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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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let us try to add something to what is already familiar to us. What I
have to say may be useful to some of you in that it will lead to a more
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
Now let's consider nervousness. It is well-known today that there are
many people who complain of nervousness and all that this implies, and
we are hardly surprised when the statement is made that there is none
perhaps when a person becomes an emotional fidgety-gibbet, that is to
form of nervousness. Another is one in which people do not know what
that may finally be expressed in various forms of disease that simulate
alcoholism” that has pervaded the important events of public life. This
If people remain as they are, we need not doubt but that there will be no
that pass like an epidemic from person to person and thus those who are
It is extremely harmful for our time that many of the men who hold high
today. There are whole branches of learning that are taught in such a way
that throughout the entire school year the student will be unable to spend
his time and energy really thinking through what he has heard from his
real connection of interest of the soul with the subject matter that the
student often is one of wanting to forget as soon as possible what he has
What are the consequences of these educational methods? In some
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Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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In spite of the fact that a notable portion of
has been said recently that it is no longer possible to be a
in marketing, that a healthy person cannot possibly be sustained
It is in contrast to this approach that Dr.
that vegetarianism can be a more practical diet for those engaged
important as that problem may be. It is rather one in which an
be seen, however, that particularly in our age spiritual science
has something to say even concerning questions that directly affect
consists in the statement that anthroposophists are entirely too
concerned with, and talk too much about, questions of what they
called idealists in that they believe they view the common aspects
particularly by taking a stand that can be expressed in the
following way. “What man eats and drinks is unimportant. It
does not matter what food one takes, rather must one rise above the
what spiritual science has to say about them.
Feuerbach, to whom the phrase, “A man is what he eats,”
Feuerbach that what man produces is basically the result of foods
to believe that man is indeed physically nothing more than what he
must be confident that when a person has perceived the truth of
what he says, he will then proceed to do the right thing. What I
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Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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acquisition of that science which we designate as spiritual science,
it is necessary that we should have the good will of filling out the
first only be given in a more general outline. We say that the
that we should orient ourselves with the aid of encompassing
little of what should be known to humanity in a near future, at least
which can be observed with the aid of that science that is linked up
with the intellect, with experiments and observations. We know that
methods. But although the physical body may at first seem to be what
recollect that man’s physical body, in the form in which it
place: it was transformed through the fact that the etheric body was
body has been transformed through the fact that the etheric body
what is contained in our lecture-cycles. We must remember, in this
case, that just as the first foundation of the physical body has been
Movement. The transformation during the Earth-epoch, that is to say,
the change entailed through the fact that an Ego now dwells within
with an Ego, we must bear in mind that it has received a certain
Spirits of Form, and is in keeping with the fact that an Ego had to
now has and which is in keeping with the fact that it is the bearer
of an Ego. The beings that belong to the other kingdoms of Nature,
you will find that they describe all the other beings in such a
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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‘nervousness’ and all that this word implies; and we can
scarcely be surprised at the statement that there is no man or woman
ways: most easily in this way, that the person becomes what we might
call a ‘psychological fidget’ — that is to say, a
also another form, where people do not know what to do with
when they are called upon to make some decision, they never know what
be no doubt that it will grow no better for mankind in the near future.
an epidemic from one man to another, so that others who are in good
other things, it is extremely harmful for our time that many people
energy quite otherwise than really thinking what the professors are
a few weeks; and the worst feature is that there is no real
soon forget what I have just had to learn!’ What is the
thing that they are doing; they feel remote from it. Now there is
that you are having to do with your head. It has a most adverse
core of the man's soul and the activity that he engages in.
effect. He will not merely learn that man consists of ‘physical
such a way that the several members unfold strongly and healthily. If
he will often find that the very slightest thing can work miracles.
What I have just described is closely connected with the quick
forgetfulness of many people. It is often said that such
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Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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What has been
Elementary Kingdoms belong to what lies behind the world
what we can perceive through our senses — from the
precisely when we speak of such difficult matters, that we
must take great care, from the very outset, to realize that
no true goal can be reached, if we believe that a concept
have named something, we can be sure that we have before us
astral plane, that world which is immediately beyond our own,
and permeates it, as the one nearest to it, we find that this
his passions, etc., you will see that this astral body of man
every moment. This is what we find in the case of man. But
in that.
consider the world from a higher standpoint, we find that
with, that these minerals upon the earth have no etheric body
to reach a clear conception of what actually takes place upon
the physical plane. But let us now suppose that someone were
find that here, upon the physical plane, the mineral has a
etheric body is to be found. The moment that a human being
we find that the mineral has also an astral body. This body
of the mineral — and it is from here, that the mineral
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Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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untranslated, typewritten transcription of a lecture that is
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that universal genius. Anyone who has had the opportunity of
interest, particularly in reference to the fact that Goethe's
in accordance with Goethe's views of that date — a
Chaos on the way to Hell.” This reveals to us that it
the poem, brought to an end in his extreme old age; but that,
Epilogue in Chaos on the Way to Hell. At that time Goethe
entertained thoughts which led him to believe that knowledge
with that which was said yesterday regarding the ordeals of
person. It is for this reason that all his creations leave
— sometimes indeed the effect is so powerful that we
the way to hell, and that other period in which he brings his
yesterday was alive within him, coupled with that inner
strength which brings the assurance that, though we must pass
contradictions, and that Goethe's judgment of many matters in
his old age differed from that of his youth. But this was
necessity of the lessons of life; it shows us that it is
inner experiences, and that life, with its succession of
events, is needful for us, in order that we may become human
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Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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investigation that error lurks in every nook and corner,
however, employs as means of investigation, what he can
must not conclude, because they are not mentioned, that they
that the usual life of thought and feeling ceases. A
that some individuality or another could reveal itself with
supposed that something speaks through the medium,
error are to be indicated. The sceptic thinks that only those
forces, then it is comprehensible that on one occasion the
side. Thus it does not hold to answer the question ... What
is truth, what is error, but to find the path beyond error
opposite of what has been described. The comparison has been
attempted in this outline to-day in order to point to what
of spiritual science should proceed from what the soul as an
be convinced to a certain degree by what is brought forward
the philosophy in question. Thus one can produce much that is
agree with what is thus brought forward really positively.
this indicates to any man of insight that no single
conceive then that the truth lies between two opposite
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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the messenger of the gods, and in view of what our
to add to what has resounded during the last few days out of the
lectures that are to follow.
highest that the human soul can reach; it was a culture pulsating
with religious life, indeed it may be said that it was
life. That very concern itself was raised to the level of a religion,
its inspiration was so strong that some of those particular workings
lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their
enthusiasm for what as religion overflowed into artistic form, then
what we are hoping to achieve with today's feeble beginning ...
the answer is that we would rekindle in mankind something like a
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
actions of everyday life. Then what we call profane life will became
Science are to enter into the depths of human souls. That is why it
those words, that we should look upon
true perception of what Spiritual Science is.
What is generally
known as drama, what is recognised in the West as dramatic art and
spiritual-scientifie development. When I myself judged that the time
had come for me to bring my spiritual work into connection with what
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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that in primeval times the soul had been gifted with clairvoyance,
you feel that this civilisation calls for a continual sacrifice. Thus
views enable us to realise that the tradition, and to a certain
extent the actual knowledge, of what we are now endeavouring to
Greece. We draw attention to the fact that in primeval times the soul
figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
thing. I said yesterday that Greek mythology draws attention to two
a thoughtful person will naturally reflect that such movements do not
does Greek mythology express this profound truth? We know that modern
to the gods as food. We know too that the gods recognised the impious
a shoulder-blade. That goddess was Demeter. In this remarkable touch
the son of Tantalus — we find an indication that there is a
connection between the two streams. It confirms that Demeter forces
mythology has its correspondence in what we are bringing to light
brings home to us the fact that the way man looks at the wonders of
when we reflect that by representing the force hidden in the depths
natural wonder. What is really the crucial event of the drama?
what does it mean, when we apply what Greek mythology and the Mystery
of Eleusis thus express to the nature of man himself? What in terms
Persephone gone? What is the Regent of the old clairvoyant forces
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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perhaps only towards the end of the course that you will be able to see
towards that mighty archetypal wisdom of which we have caught a
Science today we shall have to recognise that many concepts and ideas
the immediate future. To evoke a feeling that we must change our very
Spiritual Science — that is why I draw attention to the
that of modern man.
opposite of soul or spirit. Now what the man of today means by
to eliminate altogether what you mean today by the term
our hand from left to right, we know that a mental activity lies
mere movement of the hand and our will, but we know that the movement
Consequently what we today call a wonder, a miracle, did not bear its
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
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
recognition that there are two currents in human experience. Men must
be quite clear that there are things which form part of a system of
it is also necessary that such souls should be brought to recognise
hence brushed aside as impossibilities and not recognised for what
Thus we can say that
And the fact that attempts are made, that societies are established,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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lecture will have enabled you to see what I meant when I said at the
outset of this course that the Greeks thought of the whole of Nature
Greek spiritual life. We see that we have to think of the microcosmic
controlling centre, as superpersonal, superhuman, we have what Greek
what the Greeks associated with Poseidon; if we think of the forces
of our physical bodies as transplanted into space, we have what the
occur to you to ask: ‘What about the fourth member of our human
or the ego-bearer. Now it is obvious that because this ego is in such
body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
that it is closely bound up with all that is happening around us.
Indeed with our egos we are right inside the world. Upon what goes on
to feel that the forces of our ego must be very different from the
environment. What radiates into us from without, the golden rays of
human. That god is Dionysos. Just as we have to look upon Pluto as
upon Dionysos, that figure which stands before our ego at last in
Much of what I am now
have just completed and which in essentials reproduces lectures that
these lectures. First we have to reflect that humanity, as it evolves
they stand to us. We know that, under quite different conditions of
life, they too were once human; that was during the Moon evolution,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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Pluto, Poseidon and Zeus himself. In view of what I said yesterday as
guidance of mankind, you may have wanted to ask to what category of
that in contradistinction to conditions prevailing in previous epochs
were less tightly drawn. That the Greeks were conscious of this
somewhat freer relationship between the divine Spirits and men is
infer that they knew that, just as human beings on the physical plane
gods needed so much to make progress in their own evolution that they
could not bother themselves much about men! Hence came that
was just because they were aware of this that the Greeks could depict
what these gods were trying to do, what they were seeking to gain by
their participation in earthly life, we can have no doubt that they
had failed to complete their Moon evolution and that the Greeks knew
it, knew that they had to take advantage of Earth evolution just as
men had to do. It follows from this that the Greeks knew quite well
that all their gods were imbued with the Luciferic principle.
towards their gods is in sharp contrast to that of another people. We
who heard the course of lectures I gave here a year ago with all that
Jahve, will have no doubt that the Hebrew people knew that the
Elohim, that Jahve, belonged to the gods who could not be directly
reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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have devoted much attention in these lectures to a subject that arose out
Greek gods? The reason is that such a study can provide — as
spiritual-scientific study of the world. I have pointed out that the
today was quite unknown to the ancient Greek. If we call to mind what
today. What lit up in the soul of the ancient Greek, what was
which is the usual attitude, knows nothing of what it is trying to
structure, is actually the Greek reply to the question ‘What is
progress in Spiritual Science we must acquire a feeling that it is
drawn to yet another thing. While the rest of the gods represent what
the wonders of the world, we found that in the figure of Dionysos the
Greek has concealed what we might call the inherent contradiction of
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
What would the human soul be like if it were free from
see that it has been activated by contradictions. If at some later
in contradiction to what was. Contradiction is everywhere at the
that man as he stands before us consists of physical body, ether
but so long as he does not utter the lie so that it passes over into
encounter this ego once. Although we know quite well that there are
that is our own. In the physical world, or for physical instruments
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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HAT
is it that has been the theme of our lectures during the last few days?
of Greek mythology, as the expression of an ancient wisdom, what in our
we have certainly seen how much of what we come to know today in quite
realise this, especially when we discover that the deepest and most
The Greeks felt that
what they hid in their Mysteries and associated with the figure of
Dionysos was still deeper and more significant than all that they
of the world around them, they veiled what had to do with Dionysos
What then was the
contrast between what the Greeks felt in their ideas about the upper
gods, and what was withdrawn into the sanctity of the Mysteries? What
into the wonders of the world, a deeper insight into what takes place
essentially different was involved in what was associated with the
tribulations, we must first give some thought to what modern
cognition. It might seem that modern man has abundant opportunity to
become instructed as to what cognition really is. For the study of
philosophy is accessible in all countries, and it is to this that we
the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
question as to what knowledge is will only be answered by the empty
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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together with what we gather from history, are a better help in this
with what we can call the challenges or ordeals of the soul. What
Ordeals are what come upon a man whenever he tries to enter upon the
that a man has to make great efforts to endure certain pieces of
and this will perhaps help to make clear what such an inner ordeal
gives him premonitions of it but no more. He begins to suspect that
them full play, that he inevitably becomes impressed by the exoteric
changed by what flows therefrom, not as abstract content, but as life
itself. Something like that is what Capesius is depicted as feeling
that not only causes him to ponder, to rack his brains to try to get
at the meaning of what he reads, as he would do whatever he was
Faust merely shows that, having arrived at a certain scepticism, a
ignorance, as man's greatest sin. He learns to acknowledge that
realise that it is no mere selfish yearning, but deep-seated duty
our souls to be wasted. We come to realise that deep down in every
certain indolence say: ‘What do I want with knowledge? The gods
they have buried this treasure within us in order that we may bring
treasure go to waste. That is one of the courses which the soul can
take. The alternative is that, recognising our highest duty towards
consciousness.’ What are we doing when we bring up this
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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that the finest elements of the blood are passing over all the time
into the same substance as that of which the human ether body
consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
have seen further that it is in fact because this newly-formed
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
knowledge of what takes place within our own organisation. I tried to
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
told you. Let me remind you once more that Earth evolution was
preceded by the Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions, and that these
which we also have, in the physical body today, were at that time
what was to crystallise out later as the denser man; and it has taken
understand fully what is meant by ‘Wonders of the World,
somewhat closely into this formation of man, we must see just how man
gradually solidified out of that original shadow-form. Today let us
try to picture to ourselves what the human being was like in this
pre-Lemurian era. At that time man had only a kind of shadowy form,
merely hinting at what came later. Into this Phantom
of the higher hierarchies were working within it. At that time man
the periphery; it was only later that he so to say stepped down upon
as yet in a more rarefied condition. All that the higher hierarchies
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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widely different epochs men have formed conceptions of what really lies
concepts, by acquiring definite sentiments and feelings about what
satisfaction, arrives at something of which he can say that it
other way. Through this activity man demonstrates that he is not
content to adopt a passive attitude towards the world, but that he
has an impulse to struggle for a knowledge beyond what is evident to
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
In this way he shows that he is seeking for an explanation of the
world, that the world presents itself to him as a riddle, and that
that the human being starts out from a feeling of wonder about things
and Beings and that from this feeling of wonder all philosophy, all
However it is now a matter of common experience that the soul works
The soul cannot remain at the stage of mere wonder, for in that way
has to subdue its astonishment, it has so to say to get rid of what
explanation, an answer to the enigma, an answer to what is marvellous
different way, by gazing with penetration upon what was current among
them as the ancient clairvoyant consciousness and expressing what
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
compared with that of the Greeks, we think in a very different
in these and other lectures you may well understand that the modern
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Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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general but above all out of a deep feeling for art, that
what he said by adding: “The man to whom art begins to
aesthetics.” That science is not what I wish to dwell
shadow-side of man's life — important as that side
singular. But it seems to me that in connection with a
these is the copying, the reproduction of the physical, that
is, of what belongs purely to the world of the senses. The
become true art. And it can well be said that it reflects a
or what is given in any other way by the sense world alone.
embodiment of what is purely spiritual. Interpreting a
into life what for a certain understanding is unreal, that,
said that from a certain boundary of perceptive
feeling — from a lower boundary up to one that is higher,
senses, what is super-physical and occult somehow makes its
result of pure thought, what is feelingly perceived and
a physical form — lights up in a form that is perceptible
to the senses. That what is ordinarily physical in everyday
invited me there, I shall have the quite natural feeling that
does not do so I shall feel that my being invited into the
chattering stops me from getting a word in edgeways, the
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Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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felt from of old that a certain kinship or at least a
them, that artistic creative power might be disturbed by any
that certain gifted artists whose creations suggest a kind of
to depict things that seem to shine from the super-sensible
spiritual figures, appear before their eyes, so that the feel
they are conversing with these figures of phantasy, or that
visions that come to him, it is legitimate to speak of
imagination and the conscious vision that can function in the
of view the argument that the artist ought not to allow his
original impulses to be superseded by what is consciously
clairvoyant vision of the spiritual world. For what we mean
world. I want only to say at the outset that the
subsequent thought about what has thus been
matter what name may be given to the process. The nature of
transformation of what a man reproduces within himself from
what is connected therewith in remembrance and memory.
Everything that the artist has absorbed in life works on as
is that a man can only penetrate into the spiritual world
our contemporaries that the human soul can so strengthen its
slumbering powers that soul life can function in complete
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Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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scarcely a faint reflection of what lived in the soul of an ancient
is much more important that we should have been prepared by
What was it like
only compare it with what can take place in the soul of a man to whom
spiritual world. For what in the last resort is Spiritual Science but
wishes to translate what he sees there into the language of the
his hearers a mental image corresponding with what he himself sees in
that world.
himself, our ideas cannot be confined to that world itself. No
back historically, or geologically, we must realise that, if we are
sense-perceptible and penetrate into regions that can only be grasped
supersensibly. What we call Genesis does not begin with the
we shall become thoroughly convinced that it would be quite wrong to
peculiar secret? It lies in the fact that they are written in the
in such a way that when a letter was sounded it called up in the soul
which may be compared with what the seer can still see today when he
unlike those that are presented to the seer when, freed from his
that in the course of these lectures we too should seek to place
gradually learn to comprehend what lived in the ancient Hebrew sage
course that contemporary clairvoyant investigation makes it possible
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Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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unacquainted with the kind of feeling that prevails in our circles,
misunderstanding. You may take it as definite that it is a very real
effort for me to do anything of the sort; and that I only do it
further what science has to say. My sense of responsibility is such
that it will not permit me to bring forward anything that conflicts
responsibility that goes with it.
just has to be said that, as regards the questions now to come before
controversy about every detail, please take it for granted that
what is positive, and trust that in a circle of Anthroposophists this
originally given to us has actually the peculiarity that the very
You know that in the
productive musing. I told you that we have to conceive that, as if
of the nature of desire or will. The one complex contains all that
indicated in the Bible by appropriate sounds. We are told that this
— without form and void. To understand what is meant by
tohu wabohu we must try to recapture a picture of what it
expresses; and we only succeed in doing that if out of our spiritual
scientific knowledge we call to mind what it was that, after its passage
yesterday that what we call solidity, the state which offers a
of the earth that the solid element was added. Thus at the moment
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Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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is in some such way that what had slowly and gradually been built up
form. In fact all that is narrated in the Bible of the six or seven
which we have to ask ourselves is this — what kind of reality
are we to attribute to the account of what happened in the course of
organs of sense such as we have today have followed what we are told
elementary existence, so that a certain degree of clairvoyant
observation. The truth is that the Bible tells us of the origin of
the sensible out of the supersensible, and that the events with which
of creation we are in the domain of clairvoyant perception. What had
form. We must get a firm grasp of that, otherwise we shall be all at
must expect to see all that had gradually evolved during the Saturn,
asking ourselves what were the special characteristics of each of
What was there as the first rudiment of man, which
same laws which obtain today in the solid mineral kingdom. So that
when we say that both Saturn and man himself were in a
“mineral” condition we must remember that it was not the
condition of the planet. Here we must never forget that there was as
yet no separation of the part which later became the earth. What
denser, gaseous element developed in the Sun, so that in addition to
must not imagine that there were plants on the old Sun in their
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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have pointed out that in the Genesis account of
recall what we have learnt from that source about the conditions of
that what later became our solar system was contained in a planetary
existence which we call Saturn. We must be quite clear that this
him to what I said two days ago — that I could myself raise all
touch on what this gullible modern science has to say. Faced with the
lectures at other places, and people will then see that we are fully
aware of the objections which can be made against what is taught in
show in the long run that this is so. As to Saturn's state of warmth,
warmth. Let us get hold of that quite clearly. The Genesis account
Saturn state, these relationships of warmth or fire. That is the
to. But mark, please, in what sense we speak of warmth or fire in the
case of such a lofty existence as that of the Saturn evolution. We
soul-warmth, will give you a proximate idea of that interweaving
pointed out that together with the condensation of warmth into air
— that is to say, with the descent of the elemental consistency
towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
we shall say that in the Sun there is an interpenetration of warmth,
light and air, and all life during that time manifested itself within
clear that if we take into consideration only these elementary
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Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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we recall what we have learnt so far about our
explained. What we have so far learnt does, however, make clear that
yesterday that the word yom does not indicate the abstract period of
time which is what the word “day” means now, but refers to the
This discovery enables us to enter more deeply into what I have
already repeated several times: that behind the weaving life of
instead of empty abstractions behind much else that comes before us
see something of the nature of Being behind what is described as
manifestations of the spirit behind all that appears in the positive
that with the transition to the Sun there then took place on the one
in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
understanding of all development — the fact that at each stage
illustration, pointing out that not only are some schoolboys
appropriate goal. Thus we may say that during the ancient Saturn
By the fact that they had not acquired the light nature, which was of
of Genesis we are told that darkness prevailed over the elementary
substances. That is the recapitulation of the Saturn existence, now a
Thus we see that the
understand existence, we must be clear that what emerged at an
rather thorny subject. Possibly some of you may know that for the
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spiritual life, of spiritual evolution. So too what is of primary
importance as regards the Genesis story is to ascertain what were the
visible course of our earth's evolution. Only after that do we think
various ages and various peoples what we have first established
of reverence for what resounds in our hearts from far-off ages. We
link with what must have affected us in past epochs. This is how we
have already partly succeeded. We have borne in mind throughout that
in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
mind that our usual interpretation of the sense-world, as it presents
illusion. That is a statement which is familiar to anyone who has
anything to do with Spiritual Science. Moreover, the fact that the
lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and
must pass over into our flesh and blood, that in clinging to external
physical existence, behind what we perceive with our senses.
rife among anthroposophical devotees, we just say “that is all
maya that the real Beings reveal themselves. And if we scorn
means of making existence comprehensible. We must be clear that when
but that if we refuse to have anything to do with this maya,
we can acquire no ideas of what lies behind it.
the nature of the earth element. We know well by now that there was
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familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
standpoint of modern knowledge a somewhat fanciful one — that
my task in this cycle to show in detail, as I have often done, that
that the kind of consciousness, the kind of soul-life we have today,
images of outer objects by means of external perception. But that
difference between the evolution of the Moon and that of our present
earth is that the old form of clairvoyance, a kind of
There I pointed out that the old, dreamlike picture-consciousness
our earth-consciousness, into what today gives us consciousness of
contrasted with what we ourselves are in our inner being. This
life is what characterises our present state of consciousness. When
say: “That rose is there in space! It is separated from us; we
that. Beings with the Moon-consciousness made no such distinction.
Suppose that when you looked at the rose you were not conscious that
the rose was outside, and that you were making a mental image of it,
but that you felt “The real being of this rose which hovers
Indeed you could go further. Suppose that when you looked at the sun
you did not feel that the sun was above you and that you were below,
but felt that while you were forming a mental image of the sun it was
outer and inner. If you can make that clear to yourselves, you will
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course always bear in mind that what concerns us most of all, what is
most important, is the development of man himself. We know that man
look back to Saturn, we are struck by the fact that in this state of
man, and that as yet nothing of what surrounds us today in animal,
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
it might seem that man emerged for the first time as if suddenly
fired from a pistol on the sixth day. Yet we know that the human
kingdom is the all-important one, that the other kingdoms are, as it
it that we find no earlier mention of man in the Genesis account?
observe that Genesis, when beginning to speak of the creation of man,
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see whatCh. 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 every creeping thing thatCh. I, v.26,
learn to understand more exactly what “Adam” means. The
creation, unless we are clear that in reality it is not the physical
man that precedes the soul-spiritual, but vice versa. We have to
what has been cast off and is developing supersensibly according to
that on the first day there were present the inner mobile energy and
the outwardly manifest, we should not on that first day expect to
account. When Genesis tells us that through cosmic musing the two
complexes of inner stimulation and outward manifestation arise, what
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findings as to the evolution of our earth. I have already said that I
will remember what great importance I attached to two significant
could not have given to man his true earthly meaning. All that we
it were. One result was that, after the separation of the sun from
Another, that man himself was now exposed to the danger of wilting
yesterday's lecture that men were still psycho-spiritual beings at
this time, but that they were unable to unite with the earth on
about that the great majority of human souls had to relinquish their
during the time between the separation of the sun and that of the
Then came that other
escaped to the planets begin to return again. That went on far into
the Atlantean epoch. What had crystallised out as man during the
with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this
what later became racial differentiation. It is still possible today
this or that planet.
— that by no means all human souls abandoned the
earth. What we might describe as the toughest souls were able to go
mentioned the startling circumstance that there was an outstanding
investigation impels us to accept what to begin with seems incredible
— that there was such a couple as Adam and Eve, and that the
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all that has been said in the last few days,
and especially from what was said yesterday, you will have gathered
at about what time we have placed the Genesis story. In fact we have
pointed out that the first momentous words of the Bible mark. the
moment when we should say in terms of Spiritual Science that the
what is described in the opening verses takes place. The biblical
description of the creation then goes on to cover all that happens
moon. What has been described by Spiritual Science as coming after
the withdrawal of the moon, that is, at the end of Lemuria and in the
“days” of creation. We pointed that out yesterday. We
also pointed out the deep significance of the statement that man
separation, and its activity from without, as associated with that
words! I have impressed upon you that the proper earthly incarnation
the earth itself; so that it was his late assumption of his bodily
accurate and appropriate wording. We are told that the group-souls
became living creatures — became what we today call living
creatures. Man did not descend at that time. The group-souls who
imprinted the earth-forces into himself at that time he would have
distinct from the air and the sea. Only after that, little by little,
It is conveyed to us in memorable words when we are told that the
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what we are going to deal with in the coming days.
It may well be that the first thought that occurs to you at the
beginning of this cycle should refer to what for several years has
been the introduction to these Munich lectures, that is, our artistic
thought that comes before my own soul on this occasion, it is that it
reconstruction of the Mystery of Eleusis. Seeing that this year
All that is bound up with the Eleusinian Mystery is intimately
connected with what we call our anthroposophical striving. We began
epochs and races to all that has been accomplished for the
all this that we made a kind of introduction to this movement of ours.
Now that for some years past we have been able to give dramatic
productions of what has issued from Edouard Schuré's soul, we have
and thoughts that, for rather a smaller circle of us, have formed
define all this, I should say that an inner confidence, an inner
which these things entered our souls. So that we might say that if we
that we feel in our souls with regard to our anthroposophical
what the things themselves told us in the beginning, what they told us
what the years that have since passed have also told us.
What belief were we able to hold at the beginning, and later in the
history — that was able to arise before the soul. The idea could
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intimately related to spiritual life. We shall have to speak of what
significance of all that radiates out for life from initiation and
all this in relation to what may be summed up in such contrasting
initiation, then, that on this occasion will be the limit of our
before us all that surrounds us in life, that reminds us of the
necessity to search in this passing moment of our lives for what is
making him then confess that if such can become the soul's attitude,
necessarily follow that Faust should own that he deserves to fall
makes everything connected with the feeling that flows from the
that what we live in — the passing moment — is in opposition
to what we call eternity, for which man's soul must constantly long.
pursued over the years, we have recognised that the striving after
darkness of life. What is it that entangles Faust at the beginning of
the poem? What envelops him? It is the darkness of life. How often
have we to emphasise that so great is the force and power of this
darkness over man, that the spirit light, finding him immature, may so
work upon him as not to illuminate but to dazzle and stun him. So that
the question may not only be, “What is the way to the light of
“How must man tread the path of the soul that is able to lead him
These are only the guiding lines that should occupy us in these
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this with the concepts and modes of thought that are indispensable to
that at every stage of its development the human soul should
comprehensible that, at first, human souls should try to probe into
concepts of the life of the senses. I expressly say that this is
conceptual life that is necessary if he would arrive at ideas about
For this, we must become familiar with the idea that everything is
different in the super-sensible world from what it is in the world of
should it be assumed that human conceptions and representations hold
super-sensible life, well knows that not only must he transform many
ordinary sensory life what we call the moral world order, the sum of
stock of himself, he must soon come to the conclusion that in the life
poisonous. We maintain that it is part of sound thinking in the life
of what we call moral concepts and ideas. We know that we must do the
animal world. We feel, for instance, that it would be senseless to
suggestion, of moral concepts in what animals do and in what happens
nature requires that we should free ourselves from moral concepts so
moral ideas that decide the world of a man, and indeed not only his
worth in human social life. It also makes one able to say that even a
being according to the moral ideas that light up in his consciousness.
It must repeatedly be emphasised that these two systems of concepts
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characterise what was alluded to in the lecture of the day before
initiation that the riddle of death, so closely concerning all
the initiate has to experience, in a somewhat different form, how the
records are actually founded on truth. The experiences that have to be
right way, we must first ask what man knows about himself in ordinary
an understanding of what takes place in initiates, it is necessary to
focus one's attention on the question, “What does the soul
During sleep the soul does not know what it is because sleep runs its
So, in considering the questions, “What is man? What is his soul
life. Now we know that in the first place there are the gateways we
our souls. In the life of the senses what we call “our
world” is really only a gathering up of all that streams in
understanding, our feeling and willing, with which to work on what
disillusion, and so on. Were we to envisage the whole compass of what
man recognises as himself, it is all this. If we want to know what the
forward nothing more than the whole of what has just been described.
his own body. Through countless facts that need not here be dealt with
in detail, he becomes aware that he must regard his body as the
already touched upon the longings that play into this life. Among them
is a longing to know what man really is within the limits of birth and
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I pointed out that this experience takes place in such a way that
that one begins to feel outside one's physical body in such a way that
everything in the physical body that was called oneself is now
One is inside something else. I pointed out to you yesterday that the
imagining that when one selflessly and in the right way reaches the
existence we confront these other beings in such a way that we know
the life that runs its course by means of external natural forces
that there is an animal and here the external substances it is going
to cat. There is not this duality there, for whatever is, is being.
that this is mainly the world of the hierarchies, and we have often
with these beings. Whatever you are in sensory existence you must have
worlds you carry the memory of what you have left behind and, as in
the higher worlds on to what you have been in sensory existence. You
is good to learn to distinguish between the first step and those that
that you will best learn to find your way in higher worlds if, among
body and of its form. It is indeed a matter of experience that this is
that, after crossing the threshold, after passing the Guardian of the
of the self. What you should first experience is how to estimate your
own moral qualities. You should perceive what moral or immoral
tendencies you have, what sense of truthfulness, or superficial
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our ordinary world of the senses. From much that has been said it
should be evident to you that we must speak of human concepts in a
another. That is one side of the matter. But there is another side;
that particular world, and, in addition, by all that is working into
worlds. It goes without saying that such rules are not only useful but
experience of super-sensible life, into these descriptions that may be
quick ascent into higher worlds, there always seems to enter what, in
Life is a complicated affair, and every soul, in whatever position it
keep to the truth, you cannot say that normally such and such a path
this or that and giving rise to the belief that it is possible by
This is why such things are doubtful. It was for this very reason that
to indicate something individual that can at the same time be useful
Without wishing to give any kind of explanation about what has been
one of these that it is better or worse than the others; in each case
you must admit that it is the outcome of individual karma. It can only
be said that a soul such as Johannes or Capesius must necessarily
belief that a few rules will suffice in these matters —
individualities or beings of the higher worlds and to verify what part
that it is. In our time, in the widest circles, there is a strong
impulse to get to know the order of nature, the laws of nature, that
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attitude of the individual toward what we may call the description of
the super-sensible world and all that arises from the researches,
easily the opinion may be formed that value and significance for the
one who has made the first steps on that path and is therefore able,
that this is not so. It is true that one can see, observe, discover
and explore what takes place in the higher worlds, but only if one has
On the other hand, in what concerns the understanding of these other
worlds, you would not be judging correctly if you affirmed that, in
order to comprehend, grasp and receive what can be given by those who
emphasised repeatedly that any man who devotes himself without
prejudice to what is vouched for by actual spiritual investigators in
to grasp all that he is offered. In the life of the senses it is quite
different. We are perfectly justified in saying that there is hardly
a description, but it is still true to say that only he who can see
for himself, can grasp things in sensory existence. So that in this
existence understanding must come after seeing. That is by no means
the case in higher worlds. Those who seek there, can draw out that for
materialistic or other dogmas, or they may have no will whatever to
give themselves open-mindedly to what is being imparted; in that case
it will not be understood. Or it may not be a man's own fault that he
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You know that one of the most significant pronouncements made as the
meaning. They indicate that something of a most essential nature took
place in man's entire soul development at that time. When these words
beginning of Kali Yuga or Age of Darkness. What is the significance of
solely upon what was accessible to his senses, and also upon his
primeval age that we wish to create a picture.
knew this from his own experience, so that it would have been absurd
kingdoms. Not only did he possess a knowledge of what streamed toward
seeing, but a remembering that took place, in the same way that an old
the year 3,000 B.C. and is characterized by the fact that the
consciousness, so that all knowledge has had to be drawn from the
him. Up until the time of Kali Yuga man remembered some things that
had not something occurred from another direction; that is, the
embodiment on the physical plane of that divine Being to whom we refer
that man would be able to find his connection with God within, and
to be brought forcefully to man's attention that that moment had
Baptist. He announced that the times had changed, that “the Kingdom of
spiritual world so that the conviction could be born in them that a
revealed Himself to His disciples.” To them He disclosed that man, in
What occurs in such an important epoch in world evolution always
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We have indeed often emphasised that Anthroposophy has a special task
question again and again to himself: What aims does this spiritual
evolutionary path of mankind at that point on which we ourselves
stand, to look a little into the future, and then ask ourselves: What
We know that since the great Atlantean Catastrophe, which entirely
the middle of which we now are. We must be clear that such divisions
to an end, and then a new one began, but that the one gradually and
in a very significant way, that which will constitute the real
the day, and those who form ideas for themselves that something new is
preparing, and who also know that what is being prepared is
place ourselves in the time as a human being and say we are doing what
is generally the custom, what the others do, what our parents have
educated us for, or, we can so place ourselves that we know
yourself or in your environment — which contributes to what must
We know that these epochs of time are essentially different from each
civilisation, and have shown that the soul-qualities of man then were
different from what they later were, how man then was still endowed to
a high degree with clairvoyant consciousness. And we have shown that
that that Being Whom we call Christ Jesus could incarnate in the
have then seen how since that time, through a certain stream, the
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seen, in the course of years, that its aim is not to work on, as it
day, spiritually, by always speaking on what concerns the day, but one
arises, that within our seven-yearly cycle in the German Section of
to world-embracing questions. And you will have seen from what has
come to you in the explanations given in various lecture-cycles, that
quite different from what it has become in recent times. The Gospels
do, each of which professes to give us an account of what happened at
said: It does not really need very much today to realise that if the
themselves in that sense as one understands it today. Any child
could see that, one might retort! But it might be added: Now the
was imparted to the others, brought near so that they could grasp it.
people, that they could not see what any child can see today: that
men, that they did not see what the critic sees, working in the modern
i.e., that the whole world of man's feeling towards the Gospels
centuries ago took the Gospels in hand get on with what one today
four Gospels, and they felt extraordinarily that because they had four
that possible? That was because these old judges of the Gospels kept
in mind something quite different from what is kept in mind today. The
photograph. People notice what the photograph looks like, and say: Now
shows the picture of the same nosegay to people, but they say: That
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to be sought essentially in the fact that the writers of the gospels,
different sides, so through a combination of what results, through
earth. Do not take it amiss, if I attempt to say to you what I really
We express through speech what we want to say. And what lives in our
In this method of expressing through speech what lives in our soul,
that wonderful method of expression which was still possible in the
did not merely sound in this word what sounds in it today; a more or
there lay more the description, the portraying of what is outside. One
can say that when, e.g., an ancient Hebrew drew a “B”
— what corresponds today with our “B” — he always
“B” without that living in the soul. And if one vocalised an
That is the light which I wanted to place before you. And the shadows
I must represent in contrast; that we in our time have become to a
abstractions, generalities. One does not even feel that any more.
object for writing. I have had to experience that even in the founding
in a public writing shop? Thus we must be quite clear that we have a
which one felt the responsibility that GOD should speak from out of
not also believe that one can give everything in our speech? He cannot
understand that our speech says something empty with what even the
sifted once, twice, three times, but so sifted, that there remains not
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Nature know that the higher spiritual law is bound to bring to pass
reality of the Christ principle, we understand that this Christ
principle is a force, a living force, and that it has been connected
with human life on earth since the time that in the body of Jesus of
Nazareth it united itself with one special human being. Since that
our disposal to its understanding, in such a way that we make it the
the womb of time, but also for that which surely and certainly will
there is born for us human beings that which is beyond time. If we
What must, will come; and nothing prevents us from throwing our best
energies into what we believe to be inevitable. Belief is the real
fruit of the cross; it is that, which always calls out to us: ‘Look
work; then look from your failures to the cross, and remember that on
and must form an increasing part of everything that may be achieved
for the future of humanity. And this is that we must become capable
its correctness. We may have to admit a thousand times that it cannot
be realised immediately, that we must wait in patience and without
faltering, though we believe that the Christ-force is working in the
when it is a question of deciding what is true, wise and right, will
spiritual ideas within us. That is the other centre of force on which
was necessary for the progress of humanity that darkness should reign
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consider the wisdom of the Eastern world, that is to say humanity's treasures
knowledge of the Christ impulse and all that the course of the
themselves, to review many things that are known, less known, or
what the people of older and of ancient times had to say about these
our souls, and then enquire how that which we learn to know as
Western wisdom accords with what we may learn to know as Eastern
wisdom. The point is that the wisdom of the super-sensible worlds, if
emphasised by me, that any unprejudiced mind may grasp and comprehend
whoever is willing to exercise it can understand everything that is
related of the result of clairvoyant investigation. It is true that
we know already that in normal human life there is a condition in
condition of sleep. We know that of the four principles of human
asleep these four principles separate in such a way that the physical
our time and a clairvoyant investigator consists in the fact that the
that of building into his hitherto unorganised astral body, and ego,
spiritual eyes, spiritual ears, etc., and of doing all that is
necessary to develop these spiritual organs. But that is not the only
thing necessary. Let us suppose that a person has progressed so far
that, by the methods, which we shall presently mention, he has
Such a person would then have an astral body different from that of
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UR attention has been called to the fact that to human beings at a certain
become living and permeated with spirit, and it has been said that this
stage may be designated as that of ‘penetration into the world
carefully, and to realise that they are used, not in an approximate,
must be pointed out that when we ascend into super-sensible realms,
behind what is perceptible by the senses and comprehensible to the
most comprehensive laws is that of growth and decay, of coming into
find that a characteristic of its highest beings is that they are
born and that they die within it; the inanimate kingdom of the
of the astral world, however, reveals the fact that here the capacity
body, shares this characteristic of continual transformation. That
human astral body. We have seen that the beings visible to a man in
and higher worlds, that they may change from good into evil, from
realise that the materials for the building up of the human being
what is hidden from him in the ordinary world, but what has just as
higher than the physical world. That which is the cause and origin of
must be clear to us that everything which constitutes man in an
is not our real being, is not what is called our Higher Self, for
that is to be found in a super-sensible world behind our feelings and
who has spiritual sight knows that the nature of these things changes
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N view of what has been said we may ask whether all the spiritual beings in
physical world. Supersensible consciousness knows that although it is
true that a spiritual being or spiritual fact is to be found behind
spiritual facts that have no expression in the inner life of the
studied earlier lectures on these subjects, will realise that a host of
involved in what has come to pass in the human, animal, vegetable and
the same sense to that being as regards its work or function in the
Earth evolution; it has progressed by that time. It is necessary to
will be remembered that I have spoken of the Old Saturn period as
Saturn fire, and that is the fire which permeates the blood as
the blood, then, is the only thing which can be compared to what was
must be understood, however, that everything in the Saturn, Old Sun
has changed in character. What was laid as a germ on Old Saturn and
periods by examining what is not to be found in this transformed
however, so it is obvious that distinction must be made between these
Earth, that certain things which we find there could come into
mind's eye, always felt in their souls the truth that our Earth has
received, into her womb, as it were, everything that came over from
Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon. That is the so-called higher,
manifested by the Earth period. It is obvious that the modern
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N the preceding lecture it has been shown to what extent the external world
the spiritual world. It has, however, also been shown that everything
that a distinction was made by ancient peoples between upper and
lower gods. In the Mysteries of all epochs it was taught that at a
spiritual world by the inner life of the soul. And because what we
veil itself is pure or corrupt, it is easy to understand that in
being. For this reason it came about that in every age a distinction
lower gods, and that this descent was regarded as more essentially
the matter aright only when we have realised that the spiritual
know that the spiritual life of the present had its origin in old
Atlantis. That an ancient spiritual life developed upon a land in the
West lying between modern Europe and America, and that such Asiatic,
for men of that time not only to see colours and hear in the outer
colours and tones. In the same way it was natural for men at that
purpose of human evolution implies that men are gradually to rise up
mankind from the spiritual world in such a simple way that one stream
and Africa into Asia, and that everything should develop, as it were,
very simple analogy will show that this is the case. Consider a
life, as we know it, it is essential that something else should
stream of influences from outside has to be introduced in order that
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incarnations of a certain individuality, had been so purified that
should not of course be imagined that these spirits were composed
world, felt that he stood upon the Earth; that as man he had through
on ancient Saturn down to the Earth evolution; that it was necessary
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
not in their world, namely, the human ego consciousness that to say
in his human ‘I’ consciousness. He knew that to speak of
can be applied to everything that in a spiritual sense is spread out
... And the Indian consciousness named that which spread itself out
externally, the ‘Tat,’ the ‘That’ in
fact that man is of the same nature and essence as the ‘That,’
the ‘Tat,’ or the ‘It’ — that the ‘I’
the Indian said: ‘I am Tat, Thou art That.’ Thus man's
words: ‘It exists; but thou thyself art that.’
the ancient Indian realised at the same time that the reality without
into his own inner being, that this reality manifests at one time
ancient times knew that by sinking down into the soul they came to
but that the right relationship between them and what was living
‘Thou art That,’ ‘I am Brahman,’ and ‘I
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in outer life. As a result there is misunderstanding of much that is being
shown that the mystical Christ-experience — such an experience as a
experiences with what we have called the Christ substance — was
is not correct to say that in pre-Christian times the mystical Christ
beings and the Christ can only be comprehensible if we assume that a
humanity the important thing is that man, on incarnation depends for
of evolution is expressed by the very fact that the etheric and
closer. Now it is in the etheric body that all the forces necessary
culture we must clearly realise that the conditions were quite
different from what they became during the Chaldean-Egyptian epoch.
permeation of the physical body by the etheric body, that in no part
finely permeated by what we might today call the misty cloud
of each form. The manner of perceiving then was what might be called
like dew or hoar frost. That peculiar kind of sight was then natural.
connected with the fact that the Luciferic beings manifesting within
beings, and that the Christ-Being Who was formerly a cosmic being
that not only affected the past, but was also a preparation for the
that which descended into the etheric body of man and was experienced
the old ages of the pre-Atlantean evolution. The fact that these
Luciferic influences had become so much darkened that man, at the
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the Kingdom of Lucifer. We pointed out, for instance, that the way to
their central figure, led outwards; but that the way into the Kingdom
Christ on the earth, this has altered in such a way that there has
been a transposition of these realms, and that mankind has advanced
know that our earth, sun and moon were once one being; that the sun
our earth from outside; that after the withdrawal of the sun from the
of the fact that the beings who separated the moon from the earth
realise that as far as those beings which left the earth with the sun
are concerned, it is natural that man in his further evolution should
what was hidden from the external sight, and are the sub-terrestrial
moon evolution, who did not attain to that grade which as spiritual
beings, standing at that time much higher than men on the moon, they
Sun-spirits and to work down upon the earth from the sun; but that it
was not possible for them to do. It therefore came to pass that these
from the earth with the sun, but that they could not keep pace with
evolution. Now what did these beings do in the course of the earth
moon, that is to say, from the inner part of his being, then that
being of the soul, upon which later the real Moon-gods worked; that
it all that can be poured into the essence of the Ego from divine
and filled it with all that can give him enthusiasm for the sublime,
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HE facts stated at the end of the last chapter cannot but be somewhat
has been stated that there is a certain relation between the numbers
seven and twelve, and that this relation has something to do with
ourselves an idea of what will happen in the future, i.e. in time.
vision is so far opened that he can examine data of the Akashic
realise that what runs its course in time is built up on the basis of
the number seven; that which repeats itself in various forms can very
that since the earth goes through various embodiments we have to look
clue for everything that happens in time.
the other hand the number twelve is a clue for all things that
right way by connecting the spatial relationship of everything that
ascertained the fact that space was best understood when it was
came in, that is to say in the time element, the seven planets were
how does this apply to the evolution of human life? We have said that
advent of the Christ-impulse, it is a fact that when a man looked
to that which belongs to the soul, arose out of that soul world.
man if they wanted to give instruction upon that which belongs to the
man, his inner being, that is, as did all the great teachers of
time; it runs its course in time. That which surrounds us externally
groups itself in space; that which runs its course inwardly, groups
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Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
often been explained that it is not as easy to investigate and
although it can only be done in outline. This does not mean that what
universal standpoint much of what has been presented in my books
imagine that we are fully conversant with them when they have been
described from one point of view only. Occult facts are such that we
that judgments are passed by people who may have heard a few
what can be said from other aspects to work upon them. Yet the truths
experiences, although in a different way, what takes place between
death and rebirth. This accounts for the fact that one can
clairvoyant perception that also will help in our understanding of
totally different in the super-sensible world from what it is on
allow things to approach us. That is an essential point. We must
super-sensible world confronts us depends on what we bring with us
super-sensible world that we loved a person less than we ought to have
one with clairvoyant consciousness. None of the forces that we are
improve a relationship of soul in the physical that we recognize as
feeling of powerlessness towards the necessity of karma that can be
immediately in the life between death and rebirth. Suppose that
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Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
during his earthly life that the human being is fixed to one place,
earthly life around him. He is connected with what earthly life gave
a way that he dwells in the whole Moon sphere. During this period he
the earth. He still wishes to have what he wished to have on earth.
He is interested in the things that interested him on earth. The
reason for this kamaloca period is that he may put away these
satisfied. It will be understood that this refers to the
individuality of man in the narrowest sense, to that part of the
astrality of a human being that has to be extirpated, removed.
into kamaloca, for the beings or events that he will encounter there
passed somewhat earlier through the gate of death. Both are in
that man is not only concerned with his own development — the
on earth. Yet, generally speaking, there is little prospect that a
there. It is not that one does not approach such beings. A man may
with what we formerly have developed. In kamaloca we are related to
others in exactly the same way as we were on earth except that we
cannot do what is still possible here, that is, change the
hatred for someone we once loved, or love for one whom we once hated.
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Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
used: Assuming that there is a life after death we need not concern
of death we shall see what happens. As for our physical existence, it
a life beyond, that one is thereby adequately prepared to enter it.
realm that man crosses between death and rebirth, such a way of
with what remains in the astral body as forces from the last earthly
life but increasingly he enters into the sphere that we described
The human being has to bring with him two things that have been
that the bodily constitution may be fully adapted to the
individuality that he has brought over from previous earth lives.
What is provided by way of our ancestors in the physical hereditary
that arises because of the nature of our forefathers. Man is
stream, but what he receives as his outer sheath by going through
possible by means of a remarkably complex structure of forces that he
that one particular hierarchical order bestows these, another those,
hierarchies that he needs in order to adapt to his individuality what
being. The other is that even if he remains unaware of it, he has to
work at the elaboration and formation of his destiny. Much of what
of the forces he has acquired between death and rebirth that enable
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Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
rebirth and how that life is connected with the great realm of the
spheres. Let us now briefly recapitulate what was said then.
period after death the emotions, passions and feelings that affected
actually within his physical body, it is natural that his experiences
is due to the fact that man must live through the experiences in his
the orbit of the moon, but experiences in kamaloca that are of
understand that a man who for a whole lifetime has cultivated only
an emotional disturbance in their astral body that will result in
essentially of what they are striving to cast off.
relatives and children may also act as a kind of gravity that holds
for instance, we realize that the departed soul feels anxiety for a
his realm he may be unable to do anything that would ease the
It has frequently been observed that a person who had planned to do
plan after his death. We help him if we ourselves attempt to do what
There are many other facts that may keep a soul in the etheric sphere
adapted to these conditions. Although what can be expressed in words
Descriptions are never quite accurate that convey the idea that the
physical body. What is experienced both after death and in initiation
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture I
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
these last few days, you will find that they lead into what we will
soul, more tragic, perhaps, or more emphatic in speech, not just a
be said immediately that we have also given theoretical descriptions
Scene Nine is first of all directed to that
of the experiences that had penetrated to her very core but not
and in the ancient Egyptian initiation. In what was presented to us
that
understood that it is a significant experience when a soul can go
through what is called the Cosmic Midnight with consciousness. Souls
that are not prepared for it will sleep through that part of the time
that have been prepared are awake in this period of their spiritual
life, but there is no guarantee that souls so prepared will also
the Cosmic Midnight is this: what formerly was only subjective,
feel perceptively that what before this were only abstract forces
What comes to souls spiritually tangible as
retrospective memory or to experience what is shown as the Egyptian
spiritual happening that is taking place in the soul would place
itself like a dark veil before it, so that any impressions recede
from observation. A soul that has experienced the Cosmic Midnight and
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
will have seen that the soul experiences of those who appear in
with the inner eye, for it is only natural that at first everything
of the super-sensible world that the human soul can experience is an
world by means of the various methods we have apprehended, that is,
We may therefore say that the soul in becoming
the border and now experiencing the sense world with what is
within the world order that play a certain role in the happenings
that we've been speaking about, it is necessary to know how to
all the impulses that come from him.” This might seem to be the
pair of scales, were to take off whatever was weighing down the lower
say that they are bad and harmful. Although these powers rebel in a
not stem from the fact that they invariably have to exercise a
harmful activity, but rather that — like the others whom we
Lord of Death, far and wide the ruler of all the powers that have to
bring about in the physical sense world what this world has to have,
His sovereign domain is the mineral world, a world that is utterly
dead. One can say that death is poured out over the whole of the
part of the being of the earth. Therefore whatever belongs
lawful rule of Ahriman. In what surrounds us as external nature,
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
entering that consciousness was already long present in man's nature.
to perceive what is already there as a fact. Obvious as this is, it
has to be said, for we must lead our thoughts to realize that the
clairvoyant cognition. It follows from this that the true, inmost
than through occult knowledge. We can learn what a human being
This is the most important thing: that the human soul
should become more or less accustomed to the fact that the way of
looking at and recognizing things that for the sense world is the
to the first world that the soul of a human being enters on becoming
that people do not look for contradictions in a superficial way where
all the time that in the presence of another person or happening you
are the same person that you were before and that you will be the
to a being or event so completely that one transforms one's own inner
way that with every step we transform ourselves into every single
a person's soul that in passing through the sense world, he should
You will easily understand that in order to
of noting what is called the threshold between the sense world and
the super-sensible world. We have already said that the clairvoyant
continually, that it must observe the spiritual world beyond the
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
what already has been indicated. In the elemental world there are
many happenings and phenomena surrounding the clairvoyant soul that
disturbing to confront a world that the soul is not at all accustomed
it will occur to you that the descriptions there of the real spiritual world,
Devachan or the Spirit-land, as I called it. You will find that the
the physical sense world. You can easily imagine that stage hands
nowadays would not know what to do with the sort of scenery one might
You might well believe that to represent
sense-perceptible images. This is not the case. When the soul that
They are not just thought out in order to characterize something that is
considered, “How can that be done?” No, this world
pictured here is the world surrounding the soul that it to some
reality of the spirit world, the spirit-land that has nothing at all
that world. Suppose you open a book. At the top of the page you find
the top to its center. Then comes something like a circle that is not
all this when you open a book and look at the first thing that stands
that is not printed on the page; it is, however, indicated to you by
what is there on that page.
soul to the whole picture-world of the spirit region. What the soul
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
that Capesius is a historian, a professor of history. Occult research has
shown me that a number of well-known modern scholars have become
the Temple Mysteries. You will notice that Capesius is a historian
penetrate to the historical ideas that have played a part in human
I must admit that in characterizing Capesius in
We must keep in mind that what Capesius's soul experienced during his
concerned in his professional life chiefly with what has been brought
more and more to recognize what is, in a sense, the one-sided
many times provided him with a real emotional lift, and what Felicia
that the knowledge of Haeckelism and the atomistic theory had
about them. But we have to understand that atoms, in order somehow to
that their relationships correspond in measure and number; the atoms
that this was somewhat Pythagorean. He felt that a Pythagorean
principle had the upper hand in Felix, who was arguing that there is
nothing we can do about the atoms themselves but that within them we
them. More and more complicated became the structures that Father
mood. You could describe it by saying that he had to strain every
nerve so much in deciphering this complicated stuff that, even though
became somewhat visionary, and the visions that came to them might
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
few more remarks may be added to what was said in yesterday's
happenings whose characteristics bear no relation at all to what can
have pointed out that everything the sense world can give us, as well
as the ideas and feelings we acquire there, are all images of what is
On the other hand, whatever is not an image of the sense
them into spiritual worlds. That is why we tried to show through the
something that can be of greatest use in understanding the life of
humanity when looked at in the right way; it is what people from now
People will eventually see that they can no longer make do with the
ideas that easygoing human beings today like to form in order to
groups that speak different languages and there are also those that
differ in their script. The western Europeans write with what are
nations that write with Roman letters, it will be necessary —
element so far that understanding takes place even in regard to facts
of deep significance that in Central Europe both kinds of writing,
elements, exist side by side. The reason for this is that here a
to the luciferic element; it shows a certain trend that in their
something lying deep in the substrata of the soul, i.e., that such
symptoms which bring to the surface what is happening in hidden
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
how the soul meets with what we may call the other self of man.
emphasized that we experience this other self, which continues from
incarnation to incarnation, in such a way that we feel almost as
other entities. As a point-like being, we confront what we might call
condition. Of course, hardly any such soul exists. That is exactly
that starts out from its own particular departure point, making an
it were looking at a photograph of itself. Instead, what is
subjective in the physical-sense and elemental worlds and what lives
to realize that these three are the self. I tried to represent them
when you have seen one. But we should be clear that what is usually
What a sufficiently strengthened soul must be aware of
is that it is itself the unity of these three beings. And one must be
further aware that what is called thinking, feeling and will is maya,
that the beings called Lucifer and Ahriman send their impulses into
great many areas. But human souls that have taken the path of
soul contains portions that can be pried loose from its entirety, and
being that are inclined to separate from the rest of the soul's life
thoughts sitting in us that are capable of taking on human form. When
our Doppelgänger, or double. We have to be aware that
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
be emphasized, now as always, that a good many misunderstandings have
a clear, objective understanding that evolution, the development of
civilization, but that for this there is a certain valid necessity.
exclaiming that here or there something quite anthroposophical has
reprint of works that have never been easy to find. But now there is an
that really outdoes everything imaginable in grotesque erudition —
people will be misled — “one will soon be aware that from
above.” I shall not discuss what these poles are, for it is all
Allomatics is something that will impress many people. “Allomatics
With exactly the same logic that this remarkable duffer derives the
and everything not a pear, that is, the Other of the pear. We could
that of many academic works that are taken seriously and are often
age. This points up a lack of discrimination between what has inner
value and what is pure nonsense at a low level of literature. Since
it can be said quite objectively that we can estimate from this the kind
occultism that, creeping out of so many corners of the world, is
them that instead of taking the time to produce such writing, they
the ancient Egyptian-Chaldean age the human soul, looking out on what
Greco-Roman age one can say that Lucifer and Ahriman confront the
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You know that one of the most significant pronouncements made as the
of the deepest meaning, because they indicate that something most
significant took place in man's entire soul development at that time.
the beginning of what we call Kali Yuga, or the Dark Age. What is the
man to depend solely upon what was accessible to his outer senses and
also to the understanding that was bound up with the instrument of
the brain. This was all that man could experience, know, and
It is of these ancient human times that we wish to create a picture.
this through his own experience, so that it would have been absurd
and animal realms. Not only did he possess a knowledge of what
remembering that took place in the same way that an old man might
characterized by the fact that the doors to the spiritual world have
that one must draw all knowledge from the world of the senses. If
Kali Yuga, man remembered some things that had been retained by way
something occurred from another direction, that is, the embodiment on
the physical plane of that divine being to Whom we refer as the
ancient times. It was said that man would be able to find his
however, it had to be brought forcefully to man's attention that the
powerfully was John the Baptist. He announced that the times had
conviction could begin to live in them that a divine being would
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facts, around him that make the most varied impression on him.
one that man must find a necessary balance between the forces
and facts that storm in from all sides, and what unfolds in his
collect and compose his soul. He feels that only in the right
powers that fetter every living being
That man is free who overcomes himself.
being of man that moves forward stormily, to this potentiality
in him that is continually developing and unfolding, there
stands opposed what approaches us from the outside. When we
themes for the considerations that will occupy us here. Both
present and into that with which spiritual science confronts
think at first of the fact that someone really feels pain and
activity. Before we go into detail about what spiritual science
the seat and said that only so positioned could he bear living.
that the man wrote down. After a few minutes the second illness
lady comforted him saying that it Would still be possible.
Strangely enough, it never occurred to the gentleman that the
lady herself was ill. The lady remarked further that yes, she
under consideration soon saw that there was something not quite
what meets us frequently at present, and the scrutinizing
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health. Hence, it is that we treasure health as a quite special
worth pursuing. That the pursuit of health should only under
considerations today, however, should disclose that health
belongs to those virtues that most readily become a reality in
That this does not always happen today can be taught us if we
observations about it. With what means, in what countless ways,
much difficulty that he managed to get four weeks' vacation,
best that could happen to a person, to stay for a time, more or
worst part of it was that after some weeks he said to me,
his feverish search for health in a somewhat sympathetic way.
health is something that lives in our time. Now, one might
them, but is there a chance that they will attain health
today. One says so frequently that what the simple person gets
individual health. What this says is that all general standard
prescriptions holding that this or that is healthy for the
human being are nonsense. The very part of humanity that is
believe that there could be something generally tagged as
health, that if one does thus and so, that it would be healthy.
It is most incredible that there is no realization that a sun
bath can be healthy for a person, but that this may not be
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meant the wisdom that is primeval, yet ever new, expressed in a form
actually came into being, for what does the pupil who is learning the
Euclid's geometry that is being taught. Only much later, when the
teaching that is accessible even in elementary schools today
existed since the fourteenth century as something that is true, quite
Knight of the Golden Stone. What this means will become clearer to us
culture many things that are clothed, it is true, in an exoteric form,
are esotericists) we shall recognise in its unusual utterances that it
something of what happened to Goethe during the period after he had
soul and expressed itself outwardly in the fact that during the last
so profound that Goethe was never able to recapture the power to
he grew more conscious of it, he was able to produce that remarkable
need not speak further now, that a kind of betrayal took place.
large. This betrayal on the one hand, and on the other the fact that
— these two facts made it imperative that the sources of
“Clairvoyance,” and secondly, of what is sometimes called
exoterically by any genuine Rosicrucianism that cannot be grasped by
the ordinary logical intellect. That is the essential point. The
objection that clairvoyance is necessary for understanding the
that is all. Anyone who has absorbed all that modern culture is able
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spiritual faculties, nevertheless the Rosicrucian method is such that
imagined, however, that what it is possible to say in a single lecture
of Rosicrucianism, namely, that this method aims at carrying Spiritual
Science into practical life. That is why things are put forward in
such a way that they can be made an integral part of life. Here too
survey the whole, you will realise that what I have said is true. The
Rosicrucian method of investigation is able to impart wisdom that can
consider what is accomplished by man between death and a new birth. It
is a widespread view that man is inactive after death but this is not
perform work that is of significance in the cosmos. We shall also have
We must realise that the nature and being of man appear far more
that member which the human being has in common with the whole of
The only correct view of the physical human body is to say that it
around him. But you must realise that this member of man's being is
the one that can least of all be conceived of as separate from the
When the occultist speaks of higher worlds, he means worlds that are
that are otherwise chained to objects are involved in myriad
transformations within the astral world. In the movement that has
A still loftier world, revealed to yet higher senses, is that of the
when the corresponding senses have been opened. In the movement that
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together with what has been worked upon in the astral body by the ego,
describe this condition with greater exactitude we must say that the
soon become invisible in their further extensions, so that the
Sleep that is filled with dreams is a condition where the astral body
his physical and etheric bodies. The fact that he must sink into sleep
has deep significance for his whole make-up. Do not imagine that the
everything that works in upon him from outside continues on into the
But let us remember, on the other hand, that the astral body is the
everything that streams and is active in the etheric body has been
Out of what is the astral body itself born? It is born out of the
glass. Similarly, what is contained in an astral body was once
the physical world; so that it is divided between the influences
body — also of the physical body. Everything that the astral body
which contain nothing that produces harmony, and passes into the
man who is dead and one who is only sleeping is that at death the
whole of the incarnation that is just over comes before the soul of
human being after death. The peculiarity of this tableau is that as
consequence is that in such a moment the whole of the previous life
physical body the well-known sensation of prickling in a limb that has
wholly lost. What may be called ether- or life-substance dissipates in
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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
world, the world of Inspiration. We heard that this region-the
that pervades the souls of beings in the physical world in the way of
Devachan everything that is truly original, from the most trivial to
world proper, we find that which links our earth with still higher
Up to now we have been considering things that have reference only to
earth-evolution, not those that transcend this evolution. A man who
attains Initiation acquires knowledge of what our earth was in the
past and will be in the future, of what links the earth with worlds
Devachan, he can begin to perceive what is known as the Akasha
What is the Akasha Chronicle? We can form the truest conception of it
by realising that what comes to pass on our earth makes a lasting
first century after Christ; what he thought, felt and willed in those
days, what passed into deeds — this is not obliterated but
man moved, what he did, a journey he took — it can all be seen in these
can also be seen. But we must not imagine that these pictures are
images of the physical personalities. That is not the case. To take a
the moving hand and it is this force of will that can be seen in the
Akasha Chronicle. What is spiritually active in us and has flowed into
quite clear that it is rather his thoughts that we see in the Akasha
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WE have come to the point in our studies where we heard that the human
that is awaiting him on earth. We have heard of the abnormalities and
spiritual gaze to Devacha: In what sense is there community of life
relationships and connections that are established between men on the
merely provided the opportunity for the forging of that beautiful bond
dead. After this period has passed, the link that was on earth is
hindered in yonder world by the encasements that exist here. Devachan
the relationships that are woven here on earth.
something that has significance not only for the earth but which also
shapes conditions in Devachan. What happens here as the fruit of love,
who have this certainty cannot but be inspired by the knowledge that
Let us suppose for a moment that on some other physical planet there
It is a mistake to assume that the consciousness of the human being in
consciousness of what is happening in the sphere of the earth.
Occultism reveals that the human being in the spiritual world lives
together with what is taking place on the earth.
Thus we see that life in Devachan, if viewed in its reality, loses
every element of comfortlessness; that the human being, when he ceases
fact that all freedom from the physical body, freedom from the lower
intense relief. The fact that these encasements have fallen away
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WE come today to what man experiences in the physical world, in so far
outset it must be emphasised that life is not determined by previous
upon what has happened previously.
generations was determined by what had happened in the past; these
of what confronts him in a given life are to be sought in an earlier
meaning that we can think what we like and nobody in the external
The materialist agrees that injury is caused if he throws a stone at a
man, but he thinks that a thought of hatred which he may harbour
real knowledge of the world know that far, far stronger effects
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
a loving thought that goes out to another man, and the very different
effect that is produced by a thought filled with hatred. When you send
happiness. On the other hand a thought of hatred bores its way into
tremendous difference in the astral world if one voices a thought that
is true or a thought that is untrue. A thought is related to a thing
and is true if it coincides with that thing. Every event that happens
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
clairvoyant sees that everything a man thinks, feels and experiences
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IN ORDER that you may better understand the Law of Karma as it works
in human life, I shall speak of what happens immediately after the
a strange feeling that arises during the experience of this great
not connected with the spaces in between. That is the peculiar way of
that belongs to his life and these experiences then become part of the
beginning, as though he were within that human being with whom he was
experience what they had felt when they had been put to death. This is
together when they return to the Earth, in order that the law of Karma
from this that there are forms of existence, kindred ties, which begin
This view of the law of Karma makes it clear that what arises in one
said that there are many contradictions between heredity and this law.
People are apt to say of a gifted man that he must be the offspring of
a gifted family, that he must have inherited his talents from his
standpoint we know that it is not like this. We can, however, in a
Suppose that on the astral plane there is an individual who acquired
in others. What is needed here is a special development of the three
remembered that eight first-class mathematicians were born in the
people take exception to this fact. They are fearful that they might
reveals that this love is present before birth, even before
It is often imagined that the human being is subject to the
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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planet, and realise that these were embodiments, that is to say,
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
has evolved, even our consciousness. The consciousness that a man has
today he has not always possessed, it has only gradually become what
waking day-consciousness. You all know it as that which you have from
perceives that there are objects in space which produce a tone, which
cold, he Smells, tastes objects. What he thus perceives with his
their comprehension in the mind that the present waking day
This comes from the fact that other stages, preceding the first, are
sketch or describe what they have experienced, they bring to light
distorted, yet agree with what we call in theosophy cosmic conditions.
something by which we can recognise that such people during this
they see cosmic bodies and therefore their sketches are of that
A consciousness that is dull like this but in compensation represents
them, they would tell you what goes on in Saturn — but this
do not know, since we are then asleep, is that of ordinary sleep. This
human beings when the Earth was “Sun”; at that time the
day-consciousness, is that of “picture-consciousness”, and
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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which mankind existed on the Moon. Except that on the Moon the astral
now imagine that the human being has died, that even his etheric body
is outside him, united to the astral body and ego, but yet that the
link is not quite dissolved, so that what is outside, embedded in the
Below on the cosmic globe of Saturn there was only what we have in our
an active and mobile state something that belonged to them down below.
bodily organs. We will describe the appearance of that on which the
I have already said that the part of the physical body elaborated then
the Saturn surface, upon what lived in man as rudiments of the senses.
Now what was the fundamental quality of this Saturn-mass? It is hard
the physical plane. There is one word however, that can express the
delicate work that was carried out there. One can denote it with the
that reached it from without; all was thrown back again; one perceived
into it and out of the pictures that then arose, the rudiments of the
sense organs began to take form, for they were pictures that worked
confronts you, and that this figure begins to create, is not a dead
they at that time a consciousness of their own. They worked out of the
human flesh. The densest condition that it could attain at all was not
Saturn was not a uniform substance but of such a composition that one
organs became rounded into cell-like balls, only that cells are small
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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mind that man on the Sun-planet, the forerunner of our Earth, was
that he had therefore risen to a kind of plant-existence. I have also
told you how different this plant existence was from that which you
know in the surrounding plant world today. We shall see that plants as
There was in addition a kingdom that we can call a backward Saturn
behind at the mineral stage that man had formerly passed through on
that man has gone through the mineral, the plant and the animal
kingdoms. You see that is an inexact way of talking, the mineral
one, but all that lives in man today as organs of growth was of a
Now we must imagine that this Sun-existence passed through a kind of
however, that the passing of a planet through a sleep-condition meant
is no inactive one; on the contrary, we have seen that man exists
We will now imagine that the Sun has passed through such a condition
and that from the Sun there has developed the third stage of our
this process, we should have been shown somewhat as follows: We should
after a twilight state. That is the beginning of the Moon Cycle.
And next there came about what one calls a recapitulation of the
earlier conditions; what had taken place on Saturn and the Sun was
The Moon of which we now speak contained not only what the present
together you would have that Moon of which we are speaking and which
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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through its so-called Moon-stage. We have also seen that a kind of
One must of course realise that all the beings which inhabit the
We have seen that three kinds of beings lived on the Moon, physical
as a being which itself possessed a sort of life, somewhat like a
grew out of the mass, while what we can call the men-animals circled
around the Moon. We must at the same time be clear that the
Moon in the Fire-mist, that it was still a part, a member, of a higher
You know that what is called Folk-soul, Race-soul, has become a
somewhat abstract idea today. Many think nowadays that the individual
soul of man that dwells in his body is the actual reality. And if one
speaks of German, French, Russian National-souls, people look on that
possess. To the occultist this is not so at all. What one calls the
absolutely independent entity. It is only that in our present
Group-soul, for at that time it had a still more real existence. It
denies everything that cannot be seen with the eye or felt with the
That is not meant as criticism, it is only to point out the contrast
You will understand that on this Old Moon a more common consciousness
felt itself as feminine. And now you know that the Moon was irradiated
enclosed in the human body was altogether lacking. That was contained
ego-consciousness. Now what happened when the Sun again shone forth in
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth II
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THE process that I have described to you as the division of the sexes
was of such a nature that the two sexes are to be thought of as still
united in that animal-man of the Moon and also in his descendants in
Now we must remind ourselves of the fact that Man in a certain respect
have already said that separation into the human sexes has arisen from
Now you must be clear that in the man the stronger influence on the
stragglers from that time when all the plants supplied these juices in
abundance. It was not till a later time that nourishment took on its
be clear that upon the Moon and during its recapitulation on the Earth
Age. Whence arises the fact that human beings no longer resemble each
increasingly created. Thus it was through the male influence that the
consciousness that only extends from birth to death came about by the
preserved through the consciousness of the group-soul, so that really
transformation of the blood arose that darkening of the consciousness
immortality, so that the impossibility of looking beyond birth and
Only then appeared what today we call incarnation, and at the same
male and a female, so that the similar is reproduced through the
female, what is varied and dissimilar through the male. We see in our
old conditions of folk and race, and the masculine that which
as individualising element. It will come about that all connections of
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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IT IS now our task to speak somewhat of the progress of human
evolution in the future and of what one calls initiation. It is by
means of initiation that present day man passes in advance through
audacious to try to speak about the future, or even that it is
you will consider the matter a little you will find that the view that
You have only to compare these things with what the ordinary
to future events. He can tell you definitely that if he mixes together
always results. One can say exactly what happens when one intercepts
life, from these laws he can likewise say what must come about in the
heavily in people's minds. It is so easy to imagine that it is a
known in advance what will happen. This too is an incorrect idea. When
sulphuric acid arises; that is determined by the laws of the
and so it is also in the spiritual course of human evolution. What
higher a man develops the freer he will be. Nor must one think that it
is already decided what a man will do in the future because one
predestined phenomena. Practically all that has been written in this
through the fact that you see it? No, you only see that he does it,
and that exercises no pressure on his act. Now in a certain respect it
of your own free will; that is the same as the example of the gift of
the penny. Under certain circumstances the seer sees what is done in
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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into special consideration what has been explained here concerning
human evolution. For we must be clear that in a certain way we find
It has been said that the inhabitants of old Atlantis could perceive
wisdom in all that surrounded them. The further we go back into the
spiritual beings which surround us. All that surrounds us has arisen
from the beginning that deep longing to know the real spirit behind
all that surrounds us in the world. We have seen how they had a
feeling that all that surrounded them was a dream, an illusion; how
their only task was to evolve upwards to the ancient wisdom that had
That is one way which man can take. The most recent way of attaining
Christianity. It took on a special form through that great initiate,
the West. All that is connected with our culture and the life we lead
Christian way is somewhat difficult for modern man, hence the
all, no matter in what occupation or sphere of life they may be
merely read it. One can live it if one understands that its utterances
are precepts for the inner life, and that one must observe them in the
right way. The Christian path demands of its disciple that he
is that one possesses the most steadfast belief in the personality of
Christ Jesus. The pupil must at least find it possible to believe that
evolution, was physically incorporated as Jesus of Nazareth; that
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Title: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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science does not exist in order that human
energy and open mindedness to humanity so that people can meet what
daily life and our times demand. Hence it follows that spiritual
throughout with what are commonly called questions of our
that he will directly enter these current debates. And this
observation that such questions are raised into their eternal
discover that spiritual science can offer a far more thorough answer
science takes its start from the knowledge that behind all that is
their right light. And so we must ask ourselves: What is the
spiritual nature of the two sexes? We shall then see that the truths
What then
best orientate ourselves towards this question by considering that
important for us to learn what materialism has to say about female
sparked off much controversy came to the conclusion that female
in the world. And yet another said that the ability to analyse was
well developed in women, as opposed to others who believed that women
would only learn that through looking at things on a purely external
the opinion that the individual human being can be seen neither as
entirely masculine nor feminine but rather that the masculine is
such that in every man a hidden woman and in every woman a hidden man
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Erster Vortrag
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Menschengeister beschäftigt hat, Menschenherzen und
dasjenige getragen hat, was wir in echt anthroposophischem Sinn
das Glück hatten, hier zu sehen bei jener Aufführung
uns auch in diesem Jahre wiederum erfreuen, er hat für das
Zeitgenossen geherrscht hat. Man verwechselt so leicht die Art,
Gegenwartskultur hat keine Einheitlichkeit der Empfindung.
Freunde, die uns das ermöglicht hat, was wir erleben
sie im Grunde genommen schon die Kraft gefunden hat, über
Individualität enthalten ist, der er zu folgen hat. Nehmen
durchlebt hat, und was wahr ist, ohne daß derjenige, der
der Gestalt, die er in der Gegenwart hat, sondern er sieht ihn
Worte ausspricht, in seinem Gedanken wirksam hat, was in des
Aufstieg, das wirkt wiederum weiter in unserer Seele. Hat es in
belegen versucht. Johannes Thomasius hat in der Welt, die er
bis dahin durchschritten hat, nur das durchlebt, was man nennen
begründete Wahrheit hat, das konnte er bis dahin nicht
oder des Verstandes kennengelernt hat. Dadurch verknüpfen
Thomasius, der schon vieles, vieles erkannt hat von den
wir Ihnen gestern gezeigt hatten. Daß wir das unter
schwierigen Aufgabe unterzogen hat, den Phosphoros auf die
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Zweiter Vortrag
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steht und einiges von dem aufgenommen hat, was aus der
schwacher Abglanz, kaum ein Schattenbild zu nennen von dem, was
hat, mit einer Welt, die der sinnlichen zwar zugrunde liegt,
mehr so wirkt, einstmals hat sie so gewirkt, daß, wenn ein
notwendig sein, daß man absieht von allem Schattenhaften,
Wirkungen auf die Seele hat, und daß man sich einen
Lautfolge in dieser alten Sprache hatte. Und so ist es von
althebräischen Weisen gelebt hat, wenn er jene
Seelenbedingungen heraus sich entwickelt hat, als sie in der
nichts von dem hat, was wir gewohnt sind, das stoffliche Dasein
Element der Wärme in sich hat. Wärme oder Feuer, in
stattgefunden hatte, wiederholen. Das Sonnenhafte mußte
Schattenhafte, was man heute im Auge hat, wenn man etwa das
Schöpferisches in der Seele hatte, wovon der moderne
hat.
ein bestimmtes Ziel hat. Welches ist dieser Sinn, welches ist
Unsere Erdenentwickelung hat einen Sinn, ein Ziel nur dann,
sie sich herausentwickelt hat aus anderen Zuständen, etwas
dem, was sich heranentwickelt hatte aus dem alten Saturn-,
diese Wesenheiten? — Sie konnten vieles, sie hatten sich
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Dritter Vortrag
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Wissenschaft heute zu sagen hat in bezug auf das jeweilig in
moderne Wissenschaft in dem betreffenden Punkte zu sagen hat.
diese urgewaltigen Schöpfungsworte uns gegeben sind, hat
früher durchschritten, hatte das Saturn-, Sonnen- und
wiederfinde, was früher in meiner Seele sich gelagert hat
Sonnen- und Monden-zustandes sich zugetragen hat. Wir wollen
geführt haben. So hat es sich wieder hergestellt.
hatten, ihn ins Seelenauge faßten, dann müssen wir
aufgelebt hat, was schon in der alten Sonne war. Es fehlte das
Lichtelement. Das hatte sich abgesondert. Dadurch war ha'arez
einseitig geworden. Es hatte das Licht nicht mitgenommen,
also dunkel geblieben, sie hatten nichts Sonnenhaftes. Das war
Händen. Das Geistige hat seine Organe im Kopf, im Gehirn;
da hat es seine Werkzeuge. — Wir unterscheiden also
dargestellt hat, ist die äußere Leiblichkeit der
ineinanderwogende Wärme, Luft und Wasser hatte, von dem
sich abgesondert hatte alles lichtartige Element in dem
sich nicht mehr daran. Die Erde hat aus sich herausgehen lassen
ha'arez durcheinanderwogt als tohu wabohu, das hat keinen
eigenen Lichtzustand, das hat nur etwas, was man nennen kann
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Vierter Vortrag
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allmählich im Verlauf der Entwickelung herangebildet hat
Mondendaseins sich nach und nach entwickelt hat.
Abtrennung dessen stattgefunden hat, was später das
hat sich gegenüber dem früheren Saturnzustand als
so daß man den alten Sonnenzustand sich vorzustellen hat
aufschießen läßt und wiederum das Bestreben hat,
der Mensch heute hat, in dem Weltenraum herumschweifen
Geistiges. Für das hellseherische Bewußtsein hat
hatte, und auch während des alten Monden-zustandes, wo die
müßten wir sagen: Nachdem eingeschlagen hat das Licht
konnte das, was gasförmigen Zustand hatte, von dem, was im
Dampfförmigem bildet und das Bestreben hat, in Wolkenform
absteigendes. Wäßriges haben wir in beiden, nur hat
eintrat von zwei elementarischen Zuständen. Der eine hatte
Der andere hatte die Tendenz, nach unten sich zu ergießen,
hatte, nach aufwärts zu kommen, und das andere die
dieser Stelle hat. Dafür steht in der Genesis das Wort
hinausstrahlt, was nach Wolkenbildung drängt, das hat
nach innen gestrebt hat, was in gewisser Beziehung wiedergibt
Sonne gebildet hatte, was wir beschrieben haben in dem
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sich die Wärme verdichtet hat zu dem, was wir gasig oder
Wärme, Licht und Luft, und alles das, was da gelebt hat
Wärme ist in diesem Raum, hat seinen Grund darin, daß
Wärmeverbreitung ein Mittel der Offenbarung hat.
geordnet hat, daß die einen nach oben strahlen und die
unser planetarisches Dasein mit dem alten Saturn begonnen hat,
Tätigkeiten entfaltet hatten, daß sie sich nun zu den
unserer Bibel zu sagen hat. Ein Kreuz in der Auslegung der
seit langer Zeit entfaltet hat, einmal durchzugehen, und Sie
äußere Literatur hat nun hier wirklich ihr Kreuz. Was
in der Bibel, zu tun hat mit irgend so etwas wie einer
Empfinden haben, als man es heute hat, wenn man sich in alte
Gnostiker vorhanden ist. Da hat man gesprochen von
nachdem er mit seinen Kräften gewirkt hat, wiederum
mit dem hebräischen Worte jom bezeichnet wird. Da hat man
solcher jamim zu tun hat, dann hat man es mit sieben einander
wesensverwandt, und in älteren Zeiten hat man die
gefühlt, und wenn man von Wochentagen gesprochen hat, wie
hat man damit nicht nur Zeiträume gemeint, sondern es
hatten, daß Licht werde, da stellten sie an seinen Platz
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hat, so können uns dabei mancherlei noch ungeklärte
vorhanden waren, deshalb hatte dies alte Sonnendasein, das ich
Wärme und Luft, es hatte neben dem Licht, gleichsam
regulärer Weise die alte Sonnenstufe erreicht hatten. So
Goethesche Farbenlehre hat. Allerdings, wer sich heute für
Physik sagt, das zu suchen hat, was als Materie spukt, da ist
zurückbleiben; daß es ebenso seine Bedeutung hat
die Finsternis bezeichnet wird. Wenn wir uns nun fragen: Hat
hat während des alten Saturnzustandes.
mythologischen Bildungen Anlaß gegeben hat, der ist weder
hatten. Sie sind durch das Monden-dasein bis zum Erdendasein
Stufe auf der Sonne durchgemacht hatten, die sozusagen mit dem
das, was Innenleben hat, konnte nur dadurch entstehen, daß
Zentralkräfte im Erdenwesen selber hat. So haben wir

Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Siebenter Vortrag
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beschäftigt hat. Auch daß gewissermaßen die
beschäftigt hat, das elementarische Dasein, das als das
daß die Entwickelung hat warten müssen bis zu unserem
planetarischen Dasein, daß erst dann das Erdige hat
Dasein, daß er sich selbst durchgerungen hat von seiner
ersten Anlage, die er auf dem alten Saturn entwickelt hat, aus
dem wir sagen können, es hat durchschritten ein Dasein im
hatten: während des Entwickelungsganges durch Sonne, Mond
hingeopfert hatten. Wir haben ja gesehen, daß innerhalb
umgestaltet hat. Ein solcher Vorgang, den wir etwa dem
Dingen auf den Grund gehen will, muß fragen: Wer hat es
ist? — Niemand anders hat das bewirkt als wiederum
gehabt hat, sei, um ein Beispiel zu haben, der einer Rose
Materie!», und vielleicht hat so mancher das Gelüste
verfestet hat. Unser Gefühl sollte in tiefster Verehrung
müssen wir sagen: An dem Erdigen hat länger gebaut
des Wärmehaften, allüberall. Es hat sich überall
Aber alles Übersinnliche wirft sein Schattenbild herein in
Phantastik hat man es zu tun, wenn man das atomistische Dasein,
wie man es heute im Auge hat, für ein reales hält.
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Entwickelung im großen Stil durchgemacht hat, daß
heraufentwickelt hat zum Erdenbewußtsein, zu dem, was uns
Monden-bewußtsein. Und es hatte noch einen weiteren
kennen gelernt hat den Professor Capesius und den Doktor
Strader. Die kennt er vom physischen Plan her, er hat gewisse
hat zu einer Welt. Es kann beides sein, und er muß gelten
esoterischen Entwickelung ein Stadium durchzumachen hat, wo er
Unterscheidungsvermögen hat zwischen dem, was als geistige
ausgesprochen hat: Das Auge ist am Lichte für das Licht
werden. All die Organe, die der Mensch hat, sind gebildet an
eine Camera obscura, die der Photograph hat. Solche rein
es der Mensch auf der Erde hat, mit dieser Unterscheidung von
hatte, die er eben als Umgebung der Erde hat, konnte sich das
Mensch als Erdenbewußtsein hat, wurde ihm vorbehalten bis
zur Erdenzeit. Und nicht nur der Mensch hatte es nicht, es
hatten es auch nicht alle die anderen Wesenheiten, die wir
hinzuschreiben, was nicht einen vollsaftigen Inhalt hat, nichts
hat nichts Unnötiges geschrieben, nicht irgend etwas, was
erstenmal hat sich dieses Sonnenhafte während der alten
geschrieben hat, am zweiten Schöpfungstag den Satz
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Neunter Vortrag
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Wesenheiten darinnen. Er hat im Grunde genommen bis dahin kein
Menschen zu sagen hat. Wir werden noch sehen, daß
Tierheit herausentwickelt hat, wie die grobe materialistische
aufgetreten. — Damit der Mensch hat Mensch werden
angetroffen hat. Nehmen Sie an, der Mensch wäre in der
Beginne unserer planetarischen Entwickelung hingeopfert hat zum
Schöpfungstagen gesprochen hat, von dem sogenannten
gelegen hat, von dem die Menschen dann ausgewandert sind. Nur
jenem Zustand, in den ihn Jahve-Elohim versetzt hat? Da kommen
hat den luziferischen Einfluß. Wir werden diesen
angenommen hat, wurde jetzt ein anderer Astralleib, ein
und in das Flüssige und in das Feste des Menschen hat sich
heruntergebracht hat bis zur Erde, während er vorher in
ihrem Umkreise gewohnt hat. Wir müssen also diesen
aber gefunden hat, dann trifft man damit in der
hat wie jene Wissenschaft, die so ziemlich nach dem Grundsatz
den Bibelbericht zu haben, wie man sie heute hat. Das
zu tun hat, schon in gewisser Weise geschwunden war, so war
Exegese Platz gegriffen hat. So etwas zu behaupten, wäre
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Aber als die Erde abgetrennt war, hatte sie noch alles in sich,
Leibe auch noch die Mondentwickelung hat. Der Mensch war also
sind, denn der Mond hat sozusagen eine grobe
Substantialität. Das hatte zur Folge, daß nach der
zwischen Mensch und Erde vollzogen hat während der Zeit,
Zeitalter vorangegangen ist. Da hat das, was wir nennen
in die atlantische Zeit hinein noch fortgesetzt hat, daß
Rassendifferenzierung der Menschen geführt hat. Da also
man den Blick dafür hat, an einem Menschen erkennen, ob
die dazumal noch nicht die feste Gestalt angenommen hatten.
nicht bis zur physischen Verdichtung hatten es gebracht die
Jahve-Elohim hatte noch nicht regnen lassen».
sagen, es hat Zeiten gegeben, wo ich mir redlich Mühe
Gewichtiges zur Folge hat. Was ist es denn eigentlich, was
dort ihren Wohnsitz aufgeschlagen hatten und mit ihnen sich
Die Sonne hat sich schon getrennt von der Erde, aber wenn
welche überdauert hatten, Leiber geschaffen werden konnten
hatte die Dampf- und Rauchmassen der Erdumgebung, wo der Mond
noch in ihrem Leibe hatte. Und das, was damals von den
getrennt hatte, da waren die Kräfte, die sonst den
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Geistigkeit hat warten dürfen innerhalb des geistigen
seiner Leiblichkeit ein reifes Wesen hat werden können.
vorhanden. Da hatten die Menschen noch eine gemeinsame
lehrt, von alledem hatten aus ihren verschiedenen
es noch einen Ausdruck, den Aristoteles gebraucht hat,
Souveränität entthront. So hat der Mensch, indem er
den Träger seiner Ichheit erhalten hat, ein höheres
früher hatte, die mehr ätherisch war, gleichsam um
Eigenwesen eingeprägt hat, als den unmittelbaren
Himmel gemacht hatte.» Gewöhnlich wird die Gesamtheit
daß Gott der Herr die Menschen geschaffen hat, dem rate
hat, wie schwierig der Weg ist, der zu diesen tieferen
angewendet hat werden müssen vom ersten Moment an, wo der
hingeführt hat, und ich möchte Sie gerade im Hinblick
hat, was von anderen Forschungsseiten her uns nützlich
von Stufe zu Stufe hat entgegentreten können: auf die
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astral body, ego and so on. It may seem to many people that once they
man's real being; and indeed there are numbers who believe that they
members of man's constitution, or even, possibly, to indicate what
these members, we must be quite clear that this knowledge is very
preliminary. For what is really important is not that the human being
the others. It must also be realised that the connections are by no
incarnations acquires its significance from the fact that while he is
these members, so that at each new incarnation the human being finds
In order to grasp what this means
of ancient Egyptian civilisation and observe the men of that epoch,
we should see that the interconnections between the physical body,
tendency of our present phase of evolution is precisely that the
able to influence his physical body from his soul to the extent that
physical body. But this has still another consequence, namely, that
claims them for itself, with the result that the direct influence
find that in accordance with a man's constitution of soul, when, let
and impulses in the physical body itself. Hence we should find that
of a man was a kind of imprint of his soul. What was astir in the
civilisation, the period of that remarkable people who stand, as it
Greece stand at the middle point in such a way that the forces of the
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Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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It should also be remembered that certain premises were taken
of Man and the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also of what may
words ‘Sin’ and ‘Grace’. Everyone knows that
this deep background is not perceived at the present time is that the
comparable with what lies behind these concepts of Sin, Original Sin
and Grace. For what lies behind them is actually the whole evolution
our cosmic evolution? It is for the simple reason that man has come
It must not, however, be forgotten that this descent into the
again he must fill this inner kernel of his life of soul with what has
Closer investigation of the process of human evolution discloses that
physical world of sense, but that the ego was the last member of his
physical body. We will remind ourselves especially today that the
first stage of the development of the astral body preceded that of the
clear to us that before man could pass through the stage of
enables us to conceive that certain things must have happened to man
received his ego. These happenings belong to an epoch preceding that
what happened during that phase cannot be attributed to him in the
same sense as what has happened since the bestowal of the ego
the animals. Whatever fury may be exhibited by a lion, for example, we
thereby recognizing that the difference between man and animal
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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
the nature of Christ Jesus. This necessity arises from the fact that
especially in Theosophical circles, and on that account the need
may perhaps appear somewhat strange, but it is very important
course, that this has progressed in such a way that the whole of
epochs. And we have often spoken of the fact that we can distinguish
five cultural periods, up to and including our time, since that great
new continents — that is, our life. We speak of the first, the
of the epochs, appropriated this or that from their experiences, brought
appeared as souls at a stage of development dependent upon what they had
But now we can also speak of the fact that, of the various members of
was formed and developed in each cultural epoch — but note well that
this was only generally the case. Thus, we can say that if human
beings permit to work upon them all that our epoch of civilization can
give, they are especially called in our time to develop what in our
body; and in the old Indian, what we call the etheric or life body.
And in that epoch which will follow our own as the sixth
post-Atlantean epoch, that member will be especially developed which
epoch, that which we characterize as Life-Spirit, and which in
our civilization, of what is called the Consciousness Soul.
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Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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typewritten transcription of a lecture that is from Bn/GA 143.
typewritten transcription of a lecture that is from Bn/GA 143.
November 23rd, 1911 that is available at the Archive).]
Yesterday we saw that we can speak of hidden aspects of man's
to observe superficially what lives in your soul, from the
— what lives in it in the form of ideas, feelings or
moods, and impulses of the will-including of course all that
if you observe all this, then you will obtain all that can be
must now realise that everything which is thus contained in
what has just been said, is that man must awake in order to
ordinary consciousness. This signifies that man must dive
into the physical body with that part of his being which is
outside the physical body during sleep, and that this
that the physical or bodily instruments constitute for man
have often pointed out that this is not the case; we should
not imagine that the inner structure of our body, namely the
flame. The relationship of what we call consciousness to the
not see what our forehead, etc. looks like — but the
very moment that someone holds a mirror in front of us, we
can see ourselves. Then that which is already a part of us,
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Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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that a complete clarification of these things is possible only when
we work them through in the light of what Anthroposophy is able to
considered, from the most varied aspects, all that might be termed
hidden depths of the soul to connect in the right way what thereby
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
consciousness. We might say that this sphere represented by these
thing is that we should know, quire clearly, that this so-called
that is upon all those instruments comprised by the senses and the
first two, we may say that the sense-organs and the nervous system in
threshold of our ordinary consciousness, lies all that may be
sub-consciousness. We obtain a clear conception of what is imbedded,
one hand, that the human being acquires, as we have learned, through
see that, just as we have to include our conceptual thoughts, our
subconscious life. But we know, also that the sub-consciousness
that it may also become active in the form of an ancient inheritance
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Title: Perception of the Elemental World
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entering that consciousness was already long present in man's nature.
to perceive what is already there as a fact. Obvious as this is, it
has to be said, for we must lead our thoughts to realize that the
clairvoyant cognition. It follows from this that the true, inmost
than through occult knowledge. We can learn what a human being
is the most important thing: that the human soul should become more
or less accustomed to the fact that the way of looking at and
recognizing things that for the sense world is the correct and
Here I shall give the name elemental world to the first world that
time that in the presence of another person or happening you are the
same person that you were before and that you will be the same when
event so completely that one transforms one's own inner soul life
way that with every step we transform ourselves into every single
a person's soul that in passing through the sense world he should
You will easily understand that in order to exercise the faculty of
of noting what is called the threshold between the sense world and
the super-sensible world. We have already said that the clairvoyant
continually, that it must observe the spiritual world beyond the
Let us suppose that a person's clairvoyant consciousness, when
lives by preference in the elemental world. Now suppose that a person
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
says that such inspired people are rare today. Nevertheless, we have
differs from that employed by other theories of life or by
through the statement that the human innermost core —
that is why we now want to speak about these things in
greater detail and in a more intimate sense. Just saying that
talked about the fact that humanity must consider its
geographical region situated between what is today Africa and
souls that are present today had already been incarnated in
Atlantis, but in bodies that were in part considerably
ceremonial center and school; that is what we call the
was vested in these sanctuaries, and one could say that the
these spiritual beings also knows the forces that are at work
developmental process was that one group of human beings had
to be governed especially by the forces that could be
what we may designate as the Atlantean Sun Oracle. Whatever
was to guide humanity in such a way that when the great
what we have often discussed as the postAtlantean cultures.
in such a way that they could enter the ancient Indian,
see to it that enough suitable soul material was available
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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What greater gift can life on man bestow
Than that to him God-Nature should disclose
through outward form, in what we call human character. For human character
Indeed, we feel that character is inseparable from a person's whole being,
and that something has gone wrong if their thinking, feeling and doing do not
of his inner life falling apart. And we know very well that this can bring a
a divided character is indicated by Goethe in a remarkable saying that he
assigns to Faust — a saying that is often wrongly interpreted by people
who believe that Goethe's innermost intentions are known to them:
passage shows clearly how unhappy Faust feels in that period under the
to overcome — that is what Goethe is describing. It is wrong to cite
be abolished by the unified character that we must always strive to
lectures must be kept in mind. We must remember that the human soul,
fall apart, for the human soul must be a unity. What is it, then that holds
them together? It is what we call the Ego in its true sense, the bearer of
However, that is
comes out in people, we must enter somewhat more deeply into human life and
life passes into an unconscious or subconscious condition. What has
etheric bodies? There are good reasons for it. Spiritual Science says that
desires and passions. Yes, but these are precisely the experiences that sink
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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the boundaries of the soul, by whatever paths you search; so all-embracing is
not from the standpoint of contemporary psychology, but from that of
a spiritual world behind all that is revealed to the senses and through them
external existence and holds that the investigation of it lies within the
habitually assumed that human knowledge has certain boundaries and that the
that these boundaries are no more than temporary. They can be extended;
What'er to your inquiring spirit
He has to transform his soul into an instrument; then he experiences that
that not everyone needs to be a spiritual investigator in order to appreciate
what the awakened man has to impart. When knowledge resulting from spiritual
of the clairvoyant; recognition of what is communicated calls for a healthy
The point is that teachings and observations concerning the soul should be
whirling about. Let us rather remind ourselves of what has been said on this
etheric body in common with everything that lives. As I said, only the
physical and chemical laws that prevail in the external physical-mineral
gate of death, we see what the laws that govern the physical body really are.
They are the laws that lead to the decomposition of the physical body; their
obey them is that during life an antagonist of dissolution, the etheric or
what we may call the bodily nature of man, with its three components:
which he has risen to the summit of creation. It has often been remarked that
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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have understood that the reason why there are four Gospels is
that their authors, writing as inspired occultists, each
Earth. Let me try to convey to you what I mean by using
language to express what we want to say and to reveal what
used as a means of expressing the inner life of soul that the
temple-language, we find that there was a quite different way
not written was that they were an indication of the
what corresponded to our present B — it always evoked in him
that in the use of our language we have to a great extent
feels that he must write something and nothing is considered
discovered that certain authors were attaching themselves to
stories? So it behoves us to realise that our language
case, a feeling of responsibility towards its use. That is
cannot understand that our modern language is empty when
Bible to-day we are reading something that in comparison with
three times, and it is not the best but the worst that has
You know that
passage like this it would be self-deception to pretend that
we understand it; if we are honest we shall admit that it is
significance for the evolution of humanity. What has already
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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As a supplement to the lectures given in the year 1912 on the mission of Christian Rosenkreutz, we publish certain material from the year 1911. It will help us find the thread between the work of Jeshu ben Pandira, [footnote: See Jeshu ben Pandira by Rudolf Steiner, also lectures 5 and 6 of the “Gospel of St. Matthew.’] the teacher of the Essenes, and that of Christian Rosenkreutz.
essentially different being, in that when he (Jesus of Nazareth)
Gospel known by that name had already been in existence since the time
physical plane. What were previously only pictures from the Mysteries,
It is also necessary for us to know that one of the characteristics of
the incarnations of the Bodhisattva is that in his youth he cannot be
the sounds of the speech that will be uttered when this Bodhisattva
therefore, it can be said: 5,000 years after Gautama Buddha, that is
nature of the Christ Impulse and in that age the Buddha stream and the
into the evolution of mankind that its waves surge onwards into future
Impulse will manifest in such a way that human beings will behold the
Yesterday we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to
in the West should have become that stream of spiritual life which out
name to become part of the spiritual life of the modern age. At that
transmitted to seven of these twelve wise men, the wisdom that had
and Graeco-Latin epochs respectively. And what existed in those days
Now it was known at that time that a certain Individuality who had
a way that a radiant, shining Spirit indwelt a body that had become
received back what he had originally given, but now in a different
lived in the twelve men what we call Rosicrucian Christianity.
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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understand what is at work in the cultural periods of our own epoch.
Science in relation to what is at work beneath the surface of life,
and so that occult research can help us direct our lives in harmony
to what is also taking place in the super-sensible world in our time.
By way of introduction we must also take into account what we have
ours is a time of dogmatism and abstraction. The strange thing is that
people believe generally that their thoughts and actions are free from
down of ready-made dogmas that enlightened people are required to
chief dogmas from modern natural science, in fact that particular
And anyone who is of the opinion that he is right because he is
convinced of these dogmas himself, believes that the others have
human individuality, and strive only to cram their heads with what the
All that comprises the Anthroposophically orientated spiritual
social life that is based on a mutual interchange founded on the sort
of confidence that each personality has in the other. Human beings
this or that and do not disturb the other people in the course of your
work. Nothing could be worse than this, that the bad modern habit of
only when you are in full agreement with your neighbour that you
this sort of thing. It aims at generalities. What is right for one can
must make a clean sweep of that. If this attitude were not prevalent
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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of mankind by the Christ that its waves surge onwards into future
will manifest in such a way that human beings will behold the Christ
we heard that in still later epochs men will be able to behold Him in even
theosophical movement in the West should have become that stream of
certain occult processes, the wisdom that had passed over from
what existed in those days of the kind of culture which was to
Now it was known at that time that a certain individuality who had
a way that a radiant, shining spirit indwelt a body that had become
received back what he had originally given, but now in a different
united into one interconnected whole. And henceforward what we call
not until the fourteenth century that he was known by this name. In
from his ether body, inspiring all that was done in the West to
materialist), suddenly he hears a voice saying: ‘Stop what you purpose
to do!’ And he will be aware that this was no physical voice. But now
suppose that he abstains from his project. Then he will be able to
realise that if he had continued ruthlessly towards his goal, he would
These are the two fundamentals: that he knows with certainty, firstly,
that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly, that
spiritual movement. If the resolve is taken, this means that the
The human beings of whom it can be said that they were, or will be,
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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to outline a psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden
you cast even a superficial glance at that which exists in your
of course all the impressions that approach the soul from
without — then you have everything that may be called the
must be clear to us that all these details of our conscious
irrefutable proof of this is that one must awake in order to
means that the human being must submerge himself in the
physical body with what is outside it during sleep, and his
following question then arises: In what way does the human
instruments, his organs of sense, his nervous system? In what
is, first of all, the belief that the human being possesses in
his physical instruments that which produces the facts present
to consciousness. It has been frequently pointed out that this
is not the case; that it is no more sensible for us to imagine
that our inner corporeality, our sense organs or brain, bring
forth the details of consciousness than to imagine that a
candle creates the flame. The relation of what we call
ourselves. But then we are confronted by what has always
within us, and have, as they exist there, nothing whatsoever to
someone to declare that because he sees himself in a
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture IV: Hidden Soul Powers
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to outline a psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden
Generally speaking, it must be said that a complete
have considered what may be called the human organization from
one to relate it correctly to what was shown regarding the
has been repeated that everything included in our
feelings, in short, all that goes on in our souls under normal
diagram all that falls within this ordinary human
consciousness, all that is known and felt and willed between
connection, in touch with it, then that belongs also to our
of will belong to it as well, one might say that in the area
point is for us to know with certainty that to this so-called
get a good idea of all that is, so to speak, embedded in this
subconsciousness if we remember having heard that the human
subconsciousness. We know, however, also that the subconscious
activity is not aroused by spiritual training alone, but that
what we define as visions, and visions of this naive
have already mentioned that in the course of the 20th
century there will occur in human evolution what may be
called a sort of spiritual return of Christ, and that there
training, recognizing the trend of evolution, and also that
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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that there are some, also substantial objections against it. I
tried to show that in the last winter with two talks that I
At that time, I intended to discuss the
could seem peculiar from the start that one can speak about
numerous causes of error that refer just to the most important
you to take into consideration that it concerns only the ways
that the spiritual researcher has a generally healthy soul
life. With it, I do not say that the results or the suggestions
something recovering, something that not only gets the lost
spiritual research, this means that one can get to the truths
in spiritual area only with a healthy soul life. What then
something as starting point that I have already mentioned here
necessary that the soul forces that are sufficient for the
being is only concerned with that which his senses teach him
consideration of life that the statements of the outer senses
sleeping. We notice that our senses gradually fail and we get
the usual logical rules if one believed that everything that
the awakening. The sleep does not cause that the experiences of
easy to realise that everything depends on whether the human
being is able to become aware of that which is unconscious
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture V: Errors of Spiritual Research - 1
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so that you can hardly recognise it. In many cases it is in
such a way that one can get to truth only on the paths of
have explained the day before yesterday that the human being
human soul that can mediate between the human knowledge and the
spiritual researcher has as an instrument only what he can make
have also shown that the soul — if it applies the
something objective that exists outside of you in the
have already said that any self-education of the spiritual
researcher must tend to a strong willpower so that the pictures
of own soul experiences. I have also said that one has to erase
unfathomable depths, and that only thereby the soul becomes
that I have said the day before yesterday; I want only to
remember that I have drawn your attention to some doubtful
not conclude that these doubtful aspects were not enough taken
into consideration. I have already said what mediumship
usual consciousness of the medium is diminished, so that with
expelled from the medium as it were. The forces that exist
reject as a rule that the medium takes up some
consciousness. That is, such researchers who want to recognise
objective truth by mediumship do not like that the medium has
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Erster Vortrag, Mnchen, 8. Dezember 1913
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Es hat sich durch gewisse Pflichten, die
von Golgatha. Mancherlei hat sich da
ergeben hat; es ist gewissermaßen mehr konkreter Art, eine
Ziehmutter geführt hat. Einiges von
sein wird, hat ja Fräulein Stinde einigen
hervorgebracht hatte. Einen Knaben von höchster Begabung würden wir — nach
abgeneigt, irgend etwas von dem zu erlernen, was sich die Menschheit errungen hat. Dagegen
Gemüt beziehen, in sich vereinigt hatte; wir haben
außerordentliche Begabung, die er gezeigt hatte, als
Tiefen seines Seelenlebens heraufkam etwas, was ein anderer Mensch in der damaligen Zeit nicht hat
Zeiten, seit diese Menschheit die alten Propheten vernommen hat, jene alten Propheten,
erhalten hatten. Aber alles das, was
Schatten der alten Lehren. Was aber in den
verlernt, vergessen hat, was sie jetzt nicht mehr verstehen
Seele durchlebt hatte, sich verwandelte in ungeheure
achtzehnten Lebensjahre durchlebt hatte. Und dann,
daß alle zusammen eine reale Vision hatten: Während
hatte, während sie innerlich frohlockten
Priesterschaft gelitten hatte. Die heidnischen Kultstätten
es verlassen hatten. Ein ungeheures Elend war da, als Jesus in dieser heidnischen Kultstätte
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Mnchen, 10. Dezember 1913
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zeitgenössische Weltanschauungsliteratur ergriffen hat.
und wo ich zu erwähnen hatte — es ist
eine Leiter senkrecht aufgestellt hat und hinaufgestiegen ist und dann oben sie zu sich
Gedanken geprägt werden können, erst vorbereitet hat. Zu solchen nur kann man sprechen
geben hat, wenn es auch nicht sogleich so
hat.
Ziehmutter hatte und wo das Ich des
Zarathustra sich losgelöst hatte von den
hatten, diese zwei Essäer, waren ihre
von dem, was sie erlebt hatten, und
Wozu hat deine Seele ihr Weg geführt? Ich kannte dich
träumen. Ich träumte, daß ein Wesen vor mir stand, das mich fragte: Wer hat dich
gesprochen hatte, war ich im Traum ganz ergriffen von
hatte — so ergibt es die
Wozu hat deine Seele ihr Weg
erzählt habe, gehabt hatte,
sie sich mir ergeben hat, darstellen werde, daß es aber
der Christus in Jesus — in die Einsamkeit sich zurückgezogen hatte, trat zuerst
entwickelt hatte durch das Zarathustra-Ich, das den
durchdrungen hatte, so daß er sich seiner als Werkzeug
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Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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existing between the fact that this spiritual-scientific movement
into the evolution of mankind and the other fact that mankind of the
must, again and again, emphasize the fact that a change in our state
ordinary life we believe that we sleep from falling asleep until
awakening, and that we are awake from awakening until falling asleep.
You know, however, that besides perception and thinking, our soul life
not aware of the fact that we have only the conception of
And will itself, my dear friends! What do you know of the process
actually seized the book? What do you know of that which takes place
organism? We know what we think about willing, but willing
that organs for feeling and willing exist; this shows that they do not
know what they are talking about. Physiologists who really
What I have described above is the ordered state in which we live
then dwell with our souls. From what I have just stated you will see
that the so-called dead are different from the so-called living in
that the so-called living sleep away feeling and willing which
that the dead dwell in the same world in which we dwell as the
objects are around him, but he does not perceive them. The fact that
something is not perceived is no proof that it is not there. In regard
My dear friends, from this it follows that the human being perceives
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Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- II
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processes which lie immediately behind the events our age that speak
that stream from the so-called dead into the realm in which we dwell
what it is spiritually that under-lies such a difficult time. To be
connected with the fact that his great catastrophe has befallen
that in the last third of the nineteenth century, in contrast to
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
evolution that is so spiritual as the time in which we live, the time
the most spiritual of times. Still, it is an undeniable fact that
people who consider themselves spiritually developed believe that our
its results are concerned, our time is certainly materialistic. What
mean extraordinarily much to them. It is an interesting fact that
frequently erroneous belief produced by what people experience in the
body. What do I really mean by pointing to the natural-scientific
spiritual than to form sharply defined concepts for that which seems
to be only material. This has brought about the fact that human beings
clear-cut concepts about nature. One does not dare to acknowledge that
middle of that century had not quite been reached, the Archangel
Michael gradually rose from the rank of an Archangel to that of a Time
Spirit. He began at that time to undergo an evolution which enabled
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 9-3-'13
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for Wednesday. All esoteric life consists in taking in what we can
that we don't take concepts that we formed here in the physical-and
that rightly exist for this world — with us into the spiritual
is something that some of you aren't very interested in, but you all
know that philosophy tries to give men views about the world and
atomistic one. The second thing that is spoken about in philosophy is
can be put here also. But multiplicity and unity are concepts that
in the spiritual — and that's the main requirement for an
advanced esoteric, that he's conscious outside of his body
feels that one is a unity with respect to one's surroundings that one
that the clouds up there are part of us, like a finger is a part of
oneself as a multiplicity; we see all the forces and beings that work
prey to Ahriman. And we shouldn't just tell ourselves that
— but we must really experience this conviction that many
are one in spiritual realms. If we did not do that, if we didn't
these hundred thousand fools as just that, then pieces would fly out
multiplicity really correctly and must leave ones that are only
strengthen our soul through meditation to such an extent that when
often find schemata set up in theosophical literature that are
somewhat useful. One starts with a unity which then forks and
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 9-4-'13
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towards the spiritual in a good way, and one can say that he was
to a luciferic infringement. We must watch that nothing like
mystic that are hard to distinguish from real visions.
to ward off Lucifer. It's no reproach to say that bad qualities live
in man's subconsciousness; they must be there, it's something that
subconsciousness that would horrify him if he saw them. The greatest
what an artist creates and in what creates in the artist.
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,
of light, etc., that are created by a medium. If one feels that one
by not giving in to the inspirations that one thinks that one is
is in what we say, in words that we form and transmit to other men.
writing. That's why it's important to strengthen the soul and to
so is what Kant took from Swedenborg's writings.
on asking: Should I think that what I see, hear or feel there is of
important and is true. The main thing is to know what's behind it. We
we should acquire a certain tact so that we don't chatter about
Ahriman is at work in them. Something that can often happen to
us is that as we're walking down the street we see someone in a
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 12-9-'13
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attentive to things that usually escape our everyday
consciousness. We must also revise our ideas about what we'll
experience. For instance we complain that thoughts storm into our
meditation that bother and disturb us. If we would think about it we
would see that it's progress that we've become more sensitive,
because we notice that these thoughts are stronger than we are. They
That's how
things are with our meditation also. The quiet that we create let's
us notice what submerges in the everyday hubbub. All kinds of
things can enter our consciousness, such as physical pains that
look for all of its pains. One begins somewhat over the head,
Here one will notice that one can have pains in various parts of the
as a child we may have experienced that a dog was run over by a
out of us, or it can even be the case that the person concerned can
ear that lead to visions of a gruesome scene, and he can't explain
astral body and not in the physical body. We know that the astral
experiences the vibrations that are generated in the
etheric body thereby, but also vibrations of a similar kind that were
wall with a family that liked to read and tell tall tales. Our
in spiritual development it can happen that we experience them in our
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 3-31-'14
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been emphasized that one must distinguish between progress in
notice it. For the forces that loosen the etheric body and pull it
preparation to wake up and become conscious. That's why descriptions are
given in these lectures of what a soul experiences on waking up in the
become conscious because they keep on thinking that the
a balloon and thinks that he can get out up there at any time and
the question: What is thinking really? What thinks in me? A
Therefore it's not corporeal. For what belongs to the body is
our thinking, but in such a way that we don't experience it. With
objection that theosophy is based on belief, that one must believe in
the existence of the super-sensible world. That's not true. Everyone
that the body through which we experience things is sensorial. If we
doesn't yield, that is, because it's hard or similar to the object.
flexible, as it were. That's why all physical things seem like
spiritual gaze that's the way things really are with the
bump into these holes, this nothing. That's the way things are with
they make up what a scientist investigates with his
instruments. Another thing is that a man feels that all the
good, right and true things that he thinks stream out from him. He
feels as if they're growing into the future, that they're
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esotericism we must note something that we call the Spirit of the
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
this regularly. Many will think that they already understand this
masters of wisdom said that he only prays the Our Father once a
month, and otherwise he prepares himself to pray it worthily that one
time. Now the first one could say that he'll pray it once a
what would that be? That would be pronounced haughtiness. It would be
saying that we can do as much as a master can, that what he can draw
accessible to us. We often think that we have already eradicated a
concepts that we make for ourselves on the physical plane about good
lucifereic beings in exoteric classes we formed the view that these
other hand we know that Lucifer brought us freedom. But we should
between Lucifer and the good Gods that looks like a battle and namely
one that mostly takes place in the human soul. It's an occult
secret that certain qualities of a man develop too fast during earth
everything that comes under his influence. Now since he mainly
as they are now. And what's the consequence of this advanced
that we find in the world, thereby giving rise to one error after
Pelee were over, the experts at the scene calculated that there would
for his influence in everything that becomes mature quickly, and this
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the Gods in general, but a theosophist who knows that every time
That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
that he's undertaken something that's very serious, that
he must work on himself very seriously so that eventually he'll
on himself? We know that man's etheric body is born at age
incarnations and partly from the present one. All of the habits that
this and flow into them. It's not for nothing that Christ says:
astral body unfolds from age 14, 15, to 21, 22. The things that are
feelings adapted theosophical teachings to present conditions so that
only through the ego. He must use the knowledge that he's
Saturn condition. The ego is the Saturn in us, and that's why
it understands everything that happened since Saturn times.

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who undertakes an esoteric training must be clear about what he is
doing thereby. We're karmically connected with what we are and
divine beings. Everything that we think, feel and will in the way of
that's guided by higher beings. Thereby we begin something
takes place through the exercises that are given to us. They
gradually work on our etheric body in such a way that it becomes
dear to him, it could be that something about this person will flow
meditating for some times we notice that we've changed; we no
longer say some of the unkind things that we used to and we acquire a
much finer logic. We feel that we've improved. We get
the support that's given by convention. We become inwardly
that it's our own weakness that keeps us from finding the right
thing but that it's nevertheless in the Bible.
Deceptions in clairvoyance can easily occur at first. One thinks that
interior that's reflected there. It's even worse with
sounds that one thinks one hears; beings who want to pull a meditator
bad influences that want to interfere when an independent
the heart. During the meditation one can feel that lines go from
spiritual world. This is like a feeling that Christ is in one, and
it's a sign that there's no deception.
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That my I be grasped by an understanding of your light's shining,
beings there That's why when we wake up in the morning we should never
that he is doing a great injustice to all men and to higher spiritual
For this pollutes spiritual spheres. The forces that must be used to
life must be consecrated, so that only sacred, sublime things live in
exoteric in that God lives in him consciously, in that he really lets
Christ there in accordance with the ideas that he's made of
he's different from the ever so high ideas that one can make of
in particular are qualities that an esoteric should get rid of. An
esoteric pupil who thinks that he's already gotten rid of
arrogance, pride, etc., must know that these qualities are still
that one has laid these qualities aside and has advanced a great deal
ourselves so that we can see him there. Men who don't have the
right next to it that makes us feel very small; we should give

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It's important for a modern to be aware of what he's doing and
what changes in him when he takes up an esoteric life.
We've often heard that two paths take us into spiritual worlds;
macrocosm. We have the forces in us that we seek, that created us; we
we don't have them. In theosophy we learn about both paths that
to go on one path alone Each path has its dangers, that we'll
ideas, we'll notice that we've become different human
who seek theosophy because it gives them what they were striving for
and those who don't know what to do with it and are opposed to
they're the expression of fear and anxiety that have moved into
give these teachings in a theosophical form to all men. So that
five stages of immersion He says that we must turn away from all
creatures that corresponds to the forces of our etheric body, from
our talents that correspond to the astral body, and from our ego that
coincides with our fourth part and that we must merge with God.
simultaneously, and that's why the Rosicrucian, esoteric
schools that taught both ways rose in the 11th and
He shows us that we must become entirely separated from our
personality to treat it. In a modest way he says that he was caught
visions from this point. On that day the sun stood before the Virgo
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into what one can look upon as the only right and true beginning of
have done the other things that the masters of wisdom and of the
in which clairvoyance can begin. What arises before our inner gaze in
whether the images that emerge there are purely spiritual or whether
What would happen if the
a light that illumines the objects in the spirit world that approach
in the sun that rises there on the horizon of our clairvoyant
body. The dishonestly is rayed back by the things that a pupil sees
angel figures appear there, caused by the dishonesty that streams out
that there must be ways to protect oneself against these delusive images.
harmony of feelings, so true it is that there's no way to
That's how ambition and
mediations that are done properly.
otherwise one would pollute the etheric substance that should radiate
is, but one must be a little cautious here. One who notices that he
and he should think seriously about what he did wrong. One should
badness shouldn't depress us. That would be crass egotism, for
through this depression we would show that we thought we were better
than we really are, whereas we do have the defects that we acquired
ourselves through our previous life and that thereby became our
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the day of whom we must hope that he'll help us in our esoteric
time we saw that the etheric body pours out into space. This
stays, there's an empty place, as it were, that's as if
himself. The streams that work through his four-folded being hold
this pentagram (blue) that we already looked in (Wonders of the
parts that are bounded by the head, stretched out arms, and the
they're repelled by the forces that work in a four-membered
it's in all of these beings and facts that are outside the
one wouldn't see that it stopped anywhere, or it's
this expansion; pieces can separate that we can then see and follow
scattered in space that seem to be individual beings during our
meditation, but we don't know that they really belong to us,
Thereby he gets to know what's in spiritual space, the
the beings and hierarchies that worked in to create man and to make
know how and through what it has arisen, we then get a sacred feeling
everything personal is suppressed, if we sense that we must merge
with the feeling that we want to completely sacrifice our own self,
then the certainty lights up in us that we ascend to the spirit,
reviviscimus. That's the exoteric saying of the
(Extract) It's wrong to say that a particular live personality
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one should answer questions that approach one in esoteric life. An
esoteric should never answer: “What is the heart?” by
saying that it's the cause of blood circulation, for he
something spiritual, of what higher hierarchies have created. Spirits
created things; and so the heart is only a sign for work that higher
Everything that surrounds
like a flower out of the real world so that man develops through it,
his present condition. That's the way one should interpret
Goethe's saying: for what is this beautiful world, the
is a seemingly naïve expression for the fact that the world in
that could become ignited by it. These animals give a clairvoyant the
impression that they have been brought into evolutionary conditions
that they're not adapted to, and this upsets one. That's
the meditations from the spiritual worlds that are given by the
gave a concentration exercise that enables us to help in the work on
he'll notice that his thoughts don't remain with the
whose center is the archetype of what the heart is the sign for. And
will become words, the primal words that created the heart out of the
penetrate the world of real things, and depending on what he brings
can only tolerate what fits into their world; everything else is
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What we
in us and to wait for what flows to us as a result of our meditation
What we attain thereby depends on the intensity of the perseverance
that we have applied to this. One might think that one gets ahead
always said that they got the furthest by doing the same exercise
that certain bad qualities had become more manifest. One of these is
esoteric loses interest in many outer things that he paid a lot of
attention to previously. This goes so far that some esoterics have
them also complain that their memory isn't as good. But as we
one's environment is a mistake. It can happen that someone
But there's an egotism in this that should be suppressed
together with the criticizing. When we attain this the forces that we
life. The need to separate himself is something that's quite
and turn them inwards instead. That way he'll gain a great
swings, first the tolerance of solitude, that is, the strengthening
of egoity, and secondly complete devotion to the duty that approaches
chest. But an esoteric should consider that this force that threatens
up inwardly. That's why it says, “Learn to be silent and
you'll get the power” — that is, the power to rule
secret for some reason. Say that a man has something on his soul that
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It's only natural that in the course of years our esoteric
that have already been given. But since our esoteric movement is
growing steadily the main disadvantage to this is that things get a
little superficial. The ideal would be to have a small group that
been listening to these lectures for years and catch up that way. In
general, it would be good if people would chatter less and think more
members to concentrate their trust so much on one person, that is,
questions of esoteric development. Trust is a factor that's
coming in of people who don't realize what serious and sacred
external reason, because that only proves how insincere his decision
people the moment they become esoterics so that they can move their
sometimes to such a great extent that their esoteric life suffers
gaze at it. Something that especially harms esoteric development is
criticism that we often direct at people. I'm not saying that
something that works on us more strongly than anything we can
encounter in life. What do they bring about? Through them,
it out. At some point in our exercises it'll happen that we
out, but such external methods that aren't based on meditation
Only some forces are loosened by meditative withdrawal, so that
it. It's almost like a reflex motion, that one immediately
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esoteric has to pay attention to things that are irrelevant to an
exoteric. For instance, he should keep in mind that the truth he
strives for can only be a relative truth, that as an esoteric one
into our striving and we must tell ourselves that we'd rather
accept a truth that pleases us than one that doesn't. For
than the one that everything is over at death, and so they tend to
accept it as a truth just for that reason. But an esoteric should not
attribute of our consciousness soul. Now it's possible that the
in it, and that's when someone wants to set up a personally
“I've recognized this truth through this or that
he'd like to set it up as one that's generally valid. In
to turn away from everything that the outer world can tell him and to
Essene.” One could object that an Essene is someone who's
this order knew the right time and place and how to set it up so that
into the worlds that lie directly above us. Such a time is here now.
get the feeling that we have these three in us, for when we get to
and we'll feel that we must leave them behind as something
perishable, as something that doesn't belong in the spiritual
world. If one says that an Essene works with spiritual worlds one
must answer that he works with them in the physical world in the way
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progress that we make through our exercises. Someone may do his
exercises correctly for years and is also able to create that quiet
that's indispensable if thoughts, feelings or visions are to
feeling that he's at the very same place that he was at the
him to pay attention to his soul life, for this is so intimate that
this activity. Then we may have the feeling that: I did my things
we reflect on what our thoughts did, we can get a feeling of a quiet
dream, as if it wasn't we who thought — it was as if what
like this, we increasingly get the feeling that something happens in
moment, we'll find that they help and promote us in our soul
that what thinks in us is related to the I, that the sublime beings
second word that's mantric and that can help us if it's
used correctly is It works me. We know that all the
hierarchies work in us and through us, that we would be nothing
that we're their work entirely. This is in the mantric words:
holy devotion and shy reverence. In the Bhagavad-Gita, that sacred
text, we have a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna that
graphically tells us that we should do our duties and yet keep a
over your work with your I and feel that you're connected with
word arises from the feeling that we must acquire when we make it
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scarcely a faint reflection of what lived in the soul of an ancient
is much more important that we should have been prepared by
What was it like
only compare it with what can take place in the soul of a man to whom
spiritual world. For what in the last resort is Spiritual Science but
wishes to translate what he sees there into the language of the
his hearers a mental image corresponding with what he himself sees in
that world.
himself, our ideas cannot be confined to that world itself. No
back historically, or geologically, we must realise that, if we are
sense-perceptible and penetrate into regions that can only be grasped
supersensibly. What we call Genesis does not begin with the
we shall become thoroughly convinced that it would be quite wrong to
peculiar secret? It lies in the fact that they are written in the
in such a way that when a letter was sounded it called up in the soul
which may be compared with what the seer can still see today when he
unlike those that are presented to the seer when, freed from his
that in the course of these lectures we too should seek to place
gradually learn to comprehend what lived in the ancient Hebrew sage
course that contemporary clairvoyant investigation makes it possible
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unacquainted with the kind of feeling that prevails in our circles,
misunderstanding. You may take it as definite that it is a very real
effort for me to do anything of the sort; and that I only do it
further what science has to say. My sense of responsibility is such
that it will not permit me to bring forward anything that conflicts
responsibility that goes with it.
just has to be said that, as regards the questions now to come before
controversy about every detail, please take it for granted that
what is positive, and trust that in a circle of Anthroposophists this
originally given to us has actually the peculiarity that the very
You know that in the
productive musing. I told you that we have to conceive that, as if
of the nature of desire or will. The one complex contains all that
indicated in the Bible by appropriate sounds. We are told that this
— without form and void. To understand what is meant by
tohu wabohu we must try to recapture a picture of what it
expresses; and we only succeed in doing that if out of our spiritual
scientific knowledge we call to mind what it was that, after its passage
yesterday that what we call solidity, the state which offers a
of the earth that the solid element was added. Thus at the moment
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is in some such way that what had slowly and gradually been built up
form. In fact all that is narrated in the Bible of the six or seven
which we have to ask ourselves is this — what kind of reality
are we to attribute to the account of what happened in the course of
organs of sense such as we have today have followed what we are told
elementary existence, so that a certain degree of clairvoyant
observation. The truth is that the Bible tells us of the origin of
the sensible out of the super-sensible, and that the events with which
of creation we are in the domain of clairvoyant perception. What had
form. We must get a firm grasp of that, otherwise we shall be all at
must expect to see all that had gradually evolved during the Saturn,
asking ourselves what were the special characteristics of each of
What was there as the first rudiment of man, which
same laws which obtain today in the solid mineral kingdom. So that
when we say that both Saturn and man himself were in a
“mineral” condition we must remember that it was not the
condition of the planet. Here we must never forget that there was as
yet no separation of the part which later became the earth. What
denser, gaseous element developed in the Sun, so that in addition to
must not imagine that there were plants on the old Sun in their
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have pointed out that in the Genesis account of
recall what we have learnt from that source about the conditions of
that what later became our solar system was contained in a planetary
existence which we call Saturn. We must be quite clear that this
him to what I said two days ago — that I could myself raise all
touch on what this gullible modern science has to say. Faced with the
lectures at other places, and people will then see that we are fully
aware of the objections which can be made against what is taught in
show in the long run that this is so. As to Saturn's state of warmth,
warmth. Let us get hold of that quite clearly. The Genesis account
Saturn state, these relationships of warmth or fire. That is the
to. But mark, please, in what sense we speak of warmth or fire in the
case of such a lofty existence as that of the Saturn evolution. We
soul-warmth, will give you a proximate idea of that interweaving
pointed out that together with the condensation of warmth into air
— that is to say, with the descent of the elemental consistency
towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
we shall say that in the Sun there is an interpenetration of warmth,
light and air, and all life during that time manifested itself within
clear that if we take into consideration only these elementary
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we recall what we have learnt so far about our
explained. What we have so far learnt does, however, make clear that
yesterday that the word yom does not indicate the abstract period of
time which is what the word “day” means now, but refers to the
This discovery enables us to enter more deeply into what I have
already repeated several times: that behind the weaving life of
instead of empty abstractions behind much else that comes before us
see something of the nature of Being behind what is described as
manifestations of the spirit behind all that appears in the positive
that with the transition to the Sun there then took place on the one
in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
understanding of all development — the fact that at each stage
illustration, pointing out that not only are some schoolboys
appropriate goal. Thus we may say that during the ancient Saturn
By the fact that they had not acquired the light nature, which was of
of Genesis we are told that darkness prevailed over the elementary
substances. That is the recapitulation of the Saturn existence, now a
Thus we see that the
understand existence, we must be clear that what emerged at an
rather thorny subject. Possibly some of you may know that for the
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spiritual life, of spiritual evolution. So too what is of primary
importance as regards the Genesis story is to ascertain what were the
visible course of our earth's evolution. Only after that do we think
various ages and various peoples what we have first established
of reverence for what resounds in our hearts from far-off ages. We
link with what must have affected us in past epochs. This is how we
have already partly succeeded. We have borne in mind throughout that
in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
mind that our usual interpretation of the sense-world, as it presents
illusion. That is a statement which is familiar to anyone who has
anything to do with Spiritual Science. Moreover, the fact that the
lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and
must pass over into our flesh and blood, that in clinging to external
physical existence, behind what we perceive with our senses.
rife among anthroposophical devotees, we just say “that is all
maya that the real Beings reveal themselves. And if we scorn
means of making existence comprehensible. We must be clear that when
but that if we refuse to have anything to do with this maya,
we can acquire no ideas of what lies behind it.
the nature of the earth element. We know well by now that there was
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familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
standpoint of modern knowledge a somewhat fanciful one — that
my task in this cycle to show in detail, as I have often done, that
that the kind of consciousness, the kind of soul-life we have today,
images of outer objects by means of external perception. But that
difference between the evolution of the Moon and that of our present
earth is that the old form of clairvoyance, a kind of
There I pointed out that the old, dreamlike picture-consciousness
our earth-consciousness, into what today gives us consciousness of
contrasted with what we ourselves are in our inner being. This
life is what characterises our present state of consciousness. When
say: “That rose is there in space! It is separated from us; we
that. Beings with the Moon-consciousness made no such distinction.
Suppose that when you looked at the rose you were not conscious that
the rose was outside, and that you were making a mental image of it,
but that you felt “The real being of this rose which hovers
Indeed you could go further. Suppose that when you looked at the sun
you did not feel that the sun was above you and that you were below,
but felt that while you were forming a mental image of the sun it was
outer and inner. If you can make that clear to yourselves, you will
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course always bear in mind that what concerns us most of all, what is
most important, is the development of man himself. We know that man
look back to Saturn, we are struck by the fact that in this state of
man, and that as yet nothing of what surrounds us today in animal,
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
it might seem that man emerged for the first time as if suddenly
fired from a pistol on the sixth day. Yet we know that the human
kingdom is the all-important one, that the other kingdoms are, as it
it that we find no earlier mention of man in the Genesis account?
observe that Genesis, when beginning to speak of the creation of man,
learn to understand more exactly what “Adam” means. The
creation, unless we are clear that in reality it is not the physical
man that precedes the soul-spiritual, but vice versa. We have to
what has been cast off and is developing supersensibly according to
that on the first day there were present the inner mobile energy and
the outwardly manifest, we should not on that first day expect to
account. When Genesis tells us that through cosmic musing the two
complexes of inner stimulation and outward manifestation arise, what
complexes, what part of man is in course of preparation? It is what
today we have to look upon as something inward. That is what is being
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findings as to the evolution of our earth. I have already said that I
will remember what great importance I attached to two significant
could not have given to man his true earthly meaning. All that we
it were. One result was that, after the separation of the sun from
Another, that man himself was now exposed to the danger of wilting
yesterday's lecture that men were still psycho-spiritual beings at
this time, but that they were unable to unite with the earth on
about that the great majority of human souls had to relinquish their
during the time between the separation of the sun and that of the
Then came that other
escaped to the planets begin to return again. That went on far into
the Atlantean epoch. What had crystallised out as man during the
with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this
what later became racial differentiation. It is still possible today
this or that planet.
— that by no means all human souls abandoned the
earth. What we might describe as the toughest souls were able to go
mentioned the startling circumstance that there was an outstanding
investigation impels us to accept what to begin with seems incredible
— that there was such a couple as Adam and Eve, and that the
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all that has been said in the last few days,
and especially from what was said yesterday, you will have gathered
at about what time we have placed the Genesis story. In fact we have
pointed out that the first momentous words of the Bible mark the
moment when we should say in terms of Spiritual Science that the
what is described in the opening verses takes place. The biblical
description of the creation then goes on to cover all that happens
moon. What has been described by Spiritual Science as coming after
the withdrawal of the moon, that is, at the end of Lemuria and in the
“days” of creation. We pointed that out yesterday. We
also pointed out the deep significance of the statement that man
separation, and its activity from without, as associated with that
words! I have impressed upon you that the proper earthly incarnation
the earth itself; so that it was his late assumption of his bodily
accurate and appropriate wording. We are told that the group-souls
became living creatures — became what we today call living
creatures. Man did not descend at that time. The group-souls who
imprinted the earth-forces into himself at that time he would have
distinct from the air and the sea. Only after that, little by little,
It is conveyed to us in memorable words when we are told that the
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the messenger of the gods, and in view of what our
to add to what has resounded during the last few days out of the
lectures that are to follow.
highest that the human soul can reach; it was a culture pulsating
with religious life, indeed it may be said that it was
life. That very concern itself was raised to the level of a religion,
its inspiration was so strong that some of those particular workings
lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their
enthusiasm for what as religion overflowed into artistic form, then
what we are hoping to achieve with today's feeble beginning ...
the answer is that we would rekindle in mankind something like a
imbue every aspect of human culture with that singleness of vision
actions of everyday life. Then what we call profane life will became
Science are to enter into the depths of human souls. That is why it
those words, that we should look upon
true perception of what Spiritual Science is.
What is generally
known as drama, what is recognised in the West as dramatic art and
spiritual-scientifie development. When I myself judged that the time
had come for me to bring my spiritual work into connection with what
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that in primeval times the soul had been gifted with clairvoyance,
you feel that this civilisation calls for a continual sacrifice. Thus
views enable us to realise that the tradition, and to a certain
extent the actual knowledge, of what we are now endeavouring to
Greece. We draw attention to the fact that in primeval times the soul
figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
thing. I said yesterday that Greek mythology draws attention to two
a thoughtful person will naturally reflect that such movements do not
does Greek mythology express this profound truth? We know that modern
to the gods as food. We know too that the gods recognised the impious
a shoulder-blade. That goddess was Demeter. In this remarkable touch
the son of Tantalus — we find an indication that there is a
connection between the two streams. It confirms that Demeter forces
mythology has its correspondence in what we are bringing to light
brings home to us the fact that the way man looks at the wonders of
when we reflect that by representing the force hidden in the depths
natural wonder. What is really the crucial event of the drama?
what does it mean, when we apply what Greek mythology and the Mystery
of Eleusis thus express to the nature of man himself? What in terms
Persephone gone? What is the Regent of the old clairvoyant forces
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perhaps only towards the end of the course that you will be able to see
towards that mighty archetypal wisdom of which we have caught a
Science today we shall have to recognise that many concepts and ideas
the immediate future. To evoke a feeling that we must change our very
Spiritual Science — that is why I draw attention to the
that of modern man.
opposite of soul or spirit. Now what the man of today means by
to eliminate altogether what you mean today by the term
our hand from left to right, we know that a mental activity lies
mere movement of the hand and our will, but we know that the movement
Consequently what we today call a wonder, a miracle, did not bear its
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
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
recognition that there are two currents in human experience. Men must
be quite clear that there are things which form part of a system of
it is also necessary that such souls should be brought to recognise
hence brushed aside as impossibilities and not recognised for what
Thus we can say that
And the fact that attempts are made, that societies are established,
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lecture will have enabled you to see what I meant when I said at the
outset of this course that the Greeks thought of the whole of Nature
Greek spiritual life. We see that we have to think of the microcosmic
controlling centre, as superpersonal, superhuman, we have what Greek
what the Greeks associated with Poseidon; if we think of the forces
of our physical bodies as transplanted into space, we have what the
occur to you to ask: ‘What about the fourth member of our human
or the ego-bearer. Now it is obvious that because this ego is in such
body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
that it is closely bound up with all that is happening around us.
Indeed with our egos we are right inside the world. Upon what goes on
to feel that the forces of our ego must be very different from the
environment. What radiates into us from without, the golden rays of
human. That god is Dionysos. Just as we have to look upon Pluto as
upon Dionysos, that figure which stands before our ego at last in
Much of what I am now
have just completed and which in essentials reproduces lectures that
these lectures. First we have to reflect that humanity, as it evolves
they stand to us. We know that, under quite different conditions of
life, they too were once human; that was during the Moon evolution,
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Pluto, Poseidon and Zeus himself. In view of what I said yesterday as
guidance of mankind, you may have wanted to ask to what category of
that in contradistinction to conditions prevailing in previous epochs
were less tightly drawn. That the Greeks were conscious of this
somewhat freer relationship between the divine Spirits and men is
infer that they knew that, just as human beings on the physical plane
gods needed so much to make progress in their own evolution that they
could not bother themselves much about men! Hence came that
was just because they were aware of this that the Greeks could depict
what these gods were trying to do, what they were seeking to gain by
their participation in earthly life, we can have no doubt that they
had failed to complete their Moon evolution and that the Greeks knew
it, knew that they had to take advantage of Earth evolution just as
men had to do. It follows from this that the Greeks knew quite well
that all their gods were imbued with the Luciferic principle.
towards their gods is in sharp contrast to that of another people. We
who heard the course of lectures I gave here a year ago with all that
Jahve, will have no doubt that the Hebrew people knew that the
Elohim, that Jahve, belonged to the gods who could not be directly
reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
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have devoted much attention in these lectures to a subject that arose out
Greek gods? The reason is that such a study can provide — as
spiritual-scientific study of the world. I have pointed out that the
today was quite unknown to the ancient Greek. If we call to mind what
today. What lit up in the soul of the ancient Greek, what was
which is the usual attitude, knows nothing of what it is trying to
structure, is actually the Greek reply to the question ‘What is
progress in Spiritual Science we must acquire a feeling that it is
drawn to yet another thing. While the rest of the gods represent what
the wonders of the world, we found that in the figure of Dionysos the
Greek has concealed what we might call the inherent contradiction of
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
What would the human soul be like if it were free from
see that it has been activated by contradictions. If at some later
in contradiction to what was. Contradiction is everywhere at the
that man as he stands before us consists of physical body, ether
but so long as he does not utter the lie so that it passes over into
encounter this ego once. Although we know quite well that there are
that is our own. In the physical world, or for physical instruments
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HAT
is it that has been the theme of our lectures during the last few days?
of Greek mythology, as the expression of an ancient wisdom, what in our
we have certainly seen how much of what we come to know today in quite
realise this, especially when we discover that the deepest and most
The Greeks felt that
what they hid in their Mysteries and associated with the figure of
Dionysos was still deeper and more significant than all that they
of the world around them, they veiled what had to do with Dionysos
What then was the
contrast between what the Greeks felt in their ideas about the upper
gods, and what was withdrawn into the sanctity of the Mysteries? What
into the wonders of the world, a deeper insight into what takes place
essentially different was involved in what was associated with the
tribulations, we must first give some thought to what modern
cognition. It might seem that modern man has abundant opportunity to
become instructed as to what cognition really is. For the study of
philosophy is accessible in all countries, and it is to this that we
the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
question as to what knowledge is will only be answered by the empty
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together with what we gather from history, are a better help in this
with what we can call the challenges or ordeals of the soul. What
Ordeals are what come upon a man whenever he tries to enter upon the
that a man has to make great efforts to endure certain pieces of
and this will perhaps help to make clear what such an inner ordeal
gives him premonitions of it but no more. He begins to suspect that
them full play, that he inevitably becomes impressed by the exoteric
changed by what flows therefrom, not as abstract content, but as life
itself. Something like that is what Capesius is depicted as feeling
that not only causes him to ponder, to rack his brains to try to get
at the meaning of what he reads, as he would do whatever he was
Faust merely shows that, having arrived at a certain scepticism, a
ignorance, as man's greatest sin. He learns to acknowledge that
realise that it is no mere selfish yearning, but deep-seated duty
our souls to be wasted. We come to realise that deep down in every
certain indolence say: ‘What do I want with knowledge? The gods
they have buried this treasure within us in order that we may bring
treasure go to waste. That is one of the courses which the soul can
take. The alternative is that, recognising our highest duty towards
consciousness.’ What are we doing when we bring up this
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that the finest elements of the blood are passing over all the time
into the same substance as that of which the human ether body
consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
have seen further that it is in fact because this newly-formed
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
knowledge of what takes place within our own organisation. I tried to
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
told you. Let me remind you once more that Earth evolution was
preceded by the Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions, and that these
which we also have, in the physical body today, were at that time
what was to crystallise out later as the denser man; and it has taken
understand fully what is meant by ‘Wonders of the World,
somewhat closely into this formation of man, we must see just how man
gradually solidified out of that original shadow-form. Today let us
try to picture to ourselves what the human being was like in this
pre-Lemurian era. At that time man had only a kind of shadowy form,
merely hinting at what came later. Into this Phantom
of the higher hierarchies were working within it. At that time man
the periphery; it was only later that he so to say stepped down upon
as yet in a more rarefied condition. All that the higher hierarchies
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widely different epochs men have formed conceptions of what really lies
concepts, by acquiring definite sentiments and feelings about what
satisfaction, arrives at something of which he can say that it
other way. Through this activity man demonstrates that he is not
content to adopt a passive attitude towards the world, but that he
has an impulse to struggle for a knowledge beyond what is evident to
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
In this way he shows that he is seeking for an explanation of the
world, that the world presents itself to him as a riddle, and that
that the human being starts out from a feeling of wonder about things
and Beings and that from this feeling of wonder all philosophy, all
However it is now a matter of common experience that the soul works
The soul cannot remain at the stage of mere wonder, for in that way
has to subdue its astonishment, it has so to say to get rid of what
explanation, an answer to the enigma, an answer to what is marvellous
different way, by gazing with penetration upon what was current among
them as the ancient clairvoyant consciousness and expressing what
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
compared with that of the Greeks, we think in a very different
in these and other lectures you may well understand that the modern
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of hindrances try to hold onto currently existing things that are
as such is the most sacred thing that we have, because it's directly
divine. The more divine what we pull into the dirt is, the greater the
become word when Christendom becomes perfected. That's the mystery of
the Holy Grail, the holy love lance, the fertilizing sunlight that'll
spiritual light that was brought by Christian Rosenkreutz and is now
needs world helpers and all the strength that he can only gain through

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slave. The first thing that a pupil must learn and do is pay attention

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remembers what it experienced in an esoteric class, but it must have
the feeling that it took something with it. Just as one knows one's
name, so one must bear what one received in an esoteric class in one's
our soul ever more, and that's necessary for the coming time.
Our whole civilization has its origin in the spiritual world. That's
where plans are made that govern our life on the physical plane. Down
events on higher planes of our existence that bring about physical
direction. The esoteric stream that lived in mankind since the
1879. What had slowly ripened since the 14th century could
few people. For Gabriel's rule was followed by that of the archangel
Michael. He's the radiant sun that lets esoteric wisdom shine out into
Michael's radiant rule will be followed by a dark, terrible age that
to their true vocation through terrible tortures. So that this can
under him so that someday he'll be mature enough to also serve the
today will serve the God Oriphiel so that mankind can be saved. If in
that age men wanted to be spiritual leaders who hadn't been prepared
shines. Oriphiel has ruled before. That was the time when Christ
When you, my sisters and brothers, let the spiritual life that streams
into your soul live in you so that it reverberates in your
meditations, you then have the right fruit. You should let what's
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element. The result of this is that certain demons who previously had
has the power to overcome hostile demons. The Bible says that he bound
that mankind didn't know before. And namely these enemies come out of
than they ever had before. A case that was investigated occultly can
couldn't express himself. What does this look like from an occult
deranged and streams this into the first one. What's with the second
force in there than in the brilliant words that streamed out from
inwardly free human being. When some esoteric pupils say that they're
hearing voices who are telling them what to do in their daily affairs,
that he can enter the spiritual world as a free, self-conscious being,

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 6-14-1908
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a destructive effect on them. The astral body throws what the retina
receives into the etheric body that thereby gets many impressions from
What tears down the physical body builds things up in the etheric
then made disharmonious. That's the occult explanation for the fact
that most children cry after they're born. Their astral body feels
that entry into life destroys its harmony and it feels this as pain.
thought pictures that the I throws into the etheric body via the
astral body, and that are viable. Most of the impressions that we send
vitality is concerned. We should create mental images that are clear
what the eyes receive from outside they throw onto the etheric body,
the other side via the astral body by forming a thought in this that
that they should be the right, viable thoughts. These viable thoughts
form our spiritual organs that'll make us clairvoyant. Just as Gods
created our physical body harmoniously so that each organ and limb is
concept. This doesn't mean that he should form a firmly outlined,
that are easy to change. Wisdom and cleverness or erudition are very
A second concept that one should meditate on is love. What the average
themselves entirely to the creation that they sweat out of themselves,
as it were. What can unite love and wisdom is that I that always works
at itself, that must always be egofied anew, as Fichte puts it. One
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as content goes, but one should keep in mind that the masters of
that we should let its effects live in our soul. Classes are given to
us so that in life we like to think back to them and let them form a
central core in our soul. They're complements to the exercises that an
We know that these exercises bring about colossal changes in the
astral body that had previously been disordered and unstructured,
although it was a harmonious whole, so that islands and pockets are
challenge it by using forces that it had previously used for other
judging them. For instance, he should say: I see that this man is vain
lignify, wither and die. But nature sees to it that the tree's inner
life forces counteract this and regulate the process. That's the way
and vanity and their effect on the astral body, that make it look as
if it had light rays in the form of needles coming out of it that
The divine world order sees to it that these needles don't go deeper
vanity. For he uses his protective forces for other things, so that
Another negative quality that lazy people often have is envy. It
Since an esoteric no longer has the protective forces that other
people have, he must develop others. Some people say that one should
and vanity would get him too involved with himself, and that would
every time that one especially feels these qualities, one will notice
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of what we'll someday have, albeit a very faint picture.
So that the meditation can work into and upon us in the right way we
a spiritual picture that we create for ourselves. For instance, when
we should try to strip off everything that fetters us to the sense
moment in which we notice that these pictures and ideas are realities,
that they are a world in which we suddenly find ourselves and that's
quite different from the outer world. We find that we're on the other
yet will find that as soon as they begin to meditate they are attacked
There's an occult way of silencing these unwanted thoughts, and that
lower self that disturb one, and the bright one the divine thoughts of
clairvoyance are disturbed by wild animal visions that are very ugly
or sometimes seductively beautiful and that comes from passions and
Depending on karma we'll sooner or later have the feeling that our I
must consider that we are very composite and complicated, and that the
meditator gets the feeing that he divides and gets into the hands of
to him that the world that he sees is an illusion that he's creating
himself. This is the temptation that approaches him from the other
cross, the symbol of death, out of which with the blood that flowed
unbeatable weapon against the power that leads us into temptation. And
life and light. He lives in this astral body as the astral light that
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The more the beings we see during meditation that look like sphinxes,
Seraphim and Cherubim, the surer one can be that one is seeing good,
sublime beings and that one is on the right path with one's
meditation. The rats and mice that one eliminates through a caduceus
Everything that has a life of its own is enclosed in a skin. Our
cracked and easily breakable skin, and that's why such people often
wish that they could merge with the universe. An independent,
used up during the day, that is, they get holes, become tattered and
ourselves reverently that we're returning to the Gods who created us.
That's why one should let it come to life within one after every
and that we're on a sinking ship in this wildly surging water so that
creation at such a moment knows what soul peace is.
richness and greatness as often as possible. Then we'll feel that fear
strength from all hindrances that life puts in our path.

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Today we want to occupy ourselves with occult symbols that a pupil
wisdom and of the harmony of feelings give us wisdom that was brought
who came to Asia through Africa produced the individuality that could
among initiates that not only knew how to defy outer enemies but was
Now, it's an occult law that some initiates withdraw to spiritual
Grail that angels carried from east to west and kept floating above
spiritual individuality that's symbolized by the name Titurel. Floris
to free himself from all worldly influences that drag one down,
use the forces that he'd developed through catharsis for an intensive
eyes and gradually changed into the image of a tree that grew and from
that.” The lily emitted a strong odor that Parzival found
repulsive and he realized that this aroma symbolized all the things
that he had set outside himself through catharsis, and that this still
that's strengthened in itself — behind him: “You should
become that.” Parzival was then led into mountain solitude by
Titurel to meditate on the mighty pictures that had been conjured up
that revealed itself to him in every thing overcame him. And he
around his center. He felt that his left hand was grasped by a force
that pressed like warmth through the arm, that announced itself
the two others that pressed through him like a feeling that gave him
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catharsis and had thought that he was now so good and pure that he
And a second feeling, a feeling of fear overcame him. He thought that
he had gotten rid of that a long time ago. But it was a different kind
Thereby the consciousness develops that what one does isn't so good,
but that one should always try to become more perfect. We should look
at what's developing in one's soul. God lives in developing things. If
way is our archetype itself, that created us. We must become a
must realize that we can't be selfless. It's a world karma that lets
us act egoistically. But world karma is God. Everything that God is
should tell himself: Let me do something that I have made it my duty
to do, let me do it as hard as I can and in such a way that I tell
myself that the divine element that's at work in me is doing this and
If I would place all the joy and suffering that I previously thought
soul-spiritual thing; I no longer live in what I have placed outside,
Through the exercises we stimulate a force in us that otherwise works
sensations that were aroused by past things and happenings in the
how to organize it up into the brain, so that it eventually grows
toward the higher self that floats above us. The pupil now lives in
teachings about karma. Now he knows that he stands under the necessity
of the effects of karma. He experiences the higher self that places him
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to move something new into the center of our life, something that
wasn't there till now but that will now become the main thing. The
success that our exercises will have will depend on the intensity of
this resolve. One can take the exercises that one gets as something
that's added to everyday life, so that one does them like some other
ordinary work. But one will then notice that the progress one makes
isn't especially great. The resolve that an esoteric should make is to
life, to really feel that this is the center from which he directs all
For what are we supposed to accomplish with our meditations? If we do
force that uses the words of the meditation as an instrument with
that we make in the mass of our astral body only gradually become
that becomes imprinted but then returns to its previous shape after
verse that comes to us from the masters of wisdom and of the harmony
that they can be imprinted from the astral into the etheric body. It's
only when the etheric body has received a copy that the portals before
We've heard that our physical and etheric bodies couldn't live for a
second without an ego and an astral body and that therefore when these
esotericism calls this tremendous event that's so sacred to us the
will be a ruinous price. It's a good deed that the world into which we
would like to press prepared by a school that rightfully exists, is
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so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
futures open to it - futures that depend upon our actions now.
to tell us what will
that express the appearance of the eternal spirit of the world. John,
first four seals, what is expressed symbolically in the four apocalyptic
with two horns like a lamb, a beast that will appear in the future.
or the forehead so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark,
that is, the name of the beast, or the number of its name. This calls
13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, \
13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. \
13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. \
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. \
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. \
Admittedly, the exegetes soon knew little more than that; but again
the opening of the sixth seal were also to be found at that time in
letters and then also know what the resulting word meant. Who then,
— in the place of the numbers. That resulted in “Nero.”
The seven corners of the sign are called “horns.” But what
only in the sixth century. Before that the Bull, Taurus, was worshiped
when the sun stood in its sign. Earlier, it was the Twin, Gemini, that
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so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
futures open to it - futures that depend upon our actions now.
is to be read and what is hidden behind some of the mysterious expressions,
us that the Gospels express, in pictorial form, the deepest imaginable
do not correspond to each other. What needs to be said concerning this
record. Augustine said: What is now called the “Christian
religion” is the ancient true religion. What was the true religion,
We understand what is
(Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they thatJohn 20:29)
content in records from earlier times. What is important with Christ is
what this individual means for humankind. We can acquire an understanding
they were permitted to learn the teachings that can now be found in
as a second step, that, and so forth. The initiation concluded when the
ones into the mysteries themselves. That took place in a state of
possible. Then the pupil was put by the initiator into a state that
astral light, not the darkness, nothing of what today's human being
by spiritual light and beings that are incarnated within the spiritual
the music of the spheres. What had merely been seen earlier began to be
their inner life to us. That is how it is in the spiritual world. First
to us. That is the harmony of the spheres.
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so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
futures open to it - futures that depend upon our actions now.
that they belong to a spiritual movement. It means something entirely
for us is also a day of gathering together; for what would the teachings
from its physical body, that means only that a person's inner being has
to the founder of the theosophical movement that we would like to
that thoughts and feelings are invisible powers in our soul, that they
with what is included in the name “Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,”
light that shoot forth from a human being, and are then united in a
point that meets with the spiritual being. Such a festive moment is
form matter and forces in such a way that it can express itself through
then we must realize that all of her efforts are bound up with the proper
our soul works trough our bodies of flesh. We must become aware that
and receptive. It is true that all the love and devotion that today
that are called upon to connect with her.
what this personality signifies within our cultural life. The nineteenth
Only later when people have again become spiritual will that be possible.
who can look upon human evolution from higher planes knows that in the
telling that, within the widest circumference of spiritual life in
guide the stream of spiritual life into the world, the stream that should
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so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
futures open to it - futures that depend upon our actions now.
point that leads us to the so-called third letter. This third letter
portrays to us — entirely in keeping with what we have seen in
We have seen that the
of the spiritual world. We have seen that acquiring knowledge of all
plane. It has become clear to us that human beings who raise themselves
These astral pictures are much more real than what exists here. These
the seer hears for the first time what the Pythagorean school characterized
only an abstract expression in what we call the higher numbers. But what
are ordinary numbers and measure? What are the numbers physicists speak
What are these numbers compared with what our ears hear when they hear
the sounds themselves? What we find in the philosophical books concerning
But what Pythagoras described is what the seer perceives after the
spiritual ear has been opened, when it hears the sounds that make the
wave movement or hears what is expressed in such wave movement. The
enlivened with colors and forms — and then you can experience that
world. If you raise yourself to that elevated condition as the servant
of the Lord did, then you first experience what is taking place on the
a world flooded with light, pictures, and forms. That is described to
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