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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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many years have been concerned with answering this very question, you
opposition to what has been achieved in so admirable a way by the
knowledge itself, have all been evolved from investigation of the
In the realm of philosophy, of course, many endeavours have been made
within those boundaries and limits of which mention has been made.
been given to us — they enter the consciousness as something
development and ordinary education. With what has thus been acquired,
lies before the soul; the old forces have simply been strengthened,
but of the living forces which have been working at the upbuilding of
has been enhanced to the level of a free ‘I.’ Such is the
exercises have been practised for a long time, the point is reached
What has here been said is by no means as unessential as might
as the result of meditation, it has been filled with intensified
higher worlds. For when the consciousness, having first been filled
with the tableau of life, with perception of the ether-body, has been
after the life-tableau has been eliminated from our consciousness. It
are used purely in connection with what I have been describing. I
instinctively, unconsciously, whereas what I have been describing is
existence. This body of formative forces has now been suppressed and
been absorbed during earthly life, but we comprehend man in his whole
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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has been more or less avoided by occultists, mystics and
of homelessness has been attained, the way may be found back to the
been the case, to fulfill a common mission for humanity. But the
their existence which have just been described; so truly are they
have been at work in those civilizations, working successively. We
who has been longest absent, takes his turn again; so that, in a

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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ground and of what has been brought there by the migrations of the
of our humanity there have always been beings who have remained
attained certain attributes if such sacrifices had not been made.
because no language has as yet been created which would make all this
from within man has not yet been equaled by any other people in the
all of them there could at that time be observed what has just been

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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inwardly with what has just been described. Thus far can the
a correct picture of it, if you take what I have been describing not

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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man in a way that would have been impossible in the normal course of
If you remember what has been said about the education
already often been repeated, and which after the last physical birth
and up to the seventh year, has for the present been repeated up to
who might have been Spirits of Motion during the Earth evolution, but
evolution would have only been bestowed at about his twentieth year.
corresponding installment. If man had indeed been exclusively given
otherwise have been. He would otherwise up to that period of his life
twenty-first year. He would not have been able to go through the
preceding states upon the earth. He would have been obliged to go
different being, he would not have been bound to the earth to the
persons who walked on earth would have been of the same form and
would have had the same form. There would have been only one kind of
which he lives, than he would otherwise have been. He has become
in the middle third of his life, he would have been independent of
epoch of evolution shall have been succeeded by the sixth and
which he had already been in times lying very far back. In the
which has not yet been examined and of which the Indian civilization
revealed in what has already been described, namely, that
evolution which has always been known to those who were initiated
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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what has already been explained, you will then know that we so
which has been received and absorbed, the music of the spheres sounds
in what has been prepared for them by the higher hierarchies, and
been no Saturn incarnation of our earth, the will of man on the one
to it you connect feeling. You have already been told that the
been expressed in quite a special way by means of a geometrical
the working of Love outside our earth-planet; and we have been able
Thus we have been able to throw light upon that which

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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normal Spirits of Form would have been necessary. These are the same
not otherwise have been able to bring about the equilibrium requisite
his soul he still had the Great Spirit. His speech has been preserved

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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the division into races, there has been sent, since the Atlantean
forward into Asia, into Indian territory, and that, as has often been
Spirit of the Age, after he had been promoted to the first Spirit of
has been spun out by the Semitic Spirit in the course of thousands of
time have been possible to him, and became the guiding Spirit of the
impulse had been given to humanity, had renounced becoming an Archai,
who had risen from having been the Archangel of the Roman people and
Germanic peoples, who had been one of their guiding Archangels and
later on the Saga said that Asgard had actually been situated on this
In the way in which it has been developed out of the

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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time have been a similar understanding of the unique character of the
All that had been accomplished in their souls, their astral and
domain they had already been formerly, and who were therefore no
to be found in Greek mythology had been forgotten by the Persians and
to them has been preserved in a wonderful way It was described as a
that in him one must recognize a Being who might indeed have been
been handed down. For us it is a question of being able to understand
been known and revered, because he was a mighty Being who was seen to

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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and more to consciousness. In connection with this it has been said,
civilization were the very first who, after they had been able in old
soul development had already been acquired.
has been permeated by the Luciferic power. When, therefore, we speak
were his followers, if he had not been obliged to allow another power
that is only to be found where spiritual science has been taught.
have been seized by sickness and death, lying and untruthfulness, and
case might have been quite different. The man might have had a stroke
might have been caused by the fall, so that outwardly the case may
have been as described, and yet death would have come about from an
elemental nature of the original impressions has been lost. The old
once been accessible. Hence in Asia Minor one could well understand
other powers will have been added to it, and the spheres of power and
Gods has been, and how they entered into relation with other powers.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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collective picture; and you will perceive from what has been said,
Christ-impulse had been given to the earth, Tacitus could describe
peoples in other parts of Europe other tasks had already been given
through such a previous evolution, but had been placed on the
had been driven outwards, you will find that the great historical
primeval clairvoyance and which had already been poured into the
have been impossible for a Hegel to have looked upon his ideas as
realities, it would have been impossible for him to make the strange
perfecting of the spiritual forces had been accomplished. But there
things. If you compare this with the results that have been obtained
find them among the Slav peoples which have been pushed forward
conception of Christ has been able to come in the East than in
has as yet only been able to reveal to man a small degree of what it
and everything which has been expressed in the many theological
the sixth stage of culture. This has been prophetically expressed in
Christ, — so far as it has been worked out in

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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deal more to be discussed, and that on the whole we have only been
been given on this theme, the further discussion of which would not
developed and perfected in the way of capacities, and which had been
myth and it has been preserved in all that has come down to us in the
been preserved in the greatest purity in the Sagas which in former
of and felt as having originally been those angelic Beings who had
the one who continued all that had been formerly received in
been perceived in primal clairvoyance. That is reflected in the
which he has been educated by his preceding clairvoyant perceptions.
has been implanted, inoculated into the thoughts and feelings of this
time been communicated to a few individuals from within the esoteric
occur that which has so often been spoken of here, and will again and
false materialism, and indeed, there have always been individuals
test. But this we may say, that nowhere has the ground been better
when other forces have meanwhile been at work upon the human soul.
that ‘ I ’ has been educated on the physical
the human soul-forces, had to be subdued by that which had been given
which had in the meanwhile been educated on the physical plane. Freyr
during the Kali Yuga has been developed as a healthy force into a new
be seen from the fact that a picture has been found in the vicinity
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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have been asked to speak to-day on the subject: Paths leading to
has been the endeavour of science, and rightly so, to develop more
been enhanced by the use of scientific experimental research, where
the tableau of which I have spoken has been suppressed, so that an
Through Anthroposophy we have thus been able to exercise a
my Threefold State the attempt has been made to face the great social

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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Thanks to an anonymous donation, this lecture has been made available.
behind, and in addition to what has been described to you, in
must link him up with the animal line of descent (this has been
has hitherto been possible through the occidental consciousness.
no attempt has been made to study super-sensible things in the

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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Thanks to an anonymous donation, this lecture has been made available.
been taken. After examining all the facts, Sir Oliver Lodge came
photograph he had shifted his camera a little. All this had been
believer. He briefly recapitulates what I have been giving you as
strangest theories have been advanced in this connection. I might
exercises have been made for a sufficiently long time, when we
our thinking has been intensified. The thoughts remain behind

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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one which hitherto has been more or less eschewed particularly by
occultists, mystics and theosophists, and has been eschewed for the
homelessness, has been reached, the ‘homeless man’ may
measure than has hitherto been the case in order to fulfil a mission
various inspirers of the peoples have successively been at work in
this coming epoch certain aptitudes which had been implanted in

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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evolution of mankind there have always been Beings who remained
to penetrate deeply into human nature. In what respects has man been
attributes if such sacrifices had not been made.
language because no language has as yet been invented which would

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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have been revealed from time to time. From what source could the
in the proper perspective if we take what I have been describing not

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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man has been able to develop a fourth member, an ego. These four
been created through a complex interplay of spiritual forces. We have
in a way that would have been impossible in the normal course of
been repeated) and which from the last physical birth up to the age
of seven has for the time being been recapitulated in a particular
the eyes of these Spirits of Form all that has been developed in man
have been Spirits of Movement during the Earth-evolution, but who
man had been wholly subject to the influence of the normal Spirits of
situation would have been totally different, so that everything
has become a more material being than he would otherwise have been.
twentieth or twenty-first year. He would not have been able to go
through the preceding conditions on Earth; he would have been obliged
between twenty and forty, it would have been the intention of the
would otherwise have been; he has become dependent on the locality
him. It would have been of no consequence whether he had incarnated
in the middle third of his life or whether he had been born in the
been subject from earliest times. In the primeval past men owed their
yet been studied and of which the Indian civilization now known to
been transformed through the forces of rejuvenation. Thus the Persian
connected with the spiritual evolution which has always been known to

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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other, to the human will. Now if there had been no Saturn incarnation
physical body and the life of will could not have been bestowed upon
been chosen by the Spirits of Form who work chiefly on the Earth and
perfect harmony between these three elements, each of which had been
occult symbolism this Earth-mission has always been expressed in a
we have been able to throw light upon that which weaves on the loom

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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Earth-evolution, it would have been necessary for the normal Spirits
evolution of man has only been made possible because one of the
detaching one of their members, otherwise they would not have been
been preserved to us and it is noteworthy because it provides

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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been followed by a second migration of peoples. If we wish to
has often been pointed out, the nuclei of future peoples remained
post-Atlantean civilization after their Archangel had been promoted
from West to East had long been under the guidance of Archangels when
Hierarchies, has been represented in the most diverse ways and in a
synthesizing activity of the ‘I’ has been distilled by
Beings from the ranks of the Hierarchies, this could not have been
been sent in ancient times from the West towards the East had
important Archangel who, soon after the Christian impulse had been
the various Germanic peoples of Europe had originally been guided by
peoples, had been one of their guiding Archangels and had then risen
pattern. It passed from the several guiding Archangels, who had been
because such a trifolium is at work in our whole culture it has been
mission from that place which in ancient times had been the spiritual
there, legend tells of Asgard having been actually located
which (in certain respects) have been overshadowed by the rising
developed after be has been nurtured by the Christian Time Spirit.

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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At one time there must have been identical understanding of the
found in Greek mythology had been forgotten by the Persians and
recall in retrospect how the souls of men had been ‘in-formed’
upon a time in the primeval past had been the draught of the Giants.
development had been deferred, whereas the Eastern peoples by-passed
mightiest Angels who had ever been honoured or revered, because he
to look back to earlier stages, to what had been told him about the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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Indian civilization who had been able in Atlantis to perceive the
human astral. Where the astral has been integrated with the ego, the
ego too has been permeated by the Luciferic power. When therefore we
deeper into material, sensory existence than would have been the case
he had not been obliged to submit to the influence of another power
injuries.” But there might have been a totally different
have fallen down while already dead. The injuries might have been
say if it had been obliged to ascribe this threefold influence to
this myth has been developed in response to this clairvoyance. What
accordance with this influence if he had not been subject to Loki's
memories of the fact that once upon a time there had been an old
spiritual world had once been within reach. Hence the peoples of Asia
have been added to it, and the spheres of power and the relationships
been the destiny of the old Gods and what was their relation to other

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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great collective task. You will realize from what has been said that,
the peoples in other regions of Europe had already been given other
the Spiritual Soul with the human ego had not yet been realized
the Sentient Soul had already been imbued, had to develop in a wholly
not have been possible for a Hegel to have looked upon his ideas as
realities; it would have been impossible for him to make the strange
etheric body after the spiritual forces of soul had been adequately
and had been developed in the post-Atlantean epoch. Something like an
which had been brought over from Atlantis. The Atlantean civilization
the West has been moulded by the influence of successive and related
been possible for Eastern Europe to develop a much more advanced
of the West where the conception of the Christ has been introduced by
only a beginning, because the Christ Impulse has only been able to
civilization. This had been prophetically expressed in Solovieff's
of it. The conception of Christ, in so far as it has been developed
seen, had been developed out of the old Greek Time Spirit and had

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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to incarnate in human bodies whose capacities had gradually been
been a matter of actual vision. This Goddess offered the human bodies
has been preserved in the greatest purity in those sagas which arose
a time specially favoured Gods of the North, had originally been
hitherto been received in a clairvoyant form. He was the living
the physical plane what had been perceived in primeval clairvoyance.
manifest on the physical plane that for which he has been prepared
convinced that what has been implanted, ‘injected’ into
in the world in which He has always been present since the Mystery of
I have just said is a truth which has long been communicated to a
century. It will be a severe test for those who have been prepared by
is no doubt that nowhere has the ground been better prepared to
again in an epoch when other forces meanwhile have been at work upon
man with an ego. This ego has been developed on the physical plane,
moulded the human soul-forces, had to succumb to that which had been
which meanwhile had been developed on the physical plane. Freyr was
than the tendency to cling to the old clairvoyance which has not been
clairvoyance. Vidar who has been silent until now will overcome the
future mission. Only vague intimations of his image have been given.
This may be seen from the fact that a picture has been found in the
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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been written down, in future times of humanity it will
been the case before. I know that such a statement seems highly
already been able to speak on several occasions in this very
be found. Anyone who assimilates w hat has been said in
be found that the scale upon which have been laid all the
the scale upon which have been laid all the deep feelings and
that has been said about the founding of Christianity, let us
But if someone has been forsaken by the good spirit of
been forsaken by the good spirits of both! For Darwinism,
a case the idea of reincarnation has been grafted into the soil
impulses of Darwinism have been born out of the Christ Impulse,
might have been possessed by souls without much intellectual
have been saying to-day. This above all will be clear to us:
From the event of Pentecost pours the stream that has been described.

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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awakened, feeling at the moment of waking that they had been
seemed to the Apostles as if they had been living for a long
as if they had been quickened from on high by the
been wakened to life by the primal force of Love pervading and
people as if these men had been transformed, as if their very
souls had been made new; they seemed to have lost all
who had been awakened by the Spirit of Cosmic Love, now felt
he had been asked whether he knew the Galilean; and now he knew
break free from much that has been and will be instilled into
high level of intellectuality had been attained. In many
Aristotle has never since been surpassed. Intellectuality
knowledge had been acquired. And if one pictures this
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha had been spread abroad by
consciousness has been mustered, one realises: all this
grave in which the body of Jesus had been laid, and the stone
Jesus had been received into the earth. The stone, however,
still lay where it had been hurled. — Once again let us
preceded as it had been by infinite suffering, was in
all-prevailing Cosmic Love which had previously been
death of Jesus, been born into the earth. In the abstract, such
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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narrated now. They had been quickened, awakened as it were by
earthly Being. Infinite depths have been expressed when it is
Being has been together with human souls on the earth; before
earth-sphere shall have been duly transformed. Since the days
of Palestine the Christ Being has therefore been a power in the
In the soul of one who had been initiated in the fifth degree,
experiences which imparted to it the content I have just been
When the sixth degree of the old Initiation had been attained,
what has been brought to life in the soul of a Sun-Hero can be
Sun-Heroes of old had been transported into the higher worlds,
For just think what has been the outcome of it all in the
evolution of humanity, think of how it has been misunderstood!
And yet, what an impulse has been given! But these things are
been in the nature of a fraud, condoned by Christ Jesus as an
life been as Renan describes it! But in times to come it will
have been heard at that time by highly developed
been wrought on the earth! This was the time when the Christ

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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recorded in the Gospels, for if in those days attempts had been
actually been recorded, many other things may have
from that time in his life of which indications have been given
Gospel have been communicated. [See e.g.
Not only had he been able in his twelfth year to give
believed had been bestowed upon me, only lead to the
welling up within him; a deep impression must have been made
upon the sorrowing people, who had been forsaken by their
art the new priest who has been sent to us! And they pressed
which I have been speaking. Jesus of Nazareth heard the
Nobody before him had been able to witness to what degree of
none had been capable of such infinite depth of feeling when
symbol that has been preserved in many Orders to this day. And
had been erected in Jerusalem so that the Essenes too might
Nazareth there was an Essene settlement which had been one of
Jesus of Nazareth in the way that has been described.
been able inwardly and completely to exchange the doctrines of
spectacle when he came to places where gates had been made for
And gradually the vision, the impression had been
had many times been aware of this.
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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the amalgamation of the two families had for long years been
his mother. For all these years there had been a very deep and
come over him. The first fruit of this wisdom had been
entirely aloof from mundane affairs; he had been keenly
twelfth year, it seemed as if all this had been driven out of
the deeper spirit of the universe, how open his soul had been
life had been since his twelfth year, how he had found himself
eighteenth and twenty-fourth years he had been brought into
achievements. And he often thought of what he had been before
yearnings for all that he had been before his twelfth year. And
so highly what he himself felt had been surmounted. And he
believed had been bestowed upon me is valueless for the world
spoke of a man who had been a great teacher and whose words had
knew how profound had been the words spoken by Hillel. It was
story that has been preserved about him is deeply indicative as
showing him to have been a man of infinite patience with
grandeur and the glory of what had been contained in the
teaching and had been an all-powerful prayer in the Mysteries
but now forgotten. This prayer had been revealed to him when he
discern all the wisdom that had been alive within him since his
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Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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It has never been translated into English, and never before published
Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture has been made available.
question that has been announced for today's topic, a question
memory that is different from what had been perceived in the
far as you really feel something that has not yet been felt. It
has been felt in the physical body, and now one begins to feel
could likewise place together in thoughts what has been
space-body ever since we have been on earth as human beings.
asleep — such attempts have indeed also been made in
been prepared by his parents and forefathers. And from the deep
to know the things as they have been portrayed. But just as

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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humanity has been passing. I cannot help thinking to-day of the
been within the reach of many leading men, they were not willing to
relations between the European Folk-Souls, and indeed I have been
Anglo-South African statesman has not been grasped in Europe. The
remains. It has been superseded by great world-affairs as between the
to lie fallow in the culture which has been developing since the
a theme like this — which has been dealt with from so many angles
been compressed and then released again, as if a sphere had undergone
been taken as an indication of the different forces which pour down to
is why it has been imperative to infuse something of Anthroposophy

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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Archangel for the purposes of cosmic evolution, what has been carried
consciousness has been purely materialistic. It is not quite accurate
estranged from earthly existence, he has been growing more and more
mother-tongue may have been implanted in him deeply and inwardly or
It makes a great difference in which of these two ways a man has been
all the conditions described have been fulfilled by the achievements

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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various manifestations have been influenced by the spiritual world.
of their effects; he does not realise what deeper forces have been and
North may well have been perplexed, for it really was as though men
pieces. Those who were only onlookers must certainly have been
things have been happening South of you in which your participation
has been different from that of the peoples who live in the South of
Europe, in Western Asia, or in Middle Europe. There has really been an
been quite different, those secrets which were felt to need the
had taken place. In the first centuries it had still been found
sublime spirituality. This spirituality had been gradually swept
wisdom which had once been alive in men receded from the spiritual
had been learnt from the Gods — not from men.
have been inherited from those men who once migrated towards the South
East, to men whose own religious doctrines had been preserved in a

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These talks reveal a particular aspect of how humankind has been
the etheric bodies of the great Atlantean initiates had been
etheric and astral body of Zarathustra had been woven into
existed that such etheric bodies, which had been cultivated
been the case with the etheric body of Shem so that the
Christ-Event. However, this would not have been a sufficient
epoch. Parsifal had been instructed not to ask too many
was already alive in them and by what had been woven into
Rosicrucian spiritual orientation has been investigated in
the means the student himself has been instructed to utilize
proclaims wisdom that has been investigated today. It was

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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the international social democracy had been cheered.
been established to-day between the impulses of production and
the needs of consumption by what has been characterized.
have often been understood by others in an utopian sense. They
have often been transformed into utopia, whereas they were not
absorbed by the collectivism which had been caused by the
am convinced that many clever things have been written and said
already been thought through to its final consequence in its
have been declared necessary by many. From economic life the
with the goods when they have been produced, is subject to the
organism it has often been asserted that in the last resort
Social Question” must be treated. Nowhere has it been
there has been talk of how the human embryonic development

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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these photographs, nor that they had been taken. After
had been described exactly. A conscientious scientist could not
way a blind believer. He briefly recapitulates what I have been
waking and sleeping. The strangest theories have been advanced
When such exercises have been made for a sufficiently long
asleep, only because our thinking has been intensified. The

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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experiments have already been made with the application of
thinking has been emancipated from its connection with the
The human being will only be understood if what has been

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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thoughts which I have been putting before you, will show you
beliefs, for they have been trained to accept that certainty
remains behind, and in addition to what has been described to
kingdom, — as has been done for some time.
higher stage it reveals everything which has been developed in
from what it has hitherto been possible for Western
can be “certain.” Up to now no attempt has been

Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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nature from three standpoints from which a study of man has been
its original and proper form, has always been something secret and
to this love in freedom, had not egoism been implanted into his nature
is filled with egoism, and endless harm has been wrought by it in
always been required of those to whom means of occult knowledge were
going to speak is in our own time undergoing change, but it has been
impossible, when his power of knowledge has been transformed and he
and always has been, what has in more recent times been called
In the Mysteries the aim has always been to remain as human as
ideas. But it has been done and to no small extent, in various regions
which occult knowledge has only been clothed When this has been ably
existence had been in the form of theosophy, that form began now to
existence have been clothed is the philosophical. Occult knowledge is
has been acquired outside the physical body; philosophy tries, in so
kind of preparatory introduction to our studies, You will have been
always been recognised as single and universal. It is true that in the
understandable that occultism has been clothed in many and varied ways
been educated, one will readily perceive the difficulty of presenting
just as you understand me, recognising what has been imparted to me as
truth, so am I ready to recognise the share of truth that has been
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been more than a few who were found ripe to partake in all that went
It will, however, also have been clear to you from many other lectures
acquired in occult life. What has just been said is intended to be
life have been the one and only world in which he lived and to which
up to now been holding in remembrance. As one erases an idea that one
judgment they have so far been able to attain, they find the statement
that what has been said must necessarily be false, because it contains
cannot possibly have any similarity with the world that has been ours

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And now if the pupil is rather weak in nature and has not been
of ordinary life and about natural science, has on the other hand been
develop in such thinking contains nothing that has not been
from Saturn, Sun and Moon — have been paralysed and held in check
thoughts that have been preserved in the memory, like thoughts one is
extent been paralysed in us, but we have in the brain some small
been simply the re-incarnation of what had been present in Saturn, Sun
and Moon, if it had been able to give man no more than the forces it
philosophy that will, I think, be clear to you from all we have been
know. He sees only the shadow pictures of thought which have been
may be quite sure it has been borrowed from tradition; it has been
the higher, super-sensible members have been freed also from the heart.
already been speaking to you in shadow pictures which you yourself
healthy, this will always be so; everyone who has not been made ill by
with a quite un-ordered thinking, with a thinking which has been
I felt as though I had been stung, — really just as though a
gadfly or a bee had stung me! Spiritually, that was how I felt. I was

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been given to man, for the simple reason that he cannot find them
You know very well that there has always been in the world what we
This is how it has been with all religions, and in a certain respect
consequently been able to bring down from spiritual worlds and
himself. Such knowledge could only have been attained by undergoing
break down the human consciousness. Their concern has ever been to
Here we have an echo of the same feeling, and its mystery has been
he has been united with the Divine. If the mystic is to retain any
have been able to learn from the kinds of mysticism we have studied

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of Jesus Himself, Whom they regarded as a Bridegroom. Had it not been
was seventeen years of age he had been another ego, — in that
about their origin? Have they been aroused by any object in the whole
It is a judgment to which, in fact, expression has been given by man
What has here been described is, so to speak, the first elementary
being. The human form as such has been extinguished; not so,
human form has been put together.
twelve parts or members. These twelve members have always been
What we gave as the first member has been called “Ram”

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a higher consciousness. What we have just been describing must at some
brain. It is quite possible to feel it as a brain that has been
Then you would have a brain that has simply been pulled out into the
simply non-existent, had the hands been organs of utility.
which we have here been considering. This aspect of the Mysterium
been dealing today. The formula becomes then an expression of the

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The explanation that has been given enables us to recognise the fact
The conditions I have been describing are dream conditions, and they
— for they have been thrust under our very eyes — all manner
has been spread abroad, quite enough to demonstrate that fantasy is a
Star worshippers, because they have been guided that way by their
There have been peoples of this character, who in certain naturally
times would not have understood if they had been told: “Pray to
been told that the organ of their thinking had its origin in the far
the Sun and Star worshippers. Similarly it would have been of no use
Moses did say to the Hebrew people. It could not have been said to the
peoples. This clairvoyance had been given to man, — as a kind of
to do today, consequently the connection that has here been set forth

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We have been considering the human form — to all appearances
work that has been done upon our inner man. If you take this into
human form, but there least of all; a far greater influence has been
been heard with the ear, that the ear has had no part in its reaching
merely memory pictures of sense impressions that have been changed by
that many who have aspired to be occultists have not been able to
man would have become if he had been given the handling of him,
human form has been destroyed, when man turns round, as it were, and
has been taken from him, then he beholds two things. In the first
wherewith he may tempt man. Man's attention has first been directed to
described him, has always been expressed in occult symbolism in
has always been called the eagle and which belongs in the whole
Nor has the worst yet been told! Many a man might be ready to make up
Over there I have been a Self. There is, as we said, extreme
has already been able to be for man on Earth, in addition to the
could be made than to overlook what has just been explained and speak
however, the Baptism had been the corresponding act of initiation, it
would have been described differently. We would have been told how

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if within the Earth world he has been able to receive the Christ
reality long been lost, — namely, that the Evangelists spoke
been apportioned by the higher Gods to the kingdom of Lucifer. But
has been said with intelligence and understanding. The corresponding
at once from what we have been considering that you really only need
it any more has once been carried out by him with all his might,
connections we have been considering, and you will recognise that
And then having been born as the son of King Suddhodana, ascended in
task of deep significance. When the eye of the occultist has been
for him to appear again in Earth life, he has been given a new

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learn also what has again been described in outline in my Occult
passed through an upward evolution, and from having been a Spirit who
as he stands before us, been created out of worlds that go as far as
experience all that belongs to the laws that have been brought over to
of all the parts into a complete whole; and this has been destroyed by
knowledge. The facts of which I have been telling you — if you
themselves when what we have just been saying is taken in connection
been present; and the objection frequently made from a materialistic
solve this problem. Recall in thought all that I have been telling
Buddha one who had long ago been sent out by Christ and had the task
Buddha, having been with Christ for a longer time than the other Earth
relationship to the Christ, because he had been sent out by the Christ
carrying out on Mars the mission for which he had so long been
forms of occult knowledge have been able to impress their influence on
The answer is, that by taking together all that has been given in the
understanding, in our time it must become theosophy. There has been an
had been communicated to them earlier, when they did not understand
been passing through an epoch in his evolution when the occultisms
philosophical ideal (which has necessarily only been held by a few)

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spiritual-super-sensible has often been called by me, as well as
assume that this time has been spent by us in the same way as
After our physical body has been discarded in death, the part
has been passed through in reverse; a period during which we
into full consciousness once the etheric body has been
until the physical body's earthly course would have been
souls who, having died or not yet having been born, undergo no
proofs have little meaning. People, who have been told that

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earth-life, as has been described, until we arrive again
Immediately after the etheric body has been discarded by us in
but which has been granted to us by the gods in the form of
outer event has been transformed into an inner
years. A world has been woven into an ideational image. Only
which has been prepared for a long time, to enter into
has been manifested to us as a revelation — we also
forth from man's innermost depth when the child, having been

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that the Christ had been with them in their sleep. Only they
they had been together, in their pre-earthly existence, with
that the Christ had been with him during his sleep. After the
This inner soul-responsibility has been laid upon the human
(These conceptions have been modified, but still prevail
whole world has been turned upside down. To the sleeper

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three soul-activities have been often discussed by me.
the image engendered within you after this intention has been
accidental. And it really seems as if the two persons had been
man's thirty-fifth year has been longed for and striven for by
the other man was encountered. All this has been carried out in
has been poured into our soul out of former lives. These former
been formed in the sleeping state of the present
have been predestined for him by his destiny, his Karma.
the present earth-life most of what had been destined to be
everything on qualities that have been inherited from the
then destiny has been woven anew night by night. Man's ordinary
which has been weaving, in the sleeping state, outside
been woven as moral element must unite itself, during the
spiritual germ of the physical body. Then, whatever has been

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These matters have been discussed by me in previous Kristiania
thoughts had been given to him by the stars; but he attained,
This thought which in the primeval Indian epoch would have been
Now, if man's vision had not been awakened in another way, all
men on earth have been redeemed from the riddle of death by the
the manner in which Christianity had been disseminated. Why had
although we admire in the highest degree what has been
been bequeathed to us through the glory of the Vedas, the

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he had been told in the wisdom-schools.
This unison with the year has been partly preserved, especially
very few people who had been able to retain an understanding of
earthly is influenced by the stars. All this, however, has been

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und sich nicht beeinflussen lassen durch Voreingenornrnenheit

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indem er den letzteren regiert und leitet. Beeinflußt werden die
fünf Mittelpunkte der Beeinflussung möglich sind durch
Beeinflussung ergeben in ihrer Rückstrahlung, in ihrer
beeinflußt durch die von der Sonne einströmenden Elohirn.

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physische Weltanschauung am meisten beeinflußt ist von

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only as big as a beetle who crawls around on a cabbage leaf. This

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have been given that enable us to reach it. But the path is difficult

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of vices would have been awakened in him if the 12 priests

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been tested repeatedly by those whom we call the masters of wisdom

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should only say what's been checked and is true. It's not

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that every star is peopled by spiritual Beings with whom he had been
Long before the Mystery of Golgotha took place, men had been able to
had been quite forsaken by the Christ-power, were no longer able to
themselves and the Christ had been severed. This was because they were
Since then, men have been able to look to that which happened on
would otherwise have been lost to them because the heavens were no
from whom we should perforce have been separated, had He not come down
own day there have been only the external words of the Gospels,
His disciples and gave them further teaching. A power had been given
conviction had been that Christ is to be found only when, by means of
This would in fact have been the lot of mankind if Christ in His
Him, has been rescued and restored through the Deed of Golgotha. Ever
it has hitherto been proclaimed, may have been carried to Africa or to
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forms. Understanding is achieved only by living cognition that has been

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spatial dimension has been extinguished; and it is extinguished if he
formerly music had been experienced outside man in a kind of ecstasy,
direct reality. Only when reality has been taken care of does phantasy
had been softened to meter and measure through seeing the Italian

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historical considerations — than has been the case
been the case until now. Does this seem to be a
been the case though? A very simple consideration can prove
in human thinking which has not been improved upon until
there are no Gospels. We will ignore what has been said
didn't change the fact that Copernicus had been a
teething problems of natural science have been overcome,
called and has been called Christian has been brought forth
against Christianity has been brought forth from the
can believe that, it means that he has been abandoned by
been present during the spreading of these impulses. One
which has been described flowed out from the Pentecost

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dream-like state. As though they had been awakened by all
simple lives, but some of them had been acting strangely in
transformation, who had been awakened by the cosmic spirit
observation sees his normal consciousness as having been
human intellectuality had already been reached. And when we
which had been placed before the tomb was ripped away and a
Golgotha, something had been born to the earth which
of which beamed what I have been trying to describe in
And now they realized that they had been with the Christ,
apostles had really been with Christ Jesus before the
consciousness had been dimmed. They therefore realized that
Pentecost-Mystery, emerge as having been experienced in a
that I have been led to Christianity and to Christ by the

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been with human souls on the earth. What the Christ-Being
developed in spiritual science. It has been brought to your
could not suffer. It is just because it has been relieved
greatly have they been misunderstood over the ages! And
into the Christ Jesus. Oh, much karma would have been
if his life had been as Renan describes it. In the future,
without karma having been created. That is the message of
the masses, who had previously been amazed at the

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Jesus is said to have been lost and he is found again
illnesses. The place of worship had long since been
people who had been abandoned by their priests and, as they
earthly being, because no one previously had been able to
has been retained. The Essenes' objectives were also
which had been painted or were even close to graven images.
which such experiences have been stored and carries them
had been an occasional means of Divine communication

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mother, with that person who had been his mother for many
heart felt then. As a boy he had been detached from the
being. Now it seemed as if all that had been eradicated
thought and felt about how previously he had been united
been open to the depths of infinite space. And how since
twenty-fourth years he had been in contact with the
a great teacher had recently been more or less ignored. For
meaningful story has been preserved which shows how Hillel
it had been forgotten, but had come to him when he fell
felt as though everything which burdened him had been
been in spiritual regions, who previously had not lived on
had been with them as Jesus of Nazareth. They knew his
been with them as Jesus of Nazareth. They spoke of his love
and had only been stung by Ahriman, was able to accomplish
spirits of the higher hierarchies, had been forgotten. And
been transformed became his disciples and followed him.
physical body, the mystery of all that had been revealed to
has been said about the Fifth Gospel in the appropriate
that there are people who have been saying for a long time

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the various forms of a primal wisdom that has been flowing through
belongs among the oldest ancient documents of Christianity, has been
for example, the descent of the Messiah who had been proclaimed, or
that a mistake had been made in calculation; the date for the fulfillment
times entirely permeated with a materialistic attitude, it has been
the Christ who had been previously announced; for behind the mystery
body all that had been prepared in the astral through occult exercises.
the old initiation had been the knowledge that the Messiah was to come,

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economy that what has once been achieved for humankind is not lost.
prophets had been given the idea of the great being, Ahura Mazdao,
of consciousness had been maintained.

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were characterized by whatever aspect had been most formed in them on

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but, through legends, to come to realize what humanity has been given

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anchored in the human being, would not have been understood. In ancient
would have been present,
had been in a position to observe the earth through millennia then,
Ahura Mazdao, who had been proclaimed by Zarathustra, became at that
against all. But the souls who will have been preserved from the sixth
which was the first polemic against Christianity. It has been lost

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that the human being would have been hardened in body and soul. Only
had been when the sun had not yet separated from the earth. At that
all we have been describing was reflected in the worship of Isis in
have forgotten their old companions who had been so well remembered
of Christ. And just as we call sunlight that has been reflected

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etheric bodies, which have been transformed and prepared by initiates,
Then, any special individual who had been assigned a special mission
Parzival neglected to do one thing. He had been told that he should
be inspired by what lived in them, what had been woven into them. But now
introduced that has been much persecuted, the Rosicrucian training that
today has been researched directly in higher worlds with spiritual eyes

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With human beings, the instincts have been gradually refined and we

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what for them had become absolute shadows. The soul had been completely
will appear as a humanity that has been outwardly vanquished. The people

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people will have been pushed down. This is why the writer of the Apocalypse
to the Christ being, who has been working in the central regions of
been explained in occult schools by real experts who do not explain

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etheric body has been perfected more than the astral but less than the
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The people who have been saved
can develop themselves further to a new sun state. What has been cleansed

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into the astral body. After it has been prepared in the last third of
been given to humankind not in order to agitate for Theosophy but rather
soul has been worked into the other members, human beings will have
angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, ‘Do
will feel for others. All those who have been separated out of the various
has always been opposed to making the esoteric exoteric. Hence, Christ
for it has come, the esoteric must always be made manifest. Had we been
been left behind. For this reason those who are the most deeply initiated,

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