to the Earth evolution; that it was necessary
  • in dense matter.’ The soul of the ancient Indian further
  • the ancient Indian realised at the same time that the reality without
  • ancient times knew that by sinking down into the soul they came to
  • we have seen, in ancient India, a perception of the unity of the
  • found in ancient Greece. There we have on the one hand the path which
  • give an answer to man's yearning. Thus in ancient Greece these
  • two divine spiritual worlds are side by side. In ancient India they
  • ancient Persian civilisation of Zoroaster, could originate the ideal
  • divine spiritual beings to which men of ancient times looked up to as
  • periods. The contemplative vision and abstract perception in ancient
  • very ancient times, we find that the soul looking outwards sees the
  • evolution matters change somewhat. In the most ancient times, when a
  • Take, for instance, an initiate of the ancient Hebrew people. Such an
  • difficult for an initiate of the ancient Hebraic world to find
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • as an ancient heritage. If nothing else happened but its withdrawal,
  • he saw outside was the same as that within. In ancient Indian times
  • prophetically, among the ancient Indians, shall come to life again in
  • consideration when we approach the study of ancient documents. That
  • his environment. The last echoes of what existed in the ancient
  • acquired by spiritual vision. In ancient times there was
  • clairvoyance, useful and practicable in ancient days, was no longer
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • of some ancient script, but we must at the same time take into
  • a new recognition of the Sun Being who was revealed in ancient
  • feeling and thinking of ancient Indian times. Even if we only find a
  • clown in the Vedas was the teaching of the great teachers of ancient
  • was that the ancient holy Rishis drew in, and this they were able to
  • wisdom beheld by the ancient Rishis. We must understand that the
  • the man of ancient India that what was to be found in the Vedas was
  • is added. Much may be learned from the ancient wisdom of the East;
  • reverence such as were felt in those ancient days must again be
  • what had been at work in the sentient soul from ancient times. This
  • ancient wisdom of the Chaldaic-Egyptian, period. Moreover old
  • that reality of which during the ancient Indian epoch there had been
  • initiated in ancient Chaldea went through two separate experiences,
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  • the ancient wisdom of the East and its spiritual metamorphosis
  • ancient times, had of necessity first to contact the inner life of a
  • Hence in those ancient epochs wherein the great sages spoke, one
  • issuing from these twelve directions were at work upon that ancient
  • ancient wisdom during the ages to come and for placing it gradually
  • ancient guise, unsuited to modern times. Why are the teachings of
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  • Felix Balde, for instance. Now in ancient times conditions were such
  • In these more ancient periods of evolution souls could not do much of
  • different creeds. In ancient Brahmanism, in the Chinese and other
  • ancient creeds. Buddhism has broken through this restriction, yet if
  • to swear allegiance to the ancient god, Wotan. Wotan was a national
  • ancient Wotan religion — and for the sake of its inner
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  • with ancient times conditions have changed radically. Activities that
• Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture I
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  • and in the ancient Egyptian initiation. In what was presented to us
  • Midnight and of the ancient Egyptian time in Johannes Thomasius. To
• Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture V
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  • that what they had experienced in the ancient fortress was now within
  • back at ancient Hebrew — in this regard the Hebrew language is
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  • the ancient Egyptian-Chaldean age the human soul, looking out on what
  • coming; from another, the luciferic. In this ancient civilization the
  • knotted together externally. In ancient times the skeins of influence
• Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VI: The Sermon on the Mount
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  • retained a memory, more or less, of the ancient dreamlike condition
  • It is of these ancient human times that we wish to create a picture.
  • ancient times. It was said that man would be able to find his
  • them He revealed that man, in ancient times, could become filled with
  • lead us into that spiritual land, described in ancient Tibetan
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  • of view. The ancient Greeks knew that what I am about to say is
  • you wherefore the ancient peoples brought fairy tale and legend
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  • Especially among ancient people an age-old saying remains even
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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  • arise what sprang forth from the soil in the days of ancient Greece.
  • differently. Think, for example, of a boy in ancient Rome. His life
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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  • which brings us near to the time of the Atlantean Flood. An ancient
  • significance. The Huns were the last surviving remnants of ancient
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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  • Mid brother-spheres, his ancient round;
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  • The ancient Sun was a wonderful being in cosmic space. Thus at that
  • as the organ we call the Solar Plexus. This goes back to the ancient
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  • itself united with the ancient god of darkness was capable of killing
  • time. And from those ancient Moon-beings, which have been described as
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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  • So we must picture the ancient fiery period of the Earth as a time m
  • The still united Sun, Moon and Earth of ancient times could from its
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  • has preserved a residue of the ancient dual sex inasmuch as in the
  • The ancient dual sex had yet another peculiarity. If you had asked one
  • ancient Moon beings with their floating, swimming motion, were
  • of the present consciousness, man lost the ancient dimly sensed
  • ancient feminine principle as group-soul and a new masculine principle
  • go back into ancient times the more we meet with the encroachment of
  • into higher worlds. In ancient times man understood nature to a high
  • had an echo of the culture attained in Atlantis. The ancient Indian
  • ancient Nivelheim had been cast down into their waters. This wisdom
  • possession. The ancient Indian was a dreamer. To be sure, what we call
  • We remember that the original history of Rome leads back to ancient
  • Troy. Troy represents a last result of the ancient priestly
  • the transition to the fourth stage of culture. The ancient
  • Laocoon group depicts the overthrow of the priestly wisdom of ancient
  • wisdom, which replaced the ancient priestly wisdom. Thus did the
  • complicated inventions? The ancient Chaldean was accustomed to satisfy
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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  • difficulties. Since ancient times philosophers have tormented
  • how the reproduction of the human race took place in those ancient
  • the manner of human propagation in ancient times. It was like an
  • the ancient blood ties there must enter the spiritual bond between
  • into the seventh epoch, the ancient connection of race and blood will
  • Age. As at that time in ancient Atlantis, in the neighbourhood of
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  • realms. I have told you how in the ancient Indian people there lived
  • their only task was to evolve upwards to the ancient wisdom that had
  • worked creatively in early times. The pupils of the ancient Rishis
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  • we need only compare ancient times with our own epoch in one single
  • of ancient Egyptian civilisation and observe the men of that epoch,
  • was possible in ancient times when the astral and etheric bodies
  • a kind of natural inspiration and imagination, an ancient
  • far back, for example to the humanity of ancient Egypt, we should
  • may say: In ancient, pre-Christian times, the possibility of working
  • inasmuch as traits quite different from those prevailing in ancient
  • possessed the ancient mastery over the physical body, originated in
• Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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  • phase of descent, from the most ancient times until the appearance of
  • not exist in ancient times. Only those who have no knowledge of
  • that in the earlier periods of ancient Greece, for example, there were
  • ancient Egyptians, among the ancient Persians, or indeed among any of
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  • ancient Indian cultural epoch; of the second, the great ancient
  • the sentient soul; during the ancient Persian, the sentient or astral
  • development of the same body should take place during the ancient
  • relatively high stage when he is incarnated in an ancient Indian body,
  • human beings of ancient times some appeared who could be possessed by
  • We are given accounts of these beings in ancient tales and legends,
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  • that it may also become active in the form of an ancient inheritance
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  • take very ancient times as our starting point. This is
  • ancient times.
  • ancestors to have come from ancient Atlantis, a former
  • Venus, or Mercury, and so on. In ancient Atlantis there were
  • seven oracle centers because the populace in ancient Atlantis
  • in such a way that they could enter the ancient Indian,
  • later cultures. In ancient Atlantis, an individual belonging
  • and, in a sense, the most despised people of ancient Atlantis
  • the ancient Atlantean Oracles.
  • ancient culture. Much that was profound in this culture has
  • and so on. However, the teachings of the ancient Holy Rishis,
  • reincarnated, how the legacies of the ancient Atlantean epoch
  • ancient India, and that is why the seven Rishis spoke of a
  • proclaimed in the ancient Indian culture.
  • talks about however. It was customary in ancient times that
  • fragment that has been preserved from ancient times because
  • contained an ancient individuality of the highest rank, and
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  • consciousness has little inkling of these things, but in times of ancient
  • Thus the Intellectual Soul made its imprint particularly on the ancient
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  • ancient saying by the Greek sage, Heraclitus
  • descendant of the ancient race of Titans, who had succeeded the first
  • ancient times were dying out. Zeus wanted to exterminate mankind and install
  • were understood in ancient Greece.
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  • stock of the ancient Hebrew people.
  • from one another. If we go back to the ancient Hebrew epoch
  • example, whenever an ancient Hebrew wrote the letter B — or
  • in a word of the ancient Greek language. When we read the
  • In ancient
  • sheer nonsense. In ancient times everyone using the word
  • ancient symbol of fishes for the Being who was the bearer of
  • three human beings. One is a peasant in ancient Persia,
  • ancient Persia. He too is formed from another world through
  • thing is to realise that in ancient times men were well aware
  • of our commonplace modern speech but in the sense of ancient
  • possible to discover what the words of ancient languages
  • adopted, for instance, in ancient Persia, when the sacred
  • want to preserve the sublime language of the ancient writings
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  • contained in the ancient Mystery-scripts. In the life of Christ Jesus,
  • been enacted in the ceremonies of the ancient Mysteries, before it
  • Temptation, and others, too, originate from enactment's in the ancient
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  • ancient mystery-scripts. In the life of Christ Jesus the essential
  • ceremonies of the ancient mysteries, before it became, once and once
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  • others, too, originate from enactments in the ancient mysteries. All
• Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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  • ancient times, and from what took place then we can expect disharmony
• Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 2-12-11
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  • Golgotha. Men who went out into the macrocosm in ancient India would
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  • in the ancient mysteries one called this: Standing at the portal of
• Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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  • scarcely a faint reflection of what lived in the soul of an ancient
  • sound-sequences in this ancient tongue. It is of immense importance
  • gradually learn to comprehend what lived in the ancient Hebrew sage
  • moment to ancient Saturn, we picture it as a cosmic body having as
  • air or water or solid earth is as yet to be found upon ancient
  • something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
  • something approximating to what lived in an ancient Hebrew sage when
  • soul of the ancient Hebrew sage when the words haschamayim
  • lived in the soul of the ancient Hebrew sage when he used this word
  • the potent meaning of the ancient Bible words. Let us consider those
• Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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  • recall what took place during the ancient Saturn, Sun and Moon
  • the ancient Hebrew sage when he thought about this primeval
  • way I have described. What is so remarkable about this ancient record
  • Anthroposophist ought to cultivate when he approaches this ancient
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  • light, warmth and air in the ancient Sun evolution. The laws of the
  • the contemplation of such things this ancient record fills us with
  • those who have handed down to us this ancient record the same
  • Does not this document, bequeathed to us by those ancient seers, bear
• Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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  • ancient Saturn consisted solely of interrelationships of warmth. If
  • describes a repetition within the developing earth of this ancient
  • then the recapitulation of the ancient Sun evolution will be the
  • was able to discover quite independently of that ancient record. But
  • ancient methods of naming things. The process of nomenclature in
  • ancient times needed quite a different kind of feeling from what we
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  • the sense of the ancient tradition we have to look for Being not only
  • of the ancient Saturn existence as a condition of pure warmth, and
  • appropriate goal. Thus we may say that during the ancient Saturn
  • very ancient occult truth, a truth to which even modern physiology
  • the words would have had for the ancient Hebrew sage, and with
  • to you in a new light. And this ancient document, which otherwise
  • impossibility of translating the ancient living words into our
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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  • it specially important to find confirmed in ancient documents of
  • to base itself as upon firm seats. These ancient expressions contain
  • spiritual insight names were given in ancient times! The seers of old
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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  • there be light he adds: And God saw the light. In this ancient
  • significance of this? In ancient Sanskrit, even in German, there is
  • with immense reverence for such ancient records.
  • from these ancient writers, who really needed to take no oath, but
  • corroborated by the words of the ancient seer who took part in the
  • appreciate the holiness of this ancient document.
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  • and in the ancient Hebrew priestly language the word “Adam”
  • ancient seers who gave us Genesis gazed with full powers of seership
  • misunderstand the conceptions of ancient times. The Bible is
  • resounds to us so impressively from ancient times.
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  • those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
  • which differed from those of this ancient tradition. Modern
  • with those ancient times which are described in the second and on
  • by the ancient seers and rediscovered in our own day be spiritual
  • those ancient seers were aware how the tidings which made them vocal
  • up in holy awe to those ancient seers, who themselves looked up into
  • awe we feel.’” If we translate that into ancient Hebrew
  • the ancient seers and the name of those Beings to whom they
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  • another parallel between the ancient Hebrew doctrine and our own
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  • according to the ancient Greeks it was Hermes who brought down the
  • intensity which imbued those who took part in the ancient Mysteries
  • ancient Mystery. If we trace it back to its origin, we come to
  • connected with it if we were merely to immerse ourselves in ancient
  • some form or other of ancient occultism, let us suppress this, and
  • Neither ancient
  • been taken along that golden middle road between ancient occultism
  • From earlier lectures we know of an ancient clairvoyance which in
  • later form. The ancient Greek partly felt that in his own time the
  • rape of ancient clairvoyance by modern knowledge was already taking
  • that ancient clairvoyance. He looked up to that goddess called
  • human nature. And then this ancient Greek said to himself: ‘In
  • place of this ancient clairvoyance another culture will become more
  • born of them, born of men to whom the ancient clairvoyance is already
  • which the ancient Greek associated with the names of Agamemnon,
  • inattentive to notice them. The ancient Greek did notice that this
  • traced back, as the ancient Greek understood it, to Agamemnon,
  • wither up. Just as Persephone stands for the leader of the ancient
  • ancient Greece right up to the present time — from the time
  • life of ancient Greece and expressing in the symbol of Iphigenia what
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  • regain through Spiritual Science was still very much alive in ancient
  • Persephone, who represents the ancient clairvoyant forces of the
  • of human development, the soul was robbed of its ancient clairvoyant
  • looked up to the great Demeter, and in ancient Greece man was still
  • has changed since those ancient times. The human body of today, with
  • densification of the human body. And when the ancient Greek feels the
  • prehistoric times, it was not even so in ancient Greece. In those
  • worked in ancient times, how she instilled her forces into human
  • in ancient times. Now there were also other gods working in like
  • ancient wonders of Nature are expressed in the figures of the ancient
  • historical development of mankind; in ancient times man had
  • Science stands before such a statue, ancient Greece will arise anew
  • The ancient Greek
  • modern form what was expressed in the ancient Greek Mysteries by the
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  • ancient Greece. If we are to grasp the whole mission of Spiritual
  • ‘nature’ if you wish to enter into the thought of ancient
  • Thus in those ancient
  • mechanics, he would say it was miraculous. The ancient Greek could
  • and spirit, an opposition which did not yet exist in ancient Greece.
  • are the two facts of which the wise men of ancient Greece already
  • indeed he probably regards that as a fantastic daydream. The ancient
  • bring forth thought?’ For the ancient Greek it was a spiritual
  • what the ancient Greek pictured to himself as Zeus is the macrocosmic
  • lasting emotion, passion, memory. The ancient Greek was still
  • ancient Greek was really not in a position to examine the microcosm
  • man's attention was turned to the microcosm. The ancient Greek
  • between ancient and modern times, that the Greek felt mainly the
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  • quote the Greek historian Herodotus. Once when the ancient Egyptians
  • meant these Angelic Beings, and the ancient Egyptians who were
  • he was in the ancient Egyptian time, so also with these Angels and
  • and inspire the earthly realm. When the ancient Greek felt what
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  • the higher hierarchies the ancient Greeks regarded their gods as
  • ancient Hebrew consciousness of God is wonderfully portrayed in that
  • If ancient Hebrew consciousness was utterly filled with the knowledge
  • Jahve, as the extract of the Elohim, means life itself to the ancient
  • evolution. To the ancient Hebrews, no longer to be permeated by the
  • consciousness, the ancient Hebrew consciousness surrenders itself
  • — the ancient Hebrew influence, which had the very strong
  • which was contributed by the ancient Hebrew civilisation. But from
  • evolution from ancient Lemuria through the Atlantean time and on into
  • ancient times man bore in him from the side of Zeus his astral body,
  • from the side of the Earth, Persephone. The ancient Greek was
  • microcosmically from within man, constitute the ancient clairvoyant
  • ancient ego-consciousness.’ Try for a moment to place yourself
  • The ancient Greek
  • idea that the ancient Greek gods were Atlantean men. ... The older
  • very nature allied with the Zeus hierarchy. Because of this, ancient
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  • today was quite unknown to the ancient Greek. If we call to mind what
  • the thought and feeling of ancient Greece was really like, we find
  • today. What lit up in the soul of the ancient Greek, what was
  • suddenly confronted by it. But the ancient Greek felt this too. That
  • world-wonders in which the ancient Greek consciousness had placed
  • Zeus and the other figures of the upper gods ... the ancient Greek
  • depths of his soul, the ancient Greek wondered what the human form
  • the ancient Atlantean form. Dionysos had to take with him on his
  • prehistoric humanity. Therein we see how the ancient Greek
  • impressive mythology of ancient Greece.
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  • of Greek mythology, as the expression of an ancient wisdom, what in our
  • able to understand in this way was felt by the ancient Greek, and
  • soul.’ When the ancient Greek was directing his feeling upon
  • ancient Greece a necessity for the pupil of the Mysteries, and is
  • ancient Greeks acknowledged as the content of the holy Mysteries.
  • see that when the ancient Egyptians said, in answer to a question
  • true! When in ancient Greece pupils were introduced into the
  • The ancient Greek imagined that the present comeliness of the human
  • Those initiated in the Mystery-wisdom of ancient Greece were fully
  • the meaning of Greek spiritual culture in the sense of ancient Greek
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  • from what he was by predisposition in the time which preceded ancient
  • in ancient Lemuria as a pure etheric stream which had no other
  • making ancient Saturn or Cronos, as the Greeks called him, the
  • disregard his formal consciousness and turn to the ancient gods, who
  • gods, of whom one elected to continue to live, as the real ancient
  • the ancient Hebrew people, Jahve. Jahve or Jehovah is the reflection
  • humanity prepared for the Christ through the ancient Hebrew
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  • man endowed with the ancient clairvoyance wanted — not simply
  • culture-epoch — for instance, that of ancient Egypt —
  • what in the ancient figure of the Sphinx was the eagle or cherubic
  • to see it primarily as a survival of the ancient Sun, so to say as
  • the ancient Sun planet come to life again, repeating in the present
  • ancient doctrine of Zarathustra, will one day have to say to itself:
  • is the halo which those gifted with the ancient clairvoyance
  • ancient times men actually saw such things, and that the aura which
  • ancient garments, priestly robes in particular, if we want to know
  • auras. For the form of these auras was reproduced in ancient
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  • In ancient times this
  • instance how the ancient Greeks got rid of this wonder in quite a
  • them as the ancient clairvoyant consciousness and expressing what
  • come to consciousness as our thoughts about the world. But in ancient
  • ancient Greek outlook (more disposed as it was to fantasy) was such
  • this stuff itself derived from the depths of the cosmos, ancient
  • ancient Greeks as a circle,
  • understood that drama originated in the ancient Mysteries. Thus
• Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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  • There was a time in the ancient Lemurian epoch when only a single pair
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  • the ancient commentators were seen as children still able to believe
  • the Sun” since ancient times. Every star has its good spirit —
  • and so forth. The ancient Atlantean and Lemurian generic souls were
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  • religion” is the ancient true religion. What was the true religion,
  • for this most readily if we take a look at the ancient mystery centers.
  • highest stage of initiation. There were no biographies in ancient times
  • in the most ancient times who was signified by the name “Sig.”
  • was described in ancient Egypt and Persia as the union of the soul with
  • death of Siegfried. When experiencing initiation in the ancient mysteries
  • yet been placed on the back of the one who will take over from the ancient
  • All the ancient mysteries
  • the Christian religion existed even among the ancients and was not
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  • role in the ancient Pythagorean schools. Let us remember that in the
  • Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology,
  • Ancient Roman goddess of
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  • evolution. “Ygg” is the ancient form for growth and evolution.
  • You will find that in the ancient forms of speech as a characterization