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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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    • transformation of our whole life brought about by the
    • research is a transformation of human thinking. Any impartial
    • was approached in former times — how human thinking as a
    • conformity to law. And we make it our duty not to add any of
    • to investigating the conformity to law of external
    • into with the world. It has become a purely formal aid for
    • can intervene only formally, in clarification, combination and
    • For, with its conformity to law, science does easily lead, in
    • who form their picture of the earlier epochs of mankind only
    • have a way which in its pure form was followed by individuals
    • transformed the process of respiration. He did so by
    • conscious. The transformed respiratory rhythm, with its timing
    • transformation of thinking by other means, so that through this
    • transformed thinking we can reach knowledge that will be a kind
    • not form a part of Eastern spirit-training — for, even if
    • thought for longish periods. We perform, in the realm of the
    • clear-cut concepts which we have formed ourselves or have been
    • abstract, we are not in a position — once we have formed
    • advanced to vital thinking, we do indeed form a mental image
    • profound conformity to law that the abnormality is
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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    • feel it informing our senses, feel too that our psychic
    • into our body; we inform our organs of will with it and become
    • it informs our muscles, and how finally there comes about what
    • hidden the spiritual element that informs this wonderful
    • different form, to psychology itself. It would need a great
    • men are inclined to say: the form of consciousness I have once
    • give us any information about any kind of outside world, not
    • survey our life; but we see it as it informs our growth and the
    • physical life on earth has been informed by what the tableau
    • finer body (which yet informs our growth and our memory), a
    • man and see how the spiritual informs the bodily organs.
    • sublime.” He means the highest form of the sublime. This
    • highest form can be experienced only in the human organism
    • men today and forms a basis for true inner piety and true inner
    • formed; how soul finds its way to soul, moving outside the
    • it forms the pain, the sorrow, the privation, the wish of
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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    • take on the forms appropriate to that science. Thus the
    • this change the expression of great transformations in human
    • brings us in the end to thinking and to the transformation of
    • religious life separate in his soul. He even endeavours to form
    • can recreate the creative human form. All we need is to retain
    • common sense and a sound, spiritually informed eye, you
    • experience. In forming the muscle, the bent arm, the hand, he
    • flow together, informs Soloviev's East European
    • scientific thinking, whereas in art forms and religious
    • This religious strain forms part of the temperament of East
    • of nature? His artistic sense transformed itself naturally into
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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    • (including such forms of these as have survived in the East
    • quite different form, further West — and in this
    • and sun! We may say: what we formulate in our sharply
    • microscope extensively and learnt about cell-life, and formed
    • world of plants as it grows and flowers. If we have formed a
    • concrete in its individual forms as the world of the senses in
    • transformed external perceptions. Within man, memories are not
    • only faithfully preserved; they are also transformed in many
    • transformed external experience. Of course, we need only
    • hand we know that the material forms operating within us are
    • themselves simply a transformed reflection of the spiritual
    • because, in transforming itself into mortal man, the spiritual
    • assumed the most varied forms — we can see how the sense
    • assume the most formidable dimensions unless it can be set on
    • spirit informing this life turns into abstract concepts and
    • to conform to mirror-images, which in themselves are powerless,
    • extreme form an attitude that we really need in face of such
    • spiritually real form of the higher world infuse these
    • must emerge for man a new form of the spiritual world. And when
    • transformation of the spiritual world, which was
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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    • that takes the form of general concepts and ideas, a vague
    • spiritual form of existence. The reaction of the rationalist to
    • older forms of humanity's mystical endeavour. Yet in face of
    • organic process, and then appears again in an altered form.
    • Anything observed can undergo a transformation or metamorphosis
    • terms. When we observe the outside world and inwardly transform
    • cognition, so that by attaining a different form of
    • the outside world, and that the act of cognition transforms
    • will transform the love that rightfully exists on earth into a
    • transformed memories; but they often contain an admixture of
    • the formation of a healthy memory, pierces this mirror of
    • more or less abstract form suffers from a marked semblance
    • drop. A miniature solar system forms, and from the standpoint
    • of the world's history: we form concepts of a purely physical
    • arise cloud-formations, and indeed shapes thinner even than
    • another.” We need to attain this attitude, in a form
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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    • social reforms from first principles, in an abstract and
    • expounded here could, if transformed into impulses of the whole
    • political party. Then, you have a platform, you have ready-made
    • that we can form a life-like picture of them.
    • formulated, almost as an abstract theory, however, is a feature
    • form no longer appropriate to the present time, in earlier
    • ordinarily formulated, can only express a superficial outlook,
    • develop into human social configurations informed by
    • soul, the forces that have been formative in social
    • mathematically formulated laws; to comprehend something so
    • away from the instinctive forces that previously formed
    • only into inorganic, lifeless nature, but also into the forms
    • even of something that forms as much a part of the social
    • can transform itself into social impulses such as arose from
    • this life in its individual concrete forms in accordance with
    • end-result of this is that we form ideas of what is going on in
    • among mere memories, untransformed.
    • sharply delineated concepts but vital ones. The former, it is
    • immediately take on sharp contours) all informed by the
    • the platform, her way of speaking was ... well, I will quote an
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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    • transformation now taking place in the social structure of the
    • tending to transform themselves into a totality, a single
    • spiritual transformation throughout the world, of which perhaps
    • expected to shape laws and inform administrative principles,
    • dogmatic and formula-ridden Marxism that occupied the souls of
    • so many of these, a great deal survives in a disguised form, so
    • an increasingly attenuated form, this has survived in all the
    • attenuated form. There is much in present-day social structures
    • religious views themselves have taken on quite different forms,
    • forms that have detached themselves from economic life,
    • impulses that inform them. For the description often given
    • that appear the same in their outward form are not the same
    • that the particular form of the theocratic state — or
    • was theocratic in form has gradually assumed a quite
    • transitional form in the Platonic Utopian state. There is
    • about society; and in it we can recognize a form into which
    • encounter this relationship in its purest form when we look
    • very diluted form, metaphorically speaking; so that,
    • transformed itself into the legal attitude, the political
    • take on legal forms.
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  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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    • spirits in a simple formula — the Apolline dictum:
    • and science were combined: in performing the ritual actions,
    • religious elements gave to knowledge its original form.
    • undergo a complete transformation as a man, a kind of
    • This is the old religious form of catharsis, the purification
    • What existed in the East passed over in another form to Greece
    • doing the work. The masses merely formed an appendage to the
    • those who performed it as a natural datum. Human society really
    • supply, which with us forms part of the social organization, is
    • experience of the different forms of mankind. These differences
    • formation of trusts and combines, in the trade union movement,
    • spiritual sphere. What we perform in the outside world needs to
    • of life becomes of interest. Whereas formerly what was
    • formerly we looked at the product, we shall now look at the man
    • who requires the product. Whereas formerly the product was
    • expressed in so extreme a form is justified, and whether people
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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    • conceivably interest them. They perform it as if faced with
    • tend to be formed in these circles are indeed organized on the
    • on to the outside world. These assumed the most varied forms,
    • superstition formerly interposed ghosts in front of external
    • obliged to adopt the scientific forms of expression customary
    • philosophy of life in the form of an anthroposophically
    • developed over there a distinct form of primitive
    • developed represents a primitive form of the exercises by which
    • will. It sometimes takes curious forms, this conscious
    • in one form or another with us Western men, in his heart there
  • Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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    • circulation of capital might be transformed so that it
    • formulae and recommending their indiscriminate
    • transformation, and that forces of decline must always operate
    • you could see that, whenever capitalism formed part of an
    • transformed broad areas of social life. Ask yourselves what is
    • a very popular form, at the end of the eighteenth and beginning
    • them and becomes an empty form. And then they say: This empty
    • form must be given a content; the economic element must
    • that inform the social structures; economic associations come
    • lives a certain formalized element of social thinking.
    • formalized thought. But humanity, on its way down the ages,
    • economy was formed, it was the general opinion that the state
    • connection with the circulation of capital. The formation of
    • formation of capital. In recent times, this has been
    • that are part of a legitimate formation of capital, but on the
    • When people realize this, they become social reformers and work
    • all-important — inhabits this triform social organism in
    • uniformly in the monolithic state has led to a
    • we shall be able to form some idea of how the three spheres in
  • Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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    • world view with something which formerly has not been taken
    • complete intimate transformation as experienced within the soul
    • different kingdoms we conclude that their form is firm,
    • outer form has remained constant. Similarly with the animal,
    • possess a continuously changing form, a shape which in many of
    • form which can be observed in the astral plane is the exact
    • continuously changing forms of the astral beings. Thus you have
    • don't cling to outer objects but flash with a definite form,
    • that some kind of regularity of form is out of the question.
    • The astral body only appears in a kind of firm, steady form as
    • this is the case, it retains this form. Already at night, when
    • evil feelings during the day, appear in quite another form
    • the day. In general the form of the astral body is steady at
    • its form essentially, but only essentially.
    • takes on a variable form right through the Kamaloka time. This
    • body completely matches its form and image to the soul life,
    • hateful feelings shows a withered form while a person who died
    • with beautiful feelings, show a sympathetic form as an astral
    • while really take on the forms of all kinds of grotesque
    • follow which forms are offered to the clairvoyant
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  • Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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    • Make an attempt to formulate a precise reckoning, drawing from
    • only slowly transforms talents. Yes, attention must be drawn to
    • in order for the transformation of talents to be carried out,
    • least see the beginnings of transformation in our own nature.
    • at a precise moment perform the right thing. It is a totally
    • allows the karmic line to weave and form links this way and
    • transform facts. It is necessary, that if karma is not to
    • transformed way. Whereas you had experienced great pain and
    • researchers who not only transformed their souls into
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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    • acquainted with the inner man, and one meets the human form. It is a
    • the inner life of man abstractly, it appears in the three forms we
    • have often mentioned; in the forms of thought, feeling and will. But
    • which thus flows out into the world and forms part of it. Whether
    • forth the smallest part and transform it into actual feeling ...
    • become inner world. Not as if one now carried within one this former
    • formerly thy sense-impressions were outspread and art regarding the
    • extent, the tiny being, the man, who formerly seemed to stand in the
    • look on it as we formerly looked on the whole of the outer world
    • that meets one is the human form itself? But how changed is this
    • human form! One cannot say it often enough: that one must go out of
    • this human form present itself! One knows: ‘That which thou art
    • now looking at, is thyself; yea, it is thee. Thou who formerly didst
    • might call the outer form of that which stands there; though changed.
    • thus do the eyes appear in the changed human form. The ears begin to
    • short, the human form appears to one as something which gives forth
    • permeating this shining form. Then one knows: That which thou seest
    • One now finds, not what one formerly saw by means of the body and its
    • moves in this outer world. It is as if the space, in which formerly
    • physical body in such a way that what formerly was only felt, now
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  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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    • image of Divine Being in the form of man, as the highest divine work
    • ‘time’ that is outside space). A religion formed on
    • image which the human being has formed from his earthly existence, is
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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    • Sun that is hidden from us though forming part of the Will. That
    • death. We re-create it as a new form of consciousness when we let it
    • really attains the form of ideas, only a tiny portion really enters
    • formed as the result of this sensation.
    • corpse were not formed through the war between Lucifer and his
    • at once into the spiritual world. The corpse forms the dead weight by
    • ours. Through this content, this corpse-phantom being formed in us,
    • spiritualisation. It is while this deposit is forming that what I
    • it enters our consciousness and forms those shadow-pictures of
    • ideas!’ A person who says this has never formed any idea as to
    • Intuition. In former times this consciousness was given to man as a
    • arose within this Divine Being to awaken a new form of consciousness.
    • When men acquire a different form of consciousness, they acquire
    • something of the utmost importance. When the Gods create a new form
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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    • of it in order that the wisdom transformed may become the life forces
    • reality out of wisdom as something creative. The form of nature
    • What we thus take away we are able to transform within us so that the
    • transformed wisdom becomes the life-force which drives us towards the
    • it is. He is unable to form reality out of it. This dreadful
    • reality one had formerly believed in, A man is then choked or drowned
    • two sides of life have to supplement and balance each other. We form
    • appropriate feelings. Spiritual Science when accepted will transform
    • appears in one who takes up Spiritual Science. A person who performs
    • did formerly. This may be noticed in every realm of life; in every
    • mentioned will flow instinctively into the actions he performs. He
    • regions of the earth people who have preserved something from former
    • dreamy form, because it is a seeing into the spiritual world —
    • perfect man. As we have already said, in former times people had this
    • widespread and is a form of dreamlike clairvoyant consciousness which
    • beautiful and very true: ‘Nature and the form of nature is the
    • the wisdom we find there. The goal of the Gods is reality in form.
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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    • before; thy former relationship to the world is radically reversed.
    • portal of death, the first idea he has to form in his soul is: ‘Thou
    • on the physical plane: for this star, this will-star, which now forms
    • because it is this inward experience which forms the basis of our
    • we have to transform them in order to be able to form memories. The
    • last great memory which we have after death in the form of the
    • never have formed the forces of memory. The forces which now develop
    • life were, during life, transformed into the power by which we
    • transformed memory-force is awakened within us as the first spiritual
    • forming thoughts, thou wast producing nothing but elemental beings.
    • tell us how long it is since they were formed. Time becomes space: it
    • elemental world which forms our environment to which we ourselves
    • give the fundamental tone through our transformed memories. We live
    • the physical world, these soul-powers we possess in this form,
    • then rays forth from us, has to be transformed during our physical
    • There, longing is a creative force; it transforms itself into
  • Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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    • to the world. But we become aware that the transformation will take
    • etheric-archetype for the next life in a spirit form. Within this
    • we feel unity with what withdrew from us as the fruit of our former
    • transformation of those enjoyments and pleasures which are of a
    • something that must be transformed if we do not wish to be slowly
    • suffocated in them. We feel the necessity for this transformation,
    • about this transformation.
    • stronger, and we are able to transform this strength into moral power
    • been connected in some way in former stages of existence. It is not
    • perform the actions whereby the imperfections we have caused upon
    • great inventors are often people who in former incarnations died
    • which are used to form the ground-work from which other beings can
    • as was formerly the case, when the tailors in the town only made a
    • When he has formed the tendencies
    • for his new earthly life in a purely spiritual form.
    • having formed our archetype in the spiritual world. In reality,
    • already mentioned that we transform the forces we bring over from the
    • it does not need to be transformed during our life on earth. The
    • that is brought from the spiritual world is transformed, so that only
    • the tiny amount of consciousness endures which informs us of our
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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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    • in this form should not be regarded as a desirable state; it is being
    • There is also a form of ecstasy in which a man is not only surrounded
    • more and more deeply into himself transforms certain feelings into
    • Through this inner deepening of experience the soul changes its former
    • Macrocosm, where we see fantastic forms, fantastic because there is no
    • least-to form an idea of why we lose hold of the Ego in that state.
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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    • to turn his attention away from all that, to form thoughts whereby he
    • in order to hand them over, I am performing a deed; I am
    • called Mercury, then the planet now called Venus, [*In former times
    • planetary system having formed itself is easily refuted. You will all
    • have been taught in school about the formation of the planetary
    • around it, were formed by a process of separation from the nebula
    • minute scale, the formation of a planetary system and nobody will
    • planet that is called Mercury today was formerly called Venus,
    • and the planet called Venus today was formerly called Mercury.
    • Venus, (formerly Mercury) is nearer the Sun than the planet now
    • called Mercury (formerly Venus). Then, farther away than the Earth,
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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    • very faint and weakened form only. That is what would come over a man
    • form an idea of this by ordinary reasoning. Anyone who with the help
    • passions and various forms of enjoyment. Activity destructive to the
    • see the Microcosm in its pure, spiritual form, but only the part that
    • has these feelings in normal life-in a weak form, like the sense of
    • with spring will be transformed into one of sadness, of melancholy;
    • transformations that take place from spring to summer and autumn and
    • enhancement of the fear he otherwise knows only in a weak form. Just
    • ideas it presents in an unpretentious form induce in the reader
    • super-sensible world we form in the soul! It is the spiritual knowledge
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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    • picture how these experiences are transformed into faculties, we must
    • transformation possible.
    • — is transformed during sleep in such a way that it becomes our
    • transformed into the capacity to write. The power which has
    • transformed all these daily experiences into the faculty of writing is
    • transformed into faculties and the soul becomes more and more mature.
    • disposal in the form of faculties.
    • we can do very little by means of our own forces to transform these
    • physical body to be transformed to a certain extent. If we observe a
    • laid hold of his inner life, then after those ten years we can form an
    • intellect, of mind and of will, we can transform our outer sheaths,
    • Thinking: the capacity to form ideas of things.
    • three forces are transformed in our soul and assume different aspects.
    • that this, as it streams into us, is transformed into the force which
    • see somebody performing his daily work. What we draw into ourselves
    • streams into us and is so transformed as to become inwardly
    • everything possible so to transform our paltry thinking, feeling and
    • feeling is then transformed into an overwhelming obligation to promote
    • desires, impulses, urges, passions, and so on — are transformed
    • open in him; the true form of his own astral body, which on waking in
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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    • to time to information belonging to the higher regions of spiritual
    • descend consciously into this astral body; and we were able to form an
    • ordinary life in a form less purely spiritual. Nevertheless, their
    • form until finally they are lost altogether.
    • acquaint ourselves with the information given by those who have
    • he began to form the archetype of his etheric body. It was then that
    • used because it was realised that these attributes had been formed and
    • in ever denser form, what confronts him as the last remnant from his
    • past life; as it becomes more and more definitely formed, its
    • the form his etheric body had assumed at the moment of his last death.
    • And now, after this form has still further condensed, has more and
    • made with forming the new one. This makes it evident that in fact a
    • entering into deeper forms of mystical experience learns to know
    • must be capable of transformation to the degree of being able to feel
    • present form first came into existence and it was therefore possible
    • formation. Under different conditions the plant kingdom was already in
    • at the time of the formation of the mineral kingdom on our Earth, man
    • was formed and at the same time man took the mineral kingdom into
    • me.’ He was one who had experienced this transformation; he had
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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    • that they should be led to the secrets of the Macrocosm through a form
    • To understand such a process we must be able to form an idea of the
    • give information about those worlds from his own experience. A team or
    • today, but in an entirely decadent form. As a rule in such societies
    • performed in the Northern Mysteries for the purposes of Initiation.
    • Elements the spiritual does not yet reveal itself in its true form as
    • form from those known in waking consciousness, are not yet the
    • The form in which this world reveals itself is such that the
    • physical world: solid, liquid or fluid, airy or aeriform, or warmth;
    • call solid, liquid, aeriform; and in addition there is also what we
    • conditions: solid, liquid, aecriform or gaseous, or as warmth. These,
    • body may be solid in the form of ice or also be liquid or gaseous when
    • we call ‘airy’ or ‘aeriform’ in the physical
    • disasters of every kind even in physical existence. Formidable dangers
    • in a social order, in certain forms of society, under definite social
    • We distinguish seven planets moving and performing deeds, and twelve
    • instrumental in forming an eleventh and a twelfth category. In this
    • been formed out of different spiritual worlds. To understand this we
    • saying of Goethe: “The eye is formed by the light for the
    • formed by the light for the light so that the inner light may meet the
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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    • Elementary World given by people possessed of a lower form of
    • the Elementary World reveals itself in the form it does, and then this
    • belong to his temperament go to form it.
    • life I formed this or that definite opinion’ — let us
    • quite possible to form a sound judgment about the findings of
    • healthy judgment can be formed as to the correctness or incorrectness
    • opinions. In this way we transcend the ordinary way of forming human
    • forming our character and educating us.
    • so that he is able to form a judgment of the experiences in question.
    • Elementary World, the beings of that world confront him in the form
    • in such a way that we can now endure it — the form that is a
    • It is so necessary for the men of our time to form a clear idea of
    • outside us, for we have been formed out of the world that surrounds
    • Now we should be unable to form any conception of the still higher
    • beginning to form a true concept of this upper boundary of the
    • lived on in another form. As a Bodhisattva he was associated for many
    • Imagination. We shall show that the forces which form the organs in
  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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    • physical and etheric bodies in a certain consolidated form. But what
    • “eye is formed by the light for the light.”
    • That is to say, the eye is not formed by what is reflected, but by
    • we see or hear; but what we do let through is what has formed the
    • Elementary World there are forces which have formed our sense of sight
    • and also our other senses. As sense-beings we are formed out of the
    • through and are not reflected. These are the forces that form, for
    • If it is the case that the World of Spirit works at the forming of our
    • forces which have formed our nervous system, we shall certainly find a
    • brain is formed. If higher organs are to be formed, it must be
    • out of the soil, how it forms stem, leaves, flower and fruit. Through
    • Two serpent forms, one light and one dark, wind around a vertical
    • growing until the seed is formed and then gradually withering until
    • has otherwise accomplished in him without his aid, forming his brain
    • physical. Just as the eyes have been formed out of the Elementary
    • spiritual organs are formed and moulded, organs which gradually enable
    • in the shape of spiritual flower-forms budding forth from man and are
    • A second organ of this kind may be formed in the region of the larynx,
    • developed. So far they have been formed out of a world higher than
    • form taken by the process of preparation is that anyone who has
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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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    • or certain formulae in which great world-secrets are briefly
    • arises like the inner pictures he has formed for himself but is there
    • happened we shall find in most cases that we form a different judgment
    • are then formulated into laws with the help of the intellect.
    • concerned — all this forms part of the training for the thinking
    • There is something else too which forms part of the training. Whoever
    • certain category of phenomena he could have performed an enormous
    • and he finally came to inform me with great glee that he had actually
    • found two simple formulae which could explain every possible
    • former ‘ I ’ must be able in the true sense to
    • been experienced with the heart and must be cast into forms of thought
    • completely they may be cast into forms of thought, they are tinged
    • approaching a hill on which there are wonderful rock-formations which
    • must be able to be cast into clearly formulated thoughts. If this is
    • them the thought-forms and their content. The student of Spiritual
  • 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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    • Transformation of Soul-forces and Stages in the Evolution of
    • TRANSFORMATION OF SOUL-FORCES AND STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICAL
    • information supplementing what has here been said. When any attempt is
    • We can glean still more precise information from the experiences of
    • of thinking affected by such a transformation but other soul-forces
    • too will assume new forms when the faculty of thinking changes. When
    • around him, makes his observations, forms his ideas. He can
    • different form of soul-activity. But for the experiences of everyday
    • in time, but spatially. Memory is completely transformed. Whereas
    • must not go back along the line of time, for time is transformed into
    • placed side by side in space. When this form of memory has been
    • everyday life is called Time, no longer exists in this form in the
    • passes from ordinary memory to the higher form of memory possessed by
    • of clouding; thirdly, the memory which lights up in a new form. The
    • logic of the heart arises in a new form. Thus we are not only referred
    • And now we can really form some idea of the nature of a primeval man.
    • whose forms indicate the transformations that have taken place since
    • has evolved out of other states, out of other forms of existence, into
    • call the power of head-thinking. Direct transformation from the
    • formed out of the forces that flowed into man from the World of
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  • Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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    • the transformation of man's soul in times to come; new, as yet
    • darkness. The Earth will then be transformed into another planetary
    • is only conceivable in his present form through being permeated in the
    • plunges down into these bodies. Just as the form in which man stands
    • So our attention is led back not only to ages when man's form was
    • different from the form that was his on the Old Moon, but also to ages
    • taken from the Earth's interior. It was formed in a remote past
    • etheric bodies of man could not be formed. Therefore the solar
    • today could be formed, but man's physical and etheric bodies
    • aeriform or gaseous state was possible, and certainly what we call the
    • aeriform and fiery state. Man has become what he is today after the
    • transformation of the Old Sun into the Old Moon and then into the
    • Earth in its present form. In those ancient periods, man was adapted
    • aeriform condition and earlier still he consisted only of warmth. A
    • altered and transformed. Today, fire is burning gas or some other
    • ancient organ. In an entirely different form it was already in
    • transformed. On the Old Moon there was as yet no brain; but the heart
    • transformation. Just as a blossom bears within it the seed of the
    • a higher form when he becomes the future Jupiter-man. One such organ
    • comes to expression in each incarnation in a different form of speech;
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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
    • ether bodies and radically transform the individual concerned. That
    • should not prevent us from performing our duty, but it should keep us
    • to use a more descriptive form. Certain things may sound rather
    • cognition. One lives in the Mercury sphere in former relationships
    • the form of a vision, but he dwells in this reality. They are
    • in the form of art and mythology.
    • spheres, which assumes even other forms the further we investigate
    • transforms itself in the passage from Mars to Jupiter as orchestral
    • There a man emerges, in the form of a visionary cloud, as he truly
    • in the form of this figure. That is the outer gesture expressing a
  • 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
    • rebirth. This can be understood only if we are able to form mental
    • human beings, the living can perform the greatest service to the dead
    • A transformation in the intercourse with the dead takes place after a
    • organization, with the climate and with the formation of the larynx.
    • thoughts are not formed according to earthly conditions. The dead
    • been formed as an extract of the forces of the cosmos. As the sun is
    • Spiritual science will not keep its present form. Words can scarcely
    • transformation, including the intercourse of the living with the
  • Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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    • formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
    • formerly were intended to function as I have indicated. It is at the
    • perfect human form back to less perfect ones, farther and farther back
    • higher hierarchies would still be today, though in a different form,
    • form.
    • at freedom prematurely, if I may put it that way; for the forms
    • world evolution were such forms to come into being, namely, the human
    • form. — But all this is conceived as happening in a period in
    • which cosmic development of the human form was not yet possible; nor
    • were the higher animal forms possible — only the low ones I
    • Thus a form had to come into being that might be called cosmically
    • mold, so to speak. It could not be an animal form like those destined
    • to appear only later, nor could it be the form of an animal of that
    • an animal form differing from any that would be possible in the
    • cosmic contradiction. And the only form that could be evolved out of
    • what was possible at that time is the form of the Dragon. Naturally it
    • being that had developed a refractory will. But in any case this form
    • form that is supra-animalistic: super-sensible, but intolerable in the
    • Thus this form was transferred to the physical world, but as a
    • superphysical, super-sensible form. It lived thereafter in the realm
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  • Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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    • former times, we find that at bottom man has become a veritable hermit
    • in former epochs of human evolution the lighting up of real memory, of
    • observes the outer forms of the stars and constellations, but he no
    • and in its true form, the form it must assume in our time.
    • radical transformation must take place in the inner being of mankind
    • thoughts take an abstract form, when we are unable to imbue them with
    • will gnaw at his whole being in some other form: it will eat right
    • things of the outer world: he perceives them, forms abstract thoughts
    • form such abstract mental pictures as we commonly do of plants today.
    • the flowers so abstractly, nor form such abstract mental pictures of
    • by forming concepts and ideas, whereas he should drink by uniting,
    • animal-like form, yet is really a super-sensible being; that on account
    • must advance to a higher form of spirituality, untold elemental
    • Dragon in such a way as really to become inwardly transformed, to feel
    • fantastic — they conform with no reality; and they reject them,
    • instance man has burned the bridges that formerly had communication
    • cannot be acquired through any form of passivity, not even through
    • growing older; they will sense the transformation of nature as part of
  • Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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    • grown dim and shadowy. While in former periods of human evolution
    • conditions of the human organism and transform these into pictures
    • experiencing of an intention, in the increasingly formidable
    • many other forms.
    • Their conformation is entirely different from that of other
    • confronted men in former things through a primitive, but penetrating,
    • the mountain tops and finds stones arranged in such a way as to form a
    • In speaking of super-sensible things we cannot form thoughts in the
    • thoughts are formed, conclusions drawn, and so forth. But to be
    • shadow formations and by means of them determine accurately, this is
    • being nourished by the transformed foodstuffs, perceives the
    • passage of food transformed by digestion and taken into the blood. And
    • their professorial platforms took quite a different standpoint in the
    • liquid in the glass, while the sediment, as we may call it, formed
    • propagation. These forces did not exist in their present form at the
    • remembered that this kind of science, which formerly was rather of a
    • and all that forms around the vowels when the planets pass the
    • repeatedly and remarked how nice it is to perform this experiment for
    • state in the fall. In this way man will again be able to conform with
  • Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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    • knowledge of today are not very formidable obstacles because they can
    • reality in the stone formations offered us by geology — for it is
    • transformed into a relation to the cosmic environment. Everything in
    • therefore they felt it to be in conformity with earth existence to
    • that in former times had to tell men when Easter should be celebrated
    • under the influence of the cosmic planetary world; and in a former
    • epoch this was celebrated in the great and profound rites performed in
    • gleaning of other information. This is confirmed even by the fact that
    • being evolves: he transforms himself in the course of the seasons by
    • derive powers from the enlightenment transformed in it, precisely
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    • the needs of our time must cast its reforming light in some way or
    • at one time should now assume other forms. But these new forms can
    • world – not as in former times, in an unconscious, dreamy
    • found among the Greeks, and even in earlier forms of Central
    • in the form of an unconscious
    • blood. Taking hold with the will, this formed the breathstream from
    • and in what musically formed the sound, tone and line through
    • his youth derived their imaginative, pictorial form from an
    • the blood, into the formation of tone and sound – and so into
    • lived in the high and low tones, creating in speech-formation an
    • effect like the forms of a Gothic cathedral. He wanted to blend
    • he had traced these laws in speech-formation. He brought speech
    • the whole of its speech-formation - the psychical experience of the
    • thought. In this way, what represented a declamatory form in the
    • Nordic Iphigeneia is transformed in the Roman version into
    • or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the
    • drastically transformed into a recitative vein:
    • Bare the forme it now doth beare:
    • the picture-formation of speech, of mundane speech, is in this way
    • pulse-beat and breathing that echoes on in speech. Formed and
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  • Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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    • same uniform stamp, and form links within a great uniform
    • fundamental questions in Art. All former attempts in the
    • man from reality, and he must restore the harmony formerly
    • — a uniformly progressive chain of beings, within which
    • objective as the colours and the forms of things, but they are
    • regulated for this purpose; just as colours and forms are only
    • single detail; where the forms of the phenomena merge into the
    • archetypes are no empty forms; they are the productive forces
    • imaginable form. With him also the fact is established
    • life into the human form, uplifts man above himself, completes
    • struggled to find the most suitable scientific form for
    • forms in which it asserts itself, in the various branches of
    • conformity to purpose is thereby excluded from the Beautiful;
    • second explanation of the Beautiful: It is something formed in
    • itself in conformity to purpose, without, however, serving an
    • formative impulse; that is none other than Reason, which brings
    • bearing altered at will. In this transformation of reality no
    • strictly conform to the laws of Reason; here everything is in
    • former is thereby ennobled, and the latter is brought down from
    • works of Nature, the former appear to us as mere semblance
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    • physical form when we look into a mirror. It is quite wrong to
    • pure forces, which presents itself to us in the form of the
    • insight not only into the uniform essence of the world, but
    • truths received in unconscious inspirations in the form most
    • to form a picture of what people did in their cleverness! We
    • history that only reckons with information gained by documents
    • of the crassest materialism, by that consistent form of
  • Title: The Subconscious Forces
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    • precede the illness. Illness is the last form of the
    • articles and form public opinion, regally do not know anything
    • these things. The nonsense pursued in the form of science,
    • on a definite form. This will be entirely different from what
    • majority, of the thought-forms, statements and intentions
    • with their own forms of thought ... because the East does not
    • yet possess its own forms of thought.
    • of Speech forms the words. One part of the inhabitants of
    • people may look upon this as a special form of insanity.
    • materialistic forms of thought at an age, when one does not yet
    • materialistic form the truths contained in a fine,
    • spiritual form in Goethe's theory of evolution. A thorough
    • like a Mantram, transforming them into expectant souls, ready
  • Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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    • Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
    • stand on the platform of the most rigid scientific research. It is
    • experiences of dreams in the forms of signs and symbols. They
    • which appears before the human being in this form, which could still
    • That form of super-sensible knowledge of which I shall speak here
    • observes the form that has been taken on by thinking, feeling,
    • of forming a thought, it is as if we were stretching out a feeler
    • “Your thinking has been transformed into a spiritual touching;
    • previously only in the form of pictures of episodes in one's memory:
    • which have really formed us as human beings. While confronting this
    • masses of the brain, which did not yet exist in well ordered form
    • formatively upon the human being within to those forces which inhere
    • earth which have thrust up these traces and given this form to the
    • that, instead of the images we ourselves have formed, the content of
    • upon this higher form of love. Suppose you undertake in the evening,
    • upon former earth lives, and to recognize the entire
    • and the next birth. For this elevated form of love, lifted to the
    • spiritual sphere and transformed into a force of knowledge, teaches
    • formed an “eye of the soul” out of the soul itself with
    • the same inner necessity with which nature has formed the
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  • Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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    • Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
    • being a form of perception whereby he can become aware of a
    • the case of abstract forms of knowledge. It is certainly true that
    • waking. And the immersion in a super-sensible form of knowledge is a
    • the formal taking of pictures of the super-sensible world, but the
    • in ordinary consciousness are transformed. There occurs not
    • very roots of the soul being, that a person is transformed through
    • utterly different form the moment one ascends into the super-sensible
    • world. These are the two concepts on the basis of which we form our
    • metamorphosis, a transformation of the concepts true and false,
    • a spiritual form. True and right pass over into the
    • super-sensible world of whom we become aware through such a form of
    • combinations of words that it diverges, even in its formulation, from
    • such a thing as this transformation of the concepts true and false
    • existence lies in the fact that what presses upon us in the form of
    • today as the only valid knowledge — that the form which this
    • manifest in a special form as either health-giving or
    • form of divine service to the world, as in the single example we have
    • abstractions, but to human powers, when these forms of knowledge
    • natural form of the state of religious consecration to the
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  • Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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    • good-for-nothing. It was the pain that transformed his shortcomings into
    • removed by being transformed into maturity.
    • transformed into something better.
    • will be transformed into positive attitudes toward life, into strength and
    • that everything we can know in life and acquire in the form of knowledge
    • that we become capable of transforming ourselves. “Create thyself through
  • Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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    • theory or a science, nor even a specific form of what is usually known
    • as a body of knowledge, but must be something that can be transformed
    • tranquilly whenever and in whatever form it comes to us; we must
    • false asceticism and forms of self-torture) — such a man would be
    • form of resistance against the Gods. We must learn to regard suffering
    • Karma does not reveal itself only in the form of experiences of
    • rule, are persons with whom in a previous incarnation we formed some
    • over with us takes the form of will, of feeling, and in reality our
    • transformation is wrought — through the might of cosmic
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    • is rather something that can be transformed in the soul into actual
    • removed and transformed into perfections.’
    • false asceticism and a form of self-torture) — such a man would
    • days was a form of resistance against the gods. We must learn to
    • Karma does not reveal itself only in the form of experiences of
    • people with whom we formed some kind of acquaintanceship when we were
    • carry over with us takes the form of will, of feeling, and in reality
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    • formulate in words, matters connected with the more intimate workings
    • deeds of compassion and mercy — which we shall perform more
    • memory arising in his life of feeling: in former time, you yourself
    • transformed. Whereas formerly we may have felt anxiety or fear when
    • peculiar form which often makes us inclined to attribute such
    • period during that century and although men who in former times had
    • perform a special mission, the twelve different streams in the
    • figure in the Gospels. Only recently a lady informed me that she had
    • different forms of belief spread over the Earth. In this way the soul
    • in bed ... in other places I have mentioned different forms of such a
    • take such a graphic form as the example quoted, but numbers of human
    • in the form of historical narrative, in order to indicate those things
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    • formulate in words these matters connected with the more intimate
    • compassion and mercy, which we shall perform more effectively than if
    • transforms himself within us. And then, when he has gone through this
    • transformation, we get the impression that he really is there within
    • in former times you prepared this for yourself!
    • whole life of feeling will be transformed. Whereas formerly we may
    • a peculiar form which often makes us inclined to attribute such
    • period during that century, and although men who in former times had
    • soul of the twelfth. In these twelve men who came together to perform
    • personage or figure in the Gospels. Quite recently a lady informed me
    • whole soul reflected the harmony of the twelve different forms of
    • lying in bed — in other places I have mentioned different forms
    • does not always take such a dramatic form as the example quoted, but
    • in the form of historical narrative, in order to indicate those things
  • Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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    • unclear mysticism only about the uniform core of all religions
    • of the world not in a uniform unity, but just in the harmony of
    • the human beings. Let us try once to form an idea about that
    • find that any possible theological system forms, that the
    • entered the historical course in the 15th century in the form
    • about it can find out that everything would have formed
  • Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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    • illness. The illness is the last form of the process, but it
    • and there he found that a big part of the forms of thinking,
    • stood up for absolutism and the feudal form of society. He regarded
    • with their own thought-forms because own thought-forms do not
    • formed by the active genius of language. A part of the
    • materialistic forms of thinking are taken up, then people will
    • one must say: the job was performed thoroughly, and
  • Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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    • the forms of signs and symbols. They pointed out that much which
    • appears before the human being in this form, which could still give a
    • That form of super-sensible
    • process of forming a thought, it is as if we were extending a feeler
    • transformed into a spiritual touching; if this can become more and
    • previously only in the form of pictures of episodes in one's
    • formed us as human beings. One knows now: “Within you those
    • form after your birth.” We then cease at last to ascribe what
    • works formatively upon the human being to those forces which inhere
    • the earth which have thrust up these traces and given this form to
    • ourselves have formed, the content of our life appears before us; now
    • elevation of love to look back upon former earth lives, and to
    • coming between a death and the next birth. For this elevated form of
    • love, lifted to the spiritual sphere and transformed into a force of
    • knows that he has formed an “eye of the soul” out of the
    • formed the corporeal eye out of bodily substance. And he knows that
    • form. If we dissect a human corpse, we know that it was not nature
    • that directly made the human being into this bodily form, but that
    • the human physical forces and forms had not arisen out of what



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