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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
This intellectual life gradually led it away from spirituality.
spiritual content. Indeed, the intellect is spiritual, but it
something which cannot appear to it as spiritual. The great
intellectually active, I am spiritually active, but at the same
direct way the spiritual. I fill the spirit in me only with
nevertheless exists in the spiritual regions of the human soul
just now, we must draw attention to all the spiritual powers that
of an old spiritual life, these Ahrimanic powers did not have
Nature, we really absorb spiritual powers, even though we are not
aware of this; we absorb Ahrimanic spiritual powers, who took
speak of the task of these spiritual powers, some people are
a spiritual-scientific way that which transcends the earth, we
must do this through spiritual vision (Anschauung).
way in which they are connected with the divine-spiritual powers
those who have spiritual knowledge.
with the intentions of the divine-spiritual powers with whom man
still rooted in the spiritual through an old inheritance, as was
that of clinging to an old spiritual inheritance, but of

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
and the development of hidden spiritual powers, and that they
from outward historical documents, and not from spiritual
at the same time to perceive in them all something spiritual.
saw something spiritual where we today see pure colours and
have today existed then. Besides perceiving something spiritual
in turn he had to see as permeated by the spiritual.
spiritual and super-sensible world. In ever new and marvellous
experience of their spirituality, and knew their souls to
inhabit a spiritual world. What makes our physical and sensuous
to show, it hides from us the spiritual world. It was, quite
spiritual worlds. That again is no way for the present. Anyone
the building up and spiritual energization of mental
experience his own self, his inner spirituality, so too
respiration, and so also with his spiritual self which
spiritual rhythm underlying all things; we penetrate into the
process; if we are more spiritually and idealistically
reach the spiritual foundation of nature. We attain, in our
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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important questions about it and about its spiritual essence do
not arise from any actual doubts he has regarding the spiritual
his spiritual substance and because he cannot help seeing in it
or spiritual life, and must accordingly ask: Is this spiritual
phenomena, or is it connected with a spiritual world within
in the true sense of the world a spiritual being, he is
physiological. We feel the spiritual element descending further
interrelationship between our spiritual element and our bodily
hidden the spiritual element that informs this wonderful
soul): this spiritual element in its relationship with
attains a kind of spiritual vision with which it can see into a
spiritual world, just as with the ordinary sense-organs it can
which, once they are trained, introduce man into a spiritual
the senses. Man today, seeking to know the spiritual, does not
breathing; is set free of the body; is a spiritual function
carried out not by the body, but in the purely spiritual
thinking is a spiritual process, it is not so linear, not so
of a spiritual kind, then we are, not students of the spirit
ourselves: we have attained one component of spiritual life,
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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spiritual comprehension of the forces of human history —
these powers, the spiritual vision that results is something
were admitted all the insights into the spiritual world gained
communion with the spiritual world, as he made his way into it.
Once inside the divine and spiritual world, he knew himself to
days, rises to a certain spiritual vision. He develops his
views on the spiritual sphere to the point of experiencing
gain a certain spiritual vision by modern methods to find that,
although they do gain glimpses of this spiritual world, these
the ordinary sense, but a momentary contact with the spiritual
spiritual world. We can then retrace our steps and repeat
explanation. Anyone who has some contact with the spiritual
to direct spiritual observation. For this reason, even if
someone who speaks out of the spiritual world gives a lecture
spiritual vision. Many people today, with some justification,
people are frightened of a philistinism of spiritual vision
spiritual vision: It is complete, it has now become part of
the spiritual world, seeking them out repeatedly, it will even
characteristic of true spiritual vision that we should have to
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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Spiritual
of physical geography. In the same way, the spiritual impulses at
can be described by a kind of spiritual geography —
dream-like spiritual life. Modem spiritual life is used to
dream-like spiritual life, embodied in the most splendid poems,
experienced and apprehended spiritual life.
When this dream-like spiritual life works on us, however, and
down to the present), we feel a spiritual need to go beyond
Oriental spiritual activity in favour of a “faithful
that in what reaches us from this Eastern spiritual activity,
perceived as the spiritual dement in things. Of course, this is
spiritual life can be characterized in another way.
about the Oriental. In growing into his spiritual life, he
what he experiences in the spiritual sphere and can say
Thus we see how the East developed the view that the spiritual
close link with the spiritual world and sees, in all that
in the spiritual world. And here I would say: the Oriental,
a spiritual world, just as he regards himself as a replica of
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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matters, the possibility of achieving a knowledge of spiritual life
some kind of spiritual knowledge? even though it may often turn
out that the only knowledge of a spiritual world allowed is one
a spiritual origin of the world, about forces operating
spiritually in the world's development, and about the
spiritual form of existence. The reaction of the rationalist to
you how spiritual science can arrive at a cosmology and a
knowledge of the spiritual impulses underlying the
its development through a spiritual cognition that is just as
physical and spiritual organism in the shape of cognitive
spiritual antennae. Though this may appear paradoxical to some
cannot provide us with a springboard into the spiritual world,
reappear as memory, the spiritual result of our external
here as befitting a modern search for the spiritual world. I
consciousness we can see into the spiritual world.
beginnings of spiritual life that exist outside (in the shape
of spiritual world-rhythm and appearance); and, by cultivating
further into the spiritual world, which is linked with the
the seeker after spiritual experience than anything he can
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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
spiritual, does not remain at the abstract and Utopian level,
not only into spiritual worlds as such, but also into the world
stands out above all for a spiritually scientific approach.
spiritual science takes us from abstract, dead thought once
of living nature and into the heart of spiritual worlds. By
spiritual — an attitude directed towards apprehending
When we contemplate human life itself by means of a spiritual
their spiritual ramifications. It then appears, for
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
four centuries. Not only through spiritual profundity, but
through the animation of our spiritual life, we must restore
spiritual vision, or at least accept the results of such
spiritual world with what spiritual entities reveal — can
times when man believed he originated from some spiritual
the spiritual organism or “sense-organ” he becomes
can live by choice, free of the body, in the spiritual
might say, is simply the act of seeing, raised to the spiritual
discovered this fact. Spiritual science shows that, by
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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spiritual transformation throughout the world, of which perhaps
determines what happens in spiritual and also in economic life.
actually ordained by spiritual, extra-terrestrial powers and
they had to ascertain from the spiritual worlds by means of the
old instinctive spiritual vision, as I have described in the
divine and spiritual entities, and that by certain magical
individuals sought a kind of connection with the spiritual
and when spiritual life, too, was not yet so abstract as it
later became — times when the moral and spiritual element
fifth lecture: that through spiritual insight into his own
He thus goes back, in his spiritual vision of course, to times
spiritual laws were not so abstract as they are today. In
consequence, spiritual vision arrives, not at the purely
that is to be interpreted physically and spiritually. As I have
physical, in a spiritual way by spiritual exercises. This was
contact with the spiritual world through stimulating their
dream-like spiritualization; they knew that, if this or that
spiritual activity. This was in fact the way in which the high
established contact with the spiritual world. They believed
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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look to the spiritual life of modern civilization for the
yesterday how at the threshold of the spiritual life of the
development of Europe's spiritual life is like a small
When we come to examine the basic character of spiritual life
civilization. In many psychic and spiritual matters, indeed, we
which has since survived as a spiritual and cultural motto to
On the spiritual side, I have already indicated this in
spiritual sphere, the priest, but also at the same time the
that mankind sought as knowledge and as higher spiritual life,
itself, and indeed every effort to reach a higher spirituality,
made him. Education to a higher spirituality was also healing,
higher spiritual life. They did this in such a way that, as I
and science were combined: in performing the ritual actions,
was made principally through sacrifice and ritual act.
Yet the ritual act and its foundations in turn involved an
higher spiritual life had to undertake makes it clear that he
death, experience the spiritual world in a complete rebirth.
pronouncement of spiritual science, it is something that even
the efforts to achieve a spiritual education.
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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something in which spiritual forces and spiritual impulses are
regards all spiritual phenomena as merely the effect of
exercises of spiritual science, by developing man, enable him
manifestation of the spiritual — of that spiritual
perceive in its spiritual essence the element of spirit and
being a spiritual element. Once we realize this, however, we
is, objectively, of a spiritual nature, as if it were something
true spiritual sphere. This is something which, as a
the spiritual sphere — instinctively feels: Don't talk to
spiritual science. And you could see that, whereas if you speak
instincts and the like become spiritualized, and you feel
orientated spiritual science. For only out of such a
philosophy, which can really talk about the spiritual sphere in
that, by the circumstances of spiritual geography, they have
a spiritual vision is attained. Thus, we find Americans
contemplation of the will to reach the spiritual element of
and the man who spoke from within the spiritual life, on behalf
spiritual and to counter the Oriental spirit, which today is in
ourselves create a spiritual dimension in our philosophy of
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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the fundamentals of spiritual science, as will be apparent from
spiritual science instils in man, to observe what has been
ideas to the spiritual world, acquires a true sense of reality,
man's spiritual life is closely linked to the disintegration of
of these is the spiritual life of mankind. This spiritual life
spiritual life draws its nourishment from the human individuals
realistically the influence of spiritual life on social
life, you will come to see that, because spiritual life has its
that is really to flourish in the spiritual life of mankind
inner pressure, out of the spiritual life of Middle Europe
intellectualism, a certain sterility had invaded the spiritual
the social organism — spiritual life, where all that is
Both factors — the one applicable to spiritual life and
help one a very great deal in the spiritual sphere, is not
that of spiritual life, it is for the individual to speak. In
When we look at spiritual life from this standpoint, we can
from the impulses of spiritual life, in the way I have been
into being on the basis of ideas from spiritual life, and the
state founds institutions out of spiritual life. But you can
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Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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means to have advanced in the spiritual scientific fields, that
are taken in. Whatever one can call proof of spiritual
spiritual worlds through the application of spiritual
penetrate the Higher Worlds, how we can with our own spiritual
religion, as the heavenly world, the actual spiritual world.
the pure spiritual world, Devachan, where you are called again
easily explained if the spiritual astral and devachanic worlds,
perceived with outer but with inner spiritual organs of the
found in the higher, the actual spiritual world, in the
spiritual counter-image linked to the world of tone. What is
appears as spiritual hearing. This is of course difficult to
existing or contradictory feelings of a pure spiritual nature.
Here spiritual music can be perceived. The moment this happens,

Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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appear particularly at the beginning of the path of spiritual
physical plane. Thus we speak as it were in a spiritual
approach, in the spiritually scientific sense, that which at
body. We become spiritually larger within, through spreading
spiritual scientific experience is valid. It involves the
following: out of spiritual scientific experience mankind can
effect experienced in a purely spiritual way, bring us to the
spiritual scientific experience gives us, which makes it
spiritual science learning can't be spared and whoever is on
revealed out of the spiritual scientific knowledge.
described, at various things in the spiritual scientific fields
the anthroposophic spiritual stream. Various things haunt like
experienced the spiritual scientific route, will say: Yes, my
of view need be given up by the spiritual researcher. He has no
from the other side that of a spiritual or a mechanistic or the

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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is different. Spiritual investigator is affected in his vision by
of light, the darkening waves of the etheric body - a spiritual
the spiritual world. What was only felt in physical life now comes to
stars in motion - this is the spiritual substitute for Feeling
spiritual ordering of the world and allows to flow into his actions,
that is, he spiritually knows and perceives — in the spiritual
outside the body, when he really experiences this spiritual
appears to him, a spiritual world, just as a physical world exists
serves thought. Thus a spiritual world is around him.
Now, the spiritual environment
person to place himself in the position of a spiritual investigator,
always affects what a person sees spiritually. It is not the
with a dead person, this intention affects the whole of his spiritual
to see in connection with him. The rest of the spiritual world
what a man sees in the spiritual world, depends upon his intention.
consciousness regarding what it sees in the spiritual world, may vary
clairvoyant consciousness sees when it enters into the spiritual
consciousness has reached the point where the spiritual and soul-part
It is like a circulation of dark waves, a spiritual blood
one would appear peculiar in the spiritual world: one would appear in
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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from spiritual sources and what comes from our memory. We then push
spiritual teachers pour their light into us. The forces which our
spiritual post-mortem teachers can give us, depend greatly on what we
temptation to become a permanent spiritual being and to remain in
spiritual worlds. Lucifer up to this time has helped us but wishes to
over his development. Spiritual wisdom in our unconscious existence,
undergoes, when as a spiritual investigator it lives outside the body
different spiritual points of view are we really able to arrive at
spiritual research, to realise that one only really solves the riddle
of existence through spiritual observation, when a matter is
spiritual experiences through that in the soul which is most similar
inner life into something spiritual. In recent public lectures I
in the clairvoyant consciousness, when from the darkness of spiritual
from the spiritual world appear in us like memory pictures, but
infinitely more spiritual. We then notice that the treasure of our
memory is the first really spiritual thing through which we lift
go further, we have to draw forth from spiritual depths fleeting
borne in mind. Something comes forth from unfamiliar spiritual
spiritual gaze to the experiences of our Ego during the years that
different spiritual depths than do our memories which only come forth
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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appear alive, but sink into the etheric and become opaque spiritual
Intuition in the present and delays our spiritualisation. This works
illumined by what we can acquire of Spiritual Science. The only ideas
us after death. The use of Spiritual Science. Full consciousness of
of the religion of the Gods and that all the Spiritual Beings
one discovers through spiritual investigation is that in the human
The spiritual investigator has to
dies in us. This is a most remarkable phenomenon. And the spiritual
spiritual effect as I mentioned yesterday as a possible result of the
the far-distant future, and we should want to spiritualise ourselves
as we are now; we should want to become spiritual beings at the stage
our imperfections, for then we can rise at once into the spiritual
world, we can then spiritualise our being; we shall however, be less
but still we shall be spiritual, angelic beings.’
spiritual world, and how important the Being is, who is called the
within us a direct impulse to spiritualise ourselves just as we are,
depths of our subconsciousness, there come towards it those Spiritual
Spiritual Beings to whom Lucifer is opposed. With every sensation,
of the spiritual world were not closed to our outward perception. But
like a mineral deposit, which we are unable to spiritualise. If this
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
Feelings. Spiritual Science should never be taken up like other
sciences. It should be life-blood. The practical results of Spiritual
spiritual. In the physical world we are always questioning nature; in
the spiritual world the opposite occurs. To help us to answer we must
depends on spiritual creative power. Most philosophers admit God the
person wants to know and understand the spiritual worlds — and
one difference between the experience in the spiritual world and the
go in Spiritual Science, the more we shall find that these things
existence, being. One might say that the more unspiritual a person
when either by the exercises which lead to spiritual investigation,
spiritual world. The relation of man to the surrounding spiritual
spiritual world, but it is requisite and necessary for us at certain
spiritual world. A person may be a fool in the sense-world, but
simply through his entrance into the spiritual world wisdom streams
to possess it, is already ours in the spiritual world, just as
more abundantly does this wisdom stream towards us on the spiritual
the spiritual plane.
that on the spiritual plane the ideal of humanity stands before us,
organising spiritual life-forces to permeate the substance we receive
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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Spiritual Science.
comprehension of the spiritual world, we have naturally to consider
describe the external process of ideas (now of course the spiritually
really happened — but spiritually — similar to what would
spiritual world this body is nothing but will. Thy body is a star of
the background is the spiritual part of thy physical body, this
thoughts in the ordinary way is overcome and this spiritually
transformed memory-force is awakened within us as the first spiritual
produced by us, but existing apart from us in the spiritual cosmos.
into the spiritual world — which to the physical world is death
slight degree a true spiritual investigator soon penetrates into the
comparatively easily to spiritual investigation.
in our soul and spiritual nature outside our body. We return, because
us to enter into living relationship with the surrounding spiritual
around us spiritually; we perceive everything in a roundabout way
to us in the spiritual world, through the feeling and will that were
from them which it can also use for the spiritual world in this
spiritual world which we ourselves are, and which is there, outside
of our will as an absolute reality of the spiritual world. Let us
suppose there is an elemental being in the outer spiritual world.
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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our inner experience is most intense, and our spiritual companionship
those left behind on earth are not spiritual. Only spiritual experience
spiritual lectures and turn aside. It may be necessary to bring them
companionship, but one is meantime constructing a spiritual
is in its 'spiritual death' - PER SPIRITUM SANCTUM REVIVISCIMUS.
spiritual existence between death and rebirth’, that Midnight
which we may call spiritual companionship, our connection with the
outer spiritual world, has reached its lowest ebb, so that in a
certain respect during this Midnight Hour of our spiritual existence
spiritual darkness surrounds us. We said also that the longing for
arises through the Spirit which works in spiritual worlds, and that
shown us by spiritual vision; we have had certain joys and sorrows in
experienced in such a way that it is its spiritual value which
allow this force to act within thee in two ways. In this spiritual
things are possible; the spiritual world simply gives thee the power
and suffocate spiritually. This is one of the most important things
we can learn in the spiritual world, that through enjoyment, through
world. There rises before our spiritual eyes the prospect of our
From this you see once more, spiritual events interact with what
and more with the knowledge of Spiritual Science as outlined in the
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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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spiritual-scientific research which enable us to grapple with the most
All Spiritual Science is based upon the assumption that underlying the
world normally known to us, there is another — the spiritual
world. It is in this spiritual world underlying the world of the
then has around him a new world, the world of spiritual causes and
off from this world of spiritual realities and beings, and it is upon
— man is shut off from the spiritual world. When he directs his
what we perceive that an outer spiritual world is concealed from us
the whole outer spiritual world through these manifestations. But
hitherto unknown pictures, a world of spiritual realities and beings.
faculty of perception-whether physical or spiritual-is also
have around us a world of spiritual realities and spiritual beings.
world of spiritual beings and facts revealed in the state of ecstasy.
indeed given over to a spiritual world but it is a world which tears
this process of drawing forces from that spiritual world we do not
into the spiritual world through the Macrocosm and through the

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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as the result of spiritual research, there will be something more
spiritual-scientific study of the two states. All that need be said is
man goes to sleep can be reality only to spiritual investigation, to
a spiritual world while he is asleep and in the physical world when he
whether, during the time man spends at night in a spiritual world, an
single force only which permeates the spiritual world. Are we able to
influence that draws man into a spiritual world, sleep unbroken by any
spiritual investigation confirms this. In the great majority of
These three influences have always been recognised in Spiritual
the bodily sheaths, is known in Spiritual Science as the Sentient
Spiritual Soul. Thus three influences are to be distinguished during
Consciousness-or Spiritual Soul. When man is transported by one force
strengthened and energised; he has drawn from the spiritual world the
spiritual world, is drawing us into that world. This is indicated by
spiritual science. These names are familiar to you, but I beg you now
We may therefore say, using the terminology of ancient spiritual
of the original, spiritual significance of these names as denoting
his physical and etheric bodies in the spiritual world, not of their
Spiritual science again gives a special name to the whole of the
conditions of ordinary life, is called in Spiritual Science the force
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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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spiritual investigators of bygone times to designate by similar names
spiritual worlds that is to be communicated in those that come later.
during the sleeping state in a spiritual world and on waking returns
we cannot see the spiritual world. On waking, our consciousness is at
spiritual reality underlying our own being. The boundary that we
cross, the boundary that causes the spiritual world to be darkened at
beholding the spiritual reality underlying them, is the Sentient
of inner experience and what spiritually underlies the world of the
enter into his own inner world, into that which spiritually underlies
sight of what spiritually underlies the physical and etheric bodies
into my bodily nature and to make myself spiritually worthy of
it.” The mystic is made to realise by his spiritual teacher that
Let nobody imagine that Spiritual Science demands that a man living an
reached the frontier of the spiritual world. A spiritual investigator
waking. This Power is the first spiritual Being encountered by one who
is about to pass into the spiritual world. He must pass this Being who
the spiritual world. This spiritual Being who every morning stands
his own inner self, is called in Spiritual Science, the Lesser
Guardian of the Threshold. The path into the spiritual world leads
dimly divine the existence of the Being known to the spiritual
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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to myself, if I had not been outpoured in the spiritual world, and if
Thinking, of Feeling and of Will pervading the spiritual world out of
very far. As a gift from spiritual worlds, from the higher forces of
all, the spiritual Powers of whose existence people have hitherto had
the spiritual Powers have taken care that all this proceeds as it
were macrocosmic forces, stored up by great spiritual Beings. So it
that the fundamental, spiritual conditions of our life change from
It is no ordinary ideal that Spiritual Science is now setting before
Spiritual Science as a world-mission; they are prompted by the
reason Spiritual Science must come into existence in order to induce
becoming exhausted. This knowledge is the source from which Spiritual
Spiritual Science would leave human evolution to take care of itself.
But Spiritual Science foresees that if in the coming centuries there
material world, one of which is that because the spiritual forces are
would be the result. Spiritual Science must now be promulgated in
described by Spiritual Science-do not want to see what is happening,
or to confound spiritual realities with the realities of outer,
embark upon genuine spiritual training without possessing the faculty
Along the path to be described tomorrow we shall encounter spiritual

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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to feel firmer ground under our feet. In Spiritual Science, unless we
to time to information belonging to the higher regions of spiritual
body, of the spiritual part of man. But it is possible to descend
ordinary life in a form less purely spiritual. Nevertheless, their
foundations are spiritual, for that is true of everything in the outer
spiritual knowledge. Accordingly a different path to knowledge is
other considerations. The fundamental characteristic of spiritual life
We shall see that there is a path into the spiritual world which takes
elimination of his Ego caused him to see with the spiritual eyes of
his whole being — which he was now seeing with the spiritual eyes
through the spiritual world between death and rebirth, we bear within
qualities. Thus he established a relationship, spiritually, with that
preparing for himself in the spiritual world the qualities he is
may seem, we ourselves have worked out of the spiritual world at the
he was himself working in the spiritual world at the preparation of
have had to do previously in the spiritual world in order to be able
the “Upper” — meaning the heavenly or spiritual man.
expression “heavenly” or “spiritual” man was also
fashioned from the spiritual world through which the man had passed
death in the light of what spiritual investigation discloses. At that
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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be subdued. The Ego had as it were to be given over to the spiritual
way that through the power emanating from the spiritual leader, the
was it possible to realise through spiritual perception the intense
spiritually from the individual. And strange as it may sound, in order
to hold in check this outpouring egoism, to keep a spiritual hold on
officiating initiator. The presence of a spiritual initiator was
vanish, he would perceive what is called in spiritual science the
a manifestation of the spiritual, that the spiritual lies behind
spiritual Beings and spiritual realities lie behind the physical
spiritual. Certainly, at this first stage of the World of the
Elements the spiritual does not yet reveal itself in its true form as
spiritual facts themselves. It is not yet anything that could be
called a true spiritual manifestation but to a considerable degree it
spiritual Beings and facts.
means of expression for the physical world. If therefore the spiritual
little by little an idea is evoked of what is perceived by spiritual
‘water’ in books on spiritual science, this is what is
of spiritual perception, of the Initiate.
— are the revelations of spiritual beings, when he had learned to
Initiation passes into a world in which there are spiritual beings
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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of all into what has been called in Spiritual Science the
Spiritual Science, true self-knowledge. This self-knowledge
ourselves objectively. Every genuine spiritual investigator will say
the spiritual world if a man is incapable of accepting the fundamental
into the higher worlds to be acquainted with what spiritual
of judgment, that what Spiritual Science states is not nonsense. It is
spiritual investigation. Although it is not possible to investigate
personally in the spiritual worlds without the vision of the seer, a
spiritual investigator make it more intelligible. If they do, then
opinions. Thus in Spiritual Science we gain something which we retain
certain store of spiritual-scientific knowledge protects us from
The loss of the Ego on entering the spiritual world would, however,
paths that can lead into the spiritual worlds.
The spiritual investigator must not be in any sense a dreamer, a
spiritual world as an intelligent man does in the physical world. Any
highly obstructive on entering the spiritual world if no heed were
would be there within the Macrocosm. He has around him spiritual
beings and spiritual facts and he also has an objective view of
happen to you, whatever may confront you in this spiritual world you
In the spiritual life of today, if you examine for yourselves, you
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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
today — the World of the spiritual Archetypes of all things. The
Man is always surrounded by a spiritual cloud of this nature. The Ego
spiritual forces, against everything we call the Elementary World.
colour. The elements of fire, air, water and earth (spiritually
outer expression of spiritual realities and spiritual worlds.
— symbols which in themselves are mirrorings of spiritual Beings
spiritual life, his reason, is a weak reflection of the outer World of
a reflecting apparatus for that purpose. The method of Spiritual
spiritual world. Just as we have experiences in our conscious life, in
spiritual organs are formed and moulded, organs which gradually enable
in the shape of spiritual flower-forms budding forth from man and are
therefore called ‘lotus-flowers’, or also spiritual
two-petalled lotus-flower; it is a spiritual sense-organ. Just as a
world around us, so do the spiritual sense-organs exist in order to
another near the heart, and so on. These spiritual sense-organs —
— these spiritual sense-organs can be cultivated by the patient
pictures — which are given in every school for genuine spiritual
the World of Spirit from the other side and the spiritual Realities
‘spiritual man’. We transcend our ordinary selves by

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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Organs of Spiritual Perception.
ORGANS OF SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION.
spiritual worlds it was said that this is the most suitable path for
First of all the organs of spiritual perception would have to be
consciously into the spiritual worlds. Certainly this is also possible
sleep upon one who is undergoing this process of spiritual
organs make real experience of the spiritual world possible, with some
with the spiritual organs underlying the brain; but it is generally
mean the physical heart but the spiritual organ that develops in the
life that may be compared with those of the spiritual investigator
justification, but in a certain domain only. Spiritual thinking must
be applied to whatever is subject to the laws of spirituality and not
is explaining nothing whatever, for a spiritual explanation is
logical expositions. Whatever is described in Spiritual Science has
experiences is not a vision but the expression of a soul-and-spiritual
fleeting blue or violet was the expression of a soul-spiritual
reality. Thus do we penetrate into the realities, into the spiritual
research in the spiritual world is linked in a far higher sense and to
In giving descriptions from the spiritual worlds, in translating our
experiences in the spiritual worlds have to be translated into logical
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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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through spiritual-scientific training someone works his way upward to
higher spiritual level, thinking of the heart. What is there to be
Obviously there is no need for the spiritual investigator to apply his
investigating the spiritual world through a faculty analogous to that
yesterday, when progress in spiritual knowledge has been made the
that for the spiritual investigator the events which usually appear to
in the spiritual world we must become one with the beings there. We
enter the spiritual world.
the spiritual world it is much more difficult. The outer conditions of
spiritual world there is no such convenient means for correcting
Spiritual Science itself guarantees this harmony. And here we come to
spiritual reality.
spiritual than the logic of the head, and the heart is not to the same
the spiritual investigator. Whereas in an act of remembrance an
ordinary man looks back to the past, the spiritual investigator has
spiritual consciousness. Thus every physical phenomenon is a symbol
for the corresponding spiritual reality. It is an extremely
faculties of the spiritual investigator and also of the worlds in
inkling of what the spiritual investigator sees livingly before him.
space it is impossible to discern a picture of the spiritual Space
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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the essential need in connection with the communications of Spiritual
Science is not so much that the whole range of spiritual-scientific
spiritual knowledge, that everything brought down from the higher
worlds through the investigations of Spiritual Science can be grasped
life in the physical world. There is nothing in Spiritual Science that
data of spiritual-scientific knowledge and we may each say to
revelations of Spiritual Science is at once capable of taking the
one who communicates spiritual knowledge cannot always take it for
Spiritual Science knows that it has no future. Other faculties,
Besides addressing himself to the reasoning mind, the spiritual
That there are souls today possessed of this sense for spiritual
and come to Spiritual Science longing to find answers to these
to the communications of Spiritual Science, although at first they
intuitively understand. Thus the spiritual investigator appeals more
The spiritual investigator is in a different position. He must appeal
seek together, especially in matters connected with the spiritual
realm. Spiritual Science should be a stimulus to a common search for
spiritual world, into the Macrocosm. Thus in the sleeping state there
and spiritual one.
Man can very easily become aware of this moral and spiritual
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Title: Life Between ... IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
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the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
smaller groups long acquainted with spiritual science.
facts of the spiritual world that is not easily accessible and
principal events of life in the spiritual world have, of course, been
in the spiritual world between death and rebirth. This description
intellect and knowledge acquired of the spiritual world, either
everything is reversed in the spiritual world. I will refer to two
characteristics to show how fundamentally different are the spiritual
grotesque it may appear, the opposite is true in the spiritual world.
example. Above all, for something to happen in the spiritual world it
The quieter we are, the more can happen through us in the spiritual
world. We simply cannot say that anything happens in the spiritual
soul, which in the spiritual world is creative, does not quite have
The same is true of the spiritual world. In it there is no rush and
movement. Propaganda campaigns and a desire to force spiritual
spiritual science. We shall find that the calmer we are, the more
communicated can do so. Our attitude within our spiritual scientific
movement must be a reflection of the spiritual so that what has to
a particular time out of the spiritual world. I have often drawn
attention to an important event that had its origin in the spiritual
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Title: Life Between ... VIII: Between Death and a New Birth
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the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still
considerations, you will remember that spiritual science rightly
existence. Inasmuch as spiritual science permeates our civilization,
and this has led me to occupy myself with spiritual science.”
Life will bring people to spiritual science. What happens as a result
will be richly rewarding because spiritual science can permeate life
own soul disposition, was driven to spiritual science, whereas
spiritual science, while his friend developed increasing enmity
gate of death who on earth were enemies of spiritual science and who
then strive for spiritual science. Had we during their earthly lives
gone to them with a book on spiritual science, they might have
There are many instances within our spiritual movement in which those
spiritual science can mean quite practically. Spiritual science is
bridged. A great deal of good can be done by bringing spiritual
to find spiritual beings beyond the threshold who could teach them.
connection, they can be of no use to one. Spiritual science is in its
To the extent that spiritual science takes hold of life, a
When a person begins to concern himself with spiritual science he
Now if we have acquired a sensitivity of soul and are spiritually
the spiritual world, a message from the dead that comes as an act of
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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psycho-spiritual way, and arrives at far more material creatures from
less human than themselves but as beings more spiritual. They beheld
beings in whom spirituality was so inherent that they did not assume
living in a higher, more spiritual way and having — to express it
crudely — a body of much finer, more spiritual substance. To that
purpose and in the sense of superior, divine-spiritual will.
divine-spiritual world-order had postponed that moment to a later
divine-spiritual will above them.
By thus remaining steadfast within the divine-spiritual will, Michael
his being, with his psycho-spiritual part, he was to reach up into
breathing, and — though in a spiritual way — through
Through his psycho-spiritual being he is related to the beings of the
because he found him unworthy to remain in the world of spirituality.
Such a man, able to see into the deeper spiritual life of the 18th
— radiant in spiritual vision, yet within the reach of ordinary
spiritual world — could be regarded as the crowning impulse

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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— what a genuine, up-to-date spiritual viewpoint can and must do
a psycho-spiritual being before his earth life. — That is one
spiritual existence.
longer has any inner spiritual relation to what is spiritual in the
colorless — as though spirituality emaciating us — when our
utterly inadequate for spiritual perception. Instead, what is needed
is that we should become conscious of our true spiritual relations to
it, of something spiritual; we do not dream that every such plant
— an elemental spiritual being; and really only he observes a
of a spiritual being enchanted in it — a relatively insignificant
start on my way into spiritual worlds. — You will perhaps object
precisely by grasping it in its right spiritual significance we can
manifold, mighty and magnificent are indeed the spiritual effects,
through the elemental spirituality of nature. And it flows into him:
spirituality poured out over outer nature, which is a mirror of the
divine-spiritual.
Outer nature, image of divine spirituality, has in its innocence
must advance to a higher form of spirituality, untold elemental
something happens physically, psychically, and spiritually.
Spiritually: no human being would ever arrive at the silly belief in a
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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spiritually or, in image, physically. Nowadays, of course, our general
penetrate the spiritual world by means of the ordinary
Why? Well, dreams are the bridge leading to the spiritual world, and
the spiritual world is wholly permeated by a set of laws that are not
to imagine that the spiritual world can be comprehended by means of
into the spiritual world. The same methods can be carried over
spiritual world we enter an entirely different system of laws.
spiritual weaving, untouched by inexorable natural laws; where one can
underlying these there is again something spiritual, and because what
is spiritual is fundamentally not subject to natural necessity but
naturally from spiritual research are to be carried to their logical
That is where spiritual science penetrates. It points out that when
candle. When spiritual science reveals the truth by means of such
in which during sleep we penetrate into the spiritual world, greater
true. By studying in a spiritual-scientific way what has been
be discovered if we seek through spiritual science the deeply
where even in the spiritual life of nature there is so much that has a
special spiritual atmosphere in this region where — on the island
we want to describe something in a spiritual-scientific way we cannot
Now, the spiritual atmosphere in the region of Wales that I mentioned
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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Yesterday I told you how a genuine spiritual approach can disclose the
consciousness as manifestations of spiritual beings. In this
The indispensable factor in every domain of spiritual science is just
impels me to seek a homogeneous psycho-spiritual principle dominating
psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
man; for true vision reveals a multiplicity of earth spirituality, of
spiritual beings, as it were, that dwell in the kingdoms of nature.
But these spiritual beings are passing through a life: they are in a
winter mean in a spiritual sense? It means that those spiritual beings
whom we call elemental spiritual beings — beings that constitute
as it were, its spiritual elemental beings and shelters them there. In
winter the earth is at its most spiritual; that is, it is most fully
— to be determined by the spiritual forces of the planetary
spiritual cosmic process, and compare it with a corresponding but more
Now, in the winter the earth has inhaled its whole spirituality, and
earth was at its most spiritual — that was the time when it could
with an earth that had drawn all its spirituality into itself. But for
spirituality of the earth out into the cosmos. That is why we find the
inner spirituality. This spirituality, these elemental beings, pass
of the course of the seasons in the spirituality that pertains to the
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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poetic art is in fact the spiritual world – though it is not
spiritual world particularly cultivated in our own time. For this
being was seized by an objective spiritual force. That human
spiritual life, wished to sing of the great deed of the Messiah, as
only arise if the way into the spiritual world is rediscovered; for
human “I” to be laid hold of again by the spiritual
more ground. If we enter into the spiritual world with
spiritual essence we will find again, along this spiritual path
From such a spiritual approach the
European spiritual life, such as the Germanic. In primaeval ages of
humanity, if one wished to receive the divine-spiritual and bring
earlier times, when the ancient spiritual life was still valued
that spiritual life came into being, poetry, too, was not isolated.
caught up into the highest part of man’s spiritual and
found, however, precisely along the spiritual
spiritual speech. The prose-speaker clothes in words those thoughts
comprehending human nature spiritually, even down to the physical.
But the spiritual life that holds sway and works in the world can
profounder spirituality – a spirituality of
by which to scale the heights of the full, spiritual sense –
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Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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it is a peculiarity of our day that the spiritual productive
spiritual labyrinth. Nature stands there bereft of soul, devoid
spiritual participation in her production. So did I press on
highest effect — for as it develops itself spiritually
activity, that his physical nature acts spiritually, while his
spiritual nature acts physically. Physical nature is raised to
the purely spiritual. It always points to a distinct decadence
spiritually; when the belief becomes general that we have not

Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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only be recognised through the insight given by spiritual
that the spiritual scientist who reveals something concerning
the spiritual worlds, as a result of knowledge gained by
knowledge in those spiritual regions in which every human
soul is at home. The spiritual scientist merely draws,
as it were, into a purely spiritual world with our astral body
and with our Ego. What presents itself to the spiritual
perception of the spiritual investigator, may be characterised
by saying: The spiritual investigator simply perceives
a higher world. The spiritual-scientific investigator simply
may therefore say: The spiritual investigator only
from physical points of view are not correct from the spiritual
When the spiritual investigator really investigates these
spiritual research allows us to watch how the process of
falling asleep and of waking up takes place. And spiritual
spiritual science must observe the connections in the world
development, but also into the spiritual Beings whom we must
waking state we live immersed in the spiritual facts produced
which conceals the spiritual worlds to the ordinary
an adherent of spiritual, science. For from certain aspects
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Title: The Subconscious Forces
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spiritual-scientific world-conception should not only further
win as a fruit of spiritual-scientific self-education. Only the
from a truly spiritual standpoint. When judging the
evident to these who take in a spiritual-scientific
spiritual-scientific world-conception in this or in that place
views in the face of the spiritual-scientific world-conception,
spheres which the spiritual-scientific world-conception tries
knowledge cannot reach the spiritual world. If spiritual
this is not the case: The spiritual scientist does not deny
obtain, as it were, along the path of spiritual research, for
their pocket, they are convinced of the truth. But spiritual
are guided (we all know this through spiritual science)
Folk-Soul so as to receive only soul-spiritual qualities,
but in the Central European, development of spiritual
of the spiritual life of Central Europe? You all know that
the spiritual life of Central Europe —
spiritual science, namely that the inspiration of the Folk-Soul
to find in the spiritual life of Russia the idea (it should not
expression. The spiritual life of Russia is very much inclined
to look for the resurrection of Christ in the spiritual world,
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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Now, precisely that type of spiritual-scientific conception in
spiritual, regarding the super-sensible, element of his own being.
the development of our own spiritual capacities the same exactness to
spiritual world, which is as yet
“Your thinking has been transformed into a spiritual touching;
thinking will come into contact with what constitutes a spiritual
substance of the brain, but that the spiritual-psychic entity of man
spiritual world. After one has previously eliminated the world of the
inexpressible pain of soul, then does the external spiritual world
fact that the human being is surrounded by a spiritual world just as
And the first thing, in turn, that we behold in this spiritual
spirit-soul beings in a purely spiritual world before we
spiritual beings we participated in the molding of our own
bodies. So do we look back upon the spiritual, the eternal, in the
— forces which we acquire out of a purely spiritual world, with
our feeling into a sense organ for the spiritual.
knowledge for the spiritual.
us to look back even further than into the pre-earthly spiritual
intervene purely spiritual lives, coming between a death
spiritual sphere and transformed into a force of knowledge, teaches
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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knowledge, to a real experience, of spiritual beings, which
lifts himself up into a condition of spirituality, just as plants and
comparable as a spiritual power to muscular force as this passes over
a human being actually penetrates into the spiritual world by means
the spiritual world, does not leave his heart, the needs of his
in special instances, — that this soul-spiritual element
the spiritual essence of the world.
and experiment, into a higher world, into a spiritual world in which
being in a purely spiritual world before my descent into the earthly
spiritual world, to a spiritual world which is complete in its
a spiritual form. True and right pass over into the
discussion with reference to the spiritual world really has no
significance whatever for the spiritual, super-sensible world.
a spiritual-scientist who is able to penetrate into the
untruth, but for truth! And what the spiritual-scientist has to say
sensible-physical world. Therefore, as the spiritual-scientist
designate as “looking into the spiritual world,” so that
becoming a spiritual-scientist, yet it is not necessary to do this.
spiritual-scientist has to say can be received when it comes into
is precisely the peculiar characteristic of this spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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reluctant to learn and to acquire something in a spiritual way. This is an
error that is liable to weaken and paralyze the spiritual in him. Every
brought along with us from the spiritual world are now placed outside
is something we carry into the spiritual world; previously, we took
alien to the spiritual world, which withdraws from us and closes up. It is
spiritual science.
environment of the higher self is. Spiritual science gives us insight into the
a good human being. Only when we open our spiritual eye and perceive how

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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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.”
Spiritual because this is inconvenient for him. We must ask ourselves:
whereby the Spiritual within him is weakened and paralysed; the
by the forces brought from the spiritual world. These forces, however,
into the spiritual world; in the earlier period we were taking
something from the spiritual world. It is in the middle period that we
are most alien to the spiritual worlds, to which the spiritual worlds
from the Spiritual.
So indeed it is. The feelings that come to us in Spiritual Science

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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spiritual because this is inconvenient for him. We must ask ourselves:
spiritual within him is weakened and paralysed; the slightest thought
brought from the spiritual world. These forces, however, are spent by
the next incarnation. This is something we take into the spiritual
spiritual world. It is in the middle period that we are most deeply
are most alien to the spiritual worlds, to which the spiritual worlds
from the spiritual.
earth, and everything else that Spiritual Science tells us. Just as we
is. But Spiritual Science does tell us about these worlds where our
reality true self-knowledge! From Spiritual Science we receive
eyes and his spiritual eyes also, and sees the powers of yonder world
indeed. The feelings that come to us through Spiritual Science give us

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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favour from the Divine-Spiritual Powers; the emphasis lies in the fact
Divine-Spiritual Beings. It is this realisation of Grace which makes
the world, to the end that Spiritual Science may become a real
in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life — but in a
experiences in the spiritual world.
the souls of men were completely shut off from the spiritual world;
spiritual darkness prevailed and it was impossible even for highly
developed individuals to achieve direct contact with the spiritual
incarnations had been Initiates were unable to look into the spiritual
world. The gates of the spiritual world were closed for a certain
into the spiritual worlds. It was necessary for men to live through
that condition of darkness, to find the gates to the spiritual world
closed against them. Men of high spiritual development were, of
Twelve men in Europe of great and outstanding wisdom, whose spiritual
spiritual development of mankind were represented. The fact that all
spiritual life — the religions, the philosophies and conceptions
After the period of darkness had passed and spiritual achievement was
something of the history of spiritual life. Goethe's poem Die
the Rosicrucian stream of spiritual life. And Christian Rosenkreutz
then works spiritually into human beings, without the need of spatial
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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the divine-spiritual powers; the emphasis lies in the fact that these
been recipients of the grace outpoured by the divine spiritual beings.
talk about karma and our experiences in the world, so that Spiritual
experiences in the spiritual world appear in our earthly life, but in
experiences in the spiritual world.
such that the souls of men were completely shut off from the spiritual
world; spiritual darkness prevailed, and it was impossible even for
spiritual world. In the thirteenth century even those who in earlier
incarnations had been initiates were unable to look into the spiritual
world. The gates of the spiritual world were closed for a certain
into the spiritual worlds. It was necessary for men to live through
that condition of darkness, to find the gates to the spiritual world
closed against them. Men of high spiritual development were, of
Twelve men in Europe of great and outstanding wisdom, whose spiritual
a special mission, the twelve different streams in the spiritual
so all the different streams of man's spiritual life — the
After the period of darkness had passed and spiritual achievement was
something of the history of spiritual life. Goethe's poem The Mysteries
the rosicrucian stream of spiritual life. And Christian Rosenkreutz
then works spiritually into human beings, without the need of spatial
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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spiritual-scientific point of view on our big events.
only recognised by those insights spiritual science can give
keep in mind that the spiritual scientist who states something
of the spiritual worlds on the basis of his knowledge of
add anything that does not exist in the spiritual realms in
spiritual scientist only draws attention to that which always
into the purely spiritual world with our astral bodies and
view of the spiritual researcher and say: the spiritual
of the higher world with his astral body and ego. The spiritual
can say: the spiritual researcher only observes what would show
spiritual view. Indeed, the human being already has the
the spiritual researcher investigates these relations, he finds
that way is based on the fact that the spiritual research
also into such spiritual beings we must regard as folk-souls. I
penetrate into spiritual science, to look deeper at the world
spiritual facts which our own folk-soul carries out in our
deep seriousness behind that veil which covers the spiritual
spiritual science. Since spiritual science begins to be most
serious about such a principle if we rise in spiritual science
spiritual world — and every human being is in the
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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spiritual-scientific world view may not only turn to the
spiritual-scientific self-education. Only because the
view, from a really spiritual point of view. We should be able
somebody who takes up the spiritual-scientific world view not
spiritual-scientific world view during the last years, somebody
the spiritual-scientific world view. One could often hear: Kant
spiritual-scientific world view wants to attain knowledge.
spiritual world with human cognition. If one still went on
representing spiritual science, then the people came and
is not that way at all. The spiritual scientist does not deny
spiritual research that he extends his ken and is really able
Spiritual research will just show us that anyone can prove the
Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science
directed and led — we all know this from spiritual
inspires the psycho-spiritual qualities, the type of the people
European spiritual development.
spiritual science finds: the fact that there the inspiration of
spiritual world above the human world. However, he can never
what spiritual science has to say. So that one already deals
European spiritual culture. And the East European culture has
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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were to go beyond these limits. Now, precisely the type of spiritual
to gain enlightenment about the spiritual, about the
that we now apply to the development of our own spiritual capacities
spiritual world, which is as yet present only for our feelings
transformed into a spiritual touching; if this can become more and
contact with what constitutes a spiritual reality, just as your
spiritual-psychic entity of man is there, which he himself has now
soul-spiritual element and to its manifestations in the
— the experience of a real spiritual world. After one has
soul, then the outer spiritual world comes to meet us. In the state
surrounded by a spiritual world just as the sense world exists for
turn, that we behold in this spiritual world is our own
what we were as spirit-soul beings in a purely spiritual world before
spiritual beings we participated in the molding of our own bodies. So
do we look back upon the spiritual, the eternal, in the nature
we acquire out of a purely spiritual world, with which we now feel
spiritual. But we must go further and must be able to make our will
element into an organ of knowledge for the spiritual.
than into the pre-earthly spiritual life. As we learn in our present
between which there always intervene purely spiritual lives,
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