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Title: Goethe's Relationship to his 'Faust'
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II
Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
regarding the relationship of the spiritual character of Goethe
within the observation regarding Goethe's spiritual character.
sign which brings him to conjuring up of the Earth Spirit. Here
and spirit.
something acquired in this manner from spiritual knowledge, was
another sign, which directed him to reveal the Earth Spirit.
to those in spirit who, to a certain sense, I might say, in
there is the possibility to regain, later, through the spirit,
Faust encounters the Earth Spirit in such a form as it appears
approach the spirit of revelation, and so we come to that which
lives in the soul's depths, and arrive closer to spiritual
even you!” The Spirit responds: “You match the
spirit you comprehend, not me!” Who then is this spirit
Wagner steps in. “You match the spirit ...” —
which spirit? Wagner matches him. That is the dramatic knot.
striving, spiritual idealist and Wagner hobbles in on the stage
to penetrate ever more into what is offered in a spiritual
charmed, as Faust does after his oath with the Earth Spirit
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Title: Lecture: Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny: Lecture I
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destiny with cosmic and spiritual evolution. By meditating upon
spiritual Beings and the presence of Christ among us now and in
life, we then see how in his physical existence the spiritual nature,
possible through spiritual science to observe the spiritual life in
soul-spiritual sees how dexterity — not the achieved, but the
of its presence in the pre-earthly existence. Spiritual science can
spirit-soul being in spiritual intercourse with that host of Beings
say not only in abstract ways that man lives there among spiritual
thank these spiritual Beings — that is, we place ourselves in a
connection with the loftier divine-spiritual worlds. Into these
divine-spiritual worlds we enter again and again in a certain way
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.]
to Ahrimanic elemental spirits — to which then their thinking is
think is filled with spirituality. It is wonderful to see how —
through idealism, through spiritualizing the realm of thoughts —
is a spiritual being, for out of this awareness arises respect for the
other person likewise as a spiritual being. It is out of action based
we during sleep in a threefold relation with the spiritual world: with
For it is possible to know through spiritual vision that one is able
ever more habitual. Thanks to the spiritual world, however, human
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Title: Lecture: Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny: Lecture II
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destiny with cosmic and spiritual evolution. By meditating upon
spiritual Beings and the presence of Christ among us now and in
only the soul-spiritual nature, thoughts were something entirely
divine-spiritual forces. You would never arrive at a consciousness of
spiritual Beings, and the most significant among these Beings for
that the great Sun Spirit now no longer remained the Sun Spirit, but
into the earthly existence; that He was the only divine-spiritual
although only by means of spiritual research — with persons even
their inner being that Christ, came out of the sphere of spirits who
the other spiritual-divine beings had not done for the reason that
destiny; that He is the only one of the divine-spiritual beings who
Augustine we see a spirit who could no longer understand the ancient
outcome of an ancient teaching which conceived the Spirit only as
creative and knew no difference between matter and spirit. No spirit
times have of mere matter; on the contrary, spirit existed in
all different sides. In the spiritual world everything is far richer;
in the spiritual world photographs would have to be taken from various
conceived only from a spiritual point of view. It is indeed
no connection with the spiritual world and thus cannot understand the
for a spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge, as this is sought by
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture I
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the Earth. Membership of a spiritual world is in most cases a mere
fallacy of all contemporary spiritual life in the West and in Middle
human form in such a way that the being of soul and spirit coming
principles of Spiritual Science, according to which Frau Dr. Kolisko
now speak of a second fact, connected with man's spiritual
become aware of spiritual reality in the Universe. This indeed was
spirit bodies, and the men who communed with them, having experienced
physical substance of the Moon but these spiritual Beings too,
entirely different; the soul and spirit has remained. Natural science
ago has remained, but only the soul and spirit, so, although the Moon

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture II
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from the spiritual Moon Beings are connected with the whole of a
connections of these things. The Initiate before whom the spiritual
of soul and spirit between death and a new birth, he passes through
everything is observed by those Beings who, as Spirit Beings not
spiritual Moon Beings who were the great Teachers during the age of
is directed towards these Beings in the Sun, the spiritual Beings of
the depths of spirit-existence. For these things are in themselves a
Spiritual Beings and we unite ourselves with these deeds: as far as
the being of soul and spirit who is descending, begin to be
spiritual. For when we look back into earlier earthly lives the power
man we begin to discern the whole Universe. According to spiritual
to recognise the true connections between the spiritual and the
him between death and a new birth to behold spiritually all that is
Naturally, things appertaining to the spiritual life must

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture III
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man passes through the gate of death he comes into a spiritual world
or another from the wide orbit of this spiritual world, the different
or conception man passes from a purely spiritual existence into the
birth he lives in a ‘spirit body' which connects him with
the realm of spirit — whatever may be the designation used in
existence. And in trying to envisage the spiritual realm above him,
entered the spiritual world through the gate of death, we come, first
something to our senses, what the spiritual realm contains means
it were the link connecting us with the spiritual outer world. During
our gaze widens: we come to know the spiritual world outside us, the
objective spiritual world. Our leaders here are the Exusiai, the
spiritual outer world. Just as here on Earth we speak of what is
lives and has being, lives as spiritual reality. Nor in this life
the spiritual sphere of the Universe. And we become aware of what our
content of a vast and majestic spiritual world. As our life after
— from the realms of spirit. For then we behold the deeds of
spiritual happenings are revealed to us as we gaze downwards —
the realm of spirit we behold the deeds of the Seraphim, Cherubim and
Thrones. And in this spiritual existence we are aware that what is
behold the deeds of spiritual Beings, of Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones.
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture IV
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spirit — or perhaps it is better to say, by spiritual Beings
— and that human souls, themselves filled with spirit, carry
of soul and spirit, and only in this way is it possible for us to
the spiritual fount of the Cosmos and that we can understand our own
being and constitution only through a spiritual understanding of the
following. In studying Spiritual Science we must always have in our
readily to the spirit; and in earthly existence man must use the body
Christian era. Even to-day there is still much living spirituality in
spiritually potent. Chaotic as conditions in that country appear
to-day, there is in Ireland much real spiritual life. But it is only
of being, deviates from the spiritual reality which is in truth the
deeper, spiritual connections and not those of an external, abstract
civilisation, he needs the living spirit and not the
dead spirit of abstract concepts and ideas.
the spiritual in the way indicated in my public lecture here a few
relatively near past, the spiritual investigator is forced to assert
hostility of a certain stream of spiritual life. In the early
ancient clairvoyance which leads him into the cosmic spirituality.
higher Spiritual Powers that intellectuality shall not be his
spirituality of the Sun. A scene of dramatic grandeur and impressive
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Prague, 3-29-11
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to help us, which have the power to develop our higher spiritual
elevation into the spiritual world if we only let the literal meaning of
spirituality behind the sunbeams. The latter are only the only the
spirit for our meditation and not take one from the outer world for
defects, that is, if he doesn't enter the spiritual world with
this spiritual will appear to him in the wrong light. One could
easy to tread a spiritual path. A good method that anyone can use to
Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus.

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture II: How Does One Disprove Spiritual Science?
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Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research
How Does One Disprove Spiritual Science?
Does One Disprove Spiritual Science?
theosophical or spiritual-scientific worldview to let our
thoughts wander over this subject. If spiritual science wants
knows this. If theosophy or spiritual science should give an
illogical, maybe even as a bad person? Spiritual science should
Theosophy wants to be a worldview that leads to the spiritual
outside world one can recognise a spiritual world. In this
spiritual world, only the reasons of everything are that takes
not substantial for theosophy or spiritual science that one
admits that something spiritual exists behind any physical, but
physical world. Theosophy or spiritual science cannot agree
the human being can develop spiritual senses, spiritual eyes
spiritual-mental organs, so that for him at a certain time the
wants to become a spiritual researcher makes his soul active
the soul with a spiritual world that as really exists for the
the spiritual researcher to his science is, indeed, something
a way that it can appear to the spiritual eye as the colour
supersensible spiritual reality.
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture III: How Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
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Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research
How Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
beings of the spiritual world are around us of which theosophy
or spiritual science speaks. However, they can dawn on us if
the spiritual eyes, the spiritual ears are woken from
slumbering as it were by inner mental-spiritual energy. Then a
nothing, but in a spiritual-mental essentiality that is as real
spiritual world. Someone who has attained such a consciousness
spiritual world that are always around us.
spiritual world; however, they are not necessary to understand
what the spiritual researcher gets down from the spiritual
healthy logic. The spiritual researcher can only investigate
the facts and beings of the spiritual world, however, every
world of spiritual-mental realities. A simple consideration
cognition. Now we can say that the method of spiritual research
also applies to the knowledge that you attain in the spiritual
someone who advances on the way of spiritual research also gets
spiritual-scientifically, we have to ask ourselves, when does
mental-spiritual is completely able to use its tool, the brain?
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IX: The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies
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Spirits of the Age and the Folk-Spirits
spiritual-scientifically, we call the four members of our human
human being because he received his ego from the spirits of the
that there are higher spiritual beings — we use for them
spirits of the age and so on, upward rising. We call them with
have we to imagine, actually, these spiritual beings of the
level during the old Moon evolution. The spirits to whom we
turn as the guarding spirits of the individual human being are
as it were, a human being is assigned. “Spirits of your
level. The spirits of personality or spirits of the ages were
Now, we pick out the spirits we call archangeloi. There we have
such spirits as archangeloi who went through the human level
to the level of the archangeloi. We leave these spiritual
the spiritual beings who were human beings during the old
Saturn evolution, today they are spirits of the ages, they are
look at our relation to these both types of spiritual
above us the spirits we count to the hierarchy of the angels,
then the spirits we count to the hierarchy of the archangeloi,
and those we count to the hierarchy of the archai, spirits of
the ages or spirits of personality. However, they also develop.
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture X: Central Europe between East and West
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Ahrimanic Inspiration and Spiritual Impulses
dedicated to our efforts which we can give a spiritual
character commensurate with our spiritual-scientific feeling,
as supporters of spiritual science towards the world and its
of the tasks and the efforts of our spiritual-scientific world
spirituality, the other, the winged being, does not endure
the spiritual in the abstract this is that we are seized by the
vocation to develop the spirit-self in future, as I explained
consists of the fact that good spirits lag behind. In the
Greek-Orthodox Church was a good spirit until the sixth,
seventh centuries. But a spirit that is good at a certain time
changes into a luciferic spirit if it is detained beyond this
spiritual forms that develop in the East that were justified in
for spiritualism. Even where one strives for spirituality, one
wants to seize the spirits, as it were, with the hands like the
spiritualists. This tendency becomes stronger and stronger, and
back any fear of knowledge of the spiritual world. Because you
external science if it does not look up to the spiritual world
scientific investigation of spiritual worlds is that Lucifer
spiritual knowledge understand their religion. They want
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Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 1: The Being of Man
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his own sake; he is here as revelation of the Divine Spirit, of the
become ever more and more perfect, in the spiritual-scientific sense
this revelation, of the World Spirit through Man, so that he may find
against Divine destiny!” For the World Spirit has implanted in
namely, to be a revelation of the World Spirit; and we represent more
and more, not a revelation of the World Spirit, but a caricature, a
increasingly an image of the World Spirit. Only when we can give
Spirit”; only when it becomes significant for us in this sense
reason that it is the only thing capable of awakening our spiritual
sight, our entire spiritual faculty for seeing and beholding the
things of the spirit, of awakening those forces which permit us to
penetrate into the spiritual foundation of man's nature. Anyone
who, as seer and investigator of the Spirit, is unable to have the
closed eyes (however open they may be for this or that spiritual
or that in the spiritual environment of our existence; yet, if this
presents itself to the spiritual eye; so that we may look
his physical organs into the spiritual, super-sensible foundation of
you already know, from spiritual-scientific observations, that

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 2: Human Duality
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human organism in all reverence, as a revelation of the spiritual
permeated ourselves in some measure with spiritual-scientific
manifestation, of those forces which live and weave as Spirit
which the spiritual eye actually sees, that is, of something real
spiritual prototype of the nerve-system. As the archetype is related
through the inner experiences of that spiritual training designed to
rooted and lives in the spiritual world. We shall thereby come to
Spirit which lives in the universe, and we shall attain to a very
special understanding of that Spirit.

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 3: Co-operation in the Human Duality
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nerve-system, he ascends into the spiritual world, when he lifts
the spiritual world — that spiritual world with which man is,
the indirect road of the sense-impressions. It is the spiritual
consciousness at first knows nothing, and it is this same spiritual
sense there lies a spiritual world, so that we see as though through
the spiritual world lying behind this veil. The moment, however, that
disappear also. We then begin to live in a spiritual world above us,
everything physical, is built up out of the spirit, we therefore take
nerve-system, what has been condensed as spiritual world into the
into his own spirituality in so far as this is alive in him, this
is to reach the spiritual world in the other way, the blood is pushed
wisdom ascend into the spiritual world, to have a conscious inner
spiritual worlds. Then will be completely banished that idea which
of the spiritual content of the human organs, if we are able to

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 4: Man's Inner Cosmic System
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spiritual-scientific world-conception as thoroughly honest seekers.
truths of spiritual science, we must accustom ourselves gradually to
organ such as the spleen we think of it in the spiritual-scientific
expression of the spiritual, the less is the physical form of the
spiritual influences should cease with the removal of the physical
feeble expression of the nature of the corresponding spiritual
certain spiritual activities in the human being cease when one
much greater hindrance to the continuation of the spiritual
conditions, less hindering to the development of the spiritual
underlying spiritual forces.
nature of spiritual-scientific knowledge. Though readily understood,
is given out through spiritual science with a certain sort of
spiritual science is a sort of madness which does not harmonise in
between what comes forth from spiritual science and what may be
the field of anthroposophical or spiritual science as a whole is so
in its spiritual connection pre-supposes the three members of
breathing, something like a spiritualised breathing process. Whereas
our organism which is a spiritualised process of breathing. And there
longer any other resource, not knowing whether spirit works upon the
influence the spirit, they concluded that there are two processes

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 5: The Systems of Supersensible Forces
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regards the meaning of that which we call in a spiritual-scientific,
when we speak on the basis of our spiritual science about such organs
when we speak about it from the spiritual-scientific standpoint, of a
can say that it is a very spiritual organ, that is, the physical part
particularly spiritual organ and is described as such.
Since, however, man's form is connected with his spiritual activity,
of a mind which had thought out that purpose beforehand. This spiritual
stand for some other spiritual world-conception, such errors occur.
If it should be disputed, for example, by a spiritual-scientific world-conception
from the point of view of spiritual science, we have first to seek behind

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 6: The Blood as Manifestation and Instrument of the Human Ego
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is carried on in this way, even though it seems to look for spiritual
human organisation, we can trace it back to its spiritual

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 7: The Conscious Life of Man
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system, especially that most spiritual one among them, the spleen,
spiritual sense that we have here to do, but this must be conceived
say that Spiritual Science maintains absurdities and nonsense.
mean not so much the soul and spiritual impressions we can employ,
capable of calling forth, spiritually as it were, a spiritual bony

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 8: The Human Form and its Co-ordination of Forces
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coming from the spiritual worlds; the organism must really be
permeates soul and spirit in the whole man, so does the circulatory
of soul and spirit, you will understand that everything which meets
spiritual eye of the seer. Everything that has displayed itself
out the soul and spirit by way of the warmth-process, there takes
external world, how the psychic-spiritual comes into contact in the
soul and spirit in man; but this physical human organism reaches up
of all other processes, penetrates up into the soul and spirit,
transforms itself into soul and spirit. And what is it that is most
beautiful about the psychic-spiritual? The most beautiful, the
to use to the full, for the spirit, everything that the earth could
being passes through the portal of death, rises to a spiritual world
Thus does spiritual
into eternity, we then receive through spiritual science what must be
such a spirit, they understand one another in their deepest being;
It was in this spirit
that we came together here; and it is in this spirit that we shall go
willing. Then shall we be rightly united in that Spirit which ought
to be brought to mankind through Anthroposophy. In this Spirit we are
Spirit we shall remain united in soul; and in this Spirit we shall

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