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Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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allowed to deliver the lecture in German.
If, however, the aim is to reach the super-sensible worlds with the
knowledge that man’s power of investigation, in so far as it
whole mode of thinking, the faculty of cognition, the power of
of thinking. Anthroposophy does not, however, content itself with the
power is strengthened. The would-be spiritual investigator proceeds
their effect during the exercises. Nothing whatever must be allowed
feel that the powers of our soul are being strengthened and enhanced.
however, is the same throughout: the forces of soul, the forces of
inward experience, however, can only be reached by the exercising and
Imaginative Thinking is gradually brought home to us, however,
furrowed in the life of soul-and-spirit just like the physical brain
reality to the now strengthened and enhanced power of thinking —
through exercises whereby yet other powers slumbering in the soul are
strengthening the power of eliminating mental images. When these
The exercises gradually give us the power to eliminate the whole of
The essential point, however, is that when a man becomes prone to
consciousness; he lives in his hallucinations and his powers of
healthy human reason, none of his powers of thoughtful deliberation.
describes these higher worlds with normal reasoning powers and
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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which is usually most dear to a man’. This, however, is not
works upon the three lower members of the human being, so that it
spiritualizes them, transforming them from the present lower into the
Sentient-soul, the lowest member in which the ‘ I ’
to master his three lower members. He has prepared himself by having
future, and that we further develop our lower members, which to-day
man and those beings who are now only at the human stage. However
work upon his lower members in the way it now does, the whole human
certain, however highly evolved he may be on the earth, that he can
etheric bodies. In a distant future, however, one will be able from
to-day. Man will, however, be able to do this when he has evolved

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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is also true that a kind of etheric aura towers up over every part of
He works into it in such a way that his power expresses
temperaments; on the whole, therefore, the power of the etheric aura
a much stronger, more powerful manner. We must once for all be quite
5. Powers, or Spirits of Form.
however, wish to take into consideration to-day. If you remember what
Beings whom we call Spirits of Form or Powers, who are now two stages
then their normal stage of evolution. There is, however, a remarkable
or Powers, and they have remained behind in a very singular way,
Spirits of Form or Powers, and by means of certain attributes can do
have bestowed the ‘ I ’ upon man at the earth
stage, they cannot, however, as yet do this completely, because they
than man and consequently are still related to him, these Powers,
these Spirits of Form, tower four stages above the human stage. They
possess on that account very many and mighty powers that would not be
these other Folk-spirits, who are connected with the powers of Nature
really ‘Powers’, they are active upon the earth because
power so to transform the larynx, so to transform the entire
bring about, because they with their great forces and powers remained
A similar co-operation is however to be found in yet
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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The sentient-soul, which is, as it were, the lowest
three modifications in the etheric body. As, however, these three
through the power of your own mind, from within. You need only carry
operation in pure thought, by the power of your own inner being; you
But in the intellectual-soul of man there are, however, certain
flowers in the field and also over a beautiful landscape, but our
by the intellectual-soul or mind-soul feelings. Then, however, you
On this world beyond, however, the outlook is closed to ordinary
ascending period of its life, in all its upward-striving power, then
the sentient-soul and in the lower part of the intellectual-soul is a
a human being it is, however, something very real. A man feels keenly
That, however, is his own private affair, by attending to which he
Archangels can, however, also operate into the domain of the abnormal
You may, however, take the other case, in which not the
the Archangel as its first power. Then the Spirit of the Age comes
most important. It may, however, occur that the Spirit of the Age has
of the Age. Then, however, the possibility arises for a normal and an
themselves to us as being actually Spirits of Form or Powers, only
as if they were now only Spirits of Form or Powers. These are, as
however, something takes place which closely concerns man; by means
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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Beings whom we call Powers, Exusiai. If we listen to the activity of
if I may be allowed to speak somewhat metaphorically I might say,
followed a normal development he would only then come out of himself
evolution would have only been bestowed at about his twentieth year.
reason, however, man has become more dependent on the earth upon
abnormal Spirits of Form, — those Spirits of Form, or Powers,
development of the races. Then, however, we see the races

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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about the character of this or that people, and however our feelings
however, can only come gradually before our mental eyes.
which, as we know, man belongs as the lowest member. If you remember
understand these Hierarchies, that we say, at the lowest stage stands
1. Spirits of Form or Powers,
of the senses, where may we seek for them in the lowest stage of
he is able to stand upon solid ground he owes to the circumstance
element, not however our present-day water, but the old fluidic
the Spirits of Form weave and live. Since, however, the activities of
Man, however, does not hear it. If to him the music of the spheres
when he could hear it. It sounds forth, however, both day and night,
present form. What man possesses of will and of physical body he owes
to the old Saturn. The knowledge that he owes his physical body to
however, are such that man could later unfold the inner forces of
that man might be endowed with what is manifested in his whole
the power of thought. So that the three preceding incarnations of our
reverence and respect for the ruling cosmic Powers. We acquire a true
ages were each in turn the ruling power. We shall have more to say
element at the lowest stage, it begins so to speak with the lowest
of the lowest hierarchies.
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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unfolding its powers from out of the universe towards the centre of
Spirits of Motion — who possess greater power than the Spirits
powers flowing into man, radiating back from him, and forming his
abnormal Spirits of Form worked with great power and caused man to be
however in their rays which return from the Earth. When he looks up
the astral body, the nervous system. They operate however in a
character of the race. There is, however, something very peculiar in
brothers are buried. Why are the feet of our conquerors allowed to

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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Archangels who were the guiding spiritual powers of these tribes that
If man were however to look out into the great cosmos,
through this very impulse, the power of speculation, the power of
as Spirit of the Age. Hence, however, something of the greatest
part of the earth's surface. There, however, in the distant

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 8
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after which followed our own.
the West awoke earlier and in a lower state of evolution. The old
Atlantean epoch human beings were still endowed with a high degree of
soul-life, which no longer showed any of those conditions that were
Powers, but they were more intimate with the Beings we call the
and because their ‘ I ’ awoke at a lower stage,
the Powers or Spirits of Form. With these they were especially
Persian communities awoke one stage lower than did the Indians, but
Powers or Spirits of Form, whom they thought of collectively as
Spirits of Form or Powers, and which, from their point of view, the
look into the world of the Powers or Spirits of Form. That which is
occurrences out of their own knowledge, which, however, was a divine
knowledge, obtained by more highly developed spiritual powers. From
rather lower position of the ‘ I ’, in which it
In old Atlantis man looked up to the spiritual Powers
looked into a weaving and life of real spiritual Powers, at a time
awoke at its lowest stage; those Beings were placed at the head of
forces which were bestowed upon it by the normal and abnormal Angels
Europe beginning from the lowest stage; they had to be consciously
divine initiation. The way in which Odin gained the power to endow
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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saw how the divine spiritual powers worked into their souls. You
things, with the knower, the power of knowing, and that which is
subjectively as a knower, and this subjective raising of the ‘ I ’
to a certain height within the human soul-power may exist for a long
time before man also acquires the power to see the ‘ I ’
clairvoyance, the power to see the objective ‘ I ’;
powers man had to take into the bargain the possibility of falling
has been permeated by the Luciferic power. When, therefore, we speak
Thus we have to thank the Luciferic powers for something
in consequence of these Luciferic powers having intervened in the
whole constitution of human nature, later on other powers were able
were his followers, if he had not been obliged to allow another power
to approach him after he had made it possible for the Luciferic power
speaks of both Luciferic and of Ahrimanic powers.
particular is the battle with the Powers which give us an external,
country are the great Powers, the Luminous Ones. He is organized for
followers of the Persian religion to descend into that world to which
the Luciferic powers lie hidden, he will have nothing to do even with
the possible presence of good powers. There he perceives danger; he
clairvoyantly, he was really able to see these two powers, and he
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Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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shown that this ‘ I ’ was bestowed upon man by an
recognized the giver, the bestower of the ‘ I ’, the
veiled and hidden. Occultly, however, Sif signifies the group-soul of
Mysteries. This mystery-education allowed just so much to come to the
and within that he perfects those wonderfully delicate powers, the
The great world-historical effects, however, which we
as yet inwardly. If, however, you recognize how this union came about
premature development that was endowed with clairvoyant experience.
sensible-super-sensible, divine spiritual powers in connection with
sound, it flowed upwards from the South, through Baffins Bay, towards
had not yet risen to the surface, it flowed down near the Ural
mountains, turned, touched the Eastern Carpathians, flowed into the
the Atlantic Ocean near the Bay of Biscay; so that it flowed in a
permeates another one. It is a world which is, however, conceived of
realized Christ in His complete form. This can, however, only be done
the higher nature will hold the lower nature under complete control.
future so that it may be Christianized by the powers of the future: —

Title: Mission of Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 11
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of what belongs to this rich subject. I may, however, hope that it
Freyr is the power which carries clairvoyant forces into the spheres
the folds of the brain; so that during the day-time it can be stowed
news of Him there, and to testify to His power on that plane. But
of higher powers, and anyone who can believe that the manifestation
East; there, however, it assumes another form. It may happen that
educate the powers of man up to a certain height. Odin and Thor will
plane, has evolved out of what Loki, the Luciferic power, left behind
itself proceeded from old clairvoyant power, but only by that which
clairvoyance. The power given by the old Archangel Odin, the old
clairvoyant powers, cannot save man; something very different must
come in. And what that is, is, however, known to Germanic Norse
will succeed in driving out the confused clairvoyant power which
All through the Kali Yuga the powers were acquired which
investigation will re-establish the power of Vidar, who will drive
clairvoyant power which might act in a confusing way, and who will
has been — however often tradition may affirm that — but
Christ-Principle reject it. However many people may come and force a
be limited and narrowed by Eastern traditions, nor be colored by the
I know very well, however, that when with an
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Title: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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however true that one cannot penetrate into the super-sensible worlds
that we completely surrender to such concepts, our thinking power
complete willpower. A person who wishes to become a spiritual
the whole life of our soul, with all our power of concentration. Our
outside the soul. Our cognitive power can only act freely when we
Perhaps you will allow me to make a personal remark; which, however,
to see again a flower which we have already seen, we must return to
picture of their past life; we do not however, see it as a
appear. They exist however in the whole physical organism.
as a muscle grows stronger through practice, so the thinking power
intensified thinking endowed with plastic forces which lives in time,
only thing which should remain to us is our calm thinking power,
does not suffice, however, to consider the purely morphological
an inner sense of sureness, a certain inner power, it is necessary to
life thinking grows out of the organism like a flower, so higher
conceals it. The spiritual can however be perceived in physical
The essential thing is to recognise a creative power in the spirit.

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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etheric body as if they were objects. We showed that in this
gives us our Ego feeling here on earth. To this loneliness we owe
precipitated salt solution. This lighting up of thought you owe
powerful thought impression (to mathematicians I might say: this
which man's physical form gradually developed out of lower beings
of certain followers of spiritual science who sometimes rebuke
This is, however, not in keeping with spiritual science. The
once there were lower animals in the world, from which higher
Observe with a certain morphological-artistic sense how the lower
which followed could only develop to the extent in which man
The animals which followed man in their development could only
at the conclusion of my lecture (I thank you that you showed so

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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use the mediumistic power of a certain person, in order to enter
photographs were taken and that the second one showed a
intensification of the human cognitive powers, in the direction
attains cognitive power. Since the human will is directed towards
this fact, also know that a person endowed with second sight can
the author is neither an opponent nor a follower. I must confess
become an inner power which unites with the emancipated thinking.
large eye. This eye, however, is outside and it is simultaneously

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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heritage. This is not so, however. In reality, homelessness is, or
Beings who are inaccessible to sense perception. Today, however, we
that the ego works upon the three lower members of the human being,
spiritualizes them and transmutes them from the present lower form
Soul, the lowest member in which the ego has already worked, the
lower members to some extent. He learned to control the astral body
will not always work upon his lower vehicles in the same way as it
his physical and etheric bodies. In the distant future, however, he
repeated. This stage is followed by a repetition of the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch in our own age. This will be followed by a

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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endowed with clairvoyant consciousness and visits the various
the Folk Spirits are active everywhere. They follow, however, the
Powers (Exusiai) or Spirits of Form
those Beings whom we call Spirits of Form or Powers, who are now two
behind and amongst them are also certain Spirits of Form or Powers.
Spirits of Form or Powers in terms of certain attributes, and by
virtue of certain attributes are able to exercise the powers that
bestowed the ego upon man at the Earth-stage, they cannot, as yet,
at the stage of the Folk Spirits, but endowed with quite different
are endowed with very different, with more robust attributes such as
energy for they are in reality ‘Powers’, i.e.
namely, the Archangels who have followed a normal development and
during his life on Earth his native language. They had to be endowed
with the power to transform the larynx and the organs of speech in
of Form, because with their greater energy and superior powers the
behind on the Old Moon, are at present not Spirits of Form or Powers
predestined. There are also others, however, in whom are active those
language exercised such a powerful influence and had such telling
power was the work of the Archangels who were responsible for
Indian people represented the first flowering of the post-Atlantean
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 3. The inner Life of the Folk Spirits. Formation of the Races.
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the Sentient Soul which is the lowest member,
These transformations, however, are not to be confused with the real
lower bodies — the Sentient Soul through the astral body, the
inner power of your own soul. In order to realize this one need only
an operation in pure thought by the power of your own inner activity;
however, certain things which he experiences in common with the
that event no doubt we might delight in the flowers of the field or
quickening powers of the soul, men with a richer inner life; these
man's Sentient Soul and the lower part of his Intellectual Soul
For man, however, it is something very real, something that he feels
the most important element. Circumstances, however, may arise when
of Form or Powers who have only renounced in part the attributes of
Powers. In respect of certain attributes they are really Spirits of

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 4. The Evolution of Races and Civilization.
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provided by the Spirits of Form, the Beings whom we call Powers or
awaken to ego-consciousness. If he followed the normal course of
Because their evolution followed a different path they are in a
evolution had followed its normal course. If these abnormal Spirits
third of his life (up to the age of twenty) under the powerful
man's development had followed this course, then all those
character, and the abnormal Spirits of Form, those Spirits or Powers
endowed with a memory, through which he still remembers even in his
formative influences make a powerful impression upon him. The
been subject from earliest times. In the primeval past men owed their
now, they owed that disposition of soul peculiar to the ancient
forces concentrated within the youthful organism must be allowed to
inhabits is narrowed down to smaller and smaller lands. We observe
power, spiritual substance, from the East; but Central Europe must
cannot understand the individual if we do not see how he owes his
Plato whom we could recognize as a human being endowed with the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 5. Manifestation of the Hierarchies in the Elements of Nature.
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however deeply one may be involved emotionally in a particular people
of human evolution. This, however, will only become apparent to us
an understanding of the Hierarchies of which man is the lowest
member. You will recall that we placed man on the lowest rung of the
Spirits of Form — Powers (Exusiai)
lowest stage of manifestation, at the stage of illusion. In his
velocity into space. He owes his ability to stand on solid ground to
activity of these two Hierarchies that we owe the configuration of
Form first weave and work. Since, however, the activities of light
an astral effect. Man, however, does not hear it. If in relation to
the forces. Just imagine for a moment how powerful are the forces of
could have attained their present form. A man owes his physical body
however, are reflected in the forms of the succeeding incarnations.
after-effects however are such that man was able to develop later the
that man could be endowed with his present constitutional make-up,
physical body and the life of will could not have been bestowed upon
him. To the Old Sun he owed his etheric body and sentient life, and
finally to the Old Moon he owed the astral body and the power of
reverence for the ruling cosmic Powers. They command our deep respect
begins with its fourth element at the lowest stage, with the most
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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in the sunlight. If, however, we wish to understand how the abnormal
system. They work upon the nervous system however in a peculiar way,
is however a very peculiar feature attaching to the Mongolian race;
Spirits brought about in the East, to whom we owe all the
our conquerors allowed to desecrate the graves of my brothers?

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
times. Later on, other migrations followed upon these early
Powers directing these tribes or folk communities were at different
substance. Hence the power of speculation, the power of synthetic
bestowed on mankind, had renounced the possibility of becoming an
consequence the entire guidance naturally followed a clearly defined
radiated the most powerful spiritual impulses, the centre which was
time endowed with quite different potentialities, potentialities
which (in certain respects) have been overshadowed by the rising
native powers of the Archangel, is in its pictures closely akin to
potentialities with which it was endowed at an earlier epoch. In this

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 8. The Five Post-Atlantean Civilizations.
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true, however, that among the Germanic peoples and tribes of Europe
followed by the Egypto-Chaldean-Babylonian, then the Graeco-Latin
were still endowed with a high degree of the old dim clairvoyance
which no longer showed any traces of that elementary stage in soul
were already endowed with spiritual powers and spiritual capacities
Spirits of Form or Powers, but were more intimately associated with
lower rank were, on the other hand, Beings whose domain they had
at a lower stage of evolution, they looked to the Powers or Spirits
ego-consciousness one stage lower than the Indians, but it was a
Persians were conversant with the Powers or Spirits of Form, known
radiations which we know as Spirits of Form or Powers and which, from
into the world of the Powers or Spirits of Form. That which is to be
their knowledge which however was divine knowledge which they owed to
more highly developed spiritual powers. This also helps to explain
old Atlantis man beheld the spiritual Powers and spoke of a kind of
the new. They perceived an active weaving of real spiritual powers at
above man. The old Gods, however, who were active before the Gods
the various forces which were bestowed upon it by the normal and
peoples of Europe beginning from the lowest stage. They had to be
and endowed him with his psychic potentialities, and the greatest of
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 9. Loki - Hodur and Baldur - Twilight of the Gods.
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power working into their souls. You may possibly find it difficult to
really dealing with two factors, with the knower, the cognizing
knower and the known are one, subject and object of cognition are the
the knower, a cognizing agent, and this subjective enhancement of the
before man acquires the power to see the ‘I’ objectively
clairvoyance, the power to see the ‘I’ objectively, that
reached the full flowering of the subjective ‘I’ long
hand, through the Luciferic powers, man had to accept the possibility
ego too has been permeated by the Luciferic power. When therefore we
without that influence. Thus to the Luciferic powers we owe the most
we also know that because these Luciferic powers had intervened in
the entire constitution of human nature, other powers were able to
had not fallen under the influence of Lucifer and his followers, if
he had not been obliged to submit to the influence of another power
after he had opened himself to the invasion of a Luciferic power.
speaks of both Luciferic and Ahrimanic powers. It will seem very
the word ‘devil’ or ‘daemon’ was borrowed
powers which give us an external, false Picture of the world and
Children of Light, the Spirits who are here the dominant Powers. He
followers of the Persian religion to look inwards, to follow the
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 10. The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future.
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tradition this ‘I’ was bestowed upon man by an Angelic
bestowed by a higher spiritual world through the instrumentality of a
in the God Thor the bestower of the ‘I’, the God who
really endowed him with his individual ‘I’. But at the
however, Sif signifies the Group Soul of the individual community
the bestower of the individual ‘I’. The individual
perceives Sif and Thor as the Beings who endowed him with his ‘I’.
with the withdrawal of the Celtic element there followed a gradual
Mysteries. These Mystery teachings allowed just so much to be
the other peoples who followed the Greeks we are chiefly concerned
able to understand, however, the peculiar characteristics of those
sensible-super-sensible, divine spiritual powers associated with the
developed. There are however other civilizations which have also
post-Atlantean epoch, a culture which owes its origin and development
continents of Russia and Siberia had emerged, it flowed past the Ural
followed a strictly delimited course. Only the last remaining traces
old Atlantean epoch. The stream that flowed southward via Spitzbergen
as a warm current and gradually cooled, etc. followed a strictly
duality in whom the higher nature will curb the lower.
service man finds himself as ‘man endowed with Spirit Self’
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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box. What is this magic ship? If Freyr is the power which transmits
cerebral folds to be stowed away in that tiny box — the human
progress and to develop higher powers. He who believes that the
invaded the East. There, however, it assumes another form. One
forces known to the old clairvoyance. Once upon a time Thor endowed
has evolved out of the Midgard Snake which Loki, the Luciferic power,
the day of Ragnarok (the Twilight of the Gods) Odin is swallowed up
to give birth to a new clairvoyance. The power given by the old
Archangel Odin, the old clairvoyant powers, cannot save man;
something very different must supplant them. These future powers
however, are known to Teutonic mythology; it is fully aware of their
powers which would confuse mankind if Odin should not succeed in
find that in the twentieth century the power to see the Christ can be
the period of Kali Yuga were acquired the powers which shall enable
power of Vidar who will banish from the hearts and minds of men all
— however much tradition may insist upon this — but to
the name of the true Christ-principle. However many may try to force
creed, however many may declare that our vision of the future Christ
am sure, however, that when you begin to reflect objectively, when
Western predilections must be allowed to colour our view. He who
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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however, it would be true to say that it is as ancient as the
distant when even in the lowest grade schools and in the most
of that of Aristotle. Here were minds of refinement and power,
make their way into a world of mellowed intellectuality. And
within their souls the power to secure for the Christ Impulse
greatness and power entered the lists on behalf of
us realise that a real problem lies here. What power is
Impulse who themselves do not really understand it? What power
culture. And however hard modern natural science may try to
if followed to its logical conclusions, it leads to Spiritual
And if he can call upon a certain power of clairvoyance, this
however much of a materialist he may be — his
lower animal forms but must have a spiritual origin. He is led
conception derives its motive power from the Christian
who were its real or alleged enemies. Even the moral power that
consciousness. What power is at work in those unlearned
of Greco-Roman culture? What power is at work in the men who
disguise its real nature? What is this power? — It
thousands of human beings, filling them with His power. It is
Clairvoyant vision, quickened by the power of the Christ

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture II
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Denial, the triple Denial before the cock had crowed twice. And
fraught with holy awe. One is almost overpowered by the
endure the spectacle of those demonic powers and entities which
not propose, however, to go further into this particular
because it has no understanding of the sovereign power of the
earthquake followed upon the eclipse of the sun. It shook the
Jesus had been received into the earth. The stone, however,
anyone were to say: the Divine Powers do not write into the
emanate from its soil. As, however, we cannot ignore them but

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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— as very life, as vivid experience, as feeling, as power
within them as power of soul and of feeling — all this
blossomed forth from the living power of the Fifth Gospel. They
Power which Christ Himself had now come to be. And here we have
followed the real birth of the Christ Being. And with reference
stages through the Impulse thus bestowed.
of Palestine the Christ Being has therefore been a power in the
power to become the spiritual guardian of his people, whose
this Sun-Hero a power required not only for the leadership, the
whole. The power living in the Sun-Hero transcended the
body, having within them then the power of incorporating the
spiritual power of the sun had poured into souls of men,
being applied at a lower level. For it does, after all, happen
frauds to be perpetrated. Strangely enough, however, Renan is
outside the body of Jesus of Nazareth. The power operating in
entirely super-earthly power. Cures were performed such as no
human power could have performed. In His discourse with
power. All this was undergone by the Christ Being as He
feel how the Divine power steadily waned in this process of
spiritual power while as an etheric Being He was gradually
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by his lofty answers. We, however, know why it was possible for
Jesus child, endowed now with the Zarathustra-Ego, grew up in
eighteenth years of his life, however, a mighty struggle was
and who regarded him as a wonder-child. Then, however, he
all powerful moral impulses came to life in his soul during
believed had been bestowed upon me, only lead to the
natural development, a power of clairvoyance such as
Beings of the higher Hierarchies but of demonic powers. He also
perceived that many a time these demonic powers passed over
of bitter sorrow that he witnessed the power wielded by the
wild, demonic powers which, attracted by these images and
into the distance he discerned a host of demonic powers and
still under the mighty impression of how demonic powers held
iron but also imparted a faculty of clairvoyance powerful
supreme Powers of the Spirit, by his sense of justice and of
something like a trowel, a little shovel, because the
were not allowed to carry coins about with them nor to pass
kept strict silence. They were allowed to teach but only what
of the wisdom that had come to flower in the soul of Jesus of
Jesus of Nazareth to undergo the testings of the lower grades,
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able to assimilate Hebrew learning which seemed, however,
believed had been bestowed upon me is valueless for the world
fallen prey to demonic powers which he himself had experienced
teaching and had been an all-powerful prayer in the Mysteries
however, he made the third mighty utterance, arising from his
delivered into the power of Ahriman and Lucifer that the Christ
Being felt Himself drawn; for it is with these powers that men
his power and influence, who draws near to men when they prize
— and He had the power to repel the onslaught of Lucifer.
Him: If thou wilt acknowledge me, through my spiritual power,
power to cast thee down, since the human body prevents thee
thou dost but hinder me, thou hast not enhanced my power but
Divine power! Then said the Christ Being: Men do not live by
a certain hold upon thee. Thou knowest only how the Spirit
retained power. And he said: I shall use this power. That is
His love, His goodness, His gentleness; but now a magic power
Nazareth became His disciples and followed Him. From many
dwelling-places one or another went with Him, followed Him
— followed Him because of the feeling and conviction I
Names,” He transposed into: “Hallowed be Thy
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of knowledge that are allowed by science today, then a way
lower reality value, or perhaps in a certain sense they do not
which we know nothing. However, we would dream our entire lives
however, does not belong to present-day man. Indeed,
cognitive and mental powers that are already there when we want
clearly to the eternal essence of man. This suggests, however,
power of memory. I do not want to engage in wide-meshed
in man just as the power of memory and the power of perception
impressions. However, through this second process the higher
different mental power than previously. Previously the power of
experiencing the power of thought as a real force, just as you
that the power of memory also lives in thought, only it is a
of that which is seen as a much greater power of thought, like
a powerful tableau, an overview of our previous life on earth,
For we recognize that the powers that lie in this space-body
are of the same nature as the power of growth, the same kind
However, this is only the first stage of a
will now be achieved with the same power with which one has
concentrated all of the powers of his soul on certain
the complex concepts of the consciousness are first powerfully
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however, realised already in the early months of that year that this
the side of true progress and devote their powers to furthering it.
the Spirit. However glibly people may talk in these difficult
bring to light the spirituality that is indeed contained, but allowed
manipulate his powers out of his own freewill. In other words: it
of Anthroposophy, however, you will realise that what I shall now say
systems. The essential form of the head, however, is a copy of the
Capricorn, as it is called nowadays. In the true symbol, however,
the Cosmos; the lower part a product of the Earth. The Earth covers
birth and death, man belongs to the powers of the Earth, so between
death and a new birth he belongs to the Heavens; the powers of Heaven
dying we owe the fact that we can think and be conscious beings. The
consciousness — like the stomach. Man owes the consciousness of
permeated with life in the same way as the stomach. Lowered
The dying part — which, however, determines the existence of

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Finally the metabolic-and-limb system is connected with the lower
the arm or hand is making, but we do not know how the power of
it. That is a fallacy, however, for if you cut a piece of wood, you
death. In his earthly development, however, man is so constituted that
the tapestry of sense. And what we discover first, is the lowest stage
gifts are bestowed by the Hierarchies upon the conscious life of soul.
again. The power is given him to work as a being of soul-and-spirit,
into him the power to work effectively in his subsequent life on
into a natural home. If however a man has grown into it the other way
Earth loving his language merely out of instinct and lower impulses.
this inner love for a language and people. When, however, a man grows
nowadays manifest such obvious forces of decline; instincts and lower

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birth that he again acquires the full power of individuality and is
however, we are unable to work on the child's life of feeling and of
show him a plant with yellow flowers and round petals and merely tell
Now when the power of super-sensible cognition is brought to bear upon
sparsely flowering rock-plants. A great picture arises in your souls
however paradoxical this may seem, it is indeed so — then you
old beaten tracks. Those however who let this opposition deter them
from developing their powers, are not firmly rooted in the real task

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as they had happened in historical sequence. However,
being, such a divine being, however, has a very special
power: it can multiply such an etheric body, and the
received an imprint of the copy of his etheric body. However,
Christ-Event. However, this would not have been a sufficient
struggles. However, only when the impulse of the etheric body
these humble people allowed themselves to be inspired by what
as a flower of love in the sixth period.
powers of judgment. This teaching is being directed to those

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health of man which is really endowed by the soul. And we feel that
shadow, for it is shadowed light. Black is the darkest. Green and
and indeed added something powerful to the old aesthetics of painting.

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equal warmth, that it gives me deep satisfaction to be allowed
abstract theory however which itself constitutes the content of
or less modified of original Marxists, that means followers of
promulgated will find no followers. — Now, that was
stated the same with almost the identical words, who however
the social question from this life experience. However I had to
what he is allowed to do within the social organism or what his
realms can work together in the right way if they are allowed
will then however not be possible for Utopia to come about. But
to develop its strong powers in relative autonomy. And the core

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relate, he was induced to use the mediumistic power of a
powers, in the direction which I tried to indicate during the
possible) becomes transformed and thus attains cognitive power.
know that a person endowed with second sight can go to the
author is neither an opponent nor a follower. I must confess
normal experiences, which, however, we are not very much
become an inner power which unites with the emancipated
that the body becomes one large eye. This eye, however, is

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were possible to unfold will-power and to transmit it into
lifeless, can be filled with inner life, with light and power,
with the lower animalic organs and with the vegetative organs,
death and a new birth. There is, however, one phenomenon
our thinking power. But we must also learn to make
in an inner life of thoughts as powerful, living and
merely passive thinking. Our thinking power can be essentially
they can be traced in history — have however reflected a
life tending towards this event followed a definite plan.
Spiritual Activity will find however I was obliged to
the science dealing with the lower kingdoms, people would
to-day; it will be fully answered, to the extent allowed to-day
his higher being endowed with super-sensible vision.
themselves are not endowed with super-sensible vision. The
needed by what is terrestrial and heavy. This however must be

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body and the etheric body as if they were objects. We showed
here on earth. To this loneliness we owe the maintenance of the
lighting up of thought you owe as it were, to this opaqueness,
through this powerful impression, in which the life of thoughts
obtain in one experience this powerful thought-impression (to
physical form has gradually developed out of lower beings in
regard to certain followers of spiritual science who sometimes
is however not in keeping with spiritual science. The spiritual
saying that once there were lower animals in the world, from
how the lower maxillary bones are transformed limbs, how also
exist. There were however other animal forms present at that
The animals which followed, could only develop to the extent to
followed man in their development could only develop as much as

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environment when he is asleep. To put it in another way, man's powers
deepest and original foundations of existence. He is, however, only
has to become a different kind of “knower” from what he is
This meant however, that what one was able to say was comprehensible
place to be free of egoism if one is to be allowed to penetrate the
impossible, when his power of knowledge has been transformed and he
is outside them. All ordinary words, however, are connected in their
Occult knowledge is, however, not merely there to be acquired by a few
however, man really succeeds in excercising the very subtlest of his
ancient Greek philosophers Parmenides and Heraclitus. One can however
however, must always be to meet the one point of view with just as
Christ with Beings of a lower kind, namely with Bodhisattvas, so also
one another. The first condition for this, however, is that men should

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It will, however, also have been clear to you from many other lectures
forces of his own soul. Since he had, however, at the same time to
development were men who showed great ability in the positions in
research. The power given him in occult research must never be allowed
external standing in life. This, however, has nothing to do with the
the very same rules which you have followed hitherto.” Such was
has followed hitherto, and yet at the same time to have forces to
development, and you will find that those who in outer life showed
external standing in life. We are not allowed to apply this knowledge
The occultist, however, may not take this line. By means of what
for the other person. What he does, however, on his own behalf, —
— with the result that he would have allowed himself to be taken
promise fails to keep it. That is, however, his own affair! We may, if
world. The occult teachers of olden times allowed their pupils to
only the power of understanding and judgment which he had previously.
more. What becomes in any case of the results of our power of judgment
knowledge gained by the sharpening of the power of intellect has to
time of the power of judgment.
regard to them the power of judgment he has acquired with his
through his own power of judgment. He must not make any criticism, he
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When, however, the pupil in occultism undergoes the experiences of
What now arises in the soul has a much greater inner power and is far
however, think of the light which is communicated through the eye,
development of a sublime intellect and power of judgment. It is not
powers we have attained for self-education by means of the thoughts.
These powers go on working, and presently we have around us something
upon them and endowed them with the form they have today. When we
and the sense organs owe to the forces of the Earth. The activity we
That development, however, of our brain that enables us, by working
quicken and strengthen our power of memory. Out of this wide spiritual
we apprehend memories. If our memory power had not undergone a
able to perceive not with the intellect but with a strengthened power
fact, they make a less powerful impression upon us than something
faculty of memory; they have become so powerful that the understanding
would not, however, be able to work at all, had not a particular event
times. He has, however, the thought pictures, not knowing that
he lives in these thought pictures. I want you, however, to note
that is the invariable characteristic of philosophy. It is, however,
may be quite sure it has been borrowed from tradition; it has been
first it makes but a faint impression upon us; then, as the power of
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brain. Religion can however also be clothed in ideas which make use
observed in the several religions. All religions have, however, this
understanding and his power of thought, to that extent his soul forces
surrounds all mystics. A mystic of this kind however will have nothing
feel it more powerfully than a man who uses up his soul forces for his
forth divers fruits and flowers of many colours, and grass.”
however, it is what the soul feels when it does not yet go so far as
With power to feel and to enjoy it.
powerful influence upon people, even when the essentially personal
suppresses. And the heart experiences, which work so powerfully upon
powers that are in him, and only feels at last, after suppressing all
others. First, she strove with all her powers to overcome personal
were then left still active within her the powers of the heart and of
the intellect. The next step was the conquest of the power of the
understanding. Last of all, she overcame the powers of the heart. The
fact that the powers of the heart remained with her longest accounts
experience of mysticism followed the path we have described —
not overcome in such utter purity and power as was the case with Saint
If, however, this trait of humour and irony is present, if the person
the mystic wants is to go out beyond himself. If however a man wants

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life of soul. It would not, however, occur to anyone in his senses to
us, to begin with, as a picture. It is, however, a picture of a unique
ideation; we owe it to the stimulation of external objects. If the
idea of the I, however, it is different. In this respect the
There is, however, one thing we can know of this ego, one thing
then the lower part of his organism would have a different form.
human being with the soul's deepest powers of perception. But what
however, all inner experience. There remains a judgment concerning
when we showed how the occult student makes this leap out of himself,
spiritual experience; as yet, however, it is undefined.
heart, which owe their form to a compromise, for they receive an
the abdomen. They owe their very shape and form to the fact that they
lower part of the figure of man. Then we have the leg and,
I want you, however, to connect nothing else with them now than the

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all the external part of man, his form and figure. If, however, you
members appear at first sight to form a unity. They are, however, in
the whole of earth life) is withdrawn; and the Divine Powers have so
a way as to prefigure in a striking manner what we have in the lower
We allot to the lower arm the same Sign as we took for the leg, the
sounds very strange: but when you reflect that in the lower animal
off by the diaphragm into an upper and a lower cavity; what is below
meaning or purpose in the form of the hands. If, however, we observe
When, however, we turn to those middle members that we denote with the
man into connection with the lower man — the foot and leg —
difficult it would be to walk if the lower leg and foot were not
is, however, we need the middle man and consequently also require the
lower members, You will recognise this when you observe that in so far
member of the lower man.
involuntarily. Man, however, by virtue of his superior brain, wedges
plexus, situated in the lower part of man and sending its fibres
subordinate brain. Reckoning this brain as part of the lower man, we
an upright position. All the rest of the organs in the lower man are
inner organs of the lower man we have to do with something that
three members, and so effectually that he is overpowered by these
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distinguish an upper man, a middle man and a lower man. As we go
indeed so that already in ordinary life the three soul powers of man
This dream consciousness is very complicated. You will, however, have
wholly connected with what takes place in the middle man, and owes its
I behold myself. We are not, however, aware of this during the dream.
to begin with, the dreams that owe their origin to some disorder in
If, however, we go on to enquire whether this inner man has not
his senses, the lower surface of his brain and from it saw the middle
the influence of the pupils in occultism, followers of a Sun religion.
worshippers, they are really only demonstrating their own powers of
highest divine Power, are to be translated with the word
endowed, — as in olden times almost all men were endowed, the
consciousness their “symmetry” man, — not, however, as
that the impressions are caught up at a certain point, not allowed to
now perceives, however, has relation to the fact that the Earth has
round the Earth has a powerful influence on the being of man.
and showed itself for the most part in connections that found
It was, however, possible to say something else, and this is what
Blavatsky, however, did not come so far in her research as we are able
religion was a little less worthy on that account. This is, however,
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are, however, then brought face to face with an almost insurmountable
soul experiences. It has, however, the drawback already indicated,
that is the end of the matter. This is, however, where the pupil must
the external picture of the human form. It is, however, also possible
is mortal. This fact puts a powerful argument in the hands of Lucifer,
the image of God which he has, which, however, is destructible and
the ages had something to say to man. Very few, however, have
That is, however, only the upper man. The continuation down below is a
Fall, that a wild Dragon also belongs to man. The dragon, however, has
Lucifer can show man, when he meets him, how much man really owes to
things man owes to Lucifer.
to that either can man hold. A moment comes, however, when there is
memory. For this to happen, however, help is needed. It can
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power that was already there in the living Christ. The Resurrection is
some other initiate but by the Divine Power that comes from beyond the
Earth, the Power that was communicated to Him through the Baptism. The
however, the Baptism had been the corresponding act of initiation, it
initiator performed the act of initiation. The other, however, who

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without parallel. If you want to understand with the ordinary powers
If, however, we want to understand the Christ, we do not need all
be understood with the most ordinary human powers of understanding. It
This requires, however, that man shall resolve to remain true to the
more and more. Hence it is that nothing can dissuade the followers of
saying, however, that influences of other stars are not admitted by
initiation that the lower man, the man we called the third
lectures. Into the head man works the power of Jehovah which
from the Moon on to the lower man, the third man. So that, leaving out
the breast man in the middle, we find, working upon the lower man, the
receives, as we know, the Sun forces; as we shall see, however, Moon
periods upon the head man and the lower man, the influence on the head
man corresponding to New Moon, and the influence on the lower man to
upon man Lucifer has not confined himself to working upon the lower
spiritual powers in man. The influence of the Sun can be more
Moon or by the Venus forces. It may, however, also happen that the Sun
is, the three great spiritual Powers in man — and the several
the middle man, or rather when the powers of the heart, the powers of
form, is in connection and harmony with the spiritual Powers
But now the influence proceeding from the Powers that work from these
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power of the figure before him. I then told you of the help that can
forth in your consciousness by these impressions. Now, however, you
in power and might, now appears as a planet among the seven planets,
there. The moment, however, initiation penetrates as far as to the
stages of consciousness, but time does not allow. I will, however,
through the uttermost devotion of His Being to Highest Powers, all the
the Moon, however, Christ had to exert all the forces at His disposal
to the utmost our powers of perception are we able to remark the
these—, that Lucifer is a Spirit endowed in his very nature with
has immense, strong power in itself — that Lucifer has in full
backward evolution. The Christ, however, had during the old Sun time
He is the Spirit of the Sun. Here, however, where we are not merely
however, shown that whenever man sets out to reflect on his life as
second, the lower Devachan or mental plane; and to the third, the
has allowed. The theosophist, on the other hand, can only have his
however, emerged quite naturally from our study, namely, that this
man, we can, however, see the external results of his activity —
that is to say, there has flowed into his movements all that leads to
these lectures. Perhaps, however, new contradictions will now present
There is, however, another, a moral ground of which we must take
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waking being. Man, however, would be utterly powerless, in an
Things, however, are not as they seem to us. One must
our real ego were identical. Our everyday ego, however, is not
however, is the one that determines our earthly age. In
life's starting-point; not filled, however, with what we
can be comprehended only by someone who, endowed with
of the past day. One person does it faster, another slower
however, time-conditions are entirely different from those of
awakened by a sudden noise. You must consider, however, that
thoughts, however, are driven asunder. The human being, as a
space. Space, however, has no significance for the
advance after death. In reality, however, we retrace our steps
astronomical-scientific method, however, could be compared to
thing, however, would be ignored: that the human being eats and
it was constituted three hundred years ago. Here, however,

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ideas, the powers of thought, become objects, become something
Everything else, however, remains unconscious. Only the
age) exclusively with themselves. This, however, is not the
however, are exclamatory words; all that is connected with
thought, however, is completely misleading. People who have not
living backward. Our spirit-body, however, is only partly
something small which becomes big. If we speak, however,
this, however, is not true. In reality, the ovum consists of
it were. At a later stage, however, these spiritual
own self-consciousness, however, is perceived in greater
generations which we have watched. We ourselves, however, are

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emotion of fear. The objective element in fear, however,
avowed from their innermost depth that the great Sun-spirit was
followers of ancient religions. It is the great Sun-spirit, who
followers of ancient religions, because their consciousness was
Mystery of Golgotha, however, he would be utterly bereft of the
human being, however, would not be aware of his dignity, would
willpower, are led, by some mysterious process, into the
More, however, exists than this connection between the right
sleep. At present, however, we may disregard these things. The
the primeval powers, who transmit to the child that learns how
companion: Look, this flower is a dandelion, these are daisies,
and so forth. The first man, however, might reply:
flowers, just flowers in the abstract. Such a person
The soul impulses of our words, however, live in our inner
more powerful, the more our words are imbued with
words must be given wings by the spirit. At night, however, the

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however, we illuminate by the methods of anthroposophical
organism along the entire path followed by the
a chance moment. Things, however, happen otherwise. If we use
earth-lives, however, do not show their effect inside our
however, is mainly set before our inner eye in sleep concerns
this, however, represents only the surface of our soul-life.
depth of the soul, however, it is being woven together, also
What the child absorbs, however, is absorbed only in the
thought-content, however — not the form — is alike
consciousness, however, does not yet know anything of this
away, however, you do not know that you think.
becomes so powerful that it is really able to sink down during
The fires are always flaming forth anew. We, however, can only
however, we behave like someone who has a sentence before
science, however, begins to call him a crazy fellow —
is that you cannot soar.” We could not tell him, however,
First, however, I had to erect a foundation and show what is at

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those that followed the Mystery of Golgotha. Today I wish to
Mankind's evolution, however, was not in the least as people
regards present-day man, however, it can be asserted that after
the influence of the body. This, however, is not ascribed to a
ancient India, however, man's bodily constitution enabled him
corpse. Ancient man, however, did not think of his body as a
feelings than furrowed soil. By aging, man gained wisdom
however, inhabited by men with receding foreheads, such as are
divine star-powers were interwoven with his thoughts.
of his thoughts upon heavenly powers until his forty-second or
year, possessed this relationship to the star-powers. Therefore
earth. You, however, dwelt in your pre-earthly existence,
divine-spiritual powers who sent the human being down to earth
divine-spiritual powers who had sent the human being down to
thus, however, confronted by the mystery of death; for
this point, the divine-spiritual powers decided to send down on
followers of the Christ; many do not believe in the Christ.
This, however, is not the way in which the Mystery of
immediate followers, but for all men in all ages,
It is natural, however, that some men were found who could
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disciples and pupils of the Christ, however, whom he came to
is not the Christ, however, Who was mistaken. Human beings were
however, was no longer really understood by him.
course of the year as it came to flower in very ancient times
This, however, could not happen unless the elemental
of earlier ages, however, knew that in mid-summer —
Festival, however, revealed the fact that it was not
Formerly, however, the human being experienced the course of
earthly is influenced by the stars. All this, however, has been
an intensive way with the lower, and also the higher animals,
however, to emphasize once more that I am not opposed to
instance, we are told: “A child's memory, his power of
calculate, however, that some subject exhausts the child in a
this demand for corpses. All this, however, can develop in the

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ändert sich eigentlich nur insoweit, als der Mensch im Leben

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für die Erzengel von Bedeutung ist, insoweit dieselbe

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selbst, soweit sie bis jetzt verlaufen ist. Wenn Sie

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als in Westeuropa, soweit er dort nicht durch die Geisteswissenschaft
vermögen. Der Christus-Begriff, soweit er auf nicht

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wird, die verstehen sollten, wer der Christus ist. Ebensowenig
orientalischen Traditionen heraus, ebensowenig eine Färbung

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circle. Flowers shoot out of the earth for him and disappear
life span. For him flower growth is like a modern investigation

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extend his power over what goes through the portal of death to what
mirror he sees his image, that however can only be there because the

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pupil didn't lose his ego; they poured the whole power of their
pure egos into him. That's how much power was necessary to
followed in ancient Egyptian mysteries. There the candidate for
initiation had to look for the path through the lower astral world
12 pure priests had to stand beside him, to prevent his lower drives,
desires and passions from overpowering him — that slumbered deep

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of love. This meditation is a slow dying of the lower ego. And we

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separated from the outer one in him. His higher parts leave the lower

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and thought that distract us with all the willpower that we muster.
word that has creative power. This is the Indians'

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being of soul-and-spirit, sent down by the Divine Powers into
power to know concerning their pre-earthly life. Thereby they came to
to the earth the sublime Sun-Being gives them the power whereby they
spiritual power of the sun, the spiritual light, which bears you on
if the power of the Sun-Being is not bestowed upon him. Thus the
through the power that he, the Sun-God, has laid in your hearts.”
had been quite forsaken by the Christ-power, were no longer able to
Gospels worked throughout the centuries with such power that they
To-day, however, we are on the threshold of an age when, having
Nazareth streams the power of the warmth-giving sun. When Jesus of
light and power into the world.”
His disciples and gave them further teaching. A power had been given
power however, departed from them after a certain time. There was a
Christ the power to attain immortality. But now, at the time of the
Mystery of Golgotha men knew that through their own human power they
Him we have the power which leads to immortality.” And now, ten
power to feel again the reality of our immortal being.” —
Only for a time, however, can mankind hold to the conviction that
through a power of knowledge acquired on the earth itself.
A power that guarantees immortality for men is dawning in our hearts,

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was inevitable that the idea to build a Goetheanum flowed over into
artistic creation. Anthroposophical ideas flowered into artistic forms.
nose, upper lip, mouth, lower lip, even while thoughts forsake you.
to apprehend the vital health of man when properly endowed by soul.
syllables followed by a caesura, and how the blood places the four syllable
he can gain the power to become an instrument for bringing to expression

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physics, we must kill our feeling and use only intellect. In art, however,
endowed with an instinctive clairvoyance which made it possible to behold,
followed the one just described — you know this from the history
non-existent, with which men fool themselves. But what power expresses
that power, let us look at childhood. The age of childhood does not
not, however, something which, at a certain age in manhood, suddenly
power works as an inner formative force of growth. The child is also
fashion. To repeat: power of phantasy is power to grow and harmonize
of plastic-musical power of growth and formation as, once, for the care
certain energy for other purposes, and this is the power of phantasy:
the natural power of growth metamorphosed into a soul force. If you
he no longer needs the full quota of his power of growth and formative
force. Part of it now rises up into the soul to become the power of
power of intellect. Intellect is the finely sifted-out power of phantasy,
is the same as the power of growth. In other words, what promotes growth
feel phantasy as a divine, active power in the world.
out of terrestrial depths, gave man his will power. With a certain
art in contrast to mere imitation. Now that naturalism has followed

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that I may speak about this Fifth Gospel, however, an
lowest school levels, in the most primitive instruction,
anyone who has objectively followed the path of
ask ourselves, however, about Tertullian's ideas,
it's something else. We find that he showed very
of modern natural science, logically followed, leads
clairvoyant power, he will arrive on this path quite
Darwinism, however, then one can be ever so materialistic,
lower animal forms, that he must have had a spiritual
Darwinism of its Christianity. If not, however, one will
knowledge of its followers and believers; that it spread
which has been described flowed out from the Pentecost

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that which as the source of the power of love pervades and
warms the universe, as though this source of the power of
the previous days, as though lost in dreams. Now, however,
before the cock crowed twice. And then the intermediate
revealed to the soul's vision. However, it seems to
in order to withstand the demonic powers which arise during
of the spiritual power in the universe. I do not wish to
second powerful sign appears which must be read in order to
body; the stone, however, remained apart from the tomb.
happen, that a symbol is placed in the cosmos as a powerful
divine powers do not write about what happens on the earth
and the earthquake which followed it. That the eclipse and
of deep sleep. Looking back, however, the time between the
receive it with the subconscious powers of their souls and
recognize him. Another image, which showed that the
of such things in a different way than is allowed in our

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they carried within them as power of the soul, of the mind,
flowed from what lived in their souls as the living force
followed the actual birth of the Christ-being, and what is
accomplished for the earth must, however, be retained in
souls. The spiritual power of the sun had streamed into the
speak of this suffering however, I must bring something
great benefactor of humanity, who however was seduced by
then came those evil followers to hear what they wanted to
which Christ Jesus allowed to happen as a means of
Renan is not shocked however, but has only beautiful words
however, it will be recognized that such a description
earthly conditions until the divine power deserted him. The
power weakening as he became similar to the body of Jesus
man. Divine miraculous power left him. Here we see the
from the baptism in the Jordan to powerlessness. And soon
Christ-Being's over-earthly miraculous power, no
and suffering, however, gave birth to the spirit which
divine powerlessness in order to give birth to the impulse

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the powerful answers he gave. We know, however, that these
meaningful, powerful answers came from the fact that the
ill-disposed to him. He, however, was engaged in an inner
that great spirit, that powerful spirit which came to
speak, however, which many believed to be an inspiration
“However much Rabbi Elieser has carob trees
transplant themselves from one place to another, however
he said to himself: All the soul powers with which I
with great effort: clairvoyant power. He experienced in
powers. Yes, he also discovered that the demonic powers
demons for gods, even to depict wild demonic powers in
idols, and the powers were attracted by these images and
place of worship. Around it, however, were sad people
Selfhood's guilt by others owed,
home his soul contained the powerful impression of the
ceremonies one can conjure all the demonic powers. Surely
culture, by his dedication to the highest spiritual powers,
which means “shovel” or “trowel”,
because the Essenes always carried a small trowel as an
trials of the lower degrees. And the wisest Essenes were,
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disposition for worldly learning. He showed little interest
Selfhood's guilt by others owed,
gradually changed and had come under demonic power, which
all-powerful prayer wherever the Mysteries were celebrated;
down on the pagan altar. He also saw, however – and
Lucifer showed him all the beauty of the Luciferic world,
not increased my power, only diminished it. So Ahriman sent
you claim to have divine powers. And the Christ-Being said:
what one could know on the earth; which, however, the god
power. And, said Ahriman, I will use this power!
and gentleness, but now a magical power emanated from him.
been transformed became his disciples and followed him.
“Hallowed by thy name.”
by others owed” he changed to: “Forgive us our
his sting. Therefore Christ had to come under the power of
certain followers of the so-called Adyar-Theosophy talk in
the divine with the human creates demonic powers.”

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to be objective, but they can only be subjective. We, however, want to
earlier through external means, through the power of the elements, and
that he then, however, went on to reveal himself through life, suffering
as a four-fold being, a being with four members — as endowed with
was allowed to experience that the Christ would arise in the future.

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the power of judgment or logical thinking. They had none of the mental
not know about the power hidden in coal. Instead, they had magical
abilities with which they could awaken the powers hidden in plant seeds
and then put these powers in their service. In this way they possessed
clairvoyant and magical powers. Those people in Atlantis best able to
make use of their magical powers were the best technicians and engineers.
compare to the people most highly gifted with powers of clairvoyance in
mature were initiated into the mastery of magical powers and into a
limited to the three lower kingdoms, Atlantean wisdom stretched over
However, through clairvoyant development, the Atlantean initiate also
planets in our solar system and the spiritual powers standing behind
Saturn, and Moon oracles. However, the greatest and loftiest was the
the world ether. However, with the highest initiate something different
seven of the very best individuals so that they grew up endowed with
was inspired by higher powers. They were then sent by the great sun
third, the Egypto-Chaldean culture, then followed. The exodus out of Egypt

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post-Atlantean age; that is, the age that followed the great water
from the watery element surrounding it. However, the bones and nervous
people, the powerful ones, were called the lion people. A third group
usefulness in the ascent of the entire human race. However, the great war
magicians. As we today use the powers asleep in coal, so the Atlantean
of the air and water. However, from the middle of the Atlantean age
of the most horrible egotism. In this way the powers of air and water
time means that powers of black magic are at work. Magic must never
earth's productive powers. The Nordic myth of the Twilight of the Gods
in ancient times because the memory of magic powers was still present;
powers in matter, black magic.

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The leading power behind
the followers of the great Zarathustra who have recorded their wisdom in
not to become slaves of matter. The power that wants to mislead people
the ahrimanic power. The danger arises through Ahriman that the human
their lives in physical, sensible bodies. Every life on earth is followed
sensible-sensual world. Then the same power proclaimed himself as Christ
the blood flowed from the wounds of the redeemer, Christ appeared in the
all wisdom. The writer of the Apocalypse, however, must place everything
little. For this reason the divine power of the word in the mouths of
sword employed as a symbol of the humanization of divine power. “And
experience the power of God that flows to them as “manna.”
(He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweRev. 2:17)
an inner power of the spirit to recognize the name with the hidden manna.
assumed a very high rank among Buddha's followers. According to

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that Zarathustra taught. However, his soul was not inclined to take
The science that became a powerful stimulus for European science, that
Arabism. It comes from Spain. However, it cannot rise above a pantheism
the dawning of a new science that is, however, wholly chained to the

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bodily nature as forms made of air. All the power that comes from the
followed by the Hyperborean age, with a race of human beings who had
followed by the Atlantean age — which was reflected in the fourth,
system are increasingly formed. On the other hand the powers of soul
in viscous bodies in ancient times, had powers of soul much greater than
could have simply deflected any cannon ball through the power in his
ancient Norse bards and singers still knew of them when they allowed

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special power. He can reproduce a particular etheric body, and these
into the descendants. In this way the descendants of Sem were endowed
The wisdom of the fifth cultural age will blossom forth as a flower of
power of judgment. It is proclaimed to those who bear within themselves

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body having influence over the physical body. However, what has the most
physical form. However, there were beings that became solid, hardened
can hide them in our heart. The lowest instincts of the human being
the last lower instincts to fall or be pushed into physical matter before
in his power of judgment. For this reason Jacob could trick him, because
Jacob had already come further in the development of his power of judgment,
are created in this way. The book tells us that the power of the lamb

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of spiritual culture will have overcome their lower nature. They will
be victors over their lower nature through what they will have made
of their souls. They will master their lower natures just as a rider
all, to be conqueror over his lower nature. But the lower nature is still
deeper and deeper into matter, into the darkness of the lower nature.
thrown into chains in this fourth age. But the lower nature experienced
selfless — and taken in with increasing understanding. Its followers
change all of nature and something like a meteor shower appears. In this
to swallow it. It will be indigestible for the lower human being but
like honey for the higher, when it is not read but swallowed. Human

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the invisible. However, in contrast to the sealed human beings there will
12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \
13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. \
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substances in the lower kingdoms enter with human beings into a kind
of lower astral world. This could be called the sub-physical astral
and the lower astral world. This lower astral world is also working
that is, the spirit of hindrances. He is a power of the lower world.
rise up into the higher world must go down into this lower world. All
However, those who remain behind from now on, after the middle of the
beings worked into the astral body of the human being. However, it was
as expelled into the evil, lower astral world. This is the ancient
the other human beings go to the sun, these will form an evil power
12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \
13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. \
powers at that time will not be capable of very much. That is why
17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. \
17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. \
18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. \

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body, and the I. However, if we wish to investigate post-Atlantean
by the seven seals something like a shower of meteorites will occur,
angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, ‘Do
Moses and Elijah, are called. Powerful forces are needed. Because they
However, karma is a law to which all are subject; therefore, those who
the voice box will become increasingly powerful. What we speak forth
powerful. One day the human being will create the human being's
the lord over the lower nature, forms one of the seals. Sorat is as

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