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• Title: Nature/Ideals: Die Natur
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  • Through your pulse races and chases in feverish beat
  • — but to save yourself — this you can never, ever do!
  • because Hope and happiness and every kind of delusion
  • The Life Breath dwindles, and farther away than ever
• Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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  • what devastates and rends the human soul to-day. Even though we
  • nevertheless exists in the spiritual regions of the human soul
  • Nature, we really absorb spiritual powers, even though we are not
  • of the Ahrimanic beings is the following: To prevent the earth
  • from continuing to develop as it should develop in accordance
  • I have spoken of the future development of the earth, of the
  • powers is to prevent this course of development.
  • Outwardly, the human being would develop in a way entirely in
• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • about philosophical questions today, however, cannot ignore
  • achievements of scientific research. And it would be merely a
  • discussing this educational rôle in the development of
  • development, thinking inevitably added something
  • many people today, I believe, are fully conscious of the force
  • splendid achievements of science vis-ä-vis the
  • theory, to a denial of human freedom. In this respect, however,
  • science develops theories that are just the opposite of its
  • to say: however much science, from its very premises, is bound,
  • distinguishing them, however, we indicate at the same time how
  • development, it can achieve this extension only imperfectly.
  • possible for us today to believe that only those in some way
  • riddles of this kind. Even the remotest villages, to which no
  • nevertheless brought by their education to the kind of thinking
  • one another this evening, therefore, I should like to
  • Much of what, it is believed today, should just remain an
  • and the development of hidden spiritual powers, and that they
  • man's development was once actually discovered —
  • examines impartially even the outward historical documents, and
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • course, occur to even the most rigid materialist. He
  • experiences obtrude so much that they become even conscious,
  • first appears before the “mind's eye” every evening
  • organism. On reflection, however, we cannot help
  • thought or concept flows down into our organism, however, how
  • What every naive individual thus experiences extends, in a
  • — believe that we must regard the mental as the really
  • effective cause of the physical; others believe that we
  • of the mind! If we attempt to examine the mind, even as it
  • mind's experience. Everywhere there obtrudes a sense of the
  • development of philosophy. Although I cannot associate
  • myself in any way with their content, I believe that, from the
  • may say: here for once ordinary consciousness is revealed as
  • mental life. The ego, the psyche, everything that earlier
  • recent years, however, psychology has, understandably and
  • philosophical standpoint that I do will never for one moment
  • is here that the other enigma of the soul comes in. However
  • in experimental psychology, the fact remains: everything that
  • many years lived and worked here in Vienna, and who will never
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • their powers in the development of humanity in accordance
  • unconscious. Yet even a superficial examination of human
  • development shows that men have increasingly been compelled to
  • development of humanity with a certain degree of consciousness,
  • however humble his position. It is unfortunate that as yet we
  • mankind's historical development to help us in our
  • Historians have produced magnificent things. In developing from
  • the unscientific chronicle-writing that still prevailed even in
  • the eighteenth century, however, history, falling as it did
  • historical development to work on us. In this way, by a
  • — we can find our own place in the development of
  • particularly fitted to reveal how, even in one's most intimate
  • modern man leads us to see that we must develop these cognitive
  • powers differently nowadays from the way they were developed in
  • earlier times. Not only this: when we do develop
  • developed by men who sought to elicit, from within,
  • conclude: everything we know about it indicates that such
  • days, rises to a certain spiritual vision. He develops his
  • can do, however, is to recollect something that was an
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • the Vedas, there did of course then develop the clear-cut
  • When this dream-like spiritual life works on us, however, and
  • in immediate revelation, as they appear to the human senses and
  • the time when the Oriental was developing the finest part of
  • created everything with devoted love. Love lives in each of its
  • the development of the world. But once it has appeared on
  • developed, certainly with no less justification, but in a
  • by that scientific attitude which the West has developed
  • against the old-established ones of the East. And in every soul
  • constellations, seems to him an echo which is, however,
  • first reveal itself through the human soul.
  • Thus we see how the East developed the view that the spiritual
  • semblance, the great illusion, maya. It would, however, be
  • wrong to believe on this account that, in the pre-Buddhist
  • from the outside world. He accepts) it, even if in a higher
  • physical eye. When we develop this vision, however, the
  • us start with something familiar to us at every moment in our
  • many a nebulous mystic believes that he can summon up eternal
  • However, anyone who simply wishes to accept the everyday life
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • some kind of spiritual knowledge? even though it may often turn
  • mysticism. If however you should then attempt, as it became
  • development of the world in specific terms, discussion
  • spiritually in the world's development, and about the
  • possibility that this development, after having passed through
  • world's development. The reproach that is usually
  • levelled at anyone who now attempts such a task is that of
  • results, however, should be enough to demonstrate that there
  • its development through a spiritual cognition that is just as
  • everything that humanity has acquired over the last three
  • would be constantly entering into everything with its
  • ordinary everyday consciousness was unlimited would
  • individual, whatever realm of nature it may belong to, as
  • at the very moment when we develop love, our essence must
  • himself; even so, it reveals something that has certain
  • mysticism. It is a fact that even noble minds at the
  • so great that the mystic will believe he is drawing from the
  • foundations of the soul itself. Even such outstanding mystics
  • of ordinary consciousness for independent revelations of the
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • spiritual, does not remain at the abstract and Utopian level,
  • immediate concrete reality. Today, however, I want to establish
  • other hand, I do not believe that any party is completely
  • tree, too, can only be photographed adequately from several
  • the history of humanity with an open mind, however, we observe
  • man's development. There have, of course, always been
  • formulated, almost as an abstract theory, however, is a feature
  • is that almost everyone these days is talking about social
  • Looking back over man's development, we see that, in the course
  • a tremendously long way towards developing their intercourse,
  • intellectualized power that reveals itself so splendidly
  • develop into human social configurations informed by
  • seriousness, however, we are cast for a moment, by this
  • find our place in the world can never be determined by abstract
  • Now, in the last few days I have shown how the development of
  • understanding this most modern development, man thus
  • development of the soul such as I have described. Immediately,
  • even of something that forms as much a part of the social
  • development began later than it did in England, and what
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • this is true, however, then the change in external economic
  • we must also remember that, however social structures may
  • between men, however, involves trust. And trust involves a kind
  • try this evening to indicate what is actually happening in this
  • — is usually something like this: With us, everything
  • actual life, even economic affairs, may look to economic
  • ideas that I have just been describing. Then, however, he went
  • development of recent times. What he studied were concrete
  • extent, and even this little is gradually leading to absurdity.
  • The essential point, however, is that we can see quite clearly,
  • thought even in Central Europe differs from that in Western
  • Europe. From this, however, we must suppose that the variations
  • these have developed historically in East and West, just as
  • Decadent as it has become in the East, everything that can
  • development of the earth itself by associating their
  • this way is achieved entirely without manipulating the
  • nature could develop from their instinctive life by a kind of
  • established contact with the spiritual world. They believed
  • everything astrological was basically a product of the decline
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • however, is not to draw up a list of all the various deficiencies that
  • a survey would reveal. It is rather to direct attention to some
  • at the same time it can never be the business of mankind to get
  • developed inside European civilization. Even if we believe that
  • long way in human development. Specifically, I pointed out
  • community even at the expense of the development
  • development of Europe's spiritual life is like a small
  • can say that there prevailed in Asia a high level of
  • civilization, one to which many Europeans, even, long to
  • however, is that these men of different type did not have the
  • development. What we observe there in Asia is a subdued
  • this high level of Asian civilization is adopted by an
  • attained its full development, communities were more receptive
  • to and capable of a high level of culture than were
  • developing towards the realization in Greece, as the
  • of development in mankind, to penetrate to the self after all.
  • characterizing yoga. On the social side, it reveals itself when
  • leadership of the masses. Everywhere we find that the man
  • into human development, so that the cognitive process
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • scale, who even in face of the grave difficulties of the
  • it ever has before. It seems to me, however, that nowadays we
  • have become so clever, if I may so express it, that it is
  • at this point it must even be admitted that, when it does
  • discussing with them, as man to man, everything that goes on in
  • We may say, too, that the achievements of our literature and
  • the present, however, the most important point is not really
  • into the factory and business, whatever its kind, and being
  • institutions for adult education, up to university level. What
  • had to teach all kinds of subjects. I never kowtowed to any
  • party dogma; at the same time, I never encountered any
  • reveal at every point that it is not something that can be
  • operative. I was even able to evoke some understanding of why
  • really seem like — and in a sense even are — the
  • is not my wish to argue for one view or the other, however, but
  • simply to observe that even this point was understood. It was
  • my point of view, however, it was really an illuminating
  • something that has no relationship whatever with their
  • widest possible circles, that even people whose work is
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• Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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  • develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and
  • with on every side. This was because it was promptly classed
  • development. My book was intended not as a call
  • demonstrate how mankind could achieve social thinking and
  • unconscious will of mankind in Europe. Everywhere we find these
  • events and institutions, among all ranks and classes of
  • There is another reason why I do not believe there is any real
  • institution. In the historical development of mankind in
  • about relationships among and between men, however
  • time, therefore, I believe we must reckon with the democratic
  • however, we now attempt to reach a clear understanding of
  • everything which, through these obstacles and gulfs, has
  • arisen in the recent development of civilized man, alongside
  • became so strong and so fixed that it has never been shaken
  • even in the face of the many shattering verdicts on the
  • say to conjure up paradise, but at least to believe that they
  • This attitude, however, leaves out of account something that
  • for a particular period never remain valid beyond that period
  • organism. We can never say that the human organism — or,
  • an upward development. If organisms are to flourish and to
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• Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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  • the soul, but rather a certain development of our world of
  • Whoever has worked for many years within these circles, or are
  • improbable, but perhaps confused and fantastic — perhaps even
  • worse could be said about them. However, with the passing time
  • world view comes ever closer, and the world of feeling makes it
  • possible to share things which are revealed from Higher Worlds.
  • These revelations become absorbed just like facts on the
  • are taken in. Whatever one can call proof of spiritual
  • we want to reveal single observations about these Higher Worlds
  • Worlds is withdrawn because we haven't developed the organs
  • astral body, that they are perceptible to whoever has opened
  • recognize them tomorrow, or even after a year, because their
  • astral image world. Naturally everything that enfolds there
  • misty, changing in every blink of the eye. They are nothing
  • there on the astral plane. However these light bodies show not
  • beings, because we never consider spatially separate beings as
  • we will never consider separate bodies in the physical world as
  • However, when we die, after the end of our physical life, we
  • Whoever has had experiences on the astral plane and is able to
  • everything from these images. I have already mentioned that
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• Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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  • the Higher Worlds, running parallel with development of all our
  • expression means a great deal, even much more so for the
  • most varied stages of human development. We will commence with
  • the most ordinary, everyday self-knowledge and rise up to this
  • I-bearer only develops consciousness and self-consciousness
  • self-consciousness at the lowest level? Better even is to
  • arrive at knowledge of this being, or even of the self? We can
  • easily believe that we need to look within and thus investigate
  • brooding of the everyday “I,” an awareness of
  • well, you must improve,” it appears that he has developed a
  • portray in future. In this way a person will never rise above
  • Everything undertaken with reference to soul development as an
  • advancement on your life path, is good; everything which holds
  • develop to create the characteristic keynote of his life?
  • evening, going through your ideas and experiences, how much of
  • your inner soul everything which is caused from the
  • we endeavour to develop this open perceptive sense towards the
  • this basic level could be called self-knowledge.
  • quite different, which in a certain sense is tied even deeper
  • even more difficult area of self-knowledge. Although this which
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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  • satisfied; other feelings arise through the events of life, through
  • beings, stimulating them or revealing the worth of man — in
  • images of the outer world in certain conditions, and every failing or
  • defect in the life of perception and of sensation, every distortion
  • way, we have the idea that we must, to begin with, develop ourselves
  • develop our feelings, we know that fundamentally our human nature
  • has to develop his own feelings within himself; but we are able to
  • cannot unite in a single object. Even the handle we grasp to turn a
  • spheres of human soul-life another distinction may be seen, even
  • clairvoyant consciousness meets with, is in fact a complete reversal
  • exactly reversed. The world which ordinarily is outspread before our
  • it. ... And when one develops clairvoyant consciousness to a certain
  • extent we have become the world. Only imagine what a reversal of the
  • everything tends. It is as if from every point of space one were to
  • man, one develops the clairvoyant consciousness; that is the first
  • in that space in which we observed events and beings and in that time
  • in which we realised that we were in it. When, however, the inner
  • body, the soul-nature begins to develop a knowledge through which all
  • crystallised, that, even to the finest chemical formation man bears
  • without our apparent knowledge leads us everywhere, directing our
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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  • events, and we shall then be able to discriminate between what comes
  • have in everyday life? The answer is 'Yes'! In the
  • prevent our return to help the human ideal. A big battle ensues
  • over his development. Spiritual wisdom in our unconscious existence,
  • soul, as something which the soul develops, something which is purely
  • begin to perceive with clairvoyant consciousness, the revelations
  • if we try to shut out everything external and live entirely within
  • can be done — so that we develop a stronger power of memory; if
  • to develop the power to call forth the spiritual from its depths. We
  • body. Thus everyday life goes on; this life goes on, in so far as we
  • belong to the physical plane. Now for every one who truly wishes to
  • to the super-sensible world bear to the everyday life of the physical
  • everything around one in the spirit-land, spiritual beings and
  • spiritual events, one has there before one continually the picture of
  • everything that transcends man; in the spiritual world, we have the
  • the perfect development and training of aptitudes which this physical
  • man has within him. Thus a picture of Ideal Man is ever present to
  • of art, and the special thing is that while man develops in the
  • reverse is the case in the spirit-land between death and rebirth. The
  • irreligious there. The religious ideal of the spirit-land is ever
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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  • which resemble the reflecting substance, reflect everything and thus
  • Ahriman's action prevents our using Imagination, Inspiration,
  • process of development. That which remains unborn in our Feelings
  • subconscious part of Feeling and Will. Everyone possesses the
  • the Ego can only be obtained by development of the phantom-corpse.
  • draw attention to several positive results of occult investigation
  • that which it is possible for man to become if he really develops all
  • surrounding world, even though we consider only the physical world.
  • becomes like the corpse of the colour. Imagine that whenever we
  • but active phantoms. Whenever we perceive the outer world, something
  • Imagination, and within this again is revealed Inspiration, and
  • would be, that even during the period of our physical earthly
  • us every possibility that exists for our becoming the Ideal Man in
  • world, we can then spiritualise our being; we shall however, be less
  • Spiritual Beings to whom Lucifer is opposed. With every sensation,
  • with every perception we should behold this battle, if the threshold
  • through our receiving into ourselves, every time we perceive,
  • the act of perception this ever-springing impulse towards
  • everything that is in front of the mirror is rejected. If you were
  • everything that falls upon it, exactly as in the case of sense
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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  • Feelings. Spiritual Science should never be taken up like other
  • wisdom depends on the development of Will and Feeling, bringing
  • become ever more comprehensible. When we live on the physical plane
  • to be taught to develop the capacities for acquiring the knowledge of
  • away from the wisdom which for ever streams towards us and which
  • believe in spirit here, he is overflooded by it there. His task is
  • existence which denies everything that I recognised as true in my
  • reality one had formerly believed in, A man is then choked or drowned
  • even in physical life and they show us, to a certain extent, how the
  • I shall now describe as the corresponding event in the spiritual
  • there is something in the human breast which prevents the feelings
  • thoughts and ideas. Spiritual Science ought never to be taken up in
  • his soul, even while in the physical world, simply through the ideas
  • did formerly. This may be noticed in every realm of life; in every
  • even to the manner in which he uses his hands. Do not say: ‘I
  • considering an illness, karma never under any circumstance says that
  • need not even be a fully developed clairvoyant, but this may appear
  • never learn anything intelligently on the physical plane if we are
  • merely looking at objects and processes, we should never on the
  • wisdom, but we are unable to develop sufficient will, sufficient
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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  • the events between death and rebirth, making use of the ideas we have
  • before; thy former relationship to the world is radically reversed.
  • the centre, on the earth, together with all that the earth reveals to
  • of the human capacities developed in his physical body. Something has
  • earthly life. All the events we have consciously experienced in our
  • which it is necessary for us to develop soul-forces which had really
  • to remain undeveloped during our life on the physical plane, because
  • death. Even in the days during which we experienced the
  • because it is during these days that we actually develop the forces
  • the darkness develops that which we could not consciously possess
  • never have formed the forces of memory. The forces which now develop
  • its life. As this soul-force grows it is revealed to us that behind
  • presence; it exists. Every thought is alive, is a living being. Now
  • stands before us, because the living beings reveal their own
  • enjoy and suffer, we live in our passions and we develop impulses of
  • it is never the case that all the forces contained in feeling and
  • will are really able to find an outlet through the body. Even though
  • suffered more, we still could have developed more impulses of the
  • the soul must, however, be overcome. As long as these are not fully
  • overcoming takes decades to accomplish: but it is revealed
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• Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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  • however, later, in his sojourn, have a vision of those left behind,
  • will shine more and more even into drowsy man, even now when humanity
  • that through the past enjoyment thou art able to develop a certain
  • From this you see once more, spiritual events interact with what
  • plane will develop a feeling, like the stimulus of an inner
  • the universe; for he will know that through every pleasure, through
  • every enjoyment he becomes a debtor to the universe. We arrive most
  • that we may also have the moral power to develop these capacities
  • which can only develop in us when we again possess an earthly body.
  • capacities to arise in me, I shall not be able to develop these
  • capacities. But I must develop them. I know that I shall only be able
  • mean that we should ever say, when on the physical plane: ‘At
  • The world becomes ever more and
  • had not died so early. It is, however, previous karma that determines
  • to wait until in the spiritual world itself he has developed the
  • of a small number of seeds being used in every case to continue the
  • and attained the development possible to them. Beings have to exist,
  • is turned aside from the straight forward stream of events, has its
  • power contained in Spiritual Science. However much they may scold, it
  • living towards a future when this will appear in ever greater degree.
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• Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 1: The World Behind the Tapestry of Sense-perceptions. Ecstasy and Mystical Experience.
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • dogmas, but refer, quite simply at first, to matters which everybody
  • will feel to be connected with everyday life.
  • It will certainly be known to everyone here that there are definite
  • elementary logic, to say: Even if modern physics or other branches of
  • and so forth-in brief, everything that we call our life of soul. We
  • can reveal itself to us when in the course of certain normal processes
  • means of everyday occurrence. Let it again be emphasised that ecstasy
  • state of ecstasy he is never aware of his Ego, he does not distinguish
  • experiences ebbing and flowing in their souls, penetrate even more
  • feels: You would never have had to suffer this blow if at some time
  • must have done certain things, even though I cannot remember them. If
  • revealed in ecstasy is mirage, reality or phantasy, neither will we
  • nevertheless an experience that may actually come to a man. The point
  • selves. And on the other side, when the mystic attributes everything
  • to the Ego, makes himself the culprit for whatever he has to
  • himself for the ultimate cause of everything that happens in the
  • abnormal states, but in everyday life there is something which helps
  • but we lose even more — which is beneficial. In ecstasy we lose
  • In sleep there is no such world around us, for everything in the way
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• Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • physical science — which need not, however, be severely
  • influence on his body-free soul is exerted by several forces, or by a
  • sleep? Yes, several quite different influences can be distinguished.
  • kind occurs only rarely, everyone knows that it does occur; it is when
  • which he need not have even the consciousness of dream. Through this
  • people, however, the first influence predominates; most of their sleep
  • of dream, takes effects at intervals in nearly everybody. But in by
  • takes effect in a sleep-walker is present in every human being but in
  • the other two that it gets the upper hand. Nevertheless every human
  • So far, however, we have considered only one aspect of man's life of
  • even when there are no dreams. The third influence, which takes effect
  • Sentient Soul. Everything connected with the Sentient Soul has become
  • exhausted by the previous evening. But in the morning, when we are
  • evening we feel the need of sleep, we feel that our lively
  • his bodily sheaths and eventually into them again, was designated in
  • senses; together with every perception he feels something.
  • However slight the pleasurable sensation may be on perceiving, for
  • example, some colour, nevertheless a certain inner process is always
  • give rise to certain inner states; everyone will realise that the
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• Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • at the rest of the world. During waking life we never contemplate our
  • sleep and waking. But we can never cross this boundary without being
  • covers these two members on waking, the veil that prevents us from
  • development does not really consist in penetrating by force into the
  • in connection with something he does not want to be revealed is a
  • power that it would seem to be diffused over everything encountered in
  • everywhere in life. All this would come vividly before a man's soul if
  • may become, but I shall try to develop the strength that will make me
  • say: I could not have attained this stage had not everything below me
  • Then, secondly, the would-be mystic must develop another feeling which
  • makes him capable of enduring whatever obstacles may lie in his path
  • as he strives towards perfection. He must develop a feeling of
  • resignation in respect of whatever ordeals he will have to
  • endure in order to reach a certain stage of development. Only by
  • time can he develop the strong powers needed by his soul to overcome
  • to itself over and over again: ‘Whatever pain and suffering still
  • what brings joy, I should never develop the strength of which my soul
  • is actually capable.’ Strength is developed only by overcoming
  • suffering with resignation. This strength must be developed in the
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• Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • FACULTIES OF THE HUMAN SOUL AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
  • finds these regions when, as the result of inner development, he
  • ordinary life this descent occurs every day and that at the moment of
  • whole of man's development.
  • In the course of his life man develops from one stage to another. Even
  • during his life between birth and death he undergoes development which
  • enhanced. How does this development proceed in everyday life? Sleeping
  • Every night on going to sleep our souls take with them something from
  • A deeper being is working within us at our further development; when
  • participating in what is going on around us. In the evening we feel
  • Thus we develop from stage to stage, but there is a definite limit to
  • this development. Every time we wake in the morning we find the same
  • two bodies or to develop them to a higher stage. Admittedly, anyone
  • with knowledge of life realises that it is possible even for the
  • acquired has produced a change even in his features; the development
  • appearance. But this outer development is very limited, for we are
  • confronted every morning with essentially the same physical and
  • relatively speaking, we can do a great deal to develop our powers of
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • actually in normal life the moment never comes when merely through
  • feelings that may arise under abnormal conditions even in ordinary
  • statements made in the lecture yesterday. Nevertheless it is only the
  • ordinary life in a form less purely spiritual. Nevertheless, their
  • foundations are spiritual, for that is true of everything in the outer
  • world. The question is whether it is possible to descend even further,
  • bodies there is the etheric body, so that in descending to that level
  • Generally speaking, however, it is not good, nor is it without danger,
  • yesterday. Everything spoken of then can be carried out cautiously by
  • self, however, is not without danger; moreover it cannot be done at
  • higher worlds — or even shortly before — he should not
  • dangerous. As a general rule, even the steps towards mystical
  • Hermes- or Mercury-priest. This entailed strict submission to whatever
  • guidance even in his thoughts and feelings, in order to be able to
  • descend without danger into a deeper level of his own inner being.
  • out certain definite, inherited characteristics? He would never do so
  • transmitted, through heredity, to the pupil himself. It was revealed
  • was also revealed to him that the human being spends a long time
  • These things are revealed when a man descends into his own etheric
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • place everything in its service; everything would be viewed in
  • strength of human egoism; for even when Ego-consciousness was reduced
  • into his own inner being. Left to his own resources he would develop
  • the Ego would cease to control him. Nevertheless in bygone times,
  • entirely in keeping with the development of the peoples living there
  • by the effects of highly developed intellectuality. They were able to
  • How could this be prevented? The force that became weaker in the
  • outside. In the Northern Mysteries this was achieved by the candidate
  • were revealed to him. What the others were able to impart poured into
  • there were individuals who willingly developed one side of their Ego
  • Initiation and thus being able eventually to hear from him a
  • first world through which he passed was the one that would be revealed
  • Macrocosm. Even in normal human consciousness it is sometimes
  • with, this Elementary World makes him conscious that everything in his
  • everything material. When a man on the way to Initiation — not,
  • Elements the spiritual does not yet reveal itself in its true form as
  • The form in which this world reveals itself is such that the
  • the physical world reveal themselves to us in certain states which we
  • Things in the everyday world are revealed to us in these states or
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  • LECTURE SEVEN
  • Whatever was said in the last lecture could be no more than a sketch;
  • existence but as if he were within every object in the
  • everything earthy in the Elementary World and he overlooks all the
  • rest. The choleric man will speak of how fiery everything appears, for
  • the Elementary World reveals itself in the form it does, and then this
  • criticised too severely, for it is a perfectly natural tendency in
  • ourselves objectively. Every genuine spiritual investigator will say
  • from the things while we are actually within them, we can never
  • will ever help to lead another into the higher worlds until the latter
  • able to be in harmony even with people who hold the most contrary
  • even when we have relinquished our ordinary opinions and which ensures
  • The loss of the Ego on entering the spiritual world would, however,
  • judgment about the things of normal, everyday life. At the present
  • time especially there are factors in everyday life which could be
  • have affected us from birth onwards, we shall recall many things even
  • new into our path, and if we were obliged to retain every experience
  • have shown you how even in the normal course of life our experiences
  • finally coalesce into faculties. Whatever would it be like if every
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • spiritual forces, against everything we call the Elementary World.
  • great cosmic prototypes even in the smallest reflections in the
  • develop in the true way. He must derive forces from a higher world if
  • in the true sense he wishes to develop to a higher stage. He must do
  • developing a new kind of activity which can confront the World of
  • occur in everyday life. A typical experience of this kind is described
  • fantastic mind-although there are many such — could believe that
  • respect man has reached a higher stage of development than the plant
  • respect of his consciousness, has developed to a higher stage than the
  • the plant reveals to him; he must gain the mastery over his appetites,
  • impulses and so forth. He will achieve this mastery when his higher
  • development of the higher nature. The Rose-Cross is an emblem of man's
  • development as it proceeds in the world. — This is not an
  • actual development. The soul can glow with warmth at the picture of
  • development presented in the symbol of the Rose-Cross.
  • fact. Such people will ask: wherever is there any such thing as the
  • Rose-Cross? Do red roses ever grow on dead wood? — But the whole
  • progress am I making? Has every experience during the day actually
  • satisfied if he makes only a slight advance every day, having his
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • developed, and only after a period of renunciation would he be able to
  • development. If during his development a man had not the help of
  • sleeping, the forces of sleep come to his help while he is developing
  • anything by means of the lotus-flowers, nevertheless during sleep
  • comes about in the course of the development of which we spoke
  • mean the physical heart but the spiritual organ that develops in the
  • organ becomes a kind of organ of thinking in one who achieves inner
  • development and this thinking of the heart is very different from
  • ordinary thinking. In ordinary thinking everyone knows that reflection
  • There are not many things in everyday life that may be compared with
  • are events which bring the intellect almost literally to a standstill.
  • For example, suppose some event confronts you like a flash of
  • between the event and your terror. The inner experience — the
  • directly follows the first impression are the only kind in everyday
  • ordinary logic altogether. They say that as it has eventually to be
  • experience above all a kind of conscience, and by developing that we
  • and untruth, without which nothing can be achieved in the higher
  • That is the first stage of development.
  • to whatever is innate or traditional. What is universally called
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  • development that lead to crossing these two thresholds.
  • revealed by consciousness, many things will be explained in a new way.
  • it may be found at that stage of development where the thinking of the
  • the logic of the intellect. This state of development can no longer be
  • where you were to look among the people of today, you would everywhere
  • that our present state of development points back to an earlier one
  • was said yesterday about man's possibilities of development, we may
  • point forward to a future stage of evolution even now striven for by a
  • fruits of the intermediate stage of development, the stage of the
  • order to regain, on a higher level, what had already been attained on
  • a lower, namely, the logic of the heart. Whereas on the lower level it
  • was not illumined by the intellect, on the higher level it will later
  • higher spiritual level, thinking of the heart. What is there to be
  • said of memory? In the normal consciousness of everyday life we find
  • time. For a genuine seeker, however, the nature of this
  • higher faculties at every moment of ordinary life; he possesses these
  • different form of soul-activity. But for the experiences of everyday
  • returns to the everyday world he has a memory and a faculty of
  • Now whenever the pupil is in the state of consciousness in which he is
  • ordinary memory looks back in time in order to recall events of
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  • LECTURE ELEVEN
  • certain respects. You will have realised that if every aspect of these
  • but for months, perhaps even for years. At the present time, however,
  • spiritual knowledge, that everything brought down from the higher
  • is communicated to me.” Not everyone who longs inwardly for the
  • revelations of Spiritual Science is at once capable of taking the
  • different assumption, namely, that in every human soul there are
  • however, such as the thinking of the heart, will evolve together with
  • undreamed of faculties will develop. The intellect has reached a
  • zenith and will be incorporated into the future development of the
  • as such can reach no higher level. As well as the soul-faculties that
  • beginnings they have evolved to their present level, there are others
  • understand their own nature, can agree with him spontaneously, even if
  • they do not yet fully grasp everything he has to impart. Thus he
  • what lives in his soul lives in every human soul and that his task is
  • itself from every soul. He seeks only to give expression to the truths
  • which every soul, given sufficient time, could experience in itself.
  • to every soul to see whether it cannot find within itself the
  • even earlier incarnations? This is a quite natural question. In order
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  • their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
  • affords me great pleasure to be with you this evening on the occasion
  • in one way or another, and events may be viewed incorrectly. This is
  • principal events of life in the spiritual world have, of course, been
  • everything is reversed in the spiritual world. I will refer to two
  • from this, in the rest of outer life everything from morning until
  • Wherever we go, in the street, in the daily round of life, every
  • presented to our perception comes to us without our activity. However
  • world as a result of hurry and excitement. We need to develop loving
  • its equal in ordinary physical life. It is similar on higher levels
  • are drawn to it. We should not nurture longings to bring everyone to
  • attention to an important event that had its origin in the spiritual
  • world but which does not yet reveal itself in a marked way. I refer
  • struck by lightning. Such events are by no means rare in history. A
  • Such events are carefully prepared in the spiritual world so as to
  • bring about a change in a person. Since the year 1899, however, such
  • spiritual events occur. The most important thing is to wait the
  • It is different in regard to the acquisition of knowledge in everyday
  • physical, afford a reflection of the events in the spiritual world.
  • what is imparted by spiritual science, to develop two qualities of
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  • their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
  • events they experience are in fact asleep to life, and those who
  • reverse, is such an instance. One has but to concern oneself
  • wife come to me and say, “I never used to think about death,
  • never concerned myself about what might happen afterwards, but since
  • spiritual science, while his friend developed increasing enmity
  • which he remains unconscious, develop a secret love for it. In the
  • after death developed an intense longing for it. Such antagonists
  • way a beautiful relationship can be developed. This shows what
  • surprising events take place. If, for example, we had left home at
  • such events among the possibilities. Does the individual know how
  • many such possibilities he escapes every single day? Imagine all the
  • develops a far greater sensitivity for the complexities of life, for
  • who have developed sensitivity. Important matters can be imparted.
  • What is an earthly language? Every language has meaning only for
  • Fundamentally we are already within the higher worlds every time we
  • yet able to see with super-sensible perception nevertheless know about
  • little influenced by the moon. Even the whole cosmos is involved in
  • were only the solar influence we would never be able to sleep during
  • every morning. This throws considerable light on the interplay
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  • domain of cognition by the intellectualistic development of
  • today one never tires of insisting that man cannot stop short at what
  • the dry, matter-of-fact intellect can comprehend. Nevertheless, when
  • opportunity of making any contact whatever with cosmic enigmas,
  • incorporation into the body of world events, into the cosmos, and his
  • case, even as late as the 18th Century. People of today have no
  • how great a proportion of what so-called clever people call fantastic
  • Nowadays, when a man reflects upon his development on the earth, a
  • gradually developed upward to the point where it experiences spirit.
  • Even as late as the 18th Century, when those who had not been infected
  • Incidentally, the earth did not even exist then. They beheld beings
  • develop who would be conscious of the feeling of freedom. The
  • the most enlightened spirits even as late as the 18th Century. I shall
  • which cosmic development of the human form was not yet possible; nor
  • being that had developed a refractory will. But in any case this form
  • development. And that is the story of “The Fall of the Dragon
  • existence with the earth. He encountered what had developed as
  • in him as nourishment, as the stimulus of breathing, and even in the
  • animal lust — as everything animalistic that rises out of the
  • is that sprouts in the innocent green of the plants and what is even
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  • even so long ago. I repeatedly drew attention to the fact that in many
  • often he is even afraid, when he feels a deeper, more intimate contact
  • for the development of what we experience in the consciousness of
  • way back to spirit must be achieved by means of the strength that can
  • Michael Festival! My dear friends, if anthroposophy is to achieve its
  • in any anthroposophical undertakings; but rather, whatever may grow
  • way into the life of mankind, Christ Jesus had to be born; this event
  • transcendent event had to occur. And the Easter Festival? It could
  • never have had any meaning in the world had it not commemorated what
  • took place through the Mystery of Golgotha, had not this event
  • the Mystery of Golgotha. Under no conditions, however, must it be
  • — as were all events that led to the institution of festivals.
  • were led up to by outer events, in evolutionary objectivity, so a
  • a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
  • reason of man's having become cosmically a hermit, this is even more
  • majestic plant; and if he is at all imaginative he may even achieve an
  • it, of something spiritual; we do not dream that every such plant
  • For in every plant there is concealed — under a spell, as it were
  • that of the development of freedom — man's attitude toward the
  • I said, we need not consider the lilies that are never seen by man but
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  • autumn, I should like today to speak about several prerequisites
  • alternatively, outer events of our life may be symbolized, events that
  • development of a dream, on the other hand, is of the greatest import.
  • difficult climb and becomes ever more so, the higher he goes. Finally
  • circumstance of encountering even more insuperable obstacles. If we
  • and relaxation, hope and disappointment. Nevertheless, the dream
  • this. Dreams will not stand for it, so they rip events out of their
  • system of natural laws — in fact, men should learn that every
  • man of that type starts with the assumption that everything which is
  • everything that is ordinarily experienced by the ego, and the astral
  • never thought of. He wrote all sorts of things wholly foreign to the
  • was convinced that whatever was writing through him was lying, so he
  • Everything we can think, will, or feel in the physical sense-world is
  • means of the mental capacities developed in the course of the last
  • even penetrate into the system of physical nature laws, because
  • believes that a light shining at a given point in space will appear
  • laws diminish in a similar ratio and eventually, beyond a certain
  • candle. When spiritual science reveals the truth by means of such
  • analogies people think it is paradoxical. Nevertheless, in the state
  • has for present-day mankind in general. We will not even pass by the
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  • HE aim of everything we have been considering during the last three
  • body. In our civilization it never occurs to a man who is studying
  • of a rose at all — even if it fills us with delight to see this
  • calculation of everything in the modern science of geology that
  • Mark.} In spite of all this, however, the method employed for such
  • The indispensable factor in every domain of spiritual science is just
  • beings, but the relation of every being of the universe to the being
  • of the cosmos. Everywhere in the world matter contains spirit, for
  • matter is, of course, only the expression of spirit. At every point
  • man; for true vision reveals a multiplicity of earth spirituality, of
  • transformed into a relation to the cosmic environment. Everything in
  • seasons that we determine it not by earthly but by cosmic events: the
  • something that may be practical for a day, but never for a century. In
  • ever be able to point man to his inner life in conjunction with the
  • sensibility prevents men today from glimpsing the factors within
  • super-sensible cognition — the necessity to develop the inner
  • spiritual-scientific revelations entrust them with — this in
  • abstractly as you read other books — there is no point whatever
  • gleaning of other information. This is confirmed even by the fact that
  • those who today fancy themselves particularly clever consider
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  • an explanatory note by Marie Steiner. These seven lectures are part
  • myself – not, however, out of allegiance to any abstract
  • other over everything – I shall allow myself on quite other
  • soul: whoever it was that conceived the poem out of the spirit,
  • Homer had sung the past events of
  • generally recognized today. It will come to be understood, however,
  • circumspection – in full consciousness and with a developed
  • beings so necessary to poetry and art in general. If, however, we
  • found among the Greeks, and even in earlier forms of Central
  • feeling whenever man felt the poetic urge was the pulsating of the
  • qualities we admire so much in his youth, even when he appears to
  • even-measured flow he was seeking
  • and believed was accessible only in the south,
  • believed himself to have uncovered the clue. He believed, too, that
  • – even though the difference
  • out into the world – perhaps even with a certain belligerence
  • Version puts it on a different level to any other translation
  • or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the
  • even from everlasting to everlasting thou art
  • in the evening it is cut downe, and
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  • are ever more clearly realising how, in the person of Goethe, a
  • cultural factor confronts us, with which everything that would
  • However gratifying may be the efforts of our contemporaries to
  • modern Science is, with regard to Goethe, never of so much
  • however, a permanent achievement, and no greater
  • true progress in Science, as also in Art, has never been the
  • achievements for which we have to thank Goethe's genius should
  • investigations, owing to the lower level of scientific
  • research: to revert in each case to Goethe's own tendencies.
  • direction of this science cannot even be described as a most
  • elementary tendency. Even the great Aristotle, that
  • whatever of Art; and, besides, he knew no principle other than
  • never understood the task which the spirit of man sets itself
  • was never to go so far with them, that a yearning should be
  • that highest, could never satisfy us. This epoch had to come.
  • It was a necessity for mankind, as it develops to an ever
  • higher level of perfection. Man could only remain completely
  • short, everything that leads the soul of man into a veritable
  • of everything our inner self tells us is divine. The next
  • consequence is estrangement from everything which is Nature
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  • light upon the great events of our time. Next Sunday too I
  • certain aspects which can throw some light upon the events
  • development, certain more or less sub-conscious facts. But let
  • the hidden depths of every human being, can be recognised in
  • that the spiritual scientist who reveals something concerning
  • add anything which does not already exist, even without his
  • knowledge in those spiritual regions in which every human
  • but it is of importance also for every human soul, for under
  • every circumstance it constitutes an inner reality for all, tut
  • perception. Every day we may observe an enigmatic process
  • watches a process which takes place in man, in every man,
  • whenever he falls asleep.
  • observes something which would present itself to every human
  • imaginative-knowledge is that everything which we are
  • Even as in our waking state we are surrounded by mountains,
  • growth and vegetation of everything that is produced upon it;
  • everything begins to grow and to green. When we fall asleep and
  • the stage of the development of fruits — everywhere we
  • behold that everything is growing and flourishing.
  • enables us to know (because everything which we thus perceive
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  • the, development and rise of individual souls, hut above all it
  • individual to further his own development by what he can
  • cooperate in the development of mankind. Our attention should,
  • however, not only be turned to this fact, but as followers of
  • experience the great events of our time from a high standpoint,
  • connected especially with the great events of the present time,
  • even apply to the majority of illnesses, for as a rule illness
  • the organism generally precedes illness, it develops in us
  • significant and deeply incisive events in a great part of
  • found between these events and a pathological process affecting
  • the whole human development. What should strike us above
  • everything else is that these war-events really constitute a
  • those who judge the present events admit that everything
  • about the development of events and only bear in mind the
  • for it? and so forth. But in every case, they omit to go back
  • prove and believe anything. The self-training implied by
  • believe anything if one remains in the field of materialism.
  • said: This person rejects everything that has been proved by
  • be overthrown. Yet in the course of human development the
  • however meaningless for the attainment of real truth. It is
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  • Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
  • Esoteric Development: Lecture III.
  • possible, however, to speak from various points of view in regard to
  • bestowed upon us even up to the most recent time through scientific
  • to speak also in a different sense regarding the achievements which
  • developed, and that just such observation and experimentation have
  • developed, we see it confronted with a demand — with which it
  • that this thinking must develop as selflessly as possible in the
  • laboratory, in the clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved
  • and more rules of such a character as to prevent anything of the
  • nature of inner wishes of the heart, of opinions, perhaps even of
  • Under these influences a type of thinking has gradually developed
  • It is this gradually developed characteristic of thinking which
  • demands before everything else — so it appears at first —
  • activity; this can really never exist wholly apart from the impulse
  • manifest its special aspect, which is alien to humanity even though
  • play no important role as it exists at first in every-day life or in
  • developed from a relatively imperfect stage up to their contemporary
  • then come to birth within us that there may exist even within the
  • specially developed.
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  • Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
  • may come into existence out of the further development of those
  • capacities of the human soul which belong to our every-day life, and
  • I undertook to show how a systematic further development of these
  • our every-day consciousness, as well as in ordinary science.
  • into activity. Thoughts remain rather shadowy, and every one knows
  • earthly existence. And the fact that he achieves for himself
  • associated with the struggle for knowledge even in the ordinarily
  • nevertheless, mere pictures of the external world.
  • comparison — which is, however, something more than a comparison,
  • should like to begin with the fact that the human being, even in
  • world existent only within him, reveals its effects in dreams in a
  • grotesque and often chaotic manner. Even though we are in the same
  • connected with this dream world. Even the corporeal nature of man is
  • innermost being of man is connected, even though in an instinctive
  • the external course of events through the fact that we
  • are revealed to one who is able to observe in this field —
  • intellectual life, even though its connection with the external
  • world is less exact. There we come also upon everything which
  • artistic creation, which stimulates this intellectual life even
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  • Some people may believe that they are being offered just another science.
  • question that is being asked. As it is, we are led to believe that the highest
  • self-knowledge, however, cannot be solved with a quick answer, as many
  • are inclined to believe. Therefore, today, we will shed light on some of
  • anthroposophy meets us, even if only by appearance, as a teaching or as a
  • everyday life — a question known to all of us. How can we find comfort in
  • about a number of events, or because we suffer as a result of pains that
  • by the necessity of events, he had to educate himself at an early age, he has
  • Even a simple consideration of life between birth and death can lead to this
  • view. If we look at the totality of life, however, and if we face our karma as
  • every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become
  • us feel that even if the world appears to be filled with suffering, it is,
  • nevertheless, radiating pure wisdom. Such an attitude is one of the fruits of
  • at everything that has occurred in life in the way of happiness. He who can
  • does not believe this only has to expose himself to the experience.
  • It is difficult, however, to come to terms with joy and happiness. Much as
  • genuinely ourselves, we develop through joy and happiness, provided that
  • error that is liable to weaken and paralyze the spiritual in him. Every
  • and paralyzes us. This may be a hard fact to understand because everyone
  • silent acceptance of joy and happiness whenever they appear. We must
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  • These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many
  • theory or a science, nor even a specific form of what is usually known
  • a question arising in everyday existence, namely, that of consolation
  • consolation? Every individual must of course apply to his particular
  • happy and carefree; he has had everything he wanted. Then the father
  • virtues — even the very limited virtues of a boy of 18. If no
  • within us a being who is much wiser, much cleverer than we. The
  • to our sufferings, allowing us to suffer because every outer and inner
  • all, is not of much account. A great deal is achieved, however, if in
  • deliberately chosen moments, however short they may be, we shall be
  • will then arise, bringing the realisation that even where the world
  • something that Theosophy has achieved for life. We may forget it again
  • for suffering, and anyone who feels doubtful has only to persevere;
  • joy. However strongly a man may bring himself to feel that he has
  • and joy. But even a cursory glance at life will indicate that by their
  • I reel; and even in delight I pine for longing.” Anybody who
  • tranquilly whenever and in whatever form it comes to us; we must
  • Whenever the world vouchsafes to us the good and the beautiful, we
  • Karma does not reveal itself only in the form of experiences of
  • investigation. The indications will be useful to every individual
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  • everyday existence, namely, that of consolation for suffering, for
  • distress when they need it? Every individual must of course apply what
  • and carefree; he has had everything he wanted. Then the father loses
  • — even the very limited virtues of a boy of eighteen. If no
  • This attitude can even arise from quite an ordinary view of life
  • a being who is much wiser, much cleverer than we ourselves. The ‘I’ of
  • suffer because every outer and inner suffering removes some
  • of much account. A great deal is achieved, however, if in certain
  • deliberately chosen moments, however short they may be, we shall be
  • then arise, bringing the realisation that even when the world seems
  • persevere; but it will be difficult to find the right attitude to
  • happiness and joy. However strongly a man may bring himself to feel
  • as grace — we develop the feeling of peaceful security in the
  • But even a cursory glance at life will indicate that by their very
  • and even in delight I pine for longing.’
  • from joy but of receiving it calmly whenever it comes to us; we must
  • progress in life. Whenever the world bestows upon us the good and the
  • Karma does not reveal itself only in the form of experiences of
  • investigation. The indications will be useful to every individual
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  • make progress along our path. That, however, was not the point on
  • of the Gods to single him out and place him above others, will never
  • achieve this goal. We must never imagine that happiness is vouchsafed
  • development. Nobody should ever believe that joy comes to him because
  • of special merit in his karma; far rather he should believe that joy
  • reveal, to begin with, experiences of two kinds. On the one hand we
  • realisation, however, will not always be within the power of the
  • reverse. In many cases we shall realise that failure was inevitable
  • We will try to get to the bottom of all these matters, and of events
  • cause. We shall therefore be considering fortuitous events and
  • achievements seemingly unrelated to our actual faculties.
  • will imagine that we ourselves have willed whatever may have
  • changes his nature in us, nevertheless the impression is that he is
  • There is no suggestion whatever that we once actually did them; but
  • such thoughts do, nevertheless, correspond, in a certain way
  • required to recall something even recently forgotten; genuine mental
  • own acts, we shall have quite a different attitude to events
  • be developed — not the kind of memory that is composed of
  • occurrences to chance. Nevertheless they can be traced to significant
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  • progress along our path. That, however, was not the point on which
  • him out and place him above the others will achieve just the opposite.
  • We must never imagine that happiness is allotted to us as a mark of
  • other attitude would throw us back in our development. Nobody should
  • ever believe that joy comes to him because of special karmic
  • privileges; he should far rather believe that it comes to him because
  • and its happenings will reveal, to begin with, experiences of two
  • realisation, however, will not always be within the power of ordinary
  • undertakings which may either be successful or the reverse. In many
  • try to get to the bottom of these matters, and of events which, on the
  • imagine that we ourselves have willed whatever may have happened to
  • There is no suggestion whatever that we once actually did them; but
  • such thoughts do, nevertheless, correspond in a certain way with
  • quite a different attitude to events confronting us in the future; our
  • to the heart, to the life of feeling, that must be developed, not the
  • and a new birth too, and this is by no means uneventful, it is filled
  • occurrences to chance. Nevertheless they can be traced to significant
  • important for every human being and that what appear to be chance
  • roughly speaking not quite seven hundred years ago. Conditions were
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  • spiritual-scientific point of view on our big events.
  • and are not immediately discernible for the everyday
  • consciousness. I want to point to developmental facts of human
  • — that what takes place in secrecy with every human being
  • is recognised on successive levels of supersensible knowledge,
  • which every human soul lives without being aware of them. The
  • experiences, but for every human soul the knowledge of them is
  • reality which cannot be recognised by means of the everyday
  • an event full of riddle, at least an event full of riddle for
  • being — with every human being falling asleep. So that we
  • itself to every human soul if it could look down not in the
  • wrong to believe that one looks at the physical and the etheric
  • everything disappears to us, really disappears for the time
  • vegetation grow on it again, when everything begins shooting
  • shooting up to bloom, up to fruit; everywhere everything grows
  • Thus we feel a completely reverse world, and the fruits are
  • forces from the whole universe — because everything is
  • body with the whole universe every time when we fall asleep.
  • etheric body really like a vegetation, even like an animal
  • becoming tired in the evening and sleeping is like the winter.
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  • development and advance of the individual souls, but above all
  • co-operate in the development of humankind generally. But our
  • world view the big events of our time from a high point of
  • events. Today some points of view just with reference to the
  • big events of our time may be given, because our present
  • organism precedes the illness in most cases, it develops in the
  • do not believe that there is a comparison which holds really as
  • intervening events, as we experience them now since the
  • us that these military events are actually an illness process.
  • But wrong would it be to believe that we cope with it if we
  • the people who judge about these events suppose that in July
  • nothing about the origin of the events and look only at the
  • can prove everything and believe everything. It really belongs
  • everything and believe everything.
  • here or there believed to have to assert his view compared to
  • believed: he denies everything that Kant has proved. Of course,
  • is clear that this is proved quite well. However, assume once
  • smallest cells in the plant, but one could never find these
  • never penetrate to the organism of the plant up to these
  • never be upset. However, life has developed this way that the
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  • acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
  • the most rigorous natural science. It is possible, however, to speak
  • us even up to the most recent time — the magnificent
  • sense regarding the achievements which have come about precisely in
  • capacities have been developed, and that just such observation
  • relationships, and so forth. We see, as this thinking develops, that
  • thinking must develop as selflessly as possible in the observation of
  • clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved tremendous power in
  • rules whose character prevents anything of the nature of inner wishes
  • of the heart, of opinions, perhaps even of fantasies regarding one's
  • type of thinking has gradually developed about which one must say
  • developed characteristic of thinking which demands before everything
  • he himself is must be set forth in activity; this can really never
  • modern research, a side which is alien to humanity even though
  • everyday and in scientific life. Yet, if we recall — as science
  • today, but have developed from a relatively imperfect stage up to
  • may exist, even within the life of subjective feeling, something that
  • particularly developed?
  • different: this is the will aspect of the life of the soul. Whoever
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