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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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most challenging to the human powers of understanding. It is a
His peace shall be with all men of good will.” Thus did the

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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inner ear, of the configuration of which I shall not speak in detail.
shall go into those worlds in any case, we shall discover it all in
shall go there, presumably, whatever happens.

Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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reality. To-day we shall consider the human etheric body, describing
But to-day we shall look back at what is left behind in bed when a
way we shall treat the term “etheric body” so as to draw
we shall consider its real nature, as it is beheld super-sensibly,

Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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This brings us to the question — and the answer I shall give is
Europe and on towards Russia. We shall never get to the truth if we
age, what their aspirations are and in what way they think. We shall
incarnated now in Japanese bodies. We shall never be able to
Tagore. We shall never understand what such a figure really signifies
natural we shall invariably discern in his works an element of
Eastern coquettishness and yet we shall be attracted by an
Without this sense of reality we shall make no real progress. And for
example, that our Waldorf School shall be prevented from becoming a
shall be able to perceive what is living in the souls now incarnated
matters. But when once the courage is there we shall get beyond

Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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anthroposophical spiritual science, we shall have to tell them that
then even in these dark and sad times we shall not lose hope —
into human evolution in recent times, we shall get further and
in ourselves, we shall add the results of spirit vision to the
shall acquire great respect for their intellectual
we shall accept philosophers like Avenarius and Mach as individual
such as these, our eyes will be opened, and we shall see the
mysterious way these world conceptions work in life. We shall
We shall realise that the practice of bolshevism is the end result of
to the spirit. We shall have to want to go this way. We shall have to
shall have to resolve to have inner self-reliance. Then the others
distress, through the very power these have over us, we shall perhaps
from out of ourselves. We shall then avoid the materialistic

Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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oriental, we shall find that the lofty spirituality we so justly
from a more purely spiritual point of view, we shall find that the

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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cannot be acknowledged as having real existence. How shall I
Inspiration and Intuition. We shall see how anthroposophical
which we have lived through before birth and conception and shall

Title: Memory and Love
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pre-natal life and what we shall be in our life after death. And if we
shall have after death, if through spirit-knowledge we picture the past
spiritual world. I hope that we shall be able to go on enlarging these

Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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sleep as it occurs every day of a man's life, and we shall be obliged to
experienced consciously. I shall have to describe to you the experiences

Title: Lecture: About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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which I have reached. Nevertheless I must point out that what I shall
it. If we consider the whole matter, we shall find that it is really
a most complicated thing, and we shall come across extraordinary phenomena.

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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which it shall depend in an honest way upon the
achieve it, — and then we shall get forwards!

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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shall shortly summarise in a couple of pages the contents
until we find means to do this, we shall get no further. When
— then we shall once more have something that can speak
something which shall draw from the spirit the power to
create a new social order, — till then, we shall
attained to under the old conditions, we shall in no case get
heads as possible. In no other way shall we get forwards. For
existing State, we shall get no step further; — not
the fact of the matter is, that we shall first be able to
elevenpence halfpenny), that, even so, we shall get no
every petty detail of ways and means. We shall only begin to
forces of the world. Still, I shall never grow weary of
leans towards the making of compromises to-day. I shall never
niveau. I shall always maintain the view, that it is the
the gentleman. Really, we shall not solve the social question

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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concerning my science of spirit, but I shall quote something
evolution. Here I shall have to say something very paradoxical.

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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shall begin with the rather odd views that Karl Lamprecht, the
shall see in a moment, what Lamprecht put forward is intimately
inspire. Then we shall come upon what is really at work in
slept through, and we shall be able to understand properly what
experience of history that otherwise sleeps, we shall
shall not hear judgments like those I quoted at the beginning
impulses, we shall not utter prophetic or vaguely mystical

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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that I shall not have anything particularly out of the common
also been said ever and again — we shall never be able
spiritual deepening, those who, on the other hall, can
shall just speak about it in that sense without giving names.
all this mean? Today I shall consider the matter entirely
and positive way. Then I go into a hall where the' principal
that, we shall never work our way out of it.
permeated by spiritual science we shall be studying those
of some particular school this or that shall be taught or
enter a hall whether we are one in soul and spirit with those
success — but because we shall have always to concern

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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here (Waldorf School, etc.) and of our aims. I shall possibly
illustration and so shall give no name. It says that this man
acccrdance with reality. Suppose, now,I go into a hall where
those men wculd certainly have laughed me out of the hall.
Science teaches with reference to social matters, shall flow
have fallen into it, we shall never be able to raise
earnest, means that when anyone enters a lecture hall he is

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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We shall afterwards see that this is all said by way of
comparison. We shall see too that the difference between the
different metamorphoses. Otherwise we shall never get out of
read — well,what shall I say the

Title: The Ten Commandments
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or between heaven and earth. You shall not worship what is
shall not place other gods above Me.” Therefore, in order
the image of the “I am the I-Am.” “You shall
Third Commandment: You shall separate the workday from the

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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what we shall see will be a delicate cloud of light, inwardly full of

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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“I shall never be able to see the world with my own eyes.”
But every normal person can say to himself: “I shall be able to

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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for which we have to be grateful to the body all day long, we shall

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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considerations will give us the answer and we shall see how the changing

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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is the period from the seventh to the fourteenth year. We shall see

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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is a change again after the sixteenth year, or shall we say after puberty.
I will enjoy myself. I have plenty of time; I shall be returning to
shall not help anyone any more, for if he is poor and wretched and I help
him I shall be interfering with his karma. He has earned his suffering;

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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Any such explanation is bound to be incomplete, for I shall not be putting
before you any speculations or theories. I shall limit myself, as occultism
always should, to facts and experiences. I shall therefore tell you
I shall draw only on real experiences.
we shall have to look back again at what has been said about man's four
In considering karmic relationships we shall be concerned chiefly with
more or less the same character throughout life. We shall see later

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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Conscience has developed fairly late in human evolution, and we shall

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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We shall see in the course

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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shall see tomorrow how this development went on.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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upon. And then he said: In the world of the Spirit I shall find the
We shall be succeeded
the future we shall hear something very different and stand in quite
now brings to us in a different form. When we are reborn, we shall hear
this characteristic of truth, we shall acquire a quite different relation
to it. We shall say: Indeed we live in the truth, but it can take many
forms. And we shall then look at modern humanity in a quite different
light. We shall not say that we possess absolute truth; we shall say
we shall become tolerant towards every form of truth. We come to a better

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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we should attend to; then we shall make progress.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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we shall see how it differs from the Eastern way. This Christian way

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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qualities, the more easily shall we attain to Imaginative Knowledge.

Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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shall at most be able to contribute a few side-lights which may help
distant future we shall be able to continue. On this occasion, as you
unintelligible from their point of view. Thus, I opined, we shall
I shall attempt in
aspects that shall help our understanding. In today's lecture it will
what I shall characterize (though in a very brief introductory
it really? And we shall have to admit: Here we already get stuck! The
thinking, even then we shall have to ask — and seek the answer
manifestation of Force, we shall be able to say that the force
in the surrounding sphere. We shall have instances of this during the
step — out into actual Nature — whereby we shall grow
which the life is subject. I shall not find them in a, nor
not alive to that which is. In the investigation of Nature we shall
his Theory of Colour is also founded, of which we shall be speaking

Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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accordingly, we shall say that the point has a greater or lesser
unite with what comes to meet us in the light; we shall discuss this
be true to say we see the light itself, — though we shall yet
yesterday, this is indeed the Ur-phenomenon of colour. We shall reach
light by an arrow in the diagram, I shall have to put the arrow thus.

Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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and by. We shall have to go into the phenomena of light and colour
with in the way we do here. In the concluding lectures we shall
so: If then the light is analyzed by the prism, I shall see it so on
Moreover I shall always find a red edge outside, — in this
this effect be due? How shall I answer this question, purely from the
blind. Tomorrow I shall try to show you an experiment confirming
we shall try gradually to discover how the many-coloured world

Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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IVd). If I then put up a screen — say, here — I shall
experiment, which we shall actually be doing, I will now make a

Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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remaining time — we shall now have to consider the relation of
I shall now only have time for a for a few matters of principle.
need to get hold of today, for we shall afterwards want to relate it
exactly of what I shall bring forward. Think as precisely as you can.
we ourselves derive from the velocity. We shall not come to terms
important ones — which we shall need to elaborate. Only on
these lines shall we achieve the necessary fundamental concepts for a

Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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other natural phenomena which we shall presently be studying. I will
that is filled with light and we shall call it “qualitatively
darkness and we shall judge it “qualitatively negative”
the other we shall be able to ascribe a certain degree of intensity,
surrounded by darkness, and we shall find — I beg you to take
note of this very precisely — we shall find that for pure
Thus we shall have to
Now we shall also need
reflect a little on the facts and we shall recognize an immense
hand to my forehead, I shall not dream of saying that my forehead
“attracts” my hand, but I shall say: It is an inner deed
my forehead; they are not really separate entities. I shall regard
we shall find that things are wholes only in certain respects. Even
unless the air in our environment is vibrating we shall not hear any
sounds. There is a genuine connection — and we shall speak of
Helmholtz got to know of the phenomenon, he said: Very well, we shall
means that we shall now have to explain these radiations themselves
as vibrations in the elastic ether. In the last resort we shall get

Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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exposed to it. We shall soon see, however, that as between the
ask yourself in all seriousness, “How shall I now compare the
shall not get any further if we do not try to think out clearly,
water all about, stirring it thoroughly. After a time we shall look

Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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phenomenon that underlies it — or, shall we rather say,
Now we shall
recognized the facts, this is what we shall see:— Consider
certain lower animals), — this part alone I shall be able
however, my dear Friends, we shall no longer be able to conceive as
are equally sense-organs, we shall be no less mistaken in our

Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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Leyden Jar, — but we shall also need a two-pronged conductor

Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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quarrel grows in violence; at last they challenge one-another to a
is, we shall not know where we are in our Natural Science, so that
of Physics. Ever-increasingly we shall be obliged to think in this
in Goethe's Theory of Colour. We shall be studying the element of
indications; I hope we shall soon be able to pursue them further.
scientific courses we shall also have done something for the good

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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illustrate our point, but we shall take one as an example. We
Nevertheless we shall attempt to show today that this
actually orientated toward our inner experience? We shall see
we shall see belongs to the spirit, but it is related to
ourselves in our soul life, we shall never be
Tomorrow we shall have to describe how something of the

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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of the magazine Das Reich. I shall
Today we shall have opportunity to show in what way the
spiritual life, and we shall do this by taking into
concerned cover a wide field. Today I shall select only a
unconscious soul life and its manifestations. I shall take
dreams. I shall then deal with a subject that more recently has
which is related to it. I shall then proceed to another
shall deal with briefly. Then I shall come to a subject which
explanatory. I shall indicate what is the sphere of the science
far only just mentioned and which I shall describe later from
time, I shall not be able to go into the ordinary scientific
regions I shall characterize today. It also distinguishes them
hallucinations and visions. Whereas dream pictures
hallucinations are very much connected in their origin with the
hallucinations, visions, somnambulism, mediumism and
— turns into hallucinations and
hallucinations — that
experience like hallucinations, visions, somnambulistic speech
what he experiences in hallucinations and visions into
time when I am riding I shall fall from my horse. He sees the
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IX
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processes. But in this way we shall arrive at nothing. We will however

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIV
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People sit in fine lecture halls and each reads his paper, but the

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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shall have to say in the coming days will inevitably be a kind of
next few days we shall describe these forces in their most intimate
century. But today, I shall speak about these forces in their more
philistine forms of thought. We shall not speak of blame, neither
shall we accuse. But we shall consider how fundamentally souls
we shall find this great difference. The forms of the thoughts have
today? — I shall answer: In order to find this. For you are
are seeking today shall be found out of the common center of true
we shall see tomorrow, my dear friends, how the new generation has
shall tell you more of how we can now attempt to open the shutters

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture II
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shall often have to start from details and then quickly soar to a
is human out of himself. This has been the challenge since the
soul. The twentieth century is challenged to understand it with new

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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TODAY I shall speak in
educational value as a whole, we shall have to admit that when a book
what matters is that the Spirit shall be in what we say. The Spirit
hall.” The pleasant sensation, you see, was expressed in terms
we shall no longer have to confess that we ought not to mention the
spirituality. Permeated by spirit we can speak of matter and we shall
because we are able to speak about them in a spiritual way. We shall

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IV
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TODAY I shall begin with
upon honesty and truth, then we shall progress, for humanity must
indeed progress. Then we shall speak of the Spirit which is so like

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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earth. External science cannot get much beyond, shall I say, a
be moved by the Spirit. Then we shall become children again, that is
to say, we shall carry childhood on into our later years. And that we
brought out of the human individuality; we shall see how as a result,

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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shall understand one another still better if I call to your attention
world-riddle within ourselves. But we know too that we shall never
appear in man; if single individuals are challenged in the
feel him to be a world-riddle, a walking world-riddle. Then we shall

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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century, to implicit belief in all we find there. We shall certainly
conversations and say to oneself: Now we shall be able to discuss,
enthusiasm: “We shall allow nothing to come to us from outside;
so there arises a tremendous question, which we shall be considering
infants. And so in the coming days we shall consider the question of

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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there shall also be found among the young, single ideals striving
literature demands that one shall think actively. Most people are

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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one. I shall explain this by means of an example in the monastery
needed to meet the challenges of life. The great German writers
then, we shall continue.

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture X
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the basis for all Anthroposophy is inner activity, the challenge to
wonderful relation between the colors. We shall not do this by
showing the child symbols or allegories, but we shall do it in an
artistic way. Then we shall see how out of this artistic feeling the
alone can relate it. Certainly I shall one day be as old as he. But I
shall not experience what he tells for thirty-five or forty years.
The times will have progressed by then and I shall experience
“I too shall one day give the breast to a child, but now it is

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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is asked of education is that it shall benefit the child. But if this
education. What more there is to be said on this subject I shall try

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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though slowly, today. I shall not speak in the usual sense of our age
shall work rightly in education only when we have learned to feel a
time will come when we shall no longer need to talk about education.
necessity, that education shall not be talked about so much, that

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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of his inner being, these concepts shall die. But the strange thing
that it may hold together. Otherwise we shall have the spirit so
we shall make the chariot for Michael, then we shall be able to
the means available at present, we shall have to guide man again to
of the company of Michael. Only then shall we participate in what can
feeling we will separate today; with this feeling, however, we shall
also come together again. Thus we shall find association in the

Title: Lecture: Lecture I: Occult Signs and Symbols
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such symbols shall be the task of these lectures. Just how this is
methods that we shall also discuss in the course of time, the human
explain the reasons therefore, we shall be able to look more deeply

Title: Lecture: Lecture III: Occult Signs and Symbols
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Today we shall first
space is expressed. Now we shall turn our attention to a more
it will become clearer how far the number one symbolizes what I shall
its course through involution and evolution, but we shall see the
know you might not speak German, but you shall get the

Title: Lecture: Lecture IV: Occult Signs and Symbols
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seals that were hung in the Festival Hall during the Munich Congress
as long as the earth shall exist, a group soul for the higher

Title: Lecture: The Proclamations to the Magi and the Shepherds
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outer nature shall be gained through the forces within man. ‘Schools

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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Mysteries — I shall call them the “Mysteries of Light or of
Light”. I shall call this second stream “the Mysteries of
the unimaginative mind of Rome. We shall not understand modern life,
the social organization of England and America. I shall speak of this

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture II: The Michael Path to Christ: A Christmas Lecture
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formerly stood. But it is required of men that they shall become the
During the time I am lecturing here at Stuttgart I shall point out
how rightly to assess it. Today I shall only call your attention to
evolution at the time when materialism entered into it. I shall

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture III: The Mystery of the Human Will
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is on the increase. I shall merely indicate this aspect. Today I must
simply this: to keep the fact in mind, that we shall rightly prepare
Lucifer did — that man shall take the right attitude. The
all-important thing is that man shall not through sleeping miss the
Western World we shall simply see inscribed in the local Register, the
soul-content, however, is a great hallucination — certainly a
most spiritualized hallucination, the hallucination of the Mystery of
hallucination of the Mystery of Golgotha, neither more nor less. Now,
but only a hallucination of this Mystery of Golgotha. I might also
say, an Imagination; for the hallucination is so spiritualized that it
that the Imagination of the Gospels shall be raised to Reality through
to prepare his incarnation that through Spiritual Science man shall

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture IV: The Breaking-in of Spiritual Revelations Since the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
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which seeks to enter humanity, shall here so be served that the souls
as possible shall be seized in the innermost depths of their souls by
the New Year of the Spiritual Future, and shall develop a Will which

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture V: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience. The Spiritual Mark of the Present Time. A New Year Contemplation.
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The means which can be used so that man shall appeal to this inner
compulsion, so that he shall not rise to the free, upright position in

Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture I
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and I shall try to deal with those points where anthroposophy
can illuminate the realm of medicine. I shall endeavor to show,
we shall find everywhere spiritual conceptions of the being of
As we shall see in the next few days, this marvelous structure
this — and I shall now describe in an introductory way
as we shall see in the following lectures. I know that this
being, we shall not realize that, in fact, he is not at all as

Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture II
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the requisite physiological and therapeutic knowledge. I shall
shall have to show that this is neither an inorganic

Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture III
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organizations emanates from the head organization. We shall
mind, we shall learn to understand in what way we can really
warmth.(I shall speak of these things tomorrow when we come to
we shall also succeed in dissolving it. This can actually be

Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture IV
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We shall never
scale into balance, but it is very difficult. We shall approach

Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture I
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only just arrived after a very tiring journey and shall probably not
working with us and I shall try to deal with just those points where
Anthroposophy can throw light into the realm of medicine. I shall
shall everywhere find traces of spiritual conceptions of the being of
shall we perceive Nature as the ancients perceived her, in all
And I think that what I shall have to say in this connection will
of man. As we shall find later on, this marvelous structure of the
contrast to this — and I shall now describe in an introductory
with, as we shall see in the following lectures.
the very essence of Intuitive Knowledge, and we shall never be able
of man, we shall not realise that he is, in fact, not at all as he is

Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture II
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and therapeutic knowledge. I shall have to use somewhat unfamiliar
reason that, as things are to-day, nothing of what I shall bring
course of these lectures we shall see what really lies behind this
these lectures we shall have to show that this is neither an
only so shall we find the way, as we must do, towards seeing man, not
Along these lines we shall discover the rational connection between
the next lecture I shall have to continue this subject, showing that

Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture III
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and disease. And here we shall do best to start from a consideration
puberty. These two possibilities of illness are as different, shall I
head. But we shall never understand the human organism with all its
art. Then we shall be working upon the rhythmic system, and it
this in mind, we shall learn to understand what a tumour-formation
treatment is to envelop it in warmth. (I shall speak of these things
tumour with warmth, then — speaking crudely — we shall

Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture IV
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we start from this and turn to consider illness and disease, we shall
astral organism, we shall not be far from the realisation that
which it is more closely related. And so we shall very soon find that
much in what I say we shall not find it so easy to understand these
shall never have real insight into the being of man if we do not
symptoms of which I am now speaking, we shall often find cramp-like
of symptoms such as I have described, is present, we shall find the
phenomenon we shall find the formation of phlegm and the like, which
of heart and lungs and the kidney system is upset — we shall
balance and it is almost impossible. We shall get at it more easily,
man we shall have iron at work; potassium, calcium or alkaline salts
described, the kidneys are not acting properly, we shall always find
this way we shall be able to modify curves that are ascending too

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas III: The Michael Inspiration
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This I wanted to say about the attitude to be adopted in what I shall
First of all there is a challenge to discover what is actually meant.
Nature-spirits are working, so that out of winter shall come spring
festival drawn from the cosmos can be celebrated by men. Then we shall
shall have what teaches us how to take in hand the iron in our own
organism, in the inner part of our human nature. Then we shall have

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Va: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part I)
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attributes and characteristics of these Beings. We shall not content
experience; then we shall learn to know what the anthroposophical
world-conception means for individual souls, we shall learn to

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VIII: The Michael Path to the Christ (Extract)
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they shall become the servants of Michael.

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is from the actual events of the times that we shall seek
something that was real. Never shall we get clear of confusion
tendencies? — In pointing them out, we shall at the
new order of society is trying to take shape; one that shall no
under human conditions are as follows: ‘No longer shall Capital
endeavour after a social order in which services shall ensure
just reciprocal services, in which men shall work for men, not
age! — we shall always be meeting in the social field

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for even in our actual teaching methods we shall have to
Above all, we shall have to be aware, in our method, that we
first we shall attach great importance to cultivating the
shall then have to rearrange much in our teaching. You will see
shall only be able to awaken the forces necessary to such a
way. And — as we shall see later in the method of special
connection we shall doubtless have to accustom ourselves to
shall notice incidentally that particularly in the first stage
drawing, we shall not be bent on saying: You must copy this or
copied. We shall have to bear this in mind with drawing and
must be our gift as educators to the child. We shall then
this way we shall win a certain deep-lying sense of method
continued life of the soul after death. I shall never make it
clear to the child by theories, but shall only be deceiving

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shall now have to build up
content of knowledge and perception. But we shall only learn to
half-unconscious. But we shall never have a thing in front of
permeates us, shall we really be able to distinguish rightly.
quite peculiar love. We shall have to assist the sympathy

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educators, then, we shall have the task of continually
as we shall, of course — into the mountains and the

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“So now you have come to school, and I shall tell you why
we shall have much to say later.
method by going from one extreme to the other, we shall be
revived, and if we revive it we shall be able to feel
his personality, we shall speak in our next lecture.

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from the reading of handwriting. We shall then try to find the
shall say: “Watch yourself beginning to say ‘bath.’ We
shall try to arrive at the letter from the drawing: just as we

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shall get nothing but weak-willed people. The statement, then,
lay bare the meaning. Then we shall educate his will.

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just when the children have passed their ninth year. We shall
When we approach this period in their lives we shall have to
In the next lecture we shall see how the child's fourteenth and
shall come near to winning insight into how the whole world

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procedure, and you will say to yourself: “I shall
reading and later go on to arithmetic; but I shall only pass on
and I shall only touch on history, as far as it is more than
until the twelfth year. For this reason we shall need to
shall not, of course, be called upon as teachers to sift such
Then we shall find the atmosphere in which to explain these to

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evolution of man demands. We shall be able to do this if we
shall soon have to send on to the other institutions of life:
shall teach economically if, above all, particularly with those
We shall have to make room in our time-table, for instance, for
first we shall have to come to a clear understanding about
shall find out how far the child who has come to us from some
are fairly complete. For this reason we shall find out from the
in their knowledge. We shall then have to start by filling

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affirm: if we get a child under the age of nine we shall be
subjects shall we then teach? We shall take the artistic
element as our point of departure. We shall study music and
painting-drawing with the child as we have discussed. We shall
shall therefore gradually evolve the written forms from the
drawn forms and we shall then go on to reading.
if they are to learn. We shall therefore have to arrange the
lesson and music late in the afternoon. We shall also have to
of the children. Naturally we shall have to make compromises,
striking an adequate balance. We shall generally do well to
to the next. We shall remember that a general move up can
between the second and third stage. For we shall discover that
in the first stage we shall have the intelligent children who
understand. We shall definitely make this discovery and must
I have already emphasized the fact that we shall, of course,
are. But we shall nevertheless be able to remould to a great
that we take enough trouble. We shall not delay, after having

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we shall not need to display much pedantry. The pedant will say
resources of nature are put. We shall link up our discussion of
things as coal for industry. At first we shall only describe it
simply, but we shall connect it descriptively with the

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of great significance. We shall have to make compromises, as

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Waldorf School. But we shall only be good teachers of the
too much. We shall consequently get children coming in with
only a burden on the child's soul: we shall have to teach him
we shall be able to teach him what a noun is, an article, an
noun. We shall flounder fairly badly in an abstraction when we
shall not only let the child sing, but we shall take him to the
Eurhythmy we shall contribute in a quite exceptional degree to
shall not be guilty of this, for we should then sin too gravely
against the well-being of the growing child. But we shall
and the rest in the morning, and we shall take, in moderation
“painting-drawing” we shall obviously not need to
writing” as separate subjects. We shall take pains to
writing and to arrange all written work — and we shall be
shall only need to take spelling at first from the point of
view of correcting mistakes. That is, we shall not need
constantly, so that he speaks correctly, we shall be laying the
feeling-training. Consequently, we shall have to make up for
lost ground, particularly in these last years. We shall have to
revived. So we shall try, for instance, to recall to the
child's mind the theorem of Pythagoras. We shall say:

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in other schools of Central Europe. This we shall do and we
shall have prepared ourselves thoroughly for this estimate if
specialists in geography or history we shall not develop this

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— shall often look back. This Waldorf School weighs very
the full gravity of our position we shall be able to work
it, and we shall find ourselves able to teach.”

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into the school we shall still be able to make up for many things
with such thoughts as we shall here cultivate, that you do not pay any
external. Accept it, shall I say, like the external circumstances that
shall certainly find that however much the children may laugh at us,
are externals which we must certainly cultivate, but we shall only

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I want to place this first before you as an idea (we shall come back
we shall follow these fundamental principles further and we shall see
now mirrored in us; we shall be in the cosmos again when we have
imagination: two systems which we shall be able to apply practically

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the only being in whom new forces and even — as we shall hear
man. We shall return to this subject later. When we confront the world
but is arrested on its way. To-morrow we shall link up the thoughts we

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the wasps and bees, also the so-called lower animals, and we shall
as distributed in the world we shall find that the forms of their
we shall always regard it as something stamped upon the being from
resolution through our mental picturing. But we shall only experience

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thinking more of the activity of feeling, we shall have the
human eye. If we look at it in its totality we shall see that the
we shall come to the conclusion that the little book On Beauty in
to put true conceptions in the place of the false. Then, also, shall

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shall study the human being from all three. The first to be taken is
spirit, and finally we shall come to a real “anthropology,”

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from the latter point of view. We shall of course continually have to
relating of things to each other, as I shall now explain, you have
being in middle age, we shall get a first basis for our observations
Now if we turn our attention more to the soul life we shall say: the
shall recognise that sensation is really of a will nature with some
cultivate will and feeling; otherwise we shall really be contradicting
form was, we shall find it is related to Gischt

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awaken in the child a vivid interest in the animal kingdom. We shall
shall have more to say about the true morphology of the human body.

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innermost depths of their beings. We shall educate badly if we are not
important, as we shall see later.
memory ready-made conclusions. What I am now saying — and shall
proceeds on the unconscious assumption that he shall find the world
not a question of instructing the teacher that he shall adopt this

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We shall have to supplement the knowledge thus gained by uniting the
child passes into a feeling which hallows all the varied aspects of
we shall not learn to teach earnestly and truly. The moment we have

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world, for only then shall we understand the wonderful laws that hold
the written forms from its drawings, we shall be educating through the

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grow in us shall be cast out to form its kingdom outside us — in

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We shall not, however, have the right feeling of responsibility
enquire of the body what movements shall be carried out. But we can
Eurythmy the more we shall bring harmony into the need for sleeping
and waking; the more, too, shall we maintain normal life in the

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second teeth. Thus we shall impart power and firmness to his language
reading. We shall get the right attitude of mind to human speaking if
the third so much that it will just cover the little square. We shall

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shall we understand and get the facts straight in matters of

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into reality. I shall also, as I have already mentioned, try
consciousness with the same clarity. As we shall see later,

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level of knowledge shall take place in a condition of soul

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What is essential is that they shall be easy to view as a
shall see how what we are given in imaginative cognition
inspiration. We shall also see how the ancient, more

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we shall also succeed in penetrating those parts of sensory

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substance is also worked on before birth. I shall come back

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necessary that the scientific spirit of our day shall give

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in one or another of the many meetings held in rented lecture halls.
as separate entities. What I shall have to say does not apply to this
I shall be referring to have not always been conceived by those
to meet life's challenges.
anyone, but to challenge us to search our consciences, to become

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judgment-forming in the Society. A challenge was issued, quite
ourselves with the fact that when a challenge of this kind is
something I shall call here a twofold re-casting of a judgment. This
Christ came to live on earth enables him to hallow elements of

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judgments in these decisive days. To this end I shall be speaking
discussing aspects of anthroposophy, and shall confine myself to
challenge to join in a Movement guided by a true heart for

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out of which I shall be addressing you today is not the same as that
two lectures I am to give I shall try to touch on as much of what
to put before you in a brief sketch. Tomorrow at twelve I shall speak

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attitudes. I shall, therefore, devote myself to laying an
shall be dealing with here. Yesterday I spoke from that angle about

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or hallucinations and so on. On the contrary, they develop man's
in when subject to visions, hallucinations and the like. Imaginative
perceptions are healthy soul experiences. Visions, hallucinations etc.
of visionary, hallucinatory activity, the features that matter to man?
will result, including those of visionary, hallucinatory activity. Anyone
of our own egoity, and he will know that visionary, hallucinatory activity
and hallucinations than by sensory perception really cannot be said
us into relationship with the outside world. Visionary, hallucinatory
visionary, hallucinatory, dreamlike experience. Having grasped this,

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to form an idea. If we consider memory as such, we shall find that the
when memories arise. We shall discover that when we are in the process
in this way, we shall indeed come to realize that Imagination itself
and yet, as I said yesterday, have nothing to do with visions, hallucinations
metamorphosis — we shall find that this life of the plants in the
shall achieve only by achieving Imagination. This power of growth lives
of life in visions and hallucinations, which is pathological, or of
and the result would be a tendency to have visions, hallucinations,
and healthy. A person who hallucinates, who has visions, takes his visions,
his hallucinations, to be a reality. A person practising Imagination
the imaginative life. Then we shall come to know what it means to live
energy and has been cleared of its contents. We shall then come to know
through Inspiration. We shall then also know that we are touched by
presents itself as a spiritual world outside us, we shall no longer
describe — and in the lectures that follow I shall go into these
is outside the physical world — I shall describe this in the lectures
to the whole cosmos, we shall find Intuition realized throughout the

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arrive at the following. We shall then have to say to ourselves that
like froth and bubbles, and like froth and bubbles moral impulses shall
within the very near future. We shall never find the answer to the burning
to Intuition. We shall see how the spiritual science of Anthroposophy
shall have to direct our efforts towards forgetting in soul and spirit,
is to some extent empty. If we achieve this, we shall have the ability,
we lived through before birth or conception and which we shall live
not have the support of external perception. We shall end up with abstractions

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about outer nature leads to nebulous mysticism. Inevitably I shall be
in the physical world. We shall then come to use thought activity merely
In practising such renunciation we shall come up against the limit set
inferior which we must rise above. Oh yes, if we do this we shall rise
the light of the spirit to every single cell, so that there shall be
in particular shall also have this life fruit out of anthroposophical
to overcome myself I shall never learn it. On the other hand I have

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more customary — Whom shall we choose as president

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faculties and talents. As we shall see directly the
outside world so that we shall agree with it, then we
shall have had to threefold the social organism.

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one has toward mankind as a whole, in order that it shall
philosophy of Mach — Richard Avenarius. I shall not

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world in order that we shall use them, in order that we
shall he able to receive God into our individual souls.
character as to intend that wild human passions shall not
rule in freedom, but shall be held in full restraint.
only exists so that I shall perceive my own movements,

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shall be able to take hold of the impulses of existence on
More of this the day after to-morrow, when we shall

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between the living and the dead. We shall learn to
external factors of physical life, when the dead shall play a
respects. In our existence our life with the dead shall change
because we shall understand what the dead are doing. Many
destinies on earth. We shall point to at least one example, to
Then we shall have the right feeling for the reason, for the
of the way we shall have to take a firm and secure stand on the

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of a man's life, and we shall be obliged to admit that, taking what
shall have to describe to you the experiences of the soul from going

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generally speaking we shall realise that if we have been frivolous
mystery. In short, when thinking more of our inner life we shall be
the case of the second group we shall not be able to detect any such
for these happenings. But of another group of experiences we shall be
shall now consider, that is to say, those happenings where we are
fallen upon and injured our shoulders. We shall be inclined to
in this way about our sufferings and sorrows, we shall be able in
think of these personalities we shall very often find that precisely
beginning of our present life we can anticipate that we shall find
incarnations and the middle of life in another, we shall realise that
in this way about the course of our own life, we shall see that light
to the test of life itself. In many cases we shall view our own

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karma, I shall at once be able to grapple with external life. That,
karma shall flow even into the minds of the young. This of course
spread of Copernicanism? — I shall now be saying something
modern mind. But what matters is that Anthroposophy shall be taken as
as a trenchant and significant fact — and then we shall be able
soul shall fund its own footing, shall deepen itself, acquire insight
work to the end that this anthroposophical life shall flow more and
profess to adhere to Anthroposophy as a cultural movement shall be so

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of Spiritual Science. In these lectures I shall have many things to say
the aspects of Spiritual Science we shall now be considering call for
to-day. This applies, shall we say, to Hermes, the great Teacher of the
shall not understand happenings then — of which ancient history is
epoch. I shall therefore be speaking of two parallel happenings which
of the higher Hierarchies. But we shall see what lies behind the myth
These are pictures of the myth. We shall see what deeply significant
the myth we shall see what depths it contains — have led meanwhile
myth of Gilgamish which, as we shall see, will lead us into the spiritual
culture, and we shall see that the whole of this culture is an outcome
fact reflected on the physical plane. We shall of course only very
And it is there that to begin with, Christianity appears, shall we say,
those days. And it was wonderful how in the lecture halls of Hypatia

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we shall be mainly concerned here. But in order that we may understand
We shall now see that
for which Gilgamish was the instrument. So we shall rightly conceive
to further the progress of humanity. And we shall find an going farther
back into history that this is revealed even more clearly. We shall

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shall see that the essential and unique character of Greek culture is
history, of occult history, before us we shall understand that a soul
personality. This was the hallmark of the life of the Greeks.
And we shall understand that this individuality had to be born as a
at history in this way shall we be able to perceive what the personality,
by higher worlds. Shall we then wonder that the greatest Spirits of
of the several epochs shall we understand what a single utterance of

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that in our own day we experience the echo of it; and that we shall
the Apostate and Tycho Brahe in order that they shall be proclaimed

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For we shall realise that
And on the other hand we shall realise that an individuality incarnated
in the way destined for the 16th century. We shall find entirely understandable

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If we grasp this we shall see how not only the teaching concerning Fire
of the temple-wisdom in prehistoric Greek civilisation. We shall feel
what it was destined to receive. We shall perceive it in the souls of
I prepare myself intellectually in order that this life shall run its
as to enable it to penetrate into the super-sensible, we shall for a
It is required of the outer incarnation that the power of an age shall

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heavenly bodies for man's existence and I shall speak to-day of a
we shall find that in the cosmic expanse perceptible to our physical
gaze to the Moon we shall be aware that this cosmic body is inhabited
are aware. But we shall see how that common life is interwoven with
comes into consideration. We shall find that there is a great
case, we shall find the
to-day, 6th February 1924, we shall agree that if something from the
earlier lives, we shall recognise also that by turning our thoughts
away from what was imperfect towards what is perfect in man, we shall
see world-destiny revealing itself. We shall feel in our past
shall identify ourselves more and more with this task of
new spirit shall be understood. It is not a spirit of

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of the whole Movement — that I shall speak to you to-day.
course of Lord Bacon's life, we shall certainly find
centuries, we shall everywhere find Arabism in its new forms.
the character and purpose of such investigation shall not be
present we shall be carrying farther the threads that were beginning

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I want to say something more on the same subject. I shall begin with
aside at the moment of death itself. To-day we shall not be studying
as this — in order that he shall find the load
this way that we shall try more and more to deepen Anthroposophy. And

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any personal decision: there are good reasons for it. We shall
shall do well to speak, a matter that is closely connected with our
Now perhaps you will say: But when I am clairvoyant I shall already
whether it is an hallucination, i.e. whether his own desires are being
Discrimination is what we need, otherwise we shall bring about all the
conviction. If we think of it in this light, we shall spare no effort
of real work, and we shall not merely listen to sensational

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irgendwie etwas, das einer Vision, einer Halluzination oder
in Visionen, in Halluzinationen und dergleichen verfällt.
Seelenerlebnisse, in dem Visionen, Halluzinationen und so
visionären, des halluzinierenden Lebens? Eines der
auch die des visionären, des halluzinatorischen Lebens.
Sinneserfahren das visionäre, das halluzinatorische Leben
Halluzinationen als durch Sinneswahrnehmung, dann hat er
Visionäres, halluzinatorisches Leben setzt dieses
visionären und halluzinatorischen, traumhaften Erlebnisse,

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nichts mit Visionärem, Halluzinatorischem und dergleichen
visionäre, halluzinatorische Leben, an das wenigstens
eben die Tendenzen des Visionären, des Halluzinatorischen
das ist gerade das Gesunde. Der Halluzinierende, der
Visionär nimmt seine Visionen, seine Halluzinationen

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from a somewhat different point of view. I then shall add
bodily nature. However, we shall not properly understand the
inexplicable urge of the moth to sacrifice itself. We shall

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the next lecture, we shall study another activity, with which
stimulus for this enthusiasm, and we shall feel that we

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tendency exists, and we shall never become clear about
movement for liberation in the life there. I shall speak today
humanity. The judgment I shall pass on you will be looked

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Humanity is challenged not to sleep through this event. Other related
We shall soon see how this is consistent with the correspondence
We shall be able to gauge the profundity of this
the fact that man has this advantage, and then we shall also be able
human nature? There is, for example, Halley's Comet, which now again
Halley's Comet has a quite definite task, and everything else
task. Halley's Comet — we are speaking here of its spiritual
for materialistic thinking, we must say that in 1835 Halley's Comet
Halley's Comet of the year 1759 created this brain. That was one of
something we must resist. If the influence of Halley's Comet were to
misfortune. A reappearance of Halley's Comet should therefore give us
influences of the cosmos than those of Halley's Comet. It is
powers in order to balance this dangerous influence from Halley's
Comet. When it is said that Halley's Comet can be a warning; that its
replacing the evolutionary trend caused by Halley's Comet.

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Humanity is challenged not to sleep through this event. Other related
times, during which we shall slowly pass into the third millennium.
in the inner being, human beings shall again be guided outward, in
led out of the brain and, during the next 2,500 years, we shall come
Spiritual science exists in order that human beings shall know what
that a certain number of human beings, and then more and more, shall
faculties of human beings, through the fact that they shall behold
plane for the most important events but outside it, just as we shall
of Halley's Comet that we mentioned yesterday. If humanity
into the sphere in which we shall encounter Him, through our growing

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we shall find more and more human beings who possess knowledge of the
Halley's Comet.
“... Halley's Comet has a quite definite task and everything
Halley's Comet — we are speaking of its spiritual aspect
it is said that Halley's Comet may be an omen, that its influence,
taking the place of the trend of evolution brought about by Halley's

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call that a hallucination. But we would succumb to this hallucination

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has repeatedly to ask, how shall spiritual science place itself

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shall address myself chiefly to the needs of teachers. My subject
a general foundation, and tomorrow I shall go into a few things that
which we shall speak later — and is of no immediate importance
We shall continue in more detail tomorrow.

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to continue with these matters. Then, I shall go into more detail

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differently in lyric, epic and drama – I shall
We shall then continue with a modern poet, with
Morgenstern we shall see how a peculiar poetic form – free
rounding-off of feeling. We shall see how the terzetti, albeit
What hallow’d solitary ground did

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our programme, I shall permit myself to point briefly to the
As for the hexameter, we shall encounter this in
‘In heaven we all shall meet;’
with righteousnesse shall hee judge the
shall with upright justice judg the lands,

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impertinent to say so, we shall not find what is wanted along the
Spoil of heroes in high-built hall.
Wine-hall of warriors gleaming with
hall-thanes!
the hall.
wine-hall
Continuous tumult filled the hall;
Had purged of evil the hall of

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things closely we shall see that the course of our dreaming, with its
type of thinking is employed. We can read the words, but we shall not
one of our Eurythmy performances, which took place in a wooden hall,

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through the present into the future, we shall also be able to
shall have to give in an unimaginative form, since we are not nowadays
We shall see tomorrow how this curtain has existed for a thousand
But we shall be able to talk of this in greater detail only if we lay
written shall we say, before he attained spiritual vision. There is
shall be able to get some idea of mankind's future with the help of a
deeper understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. This is what we shall

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determination to do that, or we shall never be able to see how man has
will. We shall have to understand — as nowadays we do not
shall also not properly understand the Mystery of Golgotha unless we
sort of bridge between them. Thus we shall increasingly achieve the
years ago, and we shall not be alive 300 years hence. Equally the
the divine Powers of the world. If we do that we shall not only think,
we shall above all feel, in the right way about the past, present and
future. Then we shall also have the right will with regard to this

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In the first lecture of this course we shall try to give, by way of
introduction, an outline of the subject before us. We shall not as yet
of which we shall speak during the next few days. We have a very
To begin with I shall indicate briefly the special facts referred to
shall I say to my people when they ask who sent me?” And how God
answered (and we shall see what deep truth lay hidden in the
in order to discover what it has to say to us. By degrees we shall see
expressed; we shall see that there is expressed in it what the
Egyptian priest felt according to his form of religion. Later we shall
itself takes care that the soul shall return again and again to new
shall see a further development. In the Pyramid we see presented the
Thus we arrive gradually at our own age, and we shall see how the
with in subsequent lectures. In them our vision shall sweep upwards to
shall have to direct our attention to the nature, the goal, and the
destiny of man; and we shall understand how such problems as these are

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom. Temple sleep. Isis and the Madonna. Past stages of Evolution. The bestowing of the Ego. Future Powers.
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We shall enter best into our subject if in the first place we try to
shall best understand the purpose of this development if we enquire:
speak of Universe, Earth, and Man. In what follows we shall have to

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
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shall see very little; this applies to the Earth as well as to man,
importance in the life of the plant, and we shall understand this if
influence the human kingdom. We shall best understand this if we

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture IV: The Outer Manifestations of Spiritual Beings in the Elements. Their connection with Man. Cosmic partitions. The Myth of Osiris.
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Form is still higher. We shall best understand what this is if we
of these Beings, and we shall later become acquainted with their
We shall now consider for a short time somewhat more concretely what

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Moon-God a duality arose, and we shall best understand what entered
man has these four principles within him; and we shall understand how
In the next lecture we shall learn further of the Elohim and Jehovah,

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by gradually approaching the inner from without we shall arrive at a

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms -- the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt -- a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
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were more of a plant-like nature, but with these we shall not deal at

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circle of our immediate earthly existence. We shall be able in this
himself regarding these bodies existing in space, and today we shall
this development we shall speak later. In the first place let us ask:
gradually, and we shall see how this was brought about throughout the
shall have attained its goal, all earthly beings will be filled with
group-soul directs them as to how they shall act. Can it be said that
with the entire evolution of the world. In the next lecture we shall
and Grecian ages, and in our own age. We shall see how the macrocosm,

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The progress of man. His conquest of the physical plane in the post-Atlantean civilizations. The beginning and up-building of the 'I am.' The chosen people.
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ancient civilization, we shall then understand this turning away from
In the following lectures we shall see how Christianity is mingled

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connected with what we call death and what lies beyond death; we shall
shall best understand how these changes occur if we glance at the life
“No bone of Him shall be broken!” This was in order that

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that in a small portion of humanity we shall again have divisions in

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture I
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Science to Astronomy,” and today in particular I shall
statements. Many things will then be verified which I shall
those on the inner. We shall then find that simply through
science, as is implied in all that I shall be telling you in
we shall not succeed in bring together the complicated domain

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development of the human embryo. How, then, shall we explain
certain necessary concepts; only then shall we be able to
today, so that we shall understand each other about the aim
of these lectures. I shall speak further about it in
deduced by this method. As we shall presently see, it is of
considerations. We shall soon come to the realities. The
which we shall have to look for in the Sun's movement or
vegetation of spring, summer, autumn and winter; we shall be
paradoxical, but wait a little. We shall be taking the human
in the temperate zones we shall have to look for a kind of
shall have to see the connection between the tellurian and

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shall find that we are being led through Astronomy itself
Then we shall
of the Sun's rays — or, shall we say, of the
brain in the earliest stages from year to year, we shall find
part of man. We shall have to bring these effects into
corresponds to a year, we shall have 28 years.
of the doings of Sun and Moon, we shall not have evolved a
out of a more intimate knowledge of man himself. We shall
base our hypotheses on man himself. We shall then be able
Astronomy today and we shall also be able to make essential
something very different; — we shall never reach an
bodies. When my hand moves through the air I shall not merely
time squared — time to the second power! We shall yet
midst of the living Mathematics. Of this we shall speak more

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depart from reality to the extent that we shall still be able
again into reality. I shall not depart so far from reality
plane of the solar equator, we shall be in difficulties if we
can be sought. We shall come to such an understanding if we
whole planetary system, or shall we say, with its continuing
arithmetical analysis. (We shall speak more of this in the
regulate my approach to reality. I shall [be] wrong

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must today insert a kind of interlude, for we shall then
‘Let us then design another system’. We shall see
excluding man altogether from the picture. We shall see that
in this way, though it may seem complicated, shall we reach
expression ‘fertilized’; we shall soon replace,
physiologically. (Some of you already know what I Shall now
fertilization. But in this realm of the body we shall less
lifted out of the unconscious into consciousness. We shall
breathing process. Nor shall we ever understand the ancient

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I shall try
penetration of the Heavens. Today I shall try, if not to
detail, we shall discover in due course. Hence we may ask
and Sun, there will be more in it than that, as we shall find
shall at most have to extend our picture, adapting it to the

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true World-picture. I shall again refer to what was said
experience them — with our dream-life, we shall of course
us, we shall perceive the following. If our inner life in
shall naturally find starry worlds, or developmental
mathematically ordered. We shall find other contents in the
we shall do so.
my dear Friends, that the ideas I shall now set forth will
what I shall now be indicating. I mean, observe and
— by this length, we shall have to say;
And we shall only get what really works in man by forming the
animal formation, we shall be led inevitably to attribute to
indeed a kind of qualitative Mathematics. How, then, shall we
— we shall be led to differentiate one vertical from
that we shall have to understand them.
itself. Of these things we shall speak again tomorrow.

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ideas from different fields. For this reason we shall have to
in that we shall need these days too. Now I am also well
complete. Working in this way we shall be able to continue as
Yet we shall
modified portion of the Earth itself. Only then shall I be
seeing it rightly; only then shall I discern the inner
it on one side for the moment; later we shall find the
problem; we shall have time to go into these things in later

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external world of facts. In scientific method, we shall not
with the arising of the picture in man, otherwise we shall

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I was describing to you yesterday. Only in this way shall we
waking consciousness, we shall perceive that it is always
we shall be compelled, — since as explained just now we
understood like that. (I shall speak more in detail later on;
reality with other modes of understanding and we shall have
curve after another. And I shall obtain these different forms
between what I have called first and second order, we shall
variability of the second order. I shall arrive at quite
forces and centric phenomena of movement, only then shall we

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as fixed stars. I shall no doubt be repeating what is
all together, shall we be able to advance to the ideas.
taking one example; what we shall find in one region of the
heavens. In the further course we shall be asking, what human
the first and of the second order), only thus shall we make
these phenomena in the Heavens. And we shall now be able to
year's course. (We shall see in time, how a synthesis arises
loop-curve or Lemniscate. We shall have to study it more

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plant-nature; this we shall have to do still more, to gain
shall find the formative principle of the looped curve or
lines, we shall indeed relate the loop-formation of Saturn,
the Sun. We shall therefore conceive the Sun's influence to
we shall say: In Mays, Jupiter and Saturn the essential phase
the Sun's path. HOW then shall we think of the other path
corresponding forms on Earth — we shall be led to the
of the animal spinal axis to the moon's _ we shall have to
too we shall derive some indication of what must be the
shall we say, what is their mutual situation, to begin with,
put it so, call now for great definition. Yet we shall only
prolong the line. In the animal-forming process I shall have

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shall pursue in the next few days it will be most important
the Kingdoms of Nature. As we shall see in due course, there
description of Aristarchus system, we shall say: This
along his epicyclic circle, which we shall them compare with
the centres of the epicycles are diverse, — shall we

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material we shall try to gain ideas, to lead us into the
three, and we shall say to ourselves: Something in us is the
will gain a certain idea, which I shall try to indicate as

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therefore take for granted that we shall ever be able to
metamorphosis of turning-inside-out. We shall then have to
only by so doing shall we understand it. It will therefore
finding some mathematical way of access we shall never
bodies I shall need them too. I cannot proceed like the
not develop these conceptions we shall be unequal to the
variability, we shall be able to imagine the upper branch
you will no longer be too far removed from what I shall now
lectures we shall of course still have to look for more
the second dimension also vanish; so then we shall be left
felt, how then shall we imagine its activity? We cannot
third dimension of space. What then shall we say? When it
reveals its activity we shall have to relate it to what is
quite outside three-dimensional space. What then shall we
say? When it reveals its activity we shall have to relate it
shall not do justice to reality with the mere notion of an
come at length to where I shall no longer find heavenly
bodies. Yet neither shall I find a mere empty Euclidean
space. No, I shall find something, the inherent reality of
eyes. From this we shall proceed tomorrow.

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shall be able to determine the forms of movement of the
movement. We shall gain it in no other way than by envisaging
inner condition therefore — shall I be able to tell,
into the question more deeply. So shall we find in the inner
Research Institute we shall not want to go on experimenting
other. Hence we shall have to work from the bottom upward. If
we do so, we shall find an abundance of material for fresh
the former one. Otherwise we shall not get beyond certain
nature. And in this effort we shall have to come to terms
mathematics, — shall we make essential progress. Of
this we shall speak more tomorrow. Here I should only like to

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I shall now
shall draw it thus (Sun in the middle point). Then as it were

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and Sun, we shall perceive that in answering such questions
shall we have to imagine that if we moved from outside the
Universe. Not so the Sun. Here we shall only come near the
point. The Sun must be conceived as a hollowing-out, shall we
the Sun's interior — we shall have negative matter in a
shall have to bring in corrections. Whatever finished lines I
we shall be led to recognize that what we call a
becomes of it on the other hand it you regard it as I shall
the fuller our own heads, the better experimenters we shall
shall we attain true understanding of the phenomena.
their several questions. We shall advance in this bit by bit.
conditions as in the instance I shall now relate. I say

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today. I shall naturally be forced by the subject itself to take details
out of their context, but I shall take pains so to shape this
we shall have to risk.
one day I shall do so. This technical culture has indeed one quite
tell us that you found libraries, theatres, concert halls, exhibitions,
consequence of this today will be that we shall no longer ignore the
shall have in all earnest to set to work on organising what, during the
it pleases many people. In its place we shall put something that so far
shall put what — if it is given to the growing human being instead
of life. In this sphere particularly, however, we shall have to go to

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main subject in quite another way. I shall try to put before you clearly
logical development. True, the manner in which I shall speak to you today
between man and man, we shall never be able to understand how to lay the
spirit that is free. We shall have to purge all our educational
admiration as a great achievement; otherwise we shall never make any
aware of this. We shall have to think ultimately in concrete terms and
not in abstract ones; otherwise, where space is concerned, we shall
for a definite place and a definite time. We shall have something more to
economic way of thinking belonging to the West. We shall be socialists in
things. Then we shall see that much of what today is looked upon as great
what the future is to bring. When we continue these studies we shall go

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human being shall concentrate on one subject as long as it is necessary
it shall we be able to enter into what is necessary for our present
shall have this as long as we exist, but you do not see that this is

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that I can really hardly say whether I shall be able to get
the Educator. Of course, all that I shall say with regard to
imperfectly, then we shall teach well. If on the other hand we
shall teach badly.
what I have learned, now I shall be able to do it well, I shall
humour. Then, when we are in a position to do this, we shall be

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observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
connected with this inauguration of the technique of thought. As we shall
we speak purely objectively, it is highly probable we shall be
to work at this point, if we cultivate our thought so that it shall bear
directed towards the physical world, so that they shall apprehend a

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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during this time, that I am hardly able to say whether we shall get further
the educator. Of course what I shall have to say about the nature of the
teaching, then it is quite certain we shall teach badly.
have learned, now I shall be able to do it right, now I shall be an
then we shall be aware that tragedy, sentimentality and humour are of

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of initiation science we have to challenge this classification. There is
realm, without our being conscious of it. Then we shall be consciously
soul will be brought into movement. We shall produce so many thoughts and

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the ego is involved in this breathing process, you can see that we shall
there is yet something else which we shall have to consider. What is it
towards the child we shall develop love towards him, we shall gradually
shall gain a powerful feeling of support for teaching and educating the
the ways in which we as teachers and educators shall acquire the right

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its sorrow, a power for everything to which we shall be
shall take pains to deal with as much as possible of that which
isolation. And, if I shall endeavor today to render clear in a
all that you shall give attention, not only to the mystery of
activities, we shall permeate these activities with
sense but in such a sense that we shall feel as if a Being
shall proceed further with my descriptions. Through such
that it shall be laid hold upon by a true understanding of
in a spiritual sense. And I shall probably have occasion to
speak still further about these things tomorrow, for I shall
continue this reflection tomorrow and shall direct your
But, my dear friends, we shall arrive at no results by tomorrow
thus far taken. We shall arrive only at a tremendous chaos, at
shall not sentimentally drag in all sorts of matters by the
hair but shall cause Anthroposophical impulses to stream into
matters stand at present, however, I see in this hall two
have wished briefly to outline this before you. I shall more

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Society. I shall later indicate to some extent that which
myself pedantically, of Anthroposophy. Thus, I shall not
that which demands that one shall think in the manner of the
shall introduce here, not out of any conceited foolishness but
shall not at once detect that this comes from the
objective spirit of that which is Anthroposophical shall be
spirit shall be put into practice in our work. It is necessary,
however, that one shall first school oneself up to a certain
in losing oneself in all sorts of shallow polemics, but the
shall be born again out of Anthroposophy. A sort of substitute
unity shall come about among all Anthroposophists. In spite
are permeated with this mood of consciousness, we shall
said today, we shall have gained

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challenges presented by our age really have to be faced
the way individuals need to face those challenges we must
has evolved. We shall have to go a long way back in human
We shall
the reason why we shall only learn to deal with the empty
we shall only learn to deal with everything that shows
ancient Egyptian times, and we shall find that at that
movement which endeavours to take up the challenge of the

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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moment. We shall then have to act out of our realization
shall have to work for the further progress of humankind
present situation absolutely demands that there shall be
then be seen in a new light. We shall have to say that

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and we shall find that it was considered a matter of
face up to these things. We shall not develop the right
need to strike this note a few times and we shall see
our outer reality. We shall only be able to do this if we

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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conditions, however, — I shall refer to these later
We shall only be able to progress in the world if in the

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Then at last we shall have what humankind is much in need
important conclusions. We shall find, for example, that
failure; we have to say today that they shall succeed.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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shall achieve genuine self-observation; for instance by
observe ourselves we shall have no experience of these
changes, we shall not have inward experience of what
have to say that we are all in danger — how shall I
serious times in which we live and that we shall only
Western world, for we shall find the upward path again.
something spiritual, we shall slither into the doom of

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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shall have to continue with some of the topics I
sensory perceptions we shall never discover the nature of
shall never find anything material in that outside
found within ourselves. We shall find it particularly if
shall find its laws. The essential nature of gravity is
shall defend it. I shall oppose anything that is not part
anthroposophy is so difficult to understand. We shall
we shall only come to understand it if every one of its
think we shall be redeemed because of a word, when we see

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or revelation. The reasoning is that no bridge shall ever

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shall base ourselves on facts relating to the nature of
middle of this century. I shall speak to you about the

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There will be people — we shall find them among the young in the
earth life will provide the germ for faculties we shall have in future
we shall be filled with nothing but the power provided by the products of
shall not be able to appreciate its true value when it comes upon
truth, however. We shall not prosper with lies. These are the things we

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far as the ego, and that in time to come we shall have a
extent to which we have now developed it. We shall
has developed so far, and for this we shall be indebted
seriousness and very profoundly: ‘What shall we do,
life-spirit and spirit-man which we shall have to develop
however, can never happen. We shall never be able to
we shall have to leave behind in order to continue
we shall be able to see spiritual science in the right
shall also know that in the present age spiritual science
a hornets' nest, but I shall have to poke around in quite
It will be the only spirit in which we shall make progress

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