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Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 1
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world, but they possess no knowledge of Man.
insight, either into the world, life or men. A true insight will lead
civilisation and break it up. If this goes on the World War will have
been nothing but a first step, an introduction. In reality the World
existence in the spiritual world. The body of the child acts almost
spiritual world is still fully active in a child in the first seven
which has descended from the spiritual worlds, to accustom itself to
completely different world, with the new experience of having a body
pre-earthly world which is endeavouring to make the child's body
spiritual world the human being can work on the body so that it may
from the spiritual world needing a body, you just have to take one;
so on, and there would be no dentists in the world.
down from the spiritual world is very strong in us, and it is clumsy
there in the world. The child has to enter a world into which he so
world. Now there is one thing which the child has difficulty in
interest in the external world, but he takes so much the more
descending to earth we live entirely in the outer world. The whole
world is then our inner being and there exist no such distinctions as
outer and inner world. Therefore we are not curious about what is

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 2
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spiritual pre-earthly world is weak, then this second life organism
acutely sensitive to the impressions of the outer world. And if you
in the world is to be found within the eye as a picture. Physics
truth he really feels himself within the whole world. He feels that
the whole world is connected with himself. But people have the most
feeling for the world is “animism,” that is, they treat

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 3
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feeling that the outside world is simply a continuation of his own
him to certain elementary facts of the outside world, the facts of
can only be arrived at by considering earth and plant world as a
have the best will in the world. You may say to yourself that the
to what the child received in the spiritual worlds before he
plant world was then something that the child's soul could receive as
plants, and this plant world appears to him as related to the
the pre-earthly world into the earthly world — this whole world
whereas the child rejoices inwardly if he hears about the plant world
animal world. Even a superficial glance will show us that the animal
not find the world less interesting than a man does. A man can make
the fact that there is really an immense variety, a whole world of
Schopenhauer wrote a book called The World as Will and Idea.
had written it he would have called it The World as Will and
everywhere in the wide world you can find some connection between man
pointed out to you the child comes to know of the plant world as
about the whole world.
world as object. He makes a distinction between himself and the world
animal-man. Thereby the child takes his place in the world in a very
to show the child how he is related to the animal world, he will see
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Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 4
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everything in the world which might hurt her. Then the little violet
as the world-ocean. Your soul is a drop in this ocean of God. But as
to perceive other examples of harmony to be found in the world.

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 5
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and are driven through the world. So it is with the head; it does not
be carried quietly through the world as a spectator. All that is done

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 6
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marvellous thing. In the cow a kind of image of the whole world is
digestion every cow has a wonderful aura in which the whole world is
digestion comprehending the whole world. With us human beings all
experience. We should know much more of the world if we could
carried over into the outside world. A similar thing happens when the
the outside world. He will do this of himself because it lies in
external world. This we should really experience in our feeling, be
who lives in this part of the world makes a jump he says he jumps
that. We do not make judgments about the world and about space in
himself to the world, experiments to see whether he fits in with the
world in this way or in that. That is not language, that is not a
revelation of man, but rather a demand the world makes upon him that
he should be fit for the world and be able to find his way into it.
may adapt themselves to the outside world. The Eurythmy teacher

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Lecture 7
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which surround him in the outside world; up to this point of time it
how the transition to descriptions of the outside world can be made
world.
only very gradually introduce the lifeless world when the child is
approaching his twelfth year, for this lifeless world must be grasped
different phenomena of the physical and mineral world. If you do it
come to a perception of the world which is in accordance with life
the being of man and some idea of the place of man in the world.
man is connected with all physical matter in the world, with all that
is of soul in the world, with all spirit in the world. So that the

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Questions and Answers
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lines, but in the real world there is no such thing as a line. In the
real world there is, for example, the sea. It is represented by
outer world who would be glad to teach in the Waldorf School, because
a stranger to his world. To believe that sport is of tremendous value
and we must not make the child a stranger to the world by excluding
because it is a universal world language, and will become so more and
launched: from it the world must take notice that the matter is

Title: True/False Paths: Lecture One: Nature is the Great Illusion; Know Thyself
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of the super-sensible world. This knowledge, and our knowledge of the
phenomenal world, the fruit of years of patient and diligent study,
times with insight derived from the spiritual world.
external world confronts us we are in no doubt that it is both
discuss in these lectures how the world in which man lives may be
accept the phenomenal world as it is and take an active part in it?
Why do we strive at all to attain knowledge of a spiritual world? In
still found today when we inquire into the Ground of the world.
East there echoes across thousands of years the saying: the world
world is Maya, then he must transcend the ‘Great
this world of sense-impressions as Maya? Why, precisely in the
to that which, purely in the external world, was the Great Illusion,
— ‘the world is Maya,’ from the East, and
the world is illusion and that man must attain to
in clear understanding, but with deep emotion, every man the world
over can say to himself: ‘Such as is the outer world that you
‘Such as is the external world that you perceive with your five
they experienced a spiritual world. How to find the right path to the
spiritual world will be the subject of these lectures. You can
procedure he adopted in exploring the phenomenal world. He will
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Two: The Three Worlds and their Reflected Images
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THREE WORLDSAND THEIR REFLECTED IMAGES
completely different outlook on the world from ourselves. They did
linked with the spiritual world; when they grew up they had not
they began to see the world clearly and said: “I have been
consciousness into the spiritual world. He has arrived at the
man. We do not survey the world simply through a single state of
consciousness. We learn to know the world only when we
information from the spiritual world.
world.
into the spiritual world; from Sun-heroes they became Fathers who
be related to anything in the external world. When that point
is reached in gradual stages, we say that a totally different world
world that appears in dream pictures, but a wholly different world
invades us. Human beings can dream of the super-sensible world in the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
One begins to see the world in a different light and this is shown
external aspect. Now a whole new world is added. In each animal
lying there they would have represented a world unto themselves. Now
self-consciousness which, in the spiritual world, resembles a human
egos. In the spiritual world the lion-souls do precisely the same. To
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Three: Form and Substantiality of the Mineral Kingdom in Relation to the Levels of Consciousness in Man
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its totality which is in touch with a higher world of soul, the
sensory impressions, we attain to the world of stars with this second
and grandeur which sparkle out amongst the world of stars like the
and perceive that the world of plants in reality is a reflected image
observe the world of stars on the one hand and the world of plants on
visualize the following picture: above us is the world of stars,
consciousness that sees the world of the stars and of plants in the
wish to investigate the higher worlds, mineral crystals offer an
position to investigate the mineral-crystal world. As on the
mineral-crystal world that we see on Earth is the creation of an
fashioned, is a little world unto itself.
different cosmic forces, indeed, as many worlds in cosmic space as
infinitude of worlds.
spiritual reality which permeates the whole universe; it is a world
the world of space; the crystal is the impress, the manifestation of
a whole world. We are gazing on countless beings, each of which is a
world unto itself. As human beings here on Earth, we conclude
worlds. In all that we think and do here on Earth are reflected the
devotion towards it. Every object and every event in the world
divinely ordered world of crystals, we had been filled with fear.
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Four: The Secret of Investigation into Other Realms through the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
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too glad to know something of other worlds and other states of
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
spiritual world from the moral standpoint.
insight into the spiritual world. The right course for today is to
dominated by the dead. We are strongly influenced by that world
physical world.
illustrious personality known to the world as John of Hanville.
world would describe as ‘nervous,’ sensitive fingers,
phenomenal world, but who is veiled from you. Then Alanus ab Insulis
only half of her life in the upper world, who reveals only her
of the contingencies in the world of forms, of the
inter-relationships of entities in that world. Speaking from his
spiritual world will soon overtake us. Look upon your human form in
visually and intellectually. Learn then to feel and know this world
microcosmic world into the larger world that reaches from the Earth
prisoner of your own body, of your own world, but will inhabit that
other world you now behold, a world that embraces the Earth and the
star-radiance. You will now be living in the spiritual world and will
this fashion, because the perception of the external world was not so
you see as the external world. — The teacher did not use the
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Five: The Inner Vitalization of the Soul through the Qualities of the Metallic Nature
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We inhabit a world of more powerful impressions, more luminous, a
world that brings everything to fuller consummation than the
phenomenal world.
time, this world reveals a peculiar characteristic. When we
inhabit this world in the state of consciousness I have described, we
world before birth. We must therefore realize that in this condition
of consciousness we are detached from the world which man normally
apprehend the world of everyday existence. This is only feasible for
we look into the world immediately above and perceive what I have
species. And when we look out into the world, we find it transformed
present knowledge is relevant only to the world between birth and
death and is no longer valid when we enter into the spiritual world
importance in the world we share with the dead. All the knowledge we
acquire in the phenomenal world is valueless in this intermediate
inhabit and we feel that the everyday world in which we learned so
much has faded from our consciousness. This other world now lies open
intermediate world everything that I have described as solid and
intermediate world.
spiritual world all sharply defined contours are effaced. We perceive
environment gradually encompasses us. A new world arises, the world
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Six: Initiation-Knowledge, Waking Consciousness and Dream Consciousness
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the world stems from these different states of
propose to ascertain how man's relationship to the world is
we perceive the external world today or with the insights of
when we can confront the world in full waking consciousness in such a
body and Ego which are in the spiritual world, but we cannot perceive
We perceive external impressions of the world around because
body in the physical world bereft of eyes and ears, so that all
in the astral body and Ego and thus to see into the spiritual world
spiritual world and there arises a chaotic, confused interplay
between the activity of the external spiritual world and the
within himself, but what is happening in the spiritual world outside
world. Dream consciousness is a chaotic counterpart of
into the world of Imaginations, when he has an intuitive
spiritual world.
spiritual world, he experiences recurrent after-images of the
physical world, disturbing images that intrude upon the true pictures
of the spiritual world. Only through patience and persistence can he
we may readily dream ourselves into an illusory world instead of
entering into a world of spiritual reality. The aspirant, in effect,
world, we must draw attention to these things. If we wish to take the
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Seven: Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background
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OF THE WORLD OF STARS.DIFFERENTIATION OF THEHISTORICAL EPOCHS
to full communion with the world of stars. This world must be
open the doors to the spiritual world and to undertake investigations
into that world, strenuous efforts must be made to develop the
to the spiritual world and enables him to perceive — and if I
world, he realizes that the historical evolution of mankind
it is imperative to consort in the spiritual world with human beings,
physical world. I have tried to suggest this in the descriptions I
spiritual being in the spiritual world. But it was first necessary to
associated with the spiritual world, otherwise mankind will not be
man that is derived from the world of stars. If, through
decisive rôle in the cosmic direction of the world. The forces of the
the cosmic guidance of the whole world.
of the phenomenal world. He is both an adult and a child eager for
permanently inhabit the spiritual world are less sharply defined in
existence in the spiritual world. Through spiritual perception, on
death, we enter a world where, because we still retain the earlier
spiritual world of which I am now speaking, these beings also have
creative use of what we receive from the spiritual world. The task of
world. Men were unwilling to seek contact with the beings who, under
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eight: Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation
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This world borders on our world.
world. We then enter into a wider realm where we are intimately
develop the appropriate consciousness in order to enter the world in
which they dwell. Their true form is only revealed to us in the world
must share the consciousness of their world. Thus we can take it for
granted that these worlds are, in a certain sense, insulated from
each other and that each world has its specific condition of
form existing in the spiritual world and which forms the
by raising our consciousness into this world of archetypal forms
world to which the violet belongs, that is, in the world of the
other worlds. We understand the being of the common plant when we
developed the consciousness appropriate to the world of each
world proper to it and attracts to itself nothing from a world that
itself something from an alien world; it assimilates something
but who, unperceived by men, enter into our physical world. Perhaps I
the gates of death, we enter into a world inhabited by all kinds of
that world. We may say therefore that, since these beings appertain
to that world, they ought in reality to utilize only the forces
some who do not confine their activities to their own world, but who
activities within the world of men between birth and death. We are
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Nine: Abnormal Paths into the Spiritual World and their Transformation
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PATHS INTOTHE SPIRITUAL WORLDAND THEIR TRANSFORMATION
consciousness which enable us to enter into worlds other than the one
the spiritual world is simply bewildered by these normally chaotic
transplanted into the chaotic and wondrous world of dream; but he
ordinary life. Then he gains insight into another world where he can
world of much greater reality than our present world envelops him.
The question now is: what is the real nature of the world he now
concerned when we first enter the spiritual world. Just as we cannot
world immediately adjacent to our own. It is there that we find the
worlds. It was further developed in a decadent form throughout the
these worlds, but the attempt is fraught with danger. When the
world, he immediately has the feeling that he is losing touch with
the physical world, that he is losing consciousness and sinking into
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
assiduously for the world we enter as a result of these exercises,
in these worlds just as we participate in the physical world through
interest in the world ruled by the Moon Beings and the Initiates of
say of this world, of their encounter with the dead, of the
investigation into the Moon sphere and how the world appears from the
it describes the world of which I am now speaking, the Moon sphere,
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Ten: Influences of the Extra-Terrestrial Cosmos Upon the Consciousness of Man
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spoke of abnormal and pathological approaches to the spiritual world:
deeper penetration into the world of dream on the one hand, and on
etheric bodies are left behind. But from the spiritual world during
spiritual world.
need for me to describe man's relationship to the world, to the Sun
world.
the spiritual world. In the physical world there is no difficulty in
spiritual world, it is exceedingly difficult to establish this
spiritual world.
world, the Being whom we know for certain belongs to Mercury. Through
along the clearly defined paths that lead into the spiritual world.
wish to find the true paths into the spiritual world we must first
the external day, do we discover the real spiritual world. Just as no
one can deny that the Moon or Mercury rises in the outer world of
the spiritual world is equally real and no delusion when we enter it
becoming conscious of the nature of the spiritual world we are at all
spiritual world, that stumbles along blindly and only looks for
path. Everything which, on penetrating into the spiritual world,
immediately experiences this world as a spiritual reality, is
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eleven: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation?
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worlds? This is a question that lies close to the hearts of those who
ask: what is the use of all these descriptions of the spiritual world
if I cannot look into that world myself? I should like, therefore, to
spiritual world oneself. It is essential to distinguish, especially
to the different worlds and the comprehension of those facts. This
we know him today, belongs in fact to different worlds and that his
experiences are derived from different worlds. Man as he is
over a limited field, over that aspect of the world that is
understanding man penetrates in his dreams into this world concealed
behind the phenomenal world, in a vague, indefinite way as I have
already pointed out. In his psychic life man contacts the world
sleep. But he does not live only in the worlds to which this
has many mansions. His physical body lives in a different world from
his etheric body, his etheric body again in a different world from
his astral body and both live in different worlds from the
although, in order to investigate the spiritual world, we must of
necessity direct our consciousness to that world which we seek to
place, for example, we investigate the world of the human organs as I
spiritual world during the course of his life. We then discover the
are men in the world who are aware of these facts and who communicate
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture One: Nature is the Great Illusion; Know Thyself
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of the super-sensible world. This knowledge, and our knowledge of the
phenomenal world, the fruit of years of patient and diligent study,
times with insight derived from the spiritual world.
external world confronts us we are in no doubt that it is both
discuss in these lectures how the world in which man lives may be
accept the phenomenal world as it is and take an active part in it?
Why do we strive at all to attain knowledge of a spiritual world? In
still found today when we inquire into the Ground of the world.
East there echoes across thousands of years the saying: the world
world is Maya, then he must transcend the ‘Great
this world of sense-impressions as Maya? Why, precisely in the
to that which, purely in the external world, was the Great Illusion,
— ‘the world is Maya,’ from the East, and
the world is illusion and that man must attain to
in clear understanding, but with deep emotion, every man the world
over can say to himself: ‘Such as is the outer world that you
‘Such as is the external world that you perceive with your five
they experienced a spiritual world. How to find the right path to the
spiritual world will be the subject of these lectures. You can
procedure he adopted in exploring the phenomenal world. He will
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Two: The Three Worlds and their Reflected Images
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THREE WORLDSAND THEIR REFLECTED IMAGES
completely different outlook on the world from ourselves. They did
linked with the spiritual world; when they grew up they had not
they began to see the world clearly and said: “I have been
consciousness into the spiritual world. He has arrived at the
man. We do not survey the world simply through a single state of
consciousness. We learn to know the world only when we
information from the spiritual world.
world.
into the spiritual world; from Sun-heroes they became Fathers who
be related to anything in the external world. When that point
is reached in gradual stages, we say that a totally different world
world that appears in dream pictures, but a wholly different world
invades us. Human beings can dream of the super-sensible world in the
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
One begins to see the world in a different light and this is shown
external aspect. Now a whole new world is added. In each animal
lying there they would have represented a world unto themselves. Now
self-consciousness which, in the spiritual world, resembles a human
egos. In the spiritual world the lion-souls do precisely the same. To
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Three: Form and Substantiality of the Mineral Kingdom in Relation to the Levels of Consciousness in Man
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its totality which is in touch with a higher world of soul, the
sensory impressions, we attain to the world of stars with this second
and grandeur which sparkle out amongst the world of stars like the
and perceive that the world of plants in reality is a reflected image
observe the world of stars on the one hand and the world of plants on
visualize the following picture: above us is the world of stars,
consciousness that sees the world of the stars and of plants in the
wish to investigate the higher worlds, mineral crystals offer an
position to investigate the mineral-crystal world. As on the
mineral-crystal world that we see on Earth is the creation of an
fashioned, is a little world unto itself.
different cosmic forces, indeed, as many worlds in cosmic space as
infinitude of worlds.
spiritual reality which permeates the whole universe; it is a world
the world of space; the crystal is the impress, the manifestation of
a whole world. We are gazing on countless beings, each of which is a
world unto itself. As human beings here on Earth, we conclude
worlds. In all that we think and do here on Earth are reflected the
devotion towards it. Every object and every event in the world
divinely ordered world of crystals, we had been filled with fear.
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Four: The Secret of Investigation into Other Realms through the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
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too glad to know something of other worlds and other states of
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
spiritual world from the moral standpoint.
insight into the spiritual world. The right course for today is to
dominated by the dead. We are strongly influenced by that world
physical world.
illustrious personality known to the world as John of Hanville.
world would describe as ‘nervous,’ sensitive fingers,
phenomenal world, but who is veiled from you. Then Alanus ab Insulis
only half of her life in the upper world, who reveals only her
of the contingencies in the world of forms, of the
inter-relationships of entities in that world. Speaking from his
spiritual world will soon overtake us. Look upon your human form in
visually and intellectually. Learn then to feel and know this world
microcosmic world into the larger world that reaches from the Earth
prisoner of your own body, of your own world, but will inhabit that
other world you now behold, a world that embraces the Earth and the
star-radiance. You will now be living in the spiritual world and will
this fashion, because the perception of the external world was not so
you see as the external world. — The teacher did not use the
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Five: The Inner Vitalization of the Soul through the Qualities of the Metallic Nature
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We inhabit a world of more powerful impressions, more luminous, a
world that brings everything to fuller consummation than the
phenomenal world.
time, this world reveals a peculiar characteristic. When we
inhabit this world in the state of consciousness I have described, we
world before birth. We must therefore realize that in this condition
of consciousness we are detached from the world which man normally
apprehend the world of everyday existence. This is only feasible for
we look into the world immediately above and perceive what I have
species. And when we look out into the world, we find it transformed
present knowledge is relevant only to the world between birth and
death and is no longer valid when we enter into the spiritual world
importance in the world we share with the dead. All the knowledge we
acquire in the phenomenal world is valueless in this intermediate
inhabit and we feel that the everyday world in which we learned so
much has faded from our consciousness. This other world now lies open
intermediate world everything that I have described as solid and
intermediate world.
spiritual world all sharply defined contours are effaced. We perceive
environment gradually encompasses us. A new world arises, the world
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Six: Initiation-Knowledge, Waking Consciousness and Dream Consciousness
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the world stems from these different states of
propose to ascertain how man's relationship to the world is
we perceive the external world today or with the insights of
when we can confront the world in full waking consciousness in such a
body and Ego which are in the spiritual world, but we cannot perceive
We perceive external impressions of the world around because
body in the physical world bereft of eyes and ears, so that all
in the astral body and Ego and thus to see into the spiritual world
spiritual world and there arises a chaotic, confused interplay
between the activity of the external spiritual world and the
within himself, but what is happening in the spiritual world outside
world. Dream consciousness is a chaotic counterpart of
into the world of Imaginations, when he has an intuitive
spiritual world.
spiritual world, he experiences recurrent after-images of the
physical world, disturbing images that intrude upon the true pictures
of the spiritual world. Only through patience and persistence can he
we may readily dream ourselves into an illusory world instead of
entering into a world of spiritual reality. The aspirant, in effect,
world, we must draw attention to these things. If we wish to take the
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Seven: Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background
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OF THE WORLD OF STARS.DIFFERENTIATION OF THEHISTORICAL EPOCHS
to full communion with the world of stars. This world must be
open the doors to the spiritual world and to undertake investigations
into that world, strenuous efforts must be made to develop the
to the spiritual world and enables him to perceive — and if I
world, he realizes that the historical evolution of mankind
it is imperative to consort in the spiritual world with human beings,
physical world. I have tried to suggest this in the descriptions I
spiritual being in the spiritual world. But it was first necessary to
associated with the spiritual world, otherwise mankind will not be
man that is derived from the world of stars. If, through
decisive rôle in the cosmic direction of the world. The forces of the
the cosmic guidance of the whole world.
of the phenomenal world. He is both an adult and a child eager for
permanently inhabit the spiritual world are less sharply defined in
existence in the spiritual world. Through spiritual perception, on
death, we enter a world where, because we still retain the earlier
spiritual world of which I am now speaking, these beings also have
creative use of what we receive from the spiritual world. The task of
world. Men were unwilling to seek contact with the beings who, under
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eight: Potential Aberrations in Spiritual Investigation
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This world borders on our world.
world. We then enter into a wider realm where we are intimately
develop the appropriate consciousness in order to enter the world in
which they dwell. Their true form is only revealed to us in the world
must share the consciousness of their world. Thus we can take it for
granted that these worlds are, in a certain sense, insulated from
each other and that each world has its specific condition of
form existing in the spiritual world and which forms the
by raising our consciousness into this world of archetypal forms
world to which the violet belongs, that is, in the world of the
other worlds. We understand the being of the common plant when we
developed the consciousness appropriate to the world of each
world proper to it and attracts to itself nothing from a world that
itself something from an alien world; it assimilates something
but who, unperceived by men, enter into our physical world. Perhaps I
the gates of death, we enter into a world inhabited by all kinds of
that world. We may say therefore that, since these beings appertain
to that world, they ought in reality to utilize only the forces
some who do not confine their activities to their own world, but who
activities within the world of men between birth and death. We are
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Nine: Abnormal Paths into the Spiritual World and their Transformation
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PATHS INTOTHE SPIRITUAL WORLDAND THEIR TRANSFORMATION
consciousness which enable us to enter into worlds other than the one
the spiritual world is simply bewildered by these normally chaotic
transplanted into the chaotic and wondrous world of dream; but he
ordinary life. Then he gains insight into another world where he can
world of much greater reality than our present world envelops him.
The question now is: what is the real nature of the world he now
concerned when we first enter the spiritual world. Just as we cannot
world immediately adjacent to our own. It is there that we find the
worlds. It was further developed in a decadent form throughout the
these worlds, but the attempt is fraught with danger. When the
world, he immediately has the feeling that he is losing touch with
the physical world, that he is losing consciousness and sinking into
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,
assiduously for the world we enter as a result of these exercises,
in these worlds just as we participate in the physical world through
interest in the world ruled by the Moon Beings and the Initiates of
say of this world, of their encounter with the dead, of the
investigation into the Moon sphere and how the world appears from the
it describes the world of which I am now speaking, the Moon sphere,
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Ten: Influences of the Extra-Terrestrial Cosmos Upon the Consciousness of Man
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spoke of abnormal and pathological approaches to the spiritual world:
deeper penetration into the world of dream on the one hand, and on
etheric bodies are left behind. But from the spiritual world during
spiritual world.
need for me to describe man's relationship to the world, to the Sun
world.
the spiritual world. In the physical world there is no difficulty in
spiritual world, it is exceedingly difficult to establish this
spiritual world.
world, the Being whom we know for certain belongs to Mercury. Through
along the clearly defined paths that lead into the spiritual world.
wish to find the true paths into the spiritual world we must first
the external day, do we discover the real spiritual world. Just as no
one can deny that the Moon or Mercury rises in the outer world of
the spiritual world is equally real and no delusion when we enter it
becoming conscious of the nature of the spiritual world we are at all
spiritual world, that stumbles along blindly and only looks for
path. Everything which, on penetrating into the spiritual world,
immediately experiences this world as a spiritual reality, is
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
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Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Eleven: What is the Position in Respect of Spiritual Investigation and the Understanding of Spiritual Investigation?
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worlds? This is a question that lies close to the hearts of those who
ask: what is the use of all these descriptions of the spiritual world
if I cannot look into that world myself? I should like, therefore, to
spiritual world oneself. I t is essential to distinguish, especially
to the different worlds and the comprehension of those facts. This
we know him today, belongs in fact to different worlds and that his
experiences are derived from different worlds. Man as he is
over a limited field, over that aspect of the world that is
understanding man penetrates in his dreams into this world concealed
behind the phenomenal world, in a vague, indefinite way as I have
already pointed out. In his psychic life man contacts the world
sleep. But he does not live only in the worlds to which this
has many mansions. His physical body lives in a different world from
his etheric body, his etheric body again in a different world from
his astral body and both live in different worlds from the
although, in order to investigate the spiritual world, we must of
necessity direct our consciousness to that world which we seek to
place, for example, we investigate the world of the human organs as I
spiritual world during the course of his life. We then discover the
are men in the world who are aware of these facts and who communicate
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture I
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minds to the spiritual world. We say, and rightly say, that the last
realities of man's life to-day. He comes into the world through birth
world. He pays attention to the ideas, the thoughts, the deeds, the
European and Western civilisation. But in the very same world through
that same world are to be found the results of all that is inculcated
Bacon of Verulam. He appears in the world and details of his life are
history and the external world of nature will themselves reveal to us
and physical worlds alike, will, to begin with, be taken less
life. But in a periodical intended for the outside world as well, it
to find their way into the spiritual world. And so to-day, before I
world. For when a human being is consciously active and alert in the
world.
world. With his etheric body, sentient body and sentient soul too, he
is strongly involved in the external world. But he can live aloof and
apart from the external, material world when he is fully conscious in
Soul can transport a man altogether into the world of soul. And so in
Soul, aloof to a greater or less extent from the physical world.
world, one was able to live in the very world into which Michael was
world of art from the years 1879, 1880–1890 onwards. But in
was a world adjoining our physical world. Peculiar conditions
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture II
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East had adopted conceptions of the world which faithfully preserved
thinking thus introduced, regarded the world as pervaded by the
impulse to ensure that the kind of thinking, the world-conception
cultivated at this Court, should spread in the world.
world while the events of the physical world take their course on the
earth below, we can understand only a tiny fraction of the world.
in the spiritual world above. It must not be forgotten that while the
spiritual world are experiencing and how they are acting in any
in the spiritual world.
together in the super-sensible world, looking down from thence upon
happenings in the civilised world further to the West, in Greece, in
there took place in the spiritual world above the meeting between the
as naturally as we speak of happenings in the physical world. The
of the then known world. This impulse was still working in Asia in
spiritual world, in intimate communion with what we call the dominion
had been at work on the earth below. And from the spiritual world
returned again into the spiritual world and were in the spiritual
world when in the year 869 the 8th Ecumenical Council was held at
spiritual world between Aristotle and Alexander on the one side and
exchange of thought and ideas in the super-sensible world, of immense,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture III
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since then in super-sensible communion with the world of men. But
everything possessed by man and by the world in general in the way of
pulsing alike through the world and through man.
when he thought about the things of the world his thoughts were not
world. They felt: Intelligence is universal, cosmic; Intelligence is
contained within the things of the world; the Intelligence-content,
perceived; the world is full of Intelligence, pervaded everywhere by
like the light, streams over the whole world, has been the Spirit
Michael. And if we look into the spiritual world we see that the
See Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Spiritual World,
as an impulse in the world.
into the spiritual world. And there they came together with that
heavens to the earth. In the spiritual world the Teachers of Chartres
world. The impulse of which these two individualities were the
had passed through the gate of death into the spiritual world, they
physical world and who were eventually led by their karma to the
between the souls who had just arrived in the spiritual world and the
spiritual world to work for the spread of Christianity in an
Dominican Order also to return to the spiritual world. And now the
super-sensible worlds, a great host of elemental spirits, and many,
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture I
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minds to the spiritual world. We say, and rightly say, that the last
realities of man's life to-day. He comes into the world through birth
world. He pays attention to the ideas, the thoughts, the deeds, the
European and Western civilisation. But in the very same world through
that same world are to be found the results of all that is inculcated
Bacon of Verulam. He appears in the world and details of his life are
history and the external world of nature will themselves reveal to us
and physical worlds alike, will, to begin with, be taken less
life. But in a periodical intended for the outside world as well, it
to find their way into the spiritual world. And so to-day, before I
world. For when a human being is consciously active and alert in the
world.
world. With his etheric body, sentient body and sentient soul too, he
is strongly involved in the external world. But he can live aloof and
apart from the external, material world when he is fully conscious in
Soul can transport a man altogether into the world of soul. And so in
Soul, aloof to a greater or less extent from the physical world.
world, one was able to live in the very world into which Michael was
world of art from the years 1879, 1880–1890 onwards. But in
was a world adjoining our physical world. Peculiar conditions
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture II
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East had adopted conceptions of the world which faithfully preserved
thinking thus introduced, regarded the world as pervaded by the
impulse to ensure that the kind of thinking, the world-conception
cultivated at this Court, should spread in the world.
world while the events of the physical world take their course on the
earth below, we can understand only a tiny fraction of the world.
in the spiritual world above. It must not be forgotten that while the
spiritual world are experiencing and how they are acting in any
in the spiritual world.
together in the super-sensible world, looking down from thence upon
happenings in the civilised world further to the West, in Greece, in
there took place in the spiritual world above the meeting between the
as naturally as we speak of happenings in the physical world. The
of the then known world. This impulse was still working in Asia in
spiritual world, in intimate communion with what we call the dominion
had been at work on the earth below. And from the spiritual world
returned again into the spiritual world and were in the spiritual
world when in the year 869 the 8th Ecumenical Council was held at
spiritual world between Aristotle and Alexander on the one side and
exchange of thought and ideas in the super-sensible world, of immense,
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture III
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since then in super-sensible communion with the world of men. But
everything possessed by man and by the world in general in the way of
pulsing alike through the world and through man.
when he thought about the things of the world his thoughts were not
world. They felt: Intelligence is universal, cosmic; Intelligence is
contained within the things of the world; the Intelligence-content,
perceived; the world is full of Intelligence, pervaded everywhere by
like the light, streams over the whole world, has been the Spirit
Michael. And if we look into the spiritual world we see that the
See Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Spiritual World,
as an impulse in the world.
into the spiritual world. And there they came together with that
heavens to the earth. In the spiritual world the Teachers of Chartres
world. The impulse of which these two individualities were the
had passed through the gate of death into the spiritual world, they
physical world and who were eventually led by their karma to the
between the souls who had just arrived in the spiritual world and the
spiritual world to work for the spread of Christianity in an
Dominican Order also to return to the spiritual world. And now the
super-sensible worlds, a great host of elemental spirits, and many,
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