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Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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what devastates and rends the human soul to-day. Even though we
nevertheless exists in the spiritual regions of the human soul
epochs; indeed, the powers belonging to the super-human sphere
are perhaps quite inaccessible to the human understanding. We can
is connected from the very outset, inasmuch as he is a human
Outwardly, the human being would develop in a way entirely in

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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human thinking in the civilized world.
science in the field of human knowledge, and the
research is a transformation of human thinking. Any impartial
was approached in former times — how human thinking as a
Under these conditions, what has become of human thinking? It
Here, then, is one of my paradoxes: that thought as a human
the human organism? And to this, if we stand impartially and
human; it is in thinking that we find our human dignity —
and yet this, which really makes us into human beings,
pointing to what is noblest in our human nature, we feel
in the human soul. Doubts arise first in the intellect, it is
to look at human nature more deeply and without prejudice
fathom the nature of human freedom.
theory, to a denial of human freedom. In this respect, however,
human soul is confronted by present-day scientific opinions. In
up some attitude towards human thinlting; yet it excludes that
unconsciously as yet, uncertainty about human freedom. It is
but quite clearly general human ones.
of history back into age-old epochs of humanity. There, it
epochs human nature has experienced the most varied
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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the riddles of existence touch the human soul, they become not only
his human dignity and his true significance as a man, that the
show us, the human eye or some other sense-organ, there remains
impartial observer of humanity with factual evidence of the
much we learn about what can be experienced by the human body
renounce all claim to understand the fate of the human soul
what we ourselves can do through our own human nature; only
at the same time take their places organically within the human
earthly existence. Now, what we call the eternity of the human
if we could look into the structure of the human heart, its
structure and functions of the human lung! It is not a question
highest form can be experienced only in the human organism
And with this we explore a part of human eternity itself. We
human eternity. We rightly speak of immortality; but we ought
This is one aspect of exact clairvoyance, one aspect of human
eternity, of the great riddle of the human soul, and thus of
entire human substance — there appears before the soul
have been a fateful event. Human existence as seen with the
What simple logic does for the old man's life is done for human
eternal in human nature. And on this foundation there now

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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their powers in the development of humanity in accordance
unconscious. Yet even a superficial examination of human
development of humanity with a certain degree of consciousness,
way of looking at human history as cause and effect does indeed
too, human history seems to point to unspoken depths, to
below. And human observation can scarcely presume to gain
In the human organism itself, which is such a richly
spiritual comprehension of the forces of human history —
lead directly to a certain historical view of humanity.
this change the expression of great transformations in human
can look at early periods in the spiritual life of humanity and
we must turn to human thinking.
hand, and for achieving human freedom on the other, differs
into the way thoughts have functioned within humanity, however,
This raises an important problem in human
that has come of age in human civilization since the days of
humanity has been devoting its attention principally to
we need only go back a relatively short distance in human
examination of the foundations of human civilization. This is
particular, we cannot examine what it is that shapes the human
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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human life, with all their various differences. What I have to
vegetation of the East and, with it, all that the human hand,
the human spirit and civilization have produced from stone and
in immediate revelation, as they appear to the human senses and
the human soul.
when it looks at the human shape, tracing its planes with an
first reveal itself through the human soul.
the end this grows into the view that one's own human sensuous
substance is a replica of a human being whose true existence is
analysis, human existence on earth is composed of such
countless discoveries. We look at the human brain and the
human nervous system in its physical operation. Of course, we
impairment of human activity relative to the demands of the
illustration from the development of the human spirit and the
wide circles of humanity for centuries. Encompassing
externally sensuous and physical, in human life and history;
of humanity. To bring about a fruitful development of man and
thyself,” for a truly human attitude. Why? Well, it is
of such a world would never have created in human development
most valuable component of human life. But in a period
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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anthropomorphism, that is of taking features of human mental
everything that humanity has acquired over the last three
certain point in their consideration of the human cognitive
faculty and the capacities of the human psyche. They drew the
older forms of humanity's mystical endeavour. Yet in face of
once again, human knowledge is limited when it comes to looking
essence of human nature is manifest, where man is in touch with
human soul.
reflected. Our organism, our human essence must behave
our humanity, that we should there come up against the concepts
how the human will can be developed, and how it is possible to
soul and spirit as the human eye is transparent. We need only
recall how selfless (in a material sense) the human eye must be
dim. Our entire human nature must come to be like this, on the
inner processes in human nature itself. It seems philistine to
comprehend that the human organism has a continuous
in our human organism. Thus, a sympathetic thought, for example
knowledge into the human organism too in such a way that we
knowledge of the human organism. For the psyche will not
that have arisen from our human life, our finest and noblest
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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man, into a human attitude of mind, provide a framework within
the history of humanity with an open mind, however, we observe
human soul a capacity, a soul-power, which we can regard as
develop into human social configurations informed by
instincts in the earlier stages of human development.
When we contemplate human life itself by means of a spiritual
historical development of humanity in general, the life of an
individual human being is subject to certain changes. The
that he felt: through this human individual is revealed
damage to our humanity as a whole, into the intellectual phase.
individual human personalities. This was achieved in
earlier epochs out of extraordinarily deep-rooted human
as a human whole, in the way I have described. As a result, he
himself into the other human being: only thus can he really
intellectualism attained at the educational level in human
point to this self-spiritualizing development of the human
freedom out of a full human life. That this is so, I
and those with a genuine experience of human nature know
Here is true respect for human freedom! This freedom is what
are thus confronted by what we as humanity can achieve —
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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the whole of human relationships throughout the world are
change throughout the world, there live within them human
individual human relationships. There is — or was before
be regarded as the ideal organization of human society as a
the human body: potions that were brewed and substances that
from spiritual entities, manifest themselves in human nature
ask: In what sense do human souls cling to such structures?
Looking at human history from this standpoint, we shall find
middle period of human experience and in the civilization
less formal human groupings or in those that arise from
in the course of human development an independent economic
emancipates itself in human thinking.
patterns of humanity stand in relation to these currents.
human activity have come to the fore, they have come into
accordance with the nature of human agriculture, the theocratic
A split occurs in it, however, when human activities of another
appendage to the patriarchal administration of human affairs.
legal current in human development. We can say,
human ideas that can operate once more in a formative manner,
three currents in human development are now mutually diverging,
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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long way in human development. Specifically, I pointed out
of individual human beings who have been born into this
individual human being? And here, from the standpoint of
yet little understanding of this human individuality. Attention
in the Orient, we find that it embraced a humanity quite
adoption by a human community — then he
Obviously, in an age when human individuality had not yet
individuals. In communal life, human capacities for absorbing
human guilt. This feeling introduces something pathological
into human development, so that the cognitive process
arises when a human being is confronted with something that
human life as a whole, into all that the human soul can
humanity at that time had no awareness of the claims of
still an ideal of human cognition and society. The peoples who
thus making its appearance in human development, the sense of
of human labour within the social order was quite unrealized.
In consequence, they had to exclude human labour from
those who performed it as a natural datum. Human society really
also took on the task of integrating human labour into
the entire social organization of humanity took on a different
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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What matters today is human beings, not just institutions. For
attuned to human considerations, you establish a basis on which
reflections, human essence and human destiny ultimately
their humanity, or enable them to co-operate in the creation of
and judgment, from what appeals to human nature. And they grew
humanity, so that your hearers
hearts and affects their human and earthly being, they will
sense, but in a general human sense — must spread among
humanity. Hence, although the clubs, guilds and unions that
in the material sphere of life which is of general human
interest — with consumption and the satisfaction of human
and can simply concentrate his attention on his own humanity.
working hours in order to pursue their genuine and human
provide human beings with things of human significance, if we
that human intelligence has achieved. And undoubtedly, people
that makes men feel: This touches my humanity.
humanity. Men will always regard the sort of thing they are
discovered there were apprehended by the human spirit;
descendants of Oriental humanity in this respect too, we
the feelings that spring from this current in human
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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appeal to human nature. It could not have been otherwise, given
influence human life as a whole must surely hearken to it
first, in order to derive from it the human remedies for its
discovered about society from a study of the human
organism. We can never say that the human organism — or,
human organism in detail finds that this atrophying is going on
these forces of decomposition in the human organism. He must
seek, everywhere in the human organ, ism, the points at which
matter. We can only understand the human organism by
human organism; but it changes, and forces of
which are connected with human personalities. The
spiritual life draws its nourishment from the human individuals
depths of the human soul are what is most favourable for social
omnipotence of political life — for civilized humanity,
masses of humanity for every human being to have a voice in
determining human institutions. This democratic trend may be
more conscious reaches of civilized humanity. From
human evolution into the social order. This is precisely the
human personality (only the creativity of the individual can
of simple humanity — where any human being can express a
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Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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substance of their world just as we, humans, self conscious
soul body. Then you can see how a human being, who lives with
these human astral bodies cannot appear in absolute definite
group souls of animals. The human being, as he approaches us
qualities underfoot which are in the being's form. Human beings
Likewise the human body may be considered — how the etheric and
extent. This is already a higher degree of human development
This participation of the human being in the development of the
human being exists in a certain place. He hears all kinds of
human being gradually lives into the astral world, these
disappears. Just so it is with sensory perceptions: the human
stirs into the human body. The same is valid for the world of
colour, the world of light: the human being expands, he or she
withdraws from the human being and is replaced by appearances,
human being really must go through in the astral world, so to
world for quite a while. The human being must so to speak go
of images. When the human being ascends in his development, he
human being has no idea what it means to live in an endless
Here the human being demands with inner urgency the experiences

Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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inner soul forces. The “Know Thyself” ancient human
most varied stages of human development. We will commence with
means something which the human being represents basically as
the complexity of human nature when we remember what we all
know: with anthroposophic insight we have human members in the
the Self, with all these members linked to human nature, we
human nature — according to the present relationships
sleeping human being of which we can now say: the sleeping
human being's physical and ether bodies are loosened from the
know at the same time that it is normal in the present human
cycle, that the human “I” can only become self
bodies. There we have today's normal human self consciousness
describe the question thus: How does the human being, how do
question: On what does the human being usually depend? —
in the present human cycle in both bodies, including the
the human being here also doesn't come far when he or she
human, regarding what I would like to say now. In
comparison with the universal qualities of the whole human
when-and-where, but links to deeper basic laws of human
our human body is surrounded by an aura, embedded in this
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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human being. The above is an exoteric consideration. Esoterically it
clairvoyant consciousness discovers in the human life of Perception,
acquainted with the inner man, and one meets the human form. It is a
which will enable human beings to take the right course in many
far removed from what human feeling would like to grasp at once; but
within itself all that brings us as human beings in touch with the
world in a manner worthy of humanity. The primary foundation of our
truly human existence is that we are able to feel concerning things —
to the realm which embraces the happiness and sorrow of human life.
world. What a human being wills, and what flows from his will into
allows to flow perhaps only into his words which act upon human
four-fold human being. In ordinary life, the difference does not
of human nature in the following manner.
nature, or, shall we say, a human work of art, and through this
develop our feelings, we know that fundamentally our human nature
respect to the will. How different we human beings are with respect
our will! The great variety of human action really comes about
feeling is inward, it is still possible for different human beings to
are directed to one and the same object, that is, two human beings
constitutes the individual worth of a human being, how from this
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
spirit-world religion is experienced as a picture of 'the Human
prevent our return to help the human ideal. A big battle ensues
between Lucifer and the gods. And the human ideal is thrown out from
attraction is felt to the future parents, and the human ideal is
was to impart a few esoteric experiences which the human soul
last lectures we tried to describe what the human soul first sees
through one's memory. I have often said that because as human
of memory in the human soul cannot be considered as directly
has to try to get behind the depths and subtleties of human life.
establish his worth as a human being there must be a higher life and
accomplish in the world? The human soul tends towards a spiritual
it is which gives man his value. We might say that as long as a human
human soul beyond birth and conception into a previous spiritual
what a human being goes through between death and rebirth; but let us
the human ideal; this appears like a mighty spiritual structure,
be able to see this temple of humanity, this high ideal of humanity.
life between death and rebirth the ideal of humanity stands, as it
distant point of time we see the ideal of humanity; but the forces
course of our previous human life. As we turn towards life from the
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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the world. Can we think otherwise than that this human being must be
with human nature really work together with one object, that of
when a human being receives impressions of the outer world, he
We must investigate human
one discovers through spiritual investigation is that in the human
light, our human nature is permeated by something that has to die in
say: ‘Here I see a human being; I know that he has the
foregoing all the subsequent life of humanity. This has to be veiled
great deal really takes place in the inner part of human nature, and
human nature and the fulfilment of all the possibilities that may be
physical world. How complicated does the human being now appear to
in our human thought, because again, only what is like the froth of
world of feeling, however deep his feeling for humanity, he is really
the perfect ideal of humanity, which would make of us perfect human
you four things connected with the human soul. That which remains
human being bears within him, must be aroused in the period between
something to which every human being is continually exposed; for what
and useful human beings. Here lies the real reason for all inner
present time, but it was not always thus. In ancient periods of human
the Egyptian or the Babylonian civilisation and observe human beings,
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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driving us towards the ideal of humanity. This is the only right way
human striving after knowledge consists in actively acquiring from
that on the spiritual plane the ideal of humanity stands before us,
approach the ideal of humanity as real being. This approach has to
ideal of humanity,. This life-force we have to acquire during the
perhaps less under the control of human volition, but depends upon
there is something in the human breast which prevents the feelings
must always be thought of in conjunction with human karma. It must
further we go back in human evolution the more do we find that
humanity did not then possess our present mentality, but had a kind
human soul. It is connected with something which is expressed in the
investigation, which likewise only develops in the human soul as a
effects that there is a Christ. Christ exists and can pass by human

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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Spirit' that awakens us and illuminates our human past. This
the inner being of the person who has died, his human soul nature,
of universal importance to the whole of human life. Now if the ideas
of the human capacities developed in his physical body. Something has
this idea, which passes through the human soul at this point is Maya;
soul-force which comes forth from the human soul after death, just as
earth at birth we find no human beings there. Human beings are all
the whole of our human past.

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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will shine more and more even into drowsy man, even now when humanity
Hour when our human inner experience is most intense and when that
in the spiritual world. We find that in our present cycle of humanity
the pleasure, assumes a sub-human, I will not say animal character;
for pleasure and enjoyment may assume a sub-human character. We find
but also of all the human beings with whom we were closely connected
as if we had not been with these human beings before — we are
existence, we see clearly in these human beings what we owe to them
human beings we see, as it were, the activities which in the future
is, that when we are reborn we find that one or more human beings are
to see into human experience, how profoundly it teaches us to
comprehend human life and really to acquire the right instinct to
normal length of human life. His illness brings him to an early
have expended if he had reached the normal length of human life. The
the world because the evolution of humanity requires that the
and more into human souls, instinctively at first, then consciously.
into plants, the rest are ground up into flour for human food and for
essential task is that the human being then constructs the archetype
Long, long before the human being
fruit of our last earthly life. But the human being does not always
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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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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
significant riddles of human life — as far as this is possible
at least be presumed to be there, have we not, as human beings,
This experience is one that is decidedly not beneficial for human life
for normal human beings. It is evident from the experience itself that
darkness around him. Countless human beings have already had the
human beings. I am speaking, to begin with, of experiences that arise
ecstasy, the Ego, which is one member of the human being, has been
below the human Ego but in which there is also reality? The next

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
Let us now consider the sleeping human being. Quite naturally, normal
human consciousness regards sleep as an undifferentiated state that is
human being. A man has only to be more attentive to what happens to
Three influences, then, to which the human being is exposed during
takes effect in a sleep-walker is present in every human being but in
the other two that it gets the upper hand. Nevertheless every human
third influence. The human soul has a threefold nature, and it can be
parts of the human soul. It we were to go back to ancient times we
forces that work upon the human being during sleep, when he is outside
Human Questions and Cosmic Answers, lecture 2.]
only a slight effect upon the sleeping human being. And similarly, the
Thus we find a remarkable correlation between human life, the
supposed. Our human nature is comprehensible only if we take account
akin to what goes on in the human being himself. And so we shall come

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
structure of the human heart or brain, or of each single part of the
human skeleton, will be able to feel how infinitely wise and perfect
he must cross the stream which diverts normal human consciousness from
may be compared with the circulation of the blood in the human body.
human consciousness a veil is drawn over everything that man would

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
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learns to realise that the human soul is indeed little, but that it
Thus on waking the human soul feels insignificant after passing the
our human intelligence acquires for itself corresponds to what streams
by combining like with like. Human intelligence actually corresponds
to Cosmic Feeling as absorbed in sleep. The greater human intelligence
directed to such things. Have human beings not hitherto existed quite
night during sleep have from the beginning of human existence counted
upon the expectation that light will also stream upwards from human
from human life itself, through efforts to transform thinking, feeling
Spiritual Science would leave human evolution to take care of itself.
are not enough human beings who strive to reach the higher worlds,
this would result in the human race receiving less and less forces
from above. Human life would wither and dry up, just as a tree
from outside have been instilled into the human race. Those people who
decline of humanity into enfeeblement to be avoided, as well as the
been described is the inner aspect presented by part of our human

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
still more deeply, into parts of human nature which manifest in
In ancient Egypt something was necessary against which human nature,
was also revealed to him that the human being spends a long time
more assumed human shape, he is face to face with his last death. At
epoch the configuration of the Earth was again different. Human
could be followed and was indeed followed by many human beings in the
owing to the progressive development of human nature and its
study the path that is right for modern humanity: the
because the time was approaching when human nature would rebel against

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
strength of human egoism; for even when Ego-consciousness was reduced
himself as a human being.
example to the budding life of nature in Spring. Certainly, any human
others that of Winter. The experiences which a single human being can
Macrocosm. Even in normal human consciousness it is sometimes
very many human beings in order to achieve Initiation into the secrets
human intellect. The architects and builders of our organ of intellect

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
normal human consciousness and not with clairvoyance, we find certain
human beings. How far would a man get in ordinary life if he had not
always, by holding them, transcend ordinary human ways of thinking in
opinions. In this way we transcend the ordinary way of forming human
part in human life. There are experiences which it is desirable for us
with a knowledge of human nature may often be able to call the
them. If a human soul were led unprepared to these islands it would be
lacks. This is a feeling which must come to the human soul when the
true human knowledge. At no moment of life should it be said that
It belongs to the whole mode of feeling of human beings today that
briefly. As human beings we pass from incarnation to incarnation. If

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
perceived as the human physical body. Accordingly we may say that the
is the connection of the thirty-one days in the month with the human
human being. Blood flows through the human being and is the outer
those worlds out of which our human constitution is otherwise built
already been applied to our development as human beings. We have
keeping with the consciousness of modern humanity, for one who takes
independence of the human being; the Guru is no longer a Guru

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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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
humanity. We described how by adopting certain measures for his life
Thus there are these two stages in the development of the human soul.
course of lectures someone has heard it stated that a human being
said that the human being has worked for a very long time at the
possible that just at the moment when a human being is about to
stations, so the human Ego is illumined from twelve different stations
Human and Cosmic Thought. Four lectures given in Berlin,
service to humanity.
thoughts. When anyone wants to communicate to other human beings what

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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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
reasons connected with the evolution of humanity should now be
may be found at two stages in the process of human evolution. Firstly,
back a very long way in the evolution of humanity, to a far-off
We can look towards a future humanity when the logic of the heart will
Thus we can conceive of three stages of human evolution: one preceding
Reminding ourselves of what has been said about human evolution it may
We are now looking back to an earlier stage of humanity when man had
Space. This gives us a clue to an earlier stage of the human soul when
Having envisaged these three successive stages of humanity, we must
increase our understanding of human evolution. Man was not always as
No stage of human development can be skipped; every one of them must
human heart was formed at a previous stage. The ordinary,
back. The human physical organism can be understood only when
him. Between the two states lies a Pralaya, when human development is
human body of the present age. What we have to attain through
There are therefore three successive states of humanity. (1) Man as
a result of all conditions in the human kingdom being changed. During

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
different assumption, namely, that in every human soul there are
human soul as a fruit of the present stage of evolution, but intellect
but the aptitude for it is already present in numbers of human beings.
and he assumes that the human soul is organised, not for error and
be felt by numbers of human hearts before it is actually
directly to the human soul than do other investigators at the present
to far more intimate provinces of the human soul. He is not yet in a
what lives in his soul lives in every human soul and that his task is
But because we human beings are dependent upon one another, we should
the Earth passes through successive incarnations, just as the human
vision is directed to the human being in the state of sleep.
fighter, which from birth until death maintains the human body intact
higher level by virtue of his, astral body and Ego. In our human
be able to live in this world. The physical human body presupposes the
what we should be as human beings if we had not succeeded in
deficiency in the human soul soon becomes apparent if it is shut off
a healthy human nature. This may be regarded as indicative. One must
possibility of erring or turning to evil. They show us our human
But when we associate with this the other factor, that our human
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Title: Life Between ... IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
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In these lectures Rudolf Steiner deals with the experience of the human
outward and the human soul is deepened more and more inwardly. In
kamaloca is over consists of visions. When the human being has gone
completed, a human being leaves this sphere and enters the actual
inspiration. What humanity has received through its artists in the
In this sphere the human being again is strongly influenced by what
the human being, and this is so for everyone after death, expands up
To be able to do so is a sign of progress for humanity at large. So
objective occult research. Beyond the Moon the human being is like a
of the realm of occult investigation what has been given to humanity
Inwardly the human being feels increasingly that only what he has
continue to contract until we unite ourselves with the small human
The human being carries as a potential power within him what happens
relate what lives in the human breast to its origin when we consider
we see that the human being after death first lives in a world of
it is when the human being ascends into the spiritual world. The
We can sum it up by saying that if one wished to portray the human
human being at rest. When man sleeps, the etheric body is most
culture will be accomplished when human beings meet in such a way
man, and love will permeate the soul in a truly human way. Man will
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Title: Life Between ... VIII: Between Death and a New Birth
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In these lectures Rudolf Steiner deals with the experience of the human
human life between death and rebirth. This phase cannot be treated as
understood is capable of entering fully into all aspects of human
humanity will experience an awakening from a sleep of life. Many
things that approach the human being appear strange and mysterious,
thoroughly with human existence to realize how people become aware of
human beings, the living can perform the greatest service to the dead
Yet plants do not have a soul element. The sleeping human organism is
or ego. The human astral body contains an extract of the light of the
If the human ego were still bound to the sun, man would only be able
evolution of humanity the bodily nature will be most barren. In
but the human soul will grow into the spiritual world. At the end of
between living and dying because for human consciousness everything

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
not sufficiently consider the needs of the human Gemüt.
For this reason I have chosen Anthroposophy and the Human
The human Gemüt has indeed been wholly excluded from the
that the human Gemüt ought to come into its own again
retrospect how, in earlier periods of human evolution, this
the human soul, intended to illuminate man's efforts of realizing his
participation in the changing times. In those days when the human
In order to create a basis for further study of the human
all familiar, but whose significance for human consciousness has
such close contact with the human Gemüt as was once the
perfect human form back to less perfect ones, farther and farther back
less human than themselves but as beings more spiritual. They beheld
will. In superhuman pride, certain beings revolted because they
world evolution were such forms to come into being, namely, the human
which cosmic development of the human form was not yet possible; nor
earth. But it did not live there in such a way that a human eye could
of the higher hierarchies; when the human physical eye observes the
kingdoms of nature, up to the form of the physical-sensible human
words, what we are accustomed to call extra-human nature. What was
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
in former epochs of human evolution the lighting up of real memory, of
attitude toward them. This phase of human evolution was indispensable
in which the human being may find the way back to spirit, which after
vital, today so anaemic — took their place in human evolution.
humanity. If nowadays these festivals have faded, if the whole
autumn. Something must be present that can be incisive in human
especially in connection with feeling we speak of the human
a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
true of the human Gemüt. Thinking may
other touches the human soul very closely. But what lies between
thinking and willing, all that is comprised in the human
The human being is really so closely linked to the world that he
and look at me; and when a sufficient number of human eyes will have
that many lilies grow unseen by human eye: yes, but then the
shall be broken by human eyes comes about by the first human glance
break the spell. — Human existence should really be a perpetual
relationship of the Gemüt which the human being can enter
will go on to say that in the human being there dwells the force I
In the old days of instinctive human evolution, when in the
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
have become very dim. Human feeling for the traditional festivals has
grown dim and shadowy. While in former periods of human evolution
forth from the depths of the human being. These depths we can only
consider how abstract, how dreadfully out of touch with the human
universe that today enter human consciousness. Think of what
conditions of the human organism and transform these into pictures
human beings the dream remains an experience that does not pass over
Evolution of the World and Humanity,
that the human heart is really a
the eye, so the human heart is in reality a sense organ in its
upper portion of the human being.
etc., in the human organism. The upper man, the headman, had to sense
which we are accustomed today, but a schooling of the whole human
that. Actually, the processes within the human organism seem the same
human limb-metabolic organism. The Mithras disciple was taught to
bull. And the human being proper, in all his frailty, is mounted above
human knowledge no amount of observation or picturesque presentation
way the human being experienced himself as a higher being,
circulation that he willed. — Then came the time when human
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
days, my dear friends, has been to point the way in which the human
produced substantial plants, animals, human beings? That is all part
procedure: I examine a human heart today, and then again in a month.
human heart, so I know how it has altered in the course of a month.
forth; that is, I apply the same method to the human heart that
changes in the human heart? I can apply that method to these changes
and figure out how this human heart looked three hundred years ago and
earth differs from that of the human being, if I may so express it. In
psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
material one in the human being: our breathing process. We inhale the
In-breathing, out-breathing — that is one component of human
cosmos. In the very old periods of human evolution, when there still
of the earth. Human respiration is more a physical process; the
true human beings, we take part in the cycle of the seasons. As the
But given this different orientation, not only the human intellect but
the human Gemüt will in a short time undergo a schooling
depths of a consummate human life as well — if I achieve all this
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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his poetic faculty in a region of human existence and experience
being was seized by an objective spiritual force. That human
intensity is indicated, something connected directly with the human
human “I” to be laid hold of again by the spiritual
humanity, if one wished to receive the divine-spiritual and bring
experience, an instinctive feeling of how human breathing pushes
the expressivity of the human soul. In this way he attained the
being at that time? He longed to enter more deeply into human
individuality – to enter into the whole human being with what
into human nature, and creates, too, more from its depths, seizing
profoundly inward human experience.
comprehending human nature spiritually, even down to the physical.
circulation in the flow of human speech. In breathing, we draw a
human morphology might be considered mechanical and materialistic.
Goethe sensed how in earlier stages of human
fashioned word-sequences, which have a special relation to human
the unconscious elements of human life come to play a part in him.
Could it within the humane flow’r be
occurrences in a human soul who reaches this stage of
in inspiring the man Johannes Thomasius. What the human soul may

Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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humanity, in modern times, must pursue: failure to find this
life into the human form, uplifts man above himself, completes
product of human skill, our intellect comes and inquires for
thought in a way that does the greatest honour to human nature.
To begin with, Schiller sets in opposition two human instincts
task human effort can set itself, lies in the perception of the
culmination of humanity, appear before our soul. Only when this

Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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Effects of the Christ-Impulse Upon the Historical Course of Human Evolution
COURSE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.
consciousness. Let me point out to-day certain facts of human
the hidden depths of every human being, can be recognised in
knowledge in those spiritual regions in which every human
world, and he, shows how the individual human soul lives in it.
but it is of importance also for every human soul, for under
me therefore set out from certain facts concerning human
observes something which would present itself to every human
them, as it were, as human beings, by taking them into our
(indeed, every human being is in the spiritual world, it is simply
SPIRITUAL beings, we belong to the whole, of humanity and
body we are connected with humanity as a whole. To establish
universally human; it is instead essential to recognise the.
as it is a nation, for the individual human being always, rises
everything which unites us with humanity as a whole, with our
asleep, we are simply “human beings,” endowed with
experiences gained as human, beings. But at the same time, when
human beings, we are not only connected through our physical
humanity, man is in the winter time united with that
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Title: The Subconscious Forces
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us now set out from something which closely affects us as human
enemy, but a friend of the human organism. What is inimical to
the whole human development. What should strike us above
to man's knowledge; human knowledge cannot reach the
showing how Kant is supposed to have proved that human
these cells could not be found because human eyes are unable to
constitution of the human eye does not permit us to penetrate
be overthrown. Yet in the course of human development the
microscope was discovered as an aid to the human eye, so that
that the proof according to which the human power of vision is
that, according to Kant, human knowledge is unable to reach the
to. something which is not only limited to the human, intellect
penetrating into the deeper foundations of the whole human
— that the human being passes through a course of development;
place through what we designate as the human Ego.
pertaining to the German nation has to inspire the human Ego.
between the single members of human nature if we bear in mind
the Group-Soul life into the life of humanity as a whole. But
of individual human beings.
human being, right down into the blood. Then comes a time when
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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theoretical and practical results in the evolution of humanity which
human being as a demand of the human heart, of human feeling,
have come about precisely in connection with this current of human
afforded by natural science, very special human capacities have been
thrown a light also upon human capacities themselves. But I should
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
laboratory, in the clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved
the rejection of all that the human being is in himself by reason of
became aware in this activity of what we ourselves signify as human
certain sense, the human being has eliminated himself in connection
manifest its special aspect, which is alien to humanity even though
friendly to the world, in modern research: that is, the human life of
sentiment, the human life of feeling. In this modern research, human
feeling is not permitted to participate; the human being must remain
possible to acquire within this human feeling forces useful in
that inner human willfulness plays a role in feelings, human
answered on the other hand that, although human feeling can certainly
the matter to us — that the human senses have not always in the
course of human evolution been such as they are today, but have
there-from, just like the human senses themselves, and which
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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capacities of the human soul which belong to our every-day life, and
capacities of the soul actually brings about for the human
the reaction of the human heart to thoughts when we are dealing with
matters which affect the human heart in the profoundest
a human being actually penetrates into the spiritual world by means
human being in a manner entirely unlike that of ordinary
should like to begin with the fact that the human being, even in
us that what we have to consider as our own inner human nature is
— as I shall have to show later — when the human heart
previous occasion, the human being exercises consciously at a higher
content, which becomes a visible environment of the human being by
become, in a certain sense, a different human being through
penetrates into the profoundest human conceptions. It is
precisely in the profoundest human conceptions, I wish to say, in the
persons who are able to take their places in their full humanity in
human nature in the moral and the social life, so do we place
the human soul itself. We permeate the soul with this
soul and the spirit to the human body; we learn to see how the
ensouling of the human being. It is soul itself, soul content, which
in which human beings can live together is that in which one person
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Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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nature of human karma, of human destiny. Why do we suffer in the world?
removed we are from what we are to become as good human beings. This
world in which we live. The human capacities that are seeking a
a good human being. Only when we open our spiritual eye and perceive how

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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his increasing manifestation to humanity.
Two Public lectures (6th and 7th February) had been given on “Death and Immortality in the light of Spiritual Science” and “Eternal Being and the Nature of the Human Soul in the light of Spiritual Science.”
and righteous human being — and then he is a sufficiently good
can only find an answer when he understands the nature of human karma,
of human destiny. Why do we suffer? And here I am referring not only
youth, he has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He
more perfect. It is due to the suffering that I am not the same human
is a golden rule in life that as human beings we have perpetually
goal before us as intelligent human beings. Such is the true attitude
way that can only be regarded as karmic — many human beings with
period of our life. We meet human beings who in our dealings with them
human being who seems to run across our path accidentally and with
other human beings that arise in the middle of life shows, curiously,
to the test and adjust our thoughts accordingly. When a human being
fact comes to light. — Those human beings with whom we were
meet those human beings with whom in a previous incarnation we were
to a human being in one life; the thought may come easily that in a
companionship with other human beings. But there is still something

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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his increasing manifestation to humanity.
only try to be a good and righteous human being, and then he is a
aspiration to become good and righteous human beings. And to this end
only find an answer when he understands the nature of human karma, of
human destiny. Why do we suffer? And I am referring not only to outer
has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He has found
more perfect. It is due to the suffering that I am not the same human
golden rule in life that as human beings we have perpetually within us
we are from the goal before us as intelligent human beings. Such is
that can only be regarded as karmic — many human beings with
period of our life. We meet human beings who in our dealings with them
will, for example, to meet a human being who seems to run across our
other human beings that arise in the middle of life shows, curiously,
test and adjust our thoughts accordingly. When a human being —
fact comes to light. Those human beings with whom we were together in
meet those human beings with whom we were connected in the middle
we have caused suffering to a human being in one life; we could easily
light upon our dealings and companionship with other human beings.
to be a good human being.’ It will only come to the man who opens his

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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his increasing manifestation to humanity.
for every human being and that seemingly chance occurrences may be
exceptional conditions broke in upon humanity at that time —
mind of humanity were united in a single radiance and he gave
then works spiritually into human beings, without the need of spatial
question is illusion, for the human being is through and through a
stream out and have a potent effect upon other human beings. The
greatest significance in many human lives; it is something that
out those who are ready to enter his stream. But human beings
very many human beings of the present time, but they pay no heed to
take such a graphic form as the example quoted, but numbers of human
plays into life. Most human beings rush hectically through life and
progress of humanity.

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his increasing manifestation to humanity.
important for every human being and that what appear to be chance
exceptional conditions broke in upon humanity at that time —
quite changed. The twelve different rays of human outlook were united
then works spiritually into human beings, without the need of spatial
question is an illusion, for the human being is through and through a
stream out and have a potent effect upon other human beings. So too,
those who are ready to enter his stream. But human beings themselves,
lives of very many human beings of the present time, but they pay no
numbers of human beings nowadays have had such experiences. Now when I
plays into life. Most human beings rush hectically through life and
of the progress of humanity.

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
effect in the historical existence of human beings which can be
consciousness. I want to point to developmental facts of human
themselves in the historical course of human life.
— that what takes place in secrecy with every human being
which every human soul lives without being aware of them. The
human soul is put in it. So that not only for somebody who has
experiences, but for every human soul the knowledge of them is
perception of the human nature generally. We observe daily that
that we belong with our four human members, the physical body,
constantly with the human being when he leaves his physical and
researcher simply watches what happens there with the human
being — with every human being falling asleep. So that we
itself to every human soul if it could look down not in the
the mineral realms, when we are waking, and stand as human
spiritual view. Indeed, the human being already has the
macrocosm. But the human being prefers to say when he really
folk-soul to whom we belong. When the human being wakes up, he
Something strange becomes apparent that the human being dives
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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Dead as Helpers of the Human Process
important task for the individual human being to help himself
individual human beings really help themselves, can they
co-operate in the development of humankind generally. But our
start from something that is near to us as human beings. Human
human being, before the externally visible illness breaks out.
illness process of the human evolution. Just this must strike
the human ability of judgement. Is it not that way, actually,
has already proved by his philosophy that the human being has
spiritual world with human cognition. If one still went on
because the human eyes were not able to see them. This could
right, because the human eye, as well as it is arranged, could
may be that the human visual ability does not reach to the
cell, as strict can be the proof that human knowledge, as Kant
to appeal to something different than to the human reason and
involved in the deeper bases of the whole human evolution.
individual folk-souls and their effects on the individual human
human being has to allow to be ripe that what is in him
develops gradually to the real judgment. The human being
cetera. This advancing development of the individual human
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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results in the evolution of humanity, which have emerged in such a
about the super-sensible knowledge of the human being as a demand of
the human heart, of human feeling, during the present age.
connection with this current of human evolution. For instance, we may
the senses, as is supplied by natural science, very special human
and experimentation have thrown a light also upon human capacities
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved tremendous power in
the human being is in himself by reason of his inner nature. For what
we ourselves mean as human beings in the universe, in the totality of
cosmic relationships. In a certain sense, the human being has
modern research, a side which is alien to humanity even though
friendly to the world: that is, the human life of sentiment, the
human life of feeling. In modern research, human feeling is not
permitted to participate; the human being must remain cold and
within this human feeling forces useful in gaining knowledge of the
world. One can say, on the one hand, that inner human caprice plays a
role in feelings, in human subjectivity, and that feeling is
the source of fantasy. On the other hand, one can reply that human
itself must describe it to us — that the human senses have not
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