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Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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that exists in the earthly sphere may be grasped with the
a spiritual-scientific way that which transcends the earth, we
of the Ahrimanic beings is the following: To prevent the earth
I have spoken of the future development of the earth, of the
is to harden and freeze up the earth, to shape it in such a way
that, together with the earth, man remains an earthbound
creature. He becomes hardened, as it were, within earthly
The earth
keeping with the earthly sphere, but by suppressing his innate
disposition, which must lead him beyond the earth.
absorbing the new light, the pure light, in our earthly

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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this life on earth, where our aim is to enable this organism to
axis coincides with the North-South direction of the earth's
to the surface of the earth. Now it is not immaterial whether

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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development during his life on earth, will not be above
here on this earth as thinking, feeling, willing beings, but in
physical life on earth has been informed by what the tableau
what in our earthly existence we call our inner life, so that
earthly existence. Now, what we call the eternity of the human
life and birth, in a physical earthly body.
life on earth, the inner world is dark and the outside world of
life before our earthly embodiment, the outer cosmic
physical eyes during our earthly existence. As if it were our
we descend into this physical existence on earth.
between the eternal element in man and the life on earth
so, we come to earlier lives on earth, in which were
the individual soul, so the physical element and all earthly

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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ordinary life, what they absorb from the experiences of earthly
earth. We can perceive this presence in a great philosopher of

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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describe the features of the earth in accordance with the principles
work on earth (and already briefly characterized in these lectures)
extended over all the earth, would be an unmixed blessing for
earth, and exerted its influence over other regions, it must be
analysis, human existence on earth is composed of such
have it in physical life on earth, we can therefore say:
were before we descended into our earthly existence.
to earthly tasks — which are what the Oriental perceives
of the soul, but the soul in its earthly existence, then one
most varied manifestations of human suffering on earth. Among
understanding with any view that may exist on earth,

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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shall conclude: on this mortal earth we should not be men, in
man must be a creature of love by virtue of his task on earth,
is to fulfil his task here on earth. The property that enables
will transform the love that rightfully exists on earth into a
the spiritual world even during our earthly existence. There
our individual existence on earth, so too, in thus descending
what it acquires from the earth, this spiritual element becomes
states of the earth by means of this world-memory, how can we
operative in it. And we permeate what will become of the earth
its earthly elements. In this way we attain something
earth. At the same time, we are aware of ourselves as men,
(though they may not admit) that the earth has evolved from the
a while, and one day there supervenes the earth's entry into
evidence. At this point, it is as if all life on earth is
the earth. You can say that you don't believe it. But anyone
correctly something like the heat-death of the earth
earth has its gravity, and bodies must fall towards the earth
earth and considering the earth's gravity in relation to its

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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must also understand that the earth is incapable of withholding
organization that will enable the earth's gifts to flow

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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impulse: men therefore feel that what they do on earth is
development of the earth itself by associating their
mechanistic Kant-Laplace nebula, but at an origin of the earth
earth, and that ultimately no man should give orders unless he

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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earthly life. Plato thinks it quite feasible that children who
appertained to earthly life, he would, after passing through

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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hearts and affects their human and earthly being, they will
the planet was actually like which preceded the earth,
rise to the earth. I was able to lay before this man, in a
the earth as a seed, so that it may decay. Well, the word

Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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into a new earthly life, a life in the physical world.
worm their way in the earth and leaves and flower appear, he
that when the spread of plants cover the earth, it is found
envelop the earth as if by a physical air of plant-astrality.
the Plant-Ego directs itself towards a single place on earth,
namely the centre of the earth. It is as if the earth is being
therefore the plants grow towards the earth. This Ego however
intermingled, that they unite in the centre of the earth. Now
archetypes of his next earthly life. How much better would he
until he returns again to an earthly existence. So we see, so

Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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reach knowledge of the great cosmic relationships of our earth;
because we are part of our earth like a finger is part of the
couple of kilometres above the earth, he is no longer a human
being. The human being is a member of the earth organism, the
earth is again a member of the cosmos. This we can only see
development of the earth is described, which can appear quite

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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one's body, with one's earth-man, and indeed in such a
constructed in thy earthly body, the whole form of thy muscular

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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the content of religion always before us. On earth our teachers speak
controls us upon earth, because we have to be withdrawn for a time
back into a life in which he lived before his earth-life. Earthly
which may be compared to religious life on earth? We have already
between death and rebirth. Here on earth, we have as religion
Whereas here upon earth, we recognise that a life of religion has to
is always before us. Here on earth a person may be irreligious,
own forces directly into our inner being. Earthly teachers speak to
renounce. Each time, before an earthly incarnation takes place, the
image which the human being has formed from his earthly existence, is
through our earthly existence. I have already indicated in my book,
through careful training. We have need of our earthly life so as to
time we dwell on earth, through our having been withdrawn from the
in us the whole time we live upon earth, during which time we do not

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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would prefer not to remain on earth if he saw it directly.
would be, that even during the period of our physical earthly
apply ourselves again to physical earthly life. In such opposite
background of his consciousness. He would prefer not to be an earthly
earth, and to end with the Moon evolution. All the knowledge we are

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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On Earth, Nature does not yield
gained from experience here on earth, but which, if once gained, will
earth, we must have changed so much wisdom into life-force, we must
developed ourselves sufficiently in our earthly life and the
regions of the earth people who have preserved something from former
such difficulty on earth, surrounds us in all its fullness and wealth

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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recognition is that on earth we become aware of things through our
elements of the earth. In other words we may say of the physical
on the earth. During this time he has been accustomed to stand on the
solid, material earth, to see there the beings belonging to the
the centre, on the earth, together with all that the earth reveals to
earthly life. All the events we have consciously experienced in our
thoughts, which became our memories during life on earth, unfold once
memory-tableau what we have gained in our last earthly life, there is
had as a minus quantity when at birth we entered into earthly life.
feeling and experience of our inmost earthly nature being outside us.
remember: they now emerge, because the power to remember earthly
is from our earthly life. The main thing is that after physical birth
withdrawn with the fruits of our last earthly life, we live in an
connection with thy last earthly life. This condition lasts for
decades. When we are in earthly life between birth and death, we
overcome we still have a connection of desire with our last earthly
life. We look back, as it were, at this last earthly life. It is, as
connection with the physical earthly life. Anyone who is but to a
overcome our connection with our last earthly life and this is why,
took place in our earthly life.
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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met on earth; but after the midnight we learn what we must do for
those left behind on earth are not spiritual. Only spiritual experience
earth with a different point of view. There is no waste in life on
earth, e.g., fish spawn, wheat-grain. People who come to
us to say: ‘Thou must meet this person again on the earth below
has been done upon the earth in this way must be made good again upon
the earth. We know that in order to make compensation we need forces
which can only develop in us when we again possess an earthly body.
ourselves an earthly body which will give us the opportunity to
earth may be repaired; otherwise, when we have gone through death
connections between life on earth and life between death and rebirth.
forces before the Midnight Hour of existence, that he enters earthly
wishes to look back at his loved ones on the earth, he cannot see
upon the earth, because there is no spiritual life in their souls;
for his new earthly life in a purely spiritual form.
descends to earthly life he has constructed out of the spiritual
attributes which enable him to enter upon a new earthly life. I have
fruit of our last earthly life. But the human being does not always
preserve the remembrance: Upon earth thou wast this ‘I’;
into the earth's aura the power by which we can maintain our
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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science of the course of the Earth around the Sun and also of the
paragraphs of this lecture.] then the Earth plus Moon, then Mars,
diagram). The Earth revolves around the Sun
the Earth stands at one point and at another time somewhere else. The
Moon revolves around the Earth and the planets usually called Mercury
called Mercury (formerly Venus). Then, farther away than the Earth,
Now let us assume that as it revolves the Earth comes to a position
Earth and Sun there will be the planets Mercury and Venus, and on the
Earth, the sequence will be: Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, on one side;
of the Moon around the Earth is due to a force similar to that which
remote planet and has accordingly the weakest effect upon our Earth,

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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connected with the Sun. We see what the Earth reveals to us in the
through the Earth.
extinguished by the Earth's substance, for this had become transparent
the Earth, and if read with inner participation, a difference of style
Earth-evolution proper will induce a mood similar to that prevailing
place in the description of Earth-evolution an indication is given of

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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to the Earth's forces of decline, to all that is driving the Earth
through which we are fettered to the Earth, and we see cosmic
to the Earth and the forces which pass us by, are tearing our true
All that fetters us to the Earth, all that binds us to the perishable,
failure to fulfil its mission on the Earth.

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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Then the impression faded — the impression of seeing earthly
came to the Earth. When it is said that man consists of physical body,
of his last earthly life. In spiritual science this has at all times
been called the “Lower” or the “earthly” man. The
his last life on Earth.
from his last earthly life to his present earthly life. He united
last death, he can go further and come to know his last earthly life.
epoch lying far, far back in the evolution of the Earth, a far distant
the beginning of his earthly evolution, to his very first incarnation
on the Earth. Then it is found that all the earlier incarnations
the Earth's evolution he was in an entirely different environment,
that the Earth itself was quite different when he was living in his
body from within, we become aware that at that time the Earth has just
at the time of the formation of the mineral kingdom on our Earth, man
had his first earthly incarnation. The mineral kingdom has evolved
through his earthly incarnations. It was then that he first took the
evolution the Earth progressed to the point where the mineral kingdom
Atlantis. Before the great Atlantean catastrophe the face of the Earth
epoch the configuration of the Earth was again different. Human
of the Earth took shape. That too was the time when the present Moon
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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or: earth, water, air, fire. These expressions are taken from the
Such an entity of the Elementary World is called ‘earth’.
‘earth’ is something that offers resistance, like a hard
‘water’. Whenever mention is made of ‘earth’ and
really only be described by saying that water, air and earth are
that ‘earth’, ‘water’, ‘air’,
no resemblance at all to men. Whereas men on the Earth live together
qualities of earthly things — solid, liquid, airy, fiery. But for
air, water, earth, must also be considered. On Old Saturn, everything
zodiacal constellations, the planetary embodiments of our Earth

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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what are usually called the “Elements” — earth, water,
in the case of the other elements; the element “earth” is in
“earth” is something we cannot approach, something that
of “earth”, between the phlegmatic temperament and the
“earth”. Thus different factors play a part in the
everything earthy in the Elementary World and he overlooks all the
melancholic to the element of earth. When a man passes into the
earth, will in another incarnation represent, as a sanguine type, the
Will or of Spirits of Wisdom, it is rather as if here on Earth we were
Earth and of those who are only to be seen by clairvoyance in the
millennia with Earth-evolution, then he became Buddha, and in that

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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colour. The elements of fire, air, water and earth (spiritually

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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each a different power, just as it illumines our Earth through the

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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his present form he can be imagined only on the Earth. Anyone who
contemplates man in his connection with the whole of Earth-existence
will say: Man is as the Earth is, for he is connected with the forces
of the Earth; in his body the substances can be combined in no other
way than they actually are. Imagine the Earth only slightly altered
without picturing the whole Earth as it is. If, therefore, reference
a different planet, not on our Earth as it is at present. If we are to
state, so the whole Earth has evolved with him; that it too points to
which the Earth has evolved and whence man derives his earlier form,
is the Old Moon-state of the Earth, and the state into which the Earth
Jupiter-state. The Earth has evolved out of an Old Moon planetary
flowed into man; during the Earth-state proper the forces flow from
the structure of the Earth. Our present Earth is only possible at a
the Old Moon into our Earth, the whole solar system changed.
active in both cases. When our Earth becomes Jupiter the whole solar
regard to the worlds that preceded our Earth we can find our bearings

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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clairvoyant vision, namely, that our Earth is the successor of another
darkness. The Earth will then be transformed into another planetary
the future incarnation of the present Earth). I have explained that
the Earth passes through successive incarnations, just as the human
the Old Moon, in turn originate out of some other? Has the Earth had
has developed the two lower members. But in the earthly world we are
and the Earth; he can sleep at an hour of the day or night
Sun's rays and of the relative position of the Sun to the Earth. This
the relation of the Earth to the Sun. True, there are perennial plants
to the Earth; man has made himself independent of it. Remembering that
the Sun to the Earth, whereas the plants around us today are dependent
dependent upon Sun and Earth. An astral body and Ego must have been
Earth. The connection that is present in man between the physical and
position of the Sun to the Earth. But is it altogether independent of
present, no man could evolve on the Earth. He is dependent on the Sun
but independent of its relative position to the Earth. When the Sun
withdraws its direct, warmth-bestowing force from the Earth it does
not fail to leave behind in the Earth its warmth and health-giving
summer has withdrawn under the Earth's surface. It remains active
beneath the Earth's surface, preserved through the winter. Even though
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Title: Life Between ... IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
of earthly existence to the sphere of knowledge and of the arts. Here
to cooperate, but also the initiates who lived on earth. They do not
express our physical world. Imagine the space between the earth and
taken as the outermost path away from the earth. Then you have the
realm in which man, loosened from the earth, dwells during the
physical plane. Here we are bound outwardly to the earth, surrounded
death the earth is separated from us and we are united with the
with the earth. We proceed beyond it when we have learned through
customary on earth. There we are spread out in space, we feel
earth. A long span of our evolution after death, and our ability to
ethical concepts and feelings we developed on earth. A person who has
still involved in earthly matters is not entirely severed. We still
know what we have done on the earth, what we have thought. Just as
painful! On earth if we have done a person some injustice or have not
earthly connection we should have loved him, but did not do so as
more. What has been established on the earth remains. We cannot alter
with Him on earth.
Spirit of the earth will be retrieved.
whole earth. It remains the basic challenge of spiritual science to
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Title: Life Between ... VIII: Between Death and a New Birth
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on earth in turn derive enlightenment and support from their former earth
Let us take life on earth as a starting point. Perhaps you will have
in earthy life. When a person has gone through the gate of death, all
his earthly existence rise to the surface and become the content of
gate of death who on earth were enemies of spiritual science and who
then strive for spiritual science. Had we during their earthly lives
earth, one merely passes him by. On earth, too, one would not
contact only with the individuals one has known on earth. One might
have spoken on earth. It is only later, during the passage into
definite period of years. If the one who has remained on earth is
earthly life, he still holds onto these memories.
What is an earthly language? Every language has meaning only for
earthly life and is closely connected with a person's
thoughts are not formed according to earthly conditions. The dead
if it is to live. The earth is covered with plants because the sun
that is present without earthly participation. Since the Mystery of Golgatha
man must always penetrate into the Christ-substance of the earth that
of the sun. Then the mighty Sun Spirit descended to the earth, and thereby
after death. In nature this stage will be accomplished when the earth
on the earth, it conjures forth the carpet of vegetation. Now assume the
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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Man as Earth Citizen and Cosmic Citizen, Michael and the Dragon
Man as Earth Citizen and Cosmic Citizen, Michael and the Dragon
Nowadays, when a man reflects upon his development on the earth, a
physical bodies in the sense that people on earth do today.
Incidentally, the earth did not even exist then. They beheld beings
what was the ancestor of our earth, they represented, so to speak, the
from Heaven to Earth.” It was Michael's deed, this bestowing of a
earth. But it did not live there in such a way that a human eye could
Now the earth came into being, and with it, man; and it was intended
which came into being as earth-nature, as a new cosmic body — the
this world. Man belonged on the earth. The Dragon did not belong on
the earth, but he had been transferred thither.
And now consider what man encountered on the earth, as he came into
existence with the earth. He encountered what had developed as
mountains, fresh mineral forms that flow as water over the earth in
out of heaven down to the earth, where he had no home; but then he
another planet to draw a picture of the earth; and he would have shown
man, thereby representing an earth-being.
look for him? Anywhere wherever there were men on earth. That's where
down to earth — an event taking place in extra-human worlds. And
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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and to which we can remember back in this earth life, there occurred
a psycho-spiritual being before his earth life. — That is one
of the nature of the connection between his earthly existence and his
nature that surround him on earth — the manifold beauty of
had to enter the world-historical evolution of the earth; a
intervened incisively for the history of the earth in the evolution of
purpose on earth: he has a cosmic aim within the entire world
beings that in earthly existence are at a low stage, but destined for
existence possible for him. And if this were to continue, the earth
earthly existence.

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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concerning his connection not only with earthly but with cosmic
conditions: he must learn to feel himself not only as an earth citizen
colored science men are aware of earth conditions to the point of
thinks of as the planet earth. And the present habits of thinking
that the validity of what is true on the earth's surface diminishes as
way from anything we can learn about earth matters in the
laboratories, in the operating rooms — from anything on earth,
our earthly research. The nature of our present-day education is such
in our little earth cell; but it is obvious that truth cannot come to
cosmic conditions having significance for life on this earth. And now,
influence of cosmic life on earthly life — even the peasants!
the earth. And when the priest said: The position of the sun now calls
deciphered, and then applied to earthly things.
and as earth-men they carried out the will of the gods as read in the
knowledge of what should take place on earth. How infinitely greater
is the enthusiasm, the incentive, for what must be done on earth if a
of men on earth, thereby knowing ourself to be one with the divine in
our cognition pass from the earth out into cosmic space: instead of
the earth. They do not bother very much about any of the effects of
universe are reflected by the moon down to the earth; but in the
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
being can once more be converted, as it were, from an earth citizen to
to the reaches of the universe, and how thereby his earthly life, too,
our whole frame of mind can be expanded from the earth to cosmic
Present-day natural science considers our earth merely a dead mineral
there any true reality in that earth of primitive rock, slate,
such earth as that: it is purely fictitious. Has not the earth
of the earth, just as much as is the crystalline slate of mountain
ranges; and if I only consider an earth consisting of stone I have no
earth at all. Nothing that external natural science deals with today
pertains, for instance, to the origin of the earth, so and so many
science of geology into setting forth how the earth looked three
strata. Again, the figures can be perfectly correct, but the earth was
then — only the earth will no longer be in existence as a
hundred years ago, or how the earth appeared two hundred million years
one learns as well, not only the relation of the earth to its own
a matter of seeking the earth, including its production of plants,
all-embracing entirety, the earth must be understood as the outer,
earth differs from that of the human being, if I may so express it. In
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the
the Earth, embowl’d by thee,
As he at first of earth arose,
In equall state to earth he goes.
She is bound to earth, yet she
massie Spear upstayd; as if on Earth
To meet the flat Earth &the Sea
Such are the Spaces called Earth
vegetable Earth is but a shadow.
of people all over the earth. The mood of 1848 finds expression
Congeal’d on Earth: but does, dissolving,
Spirits all my Earth! heark! In what Rings,
them down to earthly paths
of earth far distant
shall subdue far distances of earth
archetypes of earth existence.
present life on earth

Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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speak, to bring the kingdom of God on to this earth. This
to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the

Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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physical world of the earth with our four parts or members,
connected with the whole world of the earth. We behold them ...
view the different objects on the earth.
experience it in the same way in which we experience the earth
like the earth faces Sommer, when its spring is coming to an
paradoxical aspect. When we survey the surface of the earth
earth. We destroy the forces which entered from the elemental
the cosmos places the earth in winter: We spread winter over
of evolution of the earth. We should realise that in view of
the equality of all religions on earth. In an abstract way, it
earth. The essential thing is to avoid emphasizing again and,
Also, the earth passes through these conditions of summer and
winter, but in the course of one year. Why does the. Earth pass
earth is, like man, a living Being? but upon another stage of
the world of the Hierarchies. If we observe the whole earth
body of the earth, and even as man bears within him soul and
spirit, so the earth also has its soul and its spirit. Our
twenty-four hours, whereas the earth sleeps and wakes during
the course of one year. The earth is awake from autumn to
that in the summer we are embedded in a sleeping earth. It is
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Title: The Subconscious Forces
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proved other things besides. He unearthed a long-forgotten
atmosphere of the earth. Let us consider that in the spiritual
earth. Indeed, each individual soul that passed through
live here on earth. Indeed, we should not hesitate, to
can be observed in people during their physical life on earth,
Such things may occur among those who live on the earth. People

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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the earthly existence and would become the victim of a certain
eyes of his soul, as he has passed through this life in his earthly
earthly existence. Ordinarily, the only thing we know in regard to
this earthly existence is that which we can call up in memory; we
something of his entire earthly life in pictures appearing before his
soul at the moment indicated, when the entire earthly life
earth which have thrust up these traces and given this form to the
surface of the ground. Such a being might seek within the earth for
thing knows that the condition was not caused by the earth but by
But, just as he knows that those tracks on the surface of the earth
do not derive from forces within the earth, he now knows that these
united in the earthly life, far removed not only from the feeling of
world is our own pre-earthly existence. Just as we are
otherwise conscious of earthly experiences by means of our
back into pre-earthly experiences, beholding what we were as
descended through birth to this earthly existence, when as
nature of man, to that which reveals itself to us as the pre-earthly
world in the earthly life. Moreover, we now become aware that, in
confronted by this pre-earthly life as well as human immortality,
earthly life. For that which we now come to know as our pre-earthly
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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earthly existence. And the fact that he achieves for himself
whole course of our life upon earth. From the most remote epochs of
of the waking life. What I do here during my earthly life, what
being in a purely spiritual world before my descent into the earthly
the earthly existence, as persons capable in real life. In
earthly life passes by us, the joy we have experienced in
of the earthly life, the growing child is the most wonderful
earthly phenomenon. The emergence out of the profoundest inner
that which lived as spirit and soul in the pre-earthly existence in
only the immediate age of childhood but the whole earthly life of the

Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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earth? Why do we have to learn about things that took place long ago?
death are always related to this particular earthly existence. This being so,
the various incarnations of the earth and the world picture described by
Saturn and all its secrets, of the Moon and Earth evolution, of reincarnation
theory. They have the inherent power of a seed planted in the earth. It

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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planetary embodiments of the Earth? Why is it necessary to learn about
different incarnations of the Earth and the like. Just as we inquire
the Earth, of Reincarnation and Karma, of Devachan, Kamaloca and so
earthly world from realms outside and beyond it. Things which may
Earth. Forces shoot out in every direction and become plant or tree.

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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the earth? Why is it necessary to learn about things that happened in
particular earth existence. But if this is so, we shall have to say to
earth, and everything else that Spiritual Science tells us. Just as we
and Earth evolution, of reincarnation and karma, of Devachan and
something that thrives and grows like a seed sown in the earth. Forces

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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towards earthly existence will certainly awaken remembrance, only it
in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life — but in a
that the souls of all of us have been incarnated many times in earthly
of the world spread over the Earth — were united in that
different forms of belief spread over the Earth. In this way the soul
that name. In that incarnation he died after only a brief earthly
whole Earth. Everything that comes to pass in the spiritual

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matter if we cannot remember them! The right attitude towards earthly
experiences in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life, but in
have been incarnated many times in earthly bodies, among the most
the earth — were united in that council of the twelve.
belief spread over the earth.
that name. In that incarnation he died after only a brief earthly
their thought and influence has an effect over the whole earth.

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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the physical earth. We know that we are during sleep, from
connected with the whole earth. We are looking; we are aware
earth. We look there at our own physical nature like at a whole
falling asleep that we feel it as we feel the earth in spring
planet, begins going to its summer like the earth is about to
our earth's surface and experience its sprouting upwards, its
the winter above the earth brings frost and cold and the
relations transport the earth when it is winter. We spread out
whole process of the earth's evolution. We have to do our duty
that appears in our earth development. It does not depend on
earth goes also through this summer and winter states, but the
earth goes through them in the cycle of the year. Why does the
earth go through these states in the cycle of the year? Because
the earth is a being as we are, only on another level of the
hierarchies. The whole earth, if we look at it physically, as
it is around us, is only the body of the earth; and as well as
we carry our soul and spirit in ourselves, the earth also has
earth is awake and sleeps in the cycle of the year. It is awake
summertime: we live embedded in the sleeping earth. —
earth. — It does not hold true that the earth is awake in
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beginning of August 1914 over a big part of the earth, with an
by the most different countries of the earth, is it not as if
should have, who are left here on the earth. Yes, the
notice in this physical life on earth with the human beings if

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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that it must restrict itself to the physical world of earthly
his earthly existence since birth, or since the earliest point of
consciously into this earthly existence. Ordinarily, the only thing
we know in regard to this earthly existence is that which we can call
of his entire earthly life in pictures appearing before his soul
soul at the moment indicated, when the entire earthly life confronts
the earth which have thrust up these traces and given this form to
the surface of the ground. Such a being might seek within the earth
earth but by human feet or wagon wheels.
tracks on the surface of the earth do not derive from forces within
the earth, he now knows that these convolutions of the brain do not
separated from all to which one is united in the earthly life, far
pre-earthly existence. Just as we are otherwise conscious of earthly
now dawn for us: we look back into pre-earthly experiences, beholding
we descended through birth to this earthly existence, when as
of man, to that which reveals itself to us as the pre-earthly
united just as we feel united with the physical world in the earthly
this pre-earthly life as well as human immortality, regarding which
to be completely absorbed within the earthly life. For that
which we now come to know as our pre-earthly life penetrates into us
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