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- Title: Nature/Ideals: Die Natur
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- She gave you the will and the force to destroy yourself,
- — but to save yourself — this you can never, ever do!
- Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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- The intellect itself is spirit, but its content is no longer a
- Nature. Hence the intellect is spirit, but it fills itself with
- into himself and that he must say to himself: When I am
- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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- something self-manifesting.
- to confine itself to the working-up of natural processes and
- impulses within that pure thinking which science itself fosters
- and semblances that I myself am free to accept or not. That is
- the scientific view of life points beyond itself. It must take
- the other hand, that because it cannot itself arrive
- itself — an extension into a region that science,
- a misapprehension, he applies them to himself. It is simply so
- respiratory current itself. We could say that the yogi set his
- breath. In this way, the yoga scholar raised himself above the
- such strong and inwardly fortified self-consciousness as we
- in everything about him, man perceived himself as a part of
- this whole environment; he did not separate himself from
- it as an independent self. To draw an analogy, I might say: If
- my hand were conscious, what would it think about itself?
- earlier man was unable to regard himself as an independent
- entity, but felt himself rather a part of nature's whole, which
- yogi raised himself above this view, which implied the
- dependence of the human self. By uniting his
- human self, the human I. The awareness of personal
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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- great problems in life, but life itself. They become the happiness
- tremendous riddle. To deny the mind in man himself does not, of
- fate of this soul of his, will find himself confronted by a
- alert and self-possessed, able to make use of our body, our
- different form, to psychology itself. It would need a great
- Psychology itself, moreover, is conscious of this powerlessness
- presents itself to the psychologist, with ordinary
- myself in any way with their content, I believe that, from the
- of the self-criticism of ordinary consciousness.
- something that enables me to orientate myself in life, to bring
- saying to himself at a certain point: Why shouldn't this
- today, and by which I orientate myself in life and become a
- man can produce in himself a state of soul and body that can be
- world in such a way that he learns to orientate himself in it
- The self-possession at each step is such that we can compare
- what a man experiences and makes of himself here with what we
- struggled, although without driving oneself into
- self-possessed — to focus one's consciousness upon
- itself.
- And with this we explore a part of human eternity itself. We
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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- part of himself he can and will influence his time!”
- increasing consciousness is itself a factor in history.
- In the human organism itself, which is such a richly
- which the organism expresses itself. In the same way, we must
- that he found himself increasingly absorbed into a lasting
- Once inside the divine and spiritual world, he knew himself to
- perceive what seeks to manifest itself to man; but that, if we
- the thing itself is past.
- spiritual world is willing to reveal itself. Objective
- self-possession, like that which is active in the solution of
- things. With vital thinking you feel yourself equipped to
- himself through his soul and in this way felt his outward
- devotes himself. In popular religion, it is true, this is
- self may become a sense-organ or spiritual organ; and we
- thought raise itself into words and then, in modern
- experiencing our inner self, and for the inner self we
- itself is in many ways a revival. And yet one must say: the
- of nature? His artistic sense transformed itself naturally into
- within the history of recent times. Goethe made himself at home
- nature herself operates; I am on their track.” Here
- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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- concepts. We may say: in immersing itself in these
- presents itself directly to the eye is dissected and placed
- his soul as the reality self-evident to him. External nature,
- first reveal itself through the human soul.
- a spiritual world, just as he regards himself as a replica of
- as the soul-spiritual element in man himself, as he is before
- because, in transforming itself into mortal man, the spiritual
- natural element in man himself, is a replica of the spiritual;
- complete self-possession and lucid consciousness. The
- activity and so prevent himself from devoting his full strength
- not say so; whereas he perceives as reality what reveals itself
- what man experiences within himself — whether it is art
- thyself,” for a truly human attitude. Why? Well, it is
- when man finds himself confronted with physical actuality, it
- humanity in order that man himself could infuse it with his own
- himself to be in a sphere of unreality when in contact with
- himself a spiritual being who creates in physical and sensuous
- world and himself, he could speak of “ideology;” it
- itself.
- spiritual life has revealed itself in particular phenomena. He
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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- self-contained individuals. We must not invade this other
- himself; even so, it reveals something that has certain
- is to be taken seriously today must not lose itself in nebulous
- himself without limit, to the point where the deepest
- foundations of the soul itself. Even such outstanding mystics
- if, in ordinary consciousness, he could see right into himself
- self. It must be possible for outside stimuli to be
- he can penetrate directly into his deepest self. If we
- make the mystic's attempt to penetrate into our innermost self
- in face of the outside world: for it is only by treating itself
- More moving than the latter's absorption in his inner self is
- cognition, man must pour out his own self as being into
- intensification of the sense of self. What happens is
- the sense of self. The sense of self has its own strength, and
- intermingled that self-surrender to the world and its creatures
- that comes of love. In super-sensible cognition, the self is
- selfish submersion in things, that it will effusively thrust
- and insinuate itself into things. By so doing, the self will
- self-discipline in relation to the sense of self, and at
- itself into the memory — if it did, we should be capable
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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- intellectualized power that reveals itself so splendidly
- significance that this power of the intellect has shown itself
- an outlook on things in accord with spirit, finds himself
- this has only been possible to man since he raised himself to
- naïveté into self-consciousness. People will
- it means in England itself. In England, simply because of the
- can transform itself into social impulses such as arose from
- When we contemplate human life itself by means of a spiritual
- intellectualism itself cannot be socially creative. It floods
- to me what I myself ought to be and want to be; I listen to
- itself the powers by which we can reach an understanding with
- social life itself. It emerged from theory, though one that
- believed itself to be true to life. It created a reality that
- their words that comes from life itself, from experience of the
- we have a self, assume unconsciously that the other person also
- has a self. This is not what we do. Anyone whose mind can take
- himself into the other human being: only thus can he really
- place himself within the context of social life. With the
- point to this self-spiritualizing development of the human
- beyond those the teacher himself possesses.
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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- Western civilization itself.
- imposes itself upon them.
- development of the earth itself by associating their
- nature man experiences within himself a kind of world-memory.
- itself — these impulses had, after all, been
- attaching some importance to what displayed itself in these
- organization that is trying to establish itself in Eastern
- transformed itself into the legal attitude, the political
- itself in social configurations. The priest gradually becomes
- although he may have kept himself in the background, the priest
- structure, which then proceeds to reproduce itself.
- medieval to modern history the religious element allows itself
- element does assert itself increasingly in the West, the nearer
- emancipates itself in human thinking.
- need only examine the economic element as it presented itself
- categories that derive from economic life itself.
- itself is then caught up by social configurations that are
- industrialist himself sees his own undertaking within a
- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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- Grimm — since his philosophy of life was in itself a
- sense of self, a sense of personality that is still quiescent
- ideal that Oriental civilization had set before itself,
- “Know thyself!”
- ultimate intention of Oriental self-less civilization, of that
- sentence: “Know thyself!” — a sentence
- of development in mankind, to penetrate to the self after all.
- characterizing yoga. On the social side, it reveals itself when
- itself, and indeed every effort to reach a higher spirituality,
- the extent that Greek culture itself has influenced European
- takes him outside himself, and creates in him a transport of
- feeling that takes him out of himself; that he is
- is no longer overcome by fear when he has to go outside himself
- strengthening of his sense of self and his inner security of
- himself, not just beneath himself into mere utility.
- face to face with himself, drawing him away from a dream, a
- complete awareness of himself. We may say: in the social
- thyself!”
- the sense of self. From an awareness that the soul was not then
- attuned to a sense of self, and that such a sense still
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- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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- There are, of course, self-deceivers, on a greater or lesser
- to come close to his real self.
- experience. Not so much the expulsion itself, as the preceding
- what confronts a man when he is alone with himself after work
- Something elemental reveals itself in such a man, welling up
- thrown back upon himself, as the working-man is and very many
- something which emerges exclusively from man himself. Since
- to really see inside himself. He thereby reaches the stage of
- his work on to himself. Everywhere he longs to attain an
- into himself, he finds as the basic substance of his physical
- things, which so affect man's innermost self that drives,
- — which yet carries within itself striking
- repeatedly commending self-control, self-discipline,
- self-education as all-important: what matters is not having
- inner self. Whether legitimate or not, this is the attitude of
- the machine, in such a way that man himself operates, in
- is why Central Europe itself forsook the paths it had been
- Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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- obtrudes itself particularly on those who observe life
- itself to be a real force in the history of modern man. But in
- think it self-evident that, from within the individual, you can
- himself. On the other hand, we do continually attempt to derive
- 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
- third thing that presents itself to people today and calls for
- large, contains within itself, together with constructive
- democracy, there insinuated itself more and more into men's
- This statement itself may sound abstract, but in fact it is
- reality, not quarried from life itself — an enormous
- Only out of life itself can something be created. Let us
- with life itself. For the intellect has the property of
- something independent, so that it contains within itself its
- itself the germ of what are later to become forces of decline.
- each separate from the other. In itself, such a division
- contradiction imposed by life itself.
- reality itself with the aid of spiritual science, which is
- Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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- our next lecture: “What is self knowledge?” Today
- substance of their world just as we, humans, self conscious
- Just think about yourself, how you may observe your soul in the
- soul will express itself in the direct contrary situation, how
- itself out into that which is perceived, creeping in, so that
- definite self-contained shape. During our life between birth
- the astral body withdraws, it begins to adapt itself to the
- the Plant-Ego directs itself towards a single place on earth,
- clairvoyant is situated where physical man finds himself, how
- impressions in him- or herself, namely a differentiated world
- world you find yourself. While you are in the astral world, you
- is renunciation. To prepare yourself for the right existence in
- inseparable from something else, namely the loss of self, the
- power of self consciousness, the inner Ego-force. We will
- This feeling is called, in occult science, the feeling of self
- devachanic plane, blessedness and self-sacrifice. It is
- doesn't have the feeling: — ‘you must dedicate yourself to what
- to offer myself, I will not dissolve into what I've acquired,’
- really entering this bliss, having learnt to add the self
- him. In the degree to which he offers himself through his soul,
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- Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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- What is Self Knowledge?
- What is Self-knowledge?
- self-knowledge of mankind, a self-knowledge which leads to the
- genuine self-knowledge is an accompanying phenomenon which
- inner soul forces. The “Know Thyself” ancient human
- the occult scientific sense self-knowledge in relation to the
- the most ordinary, everyday self-knowledge and rise up to this
- self-knowledge which can be called World Knowledge in the
- Self-knowledge is considered so much more important within the
- dangerous. Incorrectly understood self-knowledge tends to
- particular distrust in the expression “self-knowledge,” as it
- some kind of false melancholy, self-anaesthesia, caught up in
- the Self, with all these members linked to human nature, we
- easily come to the conclusion that self-knowledge is something
- anticipate the simplest, humblest type of self-knowledge, we
- cycle, that the human “I” can only become self
- I-bearer only develops consciousness and self-consciousness
- bodies. There we have today's normal human self consciousness
- self-consciousness at the lowest level? Better even is to
- arrive at knowledge of this being, or even of the self? We can
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- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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- within itself all that brings us as human beings in touch with the
- stirs and dies down again within itself; thoughts only have an
- has to develop his own feelings within himself; but we are able to
- person to place himself in the position of a spiritual investigator,
- thyself livest in time. This is a sensation to which one has
- look towards a single centre and there behold oneself. It is as if
- a wave of this stream of time, one found oneself. One has
- oneself become the world.
- that meets one is the human form itself? But how changed is this
- this human form present itself! One knows: ‘That which thou art
- now looking at, is thyself; yea, it is thee. Thou who formerly didst
- feel thyself within thy skin, within thy blood, art now outside.’
- one had only been aware of oneself, were now filled with innumerable
- stars all in motion, to which one belongs oneself. Then one knows:
- Thou art now experiencing thyself in the astral body outside the
- oneself seen previously, which we described as the outer world —
- thyself, looking back on thy light-body and thy etheric-thought body;
- thou canst so concentrate on thyself that an inner star-world comes
- thou standest as an individuality in the world, that thou thyself
- time when one says to oneself: How different Maya or Illusion is from
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- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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- order to find the way out of oneself, one may try to begin with, to
- enter more deeply into oneself; one may try to connect oneself with
- to them, one may try to connect oneself with these experiences
- described how he diffuses himself over external space and how he
- of space itself; space ceases to have any meaning for him. He leaves
- feels himself in ‘time’; at that time in which he was
- life. To feel spiritual life within himself, to know something about
- Ideal Man himself as religion. We learn that the various Beings of
- before one, it stands there of itself, it is the goal of the Gods and
- be taught, because things are self-evident; our will, our
- depths of the soul itself. Now, while being instructed by the Gods,
- arrived at the point where thou canst not fill thyself any more with
- into physical incarnation he himself must work plastically on his
- it when it goes out of itself into space, when, filling space, this
- that this soul, together with what it knows regarding itself, is born
- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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- planets, but that which lives in the sun itself — but hidden.
- were really to manifest itself in our consciousness. Only the
- implanting in thyself something that is imperfect,’ this thou
- perceptions there was something which expressed itself in
- should I concern myself with what these odd people think out, or have
- himself with something he cannot perceive with his senses. Ideas
- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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- but by Himself. God the Father we find in life and nature. Christ is
- know oneself in the soul, outside the body - IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
- external reality, does not of itself yield up the contents of its
- but it will not permit itself to be diminished by him, it remains as
- whereas he entirely denied spirit, he is now unable to save himself,
- to come again into the physical world through forces which he himself
- previous life. I shall have to allow myself to be thrust by spirit
- into physical reality, I shall not have produced reality by myself.’
- takes up Spiritual Science and devotes himself seriously to it —
- spiritual investigator himself, but only tries earnestly to
- himself. He will be able to do it sometime; though this may perhaps
- realm of life Spiritual Science expresses itself in this way. For
- himself with Spiritual Science, he will become more apt and capable,
- either succumbs to the illness or finds within oneself the way to the
- not impelled, as it were, by the object itself to ask questions, if
- physical plane arrive at being a soul that guides itself. On the
- Himself, who realises Himself in us as we acquire spiritual
- know oneself in the soul outside the body, or the other dying, the
- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 5: Between Death and the 'Cosmic Midnight Hour'
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- physical plane. For the comprehension of man himself and also for any
- can no longer express itself in the mortal residue; but to the man
- himself who has passed through the portal of death, something is
- poured thyself, it rays back to thee thy own life between birth and
- There, longing is a creative force; it transforms itself into
- Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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- destroy itself. That which in one sphere works as nature works, may
- must work creatively on oneself. One realises not only one's
- soul and refresh myself through this past enjoyment.’ When we
- When a person fills himself more
- conscience, that he must not give himself up to certain enjoyment,
- that time I had to protect myself. I have thereby made this person a
- suffered through our self-protection. They might go beyond what was
- to wait until in the spiritual world itself he has developed the
- greater until it destroys itself and when I say the following you
- rebirth, for it is from them that he must work creatively on himself.
- longing to see itself in its past and recognise its value. Spiritual
- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 1: The World Behind the Tapestry of Sense-perceptions. Ecstasy and Mystical Experience.
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- within him something deeper, something at first hidden from himself,
- can reveal itself to us when in the course of certain normal processes
- state of being out of oneself as the saying goes, should
- man must then ask himself: Am I able, with all my capacities, to
- construct such a world for myself out of my ordinary
- to himself: I am incapable of constructing such a world of
- for normal human beings. It is evident from the experience itself that
- the man in question calls his Ego, his strong, inner self, through
- outside himself, poured out into the new world which fills the
- himself from the objects around him. Fundamentally speaking, it is
- only the Ego that can distinguish itself from surrounding objects.
- more and more deeply into himself transforms certain feelings into
- you had not brought it upon yourself. Otherwise this man would not
- suffering, but at some time or other I was myself the cause of it. I
- attitude, focuses more upon itself, seeks within itself what it
- someone says to himself: The man who gave me the blow was led to
- me precisely because I myself was the cause of it. Such people
- life of soul is reality or whether it is he himself who is the cause
- to the Ego, makes himself the culprit for whatever he has to
- himself for the ultimate cause of everything that happens in the
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- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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- that modern science concerns itself only with the part of man which,
- practises a little self-observation at the time when he is about to go
- practises self-observation will notice how a power seems to be
- overcoming him, for in normal life he does not order himself to go to
- now asserting itself in him. This is the first of the influences to be
- The same influence which makes itself felt in certain abnormal
- himself independent of the influences of the outer world. These are
- to myself that because the flowers have given me pleasure I will
- Consciousness-Soul and relating myself again to the outer world. Here
- himself to that world again.
- Let us first of all consider this cosmic clock itself. The idea of the
- planetary system having formed itself is easily refuted. You will all
- itself. This will probably have been demonstrated by an experiment. It
- system into existence through rotation. The experiment in itself
- akin to what goes on in the human being himself. And so we shall come
- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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- the moment of waking is something that interpolates itself between our
- oneself fit for the experience and passing through it consciously.
- realise for himself the imperfection of his soul, to realise that his
- The mystic prepares himself by concentrating on the following
- to himself: Yes, I feel utterly paltry in comparison with what I
- into my bodily nature and to make myself spiritually worthy of
- plant a kingdom lower than itself but without which it cannot exist.
- proving himself victorious over pain and suffering for a long, long
- to itself over and over again: Whatever pain and suffering still
- his own inner self without preparation and being consumed by a feeling
- self, protected from being consumed in the fire of shame. Man cannot
- his own inner self, is called in Spiritual Science, the Lesser
- a mirror he sees an image, a picture, and not himself, so in waking
- consciousness we do not see the Microcosm itself but a reflected image
- with our own inner self. The forces within ourselves enable us to live
- vision not only of itself but also of the planets. We look out into
- self and by night the sight of the spiritual world is denied us in
- itself is invisible. We must therefore say what by day makes the
- feelings he prepares himself to have experiences by night which differ
- of vegetation in spring; then, when he was able to surrender himself
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- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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- person who for ten years has devoted himself to acquiring deeper
- itself akin. The knowledge acquired on descending into the physical
- Lesser Guardian of the Threshold and may say to itself: I am paltry
- to myself, if I had not been outpoured in the spiritual world, and if
- our mobility. It reveals itself as an inner force, streaming into us.
- soul, namely what his inner self is able to be as a result of all that
- this experience well and asks himself: What would you be if the Beings
- himself up with greater and greater intensity to the feelings of
- our human intelligence acquires for itself corresponds to what streams
- himself draws something from his inner light and promotes darkness in
- life itself to the light that streams down from above. The Cosmic
- from human life itself, through efforts to transform thinking, feeling
- itself; it does not work in the same way as other movements where
- Spiritual Science would leave human evolution to take care of itself.
- self-knowledge. What we have become on account of our sins of omission
- before the eyes of our soul and reveals itself clearly in that it
- a new content, in keeping with true and effective self-knowledge; a
- man no longer broods but works actively at his own self. This
- our own self confronts us in its true form. Our own inner being
- Our own inner self is portrayed as it were against this background.
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- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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- he can prepare himself by mystical deepening for conscious entry into
- there is something within him that he might call his better self.
- self, however, is not without danger; moreover it cannot be done at
- today is that man subordinates himself to a certain degree only and
- in ancient times. The path of descent into the inner self was followed
- should entrust himself to an initiated teacher, to a Guru the
- can deal by himself with what is generally understood as the Venus
- training in humility and selflessness will enable him to hold his own
- egoism and self-love and cultivate selflessness. He must make himself
- himself in his conscious descent to the power known as that of Venus.
- But it would be more dangerous if a man were to leave himself unaided
- subject himself. Obedience to the teacher through many years was
- Mysteries he was compelled to entrust himself to the teacher's
- the teacher, to see himself through the teacher's eyes, to think the
- teacher's thoughts and to become a kind of external object to himself.
- of the initiated priest, first of all himself, and then, far out
- transmitted, through heredity, to the pupil himself. It was revealed
- primeval ancestor from whom some quality in himself was derived. It
- preparing for himself in the spiritual world the qualities he is
- he was himself working in the spiritual world at the preparation of
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- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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- not by descending into his inner self at the moment of waking, but by
- himself, outside his ordinary nature; he lets his Ego flow out of him.
- passing into the Macrocosm, for a man would lose hold of himself and
- himself as a human being.
- intense devotion and self-sacrifice with which men worked in the
- little conception of such fervent self-sacrifice. In earlier times
- lighter, as though he were growing out beyond himself. Then this
- Elements the spiritual does not yet reveal itself in its true form as
- The form in which this world reveals itself is such that the
- these beings who have strong Egos, while he himself, having lost his
- self-conquest. Special value was attached to this attribute. In the
- trained in fearlessness and in the power of self-conquest.
- himself at his present stage of evolution. These names denote ten
- the light produces an organ to correspond to itself; and so the eye is
- is not the worst thing that can happen, for the world itself will soon
- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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- clairvoyance, for very exact self-knowledge is necessary before it is
- the Elementary World reveals itself in the form it does, and then this
- self-knowledge impels him to divert his attention from the things with
- Spiritual Science, true self-knowledge. This self-knowledge
- this quality of firm self-confidence? But all the qualities that
- and we need much self-training if we are to learn to confront
- which he may possibly say: I will ask myself at what period of
- this question to himself quite objectively: What is it in life
- the self. Otherwise we remain permanently enclosed within ourselves.
- distinguishes a judgment about oneself from a judgment about another?
- self-training that makes it possible for us to carry into the
- consciously, would be the experience of himself. He himself
- himself. He can compare himself with the macrocosmic world and
- self-assurance, his self-confidence. His best safeguard against such
- loss of self-assurance is for entry into the higher world to have been
- world. He must train himself to realise his imperfections and he must
- must learn to see himself as an imperfect being, to endure the
- of himself but also another figure which says to him: If you now work
- at yourself, if you do your utmost to develop the germinal qualities
- Anyone who has prepared himself in such a way has a very definite
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- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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- supposes that what he calls his Ego is within himself. But in
- spinal cord that lie behind the nerves. In our brain itself and its
- which would otherwise simply pass through him. He must himself create
- create for himself higher organs. He must bring a world that is higher
- than the World of Reason to a halt within himself, and this he does by
- upon himself man consciously builds up that which the external world
- Spirit, his sense-organs out of the Elementary World. He himself
- and vigorous practice of immersing oneself in symbolic mental pictures
- in order to pass from the symbol itself to the activity which created
- this path entrusts himself to another in no other sense than a pupil
- entrusts himself to a tutor in mathematics. If he did not assume that
- the tutor knows more than he knows himself, he certainly would not go
- shall describe how man, if he works upon himself, grows step by step
- 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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- himself inwardly that his life of soul is greatly enriched, these
- arises like the inner pictures he has formed for himself but is there
- himself created. During the period of preparation, and through the
- between illusory and true pictures. A man who prepares himself
- who has trained himself not to regard a thing as true simply because
- training for making oneself a different man. In logical thinking we
- A man usually lets himself be guided by this kind of spontaneous
- so, train himself that error causes him actual pain and that the truth
- or six days been carefully carving something for himself; on the
- what he himself, with a higher grade of consciousness, had prepared.
- the matter in question presents itself to us in a definite picture. If
- our Ego itself in the Imaginative world.
- second time: Now I have found myself again and am something different.
- and so on. But everyone who wants to prepare himself for real
- itself but in the supposition that it can explain the whole universe
- of which he has exceptional knowledge; if he had confined himself to a
- view and surrenders himself to the views held by another. For example:
- I myself have endeavoured to portray Nietzsche as he must be portrayed
- steeps himself in Haeckel in order to expound Haeckel's philosophy
- This power of emerging from oneself in order to describe something
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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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- to transpose himself from the normal into a supernormal state of
- of ordinary memory, what he observes in that world presents itself not
- the distance. The past presents itself to the pupil as something
- Spiritual Science itself guarantees this harmony. And here we come to
- expresses itself outwardly in the experiencing of our blood,
- he himself originated. This explains the great reverence with which in
- itself in the body, that man will also have a quite different external
- states before the intellect itself was there. In the worlds which
- Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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- Besides addressing himself to the reasoning mind, the spiritual
- itself from every soul. He seeks only to give expression to the truths
- which every soul, given sufficient time, could experience in itself.
- to every soul to see whether it cannot find within itself the
- reveals itself to us as a being which, like man, is not subject
- itself, somewhat as happens in the case of man at the approach of
- to the Earth; man has made himself independent of it. Remembering that
- life, in order to nourish within himself the feelings and experiences
- itself; the Earth itself must have generated the effects which today
- are produced by the Sun. The Earth was itself Sun at that time.
- itself. What is visible to the eye of clairvoyance now becomes
- Moon-state, and this in turn by a state when the Earth itself was a
- But this state itself, which we have called the Old Sun-state,
- high ideal can make a man glow with warmth unless he himself is able
- itself provides the explanation.
- the Earth stores within itself for the winter's needs. We remember
- man himself, the Microcosm, developed through the stages of Old
- It reveals itself in a germinal state and will become something quite
- himself an I. This is what sets him above the other beings
- back into your earlier incarnations you would find yourself
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- myself more intimately again with an important aspect of occultism,
- world but which does not yet reveal itself in a marked way. I refer
- oneself, but love it because it is in the world irrespective of
- thought it will lead most certainly to selflessness. Such moods of
- the gate of death, where does he feel himself to be?” One can
- an initiate or of a person after death, is one of feeling oneself
- Although I have concerned myself a great deal with Homer, yet a
- he remained behind and severed himself from the stream of cosmic
- transforms itself in the passage from Mars to Jupiter as orchestral
- Transfer yourself into the spiritual world as if you could behold it.
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- reverse, is such an instance. One has but to concern oneself
- never concerned myself about what might happen afterwards, but since
- and this has led me to occupy myself with spiritual science.”
- himself that all this is nonsense may, in the depths of his soul of
- substrata love can express itself as hate. One does find such cases
- The question presents itself as to whether or not the dead are able
- yourself the feelings of this man. He did not sail, and then he heard
- When a person begins to concern himself with spiritual science he
- Christ as the Sun Spirit. The ego has emancipated itself from the light
- united himself with the earth, every individual who has united himself
- spiritual world. The more a person has opened himself to receive a
- One will accustom oneself to listen to how things are expressed. In
- spiritualized himself. This will give you a basis for a correct
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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- who dwells in the visible world, yet is himself invisible: it beholds
- say to himself — though in dim consciousness: all this the Gods
- from whom I myself sprang by a different way. — And all our inner
- nature into himself — takes it in through nourishment, through
- he finds in nature. That he takes into himself; and by being received
- variety of animal forms, and finally the human physical form itself.
- perceives when he looks into himself: he sees it arising in him as
- taking outer nature into himself through nourishment, breathing, and
- perception, man creates within himself a sphere of action for the
- behold the later time: man comes to earth, he takes into himself outer
- intellect a man can isolate himself from the world, for everyone has
- it is not Michael himself who wages the battle, but human devotion and
- within himself: he can now feel in his Gemüt the Conqueror
- drag me down below myself. But in the spirit I see the luminous
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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- self-consciousness, at the inner strength that permits the ego to rise
- this fact in itself should lead to a revived intensification of them
- man only if his behavior toward ourself and the world is not merely
- himself to Gemütlessness the process
- lily is really expecting something. It says to itself: Men will pass
- creep about, frightening plants and minerals in order to gorge himself
- saturating himself, as it were, with elemental beings in human nature,
- right thing to do in a given situation; but we cannot bring our self
- from experiencing the potency of the spirit within himself.
- conviction: I have received a spiritual impulse, I give myself up to
- only when we can say to our self, My hundred failures can at most
- passive prayer, but only through man's making himself the instrument
- this confidence. If a man will saturate himself more and more with
- permeated himself with the powerful strength of Michael will he be
- expand in their being because their free individuality can pour itself
- but it can be enkindled only by each within himself. What everyone
- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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- conditions: he must learn to feel himself not only as an earth citizen
- equipped with all such sky-wisdom, feels himself a hermit on what he
- presents itself in pictures, and we must ask, How do these arise? They
- occupy himself with dreams as such but with so-called mediumistic
- him, so he set about making himself into a sort of medium. He dreamt
- about all sorts of things that concerned himself, and once they went
- of mind to have been such as to make him label himself a muttonhead.
- that an imagination presents itself to us. It is different from
- ground plan would have presented itself — there is something
- inner exaltation, shutting itself off and concentrating within itself
- oneself back to conditions such as I have described as prevailing
- perceive the course of the seasons within himself by means of his
- manifests itself in the course of the seasons, was known only to those
- way the human being experienced himself as a higher being,
- man feels himself to be active in such a way that into his activity
- of men on earth, thereby knowing ourself to be one with the divine in
- presents itself as a sort of fortress in the cosmos. From the outside,
- simply knew himself to be knowledgeable. Just as today a child gets
- exert himself particularly!
- the act of exposing ourself in the ordinary way to the world in
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- Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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- world as part of ourself, in the same way as we do all that takes
- Yet a saline crystal is a self-contained reality bounded within
- itself, while a rose is not. A rose can have no existence other than
- — cannot come into being of itself. So if we imagine the flower
- oneself with such refutations: what we need is a realistic way of
- psycho-spiritual principle in the self-enclosed human being, so
- into itself. In addition to the familiar burgeoning life of spring and
- into the earth itself and become intimately connected with it. Such is
- with the earth itself becomes related to the cosmic environment in
- with an earth that had drawn all its spirituality into itself. But for
- — the time when the whole earth opens itself to the cosmos. One
- himself to cosmic reaches.
- fancies itself practical. A suggestion such as the one just mentioned
- itself will sharpen and refine their capacity for sentient
- us, instead of occupying ourself only with the little living beings;
- and self-consciousness proper which thrives in the fall and winter.
- self and by becoming one with outer nature. Truly,
- during the spring and summertime, he prepares himself to live in
- But man must not die: he must not let himself be overpowered. He
- his true self-consciousness, will come to life within him; and by sharing
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- Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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- myself – not, however, out of allegiance to any abstract
- other over everything – I shall allow myself on quite other
- and its self-reliance. Here
- has come to himself in his individual
- re-create for his audience. The poet must submerge himself in the
- when he could no longer come to terms with himself without
- believed himself to have uncovered the clue. He believed, too, that
- direct experience pouring itself out into speech.
- having, in these uncultured times, gone amiss. The voice itself is
- himself – and even though to begin with this experience is
- to refer back to himself what he feels vibrant in the world around
- Round in its self incloses:
- perceptions to life in himself do they seem abstract or hollow. I
- symbolism only to the extent that reality itself is a kind of
- to that degree of life who cannot himself enter vitally into
- avail himself of the language to present the spiritual world. We
- himself confronted by the spiritual essences of things, the lyric
- expanding, guides itself
- I may explore and find myself
- direction to myself
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- Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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- The results which he himself gives us may stand as examples
- never understood the task which the spirit of man sets itself
- conditions? The desire for Art is as old as man himself, but
- instant he gained full and clear knowledge of his own self, the
- instant he became aware of a kingdom within his inner self,
- of Nature. He could now no longer surrender himself to her, for
- away from her, that he had created a new world within himself,
- of everything our inner self tells us is divine. The next
- could feel its own self, would cry out in exultation, as having
- real life, of drawing back into oneself, of creating one's own
- disclose itself to us. Without the instinctive capacity for
- have lost must be implanted in them by man himself, and therein
- that Man is placed on Nature's pinnacle, he regards himself as
- imbuing himself with all perfections and virtues, calling on
- highest effect — for as it develops itself spiritually
- out of a unison of forces, it gathers into itself all that is
- life into the human form, uplifts man above himself, completes
- forms in which it asserts itself, in the various branches of
- itself in conformity to purpose, without, however, serving an
- ‘wherefore’ lies in the object itself, and the intellect
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- Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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- and with our Ego. What presents itself to the spiritual
- observes something which would present itself to every human
- This is not the case. What presents itself to the
- forth green shoots, and once more prepares itself for the
- I may express myself in detail I must say: To the imaginative
- pure forces, which presents itself to us in the form of the
- Here a strange thing presents itself: Namely, we can perceive
- another nation, he condemns himself thereby to sleep with the
- individual self becomes extended to the great Self.
- the Christian Spirit, as the Spirit of Christ, united Himself
- Christ Impulse approached humanity was already preparing itself
- Impulse that had united itself with the earth, could not work
- Theo's case, Theo himself was the cause of the accident;
- Title: The Subconscious Forces
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- win as a fruit of spiritual-scientific self-education. Only the
- defend itself against these opposing forces which had remained
- the organism by the illness itself.
- prove and believe anything. The self-training implied by
- united with the Spirit-Self. (This too is mentioned in the
- Spirit-Self in the same way in which the individual human being
- feeling,” as Eckhart expressed himself. Within the soul
- completely united itself with the French nation. Read a page by
- who strives within the Ego itself, you will find that the
- world. On many occasions, when I myself spoke of the Godhead
- asked, himself: Does that which constitutes the true
- of the Slavophils, to whom he himself had belonged in the
- world-conception. Solovioff himself proved that these ideas had
- European development should concentrate itself so as to show
- Christ himself must become active within the HUMAN EGO. For
- soul itself!
- Central Europe calls itself “German.” But when we
- the word at the service of selflessness; The German does not
- only call himself Germanic, but he includes the others in it.
- spiritual world and are offered by life itself, in a far deeper
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- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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- Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
- Any one who speaks today about super-sensible worlds lays himself
- into the fact that it must restrict itself to the sensible world of
- today, affirms with regard to itself not only that it is free from
- upon man himself through his own researches. If we only give a little
- itself, has gained in the capacity of discrimination, in power
- that this thinking must develop as selflessly as possible in the
- abstract — so abstract that it does not trust itself to
- the rejection of all that the human being is in himself by reason of
- his inner nature. For what he himself thus is must be set forth in
- certain sense, the human being has eliminated himself in connection
- man's own self if he wishes to gain enlightenment regarding the
- science, yet, if we recall — as science itself has to present
- sort of higher sense might unfold within feeling itself if this were
- a certain sense by reason of yourself, by reason of your will, is not
- who simply feels in a natural way about himself, who looks into
- himself in observation free from preconception, can scarcely do
- otherwise than also to ascribe to himself, on the basis of immediate
- self-observation — the conflict is something utterly
- itself into such conflicts, it becomes for us human beings of the
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- Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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- Self Transformation and Esoteric Development.
- constitute the environment of man himself to the extent that he
- lifts himself up into a condition of spirituality, just as plants and
- earthly existence. And the fact that he achieves for himself
- something of this kind as regards his own self in its relationship to
- one who has himself led a life devoted to the acquisition of
- knowledge. And, in order that I may make myself perfectly clear
- sinks down into our corporeal being, inserts itself in a way into the
- surrenders itself to a reverent and religious veneration for
- But, just as a person feels himself in ordinary life to be in
- the human soul itself. We permeate the soul with this
- ensouling of the human being. It is soul itself, soul content, which
- say to these things who is himself not as yet a participant in this
- actually discovers itself to be in that state of waking of which
- myself to be rendered unreceptive through the authoritarian and other
- himself more intensely within a reality than he places himself in the
- manifests itself to him. He observes that the power by means of which
- itself, not that one must read these notes again. Obviously, this
- whole being within himself but also manifesting his whole being
- the material itself. What I shall introduce here now will be stated
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- Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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- This problem, which forces itself upon us, demands that we eliminate all
- It is often said, almost nonchalantly, that man has only to know himself,
- self-knowledge, however, cannot be solved with a quick answer, as many
- science, but that it also offers in an eminent sense a path toward self-
- to support himself. As a result, life hits him with pain and privation. It is
- by the necessity of events, he had to educate himself at an early age, he has
- now he must think differently about it. He must say to himself that the
- by them with a magic power. I realize that I have imposed upon myself certain
- himself many times with regard to his sufferings in the way just described.
- face destiny without bias and as though he had himself wanted his sufferings,
- will find himself confronted by a strange reaction when he looks at his joy
- does not believe this only has to expose himself to the experience.
- will understand joy and happiness in the intimate hours of self-knowledge
- who admits that his pain is inflicted upon himself by his own individuality
- extended to practice self-torture, or to pinch ourselves with red hot pliers,
- promote the ideal of false asceticism and self-torture. In this event, man,
- gods. Self-torture practiced by ascetics, monks and nuns is nothing but a
- himself to bear pain with purpose and energy.
- to meet this or that person? What is he basing himself on? In answer, we
- someone believes that he can, by himself, know more about his higher self
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- Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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- that Theosophy bestows upon us forces whereby life itself is
- must be put aside; there must be scrupulous self-examination as to
- after all, a man need only know himself, need only try to be a good
- As to the question concerning Self-Knowledge that can certainly
- essence it brings self-knowledge and the aspiration to become good and
- about learning something, to exert himself. Life brings him many
- youth, he has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He
- has found his feet in life and can say to himself: My attitude
- upon myself certain pain without which I should not have overcome this
- make it a rule to devote himself to these other thoughts only when the
- towards his destiny the attitude that he himself has willed his
- joy. However strongly a man may bring himself to feel that he has
- will have a thorough sense of shame. And he can only rid himself of
- this feeling of shame by saying to himself: No, I have not
- in quiet hours of self-contemplation ascribes happiness and joy to his
- will resolve to be master of himself, too, in experiences of happiness
- produce a kind of intoxication in life and obliterates the Self.
- false asceticism and forms of self-torture) such a man would be
- self-torture practised by the ascetics and monks in olden days was a
- beginning was good and what he must amend by educating himself to
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- Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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- forces whereby life itself is strengthened and enriched, the more
- self-examination to find whether or not such questions are tainted by
- lightheartedly that, after all, a man need only know himself, need
- As to the question concerning self-knowledge, that can certainly not
- science, although in essence it brings self-knowledge and the
- learning something, to exert himself. Life brings him many sufferings
- has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He has found
- his feet in life and can say to himself: My attitude to the
- upon myself certain pain without which I should not have overcome this
- should make it a rule to devote himself to these other thoughts only
- who adopts towards his destiny the attitude that he himself has willed
- happiness and joy. However strongly a man may bring himself to feel
- shame; he will feel thoroughly ashamed. And he can only rid himself of
- this feeling of shame by saying to himself: No, I have certainly not
- self-contemplation ascribes happiness and joy to his own karma, will
- be master of himself, too, in the experiences of happiness and joy.
- false asceticism and a form of self-torture) such a man would
- the self-torture practised by the ascetics, monks and nuns in olden
- towards its betterment by educating himself to bear pain with purpose
- Karma does not reveal itself only in the form of experiences of
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- Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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- incarnations. The soul seems to feel: I myself was there and prepared
- these things myself.
- memory arising in his life of feeling: in former time, you yourself
- is in itself a mystery. Buddhism, Brahmanism, Vedanta philosophy,
- himself incarnated again and again.
- deaths and births he has concerned himself, as it were, with choosing
- would have been in danger of injury, he himself must inevitably have
- Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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- discontented with her lot, exposed herself to a chill, and died of it!
- transforms himself within us. And then, when he has gone through this
- earlier incarnations. The soul seems to feel: I myself was there and
- prepared these things myself.
- in former times you prepared this for yourself!
- is in itself a mystery. Buddhism, Brahmanism, Vedanta philosophy,
- himself incarnated again and again.
- deaths and births he has concerned himself as it were with choosing
- getting hurt, he himself would inevitably have been killed. The most
- Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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- egos. We can characterise that which presents itself now to the
- itself to every human soul if it could look down not in the
- and blossoms. If I may express myself in detail, I have to say
- shows itself that way, indeed: while looking physically we feel
- hierarchies. As the thought would have to feel itself during
- of a nation's area from his inner being, he condemns himself to
- in our skin, and we extend our selves to the big self.
- when it approached, humankind already prepared itself to dive
- is the time to immerse oneself consciously in the effectiveness
- being, while he wants to immerse himself in the spiritual
- himself. You have to imagine this as the real secret of the
- Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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- itself to us in particular to gain such additional points of
- important task for the individual human being to help himself
- spiritual-scientific self-education. Only because the
- organism to save itself from the forces opposing each other
- as something that the organism defends itself against things
- such a truth which must prove itself as immediately clear to
- to that self-education which anthroposophy must give us to see
- its proofs. Who limits himself to materialistic ideas is really
- folk-soul combines with the spirit-self — I already
- the individual human being — to the spirit-self that it
- be united with its divinity in itself. This divinity wanted to
- in his struggle in the ego itself, then you have
- himself with that which the Pan-Slavists and Slavophils
- did Solovyov, the Russian, find? He asked himself: is there already
- Solovyov himself proved that Slavophilism does not grow on own
- Christ Himself must come to life in the human ego efficiently.
- depths expresses itself much truer. We speak, for example, of
- not have the word German for himself. The German language
- into the service of selflessness; he not only is called
- deep expresses itself therein.
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- about super-sensible worlds lays himself open at once to the quite
- that it must restrict itself to the physical world of earthly
- which has been reflected upon man himself through his own
- the telescopic — has gained immeasurably in itself: has gained
- thinking must develop as selflessly as possible in the observation of
- 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
- he himself is must be set forth in activity; this can really never
- eliminated himself in connection with his research; he prohibits his
- especially cultivated in relationship to man's own self if he wishes
- itself must describe it to us — that the human senses have not
- higher sense unfold within feeling itself, if feeling were
- yourself, by reason of your will, is not causally determined in the
- natural way about himself, who looks into himself in observation free
- himself, on the basis of immediate experience, freedom of will. But
- his self-observation — the conflict is something utterly
- into such conflicts by the order of nature itself, it becomes for
- illness, reflects itself in the fantastic pictures of dreams, and how
- himself in his sense life that complete clarity which we possess
- connection with thinking itself.
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