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Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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Lecture: The Ahriman
The Ahrimanic Deception
the German texts is entitled, Der Innere Aspekt des sozialen
Rätsels; Luziferische Vergangenheit, Ahrimanische Zukunft
(Vol. 193 in the Bibliographic Survey, 1961). Translated from the German
great part of mankind today is already under the control, from one
side or another, of Ahrimanic forces of a cosmic nature which are
give you a kind of historical survey of a fairly long period of human
indicated this so that you may remember where, in human evolution as a
Epoch, the Mystery of Golgotha took place. And from many different
aspects we have characterized what really came about for human
will place various things concerning mankind which are connected with
about this early evolution of the human race on earth. You know, too,
how external documents point over to Asia, to the Orient. From many
mankind's evolution, the more we find a different constitution of the
human soul, and something like an ancient, original wisdom underlying
the whole evolution of humanity. You know, further, that certain
traditions of an ancient wisdom of mankind were preserved in close,
When a man of today learns to know something of this original wisdom,
in the course of the studies we have been pursuing for many years, it
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Title: Lecture: The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
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The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
Authorized translation from the German of Notes unrevised
by the lecturer. Also known as: Luciferic and Ahrimanic
Published in German as:
Authorized translation from the German of Notes unrevised
by the lecturer. Also known as: Luciferic and Ahrimanic
Published in German as:
Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
before our souls the connection of man with the spiritual world from
elemental world is an unknown world for the human being as he now
worlds but it is no less fraught with significance for man than this
by many beings, no less abundantly than is the physical. Man himself,
As an ether-being, man too is a citizen of the elemental world; only
perception for the elemental world cannot begin in man till he is
able entirely to free himself from that which makes him earthly man.
more difficult for the man of today than for the man of primeval
the most part it consisted in this very fact: man was able to free
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
elemental world. Imaginative perception will surely return to mankind
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Title: Lecture: The Problem of Destiny
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The Relation between the Living and the Dead. In German:
this way — many things are almost self-evident, nevertheless it
arising from human desires, human wishes. Although this is so
certain statements of spiritual science, objections based upon human
desires and human wishes, for instance, objections of the following
whole life of man, seeing that spiritual science and its results
mentality for the evolution of present-day humanity, and particularly
its significance in the face of the demands and requirements of our
science for humanity, and in particular for modern man. And in order
greater value for the individual and concrete life of a human being.
Seen from outside, human life is, to begin with, a riddle, for if it
regards the whole course of human evolution. We need not be afraid
from out the spiritual world, riddles of life and of man connected
the deeper riddles of man and of the world, which only appear in the
experience in the form of destiny. This word contains many,
many things. In our public lecture
[“Man's Soul and Body
for many people. We must now bear in mind the fact that spiritual
certain insight into the mysterious processes of human life.
human beings enter into relationship with one another through their
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Title: Lecture: How Can the Destitution of Soul in Modern Times Be Overcome?
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They were published in German as:
Human Relations in the Age of the Spiritual Soul.
as manuscript with the kind permission of the Rudolf
is the use of learning that man consists of such and such parts; that
humanity has developed, and will develop further, through different
attitude is demanded by modern life find spiritual science
Greeks and Romans; that the following centuries down to the
century mankind has been living in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch,
in which humanity will be living for many hundreds of years to come.
We know furthermore that in man in the fourth post-Atlantean period
of civilisation — the Graeco-Roman epoch — was built up
destiny of mankind for our entire fifth post-Atlantean period. In
Human life was completely different in the preceding
Graeco-Roman period when, according to the stage of development
mankind had reached, the faculties of intellect and of feeling were
sufficiently understood. In their soul-life the Greeks and Romans
centuries, particularly during the Graeco-Roman period of
our actual connection with plants and human connections in the fourth
today. In the fourth post-Atlantean epoch human relationships and
Towards this, modern man is developing; he is no longer
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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
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external human consciousness between the physical world, in which man
which man spends the other part of the totality of his existence, the
have won pillars supporting our spiritual movement. Many have passed
compared with man's birth. Immediately after death man passes through
Hierarchies. Just as a human being physically entering the physical
human souls while still within the physical body about that condition
say: with many a one, who has gone early through the gate of death
can no longer be connected in the external realm of manifestation,
death. Among the many things which should come about through our
life of humanity. For men will learn to regard the moral life from a
with the fact that the human soul goes through repeated lives on
death, has passed through many lives, and can hope for other lives in
speak of human virtues we can distinguish four of these which we can
indicate later on, which lives in the depths of the human soul, but
comprehensive knowledge of human nature, is the virtue of wisdom. But
comes to man of its own accord; still less can it in the ordinary
in youth we grew angry, and condemned this or that human action. If
order to grow wiser. Wisdom is something which strongly opposes human
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Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture V: Mystery of the Human Being
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OF THE HUMAN BEING
Historical Evolution of Humanity and the Science of Spirit.
Lecture given at Stuttgart, Germany, April 25, 1918)
human soul life, than he would have to speak about the presence
attempt to conceal the fact that there is a mystery in human
disregard the mystery of the human being, either because of
necessary to have to speak about a human mystery in
the mystery of man, changes its own finer qualities from epoch
to epoch in order to make it possible for man to find such a
world in which the human being is placed that are of a
mystery of man out of the needs of modern times.
this for many years now, even in this city. It is particularly
mysteries of the human being that really satisfies us deep
century, for a solution to the great mysteries of man were
the 19th century) that the inmost being of man can be explained
was seen as a natural process: the process of human thinking
human mystery to what can be known to our ordinary
and animals, right up to man. It was thought possible to
understand man through having seen how he arose out of the
to man, it was thought possible to find material which would
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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the human element in the world, finding a deeper understanding of our
human relationship to the spiritual world. Steiner goes on to discuss
human being whom we encounter in the outer world, who stands before
surface the real inner man. We first become aware of this inner man
relevant to human life and knowledge that weaves and surges through
friends, how different, with regard particularly to the human being,
evolution of the Earth is not only bound up with man, but is
will say: throughout the whole cosmic process man is never absent. He
are focused on man — that is how we must conceive it.
power of the universe, are summoned to the task of placing man in the
essential it is to emphasise the need for human modesty — how
bring to expression of all that we are as man, in the highest
cosmic standpoint, we were to fail to reckon our human task in the
of cosmic responsibility which must overcome man if he holds in view
the relationship of the whole universe to his human existence.
experience of holy awe in the face of what man ought to be and
imprint of eternity.” And in many other directions also we can
through Spiritual Science to a true appraisal of human worth, to an
appreciation of human dignity in the context of the world. This
regulating our relationships with other human beings.
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture II
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the human element in the world, finding a deeper understanding of our
human relationship to the spiritual world. Steiner goes on to discuss
understanding of the human situation to-day may spring forth.
other human beings. Let us take, as the most important manifestation
In the human soul are
soul-experience, a certain human community is formed. This is an
freedom, in the individual initiative of the single human being, and
fact which brings every kind of human fellowship into relation with
For since the Mystery of Golgotha everything concerned with human
humanity as a whole. Since the Mystery of Golgotha, therefore, the
wherever human fellowship unfolds. And accordingly, for anyone who
connection with other human beings. Here we must distinguish between
karmic fruit in future lives. Human beings form connections with one
another in manifold ways. The connections formed directly through our
also we come near to other human souls, due to be incarnated later
reflected, so does earthly spiritual life point to what the human
indeed shows aberrations, many aberrations ... but these very
attention. He distinguishes spiritual life from man's other earthly
marks itself off from other human experiences.
civic rights, which brings administrative order into human affairs.
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Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture III
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the human element in the world, finding a deeper understanding of our
human relationship to the spiritual world. Steiner goes on to discuss
mankind — men who at least try, with the aid of their feelings
One glance at the war: can you imagine a human reason which could
— in his efforts to understand the present time, this man was
thoroughly modern man, a man who has felt himself to be a herald of a
a dream; and this man feels impelled by the singular events of the
something inflicted on mankind by an evil spirit.
of the many things that have passed through our souls in the course
such a man as Kurt Eisner, who is certainly untouched by this spark
outward reality, at least in its current manifestation, to a dream!
more deeply into many of the things which our consideration of the
it not as though modern humanity were being impelled — not
sense-perceptible reality of such a kind that a man of modern outlook
modern man led by such a recognition to form conceptions which are
many of our anthroposophical friends. But, my dear friends, you
reality. For this is the great difference between human life and
for mankind. Indeed, nothing can bring forth healing for mankind
for example — daily work proceeds on the assumption that human
suffering for human society, and sets the stage for convulsions and
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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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resulting from the personal demands of a few individuals. It has
acknowledge that it is the social demands, the social contrasts which
events of human life as a whole is able to take an impartial view of
food and labor question, we must remember that the human being is
manner in which that labor should and must be carried on depends in
every respect upon the manner in which human society or any separate
social organism. To anyone who observes attentively the manner in
becomes evident that when a man works but a quarter of an hour more
later and very latest history of the evolution of the human race, we
present day should keep in mind that the manner in which credit,
economic cooperation of human beings.
of national economy. We may also examine what many other economists
capable of molding human life within the social organism.
large-hearted, benevolent, humanitarian, with fraternal feelings
human life.
if they would act in accordance with these pictures, many evils of
human will, they can never be anything but Utopias. However beautiful
may be the theories put forward, human instincts — for
have been presented to humanity.
humanity, as seen in the development of modern history. It has often
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Title: Social Future: Lecture II: The Organization of a Practical Economic Life on the Associative Basis
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in the conditions of human life have grown so complicated that it is
country, but on that of the entire world. The individual human being
will, of course, go astray. Anyone who knows the demands of thought
everywhere as the occasion demands. In this way I should like my
necessities of the present day and of the near future of humanity. I
members, from which spring its demands — in other words, that
to mean that an independent administration is demanded for the
embodies the determination to do full justice to those demands which
have shown themselves in the unfolding of history. Those demands,
historical impulse contained in them. These three demands contain the
impulse of liberty in human life, the impulse towards democracy, and
demands are taken seriously they cannot be mixed up together under a
or parliament, where every single man and woman of full age, being
to education and the manner of giving instruction, that is, the State
shall no longer determine the matter and manner of teaching. Only
regards the subject or manner of his teaching. This is a natural
spiritual constitution of man on quite a different footing, and how
penetrate into human life, so that out of this independent
manner in which business is carried on cannot be allowed to be judged
consumer's tyranny. Many therefore think that workers' productive
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Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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understanding of the relations existing between human beings who, in
first place from measures dictated by the will of man. And he who has
of decisive importance in social life is the conduct of human beings
and their feelings towards others in a social or unsocial manner.
depend on the manner in which his fellow-creatures furnish him with
the most practical form: the ability of man to procure enough bread
unpleasant for the average man. For it is a matter of great
as a man if it is found necessary to tell him that he ought to change
his own outlook on life and his own manner of living. He gladly
‘Economic life has made its demands; it has been advancing, and
put forward its demands. The facts of economic life have gradually
regarding the demands of economic life, the consideration of economic
evolution of humanity for centuries has been that the conceptions of
times human thought, and the attitude of human beings towards one
been created by human beings themselves, but for the most part they
workman, called away from his handicraft and placed at the machine,
denial of the fundamental principle that human institutions should
this thought is that such conditions are inevitable in human
starting-point a positive demand. Their fundamental belief was that
corresponding to the needs and demands of the masses. The proletariat
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Title: Social Future: Lecture IV: Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion
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here upon the human soul: What is the cause of this impotence of
an exact observer of the inner life of humanity could see in the
which must inevitably very soon break out in a terrible manner over
of a conviction gained by a study of human evolution from the point
mysterious nonsense, false and senseless mysticism, many varieties of
religion, science, education, and other human activities; in fact, it
world-improvement; from its very nature, human evolution demands a
feeling of humanity itself. Such a transformation is the aim of
not kept pace with the evolution of humanity and are no longer suited
yearnings, of the demands, which have not yet penetrated into the
conscious thought of our present humanity? What do they mean, above
many; indeed, what I am going to say will be taken by many as a proof
that which is felt by humanity as a pressing need. The opinion has
does it express? How far is external nature or human life reflected
many it would stamp the speaker as a philistine, it is distinctly
something that does not belong to every human life, and to every
existence worthy of a human being, although, in truth, it brings
completion to every human life worthy of the name.
to bring scientific knowledge from a purely human standpoint (See:
from the standpoint of universal humanity. I felt that it would be a
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Title: Social Future: Lecture V: The Cooperation of the Spiritual, Political and Economic Departments of Life
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whatever is absolutely determined by the whole make-up of the human
or intellectual element in man that determines the value of a
the goods being exchanged between one man and another are limited by
than that they are limited by legal conditions. Whenever one man
economic value, the determination of which demands an objective
why should not the subjective value which a man personally attaches
the historical development of humanity in modern times. We may say
that actually for centuries the most important impulses of humanity
spiritual life, acts creatively only out of man's own impulses. In my
outcome of man's own impulses, exists all that man finds necessary
man imagines himself to be free. He is not aware of his dependence,
are the things that make up the inner life of the business man or
spiritual life has partly emancipated itself, the political
are often held to be human rights. But when scrutinized, they are
guise of laws. While, on the one hand, spiritual life demands its
demands for the solution of the social problem a further fusion of
the population, demands that a political system, centralized, and
Through the demands for the increase of political and legal power
over the economic system will arise. We see that the changes demanded
of economic conditions themselves; rather this demand arises out of
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Title: Social Future: Lecture VI: National and International Life in the Threefold Social Organism
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to some among my audience my manner of dealing with the subject of
some commodity needed by human beings, and produced by a machine, it
social demands of the present day.
of the social organism, with the manner in which men must live and
the fulfilment of social demands. I wish to preface my lecture with
question. In view of the many prevailing opinions and prejudices,
been established in modern humanity? To what has this international
be, as it joined in so many cases in the chorus of international
chauvinism. And we might cite many an instance of the shipwrecking of
international life of mankind, perhaps more particularly in reference
penetrate to these sources of human nature which can only be found
relations existing among human beings in their common work are
in the human soul, which are related just as the north and south
and that in the progress of human evolution pure love should supplant
egoism. This claim is put forward by many on the ground of ethics,
should recognize that it begins with the bodily needs of the human
of the human being, unless we regard it as belonging to the sphere of
egoism. The needs of the human being proceed from egoism. Now we must
that he who meets his fellowmen with a purely human interest and
his egoism may be precisely his desire to serve human beings. It may
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Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 1
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul.
Interplay between forces unfolded by the human being after death and
Many years ago, when I was working in Berlin, the news filtered into a
theatre during the performance that the Empress of Austria had been
of the intervals I happened to be standing near a man who was then a
which have gained a certain reputation. This man voiced his
said: “One can understand many things that happen in the world
understand many things that happen ... but that a revolutionary
movement should instigate the murder of a sick woman whose continued
said the man — “is incomprehensible; it just doesn't make
I am sure this man was expressing what must be the opinion of every
But events of this very nature — and many, many others might be
the facts of the spiritual world and their connection with human
You know from many passages in the Lecture-Courses that the evolution
of mankind is to be divided into certain periods: the vast periods of
humanity as a whole — in this case more particularly the
period contains something which mankind is obliged to undergo,
into account the experiences contributed by human life as a whole to
all, constitute only one part of that cycle of human life which
man lives between death and a new birth and those which are unfolded
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Title: Behind the Scenes: Lecture 2
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul.
Monotheism and man's relationship to his Guardian Angel. The battle
consequences into the life of mankind. This theme may be indicated,
briefly, by saying: “It is urgently necessary for mankind once
of this consciousness among mankind. The human being of the present
from human beings living in those past ages with which ordinary
modern man. Although in the intervening period, man's life of soul has
the Dead. In the world in which the human being lives between death
observed in all their deep significance. But modern man is loath to
this is so gives rise to many reflections in regard to the growth and
following: When a man has become convinced of the truth of the idea of
present time — in other words, practically every human being with
matters. We will start from a very common experience. Many people who
the spiritual world, many Spiritual Beings, whole Hierarchies of
Monotheism and many people evince something like horror at a teaching
that speaks of many Spiritual Beings.
Let us be quite clear about what this really implies. When a man's
relationship of the human being to his Angelos. Monotheism in our time
human being.
Men are still unwilling to admit many things that are nevertheless
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture III
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operate in individual cases. He also revealed many details of the karmic
the beings of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, and
inhabitants. But as man turns his gaze to his earthly environment and
Anthroposophy that man is a fourfold being, composed of
the abode of man. The other celestial bodies are also peopled by
spiritual Beings but during his life between birth and death man is
first great Teachers of humanity. They were not incarnated in physical
fruits of this intercourse. Modern man is fundamentally arrogant,
once existed in humanity as oral tradition and that Spiritual Science
These Beings have an important task to perform for humanity —
past of humanity and of every individual man. These books are not, of
contain records of what every individual human being has experienced
inscribed into man during the final stage of his descent from the
of a human being when he is ill on Earth. It
a man puts up strong or only slight resistance to the healing of an
of man's past. Destiny is formed out of what we bring over from our
be able to understand this by thinking of man himself. In the course of
a man's earthly life the physical substances in his body are perpetually
substance of the human body, has all changed in the course of
Moon is in truth one of the portals showing man the way into the
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Title: Lecture: Love and Its Meaning in the World
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knowledge of Man and of the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also of
life. In the wisdom revealed by life, man forms the seed of his next
for humanity. Without sense-born love, nothing material comes into the
with Ahriman and Lucifer. Wisdom and might unfold in the world, but
be so, because without the evil, man could not lay hold of the good.
But through man's conquest of himself the unfolding of love has been
WHEN we say that at the present point of time in his evolution man
Will such a man be deprived of the Christ Impulse because he has not
following thoughts concerning human life from birth until death.
The human being comes into the world and lives through early childhood
source of temptation, inasmuch as a man may be led to believe that his
the wisdom which man acquires in life is only the means whereby the
acquired from life. Man passes through the Gate of Death and the
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
way a man has already spent what he is now earning through his work.
itself. The impulse for this is not strong in humanity. But occultism
man who delights in the flowers growing in a meadow were to wish that the
healthy development shall find its way into the affairs of humanity.
human body and so forth; we learn to understand the nature of the
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Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Man's Astral Body
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very least the anthroposophical knowledge of Man and of the Cosmos
THE WORK OF THE ANGELS IN MAN'S ASTRAL BODY
power in life. Only when we manage to investigate this view of the world
very definite and significant processes in the evolution of humanity.
only to the extent that man succeeds in ratifying them by his physical
In the case of an individual human being, everybody knows that account
Outer, physical happenings are going on around human beings of five,
fifty-year-olds, the seventy-year-olds! How human beings may be
individual human being, just as the nature of his powers and faculties
and faculties possessed by humanity in general constantly changing in
character of humanity is different in the 20th century from what it
speak of man or of humanity in terms of abstract generalisations, that
there is no need to regard humanity as being involved in a continuous
humanity. The Greco-Latin epoch of civilisation, lasting from the 8th
humanity which essentially concerns our own times. The paramount force
in human evolution from the 15th century until the beginning of the
consider in greater detail the nature of man himself. In the sense of
Spiritual Science, the members of man's being, beginning from above
process this fourfold constitution of man came into being. It is not
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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of Will, and the mantra for this is: It works me. Here one
a man in it, or a bathtub filled with hot water, or we stand before a

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture I: Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
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Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
the human being can put to himself, to the questions of death
and life, of the development of the whole humanity, even
little that the human beings who belong to this supposed sect
humanity. Indeed, one is in case of spiritual science still in
human future, for our whole life praxis, for the firmness and
How is the nature of death? Which is the nature of humanity
science, which is connected with a particular level of human
intimate performances of our soul which can strengthen our
which it is then and which is spiritual. If now the human being
Then we may say, if the human being falls asleep in the
evening, the whole human being does not exhaust himself in that
which lies in the bed, but the core of the human being, the
daydreamers, romanticists, and sectarians.
more strict demands are put on logic and comprehension than in
those areas where the highest questions of human existence, of
any meaning for the human civilisation of today and the future?
processes in the human civilisation. — One cannot say
this if one surveys the course of human development with
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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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The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
published in German as,
Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by
The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human
external human consciousness between the physical world in
which the human being spends the interval between birth and
death, and the spiritual world in which the human being spends
movement in them. Many have passed the gate of death, working
moment on which you can compare to the birth of the human
being. Immediately after death, the human being goes through a
Here on earth, the human being, when he enters the physical
know that that in which they live is passed on the human souls
the human beings concerned who have gone through the gate of
This is something that those human beings will sense more and
virtue life of humanity. For people will learn to look at the
birth and death. It counts on the fact that the human soul goes
through repeated earth-lives, and that the human soul, as well
has gone through many lives and has to hope for future lives,
we speak of the human virtues, we can distinguish four such
later, is such a one which lives in the depths of the human
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Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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They were published in German as:
the spiritual world in the human soul:
Man's task
Each epoch marks a new development in human consciousness.
Fourth epoch was chiefly upon man's feeling, and, through
purely human powers of that Age could have understood the
Mystery of Golgotha also saved mankind in that Age from a
man, inspired the Graeco-Persian thinkers of the Academy of
give man certain knowledge two millennia before it was due.
in the physical organism of Western humanity in scientific
denial of the spirit in man at the Council of
real knowledge of Christ, as the Healer of man in the
sickness of his thinking. Mankind brings from earlier lives
even without direct super-sensible experience, any man today
from now onwards into the future, the human soul must strive
man's soul-life in the light of modern Spiritual Science, we
can say that in the human soul, inasmuch as it is connected
place there is in man an inclination, a proclivity, to know
inclination in him — that is, in the man of today
inclination in man is to know what is usually called the
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Erster Vortrag: Die wirkliche Gestalt der sozialen Frage
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beschäftigt weil diese soziale Frage heute, man kann
aber darf man sagen, daß die furchtbare kriegerische
geworfen hat gerade auf das, was man die soziale Frage
über mancherlei Dinge, welche mit Ursache und Verlauf der
von seiten mancher führender Persönlichkeiten
Manches hätte sich anders gestaltet, wäre diese
Überblickt man die geistigen Leistungen,
Menschendenken. Aber niemals stand man den sozialen
gegenwärtigen Menschheit. Etwas, worauf man sich so lange
vorbereitet hat, es trifft gerade diejenigen, von denen man
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
mancherlei gesprochen, da wird über viele Fragen,
über mancherlei Lebenskräfte gesprochen. Man
in dem, was man nennen könnte soziales Wollen, liegt noch
man so deutlich das Gefühl haben: das mehr oder weniger
worden ist. Hier ist der Punkt, wo man den Anhalt
zu nähern. Hört man heute manche, die sich
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Zweiter Vortrag: Die vom Leben geforderten wirklichkeitsgemäßen Lösungsversuche für die sozialen Fragen
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Versucht man das, was man heute die soziale Frage nennt,
Organismus heraus, so kann man gar nicht anders als durch das,
was man vollführt auf der einen Seite, Wirkungen
erhärten will: daß das ganze moderne Leben, oder man
Man kann nun das Charakteristische, das gerade
Zeit geführt hat, wohl so aussprechen, daß man
Systeme kann man etwa in folgender Weise kennzeichnen. Man kann
Nerven- und Sinnesleben. Man könnte es auch nach dem
hat man anzuerkennen, wenn man ein wirkliches
Als drittes System hat man dann anzuerkennen
innere Wesenheit des Naturwirkens darstellt. Man könnte in
das Wirken des sozialen Organismus, kann man nicht warten. Da
Organismus kann sich nur entwickeln, wenn man, sei es auch mehr
menschlichen Gesellschaft als solcher. Was hat man da alles
werden auf, wie man meint, den menschlichen
Aha, hier hat man es auch wiederum mit einem solchen
Organismus. Wenn man einfach das, was man glaubt gelernt zu
«Weltmutation» gemacht wird, so zeigt man damit nur,
daß man nicht sich die Fähigkeiten aneignen will, den
zu forschen, wie man dies tut für den natürlichen
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Dritter Vortrag: Schwarmgeisterei und reale Lebensauffassung im sozialen Denken und Wollen
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empfindet, denkt und will. Und man möchte sagen: Ein
eigentlich der Ursprung dessen liegt, was man heute die soziale
erscheint es viel wichtiger, diese, man möchte sagen,
auftritt. Man kann innerhalb der über diese Dinge
denkenden Kreise des Bürgertums heute mancherlei Ansichten
hören. Man kann auch vernehmen die Anschauungen der
dieses Proletariats; man wird nicht so viel für eine reale
viel mehr soziale Psychologie, soziale Seelenlehre, als man auf
man einen Sinn hat für das Hören solcher Dinge, dann
wird man sagen: An beiden Orten wird eine ganz
eine so verschiedene Sprache gesprochen, daß man
Proletariat, das ja wirklich in einer, man möchte sagen,
sich manche Spötter gefunden haben. Allein unter die
werden. Wenn man gerade mit einsichtigen Vertretern der
auseinandergesetzt hat — vielleicht hat man es besonders
in den ersten Jahren, in denen man bekanntgeworden ist
mit dieser Bewegung, mehr getan als später, wo man sich in
diese Dinge schon mehr hineingefunden, wo man sich mit ihnen
mehr abgefunden hatte, wo man doch wohl die Frage
sozialen Organismus betrachtet man innerhalb dieser
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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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herein angenommen hat. Mehr vielleicht, als heute mancher ahnt,
Kräfte des allerindividuellsten Verhaltens. Und man wird
kaum richtig verstehen können, wie man heute drinnensteht
und durchpulst ist von den sozialen Impulsen, wenn man nicht
Vorträge darauf hingewiesen, daß man nicht auskommt,
wenn man zum Verständnis einer solchen Sache einfach in
der Weise, wie man das gewohnt worden ist, das geschichtliche
betrachtet, so daß man immer mit Bezug auf das Folgende
Sprung die Wirkung des Vorhergehenden ist. Man muß, um den
Und nur weil man nicht tiefgehend genug den geschichtlichen
Hergang der Dinge beobachtet, weiß man nicht, wie radikal
der neueren Menschheitsentwickelung das ein, was man so
bezeichnen könnte, daß man sagt: Was früher in
ausführen kann wegen Mangel an Zeit — die Sache ist
gegenwärtigen Menschheit. Und man hat über
man den Blick nicht richtete, oder besser gesagt, daß man
instinktiv gewirkt haben, konnte man den sozialen
muß, ein solches Gebilde, das man in seinen
Empfunden hat man von
nationalökonomische — wie man es nun nennen will,
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Öffentlicher Vortrag: Das soziale Wollen als Grundlage einer neuen Wissenschaftsordnung
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Man kann durch lange
der neueren Zeit, der Gegenwart, und man konnte gerade
man sich vertieft in den zweiten Teil von
Mittelalters auch nach der Meinung Goethes darauf, daß man
Wesenhaftes ausdenken kann, daß man nach diesem
sagen, manchen Aberglaubens zu herrschen. Man beobachtet die
hat, man denkt sich aus gewisse Prinzipien, gewisse
man auf manchen Seiten hört, die sich selber verwirklichen
wollen, und dann meint man dadurch, mit abstrakten Prinzipien,
formen zu können, was man den sozialen Organismus nennen
Unbewußte der modernen Menschheit hin. Man braucht sich
ausrüsten muß. Will man sich aber mit einem
bewußten Wollen ausrüsten, so braucht man diesem
Man muß gewissermaßen mit seinem eigenen Wollen
Sie müssen daran denken lernen, daß man eigentlich so
gar nicht verfahren kann, daß man sich denkt: Was soll
Man kann gar nicht so verfahren. Man kann nichts
Krankheiten sind. Man kann nur seine besten Bestrebungen darauf
ergeben, daß man diese Grundfrage, die man gerade durch
betrachtet, daß man diese soziale Frage in drei Gliedern
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Title: Die Soziale Frage: Öffentlicher Vortrag: Welchen Sinn hat die Arbeit des modernen Proletariers?
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Vortrag angekündigt worden ist, wird mancher
der einen oder anderen Erkundung wird man vielleicht die
gegenwärtigen Zuständen, die für manchen, der
Dasjenige, was man
gestern erst entstanden. Es ist in der Art, in der man heute
Menschen, denjenigen Menschen, die man vielleicht am besten
dadurch bezeichnet, daß man sagt, es sind
Wirtschaftsordnung wohlgefühlt haben. Man konnte von
in der Zivilisation gebracht haben. Man konnte hören, was
verständigen; wie weit man dadurch gekommen ist,
daß die Menschen teilnehmen konnten an dem, was man das
geistige Leben nannte und von dem man sich vorstellte, daß
Man kann nicht sagen
manches zu erreichen versucht: es waren Brocken von dem, was
kann man sagen, trotzdem manches erreicht worden ist auf
man glaubte heraufziehen zu sehen? War es mehr, im Grunde
politisches Leben manches geleistet wurde, noch etwas
herbeigelassen, mancherlei marxistische oder ähnliche
schloß, hatte man einen guten Ausschnitt von alldem,
einzige ist die Arbeitskraft des Proletariers. Man muß
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
something which thinking humanity has been occupied with for
urgent for the evolution of humanity, but it has become a
war catastrophe which has broken over mankind during recent
particular and its correlation to humanity's mobility in the
the social demands appearing in the history of this time.
of humanity have been occupied with for an extremely long time.
humanity.
similar which for many decades have appeared within meetings
social question, it appears as an immense amount of human
labour in the minds of mankind. Never before has the social
the social demands are apparent in life itself. Despite all
placed before the life of the human soul. Something
day humanity. Something on which humanity has been preparing
things are discussed regarding many questions and various life
— that one can have human thought develop the highest measure
with universal human claims has never stood nearly as totally
Many people have fiercely shown how this modern proletarian
social movement originated from the evolution of humanity
scientific approach who considers all that is human, the
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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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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
manageable by doing a number of lectures.
properly observed evolutionary forces of humanity and in
humanity. If one tries to find a solution for the social
question through the aspirations or the demands of a state, of
organised forces within the social structure of the human
into the modern community. Besides this claim for human
could call the nerve of a comprehensive, many-sided observation
I don't mean anything other than a support of human
the most complicated organism — that of the human being
operative systems working side by side in the human form. These
way. One could say in the human, natural organism a system
to the second member of the human organism, in order to develop
human organism. I have tried, in full agreement with all the
aspect of the human being as an outline in my book
and science regarding the human organism which will see how
completely been adjusted to the example of the human organism
wait. Not with some or other expert but for every human soul
— because every human soul shares in the work of the
say an organisation of people, and on the other side, a human
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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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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
made an understanding between different classes of humanity
forces playing into communal human relationships, for them it
many, will stand out, that the modern Proletarian, considered
community, of human community-living and human actions, what
the evolution of humanity at the present time?’ — The
in humanity. Briefly, we are distracted from the proletarian
living conditions, with the manner in which they are positioned
example in the history of humanity that such an unused class, a
humanity at present, standing within the thought forms and
humanity. This narrow thinking breaks in everywhere where one
human soul experiences to be established as directional forces
Many people are filled with good will but not in one of them
everyday life. We find in the present time certainly many
inwardly find a distinguished manner of thinking, be it in a
ponder about the manner and way in which people could acquire
human beings, how they can become blessed. We notice how
management of ordinary trade. Life however is uniform. It can
best of will in relation to the community of fellow human
unbelievably much of what had led mankind into the present
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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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Circumstances for Current Humanity.
present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
Circumstances for Current Humanity.”
humanity is deeply influenced by the developments which social
able to understand their position within the human community
how its origins actually developed out of two different human
attention to this: the historical life of humanity in its
individual human beings there is no straight line of
course of human life can show how such critical changes also
current humanity is averse to such observation and listening,
mankind we can point out as having taken place at the turn of
which happens in the human soul as demands, as desires
demanding certain satisfaction; how that changes in relation to
the later times of man's evolution, something appears which can
human soul in earlier times; this social impulse led to the
shifting modern humanity radically away from the situation of
medieval and ancient humanity. Here we see immediately how with
be called the foremost, leading social class of humanity. The
their interests more or less to what many people held as the
the expansion of the human horizon of activities became ever
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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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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
manikin who would like to be on the way to becoming a human
being, developed out of the manikin. According to Goethe it
assimilated in the human mind into something with being,
instincts of many of our contemporaries who want to address the
could call, the unconscious part of modern humanity. It is only
this. The social life of humanity as such is admittedly nothing
recent times, by the human instincts and human subconscious
our more recent times is that humanity can no longer remain
This is something which wide circles of humanity still need to
from a social structure formed out of a life many experience as
human lives, humanity branched off more and more into the
developed a deep mistrust between the individual human classes.
not play a role in human consciousness, origins which have
point of view today. Many, also earlier personalities who
view sent roots and spread into human impulses as the modern
relationship with regards to human feelings for their sense of
side of human beings, who didn't invent the modern machine age,
could ask: ‘What am I worth as a human being? What am I really
many may see it, the actual, purely scientifically orientated
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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present-day humans. He expresses how the social will should be the
progressed. One can hear how it has come about that humanity
quickly come to an understanding; how far humanity has come
life give us what our human existence is worth? Why have we
humanity is ever more split into two divisions: in one in which
the most intensive way: ‘Can we have a dignified human
existence? How can we acquire a dignified human existence?’
Those who up to now had been the leaders of humanity have in
directions little has been accomplished. In the manner of the
scraps of what human dignity within a healthy economic order
hitherto leading class of mankind was opposed. So one can say
of humanity did. The one who feels it from quite another angle
many Marxist or similar terms to be taken into their national
understand its needs to be considered as a question of human
times worked right into the terrible and in many respects
clarity must be created in relation to the manner and way in
which human labour may flow into the social organism.
human labour in the healthy social organism. Here the question
intense manner. It must be asked: Can human labour ever really
will in fact ask: How can human labour legitimately be
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