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Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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we were to perceive Lucifer through our inner power of vision, we
such a sudden and powerful situation, we can see how little their

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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stages of evolution, three other powers must now step in with
their activity. The first of these is a power which is the
upon the blood — but it is a power which has not

Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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— sometimes indeed the effect is so powerful that we
they cannot be spiritual powers, nor can they become active.
him. But Goethe has an occult power of attraction; there is
by those spiritual Powers whom we call the Masters of Wisdom

Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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error with strong, inner power of WILL and regard
world-powers see through him completely — is a Fact,
his powers of perception, will correctly observe and estimate
of error arises if the follower does not school his power of
understanding is overpowered and ruined. Whereas the insight
spiritual knowledge or powers of knowledge, but on his
find this assertion about the power inherent in Truth, when

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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powerful in its particular workings. It did not confine itself to a
vaguely exalted religious response to great powers of the universe;
life-giving power throughout the whole drama from beginning to end?
are not successful it is because the powers behind our activity do

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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of those clairvoyant powers which played into men's souls from
forces give me also the power of clairvoyance; just as I breathe, so
him by the powers of Nature, by divine Beings. When man turned his
Demeter works without in the powerful forces of all that brings forth
gave him his food, also as the cosmic power of Nature who, when he
mythology, the powerful pictures which were placed before the pupils
The power of the Christ provides all the impulses to
that the soul will develop ever higher and higher powers, knows that
fulfil in regard to it, will understand that the powers of the soul
progress may well believe that the powers of the soul remain

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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make good the claim that the ego is the central governing power of
the central ruling power outspread in macrocosmic space, but closely
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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space. If we think of the sovereign ruler of these powers, their
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
powers and spiritual beings in general work into our earthly
During the Moon evolution there were powerful Beings, exalted Beings,

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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powerful dramatic allegory which sheds its light upon us from remote
powerful, in these words, and they can only mean that union with
ego which was not yet the ego of today with its power of intellect,
the central power of the macrocosmic forces which correspond to the
power behind this world-picture, behind the thoughts and imagery

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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to the physically based powers of physical knowledge, the physical
power of knowledge which we have acquired upon the physical plane if
ego which we perceive with our physical powers of knowledge belongs

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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the heavenly powers, we should say to ourselves: ‘We must raise
his duty to the cosmic powers to allow the treasure in his soul to go
obligations towards the cosmic powers. This trust in the soul's
powers of endurance and its fruitfulness must uphold us when, as
evolution, certain macrocosmic powers re-dissolve the substantiality
evolution started a split occurred in the cosmic powers. We shall
in the finer elements nevertheless developed powers of densification

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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itself into that Christpower, that Christ Impulse which, as it
which are arrested by the brain have a certain power of attraction

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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stronger, more powerful forces, forces emanating from the entire
wax strong and powerful, their will-nature comes to the fore. Whereas

Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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human form becomes powerful — as indeed it is in life

Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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imagination, artistic creative power and appreciation, and
them, that artistic creative power might be disturbed by any
and memory. The power of seership possessed by a man who
slumbering powers that soul life can function in complete
own power, completely to disregard any impression from the
external world and all that belongs to the power of
product of creative power, makes such a disagreeable effect
power in speech is the creative power common to the people
subconsciousness, know that the creative power in speech is
felt that there is a creative power in speech and that a
power of cognition. The only means for overcoming it, is for

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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powers suffice, he will do it in pictures which are able to awaken in
in some measure the power of these archetypal words we must disregard
the soul, and try to get some idea of the creative power inherent in
when he allowed those most powerful words to work upon him, words
before us in picture form what lives in these all-powerful archetypal
all-powerful archetypal words which contain such a sublime revelation

Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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For the language in which these powerful words of creation were
of active power. In the course of these lectures we shall often have
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
the power which organises the human form? There can be no human form
trunk and limbs, organised through the power of the head, then you

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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impressive words, in words full of power; we find there again what we

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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(For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powerColos. 1:16
Far above all principality, and powerEph. 1:21).
Exusiai or Powers, or Revelations; when we come to the lowest
we call Exusiai or Powers, or Spirits of Form. We know from what we
They spoke of spiritual powers who played a part in our existence,
these powers, these Beings, they called Aeons. By these Aeons they do
higher organising powers had brought light into existence, they then

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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Beings were the organising powers.

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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reached the solid state, held together by their power. And if we
crown their work they had to unfold still higher powers. The Elohim,

Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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similar to what there is in the soul today when the power of seership
body to produce within him the power of sight in his two eyes. This
power of sight can be projected outwards in the form of two globes.

Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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requisite strength, the power of the Elohim risen to the stage of
directing powers in cloud formation, and of the Seraphim as the
directing powers in the lightning flash that issues from the clouds.
ancient seers who gave us Genesis gazed with full powers of seership

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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the leading Guiding Powers were the Elohim. And the forces which
world-creative powers? Looking up to these, they said to themselves:
attributed the creation and also their own power of revealing the

Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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again to notice the aptness, the grandeur, the power of the biblical
go on working as power in our souls. I may perhaps be allowed to say

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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point of view these ideas give, we shall return again to the power of
initiation and the power of initiates. It is the principle of
have we to emphasise that so great is the force and power of this

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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worlds are entered, and one gains the power of perceiving, observing,
this wicked being the power to express its wickedness by masquerading
because such a schooling does away with danger. Powers of endurance

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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the latter is far more intense and far more powerfully felt. It is the
crossing the threshold into the spiritual world, we have the power to
not prepared in the proper way we shall not have the power of
super-sensible world. He gains the power to preserve in memory what in
having the power to preserve in memory the renounced past existence.
life. We should feel the whole power of the thought that is called
Then, if you maintain the same power, you will probably see the two
acquire the power of differentiating between the various merely inward

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture V
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power to liberate itself from the Luciferic existence, but insofar as
Luciferic powers, man should have taken with him something like a

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture VI
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individual it can rejoice in its power to grow individually great. If
the power to develop within him inward greatness that wells forth from
man? What gave Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, their power to
power behind all the greatness that radiates into human evolution from
sought in how his powers take on different qualities when, for
into super-sensible worlds. The power to carry into eternity what is
of value in sensory existence is the power that belongs to Ahriman. To
give the passing moment back to eternity, that is in Ahriman's power.
Ahriman's power strives to bring about, that all that we have here can
what gives us the power for self-development. Connections with
to know, the several powers of the super-sensible world who play into
meet the fortunes of life, are among our most powerful sensations and
“Is it indeed only those having power of vision in super-sensible

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture VII
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powers of judgement (to which, it must be admitted, there is little
in the appropriate way into the power of vision. Thus, we must
understanding and with powers of judgement that flow freely into every
power of judgement. By this way of sound understanding, by this
has no power of discriminating between the various things that appear
moral impulses, and so forth, and work with such mighty power because
how different, powerful and mighty are the worlds we enter when we

Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount
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from the good powers, but was of demoniacal nature. All the strange
actually arrived. The one who did this most powerfully was John the
From this comes the powerful admonition: “Alter the disposition of
down to earth as the power of love and harmony. Therefore, Christ
permeated the earth for three years with their powers. This had to
possess soul powers with which they can penetrate into the etheric.
that those blessed with this new power of vision may not be considered
preacher and made powerful revelations. To him came the layman who was
the power of good will.

Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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clairvoyance ever more and more, and having to limit his power of
following appeared: how all human powers strengthened themselves still
direct powers of perception: Around us is a spiritual world. We live
who knew this; more and more were the powers of man limited to the
perception of the senses. But if, on the one hand, today, the power of
powers as he possesses who is initiated today. But just today that
more the power of expressing externally his inner being. There exists

Title: The Ego: Lecture 2
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corresponding powers. One must have a definitely formed brain, if one
will express such powers as Zarathustra possessed. That means, one
generations, we come to a tribal father, to whom quite special powers
people, of Abraham or Abram. Quite special powers were imparted to him
beings had other powers of soul, which we can designate as a kind of
especially those powers which are bound in the most eminent degree to
He was, as it were, the first of those, in whose soul-powers the old
develop. Similarly this power of considering the world through the
inner soul-powers had to correspond to the revelations from within.
be inherited so that its inner powers, its configuration, developed
the last clairvoyant power so that the old Hebrew people could be
powers which depend on the observation of the outer world. But
knowledge; the old clairvoyant powers were once with them in the soul.
who developed further were less hairy, because new powers appeared
was thrust out in Esau, so were the old clairvoyant powers, which came
power. As when we picture a being from four sides, we retain but

Title: The Ego: Lecture 3
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force, even of radiating power, living within it. Thus the soul lived
power of growing into the spiritual world through itself. Formerly,
power of stretching out its forces like tentacles, to look
Waterman-initiation received especially the power as a spiritual
human power is carried over.
that one indicates that this healing power can flow down when the
that world which Zarathustra had so powerfully announced behind the

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture I
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chapters — than the full power of the Ego. In darkness this
only shines in us when we ourselves have the power to do what is
luminous than it is through its own power. A thing becomes luminous

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture II
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body. The method for the attainment of clairvoyant powers employed by
feeling which stir the soul so forcibly that by their power they
certain power of attraction, man lives, and by far the greater part

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture III
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substance to prove their greater power. For those who are able to
transform evil into good are more powerful than those who rule over
kingdom which in a certain respect is higher, more powerful than that
life stand the other beings who belong to a more powerful kingdom.

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IV
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mighty Indra for power to be victorious in battle, since this also

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture V
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through his own power he cannot impair it. At initiation he is able
events have been brought together under the direction of those powers
powers residing in the West, we must consider the origin and
and as the new era approached he was overcome by the powers of the
of cosmic powers surrounding him, and is fashioned according to the
way in which these cosmic powers permeate him. A man who inhales
is noticeable, for the forces and powers of the outer world —
the powers and forces of external nature. It may be said that the
accordance with the nature of the powers holding sway in the

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VI
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deepen the power of penetration to the spiritual world which lies
higher power than Apollo possessed, namely, the Christ power. And in
initiation felt these impressions more clearly and powerfully. I
his light was overpowered by the Christ light. The Christ entered the

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VII
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Luciferic world, a great and powerful inheritance brought over from
his physical senses and of his physical reason. Clairvoyant power was
in his physical body nothing that might bestow a power on the etheric
such as spiritual science offers, is fully empowered to prepare the
the other direction there shone the power of Lucifer,
suitable for the present age. And clairvoyance is a power which today
fructifying spiritual power inherent in human evolution and work with

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VIII
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be able to feel that powerful emotion arise within them which
felt himself to be confronted by two powers. If he looked up to that

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IX
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power of thought in those early times had learned from reality and so
individuality still higher and more powerful than Skythianos, than
power and greatness that will appear in the future in the form of the
not only with the reincarnation of men but with the powers which rule

Title: Life Between ... V: Life Between Death and Rebirth 1
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feeling of powerlessness towards the necessity of karma that can be
the power that leads us into community, into a kind of social life,
and it arises in the soul like an elemental power, that all
all human beings will Christianity be understood. For the real power
the earthly realm we have derived the power, through a moral and
higher hierarchies. But this power gradually vanishes, becomes dimmer
and dimmer, and what remains is essentially the power that we derive
whom we must learn to know in his primal power. We bring with us from
know Lucifer, and through the powers that he is able to impart to us
cosmic twilight. Now for the first time the powers of the whole
Powers that stand in opposition to Him — the impulses of
Maya, we have to deal with Powers who unfold forces in the cosmos.

Title: Life Between ... VI: Life Between Death and Rebirth 2
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subconsciousness. This does not rise powerfully into our upper
powerful longing for the very thing he hates in his upper
still in developing anthroposophy so that real powers arise. It is
Soul powers change, and although it is true to say that today man is

Title: Life Between ... XII: Life Between Death and Rebirth 1
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necessity dull, Lucifer and his powers have particularly strong
illuminated by the luciferic powers. As a result, these gifts are
higher hierarchies send their powers of well-being from the
healthful forces, powers of growth and healing, from the
powers as described above depends on whether the soul concerned has
our time. They should do everything in their power to devote
directed by super-sensible powers, and so are premature deaths.
increase the powers of the higher hierarchies, which otherwise would
utterly nonsensical to ask whether the spiritual powers might not

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completing the work. He was incapable of unfolding the power whereby
demands upon himself that his powers, even in respect of the outer
powers of peace and love, the Buddha went to Mars in order that those
powers might stream from him into the aggressiveness prevailing there
impulses or forces. The power that enabled Raphael to create those
prompts him to believe not that he may squander his powers, but that

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture I
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the power of thinking, with which one feels so confidently connected
where glowing beauty brings forth powers of life.

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say that they are bad and harmful. Although these powers rebel in a
Lord of Death, far and wide the ruler of all the powers that have to
an evil power but as one whose influence in the general world order
shying away from the right relationship to the ahrimanic powers,
the most powerful handle to the entrance of the unlawful luciferic
physical-sensory alone. If there were no luciferic power in the
power that tears him out of that world. A large part of what is
luciferic powers to free his thinking from a mere photograph-like
powers.
and sublime power. But there is also a shadow-side to Lucifer's
admit to oneself: You are vain and ambitious! You want power! When we

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture III
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physical encasement, its powers of movement are held together and
with the power to feel himself an ego, an I. It is different in the
a stronger power of soul to confront these living thought-beings with
powerless into the elemental world; this we must avoid if we hope to
backbone, we will see the luciferic powers coming towards us with the
luciferic powers. It is possible to prevent their being seized by
these powers only by ascending into the spiritual world with firmly
support of morality, the ahrimanic and luciferic powers form an
for power, Ahriman and Lucifer will succeed in forming a partnership

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture IV
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With one's deep inner powers coming sometimes in a shadowy way to
interplay of many other things. But the mostly overpowering

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture V
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same vision. First, they saw a powerful figure of light, which seemed
control human development in the most powerful way. One must face

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VIII
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the power of clear, objective discrimination. Then we would have a
of the, good, progressive powers of the universe. The character of
turn its destructive, power at some time on himself; unless, too, we

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VI: The Sermon on the Mount
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it did not come from the good powers but was ordinarily of demoniacal
powerfully was John the Baptist. He announced that the times had
impulse in world evolution. From this comes the powerful admonition:
as the power of love and harmony. Therefore, Christ says, “Blessed
this new power of vision may not be considered dreamers and fools but
preacher and could make powerful revelations. To him came the layman
denomination but simply through the power of good will.

Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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powers. There is the current of events, the steady flow of
Opposed to this stands man's own power within his inner being.
powers that fetter every living being
when striving for spirit strength existed or where outer power
in the vicinity of these monuments to power one can see
Thus one can see what power fantasy and perverted imagination
“From powers that fetter every living being
productive power from within. Whatever provides him with the
These are too dull and inadequate. The effect is powerful,
nourishment for more than just one's power of judgment. Then,
and he is able to overcome the power that binds all beings.
power. For every binding power makes for illness. Only in this
From powers that fetter every living being

Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: The Feverish Pursuit of Health
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the animals are powerless on the physical plane to undergo
outside grow ever more powerful. When we tear along faster and
concepts that are provided with the most powerful energies so
situation therein. No outer power can help us. When we find
Not time nor power can destroy the mould

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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so profound that Goethe was never able to recapture the power to
developed their logical reasoning powers to a sufficient extent —
unwillingness either to exert their reasoning powers sufficiently or
it can be discovered only through the powers of clairvoyance but can

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture II: The Ninefold Constitution of Man
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— he alone has such power over his physical body that no current
source of inner, occult powers, for this indicates that the ego is

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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order that fresh power may be gathered for the new life.

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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way that death has no power over it, is preserved and builds up a new
power of spring with the constellation from which the sun was shining.
vigour, it is the bestower of the new, divinely creative power. And so
often not within our power to help the individual among those who are

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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good health, who has great powers of endurance, unfolded good
power to create for ourselves health or illness in so far as these
to a strong power of resistance to infectious diseases.
destiny. The Akasha Chronicle is a veritable source of power in which
they are the directing powers of his life. You bear within you all the
You will realise, therefore, that your lives are guided by Powers of
world-history demons who grow into very powerful beings are all the
If the stream of spirituality is not powerful enough to influence lazy
Science should never be a matter of strife but a healing power in

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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is necessary to look very deeply, with occult powers. Although the
affect the karma of both of them. A man who is still more powerful can
help ten or a hundred people and the most powerful can help unnumbered
possible amount of power. No engineering art applied to the building

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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among certain lower creatures the power of producing sounds, but then
have gained the power of bringing to expression their pain and
an objective consciousness and at the same time gave him the power to

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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Angels, Archangels, Primal Forces, Powers of Revelation. All these
had the power of spreading from within outwards, of raying out
that is bad draws its power from these Spirits.

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but there were bodies which had not acquired the power of receiving an
more power had man to produce it. Our forefathers on the Moon breathed
germinative power into the cosmos. We have relics of this preserved in

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XI: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth I
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bodies, in order to implant in them the power of taking up the Ego. In
body, etheric body and astral body, but without the refining power of
the terrible instincts and powers, and retain on the Earth whatever
savage, passionate power that was peculiar to man on the Moon and
possessed a certain magical power over the growth of plants. If he
What today is called the power of synthesis, the intelligence, logical

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth II
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power of developing individuality came about.
powerfully in the region of the forehead. Now we must think of a point
to-day: calculation, counting, the capacity of judging, the power of
relationship, whilst a powerful authority was exercised by the
the priest-wisdom has to give way before the human power of judgment.

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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it very much in their power to create an impression on their
evolution, be in his own power. Later on he will drive his blood by

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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were able to perceive the creative powers which pervade the world, the
of his inclination to them in gratitude is powerfully portrayed in
this fact it will be powerfully gripped in feeling. It is only an
and if these thoughts flow into the feeling nature and overpower it,
evolution in such lofty and powerful pictures as the Grail, then the
them. In this sense Spiritual Science should become a powerful impulse

Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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and less accessible to those forces and powers which work down upon
have no power over their behaviour, over their physical nature, that
apparent that they have the strength and the power to overcome the
circumstances it is only the strength and power and forcefulness of
the plant. I said that this physical body of man becomes powerful by
what is the source, the giver of its power? The ego has this power
then, if it is not to be shattered, it is bound to overpower that
today, the being who lives in him for three years is overpowered; if,
however, it were to remain, it would overpower and shatter the

Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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procreative powers. It cannot be said that a man of 30 adds anything
added, for he already possesses the power of propagation to the full
As far as the full power to propagate his kind is concerned, the one
the actual power to propagate his kind, but can only impoverish it.
have no creative power. When reference is made to the part played by
power repairs the astral body to the same extent to which it has
well I am getting on!’ but with etheric vision behold the living power
matured vision, that the moral powers of our World Order are living
and so forth. That there are living Powers who draw us upwards through

Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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takes root within it, and fills it with power. As the fleshly body of
Jesus of Nazareth was once permeated and empowered by the fourth
And the time will come when the most powerful, the most significant of
with the Christ drama, it was just as if a powerful drama were
power of the macrocosmic Christ Being. You must not suppose that this
the powerful macrocosmic Christ Being. It was a constant, slow dying,
the Christ; he will win a powerful following; but spiritual scientists

Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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realising that spiritual powers, spiritual beings, are behind

Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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arises in us, is quite powerless to picture to the ordinary
super-sensible world, we are not powerless, as far as this Being is
concerned, in the way the eye is powerless with regard to the rose.
consciousness, is powerless, and devoid of any real connection with

Title: Perception of the Elemental World
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physical encasement, its powers of movement are held together and
when the human being sinks down into it, supply him with the power to
a stronger power of soul to confront these living thought-beings
the whole life of soul, which would then come powerless into the
will see the luciferic powers coming towards us with the intention of
and so that they are not themselves grasped by the luciferic powers.
It is possible to prevent their being seized by these powers only by
the ahrimanic and luciferic powers form an extraordinary alliance
ambition, vanity, pride or with the desire for power, Ahriman and

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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especially skilled in the use of magical powers. The
clairvoyant faculties and powers with which they could pierce
of the universe with their intellectual powers; rather, the
magical powers whom the Great Leader of the Sun Oracle
which will be permeated with clairvoyant powers. As with
containing the forces and powers of the Atlantean era. At
also spiritual power that streams down to earth. In his
Aura — and proclaimed the power of the sun aura by
Zarathustra transmitted what one might call the power to read
clairvoyant power of the etheric body enabling the human
to feel this before the powers of judgment could be activated
His power into the aura of the earth; and when Paul became
what they have the power to receive, provided they prepare

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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indeed something of an inner musician, who with a powerful stroke calls one
day. During waking hours the soul can deploy its powers, but it cannot draw
he may also have acquired certain capabilities and powers that he did not
then, can we take the powers we have woven into our spiritual archetype and
slumbering powers brought from previous lives; they work into his undeveloped
our powers growing through the corresponding interaction between the
with power and strength. And here we encounter a mysterious connection
body is developing — he must bring them into touch with the power of
Consciousness Soul. Generally speaking, man has little power over his
extent to which the outer body can be influenced by powers acquired between
death and carried over into his next life as a most powerful formative force.
lives prepared the radiance that shone out so powerfully for me from

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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its transforming power into the physical body, we call the transmuted part
must work to become always richer, a powerful centre from which much can
and to produce something like powerlessness in the soul. If the soul
Soul and the Consciousness Soul, where love and the power to give blessing
of love. And not in vain do we call the undefined power that flows from the
small in scale. And in a powerful poem of universal significance, the
power which inspires and ensouls men in whom the Ego has not yet come to full
powers which act from out of the entire cosmos to subdue the Ego in the right
power of the Ego in him. The legend tells us how Prometheus is punished by
peculiar merit of this legend: it presents in powerful pictures

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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image of something inwardly powerful, of a radiating force.
contained the powers of seership, whereas the forces rooted
powerful factor in the development of the ‘I’. If
coming was drawing near, it was losing its power to see into
inner life when the astral body had gradually lost the power
the powerful ‘I’ within you; listen to the cry in
thinking, feeling and willing. Lo, the power that is the
Christ Jesus needs special power in order to do His works, He
Sun and the power of the Sun are expressly indicated,
show you how this Gospel acquires new life and power if only

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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Christ works as a macrocosmic Power and is not a teacher like the
reality, as power, as very life.
a Power Who is now united with the Earth. Thus the Bodhisattvas work
will flow into the hearts of men as a magic, moral power. The stream
the words of his speech will contain the magic power of the Good. For
Individuality had unfolded a power of deep and fervent piety, devotion

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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enlivening power of it, and that it could take hold of our whole soul
united Himself with the earth as a reality, as power, as very life.
Him as a power Who is now united with the earth. Thus the Bodhisattvas
power of goodness. For thousands of years, therefore, oriental

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
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individuality had unfolded a power of deep and fervent piety, devotion
will flow into the hearts of men as a magic, moral power. In this way

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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powers and the complex connections between psychological and organic,
many things upon the occult plane, but the power of
were presented, only He, through His inherent power, recognized
truly worked out they become a power of perception.

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture IV: Hidden Soul Powers
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Hidden Soul Powers
powers and the complex connections between psychological and organic,
Hidden Soul Powers
night, may be called the activities, peculiarities, and powers
itself, no power over the blooming, growth and fading of the
powerless as we are with the eye in regard to the rose. If in a
it were powerfully thrust from us. It is the same when we form
power and, also, the force residing in our healthy or
unhealthy breathing power, conditioned more or
The subconscious or hidden soul powers work within us so as to
subconscious powers of the individual.
subconscious powers that act like magic in this outer world.
conditions of blood, of the breathing power, and of the etheric
fertilizing, strengthening and maturing powers. We may say,
his powerless surface-consciousness, into the region
himself: Can you penetrate it through the power of your
becomes a power in the elemental world. This power follows the
received by the ordinary consciousness, are powerless and

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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delusions et cetera have something in common: they overpower
educate himself just by strong soul forces and willpower that
a vision, a hallucination overpowers the human being, it

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture V: Errors of Spiritual Research - 1
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researcher must tend to a strong willpower so that the pictures
what he says —, to persuade while he overpowers their
the human being, his power of judgement and his moral
strong power, and, even if error slips in because of the belief

Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- II
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Michael, which means that the counter-striving powers have been
these differentiations among mankind have no longer any power in the
Archangel Michael against the counter-striving powers has, to a
Why do the spiritual powers not intervene and help them vindicate
spiritual powers not intervene? The day before yesterday I gave an
own freedom. Those who ask: why do the spiritual powers not intervene?

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-15-10
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to dissolve these hardenings. Luciferic Moon powers take advantage of

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-24-10
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Wisdom and power and love,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-23-11
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powers with respect to the wisdom that's given by them, with
Wisdom and power and love,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 11-19-11
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Wisdom and power and love,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 1-10-12
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you'll get the power” — that is, the power to rule
Wisdom and power and love,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 9-1-12
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Wisdom and power and love,

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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powers suffice, he will do it in pictures which are able to awaken in
in some measure the power of these archetypal words we must disregard
the soul, and try to get some idea of the creative power inherent in
when he allowed those most powerful words to work upon him, words
before us in picture form what lives in these all-powerful archetypal
all-powerful archetypal words which contain such a sublime revelation

Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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For the language in which these powerful words of creation were
of active power. In the course of these lectures we shall often have
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
the power which organises the human form? There can be no human form
trunk and limbs, organised through the power of the head, then you

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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impressive words, in words full of power; we find there again what we

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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Exusiai or Powers, or Revelations; when we come to the lowest
we call Exusiai or Powers, or Spirits of Form. We know from what we
They spoke of spiritual powers who played a part in our existence,
these powers, these Beings, they called Aeons. By these Aeons they do
higher organising powers had brought light into existence, they then
(For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powerColos. 1:16
Far above all principality, and powerEph. 1:21).

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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Beings were the organising powers.

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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reached the solid state, held together by their power. And if we
crown their work they had to unfold still higher powers. The Elohim,

Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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similar to what there is in the soul today when the power of seership
body to produce within him the power of sight in his two eyes. This
power of sight can be projected outwards in the form of two globes.

Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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requisite strength, the power of the Elohim risen to the stage of
directing powers in cloud formation, and of the Seraphim as the
directing powers in the lightning flash that issues from the clouds.
ancient seers who gave us Genesis gazed with full powers of seership

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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the leading Guiding Powers were the Elohim. And the forces which
world-creative powers? Looking up to these, they said to themselves:
attributed the creation and also their own power of revealing the

Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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again to notice the aptness, the grandeur, the power of the biblical
go on working as power in our souls. I may perhaps be allowed to say

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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powerful in its particular workings. It did not confine itself to a
vaguely exalted religious response to great powers of the universe;
life-giving power throughout the whole drama from beginning to end?
are not successful it is because the powers behind our activity do

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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of those clairvoyant powers which played into men's souls from
forces give me also the power of clairvoyance; just as I breathe, so
him by the powers of Nature, by divine Beings. When man turned his
Demeter works without in the powerful forces of all that brings forth
gave him his food, also as the cosmic power of Nature who, when he
mythology, the powerful pictures which were placed before the pupils
The power of the Christ provides all the impulses to
that the soul will develop ever higher and higher powers, knows that
fulfil in regard to it, will understand that the powers of the soul
progress may well believe that the powers of the soul remain

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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make good the claim that the ego is the central governing power of
the central ruling power outspread in macrocosmic space, but closely
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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space. If we think of the sovereign ruler of these powers, their
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
powers and spiritual beings in general work into our earthly
During the Moon evolution there were powerful Beings, exalted Beings,

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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powerful dramatic allegory which sheds its light upon us from remote
powerful, in these words, and they can only mean that union with
ego which was not yet the ego of today with its power of intellect,
the central power of the macrocosmic forces which correspond to the
power behind this world-picture, behind the thoughts and imagery

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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to the physically based powers of physical knowledge, the physical
power of knowledge which we have acquired upon the physical plane if
ego which we perceive with our physical powers of knowledge belongs

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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the heavenly powers, we should say to ourselves: ‘We must raise
his duty to the cosmic powers to allow the treasure in his soul to go
obligations towards the cosmic powers. This trust in the soul's
powers of endurance and its fruitfulness must uphold us when, as
evolution, certain macrocosmic powers re-dissolve the substantiality
evolution started a split occurred in the cosmic powers. We shall
in the finer elements nevertheless developed powers of densification

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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itself into that Christpower, that Christ Impulse which, as it
which are arrested by the brain have a certain power of attraction

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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stronger, more powerful forces, forces emanating from the entire
wax strong and powerful, their will-nature comes to the fore. Whereas

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-6-1906
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to be silent and you'll get power; give up power and you'll get will;
a certain power. If a man knows the spirits and beings who

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-1907
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But when dark powers rage most terribly, the brightest light also
appeared on earth. Bad powers of degeneration and decadence were
powers of the world stream into you. The world is always flowed
world through the power of the spirit.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Munich, 3-17-1908
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no power over men were liberated and became hostile. Demonology arises
has the power to overcome hostile demons. The Bible says that he bound
spirit self in spirit self. Thereby new hostile powers are liberated

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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powers stand behind them. It would be as if one wanted to defend
all of these powers and loses himself in them. One who hasn't attained
unbeatable weapon against the power that leads us into temptation. And
the powers of darkness.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 3-8-1909
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Christ. Evil powers must withdraw from anyone who places this black

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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merge with you.” At the same time he felt another divine power
who did not overpower him as much, who seemed to lead him into himself

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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in the power of the mantra: Ex Deo nascimur. Thereby the pupil

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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allegorical tale. Now Lucifer overpowered these first human beings and

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture One
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13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. \
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. \
adversary of the good powers of the sun is called Sorat. Christ was
world. Mighty cosmic powers ensouled the signs of the zodiac and the

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Three
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that thoughts and feelings are invisible powers in our soul, that they
streams up to the soul of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky are powerful forces
organizer, as the form-giving power. [Here follows an indecipherable
There is a spring of spiritual power in what Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
forces at the disposal of spiritual powers who wish to reveal themselves,
forth — that is prepared by the powers who, in 1841, found their
who, at that time, found suitable soil, those powers have taken possession
influence. Otherwise, the adversarial powers that find expression in
power in the soul, the war of all against all will rage within this
the power of fire, the Atlantean through water, so will the fifth race
find its destruction in conflict between selfish, egoistic powers in

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Four
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have received power from my Father; and I will give him the morning
to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my

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