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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
forces may be able to see these things but there is no reason why one who
science has to say. Furthermore, the things anthroposophy has to teach
to do with themselves and are unable to make anything of themselves.
united with their work. They feel remote from it. Now there is nothing
worse than to feel remote in your heart from the things you have to do
put things. One has lost his pencil, another cannot find his cufflinks, etc.,
etc., all of which seems trivial but such things do, after all, occur often
becomes habit to hold such thoughts when things are put aside, it
anything but foolish. Nevertheless, suppose that children were first taught
So you see, something can be done to strengthen the etheric body. This is
not do the things that would contribute to the strengthening of the etheric
however, people would soon see how many things done in the bustle of
With certain things we do, no matter whether or not they are of enduring
things we do out of habit. Nowadays, people only alter their handwriting
quite differently on occasion the things we do habitually. This does not
The way to strengthen one's will is not necessarily to carry out something
often convinced he will be if he does the things there are so many reasons in
favor of doing, and disregards the things there are so many reasons
many possible objections to practically everything we do. People are not
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Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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has something to say even concerning questions that directly affect
to believe that man is indeed physically nothing more than what he
eats. Now, we shall have several things to say on this point.
truth of things. His attitude must never be agitatorial, and he
what he says, he will then proceed to do the right thing. What I
or against anything.
principle that every material occurrence, everything that takes
found in the breathing process. It is a familiar fact that men
a sense, plants also breathe but their breathing process has a
light but it is also something more. Just as there is a spiritual
counterpart to everything physical, so there is spiritual light in
in disintegrating substances, and through this action something is
First, inner warmth is produced and second, something that is less
produce fat from something that in itself contains no fat. In other
remains a mere spectator. Everything that takes place in him in
animal one-sidedly contains within itself something of the forces
constructed accordingly. Everything down to the most minute
enough to entrust everything to his astral body and may have to
It can be said that man owes everything that
have no judgment at all. Still, it is a fact that everything that
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Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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form of a plan with real ideas relating to those things which can at
everything which has thus been given in a schematic form. We already
is the only thing which the ordinary science, dealing with the
Although the things
have to take away from the human being everything pertaining to
longer be influenced by anything else. For the etheric body is
century, something special arose within the world-conception of
should think of Oken in such a way, that the things which he could
Of course, the things which I have just explained to you lay at the
realise that things which may apparently sound like nonsense may
follows: The tongue is a cuttlefish, other organs are something else.
Things are not as easy as they appear to be, for in reality, the
in mind the following fact: If the things which I have just now
describe these things by drawing in a comparison. Here upon the earth
body, believing that we carry it about as something that belongs to
live within our physical body, we believe that only the things we
death something may arise that can be incorporated with the whole
always contemplate things from different standpoints, so that we
and those who cannot read (an encompassing view of things is needed
standpoints from which these things are viewed.
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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themselves — cannot make anything of themselves. Or again this:
things in our time? We need not go so far as to speak of a
other things, it is extremely harmful for our time that many people
giving in their lectures. Then, when he has to know something for his
thing that they are doing; they feel remote from it. Now there is
nothing worse than to feel remote, in your heart, from the things
he will often find that the very slightest thing can work miracles.
than this; it shows that it is also harmful to health. Many things
things where he put them. It may seem strange for us to be speaking
of these things, but after all, they do occur in life; and there is a
in the morning. No doubt, you will say, the best thing to do is
thought: I have put the thing there, and I will mark the
of habit for people to hold such thoughts when they take things off
or when they put things aside. It would represent a strengthening of
things Anthroposophy teaches are correct.
connected. Now there is one thing observable in our time, which moves
People would realise that this is a healthy thing. The point is that
and core of his being into connection with the thing he does. To do
we can do something in life to strengthen our ethereal body. Now this is
body. When we do this, we apply an actual force to something —
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Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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understand such things in the best way, if we proceed from
be possible within the physical sense-world, for here, things
have named something, we can be sure that we have before us
something distinct and limited. If, however, we send to the
different shape, color, or luminous force. Everything on the
everything on the physical plane is an expression of forces
emanating from these higher worlds. In everything we see
to say: “The mineral is something which has nothing but
to say: “The mineral kingdom is something which has,
physical body, but nothing more. If we wish to find its
fingernails without the human being; the same thing must be
everything of an astral nature must be found upon the astral
analysis and understanding of things.
insight into these things, only if we realize clearly that we
everything which today may be called a solid body iron,
copper, tin, etc. Everything solid is Earth.
Secondly, everything liquid is Water for instance,
or Fire. For the occultist, Fire is something
part of this physical body has received nothing from the
materialist — because of something mineral does
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Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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life-work, will discover many a thing of the most extreme
nothingness; on the other hand the descent into the turbid
Goethe can above all things influence our own epoch by the
that life is one and undivided, that everything in life is
involved with everything else, and that life does not ask
everything in the world, in the final instance, by the
modern physical science. Things have gone so far that, in
standpoint that there is no such thing as gravitation, that
stretch anything out into space? Now within the last few days
matter. It is refreshing to find something like a new thought
matter this theory is nothing more than refreshing. It is
influenced by all sorts of things behind or within the
mention hundreds of things in this connection, such for
combined; but that everything that we think out exists as an
the objects, something must be transferred to the objects
something to do with the objects. And in connection with
As if it were of any importance that we should feel something
into the objects, without being able to find in the things
and that there is no such thing as a soul-nature independent
other heavenly bodies, at least, nothing can be urged against
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Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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forces itself into the diminished consciousness. Everything
Thus mediums are chosen for investigations who have nothing
supposed that something speaks through the medium,
unconnected with his own individuality, something arising
things appear in the medium which he has already taken up
to draw attention to one thing, well known to those who
occupy themselves with these things with earnest intent. If
standpoint, the others are rejected without anything further.
something, e.g. from one standpoint, but this could occur
recognises something dependent on the individuality, and
how another soul has come to regard things from another side.
super-sensible. Nothing is so difficult as self-knowledge. All
life to look back on everything that man has developed as
something sensible and super-sensible, it is important to put
investigator. Finally one can regard everything formerly seen
as a worthy characteristic, as something changed, external,
incidental. One appears empty to oneself, as nothing,
inside one — as if one had stripped off everything, no
appears, and how necessary it is to behold things in their
investigator since something subjective will always have
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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influence even brought out in human souls something of which today we
knowledge of the gods and of divine things, knowledge of
the answer is that we would rekindle in mankind something like a
something like
I remembered something which I
such hankerings after an ideal are always something connected with
another would like to think of as Anthroposophy, something which his
believe the best. Anthroposophy is not the only thing about which men
committing a sin against European civilisation and everything
may be allowed to say something which is as much a matter of feeling
wonderful answer! If nothing but that external culture which can be
assimilation of thought. Today we can only learn what things were
conjured up before our souls. Something stands before us there in
poured, there may be more or less consciously sensed something of the
something which dawns in us today in a form as yet impersonal; it is
be trying, to represent things in the same manner as is done on the
art will know that we are aiming at something quite different. They
ordinary stage performances. We do not dream of such a thing, and it
warmth, and, even when to begin with everything seems to go very
as if things are not going well, then we say to ourselves that if we
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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special emphasis upon two things. I said the Greeks were conscious
thing. I said yesterday that Greek mythology draws attention to two
scholarship has nothing but a few abstract ideas to offer in this
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
disappears, things are really only transformed. Whither, then, has
unconscious, ‘I myself have done nothing, I have gone through
special development to produce breathing, so at that time he did not
form his own clairvoyant faculty, but both these things were given to
present one), I absorb from outside everything that is growing, but
only something which could be analysed by the chemist; he knew that
‘Outside in Nature, forces are at work; through my breathing
entirely the usual way of looking at things today, our own habits and
I accomplish something in the world, I do so because forces active in
everything I have just said as fantasy. In fact, however, it is the
pronouncements of materialistic science about these things that are
different, everything has changed.
one of the things which has happened to humanity.
The second thing has
Whether a man knows anything of the world depends upon his ether
should not take these things in an abstract way. Of course we can
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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very short-sighted, it scarcely gives a thought to anything beyond
mentioning just one thing. There is a concept, an idea, very familiar
existence devoid of spirit, but everything which happened in the
longer see in these things, as the Greeks did, the outer gestures,
something outside us which we study according to abstract laws,
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
is peculiar to our modern way of looking at things to draw a sharp
be quite clear that there are things which form part of a system of
nature, things which follow the laws accepted today by the physicist,
of Nature, a wonder of the world, a miracle, as anything else. Amid
have quite different things to say about the rainbow too. We say to
there emerge specific thoughts relating to something or other —
us take these two things, the macrocosm which gives birth to the
rainbow out of the bosom of the universe, and the other thing, that
knew something and which men will come to know again through
Everything that is
Greek could not say what I say today about these things, because he
human being and try to learn something of the forces which call forth
something which is abiding and subject to habit and memory. It is by
a man of wild passions, impetuously laying hold of everything in his
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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the sun, the majestic world of the stars, at one moment is something
find in evolution that one thing, one epoch, is never exactly like
in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
instructed in such things said quite seriously that at that time
Egypto-Chaldean epoch to all the culture-epochs. Things were
we see too how everything in this epoch tends to bring to expression
which follows the Greco-Latin time, we again find something very
something about for all these Beings of the higher hierarchies. How
epoch. Then everything which was once proclaimed to mankind by the
Impulse, seek to give to humanity for their inspiration everything
something else is connected with this assumption of human bodily
— something which it is important for us to understand.
perceives there the Christ — something which at an earlier time
was not possible even for the most advanced clairvoyant, something
retained absolutely nothing which could arouse in Him a desire to
brought it about that nothing of Him will be left behind in the
with them, nothing remains in His nature which could look back with
you from the cosmic aspect something about our Earth and about its
something which had been severed from the Luciferic Being, just as
the world. This of course has nothing in common with the wishy-washy
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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the same thing—they strive to transcend such qualities as they
‘Curse God and die.’ There is something magnificent,
Zeus. And the same thing applies to Poseidon and to Pluto. In these
the soul-forces in the human astral body.’ The same thing
the Jordan, we find the same thing. That is made clear in the little book
no longer looks upon his physical body as something within which he
with his ego is confined; it is something upon which he looks from
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
of other things, to feel expanded to a cosmos, to feel completely
these Greek gods could still give to men, there was one thing they
lectures that this human ego-consciousness was something which had to
There was no ego-consciousness in anything created on the Moon, or in
it were, was something which in earlier times had indeed been vaguely
something which arose in him as a result of the co-operation of the
that was his very self. He was something only one aspect of which was
thing, upon which Zeus as such had no direct influence. What
conscious that he bore within him something, the origin of which he
bear something in my being to which I owe my earthly consciousness,
something which the world of the upper gods, the world of Zeus or of
Poseidon or of Pluto could not directly give me, something with which
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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which is the usual attitude, knows nothing of what it is trying to
drawn to yet another thing. While the rest of the gods represent what
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
was yesterday? Why does anything become, why does not
everything remain as it was? It is because yesterday there was a
self-contradictory element in the state of things, and today's
contradiction and its overcoming. No one who sees things as they
knowledge of external things we cannot observe the ego as such; we
As you know from things I have written or said on various occasions
plane, he would be making a mistake. In the higher worlds things look
something very different from what man finds within him in normal
psychology and ordinary science speak as belonging to anything but
everything, it is all around us ... but it is covered over
felt that in what constituted the world of men there lived something
something coming about as the result of a combination of both. The
their admirable mythology have also drawn attention to something
anything but decadent. But in the strata of human spiritual life, in
excavations of geology, tell us anything about the outward appearance
what underlies these things who can say, ‘I can't accept
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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another way is to be found there as something quite obvious. When we
everything which had to do with the upper gods exoterically, by means
everything of which one can become conscious through a deeper insight
all around us and into the laws which govern it. But something
in his mind he did not carry on something akin to work in ideation or
cognition, but if we bear in mind that the main thing in knowledge is
anything to do with the work which goes on in the brain?’ The
content goes, you will find nothing in any element of our process of
Nothing of the mental representation itself lives in the brain. What
do not want to go into these things. For in the outer world today
nothing of the act of cognition, takes place anywhere within this
consciousness of it, something of great significance. This physical
materials and forces of the Earth, but there is something secreted
mental representation, which reproduces for us all the things outside
know oneself, one can come to know nothing but this process of
indeed: ‘You must attain something which you cannot
something was given to man in the Mysteries which had nothing to do
that something quite different from ordinary knowledge was cultivated
begin from something seemingly quite unimportant. As soon as one
oneself understood. Today men try to confine everything within the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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something which is associated with the deepest forces of our souls,
itself. Something like that is what Capesius is depicted as feeling
Capesius's case something else happens. To begin with he is
something lies in the depths of the human soul of which the normal
strata of our souls; we are harbouring something in depths of soul
man there lies something which once upon a time the gods implanted in
things with this treasure, this divine heritage. We can out of a
concern of our own, we are not doing anything merely in the interests
that one can know nothing; he feels that it would be a violation of
causes the conflict in his soul. There is nothing of the Faustian
must accept the impossibility of making everything good in this life.
self-knowledge — when he really learns something of his inmost
being, then as a rule he discovers something in himself which he
finds it very difficult to accept, something which is in the highest
degree repugnant to him, something which, when it really dawns upon
thought of myself, I don't want anything for myself,’ and
nothing for myself.’ That is a common experience. But it is
on Earth? Nothing of what we are familiar with today as the physical
spirit. Everything again passed over into imperceptible
longer physical, everything had been taken up into the spirit again;
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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quite other substantial things connected with the Earth, and these
shocked if I say that if nothing else had worked upon man he would in
Atlantis that something else happened which will throw a flood of
upon all things that propagate themselves by laying eggs outside
structure of the bird there is something very striking, even to
these different currents, he would have to say: ‘Something
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
ask why the human being no longer sees or feels anything at all of
the time when such things could be perceived by a natural
something else. Not only does an etheric current go from the heart to
something like a cap — to put it rather grotesquely —
knowledge of the outer world comes about. Everything that we know of
ancient times men actually saw such things, and that the aura which
was in olden times still visible was copied in men's clothing.
hood which crowns every man. All clothing originated in this way,
aura and will have nothing to do with the kind of clothing which
were reproduced in human clothing. If you look at pictures by the old
a kind of clothing. And if you look at what the figures of the Greek
gods wear, you see that not only their clothing, but also their
nature; there is something else working in me all the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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satisfaction, arrives at something of which he can say that it
relates him fitly to things, either because it throws light for him
that the human being starts out from a feeling of wonder about things
its way out of this feeling of wonder to something which reduces it.
the whole world would consist of nothing else. The soul cannot
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
nothing to do with reality — when the man of today believes
something which the soul can feel if it is not preocccupied with the
the case of the Greek gods, this very thing would have made it
his consciousness, in infinite nothingness.’ This is the universal
there would be something amiss with it if, as soon as it tries to
world-substance. We meet there everything which has been worked into
danger of dissolving with our consciousness into nothingness; if we
directed against what we may call dissolution into nothing, or
something upon the Earth now of this work from without upon the human
nothing is so well able to furnish proof for all that is proclaimed
continues to work on the organisation of the brain; that is something
be relieved from without by the use of the left hand — a thing
than make a brief reference to such things. Were I able to speak at
himself no predisposition to anything, but everything has been formed
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Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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with red walls, I take something for granted about the red
he is about to tell me all kinds of interesting things. If he
red room had something insincere about it and I shall go away
lying to me. One is constantly coming across such things in
that things need not be like that in in life; it is right
too, these things are not to be taken as universal laws; they
external things of the sense-world, has a feeling that they
nothing to do with art — whatever we may think about all
this, one thing cannot be denied. We cannot deny that since
all the talk about things such as impressionism and
there is in man's soul something that seems to surge freely
from its depths, something that often torments it, though
quite unconsciously. It is something that, when the soul is
people. Yet there is something that precisely from our time
is in nature something which is not just the growing,
bear something within it which, if left to its own life,
He finds that this human form is wishing for something that
man, something missing in the actual man hidden by nature.
Goethe perceived something of this kind when he spoke of
without something lower being overcome by what is higher. The
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Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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something like seership in the functioning of their creative
to depict things that seem to shine from the super-sensible
Everything that the artist has absorbed in life works on as
anything unconscious or subconscious remains.
from this gaze into ‘Nothingness.’ I mean this:
The seer is able to eliminate everything that presses in upon
him from the external world, everything that wells up from
to eliminate everything of a material nature or of the nature
seership, however, something quite objective, but no loss
nothing so closely akin as to the forms in which the
in ordinary life has nothing to do with genuine seership. The
seer realises: In everything that expresses itself in
into the surging tones. Hardly anything gives one a truer and
something unique about the art of poetry. The poet expresses
human personality. That is the reason why everything that is
nevertheless attempts to form something by means of
it is something with which a few crazy people are endowed and
represent something that is outside life, but that is an
reveals something quite different. When we perceive a man's
is still something else that is indicative of the position of
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Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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Science, and has absorbed something of its teaching about the
Anthroposophy to feel at least something of the mood which lived in
the spiritual worlds. Thereby something comes into existence which
must not be mistaken for a description of things and events in the
physical sense-world; something comes into existence which we must
description of anything perceptible by the senses, anything which the
yet nothing of the material existence to which we are accustomed. Of
all that we find in our own environment it has nothing but heat. No
is added to the warmth and the air. There is as yet nothing of what
something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
something approximating to what lived in an ancient Hebrew sage when
have grasped that, we are able to appreciate something of the spirit
word implies something which lies very near the boundary where the
while, then waking up, and, without opening your eyes to things
thought occur, a man who muses about two different kinds of thing.
activity, or of some external thing or of some being; it does not
arises in this awakening man is a desire, something which the man's
manifests something, expresses itself outwardly, phenomenally; and
something which would experience itself inwardly, something which
can only have a meaning, if during its course something arises which
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Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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effort for me to do anything of the sort; and that I only do it
that it will not permit me to bring forward anything that conflicts
activity, a permeation with inward craving; it is something which
what can be aroused in our souls by these sounds it is something like
something the same with the Elohim, when they said to themselves:
you have so far brought things this is what they look like. This is
consideration something else. We must once more turn our attention to
something else is associated. The fine warmth element of Saturn
the element of warmth, whereas during the Sun evolution something
on the Sun. They remained dark, had nothing sunlike about them; for
something psycho-spiritual, it is the external manifestation of the
almost nothing. We can only understand the word if we think of a hen
by calling them finer substances. The main thing is to recognise them
something which is not really recognisable in the ordinary
something he possesses which none of the beings around him has
to say that Bet (B) aroused the idea of something enclosing,
like a shell shutting something off and enclosing an inner content.

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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these three planetary forms? On Saturn everything was in a kind of
today, for Saturn had nothing in it either of liquid or of solid;
Saturn was nothing but interweaving warmth. But the laws which
find anything in the least comparable to that plantlike weaving in
it was because at that time men no longer knew anything of what
not fall upon the terrestrial globe from without, nothing of what we
had to take place, something had to be split off from the Sun. And
The first thing which
something between the waters above and the waters below.” I
a centre. The something between is nothing tangible, it is just a way
This word means something which should not be interpreted in a
watery element, what we today know as water, from something which had
not been there before, something which was a further densification
element, which now emerges as something completely new. Everything
another form. The first thing which is entirely new is the earth
first begins to form? It is something which had already taken shape
Everything repeats
clairvoyant consciousness were no abstractions, but something
to take effect something which radiates from without, which sends in
this, we see something which comes from the heavenly spaces,
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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the scientific objections against the things said here today or at
first thing in the elementary existence which we have to hold fast
and chemical analyses; it is something which man can only recognise
sound which is carried over the air, but recognise it as something
and life ethers. In order to be quite sure that nothing is left vague
is something which is not directly visible around us. Of course, what
Everything of a solid material nature is earth in the sense of
nothing in this distinction — that he himself differentiates
but that the fourth state appears as something new.
that something was stimulated by the Elohim in the material
something in the elementary matter which may be compared with what is
something sets to work as a still finer condition, one which we must
life-ether. After the second “day” of creation something
the earth causes green things to grow, the living element of tree and
of the life-ether, which evokes everything that is said to have come
evolutions, I quite deliberately and scrupulously ignored anything
(For by him were all thingColos. 1:16
something which alternates between light and darkness, as does our
signifies anything resembling a geological epoch.
ancient methods of naming things. The process of nomenclature in
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Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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earth's beginnings, we find many things which still need to be
see something of the nature of Being behind what is described as
you will come across something extremely important for the
Something new is continually arising, but the old remains actual
nothing else but a certain degree of darkness. And this dark content
of space is filled out with something of a soul-spiritual nature,
something akin to what is intended in Genesis in the passage where
All these things are
something that the Elohim find already there. Light is something they
evil, as something wrong in the world-context. It is easy for the
something like indignation over the backward Beings; or he can make
the mistake of being sorry for the poor things! We should not harbour
the contrary we should remind ourselves that everything happens out
particular stage of development, it means something; it has
ten-year-olds! Something of the same kind is true in cosmic
important both for man and for other living things. Take for example
living thing, and, so far as their external physical existence is
But something else is
place during sleep. But nothing which happens anywhere in space is
obviously one can build up nothing if one starts to destroy it. The
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Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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anything to do with Spiritual Science. Moreover, the fact that the
but that if we refuse to have anything to do with this maya,
conditions. Thus we have in our own outer physical bodies something
anyone who wishes to get to the bottom of things has to ask himself
the Elohim recreated, as out of memory, something which I have
something out of memory, though we, of course, unfold our activity at
thought would be there. You must distinguish between two things. The
there, he also perceives the actual rose. That is the other thing. In
the same way you should distinguish two things in what I have
beginning in everything of an earth nature.
something worthy of tremendous respect, something to which our
back to our Elohim, to the Spirits of Form. You see how everything
within another, and that warmth permeates everything. We find warmth
real force behind warmth; it has poured itself out into everything.
Spirits of Form, the Elohim. That is something which lies in the
supersensible. But everything super-sensible casts its shadow into
something self-existent and real, then they are dreaming. The
wanted to buy something: ‘I won't pay for it in solid coin, but
things in this way, we gaze into the living, moving being which stirs
us accustom ourselves to see in all that happens around us something
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familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
external things, consciousness of things outside us in space as
this consciousness was that it was pictorial; things did not appear
things. It was a pictorial consciousness, at the same time permeated
there — on a lower, dreamlike level — was something
ways. In it the student sees many things around him. But he would
it is something inscribed in the Akashic record or whether he has
earthly consciousness; and the same thing applies today in the early
spiritual things at all; he sees pictures, and the question is what
scarcely perceived anything except what was happening to himself.
obscura. Purely physical apparatuses like that can perceive nothing.
the sun, but it was an inner process. The characteristic thing about
of repeating something. Thus to produce what we know today as human,
something outside us; earlier, all the Beings of whom we can speak
“Something is standing before me.” Even the Elohim could
something real formed in an external space from which we ourselves
“We see this light outside us.” There was no such thing
Let there be light, it meant that something new had happened, that
document there is nothing superfluous, nothing meaningless. If only
to ascribe to it nothing that is not pregnant with meaning, to take
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man, and that as yet nothing of what surrounds us today in animal,
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
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 thingCh. I, v.26,
earth incarnation. But everything which comes finally to
today we have to look upon as something inward. That is what is being
people the earth, something like a gradual densification of the human
things which I have told you in the course of years about the
Genesis gives a description of the clothing of man — man still
something which it is extraordinarily important for us to understand
of the water. Thus while these group-souls were clothing themselves
with the laws which govern such things they had to progress to the
Jahve-Elohim was able to form the earthly nature of man by breathing
certain places I get impressions of warmth — not of anything
blood-heat apart from anything else, and then you have what came into
to give, the inbreathing of air, did not take place until after the
him come about? Here we come to something described pretty fully in my
desire, everything anchored in the astral body, became permeated with
entered into man with the Luciferic influence. Everything good or bad
things that would have occurred to one so easily if one had wanted to
introduce anything out of the Genesis account. In the description given in
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a number of points still to clear up in this regard. The first thing
union with the earth. Here we come to something of great importance
in the relationship between man and earth, something which happened
those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
Atlantis everything was permeated by those volumes of watery
the reference was to something of a group-soul nature, the second
time to something which sprang forth from the earth as vegetation in
profound wisdom here. But I can assure you that nothing from this
today as it was at that time, but we can nevertheless find something
their evolution consisted in clothing themselves more and more with
our souls a true picture of the state of things after the withdrawal
influences too. After the separation of the sun, everything on earth,
everything revived again, so that even weaker souls were able to
being. In the moon element man has something within him which really
has within him something of what is up there on the moon. He has
him. Thus he has the disposition to be something other than a mere
of rain the mud in the street gradually turns to dust. Something like
dust. Something like that will happen to the earth one day,
But in man something
being something of moony earth-dust. Those Beings connected with the
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consisted solely of warmth, was now endowed with something expressed
today only came later with the inbreathing by Jahve of the breath
will never give anything other than what I am saying. If it is upon
centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
the essential thing is that man did not become a living being in the
is something which enters into man from without. This impress of
Aristotle still knew something of it. Anyone familiar with the works
attention to something else of importance. If everything that I have
translated something like this: “In what follows we are
deeply into these things, we see that there is full agreement between
absolutely nothing; it would gaze into a void. But, as we have seen,
touch upon things, and that is all I have attempted to do this time.
everywhere — that one has only to look, and everything follows
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that
in our own language of the right way to conceive these things. But it
could still say. Especially something which has been borne in upon us
influence of Lucifer. Because of this influence something which lay

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which these things entered our souls. So that we might say that if we
what the things themselves told us in the beginning, what they told us
be allowed to refer to something personal, which is, nevertheless, by
is only if we do not go sufficiently deep into things with what we
as something clear and easily understood, what Herman Grimm often used
Greece seems entirely different. These things become particularly
Greek. Something quite special appears, too, when we allow the
various ages back into Roman times as of something they have grasped
with respect to many things that are fully comprehensible to the
same things over again but to keep on having fresh experiences —
to sit in this auditorium, and to forget the things directly affecting
in man and what may be called the soul. For the things of the soul and
the things of the spirit are the expressions we use for human
her all that man calls spiritual, everything as he says in which
before our inward vision as something that awakens an image of the
world about all manner of things concerning anthroposophy, and some
mankind. Reverence for spiritual things enabled the players gladly to
the scenes require in the way of drapery and clothing for the players,
one who himself wishes to work independently, nothing can give truer
anyone was ever to do anything but repeat quite literally what has
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something connected with the deepest longings of man's soul and with
makes everything connected with the feeling that flows from the
connect it to some of the things already familiar to us.
his physical body,” he develops something in his life of soul
and of himself, he may say something like, “One of the first
things I experienced of myself is that I have within me, besides my
when prolonged thought about things is necessary, and when one must
then notice something like a block in what is experienced as the
etheric part of the brain, something like a foreign body, so that one
organism will not suffer anything normally connected with it to be
to feel it like something foreign inside me.”
something that, in the external phenomena and external functions,
and the corresponding physical sense organs. These things are quite
case, say things that appear grotesque and strange for physical
anything about these things will at once feel that they really are as
the universe; one thing passes over into another, the later being
evolution one thing is transformed into another, how the seed of the
that the human personality, too, experiences something of this kind;
everything proceeding from the mysteries, the initiation centres. A
community. In self-education one has to watch carefully that nothing
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course of all spiritual things, particularly into the course of all
For this, we must become familiar with the idea that everything is
nowhere to be found in the universe. If everything is different, why
things in himself — I might equally say, leave them behind with
man. But if many modern naturalists are finding something like moral
thing to remind us of a fundamental fact familiar to every
hate “burns,” there is something in such an expression that
that it would avail him nothing to try to explain the objects and
expression is not to be taken as a metaphor; it stands for something
would never say that something burned him in the same sense as a man
were the expression of something in his moral nature, in what concerns
them — need have nothing to do with the perfect or imperfect
craving aroused in a man, we are then able to recognise something of
in the great majority of cases by external things — by what a
external things.
him as an imperfection or moral flaw performs something real,
something actual. It guides the man and brings him to a particular
enough to be able to confront us with beings perfect in everything
confront man with a being having in perfection everything in which he
our desires represented something objective in which we could remain
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mankind, is, in some way or another, touched upon. In anything of the
forward nothing more than the whole of what has just been described.
constitutes man, nothing at all can be carried over! It is neither
carry over nothing at all into the spiritual world; everything must be
himself in sensory existence, one thing of the greatest importance
value our experience, we should become idle, dull, and achieve nothing
if it were not we should experience something resembling the effect a
anything left of myself to enter the spiritual world if I have to cast
myself aside?” It is a fact that man can take nothing with him
all that he can take is something of which in the ordinary world he
knows nothing, something that is in him without his knowledge, that is
love what he recognises as himself. Because he knows nothing further
nothing, can pass over into the spiritual world. We thereby prepare
strengthened by thought,” so that we are able to take something
with us into the spiritual world, and to be something there.
But what happens then to all we have laid aside? Now this is something
soul's clothing that was cast off before the crossing into the
but something else as well. One's self and all that one has must,
indeed, be laid aside, yet something of it must be carried on. Were it
which we were previously conscious. So, after all, something must be
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everything in the physical body that was called oneself is now
experienced as something external to one, something existing outside.
One is inside something else. I pointed out to you yesterday that the
mental plane. It would be wrong if something derogatory is implied by
these beings there is no such thing as the so-called course of nature.
Everything to which you are guided in the way indicated in our last
lecture, everything you meet, is being. Wherever there is
anything, it is being, and you cannot say as you do in sensory life
Cherubim and Seraphim. But one thing is possible when you find
Threshold, the first memory images have nothing to do with the
bound up with you than anything of the kind in sensory existence. When
you have done something that does not satisfy you morally, your entire
inner life feels that there is something bitter, that there is
something as it were poured out into the world to which you have now
stage of initiation it may also happen that something else is extended
compare anything in sensory existence with the way in which you stand
laboriously of some special thing, you set yourself to think about
nothing in particular. Some uncalled-for thought may then arise within
the thought, then you have something in sense life similar to the way
experience. Throughout he need know nothing beyond his being in their
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At this particular time there is one thing, however, to which we must
worlds, they expect before everything to be told how, in such
initiation. Hence the need of something more than instructions given
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
work through everything, including all the living things that meet us
classification and description of everything that in our age can be
something within it that is really repeated and appears in all worlds.
change, into the stable, temporal and momentary, so that as something
send active impulses into physical life so that one thing may take
place after another, in the way things are played out during the whole
For the individual soul in relation to Ahriman, however, something
purification and cleansing, in cleansing fires, of everything
with a new form. Something has to be cast aside to give the being in
everything and would like to prevent all snakes from casting their
skin; he would like everything used up that, in the mind of the world
Here is the one good thing! Man is not able to find Ahriman in the
destiny we find many sympathetic and many adverse things. Anyone who
everything goes on in the same way as in the world of the senses.
Here, in the sensory world one thing may please, another displease us.
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for himself, can grasp things in sensory existence. So that in this
have given him the facility for open-mindedly receiving these things.
But anyone who is in a position to devote himself to these things
“However incredible these things at first appear, it is just this
anything of the higher worlds.”
is the same with the understanding of things in the super-sensible
previous understanding and grasping of these things with all-round
special mention should be made of how something significant can
to understand things and to grasp them objectively with what every
experience, of everything for which his physical body can serve him as
his ego or thought body. The essential thing at every stage of
something in order to free himself of his physical sensory body. He
must consciously divest himself, strip himself of everything that
Sometimes we have to pause and make note of such things in our
has no power of discriminating between the various things that appear
Men have many difficult things to learn. Simply from the facts
Without alluding to anything in particular, let us take a definite
is physical interplay between the two. Let us assume something of the
wisdom cannot be too careful when revealing to the world anything that
are connected, however, things that play throughout into higher
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and thus bring ourselves up to date regarding many things known and
meaning. They indicate that something of a most essential nature took
brain-bound intellect. Only such things as were experienced by these
During Kali Yuga, however, something did occasionally penetrate into
him. Up until the time of Kali Yuga man remembered some things that
had not something occurred from another direction; that is, the
higher worlds to be able to perceive something there. But when he has
now nothing would be achieved by it. It was dictated then by profound
was something that made it possible for the human ego to conceive
Even though men knew nothing of all this in the past, we may well say
distinguish such things plainly. A confusion of these facts will have

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parts: those who today form no idea of all this, who know nothing of
the day, and those who form ideas for themselves that something new is
fundamentally something which must be accomplished through human
the chain of humanity, then you must do something — either in
descent of man into the physical world. But by no means should things
the other hand, something is preparing in our age which is so
but in me lives something that has an immediate connection with all
something especially known in the old Hebrew secret schools: Such an
We have therewith characterised something quite essential in
Something else, in addition, is being prepared — something
he heard something was contained in man which could be designated as
do not make this consequence clear. But it is something which is not
merely humoristic, but something which shows what a deep basis of
everything we thus get as ideas out of the entire cosmos, then we
we can say: In our individuality lives something which was there
way, and is, at the same time, the most un-individual thing that can
individuality must develop so far, that it no longer has anything
personal, i.e., anything of his own peculiar sympathies and
Therefore something meets us in the anthroposophical world-view, if it
he has brought himself so far, that he forces nothing of his own
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were, something directly sensational, but to follow tranquilly those
brought close to us, but because through their study, many things
touching human nature can be learnt. And so today, something can be
nothing appears more natural today than to say: How can four documents
Yet one thing could strike human thinking, unless it tries today to
If we pursue such a question, we soon notice something else:
in mind something quite different from what is kept in mind today. The
thing. This was how the old judges of the four Gospels felt. They
a way that we say: Everything, all that mankind previously experienced
There we have — just to mention but one thing — let us say,
call to mind something which has often been mentioned here: that that
streams also. Many different things had to come together and combine
of true spiritual investigation. And so, among other things, it is
Something absolutely correct lies behind that if we go back along the
call to mind a little the various things we have already said here.
evolution. Everything which man acquires must take its starting point
nothing called the discoverer of arithmetic, that means, that faculty
generations through the times which followed. But something else had
clairvoyant perception, but of something bound to the instrument of
the physical brain. Something of this nature can only be implanted
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his own side, just as one copies or photographs something external
from one standpoint. And if one takes photographs of a thing from
look into many things which should be imparted to us through the
look into many things for which the superficial world of the present
clothing the secrets of our soul in words, than people today have any
felt something like a portraying of external relationships, of
something which formed a warm, hut-like enclosure. The letter
“B” always evoked the picture of something which,
“A,” one could not do it without something of strength, of
each one thinks he must write something, when everything becomes an
to the way in which one formerly conceived it as something holy, to
not also believe that one can give everything in our speech? He cannot
understand that our speech says something empty with what even the
we read something which, compared with its original content, has been
Whoever will understand it must really resolve to do something.
Whoever goes sincerely to work, cannot understand anything when it is
triviality is uttered, or something is said which one cannot
less the possibility of looking into the spiritual world. Nothing
case with the Christ-Impulse. But a transition had to exist. Things
was kindled through the Christ-Impulse. Things could not take this
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the things which have been determined. Even so must students of
knows how to wait, not alone for everything which has to mature in
What must, will come; and nothing prevents us from throwing our best
and must form an increasing part of everything that may be achieved
unfolding life of humanity in a way which will bring everything to
nothing else — I will just mention it here, as the fact will be
penetrate beyond the outer nature of things. The star of Lucifer,
firmly on the rock of unquestioning conviction that nothing which is
luminous than it is through its own power. A thing becomes luminous
small things, through feeling and realisation, what will come to pass

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living thing it must not consist in views and opinions of the higher
things of the higher worlds, the beings of the super-sensible regions
themselves, to review many things that are known, less known, or
things. In other words, we shall allow Western wisdom to pass before
whoever is willing to exercise it can understand everything that is
already has been said about these things at different times and
penetrate the higher worlds is nothing less than the acquisition of
thing necessary. Let us suppose that a person has progressed so far
Therefore something more is necessary. If in our present conditions
life and in which he does something entirely different from the
place. When a man surrenders himself to such things, when he spends
and its spiritual thinking in the right way. If something wrong is
experience these influences of the spiritual world not as something
which benefited and enriched him, but as something which shattered
with the fact that something which exists in the outer world —
higher exercises are required. All these things will be mentioned
aroused, something must take place which can only be compared with
that such things can be brought about by physical methods would
the present that the most essential thing for bringing about such a
live in the world — in things that appeal to his eyes, his
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earth, but also for everything living within us in the physical
must be clear to us that everything which constitutes man in an
who has spiritual sight knows that the nature of these things changes
metamorphosis of the first. Everything that a man thinks and feels
Everything
inner point of View. Mankind can understand nothing of what has come
the withdrawal of sun and moon, something in the earth would have
confronting the physical senses as Maya, vanishes and something
the Christ principle into the earth had something in common with the
coming of the Christ as fore-shown by events. Nothing could have been

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many things which cannot be compared with anything we can name on the
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
Earth, that certain things which we find there could come into
those individuals who looked at things in the concrete and not in the
received, into her womb, as it were, everything that came over from
continents had not separated off from each other everything was in a
it were, everything that has since arisen upon it and all that
consciousness would not be lost; everything that is said here can be
any historical document. We have to do with something, which at the
ancient Greece who know something of initiation recognised in Zeus
is one example, among many, of the things that may be re-discovered
indicated. That is a thing apart, standing alone in the evolution of
the earth; there is nothing which can be compared with it. It has
anything could be withheld from pre-Christian men? They seem to
would be destined to receive something higher than men of
pre-Christian times. Now it is understandable that such things should
and higher forms, until there comes into being on the Earth something
of the same thing?’ That was a problem raised by Schopenhauer
transformation of a single primordial wisdom and nothing more than
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the spiritual world. It has, however, also been shown that everything
motley web of many and varied facts and phenomena, there is nothing
which is not guided by wisdom, nothing in which spiritual beings,
and Africa into Asia, and that everything should develop, as it were,
life, as we know it, it is essential that something else should
healthy air develops his organs correspondingly, and the same thing
everything that can fashion from without — were the special
the vehicle of the scientific element, of wisdom, of everything which
so noble in regard to everything in life between birth and death,

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perceived, underlying everything, a spiritual world consisting of
own efforts. But there is one thing which no being who does not
Earth these spiritual beings possessed, there was one thing they had
everything existing in the spiritual worlds to be summed up for him
can be applied to everything that in a spiritual sense is spread out
something else is to be found; that at the same time there were
a dim consciousness that something of the kind had existed in Greece
Richard Wagner realised the existence of something of the kind
things which a less developed person also sees, so when the Greek
man. Here we arrive at something vitally and essentially connected
anything by dipping down into his own soul life, and searching there
soul, they should not forget that everything in the world has
at a certain time. And as everything is transmitted hereditarily to
that however cannot prevent these things being stated. Anyone, who
as a tradition in the old way; today men need something else. Those
and assert that they will not have anything to do with abstractions.
something more than the Christianity of the egoists; they realise
materialism, would persist in the belief that there is nothing except

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find its way to these things. Again, the description of the Luciferic
humanity the important thing is that man, on incarnation depends for
thing as a conception of the world which holds good for all times.
characteristic of etheric nature. It arose from all things, for they
a seeing of the etheric element, which was spread out over everything
the physical by the etheric body is already a thing of the past; a
constituent parts of his Organisation. Now everything within us is
revelation, as something revealed to him inwardly. These currents
very time when Christ appeared, could perceive nothing of them unless
means of the senses means nothing much to me; in order to realise the
be developed like everything else in the world.
receives spontaneously everything which in earlier times it possessed
as an ancient heritage. If nothing else happened but its withdrawal,
the human physical body did not add something to it, this etheric
something on like an heirloom to the etheric body? What enables a man
been such that nothing more was added to him than what would have
in his physical body nothing that might bestow a power on the etheric
straight line, but runs its course, as does everything in nature. I
side. There is no such thing as an evolution which proceeds along a
air in motion without, are two very different things. Now sight is
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Everything
able to establish harmony between things already familiar to us and
things we have been considering in the preceding chapters. We shall
but nothing external in this sense can come to his astral body only.
from him today. But something else was connected with all this.
Chaldean-Egyptian civilisation, but a repetition wherein everything
taken part in it with their souls have always felt something of the
knowledge, are pervaded by something like a recollection of old
within the soul of this man there arose something which forced these
so that men may understand something in these days of those
Persia, something like a recapitulation but of an infinitely more
Christ to regain a way of feeling, of looking at things, which
few traces we nevertheless perceive something of the quite different
something which may be described as follows: ‘I do not see with
spiritual life, the Indian knew nothing about what we today call
thought things out intellectually, or reasoned about them; he rose
thoughts of the gods depicted in the design of all things. He had no
world-web of wisdom, in which everything was written in living
feels something stream into him when he draws a breath, so the old
everything which they proclaimed was breathed out by Brahman himself.
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seven and twelve, and that this relation has something to do with
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
twelve basic points with which everything in space is connected. This
itself in time. Hence everything which is to speak to the inner being
He does not bring to the earth anything corresponding to the
exist under time conditions, but He brings into the world something
reality of things by grouping them in twelve's, as for
everything else indicates how profoundly momentous the Christ event
seven have something to do. And my illustration shall be made as was
where something which from one point of view works for good, may from
considers its real nature — not an abstraction, but something
permanent, eternal, having nothing to do with time) passes into time,
forsakes its sphere of eternity and takes into itself created things
inner meaning of these things.
must be things whose meaning is very hard to fathom.
cast out of the world process. In the story of Oedipus the same thing
and spread; so the new world must take in a leaven made of something
science, wherever it is truly cultivated that with Christ, something
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among many other things, to make new investigations into a subject of
Something can be communicated about these matters because, as you
communicate something about this realm.
the sense world we must move about to perceive things. The opposite
more everything in the way of inner movement is excluded, the less we
strive to draw a thing towards us, the longer we are capable of
allow things to approach us. That is an essential point. We must
develop inner silence. Then things will come to us.
physical world. In addition, something else may cause great pain to
anything we may experience in the physical world. It gives rise to a
anything. To begin with, things must remain as they are. The
changing anything. Things must take their course, regardless. We look
consequences of our actions, knowing full well that nothing can be
chief thing is the aftermath of our earthly relationship, just as
things that souls did not come into this Venus sphere with a common
is not contained in his sacred writings. The fact that things are
discovered at a later date has nothing to do with the equal
Whereas the other creeds essentially have something egoistical about
is one who knows that something real happened in the Mystery of
that flowed from Golgotha is one thing, and the understanding of it
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He is interested in the things that interested him on earth. The
something incomplete rises into the consciousness of the human being.
or even hates something, while in his subconsciousness there is a
powerful longing for the very thing he hates in his upper
who slanders anthroposophy, bringing forward all manner of things
wish for it. It may well occur that a man slanders those things in
and this is applicable to many other things, experience after death a
apparently showed no wish for some particular thing, and in whom,
everything connected with it will, under all circumstances, make an
zealous anthroposophist, the other does not wish to hear anything
astral body. Things of considerable significance and of which we are
something of spiritual wisdom, must forego this wish, it will remain
the only way in which the things that play into our soul can be
would have happened to him had things gone just a little differently.
things that arise in the soul we must include what has just been
described. After death many things appear vividly before the soul of
have been able to do some good. A host of things that one has not
Are not the things of which we have been speaking really there? Let
of this. To the materialist the fact of not knowing something is
importance to the fact that he knows or does not know something
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The human being has to bring with him two things that have been
not so. Something else intervenes between death and rebirth, a second
plastically what he receives through heredity. Everything that he
who reject fanatically, in a narrow-minded way, anything that is
Such souls are usually too easy-going to learn to know anything about
nothing fits properly. He becomes, for example, a hypochondriac, a
not developed of its own accord. Thus something that appears
group of people, is nothing but logical nonsense. As soon as one
a certain field that they have worked out for themselves, everything
conscientious, yet everything they do lacks real devotion, enthusiasm
opportunity to act, can do something in the course of his life with
our time. They should do everything in their power to devote
opportunity, even if only for a brief span, to accomplish something
such a way that he can accomplish something with enthusiasm. It is
and rebirth throws a special light on this thought. Everything we are
progressive evolution cannot do anything with them. I have often
of the spiritual hierarchies to do anything with them. These
nothing else were to intervene, such souls would have to be cast off
hierarchies are only able to make something of this situation by
decide to do something himself in order to become a servant of human
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inordinate longing for certain things within earthly conditions and
a child whom he has left behind unprovided for. By doing something
his realm he may be unable to do anything that would ease the
something to better the situation we will have performed a real deed
something definite in life died and then continued to cling to the
anything of one another.
something quite different from what they have in fact achieved. Such
Something else comes into consideration. There are people who nurture
There are things in this category that need not be considered
blameworthy. In order to show how significant such things may be I
small or important matters. Now there is something great in a poet
achieving certain things, but failed to do so. What he could have
far-reaching plan and only fulfilled a part of it. All such things,
however, is inscribed in the Moon sphere. Anything that affects not
Moon sphere, but only later. Anything that affects us as individuals,
inscription is a dreadful thing. In a certain sense it can be of the
Something is inscribed by him in all the spheres, in the Mercury
When I was here last I said certain things about the passage through
seership there is something tremendously impressive in the picture of
experiences if it is fitted by nature to gain something from the Mars
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subsiding into inner quietness. However, anything formed differently
what can only be expressed as follows: In the Cosmic Midnight things
Necessities are rooted in the foundations of things, where also the
to the latter only when something is experienced like the Saturn
within its spiritual life must have preceded this, as if something of
itself, something belonging intimately to itself but not always
distances. The mood in which something in the spirit world approaches
at flowing nothingness — cold spirit light ...
These things are linked together; their
do in Scene Nine. The most important thing is to sense the mood of
Let us note very carefully something else
places, they can be spoken so that in each place they mean something
In understanding this, light is shed on something of an ahrimanic thrust,
It is one of the most difficult things for people with
realize that the same words in a different context mean something
physical plane — must always mean the same thing. Here we have
connection in which they are uttered. Nothing that reaches out beyond
Among the many things that have to be
piece of writing about Lucifer and Ahriman, and other things as well,
things which someone else through unconscious ahrimanic impulses may
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with the inner eye, for it is only natural that at first everything
affairs, the simplest thing to do is to banish from the human soul
everything in it without greedily demanding eternal life for any of
things of the sense world but not to be so dependent on them as to
to know nothing about spiritual matters. It is Ahriman who has
impulse out of our souls.” But nothing will be accomplished
way Lucifer's task is to tear man and everything in the world
artistic development. Wherever the human being creates something
inspired by Lucifer. We can designate something else as the
over everything of soul feeling in the physical sense world. He has
Everything we can love in the spiritual world, all the spiritual
facts, everything that love can cause to live in us as a longing for
in the robes of science — are nothing but inspirations of the
such things. Those words I quoted yesterday must be emphasized again
always asks whether everything man acquires by his thinking in the
there, it takes on itself, more than anything else, a task that
sticking his head in the sand and believing that the things he
There is a law that something repressed and deadened at
accomplish there something of the most sublime character. This is
things in the spiritual world are numerous and it can truly be said
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nothing in the nature and individuality of a person, for everything
Knowing a thing is not the same as creating it; a person learns only
This is the most important thing: that the human soul
looking at and recognizing things that for the sense world is the
two things might happen: cloudiness or complete darkness would spread
nothing at all in the elemental world unless we become a different
exercise the faculty of transformation, the soul needs something more
every moment wishing to be something or someone else, someone that
the waking condition to alternate with the sleeping one. Something
so something similar is necessary for the life of the etheric body in
something that works in the opposite direction to the faculty of
This, however, calls for overcoming something that is deeply rooted
and occurrences.” This willing of self, excluding everything
elemental world we can wake and sleep at the same time, something we
thoughts were not things over which he has any command: they are
foolishly. They are patient things, these thoughts of our ordinary
world; they let the human soul do anything it likes with them. But it
at all. But if we do foolish things with our thinking in the
does this? It is something we can call sympathy and antipathy. Out of
beings in terms of particular sympathies and antipathies. Two things,
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of other things in the sense world, but rising into the spiritual
to, leaving everything behind it has so far been able to experience
bring immediately out of the spiritual world, having nothing at all
They are not just thought out in order to characterize something that is
did not come about in just this way because something or other of an
reality of the spirit world, the spirit-land that has nothing at all
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
letters in front of you, you enter into a relationship with something
read this cosmic writing is anything like learning to read in the
it is important to let the things work freely on one.
“This is all nonsense; there are no such things!” A
we should experience something new from it, something we cannot
you've received a letter, but there's nothing in it but letters of
the alphabet and words I already know. You won't hear anything new
long time we are perhaps able to learn something that we never could
it represents something that the human being cannot experience either
has to do something very much like reading. If we look at what has to
certainly something else that can demolish Ferdinand Fox's argument.
them the dreadful fear of standing on the verge of nothingness when
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little cottage. Talking over things with those warmhearted people had
nothing we can do about the atoms themselves but that within them we
but she had a peculiar habit. When something not altogether pleasant
things made many of the people uneasy. As a result, a few of them
Felicias' story — that something of glory had come down from
light saw something more. They saw how from all sides, from all
remarks of Benedictus. Something seemed to be missing; he could not
that something had taken place in Capesius. Capesius himself was
Benedictus began therefore to speak about these things
all, he now understood everything extremely well. Something like a
different things: First, consider human thinking, human concepts, the
think and to try to explain things to himself in complete solitude.
everything in the world to himself without having this impulse coming
establish, setting up on that island everything that separates itself
something else. Consider what writing is: a remarkable factor of
to describe it as something that lives in the individual human being.
when you write something down. The thoughts that otherwise would
ahrimanic and luciferic elements everywhere in everything. He
(spiritual science has not brought things completely to the point
Benedictus then had something more to explain to
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physical world as well as everything we ordinarily think, feel, and
threshold into the spirit realm, we must take something with us. We
have pointed out that everything the sense world can give us, as well
perceptible to the senses. Nothing we acquire in this way can be of
something that can be of greatest use in understanding the life of
a judgment about European culture. Although such things seem
on the physical plane. One who understands such things can recognize
something lying deep in the substrata of the soul, i.e., that such
modern culture in regard to anything expressing itself as
But something more must be added. There are, in general, five
concerned with form. To accomplish anything in architecture and
putting one's head into an ant hill. A person who has anything to do
one notices this less in music, here too things lead to
People would like things to be as easy as that for the higher worlds,
metamorphosis but one can say, everything is everywhere. In truth,
every spiritual element tries to permeate everything. There can be
have put in aphoristic form the things that can be useful even if you
have already absorbed everything in earlier lecture cycles and books.
everything on the physical plan that thinking, feeling and willing
something else; namely, the part of oneself that indeed is always
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things for those troubled by a sense of possible confusion between
transformed into something spiritual by being brought there. And this
a great many things can be observed in the process of growing into
nothing to do, or in an incapacity to keep them unified, perceiving
We have to say, if we want to see things as they are,
everything changes as soon as we leave our physical body and enter
tries to squeeze everything to make it conform to physical laws. The
that may contain things he made use of in his intrigues. Now what may
one's own room and see oneself sitting at the desk. But such things
filled with self-seeking soul elements. This sort of thing occurs
Let us summarize how things stand with this
Thomasius; he doesn't get beyond this stage in the Portal. Everything
Johannes Thomasius says all sorts of things that theoretically have
objective validity, we might agree that people say a lot of things in
looks back to one's own youth as to something alien. We have to
existence off by itself. The remarkable thing about growing up into
the capacity to transform himself, because everything in those worlds
is always in a state of transformation; nothing there remains in
realm, whereas in the elemental world everything is mobile and
But since everything is constantly changing, mixups can
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ours. And in consideration of this, two things are essential: first,
exclaiming that here or there something quite anthroposophical has
anthroposophical things. I have said I would not deviate from my
stance without the least understanding of anything — and people
that really outdoes everything imaginable in grotesque erudition —
Allomatics is something that will impress many people. “Allomatics
self). Allomatics teaches the nothingness and nonexistence of the
Ego. Everything is and comes from the non-Ego, from outside, from
objective logic — absolutely the same thing as originating a
and everything not a pear, that is, the Other of the pear. We could
as pear and non-pear. Nothing is missing from the world and its
It is important to achieve the right attitude to everything in
spiritual science. Another important thing to acquire, if you wish to
hailing everything they bring out. One should actually suggest to
We really must look at such things with complete
and their work. One thing we have to be clear about: the phenomena of
clairvoyant capacities in order to discover something he cannot know
Guardian, something that is partly terrifying but on the other hand
and everything connected with it in my book,
everything about the meeting with the Guardian, I would indeed have
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bring ourselves up to date regarding many things known and unknown.
of the deepest meaning, because they indicate that something most
During Kali Yuga, however, something did occasionally
Kali Yuga, man remembered some things that had been retained by way
something occurred from another direction, that is, the embodiment on
worlds in order to be able to perceive something there. When he has
here dealing with an occult document. Christ has promised everything,
harmonized everything, in relation to the single members of human
did at that time in Jesus; nothing would be achieved by it now. It
the senses was something that made it possible for the human I to
Although human beings knew nothing of all this in the
etheric body — now it is necessary to distinguish such things

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cultural calling, must step. Important things depend on this
under consideration soon saw that there was something not quite
have been in good health. Here we have something symptomatic of
surely look upon everything theosophical as madness. His kind
that everything corporeal is the expression of spirit, that
everything that meets our senses is an expression of the
Such illusions are more than something to be disposed of with a
our eyes derives from the spirit. There is no material thing
everything visible is derived from the same realm as the astral
Now, when something or other comes upon us, be it health or
conglomeration of physical things, of atoms. For him, thoughts
desolation, an emptiness, a disbelief in anything that goes
follow for the human being's health something quite different
phenomena nothing but the spirit's sense expression.
things, then the eyes remain well. A man must develop
which also means something negative. Let us assume that you are
meant more or less as a picture. In the case of shame, things
outside. At this point he needs something in order to lose
that the soul can produce from out of itself something about
scientist is not for discovering things out of himself. When we
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Health is something for which every man naturally longs. We may
health something of the highest significance for its pursuit.
the last thirty years.” He had tried something different
health is something that lives in our time. Now, one might
sick?” Well, of course, something is probably wrong with
through all these things?
from such sayings often may contain something good, but just as
often it is something false. So it is with the saying,
believe that there could be something generally tagged as
that health is a quite relative concept, something that is
battle against everything that would destroy the physical body.
simple modes of life. Everything that those early people had in
needs, their way of life, was simple. Everything, everything
picture to yourself the other things surrounding this
insight we gain concerning simple things into the cultural
humanity. Things work quite differently upon man in his present
something, in a sense, to counter with eyes, with seeing.
consequences result in the illnesses of hysteria. Everything
benevolent purposes, then it is something wholesome, something
something that enables us to forward the cultural process. If
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history of the sciences, something about the form in which the
existed since the fourteenth century as something that is true, quite
culture many things that are clothed, it is true, in an exoteric form,
but which are, in reality, nothing else than outer expressions of
something of what happened to Goethe during the period after he had
discovery. For a long time to come, nothing will be taught
just let the sufferer lie. Such a thing would be possible in the case
knowledge of men something that is necessary for humanity at the
knows nothing. As little as we can see the oxygen in water but must
The whole physical body of man in its plastic forms is nothing else
to understand even the smallest things; and we shall not forget that
the smallest thing in the world can be of importance to the greatest,
that the smallest thing, in its rightful place, can lead to the

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Science into practical life. That is why things are put forward in
things are inapplicable in practical life. But when you are able to
constitution. Only by advancing step by step and omitting nothing
denotes something much more real than the ordinary implication of the
“nature-forces” in this highest world, everything that the
an individual ego, so in every astral body there lives something of a
world. In his “ I ,” man has something into which no other
substantiality of Budhi is nothing else than that part of the etheric
the breathing process, for Atma is Atmen — breath. This

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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trail no longer extends into the cosmos and everything draws again
everything that works in upon him from outside continues on into the
everything that streams and is active in the etheric body has been
body — also of the physical body. Everything that the astral body
which contain nothing that produces harmony, and passes into the
clairvoyant as anything but inactive. The clairvoyant perceives a
memory-tableau fades away; but something of it remains; it is not
To take delight in the beauty or harmony of things means growth and
There is something singular about the experiences undergone in
the joy and the suffering he caused to others. This has nothing to do
new machine — all these things bring into the world something
point is that something original arises in the inner being.
actions; all these things are already prefigured in yonder world; any
there is the all-pervading world of the Archetypes. Everything in the

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being has to pass after death, when everything that binds him to his
Devachan everything that is truly original, from the most trivial to
Up to now we have been considering things that have reference only to
Chronicle; when he set out to do something we see the whole sequence
looking into the past, various things may happen to him if, in spite
most cases only its astral reflections. Now there is something
effect all these things have in the world.
us works upon our being of soul. So that everything a human being has
But let it not be imagined that the human being has nothing to do
something entirely new and his development goes forward quite
something that is left unexplained by physical observation of life, is

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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something of an animal-like character. As the child grows up this
something that has significance not only for the earth but which also
of friendship, of mutual inner understanding — all these things
earth take command already at the time of conception. Nothing takes

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stone. Everything that a man thinks and feels has its effects in the
astral bodies, thereby contributing something to his vitality and
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
clairvoyant sees that everything a man thinks, feels and experiences
person who is disposed to love everything around him, who is loving to
everything, trying to keep aloof from it all, produces, as the result
inner process of development; things are often connected in quite a
is something like “crystallised pain” in the face of every
Everything that is a fact on the physical plane, everything that
everything that is due to be expiated between one human being and
involuntarily, everything to which you are impelled, is due to the
working of other beings; it is not born from nothingness. The various
beings; they are nothing else than physically embodied demons
many other things. The Movement of Spiritual Science itself is the
the very nerves. On the other hand, a man who believes in nothing

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bond with everything with which you were associated.
feel your head, then nothing at all between head and heart, then the
heart, then the feet, with nothing between heart and feet. One part of
the greatest virtuoso can do nothing unless he has an instrument.
Mathematical talent also needs something quite specific. A particular
lose something if the child were not to inherit certain qualities from
irrevocable law of karma in which nothing can be changed. Let us take
once drawn up. In respect of karma, everything good, intelligent and
It is a great and potent thought to know that nothing we do is in
vain, that everything has its effect in the future. The law of karma
charges us to be active for its sake; there is nothing in it whatever
to make us sad, nothing which could give the world a pessimistic
that nothing is without its karmic effect. This knowledge should spur
There was a time when the names of the things and facts around us in
of the way in which names really belong to things. The names given to

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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of every living thing, especially of man, and that man's own evolution
about in man's conditions of consciousness. Everything in the world
something by which we can recognise that such people during this
they could tell us how things are on the Sun, for they have
In the dream-life we find indeed something confusing, chaotic, but on
the salt was something useful. Thus the whole consciousness was filled
things of a soul character and those which affected the soul nature
being orientated himself rightly with regard to the things around him.
there are rudiments of other things. You know, for instance, that
We will now consider something else. We have already said that man's
to come. One can ask how it is possible to know something about them

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an active and mobile state something that belonged to them down below.
quality of reflecting everything, such as light, tone, perfume, taste,
nothing of this mirroring, they only occasioned it. In this dull
everything, of reflecting. Such a body radiates everything; it has no
like a reflecting surface, it rayed back everything that it received
Whereas Saturn rayed back everything direct, without taking possession
with taste, scent, warmth, everything, and radiated it out again.
One thing more. Not all beings within this Sun-mass came to the stage
kind of dark intermixture, as something that could not send out its
radiate out nothing. Thus they worked as dark wedges within the
Sun-mass, they had learnt nothing in addition to what they had on

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a sort of inactivity, a condition of nothingness. It is just as little
conditions in which important things for the planets are carried out.
it now gave up to an independent planet everything that had hindered
Now consider one thing; man had as yet no independent. Ego, only the
game they threw every possible sort of thing at Baldur without hurting
always played a special rôle in popular custom, something sinister,
creatures of Earth could undertake anything against Baldur, the god
breathed through something akin to gills, as present-day fishes do.
their service by its means. This fire-mist was thus something fully
cords into the bodies something similar to blood, and this substance
to words which are coined for things only come into existence in our
it that if he pictures things to himself, this will guide him to the

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how the beings have undergone various things in this transition
Now during this transitional period something very important came
tree, upon which all manner of living things exist. The Moon was
On the other hand, however, something else was much more fully
Recently among other things a very characteristic book has appeared,
denies everything that cannot be seen with the eye or felt with the
book a clean sweep is made of everything which cannot be grasped with
Moon-state, where the Sun had already released itself. Everything
Thus it was everything capable of evolution that remained on the Earth
the red blood in themselves something else was necessary. We shall
the influence which came in then with the change in the breathing
it in the old Saurians. Nothing remains to be discovered by the
Moon? It had formerly been surrounded by fire-mists, as in a seething
Now if you think that everything which on Saturn formed a kind of
developed other things to a high degree, memory, for instance, of the
nature. Something more solid formed itself by degrees out of the soft

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everything lived on through the generations. The gradual rise of a
something else too is connected with this.
strongest, who was the chieftain. Everything depended on authority,
last token of how on old Saturn everything was reflected out into
time. On the Sun planet you would have seen how things were prepared
the grounds of a natural science, since everything on the Earth was
in his jurisprudence has created something that still further
Roman jurisprudence something of man that goes out beyond himself (for

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impossible to find out anything of the future of man. Nevertheless if
one can know something about the future is not so unfounded after all.
You have only to compare these things with what the ordinary
rays by a mirror. In fact, this goes even further in regard to things
are reincarnated in a couple of thousand years, you then do something
space. People often say if one sees that something will happen
future if it were already predestined; you are not seeing something
that is already there, but something that has first to come; you must
it possible to understand these things aright.
After these introductory words we will now speak of some few things
my disciple.” This indicates nothing less than that in place of
be led to that bond of brotherhood far rather through something else,
genuine occultism that is not so. It is the same in occult things as
in materialistic things, there too someone asserts this and another
everything else arises; and as everything again dies out so will races
something they have once brought into a beautiful concept is a truth
its physiognomy. Something for instance causes you terror, anxiety;
This passes away again, but you see how it is caused. Something acts
Such things throw a definite light on phenomena in our surroundings
two things are interconnected. Thus occultism throws light again and
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him, he bears it in and out of the doorway as something external, not
must live through it. Then something comes to pass as if the veil were
on my body as something foreign, but now I see everything in the world
Study in the Rosicrucian sense is the ability to immerse oneself in a content of thought not taken from physical reality but from the higher worlds. This is called the life in pure thought. Modern philosophers for the most part deny this; they say that every thinking must have a certain vestige remaining from sense perception. This, however, is not the case, for no one, for example, can see a true circle; a circle must be seen in the mind; on the blackboard it is only a collection of tiny particles of chalk. One can only attain to a real circle if one leaves aside all examples, all actual things. Thus thinking in Mathematics is a super-sensible activity. But one must also learn to think supersensibly in other fields.
arises, one thought grows out of another. These books have nothing at
knowledge. If you think over various things that I have touched upon
have an idea of what Goethe meant when he said “All things
that speaks to him. And everything “corruptible” or
through exercises of the breathing process. If man breathes as
ordained by nature he needs the plant-world for his breathing.
coal is nothing else than the dead remains of plants.
breathing process to form that organ that can within himself effect
himself This is slowly being prepared. Through the regulated breathing
until the pupil can create it himself through his regulated breathing
Godhead. Whatever is within us corresponds to something which is
expresses the fact that a certain something which was formerly outside
things, one must be absorbed in these, one must seek God in his
find its letters in created things, we must read these from beginning
fuses the human being with the whole universe and he feels all things
developed which one who likes to take things easily would prefer to

Title: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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a higher vantage point. Many of the things to be said will sound
would only learn that through looking at things on a purely external
wish to enter into the thing more deeply must ask whether perhaps
possesses all of these things. These, however came to nothing in him
regard to the sexes things are different. In the man the etheric body
deeper observation will disclose the following: Something of
Something
one another, for everything physical is only a very dense form of the
spirit creates everything material. It is, however, the tragedy of
recognise anything less than pure reason in such a sentence as the
all so called spiritual things can be guided through that which is
in everything that lives. And if we look at the nature of the sexes
creates as an imprint on matter is a memory of something with which
initiate great and noble deeds. Therefore nothing could be worse for
Everything in the nature of the sexes attains a very different form

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altogether different state of things. The important fact to bear in
something towards it. But for this reason a difference will become
Things that appear in the
knit more and more closely together. Many things that in our time may
overcome something that is a cosmic tendency.
something that is a necessity for the future, a necessity that is
part of the mission of man, something that is just as essential as
how things are; the facts themselves will prove it.
state no human being knows anything of what happened before this
serious scientists. One of the most important things of all is that
later that the ego appears, the ego with which everything else
called upon to do something formerly done by the angel.
is actually given to us something like a last echo of what prevailed
all; they would seem to him to be nothing more than naïve, childlike
forgive the homely expression — he has in the child something
But in the soil we have something that is involved in a process of
realise that here something has crumbled, has split asunder, and that
reality is nothing but a compendium of preconceived ideas, theories
science, only of course Suess knew nothing of spiritual science. He

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earth, and as often before, we shall try to enlarge upon many things
already known to us. Many things connected with the religious life and
things related to the deeper conceptions of life and the world which
The tenets of these religions seldom contain anything even remotely
ego. Many things we have heard in the course of time will have made it
enables us to conceive that certain things must have happened to man
body only. Everyone who thinks rationally recognizes something about
member of his being. Did something happen to him during that stage
procreative powers. It cannot be said that a man of 30 adds anything
is added later? Nothing that he himself subsequently acquires is
contribute nothing to the improvement of the human race but only make
being can inherit anything from his ancestors in the higher, spiritual
because he learns things that make for cleverness (nobody has yet
something that had inevitably to be imposed upon us by the World
this Fall as something that has been woven into human destiny for the
Now there is nothing that has not its opposite pole. Just as there can
certain respect we can do nothing about it, indeed we must rather be
In human evolution there is something that is related to this as the
merit on his part. These two things belong together. The best way of
and does certain things out of anger; or he loves in the ordinary way
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Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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essentially bound up with something else — is essentially bound up
if drawn upward to something which shines into us. We shall not say:
ego, but I have a higher nature, to which I look up as to something
the actual Earth evolution, but something to which he will gradually
we see something which is to come to development in us on Jupiter.
account of such things.
evolution. This is nothing evil in human nature; for since we can
One may not speak of the Luciferic spirit as if he were something
devil — this signifies nothing less than gross Philistinism ...
genius. It is fitting for the spiritual scientist to look these things
course consists in His bestowing upon man everything which will enable
that will quicken man in the future to bring to expression something
because the Christ came to earth with something which is fully
sense haughty; will teach him that he might become something
superhuman even during the Earth evolution. Everything, therefore,
something parasitic, grafted upon human nature; but the Christ brings
outer wisdom, one will not be able to challenge such things; for it
Christian legend has taken care that nothing so foolish could be said;
the baptism by John in the Jordan something significant occurred: that
time during these three years, something of the sheaths of Jesus of
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Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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things must be dealt with differently than at Group-meetings,
accept such things differently than a larger public.
must now realise that everything which is thus contained in
something which produces the facts of his consciousness. I
comes toward us; it begins to exist for us. The same thing
they have nothing to do with our physical body. Just as we
ourselves have nothing to do with the mirror, so the facts in
our consciousness have nothing to do with our physical body.
this connection the materialist states something which may be
compared to nothing less than this — namely, that
produce the contents of soul-life. Both things are equally
must be faced by something which reflects the facts of
possess in our physical body something which we may call a
true aspect of things, But the body is not merely a passive
mirroring apparatus — it is something in which
that the body is a mirroring instrument for everything we
consciousness, lie all those things which rise to the surface
Something of
through outer perception. He knows that things arise out of
But other things also arise out of these hidden depths of
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Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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days, we have spoken about many things connected with the existence
that a complete clarification of these things is possible only when
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,
— in short, everything that constitutes our ordinary
parallel lines (a―b), includes everything which the normal,
thing is that we should know, quire clearly, that this so-called
or a kind of atavism. In this case, something arises which we may
foreboding, if something takes place within the primitive
who has premonitions knows certain things concerning either the
consciousness. Let us suppose, on the other hand, something arises
described to you something, whether it be described through regular
ordinary consciousness, we find that everything that takes place here
— with respect to those things with which they are connected
to imagine the rose — such a thing as the growth, the growing
something with our eye, during the normal act of vision —
whether it be coloured pictures, or anything else — we are not
only unable, through our perception, to change anything in the
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Title: Perception of the Elemental World
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nothing in the nature and individuality of a person, for everything
Knowing a thing is not the same as creating it; a person learns only
is the most important thing: that the human soul should become more
recognizing things that for the sense world is the correct and
entering this world with the habits of the sense world, two things
into this other being, into this other event. We can learn nothing at
transformation, the soul needs something more than it already
moment wishing to be something or someone else, someone that may be
alternate with the sleeping one. Something comparable to this is
like a pendulum between waking and sleeping, so something similar is
There must be an opposite pole, as it were, something that works in
calls for overcoming something that is deeply rooted in us: our love
willing of self, excluding everything else, corresponds to sleep in
elemental world we can wake and sleep at the same time, something we
thoughts were not things over which he has any command: they are
foolishly. They are patient things, these thoughts of our ordinary
world; they let the human soul do anything it likes with them. But it
at all. But if we do foolish things with our thinking in the
something we can call sympathy and antipathy. Out of soul depths
sympathies and antipathies. Two things, however, should be noted. One
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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In this context, we will also have to say a few things about
that is why we now want to speak about these things in
beginning to feel something of the spiritual life to come.
Great Leader has taken something else with Him. And here we
Such a thing is possible through the methods that had been
insight so that after many generations certain things
exceeded anything their astral bodies or egos were able to
given in times when nothing was recorded, far exceed in
beauty anything conveyed to us by the Indian scripts. What
by the Rishis; everything they taught was transmitted in a
eyes to plants and everything else around us that contains
one's present time frame simultaneously everything that
the Akasha Chronicle, and this is nothing less than the
disciple was also reincarnated, and in him everything was
this lamp without noticing a thing, but when Galileo observed
reincarnated. Such things lead us toward a deep understanding
everything that lives on the physical plane. The Apostles
words, the stress was put on anything on the physical plane
etheric bodies of those who were destined to do something for
of anything connected with the event in Golgotha by one and
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
all those phenomena where something inward is working to reveal itself in
and that something has gone wrong if their thinking, feeling and doing do not
upholds some principle or ideal, and then in public life says something
this schism in human nature as though it were justified; it is something to
indeed something of an inner musician, who with a powerful stroke calls one
at the time of awakening from sleep. Everything that a man experiences
When the soul goes off to sleep in the evening, does it carry anything with
indeed receive from the outer world something that he transforms inwardly, as
everything that must have occurred during months or years, and all we went
life we find that when we are at pains to absorb something, the process of
consciousness has little inkling of these things, but in times of ancient
hair-splitting, or they may seem to be imposing something arbitrary on the
we can accomplish nothing that would require us to transform our physical and
forth, as it were, shaping everything in accord with itself, and we feel how
connection, an artist once gave wonderful expression to something which
thought that nothing better could be said about this portrayal of Laocoon,
necessary also to know something about human character and what can be done
engage in free intercourse with it, the best thing we can do for him is to
bring him the right sort of influence during his early years. Anything we can
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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fascinating chapter called "Something About the Moon."
human mind cannot know anything beyond them. Spiritual Science holds
as something vague and nebulous in which feelings, thoughts and volitions are
etheric body in common with everything that lives. As I said, only the
pain, of urges, desires and passions — of everything we associate with
three members we recognise something else; something unique to man, through
upholds something which contradicts the belief of those who, in their
looked on as a visionary, a dreamer, if nothing worse. That is the
human soul is not a vague, nebulous something, but an essential part of man's
world can be precisely drawn. Directly we begin to experience something
antipathies, of the feelings that things arouse in us. When we call the rose
stream forth; but on the other hand it must bring everything it absorbs back
anything in the Sentient Soul which can contribute to the education of the
in the Intellectual Soul there is something which enables the Ego to take its
must be guided by something which arises independently within the Sentient
this is something we must keep in mind. Before we are capable of judging an
that event. Something in our Sentient Soul is activated by an event in the
all things that the Sentient Soul experiences, let us therefore consider
anger to react to something wrong, we advance gradually to enlightened
anything ignoble, immoral or crazy. That is how anger has the mission of
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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of saying something in reference to the Gospel of St.
of clothing the secrets of the soul in words — a way
this case something in which one could be enclosed, as in a
image of something inwardly powerful, of a radiating force.
feels that he must write something and nothing is considered
Bible to-day we are reading something that in comparison with
enjoys to-day, it is anything but excellent! — these words
significance or it says something we cannot understand. The
first thing to do, then, is to assemble concepts enabling us
yet strong enough to reveal it. That was the state of things
something of what was later to be seen and known by the
Everything else was merely preparation for the development of
occultism. It is easy enough to say simply that everything is
such things are simply indications of the movement of the Sun
fundamentally know nothing, explain events in humanity by
express something that had occurred on Earth and was then
proclaim something that would work as the forces of the Sun
hinted at in St. Mark's Gospel but such things have to
to be? In the form in which he stands before us he is nothing
what we assume on Earth to be a man is simply nothingness.
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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to an understanding of the Christ Impulse. All these things had come
which, to begin with, you know nothing! So far as circumstances of the

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
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thing to start from the point where deep, occult research can lead us
sketch of it and not go into any details. Many things can only be
ours is a time of dogmatism and abstraction. The strange thing is that
these things. We do not see how tied up in dogmas and abstractions our
Something of the sort is evident in the so-called monistic movement,
drawn from abstractions as the most important thing. This leads to the
and dogmas which they then advocate as the thing.
work. Nothing could be worse than this, that the bad modern habit of
this sort of thing. It aims at generalities. What is right for one can
reject such things. The point is that the ideas about the soul's dream
in a materialistic way. And that is the way things have turned out in
significance. By so doing they are turning it into something that
only thing that Spiritual Science can say about the Freudian school is
displeasure over illogical things, joy and peace of soul over logical
things. If he defends something that he immediately sees to be right,
mankind to an understanding of the Christ Impulse. All these things

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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without — then you have everything that may be called the
within us, and have, as they exist there, nothing whatsoever to
field affirms nothing less than would be asserted were
actual state of things, except that one has not to do with a
passive reflector in the case of the body, but with something
consciousness lie the things that rise up into our
these hidden depths of soul-life other things also emerge
dreams lift something up out of the depths of soul-life which
way. When something long buried in memory stands before a human
recollection alone, lift these things up from the hidden depths
Only those things strike upwards that have failed to produce
soul this sunken something works, and makes us what we become
subconsciousness, things rule which have just been described,
not recognize that in everything working within him he
believe that such things are part of the outer world would be a
nothing is present but the attraction of this character.
long as nothing intervenes in her upper consciousness,
her subconscious mind, but she knows nothing about that, so it
something outside the personality. The vision pretends to say:
ego goes along into every sphere; but as soon as something
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture IV: Hidden Soul Powers
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spoken recently of many things concerning the existence of
clarification of these things is possible only if it can be
out something in hidden soul depths, it will be easy for each
has been repeated that everything included in our
indicated by the parallel lines (a–b) everything belongs of
everything which we may describe as the hidden aspects of
that the living person who experiences it knows certain things,
When we perceive something through the use of our eyes in
normal sight, pictures in color or anything else, we can alter
nothing in the objective facts by mere perception. If
nothing happens to harm our eyes they remain unchanged by the
perception. But if we identify anything in that other
seeing something disgusting, could not only form such a
unhealthy breathing power, conditioned more or
circulation of his blood, his breathing system, and his etheric
blood and his forces of breathing. It is actually the case that
a human being possesses more or less healthy breathing and
conditions of blood, of the breathing power, and of the etheric
subconscious, something is always arising or subsiding. The
the circulation, breathing, and the forces of the etheric body.
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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something recovering, something that not only gets the lost
something as starting point that I have already mentioned here
the usual logical rules if one believed that everything that
morning. Everything certainly exists from falling asleep up to
easy to realise that everything depends on whether the human
perceive other things than with the instrument of the body, it
given away. Love is something complex and deep that we can
by the image of the two glasses. We do something similar there
with the help of the medallion we can study everything that
extinguishes everything arbitrarily that comes from without and
everything that the reason can think, and all soul forces are
is foolish to imagine something that is not there at all, one
layman who knows nothing of the whole matter as that which one
the pathological soul life. Someone who knows something of that
educates himself artificially for something that a pathological
delusions et cetera have something in common: they overpower
the soul; they have something that demands the strongest belief
as nothing at all that can give him objective truth. It would
there as something that refers to an outer reality. He has to
life. One gets to know nothing by this imagery at first but the
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture V: Errors of Spiritual Research - 1
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something objective that exists outside of you in the
emerging in the soul are considered as nothing but reflections
mediumship. Of course, it is not possible to repeat everything
because it can describe various things in the world. Since
something that he/she could not at all make known with her/his
bring in things only which are exactly verified which everybody
learnt, then one knows that here something speaks through the
somnambulistic persons who make known something of the
they are enabled. There one will always find that something
objective beholder of these things considers the contents of
consideration that even such things can be experienced with
the experience is not an angel or anything else, but these are
all mean that; they only mean the description of something that
something that you approach as a distant aim. These are the
this area. Besides, I have to call attention to one thing: if
makes known itself. A trained view of such things belongs to
— a sample of how one can bring forward something
you can describe everything unilaterally from a viewpoint and
bring good reasons forward, and one can prove the same thing
Somebody who has taken part in such a thing knows that,
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Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
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something is not perceived is no proof that it is not there. In regard
It will not be easy to make human beings conscious of these things to
and studied as history in the schools? It is nothing more, in regard
History will only teach us something if we are able to penetrate it
nothing about the world in which he lives, through which he passes
will see from this why we know nothing in ordinary life about this
ask him something, communicate something to him, I am conscious of the
communicates something to me, then I hear his words, his words sound
outer world. This is so different from everything we are accustomed to
following: At one time or another in life something speaks within your
certain respects egotistical, and if something arises within his soul
feeling. Something arises in us which we may call a good idea: in
no attention to their content. But the most important things occur at
our materialistic culture such things perish even in remote regions.
become aware of such things we need a certain wakefulness of thinking.
from morning to night, people read these things. It occurs in
do all kinds of things in life! But we do not notice the connections
prepared to pay attention to such things as the moments of waking up
and falling asleep. However, even though something is not perceived,
when he told us something dear to our heart; if we remember the
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Title: Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- II
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it. Human beings lack the perspective to see this; for such a thing
things appear quite different from the way they appear in the
It is much easier to see ghosts and to take them for something
believed to relate only to material things. The materialistic
nothing but a denial of its true character. It has sprung from a
relate merely to material things; for this is not true, it is mere
upon the earth with everything they could bring with them.
Thus, since the end of the seventies, since 1879, we have two things:
died since, one can indeed see how these things are considered from
repetition of what preceded them. If one expresses something great in
things.
For things happen here on the physical plane which are of a much
that human beings will soon be called upon to understand something
these things cannot be stated in another form; but they must be
left his family; he has, in reality, remained here. Something of great
experiences things which would have been spread over long periods of
as dogmas, but nothing will result from them, nothing at all! We might
have the most beautiful ideas about what ought to happen, but nothing
anything. Thought-out programs are the most worthless things in life.
In contrast to this, we can do something else, and many a person does
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Muenchen, 9-3-'13
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is something that some of you aren't very interested in, but you all
life. In philosophy one mainly speaks about two things. Firstly about
multiplicity, where everything is led back to the smallest parts,
atomistic one. The second thing that is spoken about in philosophy is
the only right thing falls prey to Ahriman. One who becomes conscious
multiplies. Or one starts with many things and goes up to unity. And
even if these things aren't quite right it doesn't harm anything too
thing in a hundred ways; if one isn't aware of this one has fallen
One has to say things to one person in a vivid way, to another in a
work. A pupil must be able to take things in freely.
everything that he encounters is coming.
spiritual things. Some people like to talk about the good
collapse — I just don't want to know anything about the

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to a luciferic infringement. We must watch that nothing like
Something subjective gets mixed into all vision, for instance,
in man's subconsciousness; they must be there, it's something that
is at work in all emotional and visionary things, in mystical
materialists may only express themselves in material things outwardly.
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,
something. Whereas Lucifer brings about appearances of figures, heads
is forced to write something one can counteract this by stopping and
to it, certainly it's true, every little thing in occult life is
important and is true. The main thing is to know what's behind it. We
should pay great attention to everything and watch and be awake. And
Ahriman is at work in them. Something that can often happen to
have this premonition of his coming we may have something to tell
what breathing is for the body, meditations are for the soul. If one
would stop breathing Ahriman would immediately intervene as the
everything will dissipate and we'll be able to see what's right
thing on this difficult path if we think of the simple but profound

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attentive to things that usually escape our everyday
things are with our meditation also. The quiet that we create let's
things can enter our consciousness, such as physical pains that
this with other things, for strange and surprising things can
everything we encountered in life, consciously or not. For instance
Something
etheric body. Such things can scare us if we don't understand them.
terrible things that give him great pain. It's the thoughts of his
that we are like that, for such things only disappear when we finally
Bible, as everything in the Bible is true. And one who refuses
every little thing, and every little thing can become a whole
small thing.
for the material world can also come from higher worlds. A thing that's
only notice such things when things are found in such abnormal
when for instance someone discovers something that can make him rich.
Up till then one will consider all such things to be figments of a

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Honest endeavour is the important thing. We actually become different
physical world we experience everything inside our skin, as for
that the body through which we experience things is sensorial. If we
flexible, as it were. That's why all physical things seem like
they're nothing in comparison with the denser fluid. So the
nothing is visible and the something is invisible. For a
spiritual gaze that's the way things really are with the
empty bubbles in the spiritual world. All physical things are
composed of countless numbers of such holes. When we touch things we
bump into these holes, this nothing. That's the way things are with
instruments. Another thing is that a man feels that all the
good, right and true things that he thinks stream out from him. He
germ-forming for the future. But the wrong, bad, ugly things that he
physical things that have condensed further, right into man's
things I turn myself
What flees existence as nothing:
May what must seem like nothing to you
Well thought, truly known things
May weaving of error, badly thought things
elaborated each of these strophes contains the same thing that's
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-13-10
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esotericism we must note something that we call the Spirit of the
the simplest exoteric sayings of theosophy, such as: Everything
wrong with us into the high regions in which something takes place
everything that comes under his influence. Now since he mainly
for his influence in everything that becomes mature quickly, and this
these hindrances, for they must be kept free of everything
Everything around us is maya or illusion, will appear to us in
forget in everyday life that things and qualities that we think are

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that he's undertaken something that's very serious, that
all new things The etheric body becomes completely developed between
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
it understands everything that happened since Saturn times.

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divine beings. Everything that we think, feel and will in the way of
that's guided by higher beings. Thereby we begin something
dear to him, it could be that something about this person will flow
world. Someone who's given something like this should look upon
longer say some of the unkind things that we used to and we acquire a
thing but that it's nevertheless in the Bible.
one is seeing something outside, and it's one's own

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life must be consecrated, so that only sacred, sublime things live in
evening with such things. We're polluting divine worlds if we
things. We can, however, be proud of a clear, logical and correct

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slightly. Whereas someone who loses himself in external things gets
natural and better than accepting things on faith. Of course he must
he doesn't have a firm hold on anything earthy. The danger here
egotism, so that we turn away from everything that surrounds us and

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clairvoyance. The most important thing in all esoteric activity and
have done the other things that the masters of wisdom and of the
absolutely quiet for awhile. Nothing from everyday life, no memory of
nothing. The etheric body tends to spread out into the widths of
Something similar happens
out in space and feels its way into everything. The same is true at
things would remain like this until rebirth if the astral body
him. The things we perceive in such moments when the soul is very
body. The dishonestly is rayed back by the things that a pupil sees
point where these illusory things don't appear anymore and lies
things anymore.
everything that comes to meet us from whatever side, with an alert,
don't give in blindly to something. That's also the way
everything that this class — which like all esoteric classes

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circle, out to the stars; it's poured out over everything
everything personal is suppressed, if we sense that we must merge
pronouncements about living personalities in public. Things are

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shouldn't give physical causes for things. Everything physical,
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
real things once again. A man definitely needs this world of maya in
only there for us. For in reality, in the world of real things,
everything appears with its spiritual causes behind it.
himself with the world of real things. He can only do this through
there, and he'll see something like a rising, shining star
world of real things. And when the words are translated they're
penetrate the world of real things, and depending on what he brings
can only tolerate what fits into their world; everything else is
the feeling that results from occupying oneself with such things. Now
causes behind every thing and encounter. Spiritual beings have to do
These three things are
such circumstances if we want to press into the world of real things,
they don't become aware of why they got something like that. An
esoteric should gradually bring everything into his consciousness,
it — a faint, outer sign. Just as everything physical, also

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 1-10-12
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a wanting to be something special, a need to separate oneself. An
esoteric loses interest in many outer things that he paid a lot of
outside. Then he's easily tempted to criticize outer things. In
life. The need to separate himself is something that's quite
thing we should practice is to be silent about our esoteric
secret, and he feels very relieved if he can get things off his
things within one. For instance, an occult investigator can perceive
secret for some reason. Say that a man has something on his soul that
we can't lose. One should speak about universally human things
and about things that can be useful to people, but not about
because they have qualities that give us something. We should also
notice that this is the right thing to do. An esoteric should also
spiritual things. That's what's meant in the second part
physical things and raise ourselves to the spiritual that was always

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growing steadily the main disadvantage to this is that things get a
taking them in. It's not the right thing for so many of our
thing the esoteric life is. It should be impossible for someone who
gaze at it. Something that especially harms esoteric development is
exercises seem to be something very simple, and yet they're
something that works on us more strongly than anything we can
into this state of not hearing things, etc., we've left our
etheric body more than anything else Even thinking about it hinders
within. Someone may tell us: Nothing is pouring in me. And
wonderful structure that's the greatest thing about us is weak
it are upbuilding ones that would sustain it. But we got something
into it with Moon forces, astral things, and earth forces, the ego,
I is supposed to make all the things it did wrong good again and to
So we should let all imperfect things die in the one whose name is so

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esoteric has to pay attention to things that are irrelevant to an
than the one that everything is over at death, and so they tend to
intellectual or mind soul can also have something like a second man
other medieval mystic and who reject everything else. Since the
to turn away from everything that the outer world can tell him and to
it was salutary for the world. The main thing in occult striving is
time doesn't have the same effect The important thing is to
know how something can be made effective.
something harmful. The Pharisee should serve the Sadducee, and both
and we'll feel that we must leave them behind as something
perishable, as something that doesn't belong in the spiritual
and support into a prayer, like the sea into a drop — something

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beginning. But this is not so. The main thing for an esoteric is for
anything.
this activity. Then we may have the feeling that: I did my things
passed through our soul had thought in us. When we observe something
like this, we increasingly get the feeling that something happens in
life. But we must strictly observe one thing. When we say or think
hierarchies work in us and through us, that we would be nothing
returning to something that I didn't weave myself; I
to become conscious in the morn, so we must dive down into something

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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Science, and has absorbed something of its teaching about the
Anthroposophy to feel at least something of the mood which lived in
the spiritual worlds. Thereby something comes into existence which
must not be mistaken for a description of things and events in the
physical sense-world; something comes into existence which we must
description of anything perceptible by the senses, anything which the
yet nothing of the material existence to which we are accustomed. Of
all that we find in our own environment it has nothing but heat. No
is added to the warmth and the air. There is as yet nothing of what
something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
something approximating to what lived in an ancient Hebrew sage when
have grasped that, we are able to appreciate something of the spirit
word implies something which lies very near the boundary where the
while, then waking up, and, without opening your eyes to things
thought occur, a man who muses about two different kinds of thing.
activity, or of some external thing or of some being; it does not
arises in this awakening man is a desire, something which the man's
manifests something, expresses itself outwardly, phenomenally; and
something which would experience itself inwardly, something which
can only have a meaning, if during its course something arises which
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Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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effort for me to do anything of the sort; and that I only do it
that it will not permit me to bring forward anything that conflicts
activity, a permeation with inward craving; it is something which
what can be aroused in our souls by these sounds it is something like
something the same with the Elohim, when they said to themselves:
you have so far brought things this is what they look like. This is
consideration something else. We must once more turn our attention to
something else is associated. The fine warmth element of Saturn
the element of warmth, whereas during the Sun evolution something
on the Sun. They remained dark, had nothing sunlike about them; for
something psycho-spiritual, it is the external manifestation of the
almost nothing. We can only understand the word if we think of a hen
by calling them finer substances. The main thing is to recognise them
something which is not really recognisable in the ordinary
something he possesses which none of the beings around him has
to say that Bet (B) aroused the idea of something enclosing,
like a shell shutting something off and enclosing an inner content.

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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these three planetary forms? On Saturn everything was in a kind of
today, for Saturn had nothing in it either of liquid or of solid;
Saturn was nothing but interweaving warmth. But the laws which
find anything in the least comparable to that plantlike weaving in
it was because at that time men no longer knew anything of what
not fall upon the terrestrial globe from without, nothing of what we
had to take place, something had to be split off from the Sun. And
The first thing which
something between the waters above and the waters below.” I
a centre. The something between is nothing tangible, it is just a way
This word means something which should not be interpreted in a
watery element, what we today know as water, from something which had
not been there before, something which was a further densification
element, which now emerges as something completely new. Everything
another form. The first thing which is entirely new is the earth
first begins to form? It is something which had already taken shape
Everything repeats
clairvoyant consciousness were no abstractions, but something
to take effect something which radiates from without, which sends in
this, we see something which comes from the heavenly spaces,
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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the scientific objections against the things said here today or at
first thing in the elementary existence which we have to hold fast
and chemical analyses; it is something which man can only recognise
sound which is carried over the air, but recognise it as something
and life ethers. In order to be quite sure that nothing is left vague
is something which is not directly visible around us. Of course, what
Everything of a solid material nature is earth in the sense of
nothing in this distinction — that he himself differentiates
but that the fourth state appears as something new.
that something was stimulated by the Elohim in the material
something in the elementary matter which may be compared with what is
something sets to work as a still finer condition, one which we must
life-ether. After the second “day” of creation something
the earth causes green things to grow, the living element of tree and
of the life-ether, which evokes everything that is said to have come
evolutions, I quite deliberately and scrupulously ignored anything
something which alternates between light and darkness, as does our
signifies anything resembling a geological epoch.
ancient methods of naming things. The process of nomenclature in
the Hebrew word yom. It has nothing to do with a merely
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Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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earth's beginnings, we find many things which still need to be
see something of the nature of Being behind what is described as
you will come across something extremely important for the
Something new is continually arising, but the old remains actual
nothing else but a certain degree of darkness. And this dark content
of space is filled out with something of a soul-spiritual nature,
something akin to what is intended in Genesis in the passage where
All these things are
something that the Elohim find already there. Light is something they
evil, as something wrong in the world-context. It is easy for the
something like indignation over the backward Beings; or he can make
the mistake of being sorry for the poor things! We should not harbour
the contrary we should remind ourselves that everything happens out
particular stage of development, it means something; it has
ten-year-olds! Something of the same kind is true in cosmic
important both for man and for other living things. Take for example
living thing, and, so far as their external physical existence is
But something else is
place during sleep. But nothing which happens anywhere in space is
obviously one can build up nothing if one starts to destroy it. The
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Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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anything to do with Spiritual Science. Moreover, the fact that the
but that if we refuse to have anything to do with this maya,
conditions. Thus we have in our own outer physical bodies something
anyone who wishes to get to the bottom of things has to ask himself
the Elohim recreated, as out of memory, something which I have
something out of memory, though we, of course, unfold our activity at
thought would be there. You must distinguish between two things. The
there, he also perceives the actual rose. That is the other thing. In
the same way you should distinguish two things in what I have
beginning in everything of an earth nature.
something worthy of tremendous respect, something to which our
back to our Elohim, to the Spirits of Form. You see how everything
within another, and that warmth permeates everything. We find warmth
real force behind warmth; it has poured itself out into everything.
Spirits of Form, the Elohim. That is something which lies in the
super-sensible. But everything super-sensible casts its shadow into
something self-existent and real, then they are dreaming. The
wanted to buy something: ‘I won't pay for it in solid coin, but
things in this way, we gaze into the living, moving being which stirs
us accustom ourselves to see in all that happens around us something
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Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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familiar with the idea that everything we perceive around us is in
external things, consciousness of things outside us in space as
this consciousness was that it was pictorial; things did not appear
things. It was a pictorial consciousness, at the same time permeated
there — on a lower, dreamlike level — was something
ways. In it the student sees many things around him. But he would
it is something inscribed in the Akashic record or whether he has
earthly consciousness; and the same thing applies today in the early
spiritual things at all; he sees pictures, and the question is what
scarcely perceived anything except what was happening to himself.
obscura. Purely physical apparatuses like that can perceive nothing.
the sun, but it was an inner process. The characteristic thing about
of repeating something. Thus to produce what we know today as human,
something outside us; earlier, all the Beings of whom we can speak
“Something is standing before me.” Even the Elohim could
something real formed in an external space from which we ourselves
“We see this light outside us.” There was no such thing
Let there be light, it meant that something new had happened, that
document there is nothing superfluous, nothing meaningless. If only
to ascribe to it nothing that is not pregnant with meaning, to take
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Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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man, and that as yet nothing of what surrounds us today in animal,
that everything which today we seek to learn through spiritual
earth incarnation. But everything which comes finally to
today we have to look upon as something inward. That is what is being
people the earth, something like a gradual densification of the human
things which I have told you in the course of years about the
Genesis gives a description of the clothing of man — man still
something which it is extraordinarily important for us to understand
of the water. Thus while these group-souls were clothing themselves
with the laws which govern such things they had to progress to the
Jahve-Elohim was able to form the earthly nature of man by breathing
certain places I get impressions of warmth — not of anything
blood-heat apart from anything else, and then you have what came into
to give, the inbreathing of air, did not take place until after the
him come about? Here we come to something described pretty fully in my
desire, everything anchored in the astral body, became permeated with
entered into man with the Luciferic influence. Everything good or bad
things that would have occurred to one so easily if one had wanted to
introduce anything out of the Genesis account. In the description given in
consider yet another event. We have stressed the point that things
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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a number of points still to clear up in this regard. The first thing
union with the earth. Here we come to something of great importance
in the relationship between man and earth, something which happened
those ancient times. Everything was shrouded in watery mist, laden
Atlantis everything was permeated by those volumes of watery
the reference was to something of a group-soul nature, the second
time to something which sprang forth from the earth as vegetation in
profound wisdom here. But I can assure you that nothing from this
today as it was at that time, but we can nevertheless find something
their evolution consisted in clothing themselves more and more with
our souls a true picture of the state of things after the withdrawal
influences too. After the separation of the sun, everything on earth,
everything revived again, so that even weaker souls were able to
being. In the moon element man has something within him which really
has within him something of what is up there on the moon. He has
him. Thus he has the disposition to be something other than a mere
of rain the mud in the street gradually turns to dust. Something like
dust. Something like that will happen to the earth one day,
But in man something
being something of moony earth-dust. Those Beings connected with the
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Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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consisted solely of warmth, was now endowed with something expressed
today only came later with the inbreathing by Jahve of the breath
will never give anything other than what I am saying. If it is upon
centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
the essential thing is that man did not become a living being in the
is something which enters into man from without. This impress of
Aristotle still knew something of it. Anyone familiar with the works
attention to something else of importance. If everything that I have
translated something like this: “In what follows we are
deeply into these things, we see that there is full agreement between
absolutely nothing; it would gaze into a void. But, as we have seen,
touch upon things, and that is all I have attempted to do this time.
everywhere — that one has only to look, and everything follows
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that
in our own language of the right way to conceive these things. But it
could still say. Especially something which has been borne in upon us
influence of Lucifer. Because of this influence something which lay

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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influence even brought out in human souls something of which today we
knowledge of the gods and of divine things, knowledge of
the answer is that we would rekindle in mankind something like a
something like
I remembered something which I
such hankerings after an ideal are always something connected with
another would like to think of as Anthroposophy, something which his
believe the best. Anthroposophy is not the only thing about which men
committing a sin against European civilisation and everything
may be allowed to say something which is as much a matter of feeling
wonderful answer! If nothing but that external culture which can be
assimilation of thought. Today we can only learn what things were
conjured up before our souls. Something stands before us there in
poured, there may be more or less consciously sensed something of the
something which dawns in us today in a form as yet impersonal; it is
be trying, to represent things in the same manner as is done on the
art will know that we are aiming at something quite different. They
ordinary stage performances. We do not dream of such a thing, and it
warmth, and, even when to begin with everything seems to go very
as if things are not going well, then we say to ourselves that if we
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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special emphasis upon two things. I said the Greeks were conscious
thing. I said yesterday that Greek mythology draws attention to two
scholarship has nothing but a few abstract ideas to offer in this
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
disappears, things are really only transformed. Whither, then, has
unconscious, ‘I myself have done nothing, I have gone through
special development to produce breathing, so at that time he did not
form his own clairvoyant faculty, but both these things were given to
present one), I absorb from outside everything that is growing, but
only something which could be analysed by the chemist; he knew that
‘Outside in Nature, forces are at work; through my breathing
entirely the usual way of looking at things today, our own habits and
I accomplish something in the world, I do so because forces active in
everything I have just said as fantasy. In fact, however, it is the
pronouncements of materialistic science about these things that are
different, everything has changed.
one of the things which has happened to humanity.
The second thing has
Whether a man knows anything of the world depends upon his ether
should not take these things in an abstract way. Of course we can
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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very short-sighted, it scarcely gives a thought to anything beyond
mentioning just one thing. There is a concept, an idea, very familiar
existence devoid of spirit, but everything which happened in the
longer see in these things, as the Greeks did, the outer gestures,
something outside us which we study according to abstract laws,
it was obvious that everything which takes place in Nature is
is peculiar to our modern way of looking at things to draw a sharp
be quite clear that there are things which form part of a system of
nature, things which follow the laws accepted today by the physicist,
of Nature, a wonder of the world, a miracle, as anything else. Amid
have quite different things to say about the rainbow too. We say to
there emerge specific thoughts relating to something or other —
us take these two things, the macrocosm which gives birth to the
rainbow out of the bosom of the universe, and the other thing, that
knew something and which men will come to know again through
Everything that is
Greek could not say what I say today about these things, because he
human being and try to learn something of the forces which call forth
something which is abiding and subject to habit and memory. It is by
a man of wild passions, impetuously laying hold of everything in his
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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the sun, the majestic world of the stars, at one moment is something
find in evolution that one thing, one epoch, is never exactly like
in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
instructed in such things said quite seriously that at that time
Egypto-Chaldean epoch to all the culture-epochs. Things were
we see too how everything in this epoch tends to bring to expression
which follows the Greco-Latin time, we again find something very
something about for all these Beings of the higher hierarchies. How
epoch. Then everything which was once proclaimed to mankind by the
Impulse, seek to give to humanity for their inspiration everything
something else is connected with this assumption of human bodily
— something which it is important for us to understand.
perceives there the Christ — something which at an earlier time
was not possible even for the most advanced clairvoyant, something
retained absolutely nothing which could arouse in Him a desire to
brought it about that nothing of Him will be left behind in the
with them, nothing remains in His nature which could look back with
you from the cosmic aspect something about our Earth and about its
something which had been severed from the Luciferic Being, just as
the world. This of course has nothing in common with the wishy-washy
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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the same thing—they strive to transcend such qualities as they
‘Curse God and die.’ There is something magnificent,
Zeus. And the same thing applies to Poseidon and to Pluto. In these
the soul-forces in the human astral body.’ The same thing
the Jordan, we find the same thing. That is made clear in the little book
no longer looks upon his physical body as something within which he
with his ego is confined; it is something upon which he looks from
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
of other things, to feel expanded to a cosmos, to feel completely
these Greek gods could still give to men, there was one thing they
lectures that this human ego-consciousness was something which had to
There was no ego-consciousness in anything created on the Moon, or in
it were, was something which in earlier times had indeed been vaguely
something which arose in him as a result of the co-operation of the
that was his very self. He was something only one aspect of which was
thing, upon which Zeus as such had no direct influence. What
conscious that he bore within him something, the origin of which he
bear something in my being to which I owe my earthly consciousness,
something which the world of the upper gods, the world of Zeus or of
Poseidon or of Pluto could not directly give me, something with which
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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which is the usual attitude, knows nothing of what it is trying to
drawn to yet another thing. While the rest of the gods represent what
however, that life is full of contradictions, indeed nothing new, no
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
was yesterday? Why does anything become, why does not
everything remain as it was? It is because yesterday there was a
self-contradictory element in the state of things, and today's
contradiction and its overcoming. No one who sees things as they
knowledge of external things we cannot observe the ego as such; we
As you know from things I have written or said on various occasions
plane, he would be making a mistake. In the higher worlds things look
something very different from what man finds within him in normal
psychology and ordinary science speak as belonging to anything but
everything, it is all around us ... but it is covered over
felt that in what constituted the world of men there lived something
something coming about as the result of a combination of both. The
their admirable mythology have also drawn attention to something
anything but decadent. But in the strata of human spiritual life, in
excavations of geology, tell us anything about the outward appearance
what underlies these things who can say, ‘I can't accept
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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another way is to be found there as something quite obvious. When we
everything which had to do with the upper gods exoterically, by means
everything of which one can become conscious through a deeper insight
all around us and into the laws which govern it. But something
in his mind he did not carry on something akin to work in ideation or
cognition, but if we bear in mind that the main thing in knowledge is
anything to do with the work which goes on in the brain?’ The
content goes, you will find nothing in any element of our process of
Nothing of the mental representation itself lives in the brain. What
do not want to go into these things. For in the outer world today
nothing of the act of cognition, takes place anywhere within this
consciousness of it, something of great significance. This physical
materials and forces of the Earth, but there is something secreted
mental representation, which reproduces for us all the things outside
know oneself, one can come to know nothing but this process of
indeed: ‘You must attain something which you cannot
something was given to man in the Mysteries which had nothing to do
that something quite different from ordinary knowledge was cultivated
begin from something seemingly quite unimportant. As soon as one
oneself understood. Today men try to confine everything within the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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something which is associated with the deepest forces of our souls,
itself. Something like that is what Capesius is depicted as feeling
Capesius's case something else happens. To begin with he is
something lies in the depths of the human soul of which the normal
strata of our souls; we are harbouring something in depths of soul
man there lies something which once upon a time the gods implanted in
things with this treasure, this divine heritage. We can out of a
concern of our own, we are not doing anything merely in the interests
that one can know nothing; he feels that it would be a violation of
causes the conflict in his soul. There is nothing of the Faustian
must accept the impossibility of making everything good in this life.
self-knowledge — when he really learns something of his inmost
being, then as a rule he discovers something in himself which he
finds it very difficult to accept, something which is in the highest
degree repugnant to him, something which, when it really dawns upon
thought of myself, I don't want anything for myself,’ and
nothing for myself.’ That is a common experience. But it is
on Earth? Nothing of what we are familiar with today as the physical
spirit. Everything again passed over into imperceptible
longer physical, everything had been taken up into the spirit again;
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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quite other substantial things connected with the Earth, and these
shocked if I say that if nothing else had worked upon man he would in
Atlantis that something else happened which will throw a flood of
upon all things that propagate themselves by laying eggs outside
structure of the bird there is something very striking, even to
these different currents, he would have to say: ‘Something
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
ask why the human being no longer sees or feels anything at all of
the time when such things could be perceived by a natural
something else. Not only does an etheric current go from the heart to
something like a cap — to put it rather grotesquely —
knowledge of the outer world comes about. Everything that we know of
ancient times men actually saw such things, and that the aura which
was in olden times still visible was copied in men's clothing.
hood which crowns every man. All clothing originated in this way,
aura and will have nothing to do with the kind of clothing which
were reproduced in human clothing. If you look at pictures by the old
a kind of clothing. And if you look at what the figures of the Greek
gods wear, you see that not only their clothing, but also their
nature; there is something else working in me all the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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satisfaction, arrives at something of which he can say that it
relates him fitly to things, either because it throws light for him
that the human being starts out from a feeling of wonder about things
its way out of this feeling of wonder to something which reduces it.
the whole world would consist of nothing else. The soul cannot
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
nothing to do with reality — when the man of today believes
something which the soul can feel if it is not preocccupied with the
the case of the Greek gods, this very thing would have made it
his consciousness, in infinite nothingness.’ This is the universal
there would be something amiss with it if, as soon as it tries to
world-substance. We meet there everything which has been worked into
danger of dissolving with our consciousness into nothingness; if we
directed against what we may call dissolution into nothing, or
something upon the Earth now of this work from without upon the human
nothing is so well able to furnish proof for all that is proclaimed
continues to work on the organisation of the brain; that is something
be relieved from without by the use of the left hand — a thing
than make a brief reference to such things. Were I able to speak at
himself no predisposition to anything, but everything has been formed
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Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-1-1906
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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

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-6-1906
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slave. The first thing that a pupil must learn and do is pay attention

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-1907
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the feeling that it took something with it. Just as one knows one's
Something quite similar to a birth took place on the astral plane in
of talk about bacterial today, and they influence a lot of things. In
wants to use this to put oneself, one's will and everything one has in
money changers out of the temple has a deep meaning. Back when things
terrible archangel of wrath, will be ruling things. And as once
didn't arise through speculation. Something special lives in every
one can imagine something like palely gleaming moonlight that represents
find one's own self in divine things.
striving toward the center. The a means something quite

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Munich, 3-17-1908
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Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Semites. Nothing much changes,
to express something. The valuable content in everything he produced

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 6-14-1908
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sleeper who hears nothing because the ego and astral body have left
What tears down the physical body builds things up in the etheric
and then the I is supposed to build things up again. The astral body
it throws on the etheric body as an impression; and the main thing is
different things. Some beings don't think and yet are very wise. They
person calls love is often nothing but crass egotism. True love is
All things on higher planes throw shadows onto lower ones, and so I,
when he presses towards a new incarnation. Each man gets something
beings are enemies of the philistine, petty things that a man would

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-8-1908
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class. The important thing is in how an esoteric class is given and
things, and namely to protect the astral body from the effects of
compare things with a tree here. Even though the bark is the dying
things are with respect to a man's negative qualities such as ambition
vanity. For he uses his protective forces for other things, so that
definitely not be the right thing for an esoteric. Fighting ambition
any thing to do with the envied person. If we occupy ourselves with
something beautiful whenever we feel envy, it will gradually
thing there is the demons that the noise keeps in check. One must be
us ever more as a shining star that nothing can darken anymore.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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we should try to strip off everything that fetters us to the sense
side of things, as it were. Meditators who haven't advanced to vision
spiritual world to which we mostly belong isn't anything simple.
vision yet will then have a nothing feeling, as if the meditation was

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 3-8-1909
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Everything that has a life of its own is enclosed in a skin. Our

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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reincarnation of the high initiate who was supposed to prepare things
concentration The earth and everything on it disappeared before his
repulsive and he realized that this aroma symbolized all the things
that revealed itself to him in every thing overcame him. And he

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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at what's developing in one's soul. God lives in developing things. If
Be it ever so hidden, there's a selfish motive in everything we do. We
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
soul-spiritual thing; I no longer live in what I have placed outside,
sensations that were aroused by past things and happenings in the
external things.
And the pupil feels something else. Previously he had learned the
everything with equanimity.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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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
this resolve. One can take the exercises that one gets as something
connect everything he runs into in ordinary life with his esoteric
of his other life, from which something is constantly flowing into
Ahrimanic influences possible and everything that helped men to live
but he always would have recognized spiritual things behind matter.
higher element. Paul, who was an initiate in these things, uses
every spiritual thing that descends into matter. Just as a seed that's

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture One
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everything described therein had already taken place when John wrote
wrote in numbers when they wanted to hide something. One had to replace
something in the past. One wrote the letters in Hebrew — wrongly
eyes signify nothing other than the seven planets, while the names of
to the Moon, then on to Mars, Mercury, and so forth. The same thing
time always the same as today's? Important things have changed. If we
perceived something very strange. The aura of the human being is constantly
we could live backward we would see all the things that we will see

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In this way something entirely new has come into the world.
are asleep, nothing enters into the place where the sense impressions
astral light, not the darkness, nothing of what today's human being
value we find ascribed to the externals of life. Absolutely nothing
story of their life. The main thing about a Hermes or a Buddha was what
first time, something was experienced as an external physical event
Everything that Christ Jesus experienced physically, on the physical
the most important things. We can describe the life of an initiate if
of battle. Those who counted for something in the north were honored
is that he was an initiate. This legend tells us something with the
and everything is transparent to them, both within and all around.

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that they belong to a spiritual movement. It means something entirely
we are truly creating something when, in this moment, we are loving
Everything, even the religious life, was permeated by materialism. Anyone
around in the world today fade away. For, among many other things, the
personalities many things that were seen by their contemporaries with
critical eyes have disappeared, so too will all these things fall away
from her. But the great things she has accomplished will remain.
of human beings as something that concerns all of humankind. People's
stimulate us, but the spirit must become alive within. One thing that
to prepare for many of the things described in the Apocalypse as prophetic
the path to that great point in time, they must have something to hang
on to, something that enables them to ennoble the seven sheaths of their
brought to a certain perfection is not developed, then something arises
world of devachan, everything is ordered according to measure and number.
Of course, this is the case with everything. What would it mean to seek
influence our physical body. Everything in the I, astral body, etheric

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much more real than anything we call pictures in our poor language.
of all things. Progressing then from the astral plane to the devachanic
the “mysticism of numbers” is nothing more than a babbling.
eye is opened. Think of everything that you experience on the astral
something in Christian esotericism called the melting of human beings with
will raise myself above what I am capable of giving today to something
This I means the same thing as the actual
then you are on the way to develop budhi. If higher things have become
(And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These thingRev. 3:14)
only some of the passages. If we could discuss everything, then you
today on the astral plane is nothing other than the formation of the
unpurified astral body is one that knows only itself, that finds everything
is one that receives everything coming to it weighed out with a just
opened we are told something very significant: “When he opened
something of their astral body, but also something of their etheric body,
and even something of their physical body. In earlier times initiates were
it as something similar to the initiation process of three and one-half
see how everything fits together.
There is something else
provided wood for various things. It was especially important that Seth
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