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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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First Published 1947
Let me first of all express regret that I am unable to speak to you
The first faculty to which the attention of the bona fide spiritual
sets out to develop a first, elementary faculty of higher knowledge
glowing life and teeming content in what is, at first, a purely
have at first nothing either before us or within us that amounts to
indeed, is the first super-sensible reality to be experienced: a man’s
to be in and part of it. He feels: now for the first time I am
development which brings this first reality before the soul.
But as at this first stage we are simply surveying a tableau of our
higher worlds. For when the consciousness, having first been filled
the first Goetheanum), by Rudolf Steiner.], out of

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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[ Study Guide: Souls of the Nations — First Lecture ]
very, very little understanding. In the first place a certain
they have, first of all, an understanding of the folk to which they
other organs of perception. The first thing to be done, must be
how we do this is to be obtained by glancing in the first place at
to form the first foundations of his physical body, then those of his
or mind-soul, were first formed in our present earth-existence. The
him to-day, implanted first as a germ and then perfected further.
earlier. If we go still further, back to the first incarnation of our
Personality, Archai, or First Beginnings. So that, if we begin with
beings, down to ourselves. Therefore we can say: The First
perhaps there down below, far removed from the first place, ‘There
perceive, at first in an abstract form, that the intermediary between
it. It is true that man is in the first place a human individual, the
something over which as a human individual he has at first no

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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in the first place turn to the researches made by clairvoyant
mutually affect one another. They do it first of all as their own
4. First Beginnings, or Spirits of Personality, Archai,
the difficulty, one must first learn to discriminate in the higher
The first and chief thing brought about by this contact
forces at work; these are the First Beginnings, the Archai, or
take place. The lenses had first to be invented, cut, and put
introduced the post-Atlantean civilization in the first
people represented the first blossom of the culture of the
the secret of the first civilization of the post-Atlantean epoch.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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is first actually brought to a state of consciousness.
In the spiritual-soul is first to be found that which is
call the sentient-soul. It first works itself out and begins to
the Archangel as its first power. Then the Spirit of the Age comes
Spirit of the Age for a time, in the first enthusiasm which has
of which the separate individual peoples first arise. In this way we

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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that this possibility was first given by the Spirits of Form, those
twenty-first or twenty-second year. During this time the astral body,
then, in the first seven years of his life man would have had the
the first third of our earth life. We must therefore say: The first
first third of his life — the time up to his twentieth year —
first, or ascending third; in other words he must repay the
development of man in the first of his three epochs of life is, on
twenty-first year of his life, when he finds himself bound to the
twenty-first year. He would not have been able to go through the
to say, if man had gone through the first and last thirds of his life
first third of life, we with all our forces are bound to the earth
the latter portion of the Lemurian epoch and in the first part of the
spot where a man has to pass the first years of his life; and that
twenty-first year. Man would be a very different being if only the
find the very first starting-points of racial development in the
the old Indian civilization which appeared as the first
manifestations of a spiritual world work into his soul. The first
being who lives chiefly in the first force of human life, when, with
forth. At first he is only a being who grows physically. That which
in the small boy is compressed into a narrow space, must first expand
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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of all races and peoples through being incarnated first in one place
describe as the first Hierarchy above man. The second Hierarchy is as
of the North. Now the first thing he will say of it is: ‘Here
dense, rocky, stony substance over which he walks just as he first
that piece of ground we see before us what in the first place
on the map. In the first place I should like to draw your attention
outward, we look first of all through the sphere of the Spirits of
the sun. Light, therefore, is the element in which in the first place
there that the solid forms are produced. Man has at first no organs
first of all we look up at the sun, in which these forces are
Thrones, stream up to us from below. The first hierarchy is
within the beings. To this hierarchy belong in the first place, the
the earth are the Beings of the first hierarchy who for the moment
which live and weave around us in the ether, and in the first
and will, first of all in his own inner being. At the beginning of
Man is called upon first of all to bring about an equilibrium between
earth, namely, to bring about from within, first of all through his
That is in the first place a very abstract definition of
and will within man works first of all in such a way, that the actual
then in the first place characterized will, feeling and thought, and
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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forces does not correspond to their first direction, but the reverse
forces first of all when they reach the physical body. You know that
so that his racial character may come about, cannot at first work
directly into his higher parts. They seethe first of all in these

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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peoples whose Archangel was the first one to attain the rank of a
ruling class of that land and laid the foundations of the first
Spirit of the Age, after he had been promoted to the first Spirit of
it the leading one in the first post-Atlantean age of civilization.
people, He employed at first, while this race was gradually growing
that which was first of all given to the Archangel of the Northern
The peoples of Scandinavia, with their first Archangels,

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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the spiritual impulses therein described, it will be necessary first
wandering towards the East, at first slept as it were through the
At first he gazed upon the Archangel Beings who worked in his soul by

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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civilization were the very first who, after they had been able in old
first post-Atlantean age of civilization there came the feeling, that
civilization that one first began to speak of the relation of the
to enter which could not have done so, had not Lucifer first settled
three offspring. The first is the one who brings about selfishness.

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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longer possessed this blessing; which in the first place had not gone
Southern Germanic peoples had in the first place their task in the
first of all to develop what pertains to the inward preparation of
the first culture took place in the etheric body, after the necessary
happens first of all, when a Folk-spirit so leads his people that the
In the East we find in the first place a distinct consciousness of a
qualities. There were, then, two natures which must first of all be
only to be educated but to be taken care of, from the first stages of

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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new capacities begin to develop in man. These will at first appear in
come before his eyes which at first he will not understand. But if he
his actions in the etheric world. Thus gradually the first elements
in the etheric, at first by a few and afterwards by more and more
forward as the first pioneers of the Christ-vision, will be shouted
fantasy, everything that the first pioneers of the new
as a stimulus in the first place, and then place it at the service of
about that which could not yet be given in the first half of the
sentiment. While this was in a state of preparation the first half of

Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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First
should be developed first of all are the forces of thinking. This is
a first step in such a development, and we shall see that this does
stage of dilettantism, must in the first place observe a rule which
perception. The first thing which should be borne in mind when
reach a knowledge of the higher worlds. It is a first beginning in
this direction, a first step which anyone can make in ordinary life.
Yet it is at the same time a first step leading to a knowledge of the
from the head to any other form, but must first pass over to the
forms and pictures, enables us to reach the first stage in the
its very first steps to a development of otherwise dormant forces of
build up the human being and we first perceive them in connection
that even in the first decades of the 19th century people should have
You see, as a first indication of this third kind of thinking I must
have now described to you in the first place a path of knowledge. But
Let me now speak to you only of two kinds. The first is what we call

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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which is at first indistinct in our ordinary consciousness,
that in life itself feeling and will must first be drawn into the
objective and less selfish in its whole experience. The first
learned to know here in the physical world. And we first perceive
the world development should first be grasped through a kind of
human embryo how the limbs develop out of organs which at first
have a stunted aspect, how everything is at first merely head, we
already obtain the first elements of what reveals itself in the

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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firm standpoint in life, we must first obtain a conception of our
had a somewhat different pose than on the first one.
first bring forward the critical objections which can be raised
investigation practiced in Anthroposophy does not at first
after the first five minutes, but after two minutes!
first may really present a slightly comical aspect, but if they
woof of our thoughts must first be made strong enough, so that we

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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[ Study Guide: Souls of the Nations — First Lecture ]
homelessness they would meet with little understanding. In the first
external cognition. The first steps towards the understanding of this
characteristic example. First, we study the being of man. From the
developing is present in man today, at most only the first
his astral body which he has already achieved as a first step towards
in order to prepare the foundations, first for his physical body,
were first created during our present Earth epoch, the astral body
within him today implanted first as a seed and then perfected
earlier. If we go still further back to the first incarnation of our
day. To summarize: the First Beginnings, the Archai, were men on Old
Earth evolution, a stage that we shall first have to undergo in the
for the first time in the next incarnation of the Earth. They are
first, that the mediator between the two different kinds of Spirits
is, in the first place, an individual, a creation of his Ego being;

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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transformation of this body. Here we must first of all refer to the
First Beginnings, Archai or Spirits of Personality
difficulty is that one must first learn to discriminate in the
first and major effect of this contact between these Spirits with
First Beginnings, the Archai or Spirits of Personality, who during
one occasion, when for the first time specially polished lenses were
achieved. The lenses had first of all to be invented, polished and
as they ought to be on Earth, but are now for the first time working
in the ancient Indians of the first post-Atlantean epoch. It was
Indian people represented the first flowering of the post-Atlantean
secret of the first post-Atlantean civilization.

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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be incomplete we must first embark upon such inquiries as are
the human ego first becomes conscious.
is first developed in the Spiritual Soul. Nevertheless the ‘I’
the first time in the Intellectual Soul and only becomes fully
soul-life of the Archangel first begins with the existence of its

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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understand how man first came into existence through the cooperation
possible. The opportunity to develop ego-consciousness was first
education of the child you will know that in the first seven-year
first seven years of his life man would have the consciousness
about the first third of his life, is subject to the forces of the
external world. The first third of our Earth-life therefore is not
the age of twenty. To compensate for this man must spend the first
life man has to give back what he received during the first, the
associated with the development of man during the first of his three
development which he undergoes in his twentieth or twenty-first year
twentieth or twenty-first year. He would not have been able to go
man had lived through the first and last thirds of his life in the
influences of the first third of life, we, with all our forces, are
the first third of life when, in effect, he is under the dominion of
has to spend the first years of his life. And this influence is
Spirits before his twenty-first year on Earth. Man would be a totally
gradually being overcome. The first steps in this direction were
find that the very first indications of racial development could be
plane. For instance, the old Indian civilization, the first
first Indian civilization is in fact a revelation from spiritual
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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Archangels and the Archai or First Beginnings. This is the Hierarchy
we have the highest of the three Hierarchies — the first
landscape of Norway. His first impression will be of a rocky expanse
terms of his first impression, namely as hard “rocky
follow me on the sketch. In the first place let me draw your
we perceive first of all beyond the realm of the Spirits of Form who
the first (highest) Hierarchy. It is to the unique cooperative
Form first weave and work. Since, however, the activities of light
first, no organs that would enable him to see what lies beyond these
we gaze out into cosmic spaces and perceive first of all the Sun in
inner being of organic life. To this Hierarchy belongs, in the first
water, air and fire are the Beings of the first or highest Hierarchy
intimately into human souls. And so in the first (highest) Hierarchy
Old Sun and Old Moon epochs. This is not easy because we must first
between thinking, feeling and willing, first of all in his own inner
discord. Man is called upon first of all to strike a balance between
within, first of all through his whole being, a balance between what
considering Earth-existence in this way we first described thinking,
its cocoon. What is seen first of all in the astral world are Beings
transposed their sphere and are fallen Spirits, are the first Beings
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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preliminary conditions were first established for the further
racial character cannot at first work directly into his higher
vehicles. They are active first of all in these reflections of the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 7. Advance of Folk Spirits to the Rank of Time Spirits.
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first set out during the post-Atlantean epoch, then we must clearly
first to attain the rank of a Time Spirit. This was the stream which
class of that country and so laid the foundations of the first
to be the first Time Spirit or Archai-being of the post-Atlantean
ancient India and made it the leading culture of the first
at first, whilst this race was gradually developing, a kind of
centuries that the first steps were undertaken towards the
Grail. The Archangel of the Northern peoples first received his
peoples of Scandinavia, with their first Archangels, were at that

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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embodied therein, we must first of all bear in mind the fundamental
at first slept through, as it were, the period of emergence from the
first place he beheld the Archangelic Beings who worked in his soul

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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that time were in some respects the very first who experienced an
the whole it was within European civilization that one first began to
enter later on, which could not have done so had not Lucifer first
Sun Spirit, the Spirit of Light. He has first to show that this world
offspring. The first, the one who begets selfishness, is the Midgard
fact first plays a definite part in the Twilight of the Gods because
he overcomes even that power by which Odin is at first overcome. In

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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Germanic peoples to develop first of all what pertains to the inward
remarkable phenomenon. We have already said that the first
cultures. In the East we find, in the first place, a distinct
attributes. We must first of all understand the two natures of Christ
one suddenly senses the first stirrings of a later development. It is

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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first he does not understand. But if he has heard of Karma, of how
made visible in the etheric world. Thus the first elements of future
plane by a few isolated individuals at first, and later by increasing
traditions of the West, is that everything that the first pioneers of
those who take what is said as a stimulus in the first place and test
not yet be presented in the first half of the fifth post-Atlantean
peoples. This preparatory stage lasted for the first half of the
fifth post-Atlantean age. At first, all that could be achieved by way

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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Turning our attention first of all to the South of Europe in a
primitive people who were its first bearers, Christianity
Christ. Those first bearers of the Christian impulse who found
question to itself, it is led, first of all, to an event from
Impulse, was therefore directed, in the first place, to this
event that presents itself first and foremost to clairvoyant

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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Pentecost. I said in the first lecture that clairvoyant
research may first of all be directed to this event, for as we
experiences were for Peter the first result of the quickening
experienced then for the first time: When Jesus of Nazareth
This is, so to speak, the first knowledge we are able to read
and which now, at Pentecost, became alive in them for the first
so-called Fifth Gospel. And at the end of this first

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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spiritual experience attained, first of all, the rank called
a “Father.” In regard to the first four degrees it

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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in the form of Hebrew learning. At first the boy listened with
communicate for the first time when just recently we were

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture V
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come over him. The first fruit of this wisdom had been
thirty years. He therefore passed through His first earthly
the Christ Being was led, first of all, into “the
have to battle. And so the Christ Being, living for the first
First of all, the Christ Being within the body of Jesus
first time come to earth could not yet know. He did not know
He transposed into: “But deliver us,” and the first
Whereas in the first periods the Christ Being had been
before me what I said at the end of the first, namely,

Title: Eternal Soul of Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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First, as in previous lectures here, I must take a moment to ask
I have put this before you first of all as
the world, for I had first developed it within myself out of
First of all, we naturally use those
on earth. This is the first supernatural experience that the
comparison will know that this is the first step of a new
This is the first stage where one feels that he is this higher
— has wonderfully modeled our first — I want to say
human being, into this first stage of the supernatural
However, this is only the first stage of a
first stage we have reached nothing other than the
consciousness, this is the one who at first is wholly devoted
acquired conceptions stop. Think first of all about stopping
the human being when he, as a spiritual investigator, has first
Thus, the concepts that were first brought into consciousness
at first we are in one of the big, modern cities, where, if we
the complex concepts of the consciousness are first powerfully
rid of this entire picture of life that he had at the first
understand quite well, because you have first to think as a
distinct impression: When you want to see you have first to
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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realised that this harmony has first to be achieved in the realm of
The first thing we observe about a human being is his outer, physical
Moreover the three first-mentioned are the three stages of life which

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man ...
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the tapestry of sense. And what we discover first, is the lowest stage
sense, we are transported into the realm of the first rank of Beings
three kingdoms of Nature here in the world of sense. Even if at first
up, we should contact the world of the Angels, in the first place the
a few days after death. We see it at first as a tableau — a
to say, what the Beings of the First Hierarchy unfold together with
birth, man ascends, first to the world of the Angels, Archangels,
union with his Angel. But at first he is somewhat withdrawn from the
devotion have implanted in these thoughts. Our first meeting with the
But first and foremost our thinking must be permeated with real

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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consider the early centuries, the first, second and even the third
had taken place. In the first centuries it had still been found
in a particular form in the North during the first centuries of the
maintain their stand against what is brought over from the East, first

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture IX: Ancient Revelation and Learning How to Ask Modern Questions
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Christian writers in the first few centuries after the

Title: Colour: Part Three: Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World
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over-looked — that space-perspective first appeared, the

Title: Question/Economic Life: Lecture: The Central Question of Economic Life
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First of all I wish to thank the honourable chairman for his
first of all the spiritual realm, the realm of human

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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This book is a First Edition publication of three lectures,
gain a foundation and a firm standpoint in life, we must first
had a somewhat different pose from that on the first one.
criticize such great scientists is perhaps first called upon to
me first bring forward the critical objections which can be
Anthroposophy does not at first proceed from any abnormal
but in the afternoon, and who falls asleep not after the first
These things at first may really present a slightly comical
the web of thoughts, This web of our thoughts must first be

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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This book is a First Edition publication of three lectures,
research at first appear so paradoxical that it is necessary to
world, where the first object upon which we can look back is
use a comparison, it is as if we first had before us a picture
first of all are not those which are most familiar to us in
earthly life, not the closest, nearest things, but we first
this spiritual vision, this spiritual perception, must first be
since we first perceive most clearly of all, so to speak, the
the higher worlds unless we first acquire it through an earnest
existence after death. Differences become evident, if we first
our pre-existent life, we must first gain this capacity through
His first super-sensible experience is to look back from the
which constitutes the first experience after death through the
first condition as I have described it.
must first gain this experience through super-sensible
Act back to the First, try experiencing melodies inwardly, by
we have first constructed such a plan hypothetically and lead
the various epochs of his life, he makes the first step, the
renounce speaking of freedom of the human will at first, and to
but at first in the form of pictures. He receives them from the
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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This book is a First Edition publication of three lectures,
itself with organs. This soul-element, which is at first
feeling and our will must first be drawn in through special
so we recognise that in life itself feeling and will must first
whole experience. And so the first experience which we have
in the physical world. And we first perceive as a
the physical world, the forms in world-development should first
which at first have a stunted aspect, how everything is at
first actually head, we already obtain the first elements of
event through which the whole development of the earth first

Title: Lecture I: Man in the Light of Occultism
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subject of the first importance and value, and for theosophy
Now it is obvious that we shall first have to come to an understanding
on the other hand something that is of first importance for a
clairvoyant or occult knowledge. The first is the stage of Imaginative
able to acquire this faculty by first himself undergoing change; he
never work in the sense of egoism. That was the first and
only to those who had first learned the language. The language
ordinary human thoughts. Thus, the first step to be taken in an occult
to mankind at large. Just as truly as it is necessary in the first
essential and of the very first importance for all mankind. Occult
The first means employed to make occult knowledge comprehensible is,
only way in which man could approach the first foundations of
which we understand the word today. In the first Post-Atlantean epoch,
theosophy develops, it will, to begin with, concern itself first and
one another. The first condition for this, however, is that men should

Title: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Occultism
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will be necessary to speak first of the occult point of view. And we
A man who set out to attain occult knowledge had in the first place to
expression in the very first step he had to take for the development
of his soul forces. For the first thing the pupil had to do may be
with karma (or destiny) — that was the first thing demanded
positive sense. Here a man's karma comes to expression. And the first
development It was the first renunciation they were called upon to
they were shown first how to distinguish things and then how to
judgment on what they hear. But those who have first sharpened their
absolutely new world opened before the soul. There had first to be
stage of forgetfulness, the first characteristic can only be given in
The first is the unmanifest light. Look around you in the
light to reveal itself and be manifest. And yet the first thing man
realm of occultism. These are the first three actual occult things he

Title: Lecture III: Man in the Light of Occultism
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from him. That is the first experience, — flowing spiritual
light, without any outward manifestation at all. It is the first
This is the first experience for the aspirant after occultism, and it
life. At first it is weak, at first we have to be content with a small
the understanding. They do not, as at first, lay claim only to the
first experience the aspirant for clairvoyance undergoes, an
clairvoyants who have had the first experience for a long time and
In the same degree to which in the first experience we feel ourselves
first it makes but a faint impression upon us; then, as the power of
approaching me; there for the first time is my own true self! Only
occult experience take its course, — first the expansion of the

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there. But before we can do so, we must first take cognisance of
others. First, she strove with all her powers to overcome personal
things were overcome in this order; first the consciousness, then the

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undertakes in the first place, in preparation for the same, to
himself can live. Let us first ask ourselves the question: How is it
consciousness He will note in the first place how it is the ego that
must find the way to master it. In the first place let me ask you to
first at the human countenance and observe the impression it makes
This is the first experience we have to meet, when we begin to
What has here been described is, so to speak, the first elementary
The first thing about the human form that arrests our attention, the
first thing in his form that makes man, is what I laid stress on in
upright. Man is a being who walks upright. That is the first
important thing about him, — so to speak, the first member of his
following way. If you will observe attentively these three first
it is a duality. There are, first of all, organs like the lungs and
As I said before, it might at first sight appear arbitrary to show the
What we gave as the first member has been called “Ram”

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members appear at first sight to form a unity. They are, however, in
. These are the names given to the first three
continuation of the head in the following way. First we have, as
and the two feet together as the other arm. At first hearing, it
us something like a repetition of the first sevenfold man.
between the two, you will find it is quite astounding. In the first
organs, situated in the head. And when we count in with this first
first sevenfold man It is the essentially spiritual man, it is man in
This first seven-membered man is thus to be regarded as the spiritual
the other two, the first and the second sevenfold man, we took as our
our first, member, made up of the connection of solar plexus with
being divides, as soon as it takes the first step into the occult
when he takes the first step into a higher consciousness. (We shall
the moment we have indicated the very first and most elementary

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upon the upper man, from the second man upon the first —
It was at first intended to erect a Building for Anthroposophy in

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say, having first comprehended this human form as he finds it in the
the pupil experiences first, death and second, Lucifer.
the human form, which he has first perceived and then taken as his
This, then, must be the first impression, and here the pupil may
surmount this first impression and have said to themselves: “Fear
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
the first moment terrible and paralysing. For this reason a great part
pay too much heed to such impressions, or indeed to any first
of the reasons why the Christ Impulse can give this help. The first is
first attained to this or that stage of initiation and was then able
but had first to be initiated, as though in describing the life of

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necessary first of all to learn about the stages of his initiation,
follows from it, — strange though it may at first appear. You
of inspiration, then you must first come to see how the great
of which we spoke yesterday. First, man meets Lucifer. Lucifer, as we
Venus is thus the kingdom of Lucifer. At first we learn through
Jehovah, then you will have to see it in the following way. Take first
directions was not active only when the human form first came into
We have seen that in order to attain to the first stage of initiation
First stage: Starting from the human form.
figure of man, the movements that take place within him. We have first
lifts himself upright. So that the first inner movement man
inwardly, first the movement of raising oneself upright, then the
ourselves first as lying down and then as standing up. We must learn
with a strange and remarkable experience. When he takes the first step
forms. The first time he manifests is at the crossing of the Threshold
which we spoke yesterday. Therefore is this form also called the first
serious sense of responsibility. It reveals Lucifer to us in the first
perhaps show itself at first sight. We have to look a little nearer,
though it appear strange at first. It will prove to be authentic, for
We must first of all find something to take as our starting-point; we
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connection I gave expression to a truth which was perhaps at first
goes beyond the first meeting with death and with Lucifer where one
This had, therefore, first to be described. Should you still ask
conditions of human consciousness. We have first the ordinary physical
first stage of initiation, — and I gave you as an example of what
consciousness; consciousness of higher worlds at the first stage as we
that by means of the first stage of a higher kind of consciousness,
that for the first consciousness of a higher kind we have, besides the
through the first higher consciousness, I chose the story of the
Lucifer — appear at first sight like brothers. Only by straining
perceive in the first place the twelve Signs of the Zodiac. These were
condition of ancient Saturn, the first that can ordinarily be
the first rudiments of physical man began, as is shown in Occult
— that, of course, he experiences directly. The first
the first consciousness of a super-sensible nature. This first
on the first super-sensible consciousness, which is the one that occurs
The condition of dream consciousness may thus be regarded as a first
the first super-sensible consciousness. When man is in deep sleep, his
consciousness. It goes higher than the first, and leads one who can
of consciousness. One can point out first how man experiences the
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want first to discuss the nightly sleep enjoyed by every
still forms the link between his very first appearance on earth
physical body is the first that we discard in death. This body,
in reverse order. Every night we first recapitulate the

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passing through the portal of death, the human being first
feels at first the withdrawal from him of all the experiences
peculiar fact is to be noticed: The ability lost first by
their language. We must, as it were, first learn the
took place. First you behold the divine-spiritual beings, with
for centuries, the human being — except in the first
shall descend again to earth. Having first grown into the
body. In this way, we bring our karma down to earth. First, it
are first merged into the cosmos and then, out of the cosmos,
Fundamentally, we pass through three stages. First, we dwell as
behold in the physical world. We see how it first crawls, and
that we observe a child: how it first kicks its limbs awkwardly
sequence — should first learn to walk (attain a state of

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soul, the first state experienced by him — all this takes
earthly existence. At first, we take part in the general
were first dispersed among the counterparts of the planets, and
first third of the fifteenth century. And the same vigorous
after-effects of the life between death and a new birth. First
and so forth. The first man, however, might reply:

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grasp something. First, you have a mental image of the fact
arise in our thoughts. First of all, the following argument
knowledge: Imagination, when we first view a world of
child's very first years.
becomes especially visible during the first years, when the
trail towards this experience since his first childhood years.
The first steps of life are the most important and
have called attention to these things in the very first chapter
nevertheless, that we are capable of looking at the first years
observe the human being during his first childhood years is a
child in his first years: walking, which includes so
let us observe correctly how the child takes his first steps.
Thus we may observe just in the child's first attempts at
every-day life. For instance: you have heard, for the first
childhood during the first and second seven-year period and
developed physical and etheric bodies. First that which has
first ascertain whether others can see what they themselves
First, however, I had to erect a foundation and show what is at

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being's first years of life, of the spirit and soul organism on
spiritual science — to go back to the first period of
him when it first arose out of dark spiritual depths in the
Christ. At first, this deed did not touch human consciousness.
This experience gave meaning to the first Festival of

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year, the earth first breathes in, and then breathes out her
Easter Festival is set for the first Sunday following the
Easter Festival for the first Sunday in April, or regulate the
not only brought them the first blossoms, but also the

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You connected yourself with the earth's first beginnings and the
first, we have to imagine that the spiritual beings were previously at

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that we first create inner quiet. It can be attained through

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first quality that one needs is truthfulness, the will to be true.
rabbis wanted to enter the garden of maturity. The first lost his

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maturity; the first became a megalomaniac, the second did mad things,

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gate of death he must enter, first, into the sphere of the lesser
Then, for the first time, there came upon men what may be called the
first time a god trod the path which leads through human death.
In those who were the first to share in the secrets of Golgotha, the
pupil of the ancient Initiates in the Mysteries, Paul's first firm
first acquired meaning through the Mystery of Golgotha.
realising that the first Whitsun Mystery can thereby be renewed in

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them; he had first to die. A living person became a corpse by dying.
space without first being enveloped by those forms by which it wants
would prefer to live in their body, they first decorate and then clothe
living formative force, what the cosmos created first.
lengths into the breath. To scan the first half of an hexameter line
Who possesses the first two not,

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is the first child of the natural formative and growth forces; and because
made a first weak attempt in my Mystery dramas. There human beings converse
actor should say the first words far back, then gradually advance, making

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first at Southern Europe, we find a profound spiritual
first centuries irrespective of scholarship and the
Firstly, the time is over in which Christ worked as I have
upon the apostles, which at first seems quite

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event. In the first lecture I indicated that our
First of
clairvoyant glance first falls on an image that depicts a
which I have indicated, if we first examine Peter's
for Peter the first fruits of the fecundation by
first insight which we can gather from what we call the
That led to my speaking to you for the first time about
is at first extremely difficult to extract many things from

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first to what was symbolically called the
“Father”. For the first four degrees it is

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At first his immediate neighbors had a most favorable
At first the
be summarized by the words I was first able to pronounce
to enter it had to first pass through a strict probation
instruction. The conception appears for the first time in
This refers to the first Goetheanum, for which the foundation

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twenty-first year. From what I was able to relate, you will
entered into his soul. When at first Zarathustra's soul
year. At first he never spoke to her about the inner
first earthly experiences.
Christ-Being was led at first into solitude. This is also
Christ-Being had come to the earth. At first he was drawn
At first
The first
who had just stepped upon the earth for the first time
language spoken around him and he was silent at first. He
Jesus went at first from inn to inn, working with the
to: “but deliver us”, and the first line:
At first the Christ-Being was relatively independent of
the end of the first lecture – that the needs of the
children was first made public.
must first be acquired. For this amount of truthfulness is

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souls the first lines of the Apocalypse as they are read in truth. We
Christ to be the first real human form that could be seen in the spiritual

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capacity for perception present only in its first rudiments. The ancient
individual spiritual capacities of thinking and judgment in their first
Persian culture. In place of the seven Indian teachers came the first
Now, the first of these
representative of the first, the Indian culture; the Persian finds its

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the seven letters in the first chapters of the Apocalypse as messages
groups. In the first stages of Atlantean development the members of
then we can consider first those who had developed and condensed their
to the first epoch of our culture, to the holy Rishis who pointed to
from a descent into matter that would be too deep. they first had to
as Nicolaitans who have lost the first, the glorious love of the spirit.
of the first age after Christ the Apocalypse was a favored book. The

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excluded from the community that preserved the “first love.”
In the first post-Atlantean epoch this admonishment did not need to
for the first time in rigorously delineated words. The Indian world did
the legend he called together the first gathering after Buddha's
of the canon and is the first buddhistic patriarch.
and from the Content of the First Section of the Esoteric School

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things, for the first time the concept of the “last will and
death. This first appears only in ancient Rome, not yet in Greece. Greece
the beginning of this development. Christ must first be understood in
these people will be too blase. Very little of the Indian, the first
which was the first polemic against Christianity. It has been lost

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world. That is what we today must clearly feel as the first epoch of
age are reflected in the first post-Atlantean culture, in the ancient
yet exist. At first, human beings repeated the condition in which they

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side of yesterday's observations. The first four post-Atlantean
In the first centuries

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were first to fall into the physical world during eruptions of natural

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But he distinguishes clearly the first four ages. Every time a seal
first. Back then everything in the physical world appeared to the human
up the Christ principle in the first era of Christianity suffered a

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in this spiritual earth. First, everything must pass over into an astral
snake and it emerges as the first dragon. Therefore, when the earth
The first dragon is not

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In the last third of the Atlantean age, human beings were first equipped
consciousness soul can the spirit-self gradually — and at first,
who was first proclaimed as Vishva Karman, and then as Ahura Mazdao,

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