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Title: Nature/Ideals: Die Natur
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Nature
Nature and Our Ideals
Nature
iron bonds Nature, your procreator
Nature, the luring monster, smiling, sun golden,

Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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a Striving for Spiritual Understanding of Nature Permeated by Christ.
Anthroposophy, a Striving for Spiritual Understanding of Nature
seeks as its content external Nature, the external life of
Nature. Hence the intellect is spirit, but it fills itself with
things pertaining to Nature.
are still active in the whole life of Nature; they enter into us
because we fill our own spirit with the life of Nature, and we
Nature is apparently spread out round about us; but this is only
apparent: for Ahriman lives in Nature. And by absorbing Nature,
Nature, we really absorb spiritual powers, even though we are not

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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of nature. We need only recall those now outmoded branches of
knowledge, astrology and alchemy, to perceive how nature
pointing to what is noblest in our human nature, we feel
to look at human nature more deeply and without prejudice
fathom the nature of human freedom.
semblance nature of thinking and, by actually pursuing the
that nature, then we conclude: if it is only a semblance and
epochs human nature has experienced the most varied
developments. Something quite different suited human nature in
nature: the imagination was not all that unusually active.
and stream, in the creatures of nature's various realms, they
entity, but felt himself rather a part of nature's whole, which
therefore, the true nature of the human soul manifested
nature, which is after all the basis of human life between
come to know what once had a semblance nature in us — as
into nature than with ordinary thinking. In what way? Let me
reach the spiritual foundation of nature. We attain, in our
nature.” So long as our vital thinking does not pass on
we also reach deeper into the essence of nature. The philosophy
because the perceptions with which external nature
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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has to ponder the question: Does the general process of nature
nature of both views has been perceived by recent
man's death, is given over to the general process of nature, so
what we ourselves can do through our own human nature; only
consciousness, we reach a view of our own psychic nature, one
spiritual world. It will now be able to look at the nature of
also about the concrete nature of this experience. These things
the image of death, in such a way that we now know the nature
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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it is revealed externally in nature, as opposed to what we
nature and by immersion in a fundamental natural science. No
super-sensible world. The nature of their thinking from
nature as a whole in the course of historical times. I mean
the observation of nature in the modern sense. The
concepts, then in the nature of our consciousness we separate
these artistic features — if nature and reality do in
manifestation of secret laws of nature — laws
we seek to comprehend nature or the world as a whole solely
nature. For this reason, the Indian yogi elicited thoughts from
in human nature than the religious experience we need within us
of nature? His artistic sense transformed itself naturally into
nature herself operates; I am on their track.” Here

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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workings of nature and the world, affects us, it is often
concepts, our soul inevitably sees before it a nature similar
observation of nature;” indeed, it seems to me
Yet track them we must, if we wish to observe nature's workings
to its nature, and conjures up before our soul the symbols that
test what nature offers, and what should lead us to the world's
us into some of nature's shallows and solves some riddles, but
it does not take us to direct observation of nature. It is all
approach nature again. If as botanists we have used the
his soul as the reality self-evident to him. External nature,
nature are in complete harmony.
those of the realms of nature. There will then follow a view of
with which it felt closely linked, and that nature, and the
observe nature. His organs were finely attuned to its
something of the spirit shone. Nature revealed spirit to him,
concepts of nature as position, motion, dimensions and numbers.
If nature were to provide us with anything other than concepts,

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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objective as the scientific study of nature.
question: Assuming that the limits of our knowledge of nature,
individual, whatever realm of nature it may belong to, as
essence of human nature is manifest, where man is in touch with
When we examine our own reaction to nature by means of this
given process of knowing nature, at this point it really goes
world, our ego goes as far as the frontiers of nature. Here,
dim. Our entire human nature must come to be like this, on the
outside world is reflected by the physical nature within us,
spiritual, abstract nature.
inner processes in human nature itself. It seems philistine to
“mind's eye,” and can perceive the nature of our
of man's nature leads outward from man to knowledge of
necessary to look at the nature of man in a way that is
what they comprehend in its abstractness and semblance nature
only then shall we reach man's physical nature and come in
Many people already sense the nature of the secret pertaining
other. And of this nature, moving to and fro in a pendulum

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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man's nature, especially within the civilized world. These
their traffic with external nature. But the problem arises
inanimate nature, and that a man who desires only
only into inorganic, lifeless nature, but also into the forms
of living nature and into the heart of spiritual worlds. By
observer, reveal their true nature only when we can see into
very nature.
and those with a genuine experience of human nature know
the life of nature and classify it.
achieves by understanding nature can also see how he has
from nature serves him as an inspiration. Right down to the
of nature still goes on. There's inspiration for you!
this, because our knowledge of nature has had all this refined
true nature of our times, to be symptomatic. They are

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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determine, from the centre of national life, the nature of
nature man experiences within himself a kind of world-memory.
nature could develop from their instinctive life by a kind of
awareness of how impulses from extra-terrestrial nature,
from spiritual entities, manifest themselves in human nature
nature, in every detail on behalf of the state. At this period
attitude. Out of this, out of a combination of the nature of
mould of this nature.
accordance with the nature of human agriculture, the theocratic
unions. We correctly perceive the nature of these only when we

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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is regarded as having the function of healing man as nature
inherited from Asia — were endowed by nature with a
self. It was theirs by nature. Though they lived in groups,
provided by nature. The animal does not calculate; it does what
me this or that insight into connections between man and nature
groupings that are not given us by nature, but must be derived
interesting was the nature of objects, in the future the

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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and judgment, from what appeals to human nature. And they grew
nature.
element in human nature. But if you want to warm people, if you
interpose something in front of our real inner nature, just as
nature. When we speak of drives, instincts and the like in man,
nature, and so projected what was subjective on to the
is, objectively, of a spiritual nature, as if it were something
nature of the masses of humanity, there must exist today a
human nature, and look down with contempt on anything that

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
nature, is involved in the way we have grown into our rank or
nature of the state. That is why we find — not simply in
the nature of law in a way that is much deeper and much closer
the nature of law from man himself. And yet the democratic
the nature of law cannot spin it out of himself; he just has to
allow us to fashion the laws of nature out of our head; we
nature is already created, but that what exists in the legal
the boundless nature of the world. In real life, it should
it is not the nature of life to avoid contradictions; life is
Only when we have learnt to perceive the chaotic nature of

Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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nature. We are surrounded by minerals, plants, animals and
have acquired their current nature through good and bad still
the astral nature of the plant.
existing or contradictory feelings of a pure spiritual nature.

Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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the complexity of human nature when we remember what we all
the Self, with all these members linked to human nature, we
human nature — according to the present relationships
least see the beginnings of transformation in our own nature.
What kind of rule in human nature will now express its
and the nature of the entire sea, you are equal in being to the

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
they are the emotions and passions of criminal natures hostile to
spheres of the soul-nature of man, there appears a significant
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
inner nature.
soul-being as his own human nature outside the body, then a new world
soul-nature which corresponds. to feeling is awakened outside the
body, the soul-nature begins to develop a knowledge through which all
the physical nature, so that it appears as it does in thy
how into the nature of man flows that which divine Spiritual Beings
nature differently from what we did before, we now know in a
different manner than formerly that human nature is permeated by the

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
nature of man. To-day I shall try to bring forward other experiences
very similar in quality and in their whole nature to the contents of
life, is nevertheless our deepest inner-soul nature; when we try to
become aware of this soul-nature which is so deeply hidden within us,
and then try to realise that the Gods rule in this soul-nature which

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
which will enable us to penetrate into the nature of man and will
with human nature really work together with one object, that of
light, our human nature is permeated by something that has to die in
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
the future, they attain at last to their true nature. That which we
inner nature. What we have within us as feeling, what enters our
even comprehend this soul-seed in its fourfold nature. When we have a
given, I must add that the nature of man has changed in the course of
nature of the thing we can really understand the task of the
reflect upon active forces of such a nature may laugh about them and
from its very nature, the mission of our Anthroposophical Movement
higher and the lower natures of man still met, what was below and
when no more thoughts came forth from our human nature to meet the
enter into and become a part of human nature. We must become fully

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
On Earth, Nature does not yield
the right thing. Karma and the cure of illness. As nature surrounds
spiritual. In the physical world we are always questioning nature; in
reality out of wisdom as something creative. The form of nature
but by Himself. God the Father we find in life and nature. Christ is
acquisition of knowledge demands mental work. Nature, that is to say
passive experience, the wisdom and the law that Nature contains.
surrounding nature is ours in the physical world. It is always there,
there surrounds us as the phenomena of nature do here. We must have
is to be found in external nature’ — in the case of such
first concrete fact we mentioned, namely: that just as nature
a way that we may ask: What is the principle or nature of this
we have Nature, and our task is to lead Spirit to Nature. A beautiful
beautiful and very true: ‘Nature and the form of nature is the
philosophers go; they observe Nature and are profound enough not to
with its effect, we must not merely inquire into the nature of the
cause at all. The cause remains the same in its own nature whether it
causes or not. That changes nothing in the nature of the cause. And
of nature it may be demonstrated that there is a God; but it can
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
the inner being of the person who has died, his human soul nature,
feeling and experience of our inmost earthly nature being outside us.
time-signature. Under these conditions time becomes the immediate
learn the nature of the elemental world and thereby prepare ourselves
nature of the force which we have now to overcome, and this
in our soul and spiritual nature outside our body. We return, because
in our soul and spirit nature we have the impulse to return, because
to awaken and you must will to waken. In the spirit and soul-nature
Nature and the Divinity which pervades Nature, from which we are born
in the earth's aura, that is, in the aura of physical nature.

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth
destroy itself. That which in one sphere works as nature works, may
spiritual nature. Enjoyments and pleasures which can only be
soul-spiritual nature is entirely submerged, that the enjoyment or
When we consider nature, the remarkable spectacle is presented to us
other purposes. A great deal more has to be produced by nature than
existence. This is a wise regulation of nature; for in nature order
in reality nothing is lost in the works of nature. Spirit rules in
nature and the fact that something is apparently lost from the
in the order of nature, or in the case which we consider to be our
to the principle upon which nature works. Nature is carried into the
one field, in one sphere, must work as nature works, is seen by one

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 1: The World Behind the Tapestry of Sense-perceptions. Ecstasy and Mystical Experience.
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that leads into greater depths of our inner nature, behind our
pay more and more attention to their own inner nature, to their own
aware of their inner nature. These two sheaths make possible our life

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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third influence. The human soul has a threefold nature, and it can be
supposed. Our human nature is comprehensible only if we take account

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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into my bodily nature and to make myself spiritually worthy of
seeking to explore the inner nature of man must cross this frontier;
nature of which we can grasp by picturing the simplest of them. Man
Nature, we can experience a cycle in our life of soul. But as these
of outer Nature. He learnt to feel with great intensity, no longer
faintly as in ordinary life, the awakening of Nature and the sprouting
feeling of the death of all Nature at midwinter.
the cycle of Nature throughout the year. All the experiences which
of the crescendo of hope to exultation shared with Nature. The
autumn — the decline and death of Nature.
intellectuality, the capacity for this experience of Nature was lost.
experience of the happenings in external Nature but by accounts and
Nature herself must be influenced. This is how writings should be
read the great script of Nature were still active in these peoples at
cyclic course of Nature herself or by concepts and ideas such as those

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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They are: firstly, the Will. Everything of the nature of Will is one
urge to activity and the inner light were disrupted, the bodily nature
nature, namely, our Sentient Body (Empfindungsleib). We have

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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still more deeply, into parts of human nature which manifest in
In ancient Egypt something was necessary against which human nature,
When we descend in the morning into our bodily nature, our soul is
of the inner nature of the astral body. We will now consider what the
with his inborn nature, incarnates in a particular family, in a
his etheric body man learns to know his “upper” nature. The
essential nature of the etheric body can only become known by
nature of our physical body. And when we speak of the etheric body we
When we look out into the world today, three kingdoms of Nature
owing to the progressive development of human nature and its
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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himself, outside his ordinary nature; he lets his Ego flow out of him.
example to the budding life of nature in Spring. Certainly, any human
world; but he takes his own nature, what he is as man, into it. He
penetrating into the Macrocosm, transmit his whole astral nature to
from his astral nature. When he returns into the physical world they
more deeply lying, invisible members of man's nature belong? They all
being, his external, bodily nature too, has become possible only
nature. All the higher members of man work on his physical body; the

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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into the temperaments which work right down into the bodily nature, is
with a knowledge of human nature may often be able to call the
lying in your deeper nature, then you can become a being such as the
We have now heard how our own nature is related to the Elementary
distinguish between the developing Beings themselves and their nature

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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of the spiritual world at the building up of his nature and
Man is always surrounded by a spiritual cloud of this nature. The Ego
of Spirit? Just what his nerves reflect for him. The Laws of Nature as
to error, neither has it a higher and a lower nature. It has no
nature has won the victory over the lower, when his red blood has
become when he masters his lower nature. We see the rose as an emblem,
nature over the lower. In man, unlike the plant, the lower nature must
the vanquished lower nature, in the roses the emblem of the
development of the higher nature. The Rose-Cross is an emblem of man's
is we ourselves who have created the nature of this relationship. We
Nature. We now become conscious of the Beings and their activities
Nature.

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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into the nature of the soul knows that a very definite quality of this
nature, to the natural sciences, cannot be applied in the same way to
— he is introducing matters of a different nature, and in another
the expression of its material nature. The seer directs his gaze into

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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time. For a genuine seeker, however, the nature of this
And now we can really form some idea of the nature of a primeval man.
now look rather more closely into the nature of man if we want to
our bodily nature by way of the heart to the point of causing actual
conception of man's external bodily nature. The several organs are not
true nature of man. Spiritual Science must supply the key for
and its activity; (3) Man of the future, of whose nature we can have a

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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understand their own nature, can agree with him spontaneously, even if
nature we are therefore akin to the plant only in so far as the plant
animal nature; he need not, unless he so chooses, feed on animal
but they too, together with dying nature, lose something of the
integrating astral body and Ego into our plant-like nature. The plant
a healthy human nature. This may be regarded as indicative. One must
the nature that once was ours before there was within us the
nature in a primeval epoch when it was not yet filled with impulses
plant-nature, as it is now, is independent of the relative position of
water could not have existed in a cosmic body of that nature. But the
and etheric body. The physical body cannot exist in material nature
If an impression of a soul-and-spiritual nature warms man, it would be
impression of a spiritual nature, but they find this incomprehensible
individuals who in the essential part of their nature are related in
nature of things that only little can have been given. The finest

Title: Life Between ... IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
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that we truly know the nature and being of the Sun spirits and above
The nature of Lucifer cannot be rightly evaluated after death unless
This can be proved historically with reference to the natures of the

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towards it. Life not only presents us with a maya in nature but also
soul-spiritual nature separated from the cosmos and become the “I”
in the soul sphere. People who tend to live more in the bodily nature
Many attempts are being made to explain the nature of sleep. Sleep is
asleep and waking up. Similarly, as we see nature wither in winter,
after death. In nature this stage will be accomplished when the earth
The bodily nature was most strongly illumined during the Greco-Latin
such forces are no longer exercised on the bodily nature. Man,
inasmuch as he sleeps, is on the decline. The bodily nature has been
evolution of humanity the bodily nature will be most barren. In
developed. Through the soul-spiritual decline the bodily nature rose
Insofar as this withering process increases, the inner nature of the
Greek games. The more a person leaves his soul-spiritual nature in
do with life after death, but if nothing of a soul-spiritual nature
dead. We shall gradually penetrate further into the nature of man's
nature.

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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kingdoms of nature, up to the form of the physical-sensible human
being. But when the soul's eye is directed to what physical nature
other, with the physical-etheric part, he was to belong to that nature
which came into being as earth-nature, as a new cosmic body — the
external nature out of previous nature kingdoms, tending toward and
words, what we are accustomed to call extra-human nature. What was
his Gemüt, can look out upon external nature, upon the
nature in its condition of death, as it were; of not being alive. But
nature can be regarded as a further reflection of what originally
nature and may feel that this extra-human nature is a mirror of the
divine in the world. And after all, that is what nature is intended to
this or that manifestation of nature, feel inner jubilation and
enthusiasm when he experiences creative nature in its sprouting and
this enthusiasm, this overflowing joy in nature — that is what
Gemüt is so intimately related to this nature that he can
elation and joy in nature, all that rises in us as a feeling of
release when we participate vividly in the freshness of nature, all
human Gemüt and what lives out there in nature as a mirror
nature into himself — takes it in through nourishment, through
perceiving it with his senses. In these three ways external nature
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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If we observe our present relation to nature and to the whole world,
of the nature of the connection between his earthly existence and his
nature that surround him on earth — the manifold beauty of
with the great spaces of nature, lest he might lose his ingenuous
a warm heart, a love of nature, love for every being. This human
cannot take a step in the realm of nature without coming under the
that continually approach man out of the things of nature when he
through the elemental spirituality of nature. And it flows into him:
spirituality poured out over outer nature, which is a mirror of the
that he exists only in man, because outer nature cannot harbor him.
Outer nature, image of divine spirituality, has in its innocence
of nature and unites with them, with the result that man, instead of
with the Dragon in his lower nature. For everything in the world moves
nature, world evolution actually progressed in such a way that the
his very nature to hunger and thirst for these elemental beings: to
with the elemental beings of nature. For with them he wants to unite,
and with them to permeate his own being. In extrahuman nature he
cannot do this, but only in the inner nature of man, for only there is
saturating himself, as it were, with elemental beings in human nature,
purely material outer world, as assumed by nature research today; he
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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the nature of man the dream content as it pertains to the conception
etheric bodies. The nature of such super-sensible experiences is of
constraint of the laws of nature, exactly as does the world of dreams.
the laws of nature, but laws that bear an entirely different inner
impossibility of merely extending the laws of nature when we penetrate
even penetrate into the system of physical nature laws, because
of the distance, why should not the validity of the system of nature
our earthly research. The nature of our present-day education is such
where even in the spiritual life of nature there is so much that has a
different effect from that of nature elsewhere, what I have set forth
abstraction, for it lets outer nature go its way, so to speak, without
arrive at the solution one must know the nature of the training
say, Now the metabolism in my organism is of this nature, now it is of
the inner man — the whole course of outer nature.
knowledge! Man bears within him the animal nature, and truly he does
riding on his lower nature; and therefore it was fitting that
contrast is able to see clearly into the nature of the new impulses
by anthroposophy about the nature of the moon.
was simply wisdom of an entirely different nature, and what took place
was the sediment — meaning the present nature of the forces of
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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true nature of the planets: that they are not the mere physical bodies
spiritual beings, as it were, that dwell in the kingdoms of nature.
earth. In winter he sought his kindred elemental nature-beings in the
from that of a lifeless thing, so nature, hitherto mute, will begin to
something very special will speak to us out of nature. One who has
gradually acquired the sensitive feeling for nature just described
between nature-consciousness, engendered during the spring and summer,
What is nature consciousness? When spring comes, the earth develops
I feel a true concord with nature and can say, my ego blooms in the
flower, my ego germinates in the plant. Nature-consciousness is
burgeoning and unfolding life of nature. To be able to germinate with
self” and by “becoming one with outer nature.” Truly,
and the bearing fruit, man develops this delicate feeling for nature
But then — if we have learned to feel with nature, to blossom
nature with our own being, we cannot help co-experiencing the essence
of the fall and winter as well. He who has learned to live with nature
in the spring learns also to die with nature in the autumn. Thus we
can live united with burgeoning, blossoming nature, and in doing so he
can develop his nature-consciousness; but when he experiences the dying
in nature the experience is a challenge to oppose this dying with the
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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soul-nature, was born from the spirit of
youth, like the marvellous Hymn to Nature, where the ruling
same laws that govern the productions of nature; and of this he
into human nature, and creates, too, more from its depths, seizing
declaiming, if I were to point to something in the nature of man as
comprehending human nature spiritually, even down to the physical.
nature. He too sought to enter into an earlier epoch’s
celebrates not Nature, but the spirits (the Sons of Los) in Nature
Symphony of nature. Prayer is

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Nature. What thousands observe and pass by is then observed by
‘Were not the eye of the nature of the sun, how could it behold
the depths of Nature who lack the necessary disposition and
that of the imitation of Nature, which again shows that he
the desire to grasp the nature of its task only came into
spirits thirsted for, Nature supplied to them in abundance. It
away from Nature, therefore all his needs could be satisfied
through Nature. With his whole being he was inseparably united
and interwoven with Nature; Nature creates in him and knows
was only a continuation of what lives and surges within Nature;
it grew directly out of Nature; Nature satisfied the same needs
principle of Art than the imitation of Nature. There was no
need to go farther than Nature, because in Nature was to be
of Nature, which, to us, would appear empty and insignificant,
see in mere Nature the highest that our spirit craves for; for
within Nature so long as he was unconscious of this fact. The
of Nature. He could now no longer surrender himself to her, for
now produced apart from Mother Nature, can also be satisfied by
spiritual labyrinth. Nature stands there bereft of soul, devoid
consequence is estrangement from everything which is Nature
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nature in general which are accessible to the imaginative
Hierarchies. Even as WE think Nature, so do the Beings of the
again compare this Imagination with external Nature) in which
without any hatred. Even as we cannot recognise the true nature
gifted natures could obtain the gift of inspirations from the
but obtain inspirations through their own nature, through
gifted people who passed through a kind of Nature-Initiation.
she passed through a Nature-Initiation during the thirteen days
bodies. You learn something, concerning the nature of these

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between the single members of human nature if we bear in mind
Nature.” The influence of this wave of development was
the true nature cf the world in which we live. And one day,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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observation of external nature and in experimentation in the
nature of inner wishes of the heart, of opinions, perhaps even of
call forth anything of the nature of knowledge or of truth out of its
his inner nature. For what he himself thus is must be set forth in
But a second element in the nature of man has been obliged to
external phenomena of nature.” For this reason, even a person
in irrefutable manner in the order of external nature. Through the
very fact that we are so forcibly driven by the order of nature
the fact that the inner nature of the human organization, especially
way of looking into external nature has become something
in regard to the true nature of man, just so little can we afford to
justly points out its limitations with reference to its own nature.
inner nature from the external world, directing all the powers of his
purpose of discovering the secrets of nature. What one has then
arrive at a conception of our own spirit-soul nature, that the eye of
nature of man, to that which reveals itself to us as the pre-earthly
nature has bestowed love upon us, with all its significance for the
life of nature and of man. What I shall have to describe as the first
inner experience is freed from the external course of nature,
this, the eternal being of man, the nature of human immortality, to
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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super-sensible knowledge is something different in its entire nature
nature. But this possession of ideas does not really penetrate into
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
pictures out of our own inner nature and out of the external
nature of the dream, upon its rightness and wrongness, its truth and
relate everything that exists in physical nature, not “in
human nature in the moral and the social life, so do we place
process of becoming, in his soul nature, through the help of the
one holds fast to an idea about nature, to a law of nature, to the
of our human nature as conscience, which enables us to conduct our
human nature, stimulating us morally or immorally, becomes
in the depths of our nature. We now understand why it is necessary to
its own foundations, rooted in the spiritual nature of the world. I
external world of the senses, but which is rooted in its true nature
world of the senses, we then learn to recognize the moral nature of
nature, shows us how this spirit-soul nature permeates the corporeal
nature, how the blood is driven through the human being, not as if by
the direct action of the spirit-soul nature itself; how this
spirit-soul nature so lays hold upon the circulation of the blood
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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?
are of such a nature that they are being sought by our shortcomings. By far

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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.”
can only find an answer when he understands the nature of human karma,
very nature, joy and happiness tend to obliterate something in us.
pattern. This much, however, may be said. — The nature of the

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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only find an answer when he understands the nature of human karma, of
nature joy and happiness tend to obliterate something in us. This
be said: the nature of the karma that has been woven with those who

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changes his nature in us, nevertheless the impression is that he is

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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perception of the human nature generally. We observe daily that
earth. We look there at our own physical nature like at a whole
vegetation into our physical nature. We get the sure knowledge
beings of the higher hierarchies. — As we think nature,
external nature — the winter coming with its forces
endowed by their nature, by elemental forces working in them to
Initiations by nature, initiations which did not take place by
an initiation by nature during thirteen days, which preceded
initiation by nature in that sleeping state which she
do not learn anything about the nature of the etheric bodies

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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nature. This is the typical, the characteristic of the Central

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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external nature and in experimentation in the laboratory, in the
rules whose character prevents anything of the nature of inner wishes
does not trust itself to conjure anything of the nature of knowledge
the human being is in himself by reason of his inner nature. For what
nature of man has been obliged to manifest its particular side in
nature.” For this reason, even a person who simply feels in a
order of nature. Through the very fact that we are so forcibly driven
into such conflicts by the order of nature itself, it becomes for
fact that the inner nature of the human organization, especially in
external nature has become something different. Here we have to look
regarding the true nature of man, just so little can we afford to
reference to its own nature. But something else can occur: the inner
while withdrawing his inner nature from the external world, directing
secrets of nature. What one has then learned is applied to the
nature, so that the eye of the soul is really directed to the
do we look back upon the spiritual, the eternal, in the nature
nature has bestowed love upon us, with all its significance for the
life of nature and of man. It may seem paradoxical what I must
from the external course of nature, and that we actually become more
soul itself through the same inner necessity with which nature has
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