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Title: Nature/Ideals: Die Natur
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One of the many essays contained in GA# 30:
Foundations of Anthroposophy, in German,
This is a note to the author of "Hermann" and

Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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German in Das Sonnenmysterium und das Mysterium von tod und
It appears in the original German in
Mankind
unfolded its intellectual life in the course of many centuries.
tragedy, the modern tragedy of the world, is that man may look
what devastates and rends the human soul to-day. Even though we
nevertheless exists in the spiritual regions of the human soul
may designate these powers as the Ahrimanic powers.
to the Ahrimanic powers. During the past centuries, when the
of an old spiritual life, these Ahrimanic powers did not have
that great influence on man which they have now. The life of
apparent: for Ahriman lives in Nature. And by absorbing Nature,
aware of this; we absorb Ahrimanic spiritual powers, who took
pertaining to man, can only be grasped in the course of long
epochs; indeed, the powers belonging to the super-human sphere
are perhaps quite inaccessible to the human understanding. We can
of the Ahrimanic beings is the following: To prevent the earth
with the intentions of the divine-spiritual powers with whom man
is connected from the very outset, inasmuch as he is a human
Jupiter and Venus phases of evolution: The aim of the Ahrimanic
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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human thinking in the civilized world.
it would take a great many words to survey the triumphs of
science in the field of human knowledge, and the
modern man that we come up against two paradoxes, as I should
research is a transformation of human thinking. Any impartial
because of the conditions which then determined man's
was approached in former times — how human thinking as a
existence they manifest to us their inner connection, their
Under these conditions, what has become of human thinking? It
Here, then, is one of my paradoxes: that thought as a human
experience is excluded from the relationship that man enters
something self-manifesting.
significance of this for man's inner life is extraordinarily
scientific law, understand thinking as a manifestation of
the human organism? And to this, if we stand impartially and
many people today, I believe, are fully conscious of the force
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
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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
or sorrow of man's existence. And not a passing happiness or sorrow
Now, man's attitude to his own soul is such that the most
his human dignity and his true significance as a man, that the
tremendous riddle. To deny the mind in man himself does not, of
the many experiences in the realm of the psyche which present
unconscious awareness of it affects his soul, man is overcome
the outside world. And just because man sees in this life his
overtake mental experiences when man passes through the gate of
show us, the human eye or some other sense-organ, there remains
manifests its outgoing function.
many words to explain scientifically how these enigmas creep
impartial observer of humanity with factual evidence of the
much we learn about what can be experienced by the human body
man's death, is given over to the general process of nature, so
fate in the world is of such paramount concern to man. Thus we
many years lived and worked here in Vienna, and who will never
renounce all claim to understand the fate of the human soul
conclusion. It is that, in the study of man, scientific
concludes: it is impossible, with the soul-powers that manifest
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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moving, once wrote: “Each man should consider with what
affect us, we are initiated into the whole relationship of man
their powers in the development of humanity in accordance
unconscious. Yet even a superficial examination of human
organize their lives in a conscious manner. Instinctive living
complications of life require man to participate in the
development of humanity with a certain degree of consciousness,
mankind's historical development to help us in our
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 —
mankind.
manifest. What I have described to you, the awakening of
consciousness, being dormant deep down in the soul
modern man leads us to see that we must develop these cognitive
quite different to the man of today from what it was, for
permanent and enduring character there. What men think in
have permanence in the soul; and we are simply unhealthy in
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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
Looking at the East, Western man — the man of recent
as that of man's relation to the secrets and the mysterious
vegetation of the East and, with it, all that the human hand,
the human spirit and civilization have produced from stone and
There appears to be no objective reason for man to abandon this
in immediate revelation, as they appear to the human senses and
the human soul.
respect we ourselves belong in many ways to the West. Here, we
concepts in the atomistic manner of today, we shall have to
scientific concept of the structure of animal and man,
when it looks at the human shape, tracing its planes with an
the man of the region between. In what we experience
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
world. From his standpoint, the view of man and the view of
I have shown, by awakening powers dormant in the soul we can
attain a view of the spiritual world that yet suits modern man;
man that I should now like to characterize.
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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question will be raised: Are there paths by which man can reach
that, if a man sets out to make specific statements about such
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
soon as we become aware of the need to consider man as a
whole and to take into account all that can follow from man's
man to the world, in order to establish whether there is a path
that leads from man to knowledge of the world, we must
man's position in the world? Assuming that man's theoretical
constitution would a man need? Well, his relation to the world
relationship of man to the world will realize: a being whose
have love. But love demands that we should meet another
man must be a creature of love by virtue of his task on earth,
and since when man has a certain capacity it conditions his
whole being, we can conclude: man definitely needs limits
man as a whole, inhabiting life as a living creature. This is
older forms of humanity's mystical endeavour. Yet in face of
the other kinds of knowledge man requires* today, this
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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Utopian manner; but rather that the spiritual philosophy
man, into a human attitude of mind, provide a framework within
the history of humanity with an open mind, however, we observe
man's development. There have, of course, always been
really mean something different; they mean man's feeling that
man's nature, especially within the civilized world. These
but are less well suited to arousing in man the social
Looking back over man's development, we see that, in the course
human soul a capacity, a soul-power, which we can regard as
to facilitate the intercourse of man with man. Only a
symptomatic of something lying much deeper in man. This is what
inanimate nature, and that a man who desires only
develop into human social configurations informed by
configurations are still present. On the other hand, man owes
problem of man's freedom within his social life. The experience
when intellectual life raises man to the apprehension of
this has only been possible to man since he raised himself to
when mankind was more naive about the life of the soul and had
complicated social life of man. The things that enable us to
understanding this most modern development, man thus
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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
which yet are directly reflected in man's life today, I shall
about Central Europe and in particular about Germany,
individual human relationships. There is — or was before
man with his whole thinking and feeling is bound up in the
affairs he has to manage. This comes out most clearly when we
look at economic affairs. In the West, what a man wishes to
the Englishman, from his standpoint, calls “academic
activities as a part of such a system. The Englishman has no
many millions of men like a kind of religion, fifty years
or so ago, has been modified in many ways. Yet for the broad
Marx was educated in Central Europe, in Germany, where he
be regarded as the ideal organization of human society as a
so many of these, a great deal survives in a disguised form, so
the human body: potions that were brewed and substances that
consumption of these potions and substances, man's normal
nature man experiences within himself a kind of world-memory.
this way is achieved entirely without manipulating the
primitive man. In the same way, it will arrive at the outlook
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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attracted comment on many sides and has led a large part of
mankind into a mood of extraordinary pessimism and
a man of whom it might perhaps have been least expected —
a man, moreover, who belonged to a period for which such an
art-historian Herman Grimm, who did not live to experience the
statement as striking precisely because it comes from Herman
the things that can elevate mankind and that exist in man
at the same time it can never be the business of mankind to get
long way in human development. Specifically, I pointed out
modern consciousness extraordinarily alien in many respects. We
of individual human beings who have been born into this
social organism. He also manages to regard as an ideal social
individual human being? And here, from the standpoint of
yet little understanding of this human individuality. Attention
primary. The man who is to live in it is regarded as secondary.
in the Orient, we find that it embraced a humanity quite
civilization. In many psychic and spiritual matters, indeed, we
civilization, one to which many Europeans, even, long to
adoption by a human community — then he
Obviously, in an age when human individuality had not yet
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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kinds of social institutions in which they claim that mankind,
or at any rate a section of mankind, would prosper better than
but from the standpoint of a knowledge of man, can only talk of
the emergence of social prospects when man is able once again
institutions, but the possibility of discovering man and
become possible to discover man within the social order —
less. The fact is that mankind can prosper socially in all
What matters today is human beings, not just institutions. For
great deal nowadays depends on whether the man who has to
discussing with them, as man to man, everything that goes on in
attuned to human considerations, you establish a basis on which
a long time, the view has been widespread that the man who is a
get to know the common man, and in particular the proletariat.
interest them for a while by virtue of the piquancy of many
man's relation to existence as a whole. On this point, it is
reflections, human essence and human destiny ultimately
but something a man can absorb as nourishment for his soul
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
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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Utopian manner, to advocate institutions which their creators
conditions thrown up in the course of man's recent
appeal to human nature. It could not have been otherwise, given
many cases, for example, what I included solely to illustrate
demonstrate how mankind could achieve social thinking and
would no longer be felt by many people to be oppressive, as
influence human life as a whole must surely hearken to it
first, in order to derive from it the human remedies for its
unconscious will of mankind in Europe. Everywhere we find these
spiritual science instils in man, to observe what has been
become conscious of the direction in which mankind is really
trying to go. The reason for many of our social abuses today is
part what mankind has worked out intellectually and embodied in
institution. In the historical development of mankind in
mood which has emerged in the course of man's history, and
yesterday — the will, which is the true centre of man's
While many men cannot escape from economic limitations and
limitations of class, many others cannot rise above their
arisen in the recent development of civilized man, alongside
even in the face of the many shattering verdicts on the
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Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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published in German as,
throughout Austria and Germany in the years 1908–1909.
published in German as,
throughout Austria and Germany in the years 1908–1909. Nine of the
Whoever has worked for many years within these circles, or are
anthroposophic occult science of man, and they will remember
substance of their world just as we, humans, self conscious
possess a continuously changing form, a shape which in many of
soul body. Then you can see how a human being, who lives with
these human astral bodies cannot appear in absolute definite
themselves in a distinct manner through the astral body. If
group souls of animals. The human being, as he approaches us
superficially, will be amazed how many have what we note as
mankind who worked artistically, had a clairvoyant
qualities underfoot which are in the being's form. Human beings
Likewise the human body may be considered — how the etheric and
clairvoyant is situated where physical man finds himself, how
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
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Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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published in German as,
throught Austria and Germany in the years 1908–1909.
published in German as,
throught Austria and Germany in the years 1908–1909. Eight of the
self-knowledge of mankind, a self-knowledge which leads to the
inner soul forces. The “Know Thyself” ancient human
most varied stages of human development. We will commence with
earlier rather than leading towards it. Goethe, with many
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? —
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
in their value and constitute man's true inner nature. Feeling
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
lectures will be to describe the inner life of man in relation to the
which will enable human beings to take the right course in many
difficult situations in life, and which are fitted in many respects
scientific realms which to many might perhaps at first appear to be
far removed from what human feeling would like to grasp at once; but
that this goal can only be attained in a pure manner if we first work
the inner life of man abstractly, it appears in the three forms we
for to the inner life of man belong not only the three realms we have
immediately in that realm of the inner life of man which contains
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
which shows that man is a part of the world and it is our inner life
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
spirit-world religion is experienced as a picture of 'the Human
temptation to become a permanent spiritual being and to remain in
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
veiled from Lucifer by being enveloped in a physical body. Man now no
was to impart a few esoteric experiences which the human soul
nature of man. To-day I shall try to bring forward other experiences
last lectures we tried to describe what the human soul first sees
discovers what the astral body and Ego of man experience when they
leaving the body can also take place in the following manner. In
through one's memory. I have often said that because as human
of memory in the human soul cannot be considered as directly
acquaint you with very many subtleties and intimate things regarding
the manner I have just described, he comes out of it quite
differently. When he leaves his body in the manner I described in the
man really goes through what we are describing to-day, he steps out
comprehended when one leaves the body in the manner described to-day.
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
of thinking, conflict occurs with Ahriman, and thus thoughts do not
Ahriman's action prevents our using Imagination, Inspiration,
which will enable us to penetrate into the nature of man and will
also show us what a complicated being man really is as he exists in
the world. Can we think otherwise than that this human being must be
a very complicated being, when we reflect how the true ideal of man,
that which it is possible for man to become if he really develops all
with human nature really work together with one object, that of
building up man out of the whole cosmos, as the purport of that
when a human being receives impressions of the outer world, he
the consciousness of man. Light and colour contain much more than
what enters man's consciousness. In sound there is much more
than what comes into the consciousness of man. External materialistic
We must investigate human
process of perception can we understand man's relation to the
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
behind it. What manifests as light is only the forerunner, as it
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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
broad outline the life of man between death and rebirth. We shall go
acquisition of knowledge demands mental work. Nature, that is to say
human striving after knowledge consists in actively acquiring from
spiritual world. The relation of man to the surrounding spiritual
times. The astonishing thing is that man has no lack of wisdom in the
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
reality one had formerly believed in, A man is then choked or drowned
perhaps less under the control of human volition, but depends upon
there is something in the human breast which prevents the feelings
this manner. It ought to become a spiritual life-blood within us.
upon his soul in the manner we have indicated, he will find that the
even to the manner in which he uses his hands. Do not say: ‘I
science. Many who are in this position will know how much trouble it
must always be thought of in conjunction with human karma. It must
always be kept in mind that man is subject to the law of karma under
feeling. That which can now happen to man in the spiritual world as
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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 true man which permeate it between birth and death and which are
physical plane. For the comprehension of man himself and also for any
the inner being of the person who has died, his human soul nature,
can no longer express itself in the mortal residue; but to the man
of universal importance to the whole of human life. Now if the ideas
like a bowl, there are the stars, over it pass the sun and moon. Man
of the human capacities developed in his physical body. Something has
this idea, which passes through the human soul at this point is Maya;
manner that we know: There thou seest all, because the star shining
soul-force which comes forth from the human soul after death, just as
in such a manner in this world, which really is ourselves, in the
in the period which is occupied in the manner I have just described,
earth at birth we find no human beings there. Human beings are all
the forces connecting man with primeval times, to preserve a
the whole of our human past.

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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many incarnations. Some almost animal pleasures give intense pain to
by Ahriman, until they reach the spirit-world and have liberated
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
such a manner that it still awaits what we are going to make out of
but we also feel that in the first place it will require many
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
and many others, directly after the spiritual Midnight Hour of
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
manner in which they come before us, we see by what new experience on
human beings we see, as it were, the activities which in the future
have to enumerate many thousands of cases if I were to speak of all
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
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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
penetrate into deeply hidden riddles of man's life. We shall not start
methods which a man may apply to his life of soul and which enable him
It is as when, after an operation, a man hitherto blind finds around
him the world of colours and light. In normal life today man is shut
— man is shut off from the spiritual world. When he directs his
direct experience, man is unable today to look behind the boundary
on, are external manifestations of a world lying behind. But we
the whole outer spiritual world through these manifestations. But
certain respect man is given up to them? And is there anyone who, if
external sense-perceptions, must be manifestations of an unknown
at least be presumed to be there, have we not, as human beings,
in a man's experiences which enables him to break through this
This experience is one that is decidedly not beneficial for human life
when this term is used in the original sense. It causes a man
Under certain circumstances this experience of ecstasy can lead a man
not be called ecstasy. In one of two possible conditions a man becomes
spreads around him. For a normal man that is really the safer
There is also a form of ecstasy in which a man is not only surrounded
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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
The relation between man's waking and sleeping states has been broadly
detailed to say about the difference between man's waking life and the
that modern science concerns itself only with the part of man which,
man goes to sleep can be reality only to spiritual investigation, to
asserting a one-sided point of view. Man's Ego and astral body are in
Let us now consider the sleeping human being. Quite naturally, normal
human consciousness regards sleep as an undifferentiated state that is
whether, during the time man spends at night in a spiritual world, an
remain lying in bed, but they affect man as a being of soul when his
human being. A man has only to be more attentive to what happens to
activity of the soul, man experiences the emergence from his bodily
exerted upon man as a preliminary to sleep; it is the influence that
exerted from the world into which man passes at night; it is the
influence that draws man into a spiritual world, sleep unbroken by any
a man begins to talk or act in sleep without the consciousness that is
sleepwalking. While he is walking in his sleep a man may also have
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
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
in respect, that is to say, of his astral body and Ego, man lives
What does a man know in ordinary life about the aspects presented by
We shall realise that this is necessary, for what a man would see if
What would happen to a man who were to descend unprepared into his own
very faint and weakened form only. That is what would come over a man
There is in man what is called the sense of Shame, the essence of
the external world; the man would undergo an experience comparable
Why should it have this effect? Because at that moment a man would
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
then to compare with this what man is as a being of soul in respect of
everywhere in life. All this would come vividly before a man's soul if
the lower kingdom. And man, having reached a certain height, should
When a man cultivates such feelings in his soul, the realisation comes
of soul can be steeled only when a man is ready to bear pain and
Let nobody imagine that Spiritual Science demands that a man living an
the external world. That is what protects a man from descending into
of shame. In the normal course of life a man cannot experience what is
seeking to explore the inner nature of man must cross this frontier;
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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
FACULTIES OF THE HUMAN SOUL AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
within which man's normal consciousness is enclosed, and today we will
begin by speaking of the regions lying beyond these frontiers. Man
man when, after passing the Lesser Guardian of the Threshold, he
whole of man's development.
In the course of his life man develops from one stage to another. Even
experiences man has in his youth in connection with learning and
replenished; many forces flow into us during the night other than
body and the etheric body on the physical-that is what a man would see
physical bodies on waking, a man can acquire a certain knowledge of
We become conscious of the driving forces of our manhood when we are
theosophical manuals of the astral, etheric and physical bodies are
Although man does not need to see the external forces which work on
learns to realise that the human soul is indeed little, but that it
Thus on waking the human soul feels insignificant after passing the
the faculty which can be observed in external manifestation when we
But a man who has passed the Lesser Guardian of the Threshold realises
sleep. From this it is evident that when a man is given up to his own
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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
willing to submit to the greater demands made upon them if it is said
We heard yesterday how a man would be able to find his bearings within
waking a man can penetrate consciously into his inner being. At most
that a man has such moments of conscious awakening as a result of
man, who during sleep felt outspread and free in the Macrocosm,
feeling. Under these abnormal conditions a man feels a better being at
body, of the spiritual part of man. But it is possible to descend
still more deeply, into parts of human nature which manifest in
p. 222 in the 1962-3 edition.] Up to this point a man can progress
all in the way in which a man of the present day likes to acquire his
today is that man subordinates himself to a certain degree only and
those Mysteries of antiquity where man was initiated into the deeper
secrets of existence. There were Mysteries in which a man was simply
Sanctuaries of Osiris and Isis. And now, in order to explain what man
In ancient Egypt something was necessary against which human nature,
ancient terminology — the names of Venus, Mercury and Moon. Man
But it would be more dangerous if a man were to leave himself unaided
demands the teacher made upon the pupil. The pupil was compelled to
be repugnant to a man of today and to which, moreover, he need not
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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
descending into his inner being, a man becomes almost entirely filled
way that through the power emanating from the spiritual leader, the
outer observation he was exactly like a dead man.
strength of human egoism; for even when Ego-consciousness was reduced
the man whose Ego was thus subdued, twelve helpers were needed for the
here only in order that a man may know what is found when he descends
Today we will turn our minds to the other path that a man may take,
have heard how man has then expanded as it were into the Macrocosm,
the Microcosm. We also heard that what a man would experience if his
the moment of going to sleep man forgets his existence altogether and
What man can experience in the Macrocosm opening out before him,
water and disappearing in it. Man is in the state of being outside
passing into the Macrocosm, for a man would lose hold of himself and
progressively weaker, until finally man reached the state when he lost
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
If, then, a man endowed with an Ego-force artificially maintained in
Macrocosm. Even in normal human consciousness it is sometimes
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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
and the earlier German word Vernunft (reason) is now used in a
hours but for many months, whereas all that is possible here is to
mentioned, namely, that when a man rises in the way indicated
normal human consciousness and not with clairvoyance, we find certain
It was said yesterday that when a man passes into the Macrocosm he
fact that the choleric man has a stronger inclination to merge with
with the others; the sanguine man is more inclined to merge with the
beings living in the element of “air”; the phlegmatic man
melancholic man with the beings living in the element of
Anyone versed in these matters will know that when a man with a
rest. The choleric man will speak of how fiery everything appears, for
possible to describe that world as it really is. If a man knows to
human beings. How far would a man get in ordinary life if he had not
the spiritual world if a man is incapable of accepting the fundamental
such a man can penetrate into the higher world he must be able to put
the self. Otherwise we remain permanently enclosed within ourselves.
a man ascends into the Macrocosm he always faces the danger of losing
always, by holding them, transcend ordinary human ways of thinking in
opinions. In this way we transcend the ordinary way of forming human
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man.
The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
MIRROR-IMAGES OF THE MACROCOSM IN MAN.
by considering once again what it is that happens when man wakes from
constitution. When man wakes from sleep his whole being passes out of
any means wholly within man during the hours of waking consciousness.
way in man's environment and coincides only partially with what is
perceived as the human physical body. Accordingly we may say that the
Man is always surrounded by a spiritual cloud of this nature. The Ego
is not to be looked for at any particular spot but it pervades man's
of a certain irregularity is explained by the fact that man is
is the connection of the thirty-one days in the month with the human
become aware of the world connected with our nerves. What does man
senses: light, sounds, and so forth. What does man know of the World
reflection, of the World of Spirit. And what man takes to be his inner
back the World of Reason. Thus man must do something if he wishes to
apparatus in the way in which the man of today can and should do this.
What man normally perceives and knows is the external physical world.
human being. Blood flows through the human being and is the outer
expression of impulses, appetites and passions; because man is endowed
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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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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
modern man and most in keeping with the laws of the evolution of
humanity. We described how by adopting certain measures for his life
of soul, man rises to Imaginative Knowledge, Knowledge through
In the present epoch of evolution man is not obliged to rely only upon
today but only because something comes to man's aid, namely the
development. If during his development a man had not the help of
forces are imparted to man out of the higher worlds, out of the
Macrocosm. It is due to these forces that sooner or later, after a man
already enables man to have a certain insight into the higher world.
For a comparatively long time man will need to experience in deep
between illusory and true pictures. A man who prepares himself
it pleases him but to exclude his own opinion — such a man can
There are not many things in everyday life that may be compared with
training for making oneself a different man. In logical thinking we
ascent into the higher worlds, for in the ordinary life of today man
A man usually lets himself be guided by this kind of spontaneous
impulse. Not many people take the trouble to reflect upon what are
At the second stage man begins to reflect. More and more people will
Thus there are these two stages in the development of the human soul.
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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
revealed by consciousness, many things will be explained in a new way.
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
was said yesterday about man's possibilities of development, we may
We can look towards a future humanity when the logic of the heart will
man will behold the truth. But he will then have assimilated the
on be irradiated by what man has acquired through the logic of the
Thus we can conceive of three stages of human evolution: one preceding
that memory works in the following way. — Man has consciousness
the past. Through memory, man passes out of the present into the past.
when viewed from the right standpoint. What would become of man in
ordinary man looks back to the past, the spiritual investigator has
different from the space known to man in everyday life. In this latter
“Manvantara” of the state in question, and when clouding
“Manvantara” of the memory of ordinary consciousness, of a
and of a return into the “Manvantara” state when the new
Reminding ourselves of what has been said about human evolution it may
be affirmed that in earlier epochs man already possessed a kind of
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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Man and Planetary Evolution
The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
MAN AND PLANETARY EVOLUTION
through the concepts and ideas which a man can acquire today during
different assumption, namely, that in every human soul there are
the transformation of man's soul in times to come; new, as yet
human soul as a fruit of the present stage of evolution, but intellect
are known today and point back to man's past, whence from elementary
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
man alternates between the states of waking and sleeping. This has
been a guiding motif through these lectures. In sleep, man is divided,
the invisible etheric body, and the super-sensible part of man's being,
vision is directed to the human being in the state of sleep.
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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
comprehensible to man. There is a constant danger of misinterpreting
writings, but with the succeeding period, the actual sojourn of man
certain impulse that was to give mankind the possibility of an inner
course of a man's life. Such chance phenomena are not uncommon.
outward and the human soul is deepened more and more inwardly. In
higher activities of man, where the spiritual world weaves into the
kamaloca is over consists of visions. When the human being has gone
answer this question by asking, “Where is man during his
realm in which man, loosened from the earth, dwells during the
completed, a human being leaves this sphere and enters the actual
becomes acquainted with the beings of that sphere. A man who brings a
Now man's being expands up to the orbits of the morning and the
inspiration. What humanity has received through its artists in the
spiritual movement. On the contrary, art will be deepened and mankind
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
When mankind still possessed an ancient clairvoyance, this, with the
Being to man. Since the Mystery of Golgotha mankind has naively
such accusations. If a Buddhist or Brahman were to accuse us of this
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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
come from the realm of the physical body. They emanate essentially
Man is mostly enveloped in a kind of dreaming-sleeping condition.
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
of no use for what man experiences without his physical sheath. Yet
There are many instances within our spiritual movement in which those
meet many beings who could be of help, but if there has been no prior
human beings, the living can perform the greatest service to the dead
happens in the course of time is grasped. Many think that the rest is
many such possibilities he escapes every single day? Imagine all the
saved from danger by an apparent coincidence. A man from Berlin
yourself the feelings of this man. He did not sail, and then he heard
these things? A sleeping man, of course, does live. He is somewhat
Yet plants do not have a soul element. The sleeping human organism is
When man sleeps, where is his sun? What lies in the bed we also
cannot envisage without the sun. This sun is outside the man's
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
Man as Earth Citizen and Cosmic Citizen, Michael and the Dragon
Year completes the entire German volume GA 223.
Man as Earth Citizen and Cosmic Citizen, Michael and the Dragon
many misstatements made about it is that it is intellectualistic, that
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
today one never tires of insisting that man cannot stop short at what
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
cosmic connections and assigned man his position in them.
In order to create a basis for further study of the human
brought before men's souls in a new manner, with which we shall also
all familiar, but whose significance for human consciousness has
Dragon. Many people are still deeply affected by it, but its more
such close contact with the human Gemüt as was once the
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
Present-Day Man as a World Hermit, Elementals
Year completes the entire German volume GA 223.
Present-Day Man as a World Hermit, Elementals
once contained for mankind in this gigantic picture — and not
even so long ago. I repeatedly drew attention to the fact that in many
revitalized and once more become a force in mankind's thinking,
former times, we find that at bottom man has become a veritable hermit
common to all mankind. During that period of our life in which
in former epochs of human evolution the lighting up of real memory, of
an actual retrospect of prenatal experiences man had passed through as
factor that makes present-day man a world-hermit: he is not conscious
cosmos. We can go further: the man of today observes the kingdoms of
nature that surround him on earth — the manifold beauty of
attitude toward them. This phase of human evolution was indispensable
to its full height; but necessary as was this hermit life of man in
in which the human being may find the way back to spirit, which after
should be we must consider in what manner the festivals — once
vital, today so anaemic — took their place in human evolution.
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
Year completes the entire German volume GA 223.
a determining idea, really a determining impulse in mankind; and in
impulse depend upon man's attaining to super-sensible enlightenment
have become very dim. Human feeling for the traditional festivals has
grown dim and shadowy. While in former periods of human evolution
the entire social life and its manifestations, they have become but a
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
such methods to do with the intimate inner soul life of man? This man,
conditions of the human organism and transform these into pictures
Supersensible Knowledge (Anthroposophy) as a Demand of the Age;
of great interest to many people; but for those who see deeper into
the nature of man the dream content as it pertains to the conception
Suppose a man dreams he is climbing a mountain. It is an excessively
give rise to quite a different dream. The man might dream he is
many other forms.
man of that type starts with the assumption that everything which is
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
formerly: Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
Year completes the entire German volume GA 223.
Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
days, my dear friends, has been to point the way in which the human
consciousness as manifestations of spiritual beings. In this
body. In our civilization it never occurs to a man who is studying
produced substantial plants, animals, human beings? That is all part
pertains, for instance, to the origin of the earth, so and so many
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
confronting someone, I perceive many different expressions of his
psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
undivided earth-spirit principle, but a multiplicity of manifold
man; for true vision reveals a multiplicity of earth spirituality, of
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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given in various cities from 1912 to 1923. It was published in German as,
his poetic faculty in a region of human existence and experience
being was seized by an objective spiritual force. That human
When Klopstock, drawing upon the German
sinful man’s redemption.” Here something of greater
intensity is indicated, something connected directly with the human
man
same, it is necessary that here, too, what was suitable for mankind
human “I” to be laid hold of again by the spiritual
European spiritual life, such as the Germanic. In primaeval ages of
humanity, if one wished to receive the divine-spiritual and bring
(as manifestation of the efficacy of man’s innermost will)
feeling whenever man felt the poetic urge was the pulsating of the
within, into tone; whereas when the man of Greek or
Graeco-Roman times waxed poetic he lived more in what
experience, an instinctive feeling of how human breathing pushes
the expressivity of the human soul. In this way he attained the
into what comes to be man’s head-experience. This rhythm,
being at that time? He longed to enter more deeply into human
individuality – to enter into the whole human being with what
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Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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GA 30 as one of Steiner's imany essays, and also in GA 271 as his
humanity, in modern times, must pursue: failure to find this
many respects is due to the failure to recognise his full
however, a permanent achievement, and no greater
discovers a magnificent scientific law. Many before
Galileo had seen a lamp swinging in a church, and yet this man
Winckelmann and Lessing to attain a basis for judging the
never understood the task which the spirit of man sets itself
conditions? The desire for Art is as old as man himself, but
It was a necessity for mankind, as it develops to an ever
higher level of perfection. Man could only remain completely
man from reality, and he must restore the harmony formerly
short, everything that leads the soul of man into a veritable
man, in freedom and independence from the shackles of Nature,
infinite, the imperishable, the eternal. And so if man's
man is a link, even though the highest. ‘Nature! we are
2, p. 5.) And in the book on Winckelmann: ‘When man's healthy
Nature. He is a stranger to a quality he finds in many
build up the most complicated of all — Man —
represents something on the level of which a man who has
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Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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Effects of the Christ-Impulse Upon the Historical Course of Human Evolution
published in German as,
published in German as,
COURSE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.
forces which are active in man's historical existence. They can
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
something which, always takes place in man, for example when he
watches a process which takes place in man, in every man,
observes something which would present itself to every human
many books: With our Ego and our astral body we live in the
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
mankind. Spiritual science does net admit that we should, live
in the world in a one-sided manner; these two sides of
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Title: The Subconscious Forces
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series entitled, The Secret of Death, published in German as, Das Geheimnis
published in German as,
cooperate in the development of mankind. Our attention should,
us now set out from something which closely affects us as human
enemy, but a friend of the human organism. What is inimical to
many different spheres. But as explained, the essential point
the whole human development. What should strike us above
we can deal with it by grasping it wrongly, as so many other
have had to pass through many painful experiences during
many different countries of the world, do we not find that
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
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
published in German as,
as a Demand of the Age
violating one of the most important demands of the age. This is the
demand that the most important questions of existence shall be
conscientious scientific demands of those very persons who take their
the scientific demands of the times, imposed upon us by the splendid
theoretical and practical results in the evolution of humanity which
that this tends to fulfill precisely this demand, and I wish to speak
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
like to say that many persons holding positions deserving of the
upon man himself through his own researches. If we only give a little
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
developed, we see it confronted with a demand — with which it
is faced, indeed, by the most earnest research scientists: the demand
laboratory, in the clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved
demands before everything else — so it appears at first —
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
published in German as,
capacities of the human soul which belong to our every-day life, and
capacities of the soul actually brings about for the human
constitute the environment of man himself to the extent that he
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
pulsing waves through man's being. The fact is that what is here
human being in a manner entirely unlike that of ordinary
should like to begin with the fact that the human being, even in
grotesque and often chaotic manner. Even though we are in the same
space with many other persons, our dream world belongs to us alone;
us that what we have to consider as our own inner human nature is
connected with this dream world. Even the corporeal nature of man is
innermost being of man is connected, even though in an instinctive
and unconscious manner, with that which flows and weaves in dreams.
experience in a wholly isolated manner during sleep and during
dreams, in a manner that we can share with other persons at most only
manner of abstract calculation, nor in an experimental way; but they
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Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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This problem, which forces itself upon us, demands that we eliminate all
some of the easy-going ways of life that become manifest when we are
It is often said, almost nonchalantly, that man has only to know himself,
difficult tasks, and that nothing in life demands more in the way of
self-knowledge, however, cannot be solved with a quick answer, as many
own individual case. If one lectures to many people, one can only speak in
afflict us. It is natural that, at first, man reacts to pain as though he is
nature of human karma, of human destiny. Why do we suffer in the world?
The young man must now learn something worthwhile and make an effort
man in the course of forty years. What was really brought together at that
imperfections within ourselves, there is a wiser man in us than we ourselves
golden rules of life that we all carry in us a wiser man than we ourselves
are, a much wiser man. The one to whom we say, “I,” in ordinary
But the wiser man is the one who reigns in the depth of our unconscious
words: Without really knowing it? They mean that the wiser man in us
setting, it is not always possible to silence the less wise man in us. But
sufferings in such a way that I feel how the wise man in me has been attracted
himself many times with regard to his sufferings in the way just described.
the wiser man in us responsible for having driven us toward our joys. With
effect, and that therefore man should flee from them, then one would
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many
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.”
laws of reincarnation, karma and so forth? ... Many people may think
that Theosophy is just another kind of science, on a par with the many
in life which may all too justly be expressed by saying: Man is
after all, a man need only know himself, need only try to be a good
and righteous human being — and then he is a sufficiently good
good man in the real sense and that nothing needs so much preparation
not be answered in a moment, as so many people would like to think.
From among many pressing questions, let us take one in particular.
natural for a man to feel that something in him rebels against this
brought me contentment?” A man who puts the question in this way
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
have given this example more than once. Suppose a young man has lived
about learning something, to exert himself. Life brings him many
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
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many details
his increasing manifestation to humanity.
forth? Many people might think that Anthroposophy is just another kind
of science, on a par with the many sciences existing in outer,
that habitual slackness in life which we know only too well; that man
lightheartedly that, after all, a man need only know himself, need
only try to be a good and righteous human being, and then he is a
difficult than to be a good man in the real sense and that nothing
be answered in a moment, as so many people would like to think. Today,
aspiration to become good and righteous human beings. And to this end
natural for a man to feel that something in him rebels against this
brought me contentment?’ A man who puts the question in this way can
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
this example more than once. Suppose a young man has lived up to the
learning something, to exert himself. Life brings him many sufferings
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
been laid in the soul and that many a feeling of sadness and
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many
his increasing manifestation to humanity.
our karma. Happiness and joy are acts of Grace. A man who imagines
ordinary consciousness; many a time we shall find it impossible to see
reverse. In many cases we shall realise that failure was inevitable
part; but in many others we shall be quite unable to discover any
lectures, let it be added here that a man will notice this kind of
are of importance in a man's karma. For life also continues between
for every human being and that seemingly chance occurrences may be
that the souls of all of us have been incarnated many times in earthly
exceptional conditions broke in upon humanity at that time —
spiritual development of mankind were represented. The fact that all
is in itself a mystery. Buddhism, Brahmanism, Vedanta philosophy,
precision and accuracy. And so all the different streams of man's
secretly in the evolution of mankind once and once only. They cannot
He was born many times, with great and profound qualities of heart. It
Geheimnisse has been recited to us many times. Out of a deep,
brought up by them until the age of early manhood. The child developed
opinions of the one of whom he is writing. For many years I was held
mind of humanity were united in a single radiance and he gave
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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These lectures, delivered in several European cities, cover many details
his increasing manifestation to humanity.
and joy are acts of grace. A man who imagines that the happiness and
consciousness; many a time we shall find it impossible to see any
undertakings which may either be successful or the reverse. In many
in many others we shall be quite unable to discover any connection. It
here that a man will notice a kind of memory arising in his feeling:
are also of importance in a man's karma. We have a life between death
important for every human being and that what appear to be chance
have been incarnated many times in earthly bodies, among the most
exceptional conditions broke in upon humanity at that time —
lived in the soul of the tenth, and the wisdom of Greco-Roman culture
development of mankind were represented. The fact that all possible
is in itself a mystery. Buddhism, Brahmanism, Vedanta philosophy,
so all the different streams of man's spiritual life — the
secretly in the evolution of mankind once and once only. They cannot
He was born many times with great and profound qualities of heart. It
has been recited to us many times. Out of a
brought up by them until the age of early manhood. The child developed
opinions of the one of whom he is writing. For many years I was held
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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
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Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by
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
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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
just many an illness process is understood: as if it is the
the human ability of judgement. Is it not that way, actually,
materialism only manages a materialistic way of thinking, a
manages not only this, but it also manages shortsightedness;
materialism manages mental laziness, manages lack of insight.
has already proved by his philosophy that the human being has
spiritual world with human cognition. If one still went on
such a thing contained a little bit of the assertion: this man
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
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
important demands of the age. This is the demand that the most
scientific demands of those very persons who stand on the ground of
from various points of view regarding the scientific demands of the
results in the evolution of humanity, which have emerged in such a
precisely this demand, and I wish to speak in another lecture
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
themselves. But I should like to say that many persons holding
which has been reflected upon man himself through his own
thought to what this light has illuminated, we see that human
most earnest of those who take up this research: the demand that this
clinic, etc. And the human being has achieved tremendous power in
developed characteristic of thinking which demands before everything
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
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