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Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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about life's phenomena and have no idea what the true origin of

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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with our senses needs to be penetrated with ideas about the

Title: Education for Adolescents
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into their skulls only this idea of the cosmos, then in social

Title: Lecture: Awakening to Community - I
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between his continuing outer life and the ideal life and knowledge

Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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generations, and the only idea that is really clear to him is that of
guard against ordinary associations or combinations of ideas, for
It is quite useless today to dabble superficially in the idea of
People have not, as a rule, any very correct idea of the character of
not essential for children to get hold of the abstract idea of
idea in the abstract, it is quite possible to throw light on history
and, furthermore, to make history intelligible when one has this idea

Title: The Supersensible Being of Man and the Evolution of Mankind
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only because they have no idea what is the real bearer of the will.

Title: Lecture: The Peoples of the Earth in the Light of Anthroposophy
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ideas, feelings and impulses of will in human beings. Inner strength
ideas. Today, as the result of an unenlightened science, it is
soul, the thinking, ideation and perception directed to external
‘idea’ of humanity, a dead, empty idea. Those who would
Now when an ideal arises before the peoples of
When he forms a concrete ideal of how he can become higher
natural characteristic that for which the Indian strives as his ideal
is for the oriental an ideal, is for the European a natural
possession of daily life; his ideal, therefore, must necessarily
be different. The ideal of the European lies one stage higher; it is
man of Greece set himself an ideal, it was one he strove to reach by
express as his ideal everything that he himself is as a human
of the world, not so much in search of ideas but in order to find the
he is on the way to his ideal the rhythmic recurrence of the motif.
ideal is to raise himself to the element of thought. When the
abstract concepts, these husks of words and ideas, finds their way to
ideal for which the Middle European strives — which he
of the human when they set up an ideal for themselves. This really
by assimilating all that is idealistic, great and beautiful in other

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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only in carrying out a moral ideal, permeated with religious fervour,
only including all men but with them all moral ideals. They must
asunder, so that he can only say to himself: “Moral ideas rise
theoretical ideas. If a man intends to live honestly, he must work
one reaches ideas, which in a purely formal way are like memory
ideas, but which refer to an outer objective content, not to an
production of ideas which are like remembered thoughts, but we must
our ideation, that we employ in ordinary life, with which we mix our
certain extent one can create an idea for oneself, an empirical idea,
ideation.
organism and make room for the thoughts, the ideas, then these
thoughts and ideas can develop within man. Thus, in that place where
ideation. The second system in man is the rhythmic system. With this
where within man the pure moral ideals are world-building
plant and animal life. Then we do not look to a heat death (an idea
pure moral ideas as that which arises from the ground of the other,
so interrelated as with our abstract ideas we often think they are. No,
ideation.
ideal. The moral intuitions are gradually permeated with what indeed is
ideal stemming from Goethe's time. It spoke most clearly through his
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Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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conceptions of the birth of truly spiritual ideas and ways of
with a bleakness of which modern humanity has little idea.
ideal to be regained, but permeated then with everything that
this ideal can be felt by warm human hearts: ‘Become
inasmuch as we feel this to be an ideal, it shines before us
must have some idea of the kind of life led by simple folk in

Title: Memory and Love
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the right idea of this if we say: Before descending to earth you were in

Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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of the soul any further than that during waking life, ideas, feelings,
organic life predominates as such and during such time allows no ideas
feelings in the souls of men by giving them ideas and conceptions of God
idea of it. They think they are not asleep, whereas in reality they are
fact that the initiative man is able to carry in his powers of ideation

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 1: Influence of the human will upon the course of economic life
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his ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental,
short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked
number of people at the present day, who are under the idea,
substance. And in the same way many people have the idea in
devotees indulge in this sort of ideas, and would like to
make such ideas too the basis of social action. In the eyes
and its methods of thought as presenting a downright ideal;
and this was really the idea which lay at the bottom of an
sufficient for an idea to be theoretically right; but it

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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his ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental,
short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked
idea of the Threefold Order can best be propagated during the
the Threefold idea does not succeed in making its way through
understanding of the threefold idea, as an active
of people who really understand this Threefold idea,
and actually propagate the Threefold idea, as it is. Of
that clothes its problems in conceptions, in ideas, which,
civilisation: — ideas that destroy everything,
language and the same ideas, should be capable of throwing
utterly wrong end. I delivered a lecture recently on the idea
own lack of freedom, who take the State-educational ideas,
ideas, who will make up their minds not for ever to be
our ideas, — if we are for ever turning our minds to
the main thing, which is to spread our ideas.
idea itself in the course of the discussion, and only about
the theme a little to the Threefold idea and to the things
my attitude is — or the attitude of the Threefold idea
this, the ‘syndicalist’ idea, might lead in a way to certain
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
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scientist of spirit first must give an idea as to how he
idea of the path upon which he reaches a point where his
contrary, we have to take ourselves in hand and say: Some ideas
the normal interplay, for now right and wrong ideas or images
something that rejects wrong ideas — which arise
and accepts good ideas. Something therefore of a quite
What we are concerned with is placing ideas, feelings and
bothered to get a true idea of what the science of spirit
spirit and have no idea of how to apply this spirit to our more
are well aware that the idea of evolution is one of the special
human being, has come within the orbit of the idea of
is a complicated being. If we are to apply the idea of
real mysteries of his nature, we must apply the idea of
applying the idea of evolution as held by modern science
of his head organism cannot be explained by this idea of
The head loses substance. Every idea that is permeated by our
body starve in order to call up certain ideas. This is wrong.
our fluctuating mental images or ideas, but out of insight
always has the ideal of performing actions where he can say:
called imaginative ideas. It is something we have yet to

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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investigate how Lamprecht applies the ideas outlined in his
historical ideas are to be found. I have it from him personally
up bold and adventurous ideas and the tendency to think up
ideas — these are characteristic of a situation where
he is certainly not possessed by his ideas but, struggles
personally for his ideas of history? He wants to introduce a
supposed to be science, this superstition that the ideas that
can get a rough idea of what it is like — the time is too
idea of previous lives on earth and a justified prospect of
epoch work together and return again and again. This idea arose

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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hands and that he has caught at the idea of a threefold
me, in idea, the men of today who would be able to accept it,
would be able to follow these things in theory have no idea
fought out of the spirit. A very idealistic academic
hierarchies looked upon it as their ideal to arrive at a
the idea comes into one's head: Today in our higher schools
attained their ideal of completion. It is not denied that men

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1 (alternate translation)
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and that he entirely agreed with the idea of the
theoretically have as a rule no idea that anyone who wishes,
no fight. Some idealistic academic manifesto may be issued
Atlantean period. It was the ideal of these higher
to-day with its confused ideas of Divinity which so easily
represents their ideal of perfection, would be the last to
not merely because I had any idea that it might somehow prove

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 2
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with ideas which can lead us, as men, into the spiritual
the window of the carriage and gets accustomed to the idea
abstract idea of the journey. The travellers' inner knowledge
connected with something else. Anyone who has an idea that
again later at an age when people used to have ideals as
for arbitrary ideals, but for the whole of humanity, a
appellation to theoretical pedagogics, for the general idea
produced by these men have no idea that they have been
idea of what was to be found in a book about Anthroposophy.
and not shut oneself up in preconceived ideas, We must open

Title: The Ten Commandments
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became considered the ideal human form, possessing all possible

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
later gave rise to potent ideas, the fruits of which are in countless
power but not the ideas to carry out a particular project. The letter

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
— this happens with very many people and they mostly have no idea
give you some idea of these floating colours. But the astral colour-images

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
animals. With a highly educated man, or an idealist such as Schiller
to have had communication with H. P. Blavatsky. To Langsdorf the idea
she really did reject and oppose the idea of reincarnation. She herself

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
and though it is difficult to give an idea of the bliss that goes with
a picture of all this for yourselves, you will have some idea of the

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
the law of karma and the idea of reincarnation is bound up with the

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
ideas, experiences, feelings, and all this produces great changes in
anything about Theosophy; think of the new ideas you have acquired and
all through life. Ideas and experiences change quickly; it is just the
changing ideas is somewhat like the relation of the hour-hand of a clock
The ideas, feelings and

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
civilisations. We may conclude, then, that the idea of conscience, in
terms of moral ideas, but in accordance simply with the pleasure he
further idea. Imagine that ancient condition of humanity when nothing

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
and ideals.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
When he sent out his thoughts into the colony, his ideas and precepts
Atlantean did not raise himself to his God through concepts and ideas.
ideas and concepts through which I may transform the world of external
political institutions for centuries ahead. The Greek drew his ideas
idea that the Earth stands still. It was an error, he taught, to believe

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
get some idea of how time appears in the astral world. A small experience
tranquillity into the course of thinking. You must take a definite idea,
the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
very elementary ideas about them; a more highly cultured man will have
different and better ideas, but no-one will say that anyone else's ideas
is an idea which opens up a great perspective for the future; and when
there are moral ideas, such for example as the following, from
idea which has no sense-perceptible counterpart, you allow your mind
to rest in it and your soul to be filled with it. Then you let the idea

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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These early lectures are a good introduction to the ideas and content
We are usually told that faith was shaken by the ideas of Copernicus,
a person has outgrown this idea, not only in theory but in feeling,
serious. They instil into patients the idea that matter has no real
higher than love and peace has not thoroughly understood the idea of

Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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is of great importance to have the right direction of ideas, at any
world-conception into our physical and chemical ideas, was as yet
the idea, the fundamental views which we can gain on the results of
clear idea of what constitutes the field of their researches.
idea of what Nature is, but from the way in which the scientist of
how these “universals”, these general ideas, are related
tries to form ideas about the so-called causes that are supposed to
ideally transparent and comprehensive.
disputed no doubt. Some people think he had no clear idea of the
Mechanics, we have to go beyond the life of ideas and mental
doubt it seems an ultimate ideal to the Science of today, to
theory of Gravitation. Ideas are now emerging almost every year,

Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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impossible ever to gain valid ideas of what is meant or should be
the text-books or go among the physicists to ascertain what ideas
confused ideas. Indeed, with the resources of Physics as it is today
it is not really possible to gain true or clear ideas of what
me myself to correspond also to this, — just as my idea of the

Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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the main idea of the present course is for me to tell you some of the
really healthy ideas into a modern school. We must find ways of

Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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This idea that there
indeed most interesting, and we must try to get a clear idea of what
However, there were phenomena at variance with this idea; so then
Fresnel's experiment: we get the following idea. The movement of the

Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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forming of ideas. There is another fundamental idea which you will
to gain a proper idea of these external bodies. All we should say is
with the old Konigsberg habit, by which I mean, the Kantian idea. The
idea.

Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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century conceived this strange idea of universal, inorganic, lifeless
only thing we can legitimately do is to form our ideas and concepts
one is thus led to the idea: When the air beats upon our ear and we

Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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idea of Goethe's is mistaken, as you may readily convince
experience. Now comes the veriest tangle of confused ideas. The

Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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the first to cultivate the materialistic ideas which are so

Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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is, the 19th century was chiefly filled with the idea that we must
idea that the electricity that spreads through space is in some way
primitive mechanical ideas, but makes it necessary to give our
idea of 19th century physicists was once again fulfilled to some
this kind led Crookes and others to the idea that what is there in
they found none. So they consoled themselves with the idea that it
idea-forming, conscious life into our life of Will. All that is

Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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not say that they were right, but this idea arose. It came about in
ideas, into his very thinking. Unable any longer to think the
hold of in a fully valid way with geometrical ideas derived from a
idea that what takes place outside us partly accords with what we
Euclidean Geometry which we ourselves think out. Might it not be
Euclidean geometry and all the formulae thereof?
geometrical or kinematical ideas are related to what appears to us
and kinematical — ideas. What is the origin of these, up to
and including our ideas of movement purely as movement, but not
including the forces? Whence do we get these ideas? We may commonly
believe that we get them on the same basis as the ideas we gain
outer world the ideas of “scientific” arithmetic and
not gained these ideas from the outer world. We are applying ideas
ideas come from? That is the cardinal question. Where do they come
from? The truth is, these ideas come not from our intelligence
the ideas derived from sense-perception. They come in fact from the
is indeed immense between all the other ideas in which we live as
arithmetical and kinematical ideas. The former we derive from our
the geometrical, the arithmetical ideas — rise up from the
organ in the metabolism. Our geometrical ideas above all spring
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Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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not arise simply because someone may feel it to be a good idea.
the example and ideal of natural science, must take its place
completely tied up with the idea that man is a being of body
and soul. This idea of man as a being of body and soul governs
the kind of concepts and ideas acquired in studying the sense
of the ideas and concepts acquired through the life of
will bring home to people that many of our ideas will have to
in his sense perception and in the ideas and images derived
Whereas we are normally accustomed to arranging our ideas
the purpose, to formulate ideas whose sequence is
and ideas. In this way we come to recognize what sort of
life of images and ideas. We do not become acquainted with this
where our own will controls the ideas and images we
only by the inner will controlling the sequence of ideas, which
not arrive at anything special by piecing together ideas we
science of spirit comes along and talks about such inner ideas
and how the sequence of our ideas follows what we see, follows
permits one idea to arise out of another, what it is that
our soul experiences just as our ideas which we formulate about
then that he is able to formulate a true idea, a true concept,

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
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scientific ideas, are proving to be increasingly incapable of
and thinks that the resulting idea is the revelation of a
gained the idea through sense perception in the first
spiritual perception in the same way he gains ideas from the
ideas and images we form through contact with the sense world
spiritual perception is not just an idea. For an idea can
order to see it as it really is. The image or idea we keep in
not dealing with a mere combination of ideas, thoughts and
formulate ideas about what he has
formulate ideas about things, beings and processes in the sense
world, and these ideas can be retained. It depends on the
experience from the images and ideas which arise out of it,
from the idea which arises from it. We can look at this in
recall the image or idea of it. For in this case it is clear
a few superstitious ideas.
convincing idea of the science of spirit and feel that it
of mind what he has experienced there into images and ideas, so
image or idea can be recalled, but not the condition of
expressed in clear and well-defined concepts and ideas. But it

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture I
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
such a difference into my ideas and concepts? This whole course will
being of heat under the influence of certain ideas to be described
everything for clear, lucid ideas. In the so-called “exact
confused ideas.
clarify our ideas, or all the present ideas on these things are really
tortoise passes through. Ideally this is so; in reality he does
scientific ideas may simply be confirmed. As you know it is thus with
ideas.
influence of the facts such ideas have been fruitful, but only
realm of the unobservable. My purpose today is to present this idea to
idea that we are dealing with the movements of ultimate particles,
physics of the 19th century into wrong ideas of reality. It
of as integrable without leading us into the realm of the ideal as

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture II
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
deeper insight into these matters. All the ideas current in the modern
How recent our ordinary ideas are may be realized when we look up some
itself. Ideas of this sort have been current since the 17th
the real ideas necessary to understand physics, since this period, the
with it an acquaintance with the ideas of ancient Greece, men were in
Grecian ideas were now taken up again, but they were no longer
19th century, but a development of clear, definite ideas
lacking the clear, definite ideas, we often stand perplexed before
I have already said that the real meaning of those ideas and concepts
process still gone through in ancient Greece, ideas and concepts were
idea: When a body is solid it is under the influence of the earthly
delineate the action of the sun according to ideas springing from
that this crass materialism arose through the gradual loss of ideas
ideas. But physics cannot hope to advance if she continues to spin
comprehensive ideas than modern materialistic physics can furnish us.

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture III
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
a being who was able to observe only one dimension and who had no idea
but the drawing adds nothing to your idea. You have given, the sum of
idea verifies itself. What I have thought of in the abstract

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IV
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
themselves able to study the subject, the idea that a person cannot
Therefore so much depends on our getting into this science such ideas
other. Now suppose we consider this idea somewhat closely. I am unable
draw from this idea: through heat, mechanical work is produced in the
establish as fact and the ideas which we add to these facts. We can
used to represent our ideas are residues of our sense impressions.
you will, you apprehend, only through these ideas or concepts. You
have the idea. I will raise this glass. Now, in so far as your mental
act contains ideas, it is a residue of sense impressions. You place
ideas. When, however, we plunge down

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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
find it necessary to become acquainted with the ideas that underlie
the poem, to let those ideas unroll in your mind. But you know that
obliged to think of the ideas. There may come a time when it is not
of natural science, when we do this we are using ideas completely
imagination, then the abstract ideas must be completely altered,
unprejudiced way, to take seriously the Kantian ideas. For if space
look more lightly on the ideas of ordinary life. And therefore, anyone
inspirational ideas, he becomes able really to observe the parallel
before us but in order to get an intelligent idea of the nature of

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VI
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VII
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
directed. And now we come to a rather difficult idea. Imagine to

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture VIII
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
previously stated an extension of this idea has been made. It is
19th century, we see that such ideas as expressed by
fact that certain ideas have been drawn from experiment bearing on the
experience pain which prevents me from having an idea that I would

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture IX
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
views on the subject. Many publications bring this idea forward as
the usual ideas of physics, we bury ourselves in physical concepts
also, when we try to get an idea of it as it exists ordinarily, we
Now hold in mind this phenomenon and the ideas that arise from it and
recollect the previous ideas that we have brought out here. We are

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture X
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
very accurate ideas and concepts. Suppose, instead of simply
ideas. We have hot water in this vessel
Now let us further extend the ideas of yesterday. In the case of the
peach blossom of the color spectrum? The idea that arises naturally
advances. We can create ideas in regard to form in proportion as we
them? In this way, that they become ideas within us. Now we are at the
dissolves into ideas, where it becomes ideas. In our ideas we
matter as follows: man experiences as ideas the forces welling up from
ideas, so we have to consider what is spread abroad as heat as related
ideas will arise. These ideas are not within the outer object. It is
lives in our ideas.
speak of thought and will, of ideas and will, we are dealing with
Actually then, what lives in man as ideas is related to outside form
from the pressure manifestation of matter to my ideas about form, then
That is, we cannot conceive of man's ideas as material in their nature
Modern physics, you see, has not developed at all this idea of

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XI
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
This idea we must link up with another, which comes to us when we go
ideas, outside of space, within myself as observer, of what is
19th century. It has not had such ideas as we are
presenting and therefore such ideas cannot arise in it. If you think
physics will have to be discarded to make room for these ideas. For
ideas available to him. His peculiarity is that when he comes to the
occurs in the realm of heat? When you bring together all these ideas I

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XII
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
take into account in developing our ideas on this subject, and it is
that we can get helpful ideas for understanding heat from the realm of
answer to it will appear when we extend further our ideas of yesterday
are expressed by the numerical formulations, such ideas as the
This idea of a bombardment, of collisions between molecules and atoms

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIII
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics

Title: Warmth Course: Lecture XIV
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and super-earthly realms. He strives to extend modern ideas of physics
and thunder. This is one of the most impossible ideas that can be
Now you will see that when we are constructing ideas about the
old formulae the ideas I have indicated to you, that certain
valid ideas we have set forth here, they will be taken up at once, and

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture I
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a materialist, the second an idealist, the third a realist, the
fixed ideas. As you know, he was declared insane and put into an

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture II
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Reason.” Ideas and feelings on the subject of Rights were

Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture III
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and the ideas of nature evolved in “childish” times. No
materialistic, spiritualistic and idealistic philosophy. These things
as materialistic as those we quote for or against idealism.
spiritism, realism, idealism, materialism or anything else When I
Quite happily the most materialistic ideas were being introduced into

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living Spirit in the old natural way.” Provided this idea is
we come with a general idea in our heads, saying that the human being
idea that the true and living Greek culture has a kind of pessimism
Ideals.” But it dawned upon him, as he let these ideals work
moment in Nietzsche's life, the moment when he felt his ideals
to belong to his own times. He was forced to admit: “My ideals
are no different from what this present age calls its ideals. After
its ideals.” This was a moment of great pain for Nietzsche. For
he had experienced the idealistic tendencies manifest in his day. He
philistine. And he realized that his own ideals, stimulated by his
his time. But these ideals seemed to him impotent and unable to grasp
ideals in common with my time.” This was a tragic discovery
of ideals and these coincide with what others call their ideals, then
ideals I have evolved hitherto. And this putting aside all his ideals
external inducement to forsake his former idealism and steer towards
nebulous ideals they make nothing clear. In fact everything is
for this or that ideal and I rejoice that others too should be
ideals and wants to enthuse others, is so constituted that when he is
thinking of these ideals he can work up the juices in his stomach in
spiritual things and call them ideals. But in reality it is there for
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Title: Lecture: Younger Generation: Lecture V
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indicating an earlier form of life, so in fossilized moral ideas we
find forms pointing back to the once living, God-given moral ideas.
prove with his head the ideas of the people of old, moral intuitions
and seriously into this idea and you will understand that it is only
ideal towards which it strove — it strove to be Phoronomy, a
de Lamettrie, for example, anticipated the idea that the human being

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body has been lost to man's sight. Form an idea of how utterly
attempts are made to interpret them, confused ideas usually result.

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I am placing before you an idea difficult to describe accurately,
wanted to acquire it, as an embodied ideal. Tiredness certainly
stood as a kind of ideal for those anxious to learn, this idea
strive for a personal ideal.
is always something in the general ideas which gives us a feeling of
Herbart discusses the five moral ideas: good-will, perfection,
Tradition, Remembrance.) which at present man only has as idea. But
personal remembrance in the rigid way we do, where the idea I have

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idea of what gave the tone to the cultural life of the time. The
idea: There is a divine weaving streaming around the earth just as in
there shall also be found among the young, single ideals striving

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the Greeks, concepts, ideas, were bestowed by the Spirit. But because
hit upon the idea psycho-physical parallelism. Parallel lines,

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consciously on the ground of the intellect or without the ideas
cured of certain childlike religious ideas by the Lisbon earthquake,
could no longer believe in the ideas imparted by the older people in
when brought into this chance association of ideas. He ought to be
association of the ideas of individuals. But one should be able to

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is held fast today in the abstract ideas of the head. But there lives
to an ideal condition, because the rest of human nature asserts its
different person. It is the ideal of science that everyone should be

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third of the nineteenth century which can give some idea of Goethe is
abashed at the idea of talking about education. This is astonishing
at the idea. Finally one of them pulled himself together and said:

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In speaking one is obliged to explain things in words and ideas. What
would wish to make stream through the words and ideas. Let me sum up
scientifically and verified by Nature, it becomes the ideal towards
which people strive. But concepts, ideas, arising out of the inner
our Middle European civilization — we have concepts and ideas
the human being? With the ideas the most advanced kind of thinking
handing on the old no longer living ideas and traditions. Only with
ideas and intellectualism, he succeeds by so rarefying the air

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ideas of occult teaching for some time. Hence, they may well wish to
configurations, which he calls his ideal. He forms moral concepts.
idea of this if you follow me into the following consideration, which

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underlay this. Those who indicated the first ideas for these Gothic
great ideas of initiates. Human souls take up the force of these

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an idea of what is meant when it is said of the old occult
comprehensive idea, effected a renewal of spiritual life, whose
Godhead. From what, then, do things arise since ideas are new
have an idea; the manifestation of this creation; the course of its

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was an initiate. It can be said that this seal represents the idea of
total humanity. This will be understood when we recall some ideas
reproduction. You will get an idea of this mystery if you make clear
give you an idea of the world's creation, of space, and of the divine
significance. The following example will give you an idea of it.

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mind has no understanding. The idea prevailing nowadays is that man's

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Here we find established the ideas of debt, of default, which are
really only legal ideas, ideas which never existed in the Mysteries of
amid all the confusion of very indefinite impulses, to reach ideals

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ideas, formed entirely according to materialistic, physical laws. He
Christ, that he has not the vaguest idea of the real Being of Christ,
nations.” This is an essentially false idea, because today, in
that we must seek for feelings and ideas which have nothing to do with
human distinctions of any kind on the Earth. Such feelings and ideas
matter-of-fact, bourgeois way, the one-sided idea that anything
idea of Duality in the Universe, upon the opposition of good and evil,

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are only awake with regard to conceptions and ideas, we are only half
us not delude ourselves about this matter. We have ideas about what we
will, but only when the Will becomes idea, when the Will is reflected
intellect, our understanding. When we think, when we form ideas, the
Will of course plays a certain part in the formation of the ideas, but
the thinking and forming of ideas by the whole Earth, after our death,
when men are filled with personal ideas and feelings is indeed

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we find such ideas arising among men, among people who believe that

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his listeners as a mere amateur, who has as slight an idea of the
into the kingdom of idealism. But the impulse which in all its
ideas. I had pointed out two great dangers in the domain of thought,
yet in existence, in order to realize an ideal which, as I have said,

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called anthroposophy with older traditional ideas about
mystical, theosophical, and gnostic ideas that have arisen
development of medicine as if its ideas were merely childish,
outset that the most seemingly comprehensive ideas are related
idealism, realism, and the like have really taken this form.
materialism, idealism, or spiritualism, but merely as an
keep the various aspects separate, our ideas will appear as if
the complicated association of ideas — I mean a picture
of the ideas that associate and not of the nerve fibers
the process underlying the linking together of ideas, my
yourselves, “I have an idea that reminds me of another
idea I had three years ago, and I link the one to the
if you take a series of ideas) that bear a great resemblance,
follows is merely a matter of conjecture. All ideas about the

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to the ideas and laws that apply when we are doing experiments
mechanistic, idealistic, spiritualistic, or the like —
apply all the ideas and laws derived in the inorganic world to

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fourteenth years our ideal must be to work not primarily upon

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Anthroposophy with older traditional ideas. I have no wish to waste
various mystical, theosophical and so-called gnostic ideas which have
medicine as if its ideas were merely childish, compared with those
ask you to-day to forgive certain pedantic ideas.
there side by side. I look at them and form certain ideas about them.
ideas are related to the reality just as photographs of a tree,
The more photographs I have, the more nearly will my idea approximate
materialism, idealism, realism and the like, have really taken this
direction of materialism, idealism, or mysticism, but merely as an
keep the various aspects separate, our ideas will appear rather as if
conception and ideation, as Herbart, the philosopher, had once done.
ideas — I mean a picture of the ideas which associate and not
the process underlying the concatenation of ideas, my drawings look
ideation. Everything in the life of ideation can be found again in
ideation. Something of the kind strikes us forcibly when we read
only with the way in which ideas unite, separate, etc., and then draw
necessary for the life of ideation, even if people still hanker after
not the life of ideation, but the process or function of breathing.
have an idea which reminds me of another idea I had three years ago
make diagrams, especially if we take a series of ideas. Such diagrams
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of thought can no longer confine itself to the ideas and laws
mechanistic, idealistic, animistic or the like — when we say,
contrast, in that we apply the ideas and laws obtaining in the

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Between the seventh and fourteenth years our ideal must be to work

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but purely conceptual, ideative activity — is not dependent on

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materialism consists in the idea that everything is matter, and Spirit
or ideas of it, but only general impressions, whereas man forms
pictures and ideas, so, when the soul has risen to exact clairvoyance,

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an ideal, — to understand life. But life is not to be understood
physical or chemical laws. To do so remains an ideal; it can never be
If such ideas are at first abstract, it is for us to change them into
ideas. Yes, — to be an Anthroposophist in our age means to know
Dragon if those concepts and ideas which belong only to natural
height and strength in ideas which during the past epoch produced

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nations.” This is an essentially false idea, because to-day, in
that we must seek for feelings and ideas which have nothing to do with
human distinctions of any kind on the Earth. Such feelings and ideas

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his ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental,
short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked
idealism, a ‘Utopia,’ or that it has in it anything whatever
idealism!
idea, not of moving on towards a new future, but of somehow
ideas. We have moved on today into an age, when man has
idealism I These things have finally brought about the
then calls this thing unpractical, a piece of idealism! —
idealism’ to be the genuine practice of life? — When will
fine words and words which are meant to be very ideal, but
insofar as they proposed to bring about ideal conditions

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have already seen a fish. Now just try to get a clear idea of
will have a better idea of what “together” means,
introduce the idea of subtraction. That is, again, you do not
the origin of the acanthus leaf. I then explained that the idea
individual. Consequently, we must always cherish the idea that
ideal, in telling the child fairy-tales or legends, or in

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with the outer world. Just try to get a clear idea from the
Again, only through these facts do you get an idea of what
him correctly for the life of ideas. Your understanding itself
for the child's life of ideas. You will be a good teacher for

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colours, and in so doing it is a good idea to apply different
all a bad idea in olden times to make the children simply learn
facts of music. The children should get a clear idea of the
have set up more or less an ideal. But surely our
ideal. There is one thing we ought not to neglect, for

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you have no idea of all that you are to learn in school, but
the children this complex of idea is extremely important. But
this deep-seated idea has still another consequence.
the ideals that are to be realized. Proceed to reflect with the
dissipate a few of those ideas which might perhaps lead
should be entirely ousted. That would be an utterly false idea.
and write without any grammar.” This idea might result
ideas whose absence might confuse you.
course of their rites and ceremonies came to certain ideas,

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your aid ideas which evoke real experiences of past history.
ideas lie concealed in writing and you can utilize them by all

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on people to determine an individual's gift for forming ideas,
Suppose you are trying to get a clear idea of the state of
you recall that just at that time he conceived the first idea
produce an inner connection with the ideals of teaching. We

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for many a thing which, in ideal conditions, you would not
age, an idea of the most outstanding features of the human
give the child this idea. It awakens simultaneously the
intellect. Then you try to arouse in the child the idea that
the limbs, you awaken the idea that they are appended to the
direction, of the limbs. But you evoke the clear idea in the
sound.” It is well with children to evoke an idea of the
Thus we ought to teach the child, by evolving ideas from form,
cuttlefish, and you have also evoked in him a clear idea
this vivid idea: for instance, you take up chalk to write with;
sound experience of the world if you awaken in him the idea
pleasing, but because such ideas should become part of the
have now tried to give you an idea of how it is possible to

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have developed the ideas in the child which enable him to
ninth to the twelfth year in the physical ideas suited to a
child's subconscious nature we can excite beautiful ideas in
abandon the present idea connected with air streaming into an
This already gives you a considerable idea of how the

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green” into the idea, into the concept “the green

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but I will now assume rather ideal conditions and throw light
(“The World as Will and Idea”),
wish to give the child over nine a visual idea of the theorem

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give the child some simple idea of the economic connections
some time to give the child an idea of the economic connection
can put the idea thus introduced into the vaster terms of the
after developing the necessary ideas from familiar stretches of
the child's range of ideas can be enlarged by many illuminating
is America besides. He should get this idea before he is
between agriculture and human life, to give him a clear idea of
geographical ideas. And try especially to make the child
ideas of this kind glimmer through the picture of economic and
ideas of conditions of right, the forces of his soul for the
idea of the right procedure in teaching from first to last.
idea of the demands of the child's nature at the age when he

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tobacco factory without any idea of the process of manufacture
neighbourhood. The child should have acquired some general idea
This ideal of unity, inspiring the human soul, must
Do not imagine that the effect is to make the child idealistic
imagine that the child will be more idealistic later in life
of God in nature. You do not make the child idealistic in this
way. You will do far more, in fact, to cultivate idealism
with sentimental idealism from thirteen to fifteen, he
will later experience a revulsion from idealism and
relation to the ideal needs of the soul. But these will just be
the business letters and you then try to instil religious ideas
to the ideal time-table, to compare it with time-tables which

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will continually frustrate the ultimate ideal time-table of the
Waldorf School if we know in what relation the ideal time-table
ideal time-table would really have to have other aims than
dictates of the outside world partially frustrate the ideal
do justice to our ideal time-table, and we must do our utmost
the ideal time-table we would not do this in the first school
an idea of activity: “Just sit down on your chair. You
children of six to seven of ideas which play a part in
theorem of Pythagoras. I connect at least the idea with an
realization would result of itself with the ideal time-table.

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is an ideal of many a legislator gradually to issue as
ashamed they may be to admit it; their ideal is to introduce in
side this ideal curriculum and the curriculum at present in use
plant world. These ideas of things must be rooted in feeling
is very important not to give the child these ideas too late,
intelligence. But it is very important to bring out these ideas

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of uttering individual words, of stating individual ideas, of

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no idea of the particular tasks of a particular age. Please do

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give you a real mental picture, a real idea, either of mental picture
the whole universe that it is possible to arrive at the idea of the
I want to place this first before you as an idea (we shall come back
absolutely no value, because they give us no true idea of what it is.

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teacher's soul with the highest ideas of humanity. A real canker in

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mean what is more of the nature of mental picture or idea in the will
impulse. You can, e.g., have the following idea: something I wished to
do, or did, was good; or you can have some other idea; but that is not
will, you do not necessarily make an idea in your mind of how you will
“wish” is. You have only an idea, a mental picture of a
“wish.” Hence Herbart maintains that the very idea of a wish
who have not the faintest idea that through it the Devil has entered
concerned we always consider that when an idea is given to a child,
educated. For then people will believe that if they have good ideas

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remain in this condition, it must be permeated with thought, by idea,
picture. This takes place in a comprehensive way if we bring ideals,
moral ideals, into our mere instincts. And now you will understand
moral ideals, to which the instincts are antipathetic, and which for
activity is not merely willing but is also permeated with idea, with
permeated with the idea that it is chiefly the feeling element that
tone Arabesque. He pours unmitigated scorn upon the idea which is
of music is a clear sign that recent psychological ideas about the
one-sided idea of Hanslick's could never have arisen. But if we
Hanslick's ideas which have a certain philosophical strength in them,

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with his concepts and ideas. He is not telling us theories: he is
to unite with his ideas and concepts. With the old man, who has really
united his feelings with thinking-cognition, the concepts and ideas
concepts and ideas sound theoretical, abstract, scientific. It is an
you will by these psychological ideas, if, having insight into the
ideas, that you would get much from them, although you would have to
when we are in bed at night we go to sleep. We have no idea that this
we say that sensations approach the realm of concepts and ideas.

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known, even in the formation of spiritual ideas.
can form some idea of the disturbance introduced into the soul when
ideas about them are required by the normally regulated memory, the
too psychologists evolve most grotesque ideas. Above all, people are
so very much influenced by the ideas of the connection of thought and

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together into the idea of man. This idea of man should endure. All
school for his later life: the idea, which is as many-sided and

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It means the application of the idea of metamorphosis to man and to
child with the distinct idea that he is a little animal and that he
living way. How the idea of the universe and its connections with the
you have great feelings for the universe which arise from ideas such

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all, and most in accordance with an educational ideal, if we omit all
conditions this must remain an ideal for the time being. And I must

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course in actual life these things cannot always come up to the ideal,
but it is essential to know what the ideal is.

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today a really clear idea of the reasons why one feels so
When we have gone so far that we have achieved this ideal, as

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The mistaken idea that the life of feeling, as part of the

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interest only those who can relate to such ideas. In a
imagination. It is not true that the idea of an etheric body
this idea by first developing imagination and then — at

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salt crystal, for instance — with the idea of

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actions of anthroposophists who, without having an idea of
future ideal that is in fact attainable now if one will
These ideas
already have projective-geometric ideas, we may imagine we
such rituals when one is willing to accept the idea of

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simply have no idea of what I am talking about.
take a negative step, I dropped the whole idea of writing on

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to present a few ideas that lie, one might say, at the

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rise to ideas that can bring strength and healing into our
economic ideas which are intended to show that what is
attacking us rather than attempting to understand our ideas
authority is held in those quarters that their ideas can be

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Our great ideal is to cultivate this

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everything you have accomplished on behalf of the future ideals of

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idea of the enormity of that loss and of the load of grief brought
is not mere learning like any other. The ideas it presents and the
ideas are not shaped in the way other kinds of learning have been
shaping ideas for the past three or four centuries; words are not
meant as they are elsewhere. Anthroposophical ideas are vessels

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brought out facts quite ideally suited to serving as the foundation
over of empirical data by the other sciences, you will form some idea
and the ideas about it entertained by a good many of our fellow men.
friends, what can happen. Perhaps this will give you some idea what a

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between his continuing outer life and the ideal life and knowledge

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mankind's great ideals: the moral-religious, the artistic, and the
scientific ideals. There could, therefore, be no question of erecting
ideas receive their shaping as an expression of the spiritual
It is particularly noteworthy that the community building ideal
as children. Let us take an ideal example. Someone finds himself in
understand the spiritual world, no matter how many beautiful ideas we
idealism in human communities. We talk a lot about idealism these
civilization of the present. For true idealism exists only where man
super-sensible-spiritual, the ideal level, what he has seen and
experienced so spiritually and idealistically that we come to feel we
lifted to the ideal level. It comes alive when properly permeated
and infuse it with enthusiasm, we carry our idealized sense
ideas we form, we put ourselves in a position actually to experience
idealizing our sense experience and leaving it at the stage of an
abstract thought, but that endows the ideal with a higher life as we
as a direct result of the way anthroposophical ideas are being
basis of that understanding take anthroposophical ideas into an
If we have that grasp, it leads not only to spiritual ideas but to
It would be ideal if,
sisters, each going her own way and united only by a common ideal,
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others, he is not having the same feelings and ideas as his
feelings and ideas similar to those of dream life. Instead of

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realm of ideas, separating this from the world of true reality upon
unfertilized by ideas it degenerates, hardens and becomes sentimental,

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acquiesced in this idea. He could not get so far in his observation

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the terrible idea arose in him of the ‘eternal repetition of the

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is not to be found in the abstract ideas formed in our ordinary logical
of the moment’. We need to get a clear idea of what this awareness
of a person who feels driven by his life impulses to become an idealist
objectively into the inner experience that fills the idealist, the spiritualist;
being an idealist or spiritualist in the same way. This puts one in
Schiller said: ‘That is no empiricism, that is an idea.’
Goethe's reply was: ‘Then I see my idea with my own eyes.’
because synthesizing ideas were alive in his mind that made it possible

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The idea seems to be that we have thoughts about what we perceive with
the form of remembered ideas. One school of philosophy has referred to
such thoughts or ideas as going down below the threshold of consciousness,
a process where ideas are first of all stimulated by sensory perception,
will show no appreciable difference between an idea arising in connection
In the first case, the outside world stimulates the idea or concept.
Something outside is perceived, an idea follows. We do of course have
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
this idea. Yet, as I have just indicated, the point is not that we know
from without and now from within — an idea is brought to mind.
that drives us to form an idea. Pursuing the process of sensory perception
and ideas arising from it further, the essential point will have to be
to form an idea. If we consider memory as such, we shall find that the
of forming ideas based on sensory perceptions we carry out an activity
for memory. This is so because a concept or idea formed on the basis
basis of what we perceive. The concept or idea fades. Once we have gone
of our mind, the idea will have faded; but something else has also happened
within us, and this will recall the idea when the occasion arises.
processes will find that a remembered idea is something completely new
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are evolved on the basis of ideas formed in science. Using this scientific
ideas concerning the beginning and end of the earth. The laws discovered
calling human can only be achieved by following ethical ideas, ideas
idea which had to evolve, with a certain inner justification, out of
also of all moral ideals. Those must disappear into a state of non-being
is: The moral ideal arises from the sphere of natural inevitability
on man's theoretical ideas. In anyone who is honest about life
of remembering. As a result, ideas will arise that in a purely formal
way are similar to remembered ideas, but they relate to an objective
ideas in soul and spirit, ideas similar to remembered ideas, but we
the actual process of forming ideas in everyday life, a process we apply
forming of ideas, to occupy the place where material elements have been
of ideas; that is when this thinking, this forming of ideas, sees a
provide the basis for ideation, for thinking. The second system in man
ideation. This inspired world comes in specifically through the breathing
the path of Anthroposophy we reach the point where purely moral ideals
perishable, and we see the world we build up out of pure moral ideals
this pure thinking with him into all the elements of the ideas he forms.
ideas formed by man are derived from external perceptions or based on
for that life of ideas. There are however people today who on the basis
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potential for genuine ideas free from sensuality, ideas the mind is
speculation, coming up with all kinds of ideas as to a transcendental
perception and reduce it to the form of a pure idea. Then anyone will
be able to follow what he presents in the form of ideas, provided they
spirituality; it becomes transparent as only ideas can be and on the
concepts. It brings to life what to begin with was merely concept, idea,
4 ] — has nothing to do with translating some idea or another
occasion he will evolve ideas and that will be one branch; another time

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lively ideas. How often we find that people at present can be
said to suffer from a soul sclerosis, turning out dead ideas
imaginative ideas, is regarded as transitory. In order to
considered in all earnestness today, when the idea continues
ideal human being' with above a `luciferic' trait and below one
which is a direct application of ideas regarding the great

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ideas, in order merely to enjoy a kind of mystic feeling
unhealthiness those abstract, so-called immortal, ideals
of its reflected images, human concepts and ideas that
happy, when they talk of ideal conditions that must be
gained for mankind. My dear friends, such ideas of
everlastingness and such ideal conditions for mankind are
concrete Ideal has been present, just as also for our
were sympathetic at the time to the ideas of the
gradually inspired with the idea of getting something for
brotherliness, human love, noble ethical ideals, etc.
of Faust where the Middle Age idea of the
differs in this way from that Homunculus-idea of which
one-sided ideas that nave come up here and there. One
cannot say that fruitful social ideas nave not also
Fichte. Fichte, whom we recognize as an ideal thinker, a
State's lap, educated according to its ideas, then
more and more men's ideal at the end of the 19th century

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discrimination must distinguish between phases of ideas
— the being-inspired with ideas of right, and right
order to unite with each other. Not theoretical ideas of
ideas, but ethical impulses for life, that are active
thoroughly imbued with the idea of what relation exists
existence. That gives you an idea, too, of what certain
ideas have been obtained by a thought game of analogies.
we give it in the form of art, science, technical ideas,
art, science, or technical ideas, is like a man who must

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deep foundations underlying the ideas of the Threefold
ideas then we must not search, as Mach and Avenarius did,

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ideas, which is not what you, with your elusive phrases,
is doing. The whole idea of a distinction has been
Commonwealth ideas even better then the middle-class

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to this idea, especially where it has become occidental

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such souls have a dim idea of the existence of others on the
such a soul, filled entirely with thoughts, concepts, ideas,
soul can be found. A soul that is filled with spiritual ideas,
is aglow with and irradiated by spiritual ideas — such a
will not be that of an abstract ideal which is preached, or
we accept such concepts, ideas and thoughts, my dear friends,
we must not merely find pleasure in the ideas which Spiritual

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further than that during waking life, ideas, feelings, impulses of
life predominates as such and during such time allows no ideas or
them ideas and conceptions of God in such a way as was right for
themselves no idea of it. They think they are not asleep, whereas in
ideation and of feeling and thought during day-waking life, is an

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between two incarnations and the effect of the idea of reincarnation
transformed within us into the idea, the thought, which now flashes
remembrance of it streams into the life of ideation. What has here
embodiment of the world of thoughts and ideas. In each life, every
it be if you were to conceive the idea—irrespectively of how it

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between two incarnations and the effect of the idea of reincarnation
that at least an approximately adequate idea can be formed of the
the truth of the ideas of reincarnation and karma. And so the
conviction of the validity of the idea of reincarnation and
earlier incarnations. If this idea is led to its consistent
incarnations. If this idea of karma is put earnestly into effect a
only but in the whole of life. If that were achieved, the idea of
karma, instead of being merely an anthroposophical idea, would be
which, in its development, has excluded, has indeed refuted, the idea
realise that what can, nay must, ensue from recognition of the idea
from the idea of karma that we should not feel ourselves to have been
can learn what will ensure the spread of the ideas of reincarnation
necessary if the idea of reincarnation and karma is to take root in
thoroughly steeped in the ideas of reincarnation and karma that they
enormous significance in life of the ideas of reincarnation and karma

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and ideal to accept the existence of higher worlds — to him a
the influence of abstract ideas in the events of history. Many people
approach, to speak of certain ideas, abstract ideas which properly speaking
ideas — although how they are to work is incomprehensible
precisely because they are abstract ideas! — was still in evidence
But even this belief in ideas as factors in history is gradually being
perceptible actions, outer needs, outer interests and ideas of physical
yes, a man such as Lessing certainly had many really intelligent ideas,
idea of reincarnation.” In the last sentences of
not an abstract onflow of ideas but an actual and real onflow of the
hit upon ideas as confused as that of reincarnation, and that these
ideas must he ignored. — This reminds one again of the bitterly
furor in many circles in France. Everything from which the ideas of
idea of Reinecke Fuchs to Solomon Reinach. According to his method this
— although he has not avoided tracing back the idea of Demeter
philosophical and theological ideas in an earlier period Europe had
ideas about the relation of the soul to the body, he says: This may
people are aware of it, spiritual-scientific ideas will take root in
by materialistic ideas, and he said to me: “Of course the picture
idea — perhaps not exactly philosophical — but certainly
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as our life of thought and ideation. Since the Egyptian period, man

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many common ideas. Thus there is a certain hiatus between thinking and
different idea of it in England and in Germany, as little could men
everything to man. And it is interesting that certain ideas have lived
on into our own times, ideas that are like an echo of feelings that
rooted in thoroughly materialistic ideas and concepts, nevertheless
And so at that time hostility against the old Hellenistic-Pagan ideal,

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such an idea as that of the connection between the Persian Amshaspands

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In his concepts, in his ideas, however abstract, an echo can still be
given by Heraclitus, not only the all-embracing ideas of Anaxagoras
ordinary way is, at its best, only an empty abstract of ideas. What
of time to another as an opportunity for allowing ideal which embrace

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only concepts and ideas they will accept are concerned with the
have become susceptible to illness. These ideas and impressions work
have been no more than an idea or inner experience of the soul in one
illness by a treatment based upon spiritual views and ideas. And

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influence of ideas, of physical happenings, and so forth
It was a matter at that time of introducing the idea of karma with
difficult idea for our contemporaries to grasp. In an age when it can

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Imagine that you have no idea what you look like, you know only that
into enthusiasm for ideals of the Future. Schiller's ideals of the

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a position to form clearly defined ideas and clearly defined concepts
is a thousand times better to have grasped the ideas of Spiritual
that another person does not see. And usually there is no idea of how

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agitatorischer Ideale möchten, sondern wenn wir dieses

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ja ihr Ideal darin, alles nach der sogenannten kausalen Methode
Ideale, Illusionen vor, in denen du dich hinausflüchtest
ein moralisches Ideal vorzauberst! Die Wahrheit ist, daß
du redest von selbstlosen Idealen, aber im Grunde genommen nur

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Idealist oder Spiritualist zu werden — ich meine das Wort
dem seelischen Erleben, das den Idealisten, den Spiritualisten
daß man auf der andern Seite Idealist oder Spiritualist in

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wir nur in der Nachfolge gegenüber den sittlichen Idealen,
Menschen dar, sondern auch für alle moralischen Ideale;
sagen kann: Wie Schaumblasen steigt das moralische Ideal aus
innerhalb des Menschen rein sittliche Ideale weltbildend bis zu
reinen moralischen Idealen aufbauen, die erkennen wir als
Menschenleben herein, daß diese moralischen Ideale, diese
Ideal, das nun auch aus der Goethe-Zeit stammt; nur sprach es

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Idealen. Es gibt nur eine Wahrheit für eine solche
religiösen Idealen, ganz neutral. Da müssen
wirkt wie die gelesene Messe, und es darf nicht etwa ein Ideal
— Dann könnte er sich ein solches Ideal vorstellen,
sich ein solches Ideal vorstellt.

Title: Deeper Education: Lecture I: Gymnast, Rhetorician, Professor: A Living Synthesis
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ideal of the professor was not held in the way it once was by a
they should have no desire to realize this ideal of the learned
should be achieved. If we could manage things ideally, the
as possible the ideal of an artistic speaking. The need for

Title: Deeper Education: Lecture II: Forces Leading to Health and Illness in Education
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highest ideal of those whose entire lives are given up to the

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thought or did anything. But after one has pursued this idea for

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ideas arise in us: You marvellous world body, it was through you,
than mere intellect. If new, creative ideas hadn't flowed in

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 3-5-'14
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the real origin of our ideas that have their life in the etheric

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IV: Mysteries of the Universe: Comets and the Moon
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our day that they reject any such idea. Only think what a face the
ideas were thrown out and people declared themselves satisfied. What

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture V: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
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again!” Since they will carry into this idea the belief that it

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 12-31-10
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Christian is a distant ideal that he must constantly try to attain.

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the sublime beings. For we have no idea of how permeated we are by

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-22-12
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Defense Against European Ideas, as something that has much

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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with this world, to develop quite new concepts and ideas. From
a fatal error, if one regards the concepts and ideas as
extrasensory worlds are given in concepts and ideas, one just
materialist, because it speaks of ideas in history. Thus, many
about ideas in the course of history. This appeared especially
idea appeared. — One took the view that this was a more
reality but only the idea that developed in history.
do such ideas appear to that who figures the things out? They
painter could paint a picture; in the same way an idea could
work in history. Only beings but not ideas and thoughts can
beings can work but not ideas and thoughts; these vanish as

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learning thereby more interesting. Whoever had the idea that healing
simplicity” that arises from having no idea whatever about the

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture V
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like Goethe to consider the musical element as a kind of ideal of all

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VI
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to give an idea of what song itself was like in the age when the
pleasure or displeasure with an idea. Feeling is actually divided

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historical events: the ideals of religion, art and knowledge. And
bearer of our ideal of knowledge, so that some possibility may once

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But we can never have any satisfying idea of the historical
or less clear and luminous life of ideas which grow out of our life of
and luminous life of ideas there is a further condition which never
after all, quite directly stimulate our life of thought and ideas
what lives within our willing. We have an idea that we are going to do
intention to will clothed in the idea. Then the intention plunges into
clearer idea than it has of dreamless sleep. It then emerges as the
through our ideas — ideas which also have some quality of
the end of willing, the intention in the form of an idea, and then
again, also in the form of an idea, the consciousness observes our own
actually awake only in our ideas (our conceptual life); we dream in
sleeping have very little relation to our ideas. They obey quite other
he sleeps through this reality, and it is only in his ideas and
Imaginations and not our ordinary ideas which we must have in our
observed more abstractly in his idea of metamorphosis. The Druid saw
had no idea of what we experience as abstract thoughts. All their
outlined ideas and concepts as we do today. They lived in dreams which
sleep and the abstract ideas of our waking life, so they alternated

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feeling that there had been a Fall of man. This idea arose from a
art and in our religious ideas derives from that time, particularly
ideas to spirit-sight, but in those days, while ordinary men passed
pleasant idea of those days, not just a poetical idea but, in a way, a
less as stones are formed. He has no idea that the hair on his head is
relativity and the idea that it is never possible to talk of absolute
shall be able to get some idea of mankind's future with the help of a

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predominantly in more or less abstract ideas or at the best in shadowy
Initiate was enabled to see what happens to an idea, to an experience
scientific ideas. The sort of law which we should recognize as
at a loss to explain, but at last the young rascals conceived the idea
believed them and finally thought it an excellent idea to be able to
with doctors, he had the idea of calculating how many tiny abscesses
rely on, they cannot draw life from it; above all, that the ideas
artistic and religious experience or ideas.
thinking and ideas, our inner habit is really such that anyone
audience had no idea what he was after. Trendelenburg, well-known

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addressed as they usually are today, but rather in ideas and

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its sculptures, those great, ideal, and perfect human forms described
belonging to the Roman Republic that one feels as if the ideal forms
This ought to arouse a faint idea of the countless occult threads

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom. Temple sleep. Isis and the Madonna. Past stages of Evolution. The bestowing of the Ego. Future Powers.
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The man of today has but a dim conception of those ancient ideas
case of a person who occupies himself much with mathematical ideas
anything about mathematical ideas; the other is intensely interested
exercised upon human nature by so-called “sense free” ideas,
sense-free ideas. The more a person is accustomed to think apart from
may have the healthiest ideas, which, if he were to live under quite
bones and muscles, your idea would be entirely wrong. At that time man

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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world. In order that you may form an idea of such a group-ego imagine
then think of a high idealist such as Schiller or Francis of Assisi.
body; it is therefore no childish idea, but profound wisdom, to speak

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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to those immediately around us. We will now try to give some idea of

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now. Let us try to form an idea, if only a rough one, of the physical
nonsense according to present ideas to say that plants could originate
half-alive. One has an approximate idea of what this basic substance
If the subject of the interrogation is concerned with an idea, one

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In the sculptured forms of his Gods the Greek idealized his knowledge
stock, he expressed in the sublime idealistic Zeus type.

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All this gives us a clearer idea of the processes in human evolution
We can now form an idea of another important fact which came to pass

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
away and hold the idea-picture of it in your memory; the object has
them under one general idea. For instance, you have here so many
which no outer object exists. Man can work inwardly with his ideas,
and if with this inward activity — with this power of ideation
the mighty universe of which we have formed some idea today, is

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This idea is expressed in the meeting with the Valkyre, and is
Valkyre, and it is quite in harmony with such an idea that in its
symbolic of initiation. Among other peoples other ideas had developed,
There, where God is formless, man strove to form an idea of Him and to
men to the highest stage of development. This idea has been preserved
hence the idea of the power of the formless God spread through all the

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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more deeply. According to the ancient Egyptian idea, if a soul
idea developed that the Gods were losing their connection with the

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holds within it the idea that man will yet conquer through his
and in our own epoch the idea of race will gradually disappear along
differences that existed in Atlantean times, and the idea of race has
now lost its original meaning. What new idea is to arise in place of
the present idea of race?
fantastic ideas which are given out concerning the facts of human
with such ideas as his was possible, because in the age in which he
how Copernicus arrived at his ideas concerning the relationship of the
followed the grand ideas of Kepler, knows differently, and he will be
strengthened even more in these ideas by what occultism has to say
possible to a materialistic age, this ancient idea of Osiris, which at
deeply within the physical plane, this idea confronts us again in its
ideas, transformed into their materialistic counterpart in the new
for this is no ordinary passing over of ideas; things are not met with
logic, that which proceeds from one idea to another, requires the

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture I
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observation, so that the right concept, the right idea, may
necessary concepts and ideas.
We only live in the ideas which have been formed since the
of view that is perfectly right. They are ideas which treat
base their ideas upon what they have acquired from an
lay-mind, entirely in ideas of space and time, of a
formed ideas; man had first to struggle through to such
ideas, i. e., to the mathematical, mechanical mode of
on the one hand for ideas that are clear and easy to control
— namely, mathematical ideas — , and on the other
hand they strive for ideas through which they can surrender
ideas.
the sciences. But this idea, as we know, breaks down when we
think how remote the simplest mathematical ideas are to
nothing in the way of mathematical ideas.
called astronomical knowledge has been set up as an ideal.
remedy would work. This was actually an ideal for some people
not so very long ago. Now they have given up such ideals.
Such an idea collapses not only in reference to such a far
introducing mathematical ideas into his field of work. But as
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two branches of science which according to our modern ideas
it will be very difficult to grasp, even as a general idea,
form certain preliminary ideas. We must first build up
radically with the idea of the center of coordinates being in
elementary ideas, these ideas being just the ones that are
clear ideas about home-sickness. It can no doubt be explained
an ideal nowadays to regard the relationship of substances

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to derive our ideas from such a thing as this, even as the
astronomers of our time derive their ideas from angles,
thing which we must practice in the development of our ideas,
human reproduction we must relate certain ideas referring to
Astronomical ideas of a man who still had very much from the
past. We do not want to return to the older ideas; we must
work out of new ideas This man, however, still had much of
the old qualitative virtues in his ideas. I refer to
still worked out of such a life of ideas as Kepler did, this
an idea! For inner life has to do with time. And here you

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consider the whole way in which ideas have been formed in
ideas. First, the ideas[1] are derived
which certain ideas have been developed. The other is that,
the ideas having been reached, they are further elaborated
setting-up of theories, any preconceived ideas existing in
is none other than a preconceived idea. Who in the world will
is a mere preconceived idea. Prejudices of this kind enter
mingle materialistic ideas with his deductive concepts. Then
merely theoretical and link on to those ideas which only
direction of modern scientific thought only up to those ideas
essential for us to hold to is the idea that each planet has
system, we are led to say: A sea of ideas has gradually been
— ideas with which we cannot do justice to the
this if we return to reality with the ellipse idea. In the
if you think the idea through to the end, then precisely as
idea as to what numbers may yet be coming. It is important
realm of Geometry. It is therefore an ideal of certain
biologists — a very justifiable ideal — to grasp
figures. It is a justifiable ideal.
if we applied to some real process the idea that a + b equals
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out, it is the ideal of modern scientific research to observe
ways of thought, towards a true pursuit of the idea of
forming of ideas and mental pictures. It is unnecessary here
while the forming of ideas and mental pictures takes us more
ideation. A thorough study of the metabolic system
creating ideas and mental pictures? It is the process of
forming of ideas. (Please do not take offense at the
fertilization, or between perception and ideation. The
with your thinking and ideation and bring a certain order and
for instance but a very slight idea — at least, most
people have very little idea of what actually happens in our
ideation — and find we cannot enter. We must admit:
ideation (the continuation of the ‘ordered
namely in our forming of ideas.
point where the life of ideas begins. We have, in sense
reality with ideas and mental pictures. Astronomical pictures
poor in idea — we fail to penetrate the facts with
clear ideas. Thus in the theory of knowledge too we must

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to whether the concepts and ideas, which man forms and puts
scientific ideas we entertain today have any absolute
(Please keep this free of present-day explanations and ideas,
phenomena without preconceived ideas? The Earth and the
idealized human being?

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‘ideas’ — mental pictures. To approach the
But it is not the same as regards our inner life of ideas and
qualitative difference between our inner life in ideas and
pictures and ideas. In all this forming of mental pictures we
helps us realize that man's life of ideation — his
organization of the body. Our inner life of ideation on the
closely bound to it. Ideation therefore is quite another
sense-perceptions with the inner life of ideation — the
belongs however to this day to our ideas and mental pictures.
life of ideation rather than to our life in actual
sense-perception. Now ideation — once again, the
can we form true ideas of the relations — including
ideation — mental pictures — and which was
interplay of sensory effects with the forming of ideas and
ideation makes of it — we should still be floating in a
reach workable ideas about the Universe without entering into
than merely mathematical and phoronomical ideas. Approach the
reach genuine pictures and ideas about the Universe in its
To what extent is ‘Euclidean space’ — the
definition of Euclidean space. I might also call it
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ideas from different fields. For this reason we shall have to
idea of what the ‘real’ movements might be like.
power of ideation — the forming of mental pictures. The
ideation, mental imagery, is related to those earlier phases
that time, as we have seen, the power of ideation — the
inner life — in our ideation, our forming of mental
the forces of ideation and mental imagery alternating between
ideation — his life in mental pictures —
some unusual ideas.
the corresponding results for the planets, the idea arose
Such ideas will at most lead to analogies, which may no doubt
genius, when one considers the ideas and the data which were
obliged to form a far more concrete idea of the Ether, of

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fertilization. In order, however, to come to ideas about this
the human being with palpable ideas. Therefore, I should like
from quite simple foundations, ideas with which most of you
These ideas, which seem in part to be quite easy to grasp and
hold of the outer world through ideas.
idea you will have to say: Space no longer gives me a point
space, if we would preserve the continuity of the idea.
The reality itself demands of us that in our ideas we go out
space behind, if the pure idea is to follow its right path.
Having ourselves and going the idea is beginning to think the
on from this, there arises for us the idea of a circle which
concern ourselves with the creating of ideas which, as it
ideas to the reality. It is the following.
We come to certain limiting ideas in
Such ideas, however, also become, in a way, limiting ideas
offence against scientific principles. Such ideas are far
such ideas as these, thought-pictures which, while remaining
than the ideas with which he phenomena are approached today.

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by a change in the forces determining the surface. The idea
ideas and mental pictures, manifold and extensive as it is,
terms of the mechanical, the mineral. The ideal, to reach an
follow up this idea and then cast a glance at man, at the
thought with the inner idea of construction of a triangle. It
abstract Euclidean plane. I must look upon it as a surface

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all together, shall we be able to advance to the ideas.
Benedikt had many fruitful thoughts and good ideas. As you
rigid forms of curve in a rigid Euclidean space, would help

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ideas of planetary paths we have been laying out, it I may
imagine here an ideal mean or middlepoint, on the one side of
imagine it as some kind of ideal mean. If we now carry the
animals. You will then have a more concrete idea of this
idea. If then we want to set out the Kingdoms of Nature in a
ideal point to start from. Thence it forks out: plant
a genuine, mathematical idea.
question, — What in reality corresponds to the ideal
the Kingdoms of Nature is related to this ideal point, so too
something somehow corresponding to it, — to this ideal

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ideas is thus presented — Until Copernicus, they say
post-Atlantean, the heliocentric idea comes forth again,
yesterday of an ‘ideal point’ in the evolution of
that Ptolemy and his followers go back again to the idea of
his planetary system ideally, much in the same way as we
construct a triangle ideally and then find it realised in
whole idea — the peculiar construction of cycles and
and their simplicity the modern man's idea of it amounts to
and idea on the one hand and sense-perceived data on the
sensory quality, men saw the quality of thought, the idea.
intensive union of concept and idea with sense-perceptible,
reality and the idea in the mind together. Here was man's
ideas — from sense-impressions.
It represents a return, from the ideas now abstractly

Title: Astronomy Course: Lecture XIV
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material we shall try to gain ideas, to lead us into the
aware, perceiving with all his human being, the idea he then
people of today only attribute that idea to him, nor does it
idea: — Here am I standing on the Earth. Now, even as I
The idea thus
idea of the Moon which underlay the Ptolemaic system and you
those who take their start from the current idea of
changed if in a genuine way we come again to the idea that we
then are the ideas we must regain. We have to realise that
filled with substance. Develop this idea: you live immersed
idea of universal gravitation. We say for instance that the
the ideas of olden time, but to do so we should have had to
Now you can make something of the idea that the human
out on either hand from an ideal starting-point. Along the
this ideal point from which it branches
seek to gain a more precise idea: What is it that really
will gain a certain idea, which I shall try to indicate as
aequivoca or primal generation of life, but to the ideal
on it, yet you may well conceive a kind of ideal
plant, there is created in him in all reality a kind of ideal
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will lead over from these difficulties into a realm of ideas
Geometry of a higher kind. Thence we may gain an idea of
dealing with organic Nature, we can try to form ideas upon
rightly, my dear friends. We want to gain an idea-though it
surface of a Sphere. Without the help of such ideas and
is that while in the idea of it — and also analytically — it
idea of the body, as in the present-day Anatomy and
all we are called upon to do is to conceive a clear idea, as
reach a self-contained and consistent idea.
moment, and I will try to evoke an idea of it, as follows.
I have, so to speak, filled-in in thought — in the idea
The idea we have been forming is, as you see, not so very
optic nerve. If you then look for ideas whereby the two
indicating. If you conceive the ideas of three-dimensional
curve of Mars. In this case you must start from the ideal
paths of the planets, that we make use of this idea: In
comprehend the phenomena, the mere ideas of three-dimensional
kind of ideas you should develop to an adequate extent. In a
bodies. Yet neither shall I find a mere empty Euclidean
our given range of ideas, and if we come to a limit
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of the ideas and concepts they already have. What if the real
existing ideas and concepts? In that case, theoretic talk
Euclidean space.
only looks to us plainly Euclidean. We think it nicely there,
to reach the right idea. There is enough and to spare to
definite ideas abut it. Thus they are able to form some idea
understood with the ideas we derive from earthly life. We
try to penetrate them with ideas that are true to their real
always finding the ideas they first developed in their mind

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your start from this idea you will be able to realize the
I get the other valid order by drawing the ideal sequence of
idea of Gravitation. The one draws the other after it: that
ago — man still had clear and penetrating ideas of the
theoretical ideas about Nature lead us to conceive some

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right way. We cannot form true ideas of what we see if we do
some such idea as this: whilst on the surface of the Earth an
adequate idea, to comprise all the phenomena. You have to
start from such ideas as these. You must imagine that in the
mathematical ideas, why should you not think of a certain
into being, passing away again; and if we draw our ideal
real value for the future. Let us not pursue the ideal of
the idea from which I took my start some days ago, speaking
physicist can set a clear idea of what it means. You see, his

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with clear insight, lucid ideas, which will be striven for when through
not be a nebulous idea for the future but something practical which can
should be brought up in their ideas. What people in general need of the
should go through these years without acquiring some idea of what takes
learn strictly in accordance with the ideas of this tutor to work
value in the old way. You have no idea how anxious they are on this

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at today culturally and politically, in the best and most ideal sense, if
particularly evident where ideas on education are in question. These
ideas on education have suffered under something that up to now we have
of the ideas with which education works today, everything falls to the
completion, or by some other device, it is sought to form an idea of the
building up of the idea of man, the passing on of the knowledge of man.
recognise these disguises of certain obsolete facts and of the ideas and
withdrawn into their schools, that such ill-judged ideas have been
really positive idea of the State has broken down. There was an attempt
influence of the idea of purely historical rights, which made their
were able to gain a clear idea of the forming of associations in future
grief when people believe that one kind of abstract ideal can be set up

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we must fight this phenomenon if we have any idea of sending into the
possible for everyone but we can get some way towards the ideal would
heads there sprang up the idea, self-evident today, that a beginning
anthroposophy as an ideal, what has been in this small movement for some
from what is really in question. For the anthroposophical ideal is of
the nebulous idea that they have done enough; they should acknowledge the

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mind that we are concerned with feelings, the ideas, the will
the west. If you trace back all the educational ideas which are
that this kind of idea is frequently attacked, but at the same
by ideas in the mind, can be of no practical value; it is only

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sum of natural operations. It may become an ideal of knowledge to
of Nature. With genuine Natural Science this ideal is justifiable. It may
ideal of Natural Science. Yet it is essential that we should, in the face
of this rightful ideal, press forward to an insight promoted by a sound
be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
that someone or other expresses himself in ideas, but round the question
the wisdom of the Mysteries, which he translated into concepts and ideas.
has no access to them), and works exclusively with the technique of ideas.
by his own ideas and conceptions. We could not describe Kant's fundamental
be conceived except in the sense of the ideas given above. I often recall a
matter of the theory of knowledge, Aristotle already admitted ideas to
technique of concepts and ideas. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science seeks
point the writer's intention was to show how ideas within the range of
transmitted. He is a materialist even though he deem himself an idealist
to correspond with form-reality. To Aristotle the idea of God is a pure
thought he attains to the idea of the “I.” Upon this level (in

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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feelings, the ideas, the will impulses of the next generation. We must be
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
scientific researchers or thinkers. It is true, this sort of idea is
as ideas — such knowledge can have no practical value.

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longer be spoken to in the manner of today, but only in ideas and inner

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Ideas
ideas like these, if only for five minutes a day, our whole inner life of

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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must permeate history with ideas, must show the great connections. Thus,
of history with ideas which pervade periods of time further the ego's union

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according to all these various aspects of the great ideals of
source which gave form to the Anthroposophical ideas, as the
from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
Community-building! It is most remarkable that the idea of
day. The present ideal of community-building results from an
elemental and profound feeling in many human souls; the ideal
children. Just imagine the ideal instance: that anyone should
manifest which may become manifest in such an ideal instance as
world. Now, my dear friends, no matter how beautiful the ideas
through the implanting of spiritual idealism within a human
idealism. But the truth is that within our contemporary culture
and civilization idealism is something rather threadbare. For
real idealism exists only when the human being can be conscious
likewise, when he lifts up into the ideal something he has seen
experience so spiritually and ideally what we experience in the
the ideal, it then suddenly becomes alive.” It becomes
with will, apply your enthusiasm to it, then, as you idealize
in the forming of our ideas of the spiritual, we are actually
something which does not simply so idealize the sensible that
the ideal becomes an abstract thought but idealizes it in such
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Society. This has not been stressed with the idea that the
necessary to become fully conscious of clear ideas.
The ideal of Anthroposophy, as a way

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them. We have no clear idea today of the extent to which
ancestor was unable to form ideas independently of the
forming ideas on the basis of thought. Within the great
to feel themselves connected, in forming those ideas that
ideas of the West have a great deal of human
get an idea concerning the total philosophy that lies
how some are idealists or spiritualists and others are
sphere. It is just that the idea of positive and negative
much effort to grasp it as it does to grasp the idea that
errors when we try and apply such ideas to real life. One
real idea of what it meant to connect one's life to the
even the slightest idea of the living connection which

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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ourselves: European ideas do not make it easy to grasp
want to get Europeans to appreciate Asian ideas, as
itself able to take in the ideas coming from Asia.
that the people were able to rise to a world of ideas
ideas in such a way that whilst living in these abstract
ideas one was not in the sphere of death but in the
instance, and by German idealist philosophers. It is not
of concepts and ideas in a way that was very much alive.
pupil who reiterates their ideas. There is no point
encounter your own ideas of the spirit as a Western
initiate unless you can see your own ideas repeated by
am not going to repeat your ideas. That implies some
possible to evolve social ideas nowadays unless we base
ideas. A social system born wholly out of Western

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considering. They may help to make some of the ideas on
for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
of ideas by which people allow themselves to be governed
today. We really need such concrete ideas, for they are
only ideas to fire the human will and human actions.
ideas about these things, ideas that fully relate to
times the idea of a ruler of the realm, as we may call it
earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
take it to mean today. The idea of the ruler of an
their idea of a god. These things inevitably must seem
concrete ideas as to how a ruler should be prepared for
the one and only idea we have today when we speak of
practically all our ideas today on development, education
People have the idea that only some aspect or other of
there before. No one has that idea. I could characterize
things and to form ideas that have their basis in
The idea
hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
ideas until quite recent times. After all there existed
also the ideas behind St Augustine's City of God
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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have no idea of human evolution, who know nothing of the
proper idea of current events one would have to take
as regards the way they form ideas, present-day people
only suitable for the forming of ideas during the Middle
sensibilities and forming ideas. These are the people who
them all over the globe. The ideas current among them
comes from what should ideally be a truly honest, sincere
ideas produced in the head, and there is a definite
ideals expressed in those lines would then become
ideal! I do not think it is right to continue with this
want is to hold on to the old ideas. If we had some kind
form ideas, except for sensory powers — have come
the greatest opposition to this idea? The greatest
that Aristotle represented these ideas on the basis of
misunderstood Platonic ideas, saying that a fresh soul is
people wishing to represent such Aristotelian ideas
teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
Aristotelian ideas that had crept into Christian
beliefs also contain an infinite number of ideas deriving
towards anthroposophy to form sufficiently clear ideas;
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed
through the organism. This idea of the human heart being
much harm if people have entirely the wrong idea about
the wrong idea about the nature of the human heart that
right or the wrong idea about the heart.’ But this
humankind is absolutely full of wrong ideas, completely
upside-down ideas. One might well think, if one was
serious about it, that being hung up on wrong ideas would
be ready to develop social ideas that can be put into
the idea of a threefold social order offends people
production. The idea is now to compare the actual facts
the views, the ideas, the cultural life of humankind.
The ideas
idea has come up in Dornach, for example, of issuing a
sense of reality. The threefold idea is true to reality
realization. Many people's ideas are however so
unrealistic that the idea of threefoldness goes against
is for this idea to be taken up by a sufficiently large
follow a particular idea. This would make it unfruitful
idea as far as it can go, but they are not unworldly

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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a matter, for instance, of bringing Spengler's idea of
serious account when we form our ideas of the present,
be real but use them as ideograms, ideal points in space.
physical or ideal points. What matters is whether you
starting point or whether you consider the idea of such
ideas you find yourself in a materialism that must lead
ideas to take hold of reality. We cannot do so whilst we
necessary to arrive at a very definite idea, even if this
presented as ideas, can be made into the essence of
ideas. They then become truth and knowledge. It is also
forget about mere ideas and seek to find them—in
ways of a child, forming ideas in play, has to be called

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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cannot get a clear idea concerning these things. We see
idealists or spiritualists because they follow a
ideas and concepts has nothing to do with merely agreeing
logical ideas must be replaced with ideas relating to
to refute Oswald Spengler's ideas. That is by no means
physical world we are idealists, sceptics, realists,
said that when it comes to abstract ideas the physical
anthroposophists have no idea of the methods that are

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the idea that the human body is a temple. In early times
they presented to humanity, notions that the ideal was to
lie in the ideas put forward by Buechner, Moleschott or
supersensible sphere. The idea that Rome might lead the
have to learn to develop their ideas on principles other
will not tell you what your ideas about the world ought
and that people have ideas about this Christ. The point
has to be prepared before one forms an idea of the
way the real idea of the Christ has gradually disappeared
i.e. after death, for that is an idea that can be
and took the threefold idea from that manuscript. Of
maintains that the threefold idea was plagiarized from
you want to get an idea, let me recommend this work to
least idea of the actual source. These articles say

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the physical basis of our life of ideas, must have
the ideal model of himself and was able to say to
himself: ‘My ideal model looks like this. This
had experience of the ideal model, the idea out of which
spirits — the heavenly and divine ideal of an
and divine ideal.
those heavenly and divine ideals before they were
given the ideal image of the human being. They saw life
of that ideal. This heavenly and divine ideal had been
alight and alive, the ideal image the human being had of
to hold in awareness. Some people already have an idea of
infants, but the idea is there. In the ancient Orient
all political ideas were developed further by Wilhelm von
Beautiful Lily basically presents the idea of the
West, ideas that have so far developed only in relation
evolve into the threefold social order. The idea of the
ideas. The book has even been translated into German,
therefore be said that the idea of a threefold social
instinctive ideals became the life of the spirit. The
idea of the state developed by Humboldt, Schiller, Herder
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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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ideas which has continued into the present from prehistoric times has
no idea that really and fundamentallY something quite different was going
has been no corresponding change in people's ideas.
had gone before. You can get an idea of the different forms it took if
with ideas thought up by human individuals and so on. The things people
the two. First of all, however, we must get a definite idea as to what we
and made comprehensible through abstract ideas, in short, the things that
phenomena. They have not the least idea that demonic spirits are active
get an idea as to what was coming. The 19th century brought events which
of the 19th-century idealists. Those idealistic thinkers pretended to
thoughts and ideas. Yet it arises in a form similar to fear. You will
blessing for humankind; but it cannot develop from the ideas of

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bring light and warmth into all the ideals we are capable
begin with is more in form of concepts, of ideas. We must
ideas. So we may indeed say that modern scientific
started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
idea of logical necessity. He said to himself:
not exist in that case.’ The second idea in
are at a spiritual level. We link ideas, but in doing so
build everything up on the basis of three abstract ideas.
ideal. 19th century scientists said, and present-day
book. Those tombs are the true ideals of the modern
personal enthusiasm, personal engagement, for every idea
individuality. Schiller's abstract ideas therefore still
ideas to leave that realm and enter into a totally
go as far as the development of abstract ideas. Goethe
did not find it possible to form such abstract ideas. He
fairytale figures. The time had not yet come when ideas
the idea came up of putting on a play in Munich and the
developing abstract ideas in his letters on aesthetic
attempted to express in abstract ideas in his letters on
Christ filled. By bringing the Christ idea into science
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