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Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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what devastates and rends the human soul to-day. Even though we
nevertheless exists in the spiritual regions of the human soul
soul. (You will find all these things mentioned in my

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 1: Natural Science
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kind of private current within the life of the soul.
This is something that burdens the soul of anyone who has
in the human soul. Doubts arise first in the intellect, it is
outside world make extraordinary demands on man's soul if, as
something negative for the life of the soul, yet —
human soul is confronted by present-day scientific opinions. In
Yet, although many souls already unconsciously long for it, the
individuals through the cultivation of their own souls
therefore, the true nature of the human soul manifested
experience of their spirituality, and knew their souls to
as satisfying certain needs of the soul. Only people are not
soul, something comparable to building up a muscle. If we
Riddles of the Soul
actual content of the life of our soul, we have in many ways
exercises of the soul, described in the books I have named.
thus permeating the entire life of our soul painfully and in
intimately experience pain and sorrow in the soul. Anyone
soul's suffering has been conquered, the spiritual world
authenticated by the soul-organ or spirit-organ which as a
the soul. Both the modern ways, therefore, place man entirely
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 2: Psychology
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the riddles of existence touch the human soul, they become not only
Now, man's attitude to his own soul is such that the most
question of the fate of his soul becomes for him a
fate of this soul of his, will find himself confronted by a
the riddles of the soul to our “mind's eye,” I will
the soul, making us courageous and vigorous in life or making
unconscious awareness of it affects his soul, man is overcome
soul): this spiritual element in its relationship with
is here that the other enigma of the soul comes in. However
that through it can be learnt nothing about the soul, whose
soul reappears.
renounce all claim to understand the fate of the human soul
soul to his contemporaries in the way I have just outlined, as
but that we cannot deal with the soul by means of ordinary
concludes: it is impossible, with the soul-powers that manifest
life and ordinary science, to investigate the life of the soul.
in the soul.
continue? The soul-powers which are the most important to me
shouldn't there be dormant in my soul other powers that I can
impulse in the life of the soul to be different from this
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 3: East and West in History
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which in all kinds of indirect ways also affect our own soul
consciousness, being dormant deep down in the soul
knowledge, in gaining a place within the soul, took on a
have permanence in the soul; and we are simply unhealthy in
for his soul.
in the vital life of the soul. We are thus never condemned to
actually derives from what language makes of our soul's
the physical world we cannot conceive our soul as spatially
different temper of soul if we are to penetrate into the real
experiences of the Greek soul. By the same token, all the
religious life separate in his soul. He even endeavours to form
himself through his soul and in this way felt his outward
see that religion plays no part in the soul-powers evolved in
life, the soul must first take on that temper of piety, that

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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its various configurations to affect our soul, we cannot stop
concepts, our soul inevitably sees before it a nature similar
in its life, diversity and imaginative working to the soul's
the human soul.
to its nature, and conjures up before our soul the symbols that
natural science, we shall have to retune our soul before we can
retune our soul before we can recapture a love of the immediate
shall have to retune our soul to share in what the eye can see
experienced in his soul.
against the old-established ones of the East. And in every soul
his soul as the reality self-evident to him. External nature,
experiences directly in his soul. He is closely linked with
this, he arrives at a temper of soul that says: truth and
reality reside in what the soul experiences directly. What is
first reveal itself through the human soul.
temper to the life of the soul in the East: the soul feels a
I have shown, by awakening powers dormant in the soul we can
things from the depths of his soul. If he looked more closely
and could really test the structures he summons from his soul,
of his soul, when he has only called up from his memory a
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 5: Cosmic Memory
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of the higher modes of existence — the realms of soul and
examination by a true student of the soul, to rest on some
depths of his soul something that must demonstrate the eternal
foundations of the soul itself. Even such outstanding mystics
human soul.
essential for the well-ordered existence of our soul: a
mean the endeavour to draw from the soul dormant powers of
soul and spirit as the human eye is transparent. We need only
spiritual plane. Our entire being, soul and spirit, must become
carry away with us psychic memory-images. Indeed, our soul is
mystic has drawn up from his soul in this way is not the
shades. From the image-content our soul has absorbed from the
our soul in a way that satisfies us. If we also learn to know
life between birth and the present is recorded in the soul.
of transposing what is in our soul anthropomorphically into the
as an illusion, and yet we cling to it in our soul, as if
soul-spiritual element that we carry within us today in this
Condensed in this way, the life of the soul can link itself
sphere. And at this deepest level of the soul, interwoven
soul. And in their unconscious minds, serious people today feel
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 6: Individual and Society
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of spirit and soul that surrounds us directly in our
human soul a capacity, a soul-power, which we can regard as
soul, the forces that have been formative in social
when mankind was more naive about the life of the soul and had
development of the soul such as I have described. Immediately,
concepts that the nai've, instinctive life of the soul once had
and the conscious life of the soul can again acquire today.
will agree how fortunate it was for his inner harmony of soul
what he or she says and absorb the opinion into my soul.
our soul which is a reminiscence from our eighth year, let us
into the depths of the soul. Decades later it reappears. We
indicated quite naively in his soul, his understanding and
intellectualized life of the soul by vital thought and
thought and vision — for they too vitalize the whole soul
soul; and when this is possible, social perspectives too can be
the soul can only really apprehend this impulse of
personality, finding them only among his soul's innermost
everything that starts from the soul yet leads at last to
life of the soul.

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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of insight into the souls of others. In Western civilization to
dogmatic and formula-ridden Marxism that occupied the souls of
spirit, the soul that is to give them. Impulses initially felt
ask: In what sense do human souls cling to such structures?
They cling to them because, in these souls' subconscious
into the life of the soul in Greece. Here, man still felt a
soul, even in its organic functions, and felt the soul to
antennae towards the physical organs. The attitude to the soul
the human soul that in the most intimate way points continually
aware that in our time the souls of men can provide a

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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present temper of soul — together with all the
soul-powers we can acquire at present — is affected by
in the depths of the soul. The European's awareness of
soul, but the fact that the individual was participating in a
soul.
human life as a whole, into all that the human soul can
the sense of self. From an awareness that the soul was not then
there did exist in men's souls this problem of articulating the
the soul must be linked with that of the body. Anyone wishing
soul, we can gradually bring about an improvement in physical
the body's association with the soul and the spirit in health
treatment that was then applied to the soul, forces were
experience of art. Here, the aim is that the soul should be
gain a strength of soul such that, when we contemplate the
a perception of the whole man in body, soul and spirit. If by
become available, simply through the temper of soul that
body, soul and spirit really means. This is what a social order
the life of the soul.
however, will only happen if we develop the life of the soul on
For if we do develop the life of the soul, our interest in all
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Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 9: Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America)
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who have something to say that appeals to men's souls.
that this really appeals to their souls or touches their
but something a man can absorb as nourishment for his soul
powers of the soul which derived from the East; we
of soul. And anyone who does so will see that this man —
something which rises up into the soul from deep below,
want to preserve their souls from desiccation, if you want to
soul which lies within us — which is not even our
their souls can feed on, just as their bodies feed on what they
grips their whole personality, their heart and soul —
materialized ghosts before people's souls, but reveals to them

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 10: From Monolithic to Threefold Unity
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unconscious tendencies. They exist already in men's souls, and
which now exists in the depths of men's souls — the
affected the unconscious depths of men's souls in recent
the depths of men's souls. You see how they have undergone a
depths of the human soul are what is most favourable for social
their souls, anything about law, and that therefore law must be

Title: Regarding Higher Worlds
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the soul, but rather a certain development of our world of
complete intimate transformation as experienced within the soul
the astral or soul-world, surrounding us with their beings and
truth. We can describe this astral or soul-world as penetrating
expression of the inner soul experiences and soul activity of
Just think about yourself, how you may observe your soul in the
the joyful message filled your soul with delight and pleasure
and how this feeling lived in the soul. Then think how your
soul will express itself in the direct contrary situation, how
took place in the soul, then you have an image of what happens
other than expressions for souls, we may call them, which live
soul.
soul body. Then you can see how a human being, who lives with
body completely matches its form and image to the soul life,
matches that which the soul experiences. From here certain
With regard to some things which the soul may experience, I
matching in form its inner soul experiences.
group souls of animals. The human being, as he approaches us
here, has an individual soul which comes to meet us — a soul
soul. Just imagine that on the astral plane there is a single
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Title: What is Self-knowledge?
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the slumbering soul's capabilities and powers can be awakened
inner soul forces. The “Know Thyself” ancient human
Everything undertaken with reference to soul development as an
you back at this point is basically a loss for the soul.
your inner soul everything which is caused from the
throw out all these images from your soul life. Try to ponder
these images, which from morning to night permeate the soul,
oddly enough directed away from the brooding soul to say: we
experiences of the soul, through incarnations. Our experiences
of soul under the influence of the anthroposophic world view.
soul and not allow a comfortable reasoning: it doesn't depend
Now the following happens, your soul life is flooded by a
When you present to your soul exactly what is described in the
strange to the soul, how it finally leads to the present
researchers who not only transformed their souls into

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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life as inner soul content. The astral body - and innumerable
to give a sure support to the life of the soul, affording as they do,
a thorough understanding of this soul-life. To this end it will be
man can really possess as a soul-being, is expressed, when we mention
spheres of the soul-nature of man, there appears a significant
spheres of human soul-life another distinction may be seen, even
us? What might we not bring forth from the depths of our soul! And if
what lies deep down in the soul, through our feeling and our will.
Thus the four spheres of our soul-life are divided, as it were, into
a person so strengthens his soul that he knows and perceives —
soul-being which he is during the night; when he is unconscious
soul-being as his own human nature outside the body, then a new world
when he withdrew his soul and spirit from his physical, bodily part.
these four soul-spheres of Perception, Thought, Feeling and Will —
human soul causing it happiness and sorrow.
consciousness has reached the point where the spiritual and soul-part
thinking, for it is the exercise of an inner creative soul-force —
soul-nature which corresponds. to feeling is awakened outside the
body, the soul-nature begins to develop a knowledge through which all
permeate our whole soul so that we thereby really learn to know
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 2: The Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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the soul. Religion. Is there a religion in spirit-land, or something
existence has been lent us by the gods. They rule the inner soul
was to impart a few esoteric experiences which the human soul
last lectures we tried to describe what the human soul first sees
us the soul leaving the body, so that it simply goes out of the body
spiritual experiences through that in the soul which is most similar
souls we are not only able to perceive, to think, to feel and to
of memory in the human soul cannot be considered as directly
soul, as something which the soul develops, something which is purely
of the soul and spirit.
the soul which we bear within us as the treasure of memory. When we
from our own soul. Then we learn to distinguish between what might be
that which concerns the deeper matters of the soul can only really be
there always has been a higher life of the soul. Religions which
accomplish in the world? The human soul tends towards a spiritual
human soul beyond birth and conception into a previous spiritual
in the noblest spiritual and soul life that it is possible through
because his soul may disregard the spirit as compared to the body;
The Soul's Awakening,
then send a glowing warmth through the inner powers of our soul. It
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 3: The Senses and the Luciferic Temptation
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that is in the depths of our soul and that is only half born.
you four things connected with the human soul. That which remains
death and re-birth. It lives within us as the kernel of our soul,
Thus we do not only speak of a soul-seed in a general way, but we can
even comprehend this soul-seed in its fourfold nature. When we have a
will, that is, to what is really our soul-life — is that which
soul — like a seed — that could carry on the life of the
soul even when he had laid aside the physical body. The time has now
something in our inmost soul which is a hidden language of the soul,
ideas which, when accepted, endow the soul with an uplifting power
soul's existence is something that humanity will have need of
who as Initiates were able to see the human soul and who saw it in

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 4: Wisdom in the Spiritual World
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know oneself in the soul, outside the body - IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
comes a certain time when our soul in the spiritual world is entirely
into the emotional aspect of our soul and irritate it. We know that
his soul, even while in the physical world, simply through the ideas
upon his soul in the manner we have indicated, he will find that the
soul really becomes different. No one can take up Spiritual Science
without it influencing the instinctive life of the soul. It makes the
soul different, it gives it different sympathies and antipathies, it
illness in the spiritual world works back into the soul, and, in so
physical plane arrive at being a soul that guides itself. On the
consciously to help spiritual beings, that is, souls who were not on
from whence comes this soul-force in the present age?
human soul. It is connected with something which is expressed in the
investigation, which likewise only develops in the human soul as a
souls if they do not feel in themselves the power to say: That is
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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between death and new birth, our soul-light now begins to grow dim.
We become solitary; but the contents of our soul become richer. The
description of the world's midnight in the 'Soul's Awakening.'
the creative soul force enabling us to illuminate our environment. We
inner process, a soul-process. To those who are left behind, what
the inner being of the person who has died, his human soul nature,
experience of the soul; he feels: Thou hast come forth out of thy
description of what here takes place within the soul; for it is an
connected with what then takes place in the soul were to be described
soul, we should have to say that up to his death a person has lived
portal of death, the first idea he has to form in his soul is: ‘Thou
this idea, which passes through the human soul at this point is Maya;
soul between birth and death now come before our soul, but in such a
more before our souls in this memory-tableau. We can maintain this
our soul: — This fruit exists somewhere, but we have been left
which it is necessary for us to develop soul-forces which had really
it — soul-forces which during physical life have to be changed
memory-tableau we notice this awakening of soul-capacities. This
in the soul during the fading of the remembrance of the tableau of
soul-force which comes forth from the human soul after death, just as
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Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 6: Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond
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light, for it remains a force in their souls for the next
soul-light. Up to this point we must have kept connection with our
it enkindles a new soul-light in us, so that it becomes possible for
our soul we feel somewhat as follows when we survey it: ‘This
must become a force within thee, a force in thy soul, and thou canst
power in thy soul, whereby thou canst accomplish something in the
soul and refresh myself through this past enjoyment.’ When we
his soul and in respect to the pleasures he has upon the physical
soul-spiritual nature is entirely submerged, that the enjoyment or
is so extremely disturbing, so oppressive, filling our soul with such
work on and permeate our soul with such force on the spiritual plane
that this force becomes will-power. Our soul thereby becomes
indebted to them, or such like. When we confront the souls of these
From this a tendency arises in our soul to take once more on
them directly if in their souls there is no spiritual thought; he has
upon the earth, because there is no spiritual life in their souls;
necessary forces with which to see clearly that the souls he has left
materialistically inclined souls are possessed by Ahriman; then he
may begin to have vision of these souls, until they have passed the
those souls who are materialistically inclined!’ How infinitely
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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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senses, and in a certain respect also the world of soul, that we have
methods which a man may apply to his life of soul and which enable him
conditions underlying the world of the senses and the world of soul.
and so forth-in brief, everything that we call our life of soul. We
also have the feeling that behind this inner life of soul something is
hidden, something that is concealed by our soul-experiences just as
he reviews his whole life of soul, could deny that there must be
soul-experiences, stream forth — and that these, no less than the
of ordinary soul-life, if we deepen this soul-life inwardly. This is
experiences ebbing and flowing in their souls, penetrate even more
deeply into their soul-life and have quite definite experiences,
experiences, acquire a certain feeling about their soul-life as a
Through this inner deepening of experience the soul changes its former
life of soul is reality or whether it is he himself who is the cause
life of soul do not let him through below the Ego, below those
between two barriers in the outer world and in the inner world of soul
vague darkness of sleep the soul-experiences and the Ego re-emerge. We
waking, be able to be aware of past experiences in the life of soul
soul-experiences. But neither has the ‘inner man’ during
soul-experiences. But when on waking we penetrate once again into the
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 2: Sleeping and Waking Life in Relation to the Planets
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needs during waking life in order to sustain his life of soul. These
influence on his body-free soul is exerted by several forces, or by a
remain lying in bed, but they affect man as a being of soul when his
into movement with the help of his soul, begins to flag. Anyone who
activity of the soul, man experiences the emergence from his bodily
soul, thrusts this dream-world into our sleep.
Science as distinct from each other. In man's soul-life there are
third influence. The human soul has a threefold nature, and it can be
subject to influences of three distinct kinds. The part of the soul
that is subject to the first influence which drives the soul out of
Soul; the part affected by the second influence which drives the
pictures of dream into man's life of soul during sleep is known as the
Intellectual or Mind-Soul; the third part, which in the case of most
Spiritual Soul. Thus three influences are to be distinguished during
the state of sleep; the three members of the soul which are subject to
these three influences, are: Sentient Soul, Intellectual or Mind-Soul,
Consciousness-or Spiritual Soul. When man is transported by one force
is being exerted on his Sentient Soul; when his sleep is pervaded by
Mind-Soul; when he begins to speak or to act in his sleep, an
influence is being exerted upon his Consciousness-Soul.
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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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Sentient Soul and our etheric and physical bodies. The veil that
his physical and etheric bodies. In his soul he would experience a
which is that in his soul he wants to divert the attention of others
inner being. This feeling would take possession of the soul with such
compared with what he is as a being of soul. It is also possible to
then to compare with this what man is as a being of soul in respect of
everywhere in life. All this would come vividly before a man's soul if
And the soul's imperfection compared with the perfect structure of the
were able to compare what is in his soul with what the wise guidance
It is the comparison of the soul with what it would perceive if it had
realise for himself the imperfection of his soul, to realise that his
soul is weak, insignificant, and has still an infinitely long path to
a scorching fire in the soul if the mystic has not the strength to say
When a man cultivates such feelings in his soul, the realisation comes
downwards with thankfulness to the kingdoms below him. The soul is
experiences such feelings over and over again can imbue his soul with
time can he develop the strong powers needed by his soul to overcome
has incorporated in the etheric and physical bodies. The soul must say
what brings joy, I should never develop the strength of which my soul
of soul can be steeled only when a man is ready to bear pain and
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 4: Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
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Faculties of the Human Soul and Their Development
FACULTIES OF THE HUMAN SOUL AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
Every night on going to sleep our souls take with them something from
actually present in the depths of the soul but can operate only when
From this we may conclude that in our souls there is something that is
transformed into faculties and the soul becomes more and more mature.
which proceeded in his soul has also helped to shape his bodily
However, by developing his soul to the stage enabling him to
‘soul’ is quite different from current ideas of it. He
learns to realise that the human soul is indeed little, but that it
capacities which the soul may possess are very slight compared with
which there is a Being akin to our own soul, only infinitely mightier.
Thus on waking the human soul feels insignificant after passing the
be in a state of dire bewilderment. The soul realises its need of the
of the fundamental forces of the soul, the force which guides us in
brings it about that the soul is attracted by one thing, repelled by
These three basic forces of the soul are the really valuable assets
of the soul. But when we wake in the morning in the condition that has
what our soul has absorbed during the night, for what we ourselves are
three forces are transformed in our soul and assume different aspects.
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 5: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis
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When we descend in the morning into our bodily nature, our soul is
soul. We have spoken of the path taken in the Northern Mysteries in

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 6: Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries
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strength; unlike people today their soul-forces had not been enfeebled
candidate's own soul, the Ego-force, had to be brought to him from
place all their forces of soul in the service of the Northern
the soul of the candidate for Initiation.
soul as it is called, of the warmth that is felt, for example,
when we are together with someone we love. What then suffuses the soul
physical fire is a kind of symbol of the fire of soul which, when it
soul, we reach an approximate idea of what is called ‘elemental
among the impulses and cravings in his soul and they make their way
world everything that is in his soul. If he has some bad quality, he
were laid along his path. But by overcoming these dangers his soul was

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 7: The Four Spheres of the Higher Worlds
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qualities which belong partly to our soul and partly to our outer
of soul, inner fire of soul, although it is not quite the same. When
soul-qualities which we have made our own, but to gain clear insight
soul. They may influence our soul-life so unfavourably that it is
life does not represent the full extent of the soul's life. Anyone
nevertheless affecting his life of soul. There are ‘islands’
in the life of soul, unlike those we come across in the sea, where we
have solid ground beneath us. But when in his life of soul a man comes
enabling him to understand these islands in the soul and to cope with
them. If a human soul were led unprepared to these islands it would be
Not only these unconscious islands in the soul, but many things of the
lacks. This is a feeling which must come to the human soul when the
his training it will then become evident that the strength of soul he
quietly as an objective being. The outcome of the resolve in his soul
that falls over the soul on going to sleep, is lifted. The veil
the Elementary World to which qualities of soul other than the

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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actual development. The soul can glow with warmth at the picture of
point is that we shall acquire a faculty of soul that is not
accustom our soul to activities which it does not otherwise exercise.
means of which we can mould the substance of our soul. By working thus
forces which bud from man's soul.
in that they do not mirror anything external but work in the soul and
case of those given by a tutor in mathematics, only now our whole soul
symbol is the one most appropriate and fitting for the soul of modern

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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of soul, man rises to Imaginative Knowledge, Knowledge through
nothing except the methods he deliberately applies to his soul, the
what he deliberately does to his soul. Although in a far distant
himself inwardly that his life of soul is greatly enriched, these
life, he will notice that something stands before his soul which
establish in the soul a certain sense of responsibility towards truth
science is, after all, essentially the work of the same soul-forces
Thus there are these two stages in the development of the human soul.
into the nature of the soul knows that a very definite quality of this
the outer facts are concerned, but as far as the soul is concerned he
with the heart's blood, for they are direct experiences of the soul.
experiences is not a vision but the expression of a soul-and-spiritual
fleeting blue or violet was the expression of a soul-spiritual

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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Transformation of Soul-forces and Stages in the Evolution of
TRANSFORMATION OF SOUL-FORCES AND STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICAL
of thinking affected by such a transformation but other soul-forces
the heart, do the other faculties of the soul change too? Let us
Memory, like thinking, is a faculty of the soul. The character of
his soul can experience in the present to something it experienced in
different form of soul-activity. But for the experiences of everyday
evidence of the faculties of soul that have been described. When he
soul-faculty of memory, Time changes into Space as soon as we
of soul just referred to — the faculty of memory. The goal before anyone
come before his soul in which experiences of the past are revealed,
Thus we see arising a new faculty of soul that is not like remembrance
intervenes as a state of the soul between the other two states. So we
have to distinguish three states of soul-faculties: first, that of the
heart there must have been among man's other faculties of soul
Space. This gives us a clue to an earlier stage of the human soul when
his present state. In connection with the life of soul we have
fruits of the present have to be taken into the soul in order to rise
approach what stands as an ideal before his soul at the present time,
between the soul-faculty belonging to normal consciousness, for
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Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 11: Man and Planetary Evolution
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different assumption, namely, that in every human soul there are
the transformation of man's soul in times to come; new, as yet
human soul as a fruit of the present stage of evolution, but intellect
as such can reach no higher level. As well as the soul-faculties that
future are already now present as seeds in the soul and will come to
and he assumes that the human soul is organised, not for error and
falsehood, but for truth; that long before the soul, out of its own
That there are souls today possessed of this sense for spiritual
directly to the human soul than do other investigators at the present
to far more intimate provinces of the human soul. He is not yet in a
the free judgment of souls whether they will agree with him or not. He
what lives in his soul lives in every human soul and that his task is
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
necessary for his life of soul. He needs the impressions from the
plant-world on the physical plane if his life of soul is to be fresh
deficiency in the human soul soon becomes apparent if it is shut off
soul suffers harm from the loss of the spontaneous joy and delight
a quality of soul. What we call warmth today is something that
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Title: Life Between ... IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
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soul during and after death. He describes the states of consciousness
Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
is essential that there be absolute calmness of soul.
participation in a mood of soul calmness for what is to happen, and
soul, which in the spiritual world is creative, does not quite have
patience and inner calmness of soul until the right moment dawns,
excitement but only calmness of soul.
soul-awakening. In earlier times it was produced by external stimuli
outward and the human soul is deepened more and more inwardly. In
thoughts, allow them to work within the soul, and wait. The more
quietly such thoughts are carried in the soul, the more strongly such
soul. Firstly, love for the spiritual world, which leads to an active
calmness of soul, a silence free from vanity or ambition anxious to
soul are essential to enter into the spiritual world, not only as an
we are incapable of changing our soul-disposition so as to love him
disposition of soul we have acquired, the more social we become in
permeated by a Jehovah-Christian mood of soul. The outer spiritual
when we are able to ascend into the heavenly spheres with our soul.
soul-spiritual being. Beings approach us from outside and they
man, and love will permeate the soul in a truly human way. Man will
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Title: Life Between ... VIII: Between Death and a New Birth
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soul during and after death. He describes the states of consciousness
Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need
own soul disposition, was driven to spiritual science, whereas
himself that all this is nonsense may, in the depths of his soul of
the secret soul impulses and longings that he has suppressed during
But let us consider the effect on the soul of a person who has been
Now if we have acquired a sensitivity of soul and are spiritually
Yet plants do not have a soul element. The sleeping human organism is
soul-spiritual nature separated from the cosmos and become the “I”
between soul and body. Some people feel active and stimulated shortly
in the soul sphere. People who tend to live more in the bodily nature
earlier epochs men were clairvoyant and the soul was highly
developed. Through the soul-spiritual decline the bodily nature rose
cultivate spirit and soul through spiritual science have a greater
Greek games. The more a person leaves his soul-spiritual nature in
do with life after death, but if nothing of a soul-spiritual nature
but the human soul will grow into the spiritual world. At the end of

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
the human soul, intended to illuminate man's efforts of realizing his
brought before men's souls in a new manner, with which we shall also
perceive it as it does an ordinary animal. When the soul's eye is
being. But when the soul's eye is directed to what physical nature
In considering that this radical contrast still occupied the souls of
hand, the radiant figure of Michael may stand before the soul's eye
significance only when we are able to experience in our soul such a
power immediately. Life will not have a soul content again until we

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
18th Century souls this conception was still fully alive.
something of this soul-transmuting force must proceed from the
anthroposophy might be imbued with this power to transmute souls: and
inner being through anthroposophy. In our soul life we distinguish, as
the soul life, as it were.
other touches the human soul very closely. But what lies between
his being will inevitably suffer in some way. And if such a man's soul
can endure this — if perhaps through soullessness he forces
lives, as soul and spirit, in the flowers, for it is imploring you to
releasing the plant elementals from their spell through his soul and
Gemüt the forces of soul and spirit shone forth and when
soul results from the Dragon's having absorbed the elemental powers
within him. Oh, how widespread is this cowardice of the soul! We know
to do it — a certain dead weight acts in our soul: the elemental
perceive man rightly in his spirit, soul, and body as he is
suits him to know that with regard to the soul as well, man is not
similar spark in the soul is what so often causes great anguish —
Anthroposophy can be presented, and it is the good wood of the soul;
very soul of the Gemüt; and he who finds this

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
such methods to do with the intimate inner soul life of man? This man,
be as abstract as all that in the inner being of our soul: everything
thoughts. Thoughts in the soul are extraordinarily patient, according
writing or drawing, yet similar. We write or draw with our soul; but
soul.
bones, blood, and so on, omitting all reference to the soul and spirit
met their soul's eye how, at every time of day and at every season of
soul, did believe in it. I have repeatedly told the story in our
offer the human soul anything that can seem like a cosmic experience.

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man
inspiration, and we will direct our soul's gaze first to the winter.
his soul can be awakened through cosmic agencies, for this festival
Calendar of the Soul,
different orientation of the soul, if the message of anthroposophy is
expressions of a living, soul-endowed being. Indeed, the proper study
soul of a friend. Just as in the words of a friend and in the whole
attitude of his soul we can perceive the warm heartbeat of a
soul-endowed being whose manner of speaking to us is quite different
speak to us as though out of her soul. In the cycle of the seasons we
shall learn to feel soul, soul in the process of becoming; we will
and we shall find our place in the whole soul-endowed cosmos.
indeed be brought about in the soul, in the Gemüt, through
intensely permeated the soul of the Mithras priest, as I have
creative forces of his own inner being. Then the spirit-soul principle,
speaks to us in nature in the same way as the human soul in man speaks
beings who feel in their souls in fullest measure everything that can
redemption; and perhaps he will feel in his soul that he must unite in
resurrection of the soul — in fact, the necessity for achieving
this resurrection — in order that the soul may then pass through
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture V: Poetry and Recitation
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soul-understanding of poetry when we are in a position to find our
soul: whoever it was that conceived the poem out of the spirit,
“Sing, O Muse...”, but “Sing, immortal soul, of
poet will have before his soul what recitation and declamation must
it to expression as it spoke in the soul, one dived down not only
soul-nature, was born from the spirit of
the expressivity of the human soul. In this way he attained the
soul-being, into the breath, it appears to us as the more forceful
formations; only if the life of man’s spirit and soul is
and the soul-resonance of living
have a personality whose soul wants to share inwardly with every
and intimate soul-quality that comes across in Austrian speech is
So the Soul, that Drop, that Ray
shoots of glory, my soul breakes, and buds!
soul by night
sense-perceptions, because apprehended by the soul directly,
These Mystery Plays concern the spiritual and soul development of
occurrences in a human soul who reaches this stage of
drawing together and struggling up of the soul-forces of thinking,
soul-forces share in such a transformation of man, and how this
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Title: Goethe As Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics: Steiner's First Lecture
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short, everything that leads the soul of man into a veritable
spiritual labyrinth. Nature stands there bereft of soul, devoid
Hence also after death his soul continues,
culmination of humanity, appear before our soul. Only when this

Title: Effects of Christ-Inpulse
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which so deeply move our hearts and souls in the present time.
preparation, by guiding your souls towards certain powers and
soul is at home. The spiritual scientist merely draws,
world, and he, shows how the individual human soul lives in it.
but it is of importance also for every human soul, for under
soul if in the state of sleep, not in the: dreaming state, it
something which exists outside the sleeping soul. But we should
FOLK-SPIRIT, as FOLK-SOUL, as the Folk-Soul to whom we belong.
activity of the Folk-Soul. And a peculiar thing appears —
look upon as Folk-Souls from the moment of falling asleep
all the other Folk-Souls, except into the Folk-Soul to which we
in our physical body and etheric body by OUR OWN Folk-Soul;
we live as it were together with our own Folk-Soul.
in addition to our own Folk-Soul, there exist in the world all
the other Folk-Souls of the other nations. When we fall asleep,
we penetrate into the connection of these OTHER Folk-Souls; we
do not dive down into one of these other Folk-Souls (let us
what they do together, as a community. Only our own Folk-Soul
Folk-Souls that pertain to the other nations in which we are
Folk-Soul, we belong during our sleeping state to the other
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Title: The Subconscious Forces
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“Missions of the Folk Souls”
the, development and rise of individual souls, hut above all it
fact that individuals progress, enables individual souls to
my lecture-cycle on the Folk-Souls of Europe and their
Mission of the Folk-Souls in Relation with the Germanic-Nordic
FOLK-SOULS, or FOLK-SPIRITS in the true meaning of the word. We
know, for example, that the Folk-Soul of the Italian nation
inspires what we designate as Sentient Soul; the French
Folk-Soul inspires what we call the Intellectual Soul; the
consciousness soul; in Central Europe the inspiration takes
the Consciousness Soul through the Folk-Soul.
inspire the Consciousness-Soul, whereas, the Folk-Soul
receives from, his Folk-Soul, and it is pre-eminently the task
the Group-Soul life into the life of humanity as a whole. But
certain direction; the Italian Folk-Soul speaks, for example,
to the Sentient soul; the French Folk-Soul to the Intellectual
Soul, the British Folk-Soul to the Consciousness Soul. We
should therefore imagine that the Folk Soul soars above that
development, a real development in the case of the Folk-Soul.
this nation and the Folk-Soul belonging to it. You see, the
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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aspect of the life of the soul. Whoever is at home in scientific
soul, and out of such things conclusions were drawn. These things
human soul, which manifest themselves in a similar way.
into this thinking his whole inner activity of soul. This he should
soul in inner concentration upon this thought. By means of this
of soul that may be compared with the results which follow when any
likewise, do the capacities of the soul become inwardly stronger,
any experience of the soul. The matter of importance is
the concentration of the forces of the soul and
time a kind of “touching with the soul.” In the process
self-knowledge become possible. For we know then that the soul
this soul content, put it away, in a certain sense render his
thinking constituting a sense of touch for the soul. It is rather
in this, something appears before the soul which has been possible
eyes of his soul, as he has passed through this life in his earthly
soul — to which he looks back later with a certain shuddering
fascination. In other words, what appears before the soul in such
soul at the moment indicated, when the entire earthly life
taken place through the unfolding of the forces of the soul comes to
of spirit and soul.
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Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and the Ethical-Religious Conduct of Life
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capacities of the human soul which belong to our every-day life, and
capacities of the soul actually brings about for the human
the soul in such a way as to become an immediate power of the soul,
knowledge does not undervalue all the inner drama of the soul
not dart with such inner force through the life of the soul as, in
in special instances, — that this soul-spiritual element
participate, with our soul element, in the occurrences of our own
dry, matter-of-fact life of the soul, of the intellect. The situation
our intellectual life into the deeper regions of the soul. There we
such that, through the insertion of our soul being into the organs of
might say strengthening of the soul about which I spoke on the
level for the life of his soul something similar to what he exercises
memory and other forces of our soul, in order to connect this dream
relate to the processes through which I have passed as a spirit-soul
different states of soul when awake and when dreaming, so does the
whole state of soul become different when one arrives at this higher
from one condition of soul into another. In this process, however,
even those contents of the soul in which one is absorbed in ordinary
very roots of the soul being, that a person is transformed through
the human soul itself. We permeate the soul with this
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Title: Lecture: Facing Karma
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souls from mere knowledge and theory into immediate life, into an elixir of
which one is willing to use all one's energy in an effort to fill one's soul
we will become aware of the fact that we have planted a seed in our soul. What
souls and stronger personalities.
virtually destroys us in our souls. Relief can only be found by not making
us our volitional and soul powers, but our ideas are given us anew in every
wants to know himself and does not realize that he carries in his soul
Just as we try to understand a child's soul with regard to its outer life
found when we search in our soul for the mirrored world beyond the
thoughts. Thus, a soul thinking in anthroposophy exclaims, “In thy
A soul creating out of anthroposophy says, “In thy feeling cosmic forces
Thus, a soul that draws strength from anthroposophy will say, “In thy

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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.”
in the soul into actual life, into an elixir of life. What really
make such principles the very life-blood of the soul. In the hurry and
has been laid in the soul and that many a darkling mood of distress or
harmony and energy in the life of soul.
willed his suffering — when he applies this mood-of-soul to his
it becomes sheerly destructive in the soul. The only salvation is not
attitude of soul to happiness and joy.
his soul is only a mirror in which the outer world is reflected, may
own ease. For such a soul is always whispering: “Look within
thinking” — so says a soul who thinks in the sense of
The soul in whom Theosophy has become creative power, says: “In
realising that he is embedded in these cosmic Powers. And the soul who

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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is rather something that can be transformed in the soul into actual
principles the very lifeblood of the soul. In the hurry and bustle,
been laid in the soul and that many a feeling of sadness and
more harmonious souls and become stronger individuals.
soul to his happiness and joy he will not be able to avoid a sense of
almost destroys him in his soul. The only salvation is not to
realising that his soul is only a mirror in which the outer world is
try to understand a child's soul by examining the child's
our soul for the mirrored world beyond the physical. So that those
says a soul who thinks
thoughts!’ The soul creating out of Anthroposophy says: ‘In thy
powers. And the soul that draws strength from Anthroposophy says: ‘In

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
that the souls of all of us have been incarnated many times in earthly
the souls of men were completely shut off from the spiritual world;
holy Rishis of India had come to life again in the souls of these
again. To these seven came four others. In the soul of the first of
ancient Persian culture lived in the soul of the ninth; the wisdom of
in the soul of the tenth, and the wisdom of Graeco-Latin culture in
the soul of the eleventh. The wisdom of culture as it was in that
the soul of the twelfth. In these twelve men who came together to
out of them into him and were resolved, in his soul, into one great
his soul. His whole soul echoed back the harmony of the twelve
different forms of belief spread over the Earth. In this way the soul
boy's soul increased, the more delicate his body became — more
torpor: the soul had left the body, but returned after a few days. The
philosopher, in his case the development of the soul was in
less importance and value than what he bore within his soul: to the
world has an influence upon us and only when we realise that the soul
spiritual life those souls whom he knows to be ripe; between his

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earlier incarnations. The soul seems to feel: I myself was there and
draw your attention to the fact that the souls of all of us here now
such that the souls of men were completely shut off from the spiritual
seven holy Rishis of India had come to life again in the souls of
another again. To these seven came four others. In the soul of the
the ancient Persian culture lived in the soul of the ninth; the wisdom
lived in the soul of the tenth, and the wisdom of Greco-Roman culture
in the soul of the eleventh. The wisdom of the culture as it was in
soul of the twelfth. In these twelve men who came together to perform
them into him and were resolved in his soul into one great harmony. It
of the twelve different types of religion poured into his soul. His
whole soul reflected the harmony of the twelve different forms of
In this way the soul of the boy had to bear a great deal, and
time. Strange to say, as the harmony within the boy's soul increased,
in a condition of complete torpor: the soul had left the body, and
in his case the development of the soul was in advance of that of the
bore in his soul. Up to the time of his death the head was a hindering
and only when we realise that the soul lives in the spiritual world
spiritual life those souls whom he knows to be ripe; between his

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
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to our souls that is able to throw some light from the
just in that which must now move our hearts and souls in the
directing your souls to certain powers and forces which have an
which every human soul lives without being aware of them. The
human soul is put in it. So that not only for somebody who has
experiences, but for every human soul the knowledge of them is
itself to every human soul if it could look down not in the
of the sleeping soul.
folk-soul to whom we belong. When the human being wakes up, he
and etheric bodies by that which his folk-soul accomplishes.
also into such spiritual beings we must regard as folk-souls. I
human being dives into the relationship to all folk-souls
except his own folk-soul from falling asleep up to waking.
spiritual facts which our own folk-soul carries out in our
folk-soul from waking up to falling asleep. Beside our
folk-soul all the folk-souls of the other peoples are existent
the other folk-souls, not in a single other folk-soul —
society. Only the own folk-soul is taken away from this
relationship with all those folk-souls which belong to the
incarnation. Since, while we belong to our folk-soul in our
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
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development and advance of the individual souls, but above all
individual folk-souls and their effects on the individual human
of folk-souls, of folk-spirits in the true sense of the word.
We know that, for example, the folk-soul of the Italian people
inspires the sentient soul; the French folk-soul inspires the
intellectual soul or mind-soul, that the inhabitants of the
British islands are inspired by the consciousness-soul; in
caused by inspiration of the consciousness-soul from the
folk-soul. It is strange to which extent people become nervous
inspire the consciousness-soul, while the German folk-soul has
gets from his folk-soul, and this is just the task of our
being out of the group-soul and raises him to the general
so far as he stands in a people, is inspired by his folk-soul,
that, for example, the Italian folk-soul speaks to the sentient
soul, the French folk-soul to the intellectual soul or
mind-soul, the British folk-soul to the consciousness-soul. We
have to imagine that as it were the folk-soul is hovering over
folk-soul in relation to its people. Only this development is
people and the folk-soul belonging to this people. The
folk-soul is a being of the supersensible world; it is
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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different: this is the will aspect of the life of the soul. Whoever
its place in the half-awake state of the soul, and out of such
soul, which manifest themselves in a similar way.
of soul. This he should do by taking into his mind day by day,
all the powers of his soul in inner concentration upon this thought.
those capacities of soul that may be compared with the results which
exercise. Thus, likewise, do the capacities of the soul become
content, which is not associated with any experience of the soul.
What matters is the concentration of the forces of the soul and
the same time a kind of “touching with the soul.” In the
self-knowledge become possible. For we know then that the soul
point where he can, in turn, eliminate this soul content, put it
possess a real thinking constituting a sense of touch for the soul.
this, something appears before the soul which has been possible
before the eyes of his soul, as he has passed through this life in
of his entire earthly life in pictures appearing before his soul
fascination. In other words, what appears before the soul in such
soul at the moment indicated, when the entire earthly life confronts
through the unfolding of the forces of the soul comes to meet one
soul.
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