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Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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knowledge of the deeper forces of world-historical evolution, that is,
gatherings as ours today. For he who speaks from that standpoint about
problems of the time knows that he is opposed not only by the casual,
subjective opinions of those to whom he speaks. He knows too that a
growing stronger and stronger. To explain what I mean by this, I must
also find in some of my lecture-courses, you know that we have to
indicated this so that you may remember where, in human evolution as a
Now you know that at the close of the first third of the Greco-Latin
aspects we have characterized what really came about for human
anthroposophical sources, you will know that the further we go back in
the whole evolution of humanity. You know, further, that certain
has been shown that this widespread wisdom-teaching of ancient times
that was possessed by the old Hebrew people and bore a completely
You can already gather from these external facts something that I beg
you to bear in mind, namely, that it was essential in humanity's
Clairvoyant vision finds in looking back that an incarnation of a
had taken place in the man Jesus of Nazareth. The incarnation that
brilliance, having an incisive effect. What it gave to humanity, in
Viewed externally, one can say that it was a wisdom penetrating deep
going back to that incarnation which took place over in Asia at the
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Title: Lecture: The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
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new birth with what is taking place here in the physical world, and,
of our connection with this physical world. All that gives us this
perceive Imaginatively — we realise that this world is peopled
the conditions in the elemental world are somewhat different from the
able entirely to free himself from that which makes him earthly man.
himself from that which makes him earthly man. As earthly men, as you
emancipate ourselves from what is solid in us, the moment we feel
our knowing by Imaginative perception all that surrounds us as the
is lost was in a way unconscious and dream-like, while that which
Let us now return to what I said before. Our relation to the
relations to the beings that surround us. In the elemental world, in
will reckon especially with what I have now said; there will be a
of the patient. For what is called illness today is in truth only the
outer physical picture of what is there in reality. In reality there
is some kind of irregularity in what I have here compared to a
doing this or that it can only be improved by the common will of a
understood. For people keep on imagining that they are Christian
while in reality they are not. St. Paul said that sin came into the
wider sense, that which mars the order of things is there through the
for a law — quite unaware that whatever is not in order comes
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Title: Lecture: The Problem of Destiny
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What spiritual science has to say about life and the
and we shall then proceed by explaining that these faculties enable
kind: If spiritual science gives this or that explanation concerning
never be based upon the argument that the world has a meaning only if
aspect of these things), and although this hypothesis, namely, that
whole life of man, seeing that spiritual science and its results
civilization, and what kind of opposition we must encounter. The
that, at first, we learn to know the chief facts of spiritual life,
through the fact that the world has, to begin with, an enigmatic
that life becomes less interesting through the fact that the riddles
with the physical world, makes us, as it were, confident that also
A special riddle is everything that we experience in the
we have already explained that a
concrete connections. Let us assume, for instance, that a person has
died, so that the one who remained behind had to pass through a
see immediately that if we face a similar thought, something rises up
for many people. We must now bear in mind the fact that spiritual
relatives. I have already explained to you that through the fact that
gaze upon these connections, we shall discover in many cases that the
other relationships which thus arise are of such a kind that through
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Title: Lecture: How Can the Destitution of Soul in Modern Times Be Overcome?
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vital kind that it finds entrance into life in all circumstances and
unproductive kind of knowledge, and it is natural that people who
know very little about it should be induced to ask: What, after all,
is the use of learning that man consists of such and such parts; that
epochs of culture, and so on? Those who feel that a realistic
this clear today by a particular example. Most of us know that our
Greeks and Romans; that the following centuries down to the
impulses preceding from that epoch; and that since the fifteenth
We know furthermore that in man in the fourth post-Atlantean period
culture and work and that cultivation of the consciousness soul is
our present task. What does the cultivation of the consciousness soul
order that the consciousness soul may be brought to expression,
all sides we find it confirmed that our age stands for the
true that two people meeting for the first time knew how to tune in
confidence can be established. But what is now only to be arrived at
post-Atlantean epoch. We must remember that this kind of
feeling-and-heart connection was well adapted to that age, but a very
terms of intercourse are such that, fundamentally speaking,
due weight to the spiritual-scientific truth that in the present age
we are not thrown together by chance with other people. That the path
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Title: Lecture: The (Four) Great Virtues
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are developed in the direction of that comprehensive picture of man's
indeed for our whole inner life, the gulf that exists for our
saying is familiar, and even self-evident. But one may well say that
Dr Colazza, and we have just heard that our dear friend Fritz
than we would otherwise be able to achieve that we do not lose such
can be said that these souls have become faithful fellow-workers with
looking down upon that to which their love is directed. In the period
upon our physical life from that moment onwards, which can be
life within the maternal body, except that this period in the life
embryonic life in relation to physical life. Then follows what can be
world; it is a perceiving that the will of the soul which has gone
way there comes the moment after death when the soul feels: that
the Angels. That is like drawing the first breath in the spiritual
who look down upon it as something of which they know that it informs
human souls while still within the physical body about that condition
can flow entirely into that stream which flows up to them from the
physical world, taking its source from what they have experienced in
necessity of this movement. But now that we have entered the
spiritual world we know that we can help and how we must help at a
what has been said can be the deepest comfort, for they have here all
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture V: Mystery of the Human Being
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regulated that it induces hunger. It is possible to
that we can get away from it for a time, but in the long run
attempt to conceal the fact that there is a mystery in human
prey to a kind of soul hunger and to what happens as a
general, he would probably find more reason to consider that
solution. In this age that has been with us for three or four
world in which the human being is placed that are of a
mystics. Those who level this sort of criticism, from whatever
picture, which actually has very little to do with what the
science of spirit that is criticized.
lecture to mention everything that would be necessary
further points can be added to what I have been saying about
important to remember that the science of spirit does not take
we should not conclude that it is necessarily opposed to these,
the world, connected with what is happening in the evolution of
do not think that anyone who despises the modern scientific
that matter so much as the method of approach in
is just in connection with such an approach that the question
mysteries of the human being that really satisfies us deep
19th century, a viewpoint which enables one to realize that the
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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concerns. Steiner asserts that we must begin by giving real value to
that is vibrant.
social question here in Zürich, it is perhaps appropriate that
We know that in every
when we appreciate that fundamentally he is connected with everything
relevant to human life and knowledge that weaves and surges through
are focused on man — that is how we must conceive it.
I have specially tried to show what an impression it must make on
anyone if he realises that all the generations of the gods, all the
bring to expression of all that we are as man, in the highest
sense?” Whenever we bring clearly before us what we are, we
highest possible terms. We can never think highly enough of what we
experience of holy awe in the face of what man ought to be and
Science: we learn to appraise rightly all that is human in the world.
That is one point.
we take account also of all that shines down to us from the stars and
breathes from the wind, all that speaks to us from the several
feel, in very truth, that man is related to everything in the
it is to you, since I grow out of you, that I am indebted for my
He must gaze down with awe and reverence at that which in a certain
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture II
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concerns. Steiner asserts that we must begin by giving real value to
that is vibrant.
WEEK ago I was saying that we here, as
anthroposophists, are able to grasp in a much deeper sense all that
leaven — if I may use the biblical word — so that
If we recall what has
that the immediate essential is to strive towards a certain
deal which under modern influences has become centralised. What we
is that a certain realm of society, embracing all that has to do with
a restricted sense, that which has been known as the
“State” that men nowadays want to pile as much as
possible — State schools, State child-care, and so on. That has
realm of domestic economy, where commodities circulate — that
certain culmination, so that out of this culmination a deeper
what is called, in an earthly sense, spiritual life. Spiritual life
of earthly spiritual life for most people still, that aspect of it
experiencing similar needs. The upbringing of a child means that one
yet it draws men together, and forms communities out of what they
fellowship belongs in a sense to the Christ Impulse. That is the
Christ Himself, it is a great mistake to suppose that the solitary
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture III
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concerns. Steiner asserts that we must begin by giving real value to
that is vibrant.
“that in our life this very longing strives to find expression
— and yet accompanying it is the conviction that our life, as
that in which we are condemned to live. In truth, existing conditions
devise anything like it? If this war was not what men call
present to raise the question (no matter in what sense but still to
of Eisner's speech shows that he was using more than a mere phrase
when he said that this present reality could be naught else than
of the many things that have passed through our souls in the course
of our anthroposophical endeavours, and above all the fact that in
whole of reality, and that over against the perceptible we set the
widely permeated by materialistic ideas — and yet we see that
unreality, the maya-character, of the reality that is outwardly
spiritual or super-sensible world, so that this denial is, one might
made to hear what the Christ is saying for our present age, then it
is precisely from the adherents of the old religious communities that
the most vehement attacks come. Real spiritual life, one that relies
spiritual findings of the present — that is something which
existence — as witness the fact that people are surrounded by a
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Title: Social Future: Lecture I: The Social Question as a Cultural Question, a Question of Equity, and a Question of Economics
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
critically or approvingly. But whatever be our attitude towards it we
acknowledge that it is the social demands, the social contrasts which
have to a great extent caused them. Especially now that we are at the
clearly evident to everyone that over a great part of the civilized
the World War there is little doubt that it was already concealed
the social question, and it is just that widening of our horizon
that most people who speak on the social question to-day quite
food and labor question, we must remember that the human being is
at large, and that bread can only be produced by labor. But the
manner in which that labor should and must be carried on depends in
has acquired a wider outlook on life it will be clear that there can
becomes evident that when a man works but a quarter of an hour more
see from this, that even if we regard the social question merely as
this wider horizon in its most varied aspects that I should like to
soon find confirmation of what has been so impressively stated by
which contains, it may be said, the best that has been written on
Credit, 1910. The author acknowledges pretty frankly that
present day should keep in mind that the manner in which credit,
that it is an absolute impossibility to collect the material
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Title: Social Future: Lecture II: The Organization of a Practical Economic Life on the Associative Basis
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
presupposed that it would be received with a common instinct for
actual facts, and that it would not be judged out of preconceived
theories, preconceived party opinions. If what I said yesterday be
correct and it is correct, undoubtedly, namely, that the social facts
in the conditions of human life have grown so complicated that it is
facts, it is only too comprehensible that there should be, for the
country, but on that of the entire world. The individual human being
that are in line with strict reality knows also how important it is
technical field in order to recognize the truth of that theorem. We
thought-connections with it, and then we know that wherever it can be
described. Emphatically, the whole idea of the Three-Membered Social
these lectures to show that certain phenomena of social life give
order. We have seen that our social life has three principal roots or
members, from which spring its demands — in other words, that
economics. Any one who studies modern evolution will find that these
so — we shall find that the direction evolution must take in
organism so that there will be an independent cultural life,
to mean that an independent administration is demanded for the
complete misunderstanding of the threefold order, for that idea
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Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
discover that all the institutions in social life originate in the
won his way to this view will come to the conclusion that the factor
very great extent that the ability or inability of any individual to
way that he can support himself out of his own means. To put this in
for his wants will depend upon the fact that society has taken the
bringing it to that point at which he can earn what he needs for his
to recognize what has just been said as an axiom, a fundamental
convince himself, as he might from every occurrence in life, that it
is so. It is true that this way of viewing life is particularly
importance to him that he should be left undisturbed. He is very
as a man if it is found necessary to tell him that he ought to change
agrees that institutions should be modeled on social lines. He is not
at all pleased, however, with the proposal that he should model his
life. I pointed out in the first lecture that the social criticism of
statement that the economic system has laid down the law:
immediate facts. Thus we may say that the chief characteristic in the
evolution of humanity for centuries has been that the conceptions of
shut up in the factory, what was the most obvious fact as he looked
at life around him? Looking at his own life he saw chiefly that all
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Title: Social Future: Lecture IV: Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
extremely characteristic of the age that all the theories and all the
here upon the human soul: What is the cause of this impotence of
of hearers would probably have treated what was said with ridicule.
practical affairs as to the immediate future, I ventured to say that
upon this as the pessimism of an idealist. But that was the utterance
that the gossip about these things is the very opposite of the truth;
that anything but misunderstandings without number should still exist
may truly be said that a renewal is sorely needed from the very
lectures, that it is no longer of any use to devise net schemes for
science stimulates the belief that the views of society, of which we
What we need is
understanding. What is really the meaning of all the subconscious
conscious thought of our present humanity? What do they mean, above
especially of late! I know well that in giving the following little
many; indeed, what I am going to say will be taken by many as a proof
characteristic in the development of modern art is that it has lost
that inner impulse which should drive it to place before the world
that which is felt by humanity as a pressing need. The opinion has
grown more and more common that, in contemplating a work of art. we
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Title: Social Future: Lecture V: The Cooperation of the Spiritual, Political and Economic Departments of Life
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
three members of the body social and disentangle what has heretofore
been considered a strict unity. (a) All that related to law,
always raised that such an arrangement of the social organism denies
actual commodities. We shall find that the value of a commodity, of
merchandise, is already possessed of a threefold nature, in that the
What determines the
— we shall find that the method of valuing any commodity
whatever is absolutely determined by the whole make-up of the human
order to possess that commodity. Here we see that it is the spiritual
or intellectual element in man that determines the value of a
Secondly, we see that
the conditions of ownership. and that means neither more nor less
than that they are limited by legal conditions. Whenever one man
other's rights to the commodity in question. So that economic life
degree that it is durable or the reverse, lasting or perishable; to
the degree that by its nature it is more or less serviceable,
with reason. How can that which is united in the commodity be
idea, it is certainly true that in life things can and do unite which
should not all the objective value that accrues to the commodity from
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Title: Social Future: Lecture VI: National and International Life in the Threefold Social Organism
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lectures show that a healthy social organism depends on the separation of
IT is quite possible that
these lectures may have appeared somewhat singular. Singular,
inasmuch as it might possibly be said that these are isolated ideas
that the catchwords so common in the social movements of today are
must be a foundation, but I think it has been made clear that these
thoughts and ideas differ considerably from much else that has been
said on the subject. For instance, we often hear it said that there
is no equal distribution of wealth, and that some evil is the cause
of this; that such evils must be abolished, and so on. We often hear
is not enough to draw up a program and announce that a meeting must
be called and an organization founded in order that the commodity in
organism, should be put together and utilized in order that it
say that these lectures have not dealt with the means by which bread,
work together within that social organism, in order to bring about
at the present moment. Have we not seen to what unheard of conditions
— that international feeling, international understanding had
been established in modern humanity? To what has this international
that over a large part of the civilized world the people have torn
views of international Christianity, for this is what it claimed to
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Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 1
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forces unfolded here on the physical plane. Much that in earlier times
theatre during the performance that the Empress of Austria had been
Action” — so they were being called at that time.
astonishment at the news in a way that still lingers in my memory. He
said: “One can understand many things that happen in the world
understand many things that happen ... but that a revolutionary
I am sure this man was expressing what must be the opinion of every
that in the life of men and the course of history, things do happen
cited — show that what appears outwardly incomprehensible must
light of Spiritual Science can be shed into those regions that lie
of meaning and purpose — either good or bad. And if by what may
it prompts the reaction that what is going on “behind the
scenes” looks very different from what is happening on the stage.
You know from many passages in the Lecture-Courses that the evolution
The reason for speaking of these periods is that the faculties of
all, constitute only one part of that cycle of human life which
For in what actually happens, there is a constant interplay and
interaction between the forces that come down from the world in which
Conditions throughout the Fourth Post-Atlantean epoch were such that
much that in earlier times could remain in the unconscious.
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Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 2
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importance in view of the events that are breaking with such tragic
again to know and realise that the physical world is connected with
spiritual realities, to become conscious of the fact that a spiritual
Post-Atlantean period. What lies before that is a very vague chapter
in the only kind of historical scholarship that is recognised by
undergone very great changes indeed, it cannot be said that equal
concerned. Therefore people neither notice, nor try to notice, what is
trivial remark, so often heard, that this age is an age of transition.
what is in transition in any particular age.
We become particularly conscious of what is thus in transition in our
time — that is to say, of what is assuming new forms and
transformation that is proceeding during this present age, are to be
take in earnest matters concerning the spiritual world. The fact that
existence of Anthroposophy. It really is the case that one need not be
the like are founded today, all of them convinced that they represent
infatuated with their own programme, maintaining that it will bring
universal happiness, that it is an absolute necessity. In the case of
great deal that is unintelligible on the physical plane only begins to
Anthroposophy, for example, that on the other side of the threshold of
that speaks of many Spiritual Beings.
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture III
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
whatever belongs to and is produced from these
that, like the Earth, these different celestial bodies have their
Anthroposophy that man is a fourfold being, composed of
physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego, and that in sleep
begin to understand this if we turn to what has been said in the
that the Moon, now moving independently through cosmic space, was
also to the Beings who inhabit it. You know too that the Earth was
acquiring knowledge. It was by deeper forces of the soul that men in
that was half poetry. Beings at an advanced stage of evolution, the
ourselves in these records, the more obvious it is that although we
only the last vestiges of the wonderful, primordial wisdom that
once existed in humanity as oral tradition and that Spiritual Science
the stage of that ancient wisdom.
contain records of what every individual human being has experienced
bring with us into earthly existence and in that astral body are the
concepts and ideas relating to outer, material existence. What is
growth, into the health and above all they determine what I will call
itself is an essential help, for this reveals what has been inscribed
breathing, and so on. It is these inscriptions that determine whether
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Title: Lecture: Love and Its Meaning in the World
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also be remembered that certain premises were taken for granted when
what may be called ‘anthroposophical history’, told as an
genuine love. It is because men are subconsciously aware of this that
WHEN we say that at the present point of time in his evolution man
occur: What, then, is the position of one who has never heard of the
knowledge of the Christ Impulse in order that Christ's power may flow
soul is constantly enriched by what is received through the “I”.
ripest. Hence the vital question arises: What of our life of soul when the
life of soul that the wealth of our experience and knowledge increases
source of temptation, inasmuch as a man may be led to believe that his
reached. Love arises for something that is contained within ourselves.
what is within themselves. In the Mystics, for example, we find
become aware of the Divine Spark within them. But the truth is that
next life. A man who feels this may become a Mystic and mistake what
grain for a man to acknowledge that this spirit-seed is nothing but his
When we speak of karma, we mean that which as cause in the one life
Suppose, for example, that we work and our work brings gain. It may
also be that our work gives us no joy because we do it simply in order
to pay off debts, not for actual reward. We can imagine that in this
way a man has already spent what he is now earning through his work.
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Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Man's Astral Body
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should also be remembered that certain premises were taken for
in its spiritual essence; also of what may be called
so fundamentally that it really comes alive in us does it properly fulfill
Whatever their view of the world, men are generally convinced that
their own souls. Those who hold such views believe that thoughts and
only to the extent that man succeeds in ratifying them by his physical
The anthroposophical attitude posits the conviction that our thoughts
principle implies that the anthroposophist must play his part in
real understanding of what is going on in the evolutionary process in
In the case of an individual human being, everybody knows that account
the course of evolution. Not to take account of the fact that the
character of humanity is different in the 20th century from what it
heed to this, as well as the prevalent notion that it is possible to
speak of man or of humanity in terms of abstract generalisations, that
those of which I have just spoken. It is both true and important that
speaking, everything that enters into our consciousness enters it
that connects us with our environment; the astral body is the legacy
you will realise by what a complicated
evident from the facts presented in that book that Spirits belonging
sheaths of man's being? Is it not evident that our threefold sheath
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Zuerich, 12-17-12
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soul. After that, soul quiet must set in, emptiness must begin, and
that's like a dream that flits by. Then one has the feeling:
relation to our thoughts is like that of an angel to the Holy Spirit.
now raise oneself further to the divine principle that vitalizes and
world, so that we're not asleep there.
having consciousness doesn't mean that one has
that something thought in us, but it's only when we remember
that something has thought in us that we connect the experience with
door that doesn't open. All of these images are in the physical
body that doesn't let us in.
experience the image that we're looking at our physical body
down there, and that we're born out of the divine-spiritual
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture I: Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
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Since what, they mean, can one suppose behind it? Any sect
little that the human beings who belong to this supposed sect
thoroughness after methods and authorities that are just quite
suspect that talking about spiritual science as something
such attempts. Today, indeed, one admits that one has to do
admit that it is necessary or even possible to do that
sciences treat things and questions that concern special fields
of life and one can make use of that which they give within
that which is done with scientific thoroughness in the area of
has that science in mind which is based on our senses and on
everything that one can attain with the reason, which is bound
Spiritual science argues that there is not only an outer
cognitive faculties, but that these cognitive faculties are
capable of development, so that — if we only want it
one can change this way, so that we can also put questions to
will, so that we can perceive contents in our soul or by our
Then we experience moments by such soul exercises that you can
compare, on one side, with falling asleep, that are quite
different on the other side. What do we experience at first if
that the outer impressions stop and, finally, unconsciousness
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
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for our whole soul-life, that abyss which arises for the
only at a moment when I speak just today to you, a moment that
physical plane this week, and we just have got the message that
spiritual science shows us the way to understand that we do not
spiritual-scientific cognition generally flows to us that these
the full responsibility with which one says something that
within our spiritual movement, looking down on that which they
they have grown fond of the way of striving that we cultivate
something that is on the way between death and a new birth.
same way, we can look back at our physical life from that
state of sorts that you can compare with the embryonic life,
with the life in the body of the mother, only that this life
embryonic life in proportion to the physical life. Then that
world, with the first gasp, what one may call waking up in the
spiritual world. The soul perceives as it were that the will of
the soul that has passed the gate of death is taken up by the
know that that in which they live is passed on the human souls
earthly in memory that is something that already belongs here
from that which they have witnessed in our movement —
spiritual world, we know that we can and must assist in the
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Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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Mystery of Golgotha. That requires super-sensible
A.D. 333. Up to that point the powers of the Age
that middle point, influenced the subsequent course of
purely human powers of that Age could have understood the
than 200 years in the spiritual world that they fully
Mystery of Golgotha also saved mankind in that Age from a
This would so bind his soul to his body that the soul also
counter-effect through the revelation that had come in the
can find the Christ. It depends upon two experiences: that
I spoke of that participation in the spiritual world which,
can say that in the human soul, inasmuch as it is connected
anything of that world.
what may be called in a general sense, the
inclination in him — that is, in the man of today
inclination in man is to know what is usually called the
any rate, things reached such a climax that men have denied
— the question may be asked : What is it that makes a
in the Trinity? Spiritual Science shows us that in every case
where a man denies the Father God — that is to
finds that there is an actual sickness in a man who denies
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Erster Vortrag: Die wirkliche Gestalt der sozialen Frage
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als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
geworfen hat gerade auf das, was man die soziale Frage
hat, hat sich herausgestaltet unter der Furcht auf der
irgendwie die Neigung hat, sich bekanntzumachen mit den
geltend gemacht hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten, doch das, was
sich an Fähigkeiten herausgebildet hat, durch und durch
vorbereitet hat, es trifft gerade diejenigen, von denen man
beschäftigt hat, der hat finden können,
zutage getreten sind. Vieles hat man diskutieren hören,
über vieles hat man lesen können durch Leute, die vom
Bewegung. Überall hatte man, gerade wenn man
selbst, überall hatte man das Gefühl: Ja, da wird
Arbeiterbewegung da kennengelernt hat, wo sie von Arbeitern
der intensivsten Weise ergriffen hat. Das ist ja das, was
eine wissenschaftliche Grundlage gestellt hat. Dennoch, wenn
und Empfinden zu sagen hat, so scheint einem das bei
herausgebildet hat, das Wesentliche ist in der Gestaltung der
abgespielt hat, was in diesem Zeitraum eintritt in die volle
das zu empfinden hatte derjenige Gelegenheit, der als
belegt, sich entwickelt hat, aus irgend etwas hervorgegangen
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Zweiter Vortrag: Die vom Leben geforderten wirklichkeitsgemäßen Lösungsversuche für die sozialen Fragen
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als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
bestimmte Gestaltung erfahren hat durch das, was ja oftmals als
haben, hat sich notwendig nicht nur der beobachtende Blick der
Zeit geführt hat, wohl so aussprechen, daß man
Gefüge aufzuweisen hat. Diese drei nebeneinander wirksamen
hat man anzuerkennen, wenn man ein wirkliches
Als drittes System hat man dann anzuerkennen
zur Außenwelt hat: das Kopfsystem durch die Sinne, das
geschrieben hat über den Bau des sozialen
menschlichen Gesellschaft als solcher. Was hat man da alles
diesen Analogiespielereien hat dasjenige, was hier
Aha, hier hat man es auch wiederum mit einem solchen
den sozialen Organismus, wie Schäffle es getan hat, wie es
sozialen Organismus — allerdings hat man es da mit einem
heraus hat, als das gröbste System des menschlichen
Organismus, das hat nun nicht Gesetze, die sich analog denken
geistiges Leben im sozialen Organismus ist, das hat
des sozialen Organismus. Dieser soziale Organismus hat
hereingetragen hat — , also als erstes Glied des sozialen
selbständig ist. Zu tun hat es dieses Wirtschaftsleben mit
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Dritter Vortrag: Schwarmgeisterei und reale Lebensauffassung im sozialen Denken und Wollen
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als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
sich heraufentwickelt hat in den letzten Jahrhunderten,
Jahrzehnten bis zur Gegenwart, sie hat gewisse
sich entwickelt hat als die ganz spezifische Eigenart in den
sich bemüht hat, nach allen Seiten hin einzudringen
man einen Sinn hat für das Hören solcher Dinge, dann
herausgebildet hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten,
wissenschaftlichen Form das in sich aufgenommen hat, was seine
auseinandergesetzt hat — vielleicht hat man es besonders
mehr abgefunden hatte, wo man doch wohl die Frage
es dann, wenn es die Macht in den Händen hat, das finden,
Sinn hat für die Entwickelungskräfte der Geschichte,
wirklichkeitsgemäße Anschauung hat,
gewissermaßen in dem Proletariat selber die Antwort hat in
Wirtschaftsordnung herausgebildet hat.
Weil dies so ist, hat insbesondere
wissenschaftliche Theorie aufgenommen hat, wie das von seiten
Angesehenes sich hineingefunden hat in die elementar
lebt, hat nicht irgendeine Formulierung, wie ein Zukunftsstaat
betonte — hat Denkgewohnheiten, hat Denkformen
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Vierter Vortrag: Die Entwickelung des sozialen Denkens und Wollens und die Lebenslage der gegenwärtigen Menschheit
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als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
herein angenommen hat. Mehr vielleicht, als heute mancher ahnt,
sich verändert hat gegenüber dem, was vor diesem
der Menschenseele selbst gelebt hat als soziale Impulse, die
geführt haben, das hat sich vor diesem Zeitraum mehr
allmählich herausgebildet hat aus den Formen des
gegenwärtigen Menschheit. Und man hat über
Entwickelung der Menschheit, das hat verursacht, daß
Empfunden hat man von
hat im wirklichen Leben Gegensätze in sich. Und der
Atmungs-, Herzsystem hat, und beide sich in ihren
hat
sozialen Organismus hat auch, wenn man es genauer betrachtet,
der Nerv der modernen sozialen Frage herausgebildet hat, der
beruhen hat, mehr auf der Demokratie ruhen muß, denn das
durchgerungen hat? Man kann viel, viel bei denjenigen, die die
Laistner zugrunde gelegt hat,
habe ein Recht auf das, was man im Auge hat? Und man bekommt da
Augenblick, wo man die Empfindung hat, daß irgend jemandes
Leben, in der Struktur der menschlichen Gesellschaft hat.
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Öffentlicher Vortrag: Das soziale Wollen als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung
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als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
hereingetragen hat, und die ja wahrhaftig eine viel deutlichere
sich etwas hereingeflüchtet, hereingeschlichen hat
hat, man denkt sich aus gewisse Prinzipien, gewisse
Da hat sich mir, wie
auf Grundlage des Technischen, das sich ausgebildet hat in der
neueren Zeit, das hat, wie hypnotisiert, den menschlichen Blick
hat die Aufmerksamkeit ganz davon abgezogen, daß die
Gedanken und Willensimpulsen. Es hat sich ja im Laufe der Zeit
einen irgendwie unbegründeten ansehen — , es hat sich
so weiter bauen. Es hat sich, wenn ich so sagen darf, ein
Menschenklassen. Und dieses Mißtrauen hat sich ergeben aus
noch immer vorhanden sind. Es hat sich daraus ergeben, daß
entgegengebracht hat, und daß sie, nicht in ihrer
sich die neuere wissenschaftliche Denkungsweise entwickelt hat
Stoßkraft mitbekommen hat, welche die alten
Weltanschauungen hatten.
Leben des Menschen für seine Seele Tragendes hatte. Und so
gestanden hatten, aus ganz anderen
skizzierte Stoßkraft hatten.
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Öffentlicher Vortrag: Welchen Sinn hat die Arbeit des modernen Proletariers?
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Welchen Sinn hat die Arbeit des Modernen Proletariers?
als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung / Welchen Sinn hat
HAT DIE ARBEIT
eigentlich geführt hat zu dieser sozialen Frage, das ist
heraufgeführt hat die ganze Entwickelung der neueren
gebracht hat, so können wir das kurz etwa in die folgenden
daß sich eine gewisse Bildung ausgebreitet hat,
moderne Leben gebracht hat, ein menschenwürdiges Dasein?
Wozu hat uns diese moderne Zivilisation verurteilt?
des gewerkschaftlichen Lebens hat die moderne
weniger vor der Frage: Welchen Sinn hat denn eigentlich meine
Kreise zugerufen hat: So geht es nicht weiter! —
Wirtschaftslebens. Denn an die Maschine hatte das moderne Leben
den Proletarier geschmiedet. In die Fabrik hatte sie ihn
gedrängt, in den Kapitalismus hatte sie ihn eingespannt.
, der alte Liebknecht noch begründet hatte. Und
schloß, hatte man einen guten Ausschnitt von alldem,
sozialen Chaos heraus ergeben hat, Schreckhaftes, zuweilen
ergeben hat.
gesagt worden und es hat in weitesten Kreisen
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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burning question. In particular, one may say that the terrible
under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
have discovered that the most powerful contradictions of life
direction. However, in what one could call social will is
something completely different to what is spoken about.
played by the subconscious, undeclared elements than what comes
consider themselves practical you can certainly doubt that a
or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
not lie in what they are talking about, but it lies in their
of proletarian workers. I learnt to know what lives and strives
to recognise what lived in the labour unions in the most varied
movement, where it is carried by the workers, will know what a
that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
— that one can have human thought develop the highest measure
already indicated it — what the modern proletarian expresses
that without the enormous turnaround, without the technical
struggles, what is obvious in social life today does not stand
scientific approach who considers all that is human, the
is clear that nothing which is technically or scientifically
created has an importance in today's social question but that
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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way. The relative theme is so comprehensive that it can only be
Perhaps I may use a comparison to clearly communicate what I
of the social question. Please consider that with a comparison
the social question. Whoever wants to consider what we know as
the most complicated organism — that of the human being
consider what I would like to call the rhythmic system, in
interact in a healthy way, of all that is contained in the
digestive systems are maintained — that these members
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
ideals, they will soon come to the view that such observations
understand that this social organism, if it is to be healthy,
exists, what the tissues could be and so on! Recently a book
scientific laws are simply transferred on to, what they call, the
to what we are considering here. Those who at the end of this
— would prove that the real spirit within the meaning has
transplanted on to the social organisation. What I want is for
the natural organism that this method, this way of sensing can
that to social organism, like Schäffle has done, like others
learn about its laws, in that moment the game of analogy
the following. You would say that this human head- or
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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During the lectures last week, I pointed out that the present
thought habits and what I characterized last week, this having
what we call the social question today.
appears far more important what happens within the awareness of
to be found here, but more what lies to a certain extent behind
these observations. Behind that lies far more social psychology
has an ear for such things, one could say that in both places
languages are spoken that one could doubt that the one spoken
driving forces related to the social question. All that has
many, will stand out, that the modern Proletarian, considered
has taken on, that the actual impulse of this modern
proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
this movement became known when it was examined more at that
felt more resigned, but the question still arose: ‘What form of
community, of human community-living and human actions, what
steer itself ad absurdum. What will happen then, will reveal
marching classes favours him so that when he has power in hand
That was programmatic. This is not actually properly thought
evolutionary powers in history this is the question: ‘Yes, what
what people have to say about their feelings, how they
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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that it is justified to say that the situation of current
these origins works into the present, works in such a way that it
have mentioned in my lectures that solutions are not to be
found towards understanding such things by doing what one
conclusion by what had gone just before. I have tried to draw
crises during the course of events — are similar to what
development; results arrive without a leap out of what went
misunderstood conception that nature makes no leaps in a
demanding certain satisfaction; how that changes in relation to
what had arrived before that moment.
community. At that time, in the place of instinctive thinking
other stream appeared somewhat later but is clearly
to all that was created as the newer state which had gradually
linked to what we have placed under the three members I have
their interests more or less to what many people held as the
endeavour took on a certain course and we see that within
last time. The essential aspect from this view is that social
entire thinking and feeling unfolded in such a way that it was
like a mirror image of what was being experienced in the
they developed more and more in such a way that even these days
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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procedure.” I don't know exactly what the motives are for
it extraordinarily lucky because it corresponds in tone to what
more clearly than what formerly had been discussed and
Towards such a social organism there is a striving of, what one
our more recent times is that humanity can no longer remain
stuck on mere instinctive will impulses, that simply out of the
learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
proceed if they think: ‘What must happen in order to withdraw
imagine what social illnesses are, to a certain extent. One can
mutual harmony in their reciprocal relationships to unfold what
me that the basic question, which is considered today as a
What has arisen out of the modern capitalist economic life has
but because I am of the conviction that if the Proletarian
of the social question, that the spiritual aspect must take a
impulses of what actually lives in the socialistic orientated
has formed that the socially disadvantaged class can expect
these thoughts and will impulses. What comes as challenges out
themselves. If I want to briefly express what I mean, I must
must surely allow the observer to notice that within this
such a way out of the old spiritual impulses, but that this
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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What Significance Does Work Have for the Modern Proletarian?
“What Significance Does Work Have for the Modern
concluded that now again an understanding needs to be
confusion, and those in it notice that the water is up to their
appears to me that in the time in which we are living, quite
other things are necessary. If we look at one another, at what
has actually happened and what is going on at present, for
What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
progressed. One can hear how it has come about that humanity
through a certain education and taken part in what they called
foundation. What was in this foundation? In this foundation
life give us what our human existence is worth? Why have we
It developed in such a way that the carriers of the so-called
with its numerous illiterates. It meant that of the
So it came about that the Proletariat on the one hand within
scraps of what human dignity within a healthy economic order
that despite various things having been accomplished in both
challenged by the question: ‘What significance is there
actually in my work in relation to what each person in the
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