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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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imagine this thinking and perceiving, in fact, all use of the inner
not the abstract mechanical thing it has become for modern humanity.
character that, even then, in the age of instinctive clairvoyance, the
between birth and death had more of a dreaming character; but just
supposedly taught in the Mysteries. Actually, in their purely abstract
children to-day. They are nothing else; and their Mystery-character
lies not in the fact of their being unknown to us, but in the
to action; in the heavens when the sun moves across them. Varuna is to
The facts are simply upon occasion quite different from the concepts
we hold of them with our present-day abstract, theoretical grasp of
Fact”; but just such important things as these are usually not
significance. The fact that the way in which people were
abstract to us, revealed at that time something really living, because
existence, the fact remains that they do not think thoroughly enough
over the outer reaches of universal space what we actually lived in
actions, for his social life, he has still another unconscious
sleep and dream into waking life, were once very active in the
The fact really is such that when we are in the condition experienced
Golgotha became necessary. The fact of the Mystery of Golgotha must
with this fact.
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Title: Lecture: The Ear
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ONCE before I spoke to you of certain spiritual facts concerning the
Today we will continue this line of thought for certain other facts
contracted it sufficiently (if we may use this image), he then sends
the drum of the ear. Within your ear you actually have a human member
fluid, which is necessary for the act of hearing. What the
ear. They actually have the inner tendency, the potentiality to become
the spiritual world in the pre-earthly life. It is in fact a pure
may say that in our ear we have an actual recollection of our
witness to the fact that we have incorporated ourselves into this
head-organisation in the Spirit, to become an actual head once more in
the next earthly life. Thus the fact of repeated earthly lives is
We may adduce many another concrete fact in this direction. Last time
being with the Beings of the Hierarchies. He actually forgets himself,
breathing belongs — and with the breathing the activity of speech
hold of him. An organ like the human eye or ear has in fact been
wrested away from the incursions of gravity. The act of orientation in
act of adaptation: we adapt ourselves to our environment in the
heavenly activities, as I described just now, there lives what you
after-image of Heavenly activities: I should like to know the soul
Judgment on all your actions sound towards you; the moment you
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Title: Education for Adolescents
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not the only determining factors, but rather the pedagogical method.
already set through the fact that they are entering school, and we do
judgment is actually borne out of the powers of imagination. And if
every kind of social reform but within their souls actually bring

Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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body, astral body, Ego, and so on, is really very abstract. For this
organs of perception his will is not active in the delicate movements
sense-organs themselves, or more exactly the sites of the
sense-organs, are not filled by any activity during sleep. Over its
body becomes all the more active and inwardly mobile between falling
asleep and awakening. This is a characteristic fact: in the same
after the moment of falling asleep, a more and more lively activity of
This lively activity of the etheric body streams out, in particular,
activity streams inwards. This is the life of the etheric body,
had stored up forces for an activity that develops only after sleep
begins. And this is in fact an etheric activity. In the same measure
One of the inner activities of the etheric body in the human being
musical activity continues. And the Ego and astral body, which are
is an immensely beautiful and impressive living and streaming activity
consciousness by the perceptive activity of the physical body. And the
revelations of the human senses, so active in their etheric substance
activity — the physical body of course as well — and this
activity is somewhat different from that I have described for sleep;
the activity then extends a little outside the physical body.)
If one were to follow this inner activity of the etheric body during
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Title: Lecture: Awakening to Community - I
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of knowledge, the ethical practice, the inner religious life that
such as ours has to act as a vanguard in an ever wider disseminating
approach the Society do so out of a sense of dissatisfaction with the
spiritual, psychological and practical conditions they find
which, when considered factually and not critically, might even be
practical situation prevailing in the life around them must be taken
into account as a factor in the founding of the Anthroposophical
honest seeking will find, if he practices self-observation, that this
practice that civilized man has developed in recent centuries is just
exactly the kind from which an anthroposophist longs to free his
the fact that the factors accounting for the development of the
to the kind of life and practice that past centuries have brought us,
may come to realize purely instinctively that the life and practice
he longs to flee received their present form from the fact that man
life and practice are outgrowths of a materialistic science, and a
After the first act in
the soul drama of the anthroposophist, the moral-religious act, there
practice. He has taken flight into the Anthroposophical Society, but
mankind's evolution in the act of reversing one's will and
real feeling for the fact of our humanness. The term
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Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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they actually are in practical life — in other words, to
earthly lives nor of the fact that in spite of the full reality of
the life of man. As a matter of fact it is scientific thought
that has remained farthest of all in the rear of the actual demands
people base their actions upon the opinions of the recognized
the principles underlying the fact of repeated earthly lives. But
suppose he wants to inform himself about things that are actually
nowadays tries to interpret certain facts and events of history, he
heredity. Sons have inherited certain qualities and characteristics
working as well as the inherited physical characteristics. We must
courage to apply these truths neither in practical life nor even in
their study of problems of practical life.
the fact emerges that we are here concerned with souls whose life in
were souls who had had no contact with Christianity in former
Another fact, too, emerges as the result of spiritual investigation.
abstract intellectualism of Theology. It was a force that worked upon
character of the impulse they received in their early Christian
Eastern coquettishness and yet we shall be attracted by an
actual life any concrete expression of their abstract beliefs. They
that some problem in actual life gives the impetus to investigation.
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Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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circles today. For we should imagine, in fact, we should be
attracted by this so-called ‘faith’ shut him off from
facts that people on the one hand find really incomprehensible
characterise the paths by which the kind of spiritual science we mean
is merely a spectator. And man is conscious of the fact that he
actually thinks best in ordinary life when he allows his experiences
you can bring activity into the world of thought. You will
bring such activity into the world of thought that you will be
active as you are when you use your limbs, even though this is an
inner activity. Will must be brought into thinking, the kind of will,
natural phenomena must now be developed as a thought activity
thinking is an activating of thinking. This is a fact that many
spiritual scientific knowledge — namely the fact that man's
thinking and whole activity of mental picturing really takes on quite
a different character than it has in everyday life.
and progresses from ordinary thinking to active thinking. He feels as
certainly say that this activated thinking ‘awakens’
to use this active thinking man acquires an entirely new way of
human body, to begin with. Active thinking ascends to the kind of
the kind of seeing that active thinking opens up we come to realise
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Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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innermost nature, than are the abstract truths current in the world
the system of nerves and senses — is, in fact, a kind of
on the Earth must be able to develop love not only for an abstract,
impossible to characterise all the individual peoples. All that can
led, in the first place, to a very characteristic type and also one
may impress us, if we study the racial characteristics of the
oriental — especially of the most characteristic type —
physical phenomena on the surface of the Earth and the external facts
characteristic. The whole organisation of man as we see him in the
man, he develops his rhythmic system, by an act of free-will he
natural characteristic that for which the Indian strives as his ideal
dint of self-discipline and free spiritual activity, and another
Earth activity, just as vapour rises from water into the clouds. The
sake of any philosophical content. The abstract nature of the
characteristics of the different peoples of the Earth. Let him
characteristic in the other peoples and allows this to penetrate
fulfilment by understanding the special characteristics of the
we find that what is truly characteristic of them is hidden under
it be, is a characteristic of the Middle European peoples. Those who
characteristic of true Teutonic stock.
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Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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world facts and world beings. We construct hypotheses about the
active in us which we describe as ‘moral’, which streams
against the necessary exactions of science, certainty of belief can
Inspiration, we must not only practise in a soul-spiritual way the
work in such a way that the spirit-soul also practises forgetting, to
consciousness which has been now attained. We must practise no longer
stage, then by means of all these practices we are able to strengthen
Imaginations which in fact do not come from ourselves, but from
its outer appearance through these Imaginations. Exactly in the same
be active in sense perception, we convince ourselves through the
fact that the horizon has widened to include a spiritual world, then
first obtain a true insight into what is in fact our own thinking,
intuition, for this intuition arises through the fact that a man
feeling life of man and see what can only be there through the fact
in rhythmic interchange with an outer force active in the
Intuition and Imagination we see, soul-spiritually, what is active in
the activities of the organs and the reproductive process in us, damp
building up activity is such that from the beginning of life right up
so interrelated as with our abstract ideas we often think they are. No,
love, so that we can become men who act freely out of love springing
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Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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actually as though a kind of death made its way into the
necessary to say — not in dry, abstract words but
characteristic of the centuries immediately following, that
physical world contact us? At the point when, looking back in
and active within us, even when there is no realisation of
characterised by saying that in those dark days, when souls
characteristic style during the Christmas period. All the
the unique character of these Christmas Plays, however, we
altogether. A real power was active in souls at that time of
that people actually experienced during those weeks? Their
experiences, translated into actual feelings, were that human
in the actual sounds: AVE MARIA. AVE was felt to be the
actors might visit a brothel. In the village this was a
lying before the actors must be steeped in piety. Nobody,
piety and fervour of scholars who still had some contact with
must absorb into their whole character something that was
in minutest detail. The actors devoted themselves for weeks
on end to practising rhythm and intonation, and were wholly
these old Christmas Plays, however, lay in the fact that in
Christmas days were over, the actors taking. the parts of the
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Title: Memory and Love
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gives me great satisfaction to be able to speak to you today
imagine, for example, that thinking is a purely spiritual act, and that
is certainly not the essential part of his activity; the essential part
organ that we have of an external object. It is characteristic of
spiritual life between death and a new birth the exact opposite
rebirth we feel ourselves actually to be the whole world — when I
lungs, and so on. What is most characteristic is that in spiritual
not a question of knowing something in a purely abstract way, or —
I might add — for the satisfaction of spiritual curiosity; it is a
speak more exactly of what echoes on in the soul — the becoming
we can act morally, are essentially echoes from our life between death
between going to sleep and waking, actually experiences a kind of
when, outside himself, he has to experience the actions he performed
has become a pale, almost abstract shadow. That is what our capacity for
recollection is — pale and abstract compared with the full vigour
and love. And in fact memory and love also work together here in
dear friends, the fact is that when we pass over from the spiritual
connection in his creation and enjoyment of art. Actually art never
with art. At first I astonished myself, although Goethe actually spoke

Title: Memória e Amor
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Ocorre o mesmo com o pensamento. Em essÃªncia, o pensamento certamente nÃ£o Ã© um processo cerebral, mas sem o suporte do cÃ©rebro ele nÃ£o poderia ter seu curso terrestre. Ã€ luz dessa comparaÃ§Ã£o, obtÃ©m-se uma concepÃ§Ã£o correta da espiritualidade, bem como das limitaÃ§Ãµes fÃsicas do pensamento humano. Em suma, meus queridos amigos, aqui na vida terrena nÃ£o hÃ¡ nada no homem que nÃ£o dependa do corpo como sustento. Carregamos nossos Ã³rgÃ£os dentro do corpo - pulmÃ£o, coraÃ§Ã£o, cÃ©rebro e assim por diante. Com saÃºde normal, nÃ£o temos percepÃ§Ã£o consciente de nossos Ã³rgÃ£os internos. NÃ³s os percebemos apenas quando doentes, e ainda assim de maneira muito imperfeita. Nunca podemos afirmar que possuÃmos conhecimento de um Ã³rgÃ£o por lhe termos olhado diretamente, a menos que estejamos estudando anatomia â€“ mas aÃ nÃ£o estamos estudando um Ã³rgÃ£o vivo. Nunca podemos dizer que temos a mesma visÃ£o de um Ã³rgÃ£o interno que temos de um objeto externo. Ã‰ caracterÃstico da vida terrena nÃ£o conhecermos o interior de nosso corpo por meio da consciÃªncia comum. Ainda menos um homem conhece do que ele geralmente considera de maior valor para sua existÃªncia corporal â€“ o interior de sua cabeÃ§a. Pois quando ele comeÃ§a a saber alguma coisa a seu respeito, via de regra, o conhecimento se mostra deveras desagradÃ¡vel â€“ dor de cabeÃ§a e tudo o que a acompanha.
Na vida espiritual entre a morte e um novo nascimento, prevalece exatamente o oposto. LÃ¡, realmente sabemos o que estÃ¡ dentro de nÃ³s. Ã‰ como se aqui na Terra nÃ£o vÃssemos Ã¡rvores nem nuvens lÃ¡ fora, mas olhÃ¡ssemos principalmente para dentro de nÃ³s, dizendo: aqui estÃ¡ o pulmÃ£o, aqui estÃ¡ o coraÃ§Ã£o, aqui estÃ¡ o estÃ´mago. No mundo espiritual contemplamos nosso prÃ³prio interior. Mas o que vemos Ã© o mundo dos seres espirituais, o mundo que aprendemos a conhecer em nossa literatura antroposÃ³fica como o mundo das hierarquias superiores. Esse Ã© o nosso mundo interior. E entre a morte e o renascimento, sentimo-nos realmente ser o mundo inteiro â€“ quando falo do todo Ã© apenas figurativamente, mas Ã© inteiramente verdade â€“ Ã s vezes cada um de nÃ³s se sente ser o mundo inteiro. E nos momentos mais importantes de nossa existÃªncia espiritual entre a morte e um novo nascimento sentimos nosso interior e experimentamos o mundo dos seres espirituais, conscientes deles. Ã‰ tÃ£o verdade que lÃ¡ temos consciÃªncia de espÃritos do mundo superior dentro de nÃ³s quanto Ã© verdade que aqui na Terra nÃ£o temos consciÃªncia de nosso interior: do fÃgado, dos pulmÃµes e assim por diante. O que Ã© mais caracterÃstico Ã© que, na experiÃªncia espiritual, toda nossa experiÃªncia fÃsica Ã© invertida. Gradualmente, por meio do conhecimento da iniciaÃ§Ã£o, aprendemos como isso deve ser entendido.

Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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thought. Neither does such vision as we can gain by practising
are in common acceptance today. For as a matter of fact, no one who
We fully accept the fact that with such means of acquiring knowledge as
fathomed. We fully accept the fact that as far as these means go we can
or feelings or acts of will to flow forth from it. When such a statement
however, we are on uncertain ground; and the fact is, no serious and
present as an actual fact, and the effect of the experience is not
as if it were consciousness; the fact is there, it is only the
consciousness of the fact that is lacking — you feel like a wave
world-existence. If consciousness were present, one would actually have
security which comes from being in contact with the material things of
is a simple fact. Let us say, for example, you feel joy. When you feel
notwithstanding, a fact. And it is the same here too. What I describe as
of the blood which lies behind joy or sorrow. The facts are there, and
differentiated world around us to a universal existence. The fact that
God, were it not that he has experienced the corresponding fact in the
perception. Something else now shows itself as a fact of the life of
experience is due to the fact that the soul is no longer merely swimming
experience other feelings in addition to those aroused by contact with
with the most varied religious practices, but they all awakened these
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Title: Lecture: About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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with the facts relating to the horses of Elberfeld that can calculate
is a very characteristic feature of the present time.
they decided to observe these facts more closely, since the information
to be quite reliable. He could do excellent sums, extract roots, etc.;
he also found out the right card in a card trick, and so forth. In fact,
can actually pass from soul to soul was something which modern professors
The foundation of mathematical thinking can be explained by the fact
the horse acts in such a way that at the slightest instigation, with
wire between Earth and the one who is in contact with the horse. The horse
for instance, to extract the root of a number consisting of six or seven
immediately, and had no difficulty in extracting the roots of numbers
could not reckon anymore. In fact, he became quite wild. He felt that
It must in fact be considered
that the earth is the chief factor in this particular spiritual activity.
If we succeed in bringing about a contact through the special psychic

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
action, any direct human intervention, being able to effect
has actually been asserted, for instance, that the important
make such ideas too the basis of social action. In the eyes
affairs of practical life as well.
has nothing whatever in it of that peculiar abstract,
theoretic character assumed by materialist, natural-science
at the actual facts of life, and not to let these facts of
to the careful consideration of actual facts, then he is in a
position to carry this training on into practical every-day
facts tell their own tale and to allow them their due weight.
examines the actual economic facts; and then one discovers
facts, such as these, one must look, that is, to
quite specific, concrete facts of actual life, and not to
general theories, if one wants to understand actual life in
table;’ and it is a most characteristic symptom, that
abstract theories, than to consent to examine actual
eminently practical branch of life, Insurance. One calculates
which one can to a certain extent reckon for the practical
The real fact
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Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
more in keeping with the character of a study-evening, such
propose to do upon the experiences we have actually had up
attention to the fact, that with our propaganda we have met
understanding of the threefold idea, as an active
understanding. And the actual questions of economic life too
were practically discussed. There is one very definite
that the fact of the matter is simply, that in the economic
not long ago, to talk with a thoroughly practical business
experience as a practical businessman, he had arrived at the
all-important matter that one is ‘a practical
man,’ and that one is ‘a practical man’
through their own practical thinking on business matters, to
conglomeration!) are all alike equally impracticable and
practice of life, with what the actual facts of life require,
— that is to say if one really thinks about actual
one can learn in the factory as a business-man or a practical
shibboleths and party-programmes; and the real practical
with real practice, is compared with some bee or other, that
‘the practical thing.’
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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immediately be aware of two facts. Apart from approaching such
scientists have disputed and acted in quite contradictory ways
something like free decision at the root of human action, a not
contradictory and unsatisfactory nature in other
from that taken by ordinary science. Science takes the facts,
Because of my profession I am attracted by one particular book
question satisfactorily, we have to ignore this continual
character from this continual movement of our feelings and
no further than establishing the facts, while the fundamental
the other hand, there is the fact that among all the other
Yes or No to a particular action, to decide to do it or to
scientific observation. For this action can only take place on
Activity I attempted to make these two boundaries or limits
happens in the human soul when an action is performed where a
have just characterized as the border points of genuine
of the characteristic things about the science of spirit is
say this. The actual method and practice of the scientist of
What is characteristic about this is that such activity should
own soul activity.
thinking. In fact, this absolutely clear thinking, carried out
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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really founded on what was actually happening?
history has been completely disproved by the facts in the most
that happen in human life. I would like to characterize
two nations are quite different in character. The one is the
got beyond the merely factual kind of historical observation
clearly differentiated epochs according to the inner character
German nation at that time arose out of a kind of activity of
view, lies at the root of history, leads to the fact that
of the times and revered, portrayed and characterized as such
middle of the 15th century. Lamprecht characterizes this
with the way men were respected, with the way they acted, and
Lamprecht characterizes it as the time of the conventional
primarily based on deeds, on actions, founded on impulses of
personality, that becomes the decisive factor. This lasts until
available for reaching a reality which has soul-spirit factors,
admirer of Woodrow Wilson. The actual fact of the matter will
when it comes to discovering the virtual factor in
reality, it really loves the abstract and theoretical. When
actual reality, and however odd this may sound it is proved by
Lamprecht. The abstract minds of the present time are
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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what may happen in future as a result of our activities here.
have a feeling for the real, living activity in the spiritual
and through the spiritual. When, however, this real activity
So, then, I recently received this letter from someone active
facts of the case He has no dis8rimination about the way in
have a living feeling for the active working and weaving of
activity.
fathom the following — the actual reason for our getting
sentimental one), but the actual tone in certain cases is
exactly the same.
soul, whereas they are acting merely under the influence of
any compromise. If in our ordinary activities we are forced
spiritual science that has grown out of actual modern
actually expected of one to talk continually of inner depths.
for they may do great harm to what actually has to come
actively to penetrate what today must prevail as spiritual in
actually till a short time ago leading spirits of the
extracts from the Official Gazette. Or there is a label
for a certain purpose. No, there is actually to be found,
subject should be treated. That today is actually the content
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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progress in matters social, if understanding of the facts in
a letter from a man who takes an active interest in spiritual
to be active in the Spirit must work outwards from
within that same Spirit in which he actually lives at
there in actuality. And so again I have to repeat that the
also absorbed the thing itself, whereas, as a matter of fact,
someone, as a result of practical knowledge, made certain
make comprehensible the fact that in the animal kingdom and
characteristic of the followers of Karl Marx and other
The fact of the matter is that we have entered upon an epoch
that, as a matter of fact, the guiding Spirits of the
is found to lie in nothing else than the fact that men are so
far away from looking at the relationship between facts and
facts. There is a tendency to repeat phrases unendingly at
realised that the facts are not necessarily there at all
believe it — we are actually told how the instruction
then we must realise that to-day pedagogy — didactics
involves. But as a matter of fact it is only by feeling what
an abstract way and does not teach us how to take the Spirit
fact that any single person who teaches spiritual science at
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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different facts which face us in the world.
really human factor in this picture; it simply says something
to us in abstractions, which do not touch the substantial
real content. As a matter of fact we are just at that point
to collect in more exact detail proofs and verifications of
extended by the fact of a break in the journey at some town
abstract idea of the journey. The travellers' inner knowledge
matter of fact, he moves together with it, since it is itself
proof of it can of course only be found in the actual
periods of time which are a guarantee of the fact that one
experience, and not merely the abstract experiences which are
experiences have changed their character. I am here speaking
do not look upon mysticism in an external, abstract way, but
The abstract mystic may talk from the age of 25 years, right
willing, our deeds, our acts. The fact of holding our sense
certain facts of the external world — we are in living
external events. And again, when we act, we stand but from
and acts.
the senses. But as a matter of fact within this apparent
unity; but that it is not, The fact is that something is
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Title: The Ten Commandments
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inspiration of the Initiates actually occurred in the
fact was particularly prevalent in the ancient Indian times and
never practice worship. That only came much later. Certainly
their people of an actual, spiritual, good being, who they
godhead. - As a result all activity amongst people should from
activity took place but it didn't move from one “I”
heaven, which originates from the earth or is active between
previously a fact. We have already remarked that when common
actual meaning is: “I am the god working continually from
when he announced the laws, if we only think abstractly about
correct thoughts are an active reality. “When you create
infirmity.” Correct thoughts activate health, false ones,
process is established, the actual creator of the real healthy
- It actually means that a soul is inwardly strong because it
does not create the soul, exactly the opposite. So we see that
seventh day. Thus your actions and your son's activities and
your daughter's actions and your servant's activity and your
cattle's actions and everything that is with you, is within the
activities of his “I.”
about actual outward action which really sprouts from what had
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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this knowledge. Not much was known about the knowledge or the activities
Take heed of what you have seen today!” A secret attraction remained
a man might receive a letter intended to bring about action of some
to work, to have a practical influence on political and social institutions
hypotheses and surmises, but by the relevant facts.
in these lectures will be from the standpoint of practical occultism;
practice. Such theories have found their way into theosophical literature
his ordinary consciousness intact and “suggest away” the
lowest level of culture. Actually there is nothing there but an empty
the circulation, to follow consciously the activity of the nerves, and

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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new world, with its new characteristics and new beings, emerges. In
characterised. Everyone is familiar with it and with the physical laws
characteristics of its own and he has to learn many new things. One
what it signifies. The fact is that these figures are their own impulses,
visible as a result of processes active in the brain and soul, and then
every lie is an act of murder. Every spoken truth creates a life-promoting
Part I, Act I. Prologue in Heaven.
Part II, Act I.
and pain, wherever they are active in the physical. Physical forms then
powerful claps of thunder. He sees, not the physical actions that occur
new into the world and to act upon it, no matter whether the thoughts
remarkable way: the seer does not see an abstract script; everything
what actually happened in space; it is something quite different. When
of anything that Goethe actually said, but answers he might well have
Strange as these facts may seem, they are none the less facts.

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hover above the physical body, inactive, like a passive image; it works
The actual instant of
finger protruding at the side of the actual finger: this is a part of
act on the brain sufficiently to become conscious, because the physical
and enjoys his food. The clairvoyant will see the satisfaction of his
its experience's, events and actions, back from the moment of death
it offers him no satisfaction. And so he gradually learns to disengage
of death, the separation of these higher members has in fact been prepared
understand how it is that modern men have come to actions of this kind.
and after death the vivisectionist has to endure exactly the same pains

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incarnations is in fact about 1,000 years. It is not true that there is
everything to act on them from outside. Eye, ear and so on have to wait
other hand, are active; they hold objects in their grip. But this activity
Devachan — that these astral sense-organs wake to full activity; and

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bliss of Devachan comes about. Most of the activity there is creative,
that pervades the activity of a being engaged in the creation of another
in everything, can be truly practised; for the universal life, common
a man is inactive in Devachan, or is concerned only with himself. He
are active in the transformation of flora and fauna, and even in changing
have to see the activity of discarnate human beings; and we know how
All activity, all work,
expression to these facts.
act which bring man down to a new incarnation? As we saw, there is an
life: this is a fact to be kept thoroughly well in mind. The reason
that they are seaching for parents with suitable characters and family
substance in the passion experienced by the parents during the act of
Parents who will be exactly
body cannot always be built so as to match exactly the incoming etheric
from the beginning. The causal body is the first to be active, for it

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by Theosophy is in the highest sense practical. The light it throws
attempt should be made to influence the astral body, or its inward activity
a child's senses, to draw them out so that they become active
imagination a chance to be active.
habits, his memory, everything which will give his character a firm
care is not taken to imbue his character with certain lasting habits,
before the child; these are the things which act on the etheric body.
“why?” We should answer such questions not with abstract
Theosophy seeks to lay hold of practical life through all its stages.
Another example of practical
not burn a hole. The fact that the ball was thrown into the water is
in fact the law of karma is the most consoling law there is. Just as
industry or moral activity, will certainly have its effect in later
true comparison with the ledger would run as follows: each new transaction
alters the balance and each new action alters the destiny.
does not say that since every new transaction upsets his balance, he
us energy for action. We ought to think of the law of karma not so much
we should be positively active in laying a foundation for the future.
karma and the central fact of Christianity will not be hard to find.
to act upon him. Christ's deed is conceivable only because of the law
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always should, to facts and experiences. I shall therefore tell you
the fact that for most people the really burning question is: How does
actions take place in the physical world; if we are to cause anyone
Temperament, character
changes very slowly. Temperament, character and inclinations often persist
opposite with temperament, character and inclinations. These attributes
more or less the same character throughout life. We shall see later
with the tendency to do good and that will be a characteristic of his
his memory as much as he can; he must practise looking back over the
characteristic of his etheric body in his next life — the
strong will, is bold, courageous, with an urge to action. Alexander
This type of character shows itself even in childhood, and a child with
no real interest in anything; he is dreamy, inactive, lazy, and seeks
physical body has been particularly well observed. Whether we actually
liable to contract it is the result of the inclinations we had in a
The fact is that we must
it was so uncommon. This characteristic illness springs from the
we know that some of the characteristics of a father and his ancestors
heredity, the characteristic will fade out. You can see that you have
to be very careful in your choice of parents! The fact is not that the

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experienced. He was in fact a survival from an earlier stage of
moment he experienced the fact that it could really happen to him. He
An interesting fact is
etheric body, becoming in time a permanent characteristic of it because
and illness. This may seem a startling connection, but it is a fact.
in the most savage animals, for they will practise evil consciously,
snail was originally inside its body its house is in fact its body in
himself. The Earth's crust, in fact, had its origin in man, who in the
thing-in-itself as something unknowable by man. But in fact there are
explanation lies in the fact that certain members of man's higher nature
cannot have an astral body. In fact, if a plant were to be permeated by

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the physical body the most imperfect. Exactly the opposite is true:
organs out to the wide spaces of the world, while its head is attracted
in fact reached the stage of the animal kingdom. He had raised himself
on the living body of the Moon. An important fact is that these Moon-men
in the blood. In fact, according to occult science the Earth is indebted

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a great cosmic event took place: the whole vast ether-body contracted
illuminated from outside. All our seeing depends on the fact that the
whole Earth was riddled with volcanic activity which constantly destroyed

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acted by direct suggestion. This was the sort of influence needed by
we make contact with some element in a man's soul when we shake hands
achieved the gift of exact sense-observation, they ceased to understand
that he must seek for God with his spirit. That is in fact the meaning
the Heavens into connection with the Earth. We can see the character of
but for them these laws of nature were not merely abstract, nor were
reactionaries; they know that the age of materialism was necessary. Just
onward in a spiral. For the present this fact will be left aside, but
this characteristic of truth, we shall acquire a quite different relation

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hearers, through the very fact of having first given him their trust,
we are awake, our mental pictures always correspond to definite facts
that of our waking consciousness. The actual cause of the dream I have
ill during the night. You did not actually see him falling ill; you
is not the mere fact of dreaming but whether the dream has significance
by the fact that sounds and words are added to the images. The images
of the astral body, but their mode of perception is an active one. The
by the revolving lotus-flowers bring them into contact with the astral
activate the lotus-flowers, and where do they come from? We know that
who allowed the distractions of the outer world to gain a hold on him
each day passes exactly like another. But he can at least pursue certain
activities regularly, and indeed anyone who wants to develop on the
in the following exercises, which must be practised in addition to
action. You must compel yourself to some action, however trivial,
laid on yourself. Most actions derive not from your own initiative but
on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which
actions fulfil the same purpose.
who refuses to do this for fear of losing his originality in action
prejudice. This, the fourth characteristic, sees good in everything
characteristics which had previously been toned down may appear in a
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realise that the actual instructions cannot be given publicly; I can
fact that he knew nothing about it makes no difference to his karma.
its inner character. Modern civilisation must recover the forms it has
to religious practices.
you can hold in your consciousness this activity of thinking without
can actually experience it all. And then, when he reaches the thirteenth
he reads of the Scourging and allows it to act upon him, develop another

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but practically, so that they become part of his everyday life. There are
Most people are convinced that their characteristics are the best, and
anyone who lacks these characteristics is uncongenial to them. Once
habit of self-admiration by a particular method which can be practised
that all characteristics are one-sided; you must learn to recognise
principle may not amount to much in theory, but in practice it is highly
activity may not be wrongly applied. Quickness, too, is one-sided; it
characteristics, the better it will be. If you try not only to acquire
This healing method calls itself Christian, but in fact it is
in action; tranquillity; lack of prejudice, or positiveness; faith;
may be a symbol of coquetry. The symbols may actually be expressed in
called learning the occult script. There is in fact such a
example will show you more exactly what I mean. With the close of the
of this: it cannot exist without the etheric body, but it is actually
body, and warm blood to the Ego. In fact every one of man's organs,
the activity of thought remains. And thus he comes to rest in the
on this, or is it all a matter of chance? Are there dead laws which act
characteristics: its substance begins to display certain spiritual
qualities, which consist in the fact that as soon as it is brought into
contact with something living, it strives to expel and destroy this life.
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what I shall characterize (though in a very brief introductory
activity is already taken more or less unconsciously for granted.
interaction thereof with processes in ponderable matter.
celestial body attracts to itself the bodies that are upon it”.
We call the force of attraction Gravity or Gravitation and then
creatures or of the facts and events of Nature, at once became
entities and facts of Nature reduced to all these rigid concepts of
actual phenomena; he only sifts and simplifies them and then calls
actual phenomena, he wants to group them in such a way that they
researches are simple facts — the fact, for instance, of how
light will interact with matter that is in its path. Goethe puts into
words how light and matter interact. That is no “law”; it
is a pure and simple fact. And upon facts like this he seeks to base
One fact may throw
— has grown to be the determining factor in the way we think
actually reaches Nature. The first is common or garden Arithmetic. In
three preliminary steps that go before the actual study of Nature.
the world of facts. If once you realize this difference between the
mental activity. Forces you have to measure in the outer world. The
fact that when two pulls come into play — the one from
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a force to be acting on the point. I will call v the
velocity and p the force that is acting on the point. Also
continuously, so that the same force acts upon the point throughout
which the force is acting on the point. Finally we must take account
of the fact that the point must be something in space, and this
p is acting on the mass m, a certain effect will of
increase of velocity. A smaller force, acting on the same mass, will
larger force, acting on the same mass, will make it move quicker more
force which is acting on the given mass by the length of the path,
contact with an effect of pressure — with an effect, therefore,
has grown, — how much must be subtracted to restore the
get the loss of weight exactly. You know this is called the law of
phenomenon it is blotted out, extinguished, because in fact the Will
counteracts the force of gravity. You see then how the diverse ways
— We have to consider man, not in the abstract manner of today,
the phoronomical domain, we are amid the beloved abstractions of our
wave-movements or corpuscular emissions, all in the abstract. By
happens through the facts that with our brain — but for the 20
his consciousness actually becomes more awake — awake to take
also come to meet us. In fact we cannot say that we see the light as
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in the fact that you are always hankering after a phoronomical
character. They will restrict their thoughts to what is arithmetical,
separated out of the light as such. In point of fact, I am projecting
— the picture as such — has edges. Here too the fact is
facts, but to confine ourselves to a clean straightforward study of
the given facts. However, as you have seen, in these phenomena not
facts — a space within which I should always find it possible
place? The whole cylinder of light has been contracted. Look first at
and drawn together. Here then we have a fresh interaction between
works upon the light as to contract it.
Following what has actually happened with my drawing, I must say: the
picture has grown smaller. The cylinder of light is contracted.
fact.
these phenomena? Evidently there is an active relation between the
We see a kind of interaction between them. Taking our start from what
can have come about, — obviously through the fact that the
How can it have been thrust apart? It can only be through the fact
it in the facts that this is how it is. I want you to be very clear
“light-rays”. In fact we never have to do with
read it in the facts.
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realistically and not so abstractly as in modern science. Please now
IVc). Once again therefore adhering strictly to the facts, we
with the fundamental fact we have just now been ascertaining. Then,
what you actually see will emerge in all detail. Only you must hold
darkened here, is clearly proved by the fact that blue arises in this
yellowish-red — in a word, yellow and red, — as in fact
— it tells you what you actually see. Your eye is here
cannon-balls starting from somewhere, projected through a refracting
beg you now, pay very careful attention to the pure facts; we want to
study such a phenomenon quite exactly. Suppose I have two mirrors and
turned to darkness. The fact that such a lattice arises is to be
— Fresnel himself, in fact — argued as follows: If light
As I said before, the fact that wave-movements in many directions
experiment, which we shall actually be doing, I will now make a
effect of it is not to intensify but to extinguish. As a real active
again you see, we need only bear in mind what is actually there. The

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remarkable fact, which, although not unknown before, was brought to
found to act like an untransparent body. It gets in the way of the
IVh). Simply to state the fact, this then is what we have to say:
developed at this place of the spectrum) acts like an opaque body. As
however we must get hold of the pure facts.
through here, and, looking into it, we see it thus refracted. (The
speculative explanations and to approach the fact in question —
— by means of the pure facts. Fact upon fact in proper sequence
exactly of what I shall bring forward. Think as precisely as you can.
prevails that what is actually given in real Nature in such a case is
splitting up the given totality, the v, into two abstract
abstractions. We dismember, what is really one, into two
abstractions. Because there is a velocity, there is a distance moved
velocity, the one thing actually there, we by our thinking process
as v, are no realities at all, they are abstractions which
the two abstractions into which — if you like to put it so
activity. With space and time we are one. Much is implied in what I

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more exactly the method of our procedure. It is the task of Science
to discern and truly to set forth the facts in the phenomena of
find your way back to the pure facts. You must first cultivate the
habit of feeling the pure facts as such; please do not take my words
in a too trivial meaning. You have to learn to sense the facts, and
by following the facts straightforwardly. Suppose this were a plate
“refracted”. This is how they are wont to put it: —
find the direction in which the light will be refracted, you must
“refracted” — in this case, towards the normal,
surface it is again refracted — this time, away from the normal
— refracted just enough to make it go on parallel to its
is twice refracted — once towards the normal, a second time
would appear if we were not seeing it through a refracting medium;
abstract the one light patch from all the rest that is there. Mostly
when I describe it thus, is shifted upward too. In point of fact,
abstractly confined. If therefore I repeat Newton's experiment
notion of a merely abstract space to the kind of space that is not
abstract but is in some specific way positively filled with light or
these facts together.
reflect a little on the facts and we shall recognize an immense
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that was actually there. And so in this case: when I darken the
isn't there, but your own eye is active and makes an after-effect,
reddish-shining colour. In fact I see the screen more or less red.
have studied, I want you to take note of the pure fact we have just
by reaction.
real fact. When I am seeing red through my eyes, as at this moment,
subsequently react with the “required” colour —
distinct perception of the fact that we are swimming in the
what is given you in modern Physics, abstracted as it is from all
the impact and interaction of your own inner, wondrously
very far removed from the abstraction commonly presented.
given facts.
that of Tone or Sound. There is however a remarkable fact in this
recognize it very clearly in the simple fact that for pure feeling
Upon this actual niveau we live as it were on equal terms
was especially Julius Robert Mayer who drew attention to this fact,

Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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fact which can indeed easily be ascertained. Whenever we perceive a
be reproduced, to demonstrate this oscillatory character of air or
glass plate. We need not actually do all these experiments, but if
characteristically Roman-Catholic as indeed it is.
— 40 in fact. When Herr Stockmeyer blew the stream of air on
divide the velocity into two abstractions, in these abstractions I
have no realities; I only have what is abstracted, separated out
attenuation. Then, when my ear is in the act of
my researches. These I abstract from the totality; what is
oscillatory character of sound or tone is evident if only from the
fact that if I twang a violin-string a second string in the same
the fact that the intervening medium propagates the accompanying
fact been observed.
put them neatly side by side, and — for a further abstraction
it interacts with what is taking place more externally in the outer
itself, it is in truth an abstraction. I must go on to the totality
through the ear must first interact in a certain way with the inner
larynx and adjoining organs when we are speaking. There is the act
your active speaking and on the other hand your hearing. Then you
larynx on the other, is an abstraction; you have no real totality
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attract small bodies such as bits of paper. You know too what
gets electrified and will attract bits of paper. If the electrical
characteristic phenomena, say, of positive electricity, the other
electricity”, what is called “contact
simply as “contact electricity”, namely the fact that
when diverse metals are in contact, and their contact is also
mediated by the proper liquids, an interaction arises — an
interaction which can find expression in the form of an electric
electric currents are passed through them. So that in fact, that
Now the fact
somehow find a single, abstract, unitary principle at the
activity. The water thereby became warmer, as we were able to shew.
further. For it proves possible to calculate, down to the actual
has actually been transformed into the warmth. Again, they
warmth is actually transformed into the mechanical work that
discover kinships which were to prove at last that some abstract,
influences or agencies do in fact spread out in space in a way
warmth are in fact similar in some respects. Now they could think the
it were, so to treat it that in its interplay with other factors it
tubes, to get to know their conditions and reactions. Certain
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yourselves, taking your start from characteristic facts which you
to develop a right way of thinking upon the facts and phenomena
last three decades have in fact been revolutionary. One can imagine
period has been in Physics. Impelled by the very facts that have
attract a simple bit of iron with a magnet, so too, what here
start from these facts, I now want to unfold a point of view which
chiefly suffered from the fact that the inner activity, with which
not able really to enter the facts of the outer world. In the realm
inner activity to receive the world of colour into his forming of
“ether” refuses to turn up. In fact it was not given to
Hittorf tubes are compelling us to go more into the facts. Mere
in the same abstract way as in the old wave-theory.
pupils some kind of proof, some demonstration of the fact. We do it
actually see it. A clearer or more graphic proof can scarcely be
a triangle add up to 180° exactly, it is no longer so when I
— the facts alone can tell — might it not be that the
when we go into the outer facts of Nature and work upon them with
the ideas derived from sense-perception. They come in fact from the
moment he wakes up. A chair has fallen over. This was the impact
dream when symbolizing an objective fact such as the fall and
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Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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fact that great and outstanding scientists of the present time
method employed by the scientist is the only exact one, and
of the human soul, of the freedom of human action and the
find just as little satisfaction there. What is offered is, on
abstract concepts, which do not offer anything pertaining to
actual sphere of the science of spirit. And it is just the work
body and soul. In fact, we can make progress only by dividing
case. The human being experiences hunger, satisfaction,
substances, but hunger, satisfaction, the need to breathe, are
the bodily basis of hunger, satisfaction, the need to breathe,
of the human body, we cannot stop at the fact that hunger is
paradoxical expression does in fact correspond to
But now on the other hand it is also a fact that the
actually orientated toward our inner experience? We shall see
spiritual life are in fact spiritual, and therefore are quite
derive full satisfaction from mystical experience
simply consider knowledge as concerning outward, tangible facts
be characterized in the following words. It can be
characterized very easily, for the experience which this
what I have just characterized, this renunciation of the
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However, a fact about the soul-life of present day humanity
emerged from my exposition yesterday, the fact that it is
founded on the fact that — I
Eduard von Hartmann's, which is actually
from practicing the real science of
characteristic properties of the real experience the
describe one or two characteristic properties of this
fundamental characteristics of what we are able to
ideas and images we form through contact with the sense world
our memory, but to see the actual tree we have to go to where
But then one could object that if this is in fact the
experienced. — But actually
scientist of spirit being able to differentiate actual
into the experience afresh. With certain characteristic
repetition of an action would serve no purpose? The repetition
of an action is incorporated into our normal experience as a
difficult to do the repetition. Thus, as a matter of fact, a
There is a third aspect of what is characteristic in
something that is over in a split second. In fact, this is even
And now there is a fourth characteristic
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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satisfactory foundation for a scientific world view, namely the
be made by anyone shows this fact.
myself for the sake of getting useful practical results when I bring
to the practical life. How they have been lost for us on account of
with the fact that we have completely lost our feeling for the real
attention to the fact that in many cases we are obliged today to
view of heat. The reason is, that in so doing, one neglects the fact
greatly in their capacity to react to the being of heat. Through
react to heat of the several organs of the body escapes attention.
everything for clear, lucid ideas. In the so-called “exact
mercury will act differently on the two. In the one it will rise; in
the sensation from your finger. In both cases exactly the same thing
Our whole life process is bound up with this fact that we have in us
organism, too, depend on the fact that we do not perceive
this fact that we do not bring into our consciousness certain
matter of fact, you do not depend on thinking strictly, but instead
with the facts. They cannot be. When we turn our rationalistic thought
molecules. The fact that they have been shown to have a practical
certain claims that the facts support the description. Now I have
as found on the sun. These things have a very practical value at the
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Yesterday I touched upon the fact that bodies under the influence of
as we call them, expand when acted upon by the being of warmth. In
indicates for you the act that the rod expands. The pointer moves
the fact that we are dealing with a cylinder and assume that we have a
the fraction giving the ratio of the
by heat, I must multiply the original length by a factor consisting of
important to keep in mind this fact that we come here upon the third
will call your attention to the fact that the same introduction I have
ratio. It is a fraction. The expansion is relatively very small as
compared to the original length of the rod. When I have a fraction
cube it, I get a much smaller fraction. For if I square a third, I get
third power is a very, very small fraction. α is a fraction whose
these are very small fractions and can simply be dropped out. The average physics text says: we simply drop these last terms of the expansion formula and write
body. It is simply considered that since the fraction
This fact is of tremendous importance. From it we see
that the facts of expansion under the influence of heat oblige us to
fact of striking out certain values which cannot be adequately
physics texts and ruling the methods by which the facts of physics are
17th century and took their fundamental character from the
from the facts themselves. To the facts, already brought out, another
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acquainted with the fact that earth, water, and air, or as they are
will collect a number of such facts and these can lead us to a
come up and watch the temperature to verify the fact that while the
Now I will ask you to add to the fact I have brought before you,
facts together so that we can reach a general conception of the nature
we do not as a matter of fact have such a point of connection. For
thought-out elaborations to the facts. For atoms and molecules are
nothing else but fancies added to the facts.
thickness. These are actually the three dimensions of space. Now when
else is active besides what I can deduce from the curve. And the
activity of this something changes the entire nature and being of what
considered equally well as a purely arithmetical or geometrical fact.
Let us now go back and see what we have established as fact. This is
an actual triangle in bridge construction or elsewhere, the abstract
idea verifies itself. What I have thought of in the abstract
virtue of the fact that it is a solid body. It has a form of itself,
gas but contracting the walls all around, you must use pressure. You
theorizing, but simply keeping in mind the quite obvious facts, I can
say to ourselves: it is necessary to find the exact relation between

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follow by reason of the fact that it is colored. (The experiment was
relation of heat to certain facts. We have here in the left hand tube,
which fact is shown by the similar level of mercury in the right and
greater the volume the smaller must be the pressure acting on the gas.
pressure. In other words, mechanical facts meet us in our
pressure changes. Mechanical facts meet us.
Now for physics, these facts that meet us when we consider heat are
purely and simply mechanical facts. These mechanical occurrences are,
obliged to emphasize the fact that since so little attempt is made to
mechanical facts. This causes people to say, “Well, there are
only mechanical facts in space. Life must be a mechanical thing, soul
mechanical.” “Exact sciences” will not admit the
possibility of a spiritual foundation for the world. And “exact
popularize the so-called “rigidly exact science,” the
exact science would practically disappear.
the facts that we have already observed, another one of which I have
establish as fact and the ideas which we add to these facts. We can
establish the fact that a process subsequently is revealed as
active we really have to leave three dimensional space, and then we
the fact that I must leave three dimensional space in order to relate
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round out the series of facts that lead us to our goal. It is not
yesterday. I will ask you to consider all these facts that were placed
one side, to see how a solid body melts, and can establish the fact
gaseous condition. These facts make up a series that you can
determining their effects, the attraction of bodies for instance, and
seem to you at first, you will always find this fact when you look at
will around the three angles. There is an unfolding of action
from the fact that mathematical concepts are so rigidly bound up with
call your attention to a certain fact. When we dip down into the
abstractions which make up the sum of our pure arithmetical and
mechanically. We never actually reach this point; do not wish to, in
fact, but we approach the condition asymptotically as it were. Our
activities working simultaneously in our organism. We are dealing with
mechanical process with thinking, then you have an inner soul activity
mechanical processes of actual speaking, of the pronouncing of words.
activity passes over into another. Especially is this difficult when
soul life has to change. With ordinary abstract thoughts man cannot
element in order to get them into abstract form, if they are to be
In this book the endeavor is to be as true to the facts
only able to think abstractly. For the attempt must be made to get
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noteworthy fact, however, is that if we impose on this solid body a
In this way we can see how it acts. We hold the thermometer here in
is fluid. We can state the fact thus: when metals are mixed, the fact
mutually influence each other. From this particular fact we can derive
The earth attracts solid bodies, exerts a force on them; under the
The question is now, that is the relation between the force acting on
produce crystal form which must be present and active to a certain
this surface? It is actually present in fluid bodies. A liquid which I
I have a picture of the gravitational activity. This is a direct
must indicate the movement of the water particles when it actually
evaporates. When I actually draw these lines, however, I get nothing
which we observe in water as a force is actually represented in a
There is a curious fact brought out here. If we look at fluids
then we will see how we, actually in fact, come to stand before that

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wire. That is to say a liquefaction took place only in consequence of
entity acted in such a way that the block closed itself up at once. I
fact observation necessary if you are really to follow physical
such as ice, then the heat is active in the same manner as the
observation as practiced in natural science generally, not merely
factors and their resummation.” Having said this, he must
of its resolution into factors and its summations. The validity of
factors. Nor is it dependent on whether we hold this or that view of
perceptions of energy to rest on the fact that it can change place and
possible a gradual entrance into reality. We need, in fact today, not
modern thinking runs. Just as the physicists can point to factories to
mechanical world. As a result of the fact that this mechanical work is
these latter act in liquids before evaporation has had time to take
must conceive of that which is active in the liquid surface, and which
a unity, as illustrated by the fact that they all have the same
that as we pass through the material states, we actually come to a
Does not that which is active in the gas really lie on the far side of
this null-point on this side of which gravity is active? Is it not
in close contact with the actual phenomena when we say that going from
The being of heat manifests exactly like the negation of gravity,
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the fact that mechanical work exerted by friction of a rotating paddle
We have at the beginning to deal with the fact that we in fact do
transformation and consider only the fact. Now, the modern physicist
and further developed. In the case of Helmholtz a characteristic form
technical achievements rest on the fact that we produce work by the
fact that certain ideas have been drawn from experiment bearing on the
complete inaction. I am merely repeating Eduard von Hartmann's own
merely the prick of the needle and the reaction of the skin and
contained in these factors. Imagine for a moment that I am so clumsy
reaction of the whole great system as the reaction of my whole
organism is to the small activity of being pricked with the needle.
Consider along with this another fact. Suppose you have to begin with
action of forces at right angles to this surface. Suppose now that
to say: when a form appears, it represents as a matter of fact a new
which is given as an observable fact. What follows now from this whole
a liquid we can actually lay our hands on nature's attempt to attain a
abstract method of modern 19th century physics through and
impossible, therefore etc. etc. If one stands by the facts the matter
which deals with facts, we do not have to modify. The physical way of
mobile as impossible, but it is not impossible because of the abstract
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The fact that we have spoken of the transformation of energy and force
really seek to connect heat with the being of man. Even the facts that
heat to his environment, is not obliged to set up so active a relation
activities more intimately with his outer environment.
But attention has to be called to the fact that the physicists of that
arises which sees science advancing when physical facts are considered
apart from man. This is indeed the principle characteristic of modern
from the world of facts and one which will lead us to bring physical
condensation and rarefaction.
Gaseous Bodies}condensationrarefaction
call definitely characteristic phenomena. In the concrete realm we see
condensations and rarefactions. This accompanies, and I am now
Now I have already called your attention to the fact that when we
speak of gas, the phenomena there enacted present a kind of picture of
active in fluids. Now we can pass here to a realm U, below the solid,
manifested fact. In a manner corresponding to the other realms the U
able to see an action which foreshadows the solid world. We must in
some way be able to see this activity. We must see how, under the
can act on form. I refer to the inner formative tendency. You can do
There we have the noteworthy fact before our eyes that we look through
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You will see after a while that the mercury will come to exactly the
If we simply bring another body in contact with the warm body, the
one body to another in contact with the first. A very superficial
body reacts, one part after another, to give him the sensation of
intermediate state, exactly as we would expect, namely the heat
arrangement in the spectrum. This is exactly what we do when we pursue
our thinking in contact with reality.
exactly the same way we can, in this different realm of states of
from the facts here may perhaps be easier for you to grasp if I lead
matter of fact way, is simply an obvious truth. But now you see, we
through a certain interaction with the heat being of outer nature in
to that which we find active in our wills. Heat may be thus looked
something “has been active,” while in the object its
activity is becoming. We will see that what is there active
of nature in accordance with facts obliges us to leave space when we
space. We cannot find a symbol which expresses spatially how the facts
Actually then, what lives in man as ideas is related to outside form
sense, in my thinking.” How is matter characterized by me as a
human being? It is characterized by its pressure effects. If I go
them as the opposite. We must think of something active in man which
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observed by this expanding action of the energy cylinder on the air
contained in the instrument, which expanding action in turn pushes the
essentially characteristic of the red portion. And now, having shown
means of the alcohol column, let us show the chemical activity of the
of chemical activity. Thus you see an essential difference between the
other side phosphorescence shows the presence of the chemically active
importance. It shows us how that which we think of as active in the
Now the fact is that under the conditions obtaining on the earth such
spectrum we actually get is the well-known linear one extending as a
you have the circular spectrum, and suppose forces to act on it to
(see drawing). Then, when it has opened, the action of these forces
to the forces of form. This too is a formative activity. The circular
meet with here. And considering the fact that the structure of the
forces making our spectrum possible are everywhere active. This being
solids, through fluids, to condensation and rarefaction, i.e. gases,
condensation and rarefaction, beyond the heat condition, just as
condensation and rarefaction proper constitute a kind of fluidity of
what occurs here? A development of the condensation-rarefaction
have a development of the condensation-rarefaction state.
What do we mean by a “development of rarefaction”? Well,
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call your attention to a certain fact. This fact is one which we must
this form of expression because it is not a reflection of the facts,
of fact, we cannot simply say: a transparent body is one that by
relation to heat and so also must the realm of chemical activity. On
appears alone with the occurrence of condensation and rarefaction in
water in contact with the wall on one side holding it at a temperature
Upon this difference depends the fact that we have a conduction of
and I must multiply by this factor.
produced by permitting a given amount of heat to act for a longer
Now if you equate all the other factors with
distance it is expressed by the factor
your attention was called to the following fact: when we have an
spectrum and toward the right to approach the chemically active end.
we take into account the fact that we go one way to reach the heat and
the opposite way to reach the chemical effects. This fact must be kept
As a matter of fact, these things demonstrate for us an important
the formulae to express the relations within a field of actual
effects, an observed realm, where heat and chemical action are
direction, so to speak, and chemical action as extending in the
right angles to the imagined chemical action-heat lines and between
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the hypothetical inclusion of life effects or the fact that our series
thermometer to rise in consequence of the action of the spectrum. When
The effect is shown by the fact that the thermometer rises more
number and is a well-known fact.
solution. We will establish the facts in regard to the chemical effect
light cylinder passing through the esculin solution. The action is
yourselves the fact that we have first the realm of heat, then the
realms of light and chemical action. From our considerations taken in
arranged as we have outlines. Recollect that there is a matter of fact
through it. Thus, when light is active through the gas, there is a
different relation involved than when heat is active through the gas.
build up a concept of the action of X in a gas-filled space by
autonomy of light acting in the gaseous realm. The same sort of
is in fact the case. In order to have chemical action solutions are
necessary. In these solutions chemical action is related to the fluid
processes are going on, Z in Z′, life acting in solids.
same relation to chemical activity although not so strong as do solid
relations to light, chemical action and vital phenomena represent, as
presentations of empirical facts. If you wish to make these facts
however, under terrestrial conditions immediately active. The
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And lastly, by Z we have denoted the life activity realm
bring before you the facts which showed how chemical effects could
of one realm in another is limited to the activity of heat in the
call forth their appropriate effects in this or that field of action.
activities? Then it must happen, considering the matter simply from
brings this material into such a condition that a mutual interaction
conceive of it as in mutual reaction with the chemical effect. Let us
assume, however, that the action does not go so far as to admit of
stage removed from it as compared to its action on the fluid. Then we
action in fluids. Then there comes about a certain wide independence
do this. If we observe chemical activity and have a feeling for what
there as something which is a characteristic of matter. It is not
terrestrial realm and active by virtue of the fact that these forces
involved in tone. That is, we have to think as active in tone a force
world. It is this which gives a certain characteristic to the physics
And this is really due to the fact that tone manifestation preserves a
active in fluids, for instance, proceeds from the earth as a center.
Thus is established the fact that we may conceive of all the
identical with the condensations and rarefactions of the air that
difference which becomes active in the case where gravity is used to
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in Middle Europe, the gown has practically been discarded, except on
rather different in character, which headed straight into
which I prefer to describe through facts rather than by abstract
fact, forgotten in the second half of the nineteenth century. But
now on the upgrade. These characteristics were the immediate outcome
for social reforms, the more is it a symptom of the fact that men
given today of the same case. What has actually happened cannot be
undone by abstract writings. Anyone who has a heart within him and
As a matter of fact Goethe did not say “More light!” He

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fact, this situation has been preparing for many decades, but
fact that souls come into the world without this heritage is very
without any real content. And that is exactly what the young are
actually lived on nothing but repetitions, on nothing but a heritage.
As a rule no heed is paid to the fact that since the fifteenth
Nothingness. People began to sense: The earth has in fact become new.
to be what it actually is. This is what the human soul has been
actually there within the human being. Fundamentally, the Waldorf
be got from the world without personal activity. But then a strange
become reactionaries. Nevertheless it is a fact that up to the
action, awakening deed. That is, what matters is a question of
only happen if the Spirit actually sends its sparks into the

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the outcome of phantasy as the red color we see. They actually saw
phosphorus and so on became a mere name, an abstraction. The Spirit
continued as an abstraction in tradition, until, at the end of the
fact that the human being acts with his waking consciousness.
to work inwardly upon our organism are active within us only during
striving among human beings of past epochs, apart from the fact that
actually like the process of growing: productive forces were released
fact that present-clay thinking is dependent upon the brain. Such is
characteristics. The farther west we come the more does a thinking,
logical, abstract thinking, but even living thinking. You must not
living way. For those whose characteristic was pure intellectualism
attack has usually nothing whatever to do with what I actually say.
potassium and pointing to the etheric body. It is exactly the same,
which as a matter of fact can only be revealed to the soul by
things are exactly the same.
following is characteristic. There lives at the present time a very
He takes violent exception to the fact that Anthroposophy
confine itself to the unreal, abstract concepts he loves — for
this Father loves the most abstract concepts. Just read any Catholic
Beauty and so on — all in the most abstract form. Whatever you
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declare that our reaction to the temperature of a room is influenced
underlies all judgments of human characteristics and actions, namely,
the practical fitness or unfitness of a character or action for the
passage is characteristic of the attitude of most of the civilized
moral intuitions. We can only say with certainty that man acts
according to his natural endowments. Any action is judged by a man's
social environment; he is forced to bring his action into line with
have chosen this example because it characterizes what faced one when
Spiritual Activity which culminates in the view that the end of the
character of Greek culture as it appears in the writings of
give man satisfaction, a complete feeling of his dignity as man.
of unconscious, instinctive activity. The individual human being,
when he becomes active, comes up against others. Certain of these
activities unfolded towards the outer world happen to suit other
human beings, to be beneficial to them; other activities may be
instinctive activities of the human being as beneficial is gradually
nebulous ideals they make nothing clear. In fact everything is
inelegantly but it is exactly what Nietzsche felt in the seventies
not wish to draw a character-study but only to indicate how
you try to characterize what you experience on any other basis, you
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I tried to characterize the spiritual life at the end of the
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
within himself independently of external life the impetus to action.
Morality cannot be established by the observation of external facts;
that actually nothing more was known about them. For centuries
facts formerly justified had ceased to be so.
realm into human experience was a matter of course. These facts, as I
proofs for the existence of God shows, if one looks at the facts
but no longer from actual experience.” So there is no
consistency was not a characteristic of the century then ending.
would have become an impulse carried into practice. That was one
thinking. For in acts of pure thinking, this thinking goes straight
activity, requires energy. There the lightning-flash of will must
Spiritual Activity — something that must inevitably be in sharp
the strange fact is that during the first two periods of human life,
the actual object of knowledge. That was the whole aim. This lasted
the fact that the young cannot allow the dead thorn to be thrust into
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be active during your stay here, many of you are thinking above all
character, and thence comes the thought of education. The fundamental
character of the age is considered as having to do with education.
character of a longing, of an undefined yearning, than was the case
given in this way, that the solution could actually be studied! It is
abstract questions to be answered in an abstract way, but that the
endless activity. And the name of this book about the world is “Man.”
characterized yesterday as God-given commandments. When we imagine
If people want to put them into practice, they do not know as a rule
and so forth. The sternest terms in which to characterize duty! Here
submits himself is that no inner satisfaction is gained from
love for what is to become action and deed. For however often in
developed in such a way that action out of love must give mankind the
the human soul; future social action will have to be steeped in
knowledge which is not an abstract indication of how man consists of
of religion the abstract instruction which leads away from real life.
today sees any trace of a religious act in healing, for instance, an
act in which permeation by the spirit plays a part? Paracelsus still
we see how through actual life, morality is transformed back into
has passed through the epoch of abstraction; now, however, we must
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not only activity but also after accomplished work the accompanying
Science — I mean science as it was actually pursued, not what
century, derived a quite special character — the character of
forces cannot be present in the world without being active, and so,
at the time referred to, innumerable forces yearned for activity and
for knowledge has, out of intellectuality, taken on a character
Quite apart from the fact that in these writings there is still the
power of pictorial expression for what appear abstract things, there
brought into splendid human activity; through the pictures we are
called attention to the fact that within every human being another is
means in the face of life itself to speak about actual realities. We
are speaking of actual realities when we speak as the thirty
these thirty invisible, super-sensible beings are, in fact, quite
great extent a sleeping draught for the soul. People were actually
draught in order to cripple the real activity of the Spirit.
to characterize, not to criticize. The first thing that arose was a
practise a more subtle psychology, you would notice that actually
someone else. The fact of having received something from others was
factors necessary for life that it was considered equal to perception
soul and spirit by what I described yesterday as a necessary factor
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feeling did not then exist. It was a period of actual transition. In
had been accepted without question, namely, the fact that thoughts
character of concepts, having lived previously at the time of the
consider those actually fighting over the reality or unreality of
era in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth centuries? What actually
arose because already in a previous incarnation the divine character
him it was a matter of course that he experienced his abstract
still actively working during the last third of the nineteenth
objective — in its usual sense; actually what is striven for by
is characteristic of the generation growing up about the turn of the
younger generation. True, only a few philosophers actually said: We
scientific wheel. I am simply recounting facts relating to the life
infinity. This radius has in fact an end, and at this end there is
towards an inner activity of the soul. I should like to preface what
In what I have named Anthroposophy, in fact in the foreword to my
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
to bring activity into your thinking. You will never get on with
activity in thinking is awakened does not flash up. Through this
activity we must reconquer the divine nature of thinking.
literature demands that one shall think actively. Most people are
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differentiate in the soul between what was active in human nature up
been principally active in those who have developed to the level of
describing a particular activity of the soul as that of the
itself, as we understand it today, is a special characteristic of the
matters where a judgment formed by active thinking is necessary,
things for which active judgment is necessary. Before this one may
inner activity of soul necessary for us to say: I know something
then, follows from the fact that before his eighteenth year the human
of actual knowledge. We must be capable of inducing the young to
ability, in an ability closely connected with the human activity of
If you ask for what subject he actually received the venia
beings have not yet developed an active enough thinking to formulate
fact no teacher can convey knowledge to any boy or girl if in their
understood in those days, and it was not the dry, abstract stuff of
unattractive to you, but nevertheless it will arise — which
activity. Artistic education will be an education of the will, and it

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arts what today has become entirely abstract and scientific, namely,
fact of Schiller's urging Goethe to continue Faust only found
changes; the length of time is not pedantically exact, but
characteristic of our age, namely, that if man does not strive out of
inner activity for development and maintain it consciously, then with
human being becoming inwardly inactive, on his no longer wanting
inner activity.
our system of teaching is ultimately of this character, too, and
inner activity. To listen to Spiritual Science means to invite the
today. Spiritual Science is an invitation to this inner activity,
the basis for all Anthroposophy is inner activity, the challenge to
inner activity, the appeal to what can be active when all the senses
are silent and only the activity of thinking is astir.
Spiritual Activity was certainly not well named when judged by outer
is in ordinary life, as an activity of the head. Before this you
really have no right to speak of thinking as an activity of the head,
for you know this only as external fact from physiology, anatomy, and
actually interweave your thought with the breathing process. You
actually set going of itself what the Yoga exercises have striven for
activity of the will it wrenches itself free first from the breast
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consciousness soul the most abstract elements come consciously to
is held fast today in the abstract ideas of the head. But there lives
being. This is shown, for example, in the fact that it would be a
is as abstract as an adult's. When we drink milk we taste it on
father or the mother in the son or daughter decades later. So exactly
inner activity, what they can no longer find in a natural way; in
what is abstract and scientific, he experiences nothing of your soul.
personal relation of the child to the man who is alive and active
intellectual concepts, in abstractions. Today even the farmer loves
abstractions. How could it be otherwise, for he indulges in the most
abstract reading — the village newspaper and much else besides!
Our riches consist really in abstractions. And therefore we must free
my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity will find that this does not
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
on activating the individuality of the soul, upon the pre-earthly
in the human being is what is essential in practical pedagogy, in
with which you meet another man, you would never come to an actual
Actually it is the quality of the gesture, the word, the thought, of
attracts or repels others in a human being actually veils itself in a
darkness impenetrable to the world of abstract concepts. But if, with
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past, and this is of quite recent date — in fact, it entered
of the fact that we have now entered an epoch of light, much will
we should find that fully grown men actually confronted one another
complete human being as I characterized it yesterday, a comprehension
consider soul and spirit in the abstract way that we do today, with a
in the sense-world, they actually perceived the Spiritual. They saw
saw in a vibrating, active existence the cosmic forces which draw
seems grotesque to modern man but I am telling you facts — how
little is known of these things — in practical knowledge, I
spirit by the time mummification was practised. Formerly men would
among the Greeks — and actually into our own time — there
outwardly visible surfaces. The whole character of Sanscrit, if
attempted practically in the Waldorf School, aims only at saying as
much as possible about the characteristics of the human being, in
incident on a troupe of actors. — A play had been performed for
box can be dispensed with.” But the actors were quite terrified
in practical everyday life we must be right within this great
opinion of the present-day. But in practice it is quite good if there
some truth in this — once we have grown up we have actually
practical life. Unless we were imbued with an active human force
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is intended is the unity of character, the unity of force, that one
penetrating way. Mankind has worked itself up to the most abstract
humanity molded what was experienced inwardly into abstract concepts.
life of the soul, have the characteristic by thus struggling out of
actually be proved by a historical phenomenon. Think how Goethe out
most potent factor in modern civilization. Man feels himself
is the essential characteristic of civilization from the fifteenth
man — could but say: Ultimately such activity must disappear
physics as a definite fact. The law of the conservation of matter and
the universal death through warmth, but will at some time actually
abstractly moral divine order. But the dragon does not tolerate this;
Science; that is to say, Michael actually penetrates from spiritual
the dragon that they quietly let themselves be devoured, who reacted
here there is a mystery and it consists in the fact that the dragon
Michael must begin. In fact everything that has fallen to man's
development of inner activity out of man's knowledge that he is
in fact, if the educator is a complete human being he receives as
lectures were actually meant. Their aim was that you should not
activity. What the human being carries in his head will in time be
carries into all spheres of activity in which man is involved. May

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a fine nebulous formation. It is characteristic of it that it is
actually go through the air. This pentagram is as mobile as a man's
etheric body. It is a fact.
direct us to such realities, and what is most important is the fact
his thinking on facts. Hence, it is not important to him to be
Step by step, with the help of spiritual facts, correct thinking must
significance or, rather, it is a spiritual scientific fact. In order
will be luminous, luminous through the fact that human beings will
the savage through the fact that he has already worked on his astral
an image that has been contrived. It is based on fact. It is a truth.
beings who are actually present, like the Elohim. These beings of
it were, space appears as still something else. When he practices
reality. When one has practiced sufficiently in accordance with
Now occult astronomy has carried on exact investigations of this
the fact that when we view Mars, Venus, and so forth, these heavenly
musical harmony arises, it rests on the fact that different strings
Godhead. Through the fact that this tone sounded into world space,
bound up with the fact that man at that time looked quite different
In these measurements of Noah's Ark we have stated exactly the

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with that time of man's development in which the actual happenings to
with it. Recall the Gothic churches, those characteristic buildings
cupola. Of course, man does not become conscious of the fact that
in the unconscious. This is of eminently practical importance, and
then will the practical effect become noticeable in public life. I
have often called attention to the fact that it was something
these things, but only indications about facts. All this pours a
of years later. Thus, one recognizes why such arts were practiced.
show themselves to him with firmly marked contours. Actually, they
a form of definite length, breadth, and depth. As a matter of fact,
fact, they lived in vessels, under the influence of great initiates,
Warmth or Fire. Man lived within it, his body actually a kind of

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negative electricity, in magnetism, forces of attraction and
of these organs remains visible, so that they contract to a tiny
we come across wonderful characters such as Scotus Erigena, a monk
Actually, he did this in the rarest of cases. Michelangelo is here,
and actively carries on further. It is a new creation, works and
actively carries on further. It is a new creation and at the same
various other activities he does not have this capacity. He cannot,
fourth kingdom. Only here do they reach their actual consciousness
such that it can actually adversely affect our own being, there a
materialistic world view has no conception of the fact that the world
can be considered in this way. Actually, there is justification for
take on a definite character; this might also occur on the fourteenth
to subtract the enclosed Spirit. You get: 1 = 2 - 1
to the duality all you want (2+x), because you have to subtract

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Those who have learned to know him exactly and intimately have
meaning. In man there is to be found a kind of extract of all the
is as if these forces had extracted the leonine essence and with
nevertheless so for the occultist. You must not forget the fact that
you hear my words. Through the fact that this sound fills the air and
speculative sense; St. John set down a primal fact that is to be
a message of the activity of God. Men will extend their beings, as it
place in the cosmos. When men will have attracted the sun power, the
nearest to us can be characterized as follows. The cube has three
it symbolizes the spiritualized fructification that will be active
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soul-forces which were of a particular character in the shepherds
exact knowledge of the world. The teachings of the ancient wisdom, as
the world of stars was not the machinelike abstraction it has now come
nevertheless a fact that the geometry and arithmetic learnt by
Mysteries were secret and veiled. In their abstract content however,
taught to children at school. The mystery does not lie in the fact
heart when it is kindled to acts of will, in the heavens when the sun
knows what soma-juice is, although, as a matter of fact, there are
a matter of fact it is used by the ton.
The modern mind with its tendency to abstraction and theory and its
souls quite different in character from the souls of modern men, In my
book Christianity as Mystical Fact I have indicated the special nature
universe which to us has become pure abstraction, then revealed
activity. Such contemplation made vividly real to these men what they
for his actions and social life, he is unconsciously experiencing
conditions can penetrate into waking life, were very active in the
active between death and a new birth, if, as was the case with the
body. These are the forces which are particularly active between
we actually live. Only those who lack real knowledge and are satisfied
is to be explained by the fact that only vestiges of the ancient
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things, there is that feeling which I have often characterized as
position to comprehend everything, practically everything. The fear,
fear which rules unconsciously in human souls. As a matter of fact, in
divines that this world of thought relates itself to an actual
who actually directly enters the world of Initiation. For anyone who
gave to it the character which it bears today?” If we go back to
stages on the way. That which characterizes the life of our schools,
industry, of economics; if we separate, abstract from these our
institutions is a dry barren abstraction, devoid of life, was then
the nature of man by means of the facts of the world of the Heavens,
but also by the Spirit itself it could rule practical life, could
what road did this wisdom with its impelling life-force actually come
living practical impulse of which I have just spoken. In the course of
ancient time, when the leaders of the Mysteries were actually
connection. We pursue today an abstract science. We find no longer a
connection between this abstract science and external life. The stream
abstraction without meaning for those whose lives are cast in it. From
the feudal origin of our abstract science and knowledge shows itself
“spiritual aristocracy”. If anyone tried to explain exactly
furthest limits of practical life.” The term in those days had a
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decline. Where art Thou, O Christ-Power, Thou who canst actively bring
active opponents of Christianity.
investigation of an actual fact of the present day.
proceed in the abstract, but enter into things in the concrete, we
the world war?” After conscientious scrutiny of the facts it was
The fact is that Adolf Harnack knows nothing of the real Being of
the objective fact, and second, to the way this objective fact is
consciousness, into their Will. The objective fact is simply this,
spiritual power of understanding. That is objective fact; it has taken
about his character from the way he looks at us, so the priesthood of
and can become active in the soul-life of those who seek the paths to
relationship to Michael is apparent in a very characteristic
statesmanship of Greece, much was still active which had proceeded
matter-of-fact, bourgeois way, the one-sided idea that anything
frequent occasion to write on our hearts and souls the fact that He

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contradict the clamorous fact that without accepting that which is
catastrophic years, only he can close his eyes to the fact that we are
continually; but it is exactly against this attitude of mind that man
of others by one's self. Now, it is easy to see that this is exactly
least possible of the Will. We have often characterized this. A man
connected the fact that our entire modern civilization —
Imagination and inspiration to make those forces active which enable
instance, only that took place which results from the action of the
perception. I characterized this from another point of view a few
(of these substances) with the dead human bodies, is an activity in
all respects comparable with the activity of the Will which between
birth and death is practised by us continually, unconsciously, while
the corpse behind, upon the fact that we no longer work with these
characteristic, connected with these destructive forces in outer
exactly the same mistake as the following. I write a word on the
gain an insight into the actual primal causes of the course of Nature
Will is active in the human head; the chief part of the Will is
of the activity of Will, not in single individuals, but of the various
the Science of Initiation. I have spoken recently about these facts,
spiritual activity he felt himself an opponent of Socrates, and he was
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man is a part, how past and future are linked in every fraction of
abstract, we may consider this comparison with a mirror as I have just
feel our Ego, depends on the fact that our life's course is
clairvoyance is abstract reflection, the abstract power of cognition
question, not an indefinite abstract question, but as a concrete
will to make of man. But here we are faced with the fact that when we
experience!” You see, apart from the fact that Gogarten does not
and religious experience; apart from the fact that he as official
souls the contact of the past year with the coming year, that the
Cosmic Year which is passing away, may contact itself with the dawning

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characterized by that living sense for immediate reality, or the
in the field of active scientific investigation. I coined at that time
facts, offers to scientists and sociologists. In the course of time
strive with active forces towards the balance between these two
single person can be satisfied.” Taken in the abstract, no
can be justified in the abstract.
paths of abstraction in the Spiritual life. And for this we must first
and phrases about spirit and soul, there the talk is mere abstraction.
self-activity or in the teaching of others, or in the furtherance of
general culture, without coming into contact with the Luciferic
prejudice we look this fact in the face, that we assume a right
as actually happened in the Eighth Ecumenical Council in
Schiller has characterized these needs very finely, contrasting them
with man's abstract logical power. He calls them the basic needs
(“Notdurft”), whereas he characterizes logical compulsion as
nineteenth century. Modern man stands before a terrible fact today
the fact that Lenin and Trotsky are the spiritual disciples of the
West, but also through the fact that Lenin was dispatched into Russia
Manufacturing Company of Lucifer and Ahriman would create a world
can explain what the fact implies that, during the last thirty to
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become active today, it must work with and not against natural
path — that is to say, we begin at exactly the opposite
that with the methods of spiritual science he has found exactly
empirical state of affairs is exactly the same in both cases,
what I actually perceive with my senses. As far as my senses
only then could we proceed to treat a liver cell exactly the
facts. Yes, but now suppose that this is by no means correct,
positions the liver and the brain are actually related quite
which this is often done, it is antiquated, but the fact that
which man is able to advance in knowledge and action in every
practical experience of the processes of health and disease and
facts.
every branch of scientific and practical thought. With a
if facts and processes are complicated, it is prejudging the
in the acts of Intuitive knowing I stand within this spiritual
sense-oriented factual knowledge. They give knowledge of a
drawings look exactly the same as the physiologist's sketches
contribution to what is discovered when the actual human brain
These pictures actually remind us of the configurations in the
concrete fact. I do not believe that anyone can speak
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up into the blood. Then, after considering the general act of
what characterizes him as an ego organization. You do not need
fact that the human being can unify his inner experience in an
general organic activity rays out in a certain sense, at least
the fact that during his earthly evolution the human being has
all the factors into account, there is already a difference
it is really an abstract method of classification to speak of
people think that it is all an abstraction. This is not so. In
and characterized by natural science as inorganic lawfulness is
always playing into the living organism in the digestive tract.
only to the fact that the outer, inorganic lawfulness is
immersed in the life of the digestive tract, we can get on
absolutely clear that a remnant of the digestive activity still
complete when the intestinal tract has been passed, and that
sense-perceptible empirical facts themselves that as a result
of the action of the ptyalin and pepsin on the food the food is
process enacted within the human organism during the absorption
natural scientific, inorganic mode of observation. In fact,
physical human being actually exists in the region where the
to orthodox natural science. The entire heart-lung tract
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conception of the modes of activity in the human organism
certain regulative factors found in the organism. As a second
more precise detail if they are to prove of practical value for
characteristics, namely the ratio that is established between
continually into contact with the nerve-sense system.
processes of metabolism in their impact on everything that
second dentition at about the age of seven represents a contact
arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one that can be
fact that at the end of the seventh year of life, regarding
the first place to the fact that everything connected with the
metabolism comes into contact with the slower but more
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness
being. This plastic element is the main field of action of
into the organism is the active principle.
to the change of teeth, a practical and fundamental knowledge
aware that despite the fact that everything in the child
being are essentially active here. Into the astral and etheric
life. Nor does the action of breathing get tired. So when it is
an influence on the breathing action, even if only in a mild
the activity of the astral and etheric organizations, but now
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be called into action in order to combat pathological
conditions. We must always take into account the fact that the
that everything the human being takes into his digestive tract
vitalization, the enlivening, must be an activity of the human
with an actual working through of sulfur, for instance. Sulfur
blossom and is actually responsible for the process whereby the
from this and turn to consider actual illness, we must say to
actual poisoning is only a radical metamorphosis of what arises
in a mild form when any food is brought into contact, let us
you as the kidney activity, is always a process of eliminating
This is a fact
gravity is not the determining factor in what underlies the
functions of the brain, in ego activity, for instance. This ego
activity and also, to a great extent, conceptual activity
— in so far as it is not will activity but purely
conceptual activity (I am referring now to the physical
correlate of this, the brain activity) — is not dependent
makes it possible for the iron to unfold its proper activity in
understand how the heart-lung activity leads over into
vitalizing process, and how the kidney activity in turn leads
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spiritual Cosmos, we also find man. We contact a spiritual
complexity, and just as we elaborate our own act of cognition in
exactly the opposite starting-point — but when to-day we thus
a matter of fact that is just the kind of thing many people do, but
Spiritual Science he has found exactly the same things as he finds
empirical state of affairs is exactly the same — allowing for
fundamentally and has nothing to do with what I actually
3 o'clock in the afternoon, but the objective fact must be
could we proceed to treat a liver-cell exactly the same as a
brain-cell in accordance with the purely empirical facts. Yes, but
brain are actually related quite differently to cosmic forces outside
this is often done, it is antiquated. The fact that as a rule
in knowledge and action in every sphere of life depends upon the
branches of science, who have practical experience of the processes
simple.’ And indeed they were! Yes, but if facts and processes
acts of Intuitive Knowledge we live within the spiritual
exactly the same as the physiologist's sketches of the
discovered when the actual brain is left out of account and we deal
world not previously visible. The pictures actually remind us of the
Imagination lies there, in concrete fact, before us. I do not believe
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unusual conception of empirical facts, but I think it will be quite
Ego is really the focus whence the whole organic activity of man
of the Ego is the fact that during earthly life the relation of man
sense after the first occurrence of sexual activity, but to a certain
in the outer empirical sense — if we take all the factors into
may say that it is really an abstraction to speak of physical,
etheric, astral and Ego organisations. The objection has in fact
an abstract classification, that we take the functions of the
think that it is all an abstraction. Now that is not so. In the
of laws observed externally in the laboratory, and characterised by
digestive tract: that is to say, already within the living
we merely pay heed to the fact that the complex of outer, inorganic
law is involved in the life of the digestive tract, we can get on
digestive activity still remains, that the process of nourishment is
still not quite complete when the intestinal tract has been passed,
facts themselves that as a result of the action of the ptyalin and
the milk immediately it has left the womb. The process enacted within
the intestinal wall, it has become practically inorganic. The purely
passes from the intestines into the sphere of the activity of heart
law unless other factors were present. The process is possible in the
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activity in the organism unless — theoretically in the first
regulative factors which are present in the organism. As a second
are to prove of practical value for an understanding of man in health
a very definite characteristic, namely the relation that is set up
the work done by the nervous and sensory activities for the growth of
continually into contact with the system of nerves and senses. All
being of man represents the contact between the system of nerves and
seven represents a contact between the metabolic system and the
system of nerves and senses, but the nervous and sensory action
dominates. The outcome of this contact of forces — which
in the period when the human being reaches puberty, a new contact
this way we arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one which
this is the fact that at the end of the seventh year of life, in
respect of what proceeds from the metabolic activities, we have
of the second teeth is due in the first place to the fact that
everything connected with the metabolism comes into contact with the
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness occurs,
main field of action of everything which I have described in these
kidneys are worn down by the action of nerves and senses. This
reflection in the organism is alone the active principle.
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called into action in order to combat pathological conditions. And
here we must always take account of the fact that the human organism
must be an activity of the human being himself; indeed, the human
speaking of the actual plant itself — for the seed in the ovary
process is, for instance, often connected with the actual production
nourishment is the beginning of a certain poisoning. Actual
brought about by the activity of the kidneys which I described to
of 1,500 grammes. This is a fact of fundamental importance
factor in that which underlies the functions of the brain, in
Ego-activity, for instance. This Ego-activity and also, to a great
extent, conceptual activity — in so far as it is not volitional
but purely conceptual, ideative activity — is not dependent on
namely, the brain activity.) It is dependent on the force which
right action in the blood, and not elsewhere.
iron-content of the blood. And if we understand how the activities of
etheric or the astral activity becomes too intense, the whole
activities, is provided by regulating the iron-content in the blood.
And by imbuing the actual dynamic element in the blood either with
circulation of blood, which in turn reacts upon the kidney
activities. In adding to or decreasing the iron-content we have
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whole existence and activity into the spiritual world. We know from
an abstract manner of speaking, such as is applied to external,
world, if actual manifestations of that world are in question. We know
logical, abstract speech we employ to express merely natural truths.
First of all there is a challenge to discover what is actually meant.
sprouting life; they are active in the life which is felt in the
and lifeless sulphur. And in fact these Nature-spirits, as they billow
Ahrimanic actually lives. So we can also say: when in high summer-time
special activity, as it were, in the cosmos, we see revealed this
counter-force of Nature acting against the desire-element which by
meteoric phenomena, cleansing and clarifying it, acting as an opposite
process which is also active in the blood itself.
is a kind of vaporous result of the activities of matter. But the
in the fact that people think materialistically; materialism is
clarifies the animal-like life, is actually an admonition to us that
pictures and ideas, so, when the soul has risen to exact clairvoyance,
arises, coming before the soul in living actuality, the figure of
the sulphurising process. And when one understands what is actually
outwards; like a ray of light from within which is sent actively out.
must always pass over into art, since with abstract concepts one

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Va: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part I)
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things names; that plays a certain role in what we find as facts of
As a matter of fact we can distinguish scientifically between the
separate Beings of the Hierarchy of the Archangels; not abstractly by
received its character from the rise of the new natural science. This
For with the last third of the 19th century — and this is a fact
in the mood and character of the soul.
past epoch were by no means inactive. What an external physiology
themselves capable of progressing to active thinking and to an
attributes and characteristics of these Beings. We shall not content
to pass on to active thinking; it is for these that Michael will work,
training have recognised the human soul in its special character as a
become a personality through the character that he acquires from his
will achieve this. Men with a pronounced character and personality
will in the future have this character and personality through what
Michael epoch in our time has all the characteristics of a transition
longer lies in the character of the age. People still do so because
character of the age, however, to construct a world-conception from
To-day I wished to place before your souls the important character of
this transition: the fact, namely, that those souls who can rouse
themselves to activity will now be able to find an understanding for
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tried to throw some light upon the character of our present
will nevertheless discover a special characteristic of that age. We
gives its character to our age, so did he give its character to the
facts, but you rarely speak of God. — People do not notice why
recently in a certain town, and as the practice often is, questions
asked: “If logically one recognises an object through the fact
than speak of Jahve Himself. Michael was in fact at that time looked
place as a real fact, at the beginning of modern times, is yet of such
ripen in the spiritual evolution of the Earth. This fact cannot be
Let us grasp in a certain metaphysical abstraction what actually took
let us now choose a more abstract point of view, but one which, if we
of the higher Hierarchies have this distinguishing characteristic;
If such ideas are at first abstract, it is for us to change them into
described in an abstract way will become a concern of the evolution of
This is the new and important fact which we must transform into a
An abstract understanding always deals in names, simply in names, and
are actually able to perceive at some point how an Archangel ascends
Spirit, Spirit is in us! Just as one has to gauge in a practical
concrete experience of what is so often abstractly called Divine
Providence. For it lies in the true character of our age to do this.

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(Extract)
first, to the objective fact, and second, to the way this objective
fact is connected with what men are willing to receive into their
consciousness, into their will. The objective fact is simply this,
fact; it has taken place. We may say concerning it that since
from the gentleness of his countenance, and about his character from
become active in the soul-life of those who seek the paths to him.
relationship to Michael is apparent in a very characteristic

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short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
No Utopia, but the practical demand of the hour.
is from the actual events of the times that we shall seek
threefold social order can be treated as a piece of unpractical
them public had not been led by the actual events of the times
being done which is not practical, and so much finds its
practical, it is nothing less than his bounden duty to speak
out, and make this life-practicality known. — And yet,
Echo answers: Utopia! Ideology! Impracticable
feeling of personal attraction that I was induced to come
Science, it was really not any personal attraction that led me
spiritual life, through the peculiar character which leads to
disqualified from laying hold upon actual human life, —
passed over into acts, into a reformation of that spiritual
life which was no longer capable of actually entering into
the really practical thing at their door, except from the
the interests of actual groups of human beings, and was
practical whilst running after every sort of utopia, and to
conceal from these people the fact, that this Utopia had its
western world, this Utopia acted upon people in such a way as
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for even in our actual teaching methods we shall have to
Just consider superficially the actual position, in general
entity. We must be aware that other practices of our physical
writing has arisen from human activity, from human
a fact, it is in the form of special translation by means of
intermediary human activity; it is not a direct gesture
arisen within the action of the physical body.
And if we proceed further to teach the child certain activities
the activity of the spirit and soul in man. In teaching
activity, the semi-super-physical in arithmetic, and the
the connection between the abstract letter-forms and the images
in abstracto. We must teach art in
Therefore we first extract from the element of drawing the
interest, but because, for instance, it sees, in actual fact,
activity of the eye passes mysteriously over into the entire
activity of the human limbs. The children then feel
activity.”
continue, in fact, throughout our teaching to pass like this
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whole person, for the activity of the senses as such is really
a fine activity of the limbs, so that the sphere of the senses
again, the whole individual is active; for while sympathy and
reflex action on receiving an impression, and in this reflex
action we do not think much about it, but we swiftly repulse
and the whole again acquires the character of an image. We
accompany with imagery the conflict in action between sympathy
develop a certain activity of the whole individual which
expresses itself as sympathy, as an activity of sympathy.
We allow the constant interplay between this activity of
sympathetic and antipathetic activities is human speech.
there are really present an activity which takes place in the
breast and a parallel activity which takes place in the head,
only that the breast is much more positive in this activity; in
all the time the breast-activity, and you accompany it at the
same time with an image of it, with an activity of the head.
a persisting rhythm of sympathetic and antipathetic activity
Now, as a matter of fact, speech is doubly anchored in human
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with the fact that this duality of the artistic element comes
become walking corpses. We should, in actual fact, make the
everything to unity in an abstract way, if you wish to be true
and not through human abstract organization. Only imagine what
act in accordance with nature when we allow the whole to grow
our naivety if we fashion things concretely, not abstractedly.
given by Goethe in the didactic part of his “Theory of
didactic part of Goethe's Farbenlehre?
that abstract element present in nature as a process of dying.
we do an abstract, a dead thing, something untrue to nature,
extract the one trend and affirm that it is nature. But if I
abstraction. We ought to produce already in the growing child a
quite wise gradually to pass from the purely abstract art which
We have in actual fact reduced ourselves in the course of the
character should be to be felt when it is sat on. To that end
when he sees how, for instance, abstractions are on the point
only be done with tact, for we must not depart too far from
musical child; this one is not musical. Certainly the fact is
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might arise from the discussions which we have actually pursued
develop further. The point is that you will not have to act in
you have come to school.” And now this act of coming to
hesitation at the fact that you are, in so doing, looking
Grown-ups can write letters to each other, too; in fact, they
child's attention to this fact, and then perhaps, even
these matches. “Playing with sticks” is, in fact, a
young children. But such a practice, in the face of a real
will take it in well, as, in fact, in teaching, all depends on
corporative character. These matters should always be discussed
of reading, and, in fact, particularly to the reading of
altogether; let us teach the child to read practically, by
the learning of grammar is not a useless factor, particularly
Unconsciously, or half-consciously, in fact, man climbs in life
verb, but I participate in the action of his physical body; I
participation. The most spiritual part of man, in fact,
in Eurhythmy when you listen, and when you are actually
invisible when you listen. The manifestation of the activity of
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so that you are able to make something of it in practice.
first, the child's consciousness of why he has actually come to
that the reading of printed characters should only be developed
animal in the act of rising, standing on its hind legs, and the
is historically the fact: if you go back to the most ancient
soul's making, of your own imagination. The activity which you
ascertained fact and incorporated it painfully into your
Then you go on to draw the child's attention to the fact that
sign above it. In this way all the vowels can be extracted from
another, you bring the child on, never by mere abstract teaching,
letter actually takes.
These facts, of course, have already been observed by
educationists who have already drawn attention to the fact that
writing. They do abstractly what we are attempting to do
observed the practicability of deriving writing from drawing,
fact that you are not to enslave yourself by cramming yourself
teaching, to devote themselves to it. This fact has been almost
are given an abstract kind of writing, people lose much of the
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far more exactly what the Waldorf School really means than can be
these pedagogical-didactic reflections a chapter which will
like everyone who is attracted to work of this kind to have the
is experimental psychology practised to-day? Because people
psychology, we get the misconstruction of certain simple facts
more in free spiritual activity what has just been worked out
follows, as fourth act to this drama, the filling in of all
fact that people talk to-day so much at cross-purposes, for
exactly what should be done in education.” But those who
soul-activity. It is interesting, of course, and in another
practise anatomy on the activity of the human soul — but
It ought, as a matter of fact, to be further expressed in these
fact, if we were to analyse merely the meaning of things, we
particularly active in movements like the Theosophical
astral body. This character represents one thing — that
be dragged. This all arises from the fact that the actual
symbolically, character by character, is the result of
harmony of colours, repetition, in fact all spontaneous
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descriptive. But with actual natural history, before the
already practised to produce in the child, even at this early
its enemies, or, too, when feeding, always acts like the human
fact that the higher animals are chiefly trunk, and are endowed
by nature with refined organs chiefly for the satisfaction of
carrying the body, how the hands do not come in contact with
actually has four legs and feet shaped like arms, and not four
beautiful symbol of human freedom. In fact, no more
the lower animals have the character of head, the higher
head, but through his active limbs. For the creatures which are
activities of nature combined. We should always have man in the
later, because the activity of speech, that is, the
build him up from all other organisms and activities of nature.
actual sphere of education. Schiller, as a matter of fact,
contains very many practical hints for teaching. In recent
abstractly: “How are we to develop the child's latent

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development. It is expressed in the fact that the child, if we
refracted, how they then pass through the vitreous humour and
refraction of rays of light. That is very easily explained by
the rays of light are refracted. But you are then describing
purely physical facts which take place outside the human being.
begin to estimate at its right value the action of the outer
world upon man, the process by which the activity of the
of events and reacts on man. When you describe the human eye
you describe an activity of external nature repeated in the
twelve the application of light-refraction and image-formation
habitual actions. But because of this we must not keep too
abstractions too early. That will be particularly important in
you draw the child's attention to a fact of life, and from it
out from a fact of life from which you can now find the
cold air contracts. Here you are already leaving everyday life.
your class with the abstract lever. Start with the lever of a
at this point I cannot withhold from you the fact that many of
fact that the child has continuously to put up with such
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practising grammar — ordinary grammar as well as syntax.
concerned with older children) to the fact that when he says
activity. Then go from this sentence to another by saying:
the child to impersonal sentences. They contain more activity
to find one. This practice with the children really takes you
Subject-less sentences, as a matter of fact, arise from our
unsevered state of our own activity from the world's activity.
cannot find a subject, we describe the activity alone. Where we
practical logic of life, try to discover how much grammar and
took yesterday for practice, like this one:
practised; in this way they come into being, but are not
preserved. Such a procedure is an extraordinary factor towards
already described, and again to practise the turning of the
actually know in advance that the child will forget, and he
this it is not a good plan to give the children actual books on
method of these things. In teaching, in fact, a
simply by taking an active part in the lesson yourself —
this rule, too?” you have, in actual fact, won the day.
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The printed letters have become extraordinarily abstract. They
written letters. It is quite correct to preserve intact,
letter. In this way you overcome the abstract character of
influence. For what actually is the significance of this
be studied in the form of practice of speaking.
line. That is, we evolve the actual forms in drawing, by
apply to man, as I have already explained: light refraction
developed their characteristics. We study this subject
actually take place only between the first and second, and
I have already emphasized the fact that we shall, of course,
consideration of such facts is part of the economy of teaching.
sufficiently practised, the children can take the book and read
to be content with work of a letter-character, concerned with
elementary school, to fourteen, we should practise, far more
way. Everybody to-day tries to ascertain facts by means of
the exact movements to be made. We study our part carefully and
learn it well by heart, in order to enact the whole scene as
“listener” — reacts in its own way. This is
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moment retires only too much into the background; in fact, a
of his surroundings. In fact, we really work out with the
through this stretch of land; that is, we actually draw the
direct his attention to the fact that part of the district is
Then we direct his attention to the fact that there are
rivers are used for shipping the produce or manufactures of one
child's eyes to the fact that man lays out artificial rivers in
hesitate at this early stage to teach him many facts which he
great ocean, and gradually open his eyes to the fact that there
spatial distribution of the characteristics of the different
peoples. But do not speak of the different characters of the
put into the teaching of geography, so that, in fact, the
to the geography teaching, you will be able to extract as many
this would establish a good contact with life. Far more
life with the life of the world. For the actual fact is: a
The soul undergoes a change in doing these things. Abstract
familiar in the most natural possible way with the fact that
are a very abstract matter.
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the fact that the relations of man to his surroundings are far
and spirit. In fact, people must benumb themselves to escape
must always remain a matter of great satisfaction to see people
from the so-called “better classes” enter a factory
factory, and yet, as individuals, have not the slightest
tobacco factory without any idea of the process of manufacture
satisfaction that human nature shows of being itself worried
the workings of at least the factory systems in his
at fifteen and sixteen of the way a soap-factory or a
factory and founder of the Waldorf School as a school for the
factory process for preparing cigarettes, from beginning to
manufacture of soap, spinning, weaving, etc., it would be an
as a matter of fact, and gives him the assurance with which he
acts and the self-possession with which the individual effects
practical life is chiefly due to the fact that we begin to
connections with practical human life. Very many features,
outside world which are, in fact, respected in spheres still
relation of subjects of school study to practical life. Do not
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which should spring the actual timetable. Now I have told you
between seven and twelve is, of course, the fact that they are
already far more pronounced characteristics of old age —
the most appalling abstractness, that is, senility. And
is an actual fact to-day. We came up against it very sharply
up to speak. He began to read off his very tedious abstract
fact in evidence, however, was that this half-child was too
many fairy tales as possible. And after practising for some
an idea of activity: “Just sit down on your chair. You
run. You are doing something. That is an action.” We
describe this action by a verb. That is, we try to draw the
noun. We shall flounder fairly badly in an abstraction when we
And it is far better to flounder in abstractions over it
in practice. This feature reappears in the second year in a
active in English than in French. In English a tremendous
amount is thrown away and sacrificed. In fact, many

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those days was left to the actual process of teaching itself,
It will only result in the practice of teaching if the many
examples given in modern books on didactics are ignored. These
conducted. But we have constantly had to emphasize the fact
ready to be distracted. That our children to-day are such rough
tomboys is simply due to the fact that we go in for far too
fact that man is so much a spiritual being that he can become
instance. Comparatively sound food instincts are active in the
body owes its activity primarily to these three constituents.
for this purpose we have to cultivate and practise, because we
in actual fact the curriculum for the elementary school (aged
the actual power of discernment, the rational,
activities still partly prompted by instinct, but already very
notes and so on, commercial calculations, etc. Actual
must absorb these facts quite completely into your being as

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practice.
creating every single feeling, reacts on his pupils. Remember
cannot be of direct practical use to your teaching if you allow
have studied here together and to their activity in your

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realise that, in actual fact, what has to be accomplished in any one
birth. We must consciously face this fact: that man evolves through a
conscious of the fact — “this too is a continuation.”
here, in this human being, you, with your action, have to achieve a
their thought and feeling, we are often asked an abstract question
conducted. There are many people to-day who take things abstractly,
abstractions we can continue for ever asking: Why? We can go on
always find an end, but abstract thought goes on running round like a
rightly. In this lies the finer characterisation of what we really
physical plane. The child's sleep is characterised by the very fact
Thus you see that all our activity of teaching and education is first
educational practice there will be no question of direct training of
measures of educational practice. But we must be conscious of what
significance of the fact that man is effective in the world not only
that the one teacher is more skilful in his practice than the other.
possesses through the fact that he is a physical man. If you have
Now it may be that at first external facts will contradict this. You
is not something that we should have before us as an abstraction, and

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Mental picture and Will not understood to-day. Image character of
prevents a real practical psychology from coming into being. This can
be traced to the fact that in the age in which we now are, the age of
this activity will at once be struck by its image character. The
in it the character of existence or being are subject to a great
something with your mental pictures arises from the fact that they
have an image character, that they do not so merge into us that we are
Now when you consider the image character of mental picturing you must
one might almost say its activity of being, but that might give too
even activity of thought is only an image activity. Everything which
it. When we have thus clearly grasped that the activity of mental
by the human being himself. And it is because the activity which you
For true knowledge this activity is a proof, because it is an image,
understanding of what the activity of mental picturing is, by learning
to know that in it we have a reflection of the activity which was
immediate real content of its own. Then again the fact is that there
facts which are reflections of the forces described in my book
as our will for action, into that which holds in germ what after death
conception. That has in the main the character of cognition. Thus you
active, and we make our mental pictures with this force which
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of such an abstract law as that of the conservation of energy.
For the true nature of man rests on the fact that through him new
character and is a kind of reflection of our pre-natal life. On the
has in point of fact given rise to the error of the twofold nature of
into contact with the external world through the senses —
in Plato that actually sight comes about by the stretching forth of a
into the super-sensible world. Actually, looking at things involves the
process exactly like the spiritual process that takes place when you
send the etheric forces from your eyes to grasp an object in the act
they would be able to deduce these facts from observing natural
we had no possibility at all of bringing left and right into contact;
not so much the passive element, it is the activity, i.e. how we meet
philosophy exhibit a trace of this knowledge that the will is active
activity what in himself is related to the dead element in Nature, he
would be wanting to call into free activity a dying thing. And if he
Practically speaking this is the only answer that could result. He
nature, which lives in muscles and blood, with the activity of mental
true. All that we have in abstract science we owe to the faculty of
forms a triangle, an abstract triangle — nowhere to be found in
line which actually performs a triangular movement. Such movements are
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works in these. In physical, as instinct — animals act according
a remainder of every resolution and act of will lives on and continues
inherited characteristics. The soul, in the main, is a principle which
peoples too, even if they are not exactly “learned,” there
necessarily something belonging to the character; it need not be
has more of the soul character than mere impulse.
the soul. This is because in actual practical life the ego really
does not appear clearly even in practice. Hence language has no words
ordinary consciousness to-day you perform an action out of your own
of the will — a clear picture of how he would act if he were
fact she saw prophetically that she would be saved. Psycho-analysis
much cleverer than the ordinary activity of the soul.
contains activity and effort. It is the same with intention; you have
involves a real activity in the depths of the soul, but you do not
nature of the child. This we can only achieve by introducing actions
and get him to do it repeatedly. An action of this sort must be made
of doing the action repeatedly, out of devotion, because it ought to
so it is not enough to say in the abstract that the will must be
place it creates a contact amongst the pupils; then it also
place, practice depends upon repetition; but secondly because what a

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Each of the three soul activities includes qualities of all. Balance
have chiefly drawn attention to the intellectual activity, the
activity of cognition, on the one hand, and the activity of will on
the other hand. I have shown you how the activity of cognition has a
activity of will has a close connection with the activity of the
said with regard to the third soul power, that is, the activity of
thinking more of the activity of feeling, we shall have the
entirety, one activity is always merging into another.
yourself as mental picture, that you do not permeate with the activity
concentrate on your willing, you will find that in every act of will
being at all if mental picturing were not involved in your acts
activity, if you did not permeate the action which springs forth from
the will with the activity of thought, of mental picturing.
Just as thought is present in every act of will, so will is to be
Thus actually we can only say that will activity is chiefly will
activity and has an undercurrent of thought within it; and thought
activity is chiefly thought activity and has an undercurrent of will.
Now this flowing into one another of the soul activities, which is
soul activity comes to expression. For instance, let us look at the
blood vessels. The presence of the nerves enables the activity of
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activities into cognition (which takes place in thought) and into
feel yourself with your ego right in the midst of this activity of
cognition. It is as though every part, every bit of the activity which
what your ego does is there within the activity of cognition. You are
entirely in the light; you live in a fully conscious activity, if I
you were not in a fully conscious activity in cognising. Suppose for a
would not be fully, consciously present in this act of thought, of
in complete consciousness in the whole warp and woof of its activity.
involved when you will to walk. You would have to know exactly how
much of the activity produced by your food in the muscles of your legs
deeply, unconsciously present in the activity. This is not only so
carefully, please, how much fully conscious knowing activity there is
in what you have done; how much fully conscious activity such as there
what is present as the activity of cognition here from that of which
exist of cohesion, adhesion, forces of attraction and repulsion are,
upon these external hypotheses in our actions; we are convinced that
character of cognition-thinking, and on the other hand the character
grasp the facts characterised above in the following way. In our
in the activity of our knowing-thinking. If therefore you want to say
his choleric nature will develop active energy in his later life. But
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and the fact are quite right. Only they do not prove what they set out
If, on the other hand, we observe the characteristics of the human
within the freedom of man, even in education. The fact that many
child — kicking and sprawling and performing unconscious actions
concepts and ideas sound theoretical, abstract, scientific. It is an
essential factor of human life that the evolution of soul powers runs
into our contact with our environment.
and willing-feeling or feeling-willing. It would not be quite exact to
importance of poetic works of art in education, in fact he analyses
dreadful thing! The man sets up to be a scientist, and actually
is the sphere of the senses? We perform an activity which is
should never do, but rather take the concept from the facts. We should
facts, and not endeavour to get a conception of spirit from the
connecting of one fact with another we get true conception.
point of view, by applying the facts of waking and sleeping to man
physiology you find the following put forward; the organ that acts as
Actually there are hollow spaces for the spirit and soul where the
should know nothing about the world nor about ourselves; in fact we
should be asleep. For the nerves would then act like those organs
thinking-cognition through the fact that they are constantly shutting
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You may say that sleeping and waking are actually even more obscure
should exert itself directly in single actions in order to regulate
from unity: if we were only to recognise an abstract unity then we
Hence people who want to grasp everything in terms of abstract unities
apply this to what we characterised yesterday as the sphere of the
“ I .” These are two quite different activities of
activities of my life in the comprehensive synthesis
have an activity before me which takes place in the interplay between
He might say: yesterday you said that the activities of all the senses
were pre-eminently activities of the will: now you construe the ego
characterise the ego sense as I have tried to do in the new edition of
This however is not all. In that sympathy is active you sleep into the
other human being; in that antipathy is active you wake up again, and
will, but essentially a will which acts in a state of sleep, not
waking. For we are constantly weaving moments of sleep into the act of
a contact with colour if the eye is destroyed. But not only have we a
actually has twelve senses.
objections to the knowledge character of some of the senses by
recognising that this knowledge character rests in a subtle way upon
balance. These senses are mainly penetrated by will activity. In the
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face of adult. Characterisations needed', not definitions. Relate
understanding of the world of facts. Now in order to come to a real
human life can be characterised as fully awake, dreaming or sleeping
teeth the child bears a very distinct character, shown in his wanting
Now what we have to do is to survey the whole life activity of the
human being in a spiritual description. This activity as we have
Our exercise of logic, that is, of thinking-cognition, is an activity
speaking you are continually forming conclusions. This activity of
forming conclusions is the most conscious of all human activities. Man
logic takes no account of the fact that we form conclusions every time
you are continuously carrying out this activity; but it is only by
means of this activity that you can lead a conscious life which
act and it belongs to the whole of life. We did not begin living when
action is linked on to our previous life, and our previous life plays
actually this splitting up of the three judgments: “All men are
this fact. For it is the sentence which expresses judgment, and with
down the street were to meet people coming out of the factories, you
confronted with any one particular fact, his concepts are living in
definitions but rather must endeavour to make characterisations. We
characterise things when we view them from as many standpoints as
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proper, you find the essential fact is that they are surrounded by
also, but in a somewhat abstract way. Hence, when you look at Egyptian
In that we move about the world and perform actions we are limb men.
Now why is this? It comes about because those who practise psychology
soul only, spiritual characteristics being merely a quality of the
Who is actually to blame for the materialism of natural science? It is
abolished the Spirit. What actually came about at that time? Consider
from the animals, whereas actually the breast organs and the limb
order to make clear to ourselves a tremendous fact in the history of
order to practise that great art of life, the art of education, are

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description of the head to say that it is principally body. In actual
characteristic feature of this development up to the change of teeth
going on around him. He is able to do this owing to the fact that his
child changes his teeth, and the second ones appear, this is an actual
head spirit as an activity of will, and will arouse it. But in the
Through our words and actions, which the child copies, we begin to
activity which we have left to the genius of Nature to carry out; for
through our actions, begin to educate in the realm of soul. For this
twelfth year which I have described to you. (see Practical Course
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deeply into the character of the kingdoms of nature if we are to
is actually stirring, but it does not develop into a wolf; it is
is actually stirring; it is dissolved by the trunk and the limbs.
place in the chest or trunk system. All these processes are in active
Actually it is true that when man breathes out carbonic acid gas, he
considered in exactly the same way as breathing. In the processes of
the food stuffs before this stage is reached. It is actually the case
does warmth act when passing from a cooler place to a warmer, and vice
does such a warmth process act in the human organism when this
finding the bacilli, the kind of bacteria which causes the illness.
happens when you bend your arm. Through the contraction of the muscle
pre-eminently forces of leverage, but forces are actually at work.

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Head formed from within out; limbs from without in Man acts as dam for
in-rushing Soul and Spirit. Balance between destructive activity of
transparent. Spirit active in bodily work, Body in mental. Relation of
sleep to different forms of bodily activity. Purposeful movements
needed. Eurythmy and Sport. Sport practical Darwinism. Relation of
sleep to different forms of mental activity. Interest essential ...
from within. This is a fact of remarkable importance. It is so very
important because it enables us to see the actual disposition of the
active flow of spirit and soul through man to a stream. But actually
constructive activity of the body. The chest abdomen system is
question of having the tact to co-operate with the child's home life
In this way we can see how spirit and soul actually operates in man.
devouring, consuming activity. We see it penetrating into him. We see
thrown back upon itself. In spiritual work the activity of the body is
excessive, in bodily work, on the other hand, the activity of
Matter is active within us when we do spiritual work.
too much sleep in turn promotes too much bodily activity, the bodily
activity of the chest abdomen, not of the head system. This activity
us too strongly its activity in the body cannot be assimilated, if we
Why are they like this? It is due to the fact that man can never
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In Head, nose represents trunk, jaws limbs. Actual limbs are jaws of a
corresponding skeleton of speech. Lower trunk develops limb character
representation of the real facts. Whereas man's proper head is a
actual nose is checking the “air nose” which is seeking to
we know that the words man forms actually express a tendency to become
characterising the connection between the limb man and the trunk man.
teething of the soul, so all activity of imagination, all that is
endeavour (as we have been doing in our practical course) not
he must shape his teaching material afresh every time. For in actual
fact the thing one has once worked out in an imaginative way, if given
course in actual life these things cannot always come up to the ideal,

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certain reactionary forces that remain and can be observed in
by observing the established facts of nature and the world,
conditions, observing a fact and being led by this to certain
an overview of a series of facts with the use of mathematical
knowledge than when such facts are simply described in their
treating knowledge mathematically, has been characteristic of
shall we understand and get the facts straight in matters of
introduce mathematics into actual knowledge.
conditions of a process exactly, to outer observation where
can actually find reasons for the inclination toward the use
from any really intimate contact with the soul of the other,
way. This effort is in the character of our time and must be
estranged from a direct perception of the inner activity,
activity, and at the same time be content with the outer use
of these facts even if one only looks at the outer expression
of the soul life. But to explain such facts one must know how
of facts in an outer experimental way, especially now if we
actually know things mathematically when one applies
mathematics to the facts of the outer sense-accessible world?
modes of dealing with the facts given to us?
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in these lectures to characterize the spiritual scientific
inexact. Our feeling life is not directly connected to our
originates from the fact that what we experience as feeling
throughout the organism with the nerve-sense system. The fact
picture of some kind is related organically to the fact that
clear only if you study how a metabolic transformative action
comes about in us when there is an act of will or even an
impulse of will. Every metabolic activity is consciously or
unconsciously the physical basis of some act of will or
with our will activity and therefore is connected with some
kind of metabolic activity. One must be clear about the fact
primitive activity of the will. To use a saying of Goethe,
the “ur-phenomenal” activity of the will can be
activities are indirectly connected with the nerve-sense
system through our following our will activities with mental
being, but it does in fact extend inwardly through the whole
activity.
these I would like to call the total act of seeing,
functioning of this system. The fact that they are located
a higher function. Through the fact that they are used for
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this subject alone. When trying to illuminate physical facts
satisfactory explanation. From a certain point of view I
must be willing to observe the way this science actually
cognition actually is. For this we must return to an earlier
characterize the difference in consciousness between an
activity (and of course with feeling and will impulses also),
externally — a kind of interaction, an immediate
interaction between the human being and some form or other of
this, in mathematical thought, in the activity of pure
that lives entirely within the creative activity of the soul.
What is experienced is the continuity of the activity and the
visualization of one's own activity.
our mathematics can be characterized as purely pictorial. One
mathematical thinking only makes images of, is actually real
into the act of cognition. And the fact that something real
does not merge with the act of cognition becomes conscious
experience for us if we really enact this act of
recognize the pictorial character of mathematical thought, we
vividly as a content of consciousness. In fact, we are able
mathematical thinking we are right inside what actually takes
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results of our inner mathematical activity to the outer
imaginative activity to the human senses. In this way we may
human organism. The fact is that with the development of such
botanists, our practical knowledge of the plant world will
our life lived here on earth. This, as I said, is a practical
activities as it is in mathematical activity — happens
experience our intellect creating not only abstract pictures
intellectual activity — is not present in this kind of
imaginative activity is just as voluntary as our ordinary
intellectual activity. The difference is that in intellectual
activity one always has a subjective experience (I say
back from our life panorama to the inner activity that
active in the growth principle of the human being. This
actually represent. This also gives us the possibility of
of the way in which these forces are active within him?
something that can be characterized as ordinarily opaque to
voluntary activity mental images we have evoked are taken
the soul. In a way, we imitate what happens in our activity
behind this activity of the human soul; how we do this, I
become used to this activity, we are able to extend the time
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means of it we can understand what takes place in the activity of
included in the sphere of human rhythmic activity, one sees
In fact, our
to say in this regard, that the facts themselves — in
influences, through action from without. But how do we grasp
Then, having given a general characterization, they proceed
ordinary logic of the intellect to put together the facts
together of physical facts. When we apprehend each separate
objection to this. When we subject the facts to a thorough
association of mental images and in fact for everything that
forth. We Herbartians, the philosophers, could actually make
the same diagrams. I could draw exactly the same thing. Only
neuronal tracts. Rather, I would draw the mental images
directly — thus, and the soul forces that are active in
this picturing activity as they go from image to image. The
drawing actually comes out the same, he said, whether I, an
one convincing the other — but they actually drew two
altogether different things in exactly the same way.
fact a characteristic experience in the field of knowledge,
done in other ways), one actually arrives at something very
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will be to understand certain characteristics of the ordinary
quite familiar with the fact that at times you can despair
is an activity of fantasy, quite justified, that goes on in
arbitrary action, when it is allowed to proceed according to
active in falsifying the memories — when we study it
teachings that are in fact essentially falsified memory
an inner act of will — then gradually we succeed in
characteristic form of memory pictures but with a greater
imaginations have the character of memory pictures. Only
intense experience. At first they have the character of
— expressed abstractly — it then leads a further
clear about this fact of memory life, we are then in a
our consciousness that have the familiar character of memory
power for imaginative activity. In this respect, certain
will actually destroy our imaginative capacity.
this theoretical activity.
next step: we must practice again and again eliminating these
exactly the opposite of the condition prevailing in
psychopaths of various kinds. It really: is the exact
activity which normally is a kind of involuntary activity
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organization. It could be said: This is an illusion. The fact
grasp in inspired-imaginative activity and what we can learn
feel a certain satisfaction. We learn what the human rhythmic
a sense organ. It is, in fact, predisposed toward the sense
each separate sense. Beyond the interaction of the force
nebulous mysticism to evoke satisfaction in the soul. Either
in a serious and exact manner. At the same time, it must be
satisfactory answers to the questions.
spiritually real and concrete and avoiding abstraction), we
a certain active relation to the depth dimension; with
forgetting comes about which I must characterize as a
already discussed imagination and we know it does in fact
pictorial character. It relates to a reality, but at first we
represents our pre-birth existence. Characterized in this
time. One can only indicate the exact point in the cognitive
takes on real meaning. At the same time we gain a more exact
characterize as follows: when the human being falls asleep in
subjective human activity is silent in both sleep and
satisfaction in experiment. In other words, those who find
special satisfaction in experiment also find satisfaction in
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sketched as a framework. In spite of the fact that all the
our joy they have in fact appeared in great numbers. It is
active.
of course be seen in the factual content of what is
treatment of the facts, in the striving to follow a definite
to see the affairs of practical life in the right light. The
the fact that we have not been afraid to extend something
that was won purely in the spiritual out into practical life.
This is actual testimony that we do not shy away from the
dependent on the practicalities of life, as well as how one
that one has an overview of all factors involved, grasping
fact that we do not merely want the scientific spirit
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teaching activity. This is something that can readily be felt,
Golgotha took place, to permeate all human work and activity, and
especially all activity in which the spirit has work to do. May the

Title: Dear Children: Lecture III: Address at the Assembly at the End of the First School Year
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inscribe on our souls something of why we are actually in this
lively. In fact, we will each go into the next grade; with new forces
skillful activity, where my soul is developed to be strong in life,
grades, the children received brief characterizations of their

Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture I
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privileged to carry on our activities in it for many years, and
to rouse themselves to inner activity through what they hear. The
Movement is of a nature that attracts enemies. In these
words it uses are not meant as abstract theory. Anthroposophical
Movement. This prevents my going into the deeper spiritual facts of
the willful distortion of truth that has always characterized so
particularly conscious of the fact that without a strong, energetic
character than it would have had if anthroposophy had gone on shaping
fruitfully active. But external events have somehow brought it about
that much that has been undertaken did not, in fact, spring directly
the course it was following up to 1918. This is a fact of the
Society, has been able to demonstrate its universally human character
human character is to be found here in Stuttgart in one area in
The proof lies in the fact that the Waldorf School is not an institution
character striven for in the Waldorf School cannot be too strongly
Anthroposophical Movement as a sect despite these facts are either
the Society should also pay close heed to this same fact. The way the
anthroposophical activity should be carried on in all the various
anthroposophical activity within the Anthroposophical Movement
character I have been discussing, we have seen just in this case on
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture II
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ourselves with the fact that when a challenge of this kind is
you will find their chief content to be simply facts, that they
present facts, either those of super-sensible realms, of the world of
even carries the sub-title, “Presentation of Facts on which to
but simply to provide facts on which conclusions can be based. I thus
deliberately expose myself to the danger that a series of facts I am
solely in communicating facts, and anybody who wants to look into the
own conclusions and learn to give facts an unprejudiced hearing, so
the facts as clearly as possible. But there is never any question of
present the facts, to make the truth known. In the age of the
consciousness soul, anyone really acquainted with the facts of any
that occasion I followed my general rule of merely presenting facts,
true. What action to take was a matter left to everyone's free
expressing them, that one has taken all the pertinent facts into
arrive at the correct ones when a sufficient overview of the facts of
the case permits it or when facts that obviously do not apply have
brought up in connection with my lecture, namely, that one faction
judgment made in ignorance of the facts. It might easily be thought
off communicating facts in order to say the kind of things that I was
of everything connected with anthroposophical activities is burdening
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture III
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of characterizing the third phase of our Anthroposophical Movement,
fact that the whole universe is suffused with soul and spirit, that human
stresses the active element in thinking, emphasizing
inner activity in the exercise of what I have called pure thinking.
awake and making the thinker inwardly active.
inwardly active. One relates one's senses actively to what is going
bodily activity to one's intentions. The reader of
passivity to activity, though of course on a higher level. He should
me along. Now, little by little, I am beginning to be inwardly active
activity to sounds and colors, and my bodily motions to my will.”
and what this activity is that one now launches to strike into one's
here just to the external fact of awaking.) One begins to experience
as a living, active function.
suffuses this passive thinking with inner activity, he lights upon
realization that this passive thinking of his was exactly the same
suffuses one's thinking with active soul life, one realizes for the
of abstract thinking in its new aliveness. To understand ordinary
every act of willing, if — to put it in a picture that can be
applied to all will activity — one succeeds in keeping the soul
still while the body moves through space, succeeds in being active in
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture IV
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of knowledge, the ethical practice, the inner religious life that
such as ours has to act as a vanguard in an ever wider disseminating
approach the Society do so out of a sense of dissatisfaction with the
spiritual, psychological and practical conditions they find
which, when considered factually and not critically, might even be
practical situation prevailing in the life around them must be taken
into account as a factor in the founding of the Anthroposophical
honest seeking will find, if he practices self-observation, that this
practice that civilized man has developed in recent centuries is just
exactly the kind from which an anthroposophist longs to free his
the fact that the factors accounting for the development of the
to the kind of life and practice that past centuries have brought us,
may come to realize purely instinctively that the life and practice
he longs to flee received their present form from the fact that man
life and practice are outgrowths of a materialistic science, and a
After the first act
in the soul drama of the anthroposophist, the moral-religious act,
practice. He has taken flight into the Anthroposophical Society, but
mankind's evolution in the act of reversing one's will and
real feeling for the fact of our humanness. The term
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VI
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energy to go on together in effective common action. Experience, not
grey theories or abstract thoughts, should be the source on which we
they are graven on my heart, but because they point to a fact on
still take into account the fact that the Society has been effective
includes an impulse to joint activity.
built with abstract words, the usual kind of sermon, and the meagre
anyone else. One can think alone and develop logic alone; in fact,
depths that searches for community is called for by the fact that we
same words when we use them? If everybody were to practice just a
life on earth. As a result of pursuing this fact of soul life into
acts or words, is a reflection, a picturing of real experiences, not
binding power from the fact that it conveys spiritual forces from the
community creating power of the cultus derives from the fact that it
activities wide awake.
significant. But how do we awaken? We awaken through the impact of
impact. We awaken from the second into the third at the call of the
experience in a direction exactly opposite to that taken when we
am characterizing when, infusing living power into the spiritual
ideas we form, we put ourselves in a position actually to experience
abstract thought, but that endows the ideal with a higher life as we
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VII
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our own sciety is based. A little later on I will also characterize
historical settings and the particular characteristics and capacities
factions within the larger group, for group resignations, for sharp
can, as I showed yesterday, awaken through the fact that a person
there be similar awareness of the fact that the content of
reality, then it is exactly as though a person recounting his dreams
external facts. When a number of people meet in an ordinary state of
views about the same fact can be expressed there by, let us say,
listening to the other's opposite view with exactly the same
have described as so characteristic of the societies we are
discussing has its root in the fact that when people hear sensational
proceeds to take on the activities it has included since 1919, it
obstacles in his path with their opposition. The mere fact of their
putting these attacks in writing is the hostile act. The people who
These facts must be
character as an institution based on the most modern concept
delighted by this characterization because it showed that there are
in leaders active in the Society; otherwise I will again be held
problem. I state this simply as an objective fact, without meaning to
members is going to have to become fully aware of these facts. But
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 1 (Summary): Effects of Modern Agnosticism
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who very often are quite unaware of the fact. It then lays hold of the
within what they practise. Modern systems of labour consist in ruling
of disbelief are all social impulses, and all these facts work back
observes that the life of expression is not sufficiently active and
It is in these facts that

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 2 (Summary): Perception and Thinking
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is then alone actually present. One is using one's whole soul
activity for thought, quite shut off from the outer impression.
passively by learning from the pictures which are actually present and
in which we are wide awake, in which we must actually be when it comes

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 3 (Summary): The Tragedy of F. Nietzsche
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lend to true spiritual knowledge. Just as facts in natural science are
observable, so must psychic-spiritual facts be accessible to spiritual
an undermining of it which makes us unfitted for life. For action, a
no satisfaction and therefore he sought everywhere for elements in human

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 4 (Summary): The Relationship between Goethe and Hegel
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fact that we are repelled by plastic reproductions of plants, which

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 5: From Sense Perception to Spirit Imaging
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soul activity, activities that permit insights to be gained into worlds
inner soul activities are alive in what I have referred to in my written
also developing the mind further by activating latent soul forces. Such
soul activity does not come to life within the usual intellectual concepts
is not to be found in the abstract ideas formed in our ordinary logical
exactly the same in character as memories, but they relate to a world
objective, a world alive and active within the sense-perceptible world,
This is how one might characterize
are unhealthy soul experiences. What are the characteristic features
of visionary, hallucinatory activity, the features that matter to man?
One characteristic is egoity subdued, clear awareness of Self subdued.
will result, including those of visionary, hallucinatory activity. Anyone
of our own egoity, and he will know that visionary, hallucinatory activity
activity takes this relationship down to a lower level of awareness,
active life.
knowledge would wish to close his eyes to the fact that such megalomania
systematically developed we are in fact entering into objectivity. The
that does not, in the first place, appear in the form of abstract intellectual
the form of images. The experience is exactly of the same kind as that
for ordinary knowledge is very much secondary to the actual process
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 6: From Imaginative Knowledge to Inspirational Knowledge
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is right. It is of course exactly what the lazy thinker wants: to imagine
of forming ideas based on sensory perceptions we carry out an activity
that is organic by nature. This organic activity is partly or completely
concealed from conscious awareness, yet it is in fact the function responsible
to without. In the one case one is clearly aware of the triggering factor
Let us simply state this fact — I have only been able to give an
is applied to the action I have just described, this action will appear
of thinking activity, of the forming of concepts, is extraordinarily
abstract; it is a pale notion to our everyday consciousness and we do
abstract, disembodied thing, comes close to being concrete and graphic.
Indeed it approaches a form that, I would say, actually bears the stamp
it is in its abstract form, in ordinary consciousness. This also is
is active in the organism; in return, memory concepts arise in the conscious
mind. A spirit and soul element is active in Imagination. There is an
actual process in the outside world corresponding to this, but Imagination
of freedom can in fact be grasped — in experience.
and the like. Exactly because they have content, these images show that
the very nature of those pictures that characteristically they are reflections
his hallucinations, to be a reality. A person practising Imagination
that gives a person practising Imagination a state of conscious awareness
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 7: The Gulf Between a Causal Explanation of Nature and the Moral World Order
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as it lies before us, for our observation, to cosmic facts and the nature
on that element in man that actually enables him not only to think of
external content, not to one based on personal experience. By practising
it will then be necessary not only to practise the generation of such
We need to practise no longer to have the Imaginations, for they are
the whole human being to be active within this sphere of sensory perception.
the actual process of forming ideas in everyday life, a process we apply
to the fact that this pure thought process as such can be perceived
we become aware of a cosmic entity that extends its activities into
and paralysing processes act in concert. We see the significance of
human will acts when we act ethically. Having first of all realized
activity as such breaks matter down: the will builds it up. It does
where transformed matter is, through will activity, put in a place where
abstract concepts we use. No, they are connected as something real.
not have the support of external perception. We shall end up with abstractions
man, inner awareness of the dignity of man, will activity in love of
Spiritual science then acts
Filled with what otherwise is love, and we are able to become men acting
nature, if we look for the actual impulse, the ethical motivation in
originator of his moral actions within his innermost being. In such
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 8: The Social Question
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approach, despite the fact that this has its faults, which I am able
world — living interaction of pure perception and pure thought — the
external, sense-based empiricism are exactly those arrived at by Haeckel's
speculations out of some kind of abstract thinking about a ‘vital
to the world of facts the way Haeckel and his followers did. Spiritual
research. It is exactly by limiting ourselves to phenomenology in the
study of nature that we are in a position to practise the inner renunciation
in our thinking activity which is necessary if we are not to follow
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
activity now becomes transformed into the perceptions which then appear
from exactly this type of thinking and by keeping it with him throughout
capital has its functions, to analyse labour as a factor in the social
but organs at rest in a finite form, they are living processes. In fact,
then ascending into an abstract spiritual sphere, into ‘cloud-cuckoo-land,’
it in its working, its creative activity, it can follow it right down
around things in mere words, for it leads to abstract notions of the
is active in every single human organ, how the essential nature of lung,
then a unity has arisen, joining what in abstract terms is seen as spirit
in theory, in abstract concepts, becomes living experience within free
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Title: Natural Science; the Anthroposophical Movement
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somewhere in abstract heights, but living within the existence
experience and action.
out of what is taught as so-called serious, exact knowledge,
facts regarding astronomy, physics and chemistry, about
towards a conscious penetration of these facts is rarely found.
exact knowledge. However, one is inclined not to research these
towards what actually is presented rarely happens. When it does
characterized as humanity's earlier evolutionary steps
abstract science which has developed over the last three to
satisfactory about science, so they leave it lying and don't
actually living in the world at present. Our soul no longer
and less able to have a grasp for detecting active impulses.
dozens of them. We can actually not tell them apart. We talk to
all say the same thing. We actually only have one kind
conceal this fact by a terrible illusion, the old “Law of
facts. It comes down to not only registering purely sensory
actually lives within it and must not be excluded. As a result
in fact the continued existence of the soul life itself, the
From of these facts and not out of any kind of prejudice today
attitude, while ignorant about the actual meaning of these
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Title: Preparing for a New Birth
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think for ourselves about the world, our own actions and so
activity during sleep, though unconscious, is not uneventful.
whole activity of will, which is no clearer to us than the state
body. The physical body must be set in action for us, as
need to set our life body in action. But these are the two
realize that actually we are thinking all the time, even when
caught up in continual thought activity while we are asleep,
only we are not present to it; we are outside this activity in
present. We arrive at the depressing fact that our life body
nocturnal activity — then the physical and life bodies are
all this melts away from us in just a few days. And to the exact
Now, the peculiar characteristic of our
the characteristic I am talking about holds true whether you
actual spiritual experiences between death and rebirth. At the
process, we can actually go through, in a real way, what we
beings and spiritual facts, something happens that can be
centuries, before we descend again to an actual life on Earth.
characteristic of our great-grandfathers, we shouldn't
together with what played itself out as the characteristics of
practical significance. We hardly realize how much in the way
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 1: Prelude to the Threefold Commonwealth
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emphasized the fact that this Anthroposophical conviction
fact has been emphasized again and again in the last
immediate practical life, which for a thoughtful person
assimilate, which as a matter of fact has often
seemed of all people the most practical, who regarded
all their practicalness, to be hardly awake to what came
1914, and was regarded by' the so-called practical people
worthless even for practical life, because practical life
question of manufacturing thoughts about readjustment,
definitely for that which lies in the impulse actually
dear friends, he who can see the forces that are active
unhealthiness those abstract, so-called immortal, ideals
actual spiritual spiritual life. As I have always
who think that if a thing is right for practical life it
practicalness of what lies at the foundation of the
now give out) is actually subjectively bringing to pass.
And chaos results precisely from the fact that men think
and, especially, act differently from the way the Spirit
of the Time thinks and acts. As a matter of fact what is
accept it on a real, practical basis — a basis that
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 2: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question I
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life. That fact is ingrained already in my lectures. One
thinking that the rights-life is practically the same as
when we surrender to its activity, in such a way that we
one's soul-life, one must live in oneself. That fact
ideas, but ethical impulses for life, that are active
through the fact that we all have a human face. This fact
economic activity. We are obliged to pay tribute to that
grows out of economic life and has the same character as
spiritual production has the same character as any
economic activity concerned with material goods. The
also, spiritual,activity within the economic life —
varied fundamental facts: everything that comes into
very much on the tendency to such inner activity as this,
very actively you must struggle within yourselves when
Economic activity proceeds, on the whole, without much
truly active inner thought. And in that case, we sink
more exerted when we are engaged in a material activity
and spiritual activity, that the body outweighs the
spiritual-psychic in activity. But then this
activity. And within this unconscious activity a seed is
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 3: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question II
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last lecture I drew your attention to the fact that one
has to make use of comparisons — not abstract ones
presented. If I want to characterize the most important
to work and action, in the sense world: one cannot come
actions, and will, these three soul forces are still
where we are actually surrounded by supersense beings, by
inner activity when one has crossed the threshold; this
finding oneself within in the most enhanced activity of
actual supersense knowledge, fear before the highest kind
of inner soul activity. He would like all of his activity
has effect in the outer world. Inner activity is not yet
is a task, because it is not actually already
order to have some way by which to characterize for you
remember I have had to emphasize this fact again and
mankind for our time. Therefore activity in spiritual
satisfaction. He wants to penetrate things more deeply.
does not arrive at a real contact with the true being of
as compared with what would be a real contact with the
actually is the truth? Something quite different from
times, man did not dream in mysticism but had contact
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 4: Pedagogy, from the Standpoint of the History of Culture
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fact which I have mentioned. We bear within us two
satisfaction in illusions. Socrates and Plato, the Greek
either by mystic comfort or by brutal action. That is
religion! For the Gospel is itself a fact in the
action. We must fill our souls with what can really
character as to intend that wild human passions shall not
character might better be inventing an air pump to keep
spirit is everywhere misunderstood. The following fact,
for instance, that has actually come to light, in a
actions, then would actually mean what we want to say.
words originally came, the course of action which should
thoughtless brutal action, that refuses everything else,
and on the other hand thoughtless, brutal action. The
brutal unspiritual act is militarism, the fundamental
lines”; it sees the whole nervous activity of men
fact to you, because today men do not yet have the
in so impractical. How can humanity think practically
about practical things when it is a victim of this absurd
the field of art, the field of religion — in fact,
activities. Everything is connected in the most intimate
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture I: Cosmic Aspect of Life Between Death and New Birth
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expands in fact out into the world of the stars, and then
contact with people with whom he lived on earth, with whom his
man's fate to have difficulties in finding such contacts
Another aspect to be considered is the fact that precisely
this actually comes from the region of Venus, that belt around
fact. Lack of conscience sentences a human being to bear the
contact with religious impulses, he sentences himself to
find contact with all those souls with whom we have established
fact, for the Christian, everyone is a Christian, no matter
radiate. In fact, from Mars and its sphere not only does the
point, the time of the Mystery of Golgotha. It is a fact of
a decisive period. That fact was known within the
penetrate to the earth. But by the fact that Mars has gone
seventeenth century, came into contact with those forces
who came in later times could no longer find the characteristic
cause of all this? The cause of all this is the fact that
time as Gautama Buddha. Nevertheless, he continued to be active
He has continued to be active in the School in which Francis of
can all this be brought about? Only through the fact that a
described now, occurs only, in fact, with the most advanced
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture II: Establishment of Mutual Relations Between the Living and the So-called Dead
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relations. By the very fact that we become more and more
acquainted with the characteristics of that invisible world
impulses toward quite definite actions, toward a quite definite
birth in the most varied relations to the facts, happenings,
have an occupation, an activity, in the physical world between
birth and death, so they also have activities,
we may learn about human life and human activity between death
numerous. In our era it is just as though every contact were
significant: what is touched upon here can become of practical
speak, to come into contact with the whole spiritual world. On
We should really consider the fact that during the time
may be bridged over by the fact that anthroposophy flows into
external factors of physical life, when the dead shall play a
will not be that of an abstract ideal which is preached, or
unscrupulous souls must be active in the preparation of such
supersensible world, are in fact already in this our era
does not come until the sixth period — actually, not
are compelled to remain behind. It is actually according to the
it still contains the forces which might be active in the body
carry up very special forces, which in fact still might have
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Title: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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gain by practising self-observation enable us to penetrate to the
today. For as a matter of fact, no one who relies on these methods
starting-point. We fully accept the fact that with such means of
soul-nature can never be fathomed. We fully accept the fact that as
feelings or acts of will to flow forth from it. When such a statement
Here, however, we are on uncertain ground; and the fact is, no
actual fact, and the effect of the experience is not limited to the
consciousness; the fact is there, it is only the consciousness of the
fact that is lacking — you feel like a wave in a universal sea;
one would actually have the sensation of hovering over an abyss.
that feeling of security which comes from being in contact with the
same time unconsciously in your organism. This is a simple fact. Let
is, notwithstanding, a fact. And it is the same here too. What I
sorrow. The facts are there, and they work on into our life of day;
differentiated world around us to a universal existence. The fact
experienced the corresponding fact in the first stage of sleep. We
for their perception. Something else now shows itself as a fact of
the fact that the soul is no longer merely swimming in a general
aroused by contact with the outer world of the senses. Such teachings
were given in connection with the most varied religious practices,
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture III
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not, perhaps, always be able to prove exactly how this or that
way: In many respects you were a superficial character in your
this latter group of facts and experiences, and will return to it
life. There again, two groups of facts will have to be kept in mind.
they could have been brought about by any preceding factor. By way of
merely of putting to the test what will now be characterised.
build up in thought an imaginary man who acts in the following
that is enacted in human beings all the time. We may think of
In exactly the same,
thought, as something that goes on working, that is actually
theories, of presentations of facts, but it gives us directives and
and this is drawn from the sphere of actual experience: If you adopt
what then took place; but you cannot recapture the actual, immediate
life of feeling. And as such we actually feel our earlier
incarnation. There does, in fact, arise what may be called a
is actually the bearer of the remembrance of earlier incarnations.
to write. It is a pity that he did not actually carry out this
pedantic. We realise that what Hebbel jotted down is due to the fact
yourself were. Something that is like a feeling arising in an act of
described. And if he does so he will actually receive an inner
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture IV
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that such efforts have become characteristic of the strivings of many
human beings. But on the other side there is the fact that what
particularly characterises the anthroposophist is still vehemently
karma. But the whole character of our present age is pitted against
fundamental character of our present age nowhere expresses itself so
radically and typically as in the fact that considerable interest is
he knows nothing beyond the fact that he is obliged to fit into this
characteristic stamp of the modern anthroposophist may be said to be
transformed into something that takes hold of practical life itself,
would become a really potent factor in life.
reality of reincarnation and karma. In point of fact there is, for
receive wages corresponding to his actual labour. To speak like this
an established practice and to introduce a new social order
our particular place in life and have the actual inclination to steer
endeavours reckon with the fact that the kind of discontent
civilisation has proceeded. In characterising this state of
external life to-day are obliged to engage in some activity that goes
moment, I should do exactly the same things I have done up to
content if everything were exactly the same again.
that the fact just mentioned — namely that there are so few
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 1
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THE character of Spiritual
history and will present historical facts and personalities in the light
states of clairvoyance. Between our matter-of-fact waking consciousness,
more wisdom and truth are to be found than in the abstract erudition
plan of world-history by the activities of men have been very diverse
that it is only the impulses, the intentions, of the actual personalities
with the fact that wherever we have to do with historical personalities,
significant happenings — those which were determinative factors
by whom the king of Erech is inspired, who works and acts through him.
woman of Erech and is attracted by her into the City. He becomes the
strange fact that he has no understanding of the essential nature of
the actual inaugurator of the Chaldean-Babylonian culture, and working
into the Chaldean-Babylonian culture. This process, enacted by two beings
fact reflected on the physical plane. We shall of course only very
comes to wonderful expression in the fact that, as a result of the deeds
the scene of the third culture-epoch but with the character of the fourth.
beginnings of Christianity. Indeed it was in Alexandria that the factors
assumed a personal character. The personalities we find in Alexandria
them. The singular fact is that everything in ancient Paganism that
personalities, in particular, acted in such a way that we often have
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 2
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the introductory lecture yesterday our attention was drawn to the fact
that these Beings cannot take direct hold of the physical facts of our
of forces and activities from the higher worlds into the physical world
fact such as this will certainly, from he outset, be to some extent
the influence of abstract ideas in the events of history. Many people
approach, to speak of certain ideas, abstract ideas which properly speaking
history. A last semblance, at least, of belief in the influence of abstract
precisely because they are abstract ideas! — was still in evidence
But even this belief in ideas as factors in history is gradually being
the domain of history to believe that all the characteristic features
perceptible actions, outer needs, outer interests and ideas of physical
actually expressed what is described by Anthroposophy on the basis of
occult facts — namely, that souls who lived in ancient epochs
and then absorbed active, living forces, carry over these forces into
not an abstract onflow of ideas but an actual and real onflow of the
communications which are based on the spiritual facts as so much lunacy.
fact that all those mighty pictures, those grand symbolical conceptions
in the characters of legends and fairy-tales, have interpreters of the
Add to this the facts which cannot be refuted and are confirmed by actual
of what can be told about these facts from the Akasha Chronicle, but
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 3
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succession of incarnations as determined by the individual character
easy-going way of thinking likes to assume. It is, of course, a fact
and this is what actually happens.
in fact somewhat beyond the actual middle. lt is only necessary here
what has been able to grow into Atma will actually unfold only after
But we must now take account of the fact that during the first, the
into the human soul without that activity of the ego which we know to-day
has had to be active in his ego, to turn his ego, via the senses, to
himself to participate actively in this further development. The ancient
that this ancient Indian culture must be attributed to a kind of activity
the activity of the ego had, so to speak, to be substituted in the ancient
future time as his own activity, when he has risen to the stage of Atma
the etheric body was an activity such as man himself will later an come
the stamp of the ego working with full activity within the soul itself.
with full activity. It is in the intellectual soul that the ego first
and we can therefore say: In Greek culture the ego actually works in
shall see that the essential and unique character of Greek culture is
due to the fact that the ego is working in the ego.
by dint of our own activity, we must, to begin with, be able to acquire
something spreads itself in front of these revelations, without actually
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 4
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activity of the human soul which characterises Greek culture —
for the purely personal, purely human culture characterised by the activity
And everything we see transmitted to posterity through the activity
is peculiarly characteristic of the Babylonian soul.
activities and cultural achievements the several peoples by no means
were the scene of the activities of the Babylonians and Assyrians. There,
very fact that through our many different languages we express a great
character and was intelligible to one who listened to it simply because
to the physical plane. And with this is connected the fact that the
according to such factors as climate, geographical position, race, and
sense. Buildings intended to serve as places where certain acts dedicated
from the human personality — this is indicated by the fact that
of outer, practical life. At the same time it was their mission to relate
the journey of a man sound the earth, using certain fractional measures
fact this measure persisted until fairly recently—when everything
in human evolution became abstract — in the German mile, which
reduced inevitably to abstract measures taken from something deal. For
it is obvious that measure to-day is abstract in comparison with the
in man, the macrocosm, In point of fact the ancient Babylonian way of
has sailed into abstraction even in respect of calculation and counting,
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 5
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inflow and activity of the cosmic Spirits during the evolution and history
course of reincarnation as a modifying factor.
expression to what was active in his soul, it was not his own egohood
especially, we can see very exactly how they had an awareness that the
activity; to soul-activity in man. They send in their rays, which correspond
A true fact of historical
with the fact that indications of them can be given to-day as part of
phrases, to the fact that man is a microcosmic replica of the macrocosm.
Distance is an essential factor, for if, to take an example, you are
tries to elaborate and perfect it. Thus the Spirits of Form attract
In what sense are we to understand the fact that these other Hierarchies,
so dominantly over against the already existing activity of the Spirits
activity of the Spirits of Personality in the Chaldean epoch, before
fact, such periods in the earth's evolution are determined and
to the fact that in the seventh millennium before Christ there was a
the greatest physical transformation of all, the most drastic action
It fell in a period that can be characterised briefly as follows.
quite other than those outwardly in evidence. In point of fact, behind
of happenings between East and West is attributable solely to the fact
an the outer physical plane and the other by a change in character of
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 6
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the lecture yesterday I drew your attention to the fact that very
of the most diverse character and lose themselves like a river which
to think of an eminently characteristic example of progress in culture
characteristic course; for the achievements of the three preceding civilisation-epochs
most characteristically human way — this is exemplified in the
as a sacrificial act in the temple of Diana at Ephesus. This means that
that the ancient wisdom has become abstraction, living worlds have been
In his concepts, in his ideas, however abstract, an echo can still be
art, of the whole folk-character. For when such a culture first arises,
the effects of what the Greek character had received from the old temple-wisdom.
and of Thales, work on, but also the actual teachings of the guardians
ordinary way is, at its best, only an empty abstract of ideas. What
essential characteristic of a culture which is rising towards its peak.
During this period, everything that is an active stimulus in man —
question: What is good and practically effective? — the latter
be constituted in order that one can attain a practical goal in life?
Stoics ask: What must man do in order to become wiser in the practice
of living, in order to live to some purpose? Goals of practical life
I characterised yesterday in a certain way. This again has been petering
of the questions of practical life from those that are intrinsically
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IV
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etheric nature. In the whole wide universe actually or
separation of the Moon is a very significant spiritual fact.
powerful. Men owed this wisdom to the fact that they lived in
speak. Simply from the fact that long ago these Beings were man's
way with his past. And this is in fact the case.
we are accustomed to use — is a very mysterious factor in human
joint action begins to play a part in their lives. Their recognition
has taken place. Then he is actually before us, we understand what he
says and we adjust our actions to what he is doing in external life;
in fact, two ways of encountering another human being in life. In the
feels, to will as he wills. We actually feel that he is beginning to
be active within our own being. He sets something astir within us,
but stirs something into activity within us. That is one way in which
other person as though he were handsome, but in point of fact he is
in this superficial way. The actual language we use is such that
simple fact that these are two ways of describing individuals we
physical existence on Earth and while, before the actual descent, he
This indicates, and it is actually the fact, that man thrusts out
actually see the earlier incarnations of the personalities whom he
these things still survived, attempts were actually made to
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture V
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this connection, two facts only need be borne in mind: when attempts
— in short, pure abstractions. The truth is that the same
is the one fact that can fill the soul with a feeling of reverence
earnestness. And the other fact is that on reflection, all
“Practical Exercises for the Understanding of Karma”
considered to be quite impossible. And as a matter of fact —
about these intimate esoteric truths. If one wishes to avoid abstract
century and the earlier character of this spiritual life. Perceiving
Mohammedanism active within it, forced its way on the one side
concrete facts underlying the evolution of the human soul?
now consider some of these concrete facts. For example: at the time
Raschid was an energetic and active patron, a personality who
significance lies in the inner nature and character. This is a
characteristic of Arabism made their appearance. But the souls
time now, the character of education has made it impossible for what
fact will not provide a starting-point for penetrating with vision
practical exigencies. But in this Garibaldi-life there were intimate
Garibaldi is shown, for example, by the way in which he contracted
the character and purpose of such investigation shall not be
characteristics as well, but his geometrical talent provided no
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VI
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another consecutively, and as a rule we ignore the fact that the
more vivid than those of earthly life. We actually undergo all this.
not experience the feeling of satisfaction or perhaps of anger
or malice occasioned in you by your action, but you are
shock that were caused to him. You feel exactly what your action made
characters in my Mystery Plays, I have depicted that of Strader. As
in the case of most of the characters in the Plays, the figure of
Strader is drawn from actual life. There was a man whose life was
almost exactly similar to that of Strader as depicted in the Plays.
continue the character of Strader in the Plays and he dies because my
karma is formed. For when the human being realises what actually
is actually enclosed within his skin, but what is around him. During
the Sun existence it is the exact opposite, for then man experiences
characteristic human destinies are being worked out, it is the case
frankness, of many spiritual facts. The Christmas Foundation Meeting
character which should now imbue the whole Anthroposophical Society.
to learn about this existence in many different ways; but in actual
you exist. You act, you do something — you do not see this at
changed into the reaction: the vision of the Past is now transformed
Future arose from his activity in connection with his karma
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Title: Lecture: The Tasks and Aims of Spiritual Science
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this occasion let me once more call attention to the fact that as
about the development of those truths and facts which have been put
worlds himself, without having first been given any of the facts of
that Spiritual Science really tells us. It tells us of facts and
himself clairvoyant cannot convince himself of the facts as such
cannot in any way prove or have insight into the facts which are now
correct, does it tally with the facts that can be externally
feel fear of an inexact examination; but it could never fear
for the facts which the clairvoyant communicates. But for the things
will confirmation be found for the facts communicated by the
essential fact. We must in our own lives put to the test the
facts that only a few can really investigate, we should not. always be
to learn how to think the thoughts with greater exactitude, came and
mind ever so many of the facts of the higher worlds. It might easily
This fact you must have clearly before you, that the old clairvoyance
of the human ego on this earth, then the ego was not actively present
through the fact of the existence of human beings. We might take the
thoughts of men on the physical plane have a character which is
That which brings revelations, real facts about the spiritual world,
it is reality — but actually it is a picture. New experiences of
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Title: Vom Wesen des wirkenden Wortes: Zu den Veröffentlichungen aus dem Vortragswerk Rudolf Steiners
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aber in facto ist es nicht so. Wenn einer die Messe liest, und

Title: Deeper Education: Lecture I: Gymnast, Rhetorician, Professor: A Living Synthesis
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fruitfulness of our activity in an institution like the Waldorf
assurance and be active in the right way. On this
educational activity. We need not go back very far;
fact, with the Greeks gymnastics also included the education of
to educate human beings in an abstract, intellectual way
fact, draw forth from speech that which was to form their
essential element in education and actually remained so
felt quite learned he felt, in fact, like a real professor. The
be “learned” in this sense is actually harmful and,
[das Geistige], not the dead and abstract
for yourselves that there is an active element of soul and
in a dead, abstract way.
action. Those thoughts are good that evolve out of beautifully
only has thinking gradually become more and more abstract, but
however, is the fact that in order to become a qualified
should be fully awake to the fact that we are called to work
nutrition is arrived at in this way. It is exactly as though
into the fact that what we eat in a potato, for example, is
the human digestive tract or the lymphatic system that reduces
intellectual and to some extent actually animal-like.
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Title: Deeper Education: Lecture II: Forces Leading to Health and Illness in Education
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educational activity, inner forces can be gathered in
Actually, this question cannot be answered in any definite
to the question — why do we actually educate?
realization of what education actually means, nor which forces
eliminated. Actually, it may also express itself in artificial
certainly made infinitely more difficult by the fact that in
however, when in the field of education we come to an actual
fact must be faced and understood. We must realize that we
compared with the actual forces of the being of man, a being
restored; that the human being as he was on the earth actually
is meant abstractly, not concretely. It will be interpreted
concretely only when the activity of education is
actually brought into connection with the activity of healing.
In healing a sick person, one knows that something has actually
regarded birth as synonymous with an illness, because, in fact,
In one he is active when he walks, moves his legs with a
we leave out of account the inner activity of the human being.
lives and is active.
sense this includes everything that belongs to the activity of
location, there is another activity that man needs in
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Title: Deeper Education: Lecture III: A Comprehensive Knowledge of Man as the Source of Imagination in the Teacher
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in his ordinary activity in the world. I have shown you
that the first form of activity we perceive in the human being
question: what actually moves his limbs? What force is at work
initiator of action! Fundamentally, there is no sense in
movement, is that which is moved. If we ask who is the actual
physical, into action. Our leg must be moved by something
intervene in physical activity; these are in truth magical
The fact that we are physical human beings, made up of bones,
must be directly active. Materialistic science simplifies
is nonsense. In actual fact we have in human movement a magical
to the formation of cyanic acid. As a matter of fact, there
the processes that are the actual processes of illness and
activity of thinking. Whenever we guide a child into some form
of action while he is thinking, we call forth a state of
human life everything actually depends upon symmetry being
musical education counteracts this excessive formation of the
activity, inner activity at least, into the carbonic acid
we actually penetrate directly into the processes of illness
this way that we can see clearly into the living activity
cosmic processes. In fact, as teachers we are coworkers
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 5-18-'13
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reached the end of its physical evolution when the moon is attracted
warlike way in their interaction with Venus a sublime, divine
interaction of Mars and Venus is the circle of the third sun.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 11-23-'13
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Lucifer bring us in contact with the world's things around us that
life. Now if one would look at the first statement exactly and think

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 3-5-'14
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from the thought shadows as we concentrate and contract
realities, beings and facts, and that there's nothing there where we
development so that we can understand and judge the things and facts

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IV: Mysteries of the Universe: Comets and the Moon
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character. When faced with the appearance of the starry heavens,
regarding these sublime cosmic facts, his life of feeling will not
to grasp, step by step, the facts of the world. Today we will concern
with exactitude into certain mysteries of existence.
earth, is responsible for the fact that the human head, with its
can happen proceeds simply from the fact that people have yet to
the fact that man has this advantage, and then we shall also be able
to relate it to the other cosmic fact just characterized: it is not
that the existence of cyanide compounds has actually been proved in
this, in its functioning, is an exact expression of the contrast
characteristics exist in every woman and feminine characteristics in
on earth. The fact that the Moon evolution has a mysterious
masculine characteristics.
take seriously the fact that to have a masculine brain is not so
has a certain actuality.
bodies of man in such a way that they actually create organs,
undertakes with an earthly bourgeois regularity certain activities
such things would observe how there is actually something altogether

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture V: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
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of fact, resembles another, that repetition in which fundamental
great achievements of humanity, what we call the characteristic
character to another — there existed what one can designate as
into the spiritual worlds. This was given to man through the fact
the fact that in this respect the Gospels are right: we may not
man sought to grasp the nature and essential character of the Christ
without as the great law of human action. Just as the World-I streams
whole character of the age of Moses was resurrected. During the first
striving since that time to investigate ever more exactly the
indeed, little more. On the contrary, we are going in exactly the
they look up from this action, something like a dream picture will
some connection with my action.” People will know on the basis
the karmic effect of my action that is to appear in the future.”
experienced by Moses was actually experienced again by the Christian
behold the Christ in the earthly sphere as the active Earth Spirit.
same conviction, because this event revealed to him the fact that the
fact that for many people the event of Damascus will come to life;
This is what is beginning as the characteristic of a new
faculties of human beings, through the fact that they shall behold
the underworld was a real fact — so will the Christ event,

Title: True Nature: Lecture II: The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World
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repetition which does, in fact, resemble another, the form it takes
characteristics of present-day culture. Before this Dark Age, before
through the fact that a particular individual — Abraham —
back to find anything else. Men actually beheld the spiritual during
actual sunlight, only it is reflected back to us from the moon.
in that the spirit of Solomon lives and is active as an impulse in
whole character of the Moses-epoch. Just as in the first
responsible for the essential character of German mysticism: a deep,
was the fact that the old clairvoyance had disappeared, that there had
Abraham-epoch exactly the opposite path is taken — the path
which natural clairvoyant forces will be in active
age cannot but be mindful of the fact that spirit-knowledge
had not himself actually heard the stories told in the Gospels but
Paul. This is what is beginning as the characteristic trait of
themselves good Christians, but in point of fact they are
spiritual teaching through which, in actual vision, the Christ will
the underworld was an actual fact and the effects of the Christ
Messiah had appeared in Spain, attracting a large number of

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 12-24,31-10
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acquire theosophical tact and only speak about the school and

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 1-2-11
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quiet about it and to conceal the facts. This kind of thing also has
who observes himself exactly will then notice how deeply he's
And act upon them.
So that through me the spirits may act

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-20-12
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outside. As we come in contact with sublime, creative beings with our
pride and vanity. However, there's a good way to counteract
with all other egos The fact that warmth has moved into our blood is

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-22-12
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above them, and this was actually good for us, for this enabled our
it realizes. This Chinaman knows exactly that his people watches over
mankind's memory and that this fact makes a deep impression on
and see it lying before us, its organs aren't active. The eyes
leaving of the body has no need of such practices.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-12
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his views and attitudes change, and he sees that he often acted

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-23-12
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beings, and such men counteract their spiritual development and
after a little practice, we'll feel how this promotes our

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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able to recognise its characteristics and secrets. We have
on the fact that we develop the mental forces which we already
the fact that we take a healthy soul life as starting point and
spiritual organs by the characterised development that delivers
the fact that a person is not somebody special because he is a
depends on the fact that he has a healthy faculty of judging
can still give other sources of error or rather characterise
works, actually, the spirit is also effective.
ourselves, why does the human being become, actually, a
also related to laziness. Indeed, for the soul expert the fact
in which one gets if one acts different [than usual]. The human
characterise the materialist human being as chicken-hearted;
characterise this mood we have taken the starting point from
the effect can be characterised again, while we compare the
have characterised them yesterday here, they are true of
spiritual phenomena, to facts of the spiritual world, but he
appear to him, facts which show the appearance of his former
spiritual world. The fact that we confuse truth with error in
to the fact that we confuse the life promoting with that which
would like to use another comparison that characterises an
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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exactly.
writing more exactly, you get the impression that this booklet
spreads abstruse fantasies of these or those world facts.
would be a wild-goose chase to speak of the fact that the bases
fact that spiritual science works with its method, its whole
botanists in mind, actually? They say — and this should
fact that this has been done is also right, and it is as right
Knowledge of Higher Worlds? you can more exactly get to
normal soul activity, however, depends completely on the
capacity is active, and it destroys the brain perpetually. Our
want now to characterise this process of the independent mental
is there that just such scientific thinkers who take the facts,
fact that then the process has not yet advanced far enough
cannot be characterised in the abstract, you experience
interesting, you are attracted to it like with hundred about
You learn to recognise the forces with which you feel attracted
attracted by it. Why? Because the soul recognises that it has
feels attracted to something that brings ill luck into life;
in the soul the forces appear to which we feel attracted. The
it. Someone who pursues the facts only with the view of natural
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 8
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the construction of the nervous system, and it is exactly this which
of the soul, is actually the will-nature. Thus we have what finds its
in the will (which it in fact has, insofar as metabolism takes place
— not as nervesensory activity — in the nervous system).
on. When active in artistic eurythmy, one is completely absorbed in
artistically active in eurythmy, since in eurythmy one naturally follows
in eurythmic artistic activity, it is conducive to health. But just
the artistic practice of eurythmy can be overdone. Professor Benedikt,
only be conducive to health; a certain artistic feeling of satisfaction
or dissatisfaction will arise in any case.
inwards simply through the fact that in curative eurythmy the sound
Now it will be a question of gaining insight into the actual therapeutic
have emphasized that curative eurythmy should be practised by the doctor
himself or herself, or at the very least should only be practised in
it should only be practised in agreement with professional medical science,
fact that in normal speech the metabolic activity and the plastic activity
in the human organism that implies a mutual activity of the metabolic-man
and the nerve-sensory-man. To be sure, the activity of the nerve-sensory
the dampened nerve-sensory activity and the heightened metabolic activity
inhalation actually lies in your control. According to the consonants
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture V
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the strange fact that nowhere in the well-meant instruction of music
our age with former times, we find our age characterized in a
for the octave actually has not yet developed in humanity. You will
octave appears. One cannot actually distinguish it any longer from
That is completely wrong ” a tone, a melody, or a harmony actually is
thus actually feel a resonance, a reflection. The ear really hurls
may express it in this way — actually to overcome the tone's
experience does not actually exist in the same sense as sense
only a reflecting organ; the ear does not actually bring man into
importance merely as a reflecting apparatus. We must actually say
ruled out as accompanying factors. They are there because man is a
world. The metabolism is also an accompanying factor and does not
transition to the experience of the third actually can be traced back
strange bond between music and human subjectivity, the actual inner
stages, but actually the matter is more complicated than one thinks.
breath to the exclusion of the actual “I” sphere of the
— do we still have in us the same activity of nature or the
same activity that worked in you when you were an embryo is active
today when you walk or dance. All other activities, especially the
activity of the head, came about later as the downward streams of
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VI
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a musical experience in which the human being is actually brought out
of himself; with the feeling for the fifth, man actually feels
between with which we are not concerned here — man in fact
mentioned earlier, the fact of the twelve fifths in the seven scales
be pictured as the greatest possible unity. A Greek actor even felt
actually twofold. We have a feeling that is more inclined to thinking
feeling more inclined to willing. When we engage in an action, we
pleasure or displeasure with an idea. Feeling is actually divided
being an abstract sign. When you hear the ringing of the dinner bell,
concept. Through melody the head becomes open to feeling, to actual
already understands the tone, but the actual element of harmony can
related to the nature of will — man must inwardly activate his
correctly, you actually have before you the human etheric body. It is
the major third. The facts of human evolution are expressed in
told you yesterday, however, one must forego concepts; abstract
case of the fourth. You see, the fourth is in fact a real perceiving,
experience fifths correctly is actually in a position to know on the
cognition, which is in fact a musical cognition, a cognition living
in the musical element. It would not actually be so difficult to
musical element. They actually stand alongside it. The experience of
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VII: The Uttering of Syllables and the Speaking of Words
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education and teaching-practice. Certainly all the lectures that
the multiplicity of facts and beings of the universe to bring about
act which submits to the conditions of logic. Logic exists in order
actors with a baton, like a conductor, considering the formation of
prosody or metrics, but forms which stem from the actual emotion,

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VIII: The Interaction of Breathing and Blood-Circulation
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universe, the cosmos is artistically active in man; but man then
brings forth from himself again what the aesthetic activity of the
artist. It is the collaboration, the wonderful interaction between
The following remarks are not advanced as exact
the breathing-process, and in his lyre the actual functioning of
the blood-circulation. Every poetic act, every forming act of
the spiritual into his own inner processes and inner activities
breathing recede, refrain from activating the life of the breath,
poetry as description. And in fact everyone who practises
Of undevided Motes compacted
stand as abstract as can be in well-worn conceptual forms over
against the solid material facts (to adopt an expression from the
generate super-sensible abstractions in a Cloudcuckooland, but
a science of abstractions that is cut off from reality and inwardly
artistically. A dead, abstract science can indeed be grounded on

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture IX: The Alliteration and Terminal Rhyme
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always conscious of the fact that it was an attempt to raise a
and our extract is the climactic episode of the slaying of

Title: Lecture I: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
circles. Imaginations are much more alive than abstract
— his Sun-wisdom and also his Nature-wisdom. The actions and
their activities. The good gods and their opponents. Medicinal
will seen in the action of our arms and hands, legs and feet; in the
activity we exercise on objects in the external world.
Whenever we act thus through the will on our own body, or in order to
produce an act of will — of all this we are as unaware as we are
actually awake only in our ideas (our conceptual life); we dream in
perform some act of will; we transmit it unconsciously into our
organism where, as though in sleep, it passes over into activity and
deed; and we wake up again only with our action and see the result of
feelings and actual dreaming as part of the dream-state, and in the
same way include our willing and actual dreamless sleep as part of the
Christian centuries, unless you realize that the inner activity of men
today as the activity of thought. In particular it would be a complete
character which may have developed only slowly but has more or less
represents the actual waking condition for modern man, is not really
capable of giving him any satisfaction. A man can think, and that is
modern thinking can give man no satisfaction for his inner yearnings.
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Title: Lecture II: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
living pictures than with abstract concepts. Elemental spirits were
seen hovering around the plants. The activities of gigantic elemental
has the upper hand. But as regards his head-activity, the effective
“Saturn-men” such as Swedenborg. The different character of
more with living pictures than with abstract concepts; and we find
around the plants, or of gigantic spiritual beings active in wind and
not a recollection but an actual seeing; and they saw beyond their
themselves most on being practical and are filled with conceit about
and it was only later that it became an actual liquid draught in
leaders of humanity, a more exact consciousness of what really was
if they had actually descended into the Earth and been laid in a
point of view of which I am speaking this was the less important fact;
the more important was that the activities of the Moon could also
head-activity, the effective influence on it is the negative gravity
this Initiation, through these Moon activities, humanity in those days
path men could learn not only of the activity of the Moon, but of that
the result of the Sun's activity, for he is a worm which never comes
cabbage; he has been created by the joint activity of the whole cosmic
divine-spiritual elemental beings are active in them — and so on.
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agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
existence. Dreams and their characteristics. Every experience of which
certain state of consciousness, which was an actual experience to men
predominantly in more or less abstract ideas or at the best in shadowy
remarkable fact that in essence practically everything which crops up
an event of twenty-five years before, a character appears whom we will
But how little of what I have been describing actually comes into
bodies were their, whereas actually they belong to the whole Cosmos.
is only for three days that we can claim any action of ours in the
had a definite impression of this remarkable fact, and the Initiates
into the real nature of the fact. Whereas nowadays Initiation must be
the important fact is that they undergo the intense transformations we
abstract reflection of some reality; in our dreams we see the weaving
closer to us than is our normal abstract thinking; they show the way
in which external substances act within man. Our dreams are a protest
controlled by these laws. Actually the moment you enter, even to the
would be very much like actual waking life. Dreams which emerge from
he knew about reality. In particular, the fact that spirits seemed to
its activity, and he could not rid himself of it. If he looked up at a
device to contact and arouse the inner being of man. Obviously we
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year the physical body and the etheric body are most active
forces that are particularly active in these years
soul-activity, even though it has its inception in the
physical body: the same soul-activity that is later active in
the soul as mind and memory. Later on this soul-activity
shows that certain psychic powers previously active in the
organism become active as soul-forces after
There you have a case of actual co-operation between soul and
active with the seventh year; and from then on, they operate
conception; at first their activity lies in forming the body,
formerly he practiced unconsciously as imitation, when these
activity, and that takes on a religious character, arises if
learning to draw and to write, it is actually the spiritual
telephone which transcends time you are in contact with the
the building of the child's body. I can characterize these
forces in no other way than as those active in speech
then acts from within, from the head, all that is absorbed by
is brought about by the fact that here an element of the nature
active in the etheric body. Then this condition is opposed by
the up-building of the organism. All the abstract discussions
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time.
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“Universe.” “Earth” indicates the field of action
To begin with I shall indicate briefly the special facts referred to
us as being placed somewhat more exactly upon the centre of his own
abstraction, but something like a spiritual cloud, which in its turn
exactly the same Being (and this is the secret of the ancient Greek
characteristic form of architecture! We must exert ourselves mentally
it was not merely an abstract truth to them, it was a truth in which
incarnation. But we are a people today who live in abstractions, and
in space by their power of attraction. It is quite different when we
substance. Hence the Greek temple is a material presentation of actual
material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that
mysterious occult currents are active also beneath, so that what is
civilization? What is the special characteristic of the man who, when
civilization one characteristic alternates with another which is
— but your body held fast as a mummy. This fact had an occult
was below; its thoughts were hardened, solidified, they were attracted
reality than it actually had. Imagine a man, in his soul, looking down

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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The unique fact lying at the foundation of temple-sleep is that among
This points to a very mysterious fact.
the etheric visions and beings in such a way that there actually
today, it would not have been possible for such forces to act upon
maintained, all the same, strong spiritual forces will become active
will then be capable of acting on human nature to harmonize and heal.
more subtle facts that confront them. Those who look more deeply know
that it has an inner cause, not a fractured thigh-bone or a disordered
does not occupy himself with such things. This fact indicates the
people have exactly the same illness — in reality this never
with suitable remedies. What I have stated is an actual fact.
this? It depends on the fact that an entirely different influence is
can be seen from the fact that in their system of instruction the
exact opposite occurs. Has not the abacus been introduced into our
schools whereby addition, subtraction, etc., are made clear to
Science will fail to act curatively upon humanity in the course of
old Atlantean Gods acted curatively, and this was still more the case
Isis still acted curatively on him. She is that principle in man which
between sun and earth. The power which acted at that time upon those
should remain. We have to regard this interaction between sun and
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We saw how beings have been active in various ways, from the time when
what resembles a brightly shining line. As a matter of fact our
astrality with which we are filled, and which is active also in
animals, is not active in the plant. To the opened eyes of the
centre of the earth for the egos of plants. In fact, when clairvoyant
earth, the soul of the plant experiences pain. This is a fact. On the
flower is plucked; exactly the reverse is the case. For example, when
intention? The fact remains the same: If a plant is uprooted the earth
milk. This is an absolutely occult fact. The sensation of the earth
merely comparisons, but are actual facts. Anyone who with clairvoyant
In fact, when a mineral is examined clairvoyantly something like the
always in the circumference — exactly the opposite of man. You
together again it would cause very great pain. The same fact may be
plant to the centre of the earth. The activity of the plant's ego is
expressed in the activity of the spiritual content of the sunbeam
and sun work together. The spiritual powers of the sun are in fact
beams of the sun is but one side of its activity; the other works
Let us now try to understand the practical result of these things.
a mean occupation, but an act consummated with soul and spirit, for he
practical value of Spiritual Science for the future.
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substance, in spite of the fact that no solid form endures in this
watery element, Spiritual Beings live in it, and are actually embodied
things are seen with a distinct form this is due to the activity of
We now see that what is active in the evolution of our earth as the
“Zeitgeist” something else is active which goes through the
it is they we have to thank for the fact that we can be active as
theirs is a planetary activity. Therefore when we go beyond the
field of activity that they no longer have need of a planet in order,
through rotation. This acts most suggestively. Why should we not
seething primeval body all these Spiritual Beings were active and they
way through other Beings having need of them as a field of activity.
spiritual sense, beings and forces acted on him from outside in order
psychic way, the beneficial activities sent down to him by the Spirits
him from outside; these were the sun forces. A continual interaction
Try to picture vividly and exactly what happened next. So long as the
disappeared and the first beginnings of actual sight with an outer
view of the sun began, although in fact man could not yet see the sun,
active between birth and death, and as moon had left the earth, now
acted like a sting, stinging the sense organs to activity; thus Osiris
We must not look merely for astronomical facts in such a myth as the
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of the substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynami's, and Exusiai. Jehovah and the Elohim, and their co-operative activity in the stages of human Development.
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be a stone — a mineral; in fact our mineral kingdom here on the
and its activity. If you observed the form of this in-breathed air and
was in fact a fluidic body, in it you might again have found physical
entirely different. In fact, upon the ancient Moon man developed in
they could act all the more strongly. The result was that all three
ancestors of some of the European peoples knew this fact and embodied
passed from the field of activity on ancient Moon to the Earth. When
and in accordance with the colour and character of this picture he
longer period by the ancient Moon it could not have acted so
only arrives if one remains in abstractions, at endless questions.

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VI: The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence. Participation of the, Luciferic beings. The formation of race.
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matter is contained in the fact that these Spirits of Form worked in
earth as a field of action but, drawing with them the finer forces and
activities on our sun.
active in the earlier stages of development of our planet, during the
then a different field of activity to what they have on the earth.
This can be understood when we consider the facts already brought
the Spirits of Form, of whom Jehovah is one, were active even at that
Form were even then active, working slowly and gradually at the human
clairvoyant consciousness can see as having actually existed,
himself. This was actually possible at the time with which we are
lose the power to lengthen and contract his limbs? At the time the
would in this case have remained at some previous stage. This actually
Sun-Spirits had now attained normal development, and had exactly hit
course of normal development they were active at other times.
consider the course of human evolution. Let us keep before us the fact
when the Spirits of Form became active in the Middle of the Atlantean
facts which clairvoyant vision is able to test we find that in reality
capacities, whereas through the action of these beings he gained them
instinctive activity. Through this something else came within his
him, but Luciferic beings had been active from an earlier period, and
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called volcanic in nature, when large tracts of land lying south of
tracts of land humanity had dwelt, and, to borrow a term from natural
the facts of the third epoch of the earth, preserving the results of
actually existed on the earth at one time, and was more than a mere
it was an organ of warmth, and could in fact perceive not only in its
caused this organ to shine. There actually were periods (and certain
long after-development. Were we to select a characteristic form which
We can now form an idea of another important fact which came to pass
as a fact, just as earlier the physical sun forces had appeared.
evolution; and it is a fact that he remembers the most horrible period
thus experience are connected with cosmic facts. Through this
form, which in fact was a kind of illusion, was on earth.
who acted as great teachers in the Atlantean schools of initiation.
religions was a memory of facts connected with the earth at an earlier
those spiritual beings who guided man when he contracted in his
of it in order that, after having contracted and sunk most deeply into

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
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For the more exact understanding of our particular subject let us
within him, man is actually in a position to gain knowledge for
consciousness answers: We do not find men on other planets in exactly
Exactly in the same way as the sun evolved to its present exalted
group-soul of wasps; it is built of exactly the same material as our
group-soul directs them as to how they shall act. Can it be said that
reversed plant. If we think of a plant exactly reversed in position we
abstract thing, and that which has least individual existence, yet
correspondence with the object; it acts upon you; now turn your eyes
and if with this inward activity — with this power of ideation
consciousness does not act merely by means of pictures. When something
he comes in contact with the solar system. This fact has always been
can see, for he maintains the character. In the second part of Faust,
tones which give it form, and give to the fruit its character. The sun

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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We will now deal further with the fact that these beings (who also
expression of the fact that indirectly through the astral body all
are not inactive; all night long they send their forces into the
riches, nor ever experienced the deep satisfaction of soul which
relationship with Wotan, who actually existed in the spiritual world;
We must keep before us the fact that man was descending more and more
initiation. This fact is preserved in the legend of Siegfried, which
experience the spiritual world. Though they could not come in contact
means to regain contact with the Spirits and Gods which they had lost.
Testament, and, above all, its contents correspond exactly with the
exactly the same (in an external, symbolic, yet true form) as in the
fact those who prepared for the coming of the Christ.
Old Testament; an entirely abstract God, condensed within the centre
a people who were able to seek God in an abstract way, as a Spiritual
foretold could assume actual form upon the physical plane. Christ

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture X: The reflection in the fourth epoch of mans experiences with the ancient Gods and their way of the Cross. The Christ-Mystery.
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evolves, and then, on entering earthly existence, he comes in contact
had therefore hardly any perception of the outer world. Man actually
actually the case that the farther he left death behind him the higher
attracted more and more to the physical side of existence and had
epochs; these were actually experienced. In the Egyptian age we find a
to the dead as a recollection of an actual previous evolutional
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
but the fact remains that these things might be gone into very much
united with Osiris; indeed it was actually addressed as an Osiris,
itself become an Osiris. The soul in this way actually experienced its
This is the actual foundation of the drama. It was felt that the Gods
advanced human beings as their instruments or vehicles. This actually
character of an earlier epoch, who were stragglers from an earlier
character. This is an illusion. They are not developing through the
this, the historical fact of the good reception Buddhism received
the shades,” it exactly expresses the feeling of that period.
only a fact of great importance to man, but is of infinite importance

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exactly in the middle, occupies an exceptional position.
aside all criticism of the facts of evolution and strive only to
fantastic ideas which are given out concerning the facts of human
the sun in a much more comprehensive way; however abstract they may
striking fact in connection with this highly gifted being is contained
actually before him — today it dwells within him in countless
re-appears, but changed into a materialistic conception. The fact that
simply a matter of belief or a fact of knowledge. This difference
the teaching regarding numbers. This was not merely abstract
the harmony of numbers. Mathematics, which is only something abstract
its practical postulates of reason; on the other hand, purely
the Old Testament, who had exactly that combination of faculties which
Abstract thought could never have entered the world without a further
how modern science first arose in the sharp contact of Arabism with
materialistic form. The fact that Copernicus comprehended the modern
adversary is divided into two parts. This was in fact what actually
by the fact that they know how to accept what Orientalism has to give,
We must keep in mind the fact that no negation has passed the lips of
our feeling, our perception, and our actions may be full of power.

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture I
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explain what I actually intend with the giving of this
The fact is
often extremely abstract, must die out, and quite new
world that becomes more and more abstract, less and less
universal space. Certain astronomical facts must perforce be
presenting scientific facts which is customary nowadays must
undergo considerable change, because it actually arises out
today facts are referred to, which lie somewhat remote from
and more facts are brought to support them. So it would be
abstract mathematical science, or an abstract science of
actually come about that this view of the starry heavens has
comprehension of what does actually correspond to
must develop an activity of soul and decide for himself. Then
not exact science; subjectivity comes into it. Modern man is
being exact, while they hit upon the most incredible
of the single facts, but merely of the world-conception as a
of the sciences gives to a medical student practically
material which is there given us. We can state exactly: There
is a star, it exercises a force of attraction upon other
molecule we have the atoms, exercising a force of attraction
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture II
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counterpart, the phenomena of the Heavens; if this is a fact
the facts of Embryology. In Astronomy we are studying
something which reveals its most important activity in the
the meaning and reason of astronomical facts, if we bring
into the kind of connection with these facts the very realm
time has brought it about that astronomical facts are only
embryological facts are recorded in such a way that in
are proud that the apparently ‘objective’ facts
Chaldeans. The ancient Chaldeans made very exact observations
actually the problem of Copernicus? His problem was, how to
have a very remarkable fact, my dear friends. This Copernican
strange thing is that in practical Astronomy, calculations
practical Astronomy, — to obtain what is needed for the
another very remarkable fact which I will only indicate
remaining parallel to itself, always points practically to
element has actually been discarded.
purely from these historical facts, that burning questions
exist in Astronomy today, though it is seemingly a most exact
however, an interplay of activity between the terrestrial or
facts and you will see how they lead us further. Take, for
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture III
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useful and practical, no doubt, for purposes of calculation,
well be devised. These are but practical ways of correlating
the observed facts. The entire realm should now be confronted
described but a short time ago as replicas of the real facts,
an abstraction of our earthly world is dealt with in Geology
plant, animal and man and have in mind the mere abstraction
in a given season an intensive interaction is taking place
quality of expansion and contraction or gathering into a
thing which we must practice in the development of our ideas,
trace the interaction of the solar and terrestrial life for
man's soul-life. Man has an activity of soul through
in man by reason of the Sun's activity in the daily
itself, and grows. That is the other activity, the yearly
activity of the solar forces. We will say nothing yet of
look at another complex of facts, referred to yesterday. With
something in the soul-life which actually reproduces in
facts, not on the basis of fanciful theories, but with sound
the physical body in order to come into being. The activity
cannot but say that the activity of remembering, this
activity in the human organism, more on the psychological
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IV
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grasp of the facts in question. Today, then, I should like to
describing thus abstractly has, however, become a historical
fact. There is a continuous line of development from what the
his analysis of the facts which were available to him is a
it was no longer the facts which spoke, for one proceeded on
abstraction from reality; to what extent it related to the
facts. We will therefore, while taking our start from what is
very significant mental pictures, to be formed from the facts
understood from the historical facts than from any
constructed contains no satisfactory explanation of the part
more abstract pictures that have been reached. I should have
concrete facts, when the investigators — or rather,
activity. It must be connected in some way with the living
activity of the whole planetary system. That is quite
and contracting, the planes of the orbits ascending,
the system has not actually reached rigidity under the
be given in integers, nor in finite fractions, but only in
That was a reading I once attended. As a matter of fact it
follow mathematically, actually does when it slides away into
(it is in fact only possible to a limited extent, as those of
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture V
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‘The Copernican System works no more satisfactorily
facts to which we still have access.
connected with the fact that the principle of
between the actual perceptions, given to us through the
too are metabolic. The actual organic functions which
is from within outward, and we get actual fertilization. In
must remember that the brain is in fact floating in cerebral
that now, however, but only draw attention to the fact that
that the breathing process actually plays into the skull,
easily reach a conclusion. This is indeed characteristic of
more exactly you go into the matter the better you will
It becomes ordered through an activity which works from
within outward; the orientation comes from within. Actually
about the outer world, we put together the facts and
people have very little idea of what actually happens in our
must not be misunderstood, it is only used to characterize
the facts; we will not lose ourselves in philosophical
we want only o characterize the given facts.) The pole is in
yesterday, we have to face the fact that we cannot contain
in the least metaphorically. It is a demonstrable fact in the
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VI
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our start, not from Spiritual Science, but from the facts
are no mere convenient generalizations or abstractions from
it in the convenient abstraction, ‘lamb’ or
Now the fact
in which intense activity of human life and culture would be
realm of actual sensations or sense-impressions — as
phenomena and these facts of earthly evolution — the
then taking the facts empirically as is usual in Science,
proves to be the determining factor. It makes man in the
between Earth and Sun. What was it then? The facts themselves
Northern and Southern hemispheres, but the facts remain. We
real facts. We can only take our start from the empirically
out into the celestial phenomena. To emphasize one fact
have the following. (I will only characterize it roughly.)
man in a concentrated and contracted form — and the
seem very relevant to our subject, but in fact it is. If we

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VII
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proneness to the quantitative, abstracting from the
abstraction which is doing no little harm in scientific life,
world presents. In point of fact this is not done today. If
permeated with actual sense-perceptions and insofar as it
— easily deludes us. Leaving aside the actual content
and looking only at its inner quality and character —
and are thereby active in our inner life, forming mental
have precisely the same kind of inner activity as in our
life. As a pure matter of fact, it is far truer to describe
more, it is truer to the facts to say that through the eye, for
most characteristic organs of sense are precisely the part of
the act of sense-perception do we separate ourselves from the
whole character of man's cognitional life since the last
life of ideation rather than to our life in actual
from the facts of the external world.
or — as has since been said, rather more abstractly
more be highly abstract. All that emerges, in the last
which is characterized by three rigid directions at right
thought-picture, an abstraction? After all, it might well be
characteristic difference between man and animal. The human
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VIII
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sense-perceptions, — and this activity is dim and hazy
at one time actually linked with the corresponding events in
sense-perceptions actively from within. It is a 24-hour
interests us however here and now is the fact that man thus
with the phenomena of the world around him, we are in fact
annual plant, — the characteristic cycle of its
another fact. There are perennial plants too. What is the
taking the simple facts — you must admit that it is
and acts of will. From the centripetal nerves it was supposed
do in fact bring something opposite into our system, and if
containing vessel. Take all this brutal play of mutual impact
characterizing the different kinds of force. And we now see,
two processes, as you might actually see them. There is the

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IX
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of two facts: The appearance within the planetary system of
external world of facts. In scientific method, we shall not
facts to another, manifesting something of a similar nature
gives us has fundamentally the character of a picture.
It is characteristic of the ellipse, that the sum of the
equation characterizing the curve. In the equation, we have
a single curve in exactly the same way as all these are
provides us with facts which oblige us to go out of
— it is defined by the fact that is is the curve of
in fact, the Circle. If we look for the points M1,
peculiar. We have, in fact, to think of a circle which is not
make it easier for you to pass transition from these abstract
of precisely such a character as is expressed by the equation
exactly the same as what is expressed in the relationship
forth another, so that the human being reacted here (inside);
of the fact, say, that the human being is nourished by food,

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture X
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region of the needle itself and try to enter, with the facts
I drew your attention to the fact that the principle of
their morphology, are actually related to one another. Bones
factors, — that which works outward from an unknown
it somewhere as a circle, or more exactly, as a spherical
coincides, in fact, with that of the Earth's radius and
which is really based on the fact that in normal life you can
character that it works in the direction of the Earth's
the same activity which afterwards dims down this polarity to
than when, in picture form, it becomes active in our life of
mind and soul. If therefore we project the activity of
otherwise have in the activity of consciousness, but we have
this same polarity of heavenly sphere and earthly activity in
— an activity in the ‘sphere’ — and
Earth-activity.
we observe the polarity of sphere and radial activity, in
with what I have now characterised as being under the
earthly activity.
therefore look for the product of the celestial activity in
a resultant with this, the activity belonging to the Earth
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XI
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illusionary factors (yet after all, we must admit,
have seen, when we do so we are in fact only basing it on
only by so doing, only from the facts as seen, taking them
the Heaven of fixed stars presents practically the same
loop-like, though not an actual loop.
movements of the planets comprise a year or fractions of a
human observation the fact is that we are quite differently
and to the encompassing Sphere, this fact would somehow make
exactly like this, but that by variation of the constants the
human body is a Form as such — a characteristic,
any other factor. What is projected then, for our perception,
simply a very complicated set of facts. As to why, when the
the reason lies in the fact that under certain conditions the
only one of the many varieties of loop which actually

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XII
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The Sphere, with its activity primarily going inward, the Radius,
contracts.
will be most active and influential. Thinking along these
and loses character (to put it very briefly, omitting
a very evident and significant fact, regarding both the Sun's
planetary paths with their characteristic loops quite
answers to the Moon's path. And in this very fact — the
movement and other relevant factors, then from the several
the forms of the paths which actually confront us? May it not
Sun's exact position at a given time of day and on a given
not accord with the Sun's actual position. It is always
and the characteristic use that is made of oxygen. I may
"remaining behind". Indeed we owe our human form to the fact

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for us to be aware of a certain fact in this connection. I
noteworthy fact. The heliocentric conception of the World is
is an organic relationship between these diverse facts. But
actual path of Venus would then be, as we should say, a
circling movements so as to understand the fact that the
empirically given facts.
exactly to the Sun's path, — run paralleled to it. For
Yet the remarkable fact is that by taking
The fact was
facts. This very fact obliged them, as they saw it, to
in the highest degree abstracted and complicated. Copernicus
presented to himself the facts of which we have been speaking
It represents a return, from the ideas now abstractly
it is exact and true. Moreover one is well aware why they
this was lost and the high tide of abstraction came. Today we
further abstractions. For Newton put abstractions in the
is no empirical fact to vouch for it. We need to take the

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mathematical or kindred figures what has in fact been
conceiving the observed facts truly? We must really take it
to heart — we must take knowledge of the fact —
that in the scientific life and practice of our time what is
from the observable facts — (In the shortness of time
perceive from the whole way the facts have been presented.
And I assure you, the more deeply you go into the facts, the
characteristic lines of form (as for example we did in
running round in a circle. Yet the fact is not so. No horse
force of attraction between what we imagine to be the body of
We need not think of any extra force of attraction. All we
works from the opposite side and by reflection counteracts
other hand the Moon is counteracting from the opposite
found a true cosmic counterpart of the characteristic
the counteracting of the Sunlight via the Moon. — owes
Moon counteracts, it. The forming process is held in check,
During the Winter, in fact, the springing and sprouting life
plant, is potently enhanced. The solar quality is actually
Moreover inasmuch as it is so, we must accept the fact that

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Cassini curve. This is in fact only another way of expressing
we are still presupposing actual constants, rigid and unchanged,
of intensity; you can subtract from it too, and as you go on
subtracting — taking away — you come at last to the negation
exactly the same drawing, but I should have to draw something
flattened; that would answer to it. The fact that something
or what we call the Galactic System.
felt, how then shall we imagine its activity? We cannot
relate its activity to any point in the space determined by
out of space. Nor can we relate it in its activity to the
reveals its activity we shall have to relate it to what is
say? When it reveals its activity we shall have to relate it
then considering the act of sight itself. You will contrive
enacted takes you right out of three-dimensional space. You
point abstractly. In the realm of reality it will not. We
abstract point. In every instance we must ask whether the

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life and practice needs this infusion badly, — needs to
acquire a feeling of the fact that you ought not to try and
the satisfaction is illusionary. Hence, in respect to
spectrum analysis enables us to recognise the fact.
movements” (so we described them), the very character
space, will never tell me the true fact. Only by seeing that
characterize any movement as an inherent and not a merely
factor will be needed, of which tomorrow. Today we will at
fact get hold of it from quite another angle. If we in our
points to the fact that this is so. For all that comes to
sense, for in fact nothing is inherited, but we must think of
fact that there are people who in conditions of illness
Taking the facts together, you can quite truly put it in this
whose spinal axis is not exactly parallel to the Earth's
things have not been studied in detail; the facts have not
about by any deliberate action.
the same metabolism which takes place when we are not acting
for our body. Try to observe and interpret the given facts
take place when we are sleeping. And from the very fact that
always asleep. Here now you have the more exact determination
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVII
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is, in the direction characteristics of the animal
polar-opposite character of Earth and Sun. This too is most
all the relevant and necessary factors, simply as the
them are of course imaginary; only the real Sun is actually
fact is, we do not get the true relation of movement as
establishment of an extremely simple system, whereas in fact
presented in the grammatic outline, with the fact that we see
retain for life. In practice, they take their start from the
abberaction. All these perspective lines — or if you

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVIII
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what I said yesterday about the opposite character of Earth
it is all-important to follow up the empirical facts in the
there are many phenomena the characteristic of which is that
but inside the needle. To understand any fact or object, we
lectures we haves recalled the fact that in comparing the
my finished curve will not contain it, yet in the very act of
but in the actual seeing and contemplating of the phenomena,
them — theories that lie like shackles upon the facts,
given facts are put together.)
in space. You will not go much against the facts in so
now describe. Take all the empirical facts that are available
have the Earth and the Sun. In fact, two spheres are
changes the gesture of its form, which is in fact
For you will meet with conditions, factual distributions,
long, we can continue and make actual experiments. It will
fact, there are no rays at all. We say to ourselves: There is
visible by differentiation. The mere fact that I have made
Friends, and if it were the fact that Imagination,
Imagination,Inspiration and Intuition, if the fact is that
external empirical fact. One will always find them verified,
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture I
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contributing factors — indeed very many, if we take into
actually in everything that must be said on this subject, preeminently
where fresh activity has to be aroused, only guiding lines can be given
attention to the fact that today I am wanting to deal with a special
how the culture based on bourgeois social contract is in rapid decline,
a fact fraught with meaning for the present time. It shows that even on
absurd for practical life — how he now looks at the structure of
body cancer. Its characteristic is the unrestrained activity of the
think things out to their logical conclusion, is actually obliged to
this Johannes Müller a phenomenon showing just the characteristics
practical truth there then springs forth a confused medley of alleged
less to the point than this. For the fact that the author describes this
— to each other. They are to be seen in the characteristic way
pass by all that is best, and this is a deeply rooted characteristic of
our age. As consequence of this fact — you know that recently I
have talked of logic based on fact as being important for the present
pronouncements of feeling rather than by their own inner activity to work
accomplishments to be widespread, namely, when the men actively
egoistically, for its very being consists in egoistic activity. Thus in
What actually are you able to do? With your principles — perhaps
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture II
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anthropologically pedagogical activity. On the same occasion I remarked
really desire to serve their times. At present it is a fact that, if we
understood — to draw attention to the fact that a college should be
in the abstract but concretely, countless points of view are revealed
forgotten factor in our culture. It is a symptom of something cheerless
what is immediately and vitally human — so necessary a factor in
perceived, observed, and what may contain within it the seed to action.
recognise these disguises of certain obsolete facts and of the ideas and
compulsions is lurking in some contemporary fact. Only when we find the
not in abstract ones; otherwise, where space is concerned, we shall
those in educational circles who should have been active as teachers, led
belief in a specialist but the fact that he bears the stamp of some
courage to go into the question of the actual rights and on that account
that has became practical science, there has flowed what has come from
the influence of the State. Hence today we have practically no national
aspects. The essential facts are not falsified by this, but we are
to be looked upon as the actual driving element. For this reason, what is
and scientific didactics; pedagogy and didactics were thrown back upon
kind of life of spirit we want today? Nothing, or practically nothing!
of spirit its characteristic stamp. It is all effaced, reduced to the
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture III
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is part of some social activity. We meet with a great deal of this kind.
the higher classes in a school. How has our higher education actually
things today. What actually is it that has been gradually abolished? Now
satisfactorily, and has been dragged rather than brought up, has more
actually he gets the information needed by reading the copy he has
factor, absolutely superfluous.— Now it will be easy to say: Here
their lectures with no regard to the fact that printing has been
sociological facts, to prove, or so it appears, that the human being is a
essentially social in character. Whoever studies buildings of the Greek,
question is whether the impulse towards inner satisfaction has found its
way out into life in such a way that our greatest inner satisfaction
their duty; apart from the fact that bolshevism is not what people in
factor for the bettering of the soul has in truth not yet been torn from
dispassionately as a quite objective fact — it is a result of our
negotiations. These things today must indeed be faced as plain facts,
lie, for behind this is hidden either the fact that surplus value finds

Title: Introductory Words to the First of Four Educational Lectures
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He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
call your attention to the fact that the teachers must really
days of journalism, the fact is that people scarcely have a
certain activities which can only be developed if the impulses
for these activities are guarded in the soul as a most sacred
Fichte, Herder or Goethe when he is thinking and active in
looked upon today as sensible pedagogy, but the fact is that
are exactly the opposite of what they ought to be. Here I would
time people really put this principle into practice. And for
Today the fact is that, e.g., the textbooks on botany are
the remarkable thing is that we ought to strive for the exact
zoologist, then you would have acted more wisely than by
about through the fact that we recognise this child has the
activity. Just think what has happened of late. It has come
scientific training has actually been taken as a teacher's
as a matter of fact, if you are asked today whether you would
proceed from life and that it cannot proceed from abstract
exactly about what things you have to be silent before certain
should never proceed from the abstract, but always from the
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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of the soul, create an impression of dissatisfaction with life. Such
belief that actual reality, or something in the nature of unity with the
calling attention, at the present day, to the fact that an inwardly real
scientific character which philosophy, for instance, and its knowledge of
wholly ignorant of the fact that all the teachings of Indian, Egyptian, and
first thinker to be considered in this sense is, in fact, Thales.
not describe at length the characteristics of the various Greek
philosophies were in reality but abstractions inspired by the wisdom of the
in a characterization of philosophy as such does not centre round the fact
essential characteristic of the philosopher, manifested for the first time
in Aristotle, is the fact that he necessarily rejects all other sources (or
range of mental activity was discovered by Aristotle as a kind of natural
historical indication will suffice to characterize in a few words the point
the source of the knowledge of positive facts, be it due to man's
with that technique of thinking which Aristotle discovered. And, in fact,
be asserted on the right and on the left, and simply seek to characterize
character attributed to it in a ready-made modern definition. Far from
applies active thought for the personal investigation of man. He presses
entirely from the soil of Aristotelian logic. There was, in fact, a twofold
a permanency. The second arose from the fact that, as time went on, an
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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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He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
especially teachers whose attention should be drawn to the fact
— it is this crucial fact above all, to which attention
unfold a certain kind of effectiveness in your actions only if the impulses
then — if he is active in public life (say as a
impulse living in Fichte, Herder or Goethe when he is active or thinking in
sensible pedagogy today; it is fact that the men of our time are hardly
frequently contested; nonetheless it is done in practice, and for the
to nobody to alter, re-think or do away with textbooks.) It is a fact, for
facts about plants or animals, so that it is made difficult for children to
can be observed best in our universities. What are our universities in fact
from life and cannot issue from abstract scientific thinking.
in teaching, one should never proceed from the abstract, but always from
abstractions, really nothing but abstract chaff, and the man fails to
you saw last year that our pedagogy is not to be built upon abstract
to say this depends on how we have acted, on what we have done, on always
we can grasp in the form of abstract principles, that we can bring to mind
as ideas — such knowledge can have no practical value.
of practical value. For the kind of knowledge we gain after a year's
he can't really be satisfied with it. In fact, a work of art when finished
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
outer expression for the fact that in the child's organism up to then
particularly active through the years in which imitation plays such a major
activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
It is the same soul activity that works in the soul later as intelligence
onward active in the child as forces of soul. The whole period up to the
emancipates itself from the body, is active no longer in the body but for
itself. In the seventh year forces begin to be active, arising in the body
the time the teeth are changing, the most active of battles is taking place
sculptural activity, drawing, etc. These are the forces that have their
world in which the child's soul lived before conception. They are active
activity, something that can have a religious quality, if we raise this to
is the medium — and I am in fact working with forces
divine-spiritual, when it permeates my teaching, is actually a
wonder-worker in teaching. If I have the feeling that I am in contact with
year onward — I cannot characterize these otherwise than
to say, they are the same forces that are active in speech and in music.
This is compacted now, in the female in her entire organism, in the male
of this is caused by an element from within, bearing more the character of
however, the activity of music and speech becomes particularly strong in
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
what we ought to invent out of what we have learnt, when we are actually
the art of education itself. This has actually to be invented by the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
perform any function other than perceiving the moving limb and the actual
actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that
alter in any respect, but is exactly the same as the sensory nerve
distinguish three very distinctly different inner activities. Firstly
perception as such. This perception as such actually takes place within the
to distinguish understanding. And here we have to be clear about the fact
vibrations that are the actual bodily conveyers of understanding. We can
assimilating what we perceive and visualise. Through this fact though, that
closely will see the connections between understanding and actual feeling.
Actually we have to see the truth of something we understand before we can
the metabolism and the will, and the will is not being active enough.
it is exactly the opposite process of the one I have just described. The
which are in fact the same thing as sensory nerves; so that all we
otherwise only the will is active. For those
convey the actual perception of musical experiences. So if you look for the
you will also find the nerves that convey the actual perception of sound.
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
Considering this incorporation of the ego we can characterise what is
stress has been laid on the fact that that which has hitherto worked in the
two-sided description of one and the same fact. Indeed, we gain a true
spiritual science nothing can be characterised without approaching a fact
single characterisation is just as impossible as it is to give a whole
melody in a single tone. You must characterise it from different sides.
music, as sound is vibrating through the astral body. Through this activity
itself precisely through this imitative activity in the physical body, and
cause of the criminality and brutality of some men lies in the fact that
growing up. The characteristics of degeneracy, found by anthropologists and
degenerate physical characteristics the ego sinks too deeply into his
similar fact in the realities of life. Living reality cannot be contained
factors of life which are all important so that we never bring out one side
or another too strongly but rather develop a feeling for the fact that in
singing, then we must try to guide him to practise more spontaneous
have characterized, or protect the ego from remaining outside too much if
for a character if the personality you describe is deserving hatred. Such a
So while the child goes out of himself through the mere activity of writing
a child to an active interest in Geography. On the other hand, however,
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Title: Community Building
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are necessarily so great and of such a character as to be
foundation which gives it, not the one-sided character of any
common and effective action. And the forces which are to ensoul
from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
facts upon which we should earnestly fix the eyes of our souls
two decades during which we have been practicing Anthroposophy,
destiny in common action and common aspiration has been shared
fact. In that case, something would disappear, something very
here were taking a far worse course than has actually been
“With abstract words, with preaching in the ordinary
better in proportion as one is alone. Actually, one needs to
responsible for the fact that, although there is a feeling for
merely because of individual facts that are called up out of
this fact of the soul into the spiritual realm, 1 had to say at
ceremony or in words, is a copy of actual experiences, though
not, of course, experiences actually passed through here on
the occurrences, exist those real entities which are actually
actual forces into the world of the senses, ft is a drawing out
of a different character can enter into human life. A memory
have. We awake in contact with our environment to the same
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Title: Community Building
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determined by the character and capacities of the persons who
fact that a certain moral atmosphere is created in them —
that which should interest us especially just now is the fact
certain sense, as I said yesterday, through the fact that a
person awakes not only in contact with the natural elements in
ordinary consciousness of daily life, the fact is — as
single fact. If he is capable of receiving the diametrically
simply out of the fact that, when people have a sensational
comprehension of the characteristics of the higher worlds, that
greatest possible practice of tolerance as a quality one has
spiritual world, will acquire the characteristic — as a
concerned with the fact that people raise objections to what he
of spiritual research by means of actual investigation.
character that they live in some sort of quite definite
this or that subject in one way or another. Because of the fact
the actual leaders among the opponents know very well what
opposing things. Thus, the mere fact that such things are
written is the act of opposition. Those who really know what
cycles, and the character of the opponents' writings proves
many societies can still practice, is simply impossible in the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
not think in the abstract terms in which we think today.
remains of the human activity out of which our thinking
activity similar to our thinking are experienced in our
waking hours come to resemble the mental activity we know
this path the human soul developed activities more akin
to dreaming. If we follow this dreamlike activity of the
etheric. His soul became active in a way that was
soul activity we know as thinking. I would say that when
our soul is active in thought we find ourselves rather
profoundly on those external processes we actually feel
and active in the cloud out there produce images in my
images is the same as the power that is alive and active
thinking has grown abstract. Our thinking tells us
nothing, as it were, of what is alive and active within
it. This provides the actual potential for the freedom of
existing world contained more than just abstract forces
nature. We say the earth attracts the bodies that are on
abstract notions. The human ancestor knew that an
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
moment. We shall then have to act out of our realization
the present day are in fact the descendants of the
recent times, assuming its true character in intellectual
thinking as the soul itself became inwardly active. But
earlier stage it became the essential characteristic of
characterize the descendants of the Atlanteans' earliest
more with their bodies. That is in fact the major
had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
to abstract concepts. That is where the spiritual nature
validity of something, except the fact that it has been
blending their own unique characteristic into this
characteristic of an intellectual life bound to the
People believe they have the Word when in fact they only
humankind. Nowhere else did human minds rise to abstract
ideas in such a way that whilst living in these abstract
one of the Goetheanists, moved in a sphere of abstract
thoughts and yet, whilst speaking in quite abstract
abstract thoughts: as alive as people usually are when
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
which we must base our actions more real. I am looking
for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
only ideas to fire the human will and human actions.
striking characteristic of social life in the civilized
characterized this a number of times. None of us should
practically all our ideas today on development, education
and so on tend to be abstract to an extreme degree.
there before. No one has that idea. I could characterize
accepted the fact that they were ruled by gods who walked
Roman Catholic priest conducting an act of worship was
more powerful than Christ Jesus himself. Acting as the
priest performed the act of transubstantiation. The god
might be willing or not, the act of transubstantiation
the ruler, the god, was acting rightly or wrongly was
things as the fact that the human intellect can arrive at
done. Rituals were made to be such that the actions
transubstantiation: whether this ritual act had anything
centuries, indeed millennia, they had known exactly what
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
particular fact, a fact we have been discussing here a
of anthroposophy. I am referring to the fact that modern
world. There is one school — I have characterized
natural inclination for criminal activities that is in
fact quite considerable. They are of course clever people
a fact I also mentioned in my first public lecture here.
[ Note 20 ] It is the fact
would treat us as a harmless sect, as odd characters, and
exists between nature as she actually is now and the
are the forces active before you were born. That is
act of begetting. That is how the human individual comes
tenet in Christian beliefs in fact has nothing to do with
preachers can talk about things that in fact have their
play — it actually played a large role — but
again. These words were spoken in awareness of the fact
someone trying to act morally, as it were. People merely

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
facts are rather different, however, and should be seen
something alive. It is kept alive by a number of factors,
the major factors being breathing, hunger, thirst and so
facts are therefore entirely the opposite of what every
within the circulatory system, yet exactly the opposite
sought above all else we are in fact going in the
actually touch anything. I can draw it like this (a). The
concrete facts about the human being. It does not get
action of the heart, in respiration—that would be
the social organism actually compares to the activities
middle realm, with rhythmical activities in the human
the contrary, in fact. Economic life is dependent on
production. The idea is now to compare the actual facts
undermined in the social organism. Nothing in fact
produce. The situation is therefore exactly the other way
approach to its practical conclusion something has
fact is — and let us be very clear about this
practices — it was necessary to start from these,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
eminently practical people, regard the search for the
no individual point of view, but an actual deed infused
using a fact from cultural history as an example. I have
the abstract mystical stream, the other the abstract
unaware of this. Characteristically, and it is something
spiritual, for it speaks of the spirit when in fact its
reality. The search for truth must be based on facts.
is, it must enter into the facts even where it merely
characterize in the light of reality the materialistic
of mysticism as a kind of reaction against the
in us when we become mystics, what is active in us when
find materiality active in us when we become mystics.
conviction. He actually told how he had scrupulously
must be considered to gain an interpretation of activity
not allow us to go so far as to realize that in fact none
actually seeing when we look at a distant planet, say, or
a fixed star out there in space. What are we actually
material processes active in the highest form of
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
science calls for recognition to be given to two facts.
One fact is that it is impossible to imagine that matter,
other hand we must grasp a second, quite different fact.
we become one-sided, abstract mystics. The contents of a
the people of the Western world have arrived at exactly
someone is concentrating on his inner life and exactly by
same way we are in error If, due to the fact that our
to understand on the basis of different facts. Modern
formed since AD 140. Physicists are actually teaching
levels from abstract intellectual knowledge to active
abstract spirituality within themselves. Someone looking
exact opposite. It is not surprising then that anyone
In future the essential point in characterizing a person
Will be more and more to consider what they are actually
fact will count for much more in future than the actual
matters, not the abstract statements made by one person
fact of life. They go back to better times, to the
What does it rally represent? What in fact are
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
level of certain and exact knowledge, to the level of a
empty, abstract thinking, or something like that, but a
activity out of their own resources. In a way the gods
science if we want to consider the activity of a
employed in the mysteries to maintain contact with the
activity to descend as far as the earth, as it were.
is difficult to give an accurate characterization of the
'spiritualists' but actuallY ‘protagonists of the
characterized in detail. It reached the level it did by
considers only physical things to be valid and exact; it
have characterized. Today a large number of people who
efforts in the direction I have characterized.
essential characteristics of the person or persons
the nature of a person from the fact that his visiting
to get used to the fact that the characteristics of words
seriously act in a way that is in accord with the urgent
be doing what I have in fact always made efforts to do.
exactly half-way between two contradictory
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
shall base ourselves on facts relating to the nature of
The actual brain organism lies more on the inside. We
the head and that they are in fact present everywhere in
to the whole human being. We base our characterization on
active. The brain organism can be observed in so far as
our senses have ceased to act and our dream life only
science is right when it says that the brain acts like a
dream state you will find that when the brain acts as the
sleep was the actual world in those far distant times
back to those times we find exactly what those early
actually able to perceive what they experienced between
had perceived. We actually have outer evidence that
cosmos. Exactly how did they experience themselves? They
helped people to realize that they had, in fact, been
characteristic of the ancient oriental religions that
being was a fact that was immediately apparent to those
to appear which I am now going to characterize as the
Roman world. Vision was the characteristic of the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
today. Only then can we find the right way of taking effective action
and still are, acting in accord with the demands of earlier times and
their actions are not at all in accord with the needs of the present
stepping back and directing the actual work done by machines.
Considering the facts one
in Germany. These were energies controlled by humans, but in fact derived
actions and processes. The energies expended in work are measured in
Years was brought into action at the front.
figures. For a start I will just add the fact that in 1870, a year when
But when the front lines had been established for some years, the actual
sphere of human activity determined the fate of this [part of] human
laws that had nothing to do with human beings. Add to this the fact that
course, human actions had caused the forces of destiny to be surrendered
to the powers that were active in the objects they themselves had
forces are concerned. They are dependent on many factors that do not lie
characteristic features of the present age. I have merely given the most
as a horse would have done. That is the characteristic feature of modern
forces with their own objective activity that human beings have created
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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He makes visible the forces of decline active in modern civilization
the active participation of human beings. He presents with profound
that human beings may be characterized as possessing a
principle that activates the ego. Our ego is intimately
and spirit-man do not in fact have their basis in the
exactly the right moment, as it were. In the Christ
essential nature of which I have already characterized
attracted much interest. I think I ought to mention that
in the early nineties — well, in fact in the late
started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
their abstract intellect is able to perceive by the
three human conditions, albeit in an abstract way: the
profound character, however, and for him the issue could
not be simply resolved by taking three abstractions and
build everything up on the basis of three abstract ideas.
What exactly was it that they had done? Schiller used a
education. He really proceeded in exactly the scientific
education are certainly abstract, yet there is still the
individuality. Schiller's abstract ideas therefore still
go as far as the development of abstract ideas. Goethe
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