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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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the surrounding world. The anthroposophist, however, should not feel

Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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Human Circulation through the Worlds of Sensation, Soul, and
the world's rapidly increasing population does not eat meat, it
place in the physical sense world, is only the external aspect of
to perceive the light-filled world of our surroundings. Light is
incorporated, could not live a full life within the material world.
become correspondingly active in the external world. It is
bound up with, the external world. When a person takes his
the world through our organism and must again rise above it by

Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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physical world, is willing to contemplate with the aid of its
century, something special arose within the world-conception of
when the great ideas of the Central European world-conception had
jump out elastically into the world when the astral body and the Ego
the spiritual world, forms that are needed there, just as machines
spiritual world. What aids these spiritual beings in their work?
we pass through the world as thinking human beings, the Angeloi,
world. Indeed, this would even take on the form of a sphere, it would
indeed! To-day, the ordinary science of the physical world really
external world, as far as its highest regions, cooperates in the
moment designated by me as the world’s midnight hour —
world could be deepened if he would be aware of his position within
world; that is to say, that we can breakfast, etc., and do many
world. The most practical thing is not at all as imagined by those
they need not concern themselves with a spiritual world. They are
... the fact that they look out into the world through their eyes and
was aware of his connection with the spiritual world. This has faded.
soul-element, with the Beings that weave through the world as Spirits
are united with the Beings who weave through the world as spiritual
connected with what weaves and lives in the world.
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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must here give a piece of advice to the educational world, though

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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Visible World.
Visible World.
Elementary Kingdoms belong to what lies behind the world
which we generally perceive — behind the world which
kingdom of the sense-world, which are accessible to human
observation. Here, in the physical sense-world, four kingdoms
be possible within the physical sense-world, for here, things
astral plane, that world which is immediately beyond our own,
no longer holds true, for, in the astral world, there is
the rigid, unchangeable thoughts of the physical world. We
of the higher worlds to a still greater degree. If we
consider the world from a higher standpoint, we find that
emanating from these higher worlds. In everything we see
the beings of the physical world. Observe, for instance, the
only within the physical world. We must know this, in order
body, there, in the astral world. Yet it would not be
shall find it in the astral world — and the Ego, in the
The animal has, in the physical sense-world, a physical body,
group-souls inhabit the physical sense-world. But in the case
are then in the physical world, whereas the astral body and
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Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit,
Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of
Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Souland
Heaven, — from Heaven, through the world, to Hell
supersensuous world to that science. But it must be mentioned
everything in the world, in the final instance, by the
the spiritual regions, the world of the hierarchies, of which
example, I may cite a man who was known to the world for
fructify the thoughts regarding the world, by his own gift of
that which can alone give a comprehensive view of the world
one-sidedness with which the world is continually hedged
Conception of the World,” also the preface to Goethe's
inner life and understanding of the world, he is an example
into the world, — what we have grasped in the breadth
of theosophy can only stream out into the world, when it
itself to others everywhere in the world. In proportion as
you carry out into the world what has been said here, not

Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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knowledge, and the super-sensible worlds. External science
worlds. In this way the soul first comes to Imaginative
out of her depths, believes she may grasp this world of
and lead back this imaginative world arising, into his own
work objectively-spiritually, into the physical world. Let us
from out of those worlds which work down into such persons
pronouncements are obtained concerning world-formations; and
world-evolution. In all these investigations, knowledge must
from an objective world-content. Thus one must seek to regard
as they are led to pronouncements out of the spiritual world,
human nature, in their relationship to spiritual world
for the existence of the spiritual world it suffices to show
consciousness is purely excluded, and in revelations of world
cosmic laws. If now, beings of the super-sensible world are to
instrument can cognize in the surrounding spiritual world in
the spiritual world one can have an idea as to how errors can
even in the physical-sensible world, and this fact can work
shatteringly on entry to the super-sensible world on one who
Thereby diverse standpoints balance themselves in the world.
world, and not be persuaded by what first appears in his
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
ordinary worldly knowledge, but a ‘mediator’; through it
we may indeed rise up into those super-sensible worlds whence
filled with the secrets of the spiritual worlds. This was the
the higher spiritual Beings who direct the super-sensible worlds.
what we are given as dramatic art in the world outside; it is easy to
to us that spiritual forces hold sway in the world, that they help
we direct our gaze into the vast world, and experience what for the

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
world and how cosmic forces appeared to them as actual forms or
reality in the spiritual world which was familiar to men in primeval
human soul, is carried off by Pluto, the god of the underworld. The
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
in such a way that the soul could see into spiritual worlds, today
of the underworld, of the interior of the earth. But the Greek was
world, he saw Demeter; she really came to meet him. When, out of this
spiritual world, this whirling world of constant movement and
spiritual world. The same forces of Nature which have given me my
in the world around me (a plant kingdom quite different from our
Demeter, the fecundating goddess of the whole world, the clairvoyant
who taught him how he had to behave in the world. There were at that
I accomplish something in the world, I do so because forces active in
the plant world without are sent into my brain.’ This Demeter
world. Today the physical body is bound up with external physical
the rape of Persephone by Pluto and her captivity in the nether world
human being did not get to know the world in the way he does today;
spiritual world he saw pictures of spiritual Beings. Man saw around
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
completely different view of the world and of life, and of the
relation of man to the spiritual world, held by the Greeks. For in
moon, in the world of the stars, he did not yet experience a natural
world was as much the deed of spiritual Beings as for us a movement
the outer world which could not be explained by natural laws already
worlds.
to examine the activity and nature of laws in the physical world
of Nature, a wonder of the world, a miracle, as anything else. Amid
look into the macrocosm, into the great world; the macrocosm gives
they work spread out in space; within, in the microcosmic world of
path; here another who has no interest in the world. That is
mover behind the deed in the physical world. The will-impulses, the
In order that will can act through man here in the physical world he
must have the physical body. In the higher worlds, activity of will
is something quite different from what it is in the physical world.
which call forth the will-impulse — the whole world of will
clairvoyant consciousness, who can see into the real spiritual world,
macrocosm and consequently peopled the world with the gods who were
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
Indeed with our egos we are right inside the world. Upon what goes on
in the world around us our whole destiny, our happiness or
the sun, the majestic world of the stars, at one moment is something
way the Greek had of experiencing the world and its wonders directly,
Hence we find, as the representative of the ego-forces in the world
but to be found in the main in a super-sensible world, and attainable
in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
spiritual worlds. In moments when they were specially open to these
Those Beings who by the wise guidance of the world lagged behind
super-sensible world. During the Egypto-Chaldean epoch Christ was the
higher worlds. In the same way the Archangels, who when they acted as
the outstanding spiritual leaders of humanity in the spiritual world
spiritual worlds, but they would carry into those worlds the
Greek sense of one of the ‘wonders of the world’, and it
insight — those wonders of the world, those wonders of Nature
worlds, this is how the Greek saw the planets and the fixed stars. He
of gods, gods whose souls work on in the world in another way,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
world with the whole strength of the soul will lead men upwards to
with forces which still belong to the material world, will inevitably
to understand the whole world of the Greek gods.
Zeus, Poseidon, there were incarnated those wonders of the world
applied to the other Atlanteans who were really Greek gods. The world
space, though for the mind held captive by the sense-world it seems
As soon as a man attains to knowledge of the super-sensible world he
himself, united with the beings of the surrounding world, whom
without, when it lives instead in the spiritual world, when it
of their gods and of the divine world.
something which the world of the upper gods, the world of Zeus or of
lived at one with the world of cosmic space. But those times have
consciousness of being one, was banished from the world.
earth, the world. They would have been able to look upon their bodies
of the world. That is what Hera wanted. She wanted to separate men
clairvoyant but intellectual, is able to form an image of the world
Whereas clairvoyant sight encompasses the whole world in one look,
object, to assemble the separate items in its vision of the world in
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
year's Cycle. I am referring to the world of the Greek gods and
World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit’, why
should we have spent so much time talking about the world of the
spiritual-scientific study of the world. I have pointed out that the
the world, presented itself to them as a kind of knowledge, a kind of
wisdom; but for us it is the marvellous structure of their world of
gods. Anyone who looks upon this world as having no inner coherence,
express. This world of the Greek gods, in its wisdom-filled
the response of the human soul to wonders of the world?’ The
Greek response to the riddle of the world was not a law of nature as
found so astonishing, but which, pieced together, give us the world
the wonders of the world, we found that in the figure of Dionysos the
trying to discover inconsistencies in higher world-conceptions, and
then to say, ‘This world-conception is full of inconsistencies,
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
plane, in the physical world. We will for the present ignore the
physical eyes, for the physical world. Let us begin with the
occurs at once to anyone who studies the world with even a little
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
of the world around them, they veiled what had to do with Dionysos
into the wonders of the world, a deeper insight into what takes place
super-sensible worlds. The Mysteries associated with his name threw
do not want to go into these things. For in the outer world today
truths which lead to reality and not to the maya of the outer world,
the World Creator, or that in
(to be born). When a man comes into the world today he is said ‘to
that we return to the world as little children, that we become
what is outspread in the world, condenses it. One day there will be a
wants to characterise the things of the spiritual world, which lie
descriptions of the higher worlds. When we speak of the spiritual
worlds we already meet at the very outset with something which must
judges everything in the higher worlds in accordance with it; yet you
the things of the higher spiritual worlds with common sense and
conscious knowledge to which we are accustomed in the outer world.
external world. That is the normal thing. And now imagine some
world—and within the forms appropriate to that kind of
ordinary external world. But our subject matter is the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
able to bring to adequate expression the great wonders of the world.
paths leading to the spiritual worlds. I made some reference
worlds, experiences to which his soul is not equal without having
there is a higher reality behind the world of the mind. It is mainly
reading, but he feels the spiritual world break in upon him in a way
worlds, in the changed form which it has acquired through us, the
the world-process. We are allowing our divine heritage to go to
and the heart mean to us? They are the ether-world condensed, they
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
towards the head, however much we tried to think about the world and
something of the outside world, something that is not ourselves. Thus
at a relatively subordinate stage of world-organisation, but the
what takes place within the divine-spiritual world. The gods who were
evolutions. They are the gods who surround the world-sphere in the
categories of gods; one of them is the thought-world of the other, is
were also called the gods of the underworld, gods in whose nature
world-reality. It was not possible to reach the true world-reality
which would signify a kind of renewal from the spiritual world, a
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
understand fully what is meant by ‘Wonders of the World,
complicated has really been the formation out of the spiritual world
of the bird world, as harmonised in man with the lion forces and the
consider the totally different world of the birds, you will not long
world.
designated yesterday as one stream of the divine world. But if you
ourselves advance in knowledge of what the world is, the better we
remarkable description of that ‘wonder of the world’, the
knowledge of the outer world comes about. Everything that we know of
the outer world we know because the outer astrality unites with the
macrocosmic world. We are all that; all that is in us. All that is
world-wonder — man contains such immensities, you can well
imagine how complex and manifold is the world that lies about us and
wonders of the world. It is the very essence of what we must call the
enable it to face all that we have called the world-wonders—the
riddles of the world. And the world displays ever more
this kind exist too as regards the world-wonders. We face them with
but we are progressing and — not that the world is changing,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
behind the world and its happenings. By forming stable ideas, stable
happens in the world, and about its Beings, man attains a certain
upon the mysteries of the world, or because it satisfies him in some
content to adopt a passive attitude towards the world, but that he
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
world, that the world presents itself to him as a riddle, and that
the most arresting Beings and facts of the world-process. It was said
men's efforts to reach enlightenment about the world spring.
the whole world would consist of nothing else. The soul cannot
continue to stand in amazement before the wonders of the world, it
in the phenomena and Beings of the world.
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
‘world-wonders’. Today, in a world which is materialistic
of the world in pictorial images. In our time this would be regarded
as ridiculous. Our age seeks an answer to the world-enigma which
in the struggle to assuage our wonder at the marvels of the world.
scientific to the Greek way of explaining the world and calls it
world to perceive that each kind of explanation is justified in its
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Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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certainly out of a profound understanding of the world in
is, of what belongs purely to the world of the senses. The
or what is given in any other way by the sense world alone.
world-conception poetically, or through pictorial art, is not
realistic world-conception art must exhibit all manner of
ordinary physical existence met with in the world of the
external things of the sense-world, has a feeling that they
outside ourselves — step out into the world. This
wide understanding of the world, words with which I began

Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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approach to conscious experience of the super-sensible world
experience of the super-sensible world as is striven for in
instreaming from the super-sensible world, do experience
into the physical world, know how figures, but wholly
spiritual world with knowledge. Nevertheless, many people
assimilated of the spiritual world. This attitude ignores the
clairvoyant vision of the spiritual world. For what we mean
world. I want only to say at the outset that the
world of sense. He will change it, idealise it — no
creation, perception of the external world remains alive and
world. In his artistic creation there remains the image of
penetrates to the spiritual world through super-sensible
is that a man can only penetrate into the spiritual world
desires to penetrate into the spiritual world as an
world which it tries to penetrate consciously; no trace of
world is connected with definite periods of time. There is
world. While in this condition the soul is able, through its
absent. Perception of the spiritual world proceeds, indeed,
him from the external world, everything that wells up from
of remembrance of the external world — not, however, in
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Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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evolution of the world, then goes on to study those tremendous
opening words of our Bible, an entirely new world should dawn upon
record known as Genesis, the description of the creation of the world
A whole world lived while such words were vibrating through his soul.
— this inner world which lived in the soul of the pupil? We can
spiritual world. For what in the last resort is Spiritual Science but
body, he looks with spiritual organs into the spiritual worlds? If he
physical world, he can only do so in pictures, but if his descriptive
the spiritual worlds. Thereby something comes into existence which
physical sense-world; something comes into existence which we must
never forget belongs to an entirely different world — a world
which does indeed underlie and maintain the ordinary sense-world of
that world.
the origin of this our sense-world, including the origin of man
himself, our ideas cannot be confined to that world itself. No
science equipped only with ideas borrowed from the world of the
eye could see in the physical world. In the course of these lectures
obtaining light upon the world it describes except through Spiritual
sense-world. Hence you will see that it is utterly inadequate to

Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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science.” I am thinking more of people in the outside world
world out of the supersensible. Every single sound in which the
sense-world. We only get a kind of external reflection of it. From
the spiritual what tone is in the sense-world. So that when we ascend
world. Sound is in this way transmuted into spiritual form, and
and reverence for the way in which the world has evolved; and one

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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mineral kingdom are repeated and the laws of the plant world are
the supersensible world where are the spiritual Beings who lie behind
in the elementary world
in the sense-world today were not to be found on the Sun, nor on the
the world, if the differing activities of seven Beings had to combine

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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recognise as the source of our anthroposophical world outlook. If we
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this worldEph. 1:21).
world of letters! What then is a “day” of creation? The
the world in seven such days. You perhaps also know how much labour

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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world. The concept of matter which is put forward today is simply a
evil, as something wrong in the world-context. It is easy for the
become of the world if all those who ought to be teachers of young
world has been organised, we find that each age has a number of

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
mind that our usual interpretation of the sense-world, as it presents
astral worlds, in a higher sense also belongs to the sphere of
the solid matter in the world, we have to say to ourselves that in
at night. His world of thought and feeling sinks into oblivion, he
the outer expression in the sense-world of what we have just been
the sense-world. What is the shadow in this case? That which in
into our sense-world? In the sense-world it becomes the expanse of
of the dust which we find in the world is dust by natural tendency.
world is maya. To say that gets us nowhere. It only has
the pages of Genesis, when you contemplate the mighty course of world

Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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in his soul the dawn of the spiritual world. Pictures arise in his
expanded his own self to a world. It could be either, and he must
being. Thus the outer world was an inner world, because the entire
outer world was working upon his inner being. And he made no
the Moon-consciousness was that one was surrounded by a world of
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it
world, not to distinguish these pictures from the world outside, to
perceive the outside world merely as a reflection of one's own

Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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world, the astral world, because it rests in the world of the stars
astral body must have streamed to man from the astral world, the
world of the stars, and the world of the stars must have been present
astral body, with the activity of the starry world, which belongs

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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wisdom from the very region of the World-creators — then they
world-creative powers? Looking up to these, they said to themselves:

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today in the world as physical man first came about through the deed
perception, to an ever larger-hearted comprehension of the world.
strength. Whatever we may be doing, in whatever worldly profession we

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture I
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evolution of humanity — I mean the moment in relation to world
higher worlds. In our walks together from Weimar to Tiefurt, or around
and Dionysos. It may be possible for whole worlds to arise before us
As human beings we find ourselves in the external physical world. We
the need of forsaking the world of the senses in order to press on
into spiritual worlds. But in his own way the Greek felt a significant
inwardly bound up with and permeating the external world of the senses
world about all manner of things concerning anthroposophy, and some
spiritual world, and that it is necessary in our age that every effort
been said by me. The way truth is represented out in the world is

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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came into the world at that time, through certain human
worlds. We have pointed out how the heritage of Atlantean wisdom, now
the spiritual worlds what they require at any particular epoch as
the world from within his physical body in the usual way, by
perceiving the world around him through his eyes and other sense
organs, nor must he gain knowledge of this world or any other world
these worlds in the ordinary way. He must arrive at a stage in which,
by means of what we may term “the perceiving of worlds outside
understanding. “One who can see worlds without using the organs
expressed in the physical world, it must be reflected back, and this
etheric body. What the hands perform has far more to do with the world
observation. These organs can lead into the super-sensible world and
the spiritual world, and that the hands, or the spiritual basis of the
knowledge of the world, and are certainly far more skilful organs than
much greater between what our hands accomplish in the world, and what
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment.
super-sensible world through the etheric organs underlying the hands
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
world exists even for one who is blind and cannot see what is visible
to others but only appears if the eye is there, so the world that is
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Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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any true description of super-sensible worlds. It is comprehensible
experience the deepest longing to discover the nature of the worlds
higher worlds without much preparation and with the ordinary ideas and
correct ideas of the higher, super-sensible worlds. Because this is
the super-sensible worlds.
different in the super-sensible world from what it is in the world of
the senses because an exact repetition of any world existence is
good in the higher worlds as they do in the life of the senses? They
worlds opened to him by initiation, anyone having actual experience of
higher worlds.
ideas we form about the natural world, about the forces and laws of
ordinary sensory life what we call the moral world order, the sum of
world order — must be kept distinct. If we are describing a
of the senses, when describing the world of nature, to rid ourselves
animal world. We feel, for instance, that it would be senseless to
long as these interpretations are confined to the world of the senses.
must affirm, the moral world order enters with authority into our
moral ideas that decide the world of a man, and indeed not only his
worlds are entered, and one gains the power of perceiving, observing,
body of which I spoke yesterday. Then, later, the world, or rather a
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Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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passed through during the ascent into spiritual worlds are akin to the
call our sense organs, through which the world of light and colour,
sound and smell, the world of heat and cold, and so forth, stream into
world” is really only a gathering up of all that streams in
meets us in the outer world. Within our soul cravings and desires
“inner world” is in ordinary life, we can in reality put
within the spiritual worlds. From this we can get some idea of how we
must change ourselves if we would enter these worlds. Now, having
carry over nothing at all into the spiritual world; everything must be
region of the spiritual world. That is easy to say. This egoism, in
world in which we have to maintain ourselves. We are men through our
for the ordinary world. It would therefore be superficial to say that
composition it represents the force that drives man on in the world in
not suited to the world we have to enter. As our physical body is
life, is ill-adapted for the spiritual world. It must be left behind;
anything left of myself to enter the spiritual world if I have to cast
into the super-sensible worlds of all that he recognises as himself;
all that he can take is something of which in the ordinary world he
worlds all of which he will be in need when he has to lay aside what
dread of the spiritual world can be so great that it becomes the acme
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Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture V
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world then confronting us must be called, in conformity with my book,
point of living in the astral body, one is then in the astral world.
world of the senses, permeate themselves with these, and thereby live
the spiritual world, we can no longer make this distinction. In the
spiritual world we are confronted with beings alone, but over against
that this is mainly the world of the hierarchies, and we have often
described it from other points of view. You learn to know the world of
yourself in these worlds; you can succeed in entering into relation
worlds you carry the memory of what you have left behind and, as in
the higher worlds on to what you have been in sensory existence. You
Now as you ascend the first steps of initiation into higher worlds, it
that you will best learn to find your way in higher worlds if, among
When you enter the spiritual world, experience is far more intimately
something as it were poured out into the world to which you have now
yourself, that, like the atmosphere, fills for you the world into
which you are entering. So it is best to feel this world with your
world when the appropriate steps toward initiation have been taken. It
drawn into the spiritual world, but it may also happen that his
transfused with consciousness. Then one rises into the actual worlds
within the world in which all is being, must, as compared with
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Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture VI
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if we are to arrive at a right description of the various worlds of
our ordinary world of the senses. From much that has been said it
different language when representing the transition from one world to
all these worlds work reciprocally and in one world the inter-working
of the remaining worlds can always be perceived as a kind of
reflection. In each world we are met by the phenomena and beings of
that particular world, and, in addition, by all that is working into
it from the other worlds. All this must be carefully considered if we
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
worlds. It goes without saying that such rules are not only useful but
with the whole character of the world-cycle in which we live. It has
worlds, they expect before everything to be told how, in such
reaching super-sensible worlds. But in comparison with the real
quick ascent into higher worlds, there always seems to enter what, in
worlds must do so from some particular position in life — every
super-sensible worlds is therefore individual, and is determined by
must be taken by every soul for the ascent into higher worlds, for
following out such rules to rise to higher worlds in any circumstances
of the worlds are so manifold, the ways of individuals must be
individualities or beings of the higher worlds and to verify what part
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the super-sensible world and all that arises from the researches,
observation of higher worlds. It has, however, often been emphasised
and explore what takes place in the higher worlds, but only if one has
so transformed one's own soul as to be able to look into those worlds.
As we said yesterday, they are indeed quite different from the world
worlds, you would not be judging correctly if you affirmed that, in
super-sensible worlds, any man who will accept their descriptions,
the case in higher worlds. Those who seek there, can draw out that for
and thus give it to the world. Of course, men may be entangled in
anything of the higher worlds.”
attains to visions of the higher worlds bears images within him of his
world. Understanding precedes seeing, is in no way influenced by it,
binds him to the world insofar as in this linking, this binding, the
judgement about world phenomena. Why is it that so much harm is done
in the world nowadays by judgements born purely out of passion and
emotion? When we look through what appears in print in the world, we
conscience. There have been men who have hated the world and all
unprejudiced penetration into higher worlds because this may sometimes
revealed by higher worlds, there is much to be learned. For instance,
penetrate into higher worlds, even then it may be possible for a good
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was able to feel a connection with the spiritual world. It is of this
condition between waking and sleeping, perceive a divine world. He saw
to deny the existence of the spiritual world, just as it would be
ecstasy. His sense of ego was submerged, but the spiritual world with
experience of the spiritual world, but could, if he were ill, for
connection with the spiritual world as Krita Yuga, Treta Yuga and
man might remember his youth. Then the doors to the spiritual world
the physical world from spiritual realms. As a rule, it did not come
spiritual world has gradually become completely closed to man's normal
world of the senses. If this process had continued unabated, all
possible connection with the spiritual world would have been lost to
not speak to him about spiritual worlds because man no longer had the
physical world.
establish a connection with the spiritual world, try though he might,
spiritual world so that the conviction could be born in them that a
Then he can experience a sign of the new impulse in world evolution.
spiritual world from which he could draw spiritual and health-giving
What occurs in such an important epoch in world evolution always
In order for an individual to enter the spiritual world in earlier
illnesses of the body and soul by ascending into the spiritual world
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perception and understanding more and more to the physical world. We
which man, as it were, appeared entirely in the physical world, so
physical world as a being, as a human being of the physical world. We
further in the physical world, how indeed the materialistic tendency
itself in the physical surrounding world, is connected with a further
descent of man into the physical world. But by no means should things
spiritual world, ascend with all the attainments men have acquired,
with all the fruits of the physical world. And Anthroposophy should be
into the spiritual world.
direct powers of perception: Around us is a spiritual world. We live
in a spiritual world.” Fewer and fewer became the human beings
perception for the spiritual world is the least conceivable, yet, on
in the spiritual worlds — than by taking into consideration the
in the spiritual world. And in truth a real initiate was inspired by
world, how this human being is constituted, how the physical body has
weaving and living through the world. What lives in the “I,”
world as Spirit. Thus we gradually work our way up to understand this
do we grasp the “I”? Do we grasp the world at all through
This anthroposophical view of the world arises in the most individual
stream the great spiritual beings of the world. And so the content of
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to world-embracing questions. And you will have seen from what has
i.e., that the whole world of man's feeling towards the Gospels
photograph of the nosegay. He now goes through the world with this
flowed into that which from then streamed on through the world as
are imparted from out of the spiritual world itself. And in the sense
from out of the spiritual world. What were these? If we want to
into the world in such a self-conscious intellectual way as modern
exists in the outer world, spiritual phenomena, facts and beings; even
from clairvoyance, to the judging of the world according to measure,
into the spiritual world, but to combine sensible phenomena, were
first implanted from out of the spiritual world in that individuality
which judges and combines the world according to measure and number.
the outer world the spiritual world, without always using the physical
world in Abraham, like any other seed, had to develop more and more.
You can easily conceive that whatever appears in the world must
develop. Similarly this power of considering the world through the
most important, which they venerated most of all in the world? They
turn the gaze away from the outer world if they let the highest truths
into the world around. I will observe what reveals itself in the air,
and water, in mountain and plain, in the starry world, there will I
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also taking into account the highest world principle — from this
look into many things for which the superficial world of the present
less abstract idea... but a whole world. Because of this, the vowels
soul-forces into the divine spiritual world. What really happened with
man when he grew thus into the divine spiritual world? Then it was the
case that when he grew into the divine spiritual world he ceased to
gradually awakened through the perception of the physical world. It is
being, however, when he sought illumination about the world, employed
power of growing into the spiritual world through itself. Formerly,
less the possibility of looking into the spiritual world. Nothing
arose through its union with the spiritual world, and the Ego was not
world. That was the age when the Christ drew near.
gradually became dull towards the spiritual world, so that he would
influence from the spiritual world, they saw something already in the
before him.” And so there is indicated a deep world-mystery
“Behold, that which gives the egoity to the world, sends the
call to mind the whole historic world-situation. How had things become
clairvoyantly into the divine spiritual world? Formerly, when the
world. This possibility disappeared more and more, and it became
all the beings of the divine spiritual world. Now he was alone in
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was brought by angels to the western world, where it is received by
requisite for acquiring it, must shine again in the world. Thus
world shall fail to happen. Only through this two-fold certainty
shall we be able to accomplish what we have to do in the world; only
which shone in the world during primeval ages, and which we deeply
the world through the mission of the Cross. Not the least fraction of
only can be fulfilled if the symbols of these two worlds really

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consider the wisdom of the Eastern world, that is to say humanity's treasures
of the wisdom of the Western world. If Anthroposophy is to be a
worlds which are already in existence, taken from history and then
about the nature of the higher worlds. Not only in olden times were
there people who could turn their gaze towards these higher worlds
and see them in the same way as we see the outer world with our
teachings about the higher worlds from any special physical place.
Everywhere in the world the current of higher wisdom and knowledge
the super-sensible worlds, to consider only ancient, historical
things of the higher worlds, the beings of the super-sensible regions
quite unknown about these higher worlds, and then to ask ourselves
wisdom. The point is that the wisdom of the super-sensible worlds, if
the facts of the higher worlds. Although this unprejudiced common
these facts of the higher worlds can only be collected and
into the higher worlds of people who have prepared themselves for
this special purpose. And as in these higher worlds beings live
investigation of the higher worlds is in reality an association of
clairvoyant can only investigate the higher worlds by ascending the
penetrate the higher worlds is nothing less than the acquisition of
namely, our mind. No more than we can see the super-sensible worlds
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The Nature of the Physical and the Astral Worlds
stage may be designated as that of ‘penetration into the world
other worlds, two of which shall be named, are added to the ordinary
world experienced by means of the sense organs they are to be found
idea of the difference between our world and the two higher ones
adjoining it. The first region hidden behind our ordinary world is
named, as everyone knows, the Astral or Soul world; the Spiritual
world is still more deeply hidden. In the physical world one of the
being and passing away. Look where we will in the physical world we
illusion of permanence within the physical world, but if the mineral
of the astral world, however, reveals the fact that here the capacity
birth and decay in the physical world. In the astral world we have to
the astral world after he has reached the stage of illumination meet
and higher worlds, that they may change from good into evil, from
the real spiritual world there is permanence, even if it is relative.
spiritual worlds, because only there is to be found a certain —
physical world; metamorphosis from one form to another of the astral
world; permanence or continuity of the spiritual world. First we must
have been obtained from these worlds; man has been constructed out of
them. The physical world lies before him the other worlds open up to
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existence are to be found behind the phenomena of the sense world, or whether
physical world. Supersensible consciousness knows that although it is
no expression in the physical world. Experiences await the initiate
the physical sense world. There exist, moreover, spiritual beings and
... The spiritual world is seen by the higher consciousness to
embrace much more than can be experienced in the physical world.
surrounding us is a richly constituted spiritual world, just as there
man, which connected him with the spiritual world. And when the
number Three was mentioned as characteristic of the higher worlds,
brought them into touch with the realities of the spiritual world
or that Eastern teaching concerning the evolution of the world is
be said in the outer world, but it is not understandable that
to be met with again and again in different conceptions of the world.
oft-repeated declaration of mystical world-conceptions that
already seen that by rising from the physical to the soul world,
the world, behind fire, air, water and earth, which are their
beings which do not descend so far as the physical world, but express
themselves — therein through the air. In the soul-world we meet
spiritual sight was opened in the soul world, and ask ourselves
spiritual consciousness in the soul world to the ancient Indian god,
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N the preceding lecture it has been shown to what extent the external world
is an illusion, concealing the spiritual world behind it. The consciousness
the spiritual world. It has, however, also been shown that everything
of veil concealing a spiritual world. And the consciousness of the
spiritual world. The existence of these two different paths has been
certain stage of initiation man enters the world of the upper and of
has no influence upon the way in which the outer world confronts him
up the external world of the senses appears; when man penetrates
through these outer phenomena, he reaches the spiritual world.
is not in a position to destroy this world of the senses through his
phenomena surrounding him; the sense world is placed before him by
to penetrate the veil of the sense world, but he must leave it just
spiritual world by the inner life of the soul. And because what we
the ascent into the spiritual worlds, or descent to the realm of
through the veils of the inner life to the spiritual worlds, very
world have played a great role in human evolution and because the
outer world, which to the ordinary human eye is apt to appear a
historical trend of the two worlds (East and West).
faculty for penetrating through the outer veils of the sense world to
the higher spiritual world as well as through their own soul life to
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deepen the power of penetration to the spiritual world which lies
behind the soul world of man, while the other more northerly
in order to make him aware of the spiritual world behind the world of
in a certain sense able to look out towards the external world of the
world and the spirit within man. Let us picture to ourselves the
feelings of the ancient Indian when he looked out at the sense world,
perceived, underlying everything, a spiritual world consisting of
etheric nature, in the shape of the external world of the gods. It
higher principles in higher worlds. The Indian, looking into this
world, felt that he stood upon the Earth; that as man he had through
beings visible around me to spiritual sight from the etheric world
upwards. I have descended from these worlds to denser matter, yet in
not in their world, namely, the human ego consciousness that to say
worlds. The Indian felt himself to originate from these realms and
everything existing in the spiritual worlds to be summed up for him
a human ego consciousness in the spiritual world had neither meaning
in the surrounding world, a word which is not in contact with the ‘I’
relationship to the surrounding spiritual world (to this clairvoyant
penetration of the ultimate nature of our world) was combined in the
following: ‘When I look out into the world of “Tat”
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his perception of the world, so far as his outer experiences are
thing as a conception of the world which holds good for all times.
Men's perception of the — world is conditioned by his
India saw the world quite otherwise than did a native of Old Egypt. A
man belonging to the Graeco-Latin people saw the world much as it is
But the whole of this world which lies spread out before the present
beings in the spiritual world sending their currents down into us,
descending into his etheric body from the spiritual world also worked
Luciferic world, a great and powerful inheritance brought over from
be developed like everything else in the world.
worlds through its etheric organs. Therefore at a certain epoch it is
into the spiritual worlds, and what they saw is preserved in their
paralysed. The faculty of seeing into the spiritual world was
super-sensible worlds by means of systematic training.
hand on is what he can gain within the physical world through the
sink down into the life of the soul in the physical world and the soul
Lucifer as a cosmic being in the world around him. From having been a
in this world the spiritual fabric of which the world was created.
other side ‘I am the all’ and knew that the world which
never understand the world evolution; only those who notice the
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in this world is complicated and may be looked at from many different
also consider the evolution of our earth and of the world in general
position of Luciferic beings in the progress of the world from
outward into the world behind the tapestry of sense phenomena. Those
other side of the veil of the soul-world; for if he was led along the
the worlds behind the sense world and behind the soul-world with the
to collect out of the surrounding world experiences which are hidden
to say, he sent down rays from the spiritual world. And they saw in
man who takes the path out into the external sense-world and who
wrestles with what is revealed in his own soul-world, recognise that
to which the gods without had fashioned the world. Deeply immersed in
gods, whence the world sprang forth. He saw in a flash the gift
proceeding from the divine world. With his etheric organs he saw the
like a soul-light pervading the world, and in it saw the primordial,
and with this vision they could proclaim great world realities. What
world-web of wisdom, in which everything was written in living
the wisdom of the world, as regards the things which they made known.
of many kinds are to be found in the world. Speaking from our
the evolution of the world. We must value the Gospel of St. John more
world) we can apply this story, we are taking the right attitude.
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‘machinery’ of the world may be reached, as I have
time. We understand the world which surrounds us primarily in terms
observe the course of world events in the light of spiritual science.
into his inner being, when he sought the way to the world of the Gods
collective name — the Luciferic world. This too was the path
he sought to acquire a higher knowledge concerning the world than he
could find behind the covering of the external sense world. His quest
consisted in sinking down into his inner world; for in this world the
to that which belongs to the soul, arose out of that soul world.
world, the number seven had to be taken as basic and the interest was
olden times taught of the spiritual world lying hidden behind the
exist under time conditions, but He brings into the world something
into the world. In olden days the task of the earth was to bring in
down into the world, the more allusion is made to the nature and
was for the world, and how necessary it is thenceforth to seek
points of the Zodiac were not alone the real and veritable world
penetrating into the astral realm we enter a world of change —
is to be discovered in the spiritual world, and which moves more or
revelation and all the wisdom in the world can be traced back finally
as that which in the spiritual world (which as I have said is
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difference between life in the super-sensible world and life in the
physical, material world. For instance, the process of knowledge is
totally different in the super-sensible world from what it is on
earth. In the physical world objects present themselves to our senses
organs. To perceive objects we must move about in the world. To
the sense world we must move about to perceive things. The opposite
be the experience we gain from it. In the super-sensible world we must
super-sensible world confronts us depends on what we bring with us
from the ordinary sense world. This is important. It may give rise to
considerable soul difficulties in the super-sensible world. For
super-sensible world that we loved a person less than we ought to have
world with far greater intensity than could ever be the case in the
physical world. In addition, something else may cause great pain to
able to draw from the super-sensible world can in any way change or
the spiritual world. This experience is infinitely more painful than
anything we may experience in the physical world. It gives rise to a
lived out only in the physical world. These two factors confront the
That was our relationship to him. But whereas in the physical world
world through his sense organs. After death he lives in a world of
in the physical world we do not immediately perceive the inner nature
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after death, even of the world beyond the planetary system. In his
is still entirely bound up with the earthly world. The wishes,
draw him back to the earthly world. During the kamaloca period he is
limited space of existence encompassed only by the physical world. A
important it is for the one world to work into the other. If, for
life, relationships that work over from the one world into the other.
discussion and strife in the world about spiritual theories. We
actually becomes reality after death. A whole world of which one is
understanding for the spiritual world, things that cannot exist for
condition during which we are able to let the spiritual world shine
the way described awaken impressions out of the spiritual world. The
whole strange realm of a world of subtle sensing will unfold in those
communication between the two worlds.
knowledge of the conditions obtaining in the spiritual world, will
pass the more quickly through the spiritual world the more asleep we
world will pass rapidly and he will return comparatively soon to a
from the higher worlds that we need for the following incarnation.
human becomes as a result of his sojourn in the super-sensible world
picture-world the Christ in His most wondrous form, in His manifested

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The Connection Between the Physical and the Supersensible World
brings with him from the spiritual world and receives in such a form
the higher worlds that we have developed on earth. We ourselves have
tentatively, towards the super-sensible worlds. This light can shine
ourselves with the super-sensible world until after death is totally
completely away from the idea of the spiritual world until the moment
worlds it is no longer valid. Supersensible perception often reveals
that a person who has failed to occupy himself with higher worlds,
and feelings directed towards the physical world, goes through
has dulled himself to the super-sensible world in a previous
participate in the life of the world as he otherwise could have done
the spiritual world and again journeys between death and rebirth, his
them to bring a ray from the super-sensible world into their new earth
a knowledge of higher worlds. They need not be debarred from further
entry into the spiritual world, but have the possibility of climbing
the soul turns away from all interest in the super-sensible world.
when more atheism and lack of interest for the spiritual world
prevailed in many parts of the world than is currently believed
super-sensible worlds.
compensation for earthly life in the world beyond. Such an
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spirit world made by mediums stem from such souls and consist
world.
existence. Other beings are allotted to the other planetary worlds,
and between death and rebirth we must contact these worlds, too.
world. He sent his forces into the astral body of Jesus child of the
he intended, his actual achievements in the external world in many

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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
of the development into higher worlds, and these contain points of
world. Nevertheless, soul development is necessarily different for
Philia becomes a living being of the spiritual world, and to
only of the sense world but also under the surface of the various
worlds to which a dawning clairvoyance can lead. The sense world
sense world, what we may call (and we will speak of it at length
consciousness of this to enter the physical sense world, it must
dwelling in what one can call the Self, had approached from world
distances. The mood in which something in the spirit world approaches
how the battle Lucifer wages moves through all the worlds and through
does not exist in worlds of radiant truth.
Seek me in grounds of worlds where souls
The Threshold of the Spiritual World;
about the ahrimanic element in the world may be able to think of
place themselves before the world as Strader places himself between

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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
sense world and the super-sensible spiritual worlds. It is of great
of the super-sensible world that the human soul can experience is an
experiences in the physical sense world.
world by means of the various methods we have apprehended, that is,
spiritual world makes it necessary for the soul to develop quite
course be able to stay outside the body in the spiritual world and
as a human earth person, a normal sense-being within the sense world.
clairvoyant must be able to move in the spiritual world according to
threshold into the physical sense world, behaving here — to put
of the soul for the spiritual world must be and are different from
spiritual world with the necessary faculties for it, returning across
the border and now experiencing the sense world with what is
world, we must keep clearly within our mind's eye precisely this
border region between the two worlds and the threshold itself over
which the soul must pass when it wants to leave one world and enter
one world into the other, when — in one or the other direction
within the world order that play a certain role in the happenings
right relationship to the transition between one and the other world
fellow. If he has such an influence on the world and on human
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
speaking about the spiritual worlds as we are doing in these
observation we use in the sense world and to the understanding
limited to the sense world, the being of man, the true, inmost nature
of man, lies in hidden worlds. Clairvoyant consciousness provides the
point of view from which the worlds beyond the so-called threshold
demands are made on it from those in the sense world.
looking at and recognizing things that for the sense world is the
Here I shall give the name elemental world
to the first world that the soul of a human being enters on becoming
carry the habits of the sense world into the higher super-sensible
worlds can demand a uniform choice of names for all the points of
view the higher worlds can offer. (At the close of this course of
The Threshold of the Spiritual World,
for example, elemental world and those in my books
soul world, spirit world, and so on — in order
over the threshold into the elemental world. If the human soul
insisted on entering this world with the habits of the sense world,
else — if the soul wanted to enter the elemental world without
it would be thrown back again into the sense world. The elemental
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
elemental world we have been describing in these lectures, and it
will penetrate the actual spiritual world. On ascending to this
higher world, the soul must take into account even more forcefully
what already has been indicated. In the elemental world there are
of other things in the sense world, but rising into the spiritual
world, the soul finds the happenings and beings totally different.
world have to be given up to a far greater degree. It is terribly
disturbing to confront a world that the soul is not at all accustomed
it will occur to you that the descriptions there of the real spiritual world,
impressions and observations of the physical sense world.
the physical sense world. You can easily imagine that stage hands
bring immediately out of the spiritual world, having nothing at all
in common with the sense world. One therefore faces the necessity of
this world whose characteristics are altogether different from the
sense world, one has to help oneself out of the difficulty with
has become clairvoyant enters the spiritual world, it will really see
world by a landscape of rocks, mountains, woods and fields must take
this world. Scenes Five and Six of
unknown world had to be expressed and therefore the question was
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
Haeckel's atomistic view of the world. This was the reason for his
rest of the world. Round about, far and wide, there were no other
he is alone to help him understand the world. Everyone is able to
quiet, self-contained pondering, to understand the world and its
everything in the world to himself without having this impulse coming
being out of the forward-moving path of world evolution; then,
the world, he can be brought to the lonely island that Lucifer —
of the physical world and isolate them. This solitary thinking,
normal laws of the physical world — that is, it comes to life
anchor it in the physical sense world. That is what typically happens
world, human evolution cannot exist without the interplay of
want to explain the world to themselves in thought. In what is
original language spoken over the whole world. Even now when you look
of the world, foreseen before his own advent; Lucifer can then remove
Ahriman; then, in accordance with the progress of the divine world
materialistic world we have to have writing, and writing is what
ahrimanic elements. Fairy tales flowing out of the spiritual world
whole stream of world evolution: on one side the luciferic solitary
nature of number in world evolution. Now too, the nature of measure
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
the threshold rightly and enter the spiritual world with clairvoyant
physical world as well as everything we ordinarily think, feel, and
will in this world. We have to be prepared to confront beings and
be perceived in the sense world. First, we have to strengthen the
have pointed out that everything the sense world can give us, as well
use in the spiritual world.
world and has no significance for it — although it can there be
— must be carried up into super-sensible worlds. In the last
the physical world — one can get on quite well without them —
but one must have formed them in the physical world in order to carry
them into spiritual worlds. That is why we tried to show through the
sense world the concepts, ideas and feelings we can carry fruitfully
spirituality. Somehow we will have to acquire in the physical world
the concepts for what shines out of the spiritual world and sends its
rays into the physical sense world. Let us therefore look at another
physical world; we will speak first of the realm of art. In this we
principal arts to be found in the physical world: the art of building
Spirits of Form. In the realm of the physical world these Spirits
rest of the world, the experience of music and poetry, too, belongs
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
consciousness ascends into super-sensible worlds, where the true being
elemental realm and then enters the spiritual world. We showed, too,
body in the physical-sense world. When he sheds this physical
world as his environment. (I have promised for tomorrow to clarify
When a person has shed his etheric body also, he ascends to the spirit world
our past, brought into the spirit world in the form of memory and
these spiritual worlds. Let us take the case, for a better
understanding, of an ideally normal ascent into the spiritual world,
spiritual world were met. Such a soul, on encountering its other self
in the spiritual world, would not experience this encounter as though
subjective in the physical-sense and elemental worlds and what lives
physical world confront us objectively as a trinity on meeting our
other self in the spiritual world. Encountering this trinity, we have
There are as many of them in the world as there are human souls; once
the spiritual world, seeing them as entities with whom one has
the physical-sense world. We have noted their influence there in a
them on leaving the physical world and attempting to enter higher
already mentioned, the experience of entering the elemental world can
and give them human shape, they confront us in the elemental world as
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Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VIII
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the crossing of the threshold of the spiritual world. Steiner says that
world, to use our time together in a more positive way. But it must
the post-Atlantean world, has led far and wide to the chaotic,
world from I and non-I, we could also derive the world from a pear
use the same words and concepts in order to explain the whole world
as pear and non-pear. Nothing is missing from the world and its
occultism that, creeping out of so many corners of the world, is
the outer world. Before these forces reach the human soul, they are
higher worlds, he has to step across a threshold. As an earth-being
spiritual world on the far side, as well as on this side in the
physical world. Both in lectures and now repeatedly in our Mystery
spiritual worlds — this has often been said — and have
clear, objective perception of those worlds. I have pointed to this
The Threshold of the Spiritual World,
physical body in which he lives with the physical world around him,
he enters the elemental world and lives in his etheric body, just as
in the physical world he lives in the physical body. Then when he
surrounded by the spiritual world. We have pointed out that on
ego. Around him will be the supra-spiritual world. When he enters
this world, he has finally attained what he has always possessed in
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VI: The Sermon on the Mount
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beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
in which he was able to feel a connection with the spiritual world.
condition between waking and sleeping, see a divine world. He saw
for him to deny the existence of this spiritual world, just as it
submerged, but the spiritual world with its forms really flowed into
world, but he could, if he were ill, for instance, derive healing and
had a direct connection with the spiritual world as Krita Yuga, Treta
into the spiritual world was no longer possible but only a
remember his youth. Then the doors to the spiritual world closed. Man
could no longer frequent the spiritual world in his normal state of
toward the spiritual world.
penetrate into the physical world from spiritual realms. As a rule,
characterized by the fact that the doors to the spiritual world have
that one must draw all knowledge from the world of the senses. If
spiritual world would have been lost to man. Up until the time of
directly about spiritual worlds, because the receptivity no longer
physical world.
have been able to find a connection with the spiritual world, try
greater experience of the spiritual world through which the
impulse in world evolution. From this comes the powerful admonition:
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Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture I: Illusory Illness
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While on the other hand the teeming world
with the animal world. That whereby man is the crown of
when the human being looks out into the world and no longer has
activity in the outer world. One should study these two feeling
himself, to dissolve into the All, into the World Soul, or, if
the world. While perceiving outwardly, the soul does not
animal and human being, “The world soul is crucified on
the cross of the world body.” The world soul, which
the world body. Thus has the cross always been explained by
the great world-secret when you see the development of the
world in truth, and receive it in such imaginations. Then these
true world-pictures, imaginations, they work in a
union with the world. His inner self is widened to a spiritual
universal world being, the more he perceives what happens in
from the great world relationships will not be able to dismiss
suffering of the world. It is through his living with suffering
the outside world would never become sick. This arises because
forces that would receive the outer world. It depends upon
the world so that it does not make itself ever more noticeable
go forward, then we amalgamate with the outer world.
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Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: The Feverish Pursuit of Health
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the possibility of becoming effective in the world, to our
but look out into our present surrounding world.
regions we find sanitaria. Was there ever in any time of world
the whole world spreads itself around him. Just as the eyes owe
world is the dark chamber that still holds back many organs.
as it appears in the physical world, we find that it has its
physical world, but it has no ego in the physical world. Hence,
world. This is the case with many feminine natures. Their inner
before us in the outer world. It is mostly the case with men
of the world” he answered, “He cut rods for those
outer world, each has his own health. This is why we must make
they suffer when talking about higher worlds, but rather
health. This is only possible through a strong world conception
that is effective right down into the physical body. This world
through a world concept that is not dependent upon outer
impressions. The spiritual scientific world concept leads man
in lawful relation to the world and must learn to know our
on the day that to the world bestowed thee

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture I: The New Form of Wisdom
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human personality who bears in the world the name of Christian
inviolate rules which separated its members from the exoteric world.
Certain Rosicrucian conceptions found their way into the world at
which are important in connection with its mission in the world. One
of the world's hidden wisdom and true knowledge of the spiritual
worlds can come from no other source.
truth in the higher worlds. Clairvoyance is the necessary
in the world, with his teachers. It was only possible in those days to
foundations of the science of worlds and to allow the spiritual truths
down from the spiritual worlds — this is what enables us to work
efficaciously. Harmony flows of itself from knowledge that the world
in order to have experiences in the spiritual world you must become
worlds and tells of what comes to pass there, bringing to the
So you see, the physical world cannot be understood without knowledge
task to withdraw in any way from the physical world. Certainly not!
For what he has to do is to spiritualise the physical world. He must
there obtained labour actively in the physical world, especially in
the world of men.
the smallest thing in the world can be of importance to the greatest,

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture II: The Ninefold Constitution of Man
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worlds can be discovered only by the seer, by more highly developed
worlds, for in the physical world we see the physical body as a
a very lofty spiritual world. We must therefore give some study to
worlds which exist as truly as the physical world exists.
When the occultist speaks of higher worlds, he means worlds that are
physical senses, are opened, the world around us is pervaded by a new
revelation known as the astral world. Rosicrucian Theosophy calls this
world the Imaginative World — but “Imaginative” here
transformations within the astral world. In the movement that has
linked itself with Rosicrucianism this world is also called the
“Elemental World.” These three expressions therefore:
Imaginative world, Astral world, Elemental world, are interchangeable.
A still loftier world, revealed to yet higher senses, is that of the
“Harmonies of the Spheres.” This higher world penetrates
into the world of pictures and colours. It is called
“Mental world”; in Rosicrucian terminology it is known as
the world of the “Harmonies of the Spheres” or the world of
has linked itself with Rosicrucianism, this world has been called the
“Heaven world.” Lower or Rupa-Devachanic world, Devachan,
the world of Inspiration, the Heaven world — these again are one
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World.
THE ELEMENTAL WORLD AND THE HEAVEN WORLD. WAKING LIFE, SLEEP AND DEATH.
world, in the state of sleep and in so-called death. Everyone is
come to it from the outside world, impressions which man receives as a
through his activity in the physical world. Feelings and experiences,
the astral body. While the human body is active in the external world
the physical world; so that it is divided between the influences
world. When man has reached the goal of his earth-evolution, this
astral body from outside, from the physical world, impairing its
strong influences of the physical world would soon destroy the harmony
astral body withdraws from the impressions of the physical world,
debility caused by the world of disharmony. This activity of the
physical world; hence the feeling of greatest vigour does not arise
physical body alone is left behind in the physical world. From birth
development, for this leads us beyond the material world. To delight
Devachan is all around us, just as is the astral world.
of Heaven.” (Devachan, the spiritual world — this is the
The world of Devachan must now be traversed. It is a world as manifold
and differentiated as our physical world. Just as solid regions,
continents, are distinguished in the physical world, with an expanse
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
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IN THE last lecture we described the worlds through which the human
say in Rosicrucian Theosophy — in the Elemental world. We also
world, the world of Inspiration. We heard that this region-the
world. There is the Continental region, permeated by a flowing oceanic
that pervades the souls of beings in the physical world in the way of
conceived in a much wider sense because this world is the
archetype. In this world Lies the motive force of the progress of our
world proper, we find that which links our earth with still higher
worlds.
past and will be in the future, of what links the earth with worlds
Important above all in Devachan, in this “world of Reason”,
even higher region; when, however, the seer has risen to the world of
bearings in the higher worlds.
downwards into the astral world, with the result that in this lower
world the pictures of the Akasha Chronicle may often be a mirage; they
world we move among the archetypes of all the structures that exist in
the physical world. A man, therefore, moves over his own physical
effect all these things have in the world.
is to be found, in yonder world, in his environment; it works upon his
being on earth is transferred to the outer world in Devachan, and
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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Birth into the Physical World.
MAN'S COMMUNAL LIFE BETWEEN DEATH AND A NEW BIRTH. BIRTH INTO THE PHYSICAL WORLD.
in the higher worlds. Just as the activities of human beings in the
spirit-realm reach down into the physical world, so all the
earth stretch up into the spiritual world.
regions of the spiritual world, even although, as the result of the
hindered in yonder world by the encasements that exist here. Devachan
Occultism reveals that the human being in the spiritual world lives
the incorporation of the human being into the physical world. Much of
happens in the world.
of the sojourn in the spiritual worlds, and that of the sex in
that when the human being is born again he will find a world in which

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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WE come today to what man experiences in the physical world, in so far
world will be affected. This is one important point where a man who
real knowledge of the world know that far, far stronger effects
outer world and the seer can follow with great precision the effect of
tremendous difference in the astral world if one voices a thought that
causes an effect in the higher worlds. If someone relates this event
strengthened forms help to make our spiritual world richer and more
Such effects are to be observed everywhere in the spiritual world. The
has its effect in the astral world. A man's disposition, temperament,
world but into the world of Devachan as well. A man with a happy
world of Devachan and permeate it with all kinds of substances and
are influenced by deeds. What happens in the external world
plays into the very highest region of Devachan — the “world
had become integral parts of the astral world, leaving many traces
into the lower Devachanic world as his temperament and so on, gathers
in the physical world.
Experiences in the external world which do not inwardly affect us very
world enables us to have a clear understanding of the world in its
been known to the occultist, for the greatest wisdom of the world is
definite effect in the physical world, from a footstep and movement of
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Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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World.
feeling in words drawn from the physical world. It is a feeling of
to make us sad, nothing which could give the world a pessimistic

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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about in man's conditions of consciousness. Everything in the world
towards the outer world and perceiving objects-and hence we call it
of the ordinary world, it is a creator in time.
a meaning, at that time they signified the outer world. Even today you
we call the “Aura.” Nor do you go about the world in a
initiate possesses today when he is in Higher Devachan, the World of

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture IX: Planetary Evolution I
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consciousness of higher Beings, the consciousness of a higher world;
order to occupy themselves in our sense world; in compensation they
as the World Ash, which, however, means very much besides.

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture X: Planetary Evolution II
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know in the surrounding plant world today. We shall see that plants as

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth II
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This interchange, this sojourn in higher worlds, could only come about
condition. Thus without being a magician one learns to grasp the world
into higher worlds. In ancient times man understood nature to a high
remembrances of that picture world. That world itself had sunk from
reality lay spread all around him, but the world of the senses was
spiritual content of the world, for Brahma. And this kind of going
spiritual world flow into the terrestrial world, but as yet they could
recognise no law, no laws of nature within the outer world. The old
Indian culture had in truth a knowledge of higher worlds, but not on

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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connected a descent into the world of matter. And another force is
occult knowledge through the world. One may talk forever of Love and
worlds, with information concerning the astral plane and Devachan.
the world is the speculative extension of an idea that only holds good
times man was entirely under the influence of a picture-world which
was the expression of a world of spirit.
the surrounding world man shaped his own body. Today in our material
then he will create in the animal world, as today he creates in the
with real knowledge. Otherwise we go through the world with our eyes
to look into higher worlds acts egotistically. But one who tries to

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIV: The Nature of Initiation
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were able to perceive the creative powers which pervade the world, the
all that surrounds us in the world. We have seen how they had a
esoteric stream, known to the outer world as Christian Rosenkreuz. It
from the world outside, in order to enter it again later all the more
Rosicrucian training the experiences are kindled by the outer world.
possible for him to exist. No creature in the world could subsist
accustom himself to carry his body through the world as if it were a
higher to the feeling: I belong to the whole world; I am as little an
in the whole world, as if a part of it. Then he experiences the
torn asunder, and the pupil sees into the spiritual worlds. This is
on my body as something foreign, but now I see everything in the world
through it experiences his resurrection in the spiritual worlds. Today
existence of another method leading to the higher worlds has become a
Higher Worlds.], much can only be given from teacher to pupil
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.
in one's soul it is impossible to rise into the spiritual worlds by
but through the stupendous facts of the spiritual worlds to let the
facts of world-becoming. Thus in the Rosicrucian training that direct
apart from himself. One who will press forward into the higher worlds
be chaste and pure, and speak forth his likeness into the world
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Title: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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world, but must also seek to cast light on those questions which
turn our gaze towards the spiritual lying behind the sense world,
by those of a materialistic world outlook. But as these
world thinks about this question. One could quote the most varying
in the world. And yet another said that the ability to analyse was
have in common with the animal world. And as the fourth member
receptivity into the world. Countless phenomena of life will become
ego and astral body during sleep in the spiritual world remain hidden
aware of the physical world. That we see, hear, taste, and so on with
physical world through the sense organs. It is different during
world. The human being has sense organs in the astral body which
enable perception in the astral world, but these have normally not
world at night.
this, the spiritual and physical worlds have a unique relationship to
sexually undifferentiated being in the spiritual world. Everyone's
then have no meaning in the spiritual world? Does the polarity of
earth, find no echo in the higher worlds? Certainly we do not take
our sexual nature with us into higher worlds; however, the
physical world as masculine and feminine is formed out of the
the spiritual world and finds its nourishment there, can be
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Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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him from the spiritual world. Hence in the man of olden times we find
from the spiritual worlds becomes constantly weaker, less and less
spiritual world still stream universally to the soul and express
physical body it was able to open itself to a higher world, to the
only by consciously approaching the spiritual world, by absorbing the
ideas, concepts and feelings of the spiritual world as we are now
forces from the spiritual world wherewith to overcome the opposing
entered into it, as if it had received from the spiritual world those
spiritual world. And this will be the case more and more.
of the world and of life. There are large numbers of men today whose
then they gave voice to secrets of the higher worlds, because
able to look into the spiritual worlds has a child before him, with
the stream that rises up into the spiritual world, it is as if —
like a telephone-line into the spiritual worlds. The spiritual world
world. Hence it is in the earliest years of life that the forces a
for directing the eyes upwards into the spiritual worlds. The child
spiritual worlds; but we are born with a body that is called upon to
spiritual world during the first three years of life cannot come to
through conscious absorption of the realities of the spiritual world,
and in unbroken connection with the spiritual world — entered
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Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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outcome of research into the spiritual world.”
men's view of the world may have prompted the question: How are these
things related to the deeper conceptions of life and the world which
other problems connected with views of life and the world. The
material-physical world was necessary, because when men were nearer to
divine-spiritual world, reaching it not as a being with dreamy, hazy
consciousness, but as a being looking into the world with alert, lucid
physical world of sense, but that the ego was the last member of his
physical world. The impetus for this descent was this action, this deed,
material-physical world than the expression: Original Sin, Inherited
something that had inevitably to be imposed upon us by the World
Order, because this World Order was obliged to lead us downwards —
strings of a World Order which we should have been obliged to follow
the physical-material world. Just as we must place at the beginning of
of the physical-material world, is anything but free when it follows
ego into the physical-material world, has unfolded personality while
upwards again into the spiritual world, comes from beyond the sphere
have the strength to rise again into the spiritual world without merit
matured vision, that the moral powers of our World Order are living
Our thoughts cannot carry us into the true spiritual worlds because

Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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the fourth, the Greco-Latin, which, for a more comprehensive world
so that our Spirit-Self can shine into it, as from higher worlds, as a
Being who shines into me from upper worlds, who directs and leads me,
worlds ... And thus it will be later with the Life-Spirit, or Budhi,
from one cosmic body to another; but since the other world bodies are
said: “It is absurd that the greatest drama in the world should
Bodhisattvas of the world, upon whom streams what flows from the

Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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belong to the outer world, this would be a great illusion.
through the world without being compelled at all to become
first see before us an entire world, that we must see around
a whole world — if we know that we do well to consider
faced by a world picture; we remain entangled within
as if we were to look into the physical world and were to see
the things connected with the higher world may at first seem
soul-life into the surrounding world. For the things in
world around us. We have taken from it something which is not
reminds us of the outer sense world — that is the
faced by a world in which Lucifer and Ahriman continually
promise us the kingdoms of the world. This signifies that we
are placed before our own inner world and that the devil
tells us — this is the objective world. This is the
illusions of the inner-world were placed before Him. But
beginning that this was not a real world, but something
contained in man's inner world. Through this inner world, in
remains — we reach the objective super-sensible world
into us from the super-sensible world outside, and before this
Kamaloca-period our own inner world is built up around us,
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Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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Anthroposophical world-conception. It has been repeatedly stated,
world through our senses, and thereby form an image of this external
world through all sorts of sense impressions — an image which
is still in connection, or in contact, with the external world
upon our world — when He enters it in an etheric form, from out
the portal of death and is now dwelling in the spiritual world. A
living in the spiritual world, and the one dwelling on the earth; and
yet, the one who is living in this world may not know, at all
either some event which takes place in the physical world —
senses — or an event taking place in the super-sensible world.
This good Being, in that case, is not in the physical, sense-world,
but in the super-sensible world; and let us now suppose that the
world, inhabited by these Beings which we perceive through
parallel lines. Let us try to find in this world everything which may
super-sensible world, we are not powerless, as far as this Being is
picture, such a Being in this other world, must actually feel as if
All Beings — whatever may be their place in this world —
world in which the sympathy and antipathy arising in the human soul
other world, in the form of demoniacal of good Beings, takes place
world, through sympathy and antipathy, this clear way of facing
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Title: Perception of the Elemental World
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World
about the spiritual worlds as we are doing in these
observation we use in the sense world and to the understanding
limited to the sense world, the being of man, the true, inmost nature
of man, lies in hidden worlds. Clairvoyant consciousness provides the
point of view from which the worlds beyond the so-called
different demands are made on it from those in the sense world. This
recognizing things that for the sense world is the correct and
Here I shall give the name elemental world to the first world that
world into the higher super-sensible worlds can demand a uniform
choice of names for all the points of view the higher worlds can
threshold into the elemental world. If the human so insisted on
entering this world with the habits of the sense world, two things
if the soul wanted to enter the elemental world without preparing
be thrown back again into the sense world. The elemental world is
absolutely different, from the sense world. In this world of ours
know you will always be the same in the sense world wherever you go.
This changes as soon as a person enters the elemental world. There it
all in the elemental world unless we become a different person within
world: the capacity for transforming our own being into other beings
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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we express our world view in the most elementary sense
spiritual world behind the physical world. Knowledge such as
world. Anyone who, for example, knows about the mysteries of
from one planet to another as well as in the spiritual world
into the spiritual worlds. Without the modern
world, and those whose vision was the most penetrating became
humanity sees only what is in the physical world. The call to
world sounded like a wonderful harmonious choir, and after
mysteries of the world. We shall mention two of them in this
could proclaim the message of the higher worlds and their
the world and was unable to interact with it. That is when
scenes of the external world dealing with the preservation of
this in the spiritual world. In the case of Shem, the
him from the spiritual world, which he was to carry. This
exalted being from the spiritual world, a being who could not
spiritual world, specially prepared for the purpose of
not feel at home in the world as a human being would; he
descends but once into this world for the sole purpose of
woven anew from the general fabric of the world Almost every
until the time of Copernicus that the world was mature enough
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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Clings close with avid senses to the world;
body and Ego are in a spiritual world. Why does a man return every night to
this spiritual world? Why does he have to leave behind his physical and
astral body and the Ego are in spiritual worlds? Is there not a contradiction
it into the spiritual world? Yes; and if we want to understand what this is,
indeed receive from the outer world something that he transforms inwardly, as
events of great significance for the development of the world took place.
great world-secrets, and many people today who talk glibly of originality and
of death into a spiritual world. There, unhampered by these bodies, we can
once more from the spiritual world to a new life on earth, then, and only
the character which a man presents to the world. Between birth and death the
meets the world as a free, independent being and can himself work on the
especially through intercourse with the outer world.
and influences received from our dealings with the outer world. We can feel
Intellectual Soul and the world around us, and anyone who knows what true
influences from the outer world can be brought in to endow the physical body
permeation can go forth to acquire knowledge of the world, it ought to
engage in free intercourse with the world. Now since in bringing up a child
thirty-fifth year will know that if a man is to go out into the world and
in free give-and-take with the outer world. Anything in the way of unkindness
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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a spiritual world behind all that is revealed to the senses and through them
to the mind. It regards this spiritual world as the source and foundation of
into a world of light and colour, so it is with a person whose hidden
faculties awake. He will break through into a spiritual world which is always
transform ourselves in order to penetrate into this world and to gain a
investigator and so to direct his gaze into the spiritual worlds, even as a
physicist sees into the physical world through his microscope. Goethe's words
are certainly valid in their bearing on the spiritual world:
great moment when his soul is awakened and the spiritual world around him
laws apply as in the external physical-mineral world, and the same substances
seeing into the spiritual world, can directly observe the etheric body. But
world. When are these physical laws revealed to us? When we have
world.
parts of the world, but there is a modern substitute for it. If anyone
contemporary form of inquisition in our parts of the world. Be it so.
whose philosophy begins with the words: The world is my idea. Hence we
Perceptions bring us into communication with the external world; concepts are
world can be precisely drawn. Directly we begin to experience something
by his perceptions of the outer world. He takes these experiences a stage
This continued cultivation of impressions received from the outer world is
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eleven: Kyrios, The Lord of the Soul
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worlds.
world reverberated in it — not, as is the case to-day, some
divine-spiritual world. When this happened he was not using
of the physical world. The ‘I’ uses physical
‘I’ is able to grow into the spiritual world
the spiritual world. Man could no longer be united with that
world through his astral body and the ‘I’ was not
unreceptive to the spiritual world, becoming barren and
as the result of a certain influence from the spiritual world
into the divine-spiritual world. Formerly, when the astral
body was activated, man was able to look into that world, but
the beings of the spiritual world, but now he was inwardly
world. Hear the cry in the wilderness, in the desolation of
and facts of happenings in the spiritual world. Thus a man
initiated into the mysteries of the spiritual world of Ahura
Mazdao — the spiritual world of which the Sun is the outer
by some world from above or from below, and if we are to have
ancient Persia. He too is formed from another world through
the outward expression for the spiritual world when gathered
Gospel therefore directs attention to the world so gloriously
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spiritual world. When this Bodhisattva had become Buddha, he was
the Maitreya Buddha. And then his influence from the spiritual world
time, when the spiritual world was entirely shut off from human
the spiritual knowledge of the world and its secrets then existing was
world, he came under no influence save theirs; they were his teachers
twelve great religions and world-conceptions have united into one
The child lived only a short time longer. In the external world we
all the great religions and systems of thought in the world. And he
ruthlessly making his way in the world (he may be a thorough
firstly, that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly,
actually been saved, moreover by a warning proceeding from a world of
earthly world are concerned, death has already come to you and your
transcription, it should not pass into the hands of the outside world.
posterity. In reality, therefore, the world does not yet possess the

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to what is also taking place in the super-sensible world in our time.
before the outside world wants to develop a deeper understanding for
external world outlook considers as dogmas, and to regard the conclusions
in the outside world of materialism, men would hasten of their own
to a world conception of a spiritual kind. But men are rigid with
world conception, or the biased dogmas arising out of this. Whereas
deceives the outside world which is not competent to judge. The
the outside world, because it sometimes works with facts that are
innumerable worlds that rise far above our world in spiritual
As opposed to this, Spiritual Science stands in the world as a
we notice that it is bound in the widest sense to the material world
connected with the next element, the astral world. It is from the
but rejects them from that part of the astral world that is lower
suitable for this spiritual world. Thus our life of mental images and
world, our life of feeling with lower Devachan and our life of will
the Roman was completely attuned to the physical world that he
to keep in touch with the outside world. You should not choose in the
in the materialistic thinking of the world and in Spiritual Science.
lift it up into the astral world. The human being who has advanced to
respect, enabling it to enter the lower Devachanic world in a
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time when the spiritual world was entirely shut off from human vision,
knowledge then existing, of the world and its secrets, was gathered
world, he came under no influence save theirs; they cared for all his
twelve great religions and world conceptions have been given to us,
The child lived only a short time longer. In the external world we
world. And he has worked on into our time, either as a human being or
ruthlessly making his way in the world (he may be a thorough
that the warning came from the spiritual world, and secondly, that
actually been saved, moreover by a warning proceeding from a world
pass into the hands of the outside world. He wanted to translate it in
therefore, the world does not yet possess the Gospels in their true
the Maitreya Buddha. And then his influence from the spiritual world

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ordinary consciousness? In the outer, materialistic world there
believe that such things are part of the outer world would be a
world.
Mary Magdalene. This individual goes through the world, and as
ordinary consciousness, and may go through the world as though
to be understood that you must first see a whole world before
though it appears as a world tableau — if you know that
world-tableau, he cannot escape from himself, is all entangled
we looked into the physical world and saw besides ordinary
do in the physical world if trees born of phantasy and genuine
in the outside world which strike us as blows of fate, we can
worlds may seem to ordinary people quite foolish. It does
that which reminds you of the outer world; if the really
ourselves by really making the transition, by having a world
objective world.” That is the temptation that even Christ
did not escape. The inner illusions of the inner world
from the very beginning that it is not a real world, but a
world that is within. It is through this inner world alone,
soul-life out into the objective super-sensible world. And just
from the super-sensible objective world and may be
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world-conception.
ourselves into correspondence with the outer world
sense-impression a picture of this world, remaining in
Christ from the astral plane into our world in an etheric form.
of death. This friend now dwells in the spiritual world, and a
still living in this world. It may be that the person in this
world cannot rightly understand what the deceased desires and
— an occurrence, let us say, of the sense world, but in
incident in the super-sensible world — it is called in
the super-sensible world, and let us imagine this world where
that world we have to seek all objects of subconscious
world as an evil or demonic being, either through an imaginary
one way or another inhabit that world feel, when we form
The subconscious is in touch with a world in which the sympathy
own world, but above all upon what is within ourselves; and not
outer world can only be exerted if the human being has visions,
subconscious powers that act like magic in this outer world.
belong to his own inner world. They would represent the sort of
and, indeed, all his functions, are dependent upon the world of
the elemental world. A human being cannot enter directly
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instrument for beholding into the spiritual world, then it is
Higher Worlds? and will outline them once again
spiritual science calls the Imaginative world. The spiritual
researcher learns to distinguish these two worlds. Since that
Imaginative world. Although he has brought up the pictures in
the soul settles in a world of pictures at first, which do not
world from his inside to attain the consciousness at the same
consciousness has something rather uneasy, because the world in
which one settles down is like a second world, a world full of
beauty and greatness, a beatific world. However, persons who
settle in such a world get easily angry if one wants that they
doubt the objectivity of this world because one lives well in
happens in this world, actually? If I should describe this, we
world in which he liked to stay. The spiritual researcher has
to make this Imaginative world disappear more and more often in
your hand in the physical world to touch something and thereby
spiritual world, and something returns from the spiritual
world.
against the thought of Schopenhauer's philosophy that the world
life. You do not have any other proof in the sensory world. The
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supersensible worlds. The usual science produces its outer
cognitive forces into the supersensible world.
world.
this Imaginative world from the soul, has to descend to
the universal world being, and this world being with its
world reveal themselves. The medium becomes the revelator of
the spiritual work and actions of beings of the world. Thus,
learnt ideas of the spiritual world. From their viewpoint, they
because it can describe various things in the world. Since
knows that the medium unveils objective world contents.
spiritual world by those methods, those manifestations to which
Catholic views beholds certain beings in the spiritual world
spiritual world that is threatened by error, indeed, with every
in the objective world processes. Thus, it is a question of
medium only an instrument for supersensible world processes
the supersensible world in their manifestations. Principles of
the world express themselves; this comes strongly to light in
the supersensible world reveal themselves this way, they must
in it to behold into the Imaginative world. I have already
Imaginative world is radically different from the pathological,
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and our thinking. By perceiving the external world through our senses,
Through perception and thinking we learn to know a world around us
which we designate as the physical-sense world; through feeling and
willing we do not learn to know the world in which we exist as feeling
and willing human beings. We are constantly in a super-sensible world;
world, just as our perception and thinking originate in the physical
world. We have no bodily organs for feeling and willing; we do have
thinking, although sleep is a different state in the world in which we
that the dead dwell in the same world in which we dwell as the
not perceive the world in which they live and weave. The dead are
to the world of the dead we are in exactly the same position in which
we are in regard to the world of physical beings while we sleep. We
live in the same world with the dead and with the higher hierarchies:
reach over into our world from the realm of the so-called dead. —
his world-famous inaugural speech about the study of history. This was
consciousness which is a sleeping consciousness in regard to the world
nothing about the world in which he lives, through which he passes
of the fact that for ordinary consciousness the world in which the
that the world of the dead may lay itself open to awakened
consciousness, that the world of the dead may be perceived by the
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Well, my dear friends, consider the natural-scientific world
world conception of the past is materialistic. Today we have a
natural-scientific world conception which rises to the most subtle,
interpretation of the present natural-scientific world conception is
nineteenth century, their task in the spiritual world was to create
spiritual world. The tendency exists in mankind to wipe out the
temperament. It is not a tendency of the spiritual worlds to create
spiritual worlds to pour a cosmopolitan element over mankind.
Certain spiritual beings whose task in the spiritual world it was to
region bordering the earthly world. They have been cast down among men
incarnation from the spiritual world after the year 1841 and who have
of that which here in the physical world, is very difficult to see
by the Archangel Michael in the spiritual world and which ended in
world history evolution may be traced in two directions: backward as
the spiritual world in retrospect. The following then presents itself:
We must not think of world events following one another in continuous
firm foundation: We live here in this physical world; but we
are awake in this physical world only through our perceptions
imagination, inspiration and intuition with the spiritual world which
perceive how life, here in the physical world, is connected with the
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that rightly exist for this world — with us into the spiritual
know that philosophy tries to give men views about the world and
monadological-spiritual world view, and Haeckel's materialism is an
unity. Spinoza's philosophy belongs here and Hegel's world view
are only valid on the physical plane and in the elemental world
to some extent, but are of no importance for the spiritual world.
his relation to his physical being. Here in the physical world one
on our physical body in the elemental world as a multiplicity
beings approach it in the spiritual world it immediately knows
spiritual worlds. One must not take concepts that are valid in
of ahrimanic and luciferic beings is necessary for the world order as
self-assurance in the spiritual world if he can keep a balance
the way into the spiritual world. Now if someone wanted to say I

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visions, dreams and world view are permeated with Ahriman and
worlds before the soul is sufficiently strengthened. Quiet and
spiritual world and visions and figures come from all sides and
I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness

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for us to press into spiritual worlds. But when we get up there we
simple. World evolution is very complicated and hides riddles in
world. The example of otitis media can teach us this. What is
experienced there in the etheric body arose like a world out of a
for the material world can also come from higher worlds. A thing that's

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spiritual world. Many make it difficult for themselves to
spirit land is like a second physical world, only finer and more
rightly can understand how the spiritual world is experienced when
materialist who denies the existence of the spiritual world
materialist would either have to accept the spiritual world or
might even be good. So we're always in the super-sensible world with
he experiences himself in the world from which thinking
projects into the sense world as thought. All of this can be
the existence of the super-sensible world. That's not true. Everyone
experiencing thinking and the super-sensible world to a knowing
first sign of an awakening in the spiritual world is a feeling of
world I'm here, the object is over there and it makes an impression
spiritual world the condition of being closed off in oneself
physical world we experience everything inside our skin, as for
instance the prick of a needle. Not so in the spiritual world. There
spiritual contact with him. One's relation to the sense world also
ordinarily experience the physical world is conditioned by the fact
But no impression is made if one confronts the sense world with
physical world. Like these pearls in water, all atoms are holes or
empty bubbles in the spiritual world. All physical things are
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that we find in the world, thereby giving rise to one error after
enter spiritual worlds unprepared in this wrong way the good Gods
spiritual worlds remain closed to us until we've eliminated

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spiritual world, of the world from which strength flows to us through
experiences are these faint memories of the world where we were at
world. Someone who's given something like this should look upon
all deception is: Every path into the spiritual world goes through
spiritual world. This is like a feeling that Christ is in one, and
world and are imbedded in it.

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Divine bliss strides on to new world creation.
evening with such things. We're polluting divine worlds if we
later goes into higher worlds. For instance, he wants to find the

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We've often heard that two paths take us into spiritual worlds;
through a thorough study of theosophical teachings about world
instability. One who has studied world evolution seriously will have

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earth in world evolution. (Verse for Wednesday) Today we'll go
such moments comes from the spiritual world. There are ways of telling
a light that illumines the objects in the spirit world that approach
experience all truths of the spiritual world as fast as possible
gossip out in the world He likes to stick his nose into men's
spiritual worlds one came from by emptying one's soul and immersing oneself
experiences in spiritual worlds during the night.

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World, 8-20-'11). They don't go into this pentagon but
like spirits, as Christ sacrificed himself for world

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us is just maya. Good Gods created this world of maya for men, as it were,
like a flower out of the real world so that man develops through it,
kindles his ego on it, and penetrated it to get back to the world of
real things once again. A man definitely needs this world of maya in
Goethe's saying: for what is this beautiful world, the
is a seemingly naïve expression for the fact that the world in
only there for us. For in reality, in the world of real things,
The world of maya doesn't
himself with the world of real things. He can only do this through
the meditations from the spiritual worlds that are given by the
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
don't belong in their world out of it. One of them is Samael,
spiritual worlds, whereas we only want to wallow in the enjoyment of
worlds, we might get a feeling of being choked or of someone sitting
hinders us from entering the spiritual world before we've
pay to the surrounding world is of greater importance than most people
pressing into spiritual worlds. For we should think of the spiritual
such circumstances if we want to press into the world of real things,

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spiritual world.
man first closed himself off from the outer world and now steps out
of himself again, he would like to assert himself against the world.
progress that he notices how real the thought world is and that it
man who has turned all of his interests away from the outer world as
world again. Ex Deo nascimur: We're born from God and

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than take in teachings about the world evolution and elaborate them,
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
certain times nodal points form in spiritual worlds, when forces work
into the worlds that lie directly above us. Such a time is here now.
worlds — only Christ can do this because he went through the
world. If one says that an Essene works with spiritual worlds one
must answer that he works with them in the physical world in the way
other viewpoints in spiritual worlds.
spiritual world is surrounded by sheaths that we create ourselves and

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in our third mystery drama in the words: In your thinking world
clear to ourselves that forces stream into us out of the whole world

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evolution of the world, then goes on to study those tremendous
opening words of our Bible, an entirely new world should dawn upon
record known as Genesis, the description of the creation of the world
A whole world lived while
— this inner world which lived in the soul of the pupil? We can
spiritual world. For what in the last resort is Spiritual Science but
body, he looks with spiritual organs into the spiritual worlds? If he
physical world, he can only do so in pictures, but if his descriptive
the spiritual worlds. Thereby something comes into existence which
physical sense-world; something comes into existence which we must
never forget belongs to an entirely different world — a world
which does indeed underlie and maintain the ordinary sense-world of
that world.
the origin of this our sense-world, including the origin of man
himself, our ideas cannot be confined to that world itself. No
science equipped only with ideas borrowed from the world of the
eye could see in the physical world. In the course of these lectures
obtaining light upon the world it describes except through Spiritual
sense-world. Hence you will see that it is utterly inadequate to

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science.” I am thinking more of people in the outside world
world out of the super-sensible. Every single sound in which the
sense-world. We only get a kind of external reflection of it. From
the spiritual what tone is in the sense-world. So that when we ascend
world. Sound is in this way transmuted into spiritual form, and
and reverence for the way in which the world has evolved; and one

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mineral kingdom are repeated and the laws of the plant world are
the super-sensible world where are the spiritual Beings who lie behind
in the elementary world
in the sense-world today were not to be found on the Sun, nor on the
the world, if the differing activities of seven Beings had to combine

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recognise as the source of our anthroposophical world outlook. If we
world of letters! What then is a “day” of creation? The
the world in seven such days. You perhaps also know how much labour
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this worldEph. 1:21).

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world. The concept of matter which is put forward today is simply a
evil, as something wrong in the world-context. It is easy for the
become of the world if all those who ought to be teachers of young
world has been organised, we find that each age has a number of

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in what confronts us in the outer world, even in what we meet in the
mind that our usual interpretation of the sense-world, as it presents
astral worlds, in a higher sense also belongs to the sphere of
the solid matter in the world, we have to say to ourselves that in
at night. His world of thought and feeling sinks into oblivion, he
the outer expression in the sense-world of what we have just been
the sense-world. What is the shadow in this case? That which in
into our sense-world? In the sense-world it becomes the expanse of
of the dust which we find in the world is dust by natural tendency.
world is maya. To say that gets us nowhere. It only has
the pages of Genesis, when you contemplate the mighty course of world

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in his soul the dawn of the spiritual world. Pictures arise in his
expanded his own self to a world. It could be either, and he must
being. Thus the outer world was an inner world, because the entire
outer world was working upon his inner being. And he made no
the Moon-consciousness was that one was surrounded by a world of
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it
world, not to distinguish these pictures from the world outside, to
perceive the outside world merely as a reflection of one's own

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world, the astral world, because it rests in the world of the stars
astral body must have streamed to man from the astral world, the
world of the stars, and the world of the stars must have been present
astral body, with the activity of the starry world, which belongs

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wisdom from the very region of the World-creators — then they
world-creative powers? Looking up to these, they said to themselves:

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today in the world as physical man first came about through the deed
perception, to an ever larger-hearted comprehension of the world.
strength. Whatever we may be doing, in whatever worldly profession we

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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
ordinary worldly knowledge, but a ‘mediator’; through it
we may indeed rise up into those super-sensible worlds whence
filled with the secrets of the spiritual worlds. This was the
the higher spiritual Beings who direct the super-sensible worlds.
what we are given as dramatic art in the world outside; it is easy to
to us that spiritual forces hold sway in the world, that they help
we direct our gaze into the vast world, and experience what for the

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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
world and how cosmic forces appeared to them as actual forms or
reality in the spiritual world which was familiar to men in primeval
human soul, is carried off by Pluto, the god of the underworld. The
culture has vanished. But nothing in the world ever really
in such a way that the soul could see into spiritual worlds, today
of the underworld, of the interior of the earth. But the Greek was
world, he saw Demeter; she really came to meet him. When, out of this
spiritual world, this whirling world of constant movement and
spiritual world. The same forces of Nature which have given me my
in the world around me (a plant kingdom quite different from our
Demeter, the fecundating goddess of the whole world, the clairvoyant
who taught him how he had to behave in the world. There were at that
I accomplish something in the world, I do so because forces active in
the plant world without are sent into my brain.’ This Demeter
world. Today the physical body is bound up with external physical
the rape of Persephone by Pluto and her captivity in the nether world
human being did not get to know the world in the way he does today;
spiritual world he saw pictures of spiritual Beings. Man saw around
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
completely different view of the world and of life, and of the
relation of man to the spiritual world, held by the Greeks. For in
moon, in the world of the stars, he did not yet experience a natural
world was as much the deed of spiritual Beings as for us a movement
the outer world which could not be explained by natural laws already
worlds.
to examine the activity and nature of laws in the physical world
of Nature, a wonder of the world, a miracle, as anything else. Amid
look into the macrocosm, into the great world; the macrocosm gives
they work spread out in space; within, in the microcosmic world of
path; here another who has no interest in the world. That is
mover behind the deed in the physical world. The will-impulses, the
In order that will can act through man here in the physical world he
must have the physical body. In the higher worlds, activity of will
is something quite different from what it is in the physical world.
which call forth the will-impulse — the whole world of will
clairvoyant consciousness, who can see into the real spiritual world,
macrocosm and consequently peopled the world with the gods who were
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
body that transplanted into the world of space they are governed by
Indeed with our egos we are right inside the world. Upon what goes on
in the world around us our whole destiny, our happiness or
the sun, the majestic world of the stars, at one moment is something
way the Greek had of experiencing the world and its wonders directly,
Hence we find, as the representative of the ego-forces in the world
but to be found in the main in a super-sensible world, and attainable
in a very abstract way. Things are not like that in the real world;
spiritual worlds. In moments when they were specially open to these
Those Beings who by the wise guidance of the world lagged behind
super-sensible world. During the Egypto-Chaldean epoch Christ was the
higher worlds. In the same way the Archangels, who when they acted as
the outstanding spiritual leaders of humanity in the spiritual world
spiritual worlds, but they would carry into those worlds the
Greek sense of one of the ‘wonders of the world’, and it
insight — those wonders of the world, those wonders of Nature
worlds, this is how the Greek saw the planets and the fixed stars. He
of gods, gods whose souls work on in the world in another way,
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
world with the whole strength of the soul will lead men upwards to
with forces which still belong to the material world, will inevitably
to understand the whole world of the Greek gods.
Zeus, Poseidon, there were incarnated those wonders of the world
applied to the other Atlanteans who were really Greek gods. The world
space, though for the mind held captive by the sense-world it seems
As soon as a man attains to knowledge of the super-sensible world he
himself, united with the beings of the surrounding world, whom
without, when it lives instead in the spiritual world, when it
of their gods and of the divine world.
something which the world of the upper gods, the world of Zeus or of
lived at one with the world of cosmic space. But those times have
consciousness of being one, was banished from the world.
earth, the world. They would have been able to look upon their bodies
of the world. That is what Hera wanted. She wanted to separate men
clairvoyant but intellectual, is able to form an image of the world
Whereas clairvoyant sight encompasses the whole world in one look,
object, to assemble the separate items in its vision of the world in
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
year's Cycle. I am referring to the world of the Greek gods and
World, Ordeals of the Soul and Revelations of the Spirit’, why
should we have spent so much time talking about the world of the
spiritual-scientific study of the world. I have pointed out that the
the world, presented itself to them as a kind of knowledge, a kind of
wisdom; but for us it is the marvellous structure of their world of
gods. Anyone who looks upon this world as having no inner coherence,
express. This world of the Greek gods, in its wisdom-filled
the response of the human soul to wonders of the world?’ The
Greek response to the riddle of the world was not a law of nature as
found so astonishing, but which, pieced together, give us the world
the wonders of the world, we found that in the figure of Dionysos the
trying to discover inconsistencies in higher world-conceptions, and
then to say, ‘This world-conception is full of inconsistencies,
nature of things. For why is the world different today from what it
plane, in the physical world. We will for the present ignore the
physical eyes, for the physical world. Let us begin with the
occurs at once to anyone who studies the world with even a little
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
of the world around them, they veiled what had to do with Dionysos
into the wonders of the world, a deeper insight into what takes place
super-sensible worlds. The Mysteries associated with his name threw
do not want to go into these things. For in the outer world today
truths which lead to reality and not to the maya of the outer world,
the World Creator, or that in
(to be born). When a man comes into the world today he is said ‘to
that we return to the world as little children, that we become
what is outspread in the world, condenses it. One day there will be a
wants to characterise the things of the spiritual world, which lie
descriptions of the higher worlds. When we speak of the spiritual
worlds we already meet at the very outset with something which must
judges everything in the higher worlds in accordance with it; yet you
the things of the higher spiritual worlds with common sense and
conscious knowledge to which we are accustomed in the outer world.
external world. That is the normal thing. And now imagine some
world—and within the forms appropriate to that kind of
ordinary external world. But our subject matter is the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
able to bring to adequate expression the great wonders of the world.
paths leading to the spiritual worlds. I made some reference
worlds, experiences to which his soul is not equal without having
there is a higher reality behind the world of the mind. It is mainly
reading, but he feels the spiritual world break in upon him in a way
worlds, in the changed form which it has acquired through us, the
the world-process. We are allowing our divine heritage to go to
and the heart mean to us? They are the ether-world condensed, they
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
towards the head, however much we tried to think about the world and
something of the outside world, something that is not ourselves. Thus
at a relatively subordinate stage of world-organisation, but the
what takes place within the divine-spiritual world. The gods who were
evolutions. They are the gods who surround the world-sphere in the
categories of gods; one of them is the thought-world of the other, is
were also called the gods of the underworld, gods in whose nature
world-reality. It was not possible to reach the true world-reality
which would signify a kind of renewal from the spiritual world, a
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
understand fully what is meant by ‘Wonders of the World,
complicated has really been the formation out of the spiritual world
of the bird world, as harmonised in man with the lion forces and the
consider the totally different world of the birds, you will not long
world.
designated yesterday as one stream of the divine world. But if you
ourselves advance in knowledge of what the world is, the better we
remarkable description of that ‘wonder of the world’, the
knowledge of the outer world comes about. Everything that we know of
the outer world we know because the outer astrality unites with the
macrocosmic world. We are all that; all that is in us. All that is
world-wonder — mancontains such immensities, you can well
imagine how complex and manifold is the world that lies about us and
wonders of the world. It is the very essence of what we must call the
enable it to face all that we have called the world-wonders—the
riddles of the world. And the world displays ever more
this kind exist too as regards the world-wonders. We face them with
but we are progressing and — not that the world is changing,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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Wonders of the World
world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science
behind the world and its happenings. By forming stable ideas, stable
happens in the world, and about its Beings, man attains a certain
upon the mysteries of the world, or because it satisfies him in some
content to adopt a passive attitude towards the world, but that he
hidden from him, so that he may achieve true harmony with the world.
world, that the world presents itself to him as a riddle, and that
the most arresting Beings and facts of the world-process. It was said
men's efforts to reach enlightenment about the world spring.
the whole world would consist of nothing else. The soul cannot
continue to stand in amazement before the wonders of the world, it
in the phenomena and Beings of the world.
aware that in one or another fact, one or another thing in the world,
‘world-wonders’. Today, in a world which is materialistic
of the world in pictorial images. In our time this would be regarded
as ridiculous. Our age seeks an answer to the world-enigma which
in the struggle to assuage our wonder at the marvels of the world.
scientific to the Greek way of explaining the world and calls it
world to perceive that each kind of explanation is justified in its
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Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-1-1906
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needs world helpers and all the strength that he can only gain through

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-1907
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Our whole civilization has its origin in the spiritual world. That's
occult life took place very quietly and hidden from the outer world
now be carried into the world in a freer way, even though only for a
creation and it has a purpose in the whole world. But the time has now
powers of the world stream into you. The world is always flowed
Meditation words were born from the laws of the spiritual world and
Gleams the Godhead of the world.
I rest in the Godhead of the world,
In the Godhead of the world
the soul is led (i) ever deeper into the center of the world.
world through the power of the spirit.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Munich, 3-17-1908
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of his own free will. The spiritual world only discloses itself to an
great world laws concerning human and world evolutions. A man must
that he can enter the spiritual world as a free, self-conscious being,

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 6-14-1908
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higher worlds. For many pupils already have spiritual organs developed
into us, enlightenment from higher worlds will come to us.
all of this one will someday lose consciousness of the outer world and

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-8-1908
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worlds flow into evolution to promote it. We intervene in the Gods'
world order through this independent formation of astral organs, we
The divine world order sees to it that these needles don't go deeper

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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millennia; it's the path into super-sensible worlds. Each one gives us
gleams the Godhead of the world
world at these moments and devote ourselves as much as possible to
that they are a world in which we suddenly find ourselves and that's
quite different from the outer world. We find that we're on the other
spiritual world to which we mostly belong isn't anything simple.
to him that the world that he sees is an illusion that he's creating
side and doesn't want him to ascend into spiritual worlds but tries to
hold him back in the sense world forcibly. And this temptation is a

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 3-8-1909
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come from a sub-physical world.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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worlds when an especially high one unfolds his activity on the
to free himself from all worldly influences that drag one down,
geniuses of will that clarifies the goal of man and world evolution.

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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must realize that we can't be selfless. It's a world karma that lets
us act egoistically. But world karma is God. Everything that God is
outer world. The pupil gets to know this as a force only; he learns
how what develops in his destiny in the outer world must be brought
concentration. He learns to see the light world of spiritual beings
and spiritual world This drawing and occult script has a
into the spiritual world. A pupil should mainly have a feeling of
thankfulness for what is given to him from higher worlds in this
from the outer world into the sanctuary of our mediation and
world's effects into us in contemplation, closed off from all outer

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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which we'll perceive the surrounding spiritual world. The impressions
spiritual world won't reveal itself to us in its true form, but all
will be a ruinous price. It's a good deed that the world into which we
glance into the world of archangels would destroy us, since we're not
in the physical sense world. Thereby the spirit behind matter
etheric body back in spiritual worlds. And this part of the etheric
streams through the world. Man has no individual language either, for
whole outer world disappears for us, we'll then get the feeling that
that radiates into higher world; and our higher self comes to meet

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture One
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We are daily overwhelmed by pictures of the world situation which
so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
that express the appearance of the eternal spirit of the world. John,
elements; then a new world arises. In the first Christian centuries
Christ is the regent of all these world spheres; their actions constitute
world. Mighty cosmic powers ensouled the signs of the zodiac and the
the two times twelve stars on the world clock who were once rulers.
The Apocalypse is a cosmic explanation of the world. The author was
an initiate. He spoke of universal laws that apply to the world from
the physical to the spiritual world. Then we have fulfilled our duty:
to connect the physical and the spiritual worlds.

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We are daily overwhelmed by pictures of the world situation which
so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
meaning of the evolution of the world. It could occur to someone to
In this way something entirely new has come into the world.
at the same time with a vision of the spiritual world. An inner schooling
a new world appeared. They were surrounded by a new world, a world of
awhile, the astral world full of flowing light began to resound with
their inner life to us. That is how it is in the spiritual world. First
were led back to vision of the physical world, they experienced themselves
knowledgeable concerning the spiritual world out of their own experience.
They were then seen as messengers from the spiritual world. What they
had experienced up to the point of entering the spiritual world was
religions or world-views
decisive turning point in our world history and separates it into two
so as to found a new world order. The new initiation is what will occur
are overcome through him. Christianity is the religion of the world.
of Golgotha, which was placed in the center of the world. The chosen
appear like glass. The entire astral world is like a glass sea.
is constant movement in the astral world — astral eyes are everywhere
into the higher regions of the spiritual worlds.
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Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Three
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We are daily overwhelmed by pictures of the world situation which
so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
a real, spiritual bridge to another form of existence. Another world
guide the stream of spiritual life into the world, the stream that should
around in the world today fade away. For, among many other things, the
thoughts; these thoughts will flow into the spiritual world and we
spiritual beings who are now guiding world evolution. This is how we
through their devotion, is making a great sacrifice for the world. All
world saying: It doesn't matter if people tear me apart, I must present
streams in the world that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky least understood
more deeply the world mission of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, then we
world of devachan, everything is ordered according to measure and number.
the bodies of the world as we do substances on a smaller scale. We must

Title: Lecture: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Four
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We are daily overwhelmed by pictures of the world situation which
so that we can meet the world situation in full wakefulness.
of the spiritual world. We have seen that acquiring knowledge of all
to the astral plane are surrounded by a world of pictures, which are
world. The physical world is formed out of this world of pictures. When
themselves to the devachanic plane; this plane's world of pictures resounds
devachanic world is nowhere else. You can remain standing in the same
location and experience the physical world fading away. The world is
this world of light is penetrated by tones.
world. If you raise yourself to that elevated condition as the servant
a world flooded with light, pictures, and forms. That is described to
these picture-seals are unsealed the astral world comes to meet us,
plane; the seer can only rise to this world if his or her spiritual
of your own physical world in the near future. The present, today, in
the astral world, is the future in the physical, so that the seer can
tree, the world-ash, the symbol for threefold human nature. The middle
for what has been incorporated, the world-ash is called
worlds.
into the mysteries of the world. I can best explain this if I relate
in the world that can become a knowing being if it cannot, like a human
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