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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • many people today, I believe, are fully conscious of the force
    • of this paradox; yet in the depths of their subconscious there
    • unconsciously as yet, uncertainty about human freedom. It is
    • Yet, although many souls already unconsciously long for it, the
    • operates unconsciously in the healthy human organism. There
    • functions, the better it is for ordinary consciousness and for
    • merely dormant in ordinary consciousness, the yogi
    • natural breathing. He did this so as to make conscious the
    • conscious. The transformed respiratory rhythm, with its timing
    • determined by human volition, is entirely conscious. But
    • conscious his respiration. When we breathe in, the respiratory
    • nerve and sense process in a fully conscious way, the
    • yogi also made a conscious connection between the respiratory
    • Precisely because his breathing became fully conscious,
    • consciousness of the masses.
    • consciousness of men in older civilizations. Not that, as a
    • such strong and inwardly fortified self-consciousness as we
    • my hand were conscious, what would it think about itself?
    • into the general cultural consciousness, it became the
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • riddles to him just because he is fully conscious of the mental
    • experiences obtrude so much that they become even conscious,
    • point is that these experiences take hold of the subconscious
    • or unconscious, establish themselves there, and flow up into
    • consciousness only as a general temper or distemper of
    • unconscious as if extinguished. Now, when he looks at
    • unconscious awareness of it affects his soul, man is overcome
    • We perceive it distinctly or indistinctly, consciously or
    • unconsciously, when on waking, perhaps after passing through a
    • consciousness, do not know anything about the
    • goes on inside remains hidden from ordinary consciousness. So,
    • consciously, but it affects them as the temper of their
    • Psychology itself, moreover, is conscious of this powerlessness
    • consciousness, we find that it has something passive about it,
    • mental life in the eyes of ordinary consciousness. The most
    • impossibility for ordinary consciousness of approaching the
    • consciousness.
    • standpoint of ordinary consciousness, these books are
    • to show that ordinary consciousness is incapable of
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • unconscious. Yet even a superficial examination of human
    • organize their lives in a conscious manner. Instinctive living
    • increasing consciousness is itself a factor in history.
    • development of humanity with a certain degree of consciousness,
    • consciousness, being dormant deep down in the soul
    • consciousness thought was not separated from word. The
    • concepts, then in the nature of our consciousness we separate
    • consciousness and religious devotion to the temporal or
    • present in the Greek mind, not in the controlled and conscious
    • would say: what we now evolve consciously was once
    • time: the content of religious consciousness is beyond
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • moment in life, our consciousness contains very much more than
    • of the soul, as it appears in ordinary consciousness, must say:
    • reverse comes about: in empty consciousness, as a result of
    • our ordinary consciousness the world outside is physical, and
    • complete self-possession and lucid consciousness. The
    • that expresses many unconscious feelings, unconscious
    • ideas and concepts, unconscious longings too, a word that we
    • Therefore he and his consciousness had to move out of it and,
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • spirit. Assuming therefore that the ordinary consciousness we
    • ordinary everyday consciousness was unlimited would
    • penetrate beyond them if, within his ordinary consciousness, he
    • subconscious depths, is permeated by feeling and will and
    • of ordinary consciousness for independent revelations of the
    • if, in ordinary consciousness, he could see right into himself
    • with ordinary consciousness, we shall only reach the
    • ordinary consciousness.
    • There are thus two limits to ordinary consciousness: a limit of
    • consciousness we can see into the spiritual world.
    • recognize that ordinary consciousness (operating through the
    • ordinary consciousness is extinguished in the act of cognition.
    • However clear our consciousness is up to a certain point in a
    • over in part into a state of sleep, into the subconscious. Why
    • empty consciousness as I have described, advance further and
    • consciousness, we feel, in a super-sensible act of cognition of
    • ordinary life and ordinary consciousness, before attempting to
    • ourselves as never before in ordinary consciousness. What
    • nebulous mystic remains caught in ordinary consciousness.
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • life, but are instincts, unconscious feelings. And if we were
    • can say, therefore: In certain subconscious regions of the
    • does he become conscious of his freedom. To all mental
    • unconscious regions of will or else unconsciously in the life
    • not attained to the consciousness that prevails in modern
    • re-approaches, with his consciousness, what in earlier epochs
    • from the unconscious, can be raised into consciousness by a
    • naïveté into self-consciousness. People will
    • continue to shrink back from this path into consciousness
    • the consciousness of vital thought. But this vital thought then
    • and the conscious life of the soul can again acquire today.
    • empty consciousness — when we are inspired from the
    • These powers of cognition become conscious as man develops into
    • sympathy with the other person is always an unconscious or
    • conscious extra-physical experience of his being. It is dead
    • we have a self, assume unconsciously that the other person also
    • bringing the power that operates unconsciously and
    • instinctively up into consciousness, man can project
    • intellectualism. What can consciously produce the social
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • unconscious instincts by associating their metabolism with
    • They cling to them because, in these souls' subconscious
    • consciousness of a connection with spiritual worlds. Things
    • physical in his make-up. In conscious inner life, there was for
    • comprehending it by ordinary consciousness, we can have no
    • thinking that in a conscious way will first perceive the goals
    • and in a conscious way will then move towards the solution of
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • modern consciousness extraordinarily alien in many respects. We
    • modern consciousness, we must conclude that there is present as
    • had consciously to undergo a kind of death. He experienced,
    • half-conscious perception of the world, nearer and nearer to a
    • self-consciousness and a full sense of self. For the brilliant
    • am well aware that many people today will not consciously admit
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • the masses. People long, more or less unconsciously, for
    • obscure, operating in unconscious regions that people are
    • unconscious — and in the depths of this unconscious lies
    • will. It sometimes takes curious forms, this conscious
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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    • spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to
    • unconscious will of mankind in Europe. Everywhere we find these
    • unconscious tendencies. They exist already in men's souls, and
    • by the unconscious, and all that is required is for us to
    • become conscious of the direction in which mankind is really
    • precisely that this unconscious movement contradicts in
    • impelled, though for the most part unconsciously.
    • consciousness, you will find them in economic institutions
    • affected the unconscious depths of men's souls in recent
    • more conscious reaches of civilized humanity. From
    • associations spring only from subconscious forces in man. We
    • about, even if men do not consciously desire it; unconsciously,
  • Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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    • substance of their world just as we, humans, self conscious
    • of clairvoyant consciousness. It senses, as when it spreads
    • being when you are within, and has the consciousness, that two
    • it is also, that clairvoyant consciousness is not always the
    • consciousness, knows which image speaks nobly and which doesn't
    • clairvoyant consciousness however, sees the group soul, the
    • group soul is led into his consciousness. This is not enough.
    • consciousness or still a remnant of clairvoyance, and they
    • created through nothing less than with a clairvoyant conscious
    • at with clairvoyant consciousness, the upper part, where the
    • consciousness may experience joy in the blossoms during spring,
    • consciousness. Here we connect to the intimate fields of the
    • astral consciousness. With folk in past times, where
    • basis of the clairvoyant consciousness since way back; either
    • clairvoyant consciousness of the artist works into it, or
    • develop a clairvoyant consciousness, you should experience
    • your consciousness, not only particular painful feelings of
    • power of self consciousness, the inner Ego-force. We will
  • Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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    • conditions called unconscious sleep. We have to say that this
    • I-bearer only develops consciousness and self-consciousness
    • bodies. There we have today's normal human self consciousness
    • self-consciousness at the lowest level? Better even is to
    • the mere common, then clairvoyant consciousness is able to see
    • Clairvoyant consciousness can, but not common consciousness.
    • links; because he lacks clairvoyant consciousness through
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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    • what he consciously intended. Intention is most important. Hence
    • clairvoyant consciousness discovers in the human life of Perception,
    • stage of consciousness is one where one sees this personified karma
    • consciousness, but we lay hold of these impressions, we turn them
    • really enter very much into the consciousness of man; at the most it
    • only enters our consciousness when we reflect upon these four spheres
    • sphere of the instruments of consciousness, and therefore the
    • darkness of night is spread over normal consciousness and
    • unconsciousness supervenes. Now, when through his esoteric exercises
    • soul-being which he is during the night; when he is unconscious
    • conscious intention, but rather the unconscious, instinctive
    • field of consciousness; he overlooks, as it were, all that does not
    • consciousness regarding what it sees in the spiritual world, may vary
    • clairvoyant consciousness sees when it enters into the spiritual
    • consciousness has reached the point where the spiritual and soul-part
    • usually done unconsciously during sleep; and he leaves it with the
    • clairvoyant consciousness meets with, is in fact a complete reversal
    • consciousness begins to act outside the body, this relationship is
    • it. ... And when one develops clairvoyant consciousness to a certain
    • man, one develops the clairvoyant consciousness; that is the first
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  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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    • over his development. Spiritual wisdom in our unconscious existence,
    • in the clairvoyant consciousness, when from the darkness of spiritual
    • begin to perceive with clairvoyant consciousness, the revelations
    • to be of value in this world; we act consciously by means of our
    • in the subconscious depths of our soul between birth and death, how
    • consciously all that occurs in our lives, we could by no means go
    • unconsciously. All this is the outcome of a much greater wisdom than
    • us in the subconscious depths of our soul, and in these subconscious
    • in us without our being conscious of it. Thus we stand here as human
    • beings in the world, conscious in our physical body, and say: ‘We
    • threshold of the present horizon of our consciousness we should be in
    • higher condition of consciousness in which we live between death and
    • see consciously into the spiritual world. They work in such a manner
    • that they are not disturbed by our state of consciousness, they are
    • life; — behind it all, behind our conscious life, Divine
    • there have exactly as much consciousness as they find it good for us
    • to have, for behind this consciousness they wish to guide our destiny
    • we are unable consciously to see and investigate, when we try to
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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    • Guardian allows sensation to enter our consciousness, but does not
    • sends this impulse into our sub-consciousness and thus fighting
    • enter our consciousness. Feeling is only half barn in us. The same
    • subconscious part of Feeling and Will. Everyone possesses the
    • knowledge of Saturn, Sun, Moon, but it is below his consciousness. He
    • us after death. The use of Spiritual Science. Full consciousness of
    • death. We re-create it as a new form of consciousness when we let it
    • actually receives into his consciousness only a small portion of what
    • the consciousness of man. Light and colour contain much more than
    • what enters man's consciousness. In sound there is much more
    • than what comes into the consciousness of man. External materialistic
    • consciousness the sensation of light or colour. The remarkable fact
    • deeper into our being we discover that while we are conscious of
    • consciousness pours forth something, pervades his whole being with
    • perceive, behind what reaches our consciousness, creative
    • within that, Intuition. That which comes into our consciousness as
    • which, if it were to enter our consciousness, could become in us
    • consciousness, and does not allow Imagination, Inspiration and
    • from us; the door of our consciousness is closed against this impulse
    • consciousness, as we are obliged to let it descend into the dark
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  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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    • become more and more conscious of the Spirit impulse. The
    • instincts of life, the more unconscious impulses of life change. His
    • forces of healing. When the clairvoyant consciousness finds the right
    • effect on him. Owing to his clairvoyant consciousness there appears
    • cause of that which to clairvoyant consciousness appears as
    • our next incarnation, through the good Gods, without being conscious
    • widespread and is a form of dreamlike clairvoyant consciousness which
    • consciously to help spiritual beings, that is, souls who were not on
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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    • first he is unconscious of the starry world in which he is really
    • aware that he has left the sphere of consciousness he possessed in
    • consciously to experience how it breaks through this and afterwards
    • which previously gave our consciousness its content has shrunk
    • earthly life. All the events we have consciously experienced in our
    • also have the distinct inner consciousness that because this
    • behind by it. We have the consciousness that we have remained at an
    • consciousness, the beginning of our consciousness after death.
    • Our consciousness must always be
    • aroused by something. When we awake in the morning our consciousness
    • from outside, while during sleep we are unconscious. In the state
    • immediately after death, this consciousness is enkindled by our
    • us. Our consciousness is first enkindled after death through this
    • By this our consciousness is quickened. Then begins the period during
    • consciously during physical life. The reason these forces do not act
    • consciously during physical life is because during this physical life
    • the darkness develops that which we could not consciously possess
    • before death; for if we had had it consciously before death we could
    • body. And one who can consciously experience awaking, knows: you want
    • consciousness shall dwell in it. Entirely below the threshold of
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  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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    • and more into human souls, instinctively at first, then consciously.
    • earth, that we gain this Ego-consciousness ever more and more. This
    • earth we attain to an ever great consciousness of our Ego, we thereby
    • the tiny amount of consciousness endures which informs us of our
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 1: The World Behind the Tapestry of Sense-perceptions. Ecstasy and Mystical Experience.
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    • consciousness?’ If this world of pictures is such that he can say
    • Ego-consciousness and a fading of sense-perception; these two
    • lose hold of our Ego, in sleep we lose not only our Ego-consciousness
    • only our Ego-consciousness, but still have around us a world of
    • sleep the faculty of perception and the consciousness too, are
    • has also surrendered his consciousness to this world. What remains
    • and apart from consciousness. In the normal sleeping man we have
    • consciousness and his Ego. And whither has the consciousness, whither
    • But if we also relinquish consciousness, then at that same moment
    • characteristic of sleep — the bearer of our consciousness and its
    • Ego, but also in respect of his consciousness. In the state of
    • departure of the astral body the possibility of consciousness is
    • Sleep represents a kind of division of man's being. Consciousness and
    • experiences of waking life, in which he has no consciousness at all of
    • over to a world of which he has no consciousness, of which he knows
    • has consciousness, he acts. In the state of ecstasy he has a kind of
    • consciousness, but not the guiding Ego. He does not control his
    • efficiently than it is when we are not conscious of it. In daily life
    • everything because he is not yet capable of being a conscious
    • participant. It is providential that consciousness of his own
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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    • human consciousness regards sleep as an undifferentiated state that is
    • one extinguishes consciousness inasmuch as it drives us out of our
    • a man begins to talk or act in sleep without the consciousness that is
    • which he need not have even the consciousness of dream. Through this
    • by day, only now he is unconscious. Such actions in sleep are
    • other two influences predominate, is called the Consciousness or
    • Consciousness-or Spiritual Soul. When man is transported by one force
    • influence is being exerted upon his Consciousness-Soul.
    • Consciousness-Soul. But when these influences have been exerted, the
    • is exerted on the Consciousness-Soul. When the influences on the
    • Mind-Soul and Consciousness-Soul have taken effect, man is
    • on the Mind-Soul and on the Consciousness-Soul which strengthen man
    • drawn into the subconscious; and by drawing loops I have indicated his
    • Consciousness-Soul. In the morning, the same force that has drawn us
    • Consciousness-Soul. During the night man moves around a kind of
    • influence upon the Consciousness-Soul is strongest. From that point he
    • The force which works upon the Consciousness-Soul during sleep and
    • “Saturn” stirs into unconscious action during sleep a man
    • come; during waking consciousness, however, when the Mercury
    • the Consciousness-Soul. What are the differences between Sentient
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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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    • perceiving ceases and consciousness is extinguished.
    • When we cross the boundary on going to sleep, consciousness ceases and
    • we cannot see the spiritual world. On waking, our consciousness is at
    • he were to cross this stream consciously is something that must be
    • oneself fit for the experience and passing through it consciously.
    • overpowering strength if he were to look consciously into his own
    • he were to descend consciously into his etheric and physical bodies.
    • therefore protected from descending into them consciously and is
    • its existence to the plant kingdom and if it were conscious of its
    • he must cross the stream which diverts normal human consciousness from
    • the inner to the outer world. This normal consciousness, while
    • word, to the tapestry of sense-phenomena. Normal consciousness becomes
    • Our consciousness has thus been directed to the frontier where we can
    • consciousness we do not see the Microcosm itself but a reflected image
    • his own inner world? In the modern age there is little consciousness
    • entirely from those of normal consciousness.
    • human consciousness a veil is drawn over everything that man would
    • which in normal life he is unconscious; he must traverse consciously
    • the very stream which in everyday life takes consciousness from him.
    • Threshold is imperceptible to ordinary consciousness, so too is this
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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    • within which man's normal consciousness is enclosed, and today we will
    • descends consciously into his own inner being. We know that in
    • we ourselves are not consciously there.
    • higher than all our conscious life. Forces higher than those available
    • in our conscious life become active during sleep; experiences are
    • through our conscious experiences. During the day we use up forces by
    • if he were able to descend consciously into the physical and etheric
    • experience consciously the moment of entry into the etheric and
    • We become conscious of the driving forces of our manhood when we are
    • achieved with conscious awareness? We must prepare ourselves in such a
    • out of the state of consciousness prevailing in sleep, in such a way
    • able to develop consciously during the life of day would not take us
    • When we first become conscious of having absorbed Cosmic Will, Cosmic
    • an attainable ideal when you gaze consciously into the macrocosmic
    • his ordinary consciousness was hitherto hidden from him, stands before
    • for men to be conscious that they must not merely rely upon what flows
    • consciousness is diverted. If, on waking, we refuse to admit the
    • have described the consciousness that deviates from the normal and is
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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    • descend consciously into this astral body; and we were able to form an
    • waking a man can penetrate consciously into his inner being. At most
    • he can prepare himself by mystical deepening for conscious entry into
    • normal consciousness it may happen — very occasionally —
    • that a man has such moments of conscious awakening as a result of
    • can recognise from within when we penetrate into it consciously.
    • himself in his conscious descent to the power known as that of Venus.
    • fully conscious of the way in which these Mercury powers could be
    • themselves descended consciously into their bodily sheaths.
    • personal self-consciousness of this present incarnation, this present
    • consciously within his own being together with his previous
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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    • that the strength of the, Ego-feeling, the Ego-consciousness, should
    • Ego-consciousness of the candidate for Initiation was reduced, to
    • with the exception of the very deepest stage of all, our consciousness
    • the process was carried further than that; the consciousness was
    • But I must emphasise that this Ego-consciousness did not fade away
    • strength of human egoism; for even when Ego-consciousness was reduced
    • consciously experiencing the moment of going to sleep, consciously
    • Ego were to pour consciously into the Macrocosm, would be so dazzling,
    • consciousness ceases.
    • provided he retains a certain degree of consciousness, was described
    • had poured into him — a conscious ascent into the Macrocosm.
    • to him if he did not lose consciousness on going to sleep. We will
    • Macrocosm. Even in normal human consciousness it is sometimes
    • conscious to a certain extent of the processes connected with going to
    • of bliss and can distinguish this consciousness of bliss quite clearly
    • from the ordinary waking consciousness. It is as though he became
    • or less conscious at the moment of going to sleep. But a person who
    • has only the ordinary, normal consciousness loses it at the moment of
    • If he were able to maintain his consciousness — as the trained
    • with, this Elementary World makes him conscious that everything in his
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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    • normal human consciousness and not with clairvoyance, we find certain
    • ascend consciously into the higher worlds. This example too shows what
    • no clear or definite consciousness of influences that had a share in
    • now present in our consciousness. Why do we forget such influences
    • to have undergone but which then fade away from our consciousness.
    • into oblivion, are no longer in our consciousness because life has
    • understood when it is known that the range of the conscious
    • across such an island which originates from unconsciousness
    • understanding we can introduce into our conscious life, the better it
    • Not only these unconscious islands in the soul, but many things of the
    • consciously, would be the experience of himself. He himself
    • threshold leading into the Macrocosm is crossed consciously. A man
    • overwhelmed by the sight if consciousness did not cease. But there
    • can become and what we ought to be. For this reason consciousness is
    • Greater Guardian of the Threshold who effaces consciousness when we go
    • worlds unless with clairvoyant consciousness we were to pass on to the
    • from normal consciousness into clairvoyant consciousness that is
    • Reason? When clairvoyant consciousness awakens in a man, he becomes in
    • the forces for awakening this clairvoyant consciousness come from a
    • when clairvoyant consciousness awakens in him. It is the world of
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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    • his normal consciousness he has very little knowledge of the
    • is perceptible to clairvoyant consciousness is that the Ego is not by
    • any means wholly within man during the hours of waking consciousness.
    • To clairvoyant consciousness the Ego is always present in a certain
    • impression? Ordinary consciousness is completely at sea here. The
    • of the Elementary World that is held back comes into our consciousness
    • In what way are we able in ordinary life to be conscious of anything?
    • more. If we wanted to experience consciously the influence of the
    • the plant has consciousness similar to that of man and could reflect
    • impressions inwardly. Consciousness arises, not through the exercise
    • respect of his consciousness, has developed to a higher stage than the
    • consciousness only, where the mental pictures always represent some
    • present in normal consciousness; that we shall become capable of
    • night, without our being conscious of it, forces are drawn from the
    • spiritual world. Just as we have experiences in our conscious life, in
    • the night we have experiences in the subconscious region of our being.
    • upon himself man consciously builds up that which the external world
    • visible to normal consciousness because they lie in a realm beyond the
    • visible to clairvoyant consciousness. For example, one unfolds like a
    • physical sense-organ exists in order to bring to our consciousness the
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 9: Organs of Spiritual Perception. Contemplation of the Ego from Twelve Vantage-points. The Thinking of the Heart.
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    • consciously into the spiritual worlds. Certainly this is also possible
    • before him like flowers or stones seen in ordinary consciousness; he
    • normal consciousness an immediate, innate feeling tells them: this is
    • consciousness has taken place. Consequently he has now to seek for
    • what he himself, with a higher grade of consciousness, had prepared.
    • consciousness a person stands at a certain place and knows that in
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 10: Transformation of Soul-forces and Stages in the Evolution of Physical Organs. Reading in the Akasha Chronicle.
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    • revealed by consciousness, many things will be explained in a new way.
    • when the heart judged out of the sub-consciousness, out of a
    • consciousness not yet permeated with intellect. Today, this original
    • few who with their present-day consciousness already have the longing,
    • attainable state of higher consciousness through which it is possible
    • said of memory? In the normal consciousness of everyday life we find
    • that memory works in the following way. — Man has consciousness
    • incorporate all this in his consciousness. Then he proceeds from what
    • point of view realises that just as our consciousness of the present
    • this extension of consciousness over the past, is connected with
    • particular activity of consciousness changes completely.
    • states of consciousness, no need to be continually using and giving
    • consciousness that the pupil must possess. This should always be kept
    • Now whenever the pupil is in the state of consciousness in which he is
    • March. That is a perception which you have in your consciousness of
    • consciousness of the immediate present conflicts with memory. In the
    • the same way as he otherwise moves in Space. And this consciousness
    • physical symbol for the consciousness of Space; the flowing blood, the
    • spiritual consciousness. Thus every physical phenomenon is a symbol
    • In rising to a higher level of consciousness we actually gaze into a
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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    • sleeping state he has no consciousness of the physical world and in
    • order to have consciousness there he must come down into his physical
    • and etheric bodies. He begins to have consciousness only when he
    • may also say that with his inner life, with his consciousness of his
    • consciousness if he did not possess physical and etheric bodies. He
    • To intervene consciously in the breathing process is to invoke the
    • is so little consciousness of the truth that the spiritual underlies
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    • soul during and after death. He describes the states of consciousness
    • their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
    • consciousness from morning until night. The objects we perceive by
    • understand with his everyday consciousness what comes to him in
    • now onward consciousness is dimmed, man dwells in a benumbed
    • new forces, so as a result of the dimming of consciousness, when we
    • consciousness. Our consciousness becomes ever dimmer. We now
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    • soul during and after death. He describes the states of consciousness
    • their new consciousness, can communicate with them and even help them.
    • which he remains unconscious, develop a secret love for it. In the
    • go to sleep, for in sleep we enter unconsciously the same realm we
    • in the sphere of consciousness. From this we can gather that the
    • conscious activity of the ego within our daily life is the destroyer
    • consciously.
    • illumine. When they permeate the body, consciousness arises. In the spiritual
    • world also, man has to permeate something if he is to acquire consciousness,
    • otherwise he would exist without consciousness.
    • through the gate of death. Because of this he is able to develop consciousness
    • what he has grasped consciously on earth. Thus we can understand that
    • on earth man must acquire the capacity to develop consciousness
    • develop consciousness.
    • unconsciousness, the more miserable is the destiny he will encounter
    • between living and dying because for human consciousness everything
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    • all familiar, but whose significance for human consciousness has
    • develop who would be conscious of the feeling of freedom. The
    • say to himself — though in dim consciousness: all this the Gods
    • the lower. But the only form it could assume for human consciousness
    • desires and in the animal lusts. For ordinary consciousness that
    • consciousness. So the content of the human Gemüt can be
    • consciousness the festival the calendar sets at the end of September,
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    • factor that makes present-day man a world-hermit: he is not conscious
    • for the development of what we experience in the consciousness of
    • self-consciousness, at the inner strength that permits the ego to rise
    • inner, conscious experiences might at a pinch occur lacking the
    • is that we should become conscious of our true spiritual relations to
    • of these ideas — a real attitude, though unconscious. But
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    • universe that today enter human consciousness. Think of what
    • consciousness certainly present in ordinary life, though an inferior
    • realm of his conscious life. What he had written was frequently so
    • remote from his conscious life that he asked, “Who is writing
    • that since there are naturally no spirits, his subconscious mind must
    • subconscious calls the conscious mind a muttonhead, and it lies; hence
    • this personality would have to confess, “In my subconscious mind
    • distorted the moment we enter this more or less subconscious world.
    • Evolution of Consciousness,
    • bring the super-sensible to consciousness and experience it in our
    • this brought them they were conscious of cosmic events, but also of
    • subconscious sense organ: subconsciously the head perceives through
    • relation to the functions mentioned. Subconsciously by means of the
    • consciousness was the object in the schooling of those who were to be
    • conscious feeling for the processes in the liver, kidneys, spleen,
    • examine what was brought to light by an ancient semi-conscious,
    • And what is man really in respect of his consciousness? Well, he is
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    • consciousness as manifestations of spiritual beings. In this
    • our respiratory process unconsciously, simply as something inwardly a
    • between nature-consciousness, engendered during the spring and summer,
    • and self-consciousness proper which thrives in the fall and winter.
    • What is nature consciousness? When spring comes, the earth develops
    • — I need not be conscious of it: it speaks to the unconscious
    • flower, my ego germinates in the plant. Nature-consciousness is
    • can develop his nature-consciousness; but when he experiences the dying
    • his true self-consciousness, will come to life within him; and by sharing
    • degree the awakener of his own self-consciousness. In this way the human
    • experiencing this alternation of nature-consciousness and self-consciousness.
    • herself the inner human force must become the awakening of self-consciousness.
    • the idea embraced in nature-consciousness — self-consciousness:
    • self-consciousness of man into bright flame. Here we have again
    • enter and feel at home in the consciousness of immortality, in the
    • spirit-consciousness — the spirit-consciousness engendered by the
    • transition from nature-consciousness (spring-summer) to
    • self-consciousness (autumn-winter) — then will dawn the solution,
    • activate spirit-consciousness.
    • my self-consciousness between death and a new birth, but rather, to be
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    • consciousness has indeed undergone a change in this respect in the
    • Yet we can add: if the mode of consciousness
    • world – not as in former times, in an unconscious, dreamy
    • full consciousness. That this need not be bound up with a
    • circumspection – in full consciousness and with a developed
    • in the form of an unconscious
    • lyric strives to obliterate the immediate content of consciousness
    • lyric there is always a damping down of conscious experience. With
    • the unconscious elements of human life come to play a part in him.
    • particularity. If he cannot put to use those unconscious spiritual
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    • the conscious intention of opening a new field of scientific
    • within Nature so long as he was unconscious of this fact. The
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    • consciousness. Let me point out to-day certain facts of human
    • development, certain more or less sub-conscious facts. But let
    • accustomed to see in our waking state of consciousness during
    • and we are conscious of the fact that we are looking upon our
    • with our physical eyes, we are conscious of the fact that the
    • sleep, this strengthening of which we are conscious. And this
    • consciousness and could experience themselves during our waking
    • truths received in unconscious inspirations in the form most
    • grasped consciously, whereas in the past it had to be perceived
    • of understanding the world in a conscious way.
    • events had followed the course dictated by human consciousness,
    • and not influences coming from sub-conscious depths, everything
    • worked in the sub-consciousness of human beings. It did not
    • CONSCIOUSLY into the influence of the Christ Impulse. In the
    • through human consciousness. We must think of specially
    • natural initiations which did not depend on conscious human
    • 6th of January in a not fully conscious state and received the
    • mother's body, just before birth. External human consciousness
    • the threshold of consciousness, behind the event's which are
    • accessible to human consciousness. It shows us the meaning of a
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    • The Subconscious Forces
    • SUBCONSCIOUS FORCES.
    • consciousness soul; in Central Europe the inspiration takes
    • the Consciousness Soul through the Folk-Soul.
    • inspire the Consciousness-Soul, whereas, the Folk-Soul
    • Soul, the British Folk-Soul to the Consciousness Soul. We
    • the British nation, through the Consciousness-Soul,
    • Consciousness Soul.
    • sometimes rises up in human consciousness; but the forces which
    • are active in the sub-conscious depths express themselves in a
    • which lives in the consciousness of men. But the forces, which
    • work, in the subconscious depths are far more true. They
    • continue to work in their sub-consciousness. By absorbing
    • materialistically inspired consciousness-soul of the
    • we recognise again and again that the conscious life of the
    • conscious. Do not think that the people in the West and in the
    • consciousness. You should envisage above all the impulses
    • death are not conscious, — nevertheless these impulses
    • hardly conscious of this. Only if we consider the present
    • compared with anything else in the conscious history of mankind
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    • reason of a consciousness in harmony with the period, were thoroughly
    • persons, the “subconscious” states of the life of the
    • mystical, half-conscious state something from which he could draw
    • Thinking, which has become more and more conscious of its passive
    • example, is accustomed to follow with full consciousness every step
    • indeterminate way, very much that plays a role in the subconscious or
    • the unconscious, and it is not possible to be exact if one
    • the very center of one's consciousness is something
    • case it is bound up with all sorts of subconscious experiences.
    • and sober-mindedness of consciousness in this strengthened, active
    • consciousness void of what he himself has
    • brought into this consciousness, this thought content upon which he
    • easy in ordinary life to acquire an empty consciousness; we need only
    • one's memory can return, at which one entered consciously into this
    • content of thought, and then having emptied our consciousness, so
    • out of our consciousness, in turn, just as we previously eliminated a
    • single concept, so that our consciousness was void of this. We can
    • consciousness that which we have come to know through a heightened
    • what I wish to designate as the truly empty consciousness. We have
    • confront the world with an empty consciousness. This signifies
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    • our every-day consciousness, as well as in ordinary science.
    • ordinary life, lives in two states of consciousness — we might
    • constituting a single state of consciousness — that he is
    • and unconscious manner, with that which flows and weaves in dreams.
    • consciousness from that which we have in dreams. We are inserted into
    • “dreaming while awake,” a subconscious imagining, a
    • previous occasion, the human being exercises consciously at a higher
    • unconsciously through his bodily organization for the ordinary act of
    • transition of a person from one state of consciousness into another,
    • in ordinary consciousness are transformed. There occurs not
    • the ordinary state of consciousness.
    • referring: that it brings nothing which is not subconsciously present
    • just as conscious as that which one employs in connection with
    • consciousness of freedom.
    • looked upon as something like a sense organ. As I consciously perceive
    • sense organ of the heart — again, in an unconscious way —
    • that which I develop unconsciously through my spirit-soul
    • consciousness which we have already possessed, which lived in us
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    • But the wiser man is the one who reigns in the depth of our unconscious
    • and who remains inaccessible to ordinary consciousness. He directs our
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    • the subconscious life to which ordinary consciousness does not extend.
    • conscious knowledge, leads us towards the suffering. But what does
    • this mean — “without our conscious knowledge?” It means
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    • happiness. The wiser being operates in depths of the subconscious life
    • to which ordinary consciousness does not extend. This wiser being
    • within us a magic power which, without our conscious knowledge, leads
    • conscious knowledge? It means that the wiser being is prevailing over
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    • ordinary consciousness; many a time we shall find it impossible to see
    • consciousness can only conclude that it was pure chance, unconnected
    • participate consciously in the happenings of the occult, spiritual
    • great and splendid thinker but his conscious philosophy was of far
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    • consciousness; many a time we shall find it impossible to see any
    • life. With regard to much that befalls us, ordinary consciousness can
    • consciously in the occult life of the spirit had a strange experience
    • conscious philosophy was of far less significance than that which he
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    • consciousness. I want to point to developmental facts of human
    • life, to more or less subconscious facts today which express
    • growing and blooming in our consciousness. It is different when
    • the waking life if it had consciousness, we would have to
    • consciousness instinctively that he is connected with the whole
    • — which gave them the truth unconsciously, as it had to
    • has consciously to take up this spiritual world, while the
    • according to the consciousness of the human beings and not
    • according to that what worked out of the subconsciousness what
    • subconscious regions. It worked not by the egos, but by the
    • is the time to immerse oneself consciously in the effectiveness
    • means of conscious work have been carried out in the time of
    • conscious state from the 24th December to the sixth January and
    • in the body of the mother. The external consciousness is not
    • consciousness, which are under this threshold of
    • consciousness.
    • must consciously take up that which used another way for
    • centuries than the conscious way to be effective in
    • wanted to arouse a feeling in your souls how the subconscious
    • the events are right down at the bottom in the subconscious
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    • British islands are inspired by the consciousness-soul; in
    • caused by inspiration of the consciousness-soul from the
    • inspire the consciousness-soul, while the German folk-soul has
    • mind-soul, the British folk-soul to the consciousness-soul. We
    • on the consciousness-soul, with the Central European nation the
    • of the consciousness-soul.
    • conscious efforts. If this Central European human being should
    • typically. Sometimes, the consciousness expresses a very small
    • part of the truth only; but what works in the subconscious
    • wonderful in it. What people have in consciousness becomes
    • maya, the big delusion. What exists in subconscious depths has
    • which works on in the subconsciousness. If in the time when the
    • materialistically inspired consciousness-soul of the British
    • When we say time and again: the conscious soul-life takes place
    • that they are aware of in their consciousness. Look at the
    • premonition in their consciousness. Considering these events
    • with that which took place in the conscious history of
    • consciousness that what invigorates us is not only a theory,
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    • individuals who, by reason of a consciousness in harmony with the
    • “subconscious” states of the life of the human
    • today, he could discover in a mystical, half-conscious state
    • more and more conscious of its passive role in connection with
    • accustomed to follow with full consciousness every step in his
    • subconscious or the unconscious, and it is not possible to be exact
    • the very center of one's consciousness is something entirely
    • subconscious experiences. Moreover, it is good for a person who
    • away; he can, in a certain sense, render his consciousness void of
    • what he himself has brought into this consciousness, this thought
    • It is rather easy in ordinary life to acquire an empty consciousness;
    • consciously into this earthly existence. Ordinarily, the only thing
    • empty our consciousness so that, instead of the images we
    • we can put this memory tableau out of our consciousness, just as we
    • consciousness is empty of this. We can now learn to apply this
    • powerful force to efface from our consciousness that which we have
    • consciousness. We have previously lived in the memory tableau or in
    • consciousness. This signifies something extraordinary in the
    • own souls, we come to an empty state of consciousness, although this
    • consciousness.
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