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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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his time and energy really thinking through what he has heard from his
might think the best cure for her forgetfulness would be to remember to
this case, for the improvement of memory. By thinking through events,
When you come to think of it, it soon becomes apparent that people do
nearly as good as they think. That is a universal truth, a truism, but it can

Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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problem of the thinking individual. In conscious awareness he
is attributed. Many thinkers of consequence have agreed with
possible imagination and calls forth thinking. It is this activity
thinking will be so flexible that men will be willing to

Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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think of it as being endowed with an Ego, and since it is endowed
has acquired these forms only during the Earth. epoch. But think of
should think of Oken in such a way, that the things which he could
Philistines. Just think that Oken conceived the following idea: What
our life we think; we think, from the moment that we attain the
capacity of thinking up to the moment of death. Our thinking consists
think. Our thoughts are necessary not only for the physical earth,
body through our thinking, is employed during our earthly life as a
we pass through the world as thinking human beings, the Angeloi,
body, that has arisen essentially through our manner of thinking.
we can really designate as obtuse) think to cope with so easily by
This is the manner of thinking adopted by people who take for granted
ordinary science will learn to think differently in embryology
upon his shoulders should learn to think in all humility, without any
forces that develop within us when we are able to think in this
temptation. Let us think of this. When a modern painter paints this
impressionist, or futurist), he thinks that the reality can be
think so. Leaving aside the present assumption, it is impossible
think of people — some still exist to-day — who do not
broad-minded free-thinker, yet how stupid were the letters he wrote!
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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energy quite otherwise than really thinking what the professors are
strengthen the ethereal body. To think through a whole play

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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higher Devachan. It is not possible to think of the
like that of an animal; we must not think that a mineral
astral plane. But we must think of this in the following way:
reached upon Saturn. But you must not think from this that
But now, try for a moment to think of heat, of warmth, quite

Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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physical, even among thinkers who, without knowing it, are
combined; but that everything that we think out exists as an
demands that the thinkers who take their stand on the
mode of thought. Thinkers who penetrate deeply into the
understanding, he found other thinkers by whom he was most
a model for our epoch. Especially the scientific thinker of
of those thinkers who can best stimulate us theosophically. A
Let us think often of the object which has brought us

Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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error are to be indicated. The sceptic thinks that only those
who can think well and logically, can also correctly judge
definite religious belief, he thinks something which could be

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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think greatly influenced the course of our Middle European
specific form. Today it is possible to think of Anthroposophy or
Spiritual Science in various ways. Men do not always think in
evolutionary forces at work in man, but they think in conformity with
another would like to think of as Anthroposophy, something which his
think and to feel during recent centuries, and what it is that they
when Socrates first wrested scientific thinking from the old unified
may acknowledge that the thinking which has inspired our work for
many years, the thinking which has always been present with us as a
foodstuffs and thinking through the instrument of the brain were not
still felt at that time that thinking was alive there, that hope was
will not think it inappropriate or too personal if again this year I
sort of performance which will finally emerge. We think of the
beautiful harmony between their spiritual thinking and their purely
fully achieved, how one can think of the future development of
should be spoken by anyone not of our way of thinking, even though

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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shortsighted to think that the human being was always formed as he is
modern man can scarcely believe it. Think of all that I have told you

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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manner of thinking if we are to enter deeply into the mission of
modern man a whole number of ideas. We think of nature as the
ourselves we can observe that out of a vague, unthinking brooding,
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more
must think with the same attentiveness of the large circle and try to
you have a still weaker impression if you are thinking with the same
think these four impressions together in proportion to their
more or less how it is done. By thinking of the relative sizes of

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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Greek spiritual life. We see that we have to think of the microcosmic
space. If we think of the sovereign ruler of these powers, their
feeling associated with the name Zeus. Similarly, if we think of the
what the Greeks associated with Poseidon; if we think of the forces
closely connected with the environment, so too we must think of the
Think how closely the experiences of our ego are bound up with our
we may expect him to think of the divinity who represented to him the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch, and so on.’ To do so would be to think

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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forces of the physical body ... so that one has to think of these
work in the analysis and combination of substances, and then think of
long as human beings in general, could think of this soul as confined to
bottom he also is maya, and it is sheer illusion to think
Picture to yourselves this sensation, think to yourselves that the
feeling is to be in accordance with the truth, it will have to think
will have to think that there moves a being outside in space who is
fantastic—consider this in its concrete reality. Think of this

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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possible to think and feel in an entirely different manner from the
aspect. Abstract logic, abstract intellectual thinking, is always
world we do not see their egos. If anyone thinks he can see egos he
because there is so much unclear thinking, that what I mean by the
consciousness. We must not think of the ego of which ordinary
then, but also half seriously, I ask how we have to think of Adam and

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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human being could never attain to knowledge if he did not think, if
thinking. Knowledge does not come of itself. The human being has to
happens in our souls in the forming of ideas and in thinking, the
A man who claims that the brain thinks, a man who professes that the
reflecting bodily organism, primarily the brain, he would still think
understand thinking is about as clever as looking into a mirror to
cognition, we have to say: ‘No part of what thinking is,
at all — it would be nonsense to think that they do —
it is the habit of the soul to think and to apply the judgments of
knowledge an exceptionally able thinker. People come and say:
obviously knows how to think scientifically in the modern sense of
represented by tradition, and we have in particular to think of those
obliged to think of him as ugly. But we should be wrong to think of
surprising to the man who only thinks abstractly; this is especially
abstract thinker must sometimes be overcome with astonishment when he

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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not surrender to the feeling which overtakes you when you think how
think himself as good as is his idea of a good man.
towards the head, however much we tried to think about the world and
only be able to think thoughts connected with the inner needs of his
body. For example he would be able to think, ‘Now I am hungry,
able to think thoughts connected with his own bodily needs, he would
idea of this secondary stream if you think of the air, the atmosphere
soul: it thinks. What does it mean, to think? It means to bring
about thoughts. Thinking is a process which goes on in us, and while
Imagine that we were not just to think thoughts, but that with each

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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animals. We have to think of the spiritual forces as working
have to think of forces entering into man and fashioning him from
Now if we think of
Greek sculptors were conditioned to think of the auras of their

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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compared with that of the Greeks, we think in a very different
sensible, he will in future think much the same of what today counts
error to think that the faculty of speech is formed through the
for then one is thinking-out a theory of the universe, and a
whatsoever. We think it out — and yet feel it has nothing to do
may seem to the humanity of the present day to think of a Christian

Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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need. For whatever we may think about a great many of the
trends in the art of recent times, whatever we may think
nothing to do with art — whatever we may think about all

Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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the tendency which makes a man think realistically or
full of reality than ordinary thinking, is born from feeling
introduces into his buildings, by means of the thinking that
shadowy thinking of ordinary life, he feels related to these
the clairvoyant develops a new kind of thinking that is to
architect thinks and which he elaborates: Thinking as it is
thinking that is active in seership embraces space within its
senses, but that he must develop and elaborate this thinking
between numbers as they exist in his thinking; hence, in his
thinking, he feels related with what the architect creates.
forms. An activity of intellect is born, which thinks in
nature of the seer's thinking and new life of feeling, by
with his different kind of thinking and perception, the seer
because most people think in words and cannot conceive of
think always of the ordinary meaning of words, they find it
envisage this by thinking of the art of music,. While a man
study, but it is quite erroneous to think that there must be
control the breathing. Think of this in connection with what
Think now of
in thinking about super-sensible science and knowledge people

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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existence if we think of it as an interweaving, an interpenetration,
of water, air and fire. Let us think of spirit, in the form of
think of this activity, which man can only perform with his mental
images, but think of it now as a real, cosmic, creative activity.
thinking, try to imagine cosmic thinking-then you have the content of
the second word of Genesis, bara. However spiritually you may think
Instead of one human soul, think of a multiplicity of reflecting
desire. Thus instead of thinking of the musing' human soul, we think
stimulation, which is permeated with inner activity. Let us think of
musing home to us. Then let us think that through this creative
begin with, only as an ideal. Now think of a group of spiritual
words. Then let us forget all that a man of today can think and feel

Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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science.” I am thinking more of people in the outside world
think of all these streams of force as filled with the three
called up in our own souls. Thus we may think of the Elohim as
detail. But we shall never be able to think of it in the right way
soul-spiritual of the Elohim. But we must not think of the Elohim as
the very matter of their cogitation. So we must not think of them as
in the case of man; and it would be a great mistake to think of
almost nothing. We can only understand the word if we think of a hen
help to bring out the meaning.) And if you think of the energy of
you think of this, you have a picture of what is meant by the words:
have to think of the earth-sphere as enclosed within the Sun, forming
with the haschamayim we must not think only of the light,
Let us think of what we have called tohu wabohu in its
us think of it in its light-forsaken darkness. And then let us think
So we must think of
think of this whole cosmos as their body, and the elementary
body; of the warmth as a somewhat higher form; and we must think of
elements. Thus, if you think of the haschamayim as the head
he organises himself. When we think of all the streams of energy
is what makes him man. Think of the form of the animal and ask
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Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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mineral form. But in saying this we must not think of the mineral of
think of the forces which send blossoms up and roots down, weaving in
poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
of plant life on the third “day” of creation unless you think

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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think they are able to refute it do not yet understand it. Time will
think of it as much more spiritual — or perhaps better say more
activity of the Elohim is four stages higher than human thinking, it

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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the development of our planet. As we have often said, we must think
think out the two complexes from what has remained over from the
that we develop in our thinking and feeling, all the ebb and flow of
not think of those processes of destruction, which take place in our
commentators, some exegetists, who have begun to think. But at the
it is the wretched lot of commentators that they begin to think, but
cannot think anything through to the end. I have known some of these

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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visible course of our earth's evolution. Only after that do we think
think that such Beings as the Spirits of Will finished their work at
must certainly think of the cosmic act of meditation of the Elohim
their musing we have to think of the Spirits of Will at work, now
who thinks in this way forgets that through countless ages high,
We must not think
devices it is all right. But when men think that they have discovered
think of the progressive development of the Elohim as analogous to

Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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immediately think of evolution as an ascent from the condition of the
make a great mistake if he were straightway to think that what he
in luminous colour. If he were then to think to himself “there
between Moon and earth, as there is today. We have to think of the
it. It would be superficial to think, because the angels underwent
word “beauty” we are thinking most truly when we hold

Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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think of the physical, earthly man of today much in the same way as
we think of a small quantity of water which we cool down and allow to
solidify into ice. We have to think of the soul-spiritual man as
“day” we have to think of man as advancing to the stage
too much inclined to think materialistically. Hence he at once thinks
to think away all the solid part of you, all the fluid, all the
understand his own origin until he makes up his mind to think of his
we think of man at that moment as consisting only of warmth and air
is alien to present-day consciousness to think in this way, but it is
“days” of creation, we have to think of man as a being
occurred to anyone in the early centuries of the Middle Ages to think

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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During Lemuria we must think of the earth
as the third “day” of creation we must not think that the
earth would become if the moon forces were still in it, think of a

Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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of the Elohim to become JahveElohim. We had to think of this advance
from outside. Thus we must think of the process of the moon's
evolution is very complicated. We must think of all that happened on
the six “days” of creation, that is to say, we must think
of itself. An inexperienced person often thinks, when confronted with
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture I
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removed from what present day man can feel or think. But when the soul
soul itself is to modern man. You cannot think the story of the
Eleusinian Mystery, I could not help thinking how thankful we may be
with the Eleusinian Mystery. I should never think of saying that
our work, we may mention Fraulein von Eckardstein. Then I think with

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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purified, intuitive brain-thinking, and regulated spiritual working in
When we learn this fact, and think of the great difference between the
true idea of the course of human evolution may be gained by thinking

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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poisonous. We maintain that it is part of sound thinking in the life
the moral world it is certainly true that if we think of the
think and feel and will, it always necessitates a certain activity of

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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we think, we have an idea, one thought suggests another, and we
one will always find it possible to say, “I think this, I feel
When thinking, we lose the sensation of being within ourselves, and we
permeated with thoughts that think themselves. That arises as an
thoughts were thinking themselves, as if the feelings we ourselves
feeling that, as we expand and widen out, and our thoughts think
words we might say, “It does not like me; it does not think me
strengthening of our attitude of soul through thinking, by meditation,

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Let us assume that you sit down somewhere and instead of thinking
laboriously of some special thing, you set yourself to think about
you, of which, to start with, you were not thinking at all. It may
thinks itself in me.” The beings experience themselves, and you
always think of it as a self-enclosed, round world. Such a being would
these things one is fully justified in thinking them strange. But we
ego that you as thinker bear to memories of life in the world of the
thoroughly assimilated certain important and outstanding facts, think
attention, and to go on thinking about it in life. It is interesting
right to think that we must turn our back on Lucifer as from one whom
existence has acquired meaning. Do you think it unnatural that when he

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to light? This happens the moment we think how necessary it is for
hardly think I shall meet with much opposition if I say that the
before your souls by yet another example how differently we must think

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healthy, comprehensive, all-round thinking that leads to the
Oriental, or any other man who is not of the West, to think
Threshold, “Thinking has a purifying force.” This
purifying force of thinking really works in such a way that it leads
thinking has this purifying force. There is, however, something
strange about the occult nature of thinking. A materialistic science
imagines that man thinks with his brain; that is simply an error. If
you will also understand that the process and activity of thinking,
In truth, in ordinary life, also, man thinks with his etheric body,
knowledge of the activity that takes place within him when he thinks
with his etheric body. Fundamentally, man is always thinking; his
constitutes thinking. But, of all this activity in the etheric body,
etheric body, which actually does the thinking, may know something of
this thinking. The brain itself, however, does not think, nor does the
physical body. This thinking has its seat in the etheric body, and
what a man perceives in his brain is just as little his thinking as

Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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himself with anthroposophy as a thinking human being must put this
brain thinks, but: I think, I feel, I know this or that.” Thus he
a materialistic theory. One cannot remain truthful, if one thinks
science, which indeed, as such, must think materialistically,
instinctively feels, when he says: I think? Solely and alone through
consider in what one can call the mode of thinking, the method of
that one materialises what exists spiritually in a mood if one thinks
That is what I should like to call the most material way of thinking
possible. Materialism has even got by the neck those who want to think
a kind of tyrant for human thinking, has implanted in the soul a
begins to think, no longer with the physical brain, but with the soul,
really lives in the spiritual world. As long as one thinks with the
It is now the task of the anthroposophical way of thinking — and
these anthroposophical thoughts and way of thinking man develops this
Do not think that through mere visionary clairvoyance one acquires the
think, feel, will, and act. That will be felt as a fall, a falling
idea, then we must be clear, that it would be fantastic to think that

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Yet one thing could strike human thinking, unless it tries today to
reverence, unthinkable today, for the great Christ Event through the
thinking. But it is nevertheless a truth, and one may make the demand,

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each one thinks he must write something, when everything becomes an
The German alone thinks no more of this, that in the Greek
to the astral body, various forces. We usually call them thinking,
feeling, and willing. The soul thinks, feels, and wills. Those are the
whether his thinking, feeling, willing was called) — these single
in the old sense: the divine spiritual thinks, feels, wills in me, but
I think, I feel, I will: The Lord makes itself
can come in, so that it is not the slave of thinking, feeling, and
where our eyes think they see a man. Just try and take this expression

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture II
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and its spiritual thinking in the right way. If something wrong is
physical methods in our period of human evolution. Anyone who thinks
respect hold out a prospect of the highest that we can think of for

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thinking about the nature of conscience; they recognise as a kind of
metamorphosis of the first. Everything that a man thinks and feels
separating the moon from the earth, made thinking, feeling, willing,

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think, in view of the fact that justice is universal, that although
the point at issue here is that of raising a mode of thinking to a

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in the inner life of the soul, thinking, feeling, sensations, as also
perceptions, feelings, will, his thinking and the development of his

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development of Christianity think quite differently. They say that
they do not wish to be the egoists who think that the Gospels suffice

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thinking will be fundamentally unable to understand this; only
concrete and spiritually realistic thinking dealing with facts would
brain. Think this over a little, and it will become evident that
moves just as does the air outside. But the realistic thinker sees a
is non-existent for the realistic thinker. Sense perception by means
whole event; he belongs to the twelve that are not thinkable without

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in order to bring about the separation of the moon; and if we think
post-Atlantean epoch of civilisation man was able to think and feel
being, and think of the Ego as this divine being, and of the members
feeling and thinking of ancient Indian times. Even if we only find a
character of feeling and thinking, of the quite different attitude to
eyes or hear with ears, or think with the physical organ of
thoughts which men may think or have thought, but thoughts according
need of logical thinking. Why must we think logically? For the reason
that we must find truth through logical thinking, because we might
three hundred years. A man of the present day would think he
hundred years; he would think he knew a good deal even if he had
must not think that we already possess them, we must clearly realise
avoid thinking, if we take life too easily and decline to seek the
environment. It was a process resembling man's present thinking

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declaration was not an arbitrary yield of human thinking; but the

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said, “In your thinking world-thoughts are weaving . . .”

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his thinking, it is equally true that through experiences of the kind
birth we find that essentially three forces — of thinking, of
The forces of thinking or of the intellect express themselves in such
more we endeavor to think clearly and truly during our physical
true action and thinking in times to come. These studies are part of

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wanders in even greater darkness. One might well despair and think
in their thinking of going beyond certain limits, who are as if
Liberal Thinking Calendar of the Free-Thinkers (Freidenkerkalender)
There can be no doubt that adherents of the free-thinker movement
outside. The good free-thinking preacher would also have to forbid
thinks it through it simply does not hold. This is a typical example
with enthusiasm, be it only in the sphere of thinking. This is reason
pursue his life totally unaware that he can in fact think and feel in

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think of how he painted it, we gain a definite impression. It is

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you will think back to the dramatic scenes we have had before us
The flames are nearing — nearing with my thinking
A heated battle nears — and my own thinking
within another soul my thinking fights. —
the power of thinking, with which one feels so confidently connected
away, of one' s thinking moving away, if one is to live through again
The flames are fleeing ... fleeing with my thinking;
a furious battle ... my own thinking fights ...
my thinking wavers, reels ... cold light ...
it strikes out of my thinking flaming waves of darkness ...
one can say, that prevails in all intellectual thinking, in the whole
different. Modern civilization is such that people think that the
about the ahrimanic element in the world may be able to think of
be thinking, too, but in a different frame of mind. There will be
people who think themselves supremely clever, reckoning what they

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place, he can so far overdo that he sets to work on human thinking. A
upon human thinking in a very real way — nevertheless, he does!
Insofar as human thinking lives in the sense world, it is bound to
loosen this human thinking from its mortal instrument, the brain, in
thinking directed to the sense world from the physical brain, into
whose current of decay this thinking should merge when the human
snatch his thinking out of the current of decay. Throughout a man's
whole life Ahriman is always fastening his claws into this thinking
activity and working on the human being so that his thinking will
way in human thinking and because men bound to the sense world
their thinking out of its place in the great cosmic order. The result
apply their thinking only to the sense world, and the people who
obsessed by Ahriman: it is he who enters their thinking and prevails
the physical thinking from its brain-bound foundation, he throws
Unremittingly he lies in wait when man's thinking is
snatch away and hold back as much of this thinking as possible, and
offer. We need merely to think of what humanity has been seeking as
luciferic powers to free his thinking from a mere photograph-like
more to do with our thinking, Lucifer with the feelings, with the
thinking to the physical sense world and make shadows and phantoms of
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thinking he can dip down into other beings and happenings. For the
the faculty of transformation: thinking or imagination; for the
We must further consider that when thinking develops
right and healthy for the physical world. What is thinking like in
our thinking must become from what it is here. Imagine sticking your
head into an anthill, while your thinking comes to a stop — you
world our thinking can be completely stupid and this does not harm us
at all. But if we do foolish things with our thinking in the
the elemental world and failed to develop in ourselves sound thinking
thinking in the physical sense world is really only the external
shadowy imprint, called up by the physical body, of the thinking
thinking as a shadow on the wall relates to the objects casting it.
instrumentality of the physical body. When we think, our thinking
spiritual knowledge throws new light on the true nature of thinking.
anything of the real nature of thinking; only a knowledge based on

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someone thinks about it who is quite well-intentioned. A book
using the thinking habits of today, becomes foolish. I do not mean
thinking, feeling and willing of the physical plane and indeed, even
the thinking, feeling and willing related to it, there is simply
what we experience in the physical world through willing, thinking,
Our thinking in the physical world resembles

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different things: First, consider human thinking, human concepts, the
think and to try to explain things to himself in complete solitude.
For this he doesn't need another person. In fact, he can think best
thoughts, and thus there will come to every individual thinker the
out of soul sensitivity as a luciferic thrust into his thinking. A
because a person separates himself with this kind of thinking from
nature of lonely, personal, inner thinking, said, Now let us look at
of the physical world and isolate them. This solitary thinking,
is alive in human thinking as it goes toward destruction and to
the Word. Here we cannot be alone as with our thinking, for through
the spoken word we live in a community of people. Solitary thinking
recognizes the fact of Lucifer's influence on thinking and Ahriman's
would not do away with isolated thinking but, realizing that the
Ahriman uses to detach thinking from its course toward destruction;
this is his task. He wants to hold thinking back from flowing into
the right — both in our thinking and in our writing — the
thinking, mental images, or ideas. First of all you have mental
introspectively. Others don't like to think but will go around
in lonely thinking there lies the luciferic attraction, whereas in
at abstract, introspective thinking wherein we shut ourselves away
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physical world as well as everything we ordinarily think, feel, and
everything on the physical plan that thinking, feeling and willing
thinking, and willing as they meet us on the physical plane have any
on meeting your other self. You no longer think then of your human
accustomed not to perceive or think or feel or will in the spirit
can no longer see nor hear, no longer are able, to think or feel or

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thinking, feeling, and will, which we say are inside us, are now no
longer within us. The thinking, feeling, and will we have in the
further aware that what is called thinking, feeling and will is maya,
experienced the presence of all three, with thinking, feeling, and

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only the right kind of thinking and the sensitivity to such people
will think back over the last three or four weeks — or better
present so-called culture. Clear, awakened thinking about this

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think at first of the fact that someone really feels pain and
Even many theosophists think of spirit as finely-divided
Materialistic thinking and spiritual scientific thinking have a
question of the significance of materialistic thinking and of
spiritual scientific thinking have more than a theoretical
scientific thinking, the one works to desolate, the other to
to be understood? This can best be learned from thinking about
abstract, dull, inadequate concepts. This thinking is to be
would not, for example, as is often the case, think he detected

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beneficence. Indeed, there lies in this way of thinking about
fever thinks all people should breathe. So for this a cure gets
bearable as possible. Think of a plant, the stem of which is
thinking and healthy feeling spirit. He tells us how the

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allow it to flow into general culture. And if we think about this
grasping the Rosicrucian wisdom with their thinking have simply not
Just think of the tremendous popularisation of wisdom that has taken
fourteenth century. Think of the relation of a human being then living
Think only of what has been achieved by the art of printing. Think of
physical body, which everyone thinks he knows all about but in reality
means of an example. Think of some particular part of the astral body.

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cosmos. Think of a rainbow. If a rainbow is to appear, there must be a
We can form a still clearer conception if we think about the mineral
forces. If you could think away the physical body, the etheric body
have given the physical heart its form. If you could think away the physical
found on the astral plane. We must not think here of the single animal
And now we will think of that which man no longer has in common with
the world around him; we will think of the “ I ”, the ego.
upon the astral body and working upon the etheric body. Think of what
had a violent temper as a child and then thinks of how far this

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astral body. This constitutes the actual feeling and thinking part of
the transmitter, the instrument. Thinking and willing take place in
body to the great astral ocean, think of one drop of a liquid in a
multitude of spiritual Beings. Think, for example, of a physical human
a picture of it when we think of the diffusion of the blood in the
confront one another full of opposing passions. Think of all this

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differently. Think, for example, of a boy in ancient Rome. His life

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child learn to think together, when they share experiences in common,
the qualities of phantasy or imagination, of thinking. The latter

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conditions and subsequent effects, we are thinking in line with this
if we think of the consequences of human deeds, thoughts and feelings.
meaning that we can think what we like and nobody in the external
materialistic thinker.
man, but he thinks that a thought of hatred which he may harbour
stone. Everything that a man thinks and feels has its effects in the
clairvoyant sees that everything a man thinks, feels and experiences
thinker. What this materialistically minded author says here has long
the tendency to think along particular lines, works upon the physical
this kind of thinking to his physical body and in the next incarnation
necessity of allowing the inflow of spiritual ways of thinking.
materialistic thinking will give rise to grave nervous diseases; there

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construction of the brain is not, as many people think, necessary for
mathematicians. Thinking, logic, is the same in the mathematician as

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think of this substance of Saturn as being as dense as the present
speak of man's passing through the mineral kingdom, we must not think

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sleep condition, a darkening, a dormant period. You must not think,
think of a passage in Goethe's Faust; it is where he wants to

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somewhat abstract idea today. Many think nowadays that the individual
our abstract objective thinking, since it is written as out of the
present day materialistic thinker. He had more or less the development
Now if you think that everything which on Saturn formed a kind of
thinking, was not yet in existence. On the other hand man had

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powerfully in the region of the forehead. Now we must think of a point
written in the Sibylline Books. Think it out: you find in the names of

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higher a man develops the freer he will be. Nor must one think that it
highest wisdom.” That arises from the mistake of thinking one
Do you think that the child knows all the grammatical rules of speech
through a thinking trained in the occult and spiritual sense, will
heart and the larynx. What humanity thinks today, that will it be in
the future. A humanity that thinks materialistically will produce
frightful beings in the future, and a humanity that thinks spiritual
race-evolution. Do not think that if races pass over to a grotesque
form that the soul too does the same. All materialistically thinking
as the great task of mankind. He thinks of it as inseparable from

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not exist without the lower, and if the plant could think, it would
a soul that is no longer dependent on thinking through the instrument
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.
Initiates have always exercised this kind of thinking in regard to the
of the Rosicrucian Initiation. People think often enough that it is
must accustom himself to the kind of thinking in which one thought
proceeds from another. A thinking of this nature is developed in my
knowledge. If you think over various things that I have touched upon
When we are able to think thus, we are treading the Rosicrucian path.
all. If you think in the manner of modern thought then you can take

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world thinks about this question. One could quote the most varying
clear to us if we think of human nature as the working together
our physical organs of sense is an idea widely held today. A thinker
would come to experience how impossible it is to think away the

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they have imprinted into their brains, and their thinking is stiff,
and is therefore fresh and green. Think of the etheric body of
today in which we may read that the human being learns first to think
clearly if we think of the early Indian civilisation-epoch. The most
thinking. The process of destruction was once introduced and as a

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body only. Everyone who thinks rationally recognizes something about
ourselves: we must think of Original Sin as a destiny of man, as
understanding why it is so is to think of the following.
phase of evolution begins to function, when men give up thinking, ‘How
thinking. All that materialism can understand, and readily understand,

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who think thus concerning Christ will worship and extol ... the

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way — he does not attain it through logical thinking,
stage in life and he then thinks about this, he may say to
think that you cannot understand; you say it because you fail
understand — but you do not think about it. It is
things about which we generally grumble and protest, we think
Devachan we need not think that actions which deserve
we think that what is generally considered inadequate in the

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what is more especially within ourselves, and which we must now think

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that through his lively, flexible thinking he can dip down into other
thinking or imagination; for the opposite condition, the will.
our soul life. We must further consider that when thinking develops
right and healthy for the physical world. What is thinking like in
our thinking must become from what it is here. Imagine sticking your
head into an anthill, while your thinking comes to a stop — you
world our thinking can be completely stupid and this does not harm us
at all. But if we do foolish things with our thinking in the
world and failed to develop in ourselves sound thinking with these
that what we know as thinking in the physical sense world is really
the thinking that, lying in occult depths, can be called a true
element of thinking as a shadow on the wall relates to the objects
instrumentality of the physical body. When we think, our thinking
spiritual knowledge throws new light on the true nature of thinking.
anything of the real nature of thinking; only a knowledge based on

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the modern sense because the whole mode of thinking in terms
think today, and this is what children in school learn from
perhaps be at variance with the ego itself. Think of Francis

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man's life. We think of human character as having a basic consistency.
and that something has gone wrong if their thinking, feeling and doing do not
think of founding a phrenology on general principles. Anyone who knows about

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soul-substance, so to speak. We must certainly not think of the soul
rational thinking. For example, suppose we have a rose before us. We perceive
connection by 19th century philosophy. We need think only of Schopenhauer,

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of thinking, feeling and willing; the soul thinks, feels and
thinks, feels and wills in me’, but rather: ‘I
think, I feel, I will.’ The passage should be rendered
thinking, feeling and willing. Lo, the power that is the
nothing but maya. Where we think we see a man there are
Now think of
Finally, think of a third Persian, or one of whom we should

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dogma, when in fact they are extremely dogmatic. They think they are
been superseded. People who think in a monistic way are only held
Facts of real life can show us this. There are many people who think
thinking, and it is therefore not possible on this basis to turn it
difficult thoughts and think to such an extent that we get tired, then
thinking, of intellectuality. This is why the abstract sciences are
in the materialistic thinking of the world and in Spiritual Science.
Thinking this through logically you will realise the logic in this

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this or that blow of fate and, thinking back says to himself:
think in regard to what we usually murmur and rebel against:
without thinking that behind the facts of nature are spiritual
devachanic world. Therefore one need not think that in this

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concentration of thinking, of imagining, of feeling or also
everything that the reason can think, and all soul forces are
psychology, bring forward can think very easily — and
the soul is quite empty, thinks nothing, feels nothing,
People think very frequently that spiritual research is done so
thinks logically in the usual world will also find the right
usual world and thinks illogically will think even more
brainlessly and illogically if he applies his thinking to the
outer life, life itself controls and corrects. If we think
manifolds in the mathematical thinking. If anybody is familiar

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is not only desirable indeed in every area of thinking and life
the medium the usual thinking and feeling stop and an
itself by such a person what he/she thinks, what he/she has in
thinking developed, what has induced me, for example, to follow
certain life direction has induced one to think just in such a
with common sense. It is true that someone who can think well
cannot think logically describes everything that he beholds
mostly after long straining thinking, as if they stood beside
“mostly after long straining thinking” —
concentrated thinking, feeling, maybe also of willing. Hence,

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concepts demand a greater exertion of thinking, a greater intensity of
and our thinking. By perceiving the external world through our senses,
are also awake, although to a lesser degree, in thinking, visualizing.
the processes of perception and thinking.
You know, however, that besides perception and thinking, our soul life
organism? We know what we think about willing, but willing
Through perception and thinking we learn to know a world around us
world, just as our perception and thinking originate in the physical
bodily organs for perception and thinking. Many physiologists believe
think do not believe this.
perception and thinking, but asleep in regard to feeling and willing.
thinking, although sleep is a different state in the world in which we
People think they understand social-historical life. They do not
How often today do we hear people say: we must think thus and so about
become aware of such things we need a certain wakefulness of thinking.
Wakefulness of thinking is a faculty which has never been lacking to
This is a trivial example, but an example which shows you how thinking
“direction”! People who think like this are in a position to
that exist between such crippled thinking and the public life.
thinking which is a mark of our culture. To have thoughts that can be
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We must not think of world events following one another in continuous
must think of the course of events as of a pair of scales in full
I shall express myself more explicitly. There are two ways of thinking
may present a program, may form programmatical concepts; we can think
Even our thinking may be materialistic. It is a materialistic thought
natural-scientific thinker. The author states: I am a psychologist, a
Now, you will think it dreadful that such things are written. But I do
not find it dreadful at all. I think it is self-evident and quite
impossible to think about soul-pathology as modern psychiatrist do and
their thinking were lessened by the influence of the spiritual world.
audacity, in perceiving, in thinking; an audacity that does not dull

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or the various kingdoms of nature around one. If we wanted to think
people only know lions as a multiplicity. They can't think of them as
several times to do this, but don't think that it's easy to write

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by not giving in to the inspirations that one thinks that one is
on asking: Should I think that what I see, hear or feel there is of
soul's immortality, since they think that it's the soul as it's
thing on this difficult path if we think of the simple but profound

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meditation that bother and disturb us. If we would think about it we
“good Christian” but who thinks that the matter is very
condition in which his physical brain was unsuited for thinking
should give the materialists who consider thinking to be a
function of the brain much to think about. Darwin also travelled a

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become conscious because they keep on thinking that the
a balloon and thinks that he can get out up there at any time and
the question: What is thinking really? What thinks in me? A
says: The body, the brain thinks. But one should ask him: Have you
ever perceived thinking with your senses? Of course he hasn't. No one
has ever heard or seen or felt thinking as warmth or the like.
sense perceptible. And so thinking is super-sensible. So the
he should give up thinking because it's an absurdity — which
our thinking, but in such a way that we don't experience it. With
man's thinking it's as if someone went out to sea but didn't see
thoughts we experience are reflections of thinking in the body. Just
as someone facing a mirror sees his reflection, so a thinking soul
sees the mirror image of its thinking. The brain is a mirror.
esoteric training a man is supposed to experience thinking and not
he experiences himself in the world from which thinking
can understand this existence if he uses his thinking properly.
experiencing thinking and the super-sensible world to a knowing
thinking and feeling flow out. One experiences pleasure and pain in
good, right and true things that he thinks stream out from him. He
thinks and feels also grow out like this. He really feels them
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this regularly. Many will think that they already understand this
accessible to us. We often think that we have already eradicated a
forget in everyday life that things and qualities that we think are

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a man understand all of theosophy's teachings through thinking,

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divine beings. Everything that we think, feel and will in the way of
bad we are. We're really a lot worse than we usually think.
Deceptions in clairvoyance can easily occur at first. One thinks that
sounds that one thinks one hears; beings who want to pull a meditator

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first thought should be to think thankfully about sublime beings.
esoteric pupil who thinks that he's already gotten rid of
thinking — if it's unsubjective.

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Now some of you may think
and he should think seriously about what he did wrong. One should
feel the same after a mediation as before it. We should think about
We must learn to think
objectively. Those who say that they're already thinking
open intellect, clear thinking and sharp logic. We shouldn't
open-minded thinking, if it is only opened far enough. You

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arms and think of a circle going all around from head to fingertips
intellectual, thinking part of the astral body expands out of the

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following. We often think that enthusiasm is driving us into
think. If we exercise with real joy, it's a big help in
pressing into spiritual worlds. For we should think of the spiritual
we're often not thinking about our work. And the being who has to make

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that we have applied to this. One might think that one gets ahead

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general, it would be good if people would chatter less and think more
devoted himself to esoteric life to think of leaving it for an
etheric body more than anything else Even thinking about it hinders

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important to let our soul rest in the meditation than to think about

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us to which we can apply the mantric words: It thinks me. If
we say or think these words in everyday life whenever we have a quiet
life. But we must strictly observe one thing. When we say or think
that what thinks in us is related to the I, that the sublime beings
who gave it to us are thinking in us. This is clarified for exoterics
in our third mystery drama in the words: In your thinking world
It works me. We should think and say them with a feeling of
should always say and think this with a feeling of deep thankfulness
not thinking it — it thinks me. Just as we dive into our bodies

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existence if we think of it as an interweaving, an interpenetration,
of water, air and fire. Let us think of spirit, in the form of
think of this activity, which man can only perform with his mental
images, but think of it now as a real, cosmic, creative activity.
thinking, try to imagine cosmic thinking-then you have the content of
the second word of Genesis, bara. However spiritually you may think
Instead of one human soul, think of a multiplicity of reflecting
desire. Thus instead of thinking of the musing' human soul, we think
stimulation, which is permeated with inner activity. Let us think of
musing home to us. Then let us think that through this creative
begin with, only as an ideal. Now think of a group of spiritual
words. Then let us forget all that a man of today can think and feel

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science.” I am thinking more of people in the outside world
think of all these streams of force as filled with the three
called up in our own souls. Thus we may think of the Elohim as
detail. But we shall never be able to think of it in the right way
soul-spiritual of the Elohim. But we must not think of the Elohim as
the very matter of their cogitation. So we must not think of them as
in the case of man; and it would be a great mistake to think of
almost nothing. We can only understand the word if we think of a hen
help to bring out the meaning.) And if you think of the energy of
you think of this, you have a picture of what is meant by the words:
have to think of the earth-sphere as enclosed within the Sun, forming
with the haschamayim we must not think only of the light,
Let us think of what we have called tohu wabohu in its
us think of it in its light-forsaken darkness. And then let us think
So we must think of
think of this whole cosmos as their body, and the elementary
body; of the warmth as a somewhat higher form; and we must think of
elements. Thus, if you think of the haschamayim as the head
he organises himself. When we think of all the streams of energy
is what makes him man. Think of the form of the animal and ask
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mineral form. But in saying this we must not think of the mineral of
think of the forces which send blossoms up and roots down, weaving in
poverty-stricken, abstract thinking of today, plant species are just
of plant life on the third “day” of creation unless you think

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think they are able to refute it do not yet understand it. Time will
think of it as much more spiritual — or perhaps better say more
activity of the Elohim is four stages higher than human thinking, it

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the development of our planet. As we have often said, we must think
think out the two complexes from what has remained over from the
that we develop in our thinking and feeling, all the ebb and flow of
not think of those processes of destruction, which take place in our
commentators, some exegetists, who have begun to think. But at the
it is the wretched lot of commentators that they begin to think, but
cannot think anything through to the end. I have known some of these

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visible course of our earth's evolution. Only after that do we think
think that such Beings as the Spirits of Will finished their work at
must certainly think of the cosmic act of meditation of the Elohim
their musing we have to think of the Spirits of Will at work, now
who thinks in this way forgets that through countless ages high,
We must not think
devices it is all right. But when men think that they have discovered
think of the progressive development of the Elohim as analogous to

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immediately think of evolution as an ascent from the condition of the
make a great mistake if he were straightway to think that what he
in luminous colour. If he were then to think to himself “there
between Moon and earth, as there is today. We have to think of the
it. It would be superficial to think, because the angels underwent
word “beauty” we are thinking most truly when we hold

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think of the physical, earthly man of today much in the same way as
we think of a small quantity of water which we cool down and allow to
solidify into ice. We have to think of the soul-spiritual man as
“day” we have to think of man as advancing to the stage
too much inclined to think materialistically. Hence he at once thinks
to think away all the solid part of you, all the fluid, all the
understand his own origin until he makes up his mind to think of his
we think of man at that moment as consisting only of warmth and air
is alien to present-day consciousness to think in this way, but it is
“days” of creation, we have to think of man as a being
occurred to anyone in the early centuries of the Middle Ages to think

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During Lemuria we must think of the earth
as the third “day” of creation we must not think that the
earth would become if the moon forces were still in it, think of a

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of the Elohim to become JahveElohim. We had to think of this advance
from outside. Thus we must think of the process of the moon's
evolution is very complicated. We must think of all that happened on
the six “days” of creation, that is to say, we must think
of itself. An inexperienced person often thinks, when confronted with
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that

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think greatly influenced the course of our Middle European
specific form. Today it is possible to think of Anthroposophy or
Spiritual Science in various ways. Men do not always think in
evolutionary forces at work in man, but they think in conformity with
another would like to think of as Anthroposophy, something which his
think and to feel during recent centuries, and what it is that they
when Socrates first wrested scientific thinking from the old unified
may acknowledge that the thinking which has inspired our work for
many years, the thinking which has always been present with us as a
foodstuffs and thinking through the instrument of the brain were not
still felt at that time that thinking was alive there, that hope was
will not think it inappropriate or too personal if again this year I
sort of performance which will finally emerge. We think of the
beautiful harmony between their spiritual thinking and their purely
fully achieved, how one can think of the future development of
should be spoken by anyone not of our way of thinking, even though

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shortsighted to think that the human being was always formed as he is
modern man can scarcely believe it. Think of all that I have told you

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manner of thinking if we are to enter deeply into the mission of
modern man a whole number of ideas. We think of nature as the
ourselves we can observe that out of a vague, unthinking brooding,
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more
must think with the same attentiveness of the large circle and try to
you have a still weaker impression if you are thinking with the same
think these four impressions together in proportion to their
more or less how it is done. By thinking of the relative sizes of

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Greek spiritual life. We see that we have to think of the microcosmic
space. If we think of the sovereign ruler of these powers, their
feeling associated with the name Zeus. Similarly, if we think of the
what the Greeks associated with Poseidon; if we think of the forces
closely connected with the environment, so too we must think of the
Think how closely the experiences of our ego are bound up with our
we may expect him to think of the divinity who represented to him the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch, and so on.’ To do so would be to think

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forces of the physical body ... so that one has to think of these
work in the analysis and combination of substances, and then think of
long as human beings in general, could think of this soul as confined to
bottom he also is maya, and it is sheer illusion to think
Picture to yourselves this sensation, think to yourselves that the
feeling is to be in accordance with the truth, it will have to think
will have to think that there moves a being outside in space who is
fantastic—consider this in its concrete reality. Think of this

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possible to think and feel in an entirely different manner from the
aspect. Abstract logic, abstract intellectual thinking, is always
world we do not see their egos. If anyone thinks he can see egos he
because there is so much unclear thinking, that what I mean by the
consciousness. We must not think of the ego of which ordinary
then, but also half seriously, I ask how we have to think of Adam and

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human being could never attain to knowledge if he did not think, if
thinking. Knowledge does not come of itself. The human being has to
happens in our souls in the forming of ideas and in thinking, the
A man who claims that the brain thinks, a man who professes that the
reflecting bodily organism, primarily the brain, he would still think
understand thinking is about as clever as looking into a mirror to
cognition, we have to say: ‘No part of what thinking is,
at all — it would be nonsense to think that they do —
it is the habit of the soul to think and to apply the judgments of
knowledge an exceptionally able thinker. People come and say:
obviously knows how to think scientifically in the modern sense of
represented by tradition, and we have in particular to think of those
obliged to think of him as ugly. But we should be wrong to think of
surprising to the man who only thinks abstractly; this is especially
abstract thinker must sometimes be overcome with astonishment when he

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not surrender to the feeling which overtakes you when you think how
think himself as good as is his idea of a good man.
towards the head, however much we tried to think about the world and
only be able to think thoughts connected with the inner needs of his
body. For example he would be able to think, ‘Now I am hungry,
able to think thoughts connected with his own bodily needs, he would
idea of this secondary stream if you think of the air, the atmosphere
soul: it thinks. What does it mean, to think? It means to bring
about thoughts. Thinking is a process which goes on in us, and while
Imagine that we were not just to think thoughts, but that with each

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animals. We have to think of the spiritual forces as working
have to think of forces entering into man and fashioning him from
Now if we think of
Greek sculptors were conditioned to think of the auras of their

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compared with that of the Greeks, we think in a very different
sensible, he will in future think much the same of what today counts
error to think that the faculty of speech is formed through the
for then one is thinking-out a theory of the universe, and a
whatsoever. We think it out — and yet feel it has nothing to do
may seem to the humanity of the present day to think of a Christian

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for the etheric body is a pentagram with thinking in the head point,

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think as concretely as possible, and to be as far away as possible
With these words one can think of a distant light tower that radiates

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different things. Some beings don't think and yet are very wise. They
wisdom and love work as thinking, feeling and willing on the next,
lower plane. One who thinks intentively about it will realize that the
I is changed into thinking, wisdom passes over into feeling, and

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us so that in life we like to think back to them and let them form a
just worsen these errors. Instead, he should think about man's

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beings had held back the capacity of individual thinking and speech
thinks, but it's no thinking that he produces himself individually
— instead he takes some of the divine thinking substance that
supposed to acquire their own thinking and language through a reunion

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individual words if we adopt the way of thinking of one who has
think as well as we can now. When we look into the future we find the I in
thinking cannot even imagine. We cannot now imagine the perfection of
thinking, the purity of feeling, and so forth in the future bodies of

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put this fact together with another. We can think of this space as filled
If we think of the numbers being heard by the ear of the spirit, then

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eye is opened. Think of everything that you experience on the astral
it is really only explained by Theosophy. Think of the pathfinder whom
present day evolution is described in the seven letters. We think of
another aspect in another. Think of these regions spread over the earth.
past into the future. What does the writer of the Apocalypse think of

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