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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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say that, each in a different way, these three festivals bring man
into connection, into relationship, with that in which the Christian
large masses of humanity. The Easter festival, which requires that we
Thus what we may call the secret of Christianity is given form in
Three Kings, the Three Wisemen from the Orient. We are told that
Thus we are shown two ways by which this earlier humanity reached what
underwent many changes before it became that reasoning analytical
understand them, that this was the case. Such remnants were still
moment to what was present as the last remnant of an ancient stream of
wisdom in the Three Wisemen from the Orient. We are shown clearly that
different from that of to-day. Our astronomy is in a certain sense
soul-experience which was a reflection of what was going on out in
world was fostered in schools, in what may be described as Mystery
Of what nature were these preparations? These preparations for a
character that, even then, in the age of instinctive clairvoyance, the
strange thing was that the pupils of those ancient Mysteries existing
humanity; but he merely communicated it to humanity in general. What
nevertheless true, that what our children learn as arithmetic and
different way in which at that time they were taught. It is quite a
What the juice of the Soma is, modern books profess not to know.
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Title: Lecture: The Ear
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that man as he stands before himself in the physical world represents
say that, such as it is, it is an immediate image of the
Supersensible. As to what the mineral nature is, you may read of this
in my Theosophy. Of man, however, we must say that in many
respects he cannot be understood at all on the basis of what we see
things are not yet entirely clear to science today, but from what is
already clear it can be said that a crystal of common salt is
intelligible on the foundation of what can be ascertained directly in
hand are not intelligible on the basis of what the physical senses can
— this is a thing that man brings with him as a plan or tendency
through birth. Nor does he even receive it through the forces that
but give ourselves up to an illusion. For the truth is that the inner
we may say: Observe a human eye! We cannot assert that it is
intelligible like the salt crystal, on the basis of what we see around
super-sensible world. We must realise that a human ear, for example, is
the names, that is to say, which external science gives them —
already show that this science is quite unaware of what they really
spiritual science. Passing now from within outward, that which adjoins
appears as a transformed knee-cap. Finally, that which passes from the
thus: First, the upper arm (only that in the arm the
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Title: Education for Adolescents
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a way that it can resound on and on within them — so that
the human soul, questions of history — so that riddles arise in
[A term used to designate all that is sentient in man
transform themselves into what they become in most young people today.
in things that, until the age of 20 or 21, really ought to go in an
educated, there should be no need whatsoever to speak about love of
spoken about during these years, this is in itself something that
questions. A high value is put upon them for no other reason than that
are thrown back into ourselves. Taken all in all, we have to say that
concern for the world but busy themselves with how they feel and what
world must become so all-engrossing to young people that they simply
about it. It is not the objective damage but the pain of it that
this I do not mean that you should make as many mistakes as possible
inwardly, the teacher must be capable of doing this himself, so that
satisfy the feeling that then arises in the students when the question
comes to expression. For if he does not do this, then when all that is
are produced that burden the brains of the young people when they go
that occur when the children have the feeling: “The teacher just
people at this age, or if we teach in such a way that they never come
transformation of the courses one gives that the pedagogy must concern
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Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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were based on a quite different kind of knowledge from that of to-day,
affairs, a great deal that has been lost, and must be renewed. The art I
reason we have tried on many occasions to describe what is really
what is discovered by super-sensible vision about the real being of
We know that when, under earthly conditions, the human being goes to
sleep, the etheric body remains within the physical body, and that
development, that they are not capable of conscious experience between
But to-day we shall look back at what is left behind in bed when a
out the Spirit from it, by that art of which I said just now that it
sense-perception. But it is a complete mistake to believe that the
sleeping human being — that is to say upon the part of the human
being present in the physical frame — then it is found that from
had stored up forces for an activity that develops only after sleep
phosphorescent, glimmering light. It is not surprising that this
seen in the ordinary way. External, physical eyes do not see what goes
further process. What a man can still observe while he is going to
this — from what they have left behind, the resounding music in
else that is more remote from what we perceive in the external world
phosphorescent glow, this resounding music — it is these that
previous evening, one may wake up with the feeling that the soul has
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Title: Lecture: Awakening to Community - I
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But I hope to be able, at the delegates' meeting that will soon be
make a few comments complementing what I said a week ago about the
out those aspects of the three phases that all three share in common;
that what I am about to say could serve many a listener as a means to
presently developing that the times themselves demand the deepening
of knowledge, the ethical practice, the inner religious life that
of those elements that are so needed under the conditions that
destiny in what I am about to describe.
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
called its better days, something was taking place that almost
to feel what millions and millions of others will be feeling keenly
indeed in a not too distant future, that older forms have come down
justified but the product of historical necessity, but that they no
longer provide what modern man's inner life requires and the dignity
honest seeking will find, if he practices self-observation, that this
just any other present day group of human beings is something that
they are honest. But we must admit, too, that the very clarity
consider something else. What I have been describing thus far might
that his will impulses simply coincide with those of all the rest of
against these habitual will impulses that he has adopted from the
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Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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that in face of the burning needs of the age, theoretical knowledge
of the present time. Men are utterly lacking in that understanding of
earthly lives nor of the fact that in spite of the full reality of
concrete realities of life, we slip into the kind of thought that has
that has remained farthest of all in the rear of the actual demands
life, swallow what is told them by men who appear by the force of
suppose he wants to inform himself about things that are actually
the fragmentary history that forms part of popular education. But
this is all written from the point of view of thought that is merely
is more or less obliged to fall back on what happened in the last
what happened to them, what happened to their fathers, forefathers
perhaps to the Middle Ages, and imagines that he is following the
explain what is happening to mankind at the present time by what
generations, and the only idea that is really clear to him is that of
from their forefathers or are benefiting by what was instituted by
Middle Europe in their earlier lives? Is it not possible that they
work no less effectively than the forces of the blood that has been
not fall into the error of thinking that it will ever be possible to
say to ourselves that in the men of the present age souls are
at all. In other words, we cannot understand what is happening on the
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Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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at stake and suggests that a mechanisation of the spirit,
questions at stake and suggests that a mechanisation of the spirit,
individual has the feeling that part of his being is super-sensible,
whatever function it has within his soul. And
applying to what I have been presenting for many years — has
certain that speaking about it in that way would not satisfy
constantly hear the remark that anthroposophy is difficult to
understand. They say that anthroposophy obtains its knowledge from
creed and the Bible, and they keep on stressing that anyone who
anthroposophy were to speak along the lines that people nowadays call
would have to admit, in that case, that although it was
this direction that objections are continually being raised against
science that will be spoken of here. This kind of spiritual science
is convinced that certain inter-relationships exist about which
however, we are living in an age that has a long way to go before
surface, knows that this has a mysterious connection with that
obstinate attitude of ‘simple faith’ that wants to rely
solely on the creed and the Bible. The parts of man's being that are
those very forces that could bring order into chaos and confusion at
somewhat, they would have to see all that is bringing mankind into
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Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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last few years have shown what intense feelings of hatred and antipathy
truth that earthly life can never progress fruitfully along such
Just as it is true that in the course of
as regards the future it must be said that vague sentimentality alone
mutual understanding of what the one may expect of the other —
that is what is needed.
over the Earth, for we have but to look at the disastrous things that
realise that a striving to make the whole Earth into one economic
opposition of the national economies to an Earth economy that has
understand his whole being. It is true that if one has a feeling for
such that his speech is understood, the knowledge is much more
fundamental, for one can then receive from him what his own inner
— if I may use a somewhat crude expression — pervades and
published a few years ago, I said that man, as he stands
before us in daily life, is not a unitary being, but that three
place, all that is related to and centralised in the head system
thought that the whole being of Spirit and soul in man is based upon
personal reference is permissible, I may say that more than thirty
science that the life of Spirit and soul runs parallel with the life
man that is bound to the system of nerves and senses. Sentient life
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Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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of our culture, is of such a nature that it already affects every
complete lack of bias, the conception of the moral, ethical life that
is possible today, with the interpretation of life that stems with
good reason from a natural scientific world conception. What is more,
because we live in that period of time when what is ethical is at the
Let us consider what the soul
comprise everything that is within the world order, including man.
science, we take it as a foregone conclusion that we apply that same
cognition that we are accustomed to use when considering natural
less audacious hypotheses, what natural science has learnt from
what is lying nearest to us, that we are able to observe, to cover
really given empirically in immediate human experience, and that
all-powerful natural necessity which must be deduced from what
being, so that mankind will be fully enmeshed in the web of natural
as the nebular hypothesis, that is, the Kant-Laplace theory of the
self-perception, we ask ourselves, “In that case, wherein
that which seems to be an ethical, moral impulse. We feel that it is
that we can achieve an existence fully worthy of mankind. We could
not call ourselves fully human if we did not think that motive was
what we call the Divine in the world order. But for a modern man who
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Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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takes effect, how it manifests in what man can feel, love and
create on Earth — that is new in every epoch.
we can feel that the emblems of Christmas around us are
that in the second half of December at the present
look at the lights that are intended to be invitations into
more deeply when we realise what the Christmas Festival has
warmth of feeling that pervaded the human soul at the times
great Universe out of which man is born, in order that our
readily enter into what for long ages was felt at the time of
anthroposophical way, we cannot limit ourselves to what the
something that can be compared to the thoughts and
a reverence that was not superficial but deeply felt. And
in his whole being he felt intimately connected with whatever
lived in communion with Nature. It was not only that in his
This was a time when, with the exception of what it was
that pervaded these same hearts throughout the summer. Those
that pervades a man when, unmindful of the outer world, he
said that Nature herself made it possible for these ancient
dawn of what was called the Yuletide Festival. This mood was
a foretaste of what they would subsequently experience in the
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Title: Memory and Love
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advanced by bringing to light the processes that go on during sleep
without our being conscious of them, and by the illumination that
that the experiences of the human soul between death and rebirth differ
or the etheric body. Nothing of what he experiences on earth can be
imagine, for example, that thinking is a purely spiritual act, and that
nothing in man that does not depend on the body for support. Within the
We can never say that we have knowledge of an organ by looking directly
living organ. We can never say that we have the same view of an internal
organ that we have of an external object. It is characteristic of
earthly life that we do not know the interior of our body by means of
ordinary consciousness. Least of all does a man know what he generally
knowledge proves most unpleasant — headache and all that goes with
prevails. There we do really know what is within us. It is as if here on
interior. But what we see is the world of spiritual beings, the world we
higher Hierarchies. That is our inner world. And between death and
beings and are conscious of them. It is just as true that we are
that here on earth we have no consciousness of our interior, of liver,
lungs, and so on. What is most characteristic is that in spiritual
We would indeed know that various beings were living in us, but we would
we were outside ourselves, but we know that this being outside ourselves
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Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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‘unconscious.’ On the one hand it admits that in respect
setting out to describe what is the essential nature of human knowledge,
we have to say that man's search for knowledge has to be pursued in the
show that when we investigate our consciousness, we find in it all
etc. — of which we are aware that they cannot be fathomed in their
self-observation enable us to penetrate to the nature and being of what
of the soul any further than that during waking life, ideas, feelings,
impulses of will-expressions, that is, of the inner nature and being of
demonstrate conclusively that what shows itself to begin with in such
We fully accept the fact that with such means of acquiring knowledge as
fathomed. We fully accept the fact that as far as these means go we can
admit that, taking what can be learned about the experiences of the soul
knowledge, that all thinking, feeling and willing, as they are present
upon bodily conditions that it may well be inferred that experiences of
region, and that what happens during sleep is simply that the purely
through the life of sleep the conclusion might be drawn that the
— ways of knowing that by dint of strenuous effort have to be
consciousness all that we can say is that whereas from waking to going
man cannot, with ordinary means of knowledge, tell what his soul does
all that the soul undergoes — assuming, that is, that it undergoes
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Title: Lecture: About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
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About Horses That Can Count and Calculate
raised as to what lies behind the now so famous horses of Elberfeld
wisdom. Let me say from the very outset that I am not personally acquainted
with the facts relating to the horses of Elberfeld that can calculate
to see that while the whole of Berlin was at that time really interested
we may say that gradually it became impossible to deny that something
everything that the people who were present had said, the philologist
came to the following conclusion: “It is of course obvious that
had to be explained as materialistically as possible. That an influence
soul. Our honorable philologists nevertheless admit that there can
as possible. They assume, for instance, that a person may make an almost
slight gestures are made, expressing what the person thinks, expressing
what the square root of 16 is. The horse perceives these gestures and
gestures, so that we must say: These almost imperceptible gestures
that only a professor who has worked for years in a laboratory can perceive
what horses are able to perceive! Such an explanation, however, rescued
influence, and to assert that a horse knows immediately when a professor
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Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as
particularly, one cannot but remember that there are quite a
that the phases of economic life run their course almost like
natural phaenomena: that after one set of economic
economic life, that when some phase like a ‘favorable
that then this ‘favorable business conjuncture’
will of itself inevitably evolve a crisis, and that this will
has actually been asserted, for instance, that the important
that year, was one that was bound to follow of necessity, as
a consequence of the boom that preceded it.
thought perhaps, that a study of processes which cover such a
course only too comprehensible, that the whole
and they look upon it as a great achievement, that this
that spiritual science, which, according to the
that spiritual science must come in and rectify errors; and
has nothing whatever in it of that peculiar abstract,
pointed out in my "Roots of the Social Question", that it is
purely theoretic. The reason of this is simply, that the
of what they were in search of, — took over from the
that these middle-classes stood for: that of
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Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as
intimated to me, that an important question at this moment is
that of propaganda; a how and through what means the
not present at the last study-evenings, it is possible that
what I say to-day may be apart from the general context; but
point out once more, that, in face of the general situation
learning to see, that at bottom nothing is to be accomplished
attention to the fact, that with our propaganda we have met
Tag. We are quite well aware, that if our propaganda for
cannot be too often repeated, — is, that an
by me not once but many times: and that was the question of
price-adjustment. I have often pointed out, that
that the fact of the matter is simply, that in the economic
process there are of course other questions, but that even
ones to be settled; but that these also must be settled on
the basis of the price-question; that a quite
nothing more unsound that to look upon prices as something
that can be put up and down at convenience; and then begins
kind from the bed-rock of general economics. What was the
middle-class circles held aloof, for they thought that we
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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and that have constantly to be faced by each individual, those
important. I have planned today's lecture so that these two
what we are concerned with in human and spiritual history will
the soul. The human soul incessantly tells itself that within
the human being is hidden something that exists beyond birth
scientifically. It also tells itself that there must be
investigate the things that are so important to it, it can set
other considerations show that it is possible to say as much
path that has to be followed to arrive at a conception of the
two problems that is humanly satisfying, but it believes it
also recognizes why it is that there is so much of a
from that taken by ordinary science. Science takes the facts,
naturally he is dealing with things that cannot be reached by
many times — that the science of spirit is definitely an
findings of natural science, as far as they can be valued, that
have to admit that for such questions as we are considering
today, questions that concern human self-knowledge above all,
directed their particular way of thinking to what goes on
within the human being himself, to what surges to and fro in
is bound to miss the way that would lead to a solution, not
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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significant conclusion that “the most valuable thing
insight into human life, and yet what he seems to be saying is
that it is not the knowledge we acquire about the course of
human history that is important, but rather the feelings and
enthusiasm that history stimulates. However, the more we feel
impelled to go into what is called historical knowledge, the
remember that when the catastrophic events began in which the
economic and other material causes in world history, that the
that this conclusion was really not at all stupid. Nor, judging
by the historical standards that humanity is accustomed to
really founded on what was actually happening?
us take as another example what happened to a not insignificant
person. It is true that it took place a long time ago, but it
which he said that a study of the historical evolution of
humanity suggested that the European countries would in future
has the impression that Schiller believed he could arrive at
conclusions in his study of history that in a sense rise to a
Revolution and all that it brought with it. And if we
take everything that has happened up to the present day we find
that what even this gifted man had learned from his study of
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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necessary briefly to epitomise a good deal of what is
connected with all that has happened here, has originated
should particularly like to speak of all that, as far as its
intentions go, can still lie in what has already happened and
what may happen in future as a result of our activities here.
that I shall not have anything particularly out of the common
survey of what our souls should have experienced.
what I should like to pay today has of late often been
that a real, genuine, spiritual deepening is necessary for
who are able to take in earnest what is lying in this call to
convince themselves that this spiritual deepening, at least
then be said that in our day men having the temerity to take
the lead in any particular sphere — that these men know
how really to take seriously what today is meant by striving
illustrate what I mean by an example. Now I recently had a
shall just speak about it in that sense without giving names.
at present in a spiritual sphere, who to begin with says that
hands and that he has caught at the idea of a threefold
social order with enthusiasm, The letter goes on to say that
that he had been sent by those running the Threefold
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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going to give you a kind of comprehensive survey; that is the
sort of thing that ie necessary at the present time.
from which I want to speak to-day is to indicate that a
again and again that men will not be able to make any further
indicated with what earnestness this spiritual deepening
acquiring knowledge — and that only those have a true
who are able to take seriously to heart all that the call
come to the absolutely firm conviction that in the very
you think it could truthfully be said that in our time men
who presume to be leaders in this or that sphere of life,
really know what a serious striving after the Spirit is? Such
illustrate what I mean by an example, Not very long ago I got
illustration and so shall give no name. It says that this man
and that he entirely agreed with the idea of the
say that he had got certain useful information from my book
on the “Threefold Commonwealth” and that he had
repeated them in public. But then he saye that the Committee
Company, and although he says that he does not venture to
— he feels aggrieved that middle class culture, as it
now,what is the cause of thie? Let us consider the thing as
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Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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What I would
sense). You will realise without difficulty that in the
what bordered on it, a part of Asia and a portion of Africa,
and that beyond this definitely limited region, the world was
a kind of vague, indefinite quantity It might be said that
what formed the horizon of the Greek's consciousness was the
consciousness. Now you know that the essential feature
of modern times has been that this territorial consciousness
consciousness, that the surface of the Earth as it were,
may be said that simultaneously with the emergence of this
consciousness, a panorama of what was outside and beyond the
conceived of that which is outside and beyond the Earth in
picture includes all that there is to be said about that
consciousness, and constructed what was beyond this, in
phantasies. Of course the modern man does not clothe that
case with the ancient Greek with reference to what lay
and to embrace what is beyond the Earth by mathematical and
world picture of what is beyond the Earth, is really only
all that we have been considering, during the course of many
else, by something empirical, something that can be
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Title: The Ten Commandments
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From the side of learned theology it is often maintained that
What we have examined in the developmental route of mankind in
“Mission of Moses.” Out of what did this Mission
announced that they were mere common people in ordinary life
Despite that however they could be taught about the higher
what was happening on the astral plane. At least in certain
clarify to the people that what is around them, what they can
understanding that the spiritual was to be sought in the
never practice worship. That only came much later. Certainly
Rishis to make it clear to the entire Indian people: that which
and serene that it can only be taken in as a symbol.
That was the progress.
feeling. We can easily understand what now has to be said. What
what the Egyptian cultural leaders said to the people: when you
removed from that which also lives in the human astral body,
astral form. That divinity however, which the Jewish people
From that moment onwards people had to be told: Just as an
prevails over everything that's been and is created. Nothing
astral body. What is this called? Just think how one of the
of culture. Don't believe that these orders were given as they
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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been taught as it is today, in lectures and books that are accessible
Take heed of what you have seen today!” A secret attraction remained
what was to be done, although the recipient, of course, was not aware
will find in his works much that is taught today in Theosophy.
between knowledge and faith. What is necessary today is to attain to
to the public. Whence does man originate? What is his goal? What lies
hidden behind his visible form? What happens after death? — all
they will contain nothing that is mere theory and cannot be put into
clearly what they were writing about. This kind of writing may indeed
first of all see through our sense-organs what Theosophy calls the physical
although the physical body is only a small part of what man really is,
must go deeper. Even superficial observation will make it clear that
substances and their forces in such a way that they become for him the
the plant and animal kingdoms. Ordinary observation can confirm that.
development of what is dormant in every human being. It is rather like
a man born blind being operated on so that he can see. The difference
is that not everyone born blind can be successfully operated on, whereas
us to show what this means.
from that of ordinary sleep. There must be a close rapport between
— positive and negative. The first makes a person see what is not
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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the following effect: What use to us is this knowledge you say you have
That is the situation
this an admirable reply has been given by that notable thinker, Subba
for what we are told about the higher worlds is not mere theory, unrelated
of the higher worlds; security comes when we are consciously aware that
of the most perplexing aspects of this world is that all things appear
do not at first understand this. It may happen that they see themselves
what it signifies. The fact is that these figures are their own impulses,
desires and passions, which live in what we call the astral body. Ordinary
of the objects around you. Everything that comes out of you seems to
see the egg and then the hen that laid it. Time in the astral moves
these legends to the folk-spirit (Volksgeist) but that is not true.
people say: “Oh, that is only a thought or a feeling; it exists
and every feeling is a reality, and if I let myself think that someone
is a bad man or that I don't like him, then for anyone who can
“Tat tvam asi” — “That thou art”. Much
outside himself and says, “That thou art”; and then he is
and we find that everything lives in music. Goethe, as an Initiate,
the world of Devachan. We can see that this is indeed what Goethe means
plate. Where a physical object exists, there is nothing; what is light
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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between them. Let us consider what happens to a man from the moment
We have seen that man
What does the loosened
astral body do during the night? A clairvoyant can see that it has a
man remembers all that has happened to him in the life just ended. His
What happens here is that the etheric body is loosened. If a finger,
of death. The cause of this similarity is that the etheric body is the
At such moments everything that has been inscribed on the etheric body
condition we must realise that in his earthly life a man's consciousness
depends entirely on his senses. Let us think away everything that comes
appropriate senses. If we can clearly envisage what will remain when
we are parted from all our physical organs, from everything that normally
begin to form some conception of what the condition of life is after
around us, but they are inaccessible to our physical senses. What, then,
body. Now suppose the man dies: what is left to him is his desire and
so that to call this condition one of burning thirst is very appropriate.
endure this torment? The reason is that man has to wean himself gradually
from these physical wishes and desires, so that the soul may free itself
from the Earth, may purify and cleanse itself. When that is achieved,
to that of birth. What is the point of this? The point is that he has
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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then of his etheric body and finally of his lower astral body. What
important, something that may be called its fruit, survives. The total
behind what I have called a concentrated essence of forces. So with each
What is the purpose of
but that is not how it goes. Think how different life was for a man who
development of human personality are very different from what they were
in the past. A man's incarnations are ordered in such a way that he
What is the usual period
between two incarnations and on what does it depend? The following
Ram in Asia beyond the sea. The lamb was so highly revered that in due
This means that there
the Bull; before that in the constellation of the Twins, and about
What was it, then, that
The ancients knew that with this movement of the Sun round the Zodiac
something important was connected, for it meant that the Sun's rays
that during this period a person is generally born twice, once as a
man and once as a woman, so that on average the interval between two
incarnations is in fact about 1,000 years. It is not true that there is
is that a soul appears once as a man and once as a woman during this
to it under the conditions of that period; and the person will have
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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and though it is difficult to give an idea of the bliss that goes with
it, a comparison with something that occurs on Earth will perhaps bring
that pervades the activity of a being engaged in the creation of another
of life. All forms of spiritual life, for example that of Christian
sees realised in visible form all the relationships that arise between
and a tropical climate prevailed. Who is it that brings all this about?
of the physical plane, we are quite justified in saying that man has
his Ego and his dwelling-place here, and that man is the highest of
different. As soon as an Initiate enters that plane, he comes to know
can be engaged on is similar to that of the Egos of the animals —
and animal worlds, that this change is the work of the dead. The dead
This will go on increasingly, and what man cannot accomplish here, he
can also happen that through special circumstances a man returns soon
come from Devachan into astral space. What is happening here?
so that the whole process depends on the man himself. The form and colour
that they are seaching for parents with suitable characters and family
right for the germinal human being cannot always be found; all that
importance. It may happen that a person who went through a great deal
We must not imagine that

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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he can convince himself that in Theosophy the truth about life is to
year it is really only the physical body that parents and educators have
of the child, so that the outer world has no access to the child. At
him are behaving. Aristotle was quite right in saying that man is the
a child's senses, to draw them out so that they become active
on their own account. That is why it is such a mistake to give a child
important that the subtler influences which pass over to them unconsciously
from their environment should be favourable. It is very important that
what we say but what we are that influences a child during his first
fourteenth, fifteenth or sixteenth year — that is, until puberty
so that with their aid he will stand firm against the storms of life.
difficult after this age. It is at this time also that a feeling for
be taken to see that the child learns as much as possible through stories
that his power of comparison is exercised on concepts drawn from the
is good” or “this is bad”, for that would make a demand
and death, and the changes that accompany them, we can use the example
quite naturally, so that the child will believe before it has knowledge
demands that the type of people chosen to be teachers must be those whose
something, is the best time for learning from the world. That is the
karma is not mere theory, or something that merely satisfies our curiosity.
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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a person in that particular situation. In speaking of karmic relationships
the fact that for most people the really burning question is: How does
that vary so widely? In order to understand these karmic relationships,
we shall have to look back again at what has been said about man's four
in the same place as he is. What we do results from the movements of
destiny in a later life depends upon what we do in this physical life.
and vice versa. That is the first important karmic law: what we did in a
law. If we look at the way a man develops, we see that in the course
changing ideas is somewhat like the relation of the hour-hand of a clock
with the tendency to do good and that will be a characteristic of his
world will find in his next life that he cannot stick at anything. But
he will be born with a special predilection for everything that reminds
was this that gave occult leaders their great power.
can take pains to instil quite specific habits. Whatever the etheric
get a disease will depend on what we do; but whether we are specially
whole groups of peoples. It emerged as leprosy, that terrible disease
The fact is that we must
way; and this meant that many passages were not expounded but undermined.
Then there was a third stage: that of the people who took everything
fourth stage: that of the occultist, who can once more understand
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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study of particular karmic questions in relation to human life. What
voice telling us what to do and what to leave undone. How did such an
something comparable to what we call conscience. We find that in the
civilisations. We may conclude, then, that the idea of conscience, in
see presently what our ancestors possessed in place of it.
and tried to convince him that it is not a good thing to eat another human
being. The cannibal retorted that in order to decide whether eating a man
his fellow-men until one day he was due to be eaten himself. At that
moment he experienced the fact that it could really happen to him. He
felt that there was something wrong about this, and the fruits of this
incarnation he brought a dim feeling that what he had been doing was not
got [a] stomach-ache he came to realise by degrees that there were some
all knowledge, from the highest to the lowest, is the outcome of what
of logical thought. From this we must conclude that accurate thinking
the astral body has been so often convinced that this or that would
If you recall what I said
destiny; but what is the effect of any illnesses it may have had in
it is a secretion of the oyster, so that in this case life has to fall
it endured; or it may be that an illness a man has caught from infection
himself so that he might become more truly human. It was as though you
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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recall what has been said about the being of man. Man has seven members:
that the highest body now possessed by man is the most perfect, and
that it can withstand the attacks of the astral body for seventy or
of them all. The reason is that the physical body has gone through the
how these bodies have evolved, we must realise that it is not only man
who goes through successive incarnations, but that the law of reincarnation
this law. The Earth, with everything that is on it, has passed through
are true metamorphoses of the one planet and all the beings that belong
that time there were none. Only a being with Devachanic sight could
a faint indication of what they were to become, the physical body of
of primal mineral, with no etheric body round it; hence we can say that
Round its structure was being perfected, so that only in the seventh
transformations, or Form-conditions, so that Saturn will have passed
through seven times seven, or forty-nine, metamorphoses. That is true
Form-conditions, expressed as 777 in occult script. In that script, 7 in
find that our planetary system has to pass through 7 by 7 by 7, or 343
riddle of 777.” His wish was that people should learn for themselves
that this meant 343. The Secret Doctrine gives the riddle but not the
within himself so that he might evolve to a higher level. In this way he
of living minerals. On Sun, man evolved in such a way that the etheric
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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At that time the Earth
were at that time up above in this spirit-atmosphere. The Earth was a
homogeneous whole, except that spiritual offshoots rather like tentacles
illuminated from outside. All our seeing depends on the fact that the
that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”
consciousness prevailed. The experience was like that of a simple change
their present-day shapes. There were shining plants and animals that
whirled through the ether. All were still of one sex, except that certain
of that time, so that man and animals were able to draw directly from
So the human beings of that time were nourished and fertilised by the
vegetarians, absorbing only what nature freely offered, and living on
Moon carried off with it a great part of the forces that human beings
was the Lemurian epoch, that of the third Root-race.
and rock-formation went hand in hand. The human form at that time was
in solution much that later on became solid — our present-day
parts of the Earth with immense violence, so that elemental destruction
he had a swim-bladder, rather like that of some present-day fish.
heat was transformed into the breathing of air, that which Mars had
breath. They knew very well that they drew it in with the breath and
of that time: these were the gods who in Christian tradition are called
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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the men of that time for their training and re-moulding.
race and that of the new Root-race; it occurred in the middle of the
their lands on condition that new hunting-grounds were allotted to
pale-faces promised us that your Chief would give our brothers other
people to keep their word. The Brown-man's God is not like that; the
the Brown-man can understand that speech also. He knows when a storm
his God teaches is very different from what your magical black signs
to express what he heard in this way, he would embody it in a sound
of lightning, he was aware that part of the Godhead was displayed before
that he was touching the body of the Godhead. He lived in a religious
began to concern themselves more with what the senses could perceive
that he must seek for God with his spirit. That is in fact the meaning
only through what has been handed down orally in the occult schools.
are of much later origin. The ancient Indian felt in his heart that
external nature as he saw it was unreal, and that behind it the Godhead
thought-pictures, in visions and imaginations that the world of Brahman
primal source of being. The profound Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, that
sublime song of human perfection, are only echoes of that ancient divine
The second sub-race, that
tradition survives. People were now coming to the thought that external
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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rid of the following form of egoism. He must not say: “What good
them for myself? That implies a lack of trust. He must trust a person
teacher. What, then, happens to a man who enters on occult development?
What are the necessary preconditions for it?
and his outer senses. He lives and works in what we call the waking
state. But that is only one state; between waking and sleeping there
that dreams are nonsense, but this is not so. Even with people today
dreams have a meaning, but not that of experiences in waking life. When
that you hear the clatter of horses' hooves, and when you wake
up you realise that you were hearing the ticking of the clock by your
of the shot which wakes him — and then he realises that he has
knocked down the chair that stood by his bed. Or again, a peasant woman
may dream that she is on her way to church; she enters; she hears the
examples that in dreams we live in a very different sort of time from
that of our waking consciousness. The actual cause of the dream I have
quoted was the last event in point of time. The reason is that such
the details, you extend this inner time yourself, so that the events
seem to have occurred in that extended period. This will also help you to
and dream that you are in a cellar with a lot of cobwebs. Or the beating
may have a different experience: they may dream, for instance, that
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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say that no occult school sees in its teaching and requirements anything
fulfil everything that the Christian religion prescribes for the laity
that you can be a good man and come to a form of the higher life without
briefly the kind of instruction that an Eastern teacher gives. You will
realise that the actual instructions cannot be given publicly; I can
to do it — that again is a different question.
command, Do not lie, if you recall what I said about the astral
that he does not steal. But the Eastern Yogi does not look at it so
was easy to define. But a Yoga teacher would not agree that Europeans
have become so complex that many people violate this commandment without
will burden your karma. You can see that this precept requires deep
fact that he knew nothing about it makes no difference to his karma.
nothing, is especially hard to carry out. It means that the pupil
to do only what the outer world demands of him. He must even suppress
in European civilisation. For us it is very easy to say that we have
different and better ideas, but no-one will say that anyone else's ideas
been imposed on people, and the consequence is that formlessness has
all observances that could draw human beings together; every form that
Even the most liberal-minded, whatever they may say to the contrary,
not demand that the ceremonies which unite the learned and unlearned
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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You must not imagine that
foreseen that a time would come when because of the gradual increase of
We are usually told that faith was shaken by the ideas of Copernicus,
but that is quite wrong: after all, Copernicus dedicated his book to
the Pope! It is only in quite recent times that this conflict has gradually
developed. The Masters of Wisdom saw that this was bound to happen and
that a new path would have to be found for those whose faith had been
that the highest knowledge of mundane things is thoroughly compatible
the Rosicrucian path that those who have been led away from Christian
belief by what they take to be science can learn to understand Christianity
but practically, so that they become part of his everyday life. There are
What is the lower form of
what we are and of what we bear within us: in other words, an examination
of our own soul-life. But we must make it quite clear to ourselves that
we see only what we are, and that is just what we have to grow out of
Most people are convinced that their characteristics are the best, and
that all characteristics are one-sided; you must learn to recognise
in what respects yours are one-sided and then try to balance them. This
small details that this harmony can be achieved. If your tendency is
not to let anyone finish what he is saying, you must keep a watch on
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Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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ago, I would like to say that in the short time at our disposal I
you in forming your outlook upon Nature. I hope that in no very
must also realize, I was only told that this lecture-course was
hoped-for after my arrival here. What I can therefore give during
What I am hoping to
I then said in introduction that I should mainly confine myself to
quite impossible. Through all that lives and works in the Physics and
Chemistry of today, our scientists are fated in regard, whatever
these lectures to establish a certain harmony between what we may
call the experimental side of Science and what concerns the outlook,
aspects that shall help our understanding. In today's lecture it will
be my specific aim to help you understand that contrast between the
clear idea of what constitutes the field of their researches.
idea of what Nature is, but from the way in which the scientist of
what I shall characterize (though in a very brief introductory
place he is at pains to observe Nature in such a way that from her
species, thus grouping and comprising what is given, to begin with,
Scientists in our time do not reflect that they should really examine
by the man of today in scientific research, is that he tries by
experiment, to arrive at what he calls the “causes” of
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Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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thoughts about all that, which in the physical processes around us
thought. We derive mathematical formulae concerning all that can be
counted and computed or that is spatial in form and movement, and it
is surely significant that all the truths we thus derive by thought
hand it is no less significant that we must have recourse to quite
external experiences the moment we go beyond what can be counted and
computed or what is purely spatial or kinematical. Indeed we need
saw this pretty clearly in yesterday's lecture, and it emerged that
modern Physics does not really understand what this leap involves.
impossible ever to gain valid ideas of what is meant or should be
affected, say, by an impression of light or colour — we, that
the text-books or go among the physicists to ascertain what ideas
it is not really possible to gain true or clear ideas of what
out upon the path that can really lead to a bridging of the gulf
well-known theorem. (We can go into it again another time so that
then revise what is necessary for the understanding of it. Now I will
in the sense of pure kinematics, that a point (in such a case we
observe that the point moves with such and such velocity, we are in
outer Nature, — not even to what is mechanical in Nature. To
velocity and p the force that is acting on the point. Also
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Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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I am told that the
You will realize that
What I was trying to
in the fact that you are always hankering after a phoronomical
character. They will restrict their thoughts to what is arithmetical,
commonly held by physicists, so Goethe learned, that when you let
thing to imagine, no doubt, but that is what they said. And when we
than to fan out and separate what is already there in the light,
It soon emerged that the phenomenon was not at all as commonly
Put a prism in the way of the body of light that is going through
IIc), but what appears in the first place is not the series of
himself: It is not that the light is split up or that anything is
that they are drawn out of the light, as though the light had been
that where light adjoins dark, colours appear at the edges. It is
none other than that. For there is darkness outside this circular
circle that the colours extend inward from the edges to the middle.
They then overlap in the middle and form what we call a continuous
prism, I should of course get something very like what we had
farther in. Again I should get an image. That is to say, there would
it so that when moving the screen to and fro there would be a very
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Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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placing before you what we may call the “Ur-phenomenon”
plate which is in some way dim or cloudy, then what would seem to me
water through which you send a stream of light so that the liquid is
path of the light — that is, a body with convergent faces. In
said, puts itself into the path of the light in such a way that while
the light is mainly diverted upward, the dimming that arises, raying
light itself is diverted. That is to say, darkness rays into the
have the following phenomenon: Looking along here, I see what would
What then do you see
in this case? Watch what you see, state it simply and then connect it
what you actually see will emerge in all detail. Only you must hold
to what is really seen. For if you are looking thus into the bright
itself, but you are seeing it through dark. (That there is something
darkened here, is clearly proved by the fact that blue arises in this
cylinder-of-light coming towards you. Through what is dark you look
at what is light; here therefore you should be seeing yellow or
you do. Likewise the red colour below is proof that here is a region
— it tells you what you actually see. Your eye is here
encountered by what you would be seeing in the other instance. Here
light appears reddish. At the bottom edge you have a region that is
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Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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what we should get from the Sun, (compare
obtain a luminous picture with the light that spreads from a glowing
careful experiment, it is true, we should perceive that everything
Bunsen. If we arrange things so that the source of light generating
yellow) of the spectrum. It blots it out, so that we get a black line
IVh). Simply to state the fact, this then is what we have to say:
must be at least equal to the strength of light that is just being
as well as we are able, that this dark line does really appear in the
the colours are reversed. We have already discussed, why it is that
colours to what we call “bodies”. As a transition to this
problem looking for the relations between the colours and what we
that I cause the light to go through this solution — iodine in
will be explained how it comes about that they appear coloured at
all. How comes it in effect that the material bodies have this
existence so to speak, develop such relation to the light that one
gathering of all the colours — falls on a body that looks red,
namely the way we see what we call “coloured bodies”
“phosphores” or light-bearers. This is what they meant:
of it what was then called “Bologna stone”. When he
of that time, you need not take it to mean what is called
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Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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saturated with the present way of thought that if you have been
thought prevailing in the schools today with that which can be gained
circle. Cast your mind back to what you learned in your school days.
What did they teach you of the phenomenon you see when you observe
through the glass? You were no doubt told that rays of light proceed
Simply by looking through the glass and comparing what you see with
what you saw before the plate of glass was there, you do indeed
project the luminous object so much the higher up. This then is what
to do so (.... or is it to the soul, or to some demon that you
portions of what we see. Not only the lighter parts, the darker too
abstract the one light patch from all the rest that is there. Mostly
one patch of light, it is not true that it alone is shifted upward.
what is displaced in these optical phenomena can never be thus
by the prism — it simply is not true that the cone of light is
diverted all alone. Whatever the cone of light is bordering on
never to speak of rays of light or anything of that kind, but only of
such a way as to refer at the same time to all that borders on the
light. Only if we think in this way can we begin to feel what is
that in some way the colours spring from the light alone. For from
the very outset we have it settled in our mind that the one and only
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Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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saying which I do not mean to imply that it would be better if I
insight into Science, and you must look on all that I bring forward
that wherever colours arise there is a working-together of light
and darkness. What we now have to do is to observe as many
true conception of what underlies this interplay of light and
look at what is here before you, you will be bound to say: the
left-hand source of light. It is produced, in that the light from
Relatively dark spaces are created, — that is all. Where the
coloured glass, so that this one of the lights is now coloured
— that is, darkened to some extent. As a result, you will see
that the shadow of the rod, due to this left-hand source of light
that was actually there. And so in this case: when I darken the
source of light to red, you see the shadow green. What was mere
familiar with this phenomenon, and also knew that of the coloured
to himself, and he went on to describe it somewhat as follows: When
red. I am not really seeing the white screen; what I see is a
yourselves. Take a little tube and look through it, so that you
what is around it, you only see the green which is objectively
experiment that the green really is objective. It remains green,
Dr. Steiner admitted that there is an error here. (See the
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Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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confirm what I so often speak of more generally in Spiritual
Science. Namely, before that turning-point in time, man's whole way
of thinking was very different from what it then became.
of modern Physics came about only gradually. What first caught
a first approximation it is not difficult to find what may be
thunder after you see the lightning. If you neglect that there is
that elapses between your perception of the impression of light and
different object that happens to be so attuned — is there in
Mersenne, who made important researches on what is called the
is to ascertain what corresponds to the pitch, — to ascertain
phenomenon that underlies it — or, shall we rather say,
glass plate would reveal that this tuning-fork is executing regular
air and we may therefore say that when we hear any sounding body
have gradually discovered what kind of movement it is. It takes
tube, which we connect with another tube full of air, so that the
then put a very light and mobile dust into the tube that is filled
recognize that the sound is propagated just in this way; first
prove by direct experiment that we are dealing with dilutions and
experiments; they are at hand, if I may say so. What you can get
from the text-books is not what I am here to shew.
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Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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these explanations have had to be so improvised and brief, so that
intention of continuing when I am here again, so that in time these
beginning no doubt with things that are well-known to you from your
attract small bodies such as bits of paper. You know too what
sealing-wax, prove to be diverse. We can rub either rod, so that it
peculiar thing is that positive electricity always induces and
to the one coating, so that this coating will then evince the
one another. You have to make connection so that the one
would so induce the negative that if we brought them near enough
across the gap. Now you are also aware that this kind of
whatever it may be, is brought about by friction. And — here
again, I am presumably still recalling what you already know
— it was only at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries that
electricity”, what is called “contact
two things at once, truth to tell, — two things that should
had discovered what Volta, a little later, was able to describe
simply as “contact electricity”, namely the fact that
we turn attention to the discovery made by Galvani. We have what
electric currents are passed through them. So that in fact, that
is, the 19th century was chiefly filled with the idea that we must
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Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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presented to us by Nature. You will remember what I was trying to
physical science has so developed that materialism is being lifted
when Science thought that it had golden proofs of the universality
period has been in Physics. Impelled by the very facts that have
not say that they were right, but this idea arose. It came about in
and making their way through the partial vacuum. In that they can
be deflected by magnetic forces, they prove akin to what we should
what we see where radiations are at work. This kinship comes out
most vividly when we catch the rays (or whatsoever it is that is
element of matter. For you can imagine that a bombardment is taking
may gather that the cross stops the rays. Observe it clearly,
attract a simple bit of iron with a magnet, so too, what here
gaseous but even more attenuated, — revealing also that
flowing electricity as such, and what we see seems very like the
shew you, what was not possible yesterday, the rays that issue from
the other pole and that are called “canal rays”. You
revealed in that the glass becomes fluorescent when we send the
greenish-yellow, fluorescent light. The rays that shew themselves
that certain entities, regarded as material substances, emit
different from what it was before. We have to do no longer with
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Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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In order to realize that it is just at the present time that
life. It is not so difficult to see that the science of spirit
connection that the Copernican outlook had with its time. Just
eliminate spirit-soul nature that a science of spirit, based on
It cannot be said that the present time has got very far
human freedom and all that is connected with it, that are
fact that great and outstanding scientists of the present time
it is only recently that outstanding scientists have
significance. Much could be added in this respect that is
own sphere, what predicament serious scientists are in
questions of spiritual life. We find that a scientist like
Oskar Hertwig makes quite clear that he cannot approach
one would think that the way is now open for a science of
spirit, for the scientist himself points out that a science of
unconsciously — that the
that it is possible to be scientific only so long as one keeps
People then believe that a departure from the sense
dreams. — What is so
dangerous in this is that it is not clearly expressed, but
arises as a kind of feeling out of what is achieved and spreads
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Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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I took the liberty of pointing out yesterday that there
science. I pointed out further that there is a certain
understanding of the science of spirit, that is, for people who
are of the opinion that it is not possible to bridge the gap
emerged from my exposition yesterday, the fact that it is
of the present time that we are bound to long, and indeed, do
long to acquire knowledge about the human being that goes
Now it is naturally possible to say that the views of the
world generally held, that have arisen through the influence of
concerned with what is physically present in the world. And so
now it is intended to investigate what lies beyond normal
sphere that is, as I have said, more or less tied to the world
of the senses. People have gradually become convinced that it
is not possible to investigate the mysteries of soul life, that
there is much that rises up into the soul life of the human
unknown heights, that is well suited to provide information
about what the core of man's being really is, rather than what
something not sufficiently tangible, as something that
it. It is the region that we have more recently become
that is because some of the things that are said in this
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Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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But man soon learns that there appears to be something vague about
that is of a temperature distinctly lower
vessel and you will see that to the finger which has been in the cold
been exposed. Everyone knows that when he goes into a cellar, it may
that the cellar feels warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
measuring heat. It must be assumed that you are acquainted with them.
I will simply say that when the temperature condition is measured with
a thermometer, there is a feeling that since we measure the degree
measurement. In our thinking we consider that there is a fundamental
For all that the 19th century has striven to attain it may
be said that this view on the matter was, from a certain point of
with the fact that we have completely lost our feeling for the real
attention to the fact that in many cases we are obliged today to
in a feverish condition. This will show you that the relation of the
view of heat. The reason is, that in so doing, one neglects the fact
that the various organs are quite different in their sensitiveness to
this heat-being, that the heart, the liver, the lungs differ
harm done by modern physical research, so-called, in dealing with what
being. Certain questions must be asked, questions that call above
What then does it really mean when I say, if I put my fingers in the
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Yesterday I touched upon the fact that bodies under the influence of
order to impress these things upon our minds so that we can use them
indicates for you the act that the rod expands. The pointer moves
upwards at once. Also you notice that with continued heating the
pointer moves more and more, showing that the expansion increases with
expansion, it would be found other than it is here. We would find that
to establish at once that the expansion, the degree of elongation,
the fact that we are dealing with a cylinder and assume that we have a
Now I said that the rod
formula may be changed as follows: let us assume now that we are to
(It is obvious that the same rule will hold here as in the case of
the length.) Now you know that the area of the surface is obtained by
these last two terms of the formula for expansion. Observe that when
important to keep in mind this fact that we come here upon the third
Now I must always remember that we are here in the Waldorf School and
will call your attention to the fact that the same introduction I have
a ninth and when I cube a third I get a twenty-seventh. That is, the
body. It is simply considered that since the fraction
that you can see it. We will warm this colored fluid
Now you notice that after a short time the colored fluid rises and
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aggregation I mean what I referred to yesterday as called in the
acquainted with the fact that earth, water, and air, or as they are
the fluid condition. By means of a thermometer we can determine that
that no heat is being absorbed. For if we discontinue heating, the
theory. We have prepared here this solid body, sodium thiosulphate,
come up and watch the temperature to verify the fact that while the
went to 48° C. which is the melting point of sodium thiosulphate, and
temperature again rises. It can be shown that through this further
in the vapor that it again shows a temperature rise (dot-dash line.)
You can see here that during vaporizing the instrument does not rise.
consider solids, which form our starting point, you know that they
hold their shape of themselves, whatever form is given them they
you select a fluid, that is, a body that has by the application of
heat been made to go through the melting point, you know that I cannot
If I select a gas — a body that has been
facts together so that we can reach a general conception of the nature
quicksilver is a liquid, we must keep clear in our minds that it is
so that we get an expansion in that direction. By reducing the
path that does not leave the blackboard. You cannot, however, if you
points in three dimensions by moving about in a single plane. What is
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You will perhaps have noticed that in our considerations here, we are
manner that the real nature of warmth may be obvious to us from these
relations that meet us from within the realm of heat, and we have in
with gases or vapors. We already know that these are so connected with
heat that by means of this we bring about the gaseous condition, and
again, by appropriate change of temperature that we can obtain a
liquid from a gas. Now you know that when we have a solid body, we
heat. The experiment I will carry out here will show that water vapor
follow by reason of the fact that it is colored. (The experiment was
carried out.) You see that in spite of our having filled the vessel
water vapor. That is, a gas does not prevent another gas from
by saying that gaseous or vaporous bodies may to a certain extent
always surrounded. I must remind you that this outer air surrounding
and it exerts this pressure on us. Thus, we can say that air inside
left hand tubes. You can see that on both right and left hand sides
the mercury column is at the same height, and that since here on the
higher mercury column. That is, we have simply added the weight of the
this and consider it a general phenomenon that the space occupied by a
pressure of gases are so related that the volume-pressure product is a
what must happen if we are to throw aside certain obstacles that
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round out the series of facts that lead us to our goal. It is not
somewhat differently from the way I intended. The reason for this is
partly that the apparatus is not in working order and partly because
We will therefore take up in more detail the things that were begun
yesterday. I will ask you to consider all these facts that were placed
of various bodies to the being of heat. You will realize that certain
aggregation that a body assumes according to its temperature, also the
that during the melting of the solid, no rise in temperature is
gaseous condition. These facts make up a series that you can
demonstrate for yourselves, and that you can follow with your eyes,
sense qualities such as light and tone. But we saw that magnetism and
organ for these entities. We say, indeed, that so far as electrical
We then noted particularly, and this must be emphasized, that our
able to convince yourselves that they are the distilled essence of the
sort of thing. I mean all that is obtained from pure mathematics. Such
that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180°, or that the whole is
by turning of the body. The thing that you have within you as a
will-concept, that in reality you carry into the pure mathematical
concept. That is the essential distinction between mathematical
from the fact that mathematical concepts are so rigidly bound up with
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We will today first examine a phenomenon that comes in the region
see that by a simultaneous examination of the things we experience in
this field the way will open to an understanding of what heat really
is. First we will turn our attention to what is revealed here in these
it, in empty space, and it can be stated that the water evaporated.
determine that it evaporates by testing for the presence of water
vapor over the mercury, you will see that the level is lower in the
vapor tension as it is called. That is, the mercury volume is forced
down here. We see therefore, that vapor always presses on the
part of the tube. You can see that when the temperature is raised, the
we see that the vapor increases its pressure on the wall more and more
barometric column on the left. If I measure, I find that it is shorter
experiment with heat. You will see that the pressure becomes
is very low. From this you can see that ether evaporating under the
Now there is an occurrence that I wish especially to call to your
elementary physics that solids may be changed to liquids and liquids
noteworthy fact, however, is that if we impose on this solid body a
it solidified. You know that water changed to ice at 0°C. and it must
experiment on this ice which will show you that we can make it a
the block proceeded so slowly that the result described in the
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beginning of the experiment, you were able to convince yourselves that
wire. That is to say a liquefaction took place only in consequence of
entity acted in such a way that the block closed itself up at once. I
than what we did yesterday with the block of ice, but you are doing it
this observation, for we see that when we simply pass the pencil
taken up) that the properties of the air itself bring about the
we cannot avoid the thought that the heat entity enters into the
process in such a way that it contributes the same thing as is
through. You have here only a further extension of what I said to you
for all that you can perceive. When you are dealing with a solid body,
material air itself is in the other case. That is, you met here with a
real picture of what goes on in heat. And again you have established
that when we observe the gaseous or vapor condition — air is
way in the phenomena of gases a picture of what takes place in the
it is only the obvious that we are presenting, we can state the
gaseous, into the gaseous bodies. And in what goes on in gases we will
factors. Nor is it dependent on whether we hold this or that view of
perceptions of energy to rest on the fact that it can change place and
Now what does it mean when one speaks in such a fashion? It means that
an attempt is made so to define what is before one physically that
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the fact that mechanical work exerted by friction of a rotating paddle
in a mass of water has changed into heat. You were shown that the
Today we will do just the opposite. We showed yesterday that we must
mechanical effect by means of heat, in a way similar to that by which
have let the entire process take place, after the heat that we have
supplied. In this case, we could not say that the heat has been
succeeds fully, you may determine for yourselves that the condensate
that it is not possible to get back as mechanical work in the form of
We have at the beginning to deal with the fact that we in fact do
supposed that every form of so-called energy — heat energy,
— that all such energies are mutually changeable the one into the
today's experiment. This is that in an energy system apparently
this transformation however, it is apparent that a certain law
energy. In this case of heat energy, the relation is such that it
Julius Robert Mayer. He had observed, as a physician, that the venous
regions, and from this concluded that there was a different sort of
Using principally these experiences, he later presented a somewhat
that it was possible to transform one type of energy into another. The
19th century, we see that such ideas as expressed by
applying the method of thinking that we have used before in all our
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The fact that we have spoken of the transformation of energy and force
attention to the problem of indicating what really lies behind these
that is immediately evident in the work performed. We will, as it
were, bring about in another sphere the same sort of thing that we did
weight will bring the paddle wheel into motion. The force that somehow
previous experiments. What we show is really this, that by forming a
state that the work available for the wheel is connected in some way
Here too, we have something that can be denoted as a difference in level.
I must ask you to note especially how both these experiments show that
wherever we deal with what is called energy transformation, we have to
take account of difference in level. The part played by this, what is
and take into account that which Eduard von Hartmann set aside before
ways, somewhat as follows: what is all that goes on in outer physical
revelation of nature that is given us in the musician's ear itself.
What Goethe wishes to emphasize by this is that we will never
have seen that great difficulties arise when we try in this way to
really seek to connect heat with the being of man. Even the facts that
heat support this view. Indeed, that which appears in this modern
in the tropical country of Java, that the venous blood of tropical
people was redder than that of people in northern climes. He concluded
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support to what we are going to say. First we will make a cylinder of
cylinder we will bring a sphere which is so prepared that the light
passes into it, but cannot pass through. What happens we will indicate
You will note that this
what we have formerly brought about by expansion. And indeed, in this
case we have to assume also that heat passes into the sphere, causes
result of this gathering up of what is in the bundle of light, a very
solution, and see what happens under the influence of this solution.
You will see after a while that the mercury will come to exactly the
same level in the right and left hand tubes. This shows that
in the path of the energy cylinder. That is to say, from this cylinder
Something still rays through. But we see that we can so treat the
light-heat mercury that the light passes on and the heat is separated
by warming a body at one particular spot. We then notice that the body
that one portion shares its heat with the next portion, then this with
the next, etc. and that finally the heat is spread over the entire
this is ordinarily stated by saying that heat is spread by conduction.
observation will show you that the conduction of heat varies with
Now you can see from this experiment that it is a question here of
ice lens. What we have to consider is that the heat spreads in two
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relation to the heat and chemical effects that come to us with the
light. The simplest way for us to bring before our minds what we are
to deal with is first to make a spectrum and learn what we can from
on this screen. Now you can see that we have something hanging here in
of the alcohol column shows us that there is a considerable heat
show that when the spectrum is moved so as to bring the instrument
phosphorescence. From the previous course you know that this is a form
portion of the spectrum that disappears on the unknown on this side
and the portion that disappears on this other side; you see how the
called. Moreover, we can so arrange matters that the middle portion of
iodine in carbon disulphate. This solution has the property of
light the heat effect disappears and you will see that the alcohol
column equalize, now that we have placed alum in the path, because the
disulphate, and the middle portion of the spectrum disappears. It is
very interesting that a solution of esculin will cut out the chemical
importance. It shows us how that which we think of as active in the
In the course that I gave here previously I showed how a powerful
thinking. You know from what we have already said that there is really
a complete spectrum, a collection of all possible twelve colors; that
Now the fact is that under the conditions obtaining on the earth such
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unfortunately have to postpone until tomorrow. At that time they will
be arranged so as to show you what is necessary if I am to prove to
you all that I wish to prove. Today, therefore, we will consider some
that there is a certain difficulty in understanding what is really
that we can get helpful ideas for understanding heat from the realm of
I said there was a certain difficulty in understanding what a
relatively transparent body is and what an opaque body is as these
myself in a different way from that ordinarily used. The ordinary
one that by some peculiar property of its surface reflects the rays of
light that fall on it and thus become a visible body. I cannot use
that in my former course. What we meet in reality is not light rays,
of fact, we cannot simply say: a transparent body is one that by
opaque body is one that throws the light back. For how can such a
theory be substantiated? Recollect what I have said to you about the
the U region, and you can see that the light realm must have a
the other side that which we meet, so to speak, as the fluid nature in
gases or aeriform bodies. We may therefore suspect that where we have
these things. What influence has the U region on solids and can we
from the nature of this influence derive anything that will show use
Imagine that we have a body bounded by a definite wall, say of metal
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We will today first carry out what I had in mind yesterday because it
adequate fashion that within what we call the sun's spectrum or a
chemical effects. Yesterday, also, we saw that the forces involved in
the hypothetical inclusion of life effects or the fact that our series
realm that escapes us in the acoustical realm. The realm of acoustics
is manifested strikingly in the movements of the air, that is, in the
This is the question that presents itself when we look over the whole
that had been going up rapidly, rose more slowly and then stopped.)
The effect is shown by the fact that the thermometer rises more
will remember that we have to consider this central portion as the
We can, thus, so handle the spectrum that we can remove the heat
by showing that when the chemical portion is there, the phosphorescent
body glows. You can see that this body has been in the light cylinder,
yourselves the fact that we have first the realm of heat, then the
least, that a relation must exist here similar to the ones I have in
that we are approaching definitely the place where we can begin to
arranged as we have outlines. Recollect that there is a matter of fact
that the gaseous body manifests in its material configuration, what is
insight into what occurs in this interplay between gaseous matter and
the realm of gases and the x-realm. We need only consider what we have
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It is indeed obvious that what we have sought for in the former course
Let me first give a general summary of what we have taken under
the realms of reality that we are able to distinguish in physics, we
chemical dissociations occur, all that has a certain relation to the
But now, you will readily see that when we consider these various
realms of reality it is impossible for us to think that this working
call forth their appropriate effects in this or that field of action.
X′, that is to say a direct working on the chemical or
must not think of that which comes to clear manifestation and is
conceive of something here in this chemical realm that, at the outset,
an inner relationship that I showed you yesterday. But let us now ask
ourselves the question: What happens when the chemical effect picks
the external point of view, that something takes its rise in the
brings this material into such a condition that a mutual interaction
assume, however, that the action does not go so far as to admit of
assume that it works on the matter from the outside only, that it is a
do this. If we observe chemical activity and have a feeling for what
of course, understand that it belongs to the nature of matter that
chemical phenomena go as they do. That is to say: the imponderable is
possible otherwise than in this way, that when we are dealing with
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
way the impulses that have brought you together here. Much of what I
interpretation of what is present within you, more or less strongly
have been brought together by that which lives in the depths of your
think, my dear friends, that you feel you can no longer find
yourselves in accord with what an older generation has to say to the
generations. But all that was said then by poets and others about
this gulf, this abyss, is pale in comparison with what has to be
cultural life of the West. One feels that in Oxford — a town
this friend met me in the street, I said to myself that if I had to
should not know what date to put on the letter. I should have been
that is not of the present has been preserved there. We find nothing
like it in Middle Europe. But what we find in Middle Europe, in
product of what I have just described.
that has become out of date, and yet was still alive in the last
say that Goethe has not been forgotten, for there exists a Goethe
will not pursue it further. Goethe himself and what he brought to
these things are mere symptoms. The point is, that along the path
Since that time, Middle Europe lost the spiritual, lost the element
that storms and pulsates through the soul, from consciousness. That
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
and another something very stupid. What was said amounted to this: We
What,
met men in whom they did not find what they were looking for. These
in every possible key, that it was to be respected as “objective”
not said: This or that has been discovered; it already belongs to
have accustomed themselves to being so easy-going and phlegmatic that
there nevertheless, working not through the reality that lives in him
objective science continually introduced to one, one perceived that
another being had stolen away bashfully, because she felt that she
prefix ‘love’ I have attached to me something that
is a picture that often came before the soul, and it expressed an
what they were seeking. Possibly the most zealous, who felt the
when they came to express what it was that they were seeking, it was
human perception there still lived a great deal of what was old.
fact that souls come into the world without this heritage is very
noticeable in the new century. That is one aspect. The other —
The farther back we go, the less we find that education is spoken
up to be what they want to be when they are old. For after all we
way. Today people cannot be old and young in a way that is true to
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
fundamental feeling for what is here meant by the Spirit.
What
importance only to what he experiences consciously, from the time he
reckons as part of the world only that which he experiences in his
what they meant by reality anything in addition to what they
certainly do not wish to create the impression that we ought to go
back to the conditions in earlier epochs of civilization. That is not
my intention. The thing that matters is to go forward, not back. But
to describe radically to you yesterday. What men of that time said
“mercury,” phosphorus and so on, that they included many
today. But we must realize that people saw something in phosphorus,
in addition to what is seen by the mere senses, in the way modern men
of that time man did not experience in salt, sulphur, or phosphorus
fact that the human being acts with his waking consciousness.
sleep. it is of course true that the human being can work at
western civilization man still grew up in such a way that he felt:
that this mood was deliberately cultivated. At the end of the
This sounds grotesque. Yet we see it is historically true that vision
striving among human beings of past epochs, apart from the fact that
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
wish to convey that philosophical expositions can give rise to an
impulse for the renewal of the moral life, but rather to show that
must give up the view that systems of philosophy which start from the
age expresses itself in what the philosophers say. No one will
declare that our reaction to the temperature of a room is influenced
by the thermometer; what the thermometer registers is dependent upon
the temperature of the room. In the same way we can gauge, from what
what the philosophers express in their writings.
printed in 1893 in the periodical Deutsche Literaturzeitung that
by a crushing weight of material, that there is absolutely no such
unchangeable Moral Law: that there exists only one norm which
the present writer is that this masterpiece (Spencer's
world at the end of the nineteenth century, so that it could be
us be clear as to what is said. The attempt is made in this very
material, that it is impossible to draw forth from the human soul
moral intuitions, moral axioms, and that we must stop talking about
moral intuitions. We can only say with certainty that man acts
century. And a reviewer in the nineties of last century says that it
attempts to speak of ethics and moral views in such a way that moral
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
was to point to moral intuitions as that within man which, in the evolution
I wanted to show that the time has come, if morality is
to continue in the evolution of mankind, to make an appeal to what
mentioned that the
was published at a time when it was universally said that at last it had
been recognized that moral intuitions were an impossibility and that
what the age, among many of its most eminent minds considered to be
truth, and what I was obliged to maintain as truth out of the
on what is this difference really based? Let us look into the depths
earlier times people also spoke of moral intuitions, that is to say,
it was said that, as an individual entity, man could call forth from
century and more powerfully in subsequent centuries, what had been
inner being. So they declared that moral intuitions were there, but
that actually nothing more was known about them. For centuries
statements were such that one might say: The thinking, which had been
moral intuitions he spoke of that which rose up in his inner being,
go back in evolution the more we find that the rising tip of an inner
have known what was meant. In earlier times they would have known
to assert “No, that must first be proved!” What man
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
of mankind. There is a tendency to think that the attitude of the
noticed in many of you. It seems to me important that when anyone
the older generation that has, in the way I have described, carried
must also consider: What will be the attitude of this young
maintain the same attitude to Nothingness that I have described? For
the coming generation will not have what the present age has given to
enthusiasm. What will further evolve will have much more the
have already shown that in the evolution in the West, consciousness
different it is when one is permeated with the consciousness that
its very first breath, or even before, what is being manifested by
riddle which one approaches in quite a different way from what is
whole world. You know that in former days this fundamental feeling
will say something rather paradoxical. Suppose somebody found what he
might call the solution of the world-riddle. What would there remain
that the world-riddle has been solved by means of a cognitional
method. All that is necessary is to look in some book or other; there
They consider the world-riddle a system of questions that must be
at the thought that a solution of the world-riddle could somewhere be
given in this way, that the solution could actually be studied! It is
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
confronted world-evolution in such a way that “facing
because what I really mean is only fully intelligible to those who
To pass our days in such a way that we go to sleep at night simply
something that must be.
said that there must be an education which makes learning a game for
children, so that the children laugh all the time, so that learning
very best possible educational principle for ensuring that nothing at
right thing is for teachers to be able to handle what does not give
that the child as a matter of course submits to it. It is very easy
to say what should be given to the child. But childhood can be
that we should also in our life of soul be made tired by certain
things — that is to say, things should create a responsive
with scepticism, for when it is claimed that those who knew something
almost incredible that anybody should be regarded as a kind of
embodied knowledge, embodied science, that is striven for as we
lost. And because the urge that once existed was no longer there, the
young could no longer get tired from what they were destined to
Science — I mean science as it was actually pursued, not what
something that is not in the heads of human beings but in the
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
an outer description of what was experienced by those growing-up
idea of what gave the tone to the cultural life of the time. The
souls of these human beings were still so constituted that they were
conscious that human thought was not simply a head process, but that
is that their thoughts are worked out in their own heads — this
heredity, that is, through tradition, not natural heredity. Thought
ourselves. This feeling, however, was dulled down by what they found
southwards it was realized that thoughts can be grasped only by
century. We find then something that for the very first time caused
man to reflect upon the origin of thought; so that what previously
had been accepted without question, namely, the fact that thoughts
prove that they were the result of revelation. But these people were
by no means convinced that the human being could create his
day and the souls of that time. I am speaking of some souls only.
What I am describing to you was naturally present in various shades.
another, there was still an invincibly strong, intense belief that
among humanity who at that time grasped thought in such a way that
little about thoughts; for them it was quite evident that thoughts
only in the human individuality; they are only a summing-up of what
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
FROM what I said
gathered that the way in which a human being confronts his fellow men
assume that you are familiar with the soul principles of man
according to anthroposophical knowledge. You know that we must
differentiate in the soul between what was active in human nature up
soul — and the consciousness soul which since that time has
describing a particular activity of the soul as that of the
intellectual or mind soul, it does not indicate that intellect, in
certainly not what it is today. But you will have been able to gather
that from yesterday's lecture.
introductory words serve as a basis to understand that in the
centuries preceding the modern age, that is, up to the fifteenth
all we must ask many of our questions in a new way, in a form that
suppose that a three-year-old child were to resolve not to pass
only few people have any feeling, that only from a certain age
we may know, for example, that the human being has ten fingers. But
cannot be known before we reach a certain time in life, that is,
really to know about those things that are not just under our nose,
cannot know anything about it. Before this we cannot unfold that
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
arts what today has become entirely abstract and scientific, namely,
grammar, dialectic and rhetoric. This was done in such a way that the
is so constituted that when it is a matter of making something clear
through the consciousness soul, everyone thinks that the moment he
evolution. Let me tell you what spiritual science has discovered
Mystery of Golgotha and what is to be found can never be estimated
convey what was experienced. In the earliest times philosophy was
quite different from what it later became. But I only want to mention
really want to point out that with spiritual Imagination, and
Mystery of Golgotha, that the young had a natural veneration for
great age. This was a matter of course. Why? Because what exists
done today, we find that the whole evolution of the human soul
occasion it is noticed that man's soul becomes different in the
seventh year and again in the fourteenth or fifteenth. But what
people no longer notice is that changes still take place at the
transitions in man, that human life runs its course in rhythms. Try
reflect: Is there a good God ruling the world, when one sees that
period of his life that he became a strange kind of pantheist, how he
candle that he lit by holding a burning-glass to catch the first rays
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XI
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
life in the inner being of man, yet also in the subconscious, in what
always stands man's head. It is as though everything that comes
as though the head were entirely choked up so that it lets nothing
through its dense layers that could bring about a relation with the
gradually become an insatiable glutton. It wants everything that
whatever to do with the surrounding world.
so that the colors cannot work down, they cannot reach the blood nor
that man still knows something about the world. But he has all the
the world with the whole man at an early age. For what I have just
being. This is shown, for example, in the fact that it would be a
mistake to suppose that the baby's experience when sucking milk
that is not sense-organ. The infant tastes with his whole being.
but perhaps you will feel what I am trying to say.
the wonderful plasticity of dialect reveal that what today is seen
themselves to their head and have forced themselves to believe that
has the child lived itself into the adults around him that what he
into something no longer spells culture with us. Culture is what the
head observes and what can be worked out by means of the head.
inner activity, what they can no longer find in a natural way; in
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XII
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
FROM what has been said
during the last few days it will be clear that nowadays one human
being meets another in a different way from what was the case in the
what in this century has come for the whole of humanity. Former ages
of the fact that we have now entered an epoch of light, much will
seem more chaotic than what was brought by the long, gloomy Age of
must not merely translate into our language what was formerly
ourselves deeply with the consciousness that in this epoch for the
first time human ego meets human ego in an intercourse of soul that
we should find that fully grown men actually confronted one another
consider soul and spirit in the abstract way that we do today, with a
misunderstand them if we believe that in the first post-Atlantean
were only willing to concentrate on what existed outside the world of
the world we call that of the senses, but in the material processes
they saw the Spiritual. For them what in the material world presented
such perception was only possible because over and above what we see
growth of the hair. People today are prone to believe that the hair
truth is that outer Nature draws it forth. In olden times men saw the
raying cosmic forces that are working around the head of Pallas
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture XIII
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Reading what lived in the youth movement of the time, he attempted to
more could be said in conclusion to what I have put before you here.
In speaking one is obliged to explain things in words and ideas. What
is intended is the unity of character, the unity of force, that one
by using a half pictorial form to convey what I still wish to say to
better what I mean.
humanity molded what was experienced inwardly into abstract concepts.
they were revealed concepts, not concepts that no longer corresponded
experiments — only then did they allow validity to what was
we go deeply into the old world of thought, into that of the twelfth,
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, we have the feeling that it was
the human being feels it right that, in so far as they are born out
that has come to pass during the last few centuries, reaching its
culmination in the nineteenth century, is that the concepts dying in
feeling that we are working out of the living into the dead, but that
the human being has to work into what is dead because the living
draws from Nature, we can never understand man. What does our
not what we are as men.
is what modern civilization tells us. Previous civilizations
animal. It does not grasp to what extent animals are imperfect men.
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Title: Lecture: Lecture I: Occult Signs and Symbols
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be given here in Stuttgart will strike a somewhat more intimate note
since it can be assumed that the audience is, for the most part,
What will be taken up in these lectures are the occult symbols and
them will be set forth in their deeper meaning. I bid you note that
built up mathematically out of simple elements. Much that at first
give the impression of something arbitrary that only
example, that the various planets of the universe are indicated by
signs. You know that a familiar sign in theosophical allegories is
the so-called pentagram. Furthermore, you know that in various
you could hear or read that it means this or that — a triangle,
pentagram. You know that much abstruse thinking has been spent on it;
this is not the concern of occultism. In order to understand what the
etheric body that is especially relevant in this consideration. You
know that the etheric body belongs to the sphere of the occult; it is
methods are necessary. Then it will become evident that the
a fine nebulous formation. It is characteristic of it that it is
five currents hidden in him. The healthy etheric body appears so that
suppose however, that everything pertaining to the etheric body is
pentagram as the figure of man, it is not a matter of something that
meaning of a symbol. All signs and symbols that we meet in occultism
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with the indication about Noah's Ark, stating that in the proportions
what it means that a vessel through which man should be rescued has
with that time of man's development in which the actual happenings to
that arose in the beginning of the Middle Ages and spread from
architectural style, which expresses itself in the arch that consists
permeates the whole as atmosphere — that peculiar arching
wrong to assert that such a Gothic cathedral simply came to be out of
God that should express or mean this or that. Something much deeper
initiates. It was their purpose to see that whoever entered such a
upon the soul quite differently than does a house, for instance, that
is carried by old columns, that has an ordinary Roman or Renaissance
cupola. Of course, man does not become conscious of the fact that
unconscious. He cannot be rationally clear about what is happening in
his soul. Many people believe that the materialism of our modern time
occultist, however, knows that this is only one of the lesser
influences. What the eye sees is of far greater importance, for it
has an influence on soul processes that more or less run their course
have often called attention to the fact that it was something
different from what it is today when one in the Middle Ages walked
that were built up out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key,
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Title: Lecture: Lecture III: Occult Signs and Symbols
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occupy ourselves with a consideration of what is called the symbolism
necessary to mention the symbols that are expressed in numbers, even
harmony of the spheres that comes about through these different
speeds. Even from this you can see that numbers and numerical
is in numbers, we might say, that the harmony that wells through
an idea of what is meant when it is said of the old occult
Pythagorean School that it stressed the necessity of immersing
if it is believed that, through a consideration of numbers, it is
that knowledge concerning the nature of numbers would lead to the
give you, you will see that numbers can give you a clue to what is
it will become clearer how far the number one symbolizes what I shall
should not believe, however, that anything is to be gained by
the number of revelation in occultism. This means that whatever
appears to us in the world, whatever reveals itself, whatever is not
unfathomable. Everywhere in nature you find that nothing reveals
reveal itself. There must also be shadow or darkness — that is,
considered various conditions that a man experienced before he became
an inhabitant of our present earth. We saw that on Saturn and on Sun
he had a certain immortality in that he directed his body from
outside, that he broke off pieces of this body and added new ones, so
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Title: Lecture: Lecture IV: Occult Signs and Symbols
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of the symbols and signs that we have, and that has been acknowledged
realized that everything spread out in the rest of nature is
of any plant deeply enough, you will find that there is contained in
able to point to something in it that is of like nature in the human
standpoint. The occultist knows, for example, that men would not have
beings, already existed but at that time they had a differently
divine artistic skill fashioned the heart from it. You may feel that
the human heart has nothing leonine in it; that it does is
nevertheless so for the occultist. You must not forget the fact that
when it is free. Conversely, it can be said that were you able to
withdraw the essence of the heart and form a being from it that
corresponds to this heart — that is, a being formed in such a
way that the forces of the organism did not determine its structure
being with nature. He said that the individual beings in nature are
letters, and men are the words that are composed from them. Outside,
seals that were hung in the Festival Hall during the Munich Congress
which they belong. Let us see what they show us.
Apocalypse of St. John will remember that there is to be found in it
a description that closely corresponds to this picture, for St. John
was an initiate. It can be said that this seal represents the idea of
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Title: Lecture: The Proclamations to the Magi and the Shepherds
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the Easter Festival can never be as widespread as that of Christmas.
world that the Whitsuntide Festival makes men conscious when its
East who follow the voice of a star announcing to them that Christ
mind has no understanding. The idea prevailing nowadays is that man's
faculties of apprehension and thinking — that is to say, inner powers
fundamentally the same as they are to-day, except that in earlier
that the tenor and mood of the human soul has undergone great changes
attitude of soul differed widely from that of to-day, they no longer
possessed the powers of that ancient clairvoyance; neither were they
able inwardly to realise what was drawing near in the event of the
phenomena of the heavens, to discern that an event of a significance
far transcending that of the ordinary course of life was taking place
clearly indicated that these Magi were able to read the secrets of the
a certain respect it too is prophetic in that eclipses of the sun, of
mathematics. What plays with a higher significance into man's inner
stars, and it was this star-wisdom that formed the essential content
for explanations of what was happening on the earth. But to such men
speech. They realised that what the movements of the stars bring about
spirit-inwoven conception of the universe. And man felt that as a
that human life on earth became intelligible to them.
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Title: The Rishis
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always remained the same? That there is also a possible history
east. Then the great Flood came and after that colonies were
sent at that time to work in life on the Other Side.
looks at a Greek temple today, for example that of Paestum, he
world. This is what the Greek souls experience in death: they
Side, that life in the spirit can defeat death. Like lightening
What now — in contrast to the first four cultural epochs
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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understood from what was said in them that it is an absolute necessity
of our time that the Science of Initiation, the real science of the
things, there is that feeling which I have often characterized as
conceivable that in this age in which such splendid progress has been
undoubtedly believe that with their powers of cognition they are in a
man persuades himself that he is courageous enough to face any kind of
knowledge. But deep down in that part of the soul of which men know
They are only the outcome of that fear of the science of the spirit, a
about the super-sensible worlds; he surmises that in all that he calls
his thinking, in all that he designates as his world of thought, there
away the dim feeling that in the life of thought there is something
divines that this world of thought relates itself to an actual
looking glass is no reality, so man has to admit that his own world of
thought is no reality. In that moment where man has the courage, the
fearlessness, to admit that the world of thought is not a reality, in
that moment he is also seized with yearning for a knowledge of the
spiritual world. For after all, one would like to know what it is that
What I have just said has an important polaric counterpart. When
“pictures”. Now, human beings feel this; they feel that that
on which they can stand so comfortably, that which they can breathe in
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture II: The Michael Path to Christ: A Christmas Lecture
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to say that we have no right, especially under the conditions that
realize all that which indicates decline in human civilization today,
that this realization permeates our thoughts even round the Christmas
into our hearts, into our souls, that we do not close our eyes to the
fearful deterioration that has overtaken the so-called culture of
spoken of today are we still conscious of that of which man ought to
of the true meaning of what entered human evolution at the Mystery of
the lectures which for many years have been given in our circles, that
civilization with that impulse which can give it a new uplift.
mind — David Friedrich Strauss. You know that his book, The
the unusual thing about his answer is that it comes from a mind
question “can we still be Christians?” with an emphatic
occurs to us today: Would that the official advocates of this or that
they but see that though they use the name of Christ they are really
for these things. What did these men do when misfortune broke over
Spiritual Science: “What forms of thought speak to us from the
myself: “Of what kind are the thought-forms of these men on whom
when I asked myself the question: “About what period in the
made plain to me that men thought in this manner about the time of the
thoughts. This means that these men have remained in a life of thought
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture III: The Mystery of the Human Will
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evolution of mankind that what we may call the knowledge of Initiation
that it would be difficult in our time for wider circles of people to
contradict the clamorous fact that without accepting that which is
large number of people permeate themselves with what we are trying to
what has happened in the whole world as the result of the last
catastrophic years, only he can close his eyes to the fact that we are
at the beginning of a process of destruction, and that nothing can
new. For what we seek within the destructive force itself can
significant difficulties. You have often been told that the Science of
continually; but it is exactly against this attitude of mind that man
Science of Initiation, is that every one should seek to strip off what
of others by one's self. Now, it is easy to see that this is exactly
what takes place in the Anthroposophical Society. What would be the
use of keeping silence about such matters? It is readily admitted that
In the first place, that which belongs to the Mystery of the Will of
us not delude ourselves about this matter. We have ideas about what we
What goes on in the depths of man's being, even if he only raises his
ordinary man knows absolutely nothing. This means that the Mystery of
connected the fact that our entire modern civilization —
especially that which has come about since the fifteenth century
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture IV: The Breaking-in of Spiritual Revelations Since the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
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that life with which our own individual existence is connected, is
interwoven through all that we were able to do and to think during the
past year, and through all that we are able to plan for the coming
before our souls in reviewing what we have done during the past year,
and what we intend to do next year, should be pervaded with adequate
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science, so that we may illumine these
looking into a mirror and there in that mirror lies the past, of which
that into which at first we cannot look, just as it is not possible to
see in space, what lies behind a mirror. Perhaps the question should
be raised here: What is it that corresponds in our world-mirror to the
mirror? In the ordinary mirror the glass is coated behind so that we
cannot see through it. What constitutes the coating of the
world-mirror that reflects the past for us, and at first keeps the
being, with our own human being. We have only to bear in mind that
ourselves, to see what we ourselves are. We cannot see through
looking back on our life, on what our inner soul reflects, is a
mirroring process), we must confess: What we see mirrored there, is
experiences, you will find that these experiences are continually
subject to interruptions. You look back on what the day has brought
you; but you do not look back on what the preceding night has brought
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture V: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience. The Spiritual Mark of the Present Time. A New Year Contemplation.
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the wish that each one of you may realize in the depth of his soul how
the evolution of mankind, and that, as a result of this realization,
to fulfilment that of which mankind stands in such need. At this time
that which could be perceived even then, as fundamentally lacking in
the Present Day”. These passages refer to what was taking place
wrote in the very midst of the spiritual life prevailing at that time,
shoulders that our generation recalls the period when a philosophic
apparently possible to trace back to Kant the somewhat scanty
limited spiritual horizon. An open mind for that striving towards the
loftiest heights of the world of thought, an understanding for that
consideration that a persistent turning away from that spiritual goal
away from the Spirit of the Nation. For that striving sprang from a
characterized by that living sense for immediate reality, or the
within himself, less open to Nature but on that account more with his
lines laid down at that time. Not what these spirits found or thought
lasting development of the human impulse. Indeed, at that time it
then, of the kind now coming to the fore in Russia. At that time (in
least to any voice urging that a real, spiritual striving should rise
to life again amongst men. Every opinion that had taken firm hold
I should recall that when I wrote this essay, I had already published
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Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture I
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the various domains. Indeed, all that comes from
instance, physiology, can be no more than a stimulus that must
judgment that is needed in the domain of therapy.
first of all, that an understanding of the human being in both
today, in our own age. People so readily confuse what is here
must be emphasized that the conceptions I am putting forward
are founded on a very different basis from that of the various
mystical, theosophical, and gnostic ideas that have arisen
between the conceptions that will be presented here and those
applies to everything that may be said and discovered by
that in those earlier times man had a non-scientific (in our
of the human being that did not originate, as is the case
shortly before that of Galen, and if we are open-minded enough
compared with those that have evolved today. Nothing could be
more inadequate than what history tells us in this connection,
of view that perfection has been reached and that everything
earlier is mere foolishness, will realize that even now we have
arrived only at relative perfection and that there is no need
to look back with a supercilious eye upon what went before.
Indeed, this is obvious when we consider the results that were
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Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture II
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ptyalin to that of being worked on by the pepsin and then taken
of the system of heart and lungs and all that is connected with
arranged in the human organism, a vista that would be needed in
order to build up the knowledge that it is the task of an
light that would have been shed upon the results of
deal of what I have to say, therefore, will be based upon a
treatment of empirical evidence that is not customary today,
to, but I will really present nothing that cannot in some way
of what I present to you will be fully acknowledged if these
to the most important phenomena. I do not believe that this
will only submit to bringing the preliminary work that has
mind what I have just said, let me add the following. To begin
that the human being, as he stands before us in the physical
what characterizes him as an ego organization. You do not need
this ego system, the human being is able to develop that inner
soul cohesion, the inward soul life, that cannot be found in
fact that the human being can unify his inner experience in an
ego-point, if I may use that expression, from which all his
the fact that during his earthly evolution the human being has
a different relationship to sexual development from that of the
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Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture III
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increasingly in the way that I unfortunately have been able to
significance. Very little attention is paid nowadays to what I
functional sense everything that is subject to rhythm —
there are rhythms that are of essential significance to the
processes that arise as a result of the movements of the limbs
this threefold nature of the human being, we find that the
has a definite relationship to what I designated this morning
the forces that proceed from what I called the kidney system,
characteristics, namely the ratio that is established between
the measure of health and disease in the human organism. What
lectures. Indeed, so far-reaching is this ratio that we may say
that all the processes connected with human metabolism take
that appear in the child are an expression of what is taking
Everything that flows from the metabolic system toward the
middle, rhythmic system, set against that which flows from the
rhythmic continuation of the metabolic system. We can say that
studying the ratio of everything that proceeds from the human
processes of metabolism in their impact on everything that
say that in the child's second teeth there is an upward thrust
of the metabolic system into the head, but in such a way that
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Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture IV
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into details. My own opinion, however, is that at the beginning
of the work that it is spiritual science's aim to carry through
to suggest thoughts that may help in this direction also.
fundamentally, simply metamorphoses of the functions that must
conditions. We must always take into account the fact that the
that everything the human being takes into his digestive tract
through so that man can further enliven it. The process of
from the outset that the plant covering of our earth is passing
through the opposite process from that which takes its course
from there to a condition that can be the bearer of sensation
and finally to a condition that can be the bearer of the ego
to the point where it is received into that which bears the
increasing enlivening of what is taken in through
that is to say in the development of the plant from below
really represents the next plant that will come into being,
that which is stored up for the future plant — if, as I
from what is stored by the earth out of the forces of the sun's
the flower petals of plants that contain strong ethereal oils
important to realize what we are bringing into our organism
opposite process from that which occurs in the human
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Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture I
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by those who are specialists in the various domains. Indeed, all that
matters in question — and this is the kind of judgment that is
endeavour to show, first of all, that an understanding of the human
to-day, in our own age. People so readily confuse what is here called
in any way. But it must be emphasised that the conceptions put
forward by me are founded on a basis quite different from that of the
significance of our studies, for it applies to all that may be
all know — there is no need to enlarge upon it — that in
conceptions of the human being that did not originate, as is the case
shortly before that of Galen, and, if we are open-minded enough, we
that have been evolved to-day. Nothing could be more inadequate than
what history has to tell in this connection, and anyone who has the
does not take the point of view that perfection has been reached and
that everything earlier is mere foolishness, will realise that even
now we have arrived only at relative perfection and that there is no
need to look back upon what went before with a supercilious eye.
Indeed, this is patent when we consider the results that were
knowledge to-day must never overlook all that science has
what I have said, you will not accuse me of any desire to rail
the outset that such a thing is out of the question and for a very
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Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture II
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on to the system of heart and lungs and all that is connected with
great deal, therefore, of what I have to say will be based upon an
and therapeutic knowledge. I shall have to use somewhat unfamiliar
terms, but there will really be nothing that cannot in some way be
reason that, as things are to-day, nothing of what I shall bring
outstanding phenomena. I do not believe that this will prove to be as
bring the preliminary work that has already been done into line with
in mind what I have just said, let me add the following. It may, to
that man, as he stands before us in the physical world, consists of a
inner experiences are focused and unified, man is able to unfold that
of the Ego is the fact that during earthly life the relation of man
to sexual development is not the same as that of the animal.
the constitution of the animal is such that sexual maturity
the human being receives a certain stimulus at puberty. So that even
may say that it is really an abstraction to speak of physical,
often been made, especially from the side of philosophy, that this is
an abstract classification, that we take the functions of the
think that it is all an abstraction. Now that is not so. In the
course of these lectures we shall see what really lies behind this
everything in the organism that can be dealt with by the same methods
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Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture III
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great importance. Very little heed is paid nowadays to what I have
that is subject to rhythm — primarily, therefore, the breathing
sense, too, there is the rhythm that is essentially present in the
the limb-formations because the functional processes that arise as a
we consider this threefold nature of man, we find that the
and lungs. The functions of the kidneys, the forces that go out from
a very definite characteristic, namely the relation that is set up
that which reveals itself in the rhythmic man as a ratio of four to
relationship that we may say: All the processes connected with
second teeth which appear in the child are an expression of what is
that flows from the metabolic system towards the middle, rhythmic
system, set against that which flows from the nerves and senses
any given life-period of man by studying the relation of all that
that goes out from the head system — the system of nerves and
that the latter, to begin with, gets the upper hand. The following
rounding off of what has been radiated out by the forces proceeding
(1) forces that proceed from the systems of liver and kidneys, and
(2) forces that proceed from the system of nerves and senses, which
play into each other, but not with the same rhythm. All that takes
metabolic man. All that proceeds from the head system has the rhythm
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Title: Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture IV
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to enter into details. My own opinion, however, is that at the
here we must always take account of the fact that the human organism
the outer world. To begin with, let us remind ourselves that
the outset that the plant-covering of our earth is passing through
the opposite process from that which takes its course within the
path traversed by the foodstuffs in the organism — that is to
process of increasing vitalisation of what is taken in through
plant, that is to say in the development of the plant from below
really represents the next plant that will come into being, that
speaking of the plant, it is not a process of vitalisation that is
taking place from below upwards. The vitality is drawn from what is
essential to realise what it is that we are bringing into the human
the opposite process from that which occurs in the organism of man.
animal-substance — plant-substance is really opposed to that
that process. So that when, without any kind of preconception, we
study the process of nourishment in man, we must admit that
poisoning is only a radical metamorphosis of what arises in a mild
ptyalin. The further course of the digestive process, namely what is
you, is always a process of eliminating the poisoning. So that
intensity when a remedy is introduced into the organism. That is why
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas III: The Michael Inspiration
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What I have to say to you to-day will be expressed in the form of
the many and varied descriptions of it that have been given here, that
world, if actual manifestations of that world are in question. We know
too, however, that the manner of speaking we must then adopt is no
This I wanted to say about the attitude to be adopted in what I shall
world of spirit. In that world he feels led to make use of the
what is spiritually revealed to him. So let me now put a picture at
spiritual light, indicating the direction they should take. What is
of the physical world; not those that have just a pointing hand
sounding words — what changes are due to take place in human
to make an effort to get behind the riddle. In order that one of these
great deal of what one knows has to be brought together. And so just
something that is like a warning, having moreover the quality of a
riddle, and it calls forth in man the feeling that he should be guided
whole life of soul. What thus shines out to meet us in the astral
First of all there is a challenge to discover what is actually meant.
Let us recall a number of things that I have already explained here.
occurrences, superensible occurrences, are revealed in what happens in
super-sensible spirit are revealed in what happens in his bodily life
between birth and death. Let us reflect how, in what appears outwardly
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Va: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part I)
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ourselves that all life in the universe rests upon an ascending
endowed with the fourth element, the Ego. And we know moreover that in
evolution of the races of mankind, you will see that the evolution of
things names; that plays a certain role in what we find as facts of
mere name-labels, but in such a way that we can see how the principal
Let us for the moment confine ourselves to what relates to our own
these centuries, one sees that it has been accomplished by certain
appointed from among the Hierarchy of the Archangels, and that this
that will become more and more evident — an epoch begins into
men's souls were bound to what the senses observe and what the mind
period of evolution that is now passed, the super-sensible Beings were
engaged in guiding the forces from the super-sensible worlds, so that
directed and guided from the super-sensible world that as much as
possible may be able to flow into the human soul, so that a
Fifty years ago it would have been impossible to speak to men of what
to-day; because at that time it would have been impossible for them to
only now been opened, and as the times that are past were the most
And if we look further into the question, we discover that the
past epoch were by no means inactive. What an external physiology
influencing man's physical body. During that period delicate
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas Vb: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (Part II)
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is a matter that should not be lightly passed over. For when we speak
and impulses of our own souls. In whatever way individuals among you
may account for your belief in something that is given in Spiritual
Science, it is absolutely true that in the souls of all those who
unconsciously, an urge that comes from the genuine spiritual impulses
In the last lecture I endeavoured to show you that at the present time
we are living in what one may call the Michael Age. An understanding
during the Gabriel Age understanding was awakened for all that went
radically different from one another as that which has just run its
those who incline to what is spiritual and the souls who still adhere
to what past centuries have brought. Nor will it be long before those
clearly that without reference to any religious views or creed, but
is possible, and in such a way that one may expect understanding from
It might well be that out of prejudice a person wished to know nothing
of what took place in a certain small country at the beginning of our
era, did not want to trouble himself about what we call the Mystery of
Golgotha. Very well, let us even assume that it would be natural for
him to imagine the whole course of history in such a way that what
happened on Golgotha could be struck out. Let us make that hypothesis.
will nevertheless discover a special characteristic of that age. We
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VIII: The Michael Path to the Christ (Extract)
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... I HAVE frequently spoken to you here of that important event which
Archangelic Power, that Being whom we call the Archangel Michael, and
I have reminded you that since November, 1879, Michael is to be the
My dear friends, in our day we know that when such a matter is
fact is connected with what men are willing to receive into their
that in November, 1879, beyond the sphere of the sense world, in the
super-sensible world, that event took place which may be described as
so to permeate them with his power, that they are able to transform
their old materialistic intellectual power — which by that time
power, into spiritual power of understanding. That is the objective
fact; it has taken place. We may say concerning it that since
than that in which he formerly stood. But it is required of men that
What I mean by this will become quite clear to you through the
You are aware that before the Mystery of Golgotha was accomplished
consciousness to Jahve, were well aware that they could not reach him
art of Eurhythmy. The Jewish priesthood, however, was well aware that
that if a man of that time turned to Michael, he could find through
Michael the Jahve-power, which it was proper for the humanity of that
opposition to him, so that a cry went through the world during our
Let us consider what would have become of the Jewish people of the Old
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Title: Threefold Order: Part II: Lecture: The Impulse Towards the Threefold Order
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with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as
thinking that underlay, and underlies, the impulse towards the
knows, that one is talking into a storm. And although many
nevertheless is raging. So that one may well be filled with a
is from the actual events of the times that we shall seek
to-night to refute the notion, that the impulse towards the
idealism, a ‘Utopia,’ or that it has in it anything whatever
true in these days, that everything personal — which is not
therefore perhaps a very good example of what is commonly human
close upon his sixtieth year of life. In no way whatever do
to the conviction, that in these critical times so much is
way into men's heads which is Utopian and ideologic, that, if
feeling of personal attraction that I was induced to come
twenty or thirty years past in working at what I call Spiritual
Science, it was really not any personal attraction that led me
What stood so menacingly before my eyes, long years ago, as the
terrible problem of our civilisation, was this: that our modern
the life, that is, which goes beyond such things as proceed
solely from the natural world; that this same spiritual life
could therefore ... and this was what stood as the terrible
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture I: Introduction - Aphoristic remarks on Artistic Activity, Arithmetic, Reading, and Writing
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Above all, we shall have to be aware, in our method, that we
what, apart from the place of the individual within a quite
entity. We must be aware that other practices of our physical
as spiritist circles sometimes do, that spirits wrote the human
feel that here the most important thing is not the forms of the
figures, but the reality that lives in the figure-forms. And
of that kind.
individual. Imagine that we approach the child in this way
what it looked like — this fish that you saw. If I make
this for you (see drawing) it looks very like a fish. What you
saw as a fish looks something like what you see there on the
board. Now just imagine that you are saying the word fish. What
‘fish.’ We now try to show the child that he must only begin
to say ‘fish;’ and now picture to yourself that people
gradually came to simplify what you see there. In starting to
“So you have learned that what you say when you say
‘fish’ begins with f and now you write that as f.
this way you learn what the sign was for saying fish in the
for that is when writing first arose. Later the process passed
into a mere convention, so that to-day we no longer recognize
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture II: On Language - the Oneness of man with the Universe
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have seen, no doubt, from what was discussed yesterday that
just think back a little on what I brought to your notice in
time, so that the sense-perceptions penetrate, and encounter
antipathy from the individual. In such a case you see that you
a fine activity of the limbs, so that the sphere of the senses
another, so that a meeting between sympathy and antipathy
conflict. But you also know that this meeting is expressed in
realize clearly that a meeting between sympathy and antipathy
only that the breast is much more positive in this activity; in
You will easily see from this that speech is really built up on
individual confronts the world. With what feelings does
“What is the origin of the connections between sounds and
the meaning of sounds?” People have not realized that
feeling, even if often quite delicately, so that it remains
superficially. They imagined that we imitated in speech the
the dog and say “bow-wow” — that expresses
theory supposes that every object in the world conceals a tone;
Another shade of response is that feeling-shade which we
the feeling that an external impression is to be warded off,
that we have, as it were, to avert our gaze from it, to protect
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture III: On the Plastically Formative Arts, Music, and Poetry
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see, further, that teaching must be managed so as always to
take into account that man contains a dead, a dying element,
vivifying dead substance, to protect from total expiration that
sense, to fertilize it with what vivifying element the will can
that of the plastically formative and the musically poetical,
with the fact that this duality of the artistic element comes
— he showed that what proceeded from the Greek people, or
was related to them, that is what grew racially from their
formative shaping of the world, whereas all that sprang from
therefore, be remembered that the whole harmonious nature
imagination what is dying in concepts, do we save
the psychic spiritual realm that would result in the same error
therefore we must beware of them. But that would be equivalent
and not through human abstract organization. Only imagine what
plastically formative, animates what is developed in the mere
Colour” (Farbenlehre). What is the basis of the
The secret is that Goethe always imbues each
what the eye sees, but what the soul experiences in red. In the
him into the world of colour so that the feeling-shades of the
you are painting with blue, that the blue colour itself
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture IV: The First School-lesson - Manual Skill, Drawing and Painting - the Beginnings of Language-teaching
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important in one connection than that of all the other lessons.
develop further. The point is that you will not have to act in
important to address the children somewhat in this way:
you have no idea of all that you are to learn in school, but
grown-ups, the big people, and you will have seen that they can
do something which you cannot. And you are here so that one day
you too will be able to do what the big people can do. Some day
you will be able to do what you cannot do yet.” To give
reverence, with respect, to what the older generations have
already achieved and what he is to achieve, too, through the
that he really sees almost a kind of higher being in the people
the ideals that are to be realized. Proceed to reflect with the
hesitation at the fact that you are, in so doing, looking
later. The principle that you should only teach the child what
he already understands, what he can already form an opinion on,
to-day once boasted that he had educated this person on this
is not remarkable that you find a very well-known teacher of a
only remains to desire that such a model education might be
this that examples are plentiful among present-day
point, then, is not that the child should at once form an
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture V: Writing and Reading - Spelling
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so that you are able to make something of it in practice.
have seen that we have considered as most important:
school; then the transition by which he becomes conscious that
that a kind of drawing should be embarked on, and even a kind
that this emerging sense can be observed in hearing, too, and
that the first elements of the musical experience of beauty and
us now suppose that you have pursued such exercises with pencil
well-founded teaching that a certain intimacy with drawing
should precede the learning to write, so that, in a sense,
that the reading of printed characters should only be developed
to the reading of print. I assume for this purpose that you
again seek the transition to what we have already mentioned as
assume, then, that the child has already come to the point at
to proceed alphabetically; I am only doing it now so that you
have it in encyclopaedic form. Let us see what success we have
point: “You know what a bath is” — and here I
will say in parenthesis that much depends in teaching on being
able to make use of any situation in a rational way, that is,
on always having between the lines of the lesson anything that
“bath” for what I now intend to do, so that the
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VI: On the Rhythm of Life and Rhythmical Repetition in Teaching
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far more exactly what the Waldorf School really means than can be
quite naturally connect with what we have already so far
know that in the sphere of educational theory, as well as other
are carried out. Do not imagine that I object to such
devices, by external experiments, what should be done with the
been particularly interested in what they call the process of
rapid comprehension. It is discovered that the most effective
reading passage, that is, first to introduce the person
numerous tests, the “subject” carries out what is
assimilation of a reading passage there should occur what is
more in free spiritual activity what has just been worked out
that until now has remained uncertain, that is, of all that has
incompletely assimilated parts, you then see that a given
fact that people talk to-day so much at cross-purposes, for
exactly what should be done in education.” But those who
know that this is not the way to true education — any
What do the experimental psychologists get, when they have
if it is inflicted on you — what good do they get out of
research” — to use scientific jargon — that
the heretical declaration that, in as far as this theory is
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VII: The Teaching in the Ninth Year - Natural History - the Animal Kingdom
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town schools have abundant resources. That may, indeed, animate
ourselves in method so far that we have realized the nature of
explain to you, as teachers, what you will have to make clear
some it only occurs later, but on an average what I have to
here it is of great importance to know that the development to
the little that a child can be taught about man should be
history. You must know, in the meantime, that in man we have,
kingdoms, that the other three natural kingdoms merge in man on
the feeling that man is this consummation of all other
form: that the head is spherical, that it is slightly flattened
that is, that it is a sphere poised on the trunk. It is well to
intellect. Then you try to arouse in the child the idea that
the limbs, you awaken the idea that they are appended to the
trunk and affixed to it. There is much that the child will not
that the limbs are “fixed into” the human organism.
children that the limbs are affixed to the organism from
primitive conception, that our gazing on the world is bound up
your nose, you taste with your mouth. Most of what you know
“What you taste with your tongue enters your trunk as
food; what you hear with your ears goes into your trunk as
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture VIII: Education After the Twelfth - History - Physics
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curriculum. But we must keep clear what are the right and good
foundations of a curriculum, so that where it imposes something
development, which lies between the ninth and tenth year, that
consolidated, so that from this time onwards we can
lamb or horse, and the human being. But you will have seen that
of man to his surroundings, that attention must be paid to man
What we are used, in spiritual science, to call the astral
development. It is expressed in the fact that the child, if we
what I have explained to you, however much you adapt yourself
twelfth year. That is why you will do harm unless you
the child begins to feel a yearning to get what he once learnt
told the child before, for instance, stories of this or that
so that in the remodelled form he realizes the underlying
you will notice unmistakably, that the child responds with
confine myself chiefly, until his ninth year, to what we have
properly and with understanding. For what are you really doing
respond. That is, you must have already shown the child the
refraction of rays of light. That is very easily explained by
arrange the curriculum so that the child is trained from the
comprehension of man himself, that is that he learns, along
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture IX: On the Teaching of Languages
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the first week, for finding out what your children can already
do. You will have to repeat what they have already done. But
you will have to do this economically, so that your boys and
will achieve a great deal by simply remembering that for
to select carefully what you intend to read in the language in
there, of course, who can reproduce the passage very well; that
the foreign language what we have discussed. In this way we
It is especially necessary that children after the age of
I told you that you
attention to what is going on outside. You can quite well
concerned with older children) to the fact that when he says
“Now just think for a moment of what happens, not in the
that it is growing green. And only then go on to let the child
him economically what his soul should possess. You introduce
From this you see that you can always bear in mind — in
intended to illustrate this or that rule. Only you must so
arrange your teaching that these sentences in one or another
written down nor copied into the notebook, but so that they are
actually know in advance that the child will forget, and he
then the day after, or the day after that, return in the same
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture X: Arranging the Lesson up to the Fourteenth Year
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on the curriculum and the other on what will form the subjects of
during the school course? We have learnt that an important
concerned with the first stage of school-teaching. What
procedure: it is important that you do not first take reading
and then tack writing on to it, but that you go from writing to
drawing forms with the written letters, so that the child still
world. And it is very important indeed that we should not
in your soul to understand what I have just said: Transport
that the Greek had quite a different kind of memory from ours
that an unusually disturbing element is bound to be constantly
civilization. But we should be aware that it is a disturbing
influence. For what actually is the significance of this
means that in our civilized life we are no longer capable of
and that we employ the hours of sleep in doing all kinds of
keep stored up what we should do better to forget if only left
to ourselves. That is, we artificially maintain in a
health. That is why our civilization is no longer healthy. But
we must be clear in our minds that we have already crossed the
That is why it is so infinitely important to link up writing
Arithmetic should be begun somewhat later. This can be adjusted
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XI: On the Teaching of Geography
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told you that the teaching of geography can first be begun at
senior schools (age 12-18) — we must see that geography
geography. And even if I said that the teaching of mineralogy
on the land or look down to it from the air; that is, we show
through this stretch of land; that is, we actually draw the
child's attention to them like this: “You see that part
direct his attention to the fact that part of the district is
Then we direct his attention to the fact that there are
we tell the child that this is pasture land. In this way we
too, we point out to him that mountains contain all kinds of
things: coal, ore, etc. And we further point out that the
overcomes natural conditions. That is: we begin to open the
child's eyes to the fact that man lays out artificial rivers in
canals, that he builds railways for himself. Then we show how
with this, to extend the study on every side.” That, of
by these red lines drawn from west to east, so that you can say
clear to him plastically that the river-courses divide the Alps
into limestone and gneiss and slate, and that these stand side
to the child what grows down in the valley, what grows further
up, and what grows at the very top. You approach vegetation
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XII: How to Connect School with Practical Life
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the fact that the relations of man to his surroundings are far
in the sphere of education, and of educational method, that man
have learnt that there are three stages of human development
realize that particularly in the last of these stages of life
think further, in what relation, in view of such ignorance, we
realization that they make use of all that is produced in the
satisfaction that human nature shows of being itself worried
without bothering in the least about that world.
craving to know, an insatiable curiosity about everything that
geography on the lines already described as in a resume. That
demonstration of complicated processes. I think that Herr Molt
will agree with me when I say that
The individual, that is, would not only retain the knowledge of
going about life and in his own vocation, that he once knew
these things, that he once went into them. This influences him,
consciousness that, even about things which do not fall within
things, but it probably happens that he does not retain the
feeling that he went into a thing with pleasure and felt
himself lucky. On the contrary, he feels: I have forgotten what
I learnt about that, and a good thing, too. We should never be
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XIII: On Drawing up the Time-table
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teaching, that we are gradually nearing the mental insight from
on different occasions already that we must agree, with regard
to what we accept in our school and how we accept it, to
Waldorf School if we know in what relation the ideal time-table
happen that our children were required to show in some way, let
of external commissioners, what they can do. Now it is not a
good thing for the children that they should be able to do just
what is demanded to-day by an external commission. And our
between seven and twelve is, of course, the fact that they are
should show. That is why when, in these days, our youth itself
the most appalling abstractness, that is, senility. And
youthfully, it craves to be taught on senile principles. That
the young orator hurled into its midst: “I declare that
fact in evidence, however, was that this half-child was too
as little as possible, but prepare our lessons so well that we
can tell them everything that we want to teach them. We aim at
getting the children to tell again what they have heard us tell
excite the imagination profoundly; that is, fairy tales. As
what a vowel is, and what a consonant is. If we could follow
first year and ask the child what “i” is, what
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Title: Practical Course/Teachers: Lecture XIV: Moral Educative Principles and their Transition to Practice
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would see that they were comparatively short. A few short
suggestion of what is required, but there are all kinds of
instructions as to how things should be taught at school. That
the form of decrees what was until recently common spiritual
quite different understanding from that in which the ordinary
That is, it has been incumbent on us to approach this
create it for ourselves at every turn, so that we learnt to
we have really assimilated into our feelings all that we should
that these object lessons should never become trivial, that
teaching of precisely what I emphasized at the end of my last
vase, you may do more for his understanding of what he finds
unspoken, so that the child is induced to continue
working with his own soul-force on what he has learnt in the
The child simply leaves the school feeling that he has learnt
remains fascinated by what the lesson offered him and is less
ready to be distracted. That our children to-day are such rough
tomboys is simply due to the fact that we go in for far too
in their very first years, that they still have very sound
animal, just because he is limited to his body, avoids what is
fact that man is so much a spiritual being that he can become
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by reminding you of what I should like you to take to heart:
that is, to keep to four principles:
“Firstly that the teacher in general and in detail, in
that the teacher is a person of initiative, that he must never
be slack; but must put his whole being into what he does in
school, in his behaviour with the children. That is the first
“The second is that as teachers we must take an interest
in everything in the world and everything that concerns people
smallest matters that concern the individual child. That is the
dry, and he must not get sour. To the very contrary is what the
“And I know that if you have absorbed properly into your
fortnight from the most various angles, what lies apparently
so that the human being should be understood, particularly the
are at a loss how to introduce this or that point into your
lessons, or at what juncture, you will always find inspiration
from what has come up for discussion here, if you have
teachers. It is in this sense that I have addressed you this
last fortnight. The time, of course, has been so short that I
it were, a proof of much that we represent in spiritual
thought that fills our hearts and minds: that with the

Title: Study of Man: Lecture I
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makes his relation with the child through what he is, — which
has set itself hitherto. Not that we are so vain or proud as to
imagine that we, of ourselves, should initiate a new world-wide order
know that the epochs of human evolution as they succeed each other
realise that, in actual fact, what has to be accomplished in any one
spiritual depths as it were, a perception of what has to be done in
task at the outset. We must learn to understand that we have to give a
amongst other things, materialism has brought it about that men have
understand that special tasks are set for mankind to-day, even for the
In devoting yourselves to your task do not forget that the whole
consider with an open mind that domain of spiritual life which
typical of all sermons and preaching of our time that the preacher
tries to reach men through their egoism. Take for example that
birth. We must consciously face this fact: that man evolves through a
long period between death and a new birth and that then, within this
receives this other form of existence in that he lets himself be
clothed with the physical and etheric body. What he has to receive by
And we will not only look to what human existence experiences after
be conscious that physical existence here is a continuation of the
spiritual, and that we, through education, have to carry on what has
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture II
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knowledge of the world. Of course it has been widely recognised that
and you know that Herbartian pedagogy, for instance, which has
be traced to the fact that in the age in which we now are, the age of
find that there is no longer any real content in the books on the
subject. They will have the feeling that psychologists only play with
conception of what mental picture or will is? In psychologies and
the whole universe that it is possible to arrive at the idea of the
Let us look at what is ordinarily called mental picture. We must
picture. Anyone who looks with an open mind at what lives in men as
illusion. What would it be for us if it were “being”? We
elements of being: to take a somewhat crude example: your eyes, they
are elements of being, your nose or your stomach, that is an element
of being. It will be clear to you that you live in these elements of
something with your mental pictures arises from the fact that they
have an image character, that they do not so merge into us that we are
error that has been put at the summit of recent philosophy, for in the
non sum. That is to say, as far as my knowledge reaches I do
one might almost say its activity of being, but that might give too
much the impression of being, of existence, and we must realise that
but what is in the mirror images is not behind the mirror, it exists
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture III
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the lower school grades, that education demands a connection in the
position which has made his existence seem of less value than that of
But I must point out that in future everything in the sphere of
recognise that the teacher of the lower grades, both spiritually and
as with older — there must be something that one cannot of course
essential that the teacher should know if his teaching is to be
It is still suffering from the after-effects of that dogmatic Church
knowledge: the insight that man is divided into body, soul and spirit.
that they speak only of the twofold nature of man. You will hear it
said that man consists of matter and soul, or of body and spirit,
It is for this fundamental reason that nearly everything that is put
This is chiefly due to that error, which reached its full magnitude
science. You know that the good people of Heilbronn have erected a
asylum during his life: Julius Robert Mayer. And you know that
extremely proud, is associated with what is called the law of the
This law states that the sum of all energies or forces present in the
universe is constant, only that these forces undergo certain changes,
of such an abstract law as that of the conservation of energy.
civilisation, what is this law of the conservation of energy or force?
soon as people think that forces can never be created afresh, it
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture IV
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new educational impulse, that special attention must be paid, in
and will are left more and more to what is called chance, because
until the nature of the will is really known that it is possible to
feelings. We can ask the question: what is a feeling in reality? A
feeling is very closely related to will. I may even say that will is
that is feeling: feeling is like blunted will. On this account the
Now you will know from what I have already developed that nothing that
We know that when we observe man in his totality, we consider him as
as to what it is that exists in embryo for a far distant future of
First there is, in embryonic form, what we call the Spirit-Self. We
into the spiritual. You know that the whole oriental consciousness, in
Manas, and that Manas is always spoken of in the
that this clear consciousness exists; for amongst the people, at least
that part of man which remains over after death was called the
Manes: people said that after death there remains over, the
say that the people have a clear consciousness of this, for the people
gate of death, so that he then exists in a certain way in the plural,
this very clearly because they know that after death man perceives
A second higher principle of man is that which we call Life-Spirit. In
Now you know that the physical body as we have it belongs also to the
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture V
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You will have noticed that in treating of the human being up to now I
blood. If you think this over you will also want to know what can be
said with regard to the third soul power, that is, the activity of
Now there is one thing that we must be clear about, and this I have
Consider the will on the one hand. You will realise that you cannot
bring your will to bear on anything that you do not represent to
yourself as mental picture, that you do not permeate with the activity
concentrate on your willing, you will find that in every act of will
of your own self will show you that in thinking you always let your
Thus actually we can only say that will activity is chiefly will
human eye. If we look at it in its totality we shall see that the
made up of sympathy, also pours its activity into the eye, that is,
by this means that the feeling of antipathy in sense-perception is
It is brought about by the fact that sympathy and antipathy balance
one another, and by the fact also that we are quite unconscious of
physiological-didactic part of it, you will see that it is because
Goethe goes more deeply into the activity of sight that there
sympathy and antipathy which arise in that activity. Thus in the sense
animal that it has much more blood activity in its eye than the human
“fan.” From this you can deduce that the animal sends much
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture VI
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his ordinary life. And you will have felt that in taking sympathy and
for we know, from what spiritual science has told us, that the
of the spiritual and also of the soul. Therefore to what we have
concepts): when you have knowledge through thought you must feel that
we call cognition, were there within all that your ego does; and again
what your ego does is there within the activity of cognition. You are
moment that you had the feeling that while you were forming a judgment
something happened to your ego somewhere in the subconscious and that
“That man is a good man,” thus forming a judgment. You must
be conscious that what you need in order to form this judgment —
permeated by the light of consciousness. If you had to assume that
cognition: in some part of the judgment you would be unconscious. That
is the essential thing about thinking cognition, that you are present
That is not the case in willing. You know that when you perform the
nothing of what takes place in your muscles whilst one leg moves
forward after the other; nothing of what takes place in the mechanism
and organism of your body. Just think of what you would have to learn
have never reckoned out how much you use up of what your food brings
to you. You know quite well that all this happens unconsciously in
when we look at the nature of willing in our own organism. What we
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture VII
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Your task is to gain an insight into what the human being really is.
the soul and then from that of the spirit. To-day we will continue
ourselves somewhat further and observe with soul and spirit, as we can
clearly before you. Only you must take into account that in this
is that people get feeble-minded in old age, and, with true
consistency, the materialists argue that even such a great man as Kant
and the fact are quite right. Only they do not prove what they set out
receiving all that came out of his wisdom, and thereby it could become
incapable of receiving what the spirit was giving it. The body was no
plane Kant could no longer come to a consciousness of what lived in
argument, then, we must be quite clear that in old age men become wise
and spiritual and that they come near to the Spirits. Therefore in the
in his youth, is always saying that it is getting too much of a strain
for him!” So you see one may find isolated examples only of what
within the freedom of man, even in education. The fact that many
people are very soulless in middle life does not prove that middle age
on the one hand a body that shows its bodily side predominantly, in
the child, and on the other hand you have a body that as it were
withdraws its bodily side in old age, a body that to a certain degree
that willing and feeling have grown together in the child. When the
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We saw yesterday that we can only understand memory, the power of
open to outer observation. You will see from this that it must be our
You may say that sleeping and waking are actually even more obscure
anyone who can observe carefully what man loses in disturbed sleep,
sleep, you can see that this is the case. Let us suppose that during
one night you did not sleep well. I am supposing that your lack of
night in working; then matters are different. But let us suppose that
short by something more outside your soul. Then you would see that
this or that; but they allow the thoughts, the mental pictures, which
picture comes, sometimes that; but their own will has no special say
our control, if we know that in remembering and forgetting, conditions
remembering come about? It comes about in this way, that the will, in
so what is effected through the process of remembering comes from the
impossible to demand that this sleeping part, the sleeping will,
memory. What then can we do? Naturally we cannot demand that a person
whole man in such a way that he will develop habits in soul, body and
We will suppose that through our special treatment of the subject we
that the interest we arouse for the animal world becomes greater and
affect the child's will; so that, when mental pictures of animals and
his memory. In other words, you must understand how everything that
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Title: Study of Man: Lecture IX
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We must be clear that a spiritual conception of man makes it necessary
know that, primarily, our life spiritually takes its course in waking,
dreaming and sleeping; and that all the different manifestations of
through the soul to the body, so that we have the whole human being
education is that which includes the first two decades; and this time,
child who wants to take on authority what he has to know, to feel and
remember that at this age they long for the sway of authority from the
Now what we have to do is to survey the whole life activity of the
death gradually to permeate it with logic, with all that enables him
to think logically. But what you yourselves, as teachers, have to know
Our exercise of logic, that is, of thinking-cognition, is an activity
what is called conclusions. In ordinary life thinking is expressed in
speech. If you examine the structure of speech you will find that in
uttering conclusions nor could he understand what another person said
logic takes no account of the fact that we form conclusions every time
we look at any one single thing. Suppose that you go to a menagerie
and see a lion. What do you do first of all when you perceive the
lion? First you bring what you see in the lion to your consciousness;
menagerie, in your ordinary life, you learned that beings that have
the lion is doing just what you have learned that animals do. You
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point of view of the body with that of the spirit and of the soul so
that we may get a complete survey of man, and may be able to pass on
First we will recall — what must have struck us from various
aspects — that the human being has different forms in the three
members of his nature. We have pointed out that the head is
essentially round; that the true nature of the bodily head is given in
realising clearly that in this moon form a part of a sphere, a
fragment of a sphere is contained. We must consequently, allow that
From this it is perhaps apparent that in ancient times, when men had a
understand that the head form of man is a comparatively complete,
self-enclosed thing. The head form reveals, physically, that it is a
thing enclosed in itself. It is, so to speak, just what it
appears. The head form is the one that conceals least of itself.
important for a knowledge of man's nature to realise that a large part
of the breast portion is invisible. We can say that the breast portion
of man shows its bodily nature in one direction, that is, towards the
back, soul towards the front. Thus it is only in that we have our head
resting on our shoulders that we carry about a real body. We consist
man? We can only understand this third member when we realise that
an inner part consisting of the radii of a sphere that remains over;
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you will readily be able to fit into it all that you need to know of
You have realised that man is a threefold being, head-man, trunk man
that the head is mainly body; the chest is body and soul; and the limb
description of the head to say that it is principally body. In actual
may equally well say that the head is also soul and spirit, but in a
different manner from that of chest and limbs. Even at birth the head
is principally body. That is to say the soul and spirit of the head
evolve in the embryo) is a manifestation of what is essentially human,
of the human soul and spirit. What relation has the bodily head to the
and a spirit that is still asleep. Now we must see how we can bring
is that man is an imitative being. He imitates everything that he sees
going on around him. He is able to do this owing to the fact that his
indication that the head development has reached its final stage. Even
What is it that is thus brought to an end? It is the moulding of the
that gives him form. When we see the second teeth appear we can say
that the first stage in man's intercourse with the world has come to
child in his early years, we see clearly that the chest organs, as
into one another. Moreover it is here that the child is first fully
chest man. For after that it is the task of the limb man and chest man
that the child brings something of great consequence to meet you. He
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sense-world that surrounds it and maintains it, for there is a
When we regard the human being as physical body, what we first
Let us begin with that part of the human being which at first appears
organisation shows the longest earthly evolution behind it, so that it
ourselves what really happens through the interplay between the human
question: what does the head really do in carrying out its work in
continually forming, shaping. Our life really consists in this, that
to accept the view that your head is constantly trying, in secret, to
make something different out of you from what you are. There are times
when the head would like to shape you so that you would look like a
wolf; at other times it would like to shape you so that you would look
like a lamb. Then again, so that you would look like a serpent; it
animal kingdom you can say to yourself: that am I; but when the head
through the head system. But it is such that he is continually carried
beyond the animal world in the creation of his body. What, then,
really remains in you? You can look at a human being. Imagine that you
being, and are being dissolved. What would happen if there were a
photographic plates? What should we see on these plates? We should
indeed a super-sensible correlate to that which does not come to
merely the lazy-bones on your shoulders, it is that which would really
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outside world as twofold, for we have found that the constitution of
the limb man is in complete contrast to that of the head man. We must
accustom ourselves to the difficult thought that the only way to
that your inner being is striving from within outwards towards your
forehead from within, only in the reverse direction. So that when you
your sole, or through your palm, what streams towards your forehead
And what is man in respect to this soul and spirit? Imagine a flowing
stream of water stopped by a dam, so that it is checked and floods
— what is it from the point of view of the external bodily
produces. From this you will see that the limbs of man which reach out
the limbs than anywhere else in man. The only thing that brings a
material element into the limbs is that part of the metabolic process
And the task of the body is to develop in itself what is potentially
system is then in the fortunate position — fortunate, that is,
for itself — that an insufficient quantity of it is consumed by
the limbs. It uses what is left over to produce surplus substantiality
in man. This surplus substantiality then permeates what is native to
man from his birth, that is, the bodily nature proper to him as a
being born of spirit and soul. It permeates what he ought to have with
soul; with the result that the path of this spirit and soul process to
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aspects. We can clearly distinguish between all that belongs to the
system of the head — the head formation of man, and what belongs
we distinguish from what belongs to the limb formation. At the same
time we must recognise that the limb formation is much more
complicated than is usually imagined: because what is present in the
being; hence we have to distinguish between what is built up from
within outwards and what is pushed into the human body, so to speak,
In the head we have the real head; but we have also the trunk, that is
all that belongs to the nose; and we have the limb part, which is
continued into the bodily cavity, namely, all that comprises the
stunted that the relation between the nose and the lung nature is no
And it is the mouth, and all that belongs with it, that is
all that is a continuation of the limb-forces into man; the mouth,
Now when in contrast to this, we consider the limb man we find that
What encloses your mouth below and above is but a stunted form of your
jaw-bone, I have to ask: “To what are these jaw bones directed?
femur, is attached to your body. So that if you think of this as the
also; so that you can imagine a remarkable tendency of this invisible
head that opens its jaws in the direction of your chest and your
What then does this invisible head do? It is constantly devouring you.
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
The spiritual science that underlies this
demands of our time. It deals with all that is necessary and
however, that spiritual science must fight, if one takes into
consideration the many prejudices that exist at present.
certain reactionary forces that remain and can be observed in
scientific manner the significance of what we understand here
that in observation, as well as in experimentation,
acknowledge the necessity that a spiritual science must come
oppose all that is brought forward by modern science that is
suspect, and it will answer questions that often go
ask a very simple question for you to see that this feeling
certain subjects leads quickly to uncertainty. What would we
the human soul if we have to struggle to understand what
come to recognize that in this field it is not possible to
first questions that must occupy us is this: What is the
question that we will be led to the justification for
spiritual-scientific investigation. I have also said that the
saying this, I must emphasize that spiritual science has
to is this: What draws the scientists in these fields to
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
lecture that we can observe a transition from the ordinary
and that this is the beginning of a path of knowledge. This
that it is not possible to rise in a methodical way from a
science that is free of mathematics to one that includes it.
that one cannot reach a
we will see how what is contained independently in these
to look at what I have named in
as the nerve-sense man: The member of the human organism that
to what we call the rhythmic system in the human organism,
The mistaken idea that the life of feeling, as part of the
originates from the fact that what we experience as feeling
expression of this is that the rhythmic system is connected
that our life of feeling is always accompanied by a mental
picture of some kind is related organically to the fact that
can give the appearance that the life of feeling is directly
that if one studies what occurs
that when we complete a movement in space, this is a
seen as expressed by the physical transformations that occur
pictures. So we can say, to start with, that our soul life
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
what the origin is, in the human being, of the mental images
is often heard that spiritual-scientific considerations
question that I would like to answer in the affirmative. The
essential element is an openness to what spiritual science
really stand, is this: that the natural world around us, just
would be the first to emphasize that the outer sense world is
become clear that real investigation in the field of
develop an understanding of what this imaginative level of
We can see that what takes place in the soul in the
the outer world. Please take what I am saying quite
phenomena. For the moment I wish only to indicate what is
sense content. What we bring to inner clarity in this domain,
that lives entirely within the creative activity of the soul.
What is experienced is the continuity of the activity and the
call it that — which takes place entirely within the
science being applied to the outer world. What had been a
applied to our outer sense world. This should indicate that
can say: what we experience mathematically has as such no
content, it has none of the content that we observe in our
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
logic of the mind. I emphasized especially that this
imaginative picturing that lives in the soul — as I
rest of what I said will also be clear: how we apply the
know what takes place in those "gulfs" — as I called them
human organism. The fact is that with the development of such
the senses — of what is mainly the head
formation, we do not find that this mathematical form of
plant world in such a way that the individual plant appears
first time we have a clear picture of what the plant nature
whole, something that belongs together with the rest. The
that what is before us is not a complete whole, but just part
of a whole, and that this part can only exist by virtue of
a concept that is completely unlike that of the physicist,
mineralogist, or geologist: we see that the forces in the
of organic being for us — an organic being that has
here — what we value is direct perception. For this
reason it must always be emphasized that in order to speak of
something else that one acquires in this process, and I wish
whole, or something similar. Now it could happen that in the
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
gain access to new realms of experience — realms that
means of it we can understand what takes place in the activity of
through a mathematical approach. Further, I pointed out that
which we can begin to understand what I have called the human
When one tries to gain a real understanding of what is
— if one is honest — that the processes taking
find that they can be comprehended through what I have called
imaginative cognition. Everything that has to do with the
Even external natural science has noticed that it is not
You will find, if you study what individual scientists have
to say in this regard, that the facts themselves — in
I always found that what they offered to explain the senses
them that their customary descriptions, particularly in the
that does not fit when one tries to apply them unchanged to
any other sense. We can understand this when we remember that
see that each separate sense is built into the human being
bridge that is thrown across from what I have called
clairvoyant research to what is given by empirical
can be said that a person endowed with healthy human
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
what is important in the context I have chosen for the
present lecture. I have indicated that what I call
another level. The importance of the memory process is that
it retains in picture form what the human being encounters in
memory process, and then we must distill out what can be
One of the peculiarities of memory is that it tends to alter
to a certain degree what has been experienced. Perhaps it is
quite familiar with the fact that at times you can despair
telling what has become of your experience by its passing
so that they faithfully render our experience. We can
distinguish what happens with memory. On the one hand there
is an activity of fantasy, quite justified, that goes on in
tendency and the falsifying tendency, and that we must be
psychologically, we can recognize what is alive in the memory
these forces, something can take form that is no longer just
teachings that are in fact essentially falsified memory
images; and yet we can profit from studying 'such images that
have taken the form of earnest mystical experience. What
concerns us at this moment, however, is what I have already
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
short that I have only been able to deal with our theme in a
to present a few ideas that lie, one might say, at the
entrance of an anthroposophical spiritual science. From what
has been presented, you will surely feel that everything we
of various ways of knowing that through inner soul work can
that I described yesterday as an inner crossing in the
this experience that we have in inspired-imaginative
in ordinary life — that is, intuition. In ordinary life
intuition refers to a kind of knowing that is not sharply
dimly experienced knowledge is not what the spiritual
condition of the soul that is just as suffused with clarity
is reached through a continuation of what I have called
must be continued in such a way that one really forgets
precise and systematic way, then arises what the spiritual
avoid possible misunderstanding. I can easily imagine that
someone might raise a certain objection to what I described
that the conscientious spiritual investigator is the first to
aware from what possible angle objections may come, and how
objection about what I said yesterday concerning the
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states that are necessary to scientifically examine the realms
which were intended to fill out what the lectures only
sketched as a framework. In spite of the fact that all the
building — that light which we believe is present in
our anthroposophical spiritual science. Please consider what
various subjects that are just at their beginning; a richer
of what we might hope to give in such courses on similar
sketchily, that a genuine scientific attitude prevails in the
that plays directly into the living conditions of the modern
necessary that the scientific spirit of our day shall give
rise to ideas that can bring strength and healing into our
spirit that calls the human being into an existence estranged
from life. We need a scientific spirit that will give us real
sense the need for real solutions — solutions that can
It is out of this recognition that our anthroposophical
wish is that out of a genuine scientific attitude these
of course be seen in the factual content of what is
physical or super-sensible, shows that he himself is not
toward the scientific spirit that rules in the recognized
we proceed. Let it be shown in any instance that we have
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“What are my dear Waldorf children and their teachers doing
And you see, you answered me warmly, just like that. And then I said
to you, “That is an especially nice Christmas gift for me!”
divine spirit that watches over your souls from the time you go to
schoolhouse. And I believe that many of you, maybe even all of you,
look forward to everything that will be here for you in this
you often, and in my thoughts I wondered, “What are my dear
love and are working very hard so that something good will come of
good and beautiful things that will make good and capable people out of you.
the holy Christ Child. It was beautiful and grand that you could speak about
the Christ with such love, and that you could listen with such love.
that they can teach you to grow up to be good and capable people?
beings on earth that are not like human beings — for example,
the animals around us — and we might often think that we should
hard and pay attention as children, and if we have teachers that are
as good and capable as yours, then what makes us fit for life will
sometimes think that there are things that are more fun than
learning. But that is not really true; there is no greater joy than
learning. You see, when you enjoy something that lets you be
enjoy what you can learn, when you are flying on the wings of hard
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[Rudolf Steiner had suggested that the students
day off from school that was the custom in
event and the classes were to show each other what they had been working
Then I can be with you again for a little while and see what you are doing.
“Now I am going to the school that was founded for our dear
children” — that is, for you who are here because you
but what I did see gave me great pleasure. I saw how patiently and
eighth grade students. They were hearing about what human history
an ongoing progress, that is driven by the spirit: Something that
pleased when I see how what our friend Herr Molt
fall was approaching. At that time we tried to think about what
we would experience here and what we wanted to foster — love
from everything. And now, while you have been enjoying what your
experiencing what comes up out of the earth, what the spring draws
what we hear when we go out into the woods. We hear the
express something that comes from inside of you. We can hear
the birds singing out in the woods, and we can also hear what you
we hear the little birds singing. But we know that something else is
present when we hear what you perform for us. This is something that
we call the human soul. It is your human souls that speak to us and
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Today, now that we are at the end of
school. What does it mean that our dear friend
for you, my dear children, and for humankind? What does it mean that you
come here every morning in order to learn something good? What does it mean,
above all, that there are people who are taking great pains to guide
you into life so that you will grow up to be good and capable
You know, my dear children, that I
always asked you a question, a question that comes straight from my
that you are not going to see your teachers, learn to be grateful to
them.” In the same way that you have learned, tried hard to
that you are grateful to your teachers, so that when you ask
happen that as Waldorf School students you say, “Hey, school is
We're glad that we can be lazy.” You know that is not what we
things along with some that are sad and painful, but what would human
everything that divine spirituality has put into the world,
everything that is so great and beautiful and
that it's vacation we can be lazy;” you should think,
“All of what we received from our dear teachers, everything
that humankind has learned so that individuals can know it — we
received all this, and now we need a little rest, so that when we
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
Anthroposophical Society, and what an appalling loss it is! One need
only weigh what the Goetheanum has meant to the Society to form some
idea of the enormity of that loss and of the load of grief brought
then the Society began to feel that it needed a central building of
its own. Perhaps members here will appreciate especially keenly what
the Society as a whole has lost in the building that became its home,
Stuttgart members therefore know from experience what it means to
means to that end that is available to the Movement. But additional
striven for in it. While it is true that people who lack a sense for
what anthroposophy has to offer through the medium of words will also
Goetheanum at Dornach, it is nevertheless true that people of our
to rouse themselves to inner activity through what they hear. The
positive that anthroposophy is not tainted with sectarianism, but
rather addresses itself to the great task of the age: that of taking
But that became impossible for people of goodwill as they looked at
to purest art. People had to see that anthroposophy fosters something
of wide human appeal, not something strange and different, that it is
trying to fructify the present in a way that has universal human
means of expressing what the true nature of the Anthroposophical
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
view of life and perhaps on that account prove worthwhile to this or
that listener.
independently of anything I said, to the effect that every member
ourselves with the fact that when a challenge of this kind is
presented one has to consider the whole context of what is under
Renewal. The comment was made that members should make their own
profoundly at odds with the state of mind that comes from a real
with a different attitude of soul. Anthroposophy requires that
test the great majority of my lectures in this respect will find that
I keep strictly to what I have just expressed, and that it lies in
things in such a way that hearers are left wholly free to form their
on subjects such as that treated in the lecture of December 30, 1922,
you will find their chief content to be simply facts, that they
the senses, or of history, and that their presentation is such that
results are such as to remove any justification for saying that
people were told what to think. For one person will draw one
deliberately expose myself to the danger that a series of facts I am
matter will find that the only time I express a judgment is when
case. A world view such as that based on anthroposophy must always be
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
deliberations that have been going on here with reorganization of the
today's lecture in a way that may help my hearers form independent
somewhat more briefly and aphoristically than I usually do when
references being made these days to the great change that came over
just what the nature of this change was, it might be put as follows.
it must be pointed out that by reducing the earth to a mere grain of
apply. Research that goes beyond this and devotes itself to a study
Man loses the possibility of seeing what he calls his soul and spirit
as in any way connected with what rays down to us from the starry
fact that the whole universe is suffused with soul and spirit, that human
that I am going to describe without reservation.
they emphasize that what they are proclaiming is a doctrine based not
on their own experience but on that of a spiritual investigator. This
realized that the findings of spiritual research recognized by
suited to various ways of investigation, but that once they are
attitudes required for anthroposophical presentations that are not
recall my description in its pages of a special kind of thinking that
is different from that generally recognized as thinking today. When
concept of it is one that pictures the thinking human spirit as
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
But I hope to be able, at the delegates' meeting that will soon be
make a few comments complementing what I said a week ago about the
bring out those aspects of the three phases that all three share in
that what I am about to say could serve many a listener as a means to
presently developing that the times themselves demand the deepening
of knowledge, the ethical practice, the inner religious life that
of those elements that are so needed under the conditions that
own destiny in what I am about to describe.
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
called its better days, something was taking place that almost
to feel what millions and millions of others will be feeling keenly
indeed in a not too distant future, that older forms have come down
justified but the product of historical necessity, but that they no
longer provide what modern man's inner life requires and the dignity
honest seeking will find, if he practices self-observation, that this
just any other present day group of human beings is something that
they are honest. But we must admit, too, that the very clarity
consider something else. What I have been describing thus far might
that his will impulses simply coincide with those of all the rest of
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
out of which I shall be addressing you today is not the same as that
that prevailed on earlier occasions when I was privileged to speak
here. Since New Year's Eve 1922, that mood is conditioned by the
that picture inevitably causes anyone who loved the Goetheanum
because of its connection with anthroposophy are such that no words
be some justification for feeling that a movement as intent on
loss of a material expression of its being. But that does not apply
building for our work. During its erection, a process that went on
for almost ten years, I often had occasion to explain that a
structure that might suitably have housed some other spiritual or
home in some conventional style or other. The point here was that
anthroposophy is built on a spiritual foundation that is not
had to be carried out in artistic harmony with that outlook. For
architectural and sculptural form, every choice of color, what was
anthroposophical life, anthroposophical intention. That was all
was even possible to have the feeling that the movements of the
chimed in with what one was saying. That was our goal there. It was,
sensed. That is why those who worked on the Goetheanum at Dornach
have the sensation that the very feelings they put into their efforts
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
taken, however, and the things that have been happening in the past
shall be dealing with here. Yesterday I spoke from that angle about
continue and to add something on the subject of the contribution that
some of the differences that distinguish the Anthroposophical Society
from every other. But for the moment I want to point out that there
have been a great many societies that have based their existence on
from a really serious and significant level down to that of
That is, that a certain moral atmosphere is always created —
could describe this atmosphere as being that of a real, genuine
Now the thing that
people familiar with the history of such societies know is that these
What I am presenting in these two lectures is also part of the system
experience a certain world of pictures that they take to be real
while they are sleeping. We know that these people are isolated from
not sharing common experiences. No means exist of conveying what they
are experiencing. We know further that a person can go from this
state of consciousness to that of everyday awareness, can be awakened
what happens when these two states of consciousness get mixed up
dream world and in the world of reality. But let us assume that, due
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 1 (Summary): Effects of Modern Agnosticism
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Congress at Stuttgart, Rudolf Steiner explained what effect the agnosticism
result of natural science agnosticism taught that humanity was only
able to spin round the world a web of ‘causality’. What
lies at the back, what is unknown, what cannot be reached by our senses — all
allowed what is instinctive to become master. Thus do we find today
that thinking is lax, feeling is dulled, and willing is made void through
disbelief; and, as a result, what is animal in man rises to the surface.
streams like that of the Catholic Church, or else in some oriental direction.
within what they practise. Modern systems of labour consist in ruling
observes that the life of expression is not sufficiently active and
does not carry on with enthusiasm what is required. People would rather
teachers try to place things before children in such a way that they
need not be altered when the children grow up. But what is presented
to children should be so given that it develops with the child during
It is in these facts that

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 2 (Summary): Perception and Thinking
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the period that this searching led to an individual grasp of life, during
questions: Does science give to men what their souls require? and What
is it that the souls of men require? Already, in 1885, Rudolf Steiner
seeking and a scientific craving that nobody satisfies.
answered we will consider the realm of knowledge in detail. What happens
was the conviction that one could arrive at the purest thinking quite
view one is led to quite imaginary conceptions, such as that of the
that the outer world does not hold the entire contents of reality, allowing
itself to be reproduced as conceptions, but that man through his sensory
bring into this outer world of reality what only comes forth from his
inner nature that man is born into the world.
of thinking that we can reach reality. And for a true meaning of Anthroposophy

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 3 (Summary): The Tragedy of F. Nietzsche
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from what you perceive to what is not perceptible, and this can never
upon what stands before our I-consciousness, and at the same time develop
world. Thinking itself must bring about the state of freedom, in that it
but that it fills itself with the contents of the human soul. The methods
search into what is supersensible.
come to an understanding of what the impulse for freedom springs from,
conceptions of natural science. He felt that the world could give mankind
What weighed on Nietzsche's soul penetrated his whole manhood. Feeling and
but our age demands that men live as social beings. Nietzsche lacked
this is what Rudolf Steiner has done in his book

Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 4 (Summary): The Relationship between Goethe and Hegel
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At the same time that the
saw that here was a sure ground from whence the investigator can penetrate
lines. But what is to be understood by monism? How can nature and spirit
answer. He shows that nature must be understood poetically, for art
of the plant world that Goethe was especially great. One can understand
why this was so if one notes that Goethe, in a certain sense, was on
What is plastic in plant
that one can regard the plant world. This comes to expression in the
fact that we are repelled by plastic reproductions of plants, which
a work of art in Nature, so that one is not able to transcend its natural
instinct for what is plastic and this is the world of plants. In inorganic
saw the plant as a unity. He saw this unity as that which Anthroposophy
he meant that whoever during many years had watched the lower animals
interesting to notice that Haeckel also, in a dilettante way, was
for what the animal world conjures to the surface as colour. He has
He lived with colour as Goethe lived with form. What belongs to animals
has a far more intimate connection with colour than what is expressed in
form in the plant world. The colour of flowers belongs to what is outer,
to sun and air, but with animals colour is bound up with what is of the
that other fount. Agnostic methods of thinking must be put aside in
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 5: From Sense Perception to Spirit Imaging
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soul activity, activities that permit insights to be gained into worlds
that, while they are in evidence in the realm of the senses, nevertheless
inner soul activities are alive in what I have referred to in my written
that is arrived at by abandoning the insights to be gained by clear,
however, bring such images to expression in concepts that are as lucid
the spiritual exercises that are necessary to develop soul forces that
by giving you a brief picture of the imaginative perception that can
thinking. On the other hand, neither should it be thought that such
that is not accessible to the physical senses, though nevertheless entirely
point of view. Taking the negative approach, it is possible to say what
are unhealthy soul experiences. What are the characteristic features
of visionary, hallucinatory activity, the features that matter to man?
that is real to our senses with healthy commonsense and perception,
we do so in what may be called a clear awareness of our own egoity.
a healthy regard for our position in that outside world, we need to
If we are overwhelmed by the content of consciousness, of Self, so that
able to consider these issues without prejudice will know that in the
of our own egoity, and he will know that visionary, hallucinatory activity
for revelations from a world that ranks higher than the world of the
reducing to the level of subjectivity what in sensory perception definitely
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 6: From Imaginative Knowledge to Inspirational Knowledge
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You will have realized, from what has gone before,
that imaginative perception shows some similarity to the way memory
The idea seems to be that we have thoughts about what we perceive with
up again from that subconscious when suitable efforts are made are taking
is right. It is of course exactly what the lazy thinker wants: to imagine
Even a very superficial look at what the human soul experiences will
show that this certainly is not the case.
leading to the evolution of an idea if we reflect on this. But that
is not really the point. It is true that when a remembered idea comes
up we have no immediate awareness of what it is inside us that stimulates
this idea. Yet, as I have just indicated, the point is not that we know
about sensory perception, but that from one side or another — now
to use the words properly, that in either case it is something objective
that drives us to form an idea. Pursuing the process of sensory perception
that we go through certain motions when we want to make sure we remember
something, that is, when it matters to us that something we have experienced
to help us memorize things when it was important to memorize them. Whatever
brings about memory therefore clearly goes beyond what is needed merely
to form an idea. If we consider memory as such, we shall find that the
physical condition we are in, and that our organism as a whole is involved
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 7: The Gulf Between a Causal Explanation of Nature and the Moral World Order
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life, a question that casts its shadow on the whole of cultural life, is
one that really everybody is aware of today in their feelings; yet it can
only be solved, or attempted to be solved, by a method that leads to
important question is one that is bound to be raised by every wholly
the ethical views that may be held today, and on the other it must consider
life as it is seen from the scientific point of view today, a view that
questions today for the very reason that this is an age when ethical
be consistently applied to everything that is to be found in the order
of gaining knowledge we habitually use for natural phenomena that are
daring, to extend what science has discovered in relation to nature
desire for consistency looks for a formalized, standardized system that
will explain the world will find that he has to decide between the premise
the result that man is completely held in the cocoon spun by science-determined
the universe by applying an approach that has undoubtedly proved fruitful
phenomena that surround us in the world where we walk about between
ask ourselves where the true rank and dignity of man lies, what value
the sphere that is responsible for moral and ethical impulses in our
conscious mind. We feel that a form of existence which is really worth
that we enter into and imbue with religious feeling. We cannot call
impulses within us that we call moral, impulses that then flow out into
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Title: Fruits/Anthroposophy: Lecture 8: The Social Question
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supersensible investigations that guide him towards his own essential
nature. It needs to be emphasized, however, that it is not a question
a way that we take our starting point from something which is already
himself must above all see to it that he holds in full awareness to
world, if such research is to yield results that are in accord with
What I have just told you
concepts in human consciousness that can be developed and given life
evening lectures. It was not without purpose that I spoke of Haeckel's
approach, despite the fact that this has its faults, which I am able
method. To create a vivid picture of what is achieved by this approach,
must proceed as follows. We cannot in that case produce all kinds of
science specifically demands that the study of external nature must
twist by saying that I did previously present things from the materialistic
study of nature that we are in a position to practise the inner renunciation
principle, but as something that can go no further in any statement
among the phenomena of that outer physical world so that it reveals
element that is to be revealed. Instead, we begin to experience the
inner struggles and conquests that will not induce speculative thought
but instil an elixir of life into thought, as it were, so that thinking
to gain insight that man really comes alive to himself. It is by starting
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Title: Natural Science; the Anthroposophical Movement
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clear today that whatever weaves between people in everyday
surrounding our everyday lives. This is what we must learn to
ourselves: what are the components of life surrounding us from
that all their soul needs were satisfied through this way.
followers of that time, we have a popular addition today which
impression that people create from two sources: on the one hand
out of what is taught as so-called serious, exact knowledge,
in such a way that they can say: All this must be true because
whatever else flows from their various declarations. Proposing
towards what actually is presented rarely happens. When it does
light. Should we accept it offends someone if we oppose what is
— is for instance that of the Trinity, the threefold
the way such a dogma was created will find that dogmas of
humanity and that the point of origin of these dogmas, often
clairvoyance these dogmas have emerged and one can say that
relationship between on the one side what the confession of the
human soul is met with and on the other side what the soul from
within itself strives to experience and to know. What works so
badly at present is not that the dogmas are false but that the
are obsolete and thus the dogmas no longer offer what the soul
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Title: Preparing for a New Birth
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consciousness, that our feelings about our own tasks,
the voice of conscience, we can tell ourselves that this
conscience speaks to us from depths that thinking can never
view when we see that even the most highly trained thinking,
would be fooling ourselves if we imagined that thoughts are not
than our thoughts. Yet these impulses that well up from the
that we clothe in thoughts what the voice of conscience says.
illusion, that it is thinking that makes us human. So Hegel is
right, in a sense, when he says that thinking distinguishes man
thoughts that fill us from the moment we wake to the point of
that the majority of our thoughts in life are dependent on what
that have to do with the material processes of earthly life.
that whatever is most significant for us between birth and
the totality of human life on Earth, we notice that a third of
leave out the experiences of sleep that remain in the
From my earlier lectures you know that our
The I and the astral body go through experiences at night that
more closely, we notice that the unconscious forces that
When we try to look at what comes from our
observation, we find that what operates in us while we sleep
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 1: Prelude to the Threefold Commonwealth
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To what I
more forcibly because they were the fulfillment of what
illusions, Germany suddenly marched out with an army that
was not yet on a war-footing, that did not yet have its
think and to repeat in speech what certain sides were
something that, to you at least, is of greatest
that not only Germany's external military capitulation
a last hope. The events that took place in that autumn of
inside the boundaries of what was then the German
trial that we must undergo, a test of that which has been
expression that sounds strange, perhaps, —
emphasized the fact that this Anthroposophical conviction
of inner well-being: and that is precisely what the
Anthroposophy something that will answer certain
privilege. But truly, it is not without reason that the
year, that our anthroposophical conviction must lead us
for nothing that those persona who have been privileged
face a test of whether that which we have been able to
superior kind of egoism, — whether that can really
thoroughly that we will awake to the tasks of ever
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 2: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question I
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organism. Naturally much of the thought underlying what I
as it were, that which confronts us outwardly as the
intention that the social organism should be divided. As
soon as one realizes that the Threefold Commonwealth is
fairly well known to you. First, that sphere of life
manifests itself or has form in what we call the physical
course what we have to understand by that. It embraces
everything that is connected with men's individual
life. That fact is ingrained already in my lectures. One
the realization that all material life is really
concretely saturated by the spiritual: so that for us
there is never a purely material something; that which
It includes everything that belongs to the cultivation of
nevertheless is fundamentally different. That is,
everything that one can described as rights-life,
thinking that the rights-life is practically the same as
with a healthy feeling to understand what the
indicated) that anything rooted in any degree in man's
experiences everything that comes to expression in art
psychic-spiritual something that lives and works in us,
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 3: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question II
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for us to see in what sense one may say that we are
transition. You will not misunderstand that remark, for I
have often told you that when I talk of a transition it
is a period of transition from what went before to what
attention to what is changing. And from that point of
that beneath the surface, as it were, of outer events
last lecture I drew your attention to the fact that one
of the human being if one would recognize what is really
living precisely in that world-age in which a development
soul and spiritual forces, and for that reason the
precisely, or adequately, something that does not belong
aide of another so that one will throw light on another.
made very clear that only flexible thinking, thinking
that does not stamp the concepts, the words, into a set
shape, in really compatible with the sense of what is
thing that is happening to mankind as a whole at the
it out) I must compare it with the experience that an
Higher Worlds and Its Attainment that the crossing
the supersense world. Truly, on that other side
here. And man experiences something there that is named
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Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 4: Pedagogy, from the Standpoint of the History of Culture
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the seriousness of the times, it seems to me that if I
— that Pentecost spirit which has entirely
sincere hope that an emancipation of the spiritual life,
need. But one will only be able to comprehend what must
— even hears this reproof: that the word
such foolish chatter we have not yet get to the heart of
result of our distorted pedagogy; it illustrates what
the connection between the perverted chatter of our age
the word, and that “in the beginning was
word has become mere chattered phrase and the
that it knows it can only find phrase —
and the deed that it knows is only thoughtless
more and more into the failing of their race, that of
realized what was really contained in his words they gave
inherit rather that spirit of Hellenism that poisoned
said that when man lets it become one of his illusions
phrase. But something stands written there that is
“Logos” that shines forth from this sentence,
and that should be experienced in it.
either by mystic comfort or by brutal action. That is
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture I: Cosmic Aspect of Life Between Death and New Birth
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is true, already described what has to be considered there, but
correct, still to all this may be added that which must be said
— that is, when he has laid aside his physical and his
spent on earth. We know, of course, that the soul requires a
certain amount of time to free itself from all that connects it
After death, we expand slowly and gradually in such a way that
it comes to that) have expanded the life of our soul over the
moon's orbit around the earth. We grow so large that the
thus grow larger, that which we may call the
Kamaloka-time prevails. That is the time of inner
the time begins when he expands so far that the outer boundary
then he may live there in Such a way that he can easily find
— that is to: say, to be condemned to loneliness in
whether he feels that he is destined to loneliness, or, if one
are expressed. It also is the sphere in which what we have
Another aspect to be considered is the fact that precisely
lacking conscientiousness. You see, everything that
has to occur for man because it is what really must happen to
him in order that life may take its right course from
this actually comes from the region of Venus, that belt around
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture II: Establishment of Mutual Relations Between the Living and the So-called Dead
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been said that when Spiritual Science will spread, it should
relations. By the very fact that we become more and more
acquainted with the characteristics of that invisible world
occupations, if you please, between death and a new birth. What
and a new birth will lead more and more to what is called the
memories go back to that person who was my faithful wife when I
in the evening, my soul was refreshed by what she was able to
be for me, by what then came into my soul from hers. A true
learned, I know that this soul must be on earth as she was
and who feel as though fettered, so that they cannot get
earth, then one learns that the soul who has remained on earth
soul can be found. A soul that is filled with spiritual ideas,
the portals of death; while it can always be found that the
permeate their soul, can then perceive these, so that these
significant: what is touched upon here can become of practical
souls here and souls beyond, namely, that which may be called
Here, too, the seer can have the experience that human beings
souls that have remained behind make a clear mental image of
of it. It is in the anthroposophical movement that we
One can often see how these dead long to hear what penetrates
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Title: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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‘unconscious.’ On the one hand it admits that in respect
setting out to describe what is the essential nature of human
knowledge, we have to say that man's search for knowledge has to be
can go on to show that when we investigate our consciousness, we find
impulses of will, etc. — of which we are aware that they cannot
nature and being of what thus reveals itself in the life of the soul,
further than that during waking life, ideas, feelings, impulses of
will-expressions, that is, of the inner nature and being of man
demonstrate conclusively that what shows itself to begin with in such
starting-point. We fully accept the fact that with such means of
soul-nature can never be fathomed. We fully accept the fact that as
of a man's life, and we shall be obliged to admit that, taking what
for example, from the point of view of ordinary knowledge, that all
conditions that it may well be inferred that experiences of soul
and that what happens during sleep is simply that the purely organic
that the soul-nature does in some way or other persist during sleep.
ways of knowing — ways of knowing that by dint of strenuous
consciousness all that we can say is that whereas from waking to
knowledge, tell what his soul does during the time between going to
ordinary consciousness darkness spreads over all that the soul
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture III
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faculties and talents, we find, to begin with, that when we succeed
in something or other, we may say: being what we are, it is quite
natural and understandable that we should succeed in this or that
case. But certain failures, perhaps just those that must be called
not, perhaps, always be able to prove exactly how this or that
present life, so it is understandable that in certain circumstances
generally speaking we shall realise that if we have been frivolous
From what has been
said you may think that some kind of causal connection could have
been evident between what inevitably happened and your faculties or
connection, and that we failed in one particular instance and
with, we will bear in mind that there is ample evidence in life of
In contrast to what
There are cases where it is inwardly clear to us that in connection
with events that befall us—not, therefore, those we ourselves
very liable to say that we can see no connection whatever with what
we resolved, what we intended. These are events of which it is
usually said that they broke in upon our life as if by chance; they
seem to have no connection whatever with anything we ourselves have
group of experiences in their relation to our inner life that we
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Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture IV
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karma, and the endeavour was made to speak of them in such a way that
something that is within our reach. It was said that certain
tentative measures can be taken and that in this way a conviction of
that at least an approximately adequate idea can be formed of the
change that will gradually and inevitably take place in all human
for those who enter the Anthroposophical Movement: What is it, in
reality, that makes a man of the modern age into an anthroposophist?
that all human beings whose interest in questions of the spiritual
belong to such an organisation. From this it is obvious that no
matter to speak quite precisely of what makes a man of the present
The conviction that a
anthroposophical circles themselves it must be realised that what
that were not utterly materialistic. What constitutes a modern
that such efforts have become characteristic of the strivings of many
human beings. But on the other side there is the fact that what
who desires to become an anthroposophist. But what is of particular
of reincarnation and karma — it is this that from now onwards
life, an entirely new social life, of the kind that is necessary if
what must be the aim of true Anthroposophy.
radically and typically as in the fact that considerable interest is
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 1
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Science is such that the truths and data of knowledge contained in it
comparatively easily, this or that questionable point, into realms teeming
to you that will seem strange. You will hear many things that will have
conception of the world is that, complicated and detailed as the knowledge
us, in our hearts and feelings, we possess something that carries us
to and accept intimations that would become crass and crude if pressed
call up in your minds is that behind the whole evolutionary and historical
evolution and human happenings, and that in the greatest, most significant
events in history, this or that human being appears with his whole soul,
yourselves of many things that have been said through the years, you will
be able to picture that in ancient times — and in Post-Atlantean
times, too, if we go back only a few thousand years before what is usually
man penetrated into spiritual reality. And we know that what is nowadays
which in those times gazed behind physical existence and expressed what
that in old, genuinely old myths, fairy-tales and legends, more knowledge,
ancient times, we-find men who were clairvoyant; we know too that this
You can conceive that
times, what man inwardly felt and experienced extended upwards into
the connection exists in our time only when, with the means that are
what it had learnt from the physical world, had pictured according to the
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 2
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that certain events in the more ancient history of mankind can be rightly
the personalities themselves, but when we realise at the outset that
that these Beings cannot take direct hold of the physical facts of our
evolution of humanity. But it must not be imagined that this downpouring
even to enter into what has to be said about the working of higher worlds
the domain of history to believe that all the characteristic features
history in a way which enables one to perceive that it is based on the
actually expressed what is described by Anthroposophy on the basis of
occult facts — namely, that souls who lived in ancient epochs
their new incarnations, so that behind physical happenings there is
spirit. As I said, a clever ass will insist that in his old age Lessing
hit upon ideas as confused as that of reincarnation, and that these
effect that a fair motif would be that a master, taking the subject
who understands what the master is teaching so little that he has to
That things have come to a pretty pass is shown, for example, in the
fact that all those mighty pictures, those grand symbolical conceptions
or that figure, standing, let us say, behind Hermes or Moses, is alleged
to have originated, and with what superficiality an attempt has been
have faded somewhat, to prove that there never was such a man, but that
par with what is said in the Preface — that it has been written
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 3
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things that have been said in giving a brief glimpse into the occult
course of human evolution will have indicated to you that the
that man incarnates again and again, that the innermost core of his
that there is a causal connection between earlier and later lives. Moreover
in the case of leading personalities in history. Hence it follows that
and this is what actually happens.
the only means of indicating what form these influences take and how
that the oval form in the middle represents the human ego, the kernel
in fact somewhat beyond the actual middle. lt is only necessary here
to recapitulate very briefly what has been said on other occasions: that
of the intellectual or mind-soul, and that our present period is that
Atlantean catastrophe. So that when we now add to the diagram the other
— that is to say, in the fifth member of man's being if we count
what has been able to grow into Atma will actually unfold only after
But we must now take account of the fact that during the first, the
into the human soul without that activity of the ego which we know to-day
Indian culture was acquired more passively, through surrender to what
that this ancient Indian culture must be attributed to a kind of activity
different from that carried out by the human ego to-day; what is now
If we ask what it was
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 4
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that in a certain respect the Greco-Latin civilisation-epoch
preceding civilisation-epochs are as it were a preparation for that
purely human vision in the Greek epoch. What begins with our own age,
of soul that may be described as “the ego works in the ego.”
from spiritual heights and entry into the purely personal element that
aspect of history it is borne in upon us more and more that with their
what can we, who have received into our own culture the work achieved
for civilisation by our forefathers — to what can we point that
will show us what contribution was made by this or that people to the
that the length of time formerly accepted as historical has been almost
era, and to affirm that through the whole of this period a civilisation
themselves and we must rather concern ourselves with what can be learnt
that spiritual traditions of the highest significance were alive in
this people, that there was present among them a spiritual wisdom which
may be described by saying that in them the whole mode of life, the
was entirely different from anything that developed in later periods
anyone fail to realise to-day that thinking and speaking are two quite
different matters, that in a certain respect speech consists of conventional
means of expression for what is being thought This is evident from the
very fact that through our many different languages we express a great
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 5
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we can observe that the special qualities of the individuality work
over from one incarnation into another; but that what spiritual Beings
For we shall realise that
and thus to preserve it from the fate that might easily have befallen
And on the other hand we shall realise that an individuality incarnated
yesterday, if we realise that precisely because he had been an Initiate
history make us aware that it is men themselves who make history, but
that history in the last resort becomes comprehensible only when we
associate with it that which streams in from other worlds, super-sensible
is complete. It is with the Greeks, and later with the Romans, that
what can at first be bestowed on the individuality only from higher
worlds withdraws to the greatest extent, while what a man expresses
Egyptians respectively It is the answer to this question that alone
it is true to say that when a man of ancient India spoke, when he gave
expression to what was active in his soul, it was not his own egohood
in the ancient Indian mode of speech that an element foreign to the
stand two stages higher than man, what they were able to express by
nature than what the Angels could express through the ancient Indians.
period that the emergence of personality is most prominent, and what
especially, we can see very exactly how they had an awareness that the
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 6
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the lecture yesterday I drew your attention to the fact that very
them to birth, are being slowly and gradually prepared. So that in a
we can surmise that it must be one in which the principle of the universal-human,
and of the epoch following that of Greece are modified in a quite different
way by forces outside man. Hence what lies in the human being himself,
Greece the seed of what was to sink into humanity as the impulse of
a new life. True though it is that this Greek life brought pre-eminently
to expression the essentially human element, that which man can find
entirely within himself, it must not be thought that such things need
no preparation. What we call the essentially human element — that,
that when Greek culture appears to outer observation. as if everything
that Greek culture was able to rise to the heights it achieved in bringing
grandeur of there unparalleled figures, we must conceive that these men
did indeed elaborate something that was entirely the product of their own
souls, of the weaving of the ego in the ego, but that it had first been
That is why the poetry of Homer and of Aeschylus seems so infinitely
for it must be realised that the full greatness of what lived in Aeschylus
cannot be conveyed in modern language, and that there could really be
no worse approach to an understanding of his works than that tendered
what had originally been hidden in the secrecy of the Mysteries. Even
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
stars, perceive only what is connected with the part of our human
constitution that is laid aside at death. We know from Anthroposophy
that the physical body derives its forces, as well as its material
composition, from what surrounds us on the Earth. In addition to the
Cosmos. Thus we owe our physical and etheric existence to what is
study man with anthroposophical insight we know that as well as the
we shall find that in the cosmic expanse perceptible to our physical
least akin to them. We find only what is akin to our physical and
intellect there is nothing that provides any forces or components for
that in my book
often said that in very ancient times man possessed a
from that adopted by modern scholarship. What men knew about the
poetical language of great majesty and what tradition has preserved
the power of that ancient wisdom. We may well be filled with wonder
sublimity of all these works, but it must be remembered that they are
powerful. Men owed this wisdom to the fact that they lived in
communion with Beings whose existence was on a higher level than that
comparable with that of man to-day; they moved about the Earth
in the way that one person converses with another to-day. But in
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture V
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
repeated lives on Earth. In monumental sentences he declares that the
the assumption that the individual man passes through many
lives on Earth and carries over into other epochs of evolution what
— in short, pure abstractions. The truth is that the same
as well; they then absorbed what was happening around them or what
new earthly life. They are therefore themselves the bearers of what
is the one fact that can fill the soul with a feeling of reverence
earnestness. And the other fact is that on reflection, all
the Earth many times and what we are to-day is the product of those
own experiences, the realisation that there are repeated lives on
culture at that time through Lessing's treatise, was broken. And in
with the founding of what was then called the German Section of
the Theosophical Society, that the title of one of the first lectures
It was a matter at that time of introducing the idea of karma with
such forcefulness that it could have become one of the leitmotifs
Movement. But when I spoke about what I meant by this title to one or
although I am not suggesting that these people were right — it
would have been premature at that time to speak to wider circles
respect everything in the way of knowledge that has since been
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VI
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
sleeping. You know from Anthroposophy that during the waking state
bodies. We know from ordinary experience that when we are
another consecutively, and as a rule we ignore the fact that the
hours a child spends in sleep, it will be found that sleep occupies
ask: What are the Ego-organisation and astral body doing during the
world. But they have no awareness in that world and with the
to the day before that, and so on through the whole of his life, in
‘journey’ lasts about twenty years, that is to say, this
into the other man, experiencing what this other man had felt as a
for what we have done or failed to do. How comes it that we are able
on the Earth. They take into themselves what is inscribed by us
to witness what a dead man lives through in these first decades after
his death know well that through the magical power of the great
shock that were caused to him. You feel exactly what your action made
man is deeply moving — one cannot say ‘shattering.’
give you an example here. Most of you will remember that among the
characters in my Mystery Plays, I have depicted that of Strader. As
almost exactly similar to that of Strader as depicted in the Plays.
You can well imagine that I was very much interested in this
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Title: Lecture: The Tasks and Aims of Spiritual Science
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this occasion let me once more call attention to the fact that as
an epoch of importance. What has been said in different lectures with
‘theosophical’, in this text, it will be remembered that
prevail in that Society and the statements on this subject made by its
the beginning, for it has in the meantime incorporated in itself what
and regularity about this work. Of course you cannot take what I have
you will see that it is true.
laid the foundations. What we did in the first four years was to
what is found in the Akashic Record with regard to the secrets of the
not sufficient to assimilate only what has happened in the last three
you look back you will see that the last three years have brought
before you of late, perhaps in a somewhat astonishing form. If you try
to establish the connection with what was done in the first four years
will see that even those great and all-embracing truths which have
been impressing you so deeply, have a very close connection with what
later to pick up for themselves what has been accomplished here in the
speak to-day on a subject that concerns the theosophical attitude of
question: “What is the right attitude for the theosophist to take
What is here meant will be clearer if I put the question in another
is information given about the higher worlds, information that is the
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Anthroposophie dieses anerkennt, hat man sie vielfach nur
hat, der kann wissen, daß dieses Urteil ein durchaus
Dadurch aber hat sie in begreiflicher Weise zur Gegnerschaft
naturwissenschaftlichen Denkweise ausgebildet hat und die
selbst vielfach genannt hat: der Agnostizismus. Dieser
naturwissenschaftlichem Gebiete gearbeitet hat: aus der
Weise Anthroposophie zu sagen hat über ihre
Vorstellungen, das hat nichts in sich, was ihn hinunterweisen
hat, sondern wie er wurzeln muß in dieser wahren
hat Skeptiker gegeben, welche noch nicht ganz bis zum
Gefühlsleben, auch auf das Willensleben hat der
Zeit hat ja gezeigt, daß es sich bis zu einem gewissen
Grade mit all dem leben läßt. Das hat seinen tiefen
Zeitalters sich so etwas ausgebildet hat. Aber es ist in
Früchte des Agnostizismus, der als Theorie begonnen hat,
sich selbst in eine Lage gebracht hat, in der sein Wille an
gedacht hat, möchte man nicht das Innere so anstrengen,
gelebt hat in eine Parteischablone. Man hört ihn dann
gewohnt ist; dasjenige, was ein bißchen angeklungen hat an
er dann nach, das andere hat er überhaupt nicht
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hatte, durchaus ablehnend gegenüberstehen mußten
Streben lieben gelernt hat, der aber auch auf der andern Seite
Menschen gewonnen hat, ergab sich die wichtige Lebensfrage:
genährt hatten, dem Menschen geben konnten. Ich fragte:
hervorgebracht hat, dem menschlichen Drange geben? Und aus dem,
abstrakten Art, daß diese nichts zu tun hatte mit dem, was
Goethe hat gewiß die verschiedenen Wege, die aus den
Ausspruch, den Goethe getan hat im Verlauf seiner italienischen
hat, um nach seiner Art in das Wesen des künstlerischen
zugebracht hatte, nachdem er bereits allerlei wissenschaftliche
angesehen worden sind — ausgestaltet hatte, schrieb er
ergeben hat, und da konnte man wohl Veranlassung nehmen, die
erklären» geschrieben hat, und wie die Ideen dieses
auffallen: Goethe hat mit seinem Denken in einer
Hilfsmittel zu diesem Nachweis bedient hat. Und als dann Goethe
sehen, wie Goethe sich dieser Aufgabe unterzogen hat, so wird
man bemerken können: er hat viele Ansätze gemacht,
Er hat unermeßlich viele Studien gemacht, um eine solche
wieder angefangen hat, wenigstens auf dem Gebiet der
neben der äußeren Welt steht, und hat man in seinen
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hatte zu halten, müßte auch auf das ausgedehnt
hat sich die agnostisch-naturwissenschaftliche Gesinnung nun
geholfen? Sie hat einfach, ich mochte sagen, das unmittelbare
Goethe so gefallen hat, als Heinroth sein Denken ein
gegenständliches genannt hat, das muß auf einer noch
als man zu verfahren hat, wenn man das Wesen der menschlichen
nun angewendet hat behufs Untersuchung der menschlichen
ist, wenn man in richtiger Weise geforscht hat über das
der Geist des Agnostizismus es dahin gebracht hat, lieber ein
Jahrhunderts aus dem Freiheitsproblem gemacht hatte.
hervorgebracht hat. Denn wer die Erkenntnis so betrachtet, wie
Doktor gemacht hatte, er eine Universitätsprofessur
solchen gemacht hat, die innerlich Schmerz macht, wenn man sie
das Furchtbare in seiner Seele auf, daß er Hunger hat nach
Menschheit in ihren Mythen und so weiter jemals geschaffen hat,
Zwingendes hat, so daß der Mensch ein Recht hat, sich
hat über das unbefriedigende Dasein, wie Nietzsche meinte.
sich erträumt hatte in seiner «Geburt der
auch sind — es hat sich dasjenige, was sich ihm in
krankhaften Seelenerlebnissen aufgehäuft hatte, in
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Idee vom Übermenschen. Und auf der anderen Seite hatte
tieferes Verhältnis hat gewinnen können zu der
zurückzulegen hat, fruchtbar geschildert werden kann, ohne
daß er sich in so etwas eben nicht hat einleben
Anfechtbares, allein, wenn man sich wirklich eingelebt hat in
aus der modernen Naturforschung heraus ergeben hat und die bei
wissenschaftliche Schlamperei passiert ist. Er hat Embryonen in
einfach die gleichen Klischees hat verwenden lassen. Es ist
Forschungssinn hat ja eine Hinneigung zur Beobachtung, zum
Experiment gezeitigt. Er hat dazu gedrängt, alle
Natürlichen zu tilgen; er hat bewirkt, daß sich an
hat. Und wenn auch gerade in dieser Beziehung Haeckel manchen
daß er eine besondere Seelenverfassung hatte, um in die
hatte Haeckel nicht. Deshalb kam es auch, daß er sich
man zu forschen hat, zum Beispiel in der Zoologie, um nicht in
ja sage, was der berechtigte Monismus zu sagen hat, noch
auszugestalten hat, hat große Ähnlichkeit mit dem,
was im künstlerischen Schaffen sich betätigt. Das hat
Inspiration und der Intuition zu schildern hat.
hat nichts mehr dazuzubringen durch irgendeine
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geredet wird, so hat man zunächst nicht an irgend etwas
dunkel in der Seele Lebendiges setzt, sondern man hat an etwas
klaren Begriffen auszuleben hat wie die Verstandeserkenntnis
was der Mensch als innerliche Übungen zu vollbringen hat,
gewöhnt sind, aber man hat sich auch nicht zu denken,
Phantasiemäßiges ist. Man hat, wenn man
Erlebnisses, das der Mensch hat, wenn er aus den
Mensch vielleicht vor Jahren hatte und von dem sie ein Bild
verhält. Wenn jemand den Glauben hat, daß er etwas
Halluzinationen als durch Sinneswahrnehmung, dann hat er
hat als im gewöhnlichen Leben. Wie tritt zunächst
sagen wir, vor zehn Jahren als Gegenwärtiges erlebt hat,
gegenüber hat, mit demjenigen, den man einem vergangenen
Erlebnis gegenüber hat. Wie wenig steckt man im
ein Ich-Erlebnis hat, als ob man in den vergangenen
gehabt hat. Wenn ich sage, man wird von diesen intensiver
Erleben vollständig aufgenommen hat, während im
Inhalt hat, sondern einen Weltinhalt, wie man in der
Sinneswahrnehmung einen Weltinhalt hat.
gefunden hat, aber dasjenige, was man da als Freude empfindet
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daß imaginative Erkenntnis etwas Ähnliches hat mit
das Wahrgenommene hatten, dann diese Gedanken irgendwie
Philosophieschule hat davon gesprochen, daß solche
Behufe des guten Behaltens in seiner Jugend gemacht hat, wenn
man dieses gute Behalten nötig hatte. Es geht eben
Gesamtorganismus etwas zu tun hat mit der Bildung der
Bildinhalt hat, die nicht an persönlich erlebte Tatsachen
er niemals über das Denken gedacht hat. Man kann sich das
abstrakt geistig ausgesehen hat, der materiellen
das Eintreten des physischen Todes an einem Lebewesen. Man hat
wirklich in der Empfindung so etwas, wie man es hat, wenn man
Kaltlassendes hat, etwas, das wenig solcher Wogen in unserem
vorgestellt hat, durchsichtig. Man hat zuerst geistig-seelisch
Metamorphosenstudien getan hat, das Werden des Pflanzlichen,
man sie hat, wenn man mathematische Vorstellungen ausbildet.
Geometrisieren hat, wenn es sich hineinlebt in all das, was
den Schatten des Pathologischen darstellende Traumleben,
schon hat, nämlich in die Wachstumskräfte, in die
Abbilder sind von Realitäten. Aber die Realitäten hat
man nicht; man hat vielmehr das allerdeutlichste
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Schatten in das gesamte Kulturleben hineinwirft, ist eine
zu entscheiden hat zwischen der Annahme einer Freiheit, die
sich der neuesten Zeit ergeben hat für die Erklärung
neueste Zeit hat allerdings ein gewisses Auskunftsmittel
Bestandteilen unseres Menschentums sich auf getan hat. Man hat
hat, der wird sich sagen können: Was in einer so
Gewiß, für viele Menschen hat dasjenige, was ich
hat.
Leben seit der Geburt gehabt hat, bis zu dem Wahrnehmen einer
hat, wie es im Menschen zusammenhängt mit seiner
menschliche Wille nun wirkt in der ethischen Handlung. Hat man
Motive im reinen Denken hat, der Stoff in der menschlichen
Wärmetod, der innerhalb gewisser Grenzen Berechtigung hat,
hat, und man erwirbt sich vor allen Dingen Menschenliebe. Was
war es, was mich bewogen hat, in der «Philosophie der

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für die übersinnliche Welt dasjenige hat, was man in
der Waage, im Maßstab für die physische Welt hat. Es
hat vor allen Dingen anzustreben, daß dasjenige in
Menschheit seit dem 15. Jahrhundert hat, indem sie sich erhob
hat.
hat. Gerade aus geisteswissenschaftlichen Forderungen heraus
in welcher er gelebt hat vor der Geburt beziehungsweise vor der
Leben bis in unsere Tage hinein gewirkt hat, ging aus
Bewußtsein hereinzubringen, hat man versucht, dies von
hat. Ich brauche ja nicht wieder diese wissenschaftliche
Methode zu rühmen, die sich herausgebildet hat als
durchaus die fruchtbare. Die Menschheit hat sich im Laufe der
neueren Jahrhunderte eingewöhnt in diese Methode; sie hat
erobert hat im Anschauen der äußeren Natur. Und so
ergriffen hat, bis zum Marxismus. Ich habe das dargestellt in
sie nicht ausgereicht hat und doch dies soziale Leben
der Naturwissenschaft bewährt hat, soziale Gestaltung
wenn sie ihn hat in seinem Schaffen, in seiner
sie sich durchdrungen hat, nun überall unterzutauchen, zu
hat man gar nicht mehr auf der einen Seite Materie, auf der
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gehalten hat. Im zweiten Teil sind Originalhandschriften Rudolf
religiösen Gemeinschaftsbildung geführt hat, und das
doch gerade auf die Seele stark wirkenden Kultus hat, und noch
viele Auflagen erlebt hat. Warum ist das so? Aus dem Grunde,
Kultur in die Gegenwart hereingebracht hat. Diese Strömung
Anstoß gegeben hat zu dieser religiösen Bewegung; er
Ausdrucksmittel die geformte Luft hat. Es ist natürlich
Gefühl hat, man spricht mit Ehrerbietung, kann man durch
hat ja die Eigentümlichkeit, die wichtigsten Dinge des
Salzen über Nacht in unserem Körper abgelagert hat.
durchgemacht hat.
was fest ist, flüssig machen, das, was der Mensch hat,
üben muß. Die Berliner Universität hatte einmal
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gehalten hat. Im zweiten Teil sind Originalhandschriften Rudolf
Vorträgen und Kursen hatte Rudolf Steiner
«Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart gehalten hat.
religiösen Gemeinschaftsbildung geführt hat, und das
doch gerade auf die Seele stark wirkenden Kultus hat, und noch
viele Auflagen erlebt hat. Warum ist das so? Aus dem Grunde,
Kultur in die Gegenwart hereingebracht hat. Diese Strömung
Anstoß gegeben hat zu dieser religiösen Bewegung; er
Ausdrucksmittel die geformte Luft hat. Es ist natürlich
Gefühl hat, man spricht mit Ehrerbietung, kann man durch
hat ja die Eigentümlichkeit, die wichtigsten Dinge des
Salzen über Nacht in unserem Körper abgelagert hat.
durchgemacht hat.
was fest ist, flüssig machen, das, was der Mensch hat,
üben muß. Die Berliner Universität hatte einmal
vorgetragen hat.
hat sich allmählich die Ansicht gebildet, man müsse
gut Teil von dem, was die Menschheit so heruntergebracht hat,
vor einer solchen Denkungsweise hat, die nur die Hälfte,
berücksichtigen. Die anthroposophische Bewegung hat
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gehalten hat. Im zweiten Teil sind Originalhandschriften Rudolf
Wort «Wort» ausspricht, daß das viel zu tun hat
Mensch hat eben heute das Gefühl, wenn er so etwas getan
hat, dann habe er ein Wort, das für ihn eine Bezeichnung
nachatlantischen Periode, müßten wir, wenn wir
«Mensch» bezeichnen will, hat Tiefen, die ich
«Mensch» bezeichnen will, hat Höhen, die ich
mit dem Worte «Mensch», hat Weiten, die ich erst
eine Aufgabe hat, rechtfertigt kosmisch, daß wir einen
hat, die erste Stufe zu überwinden, so geht man an die
hat. Ja, wahrhaftig, weiser als der weiseste Gelehrte war
es im Eintauchen bekommen hat, in unserem Gemüt etwas zu
Dieser Gott hat aus den Himmelshöhen auf die Erde
Vatergott hat mir die Stärke verliehen, die in meinem
Mysterien die Messe entnommen hat.
nur nach und nach in uns aufgenommen werden. Die Menschheit hat
Pflanzen wachsen würden. Aber man hat erst das Recht, dies
daß man dieses selbstgeprägte Wort errungen hat, wie
innere Seelenentwickelung errungen hat.
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gehalten hat. Im zweiten Teil sind Originalhandschriften Rudolf
sich vollzogen hat in einer bestimmten Zeit, in der ein
sich innerhalb der Menschheitsentwickelung so ergeben hat,
Bewußtsein heraufgeschaut hat zu den Göttern, oder,
Menschheit auf Erden der Vatergott gegeben hat, aber er brachte
Vatergott mir das übergeben hat, was er euch vorher direkt
gegeben hat, aber für einen anderen
Schatz des Vaters, für jedes einzelne Bewußtsein von
vermöge der Vollmacht, die mir der Vatergott gegeben hat,
üblichen Übersetzungen] vor sich hat. Dagegen wenn
Nachdem Jesus dieses geredet hatte, erhob er seine Augen zum
Vorher hatten die Menschen auf die geschilderte Art die
Substanz des Vatergottes in sich. Nun hat der Vatergott den
Christus Jesus hat bewirkt, daß das Wort nicht erstorben
mit den Leuten über das, was man gelernt hatte. Da konnten
die das überstrahlte, was man selbst mitgebracht hatte.
Böhme gemeint hat mit manchen seiner Sätze, das
Übersetzungen, die zum Beispiel Deußen gemacht hat,

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to use the short time I can be with you to say something that
on the ability of the teachers to develop the attitude that
the teachers themselves. I would like to preface what I have to
from a somewhat different point of view. I then shall add
a few things that will enable you, if you let them work in the
what we are trying to do will fall on fertile soil only if the
general attitude that we take with us into the school can be
often have discussed but also from those that lie a little
have to alter somewhat. We have only to go back to the Greek
era in human evolution to a period that still stirs the minds
of those in our Western civilization. At that period we find
that the educator was really the gymnast, intent above all upon
realize that they were quite as much concerned with the
that the Greeks laid stress on bodily exercises, which were all
pupils to maturity. What is so little realized nowadays,
however, is that these bodily exercises, whether dance
devised in such a way that through the unfolding and expression
therefore should not say that in Greece primary importance was
impression that they were cultivated then as they are nowadays,
that is, mostly in an entirely outward and physical way. In
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have tried to show you that by permeating our knowledge with
about something that is pre-eminently a goal to be striven for
in education, namely, that through a particular orientation in
what forces are we really working when we work educationally?
sense by the culture of today. We can say, of course, that the
that they cannot have yet as children. We must impart such
perhaps, something that the child cannot acquire by himself; it
value in what he became through the teaching and education he
gratitude to what he has become through his education. Ask
realization of what education actually means, nor which forces
in human nature are quickened by it. That is why it is so
Answers to the question —how can this or that be
achieved? — are of little use. What is of the greatest
a kind of obvious secret, let me say that although a great deal
The only enthusiasm capable of achieving anything is that
realize that as teachers we need to develop a consciousness of
certainly made infinitely more difficult by the fact that in
fact must be faced and understood. We must realize that we
really need something quite specific, something that is
what humanity has lost in this respect, has lost just in
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What I wish to offer you in these lectures is intended
teacher's profession. In continuation of what I said this
really can know in detail what is going on in the human being
that the first form of activity we perceive in the human being
question: what actually moves his limbs? What force is at work
when a man walks or does something with his arms? What is it?
Now, the materialistic view will simply be that it is man
himself, and, thinking about man in this way, that it is a
on, described as man, that moves the limbs! This is the true
putting it like that, since man himself is the object in
movement, is that which is moved. If we ask who is the actual
to say to ourselves that it is the spiritual itself that must
bring physical forces, forces that usually we designate as
spiritual just as, for example, we say that a piece of wood is
Here, however, we come to something remarkable that generally
— that is to say, something purely spiritual — must
The fact that we are physical human beings, made up of bones,
things by theorizing about the motor nerves and the like. That
pointed out to you this afternoon that as the life process in
system, what comes out of carbon has an affinity for what comes
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astral element that snakes its way through everything.
— that means my I. In other words, the Gods think my I. After
It weaves me. That means the Gods weave my I. We should have a feeling
of the greatest thankfulness for this. Es wirkt mich, It works me, that
esoteric knows that his ego and astral body leave the physical and
etheric bodies behind every night. He should then imagine that a
demon took possession of his physical and etheric bodies and that the
awaking he should ask himself: What did you think and do shortly
with full consciousness. At first one can't recall that one
forms: You thanked the Gods that they let you live again in the body
that they built for you. — We're born from the Gods:
deepest thankfulness that we've sunk our ego-consciousness back into
the temple that the Gods built for us during Saturn, Sun and Moon
consciously after death, that means to die in Christ:

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only wants to accept what's perceived through the
“about” is the effect of the a, for he knows that this
that things and events are necessary to form world words.
sympathy and antipathy. He readily accepts and notices what pleases
disease that's sometimes observed is that an otherwise normal person
wake up, but he can't remember what happened while he was travelling.
find that he passed by many things in the world with great
make progress. One doesn't have to neglect what one is striving
The ego that grasps itself in memory is like a letter that an
esoteric must learn and that the Gods have written into world
they give us what goes from incarnation to incarnation. We got
our physical body from forces that work down through the
that's described by the moon's orbit. What goes from one generation
schematically. We draw the ego that becomes conscious through memory
If the moon would be moved to another place by some force, what would
reverential thanks and must tell himself that he owes his
by the earth's forces so much that it goes into it, as is supposed to
happen later. We receive the forces that strengthen our ego from the
through your sun-grace forces that I received my ego and all
the forces that are connected with it. I thank you in shy reverence.
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that an esoteric still hasn't arrived at vision in higher worlds even
years? To answer this question clearly we'll now imagine what
themselves against our devotion, so that we have to fight this with
clarify things. Let's imagine that a stranger approaches us and
very disturbed about this, because until now we thought that we
stranger steps before us, so in all the thoughts that push in between
that we don't know, and yet it's our own self that reveals itself in
what always presses into us during our meditation, when we have the
good for us that this is so, since we get to know ourselves in our
thoughts; it must bring us to self-knowledge — that we've
that's why we still can't look into the spiritual world. Our
meditation as one uses for all kinds of conversations that one has in
push back our ego that's defending itself.
are nothing but the desires that we've felt. If they hadn't become
examines one's memory one will find that everything that gave one the
most pleasure is engraved in it. Everything that we remained
indifferent to, that we didn't enjoy has disappeared from our
what he learned in school later on, because he wasn't interested in
What we must
also apply in our esoteric development is devotion. The method that
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 3-5-'14
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We know that
ordinary sense life, so that he can find his way into the
different than it had been until now. What really is our thinking in
ordinary life? We're used to saying that thinking takes place in the
physical body, but that's not the case. The etheric body is the real
with it to the extent that it's a mirror for our thoughts that
reflects the picture so that we can thereby become aware of it. We
impression of his physical shape that is, a shadow of his outer
personality. Likewise the thoughts that have their living seat
brain when we think them. What do the concentration exercises that
ourselves in our etheric body so that we can press forward to
the real origin of our ideas that have their life in the etheric
body. It should become ever clearer to us not only that our thoughts
are shadows but that all of our percepts are really nothing, and that
in reality only the spiritual world exists. A naive man says that
what he perceives exists. But what is existence
dioxide that rise like shiny pearls. And what are these sparkling,
that's much thinner than water, that's “nothing” in
comparison with water. So what one sees here is nothing,
must become aware that all space around us is filled with spiritual
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IV: Mysteries of the Universe: Comets and the Moon
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expanse of the heavens, it is a feeling of sublimity that first flows
the starry heavens will he be deterred by the thought that this
We are justified in feeling that understanding and comprehension in
this sphere cannot injure the direct feeling that arises in us. Just
degree that spiritual scientific knowledge enhances and strengthens
(Sinn), so will a person become more and more convinced that,
wither in the least when he learns to grasp what is really passing
spiritual science that he is born out of the totality of the universe
and that the mysteries of the universe are connected with his own
know that this contrast in the human race has existed since the time
of ancient Lemuria; we know, too, that it will last for a certain
If we recollect that all human life is born out of
cosmic life, we may then ask, if it is indeed true that what has
evolution on the earth, can we find something in the universe that in
that which comes to birth in the masculine and feminine on earth?
A materialist can visualize nothing apart from what lives in his
our time. We must bear clearly in mind that the designations
significance for human life we can mention is that between sun and
microcosm? Is there in the human being himself a contrast that
organism, bodily and spiritual — it occurs between all that
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connection, it throws much light on the question that we can perhaps
express in this way: what is our task as human beings in any
that says, as if speaking from heaven, that humanity needs a
I wish to point out particularly that when such regular repetitions
are referred to by spiritual science, one should not believe that
for constructing new ones. There is one repetition that, as a matter
of fact, resembles another, that repetition in which fundamental
events, important events that were effective before the founding of
founding of Christianity, it is seen that these three millennia
belong to an epoch in the history of the evolution of humanity that
of Christianity. All that we at the present time designate as the
great achievements of humanity, what we call the characteristic
character to another — there existed what one can designate as
clairvoyance, so that before the Dark Age man still had an immediate
see into that spiritual world.
withdrew from human view, and we may say that, on the average, the
faculties and forces began to be cultivated that confine human
judgment to the world of the senses and yet that also cultivate human
this period, that firm point increasingly developed itself within the
physical, sensible world, the point that we call knowledge of
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Title: True Nature: Lecture II: The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World
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connection sheds a great deal of light upon questions such as: What
significant sign, telling us as it were from the heavens that
that is to say, in which we ourselves are living.
emphasise that when reference is made in Spiritual Science to
not he imagined that they can be worked up by the intellect; they
being that happenings of crucial importance before the
but before that time the last vestiges of ancient clairvoyance
the last that is of particular interest to us to-day. The earlier
generally we can say that the development then begins of those
strongly within him. But do not imagine that even now this knowledge
indeed had no direct perception of that connection.
through the fact that a particular individual — Abraham —
without the old faculties. That is why in Spiritual Science we
more deeply into his ego, with the result that he came to conceive of
Moses, the World-Ego as the Deity was experienced in such a way that
men realised: the Elements of manifested existence, all that is seen
We must, however, clearly understand in what way this denoted an
Abraham-epoch and before Kali Yuga, we find that through the direct
of Beings. You know that when we rise into the spiritual worlds
physical instrument of the brain — a faculty that had developed
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 12-24,31-10
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Steiner to tell him what it's about since he doesn't have
summarized them — to the extent that he understands
This works on the astral body and that
works on the etheric body, so that it gets loosened. One could say
that a front cord with lotus flowers is built up by meditation,
the rear and the brain. That's the right way which permits no

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what he is really doing wit the exercises that are given to us. We've often
mentioned that an esoteric is trying to loosen the etheric body and in
body sufficiently through diet, breathing exercises, etc. so that it
our exercises. And here one has to say that the latter are the main
for hours if he could attain something that way. To exert oneself
grab something that kept on eluding us. Under such conditions a
sensible esoteric will tell himself that he must first create order
tell ourselves that it's a temporary suffering. For through the
similar to a plant that has its sap withheld from it for awhile. It
they have a healing effect on the physical body. One can observe that
system that runs towards the spinal cord, or as one says
and meditation. That's why they're the most important part of our esoteric
firmly into the physical body, so that it often pains a clairvoyant
to see something like that. The food one gets in hotels has the same
We must tell ourselves that when we've gotten up the courage to
let a thought that we have thought through pass over into our
feelings and then permeate the latter with it completely so that we
don't carelessly say something that we haven't fully
grasped. A frequently heard statement that's misused more than
most is: I am a Christian. An esoteric should realize that being a
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 1-2-11
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ordinary. Probably not all of us were aware of the seriousness that
for a connection with the spiritual worlds so that we don't
should always look upon the exercises that are given to us as ones
that come from the masters. An esoteric should watch himself and his
egoism. We often imagine that we're doing something selflessly,
or we feel hatred and envy towards someone that we haven't
become aware of yet. Then as esoterics we think that we must tell him
the “truth,” and that we don't have to take this or
that from him. As soon as such feelings arise in us, one should
realize that one is living under big delusions whose deeper cause is
feeling of warmth that goes through the etheric body's warmth
hierarchies who direct karmic connections work in such a way that
warmth that satisfies us. All the passions and desires that get
warmth, in contrast to the feeling of coldness that appears in true
Luciferic beings that thereby approach a pupil destructively reveal
almost always be ascribed to the egoism that often sits unrecognized
also direct our attention to everything that's connected with
to an esoteric lecture, but what's given finds no echo in them.
regular study, for that's too inconvenient for them. This has a
responsibility towards the world and themselves. That's why a
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-20-12
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mystery school, for instance, that's of lasting importance for
a pupil, namely words that can work on a modern just as well s they
What
personality, where we no longer feel that our I belongs to what we
man dies, it's only natural that he no longer looks upon his
physical body as something that belongs to him. But he must already
that the good Gods wanted, he would have directed his body from
magical will impulse. His body would have been like a weight that
that a Mars dweller was suddenly placed on earth, and the first man
dweller had never seen a man before, he might think that the two
weights were grown together with the body. Likewise, we think that we
properly, we'll increasingly get the feeling that our ego is
splitting and that one part of it is directing the other from
I that's lifted out — which we should humbly feel to be
grace — it may happen that we increasingly identify this I with
tells us that they created and that they then looked at their deeds
and saw that they were good. So we should look at the deeds of our
ego, at what the ego has achieved; then we'll see how bad
expression of our ego, a part of us that we place outside. Now man
would be so vain as to think that his handwriting was very beautiful.
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the spiritual world that are in accordance with our time. It has
mostly wrong line of thought if we think that it gives us more, for
their development at the Mystery of Golgotha, that is, they
didn't accept the consequences of this Mystery. What's
one who can see into them. Lucifer brought it about that we moved
also something that holds us back. But in the way we're in our
call that a hallucination. But we would succumb to this hallucination
if we would look upon a thing that remained behind as something that
was appropriate for our time, and that's something that will
Christianity is now. But that's because Europeans since
medieval times passed by opportunities for rightly developing what
Atlantis, it's superior to present Christianity. What just
Defense Against European Ideas, as something that has much
greater spiritual significance. Ku Hung Ming is a bright man. What he
says isn't wrong, and there's a lot in there that should
give an esoteric food for thought. He says that Christian
it realizes. This Chinaman knows exactly that his people watches over
mankind's memory and that this fact makes a deep impression on
deed, but we shouldn't think that it wasn't
have a marvelous structure. The physical body is a temple that the
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-12
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last few lectures we learned that our whole existence is guided by
feeling of humility that can't be compared with the humility
that we have in daily life, for this feeling of humility stands too
forces that radiate from within him. One can feel in one's
heart whether what's seen comes from higher worlds or from
that radiate into it from the cosmos. For the heart is connected with
what does it mean to be an esoteric? A man is placed in his karma
that he did here on earth, depending on the circumstances into which
according to regulated laws that nothing can accelerate. But if he
becomes a different man qualitatively. Through what? Things that he
his views and attitudes change, and he sees that he often acted
cost him. The meditation and other exercises that are given to an
assuming that he experiences them in the right way, that is, with the
right feelings and through pictures that arise within. Thereby the
quite unlike what he's used to seeing confronts him. At the
beginning of spiritual development the things that appear are similar
that esoteric training doesn't just make a man better. A man
yet have disharmonious, bad qualities hidden in his soul that are
often say that it's nothing but egoism if a man wants to
develop faster than his fellows. But that's not so. As soon as
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-23-12
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influence that this being ours into our thoughts and feelings. (Venus
sleep and after one has banished all thoughts from our soul that
sorrows. The meditation must be our last thought that we take into
the other world so that spiritual beings can connect themselves with
their force so that we can receive new forces and fresh health from
thoughts that stream out create oscillations that repel spiritual
get caught up in the worries, desires and passions that filled us the
forces that flowed into us will also go out of our eyes and hands and

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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it is in this field in such a way that truths have not only to
be searched as in the outer life, but that they have to be
spiritual life, one has to combat them as real powers that face
that this or that is an error of spiritual research, but there
have pointed out not only yesterday but also repeatedly that
spiritual organs by the things that we have discussed sketchily
consciousness what one can experience with such spiritual
superfluous to many people, repeatedly that you cannot compare
spiritual-mental organs. The consciousness is higher than that
sensory-physical area. In what way can we get to errors in the
concrete example. If an eye is faulty, it may be that we see
example. He tells how he always believed to see this or that
eyes deceived him and he believed that a person who approached
that we appropriate by self-development outlined yesterday
what way do we get to such faulty organs? There I have to
stress from the start that that which the spiritual researcher
on the fact that we develop the mental forces which we already
the fact that we take a healthy soul life as starting point and
spiritual organs by the characterised development that delivers
in the soul in a way, and this causes at last that spiritual
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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various knowledge that is not new just in the today's
comprising consideration. Only that which I have said this year
everything that one calls “theosophy” more or less
writing more exactly, you get the impression that this booklet
correspond to a rather thorough knowledge of that which is
try to bring together spiritual science with that which is said
here, I would only like to point out that beside various
incorrect statements the author says that spiritual science
Science, and somebody would deny that what is well proved
straight away, and found the sentence that in the circles of
could assume that few people read such writings. However, the
Seventhly: theosophy, about that he knows half a page only.
interesting also that this pamphlet contains the remark that
loose sheets. For pennies you can form an opinion about that of
wholesale. It is typical also that the author of this pamphlet
Now, from this outer example it arises that there, indeed, in
that there is little will to get really to the prime concern of
spiritual science. Nevertheless, one may assume that that who
wants to judge an object knows this really. It is obvious that
about it one cannot demand that they deal with it; however,
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag (Notizen), Stuttgart, 23. November 1913
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Verständnis ihres Sohnes durchgerungen hatte. Es war mit ihr eine gewaltige
Veränderung vorgegangen. In sie hatte sich hereingesenkt
Schmerz, den er erfahren hatte. Was er sprach, war wie
niemand ihn hatte verstehen
Herabstieg stattgefunden hatte.
Er sprach davon, wie er hatte erkennen
und Wohlwollen verwandelt hatte. Wie
Menschheitsentwickelung mitgemacht hatte. Was ich jetzt
bestimmten Kräfte hat und
dessen Besitz ihm kurz vorher erst aufgeblitzt war. Er hatte
was er durch die Erlebnisse des Zarathustra hatte hereinsenken
menschlichen Leibe, das hatte bis
bezug auf geistige Dinge, hat die Menschheit

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 8
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has been expressed for me to expound somewhat further upon curative
and it is hardly necessary to go beyond what was given at that time.
eurythmy took shape out of something purely artistic, out of what was
transforming in a certain direction what takes place in the human organism
of visible speech. We must recognize that two components work together
lies further inward. What is related to the mental image plays in here.
extends itself, to be sure in a somewhat complicated way, even into
The two encounter each other in such a way that the metabolic system
is transformed first into the circulatory processes; and that which
it is possible for the human astral organism to stream into what is
of the human organism, we see that speech comes into being through an
embodiment on the one hand of what has to do with mental picturing and
of the soul, is actually the will-nature. Thus we have what finds its
system, that is, to the extent in which the nervous system has a part
Thus, what is of a volitional nature and finds its bodily expression
in the metabolic system, and that which is of the nature of mental
representation which finds its expression in what I would like to call
a section or stratum of the nerve-sensory system, conjoin to form what
results. They then find physical expression in what manifests as ordinary
nonetheless similar. In eurythmy one blocks out what is of the nature of
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture V
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What
something that is supposed to add to a comprehension of this
a general foundation, and tomorrow I shall go into a few things that
must be pointed out that all the concepts used in other areas of life
which one is accustomed in ordinary life. The reason is simply that
forms of art. Hence, Goethe said that music is entirely form and
substance and requires no other content save that within its own
does not have a subject that exists in the outer physical world such
intellectualism wishes to tackle everything, there is a feeling that
the strange fact that nowhere in the well-meant instruction of music
about the musical element. It is widely admitted that there is a tone
avoid the ordinary concepts that otherwise we use to grasp our world.
the best way to approach what we wish to arrive at in these lectures
specific way in relation to the musical element. One can say that our
one such feeling it already has, the other not yet. The feeling that
something new. The other feeling that will come about but as yet does
experience the difference that exists in comparison to feelings for
the prime; it merges with the prime. In any case, the difference that
that will be developed in time; in the future the feeling for the
octave appears in a musical composition, man will have a feeling that
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VI
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further at the next opportunity, I wish to emphasize again that
teachers in school what they need as background for their
I spoke on the one hand of the role that the interval of the fifth
description that music progressing in fifths is still connected with
tones above c — and consider that it is possible for the fifth
What
means that within the experience of the fifth, man with his “I”
therefore can say that in the case of the experience of the third the
expression referring to vision for an experience that has to do with
experiences with the fourth is based on feeling that man himself is
fifth that still existed, let us say, four to five hundred years
before our era. At that time the human being truly felt in the
felt that the fifth, which he himself had produced, took its course
of the fourth, much later on, was such that during this experience
man believed that he lived and wove in something etheric. With the
holy wind that had placed him into the physical world. Based on what
they said, it is possible that Ambrose and Augustine still felt this.
thus have pointed out at the same time what the musical experience
to give an idea of what song itself was like in the age when the
time a speaking of the spiritual world. One was conscious that if one
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VII: The Uttering of Syllables and the Speaking of Words
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which to speak, in that art is conveyed through immediate sensation
that is reached both through knowledge and through a whole style of
education and teaching-practice. Certainly all the lectures that
bearer of our ideal of knowledge, so that some possibility may once
show how art is the way to gain a true knowledge of man, in that
art, it may be said that it is an intrusion when we want to speak
artistically about art. To speak about art is to lead what is
grasped in its widest sense, in which it does not only embrace what
world-history. It is truly out of a cosmic awareness that Homer
not sing: Homer is conscious that he must raise his soul to the
superhuman, the super-sensible; that he must place his words as a
hear how Klopstock begins his Messiah with words that are
that we may become aware of external beings and occurrences in
say that the poet is in a curious position. The poet has to make
back to the region that he
from syllable to word. He feels that through rhyme, through the
entire configuration of the verse, he must again make good what is
lost when the word abandons the concrete quantities and weight that
remarkable comments on what I have just attempted to
That is thy sacrificial gift, O
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VIII: The Interaction of Breathing and Blood-Circulation
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genesis of poetry – in man’s inner nature. For what
brings forth from himself again what the aesthetic activity of the
poetry it is not thought as such – that is shaped by the
and then release to the cosmos once more what was briefly within
two is generated that inner harmony
out the metre and the syllable-quantities. It is not that the
certain ratio to one another, essentially similar to that between
comes before us, in what is perhaps the most congenial and readily
when he creates poetry out of what he is at every moment of his
pulsation of the blood is our criterion, so that the blood engraves
wrote at that time: it is entirely declamatory. Then he comes
grows absorbed in his own way in what he terms Greek art (it was
over into recitation, which stems from the breathing, here that
inwardly more Nordic, that Germanic disposition of feeling comes to
adopt an outward artistic form that works through quantities and
Seh ich flüchtige Schatten, befreit von der
Whose starrie wheeles he hath so made to
As that their movings doe a musick frame,
(As idle Morpheus some sicke braines hath
Or by what meanes were they
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture IX: The Alliteration and Terminal Rhyme
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something that might be couched in more learned terms –
artistic will grasp what I mean.
in his will. It is true that we speak of the Fall of Man as a
Fall in such a way that, to the extent that he became man forsaken
by God, man lost that divinely inwoven strength in the interweaving
of his words. We refer to the Fall of Man because we feel that
there is something in our present thoughts that was not there for
the humanity of primordial times. At that period there was still to
that God was thinking in him. With the attainment of human
independence, especially in its preparatory stages, came about what
experience of exaltation, he felt that this was simultaneously a
that primaeval period of innocence. This takes us right into the
speech. We might say that alliteration and terminal rhyme are
state of innocence that we have in alliteration; and that they
case that art and poetry take to themselves all-embracingly
whatever is universally human. This is why it is so congenial to
always conscious of the fact that it was an attempt to raise a
impertinent to say so, we shall not find what is wanted along the
to handle it. What emerges with particular force in this poem is
just how much of that primaeval strength Wilhelm Jordan could wrest
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Title: Lecture I: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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men woke they felt that something was still remaining over from sleep,
like an “after-taste.” They felt that they were received
include both past and present we do not feel that we have a real
way that consciousness has been alive within him. The whole nature and
what lives within our willing. We have an idea that we are going to do
this or that, but in this there is as yet no willing — only the
intentions. All that lies between — how our intentions transfer
If we really manage to observe what happens, we must say that we are
is just like the experience of waking in the morning and noticing that
what has been going on within us, of which we have been quite
things closely we shall see that the course of our dreaming, with its
marvelous dramatic quality that is so often typical of dreams, bears
they are in our dreams.; with this difference, that the basis of a
We must, however, realize that what we are now describing as the basic
Christian centuries, unless you realize that the inner activity of men
in those days was quite different from what lives within our souls
We simply cannot understand what they were driving at if our modern
capable of giving him any satisfaction. A man can think, and that is
that is the only means by which he can draw on his inner powers and
The fact is that he loses his own self in this modern thought. He does
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Title: Lecture II: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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that their soul-life was separated from external Nature. Moreover they
well. But they came gradually to feel that the spirit had withdrawn
from Nature, that they had been cast out of the spiritual world and
belong. This mood expressed itself through the feeling that there had
influence on it is the negative gravity that draws him away.
find that the whole spiritual and social guidance of human life in a
evolution of human consciousness. It would be true to say that in
olden times men were quite different beings from what they are today,
from what we know today; this living in themselves was at the same
at least in those that followed them, one can observe spiritually how
To demand that one should believe in the spirit would have been absurd
inwardly that he was spirit born of spirit, when he looked outward to
modern sense — they saw that their body was formed out of the
men of that earlier time. Without reflection they experienced a great
that does not reveal the spirit. My body is made up out of the same
that mankind develops.
they found Nature de-spiritualized, when they feel that they are an
feeling that there had been a Fall of man. This idea arose from a
change that had come about in human consciousness. Men felt that they
had been thrust out of a spiritual world and that the reason for this
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Title: Lecture III: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
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that part of reality which is shackled within the laws of
he finally realizes that a different world — the moral
in moral form what had previously come to him naturally. The Mystery
You will have been able to realize from the lecture yesterday that a
of earlier times, has to some extent been lost. I told you that the
pictures, did not then exist in the same form, and that in its place
essential point about these older conditions of soul was that they
consciousness there is only a shadowy image left of that older state
of consciousness — a shadowy image that is noticed by very few
— we find that all sorts of experiences drawn from earthly
remarkable fact that in essence practically everything which crops up
perhaps have a dream about something that happened to you twenty-five
somewhat altered in detail. But if you study it closely you will
call Edward, and you will find that you have somewhere heard the name
during the last three days. The reason is that we bear within
in direct connection with our consciousness. What we have experienced
in the course of three days — that is, when at least three days
The reason is that all we perceive or think, which is taken up into
two to four days, so that we have to sleep two or three times on
that it may be a permanent memory. Thus in man there is a perpetual
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Title: The Three Fundamental Forces in Education: Lecture
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development of the physical and of the etheric body, and that
the change of teeth and in that change which in the male
appears in a more diffused form, so that it is not merely
know that between the change of teeth and the change of voice,
or puberty, lies that period of teaching with which we have
us call to mind what the change of teeth signifies. Before the
change of teeth — that is, between birth and the change
system, that is, from above downward. Up to about the seventh
forces that are particularly active in these years
— that is, in the years when imitation plays so important
a role. And what takes place in the formative process in the
etheric body. That which here radiates from the head into the
into the tips of his fingers and toes — this that
physical body: the same soul-activity that is later active in
appears in such a form that after the change of teeth the child
begins to think, and that his memories become more conscious.
The whole change that takes place in the soul-life of the child
shows that certain psychic powers previously active in the
through into the next incarnation. Now that which is
that shoot downward from the head are checked. Thus, at this
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time.
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sense indicates that which the mystics of all ages meant when they
for when we consider the connection between that wonderful
rise before us when we consider Egyptian civilization and that of our
mean the civilization that had its seat in the north-east of Africa,
terminated in the eighth century before Christ. We know that this
powerful state of Rome. We also know that in this age occurred the
First the Egyptian age with all that belonged to it — and a great
It will be shown that there was an interplay of mysterious forces
one. Much of that which buds in our souls today, much of that which
You know that wires connecting the different apparatuses extend from
things you understand that the force which sets the apparatus in
wires. You perhaps also know that there is a connection down in the
earth, that the ends of the wires are connected with the earth; but
means of history and of occultism we can trace out that which took
these are guided by a kind of connection that takes place above the
Pyramids, for example, and also the Sphinx — that wonderful and
and admire what we know from history of this wonderful land; we see
is indeed more than a mere outer dress. What do we feel with regard to
belonging to the Roman Republic that one feels as if the ideal forms
before us as men of flesh and blood. What we are made to see is their
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom. Temple sleep. Isis and the Madonna. Past stages of Evolution. The bestowing of the Ego. Future Powers.
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world and life. I mean what is called “temple-sleep.”
The unique fact lying at the foundation of temple-sleep is that among
Anthroposophical movement to direct humanity once more to that
healing will be brought again into close connection. This recalls what
was said in the last lecture. It recalls that ancient figure of which
earliest ages of antiquity that shows how Isis was particularly
was so intensified that the patient became capable of having not
Let us suppose that an invalid was put into a temple-sleep. The priest
the etheric visions and beings in such a way that there actually
guided this dream-life in such a way that powerful forces were
In the uplifting of the self to what was spiritual there was, in
the spiritual world, so that he may again enter those worlds from
which he has descended. It is true that in future people will not be
more subtle facts that confront them. Those who look more deeply know
upon what profound inner conditions a case of healing may depend. Let
us suppose for example that a certain illness befalls a person and
that it has an inner cause, not a fractured thigh-bone or a disordered
Anyone wishing to go deeply into this will very soon find that in the
thinking healed the man. Let us look at this more closely: that
in them. It might happen that it was quite impossible to cure the
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
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gather together many things that will furnish us with some kind of
foundation. At the same time we must remember that if we only use our
external senses and the intellect that is bound up with these, we
and in a still higher degree to the Universe. We must realize that the
greater part of what is most essential is hidden from the outer
that surround us, but which are hidden from view. Much will have to be
that in the various ages of the Post-Atlantean epoch man has repeated
in knowledge and in religious consciousness all that the earth has
beings of the other kingdoms of the earth we must be fully aware that
physical world we have to allow that of all earthly beings man alone
acknowledge that whereas every human being has its individual
not every animal has an “ I ,” but that certain groups of
world. In order that you may form an idea of such a group-ego imagine
that there is a partition before me, and in this partition ten holes.
fingers but not myself, and without much deep thought you say that
be causing the movement; in other words you think of a being that
these egos in their reality. It must be clearly understood that we do
You may now ask what do the group-egos of animals look like? The
clairvoyant somewhat as follows: Along the spine of the animal he sees
what resembles a brightly shining line. As a matter of fact our
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture IV: The Outer Manifestations of Spiritual Beings in the Elements. Their connection with Man. Cosmic partitions. The Myth of Osiris.
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supplement the different Kingdoms of nature that surround us in the
physical world. We learnt that minerals and plants have an ego as well
plenitude of realities besides those that our physical eyes can see
and that can be comprehended by means of our physical intellect. We
learnt, further, that high Spiritual Beings take part in man's
evolution on earth; and that as regards individual men a yet higher
Spiritual Science maintains that each separate human being is complete
between birth and death; but we know that the essential inner being of
man has passed through many incarnations, and that in his present
lastly, how that which goes beyond the limits of a community of people
— that which finds expression in the “Spirit of the
world, and we must realize that three more kingdoms have to be added
see it is made up of what we call earth, water, air, and fire. These
are the four primary conditions of external matter. That to which
gas, “air”; everything that can be perceived as having any
the world with clairvoyant vision that which is known as the fluidic
substance, in spite of the fact that no solid form endures in this
Further, in that which we know as “air,” and particularly in
the bodily manifestation of this Spiritual Kingdom. (When I said that
Angelic Beings dwelt in water it is preferably that form of water
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of the substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynami's, and Exusiai. Jehovah and the Elohim, and their co-operative activity in the stages of human Development.
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In earlier lectures we have seen that the conditions of our earth have
gradually developed out of the cosmos; that in a far distant past the
sun, and that at a certain period this body separated off from the
Now, I have already stated that the Beings who at first sent their own
moon-deity; he is that deity who in the Biblical records is called
that not only man goes through development, but that all the Beings in
What was said just now regarding the Elohim and Jehovah applies to the
that planets, such as Venus and Mercury, owe their existence to the
circumstance that Beings have remained behind, between man on the one
Moon-God a duality arose, and we shall best understand what entered
evolution at this point if we consider what the evolution of man had
Once more we will remind ourselves that the earth passed through an
incarnation, that of Saturn, when conditions were primeval; then,
incarnation, then the Moon incarnation, and lastly that of our Earth.
etheric, and astral bodies is at the animal stage; and only that Being
existence on earth. Now it is only a rough way of speaking to say that
easily be supposed that as the human ego is the highest, that which
ancient Saturn, but you must not imagine that this body looked then
skeleton, that firmly constituted part described as “solid”;
warmth as pulses in your blood, you will have what was present on
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VI: The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence. Participation of the, Luciferic beings. The formation of race.
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It belongs to the very nature of our theme that these lectures should
proceed in a particular way, that we should approach our goal, as it
were, in circles; that starting from the circumference we should draw
ever smaller circles to reach that which we desire. Hence it may seem
In our last lecture we reached a point where we found that the Spirits
matter is contained in the fact that these Spirits of Form worked in
high stage of development that they could no longer make use of the
What do we mean when we say: “The Spirits of Form are the special
then a different field of activity to what they have on the earth.
the Spirits of Form, of whom Jehovah is one, were active even at that
astral body within himself could the Spirits of Form give him what we
The conditions that were present on the Moon, Sun, and Saturn were
our own. It was only about the middle of the Atlantean epoch that man
that can hardly be distinguished from the surrounding water. At that
the lower principles of man was very different to what it is now.
We know when man is asleep today that his physical and etheric body
The consequence of this was that when the astral body withdrew it
physical vehicle had been left behind, was that during the night man
At that time when outside his physical body he could perceive
turned away from the physical world, that in its place a world
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms -- the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt -- a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
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changes that were fitting. It was also shown that it was only in the
middle of the Atlantean epoch that the true human form appeared. In
here among Anthroposophists you may have observed that we endeavour to
At that time humanity had a body much softer and more plastic than it
at that time to entertain an evil thought and keep it hidden, for the
this or that thought, or to this or that passion. What really are all
such expressions? What are the physiognomical expressions of passions
tapestry. Everything that moves within the human astral body today,
and remains hidden, was such a strong force at that time that it
fire-mist) the shape which was the expression of that passion. A large
so entangled in their passions that they became hardened in these
passed through that which I now see in lions and snakes; I lived in
inner centre, found a certain balance, so that they have within them
nature only, and take on no external form. This is what man's higher
not the same form as that in which they appeared in past ages, for
millions of years have passed away since then. Let us suppose that
passions such as are now found in lions were made manifest at that
time in man's outward form, giving him the semblance of a lion, that
this form then hardened, and the genus lion originated. Since that
same form as at that time. The present lion is the descendant of a
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
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way to form a clear idea of what in Spiritual or Occult Science is
You will have already gathered from what has been said that in
say world-bodies) that have been brought before you as the different
to the needs of the spiritual beings that live on them.
world we should nowhere find anything that is material alone,
the minerals of the earth have their ego in that which surrounds us in
enlarged. We look up to some heavenly body and we know that it is but
beings, moreover we know that earthly affairs are regulated by higher
Archangels, and Archai; we also know that there are other beings
might rise in the mind of anyone: To what extent may one of the
To help us, let us consider the beings that visibly confront us in the
the same form as upon earth, but we do discover that each planet, each
ancient Saturn. It is easy to make the mistake that these were men
like ourselves, but we must bear in mind that on the ancient Moon
so that its forces were held in balance between the two. At the time
possible for part of that which was embodied in it to rise to a higher
existence at the cost of that other part which it sent forth as the
that things which for a time have progressed side by side separate;
lower state. In order that certain beings might develop high enough
realize that a world-being like our sun has developed occultly from a
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The progress of man. His conquest of the physical plane in the post-Atlantean civilizations. The beginning and up-building of the 'I am.' The chosen people.
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stands by investigating his origin. We have seen that in the course of
We know that previous to the middle of the Atlantean epoch the
conditions of the consciousness of man were quite different to what
We will now deal further with the fact that these beings (who also
companionship with man, but will only remind ourselves that at that
time man had a conviction, based on direct experience, that above the
— that of the Angels and of the Archangels; and that he learned
around him he at the same time gained that form of self-consciousness
We must conceive of everything in the world as graded; that just as
understand clearly that at the time when man rose at night through dim
that we must think of man in that ancient period as being in such a
condition that when he withdrew from his physical and etheric bodies
case today, only man is not aware of it, whereas at that time he was,
other lectures that sleep is by no means unnecessary for man; it serves
these bodies, and what we feel as fatigue is nothing more than the
expression of the fact that indirectly through the astral body all
the Spiritual Beings that then surround us, and from whom we are
appearance above. One might even say that the Gods profit by
understand his true position. We have said that the earth is the
planet of love, that love will be first rightly developed upon the
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture X: The reflection in the fourth epoch of mans experiences with the ancient Gods and their way of the Cross. The Christ-Mystery.
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In the last lecture we learnt that man had gradually conquered the
to understand that the physical world into which he had entered is the
that when the Greeks and Romans were the leading peoples in human
We must not think that such processes did not have corresponding
sleep. We saw that in the Atlantean epoch he perceived only blurred
outlines when awake, but that divine spiritual beings appeared before
In order that we may understand the entire human being we must take
connected with what we call death and what lies beyond death; we shall
then see that the ordinary life we observe between birth and death has
world between death and rebirth. Though some people believe that
changes only occur in the physical world, and that between death and
various ways to all that surrounds him.
upon that which surrounds him. If no other kingdom surrounded us, no
self-consciousness, is immersed during the day in the world that
which pass through him. We might say that up to the time of birth he
air; so that he is by no means enclosed within his skin, his being
on leaving his body he rises into higher kingdoms, into that of the
beings of whom we said that they had passed through their human stage
When a man died at that time he had the feeling that only when he
actually the case that the farther he left death behind him the higher
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Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The reversing of Egyptian remembrance into material forms by way of Arabism. The harmonizing of Egyptian remembrance. The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
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that the initiation wisdom of ancient Egypt was a kind of remembrance
participated. Then, coming to the fourth age, that in which the true
of Greece, we showed it to be a reflection of what man experienced
remained that could be reflected in our age — the fifth —
You may recall how it was stated that the confinement of the people of
the present day to their own immediate surroundings, that is, to the
materialistic belief that reality is only to be found between life and
They tried at that time to preserve the physical form of man, and this
All that the human soul experienced when it looked down from spiritual
bound it to the flesh. The result has been that countless souls who
This was firmly implanted in souls at that time. Things that take
that follow.
Suppose that we represent here the seven consecutive cultural periods
We have only to consider this age exoterically to see that in it the
human conception; in it we see the thought embodied that man is still
animal-like below and only attains to what is human in the etheric
What confronts us on the physical plane is ennobled in the fourth age
the Sun-Spirits was possible. Assuming that we are at the standpoint
understanding what was to come to earth through the Christ; but an
say: That spiritual form which was preserved in men's minds as Osiris
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture I
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introductory remarks to what I am going to lay before you in
the coming days. My reason for doing this is that you may
Course’. It is not meant to be that. But it will deal
with something that I feel is especially important for us to
explain what I actually intend with the giving of this
that in a comparatively short time much will have to be
changed within what we call the sphere of science, if it is
holds so firmly to such traditional classification that it is
on this basis that candidates are chosen to occupy the
field of science, things that today are dealt with in Zoology
them to find an approach to what they will urgently need in
been formed, almost, I might say, so that the various
essential. Therefore, what we term Spiritual Science, which
the world today, my dear friends, in a way that is really
world that becomes more and more abstract, less and less
connections with Astronomy, that is, with a true knowledge of
taken into account in other branches of science too, so that
thought to the field of Astronomy, that astronomical
today facts are referred to, which lie somewhat remote from
is usual to say: “That is stated, but no proved.”
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture II
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are widely separated. I sought to show that the science of
that Astronomy must be linked with Embryology. It is
that there must come about a regrouping of the sciences, for
lectures, that we can only understand the successive stages
If, however, one only accepts what is fashionable nowadays,
anything like what I said yesterday. For the evolution of our
time has brought it about that astronomical facts are only
embryological facts are recorded in such a way that in
considering where lies the origin of what, in embryonic
phenomena so entirely apart from man that they are tending
believed that natural phenomena only reveal their true
understanding of Nature through research that is completely
are proud that the apparently ‘objective’ facts
have shown that man is only a grain of dust upon an Earth
Sun in space. They are proud that one need pay no attention
Earth, — that one need only pay attention to what is
must pursue in these lectures. What you will find as proof
From what
today and how all that went before was childish — the
‘Calendar-Science’. Much that appears to us today
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture III
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angles. Only quite unadvanced thinkers still maintain that
yet emphasize that it represents only a certain mode of
understanding, and that quite other syntheses might be
even those who say, somewhat as Ernst Mach used to say: In
this that the problematical nature of the celestial charts,
that goes on in Man, in order to find the way to what is
shall find that we are being led through Astronomy itself
into the views of Spiritual Science. Bear in mind that the
as it were, arrests with his senses whatever approaches him,
not come to a standstill before our senses. All that goes on
consciousness, all that lives in the celestial influences
that stream towards us from all sides, must be sought for
continue in a certain direction what we began yesterday. Only
that forces are there in the Earth by virtue of which it
brings forth the minerals; yet is is equally true that all
that is living in plants, animals and physical human beings
totality when we do not simply cast aside what lives in
The living beings and entities that grow up out of the Earth
Of all that
transition to what meets us in man. Whereas the mineral
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IV
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linked on to relatively few observations. That is the one
thing, namely, that a start is made from observations out of
which certain ideas have been developed. The other is that,
mode of thought of modern Science there prevails what might
philosophandi’. It consists in saying: What has been
that breathing must have the same causes in man as in the
animal, or again, that the ignition of a piece of wood must
for example, that if a candle and the Sun are both of them
further thought that if this were not so, we should have no
guarantee that the causes of the shining of a candle and of
the shining of the Sun are one and the same? Or that in the
What I am now
fact. There is a continuous line of development from what the
his third Law, quoted yesterday — it must be said that
bear when, from the little that lay before him, he discovered
what is given. The development in this direction reaches a
Heavens”. In all that has followed in this trend we see
the thought pictures that have thus been conceived of the
noted that in the historical development of these theories we
abstraction from reality; to what extent it related to the
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture V
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that in the study of celestial phenomena, in so far as these
mathematical analysis; we can only admit that analysis and
significant conclusion that in reflecting on what we see,
imagine that we can do so by thinking of the Sun as moving in
such a way that its movement can be represented by a definite
geometry line, or that the Moon's movement can be so
the in the further course of these lectures, what must be put
into the positive, for it is most important that we clear our
hand, we saw yesterday that what confronts us in Embryology
point where we must recognize that the world is different
from what this process of cognition might at first have led
see that there must be something which preceeds the
of biogenetic law, which states, as you know, that the
that it was only necessary to take into account the forces
directly present in what takes place in the embryo itself.
Now the mechanical needs to be grasped in a way that is at
what goes before this has to be taken fro granted. We must
admit that we find something in the realm of reality, the
what we observe in terms of diagrams, formulas and
excluding man altogether from the picture. We shall see that
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VI
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You will have seen, from what has been
said so far, that in the explanation of natural phenomena we
mathematical domain. That we do not dispute the justification
to show that what is looked for nowadays merely by gazing
be put on a far wider basis, so that not only a part but the
should be assuming that what goes on in the Universe beyond
what was going on within civilized mankind.
Scholasticism. During that age, deeply significant
one goes into them deeply enough, one feels that these
recall what then became a fundamental question in human
again, what it betokened in the spiritual development of
Europe that attempts were made to prove the existence of God.
Think what it means in the whole evolution of human
used in a rather different sense than today) declared that
concepts, — that in these concepts man in his inner
life takes hold of something real, — that they
thoroughgoing Realist. The Nominalists, he said, assert that
that the so-called ‘ontological’ proof of God's
thing, you do not want to prove it. But at that time
what a deep stirring and rumbling was going on in human
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VII
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to translate what is really qualitative into quantitative
for instance under what conditions, if two sound-waves are
heard before the other. All that is necessary is the trifling
detail that we ourselves should be moving with a velocity
greater than that of sound. But anyone who thinks in keeping
cannot but do so. There is no sense whatever in formulating
again and again. The harm that is done by the wrong kinds of
should then be prepared, really to see what the phenomenal
this and from what was given yesterday, I must again
will see that they too are necessary for the building of a
true World-picture. I shall again refer to what was said
of what comes into being when we assimilate the
concepts: That of the sense-perception pure and simple, and
important to see without prejudice, what is the real
life by day, or all that is present in the field of our
consciousness in that we open our senses to the outer world
dream-life; the only thing that is added to it is the content
helps us realize that man's life of ideation — his
more, it is truer to the facts to say that through the eye, for
such. (Remember always that I am thinking of these processes
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture VIII
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in that we shall need these days too. Now I am also well
connection with this subject. Please prepare whatever
heretofore, bringing in what I would call the subtler aspects
on Earth. To begin with, we pointed out that as a rule the
Astronomy of our time only takes into account what is
idea of what the ‘real’ movements might be like.
of cognition used; first, what our senses when looking out
pointed out that this procedure can never lead to the
the reason that the mathematical method itself is
that we must adopt a different method. We have to take our
start not only from what man observes when he looks out into
said, will give us indications of what the real movements in
through the Ice-Ages. We saw that the special kind of
been developing in human nature what in the man of today is
dream-life. It is through sense-perception that our mental
the supposition, to help explain what is meant.)
What must it
will at any rate that we direct the vision of our eyes, and
that time, as we have seen, the power of ideation — the
dependent on all that was going on around him. Today we see
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture IX
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what is real.
relationship to it, all that we observe in the phenomena of
still have to establish in what way he is this image. If this
is what he is, we must first of all gain a clear
must know what a foreshortening means, and so on, in order to
to relate the picture to what it represents in reality, so,
today to bring before your souls what I might call
It may appear somewhat forced to keep
the heavens. But after all it is obvious that however
permeated with mathematical thoughts. What Astronomy
gain no true relationship to what Astronomy can say to us.
that to which we were led through the ratios of the periods
know what I am about to describe, I only want to elucidate
two foci A and B, and you know that it is a definition of the
ellipse that for any point M of the curve, the sum
It is characteristic of the ellipse, that the sum of the
You know that it has two branches. It is defined in that the
now ask: What is the curve of constant product?
that the two distances AM and BM multiplied together should
calculate the ordinates for each point that fulfills these
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture X
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processes of the head, the nervous system, or whatever you
try to explain these movements solely out of what can be
Earth's magnetism, that is, with the line of direction
that have been collected towards an explanation, into the
of the picture. This method encloses the phenomena, whatever
while the celestial phenomena are restricted to what is
Remember what
I drew your attention to the fact that the principle of
of the skull from that of the vertebrae. These investigations
such a way that the form which was inside and has now been
his head, and what works within, tending from within toward
factors, — that which works outward from an unknown
interior, as we will call it for the moment, and that which
works inward from without. The latter corresponds to all that
This line is in a way the place of origin of what works outward,
If you now think of what envelops the human skull, you have
what corresponds to the central line of the tubular bone. But
coincides, in fact, with that of the Earth's radius and
compare your feeling of self — that feeling of self
which is really based on the fact that in normal life you can
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XI
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head and that of the metabolic system including the limbs. As
assign the metabolic system to what is earthly, — what
the forming of the head to all that derives from the great
Sphere, — that sends its lines of influence, as it were
this difference, we must relate it, to begin with, to what
consciousness of our time departs from what the naive human
it to be generally realised that this World-picture does not
represent absolute reality. We can no longer maintain: What
true form of the underlying reality, while what the eye
still have a feeling that he at least gets nearer to a true
what the head-man ascertains, so to speak. We base it on the
have recourse to all that is knowable by man, of man. We
whatever can be known of man.
presuppose what we arrived at in former lectures — the
take our start from what meets the eye — from what is
ask, dear friends: What does the eye behold, what do we learn
in the picture with what is given by the whole structure of
as fixed stars. I shall no doubt be repeating what is
What then do
find that it no longer presents the same uniform picture, but
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XII
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today by pointing out that our studies hitherto have led us
contemplated, and in so doing we have divined that the
formation of man is in some way related to what finds
showed that wheresoever we may look in the human body, we
ribs and the adjoining vertebrae. True as it is then that in
less. We simply have to imagine that where the ribs are (the
drawing indicated those that are joined in front via the
attachment of the lower limbs to the pelvis. In all that
of it must be so imagined that in the one half
Further we must imagine that from this
purely and simply what is made manifest in the forming of
it not interesting that Mercury and Venus make their loops
their loop occurs when what the Sun is for man — so to
Jupiter and Mars to that in man which is little influenced by
way be related to what is brought about, amid the formative
principles of man, by the Sun — or by what underlies
to expression something that bears directly, not indirectly,
this line of thought and bear in mind that there is the
the form that comes to manifestation in these movements, and
must be when they are forming their loops, that is to say,
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIII
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Sun as centre. He then assumes that the sphere of the fixed
immense that the circumference of the circle, described by
before the Christian era. We must therefore assume that among
and spiritual life in a certain region at that time,
remarkable that in the prevailing consciousness of men who
and was supplanted by that of Ptolemy? Till, with the rise of
(For you will readily believe that
what held good for Aristarchus, held good for many people of
and it is true to say that among those who were the
moreover described in such terms that we can scarcely
distinguish it from that of our own time.
all essentials we may aver that the Ptolemaic system held
good for the Fourth post-Atlantean Epoch and for that alone.
What is the
that Ptolemy and his followers go back again to the idea of
he lets the planet move, so that the true path of the
circling movements so as to understand the fact that the
ancients were not far behind us. That they assumed this queer
Of course the Copernican system is simpler, — that will
other? What is the real difference between these ways of
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIV
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point to something that will naturally follow on the more
that in the last resort both the Ptolemaic system and that
way or another, what is observed. The Ptolemaic system and
mathematical or kindred figures what has in fact been
that in the scientific life and practice of our time what is
observed, what is perceivable, is taken far to easily, too
other things I have tried to show that the movements of
co-ordinated with what is formed in the living human body,
plant body, are so formed that if we recognise the
What is it due to? How does it come about? What prospect is
that underlies the Copernican world-system of today.
What are we
out a world-system? What do we do in the first place? We
be thus cautious in relating what you see in the outer world.
a drum with an aperture, and make the drum rotate so that I
follow that what appears to be a movement is really a
contemporaries: I look at three successive positions of what
I call a heavenly body, and assume what underlies them to be
the underlying hypothesis that it is always the same Moon.
(That may be right without question, with such a
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XV
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deal with some of the things that may be causing you
difficulty in understanding what we have done hitherto. I
forming of man and what appears in the celestial phenomena.
seen. For a true Science we must accept that there is this
of thinking, the phenomena themselves are such that we find
therefore take for granted that we shall ever be able to
Geometry, that is to say, within a rigid three-dimensional
We can and we should try to take seriously that 'memberment'
that belongs to it. The metabolic system too, and all that
you turn a glove inside-out, provided only that the
oriented inward towards the radial quality that runs right
have "flipped" it, so that the inner side opens outside, in
What
word. In that we go from one pole to the other, we must adopt
impossible to gain a just or adequate notion of what the
to what constitutes the middle, in a certain sense, — the
middle member of man's organization. This will be all that
Suppose then we begin with such an organ and seek what
only take this as a picture) — if you call to mind that the
what must be needful also when we wish to comprehend the
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVI
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What we are
movement — what may perhaps be described as their
errors that are made in scientific life consist in this: they
acquire a feeling of the fact that you ought not to try and
answer are not yet achieved. I know that many people (present
tangible answers. What they are asking is in effect to be
of the ideas and concepts they already have. What if the real
existing ideas and concepts? In that case, theoretic talk
we have gained so far have shown that we must make careful
diverse are the forms of curves that arise in man himself
through the forces that build and form him. We ascertained
have to pass from what we thus discover in our own human
frame, to what is there outside in Universal Space, which
a rigid space, but that is mere appearance. As to this
real connection of what goes on in man himself and what goes
question: What relation is there, as to cognition itself,
between those movements that may legitimately be considered
relative and those that may not? We know that amid the
kinds: those that work radially and those which we must think
apprehend that element of movement which takes its course
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVII
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foci, — call it what you will. I should therefore have
that I have been saying, — so for example when you are
figures of rotation. This also underlies what I have just
of our Earth in changes that go on in man himself. We human
to be real. This is the thing that matters.
out that in the processes of human metabolism we have an
That which takes place between the head and the rest of man
direction parallel to the surface of the Earth — that
that of plant growth, that it is not permissible to think of
give to man's vertical direction the opposite sign to that of
similar to that in the plant. Hence, my dear Friends, we only
vertical direction. We must imagine that while man no doubt
This then is what we have. (I say again, I can only indicate
light of empirical phenomena) In what we here see
for in the line that joins the two. Moreover, the line will
What I have
led to realize that Earth and Sun must be thought of as
substantial line of what this means if you recall what was
that work from within outward (fundamentally the same is true
what is going on the Sun's environment as we should see
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Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XVIII
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what I said yesterday about the opposite character of Earth
and Sun, we shall perceive that in answering such questions
right way. We cannot form true ideas of what we see if we do
not recognize from the outset that radical differences may be
called for in the whole way we interpret what is seen in one
case and in another. The phenomena that present themselves to
there are many phenomena the characteristic of which is that
phenomena — or rather, phenomena that seem
as we have to imagine that if we went through and beneath the
shall we have to imagine that if we moved from outside the
truth if we imagine that as we go from the circumference
them all together will be obliged to recognize that this is
conceive that there is negative matter in the inner space of
it yesterday. The movement of Earth and Sun is such that the
perceive and understand what you would otherwise fall short
start from such ideas as these. You must imagine that in the
Matter itself, — that is, earthly matter — is
well conceive that there is also an imaginary [intensity]. You
take the connection of what I have been saying with man
that man is related to earthly matter, we may compare man's
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture I
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What I am going to say
deal with it in such a way that what is of essential value can be useful
believe you will have seen for yourselves that what could be given only
consideration all that arises from the new shaping of the world. So that
actually in everything that must be said on this subject, preeminently
understand them — it must constantly strike us what a gulf there is
between what must be called a declining culture and a culture that may be
attention to the fact that today I am wanting to deal with a special
drawing your attention to something that is clearly noticeable, namely,
whereas we are witnessing the dawn of another culture based on what is
always a matter of detail; I ask you to remember this in what I am saying
symptomatology that it will not be able to work in the way of agitators
We may meet with much misunderstanding in this direction today, but that
I have often asked you to bear in mind that, on the ground of the
world. You know how frequently I have referred to all that can be said in
to point out what a fearful counterpart it has. Quite recently I reminded
you that this can be seen at once when anyone, as a result of what we
a fact fraught with meaning for the present time. It shows that even on
what is pre-eminently necessary for an understanding of the present times
there exists something that is on the ascent, something that must be
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture II
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link up with what I was saying here last Sunday in the manner usually
intended when people speak of continuing a subject. On that occasion I
either the economic life of that of the State. I tried, too, to show how,
instruction have to be applied in a new way, in order to give what must
that one essential in the future will be the training and particularly
really desire to serve their times. At present it is a fact that, if we
will not be what I should like to hold up as a standard or even a
pattern. But what I want to do is to indicate the angle from which we
should speak to teachers so that they may themselves receive the impulse
in those who are teachers. Above all, people must become aware that at
reason is that education has lost its direct connection with life. The
above all of the tremendous benefits that education is to derive from
ideas on education have suffered under something that up to now we have
questions today that cannot find so easy a solution as the following:
Judging from past experience this or that will be possible. Then doubt
not imperative that something should happen if we are to extricate
hold a course of lectures most of which were given on the assumption that
understood — to draw attention to the fact that a college should be
a department of life in general, that whoever wants to speak about
of world history, in what situations are we in life at present in all its
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Title: Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture III
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satisfied in many respects with what I would call superficial
conceptions, conceptions based on what lies on the surface of existence.
by another; but with these views of what is right and wrong we do not get
about what lies on the surface, they do not produce any rational result
aim; when we want to do something for ourselves we should not say that it
In diverse ways there has been an increase in what has existed for many
years, namely, what people here have wished to do has continually been
being said that it is a consequence, an outcome, of what was wished from
know that this is realised as something meant to run through my whole
lecture. Just look at what is experienced today by human beings, by small
school, in what goes on there everything is taken into account except the
After that there perhaps come music or singing, perhaps not that but
concentration to be so thoroughly undermined. What we must begin upon
time-table, that arch-enemy of everything to do with genuine education;
the time-table that continues throughout all stages in a school is what
education to health, we have to take care that in future the growing
discover at what age it is necessary to give the growing pupil
not choose that worst of all methods — the giving of three or four
whole period for the pupil, which means that for a certain period of his
knowledge of man that is genuinely psychological, from the educational
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Title: Introductory Words to the First of Four Educational Lectures
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
But the days are so few and, after what I have just been told,
that I can really hardly say whether I shall be able to get
be done that it is almost impossible to speak of any kind of a
Introduction is this: I should like to add more to what I
the Educator. Of course, all that I shall say with regard to
call your attention to the fact that the teachers must really
remind you that we take our stand on the Spiritual Science we
days of journalism, the fact is that people scarcely have a
real, a true feeling for what is meant by
“esoteric,” for people think today what is true is
true and what is right is right, and the true and the right
different. In real life the essential thing is that there are
mind that we are concerned with feelings, the ideas, the will
impulses of the next generation; we must be clear that our
once arises; Why is it then that humanity has reached the
say that when today someone in Central Europe speaks about, e.g.,
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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philosophy I attempt to show that this reproach is entirely unjustified.
erred into false tracks, fails to perceive that the nature of its own
in respect of the human self — that is, self-knowledge — is one
should realize that no external measures, but only a thorough knowledge of
that we should really feel the resistance of the two obstacles which human
in order to realize thereby that we endow them with their true value by
apparent. The belief that true reality is grasped by Natural Science is
also be admitted that an incalculably distant future will reveal the method
ideal of Natural Science. Yet it is essential that we should, in the face
“Boundaries of Natural Science,” that human knowledge would
experience, but we should at the same time feel that the distance between
observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
reach the point of admitting that we do not, in truth, devote ourselves to
experience that we were bound to follow the course of Natural Science, but
that we were disappointed in the expectations raised by our diligent
insight into the natural processes. We then abandon the belief that Natural
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
us concerning our own being, is a sign that we have not sufficiently
advanced in the experiences that are possible within the scope of Natural
belief that actual reality, or something in the nature of unity with the
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
according to what I have just learned there are so many things to be done
during this time, that I am hardly able to say whether we shall get further
What I
would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
the educator. Of course what I shall have to say about the nature of the
— it is of course true that we hardly have a real sense,
a valid sense for what is meant by the esoteric. We believe today that what
is true is true, what is right is right, and that it should be possible to
proclaim what is true and right before the world, once it has been
so: here matters are quite different. The essential point is that you can
that produce them are guarded in the soul as a most sacred, hidden wealth.
sacred, hidden wealth, regarding it as something that plays a role only in
people today, we must always bear in mind that we are working on the
clear that our present work is to prepare this next generation for definite
tasks that will have to be accomplished sometime in the future of mankind.
what is the real cause for mankind having fallen into the widespread misery
manner of thinking and feeling peculiar to western man. We can say that if
Berlin or Vienna, than he is from what is being felt and thought today in
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
development of the physical and the etheric bodies and that of the astral
given here or there — by the change of teeth and by that
the man, but spread more over the entire organism. You know that between
But the years that follow the change of voice (or what corresponds to it in
call to mind what the change of teeth signifies. The change of teeth is the
outer expression for the fact that in the child's organism up to then
— that is, between birth and the second dentition
what happens formatively in the rest of the organism, in the trunk and
organism of trunk and limbs, to the physical and etheric bodies. What
activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
It is the same soul activity that works in the soul later as intelligence
and memory. It is only that later, after the change of teeth, the child's
modification of the child's soul life demonstrates that certain psychic
that appear after the seventh year as forces of intelligence, as
we have an interplay between soul and body that is quite real
is that what streams upward from the body is thrust back, and conversely
struggle between the two sets of forces — those that
those that need to be used especially in drawing, painting and writing. We
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
essential, in life, that man's connections with his environment are
properly if we were to imbibe produce that had already been partly digested
by man. This shows you that the essential thing is that certain things
education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
what we ought to invent out of what we have learnt, when we are actually
kinds of principles and formulated statements, that is roughly the same, in
the human being in this way, what you are then receiving corresponds to
like to call one of them the musical element, the element of sound that we
see. Other sense qualities are intermingled with what we hear on the one
is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's
so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain
motor nerves, that apparently run from the central organ to the organs of
movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that
that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they
are basically the same nerve strands, .and the essential thing is only that
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
then that which we see is essentially the incorporation of the ego.
Considering this incorporation of the ego we can characterise what is
stress has been laid on the fact that that which has hitherto worked in the
at birth, the etheric body round about the seventh year. So what seen from
This is what people who understood something of these matters in bygone
that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
what happens further., In that which is set free —
gradually organising it through and through; which means that there takes
place a mutual permeation of the eternal I and that which is being formed:
fourteenth year, that is up to the time of puberty, we can say from a
certain point of view that an element of will, a musical element is being
described when we say: is being absorbed: for what lies in the outer world
is really the musical element and all that which is being absorbed as
itself with that which is being liberated, so that from birth to puberty,
that is up to the age of about fourteen or more, we are concerned with a
then later, even after puberty, the ego penetrates the astral body. So what
artistic education. What does this mean?
means, for example, that the ego must not enter the physical body, etheric
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Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
frame of mind in which I speak to you today is not that in
in flames. The truth is that, for all those who loved the
might seem to be justified that a movement which directs its
case of the Goetheanum that we have lost the matter is somewhat
the building that what might perfectly well have been true in
question here was not simply, as I have often said, that a
the situation was that Anthroposophy stands upon a spiritual
sort of religious or scientific or artistic movement, but that
the artistic. Thus, it was quite impossible that the purpose
plastic shape, in every colored surface, that which comes from
that of art. For example, the friends who have seen Eurythmy
have received the impression that everything which responded to
every molded form, was something that responded, that spoke
that anyone who had expended his labor on this Dornach building
felt that his own emotions, which he had embodied in this work,
mentioned, we have lost the home that sheltered us, we must all
take the place of that which we have lost. With all possible
that we can do in future in the realm of Anthroposophy there
dear friends, I believe that what was then experienced,
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Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
— everything that has occurred during these days —
of the immediate interest of the meeting. I hope that an
what was to be indicated in these two lectures was the manner
of view for precisely what is to be dealt with here. I spoke
yesterday in that manner in regard to the community-building
in which it is manifest that the Anthroposophical conception of
order to present the counterpart of what I spoke of yesterday,
upon a foundation similar to that of the Anthroposophical
Society. I shall later indicate to some extent that which
wish at first to point out that there have, of course, been
what was possible in the successive epochs of history and also,
fact that a certain moral atmosphere is created in them —
present — which may be described by saying that a true
statement that it strives for brotherliness on the one hand and
on the other for an insight into the spiritual worlds. What is
is that, within these societies based upon brotherliness and
who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
understanding this phenomenon. And what I have to say in these
we go back once more to what I referred to yesterday, we find
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
the powers that intervene in the course of earth
a number of different approaches to show that as human
beings we are part of an ongoing evolution that may be
of time. I have also pointed out that there are certain
powers that have different goals for mankind than the
15th century, very different from anything that went
compare it to the preceding age. We may say that one
particular feature of the present age is that
with the intellect, and we have come to believe that
people have always been thinking like this. That is not
will impulses that can be experienced in the human soul.
that older evolutionary forces persist into later ages
and continue to be present side by side with those that
earlier times in human evolution we find that the further
earth had taken a physical form in the cosmos that
well, but in an entirely different form. During that Moon
form that preceded the present one, the human being, the
etheric. His soul became active in a way that was
peculiar thing about this was that it related to the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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of view, that it is important for us to consider the
edifice that seen in its entirety can show us the
that the human race in its present state of civilization
has by and large descended from the human race that
It has been said on a number of occasions that Atlantis
America that is today covered by the Atlantic Ocean. We
know that under the influence of that disaster — in
— the peoples of that time migrated first in an
they moved on, and that the European and Asian peoples of
peoples of Atlantis. We also know that civilization then
cultural contents that had first been achieved in Asia.
Europe. Thus I would say that the physical basis for
and Asia, descendants of the ancient Atlantean race that
in conventional anthropology and it is not realized that
migrations that proceeded from west to east.
science fully confirms it — that the peoples who
ordinary terms this means that the soil of Europe had a
The difference is that particularly during the earliest
8th, 7th and 6th millennium BC and the millennia that
that.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
the only ones that enter into the realm of feeling for
world to be that the smaller communities of past times
not go far back in human evolution to find that social
times, that large empires have arisen, that the empire of
ideas about these things, ideas that fully relate to
that then, too, people formed certain kinds of
of occasions — for that would cause tremendous
term. Let us say that ‘realms’ arose. Such
today states are taken so much for granted that no one
What is
worse, they are so much taken for granted that people are
this, however, lies something that unites human beings in
back to prehistoric times, times that only partly extend
into historical times, we find that in those prehistoric
— whatever words we use do not really fit those
earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
earthly realm came very close to what people knew to be
highly paradoxical to modern minds, though that is only
consideration of things that existed during the past in
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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of anthroposophy. I am referring to the fact that modern
powers of decline that are clearly in evidence, to powers
that must inevitably take our present civilization to the
have to admit to ourselves that many things are coming up
realization; or in other words that there is a great deal
attention to what is really going on.
reasonable to say that at the present time little effort
and pay genuine attention to the forces that shape our
it a number of times over the years — that has its
movement that has come together because people want to
that are understandable and indeed also justifiable. In
principles that mean progress for the world. Certain
natural inclination for criminal activities that is in
movement that has an effect in cultural life is based on
also know very well what they want. They are the
fountainhead of everything that usually comes under the
what is really going on.
that when it comes to their frame of mind, particularly
are in many, many instances continuing in a way that was
Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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heart, to discuss some of the things that really need to
be discussed. It is possible that most of what I have to
say today is a repetition of things that have been
often stressed that it is necessary for a sufficient
that can only arise if spiritual science reveals the
the 20th century. It has a peculiarity that seems
true causes. The peculiar thing about materialism is that
more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed
by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind
of pump in the human organism that pumps the blood
facts are therefore entirely the opposite of what every
result that it is dinned into people's heads at school
therefore has to be said that materialism has not even
whatsoever under the influence of materialism. The heart
the wrong idea about the nature of the human heart that
serious about it, that being hung up on wrong ideas would
dinned into us and we have become used to thinking that
things are the opposite of what they really are. That is
some things that are important to know are a closed book
doing so, people never consider one thing that is
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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made that when any work is undertaken or any proposal
been in accord with that basic theme. It should also help
want above all to refer to something that can help us to
spiritual-scientific movement that has anthroposophy for
now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a
come to the realization that the search for truth is a
realize that when we gain insight this is no mere theory,
centuries. Basically it has entered into all areas that
journals where people are informed as to what is
‘true’; it is present in everything that is
religious confessions must of course attack anything that
is new; they must fight intensely against anything that
interpretation. If we wish to share in the work that
know what materialistic anatomy, materialistic
the present time to give full consideration to what
no reason at all to despise the things that materialism
modern life, a life that in the first instance is a
feeling, the very feeling that many people of the present
have. This is the feeling that everything immediately
real and that we should not look for reality in that
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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between what I have said before and what I wish to add
today. I have explained that the road to spiritual
One fact is that it is impossible to imagine that matter,
the basis of many different things that can be learned
the laws pertaining to it in that outer nature.
and that they want to follow the inner mystical path to a
mysticism shows that in their view, too, Physical matter
things right essentially means that we must no longer
very clear in our minds that however far we extend our
understood that all that exists in the outside world is
shall never find anything material in that outside
It is that the nature of matter, which materialism is
but the flame, I would say, that is lit within us by
in thinking that these men had a special faculty for
Until we know that external observation reveals only the
world of phenomena, Maya, and that inward observation
aware of gravity, so that we know from inner experience
what it really means to experience gravity. Concrete
inner experience should show us that between the
matter that merely comes to expression in mystical
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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well aware, it is often said today that spiritual science
genuine perception, and that it can only be a matter of
science working towards anthroposophy is that a kind of
subjective knowledge that really can only be a matter of
knowledge but merely the subjective belief that something
distinction that is made between science and belief is
quite a recent development. The view is that science
senses, or at most with things that can be established
and explored on the basis of experiments, and that
realm and it is said that one should never assume that
anything that is the subject of belief can be transformed
supersensible, non-physical world on the other that may
takes life seriously really ought to feel that the
can genuinely show the reason for the efforts that are
something that is infinite, permanent, supersensible. You
know that everything that is presented here from the
has been taught that there is such a difference between
this a number of times — that was inherited from
then. Knowledge came to people at that time when a power
arose in their hearts and minds that was not the power of
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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sleeping and waking that human beings experience within a
view that has so far been used less frequently in
that there are three main aspects to a human being. One
know of course that this is only an approximate way of
occupied. We have to be clear in our minds that the
the head and that they are in fact present everywhere in
question is, what happens to the sensory organism and the
consider this dream life you will be able to say that it
presents you with a kind of surrounding scenery that in
know very well when they are awake, that dream life
presents them with images that, in a way, derive from the
an unbiased way, we find that the dream images are
connected—that they relate to each other; they
interrelate in a way that is as definite as the
interrelations and connections that exist in our waking
be said, however, that whereas human beings have full
in which dream images follow each other we find that it
all doubt — that the human brain, which in a way is
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
In our dream life we have no such control. What is more,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
that relatively speaking were not that long ago.
permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
few words at the end of my last talk, to the specific Christ event that
view of the disastrous events and of their consequences that continue
immediately that large numbers of people, including those in authority,
have not yet become fully aware of what has come upon us. They have been,
we know of in historical times. We have seen that at the time when the
thoughts that were in people's minds, and that this spectre is still
there in the minds of people today. We have seen that this spectre of
no idea that really and fundamentallY something quite different was going
on to what they imagined the events of the time to be.
work — labour — had taken on quite a different form to what
human beings that will then work more or less independently. I would say,
therefore, that in recent times human work has come to consist more in
will find, for instance, that during the period preceding the outbreak of
war, 79 million 'horse power years' of that kind of energy were produced
from coal-mining. They did not arise from something that human beings let
What does this really mean?
shows that on average every single individual in Germany had a horse by
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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recall a number of things that are already quite familiar
that there are four major aspects to the human being and
that human beings may be characterized as possessing a
and an ego. We also know that we can only really
four. Essentially the first four refer to aspects that
the spirit-man. We know, however, that these three
aspects of human nature are such that we cannot consider
that we now have a physical body and so forth, going as
far as the ego, and that in time to come we shall have a
the anthroposophical literature that is already available
that those different aspects of the human being are
What do we
mean when we say that we relate to the ego we bear to the
present earth? It means that inherent in the elements of
the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
principle that activates the ego. Our ego is intimately
find that human nature as we know it today relates
time of the Ancient Sun, and so forth, and that our ego
that the elements we refer to as spirit-self, life-spirit
this means that we have something in us that needs to be
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