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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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tradition sees the meaning of all earth-evolution. These three
Jesus on the earth.
At the time when the Mystery of Golgotha took place on earth the
place open the earth quite beyond ordinary human ken.
understanding of earthly happenings. For to them the starry world was
as might illuminate human life upon the earth.
great mystery of earthly life was imparted from two different sides.
earth. These “a priori” experiences rise in an unconscious
Mysteries as though he must say: “Now I am living on earth; my
that they had lived in a spiritual world before they walked on earth.
the earth was present in its last remnants in the Wisemen of the East,
As man lives here on the earth and concerns himself with gaining
experiences what takes place beyond what is earthly. One is borne away
from the earth out into the world of the stars where we live between
East were led away from the earth out into cosmic space.
experiences what goes on within the earth. Here the Tellurian forces,
essentially in that outer world belonging to the earth.
back, as it were, into our bodies. We feel what is of the earth in our
bodies; for they are of the earth. The poor shepherds in the fields
really, felt the revelation of the earth through their bodies when in
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Title: Lecture: The Ear
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equally well express it, the relation of man's earthly life to his
were in advance. It is built up in the Spirit, in the pre-earthly life
atmosphere, within the sphere of Earth. In these respects, we may
‘foot’ in this case rests not on the earthly ground but on
what went before it in the pre-earthly life; then you will also
development he already comes into the domain of the earthly force of
gravity. Gravity which causes the stone to fall to Earth —
man in his entirety. Under the influence of earthly gravity, the
the spiritual world in the pre-earthly life. It is in fact a pure
spiritual and pre-earthly existence. In our lower human organisation
we have forgotten the pre-earthly life; we have adapted our organism
to the earthly force of gravity and to all that comes from the
configuration reveals either its adaptation to the Earth or its
continued adaptation to the pre-earthly life.
Earth existence, wherein the forces of gravity and weight hold sway.
your legs you walk about on Earth. And — if you will forgive my
to worse. Now as to the movements of your legs, on Earth, to begin
Earth, it is also true that the moral effects which are brought about
Assume for instance that a man went out to do an evil deed. On Earth
again into a head-organisation. The way you move here upon Earth
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Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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We know that when, under earthly conditions, the human being goes to
music into the recently-experienced earthly sounds. They are in a
from earthly experience that are most nearly comparable to it. This is
nature, in the shining stream which during earthly sleep flows from
who for the earth has died. For this being no longer has physical ears
being lives on earth, alternating between waking and sleeping. During
or evil earthly man, as earthly man living in truth or in error. But
live on earth, are realities; they too are illusion; the realities are
the group-souls. The whole plant world on earth is no reality; the
earth-soul is the reality. Plants are only as hair upon the earth
the apparent Logos born upon earth as real Logos.
the plant Earth-soul. The differences were known, but gradually they
man goes from earthly life to earthly life, and how from life to life
As long as man stands upon Earth, he lives among the revelations of
their true form to the order of Earth, in which he does not behold the
But if earthly life is not to fall into complete decay, man must learn
there will be the dawn of a future Earth-evolution, and of the
metamorphosis of earthly being into the forms of Jupiter, Venus, and
mankind may really come about, and that earthly life may not fall into

Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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His Spiritual Connection with the Planet Earth
earthly lives nor of the fact that in spite of the full reality of
earthly life. But when it is a question of coming to grips with the
the principles underlying the fact of repeated earthly lives. But
regions of the earth. And when we try to follow up the destiny of
earth if we do not apply in an absolutely concrete way the truth of
repeated earthly lives.
considerable portion of the present population of the earth.
over towards Russia in their earlier life on earth? If we investigate
in a previous earthly life imbibed from early European Christianity a
repeated earthly lives and merely take it as a theory. It must be
And now let us think of peoples inhabiting another part of the earth.
again to the earth. These souls — a considerable number of them
today to take the fact of repeated earthly lives in all seriousness
actual life, teachings like that of repeated earthly lives, which in
repeated lives on earth, but without actually expounding this as an
remote regions of the earth enter into the stream of blood flowing
upon the earth. Understanding will not come from a study of heredity

Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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occurred in earthly evolution. With his ability to look down the
occasion today to include a description of the whole of earthly
evolution human life runs its course in repeated earth lives. For the
earth, man himself carries evolution forward from one epoch to the
next. This knowledge of repeated earth lives cannot become a

Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
OF THE EARTH IN THELIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY
are capable of flowing through the souls of the peoples of the Earth. In
truth that earthly life can never progress fruitfully along such
uniting the different peoples of the Earth and this also intensifies
will not suffice to unite the peoples of the Earth. A conscious and
over the Earth, for we have but to look at the disastrous things that
realise that a striving to make the whole Earth into one economic
the other hand, the peoples of the Earth have not yet reached the
collective economy of the whole Earth to arise out of the economic
a common economic life of the whole Earth — in effect an
Earth economy. The leading minds of the times are forever
Earth economy in contrast to the separate national economies which
opposition of the national economies to an Earth economy that has
among the peoples of the Earth. And here it is above all necessary to
regions of the earth, we find that in terms of this threefold
organisation they are by no means absolutely the same the whole Earth
common social programme could be issued for the whole of the Earth
individualised, specialized, in the different regions of the Earth.
on the Earth must be able to develop love not only for an abstract,
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Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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of the earth. He takes those laws and interconnections produced
beginning of the earth. Then, out of the second principle, the
heat death in which the earth will perish.
once all the remaining earth forces have changed into heat, this heat
earth as such will succumb to what is called ‘the heat
causality, other than to say to himself: of this earth which has
natural necessity we accept that the earth is to succumb to
appearance of previous earth lives as something which our Ego shows

Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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create on Earth — that is new in every epoch.
Earth. And so, although it will inevitably be difficult for

Title: Memory and Love
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like to speak of how man's life on earth is in a certain sense a reverse
image of those experiences. Human life on earth is understood only when
during earthly life, in so far as they can be related to experiences in
essentially from those between birth and death. Here on earth a man's
or the etheric body. Nothing of what he experiences on earth can be
in the way it comes about on earth in the human soul it has nothing to
earth existence were it unable to have the support of the body and its
its earthly course. In the light of this comparison one gets a right
human thinking In short, my dear friends, here in earthly life there is
earthly life that we do not know the interior of our body by means of
earth we were not to see trees and clouds outside, but were to look in
that here on earth we have no consciousness of our interior, of liver,
different things here in physical existence on earth. It can be compared
In physical existence on earth both these are rhythmical processes; both
matter of recognising life on earth as an image of the super-earthly.
And the question necessarily arises: What takes place in earthly life
here on earth there would be no such thing as morals. What we retain of
earth is an inclination towards the moral life. This inclination is
life on earth, had too dull an experience of this spiritual existence.
able to experience ourselves, then on earth it would be impossible for
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Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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physical life on earth; we need look only at the condition of ordinary
the time of the Earth's evolution that preceded the Mystery of Golgotha,
mankind on Earth, the more evident does it become that man had a kind of
himself, before he began his life on Earth, had lived in pre-earthly
himself something left over from a pre-earthly existence.
from a pre-earthly existence. They knew it from the experiences
experiences that are explicable as an inheritance from a pre-earthly
of man on Earth. In the third stage we learn to know the Sun in its
through the Earth in a spiritual sense. The metamorphoses which come to
the same way as now he feels himself with his consciousness upon Earth.
Then he will look from the Cosmos upon the Earth, just as now he gazes
from the Earth into the Cosmos in his present waking condition. The

Title: Lecture: About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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whole earth. The earth is not that undifferentiated body theoretically
connected with the Earth through a kind of mathematical automatism.
the slightest tap, the whole atmosphere of the earth is struck, as it
man's, the horse participates in the life of the earth, and the force
which really thinks in him is, after all, the earth. The earth thinks
earth. This passes into the horse's spine and the horse is then able
earth is the one that transmits this soul element. Never have I
of the whole earth. I could not help thinking: If we run a wire to the
wire in order to connect it with another apparatus. Now the earth
connecting wire, in which case the earth as well will be involved as an
the earth, in the case of the mathematical automaton, there will be a
wire between Earth and the one who is in contact with the horse. The horse
must allow itself to be connected with the whole apparatus of the earth.
that the earth is the chief factor in this particular spiritual activity.
the animal soul. The earth has a transmitting role. In its conscious

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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recurrent lives on earth.” But the materialistic
at Man's death into the earth; and now these people had

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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death and brings about the next life on earth.
sphere of pre-earthly existence. When does it become manifest?

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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over the whole earth demand judgment from us. We must know what
happening all over the earth. And also a deeper understanding
meaning and into the forces existing over the whole earth that
epoch of earth evolution, about which we may say the
birth, but comes from previous incarnations upon earth.
idea of previous lives on earth and a justified prospect of
future lives on earth. I can only touch upon this for there is
existences upon earth, we find something in historical
lives through the various cultures of the earth and he bears

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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The Rise of World Consciousness out of Earth Consciousness, or
The Emergence of Cosmic Consciousness from Earth Consciousness.
periods of the evolution of the Earth. Man has always been in
body — No, it will not be so. For the rest of earthly
that; we have to turn to what in this life on earth man bears
within him as fruits of past earthly lives. We must approach
they are indeed complete creations from the earthly point of

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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The Rise of World Consciousness out of Earth Consciousness, or
The Emergence of Cosmic Consciousness from Earth Consciousness.
from what he was in earlier periods of the Earth evolution.
found in the Earth. When the great Atlantean flood had
Earth-evolution there will be no further evolution of the
account that which a man has within him because this Earth
far, that in a certain sense they are even a perfect earthly

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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The Rise of World Consciousness out of Earth Consciousness, or
The Emergence of Cosmic Consciousness from Earth Consciousness.
FROM EARTH CONSCIOUSNESS
as it were, has developed into an Earth
consciousness, that the surface of the Earth as it were,
surface of the Earth to be of a spherical shape. Speaking for
Earth consciousness as a development out of a territorial
Earth came to be built up, a mathematical-geometrical
conceived of that which is outside and beyond the Earth in
which is beyond the Earth and can be perceived b by men in
which is beyond the Earth in such poetic phantasy as was the
conceive of the Earth as s great sphere in universal space,
and to embrace what is beyond the Earth by mathematical and
world picture of what is beyond the Earth, is really only
possibility of investigating what is beyond the Earth with
epoch, has developed an Earth consciousness, so from now
consciousness which merely embraces the Earth. Of course a
believes to be standing still on the earth, whereas as a
of his earth life, differences in the content of his soul
earth. If I may again express myself mystically, we traverse
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Title: The Ten Commandments
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short life on earth, because he was conquered by his brother
which appears above in the heaven, which works out of the earth
or between heaven and earth. You shall not worship what is
heaven, which originates from the earth or is active between
the heaven and the earth.” An image-free divine! The only
that you may fare well and live long on earth.” It is

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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open to man on this Earth is to work right down into his physical body.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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land on Earth and is therefore called the “Continental Mass”
that has life flows over the Earth like water. Here the minerals cannot
Earth, by men or by animals, is displayed here. Thus to the Initiate
that has ever been done on Earth by conscious beings. Suppose the seer

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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condition we must realise that in his earthly life a man's consciousness
from the Earth, may purify and cleanse itself. When that is achieved,
his earthly life, but in such a way that he has to do without all this;
of karma, but from earthly things. A vivisectionist has a particularly

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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man's repeated appearance on Earth? If there were no connection between
returns to the Earth only when he will find quite new conditions and
be there. Think how quickly the Earth is developing in every respect:
of the Earth has been transformed in a relatively short time. A man
people who learn to read and write. As the Earth changes, man learns
conditions of the Earth come into it.
fell on the Earth under quite different conditions as time went on.
in the conditions of life on Earth. And this is the length of time spent
these 2,160 years as a period during which conditions on Earth change
Life. These radical changes in the conditions on Earth provide a schooling
physical that has ever existed on this Earth, whether as mineral, plant
earthly world with his organs to a certain extent perfected. During the
During earthly existence a man has life within him and he cannot perceive
and to observe it as he observes physical things on Earth; and he gathers
he is concerned only with himself, or that relationships begun on Earth
physical life on Earth bring about real experiences there. The inwardness
often cut across these relationships on Earth. In Devachan the way in
friendship. To form such relationships on Earth provides experiences

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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it, a comparison with something that occurs on Earth will perhaps bring
The countenance of the Earth
Who changes conditions on the Earth? How is it with the souls and spirits
the beings who live on the Earth. On the astral plane things are quite
transformation of the Earth. Hence it is man himself who brings about
the great changes in the countenance of the Earth, and also the greatly
the physical form of the solid Earth. Even in the forces of nature we
powerfully these forces can work on the face of the Earth.
are the work of man. Thus the Earth is always being transformed by man.
is tied up with the changes of the whole Earth. The structure and evolution
of the Earth are the work of men on higher planes, and the more highly
the transformation of the physical Earth, and of its flora and fauna,

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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passes through repeated lives on Earth, and that when a child is born,
it is not for the first time: he has been on Earth many times before.
Earth and I will make a start then.” Someone else says: “I
Christ's deed on Earth is effective precisely because the law of karma

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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goes back into ancient, very ancient times, when conditions on Earth,
and the Earth itself, were quite different. There was a time when none
this change will bring about a condition of moral holiness on Earth. But
himself. The Earth's crust, in fact, had its origin in man, who in the
of Earth and Man.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH
this law. The Earth, with everything that is on it, has passed through
Before the Earth became
have been four successive incarnations of the Earth: Saturn, Sun, Moon
and Earth. Just as there is a Kamaloka and Devachan period between a
Earth. Similarly with Saturn, the first stage of the Earth's evolution.
reappeared as Moon. Finally, after the same sequence, the Earth
these four planets Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth — as four separate
but the Earth has existed in these four different conditions.
When the Earth existed
of Saturn, and then of Sun, Moon and Earth; and in the future there
by the centre of the Earth. Man is the opposite of this: his head is
the centre of the Sun. When later on the Sun left the Earth, the human
no solid mineral kingdom. It was a globe which, instead of a solid earth
Pralaya, the Moon reappeared as Earth. In the first Round the whole
Sun and Moon came forth again as one body, and now the Earth began to
of the Earth with the planet Mars. The planets interpenetrated, the
Earth going through Mars. At that time Mars possessed a substance, iron,
which the Earth lacked, and Mars left this iron in the Earth in a vaporous
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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When the Earth reappeared
united with the Sun and our present Moon. Sun, Moon and Earth formed
At that time the Earth
atmosphere of spirit, in the same way as our own Earth is surrounded
were at that time up above in this spirit-atmosphere. The Earth was a
vast globe of ether, very much bigger than our Earth today, and surrounded
its arms to create the forms out of chaos. This first epoch of our Earth
created Heaven and Earth and the Earth was without form, and void, and
seen the Earth or the shell-like forms; they were resounding human forms,
a small part, consisting of Earth and Moon, separated off from the whole.
The whole of the Earth's body now began to revolve and thus there were
spiritual Beings who had surrounded the Earth had gone forth with the
influence on the Earth from the Sun. The etheric human forms were now
furnished with an astral covering. The united body of Earth and Moon
Earth-spirit, which now again stretched forth its tentacles and enveloped
further million years or so, Earth and Moon had acquired a very different
important event: Earth and Moon separated. The smaller body of the Moon
split off from the Earth. Now there were three bodies: Sun, Moon and
Earth. This had far-reaching consequences for all living beings: the
of Earth and Moon denser deposits had been formed, and after the separation
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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the Heavens into connection with the Earth. We can see the character of
idea that the Earth stands still. It was an error, he taught, to believe
that the Sun moved round the Earth. His doctrine was further developed
Earth. If you study our solar system from the astral and not from the
physical plane, Ptolemy's system is right — there is the Earth
taught only two things: that the Earth revolves on its own axis and
that the Earth moves round the Sun. It is seldom noticed that he taught

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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Guru. But the pupil has first to be led to Christ by an earthly Guru,

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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a firm belief in the presence and the life on Earth of the Christ. Without
earthly things, and indeed dies for a while to all earthly things.
and that the earthly world has fallen away. A black veil spreads over
the whole planet. The Earth has become his body; he is buried in the
Earth.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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The Interior of the Earth -
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
THE EARTH — EARTHQUAKES ANDVOLCANOES
of the earth and humanity. Thoughts of this kind, given to us for study,
increasingly growing larger and larger until it is as large as the Earth;
indeed even bigger than the Earth, until all things are in it. And then
you something of the relationship between man and the whole Earth, so
Earth.
what will be happening to the Earth while mankind is developing in this
way? There is a great difference between the Earth seen by the occultist
and the Earth known to the ordinary geologist or scientist. He looks on
We know that on this Earth
by an earthquake or a volcano. Does the human will have any influence
earthquake? What does the occultist say about the interior of the
Earth?
all epochs says the following about the interior of the Earth. We must
think of the Earth as consisting of a series of layers, not completely
egg. This topmost layer is called the Mineral Earth.
layer, called the Fluid Earth; it consists of a substance to which there
is nothing comparable on Earth. It is not really like any of the fluids
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Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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simple phenomenon as that a stone, let go, will fall to earth, or if
suspended by a string, will pull vertically down towards the earth.

Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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“force of gravity”. If a stone falls to the Earth the
fact is simply that it draws nearer to the Earth. We see it now at
“The Earth attracts the stone” you in your thoughts are
or Sun and Earth, each by itself, you may of course invent and add to
considering Sun and Earth and Moon thus separately, the things you

Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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Earth and Solar System by the theory of Kant and Laplace. To

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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lives on earth and lives which are spent between death and a
on earth and becomes a seed for future lives,
lives on earth is not something made up by a fanatical

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
under earth conditions. Such a method has led to the belief that the
earth. All matter on the earth has a certain degree of intensity in
reversible. We cannot pass from the present state of the earth to

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture II
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
gases known to us on earth, the property of being a gas gathers
the substances on the earth and with the passage to the solid
about the physical processes on the earth in order to come to the
for the phenomena of earth. And when you consider this which is simply
fluid and into the gaseous state, could not happen if the earth were
left to itself. Only when we go beyond the merely earthly relations
of all their super-earthly characteristics. And you will soon see,
Whatever was solid was called in ancient Greek earth;
words earth, air and water over into old writings where Grecian
earth by our words solid bodies. Only in this way can we
The use of the word earth to indicate solid bodies
ruling on the planet earth. (As stated above, we will come upon these
Solids were designated as earth because it was desired to convey this
idea: When a body is solid it is under the influence of the earthly
water, then it was not merely under the earthly laws but
bodies, in water, spring not merely from the earth, but from the
The feeling was, thus, that only solid bodies, designated as earth,
were under the earthly system of laws; and that when a body melted it
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture III
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
ancient view of the physical world, earth, water, air. You are
acquainted with the fact that earth, water, and air, or as they are

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IV
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture V
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
All human beings, as they exist on earth, are as you yourselves,
the earth. Thus we can say that we have here a transition form between
center of the earth. The whole earth conditions the
water, each point within it has the same relation to the entire earth
in the relation of the latter to the earth. The gas diffuses. The
relation to the earth does not take part at all. It is out of the
that the old Greek physicists called solid bodies Earth. They
which is the case of water is taken care of by the earth as a whole.
The solid takes into itself the role of the earthly. It is entirely
justified to put the matter in this way: The earthly resides within a
solid. In water it does not reside within, but the whole earth takes
water, we must extend them to include the water of the whole earth and
earth. To observe a “fragment” of water as a physical entity
earth. And so it is with all liquids on earth.
earth. It does not form surfaces. It partakes of everything which is
not terrestrial. In other words, we must not merely look on the earth
earth to help us out, we must go out into space and seek there the
the whole earth. The earth takes the sold captive when the latter goes
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VI
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
can say: Under ordinary circumstances as they exist on the earth,
earth in their entirety as they are related to solids.
falls to the earth. In physics this is usually explained as follows:
The earth attracts solid bodies, exerts a force on them; under the
falls to the earth.
agency a body falls to the earth (we may at this stage speak of the
the support, that they all fall to earth in parallel lines. This fall
perpendicular to the surface of the earth. When now, we draw the
parallel to the earth's surface
complete surface parallel to the earth's surface. This is at first an
liquid has the tendency to fall to the earth. Since the other portions
their relation to the earth, show a picture of that which is really
to the whole earth.

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
they require the forces of the entire earth. We have indeed, brought
statement: When we consider the liquids of the whole earth in their
the earth in its totality. Only the solids emancipate themselves from
this relation to the earth, they take on an individuality, assume
remainder of the earth-induced tendency to surface formation as shown
emancipated from the earth.
yourselves on the earth as a carbonaceous organism, you are among the
phenomena produced by the solids of the earth. The phenomena produced
everywhere. As earth men you have solids around you that have in some
the earth, in so far as they are free to move, manifest as a whole
say: since we are placed on the earth we are aware of this, calling it
the fact that it comes under the general influence of the earth. The
earth gives it a liquid surface and I must put this liquid into a
virtue of our status as earth men, and because the earth, or at least
embedded in the earthly and belonging to it, the fluid state. The
Wärmetag are simply what happens to our earth under the
us take up these phenomena of the earth so that we can grasp what can
Wärmenach, that is during the time when the earth is not
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VIII
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IX
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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
earth in the cooler regions, is obliged to tie himself in more closely
to the entire earth. In gravity therefore, we have to recognize a
the whole earth in its relation to the cosmic system, we see in the

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
Now the fact is that under the conditions obtaining on the earth such
forces in the earth realm. We found them when we turned our attention
earth? When I move over the earth, I change the entire terrestrial
in relation to the other things of the earth, and that I can form

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
solids on the surface of the earth. We must first ask the question and
things of the earth have arisen by a transformation out of the
of the earth as originally a living body and what is today inorganic

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
of the earth back to a former physical condition, when the solid was
what we know as physical is time-limited on the earth. That it is
We have to say that our earth is spatially limited as a physical body
laws to former ages and infer the nature of earth evolution from what
by the laws of the earth.
energy must change into heat and the earth come to a heat death. This

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to the four states of matter, to light, to color, and to the sub-earthly
and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
place through the earth. By means of the forces of the earth, the
really understand correctly that we have here the forces of the earth,
passing into the earth in all directions from the cosmos, a tendency
overcoming the earth forces, and thus striving to separate the
imponderable from the earth. This is the peculiarity of the tone
active in fluids, for instance, proceeds from the earth as a center.
attribute the form of solids to earth forces. The extent to which
account of the great size of the earth, we find we are really dealing
we pass outwards from the center of the earth toward the surface of
body if we consider the earth as a whole.
element of the earth. How must we then conceive of these various
emptying of space. The earth is indeed not influenced only by what
the environment of the earth there were not empty spaces. These
Thus we are forced from the realm of the earth into the realm of the
acts on our earth we must think of as localized in the planets around
the earth. Thus there is active at the point where terrestrial
earth through the school system. If we would found schools for the

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wandering about on the earth. This state of things came gradually but
must grow old in earthly life — however young we may still be.
earth-evolution.
There you will find that the earth is shown as a heritage of other
Saturn, Sun and Moon existences. But the first earth-epoch was only
the repetition of earlier world-existences. On the earth there have
Then came the earth period proper. But this earth period proper, this
were really unwritten pages. Now the earth was new — new for
the first time. Since the fifteenth century the earth has been new.
Before then human beings lived on the earth with much they inherited.
century the earth has become new for the first time. Before then
who went about on the earth, but for all that they were real. Even in
Nothingness. People began to sense: The earth has in fact become new.
have become of the earth without the Christ Event. — Suppose
there had been no Christ Event. The earth as it lives in man's
those who were born on earth to become the young of recent decades,
Golgotha a Spirit-Being came into the earth from realms beyond the
earth. In earlier times this was grasped with ancient powers of the
freedom in earth-evolution. And in face of the Nothingness we need an
willing to concern itself with the earthly. But since the fifteenth
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the spiritual plane. It was stated that repeated earth-lives —
earthly guise, must be clothed in terms of materialistic thinking. So
goes through all earth-lives. They said: If I am now living on the
Earth, and come back again after hundreds of years, the atoms will be
into the next earth-life. It was called the “permanent atom”.
the truth of repeated earth-lives, into a truth that can only be
earth-lives, clothe this in such a way that they talk about the

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earth. External science cannot get much beyond, shall I say, a
paleontology of the soul. Just as in the earth we find fossils,
pre-earthly existence had for a long time been wiped out. Western
permeates this physical earth-being.”
It was only living thinking in pre-earthly existence. During the

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of the pre-earthly existence of the soul has been lost. If we take
For a long time existence before the descent into a physical earthly
of pre-earthly existence and unites with his physical body in order
to use it as an instrument on earth between birth and death —
surely as the child, from its first movement on earth, is a human
in a certain respect. The child comes into earthly existence from a
pre-earthly world of soul and spirit. We observe, revealing itself
need again the divine which leads the human being out of pre-earthly
earthly existence. When we speak of confidence between men in the

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than by man permeating himself with something not of this earth. Not
of this earth in the sense that when man only lets soul and body

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can enter earthly evolution only as revelation.
idea: There is a divine weaving streaming around the earth just as in
surrounding the earth, which are graven into men as thoughts. Whereas
which souls living in the Middle Ages had in an earlier earth-life
the men who in their previous earth-life had already felt the world
earth-life was experienced as tragedy.
life on earth before the sixth or seventh century, particularly
longer lived from their previous earth-life the impulse that thought
this. For although the sense for the individual past earth-life had
but subconsciously) from which we were torn in our previous earthly
our earthly environment? And the leaders who were asked unconsciously
first to bring with them out of their previous earth-life the tragedy
earth. But when one gazes from the earth out into limitless space, it
cannot simply draw a radius from the earth and prolong it into
and got the answer: “I have to revolve with the earth and even

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solution — that when the child enters earthly existence he
earthly existence. But the child should not come to a more and more
much, let us say, as he will know at the end of earth evolution —

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cured of certain childlike religious ideas by the Lisbon earthquake,
forces in the earth? — Especially in these decisive moments of
of the Earth, to me art nearer.”
the earth-spirit to approach him. And when at the beginning of the

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earthly existence from super-sensible, spiritual worlds, from his
pre-earthly existence. My dear friends, it is never the head that
recognizes what man brings with him out of his pre-earthly life. The
head is made for the purpose of grasping what is on the earth. And on
the earth there is only the physical part of man. The head
and comes from pre-earthly existence. In the particular coloring the
the human being has brought down from pre-earthly existence; and
teacher as coming out of pre-earthly existence. A young child has the
tendency to feel the outer human form in its earthly shape; from his
of his pre-earthly existence.
only happen when he is able to behold the pre-earthly. But he can
it is a bringing down of pre-earthly existence into the life of the
on activating the individuality of the soul, upon the pre-earthly
pre-earthly. The pre-earthly sheds its light through every movement
find that it is what rises up from the previous earth-life or series
of earth-lives into the present life of the soul, and what is
earth into the present. Not only the pre-earthly existence but
in his successive earth-lives.
over from repeated earth-lives can work between man and man, and
earth-lives. This will not be achieved unless we draw into our
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earth-catastrophe, to the seventh or eighth millennium before Christ,
forth the plants from the earth. In a certain way they saw — it
our foot, we come into a different relation to the earth and to the
natural that during a certain period of the year the earth breathes
say: During the summer the earth sleeps, gives herself up to the
this power of the sun pours into the earth's unconsciousness.
Summer is the sleep of the earth. Winter is her waking. During the
winter the earth thinks through her own forces what during the summer
heavens. During the winter the earth works over in her own being what

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what occurs nowhere else in the earthly world around us. He takes in
untruth upon the earth. We must acquire the vision of Michael who
shows us that what is material on earth does not merely pass through
what is in the earth begins to be transformed into the new life, into
realms into our earthly realm. He does not force himself upon us.
pre-earthly life is still working. Here we find, if we nurture it,
out of super-sensible worlds into the earthly life and manifests
earth, for whom we prepare a vehicle by carrying out a living art of
incarnated on the earth. And you will have to learn to have faith in
man is to make the Spirit, which without Him would not be on earth,
earth. He did not take man away to an earthly life in the heavens.
The human being must permeate his earthly life by a mediating
developed in the right way, will bring peace upon earth.
teach the child about the mysteries of earthly existence. Only when
earthly life.

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earth itself was in an earlier embodiment called the Saturn
forth. It was not until the second embodiment of the earth, on the
transformed itself into earth, and to the three bodies of man already
the earth at present. The same was the case with the astral body
plants and animals as is the case of the earth today, but of beings
man as he ever more purifies and ennobles his astral body. Our earth
Earlier we mentioned that our earth developed gradually. At first, it
was Saturn, then it became Sun, then Moon, and the earth. In time it
embodiment of the Earth stand to Saturn?” Our present Saturn
heavens as Saturn today stands in relation to our earth as a child to
an old man. One day Saturn will become an earth. Just as unlikely as
to him, so unlikely is it that the earth has developed itself from
other heavenly bodies. The sun is such a body as the earth once was;
steps of evolution, which our earth, now in its fourth embodiment,
earth revolves around the sun, that Mercury and Venus, as sisters of
the earth, also revolve, and you also know that the sun itself moves.
relationship. It has investigated not only the movement of the earth
spiritual center around which the sun, and with it our earth and all
anthroposophy knows that our earth in its present embodiment has
time. The earth transformed itself out of this fiery-fluid condition
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again that the earth has had as many different embodiments as man.
The human form was always present during the different earth
acquired for the first time on the earth. Now we must turn our
attention briefly to the appearance of the earth as it was in its
conditions. First, there is the solid, called Earth in occultism;
on earth is meant, but all that is fluid. Then all the gaseous
occultist knows that Fire can be compared with Earth, Water and Air,
would come to Light. What we, in the occult sense, term Earth, Water,
on the Sun, Moon, and Earth. The densest condition on Saturn was
transformed itself into our present earth; the condition of the
Moon, and finally, on Earth he became a being of flesh.
when the Earth began, the ancient Sun and Moon were again one body.
again into the Sun, and later our earth threw out the present moon,
for the beings of our earth to develop themselves beyond the snake
the beings of our earth the strength to lift themselves above the
Earth. Now you will be able to understand with what deep intuition
symbol for the earth as it developed itself out of the Moon. The fish
the Sun. Our earth, as it stands before us with its solid substances,
on the earth when it had just developed from the Saturn to the Sun
the air being, just as he designates the snake as earth being, and
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an inhabitant of our present earth. We saw that on Saturn and on Sun
through to a consciousness for the first time on our earth. It is
first time on our earth. It is here that a man first became a being
spiritual earth that unfolded later after the sixteenth century. The
condition of the earth is its fourth embodiment. Everything that is
manifest to us on an earth such as ours presupposes that this
beings of the created world. Here on earth, however, the fifth member

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He spoke forth Saturn into the universe, the Sun, Moon, Earth,
astral world. Here on earth one sees physical men, each of whom bears
as long as the earth shall exist, a group soul for the higher
on earth, but there was a time when what wandered about here on earth
have purified itself on earth, the soul will again ascend to this
head-like roots towards the earth's center, a man turns his head to
sun will once again be united with the earth. Men will become sun
contains all those base substances that the earth could not use but
moon still exerts on the earth at present will then be overcome. When
earth, following the sun, moves in a complicated curve. The same is
true for the moon that revolves around the earth. These movements are

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whole of earth-evolution receives purpose and meaning.
the stream of earthly evolution. Easter is a Festival which carries
At the time when the Mystery of Golgotha took place on the earth, the
on the earth.
for explanations of what was happening on the earth. But to such men
that human life on earth became intelligible to them.
of earth-existence was proclaimed from two sides.
independent of earthly life. And this is the kind of experience that
the earth, I gaze out into the universe, beholding all that is around
home before they came down to the earth. The last echoing remains of
While man is living on the earth and unfolding the forces which bring
is a knowledge of happenings in the world beyond the earth. The human
being is transported from the earth into the world of the stars in
earth into the heavens.
bring knowledge of what is coming to pass within the earth itself. In
this kind of knowledge it is earthly forces that are most strongly at
the outer universe that is especially connected with the earth.
connected with the earth — for the body is given by the earth. The
the earth, proceeding from their bodily nature. In a state of dream
To the Shepherds: revelation given by the earth.
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confronting them in the earthly realm, even the starts, as
realms about life on earth. People on this side had no interest
in the earthly.
grew. Devachan became darker. People chose to claim the earth
more skilled they became on earth, the more unskilled they were
event took place on the Other Side: over here in life on earth
That which is won here on earth serves to lighten up the world

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, OF MAN, AND OF THE EARTH
world and just as, let us say, here on earth the super-sensible world
super-sensible world the earthly world exists only as a mirror-picture.
Judge of the World, and winds up the whole evolution of the earth by a
stream as “the Mysteries of the Earth”, the Mysteries of the
North or of the Earth. Now this stream which developed first as
primitive spirituality out of the Mysteries of the Earth, took a
stream, the stream of “the Mysteries of the Earth”, the
In our age, clear thinking must spread over the whole earth.

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
which took place in earthly evolution. It is our duty, standing as we
Golgotha was accomplished upon earth, the Jews of the Old Testament
human distinctions of any kind on the Earth. Such feelings and ideas
external incorporation of Lucifer. Lucifer really did walk the earth
incorporated in the East in an earthly personality, to prepare for
an earthly incarnation of Ahriman himself. This time is approaching.
Ahriman will appear, objectively, on the earth. Just as truly as
Lucifer has walked the Earth, and as Christ has walked the Earth,
objectively, in human form, so will Ahriman walk the Earth, bringing
with him an extraordinary increase of power to the earthly human
Ahriman is already sending to the Earth from the Worlds beyond in
order that he may control the Economic life upon Earth without being
on the Earth without his being noticed. We must thoroughly learn to
Ahriman's appearance on earth. A great many of the exponents of the
end of the Earth-age,” when they declare heretical all that
down to earth. At every moment we must seek the balance between the
meaning to the Earth, entered into human evolution.

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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
into the abyss. The work of the Heavenly Powers upon the earth must
afresh can only be obtained from a source not belonging to earthly
Initiation into our earthly civilization.
or burial, is given over to the elements of the Earth; there, in its
something in us. We give our corpse over to the Earth, and by the help
which we partially carry on in life, the whole Earth thinks and has
months ago. That which continually takes place in the Earth through
the interchange between the primal earth-substances, through the union
the thinking and forming of ideas by the whole Earth, after our death,
when we have given our corpse over to the Earth. Thus, we are
the whole Earth existence. This conception is a very difficult one,
for it places man concretely into that which is Cosmic in our Earth
working of the universal Cosmic Will within the Earth existence, in
Earth depends on whether humanity on this Earth unites itself not now
World-Conception. But ask him if he does not think that the earth as
on the Earth? You must investigate how the human Will, quite unknown
the course of the Earth, i.e., wished to understand how the
world he would say: The Earth is there below me; I see there many
will rise from being a citizen of the Earth to being a citizen of the
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The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth,
have an Ego. In earlier periods of earth evolution men knew more. Just
entrance of spiritual revelations into our earthly world.
earthly world? And how are we to place it in relation to revelations
can bring to the earthly world, the world that is destroying itself

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connection with what is called earthly magnetism. No matter
earth plays its part in the direction taken by the needle in
physical, earthly man that cannot be traced by Intuitive

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the fact that during his earthly evolution the human being has
human being as he lives on the earth. What in a certain way can
within the sphere of earthly lawfulness unless other factors
around physically on the earth, can walk around because his
process is that the human being can live on earth as an earthly
followed. Take the annual plant that grows out of the earth in
interplay between the sunshine and the earth is contained
within the earth during the subsequent winter months. Warmth
the surface of the earth during the winter, so that in winter
earth. Summer surrounds us outside the earth's surface. In
winter, the aftereffects of summer work under the earth's
the earth in its yearly cycle, is impelled to grow, first and
foremost, by the forces that have been poured into the earth by
leaves contain elements that are thrust out from the earth and
(What the sun imparts to the earth, however, has a much longer

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continue to beat during sleep throughout the whole of earthly
come into existence as he lives and moves on earth. There is no

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from the outset that the plant covering of our earth is passing
from what is stored by the earth out of the forces of the sun's
substance from the earth. With our ego and with our thoughts,

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same sense as the Earth plays its part in the direction taken by the

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of the Ego is the fact that during earthly life the relation of man
he lives on the earth. The most intangible organisation of all —
organisation could not take place within the sphere of earthly
And so man is a being who can walk physically upon the Earth because
that man can live on earth as an earthly being. Nitrogen is the third
followed. Take the annual plant which grows out of the earth in
originating from the interplay between the sunshine and the earth are
contained within the earth during the subsequent winter months. The
under the surface of the earth during the winter, so that in
earth. The summer itself is around us, above the surface of the
Earth. In winter, the after-effects of summer work under the earth's
earth in its yearly cycle, is impelled to grow, first and foremost,
by the forces that have been poured into the earth by the sun of the
earth and those which work in from the environment. It is in the
years — all that the sun imparts to the earth, however, has a

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through the whole of earthly life. Neither does the action of
earth, may come into existence. We have no other reason to call it

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the outset that the plant-covering of our earth is passing through
stored up by the earth out of the warmth and sunlight of the previous
strives to alienate the substance from the earth. In our

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In all that Earth reveals, in stone and plant, in everything that has
during the winter in the bosom of the Earth; they are breathed in, as
it were, by the Earth; they are within the Earth. When spring comes,
Earth breathes out, as it were, her spirituality; these Nature-spirits
in the Earth's dark bosom. During winter we must look down to the
Earth and feel, or behold how, hidden beneath the covering of snow,
again, and summer, from the productive Earth. But if in summer we look
down to the Earth, then the Earth is as if impoverished by the loss of
there in an extraordinarily subtle way, in the heights of the earthly
realm. If we could speed through these high reaches of our earthly
ourselves: the Earth takes up in winter what exists in man as his
Earth receives the Ahrimanic from it. When in high summer the
planetary neighbours of the Earth and are effective on them. And now
time fall on to the Earth as products of the cosmos and contain
materialistic culture is the use of iron in the realm of earthly life.
which falls to earth from out of the cosmos, which purifies and
we should look up from using iron materially for earthly purposes, and
put iron to thine earthly service.
progress once again, progress for the Earth; and that is what we must

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further developed in the old Moon period, and in the Earth period
world in a particular part of the earth in the first Christian
super-sensible world into earthly sense-evolution.
as far as possible they should flow into man's earthly physical body;
in a position to look back on their earlier earthly lives.
earth-lives. It is the innermost nature of the soul that we must
remembrance of former earth-lives.

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Hebraism alone, for in other regions of the earth too we can find such
Now events that happen here on earth are guided and controlled from
life of the earth which we call the Event of Golgotha, the earlier
ripen in the spiritual evolution of the Earth. This fact cannot be
here on earth. Occultism alone can give knowledge of life; external
Earth. In order that a Being of the higher worlds might be able to
accomplish what was necessary for Earth evolution, the Christ had to
Earth; from being a cosmic Force He has become a Force of the Earth.
He went through death, in order to come to life in Earth existence, in
order to be within the Earth world. And all through the centuries
perceive Him because this Being had united Himself with the Earth,
although for the present He rules invisibly in physical Earth
destiny of men on Earth. And while in the past man could look up to
As long as man dwells on Earth, there is always for each human being,
Earth, so we must ‘feel’ in quite a concrete way the

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upon earth, the Jews of the Old Testament looked up to their Jahve, or
human distinctions of any kind on the Earth. Such feelings and ideas

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through sun, moon, and earth-evolution, etc., up to Vulcan, has
place during the earth-evolution, and which will take place
what is beyond earth. And our minutest breathing-process, which
takes four minutes, expresses the force which makes us earthly
beings. We must say, then: “We are earthly beings through
sleeping we are moon, earth, and Jupiter beings; and through
Russia, the earth would abandon her appointed task, would be
course, mean the collapse of earthly civilization. The rise of
the earthly sense, penetrates all willing. What lies in us as a

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impression here on earth of dying beings. Only through the urge

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those unprepared for them, heaven and earth would

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the earth for the purposes of the body, but how they are
obviously no one on earth can make anything of them.

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goes into the earth and there enters a metallic plate, and at
the other station in the same way the wire goes into the earth
set up by a wire is established by the earth itself. In the
earth itself the process takes place which could otherwise only
that the earth, the whole earth, adopts the role of
for it is the earth alone which undertakes the transmission.
ball is attracted by the earth; unless it is supported,

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out from the child's own knowledge of the face of the earth and
earth. Here, if we have only taken the first stage correctly,
the earth at this time. It is, however, important to show
parts of the earth. You ought to be able to develop all this
— you have summarized for the whole earth the knowledge
parts of the earth. But be careful only to introduce this

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earthly existence in addressing man, and takes account only of the
conscious of the other end of man's development on earth, namely
comes down to earth a union is entered into between the spirit and the
Spirit-Soul or Soul-Spirit from a higher sphere into earthly
existence. He clothes himself with earthly existence.
the earth the Spirit-Soul is met by what arises through the processes
earthly life, you will observe that here in the child, Soul-Spirit or
the one direction to bring the Spirit-Soul more into the earthly Body,

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earthly conditions. Blood has to be destroyed in order that it may not
as we are on the earth, up to the moment of death. For this reason we

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human bodies are yeast to earth. Man thinks with bones as well as
nerves. Origin of geometry lies in movement. Man keeps earth alive.
human beings on the earth, on the physical plane, fulfilling our
Were it not that, during his earthly life, man could preserve some
which he alone and no other earthly being bears within him from birth
say: in this case, minerals, plants and animals would be on the earth,
only man would not be there; and the course of the earth right through
the earth, or he constructs machines and thereby also brings about
develop without man being present on the earth.
This is not correct. For if man were not present in the earth's
have only arisen in the earth's evolution because man was obliged
and at a certain stage of his earthly development he had to separate
earth evolution the animal forms as well as the earth itself would
develop if man were not upon the earth. And, again, present-day
buried, and thereby are given over to the earth, but this is of no
significance for the development of the earth; for if the earth did
of human corpses to the earth — whether by cremation or burial
— is a real process which works on in the earth.
yeast were added to the dough. In the same way the earth would long
present in human corpses which are thus received by the earth, the
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present in embryo in the earthly life of the man of to-day, yet,
vanish from the face of the earth. Some people must see this. You have

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will begin to rise out of the earth. Why does this happen? It happens
forces under the surface of the earth becomes perceptible through the
on the earth, you are standing in a cloud of smoke. That is an

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the wonder of the earth as a conductor — all these are things

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perhaps) across the earth. Nevertheless you have the sensation of
carried out by the planets, by other heavenly bodies or by the earth
when we see how wires go into the earth to copper plates and how the
earth carries the electricity further without wires. If you go into

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that can be brought into the physical earth existence through birth.
belong to life on earth. And only when we bring this conventional

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organisation shows the longest earthly evolution behind it, so that it
with us during our physical earth life until death. Even in the waking
formation of the earth, that is, to dissolve the minerals. The forces

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his earthly nature only, a substantiality having no tendency to spirit

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in the earthly world really is. The picture we receive allows
us to see the entire plant kingdom of the earth forming a
complete unity with the earth-world. This is given purely
the earth's plant life in our consciousness. We observe only
world of the earth. This we know by the most simple thought.
plant world are just as integral a part of the earth as those
but as a directly perceived truth, the earth becomes a kind
the earth as an organism, for example, one must first speak
of imaginative mental pictures. For the earth as an integral
earth, or better said, which grows out of the earth.
our life lived here on earth. This, as I said, is a practical

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referred to as knowledge of repeated earth-lives. The
of repeated earth-lives is added to this only in

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beings on earth that are not like human beings — for example,
should always feel, and then the spirit whose earthly life and birth
permeate all of our human journeying on earth since the mystery of
And peace to human beings on earth who are of good Will!
beings on earth who are of good will,” trickle down into all

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tells us of how human beings on earth are involved in an evolution,
experiencing what comes up out of the earth, what the spring draws
the earth, all those things that delight your eyes and hearts. What

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how things stood with man before earthly evolution brought him to a
incarnated on the earth in earlier periods was incapable of abstract
today, my dear friends. But in the time when people living on earth
be instead an experience that they had during life on earth. This
constant pressing through of super-sensible experience into earthly
abstraction and freedom that presently extends into earthly life was
nowadays, human beings living on the earth possess rationality,
realize that what gives us modern human beings freedom in our earthly
us here on earth from the heavenly worlds we enter after death, but
as a divine gift, given to the earth world by the spiritual. This
into the modern experiencing of people here on earth.
translated into earthly capacity makes it necessary to look up to the
Christ came to live on earth enables him to hallow elements of
penetrates into earthly life through the gates of death in a
into the earth realm, in order that the human element that has made
the earth today only if they are irradiated by the Christ, who
descended to earth from that same world whence rationality and

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In earlier times man thought of the earth realm as the object of his
they used to be accorded. Indeed, the earth came to be thought of as
living on a tiny speck of an earth quite insignificant by contrast
it must be pointed out that by reducing the earth to a mere grain of
erstwhile life is to be sought in the soul's pre-earthly existence.
earthly life must be regarded as the soul corpse of the living soul
of pre-earthly existence.
one's body and into a realm not of the earth. Then one realizes that
source of creativity on earth.
earth laws. This brings one knowledge of an especially significant
are to the earthly sense world. Nor are they to be found in corpses.
of and beyond a grain-of-dust earth. Learning elevates itself again
home in the universe as it does on earth, and then experiences what
experiences things of earth, when we live thus consciously in the
earlier earth lives. Our successive incarnations become a fact
us that we cannot remember earlier lives on earth while we are
not earthly experience, and the effect of one life on the next takes
earth. How could a person recall his earlier incarnations unless he
earth into another world, and that one derives from it the kind of
that evolutionary development in man's life on earth that centered in
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of our life on earth we can become aware of another community
life on earth. As a result of pursuing this fact of soul life into
earth experiences, of course, but real experiences in the world
life on earth. In the realm thus traversed are found the beings, the
cosmic memories of pre-earthly existence with them. They come to the
earth, we and these others lived through a cosmic lifetime in a world
spiritual world to earth and presents supernatural realities to the
contemplation of human beings living on the earth. There is no such
environment before he was incarnated in an earthly body. The
speech may not be fully consciously perceived in present day earth
Nevertheless, it isolates people here on earth. A dreaming person is
brings the spiritual world down to earth; when, in other words, he
learned and understood on the earthly level. We bring the
sentimental, nebulous way, as has so often happened, a down-to-earth

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repeated earth lives and their karmic aspects.

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like life on earth, providing we remove a certain weightiness from it.

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of the cosmos. Hypotheses as to the beginning and the end of the earth
ideas concerning the beginning and end of the earth. The laws discovered
the earth. The second thermodynamic law is used to develop theories
about the heat death the earth is supposed to suffer in the end. [ Note
forms of energy on earth will have been converted into heat, that this
the heat death of the earth. Honest thinking, holding fast to the thought
be unable to say anything but that this earth subject to heat death
once heat death has come upon the earth, according to a point of view
that are at odds with the order existing on earth, feelings that give

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finally, the prospect opens up of repeated past earth lives. The things

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Connection with the Planet Earth and with the Stars Above,
Planet Earth and with the stars above.
earthly incarnations. Souls had various experiences during
various earthly lives where these dogmas were current, have
repeated earthly lives be serious. Vitally serious.
carry within them a soul which has gone through earthly lives
life. Throughout various earthly lives — as a necessity
brings with it anything from former earthly lives. We do bring
has lived in us from earlier earthly lives from which any kind
undermining and decline of earthly life. People would become
consecutive earthly lives in relation to our present earthly
lives, which went from one earthly life to the next and ever
soul born today comes over from an earlier earthly life, eager
progress in its next earthly life. However the absorption of
the souls coming out of a previous earthly life can take up
actually the real life of the soul through consecutive earthly

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If we consider human existence on Earth,
the essence of human life on Earth.
that have to do with the material processes of earthly life.
Our thoughts pass by in intimate connection with the Earth, so
death seems to be connected to the Earth. But if we consider
the totality of human life on Earth, we notice that a third of
for the formation of thoughts on Earth we need the physical
earthly human beings, to have thoughts. Beyond this, we also
that during earthly life we are never not thinking.
the physical human being on Earth.
In contemporary earthly life, it is not
we are beings of the Earth, we are not adequately developed to
our previous earthly life. It is as if our past life were the
earthly life that is past departs from the person who has died.
whole earthly environment, what filled our normal consciousness —
extent that the content of earthly
about a third of our earthly life.
coloration that earthly life gave it, since we have to pass
Earth. We need about a third of our lifetime to live it over
we experienced on Earth unconsciously in our sleeping
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whom the earthly destinies of mankind were entrusted,

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the earth. And so, when one sees the connection between
earth as a substitute for what we lose of supersense
earth, and the after-death member; therefore, we can only
instance, that the earth is really an organism; that what
the earth is living, it sleeps and wakes like man. But
ask a man: When is the earth awake and when is it asleep?
he will undoubtedly answer: The earth is awake in summer
actually the truth. The truth is, the earth is asleep in
life. How much coal, now much metal is in the earth,

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configuration of our earth surface as it now exists. We
fact) that the animal walks about the earth with his
backbone parallel to the earth's surface. Man makes
the earth's surface, and thereby forms a cross with the
earth's surface and also a cross with the position of the
the cosmos and the earth; and this manner of
the whole sun-earth-process through a Platonic
soon as man begins to live on earth the necessity

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heaven and earth will fall — we allow it to be
the phrase. The heaven end earth of our illusions would
with you until the end of the earth, time.” Those

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spent on earth. We know, of course, that the soul requires a
with the last earthly life. Now, let us present this process of
growing out of the preceding life on earth as it relates to the
of the earth, at first far beyond the atmosphere. Farther and
moon's orbit around the earth. We grow so large that the
connection with the preceding life on earth.
contact with people with whom he lived on earth, with whom his
soul was united on earth; or, on the other hand, it may be
depends on the way in which he has led his life on earth
the earth which, however, in occult parlance we call the sphere
of Mercury. That is, if we take the radius from earth to Venus
earth); and in this belt, in the space occupied by this plane,
on earth: death in so far as it does not occur as natural death
having spent his life on earth as a person without a
earth so that epidemics, illnesses, take place, so that death
earth has its after-effect all the way up to this sphere:
earth. Servants of the spirits of hindrance we become for a
whom his soul has established relationship on earth. But
other hand, if here on earth he has not brought his soul into
has been an atheist here on earth, then he will be a completely
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age, opens up between those living on earth and the dead.
on earth must naturally often look back from the spiritual
in the life on earth. Now, the question is whether such souls
was below in the life on earth; she was, so to speak, the
stayed with me. My spiritual eye is directed toward the earth
learned, I know that this soul must be on earth as she was
through, cannot look down on these earthly souls. They are
earth, then one learns that the soul who has remained on earth
on earth, depending on whether these souls have one content or
earthly souls remain real souls for them. Even more
“Here on earth we cannot know anything about immortality,
human being has connections with people on the earth, and
earth. But what is said about the spiritual worlds in the
languages they usually spoke here on earth. Only after a time
between souls confined to their earthly existence,
intercourse between the souls on earth and the souls
surely, take hold of the souls on earth and transform them.
relations between the world here on earth, the physical plane,
following, let us look at the souls who here on earth are
souls who perish here on earth in the flower of their youth
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death — the two boundaries of physical life on earth; we need
the time of the Earth's evolution that preceded the Mystery of
The farther we go back in the evolution of mankind on Earth, the more
began his life on Earth, had lived in pre-earthly existence as a
something left over from a pre-earthly existence.
were an inheritance from a pre-earthly existence. They knew it from
inheritance from a pre-earthly existence. It was accordingly easier
life of man on Earth. In the third stage we learn to know the Sun in
for the Moon can shine through the Earth in a spiritual sense. The
upon Earth. Then he will look from the Cosmos upon the Earth, just as
now he gazes from the Earth into the Cosmos in his present waking

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earth, we can think of several groups or kinds of experiences.
has to do with another earth-existence, not with the present one. A
kind of recollection of another earth-existence — that is the
in an earlier incarnation on this earth.

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of humanity, even about the evolution of our earth and planetary
of our earlier incarnations, before we passed into this earthly
pre-natal, pre-earthly decision of the will that we are assigned to
earthly life of mankind might be bearable!
personalities living on the earth to-day. Of that there can be no
Before then there was no proof that the earth rotates. It is nonsense
the statement that the earth rotates on its axis.
earth and that if a long pendulum is allowed to swing, then the
direction of oscillation rotates in relation to the earth's
surface, could the conclusion be drawn: it is the earth beneath the
first actual proof that the earth moves, was not made until the 19th
earth's motion was first imparted to me as a boy at school, not
with other worlds, the earth, as man's habitation, is a speck
which the earth is compared are of less importance to him. The
acquire from our mistakes were to be lost to earthly humanity? Only
for real progress in this earthly existence if it is regarded as the
only one, and also for an eternity beyond the earth.
the earth has fallen away from those who belong to the wave of
the mission of the earth, to escape from it as quickly as they can,
the earth's mission can be permeated through and through with
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higher, as it were, and the other entirely on the physical earth but
to its deity, Aruru, and she causes a helper to arise out of the earth.
out of the earth. Eabani is a kind of human being who, in comparison
sends a bull down to the earth; Gilgamish has to engage in combat with
man of earth who has remained immortal, whereas all other human beings
a young soul who descended late to earthly incarnation. If you read
whose earthly name has not come down to posterity, but who stands out

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that during the Lemurian epoch of earth-evolution only very
few human beings had outlasted, on the earth itself, the happenings
of this evolution, that only a few remained on the earth during the
everything human began, the majority of souls withdrew from the earth
Atlantean epoch, these souls gradually came down to the earth in order
to incarnate in earthly bodies under the changed earthly conditions,
them in earth-evolution than those who came down later; hence we can
earth could look back into their earlier incarnations, into the course

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of the physical body to Post-Atlantean conditions of earthly existence
human being is incarnated in successive earthly lives. In Greek works

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which was intelligible through the whole of the then known earth, especially
whereby men who speak a common language are scattered over the earth.
the heavens to the earth, from the universal spiritual-human to the
led downwards from the spiritual world to our earth; there lay their
the spiritual regions; they were to be applied on the earth. This element
man as an earthly personality, mirrors the great law of the heavens.
were to walk round the earth neither too quickly or too slowly, he would
the circuit of the earth, and it is also the length of time which the
sun takes to move round the earth” (for they believed in the apparent
movement of the sun around the earth). “If therefore you walk
the earth, you are keeping the tempo of the sun's course.” And
the pace of the course of the sun around the earth.”
the journey of a man sound the earth, using certain fractional measures
he discovered as a living connection between the heavenly and the earthly
from the heavens to the earth.
which the earth stands still and the sun together with the planets revolve

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understand the historical life of mankind on our earth, we must always
over the earth and whose evolution is to be brought about through macrocosmic
which is related to the earth, but represents an earlier stage of development,
resembling the earth, when it is sufficiently distant and passing through
earlier stages of development such as those undergone by our earth,
not look quite the Same as once they appeared when seen an the earth.
an earlier stage of the earth
the earth as a whole. To the clairvoyant vision which with the help
whole face of the earth was different from anything that can be imagined
worked into the earth still more strongly.
events whereby the face of the earth was totally changed in regard to
fact, such periods in the earth's evolution are determined and
the equinoxes. This is connected with the position of the earth's axis
times when, on account of the particular position of the earth's axis
of warmth and cold on our earth is radically changed. This position
of the earth's axis in relation to the neighbouring stars causes
years, the axis of the earth describes a kind of conical or spherical
movement, so that conditions undergone by the earth at a certain time
whole historical development of earthly humanity, we may point particularly
of the earth's axis to the neighbouring stars, the climatic conditions
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during life on Earth we look around at our terrestrial and cosmic
composition, from what surrounds us on the Earth. In addition to the
draws its forces and material components from the Earth, so does the
world surrounds the Earth in the expanse of space; in it the stars
are embedded and from it the light streams down to the Earth from the
within this etheric environment of the Earth there are two heavenly
time when the physical Moon separated from the Earth with which it
knowledge was not possessed by early humanity. The Earth, and man
together with the Earth, had necessarily to develop to a certain
comparable with that of man to-day; they moved about the Earth
Earth's existence, we communed with non-physical Beings. These Beings
are no longer and for long ages have not been part of earthly life.
When the physical Moon separated from the Earth, these Beings
by Beings who were once the companions of mankind on Earth. It may
on Earth in his physical body: nevertheless
companions on Earth we may conclude that they are connected in some
life here on Earth in his physical body is interwoven with what we
question the existence we share in the previous earthly life is set
earthly life but may perhaps have met him for the very first time in
physical existence on Earth and while, before the actual descent, he
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of repeated lives on Earth was once expressed in German literature in
repeated lives on Earth. In monumental sentences he declares that the
lives on Earth and carries over into other epochs of evolution what
new earthly life. They are therefore themselves the bearers of what
the Earth many times and what we are to-day is the product of those
Earth may well imbue knowledge with a mood of reverence, and
destiny running through their different lives on Earth and the light
their earlier lives on Earth.
lives on Earth — to go back to the very widespread spiritual
Initiates, knew that in an earlier life on Earth he had been one of
individuals can be in two successive lives on Earth, although the
the Earth and without carrying over Arabism in its outer form, bore
men in whom the Initiate is not apparent in the later earthly life
transcending the conditions of the immediate earthly existence.
peculiar features of his earthly life. The starting-point for me was
into earlier lives on Earth. Whether a person limps or has a habit of
light is shed from one earthly life into earlier incarnations.
little the ordinary conditions of earthly existence affected
seeking the way from the one earthly life into the other. Through the
incarnation, as far as their earthly activity was concerned,
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begin with, of the earthly life between birth and death. This earthly
recollecting our earthly life, our remembrances are falsified
arise from sleep, the part of earthly life which is spent in sleep
constitutes a third of the earthly life — if a man is not an
about a third of the time of life on the Earth.
human being — constituted as he is on Earth with his ordinary
backward order amounts to about one third of the span of his earthly
Earth. Between death and a new birth we review the nights during
which are in a sense negative images of the earthly life.
through our earthly life and through all the compensatory experiences
During the course of the Earth's evolution, the
Moon — which was originally part of the Earth
— separated and emerged from the Earth to lead an independent
Moon separated from the Earth, the ancient primeval Teachers of
humanity departed to the Moon. While they were on the Earth, these
Teachers on the Earth. But the essential nature of these Teachers enabled
on the Earth. They take into themselves what is inscribed by us
our existence on Earth. They permeate it with their own being
after death when we are living through the events of earthly
intensity than we experienced it on Earth. Events in earthly life
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human thinking into the sphere of earth-evolution. For this reason
of the human ego on this earth, then the ego was not actively present
this our earth; formerly it did not exist, it could only come about
earth from the higher world is through human incarnations. So that the
earth. The Gods allowed men to come into being in order to preserve
And he who will not think, on the earth, deprives the Gods of what
human task and destiny upon earth. For he can only attain this in an
here on earth in the form of clear concepts of thought. There are the
on earth of the worlds we now enter. What we receive here from the
may translate it into the current coin of the earth. What we
that such a picture has within it something that belongs to the earth.
last remnant of what is earthly in the visions is cast aside. There is of
the last remnant of earth. For example, when he sees the angel and
then strips off all that is earthly, he is faced with the danger of
times you were not bound to the earth's existence, because you were
suited to our present earthly conditions. We must see to it that we do
on this physical earth. He can comprehend the world in other forms and
earth. If you reflect upon this it will be clear to you that there are

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closer to the earthly than do the higher, spiritual viewpoints.
everything that works as the earthy, as the solid or
element. Then comes the time when in addition to the earthy
of the earth with the physical element. When we have the
watery-earthly element. Then the tadpole develops into a frog.
the earthly-watery element; the second is produced by the

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enters the world out of his pre-earthly existence he is,
as man on earth, was ill and that his health had to be
restored; that the human being as he was on the earth actually
his proper level and is not the being he was in pre-earthly
continually healing this illness. Human life on the earth is a

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carbon, which in the various stages of the earth's evolution

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as the earth or a point, and around it the moon's orbit as a circle.
result for the earth thereby? The reproductive forces
by the earth's forces so much that it goes into it, as is supposed to
been making a connection with the earth since the Mystery of

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happened in the world order also, that's the way the earth's mineral
earth arose from this. Jahve-Elohim was able to create man from this

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this earth — a contrast to be found everywhere and at all
period in our earthly existence and ultimately resolve itself again
evolution on the earth, can we find something in the universe that in
that which comes to birth in the masculine and feminine on earth?
applies only to human and animal life on earth. This is an offense of
and up to a certain moment in earthly evolution and, in so far as
evolution and the earth evolution.
feminine as they exist on earth born out of a higher, cosmic
earth. In our various studies of earthly evolution we have seen how
the sun separated from our earth, how both became independent bodies
earth in the macrocosm, in the great world, repeat itself in man, the
corresponds to the contrast between sun and earth in our planetary
contrast or polarity that arises in the cosmos between sun and earth.
Moon evolution. It was the earth that made him into an upright being,
the earth that his head was enabled to gaze freely out into cosmic
surface of the moon. We may say that the earth is responsible for man
working upon the earth from outside and forming the contrast with the
earth, is responsible for the fact that the human head, with its
countenance, has in a sense torn itself free from bondage to the earth
planetary system is the contrast between sun and earth appears within
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doctrine, that some day an individuality would descend to earth
this individuality, within His incarnation on earth. This Paul knew.
it were, the spiritual sphere of the earth would be transformed;
atmosphere of the earth but only when looking up to the Sun Spirit,
earthly existence must occur that after the victory over death the
Christ would be found, for clairvoyant consciousness, in the earthly
behold the Christ in the earthly sphere as the active Earth Spirit.
discovered the Christ in the earthly sphere.
earth, he knew: now He is here. From that moment on, he felt
Christ Jesus clairvoyantly in the earthly sphere. If Paul had not
Christ was there! He who reveals Himself there in the earthly sphere
will become perceptible in the spiritual sphere of the earth. He will
the one man will find here on earth. One thing will be necessary,
There are faculties that must be acquired on earth, as
it is not for nothing that we are placed on the physical earth.
Anyone who believes that we have been put on the physical earth for
events, must be acquired here on earth. Those human beings who
acquire these faculties now, here on this earth, through the

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[Universe, Earth and Man.
he knew that some day an Individuality would descend to the earth,
Individuality in his earthly incarnation death has no more
victory over death, the spiritual sphere of the earth would be
spiritual atmosphere of the earth, but only when he looked upwards to
take place in earth-existence a change signifying that, having gained
vision in the sphere of the earth. When, therefore, a man was
clairvoyant, he would behold the Christ in the earth-sphere as the
living spirit of the earth. But that of which Paul, while he was
became clairvoyant and, finding Christ in the sphere of the earth,
spiritual sphere of the earth that he knew: Now He is here! And from
Christ Jesus clairvoyantly in the sphere of the earth. Thus, if he had
presence! He knew: He who is now revealed in the sphere of the earth
earth, will be perceptible to those faculties which, as we have said,
though not in the same form as on earth — into the world in
faculties which must be acquired on the earth, for we have not
been placed on the physical earth for nothing. It is an error to
believe that there is no purpose in living on the earth.
develop these faculties on the earth through the teachings of
acquire the faculties that must be acquired here on earth in order
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connected with our earth — so holy that we don't say it

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that a Mars dweller was suddenly placed on earth, and the first man
men's predecessors on earth, the Elohim, appeared, how did they
first element in which man was created was warmth. And in earth

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pupils to see the sun through the earth. To see the spiritual sun

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through all phases of his earth existence. It's impossible for
that he did here on earth, depending on the circumstances into which

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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look back to his former earth-life with the methods about which
the forces, which are active and effective within the earth.
earth. The sunlight penetrates into this gap; it can light up
earth. What the sunlight creates on the surface of the earth
development of humanity. Since the earthly evolution of

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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of wars and earthquakes play a big role. — I ask you, do
earth as atmosphere, the body inhales the soul life with every
forces that led to the present life on earth, also the forces
learn also to look back to former lives on earth. Stopping the
power of speech enables us to experience former lives on earth.
between two lives on earth? For the spiritual researcher arises
that our former life on earth goes back to a time where still
since our last life on earth. — This is an example of the
one can seize that which works beyond the earth as a
spiritual-mental life. One gets to know the earth as a
develop that we will go over together with the earth into a
spiritual-mental state at the end of our lives on earth. We
said, the human view has proved with certainty that the earth
appearance these men state that the earth circles around the

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 8
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during the course of man's life on earth, but, on the other hand, nothing

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture V
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free of his earthbound existence and transported into another world
feels that he is an earthly being when he plays music. Formerly, when
the earthly corporeality — come into being only in the course
When we look at the embryonic development of earthly man, we find
beings on earth, the “I” lives in us by having descended
and took hold of the as yet formless earthly being in, I would like
man felt that he was a unified being standing on earth; at that time
earthly being but also a transported being. In the course of time,
first experience my ‘I’ as it is on earth, in the prime,

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spoke of cherries and grapes one used earthly words; if one spoke of
adapting himself to the earth, man finds his way into what can be

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VII: The Uttering of Syllables and the Speaking of Words
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Which the Messiah on earth in human
spiritual powers, whose earthly sheath he felt himself to be, to
prose sentence we must feel the solid earth under our feet. For the
In both consumes and grows by earthly
To thee the Earth was given for thy
and feel beneath my feet earth’s solid
the daughter of earth
saturate earthly being.

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earthly life: a product of breathing and blood-circulation. He
The Fire, Ayre, Earth and Water did
all the ends of the earth have seene
earth:
earth:
ev’ry Margine of this earthy spheare
Then earth, and all possessing earthy
earth the crowne and rule to take:

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earth
earth,

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of human history on Earth, whereas those of the East are content to
Earth-planet. No world-conception which has had any influence upon
whole course of human history on Earth. They have always shown the
Testament does in describing the history of the Earth — or whether
about things on the Earth.
here on Earth, gravity has a particular magnitude and diminishes with
the square of the distance, for they live on the Earth and establish
laws of Nature and truths valid for the Earth, and build them into a
the Earth ceases to be true if we pursue it further outwards into the
that earthly gravity holds good throughout the Cosmos. The truths that
those that hold on Earth. Of course to say this sort of thing nowadays
strange. Modern men are so wholly tied to the Earth that their
they experience on Earth. And they deal with cosmic time exactly as
different geographies over the Earth's surface from those you will
the region. But the Earth displays differentiations of a much more
Take the grain of wheat or rye. It must be planted within the Earth at
what was to be done on Earth.
Earth through these revelations of the heavens. In places like
upon her from their mountain height. How then did the Earth appear to
Earth and what streamed down from the heavens, he saw the whole
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not only their present existence but their pre-earthly existence as
submerged in the Earth, as in a grave. Not only the forces of the Sun,
but also those of the Moon penetrate below the surface of the Earth.
The forces of the Moon work against the force of earthly
gravity. Man is drawn to the Earth by gravity and away from it by
the forces of the Moon; for him as earthly man it is the Earth which
— it varies in different parts of the Earth — we can always
existence but their pre-earthly existence as well; just as we can see
life of man on Earth. It was quite natural for a member of this older
humanity to see into his pre-earthly existence and to feel: I am a
spiritual being, since before I assumed this earthly body I rested in
pre-earthly existence, while external Nature surrounding them became
are spirit born of spirit; in our pre-earthly existence our being was
surrounded by the Earth, and this was the condition of man at night
felt themselves embraced by the Earth, but they felt something more;
if they had actually descended into the Earth and been laid in a
grave, yet not one that could be called an earthy grave. I will try to
Now when the Sun's rays fall on to the Earth, they are not merely
which has penetrated into the Earth. At that time of the year we have
within the Earth what has streamed into it during the summer. Not only
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of Golgotha is related closely to the meaning of earthly revolution
forces which, reaching under the Earth, lift man out of earthly
— we find that all sorts of experiences drawn from earthly
natural form during our earthly existence has been imprinted in our
that “lower sleep,” if I may call it so, that Earth-embraced
particular event had not occurred in the course of Earth-evolution.
was brought about for earthly humanity by Christ in the Mystery of
Golgotha is therefore closely related to the whole meaning of earthly
Earth did not exist in those past ages that are worked out by the
geologists. The destinies undergone by the Earth can be known only in
wondering why on earth he had been called to Berlin, since not a word
experience his humanity properly in future lives on Earth. For the
life on Earth, in accordance with the divine-spiritual ordering of the

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I In- earthly projection of the “music of the
— of earthly music. Thus, it comes about that
the astral body is laid aside. Then the earthly music is
comprehensible for you if you know that what man here on earth

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time.
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extensive theme before us; Universe, Earth, and Man, and I propose to
“Universe.” “Earth” indicates the field of action
mighty event in earthly evolution which we know as the advent of
earth, that the ends of the wires are connected with the earth; but
or less mysterious forces produced by the earth itself. Something
earth, but there is also a hidden, a subterranean force which works
to earth. Previously it was perceived as hovering, so to speak, above
is without any earthly connection.
how in the pyramid the secret of the World, Earth, and Man is
us today, but whom present day man sees no longer. The earth does not
formed between this spiritual part and the earthly world; we must form
return again, and appear once more on this earth.”
weans himself from what is earthly) he is still chained by certain
what is earthly, we can see how kamaloka with its mysterious forms
consciousness in spiritual spheres. The bond to what is earthly, the
man's existence is finished when his corpse lies in the earth; he sees

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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of things Spiritual. We are led from what takes place on earth to what
Lemuria, which was that portion of the earth upon which humanity dwelt
surroundings of the earth — in the atmosphere, which at that time
surrounding the earth passed in and out of him. Man's form was almost
living earth, and the living forces of the earth streamed out and in
yet appeared on earth. At that time men were, in normal consciousness
Think of our earth at that time as being a solid kernel surrounded by
in this half-watery structure dwelt Lemurian humanity. The earth was
power of the sun's rays the earth received also powers of
fructification. The earth did not only receive the forces of warmth,
earth from invisible Spiritual Sun-beings. Such was the relationship
between sun and earth. The power which acted at that time upon those
power. This was poured out over the whole earth as a product of the
now separate, was bound up with our earth. At one time the earth and
fancy biscuit, one part, a smaller globe (namely the earth-plus-moon)
earth-plus-moon hung. The rays of force from the sun still mingled
with the earth, they passed from the sun to the earth and back from
earth to sun — for the two were in a certain way one body. We
the sun had turned entirely away from the earth after the separation,
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
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Universe, Earth and Man
If we are to bring the relationship of Universe, Earth, and Man before
shall see very little; this applies to the Earth as well as to man,
Yesterday we considered one portion of the earth's evolution in
earth and sun still formed one body up to our own day. We saw also
in knowledge and in religious consciousness all that the earth has
earth. We are surrounded in the first place by the four kingdoms of
beings of the other kingdoms of the earth we must be fully aware that
physical world we have to allow that of all earthly beings man alone
etheric bodies of the plant. Imagine the surface of the earth on which
it in the centre of the earth. There the ego of all plants is to be
egos of animals in the circumference of the earth, we must turn to the
centre of the earth for the egos of plants. In fact, when clairvoyant
vision has attained to such a view of the plant creation the earth,
The earth is ensouled by an ego and in the same way as your head is
out the being of the earth, and belong to the whole organism of the
earth. When one tears a plant up by the roots it hurts the whole
earth, the soul of the plant experiences pain. This is a fact. On the
other hand one should not think that the earth feels pain when a
feeling of well-being pass over the earth. Objections to this from the
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture IV: The Outer Manifestations of Spiritual Beings in the Elements. Their connection with Man. Cosmic partitions. The Myth of Osiris.
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evolution on earth; and that as regards individual men a yet higher
When we consider the earth from the ordinary physical standpoint we
see it is made up of what we call earth, water, air, and fire. These
Spiritual Science gives the name of “earth” is called
four elements: earth, water, air, and fire, he has mingled within him
have mentioned. Still higher Beings have to do with the earth, the
We now see that what is active in the evolution of our earth as the
whole of' earthly humanity. Since the mission of mankind first began
on earth, Spiritual Beings have taken part in work upon humanity, and
ruled from the beginning of the earth over that which appeared as the
Spirits of Form have the task of working on the earth as a whole,
Now you are aware that our earth, as a planet, is under the law of
earth was what is called the ancient Moon. What we now regard as the
mission of the earth did not then exist. The mission of the Moon was
law of evolution. During that incarnation of the earth which we call
of Form on the earth, and these are called, according to Christian
condition of our earth which preceded that of the Ancient Moon; this
the earth, and as the Spirits of Motion ruled upon the Moon, this
how these work into our earthly evolution, but in order to do this it
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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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In earlier lectures we have seen that the conditions of our earth have
earth was one with the orb which shines in the heavens today as the
earth.
forces down from the sun to the earth, thus bringing about the
nearest to earthly evolution. After the separation of the sun the
leader of the Spirits of Form remained with the earth, and later
Jehovah, and the Sun Powers, those who sent light to earth from
earth, either upon the sun or the moon; but there are Beings
dwelling-place more exalted than the earth, but were unable to inhabit
Once more we will remind ourselves that the earth passed through an
incarnation, then the Moon incarnation, and lastly that of our Earth.
embodiments of the earth. As we know him he is a very complicated
earth does only possess a physical body. A Being possessing in
existence on earth. Now it is only a rough way of speaking to say that
conditions are present (as is the case now on earth, where the sun
development. It was not only during the development of our Earth, but
we have two spheres — the Moon (earth plus moon) and the Sun,
planet therefore (Earth plus Moon) began to densify and harden. You
We on the earth walk upon a solid mineral ground; the Beings of the
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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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The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence.
The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence. Participation of the Luciferic beings. The formation of race.
the special regents of human earthly existence. The heart of the
the course of earthly evolution both into the substance and into the
earth as a field of action but, drawing with them the finer forces and
substances, they left the earth and formed a new field for their
regents of earthly existence?” Were these Spirits not already
then a different field of activity to what they have on the earth.
earth. For only when man possessed a physical, an etheric, and an
maturity was only reached at the time when our earth, together with
answer is No. Man remained above the surface of the earth in the purer
This point of time, when man descended to earth from spiritual
upon earth, but above it. Man only descended from Paradise to earth
earth.
and Venus, the celestial bodies lying between the sun and earth. The
But there were other beings between the earth and the Sun-Spirits who
Thus, there was a time in the evolution of earthly humanity when the
been sufficiently mature for the descent to earth of that Principle
Spirits of Form had regulated his life on earth.

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms -- the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt -- a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
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to say such things about past conditions of the earth and of man. Even
earth was peopled by the lower animals and man. And if one were
periods of the earth's evolution we find in our environment animal
lectures. We have to think of the earth as being still of a soft
the facts of the third epoch of the earth, preserving the results of
knowledge that which had taken place at one time on earth. You will
actually existed on the earth at one time, and was more than a mere
Thus epoch after epoch of the earth is born again within the souls of
This was the very first beginning of sense perception on the earth,
sun was in a certain position and the moon still one with the earth,
the atmosphere of the earth was able to furnish the substance which
the earth's atmosphere guided by his perception of warmth he was under
sun (which had already left the earth) working upon the earth's
earth). This is situated in another part of the brain, and is usually
receptive of what the earth had to offer to their outward sight; and
the mighty cosmos and then at the earth itself. We have explained
earth and sun were still united. When these separated he thrust from
within the earth. From these entirely different forms have naturally
those which remained behind when the earth was thrust away by the sun,
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
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Universe, Earth and Man
The earth's mission.
Man's connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
circle of our immediate earthly existence. We shall be able in this
together — Universe, Earth, and Man.
embodiments of our earth — Saturn, Sun, and Moon are quite other
We saw how the sun separated from the earth because it had to be the
other substances on the earth. Were we to investigate the whole wide
various earth-beings are connected with spiritual-beings. Stones and
the minerals of the earth have their ego in that which surrounds us in
earth-planet, while their astral principle, which brings about the
development of the flower, encircles them above the earth. Everything
We are surrounded on earth by minerals, plants, animals, and human
beings, moreover we know that earthly affairs are regulated by higher
concerned with the earth, even though they send their forces from the
earth? Can clairvoyant consciousness discover such men? Clairvoyant
the same form as upon earth, but we do discover that each planet, each
Our earth has originated from three preceding embodiments; the stage
bones, etc. In earthly evolution nothing is repeated, every stage has
Let us now consider for a time the evolution of our earth. If it is
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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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understand his true position. We have said that the earth is the
earth. To put it crudely, it will be bred here, and through their
more human love there is on earth the more food for the Gods there is
and directed to the earth; geometry was studied so that the earth
prepared step by step in earthly evolution. We have seen that this
afterwards the moon, had not separated from the earth. It was only
gradually learnt during the earth's development? We must first look
most important moment in the earth's evolution. While man was still
spoke of Him, not indeed as already on earth, but as one whom they
foretold. In this sense Christ has a certain story in earthly
the earth. The Initiates in Asia and Egypt also knew Him as the
Through Christ's coming to the earth man has become able to absorb

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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first time into earthly incarnation, and life within a physical body
extent, a two-fold life — one upon earth and one in the spiritual
evolves, and then, on entering earthly existence, he comes in contact
earthly incarnations. This was in the Lemurian epoch, when, though he
earth as the Christ. It was not possible in the Lemurian period for
earth which they had themselves created, and losing also their
the Earth age. Had human beings turned towards the spiritualizing of
their whole disposition, had lived less in that which was of the earth
than in that which was not of the earth — only such men were
earth.”
Then followed three years, during which Christ walked the earth in the
earth that has ever acquired control over the force that holds
earth through being so constructed that he has incorporated into
what had been imparted as a mighty central impulse to the earth should
who through His withdrawal from the earth had made it possible for man
him. Only through Christ having come to earth, and through man having
Christ-filled bodies, and will make the earth more and more into an
future He leads the earth to higher and ever higher conditions.
in maturing the earth for what is to come; when the earth through

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The reversing of Egyptian remembrance into material forms by way of Arabism. The harmonizing of Egyptian remembrance. The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
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post-Atlantean period. We saw how the first epoch of earthly
second, during which the separation of the sun from the earth took
the Lemurian epoch — the third in the course of the earth's
of this, which was the first period of earthly evolution in which man
wonderful way; we see the meaning of earthly evolution in so far as
So long as the earth was a part of the sun, high Sun-Spirits were
understanding what was to come to earth through the Christ; but an
that the glory of God will appear again on earth. This certainty was
races in each epoch of the earth's evolution.
on the earth today were incarnated formerly in Egyptian bodies and
intermediate incarnations, they are now again on earth, and, in
universe, earth, and man, but they should enter as well into our
earth-substance, as symbolized by the serpent. In the upper part we
earth 'mid lightning and thunder!”
We have considered the evolution of Universe, Earth, and Man; we

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture II
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have shown that man is only a grain of dust upon an Earth
Earth, — that one need only pay attention to what is
Heavens which portrayed the Earth more or less as a flat
the Earth stood still, but that Venus and Mercury moved round
Earth. Thereafter, men progressed to making Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn also revolved around the Sun, but the Earth was still
Earth. This was still the fundamental view of Tycho Brahe,
still and that the Earth was to be reckoned among the planets
existed in ancient Egypt, of the stationary Earth with the
the center of the Earth, and transferred it to the center of
coordinates was removed from the center of the Earth to the
observed from the Earth. When the planets are observed from
the Earth, their movements can only be described as a variety
So, when taking the center of the Earth as the center of
Earth rotates on its own North-South axis in 24 hours. The
Heavens is that the Earth moves round the Sun. In its
revolution round the Sun the Earth itself, of course, also
occur round the North-South axis of the Earth, which always
which, as we know, is at an angle with the Earth's own axis.
Therefore the Earth goes through a rotation during a 24-hour
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an abstraction of our earthly world is dealt with in Geology
or Mineralogy; the Earth as described by Geology consists of
that forces are there in the Earth by virtue of which it
also belongs to the Earth. We only see the Earth in its
"mineral earth ", but bring it all into our consciousness.
The living beings and entities that grow up out of the Earth
belongs in this way to the Earth, let us first take the plant
Earth-existence and is only related to the Cosmos outside the
Earth in such a way as is shown, for example, in the changing
Earth — with all that enters the Earth from the Cosmos.
Through the plant-world the life of the Earth as it were
between Earth and Cosmos. We must pay heed to a phenomenon
covering a given region of the Earth, is a kind of
Earth out of the Cosmos. At seasons when the interplay is
more intense between a portion of the Earth's surface
when the interplay is less intense between the Earth and the
information or revelation from the Universe which the Earth
vegetation of a given region of the Earth when exposed, as it
life of the Earth. It goes without saying that the vegetative
life of the Earth shoots outward into form. The leaves unfold
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IV
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falls to Earth and the Moon circles round the Earth, the same
on earthly things. If the same causality did not obtain in
the Heavens as on Earth, we should not be able to arrive at

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VI
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the evolution of mankind on Earth we must surely find
the Earth is without influence on man, — on human
the Heavens beyond the Earth. In the most general sense, we
which man on Earth was undergoing at that time, connected
with the evolution of the Earth-plant altogether?’,
beyond the earth. Was it perhaps a special moment in the
evolution of the Earth a such? Is there anything that we can
regions of the Earth where in the Middle Ages these events
the Earth. A culture like the Ancient Indian could only
the Earth's surface. Only those who take a very short-term
view of mankind's evolution upon Earth will imagine that the
deeply into these regions of the Earth which are today
phenomena and these facts of earthly evolution — the
on Earth in the most highly sublimated realms of cultural
the Earth itself, but to conditions in the outer Cosmos.
virtue of conditions on the planet Earth and in the Universe
brought about by the relation between the Earth and the
more closely, the different relation of the Earth to the Sun
life of soul (As to the different mutual relations of Earth
Pole, extended then over a considerable part of the Earth.
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VII
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evolution of the Earth altogether. To begin with however, we
influences which surround the Earth. Only when this is seen
even those of movement — between the Earth and the
back then to a kind of interplay between the Earth and its
relation of the Earth to the Sun was different before the
relation to the Earth and man.
Earth, whereas the animal spine is parallel to the Earth's
the Sun. Here is the Earth
You have an animal on the side of the Earth exposed to the Sun.
Now take the side of the Earth that is turned away from the
influencing the animal, but the earth is now between. In the
in the other case indirectly, inasmuch as the Earth is between
and the Sun's rays first have to pass through the Earth
have first gone through the Earth and you get the opposite
Earth is interposed — the indirect rays of the Sun.
to a certain interrelation between Earth and Sun. For a true
knowledge of the mutual relations of Earth and Sun we must
rotation of the Sun about the Earth, or a rotation of the
Earth about its own axis. If then this movement underlies
the Earth or to the Sun yet another movement, related to the

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VIII
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on Earth. To begin with, we pointed out that as a rule the
whole around the Earth and the apparent movement of the Sun.
reasoned; if the Earth itself is moving and we have no direct
Earth. All these things we pointed out, and I then showed how
certain phenomena in the evolution of the Earth, namely the
connection of man's evolution with the evolution of the Earth
dependent on the illumined Earth and its illumined
that the Earth comes in between, we get the root. The plant
way in which plant-growth belongs to the Earth as a whole?
turn grows out of the Earth
left I have the surface of the Earth, and the annual plant
(to leave it vague, for the moment) continued from the Earth into
In other words there must be some element of the Earth —
not belonging to the Earth; rather must I regard it as a
modified portion of the Earth itself. Only then shall I be
the perennial plant, which otherwise is only in the Earth. It
precisely by taking something of the Earth into itself it
Earth and the wider Cosmos, whilst there are others in which
influences. The annual plant will tell us of the Earth's
the earthly world is concerned. Any such statement is of
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of a magnet-needle on the Earth's surface in such a way as to
connection with the magnetism of the Earth. We connect the
Earth's magnetism, that is, with the line of direction
of the Earth. When it is a question of explaining the
surrounds us human beings on the planet Earth.
meet in the centre of the Earth
coincides, in fact, with that of the Earth's radius and
a sphere surrounding the Earth at an indeterminate distance.
the Earth has the same cosmic value in regard to the vertical
of the Earth, as a spherical surface, a cosmic spherical
we might call: Earthly influence upon man, of such a
character that it works in the direction of the Earth's
earthly environment — we may look upon as the
contrast between the starry sphere and earthly consciousness,
earthly feeling of ourselves, — Earth-impulse living in
us. If we compare this impulse of Earth, this radial
Earth-impulse, to our consciousness of the vast sphere,
this same polarity of heavenly sphere and earthly activity in
Earth-activity.
necessity of method as the Earth's magnetism is in
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XI
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aspects at least of celestial and also of earthly-physical
assign the metabolic system to what is earthly, — what
from the celestial Sphere towards the centre of the Earth,
appears to us in the relation of the Earth to the Celestial
nearest the Earth — and only once a year. As a general
it has been argued: Man, at a certain point on Earth, shares
of course in the spatial movement of his earthly habitation
this were the surface of the Earth
Earth, what passes through our limb-nature and then in some
into the Earth. Say you could truly draw into the nature and
relatively near the Earth, — therefore when we, being
on the Earth, are in a special relation to the planet.
Consider the position of the Earth in its yearly course and
our position on the Earth. (We must refer it back to our own
the Earth's movement, outward into the Heavens. It is the
other hand of the whole evolution of mankind on Earth. Bear
beings are in some way with the Earth. We are at some point
on Earth and we move with it. We cannot but refer, what
movements we ourselves are making with the Earth. For, as we
move with the Earth (we ,must project this backward, once
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XII
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other radial — radial with respect to the Earth's
are roughly between the Earth and the Sun? In other words,
to Earth nature generally, of Sun and Moon on the one hand
Earth; we can do no other than connect what is radial in
corresponding forms on Earth — we shall be led to the
in the difference of man and animal, we cannot stay on Earth.
some way coincides with the Earth's radius. Admittedly, the
Earth may move in such a way that many of her radii in turn
path must be radial in relation to the surface or the Earth.
We have no other alternative. In no event can the Earth be
the revolution of the Earth around the Sun must therefore be
read it in the human form itself: The Earth is following the
Sun! The Sun speeds on ahead, the Earth comes after. This
then must be the essence of the matter: the earthly and the
solar orbit in some way coincide, and the Earth somehow
follows the Sun, making it possible as the Earth rotates for
the Earth's radii to fall into the solar path, or at the very
ellipse along which the Earth is moving — but to a
movements of Sun and Earth, you may well be able to deduce a
resultant path for the Earth, no longer coincident with the
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIII
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and the Sun to be immobile, with the Earth moving around the
the Earth in her movement, is to the distance of the fixed
an Earth at rest, with the fixed-star Heavens moving around
the Earth; likewise the Sun moving around the Earth. For the
In the main, he thinks in this way: Let this be the Earth
in an eccentric circle round the Earth. The planets also move
around the Earth; to comprehend it we must assume the two
the centre with the Earth circling round it after the manner
planets so-called and the inferior, with the Earth-entity

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIV
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idea: — Here am I standing on the Earth. Now, even as I
am on the Earth, so too am I in the Moon, — for the
central circle in the Figure) is the Earth, whilst the whole
of that is the Moon, — far greater than the Earth. The
Moon's centre) from the centre of the Earth. So large is the
Earth the entire sphere is turning, (Incidentally it is not a
the moon and the body of the Earth respectively. This
would make us say: The Moon pervades the Earth, including the
Earth's hydrosphere. In the Moon's sphere, something is going
need think is that this Moon-sphere, permeating the Earth, is
Here is the Earth-sphere,
— the solid sphere of Earth. And now the Lunar sphere:
are also permeated by the Earth-sphere itself, in a wider
sense. For to the Earth belongs not only the solid ball on
are in the Earth-sphere, in the Sun sphere, in the
mineral substances of the Earth in the same way, recognising
the Sun's shadow by relation to the Earth, has in some way to
earlier stages of Earth-evolution the influence was most
influence of the Sun and the influence of the Earth itself;
the Earth. At one time the Sun is working, at another it is
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XV
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Sun and Moon and Earth, finding expression in some way in man
Sun or of the Earth through the Zodiac, with the with the

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVI
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which I mean, post-natal life on Earth. We must look back
whose spinal axis is not exactly parallel to the Earth's
direction paralleled to the surface of the Earth. In a sense,
we move about a surface parallel to the Earth's surface. The
earth, and our fatigue, — becoming tired. Now we go
surface of the Earth, finding its symptomatic expression in
run parallel to the surface of the Earth; we cannot but make
earthly field. Indeed, this is almost bound to be so if one
possibility than to interpret on the analogy of earthly
body that is far beyond this earthly world.
understood with the ideas we derive from earthly life. We
process that takes place in earthly life. We follow the
tendency of deformation in an earthquake or the like. We
follow such a process upon Earth in the direction of a line
issue from the Earth lose themselves outward in expanding
concretely, you would have to say: If causes on the Earth are
the Earth it tends apart, dispersing far and wide, here this

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVII
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of our Earth in changes that go on in man himself. We human
Earth. So long as we merely look at the movements from
of the Earth. Then there are processes very similar to these
Earth. I referred to the phenomena of fatigue occurring in
direction parallel to the surface of the Earth — that
and Earth.
radially upward from the Earth, up onto cosmic space.
kind. As the plant grows away from the Earth, so have we to
space, even from the Sun, towards the centre of the Earth.
this we have to seek the connecting line of Earth and Sun.
in this very line the line of movement both of Earth and Sun.
The lines of movement both of Earth and Sun are to be looked
Earth.
led to realize that Earth and Sun must be thought of as
than this: While on the Earth craters are formed by outward
things going on Earth if we were situated in the Earth's
though we should be witnessing earthly processes from the
Earth's centre; only for this comparison the Earth's inner
interior of the Earth becomes the exterior of the Sun. Taking
polar-opposite character of Earth and Sun. This too is most
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVIII
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what I said yesterday about the opposite character of Earth
On Earth
some such idea as this: whilst on the surface of the Earth an
surface of the Earth we should get into dense matter, so
at the Earth and the whole way it is placed into the
the Earth where we have denser matter enveloped by more
attenuated. As to the Earth, we think of air around it. Air is
materiality less dense than earthly matter, but if we call
the Earth's materiality positive, then in the Sun — in
it yesterday. The movement of Earth and Sun is such that the
Earth follows the Sun in the same path, in the same
and Earth. The Sun as a gathering of suctional forces goes on
in front, and by this suctional force the Earth is drawn on
Matter itself, — that is, earthly matter — is
body is related to ponderable earthly matter, and since it is
that man is related to earthly matter, we may compare man's
relation to earthly matter with the upright direction of the
the Sun and Earth we think of them as tending from the Earth
Earth-entity.
of Earth and Sun. If I press here with my finger, there will
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture I
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draw the mountains and rivers of the earth in their relation to one

Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture II
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earth, which is nonsense, or a kind of millennium in historical evolution
over the whole earth, or that an ordering of society holding good today

Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture III
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future be our aim. Then, all over the earth, if everyone (it would not be
organism. Today, were eastern culture to predominate, the earth would be

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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earth-life and is 'over-ripe'. (Men's heads are all over-ripe, even the

Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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the earthly projection of the music of the spheres. In truth, a tone of
than a memory) of earthly music. Thus it is that the music a man absorbs
after death the earthly music is transformed into the music of the spheres
person takes in here on earth plays a powerful role in fashioning his
what has preceded the child's earthly existence.

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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earthly, the ego will have been too strongly absorbed by the bodily
however, when we notice that a child is becoming too earthly, that the ego
becoming too earthly. But if through insight into the child's development,
with a child who is in danger of becoming too earthbound; we will lead such
altitudes on earth, or by introducing anything into our teaching of
man through his physical body here on earth? He is a being who lives in
born here on earth we are in constant movement in the spirit world: yes,

Title: Community Building
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earth that humanity tends innately toward the community life.
life of the soul. For the earthly life we note at certain
Such is the case for the earthly life. And, from having traced
earth, but of experiences in that world which the human being
passes through in his pre-earthly existence, when he is on the
new birth until the time of the descent to the earthly life. In
memories of the pre-earthly existence. This experience emerges
descended to the earth, we experienced together a world which
now appears before our souls on earth in the ritual.”
has before him in his earthly life that which is super-earthly
his spiritual environment when he was not in the earthly body.
directly into consciousness during the earthly life. And now to
but it is a world which isolates man in his earthly life. In
the earthly when he establishes a ritualistic form, so
within the earthly world and learned to know and understand
super-earthly into the power-permeated picture. When we

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of repeated earth lives, of karmic relationships in repeated
earth lives. Indeed, it is now possible to carry the whole
every moment of his life. Every earthly ritual is a copy of
than, any earthly ritual; and, if we truly absorb what has been
in this earthly world, unless it be this union, should be a

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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the powers that intervene in the course of earth
of evolution, a course during which the earth repeatedly
process of education in the course of Earth evolution.
Earth evolution as we know it. We come to a time when the
earth had taken a physical form in the cosmos that
evolution, i.e. the time when the earth materialized in a
nature. We say the earth attracts the bodies that are on
This would normally cease the moment Earth evolution
earth have been made in such a way that they need the
pre-earthly form of thinking into our earthly way of
way of thinking evolve in the Western world, with earthly
misdeeds and crimes judged by earthly judges who impose
beyond this earth and seen more as imperfections in the
the proceedings in an earthly court of law. The religious
punishments of the kind we know earthly courts of law
impulses similar to those that existed in pre-earthly
thinking here on earth evolved from earlier stages of
for the earthly way of thinking. It does however bring it
can stop at the point where as earth beings we let our
earth. We need to raise the experience our mineral body
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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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them through life on earth. The life of the mind was
Earth evolution, were still perceived gnostically. It
be found on earth since the Mystery of Golgotha. We are

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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stages of earth evolution.
earthly realm came very close to what people knew to be
on earth in human form. In this respect the earliest
earth. In this world, where human beings walked the
earth, not only ordinary human individuals were walking
everything that happened on earth. Those hierarchies were
the sublime power of the earth-born ‘priest
descended from cosmic heights and walked on the earth in
merely made them marvel that a god could walk on earth in
evolution on the civilized earth the ruler was God. At
realm close to the earthly realm — flowed into him,
the ruler was a divine spirit walking on earth. At the
exist side be side with the earthly realm, one that has
power streaming into the earthly realm, giving direction
The institutions and human individuals in the earthly
this earth. He stated very clearly that the social
structure of the priestly hierarchy here on earth, from
earthly hierarchy should truly reflect the heavenly
earthly principle were seen to be one: the Holy Roman
was also of earthly origin. The way the title evolved it
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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on earth, getting rid of everything that has evolved by
reflect on what would happen on this earth if these words
in the wider interest of humanity on this earth. It must
present life on earth. When we are thinking here and now,
the present earth life. Just think that there you have
earth life, I am continuing the life I had before birth
individual on this earth, to come together and God
human beings procreated here on earth. What their egotism
soul had been created, lived on earth and then come into
on earth. Aristotle imagined that a fresh soul was
created for every child, that this soul lived on earth
happened during one life on earth. If someone had

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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cosmic sphere, knowledge of the way the earth relates to
previous earth life, and that the rest of our present
People anywhere to know about repeated earth lives and so
church or the dogma of repeated earth lives. Real
earth life, and that the head you had then was the
earth. The rest of the organism as you see it now will be
comparable to the waking state for the earth and winter
the earth is asleep, in winter it is awake. I have gone

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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evolution of the earth and of humankind.
ground, the cloud formations, brown or grey earth and so
on that we see around us on this earth. The stars and
so on? No, the earth is far too far away for that.
Pointing a telescope at the earth the moon would be
kingdom is the highest on earth and because of this
teaches us what matter is on earth. We cannot know
anything about even the simplest of earthly forces if we
physics. You know it discusses gravitation, earthly
If I speak of childishness from the earthly point of view
the earth and that of heaven are different, alas, and it
become customary to speak in the most earthly terms

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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earth from Mars, for instance, none of these would
earth through some instrument or other — we may
observe the earth — would perceive nothing of the
skin of the human beings living on earth. Everything else
material world of the earth. When we grow aware of a
matter of the earth. This form of self-perception takes
processes that carry the affairs of the earth from one
earth's surface up to AD 140 has since disappeared and no
which exerts a downward pull here on earth, exerts an
provocative. Very few people on this earth however are
It has evolved out of our previous earth incarnation; it
thoughts, above all using earthly logic, that the
conservatism? What is liberalism? Here on earth they are

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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descended to earth from the world where it had existed as
a human being was indeed like the earthly home of a god
who who descended to earth to take up his abode among
all over the globe, the path to earthly and human
ancient divine knowledge and into earthlY and human
from the far reaches of the earth to look for a way in
the divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
knowledge. Thus there was a time in earthly history when
divine knowledge of the ancients to human and earthly
purpose the aim was to strike at the root of earthly and
activity to descend as far as the earth, as it were.
earth. The individuals concerned were the spiritualists
conquerors of all that this earth holds for you; you will
conquer the earth quickly and easily when you have a
Certain defects throughout the course of Earth evolution.
descending completely and taking up its mission on earth.
mission on earth to prevent their further development,
for which the earth would provide the basis. The very
wishes to teach it. The way people are here on earth is
then also the whole of life on earth in a new light. Life
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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earthly human being. They were therefore less interested
in the earthly human being than they were in the heavenly
they had been before they became earthly. That is the
into physical existence on earth. Their conviction of
earth and had descended from a spiritual world into the
presented life on earth as a continuation of life in
word to express that the beginning of an earth life is
life on earth did not merit much attention, for it was
walking around on this earth was merely the image of a
earth was illumined by insight into the spiritual
happened among human beings here on earth, always in so
of the previous life on earth. The other parts of the
human being will be the head in the next life on earth.
inhabitants of the earth endowed with soul and spirit as
merely to deal with earthly problems. If it is developed
being on earth was a continuation of the divine model.
being reaching down into the human being on earth.
and death on this earth to life between death and
element present here on earth to the spheres beyond this
earth?’ That indeed is the great question
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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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produced. Humans are dependent on the earth's productivity where these
earth, the Christ who will represent the power that once walked on earth
this earth. It was considered a virtue to rise to a life that was not of
concerned with earthly matters. ‘There can be no such thing as a
as they are today already have a whole number of earth lives behind them.
We live through repeated earth lives. In earlier earth lives we ourselves
brought the fruits of those earlier earth lives into our present life.
the contents of our intellect. But out of the many earth lives we have
many earth lives.
we now find ourselves in, is also the starting point for future earth
earlier earth lives. Everything we take in of the outside world in this
earth life will provide the germ for faculties we shall have in future
earth lives. In the past, people came to see elemental spirits active in
the world of nature outside. When we were on earth before we looked at
we do something about it this will form the basis for future earth lives
preparing oneself for future earth lives — to allow ahrimanic
economic life in future earth lives. The roar of cannon fire at the front
unconscious when we rise again in our next earth life. But human beings
strength the earth itself cannot provide. This is the strength that has
come to the earth from outside through the essential Christ who is about
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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earliest embodiment of this earth, which we call Ancient
call our I or ego relates essentially to the earth as it
present earth? It means that inherent in the elements of
the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
bound up with the forces of the earth.
relates to the present earth. This immediately suggests
earthly realm. As human beings we have the potential to
developed to go beyond this earthly realm; we will have
to develop it without taking the earthly realm as our
guide. As human beings we are part of this earth and our
The forces of the earth, the intrinsic nature of the
earth, served as our guide in developing the ego to the
continue with this development for the rest of Earth
to the earth and its forces. Yet we also have to say to
ourselves that if we were entirely dependent on the earth
life-spirit and a spirit-self. The earth has nothing to
earth must be seen as something that cannot in itself
make us into full human beings. We are on this earth and
depends on the earth being succeeded by Jupiter, Venus
however, we are on this earth. We have to develop on this
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