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• Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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  • the plant kingdom. Plants have physical and etheric bodies.
• Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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  • Although the animals, too, derive their nourishment from plants,
  • simply one involving the nutritional shortcomings of plants
  • mineral kingdoms. We must realize that plants represent the direct
  • carbon that is finally exhaled as carbon dioxide, while in plants,
  • a sense, plants also breathe but their breathing process has a
  • in a spiritual respect plant and man stand opposite each other.
  • relationship by bearing in mind the influence of light on plants.
  • The effect of deprivation of light on plant life is well-known. The
  • same light that maintains life in plants makes it possible for us
  • also the element that maintains life in plants. This is physical
  • external light shines on a plant, the plant builds up its living
  • men and plants, that is, exhalation of carbon dioxide in men and
  • absorption of carbon dioxide by plants; exhalation of oxygen by
  • plants and inhalation of oxygen by men. These processes reach such
  • extremes only between men and plants. Animals do not have
  • processes of plants. A man must begin his processes where the plant
  • his organism. Plant food does not combine much fat. The human
  • as for him to eat plant protein. Up to a certain point the inner
  • and activate his astral body in such wise that the plant processes
  • liberates him internally to the substances derived from plants.
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• Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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  • be Implanted in it.
• Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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  • observe the plant, just as we see it before us. Here, on the
  • but where are we to look for the astral body of the plant? We
  • plane, the human being is then of the same worth as a plant.
  • already attained to the stage of a plant, and this part is at
  • being — that he cannot even grasp the plant completely,
  • declare that plants are merely a conglomerate of mineral
  • processes — just because they can see only the plant's
  • clairvoyance, the life of the plants and the laws of life
  • but you cannot construct a plant in this way. If you wish to
  • have a plant, you must leave this work to those Beings which
  • possible to produce plants in the laboratory, but only when
  • nature of plants, animals, and of man — these are
  • does the plant-world do? You will understand what takes place
  • in the case of a plant, if you bear in mind the following
  • for it moulds and forms the shapes of the plants. But it's
  • elements which have a plant-like character — nails,
  • being are of a plant-like nature, and within all these
  • plants-like elements, the Beings of the second Elementary
  • of a plant consists of the forces belonging to the second
  • Elementary Kingdom. Within the plant are active both the
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• Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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  • living spirit first implanted in the objects the thoughts
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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  • felt: ‘I absorb into myself the substance of the plant kingdom
  • in the world around me (a plant kingdom quite different from our
  • nature — her forces which were active in the plants and caused
  • plants came from Demeter, and he knew that it was Demeter who gave
  • the plant world without are sent into my brain.’ This Demeter
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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  • forces found in man's astral body as transplanted into cosmic
  • forces of our ether bodies transplanted into cosmic space, we have
  • of our physical bodies as transplanted into space, we have what the
  • body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
  • the forces of the astral body, transplanted into the universe, so we
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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  • had been transplanted into a world to which, if the true nature of
  • minerals, plants and animals, suddenly the world of old Atlantis were
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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  • represented the human self firmly planted upon the Earth. When the
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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  • man there lies something which once upon a time the gods implanted in
• Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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  • out with how, for example, the petals in a plant are merely
• Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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  • advanced during the Sun period to the stage of the plant. Again we
  • must not imagine that there were plants on the old Sun in their
  • elements of warmth and air as rule in the plant kingdom today, those
  • blossom upward. Obviously there could be no solid plants; one must
  • mineral kingdom are repeated and the laws of the plant world are
  • a plantlike condition.
  • find anything in the least comparable to that plantlike weaving in
  • our external physical plants, those Beings whom we have learnt to
  • know as the group-souls of the plants. Today they can only be found
  • the plants do not subsist in individual plants, such as we see
  • of plant, such as the rose, the violet, the oak, and so on. For the
  • poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
  • directs its attention towards the plant-covering of our earth, it
  • group-souls of the plants actually live as real Beings. And these
  • threw off the sparkling blossoms of plant existence, these physically
  • gaseous forms were actually the same as the plant species which can
  • firmly in mind, then, that the plant “species” which
  • evolved at that time, he too was to be found in a plantlike
  • than the plants today can do so. Man was himself living a plant
  • on the Sun, it is what we have described as the sprouting plant
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• Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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  • the plants! If you remove them from the light they deteriorate,
  • of life which could be reached on the Sun was the plant species.
  • from cosmic space. Up to that time Genesis speaks only of the plant
  • nature; all the beings on the earth were at the plant stage. The
  • activities which not only call an external plant life into existence,
  • only can the plant species shoot up, but also the animal nature,
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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  • period light works essentially on the plants, maintains plant
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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  • maturity in the fruit is already inherent in the nature of the plant.
  • species form; the earth brings forth the foundations of plant life
  • was a large garden planted with beautiful trees; lions and tigers
• Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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  • forms of individual plants, as we know them today, sprouted from the
  • group-souls of the plants which were present in the earth in an
  • “day” as the creation of the plants would not have been
  • became more and more physical. Strange as it may sound, the plant
  • plants of today cannot be ascribed to a very early period.
  • Lemuria, still none of the plants we know today sprouted forth from
  • forms of the plants had arisen in species form. On the first occasion
• Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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  • It is through having a higher member implanted into him that man
  • body as the breath of life. Thus what was implanted as a seed into
  • n'schamah first made it possible to implant in man the
  • ousted from their sovereignty through the implanting of the human
  • behind the biblical story of the creation. Through the implanting of
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture I
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  • has really succeeded in thus planting Lycurgus or Alcibiades on their
  • that by real human work the seed may be planted for the spiritual life
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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  • plant is transformed and becomes leaves, flower and fruit, we can say
  • studying a plant would give the flower preference over the root
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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  • plant, we analyse it according to natural forces and natural laws. Let
  • us suppose it is a poisonous plant. We do not confuse our description
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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  • a plant or a stone, you will then have the feeling that, indeed, no
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture V
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  • a pot of flowers and looking at it. The plant is outside, external to
• Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture VI
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  • of sensory existence? Actually, he transplants in perspective into the
  • real at all; it is you who have transplanted it there. In the same
• Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount
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  • Man could see not only the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, as well
  • absurd today to deny the existence of the mineral, plant and animal
• Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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  • a kind of tyrant for human thinking, has implanted in the soul a
• Title: The Ego: Lecture 2
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  • Zarathustra incarnated in him. Therewith we have implanted in that old
  • first implanted from out of the spiritual world in that individuality
  • the physical brain. Something of this nature can only be implanted
  • conformity to law was implanted in the seeds which were transmitted to
  • the corresponding faculties, which were implanted as seed in Abraham,
  • through Jacob is implanted what should live on as external
  • implanted through the last fourteen generations, which gives it its
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture I
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  • through this two-fold certainty shall we succeed in transplanting
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture II
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  • of the elementary world. Whether we take plants, or animals or stones
  • us in the world of stones, of plants, of animals and of men are
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture III
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  • place with considerable suddenness. Just as in the plant there is a
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IV
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  • surrounds us today. The outer forms of the minerals, the plants, the
  • which time neither plant nor animal nor human forms were to be found.
  • earth. The earth covered herself with the garment of plant and animal
  • of a plant to the fruit there is not a regular succession of similar
  • inaccurate as to state that the blossom of a plant is the same as the
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture V
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  • or green colour from the dawn or from a plant: but the corruption of
  • plant. The seed is put into the earth and out of it develop the
  • elementary organs of the plant, the leaves, and later, the calyx,
  • stamen, pistils and so on. Now if development is to continue in plant
  • fecundation the fertilising substances of one plant must pass over to
  • development may progress. What may be perceived in the plant is a
  • plant life the male and female elements develop independently, so in
  • fertilising substances of plants coalesce; we live at a time when the
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VI
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  • at the earth with its mountains and forests, its tapestry of plant
• Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VII
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  • have given the example of a plant, which grows but cannot develop its
• Title: Life Between ... XII: Life Between Death and Rebirth 1
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  • same necessity as that the leaves of a plant must wither when the
  • seed has been formed for the next plant. Such a death comes about
• Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture II
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  • of nature. Plants, animals, human beings — all are permeated,
• Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VI
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  • Whether you see a stone, a plant, a cloud, or lightning —
• Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VI: The Sermon on the Mount
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  • Not only could man see the mineral, plant, and animal realms, as well
  • would be absurd today to deny the existence of the mineral, plant,
• Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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  • the past the pupil was told, “Look well at the plant and
  • is an upside-down plant. (Spiritual science has always said
  • this.) What the plant in its innocence allows to be kissed by
  • the sunbeams so that the new plant can be born therefrom, this
  • the plant.”
  • Plato, in his summing up, says about what lives in plant,
  • streams through plant, animal and human being, is crucified on
  • from the dull consciousness of the plant, beyond the
  • of being that has the same existence value as the plant.
  • Because the human being has permeated the pure, innocent plant
  • are transplanted into captivity. They become sick, they who in
• Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: The Feverish Pursuit of Health
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  • bearable as possible. Think of a plant, the stem of which is
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture II: The Ninefold Constitution of Man
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  • physical Nature around him, in common with minerals, plants and
  • the plants and the animals. It is visible to the seer and has
  • with the plants. It is the same with the etheric as with the physical
  • ego-consciousness of the plants is therefore to be found in this world
  • the mineral consciousness is in the world of Arupa-Devachan, the plant
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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  • plants, minerals, and planets too, are contained and out of which they
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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  • different plants, different animal forms, even the climate was
  • plant nourished by the sunlight receives into itself not the physical
  • upon the plants as light, weaving as spiritual beings around the
  • plants. Looking at the plants with the eye of spirit, we can say: the
  • plant rejoices at the influences coming from the Dead who are working
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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  • Even today this state of consciousness still exists; the plants have
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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  • external nature, they were the implanters of ego-hood in the physical
  • implanted on Saturn. One also calls these ego-beings of Saturn,
  • implanted, man would never have become an independent being who can
  • penetrated by an etheric body, did as the plant does today with the
  • sunlight. The plant takes up the sunlight, permeates itself with it
  • plant sends back the light after having drawn strength from it, so did
  • Hence your own body too was at the stage of the plant on the Sun. It
  • had not the appearance of a plant in the modern sense, for this has
  • Egoism who implanted the sense of freedom and self-reliance and stood
  • The single Saturn kingdom progressed on the Sun to a kind of plant
  • existence. Man's own body confronts us there growing like a plant.
  • incorporated for the first time on the Moon by the astral body. Plants
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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  • 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
  • to be seen on the Sun as on our Earth we see rocks, stones and plants.
  • that man has gone through the mineral, the plant and the animal
  • prefigured. Nor was there a plant kingdom on the Sun like the present
  • plant-like nature, i.e., all glandular organs; they were plant-like
  • present plants; it was a kind of plant-animal. There exists today on
  • condition, even on the Sun; it stood between mineral and plant. Thus
  • on the Moon we have three kingdoms: plant-mineral, animal-plant and
  • The lowest kingdom stood between plant and mineral. The whole
  • somewhat resembled a peaty soil, on which there were also plants
  • forming a kind of pulpy plant-mass. The Moon-beings went about on a
  • lignification, such wooden masses of lignified plant-pulp. It was like
  • a kind of aged plant grown dry. This was the earliest beginnings of
  • the mineral kingdom and upon it flourished those plant-animals; they
  • kill him. Quite outside, however, there was a plant, the mistletoe,
  • These are the facts: On the Moon there was this mineral-plant pulp and
  • upon it flourished the plant-animals of the Moon. Now there were some
  • spongers, parasites, on a plant-like foundation. So the mistletoe
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• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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  • kind of plant-mineral, animal-plant and man-animal; man himself on
  • itself a kind of homogeneous plant-mineral. Its rocks were in fact
  • only a hardening of the plant-mineral like mass, and its animal-plants
  • bodies, in order to implant in them the power of taking up the Ego. In
  • bodies were like sleeping plants. Next entered the repetition of the
  • capacity to receive an Ego was implanted into the beings.
  • ego-hood had been implanted into the human body consisting of physical
  • force was implanted in him and there was no counterbalance. After the
  • plant-animals as well as the animal-men of the Moon and their
  • on the Moon a plant-mineral kingdom still existed, there now appeared
  • animal-plant kingdom had developed more or less to our present plant
  • lower bodily nature, who implant the ego-consciousness, who fashion
  • possessed a certain magical power over the growth of plants. If he
  • a plant, he was able to bring it to rapid growth, through the
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth II
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  • of the Earth all plants were permeated by milky juices. Man's
  • from the plants as today the child draws its nourishment from the
  • mother. The plants which still contain milky juices are the last
  • stragglers from that time when all the plants supplied these juices in
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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  • As the sun unites the plants which strive towards it and which yet
  • itself substances of a plant nature. All that works in man today, as
  • spittle; it will be of a plant-nature — man will, so to speak,
  • plant-like substance. The mineral kingdom is brought to an end by the
  • evolutionary return of humanity to plant-like existence.
  • that is mineral and passes over to the creativeness of the plant. And
  • animals, plants and minerals, so will a portion split off and
• Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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  • develop quite definite feelings. Imagine the following: the plant
  • from which it grows. Nevertheless the plant needs it, the higher could
  • not exist without the lower, and if the plant could think, it would
  • gratitude. Likewise must the animal bear itself to the plant, for it
  • could not exist without plant life, and even so must the human being
  • earth's Spirit. Every stone, every plant, every flower, all is for him
  • calls forth the pure productive forces which slumber in the plant and
  • Look now at man; he stands higher than the plant, he has the same
  • organs within him, but all that the plant harbours in itself,
  • The Grail pupil was shown: the plant on its lower stage has this pure
  • ordained by nature he needs the plant-world for his breathing.
  • If the plant were not there he could not live, for it gives him oxygen
  • and assimilates the carbon which he himself breathes out. The plant
  • the plant world oxygen is continually renewed for man. Humanity could
  • not exist by itself; eliminate the plant world and mankind would in a
  • the plant breathes out, you breathe out carbon which the plant inhales
  • and from which it builds up its own bodily nature. Thus the plant
  • may see in the coal how the plant builds its body from carbon, for
  • coal is nothing else than the dead remains of plants.
  • plant externally, will later on, through a future organ which the
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• Title: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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  • etheric body which the human has in common with animals and plants.
• Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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  • comparison. — Look at a plant that is permeated with moisture
  • the plant. I said that this physical body of man becomes powerful by
  • etheric and astral bodies become impotent, just as when the plant is
• Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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  • influence of Lucifer is implanted in the astral body! What works back
  • implanted? It was implanted in heredity, causing increasing
• Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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  • influence. It is just as if a plant were to grow in a cellar,
• Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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  • forces of nature, for example the seed forces of plants; they
  • eyes to plants and everything else around us that contains
  • perish, but is preserved and transplanted on the spiritual
  • be implanted only into his own descendants whereas the copies
  • could be implanted into all human beings of the most diverse
  • etheric bodies of Jesus of Nazareth could be implanted in
• Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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  • placing in the cellar of a plant which thrives only in
  • implanted the natural forces which destroy if they are
• Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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  • live with the beings of the animal, plant, and mineral realms. Mankind
• Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 11-19-11
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  • exist for minerals, plants and up through cold-blooded animals. But
• Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 9-1-12
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  • 500 B.C. To transplant the same teaching elsewhere at a different
• Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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  • advanced during the Sun period to the stage of the plant. Again we
  • must not imagine that there were plants on the old Sun in their
  • elements of warmth and air as rule in the plant kingdom today, those
  • blossom upward. Obviously there could be no solid plants; one must
  • mineral kingdom are repeated and the laws of the plant world are
  • a plantlike condition.
  • find anything in the least comparable to that plantlike weaving in
  • our external physical plants, those Beings whom we have learnt to
  • know as the group-souls of the plants. Today they can only be found
  • the plants do not subsist in individual plants, such as we see
  • of plant, such as the rose, the violet, the oak, and so on. For the
  • poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
  • directs its attention towards the plant-covering of our earth, it
  • group-souls of the plants actually live as real Beings. And these
  • threw off the sparkling blossoms of plant existence, these physically
  • gaseous forms were actually the same as the plant species which can
  • firmly in mind, then, that the plant “species” which
  • evolved at that time, he too was to be found in a plantlike
  • than the plants today can do so. Man was himself living a plant
  • on the Sun, it is what we have described as the sprouting plant
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• Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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  • the plants! If you remove them from the light they deteriorate,
  • of life which could be reached on the Sun was the plant species.
  • from cosmic space. Up to that time Genesis speaks only of the plant
  • nature; all the beings on the earth were at the plant stage. The
  • activities which not only call an external plant life into existence,
  • only can the plant species shoot up, but also the animal nature,
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  • period light works essentially on the plants, maintains plant
• Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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  • maturity in the fruit is already inherent in the nature of the plant.
  • species form; the earth brings forth the foundations of plant life
  • was a large garden planted with beautiful trees; lions and tigers
• Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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  • forms of individual plants, as we know them today, sprouted from the
  • group-souls of the plants which were present in the earth in an
  • “day” as the creation of the plants would not have been
  • became more and more physical. Strange as it may sound, the plant
  • plants of today cannot be ascribed to a very early period.
  • Lemuria, still none of the plants we know today sprouted forth from
  • forms of the plants had arisen in species form. On the first occasion
• Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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  • It is through having a higher member implanted into him that man
  • body as the breath of life. Thus what was implanted as a seed into
  • n'schamah first made it possible to implant in man the
  • ousted from their sovereignty through the implanting of the human
  • behind the biblical story of the creation. Through the implanting of
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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  • felt: ‘I absorb into myself the substance of the plant kingdom
  • in the world around me (a plant kingdom quite different from our
  • nature — her forces which were active in the plants and caused
  • plants came from Demeter, and he knew that it was Demeter who gave
  • the plant world without are sent into my brain.’ This Demeter
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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  • forces found in man's astral body as transplanted into cosmic
  • forces of our ether bodies transplanted into cosmic space, we have
  • of our physical bodies as transplanted into space, we have what the
  • body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
  • the forces of the astral body, transplanted into the universe, so we
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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  • had been transplanted into a world to which, if the true nature of
  • minerals, plants and animals, suddenly the world of old Atlantis were
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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  • represented the human self firmly planted upon the Earth. When the
• Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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  • man there lies something which once upon a time the gods implanted in
• Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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  • a greenhouse plant that was only revealed to a few mature people; what
• Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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  • plant, the dried wood with the live, red roses sprouting from it
• Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Four
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  • and must unite with what the plants give. The human being breathes out
  • carbon dioxide; plants breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen.
  • tool, and that is the plant, without which the human being cannot live.
  • The plant is what allows us to intertwine the blue and the red
  • being is this: what the plants do for us today, human beings in the
  • physical body when we have taken in the entire plant world, when we
  • have expanded our consciousness to include the entire world of plants.