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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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ancient instinctive clairvoyance was already greatly dimmed. Men's
To-day in our great learning we agree that we do not know what the
sensed when he felt mathematics to be like great poetry —
great mystery of earthly life was imparted from two different sides.
the great wide universe. There we experienced what could be
after death. These forces worked with great intensity in the ancient

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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and conclusions of great importance to human life.
fourteenth year. Hence we can have so great an influence on the moral

Title: Education for Adolescents
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within them an extraordinarily great interest in the world outside of
feelings are concerned, pain only becomes greater the more we think
concerned, this does not really make such a very great difference. By
the children must say to themselves: “Great thunder and

Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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affairs, a great deal that has been lost, and must be renewed. The art I
consciousness they knew a great deal about these realities. But this
to which the great German thinker ascribed a conceptual faculty,

Title: Lecture: Awakening to Community - I
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held, to discuss at greater length the subject originally intended
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
without any great inner stirrings into the will tendencies of the

Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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of investigation which may seem highly improbable to a great many
this brings us to the question: Where were the souls of the greater
religion. Their hearts were turned in aspiration to a great Spiritual
people had a living and vivid experience of one great Spirit
pantheistic impulse, connected with the worship of one great
generations, say to the age of Charles the Great and even earlier,
many enigmas today — unless we realize that a great many souls
great many men were able to form very clear and definite conceptions
were men who indulged in a great deal of speculation, but their
concern me — the birth of Alexander the Great, for instance —

Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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science, but which sheds great light on the mystery of man's being.
days man was still to a great extent united with nature; he did not
is already responsible for the great progress made in natural
scientific thinking. However great Plato and Aristotle were, they did
spiritual scientist sees this as the greatest event that has ever
strong to an ever greater and greater degree.
Nazareth,’ a person no greater than a somewhat more
this Impulse, which is the greatest and most powerful Impulse in the
knowledge in order to show mankind the greatest Event of human
disharmonious to an ever greater degree — because the
evolution into the age of great and outstanding perceptions of an
which had its beginnings in the Great Age of Germany. Then what is
greatest need.
shall acquire great respect for their intellectual
ours that has such a great heritage, to tread the path to the spirit

Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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such things, a great deal may be conjectured about the inner being of
over. Another great error in modern thought is to imagine that one
real understanding of the true greatness of oriental philosophy, for
that is great and holy in the oriental nature, he gains a knowledge
great are not possessed by the others, and we can understand these
and knows that this is necessary. If he discovers what is great and
of all the great philosophers who, having thought about Nature and
question as well. Nearly every great German Philosopher has been
Now here lies a great danger. Whereas the
Westerners, this is the great responsibility facing the West at the
danger, but also the great responsibility. The danger is that the
by assimilating all that is idealistic, great and beautiful in other
individual ‘man of flesh’ there is another man, greater
of greatness in Middle Europe, with the internationalism of
place in the great chorus of the peoples on the Earth that it

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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in our day the question of morality is of the greatest urgency

Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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time, when we go out into the streets of a great city and
become for many of those who want to be regarded in the great
great Universe out of which man is born, in order that our
great world of Nature. They were full of thanksgiving for the
sun's rays, full of reverence for the great Universe —
repose to a state of exultant abandonment to great
devoted a great deal of time to research among the Germanic
among the country people. Later on he told me a great deal
even greater significance. We know that in the Mysteries
great a certainty there stands before our souls the
Religion, Art and in the whole life of humanity. The great
will celebrate the great Easter Festival, the Resurrection

Title: Memory and Love
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gives me great satisfaction to be able to speak to you today
world into the physical we go through the great oblivion. Who with
the spiritual world and lived there in the way described. The great

Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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today is made to cover a great deal. I refer to the expression: the
in consciousness in ordinary day-to-day life, show so great a dependence
the instrumentality of consciousness is of great significance, it is no
it were like a wave in a great sea, a wave that is organised within
preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he would
for the support of the spiritual makes itself felt in the soul, a great
that when you experience something consciously in waking life, a great
time between going to sleep and waking is of great significance in its
find a disintegration of the soul into the greatest possible number of
short, we live our way into the cosmos with far greater intensity than

Title: Lecture: About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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to observe that he is really a spectator to a far greater extent than

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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and they look upon it as a great achievement, that this
is at the back of the great crisis we are going through now;
able to come in, and to show the great connections; because
I wanted to throw into the discussion to-day. A very great
economy; and that is the point. There are a great many
picture post-cards, and I write a great many: it contributes
It has not got a great many books, which are in great demand;
[Spoken during the time of the great inflation

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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attended for the greater part by working men only. The
really a great deal here, which was thrown to the winds,
when I concluded a great number of my speeches in those days
arrangement. So great is the external power of the State
get further, when people have hearts and minds for the great
great motor forces to-day.
said a great deal to the same effect before now, and all in
vain; — namely that it is a question of the great motor
bringing the great world-moving questions of the day really
towards a great many movements of all kinds. I myself could

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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out with the greatest hopes of achieving something, but soon
Such examples he describes in great numbers, and others have
exercises is a great help in enabling something to happen.
great mistake to imagine that the scientist of spirit becomes a
means a great deal to those who look at life in a one-sided
great discovery that we make.
For they indeed make great demands upon us. We have to take
the rocks of human evolution, however great the pressure
through, however great the weight of opposition and slander

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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great family, to cut each other to pieces. This judgment, the
each day brings a very great deal. Catastrophic events breaking
Germany who were deceived and thought he was a great man for
says, who perhaps even make great mistakes. What Grimm and
great difference — on the one hand a personal
Wilson could offer no greater proof of what he described as
being, inasmuch as he belongs to the great dream of history
evolved, and that a great change then comes about, under whose
happens in history when we are able to appreciate such great,
science of spirit certainly leads to the great religious
if they found that we have constantly to speak about the great
out of the great spirit out of which they spoke then?
than the kind of understanding that has produced such great

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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what spiritual angle they come. And there is still a great
a state of evolving. When the Great Flood of Atlantis had
a great step forward. It was the same in the second
example, during the Egypto-Chaldean period man had a great
for they may do great harm to what actually has to come
School belongs to the very greatest of them all.But that does

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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page he finds a great deal to grumble at because the tone of
we are living, to a greater extent than we realise, within a
found in the Earth. When the great Atlantean flood had
not yet discovered and a great deal still rests in the bosom
humanity. A great deal too has already been said and has not

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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conceive of the Earth as s great sphere in universal space,
very great deal will have to be done in the future if we are
incorrect theories have made the illusions far greater than
sense; but it must do so again to a greater degree. Men must
consciousness will be of great significance, especially
great deal of abstract talking today about the ages or
about and written about in the present day has no greater
judge with greater kindliness and not to be so critical,
spread. And a great many other things are connected with this

Title: The Ten Commandments
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understanding of the revelation regarding the greatness, the
these ancient Rishis, these great teachers of the
who had to prepare the great event through which the spiritual,
gigantic pyramids were built. A great army of people was needed
there was still great effectiveness of these physical forces.
fountainhead, the great World-I, that the realm of the surging,
image of the individual “I,” that was the great
From these viewpoints we will understand how this great
regarding the divine had to be after-images of the great
people to have time to prepare for the greatest event, the
Mystery of Golgotha, then one sees exactly what a great

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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the world recognises as the great men of history were not really the
greatest; the greatest, the Initiates, kept in the background.
“Jacob, Jacob, today you are small, but one day you will be great.
between Boehme and his visitor, who was a great Initiate, and the source
in the world. In this way all the great advances in the development
great treasure of occult knowledge of all ages to be made accessible

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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Nor do these legends grow up by chance: the great Initiates created
will take much greater care to speak the truth and avoid lies than if
a battle appears like a great thunderstorm, fiery flashes of lightning,
need not involve any great discoveries; they may belong to everyday

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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certain relationship; but even so there is a great, decisive difference
entire life appears before his soul in a moment, like a great tableau.
Something like this can happen during life, in rare moments of great
from a great height, when death seems imminent, may see his whole life
him, for he will have worked greatly on himself. The remaining part

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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power to the great laws of nature, it was the wisdom of nature which
spiritual affinity continues with great intensity. The circumstances of

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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the great changes in the countenance of the Earth, and also the greatly
importance. It may happen that a person who went through a great deal

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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faculties so early. Our age sins greatly in this respect. Care must
of the great men of history, but there must be no talk of “this
teachers, since the future of mankind depends on it. Here a great
These are the great basic
Theosophy can be drawn from a study of the great law of karma: a law
of karma answers the great human question: why are children born into
to wealth, perhaps endowed also with great talents and surrounded by
to failure — or a child may have great abilities but no chance
everyone recognises, and it is this great natural law of cause and effect
the world is really one great unity and brotherhood. And just as in

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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ideas, experiences, feelings, and all this produces great changes in
the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon, for example, were cholerics.
anything else. If, however, a man has learnt a great deal from experience
was this that gave occult leaders their great power.
related to physical heredity? Physical heredity plays a great role;
Bernoulli was a great mathematician, and eight other gifted mathematicians
to the next. In a family, then, where a great deal of music is performed,

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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himself a great deal that was later externalised. And today he still
members of the Order were specially trained for their great work. The
even of the external world. We are led to these great interconnections by
into a force, and he carries a great number of such forces with him

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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individualities, we find a remarkable passage. But the great Initiates

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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a great cosmic event took place: the whole vast ether-body contracted
A great number of the
Moon carried off with it a great part of the forces that human beings
within himself. And with this something further of great importance
in consequence the Earth had to endure great upheavals, convulsions
had greatly changed, and had acquired a form which resembled the form

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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how the great Initiate selected from the primal Semites, who were living
The Indian could find no Divinity in nature; it was in great and powerful
a great wisdom governing all natural processes; that everything happened
in accordance with great laws, and these they tried to fathom. The ancient
There is a great and powerful

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
over egotistically to them. The greatest artists owe their greatest
Here, in place of individual Gurus, there is one great Guru, Christ
way, which leaves the pupil with the greatest possible independence.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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by the great teachers of humanity, conditions were much simpler: stealing
strive to need nothing. Even if you have great possessions, in so far as
a great loss for human development, especially for development in the
be a great change. Man will learn to extend the range of his innate
is an idea which opens up a great perspective for the future; and when
the great Guru is Christ Jesus Himself. Hence it is essential to have
the great Guru Himself and can itself be a source of instruction. This
Washing of the Feet. We must understand the significance of this great

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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learned men were also those of the greatest faith and piety; and for
“I”. It is in the whole great world outside, in the sun
only a small part of the Great Self outside. Certain methods of so-called
but to seek to know the Great Self which shines down into us. The lower
world and to gaze into themselves. That is a great illusion, for then
we study as how we study. If we study the great truths, for instance
nothing about planetary systems, we show great egoism. True wisdom
connection between the great world and the small, or between man and the
way? There is a great difference between the Earth seen by the occultist
it as merely a sort of great lifeless ball, with an interior not very
moment when we think and feel, we are working on the great structure of
as the one great Truth. The more a man renounces himself and sets his
own opinions aside, becoming instead a channel for the great Truth,

Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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is of great importance to have the right direction of ideas, at any
example, how great is the leap from kinematics into mechanics. The
so many times greater than the force needed to make a gramme go a
as to reveal the very great importance of what is here involved. For

Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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say it moves with a greater or lesser “velocity”. Let us
greater or it may be smaller. So long as we go no farther than to
accordingly, we shall say that the point has a greater or lesser
only happens to a slight extent we can still bear it; if to a great
observe as an objective phenomenon in Physics, is of great importance
in greater detail in due time. Now in and with the light the colours

Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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goes through less matter — the force of it is greater than

Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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great significance. What I am trying to make clear is what here
a great difference there is between taking the phenomena purely as
Please set great store by this. Mere spun-out theories and

Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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it still is to a great extent today. There have indeed been

Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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Friends, our bodily nature is indeed of the greatest interest even
great achievements of modern Physics; it is in truth a very great

Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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like that is of untold significance; nothing could be of greater
or oscillations. We must make greater demands on the qualitative

Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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had discovered something of very great significance. He had found
led upon the one hand to the great triumphs in materialistic
revolutions. They seem like great and shattering events in social
revolution has here been going on, far greater in its domain than
I cannot go into these phenomena in greater detail, but I should
and bone in different ways and have thus proved of great importance
madness! Often and often, when speaking of the greatest activities
great spiritual streams to which the web and woof of the world is
great all-embracing agencies of Cosmic Evolution.

Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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effective. At the beginning of the War we suffered greatly because

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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great riddles of existence scientifically from a different
fact that great and outstanding scientists of the present time
a book, even from a scientific viewpoint, has great
great emphasis to the need for the coming into being of a
by Dubois-Reymond, the great physiologist, which I have
which the human soul turns to in great longing
greater view of life. We guide the will into our life of images
about the connection of air to a greater mass of air which is
any particular religious confession. It is the greatest

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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great unconscious sphere of purely material atoms and
nature of man independently of the bodily nature. However great
city — a city where a great
It is a great moment when the scientist of spirit has
arbitrarily. — It is a great
the great mysteries of existence. One feels as a scientist of
Of all the great number of personalities who could be
in the world as belonging to a great, beautiful, worthy
nature of the outer world, and that the great harmony between

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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19th century which has given a great deal of support to a
greatly in their capacity to react to the being of heat. Through
process. A great deal pertaining to our condition of life rests on
nothing of the kind. His stride is greater than that of the tortoise.
to a greater or lesser extent, are of such a nature that in order to
is not usually considered as empty space but the greatest possible
great a misleading effect on the observers of the 19th
great. This is because in the time since Goethe the whole physical
and are small and conceived of as separated by relatively great
through this pressure one can measure how great the temperature is. It
foundation. A great deal of pride is taken in this so-called
opposed to the real. The understanding of this is of great importance
heat in particular. There are also great inorganic processes that are
would be to disagree with reality. In the face of the great phenomena

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture II
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Also since the expansion is greater the higher the temperature, I have
whose denominator is greater than its numerator, then when I square or
occupied by the quicksilver becomes greater. It sinks at first, and
ancient Greeks. And at this time was formed that great chasm between
then it becomes a matter of great importance that entirely different
takes place, we have a great deal of difficulty in answering on the

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IV
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other. The greater the pressure the smaller the volume, and the
greater the volume the smaller must be the pressure acting on the gas.

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture V
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greater than the part, etc. The basis of our mathematical concepts
probably greatly astonish you. Let us suppose you have advanced
becoming a greater mechanist than before. An orderly occult training

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VI
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on the substance we are using. The tension is greater in the case of
considerably greater when we raise the temperature. When we cool the
sufficiently great pressure, it will melt at a temperature below its
Then we will have, indeed, taken a great step ahead. We have advanced

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VII
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gaseous also belongs to it. Now there comes about a great distinction

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VIII
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if we would produce work. Only recollect how great a part of our
reaction of the whole great system as the reaction of my whole
great whole in which the perpetuum mobile seeks to arise. The form of
of similarity between matter and heat becomes greater and greater as I

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IX
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have seen that great difficulties arise when we try in this way to
heat to his surroundings. This in turn involves a smaller or greater
with a representation in the greatness of nature herself, which is an

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture X
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a great deal of body building. The nearer we approach the condition of
childhood, the greater the body building, and as we take on years

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XI
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rays. This has not yet been fully demonstrated and it is of very great
particles with each other and with the walls of the vessel. A great

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XII
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equilibrium, and when the difference is great a larger quantity is
becoming greater when this is large and less when it is small. That is,
how much heat I will need to get a certain degree of conduction. The greater
is, the greater will be the amount. Thus the
Finally, the whole process is dependent upon time. A greater effect is
blossom color above. If, by the employment of a sufficiently great

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIV
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account of the great size of the earth, we find we are really dealing
coin phrases and accumulate great amounts of money to perpetuate their

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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entirely different languages of the soul. This is so to a far greater
wear it, often to their great annoyance.
extraordinarily great. And now there is a very symptomatic phenomenon
we shall find this great difference. The forms of the thoughts have
the other by. The individual's greatest interest is only in
Goethe but also a great deal of what was there in the Middle Ages and
century, it was said that the great pioneer of the nineteenth century

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greatest warmth of youth, broke out into the vaguest expressions
human perception there still lived a great deal of what was old.
ago all this was quite a matter of course. Today a great deal is said
Christ away from Jesus pass as the greatest theologians today. Quite
concerning the greatest Event that has ever happened in evolution.
am not overlooking its great merits — will, in spite of

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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great progress, naturally attaches the greatest importance to the
great change took place in the middle of the fifteenth century: this
of understanding it at all. And for a great number of University
a little child, he needs the greatest amount of sleep. If ever a
the spatial sense, but its greatness could be experienced. His soul
I really do not find any very great difference between those people

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IV
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thermometer, so we can find out a great deal about the undercurrents
Nietzsche felt something of great significance.
great comforter, helping to overcome what was lacking in material
the Greeks had set up as the great consoler for the material life
its ideals.” This was a moment of great pain for Nietzsche. For
the whole age as a great man — but whom he had unmasked as a
has not always been emphasized. A great deal that has been said about
wish to feel the greatest enjoyment in the absence of enjoyment. That
absence of enjoyment is their greatest enjoyment shows us how they
view of psychology a very great deal might be learnt from it.
The achievements of the modern age are great. The moment the human

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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the greatest disaster for humanity if this had not happened. There

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VI
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great many people think thus about the solution of the world-riddle.
epochs, we find a great range of inner impulses arising like
great deeds,” are true. But if we speak truly and not in mere
described before. Great and pure love, working from within outwards,
great demand of the future — must permeate social life.

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VII
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a great part of humanity has been asleep to this youth movement. When
for the soul in the later Middle Ages, have to a great extent been
the picture given, let us say, by Albertus Magnus, as the great
others but Herbart had a great influence on education up to the last
great deal of confidence in a man who faced the hidden being in one
great extent a sleeping draught for the soul. People were actually
evolution had arrived at a point where people said with great
into the laps of those who have had this great longing. Indeed the
great rejection, a rejection of something which was there, which man
could not use for his innermost being. And behind this great
experience the greatest thirst for air. But the lung cannot out of
because the child takes in a great deal that is based on tradition.
father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Thus tradition and

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture VIII
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consider the great difference here between the souls of the present
what shines through with the greatest intensity out of the previous
philosophers say has no great influence, but it is symptomatic of
what their age considered of greatest value — in other respects
emptier of spirit. They hoped, for instance, for always greater
microscope — which, with ever greater perfection, allows one to
our present age enters with the greatest intensity into the spiritual

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture IX
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something of the greatest significance for the intercourse between
great problems of world-culture. If one really looks into life today
needed to meet the challenges of life. The great German writers
have come to know a great deal. But it never leads us nearer to the

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great age. This was a matter of course. Why? Because what exists
bring an offering to the great God of Nature by lighting a
great scene:
rejects for Faust the great tableau of the macrocosm and allows only
greatest age the soul and spirit were on the ascent, how the soul is
consciousness to a far greater age. Herein consists the evolution of
can at most reach a greater degree of proficiency but make no
the great experience contained in the difference there is when we
the right way, can be of the greatest significance for the epoch of

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just because he knows a great deal. This leads to absolute absurdity.
educate somebody who will be greater than we. It is impossible to
to say, he was a materialist, and that was why he had so great a

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we to go back to the first epoch after the great Atlantean
soul-spiritual nature. But these men did not ascribe any great
suffering from the great cultural disease of modern times,
great transition to this newer age consists in man meeting man free
now let me tell you quite frankly when the great step forward in
in practical everyday life we must be right within this great
become impoverished. Yet it is of the greatest importance that we

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NATURALLY a great deal
the whole of Dante's great poem. Then came the time when
dragon must now begin, for the power of the dragon has become great!
soul. Nowadays a great deal of what constitutes a library is only

Title: Lecture: Lecture I: Occult Signs and Symbols
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of great importance to do exercises such as the following. At first,

Title: Lecture: Lecture II: Occult Signs and Symbols
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influences. What the eye sees is of far greater importance, for it
great parson”. Because there emanated such a deepening from
these great souls, the Rhine was named at that time, “Europe's
Great Parson Street”. Do you know where these soul forces were
great ideas of initiates. Human souls take up the force of these
fact, they lived in vessels, under the influence of great initiates,
reflected image. To present this in greater detail would take us too
turf, slime or spinach was formed. The greatest densification

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however, a deep reason for the great Pythagoras to tell his pupils
him, On the Divisions in Nature which reveals a great
inner warmth poured itself out over great numbers of people. Not only
greatest things in the world have gone forth from the thoughts of the
life a great deal can be done by observing certain laws of education.
great importance. This is why, in the past, at the direction of those

Title: Lecture: Lecture IV: Occult Signs and Symbols
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the great world, the macrocosmos; in us, the small world, the
which, to be sure, has a great future connection with the heart. At
forth all that is in the world today is the great prototype of men.
grouping of the five group souls, the four of man around the great
The time will then draw near in which great changes will take
sword projecting from his mouth. In a symbolism of great profundity,
essence of world force and of great cosmic essence. This world spirit

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soul into a different relation with the great events from which the
The Easter Festival makes great demands upon man's powers of
And so the great Christian Mystery is illustrated in a threefold way
that the tenor and mood of the human soul has undergone great changes
been the simple shepherds in the fields who with their great purity of
them to pupils specially chosen because of their greater maturity of
he regarded as being akin to a great and wonderful Hymn.
the revelation made to the three Magi from the East. The great mystery
before birth. We were living then in the great universe, experiencing

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east. Then the great Flood came and after that colonies were

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a great sum-total of the phenomena of Life is really included.
passage through the Roman world? It became that great System of Law
these Russian revolutionaries write to one another. They greatly

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When I have had occasion in recent years to speak on any of the great
widespread sorrow of the times, and to recall only the greatest Event
You all know those persons who to a great extent are responsible,
greater part of these self-vindicating books?” I have tried from
become the great World-misunderstanding which now fills the hearts and
Ahriman's appearance on earth. A great many of the exponents of the
of the Divine and the Diabolical. It is the great error of modern
to them Divine, and Ahrimanic qualities. And a great part of that
Leonardo, who once as you know, painted in Milan his great picture,
wanted to put a great deal into it, and could never finish it, because

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speak of other great difficulties in the entrance of the Science of
importance to us, but it is of great importance to the Cosmos. This
taking in these great truths with the deep earnestness with which they
as the greatest illusion. What does the man of the present day really
make when we give ourselves up to the great illusion of modern
never tired of speaking of the greater value of pre-Socratic Greek
Socrates a great age came in for Mankind, an age which reached its
arisen the greatness of Greek culture itself, that unique ancient art,
Lucifer had given to the evolution of the earth, was the greatest
soul-content, however, is a great hallucination — certainly a
of the Mystery of Golgotha. Just as it is in the greatest interest of
his greatest interest that man should cherish more and more a form of
realize that a great part of the creeds existing today is the
No greater service could be done to Ahriman than to make sure that a
great number of people do not read anthroposophical literature. I have

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Science, through contemplation of the great Cosmic events. How does
sources — to the great human relations, and to feel for the whole

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great and insistent are the demands of the present moment as regards
ideas. I had pointed out two great dangers in the domain of thought,
two expressions defining the two great foes of human spiritual
great period of German evolution, a personality such as Schiller, was
sorely needs is the greatest earnestness in the sphere of Spiritual

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great, nature is not simple but highly complicated. We can
greater measure that the outer structure of the brain does,
if you take a series of ideas) that bear a great resemblance,
course, that to a great extent the human being is a column of
objects, a great deal can be said about them, but it is not the
are greatly significant in the organism, it is known how to and

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a few hints about this wide and all embracing domain. A great
animal retain a greater resemblance to the outer organization,
organism. Sense-perceptible, empirical science has a great deal
research. This is of the greatest significance, for only in

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threefold nature of the physical human being is of the greatest
arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one that can be
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness
human being to disease ceases to a great extent. The system of
itself can offer the human being the greatest possibility of
not yet sexually mature. If it were otherwise, a great many
here may make a great deal appear fantastic. Everything can

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process that arises in greater intensity when a remedy is
activity and also, to a great extent, conceptual activity
tract will be stimulated to greater activity. The stomach and
in the eye lies in the domain of pure optics. A great deal in
perspiration. Great attention should be paid to this, for
does indeed lead to certain goals, but with this method a great
synthetic remedies we can learn a great deal by understanding
great deal, too, can be found in our literature, and there are

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regions embraced by material empiricism. I lay great stress upon this
In all her manifestations, small and great, Nature is highly
great results when it is a question of mastering reality, but the
about the structure of the brain. It has been proved in ever greater
will bear a great resemblance, for instance, to Meynert's
great extent the human being is a column of fluid. But now ask
objects, a great deal can be said about them. But it is not the same

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great deal, therefore, of what I have to say will be based upon an
the animal retain a greater resemblance to their constitution in the
in short with an astral organism. Empirical science has a great deal
for true investigation. This is of the greatest significance, for
root or even the seed. There is a great difference between a decoct

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great importance. Very little heed is paid nowadays to what I have
greatest significance for pathology and therapy. According to this
senses. This is a relationship of great significance.
this way we arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one which
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness occurs,
ceases to a very great extent. The system of education which it was
can afford the human being the greatest possibility of health during
otherwise, a great many diseases would attack the sexual organs.
make a great deal appear fantastic. Everything can, nevertheless, be
then a great deal which seems to have been left rather in the air

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most delicate metamorphosis of the process which arises in greater
Ego-activity, for instance. This Ego-activity and also, to a great
greater activity. The stomach, and subsequently the intestinal
optics. A great deal in the eye can be beautifully depicted if one
heart and lungs. A disturbance may arise here. The greater the age of
plastic forces. In this type of disease it is of great importance to
that there is less perspiration. Great attention should be paid to
be fruitful. It does indeed lead to certain goals, but a great deal
that some of our doctors will have done so in other lectures. A great

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great deal of what one knows has to be brought together. And so just
manifests in the great world outside in gigantic and majestic
majesty and grandeur out there in the great cosmos, goes on
This is the great and powerful picture given us in the approach of
ordering in relation to human beings. And all the great paintings and
great, genuine works of art arise, the great works that were created
the bunglers with all kinds of frippery till the real greatness that
great artistic motifs of painting and sculpture never would have
of mankind. The Michael Festival must be linked with a great and

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century, a greatness which cannot be sufficiently admired. When one
partakers in things of great significance.
still greater importance. When a promotion of Michael has been

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from many different sides, and have seen it to be the great centre of
the Christ Event as the great centre of gravity of human evolution.
the great transition was occurring from a life in outward surroundings
bring a greater deepening to human souls, and which will have an
The Event itself stands there as the great turning-point in human

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become the great world-misunderstanding which now fills the hearts and

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those great social problems which mankind is urgently called
greater and ever greater grew the following of this Utopia in
are obliged to speak, because the great audit of accounts is
ground from which one can attempt to approach the great
said, that the great anxiety, the great problem of
basis for a great science of the natural world, but is bound to
for great measures of social reform. This university-made
the World-Catastrophe, which is the great
themselves evolve what then is to be the salvation of the great
is the great creed, and such the mis-practice of life amongst
those great questions were gathering, which to-day can only
about which people are fighting today, there is a great deal
consequences, this great, new, up-welling life-impulse,
of life in all the great questions of world-politics in modern
itself! — Or else, — to the great misfortune of the
one which sets a great task before us; the task of combining

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first we shall attach great importance to cultivating the
and his greatest imaginable joy will be when he puts

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great veneration — whereas it is absent from Occidental
life as a day in the great year of the universe, so that again
great cosmic process. If you look at it more closely, the

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as if doctors, turning into great pedagogues, were to
technical-industrial bias, we should render the school a great
service. For just imagine what a great cultural problem the
from seven to fifteen years of age; in these years a great deal
what the child can love, but he can absorb a great deal of
of the greatest importance, particularly socially, will be the
it is always tyranny to attach the greatest value to the prose,
Only in linking up in this way with the great facts of the

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say a great deal to the child which he will only understand
educating conceals a great tragedy, and this tragedy again is
assimilation of teaching in this case is of the greatest
into play. The greatest value must not first of all be attached
acquire a feeling which has also to a great degree already died
structure of language contains the greatest wisdom. And you can
language works at its construction means a great deal. This
ceremony, people would have been stunned by it, so great was

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to the part. This has the great advantage for education and
greatness! Not to mention the people who knew him, whom

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summarize the steps taken in great detail, this is the
greater maturity, what he could not understand before. There
great mark of progress that their former state is at last a
greatly when the children are passed every year to a fresh
are people who can remember great passages of prose in contrast
there don't even want to know anything about the greatest
learnt a great deal, that they have gone far beyond

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here it is of great importance to know that the development to
to the great God of nature — a rebellion against what
himself towards that end, he won Schiller's great admiration

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point he begins to take an inner interest in the great
again does the child a great deal of harm. We should concern
great a distance from life and teach the child empty
infected with the thought: “Of course I know a great deal

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will achieve a great deal by simply remembering that for
all so-called foreign language teaching the greatest waste of
process their thoughts are borrowed to a greater extent from
will take you yourself a great deal of time to discover

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curriculum, to pay attention to the greater or lesser aptitudes
are. But we shall nevertheless be able to remould to a great
to what gives the children the greatest imaginable pleasure: to
You will discover that it gives the children really great
in a foreign language greater regard must be paid to making
popular, such incidents are staged with great enthusiasm, and
composition to any great extent in the elementary
in this way. You will save a great deal of time and, besides

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indicate the great rivers and draw their course on the
great ocean, and gradually open his eyes to the fact that there
greatest understanding to bear on such teaching. You can now
This, of course, imposes upon you a great responsibility, but
rock-substance. Particularly here you can do a great deal

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the subconscious plays a great part along with consciousness
great significance for the entire complexion of the human soul
must always remain a matter of great satisfaction to see people
certain branches of industry are of the very greatest benefit
such a notebook he would derive a great deal of benefit from
great joy, because it proves that geometry books written in
because the Benedictines are a Catholic order who take a great
Certainly, by overcoming great difficulties, he can learn it
difficulties. You do the child a great kindness if you teach
of great significance. We shall have to make compromises, as

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finishing touch. The great problems for us arise at the
not to estrange children too greatly from modern life.
great deal of simple talking with the children. We read to them
that is of great benefit to the growing child. The first school
instrument. This, again, will prove a great boon to the child.
see in this connection we must naturally pay great attention to

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it with feelings of greater obedience if it is sent to his
of nature. We have taken great pains, too — and I hope
and talk a great deal about themselves when they are still only
teach about plants so that a great deal is left to the child's

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do this as teachers, it would be greatly to be deplored. We
remembered it sufficiently. Naturally a great many things ought

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mother-body. Now this breathing signifies a very great deal for the
friends, it makes a very great difference whether one teacher of the

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influenced great numbers of people, founded its educational standards
in it the character of existence or being are subject to a great
One of the great mistakes of the last period of man's evolution during
such. Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am), is the greatest
consciousness will is really a very great enigma. It is the crux of
pre-natal life. And this cognising, which possesses great reality
heightened antipathy. You could have no memory if you had so great a
great love, albeit selfish love, we want to hold it fast in the body,
easily see that there is a great difference between the formation of

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from a misconception of a really great achievement of physical
It is the great stumbling-block to any understanding of man. For as
This question presents a great dilemma for the philosophy of modern
either; for a great many animals, and particularly the higher animals,
upon which great cosmic events continuously play themselves out. I

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himself (to a greater or lesser degree) as a plurality, in contrast to
done again. I do not, however, lay the greatest stress on the mental
This has a great significance in the development of the human being.
We must take great care that there are men who know that progress in
presentation of the thing is of the greatest importance: after that it
has a great effect upon the development of the will. In the first

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This can show us to what a great extent willing in man's practical
dispute which — at all events externally — was of great
the eye, the ear, the nose, etc., all in one great abstraction as
should find such a great difference between them that we should lose

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need to light a ball of paper and immediately great clouds of smoke
of sleep. For if you were awake it would mean the greatest pain
really experiences in such action, with a greatly dimmed consciousness
“Faust” — at least the greater part of it. This was how

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great many old people become quite feeble-minded.” A favourite
consistency, the materialists argue that even such a great man as Kant
get nothing at all from the book as a whole, but a great deal from

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that the interest we arouse for the animal world becomes greater and
greater. The greater the interest such lessons arouse the more they
great extent towards making his memory strong and efficient. For the
combinations of the senses. Besides that, we have a great many

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life. That is to say, you must take great care to talk over with the
It is of very great importance to make it your constant and conscious
rightly and with greatest power.
that the world is moral. This is the greatness and sublimity in the
imitated. Thus the child lives in the past and is to a great extent a

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greater capacity for seeing forms, they were not wrong in speaking of
I have always found that for most men there is a great difficulty in
the vertebral forms. This made a great impression on Goethe. It drove
miniature; and the limbs as part of a great heavenly body which
you have great feelings for the universe which arise from ideas such
order to practise that great art of life, the art of education, are
only kindled by contemplation of the great universe and its

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absolutely unformed. This is the great secret of man: when he is born
that the child brings something of great consequence to meet you. He
someone who has greater possibilities than he. We must of course
than we are. We can learn a great deal from the articulation of
way we should inevitably have a great gap in human development. Man

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him ill. And if he can eat a great deal of unripe fruit, like
there is an illness the medicine of to-day sets the greatest value on
this, these gentlemen will not be able to bring about too great a
whole series of shadows. You make a great mistake if you believe that

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expression of something of great significance in the whole life of
out at the forehead. (This turning inside out is a process of great
towards these things unless we appreciate their very great
examination you are assimilating a great deal in opposition to your

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A thing of the very greatest importance, a thing to be particularly

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again, I would like to consider in greater depth the first
our feelings by themselves have no greater intensity in our

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possible to any great extent to speak for the scientifically

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to us as only part of a great whole. In this way, for the
world in general, there is a great lack of clarity. Let us
exercises in forgetting can be practiced with greater force,
practicing self-discipline, which gives us a greater capacity

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later in greater detail, we are in a position to advance from
fully conscious way, with greater penetration of the will

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presented in greater depth. Today, however, I would point out
characteristic form of memory pictures but with a greater
lectures one cannot go into any great detail. We may form a
this way we develop a great inner mobility of soul —
relation to his environment. Naturally, a great deal is
recognizes there are great questions in outer life, and that
they require answers. It does not overlook what is great and

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Dante. In the study of history one will meet with great
It aims for the greatest possible exactness and not some sort

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our joy they have in fact appeared in great numbers. It is
us with great social questions. But above all we seek to take

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learning. But that is not really true; there is no greater joy than
of the great festival that reminds us that the Christ entered our
Our great ideal is to cultivate this

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but what I did see gave me great pleasure. I saw how patiently and
to love your teachers. You can be sure that in the great building that

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above all, that there are people who are taking great pains to guide
everything that is so great and beautiful and

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the spiritual world to an immeasurably greater number of people than
rather addresses itself to the great task of the age: that of taking
greatest importance, and I ask you not to misunderstand me when I
properly is cause for the greatest anxiety, for really deep worry
spread to a great extent by just these means, without any help from
anxiety, particularly because of the immeasurably great loss we have
scientific endeavor. I am truly speaking with the greatest inner and
members has recently grown a great deal longer, lacks inner stability

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test the great majority of my lectures in this respect will find that
do, taking the greatest care to leave the reader free, even in
experience is one of the great secrets of existence. The capacity for
Christianity has not reached its ultimate perfection. It is great

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references being made these days to the great change that came over
heavenly bodies have come to assume a great deal more importance than
quite rightly proclaiming anthroposophy with great enthusiasm. But
case of those whose opinions carry greatest weight — the
learns to say, “You harbor in your will sphere a great variety
worked through, along with a great deal else. By the time it became
which lasted to 1916 or 1917, was spent in a great survey of the
great concern whether the people who found their way to anthroposophy

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held, to discuss at greater length the subject originally intended
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
without any great inner stirrings into the will tendencies of the

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mankind's great ideals: the moral-religious, the artistic, and the
living, spiritual anthroposophy came to no harm in the fire, a great
great deal of sacrifice and devotion went into the work on the
saturating a great many present day sermons with a rationalistic,
world to the greatest possible extent, to withdraw from people. But
conceivably become one of the greatest threats to the
cultus takes. The cultus speaks to greater depths than those of
great dangers the Society faces want to learn about them?”
that the last Central Executive Committee accomplished a great deal

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have been a great many societies that have based their existence on
there is a great — an immeasurably great — chance of
tolerate the other person to an immeasurably greater degree than one
degree of unity or the greatest tolerance. Strife and quarreling take
great many more escape channels will be opened to the world at large
made fruitful for a great many others when it is clothed in some
greatly from experience of the ordinary physical world. Something in

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be grasped in a monistic way? Upon these questions Haeckel, the great
of the plant world that Goethe was especially great. One can understand

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often much greater, intensity.
carrying out certain intellectual operations with much greater intensity,
are present in the soul, in great clarity and lucidity. The soul content
process is a great deal more interesting if we observe it in a mind
man who at one time used to visit me a great deal, has published a dissertation
disappear from sight in the great mass of unread dissertations that
of the greatest value. Until he reached the age of forty, Swedenborg
something has flowed into this that came from a great, far-seeing mind
and Swedenborg is of the greatest interest, for here a road was taken
in a pathological direction by one person, while another, with greatest
and constructively, and tear off the final pages, which are the greater
book of great value for anyone wanting to find the right way of entering

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of perception develops, for they now arouse greater personal interest.
without making too great a jump. This stops when we approach the essential
things in much greater detail — how it is possible to progress from

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outside of man. We then establish hypotheses, with greater or lesser
conscious awareness at that point. With the exercises described in great
he took in a great deal from Kant with regard to theoretical philosophy.
Great and sublime word, you have nothing in you of what is favoured,
Great and sublime word, you have nothing in you of inclination,

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appear to the soul in even greater glory? No one would ask why there
that they have these powers of transition in them, and a great many
a freedom that is able to awaken the greatest depths of the human soul

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knowledge needed for the great task of our time. When we say
“with regard to the great task of our time” we
which belongs to the great task of our time. This should
apply to the great task of life and to every small daily
teachers of mankind, who should be the great Keepers of the
the greater affairs of life. Finally falsehood today itself has
which is a direct application of ideas regarding the great
the greatest part of our cultural life. Anthroposophists for

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But this is a great self-deception. And just as we can better
characteristic of our great-grandfathers, we shouldn't
forget that while this great grandfather was alive, we took an

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teacher — I mean, as the latest great teacher,
something that, to you at least, is of greatest
conviction have been called to think-through the great
greater magnitude which we are bound to encounter in the
spoke immediately before the great world-war catastrophe.
that is the great anxiety regarding civilization that one
this place for years as the greatest need for the present
in the world of men considers as the greatest
things. Those people are the greatest menaces to mankind
there are really great and sudden changes. Just such a
Goethe had a great comprehensive conception of the
evolution of mankind. For that is the great misfortune,
significant. There is a great difference between the men
the best examinations were the greatest camels. Ah! but
precisely in the spiritual life that a great change must
people to extricate themselves from the great illusion
evolution of mankind has already brought about a great
through the great demands created on the one hand by the
increased railroad trade, and on the other by the great
about the great talent that went into the improvement;
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greater contrast to the life that flows out of your
finds that there is no greater contrast to the particular
here on the physical plane. They are the two great
That is the greatest illusion. It is to no purpose to
because it can be a great help to those who think
science which has made this great progress, which has so
instance; it says the greatest nonsense about feeling
sensory nerves and motor nerves. There is no greater
indicate to you that speech has a great significance for
is a man of our time who has developed great acuteness in
true. One may have a great respect for this cleverness
believe is a spiritual content. It is a great danger.

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in the great world evolution of mankind. And it is clear
the great Atlantean catastrophe which made the
scientific knowledge has made great, by which we have
principle of the smallest amount of force. I was greatly
his books, and they had a great influence over many
The great
a great deal in this connection that would show you,that
actual participation in the great rhythmic swing of the
words, that great spirit that breathes when we are born
life-days; a great sun-year consists of 25,920 of our

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A great
lawgivers, had to point with great severity to the
took great pleasure in saying: “Goethe's Faust
the value or words today, there is no great sense in
to me, a great number of people today want to conjure up
greater tyranny and much worse conditions of life than
what has it been else then the great Protector of

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earth-mysteries, in which the decision is made for the great
the Mysteries, the great spiritual decisions are made, there
Mars-sphere, we must consider the following. A great decisive
great and powerful, on the one side, yet on the other the rules
hearts, disciples of Francis of Assisi or of his great teacher,
and essence of Mars. For Mars, the Buddha has become the great
been acquired on earth. It is the greatest short-sightedness of
germ unites something immeasurably great and significant,
“Two things have made a great impression on me: the

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There is a great difference between one soul and another here
may become of great importance for the intercourse between
common knowledge, is going to be of great significance.
Just imagine the great upheaval, one might also say of the
and the great majority were incarnated in Egypto-Chaldaic
perhaps find it especially when outwardly the greatest

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cover a great deal. I refer to the expression: the
in ordinary day-to-day life, show so great a dependence upon bodily
what we do with the instrumentality of consciousness is of great
say, the soul feels as if it were like a wave in a great sea, a wave
right preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he
a great need and longing to be united with the spiritual. In the
something consciously in waking life, a great deal is going on at the
waking is of great significance in its after-effects during waking
begin with, we find a disintegration of the soul into the greatest
short, we live our way into the cosmos with far greater intensity

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think back to something that caused you great pain ten or twenty
greatest philologist or linguist has to learn his mother-tongue by
greater if we had not done this thing. Many such actions are marked
them through mere reflection, nor that with great respect for his
forces become more fertile, more full of confidence, a greater

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age was so great that until the year 1822 his book was on the Index,
— the great merits of which and therewith its significance as a
to be heard perpetually and give rise to a great deal that deludes
great deal of hidden egoism.
great earnestness for it must be established that Anthroposophy has a
greatest wisdom in life comes from our failures; we learn from our
benediction possible, consciousness of the great law of karma must

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for example about the reincarnations of the great leader of the ancient
upon. As soon as we descend from the great truths concerning the universe
as pervaded and woven through by Spirit, from the great cosmic laws
evolution and human happenings, and that in the greatest, most significant
through the culture-epochs after the great Atlantean catastrophe —
to-day. This applies, shall we say, to Hermes, the great Teacher of the
in the physical world of great events of the preceding period.
There was once a great
prior to the great Atlantean catastrophe.
the great catastrophe.” Xisuthros then tells Gilgamish: “What
Mysteries of Diana of Ephesus and in the Ephesian temple. A great deal
flings the burning torch on the day when Alexander the Great is born
— the man who is all personality! Alexander the Great stands there
the Great stands there as the shadow image of Gilgamish, as a projection
the physical plane, is Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great.
epoch there is carried over, as it were, by Alexander the Great but
in order that the great achievements of the Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean
of greatest significance in the fourth culture-epoch developed, when
Christianity was already in existence. There the great scholars were
— Alexander the Great. For now, through the very existence of
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the folk-individualities and under this influence a very great deal
the greatest difficulties, led the armies to victory and the King to
still greater things. The girl is of appealing beauty and manly
and greatly venerated master! I commend myself to you in all humility,
any great number of men to look back into their earlier incarnations.
respective gifts differed so greatly, we see the same kind of co-operation
a whole series of great names in history as those of his former incarnations
treated with great earnestness, there must be no unlawful play of fancy,
journeying, Gilgamish was brought to the great Atlantean Being, Xisuthros,
the test, Isis again signifies something of great importance, namely
great inaugurator of ancient Egyptian culture, it must be said that
of ancient Egypt there was greater interplay between these two aspects,
itself. Not long ago I was talking to a philosopher who sets great store

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came into consideration. Other forces of great significance intervene
perpetually in human life, in every incarnation, to a greater or less
had already been achieved during the last epochs preceding the great
the great catastrophe by which the whole Post-Atlantean epoch will be
the urge has arisen instinctively in personalities of great artistic
vividly in the great woman mathematician Hypatia, in whom all the mathematical
universal spirit of later history, one who had a great influence upon
reincarnation with a grand and divine object for the few. Those great
the Macedonian and Napoleon the Great in the realm of physical conquest
Now it is of the greatest
a great educative principle was now be experienced through the medium
be no great loss if the larger part of these volumes had been burnt;
by higher worlds. Shall we then wonder that the greatest Spirits of

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Babylonian people presented a great riddle to historical research in
of greatness and significance existed in the regions which later on
very fact that through our many different languages we express a great
times of the greatest antiquity we find something like a primal human
learn to have at least some respect for that still great and powerful
the heavens possessed by the Babylonians, and for their great mission,
man as an earthly personality, mirrors the great law of the heavens.
an 10 — a number which causes great difficulty when it has to
death another grandchild is born, and a great-granddaughter 9,996 days
the first grandchild and the death of the grandmother, a great grandchild
has collected a great deal of such material, he says: “Periods
by, there is much to be found that sheds great illumination on the occult
to Greek culture with overwhelming greatness and depth of spirituality,
was feared that his death would cause too great an uproar, and because
crept into Julian's writings against the Christians, we know what greatness
of great honour in the traditional life of that time. Because, in line
he had originally set up his first great planisphere and the gilded
had been great and significant wisdom before his time; one who could

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as Tycho Brahe, the great astronomer, one thing may strike us particularly.
the greatness and power of the personality of Tycho Brahe, as outlined
worlds withdraws to the greatest extent, while what a man expresses
most closely related to man, is able to speak with the greatest directness.
the destiny of the great majority of mankind makes it inevitable that
have to submit to a great deal of revision in the course of the next
element already asserted itself to a somewhat greater degree. The Spirits
after 25,000 to 26,000 years. But between these great periods of time
the greatest physical transformation of all, the most drastic action
influence upon the physical and the greatest influence, precisely of
that there may he a point in history where the reverse of the great
as though impelled to express with the greatest possible precision how
Hence we see that this year 1250 was the starting-point of great and
it was the starting-point of Scholasticism, which is greatly
There are two points of time, one of them marked by a great upheaval
this period there lies the starting-point for great revelations; that
in greatest intensity from this very starting-point, although there
happens on the earth is brought about by great celestial conditions,
This is of great importance,
this is what I wanted to bring before you today — how the great

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profound, so infinitely great. The poems of Aeschylus should not on
for it must be realised that the full greatness of what lived in Aeschylus
upsurge of the old temple-treasures something so great could be imparted
course with the greatest possible happiness and inner peace? To this
an inspiration not easy to observe but no less great for all that, which
things which to a great extent are right. For it is extraordinarily
When they looked back to the great figures of history in pre-Christian
the great mechanistic thinker, taught humanity in terms of the intellect

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universe has always attached the greatest possible importance for
poetical language of great majesty and what tradition has preserved
only the last offshoots of something infinitely greater and more
a great deal to do with each other. If two people in this situation
great difference between the path we have arranged unconsciously so
comes into consideration. We shall find that there is a great
There is a very great difference between these two kinds of
been recorded in those great books of destiny kept by the Moon Beings
is a great difference between meeting someone with whom we have
expect results from this beginning in which there are great

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great happenings in history and are aware that the keynotes in
intelligible. This is of very great importance.
Court were gathered the greatest minds of that time, men of
development of the great Arabist souls between death and a new birth
time? Now an individuality with great spiritual enlightenment in an
incarnation of souls in repeated lives a great deal has been brought
Constantinople by Constantine the Great, who caused a pillar to be
century. However greatly the outer circumstances differ, speculation
Arabist trends were inculcated. In the modern age too, a great deal
with certain passages in the Koran. You will then find that a great
put into practice today with greater and greater thoroughness. These
anthroposophical life, becoming the foundation for greater and

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referred to, it comes with very great intensity. We live backwards
into the Moon sphere and encounters these great primeval Teachers as
existence in backward order, to experience it all with greater
his death know well that through the magical power of the great
experiences of yonder life have an intensity infinitely greater and
that is concealed within his being. But it is much greater, much more
are souls on the Moon: the souls of the great primeval Teachers,
time has come to speak more openly, with greater freedom and
as it then was, and who with great sensitiveness of perception had
individual who lived to a very great age and who had witnessed so
great age. This trait was softened and mellowed and became a faculty
consciousness, he beholds his whole life in a great tableau. But he
great amazement, because it is so different from anything one can
revealed in great majesty. Let me try to make a comparison with
individual had had a great deal to do with Greek plastic art and also
the spiritual world! He also worked a great deal at his karma in the
mellow, Olympic fire, and great wisdom, Eliphas Lévi dabbles with a
if a great deal seems paradoxical and

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its inner ordering something of the laws of the great cosmic system.
of the great cosmic connections, and of the examination and testing of
will see that even those great and all-embracing truths which have
But now you will find that a testing of this kind requires great
use? Is it not right that he should learn a great deal, and especially
to learn how to think the thoughts with greater exactitude, came and
this respect and able to see a great deal. Or again, the other case is
possible: A man who knows a great deal about the theosophical truths
their former incarnations? This question is of the greatest
a greater or less degree — because in those times they had not
occupies itself with analysis. Hence the greater simplicity of the
world is taken away. Such a man may certainly be able to see a great

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great deal of Ahrimanic influence can be found in the world

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because the adult today does not really see anything of great
achieved? — are of little use. What is of the greatest
a kind of obvious secret, let me say that although a great deal
important factor. This plays a great part. These are the
recognized outer physical forces in their greatest delicacy and
instincts the human being has a far greater interest in his

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receives little attention, because a great illusion prevails
understand; he fails to realize that a great deal of what is
their great social task, and they should ponder a great deal
deeply permeated by awareness of the great needs of modern
appalling conditions and for whose emancipation he did a great
because he is a great soul, defined as crime: the crime that is
the judge for a great human being, on the other you have

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of the greatest thankfulness for this. Es wirkt mich, It works me, that

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find that he passed by many things in the world with great
indifference and thereby weakened his ego a great deal. It's a

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as in other spheres it soon becomes evident to a greater or lesser
divine it, he will learn with greater and greater precision through
earth in the macrocosm, in the great world, repeat itself in man, the
friends, that in this moment something of great importance is being
comets, you would realize how great and powerful it is for the soul —
These matters are of the greatest importance in the
The comets appear at great intervals of time. Let us
continue, a new appearance of it might bring about a great
connection with the greatest tasks of spiritual life in — our
tomorrow we may understand through greater relationships an important
will speak tomorrow about the great spiritual meaning of our time.

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great achievements of humanity, what we call the characteristic
in the burning bush as the God of the elements. It was a great
of Christianity. We thus have the preparation for this great event in
without as the great law of human action. Just as the World-I streams
of initiation yield as the great spiritual teachings about the
something demanded by our times. To prepare humanity for great
great Christ event. We have seen that humanity has now experienced
again in Christian inwardness the great moment that Moses experienced
Damascus. The greatness and power of the next age will consist in the
Christ Jesus will become greater and greater. Those human beings are
himself as the Christ created a great sensation. In the seventeenth
as the event that signifies the greatest turning point in the
greater Christ will appear to them, the mightier He will appear! When

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connection sheds a great deal of light upon questions such as: What
as the great achievements of humanity, as the fundamental
Elements. And it was a great advance when, through the teachings of
founding of Christianity. The preparation for this great event was
thunder, in the great revelation from the Elements of laws for men.
of a great, supremely gifted man of whose preaching it was said that
with a power as great as that of the revelation from the Elements to Moses
great spiritual teachings of the cosmic secrets yielded by the
great moments in the process of evolution is among the tasks of
the great impulse experienced by Moses through the vision of the
repetition of the event of Damascus. The great and momentous feature
be able to perceive the etheric body of Christ as an even greater
created a great sensation. In the seventeenth century a man who
years for a greater and greater number of human beings, there will
men achieve, the greater and mightier will Christ appear to them to

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Seleucid anchors … Maha aya=the great nonexistence.

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Here it's of the greatest importance for us to stand firmly at
Culture will greatly impress Europeans, for since it goes back to
greater spiritual significance. Ku Hung Ming is a bright man. What he

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esoteric lesson can be held on a Friday, because of the great

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,

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mental representation to the greatest possible degree and brings volition
into intoxicating simplicity by spiritual science, but rather to greater
a great role. For everything which is centrifugal, radiating, a great
truly great vistas, which can have an extraordinarily great future.
then demonstrated, one does a great deal to help weak-looking children
they are experiencing a great deal of success in their field at the
under circumstances be able to achieve a great deal with the E-forms,
one will be able to achieve a great deal with E-movements. An E-movement
There is a great deal to be done in order to give back to a healthy
is used for the soul which has not a much greater importance for the
than contradicting, we must add a great deal, out of an extremely
“After a short pause we will proceed with greater reference to

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experience. A great portion of the musical experience consists of
great role, until it began to have an unpleasant effect. As the human
proof of man's existence. The great spirit took hold of the
music. The great progress made by humanity in the musical element is
already joined the five old tones, d, e, g, a, and b, to the greatest
what is important. One does the child a great kindness if one
the tones of the great octave. [The great octave refers

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be pictured as the greatest possible unity. A Greek actor even felt
The rhythmic element, on the other hand, assumes the greatest variety
contained in the twelve fifths within the seven scales. The great
themselves; they were within the great, all-pervading spirituality of
is therefore always a great experience when a composition by an

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three greatest impulses behind all human evolution and all
beginning of certain great works of art we hear words which, I
we pass through the period in which man traversed the great,
only of his own soul. But there too, at the beginning of the great
great All to grow divine.

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sensibility there is the greatest conceivable difference between

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who was greatest

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penetrated, to a lesser or greater extent, by the spirit, in such a

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men of that earlier time. Without reflection they experienced a great
with what came from the priests, the great comforters of mankind.
indeed, human consciousness at that time was greatly in need of
periods) in the spheres of art and religion, and a great deal in our
have experienced one of the greatest blessings of humanity, perhaps
the very greatest — I mean the experience of free-will, of
But we shall be able to talk of this in greater detail only if we lay

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dealing with another stratum, divide the smaller into the greater
This sort of logic always reminds me of the logic one of the greatest
time when humanity has been in greater need of it.
far as they were able to wait — to see what Schelling's great

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conditions, we acquire greater enthusiasm for teaching,
body. What comes from speech can be a great boon to us after

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First the Egyptian age with all that belonged to it — and a great
deal belonged to it — then the Greco-Latin age with its great
its sculptures, those great, ideal, and perfect human forms described
cloud out of which develop a great number of similar little children,
say something of the greatest significance if we do but consider them
roll. When the great Atlantean flood took place, the knowledge of the

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learn to understand this again, for he would then understand the great
things which to modern thinking — at least to the greater part of
Nevertheless, it is of great use to the inner being of man to dwell on
spiritual, will have a great influence on educational principles.
Spiritual Science will again prove to be a great, a universal remedy,
ETERNAL; she is the great HEALING PRINCIPLE to which humanity will
After the great Atlantean flood, in the first holy ancient Indian
active today, and what will go on working into the great to-morrow of

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greater part of what is most essential is hidden from the outer
in autumn a reaper cuts corn the clairvoyant sees great currents of a
feels pleasure, it has a sensation of well-being. Great currents of
together again it would cause very great pain. The same fact may be
One great Initiate spoke about this in a very significant manner.
when it develops the flower from outside? It does something of great
body. There is a great difference between human beings in this
of guardian angels. These guardian angels have a great duty to
more, or that he looks up to his Angel as his great pattern, it is

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Thus we pass to greater and ever greater grades of' Spiritual Beings,
These Beings are all greater than the man of today, but in the next
be as great as the Angels are now; and he will continually expand to
ever greater degrees of perfection. This is also the case as regards
although on Saturn they were greater than the humanity of today, they

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If you go back to a time long before the great catastrophe swept
During the Atlantean period man had great power over the shape of his
downwards on the other. Through this something else of great
great importance is here involved. If man had reached the middle of
today, and who prepared him for the great event of the descent of the
a very great influence; an age when there was a consciousness among
expression, in forms of art, to the great conceptions of the world.

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but thoughts and passions of all sorts worked into a great piece of
evolution. There is, of course, a great difference in animals; between
higher forces whose leader is Christ — the great Sun-Spirit
who acted as great teachers in the Atlantean schools of initiation.
to him the great impulse for the future.

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first consider the great world and then look down to the limited
its particular mission in the great household of cosmic existence.
earth-moon. In the great universe evolution proceeds in such a way
remarkable quality. These beings possessed a great deal, but one thing
because of the blood tie. This was a great time of preparation for
are of greater value than the mere observation of external objects. In

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a very great purpose.
good; he gives to the poor. The gift calls forth great thankfulness in
for the hidden world of the spirit; they looked with great reverence
partakers of this lost world. The first great age of post-Atlantean
for the spiritual world was so great that men strove by artificial
In the great migration towards the East there was another group which
“chosen people,” had to make preparation for the greatest
Testament, who in their Testament possessed the greatest and most
personality. Those with the greatest spiritual force, who had remained

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supreme Being — the great Sun-Spirit. This is the meaning of what
age, it is necessary to touch the fringe of a great mystery which
had already passed through three great epochs; the third being the
epoch came to an end through great fire catastrophes; the Atlantean
great subdivisions; the ancient Indian, the Persian, the Egyptian, the
they would have developed greater powers) or whether they would take
great mystery.
Christ — the great Sun-Spirit — the effect reached even into
something of very great importance! A part of the world is to be
physical plane, and having developed so great a love for it, and
side clear and bright and restored the Christ to him with even greater
only a fact of great importance to man, but is of infinite importance

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gives us no direct conviction of this union, although it is a great
longer quite correct; even in Theosophical handbooks great mistakes
willing to recognize such secret connection of the great laws of the
religion, as he felt the great thoughts of Divinity to be reflected in
What else was the great effort of Richard Wagner than a spiritual
greater than Christ that does not decide anything, for this depends on

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scientific combinations must arise. This will meet with great
But then there is the great difference that when we look out
the human skull has played a great role in modern biology. I
become so great in its present form just because it is a
a great variety of forms. This then is studied. The method of
out of the great universe that the minute and microscopical
great universe. We do not understand what came about in the

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external to the human being in considering the great
aspects one can have great reverence for the celestial
great significance whether or no one assumes a movement
very great dependence of man on the solar life, — on
the Moon. It may be that a great deal of what has been said
in theory, it discards what was of great importance to

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greater inner connection with the cosmic surroundings of the
signified a greater livingness when it only moves in a
ellipse”, implied an element of greater livingness than
contains a great deal if one still understands it in
too great an area. This outer point which moves in the

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great thinkers at the opening of the modern age —
great intensity of spiritual force which Kepler brought to

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the midst of this great whole which is thus separated for him

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Take Aristotle and Plato, and above all the greatest
attached no great importance to the precise description of
Platonic Year — the great Cosmic Year, lasting
prevailed over the greater part of Europe and in America too.
point in the great Cosmic Year. Now it is in the day that man
great Universe. If then there were a Being who breathed in
miniature, what is manifested in the great cosmic
— we find great attention paid to the Platonic Year. I
phenomena of the great Universe. Therefore he spoke of his
Great Spirit.
begin to get some notion of the great distance which men at
25,920 years. It was indeed a great Spirit — a very
great Spirit — whom man conceived in this way and whose
not be uninteresting to compare how great is the distance

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greater than that of sound. But anyone who thinks in keeping
seasons had a far greater influence on man than after. Man,
approaching will cause great difficulty to many people of
meet with great resistance. Yet it is necessary to draw
greater detail. Here is something to be seen and recognized,

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have been adopting, bringing together a great variety of
such things at all. Kepler said: In the great Universe
we follow it up we must admit that this too is of great

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have taken it here, is greater than a, equal to a, or less
b is also greater than or equal to a √2. Moreover, when
less. When n is much greater than m, we find a circle with a
very strong curvature; when n is not so much greater, the
great value is laid upon the forming of such thoughts in
impose greater demands on the human capacity of understanding
a phenomenon we get into the greatest disparities, without in

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of certainty is just as great as in your conception of a real
greater than, equal to, or less than b. I obtain the
greater than b.
a greater or smaller than b. Between these there are an

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the forming of the head to all that derives from the great
form of picture which has evolved through the great changes
constellation, which you know so well, the “Great
great Sphere to the human head-formation. You cannot but
of the great Sphere above us. It reveals only that part of
Our attention is drawn to this great differentiation: The

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formulate it with great care.
now follow this loop-forming principle in greater detail. Is
— and in the great Universe this answers to the
in perspective (for here again we must express it with great
put it so, call now for great definition. Yet we shall only
must there be movements in the great Universe which relate to

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opinion the Universe is far, far greater. He takes the stars
calculated with great care the positions on the Heavens at
in greater detail.
great school of emancipation of human thoughts from

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of that is the Moon, — far greater than the Earth. The
diameter (or semi-diameter) of the Moon is as great as what

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drawn. This need not cause you any great surprise, for in

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The greatest
from them. To recognize how the great cosmic conditions
the great Universe.
this in greater detail. For instance, it is a physiological
great significance. It is not a matter of indifference,

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with the great universe that is visible to us; only in this
them with the greatest possible precision, but do not cling
is arriving there from some great distance and then making

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have had to remark how this man has followed up a really great book on
greater emphasis how, on the one hand, bourgeois culture is on the
great banks (Gold heart)”. Thus this scientist seeks a heart for
his social organism and finds it in the collecting centres of the great
but understand the great social impulses, perhaps we do not value this
through to things. Those today who talk a great deal about freedom from
a great mass of the people and to found institutions for their higher
From this, and from a great deal of the same nature, you will realise
but with it will go the greater part of such examinations in their
great deal of physical culture that is decadent and belongs to the past;
hand-in-hand with geography. It would be of the greatest importance for
sphere children today learn a great deal only to forget it, only to be
been brought to such a stage through the work of great minds in the past,
which receives great praise when coming from the ordinary natural
intelligible to everyone what I have shown to be a great leap

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the very great task s at present facing us, insof ar as, out of the very
the teaching who must rise to the level of the great and all-embracirg
experience. In the educational sphere itself a great deal is said against
admiration as a great achievement; otherwise we shall never make any
teacher must be directed towards the great world phenomena; he must be
for instance, of the great impulse of Goetheanism has flowed into the
build this railway we see here as a great political problem of world
great, conspicuous world affair. Indeed, many people have never noticed
hearing of these great world events. Because of this we are experiencing
today the comfortless fact of how entirely ignorant a great part of the
that bears fruit if people will not trouble to rise to the great points
there have played the great political impulses so damaging at present to
all the great impulses in the political life of the present time have
among us here, in great historical impulses. Whoever knows how to study
hours, with great diligence and keenness. But I have repeatedly heard a
things. Then we shall see that much of what today is looked upon as great
obviously no will to enter into the great contemporary questions and
seldom that, when it is a matter of discussing the great questions of the
way as they proceeded before the war catastrophe. A great proportion of

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is part of some social activity. We meet with a great deal of this kind.
Here we have a great and
particularly great significance for the lower classes in a school —
colosally stupid where the great problems of man kind are concerned,
requirement for a social science. This sociology seeks to be great by
way out into life in such a way that our greatest inner satisfaction
naturally great-hearted German people a governmental automaton, a machine
embarking on the great tasks of the present time. There is something
The task is great, but the
greatness of the task must be vividly before us. What is set before

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give only an introduction now and then go into greater detail
it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
imagine a greater mistake in our method of education than to
which have been considered such a great advance, Germany has
great importance. That is that we must quickly strip off our

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Science with its wonderful achievements and great expansion, and to certain
Anthroposophy. (I have dealt at greater length with this tendency of all
case, but Aristotle states the reverse, and I have greater faith in
particularly strong impulse in the direction given by the great
of far greater interest to us at the present moment is this web in the
sound theory of knowledge; secondly (and this is of great importance), the
great philosophers who lived and worked after Kant would not have been so
the greatest philosopher in the world being understood. People will only by

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nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
education. Among these principles is one on which he lays great emphasis:
if we had entered the classroom each morning in great trepidation, without
thing in particular is of great importance, however, and that is that we

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human organism, the counter pressure is greater. For this reason they must
of greater importance than this, that we are able as teachers to develop in
spoken word can be of great benefit to us after death, particularly if we

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have to understand in great detail.
place nevertheless, and is of great importance to your general well-being.

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of his body, how he gains greater and greater mastery over his organism,
must permeate history with ideas, must show the great connections. Thus,
matters of great importance the subtle differences are often more
has too great an effect. It is wonderful to think that through spiritual
understand him with greater and greater love. And precisely through that we
pedagogy, and this despite the great interest taken by many people. The

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are necessarily so great and of such a character as to be
Movement, ought not to have so great a cause for grieving over
according to all these various aspects of the great ideals of
course, yet nevertheless a great amount of work which we had
by a great number of human beings, that the Anthroposophical
give expression to some thing to which I attach great
persons, and I can bring this to ever greater perfection within
great importance — that from this direction of
Religious Renewal one of the greatest perils for the

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participated in these societies. Among the great multitude of
of wrangling, the greatest abundance of occasions for
world — there exists the very greatest possibility that
greater degree than is customary in the physical world. To
among men from the higher worlds the greatest unity, the
greatest possible practice of tolerance as a quality one has
great proportion of the opponents are really of such a
was greatly pleased with this description because it showed
that persons were present who observed what I greatly desire to
is not for the spiritual-scientist greatly modified even by the
great number of persons when it is molded into a different
the greatest danger can arise for the Anthroposophical Society
Renewal, and of its absence from Anthroposophy will be greatly

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mind. He saw himself no more isolated from the great
forming ideas on the basis of thought. Within the great
ideas of the West have a great deal of human
times. Our thinking is still greatly influenced by
habits humankind has acquired put up great resistance to
knowledge of the heavens came with the great increase in

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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the great culture which had grown out of the soul and
that was truly great at a time when the Mystery of
thoughts of those great minds, not in an external way but
Once again the great difference between the Latin and the
even greater significance where a more profound view is

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can go to great lengths to explain that one should not
that Dante, who after all must be considered a great
That is what has happened to the great, far-reaching
our inner life by considering the great events of world
that People today have been given great tasks and yet

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realization; or in other words that there is a great deal
Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
the greatest opposition to this idea? The greatest
thinkers. Dr Boos was going great guns in a liberal
one feels very humble in perceiving the greatness of the
His blood. The priest therefore has greater power in the

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by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind
as ‘historical materialism’ plays a great
were and still are as great in the socialist movement as
getting a great deal more serious than people are

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form to the brain of a child is far greater than the
petrified. A child still has a great deal of the spirit.

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given great emphasis. It simply has to be admitted that
Protestant element, and Rome will continue to make great
called Christ. This happens a great deal nowadays and it
Protestant clergyman who had travelled a great deal. [
travelled a great deal. To stop you from developing
greater degree than has been the case until now.
to a great many people about the threefold order in

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an even greater extent when we are fully asleep. The way
world around them and focus it on the great illuminating
The great
nature of those great minds and you will see that I am
Fichte, Schelling, even Goethe. What made them great?
Their greatness and significance has to do with
example. You will find that great emphasis is put on the
from that great culture, for its mission was to emphasize
particularly by Hegel, but also by all other great
but it has fallen into decadence. In the West a great
tone for political and economic life. Greatness for the
great man for a time.
economists. Spencer would have done a great deal better
evolution. We can certainly call the time when the great
people of the Middle were faced with a great question:
earth?’ That indeed is the great question
refused to wake up and ignored the great necessity that
me great pain and my heart feels sore because souls are
go; that they shrink from the great tasks that have to be
generated in the human organism, studying them in great
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permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
they call it a ‘war’ behind us; a much greater war than any
another great event [ Note 68 ] took place
Belgium together had 35 million horse power years available. Great
position of Great Britain those 98 million horse power years could not
reached the front lines indirectly. Those energies were opposed by Great
human soul life in those past times when the great struggles in which
immediate conscious awareness of the will. The great danger is that the
great problem of our time is that people slide into the ahrimanic sphere
has also existed in earlier ages, but it will happen to a much greater
of these young people. A great longing is going to come, a kind of
have a science that I have taken to great heights; have a life in the
what I am.' This mood will be the great question mark of the age, a
something is restlessly astir in us that I have called a great longing, a
great need in the souls of people in the decades to come. This need in
experiencing a great deal of the future; all such writers can do is
Great Britain, 35 million in Belgium, France and Russia, and finally the
‘The League of Nations must be created, for it will be a great

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concentrated on the great task. I feel it really has to
a serious Anthroposophy that is considering the great
That of course is the great evil in our time, that people

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