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Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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Published at the Offices of the Anthroposophical Society in Great
Great Britain and Dominions, 15s. yearly, 3s. 9d. quarterly. Single

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture I
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knowledge. Nevertheless for real life love is the greatest
single child embodies this great question — not, how is
Today there is a great deal of talk about educational reform.
take shape. And so it goes on. There is a great deal of talk
no great interest in general theories, but so much the greater
interest is taken, however, in penetrating into the great
universal, great historical aspects, we shall also be able to
part in the great questions that face civilisation. The pupil

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture I
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great achievements that have resulted — with such
principles. (You will find them described in greater detail in
touch upon the great error made by materialism, for materialism
great moment in the development of a rightly-understood Natural
this, then we can turn our gaze to the great outer world, and
to find it now that we have the great wealth of Science behind
— albeit in the modern sense — and where the great

Title: Art of Healing: Lecture I
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great achievements that have resulted — with such
general principles. (You will find them described in greater
upon the great error made by materialism, for materialism
That will be the great moment in the development of a
turn our gaze to the great outer world, and can find there
to-day must aspire to find it now that we have the great wealth
— albeit in the modern sense — and where the great

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture II
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idea of continuing his Faust. The great scenes, the Prologue in
comparatively easy to complete his great works. For Schiller
many great qualities that he has gained in pre-earthly life,
than 20 years ago. But I was greatly concerned about this
life that he has been able to absorb a great deal between death
— tremendous not only in regard to its greatness, but in
is nothing of greater interest than to set himself the problem
being, with much greater, much more inward attention? And can
They would recognise how here above all great damage can be
the greatest importance which we must look into and understand.

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VII
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great many harmful tendencies that have arisen in the Society
spiritual Powers are responding with an ever greater measure of
grace, with even greater bounty, to what is streaming through the
Earth in order thereafter to work among men. With greater or less
no longer see in the Sun the great spiritual kingdom at whose centre
spiritual world for that great and powerful action of which I told
the first half of the nineteenth century. It was like a great cosmic,
came about that great and wonderful spiritual understanding, if I may
lit up once again. It was the great and illustrious School of
Chartres. In this School were great teachers to whom the mysteries of
John of Salisbury, but above all the great
living at the present time; this is the great and mighty change that
great secrets of existence — as to a certain degree were Alanus
Orleans. There, in the second half of the twelfth century, a great
great handmaiden of the Divine Demiurgos, by
they are the great celestial Instructors of the human race. —
world of stars, having traversed the “Great Cosmic Ocean,”
Scholasticism began. The great teachers in the School of Chartres had
think of an intervening period, when, as it were in a great heavenly
Council, the last of the great teachers of Chartres after they had
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture III
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great deal more misery connected with this than one usually
This is the great and fundamental principle which must form the

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VIII
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aberrations but also with its great technical achievements. Yet not
particular Gabriel Age is of great significance for the whole
is — if I may put it so — the great
difference is not always as great as it is between the Michael
can make its way into what is, to a great extent, a legacy from the
achieved for humanity, was of the very greatest possible
has the difference between two Ages of Michael been as great as that
Intellectuality. Michael was the greatest of the Archangels who
the campaigns of Alexander the Great in Africa and Asia.
departing!” ... such was their great and overwhelming
the time of Alexander. A great and mighty impulse went forth from
‘self-made’ thinkers could be observed. Hitherto, great
witnessed from the Sun. And within it was the great mystery: The
Raschid, this Court wielded great power over in Asia. Haroun al
were conversant with the great traditions of the Oriental Mysteries.
potent, and he appeared again as Amos Comenius (Komenski), the great
with great difficulties. The natural science of Aristotle had been
a great ‘heavenly conference.’ And when the most
century was this great question: What is taking place in the domain
led, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to a great,
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture IV
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develops predominantly. Now it is a matter of great importance
great variety of mammals. By leaving out this or that in the
greater work of art than this. For the human etheric body
ways that are not at all obvious; and we greatly err if we try
second has remained mobile and is not sclerotic. How great do
great pain in regard to much of what people think today, which

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IX
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School — a great and ever-widening
a super-sensible schooling in which the great Teacher, ordained by
great Teachers of humanity received truly spiritual ideas, thoughts,
the consciousness of these human souls. We will image forth the great
Initiation-Wisdom was “worked through.” In a great and
their impulses with all the greater strength.
something has become possible, something that is as great in a
necessity is great to receive it in absolute equableness of soul and
realm — to the greatest extent possible
great cosmic mirror — in which the individual, too, together

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture V
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in later life achieved great things, but who was regarded as a
myself took him around for days on end. He showed great
should have the deepest interest in, and pay the greatest
essential to exercise the greatest economy when teaching him
day's timetable with great exactitude: so much time must be
a great difficulty arises. It is a remarkable fact that where
this was something which gave them the greatest pleasure. And
attitude showed the greatest possible insight and they agreed
usually experienced great difficulty in maintaining discipline.

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture II
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of greatest moment in those parts of the human being that are
greater degree the character of sense-organ? We can say that
in an external form. There are, of course, a great many
peculiar feature of this plant is that it contains a great deal

Title: Art of Healing: Lecture II
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katabolism; it is of greatest moment in those parts of the
how are we to restore to it in a greater degree the character
external form. There are, of course, a great many different
contains a great deal of silicic acid. If we were to give

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VI
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conferences. We attach the greatest importance to our
in these 5 years they will have learned a great deal and out of
all kinds of questions. What he asks has usually no great
ask questions, this is undoubtedly of great significance.
time has great importance for the whole of his life. For what
same time winning their full confidence. Children suffer great,
circles, but greater. And it is particularly necessary
gratitude, then a great deal is done towards establishing in
great problems arise in an upright and honourable way.
the great perspectives of the world. In this case he carries

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VII
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try to make greater demands on the child's power of memory. If
education great value is laid on being able to enter into and
method of grouping has great advantages. Experience shows that
greatly if one tries to enter into the melancholy, tries to
loving sympathy. This can be of great help in the class.
start, showing great interest in everything, but whose interest
love of sugar. Perhaps he is given a great many sweets or
spiritual knowledge. It is hardly necessary to say how greatly
us now choose as an example someone who has to write a great
produced by the potato. The potato makes great demands on the
going at such a pace. He was, however, in a great hurry and
in a great heat, and then he was more communicative. I wanted

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VIII
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will have seen that in anthroposophical education great value
a great deal we do not know. Let us take an example from the
into it all immediately. It is therefore of great
thinking. I always feel it to be a great difficulty with the
recognise what is of the greatest importance in the teacher's
lay great value on just these kind of things, and again and
perhaps be a little poem, or even a great poem. You try to
whole picture in this way the child will show the greatest
Charles the Great lived from 760 until 814, so if the year 800 be
perhaps even a great-grandfather, that is to say 3 or 4
great-grandfather his hands on the shoulders of the
present day and the last can be Charles the Great. In this way

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture IX
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great deal, for in speech the whole upper part of the body is
characters possessing great will-power and as such could be
still greater limitation, an ever increasing striving after
This is the great change that has taken place in the world as
great inter-relationship of life.
great world catastrophe because human beings are now outside
the teachers of the 19th-century men of genius and great

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture X
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something really great must happen: now, because human beings
to achieve something great; there must be a complete change of
their task. All this happened before the great “freeing
great many non-churchmen who belong to no religious community,
have great difficulty in finding teachers for these free
then. The pupils accepted this with the greatest willingness
with great difficulties in the public life of today.

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture III
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greater degree is a foundation for the Spiritual.
far greater importance than the Ego and astral organisations,
in a normal way but there is too great a general tendency to
certain brief details before you. I could add a great deal
it.’ Great things result from this. But if we are to gain

Title: Art of Healing: Lecture III
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a much greater degree is a foundation for the Spiritual.
body and etheric body are of far greater importance than the
great a general tendency to create senses. This results in
great deal more, for we have already worked out and produced a
will try to cure it.' Great things result from this. But if we

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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is, as a fact of the very greatest significance to the whole
them search further and discover that a very great deal is
not only as a very great man, but as a Being who embraces the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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coincide with the physical body. There is a great secret
of a human being is, however, very much greater than when a
very greatest strength to change the physical body

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture III
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greatest Event in the evolution of Man and the Cosmos.

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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of these three bodies. We find the greatest wisdom in the
greatest wisdom can be seen just in the physical body. Only
grandchild and great-grandchild felt within them the some Ego
that had lived in the grandfather and great-grandfather. When
we know this we shall understand the secret of the great age
fire-spirits to air-spirits; but a great host of beings had
great Initiates have not cast the Serpent down but, like

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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experiences in the great astral tableau. Through these
of St.John's Gospel was a great Seer who was initiated by

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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begin. In our age we have a great development of science, and
conquest of matter, this great opponent of the Spirit; for
been reached. Christ Jesus appeared as the great Personality
Christianity will unite humanity into a great bond of
a still greater power and capacity in the sixth age to
continue, great epidemics of nervous diseases would break
great Healer, the Christ, approaches him; but when this

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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greater in the man of the Lemurian epoch; and still greater
and it is held with great tenacity, although new facts speak
“great Spirit” in the rustling of the trees in
thunder the Great Spirit announces to him what is right and
manifestations the voice of the great creative Spirit;
body over the physical body was so great that man was able to
of this great truth is to be preserved to succeeding times

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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great future ideal of the occult schools, that man shall
Age will take place the great Marriage of Humanity, when the
be united into a great bond of brotherhood, and ego will
unite in the Sixth Age into a great bond of brotherhood that
sentence, will experience the great and mighty result, that
goal of this great movement.

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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of the great images and ideas accessible to man when he reflects
perception possessed by another, could develop greater clarity and
super-sensible knowledge we encounter the great mysteries connected
be able to communicate a great deal to the first who might possibly
man a great deal as yet unknown to him.
we speak of the Christ Event, a source for us is also that great
matter of fact the difficulties are already great if a human being
realities prove too great an obstacle.

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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great Comforter, the great Benefactor of mankind, the Saviour of the
one of the great spiritual streams that flowed through the process of
one of the greatest streams of spiritual life in the evolution of
seem to you, to the ‘Enlightenment’ of the great Buddha. The
religion of love and compassion, as a great world-conception, and
task of that supremely great Individuality usually called the
is often a great deal that cannot be understood without knowledge of
this temptation he could disclose to men the great danger that would
‘Bodhi-tree’ the great Truths that can flash up in a man when,
impart to him. There dawned upon Buddha the great teachings he then
greatest of all happenings on the Earth was about to come to pass,
spiritual world, accomplished its greatest deed by shedding its
issue). This legend is given in great detail in the chapter entitled
The Great Retirement,

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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great Buddha demands the application of lofty conceptions and an
ascent to the pure, ethereal heights of the Spirit; a very great deal
understand this rejuvenation by paying close attention to the great
greatness and significance of the Individuality who incarnated at
great Greek thinker, that this faculty first arose from a human soul.
men was among the very greatest of teachings and will remain so for
of the great Buddha as the expression of what he experienced. He said
Hence the great
The great Buddha
incarnation. This, in effect, is what the great Buddha said. But to
he has before him, for a certain time, the great memory-tableau of
as a gift. It was to this effect that Buddha spoke in his great
knowledge that the great Buddha wished to impart to men, and he did
happening of great and far-reaching importance for the whole of Earth
expresses the great truth of the Bodhisattva becoming Buddha and
to-day and even greater depths of this mystery have still to be

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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appearance or are forthcoming in greater strength. Try to imagine how
would tackle his lessons with a far greater activity of soul and have
civilizations. Then we come to the great catastrophe which entirely
changed the face of the Earth. Before that catastrophe a great
Through the great Atlantean catastrophe the whole countenance of the
catastrophe drew near, the great clairvoyant leaders and priests,
come to the Earth during its great winter. The weaker souls had to
there were great sanctuaries where Initiates worked. These sanctuaries
Only a few chosen pupils could be instructed in the great Sun Oracle.
Sun Oracle to which the other Oracles were subordinate was the greatest
of the great catastrophe was approaching, the Manu assumed the task of
environment of the great Initiate. The whole of the teaching imparted
sanctuary under the great Initiate of the Sun Oracle.
after the advent of the great Buddha, there dawned a very crucial
on; great and notable leaders of humanity were at all times
and more mature; he rose to stages of greater maturity but thereby
great deal for humanity, but he would have had to sacrifice his
the greatest Individualities who have worked in the course of human
the great Spirit who later appeared as Christ; it was he who proclaimed:
significance for humanity he proclaimed. A spirit of great maturity
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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great Streams inspired by Buddha and by Zarathustra converge in
Every great spiritual
once received the teaching concerning Ahura Mazdao, the great Sun
The great differences
tasks are allotted to the great Individualities when we find in
Buddhism all that man can experience in his own soul as his great
regarded as a self-contained being apart from the great Universe
the great Cosmos spiritually. Buddha directed man's attention to his own
‘Amshaspands’, the great Genii,
he pointed to the great Genii, to the powers and forces outside man.
every exhalation you may make an offering to the great Spirit!’
necessarily different from that of the other great missionaries of
such an Individuality is destined to fulfil a great mission. The Ego
pupils might rightly be called, not only great ‘Magi’, great
felt that they were intimately connected with their great leader. They
world as an event of great significance and it was announced, not to
humanity. Where the great Manu guides and directs the processes of
direction of the great Mother-Lodge of humanity in the central
from the great Mother-Lodge to a certain place. But the same Ego that
Events of great
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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First and foremost we must learn to know the great central Figure of
Nirmanakaya? No indeed! A human body of great perfection had to be
in order that men in Asia Minor might receive in greater freshness,
represented by the great Buddha a second stream should run its course
his teachings about the great spiritual laws and beings of the Cosmos
Judged by the great wisdom of the world, man's worth lies in whatever
in the body of the Nathan Jesus, entered upon His great

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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periods too, the process is a gradual one. As is described in greater
great importance of this knowledge for the teacher has been
The great leaders and leading figures of humanity have also known why
the visions set down in his great poem. At the very beginning of the
possible only to an Ego of great maturity — an Ego that had
well imagine, the great helper of those who have endeavoured to understand
stands behind the great spiritual figures of Christianity, ever
teaching what the great Event of Palestine signifies.
in the course of great happenings in the Cosmos this sublime Being
Moses, the great forerunner of Christ Jesus.
of the Sun's light. The great Teachers of humanity in ancient India
bring about the great Event. It is now on our lips to ask: What is
This question brings us to the threshold of one of the greatest
twelve such Bodhisattvas. They belong to that great community of
Earth as a special emissary, as one of the great Teachers. A Lodge of
Bodhisattvas. They are Teachers, the great Inspirers of one portion
epoch to epoch? — If you were able to look into the great
the great Spirit-Lodge grouped around One who is their Centre; they are
whom we call the Christ. He is the Leader and Guide of the great
had an inkling of the great secrets of evolution or acquired
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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kind of historical prelude to the great Christ Event. But we now know
undergone constant and very great changes. Historical documents cover
having developed the Ego-consciousness of to-day, by far the greater
to-day, the forces and qualities of the soul had considerably greater
clairvoyant consciousness and on the other to wield great power over
soul; this gave it greater power over the physical body, with the
gradually gain greater strength in the souls of men and therewith the
the soul-and-spirit will again acquire great power over the physical
corresponding to the great spiritual realities of the Universe this
being of man himself. Spiritual science is the great remedy for souls
only to stimulate the intellect but to imbue the soul with greater
and greater warmth, then the soul will become strong enough to
in our own time to present great truths relating to happenings such
‘I can now understand a great deal that hitherto seemed
appeared again on Earth — when I see there how one great stream
The great truths can
bestow upon us no greater boon than this. The ‘lesser’ truths
will satisfy our longing for knowledge; the ‘great’ truths
mountain air upon impaired physical health. The great spiritual
have been able to work as He did at that time or become the great
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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treasures — actually the greatest and most significant spiritual
they are not, as I will show you in still greater detail.
Buddha brought to mankind the great teaching of compassion and love.
itself as a living power to the Earth. That is the great difference.
great teaching of compassion and love brought by Buddha is given
greatest perfection? How can I purify my Ego most completely? What
greatest perfection that it is possible to conceive. Everything is a
bodies of those around Him. The impulse given by the great Buddha
great Buddha lived on the Earth; in about three thousand years from
the great Buddha, in three thousand years from now humanity would
The great proclamation is to be made to the shepherds. Above them is the
question: ‘How shall the Ego achieve the greatest possible
The words of greatest
point of great significance: a cardinal principle of Christianity,

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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no indication of the great Law of Karma, of the adjustment effected
it is not always the task of the great emissaries in world-evolution
great pioneers and missionaries must speak in such a way that men
teaching received by humanity through the great Buddha contains, in
great in heaven” — i.e. in the spiritual worlds.
6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. \
7:16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people. \
in the young man of Nain subsequently appeared as a great teacher of
7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. \
fact of which I have just spoken, a great change has taken place in
(For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greatLuke VII, 28):
women there is not a greater prophet than John the
which unites with the man from the kingdom of God is greater than
found to contain physiological truths of far greater significance
The great secret of Initiation was that the soul, prepared by long
(See The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greatLuke XI, 31.)
‘A greater than Solomon, a greater than Jonah is here’ —
this saying? Greater and greater numbers will, however, eventually
greatest,” that is, which of them was most fitted to receive
9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great. \
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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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ego are outpoured into the great world bordering on physical
which in the Macrocosm, the great Universe, lie one above the other.
acquire greater moral strength. We go to sleep in order that we may
wherein the most fruitful ideas for daily life and great inventions
vary greatly in different individuals. Sleeping human beings differ
in uniting with it, constituted an Event of the greatest possible
greater and greater numbers of people. This will inevitably come to
No word shall be said here against the great advances made by culture
no such destruction took place, for the great achievements of
of the ancient Rishis it was the great hope of Oriental Mysticism that
within a period of 5,000 years after the great Buddha achieved
proclaim the great secrets of existence. He will speak in a language
then do we live as building stones in that great work of construction
of the great Universe and all the members of our constitution —

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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great world bordering directly on our physical existence. We could
three realms which, in the macrocosm, the great world, lie one above
we are to acquire greater moral strength. We sink into sleep in order
and great inventions. Then during sleep, when we dream, these dreams
rays vary greatly in different individuals. Sleeping human beings
differ greatly from one another, and if those who are a little vain
which, in uniting with it, constituted an event of the greatest
greater and greater numbers of people. This will inevitably come to
No word shall be said here against the great advances
since only the decaying earth can use the great achievements of
conditions which, as in so much else, are only described in the great
ancient Rishis it was the great hope of Oriental mysticism that this
picture that within a period of 5,000 years after the great Buddha
be given at the present time, will proclaim the great secrets of
only then do we live as living building stones in that great
great world, and all the members of our constitution — the

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
which made a great stir in the middle of the nineteenth
1836, exercised a great influence on those of his
great impression. The remarkable thing about him was that on
idolatry which disgraces the original greatness of the
questions are already taking on a greater profundity. What
ascribed those two great poems which are among the greatest
only really great men can. Remember his relation with
from very ancient times, a man of great all-embracing
the great philosopher Empedocles
reincarnation or karma, when they were considering a great
perceive that when great men of earlier times reappear in a
powerfully that the great men of antiquity, who had been in
had to be transformed and altered so that great souls
working of the Event of Golgotha, the greatest of all

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
reason for such a great change will become evident only from
the earth will the great impulses that may be ascribed to
beginning of its great development. If we wish to play a part
in this great development, we must enter with understanding
of the great Jewish prophets and kings until the whole soars
the great initiate of antiquity, of the primeval Persian
free again by Alexander the Great?
again by Alexander the Great. What then remained was the
the great spiritual leaders of the earth in ancient times, to
something of this kind. But as we proceed, we observe a great
ever greater as we follow the Old Testament from the
the Baptist directly referred to as a great figure.
greatness and simplicity of Mark's Gospel, may best be
simplicity and the artistic greatness of the Bible, quite
was the first who, as we might say, had the great success of
everything else aside, human evolution is itself the greatest
matter of course among the great leaders of humanity. Just as

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
appear, so to speak, in his full greatness. I have often
the priests of Baal because no spiritual greatness was
manifested by the god Baal, whereas the greatness and
great spirit who roamed invisibly through the land of Ahab.
science shows him to have been too great to dwell altogether
bosom. This was the great fact now proclaimed by Elijah-John
great crowd,” by which could be meant only the
too great to be able to enter into a single personality but
that there is something about Raphael like a great aura
something of the great cosmic impulses that live through the
came out He saw a great crowd, and had compassion on them,
first glance at the manner in which the great physicians and

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
there arose the great and mighty movement that began and
part in what is called Nirvana. This is the great teaching
and correctly the impulse that went out from the great sermon
thinking, feeling, and perception the great figure of the
of Socrates by the great philosopher Plato,
the great philosopher Aristotle.
of no greater contrast than that between the Buddha and
lines, “It is through great leaders that humanity moves
with a great individuality around whom gather pupils and
we characterized the relation with the greatest clarity we
have before your souls one of the greatest examples of the
The Buddha was the great preserver of the sentient soul
preserving the greatness of the past, while the West in an
There is a great and continuous development that comes to an
again descends to it. It was a great age that came to an end

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
more clearly how far the Buddha represented the great
minds his great predecessor who recedes far back into the
that can never again be repeated, whose greatness of its kind
among the water I am the great cosmic sea, among the rivers I
said that could never have been expressed in a greater or
have been spoken in a greater or more significant manner.
believe they are able to think with great subtlety. But when
great and powerful. And everything that has been said here
characteristic of Krishna: great powerful clairvoyant
is expressed in great powerful words in Krishna's
again the greater one who was my predecessor. Turn your mind
backward to the Krishna who was greater than I, and you will
given by Krishna. “I have come after him who is greater
greater than I.” These are the world-historical tones
Krishna who is greater than I; and I will show you the way
“After me there will come one greater than I.”
greater than I the time will be fulfilled. Then the divine
necessary to go into the greatness of what came to its

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last ten years the masters' grace has brought a great many

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
ours, until there is again a great catastrophe. This
is progress. The Old Testament is the first great example of
what had gone before. Great and significant things were
the greatest importance is given to recurrence. This was a
year. Thus the individual great initiates appeared in each
the Old Testament, is blended as in a great harmony or
makes greater demands on His disciples than before. He calls
times it was the initiates who were the great leaders of
become initiates by means such as these who were the great
greatest world-historical decision, when He resolved that
passage we have to do with the greatest monologue in world
history, the greatest that has ever taken place in the whole

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
precisely what we called yesterday the “greatest
what we called yesterday the “greatest monologue in
the soul of Christ Jesus was like a harmony, a great
the great world-historical monologue of Christ Jesus. It is
is compatible with the greatness of the ego, and the
great turning point of human evolution that the understanding
truth of this great nodal point in the evolution of mankind.
the great cultural flowering of the first post-Atlantean
to be greatly superior to those ancient philosophers. He
only in the West, comes the great monologue of the God, of

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about something unknown and great can never feel devotion in later
blissful feeling creates the greatest egoity, and that's why
conscience. A man must have advanced a great deal here, must have

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
of St. Mark directly after the great world-historical
third thing, and all three are of the greatest and most
greatest exertion, one might say, is necessary to bring forth
great monologue of God comes a conversation among these
is the great significance of the restoration of Isaac
the facts. It was indeed a preparation for that great
initiated into these great cosmic secrets. And from all these
truly point to the great revolution that really happened at
it is of great significance for the progress of our
of the senses attaches great value. The Gospel here chooses a

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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
greatness of Greek art consists in the fact that it has come
right to expect the greatest understanding of the Mystery of
over Palestine, but were beginning to spread over the greater
Mark Gospel; and in it answers are given, and with great
10:48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me. \
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. \
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of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle Steiner helps us grasp
about Charlemagne, Otto the Great and similar personalities.
allows us to feel most clearly the whole cosmic greatness and
description of the cosmic greatness of Christ precisely
particularly the greatest works of Egyptian culture that sank
anthroposophical,” then a great fuss is immediately
profound understanding of how the greatest impulse lives in
in greatness with what is before us in the Son of
things in this way, then the great difference becomes visible
characterized somewhat as follows, “How greatly deluded
overpowering greatness of the Gospels, as, for instance, the
presented to them. In every detail the Gospels are great, and
Mark Gospel. Of course if I were to point out all the great
use it, is able to grasp spiritual ideas with greater
else but the great appeal to man's self-knowledge, a
feelings that arise in us when we think of the great

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the greatest difference we might find between the two periods is that
specific point if we really want to understand the great importance
misunderstood. People are greatly inclined to prejudice, and whenever
During his great
his soul is so great that, when he compared it to his physical
great relief for someone fully involved in modern culture, in science
things; they have taken up a great deal of human energy. But who
is only with great sorrow one lives through the events that had to be

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Epistles. This greatest of earthly events was prepared for by three
the greatest misfortune for earthly man if certain sections of his being
be a great misfortune because our senses now work in our bodies in a
our vital organs were subdued and harmonized resulted from the great
Mystery wisdom, “The great Sun Spirit, Who in the future will live as a
I admit that it may seem strange when I say that this great Being was
spiritualized by the Christ impulse. Christ, as the great Sun Spirit,
for Christ did not appear to one nation only but, being the great Sun

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There are two aspects of this beautiful saying of the great Mystic
human beings passing from incarnation to incarnation attain greater
and greater understanding of the real nature of Christ. And we have
Christ Mystery greater than any that was possible at that time. With
great riddles to the best souls. Men have been reaching out for an
greatness, the higher the soul's vision soars into the realms of
veil should be drawn over the great Event, because men were no longer
the greatest of all festivals of consecration, the festival that rings
aura of the other boy was illumined by the forces of the great Buddha.
greater fruition. But men must know Who the Christ was before they can
there are individuals — in greater and greater numbers — who resolve

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apathy which passes everything by and occasions great moral
to think with greater readiness of what is spiritual and to
great dangers to be found at this point should be
truth is something which must, to a great extent, be lacking
extreme, and not universal to any great extent, still the
for great spiritual truths. Although Anthroposophy is still
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
Christ-impulse. We see humanity in perspective like a great
great organism, and through their own deeds form their
foundations, in the course of earthly evolution, for a great
reasonable world may be considered as a great immortal
Through the Mystery of Golgotha the greater individual
with a great immortal individual. The thought that the
great individual, is realised in the second principle:
you away and separates you from the great individual, you
great immortal individual in the way above described, that

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there is a saying of his, which is greatly illuminated by
with our thinking as employed in ordinary life, the greater our
greater conviction concerning the dependence of the thinking
real dreams, but dreams that have great power over our inner
only to a far greater degree — thinking something through
greater detail on another occasion, I would only stress now
immersed itself for a time in the greatness of the scientific
has led science to its great successes does not lead us beyond

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great and mighty, something that endeavoured, in the time now lying
behind the Gospels is infinitely great — greater by far than anything
fragments of this great Gnostic conception of Christ have survived.
must be guided to bodies in which the great symbols of Solomon's
had taken place, the great secret that was intended to be mirrored in
presented by certain mystic sects to-day; the Mystery-truths are great
existence on the earth — it was this that, with greater depth than
at the time of greatest cold, towards our New Year, was regarded as an
destined for greatness is born. It is the child who is the first to be
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
The great goal for which man must strive is the attainment of the
them. And then an ever greater understanding of the Christ will take
Mystery-knowledge with a great and renewed Gnosis.
mankind no child's play but great and earnest, soul-shaking truths.
be shaken by greatness.
spirit-being. And just as the greatest human genius could not stand at
speak of them at greater length you would find that there are deep

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of the greatest mysteries of human knowledge and human life.
Gnosis was something powerful, something great, for that time
behind the Gospels is infinitely great, greater than anything that
dust before the greatness of this picture of the Christ-Being Who
great Gnostic concept of Christ remain.
Golgotha had taken its course, then this great Mystery of Golgotha
comprehensible. You have only to compare the greatness and majesty of
holiest hour and who was destined for great things it reminded them
unimaginably great, not with the kind of triviality so often
taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it
Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which
It is to this greatness that human beings must ascend: They must
Mystery-knowledge and a renewed great flourishing of Gnosis.
has to say to mankind are no childish games but great and serious
The earth is not only a great living creature. It is also a lofty
spiritual being. Just as a great human genius cannot evolve to full

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death, with fading. You notice that it is a great, important
followers of anthroposophy misunderstood me to the greatest
physical scientist. Just the greatest experts spoke this way.

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competently. This is true to the greatest extent in particular
believe to the greatest extent: well, one can know everything

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are called that way. Thereby once a blissful, often great
mental pictures. Because it has achieved great results, it has
something great will arise for the progress of humanity.

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the scientific concepts, which celebrated the greatest triumphs
great aesthetician and philosopher Friedrich Theodor Vischer
materialism of natural sciences as something great.
just to bring in a great personality as an example of that what
the greatest: when Schiller started his professorship in Jena
This is the lesson that even such a great man like Schiller
may say that the great persons of the past already realised

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virgin birth. The greater part of modern humanity is much more
greatest reformers and martyrs who have ever lived on earth, we
would have seen in such a claim as great a blasphemy as would
the greater truth and correctness of their morality more than
sense of which was recognized by some of the greatest thinkers,
century. He was therefore good enough to be as great as those
wonderful of human beings, I have found much that greatly
feeling. Everything great that I had formerly loved, even when
nineteenth century. Thus she says that everything great that
that have been said about the greatest mystery of earthly
through French influence between greater India and China over
desires, among other things, to proclaim the great significance
filled with love for the great being for whom the deeds, in
has led, in these catastrophic times, to some of the greatest

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This is the great discovery that you can do. Indeed, you find
great discovery that you have. You can observe the

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had repeatedly to remind of the famous speech of the great
sciences with all their great achievements has become great

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spiritual pillars upon which are inscribed the two great
man wills to look upon the two great mysteries. And, as it thus
conception have approached in manifold ways the great
Christmas thought and the great Easter thought. During the
formed for themselves the great and powerful imagination of the
by little develops to an ever greater perfection, growing out
nature with the greatest intensity when we see a child
in order to discharge the great duties which are to be assigned
when they have looked in the right way at the two great pillars

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before the human soul in its contemplation are inscribed the two great
two great mysteries in their relation to Christmas and Easter, we find
to greater and greater perfection, growing out of vague subconscious
not of this earth. One is then confronting another great mystery of
then we will find the power that mankind must find for the great tasks
in the right way the two great pillars of the spirit, Christmas and

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ages. Plutarch is a writer from whom we can learn a great deal
And this experience brings man to greater consciousness of self. The
In the ancient civilisations — and herein lies the great difference
In this matter we labour under great illusion; we dream, and we cling
philosophy. They make a great mistake who assert that at one time of

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contemptuously, or at least with great doubt. The
great questions of existence present themselves when a man
humanness, — those great questions of existence
now the great question concerning a knowledge of spirit may be
us imagine that we are in a great city where there is a
greater harmony into our relation with the demands of the moral
pain at its loss would not have been so great, for then one
The pain of those who loved it is so great that it cannot be

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opposed Kepler's discoveries. The greatest efforts were needed before his teachings could
a grandchild. In the space of 7 times 1428 days after her death, a great-grandchild was

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great deal in respect of a change that is becoming increasingly
may greatly astonish those who have no knowledge of these things. It
to the souls of the dead with much greater power than is the case
nothing. For as regards the state of sleep there is a great difference
From such insights a great deal can be learnt about the mutual
that very great service can be rendered to the souls of those who have
far greater complexity than is generally believed. What takes its
soul. In the unconscious depths of his soul there is a great deal
and rabidly opposed. Great antipathy to Anthroposophy then develops in
you may often be rendering them the greatest service imaginable.
about the great painter Leonardo da Vinci, particularly about his
subject to the influences of the great movements of the celestial
Things in the physical world present the greatest difficulty of all to

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beautiful journey across the great mountains, which give us so
necessary now and will become more and more necessary, will greatly
we come upon something which must greatly surprise anyone ignorant of
anything nourishing. For there is a very great difference between one
Particularly in our present time great famines can be observed in the
and there are a great number of persons who consider it childish to
cultivate it in groups, for it is of great importance that persons who
great help to read to him after death. This has been done in all ages.
was very greatly helped, and felt himself lifted above many
to make investigations in the spiritual world concerning the great
greater events, such as the passage of the human soul through death
of the greater heavenly movements than what is in a sense

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that remain after the greater part of them have been applied in
Again, it might be argued: But a great many people have no pet
still other forces which make it possible to see in greater detail
There is something that entails the exercise of a great many forces
great deal that for the first time makes life really comprehensible.
great value to the soul. It even happens that the eyes of a soul are
soul particularly values and greatly loves. One of the experiences in
great difference: when a man on earth looks up-wards to the heavens
spiritual world, however, is able to see with great exactitude the
might become their parents. In earlier epochs this was of greater
wisdom manifesting in the aura of a child is often far greater than
they may lead to the greatest occult abuses. The forces of
speaks a great deal — fallaciously for the most part — about
a great deal of malpractice, especially to a definite occult
knowledge of the great spiritual conditions in world-existence is
world. Man is revealed to us as a being occupying a place of great
greatest cultural achievements are having the effect of making men
necessary Anthroposophy is to humanity, how great is men's need of it
Our culture will make greater and greater progress; but true as it is

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great significance of what we call reincarnation. He may ask:
to observe the forces which remain behind after the greater proportion
great universal viewpoints described in Occult Science, but
great deal which enables one to understand life as never before.
so much and the books he wishes so much to read, with great
souls with great clearness, even as the earth-man on his part sees his
Heaven with great indistinctness. This is merely a picture, but it
incarnations. Such external stimuli are sometimes of' great importance
is surrounded in its aura by the forces the greater part of which are
something a great deal more interesting than what can be seen in the
immeasurably great and filled with wisdom. That wisdom is often much
greater than a human being can put into words in later life. The
instincts of man, and may then lead to the greatest occult depravity.
clairvoyant who talks a great deal — mostly nonsense — about
Sometimes these forces lead to great nonsense, and particularly to
We see, therefore, that the great world-relations, the great spiritual
facts of that life, and how, even through the greatest acquirements of
materialistic. Just because the great facts of external life must make
the greatest achievements of civilisation, external life must
must become greater and greater and make more progress; but although

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exercise an extraordinary influence. We see this great effect in plays
Shakespeare's dramas are above all character-dramas. The great
create such great ones. He was thoroughly acquainted with the stage,
to some extent some of the greatest qualities in his plays: the bold
IT” and some of the Kings' plays do not differ so greatly from
great character-plays which were to establish his fame for all times
great play “OTHELLO”.
the effect produced by the characters must have been even greater than

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influence. We see this great effect in plays that have
plays are above all character dramas. The great interest which
create such great ones. He was thoroughly acquainted with the
extent some of the greatest qualities in his plays: the bold
greatly from the plays of his contemporaries, of Marlowe
fashion in those days. The great character-plays, which were to
characters must have been much greater than today.
greater: through the power of characterization which remains

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the “Spirit” in the age of the great
Great men have the faults of their virtues. It is our task to
Origin of Man” differ greatly. But the Anthroposophist
great scientist Carl Gegenbauer, said of Darwinism.
opinion of Karl von Linne, the great Natural Scientist of the
greatest benefactors of mankind.”
the great English Scientist, has proved, there is much more
ever-growing circles, and is a great hindrance to any other
heard from the great Eastern Teachers cannot become
so very great. Therefore certain conditions of life, into which
explain how mammals evolve, for there is a greater difference
highest and lowest human souls is greater than the one between
accused of not recognising the great merits of these “new
believers,” for he greatly appreciates their merits in
expressed his sense of their great worth in his book,
or the great laws of cause and effect in spiritual life. Those
would perhaps perceive a great difference in the two instances

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this question. But just the admiration of Haeckel’s great achievements
his great discoveries in biology, would he have limited himself to examine
The great laws exist everywhere,

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Iron, great laws
knowledge the influence of a great poet is based, namely: how much closer
that Confucius, that all the great founders of the different religions
depends on the time in which he lives. Aristotle, the great scholar
itself, but by the great teachers helping this human race.
There must also be great
These great teachers who
because the human beings would not understand their language. The great

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find our great discoveries and inventions, our sciences and what they
science teaches and recommends living, all great laws which it makes
to a book. One says it is a great merit of Feuerbach,
as for example Du Bois-Reymond, the great physiologist: I would believe
in a great, nice, worthy and valued whole if the harmonious pleasure

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by a philosopher. One says that the great mental achievement of Immanuel
the value experience has facing the world in this way? This is the great
important knowledge of the great physiologist Johannes

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great physiologist Johannes Müller found the law of the
Also a philosopher who had great influence — also in pedagogy: Herbart.

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Schopenhauer, Kant and similar great German thinkers. I tried to show at the
philosophy. As far as that is concerned, the greatest spirits have never thought
He knows what real knowledge is even if he has not still come to the great thing

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great thing about the Christian religion, that for all of its
teachers, leaders and great initiates, whose symbol is the snake. It's
difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for
of feeling in a great, mighty personality, the carrier of the highest

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which had been of great importance in earlier times, now glimmered
accordance with the great Laws of Nature. Two vistas lay before the
definite. The Egyptians attached greater importance to preservation of
wherever in the traditions, [are] men of great strength and are in the
element, into the great idea of the organization of States. The
found where the greatest number of spiritual impulses had been given,
family out of which an Initiate was to issue was selected with great
mankind itself. None of the Great Leaders who brought men forward, who
other worlds the great impulses they had to give to the earth. The
those who were political leaders and leaders of great religious

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big topic in great detail and comprehensiveness, and, hence, I ask you to make
thereby differs quite substantially from the time of the great spirits who developed
temples. Christ, like all great teachers, taught his adherents in the inside
Bethlehem and not in you, you are still lost forever.” The great mystic

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life had received another physiognomy. Great naturalists postpone the dawning
like the great English chemist Crookes, did completely commit to spiritism?
the great chemist, knew to which extent nature follows the sensuous laws, to
and he found — independently of each other — the great thought of
and the attitude of these great men.
the great emissaries of the Theosophical Society, went out from the spiritistic
them are able to give evidence of them. These great beings are the leaders of
and calls it the great brotherhood of the so-called adepts. Who believes honestly
to you. It is a great difference whether you go into a den of criminals with
great goal. Not fight, but unity between both movements is necessary which should

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greatest possible effect with the slightest expenditure of energy, one could

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spiritual experiences which the primitive human being has to a greater extent
life. There you only need to take a great German spirit, then you will get an
This forms the basis of all great
it is the great educator of the soul from desire to love, and that it pulls
and the great, only reality is the sublime, shining light of the spirit. What
— as the great mystic Jacob Böhme says —

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the heavenly wisdom. Plato revered his great teacher Socrates particularly because
and the admirers of Ernst Haeckel — as a great man of science more than
I myself. But great human beings also have big shortcomings, and thus it may
find the body and its functions, but nowhere a soul. The great moralist of Darwinism,
of modern psychology, nothing of the discoveries of the great Johannes Müller
There Nagasena answered using another metaphor: how have you come, great king,
By the way, the great anatomist Metchnikoff reckoned that
great discoveries in the field of the theory of electricity that the modern
which have led the first Christians and the great Christian Church Fathers to
founded his psychology at the end of the great Greek philosophical epoch. For
Kepler, this great astronomer, read through what he says about this basic phenomenon
the spirit. The saying of the great Kepler that the laws won in a lonesome study

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else than the transformed foodstuffs which the great poet Shakespeare had eaten.
a way as once Galileo discovered the great pendulum law when the sense dawned
the recently deceased great English philosopher, has shown. He realised —
to the principle of energy conservation. This is the great principle which controls
to our psychology. Listen to the discoverer of this principle, one of the greatest
and prepared Darwin is Lyell, the great English geologist.
eternal being. Today, I have shown that those who consider destiny as the great

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his pupils. During the next hours the end of the great teacher must happen.
the great teaching of the human soul and the human mind to them. He makes it
souls, we think of two things. Plato, the great sage of Greece, tries to support
this great teaching, why does it make sense to them? It makes sense to them
be the determining factor. If the great basic principles of the theosophical
natural force with really unselfish human beings. About the great, true sages
ethics indicate with the nice, great words:

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I should like to ask you, by means of the example of a great
in study, we find, not only the great Poet very pre-eminently there,
inexhaustible fund of greatness. And if we have learned to add to our
This was the question for the Mystics of all ages; and this great
himself took a great deal of trouble to become acquainted with the
spiritually. All that the great Spirits have disclosed about the
substances and metals in the retorts, and they took great trouble to
cultivates (frohmen) his passions, the River throws up great waves.
found the three great priests of Initiation; these priests were
the evening, when the shadow of the great giant is thrown across the
twilight. What is this shadow of the great giant? Goethe went into
beautiful Lily. The Lamp has one great peculiarity, everything dead
perceptible. Everything man does on the road to the great goal, until
any light of her own. This might be gone into more fully, in greater
So let us hurry on to the great procession in which we encounter a
showing them the great course of the evolution of man, of the

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great sensation, have experienced many editions and conquered hearts and souls.
however, as single great spirits have owned it, it could not been given to the
others as great spirits if this materialistic scholarship has brought it so
find symptoms of insanities with the great spirits who are regarded as leaders
this theosophical attitude with the attitude of theosophists, of great, lofty

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the Vatican Library, where it is guarded with the greatest care. To
purely soul-spirit nature. That was the reason for the great contrast
lacking then — one thing of great importance, if not of the utmost
was also the endeavour of all the great founders of religion, that
(In the last day, that greatJohn 7, 37):
‘In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
mankind's greatest Representative. Therefore it is also said:
human spirit, as the great symbol of mankind's struggle for freedom,
which emanates from the great Masters, which flows through a few
great Adepts, who are the founders of our spiritual movement — not our

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though you make a great effort to do so”. If we consider this
century, which had a great influence on culture, this knowledge was in
only through great exertion. When this knowledge was first made public
whom I greatly respect, who energetically stood up for oriental
secrets still contained great treasures of ancient literature, but
great Brahmin Sanskrit scholar heard about this from Mrs. Blavatsky,
verses by herself we would be facing an even greater wonder.
criticizing the great care and the exact mosaic work the scholars have
celebrated its greatest triumphs in the 19th century.
thinking. The great teachers of the Orient did not have this
us, we will see for ourselves the great goal to which we are heading:

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and the great organiser, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, went out from the spiritistic
to the physical science. On the other side, in the great spiritual movements
give one example, the great representative of the occult science of the 16th
You will not deny that that has a great cultural-historical significance. However,
aware that all the spiritual movements must converge at a great goal at last
by anything that is analogous to the sensuous. Therefore, he says the great

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towards man?” The great cosmic event had to occur; the human

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to show how difficult it is to bring certain great phenomena in the life of
assure you that I have the greatest respect to many a scholar with regard to
it was a certain Stone who caused great sensation and became a talking point.
with this field which is so subjected to deception that even great scholars

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mean the great transformations within the universe, and we include the
hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual
During the middle of the Lemurian age the great event occurred which

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last time that a great number of occult secrets
ask you to visualise the following. The greater the importance
during the Great Plague, was able to foretell the future. He wrote a
form and not stated openly? I must here remind you that the great
would be a great sin, a sin against mankind. But to deny him this knowledge

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are missing. A statement is characteristic which a great naturalist
his needs. There were not few people who received the books with great
researchers like Max Müller and his great colleagues initiated
This legacy of the great

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utterance to things in this way of course had great power over his

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today. If, for example, the great English researcher Darwin was asked for his
the great sentence that the physiologist Johannes Müller
to rise to the spiritual again in future. In great pictures this piece of art,
his heart is saved by Zeus. This is the performance of a great human drama;
The great spirits have expressed

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beings to-day. Mankind was guided by great leaders and teachers whom
also guided by great initiates, but our initiate are different from
what this difference was. There is a great difference between the
to the paths that are to lead over into the future. The great
The saga thus expresses great cosmic truths. That is why I said at the
those schools as the great destiny of man. Just as I was able to show

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whole development of our fifth Great Epoch. At the same time you will
time in great torment.
with all the outward attributes of the man of the fifth great epoch.
this saga lies the whole history of the fifth Great Epoch and true mystery
the future of the fifth Great Epoch. An understanding of this is only
leadership of great teachers and guides, whom we call the ‘Sons
of Fire-Mist’. At present, humanity of the fifth Great Epoch is
also led by great initiates, but our initiates today are of a
fifth Great Epoch took its start from a handful of men, who had been
sifted out from the previous Great Epoch. They were collected
already great masters and advanced leaders of humanity, and we have
these great masters who are leaders of the fifth Root Race is
sixth Root Race will be the first great epoch to have as its Manu one
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fifth Great Epoch.
drive locomotives and move loads, so Atlantean man had great
minerals. Thus the Manas of the fifth Great Epoch is bound up with the
comprehensive view of it you will see that, however great and
will see how great and mighty are the forces which have been put at
chained by the mineral fetters in the fifth Great Epoch.
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physical body that is of the greatest significance for him. The
that in that epoch man had greater power over his etheric body
great inventor, or discoverer, or king is established as a principle
sublime, majestic spirit-world of the Brahmans. The great light-sides

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stimulation from the East, from India. From there the first great teachings
In the first chapter of this book it is pointed to the great teachers
else than great initiators in the spiritual fields. Indeed, their development
great initiators to us; however, they do not demand the belief in any
great German philosopher. He still spoke in such a sense that one can
carried out, of course, with the greatest care, because illusions of

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the great wisdom teaching of Manu4 who, in the sub-race

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drawn down from the heights of spirit has been gathered into a great,
Me.” These words were uttered by the great Christian Master
Flesh, the One Who in the great Universe can be seen with eyes, heard
is great similarity. This similarity in the Annunciation, in the years
they who do not see and yet believe. This epitomizes the great,
seclusion of the Mystery-Temples, attained through vision of the great
enacted on the great stage of outer world-existence. What came to pass
indicated what I have said in words of great profundity. All the

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History of the Middle Ages to the Great Inventions and Discoveries -
the modern epoch, to the time of the great discoveries, when that
great historical struggles. If we are to study their
the far past we see a great and remarkable culture of the ancient

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development correctly. In the 18th century the great naturalist Linnaeus
that which the great spirits said will come true; time will tell that
be really understood to fulfil us with their ideal. This is the great

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must first find its place in the great cosmic happenings in the world.
who had paved the way for the great initiate who is to lead the northern
race of the great discoveries and inventions, the race that has
conquered the entire physical plane and that waxes great amid the
older version she wages war against the great initiates who
came into possession of the Nibelung treasure and had been a great

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sympathetic understanding. A great deal will have to be said here that
Mystery-Temples was carried through Christianity on to the great arena
beginning of a race gives the great impulse, the direction in which
Fifth Root Race began its development, the great impulse was given by
we find the superhuman Manu, by whom the great impulse was given. But
Paul, one of the greatest Christian Initiates, could only hint at
in such a writing, finding in it ever greater depths. That is the
this springs the consciousness that the greatest treasures given to

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races in the north, a great similarity is specially evident in the
greater conformity with those of the Persians. According to the
to it, has attained a greater height of culture.
rise of Christianity, which was to acquire so great a significance
cultivation of feeling. The Goths had the greatest possible

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task little unless it applied this concept of evolution to the great
special mind. They had a great idea of the all-embracing world spirit
Then the great discoverers
up toward the Darwinist theory of evolution. He shows us a great overview

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mankind, their Manus, will arise in mankind itself. None of the great
to the earth as great impulses. The Manus of Lemuria and Atlantis, as
were political leaders and leaders of great religious communities,
Last time I discussed the great initiates of the northern region. On
of the lower nature; it is what draws us downwards, the great signpost
something of great significance in the sphere of the mental life of
it already has a great importance, it has a great influence upon what
fire will acquire great influence on what lives in the human heart.
itself by working with great power in individuals and since the others
great events in the history of the world to the initiates from this
secret, because they reveal not only the great events of the past, but

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We find here a great difference in levels of culture. Among the
Thus the leaders received great tracts of land, which they
procedure caused great hardship and could not be permanently
great forests and uninhabited tracts of land. There, too, the
leaders, so that the leaders became great landowners, and rulers
possible for this to happen without great oppression. In the days
themselves under the protection of greater. Thus arose a protective
interest of culture. The great men in the Empire of the Franks were
among the Frankish tribes, where the Church was the great landowner.
Celtic monks and priests in great numbers, to spread their faith
civilisation, great struggles had been going on outside. But what we
through Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, who withstood Attila, and
their homes during the great folk migrations, were not only
place. This great metamorphosis was accomplished, not merely from

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think of the greatest writer at the present time you will perceive how
and the great world of stars. But in later times, life has become
in death. Death is still the great stumbling-block for the
the rediscovery of the self in the great primal Spirit of the world.
great and impressive though they may be! Go bade to the original,
hope of the future. His judgment is based on the great law of
greatest triumph in the form-culture of our time. Intellect has
It behoves us to recognise and understand such a truth. The greatness
“... Such a thinker merits the very greatest respect, above
with greatness and power in a single work such as his essay On

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greatest poet of our present, Ibsen, then you just see him looking at
as retrieval in the great primal spirit of the world. The problem of
This is great with Tolstoy

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earthly culture, the great Temple of Solomon, has already been built,

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2. The great
we find the great discoveries, the voyages to India, America, etc.,
shall see through what circumstances it was that such great power
these properties, a great number of people were employed, some taken
counsel about their concerns. But now the great landowner was not
northeast, could conquer great territories. At a time when war
The great landed
nobility, and this attained the greatest significance.
event which proved to be of the greatest importance, a material
great struggles which rent that age asunder

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founded by Manes about the third century after Christ and its great
Manicheanism laid such great stress on purity. The Cathari were a sect
and Evil will form a far greater contrast than they do today. What

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movement whose great opponent was St. Augustine,
Manicheism is a great cosmic legend,
that form evolves in the great cosmos.
future. That is why such great stress was laid on absolute purity of
who will be gifted with great love and goodness; but, on the other
disposition without any disguise in a great many people, no longer

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faith, with great tenacity. Victory was won after wearisome wars,
then become a leader. One of these was Widukind, a duke with great
the most violent opposition. He had to be subdued with the greatest
of the great influence obtained by the Church whose suzerain he was,
scholastic way of thinking. The men who carried through the great

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the great philanthropists here; all those who can appear in the world
as the geniuses of philanthropy, the geniuses of charity, as great creators
life as artists, as great inventors or in some other way with brilliant

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great thing about the Christian religion, that for all of its
teachers, leaders and great initiates, whose symbol is the snake. It's
difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for
of feeling in a great, mighty personality, the carrier of the highest

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parsonage. In 1844 born, he already shows a great interest in all religious
Our great philosophers, up to Kant and Schopenhauer, are completely
of nature single great personalities emerge. This view had an effect
have come. The living god Dionysus was the great figure of the Greek
called the Tolstoy problem also just like the great problem of the Greek
is the last great empathy out of materialism, the human being, who suffered

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wonderment at the great Temple of Solomon, her desire was to meet the
the air and descend again with great force in a rain of fire. Hiram
the impression that he is losing a great deal of blood. After that
astral body could originally be trained was so great that it led to

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The Middle Ages had come into a great heritage. Yet, of what we have
the other hand, a very great inheritance has remained from the days
or justice. A great transition now took place in the relationship
great importance of this training, to be able to make conscientious
century, Meister Eckhardt calls Plato the great Greek
enjoyed great respect, since he had succeeded in conquering the
Normans. But the jealousy among the princes was so great that Arnulf

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in the world. Not only Buddha, but all great teachers of wisdom have spread
All great religions of the world made this difference between internal and external
of these great Christian teachers know to tell how their souls were completely
founders. These religious founders were nothing else than envoys of the great
Blavatsky wrote her Secret Doctrine, not only oriental sages as great
in certain way. The great sages of the movement emphasised that immediately
in the outset of this movement. The great sages had come from oriental knowledge,
All great world religions and all
great world views come from envoys of these great brotherhoods of advanced human
beings. But while these great religions do their wandering through the world,
times there were great sages also in Europe; and there were also such brotherhoods.
this secret doctrine of Buddhism and all great religions of wisdom in a living
The great cardinal Nicholas
the theosophical movement that the first great teachers were only the great
Buddha, Hermes et cetera? They are to us the great initiators before whom we
stimulated in us which we need. Knowledge cannot be conveyed by the greatest
another relation to Buddha, Zarathustra, Christ than to the great teachers of
This was the secret of the great teachers of all times. We deepen the core of
wisdom of the great religions that way again and above all we find access to
to always united spiritual life! This was always the attitude of the great spirits.

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reflection of the great cosmic proportions, that a cathedral has to
temples and other great buildings according to cosmic laws and
effect. Those who built the great cathedrals of medieval times were
the great Freemasons. They were aware of the importance of the fact
exercise still greater effect on the astral body than on the physical
Great Britain, America, Italy, Egypt, and also by eastern Freemasonry
respect there are great differences between the masonry practised in
Germany and that of England or Great Britain. In British masonry a
‘That is and has been the great longing of
come to us through great conquests of nature must be incorporated in

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absorption of the smaller properties by the greater, the Saxon,
treated, so that the congestion became greater and greater. This
Ages a new character. A great accumulation of sagas, fairy tales,
permeated by an element of great importance, namely, the cult of the
Middle Ages. He shuts his eyes to such facts as that the great mass
of the world. This great event, to be prepared for by penitential
acceptance and was recognised as legitimate even by the great poet
Crusades, we shall learn to know another influence of very great
influences that the great inventions and discoveries were made. For
was given to the great inventions.

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world outlook. It must be kept in mind that there is a great
the greatest teachers in this field never did more than advise and
One of the great laws of man that must be intimately tried out on his
the way to comprehending the great law of reincarnation on his own. A
Regarding karma, the great law of just compensation, perception and
with this contemplative inner life. The great spiritual truths that he
the great Spirits. He has learned to survey the whole panoramic
begins to perceive the great, eternal truths. Then, suddenly the world
about through obedience to and observation of a great sum of rules and
from the great book of occult schooling. A person who makes use of
coupled with perseverance. There are the great levers of spiritual
The greatest sages of mankind did not discover the great truths by any
opened. Then he will find what all the great religious and

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up in devotion to the great spirits. He has learnt to overview the whole
of the soul, which refer to the greatest, to the most significant of
of that. The greatest sages of humanity attained the great truths in
and he finds what he has got to know in the great world views of humanity:

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that the Memphis and Misraim rite possesses a great number of
of Germany, Great Britain and America possess the ninety-sixth
other people it is a real happening, which signifies a great division
in a school of the great European adepts, who taught that the five
place as it is described there, but something on a much greater scale
the King's presence. But he described to the Queen with great
occasion that he uttered the great saying which was based on truth:
Great Britain and Germany. You will perceive that one must reckon
this kind, have to take their cue from great universal
who holds the actual leadership in Great Britain and Germany today.

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their descendants, how the relationship of world and man and the great
is able to decipher the script that is written in the great festivals,
date than the actual age in which the great thoughts of the Rishis of
that time a great flood deluged the continent of the ancient Atlantean
female sexes did not exist. Thus, in the spirit of the great Indian
human civilization after the great flood. At that time one did not yet
Divine and of what had occurred in the great celestial vault of the
the greater Mysteries, the same events also took place as an event in
embodied as a human being, as his human brother. This was the great
Thus, we are faced with an historical event, a great mystery that is
All the great teachers of wisdom — the Egyptian Hermes, the ancient
the Truth and the Life. The great difference between earlier religions
concerned with a great teacher of wisdom — teachers of wisdom were
birth of the greatest Sun Hero, of Christ Himself. Thus these two
the Masters, because it will be to the Masters, as the great leaders
great process of Advent. The three weeks of Advent symbolize these
spirituality arose from the great cold.
great cosmic truths in this manner, means to celebrate the cosmic
heavens in this way, you celebrate the great cosmic festivals with
thoughts or a web of dogmas. It has a great task and world mission to
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because in it we can study the rise of the great empires. In
studying antiquity, too, we learnt of great State-dominions, but
the difference was great between the secularised clergy and those in
the Crusades. Added to this, a great number of people were now
there were a great many with nothing to do, who were ready for any
completely closed book; and great cultural treasures were preserved
ecclesiastical thinking had been before, you can see from the great
loves; others paid court to them in different ways. Great ignorance
unprecedented, but you see that far greater heights had been reached
absorbed into the constitution of the great States. Much is said

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many different channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in
great law which governs the progressive development of consciousness
knowing how a man can act selflessly in order to attain the greatest
great account. If someone gives a coin to someone in a selfless way,
will give you back. That is connected with the greatest universal
the great thought at the basis of these secret societies, that all
button concealed in his pocket, to [explode] some object at a great
against All will break out, in the most terrible way. Great and
we are living in the fifth period of the fifth great post-Atlantean
great epoch. Then the seven periods of the sixth great epoch will
follow and then the seven periods of the seventh great epoch. This
‘form-state’ of our planet there are seven great epochs

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along many channels. A great deal of occult knowledge exists in the various
and how greatly his consciousness will be enhanced by them. Certain men,
not necessarily be of great account. If someone gives a coin to a poor man,
you. This is connected with great and mighty laws of world-existence. Each
nature will be within us as a power. That is the great thought at the basis
explode some object at a great distance — say in Hamburg! Just as by
terrible form. Great and mighty forces will be let loose by the
of it. We are living in the fifth period of the fifth great epoch; we have
still to live through two more periods of this great epoch. Then will
follow the seven periods of the sixth great epoch and then the seven
periods of the seventh great epoch. This makes sixteen stages of evolution
life of our planet there are seven great epochs, and each of these seven
too that one who reaches a higher Degree can accomplish greater things.
the individual will acquire greater and greater power over certain masses
of the people. For the course of evolution is leading, not towards greater
things will come, just as the great water-catastrophe came to the

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on the 6th of January) will assume greater and greater significance
The great sacrifice made by Jesus of Nazareth is that he gave up his
understand more and more what a Magi is, and what the great Magi, the

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great Schiller festival took place in 1859, but with quite a
in science as in artistic effort, there is nowadays great
a great pedant, and took his daily walk so punctually that the
Messiah made a great impression on Schiller.

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represents a great world view or world religion in The Secrets.

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of preparation than the more highly developed animals. Great
have to realise what we owe to Schiller's greatness. But things
have a great influence on his own personality. Kantianism was a
embraces a mass of great ideas; there is a striving after the

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beginning of their personal meetings these two great geniuses
to be taken as a service of friendship. This step was of great
Schiller's true greatness as a man shows itself in the way in
greatness, in the relation in which they stood to each other.
natures, and as a result something of new greatness came
to understand the great. It is hardly credible to-day what
an example how greatness can defend itself against the

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all great church teachers of the Middle Ages, also with Thomas Aquinas
the mathematical in space, you get to the great mystics who inform us

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life; greater struggle through with difficulty. This is because
lesser personalities are incapable of seeing into the great
riddles. For the greater every experience provides a new
make his ideas living, how he strove to grasp the great forces
to understand the greatness of his personality aright. There is

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It concerns the great connection
the same with it as all great teachers of humanity who did not want
for the human being, this is more refreshing than the great revelation.

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have here then a great law which goes beyond the merely
do with the great lines — is thrust into a corner. It
does not specially fit into the plot. Schiller's great
Schiller we have already the great conception of leading

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Starting from this great
have to regard the temple as a symbol of the great occult schools which
The great teachers of humanity, the great initiates are always active.
Goethe pointed to this great

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greater heights. All the later plays, Tell, the Bride
into symbols of great human experience. Hence Schiller became

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child Goethe tries “to approach the great God of nature, the creator
Also this fragment indicates the greatness of what he had to say, also
is manifested in his great spirits. But the words can apply to them
Our great spirits want to be recognised, and then they

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influence cannot be separated from that of the great classical
Schiller's great gift, to be able to raise the moral and the
Th. F. Vischer, the great aesthetic thinker,
Is no greatness in nature, save that she gives you to count?

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greatness and breadth of his spiritual horizons: the world of
gulf between life and art becomes ever greater. And so Schiller
truth in great ideal laws. Art was for him the representation
integral element of our times. Particularly, it is the great
religion.” That is the greatness in the man, that his
ideal lived in this way within him is part of his greatness. We
our culture, is to become the great educator of the world.

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which originated from Darwinism. When one noticed which great impression
about the great initiates of the world. Any real initiation can be connected
only with the gift of clairvoyance. The capacities of the great initiates
into him and reworks it inside. The myth which always shows the great
the past to receive an idea of the great human future. I have quoted

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The Great Initiates
any other we may meet because it can satisfy to such a great extent
not, to a certain extent, the greatest arrogance for anyone to regard
essential nature of such schools — and of the great Initiates
strokes to illuminate the essential being of these great Initiates.
above both space and time. Such thoughts are contained in the great
an eternal truth of the kind that flows from the great Initiates, or
notice the deep influence that emanates from the greatly
great Initiate such as Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
out of the great Initiates' deepest knowledge. Initiates know that
you see how the great Initiates essentially gave their directions for
Chela, a real student of the great Initiates. Then he can be led
stages which belong to the great Initiates, those Initiates who at
all times have given the great impulses to our culture. They were
found the great religions of the world.
great religions that came forth from the great Initiates; it was
exercised on the world by the great Initiates who have gone through
schools, in all detail and with great richness of spirit, how there
great laws of the spiritual world. This script is not, like ours, an
great signs of this script. He is capable of this when he has
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The Great Initiates
schools and of the great initiates who have outgrown the lower levels
of these great initiates today. As one must get to know the methods
consciously to that which is beyond space and time. The great religious
which arises from the great initiates or inspired human beings. This
Such a great initiate like Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
deepest knowledge of the great initiates. The initiates know that somebody
Thus you see how from a deeper knowledge of the human being the great
real disciple of a great initiate. Then he can continue this path. One
which the great initiates have, those initiates who gave our culture
by which they were enabled to found the great religions of the world.
Not only the great religions,
world originated from the great initiates. Only two examples are cited
which kind of influence on the world the great initiates have who experienced
and arbitrary one but echoes the great laws of the spiritual world.
he comes out of the temple. After he has gone through this great experience
to receive the big truths in such images from the great initiates in
of Osiris and Isis. All great religions which we find in antiquity were
experienced by the great initiates in the psychic space. These great
To all great movements and
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the poet who is the representative of our time, the poetically greatest
by power to a greater or lesser degree. Thus we see Henrik Ibsen as
with everything that constitutes the greatness, even if the emptiness
have. If a great man is quiet in tragic modesty, one like Henrik Ibsen

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the great dramatic figure, and the chorus round about him
to the great impersonal sympathy when the god was seen
greatly excited by a strange prophecy which a mysterious
rises to greater and greater heights of spiritual insight, and

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containing great truths, which great initiates have related to men.
development of politics are all connected with great initiates
therefore appears to us as an emissary of the great White Brotherhood.
personifies the medieval soul. Lohengrin, the great initiate, the
great initiates always brings about the promotion to new stages of
Böhme proclaimed great, profound truths. Whence did he obtain
the great Atlantean flood, when the surviving peoples began to
great initiate Wotan, the god of the Aesir. Wotan is an initiate of
the Atlantean period, and all the other Aryan gods are only great
sees the great difference between modern human beings and those of
industry. Our great men have always felt this: Goethe had the same
labourers in this world, but no men”, and so forth. Every great
man has longed after truly great human beings.
expression of deep inner truths, of great truths; for instance, the
impulses. These legends were the reminiscence of a great time which
Barbarossa we find a great initiate. We are told of his journeys to

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In the talk on the great
that the great initiates are basically the supporters of the future
point today. The great results of natural science have shown us how
energy”), the great mechanic who furthers us although his mechanical
not cause the great and real progress, but that these were the theorists
With some great examples
in the talk on the great initiates, then the world laws appear before
which significance have these images of humanity? How does this great
to really great and radical points of view. All the social ideas, even
world illumines this world: in the great works of art, in the original
have to go in; the great individualities must throw in their impact.
theosophy establishes as a great future ideal. With it theosophy gains

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the great spiritual heroes who are, in the end, the creators of our
among the German education directs his thoughts upon one of our greatest
these days to honour of our great spiritual hero. However, as intimate
great ideals, the great portrayals of his dramas settled down, slowly
in Schiller has decreased because Schiller's great ideals do no
answers to this question; but that does not matter with such a great
to a body to make new experiences in this world. It is the great idea
is great in them. If we ask ourselves why Schiller's great thoughts
of the spiritual, of the ideal had faced up the greatest of the contemporaries
however, also in the court dramas; we feel them if we take in the great
(1785–1787) and which great ideas were exchanged is reflected
human being. Schiller phrases that in a way which reminds of the great
and great name. You have nothing popular or mellifluous in yourself
to attain the great and comprehensive view of Goethe. It is a fine letter,
it were, you try to penetrate his concealed techniques. A great and
of the necessary, and with your first experiences the great style would
to poetry. What had a lasting effect faces us in his dramas. Greatly
He tried to understand which role the great transpersonal destiny plays
brought forward to the Greeks in great dramatic paintings that was at
The great re-thinker of
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Middle Ages, it still was in such a way. What the great medieval theologians
in the writing of the great truths which are written in this ancient
religious book. He looked into the bases from which the great truths
and to interpret, but behind him the great powerful writers stand whose
There we have a science of the divine, then a great doctrine of the
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
In a book which made a great stir in the last time, and which the people
tries to lead the human beings upwards to understand this great mystery.
on a distant island finds great physical truths without instruments

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will explain a great allegory, and deal with an object which is known
all a result of not knowing that great laws exist which rule the
there are great laws for the building of the state and of the social
— it could become an image of the great spiritual structure of the
harmony with the great life of God. And the life of just such a
about the cultural epochs of our fifth Great Epoch. The first of
great monument to the conquest of the old priestly culture by the
is constructed. The best engineer, the greatest technician, could not
greatest possible strength using the least amount of material. And so
therefore possesses the greatest perfection. Less perfect, on the
war, through which Rome became great. Under the fourth king, Ancus
that the great sages must be these pillars — it is this intention
we should take into ourselves something of the greatness and all
great conceptions into the details — just in the same way as house
great world temple has become increasingly forgotten. A person can be
of rescuing, for the new culture, something of the great laws of the
spiritual world. It was, so to speak, a stratagem of the great sages,
of the great laws of the universe. What is known as the sephirot of
the great cosmic laws, so that, even in play, people have at least a
incarnation is not quite wasted. These are secrets, how the great
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and without knowledge of the great principles of life. Just in this
for Law (1872). Everybody also knows, which significance his great
mentioned who had such great results with his significant works, in
the explanations of the great lawyer concerning the basic education.
the most eminent sense became great in the history of humanity by the
It is typical that a great
Therefore, the Gnostics, the great mystics of the first Christian centuries,
if our greatest lawyers do not have to complain of a lacking basis of
there is such a thing like mathesis. The great philosopher Leibniz was
a magnificent lawyer, a great practitioner and a great mathematician;

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selfish love, this is the great process of evolution which must take
Minnesingers, minstrels of love. But there was a great difference
meets a woman of exceeding great charm and attraction. He experiences
great turning point of the times. Life in the world outside is
every one of these races was inspired by great initiates. The fifth root-race
great flood the peoples who had emigrated and had thus been preserved
impulses of one great stream penetrate five times into the earliest
civilisations. We have one great spiritual stream coming from the South,
which surrounds us to such a great extent to-day, the chaos in which
the great masses of European people, whose spiritual life remains hidden
and finally attains spiritual power, the feeling of the great oneness of
all existence. Richard Wagner thus unconsciously comes to great
as if it were the great current of a new civilisation. The Good Friday

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greatest symbol. Now the point is to understand this symbol. You know
the word ‘I’. The moment in the lives of great
changed into a moral God. The human body is thus turned into a great
or, similarly, a sun-worship . However, a great mystery lies behind
great mystery. Mass fell into two parts; the so-called Minor Mass, in
how it was connected with the great march of world
evolution of the global stages in the first, second and third Great
to the third Great Epoch, the moon during the third epoch [Lemuria].
of the fifth Great Epoch had begun. This turning point was denoted by
announce a Christ who would renew the Temple, once the great point of
yet ripe for understanding the great teachings; we still have to
three bodies, when the ego discovers in Christ its greatest
will be ripe for joining in building the great Temple of the Earth;
you must so co-operate, so arrange everything, that this great
survey all this, we find images having great significance. And he in
become a disciple of those great Masters who are preparing the
building of the Temple of Mankind. For such great concepts work
[in the future] was indeed long since prepared for by the great
Eve, the children of the Earth, in whom we find the great arts and
what theosophy desires: they are all at work on the great Temple of

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the methods of application may be wrong. Often two great authorities

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seen at the entrance as the great symbol, for man was to strive
which we can imagine as a great ocean. Now Plato said about this,
human evolutionary cycle in greater glory and clarity. And when man
for the inner living force. There the great mystery consummates
Our great
indeed keep penetrating deeper into what the great initiates have said. We

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in the great symbol of the Fall, in the scene of the temptation,
epochs. Thus we have seven Race-cycles [or Great Epochs] in our
greater and mightier than our present traditions about it. Only
us in the Vedas. The original religion of the Rishis had great
Rishis were archetypal forms; the great intuitions derive
is the great tragedy; the corollary of every saint is that a great
which has come down to man through the great Whitsuntide Festival is
prepare humanity to receive the Logos. The great initiate, Christ
the resurrection of the etheric body. This is where the third great

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could better take sentences from any great classic. Thus it has come
to master everything. Great spirits like Leibniz, Leonardo da Vinci
in life. The chemist, botanist et etcetera is compared with the great
great spirits of the world not without reason. There is no branch of
no inkling of the fact that mathematics introduces in the great principles
of any knowledge, even of art. There could be the great idealism of
Vinci (1459–1519), this representative of the great idealism,
we take this point of view, we have taken up the great idealism in ourselves,
of his development. The arts faculty should have the greatest say. It
great world view do not have the saying, but rather psychology, which

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progress in technical skill, the efforts of our greatest thinkers,
life. But in those past times a great spiritual power was in
spiritual forces of great power, inspired and brought a spiritual
part of one great chain. We are the messengers of the Godhead, and
realise the great dangers lying in materialism, the prevalent nervous
not greater than his Lord; neither he that is sent, greater than he
the passage stands: “The servant is not greater than his Lord,
and the Apostle is not greater than he that sent him.”
theosophical teaching. “The Apostle is not greater than the
pass. This power is given us by the Great Masters who are the Keepers
Light which comes to us from Christ Jesus, the greatest of our

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anatomical examination. They are indeed of far greater exactitude and
you, the servant is not greater than his lord’. The more highly
great initiates, with their outlook into the far future, taught people

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town, where the movement is greater and more frequent, the instrument

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are pictures, drawn out of such depths. A great service was bestowed

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schooling. It does not start by cramming into the pupils a great deal
kingdom will be transformed by man. To a great extent this will be

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But there is a great difference between what he was and what he will

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from Jehovah in pictures. That is why Genesis is a sum of great

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existed as it is now. We must understand that man belongs to the great
cosmic organism. In the times in which great changes take place in the
time also people had not yet learnt to write. The great poems were
reincarnation. The great Masters

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the physical body we must now enter into greater detail. Man was

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The greatest impulses of world history can however no longer be read
in the Astral Light, for the impulses of the great initiates were
book ‘The Great Initiates’ by Edouard Schuré could not have
read the results of the lives of the great initiates in the impulses
strong and passionate emotions in regard to the actions of the great
difficult to study the deepest motives of the great initiates because
of mankind. For the human being is connected with the great happenings

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towards such great and simple paths of thought as those from
not be unmindful of the fact that Haeckel's great powers of
nineteenth century, set themselves to confront the great riddle
and again told us how distinctly the mind of his great teacher
animals under Johannes Müller) by the great resemblance
possible for man to observe, to a far greater extent than
impression made by this great advance in the domain of
discovery, feelings and sensations play a great part in the
spectrum analysis, to a greater theoretical knowledge of heat,
centuries, a time when a greater spiritual sensitiveness
an event of great moment when Haeckel, in the year 1864,
animals to be even greater than that existing between the
have every reason to call attention to the great things which
Bois-Reymond has tabulated seven great questions as to
This also is the great difference between what is taught by
than I — then will this great work glow with a new glory,
to a great extent in transforming the archetype of those
would involve, cannot be entered into here. But the greatest
The superstition of the one is about as great as that of the other;

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representation and thinking lives. He has in a great measure
great teacher, the unforgettable naturalist Johannes
any research, feelings and emotions play a great role in the
We have every reason to show which great things were performed
mammals, with the great apes. However, one cannot speak about a
became degenerate, and forms the present great apes. These

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nature is of the very greatest importance; for only so can man have a

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The etheric body is to a great extent in a similar situation to the

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certain stages of consciousness of the great universe, and the Beings

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John still speak of the great importance of Wisdom, Beauty and Power,
the building of a great cathedral. He knew that the forms of the
beings to a greater or lesser degree; they are not individual.

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into being. Without these great perspectives we cannot understand

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affects the karma of the group or race. In words lies a greater
great religious teachers of earlier times spoke pictorially, for
stands a great intuitive Spirit. It is the same Spirit that manifests
first place that we perceive through the senses. Behind is the great
people who have not yet become Chelas, feeling has great importance
from life. Even the greatest men of learning today have not yet
perceptions it would be the greatest folly on man's part to form
secret of how the great founders of religions projected their
Everything intuitive in man, the great impulses which he receives from
the form of great moral laws. Vijnana is the name used for the

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national well-being, work and capital are headed off in great
again. Thus, we have great theories within our economics,
talk that is of great importance for those who are thoroughly
was a completely different matter when Alexander the Great
the single animal species, the great group souls guide and
the great previous development of Christianity that it
This is the great achievement of our soul which we obtain from
the physical science of the West to a great harmony. Then we

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with the great laws of the universe. We are able to achieve
events only if we act in accordance with the great laws of the
in the great problems of the soul.
battle of life, that can gain the greatest advantage over their
greater style than his followers, took it from a conception of
sphere. We thus have great theories in national economy, in the
by bringing forward innumerable sound facts, the great
point, where it arrives at the great turning point, we really
Alexander the Great
so the different nations were guided by the great group-souls.
development of the world five great races, the so-called
greater part of the time these workmen built the immense
the great course of development of Christianity, up to the
come, the earth had to acquire this great significance.
see, the great acquisition which spiritual development
the. physical science of the West so that they become, a great

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being back to childhood we do not come to greater imperfection for the
achieved great skill. It is necessary for man to pass through the
The lower astral body merged with the higher astral body. A great part

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with far greater intensity. The animal however presses its own
when he ennobles his passions and desires to an ever-greater degree.
feed on it; it has for them a great force of attraction. This shows

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of the earth to differentiate itself physically to an ever greater
an ever greater degree. Near the adept with his pupils, there is also

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into a crystal; because in the crystal lies a great purity. In it
the etheric body. Great teachings are not only embodied in words, but
around us, built up in a style in keeping with the great Theosophical
greater degree than du Bois-Reymond, Herbert Spencer and Haeckel; they
understood with great difficulty. In ‘Iphigenia’ and
worked upon and ennobled by the ego. With savages the greater part is

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like by a great spiritual guide of humanity, to such eternal
great guides of humanity who have spoken to us about the soul
you how the great seers of humanity spoke of soul, body, and
spiritual world to his soul. This is a great moment in the
environment. This is the great knowledge of wisdom that the

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The great
made fertile by Buddhi. We have to work together with this great
world current, and therefore we have a great responsibility towards
also in everyday things. Anyone who allows these great world
great Lodge [of the Masters].
groupings. Such were Buddha, Hermes, Pythagoras, and so on. The great
family groupings, etc, are all linked up in the great plan which
atom of the next Round, then one can see the pattern of the great
universal plan. The great universal plan develops in continually
look for the transformation of man himself during the great world
mysteries which come from the great Magi of the world.

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however trifles compared with the great structure of humanity that we
confront. The most important matters are based on much greater and
antipathies that the great world-embracing affairs of the human race
participant in the great affairs of the building of the earth. To do
we should answer: One can certainly comprehend a great deal in
step, as he is able to approach the great world thoughts, as he
but otherwise occult power that penetrates these great world thoughts
great centres of spiritual activity will spring up. You see,
within the great Root Race of humanity, which has peopled the earth,
the great Aryan Race has been the dominant one on earth. If we
of the great Aryan Root Race. The first Sub-Race lived in the distant
see also how great differences arise in the course of time in the
1850. We can see the great things that it has achieved on the
the great universal ego blossoms. And now he must learn to say to the
a great and significant mystery, when particular stages of our
Society, the great individualities whom we call the Masters are

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feminine wisdom. This feminine wisdom is able to make great
his greatest success. Then he was led by a figure to the centre of

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sex only, and then became two-sexed. That had a great influence on
time. Already, in the second Sub-Race, there was a great schism. The
wisdom that had been taken over by the priesthood. The great images
brass. This is a symbol of the Great Work of Art for which the entire

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physical body experiences no great change, nor does my etheric body,
very similar takes place between teacher and pupil. It makes a great
child's nature all the greatness he, as a fine person and good
in warmth, we ourselves grow thereby, through the greatness of that
flows into the astral bodies of the individual person. A great
greater empathy develops between individual sensibilities and the
development. When such a person dies, who was a great and noble
to stimulate development in a great and beautiful way, the American

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the earth as a great astral ball made up of astral human beings. All
joined together like a great blackberry and enclosed by a spiritual

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form having a certain great beauty. Their substance was much softer
the fact that a remarkable and great help had been granted them. The
to Jehovah's greatness. By the intervention of the Luciferic principle
would have greatly improved. The first evil arose through the fact
ever-greater degree. This is very beautifully expressed in the saga of

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Moon was actually a great plant. Its ground consisted of intertwined

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of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for
together, the well-being of the community will be the greater,
textual irregularities, represents a great enrichment —
only in those areas to which one retreats from the great common
Theosophy that it wants to stand apart from the great
which are active in the great world-all are also active in the
There is no greater mark of poverty than when someone who
out a great deal on what is right. What are people around us
portray it in its direst colors, is greater than it was in
greatly changed. And there, if we study the question thus, we
is necessary to get to know the great laws of life. What has
We must study and understand why the souls of the great masses
who is able to look into the soul is one who, in the great
German naturalist and philosopher.] have brought us great
The great laws that are to be realized in the future show us
of these great world laws that can be a guide for us is the law
The greatest needs of the human being of today were embodied in
consumption. Here a great comprehensive worldwide law about
time work has greatly changed its form.
common consumption. This brings about a greater freedom
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great circles, expanded from within, each having a special colour, all

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looking into a great model filled [with] small crystals. Present within
kingdom, in a great astral sea. This then densified ever more and more
During the great Pralaya preceding the First Earth Round, they had
Mars was introduced. A great advance was brought about through the

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great attraction towards the astral world and very frequently result
throughout the whole life and have great importance particularly in

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greater understanding of what they contain.

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greater degree into the understanding of the ways in which the
better way than in the great intuition of the Egyptian Sphinx. This

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healing in which the doctors attach the greatest importance to the
Last Supper. The Last Supper is the greatest symbol of the One who
indeed the true ‘Son of Man’, who descended to the greatest depths in
order to rise again with the greatest power, He had to hold to what
This is the great progression of human evolution. What the natural
scientist knows today is only a fraction of the great cycle.

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great whole. All this was, as it were the finest flower, the extracted
must realise that this great primal spiritual teaching underwent a
original greatness consisted in grasping the mighty divine unity which
of great initiates who taught geometry, the practice of surveying,
culminated with such magnificence in the three great civilisations.
outside world; to create initiates who laid great value on what was
The initiators do not always introduce something great into the world,
of Greece and Rome (Roman law) both become great just through this
beauty of the human culture of the Greeks and the greatness of the
indications of a great, primeval, Atlantean initiate. Wod-Wodha-Odin.
greatness make their appearance in Tibet, there we have a modern,
there he was confronted with something greater than anything the Huns
to be understood in the light of these great considerations.
new can only develop after great upheavals.

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The independence of the Atlantean was also not as great as that
you pale-faces, you do not understand what the Great Spirit
tribe. — This was a great speech. The Great Spirit was a
the great thought structures, then in the marvellous science,
— This is self-knowledge! The great saying in the temple

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humanity,” or the “great White Lodge,” it is
each of the great religions goes back to that which was
were great, excellent individualities who experienced the
from which central site the great sages came who went to the
south and the west, and brought the great messages to humanity.
the great founders of a religion who brought the first messages
came out of it, the great teacher of the Greek people. That man
This is the great sense of the human development. Since the
else than the means, than the ways taught by the great sages to
received the instructions of the holy Rishis, great initiates
original old teachings, shows us how great and stupendous and,
the same time, and that is why the Son is the great
appearance of the great saviour of humanity. I wanted to

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brought about greater changes, or have both contributed to the
it greatly enhanced the development of the culture. Those who had
one's soul. Then it becomes a reality. The greatness of the spiritual
to ourselves, and then to a greater extent to mankind. If we are

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fraternity, represents a great ideal penetrating humanity, and
important ideal. It has indicated that way that this great
great critic more than the little one. — We can find this
being has to fight that has made him great and strong? In my
existence achieved great things in the evolution of humanity,
In a great measure, there was a common property of land. A
This is the great thing of the spiritual-scientific movement

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forms the basis for the greatest advantages and greatest achievements
this does not happen. These are great difficulties in our
give people high ideas, great teaching,” and so on. The
“The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is
sent greater than he that sent him.” These words were spoken
they must reach equanimity and steadiness. Neither the greatest
sorrow nor the greatest joy must unsettle their composure. They must
course will lead you to the great ability to tolerate, and to an
enable us to meet matters with the greatest possible openness. In
greatest precision. Then comes the occult life, whose
you may awaken. You must meditate about a great thought content that
terms, and that they are possibly unsuitable for reaching the great
may at times conceal great spiritual faculties. But if he can be
intimately, in the deepest soul, and that the great day when

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that this cannot be different, that just the great advantages
great teachings and so on.
words: “a servant is not greater than his master, nor a
teeth of the dead dog. This direction leads to great tolerance
produce a kind of calm, so that the great esoteric master can
attain the great aim, which should be attained, namely the
undeveloped brain may sometimes conceal great spiritual
that the great day when the soul awakes and enters the higher

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of those who in the past established the great festivals as symbols of
experience the great depths of the words spoken by Goethe at the
the only artist: from the simplest substance to the greatest
contrasts, without seeming exertion to the greatest perfection, the
accordance with the great law flowing through it and streaming into
the great festivals. Now they have become abstractions, and the soul
the great creative Word that lives in nature and the whole universe
intention, when the great festivals were established on the occasions
memorial of a great event that once had taken place on earth. During
a great secret. What they said to them was somewhat as follows. I am
sense when the sun celebrated its great victory over darkness. Up to
immortal human soul. Then, in this primeval age, the great moment in
the Lemurians were fructified by the higher human soul — a great
what was of the greatest importance for their earth existence. It was
this great moment that was commemorated in the festival celebrating
universe and all that is related to it, we experience the great rhythm
would result. Our universe is only made possible through the great,
Observe the pulse or the processes of digestion and admire the great
order revealed itself in its great glory to these wise men. This is
world harmony was presented as the great ideal for those who, in
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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theosophists this way — who once used these great
saying by Goethe, which the great poet spoke when he entered
recognise as the great festivals from the spiritual-scientific
was the intention when the great festivals were established.
the great basic idea of Christmas as a universal festival, a
commemoration of a great event which had taken place once on
midnight and tried to reveal a great mystery to them and spoke
earth. There the sun celebrated the great victory over the
soul. Then a moment came in this prehistoric time, a great
the higher human soul. Spiritual science calls this great
important of their earthly existence. This great moment was
admire the big rhythm and feel the great, infinite wisdom that
great ideal for that who should be the leader of the remaining
them that sun myths about the lives of all great religious
chaotic and brought it to this great harmony. Where these
Thus, the great ideal of peace places itself as the highest
Saviour on the same day in which with all great religions of
all great world religions. When the Christmas bells sound, the
great annual festivals are there as symbols for humanity to
are annual festivals of the great ideals; and Christmas is the
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once inaugurated the great Festivals as tokens of what is eternal and
strictly in accordance with the great laws which pervade the realm of
that the great Festivals were inaugurated.
in the great universe and within us too when self-knowledge awakens,
a token of something greater still, of something momentous and unique.
great happening on the Earth. At the hour of midnight the priests
teachers of the people, and spoke to them of a great Mystery. (I am
came that great moment in evolution when the immortal, imperishable
descended. This descent of the divine ‘Sons of the Spirit,’ this great
children of the great universe and they said: “We have become men
the great moment when they had received the impulse which was
all-essential for their earthly existence. And this great moment was
the great rhythms of Nature. If we think of all that encompasses the
meet the challenge of the chaotic! And how greatly the rhythms of the
In earlier times this cosmic harmony was placed as a great Ideal
of a great Ruler an Initiate who amid the treasures of wisdom
contained in the Earth must await the great moment when newly revealed
it would be as great a calamity as if the Sun were to deviate from its
that Sun myths are connected with the lives of all the great Founders
The Sun-Soul was the great example for the way in which a man's life
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great party within Freemasonry — that all Freemasonry originated in
great universal masonic idea. [They consider] it would be a falling
away from this great masonic idea, if it is claimed that masonry
feelings to greater heights than we experience in front of an
one was concerned with the suffering and death of gods, with the great Greek
with individual human beings, who are images of the great Godhead.
great and learned discussion since the days of Lessing. [For the
uninfluenced from this quarter. But there was a time when the great
greater role in the contemporary culture than anyone could ever
with exceptionally great caution. Precisely for this reason, it was
the great ancient secrets of Freemasonry have fallen today; and on
stress this — with the two great streams running through the whole
holiest, the noblest, the greatest and the most spiritual [principle]
great piety on the one hand, or blatant superstition on the other, in
the three great pillars of world history — wisdom, beauty and
further my knowledge if a corporate body, be they ever so great,
great meaning of what can confront us in this symbolism, will understand
its great and deep cultural value. The great things of the world are
guardians of great secrets, of those forces which continually
runs on that track is fruitless and doomed to die. For the great evil
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Great, astute spirits never doubted that the human mind is able
the fact that our great German poet and thinker, Lessing
remind you that another great German thinker whom, admittedly,
great German philosopher Hegel (Georg Friedrich Wilhelm H.,
the core of wisdom in all great religions. Just concerning the
himself, and if Christianity has to perform anything great for
being. I do not have the time today to explain these great
you must not misunderstand this. Great Christian authors
humanity together. Only the great masters were beyond the
great persons, these personalities who have arrived at a stage
abilities slumbering in the matter, the great spiritual culture
build houses, to create mechanical civilisation, the great
the great guardians of humanity is, I would say, these
They experienced the great initiates. If I may express myself
blessed. Those who know something about that great bliss, about
and greatness of initiation, so that it resonates in our souls.
a great individuality came who carried out this great event on
and feel connected with Him who experienced the great event of
that the greatest teaching of wisdom of Christianity is that
the great teachings of wisdom could say, I am the way and the
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that we can say, he accomplishes something great and
impartially. The great worldviews and their preachers always
it. How could one explain the face of a great thinker, of a
great world benefactor by inheritance who works from his inside
where we see it with the modern human being, up to the great
along. It is strange towards a great man that one only accepts
also these great spirits were only able to announce them
principle of karma like other great spirits. He expresses the

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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previously that the great philosopher Hegel would be present
a spell in our souls. These great eternal verities will rise
spell in John's soul and brought forth the great visions.
says: Do what I have done. Let the great formula, “In
of which John speaks. He says it with great clarity:
appearance, to a greater or lesser extent, an expression of
profundity, and then it becomes one of the greatest texts

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only need to remind of the name of the great genius Goethe to
wisdom of his heart in the future and attains an even greater

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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person goes through when he follows this path. The great

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Richard Wagner's art, Nietzsche saw a renewal of that great art
the musical drama greatly; for Marguerita Albana had introduced
original drama with great ingenuity. What was now the
was greatly symbolised in the divided god Dionysus, who was
nicely, greatly and tremendously the development of these
in his book The Great Initiates. There he has spread out

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fig tree, thou believest; thou shalt see greater things than
so in the body of the great world mother — where we are
Certainly, the priestly sages of Chaldea taught great
time the intellect has achieved great things, but the John

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cultures. What I have shown in great thoughts and outlines as
always attributed this to the great initiates. Thus, an
great initiate just now in the sense of the secret doctrine, a
did Wotan become the great teacher of the prehistoric times?
mythology gives us a great and fine answer. The higher

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Hegel's great life of thought among our philosophers. The
great German thinkers really if the university circles, the
connection with the great German thinker Johann Gottlieb Fichte
great spirits developed from the Enlightenment. One only needs
great lines of thought something that one can obtain among the
who say, what did Kant different from all those great spirits
great thinker, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. An Indian says this who
makes the discovery that Fichte achieved something great,
according to his great conceptual demands; they would have come
great difference whether one says that it is a conglomerate of
has often said, the great human beings have the big mistakes of
great human beings and shows that we can learn from them even
great soul achieved.
geologic layers of the rocks and minerals by great geologists
great teacher made the layers and resemblances of the rocks
Then he heard Fichte, and from him the great truth of the ego
but also by the great Steffens (Henrik St., Danish philosopher,
(originally Lorenz Okenfuß, 1779-1851), by the great
being. A great theosophist — not a German one — of
he is, for example, a great watchmaker, and then you are not
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German people like Goethe, ascribed the greatest importance to
basis of the great renewal of art by the poet musician Richard
something great in our time of materialistic thinking to accept
symbolic suggestions of great inner human truth in the myth. It
invulnerable where Siegfried was still vulnerable. The great
was a great epoch when the last echo of that old time was got
art have a prophetic significance. They are a great, eminent

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core, about the spiritual contents of those great legends in
found Siegfried as such a great initiate of the Teutons.
ideal. Something great was said with it. The Lohengrin and the
Middle Ages had their great ideas in the same time in which
Silesius, the great Christian mystic, later expressed with the
the secret doctrine, one knows that the great leaders of
consciousness regards him as the great initiate leader who
it. All great proceedings of humanity are shown in this way.
her and becomes her husband. It is with all great masters that
that time, he realised the whole greatness of the figure of
Wagner appropriately shows the greatness that is in it. The
the great legends of the Middle Ages. This lived in Richard
else than pictures and expressions of great truth. The pictures
tribes and peoples that can grasp the great truth only in
not only that is true which Schopenhauer says that the great

Title: Lecture: Easter
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human desires, impulses and actions to the great
Vishnu and Shiva. Brahman is rightly called the Great
relation to great natural phenomena — the power of the
deepest meaning will always be felt to be the greatest
festival of the greatest mystery humanity — not merely
complementary in the spiritual world, this great act of

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great festivals are connected with characteristic phenomena in
rightly calls Brahman the great master builder of the world,
great thought of the universal spirit that has built up the
idea as something great. He was in the Villa Wesendonck at the

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 4-18-1906
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whom we feel a great sympathy for, as happens between man and wife and

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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Haeckel is a great naturalist, it must be clear to everybody

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look around among the great spirits who preceded us. However,
classes only had the greatest say concerning the spiritual life
time. Such a great insight, as he had it, his reasonable nature
whole world: “This is something great you should
greater and nobler sense of the origin of the physical human
one does not know that the great Paracelsus cannot be pleased
with Paracelsus: it depends on the great, on the comprehensive
precursors of this great astronomical-astrological medicine,

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Boehme's soul was penetrated by great, immense ideas for the
Jacob Boehme was one of the greatest magicians of all times, of
a greatness that has not yet been reached up to now.
something great! — Jacob Boehme knew that these words
misunderstood word. At that time, there were also great spirits
Boehme imagines the great master builder of the world as an
allowed to call him the greatest magician of the new time.
Jacob Boehme calls imagination the great virgin of nature, the
other great spirits of the 19th century. Only when materialism
comes then, when one understands such great spiritual deeds
work in the sense of the great spirits of former times, in the

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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great variety of age groups are represented in the audience,
great philosophy or world outlook has arisen out of the
the great religions. Spiritual science, while resting on its
to show that all the great world religions are based on the
Greater
has a greater ennobling effect on the human soul because it
faced with greater issues and unable to cope even with
another. Another point of great interest was the way the
science, advancing as it does at great speed, a center of
Jesus, the greatest founder of religion in modern times.
These cultures became great because their exponents
divine origin, and that death is vanquished. All the great
on which they are founded. The great creative works of
winter. They will throw light not only on the great
solutions to the great riddles and questions that will burden
posed by life with great force. Already in the near future,

Title: Lecture Series: Karma and Details of the Law of Karma
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and details of the law of Karma. You know that by Karma is meant the great law of cause and
think of your childhood, you will be able to say that you have learnt a very great deal.
world, about history or literature as well as a great deal else. Now you have knowledge of
learn a great deal and yet no great change takes place in his original character and
changed a great deal in their own natures and characters. Perhaps indeed there is no
great deal, assimilating it so thoroughly that it gradually becomes an asset of his very
therefore rooted in the etheric body, the greater becomes the capacity of the individual
other in Europe are nevertheless led together? Such are the great questions which we will
death, suffering and evil, will have been amplified in greater detail. During this Winter

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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with occult powers observes the great differences in human types, it
knowledge exist great distinctions. The first important
great importance. They may work unconsciously in the pupil's
evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the
do a great deal for himself. He can, for example, look closely at a
great value upon an objective and quiet contemplation of the external
this would bring him great benefit in the other world.

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in a chaotic age, in an age devoid of style. All great epochs of art

Title: Lecture: Occult Significance of Blood
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greater clearness.
Questions of great importance are pressing upon us these days;
and which cannot fail to be recognized by all who note the great
we are also confronted by great, serious, and vital problems of the
little world, and a counterpart of the great world. And when substance
consciousness is counterbalanced by its far greater range, for the
one wherein he becomes dreamily cognizant of the great cosmic laws,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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problems are bound to increase as time goes on. The great
living creature is a small world that mirrors the great
world of light the workings of the great cosmic laws.
fashion, the great cosmic laws are perceived. Yet this

Title: The Origin of Suffering
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as to be connected with its very greatest problems. Hence the problem
together, one of which no doubt a great part of mankind would like to
look up to what is still felt by a great part of modern humanity as
one of the greatest upliftings, one of the greatest upbuildings and
sprung from the world historic sight of suffering. The greatly
small and great, ever again rise to the surface, how they actually
continually asserts itself and which stands as a great consolation
place, and when it becomes greater even produces death. Out of pain
all-important role. I should like to quote just one example. A great
own greater consciousness-world. And so finally out of suffering
spiritual-scientific world-conception with its great law of destiny,

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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greatest riddles. When attempts are made to find meaning in
brought together, one of which the greater part of humanity
other one of life's greatest benefits.
appears as a testing, as an incentive to greater striving. In
portrays more sublimely than the tragedy the greatest human
large part of humanity as the greatest in history. The event
the other. Nothing provides greater understanding than
process of destruction occurs; if great enough, the outcome
effect on a person. Through the great law of destiny, karma,
story of Job, pain and suffering are shown to lead to greater

Title: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture II
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Goethe sees nature as the great, creative artist that cannot
if he undergoes the discipline of so-called “great stillness.”
He must become still, utterly still, within himself. The great peace
astral world, and he feels afloat in a great, deep peace. Gradually,
this wondrous world through the portals of the “great
stillness.” Through the great stillness, the tone of this other
however, lies in tone. That which was light in the great stillness
great art there are wonderful things that are much more
to us from the compositions of our great masters are actually

Title: The Origin of Evil
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complete way the problem of how to carry the greatest possible mass

Title: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture III
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the Bach family, the great-great-grandfather of Johann Sebastian was

Title: Illness and Death
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presents itself as the greatest riddle of existence; so that when
being up to his seventh year we find that he contains a great deal of
it sets up the greatest concentration of impulses, desires, for the
this point — is born with a great deal of energy in life, with
here. For Paracelsus the whole external world is one great
besides death she has invented illness to produce greater health;

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life's greatest riddle, so much so that the individual who
could solve it would have solved also the other great riddle,
greatest concentration of urges and cravings, that is,
immediately, its tolerance greatly increases. We cannot avoid
illness, is greater strength. When the illness is overcome,

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture II: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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Greater Mysteries man beheld the forces working through all existence;
place at the time when darkness on the earth is greatest, when the
the evolution of humanity, realising that the great festivals have
presented as a picture which made them realise: For you too the great
spiritual re-birth, as the great Ideal of all humanity and moreover
darkness is greatest, as a sign and token that out of the darkness of
the power to bring forth new life. The great symbol of worlds stands
to birth in the Holy Night because the greatest Light shines forth

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Too great a flame, we stand, with wonder burning.
which, in the great Mysteries, was celebrated by those personalities
occurs. In the great Mysteries man was permitted to behold the active
which he underwent the greatest experience possible.
Mysteries, were first taught what the awakening signifies in the great
at the time when darkness on earth is greatest, when the outer sun has
entire course of human evolution, realizing that the great festivals
contemplation of the great eternal truths. The pupils directed their
learned that for them, too, the great moment would come. "Today," they
arouse in themselves what may be called faith in man's greatest ideal.
Christos was to appear as the great Ideal of all men, that He had been
as the sun follow a great rhythm. Were the sun to change this rhythm
same time bears the power in itself to bring forth new life. The great

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VII: Education and Spiritual Science
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to Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was king
which great spiritual teachers have appeared among men. Buddha,
greater, a fact we find preserved in heroic legends and
great teachers was self-evident to the human soul. It is bad;
it does great harm if the child doubts the teacher. The

Title: Lecture: The Lords Prayer
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something of what is given by the great guiding spirits of humanity or by
the spiritual content of great civilizations in which the human being
embodies a great thought — not every thought is suitable, as you know,
it, the thoughts of the great leaders of mankind draw the meditant onward
mankind to the great Atlantean flood recorded in the deluge-myths of all
as “the great sacrifice,” signifying the power of will to sacrifice
One may picture this “great sacrifice,” the highest expression of
When the will has become capable of making the “great sacrifice,” it
actually creates a universe, great or small, whose mission is bestowed
the “outpouring” — when Divinity makes the “great
kingdom,” “animal kingdom” and all the great divisions of
separate members of the great multiplicity of the kingdom, distinguishing
separate members of the great multiplicity of the kingdom are distinguished
body with the hour-hand and the minute-hand of a clock. A great
knowledge. The student has accomplished a great deal, indeed, if he has
before humanity as its great goal is called the Father in Heaven.
All formulas for meditation in the world's great religious societies
Not at all; rather, the great wise men have adopted these prayer forms
form of prayer was born of this great knowledge; and the great Initiate
the great universal laws according to which it has come into existence. It
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our soul so that the thoughts of our great leaders, the masters of
directly for us. Every formula has the greatest effect in the original
our meditation formulas contain great spiritual forces; they are
aware that great tasks will be given him someday, that he'll be used
present and future become harmoniously united. The great masters put
syllable the great masters are here with us and the air resounds with
Asuras are spirits of the very greatest egoism who remained behind

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture VIII: Insanity in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) was among the greatest
have great suggestive power over weaker personalities, can
sense, and the more numerous and greater the talents and

Title: Lecture Series: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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speak of spiritual diseases Further, the greatest errors have
idea), which exercises a great suggestive power on weak
works into the life body and especially through the great
becomes ever greater and greater. The ego also works in the
etheric body, the former life passes before the soul in great
talents and powers all the greater and more numerous.

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are capable of developing spiritual forces of greater
discovered, and the doctors were greatly alarmed; she showed
therefore also the greatest healer.
Spiritual Being is the greatest healer. From Christ is born

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the greatest truths, but even more than other great truths it
an organ, a tool; and self-knowledge becomes ever greater the
perfected. Some people enter life possessing great talents,
the greatest importance that everything in the environment of
deepest reverence and respect is of great significance for
great inner strength that matures under the influence of the
for later life than an absence of feelings of great hopes and
more spiritual. All this is certainly greatly enhanced and

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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uphold that the great work of the Rosicrucians is to be
Rosicrucianism contains things of far greater import. Rather
mysteriously told, Paracelsus, the great medieval physician
sworn to secrecy. That is also why nothing of great
The great secret is revealed of what “ultimately holds
impart the holy secrets of existence to great masses of
method developed by the Rishis, the great spiritual teachers
millennia the great masters of wisdom who guide mankind's
Becoming one with the macrocosm or great world
philosophers of great renown tell us that human beings cannot
vertical beam. Plato, the great philosopher of antiquity,
level the great future ideal of mankind, attainable when the
am going to say will give you a great deal of insight into
of the changed breath has become great enough. This will take
carbon that will be a person's future body. A great mystery
is within us is like a copy of the great archetype that
of great significance is between the eyebrows at the root of
speak. The power to recognize the great World-Self is

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always been so. The great mystics of the early Christian
Ruhe fand). These words already reveal a great deal
B.C.) was a great Athenian dramatist
great dramas, seen by those who had been admitted to the
to be a great, beautiful, worthy and estimable unity; when
onwards to ever greater heights and more perfect stages of
to ever greater perfection. He becomes entangled in matter
it with great power in his dramas. Only someone with his
sphere that reveals his greatness as he searched for the true
Wagner's great ideal and the sense in which he wanted to
Parsifal we witness, powerfully presented, great
Wagner had a deep awareness of the great mysteries connected
events of greatest significance. In France, Scotland, England
great individuality, in the anonymous sage who continued to
associated with great individuality, and is always known by a
you in concepts that point to a greater perspective. A figure
Wagner an inkling of the great teaching that flourished in
Greatest Healing Wonder

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Nature. The great Festivals are connected with definite and distinctive phenomena in the Heavens
God, Brahma, is referred to as the Great Architect of the World, who brings about order and
weakens. But from Christmas onwards greater and greater warmth again streams from the Sun.
there is a great difference. In its deepest significance, Easter is always felt to be the
festival of the greatest mystery connected with Man. It is not merely a festival celebrating the
undeveloped human being. The wisdom made manifest in his bodily structure is the greatest that
being that this wisdom first begins to manifest. The soul hardly so much as dreams of the great
glimpse the ultimate goal, surmising the existence of a great soul by which the cosmic wisdom
had the great vision he describes. Seventy years being the
Redemption. Because cause and effect belong together in the spiritual life, this great deed of

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A modern person, however great his faith, can have no notion
could come. People saw the Bible as dealing with great world
in great contrast to the usual experience of those who
structure, there is greater similarity between the lowest
spoke about it as a great heresy in 1859. This view influenced
just as real. The difference he sees is just as great between
developing to ever greater perfection forces that are
initiate is actually greater than the difference between the
someone who possessed greater knowledge than anyone else.
In the course of time the initiate will lead a great number
greater insight, till finally the pupil became an initiate.
subject is dealt with in great detail. There are many reasons
various people are similar This fact contains a great secret,
a great mystery. The people always looked up to their
greater detail from the viewpoint of spiritual science, and
further back we go in human history, the greater the
infinite greatness. It is this aspect of a person's being
I” in all its greatness and might, and you have an idea
Jesus of Nazareth in its highest glory. He was the greatest
He is that to which striving mankind looks up as the greatest

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out from such great discoveries of single researchers as those
sentence that a great friend and researcher of truth
was a great researcher and a great painter and artist and knew
despicable that if it tells great things about God it robs His
pictures. Someone who surveys the great cultural creation of

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Germany, one had a great, idealistic-philosophical spiritual
teachings of the great German philosopher Leibniz (Gottfried
could have performed great things for spiritual science with
(Henri Antoine B., 1852–1908), the great physicist, discovered
that what we see and hear is real, and that it was a great
something concrete. The great philosophies that moved in
enriched from two sides. It will be a great, perfect harmony,

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catacombs, martyrs, great devotion.

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knowledge at that time. Comenius, the great educationist and thinker
to our own times it has secretly carried on and handed on the great
Amos Comenius, the great educationalist, was among those who
particles. You can divide the great majority of substances into
We can learn a great deal from this sentence. Helmont calls what he
than man has today. Space, to them, was not a great infinite void in
beautiful things that are found in the works of these great men, he

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the great task that we have to fulfill.

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but also a great thinker: “Never search anything behind
consider everything in great enclosing pictures which are the

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the dictum of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the great thinker, we
did the great Plato write above his school? He wrote that
is a wonderful great achievement of the spiritual life of
Reclam's Universal Library in which he gives a great survey of
who founded the newer natural sciences so greatly gets to this
puts a great Imagination before him. This spiritual science

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risk. There is the risk for the great majority at most that it
human being wants to get knowledge of the great and beatific of
great, so mighty, and significant, and claims us so strongly
sacrifice of personality; on the other side, it is a great
to make sacrifices. There is a great difference if spiritual
somebody. Towards the great, they often become the haughtiest,
this is connected also with the fact that we are great laughers
and great blabbers.

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
of the chyle are also influenced greatly by the soul conditions, but
to a greater control over his astral body and his etheric body as he
of the means by which the great spiritual guidance of the earth distributes
when the human body is being built up, the liver occupies the greatest

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as he has learnt this with himself. The child is the greatest

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less materialistically, could not make the distance great
father, son, grandson, great-grandchild of a lion has so much
grasp the great idea in your inside that the order of the

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
brought into being. Even at its greatest density this Saturn was not
long and greatly differing periods of evolution; the forces working
existence it has had upon it three great races: the first, the Polarian
be when his sevenfold being has fully developed. But in the great cosmic
universe. This is the Being Who has the power to make the great sacrifice
Aries and thus He becomes Himself the “Great Sacrifice,”

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that are of the greatest importance for his further development. The

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
keep up. In the world-conception of theosophy you have the great illuminating
kind of great primordial nebula, as our physical science describes.
Only we must think of this primordial mist as immense, far greater than
who had by no means attained the great age of the beings who, though
clairvoyance — the teachers of the great Mysteries of ancient
the teachers of the great masses of mankind, so did the beings of Mercury
besides that had to be the great schoolmasters of the great initiates.
continuation of merely materialistic science would do great harm to

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
form a blackberry. In this way the Saturn-globe was a great berry made
capable of the greatest deed, namely, to lay aside their etheric body
1.) This was of great significance and produced an important result;
greater and greater, and that this new structure, which has been gradually
acquired a greater fall, in order to construct a dam in the water at

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great ideas has something marvellous. For others both things
“Desire and love are the wings of great actions.”
Really, desire and love are the wings of great actions! They
and love are the wings of great actions,” and try to
colony. He attained something great with it. He made the matter
The great human beings
have felt this, a great spirit felt it about whom one talks

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
great Sacrifice of the Earth. The Spirits of Wisdom and Yahve, the
Christianity as religion of humanity is greater than all religions...
the great age attributed to the Patriarchs, to Adam and the succeeding
was not a smaller one but embraced immensely great groups — that
a great number of them, chose the sun as their theatre. Only the Being
and Mercury beings, have been the great teachers of humanity in the
“Great Sacrifice of the Earth” or the “Mystical Lamb.”
into a Kingdom of Love. If we would characterize the great ideal that
was the Word.” With this was given one of the greatest advances
Christianity is greater than all religion! That is Rosicrucian wisdom.
is still greater than the religious principle itself. When the outer
to live without Christianity, for Christianity is greater than all religion.

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feel if we see how one of the greatest scholars and such a
working from star to star. The great initiates taught not
main features remained the same. The great discovery by
nebulae and suns! Is nature only great, because she gives you

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Speaking about the great ideals and about the determination of
reveal the earthly past with great, enclosing astuteness. They
bottom have come with the faults at the top. A great astuteness
thankfully as a great achievement for humanity what the

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greater distances than is the case in our Middle European countries.
before the great Festival symbolising the victory of the Spirit over
a great deal more than the colours and tones familiar to us to-day.
about to receive Initiation. And then, when the great moment came, in
influence has so greatly increased that man has lost, not only the
greatly differ; they were in balance, and it would have been foolish
wisdom was the basis of them all, as the one great unity. This wisdom
in a great number of individuals the etheric body is beginning to
face the greatest danger of being without a single inkling that there
victory over that body, and there was placed before men the great
Christ came to establish the great synthesis between the Easter
up to Christ not merely as the Saviour but as the great Prototype with

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power is victorious, we have one of the great pictures before
depths of the world existence. How magnificently and greatly
yet passed — a great scientist played, the Italian naturalist
a life with us in all the coming ones. This fruit has a great
great spirits have thought or felt such deep connections, and

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
beings of the great epochs and also of the Spirits of the “meanings

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enlightenment, a man whose works made a great stir within the
abstruse to disparage the great service even in the slightest
feelings that, nevertheless, it is much nicer, greater and more
Is nature only great, because she gives you something to count?
twitting. He knows that even the great naturalists found few
The great physicists
great ideal that wants to spark the wisdom of this

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
spirits. To call them elemental spirits shows the greatest possible
own bodily nature they become larger. Even when they reach their greatest
lead? It leads to a man who sits at the wayside when a great Leader
who listen to the great Leader of humanity. They will preserve the soul
great store by mankind may say: “What strides humanity has made

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
will also have come when a fairly great number of representatives of
super-sensible worlds offers a wonderful answer to the great riddle of
existence. These things are of great importance from yet another side.
group souls, and such knowledge will play a great role even in the purely
great change since that time, namely, the alternation of waking and
the great-grandfather, were as much an object of memory as a man's
in various groups if only externally. To a much greater extent than
for the son to do what the father did. Then came the time of the great
great truth, the great law, will be realized that the most individual
in large numbers. To a great extent they owe their existence to a process
A great part of the bird world is severed portions of such evolving

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
more complicated the further we go into the connections with great cosmic

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elemental beings, and the working of the great planetary beings and the
of the impressions from the din and rattle of a great city — these
belonging to the great times of art when there was still a strong feeling
less so in more recent ones. However greatly one may esteem Bocklin,
living form what nature has offered him. The greater understanding possessed
relationships of the great spiritual universe. Goethe too pointed to
that is to appear in ever greater perfection in future incarnations,
handling of the orchestra Richard Wagner sought to create that great
into one great stream, we see this feeling live in the artist who sought
him from past ages. And a divining of that great human impulse of uniting

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understand a great part of the world. But human nature is difficult to
of the astral world. The astral world is peopled by a great number of
know, of course, that actually far the greater part of mankind's social
dangerous, and a great deal of what is said about its danger is connected
world precisely within a spiritual movement. That will be a great field of

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both in the words and in the ideas. Therefore, in wider circles a greater
there will then be a great number who say, “That is all stupidity
essentials, they are still leaves — greatly transformed leaves.
It was in Goethe's great
goes over to the animal. That is the great difference. If you take a leaf
where the water gives greater support or less; where it is thinner and
something much more complicated must happen. A great part of the organs

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the manner of nature. A great and truly heroic idea which sufficiently
significant through their application, and throw great light
philosophy is. In fact there could not be a greater contrast than
and Fichte — two great contrasts unite in Goethe, and he seems
great voice cries
There are a great number of attempts to solve the riddles
Canary in her neighbourhood, and had taken great care not to
Like the pointer of a great Sun-dial, he is held fast in the middle
is the great task of his existence.’ And then Schiller tries
great means of education, a means of aesthetic education, a freeing

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concealed technology. A great and really heroic idea which
destiny. And it is the great task of his existence to agree

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how after the man has developed the great memory tableau
physical world. We have often spoken of the great
these greater or lesser messengers of the spiritual world,
were the great “messengers of the Gods”? When we
Golgotha, that great deed which represents the conquest of
was truly great joy in external existence and enhanced
pleasures of the senses and the great joy in the sense-world
unfruitful for the spiritual world. Great as was the message

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shall see there is a great difference between the two. Take, for
initiated into Goethe's meaning, once, at the time of the great
his secret revelation there also, where he brings his great

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This is the instructive and great of Goethe's scientific nature
his secret revelation still there where he brings his great

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that Theosophy as a teaching is based on the greater occult
mathematical imagination became a great poem which filled him
impressions creates a weaker fragment out of the great world of

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behind, and so, too, the etheric body to a great extent, but the astral

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also, like Savonarola, see the great De Medici, of Lorenzo de
his preaching was with great difficulty because he could only
utter the words from his throat with great effort. However he

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ideas grow, there is a great amount of suppressed activity in us. But

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other. This is also the case, even in the greatest things we

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it also throws light on the great span of human existence that
science can be of great help to us just where daily life is
presented great difficulties, because things go in through one ear
and who in his youth took in a great deal and worked well, and has
process of recovery meets with greater difficulties in the one than
It is the forgotten ideas! That is the great blessing of forgetting!
on man's etheric body. So our forgotten memories have great
the greater part of the etheric body withdraws and dissolves in the
circumstances, it will give man the greatest ethical-moral impulses,
regard to the moral realm can bring about the greatest progress in

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with great intensity and will do so to an even greater extent in the
medicine assumes greater and greater dimensions and insinuates itself
are still quoted today, they do in fact say a very great deal. Present-day
nothing to do with heredity, but a great deal to do with nationality
example a great mistake is being made in the field of medicine, for
certainly lose their greatest value, therefore they are seldom used
will be considered in greater detail in one of the coming lectures,

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direct one's thoughts to great, beautiful things that were done by
greatest man of sorrow was Christ.

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture IV: Bible and Wisdom I
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following up old writings, indeed, writings of a great
in its first beginnings by Euclid, the great mathematician.

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Tübingen School, which the great Bible scholar, the
there have been great human beings in the world evolution:
of Nazareth was the greatest. Nevertheless, we must remain
the ego. Moses became the great precursor bringing the
grandfather, and great-grandfather.
Bible again in its greatness.

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used in both instances. It is of great significance that in the description
The Ten Commandments are interpreted by the great majority of men
and great grandchildren, and their bodies will become waste. If you
great mystery of the ego, who also knew the ego-god of whom there was
priest-wisemen on the one side, and on the other, the great unfree
I would have to tell you a great deal to portray for you the deeper
your ego in your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and
of desire has great significance for ego power. Love heightens the
could be impressed into them with the greatest might. They received
the greatest that it is capable of attaining — that that makes it
Golgotha, Who is the greatest archetype of developing man in the

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in him they cause great harm to his bodies. Curiosity has a
through his will, even in the greatest noise. He can attain this
spiritual quiet better in a noisy city than in great seclusion in the

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before the arising of the sexes. A great uniformity was there then.
present day seasons was very great, and it was of great importance to
traveled just a short distance over the earth, that had a great
olden times. Everything had the greatest influence on people, and so
the vocal cords and the other speech organs. It makes a great
doing, and as this is really happening all the time, it has a great
Mazdao, the Great Aura’. The spiritual part, all the spiritual
between the great divine-spiritual harmony with its health and the
is more divine, for man does not have so great an influence on that,

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are numerous which examine the mental conditions of great
spirits. A Leipzig scholar took great pains till recently to
examine a whole group of great spirits, among them Goethe,
regard him as a swindler, a charlatan or as the greatest sage
are greater than those who stand on the ground of the so-called
Whether one can call it great, this depends on what arises if
recognises as great.
he is the great researcher. Who knows me also knows that I always
ancient sages could show great natural phenomena.

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materialistic way of thinking judges differently. A great
also emotionally, is at the same time the great assistant of
look up at the greater connections of things that raise him
thinking freely from the great viewpoints, this he owes to the

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the day ego described a circle, passing through the greater part of
this circle outside the realm of the great ego and descending into
the great ego at night. For sixteen hours on average it is outside
have to speak in great detail if you are to understand it all. You
results when man is permeated with the great truths of spiritual
days. At one time everything outside him made a great impression on

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and the great truths connected with that Event; they realise,
opened and as well as a great vista of past ages of the Earth
made one; he sees the Earth in future time as a great
experiences associated with the greatest event in his life
epoch there were great Teachers who were also the Leaders of
great Gods.
Thus did the great Atlantean Initiates speak to their pupils
birth to a God, to the great God of the future — such was the
of Atlantis saw into the future, foresaw the great events of
the future. Their vision reached beyond the time of the great
the great post-Atlantean civilisations arose, beginning with
The great Teachers in
the great Spirit of the future. To the Indian people it was
proclamations, this is not the fault of the great Teachers of
speak of the great Sun-Aura, of Ahura Mazdao, of the God of
yonder world. Greater and greater darkness spread over life
experience in infinitely greater majesty and splendour!
the seed — but only the seed — for a greater
intellectual joy from the reading of this great record; but

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indeed, a great deal more; and secondly, we should be willing to draw
you can render me an even greater service. Every year great strong
made a great impression on the giants that he could do something
tailor was married to the king's daughter. The king marveled greatly
know it, but twice you have done me a great service; I will also do
they lived in great happiness, they themselves and all their people.
at the midge I have caught!” The king's son was greatly
king's son found a spring from which he drank and felt greatly
will be doing me a great kindness!” He did so, and while he was
great trouble.” The king's son did this, and the fox also gave
shall go to the hen-yard and make a great commotion there. The
returned, and could already gallop with great swiftness. The second
who are in the intermediate state of consciousness. The great
stand in relation to the great popular myths of the gods in the

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greatest blessings.
Hence in those great centers of the Oracles in ancient Atlantis the
Zarathustra, the great leader of the ancient Persians. The mission of
by Zarathustra as “Ahura Mazdao”, the “Great Aura”.
spiritual world a great deal appears the connections of which are not
victims of such catastrophes will be all the greater, for our
difficult kind because the hindrances are greatest. — And perhaps at
relationship. The greatest hindrance to occult investigation in this
happenings connected with the great karma of humanity is to be found

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seven days. Let us go into this in greater detail.
starting-point. You know of course that a great difference exists and
in greater detail today. With such things as these, which appear
have to look once again to the great cosmic relationships to find the
regulating of the great cosmic relationships. Man as microcosm is a
true image of the great world relationships, for he is created out of
the great cosmic cycle, when the hour and minute hands coincide at
greater the disorder that came into them. I would like to clarify
like an angel not to think in harmony with the great spiritual
no longer knows how to take guidance from the great script of the
into day. It is of far greater significance that in his inner life of
thought man has torn himself away from the great universal rhythm.
contradiction to the life of the great universe.
‘clock’, his astral body. And the great regulator is
spiritual science, because it is in harmony with the great laws of
the same great numerical relationships as the cosmos had in the past,
understand why just in an age when men have reached the greatest

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but spiritual science itself is the great remedy.

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karma, on that great law of causes which show the spiritual
past life standing before him as a great tableau. Then, after a
could say a great deal about it, of course. Today, however, we shall
that we form connections with a great number of people in one life,
vary a great deal in this respect. Some souls have acquired great
which we shall only understand if we look at it in greater detail.
appear in the etheric body in the great memory tableau. Then we have
of initiation into the great mysteries of existence in one of his
to it in greater detail later — let us look back into that
we find this important law expressed in a Greek myth, too; this great
realisation. Spiritual science will become the great impulse for the

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certain chapter of the code of Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
soul seems to be great and to have many talents from the start.
Between such moods, this great soul was thrown back and forth.
which the great novels come in which he gave the comprising
tried to fathom the meaning of life in great philosophies and
allow to be fertilised by a great personality may receive a lot
sensation: one can do such a remark. Therein the greatness of

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pursued, it places the greatest value on the fact that
to the professor and inform him that he has made a great
in the world. He has to educate himself to that great,
greater poet than anyone was who is not allowed to be disturbed
great practitioners do not have this practical thinking; they
survey because he is able to think from great viewpoints into
from the greatness of the worldview. Goethe's dictum is

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The greatest avatar being who has lived on earth, as you can gather
narrative a great part of post-Noah humanity is derived from his
complications in human evolution that can explain a great deal to us.
to the pupils of the Apostles. Great value was set upon being able to
The great prominence that was given to everything of a physical
plane to which the greatest importance was attached.
it the greatest folly had they been told that the events of Palestine
Nazareth had been preserved and were woven into a great number of
Here we see verified a great historical truth that should be of
must rediscover the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, Christ. By
As the greatest Avatar Being, Christ descended to earth. Let us view
existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
far greater things and the Christian development and standard of life

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
The greatest
to which the greatest importance was given.
verified a great historical law that should be of special
wisdom which is the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, of
descended to earth as the greatest avatar being. Let us view
existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
will offer humanity far greater things, and the Christian

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The greatest Avatar-Being Who has lived on earth, as you can
is the center that in the ancient Hebrew narrative a great part
explain a great deal to us. We have to do with a very exalted
little consideration is given to a fact of very great
physical relics are emphasized. Just consider what great
themselves listened to the pupils of the Apostles. Great value
What great prominence was given to
greatest importance was attached.
people who would have considered it the greatest folly had they
into a great number of people; because it was granted to
great historical law which should be of special importance for
Here we see a great historical fact
wisdom which is the primordial wisdom of the Great Avatar, of
greatest Avatar-Being, the Christ descended to earth. Let us
of existence. What the human being is in particular, the great
future; it will offer humanity far greater things, and the

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great, elated ideas of spiritual science flow into the physical

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It has frequently been emphasized that man's greatest riddle is
greatest riddle is himself, it must also be emphasized that each
the discovery of evolution to be its greatest achievement. In animals,
dangers of aberration, one great, one small. One danger for the young
develops into maturity. That is the small danger. The greater is that
danger is flightiness; the greater is mania, induced by a constant
the greater is stupidity, dullness. For the melancholic, insensitivity
greater is insanity.

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basis of that which is the greatest goal of human destiny:

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went to Weimar and owing to his position there entered the great
personality, now we see before us a great conflict carried on
reminded of the great dramatic representation of man's life
passage through the great world, but in such a way that the second
which he had erected to the ‘great God’ of Nature, a
greatest nonsense, and at that time it was most difficult to
had developed an intuitive mind. He must have been greatly pleased
These mysterious signs and words must have made a great
developing in ever greater refinement. But it was not easy to find
centuries, when studious lives were led, we find a great
the mystics with great pains, to miss the way and being unable to
which copies the great world. But Goethe had studied the many
book is turned over and in place of the sign of the great world,
‘So much is certain, the old artists had quite as great a
peace. These great works of art were produced according to true and
It is not surprising if nothing is discovered of the great
greatest.
conscious of the great difference between people who had been
the great world. We see too from out the experiences of Goethe's
‘Faust’ side by side. For great and powerful wisdom

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There we must think of the greatest dramatic representation of
the “great God of nature.” This fire should come
immediate greatness and meaning, it is clothed in an external
shows what a great leap
Great, tremendous profundities speak from such Eastern writings.

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passage of some great words spoken thousands of years ago; words
called it ‘Ahura Mazdao,’ ‘The great
at the sun, and feeling the world full of spirit, spoke the great
what is the highest in the world, what He, the Great, Ahura Mazdao,
Now Faust is to go into the great world with the gifts he
Such a man, steeping himself in the whole great course of human
as he enters the great world where decisions affecting the world
bring people to a condition of great confusion. We shall see best
little, but in truth it is saying a great deal. For usually between
same time conscious in the spiritual world. The two great
of the effect of the powers throughout the great world.
in his higher state of consciousness is led to the great powers in
when like all great minds, he makes his own words. Then one will be
also expressed himself — and as a great warning for all who
other. In two successive poems Goethe has expressed, like a great

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world. It is greatly shown how Faust's soul develops to grow
spiritual sun and called it the great sun aura, Ahura Mazdao.
We are reminded of Zarathustra, who spoke the great, tremendous
me, the great Ahura Mazdao. Who does not want to hear His words
from own experience. However, it is great how Goethe represents
Goethe only, where he appears, like all great spirits, as a

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satisfaction. We see one of the great spirits of the nineteenth
shows Nietzsche's vain and fateful striving that is so great in its
that in every rebirth the sufferings must come again. The great

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clear about what it is, and not imagine that it's of great importance

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We have often looked back to the times preceding the great Atlantean
They are the great builders and architects of existence who have led
in the great cities come to expression in orgies of dissolute
Feelings” are united in the great Guiding Lodge of mankind. And as
mind finds great difficulty here.
redeemed. For everything in the great World Plan is good and the evil

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man's being. We have looked at the great riddle of man from as many
and altogether that which is greatest, is not to be sought in unknown
greatest wisdom, if we can only understand this. Therefore let us
greatest and most powerful share of divinity, he towers above his
Then we shall have understood a great deal of things that meet us in
anyone who can read the great script of nature that a divine spark is
being within ones own ego is too great. But bitter feelings also
Great

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spiritual forces in his soul. This is for him the great moment in
little world in the great world, who out of his purified soul brings
in the figure of the Madonna. These Madonnas are, it is true, greatly
being interred in many graves. Hence the great number of tombs of
Jesus we have the great prototype of everything that the human soul is

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soul. This is the great moment for him in which the spiritual
great model of everything that the human soul should bear out
are only a paraphrase of the great dictum Plato has spoken:

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become a great dramatist. A student dreams, for example,
this hazy consciousness remembering something great in the

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one with the sun; and how greatly he had to change as first of all
get to the North Pole the greater are the differences between winter
Lemurian times, in the great increase of forces raying in from
living upon it is here at its greatest. On the other hand the
though they had great clairvoyant faculties, and who looked out to
the greatest imaginable degree. A great number of people looked up to
greatest chance of survival living in the countries between the
of great spiritual significance, were physically small in those days,
Atlantean population: Where the people are small we find great
was a great contrast between men who were good as to their qualities
and who were normal, for they had not developed egoism to too great
future, and they were also the ones that the great sun initiate,
Thus it was here that they best understood a God who had the greatest
peoples who had developed the ego in too great or too little a
development. That is why the great masters of wisdom and of harmony
are not pupils of the great masters by only wanting to let the God
is something so great and significant because it is carrying further

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through the great white lodge, and from there a man must consciously
We want to unroll the great future panorama that will be seen when the

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great artistic development, to give utterance to the
order to discover the great thoughts that underlie them, as
in lines of electric light over a great
down. We could really reconstruct a great part of the history
motif, with his great knowledge and understanding and his
artistic form. Just imagine how great and mighty must have been
to inscribe the great ideal into his soul.
will find pictures of this kind, created out of good and great
Dove of the Spirit. The Dove of the Spirit, what a great riddle
stand before the soul of every Theosophist as a great and

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is a much greater similarity in the more important mythological
sense. The great mythological figures lead us back to the experiences
There were Mysteries of great significance, deeply influencing ancient
of the womb of worlds, out of the great universe.’ To-day the
danger likely to be far greater here than in other regions of the
and legends of Europe to the Mysteries. We should find a great deal in
tells of the Twilight of the Gods. But then came the news of the great
often told you of the great stimulus given to the evolution of man by
the ancient Hebrew felt himself part of one great whole, secure in the
earlier times it was known that a great many mysteries were contained
grandparents of Charles the Great. But those who studied the legend
more deeply, saw in Charles the Great the figure who, in a certain
Great, Flor and Blancheflor, lived the rose and the lily —
European Initiation inaugurated by Charles the Great which were to
anthroposophical teachings are nourished to a greater extent than has
Goethe's greatest poetic achievements were nourished from Rosicrucian

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had European mysteries of great significance and deep influence
not completely victorious over death. However, the great
Goethe's greatest poetic deeds are fed from the sources of

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
our souls time and again those great comprehensive thoughts
Those who have a feeling for these great truths should hurry
the Great Spirit of the Sun with all its subordinate beings
maya, the great illusion. Whenever I perceive this
incarnation welled up in him. And at that moment the Great
therefore, that Zarathustra had experienced a great deal
an even greater and more prodigious sacrifice. When
what point in time the great Impulse of Golgotha would
always a certain connection between great individualities of
fact. Great spirits work together, and they are born into a
certain age for a purpose. Likewise, the great impulses in

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Golgotha, and this was true of a great initiate who had known
First higher beings reveal something to mankind's great initiates, and
The childhood of great initiates differs little from that of other

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aspects on the subject of the great evolutionary processes of the
like to draw your attention to a fact that can tell you a great deal
disappears further and further and the physical grows great, whilst
spiritual become greater and greater.
alternating in man to an even greater extent. In the human being
way into man. And they appear to a greater and greater extent the
And the more he has enriched his soul the greater his capacity to add
from previous causes will become greater and greater, and his inner
what man sees before him as a great and wonderful ideal in the far
the greatest, most profound foundation. If man becomes such that he
And the Christ Event has given man the greatest thing possible, the
greatest of all free deeds, and one which can serve him as an
example. What is this greatest deed of freedom? It is that the
we are able to do this we shall acquire great ideals which, although

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prehistory we have very complicated relations before us. The greatest, one
great teacher of humanity. This latter gradually takes on other capacities
of the great Buddha, to lead an appropriate life that crystallizes the
to it as a bodhisattva. In this way The great Christ event was also
physical corporeality to bring humanity a great step forward by means of
experience the great Buddha himself. Asita, that was the name of the sage,
child the great Zarathustra of the past was incarnated. That Zarathustra,

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great riddles of existence.
seventeenth century thinker who is of great significance for anyone who can
those days. This lonely thinker discusses the great central problem of the
works as a unity, if he feels himself within the world as in a great,
have made possible the great progress of physical science.
Spiritual Science. This was a time of rest for the greater part of mankind.
We need only think of the great martyrs, who gave up everything the
great mediaeval split between those things that can be known by reason and
throw light on the great riddles of existence. He will come to feel that
these riddles and the great questions of destiny can be resolved through

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earth. This is a great achievement, that an individuality does not need to
however, he also needed the great endowments of the ego carrier, the great
individuality of Moses? What the Buddha brought is rightly called the great

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he overcomes falsehood and error and pursues truth as his great
gained great distinction through his lecture courses on the lives of
inevitably into self-seeking. Herein lies the great and most serious
great difference whether a man devotes himself to truths that come from
greatest truths — but then lacked the strength to go further. The task
You Titans make a great beginning,
development felt by men such as Goethe, and the great modesty which prevents

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For this reason a great number of expositions given

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sentient soul. This thought substance has far greater elasticity than
greatest experiences vouchsafed him who ascends to higher cognition

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years. Let us consider the nature of this progress. After the great
Indian civilisation, during which the great Rishis were the teachers
if we take great periods of time, we find that all the sentiments and
words, we could not have advanced if there had not been great Teachers
successive age and that the attitude of the great Teachers towards the
that the great Teachers themselves undergo development from one cycle
progressive evolution of the great Teachers of humanity. Just as man
turning-point, so likewise do the Great Teachers.
Man goes through a descending and an ascending development. The great
meaning. The great Teachers could not have taught the Old Indians by
they have explained it by word of mouth. To the Old Indians the Great
pupil. What was of greatest importance was what the teacher saw, in
of his soul were of the greatest importance; for a sort of inspiration
the great Teachers of the Old Indians to have a particularly developed
One thing, however, was necessary in these great Teachers: their own
were those of the people. If a great teacher had stood at the same
in through the sentient body, that the Great Teacher of the Indians
contact with one of the great Indian teachers, he would have said:
the ordinary way, but in a certain sense left it unused, A great
flow from within, towards the great Teachers. In this way quite new
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a great deal of us that we cannot perceive unless the appropriate
there was such a person as Frederick the Great. Formally there is no
belief that there was a Frederick the Great. When someone constructs
for you the life of Frederick the Great from external data, you

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from without, nor bring them to us. That is the great secret of the
more we will see in it a great school for learning to think. The
the great continents, in the southern, the vast oceans; the tendency
In this way a great deal becomes clear. When we know the

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confirm. The stronger the will is to creative thinking, the greater is the
ever-greater heights.
particularly helpful when we are trying to unravel the great riddles of

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imagine a great snow-clad plain spread out before us and upon
part of me; thou wilt become as great as I am myself; in this
woman's soul expand, waxing great and beautiful. And the
individual talent in the great domain after which thou hast
greatest difficulties will occur when thou allowest men to

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Him — is so great, so all-embracing, so mighty, that there can
of the greatest of all world-problems. Reverence, veneration — these
the greatest problem of life, one should try not to place too high a
of describing more than a single aspect of this great, overwhelming
greater than anything that could be conveyed in the lectures on the
greatest imaginable self-surrender, is the very fount of Compassion and
how the greatest sacrifices spring from love for some being or cause;
— But so great was the mother's love that she could not bring
is capable of deeds of untold greatness. The significance of the Love
with the Gospel of St. John we may speak of great, transcendental
two attributes because in Christ-Jesus the greatest of all riddles stands
great ever to allow us to imagine that thereby we have already grasped
in St. Mark's Gospel. The misunderstandings would be even greater than

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to human history. This is a direct indication that this greatest of all
treatment, and that great harm can easily be done to the cause of Spiritual
should be made with great caution; nor is it too much to expect everyone
we are shown how the two great pre-Christian streams of spiritual life
into the great Christian stream of spiritual life on the earth. The
more clearly the fact that an Individuality as great as Zarathustra
if it was to provide the body for a being as great as Zarathustra. If
of the ancient Persian people, this great being had been developing
had to be provided from a racial stock whose greatness was commensurate
have entailed great divine-spiritual labour, in order to produce a human
ocean, but regarded all this as a great Illusion, as “Maya”,
This signifies something of the greatest profundity. The human corporality
the Babylonians a great Teacher from the East was working there, with
in the regions whither the Hebrews were led. Some of the greatest of
they were following their great Teacher, Zarathustra, on his way to
recognised that in the destiny of every great Individuality charged
individual with the greatest possible power. Both these principles must
We see how these great Leaders, Buddha and Zarathustra, desired to bring

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great deal that is not present in the plant. He can experience impulses,
described in greater detail in my book,
may do him great harm. A person can develop all sorts of faculties and powers
great stress on a certain diet. This does not at all imply that such a mode
great evil if this course were followed as a means of entering the spiritual
we find that they also, if left to themselves are greatly superior to human

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life converged, in order, eventually, in the great Christian stream,
modern age. That is why in a spiritual movement such as ours the greatest
place to make it possible for mankind to be prepared for that great
intermingling of blood, conditions which in earlier times had great
in great strength. As the Bible tells, the choice was made between the
mankind was drawing near. The last great Nazarene lived at the time of
the Baptism of John were able to say: A great and momentous event has come
‘stone mountain’, the great stone. One might say that Moses
received the revelation of the Law from the ‘great stone’

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someone proves himself to be a great benefactor in one way or another. It
Seek you the highest, the greatest?
character something as noble as the plant is on its own level. And the great
himself to be living in the world as in a great and beautiful and worthy
the seed-bud. There is something great in this act of self-sacrifice by the
said — enjoys the feeling of living in the wide expanse of a great and
egoism, and we must now characterise it in greater detail.
any active interest in the great and beautiful ordering of nature from which
great and praiseworthy in himself would be absent, were it not for the people
the great law that we have gained from studying egoism and apply it to the
invigorate the human soul are those drawn from the life of the great outer
all ways of knowledge which seek, above all, to reach the great truths of
brooding is merely a sign that we cannot get away from ourselves. Very great
relation with the great riddles of existence, have a hardening effect on him.
appeal to truth when we show that to be in harmony with the great world can
enable a man to become greater in himself and therefore greater in the
again?” — but by opening the heart to everything great and
Goethe says that the whole human race can be regarded as a great individual,
can understand the great world around him only when his own enriched inner
this was composed. He had taken great pains over the first part of the
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and the great facts of evolution, as being similar to Buddhism. But
better if we do not at once turn to the great doctrines — which
theories and principles, cleaves these two great world-conceptions
conception as expressed by the great Founder of Buddhism himself. The
Heavily indeed, did this discovery weigh upon the great soul of
to the great Buddha, there arises by degrees within men's souls
enlightenment under the Bodhi-tree, gave out in the great sermon at
building stones for the completion of a great edifice that is to
greatest of the forms of its presentation, no less than in its
is Maya, it is the Great Deception!’ ‘Not so,’
There we have the great distinction which makes Buddhism
greatest achievements. The entrance of Christ into the
Thus, there are great depths of meaning hidden even in
have grown greater than it is to-day. When that time comes, men will
the greatest of human beings, leaving his palace and finding a
things are grasped, the more clearly will the great significance of
own nature. That, however, is only possible because the greatest
of the Future, which, while acknowledging all the greatness and
embodiments, and points upwards to a great acknowledgment of every
single incarnation in the whole great sequence.

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about world origins and the great facts of evolution. And if one particular
persons who know nothing of Theosophy. Even the great Orientalist, Max
truly not being given in order to promote opposition to the great originator
heavily on the Buddha's great soul that human life entails suffering and
eight-fold path, in accordance with the teaching of the great Buddha. This
four holy truths that were proclaimed by the Buddha in his great sermon at
great edifice that is to arise by a bringing together of everything spiritual
This is evident in their ways of thinking about things great and small and in
Maya, the great illusion. Christian thinking would reply that it is wrong to
therefore, we do not find a great teacher who, as in Buddhism, tells us that
greater significance than ordinary death; Christ here establishes death as
of the greatest of men left his palace, saw a dead body and formed the
wherein lie the greatness and significance of Buddhism.
great Buddha marks the end of an old epoch of evolution; it provides the
occur only because the greatest impulse and innermost source of Christianity
last traces of his earthly existence are extinguished, but speaks the great
Christianity will recognise all the greatness and significance of Buddhism,

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human soul-life to the great connections we find in the wide universe, the
he achieved a great deal for the more
investigator who tried, with immense assiduity and great care and precision,
game; and however stimulating a game of this kind may be, the greatest care
frequency of rainfall were in many cases shown to be greater with a waxing
than with a waning moon: greater when the moon approached the earth, smaller
to recognise that the moon had no very great influence on the weather, but
shame, the more so as she sets no great store by it. The result will be that
the earth's attractive power, while to set the great masses of the sea into
refer to a similar fact which gave Goethe a great deal of trouble. Most
people know very little about the preoccupations of this great genius of
Goethe did in fact assemble a great deal of evidence which indicated that in
means the only great thinker who looked with a spiritual eye on such things
brought in from elsewhere, the soul has great difficulty in struggling with
of life where Spiritual Science can indeed point the way to a great

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should continually enter in greater detail into the questions and
sufficient merely to know that there is a great law of destiny
time to studying the law of karma, the great law of destiny, with
in the external world. If we wish to find a comparison for this great
and was put into the new trade, he took a great interest in it. At
with greater zest. When he is eighteen or nineteen the feelings and
true observer many years after. Nothing but the great connections and
who was very greatly respected and honoured. I had not yet seen him
is of great and special value in any life. I have known men who
bodies must now call forth greater activity in order to repair the
healing force. Whatever calls forth great activity in the spiritual

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the inner life of some great individuality may feel that human speech
life. Those who have knowledge will be able to learn a great deal
of Speech’ assumes great significance.
enumerate, — and they have been evolved with great diligence, —
of the external world. But this physical body has to do a great deal
this sense, Spiritual Science will fulfil the dreams of the greatest

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which did not emit a sound remains unanswered. The great linguistic
areas in such a way that it fulfils the visions of the greatest

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In each of the Gospels light is thrown on the great Mystery of
presented by the Gospel of St. Mark from the aspect of the great
‘There is a great difference between having the ego only in
subsequent earth-periods was destined to attain greater and greater
In the course of years a great deal has been said as to what the
noble, wise and great. As human beings, we are not only able coldly to
of still greater significance has come. If man had not been subject to
greater good-health; and when we have gradually learnt to understand
retrospectively, thus enabling the holy Rishis to reveal their great
become what it was to be, when that ego takes into itself the great
to be aglow for what is great and good, to feel enthusiasm for the
brings about to a still greater extent the consideration of one man
event was taking place? Just reflect that Tacitus — the great
ever greater and greater, for it has to prepare for a coming event

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with eternal life, with the highest qualities of the soul or with great
is achieved in the legends and the great traditions of mankind — so
the great Zarathustra, who became so immensely important for Eastern culture,
was particularly significant that this great spirit came
these legends and traditions to the works of a single great genius, we might
of great significance. But to speculate on the nature of spirit is easier
species to which it belongs. For example, there are no such great difference
great spiritual-scientific whole. If we observe a person laughing or weeping,
great catastrophe, spiritual-scientific research has the means to discover
our understanding of the records is greatly enhanced. We feel that they must
further strengthen its powers. No wonder, then, that among the great sources
experiences can lead to an understanding of the greatest facts. Artistic

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Zarathustra. We have a great deal more to learn through our studies
In Solomon there were great, important rudiments, which were to be
descendants; perhaps for the very reason that such great forces are
the good but to the evil spiritual powers. That is the great
Spiritual Science, to read the great scriptures of old aright, through
expression by pointing to the great progress of evolution. This has
of the great teachings of cosmology and humanity, while everywhere
great responsibility of Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy has sprung from a
must grow up as regards their capacities so that a great number, and
in the course of the next 2,500 years will be experienced to a greater
The great event which awaits mankind in the near future is, that those
materialistic sense, shook the world as greatly as had once the
to the people that his birthday must be held as the greatest Festival
France, and so on; great numbers of persons traveled as pilgrims to
Christ’ in our century, that greatest of Events, signifies that
the great epoch of humanity which is immediately ahead of us. Do not
not been prepared for this by Spiritual Science will miss the great
It will therefore be a great omission, if those who have the

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of what great men have understood by mysticism and of what they believed it
great thinker of the 17th and 18th century, said to himself: When we look at
immediate, his attitude to the world. Certainly we can learn a great deal

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only to gain an illuminating insight into the great laws of
that lecture, as a great and wonderful preparatory school for
within us greater than all that we have employed to form
from the past. This sense of something greater is the first
there is something within us that is greater than our own
in judgment or in shame and regret, feels something great
were possessed of this greatness, it would be different, but
speak these great and significant lines to
devotion to prayer, the greatest mystics found the best
to feel this, it must be called up by the greatest thoughts,
realizing that there is something great in me that I have
this greatness so that I may become perfect, then, even so,
counterforce that assails us with greater vigor in the form
learn or experience anything of the great secrets of the

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— as a great and wonderful preparatory school for spiritual-scientific
that is greater than anything we have employed to form ourselves in the past.
something greater, with something in our soul that guides us to stand face to
that something greater than all our will-power dwells within us. And thus we
greater than itself, this realisation will evoke in the soul a reverence
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view it will not seem surprising that the greatest mystics found in their
if we have come to live in this feeling, we know that great moments come for
something great in me to which I have never allowed full scope, but now I
have no need to learn or experience anything to do with the great secrets of
would deny that in a great majestic cathedral we have something like a prayer

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each night what she has woven during the day. Great depths are revealed where
great scientist Francesco Redi
to breach these limits to the greatest possible extent.
so-called animal instinct is therefore sufficient to develop a far greater
is present also in those who commit the greatest follies. Intelligence is
being is re-established to a greater or lesser degree after healing, the
new birth death is of great significance for us because we will have learnt
same about sickness and healing as a great poet in an important epoch said

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existence. In reality this is in itself as great and mighty a fact as
a great and still more comprehensive law permeating all human
unities. We can point externally to one great and mighty fact,
among other things, that great fact in the evolution of the world, the
expression, the image, of a still greater cosmic polarity rooted in a
unity; greater than the example in our present-world life, of the two
microcosm, is born out of the Macrocosm, the great world — must
the great Cosmos. If we compare man, as seen to-day in the light of
of greatest importance in it. For example, there is much truth in what
greater importance. If we wish to feel the force of this, we must make
in the great world, is that of the Sun to the Earth; and the same
and is just as greatly out-of-drawing as that of woman. Thus the
Natural Science would greatly contradict Spiritual Science; but their
great change in the ordinary process of everyday life. When a new
earth are macrocosmically connected with events of the great world. A
greatest heights to the Initiates. The Initiate draws from thence at
forces during Kali-Yuga, will be thrown open to a great part of
Shamballa. That is the great question of the dividing of the ways:

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another, we find the greatest possible variety. In these lectures we have
greater than anything evident in his daily life, he will be impelled to look
up in worship to this greater thing that towers above him. We saw that in
There are great dangers here for persons of a negative type.
it possible for us to receive a great deal into our soul-life between death
Thus we can say that it makes a great difference if a man achieves a

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who greatly emphasised a theory set up by him about the
often seen as comparable with another truth which the great natural scientist
ether body on the intellectual soul becomes too great, it is plausible that
inner regulated, strong soul-life, if the obstacles are too great. But it is
expand our thinking to encompass the greater context; for seeking to pursue
outer human being is greatly encouraging. Thus spiritual science gives us the

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such questions can be drawn from much greater depths in a study-group
great poet, Æschylos. When we let the personages depicted by the
that name. Five hundred years before the Christian era the greatest
Æschylos, the great Greek dramatist, depicts around Orestes. What we
instead of contemplating short spans of time we look at great periods,
greatest height possible, so that in the Graeco-Latin civilisation it
some slight extent grasp the great thoughts of the guiding Cosmic
Beings! When man asserts that the truth is simple, that is great
universe yielded eternal verities, is making a very great mistake;
In this way we can divine a great mystery of our human development,
vehicle for the highest. A premature ego-feeling, a too great feeling
It would have been impossible there for one person to tower so greatly
is right for that time. It is one of the great assets acquired by
lived and experienced in advance by the Great Leaders, the Great
having greatly developed his inner personality, was of particular
realms of shades!’ The great value of the invisible, of the
juncture, at the turning-point of the times, a great Leading
This deed was accomplished by one of the great Sages of ancient
great depths lie concealed. Empedokles, — the great Sage who was
not only a great philosopher but an Initiate into the deep mysteries
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to be heard in the concert of voices which speak of the great and fruitful
these is the great German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, who pointed
for example, who at one time had great influence on Nietzsche, wrote on the
makes the great discovery that something like an awakening of the soul can
human ego, but of incomparably greater perfection. Clairvoyant insight thus
external world to the inner life of the soul? If it was the great cosmic
encounter in ancient Greece the great dramatic poet Aeschylus,
great poet could only show how bad deeds rose up before the human soul in
great poet as he was, cannot yet speak of conscience itself, while his
which from all spiritual standpoints must be seen as the greatest impulse
and the greatest event in the evolution of mankind, the Christ-Event. Hence

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stimulated by the Spiritual world. When to-day we remember the great
great impulses through which Spiritual life has flowed down from the
In the primeval past, not long after the great Atlantean catastrophe
Finally, we have the greatest Impulse of all in that mighty inflow of
given in the past, and as we have repeatedly emphasised, it is greater
Christ-Impulse, that greatest Impulse in the development of mankind. I
know that to him that Event was the great revelation, whereas all he
undermined. Thus while there was the greatest necessity that this new
this is the great and final result of the materialism which has been
play so great a part; even though the reverence of a few persons is
personality and belief in Authority is particularly great. We are,
were to carry out its great original impulse, unweakened, and with a
work out all right, yet there is a great flaw in them. Suppose an
As a parallel to the appearance of the Event of Damascus a great
Christianity. In this respect we still have a great deal to learn from
Herein lies a great impulse for the life of the countries of the West,
books are focused on that which is the great achievement of the
found expression in the Theosophical movement. The greatest must be

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greatest treasures that spring from man's inner life. We will consider
that truth and beauty have nothing in common. And yet, the great leaders in
and to find answers to the great riddles of existence. Before the time of his
beheld great works of art and caught in them an echo of the art of antiquity.
could discern that the great artists who had created works of art of this
be added here. When we make acquaintance with great works of art in the sense
mysterious revelations of great art? We will approach an answer to this
Greek poetry, whose work has come down to us in the two great epics, the
forces of the great world; and he could say: “When something takes
Homer describes a great armed struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, but
first great work of poetic art, Homer's
bound to be a great difference at certain times between the souls of the
before the soul in great dream-pictures, and how man can witness the deeds of
Christian era. Here we encounter the great mediaeval personality who leads us
Great
further giant stride over several centuries, from Dante to another great
revelations of the spiritual world, and describes the great experience that
his greatness derives precisely from the fact that all the wisdom and
still further. The origin of his great poetic characters is nowadays the
forth again and stands before man. That is how we should respond to the great
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greatly enhanced.
one of the greatest minds of western civilisation, we have, as we all
those great spiritual individuals who, from time to time, have made a
when stirred by its great spiritual truths. The thing that matters
within our souls when the great truths of humanity strike these
knowledge of great spiritual truths; the feeling that the nature of
these great truths is such that we must approach them in humble
comparison should impress on our souls the way to approach great
illumine the great facts of existence from the most varied
time the need will grow ever greater for observing things from every
present a system or a survey of those great events comprised within
the greatest of all truths without which the human soul, in its
The great questions
great question, and springs from the most human of desires. A man
before man to-day when these great and puzzling questions arise
the greatest importance that there should be clairvoyants capable of
of the greatest moral laws of the spiritual world and one most worthy
so great as in that where men say — “I strive against
unevolved man were able to be active during sleep he could do a great
our day, and there make its influence felt. Our age has need of great

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greatly increase.
named in Oriental philosophy. They are the great spiritual
we have when we confront great spiritual truths. For what
confronts the great truths of humanity. In our Groups the
greatly but the most important of all is reverence for the
great truths and the feeling that we can approach them only
to grasp a great reality through a few concepts and ideas
be to the great spiritual truths. We can make no progress at
possible aspect of the great facts of existence. The age in
increasingly to understand the problems and the great truths
spiritual being. The great questions about man's place in the
you will certainly attach very great importance to those
naturally of the greatest importance that clairvoyants should
great moral laws of the spiritual world is here presented to
as great as it is among those who claim that their endeavours
shortcomings are very much greater than he has assumed them
great deal of harm. But in our physical and etheric bodies

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life turning our look to the great individualities of the human
philosopher should be great who speaks such nonsense:
greater spirits did not yet feel the need of speaking of
great individualities have the greatest say for humanity, in
itself clearly, if we look at the greater individualities.
great action of Kant, to the foundations of the mechanical
speaks about the great secrets of the human soul, about the

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given by us of the Event of Palestine great care has been taken that
four Gospels, a great lesson is given showing the necessity of a many
conception of, but at first he is far from the greater difficulties
accept and understand them presents the very greatest
regards the greater part of what people think in daily life. We are
another way. This is because one man has within him a greater,
great moment. All sense-perceptions do not grant us the pleasure of
to them in order that they may he so greatly enhanced that we can
I would like you to notice. The great difference between the interest
greater than in anything the outer world brings him. We certainly
The thing of greatest

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would be greatly mistaken. Many errors arise from failure to
the great Christ Event from four different aspects and that
A great deal
the deeper understanding of Spiritual Science. The greater
are very great difficulties in making what has been observed
something of great importance, namely that through it we are
greatly in different nations and in different periods. Only
within him a greater number of ideas than the other. All our
his inner life is infinitely greater than his interest in the

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in the physiology of the great naturalist, Huxley, for
Spiritual Science). Not long ago the great natural scientist,
life and death — represents with great clarity what we

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touching the shore; in the small circle, great waves are
plane are making on him and how the unconscious greatness in
A great step forward in our evolution
Confronted with much greater deceptions of karma,
experiences are greater than we usually think they are, that
relationship of the three great forces of our existence: Will,
Scene Seven, which could only with great difficulty be given

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it will greatly help us to understand phenomena that concern us
to how great an extent the soul life consists of products of

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insignificant among us, as well as the greatest genius, is chained to
greatest genius is subject to the domination of these conflicting
to unearth the earliest works of great men, if possible in their
twenty-one, thirty-five, or a still greater age.
greatest efforts to remember them. This conflict is actually a
in different ways with a great variety of results. This conflict
between our own soul forces and the visualizations varies greatly in
recalls conceptions, is of great importance because it is a measure
you are absorbed, the greater is this opportunity. Looking back at
with the soul life — it is of great importance to note whether
the cause of our greatest bliss and our deepest suffering, in so far
great healer of the ills caused in our souls by sorrow and suffering.

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by far the greatest portion of the soul life is achieved at the
power of attention, and the greater the attention, the more readily
many feelings in a great variety of satisfactions and decisions.
achieves satisfaction; there is a great difference. A desire that has
When a longing of the soul surges in great waves to the

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isolated and surrounded by a great frost. The pupil must bring love

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That accomplishes a great deal. It is really possible to bring a
physical plane upon which the great world powers have not placed us

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Great

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of another great catastrophe, so that we have to reckon in all seven
the little world, or microcosm, and the great world, or macrocosm; I
have shown how man, the little cosmos, is a copy of the great world
greater world.
catastrophe until the next great catastrophe is macrocosmic. Humanity
evolves like one great man throughout the seven post-Atlantean
wisdom. People make a great mistake when they try to express the
Christ-Impulse. The greatest spiritual Reality entered
along-side that great Spiritual Outpouring. We can think of no
greater disparity than between the spirituality that came down to the
but also gave him the first great impulse upwards. Naturally this
men's thoughts. The greater part of what is called philosophy
for the entrance into humanity of the greatest Spiritual Impulse of

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another great catastrophe.
‘great world’. Man, the ‘little
‘great world’. This is literally true, but stated
macrocosmic process; humanity as a whole evolves as one great
world: the Christ Impulse. The greatest of all spiritual
and ideas. No greater disparity can be imagined than that
in a great deal of what is called Philosophy to-day.
show how essential this greatest of all spiritual impulses

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the spirit in the great universe, and then compare the way in which it
the “astral body.” They turned their eyes to the great
can read in any simple textbook of history what a great event it was
differently in man and in the animal. A great deal has been and is
ready to ask in his infinite pride: “Am I not greatly superior
and if we keep this idea in mind it will be a great help in
spirit, it has its greatest feelings of well being. In its soul, the
Intelligence?” by Zell, a writer of great value in the realm of
These are words of great profundity. Of what is an animal capable in
world — but a great deal when we observe how it experiences its
man is obliged to think a great deal before he can perfect any
handiwork. For he can make great errors. Man's life of soul has
feel with greater and greater clarity how man's life of soul is
feels pain with infinitely greater intensity than man. Those who

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this learning to stand, a great deal in human life lies concealed;
Laurenz Müllner, a great admirer of Galileo, on being appointed
may judge how great is the significance of the position and all the
are the same but formed from different sides. Hence his great joy

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possible that many who think themselves great scientist
the greater the prospect at death of the acquirement of new
incarnated, or the greater his efforts have been in his
result of his experiences will grow greater and greater,
reborn as a great philanthropist. A case such as this shows

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emerges on to the great plane of history. The Evangelist who begins
which, transformed into something greater, fulfils the instructions
He tells from the first how man has evolved so that this great fact
of immeasurably great importance to human evolution; an event
Prophet refers in these words to the greatest event in history
You, know that in our studies of the other Gospels great trouble has
great deal behind the words, because the images employed were taken
example of how great were the errors that arose through this. To-day
What is the fact of greatest importance in the Christ-Impulse? The
the reference to the great change in the evolution of the human soul;
certainty that the greatest mystery of the spiritual world could well
you study the Gospel of Mark further, that in certain cases great
this voice? It sprang from what I have just described as a great
In this materialistic age man has become a great Philistine in
gives the first impulse to this development. This is the “Great
of the souls it now begins to evolve ever greater power and will have
repeat. Isaiah referred to the great event that was to take place
Now a very great deal was already attained — something
have to dive to very great depths in studying the Gospel of Mark, and
illusion — to Maya the great “Non est.” For the
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temples had now been transferred to the great arena of
Initiation though enacted on an infinitely greater scale.
such a way that this great event might come to pass and
the prophet Isaiah points to the greatest event in all
things, spiritual worlds could be apprehended with great
passage therefore draws attention to a great revolution in
the greatest secrets and mysteries could flow from the
Macrocosm. Generally speaking, a very great deal was
to maya, to the great ‘non-being’. The word
great; ya = being; a = non, negation; hence maya = the great
taken in the great World Lodge and in consequence the
real understanding of the greatness and significance of the
Gospel — one of the greatest sacred records in the

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about the spirit in this area, for how could it be denied that great
the great botanist, Schleiden, discovered the plant cell. He was the
century. It must simply be understood that even the greatest
discoverer of the plant cell became the greatest and most vehement
earth's rock formations as the great skeleton of the earth
human being in sleep passes into the great world and in the morning
limits of his skin, and then expands into the great world during the
sense. With the human being, stepping out into the great world is the
steps out into the great world when he falls asleep; in summer the
really lives in the great macrocosm. We would have to perceive some
sleep — to the great world, living within it. Just as it allows
world, as it were, we feel that it belongs to our great mother earth.
mother earth as to our great nourishing mother. We have seen,

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which are great and can fulfil the human heart with warmth; but
greatest spirits of our time, a feeling, which I want to
maintains the border of both activities sharply. The great
the influence of their great teacher Pythagoras about the
with all sensations of the greatness of this fact. If the human

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it than from the other Gospels concerning the great laws both of
teaching of that great leader, Zarathustra; and the other is one that
comes before our souls when we study the special methods of the great
Buddha. These two great teachers, Buddha and Zarathustra, differ very
great moment of his life when he sat under the Bodhi tree. Buddha
through his lower desires man injures his astral body. The greater
because of this contrast that great impulses are born into humanity.
revealed, in spite of so great a Being making use of such a child
the Great Guardian who prevents our entrance into the spiritual world
only to encompass ourselves with greater inward strength, we can then
have to picture great individualities. There should not be anyone in
great events, we are concerned with something that is at the same
Zarathustra really passed through great dangers in his early years,
things happening to all great founders of religions through all the
Zarathustra. While we recognise Zarathustra as the greatest of these
the two great streams of civilisation of post-Atlantean times. After
the great catastrophe of Atlantis one of these streams continued to
those such as we see in their highest representative in the great
— and into Zarathustra as the greatest of these. The process is
the kind of Being he himself is. The element that filled this great
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holds good to an even greater extent in the case of Spiritual
the case of Zarathustra, the great Leader of mankind of whom
characteristic features of the path followed by the great
the great Buddha, what is described symbolically as
and complete as it was in the case of the great Buddha, this
great heights through the faculties of his own Individuality.
its highest form by the great Buddha. Taking Zarathustra as a
because such a child is different that the great impulses can
Guardian. This is the Greater /Guardian of the Threshold, who
develop greater and greater strength.
Nazareth as on a par with, or not greatly excelling, what
really great Individuality. There must not be anything in the
attain his own ideal! In dealing with great events, however,
the infant Zarathustra was actually exposed to great dangers;
in connection with all great founders of world-conceptions.
to be regarded as the greatest personality among leaders of
features of the two great streams of culture in the
great Atlantean catastrophe, one of these streams of
revealed in its loftiest form by the great Buddha.
of whom Zarathustra had been the greatest — a
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Christmas festival. Indeed, it is one of the greatest festivals of the
human heart as a commemorative thought of the greatest impulse which
former greatness. His habits prevent him from perceiving this
greatness any longer, a greatness to which humanity had become
full depth and greatness of the impulse which belongs to this
sense of the word, that depth and greatness which cannot be any more
the full depth of what is connected with our great seasonal festivals.
the Christ in their hearts during the great festivities surrounding
in connection with what the Bible tells of the great Christ Impulse of
days. The memory and the thought of the great periods of humanity were
the season, the festivity, and the human hearts. That was a great
years of contemplative work on this great event we were able to
greatness of the Pauline conception of man, who descended as Adam from
In such simple words one felt the greatest mysteries, the greatest
memories and thoughts of the greatest event of human evolution, this
of something much greater.
because what is most intimate, what is greatest and most significant
enemy of evolution would want to drag what was great in one time over
And him who made it, a master of great renown.
all that was great and spiritual, right down to the roots of trees and
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being has learnt ballads or other poetries of great heroes with
possibility to observe certain great principles.
sons to face death with heroic greatness for what she believes

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must develop in the temperate zone, for all those great Beings who
“Which has the greatest effect on my soul, that which I have
provided by nature. He might then ask: — Who is the greater
appears to us infinitely the greater!
When the great
nature has to give is infinitely greater. For the revelations of
know how the greatness of the Hierarchies increases as they ascend,
they originally presented to us. So that it is in all great works of
art, in all great works of genius. Something continues to affect us
differ greatly from each other; only this difference is not noticed
great importance when man is studied as a whole. Human evolution must
within the great world. At present he loses this. He has no later

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members of man's being which do not differ greatly from
than that of the Time-Spirits, as having greater weight than
shall ask: Who is the greater artist: Raphael, Leonardo da
revelation of divine-spiritual Powers is far greater.
herself is far the greater. It was only when the revelations
Hierarchies the greater are their powers, we can understand
inspiration. Great works of art, works of spiritual genius,
own times can dimly surmise. Actual investigation of a great
the Great World. As things are he loses his feeling of
oneness with the Great World and believes himself to be
Orpheus was the great Preparer.
great delicacy and subtlety in connection with Orpheus is set

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always please him more than the lesser one, because greatness is

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with the Great Teachers will appear in the subsequent numbers of
significance of those Great Ones who have been the leading and
guiding spirits of the different epochs. From each of these Great
age, makes us realise what great differences arise in the sum total
man's thought, feeling and will, have undergone great changes in the
religion, must be placed a great many centuries before Buddha. Greek
great steps forward in the civilisation of mankind. Whatever the
of Zarathustra lies to the North of the land from which the great
different from the Brahministic teachings of the great leaders of
these two ways that the great teachers attained to the revelations of
that we so greatly admire in the old Indian culture — which
think he has discovered a great truth here, but it leads to nothing
called the “Great Aura,” for it is all-embracing.
— the Great Aura. With this spiritual essence
Zarathustra pointed his disciples to the great periphery, showing
great universe is reflected in each individual. The real significance
is a replica of the great world. In human beings, the principle of
perfection is opposed by evil; in the great universe, Ormuzd and
grown immeasurably great and the highest human forces are Ahura
the great cosmic process; he is filled with awe
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great living stream of evolution.
dawns a true comprehension of those Great Spiritual Beings who
at once realize how great is the dissimilarity in man’s
development great and important changes take place, especially as
great many centuries before the time of Buddha. Greek historians
great antiquity of the Zarathustran era, as indicated by ancient
was one of those great leading personalities who gave immense
great cultural progress of humanity. His influence has long ago
essentially to those Great Ones in whose souls lived a measure of
Vedas. To the North, where spread the great Brahman Doctrine, is
from the teachings of the great Ieaders among the Indians, whose
Science"‘. All great spiritual personalities have followed
was of such nature, that great revelations could only come to the
awareness stretches outward into the great cosmos.
tending inward, and the Zarathustran outward into the great
material phenomena. Zarathustra, like all other great
spiritual factor, it being sometimes of greater and sometimes of
the all-embracing hidden spiritual part of the sun, The Great
Zarathustra urged his disciples to turn their eyes upon the great
body of the sun, dwells the great Solar Spirit — Ahura Mazdao —
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cry from the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, who formed the
great personalities who provide the subject matter of our
Spiritual Science has reached to-day. The same great impulse
ago, the great authority, Aristotle, made such or such an
great deal. For the deeply illuminating teachings and
the greatest benefit to them.
ought to go to the great book of Nature, which speaks so
of Aristotle, was greatly astonished and said to Galileo:
two incidents, we can see how greatly Aristotle was
allow this. Hence the great battle between Galileo and
Thus Galileo and Giordano Bruno were the two great
pedantry of the Scholastics and of book-learning to the great
greatest admiration, refers to this in a lecture which he
lecture, he drew attention to the fact that the great
great laws of mechanics, had discovered the laws which govern
Galileo, that great thinker, that it has become possible for
his stand firmly on the ground upon which all the great minds
depends greatly on time. Now, Galileo argued thus:
reveals itself as so great, so powerful and so wonderful;
he made the great discoveries which confirmed the theories
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have accomplished such great things and brought such blessings on
though the great questions about which we shall have to speak still
Goethe, who besides being a great poet was also a great student of Nature
cloud-formations and so on. A great number of substances which are
belongs to our earth something like live members of a great living
the heat is so great that life cannot develop; but in the environment
the great living being “Earth.” The 1atter needs for its
into the life of the great being “Earth” by forces which
with the greatest care imaginable — of the investigations which
there traces of it in the high mountain ranges. Great blocks of earth

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Great Teachers
greater significance to study the culture and civilisation of ancient
reason for the great interest evinced to-day in Egyptian culture, but
did one of the greatest minds of modern times feel himself related to
words. It must therefore be of great interest to us to understand how
preserved, more especially by the earlier Egyptians, with great piety
Being, “the Thrice-Greatest,”
within their own souls. Thus the great cosmic clock, with the
Hermes who expressed with the greatest sublimity the relation of the
preparing for Initiation were taught in greater detail of the light
The ancient Egyptians felt that the great
stellar script. Hermes, or Thoth, was the great Spirit who, according
of the great Solar Years denoted a stage in the waning of clairvoyant
But we look back through three great Cosmic Years to an age when the
greatest of our Sages taught his pupils and successors what we to-day
watchful Powers of Heaven. Hermes was not only a great Teacher, but a
instead to the Great Individualities. And they appear before us in
possessed the power of clairvoyance, the greatest blessings in every
were the first to give the great spiritual impulses to mankind in
there as a great Guide of mankind. As we contemplate these great
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It is of great importance to Spiritual Science to
Here we find one of the greatest scientists of
therefore a matter of the greatest interest to us that we should
was in accordance with ‘The Great Eternal Plan‘ that
great nation was still permitted to retain a certain measure of
with the greatest piety, thankfulness and religious feeling,
called THE GREAT WISE ONE — THE OLD HERMES. When, at a later
Trismegistos‘ — the Thrice-Great Hermes; but as a matter
held in the greatest reverence, and in them the Egyptians saw
those things which the Thrice-Great Hermes had taught them, and
great cosmos. The Isis-Force may be pictured as the sun’s
behold the great orb of day and come face to face with the spirit
Hence we must regard Hermes, The Great Wise One,
described, and they realized that his great illumination came
Thoth, or Hermes, they recognized that Great Spirit who,
The Great Wise One was still active throughout their
with the passing of each great Sun-Period‘ [of 1,46o years,
Periods, to that glorious and distant past when our greatest
bringing to bear upon these problems the mystic laws of the Great
Cosmos. Hermes, or Thoth, was held in greatest veneration as One
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which will be of great assistance to us in our later studies.
always something greater than in his deeds. According to spiritual
are always greater than what he is able to accomplish on the physical
something, when we carry out some piece of work that is greater and
the etheric body, thoughts that are greater than the fulfilment of
There is a great
experiences which our thoughts only grasp with the greatest
external life is also greatly influenced by the fact that in the
recognise from quite ordinary facts that there is a great difference
to have a great influence on our whole disposition, however often we
relationship of the hands to water is apparent, greater than in the
case of the human countenance, and greater still than in respect of
secretions of the sheep are withheld. Materialists find great
not become clever! This shows the great difference there is between
the great difference between the employment of an instrument of
through tears. Sorrow as a soul-experience brings greater strength to
of facts we recognise everywhere a link with what is greatest.
other was by passing out into the life of the Macrocosm or great
world. Now everything which comes to expression in great things is
are connected with the greatest. Therefore, in Spiritual Science,

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main theme, will be of great help later on.
perform a deed in life that is of greater importance than our
there is one great difference between the reflected pictures
with the greatest difficulty. We eat and drink every day by
and in others the range of the thoughts and ideals is greater
together. But external life too is greatly influenced by the
that there is a great difference between the various parts of
great fondness for washing their hands; directly the least
intelligent! This again shows that there is a great
feeling of greater strength than if it had remained
everything that comes to expression in great things is
connected with the greatest. Hence in Spiritual Science,

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of the great Buddha.
greater future, the consciousness of continuous activity —
considered in connection with the great Zarathustra.
— the great “Illusion.” It is also natural that as
The wisdom arising from this could then be revealed in the great
their cause! And so the great Gautama felt — because he was not
in the soul of the great Gautama, led him finally to full
innumerable lives will never solve the great riddles of old age, of
suffering was greater than the wisdom of a Bodhisattva. In his
of the great Buddha, quite different conditions are present. Man's
Buddhist says that the world is in itself the Great Illusion,
truth. How great a contrast lies here between the wisdom of Buddha
not mere repetition but a great purpose rules throughout the
great Spirit who once brought to man a teaching pointing to the past,
greatly love life. During his first stay in Weimar, freeing himself
great and mighty results that the human mind did not feel able to
external research. The sense of helplessness grew greater and greater
And so two great streams of
great painters. They portray figures whose asceticism brought
greatness of this liberated human being consists in the fact that he
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Great Buddha, which have found their way into the course of human
the personality of the great Zarathustra. In accordance with this
mankind looked back in meditation, pondering over that great
state into one of sense-illusion, or that ‘Great
Before such great teachers could advance, through
great change, wrought by struggle and toil through repeated earth
must be clearly understood. Gautama realized that in the great
this truth first dawned upon him, his great soul was so affected
readily understand how it was that this great spiritual Buddha
character.’ At first the great Gautama did not fully grasp
his wisdom became ever greater and greater, till at last he could
Such thoughts matured in the great soul of
solve the great ever-present mystery of existence which finds
born of suffering held for him a greater significance than all
underlying his great illumination as follows: — ‘That
advent of the Great Buddha, there arose in Christendom a wholly
of Maya, or illusion. This great ‘Fall’ must,
stand-point is: that the world is a great illusion, and must be
toil I must regain touch with that greater self which because of
Bodhi tree, at the moment when he was exalted and the great
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constructed with great symmetry in long aisles of countless pillars
able to make a great impression upon spiritual Europe. The whole
and clarified, and had become words which could express the greatest
now works further in mankind is of great significance for occult

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After being told that John the Baptist is the great prophet who
the great facts are put before us so, that again without giving any
These we have in great measure, and faith in them is not wanting. The
great that it will shortly be necessary to form councils to establish
objectively, and the temptation is very great to give it to the
Science, great antipathy will be manifested by those who turn from
fanciful tales by the greater part of humanity.
pupils of this greater wisdom.
inner nature of the Gospel of Luke is of great value, for it is the
post-Atlantean period of civilisation, and on until the next great

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like the imprint of a seal. If the idea is of no great
very great. We must resist this with all our might, for there
mature. This holds good for ideas of no great
example, on some particular day — and such days vary greatly
will be regarded as fantastic nonsense by the greater part of
the Mystery of Golgotha to become disciples of this great
need of a great deal which, as spiritual beings, they will
seventh epoch up to the time of the next great catastrophe.

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the present only if we look back at those great spiritual men
linked to the other great men. This makes it easy, on one side,
What Moses should experience now as a pupil of this great
greatest spirits and events of the development of world and
the consideration of the greatest human beings and events:

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When we study the great historical
great spiritual characters of by-gone times, who have helped to
workings of those impulses which emanated from this great
with those other great personalities to whom I have referred. It
Moses, or to the great patriarch himself, we speak as if we were
sections which deal with the great outstanding figure and
development, greater enlightenment, a more advanced stage of
become immersed in the study of Spiritual Science, the greater is
question of his great Mission. The true object of his
to Peoples who differed very greatly from one another; and thus
this great nation, however, retained their original temperament
in our day of the greatest interest, while its example and study
would later raise him to great heights in his relation to
deliberately intermingled with the soul-experiences of the great
disciple of this great wise priest, opens with a description of
the greatest reserve, for in our present age mankind has no
new consciousness proceeding from the great spirit of the cosmos,
which came the great impulse he gave to mankind. That primal
to receive that great enlightenment which it was the Mission of
that the author of the Bible narrative is at great pains to
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periods of transition, it is helpful to recall the great
passed, often mentioned by me as the great incisive moment of the
essence of Christianity Jahve did not really differ very greatly from
the souls of men, then the great Impulse for the human head, for the
great mind who united in himself the fullness of science, of
present confusion. It will be realised that a great part of what is
of human nature, concerning which there is the greatest confusion at

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the greater epochs of transition in the evolution of humanity
life of soul, the greatest impulse given to the human
great individual to combine in his soul the full fruits of
strong enough to see through these things with greater and
greater clarity.
great majority of them are incapable of assimilating ideas
evident that a great deal in human nature as we know it
this will not happen without great hindrances being
greater appeal? Why do you expect so much of our

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must never do them without also developing a great sympathy for everything

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a great ideal before the thinkers of the nineteenth century.
Considering this, it turns out that the great and significant
origins who are the great pathfinders on the way of human
spiritual science completely agrees with the great
Is nature only great, because she gives you to count them?

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of the great wisdom of the world the hearts and souls of the men of
already accepted sufficient of the great law of Karma to know that it
therefore cannot have any great results. It would be most
think of what is greatest in this, we think of the spirit without
other hand, grew ever greater and greater, the more the ideal of a
life could only be preserved by spending the greater part of it in
this way from greatness of spirit. Ritter Wahn sets out to conquer
with the great illusion. Each one of us is a “Ritter
from a soul too great to live healthily in a body belonging to the
greatness of his glowing soul, he suffered a silent martyrdom. This
the great Beings, who in pre-Christian times instructed
— the Christ who had now become the great leader and guide of

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rather pay heed to the great, all-embracing wisdom needed by
will certainly have understood enough of the great law of
would never have been possible. Thinking of its greatest
spiritual greatness.
faces maya, the great Illusion; each of us, in that we live a
expression by a soul too great to live healthily in a
Christ, the unique Individuality who became the great Teacher

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that conceals a life that's all the greater and that a man can

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could believe that today a science owes its greatness more to
riddles in the philosophical systems of great thinkers. They
that is, before Socrates where the great thinkers interest us
Even the greatest philosopher — who spins
way: what is apparently so abstract is still the greatest
where the great mystics have come. If we look at these mystics,

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year — in spite of great difficulties — we were able to prepare three
a very great deal to say.
caused great discomfort to the listeners. The obvious answer would be
greatly our age lacks true feeling for Art.) Inappropriate as it would
Neuchâtel a Group was founded, desiring to adopt the name of a great
that relates to the great Appearance of which we have been speaking
great a theologian he may be — can understand Christianity unless he
greatness of her achievement consist in formulating the three
Universal Brotherhood. The greatness of H. P. Blavatsky's work lay in
must look at the positive side and say that a great and powerful
Unveiled contains great Rosicrucian truths — even the
connected with Christianity contains great truths, but the greatest
another three thousand years — and then he will be a great
time when Jeschu ben Pandira was living and saw that a great
do not deny it. Or do we deny that a great Individuality dwelt in that
the greatest Teacher of Christianity — Christian Rosenkreutz —

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and that this year, in spite of great difficulty we were able to
observation of life. I might say a great deal if I were to speak
gatherings, which made the lack of room greatly felt both for the
— is more and more required, that a great number of those who
things too easy. When we consider the great store of lectures and
call itself by the name of a great spiritual individuality, after the
in the West. Hence we must say that what relates to the great Figure
without understanding the resurrection, however great theologians we
Blavatsky accomplished so great a work because through her a great
inspiration? There are great Rosicrucian truths in Isis
contains great truths concerning everything not Christian, —
but in respect to what is Christian, is the greatest nonsense. With
time — and will then be a great teacher on earth. That is the
great Bodhisattva-Individuality was incarnated; but because her
deny that in this being a great Individuality was concealed? We
arose to learn to know more intimately the great teacher of

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Great seriousness should
feelings arise we should realize that we're living in great

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persons if it appeared with a great spirit, as for example with
say: he performed great achievements, but later he became
and one has to grant the great Lessing that he could also
called to condemn the great spirits with their “terrible

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mentioned with great respect. This school was well known for the
be impossible to think of greater nonsense, yet the psychology of the
that such a thought could have arisen as the greatest production of

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mentioned with great respect. This school was well known for the
impossible to think of greater nonsense, yet the psychology of the
thought could have arisen as the greatest production of the

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individuality. These are two great opposites. Personal will fatally
sensations and feelings. We can deceive ourselves greatly as to this.
we must say: These are the Spirits of Wisdom, the great Bestowers,
the great Givers of the Universe. Just as we have called the
Thrones” The great Sacrificers,” so we must say of the
Spirits of Wisdom, they are “the great Givers” who so
have no longer a body of light and air but it appears as the great
a great work of art can be felt, a work which reflects, as it were,

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two great opposites. Personal will fatally opposes the permeation of
sensations and feelings. We can deceive ourselves greatly as to this.
are the Spirits of Wisdom, the great Bestowers, the great Givers of
the Universe. Just as we have called the Thrones ‘The great
‘the great Givers’ who so devote their gift that it
appears as the great bestowing virtue of the Spirits of Wisdom. And
actual driving-force of such a great work of art can be felt, a work

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Lichtenberg, a great German humourist, as a kind of rejoinder: “In
Think of one of the greatest natural scientists of all time and of
prophecies is well known: think of Kepler, the great
culture today, the greatest stumbling-block in these astrological
after him; not only was he one of the greatest astronomers of all
would then be obvious to which category the greater number of tokens
so in those days) to have great confidence in Kepler and on many
astronomer of great eminence in his day. Tycho de Brahe was also
of men are connected with happenings in the great Cosmos. Tycho de
to a great age. As the hour of birth was not quite accurate, Tycho de
death. Such things made a great impression upon people at the time
Mars would bring him great misfortune. He was an opponent of all such
modern astronomer — a man greatly to be respected too, for his
between the macrocosm, the great world, and the microcosm, the little
gets on quite well but after a few years, great inner difficulties
only regard the stars and their movements as a great celestial clock
affairs, they were wholly given up to the great concerns of their
great vision of the Future.
by thinking of the following: There are certain great figures to whom
in spite of this, great and advanced leaders are at work in
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of a hand or the greatest of deeds, the impulse of the will underlies
act, one for instance that is to bring about great healing and
assumed that the greatness of the deed depends upon the strength of
that as we intensify our will we accomplish great things in the
which we particularly live, the greatness of our deeds certainly does
wish to accomplish, the greater are the efforts we must make
to pass. There it is the case that the greatest deeds, or, better
said, the greatest results, do not necessitate any strengthening of
when we eat well, when we are well nourished and acquire greater
something important we can precisely do so with the greatest ease,
The greatest spiritual, magical effects, always require preparation
words have great force; he will not even require to look at his
obtain great results, or from some other source of desire for self-
in the great cosmic evolution there are cosmic beings who, remaining
exist for the purpose of showing us the great cosmic mysteries in
greatest renunciation made by Christ Jesus confronts us when, by
such a great cosmic moment; and when we recall the words: “He
intellect to feel the whole immeasurable greatness of the subject,
why great works of art make such a tremendous impression, because

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movement of a hand or the greatest of deeds, the impulse of the
strong, forceful act, one for instance that is to bring about great
general it is assumed that the greatness of the deed depends upon the
it correct that as we intensify our will we accomplish great things
physical world, in which we particularly live, the greatness of our
will, for the more we wish to accomplish, the greater are the
greatest deeds or better said, the greatest results do not
we are well nourished and acquire greater strength thereby, so, in
can precisely do so with the greatest ease, if, by fasting or other
statement, and not given by way of advice). The greatest spiritual,
with equanimity, will gradually notice that his words have great
obtain great results, or from some other source of desire for
behind, so even in the great cosmic evolution there are cosmic beings
for the purpose of showing us the great cosmic mysteries in symbols,
the greatest renunciation made by Christ Jesus confronts us when, by
such a great cosmic moment; and when we recall the words: ‘He
soul with intellect to feel the whole immeasurable greatness of the
significant. That is why great works of art make such a tremendous

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and develops later into the great, also clairvoyant ideas about
great, superior figure. Goethe created a figure in his
appears in the greatest geniuses, and in the difference between

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naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer material
greatness and significance to be found in resignation. None the less
who lives in great cities is less affected by it, but he will have seen
universal Beings, by others who found their greatest bliss in gazing
obtain a conception which is of very great importance and weight:
was an eminently great soul. If only something could have flowed into
yearned for an end to this search for pictures — the greater
us of how a great mind expressed this undefined longing in the
it was a great one) which she could span with her earthly
the Prince of Homburg, who carried out all his great deeds in a kind
he was not a particularly great man, for he whines and whimpers over
spiritual contours: that is, Spiritual Science. The greatest unites
centenary of the death of one of the greatest German poets.

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there was naturally a greater sense of the spiritual behind the outer
greatness and significance to be found in resignation. None the less
lives in great cities is less affected by it, but he will have seen
universal Beings, by others who found their greatest bliss in gazing
obtain a conception which is of very great importance and weight:
eminently great Soul. If only something could have flowed into his
an end to this search for ideas — the greater the yearning, the
which reminds us of how a great mind expressed this undefined longing
it was a great one) which she could span with her earthly
Prince of Homburg, who carried out all his great deeds in a kind of
a particularly great man, for he whines and whimpers over everything
contours: that is, Spiritual Science. The greatest unites
greatest German poets.

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to the great surprise of his friend Overbeck, he immediately went on
it has disclosed a great deal about what lies hidden in the depths of
we find that this dream has a great deal to show us. First it points
filled with a greater capacity for expressing himself in his drawing.
and contain much greater wisdom than the fully conscious man is aware
shows how in its depths life holds far greater riches than appear on
conscious control. Now something of very great importance must be added
gateway of the spiritual world, further vistas of the great outside
that for his spirit the great riddles of the cosmos may be solved, thus

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call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let us once again
lesser planet wished to make sacrifice to the greater planet —
single great satisfaction, but experiences a number of partial
from their actual meaning, their great cosmic purpose.” Certain
of Maya, or the great illusion, we have nothing but deception and
great occult truth: “In the whole world of Maya one thing only
Maya. And now if we turn from the universal Maya to the great
They are merely members of one great organism, just as a finger-nail
it is in reality only severed from this great organism, just as the
in itself, but only in the great organism of which it is a member.
one great organism, like the mineral — but of the whole
to a great organism that is identical with the whole earth, an
said, be renewed for a sufficiently great number of mankind. This
baker gave him a number of rolls, and being no great arithmetician,
based on the greatest and most significant cosmic conceptions.

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that we call Maya or the great illusion, there is the Spiritual. Let
Beings of the lesser planet wished to make sacrifice to the greater
a single great satisfaction, but experiences a number of partial
actual meaning, their great Cosmic purpose.’ Certain Beings
realm of Maya or the great illusion, we have nothing but
than the great occult truth: ‘In the whole world of Maya one
the universal Maya to the great principles of the world, a very
not die. They are merely members of one great organism, just as a
to perish, it is in reality only severed from this great organism,
has no life in itself, but only in the great organism of which it is
— not of one great organism, like the mineral — but of
little can we say that of the plants; for they belong to a great
baker gave him a number of rolls, and being no great arithmetician,
greatest and most significant cosmic conceptions.

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to a recognition of the enlightening nature of these great truths.
speak of “misfortune” when we see a great martyr who has something
himself alone; on the contrary, he attaches great importance to its
luck of the gambler — here no doubt the small and the great have much in
1837. It was his fate to serve for the greater part of his life as a common
quartermaster. This man left behind him a great number of poems, not only
insignificant, but I am glad that my fortune has brought me something greater.
“a great misfortune has overtaken me.” It is a question, however,
at that time I looked upon it as a great misfortune that my father had lost
done great things without any external compulsion, so that the loss of my

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great building of wood, with its hand-carved, weaving forms and
Great and mighty
Temples of Greece and other great monuments, human thoughts alone
arises within the temple itself. Can there be any greater enigma than
as great in every respect as that presented by the Egyptian Temple.
years with which I have greater sympathy. For if one is at all
The greatest work of
a great hall by a number of living people and to have on the
no degree of intensity is too great for words in which I want to
knowledge of what is greatest and most sublime in the world, if we

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mere existence in the vale of tears, but that it is of great

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because the great majority of those who join us feel in their souls a
greater compulsion to believe in the devil than in anything else that
new souls in bodily forms that obscure and estrange the greater part
will meet with great difficulties. One of the tasks of anthroposophy

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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greatness stick to our hearts as they are described in the
there would be a great significant spirit. This spirit is
Elishah experienced in such a way that his great teacher Elijah
great measure if we look at the personality of the Prophet

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evolution, and that great illumination which he brought to
deeds, the characteristics, the greatness of this outstanding
actions of greatest import are born within the confines of the
In order that this truth which sheds so great a
then took place in the soul and spirit of that great Apostle and
possess some singular and hidden attribute of greatest import.
still a belief in One God — in One Great Spiritual Being in the
approaching when there would be an ever greater and more
This great revolution in religious outlook was
personality]. When it is ordained that some great momentous
Such [great spiritual] personalities [as Elijah]
gathered around them certain followers who came from the great
unable to penetrate deeply into the soul of their great master.
great spiritual personality might be found. But the true
It was in those days that a great famine came
tend to raise it to greater spiritual heights, while the
those who were exposed to the greatest measure of want and
wish to take upon himself a measure of adversity, greater than
of greater pictorial reality than any before, it appeared to him
soul that are of truest and greatest import. In the vision, it
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impulse took place along with the great turning point [of history].
with the hardest opposition from the outer world. A great pain can
reproductions (Rudolf Steiner's drafts of the great dome in the first

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memory; they thought of him a great deal. One morning they found that

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call a feeling of moral responsibility, particularly toward the great
opposite can occur. People who have achieved great skill in
to a humble man must seem great appears to him small, like the tiny
lies in ambush. You can see a great variety of things in the
A great deal, then, is required to attain to this
our outer world and our bodies with their organs, but great indeed is
imaginative world, cannot possibly consider himself great and mighty.
adapted we are to what lives in the great realm of nature. Another
eyes, and he senses the greatness of nature's laws — repose in

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clever cat. The cat helped him win great riches by persuading
trickery — that all the great fields and strange
only hope, but finally, with her tricks, also the great castle

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spirit that saw their greatness to break with all old views of

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feel great thankfulness that should be carried into the

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that the greatest triumphs of natural science have been realized just
on the one side the great longing aims at a pure natural development
A great part of the thinkers of the present and the recent past did
out in a new direction who have obtained the greatest results of
It is indeed true that the great results of natural science performed
in which this great pioneer points out the way in which he succeeded
great progress in natural science, if one goes back only about two

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with great intensity. If we can do this, if we can identify ourselves
has lived to a great age, so that his talent has spent itself —
hearing, so that in his next incarnation he became a great musician.
He did not appear as a great architect, because the perception of
preceding incarnation. This picture will arise in great precision if
great-grandfather.” If however the student allows the picture
feeling is there and is of the greatest significance. If, for
traditional, accepted ideas. For to a very great extent these are
is almost impossible to imagine a greater difference between two
for instance, a man has a great thought, however great it may be, the

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this lecture is a problem that has engaged the attention of a great
Baptism something of great significance happened to Jesus of
realising that there is a far greater satisfaction in experiencing
great and mighty Mystery — in effect to the Mystery of a
‘man,’ albeit by far the greatest. Thus in the 19th
existence of an Aristotle, a Socrates, or an Alexander the Great. Not
nations in the course of human evolution. This is the greatest
was to show that something of great importance came to pass while the
great stage of world history through the founding of Christianity.
Initiation ceremonies — but with reference to the great
shroud of the Mysteries and enters upon the great stage of world
great task of the 20th century is to bring the concepts of

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talks one may say that it has, actually, a great idea of the
great secret, at a mystery which just at that time, when Jesus
the Great, otherwise, with historical means. Not only this, but
ceremonies face us in the Gospels, only applied to the great
recognised that an initiation took place as a great historical
If the twentieth century can take the great

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fact that the questions involved belong to the greatest of all
still far from experiencing the feeling of greater satisfaction
an upturned vision which realized the presence of some great
Alexander the Great.
which, during the greater part of the nineteenth century, it was
descriptions have reference to that great outstanding historical
The Christ-Being. Thus we find a great similarity between the
the basic principles of Spiritual Science the reality of great
which had not up to the time of that great happening really
If we would know in what manner that great and
man’s uttermost understanding. Hence, that great message
made it possible that this great impulse should come to humanity.
believes that at the uttermost, man’s greatest fault can
which awakens an inner realization of that great truth reflected
century there will spread abroad a great illumination which will

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but a great deal will result if we practise it in connection with the
we perceive with the greatest inner clarity that what exists within
characteristic example and we shall see how great the difference is
of Anthroposophy have always taught us the great truth that all the
our soul-life experiences of feeling. These appear in a great
to-day; for this is how a great Initiate of modern times tests those
perceive our connection with the Spirit of the Great World, the

Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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appear great and full of sap evenly in a certain respect with
existence without applying logic in the great tremendous
great Greek who says there, I prefer to be a beggar on earth
transformation of the consciousness faces us greatly at a place

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of Copernicus his great work
replaced by Copernicus and his great successors Kepler,
someone who is even greater than Copernicus is although he did
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries when the greatness of the old
greatly with the forces of the strong human personality. If we
records have a great effect on us if we study them. He is the
greatest representative of the time that developed to the
candle. Just for the greatest spirits, this would not have been
Kepler, his great successor, still worked
as an astrologer beside that he was a great astronomer. This is
he points to the greatness and infinity of the universe finds

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too, has been often emphasized here) that when the great questions of
great riddles of existence merely out of external material facts.
less a writer than the great English scientist, Huxley, translated
impossible it is that such a thought should approach the great
fatigue; one would have to speak at great length to analyze these
come to understand that the great earth mother is a complete organism
evolution to advance to greater heights through the different
Thus death is the great

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their greatest advantage to launch their fiercest attacks at times
something that is similar to all the great spiritual truths that have
cause too great a shock to those outside the anthroposophical
is not of very great significance when regarded merely from the
then that the whole greatness and significance of the ideas of
reincarnation and karma are revealed. A very great deal could be said
belonging to earlier epochs of Western civilisation and the great
means an essential feature of modern Spiritual Science. A great deal

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that he takes it as an ideal from the great impulses of world

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did not greatly affect his circumstances as a small inheritance
to trade. This naturally aroused in the little man the greatest
his sleeve. Then he saw a great ship approaching, drawn and steered by
dragons In it was a great vessel of water, and the big man who was
in the form of his great talents Very soon he became a man of high
not exist. I could write a great many more and nobody who has written
the house had, moreover, profited greatly through him. The time came
for his examination; as well as having had a great deal of amusement,
his spirit-friends a friendship much greater even than it had been
spiritual being, a great organism permeated by spirit-and-soul. We do
Light can be shed upon a great deal that comes our way in life, if
body. In these domains there will be greater and greater
imprisoned spiritual wisdom and knowledge greater than anything
friend M.B... . at our General Meeting) the great majority of human
greatness will shock and amaze. It will pour over what mankind has

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to a far greater extent than is generally believed, we
be no great difference between that and the emergence of the
have gathered their greatest strength by the time the gate of
the physical body, have then to work with the greatest
Those, however, who have had some great fright, endangering
its greatest work of art at the outset of a person's life,
statement by a man held in great esteem today, in which he
century after Christ by the great mystic and philosopher,

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greatest intolerance to be found in history.
right. After persistent efforts he solves it, to his great delight.
intellect and reason — something which indicates a great deal
which is to be regarded merely as an example but from which a great
there would be an inclination to pay greater respect to those who are
this might evoke greater respect because it would be a radical and
The great Easter-Impulse given to humanity consisted in this: There

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everything great, immense, elementary and continuing to have an
were reflected in a great, ingenious man who felt the urge to
great connections were explaind between the organs of the
great has been prepared that one only misunderstands, as if it
Just if we look at the greatest men like

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present day. It meant a great deal to me when our friends in Finland
to spiritual knowledge and to Initiation, great revelations have been
clairvoyance. And in their great Folk-Epics the peoples depicted the
great imaginative power, as the “forging” of a mysterious
One of the many signs of the great spiritual happenings of the near
during the next three thousand years as a development of great
the Christian will recognise the greatness of this teaching of

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themselves with these thoughts a great deal, but in a quite different
were locked up for men. We look at the great wisdom that underlies
all these mysteries with great wonder.

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the one side, a picture of great and significant progress in the
The First Post-Atlantean epoch of culture after the great Atlantean
physical plane was created. But an utterance of a great Greek is also
epoch, we do less than justice to the greatness and significance of
has knowledge of the great cosmic Laws revealed today by Spiritual
Earth; and the knowledge of this great manifestation of law in the
teachings regarding the leaders and great heroes of human evolution
the great leaders, the East points to the Individuality who passes
through repeated Earth-lives; the greatness and significance of these
There we are told of the greatness of a Plato, a Socrates, of a figure
we are on the threshold of a great change in the spiritual life, are
with great significance is here opened up, of which mankind will stand
The great prophetic message of Elijah proclaimed that everything the
Mystery of Golgotha. I am referring, of course, to Raphael, the great
the very first, his life gave promise of all his subsequent greatness.
images. You have spoken great words concerning the living Gods, but
there is something still greater: the Glory of the God Who died on the
statements that have been made about the one or the other, for a great
appreciate Raphael, he contributed a great deal towards an
of doctrine in theories and systems, a picture of this great Mystery
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having any great mystery about it; but to the thoughtful, compassion
is a great and mysterious secret. When we look at a being only from
very remote, a great deal of attention was paid to these things:
example of the stirring of wonder. The very greatness of Homer lies in
in Greece. How great the difference is between these founders of
a philosopher as great as Aristotle still regarded the existence of
slavery as it was in Greece. Nobody will deny that the greatest of all
turn to the greatest of all Impulses — the Christ-Impulse which
present in the spiritual atmosphere of the Earth. The great turn given
is not reality, but “Maya,” the “Great Illusion”.
to be solved. Men on Earth will have to be greatly enriched in their
feeling will arise in greater and greater strength: — If you
evolution of the world, inspired by the three great impulses of

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following upon the great Atlantean catastrophe. This epoch may be said
great catastrophe of which you may read in the lectures on the
experienced, in greatest intensity, their union with the physical
indicate a great physical catastrophe or deluge. Obviously it does not
Post-Atlantean epoch, when the Holy Rishis were the great teachers of
at the present day, these pictures, although full of the greatest
the great Cosmic Spaces remained. Whereas perceptions of the world
world outside. This was a great and epoch-making transition. In the
at only a few scattered places did men awaken from the great spiritual
world will have to unfold in greater intensity in the times lying
Earth aspired to great things. And his aspirations continued when,
understand the truths but actually to unfold all that the great ideas

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In reality, a great and mighty process underlies what is called the
past life spreads out like a great panorama, a great tableau. This
active life becomes outer reality. And to what a still greater extent
What is brought about by the “ I ” itself is of even greater

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a sense, the Spirits of Form leave man greater freedom as they
and feelings, will assume greater and greater importance. And in so
greater extent than was the case later on. As evolution continues he
more a matter individual to each one; they will have greater inner
great Teachers of humanity, and new ones are about to come ...”
because it brought all the ancient religions into one great unity.
Earth, was the Christ Being, the great Sun Being Who through the
come. (This task was described in greater detail in the Christiania
judgment and examination will assume greater and greater importance.
know, too, that Christian Rosenkreutz will be the greatest of martyrs
of individuality will assume greater and greater prominence. Even if
great and splendid achievement if Theosophy can promote unity of
become an evil, a great evil. As often as certain usages current in
Statesman, or a General to await the coming of a great General in the
new Statesman or a great General. A certain person who is striving

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great deal has been said previously about the Luciferic and Ahrimanic
be taken as a standard example of the way in which the great truths
In the course of years we have spoken a great deal of
essential to become accustomed to a great deal that is the exact
have devoted a great deal of study to the works of Homer and
is contained in the great masterpieces and revelations of mankind
upon a new recognition by men of those great ancestors whose souls
and development of the world are furthered. A very great deal that is
deeper understanding of them; as a result. a great deal of what
blessed man such as Homer. And a great deal will be similarly

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his greatest sin if he can have the thought, It thinks me, without
However, great help is given by what we receive from theosophy, when

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of lectures has been given. It must be taken for granted that a great
morning he will find that a great deal of what his memory has
found that they differ greatly in the Mercury sphere. A clear
universal”. It is also true that a great transformation will
Mystery of Golgotha is a great ideal, the ideal of supremely
can learn a very great deal from what may lie openly before us.

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in later karma. Those living on Earth are able to have a great
greater influence on the dead than the dead has on himself or others
Anthroposophy acquires greater influence in the evolution of
reality only. But an example will show that a very great deal is
possibilities is infinitely greater than that of actual happenings.
to waking life, if you were to observe with greater exactitude
the great Universe.
Christ is the great Sun-Being who through the Mystery of Golgotha has
day the girl found a pearl, thereby becoming the possessor of great
story is graphically told and it has been narrated in greater detail
great energy and freedom from bias — qualities that are not

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you can gather how greatly perception between death and rebirth
man's being with greater clarity than is possible in the printed
very great. Our present age, however, has a definite advantage over
they observed. For example, the passage of the Great Bear or of the
as the Great Bear across the heavens; together with the spectacle
the passage of the Great Bear across the heavens at night they saw
bodies what they experienced about the constellation of the Great
actual experience and the men of those times knew a great deal about
Spheres’, of spiritual Beings. And a great many of his
describes today. A great deal in this connection was presented
the Great Bear and enable them to experience as realities the
great. Conditions today have reached the stage when between death and
study the life between death and the new birth in even greater

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Sermon at Benares, the first great accomplishment of the Buddha who
were Teachers of great significance. What actually took place there
picture with the greatest possible clarity how the Earth evolves,
great transformation which could have been achieved only by
made this possible. We will speak on another occasion in greater
We are now at the threshold of a great mystery, a
that the Being who was the greatest Prince of Peace and Love, who was
was as a great servant of Christ Jesus, to receive and carry forward
so great that, as far as lay within his power, he incorporated into
is to give to men the greatest of all impulses with which the human
point in the process of that evolution. The great Teacher of the
physical incarnation. But in accordance with the great Plan designed
the work of that great Teacher was to continue in the life that lies
great Universe, we may well take with us from this centre of

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we have lived the great ideal which we want to express through
inclined to dedicate our forces to this great ideal of mankind,
spiritual light or means of light to the dawn of the great
force of love are the greatest, the most intense, the most
the feeling that wisdom is a great thing — that love is
still greater; that might is a great thing — that love is
yet greater. And this feeling of the power and force and
threefold figure of the Christ-Impulse can have great
pay homage to the great spiritual King Who appears in the high
related to the great cosmic forces. We have this connection
with the great cosmic forces when, through an understanding of
impulse. As something yet infinitely more great and mighty than
prevents men from feeling the full greatness and power of this
without prejudice, and felt a great change in itself. To-day we
Do cherish true and warm our Saviour great in praise:
And all his great ones looked on us amazed.
The Great One's works, whom boldly challenging,
And came to Antioch, great town of Syria.
full greatness. We have later in the Faust poem a kind of
shadow of this legend, but filled with greater poetic power. In
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we try to carry this question to greater depths than has hitherto
greater part of the time between death and rebirth — it is the
with an intelligence much greater than that of a parrot will never

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the time when — after darkness has been greatest
sun develops its greatest power. Man has been torn out of
people and is spreading with great rapidity. The fact of
well as great and mighty beings connected with earthly
a great deal of what we are able to relate regarding the

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in which we must record the great achievements of Kepler and
outlines the great problem of a modern world-conception,
the single currents united to form a great comprehensive
the greatest imaginable dissemination — the
greatest imaginable dissemination we may say, considering the
the very greatest minds.
a far greater profundity in his soul life than thousands and
rapidly, one after another, a great number of his works, as for
which long occupied other spirits, even the greatest
the great Faust question. He could now say to himself:
world in a thoughtful, feeling way, that the greatest which the
greatest world-migrations, the migrations into the

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to a far greater extent than was the case after the Mystery of
understand with greater exactitude than has hitherto been possible
very great influence upon man's life of soul between birth and death
have been nonsense to speak of public opinion as we do today. A great
single personalities who admittedly exerted a great deal of authority
you will find a great deal on the subject of spiritual
the spiritual life had reached the stage of its greatest darkness.
descend from Adam, so will the content of their souls in greater and
greater measure ‘descend’ from the Christ who is the
Beings of the nearest higher Hierarchies to a far greater extent than
in a state of greater and greater independence. The leading spiritual
of whom we have already spoken and who now have great power, also
of Golgotha. But the Mystery of Golgotha will become of greater and
greater importance for the Earth's evolution. We must clearly
opinion, but inwardly they will have developed greater strength. This
truly great individuals such as Goethe do no such thing. They
bring into life more and more qualities which will have greater

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soul-forces has to become greater. Deeper soul-forces are to be
courage and boldness are required to a greater extent than in
element, and for that reason the great work he intended could

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life of mankind, like a limb in a great organism. This is especially
great significance when we thus see how a uniform spiritual essence
a still greater inward deepening, the more we observe it in relation to
on account of Raphael's towering greatness.
world. The Sistine Madonna is one of the greatest and noblest works
in greater or lesser proximity to him in the kingdom of Nature. Man
Grimm, is the great Mystery to be met with in the outer world. Peace
Christ Impulse had reached a greater ripeness in his soul than in any
enter into greater and greater depths of inwardness.
the age of Raphael then read less, but they be held a great deal more.

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themselves into cultural life as a whole, as into a great
taking effect as an ever greater internalizing of the soul.
still greater chasm will loom between everything that goes on
of expression. On account of Raphael's towering greatness, the
greatest and most significant pictures in the development of
Nominally great figures, these popes were certainly not what
need to find periods of ever greater inwardness in subsequent
future lives, Raphael's spirit will have ever greater things,

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undergone a great change, in that Initiation can be attained up to a
objectively what is really there. In general, one of the greatest
cannot be altered by knowing about them, one expels a great part of
small at first, but it becomes ever greater and greater and spreads
with it, and finally he becomes as great as the world that is at his

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somewhat out of date to-day but once played a great role. It was based
about this, but not so long ago there lived a great and significant
would soon see in which period. the greater quantity of rain would

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Then, however, arises a great longing, a longing that becomes terrible
the great longing we have spoken of: they had no need to behold their
the old Egyptian period. After that it ceased. There was a great
that he had to understand it for the sake of his people, that great,

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world unload their great strengths on us as we stand there more or
unconscious dream experiences — an infinitely greater number
the great collections of fairy tales from everywhere in the world, to
prosaic but accurate comparison to say, we can know a great deal
The soul feels (but unconsciously) the great antithesis she has to
there is something within you that is far, far greater than the part
the fairy tales contain elements of the great stories of heroes and
that something greater than oneself is present in the soul that may
collected a great amount of good things to eat, which he took along
they attacked him with great blows on the head and broke the pig's
magnificent world of art there is no greater art than this one, which
clearly perceptible form, the result will be great art, intrinsic
there is nothing of greater blessing for a child than to nourish it

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sources lying at greater depths of the human soul than is
really a great magician, such as the human soul itself
greatest skill. It can grant you wings, enabling you to see an
of the periods of European life in which the great heroic
great heroic sagas. It need not surprise us to hear that it
the soul. These events are such that we can know a great deal
great deal, Goethe wanted to say in pictures what he felt
life there is no greater art than that which completes the path
hard to comprehend is the greatest and most natural art, an art
Hence, we can do nothing of greater benefit for the soul of the

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exercise on man a very great influence in a quite special way. While
spiritual forces there, a person can have just as great and powerful
after-effects of the great Empedocles still present in the atmosphere,
the one hand there is the great, high-minded soul who could bring
greater demands on the innermost part of the human soul; but in a
overcome — the elements which can so greatly disturb the Initiate

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The greatest mysteries of existence are within man
Now the greatest mysteries of existence are not to be
the great intensity at what may now be called the human body; we
The mysteries of existence are truly great, even when contemplated
from the standpoint of our physical senses only, but far greater
human beings enter into physical existence. For the greater part of
epoch, when men's gaze was diverted to an ever greater extent from
This is the great question: are human souls in the

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His Spiritual and Intellectual Greatness
door heightened. This ruined a great part of the picture. Then at one
greatness, of the power and content of the comprehensive personality
making the greatest artistic plans, constantly making new ones. He
had also commissions from people who recognized his great gift and
Leonardo, which was too great in itself ever to be able to reveal its
full greatness.
great and comprehensive genius Leonardo was.
greatest contrasts; one cannot paint them in one year; there are no
painting are here represented as only the greatest genius could
shows us all Leonardo's greatness and, we may say, all his
with the whole figure and spiritual greatness of Leonardo. He left it
the greater is the difference in the whole of man's outlook and
rendered the greatest service its greatness was not acquired through
in a great and mighty way; but how they can be brought through into
times possessing great capacities, but now in this new age, he can
a soul in which a great deal, an infinite amount takes place”.
to work out in their lives something greater than their age can give
of his great soul capacities. We see Leonardo's soul so sane,
case we see especially the greatness of spirit which endures much
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year he went about with the greatest artistic intentions, with
recognized his great gifts and wanted something from him.
students, there are still a great number from his own hand.
Leonardo soul, too great in itself ever to be able to manifest
its own greatness.
the greatest imaginable contrasts. These could not be painted
satisfaction the greatest conceivable work he undoubtedly
of painting are presented as only the greatest genius could
In short, this work shows Leonardo in his greatness and, it may
follows after the green leaves. Great individualities become
great capacities. In the new age he is able everywhere to touch
existence mysteriously, having something of greater importance
did not prevent the greatest imaginable content of soul from
Hence the greatness of this spirit presents itself to us as
limitations and restrictions Leonardo's great soul had to
endure. In comprehending the age, we understand this great
Leonardo in the preceding, declining age. Leonardo's greatness
activity, on account of its greatness, “dies” in

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to the dead’. We can render them great benefit even if
way. It became obvious that he would greatly benefit if a particular
The fact that can convince us of the great and
is when something that might be a great service of love is not
Leonardo da Vinci's saying is true: “Great love is the daughter
of great understanding.” He who is not prepared to understand will

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great significance in every realm of human endeavor and investigation
greater significance in the realm of spiritual investigation. A
have different reasons for denying this spiritual world, but a great
just characterized. As great, as powerful in soul experiences, as
however, is by far the greatest part of the spiritual world, and the
must appear to provide verification. In this way the greatest

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through nature's great life realm. We would see plants' etheric

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lecture-course the descriptions are of great cosmic conditions and
from the great macrocosmic spheres, there arises the human being who
dealt with the great cosmic relationships connected with the
of the great macrocosmic conditions through which the soul passes.
Earth, for the soul begins to realise the great cosmic significance
view of the soul, and in the other from that of the great cosmic

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great cultural power of the modern scientific way of thinking
that what natural sciences have performed as great achievements
know in a great measure how his self-consciousness, his ego has
Archimedes, the founder of mechanics, and Plato, the great

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entire recognition of the great results of modern science forms
subconscious soul lives of many people who have the greatest
was a great naturalist of his time; nevertheless it is an

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those human beings have indicated as the greatest who tried to
religious confessions in a great united whole. Thus, he

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to do it relating to the great religious researcher and
great Max Müller managed to say that all human thoughts
way of thinking based on? Why has it become great? Because it
one does not become upset. A great deal of that what I have
makes it even greater, even more brilliant. Spiritual research

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saying: also great spirits grow old and proclaim many a pipe
life of the single person is greater and more comprehensive
what already a great spirit said out of his almost ill soul:
certain human age is necessary. Great inventors get around to
the spiritual-mental because of the great achievements of the

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look up again to the Heavenly Child who brought the greatest of all
coffins. At a greater distance, some people are listening to music. Behind
find manifest the fact that man may, indeed, cherish a great hope for his
into the evolution of the earth will acquire ever greater strength in the
The child born at Bethlehem must be born in ever greater depths of the soul
within, and no matter how great the temptations, there is one steadfast

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Essenes were greatly perplexed for they did not
be great.”
Gospel will be revealed in greater detail as time goes
question was thine Who hath made me great? And there
In our age, by far the greater part of external culture
a great deal more than what the mere words contain will

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study the great epochs of art and the great artists. We shall never
study with Ghirlandaio, but great artist as the latter was the boy
inner quality of soul, a mood of greater inwardness. This is true,
soul. The deepest secrets and the greatest inwardness are expressed
task. His greatness consists largely in a period which was to depend
great master of his times. When a man holds such a place in his
greatness of Michelangelo. So Michelangelo had the bitter experience
greatest works of art the world has seen, the noblest pattern that
to what is his greatest achievement, that remarkable work of artistic
was made with the greatest care and under his supervision from a clay
wholly in the great current of his times yet his own inmost quality
Pope feared him; and yet in his soul there lived all the greatness of
at one with the great Christian impulses he yet lived at the dawn of
my soul that turns to His great Love on high
was a great poet also, and the poems of his which survive show the
out for many years afterwards all those other great works of his in
my soul that turns to His great Love on high
just the greatest spirits that teach us most vividly how the meaning

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also look for the origin of the Great Flood itself in
Jews absorbed a very great deal from the neighbouring
worshipping what comes from above. But the great
living in the Aura of the Earth. That is the great truth
“the greatest of these born of woman.” This
of John the Baptist as “the greatest of those born

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and sermons have made a great stir in certain circles. He
profound answer, which also great philosophers of the
great and perfect into another world as it were where it is
great there where it is misplaced; but there must also be other

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circles had created a great sensation. He too believes, that
world, even though it is greatly widespread, can explain a
what we call selfishness. A great deal of careful thinking has
being is great and perfect in one world, as soon as it is
bring down what belongs in the spirit world and there is great,
before the greatest riddles. The capacities that led them to

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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant

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we do encounter a difficulty, a great difficulty — not for our
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant

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a great many. We find that one philosopher is after this and another
constructed. I will suppose that there is a great last at the
there. Only look at the paths which the disciples of great men have
had to follow in order to come to this or that great man, and then
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.

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a great many. We find that one philosopher is after this and another
constructed. I will suppose that there is a great last at the
there. Only look at the paths which the disciples of great men have
had to follow in order to come to this or that great man, and then
that a great many of these people call their pets “Pussy”.

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unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
world-outlook signs. Certainly, the Gnosis will render the greatest
can lay hold of into a great concept-organism — a logical
great men. Thus, for example, Hamerling is an out-and-out Monadist or
voluntaristic Psychist. It is precisely great men who have so

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unable to grasp with their whole souls anything of the greatness and
world-outlook signs. Certainly, the Gnosis will render the greatest
can lay hold of into a great concept-organism — a logical
great men. Thus, for example, Hamerling is an out-and-out Monadist or
voluntaristic Psychist. It is precisely great men who have so

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constellations are of much greater importance in the life of the
is the “great thinker” which down to our last finger-nail
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
be placed one-sidedly in life, we know that we belong to a great
Otherwise he could probably do something greater, much greater;
constellations. These persons do great harm by hypnotizing the world
I might say: “With bleeding heart I declare that the greatest
— the greatest hindrance to the knowledge of this fact is the

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constellations are of much greater importance in the life of the
is the “great thinker” which down to our last finger-nail
carry out the great thought-activity which engraves upon the world
be placed one-sidedly in life, we know that we belong to a great
Otherwise he could probably do something greater, much greater;
constellations. These persons do great harm by hypnotizing the world
I might say: “With bleeding heart I declare that the greatest
— the greatest hindrance to the knowledge of this fact is the

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sheds new light upon the great steps taken, as it were in
twelve. We will not enter into this in greater detail
feeling and willing. Great and sublime truths were often
been by great and momentous happenings in the spiritual

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greatest?
1804), the great philosopher, felt forced to separate

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It is great to see Giordano Bruno standing
appeared to him much more important and greater than that which
recognise this in the figures of Homer and the great Greek
figments about nature; whereas the age of the great scientific
that they do no longer face. Voltaire was too great to be able
great for that. Hence, we see the longing projecting in
consciousness soul. Voltaire is still the greatest star of this
wanted many a numbing. One must already look at the greatness
was so great in many a respect, as Frederick the Great
show a certain greatness, however, just in the downward spirit
task in the present and future, the picture of the great
pronounced it even towards Frederick the Great
great human being who filled a place in the ongoing education

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time which has the great discovery of Robert Julius Mayer
century the great discoveries that Darwin made. It has
experienced the great results of natural sciences, for example,
like to point as a spiritual researcher to a great man among

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to that is great where it concerns the passage through the

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Imaginations requires greater strength than we usually have between
birth and death. We need greater inner strength of soul. We do not
write true. The great difference between dreams or hallucinations and
life. We need this greater strength when we have passed through the
death. It could be that someone wants to have a great deal of
people who do this will have greater faculties in the world after
described. According to the methods available to them, the great
they originated in the spiritual world. This is the immensely great
Christ as only a great cosmic teacher. For those who really
We are making a great
love of comfort and convenience. It requires a great deal more than

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blood system will stand behind it. It's only with the greatest awe
devote ourselves to maya — the great deceiver — the

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left behind by his great soul lay there, a wonderful reflection of a
their soul to what is great, beautiful, monumental, magnificent, and
with a young musician in Vienna who was a great friend of
tired of complaining about life. And since he loved Hamerling a great
greatest pain (he wrote as much to Rosegger) at the time of writing
under these physical conditions remained open to all that is great
out of the wellsprings of greatness, beauty, and spirituality in such
believe these words can throw much greater light on Hamerling's
great part of his longing: the longing to be a great human being.
the police for this “great crime” and given a special
small indication of how the world treated the great poet; I believe
that can comfort our souls regarding the small things in the great
Everything he created has human greatness, though not always poetic
human greatness. When he saw disharmony in life, Hamerling always

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lectures had made a great impression on them, and they asked him to
fulfillment of what the great minds in human history longed and
the harmony we can achieve with these great minds through our
had to put on such plays with ever greater strength, one might say.
spiritual beings who paint the sunrise are greater painters still
good-natured soul who wanted to understand us and do a great service

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great universal riddles, to show how thought progressed
the great struggle has now started on the physical plane,
the great, hard struggles that came with the Barbarian
events of such great moment as we are experiencing at
to be a token of rightful understanding of the great

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one particular great truth that we should have in mind
beyond the great illusion? We do not get to know about
nationalities is greatest and where the most lies are
truth can perceive the true reason, which is that a great
full seriousness of what we teach, the moral greatness
times. They had a feeling for the great, cosmic
soul — that the great cosmic tableau seen by the
great significance in the history of civilization. The
greatest poet therefore, beyond compare in that respect,
intellectual or mind soul. A nation achieves greatness
soul faces life as an onlooker. And the greatest creative
how Frederick the Great [1712–1786], that most
appearance as the great teacher, telling mankind in such
We have had the works of Soloviev, the greatest Russian
was received even during the reign of Peter the Great
quite different. Where before it had been a great cosmic
The great

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great contemporary events are capable of exciting in us, and
great personalities. With these observations I attempted
to-day by the great majority of people. After all, the
This is a shattering, great, tremendously significant
great spiritual law for the development of the human soul.
great inner experiences that, looking back on a blow of fate,
from its greatest strength to death and to a second flowering
because it is the greatest fact, and its greatest experience.
the stream of contemporary events. We are looking at the great
riddle-question, the great fate-question, that our time faces
when we see so many bodies fall in the sacrifice, the great

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is so great, so utterly tremendous in this death on the
of truth in it, a great deal of truth — and

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great and serious events in life really enable us to see
that they will no longer appear to us as Maya, the great
Christianity is so great, so tremendous, that human
became deed, and as a result the world was greatly
greatly affected by it. They became serving members
great discoveries were made and with everything they
great deal more than could come about through mankind,
their ego, merely into the ether body. The great
of weakness even the great Lessing accepted the idea of
forgiveness of greatly enlightened folk. It will be
remain a great illusion.
strange thing that a great many souls that lived to the
fact of infinitely greater importance than the 15th
would be the greatest misfortune also for the East of
in an external way they present to us the great illusion,
that we consider the great transition occurring in human
needs to be understood in increasingly greater conscious
our soul in increasingly greater conscious awareness.
Schiller's great deed.

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great majority of the people whom we have to consider in
much greater reverse than any they had known before, and
be understood. We generate the great strength we need to
would be possible to purse this a great deal further
us to become a philosopher, to some degree even a great
one may be considered a great philosopher, to hurl abuse
intellect has the greatest powers to give form to the
of such great service to him also in the present day,
has taken us to the greatest height ever achieved by man.

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It would of course be possible to pick up a great many
strange to some of you that I put such great emphasis on
those with greater moral resilience.’
with greater moral resilience'. It is hard to imagine
anyone producing greater nonsense than this. Both
greater moral resilience in a person. It means that
ears, by far the greatest part of human soul content
time it takes to dissolve differs greatly. When a person
who suffer great losses: Our age desperately needs to
for such a great power of reflection, of deliberation and
exerting the soul to a greater degree than it normally
it takes greater effort than with things that are
visible. And greater effort in thought is what People shy
great deal in more recent times. If things continue the
nervy, twitchy art, however great. Such nervy art would
not to happen it will be necessary to develop the great

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remember those who are at the front, in the great arena
With persistence and great courage;
Powers great from lands where spirits dwell,
We need powers great from lands where spirits
died — and she .had reached a great age — to
sphere — where it has even greater validity than in
are under the sign of greatness, that the difficult

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this, you will see that this path of knowledge is of great
enlivening of the thought, is a moment of great significance in
really is a greater death than even physical death. In physical death
the future. The experience may be accompanied with great success, yet
great deal by knowing what the etheric body does when the stomach
One great difficulty at the
It is of very great
connected with these great cosmic relations. And one can
great demands of destiny, they have, in a sense, consciously allowed
those cases there may be a great deal of enthusiasm and so
this fact of death, with much greater clarity than would be possible
wonderful instructor. This is a fact of great significance, precisely
teaching, through words, does not suffice. Yet great enlightenment is

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great arena of present-day events:
also a great many obstacles in the objective spiritual
it meant one had to do a great deal of thinking and
indeed, especially the concepts we have made great effort
has to be done in the thought world, great fear of
may bring great successes but it still is not the right
And the dragon can experience things of great
gain a great deal from investigating them and knowing
temptation and seduction. It is because of these great
as the great destiny of the age demands. They may be said
Phenomenon, this fact of death, with much greater clarity
the field of battle is an event of much greater intensity
It lends strength, a marvellous, great event, and the
free will. This again brings greater clarity to that
individual who is experiencing death with great clarity

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the great arena of present-day events:
most satisfying, the greatest, knowledge of the spiritual
to a much greater extent. If the same held true for the
by far the greater part of the ego and astral body is
greater part of his ego and astral body the way he
it also takes place in the great process of cosmic
individual but from the great cosmic spiritual evolution
Thus the great sacrifice brought in war must join into
of Dr Mises' did a great deal at that time to show that

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the great arena of present-day events:
we have been within a great body of experiences yet it
now understand that it needs great inner strength to work
gain greater and greater powers, growing so strong in
greater significance than literary figures known to us
to unite ourselves in the greatest possible degree with
days will have to be like a great warning beacon for
the great events now taking place. Let us forget purely
element put through the test of the great events of our

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earth — we feel as if we lived within a great organism. We
and the great consciousness of the Spirit of the Earth then
was greatly alarmed and said that quite recently a man had been
shows us that what we call the great illusion chiefly consists
man is as great as the universe. Even in ordinary life we look

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the great arena of present-day events:
saying within the earth — as though within a great
summer. The earth is then truly asleep; the great
the great illusion consists predominantly in man being

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the great arena of present-day events:
the spheres. Man was one great ear. The reason for this
brow is greatly developed, in Ahriman the lower jaw. The
the principal figure had to be given greater inner
history. One of the greatest among them is Michelangelo's
recognition of the inherent greatness of the Christ, a
greatness not yet to be found in Michelangelo's Christ.
considered the greatest poetic work there is.
greatest works ever produced by man because Goethe was
why the whole great work of Goethe's Faust
is true that nothing of the great seriousness the present
great seriousness of purpose — and it is a
realize that we are living in an age when great things
these great things. Nor can we come to a pessimistic view

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the great arena of present-day events:
It is just as rich and varied, showing just as great a
a great writer.
consider Shakespeare a great poet, certainly one of the
greatest poets of all time. But let me bring out those
originality which made a great man. Characterizing a
great poet one should not demand such a great person to
‘Great men are more distinguished by range and
making bricks, and building the house; no great men are
renown exactly by showing that great men plagiarize on
Emerson came to characterize Shakespeare as a great
robber and Goethe as the great ally of the truth. This is
them. On the one hand he calls the English the greatest
the dreamer. A great deal of what people put
is why spiritual science calls for greater activity. Its
part of the great world, of the macrocosm. We know that
and meditate on a great deal in the weeks to come. I
as we consider things today, that the great events
while still young, ether bodies that will be a great help

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the great arena of present-day events:
of a great multitude of entities within hierarchies. The
great work of building the world. Through our feelings we
to being the greater one. It is really necessary,
You can deny them, you can be a great materialist in your
in Rome at the head of a great procession. He was wearing
have believed all the great flaming speeches of Rienzi

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directed to the fields where the great events of our time are taking
embraces, when compared with the greatness and might of the whole
“No matter how far the spiritual world may extend, however great
before him as in a great panorama. Now, of course, if observed more
Death is a Maya, an illusion. Herein lies the great difference between
before our spiritual vision as the greatest, most significant, living
between death and rebirth, that the great moment, when the spirit
existence. A great deal goes on then. And that which very soon strikes
had to proceed from our own initiative, we should be greatly
like automata. You will then come to recognise that there is a great
but great activity in the life between sleeping and waking. There a
will work upon it a great deal in your next sleep and perhaps also
which I have distinguished are of great significance for our life here
is of very great significance. Till then, not merely the bodily growth

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greater number of our friends. She belongs to those who have grasped
greater part of the civilised world — who does not see at almost
every stage the great riddle of Life confronting him? And who does not
feel that great connections lie concealed behind such events as those
announced represented its great Cosmic Truths. I have already often
there hardly exists a greater similarity in historical evolution, than
different from what it is here on the physical plane. A great part of
essential point. Therefore naturally the astonishment is greatest for
blossoms appear at intervals. A great time of blossoming was the epoch
which as pictures are tremendously significant. Great physical decay

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human nature, makes a greater or less individual progress in the
etheric body has acquired a certain perfection, greater than man is at
arises a great question: What is the actual significance of this? What
people are already greatly taken with this idea of ‘the concept
Certainly nature is there, great and significant. But what would this
great importance in a certain direction, at a definite epoch of his
indicated in broad outlines. You can then form some idea how great is
we connect the present suffering with the great wisdom of the Cosmos.
to our own times, may be embodied in the great truth:

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our experience. A great part of our physical life is lived in memory.
examine the contents of the greater part of these recollections, we
deeper sub-consciousness. We feel greater reverence for the
those no longer in this world. It signified a great deal, when in
reverently at their festivals to the thought of their great ancestors,
and united in feeling for the memory of their great forefathers. It
greatly. In ordinary consciousness there are certainly impulses of an
that it will disperse and vanish before us. We all have to a greater
great cunning in doing something at an earlier stage of their life
already formed and chiseled out, it has a great many inner formations

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of him, A great deal goes on in the intervals between the events which
greatest lawyers of his country. He was feared by all those who had
life; he laid great stress on being correct and blameless in external
this verdict as one of the greatest triumphs of his many years of
grandfather again. The jury were greatly distressed at this incident,
satisfaction at the time, especially his great power of oratory. He
had great satisfaction, which he expressed by saying: ‘He
comes a time when he is endowed anew with a great natural power of
his greatest triumph, goes into his office ...'
whole way in which a man offers himself up for some great event of the
it. And when I point to the fact that even in the great events of our
which these events are inserting into the great connection of human

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great size stands beside a brook. The generations inhabiting this
the mansion, which formed so great a contrast with everything to
prospect of being able to do great things with him. But the process
mother who behaved in such a way towards a pupil was the greatest
and sat at the feet of the great teacher. And he
soul of this teaching, which he held to be the greatest ever
he had a singular experience. A great many critics at least found
as the great conceptions of Duty.
who held the view of the great and magnanimous Karl August and
his which he used not alone in great matters but also in the
participation in that great creative process of all existence.
in people to occupy themselves and a great deal of
to which, and indeed to the whole great phenomenon of Fichte, I
amid the ruins of the monarchy of Frederick the Great, in the midst
eyes of the spirit to his greatness as a national figure, then we
cultivation of the soul, not merely good but great men.
any ear for such national greatness will hear it still in our
in Great Britain by Lawrence Bros. (Weston-super-Mare) Ltd.,

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no difference between waking and sleeping. Those great beings of
does man himself, who is a microcosmic copy of the great macrocosm.
feeling for this experience of what is lived through in the great
course not so proud as to lead all men to want to think a great deal:
people say: ‘In our epoch we must think a great deal if we want
Philosophy’ really think? Thought is to a great extent lacking in
journalistic train of followers, who naturally regard it as a great
intended to solve the great riddles of the universe — or disguise
is here implied against the significance and the great achievements of
made the great discovery that no substantives exist. There are none.
greatest errors.
Frederick the Great may be verified. Christ did not wish to make
Christmas Day, the Day of the Birth of the Saviour, with the greatest
Now let us turn our attention to those on the fields where the great

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— which is now happening in many places from a great many
slightest way deny the great value and significance of progress
knew how to look after it. The legend attaches great
as well have taken this from great world events as from
something took place in the soul that was of far greater
very great deal more, though not consciously. You will
of a great deal that happens to us in the supersensible realm
This can also create great confusion if we do not watch out.
supersensible world to some great good fortune for those
Just imagine, a book has just been published by the great

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fact, it is a great work of art created by a very talented man.
work of art through divine inspiration has done a great deal of
work of art, one that has great inner value, because it might
greatest inclination to ask about everything, “What was
Faust is a great work of art, one that is tantamount to
and great beauty in this insipid nonsense and know how to
to a great number of boys. These boys might in their turn have
have emphasized in some of my lectures that many a great
considered great in centuries to come, whereas people who have
to be a great work of art and in a certain way judged it
greater significance than what is presented to our senses. What

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pupils, you acquire greater capacities to understand the
recorded what great progress had been achieved by the first two
accomplished things of far greater significance than the pupils
greater capacities I thus acquire will help me achieve what I
to call. So we certainly see a great deal of necessity in what

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should play a great part in human life, the domain of
difficulty. You know, the great Spinoza said that when we look
punishment.” Now a great many theories have been
greatest freedom of all is to obey historical necessity! For if
of greater value than those things he did exactly as they

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the greater part of humanity only for the past few centuries,
saw it to a far greater extent than now in animals and also in
observes it in great detail, but he leaves it to the scientist
again that we have to gather a great number of ideas to arrive
extremely obvious idea, that people think they are great
can easily point out that this is no great logic but proper
this dream view of life will appreciate the great and

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hearts at this season by reminding them of the great and unique event
heart and mind. Yet it brings to such childlike hearts something great
this is the great vista presented by the Easter festival.
those who have come to Spiritual Science should feel with even greater

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of the great sufferings of our time in our prevailing spiritual condition.
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. Everyone will feel the great difference
hearts, and it brings into these hearts something great and tremendous
We are led to the great and sublime idea that the divine being descended
of Jesus of Nazareth, which has great significance particularly for
greatest poets called for you in the name of humanity. You languished,
man who has taken great pains in the last few years to understand Goethe
— as far as he found it possible — and who has gone to great
what they considered great about their art was that they had perceived
the moment with the greatest enthusiasm. When he first came to the university
Great Sin,
of the world was not greatly affected by their comments. However, he
see them say, We have put up with a great deal, but this really goes
it is so obvious — too obvious. In fact, it is really a great
hope to find the truth and which has achieved a great deal, as you will

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different. The great and significant difference between them becomes
great deal from the most modern anatomy and physiology to provide further
And now think deeply and with great sensitivity
very beginning. This great and wonderful connection reveals the activity
of several great minds of the nineteenth century, who were striving
spiritual science. I tried to show how these great minds reached out
some of the great, spiritual works our great writers created in the
and therefore did not repeat in this book, among the greatest of these
have done a great deal for the life of their soul. Several people have
of great minds such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Troxler, Planck, Preuss,
in our time considers great and important — he told it with the
of the airplane in the style of the period, saying with great seriousness
his greatness. One of the things he said was, “Philosophy does

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words about the great and grievous loss on the physical plane we have
outstanding part he played in the great and fateful events of our time,
dear friends, where you can see the greatness and significance we find
and led to the greatest crisis humanity ever had to go through in its
what underlies them can they become great and momentous active forces.
and of great importance in Salzburg — the town Salzburg is not
named, but we can nevertheless recognize it. He is of even greater importance
is too great to believe that at the moment he utters his last words,
mysticism! There is actually a great deal that is wonderful and beautiful

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and it finds at certain times particular events that are of far greater
itself in them to a greater or lesser extent. Someday people will write
realize that there are important facts that can speak to us of great
the most noble and greatest striving that can light up in human souls.
awake because he or she has seen beautiful, great, noble, and sublime
words can be greater and can touch our hearts more profoundly than what
glide,” is one of the greatest poets of all time. But first one
grandest poetry! To be made aware of the greatest event in the evolution
verse that has kept me from setting great store by definitions and explanations
To an ever greater extent, we, and indeed
“Ours are faith, hope, and hatred.” But hatred is the greatest

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form. Spiritual science seeks to connect the human being with the great
laws of the universe, the great laws of the cosmos. The deepest impulses
the connection between human beings and the great transcendental laws
there in the great laws of the universe also speaks in the form of our
of “looking up to the great cosmic revelations.” He never
Naturally, people in Vienna back then talked a great deal about these
life, and must be added to those terrible, great, and gigantic blows
of the great events of the day is considered to be on a small scale.
be the greater because he was such a good painter and had been able
that he wanted to become a painter greater even than Rubens, a successor
him greatly. He got very furious with Paris, went back to Brussels,
when he believed the man great who recommended such an abominable book
contradicted each other? Great pains were taken to find all the contradictions
understand the smallest as well as the greatest things, to understand

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it, we have something we may call, metaphorically speaking, a great
beings were much more open to the great cosmos, and the forces of the
are not, and there is a very great difference between those who are
may even have been great world reformers and have influenced world history.
when Michelangelo and Raphael produced their great works and not seeing
great things. What I am telling you is not meant as malicious criticism.
we should have for the great spiritual truths. This reverence consists
of great spiritual heights.
us in Asia who tell us all kinds of great things; however, when we come
the Gospels confirms the truth of the great word, “Where two or
we find that a great deal of what these days is called historical materialism
one can easily prove that many great geniuses did not learn anything
However, it is a great risk to give advice when the following happens

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place where the great destinies of the time are being fulfilled:
Motzkus shared in the great events of our time, right up to the last
of the most prominent and learned men is making a very great
and made a great impression upon them, especially as various things
afforded great surprise to the family, and strangely enough, they also
caused great surprise to a wide public. They would not have surprised
not only might one say that such a case would naturally make a great
You see how greatly one may be misled by striving to give a
the form in which He will be seen in the great moment of evolution in
the twentieth century, that the great moment is being now prepared.
immeasurably greater force than anything else on earth, — so it
age something great and significant is announced by a great contrast.

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greatly altered in the course of the development of mankind. Only at
with all its crude brutality. In this respect there is a great deal of
very great space of time; the difficulty is to have the Spiritual
constitutes the great difficulty of grasping the Spiritual world. Were
connection with the great Cosmos, which is composed of both substance
the whole great Cosmic Connection, as each one of our fingers is a
today — at least the great majority no longer feel themselves members of
the great World-Organism, in so far as they as Spiritual beings are
the great Greek philosopher, called these 25,920
years a cosmic year — the great Platonic Cosmic year. Now if one
passage of the Vernal Point through the great cosmic year.
Platonic year as one great year and divide it till we bring out a day,
greater being. — And now let us take the breathing process of a
still greater being; of the sun, in its circuit. Just as the earth
astral body into man, so does the Great Being corresponding to the sun
have shown: one day of the sun-year, the great Platonic Year. Our
great Being, to whom is appointed the great Platonic Year. You see how
and etheric bodies: and we are ourselves breathed in by the great
one breath of this great Being. Now you see that as Microcosms we are
being. It is governed by number and measure. It is a great and
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what belongs certainly to that from which already the great
equal but compare it with the dream. Above all the great German
leafy trees where everything was nice and great. There he

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— I might say — to our great astonishment it can be expressed by
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. It is of great importance that one should enter somewhat
the ego and the physical body is very greatly displaced in present-day
man. The second meeting is already more in connection with the great
year. When the sun develops its greatest heat, man is much more
the heavens — with the great Cosmic conditions. For Easter is
itself with our physical earth manhood. The great Mystery that now
— at the present day to a great extent unconsciously, yet it is
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
withholding a great deal from the growing boy and girl if we fail to
draw their attention to all the revelations of beauty and greatness in
the beauty and greatness of the world, we are then preparing them for
great significance for the life spent between death and a new birth.
Of course a great deal depends on our gaining as many concepts as
in our lives. In this respect education will have a very great deal to
preparation for the coming need for a great activity to be directed
may be of great help to our souls. Unfortunately many people in our
life, a great deal, a very great deal, depends on whether one can

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— I might say — to our great astonishment it can be expressed by
manifested out of the Macrocosm, the great world, is felt as still
to the great cosmic future of man, to these three stages of evolution,
Angels. It is of great importance that one should enter somewhat
the ego and the physical body is very greatly displaced in present-day
man. The second meeting is already more in connection with the great
year. When the sun develops its greatest heat, man is much more
the heavens — with the great Cosmic conditions. For Easter is
itself with our physical earth manhood. The great Mystery that now
— at the present day to a great extent unconsciously, yet it is
greatness, and of the sublimity of the world-processes. We are
withholding a great deal from the growing boy and girl if we fail to
draw their attention to all the revelations of beauty and greatness in
the beauty and greatness of the world, we are then preparing them for
great significance for the life spent between death and a new birth.
Of course a great deal depends on our gaining as many concepts as
in our lives. In this respect education will have a very great deal to
preparation for the coming need for a great activity to be directed
may be of great help to our souls. Unfortunately many people in our
life, a great deal, a very great deal, depends on whether one can

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developed; nay, more: to the great majority of men who study it, it
moral force is present and soars as a great illusion over the
particular time, a great, perhaps even the greatest Teacher of the
Earth-world appeared, and that His teaching is the thing of greatest
importance. Now, if Christ is only considered as the greatest Teacher
things, it might still be possible for a great Teacher to arise who
only knows of what is great and cosmic; not of the weather. If one
every night. This meeting with the Father-Principle is of very great
in greater illusion than these despised men at the time of the old
It is the great misfortune of our age, that people are intoxicated
reality. There is a great deal in the present day well calculated to
it should exist, and it will attain far greater perfection as time

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destiny turns out to be the great teacher of life. Destiny

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actually bring about great catastrophe. These half-true concepts are
up, though it is in a great measure still believed, is the idea I have
other ideas with this division of the human being. The great Greek
of the spirit, its greatest manifestation; here the spirit has entered
it. But in this greater portion of spirit which does not dwell within
does indeed prevail to a great extent, in this materialistic age. In
develops his feelings for the great concerns of the world, that he can
up to the thoughts given us in Spiritual Science of the great
the great goals of humanity, we can then rise above all the emotions
It is undoubtedly necessary, that through Spiritual Science, a great
through it. This, however, is of great significance. It is immensely
them by the great concerns of the world, they will attain the right

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great course of the world-order, with respect to this rhythm. In olden
dubious echoes of this greatness in their superstitious fancies. When
that great matter of which I have described. Therein the endeavour was
continue to be held in harmony with the rhythm of the great universe,
to him, that, though he can no longer come into touch with the great
of very great importance to our age. I have often drawn your attention
gained, not only of the great religions, but of every form of
words to express them. One is often obliged to express the great
earth in the Mystery of Golgotha, with the great secrets of the world
of man. A great deal of social science is practised in our day, and
outer life. These form just as great opposites in man as above and
period, so something yet greater must be connected with the sun,

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phenomena do not know what to make of the great admirable
the bridge to the soul phenomena from the great results of
can always say, it is admirable and great. Important works

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times find themselves in misunderstanding of the greatest
who seek to gain insight into the great riddles in the realm of
for the greatest questions concerning the soul, for instance,
spirit with the greater part of its being. The soul lives in
greater or lesser degree; and it is just because one's
Now, in the face of the great, burning questions which concern
understanding of bodily life that the great questions, the
the same level, only one is considered to be a great advance of

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the great philosophical idealists, like Fichte, Schelling, and
great genii as the idealists were. We find this ether concept
son and a disciple of the great Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He said
in their field very much. This naturalist has great merits in
Excuse me if I think it a great deal,
great naturalist of the present closes. He has only overlooked
great naturalist has forgotten to reflect on that which Goethe

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wanted to give this as a preface, in order that ever greater
concept. What is interesting is that the great German
were not as great geniuses as their Idealist predecessors
work of Immanuel Hermann Fichte, the son of the great Johann
become condensed to an even greater effectiveness within him,
day and human beings, as a result, have great difficulty in
greatly impress those who swear by these concepts. But if one
greatest world riddles lead one back to it. Out of etheric
“Already in his (Goethe's) youth, the great
them very highly. This natural scientist has earned great
greatly value the natural scientist whom I have just quoted

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Spiritual life, and the effects of which were much greater than is
nineteenth century. This book is of the very greatest interest, more
postponed for a long time by the great resistance made in the external
play so great a part with Jacob Böhme and Paracelsus: Mercury,
true Spiritual Scientist can read a great deal between the lines in
with the French Revolution, one must read a great deal between the
surveying longer periods of time and applying to greater epochs what
the schoolmaster Hartmann, who had a great influence on Jung Stilling
reminds us in his convinced acceptance of Theosophy, of those great
sweeping away the dust from these documents on account of their great
laid great stress on calculation; he reckoned out the periods of
of the greatest spirits of mankind. That sentence is: ‘Die
Not only have our conceptions undergone a great transformation, but
our feelings too have very greatly changed. Just think of a typical
great philosopher, de Saint-Martin, understanding the world, tells us
which attach great weight to decorating themselves with old vignettes.
to those living between death and rebirth they are of very great

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Among those books which made a great stir apart from the war
made one after the other. With great exactness, this medium
the aberrations to which even great thinkers are exposed who
of a great spirit man who died early: Novalis (pseudonym of

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since the Church attached great importance to this, the
Father. The great confusion over this dogma could only arise
the greatest mystery drama of all time was enacted on the
Fathers. That is of no great moment, but it leads to
something of far greater moment if we bear the following in
greater miracle than this, namely, that Christianity has
develop its greatest strength in face of bitterest

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scientific writings as one of the greatest actions of modern
his considerations of natural phenomena. He gave a great
others as great philosophers. Therefore, one can state that

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connected with something of the greatest importance,
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, show great
true that science has made great advances in certain spheres
“great advances”. The invention of wireless
and could no longer find their way back to the spirit. Great
Cross was the greatest boon bestowed upon mankind
heaviest guilt coincides with the greatest good fortune.

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How great is the contrast between this conception of faith,
every detail is of the greatest moment. All criticism is
which He felt arise in Him when the woman who had great faith
have been at great pains to elucidate this mystery by means
and provide for her greatest good.” Had these giants of
when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none
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nor a great nation such as the Romans, nor even the whole of
something of great importance. We must bear in mind this tone
essentially a period when, in a brief space of time, great
great changes that have taken place in a short space of time,
impossible”. He was the first of the three great

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understanding of the greatest and simplest truths must be
great importance to the idea of faith, or trust, as an active
the services it has rendered to mankind, despite its great
in former times those conditions really did exist. Great
thinking is called for. And great strength of mind will be

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rooted in the modern outlook that many are at great pains to
great influence at the present time. It offers reflections
The great
especially set great store on this. Just as Christ Jesus
greater, Caligula or Jupiter (and for this purpose Caligula
greater.

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certain facts connected with the great impulses of cosmic
otherwise it would not have had so great an impact. Of
fundamental principles of the Roman empire, a greater

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murder should bring greater disaster in its train. People
been at great pains to misrepresent his actions in every
great historical movements of mankind are governed by a
quite the reverse. In effect he accepted one of the greatest
cost of great capital outlay Julian decided therefore to
of the greatest Church Fathers, Augustine
misrepresenting Goethe (the great opponent of Kant) as I
great erudition and downright theological sophistry.
failure if we belittle his great achievements, if we fail to
And it is of paramount importance today to recall these great
— herein lies his great tragedy — to reconcile
unwilling to face realities and this is the greatest need of
therefore made to ensure that the greatest uncertainty should
had been at great pains to preserve and perpetuate the
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One can hardly imagine a greater contrast than the contrast
the great artists of antiquity, who, to a certain extent,
greater importance than the evolution of dogma. For dogmas
were to enter into the minds of these great souls, we should
relation to the great cultural manifestations men are fast
representations.) Great as Goethe was, his ideas were greater
than he. That they were unable to rise to greater heights was
reality when the ‘Great Powers’ introduce a
1917. Predicted that by the mid-twentieth century the two great
democracy because great wealth exercises power without

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me the greatest pleasure. The author is one of the few who
at greater length about the Mithras Mysteries if I had more
how Charles the Great in the “Salzburg
to the age in which we are born — an age of great
referring are for the most part those for whom I feel great
of all a person such as Hermann Bahr for whom I feel great
greater whole which will later emerge. Thus Bahr sometimes
have great respect and affection for Hermann Bahr I would
like to show that he is typical of those who find great
the greatest clarity of thought is called for if we wish to
would he the greatest calamity that could befall us today if

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far greater poet than Otto Ludwig and that which one is able
today. In reality the great Church Fathers of the
especially we see that his works are shot through with great
caused by an ice-crystal. And so it is with the great events
thinking, then the greatest nonsense results. Political
Dante's great work, the “Divine Comedy”

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come to light, especially this winter, which is of great
appear to have the greatest significance for the fourth, the
view of the Greeks. The great Aristotle scholar Franz Brentano
of little which must have a greater impact on the soul than
taken great pains in investigating this man's soul

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towards ever greater perfection.
recently in Austria. A certain Robert Scheu, a man of great
greater spiritual influence in people's lives.
the point of decadence and that a great number of people have
or conservative is of no great moment when it is a question
unraveled a great contradiction which developed between the
of the present war. Since he regards himself as a truly great
with the great issues with which we started our

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from various viewpoints to draw your attention to the greater
back once more to the time immediately after the great
were discussed. He takes the greatest trouble in his attempt to
“is an obstacle to religion; as soon as the great work
All that is great and significant in the
have great respect for Kjellen. His book is both widely read
consort was Catherine, later to become Catherine the Great.
of his subjects. It is therefore with great sorrow that he
through this calamity is all the greater because of the
a greater benefit than anything they could expect to obtain
to devote their best forces to achieve so great and
greatest importance that a sense is developed for what

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his scientific investigations cover a great variety of subjects.
into dowsing, or water divining. The war has caused great
strictly tested by me. A great many doctors and other
the great secret of our time. It must be striven for so that
remember my pointing out the great significance of
serious objections would have given me great pleasure.
“The Christ or Sun-man taught seven great
with great cunning. One gets the impression that his
find that I proceed with the greatest caution when I explain
greater extent. I emphasize that these things are difficult
explained with great care in such a way that it is rendered

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been used in the lectures of past weeks. Great impulses at
bring before you what in our problematic times a great
great efforts to understand these members of man's soul
the two greatest riddles of the human soul, the riddle of
it has to be said that Brentano's greatness does not lie in
in that we live for several days after death with the great
people do speak like that. In this area great misconceptions
question is asked, What has suffered the greatest shipwreck?
seem to many, the greatest loss has been to Christianity.

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and hazards become all the greater.
causes the greatest difficulty. One often feels as if
through spiritual science. This discovery is of the greatest
from cleanliness these children are deprived of a great many
things occur to one than before, which is of great
requires a greater awareness of how we adapt to life, indeed
was obvious that he greatly appreciated his friendship with
people with a deep emotional commitment to life's greater
was an occasion of very great significance. They spent the
It is of great
greater subtlety of thinking is evident in all spheres of

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a great leap to another group of concepts we also obtained
would attain much greater inner contentment. This is directly
A passage which Pascal before him discussed at great length, Lessing
a great deal. They imply that while incarnated in a human
interesting to observe this great man as a representative of
greatest adversaries died, all exceedingly wealthy men. They
engulfing also Lloyd George who, though a great man, is
in the present, the discord became all the greater when that
interesting interaction does certainly explain a great deal

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sickness to a far greater extent than is admitted. The near
to a greater or lesser degree of egoism. Man's task cannot
presented creates great difficulty for the mobile human soul
We place the greatest store on what we can objectify by
by the fact that great value is placed on producing
today the unseen power over a great part of the British,
to a great extent been lost. This applies especially to
scientific terms how greatly the German spirit had
will have seen that I value and admire him greatly.
Vischer was a great
outlooks that led to the greatness of Western Europe are no
deeper and to take account of the much greater significance

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upon as great figures will appear rather puny and others, quite different
figures, which are now forgotten will emerge as the great ones.”
protect his thoughts—what I am now saying is of the greatest importance
last third of the 19th Century produced a great number of highly significant
of a genius happen to be of a mechanical nature he meets great admiration.
is not great enough to realize their implications. Take the following
is of great importance. What lives there is bad conscience which they
it, there is no great difference in their physiognomy. That is to express

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before, is deemed one of the greatest authorities in his branch of science.
within the greater body of the State. We then, according to Verworn,
we try to think of the political State (as he calls it) as a great organism.”
of great and reliable science. When such ideas are applied in physiology
they do no great harm in individual cases because what is investigated
It is in fact possible to be a great physiologist yet a dunce when it
they lead to great tragedies in life.
the absurdity even further when he says: “The level of greater
at present is longing to know how and where it belongs within the great
of greatness in the 19th Century, but it is necessary to have a proper
understanding of this greatness. Many things which are now part of mankind's
discontent comes from the soul's feeling of isolation. Life's greatest
spirit. That is the great difference.
and enjoy the greatest respect.
is related to a great Solar Year, the so-called Platonic Year, just
into the great rhythm of the cosmos. Our thinking is too small. By contrast
conscious pass over into memory; but we assimilate a great deal which
a great deal of water will have to flow under the bridge before official
we partake of the great harmony of the universe. That is true science,
and other great historical documents dealing with mankind's evolution.
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and the great cosmic processes within which we are placed.
the processes of the Great World, the macrocosm. However, in regard
a greater part of mankind, through spiritual science, must come to understand
is very little inclination today to acknowledge Christ as the Great
great interest in deluding man concerning the necessity of this inner
sun acted more strongly on an even more sensitive spot a greater injury
pain and opposition is to refuse beauty, greatness and goodness. Here
True as it is that great harmony exists in the world, true as it is

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of their lives. The strength of his personality, the greatness and radiance
spiritual insight. While his father's great influence held sway in the
great hardship. He was in Paris where he had lived for years and where
nature. Such souls are not easily led astray into what can be the greatest
towards great ideals, towards powerful, effective ideas of spiritual
karma, the comprehension of the great karmic questions of destiny, enables
the great strength which reaches beyond death, the strength that encompasses
I have not yet been able to speak about. The great personal loss and
A great many of those present
that developed strength of personality and brought out all the greatness
character. At the age of seven she, with great courage, saved her older
ample proof that not only is life a great teacher but it can also make
courage is greatly lacking.
Hermann Bahr makes great effort to find confirmation of this idea. For
whose example illustrates man's greatness when he feels responsible,

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I may add, modern philosophers take great exception.
circumstances such a great number of people still do not acknowledge
Mystery of Golgotha. It is now possible to say with greatest conviction:
present no great understanding for these matters. There is also the
the great universal purpose of life is we shall never know, nor is it
place in our time. The solution to today's great problems can only come

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the attitude of a great many people today in regard to spiritual matters
made important statements which have caused a great deal of indignation.
of events allows us to sleep through things of greatest importance.
as a theologian looks upon the beauty and the greatness of nature as
the spiritual world appears as “the great unknown,” as “the
the realm of the Hierarchies appear as "the great unknown"
today who feel that it is a great step forward when theology has, at
Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and
said about his “great, noble and unbiased” mind. Those who

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to a far greater extent than is realized. It is particularly important
and could be encountered over the greater part of the earth.
of this kind in the last lecture. However, the difference is very great
a far greater extent than is imagined today. At the present time it
As I have often mentioned, one's contemporaries would receive too great
being, what is becoming. What I am now saying is of the greatest importance
a member of the greater organism of the earth. Man cannot tear himself
a great impression on someone else; namely Luther
impression on their soul. That is why so much of great significance
the issue by saying: Well, Luther was certainly a great man but his
and one must excuse and forgive the great man.
with those who hold such a superior view of great spirits of the past.
experiences; when it is realized then the power of his words is greatly
one of the greatest participants in those Mysteries that prepared the
may recur, although the greater issue itself is not repeated. This applies
devil is seen as the weakness of a great man. But in truth the weakness
the greatness of Russian nature. Over several years we have described
made for our own epoch at the time of the Great Luther. Our age looks

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The significance of the epoch is much greater in Luther's case than
16th centuries than modern historians are inclined to admit. Great transformation
karmic links to a far greater extent than is believed today. In this
cultural epoch he felt with great intensity the deprivation which the
that universe interested him greatly. However the relation to the world,
with great exactitude. But he no longer has vision of the spiritual
It became a great riddle for Luther how the human beings of the fifth
its reality with great intensity. It made him feel that it was essential
if they could be demonstrated today, would greatly amaze modern scientists.
so intensely with Luther, comes to place such great importance on his
greatness that could have enriched Western culture in works such as
There is nothing abstract about what can be gained from great literary
those, now regarded as great figures of the 19th century, would no longer
appear all that great, whereas quite other figures would emerge as the
great ones from the grey mist of that century.
could be achieved if, as is so greatly to be desired, spiritual science

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The following is of great
the greater contexts just outlined. But the article in The Bell
the great world issues must be related to those of everyday life. Mankind
good while inwardly wanting to do the bad. Luther had a great deal of
to talk a great deal about spirit and not come anywhere near it. This
day of blessing when a greater number of people recognize the truth
than indicated. To go into these things in greater detail would mean
have become of the Lutheran movement had Luther not possessed far greater,
be is maya, is a great illusion. He wanted man to have the opportunity
great spiritual movement and had given much thought and preparation

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lessons have been learnt from the great events that have occurred;
Science, to the great social and judicial problems of the people in
One great advantage to us in that
great demands on humanity.
this for two reasons: First because it would have been of great
dream-life. We may say: Historical becoming is a great dream of
in the great questions of the world as one coherent whole has
the greatest republic, wants to lay down the law to mankind. If we
feeling for a great drawing together of mankind, for ideas having
meant. Jung brings forward an example cited by the greater number of
does everything with far greater certainty if the consciousness has
We see from this what great enigmatic

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their great achievements and insights into the outer existence.
sciences great by which they got their great results has
soul life just because of that which makes it great?
the great achievements of somebody like
leads us back to the great ideas of Lessing that the
greatly applicable to the outer nature banishes what the human
have the great pedagogic value if one does no longer look in
nature.” Haller was a great naturalist. However, he stood

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needle is sought in the great universe. Yet this is not done in other
in the entire cosmos, not in the hen. Exactly as the great universe
great. If, however, facts were approached with the practical
outer physical view, but stands in a tremendously great relationship.
was a great leaning towards ‘sanatoria,’ great measures
directed to that. The great cosmic laws have provided that man as a
his greatness in the universe is due to that very fact, and we must
not intended personally. A great proportion of the opposition to

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we were always able to illumine with ideas what we dream (the greater
young have a very great deal to do with all connected with
one who does not care. There is a great difference whether I talk
suited for an old one. It is of far greater importance for the
— a great philosopher by favour of his publisher, but at the

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we add the dictum which already before decades the great

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This occurred once in a great historical moment when Goethe and
greatness, he wrote to Goethe, how he had to think about
for the explanation of the individual ... A great and really
just if he is great as Goethe was. Where Goethe had to stop, he
phenomena, that severe quotation which he did about the great

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the Great (1712-1786, Prussian king since 1740) and

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a great many hindrances to finding this common ground. The first
great atomic world behind physical reality; but if we wish to speak
great demand on our age. Nevertheless, it is said, because we are
the great demands of our time. I have tried this winter, and many
wholly unjustifiable estimate of the great Athenian. The
life; in Jesus, too, I see the greatest bearer of ideas who has at
is not a great man; but if this were applied to much greater men,

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“The great Laplace-Kant imagination of the origin and

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the same way. In this connection the great number of seed-forces that
man's life is seventy to ninety years but that by far the greater
this will call our attention to the fact that there is a great deal
she ran before the horse. All this could be arranged with great
so clever; but the lower had this cunning which is greatly enhanced
able to plan with great subtlety.

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to take towards two opinions: history can be the great master
nineteenth century to which the great classical period of
does not consider the great men of history, their appearances,

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feeling can greatly increase, it can develop an intimate perception
think ‘easily.’ Anyone who makes a greater effort with
the ‘great silence’ would commence.
is a great help towards the inspiration which such a thought can

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exercises enable him to do this more easily and with greater
experience because they at once show the great difference
investigator must to the greatest possible extent be proof
for spiritual investigation. Anyone who knows how great a
publicly reputed to be a great thinker produces a bulky
enumerated at great length. Although we cannot enter
greater exactitude and depth than is usual in life and in
in greater detail today of how that which as a bodily
human being to a greater extent than is proper, abnormal
speak of one recent example. It is of great interest because
that his son was facing great danger, but that the spirit of
described do not, for the most part, differ greatly from
cautiously and critically, are very great. What can be learnt
A great deal
realm, is of the greatest significance of all — namely
such study becomes evident. A great world-riddle is knocking

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sorrowful experiences, but in the greater life relations these
age. A great deal depends upon this. If man is to take his right
certain additional organs of still greater significance; this
by those who hold Kant as a great philosopher. That is due to the
much thought-force to understand Kant. As he was to them the greatest
the greatest geniuses!) they can understand none of the others. It is
by them as a great philosopher. With this is connected the fact
and youth our head organism can absorb a great deal, therefore

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humanity inhabit, is a kind of great living being, and that we
ourselves are included as members within this great living being. In
present in a still greater degree when we go further eastwards. That
it depends mainly upon the greater or slighter activity of the
From what has been said today the great contrast between the Asiatic

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ourselves stand within this great living being, as members of it; in
this great living being which is our earth. The life of the earth is
connections between the great organism of the earth and the different
principally on the greater or lesser liveliness of the senses, or
into today, the great contrast between the Asiatic East and the American
evolution, we find that the further we go back the greater the

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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to Spiritual Science of by far the greatest part of mankind to
be absolute truth or absolute truth. Searching great conceptions of
brain; we come to what Copernicanism represents to us as the great
the Earth becomes very greatly differentiated; to man's perception

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with Maya, with the great illusion, for we must exactly
great illusion, we shall also be able to accept the fact that
Spiritual Science to a great extent consist in the fact that we
of not knowing that he had passed one in the street. A great
their great imaginative connections. And as we turn again to
so great a heresy by the church as the thought of the
which count in life, and popular language is a great
understood at all. But it is a great hindrance to think that

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took great care that those who had been initiated into occult
regarded with a certain great earnestness and reverence. For
a great resemblance between them: it finds a great
to be influenced by the great and important contrast between
but it passes into a great enormous realm of substance and
is of very great significance. For this peculiar colouring of
abnormal, but apart from these greater alterations the colour
sciences is taken less into consideration — the great
colouring of a man is of great significance, for that is to
such things. These things play a great part in the life of
great comprehensive happening, a happening which can only be
face. In certain abodes of our earthly humanity a great deal
great contrast between East and West: the East with its
something of which the great incisive catastrophic events of
great world-embracing struggle which must come to expression
book I had at that time a great satisfaction, as I set forth
very characteristic; for if we may compare the great with the

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natural sciences have performed as great achievements up to now
Copernicus, and Kepler. Science has become great because it got
and the greatest increase of consciousness, conception and
him the “greatest genius of the century,” and his

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in mind how greatly life is stimulated by what is expressed
this work, but that for centuries the great Ahrimanic forces
— the great Sun-mystery, which throughout the ages
is a great deception. We must really look at what actually
friends, and make a great difference to the existence of

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say that that kind of knowledge which has developed so greatly
a great stir confuses this spiritual research with its
on the other side. Today we face this great leap forward of the

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our own times has accomplished great things, great things in
great deal; and thoughts about Saturn, Sun, Moon, the
the great circumstances of the world. We must first of all
today over a great part of this national force? Leninism! One
beyond all that is narrow and pulses into all that is great.
characteristic of our time to a far greater extent than we
the Luciferic element work? Now great consideration has been
life by laying great value on his vanity, on his ambition.
these things create a great stir today. In this way sought to
are the wings of great deeds” could still have
significance? If people would only think of their own great
their judgment of life. A great deal would be gained in
spinal-marrow canal is elastic to a greater or less degree
greatest superficiality considered by a philosophical

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of those who had taken part in the great Easter Event of
This should give rise to another thought; how greatly we
we should learn to a still greater degree than the present
to be spiritual life; for the greatest imaginable
vision for the great world perspectives of the present day,
inwardly, a much greater degree than men are accustomed to do
present. Indeed one great reason why Spiritual Science is
we have ceased to understand much that is great and which has
of what lies before us; if besides this we think of the great
relations of man to the whole comprehensive great universe.
great cosmos. That was how the thoughts lived in the soul of
great extent he succeeded in this. But really everything that
be placed on the great cosmic stage, then it is necessary to
greatest in the past of humanity. A tremendous amount has

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Persists in the East to a much greater extent than is
is not so very great, but there is a slight variation.
in his life were greatness, punctiliousness and affectation.
transcribed this great work, he appeared to be entirely

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sense, and the greater part still is so. The rest, in Europe
rather astonishing to calculate, as can be done, how great
to work twelve hours a day. That means a great deal. There we
to a much older way of producing: fire — where a great
chief point. The great thing is that, as I have said, a
of the greater space, under the large dome, there are seven
regard at least to a great macrocosmic stretch of time. Here
the Building with the greatest devotion. Most curious things

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comparatively great difference between what man met within
the great oriental region, stretching from Eastern Europe,
living to have an ever greater influence on the earth,
prevailing custom — as immeasurably greater, stronger,
greatest, bitterest enemies of true spiritual development,
People talk a great deal today about Fichte, but, needless to
say, those who talk most about such great thinkers,
great. That was really equal to the occasion; but other
ignored, but they ought not to be; the great need is for more
not curiosity, but that you have a greater craving for
to have faith, great faith to believe in what you do not

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the course of history, human beings have not greatly changed?
coincides with the greatest dread of self-knowledge in men's
— in which the great transition to modern times was
accomplished. Looking back at the three great epochs which
grotesque forms in the future, and Faith will have a great
these peoples. Because they were not great thinkers, more was
event in the worlds of great cosmic happenings.
conceal the greatness of the Christ-idea and the profound
in course-of the last few decades a great change has come
described. It was a moment of great significance in the history
prove that Venice drove a great bargain for the possession of
the warriors with whom the great military expeditions from
— needed in all domains of life. People talk a great

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Science shows how greatly souls changed in their essential
possible, he would above all notice a great and constant
give us our present form, whether great or small. That is
great difficulties for many commentators of the Gospels,
help, the sainted Thomas Aquinas, the greatest master of
system known in history, raised the great edifice of

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traits which are great and powerful in the it effects, for
equally capable of a beautiful, great and glorious one.
must play an ever greater and greater part — is to
these two are the great adversaries of the human soul. The
and Americanism. In that respect Jesuitism is great: it
deep study of it. Jesuits are great spirits in the round of
differences are left out of account — a great
physical-sensible alone is in question; hence the great
great extent animated by the legacy of the old, as well as by
— all this, in view of the great events now playing
greatest power of destruction in human evolution, due to
tends to produce greater and greater fear of the spirit,

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matter and energy plays a great part even for those who are
how far Christ-Jesus is this double Being is a great task;
Christ in us”, it is the greatest blasphemy against

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the great change which takes place in man's inner life may be
fearful catastrophe of the great war, because of the difficulty which
great importance to this mystery, but to-day it is necessary to bear
past four or five years, can send a great truth trickling into
to-day talk a great deal of “God” and of the “Divine”.
another; they have spoken a great deal of “guilt” and
One nation after the other began to participate in the great
A clear view of things is impossible unless we extend this fact, that a great
evolution — but we are facing the BEGINNING of the greatest
this can only be grasped with greatest difficulty. How do these

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture I
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greater part — hunger, thirst, various emotions, desires, the

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world-history, of outer, physical world-history, something of great
however, there was a great difference between the experiencing of these
perceived as something of still greater significance how their whole
since the fifteenth century people have attained to great heights as
world-history. He had no share in the experience of that great,
face of the great demands of the age. That passivity must be overcome.
This great secret about
materialism was assuming great proportions. Men came to the fore
great deal of that for a long time. Indeed these civilised people are

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be assumed that today there already are a great number of
fact that the distress has become so great, it would have
to lead one to assume the same tone which a great many
— you will find a great similarity. You will find the
Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, or Bremen with what such great
just this comprehension of three-foldness by the great masses

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watching such a developing human being. How great will be the
two viewpoints together — this is the great lie in our
Logic was the great pride of mankind. It is already hardly

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great clarity. Whoever now, equipped with such a scientific

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philosophy's blossoming, you look back at the great philosophic
other; here the human soul faces the great, meaningful problem:
the impartial person, because it turns into the great world
this comes to a question and out of the West a great question

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ideas, acquire greater power, greater urgency and so on. This
great educators of humanity on pedagogical principles.
Anthroposophy fully acknowledges the existence of great,
before anyone in the recognition of the great educators. Only,
you have to admit nevertheless, with all great educational
have been brought to such a great blossoming, we must take up
against great pedagogic accomplishments but that it will be the
assistant to the great one, if we are not to remain stuck in

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the greatest possible triumphs — I don't mean in a
find that for example in the presentations of the great

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already great variations in the inner experience of the conduct
greater part in the establishment of phonetics, in the
much more bodily nuance came about. One had a far greater
abstract-imagery-life have made greater progress. If we want to

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... In the first period after the great Atlantean catastrophe, the life
great and worthy way out of the spirit. How much more important than
It implies a great deal for an insight into man's inner nature if I

Title: Gospel/Matthew (1965): Lecture 1
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about the greatest of all events in the history of the
understanding of this greatest of all events in
of St. John it is paramountly the spiritual greatness
appears at first to present a picture of greater variety
human understanding and once we realise this, great
greatest event in the evolution of Mankind and of the
will be necessary to speak with greater precision of
great movement of Atlantean peoples through Europe
who had spread to the East after the great Atlantean
opening of a new world, revealing with ever greater
had, it is true, great understanding of the splendour of
arose what is perhaps one of the greatest antitheses in
known in external history as the great antithesis between
will be able to form an idea of the great antithesis
and civilization in which men take pride. There is great
the great Inspirer of Zarathustra or Zoroaster,
the ‘great’ Aura, in contrast to the 'little'
had a. patron — a figure of great significance. But
priestly character, one who pointed to the great Sun
result of the impact was one of the greatest wars ever
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true in connection with the great questions of Cosmogony.
this, something of great significance is able to take
intact. In the great process of evolution the power of an
that was great and significant in the culture and
it must be possible for this great Individuality to plant
current language of these great truths which embrace not
from long usage, and when with the great wisdom-truths
greatest piece of nonsense uttered in the course of the
glaringly real when something of great consequence has to
great and far-reaching importance would take place at a
manifesting in its greatest strength in the evolution of
us with reverence for what we are told about the great
the bodily nature, thus bringing it to a stage of greater
through the generations. The great God of the Universe

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great mysteries of existence.
between Hermes and Moses, the two great pupils of
formed a single whole, one great cosmic body which then
is true of the great majority of people. If you were to
greatest power and splendour that behind the Sun
spoke to his pupils of Ormuzd, or Ahura Mazdao, the great
therefore also be translated as the ‘Great
men to-day. Man becomes aware of the Great Wisdom when he
beholds the spiritual essence of the Sun, the great Sun
well, for the great mystery of the evolution of humanity
offered up by Zarathustra as his third great act. This
the ‘Great Spirit’ revealed to ancient
if not actual consciousness — of the great truths.
was of very great importance in the Hebrew people.
Hebrew people might be fulfilled, should reach greater
to Zarathustra could not have developed to greater

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The great
essential significance. One of these great Initiates was
too that this great Initiate of the Sun-Oracle was also
people. And it was he, this great and mysterious
utterance as it were out of themselves to the great
and to Moses the greatest gifts that were his to bestow.
such lofty rank as the great Atlantean Sun-Initiate to
mission. An Individuality as exalted as the great
enlightenment to Abraham, the great Teacher of the Rishis
been preserved for Moses. The great Initiate of the
meeting between Abraham and the great Sun-Initiate is
dumbfounded, the great Sun-Initiate manifested himself in
come in a human body, we shall be aware that even greater
brought to bear in advance upon Abraham, the great
for the fulfilment of his great mission — there was
the great event, they said: it was ‘created by the
sacred meaning, infinitely greater than any superficial
its compilation were living at no great distance of time
itself prevailed — a body in which the great
as the greatest of all events in the evolution and
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to those Beings who are the great Leaders of evolution,
Their task as the great Teachers of humanity is to allow
humanity as great Teachers and must not be confused with
series of great Teachers. This is the Bodhisattva who
great process of evolution, a divine-spiritual Being must
do not take it superficially, can make you alive to great
of the Great World. Again, the best approach to this

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knowledge of the great secrets of the Cosmos, the aim was
first great question for the pupils of these Mysteries
in the Great Mysteries; the other is that which was
power was far greater still. A man did not, as he does
One who in passing through the 77 stages in the Great
The wisdom which in very early times this great Teacher
regions of Asia, deeply revered the name of this great
to take place. It was the Being of the great Teacher
develop greater inner resistance to obstacles, greater
the physical and etheric bodies, and a greater power of
Pandira, of whom I spoke yesterday as the great Teacher
— was continued by Netzer, the other great pupil of
for Zarathustra could be fully used by this great
impossible to grasp the depths of the great Mystery of
great that the parents did not recognize the boy when
respect of all inward qualities he was infinitely great;
for love was so great that it could be the foundation on

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acquiring new faculties and reaching stages of greater
Great World, the Macrocosm, but in normal earthly
is the nature of Initiation into the Great World.
why this sojourn in the Great World dazzles and bewilders
into the Great World. — Let us suppose a man were
here in passing that the great difficulty to be faced in
East in the Light of the West — great
Macrocosm, into the Great World. It was, however,
early post-Atlantean times was the great Teacher of Asia,
third great offering — the offering of the physical
the fount of all the wisdom of the great World-Teachers.
prototype of the great Initiation to be undergone by man
the original terms vary greatly in literature on

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study in greater detail an Initiation of pre-Christian
a stage of greater perfection than that of the Ego. The
his astral body, he had overcome the greatest
a quite different nuance of greatness — greatness
expressed that nuance of greatness, of power, which
to designate greatness at rest within itself, inner
greatness through its own nature. To convey what was
Beings of the greatest sublimity could only be indicated
above his own level, invested with a significance greater
reveal it in its greatest possible intensity.
to pay great attention to their own Ego; and then
was to undergo it in its greatest intensity, it is
as though a spirit-language in which great
in those great spiritual records.

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the greatest advance that has ever taken place or ever
Initiation, were undergone by a great and sublime
is the great secret. What had formerly been shrouded in
great setting of world-history. Is it any wonder that in
wanted to draw attention to the great truth that in
great antiquity. To strengthen the contention that the

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body because of its greater density. It was therefore far
brought about by forces of the soul. With its far greater
processes to a far greater extent than was the case later
us from the great Universe the forces of the cosmic
greater clarification, mention, is made of two
appearance of the Christ by Jeschu ben Pandira, the great
to greater and greater heights. At that time, chosen ones
in ever greater measure into men as they live on from
when a few human beings to begin with, and then greater
and greater numbers, will be able, not only through
the great Essene teacher, Jeschu ben Pandira, once
great Bodhisattva, the future Maitreya Buddha —
in this domain is very great, for in our time humanity
reincarnation of the greatest possible significance might
greater, appeared in Fez, in Morocco. Finally it is
great world-movement. And if anyone had said to the

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of His disciples. An attempt was made to express a great
the spiritual or consciousness-soul. No very great
produced by any modern scholarship, a great deal was
This is of the very greatest significance. I have spoken
Peter, Christ Jesus realised the great significance of
in his personal karma and be worked out in the great
the very greatest importance are recognized and
about the jumps. In small things and in great it is the
relationship between Christ and His disciples. So great

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attach the very greatest significance to the fact that
have become an embodiment of infinite goodness, greatness
who is permeated by a Sun Being is of far greater
Being is the greatest Avatar of all, the greatest of all
thirty years the man in question prepared for the great
by the greatest Individuality — Zarathustra —
within him, because the Sun Word, the great Aura, the
Mazdao, the great Aura, was the outer, corporeal nature
body, his aura, so behind the Sun there is the great
— One day the great Aura, the Being of Light, will
the great consolation of those who longed for a nobler
further ado approach the greatest of the Sun Beings, the
receiving the greatest Being who was ever to descend to
Great pride is taken in having remained young; age is
great deal seems to be identical, their standpoints are
moment compassion and mercy and love reach their greatest
reached their greatest intensity and issue from the
what the Gospels tell us about the greatest event in
the greatest event in the evolution of humanity in
greatest Bringer of peace. It is certainly not in
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a certain level can provide great satisfaction is at another
feelings the greatness of the cosmos out of which we have been

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of great significance: — We are told how at a time not
have understood a play of Shakespeare's — a great
echoing greatness of that Universe from out of which we

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nature as if the dead were there with him, he performs a great
the gift of language on humanity by means of fire. A great fire was
vast expanse of the Starry heavens. We grow into the great cosmic
I have concerned myself a great deal with Homer. Last summer during
Homer the blind poet because he was such a great seer. Homer mentions
the more one realizes that the ancient poets were the greatest seers

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occult endeavors is greater today than ever before. It's true that
A great feeling of thankfulness must go through us with these words:
It weaves me. We have a great source of strength every time we
say them. One who can't generate a great feeling of

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us begin today by asking what modern scientific thinking, whose great
even though it did not exist in outer reality. It is great and
greatest.
forces once more have the greatest influence. The period from the
greatest influence of earthly forces on the human being. And if in
war against the Christ impulse. And it will be one of the greatest,
such a way that you rightly understand the greatest of its goals

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plant-world and with the animal. But the greater part, by far, of
greater or lesser degree, we develop sympathies and antipathies with
or that human being. To a far greater extent, a kind of universal
great suffering and pain. All in all, the living-together of the dead
this principle. And if whole classes of society attached great value

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our outside world — this becomes a great law of spiritual
great astuteness towards the world phenomena, it is also a
unfathomable in nature. A great researcher said:

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such, however, that it can be understood only with great difficulty
consciousness to a great extent. It has even become in a certain
acquaintances is being formed among a great portion of humanity
the dead. The greatest illusion that future humanity could entertain
and, as such, the greatest single event in all of earthly evolution.
will gain greater and greater influence. I am often reproached for
already say that the greatest enemies to grasping the Christ impulse
regarding the Christ impulse. We have already compiled a great deal
destiny in the world, in great events and small. What do I mean by
gradually been lulled into a great illusion, namely, that they can
greatest illusion to which humanity can succumb. We find its radical

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considering the great achievements of scientific thinking. If
has become great just for the questions of the moral-social
life. One may say, one has taken great pains to bring also that
what has made natural sciences great, as line of thought into
mention one example of many. The great English philosopher
if the great philosopher Spencer says, because from the
The great aesthetician Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807-1887)
whole view of nature because only thereby the great progress of
All these things are thought with great scientific astuteness,
members are just great in the area of philosophical reflection

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soul, great truths, as he means, and lo and behold: the great
great experience.
drawing which such persons show who exhibited great capacity

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way of thinking will be great just because it does not
can just still understand that Kant is a particularly great

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related to us began with the great Atlantean Catastrophe, namely this
has to be overcome. Man has such a great inclination in our day to
This indeed is one of the greatest and most fatal illusions. People
people. The expanse and greatness of the British Empire rests on this
it said by the greater number of Anglo-Americans initiated into the

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
greatest importance that people should approach the coming
more alert in every domain, in order to recognize with greater and
greater clarity those trends in life which are leading toward this
because in this way he can lull humankind into greater and greater
founded. A great deal is said about “freedom of the individual
example. There is, or at least there used to be, a great deal of
Ahriman can achieve a great deal through figures and numbers
Hence there is a great deal

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
It is of the very greatest importance that men should
order to recognise with greater and greater clarity those
Ahriman because in this way he can lull mankind into greater
and greater drowsiness, so that then, through his
national states, national empires must be founded. A great
used to be, a great deal of argument about the nationality of
figures. Ahriman can achieve a great deal through figures and
a great deal in the spiritual and unspiritual currents of the

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whole great universe. In reality we participate in the making of the
body, it develops an even greater longing for a certain spot on
essentially the product of the macrocosm acting upon the great
look back upon our grandfather, great-grandfather,
great-great-grandfather. Well, we were then not yet born; our soul
They worshipped the “Great Spirit” who pervaded all
Great Spirit. Through all that was bound up with this belief in the
all, but a great part of them) have souls that once dwelt in the
feeling, once experienced for the Great Spirit, reacted with that
through imitation. What we thus take up is to a great extent
are incarnated today in the greater part of the American population.
great the longing may be in the unconscious depths of human life for
built up from two directions, from the great universe and from the

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April, 1923) I want to speak in greater detail of how the
in greater or lesser degree of development — when they come
great and far-reaching task lies before him in the karmic adjustment
there is a great deal more in the process of learning to walk than
experienced with great intensity; but he is also able to induce in
this great process of transformation, Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones
death, both in sleeping and waking life — a great sea of
greater and greater measure, in making the gifts of Anthroposophy the

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point of fact they knew a great deal more. Knowledge, after all, is
great reverence. The same may apply even to certain achievements of
are connected with man's inmost nature, a great part of which comes
seeking. I will not say that we meet a great many people of whom we
have had a great deal to do in our past earthly lives, with whom we
future karma. But a great deal is then woven into their destiny which
of the great Universe. Again, we learn to look into our own soul and
content, but with greater intensity, greater enthusiasm, greater love

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with great intensity for the Anthroposophical Movement. This means
recently, can happen no longer. A great deal of the hostility, for
In the future, however, a very great deal will flow through the
then are the secrets, the great enigmas of historical evolution, unveiled.
civilisation contains a great many elements that are really not
Asia, Arabism was cultivated with great brilliance at the Court
— at the time when Charles the Great was
reigning in Europe. But whereas Charles the Great hardly progressed
most primitive rudiments of culture, great and illustrious
greatly loved and held in high esteem, above all in this country,
to do a great deal for the education of souls. In that
once again, but overshadowed by great tragedy. Circumstances in the
greatest goodness and kindness, despite the infinitely tragic
connections. If they are drawn forth — often with very great

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greatest Event in the history of the earth and of man. The
then approach this, the greatest Event in earthly evolution,
greatness of a Cosmic Being with whom humanity is related
of John it is chiefly the revelation of spiritual greatness
John reveals the greatness of the wisdom of Christ
understanding, and the majestic greatness of the universe.
love, the wisdom and the greatness of the other three, we
and by making clear what is too great for human understanding
this, the greatest event in human and earthly evolution.
greater their capacity for perception, the greater the
great power. Thus he beheld the forces and powers which
people who had spread eastwards after the great Atlantean
educatively with ever greater clearness: it was like the
down to India. On the one hand, they had a great and real
greatest energy through the spiritual leaders who proceeded
Europe. Here a people dwelt who had preserved to a great
the majority, indeed for the greater part of humanity,
the greatest opposition that has existed in post-Atlantean
civilization, the great opposition between these more
greatest difference that external history has to show in
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same as regards great universal questions — a halt must
great disciples and Zarathustra, something quite especial
great Initiate made this possible, and this is why the astral
himself the astral sheath of the great Initiate. Permeated by
greatest moment in Egyptian civilization. Naturally, a
The greatest
of the great struggle which must sometimes be carried on with
room provided for meditation, there was for me a very great
suppose that someone desired to say that a great event was to
great experience and to pass this on to his people; or that
great events of human evolution, when we find these expressed
Earth-wisdom might be assimilated and brought to greater

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Moses, the two great pupils of Zarathustra. We represent them
great cosmic body, which later divided into sun and earth.
event of the greatest importance; it was a voluntary opening
Ahura Mazdao is sometimes translated as ‘The Great
evolved by men to-day. Man perceives ‘The Great
sun, the great sun aura.
the great mystery of human evolution demanded that one
as his third great sacrifice. In order that this could happen
point, was the ‘Great Spirit’ who was seen by an

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perception shows a great advance over this. What the ancient
evolution, it was of the greatest importance that he should
of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, etc. He was the great leader of
civilizations. This great Initiate, for such he was, withdrew
become the teachers of their race and it was this great and
They became the great guides and leaders of the pre-Vedic
collegium. The great Sun-initiate, who brought the
mighty Being as the great Atlantean Sun-initiate it is not
name or age, without father or mother — such a great
by the great Sun-initiate so that he might make himself known
to Abraham. The meeting of Abraham with the great Initiate of
with the great Sun-initiate is of the greatest, the most
Abraham this great Being only showed himself in the etheric
influence was to have direct results on Abraham, the great
Zarathustra individuality for the accomplishment of his great
to be found in that great original Scripture, which, if I may
prepared for this Great Event that it was ‘created by
Universe!’ We need but sense the full greatness of such
is often done — for the latter is of great importance
the great initiate Zarathustra incarnated, the order of the
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There are many Bodhisattvas; they are the great teachers of
the long line of Bodhisattvas we have to recognize the great
how something of such great importance in human evolution
having been selected for his great mission, the Spirit that
body and ego, is confronted by a great danger. Like a man
Mysteries of the Great World, showing how knowledge of these

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This was the great question for the pupils of the Mysteries.
spiritual being; one is the high initiation of the great
were also long, for great age is always ascribed to the
by Fritz Mauthner, reviews at great length all
great master, Zarathustra, in the form of Zarathos or
next appearance of their great teacher and leader, for they
Being of the great Teacher himself which as a least there
great master, Zarathustra, in the form of Zarathos or
next appearance of their great teacher and leader, for they
Being of the great Teacher himself which as a
of the great general teaching of Jesus ben Pandira, which he
full meaning of the great Mystery of Jesus Christ.
change in him was so great that his parents failed to
that the parents were greatly amazed when they suddenly
discovered in such a physical nature, a boy filled with great
inheritance, for in them were great and very highly developed

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great Initiation.
greater and more exalted manner?
Great World.
Parenthetically it may be stated that the great difficulty in
great was given to human evolution that the possibility was
Zarathustra was the great teacher of Asia in far past
acquired, that he was able to make a third great sacrifice
event whose all-embracing nature and infinite greatness is
all mankind, if He was to go through the great experience of
the Temptation might be called the first great outstanding
second great event, the setting up, so to say, of the second
the great initiation which man passes through on forsaking

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teachers and initiators — for something else of great
greatest difficulties of the first fourteen stages would be
a quite different quality of greatness, a greatness that is,
of greatness, or of power, which reveals itself outwardly in
way. Tipheret is an expression for greatness at rest
gives expression to spiritual greatness, is such as we can
The greatest

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the great plane of world history.
greatest that has yet been made, or ever will be made, in
experienced as a single impulse of a great outstanding
stated — and to how great an extent is shown in my book,
is the great secret, that what was formerly hidden within the
results, was now enacted on the great stage of universal
amassed and presented as of the greatest moment. With the
in the great plan of world history, the life of Christ is a
that Christ Jesus is fictitious. A great movement arose in
with apparently great learnedness, against the statements of
Christ had wished to refer specially to this great truth. He
beggars for the spirit. But Christ has brought this great

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amount of discussion, as is well known. Great stress has been
the soul and of the spirit had a far greater more momentary
given out by the great Essene Jesus ben Pandira a hundred
they will rise to ever greater and greater heights of
our duty to speak of this fact, just as the great Essene
Jesus ben Pandira who was inspired by the great Bodhisattva
false prophet. The danger here is very great. In our time men
who hinted at yet a greater one. Finally about 1147 in Persia
Central Asia. It was a great world movement, and created a
great sensation, and it would have boded ill for anyone who
held by a very great number of people.

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great school of life, each giving its appropriate experiences
rule even mention the facts of greatest moment. They point
I now refer to something of great importance to our day by
must be worked out in the great inter-relationships of the
Moon, from Moon to Earth. In small things as in great, the

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above the great mass of mankind even in the opinion of
great, or powerful, that a spiritual power has descended and
meaning of the four Evangelists this Sun-Being was greater
advance from the side of humanity to meet this great
greatest individuality humanity had so far produced for the
mighty Being — the great Sun-spirit — who
resounded in him, because the World-Light — the great
there is the “Great Aura”. You must regard the
would come down from the spheres of the Great Aura, and that
was the great consolation and hope of those who within human
the greatest Being Who was to come down to the earth.
time drew nigh when some great Being was to descend from
greatness such a man would have to be trained and prepared
this kind in the biographies of great individuals rests on
Jesus evolved upwards towards the great Sun-being, the
the earliest efforts of our great poets, stressing the fact
great body of light, the Spiritual Light whose power and
the Gospel of Mark tells from the first of the great
of applying Myths and Constellations to any great event, it
Gospels have to tell concerning the greatest Event in all the
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greater heights. This is therefore an egotistic basis for human action.
earthly evolution, to the Christ as the great archetype of the human being.
truth imparts the greatest moral impulses. If human beings listen to what
There is no greater arrogance than to say that one need only be a good
learn a great deal.

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brought and surely will continue to bring such great benefits to
greatly the trends in theories of knowledge may diverge from one
For this reason the greatest results can be attained through
greater measure are mental pictures suitable which can be
great difficulties for the inner soul life tower up on the path
relationship to spiritual research which must experience the greatest
to a simple formula an immeasurably great and brilliant

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but if you look at the great connections, it begins much
difficult to the greatest possible extent; one imagines that as
great sacrifices his activity demanded. But I had to say that

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greater importance to make clear the object and the aim of spiritual
materialistic life was at its greatest. The whole disposition and
great danger?
materialism would become greater and greater, until one day not very
great significance, and that we should only wait till we can see for
Mazdao — the great Aura — in contrast to man, the small
aura. In the great Aura he saw an image or a model for the small
period, we again meet with a great initiate. Knowledge had, we might
lies a great difference. In death human beings no longer see the
greatest influence, will smile at these small conventicles of
have great influence. Yet a few centuries later ancient Rome has

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quite certainly be greatly astonished, because within his soul the
indeed brought in contact with a great many things in daily life
us as if from a great distance, and we can describe their increasing
insignificant beetle or worm, just as much as at the greatest events
interested in small things as in the greatness of a volcanic eruption.
no impulse either to burden themselves very greatly with conscience
A great many people here in the West are so constituted, and it is
with still greater force later during his next life on earth. Then he
because we inwardly sense, to a greater or less degree, that the human

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inconspicuous beetle or worm, as about the greatest cosmic events.
great things.
great variety of shades of character we encounter two main qualities.

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with us into sleep, the greater the service we perform for those we
perform the greatest service to the dead.

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knowledge which they must absorb into their moral impulses. A great
incarnation, then it makes a great difference, as our soul is led
great many people today lack a sufficiently loving relationship to
a great deal, but what ought also to be strongly willed.

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great deal has been lost but a corpse nevertheless shows
Earth, scattered through mankind by great Teachers, primeval
to themselves: ‘One of the great primeval Teachers of humanity
external pictures of these great Teachers. Men encountered them
was these primeval Teachers who imparted to mankind the great
these great teachings of the East are no more than echoes. A
great Teachers on Earth, we do so very shortly after passing
on Earth were the great primeval Teachers. They are the first
This is because the great primeval Teachers of humanity who
with greater reality than that which, as men of the Earth, we
are permeated with the substance of the great primeval Teachers
experiences through which men pass after death have far greater
When with great delight they brought their findings to me, I
deed is fraught with greater reality, since it results from
great primeval Teachers of humanity, the first seed of karma is
evil by evil. But the resolves taken in a world of far greater

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together with him on the Earth as the great primeval Teachers
the lecture yesterday we heard of the great primeval Teachers
the greater part of his life between death and a new birth. In
subsequent incarnation. But in the great majority of cases the
spent. We will speak in greater detail later on but to-day I
example there is a certain great poet of whom I shall speak
great timepiece of destiny, human life on Earth is shaped
letters. When someone else finds a great deal more in

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the great primeval Teachers of humanity who have their abode in
relationships in greater detail.
world greater and more impressive than the outer Universe at
perceived in the after-death existence greatly outnumber the
different. A great deal that has to be said will seem
great joy, to lecture to friends here in Breslau. There they
individuality. The change of teeth is a process of great
of Gods and of worlds which become manifest in ever greater
individuality imbibed a great deal of the knowledge that had
karma. The Theosophical Movement was not ready for it. A great

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investigates the great questions of destiny, one finds very
significant things, and the greatness of destiny is often indicated in
approaching the great questions of today. We cannot always be asking
is really a question of finding one another, even in the greatest
evident: the phase of community, the phase of great loneliness. How
greatest anxiety. How can we work together in such a way that our

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there have been Initiates, men initiated into the great secrets
something that is nowadays a great boon for the human race. If
regarded as anything but a boon, on the contrary as a great
write. But as a matter of fact one loses a great deal through
Gregory the Great, the mighty Pope who strove to establish the
the Emperors. Pope Gregory the Great, as Hildebrand, had come
is necessary, the truth is that one can discern with greater
great moment in the evolution of humanity. This individuality
can arise in the human soul concerning the great truths of
widening out into a vista of great cosmic happenings. The
century. In this case too, what had been retained of the great
Initiates, a very great deal receded into the background,
incarnations differ as greatly as do the lives of the Irish

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beings. By far the greatest part of our destiny depends upon
concerned there can be no question of freedom. A very great
described. It may well happen that we have a great deal to do
greater than any of its parts — or the straight way is
contend that the whole is not greater than any of its parts.
such as: the whole is greater than any of its parts, or, the
teacher of mine. Not only had I great affection for this
whom I had great affection, I was guided to certain karmic
was said to depend — to be removed at the cost of great
part in the Testament of Peter the Great, to the effect that
greater majority of human beings are placed in their epoch by
investigated his karmic connections a great deal about him had
great valiance on the part of the woman. She accompanied him on
his campaigns, acting throughout with great heroism. The

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definition is just as great as that of feelings. Therefore we
your actions! Man is dependent upon memory to a far greater
of the brain, passes into the very organism. There is a great
in greater clarity, above all if we can perceive what the
This can be of great importance in life. Humanity will have to
great deal about animals, plants, minerals, but nothing
need to know a great deal more about Man than people are able
thoughts were still quick with life, the old had a very great
earthly lives also make their appearance in him. But a great
Think of the great difference there is in the ordinary
first of all in the great setting and structure of
of spiritual culture. Moreover there is a great deal in the
the great world-processes in which man is rooted.
real substance. Truth to tell, there has been no greater

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our ‘I,’ our Ego, with very great intensity in ordinary-level
thankfulness to life. And it means a great deal if this
become a great poet — after all there have been such
leaving examination. At that time it had been a great grief to
fact that he apparently undergoes experiences with much greater
reveal this or that to him will be very greatly mistaken;
Such a change for the worse in destiny seems a great riddle and
become great problems. Through spiritual knowledge we are led
on the one hand to the great problems which in the lecture
immediately surrounding us we are led in thought to the great
believed him to be the greatest sage at present existing in the
Here the great question arises as to why this happens. In the
Anthroposophy's greatest crime that it has a cosmological
accounted to be the greatest sin. In any real conception of the
the greatest earnestness.

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they are unmistakeable indications of a great deal in human
will certainly have realised that there is a very great
greater intensity.
will continue to do so. There is a great deal in modern
other events of life, a great deal must be compressed into the
for the pain, the uplifting, joyous experience. A great
future earthly life; a great deal from my present life will

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existence. His inner life is greatly stirred when he begins to
this field, we shall gradually learn to read a great deal about
relation to the former master, came again as the great
great satisfaction, to give you, cannot make demands merely

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
have to say about such great individualities as Buddha and
great principles of occult theosophical investigation from
names that were venerated in greatest secrecy in the
of humanity where our souls led lives greatly different from
Great Initiate who was the leader of this highest oracle had
address the “I” in oneself. The great Manu
today. Yet it was they with whom the great Manu journeyed to
Now the Great
greatest initiates who were the leaders of the ancient
bodies developed by the great initiates, but it would lead me
this reason that the Great Initiate of the Sun Oracle
with him the seven etheric bodies of the greatest Atlantean
etheric bodies of the seven greatest initiates of the ancient
these people, thereby enabling them to exude the great,
The Great
name of a great leader from the past. I am here referring to
the greatest of all Zarathustras, who was one of the most
surrounded by a great aura, so the human being is surrounded
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knowledge. But the further back we go into the past, the greater was
come to know, it became necessary to allow a great deal, indeed, a very
follows. He said, “A far greater number of human beings who long
The great scientific authorities, of whom we read that they excavate
what we justifiably admire today as evidence of the great progress made
evolution, arguing about whether Buddha or Christ is the greater. But that
more greatly misunderstood than anything else in the world.
As time went on, the great
with the course of their evolution. The great teachers of humanity are
is lengthy. Only think how greatly Northern Europe, merely as landscape,
Ahura Mazdao, the great Aura of Ormuzd. But this Being had descended, had
the great world. Now think of an outstandingly advanced individuality,
is to give man his place in the great world in order to reveal to him

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that this could happen, you would be making a great mistake, for the
The being belonging to the mineral experiences great happiness when
of science that there is no great difference between plant seed and animal

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greater detail, referring as well to a great deal of what is already
divert it from something with far greater strength than before. If you
the level the greater is the difference between the etheric body and the
the etheric heart, which lies to the right. The greatest difference,
is a fact of great significance and many riddles of human nature are
in the case of the animal a great difference, between this second member
It differs greatly from the etheric body.
greatest possible variety of colors and changing forms, like a cloud
made by the great religious teachers has been so dynamic is because
through the breathing process but there must be great caution and
being of greater power. The same happens in the case of the blood system.
this tableau lasts. The time varies a great deal in human beings. Speaking

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on to go into the matter with greater exactitude. So if somebody dies
There is, of course, a great deal else in Devachan. All life on earth
all-embracing life, and perception of it is of great intensity, for in
Just think of how everything introduced into life by the great founders
that had streamed into the physical life is present before you in great,
are essential there, develop greater sensitivity. The organ of perception
he is about to begin. This is of great importance for him. It takes

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must picture these relationships as a great network or web, which is,
on earth is to forge bonds of ever greater intimacy. Companionship in
earth, greater or less personal prosperity is possible at the cost of
A great deal more could
underlies the physical creation, a great deal will become intelligible
as such is born, it becomes free. This is an event of great significance
are answered is of great importance; for example, as explanation of
age. In the period until puberty they should learn to revere the great
prototypes, the great processes in nature; only between the fourteenth
proper development. It was known that all life is one great whole and that
greater it is, the less it remains abstract wisdom and the more forcibly it

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about the greatest secret of the Mysteries, namely, that gods were once
it is now other beings who pour out substance as their great sacrifice.

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substance on Old Moon. The Old Moon was like a great organism, living
of spirit and soul. Just imagine that great masses of human beings were
power to master the stubborn bodies was the greatest. But under such
measures for the good of evolution. A great deal in the evolutionary

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During that epoch a great cosmic event took place, namely, the exit
were forming. At that time man's astral body still had a far greater
influence upon his environment, greater magical powers than were his
with the qualities of soul, and this accounted for the great differences
other, to the Europe, Asia and Africa of today. These great migrations
were subject to the authority of the great initiate of the Sun Oracle.
This great leader of the
Sun Oracle, the greatest initiate of Atlantis, directed his attention
who were gathered together by the great initiate because they had developed
that understanding of the new age was to be expected. The great initiate
The great initiate of the Sun Oracle did not, however, despise these
the great Masters of Wisdom who are allowing certain spiritual treasures
enough to know why theosophy is there today. It is there to meet a great
The great initiate of
great migration, everything that had come into existence in Atlantis
born and that now they had lost it. Thither the great initiate of the
ancient Indians the material world was maya, the great illusion.
by Zarathustra, the great pupil of the mighty initiate of the Sun Oracle.

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They, too, have changed in the course of evolution. During the great
into the material world. The greater the understanding acquired by man
personality. Death was the great unknown and evoked fear. The utterance
the spirituality of yonder world. Even the great leaders of mankind,
souls felt still greater pain at having been obliged to leave the physical
whom he called Ahura Mazdao, the Great Aura, in contrast to the little
great Sun Aura, by Ahura Mazdao, then Ahriman will no longer lead you
said, “So great, so mighty is He who has revealed Himself to me
made by the great Zarathustra. He announced to his pupils that the great
the expression of a great cosmic event but also of the greatest of all
“Great Aura,” Ahura Mazdao, would one day unite with the
he did not believe that this great spirit had dwelt on the earth in
invisible in the spiritual world but radiate there in even greater
spiritual world that the greatness of that creation is first realized. It
has first to learn to realize the greatness of this most. mighty cosmic
spiritualized. Thus the appearance of Christ on the earth is the great
great truth concerning suffering dawned in him. He now taught of the
But the great medicine will exist, that is, the power of the soul that
to Christ and to the dead body on the cross is the greatest transformation

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many different movements is so great and the cleft between them so wide.
about the the great cosmic laws of karma and reincarnation. On Old Moon
drawn upon its fountainhead. The great individualities who presided
Oriental training. This path is fraught with great dangers for European and

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cannot be experienced from without. The great religions have always been
religions call the “Great Sacrifice”.
that it is able to consummate the “Great Sacrifice”. Volitional
the same time by virtue of the “Great Sacrifice” pours life into

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a great discovery. “I have discovered,” he said, “how,
healthy thinking. Similar errors of thought play a great part especially in
receive these images into our thoughts with the greatest possible clarity,
entirely applicable and of the greatest importance precisely for the outer
life will differ greatly from those of one whose ability to think is limited
greater depths than are generally imagined. It is our feelings that

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little more intimately knows that this is the way with a great many
unbelief in the spiritual content of the world that underlies the greatest
For the man who transplants the idea to the great cosmic planetary system
in thought play a very great part to-day — and they do so especially
of great importance. Man has a certain craving to reach a definite
useful. They entail the greatest imaginable significance for the
at work in the ape — evolve to greater perfection and so result in

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regard to all the realms of human spiritual life, that man's greatest
spiritual science try to solve from different sides this great
one hand, it is unquestioned that in general man's greatest riddle is
special phase, for there is a great gap between what is called human
In the great gap between what we may call human nature
Here we see how this great knower of
great comprehensive law, which is really only the consequence of many
greatly tabooed at the present time. This law of re-embodiment, the
as among its greatest results. Not only does one form proceed from
the great Italian natural scientist, Francesco Redi (1627 to 1697),
science leads us to the great facts of so-called re-embodiment, of
is not the inherited part at variance with it? Thus the great
line of heredity. We see how a man bears to a great degree the
great in life can be brought about just through the one-sidedness of
and death. In each temperament there exists a small and a great
by his lack of self-control. That is the small danger. The great
great danger is that the rising and falling tide of sensations may
lack of interest in the outer world; the great danger is stupidity or
rises up within him. The great danger is madness.
beautiful, varied, and great. How dull would life be if all people
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this fact is nonetheless of definite, indeed, of great significance.
are now living in the fifth period after the great Atlantean
great Atlantean catastrophe that destroyed an ancient continent, an
Persian period they differed greatly from those of today, and still
Atlantean catastrophe to find the greater part of this age.
aware that it was the great Roman historian, Tacitus, who described
this time great changes will take place, and Biblical prophecies will
wickedness, such great materialism on earth that the majority of
It could easily happen that this great event might pass
the great happenings that were anticipated,” it would not
humanity overlooked these events, it would be a great misfortune.
Even if they were unable to perceive the great occurrence that can
a great misfortune, and humanity would then have to wait until later
misfortune to overlook this great event but will be ripe to seize the
great moment that we may describe as the second coming of Christ. Man
The greatest mystery of our time is this one concerning
might be acquired by humanity in general and that this great event
sleep through the greatest event of the near future, gradually enters
Christ event; he unites with them. Then appears once more the great
prepare us for the great tasks, the great missions of the human race
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Strange as it may seem, there is a certain, indeed a great
not only to a great deal that will already be known to you from other
earth. We are living now in the fifth epoch following the great
distant past we come to the great Atlantean catastrophe by which an
is an age of great antiquity, the most important period of which
for man's nature has changed so greatly that these kingdoms must be
be aware that Tacitus, the great Roman historian, wrote in a
it is perceptible only to the eyes of spirit. There is a great deal
themselves in human beings as natural gifts. Great changes will take
The great event
expected great event ... this would not in the least disprove what
perceiving them, great things will come to pass.
years during which to develop these faculties in greater and greater
enough to grasp the great happening of the Second Coming of Christ.
of this great event being understood by means of faculties developing
this great event, to prepare them to take their rightful place in the
way that it will make us worthier to fulfil the great tasks and
fleeting indications of matters of great moment. But What has
therefore to conceive that when these great times arrive in the future
world will steadily increase. The great events of the immediate

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to the great Truths, he should go through something whereby his soul
soul approached the great Truths and Wisdom and how it reacted to
great “Daemons” was spoken of, and under this tide was
Universe work upon him through the great and mighty Nature which is
science away from external things to the greatness of the phenomena of
the greatness of Cosmic Thought, and thereby his soul also became
himself to the great cosmic phenomena, something streamed into his
Who as the Great Example could lead them back to their divine origin.
the Christ as the Great Example, and so attain to what was striven for
of the Mithraic Mysteries acquired through looking upon the Greatest
times without number. The great revelation that came to St. Paul was
to a real love for the Great Soul, the Source of the world's
Being) will lead to a recognition of the greatness of Jesus of

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Jesus-Principle a great and dangerous error in the
knowing how our great moral ideals are connected
part of the great unknown Nature.
greatest crimes. And although this death on the
had to be visualized with great exactitude, for it
soul must learn to feel that the greatest danger to
the plain of Babylon. And the greatest disgrace for
few centuries there is hardly a greater contrast

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exaggeration of the Jesus-Principle a great and dangerous error in
our soul-life, but that we are far from always knowing how our great
same time in man, lives in us as part of the great unknown Nature.
greatest crimes. And although this death on the cross did not affect
with great exactitude, for it is a powerful Imagination: King
the banner of Lucifer. The soul must learn to feel that the greatest
host of Lucifer assembled on the plain of Babylon. And the greatest
there is hardly a greater contrast than that between Jesuitism and

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We see how Lessing, that great mind of the eighteenth
for itself, but for all mankind. Humanity is a great organism, and
him. That is the great difference.
a great organism.
these, and in others also. The great evolutionary change which the
great world, marveling at the revelation of light in the sun, feeling
you will find much on the subject, but there is a great deal more.)
the world. Without this body, the Ego which I now regard as my great
him appears to us in the great Imaginative picture of Christ Jesus
must undergo; a feeling for the greatness of the Cosmic Spirit who
pervades the world. We are in the presence of this greatness and we
us like two great pillars on the occult path, the story of the

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ever greater and greater number of people. These are two quite
the gate of death. Now there are a great many men, especially those
say: ‘Jesus of Nazareth must be thought of as a great Adept!’
made the greatest preparations, evident from the fact that two human
Pascal, a great figure in spiritual history, standing forth as one
always with great minds, he really remained alone with his thoughts.
to immortality, but to death. In beautiful meditations this great
many consider a great philosopher, did not get beyond this concept of

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material sphere a great quantity of fluid can be affected by the
it marks the great difference between pre-Christian and
not speak much about the concept of Grace, we must make great use of
Just as souls underwent a great change during the period in which the
Event of Golgotha fell, so will they again experience a great change
is shown in greater detail in my book,
was carried out by the Being we call the Christ on the great stage of
short, a great misunderstanding must here exist.
example, of Apollonius of Tyana; we set before us his greatness and

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full greatness, the full significance, of the Christ-Impulse, from a
have before us a kind of backward review, like a great tableau, of
the greatness of the historical period of Greece has its source in
Greek classical beauty and classical greatness, of the gradual
great Games, which are only caricatured in these days by persons who
understand that the Greek soul, having looked with so great a love
remember one thing: the kernel of the four great truths of Buddha is
salvation for men is expressed in the four great holy truths of
thy carriage: then reflect, O great King,’ said the sage
active within him. The Greek said: ‘I value my Ego so greatly

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needs for his development. The sequence of words is of the greatest
greatest sympathy for people like the first case mentioned, for as
word of the formula was put in its place with the greatest care, and

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merely uttering it he has said a very great deal.
Apocalypse and of the John Gospel, in his greatest age, could speak
who has gained great influence over the way of thinking of those who
Christ Jesus. And when we read the history of the greatest initiates,
hand we see quite clearly that the great teachings of the life of
experiment is performed by the great world. We then see how man lays
deeply, can you believe that all the work of the great Divine Spirits

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they prefer to remain silent in face of the greatest question that
mind is not adapted to comprehend the greatest fact in human
threadbare, that it cannot take in the great processes of cosmic
Himself in the body of a man. That is the greatest sacrifice that

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individuality, with all the great and powerful inner forces which in
the great faculties of Zarathustra, in the way that human faculties,
Jesus-child. Whereas the latter was remarkable because of his great
existence the greatest possible preparations had been made.
Persian civilisation and looking up to the great Sun Spirit, he was
be accomplished only through the greatest unfolding of divine love,

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possible for persons to be regarded as great theologians when they
man gained a great benefit: he became a free being. But he also
real proof that Christianity is greater than its external form. For a
presentations had taken place, not on the great stage of a capital
like the performance of a great cosmic drama on the stage of a small
the earth is so small in comparison with the great universe!
because they could no longer let the living force of the great
the great misunderstanding of the Gospels: they were taken

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of our thinking is guided by this, then we'll experience great
we're led into great dangers. An esoteric knows that all
account of all the great and small pains that he must endure is a
of theosophy has grasped the great truths about world and man in such a

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which surprise us in his Gospel. The great, majestic, crowning
Mystery of Golgotha something happened which gave the greatest
speech will come to have an effect unimaginably greater than it has
great transformation, always takes place. To express it more in
For at a certain point of time in his life a great change comes over
grasp this act of love by a God, when they try to grasp it as a great
will have done their work for the great spiritual temple of humanity.
seeker after the spirit as it was felt by a great forerunner of our
feeling and willing. And as this great forerunner connects the word

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IX: Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences - their Relationship to the Riddles of Life - 1
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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
goes back again to the word of the great naturalist Haller
this great experience has taken place, the spiritual researcher
father and mother, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on,
century when Francesco Redi, a great naturalist, said, life

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theosophy is to a great extent something which people not
suffrage, and even greater is the number of answers supplied
Ever greater
do not live in the very midst of such materialism are greatly
matter. The great horizon of spiritual life had to withdraw
communicated anew. All the great founders of religion can be
great social upheavals throw up to the surface, cannot judge
Nothing can be given to us which is of greater importance
greatness of these events will not only take hold of our
Note 1. From greatly

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themselves; the etheric body of animals has a greater
greatly from the physical body and resembles it only in its
upper part, in the head; but it differs from it greatly in
truly a far greater work of art than the most complicated

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greater part of the astral body. But a human being who has
were a great panorama.
These things produce great joys and wonderful experiences

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physical body. The astral world differs greatly from our
they can give rise to great delusions. The source of many

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out of a spiritual science describes just as great a miracle
and of great interest to realise that everything which we
the greatest individuality can do nothing with a defective
brain, just as the greatest pianist cannot play well on a
great majority of cases? The operation results in a sham
in another connection. All this contributes to a very great
with such a great musical memory because in a former life he
Think of what a Roman boy was able to do! Of the great

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greatly admired. It is Fritz Mauthner's
with the etheric body takes place with great rapidity —
the result of his former incarnations, the greatest musical
developed ear, he would be just as helpless as a great artist
mother. The father has a greater influence upon the Ego, the
The greatest wisdom has built up the rose, and yet even the
wisdom. Every great prayer, such as this greatest of all
Religious truths will be gained anew through the greatest

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subsequent lives. The great law of cause and effect, the law
significant historical event. Upon the great masses of
have a clearer conception of this great law, you may compare
such connections of destiny enabled one of the greatest Bible

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Within this epoch, it makes a great difference whether he
incarnations of the same sex (the greatest number which could
particularly the case with the great leaders of humanity. But
Macrocosm. The Great and the Small World, Soul Problems,

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on the 24th of June, 1907. From greatly abbreviated stenographic
on the 24th of June, 1907. From greatly abbreviated stenographic
greatly abbreviated notes not revised by the lecturer.
greatly differing from the one which is taken for granted
description of a course of development which greatly deviates from
preserved for example such a truth; it contains, however, a great
the great cosmic connections. This myth tells us that Chronos sent
Ego into man and who are now upon a stage of development greatly
great number of the germs which had already developed upon Saturn and
great Sun Hero, and that the Light which belongs to the Sun
the Sun was gaseous, you must imagine air-strata of greater density
astral body, yet they greatly surpassed the most highly developed
This is the case not only at school, but also in the great course of
it was connected with a great screaming on the part of the Moon

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we find that it presented an aspect greatly differing from
description of a course of development which greatly deviates
example such a truth; it contains however, a great
viewed the great cosmic connections. This myth tells us that
greatly surpassing the human one, those Beings to whom we may
taken place. Upon the Sun a great number of the germs which
the Christ is the great Sun Hero, and that the Light which
was gaseous, you must imagine air-strata of greater density
body, yet they greatly surpassed the most highly developed
This is the case not only at school, but also in the great
great screaming on the part of the Moon Beings, This exists

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attention to the great differences between the present and
show you that the face of our Earth underwent great
pointed out that a whole part of Great Britain has already
once have been a continent, and that great parts of Africa
psychically and physically the Atlanteans greatly differed
to a lower stage. Darwinism consequently makes a great
belonged to him (to a far greater extent than was the case
beyond the family circle. It was of greatest importance to
father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc., reaching far
experienced as a unity. This can show you how greatly
atmosphere of ancient Atlantis. Now bear in mind that great
stretches of land were laid bear by the great Atlantean
greater extent the forces which existed in Nature. Masses of
back we go into the evolution of the earth, the greater is

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of years, so that the great changes which took place, not
were the beings who later developed into men. A great number
went with this colony, the first great teachers of ancient
be a great disadvantage, indeed harmful, if modern culture
were to take hold in a greater measure of life in India.
pyramid expressed great cosmic thoughts. The ancient Egyptian
thus acquired an ever greater knowledge of that which takes
wisdom of the heaven; he still learned a great deal
of our own time? A great amount of spiritual power is used to
How great is the difference between obtaining food by
requirements! There is no great difference whether an animal
in our descent and this rendered possible the greatest
development. During the sixth epoch, great masses of men will
Christianity of to-day will spread among great masses of men.
this human body of ancient times, you would be greatly
a far greater influence upon it. Modern man has only retained

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existed in quite a different form. Now a great deal depends
upon our grasping the great significance of the fact
would see how greatly the human beings resembled one another
his village characters with great devotion. Also Anzengruber
great-grandfathers, and forefathers. The further back we go
past greatly differed from the love which shines towards us
Golgotha an event took place which has a significance greatly
have led to a greater form of egoism; the Ego would more and
you can say: However great the pain and suffering which come

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bear in mind that certain great laws which are now active,
bear within us a higher and a lower nature. The greatest
of spiritual science will therefore be of greatest value in
penetrate into the real great cosmic forces which are active

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handled with the greatest precaution and has always been kept
greatest perfection at the end of the Earth. But we shall
Than by pointing to one of the greatest, who spoke the words:
rejected the greatest of all Guides, who did not wish to know
great cosmos outside, entered our being in regard to each
the macrocosm, with the great world outside, for something in
greatest amateur”. Among the many writings which
natural sciences of his time. This writing was greatly

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The festival of St. John reminds us that the greatest Individuality
annunciation of this greatest of events in the history of man, and it
the latter finds its way to a greater public. Let me now figuratively
advent of Christ, is represented not only as one of the greatest but
as the very greatest of phenomena in the evolution of humanity. What
greatness as the most momentous figure in the evolution of humanity
represents the greatest event in the evolution of mankind, must there
initiation is the greatest event the human soul can experience, a view
in a renewed form and in greater measure than humanity hitherto
taught as follows: For every individual man there is a great, a mighty
evolution, this one great event, the rebirth of the higher ego, does
must prepare himself in many and manifold ways. And after this great
stages. We behold other great beings and events in human evolution. We
great disruption — to the primeval Indian civilization. There we
find seven great, holy teachers knows as the Holy Rishis. They pointed
its great inaugurator, Zarathustra. To those whom it was his mission
can be seen enveloping him, he said, so too, the great Sun-Aura, Ahura
Mazdao, can be seen beside the Sun. And the great Sun-Aura it was
see Ahura Mazdao in his earthly environment. The great moment was at
clairvoyant eye did not behold Ahura Mazdao, the great Sun-Spirit, the
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the year by a great number of those seeking higher wisdom; and many
revelation even of this greatest event in the earthly evolution of man,
greatest, but as the very greatest of all events in the evolution of
something of His greatness as the most significant phenomenon in the
what the Johannine Christians of the Rosicrucian Society deemed of greatest
Christ Jesus. If the coming of Christ Jesus can be called the greatest
event must be the greatest and most significant as well. And what can
initiation, as it is called, is the greatest event for the human soul
human being a great and mighty event can take place that can be called
evolution of man we find not only this one great event, the rebirth of
A man must prepare himself in many different ways. And after the great
individual the one great incisive event, the birth of the higher ego;
time beyond the Christ event. There we encounter other great manifestations
moment to the first civilization that followed upon a great catastrophe,
to the ancient Indian civilization. There we find seven great and holy
Holy Rishis was great, but the exalted being they called Vishva Karman
great leader, Zarathustra, and Zarathustra spoke as follows to those
so, in contemplating the sun, the great sun aura is discerned — Ahura
Mazdao. — And it was the great sun aura that once brought forth
see Ahura Mazdao in what surrounded them on earth. The great moment
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There is a remarkable saying of the great mystic Jacob Boehme — a
beautiful addition to the great works he has given us in finished
Now when we investigate in the Akashic records that great event, the
Let us assume that a great leader of humanity stands before some other
suppose, is alive to the fact that the other is a great leader, and
the great figures of the human race from the standpoint of psychiatry.
describe him, but that he belongs to the greatest figures of the
extent, and in earlier centuries to a greater extent, though this
Europe) would not to any great extent excite feelings of respect. But
how Queen Maya was the ‘Image of the Great Mother’ and that it had
great to be confined to the narrow limits of the personality born at
legend; great truths underlie the saying that when Buddha was born,
the greater his advancement, the richer must his life be in
The individual who was already a great initiate on earth, was between
entered into him; then, in the radiant light of this great Being he
to become the Bearer of Christ, we have before us a great initiate who
descends, as it were, into the great initiate — the moment is the
self, the self of the great initiate, had attained such greatness that
Jesus of Nazareth had in every respect prepared himself for this great

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by the great mystic Jacob Boehme which puzzles all who are not in touch
the great and glorious finished works he left us — there is the
akashic record for the great event to which we alluded yesterday,
Let us suppose some great
average. The latter feels vividly that the other is a great leader,
rather, that he was among the greatest figures of human life in the
great deal more than does an ordinary birth. In oriental writings, especially
is related that Queen Maya was “the image of the Great Mother”,
as a great initiate, and who gradually, in the light and radiance of
this great Being, unfolded all that otherwise man develops without this
event of the Christ slipping into the great initiate, as it were: the
of Jesus of Nazareth. And the other ego, that of a great initiate, had
of Nazareth had prepared himself in every respect for this great event,

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nature. I must mention this because certain facts with which the great
why the great narrators of spiritual events often express sublime,
the great spiritual facts of evolution.
greater density and coarseness than they were before that event; their
when he places before us those great truths. And they who knew these

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itself to show why the great narrators of spiritual events often expressed
these. A great deal can be learned from a fact of this sort; and especially
great spiritual facts of evolution.
on its way to becoming a great cosmic graveyard. — And then you
does the writer of the John Gospel present these great verities; and
designate the great cosmic planetary cycles of evolution. In the

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This separation of the Moon is a moment of the very greatest
great sacrifice on old Saturn. Human thought, even human seership,
and something then happened of great importance which I would ask you
work in the greatest. To be sure, not spirit in general, as when
Let us take the great teachers of the ancient Indians, the holy
great Sun-Spirit, who, as Spirit, is active in light. He would have

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the virtue of sacrifice. But no matter how great a capacity for sacrifice
and then something of great importance occurred, something I shall ask
example, a theory is proffered to the effect that once there was a great
understand that spirit acts throughout the greatest spaces. And by this
to carry on their activity in man's inner nature. Consider the great
will remain above until men have reached a greater inner maturity; then

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above an elephant's trunk and head, you would be greatly surprised.
upon the astral body, and this led to results of great consequence.
reflection in his intellect with great perfection. But in his
perfection man would have been nothing but a great mirror of the
the Atlantean continent was overwhelmed by great upheavals, and
unduly great. They avoided everything that came from Lucifer, and
members of a great organism extending to Abraham. When you are told:
When the great impulse, the Christ Impulse, came upon the Earth, as

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be greatly astonished at the true being of that animal; for all that
with dense vapors composed of a great variety of substances. Pure air
Atlantean, because during that time the greater part of the
Down there, forms came into being in the greatest variety, descendants
however, he derived greater pleasure from things of the sense world
so even after the Atlantean Continent perished through the great catastrophies,
of the forces of the astral body greater than it should have been, as
members of a great organism reaching back to Abraham. If you are told,
of the great impulse, as we characterized it yesterday — the Christ

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We said yesterday that mankind had great leaders even in that early
itself, to his pupil. And now came the great cataclysm which swept
day. As in Atlantean times, institutions were established by the great
sympathies. The great progress of humanity consists in the fact that
spiritual science. Failing this, the teachings of the great and holy
the physical plane, a man saw Maya, the great illusion, and nothing
but an elevation to the great Sun-being, or to Beings akin to him,
spiritual world, themselves desired to behold the great Sun-aura, more
in which so great a change was to be wrought. In the first place it
exercised any influence upon it. But the great goal of the Christ
from any cause, or when he is overcome by terror or by any great
in a great panorama. What a man experiences, say, when in danger of
Consider the conglomeration of races in the great Roman Empire; it was
between death and a new birth. The Baptist had now prepared a great
of the great Russian philosopher Solovioff, said: ‘Christianity must
inspire the greatest respect, especially in the West, where whole
that the Christ-impulse it is, which fills him. Turn now to his great
him our attention, we find in his writings great and noble thoughts,
For Christ is so great that each successive epoch must find new
that the great subject of our temporal representations will require
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to the existence of great leaders of mankind as far back as the epoch
imitative faculty. A great deal passed unconsciously from teacher to
great cataclysm that swept away the Atlantean Continent. Mighty elemental
and westward, and a great variety of settlements came into being. But
advanced, the greater grew the resemblance to our modern method of instruction.
by the great leaders of mankind exhibiting similarities to the old Atlantean
can now be accurately defined: to a great extent it was the same as
body was simply withdrawn from the greater part, at least, of the physical
love the physical world was a great step forward for mankind.
of the great holy Rishis is nonsense, foolishness, for they can make
on the physical plane was looked upon as maya, the great illusion;
and only by uplift to the great Sun Being or similar beings was the
but to see for themselves into the great sun aura, more drastic measures
the physical world was conquered to a still greater extent. Man was
In Greece even greater
He entered the sphere of the earth in which a great change was thereby
did his own ego exercize any influence upon it. But the great aim of
through a great many incarnations had become able, beginning with a
a mountain height, he experiences his whole past life as in a great
Think of the conglomeration of peoples in the great Roman Empire! That
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individual personality with the great Father-Spirit of the world. It
belief, under the influence of their great teacher John the Baptist.
greater and greater, but only the rudiments can be grasped by humanity
show that a great deal in practical life depends upon it.
when any particular illness appears, there is a great deal said about
and with the great achievements of natural science before us, the
a great adherent of the anthroposophical conceptions. Now the
the great, all-embracing facts of the universe, and, above all things,
still greater detail. This gives us a panorama of super-sensible facts
whole picture tending towards and focused upon the great central point
greater and greater; the development of those who open themselves to
were disciples of the great masters and were led into the Mysteries;

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and the great Father-Spirit of the world. Only few, to be sure, could
with these inherited qualities. Now, you know that today a great deal
only when the whole immense picture focuses at the great central point,
Weltanschauung goes about it. We project a great picture of
over their material nature will gain ever greater strength. Burdened
and crying, but in time he will gain ever greater power over them: out
mankind a mere handful who were disciples of the great teachers and
He loved him so greatly because He had already recognized him —

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great men have existed; and even various grades in their greatness may
although of historical greatness. It does not please the new critics
assign the greatest conceivable importance to it. Again they coincide
initiate. From his great teacher he had heard how man descended from
a great part of Egypt, who had partaken of the ‘Bull’ initiation,
initiation, saying: ‘Such are the stages which a great initiate must
controversy, but as the vital question of Christianity. The great

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This means that for a long time Christ Jesus had been exercizing a great
one hears it mentioned that after all, there have been other great ones
the greatest imaginable import for Jesus of Nazareth. The four Gospels
Persia, had gazed up at the sun, and had addressed the great Sun Spirit as
of an ancient Persian initiate. Similarly I could point to a great deal
as in a great synthesis, the Man spirits. These were in a sense the
the soul mood of such initiates. From their great teachers they had
those who had received the Bull initiation — throughout a great
such an initiation. He could say, A great initiate must have passed
knew from his own initiation what a journey to Egypt meant to a great
into the roots of things; then it becomes clear that the greatest, the
Urchristentum, has assembled with the greatest historical accuracy
where the actual life of Christianity is involved. So the great philosopher

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of the greatest religious documents but that of all literary
7. The greatest of the signs, the initiation of Lazarus — the
imagine that a far greater force was then transmitted from soul to
‘As regards my person I am a unit; but I am a member of a great
organism, of a great living complex, extending as far back as Father
I can remember, depends upon my feeling myself a member of a great
great body of my people, precisely as my finger is a part of my body.
transient and fleeting. But this great organism of my people,
Ego; then I am merged in one great Ego, the Ego of my people, which
to us so great and wonderful in the Old Testament. But the time having
great magical force. The descendants of a tribe of blood relations, by
that force. At that moment He could perform no greater sign; the time
keep in view the words which are of greatest importance in the chapter
Him and who had by degrees ripened to the level of His greatness. The
reason of the great wind that blew. When therefore they had rowed
strengthened. So great had it become, through its exercise in the last
was as follows: someone is at a remote place; so great is his power
Herein everything waxes great from stage to stage and reaches its
with greater perfection and be more beautiful in its manner of
understands the point can be sensible of the great and mighty meaning
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greatest. Let us now approach it from this literary angle.
7. The greatest of the
receive from another as much greater, the influence one soul could exert
myself I am isolated; but I am a member of a great organism, of a great
memory is contingent upon my feeling myself a member of the great folk
organism that goes back to Father Abraham. I am part of the great complex,
ego is transient and fleeting, but not so this whole great folk organism
by it I conquer my temporally transient ego: I am sheltered in one great
of the Old Testament adherents: all the great events narrated in the
to His mother; and that is what He needed at this moment. Greater signs
her faith might be sufficiently great to produce such an effect? She
greater. Just as any ordinary force increases with exercise, so is
another: two are needed. And already here we find a greater measure
rejoicing and great brotherly love — clothing His injunction in
and Jesus was not come to them. And the sea arose by reason of a great
as follows: Someone who is absent possesses so great a force that it
the narrative embraces a great deal in between, and we must examine
read aright and knows what is essential senses its great and mighty

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Christianity. In the first place, we have the life of the great
great sacrifice. This sacrifice consisted in the following act: When
significant events are easier to understand, and that the greatest of
all events presents the greatest difficulty? For this reason, what I
that great changes took place in the whole of the human being in the
spirit. Here we touch the fringe, as it were, of a great secret or
the body. Far greater is this command over the bodily organization
it is one of the great events that occurred at that time.
eyesight. That is the great illusion to which people fall a prey when
engaged therein in its widest periphery, and that a great, great deal
These are the two most momentous facts, the great and awe-inspiring
the people were not very greatly astonished by the sign performed at
body became freer and more detached from the physical body. A greater
great that it caused that to be effaced which was due, not to his
received the greatest impulse from the greatest initiator, from the

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have the life of the great Initiate Whom we call Jesus of Nazareth.
to have risen by degrees to the capacity for the great sacrifice. This
following, what we must endeavor to set forth in ever greater detail.
the great ones: who could doubt, therefore, that the mightiest one of
all must present the greatest difficulties? I shall presently make various
you will understand, too, that in the old initiations great changes
great a mastery over his various sheaths — even the physical body
dominion of the soul over what is bodily; but far greater mastery over the
that when this took place an area was involved far greater than the
a greater distance, for example, the effect will be less; but some effect
facts, the great and mighty influences indicated, though cryptically,
say yesterday that no one was greatly astonished at what occurred at
freer, less closely bound to the physical body. This resulted in greater
spirit. The power of the astral body was to become so great in the threefold
the sign the performance of which called for a still greater force.
he had received the mightiest impulse from the greatest initiator, from

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great initiate Jesus of Nazareth. But to understand what was actually
Baptism by John, we must admit that it touches upon all the great
upon a personal footing. Great thinkers who are in touch with the
pronouncements of great men who stood in relation to the spiritual
inherent in the etheric and astral bodies. The utterances of great
said, we are only at the beginning of Christian evolution. The great
and discord which we still see, and which will lead to still greater
Christ-impulse, we must now not fail to recognize a great truth.
relationship the father and mother in him was a great ideal. If this
represent to humanity the great Pattern of a being who has established
of the whole relationship. Here was once for all the great ideal of
obstinately clung to the old principle. The greatest progress was seen
great sinner also into His company; for it was His mission to work,

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earth, that places his ego upon a footing of its own. Great minds who
great men who were close to the spiritual world only by penetrating
of great minds are by no means grasped by those who believe to have
endogamy was increasingly ignored, that a great variety of peoples were
great impulse has been given which enabled the Christ to imbue ever
discord and contention — and this will lead to even greater excesses
Christ impulse leads us to the comprehension of a certain great truth: In
come true. All this was portrayed in pregnant pictures, in great and
Christ — was to be the great example for humanity of a being who

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of time upon a great cataclysm. This cataclysm, which ran its course
conditions of soul are of greatest interest to us in the evolution of
not in firm outlines but surrounded by a great coloured aura, as we
to post-Atlantean humanity. After the great Atlantean cataclysm, the
regarding the Christ. Celsus was a great scholar but he had no
conception of ancient wisdom vanished from science. The greatest of
could only think the thought of his age. And his greatness is due
thought, purely mechanical thought. With Galileo a great revolution in
function it is to serve science. This is grounded in the great laws of
think of the beginning of His great work as accomplished in an etheric
moment. The great example is there, which in future must be followed

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evolution that followed immediately upon a great and mighty catastrophe.
everything was surrounded by a great colored aura. That was because
man. After the great Atlantean catastrophe people were organized in
retained a great deal of the gift of clairvoyance; and what these people
body and the etheric body of man that differed greatly from the later
of rubbish about Christ. This Celsus was a great scholar, but he understood
from it. Even the greatest men are, of course, children of their era
and his greatness consists precisely in his having established God-forsaken
to serve science. That is a fact based on the great cosmic laws. If
a wholly universal Being, and commencing His great work by means of
was cast out of the physical body of Christ. There stands the great

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thrown on the cosmic significance of that great event.
appears veiled in the great illusion or maya.
What is interwoven in this great illusion? Among all the facts which
train, death represented the greatest of sorrows. What must have been
great soul of Buddha.
and provide for the ever greater increase of the Sun of Life.
for the greatest truths He had adopted the method which is necessary
apostles desired to hear the Name, the great Name because of which He
world, and its greatest maya or illusion, is equally the expression of
Nazareth’. Those to whom the ‘simple man of Nazareth’ is of greatest

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man falling into ever greater delusion and error concerning the outer
outer physical world a great variety of phenomena present themselves.
What do we find woven into this great delusion? Among all the phenomena
a large measure of suffering, death was considered the greatest suffering
feeling burst forth from the great soul of Buddha.
was originally written in a community which placed the greatest value

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man is subject to an illusion, to a great deception or maya regarding
mediators were necessary. One of the first great mediators was he who,
about five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain
of others as those of a great organism to which we too belong; and we
necessary to inscribe his deed in the great Law-book of the Akashic
to be the first bringer of the great truths to those mature enough to
then been gradually lost, was embodied in the great individuality of

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great ones was he who had been Saul and became Paul. How far could Saul's
at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but
and, inasmuch as we all belong to one great organism, we further learn
only need to enter this deed in the great law book of the akashic
the Gospel which in the beginning was best suited to convey the great
had gradually been lost, was gathered together in the great being of
have acquired a great deal in many ways. Our gain, however, has not

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technique of spiritual life. Maya = maha-a-ya = great-non-existence.
and manas is elaborated in the human eye (as in the great seal on a one

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As you have often heard, there are great differences between the
Individuality possessed great powers of heart and a quality of deep,
to carry it further. A great and significant impetus had been given.
writings of the Founder of the Theosophical Society, the great H. P.
Now it is of the greatest importance for us to know that whenever the
greater evil — would be too great for men. This danger is already
was able to behold, deteriorated into greater and greater impurity.

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As you have often heard, there are great differences between the
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in greater detail
further. A great and significant impetus was thus given. The name of
Society, the great H.P. Blavatsky,
Now it is of the greatest importance for us to know that whenever the
in some personality — than which there is no greater evil —
would be too great. This danger is too near at hand. Silence is a
deteriorated into greater and greater impurity. Man no longer had any

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will have greatly diminished after this lapse of time; in thought,
world. Upon this rests a certain occurrence of very great importance
of many things still beyond our comprehension is of very great
independently of our physical body. The great task of Theosophy, or

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generally speaking the pain will have greatly diminished after this
this rests a certain occurrence of very great importance in the modern
of many things still beyond our comprehension is of very great
physical body. And that is the great task of theosophy that has become

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often said, a great memory tableau appears after death. On leaving
memories are stored up; we then see them as a great tableau before

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matter of great consequence. Such things as I am about to discuss can
fellowship is effectual in a far greater measure when working at
need not bother about spiritual life. A great deal depends upon the
disposition, which truly in the greatest sense of the word must be
spiritual world, are doing the greatest harm to them. We very much help
little spoken of to-day. Great happiness would come to both the living
feelings and convictions into physical earth-life is of great
really contained very great powers. This person died at the above
enthusiastically and thus to bring a great supply into the spiritual
our friends, we may learn a great deal from her. What we see in her is,
life.’ A great inflow of strength comes to the spiritual
great importance to observe something else besides. The person to whom
great devotion, and was even able to put into his poems much of that

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to him, though he greatly needs them. Spiritual intercourse with them
etc. these were very great benefactors of humanity. They appeared to
earth. Greater and greater must our understanding of this Christ
emphasize the great significance of the triumphs of Natural Science,
religious dogmas. Truly the Copernican views represented a great swing
may become ever greater and greater factors in the spiritual
these great men living in the spiritual world he saw in his vision what
soul as having been greatly permeated by certain influences from the
spiritual world, they press into it and become as it were a great
him, whether small or great, and his power, courage, and energy will be
understanding and interest. She was a person who united great
kindliness of personal action with great seriousness in her spiritual
think of the great enrichment that will come to human lives when they
spiritual world will become greater and greater.
man must be the reincarnation of a great individual; he must have been
worlds. Thus said the great philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, during

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horns an opponent of Christianity as great as Nero. When the descriptions
age. It is much greater than our explanations and will find even higher,
The greatest element of
great main epoch.
take place in the sixth great main epoch can be seen ahead of time in
the pictures of the astral world. The seventh great main epoch, on the

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fourth in our great post-Atlantean epoch. In spiritual science we calculate
we finally arrive back at the time of the great Atlantean culture which
is reported to us by all ancient religious writings. Before the great
There were great mystery
the great teachers of the mysteries. They taught in these Atlantean
Saturn, and Moon oracles. However, the greatest and loftiest was the
the other oracles and watch over them. The great sun initiate of the
a sunrise over the great post-Atlantean culture, they developed the
They were led by the great
the greatest initiates of the Atlantean oracle were incorporated into
blessing and healing of humankind. The great sun initiate preserved
the etheric bodies of the seven great Atlantean initiates as spiritual
the etheric bodies of the greatest initiates of ancient Atlantis. Through
many generations the great sun initiate exercised his educational skills
was inspired by higher powers. They were then sent by the great sun
Zarathustra. He was himself an initiated student of the great sun initiate,
who stood behind the Rishis. Because of this he could proclaim the great
Mazdao. We see here how the great teachers of humanity guided the evolution
with God was still too great. The Persians, on the other hand, were
they had to receive the teaching concerning the great Ahura Mazdao,
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post-Atlantean age; that is, the age that followed the great water
usefulness in the ascent of the entire human race. However, the great war
of the earth that have developed this egotism to the greatest extent.
of black magic in the ancient Indian culture. We find the greatest misuse

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Apocalypse we find a portrayal of the great main epoch of the seven
the followers of the great Zarathustra who have recorded their wisdom in
the great Zarathustra admonished the people to work with the earth but

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world. It had its greatest blossoming in the beauty of Greek art.
the fifth age with a science of the external world that began its great
hardened bodies will make the greatest discoveries and inventions. In
the three great Greek writers of Greek tragedy. Quote comes from

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were in equal measure greater at that time. The Lemurians, who lived
in viscous bodies in ancient times, had powers of soul much greater than

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cultures had the task of reflecting in human souls the great cosmic
the great Atlantean initiates were preserved for the seven holy Rishis;
the sixth and seventh centuries onward, great proclaimers of Christianity
The great Irish missionaries.

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
reflect the great cosmic events in the souls of human beings
the etheric bodies of the great Atlantean initiates had been
set great value on a direct, physical transmission of the

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great deal in terms of external physical martyrdom. But things are coming
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth ...”

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earth's enduring great tremors and earthquakes as the result of
12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. \
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \

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12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. \
12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. \
12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. \
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. \
13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. \
unite with the sun. On this Jupiter-Earth all the great cultural ages
17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. \
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. \
17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. \
18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. \
18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. \
18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. \
18:16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! \
18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, \
18:18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! \
18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. \
18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. \
18:23b for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. \

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Atlantean catastrophe and the great war of all against all has its own
The salvation of the “great whore of Babylon” will also occur
at various locations on the earth, great individualities are at work

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It affords me great satisfaction to be able to speak
knowledge and grasp of the great laws of humanity, he cannot be
is one who is able to identify himself with the great mission of
view regarding something which we otherwise rightly consider great,
greatness of that from which the ‘homeless man’ must in a
great rôle; in a not far-distant future this sentence will be
member of his being which offers the greatest resistance, the
the great Atlantean Catastrophe — which so completely altered
the periods influenced by the great peoples from whom the
together, something which is understood everywhere to a greater or
down the great outlines for the several epochs. The extension of the

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It affords me great
pleasure to speak at greater length for the third time to our friends
take a great leap forward into those regions of spiritual knowledge
very reason that greater objectivity is necessary if we are to accept
man’ is one whose understanding and grasp of the great laws of
man’ is one who is able to identify himself with the great laws
mankind in the near future will bring men together in far greater
asking a great deal of our present age to believe in the existence of
reckon from the beginning of the great Atlantean catastrophe and

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all cases where that which determined the great changes of the people
that they are able to employ much greater forces than can the
a people. The Beings who give language have great strength, they are
but for reasons pertaining to the great Wisdom which rules the world.
bring about, because they with their great forces and powers remained
definitions there are, and how greatly they differ from each other.

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conditions determine the great changes in a people, the influence of
Beings who are responsible for language are Beings of great creative
of Form, because with their greater energy and superior powers the

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make a greater impression upon him. Others he finds to be lethargic,
These great outlines are fashioned by the Archangel; but
work, here they must take care that these great aims are realized.
corresponds to the great ordinances of the Archangels. You will form
certain respects its good side, because in this way a great variety,
saying ‘The world is maya’ is of the very greatest

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plane the individual human being must ensure that these great aims
concur in the great ordinances of the Archangels. We shall see this
in the Spirit of the Age, assumes for a certain time greater

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under the great influence of these abnormal Beings. During the whole
which have a great deal to do with the decline and death of man, with
creations of man are still to a great extent dependent upon the
There is a great deal more that may not yet be told, that would help
more and more, the further the countries lie to the West. These great
character of humanity. There lies the great responsibility which one
takes, if one wishes to intervene in the great movement of mankind.
Where the great movement of humanity is concerned, no personal
great laws of humanity. We must recognize this from the great laws
great mystery is expressed when it is said who Plato was with respect
the earth planet, those Spirits whose greatest interest is to make

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level of the all-human. Here lies the great responsibility which we
what is determined by the great laws of humanity is decisive. The
great laws themselves must apprise us of this; we must not allow
his origin and ancestry, a great mystery is concealed. He was an

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are now scattered here and there among the greater peoples, have
their significance in the great harmony of human evolution. That,
was the great mission of Saturn to give will, to implant the forces
within. So that man is indeed called to something great upon the

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larger national groups have their part to play in the great harmony
Earth-evolution, manifests itself as Will. The great task of Old

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Spirits of Motion — who possess greater power than the Spirits
similar way. In accordance with this, the great map is then drawn,
families, etc. That is the great map, which is an image of the
abnormal Spirits of Form worked with great power and caused man to be
Thus were the great foundations of the races created,
to the Semitic race. That is a great polarity in humanity, and we
people attained its greatness. Everything the Greeks saw in the way
incarnation, and that great leader of humanity whom we describe by
of One still greater, set itself the task of investigating into the
how in him there dwells what formerly was great and mighty for man,
great in the Atlantean culture. What was the greatest thing of all to
the ancient greatness and majesty of a period which existed in the
seven Spirits of Form was called by the Atlanteans the Great Spirit
not participate. He clung firmly to the Great Spirit of the primeval
had also received the Great Spirit, passed before his eyes when a
his soul he still had the Great Spirit. His speech has been preserved
of that which makes the white man great. The brown man is made great
by something else; he is made great by the Great Spirit, Who speaks
Great Spirit speaks truth! Your Spirits, whom you have here on paper,
and who express what to you is great, they do not speak truth.’
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activity of the abnormal Spirits of Form should provoke too great a
Zeus and so achieved greatness. To them all external forms, all forms
great leader of humanity, Skythianos. This is the “Council”
greater, set itself the task of investigating the mysterious forces
old American Indians still preserves a memory of that great Atlantean
great in the Atlantean culture. What the Red Indian valued most
former greatness and majesty of a period which existed in the old
And this cooperative activity was called by the Atlanteans the Great
participate in this development. He held firm to the Great Spirit of
(who, in a remote past, had also known the Great Spirit) when a piece
for in his soul still dwelt the Great Spirit. The speech he made has
great. But there is something else which makes the Brown Man great;
it is the Great Spirit who speaks to him in the soughing of the wind,
who to us speaks truth. Yes, from the lips of the Great Spirit comes
great, they do not speak the truth.” Thus spoke the Indian
Great Spirit; Paleface is servant of the spirits who, in black shapes
between the conqueror and the last of the great chieftains of the Red

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going on in the great world. This ascent is connected with the fact
great Teachers of India, the Holy Rishis, who because they were aided
the guide or intuitor of the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, the
greatest possible variety. We might say, that in the post-Atlantean
If man were however to look out into the great cosmos,
can still see at the present day Monotheism ruling in its greatest
synthetic thought is the greatest imaginable in the Kabbalistic
years. That is the great polarity between Pluralism and Monism, and
as Spirit of the Age. Hence, however, something of the greatest
over a great part of Western Europe, as far as the present Hungary,
There was a great deal to be done, but above all it was
to-day. He belongs just as much to the great directing Spirits of the
Age, as those who were the great directing Spirits of the Age during
Folk-souls, have greater or less inclination towards this
greatest impulses streamed forth in all directions, the spot which
Europe. Hence, because the great centre of inspiration was there,
past, was that great centre of inspiration, which later on
Scandinavian mythology. Hence the great significance of the
of the Scandinavian Folk-soul. Hence also the great significance

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the time of the gradual submergence of Atlantis, and the later great
Archai-being who then worked through intuition upon those great
the Time Spirit, from whom the great Zarathustra or Zoroaster, the
pluralism or monadology can offer the greatest possible variety. It
therefore of the greatest significance occurred in the fourth
epoch who still directs us today. He belongs to the great leading
Time Spirits, equally with those who were the great directing Time
became possible for the Time Spirit to manifest the greatest
Hence, because the great centre of spiritual inspiration was situated
at this place on Earth. There, in the remote past, was the great
lies the great significance which the understanding of this mythology

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great enthusiasm for comparative religion and comparative mythology,
another as regards their essential nature, he might make a great
regards everything else in human evolution they had made very great
abnormal Archangels, as one of the great Renouncers of antiquity, who

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the greatest nonsense. What happens as a rule when a person compares
of their essential being, he could be greatly mistaken, for a totally
evolution they had made great strides. Behind them lay a very long
the great difficulty which the peoples of the East experienced in
and endowed him with his psychic potentialities, and the greatest of
abnormal Archangels, as one of the great figures of renunciation in

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great world of Nature surrounding man; so that the Ahrimanic
country are the great Powers, the Luminous Ones. He is organized for
materialistic will be greatly surprised that Spiritual Science should
It would require a great deal too much time to prove
of the influence of Ahriman, i.e., greater error than does the
sun. To the occultist there is something which is still greater
clairvoyance. Thus one of the greatest historical events, the gradual
Hence there came to him a thought of very great and far-reaching
again.’ In other words, the great idea which originates in the
to the very smallest details, in the great vision of ‘The

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his desires and actions and causes him to suffer a greater
course the materialists of the present day will be greatly surprised
greater degree of error, than the corresponding astral perception
greatest historical events, the gradual loss of the old, unclouded
Baldur will be able to ensoul him again. In other words, the great

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subdivisions of peoples have their special task in this great
community, as if he were a part in the great body of his people. Thus
great question in the mission of the Roman people. The other peoples,
present-day France and in present-day Great Britain, were necessary
was the great mission of those peoples which gradually developed in
The great world-historical effects, however, which we
may consider as represented by Great Britain, are to be traced back
proceeded from Great Britain is also connected that which proceeded
had been driven outwards, you will find that the great historical
abstract scientist are mere thoughts, to him were the great, mighty
our earlier lectures we called ‘The Great Spirit,’ you
comprehensible that the two great opposites of the post-Atlantean
and think of the Great Wall of China, which was intended to enclose
reproduced by enclosing within their Great Wall the culture which
one great, all-embracing idea, which is at the same time an
towards the pure Spirit by receiving with great devotion Western
to unite something still greater with his being. Hence also the
disputes, and which in reality rest upon great misunderstandings, is
There is perhaps no greater contrast than that eminently
Christian conception of the State which hovers as a great ideal
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results of our investigation describe it in greater detail. We shall
great collective task. You will realize from what has been said that,
human ‘I’ to human ‘I’ was the great question
peninsulas, in France and Great Britain today, was necessary in order
Soul and the Spiritual Soul. Such was the great mission of those
The great worldwide achievements of a country such as Great Britain
will find that the great historical conquests of the inhabitants of
abstract theorist are mere thoughts, were to him great, mighty
soul and out of the forces of this body created his great
directly related to what in our earlier lectures we called the “Great
therefore, that these two civilizations, the two great polarities of
Chinese Empire, if one thinks of the Great Wall of China which sought
in the Chinese culture, a culture circumscribed by the Great Wall and
seemingly great, all-embracing idea which is at the same time an
culture with great devotion, thus looking forward prophetically to
the time when he will be able to unite something even greater with
epoch. There is perhaps no greater contrast than that eminently
Christian conception of the State which hovers as a great ideal
greater contrast than this idea of Solovieff's of a Christian

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In beginning this our last lecture I may truly say that there is a great
wonderfully the great occult truths are expressed in its pictures
Folk-spirits have played a great rôle. The vision of that descent has
been preserved in the greatest purity in the Sagas which in former
schools of the Initiates. Thus a very great deal remained in the
Christ. He made a great stir. Pilgrimages were made to him not only
certainly not so great, for man was not then so entirely in
truth; but in the twentieth century it would be a great misfortune
danger so great as the tendency to remain satisfied with the old
evolution of modern times. One part only of a greater whole has been
may describe as the greatest Being in the evolution of humanity, by
difference between the East and the West; we accept with great love
that which we recognize as the overwhelming greatness of the primal
own General Meeting in Berlin, when we had the great pleasure of
great peoples as well as the smaller subdivisions of peoples all have

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has been preserved in the greatest purity in those sagas which arose
He made a great stir. Not only those who lived in his immediate
personality of Sabbatai. In the seventeenth century no great harm was
what was the truth. But in the twentieth century it would be a great
Fenris Wolf and Odin still persists. There will be no greater danger
one part of a greater whole — has been realized for the fifth
has sometimes been said that the name we give to the greatest Being
Meeting in Berlin when we had the great pleasure of seeing friends
will have caused no great harm if all who are assembled here from the

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trials that required great courage. Terrifying things were shown that

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Great
Great
schools and are of great value if you place them before you in pictures,

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raised above ordinary consciousness. It has to forgo a great deal that
and prepared that, let the temptation be ever so great, they would
concern only of a few. Philosophy can never become popular. A great
knowledge; it is nevertheless of great importance that in our time a
foremost with the spread over the whole earth of the great and
A great work for peace on earth would be accomplished if unity and
hinder the great mission of peace that it is given to theosophy to
to the great and universal mission of life and peace that it belongs

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development were men who showed great ability in the positions in
greatest importance was attached in rightly conducted schools of
keep it under strict restraint, they acquired thereby great reserve
last able to take the great resolve to repress and obliterate from
It is a moment of the very greatest significance for the occult pupil

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What now arises in the soul has a much greater inner power and is far
underwent a great many transformations. During this time of change and
can point to their origin, he can point to the origin of the great
accompanied by very great fear. Something bears down upon us from all
great cosmic sounding that now bears down upon us on all sides. At
great deal of what we are often saying in lectures here is not said

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he is in the greatest danger of losing when he passes over into the
ancient pre-Christian times, we find many great religious teachers,
Bodhisattvas; other peoples knew them by other names. These great
call “initiation,” and all great religious teachers have had
times from great teachers of mankind go back ultimately to such
be traced back to the great founder Buddha. And whenever the
What exactly is revealed is not for us of very great importance. It
mystic will have great forces to spare which enable him to feel
shines with a very great splendour.
of the heart. I am speaking of mystics who make great endeavours, who
you will find a great number of this type of mystic. They are “in

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greatest things in the physical realm felt that the spiritual world
esoterics. When we begin our exercises it's of great importance

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To come to greater definiteness, let us now study the human form in
great antiquity, and in particular that they play a part in astrology.

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really a point of great significance. Man has actually something like
man's inner organism it is of the very greatest significance that he
apparently only small, is really very great. The spinal cord is the
cord plays a greater part than it does in the case of man, and the
Occultism has always given the name of Mysterium Magnum, the Great
beginnings of this great and wonderful mystery. This is why, when you
sides with the formula (expressed in many different ways): The great

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out into vast distances, or you find yourself in a great vault or
dirt or dust is clinging to it. Or you may dream you are in a great
of very great importance for himself but have little bearing on his
or a palace, having over him a great vaulted roof into which he is
fact the starry heavens. He beholds the great vault of heaven
It was a great moment in the life of the pupil, especially in the more
underwent change in the later Mysteries — it was a great moment
before him. And then came the greatest moment of all when this pupil
great significance, He could say: “In the same way as I perceive
in some way to feel their connection with the great world, and say to
the middle man was of greatest importance, away from the mere sense of
Its influence was thus greatest in the middle of such a Moon period.
Egyptian initiates, and was himself one of the greatest of those who
that they were in great measure given to mankind as very ancient
it. The ancient religions are thus to a great extent theosophies. And
and we shall find in what a remarkable manner the “Great

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human form, but there least of all; a far greater influence has been
carries with it for the pupil a very great temptation, If we had to
extraordinarily fleeting and transient. One needs great presence of
the first moment terrible and paralysing. For this reason a great part
singularly feeble, and great energy is required to hold it. This one
acquired under the Bodhi tree that great and high enlightenment which
expect to be told of how they brought a great deal with them from
explain the life of Christ as an initiation is making a very great
greatest help for the retention of the I thought consists, for a man

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practiced so that it becomes self-satisfaction; that's a great

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make that great sacrifice — for it was for the Christ Being a
great sacrifice — whereby He made use in a human body of
will come to see that not only the great founders of religion are to
of inspiration, then you must first come to see how the great
As the great Sun Spirit works in relation to the Moon Spirit, in
is, the three great spiritual Powers in man — and the several
astrology, which has its source in nothing else than in the great and
danger, and the pupil must needs possess himself of a great deal more
through a great many incarnations; that he became first a Bodhisattva.
the initiated find the Buddha engaged on a great and mighty task, a

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archetype of human greatness — yes, and even of superhuman,
divine greatness — when, at this point, separated as it were from
infinite pride, so great a pride that it can prove a temptation to
great it tempts man. Lucifer's proud greatness, Lucifer's pride in his
around Him in the great wide world.
The great wide world was not then as it is now. If we were to
not then externally visible; but instead, twelve great Forms, twelve
united in Himself all the great Secrets of the World that sounded into
Himself the great and all-embracing secrets of the Worlds. The Lucifer
consciousness that by far the greater part of what H. P. Blavatsky
through the whole of the Secret Doctrine, then in all the great
evolution. Its evolution has continued throughout three great phases
divided into seven, and each single sub-division of these great phases
very great significance. For there are a few instances, where the
stand in great peril, even as the Earth men were in peril, from which
peculiarly adapted to rise to the great and far-reaching soul that
— a religion that looks up in worship to him who is the great
Initiator, the great Inspirer, of the Buddha. This religion is not
here on the physical plane? That which in the great world is
external manifestation of the great trinity which remains ever deeply
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Christ with feelings of immeasurably greater fervour than is to
greatness has gone forth from Christ and that erudite
how his great Epic is all inwoven with the workings of the
Spiritual; think of the great figures of Socrates, Plato,
great cosmic setting, but of much simpler conceptions of
philosophy to-day seem mere child's play, so greatly do they
greatness and power entered the lists on behalf of
picture. Everything that is great in the Darwinian
education will not greatly impress us. What, then, is this

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art-forsaken, technical science, requires great courage and the
fallen asleep. The condition which spread with greater and
greater intensity over their souls had already then set in.
the near future when it will be possible to speak with greater
precision, when a great deal that can at present only be of the
far greater exactitude in the spiritual chronicle of
much more adequately and with greater precision. You will
be extracted with the very greatest difficulty and effort from
Christianity. It costs me great effort to make these pictures
character. And that is why it costs me great effort to discover

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approach this greatest of all Earth-mysteries. If we want to
intentions, to begin with, are altogether good, who is a great
ever greater likeness with this physical body. Notice once
the great universe. With the Christ Being the opposite is the
greater identity with the body of Jesus of Nazareth, in the

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pictures like the ones that're contained in the great world plan. And
ego. This human being varies a great deal depending on climate and

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silent — so silent, indeed, that he often caused great
the greatest discernment and concentration and gave astounding
going on, great and sublime thoughts, ethical truths, and above
for the Bath-Kol had greatly diminished in certain Rabbinic
clairvoyant impressions. Great and impressive clairvoyant
It was a great and significant vision into which Jesus of
great inner bitterness and sorrow. He saw these bare gates, but

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great inner change, the revolution that had taken place in his
nature, to the whole greatness and splendour of nature.
soul-treasures of human wisdom, of human culture, great moral
had often spoken with him about all the beauty and greatness of
was great and beautiful. Therefore in this conversation
She reminded him of the revival of the great Jewish doctrines,
and were to proclaim to our humanity the greatest of his
spoke of a man who had been a great teacher and whose words had
ancient prophets, nevertheless he was a great and profound
are always gazing at the great desert. The man who had laid the
could speak as the great Hillel spoke ... to-day there is
with these words came a realisation of all the greatness of the
were united into one and all that former greatness could be
the greatness and the grandeur of the Essene doctrine, of the
so greatly changed that the stepbrothers and other
It is sad, they said, for his knowledge was so great. True, he
once again, but now with an added greatness. And at the
great efforts to investigate this scene of the Temptation and
Nevertheless a great multitude now accompanied Christ Jesus as
given — who has won great respect simply because he is
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yourselves have had many experiences in connection with the great
was a kind of madness, and since then matters have not greatly
words were not spoken from any great depth, but none the less they
remains. It has been superseded by great world-affairs as between the
with the great currents of human evolution. And yet in this very death
We do right to turn to the great wisdom-treasures of the East —
disarmament, about the desirability of ending wars... a great war
themselves. No, they will not. The hour of a great decision has
have finally arrived at a great system of ‘world-machinery’ in which
the habitableness of other planets, but no great significance is
men did not speak of the great mechanical processes in the Universe
avoid scientific scrutiny. Science speaks only of a great system of
nothing but a great system of machinery. Man has lost himself; he has
is the great difference.
very few people indeed realise the point of greatest significance,
the conception of the Cosmos as a great system of machinery to which

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Printed in Great Britain by
issued. I attach great importance to the fact that here too, as in
which have helped to make modern science great. Modern science has
achieved greatness through scrupulous observation of the material
great problem concerning the eternal nature of the soul — it is
thinking in man is developed to a greater strength and intensity than
It is not necessary to devote a great deal of time each day to these
everything teems, is saturated, has great intensity; our whole being
year to year, we have acquired greater and greater capacities.
who lives a great deal in the world of thought knows only too well
them. This demands very great efforts in the systematic meditation
great arena of cosmic experiences, cosmic happenings, just as
— this is an even more difficult task, demanding greater
devotion, greater care, greater exactitude and methodical
in far greater intensity — given over to the world, it is true,
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health and a sound development of soul-life, a very great deal
and it shows us the great importance of a continuous memory if the
great tableau in which we simultaneously survey all the organic
greater detail in the books mentioned. If we develop within us an
thoughts. A great effort must be made to forget them. This is a
of thinking, which differs so greatly from the combining and the
which presents far greater difficulties.
greater than those which we generally use in our external life, which
times, even as through science to a great extent doubts have arisen
my Threefold State the attempt has been made to face the great social

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great importance to learn about just those experiences which the Ego
death. There are great differences among human souls living between
great difference, dependent upon whether we are able to follow
earthly life which remains more unconscious. A very great deal depends
It makes a great difference in which of these two ways a man has been
existence. It makes a great difference whether we grow into race and
greatest interest towards what was active in man between death and a

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every problem of greatest and smallest importance.
the things connected with the great life problems of human
patient, who came to him in a great state of excitement, because
greatest modern scientist, with a man so thoroughly at home in
cases described to you just now, show that the longing, the great
criticize such great scientists is perhaps called upon to judge
and to explain the far greater certainty constituting the
Anthroposophy is far greater than that transmitted by the most
essential facts are known to the great majority of those who are
this perceptive faculty, though in the great majority of cases
and by filling consciousness with an ever greater amount of
were.” Though it may seem paradoxical, it is a great help

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greatest and smallest importance.
that is to say, to the things connected with the great
great state of excitement, because in the office he had pricked
to do with one of the greatest of modern scientists, with a man
longing, the great desire of unquestionably serious modern
criticize such great scientists is perhaps first called upon to
judge and to explain the far greater certainty constituting the
Anthroposophy is far greater than that transmitted by the most
so that the essential facts are known to the great majority of
the great majority of cases this is not to their
Though it may seem paradoxical, it is a great help if we begin

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instance, may experience in a great tableau that which
backwards we are gradually enabled to make use of a far greater
as of greatest importance that the human being carries within
as a great magnet which exercises its influence upon the
recognise the great comprehensive whole and its inter-relation

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I have devoted a great deal of my time. But of course I have to
to a great extent alienates himself from life and from economic
great delusion that the collectivism of production is a natural
that which I had come to out of the great manifoldness of life,
this asks of us the great questions of the present time in the
great number of people produce the same thing, when there is
greatest importance that as many heads and hearts can be won
happens in life that the greatest mistakes are made not because

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acquires greater intensity through super-sensible knowledge. We
soul like a great flash of lightning, we acquire the memory of
pursued in greatest modesty (those who follow the spiritual

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inner life acquires greater intensity through super-sensible
This is the aim pursued in greatest modesty (those who follow

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He talks a great deal about the world but he does not know it,
as to those who actually live here. There was certainly a great
greatest theorists of all, for they never get down to realities, they
developed in the great plan of the world which gave the Norwegians
sparsely flowering rock-plants. A great picture arises in your souls
And now a great question arises which can be illuminated by comparing
prevents them from being willing to grapple with the great tasks of
done wrong? This is a matter of great importance from the

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of that which is seen as a much greater power of thought, like
enters into such regions, where there is a greater peace within

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connected with a matter of yet greater profundity which
greater or lesser worth.
becoming realities which acquire ever greater expansion. Two,
thought-being, takes on ever greater dimensions; and finally
Here we encounter the great questions concerning man's
physical life are immeasurably great. We must be able to
in my Mystery Plays the Great Midnight Hour of Existence

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glance. And we ourselves can greatly assist them. This may be
This is the great mystery: that man's heavenly occupation
higher Hierarchies, the great spiritual germ of the future
body a temple. The greater the insight we gain into the science
own self-consciousness, however, is perceived in greater
Across the succession of great-great-great-grandfathers,
great-great-grandfathers, great-grandfathers,
experiences is undergone by us: the great experience of how we
observe how the child learns to walk. Immeasurably great things
underwent in the course of long centuries. We feel great

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mankind stand out in strong relief. The greatest of all these events
— But now men were greatly troubled as to the destiny of the
acquired great knowledge about the secrets of nature, men would be
can truly be called great is born from pain, from inner travail. When
great mass of the people have rejected the teaching, for they could

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one gets the great inward pleasure of putting on this or that colour

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in anthroposophical thinking there arises at a certain moment a great
starting point of architecture had great meaning. Primeval instinctive
painters. The very source of painting opens up. With great inner joy
human organism is of far greater sublimity. And when it is metamorphosed

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before our soul in greater detail what the human being
place in the unconscious, yet with great vividness —
nothing about it? Well, it matters a great deal. I should like
avowed from their innermost depth that the great Sun-spirit was
also the great guide and helper of the human being, who
followers of ancient religions. It is the great Sun-spirit, who
the day, he will not differ greatly from others whose words
wisdom. Such life giving science is greatly needed by

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Beyond this thought-level lies a soul-life of much greater
Children sleep a great deal. And during sleep the child is able
is a conscious one. Yet far, far greater than all the
time, a symphony that excited you greatly. If you are inclined

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Mankind has undergone great changes in the course of its
undergone, let us envisage the relatively great
and soul is greatly dependent on their bodily organism.
a certain age, his spirit and soul are no longer greatly
evolution after the great Atlantean catastrophe which caused a
Thus a great transformation of mankind's whole evolution
this spirit was perceived by the human being. The great
living way, toward a great and powerful event: The divine event

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we feel ourselves confronted by a great enigma. Poetry originates in
year, then advances to puberty, he no longer needs such a great amount
ignore this fact. They see intellect as of greater reality. But phantasy
such paradoxes we can call attention to the great desideratum: true

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being acquired a greater feeling for his surroundings.
entirely within the earth. Then the earth has the greatest
all, requires several days, causes a great deal of disorder. It
animal. This is a great scientific accomplishment, but it must
following way: “You are great, for you have taught me
make too great demands on a nine or ten-year-old's memory. The
greatest importance, should be organized in such a way that
too great exertion causes deposits of metabolic products.

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that the greatest cosmic wisdom might penetrate into them it
eyes are dazzled by this spectacle of greater and greater

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so in a great picture. He then contributed the Fairy Tale, in which
calls out, “The time has come when a great number of people
meets the great Giant, whose peculiarity is that in the evening he

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encompasses a great many things. It is a time when all the
matters greatly what it sees and hears and generally absorbs.
have no effect whatever. But of the greatest significance is
taken money from a cashbox; greatly disturbed, they thought
greatly. It is far more important to refrain from doing what
Great care must
still rooted in the astral covering, it matters greatly what
mature is one of life's greatest riddles; those who find

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[From greatly abbreviated notes unrevised by the lecturer]
greatest event on earth must be drawn out of the depths of
of Nazareth made the great sacrifice of placing his purified
fulfilled all his great deeds within the body of Jesus.
received a drop from the same being, greatly resembled each
a part of the great Fire Spirit who had poured out his drops on
great teachers who had preceded him, by Buddha, by the last
great deal of what lived in the surroundings of man. They had

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beings sense this, though with greatly varying intensity. The savage
to acquire a great regularity. Then, when he awakens in the morning,

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the macrocosm, the great, all-embracing world. This macrocosm
vision of the greatest importance: As long as the earth is
their confessions will flow together to one great united
Brotherhood. And those who guided the great separated human
come to life in every detail. But if we have learnt a great
attain in your Self the power to receive an ever greater
has received Mark knows many details, which the great Leader of
great secret Brotherhood which, under the sign of the
Our greatest bliss from us is being taken,
His life, so that a greater one might live!
The greatest triumph, stood the hardest test,
activity is of great importance as a service to mankind.
greater mysteries: those of the influence of higher worlds on
mankind. You can only learn these greater mysteries after
Will here with greater pleasure still be heard,

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great deal has become dead and prosaic; and this is true even of our
religious festivals. A great section of mankind has only the smallest
times the difference between sleeping and waking was not yet so great.
around them; he did not attain to any greater clarity than this in his
The ideal lies in the greatest possible inwardness of knowledge; that

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lives and weaves in the great universe, they will feel that the soul,
A beautiful and profound Eastern legend runs as follows: The great
Shakyamuni for a later humanity. Shakyamuni had a great pupil, and
whereas the other pupils grasped to a greater or lesser extent the
of the hidden place where the incorruptible body of the great Initiate
rests. But the Buddha foretold that one day in the future his great
successor, the Maitreya Buddha, the new great Teacher and Leader of
Such is the great Eastern legend — unintelligible, perhaps, in
when the great Initiate comes and touches this body with his hand, it
is a microcosm of the great world, the macrocosm. Truly understood,
question: What is it in the great universe that corresponds to the
human body, He became the great Prototype of the future evolution of
mankind through its great Prototype, through the Being Who descended
spiritualise, All ancient views of the world saw the great Ideal to be
‘I’. So they describe how the great spiritual Beings, the Avatars,
descend in order to help mankind. Thus when help was needed, the great
as the great Ideal to which the innermost essence of man develops from

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
the Buddha, was a great oriental teacher who made many
able to look into the divine world. The Buddha had one great
Maitreya-Buddha, his great successor who was to become the
process can we grasp the great truths with the zeal and full
Christ's influence as the great model for human
received through its great model, the Christ-Being, who
atman as a deification of the breath — as the great
present on earth. And thus we are told how the great
spiritual beings — the great avatars — descend
when mankind is in need of help, the great god Vishnu
the great ocean among the waters, the eternal snake among all
anything human as the great ideal to which the human core

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riddle, the legend of Kashiapa, the great sage and enlightened pupil
mysteriously concealed. Furthermore, it was predicted that a great
evolution of worlds? Let us look back over the great succession of
benefactors and saviours of mankind — those great figures who
would be capable of receiving the coming Maitreya Buddha with greater
the souls of men during this period. Truly, nothing greater or more
human hearts and human breasts. Men without number learned the great
was there a greater reversal in the whole course of human
augured suffering for man, how does the great truth that life is
within himself. For Christ is the great Healer of mankind. His Power
the gradual elimination of the facts associated by the great Buddha
greatest of all the Avatars who have come down to the earth and when
— with great spiritual consequences.
the influence of this great impulse into the rest of humanity. It was
the great Mystery-truths.
There were many whom we recognise as the great bearers of
the great Ideas could light up as examples. These were persons into
great visions and prototypal Ideas which were then elaborated and
given form by the great painters and sculptors.
great illuminations of the truths of Christianity which made them
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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
great sage Kashyapa, the inspired disciple of Shakyamuni.
great purview and with an enormous impulse of activity. Of
prophesied that a new great proclaimer of the primordial
back to the large numbers of great personalities who were
learned the great truth of being liberated from suffering
Golgotha, how does the soul perceive the great truth of the
because Christ is the great healer of mankind. His power
of old age. The weaker our limbs become, the greater the
teaching by the great Buddha that life is suffering. No other
event has had a greater impact on the evolution and the
humanity in the future. Christ was the greatest avatar that
Jesus of Nazareth, something mysterious and greatly
transfer the impetus of this great impulse to the rest of
people were able to absorb the great ideas because their
received the great illuminations about Christianity that they
expression for the ego is the blood. That is a great secret,
understanding of this great mystery. If Spiritual Science can
upward to approach the position where their great model
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There is a great distinction between the spiritual
great illusion, that one believes it to be real. Man must strive to
oneself why the great Buddha preached this doctrine. The answer can
these moments as a world of illusion, as maya, the great deception.
individual incarnation is actually of great importance. In contrast
again, either on the earth, after a great catastrophe, or on the next

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greatest dunces ever for having failed even to notice such obvious
greater perfection. A closer study of these matters brings something quite

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With their ancient clairvoyance men knew that the greatest
that the great Atlantean catastrophe was followed by the period of
Copernicus too, like Kepler, was an astrologer and attached great value
upon possessing it will be that Tycho de Brahe was admittedly a great
‘excuse’ a great deal; for example, they excuse
understandable weakness of the great man who made the first map of the
its own experiences the connection with the great cosmic
access to happenings in the great universe and thereby to experience

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science of Comparative Religion? We need think only of the greatest, most highly respected
extremely passionate nature into the great message. She had a strong antipathy to the
so-called purely Aryan traditions. Here she looked into spiritual depths with great clarity
but became one-sided as a result and so it came about that in her second great work The
of this antipathy, be useless. Hence, she was led to Powers who with great forcefulness and
containing the greatest revelations of this order which humanity was able to receive at the
There again some of the greatest wisdom given to mankind is to be found. But there are
other sections of The Secret Doctrine, for instance those dealing in great detail with the
certainly not what one calls a gifted woman. Secondly, when the great truths became
articulate through her, she was the pupil of the great Masters: then her facial expression
who is in our thoughts today, no greater service could be rendered than to look at her in
the light of truth; no greater service could be done to her than to lead the Theosophical
Movement had at first to follow an individual course; but it has become a matter of great
given out as truth? I for my part say unreservedly that I know how great a wrong we should
has come to light. Nothing is ever said to discriminate between the great cultures or
Mystery of Golgotha. We see him as a great and mighty figure.
It can be seen how in the Sistine Madonna a great cosmic mystery reveals itself to human
greatly from general concepts and doctrines, as from details that can throw light upon
passed. People in whom the great revelations and truths of the spiritual world can evoke
the present time? Because one day a great problem will have to be solved for humanity:

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carrying out concentration and mediation with great willpower. On the
Eating plants makes greater demands on the physical body so that
before they can do greater damage.

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different spiritual streams brought together, as the great Eastern
great Bhagavad Gita poem, and on the other the Paulinism which
spiritual life. However great and powerful and mighty much in the
Great, mighty teachings, a mighty outlook into the space of the
occurred what is connected with the great Being, Christ Jesus. During
culture of the second; not as something historically great, not as
and Raphael allowed themselves to be influenced by the great works of
were enraptured by the greatness of the poem, by its profound
become acquainted with the Bhagavad Gita, the great spiritual song
are great because of their one-sidedness. In the Bhagavad Gita we have
originally belonged together. The greatness of the Bhagavad Gita lies
the whole great spiritual cosmos. We cannot say the Veda-Word, because
philosophy. Yoga acquired its great importance when that inspiration,
glorification of the three spiritual streams just described. The great
loosening, the great struggle began which is described in the
great teacher. He was to be the teacher of the new age lifted out of
The purport of the great teachings of Krishna, however, is to show
shall see that precisely by grasping the connection between the great
Humboldt calls the greatest philosophical poem the Bhagavad Gita.

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spiritual horizon which surrounded the great Buddha, out of which he
great reformer of the Vedantic and other Indian knowledge in the
eventually evolve is always there, in the great universe. The
always been in the great universe and is there at the present time. We
impression of red, another of white, another of blue. A great deal of
worked the one who first gathered together this great Sankhya
the changing forms. “Therefore go thou,” thus might a great
Yoga; both will lead thee to that which the great teacher of the Vedas
the fighters, is instructed by the great Krishna, the Teacher of
to press on to that which the great teachers of mankind of former days
Krishna, through the Great Teacher of the humanity of the new ages
another?” Then Krishna comes to him, the Great Teacher Krishna,
great note struck in the sublime song, in the Bhagavad Gita; the great
belonged to it, however great and wise he might be, was not without
wisdom.” We feel this, when see we how the great teacher,

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background of such great revelations, such great world-philosophies as
great force that flows from the proper understanding of the
Again destiny rings out to us in all its gigantic greatness. Only when
great and powerful; because from every verse it radiates forth to us
the great nobility of the human soul; because in everything spoken
as to the great concepts of Christianity, as to Grace, the Law, the
would be blindest. prejudice not to admit that through the great Song
have had to be a great law-giver, a leader of great masses of people.
been considered a great sin to write an ordinary biography, which only
is that which in Budhi and Manas is directly connected with the great
look up to in Krishna, the Great Teacher of Arjuna. Krishna teaches
great teachings of Krishna. On the other hand, it all seems so calm,
The methods by which the pupil of the great Krishna may rise by one of
great Krishna teaches him that a man only becomes wise, only unites
produce. “It is all one,” says the great Krishna to his
which the great Krishna leads his pupil Arjuna. Thus the great Krishna
the great Krishna says to his pupil: The soul that lives in thee is
great Krishna wants to make of him.
great Krishna holds before him as the ideal-what does he then
great Teacher, Arjuna with Krishna himself: who lives in all things
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artistically rounded way, that one could not well imagine a greater
the Gita refers to the great truths as to liberating oneself from
must grow greater and greater, and which we can only grasp in all its
day to become great and which is first to be found in invisible form
causes the flame to grow greater and greater: but the reason the flame
experience the whole greatness of that which later all generations
Gita which, if we have already been amazed at the great and mighty
the great tree of Life, whose roots have an upward direction, and the
leads to the greatest heights of the soul. But that which came into
the great teacher is really concerned: he is before all concerned with
That is something which, in its full greatness can only be considered
it. Then comes the Christ-Impulse. That is, however, the greatest
see something greater still, if one is determined to see in Krishna
shall have to speak further of the overwhelming greatness of the
see and feel that, as a matter of fact, the relation between the great
it is true, the great imperfections of the Pauline Epistles as

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with a great deal which many people think they know. They do not know
great and mighty revelations about the evolution of man's own inner
from his comprehension. Thus the greatness of the subject itself is in
therefore an individual matter; something which the great Teacher
It is to the greatest possible extent a matter for the community in
passage which may certainly be compared in greatness, even in artistic
but Love is the greatest of these, hence Love is above all. For if you
should prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with
diverted into the depths of the human soul, where the great struggle
true heights of perception and feeling. The greatest of all must be so
necessary to bring the Greatest, the Highest, at all near to our soul.
mankind. It should be a feeling of the greatest modesty which impels a

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and that's why Greeks had one of their greatest men say: Better to be
nothing in the physical world that's great and holy enough to enable
great unfathomable secret that's contained in what flows out

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child, however, absorbed with great ease all the sparse
by then. In short, he proved himself to be greatly gifted at
greater.
position, in the soul of someone possessing such great
revelation. He suffered greatly having to know something which
now she showed more understanding for the great pain he bore
evolution nothing similar — I don't say greater, because
naturally the Mystery of Golgotha is greater — but something
describe to her what he had thrice experienced as in a great
Nazareth — that after the great natural disaster in Atlantis,
first an ancient Indian culture developed in which the great
longer there. That is the great suffering, that humanity should
you make the others smaller, so you think you are great.”
the question: Who made me so great? And then a being stood
before me and said: I made you great, I raised you high, and

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belongs in the domain of maya, or the great illusion. You can
wanted to point out Jesus of Nazareth's feelings. His great
sphere of earth”. So the great council decides something
How great is the comfort with which we like
the spiritual world. There is great frivolity in our times
were indeed high capacities, greater than the corresponding
greatest fear. They knew that one spoke and then a different
Only when the great suffering — the Mystery
The greatest event to occur on earth must
impossible to even approximate this greatness with human
there is a great necessity for such facts to flow into human

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science which we acquire does not have the greatest
read it always as a very common judgment of a really great man
particularly presenting this judgment time and again. A great
overview of his whole life like of a great tableau, as long as
foolish assertions. Since with the truth of that great
a great philosopher. But he appears to some whom he approached

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the great world of nature, is the realm of the lifeless. Especially
do we know that even in the greatest phenomena of nature there rules
penetrate into the meaning behind them. If we succeed in this, great
great world outside, when the plants bud and germinate in Spring.
body and etheric human body. But there are a great many spirits
being, we have really before us something like an image of the great
to call attention to a matter that is of great importance, namely,
developed immediately after the great Atlantean catastrophe —
the Flood. We passed through, as the first great post-Atlantean
But now let us turn to the West, and see what is the thing of greatest
expression. A great occult fact is here indicated that man, as
and there he paints his greatest and best pictures.
him there lived a much greater painter than appeared outwardly. The
really a great painter lived in him.
been able to attain great perfection as a painter, but powerful
great men have created will disappear. When these things have
what these great children offer people concerning the meaning of
occur if this were done would be a great disarrangement of trains on

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springing up a great number of ears of corn. We know quite well that
within him which the other has not would be making a great mistake.
Now you will understand how great is the difference between these two
far the greater number of the visions! What does such a person do? He
cornfield would not use the greater part of the corn for nourishment
Now, after we have gained an idea of the immeasurable greatness of the
greatest event of the earthly evolution. In our epoch the seeds of

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[To a much greater extent than Goethe, Blake

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now calls, in the sense of the great philosopher Hegel, the
categories, but only show how in the main Hegel, the great
diffused (geringsten) content, and the greatest ambit; that

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of hardly a century, is a drama of such, greatness that men of
great figures that the machine has bred and trained up in the
picture-knowledge modern thinking has its greatness and its
deficiency. If it understands itself in its greatness and

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Augustine was the last great thinker of Early Arabian

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of many leaders of great revolutions.”
great political form of the Culture is irremediably in ruin
great wit, but who takes it to be his mission to sweep away

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than if they were to give rise to the greatest possible

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for its sake. Those who know how great these sacrifices have
particular forms and motifs is greatly misunderstood by
styles with great originality, Ferstel who built the
Burgtheatre was built according to the designs of the great
decorative form as inaugurated by the great Semper.
course was a stream running parallel to the great flood of
are to portray something of great significance, something
brings man into connection with the great sphere of the
confronts us in artistic creation, in that there is a greater
and greater tendency to make art into a mere imitation of
This man Rigl did not achieve anything of great importance
that art is born from the depths of man's being. So greatly

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cause of Anthroposophy call for a sense of great
The building demands a great deal more than the expression of
How infinitely greater are the potentialities of the Universe
must be infinitely greater if it is to prove equal to the
greater understanding we shall have. Already now, as we look
to make ourselves part of the great cosmos, and then our
without which they could not exist. There will be a great
certain eminent artist of modern times has spoken a great
When we look down upon the great relief of the earth, we see
ourselves: “The organs of the great Spirits themselves
interior.’ The difficulties may be very great, indeed

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who really understand it, to great profundities.
greater joy because there we have to be inwardly active. The
more one is inwardly active, the greater joy one has. What is
the same result by subtracting the lesser from the greater.
greater distance by the smaller. The astral body, then, must
the great cosmic struggle where Ahriman and Lucifer carry out

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expression of all the great cosmic connections. Now you need
train in the nineteenth century, rendered great service to
as our ancestors. We have great intelligence and do not
think a great deal about art. Take, for instance, Hildebrand,
feeling arises that blue takes one into greater and greater
enthusiasm, greater and greater joy, in the consciousness

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century, who was greatly gifted as draughtsman and painter, Carstens.
in Carstens lay a great gift for drawing, if not for painting. If we
say the content of art was inevitable in the great periods because it
account at all when one steeps oneself in the great Art-periods. On
A great deal of the blame for all this to which I have briefly drawn
be the greatest mathematician or the greatest metaphysician, but he
spiritual science in no greater way than in steeping ourselves in such
with a still greater regret than is caused by the discrepancy between

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Grimm, Goethe's greatest significance does not lie in the
attention to the fact that he certainly possessed great
in response to the creations of this great artist. When Dante
motifs of that age! In the greatest epochs the content of art
into the great epochs of art. On the contrary, when this
great mathematician, or a great metaphysician, but he does
must be earnest and grow ever more earnest. A great many
sorrow even greater than that caused by the discrepancy

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botanist, I think and make great efforts for years in the

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From this point onwards, a great deal of discouragement may be

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the great motto which runs through all occult studies. It is
far greater distinctness of what I have just told you. And that
transition. There seems to be greater darkness ... that which
little real interest in other things, and by far the greatest
have interest in himself, and indeed it requires great effort
everyone may be sure that if with great zeal he carries out the

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into greater detail. But the characteristic weaving and working
would arrive at these things for himself. There is a very great
much greater detail. And when we see a man kneeling, we should
man is surrounded by a great spherical surface and he lives

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Conclusions of this kind, implying to a greater or lesser
hath great care for thee and pity. He biddeth thee call
greatest. So come, let us call to arms as we may the sons
often — to a far greater extent than one might at first

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astral bodies, are developed consciously into greater
epoch, but on the other side indicates the great inwardness
3a ] to a state of greater concreteness.
souls of the great French poets, and then we shall find how
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, the principle of the
question rightly calls for great objectivity, and objectivity
equal perfection, admittedly — perhaps even greater
he formulated a great deal in his philosophy in accordance
with Frederick the Great? Of him it must be said, however,
culture, and took over a great deal from it into his own. He
said that he regarded Voltaire ae a far greater personality
Frederick the Great must be understood in the light of his
that comes from above flows in with greater definition and
culture produce when it is really great?
great and unsurpassable as a spectator, an observer of the
independence, there is a great deal that it must ward
A great deal is rooted in the Ego for which the Ego cannot
course of human evolution is one great whole. Consequently a
spiritual science, a greater and greater understanding of a
for aesthetic culture in its great refinement. You remember
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geographically separated from it by great mountains. We will
presented. A very great deal could be said on this subject,
intensely individualistic world-outlook of really great
imported from outside by Peter the Great. So we see bow
— I have often spoken of the greatness of the
philosopher Solovieff. His greatness was first revealed to me
greater, has effected even greater things, since his death in
particularly when great and far-reaching questions are
not the real East at all. I should have a great deal to say
greatly enriched by what the Byzantine element brought to it
and rectifying them, then a very great deal will have been
great deal about this impending war from an external,

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a great deal more besides, is expressed in this Building
world above him as though he were inside a great dome,
have adequate thoughts about the great impulses at work in
feel the nature of the several European cultures, and a great

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architraves into greater complication, and then become more
appreciated its greatness, but for all that he designed the
of thinking at all. But the fact that there are still a great
know, anything about the great vistas which lie ahead in
Western hemisphere; they knew nothing of a very great many
drag around with us a great deal of history — a very
great deal of history.
great importance to being able to trace back their
realised that a great deal has yet to happen in the course of
acquire was present. Spiritual Science knows that a great
great Teacher and Leader in our striving for spiritual

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expresses in a deep way that the greatness of the Finnish nation is
country, and this expresses that the originally great and significant
great road went from the Black Sea to the Finnish Bay and along this
belonging to the once great Finnish nation (the present one is only a
remnant of the formerly great and widely spread nation) had souls
place? How was it possible that a great nation could develop at a
take together the following things and say: There is still a great
in the air, and this ocean world is a great powerful being that is
leans over in the three great Bays, that were still experienced by
great Finnish nation, should still exist after having accomplished

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will come when a great many people will find themselves asking: “Why
realize that a phenomenon which will appear in greater and greater
influence was the greater; in our own epoch, Ahriman is the
the breathing process becomes too forceful, when it makes greater
we feel obliged to question, when a riddle, either great or trifling,
greater space and an arena transcending the boundaries of the human
the typical greatness of the Greek — of all this, Oedipus is deprived

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will have to experience the great shock that must inevitably come when
great problems or riddles in respect of the human form.
through the literature on the subject to find what a very great deal

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of Ahriman. Ahriman has great power over our waking consciousness. It
the world with their inter-working. Two ideas play a great part in
away from himself. Kant has given great and grand expression to this
“Duty, thou great and exalted Name, thou has nought to do with
This is really saying a great deal. When a man speaks of learning to
great spiritual Powers, above all of those spiritual Powers who bring

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discover its real nature, they come out with a great deal of
life of the human spirit-and-soul in such a way that a great deal is
effects it is experienced by everybody. There would be no greater
There is a very great deal in subtle distinctions such
future, too, great strides will be taken in the same direction. We
needs a great deal that must act as an impulse of renewal over
things that must here be brought to life — great though the

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people imagine they must take great care not to expose
greater and greater rarity today, namely that people did not
that a great deal of it is smothered and destroyed. He will
a great effort, of course, to activate the necessary forces
A great deal
the ahrimanisation of human life. Yet a great deal more will

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wisdom developed in this process is millions of times greater
there will be an art of great perfection that will stand out

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we turn our attention for a moment to the greater part of
spiritual worlds. After this comes a description of the great
been described in greater detail up to a certain stage in the
within him unconsciously; and even a great part of what seems
even though so much greatness and so much genius has already
great success.
better we shall be as true members of that great organism
today, but which has within it great possibilities. With this

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the outer macrocosm exercises the greatest effect on the
feeling for the tremendous greatness of human perception that
three great words came to the fore in which people saw, or at
great discoveries and inventions that are called
‘great’ in the materialistic age, sailing round
to experience, sensing as we do the dawning of the great new

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greater and greater. Not that in the Art of the future there is to be

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pay heed to the great law of human existence and to strive
external observation has become greater and greater. Not that
the feeling of an even greater weakness. If you enter the
his being sentenced. The advocate used his greatest dialectic
in civilised countries to such a great extent, they are

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whilst having the greatest measure of understanding for the

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play a great part in Earth evolution as a whole, and they
it, you will find a great number of things that are connected
can be our guiding principles and can mean a very great deal
great deal in human nature, though, which makes it difficult

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possessed a greater wisdom than arrogant man has today, to be
mirroring in an abstract way at the moment. A very great deal
of the Bible, for which we ought to feel greater and greater
a greater extent in the past, the materialistic age can
of our spiritual-scientific movement to an ever greater

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your thoughts when you are asleep. A great part of the activity of will
feel the greatest reverence.
A great deal of clairvoyance
pass when the keenest epicures, those who have the greatest longing
greater and greater in the state of sleep. And because longing fills
and good. The ancient Hebrew Prophets, for example who did such great
but fleetingly outside, are developed with all the greater intensity.

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asleep. A great part of the activity of will while man is awake is
which we should always feel the greatest reverence.
A great deal of clairvoyance is nothing
the keenest epicures, those who have the greatest longing for
physical body becomes ever greater and greater in the state of
good. The ancient Hebrew Prophets, for example, who did such great
with all the greater intensity. Since the Anthroposophical Society

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greater and greater through continuous division, the forces of the
curious ideas about the great philosophical figures of Thales,
Think of the great difference

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Great epochs of Art, when artistic deeds raying far and wide
to the knowledge of the soul, it is a great deal more
of greater or lesser value for the Universe.
the ears will not impress me greatly. The world of the
physical plane which I have around me here is great, and the
within your eyes is far greater, fuller in content, than the
creatively connected with man, in the great Universe. And
great Ocean, as it has always been called.
but swimming as it were, swimming through the great ocean;
greatness that meets us in Brunetto Latini. What others learn
Dante, revealing how Dante's great work of art is connected
Golgotha something great and mighty entered the evolution of
humanity — so great that it will only be able to be
Earth is greatest. Therefore the Christmas Festival is
greatest. Then it is that illumination comes over the soul
the Maid of Orleans had to be kindled for a great historic
it is of great significance to find it recorded in our
humanity. Great as is the difference between ‘spiritual
— equally great will be the difference between the

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a very, very great extent, Maya.
great deal more than they can answer for,) we shall hear
accordance with the great and manifold ramifications which
must have been very great, and I feared the reaction. I

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assumed great significance in physical science since the
evolution on the earth owes a great deal to these unused
realise, a very very great deal to what it is able to
spirit of Hamlet's father we see a great deal of karma that
the still young American culture, are described in a great
any moment the hand might open and hurl down the great

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with people who for instance greatly lamented that they
very much about themselves, who have a great deal to say
life, and with great geniuses one can often see how they go
through a great deal, in order then to impress their whole
great, the impressive words of the aged John:
man or the man over the disease? A man must be great indeed
greater error than to carry this picture into the spiritual
the very greatest maturity can be observed soon after
very great deal from the spiritual world into physical
soul like Fritz Mitscher, a friend who, to our great pain,
greatest purity, never losing his way in the psychical
to the greatness, the wonder of such a soul being taken up
A great loss that deeply pains:
striving, so many things have made us realise how great are
means so conspicuous. There is a great contradiction
that great obstacles and hindrances do exist and

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ask: What significance has all this? It has a great
clairvoyance is also of great value to investigate in this
would greatly err. Just as little as the riddles of the world

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a great spiritual being having the earth as physical
the greatest value, my dear friends, because it does not

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their turn, have received a great deal from their ancestors, and from

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relation to materialistic science. That will make a great many more
The great task is to
relationship between great world-discussions and the simple idea! One

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When we come into the spiritual scientific world concept, great life
Now, one of the greatest riddles
prefers, new aspects of this great riddle.
this great problem. And I beg you to be entirely clear that only
conception upon this greatest riddle of man's earthly existence, nor
Roman age like a last great light from the stream flowing from
plays so great a role in the education of youth even up to our own
how Roman thought is at great pains to seize with its ideas what lay
great and significant personality — but one sees
Middle Ages, when Scholasticism flourished, the greatest efforts of
The very great difference that exists
remark the very great difference that exists between the two Creation
the edge of a great secret, a deep mystery. But it will be readily
original European peoples this would be seen with great clarity in
And it belongs to the great, the wonderful secrets of historical
original peoples. The greatest part of the original population is

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this whole great cosmic event of the descent of the Christ to Earth,

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in the first place a great difficulty which has sprung from the
great significance, as you can gather from
figure, constitutes the greatness in the works of Homer and
of its kind is hardly to be enhanced, to be brought to greater
human form in order to epitomise it. That is the unending greatness
great skittles-ball with which mechanical forces have moved skittles
As the Republic went on and great
mystery-wisdom, which contained a much greater store of wisdom than

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beg you to pay great attention to this, for it is full of importance,
genuine Spiritual Science recognises it as the greatest imaginable
the Luciferic rumblings or egotism, do not become too great. Through
it was a great question among occultists as to whether they should
sure they brought to light very many things. But in far the greater
he is drawn in still more, the deception becomes still greater. What

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soul, we see what stands behind of great importance: we note how
the expression of the grief of nature in contrast to Nature's great
a great truth: — when the true poet goes beyond

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to recognize you as an envoy of the great white lodge and am filled
great spiritual teachings in our time, but you are making them poorer
In any case, you represent a great focal point of forces of which individuals
In truth, for many people, you are the greatest enemy they have ever
answers. On the one hand, I can guess at the reasons why the great white
however, you allow an evil force to develop. In this, I see the greatest
the temptation is great to reject the difficult tasks of Christian community
explaining this statement in greater detail at this point because that
great teachings, as I attempted to do on that evening. But I cannot
had envisioned. The obstacles were still too great for someone only
form I had envisioned. The obstacles were still too great for someone
The great majority of those present must have been ashamed of this state

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perfect at any given moment. The greatest evil, so it seems, is when
The greatest temptation
have great and noble aims that can be realized only gradually, and not
of this last-stated principle. It is the greatest failing of this day
than the ones who put out the greatest programs for all the world to
one who knows by far the greatest number of members personally. Many
doing a lot to cultivate the personal aspects that play such a great
of greater love than any other and thus capable of compensating for
a greater lack of love.”
and so on. I do not want to go into these things at great length, but
of this kind of vanity, and it plays such a very great role in a movement
great damage within this Society of ours.
That this should also happen within our Society comes as no great surprise.
full seriousness of our movement, the temptation is very great to fake

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in it. For what one misses so greatly today in the way world views are
believers in providence could now ask how great the probability is of
great deal of effort. It leads to two alternatives: one has either to
feelings with this realization and learn a great deal from just such
melancholia, to a sense of despair about human life because of the great
both in great and small concerns. The more you develop a feeling for

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that there will still be a great deal to say about a certain problem or
from a great variety of viewpoints. That is the question of the alternating
from a great variety of studies that we are here dealing with different

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will rise tomorrow is great enough to be tantamount to necessity. Facts
of this kind occurring in the relatively great expanse of nature and
how necessary it is to recall the great will-impulses of earlier times,
in the past and present as to leave nothing of greater importance in

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Now he takes great pains to eliminate all
to trace back this feature of the earth, for example, in the great chain

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science. It is disastrous in many respects to have a great longing for
As a matter of fact, this quatrain was also greatly misunderstood by
be an impulse to freedom. That is what I attempted to develop at greater
On an occasion of great suffering, Goethe
Goethe wrote this sentence while experiencing great suffering, suffering
was in the throes of great suffering. A great deal of life is packed
can learn a great deal from the spiritual beings who surround us.
memory capable of greater achievement by exercising them, as has
indeed guide us to a plane elevated above necessity and chance. A great

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a profundity in this final scene of Faust, but it contains a great
and it is an important one, for it is related to something of the greatest
eager to wipe out all spiritual insight regard as a great mind, still

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miss the fact of the great differences of soul manifested by individuals.
one person lives to a great old age, while someone else dies very young.
matters pose the greatest riddles.
It requires a great deal, as you see, to
a great deal during their physical earth lives, for their physical bodies
each similar to all the rest, but they could learn a great deal on the
learn a great deal, since such learning would be connected with an extremely
labile balance that could easily shift. A person would learn a great
achieve greater harmony in our lives than we could achieve if we didn't

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universe and everything in it issued differ greatly from this physical
Now it is of the greatest importance to realize
the process which our physical organs perceive; it has far greater significance.
the objective realm. Just think how great the longing of many people
They can be submerged to ever greater depths of objectivity. And when
as this human physical body, this great work of art, this world-wonder.
the whites and yolks.” This was a man who had really taken great
that we ought really to take the greatest pains to exemplify this seriousness
keep in mind that for a great variety of reasons our movement is most

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great the percentage is of people who have the things we talk about
spiritual science have always seen great danger in doing so, because
with esoteric truths leads to ever greater harm because it makes people
all the people around him. He thought he was following some great ideal,
come as no great surprise.

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one-sided and incomplete. The greatest mistake or illusion of materialistically
must be the greatest influence of our times in counteracting the presumptuous,
an urgent appeal to you to deal with this situation with the greatest

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scholar, certainly one of the greatest of his time, if not the very
greatest. His scholarly knowledge encompassed everything the science
is now needed to edit the great number of manuscripts documenting the
Swedenborg reported a great

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with the unconscious desire and is greatly facilitated by the psychological
I can't present these things in greater detail, but I will try to give
I can only touch on this subject today, but I will discuss it at greater
from a specific case is often of greater significance than the actual
grew out of one of the greatest mistakes and worst materialistic theories
study such cases; they should be of great interest to us precisely because
our Society represents a spiritual movement. I could speak at much greater

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years now, a great many people have been reading my
great scholar, when Swedenborg encountered the beings I described, this
hand, in spite of being such a great scholar, could not conceive of
this stage. In spite of being a great scholar, he could not extricate
his life not only as a great scholar but also as a very pure person,
cosmic order. Only our recognition of the very great dignity and solemnity

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in my mind that the great majority of people with their rather superficial
as a great artistic creation or the kind of religious union with God

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source of a great many errors. If we really want to understand something,
important. A great deal of the damage that has become so blatantly evident

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a greater extent than has been the case during the last four
gradually diminished until times were reached when the great
developed their greatest strength. But the consequence of
impressive greatness of the methods evolved by materialistic
still able, because of its greater life-giving power, to
get to the point of thinking to any great extent about what
in our day. Men had certain great, all-embracing notions,
great teaching which once had its home in the island of
of these things too in greater detail.
glean a great deal from symbolical presentations of this
were, however, a great many people who knew that there is a
occultist who works as we work here, exercises great
great fallacy. One fine day, therefore, it had to be admitted

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and showed how great the difference was between what is
countenanced in the way described. They acquired great
still to be found and a great number were used while the
organism to draw a great deal, a very great deal, from the
a great deal of knowledge from her. But in a comparatively
through her great gift of mediumship she would have been able
But as she knew that a great deal could be achieved through
great deal, for she was able to remember afterwards what had
Colonel Olcott has written a great deal about this
has written a very great deal about this Mahatma Kut-Humi,
to you was, as it were, a new path which made great
Greater Mysteries; the Lesser were a preparation for the
Greater. ... Positive philosophy is the necessary
philosophy the Greater.’
Mysteries in rather greater detail. These lectures were
The greater part of
of the Theosophical Society. I could tell you a great deal of

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from the point of view of Spiritual Science great

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side we have seen how greatly materialism deserves praise. As
a method, materialism has made possible the great
the cause of great consternation. I can indicate the reason
occultists the greatest consternation of all, for they
knew something about the spiritual worlds great confusion had
are teachings which contain a great deal that is correct and
too, had made a great impression, especially upon those who
make a great impression upon the occultists and that
fact a great deal of good was done in regard to
But now they laid great stress on the
fallacy into the world, and to spread the greatest possible
one side, with a great talent for occultism — which
the error could be preserved with even greater certainty.
utterly false light and distorted it with great subtlety. He
materiality of a greater density was incorporated into the

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have shown you that the greatest fallacy in Sinnett's
from our organism to the greatest extent. We can soar upwards
have been able to wrest away the greatest amount of
greatest strength of all at the place where man is the most
Jahve-principle unfolds its greatest activity where nature is
greatest measure the Love that is his natural attribute, in
of great importance; for we know that the Earth is the
lost from Earth-evolution. The greatest victory for Lucifer
That would be their greatest victory. Moreover there is a way
great benefactor of mankind. (Of Ahriman there was no
has this great merit, that through
some other time by matters of even greater significance. I

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the right path, great difficulties spring up for him,
can actually be understood of it — for a great deal
everywhere helpful, incessant in great and small services,
back again, so as to work again in favour of our great
was necessary to say a great deal on the subject of illusions
at a point of great significance, namely that we must pay

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that a great deal of the knowledge given out in the so-called
will see that great stress was laid upon the distinction to
to present certain things with great reserve, for the simple
exercise great reserve, speaking of them only when they could
be presented as absolutely and strictly true. A great deal of
advanced age. There are very great differences here. The life
the ages of 11, 12 or 13. A very great difference in the
great efforts to remember; but if during sleep, we exert
Gods. — But this great truth is hardly noticed.

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great profundity, something very significant. For certain
greater freedom. The symbols ought to have been kept abreast
some symbol that it has the hallmark of great antiquity,
unearthed are of great antiquity. During recent centuries,
where one thing or another is to be read. Hence a great deal
so a great deal that cannot lightly be discussed would have
he would have had a great deal to do as one of the leading
made the utterance because he was a man of great insight, but
State, he would have had a successor also of great importance
the great process of the transformation of world-history.
of a great mass of powerfully destructive forces.
what in most cases might be prescribed with great benefit!

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this light, the method of materialism assumes great
there that, even in the higher sense, it has its truly great
put it in this way — ‘we do great good if we lead
the domain of science. Natural scientists of great eminence
task of Spiritual Science to make men realise that a great
without debasing his own nature, without greatly enhancing
infinite dread of this, and their greatest fear of all is

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are so organised that we can neither exercise too great an
influence upon the other man, nor can he exercise too great
matter of very great importance for the understanding of
consciousness of this kind has a far greater influence upon
against making too great an advance towards the one side or
too great a power over us. We must strive for objectivity in
therefore see to it that we have the greatest possible
danger becomes no greater and no less.
But these beings have a great deal of power over souls whose
knowledge of the spiritual world have a great deal to suffer
Science inevitably demands greater intellectual effort than
nevertheless be of the greatest usefulness. If you think of
great deal can be done for which I am no longer needed. I am
in the other direction. The marvellous greatness and
willing to allow man to enter the world they so greatly fear.
would be a great step forward.
learn a great deal from mistakes, and pay attention to them
domain where such things actually happen. A great deal can be

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a hyaena, whereas his etheric body will have a far greater resemblance
epochs, the rigidity of the etheric body will have a great influence upon
consumption, shall then have died out. In future, a great hymn of praise
to overcome it with deeds, not with lame objections. The greater the
number of those who open their eyes to the spiritual, the greater will
be checked, and the greater will be the possibility of keeping materialism
materialistic world-conception may be designated as the great conspiracy

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added to the old. Naturally, a very great deal more could be said
Mahaguru” — the great Guru. [“The Mahaguru”
out with his brothers and his enchanting daughter, a great Tibetan
convinced that the soul of the great Bodhisattva who rules over Tibet
inspected — for the great soul might have incarnated in the
signs, the great soul of the Bodhisattva has incarnated, and then he
first we are told how the great sinner who has made the nostrils too
made a great number of gods during his imprisonment; but he made
the most atrocious way. We learn a great deal about the Tibetan canon
quite remarkable. — We are told that this great sinner, as the
spirit who was full of reverence for the great universe ... She

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I spoke yesterday of the great Polish drama “The
directs our minds and hearts to the great moment of world-evolution
A great danger for our time is indicated here. It is
then among men? What was it, in reality? To say that the great wisdom
described. But it is greatly to Ahriman's interest to hold firmly
is a very great deal in world-evolution which in an earlier age had
that had great significance in ancient times — in the Atlantean
In those ancient times a lie had infinitely greater power than it has
for I think that the fear of suffocation would be too great to allow
as facts. Never was blind belief in authority greater than it is at
announced itself in great and outstanding achievements:
Dante's “Divine Comedy” is a great, world-embracing
confronting him as a great system and régime. But in the
century, Petrarch read Virgil with far greater credence. He turned
never heard it? Surely there is greater danger in the books of
writings with the greatest eagerness. Believe me: much that is simply
“I know well that many have achieved great
greatly; the one moves more slowly, the other more quickly, the one
lead? It leads to a man who sits at the wayside when a great Leader
same figure. ... Those who listen to the great Leader of humanity

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of the great wave of philosophic thinking, the man of whom I am
speaking was young. He lived with all the great thoughts and ideas
that is blazoned abroad as great and epoch-making and that they
A great stroke can
fulfilment of materialism can be frustrated and the greater will be

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action, and who have to devote their lives and souls to the great
however greatly they may otherwise be disunited, who in the depths of
greatness uniting mankind, however disunited it may be as regards all
of their teachers, there was exhibited also again and again a great
the Three Kings offering their gifts. A great deal of this was
tongue, for in the old churches great stress was laid on this —
story. But in this story lay something so great and mighty that, out
world-war. He too remarks how much blood is flowing, how greatly we
or to nonsense and lack of meaning, so, in spite of its greatness, it
the cloak of the greatest Mysteries. Is it not really wonderful that
not grow old as do others. This is really the secret of many great
sorrow and pain such as we feel to-day, when we think of the great
way something is developed in man which must become greater and
greater if the Earth is to achieve that evolution for which it was
light, its greatest time of growth begins.
a difficult part in the great events of the times.
fulfilling the severe tasks given to man as a result of the great

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greatness, a thought of infinite depth of feeling, this thought of
great and strong and powerful within human evolution. If this
festival, an infinitely great thought originally drew together the
mystery of Golgotha. For them a great, encompassing symbolic thought
approached with a certain kind of sacred modesty, with great
Christ thought therefore becomes great and must gradually become
one of the greatest scientists. This standpoint leads also to other
same science takes as its starting point the deep and great meaning
say that science, for all its great progress of which people are so
souls today out of our science; it has arisen through the great
great things can serve either construction or destruction. Arid if
great deal that lives in this devout man in such a peculiar way. I
many great human beings, that right into their oldest age they are
humanity, that presiding over humanity's future a great holy night
must penetrate us today when we think of the great misery of our
we develop something in the human being that must become greater
and greater if the earth is to move toward the development for
here to the greatest degree possible on earth. When the earth lives

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great store of wisdom has in fact disappeared, and it is known today
first centuries of the Christian era, we find great spirits arising,
For them, this was the great problem. They thought: During the course
two? Thus we see great spirits like Clemens of Alexandria and
greatest possible difficulty in understanding this fact; the capacity
to fulfill his mission as the Son has the greatest imaginable
greatest, most meaningful human need of our time. Until now, human
innkeepers and the shepherds. In fact, the great problem of our time
called “The Book of the Great Logos according to the
Anthroposophic Press, Great Barrington, MA, 2001.

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The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
would have to speak at very great length. Each one of you can himself
seasons followed by profound instinct certain great laws regulating
nature of this mineral consciousness, this consciousness of the great
these physical senses, can at first know nothing of this great
greater, more all-embracing thoughts than we have. In truth, it is an
we must realise that 6,000 years before our era a great, a mighty
last great rays still illuminated the Gnostics, but of which only a
Year to the great cosmic New Year, from the New Year's Eve of our
that is about us in the outer world as a symbol of the great secrets
too has its year — the great cosmic year, of which Zarathustra
spoke long ago, explaining how the world passed on from one great
He meant the great cosmic years of which I have spoken to you to-day.
twelve thousand years) becomes a symbol of the great New Year's Eve
great as in small, and in small as in great. The small, the yearly
the great cosmic mysteries. Let our endeavour be, so to attune our
thought: I will accept the year as a symbol of the great cosmic year

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The Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year
YEAR'S COURSE AS A SYMBOL FOR THE GREAT COSMIC YEAR.
year, to follow certain great laws governing the course of
of the consciousness pertaining to the great being of the
senses, cannot know anything of this great consciousness of the
far wider consciousness and far greater thoughts than we. And
consciousness of the plants. You see, plants cannot have great
over to a still greater mystery. You know that we are living in
humanity on earth celebrated a new year, a great cosmic new
beginning of a new cosmic year upon the earth. It was a great
scale to the New Year upon a great cosmic scale, from the
symbol for the great mysteries of the cosmos.
its own cycle, namely the great cosmic year mentioned by
when our souls will pass through the great Cosmic New Year, we
for the great end of the year which closes a cycle of twelve
for the great cosmic course, for the cycle which
for the great COSMIC course, which encompasses all the

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of the secrets of existence connected with the great super-sensible
— and of the great cosmic New Year's Eve and New Year. It
few at least of our great and important duties be brought before our
great objective interests of the whole of humanity.
the great progress of external, material science. This has always
this, that the great progress made in the materialistic realms of
thinker — Mauthner, the great critic of language. Kant occupies
connection with the great cosmic mysteries beyond?’ So speaks a
tone to science; people laid the greatest value on the results of
develop interest in the great concerns of the whole of humanity. It
Science. We still often think that we understand the great interests
as if they were the greatest interests of mankind.
the great needs of humanity.
souls is that we may be enkindled and inspired by the great interests
within ourselves true interests in the great universal cause of
any great man in particular; I know that when such things are said
I can say, on the other hand, that they are great authorities of the
present day, that they are great men, — to show that they
branch. Even without being a great man, one can recognise the
careless thinking of great men, which has been so greatly enhanced
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this sentence on the blackboard, for it is of great importance]:
not come near the upper Gods, that they may behold me. May great darkness
something, however, that we must possess — this humility, this great
connection with great mysteries of existence, such as that of the human

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ability to grasp the great connections of mankind and of the
personalities into the great spiritual connections in which
the ideas and artistic impulses of that great period which
time. He attempted to lift it up to great moving impulses out
have been able to give the great spiritual impulses to the
our job to be able, in a certain sense, to allow these great
attempted to place these figures from the great spiritual
perception, still continues. One of the great tragedies of
that remarkable episode of the great inquisitor in front of whom
Then he gets the inquisition to give him a hearing. The great
physical body and then His being broken up by the-great
of time knows how I see the greatness which is in Tolstoy;
personality. Here we have a great spirit of the East filled

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be a great mistake if one were to believe that this carrying
great life tableau which is in front of us. Everything of
great-great grandmother, another from a great-great
greater wisdom there either. Therefore to go back to causes
and great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers and so on, that
these great-great-grandparents through 30 generations by that
grandmother, a great-grandfather, a great-grandmother, and
gives us. And unless this happens, the great world tasks will

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people the ether body has a much greater significance than it
greatest part she has grown out of the Russian Folk Soul. It
will only last until the next great European war which was
is of great significance when you methodically follow a path
received into her consciousness a great deal of knowledge. A

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Goethe, attached a great deal of importance to the fact that
A great deal of
surely contained great truths beside terrible errors. However,
— because you have a great deal that is also correct.
one of the greatest things that was ever presented. So you
West. That has had a great influence upon the whole spiritual
development of Russia since that time; a much greater
subject to a great deal of vanity, because there are
played a great role with Blavatsky. In her
experienced something of great significance. However, in our
of this 5th period a great deal will happen. This must occur
impart only the great lines of it and we can also learn many
details about it, but a great deal will only come when it has
will become greater and greater.
my dear friends, because in this domain a great deal is
this symbolism a great effect in their speech. Hence the
produce a great deal of effectiveness.

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there is said upon the basis of the great knowledge; however,
great deal to do. External materialistic science says that
microcosm which otherwise occur in the great macrocosmic
see the rather special way in which Vitruvius, the great
buildings and this is of great significance. It is true that

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contributions he has also written a great deal about
the different great powers of Europe to himself: Germany,
is able to receive a greater perspective for his life can his
into the great cosmic events. When the most important
that under the great advances and brilliance of natural
at the time when the great Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo are

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great emphasis on the fact that they go back to Egyptian and
see that the death of Thomas More is a great signal and you
processes which we are examining. This belongs to the great

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own accord, came together in great numbers and the Jesuit
necessary in a short time. This Jesuit State caused a great

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had those sleeping germs which appeared in the great period
great Zarathustra. He lives in that body until his 12th year,
has been prepared by the great spirit of Zarathustra also
in order to understand this great mystery of human evolution,

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time you had something great, something full of significance,
time was very great and important for mankind. However, since
great many of the ideas which I have put forth in the public
seer is Robert Hammerling, the great modern poet of Central
and therefore wrote the great satire entitled
Homunculus achieves a great deal. The brain, in a certain
realize that and to obtain an understanding of the greatness
The greatness of such a creation consists in the fact that
concept of the immensity of the greatness of the Jesus
figure, and with that the greatness of the Mystery of
for that which this great poet of the present applies as a
great culture bringer of our age who is solving the great

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It gives me great pleasure to be here with you once more. And to see
meet is a pleasure no less great. In the name of our striving to serve
great significance for our spiritual movement. In these difficult
think. For this house to stand here is of very great significance!
Character, it attracted a great deal of attention, and the various
judgments passed on the book differed greatly. There were people who
As you see, a greater divergence of opinion could not be imagined. On
the one hand there was an almost prayerful reverence for a great work
masculine and feminine. With great correctness and diplomacy he calls
traditional way of speaking. Those who have much M have the great
capable of doing great evil. Those with less M tend to exist on a
creating guilt in the world. And what is the greatest guilt that those
the greatest possible guilt there is within the limits of our
furnished a basis for subsequent theories. The book caused a great
sensation and, not only that, it has had great influence.
him naturally had a great influence on him, too. He lived in the
gigantic book, a book in which a very great deal of contemporary
rightly understood, would actually have become one of the great
had to acquire the ability to behold the great gifts he possessed
greater theme.

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manifests the greatest kind of regularity and order, and another realm
which we can see a similarly great degree of regularity and order.
are irregular and cannot be experienced in the same way. Great
great order, the other which exhibits a pronounced lack of order.
great year.
would correspond to a certain period of Earth years. One great Jupiter
each Jubilee Year, and that is one great year of reconciliation. But
beginning of the Earth would be the time of a great, cosmic year of
Jubilee Year of Mercury, one great Jupiter year, or 50 revolutions of
prepared for the great, cosmic Jubilee Year. It was prepared by social
human institution was preparing human souls for thinking the great
greater or lesser degree expressed there. There we find mirrored all
lives and weaves in harmony with the great, somnambulistic

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it is to say that external life is a life of maya — is the great
shaped by knowledge, we carry the future within us. And that has great

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Now the difference we are considering here is not so great as the
does not increase. They do not develop a greater sense of

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— My guilt, my most great guilt!
— My guilt, my most great guilt!

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really do learn a great deal that can only be learned on earth with
learn a great deal. And that is included in the wisdom we accumulate.
great extent of their travels, they have not acquainted themselves
Let us once more consider the curious fact that a great number of

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true. In the first three years of life we learn a very great deal; we
and a great deal more besides. In those first three years we learn very
very great deal of knowledge is absorbed from the world outside and
our being of a very great deal, and an adjustment must be brought about
of amassing a great deal of knowledge of the external world has arisen
that this feeling has not as yet developed in humanity to any great

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When we speak of the great world and the small world, of the macrocosm
Faust. He called the whole cosmos ‘the great world’,
And the intimacy is greater still if the sounds contain meaning. Thus
acknowledging its truth and its greatness. I have given lectures here

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accounts. For example, it is of great significance for the
its original place, and so forth. This he describes with great
counter-stream to the great stream of all cosmic evolution — and
On the other hand, my greatest burden of thanks lies in a direction

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for greater concreteness. This philosophy had a more or less
because its initial vitality ebbed, this longing for greater
beauty, was born into the world of mankind, we need to place the great

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reflection of something which becomes great and significant in the
are so great. Many things that are in a higher spiritual sense
alive in it for a greater concreteness, though this could not yet be
endeavour and the longing for greater concreteness fell into the
indeed a thought of great significance for human evolution at
set the great truth of the entry into humanity of primal goodness,

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that the greatest possible sum of sensations should be thought with
Wahle's non-philosophy, his un-philosophy, is based. For his great
opportunities there are for writing the greatest possible number of
matters in the near future and examine them in greater detail.

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in such a way that, in greater or lesser detail, our experiences can
greater degree in the Atlantean period itself, and which I have

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there was no need for man to make any great efforts to develop his
into the fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, he must make greater and greater
point of great significance.

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delivered in too great a haste, can be the truth — but they can
such as the great abstract ideals of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. But

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Science to-day realise to be the great issue at stake? Very much
impossible to imagine how greatly sinned against is the maxim that
course it does occur to people now and then that a great deal of
lying goes on in the world. No great insight is needed to discern
while the generalisation holds good that a great deal of lying goes
on in the world at the present time. No great talent is needed to
so, we speak to-day in so many ways of abstract ideals, of the great
There is no greater

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incarnation and with the incarnation to come. A great cosmic
characteristic, which is true of all the great laws of the cosmos.
embryological development and find great cosmic laws revealed in what
certain person in the group is the reincarnation of a great and
us say, and wrote down great truths, thousands of copies of which are
spread across the globe. These writings are greatly admired, even
have an especially great significance for our times. For a
generate the greatest possible human consciousness. Understand well
what I am saying: he wants to generate the greatest possible amount of
things. He has a great understanding for how a person can develop a
post-Atlantean epoch is unfolding in that great world out there, can
their effect is chaotic. This is shown not only by the great amount of

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man in this light leads us to a knowledge of great cosmic
too, a certain characteristic of all the great laws of the universe.
a time when these peculiar joint-mechanisms and a great deal more as
the mysteries of the great universe. The revelations of the
these persons is the reincarnation of some great individuality, has
incarnation of a great individuality. It is merely a question of
part of great significance. For much of what has been going on for a
essential part in raising this unconsciousness greater and greater

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Originally, we had a much greater gift for understanding the elemental
basis of other people seems to be growing ever greater! Just as the
see how they expand that great and significant truth that is the key

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great inaugurator of the science of idols. Why, then, should the
Bacon, Bacon of Verulam, the great inaugurator, was also a practical
made its appearance, the last remnants of the great atavistic

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All such history is, however, only one chapter of the great world book
us, the songs of the great Pindar, our memories of the great art of
Greece. See how it develops from the great philosophers belonging to
the Romans. Nearly all legal thought, and a great many of our other
am taking Greece and Rome as belonging to modern times) a greater
Even if we think of the greatest poets of Rome, compared with the
greatness of Greek art and poetry, they are nothing but imitators.
Rome, however, became great in quite another sphere, one in which the
greatness of the name of Rome.” In the very best time of Roman
rule it was the greatness of the name, what had gone into the word and
themselves like great lords and thought it an easy thing to take over
What you see divided between two people in one of the greatest works
belittling the greatness of this Romanism but things must be rightly
great without having any notion of how, in using the word, he connects
with the great forces in history. When one is able to perceive the

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great disappointment to the luciferic powers. One can, of course, only
civilization was a great disappointment to the luciferic powers
been able to lift the Greeks and a great part of humanity out of human
the genius and greatness of Greek philosophy and wisdom. The Greek
the form of the “great illusion,” things are sometimes
great all-embracing mechanized empire had arisen, it would only have
understand these attacks will become ever greater. At the beginning of
still in great measure unfree, but we may see how so significant a man
have to write. The spirit dictates to me in a great and marvelous
called the “Great Spirit,” and to receive his commands.
Great Ruler of the Earth” from his community. This was Genghis
Khan. The Great Spirit, through his follower and through that priest,
which was prepared long ago, is nothing more than the great attempt
“Great Spirit.”
powers of the “Great Spirit,” intervening again. An
follower of the “Great Spirit” — it is much more
veritable revelation of the whole process. He was a great and powerful
thinking, we can place another great figure, Thomas à Kempis, who was
untold number of people who suffer greatly under the disturbing
being of Christ is of great significance, and so we will select
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A great deal has really been said with these few words. It only needs
greatly disillusioned through the Roman evolution, as we described in
who had seen a descendant of the “Great Spirit” of old
were a great number of individuals who had been initiated into certain
descendant of the “Great Spirit” of Atlantis, was revered.
When the Atlantean spoke of his “Great Spirit,” he expressed
“Great Spirit Tao” but he was still connected with him. He
distortion of the “Great Spirit” — a mighty being and
one who did not descend to physical incarnation. A great many men were
to know the great cosmic secrets that relate to what works and lives
knowledge. This was one of the greatest black magicians, if not the
greatest ever to tread the earth; he possessed the greatest secrets
when Vitzliputzli was able to have the great magician crucified, and
the great magician of Taotl was killed. In this way Vitzliputzli was
super-sensible, it is exposed to great and serious dangers, and how
is one of the forces that does great service to his natural impulse.

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philosophy. A great tide in art can only come from a profound
illuminating the world. I should have to go into great detail
enter into great detail were I to describe all the impulses
certain greatness, because it has wonderfully studied old forms
like an outer husk, built round those great buildings which
expended their energy upon it — for a great deal of
ourselves anew and with the greatest solemnity to remain true

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in great undulating waves that do not simply follow the one upon the
have brought humanity to achieve the great advances of the last three
going on. Such persons have always existed. They had great
and you will find that by far the greatest part of what has happened
them from the spirits of the dead. Far and away the greater number of
originating in this way. This was certainly a great surprise to those
must have caused the greatest surprise because it was the last thing
shows what it signifies for man, in respect of the great cosmic
today. Moreover, a great portion of mankind was omitted because the
surrounded on every side by the great network of human evolution. Let
opinion about the conditions of our age. The greater part of what is
have to admit to themselves what should be admitted. A great part of
therefore fosters, as its great ideal, drawing knowledge from the

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as we have learned to know it in connection with great cosmic
happenings proceeds both in these great cosmic phenomena and in the
and attained its greatness, must be of particular interest to us in
and great in Greek and Roman culture constituted a spiritual
way that it would have become a great earthly mechanism for ego-less
The Greek and the Roman epochs were a great disillusionment for
earth evolution and repeatedly make the greatest efforts to hold back
souls of men were turned to the Great Spirit who was designated by a
was the designation of the Great Spirit in the time of Atlantis. The
Tao, into the service of the Great Spirit. This was not, of course,
the Great Spirit as he had reigned in Atlantis, but a being who had
had remained behind in the service of the Great Spirit Tao. The only
succeeded the Great Spirit passed over to the East, to Asia, as it
of the senses, and to actual perception of the One Great Spirit.
the Great Spirit Tao. It was he, who, in Asia, transmitted the
inspiration he had received through the Great Spirit, to an external,
to be brought to Europe as an aftermath of the mysteries of the Great
to depart — into a purely mechanistic realm, a great dead realm
performed with great dexterity. Certain experiences arose from the act
This cult was dedicated to the successor, the son of the Great Spirit,
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of soul underlying so great and powerful a work as the
symbolic, and such great impulses underlying Goethe's Faust as
power three times as great as themselves, it was commanded that they
belong to them but to their great spiritual mission. Whatever wealth
was then regarded as the healing of the European spirit. A great and
Knights but the Order — had attained great prestige and wealth
because he had seen how great was the moral power of the knights over
presses out strong forces from the soul that have a great influence on
and these constituted a great host. He also understood how to use his
Naturally, where something great and noble arises, as it did among the
immorality — becomes attached to that greatness and nobleness.
There the Great Spirit in a first embrace
The Great, the Nameless Spirit in his wrath
nineteenth century and now on into the twentieth. A great number of
fighting and strife he, who is a great seer in a certain way, turns to

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to a great part lost in Faust's time and Goethe knew this
King, then make a great fire and throw the Wolf into
processes in greater detail, especially how the Golden King
an external force. And to a greater degree than one thinks
that all the greatness of the 19th century arise through
challenge to seek greater spiritual depth, a genuine

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opinion that the greatest part — yes, perhaps even the most
externally, this divorce played a great historical role. The second,
bring — and have, in fact, brought — the greatest inner
greatly. This influence goes back to Locke. How much has directly come
death, that he can, through this circumstance, exercise a great
Christian initiation, so that a great number of them could actually
described. It came to pass that a great number of Knights admitted, in
deny that our age has produced great thoughts and achievements. The
been greatly intensified in men during the last few centuries

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It was, so to speak, an important accompanying phenomenon to that great event
else, something that has still greater effect is developed when this inner
it acquired great wealth. And I have already described how the time came for
these external treasuries, which the Knights Templar amassed to greater and
greater extent, to be converted into temporal power. I have told you how,
account any less great and deep. We must not deceive ourselves as to pain and
intensity and strength with which it was at first lived out by the great
as well as the later death — have great significance in the whole
fallen into a great many errors.
able to develop the forces of freedom, that all human events, great and
as I have said, certain great minds were led by the inspiration that comes
imagine that a great poet, a really great poet who creates out of the
part unconsciously, nevertheless under inspiration — notable and great
materialism into its opposite, the point where the great thought of the

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greater than the rate in the increase of nourishment —
see, humanity has a far greater preference for ideas which
Blavatsky are even chaotic, giving out great significant

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that transcends the Earth. To a great extent, all man's thought
spread over great surfaces, conceived, as it were, in two
recognising the great talents of the boy, took him from his
legend suggests, that Giotto — Cimabue's great follower in
paradox to describe the holy man of Assisi as the first great
great conceptions in which the evolution of mankind is still
the Divina Commedia of Dante. Dante's great work is to be
of Assisi became the first among those great figures who, from
Ghibellines. Here one might say there was a battling in greater
on the Earth were but the great and herd-like mass. Right in the
feeling. For the last time, we might say, Dante in his great poem
all the greater emphasis inasmuch as his pictures deal with the
long been working at his Hymn to Nature — the great and
his great Hymn of Life, which is addressed to Brother Death, and
his later period, showing a consideraby greater realism than
of books. This was a far greater revolution than is generally
great World. This, then, is St. John, writing, or at least
the great progression. This picture is taken from the chapel in
Observe the far greater freedom, the far greater power to enter
was to play so great a part in the subsequent history of
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live in the polarities. That is of great significance for the
the greatest, most significant and most spiritual: Laurence
there turned to a sexual aspect. One can learn a great deal
that was the cause of the war, but this great realm of

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showed the period of Art which finally merged into that of the great
we find the three great masters of the Renaissance were striving forth
and of irrigating great areas of swamp. He was an engineer, a mechanic,
means (as we might naively imagine) as the great artist whom we recognise
various notes, and was thus able with great humour to entertain the ducal
he witnessed the reign of the great Medici, whose favourite he was,
greatness
is connected with this great change in his feelings: Into the very line
great figure of his David. It is not the traditional David of the Bible.
of “great powers,” of mighty States. Its colossal character
Chapel, representing the creation of the World and the great process
the great protest of humanity, of the human individual against all that
would oppose it. Hence the real human greatness of his Last Judgment,
the greatness which it undoubtedly breathed forth, as it proceeded from
things I have indicated were of great importance to him. They may be
mentioned the fact that he witnessed, too, the great change which came
Savonarola represents the great protest against this elimination of
also witnessed the great and revolutionary change which was accomplished
with high ethical principles what had reached so great a height in Art.
the world once more. Now, however, there arose the great Roman powers,
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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
great impulse was still to be
So Goethe came upon the great man without his wig, standing
to see the great problems and questions of human life. He
belies the recurring belief that a great spirit, living in the
important, but he did not live in a large state. No great
for was felt to be a great relief. To get into such a
a greater man than the pedants. The fact that he was made
persons who are, in greater or lesser degree, merely the
see, Goethe had taken up Herder's great idea to study the
Goethe also exposed himself to the influence of the great works
his soul all the intimacies of the great art of the
previously felt and surmised now took form. Scenes of great
to make Faust greater than Goethe made him and more useful for

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
stand to make of them an altar to the great God of Nature? He
to the great God of Nature. How impressive and beautiful is
Goethe individuality was far greater than what could be taken up and
form greatly but takes life and retouches it a little. Through
do not have to suppose that the poet must always be as great as
his work, anymore than a father must be as great in forces of
his relatives of his greatness in his advanced old age of
and cannot feel what is truly great. But, if we feel
interrelationships are far greater than is generally supposed.
this perfectly well. The great poet cannot; he needs to be
great world conception, ascribed by Goethe to Faust! Only
shall also learn that the laws we discover in great

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altar to the great God of Nature? On this altar, composed of
which he offers to the great God of Nature. How sublimely
very widest sense. Remember that in spite of all their great
great than they. You will remember, many things which shine out
greater than his organism could really receive and express.
long as he did; but this great soul-force also consumed the
Goethe this force of soul became still greater, and yet he
condition he meets Herder. Herder's great ideas necessarily
the poet must always be as great as his work. This is no more
necessarily the case, than that a father must be as great in
cannot produce something greater than itself. Through the inner
uplifted the Greeks, no longer exist? A great number of
greatness when he was very old. For he reached the age of 91;
We might bring forward a very great deal to show into what deep
feel what is truly great. But if once one feels this fully, one
Minister and did a great deal of laborious work that
rest. There was really a very great difference in his mood
Think to what a great Order the rhythm of waking and sleeping
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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
cord, and between our ego and ganglionic system. To a greater
sorts of things, about a highly educated dog that made a great
not pursue this further, but all this caused the greatest
these various animals performed feats of arithmetic. A great
system, are greatly impaired during the waking life of day. But
way; that is, the life that arises from the great achievements
however, is just what happens to a greater or lesser degree in
creation of the great spirits are related to the unconscious
writing his great mystical-philosophical views, he was working

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consider such a life as Goethe's. It is a great riddle in human
being' can have so great an influence on the remainder of
work of every man with these great lives and works, and ask
of any individual and the lives of great men so-called?
which even the great scholars of our time received the alleged
all these things gave rise to great astonishment, not only
life which springs from the great achievements of modern time.
into greater wakefulness than usual. This was the other pole as
great spirits to the unconscious creations of other
tell a very great deal of the relation of our Being to the
are wide awake. No, in this idea there is a great illusion. Man
like Jakob Boehme was writing down his great ideas in mystical
friends, naturally enough, to-day it gives him no great
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Italian Renaissance, the great masters of Italy.
as I said, is combined with great uncouthness in point of Form; I
straightforwardly to a great Art? What actually took place was very
Dürer is particularly great in expressing what arises from the
biblical tradition. At the same time, he has great difficulty in
plays a great part, and in this respect a special impulse proceeded
the time which brought to the surface these great poets, we shall
combines great delicacy of form and line with tender intimacy of
brought to a great height in Dürer who with the greatest joy
visionary picture is conceived most realistically and with great
great technical power. Grünewald, in many respects, is far more
great) we find a nee effort to express what I called just now the
different figures thus into the light. It is one of the greatest
especially great in his treatment of the motif of Death:
opposite her, perhaps, St. John, a great Cross with the Christ in
generally imagined, there lives in Dürer the greatness of that

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
concepts regarding the karma of vocation. Of even greater
imagine, in the work that occupies the greater part of their
significantly great for the evolution of the world the very
would, however, be a great deception should one draw such a
would be one of the greatest mistakes that could be made to
people today if we present them with the great advantage of
is necessary for an ever greater number of individuals in the

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which occupies the greater part of their lives. They would be
will often be obliged to declare great and fraught with meaning
great mistake. For in the Universe it is so: things work
we understand it as a whole, in the great World-connection.
moment, there is still a great respect for those who have
would be the greatest possible mistake to suppose that this
people of the great advantage of reaching out to the one God

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combined with the greatest possible opportunism and slackness.
the present life — plays a great part in our life
whole. What is thus consolidated (not all, but a great part of
here intended. As I said, not all, but a great part of what
make a great mistake, especially when they try to be clever,

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
To be sure, a great deal lies below in the depths of consciousness.
greater depths, the utterly irrational, as it is said. The
theological psychoanalysts take great satisfaction especially
the region of the elemental. Yet it is of great importance to
all, to be sure, but a great part of what causes a human being
said, not all, but a great part of what thus appears in the

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studies on the great works of Art, we will show some further slides
expression in the great works of Art, are also living in the whole
artistic fancy rose to such great heights of creation, while the
The “political animal” was developed to its greatest
No doubt he met one or another of the great painters of Rome on the
no means great, but the expressiveness of soul is marvellous. He
they are present all the more. On the part of the great lords
Chartreuse de Champmol at Dijon, which are really great of their
artist. The age was especially great in the creation of tomb
highly individual figures were created was also especially great in

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life, of great or outstanding personalities. Let me give one
be a great man in some respects, and he achieved great work. He
plenty of them — are an integral part of his greatness.
— this is the great importance. Among his poems, some of
Lathe’) there is one which raises a great riddle, as it were,
approaches these great questions of destiny. Here we have a
Karma, as it were, with the greatest acceleration — with
the greatest speed. But let us assume (it is of course only an
That, you see, is the great question. The same thing
will the fifth post-Atlantean age engender great and
first place, he is a really great and gifted poet. And
great and important riddles.

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
Vischer, the author of Auch Einer and the great
Vischer became, in a sense, a great and famous man who
greatness. So it seems really out of order for someone to write
instructive: first, because he is really a great and gifted

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are of any great significance for the question of heredity.
cyclic. We know the great cycles of post-Atlantean time: the
the individual was of far greater importance. (I am clothing it
the equalising in greatness of the human soul, but in
greater and greater superficiality, to the exclusion of the
intimately the destinies of these two coincide! See how great a
fulfilled. The effort failed. Thereupon she made a great deal
light from Indian sources, that will not greatly disturb our
quoting!) She will not greatly disturb our circles.
great illusion. Things are only recognised in their true
recognise its significance for the great tasks of the fifth
the great newspapers in the world to-day. Whether or no

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
not too obtuse. A great deal of emphasis is placed today on the
the greatest importance to the scientific theory of heredity
greater measure. While circumstances are thus developing, he
the greatness of the human soul, but of becoming equal in its
however, and what causes the greatest fear of all, we might
it represents for outer maya, for the great illusion, but the
particular, the greatest fear was that Blavatsky, provided she
ahrimanic powers succeeded in eliminating a great deal. Well,

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
great importance to having him well-instructed. He studied the
Greek philosopher who had hitherto been so greatly honored.
great importance. For this service I remain always under
three great works I have on my hands so that I may publish
in this special field greater, more general, and more lasting
not believe that I could have greater leisure elsewhere than I
a support for my life, if I should meet a great prince who
that are, perhaps, of far less significant value have a great
service to a Prince or a great Lord, and to anyone dependent
can in great part save, since I obtain a large supplementary
lessons. I have a far greater longing for more free time than
great man. He himself — it was on February 3, 1613 — composed
February 18, 1564, the great Galileo was born. His father,
lectured with great distinction on mathematics and related
great significance for the earth. What, then, was the substance
the great law of repeated earthly lives.
conducive to producing the greatest number of descendants may
played a great deal of music with his ten musical sons. No one
can go all the way back to the great grandfather of Johann
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This is of great practical significance. For it bears a
sentences and formulae which had a greater influence than other
words — a greater influence than the words that were
great power over other men was given to a human being. This
away with this creation of demons. In other words, the great
summation of delicate vibrations great effects will be brought
here imitated. Do you imagine — considering how great is
significance? It is of very great significance for the

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
the far greater extension of their memory that they can guide
little; something of which he speaks a great deal at times but
case among the Masons, a great deal of nonsense is practiced;
words, certain word formulas, that had a greater effect than

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but all contributes to great cosmic processes.
in time and space belongs to the realm of maya, the great
to maya, the great illusion, and we must place this
into the human mind, we must admit, only with great difficulty.
great mysteries of cosmic existence, that a divine element was
were, a greater heaviness than it would have possessed if this
in ancient times is greatly underestimated. It was subdued and
itself in maya, the great deception. Only a clear understanding
telling me!” In other words, the Turks know a great deal more
most renowned scientific personalities of England, the great
attacked in America. One can accomplish a great deal if one

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one of the very greatest in the artistic evolution of humanity. I refer
Rembrandt, as a human phenomenon, stands, to a great extent, isolated.
this point of view, the book nonetheless expressed something of great
heart of things — even in the phenomena of the great world. He
the surface. Even the great figures of the immediate past were appreciated
of their greatest works.
great in human evolution. True, if we feel, perhaps, in a still deeper
the great figures of Albrecht Dürer, Holbein and others. Then, as we
away the political individualities, in this period of the great
Van Dyck, Velasquez. With all their greatness, when we call to mind these
The greatness of the Italian
by virtue of it he is the great and original spirit that he is.
creating. He created his great works by using his figures, as it were, to
— great as was his talent, his artistic genius from the very first
of things. What he created to begin with is great in its way, yet it
the source of a great, an infinite deepening of soul. Thus we see how
deeper meaning in the fact that the first great painter of the Fifth
the life of the soul comes to expression with great depth.
be admitted, is not a great success; at any rate it is by no means equal
composition is truly not very great, and yet I think the picture makes
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could say: The great sin of our culture today lies in the fact that
come across some passages which do show a sense for this great
lacking in too great a majority for the liberating values to
and the Adriatic in connection with the great European war they were
This is one great network that I want to bring to your awareness.
great accumulation of unkindness I am now meeting in just this
since it diverges greatly from the judgement usually heard in the
university. Thus, strong links attach me to Great Britain. I owe
whether or not Great Britain should participate in a war.”
speeches prove that Great Britain was not unprepared for a war with
passionately longed for a war with Great Britain.
result of the surprise of discovering in Great Britain an unexpected
of Parliament, the English Foreign Ministry had committed Great
Great Britain would have recognized that the consequences of a
governmental system opposed to that of Great Britain. For the
gentlemen in and outside Great Britain bring to an end the eternal
strive for greater freedom of trade so that finally
— comparing greater with lesser matters — to find fault
war, yet the greatest poet of the nation, Tolstoi, who will ever
showing Germany as the country with the greatest number of criminals
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gave the impression that he might have a great deal inside him. So he
and that these articles had a great influence on the ruler of his
family of voivodes from Herzegovina. He said a great many things.
was able to deduce a great deal. He learned from Voidarevich that the
a great deal had been instilled into him and it was intended that he
and others, not to speak of greater men who are always being mentioned;
so-called ‘Testament of Peter the Great’.
You know the history of Peter the Great; you know how he was at pains
certain facts. Much of what is said of Peter the Great is true, but
It has nothing to do with Peter the Great but a great deal to do with
forth. All this is contained in the testament of Peter the Great. It
of Peter the Great, during a course I had to give,
so-called Freemasonry, so-called secret societies, had a great
Peter the Great — let us return to him once more —
bear a deep hate for all the western elements that Peter the Great
present. On the other hand there is the testament of Peter the Great,
name Peter the Great. So here we have two things at the same time in
testament of Peter the Great and antipathy towards everything
greatest political mistake that he did not want to be more Russian
Russian-Austrian enmity. Indignation was so great and danger was

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would certainly studied Faust with great warmth of
Walpurgis-night take too great a place in relation to the
he was all that older and had passed the great experiences,
suppose that, two days after such a great misfortune, Faust
strange that the Canon of a great community should be
on, so that there immediately arose a great disturbance in
Wherein doth lie man's greatest might!

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seeming to promise great revelations, as though he might be a
them great power over man and beast, or indeed, it is always
and a great many works on the theory of knowledge. Then there were the Greek
the pictorial effect. My respect for this great writer is too great,
he meant a great deal to me and we were in communication with one
parliamentarianism and all that humbug. He was too great for that. By
Slavs, about the soul of the Slavs. The testament of Peter the Great
Great himself. This document is used to seize hold of a natural
on whom great hopes
testament of Peter the Great. The speed with which such things come

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course it can only be some understanding — of the great
impulses of necessity, great karmic impulses which work in
the way in which affairs develop when there is a particularly great
which achieved a great deal through the impulses living in it.
rites. They achieved a great deal until by chance, as is said —
maintained links with one another, burrowed and stirred a great deal
great contradiction of the Mystery of Golgotha. What I have to
creation of Greater Serbia but the formation of a confederation of
greater part of Serbia's intelligentsia under the leadership of Jovan Ristic.
help of the testament of Peter the Great, in order to create a
testament of Peter the Great.
a great deal. You organize things in such a way that different things
Jovan Ristic, who was very much a certain type of politician, a great
Michael Obrenovich. One can put a great distance between oneself and
Serbian town suddenly blossomed with flags. This caused great concern
through whom a great many influences worked, but for whose position
beautiful book from which a great deal can be learned:
great World War came about, or had to come about, as a result of
that; a great many things had to be in preparation for decades. It is
one of whom understood a very great deal about interpreting the signs.

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we saw in a former lecture. You will see how great a difference there is.
through a great Sacrifice.
The greatest conception
Eyck, and there arises in this period one of the greatest of all works
the same great Altar-piece. The next is a very tender picture:
clearly how great was the artist's power of characterisation and
Here you will see with great
landscape is developed to greater and greater perfection. The next picture
achieves a greatness of its own in representing the human

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which, at the moment, by far the greatest portion of mankind is
one of the greatest phrasemongers of today, nevertheless the
purposes of a particular society. There is a great difference between
— cannot but be one-sided. Above all, a great truth is omitted:
During the reign of Henry VIII lived the great and eminent Thomas More.
spirituality equal, for instance, to that of another great man, Pico
serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of
an enlightened and great king, he meets a man he regards as
how the subject came up, but he was speaking with great enthusiasm
employees — whose great numbers are not a sign of wealth, but
people cannot be held responsible for a great deal for which the
about — for there was a great deal at stake at that time
a truly great statesman, in whose soul the
greatness. But matters took a different turn. Something similar,
demands of state necessity. In a similar way the great soul of
France. Another factor is that Italy's statesmen set great
the outside and also that she owed to Germany the final great push
Austria in favour of Italy. Of course I do not want to draw any great
to become things of which they take a great deal of note in the

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the great truth that the external world perceived by the senses is
something immeasurably greater and yet also immeasurably smaller than
Whatever those over-patriotic people might say who claim great
personalities for a single people, there is no great reality behind
the great Italian poet of today, who is an expert on Dante.
Dante experts of some stature have gone to great pains to discover
great pains and came to believe that much may be put down to the fact
that a great many of Dante's ancestors are to be found in the
systematically and with great care, especially in the western and
until the next great European war. In the nineties particularly,
these brotherhoods held this great European war to be imminent, and
the next great European war, it was said, would these Balkan Slavs
long as there is a one somewhere as well, a great deal can result

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would differ greatly if it were held, not with statesmen but with
be imagined. A great many Germanic impulses live in today's
greater part of the army, so the Romans fought the Germanic tribes
stream did not become great within a coherent state structure. They
became great despite the absence of a proper state structure. It is
became great without any coherent state structure, compared with
seventies, those who favoured a ‘great German’
arrangement. Those who favoured a ‘greater’ Germany stood
leadership of Prussia. But in the end the ‘greater
‘greater’ Germany gradually came to terms with something
the feeling that this way of founding the German Reich has done great
of Romania’. Such things come to mean a great deal the moment
great damage has been done to Europe by the founding of the German
us, and all the world, and even France itself by and by, a great deal
gives of great concentration stems from the fact that there is never
factors in the great complex of causes. Thus we find under the
people of Great Britain or the people of Germany to do with these
likely to suffer a great deal. However, this was not believed in
could not imagine that any great advantages would come of a war which
colleague Rosebery say? That the impression he gave of great
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greater, more significant ideas, in the form of feelings, lived in
powers who reckon with the unconscious. A great part of what happens
invisible carriage, the statue of our great mother.
In his great heart the King has heard the exhortation of Camillo
‘Rome, 1 p.m., great battle

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link on to what mankind had previously understood. The three great
this, we remain held fast in maya. We have, today, this great desire
the fact. To a great extent words have lost their meaning, by which I
which great care is taken to attach validity only to physical events,
great city beyond the cliff; it was obviously a great trading city.
great sadness was that she never stopped weeping for her beloved
and heard that a great meeting was in progress. Everything was in

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because she was psychic. She understood a great deal more about the
extinguished. A great deal behind which this same Paris lodge may be
Central Europe. A great deal of importance was attached, however
Meanwhile something else is manipulated, for a great deal can be
us to see through a great deal that is going on in the world. Yet our
have been in vain had our great thinkers piled up volumes of
in vain had our great thinkers piled up volumes of journals,
our great thinkers piled up volumes of journals, statistical papers,
‘A great and brutal force was
been done just now, even in the great cities of the world.
The world needs peace and will suffer great privation if peace is
not achieved. And it will suffer great privation if credence
can be taken for a great man by the widest circles! We may well say:

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The question he asked was: Would Great Britain remain neutral if
was reached between Great
and between Great Britain and France on the other hand. In each case
it was agreed that Great Britain would remain neutral if the other
So, in the year 1870, Great Britain was in exactly the same
1839 was obviously valid, and so there was no need to request Great
been said — then the counter argument is: that in 1870 Great
Britain herself took the initiative. It was Great Britain who asked
answer from Great Britain had led to non-violation of Belgium's
on 1 August. England declined. Great Britain did not want to give any
answer to questions on this subject. So you can really say: If Great
been avoided if Great Britain had given a suitable answer. The fact
despite Great Britain's refusal to make a commitment, which
things stood, the attitude of Great Britain made it absolutely
out in the West because of Great Britain's attitude. What would
The following would have happened: By far the greatest part of the
on offer there will soon be a great demand for it. The East India

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the Chinese population is nowhere near as great as it was in former
assist a certain aspect of the great laws of existence. Now if over a
may seem. This momentous event has truly become fact. In a great many
myth and great all-encompassing manifestations of human
The ancient truths have, to a great extent, faded away. That is
any kind of antipathy, passion or instinct, a great deal of effort
it may have before it a great future, and a prosperity founded upon
a right to know the facts about the great war, and it is our duty to
heard a great deal lately of German militarism, and many of them have
things, does not exist. And if it is not to be met with in the Great
excitement was the greatest, can only wonder that a people so
great scale? What drives them to fight even against a world in arms,
great land with a vast population of more than one hundred millions,
other great power with which we might contract an alliance, and
Great Britain. Under this regime Germany has prospered exceedingly.
sciences and arts, to the great benefit of humanity; from initiating
approximately the same size, and, hence, may, with much greater
And Great Britain has the exact
nation to dispute with her the control of the sea, that great common
may possess. How formidable this equivalent for a great army may be
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very great danger that anything we approach in the world might contain
have come across a great deal of untruthfulness, but I must say I have
the truth and nothing but the truth! The greatest watchfulness is
today the greatest danger is an aberration into untruthfulness brought
between the greater aspects of the karma of our time and something that
recommended to him by someone whom he greatly admires. From the way he
thought a great man and yet be incompetent to form a judgement in such
‘He was a partner in a great commercial
it as the greatest work of art of all time. This always happens. The
something they tell us is the foremost and greatest achievement of our

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the same great trend of evolution, as we pass from the artistic representations
speak of it at great length today; we may return to it another time.
it were, of certain great events has to be broken through. How precisely
feeling, albeit the artistic perfection is not so great as in the Southern

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greater part of humanity has so far rejected such wider conceptual
not until then would the great impulses of the John Gospel be realized.
In similar vein we could quote a great many superior, far-reaching
There are great numbers of them all around us today, but those who can
all the greater.
considering such ideas, a thinking based on reality could be greatly
to that great man Shakespeare and also to incomparable thinkers and, in
earlier times, great statesmen. Only good aspects are to be found. All
that we find here is supremely suited to play a great role in the fifth
nation. This puritanical stream was to a great extent dominant in
of the greatest imaginable importance: the gathering of colonial
shall have many million veteran officers and men. We shall have greater
is not the goal would mean a great lack of responsibility towards the

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level for by far the greater part of mankind today. Through his blood
shared by the greater part of mankind today, or in the more complete
the greatest errors. The widespread discussion of conflicts among
great British Empire which now covers one quarter of the habitable
greatest imperium that had
The Great War of 189-? The timing was handled in a somewhat
that the book's greatest error is the confusion between the Bulgarian
mattered — did not want a war, and with such proof the greatest
without a war, they would obviously greatly have preferred it, and from
true nature of that state and divined the great future reserved for it
Russia's great blamelessness could do well to mark and digest. It says:

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those powers which actually coexist with the greatest hostility, are
great force in Persia. The question was: Should Russia succeed in
greater than at any earlier time, when France, as she herself said,
harmed the British Empire to any great extent if Egypt had been able to
work for a long time. Not all the impulses that make use to a greater
Freemasonry, though as we have seen, a great deal is indeed brought
greatest spirits of their time. We need only think of Rousseau's
great spirituality as developed in German philosophy beginning with
because Franco-Russian militarism so greatly outweighs what is called

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world. Indeed this purpose has been served to a greater or lesser
In many respects, today's great tragedy is the way in which karma is
karma, but this can be a great illusion. No one can follow external
I have — you could say — burdened you with a great variety of things
Reich did not yet exist. At a time when a great many people were
discouraging to discover that this great civilized nation’ — he
far greater degree a need of the soul? Yet we imagine a woman's warmth
of heart might suffer if we let her take her own delight in the great
East and West, daughters of a great nation? With our unfree lack of
about what stirs in our breast; we felt that they were great enough to
right names. Many people fail to understand a great deal. When you come

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the depths of the soul often differ greatly from what they become in
In this field we can, of course, to a greater or lesser extent,
what happens in the great majority of cases of hypnotic consciousness.
temptations, we do not possess all-that-great an aptitude for decency.
agree that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the cosmic order that
This is a great problem for a movement such as ours. On the one hand
otherwise possess. This gives them great satisfaction, and when they
to my mind. In general, I have great difficulty in finding rhythmical
terminations, but then I could write verses with as great facility as
Take a person who is stupid to a greater degree than is apparent in

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way in which great French statesmen, such as Richelieu or Mazarin,
from its own country infinitely great forces in the realm of economics,
character that differed greatly from the character it had had before.
history as tools for understanding, but they can indeed make a great
thoroughly understand a great deal.
is a great — indeed, a gigantic — conception on the part of those
everything I have described to you. It is a great, gigantic, admirable
in between. This rampart is to take the form of the great southern
Central Europe. It reached a certain climax in Luther and its greatest
Vogelweide, that great Central European poet, and you will find he
campaigns of Frederick the Great — was constantly concerned that a
its way into Central Europe up to the time of Frederick the Great,
with one of combination. In his youth, Lessing still wrote a great deal
nineteenth century, the great Shakespeare becomes a thoroughly German
who announced he would be speaking about the three greatest German
petty vanity when I say certain things. But I do believe that the great
to the world of the spirit. There is no greater contrast than that
They are absolute opposites; it is impossible to conceive of any greater
nebulous jumble. One of the greatest, most gigantic spirits of the
theory of Socialism been worked out with the greatest discernment? You
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this picture is placed in a great world-perspective: It is so, indeed,
his themes must be seen in the context of great universal meanings.
way, the theme places itself at once in a great context of Nature. Again
Behind the artist stand great cosmic perspectives — world-conceptions
the background of a great world-conception. Without this background of a
great world-conception, the Sistine Madonna is, indeed, unthinkable.
Raphael. Truly, we here have something that proceeds from a great cosmic
that great Art in the center of which is Raphael.
a study from the Sposalizo, the picture with which Raphael's great career
with them in greatness.
may recognise in them the echoing of a mighty tradition of great Art.
Raphael's work is the last, the highest, the closing act in a great
the subject is — in accordance with the ideas and canons of great
peculiarly aesthetic truth, the climax of a great tradition. Here the
through the medium of a tradition of great Art.
background of great world-perspectives. He is only conceivable if we
at the close of a great epoch, during which pupils were learning from
with the canons of great Art.
near to men. Death as a great mystery — the Mystery of Death —
had great delight in pictures such as these. This was the time when
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sleep. These dreams can contain a great deal that belongs to the
spiritual world. There is a great deal in dreams which belongs to the
will have won a great deal. You will have experienced a relationship to
attuning that arises when one concerns oneself a great deal with
great-grandchildren, or even the great-great-grandchildren of those who
so great that they strive for means by which they can cultivate
power was so great that their life on earth was not enough for its
greater power than we have; because of this we are enabled to exercise
greater degree of influence in the direction of his wishes than would
understood, for indeed a great deal that has not been understood is
this one-sidedness starts to take a hold, the great danger arises that
to you. There they are important helpers and leading spirits. A great

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great depth of the relationship between spiritual science and Goethe's
cultural period is running its course here on earth, a great deal is
has a great amount of work to do on this head between death and our new
a great deal because of the materialistic culture prevalent in the
are souls who showed great interest for events on earth while they were
were greatly gifted and filled with the liveliest interest.
was concerned with great ideals on a wide scale, when, thank goodness,
concepts were insufficient for an easy interpretation of great works
bookseller Herz, a man who has done great service to the German book
the greater glory of the human race. These people were not satisfied

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world, because we have senses, our capacity for perception is greatest
words were part of the great speech
Rome. A far greater tyranny will come about when neither philosophers

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with the laws of the great Universe. Alread before his journey to Italy,
sports and games and athletics are regarded as a great sign of progress.
these figures in any History of Art. The greatest of them have in all
Art of ancient Greece. Unhappily, the greatest works have been destroyed.
greatest masterpieces, which were transcendent and sublime. We must
could only do so with the help of poor, late imitations. Truly, great
of Alexander the Great.
31. Alexander the Great. (Munich.)
made a great impression on later students of Art.
Pisano. In his works you will observe already a far greater element
15th century, and we come to Ghiberti, the great artist who at the age of
apprentice he grew to be one of the very greatest artists. These
among the greatest things in the whole evolution of Art. Afterwards the
great influence on the whole Art of Michelangelo himself. Even in the
works as a great stimulus and inspiration. Yet at the same time the Art of
the great artists of the Renaissance — of Leonardo, of Michelangelo,

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— to even greater degree than is necessary in Spiritual
often appears foolish. This is why such a great spirit as
— the caricaturing of what is great — for we must
Small as thou art, thou art a dreamer great.
has made infinitely greater progress. Here is the point where
organs. That is why the sense-process in man is as great as
to a much greater lack. It makes it impossible for man to

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experienced as a great organism and the human beings felt that
or less been lost, is connected to a great extent with the gradual
great duration. It embraces the time employed by the vernal point, by
It is possible to imagine that a great world-rhythm is contained in
After having considered this great world-year, let us
respiration, let us now consider a greater life-element, the next
greatest life-element, namely, the alternating conditions of WAKING
duration of human life equal to 25,920 days, 25,920 of such great
the platonic year with 25,920 great breaths, with the rising and
us, in so far as we belong to that greater life-Being, we might
These things are of greatest interest. But modern
surprising to see the great number of charts which Goethe drew up for
great living being.
that great Being for whom a platonic year is equivalent to one year;
passes through its patriarchal age, one breath of that great
and one day of human life, are, for greater and more encompassing
great significance of the transition stages of falling asleep
which humanity must now bear, is connected to a great extent with the

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be one great organism and that they were within it, just as today our
Having looked at this great Cosmic Year, let us now turn our
time-scale, as the great rhythm of the sun's passage.
great breaths, and so we have another cycle wonderfully depicting the
realm breathes in us because we belong to this greater living organism,
the earth breathes like a great organism.
if we place ourselves within the great Platonic Year of the sun, which
lives out its patriarchal span, to be a single breath of that great
human life, are indeed, for greater, more all-embracing beings, the
is also ordered according to measure. Human science will lend great
learn to sense within himself the great significance of the transitions

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there is a very great deal of what came from ancient traditions,
this be a great loss, but human beings will also have to develop
of the twentieth century, it was possible for a great number of people
possible for a great number of people to be utterly astounded by what
education of their day start to build bridges in any great numbers. We
in a particular field, great obstacles and hindrances will be
capacity of employing in social life the great ideas this man had, ideas
which, for the greater part, is a consequence of the totally wrong
with the greatest difficulties. And one of the greatest difficulties
towards her which is to do with the great truths of the universe.
greater.
differences to the greater affairs of mankind, which are now at stake.
The greatest of these is to reach an understanding of what it means to
shall be steadfast will help a very great deal; for thoughts are

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made great play of its intellectual progress and scientific
of the nineteenth century there would have been greater
has to be greater than purely sensual and material awareness.
out its impulses. It cannot yet be done to any great extent,
coming for eighteen months. I have looked around a great deal
most intense, which is where their thoughts relate to great

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great riddles of the age. However, many are not fully active
body. It has reached a great level of perfection because the
them an even greater impetus to work in a way that helps to
they nevertheless represent one great impulse — to
which brought conditions in which the truly great things
it spur us on to even greater activity; then a later attempt
Parliament being the great ideal in the present day and age,

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aspects of the great scheme of things, and this to such an
agitators making great words about it, or in specific
the greatest difficulties one can imagine. For when it comes
the great advances humanity has made, I think I can say that
one of the great problems which may arise when truths

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already experienced two great battles in life and who had plans
has great difficulty in transporting his feelings and thoughts
This, in its great glory, I want to establish on earth in Rome
age really doesn't need to despise great minds like Julius II
contemporaries — the greatest ones of our times —

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grew out of the great migration and other conditions, they received
II said something like: This I want to create, from Rome, in the greatest
to despise the great spirits, such as Julius II or even the Borgias,

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truths. Now, we have often said that it is fear of the great
and why should they be exposed to those great and fearsome
whose function in the great scheme of things is connected
connected with a great, important cosmic law. I could give
great speeches on the tremendous advances made in modern

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spoken of this before. That harmony was, of course, greatest
differs a great deal from the usual idea. We have to admit
right, it was great and truly in harmony in ancient Greek
differences between men and women were much greater at the

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tell you great deal. In the present age, from the fifth
truly great, tremendous grand visions which contained
great their knowledge.

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great deal or only little. We would have to pick it up to
great climax now reached in the age of materialism. The
not become a great man because his teacher had this
the education of individuals who later became great
and if teachers are truly conscious of the great task life
great deal nowadays. Instead of helping the mind of the
make our own. There is need for this in both the great and
future will dream a great deal of their pupils, for the

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The greatest
probably amuse you a great deal and make you laugh heartily,
teach us a great deal; we must be awake in following events,
become, is right for all nations, great and small; it creates
the other, I merely want to show how great the contrast is.

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this, it will give you a great deal of understanding of the
which happens within the great scheme of things does also
consistency, and indeed its greatness, the scientific way of
thinking, too, is in great danger of sliding into the
are taken as a matter of course. Great Wilsoniades are
understand a great deal of the inner life of these people,
kind play a much greater role today than materialists are
surprised how great is the percentage of direct influences
spiritual world to a much greater extent than they are
revision of ideas which carried the greatest weight at the

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unfold. The striving of the folk souls also appeared in greater
time. Look how in the time of Charles the Great when the poem
with the greatest of all, the most mysterious, all this was
something one can see directly: the greatest beauty possibly
lived the great sublime sacred tradition of olden times. As a

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holds the guidance of European matters to a greater degree than one
which the Folk-Soul was striving showed itself with great clarity.
often possible only with great difficulty to involve ourselves deeply into
connected with the greatest, the most secretive, that also urged for
was the greatest resistance to maintain the tradition, since it was
approach while there was still alive the great, deeply holy tradition

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no ideals. On the contrary, it has a great many ideals which,
indeed ideals of great value. But the people of today are not
great scheme of things; they are concrete facts which have to
great perspectives of a social nature, which went far beyond
indeed have some degree of greatness in the present time,
great deal of trouble to encourage them to build bridges.
great horrors of darkness for the ahrimanic powers and a
you think on this, you will see that principles of great
become really familiar with the thought that a great many

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are biased, even if correct, will often cause greater
of course, depend a great deal on the geographical latitude
also great historical perspectives. You will also find it
holds the greatest power in the inner life. Man can only

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Apollo. Yes, this was the great task of humanity, the great
designed by later goldsmiths to become the great art in the
the North incorporated by the great gold mystery, as
What does the Nibelungenlied say? What is its great teaching?
during the great synthesis taking place between Roman elements
great fruitfulness of Albertus Magnus, we see it blooming, we

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of Golgotha had to face Apollo. Yes, it was a great work of humanity,
a great artistic work of humanity, to place what the world beyond can
what then became a great art in the realm of three-dimensional, the
was being worked against it by making alive the great Mystery of the
when the great synthesis occurred between that, which was Roman in the
Regensburg, which later bore great fruit through Albertus Magnus. We see

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the human realm in the autumn of 1879, holds great
Graeco-Latin times. It has to be kept in mind that the great
of the great catastrophe, the spirits of darkness will make
account of the Spirits which serve the great cosmic scheme of
great future, for the whole of anthroposophy is on those
must be understood today when great, tremendous events happen

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regions. I have often drawn attention to the great
spiritual influences to a far greater extent than people
my words with great care. I am saying ‘in
one of the greatest affirmations of Goetheanism, is
the sixteenth century onwards as great and glorious
of humanity find it easiest to ascribe greatness and
great deal to do with the events of the year 1917, having
Greatest of spirits, mind most independent,

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on, I want to draw your attention to something of great
In the fifteenth century the earth held the greatest
earth held the greatest power of attraction for the
have to put a great deal into it if you are to arrive at
in the horse, considering this to be a great advance. People

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great beauty, nor a cosmic-universal image, but in which we can
peculiarity was the great oriental empire of the 3rd
little. A great deal has flowed in — refer to historical
Romanism was actually great only in ideas which pre-occupied
Christian art. Certainly a great deal depends on the material,

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the bodily in man, in by far the greater number of his artistic creations,
where we certainly see great beauty still — the cosmic-universal
first great period of its development, was drawn from Greece for two
this unimaginative Rome. The duality in which Rome was always great was
characteristic of the great Oriental kingdoms of the third post-Atlantean
great in ideas that concern themselves with the formation of the social
art. A great deal, certainly depends on the material used, but what

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it contains a very great deal of all that Goethe is wishing
approached in thought with great caution. As I said, this is
it is a counterpart of the great cosmic germ-cell.
these things has to a great extent been lost. I have told you
through great spiritual vision. The whole connection with the
which you can see how the great poet Goethe did not simply

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theoretic sense, the great problems of Birth and Death stand
indicates his meaning with the greatest possible intensity.
a sentence of great importance for the fifth post-Atlantean
between Faust and Mephistopheles contains a great deal of the
acquaintance with illusion — with Maya, with the great
great errors as I mentioned recently, — all these are

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the Christ Impulse deal with the great significant problem
great Atlantean age. Particularly during the 4th Atlantean epoch,
influence upon birth and death, an influence which greatly
man could to a great extent influence the health and illness of
connection, for these still touch to a great extent human
those who suffer greatly through the fact that they do not grasp
greatly involved in that which constitutes above all the

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have to do with the great and significant life-question of
Christ-Impulse to do with the great and important question
more physical form in the great Atlan Lean epoch. Notably in
the force of Electricity, which will assume far greater
the one, hand are those who suffer greatly, because they
they were the great rebels, who were none the less necessary
Nov the great
the Spiritual World. This is a point where the great riddle
diametrically opposite. We are here touching a great riddle,
in childhood, are of great significance. And you may also
its great progress in every kind of human thought. Why, they

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“On one occasion she was watching at night in great
driven at a great pace. In the smaller cities people returning
greatly differ, indeed in the most characteristic cases, that
greatest danger begins. The matter is dangerous first, because
the patient greatly pitied. In short, she exercises a
great scholar. It was something that any reasonable man could
devoted himself to his work and achieved a great success,
best and greatest of all that mankind has thought and felt, but
“The pictures contain not only the best and greatest of
When you read the complete sentence you run upon the great

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surmised many of these things, called the great
case, if there were a greater variety of cases in the
deepest respect for real scientific thinking, and for the great
building its brain manifests greater wisdom than it is
Nietzsche was protected to a great extent. If his last
things that have sprung from strong oppositions, great thoughts
into regions of great difficulty if it yields to
Here, you see, lies the great mistake that is being made. It

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honestly convinced that the great majority of people were not
is to gain greater power and so to take advantage of certain
trends are always only an outcome of what the great impulses in
understand the great impulses behind human evolution. During
these matters: we will speak of them in greater detail
explanations how great is the difference between West and East
consciousness. Certainly there is a great deal down below the
we must be quite clear that we know nothing of a great deal
far the greater part of our being is unconscious, or
great extent on human beings. And one significant change comes
is a great satisfaction to me that these discussions, which are

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see, a great many temptations face humanity. When the powers of evil
period will know something for human evolution out of greater ideas
the great devoutness that reigned within their Christian cloisters.
esoteric truths, but its application would lead to great
to point to the three or four great truths to which the fifth

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Providence has ordained an arrangement which is a great
they must be seen — in the light of the great issues
time we will turn our attention to the three or four great

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comprehension of one's own individual values but of the great
greater significance than all the wishy-washy talk of “cosmic
special treatment of great issues of life that have been obscured in
this out to you. One great issue of life can be characterized in the
people who are familiar in a selfless way with the great aims of
mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the
one has the best method of ruling over great masses of people. One
in a group-egotistical sense what I presented to you as the great
placed at the service of earthly existence. A great struggle will
concern itself so that all the great temptations that will emanate
matters. Here, above all, the great distinction will appear. Through
gathering a great deal from such a summary as this picture of the

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great Irrational which lies hidden behind all existence ...
epoch humanity will have to find ways of dealing with great
them. One of these great problems will be concerned with
aware of the great aims of earth-evolution and wish to shape
together of human beings with machines will be a great and
third great question concerns ways of thinking about human
and the union of man and woman. These things indicate the great
talk a great deal about the old alchemy; sometimes they call to
the great problem of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch is utilised
course. Naturally, a great deal of water will have to flow
groups to get behind this secret and to accomplish a great deal
In the future there will be a great battle. Human science will
Virgo. The great secret to be discovered will be how the
will have to see to it that all the great temptations which
matter. Here, above all, a great distinction will arise. On one
and great care will have to be taken not to introduce improper
new age. A great many people, of course, are instinctively
everything which seeks to enlist a great number of men
great deal of light on the present situation. We must really
great deal out of the relationships shown in this picture of

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pointed out, from the aspect of spiritual science, the great
nevertheless been placed on the same level as other great
great extent with the lower qualities of human nature.
is not important, nevertheless there is a great deal of talk
spread among the great masses of the people, which is to be
greatest enemies with a similar attitude on our side. And

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great deal remaining of the desire to destroy the living, to
nature, having great joy in what happens without the
Thus, a great
obtain a great deal of that which permeates the soul of the

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development of man it will be of great importance to know
first, to a great deal of that which creates a right
lived here in Switzerland, a man with great ideas, that were
Otto Heinrich Jäger? He is one of the greatest men of
borne fruit, because something very great was in this man,
who taught at the Zurich University and wrote books on great

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to bear in mind that a relatively great wisdom is active in
great earnestness of life. In this age it is our task to see
of death. Last time I mentioned the great change in man's
an example of the great difference between the physical world
death and a new birth we learn a great deal concerning the

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ages. But man is under a great illusion in making everything
abstraction; indeed, the greatest abstraction.
possessed. Only with great difficulty can a modern man
“corpse-history” has a great importance in the
looked upon as “great” are, in reality, merely

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Result of the Catastrophic Events of the Great War
great number of life-germs develop in the ocean, germs which
that rise up every year in great numbers from the sea and
though with great difficulty in our materialistic age.
when he finally saw the great works of art in Italy which
humanity should be educated to understand a very great event
spiritual life humanity today should be led with the greatest
greater we find this difference. We have often spoken of
become the great impulse for the human understanding of
way, or in an abstract faith. In our age there is a great
what attitude we should adopt. This answers to a great extent

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gourd or it may be flask. I include in this remark a great
develop a greater capacity to do this than in our age.
characteristics of our times, that people who may be great in
one field are exponents of the greatest nonsense in another.
concrete grasp of the great interests of the times, by
of the great interests of the times, by realizing what
great selflessness. It is just this method that awakens the

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book: — All the great figures, in reality, are none
Moon through the Zodiac. Dionysos — in that great
into thin air. Then they began to take the greatest pains to
no Chemistry. They knew nothing at all of the great world of
reality, the greatest transition-time of all Earth-evolution.
changed, and greatly so. Mankind to-day is not exposed to
to-day a great number of things are working in social life;
the great thankfulness of the human being after death, for
are connected so significantly with the great and

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the great contrast between such ways of thought as those of
Martin, therefore, whose ways of thought still had great
materialism of Dupuis still had a certain greatness,
very opposite, the greatest things of human evolution, can
world a great political manifesto in the year 1917, took up
though it were a great revelation. Truly, one need not go so
greatness things that are merely absurd and laughable. These
the greater the fruits it can bear for the future.
said that “a great Time finds but it small and petty
our Time, yet great it can be; and in a certain sense, it
must find the men who can think greatly. But they will not be

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Mysteries of birth laid the greatest stress on the
summary description of what goes on in the great Universe
great and so far-reaching that this present time could blush

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and the Israelites. Moreover, one can say that a great part of the
something very deep and of great meaning. It shows that in those

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differently in the female sex, and which apparently makes greater
think, so does it depend on greater, more extended star
the sex problem, and that greatest decadence which is expressed in
someone has learnt a great deal, has become wise — let us say,

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themselves a greater antiquity than that of the Gods then in power.
to look up to the great mysteries in his surroundings, then he must
times. But far the greater number of people saw nothing at all. Far
the greater number of people saw neither what was built nor what this
represented. Far the greater number of people stood — to use
speaks of man? Of what does even a great part of modern fiction
centre. For the idea of heredity plays far the greatest role in the

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a certain example — naturally at a great distance — an
greatest age, one that brings most of all to humanity, one that
very great, greater from a certain aspect than they were in former
the earth. But think of the great revolution that now comes with the
from the celestial constellations as the great swing-over that had
forehead. Man can become great with this earth-culture in this fifth
this epoch great must be brought about from the forces of the
But in this fifth post-Atlantean age he has the greatest possibility
greatest spiritual possibilities. In no age was it granted to men to
sleeping Isis! The greatest part of mankind is sleeping
understand the great impulses which solely and alone can lead
nature-researchers and other learned men proclaim him today a great
lunatic asylum! The great credit due to Julius Robert Mayer has gone
people live today is indeed great, while the will to look at the

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as first interesting us after the great Atlantean catastrophe,
that followed the great Atlantean catastrophe mankind can be said to
immediately upon the great flooding of the earth — called in
first epoch after the great Atlantean catastrophe man remained
great difference in the first 2,160 years after the great Atlantean
in which man no more remained capable of development to such a great
age, into the fifties. In the second epoch after the great Atlantean
affairs. Today we see the claim made by great circles of mankind to
Friedrich Schlegel saw a great onesidedness in the French Revolution.
Friedrich Schlegel sees a great onesidedness in the French
Christianized. And he sees the great evil to be that science has
warmth, and his great personal impulse was to serve his age, to
in Vienna that he had a hope, a great hope, that out of the disorder
truly delivered with great power, he put the Bible text: ‘I
Europe? One can admit that he had a feeling for the greatness, the
things and carry out things that are great and brilliant, but it
illusions. And this is connected with the great problem that is now
itself upon mankind, it will bring the greatest unhappiness upon
there must again and again be emphasized how it is the great demand

Title: Ancient Myths: Lecture VI
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once in ancient Greece the great and significant inscription
science has made very great advances in our time and has a rich
It will the sooner become spirituality the greater the number of
and so it goes from generation to generation. Out in the great cosmic
as in a great world machine. But for the modern clever men what has
smallest, since he cannot raise himself to the great. But it

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meditating over all these things one can gain great help by thinking
divining-rod, which has played such a great role in this war. You
there are a great many cockchafers in a year then in three to five
a year in which there are great numbers of cockchafers. Now I had
great mutual agreement. What we see in Brest-Litowsk, this game of a
time since the great Atlantean deluge, the Flood. Geology calls it
is today — as we have often said — there was land. A great
instead they sent down their greatest Messenger precisely at that
often quoted it — ‘Mathematics is in truth a great poem’.
worlds of the stars and their courses, is a great poem, one must be
plainly now in external life, it is shown too in the great
if one really studies history, there is a great difference between
do they do it? A great part of those who are heavily involved in the
so plausible for great masses since it is logical head-experience,

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illusions. A great deal is preached about selflessness and universal love between men; this is
number of souls of those who are thirsting for spiritual life in our sense has very greatly
greater; the attention given to our impulses has recently become undeniably greater, at least in
from which the greater part of mankind is suffering. This terrible confusion among men comes
with lantern slides, I have talked a great deal with our members about the Group that will take
cause. For nothing could promote greater confusion among us than our wishing to make any kind of
fight against a great deal of what today we can no longer call prejudice, for things work too
To think with reality! Man has the greatest need of
narrowness and limitation. In the field of his narrowness and limitation great things can
the men who invent these methods would just think of the great people they revere,
on, these great ones would one and all, if given these tests, have been looked upon as the most
considered by those who give these tests today as a very great physicist — as I think you

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with matter, and thus, for the greater part, remains unconnected with it; to this part matter is
only great significance for understanding man, but also great significance for understanding what

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(About ultimate questions), the greater part of it being aphorisms. One of these aphorisms
clearly distinguishable that the most outstanding minds receive a great deal that seeps through
particularly surprising since in this case, Wilson emphasises how a great number even of
here, not merely the "what" — the feeling that in all this something greater is speaking
great affairs of mankind are gradually developing. You see, my dear friends, what starts great
noticeable tendency for people to sympathise greatly with those who seek maliciously to slander
And in connection with spreading the knowledge of Spiritual Science this sleep can be as great an
the opposing cultural powers can be overcome. Man's intellect today is so great that if the
I might, it is true, add a great deal more to what

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own that they are thinking of a great world machinery.
forces of this great world machinery is ruling and working;
great number of these learned men who represent such special
Priest brought forward something of the greatest interest. He
great cosmic event that must be understood. Before the
is connected with the great spiritual mystery.
green in diagram.) This, however, is to a great extent
the greatest part is also present in the prototype.
constitution of man the greatest materialist is the head.

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incarnation. In this map you would be able to read a great
extinguished. Before that year, however, man knew a great
would see as the cosmic tableau — as the great cosmic
still talk of, as great ideals. We can do this from the time
great would-be Caesar, Woodrow Wilson. All that is talked of
filling men's heads farther removed from the great cosmic
bourgeoisie increasingly loses interest in the great
questions of world outlook. These great questions are indeed
spiritual that would prefer to relegate all great questions
time from the text books, or any books written by the great
him, a lawsuit that made a great deal of stir in Rome and was
that day what was great in politics, and at the same time see
speaking as having had so great an influence on politics from
wielding indeed this great influence but drawing down his
we are now coming to a great and pregnant question.
with the great spiritual world. Everything betraying this

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beyond having nothing to having debts. It is a great weakness
something of the greatest and can serve to describe man's
Maya, the great illusion.
the great significance of the transition from that
scientific books, and it is taken as a great and significant
is foolish, but today it counts for great wisdom.
not be grasped with abstract concepts; this was the great
shock. This was the great shock and the deep cleft that
gives a great political survey of how social conditions ought
the great fundamental questions of the day, with which men

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after us, in future times, will see greater than we ourselves
how, in reality, St. Augustine with a far greater justification
to the great secret of Birth and Death. That is considered by
connection between Birth and Death in the great Cosmic life
shall now have to make a great jump. Just as we hare
Auguste Comte is to a great extent representative of a certain
Comte is representative of a great portion of the philosophical
so Comte tried to present a like harmony in his great work on
features, He occupied himself a great deal with the founding of
with a great sweep, according to the basic principles of
anyone who knows life to-day, knows that no great number of

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after us, in future times, will see greater than we ourselves
the great secret of Birth and Death. That is considered by
between Birth and. Death in the great Cosmic Life into which
shall now have to make a great jump. Just as we have
Auguste Comte is to a great extent representative of a certain
Comte is representative of a great portion of the philosophical
so Comte tried to present a like harmony in his great work on
features. He occupied himself a great deal with the founding of
with a great sweep, according to the basic principles of
anyone who knows life to-day, knows that no great number of

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present constitute the Nature of the future. It is a great delusion
This is connected with many things: and a great
consists in the greatest happiness of the greatest number of human
mind: — “The good consists in the greatest happiness of
the greatest number of human beings on the Earth.” That
greatest happiness of the greatest number, evil must then consist
in the greatest happiness of the least number.
case evil would be the greatest happiness of the least number, and
1st. The great Fetish.
2nd. The great Medium.
3rd. The great Being.
And he says: the great Fetish is the
Mother-bosom of humanity in space. Space itself is the great Medium
out of which humanity comes. The great Being, the last person in

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the Nature of the future. It is a great delusion to believe
This is connected with many things; and a great deal depends on
should be striven for as an ideal) consists in the greatest
happiness of the greatest number of human beings on the
“The good consists in the greatest happiness of the
greatest number of human beings on the Earth.” That
greatest happiness of the greatest number, evil must then
consist in the greatest happiness of the least number.
that case evil would be the greatest happiness of the least
1st. The great Fetish.
2nd. The great Medium.
3rd. The great Being.
he says: the great Fetish is the Mother-bosom of humanity in
space. Space itself is the great Medium out of which humanity
comes. The great Being, the last person in his trinity, is

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given. Well, we have gone into a great deal. I could still relate many

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of soul and spirit are enacted in us great cosmic events are happening
as among the Hierarchy of the Angels and to a great extent in the hierarchy

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alone who know the great laws resulting from spiritual science which
relate to the greatness of nature in the way I have just explained,
being used as food-stuffs and for other purposes. In nature a great
springing up everywhere. That is the great anxiety for civilisation
that has great influence on the English-American peoples (that is the
truth, the greater the hostility, and the more this truth proves effective

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one, Anaxagoras, still knew a great deal of the old

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consciousness there also lies a very great deal of what a men
would find that, during this waking time, they do a great
they sleep too — sleep as regards a very great many
while the greater part of our life of feeling, and above all
the way on ideas and concepts. However great a genius a man
a great mystery of existence. You will have realised, from

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greatest interest to every man. I have spoken to you of the
reality. It is of great importance to take heed of this.
effort. This is exactly the reason why we can make such great
‘Great God’ who worked through natural phenomena.
concerned man makes the greatest mistake in believing that
found the-following: “It is one of the greatest
friends, this man says a great deal that is clever, but he
naturally greater than this, of the whole spiritual world and
authority, nor stand in great awe of anything because we have
present of great importance ßr finding our right path.

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to stand vertically. Now a great deal in the whole being of man is
study the real being of man, we ought to lay great emphasis on the
following point — that a great deal in the world would be
abstract words — but in this abstraction there is a very great

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to stand vertically. Now a great deal in the whole being of man is
study the real being of man, we ought to lay great emphasis on the
following point — that a great deal in the world would be
abstract words — but in this abstraction there is a very great

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the Luciferic was working with great strength, and times when the
Ahriman, and this brings about great
greatest where there
it was given out through the great Initiates in a more pictorial,
back at the great figures of Greek philosophy, at Anaxagoras, at
That was his mistake, and also his great tragedy, for man no longer
weaknesses of others. The two great dangers threatening the world at

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the Luciferic was working with great strength, and times when the
Ahriman, and this brings about great
greatest where there
it was given out through the great Initiates in a more pictorial,
back at the great figures of Greek philosophy, at Anaxagoras, at
That was his mistake, and also his great tragedy, for man no longer
weaknesses of others. The two great dangers threatening the world at

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facility is adapted for grasping a great deal in the natural order,
of nature that this great evil originated — the placing of
greater one.
shame; that which gives greatest meaning to the earth is manifest in

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facility is adapted for grasping a great deal in the natural order,
of nature that this great evil originated — the placing of
greater one.
shame; that which gives greatest meaning to the earth is manifest in

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with great pride, even with real arrogance. In a certain sense those who
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
were at various stages of evolution; but in the case of a great
and our age is the age of great disharmonies, great discrepancies, with

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with great pride, even with real arrogance. In a certain sense those who
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
were at various stages of evolution; but in the case of a great
and our age is the age of great disharmonies, great discrepancies, with

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would have acquired an enormous amount of great wisdom, somewhat
fantastic wisdom, but all the same a great amount of wisdom. This
suddenly precipitated into earthly existence, would find a very great
much of these things, it has never in its chronicles taken a great
a very great deal remains problematical. It is from the inner
its essential nature forms the greatest imaginable contrast to all
but also as a phenomenon of great power. And the intention was to deluge
The eminent teacher, whose name is unknown, but who was the greatest
will show you in greater detail why it is so truly wise on the part of the

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would have acquired an enormous amount of great wisdom, somewhat
fantastic wisdom, but all the same a great amount of wisdom. This
suddenly precipitated into earthly existence, would find a very great
much of these things, it has never in its chronicles taken a great
a very great deal remains problematical. It is from the inner
its essential nature forms the greatest imaginable contrast to all
but also as a phenomenon of great power. And the intention was to deluge
The eminent teacher, whose name is unknown, but who was the greatest
will show you in greater detail why it is so truly wise on the part of the

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Gods. There were great rituals then, full of significance, designed
been revived in Rome with a much greater display of brilliance than
a great cultural question. What happens if the Intellectual or Mind
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
woven into mankind (everything has its great and powerful aspects and
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
accordance with the essential aims arising from the great
people nowadays who believe they do a great deal of thinking, in fact
great importance. We should not judge the world to-day in accordance
of the world through the great and powerful phenomena of nature. I
to present-day Rome, to the Rome that has become great especially

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Gods. There were great rituals then, full of significance, designed
been revived in Rome with a much greater display of brilliance than
a great cultural question. What happens if the Intellectual or Mind
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
woven into mankind (everything has its great and powerful aspects and
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
accordance with the essential aims arising from the great
people nowadays who believe they do a great deal of thinking, in fact
great importance. We should not judge the world to-day in accordance
of the world through the great and powerful phenomena of nature. I
to present-day Rome, to the Rome that has become great especially

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
the purely anthroposophical point of view that the last great
cannot understand Catholicism before the great turning point
disputations were debated with greater intelligence than the
Catholicism exercised its greatest dynamic power national
England lays greater emphasis upon the national element, in

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
— at first not pursuing this in greater detail, for we
Consequently great personalities of antiquity such as
him from an esoteric point of view he remains a great enigma
Consciousness Soul. It would be the greatest misfortune and a
great pains (and I have alluded to this on various occasions)
I have been at great pains to
of the Revolution and Napoleon lies one of the greatest
great importance and may exercise considerable influence upon
be of the greatest political significance if it should ever
country. It was something of great significance, and scarcely
of the noblest and most liberal of minds, was greatly admired
when put to use, creates a greater value than its own value.
great difficulty, under the compulsion of circumstances,
and Marxist theory, but I attach great importance to the fact

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
rhetorical pronouncements — about the great scientific
greatest acquisitions of civilization since the fifteenth
greatest imaginable contrast to the emancipation of the
personality? — The Byzantine element. A great
history — that what man considers to be his greatest
greatest achievements, nothing is good in itself; it is only
of history unless we see history as a truly great teacher. We

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
cannot imagine a greater contrast than the ideas of 1840–1848
idea and will then substantiate it in greater detail.

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which are active in the great Universe, and which — inasmuch as they
also take hold of man — bring him physical death. In the great
ourselves: These forces which are active in the great Universe — what
great Universe, and bring death to man — I may now also refer in a
not in the same way. The forces of evil are so ordered in the great
consequences which appear in any individual man to a greater or lesser
in him the inclination to receive the spiritual life. In the great
another must become ever greater and greater. This interest must grow
great care: it is possible to take over certain sentences from Woodrow

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
be received with the greatest seriousness. If we wish to
look upon Woodrow Wilson as a great man, as a benefactor of
later of these matters in greater detail. It would have been

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
the greatest admiration for the Grand Duchess Sophie of the
wrote in later years. People found the greatest difficulty in

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
of the greatest importance and which many today still regard
personalities exercised the greatest influence upon his
something great and grandiose, the great modern impulse which

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
question and of course it created a great stir. It raised
who are animated by the desire to show still greater devotion
higher value and greater importance, saying:
greater service and praise, to imitate Thee in enduring all

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
hoisted its Banner under the leadership of Charles the Great
lodges, there is nevertheless great similarity in their mode
different religions. He found that they had a great deal in
associated with an awareness of the great evolutionary
scattered throughout the world are the greatest impediment to
death is the great leveller; for knowledge, even as death,
it is the Germans themselves who have shown the greatest

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shall escape the great perils toward which the world is still
greatest number of blunders have been made. A great majority
manner of speaking will vary greatly among themselves, for
human souls varies greatly in people belonging to the West
circumstances. A person who considered Ludendorff a great
the great distinction between what is permeated by the Christ
greater perspective, so was it true that the German Kaiser
in heart and mind is something that plays a great and
within twenty-four hours to avoid the greatest disaster.
Ludendorff are “great men” has spread everywhere
great men, not even from the standpoint of their limited
Victory Column, near that great cuspidor (indeed, the
stands “Hindenburg,” a great, gigantic, most

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powers of judgment that enable us to see into the great
regard to their own respected persons. In greater or lesser

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of view confronted by a great number of such illusions,
greatly admire would be unthinkable. This can be conceived as
great distress to me that they have simply been
the British Empire and its annex, America. This is the great
knowledge secret the greatest pains are taken to see that
oscillations will develop on a great scale among the
harmony with the great laws of the cosmos in individual
are of great importance, and it is important that we should
symptoms coincide, we might say, whereas the great affairs of
such that something great that becomes a catastrophe for
in great measure to the fact that he went to Trieste at a
consider the great difficulty we face. Suppose that Lord Grey
be a great help toward the development of those latent

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the other person. This requires that we are in great measure
For instance, you will find that a great number of persons
in greater measure either the social or the antisocial
trace a great number of more or less genuine illnesses back
after a certain time. This is really a peculiarity of a great
in the light of the love that plays its role in greater or
great illusion, which requires a greater measure of
egoism — and in the great majority of cases the love
masked egoism — is the source of the greatest
socialistic republic would actually be a great place of sleep
great measure justified, almost entirely justified as regards
decisive factors. Thus do such things fall out of the great
person in greatest possible measure to reverse his
least see that, in the immediate future, by far the greatest
overlook the fact that the greatest outcry has to do, in the

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brought together a great variety of things that may be suited
post-Atlantean epoch. Only now do we face a great crisis in
this fifth postAtlantean epoch man will be in much greater
in the greatest variety of forms. A social element that is
these things lie at a far greater depth than is ordinarily

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present time arise in great measure from the unconscious or
of thinking, great significance therefore attaches to the
wish to introduce it into Russia since the great crisis has
Russian conditions. The first great difficulty is that the
instance, sees in this the first great difficulty. This is
suppression that has been experienced by the great masses
politically organized great bourgeoisie, facing the
referred to Prussian-German militarism as the greatest of all
described to you here from the greatest number of viewpoints
They want to make the world into a great factory
shipwreck because of its great illusion and isolation from
proletariat builds. This is the great contrast between the
by the great banking institution, the great institution of
these great differentiating characteristics that I shall
pursue a political course, they run a great risk, which will
upon the world. The great danger, which can obviously be
can only become something. This constitutes the great
have pleased greatly. In the case of the Western Slays it is
population. Unlike the great mass of the German population
post-Atlantean epoch. The Russian in greater measure than any
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what is available in order to attain the greatest possible
be greatest if the economic life were arranged on an
less to itself has evolved in such a way as to produce great
they make a great fuss about it) by letting it be played

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we mean this, we are making a great mistake; for the results
think that we are making a great mistake. Spiritual Science
a great deal, but if he still only thinks in the same way as
greater in the age of the evolution of the Spiritual Soul
Belief. And so on. Berdiayeff regards this as a great failing
the rise of Bolshevism with great discomfort. Well, in that
Materialism only becomes so great and works so in order that
for the greatest day in world-history which is now about to

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error to imagine that this great change did not take place at
as great or small). But in this three-foldness there is an
greater strength to protect the intelligence from the
greater strength. And this too has been attained by certain
Protestantism — a dependence far greater than is
they are used today are to a great extent “disused
which would have to be decided with great care. We cannot

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varied points of view the great social demand of our age. We
Spirit must be made intelligible, and the greatest
all no less than in the other realms. This is the great evil
mankind will yet have to shoulder far greater discomforts
us first is the great battle which is taking place behind the
then applied to Man. In great and all-embracing Nature they
old are the greatest resisters. Hence the new,
Generally the greatest value is attached, in an antiquated

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must become conscious of this, for this is the great thing in
greater reverence the more we learn to know it. For the seer
ignorance which overlay mankind there fell the greatest
will truly not be great in the Middle and the Eastern
also find the God in the great Universe, and — which is
great part of our educated humanity are living — from
slavery. A great proportion of mankind had to live as slaves
inner change? We today no longer think as did the great
gone on for a long time, and we should have a great mixture,
the machine age has celebrated its greatest triumphs. Out of
infamous as to nail to the Cross the greatest Being Who ever
Cross — the greatest event on Earth is brought about. A
starting-point for the achievement of human greatness and of

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of Golgotha, we find it to be a great world-historical confluence of
say, limited importance, was now set out on the great stage of world
of what had made it great. Something new had to enter world evolution.
still shows something of the greatness of ancient Greece. Aristotle
of the great suffering of humanity at the present time, who have no
in a modest way the greatest of all events in earth existence. This

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has its greater intensity at birth — even though not in consciousness,
to the moment of death, and he has achieved relatively the greatest
books there is nothing of all that lived in those great and powerful
view: a great, forceful, grandiose interpretation of the Mystery of

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to know also the mysteries of the great world. As he learned in the
on the great stage of world history and has been accomplished as external

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great role in today's world view, a role that is becoming disastrous,
the great Master Builder of the worlds. These people picture to themselves
in all sorts of symbols and rites the way the great Architects of all
fact reflected now so urgently in the great demands mankind is raising.

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with these things that there needs to be understanding for the great
There is a great difference between this event now and what took place
epoch, a greater difference than there was, for example, between that
be brought up into consciousness in the great majority of people in
related as an external occurrence of the greatest importance appears
affected the whole composition and imaginative form of Dante's great
sets it in motion, that constantly transforms it. That is the great
him so greatly that his soul-and-spirit being left his physical body.
in his experiencing of events of the very greatest importance. For their
at this point in his inner experience it has extraordinarily great significance.

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the speed of the other train will not seem to you as great as if you
in a way, what has a greater speed, namely, arbitrary thinking, those
times. Youth has become a youth that makes demands. There is no great
great cities of antiquity, Babylon, Nineva, Thebes, were built of white
unhappy landmarks the high buildings of former greatness falling into
hour, in the hour of decision, and if the three great statesmen of their
willed this: that a single great question of faith should be addressed
There is just one hope: to look back on this New Year's Eve to a great

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disaster for a great part of humanity. He is one of the thirty or forty
is looked upon as great. But it is true that the fact to which I have
that today plays so great a role in science, where differences are looked
we are always placing such great emphasis on the Christ Impulse. For
which today is of great importance but which people simply fail to investigate.
the great man, is he not? — a man who thinks fourteen abstract

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selves instead of being aroused to some interest in the great questions
way, it shows the great dangers from this catastrophe threatening both
a period of the supremacy of great wisdom succeeds that of passion and
seems to me an absolute certainty unless a period of the supremacy of great
whether Jesus ever lived, when at that time a great gathering took place
varied subjects, through his great knowledge, the man might have been
able to do a great deal. But when I had something to do with him —
are. In fact he is living in them with greater intensity. And he has
the greater part of the scientific conceptions throughout the world
comes to man in an ever greater degree a certain part of that experience
they must pass the Guardian of the Threshold with greater thoroughness
this as the greatest achievement of Spiritual Science. To know certain
a very great deal. It also explains to you how the fact of man being
a very great measure to be “more animal than any animal”
madness, and accordingly hold the great majority to be mad. But then he
would be able to understand why this great majority should take him

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actual lack of significance in the light of the greater demands of the
if still greater misfortune is not to befall mankind. Today men should
symbols of great antiquity. I have told you that in this respect certain
spiritual tide, would be greater than all the rest of evil beside. Our

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itself into seven great successive epochs, of which the fourth was the
a great deal about man's attitude to his environment, though insufficient
will, than this raging will become ever greater and greater in the world;
in sleep. This used to happen. This is just the great crossing point
ever greater progress. Today he can already get very far by carrying
if greater attention is not paid to the deeper grounds out of which

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to speak of a great deal about the spiritual world that was different
to still greater social confusion than is already present in individual
for all men which is as great as the love of family.
him. When people have once understood the great, the infinite, difference
a very great deal hangs on the way we are able to separate what ought
have preserved a great deal of these former cultural stages in which
greater part than is thought in the conflict that will develop between
There is really a great
of the world-conception of the people there is a great difference in
today, however greatly, the fact remains that this spiritual horizon
spiritual investigation was, fundamentally, the great sin against the

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about Socrates or Alexander the Great, about Julius Caesar, the Emperor
such great human guilt, is regarded. This is the one side of the matter.
not have been possible for Christianity to arise. This means, the greatest
human guilt was necessary for the greatest blessing to enter the evolution
themselves the burden of that guilt, that greatest of all guilt, the
way we characterise one of those great, fundamental contradictions life
of the Jahve God is expressed in the great and powerful tragedy of the
the other is coming to its greatest inner development. And at the same
on Golgotha is therefore the necessary contrast, and the greatest contrast
Mass, in its way great and powerful, it is true, and you will see what
are indeed in their magnificence, in their incomparable greatness, taken
height this Graeco-Latin culture has come by the time the great—one
cannot call him merely a philosopher but the great man Plato arose in
stood. During the time the great Plato was towering above all that was
thus offers his sacrifice to the great God of nature. Purely pagan worship
is nature, The greatest philistinism has something of her genius. It
up to the conception of the great Isis of the Egyptians. Certainly even

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day she was deep in many great ideas about our world-outlook—those
did these old Mysteries serve? On the whole it may be said: the great
a man could really perceive in the spiritual. The great experience undergone
and more a going back—the greater the development of the intellect
Indeed Herman Grimm, had it come his way, would have even gone to great
is great, much of what is grandiose confronting us in Goethe, we see
this fragment there was expressed something of the very greatest that
when Goethe set himself to express what was greatest he never brought
its human greatness we have before us a work of gigantic proportions;
if we look from the point of view of the greatness that would have lived
a great scholar, or even as a man of certain culture, is easy to understand
in a remarkable war having the very greatest influence upon his spiritual
three personalities having such a great influence upon him are, first
having the greatest influence upon him was the botanist Linnaeus. Why
German—for the Latin because it is too greatly decedent, for the
that will have to be completed as a great spiritual picture.
great share in letting Goetheanism lie in its grave. In every sphere

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meant by saying he had put a great deal in a veiled way into
its imagery to make a great appeal to the senses.
great deal that is veiled, and is meant actually to introduce
in their consciousness how, at that time, the great Alexander
to lend to ever greater heights. In Goethe himself we have
great deal. There are, no doubt, well-intentioned people who
The mystery is far greater than what can be contained even in
of Homo. Goethe felt he had made a great beginning with the
greater by our recognising the limitations he himself so
appear the Telchines of Rhodes. They are such great

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— dominated above all by the great seriousness of this
Faust to be inadequate for knowledge of man, his great
great gift of human understanding and knows how to transform
of the great universe. These experiences are, indeed,

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point of view of drama, how great is the moment when in the
extolled as the great achievement of the nineteenth century

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much greater change in ways of thinking than is generally appreciated.
Luther, Frederick the Great, Goethe and Bismarck. Grimm says that if a
influence, as we have often had to emphasise, and Frederick the Great
be achieved through a great political change, of which the French
thou great and sublime name ”, Kant says, on the only occasion
as the greatest man of his century. Goethe could not understand this.
There is something very great in these “Aesthetic Letters,”
The great mistake of current Socialism is its belief that a healthy
question. One great reason for the rise of materialism is that the
raise them into the great seriousness of cosmic existence. Therefore

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engendered through feeling. A member of the greater mass of the working
not govern! People felt that there was a great deal of truth in this
member of the great mass of the working population, should be taught
he delivered his great incisive speech on science and the working class.
the greatest influence of all: The course of development during the
of political economy and in his great work Capital, just at that
historical fact which can teach us a great deal in this connection.
themselves, not the souls of these great masses of humanity, but the
learn to feel that in the great masses which are not led, but misled
a great deal; they lose as much as might have been lost in the Middle
the social organism, the great majority of men is to-day absolutely
to the greatest mischief in practical life.
You have the great mass
may determine that goods which entailed a great amount of work must,

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they dealt, to a great extent, with the development of the social problem,
a social chaos, as far as the great majority of the civilised world
You see, the great majority
way, really overlook the great differences which now exist throughout
as they refuse to know what must really be done in the face of the great
I believe that a great
state, the great majority of people are serving members within a whole.
than the definition, poverty comes from pauvreté! The great majority
arise which have lost every meaning for a great number of educated people,

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above all love statistics),. there is a great deal in what I have explained
be produced by amalgamating certain complicated processes. Great masses
which modern economic life has called into existence, great accumulations
Great would be the misfortune
which the great majority of modern men unfortunately has shown no interest
are now awakening in the whole civilised world, at least in a great
these things are to a great extent hidden and they only become manifest
this concept. It is the greatest soul-frivolity to think that we are

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ignored, if greater misfortune than that of the past years is not to
thinking. The greatest misfortune of our time is that love of ease leads
a need even greater than that of spreading spiritual science: it is

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of present events for a great part of civilised mankind, in as deeply
in almost all mankind; from Berne was meant to stream what in a great
idea. Whereas perhaps the greater part of mankind would be loath to
about day-to-day demands, a greater impulse must arise towards an outlook
is a mask. That, however, is the reality. The Europeans will very greatly
that of a great part of Europe. A great part of Europe wants to steer
Wilson has become great by means of his opposite policy. Between Europe

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brought a great part of the civilised world into a state of chaos such
is at present, external means cannot greatly help mankind, whether this
souls of their leaders. The leaders have for the greater part inherited
of life have to be recognised as being in still greater confusion and
conceptions very unpopular with a great part of present-day mankind,
Consider how a great many of the present official representatives of
The great theologian Harnack,

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and how their thinking is directed. Finally, it is not of such great
by far the greater number among the proletariat wholeheartedly profess
Marx himself throws great light on certain aspects of this matter. Speaking
be moulded, will be greatly disappointed. Statements such as those imparted
the control of the State, so that the State becomes the one great capitalist.
of Marxism a great movement which has taken the most varied forms in
of Lenin's thinking. Here you see in greater potency what is to be found
to extend its reality over a great part of eastern Europe. It is no
that what today is called the State should be transformed into a great
For the urge to understand is not yet very great.
about it is of great interest. For example, in a passage of his work
come about. Those times foreseen by the great socialists presuppose a
the greater will be the impulse to work for what will lead to the salvation

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to meet this striving for imaginations. The overwhelmingly greater part
the spiritual life. In science the great desire is to experiment, so
arisen in regard to the spiritual life the greatest imaginable egoism,
have as great an interest in the Proletariat's labour power that is
of which, or the greater part of which, had no purpose — if it

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reached great heights in in his philosophic ideas. He reflected upon
men have to make great inner effort! And it partakes of this effort

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great thinker living about 2000 years ago and knowing nothing of our
And there has developed more and more in the dumb instincts of great
these views. One such prophet, greatly respected today, says for example
is a God in Heaven I am an atheist” are no great rarity though
greatest defects in present social life that certain interests inaccessible
as the new trend in art. These young people wrote a great deal of verse,
to a great many people today may seem merely an impulse towards cultural
the causes. In matters great and small it can be seen how money is the
the economic life? Capital is the spirit in economic life: And a great
have bread. But about a piece of world-outlook there is a great deal

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to create a satisfactory relation between the great powers, and that
greater part of the continent of Europe. Despite many variations there
great world catastrophe of crying aloud to the multitude things that
centuries, which has greatly increased in the world-conception of purely
the great mass of human beings, and we have the fact that there is very
of the rest of the body into the head of our next incarnation. The great

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both in the great concerns of the world and also in the ordering of
be of great advantage to the human soul. If, however, you take this
to its greatest height, in the last moment of its development comes,
in its extremest form of abstraction! It is of very great importance
is so great-minded about the Hegelian philosophy. Everything that meets
trusts changes into something still greater — the trust economy
through the gate of birth. Hegel's philosophy is great, but great as
in his greatness leads us to carry him further, to make a passage through
twentieth century set out to prove their great spirituality by going
Raphael was great. The Sistine
oneself into the great association of all mankind. And the necessity
a great man. Today should anyone invent or discover this theorem it
upon man to make a great resolution. What out of instinct will

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Today there already exists a great difference between those
our materialistic culture. There is a great difference
“standpoint”. It has generated greatly already in
school must come to the help of what is a great task of
language should be dropped. A very great deal depends upon
seventh ahead of us leading to a great break in human
overcoming the great dangers of the period. The most varied

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speak a great deal about the social problem that is
catastrophe will become immeasurably greater. For one cannot
arbitrary manner, but in the sense of a great spiritual
believed. Language contains great and powerful mysteries; the
too. A great part of our verbal education did not exist
them! To a great extent the period which produced Goetheanism
result of no great poetic gift, but produced by a certain
perception that by placing himself into the world. Great
experiencing with the whole world. What seems a great thing
one's own person and turned one's gaze to the great question
of mankind. They are so overpoweringly great, these questions
fruitful for the great questions for time which already live
wish that men would take note of the great discrepancy
accommodating spirit for these great human problems. Much is

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— in which the great proletarian masses are unable to
between birth and death, and the supersensible world. The greater part of
being. They see the earth as a great unified organism and the
greater extremes arising from the same cultural life. If one then wants
great extent within the most immediate boundaries of their

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We will now consider in rather greater detail why it was that the
Goethe, with all his power to unfold great, all-embracing ideas in
Among those who of recent years have been talking a great deal about
ardent admirer of Frederick the Great and pictured him as a Germanic
about Frederick the Great, naturally from the English point of view.
and presenting a true picture of Frederick the Great. Hermann Grimm
describes Macaulay's picture of Frederick the Great in the very apt
words: Macaulay makes of Frederick the Great a distorted figure of an
consciousness all that was alive within his soul. Indeed, the great
penetrate into men via the heads of the administrators. A great deal
beyond his reach in the days of Greece. This is of far greater
great it contains no trace of spirit, not an iota of spirituality. All
great investigator, but at the cost of losing all spirituality.
precisely where science appears in all its greatness. Man immerses his
Then came the great migrations of the peoples. Men wandered over the
manifests in the universe in great and powerful rhythms which can be
But there are great differences in respect of all this — for example,
the Asiatics would appear — even now, when a great proportion of them
can be done only when men accustom themselves to concepts of greater

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present age the intellectual power of a great part of mankind
between Asia, Europe and America — will be the greatest
is possible to state today in a simple formula the great
“ideology” in world culture for it means a great
great part of western humanity with the word ideology.
the intellect bound up with them is maya, the great
itself to the outer senses, is spread over a great part of
constitutes reality for a great part of Western mankind; and
see here a great contrast. This makes deep inroads into men's
of great significance for the mutuality of man and machine. And
the spirit has really become maya, the great illusion
we consider spiritual science in the sense of a great cultural
spiritual aspect, liberal, free. The great problem of the
may imitate. Benefit for a child is all the greater the more he
then it is the greatest blessing that could happen to him.
culture precisely because of the great historical demands that
distress of the age as the great historical necessities for
considered in its relationship to the great historical tasks of
world had its great significance then, but it is not
natural to the growing child up to puberty, for the great mass
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we want to understand this great change in the middle of which
greater or lesser degree on Romanism. We are citizens of the
great question now confronts us: Is there nevertheless a
knowledge is ghost-like, and our will to a great extent
great and full importance of this enlargement of human
needs it, only by abolishing what is so greatly favored today,
think petty thoughts but to have great, comprehensive views. We
this amount, of course, has been greatly increased. —

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great and admirable progress of natural science, which is not

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details in present-day education to appreciate the great
introduced. The greatest value is placed upon having the child
great difference between teachers as they enter a classroom.
details in connection with the great questions of life.
immortality. We must become clear about the way a great part of
great distance from itself. If you were to imagine this as a
the greatest degree adapted to the physical world. This may
that this head is to the greatest degree adapted to physical
have characterized him for you from various aspects, as a great
Physiognomic pedagogy; the will to solve the greatest riddle,
being as an entity in himself. As a great ideal the thought
come into being. This is of great importance.
great social problems of the present time cannot be solved.

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great horror of a fact that indeed does not testify to an

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greater extent with vegetative life, they were not so lifeless, not
the Graeco-Latin epoch onward — has a greater resemblance with
modern science and in which he takes so great a pride? Only lifeless
of great value. You know that many so-called lodges, which have not a
to a great extent already waned — there were older times in
the greatest value
indifference in regard to the great destinies of human existence.
be stirred to hear that in the West the great goals of humanity are
mediumistically, something about the great historical aims.
formulated questions, something about the great destiny-goals of
information concerning the great destiny aims of humanity, not
distinguish cheap writers from men endowed with great spirituality
indicated in recent lectures. Consider the fact that a great number
beings accordingly. This has a great significance in human life, but
of the question: How does the great majority of the people really
entailing the right of a pension is a great “ideal”! And
greatly.
nearer to the goal (which now encounters the greatest obstacles) of
architectural forms, the great destinies of humanity. And it is good

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yourself. You may say it without any great respect. But in
This change in humanity, this growing indifference to the great
that in the West the great goals of mankind are sought, when
of great historical aims. We could tell this repeatedly to
the great goals of mankind are. People likewise do not believe
persons of great spirituality like Rabindranath Tagore. They
takes into account the great destinies of mankind even in its
not moved by great purposes. I believe that if people can be

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We shall then see what a great impact on a person's everyday life these
into, I would now like to bring something of very great importance.
certainty that man's blood has grown weaker. And the great turning-point
education, and they attach great importance to getting down to the mental
standardized education still plays a great part, that is, the kind of
People long for a great deal, but nothing must change where their

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is little given to cultivating so great an interest in the
and going Westwards — and I take Great Britain and
of the East produced, as you know, great cities. We can look
every one of which produced great cities. But these great
create, along with the life of great cities, a conception,
superphysical. And so great cities, such as Babylon,
This is thoroughly Roman. But Rome achieved a great deal more
lived in Central Europe is, to a great extent, sunk in a
Giordano Bruno was a remarkable figure, a great personality;

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recall how great a part was played in everyday life by whatever
cultivating so great an interest in the spiritual world. The
Leaving Europe and going westwards — and I take Great
know, great cities. Great cities existed in them. We can look
which all produced great cities. But the great cities they
along with the life of great cities, the conception that, after
great cities such as Babylon, Nineveh, and the rest, were able
thoroughly Roman thought. But Rome achieved a great deal
What lived in Central Europe is, to a great extent, sunk in a
remarkable figure, a great personality; but to-day we need to
great understanding of it. Nor have they been in very perfect

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is from this, its scientific character, that the great social

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be marked by us as that of the great spiritual upheaval which
the Reformation was, to a much greater extent than is commonly
on. People nowadays take little account of the great upheavals
so-called initiates — did a great many things that were
that modern rulers, who are not initiates, also do a great many
Priest-rule was, to a much greater extent than is commonly
greatly into decay, yet it is still the relics of what once was
that the psychic evolution of man has undergone no very great
course very slowly, — science relies a great deal on
cannot, for instance, properly understand that great
and spirit. It was a great change, that, in men's souls. If we
There is a great deal of opposition from various quarters to
face the recognition, that it is only with the great
pretensions, the actual starting-point for a great world

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which have remained like oases in a desert, re-echo a great,
to make a great effort in order to convince a friend of the truth of
way in which others have come to their knowledge. The greatness of
something which he has studied with the greatest attention. If you
you will find what great results Goethe has reached
spiritual sphere, this will be the greatest temptation for really
becoming materialists. The greatest temptation for becoming
knowledge is gained, are exposed to the great temptation of becoming
do not wish to make a great effort, who prefer to go to the

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
may be of the greatest possible advantage to him. And evil would
the greatest benefit to Ahriman if he could succeed in preventing the
other great figures of history? It is because the possibility of
“humility.” In reality, however, it is the greatest

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
greatest possible advantage to him. And evil would result
undoubtedly be of the greatest benefit to Ahriman if he could
other great figures of history? It is because the possibility
however, it is the greatest arrogance! For it means that such

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
greater willingness to face things frankly and objectively. For
life or life of rights, from the economic life. Our greatest concern
ahrimanic incarnation will be greatly furthered if people fail to
matters of the greatest moment. Human intelligence itself must be
is to be deluded by figures and numbers. Is there not a great deal of
heard. The Greeks lived with infinitely greater intensity in the
emphatically of all, is a fata morgana. The greatest dreamers where
are the greatest culprits. The essential is that people should
Ahriman wants to take for the benefit of his incarnation is greatly

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
desirable at the present time if only there were greater
rights, from the economic life. Our greatest concern is to
greatly furthered if men fail to establish a free and
interpretations so often accepted in matters of the greatest
deluded by figures and numbers. Is there not a great deal of
and heard. The Greeks lived with infinitely greater intensity
The greatest dreamers where the external world is concerned
greatest culprits. The essential is that man should approach
benefit of his incarnation is greatly smoothed. Tedium is so

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
will bears a great likeness, amounting almost to identity, with
comprising the period since the great Atlantean catastrophe —
throughout the then-Civilized world. Human beings had far greater
age of widespread immorality. And then came the great Atlantean
not alone responsible for these great catastrophic events that break
science amounts to a great, all-embracing illusion. For if you want
from this combined effect is the actual cause of a great deal of what
senses is maya — the great illusion — no reality
Then we begin to perceive in the human being a reality far greater
our freedom. Nature counteracts our freedom to an extent no greater
are hidden to a great extent from our powers of cognition. The part
wanted to speak in greater detail of the connection between the two

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
aspect, everything of the nature of will in man bears a great
the wider sense, as comprising the period since the great
far greater power over the forces of nature than they later
came the great Atlantean catastrophe. The orthodox geologist
causes are not alone responsible for these great catastrophic
natural science amounts to a great, all-embracing illusion.
is the actual cause of a great deal of what takes place in
great illusion — no reality but simply appearance. Such
Then we begin to perceive in man a reality far greater than
greater than if — to give an example — you are
actual causes lie. These causes are hidden to a great extent
to-day I wanted to speak in greater detail of the connection

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found in them of that great Cosmic Wisdom teaching, which at
great contrast, of which humanity should become aware,
Races, so we can now distinguish these great types. The
the one who was so greatly praised for the idea of having
can say the pre-Caesar greatness of old Rome has re-arisen in
present age makes great demands on man's capacity for
before this great testing came over humanity through

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for the
practice of magic arts of the greatest grandeur, and what otherwise
great numbers of human beings into seers — but in such a way
will desire it because Ahriman's power will be very great.”
great deal to do with the present situation. An individual —
Ahriman's progress is greatly furthered.

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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for
the practice of magic arts of the greatest grandeur, and what
of these stupendous magic arts he would be able to make great
because Ahriman's power will be very great.” — But
thinking has a great deal to do with the present situation.
philistines. — And then Ahriman's progress is greatly

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triad influences even this great cosmic poem. If Goethe, in his day,
considered among the greatest creations of mankind, and rightly so,
are a cultural maya and have sprung from the great delusion of modern
and philosophers who still knew a great deal about the true facts had
seriously. The achievements of modern man are in great need of
the great masses of people today. Mankind will have to learn a great

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discussions that in man there exists, above everything else, the great
shape, a greatly transformed animal shape.
great and mighty mystery that man's head has developed through long
was greater than that of the sense world.
A time of great error, however, had to precede this, a night of
faster than we believe today had to be preceded by a great error, in
fact, by the greatest error imaginable in mankind's evolution, in
first of all, the great error must be corrected which has preceded the

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You must, in order to come to greater clarity in this matter, direct
the greatest efforts imaginable are made to turn our human fantasies
that I have often spoken to you with great enthusiasm about Greek
have to develop the belief, modestly and humbly, that it takes a great
making himself understood to the human being. The greatest Messenger
the One Who was able to reveal Himself in the greatest earth event as
Luciferic evolution. For the latter is greatly interested in pouring

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such great importance precisely for the Christian evolution of the
initiation were admitted by great leading personalities. The knowledge
how he was the great teacher of thinking, of that thinking which,
truths, as it were. Those who do notice it may suffer greatly from
real inner mediation. And the great question will become ever more
feelings have no greater vitality than have dreams; only, the
confused it would have to notice the great difference that exists
friends, a great number of human beings living among us are nothing

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right greater than for instance the right of independence of single,
and on previous occasions. We find that great care is taken during
soul. People, all the way up to the great philosopher Wilhelm Wundt
— who is great, however, merely through the graces of his
problem of great magnitude. I was confronted with this problem

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great Atlantean catastrophe, that is, the time of the sixth, seventh,
different from our present head organism to a great degree and the
That it may be brought back is the great illusion of the Orientals.
We are faced with the strange historical fact that the greatest event,
This transformation of consciousness demands greater strength of soul
as serious and great.

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greater darkness; we have no clearer grasp of its real content than we
creating around him as it were a great aura. And into the waves that
great change in the meantime.
great trouble to make our children acquainted with the terms of the
that many people today suffer a great deal from conditions of soul
cause of their inability to perceive the great significance of the
this place, in the way I have just explained, are coming to have great
that the Christ Event should be brought into connection with the great
with the greatest difficulty that they come to the point of resolving
begin to place very great value on them.

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same time we preach. We really preach a great deal. The old church
which intended to decipher that which lies in the great demands of
develop in greater detail what I shall sketch today) — we are
ever greater and greater differentiation, but that evolution is first

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in a great cathedral, which was not however thought of as Gothic,
for only a few centuries have elapsed since the great change in the
by way of the great modern demands of humanity's present and
present out of the time before the great turning point in the
indeed, the more exact the external research, the greater the
and in this form they are often greatly misunderstood. Such people
health, birth, and death; second, to the mystery of the great
the individual consciousness — of this great metamorphosis,

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external physical science with its great triumphs, the materialistic
element has influenced the great world-historical events. I said that
ends, and it becomes all the greater on the other side; that is where
dominion devolves as by an external necessity, a sufficiently great

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and of the immediate future are great, significant, and peremptory;
great and mighty Judgment, always represented as the Last Judgment
France, and to what is now Great Britain — if we go through
symbols no longer understood but having a certain great power among
the great talent for monarchy which the French have preserved so
Grimm. Naturally, there will some day be great difficulty in

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Spiritual Science, must be overcome. Interest in the great affairs of
These great concerns of the life of humanity are clearly to be

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be of great importance if the Goetheanum could also be made known to
its greatest intellectual development in the last few centuries, can
By this means great progress can be made along the lines followed in
been a great disadvantage in another sense to the development of modern
the great cupola.the seven columns which, in succession, encircle and
with the great cupola. This cut through the centre from East to West.

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that in the beginning the sectarian feelings of a great many people
in everyday conditions. In ordinary life we sleep a great deal to-day,
sleep to enter into our eurhythmic forms but that a greater awareness
Here you see the last pillar and the point where the great cupola impinges
of the great cupola of the main Building.
to become objective and to develop interest in the great objective universe,
rise to the great interests of the world. For every single form as a

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of Raphael, Leonardo, Michael Angelo and others? — that the greatest
nature of colour. For a greater part of that which is living, which
of great importance that this visible token of Spiritual Science from
it is always such a great pain that not very many more human souls are
the great interests of humanity to-day. To-day that which affects the
the great interests of humanity. But how many people think like this?
proclaim things of the greatest significance — men take them only

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they had become something greater than ordinary people. They were
character. Remember that it goes back to Karl the Great
But Karl the Great was crowned by the Pope in Rome.
Ages did not worship Karl the Great and Otto I as gods, which was the
great upheaval occurred in England as a result of which everywhere in
kingdom is not of this world!” That is the great

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greatest talent for this truth. All the prerequisites for the dawning
societies which possess great power in the English-speaking
secret societies. In Great Britain there are 1,354 lodges, in the

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priest to feel greater than Christ, because he can force him to be
You know that a great enmity existed between
west still suffer under a great illusion. Woodrow Wilson would no
economic imperialism of Great Britain and even a certain idea of
in Great Britain see in the state something that can well have a will
such meaninglessness plays a much greater role than you imagine. It is a
whose visit has pleased us greatly — especially to our English

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therefore have great difficulty in understanding pre-fifteenth century
opposed these assertions. Only a very great mind, like Johannes Müller
It is of interest to observe the suddenness with which this great
temperature of the water, and to observe the greater rapidity with
I want to emphasise that in referring to cosmic forces, far greater
certain facts about Troxler of great interest in this connection.

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Osteology and Muscular Pathology of greater value for medicine than
use the term Hysteria for the too great autonomy of the processes of

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processes are to a great extent polar to one another; but not wholly
Even externally and superficially these processes differ greatly. The
greatly lacking in internal formative force. During the whole span of
Conditions are different in the blood, which has kept to a great

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As individual medical men you have the greatest interest in healing
mentioned yesterday by Dr. E., is of great importance. After curing one
perpetrated the greatest errors). In birds there is a remarkably poor
bacillus and so forth. Such facts are of great interest to the study
healthy scientific view would lay great stress on it. At the very
become sclerotic. You can observe externally in the greater
This tendency towards mineralisation is of great importance for our
the great gut, which does not exist in fishes, evolves through the
cerebral and intestinal formation; if the great gut and the caecum did

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remedies are of great service, particularly in more serious cases. So
there is great significance in the oyster and the formative process of
external nature. It comprises everything that possesses, to a great
contains something of great significance and value. The plant sinks
order to feed it, whereas the white matter of the brain is of a great

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mistletoe and, tree-plants. This difference is caused by the greater
plants with great root development. And if you search in their ashes,

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period. The important point is, to give great weight to the
will soon be relieved, etc., for it would also be of the greatest
his etheric organisation, which takes such great trouble to work its
intuition of great importance in all diagnosis. For diagnosis really

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the more deeply internal the process, the greater the need to find its

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The functions which occur below the great glands I would classify
water, a substance of greater density, the effect proceeding from this
There is a great difference according to whether the soil is mainly
— in certain respects permanent. It is the greatest of services to a
education — a form of self-education of great value for medical smell

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illustrative instances before you which can be of great significance.
case the human organism is much more stimulated and requires greater
It must always be emphasised that man must evolve greater forces to
cope with the greater forces he encounters. And the forces inherent in
incontestably greater than those in vegetable matter. (May I
— with the general effect of causing great exhaustion and irritation
throwing or so forth, may be of great social importance, but these
— if followed up in the right way — of great significance in the
together with its greater or small amount of hair growth and so forth.
They diverge and form a diverticulum before reaching the great dam of
standpoint of spiritual science, we come to a great reverence for

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exposure much greater in extent than is normal in the course of our

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within us. We shall later on deal with these matters in greater
And do not let us forget another current development of great relevant
them in the human organic sphere. So there is not only great
sphere in man. At the present time there is no great inclination to

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We should indeed remind ourselves again and again what a great
particular aspect. [I] have often drawn attention to the great difference
that of the life of Christ Jesus on earth. There is a great deal to be
connection aright would mean a very great deal for us; only it is
Paul saw what a great crisis it was for the world that the ancient
a great number of modern theologians would have it to be — then
Easter for the greater part of mankind? It may be said of a very many
part in the great change that is so necessary in our own
into what it is that has brought such great unhappiness to mankind in
like this, for they are of very great significance in life to-day.

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remind ourselves again and again what a great event in the evolution of
often drawn attention to the great difference in the development of the
of Christ Jesus on earth. There is a great deal to be learned from a
mean a very great deal for us; only it is necessary to realise that the
Paul saw what a great
or I might just as well say, if the event of Damascus was what a great
must ask: What is a festival such as that of Easter for the greater part
distinct unwillingness to take part in the great change that is so
inclination to examine into what it is that has brought such great
great significance in life today.

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The etheric body, however, has very great powers of regeneration and
plainly, in spite of its great diversity of form, that it is
them precise. There is great confusion of terminology in this field,
continuous, we have symptoms of far greater importance than if the
patient. For instance: there is a very great difference between the
are aware of the great differences of function in the two bodily

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great turning-point of history introduced something entirely new into
something not dependent on the blood. But there was a great danger
19th century there befell the great catastrophe; men had
tolerance towards Judaism. There was great tolerance in Rome in the
intolerance towards the Christians as great as the intolerance now
Romans, who showed the greatest intolerance of all to the Christians.
far pleasanter than to say: The great responsibility for the future

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if only to prove once more how greatly such things may be
the human organism is of great importance, as is the realisation of
the ego is of much greater importance than what happens in the
substances available in the external world. They may have a great

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criticism should teach us a very great deal. Take an illustrative
We may learn a very great deal from these instinctive actions of
— some in a greater or lesser degree — the

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upper limbs acts to a great extent on the formation of the blood. If,
descend from the centre, in massage of the trunk, the greater the
play a great part. The interplay of conscious and unconscious elements
there is a great difference according to whether the external
observed. And in this connection it will be of great service to you to
education and teaching should attach great importance to authority.
authority as principles of education. But their significance is great,
the most harm in life is not done by the greatest mistakes, for such
great errors can soon be refuted, but by conceptions containing a
connected with things of the greatest significance in the human

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type as is shown in the dental formative process. Therefore a great
is great individual diversity, but they are bound to manifest
demonstrable; we shall refer to this presently in greater detail.
and which would certainly make a great impression on the general
So you see how greatly dental treatment — in so far as dental
With this we have reached forms of thought which may be of great
great social value, and all that might tend to repress this healthy
and one of great value for the whole reform of medical thinking that
other factors; and in fact that it is doing them a greater service to

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Jupiter and Saturn are at a greater distance. In such a winter the
greatest nonsense in the form it takes today; but we should realise
for I suggest that such recognition would promote greater co-operation
to some extent the thyroid as well); these have their greatest task in
even more strong light process has such a great influence on the very
one which is formed according to reason and logic, has a great

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A great deal is said to-day
This is the great
social life! There will be far greater understanding in the
The greatest fault of
The greatest sin of materialism is that it gives us no knowledge
brief indication. The great difference between the human organisation
very great bearing and effect upon social life. How the social

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study, and there are great difficulties in surveying the results
peculiar properties, varies greatly according as it is applied from

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
that the knowledge of Man has to a very great extent been lost in
Earth is enclosed in it, as a great machine, a great mechanism. It is
dimensions; hence he cannot define his position in the great cosmic
of visualising the Universe in greater detail.
the social life in which we find ourselves in these times has great

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peristalsis proceeds more rapidly and with greater vigour than is
not to any great extent.
It is necessary to take great care in describing sleep. Sleep is
conditions which cover greater spaces of time and are related to man's
on the way to knowledge, it would be of great service; much may be
greatest importance to the co-operation of those who are able to

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
even greater definition.
From this you will realise how great a possibility of deception arises

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
living way, we find that the Zodiac is of very great significance. We
often said that the physicist would be greatly astonished if he could

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
in so great a degree as our eating. In spite of the fact that our
equinoxes, and call it, not a Platonic year, but a great Day of the
great significance. If you remember what I said recently, we may put
After a lapse of 25,920 years this loss is so great, that the Sun has

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
facing Aries or Cancer, but feels their influence upon him as greatly
that absorbent ether ball called Sun vary greatly, as they come from

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
re-birth is a great wealth of events, a wealth of real happenings
It is of great importance to form clear ideas on these matters. If we
A great deal takes place inside your organism, but your periphery
animal kingdom in a great variety of forms, while in Man they manifest

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
instance, in that sphere where it is greatest, judging by modern
answer; and it fails because of its ignorance of one great fact —
grass for a week! It is simply liver. The fact is that a great
perceived these things plainly, and especially when that great
bodies. The genius of language has also here preserved a great deal.
But we shall find something of even greater significance in another
week. But Man wished to express a great deal more by this
But there is a cycle seven times as great, which, whilst returning
and one seven times greater that included the planets, not only does
a seven times greater rapidity than that which takes place in the rest

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
Of course, the great fault of our present-day world-philosophy is that
to the infinitely great, for it is there we have to look for the
in the great for the form and configuration of the small. Neither is
For example, a great deal of popular literature is permeated with
are considered great achievements, whereas they are nothing more than

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
fact that the greater portion of the public attending our performances
human knowledge, one should as a teacher know the great difference it
of our fingers are to a great extent the teachers of the elasticity of
third toes. In this we see what great distinctions there are in the
started from Christianity, they took great care that the essence of

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
to outer life and to the knowledge of the great world, the world

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
we shall find that we have to think of it as a great organism. We must

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
accessible to the senses. Now one of the greatest Astro-physicists is
a true meaning. There are two great antitheses: The one arising from
These are the two greatest contrasts which can be expressed in a

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
This has a still greater significance, which is, that what we call our
certain velocity, but not quite so great as that of the stars. The Sun
reckoning, the Egyptians divided the great year — which really
the great cosmic year and the great cosmic day; and such circles could

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
greatest part of the advanced theology of the nineteenth and twentieth
greater than at the sides. That is the actual result. In the horses
downwards, and because the other whirls upwards driving with a greater

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
much greater earnestness than lies in the inclination of modern
great deal about this), the nose is the organ through which one

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which surround us — the microcosm within the greater macrocosm
great and deep significance, and we shall see how we are to regard
with great cleverness and acumen — and that is precisely what we

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great struggle of spirits. In order to lead back man, who in
whole life of the soul when it looks for a greater
It is just as if I had a great quantity of liquid in one mass,
after all, we accept a great deal as formula. But Klopstock was
Plotinism in it. And so the great question remained: Man must
That was the great question which the mediaeval schoolmen put
does this great World-process in Predestination as Augustine

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the Great (1193-1280) and Thomas Aquinas (~1225-1274), but in
understand the great philosopher Aristotle who concludes the
the Great and Thomas Aquinas. Then the quarrel between realists

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nature. In the same way out of the depth of the whole great
flowering of Western feeling and will, a great deal which did
becomes the intensely sympathetic figure which makes so great
profound respect for the greatness of Augustine, Albertus and
clear, which in a great number of cases resembled the
did a great deal half unconsciously and we can really only
to the greatest extent, which must be labelled with the most
Scholiasts, they were faced with the great question which one
greatest development grappled with all its fibre. And this
this way the great logical questions of the universals join up

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and with philosophy on the other side as Albert the Great and
the Great who lived from the twelfth to the thirteenth century
greatness of Augustine. They faced that what was western
West, and it lived up to Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas.
influenced Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas.
sensory-extrasensory vision of the human being. One gets great
Before Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
logical decomposition and with the greatest possible mental

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so that one can say: The problems themselves are great, and the
had great influence for a long time. And, in point of fact
study — the influence of what was then the greatest
greater and greater degree when it opened up the quest of
only once clearly flashed up in one great thinker, and that is
the high Scholiasts which are looked upon as great thoughts in

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Great and Thomas Aquinas and some others. Then the European
applying the great thoughts like those of High Scholasticism to

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has been a great reluctance to look out at what was happening in the
present time, after the great world catastrophe [the First World War],
clergy. One day we must go into all this more closely and in great
greatest freedom. You will perhaps be astonished that I should say
foremost bishoprics greatly enhanced the dignity of a Dominican who
rendered great service by rejuvenating Buddhism and enriching it by
is greater falsehood possible? Can there be a more dishonest method
community here, but it is a great human question; and this great

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perceived by those great ones whose last stragglers we find in
Pope Clement XIV, who had a great liking for the Jesuits and was at
doctrine of Infallibility constituted a far greater break. For all
man full of insight and of very great intelligence. Pope Leo XIII
is so great but great for the last culture epoch, for, of course,

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greatest difficulty in freeing oneself.
In this matter one has to admit that greater blame falls on the
from rancor, one is making a great mistake. Naturally, we must fight
They do not believe that the Catholic Church is great in the
are of far greater significance than all the sermons from evangelical
Church has shown great foresight. Though the individual sheep follows
individual geniuses; they would be recognized as the great minds of
great lights if they were to appear as individuals and were busy with

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is the great anxiety as regards our culture, which can come
improvement you will not notice the great lines of
great number of people — perhaps just those who were

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immediately one of those who have won the greatest possible
genius, but that he says the greatest foolishness. I have cited
a great and significant truth is connected. The traditional
Anthroposophically intended spiritual science, nor the great
That is just the great difficulty that one has when one seriously

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choice — a choice which has become a matter of greater
and greater seriousness since the middle of the fifteenth
me to the speaker's desk and left a great many still outside
real knowledge of man's being which scares the great majority
the small in the great, the great in the small and not to

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lessons, and disturbs the instruction to a lesser or greater
and light, into which we are spanned, that is, for a great deal
together. One must just be in the position to recognise the great
in the small, and the small in the great, and not just speculate

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I encountered a great
explain, it was an event that had great inner significance. A
much more than is generally realized, the one great obstacle,
by the great decline in the economic and political life of
That is why a great many people who do not want to be
characteristic of a great many mystics, particularly arrogant
have retained this spirit, however, and, greatly impressed by
for example in the social field, a great many party
the earth, they oppose each other, seeking to gather a great
stand outside the gates; they are viewed merely as a great

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being. While mankind is in great need of such knowledge, it
recognized by groups of men, the greatest part of his
There is a significant contrast. The great khans of the
super-sensible beings. The great khans of the present, Lenin
needed. And if this new spirit is not present in the great
our age of great affliction and bitter trials.

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darkness. We might describe these surfaces in a great variety
are greatly differentiated — namely, what streams to
are in the world, we must free ourselves from a great deal of
vivid descriptions — one who possesses a great

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wearing blinkers in a sense in face of the great, important
plan to discuss it in greater detail at the first
is a matter of indifference. This great contradiction
be considered as a great teacher. One of the most eminent
could pass on to posterity. There is greatness and power in
physical body. Thereby, however, we are exposed to two great

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It is a great

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discover that there is a greater similarity between the
saying by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the great philosopher who
have a great deal to do with what arose out of the Western
Asia; that it has gone far already. People have a great
something that a great number of people do, in fact, speak
in a great majority of Europeans, they, too, have especially
great deal of feeling in favor of viewing life here in a
lives that are connected with it. The greatness of the West

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achievements of the Vedas, the greatness of the Bhagavad
that is entirely of this world, makes up the greatness of the
discover what was great about them. We go on repeating what
task today is to grasp such greatness ourselves in a
of Peter the Great. This is an interesting subject about

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of great consequence in northern Germany, where he was
with great difficulty into a word, which then issued forth as
the correspondence, of which there is a great deal, in which
of the great influence he had upon their soul life. The
great philosophers.” Rosenkranz then lists the great
who, in a certain respect, was a great mind, Karl Marx,
to be more important, and it is believed that greater
great services to science and because he is my former
a great many similar examples of academic morality, of the
of the swastika signifies, the sign which a great number of
it consciously — one should recall great minds such as
of the death of Leibnitz, the great European philosopher.

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great universe. To what purpose then is it there? You see,
within the scope of the great universal plan of the divine
written all sorts of books, and a great number of people were

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Nonetheless, what bestows greatness on the actual life of the
the starting point for greater conflicts. Now people continue
particularly in those people who will shoulder the greatest
reason it was of such great importance that the

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its greatest, we find that this soul life is most eminently
despite his greatness, distinguishes Rabindranath Tagore,
great chasm that I have characterized from so many points of

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idealists and mystics are frequently the greatest
were great teachers in the mystery centers whose teachers

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are, when, with great cleverness, we formulate paragraphs

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in mind, however, the great difference between our present
find any inclination today to investigate these great signs
life unfold. This inner mood of soul meant a great deal to
to many people. This is why the great majority of people in

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important for the reason that the greatest part of what
play; such acknowledgment should be pervaded by the greatest

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With regard to inanimate nature, one strives for the greatest possible
That is the great tragedy of our time. Here lie questions that must

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century with the great Idealist, Hegel, who lived only in the Spirit,
to admit that God is after all the greater egoist Who can demand of
not surrender my own egoism for the sake of a greater egoism. I will
that a great proportion of the philosophy that does not remain within

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only with the greatest mental exertion.
as such, I wrote a great deal about the problems of natural science
world, observe with great precision how there gradually arise out of

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can ascribe a great deal of the mystical literature to this forgotten

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or starve or be made to suffer in some other way. A great part of the
I shall speak about this at greater length. One passes over into another
you will know, for some time now a great deal of attention has been
time. This illness manifests itself — you can learn a great deal
rational, can pursue their duties to a great extent and are fully cognizant
are intended in large part to result in a greater ability
the contemporary physical sciences, with their greatest riddles. He
That is one great cultural
anxiety, one great threat to civilization, which must be faced by anyone
of Inspiration — one of the great talks of contemporary social

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with him The astral thereby coalesces with the physical to a greater
of the very greatest importance for social life: the concept of capital,

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toward a greater freedom, a greater independence. We have been able
As we enter into ever-greater participation in everyday life, however,
right words entails a great deal of effort. As a meditative schooling it

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spirit-and-soul within us to a state of greater freedom,
greater independence. During the first years of infancy it
right words entails a great deal of effort. As a path of

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It is a great moment when
to Berlin, where great things are expected of him, and it turns out
really live to the great benefit of future human evolution.

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the fact that a great deal of philosophising goes on nowadays
It is a great moment when we have penetrated the sensory
Munich to Berlin, where something great was expected of him,

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so lightly, is something to which Homer, the great writer of Greek
greatest significance. And in the nineteenth century, too, all
speaks from greater depths than are reached by his ordinary
Hath done the wered cordes great
Lock” shows the great English satirist in a comparatively

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oriented spiritual science generally, the great significance of modern
phenomenology in science. You have also heard, and with the greatest

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in greater or lesser satisfaction for the patient than is the case
absurd. They both point, however, to something of the greatest

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remedies and so on, has generated a great deal of confusion in the
much greater than is ordinarily assumed in outer consciousness.
ultimately to blossom, fruit, and seed formation. A great deal takes
will permeate you with life, it will bring forth a much greater

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becomes an activity whose intensity is too great. Then what should
us assume that this ego-activity becomes too great within the human
without a verifiable injury — causes them to lose a great deal of

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great difference in one's whole situation in life between having nothing and having fifty francs'
which a great deal can be traced). You see, Kant was still — this is clearly evident from
than the economic life. There it is great, is of genius. And had Spencer, John Stuart
— to attain something truly great. But, because there hovered
which, above all, was to become great through its economy, they had of necessity
At no other time has there been a greater need to
greater need for people with knowledge of specific subject areas to be active in social life
the facts can help. For today great questions are being decided — the questions as to
seriousness of the present world situation, knows what a great battle is taking place between the
against this threefoldness as the wave of Bolshevism, which would lead to great harm (Unheil)
cannot progress properly because in the autumn we found ourselves in great money difficulties.
"I do not rest until I find a significant point from which a great deal
can be deduced or, rather, which of its own will brings forth a great deal and presents this

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that, in humanity as a whole, the individual element of the human being will take on greater
strong egoistical forces of the consciousness-soul and, on the other, the all-the-greater
The impulses coming to expression in the Great
distortion exists, which occurred with the inundation of the East through Peter the Great
against these impulses which move through the development of humanity there is a great deal that
economic aims there assume a political character. The great outer failure in Eastern Europe has
come about because, through the tradition of Peter the Great, what arises out of a
East since Peter the Great, there is, fundamentally, always the spiritual tendency of Byzantium,
which led to the great colonizations, has arisen, in fact, through the confluence of the
to how, for outwardly inexplicable reasons, French merchant shipping suffered its greatest
and always, to a greater or lesser extent, takes an the form of the political-legal-militaristic;
individuals who belong to Anglo-Saxon secret societies and who have great influence — we
has a great following in the West is made up of individuals of this kind. In this way a
working in the East who likewise have a great influence. Whereas in the West one has to draw
impulse that is of the greatest conceivable importance for humanity's evolution. And in order to
3. Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia. Return

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the Anglo-Saxon race, and because of this those beings which incarnate here have far greater
freedom of action, far greater room to move in as it were. In the Latin countries proper they
has its origin in those beings who incarnate in human beings and who play such a great role in
as a young man, comforts himself with what after all also contains a great deal of the West: the
at the time when he came to his great ancient wisdom. And coming to the 1780s we see how he can
will see that a great question arose for the spirits of later Central-European Scholasticism,
everything — indeed, had great geniuses of organization. But it wanted to also take over
mingled with the deluge from the West, from the Centre, in the measures of Peter the Great with
Peter the Great or by Lenin, what wishes to come from the West galvanizes the corpse of the
Spiritual Science, will also be taken up in the Orient with great eagerness. The Orient will then
have a great deal of understanding for an independent spiritual life. And it will also take

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the spirits of their myths. When, however, it was a matter of deciding something of great
decline. A great deal of the resignation which Goethe felt in his later years is based, without
imbues itself with reality only with great difficulty. It was this semblance-nature of Central
Grimm becomes all the greater when one finally bears in mind the following. Herman Grimm makes
absorbed a great deal of Goethe, but not Goethe's real and penetrating quality — for
truth is not decided according to truth itself, but in which the great lie walks among men so

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great turning-point of modern history. People do not consider this. But one could easily imagine
since the middle of the fifteenth century. And even when we consider the great philosophers of
not just there for knowing. This is the greatest error to which the human being can give himself:
established by Peter the Great who destroyed the remains of the oriental constitution of soul on
Orient in more recent times by the Petrinism of Peter the Great on the one hand and Turkey on the

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States. But the first great Empire
which extends over the greater part of Europe.
conflicts, and how these conflicts really form a great part of medieval history. But one must
of the great mass of people those were chosen in whose blood it lay to have such vision. Thus one
Gospels to the great mass of the faithful, the faithful would straightaway be confronted with
produced the great confusion; the frightful chaos in which we are now living.
authority-principle in the ancient Orient applied only to the immediate environment. The greater
years of life. This was not of such great importance in all earlier times for it is connected
the influence of Peter the Great from anything oriental. But what continued to hover before the
the great Scholastics of the Middle Ages had sought to hold apart — a rational grasp of the
Centre were simply not there — of the great conflict that lies ahead between Japan and

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disappearance of much that is still greatly to men's taste and
great spiritual battle between East and West, in which the true
scientific thought of today, so that he presents an ever greater
before one's life on earth has no very great value, but a
lively feeling for it is worth a great deal; it is something
of the greatest value to feel that what is in one as an adult has
situation mankind is in, have brought about the great crisis of the

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in a few brush-strokes as the great spiritual battle between East and West, in which the true
scientific thought of today and thus he presents an ever-greater riddle to himself. Only a very
this kind before one's life on earth has no very great value, but a lively feeling for
it is worth a great deal; it is something of the greatest value to feel that what has been
gathered strength during recent centuries and then came to a climax in our own day. The great
and our comprehension of Anthroposophy is in many respects very sleepy. This is the great pain
unaware of how deeply in untruth it lives. How great is the contrast between what is necessary
expectation, develops an understanding for the great experience of the twentieth century that is

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poles, and they appear actually in their greatness, in their
admirable, dignified greatness. I know for certain that some
imagine that when something in contrast to them is great,
experiencing something great in a well known person.

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What such men as Hegel and Schopenhauer, who are after all great and

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be faded and forgotten and there will be the great graveyard of the
is; and a great feeling of responsibility towards the world to b e,
Thus you have the two cosmic forces, light and weight, as the great

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modern times, who consider it great progress for their
I'd like to say, which for the greatest part of mankind had as
places, that there are people who with great intensity have
other power gives them a greater possibility than freedom. That
moral-spiritual world order was great and brilliant in a
great bounty, his Lordship has outer power through the

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the very greatest delight in their Eurhythmy lessons. I say

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Relatively speaking it is not the greatest number of the
Great Spirit. This was already becoming decadent during the
back to the veneration of a Great Spirit, which flowed and wove
They needed no great period of time but it was intensive,
oriental wisdom — which at one time was so great, as I have
great blossoming of the oriental culture of nature, but it was
great-great-great grandfathers of this nation. To the nation's
events and take part in them with greater liveliness to what
person is not regarded as great by indifferently passing by

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The warmth within man which is greater than that of his environment is

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of the organism. The warmth of the organism which is greater

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The great question with which we have been concerning ourselves for
Think of how greatly our responsibility is increased when we realize:
You see, therefore, how great is the distance separating the
things is provided by the fact that in an epoch when great power was

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The great
greatly our responsibility is increased when we realize: If
therefore, how great is the distance separating the
an epoch when great power was vested in the hands of groups

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strong effort of will. And the greater the strength and intensity of
as this comes from outside, and kindle into greater activity the
But by what means do our actions evolve to greater perfection? To use
greater perfection in our actions? We achieve this by developing in
Thus you see how in the human being the two great ideals, freedom and
Thus does man stand within the great process of world-evolution, and
perceive that just as more and more will, a greater and greater

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them there with a strong effort of will. And the greater the
insofar as this comes from outside, and kindle into greater
means do our actions evolve to greater perfection? How do we
achieve greater perfection in our actions? We achieve this by
how in the human being the two great ideals, freedom
stand within the great process of world evolution, and what
that just as more and more will, a greater and greater

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Of these three festivals Christmas makes the greatest
might, through great sacrifice, unite Himself with human existence.”
great experience to gaze on the entrance of the Christ Being into
how great a step forward was taken when the Jehovah principle gave

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various nations were so great, nevertheless, in reality all these achievements
I once pointed out that the great Kepler, the successor of Copernicus, had
solution to the great secrets of the universe in their own particular
before us in a far greater glory than Osiris did in the eyes of the
we do not look merely each at the other, but together face the great goal we
work together in love on the great tasks, then, and only then, do we

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time that, no matter how great and grand the achievements of the
Once I pointed out that the great Kepler, the successor
the solution to the great cosmic secrets, they also expressed it in
the new Isis which go to make the great firmament of the heavens.
Who stands before us in a far greater glory than Osiris did in the
great goal which we have in common. The Mystery which the Christmas
love in the great task. Then, and only then, shall we understand

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greater intensity among such people as the Magi from the East, and
the next great world war. Culture will be wrecked in more ways. There
come out of the spiritual world.” What is an event of great

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said: People of today realise that a great deal goes on in the
needs. In the great State arrangements as in the narrower,
familiar path that is like a great lie in modern life. I confronted

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Universities, there are a great number of these National

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the Spiritual world, between the great Midnight Hour of
class of society, but in the great number of people growing up
they pointed to one thing with great sagacity, — to the
unfortunately always annoys these people that what is so great
great is so simple. That is, as simple as the laziness of the
to realise the greatness in all its differentiation. One always

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external course of events. As a rule, however, the great
can notice signs of this transition, both in great and in small
great significant progress has been made. Triumphs have been
evolved from their embryonic life. The great traffic only came
or rather in the last quarter of it, came that great turnover,
the great transformation, which led from world-intercourse, to
see, during this epoch I was greatly interested in those
them to find the aftereffects of the great crisis in
Southern Railway and entered a great business undertaking,
events. I could see to my great sorrow, that human beings under
belong apparently to Spiritual or material things. A great
dear friends, for a great deal depends on it.
financial advisers signify a great deal to-day, because to-day

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Earth; to make the Earth a great organic being endowed with
become — no longer one great organism with unified common
caricature of the Old Moon, to turn it into a great organism
are contained as in a great common Nirvana. Or, on the other
the other Educational Institutes. Just consider the great

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mankind; to make the Earth a great organic being endowed with
longer one great organism with a unified common soul, (which
great organism having an individualised dreaming soul, in which
human souls are contained, as in a great common Nirvana. Or, on
consider the great cleft between these, and you will realise

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have a greater connection between death and a new birth. It is
unfold an urge to find too great an affinity with the earthly
relationship which we form is due to our developing too great
make of the earth a great organic being with a common soul in
becoming a great unitary organisation with a unitary
the Old Moon, a great organism with an individualised dreamy

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Man examines nature, and the greatest progress has been made by
Modern technics can only furnish the great triumphs of recent
has arisen in him the greatest strain and tension, the great demand

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There is a great deal
back for a great part of what lives in this European civilisation
the East of Asia with the South in one Great Unity — I mean,
great walls of the Summer Palace on the Hill of Ten Thousand
artistic marble ship afloat on the great lake. In the middle of all
to an end. Although often calumniated, she was really a great
to clarity in the future.” Those are the two great opposites
was part of an age of childhood, and that that alone is great which
19th century. To-day when we are living in the age of great
greatness. We ought to realise that this is of significance, as we
great intensity he ought to put that contrast before him, which we
however in certain circles is propagated with great joy, because
over the noise and lewdness of the great cities. Where else is to
all these things is simply not seen by a great number of human

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standing! That is the great opposition between Roman Catholicism
in regard to these great matters. People are going over in hosts,
in great armies to-day to Catholicism, and Catholicism has an inner
everywhere to-day have a great tendency to avoid forming an opinion
origin of the catastrophe of the Great War which has claimed so
senile, gossipy style, informs us, with a great amount of chatter,
president of the French Republic, was there at the time, and great
run in great hosts to where something has been preserved from
our Earth-evolution. But the great Hour of Decision is with us; and
that were to happen. One need not be blind to the greatness of the

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Later on I want to speak in greater depth about what makes this
in great crowds, create a symbol like the moving scene in the
towards Anthroposophy in great crowds ...” It is this,
even if one can't imagine it, what “great crowds”
“great crowds.” However it is this which causes the
converted. We do them the greatest favour when we don't present
last two studies pointed out with great energy, what actually
“great crowds” which I quoted to you before. It's

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only say that the feeling-life has no greater clearness of
the same way, within a great organism, a world-organism, which
the question arises: What is this great cosmic organism in
into the eighth sphere. Wow the great question, the great
Will man now remain simply an inseparable member in the great
organism which mounts to its eighth sphere, the great organism
metabolic-limb system. Here the great cosmic organism of the

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in order to grasp the Mystery of Golgotha. It is of great and
one means only the Jehovah-God. In the great catastrophe of the
religion — only, there were a great many Jehovahs; each
everything which in great significant words is imprinted in the
a great number of persons who can apparently think quite
develop a great deal of intellect. That is Ahriman within them;
far greater facility if he allows Ahriman to think for him. And

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in order to grasp the Mystery of Golgotha. It is of a great and
Jehovah-religion, only, there were a great many Jehovahs; every
circles to-day there are a great number of persons who can
develop a great deal of intellect and power. That is Ahriman
Professor with far greater facility if he allows Ahriman to

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bodily nature only. And the greater the emphasis that was laid on the
What has to be recognised to-day is that even the greatest
become something that has dragged the greatest of Mysteries into the
great source of strength, knowing that the spiritual and eternal
in any juristic sense. In the Book of Job, the greatest dramatic
ever-watchful Guardian-Spirits of the cosmos who, through the great

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great and comprehensive wisdom which in the early Christian
things which are greatest in one realm should also be felt as
feelings into one of the greatest of mysteries, so we have also
Spiritual knowledge finds its greatest support in the
Job, the greatest dramatic presentation of religious
they will have a great longing for knowledge of their own
wills, of their own freedom; they will desire greatly to
resurrection occurred has to be regarded as the greatest and

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would greatly prefer to find automatons for the pursuit
When that happens then the great bridge will be thrown

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materialism had its period of greatest development. In
great deal of what I shall have to say about the theoretical
the fact that a great majority of people still tries to cling
the human being has passed through the greatest variety of
differences will not appear to be so great in the course of
viewpoint, the great differences in regard to the primitive
holds good. For then we are obliged to admit that a great and
of great significance that about the middle of the nineteenth
stenography, they did not attach so great a value to

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appears as a great riddle as long as it is not observed
experiences of everyday life with the great extraordinary
in a certain greatness, must continuously take place within

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greater error in the art of recitation is conceivable. For when we
soul, unfolds in the rhythm of breathing. A greater part of what is
immersed. He is seized with a great longing for the veiled Virgin,

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particular configuration, you have to picture the great
individuals who towered above the great mass of uneducated
great break between Plato and Aristotle. On the other hand,

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There is a great deal that, from the viewpoint of spiritual
indicate by this what unclear concepts prevail today. A great

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ribs greatly reduced. Imagine that which is very wide in the ribs, in
transgression against the rhythmic system is too great everything
great effects.
will have great difficulty in grasping the significance of what happens
difficult it may be you will do this child a great service when you
can achieve a great deal with the child or children through having them

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a great deal of the extra-terrestrial penetrates into the
developing the greatest luster.
should not touch but be held at a greater or lesser distance
that there was greater asymmetry: the radiations from the

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greater and more penetrating results in learning to walk properly. Thus
as that is greatly facilitated through the practice of the vowels. When
exceptionally good — it will be of great help to the children
by carrying them out in walking. And you will achieve a great deal for
that is in essence the great polarity between an “S” and

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not very great, and if you use one in one case and the other
in another case you cannot make too great a mistake.
great service in this way. On the other hand, it is quite
organism from below upward. This danger is really very great
in man's capacity for movement — which is of great

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“H” he makes a greater effort to uncover through speech the
find the movement for it deviates greatly to begin with from what takes
feeling, which already leads to a greater extent into the physical.
between the teeth constricted to the greatest degree and with the lips
the greatest propensity to become obese. That may really be taken as

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processes that occur with too great a facility. All this is
very great. Why is it so great? Because diphtheric conditions
enters into this interaction improperly. A great deal in the
even greater intensity. An actual case of phosphorus

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personality who had to fight with the great intensity, on the
the Mystery of Golgotha, with the Mithras worship. Great were

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now do the P for us in the same manner. The difference is not very great.
intestine, it will be greatly to his advantage to perform this movement,
That is a movement which strengthens the intestinal activity greatly
the physiologist, who is also known as a very great authority in nutritional
something which brings a great deal of life into this human etheric

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mentioning something that can suggest a great deal regarding
presents the greatest conceivable difficulties, especially if
in greater quantity in exhaled air than in inhaled air and
compounds of silica. Silica compounds require the greatest

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fact indicates that a change of great and far-reaching
fraught with a certain tragedy. After its period of great
Christian mystery, the full significance of which is so great
indeed ask questions, a great reaction set in beginning with
the blood. After all, it was in a great variety of phases
how great the possibility was for momentous words to be
great significance for that particular age. But just as it
developed out of an age of greater wisdom and ceremonial
For all that, he was still great; he
spiritual life that later became extinct was truly greater
too, was not without a certain greatness. When what has been

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effect of laughing itself is really very greatly heightened. The curative
eurythmically, this curative effect is proportionately greater. You
It becomes capable of greater resistance. People who really have the

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words, the root's forces are somewhat weak, a great deal is
whereas the statistics show a greater consumption of sugar
therefore say that the intestines develop a greater activity
forces that have a great deal to do with the environment of
— we will be able to achieve a great deal with such
previous course. It is most important to be aware of a great

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great problem. We see it light up everywhere in the Gnostic
that, to the greatest extent possible, is hated in the
its greatest strength. Not by a long shot has it attained its

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movements of the etheric body are awakened to a greater degree. These
the fully-grown person the inner organism presents too great a resistance
in which there would be more movement and where a great deal of eurythmy

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What in greater quantities acts destructively in the upper
You can see how lead, greatly diluted and acting from below
however, and this third modification is of great
that is, by experimenting. It is generally of the greatest

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have as a patient a five-year-old child who lost a great deal of blood
materialism calls inheritance — the greater part of which, however,

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presents itself as a particularly great and beautiful figure;

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who participated, I would like to say, with the greatest
Nietzsche had fallen ill. It was at that time that the great
prophesied a great future for him. He stands firmly on the
if I would predict a great future for him, if he would firmly

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doctrines of great significance, splendid doctrines. There
frozen into this doctrine, something great and mighty that
effort, attained to its fullest and greatest unfolding at
the greatest cosmic significance, turned into an external,
to the emergence of debates of great importance in world
rigid dogmas yet containing something great and mighty, these
confessions of the greatest variety arose as compromises
when I said that nowadays a great number of people love evil

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greater totality, and so forth. People attributed to the
physical body. This is the great difference that becomes
thus surrender to their impulses and instincts. The great
they can work with much greater success for the people and
the Theosophical Society. It points to the great initiates
great initiates rule the world; in turn, they themselves sit
Although in themselves these things were not great, if placed
in the right location, they appear great.

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century, people by and by have received a great amount of
outwardly which the great masses of people could receive only
intellectuals; the great masses of people remain untouched by
more elementary way even though a great variety of ideas were
brilliant human being, even though a great number of his
opposed to the great masses of the Russian people who,

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placed on insignificant aspects as compared to the great
Maistre, a personality of the greatest imaginable genius, of
great fusion between the element living in the Oriental
which then greatly influenced French thinking.
individuals who are viewed as great men. This is
for modern mankind, namely, that people today see greatness
side of the Channel in Great Britain and is basically
over in Great Britain. In France, everything proceeds from a
This spiritism, which in turn has a greater impact than one
Paris, great controversy between Cuvier and Geoffroy de
something of great significance.
great scholarly scientist, claimed that one had to be able to
In de Maistre we encounter the last great personality who

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really come to pass in the life of humanity through the ages. A great
upon the Earth with greater strength. But this is a last faint echo,
body, a great deal more is happening than modern science dreams of.
regarded as a factor of great importance in ancient times. In the

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earth with greater intensity. Yet, it is but a last, faint
in the womb, a great deal more is taking place than what

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according to these formulae, you will see that a great deal is

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us gay; but being gay means, really, being filled with a greater

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phenomenon is of the greatest effect on earth? What heavenly body is
in the history of painting you will find that the great painters of

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This is a time when a great deal of attention, ranging
today to certain great cosmic events with which we are already familiar from
and will have realised that one of the great events in earthly
matters of the greatest significance come into consideration here. Man's being
Thus the second great process or event was that man became more spiritual. But
must begin to be alive to the great happenings that are connected with his
be a great event in earthly evolution — the re-entry of the moon into the
reality are nothing but a great world-question. His intellect cannot begin to
the Jupiter-men and the others descended again to earth. Now an event of great
the earthly evolution of humanity to be veiled in mystery. However great the
only a passing episode in the great sweep of cosmic evolution and will be
the great epoch towards which his successive earthly lives are leading him.
all, the events are not really of such great significance. Nevertheless, the

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over-abundant intellect of great intensity. Along with this
However great the resistance in hostile quarters, these
soul-spirit being only if they comprehend that great period
the way to an artistic grasp of things. Like a great hymn, I

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great significance. For long ages the instruction and education of the
continually with these great problems: How can I reconcile natural law
knowledge. And so we find great emphasis being laid upon the cleft between
of the greatest significance in European thought and civilisation. Its
in spite of its greatness and inspiration, does no more than reach out

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greatest spiritual consolation that they had this inner clairvoyant life
with a much greater freshness as a folk for experiencing spiritual reality
of oriental cults and religious ideas, which flowed together in a great
give the traditional description of what leaks out into greater publicity
see the great outburst of people from below upwards in various countries.
There is a great to-do when Dante, assisted by his teacher, makes his
I want to lay the greatest stress upon the things that external history

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few weeks, I have repeatedly spoken of the great change that
humanity changed in a sense with one great leap.
something that was centuries old. Furthermore, the great
been passed on by word of mouth with great ease; for the
evidently points back to something greater and more direct. I

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from what it was later on. As we already know, a great change
three chapters of the great book by Scotus Erigena clearly
his book about the divisions of nature is so great and
The great

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different from what it came to be later on. A great and
consisted to a far greater extent in an exercising of the
first three sections of the great work of John Scotus Erigena,
the Earth, taken as one great whole, is not the same as it once
great erratic blocks they float across the ocean of life that

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this human body was formed out of the earth, they set great
felt through greater activity; the blood received greater
great difference between the way a person thought of a
by way of Spain into Europe and eventually exerted a great

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mattered, the weight would be so great (1300 to 1500 grams)
not be a great success with our contemporary scholar, though

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great man, but he was also a great Philistine who completely
physical world. The great cultural defect of our time is that

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historical manifestations of mysticism. The great sensual
hen's egg. A great deal can be learned through this. Problems

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are sufficiently developed, human cognition is greatly strengthened,

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greatly strengthened. I am repeating here certain statements

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to a great extent in our time! Just think how fixed the
of its soul flow into a great cemetery.

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it is also in the great universe. And in this connection we must say:
is which can reveal itself to man as a great and significant truth:
towards it. Just think how great is the effort we have to make if we
extent, the great laws determining the future. And Intuition embraces
the age of materialism dawned, man was in great danger of falling
must bear in mind how great a secret concerning the historical
very greatly confused, and this confusion pervades all thinking. It

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what is conveyed by this sense is to a great extent an inner process;
that, from the time of Hume or Locke or even earlier, this great

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This cleavage has arisen primarily because a great many of those who

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much head-men, we shall understand a great deal, but remember little

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human beings who were no longer able to rise to great heights of
really learn a great deal in this connection, if they would train
which are worthy of the greatest respect and appreciation.
materialism has, after all, achieved great things through its methods
of investigation, it has achieved great and mighty things.
When Darwinism brought forward its great standpoint, Darwinism, which

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nineteenth and early twentieth century have become great. It was
with a certain emphasis, realising that Haeckel was a great
great historical significance in the nineteenth century, particularly
grasped by a small minority; the great majority lives in traditional
the East and asserting itself over a great part of the earth. This is
reason, there is such a great difference between the things to which
see in this a symptom showing the presence of a great amount of
great deal of love, are generally unloving, whereas those who have a
great amount of love do not speak much of love, so the people who
nineteenth-century, that is to say, within the great majority of men,
think out a great part of our soul-life and, above all, of our

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breathing and the physical body. The greatest part of our
greatly merited by rejecting Steiner with complete lucidity and

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have spoken in this way — to bring an offering to the great God
find that they reveal just this attitude of mind. Then a great
past age when it was an experience of infinitely greater intensity,

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related to hatred, so hatred plays a great part in your whole
the West which, externally, still have a great influence. But it is

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Since fear is closely related to hatred, hatred plays a great
outwardly still have a great influence. It is repeated only
not point with the greatest intensity toward this inner human

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great deal of what we really need in order to find the point
great deal within their secret societies of what had been
all, and to a great extent, enters into human actions as an
to say with the greatest earnestness: the spirit must subsist

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to the great contradiction between East and West. In times past the Oriental
great variety of ways, manifesting itself visibly to our senses. But

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drew attention to the great contrast between East and West.
greatest variety of ways, so that it is visible to us. Within

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impressions actually crowd in upon us to the greatest extent

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to follow this diagram, which is of the greatest significance

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being. It would be of especially great importance if there
however, has employed up to now great quantities of fear,
great quantities of antipathy, to prevent the vindication of

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accomplished his greatest work: this wonderful view of the

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of lecturing for which one should have the greatest
great antipathy because it is directed too strongly towards
situation, and with great patience finds out what it's all

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of lecturing for which one should have the greatest
great antipathy because it is directed too strongly towards
situation, and with great patience finds out what it's all

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connecting to that which is to hand in the greatest measure
are to be handled by us, though, with great caution, since we

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connecting to that which is to hand in the greatest measure
are to be handled by us, though, with great caution, since we
deny that these items differ vary greatly from each other and that if
great cut this was! — Please go and try to find a barber

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taken up with the greatest seriousness. It is necessary to

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speaking oneself ought not to belong to these other greater

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freedom. The cultural life turns into a great tyranny if it spreads
great enthusiasm need be engendered.
the basic rule for debates it will be of great significance for them.
greatly. But it was equally clear that whatever he would have to say

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person may be a great mathematician, may have myriad
as he does his physical body. The person may know a great
this legacy was so great that the human being still had an

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have greater difficulty in the case of completely unprepared
seek the great riddle's answer.)
great significance for the speaker. Whether we present

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have greater difficulty in the case of completely unprepared
seek the great riddle's answer.)
great significance for the speaker. Whether we present

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have already studied a great number of these viewpoints;
great individuals of ancient China, about the great
the greatest of riddles. He should say to himself that this
Golgotha in this way. This constitutes the great difference
have developed here the great teaching of freedom. Avowal of
ever-greater value, but to the Gospel must be added the
throughout. It is missing to an even greater extent than in

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for example, concerning Moses, the great men of ancient China,
the great men of ancient India, Persia, Egypt — and further
the greatest of riddles. He should say to himself that the
way. This constitutes the great difference between Christianity
portal of death with the great teaching of freedom. Avowal of the
Gospel will never lose its value. It will have an every greater
throughout. It is missing to an even greater extent than in

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hold of a great instrument — to put his listeners to
begins to reflect within himself. It is a great misfortune
with the formal aspect of speaking, you could learn a great
know what a great difference exists between hearing, say, the
they flock in great numbers — especially the

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hold of a great instrument — to put his listeners to
begins to reflect within himself. It is a great misfortune
with the formal aspect of speaking, you could learn a great
know what a great difference exists between hearing, say, the
they flock in great numbers — especially the

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might say, with great reverence for the primeval wisdom of

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raises into greater clarity what lies in the ocean-depths of man's
If the life of soul is studied from this point of view, great
antipathies are the antecedents of human egotism. The greater a man's
This Sun-Mystery was felt to be the greatest spiritual treasure
greatest of all treasures was represented in Rome, at all events in an

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greatest, is an attempt to return to the word that has been lost, to
great mystery of the extent to which Man is an actual pictured
different way. The unit embraced all numbers and was the greatest.
unit is the greatest and the following numbers always appear as being

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raise an arm or a leg, is in fact just as great a mystery to us
in the organism. A great part of this is excreted but there is

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of January), because people generally think that during the great
that almost in the whole world great problems of life are being
that the great conflict between the West and the East announced
greatest reverence can be felt for it when looking back from its
to designate this physical-sensory world as MAYA, the great
external world perceived through the eyes and ears as a great
this idea of the great illusion connected with the
a great illusion, a Maya.
developed, if we notice, for example, the greatness and loftiness
the gods, it is Maya, the great illusion. They did not speak of
the world as a great illusion from the very beginning; but
great illusion, as Maya.
meaning. The great impression made upon mankind by the star
Golgotha. Many people look towards that great symbol: the cross
Mankind went through a great change in the course of twelve
indicate more deeply the great change which took place through
orbit 354 times. A Jupiter year, a great Jupiter year, reached
the same message: Christ is coming. Highest wisdom and greatest
misery is too great for the maintenance of old Christmas customs.
time. The great conflict between East and West must also take

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THE Festival of the Holy Night has for centuries been a great festival
Christian world as a great and memorable contribution to the times. It
great mystery of human life and death by saying: When the soul passes
simply to be regarded as a great Teacher, the messenger of the Father
great importance to Rome at the time, the Christ had appeared in Jesus
There could be no greater contrast!
us is of greater significance than what is implied by the word
great plan of world-history. In the Mysteries of all peoples, this
time at which this understanding is accessible, to the greater part of

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will certainly be the greatest possible social significance for the
the form of abstractness; it celebrates its greatest triumphs in
passage he has invested with a great deal of human striving towards a

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spiral, and this has often indeed been done. But on the greatest

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civilization. He still lived as the great Sun-being outside the
fact can be greatly clarified by something that was regarded as being
consciousness of a great tableau of life encompassing everything that
they seek. Obviously the greater part of mankind today rejects this
ordinary life. On my last tour I met a man who was greatly concerned
to see that a great many people are approaching who want to hear

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Schiller had managed to write a great drama he had planned,
our own time, there is once more a great longing amongst mankind to
independent through its own strength. This is the great difference
that the spiritual world was seen in etheric shapes. The great
putting it. It was the great concern of the teachers in the ancient

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further we go back in human evolution the greater is the role played
the two great polar opposites: the world of abstraction foreshadowed
Philo of Alexandria is perhaps the abstract thinker of the greatest
this struggle with great intensity. The struggle to fill the human
Goethe was too great a poet for us not to notice that this was only a

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of an episode. And consider how, in the great final tableau, he
the ability of great diagnosticians to fathom the disease by
Otherwise, the best will in the world and the greatest capability
things is to look at them squarely, with great earnestness — to

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after the Mystery of Golgotha, it meant little, even to the greatest
need to gain greater clarity of soul about this change. I have also
what constitutes that great spiritual change. What people sought in
in the great change that took place in the fifteenth and sixteenth
something else to the great question which is so important for an
external facts, particularly on the greatest personalities of the

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life, tasks arising out of the great change that took place in the
great poetic creation cannot be accomplished without some inclination
does this pictorially. Angels appear as starry guides. The great
abstract. Goethe greatly approved of the thought, but at the same
Goethe's own imaginative life, fuelled as it is by the great riches
how a personality as great as Goethe strives to find an entry to the
executed by one of the greatest poets.
place the human being within a great spiritual context. He was unable
greatness only when we see what it does not contain, when we see the
exclaiming: What an incomparably great masterpiece! We can only reach
A great

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vibrations of the great change, how he sensed that it was a concrete
life? This was the great question which lived in the souls of Goethe
happened as a result of the great transition which took place in the
through a preparation and how it later ran its course after the great
the great change which brings it about in the fifth post-Atlantean
the seventeenth century too, after the great change had taken place,
back a few centuries prior to the great change. Read

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great world-wide movement of the end of the eighteenth century.
lies the great contrast between Central Europe and Latin western
developing any great inner activity it is possible to absorb
prevent them from being made with the greatest aplomb.

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anxiety, then greater anxiety, and lastly actual terror. The
greatest intensity and far-reaching effect take place in the
Intuition. It is a condition which is of great significance to
concerned with a great deal that belongs to the experiences of
willing the condition of the greatest insensibility — as
element of great significance for the human being.

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were able to understand him, was of the greatest importance in this
death on the cross, something very deep and great is implied in this
great truths of the past connected with man's earthly evolution, a
great illusion, and it made no great impression on men, for they knew
himself. The gods faced the great problem of losing to a certain
Golgotha meant this for the gods: a greater wealth of knowledge
greater part in the older evolution of mankind, and that Ahriman
that the first heralds of Christianity attached great value to the
greatest aspect, this error is responsible for the death on the cross

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in Great Britain by
Christianity the teaching of greatest moment is that concerning
Paul, of course, is of the greatest importance, for Paul
lived to a great extent outside the body. In this state of
soul-and-spirit. Death belonged to Maya, to the great Illusion,
The great
that the earliest messengers of Christianity attached great
century after the Mystery of Golgotha and received its great
The scribes are men of eminence, of great learning; judgment

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evolution, when one feels the greatest intensity of pleasure

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normally taken into account but is of great significance. The
should not make too great an effort to cure a human being
and can be of great value — someone who knows how to

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this point something of the greatest significance becomes
things become different. At first there is a great struggle to
wonderful sense organ — a great etheric sense organ as

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in destroying Ahriman's endeavors is great enough and now we
intelligence who are today returning in great numbers to

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indicated how the child behaves to a great extent as an imitative
This is of great significance. On our descent into the earthly world,
child, great secrets are inscribed there. Much can be seen there of
itself our activities. Therefore it makes a great difference whether a

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of teeth the child behaves to a great extent as an
the astral body of the young child; great secrets are inscribed
take into itself our deeds. Therefore, it makes a great

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clear that there is a great difference between that and what the ascetic
through such practices. Nearly all of the earlier great religious
religious life make light of these things. They declare the great
spiritual world. The great religions have not been attained without
pain but rather through great suffering.
knowledge was originally attained through great pain and
often be accompanied by great pain, yet one is not ill. No doubt it is
made to overcome this pain of the soul, which becomes ever greater as one
of spiritual life out of which the great religions were born. The
great religious truths which fill our soul with awe, conveying as they
cannot be reached without painful inner experiences. The great truths do

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some slight hurt then it is clear that there is a great
through such practices. Nearly all of the earlier great
things. They declare the great religious revelations to be
The great religions have not been attained without pain but
rather through great suffering.
knowledge was originally attained through great pain and
accompanied by great pain, yet one is not ill. No doubt it is
which becomes ever greater as one advances. While it is easier
which the great religions were born. The great religious truths
oppressive such a thought would be to many people. The great

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In this direction great and impressive results have been accomplished
western civilization the greatest intellectual achievements have been
But, my dear friends, it would be a great mistake to compare the
transported into the great universal laws; one participated in world
of the kind of things I have explained. These are matters of great

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this direction great and impressive results have been
greatest intellectual achievements have been attained in recent
But, my dear friends, it would be a great mistake to
great universal laws; one participated in world processes. This
explained. These are matters of great import and

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make the greatest effort to form his ideas and concepts.
great majority of men did hot realise this, yet they
great majority of men, the gods, the spiritual beings, were, so
Greek philosophy, then the great masses of men coming from the
shall find that American science greatly differs from European
great masses of people to-day, who rush forward to assert their
which are only now beginning to appear, whereas the great

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and has gone through a great many different stages. At present,
great masses of humanity experienced it but without full
the obedience felt by the great masses towards their leaders,

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say, the search for this relationship gives rise to the greatest
assert that it is in space. In this way the greatest
at the same time to a fact of very great importance, which is not at
great impression which Schopenhauer's philosophic system,

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great riddles of existence. Rather did he believe that he must hold
ocean, into the great vault of heaven and its stars, into everything
became aware of this or that great problem of existence, and all that
following. If a man desires to penetrate into the great mysteries of
whenever we are confronted by great cosmic events. We must be able to
matter or the greatest mass. Then we shall be able to do something
mathematics. For Novalis, the science of mathematics was a great and

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things I am now saying intelligible to you in greater detail. —
five years and there is unwillingness to admit that a great deal more
warmth in man's organism is greater than the warmth of his
of Warmth. To prevent this is of the very greatest importance.

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I explained to you yesterday in greater detail how man is related to
is already enriched, an abundance of unconscious forces. A great deal

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which you find in the central Alps. Here are two great and important
is of great significance. People with a greater lime content are as a
— not to a very great extent, it is true, but to a small extent
Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain.)

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world, which the Christian impulse followed in its greatest
is received by the great soldiers in Valhalla, or how he lives on
beings who were greatly venerated were still present, even for
history to which people should actually give a great deal of
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When Elsa of Brabant is in great need, the swan comes. The swan
him after their fashion, proclaiming him a great scientist in all
is constituted in such a way as to regard as a great scientist
recognized as a great scientist; that he is, but in the good

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century. The great social questions which arise out of economic
the great development of trade and commerce in the economic life in
But in this respect a great transformation took place in the second
not on what one sees in one's immediate surroundings, but on the great
immediate, it became deeper and deeper: and we stood before this great
become impossible. This was the great question of the twentieth
in Germany. Thus, there arose the great contrast or antagonism of
have changed since then: and now, in the great affairs of
be done.” Meanwhile, the great calamity was taking place: the

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other buildings, now situated in its neighbourhood, greatly increase
hop about to find his food. Sometimes he has to hop about a very great
sense of Economics. Indirectly it is of great significance, for on the

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division of labour gained very great significance.
far the greater portion — to making clothes for other people.

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There is a great difference between the purse I have in my pocket
do who was inside the chemist's retort where, with a great generation

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This great Swedish naturalist developed botany by observing, above

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every economic relationship. Otherwise we are led into the greatest
never receive a greater value. It can at most receive a greater value

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opposition that was only smoothed over through the greatness of soul,
being his true dignity. Just look at the sublimity, the greatness, of
of soul, they are really greater than all his other works. When we
greatest of them all. But Schiller had to struggle with them from an

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consuming process. This contrast has played a great part recently in
that economic wisdom is today not very great. Those especially who
economic knowledge is by no means great. People are little inclined to
great deal of free spiritual life there, yet the economic processes

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developed their physical bodies in greater freshness than those who
into the cosmos, into the great world beyond, they called it
the macrocosm, the great world, inasmuch as they thought of it as
phrase, “The great world and the little world.” By
“great world” he understood the macrocosm and by
the “great world.”
evolution faced a great danger. There was the danger of more and more
“great world.” And it is actually the case that, to begin
entered into humanity as the healer, as the great healer, as the

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these products; as soon as the differentiation becomes greater, this
comes in. Where lending is concerned, free human will has a very great
reality of the economic life. The greater the technical accuracy with

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simply says: If the supply is too great, this will of itself lead to
Similarly, if the demand is too great (or too small) it will
can sell at a greater advantage. The worker's relation to the

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through free gifts is of the very greatest productivity — if only
arose by direct transformation out of Loaned Capital to a greater
markets, we must undoubtedly admit that a far greater part is played
great deal could be seen at work of all three — particularly in
great economic progress. This she did by means of trade; and
plays a great part in the economic life. It is this: Conditions which

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exchange, the things exchanged on both sides become of greater value.
money has a greater value in my hands than it has in his; while in his
as a whole, the commodity has a greater value in his hands than it has
experience of money-lenders that mutual aid plays a great part even in
principle of mutuality to a far greater extent than is the case when
This is the great difficulty which besets the formation of economic
Associations whose members have a great deal of economic insight; yet
moralic acid, which can, no doubt, play a great role in another field.

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to home were discussed. There was a particularly great interest in
will make greater efforts on that side and through his movements

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great; the private business man is not as concerned as all that with
Herein you see one of our greatest historical problems.
great question. I will formulate it once more: What form of payment
spiritual institutions? This is the great economic question, to the

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greater or less value to a certain sum of money. I mean value not only
great an army of slaves that they were able to lend them out. They
into account and yet it plays the greatest imaginable part in the
a mere national economy. This is precisely the great question: What
value — a value far greater than that of old money. This economic
the greater or lesser age of the money. To perceive the economic

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The following may happen. At a given time there lives a great poet,
would cost a great deal to do that. At any rate we cannot, in the
in the purely material phase of economic life has an infinitely great

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objection would have neither greater validity nor less
the sake of the machine. Work becomes the great word in
human economy has interfered greatly with the destinies of the
achieves a thought-architecture in great style, whose edifices
life moves on.” And now comes a great sentence: “A
“All great historical events are sustained by such beings
decisive moment of its greatest efficiency, or is blindly

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greater detail. For instance, money issued today might be
The great question is: How shall they compensate each other? In the
precisely equated to another. But to a great extent this can be done.
that weighs on one so heavily. Great issues are impending. Human

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that he has complete command of the great variety of thoughts
for the great spiritual creations whose directions were learned
realities to a far greater degree; and what Oswald Spengler
over the whole earth. The great mass of mankind was embraced in
something filled with great wisdom; they were present, but
that is asked of anyone today is written on a great screen
to man? That was a great question, for instance, with Goethe,
with great expectations regarding the earth-life.
with very great expectations before they descended to
how the souls of great Utopianists — even the lesser ones
true, is it not, that a great part of humanity today is

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IT IS a great pleasure to me to be able to give this series of

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before, or consciously changes such as one had. The greater the

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inner life a greater control over the statements of a Spiritual
implanted in the consciousness by free choice. It requires a greater
consciousness in another way. And we need this greater effort to

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from consciousness, from the soul life. It requires greater
Experiencing something through inspiration differs greatly from

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power of obliterating the imaginative pictures grows ever greater, and
later becomes so great that the whole picture of one's life's

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inner self, whether we feel lively or languid, is to a great

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various relationships must be presented from the greatest
greatest spiritual value here in earth life must be a

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confronted in full measure and with great intensity with the
fundamentally there is a great difference between even

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ordinary consciousness are a great help to him in life. It goes
and characterized with the greatest discernment, for this

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soul as its own inner being. But in comparison to this great,
longer have any significance in the great cosmic ocean of ether
human soul consciously faces the great question: As my

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together with the great Sun Being, you can control it quite

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organ in the human body. In olden times a very great deal was known
world, and the further back we go in time, the greater was the
and ancient Persia, presented greater and greater difficulties. Up to

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science to which such great authority is attached — these
in the realm of intellectualism. The great task of our age is to bring
greatest imaginable importance during the Third Post-Atlantean period
greatest helpers of the individual human being with his own moral
acquiring individual freedom in ever-greater measure. But a great and
are often capable of doing a great deal; but the important thing is
visionary and a heretic, and Buddha, one of the three great figures

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Egyptians were concerned with great problems of the cosmos, with the
were great. With the help of the culture connected with the mummies,
so to speak, a culture of greater purity.
but modern science holds the same opinion of a great deal that is true
Golgotha. There is a very great deal in these cults and ceremonies, but
men can acquire a great deal from this source. Just as the human soul
him, at a great age, to write the second part of Faust if he had
ancient Egypt, comes to modern man. These are facts of great
contributed a great deal. It is the same with cults of the Churches,

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were at their prime. This, indeed, was the great transition that took
head. But you have before you in great clarity and precision the forms
who have to lead them, lay great stress upon the fact that the
streams out from them into their actions. There is a great difference
immeasurably greater significance for the cosmos than deeds performed

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him that they looked like spinal vertebrae, although greatly
is a task of the greatest possible significance today. Failure to

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influence in the historical evolution of humanity — great
confronting him like great question marks (if I may use the term) of
that the Europeans of the West were incapable of bearing the great
A great uncertainty
greater and greater confusion had crept into what had once been the
Ireland where the holy secrets were preserved in great purity.
to cult and ritual, clinging with greatest intensity of feeling to what
great question still remained. Terrible danger seemed imminent if
be done? The great treasure perceptible to those truly belonging to
great question living in this esoteric stream was in reality this: How
etheric cosmos. Here, then, the great question was that concerning the
unconscious one, so in the East there had arisen the great, unconscious
being. A significant feature of the modern age was the great question
character — such was the third great question confronting
century. We must picture the three great question marks standing like

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is of much greater significance. In England, Lloyd George is
has suffered greatly from speculation in foreign
no one knows what to make of it. His great asset is his lack of
from which we may learn a great deal. It is quite obvious what
seven and fourteen. Then it starts up again. There is a great
a great many shepherds to get them going. If this goading

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great importance for life. It means, for example, that everything we

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which can enable us to take greater connections of history into consideration.
say — is too great. Then one has to envelop the tumor through
to understand the great historical connections, one has to be able at
cognition presents a great unity. One can descend from what has to be

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of the earth have too great an influence on him. Mow one simply imparts
at the great turn in the first half of the 15th century that one did
This also has its forerunners. The great German philosopher Johann Gottlieb
people declare this up to a certain age and then become even greater
the Mystery of Golgotha. That is the great cosmic Mystery of the newer

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the head must really exert itself and be a great artisan. It
age seven to fourteen the child enjoys its greatest protection

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with the greatness of what is achieved by him together with the
very truth our greatest benefactor between death and a new

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of the starry heavens is greater. As the embryo develops and
great well-being, so the ancients called the section of man

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think today. A great preference is shown for surgery because
it is correct that the thyroid gland has great
about, it is naturally a source of great happiness for them to

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we have been conducting for weeks. Today we have had the great
intonation of vowels, to a greater degree. He no longer feels that
things, the greatest artist was called Orpheus. He actually possessed

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the connection of what man attains by great efforts here on earth, as
words of speech and the sounds of song. It is our great pleasure in
great musical instrument. Even the external musical instruments
use to a very great extent of the brain, the system of head and
time, when things like these were felt, it was said of the greatest
our language into greater flow and movement than is customary in its

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beings work unceasingly and with great intensity to achieve the
These beings have a great influence upon man during his
but above all into the will — and that is of great

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have great significance, indeed, for the human being. It
yourself, “This is the photograph of the great
be the centre of the world. Therefore, it is of great
earth? Dark people can last longer, for they possess greater
things that have brought about some great change.
the great wide world, you cannot actually get to the bottom of

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has experienced. This trait is greatly accentuated when a man
What constitutes the great suffering for one who has insight

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importance in man but, as you know, it is of great significance
such great measure in the dog is also found to a certain degree
is born with it. And, gentlemen, there are a great many people
the great significance of the whole organization of man.
that he is present to a greater degree than through what one

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everywhere by spiritual beings of the greatest possible
belong to someone. And they are greatly disdained by the beings
we derive greater pleasure from a beautiful statue than from a
for all that, greater), or that we are edified and delighted by
then follows the disillusionment, the great and terrible
manifest. And the greatest artists were men who because of
world belonging to air and water, again we see the great battle
man's physical warmth, which as you know is greater than the
makes great efforts to discover their essential characteristics
grips us deeply and dramatically. Some great and good action is
are present in far greater numbers than is usually imagined and

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idea of Space is only dimly dawning; it is a factor of no great
play its great role in the picture of the universe. Even in the
follow a great many captions and what is sequential in Time is
great deepening of insight into the kind of task that is
great many human experiences that fall right away from the

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truth is that even during the great migrations in spring and

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Something of great significance for human life presents itself
backward with greater rapidity, so that only a third of the

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nature. As a matter of fact, carbon exists in a great many
bearer of even greater, mightier life. It is as I have
Likewise, a great cosmic teacher had to sit somewhere out there
science had its greatest materialistic successes, people

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spiritualize, whatever knowledge he acquires about the great world.
Sun which revealed a very great deal to the Imaginative cognition of
that are really to blame for the great calamity into which human

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spiritualize, whatever knowledge he acquires about the great
which revealed a very great deal to the Imaginative cognition
the great calamity into which human civilization has drifted

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a renowned churchman and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He
his disappointment with theology is so great he dares not apply his

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Then came the Summer. The same letters and words of the great
possessed of the greatest knowledge more and more a festival of

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There is great difference between modern-day atomists and Democritus.

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science in modern times has been greatly affected by a change —
placed great value on presenting his philosophical principles and
square. Modern nebulous mystics describe great mysteries, but there
is no great mystery here. It is only what a person would have

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questions to ask the patient. The greatest medical art lies in
illness.” For instance, it makes a great difference
will have noticed, gentlemen, that nowadays a great many people
great part from the wrong kind of feeding during the earliest

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actually assigning far greater value to science than do the modern
the greatest thinkers. Thus Newton really does not know why he takes
People today like to regard as great thinkers those men who have said
something or other that they approve. But if the great men also said
a man of great genius but

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and greater and greater specialization may take place in these
groups together, we have another, greater whole, which in turn
greater ‘totality’ is the course of the year. If we review all

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the following. You see, there were a great many philosophers in
even including John Stuart Mill, led essentially to the great
Materialism is always greatly astonished by shock but does not

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a great number of people who have the above-mentioned urge towards a
flow with great difficulty for the Anthroposophical Movement, nor,
case stands, for there is at the present time far too great a

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Movement. But there are, as I have already said, a great
only flow with great difficulty for the Anthroposophical
the case stands, for there is at the present time far too great

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consciousness the act of trans-substantiation in the great
is our great task this day to observe how in the world around

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that clairvoyant perception can give greater insight, but it is not
Therefore, in spite of its great achievements we can say that science
owes its greatness to the fact that it has completely missed the
Matters such as these must be seen as part of the great change in

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greater mass, the force of attraction is porportionately greater.
If the distance is greater, the force of attraction decreases, but
great, the attraction is four times less; if it is three times as
great, nine times less, and so forth. Pure measuring is instilled

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People today do not greatly esteem a work like De Divisione
meaning in them. Awkwardly and with great difficulty Boehme presents
Century had great difficulty in getting rid of this concept. It was
Great efforts were made to find something that would fit into this
well applicable to nature and has achieved great triumphs. But it is

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of a great stupidity is something I don't wish to talk about
greatest idiot and yet be an “expert” with
Darwin, who is considered to be the greatest natural scientist
eyes of the public. Darwin was certainly a great man, and
great scientific triumphs made in the external world, it is
when they hatch. These insects therefore have a great
entire civilization. It is possible today to be a great
wish to be deterred by the great tragedy that has struck here.

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human nature, in his physical body. This experience, after the great
say to yourself: The great thing about science is that it has
You see, here lie the great tasks that, by means of the historical
We cannot confront the great challenges of our time with a few
This history shows us at every turn that something great and

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organ. The human being is in every way a great sense organ, and
natural-scientific development, great as they are, for these

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great and often a far greater significance for man's total life
absolutely and utterly a great sense organism differentiated
Science since Goethe — great as these are — because

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seen with a microscope. From the male, a great number of
fine hair, gives the sperm great restlessness. They make the
sperm's restlessness is greatly increased through alcohol, so
these matters, the great effect on human development of minute
great deal could naturally have been accomplished by such an
has enough money to buy one egg. He also has a great
The fear he has of these snakes is much greater than the fear

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greatest intelligence are always born in the winter months.
rascal. Its phlegmatic temperament is so great that it can

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fact that Jews should eat food that allows the greatest

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pictures of great majesty. He too tries to fit man into his place
merely logical form of knowledge which, though of great significance,
meaning but who still felt that some great value was contained in
knowledge again expressed a great deal more than is suggested
notion remains to-day. Consequently no great importance is attached
possessed of a wisdom incomparably greater than any contemporary

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circulation of his blood, he did not feel a very great
awake. And so, their consciousness existed with a greater
ashamed. My dear friends, apply that to our great sleep today
— which we call the great sleep of present civilisation
valuable through its standing in the service of something great.
this with the greatest and highest satisfaction, at a time when
that which I should like to characterise today, both in great

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conscious evolution these words have expressed three great ideals:
greater and greater intensity the farther we go back in history — is
presence of a sadness that must always accompany great enthusiasm for
Goodness were held to be the greatest ideals of human striving. Yet

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proper care has great value.

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intellectual fall is the great historical sign that a spiritual
greatest pride today is evident in those who strive for a so-called
precisely of the Anthroposophical Society for humanity's great ideal
first of all, it is not as great as the intelligence ruling in

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his head and say: “The deed of Christ may have an influence on a great

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of great significance, because we constantly take in something
earth were together a breathing in the great universe. Not only

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— this would make no great difference.
what lies buried in greater depths.
Father-principle really played the greatest imaginable part in older
greatest value is placed on the question of Christ's descent. When
The things had a great
predominant, and played a great part in the human souls for their
ideas on atoms, you will find a great resemblance with this theory.

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greatest contrast to electricity is LIGHT. If we look upon
Ahriman and Lucifer have the greatest power over us if we do not know
the divinity of Good. It is really terrifying to see to what a great

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led to great humility with regard to earthly consciousness. Earthly man could
My great task is to become aware of my humanity. My task on this earth is to
greater knowledge of life on earth than was his birthright. He learns to
past. We learn to consider man over great periods of time. The whole

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into account that the whole environment of the earth has a very great
rests upon the fact that the bees, to a much greater extent than the
is therefore something that greatly helps to advance our civilisation,

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you know, the feminine and masculine natures differ greatly
put great weight on everything in the human being, because only
therefore the greatest risk for the daughter of a hemophiliac
demonstrates that today we stand amidst the greatest confusion
possessed a much greater wealth of knowledge. It is not true
Now, these people had a great wealth of knowledge. If people
possessed such great knowledge, can best be seen here in these
When you consider that bees receive the greatest influence from

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the great majority of remedies were based on the use of a metal
through its whole body. This is true to an even greater extent
sun is the earth. Beyond the earth is Mars. Then come a great
are not that important and lack the great significance of the
Now, these ancient doctors didn't put such great emphasis on
influences. Otherwise one imagines the great universal
when a great interbreeding increasingly occurred among
greatly from one another. When the Jesuits speak against
requires a great deal of time, but the monks had this time;

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breakdown processes. If the opposite activity is too great, however
Certainly a great deal can

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know that when a building is put up on the earth, great attention has
which at one time existed in silica in living form. Great
said: Oh, well, birds see to a great distance. In fact if it is a
forces of the universe brought forth upon it the great beasts. Later,

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great, living organism, and its lifeless part, for example, the
thoughts with the greatest ease and comfort; the lifeless world
We shall then discover what a great change took place in all the
B.C. — we shall discover the great change which
another aspect, it must be greatly valued. But an inner push is
great misfortune of losing our Goetheanum. We know quite well

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matter that he does not perceive it, yet it has a great
taught, namely, the sun is the great sack in which lie the

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just had the great misfortune of losing. My purpose in referring to
should be cherishing and that is great enough to unite all the
greater beauty human beings perceived with spiritual eyes. An artist
me, Muse, of the anger of the great Peleid, Achilles.” It was
color the new shape that the three great ideals should be assuming as
three great ideals. Ruins occupy it, leaving us only one possibility,
great ideals of the human race should be the more deeply graven on
which the three great ideals of humanity — the religious ideal,
energetic enthusiasm for the three great love-engendering ideals,
conference. Great expectations hang on it. I ask all of you who
wholesomely based, energetic effort on behalf of the great ideals so

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accomplished something regarded as one of the greatest feats in the
that Röntgen is one of the greatest men of modern times. But he
greatest trouble getting a position as a tutor because he couldn't
say that young people with this longing have done a great deal of

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Movement for Religious Renewal presents a great danger —
attention to a fact of the greatest importance in this most recent
the time of these proclamations, souls had not felt a much greater
do form, but there is a philistine quality about them in great

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plays so great a role in Europe. These races are, as it were,
Mongolian gives indeed some light back, but he absorbs a great
from up above there [see scheme] a great migration of people
great difference between the European and the American.
the great calamity in civilization. The workers demanded

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greatest disharmony and the worst offenses against brotherliness
far greater humanness than underlies the average cleverness of the
1916 or 1917 to the present, the fruits of a great deal of
the facts can discern the great increase in the amount of material
marks, which, though it may not be a great deal of money under

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in greater detail a fact already well known to us, namely,
human being evolves to a stage of greater self-dependence.
during sleep is to a very great extent dependent upon his
great difference whether ideals are or are not embodied in
then lift his soul to greater and greater heights, it becomes
hours, they would perceive the source of a great deal in our

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actually of much greater significance in the general economy
going to sleep until that of waking has, however, a great
Hence he lived with far greater intensity in his physical
existence something that gave him greater strength than he
15th century man was a self-sufficient being to a greater
who naturally had a great deal to do with his education,
in story telling’. She had not entered to any great
Goethe's life but also in his greatest achievements, that
great individuals appearing in the course of evolution, the
case of a great many illnesses you may ask: What must be
processes is, for by far the greatest part, a study of the
so greatly today is that the study of Spiritual Science
come into play. And a great many people today would actually

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ancient, great personalities of the dawning Greek culture, whose

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greater intervals, but the seventh was the smallest. Thirds

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period I have indicated, this great, all-embracing, mighty
Spain, to the whole of Western Europe. This great stream of
greatest variety.
lecture has very great significance for them. The whole
world, where great hosts of super-sensible Beings enter into

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man is confronted with the great
myself? These were the great religious questions of an
inevitably become a great cemetery. All moral ideals
quite clear that many people — in greater and greater
understanding of the great world-problems since they are
possible in the world for the things upon which the greatness
felt. And there is the greatest possible fear of this
having learnt a great deal — he has of course learnt
clearly much that constitutes a great and burning question in

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doubt of every kind. This is the cause of the great confusion
heard a great deal about the many possibilities of such
reduced to a minimum; the sting is greatly reduced.

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after the great Atlantean catastrophe, the gradual
instinctive perception in that remote past, great importance
certain musical talents. They attached great importance to
a great deal about the existence of a primordial, instinctive
so — great importance was attached to whether a human
Egypto-Chaldean epoch that the greatest importance was

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At the times when the great festivals of the year approach our souls,
Mysteries passed through what I might call a great soul-spiritual
the Earth's great out-breathing into the cosmos.
itself in the great yearly respiration. In this Earth-soul element
alive in ourselves at each of the four great festivals of the year,

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very little true for the greater part of humanity! On what does the
thoughts, in which natural science attains greatness, the Easter
great inner force what appeared before their souls in this powerful
world. The Divine is comprehended in its greatness and power, not when

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really moves, that the great sustaining forces of humanity's
superstition, whereas it is considered great wisdom simply to count

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The great teachers of the Mysteries simply accepted this as a fact.
great questions to the divine spiritual of the cosmos. Their
our ego into its protection. It shows it to us when it opens the great
great question was put before the deity, and the deity was expected to
order to pose the great question to the cosmos so that the cosmos

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the world. Men did not expect great secrets of Nature to be revealed
have been understood. Naturally everything was changed when the great
disappeared to a still greater extent than that for the other side of

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the Roman we can still feel ourselves near; then comes a great gulf.
] is Aristotle, the great and
time the universal spirit. He is great in a certain aspect but he is
approaches the abstract. And behind this lies a fact of great
Logos, the Word. And it is all bound up with the great cosmic event
through death. When those great sentences were uttered: “In the
A short while ago, we heard a great deal about a resolve some people
quite well have gone on to a recognition of the great miracle that
sublime greatness were there revealed!

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gives me great joy to welcome those of you who have come from
expressed the wish to support this conference. This is greatly
learned at school, for these must flow together into the great
someone from becoming, not just a good, but even a great and
the task of observing how these great scientific successes
nevertheless can lead to great illusions, simply because of its
the time, and this must spur us on to greater knowledge of
this streaming out in greater detail, and how it is reflected
great importance in education to take this into full account.
We learn a great deal about the child when we recognize how

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causing too great a loss in the field of art. But any deeply
for a great variety of views, just as a musical work can be
pedantic or stereotypical movements. You will also see a great
there was greater freedom during the times when liberalism was
Swiss friends and visitors. And because of this we feel a great
Rudolf Steiner Press, 1977.] This is how great and widespread
lies that causes the greatest disturbances in the world. To
anthroposophical cause would bring us the greatest of harm
Thus, to prove them wrong would cause them the greatest of

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just one great sense organ. Mainly this is so during the very
something of great significance for embryology. If one looks at
of language. And we know that the child is one great sense
unconsciously that is of great importance. Think for a moment

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caused a great sensation and an extensive treatise dealing with
second dentition announces a great change that affects the
Then, with the change of teeth, the great change occurs. What
remarkable begins to occur; the child feels a greater
now. Otherwise the child aged nine to ten would get too great a

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the Waldorf school we are already facing great difficulties in
patently present. Anyone who is aware of the great difference
the great question of how a child's play can gradually be
great joy. Now the child can add many other features belonging
and magazines. And so one has to exercise great discretion in
These free religion lessons have certainly caused us a great

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great multifaceted sense organ, but as a sense organ where will
proceed in this way until the great moment comes when teachers
where a great lack of imagery is displayed. Portraying the
truth, and other qualities of greatness, will stimulate
correctly weigh this great, but unspoken, life question that
individual. What is this great life question? Up to this point,
is also a greater understanding for the musical qualities of
something I do not know. It does make a great difference, after
what they are reading from their books? This is an even greater

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will greatly benefit the child's whole life. Out of this an
completely different. A child then has a great love for all
a great misunderstanding. What is advocated here can be
up the same vocation. You can see great wisdom, based on
even in a slovenly way, makes a great difference. The way in

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It can be of great assistance in these meditative
speech, it is necessary to reach the point of having a great
great deal; but in order to gain knowledge of the Third Man,
a great deal and, in giving freely of one's store of knowledge,
has formerly always been a great talker. I say that one could

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tolerably successful. With a great deal of effort and trouble,
death this same individual was hailed as one of the greatest
be done in great variety of ways. At the same time, awareness
differ greatly from those based on abstract theories.
of this presents us with the greatest difficulties. But since
can only assume that the problems would be even greater in a

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Systole and diastole, contraction and expansion of the great

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mutual working of body, soul, and spirit can greatly benefit
sharing such questions of common interest greatly contributed
“overgrown kids” is really chosen with great
Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, 1964), which
courses, the earlier one will be understood in greater depth,

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dilettantism is of immense proportions, and equally great in

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The greatest hostility was aroused by these lectures because, out of a
picture after death becomes the source of the greatest consolation he

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through this great Mystery he was saved from the forces of
stirred up great enmity because it contained many truths
the scene,” which was of the greatest import to earthly
This is of great importance to humanity. But now consider the
them, this picture is the greatest comfort they can have after

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time. This differs greatly from epoch to epoch. Today, however, there
Indian epoch following the great Atlantean catastrophe.
of his grandfather, the great-grandson of his great-grandfather. Of
a family circle great emphasis was laid on an ability to enumerate one's
forebears, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather,
cultural period, dwindled greatly. Though astrology still calculated

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is or can be a fully justified and great art through which man carries
influence upon art. The great secrets of the world and of life which

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who knew a great deal about these matters, meant by the lyre of Apollo.
upper gods in order to bring to expression, in the events of his great

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in all seriousness with the great question of art; became evident in
nurturer by familiarizing himself with the secrets of great Greek art.
lived in him a deep religious impulse, took the greatest pains to purify
of changing it greatly to give it artistic form.
in one great fling, but only the philistine Eckermann could induce him,
art from the region of cognition and that of religious life. Great is
of the very greatest importance when he saw how in Fichte and Schelling
end of an artist's life. What was great in Tieck was not his own personality,
a memory of the great ancient periods played into the modern age; periods

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of what, in greater glory, in much greater sublimity and majesty, had
hater who saw the greatest progress in his own painting in the fact
covered with hair. How inevitable that a man who considered this great
made him so great. True, man in his freedom had to experience those
some great materialistic problems. You know the tremendous seriousness
so great, no individual dares to approach it with his personality. He
great in art.
of the fact that her words are of greater significance for the cosmos

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the greater the art.
colored as they are, it would be a great offense. I am now speaking
great task and mission of the age is to pull human beings away from

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far back as their great-great-grandparents, but much further down the
in Bayreuth led to a great longing for more profound spiritual
the things which at that time required a great deal of inner courage
because there were still great inhibitions about such things at that
transform into something more honest through the greater honesty of
house — and would listen with great yearning. The point is that
at the same time as this great contemporary culture was on offer to
is a peculiar book: great truths side by side with

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side-paths, off the track of life's great highroad. And anyone,
course. A great many souls, in fact, to-day, have what I might
certain streak of this homelessness in a great number of
lecture-rooms, but had to hold it in the Great Auditorium,
one might say, with greater insistence and ever increasing
great deal of fashionable affectation, desire for sensation,
great yearning of spirit, how they attempt to arrive at a more
in barrels, — the great civilization of the age was laid
Through this book, The Secret Doctrine, a great mass of
those days to know a great number of such souls, one could see

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talked a great deal in smaller groups: at general meetings, for
Nevertheless, a pure form of knowledge had been preserved. A great
great, ancient and majestic knowledge. Sometimes the words sound
secret societies. The great problem with which the societies had to
those who were particularly shocked by this who paid a great deal of

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great deal of conversation indeed went on amongst them in more
— there was that great, I might say world-shaking
That a great deal was meant by it, you may see from the
any very great weakness for the people who accepted everything
Verbally, they knew a very great deal. And you need only take
secret societies openly into the book-market. The great problem
Unveiled, aroused great attention.

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discriminate, their surety of judgement, has suffered greatly and
published. That caused a great stir. The authorities suddenly took
shocked when they realized that this book contained a great deal of
grandfather, great-grandfather and so on, until we arrive at the
within her a great amount of knowledge which originated in her own
nevertheless true. A greater hardening of the brain took place in
to the spirit. One can be a materialist, no less, and possess a great
understand the great difficulty with which the revelations of the

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might instance a great number of things. I only need allude to
greatly in our age, — has gone back.
great steps that have been made in progress. But if one
has been between these great steps forwards, that have been
great, you see, is the power of conviction residing in people's
indefinitely. Great is the judgment of our times in its powers
written, and to which he himself attached no great value, and
great sensation. And the authorities now said: We can have no
despite the fact that he is one of mankind's greatest
or a great part of it, should suddenly appear openly published
bring up a very great many things out of the under depths of
greater stiffness of brain showed itself, as a fact, mostly in
been kept carefully under lock and key, — to a great
inspired with a great deal of spirit; it is real spirit, too,

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latter as inferior to the great revelations of the various pagan
years. One need only consider how great the difference really is
twelve-year-old schoolgirl today has a greater fund of worldly
is simply there. But even though they might know a great deal about
satisfaction was just as great when the simplest mind turned up in
such a location. At the same time it was no great worry when people

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How did it come about, in spite of all, that a great number of
great revelations of the various heathen religions: — a
One should only consider, how great the division is in actual
education ever greater and greater.
five fingers, so gradually — since they are such great
brought forth in the form of Christianity. It is the greatest
could tell a great many stories about the way in which the work
satisfaction was just as great when the simplest minds turned

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worthy of greater attention than the hypocrisy which is so often
In times of great historical change things are not decided in as
great its membership. What the Theosophical Society used to be is no

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world with it, was so far a fact of great importance. But what
of reversing steam: later, during the Great War, this opposite
that from the first one had not been very greatly affected by
being included, neither was one now very greatly affected by

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Yet within this first period in particular there was a great deal
in grandiose form. Atomism flourished nowhere as greatly as among
group which gathered round a great friend of Blavatsky's. Things were
which was actually of no great significance to the former, given that
There were many disappointed people who had great reservations,

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a great number there of these homeless souls, who were already
performances were the labours of a man who played a great part
that of greatly valuing these expositions. But every now and
been a great friend of Blavatsky's, and was then living in
list grew with comparatively great rapidity; and we never had
administration altogether of the society, took up a great deal
First, there were great gaps, — the January number
person knows a very great deal!’ And then comes a most
one really didn't need, even at that time, to be greatly

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a much higher order. It means that they are obliged to show greater
courage, greater energy, greater patience, greater tolerance and,
above all, greater truthfulness in every respect. And in our present
greatest responsibility for as long as we are a small group.

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Well, this third period, after 1914, witnessed a great many
everybody, which required a great number of things to be taken
Now, at a certain moment in the third period, during the Great
different soil! Well, it has been my lot to meet with a great
incumbent on the great mass of people who hereafter may take
under a far greater, a multiple degree of obligation. They are
exercise greater courage, greater energy, greater patience,
greater tolerance and, above all things, greater truthfulness.
they are only a little number, they owe the very greatest
incumbent on the great mass of people who hereafter may take
under a far greater, a multiple degree of obligation. They are
exercise greater courage, greater energy, greater patience,
greater tolerance and, above all things, greater truthfulness.
they are only a little number, they owe the very greatest
continually greater and greater, so long as the society is

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not a great deal of use to human beings. People simply fail to
between Napoleon and the great astronomer Laplace.
least of all if we have had a scientific training. That makes a great
greatest possible responsibility towards the spiritual world. It has
Such matters have been discussed a great deal! But the question
something anthroposophists should discuss at great length.
we can achieve a great deal by making use of the sources of
on really great impulses.

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This is what is felt by minds of greater depth, by homeless
That, you see, became the great question. That came to be the
constituted, is the great authority. We take our stand
illustration: — We undoubtedly have a very great
of course, as I said, is a great scientific discoverer,
great deal cleverer, of course, than other people when awake,
there has been a great deal of talk about such things. But the
should occupy a great place in all that is discussed amongst
these last times; — a great deal has been said, scattered
are about to enter on tasks of so great a magnitude as the
considerations can go out only from really great impulses; here

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present moment. It is of greater meaning that today some of you
the greatest differences is that today our atmosphere is
it does not depend on how great they are in number but how

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greatest climaxes Catholic theology is something
meeting makes a great impression on a person today? To have had

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stars when we learn to understand the great journey of the sun

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IN a time of great and
Golgotha — there grew up the conception of the great mystery
with the spiritual world — which was moreover of far greater
the first three and greater part of the fourth centuries of our era.
picture to yourselves this great wall which grew up in Europe in
the origin and subsequent development of medieval thought. Great
apparent when we look over to the East, behind the great wall, where
everywhere maintained. Eastwards of the great wall of which I have

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to say a great deal about the material composition of the heavenly
to begin with as a gathering of spiritual Beings living in great
great Teachers of earthly humanity; but all consciousness of the
It was out of a certain intuition that such great veneration was paid
particularly during its last period — when there was a great
for these things, but Mars may be called the great “Talker”
dream. Mars has a great longing to be always talking, and whenever
here or there in the universe and then they talk about it with great
She has a very great deal to do with poets, although they are not
relationship of Venus to Mars is therefore a factor of great
any greater coercion, man is free, in a certain respect, in the realm

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for the greater part of the time between falling asleep and awaking.
Here lie the great tasks which must lead man out of present-day
of gold on the picture was one of the greatest secrets of ancient

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great exertion through the development once again of Imagination,
Cosmos. The greater impulses, which were needed, one may say, to
the great secrets were to be revealed, the priest had to expose
of St. John. Then there arose what I may call the great wave of his
We must imagine the Druid civilization spread out over a great portion
also brought, with a power grown truly great and gigantic, what had

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The carbohydrates have a great deal to do with shaping the human
there is a great difference among the carbohydrates. In foodstuffs
from the outset be of such a nature that a great deal of work
representatives of religion. A great deal is said about the soul
how to take hold of matter. Religion and theology talk a great deal
time but subsequently left us, had a great deal to say. He addressed
greater secrecy about it than there is when a man has stolen

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and imperceptible to man himself, has very great importance for
the evolution of the cosmos. A great deal happens out there in the
from a particular constellation, meteors fall in great showers
for the gods: “That occurrence in the great expanse of space
approaching, there is a great raying-out of sulphur from the
forged. Men must come to see the great significance of the following

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continents are only floating, as it were, in this great watery
Earth from some other planet, it would appear to us as a great
us as a great water-drop in the midst of the universe.
us now consider this from a cosmic standpoint. What is this great
— just as ash falls down in our stoves — plays a great
stars in turn have a great influence on our head. Inasmuch as the Sun
that everything that occurred on the Earth had a great influence on
surface. Then, going out into the great spaces, we find a raying
great instinctive knowledge of nature and the spirit which
observe the course of the seasons is to follow the great cosmic

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Ahriman's intention — a single great entity into which
into the great spaces of the cosmos does not see in the moving
period, all this had great significance.
great influence in the past, the Ahrimanic beings have a prospect of
principle, the great world-therapy, which lives in the
World-Healer is felt: the Saviour who willed to lift the great evil
I have often said, the Great Physician in the evolution of mankind.
influence of the great teacher Raphael — who is really Mercury

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this is even of great practical significance. In fact, I am convinced
the birds have wonderful colours the sun has greater power. What effect
Gertrude. Now Annie's great grandmother was Katie; so the ovum of Annie,
school to be taught. From then on today they make great efforts to
worst case we have. So he took them to the greatest lunatic of all and
solidified. He explained this with great precision and added: But you

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It is with great
plays through our souls when we feel our way into great Uriel, active

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they wish to express their highest and greatest conceptions. But even
four great cosmic Imaginations, as I described them to you —
Raphael, the great cosmic physician, can give to mankind. For
this is a great secret: all the healing forces reside originally in
between the ages of seven and fourteen. There are great
really a great human secret. The forces that prevail in our breathing

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the human being exists as a Little World within the Great World.
Naturally, what can be said about the Great World can never be more
the Macrocosm, into Great Nature, when you so regard the eagle that
World, and the Great World is within him; and all the creatures which
modern Spiritual Science, one gains that great respect of which I have
Cosmos. Then, for instance, one gains a great respect for the mighty
[* The quality of the “great soul”, cf. Coeur de
within himself the secrets of the Great World outside. And it is a
Macrocosm, in the Great World. Then you find the relationship of the
human being to the Great World in a true and real sense.

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Well, the whole way in which people construct machines varies greatly
development of the great course of culture. Thus, expressed in modern

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This is something of great significance. For if we look away from
They all have their great, their immense significance in the whole
the being of the earth, which causes great, great pain, and causes

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Cosmic activity is indeed the greatest of artists. The cosmos fashions everything according to laws which bring the deepest satisfaction to the artistic sense.
influence of present-day unscientific science, the things of greatest
expression to a great secret of nature:
understanding. Cosmic activity is indeed the greatest of artists. The

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Now it is this spiritualized matter that we find to the greatest
earthly matter to an even greater degree than the bird. The bird after
Here, too, a great difference is to be found.
influences. Now call to mind how I described Saturn as the great

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centuries all the great advances, as well as our social conditions,
as I once told you. So you see soda is of great importance to
connected with Mars. When we ask: What is it that has a great
great importance not simply to give the iron as iron, but to

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to an ever greater degree he became a being manifesting a soul-nature,
butterfly came to be outside in nature. This is the great lesson
of the cosmos; they are connected to a greater degree with its astral
naturally participates to a great degree in the life of the earth:
lower animals and the plants contribute a very great deal. The lower

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There is great interest in this now, because every week there are
dilutes it greatly, one has a tiny amount in a glass of water. One
greatest, then it gets less, then again greater — rhythmically.
been greatly occupied with this point in connection with Infantile
Infantile Paralysis. The subject is of great importance, since
is naturally a question which occupies one greatly, and I have in
fact given it a great deal of attention. There will probably have to
the earth, so that the earth in this respect is really a great living
passes over from the plant to the man, is of great
a woman begins to nurse, certain glands in the breast cause a greater

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may be more or less transparent). But they enjoy their greatest sense
first place it is from what the great chemists, the undines, bring

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are invisibly present behind the visible world have their great task
us, and pictured it greatly enlarged, and on the other side a
great use to them in their development — when the fire-beings

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perhaps, that sailors who travel a great deal on the sea find that in
nuances contribute their sound, their utterance, to the great

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old Sun. It shows great foresight on the part of world-evolution that
nothing is of greater assistance in therapy, particularly in the
cured. They are there outside, the great cosmic processes of healing.
being, but you must direct your gaze outwards to the great world of
nature and see man in a living relationship with this great world.
as well be called a nulloscope, for it shuts one off from the great

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downwards with great power. This can be pictured in such a way that
greater transposition can be imagined. And man immediately becomes ill

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have more or less become mere abstract concepts. To an ever greater
which has retreated to an ever greater degree in modern civilization.
This is so to a greater degree than is supposed. For only when man
It already means a great deal when we look at the way a person walks,
During his years of education a great deal is brought to the child of

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those characteristics which play so great a part in the soul, and
lived super-human beings who were the first great Teachers of
content of the teachings of these great superhuman Teachers at the
The same beings who as the great Teachers brought that
great primeval Teachers decide to leave the earthly sphere in which
great stress on their gymnastic exercises being adapted to the
Thereby, through the great wise primeval Teachers of
of Achilles,” or “Sing to me O Muse of the great

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as to enter into the life of memory will see what a great part the
manner in which our childhood was spent, which indeed plays no great
development play a great part in the human soul-life throughout the
appearance signifies a great deal. This work of man on his own
and there read, perhaps now with greater understanding than was
environment have an essential influence on all this. This great

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Everyone must, in reality, take the greatest interest in bee-keeping,
special little vessel is, I should like to say, a really great
nectar is used for its own food, but the greater part is retained and
disagreeable to one who has to experience it) is however, of great
it is. Man has a head, and this head works upon his great body which is
of great importance, and one we can well understand.
Nature which are truly wonderful and of great significance. One

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a great distinction between smell and taste. The latter is primarily a
gentlemen, once more, what a great part is played by the chemical
great a part in waking life, whereas the sense of smell for example,
process in a greater degree, and can for this reason not be used as a
honey plant). Suppose you have a plant, with a great deal of

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great part of the cosmos, that with this crystallized water
metal-miners, for instance, and in this way he acquired a great part
a few metals. It is known, for instance, that iron plays a great part

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great benefit from a honey-cure.
once — “he has the feeling he has a great deal to
achieved something of great value with her honey treatments. What she
that milk and honey have very great importance in human life; these
that Nature works with great wisdom, one
quite a simple fact. Honey is sweet; it contains a great deal of sugar.
some time ago people talked a great deal about the so-called
a man red, and a great deal of blood flows into the skin, for the blood
means a great deal to them.
leads us very deeply into the great processes of Nature. You see, it is
is of less importance; it is of much greater importance that it is just
the earth has the greater power, when it rains at this season, the flowers

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whereas in the ancient times sulphur was of very great significance

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greatest possible range of speaking through his throat, and at the
When in the Mysteries of Ephesus this great truth was
great and mighty maya of the world it was one stage lower. The earth
Thus the great world, the macrocosmic Mystery became the
Mystery, the translation into maya, into the great world, that the
into greater and greater depths. This Goetheanum was to have been a
us into greater and greater depths. That which we wished to have

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the greater part of the stock dies after the death of the person in
economic problem was not of great interest to me because, as a boy I ate
conditions; one cannot immediately prove the great harm that is being
recognised that there is a great difference in whether one allows Nature to
Lamp or candle-light affects them much more quickly, and in greater
peasants lay great stress on sowing seed when the moon is in the sign
in that it passes through the Zodiac, has the greater influence. But the
Bee-keeping is so beautiful and of such great value that one cannot

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man desires to get knowledge, even if it presents great difficulties.
required they were led before two colossal statues, before two great,
a great riddle should in some way or other become solved in his soul,
them a great question of the whole mind, indeed of the whole man.
kind of Probation-time. Thereby the great question in the minds of

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in life, but which with great beauty rayed from the spiritual towards
The pupil experienced a great anxiety, even to a deep inner distress

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The Great Mysteries of Hibernia
whom I have spoken as the great wise primeval Teachers of humanity on
has spread itself abroad like a great spirit which encircles me with
those which we are entitled to call in Spiritual Science the Great
Macrocosm. These Hibernian Mysteries were great Mysteries.
the great Mysteries, that in these great Mysteries the Christ was
through so many trials, a Centre of the Great Mysteries, a Centre of
great festivals were held within the Hibernian Mysteries, and within
And this indicates the greatness of all that went forth later from
time of Charles the Great, and through the Middle Ages. But just
continual migration. The emigration to America was infinitely greater
effects, the impulses of the great Hibernian Mysteries streamed into
And now two great streams met, one stream of which we
great, majestic spiritual truth. Only the Mystics preserve the
inner soul-life, for they are in very truth the last great Mysteries,
those last great Mysteries through which human and cosmic secrets
again, then do these Hibernian Mysteries appear to us truly great.
ancient, marvelously great secrets, may he reach these secrets, but
latest times revealed itself to the candidates of the great ancient

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MÜLLER stated that he pays great attention
greatly disturbs its inner organism in the honey-producing process.
are stimulated to more activity for a certain time. The very greatest
their own bodies that there are great disturbances there; the bees
really play a far greater part in the nourishment of men and women
reproductive processes, and greatly influence the building up of the
the spirit. They would do this to a far greater extent than at
into this honey which is of so great value to human life. You will best
of honey? It has actually a great deal to do with it, for when such

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in your blood that is present in the bee-poison. It is of great
can also cure him. This is one of the great responsibilities one has in
be recommended, for the blood is then very greatly injured. The blood
certainly be stated that a very great deal depends on the feeding, and
but such matters have no great value in practical bee-keeping.
bee-keeping it is of no great importance, but by special feeding, the colony
make use of what is lignified for their nests, they greatly relish
what is no longer the sap of the plant. There is really a very great

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a long time, but it could only come about because a very great deal
connected with the powers of the earth. A great number of candidates
That was the great riddle which occupied those
It was always a great moment when a pupil, such as the
when with the greatest ceremony this knowledge was brought before him
Father-statue made a great and mighty impression on the pupil, for he
the Middle Ages. Alexander the Great had carried his — the
Alexander the Great by Aristotle, not in writing, but through
of the journeys of Alexander the Great in connection with the

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from this fact, we can really learn a very great deal about the whole
the greater nuisance do the ants become. Imagine a house, and in one
and there are a great number of them in the caterpillar. It is really
of the earth, no longer forming great clouds. But within the plants there
after a time. You will probably say no great harm would be done if
greatest possible amount of formic acid. It is these ants again that
great importance in this regard, that all may be preserved within the
flowers; there is a great affinity between the bees and the

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which Aristotle gave to his pupil Alexander the Great. I will try and
“cold wateriness” mean a great deal. These are contrasts
Alexander the Great was trained, it is quite possible to understand
Aristotle's pupil Alexander the Great had learnt of his
To what extent this is of great historical significance

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last of the great Mysteries which connected man s inner being
still earlier times, we naturally get a greater number than three,
man of today. It meant a great deal to look at the earth as a divine
when the external greatness of Greece gradually diminished into
in the form of Aristotelianism, that which Alexander the Great, in a
processes of nature, and the great Gods, who expressed the beings of
through any picture or form. These were the great Gods, the great
Planetary Spirits, those great Planetary Gods who were regarded in
time, what the mysterious planets spoke to him from out of the great
Greek sculpture, and which are greatly valued because people have no
should not be considered great — if one looks back to that from
something which reveals to me a mighty spirit, the great Gods, those
great Gods who through these sacrificial rites, reveal on the earth
smoke he felt these great Gods, the Kabiri, streaming towards him. He
sacrificing Hierophant contacted these great Gods, the descending
great Gods desire you to be.” From that moment the pupil knew
Alexander the Great worked. And then the beginning was created for
centuries came the great transformation, when man dropped with his
and ideas. So where man sought the spirit, there began that great

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acid there is in this hall, you would be greatly astonished. You
is to be found in all the plants; in clover it is present in greater
with formic acid. But in the great world without, in the place of
what happens in man, there is the host of insects. The great breath
This was because these juniper berries, so greatly loved by the

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take place in great nature? For concerning this process, which I have
man or the divine in the great world of nature, the following demand
on the other into the investigation of the great world of nature.
greatness, let us say, even of the later Mysteries, whether the
Samothracian or Hibernian, that which was the real greatness of these
of the great world of nature, this medieval investigator would have
through their laboratory experiments about the great world of nature

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moon as those great Teachers who existed on the earth in very ancient
continual opposition to the Intelligences of the sun; and a great
part, a great role was played in the ancient Mysteries by this
occurred, as it were, a section of that great conflict which really
investigators, whose names have not come down to us. The greatest of

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meeting should have the great and beautiful aim of showing
outside. Something great could come about today if those

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as such great good fortune — to speak the first words

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the other side of the world a great revelation struck down
germinates to our great joy — not a joy for our
greatest possible changes took place in the spiritual realm.
handle our lecture cycles in a manner that differs greatly
equations. For a great many people such a book is very
great difficulty, dear friends, is the fact that the impulses
great many people for many years, and it could not be more
for the greater part built up the Anthroposophical Society

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‘Out of the whole great cosmic existence the Gods have created,
became a matter of great moment to him. The way in which he was
great experience it was for him, and one of deep meaning, when
and more powerful than the abstract knowledge of the greatest
are in reality relating how the great heroes went forth from

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both good fortune and great honour for its country. It wishes

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great an infringement of the freedom of the individual
Dr. Steiner: It would be the greatest

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great change came about which brought in a new kind of memory,
from West to East, should conquer — often with great
death. And this led to that great conflict between the Greeks

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not mean that we shall have to discuss it a great deal during
given the task of combining the greatest conceivable openness
possible to combine the greatest conceivable openness with
writing lately. He has made great efforts to get something
to base our new work, since now we know how much truly great,

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described, five great successive epochs of civilisation,
period, great changes took place in regard to man's power of
and soul still to a great extent outside his physical and
great deal of the knowledge that came from that sojourn in the
preserved also in great measure the living knowledge that was
cosmic world of those Spiritual Beings Who were the first great
that was of very great significance. He came to a region that
of course greatly changed since those far off times. Gilgamesh
great connections in the Universe, into the spiritual structure
conditions had been. To-day we look upon the Earth as a great
of great cosmic secrets. There was in them moreover a strong
Alexander the Great
of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, then one can begin to

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gives it great freedom. But at the same time we shall all
opportunity for the greatest possible misunderstandings and
easily admit that a very great deal can be achieved in the

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knowledge. And so once more they came to a great moment when
broke like a great wave on the souls of these two. They
shall have to see how Alexander the Great and Aristotle lived
indeed that held great tragedy for them. The fact is, Alexander
pass through Alexander the Great.
Lamprecht's poem, who in his own way with great devotion,
Standing before that great female figure in the Hibernian
Aristotle we may see at the same time a reflection of the great
intimate way to pupils, of the great Mysteries of the past. But

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of the great difficulty Rudolf Steiner experienced in reaching the

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own soul. It corresponds to what out there in the great
great deal. My leadership of this realm will be through
great role here. They will have to go on playing this role in
society of that kind, for you know how great a tendency
account. We can only make progress with our great aims if on
very great secret for people for a long time to come. And
attach great value to the meeting taking place at Christmas

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very great here.
would be a good thing if you could always give the greatest
lead to a greater degree of success than has been the case

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great change that took place in the character of the Mysteries
able, from their own vision, to reveal great and important
Aristotle had still to give to Alexander the Great. An
have a living connection with the great Universe, with the
who had this great experience acquired a feeling that may be
Greece the great and awful Realities had disappeared. Pictures
the great world-events and of the great world-Beings.
on the animals with the greatest possible compassion, they have
great and ancient truths could still be brought near to men;
was in Alexander the Great had come into close contact with the
many another great philosopher; Plato, too, and Pythagoras.
later in Aristotle and Alexander the Great were in Ephesus a
and Alexander the Great, there was living in the first place
especially in the soul of Alexander the Great, that is to say,
of him who afterwards became Alexander the Great.
between Alexander the Great and Aristotle, in a new form.
showed you how the mission of Alexander the Great was inspired
now we see what Alexander the Great is really doing, and doing
he goes, Alexander the Great not only adopts the customs of the
Egypt, are the best known and have had the greatest
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cogently discussed, but on the other hand a great deal was
greatest difficulty in carrying out the things we intend to

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the Mystery of Golgotha another great event took place, which
also the day on which Alexander the Great was born. At the end
inspiring them. Those powerful and great personalities in the
Alexander the Great had received the impulse towards
make: the human soul took the greatest delight in fetching up
manner to write down the great events of the world, — all
such ideas of Him. But by far the greater part of Western
the old materialism — and a great part of mankind does
you must know that great spiritual forces were at work in
Aristotle and Alexander the Great placed themselves in direct
that meant a great deal. For Aristotle's works have a character
no doubt, have received a great deal from them, but in a way
another angle the great change we are considering. In Greece
the movements of the gymnast, but it lives in a great part of
still living in these last and youngest children of the great

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greatly prefer to read them. As regards categories, an editor
in it is indeed great. Yet we shall ever and again have to
continue to ask for an even greater interest. The support
great deal in Germany with very few Swiss Francs, two workers

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he last great
persisted; though degenerate, it was still present in greater
Until the time of the last great revolution in men's
was still a clear perception of the great difference that
certain metals show themselves in greater or less degree. For
student of Nature was fully aware of the very great importance
his relation with the great world is concerned; he lives
of the whole macrocosm. All around is the great world; and in
in from the great world from every direction.
this manner we shall have to alter our thought about a great

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DR STEINER: It will be of the greatest
the source of the great resistance of our time that has been

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A great many
Goetheanum great inconvenience was caused by the fact that
great deal will be able to go on in this building all at
will not be possible to take on board to any great extent any

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sank then the Deed of Him Who was capable of the greatest Love
greatest comfort that could ever be to me on Earth. For in that
expressed the great comfort they had received, and from this

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gods the deed of that God who was capable of the greatest
depart from you having received the greatest consolation
their countenance which expressed the outcome of that great
link by link, even in the greatest of misfortunes. An
the greatest misfortune at a time when human beings still

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believes that eurythmy can show the public a great deal of
there is no sense financially in talking a great deal about

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be connected with great responsibility.
beings have resulted in knowledge calling for great
in the form of historical tradition that things of the greatest
with what I have called the seed of great and essential
well give rise to a sense of great responsibility. And here in
greater the courage with which to conduct the affairs of
the world that has achieved some measure of greatness is born

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to a great sense of responsibility.
a few minutes on the great responsibility that is now
of a necessary great responsibility. The souls who thus

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organism, a greater part, indeed, than is conjectured.
arvense active in the kidneys. The kidneys have a great
ants are carrying on their work causes great harm to the
it is a very great help. There may also be a case where the
relativity is great and fine and in most domains simply

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will speak in greater detail later on.
feeling a great deal of what is represented by the processes
only indicating these things in order to speak in greater

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For the state of affairs at present is that in certain great
but in olden times it was the basis of great astronomical
developed for the overcoming of lead have great significance,
at one time people had a great faculty for understanding
no great age; graphite is a youth, but older than common

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however, be a great mistake to imagine that the scholars of the
warmth in varying differentiations — here greater warmth, there
iridescent play of Colour he has to see in a great cosmic harmony,
things were understood. And in connection with the great truths of

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nitrogen. But a great deal is said if one knows that from the cosmic

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It will then be apparent that Anthroposophy can give a great
contained in the physical organism of man are of the greatest
contains a great deal of mica. This plant grows plentifully
make this statement, but Virchow, who had a great reputation

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had very great influence, lasting from the twelfth and thirteenth on
There were at that time a great number of people, especially younger
its great masses of cloud, and one saw below as it were a sea, a
life in Kyffhauser, or of Charles the Great and his life beneath a
is a late product of a great and mighty striving of mankind, an

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soul. But in many respects this need requires much greater
all — a greater inner strength than that with which it
great significance is experienced. If with this deepened
further steps. The great failing that has existed in the
to answer the greater part of the questions which have been

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All the great moves of
great deal of knowledge that passed over into the literature of
research, something that is of very great beauty. There were the
great Initiate of the twelfth century, whose work and influence I
often described to you, came originally from this great Initiate and
here a spiritual event in the history of culture of the greatest
simple sages. A great number of them possessed — to speak in

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with weight but with what overcomes weight to a great extent.
sometimes is embarrassed to say what is correct, so greatly
organism. There is a great but also a subtle, delicate
this remedy. This is the great education towards

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question is really not of very great importance.
you cut off. This is quite possible — a very great deal
can be learned from this. Equally you can learn a great deal
things are of the very greatest interest. I have actually
great deal by the fact that when I was a boy, I used to hack

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greater than the whole.
greater than the whole human being. It is not easy at once to
visualize the maxim that the part is greater than the whole
greater than the whole. Our laws of mechanics and physics do
lectures could be given you for a whole year, a great deal

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develop the great idealism of which we can see such fine and lofty
examples; in his true nature Man must be a great and comprehensive
who seriously occupies himself with these great and far-reaching
A great deal in Goethe's
Leibnitz, the great philosopher, was led by his own thought and
the great change that has come about in the last centuries in the way

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and learned a great deal from them; learned from them what they
that is truly overpowering in its greatness. From this little company
symbol that played a great part for this little company of men. You
that we put to practical use in various ways and that are of great
a fine fluid flowing through the world was present in a very great
very greatest interest. It was taught by reference to facts of
his organism what takes place in the great structure of the

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evolution of mankind different ones among the seven great Archangel
concentrates on the objective, — that is the great difference.
impulses to do this or that. In a greater or lesser degree, the
state of affairs over a great portion of mankind. Thoughts are not
great care is taken that the human being does not go so far in

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One after another the seven great Archangel Spirits enter from time
on the objective — that is the great difference. For all
Them. In a greater or lesser degree, the impulses come from Them.
state of affairs over a great portion of mankind. Thoughts are not
great care is taken that the human being does not go so far in

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begin with, man stands before the great Unknown, but must regard himself
a member of a quite different one. But the great riddle, the anxious
is one side — the one great question with the subsidiary question
still. These men of ancient times felt that the soul grows greater and
greater, and passes into the cosmos. And then they saw the soul, which
at most — can dimly feel: The ancients experienced the two great

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rapid arsenical poisoning. If anyone takes a great deal of arsenic

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time, however, we must call to mind the great difference between the
two. Indeed, yesterday we had to recognise this great difference from
grammes, they will only be infected with great difficulty.

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beings were once companions of men. They were the great, original teachers

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greatest riddle is this: If I really experience a moral impulse and have
attention in this way and with inner sincerity demands great effort,
element begins, an inner formative force working with very great
it is a great drop. Wherever water is free to take its own form, it takes
the second — man. This means, that we are developing great inner
great effort. It is comparatively easy to extinguish an ordinary,

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recognise a greater difference however, in what is etheric.
great riddle to the man of today, if he gives attention to his soul

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a little lake before him. He is in great danger, and the dream. takes
the pictures is not really of great importance; it is the dramatic sequence
dreams are such that in them his experiences are greatly, violently
the impression that imagination gives us some-thing created by a great

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great, though often tragical enrichment of life; we feel this unavoidable
fun of these exceedingly earliest matters: If one sleeps away the greater

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great significance that rivers and oceans really have for the whole
blood is of the greatest significance for life; it forms life, it
just as great a significance for the earth is generally not considered
therefore with great difficulty that fish develop sense organs
the earth, have emancipated themselves and reached a greater
people who have a greater tendency to the earth and they generally
has great nutritive value, more perhaps than any other fish, and this
other is flat and pale. The halibut really produces a great deal of

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earthly life. But its role is far greater still. What would the external
impressions to the content borne in memory. A great part of educational
these pictures now become greater and greater. We feel as if they
the memory tableau as in a narrow space, becomes greater and greater,
And if someone, in his soul, takes great pleasure in something that
and a great part of the backward journey I have described is concerned

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grandeur and greatness and power of nature. And the question
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
These, my dear friends, are the three greatest enemies of

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grandeur and greatness and power of nature. And the question
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
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greatest difficulties, in face of the true reality. For if we speak
the great universe. Before any effects can take place in plant-life,
referred to molecules, supposed to be built up in great complication
we remain with the great question which is opened up when we consider
the great question arises: How is lifeless Nature related to the

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directly from this there result the greatest difficulties
what is thus not capable of explanation, or at least a great
indeed, be too grotesque; nevertheless, a great deal. It is

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But by far the greater part of the food the human being absorbs comes
is a thing of great importance but important things, too, are
so great is the predominance of what we receive as mere
the forms of our sympathies and antipathies, only that the greater
with a far greater wisdom than is ours in guiding it from this side.
earthquake, or eruption, or any natural event, whether great or small
that the destinies of men grow out of it, a greater power is needed
than works in the plant-kingdom, a greater power than belongs to the
stands in it. We come to the great question, how do the many detailed

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the greatest disasters of recent times would not have occurred.
observation: So great is the predominance of our mere sense
the original human potentiality which has a great deal to do
regions of the earth varies greatly.
so express myself — with a much greater wisdom than we
grow from it, a greater power is needed than that which acts in

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has to pay great attention to the forming of the movement, directing
the greatest care to that movement through which a form arises. And

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can now observe and feel in our souls the beauty, the greatness
harms one's self and others greatly by playing at spiritual
is different with feeling. The greatest enemy of humanity,
present cosmic age. But man has to a great extent driven this

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can now observe and feel in our souls the beauty, the greatness
harms one's self and others greatly by playing at spiritual
is different with feeling. The greatest enemy of humanity,
present cosmic age. But man has to a great extent driven this

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but on the contrary should place the greatest value upon the way the
it becomes a matter of course when moving. This will be of great significance.
Consequently it requires greater skill to remain musical in singing
violence to the musical element, and why great skill is necessary if
we are to retrieve the musical element in recitation. Great skill is
saying that he was prepared with subject-matter of the very greatest,

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it a great deal of eurythmy. You actually see Melos pouring
things present us with a great deal to learn, for in actual practice
sitting here will be well aware of the great difficulties they have
with true human dignity. And so people today have great difficulty feeling

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half of the life between death and a new birth, he awaits with great
uncertainty about it, for in the life on earth a great uncertainty
are but scant indications of the great difference now prevailing
greater; though outwardly they were perhaps slighter in build than
there is not the great difference between the earthly and the

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and a new birth, he awaits with great longing the passage
in earth life a great uncertainty prevails for ordinary
are only a few indications of the great difference prevailing
correspondingly greater, although they were perhaps of slighter
earthly and the spiritual life is not so great as it is

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only is it of great significance for karma, what sympathies and
makes a great difference whether we do them out of a mere sense of
of a greater or lesser degree of love.
moral deeds. How often have I indicated the great contrast in this
in human action. “Duty, thou great and sublime name, thou who
really due to hatred — greater or lesser hatred — in our
how great is the illusion which lulls you to sleep (and to which you
caused me the greatest imaginable pain. For it is necessary to bring

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earth life is of great significance for karma during this
greater or lesser degree of love.
to indicate the great contrast, in this regard, between Kant
and thus, also human conduct. “Duty, thou great and
that all due to hatred, greater or lesser hatred, in our
prejudice on these things, we must become aware of how great is
after this one, he need, really, only hate a great deal in this
place, may occupy us intellectually, has caused me the greatest

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the intervals. This is of great importance.
recalls in some way the sustained note (this really is of great importance)
out the eurythmy in the greatest possible calmness, emphasizing standing
to pay great heed to what the movement expresses quite inwardly in the
greatest sense, that is discord and concord. Now, you know, a composer

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For there is a great difference, is there not, whether the heart is

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note values. For it is indeed a fact that feeling is active to the greatest
great difficulty in store for you when you try to find a means of expression
(in tone eurythmy in particular) achieves a greater degree of perfection,
us, and given us much stimulus, that we see a great but completely unconstrained
work before us. It is a great joy especially today to be allowed to

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earth-lives, takes over, the person meets a great difficulty in

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earth-lives, takes over, the person meets a great difficulty in

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and you will see how greatly such a human being changes in the second
some children — how greatly they change in physiognomy or
has a great influence when this impulse arises — in one of the

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namely, here are two people who differ greatly; each one thinks
greater or lesser degree, according as he is able or is not
see, we generally underestimate greatly the importance of what
that has a great influence if in one or both of these

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life, and our dreams. Our feelings have no greater intensity in
But in your soul too, in reality, you have a great deal from your
greater detail; we might do so, but for the moment we do not need
the great question arises (it may sound trivial when I clothe it in

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in waking life and our dreams. Our feelings have no greater
great deal from your sleep. If you were never to sleep, you
spirit. Now the great question arises — it may sound

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you reflect on this, my dear friends, it will be of great help
such characters in real life, I would feel great antipathy
caused a great misfortune. I mention this here because I wish

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you reflect on this, my dear friends, it will be of great help
such characters in real life, I would feel great antipathy
caused a great misfortune. I mention this here because I wish

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great deal of utterly trivial talk goes on, particularly on this
goes a great deal further. As well as the abrupt definitions, you
and delicate feeling for the beautiful, the great and the sublime.
In spite of the great admiration I have always had for Vischer, I
with great tenderness from the latter's earliest youth, when they
a man much hated, but also — by a small circle — greatly
book, long since out of print, followed up the same theme with great
Dühring and he spoke with great perspicacity when he said that
universal time. Dühring expounded this theme with great clarity.
of the 19th century. The great man sits there with his legs crossed.
(Great Men of Letters). There you will find his strictly mathematical
differs from that of others, he sees fit to rechristen the great
great deal in Dühring's writings is extraordinarily
In point of fact we can find in Dühring's writings a great
its treatment of the great figures in the field of mechanics, so tame

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imagine, it was very easy to be carried away by people one greatly
relationship of great tenderness and intimacy with a Moorish
life was thus safeguarded for many years, to the great joy of them
took on greater definition in Europe, was carried through the
two volumes on Great Men of Letters, where not only are Goethe

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the pregnancy of the mother — a period of great importance for
one God is generally regarded as a great step forward in religious life.
simply a continuation of the Jahve impulse. The great truth
soul-and-spirit comes from the great universe, entering into man by
abundant evidence that the Jews have a great talent for music; but on
forgotten because history has been so greatly falsified. An exactly
great and fundamental change. It denoted a sheer revolution in thought to
Mystery teachings. But Christ Jesus had brought about the great and
dominion was very great in the days of Henry II. And if the attempt
to come together in a Crusade to the East, to Jerusalem, and a great
principle of Christianity, enshrining the great thought that in Christ Jesus
observation that is “dark.” In secret there was a great
The greatest thought enshrined in Christianity is that the Sun Force in
great extent with the life and doings of human beings on the Earth.

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have seen how through his will man is greatly influenced by
Something truly great happens to a person when he becomes aware
great. Something which has been expressed since ancient times
greater degree in respect to warmth. As we are one with the air
as great as the universe. His thoughts are as wide as the
developed consciousness the sun in heaven is the great tempter
Such is the great experience before the Guardian of the
warmth. It is a feeling of pleasure, and a great enticement. It
capturing his whole being, as though tearing him apart in great

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have seen how through his will man is greatly influenced by
Something truly great happens to a person when he becomes aware
great. Something which has been expressed since ancient times
greater degree in respect to warmth. As we are one with the air
as great as the universe. His thoughts are as wide as the
developed consciousness the sun in heaven is the great tempter
Such is the great experience before the Guardian of the
warmth. It is a feeling of pleasure, and a great enticement. It
capturing his whole being, as though tearing him apart in great

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some great spiritual talent. It is just as important to be able to
great importance when we begin to consider destiny and observe how it
he wrote a very great deal.[With the exception of the Philosophy
organism, assumes great importance between death and a new birth. But
Crusaders encountered very much that was great and sublime in the
there. Great illumination is shed upon the whole of this Hartmann
whatever is intended. Moreover I am convinced that it can be of great
aspects and, as you know, have written and spoken a great deal about
spiritually the whole morning with great intensity of soul, has had
can, I think, throw a great deal of light upon the nature of human

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Baghdad, much wonderful culture, a truly great and splendid spiritual
Charles the Great himself.
the time when Charles the Great was ruling — 768 to 814 are the
that had achieved great splendour. We see Haroun al Raschid, whose
Charles the Great. Haroun al Raschid gathered around him men of real
Frankish Court of Charles the Great are apt to obscure what was being
by Charles the Great to further Christianity must be considered in
the light of the fact that while Charles the Great did much to
by Charles Martel, by Charles the Great himself. Then, later, we find
how the greatness of Mohammedanism is overclouded by the Turkish
bring it into the world in face of great hindrances and obstructions.
Haroun al Raschid, and justly admired by Charles the Great himself,
your history books, and you will find that the year 711 was of great
outwardly a very great deal in the way of art and science was
Astrological astronomy in its ancient form was cultivated with great
was great and sublime. And when we search among those who are not
great impulses — those of less importance, too, which I need
Alexander the Great was carried over from Greece, from Macedonia,
of the Fourteen Points. — With no great stretch of imagination

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shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
environment are of great importance for him, but none more

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shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
environment are of great importance for him, but none more

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speaking, however, it was the great world that interested him. While
so Garibaldi grew up into manhood, always living in the great world.
the great world, and there came a time when he acquired a very strong
give a great stimulus to the practical study of the nature and
figure. His hair was curly and gleaming gold, and was greatly admired
became, as we know, one of the great men of Europe after his
other greatness in evidence in the 19th century! A most remarkable
stage. In the course of his work he applied himself to many great
teach us a great deal in the matter of karmic relationships. Among
had last seen the person in question, who was a greatly beloved

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you will still find a very great deal in Garibaldi that is puzzling
great distance, Victor Emanuel. These four men are all quite near to
comes over from other times bearing a soul filled with great and
an offshoot of those Mysteries at no great distance from here, in
wherein they are alike and this is of much greater account than the
accounted a great man. In truth, however, his sayings often trip one
caused the Palladium to be taken across to Constantinople with great
of Peter the Great, it was revived and transformed, but it goes back
in myth, and later by what had become the great ideal of the “age

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more widely and with greater force than is generally
Raschid and his great counsellor — the outstanding personality
Raschid himself, who had occupied a position of great power and
the great organiser and administrator of all that flourished under
saying, my dear friends, has really great point and meaning. For if

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are not less, but every week greater, that what I say is well
we must let the Guardian's next words work upon us with great

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are not less, but every week greater, that what I say is well
we must let the Guardian's next words work upon us with great

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the Englishman, Bacon of Verulam. And a great organiser at the Court
great spiritual achievements.
doctor who went in a great deal for occultism. Around us stood many
them was one who was the greatest. (I am still speaking of the
greatest. Under the influence of Lord Bacon's impulses, all
one of the greatest historians of the 19th century — Leopold
For just as Leopold von Ranke became the greatest disciple of Bacon
the greatest disciple of Comenius after his death.
Pansophia he wrote down great and
great impulsive power. This too worked on Schlosser. It is there in
there is a great difference between such a personality and an average
old Italian painting, the greater part, nay practically the whole of
to it with great intensity — so much so that his assassination

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A great deal of caution is necessary when information about a matter of this
has been greatly enhanced, and every part of the body has this power.
not so very astonishing because a human being can do a great deal
would be greatly simplified! The suggestion, therefore, is that the
knowledge can greatly deepen our understanding of the Mystery of

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resounds in the human soul, in the human heart, as the great

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resounds in the human soul, in the human heart, as the great

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regard to matters of the greatest significance. Nothing less has
and inner greatness that man contains, or can contain, within him.
youth and greatness of man, dies and undertakes the same journey as
will he behold himself growing ever greater and greater, till the
overcomes the representative of all beauty, youthfulness and greatness
Then in the further course of human evolution the great Event took
difference in respect of cosmic greatness, the ancient rite of
greater intensity. Man had gazed upon the death of the God, the death
of all that is beautiful in mankind — of all that is great and

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external ceremony, one that stirred the souls of a great multitude of
mankind was the resurrection of this force in greater intensity. One

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observe the great significance with which a large part of
souls of a great number of people. Even as it did so, however,
should at first arise with great intensity. Ancient peoples

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centuries — this has been a festival of the greatest
greatness.
represents the beauty, youth, and greatness of man dies, how he
This was the fact of greatest importance.
with the greatest intensity. When looking on the death of the
the death of all its splendour and youthful powers. With great

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said of the great majority of human beings — and it was
by the greatest arrogance.
but small, but when one sees it from within, it is great as the
in greater detail tomorrow) that we recognise in the form and

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obtained to a greater or lesser degree the connection of this
by him. So great was the change that had come over his

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a part had a greater or lesser awareness of his connection to

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noticed. What takes place in the greater part of present-day
hardly been noticed. It has remained to a great extent in the
thirtieth year a great change took place. What I have now to
kept, because they themselves forgot, owing to the great
This is why it was said at that time concerning the greater
experience this great change of life in his thirtieth year. It
explained in the last lecture. What was of greatest importance

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another, to a greater or lesser degree, must have realized
a very great deal to say. I would like to ask if any
it is especially upon everything else that the greatest care
greatest part in all that lies around the embryo. It lives in
heredity, builds up the second man with a greater resemblance
great resemblance indeed to an etheric structure. Milk is a
Intellectual activity is man's greatest weakness. He simply
is membered into his being. Therefore the element of greatest
confirmed a matter of great significance, for this is what

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of man to the great universe has to do with what we may call the
second great experience in the Initiation that took its start from the
secret, that is the secret of the Moon. Hence of the greatest

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of greatest importance for them, to the planets of our orbit; and

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moon turn their attention first to what is of the greatest
experience in his inner being that which was of greatest

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physicians because of the great interest that we had in
with, my work made me very unhappy because I had a great deal
side that by far the greatest part of what the medical
reality, he is not concerned. A great deal of what is
to learn things by dint of great effort when he has left his
connection, you see, there is still a great deal to be done.
are sincere and serious, then great progress will have been

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initiation. From all this you will have realised how great a part the
burning of the Temple of Ephesus. Then and now, a great and deep wrong
And as a consequence a certain instruction could be given with great
the greatest things that pulsated through his human being.
great universe:
At this point a seemingly chance event is of great spiritual
letters less clearly visible — written in the great orb of the
it were into a great cosmic script. — And when we read the cosmic
Take any great work of poetry or any other work. Take the most
think, my dear friends, through what is this great content transmitted
great universe. He will experience the resurrection of what lay hidden

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to be an outwardly fortuitous event can be of great spiritual
hour in which Alexander the Great was born. But as this temple

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modern terms, the Mysteries wielded great power in the overall
[Alexander the Great, 356–323
philosopher, pupil of Plato. Tutor of Alexander the Great.
actually be of great significance in the world's spiritual
very moment as Alexander the Great was born. As it burned,

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struck by the great importance of the part played by the
say: the Mysteries had a great deal of power in respect of the
greater spirituality, men must begin to develop what in their
ever greater depths of knowledge, can provide the foundation of
Ephesus. Both there and here a great wrong lies at the root of
was, to the Ephesian pupils, an act of the greatest possible
greatest consequence to his humanity.
Christmas meeting, in Aristotle and Alexander the Great. These
great importance in the evolution of the world. Some
Alexander the Great. But other things also took place through

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a great extent when we were children. As children we are almost
again and again to these lessons it will be with greater
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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a great extent when we were children. As children we are almost
again and again to these lessons it will be with greater
understanding, that is, with ever greater cosmic experience

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happens now is that the greater number of the souls who had once been
aspect of his life and at the same time greatly admire him as a poet.
of earthly lives it is no great help to look at the particularly
earthly environment to a far greater extent than is generally
them they become the centre of our observations and disclose a great
devoted with the greatest enthusiasm to an art that has almost
great importance. Yet in point of fact, Tacitus is one of the
greatest Romans.
As I said, he was a man of ruthless vigour, a ‘great’ man
in the medieval style of greatness. And when Gottfried had
wide scale — (when a woman has greatness in her she is often wonderfully
historical events with great perspicacity; subconsciously and
first time we shall grasp wherein the essential greatness of
courage to reach a vantage-point for observation of these great

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Especially in Protestantism which to the greatest extent of
today. Especially just recently, there has been a great deal
great point is how far a man in his earlier incarnation
stream and were striving for greater inwardness. What is the
great and equally detailed, for the human being has within
speaks is not of such great significance, but what then goes
hardly will the years 1940-1950 have come, and over greater
and greater areas there will be widespread epidemics of

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natural science — and also a great deal else in modern
Raschid himself, the organizer of the great academy of
study Lord Bacon you would find how greatly medicine was
absorbed. To this end you must take with the very greatest

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corporeality or not which determines such a great divergence
far greater thoughtfulness we can imagine ourselves into the

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the grown-up person. Here there will be greater difficulty.
so great. The difficulty will be to fit the one into the
form with the Goetheanum may be a very great help to you in

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never be fruitful if they lead to greater indifference towards human
question it is necessary to point out how greatly a later earth-life
a very great deal has to take place. The direction towards family,
And in these Mysteries of Asia Minor the great question was: How will
stands before us with greatness and distinction. In very truth, the
writings of pupils which contain a great deal that is genuinely his
these pupils differed greatly from one another and what Plato himself
before us great human destinies stretching through the ages of time,
him for greatness. And it is the same with the other, Robert

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to participate in the great change in thinking and perception that is
flippant disregard for life displayed by one in a position of great
mania for destruction as great as his, is, after all, a destiny.
great hopes were entertained for the time when he would ascend the
at the time. But the shattering effect was all the greater in view of
was then a great Empire) and the rulership of it are abandoned! The
perception of a man's moral situation there was far greater
the gaze is bounded and completed when one faces a work of great

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themselves to the School with great diligence, Miss Maryon
of the Mysteries had already passed when the greatest Mystery

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spiritual, he runs great danger of living all the more within
kind of egoism; a man tends to attach far greater importance to
great importance.
Maya, is in many respects the Great Illusion. Thus it can happen
the greatest, etc. In our time, as I said, there have appeared many
somebody was a great artist, for example, is something which may
details — of the subsequent life. A man might gain a great deal

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it is only imagery and no great importance need be attached to it.
taken of this to-day. In the New Testament a great deal is said about
great influence. Obviously, therefore, the effect of the sunlight
account, also the great laws which rule outside in the universe.
for man to realise that he has a great deal to do with these myriad
this there would be greater clarity about such matters — but
they do not notice it. In the great things of life human beings often
Jew becomes a sculptor, he will not achieve anything very great,
And so you will find great musicians among the Jews but — at
the time when the arts were at their prime — hardly ever great
colour in a picture painted by a Jew has no very great significance;
the case. In most countries a relatively far greater number of Jews
of which I have just told you took place before the Great War of
to accept the great principle of the human-universal. The fact that
led to the outbreak of that War. Thus the greatest disaster of this
Their sufferings, too, have been great. It must be admitted,
great deal to cause this state of affairs.
true of the Hebrew language in which there is great richness of content,

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greater, wider connection than appears in the Fairy Tale itself
years later. Even then, although it came with great definition and
of the physical body there arises a transformation, a greatly
great deal has been given within the Anthroposophical Society. It is
have patience, really have patience. Truly, there is a great deal in
with the greatest variety of feelings.’ But this is quite

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a great difference whether a man pays attention to things in life,
the lines of karma, it is of extraordinarily great
through life with great attentiveness to everything, he must, in the
nature of things, move about a great deal. Human beings who lead an
ponders a great deal. In his next incarnation he will be a thin,
“slimming cure” if one ponders and thinks a great deal,
pondered about a great deal, with the willingness to make many inner
great deal. It does not matter at all in what circumstances of life a
point, however, is this. — When a man thinks a great deal,
from the outset that they need a great deal of sleep; they like to
and with his feeling — he takes great interest in the first
too, has great practical significance. As we are not used to such

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the great primeval Teachers. It was they who established among men on
greater than is possible to-day. Nowadays the will can work on the
are Beings who have a great deal to do with karma, with the forming
are always there between the days. During the nights a very great
through after death in such a way that the great and significant
concreteness, with greater intensity. No impression on earth is as
far greater intensity than any experience in earthly existence. Only
through is by no means a dream, it is an experience of the greatest
I shall describe to you in more detail, have a very great deal to do
him. There was still a great deal of inner substance in his abstract

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It is a great hindrance to progress on the esoteric path

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the great primeval Teachers of humanity on earth did not live, as it
sphere and spend in it the greater part of the time between death and
of illness. You see now that real insight into those great karmic
resemble the workings of nature, but are stronger, of greater

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consciousness offers us at first is maya, the great illusion.
The great illusion does not only include what we observe
make a great discovery. And at some point humanity must make
act throughout the universe, he makes the great discovery
it is a great, mighty encounter when man, through intuition,
is the greatest personal discovery anyone can make.
is a serious thing, and that the world of great illusions,

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already in the thirties. A very great deal in the evolution of
At puberty, great
the present epoch of evolution there are a great many human beings
that by far the greater number of them had their last important
servants, and the like. They have learned a great deal, they have
earthly. Great though it is, it is directed entirely to the earthly.
greater resistance.
of life they are personalities of great promise.
look at many who were creative in early life, who made a great

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will find evidence of great wisdom spread out as it were over
and of the great world, the macrocosm. The impressions were
great intensity of feeling and was subsequently born again in our own

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that time the great primeval Teachers too were able to impart their
age have to a great extent lost this sensitivity, this delicacy of

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When the difference between these states of mind appears, great
great [first] World War.

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countries, Rudolf Steiner was giving at Dornach the great series of
by reason of the great majesty with which it stands there in the
feel the majesty of a great conception, they were led to realise:
follows something of great significance. Man only looks up to the Sun in
Mystery of Golgotha man had become to so great an extent a being of
Astral in between are permanent. As you look out into the great

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world – and not feel their greatness, their majesty and

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would be sheer abstraction, although a great many people would
this phenomenon is of the greatest importance, above all in enabling
to approach his karma. This is one of the great secrets of
greatness and majesty comes to us when with Initiation-Science we

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
together with the other activities; so that the head is the great
world — this knowledge is immeasurably great; it is however

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
capable of thinking. One person will have a great wealth of thoughts,
greater and greater interest in the mystery of the human
entering into it with a great capacity of love, it can come about
could at this time do a great deal. I must, however, frankly admit
our minds the greatness of that which we have undertaken. We must be

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earth, such as the thought: “I choose a great disaster on earth
example, let me speak of one part of that great and all-embracing

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
particular measures to be adopted. What is of far greater importance
human life that is of great importance.
will always be a great deal to be said against the charlatan

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we have advanced further in following the great admonishment:

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
our Society. For children, on the other hand, a very great deal can
congestion, so that a great amount of astrality and ego organisation
hold back the pain. This happens with great intensity. He makes

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of souls directed to the great concerns of life. But in point of
fact, interest in these great concerns is dwindling rather than
is a far greater menace than that of the primitive peoples who are
as we shall see in our further studies of karma, a great deal has to
before humanity now as a great and mighty riddle ... And now let us
the prime of life who have thought a great deal about what they
The great riddle
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, great floods and the like —
remember, I told you that the Beings who were once the great primeval
not appear in isolation but are seen in their great cosmic setting.

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be made out of what we then have before us is really just as great a
and stones; we would-since we were tiny beetles-see great forests in
further, there was even a great number of cosmic beings animating the
When modern science says that originally there was great
great heat was dead, then it is wrong. There was a living cosmic

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
back” of impressions will go on happening with greater and
greater intensity, and in later life the patient will suffer from the
again and again, and as far as possible in rhythmic sequence. A great
greater or less degree; and it is important to note that in such
great deal if we reckon especially with their rhythmic nature, and
for instance, we were to give him a great deal of fruit, or food that

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after, this conflict was felt with great intensity. You may
notably among the greatest thinkers, — this anxiety
people. No great man of the 13th or 14th century could have
A man of today can think the greatest nonsense — he

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a long time after, this conflict was felt with great intensity.
This anxiety, notably among the greatest thinkers, — this
people. No great man of the 13th or 14th century could have
him. A man of today can think the greatest nonsense — he

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
the lower jaw is formed. The lower jaw receives into itself a great
substance is accumulated in too great measure, both here in the lower
in a child movements that have the right forms, a great deal can be
not wanting to eat at all at table, but of eating with great relish
as I said, be great difficulty in achieving any enlargement of the
the presence in the world of great men who are revered as examples,
thought, to great souls and see in them his pattern and example, then
is of the greatest importance that the possibility should be there,
On the other hand, it is of very great importance that the teacher
up to the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth years, a great deal can
him out, you will discover that he has a great deal more to overcome

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
sometimes had to jump a great deal. Later on, she had a fall. At the
characteristic of his condition, namely that he is a great
child has been enraptured. You could say: This great hero, you know,
a great achievement. The super-fantastic organism that was created

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great role when you bleach your laundry: chlorine. It causes the
existed in great amounts and consisted of silica and oxygen —
great deal of oxygen, because we need it for breathing. Yes, there is
sees, in fact, what a very great role silicic acid still plays today

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
abnormalities of this kind throw great light upon the life of man as
particularly well during the pregnancy. In this time she did a great
such a case is typical of a great number of children suffering from
moment of great importance, as is also the corresponding moment in
much that is of very great interest for us when they are in this way

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behold as a great tableau of our life contains, in
contrast-of-light so great as it is to-day, in the realm of
last third of the 19th century have the greatest imaginable

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
great advantage to him. The disposition of which we have spoken and
crisis. The child was crying, and blinking, and passing a great deal
have the inner connection. In the great world outside, in the cosmos,
as I have said, astonishingly clever. One could learn a great deal
from him; and all his judgements were pervaded with a great
should not be overlooked. In the case we are considering, a great
This, is, in fact, the great danger that faces the civilisation of

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despite all its greatness in comparison to the earth, it is a

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
Movement of great significance but marred by lack of devotion to
the problem, he came up to me with great delight; but it must have
directions. A great deal can be achieved by recognising and appealing
part of the journey he accomplishes only with great difficulty, since
great energy. Then draw the boy's attention to these movements that
hold a pencil between his great toe and the next, and with the pencil
great benefit from such an experiment. For in cases such as his,
Curative Eurythmy! — can be of the very greatest help. Whether
connect oneself inwardly with the phenomena in question then a great
making too great demand upon the astral body and not allowing it to
the number — who are devoting their lives to some great and
noble calling. There is in our time great need that young men and
and that a great many plans have suffered shipwreck just because the
familiar, this endless talk of “missions”, of great
other hand assimilates sulphur with the greatest ease. The
has a great power of attraction for iron, while the human

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the great universe if we would turn our soul's gaze to
the stars of the great universe are saying about the life
dwell for a moment on the great vistas that are opened up
once described here as a great cult or act of ritual was
The great cosmic
great cosmic memory of Him. We must find our way back again
beings in the world. Then indeed great difficulties of life

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
we go forward entirely in the spirit of discovery. A great many
exactly as do the youth of today — great gifts and capacities,

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considers how something like this great mountain mass of the Alps has

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infantilism, adenoids, kleptomania, the autistic child, and more. A great
is actually greater in the case of a very little child than it is
responsibility is particularly great for us today, since there is now
the great end they all have in view, while each of them fosters

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derives great comfort from the fact that it can be said in
different angle. To begin with they find great satisfaction
death they found themselves in a state of great uncertainty
not, they found themselves together again in that great
found themselves face to face with a great super-sensible
things, the great Sun-Mystery of Christ. These souls, as I
in a still greater uncertainty through the fact that all
concentrated into a great longing, that they might now at
great riddle of human earthly life was raised before him.
in his soul stirred up the same great riddle, the great
must naturally have recourse to the great Imaginations), my
thought a great deal about Christianity. Nor must you
greater degree of activity or passivity within the
life than by their thoughts. Thoughts indeed have no great
such great significance for man. So, for instance (needless

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times it was much greater, much more powerful movement. If today
earth, could have fashioned himself? There was, so to speak, a great
something very small. In those times we were huge, great fluid or

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physical body with great rapidity, though with the
death — the great fact of the Mystery of Golgotha;
I am here speaking, had been to a greater or lesser degree
upon a time the great Sun-Being was looked for in the

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recognize the greatness, the all-pervading, weaving truth in the
is the great deception, the great illusion. Over there only
great illusion. And what is Nothing, and what we give names to
the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
was brightening for us. Now, as we stand shaken by the great truth

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is, there was a great deal of land with sea between the two land
And indeed, gentlemen, a great deal follows from this.
great age can at last become proficient. In China, therefore, noble
themselves a great deal, a very great deal, with art — with
Indians have had a lofty spiritual culture. They have never set great

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gradually built itself up from the rest of great Nature. It was only
there was a great deal of land with sea between.
Indeed, a great deal
who can go on learning up to a great age can at last become
ancient times as well, occupied themselves a great deal, a very great
have had a lofty spiritual culture; they have never set great store by

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on the other, which has evolved so greatly by our time,
and going on to the great turning point in the 14th and
flowed into a great poem in which it found as it were its
Great Ocean,” — but it was the Cosmic Ocean,
with the greatest imaginable difficulties. They were
Spirit. It was the great School of Chartres. Here there
Christ, and describing still how when great Nature has
example, the great Bernard of Chartres, who inspired his
greater than all the others, — who taught in
fired his pupils with a true enthusiasm. His great insight
standing at that moment under a great historic impression,
great and mighty revelation all that he had received as a
together with other souls, of great significance, who were
turning-point of the 14th and 15th century. We have a great
spiritual life before us, my dear friends. The last great
Aristotelianism down to earth, as the great transition to
Thus the great
so describe it, with the great spirits of Chartres, for
these in turn united with the great spirits of the School
great preparation in the first half of the 19th
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great part of the 19th century.
the great interest which was felt at the end of the 19th
Alexander the Great and Aristotle, we find ourselves once
Alexandria. It was a great cosmopolitan movement, seeking
that Christ, the great Spirit of the Sun, arrives among
cause them to understand the greatness of the stupendous
that such human beings as Alexander the Great, though in a
matters. Such a man as Alexander the Great regarded himself
great moment of decision. It came in such a way that
— for instance in the great School of Chartres,
world. The great conflict between Nominalism and Realism
the great teachers of Chartres. Among the greatest who at
spiritual world, — among the greatest of them was
manner, and of all that Alexander the Great had carried
powers grew ever greater, striving to wrest the Cosmic
great and mighty, divine-spiritual workings reveal
head-organization. Once again a great event had taken
great super-sensible School from the 15th century onward,
all! The great teachers of Chartres took part. They, as you
School of Michael, and we have the great Imaginative ritual

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Now when we consider protein, we must realize how greatly it differs
in greatest amounts by such a root as the carrot.
still greater forces. Now think of this, gentlemen: when I exert my
intestines would also have to use a great amount of energy. Then the

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greatly it differs in animals and human beings from what it is in
kind of root, but in greatest amounts by such a root as the carrot.
one has to use still greater forces. Now think of this, gentlemen:
intestines and the intestines would also have to use a great amount

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himself was the great Teacher in that School. Numbers of
essence of Intelligence that is spread out over the great
Ages there was a great conflict between the leading men of
that man is faced with Maya, with the great illusion,
to see how Michael stands there as the greatest opponent in
bore deep within them the impulse of greatness to soar
was an age of great trial and probation. Plato, after all,
Ahriman. On Monday last I characterised this great
great contrast between Ahriman and Michael. For Michael is
great super-sensible School of which I spoke last Monday. We
great School of Chartres, and others. But we can speak of
century is almost like an earthly reflection of the great
greatness that is contained in it. He will only see A, B,
that man must find once more the power to read in the great
Book of Nature. The great Book of Nature will be opened
Moreover the great majority of them belonged to the hosts
beginning of the 19th century in the great Imaginative

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[Due to the great increase in new Class members,

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materialists describe it: namely, that we eat a great many eggs which
for a long time. And the lack will become greater and greater unless
eating a great deal of meat and eggs and the like. I know someone in
before), and it no longer has such great need of the brain, and so the
give him what he needs, then he doesn't become a thief. It is of great
even necessary. The man must think a great deal, he must think so many

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protein as the materialists describe it: namely, that we eat a great
become greater and greater unless people return to proper manuring.
comes from eating a great deal of meat and eggs and the like. I know
great need of the brain, and so the brain can now become old and
become a thief. It is of great importance from a moral point of view
and so much of it isn't even necessary. The man must think a great

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Now the Michael impulses — and this is of great importance
dominion of Michael, the great battle of Michael and all the facts
School of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and in the great
the spirits who partake in these things, great numbers of Luciferic
with great clarity and definition. In those years it was by no means
greater significance than in the case of any other communities. There
living, once and for all, in a time of great, immense decisions. Thus
and non-anthroposophists is fraught with great decisions. Either it
new karma for the one who is outside it. And these are great
From this you will see that this is really a time of great decisions,
time of great decisions — the great crisis to which the sacred
impulses: they are fraught with great decisions, and they become
surely. Now this also is among the great decisions of present-day
life. For the things that take place in this way will have great
destiny of the Angeloi that we first perceive how this great
Michael must undertake to achieve his great task, and the things that
greatness of it be only in a spatial sense. Try to make this little
to take a hand in civilisation have become ever greater and greater.

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impulses — and this is of great importance for the
dominion of Michael, the great battle of Michael and all
the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and in the great
among all the spirits who partake in these things, great
great clarity and definition. In those years it was by no
greater significance than in the case of any other
living, once and for all, in a time of great, immense
great decisions. Either it is a question of the dissolving
for the one who is outside it. And these are great
is really a time of great decisions, for, if we may
avoided by it. This indeed is the time of great decisions
— the great crisis to which the sacred books of all
impulses: they are fraught with great decisions, and they
surely. Now this also is among the great decisions of
way will have great karmic significance, both for the one
Angeloi that we first perceive how this great separation is
things that Michael must undertake to achieve his great
greatness of it be only in a spatial sense. Try to make
civilisation have become ever greater and greater. Needless

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the greatest importance, that the Spiritual plays a deep
inner vision a greater number of possibilities.
large the number of possibilities becomes; far, far greater
when we come to consider the great gifts and noble
time of great decisions do not find their way to the
incarnation. Great as their qualities may be, they will
far greater part in our time than is generally thought. The
before our souls. Ahriman is a great and outstanding
greater detail.

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evolved to greater and greater perfection. You know how people point
years ago, views prevailed from which we can learn a great deal and
man went about in primeval times, he acquired great wisdom
entirely different way. There was once a time when people had great
astray. That ancient humanity had, above all, great powers of
their souls had great power of imagination. With imagination they
much of what constitutes the greatness of our culture has actually
this feeling we must surely say: Those men accomplished great things
the “Great Spirit” ruling everywhere. These primitive men
everything. It was this “Great Spirit” that was venerated
of his imagination. Goethe was a great poet. Sometimes when someone
originally greater than free will and it must now regain its
greatness. That means, we have to come back to the spirit by way of
them, then still greater wars will come upon us, wars that will

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greater perfection. You know how people try to draw upon the
views we re current from which today we not only can learn a great
about he acquired great wisdom spiritually. His face was more or less
people had great reverence for their dead and said to themselves: So
a great deal that lives on as superstition; it has arisen from
gradually take on animal-like bodies again, and that two great
we go astray. Those men of yore had above all great powers of
souls had great powers of imagination. With imagination they
cause to be so; for much of what constitutes the greatness of our
These men have accomplished great things purely spiritually and all
Indians spoke of the “great Spirit” ruling everywhere.
the Being ruling in everything. It was this “great
great poet. When, because someone wanted him to write a poem, or he
greater than intellect and must re-acquire its greatness. That means
then still greater wars will come upon up, wars that go on becoming
Note 1 This greatly simplified

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able to hint at the great significance which these things
administers what was mine before.’ This is the great
great crisis was accomplished: the Cosmic Intelligence came
sway in the great process of mankind's evolution.
In that great School in the beginning of the 15th century
concerned in what they think. This indeed was the great
greatest possible faithfulness to the sphere of Michael.
is such a man on earth. He has great human talent, human
of recent times, one of the greatest authors — a very
intelligent works indeed. I have spoken of the great and
all-embracing Intelligence of Ahriman. For greatness,
know the greatness there can be in Ahriman. We do not blame
how great the strivings are in this direction, then too one
is the greatest curse of mankind.’ — Thus ends
of the great and universal truth that lies inherent in the
something of the great and far-reaching significance of
yourselves: Those who out of these great decisions feel in
when at the culminating point the greatest possible
carry in our souls thoughts of a great and far-reaching

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the greater part of this “smell-brain” has been
and Smell.” In the dog's book there would be a great deal
metamorphosed. So we can say that man is a being of greater
only their brain, can think with great subtlety but are terribly
brain. If one were to dissect the heads of great financial magnates,
brought a great deal to light. It has been possible to see in a brain

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Anthroposophical Society, who to our great joy is here to-day and whom I
is filled with the picture of a great fire; the heat of the fire in his
greatly interested him. But now, although the title indicates a content

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undertake today are growing great again. They are growing great
We begin by pointing out something great in our time,
something great that consists in an entirely new attitude of
priestly impulse for its further evolution. A great deal can be
This is how the great truths were taught in those ancient times

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will begin by pointing to a great thing in our time, namely, to
that great thing which must consist of an entirely new attitude
“apocalypse.” The apocalypse concept covers a great
apocalyptic things. This is how great truths were taught in
time were preserved in sacred vessels, which were greatly

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risen to the surface of the earth great importance was attached
This became increasingly the case with a great number of

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coincides with the great international, cosmopolitan impulses
through Alexander the Great and Aristotle, which until that
given, at all the great things we have been given. We observe
and can absorb their majesty and greatness and truth and beauty
Yes, great and powerful and majestic and glorious are the worms
of sensory perception, marveling at the greatness and majesty

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lives. But such a contemplation requires the very greatest earnestness,
for it may indeed be said that the temptation is very great for man to
earthly lives. The temptation is great; the source of illusions in this
sphere is exceedingly great. And indeed, real investigations in this
who enter newly; and on the other hand, to our great joy and
great significance for his karma that passes through repeated lives on
medical man and had a great regard for him, but this was the first time
such that he no longer enjoyed great respect, and he thus came into
made. But once this has been done, a great light is shed on many things.
there is no connection between the external callings. But the greatest

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it will dissolve once more, human beings will have a great
content of the world, of this great All to which he belongs,
Mysteries, so it uses expressions that hark back to the great
before our souls be revealed in all its might and greatness.
imagine what it means. This is the case for the greater part of

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a great mystery in a peculiar way.
macrocosm all of its details are marvelous and great. Every
abstract and it doesn't conjure up the greatness of such a
great deal of what is in writings like the Apocalypse is
language. This is the only way that the real greatness and
contemporaries, who take great pains to understand Greek, the

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thoroughly understood by both sides. A great deal will depend upon
consciousness to a greater or lesser degree depending on what the

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thoroughly understood by both sides. A great deal will depend upon
consciousness to a greater or lesser degree depending on what the

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that long ago brought forth the immensely great Mysteries of
to the life on earth. This is the great difference, and it was
Alexander the Great, for example, behaved impeccably when
termed the Akashic Record. If we take the sequence of great
guides of the twenty-four hours of the great cosmic day, and,
great cosmic day fall upon their faces. They worship that which

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there are a great many so-called mystics, Theosophists, etc.,
who is greater, man or God? And although the language which was
priests are greater and more powerful than God, because when a
and Judaism from which Christ proceeded. One had a much greater
once given birth to the great Ephesian mysteries, and people
earthly affairs. Where everything which greater or lesser
Alexander the Great dealt with it in this way when he spread
successive, great revealers of evolving humanity, we can find
hours of the great world day on the seat, and spread out over
the 24 hours of the great world day fall down with their faces

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then able to say that the greatest variety of irregularities can
they may take slight notice of them, great abnormalities in the
person can get into great trouble because of it, which will then be
educational measures, but also to a great extent of external

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then able to say that the greatest variety of irregularities can
they may take slight notice of them, great abnormalities in the
person can get into great trouble because of it, which will then be
educational measures, but also to a great extent of external

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Dr. Steiner: There has been a great deal of talk
Now a great deal is said about “canals”
sustainer of a very great deal on the earth. Think of the sun as we
be there in great numbers, because it takes them four years to
the most powerful influence of all. But it exerts its greatest
What is of far greater importance is how things in the
we have a sun-day, a sun-year and a great cosmic year consisting of
not until this great circuit has been completed is the sun able to
well as the great circuit of 25,915 years, then there would be no
have greater healing properties than those that grow in valleys? If
not do at all! The plants that have the greatest therapeutic value
herbs growing on mountains have far greater healing properties than
fortunate for it; it draws a great deal of oil to itself and develops
out in the woods. The rose finds a great deal in the garden that is
have greatly deteriorated in quality from what they were when those

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be to show how these impulses contained a great deal of the
individuals who live in great fear of death, sensing that it is
and human beings will undergo great changes during this fifth
post-Atlantean age. It is a very great change when one feels
age, therefore, there will be a great change in the way human
This is the fact that meets with the greatest opposition of all.

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impulses — in fact, to an even greater extent than it was
great deal. For it is a significant change if one feels that
Today people can observe the eruption of a Vesuvius or a great
themselves will change a great deal in the course of the fifth
them will change greatly in the course of the sixth. For

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forth. Yet how is so great an illusion possible? It is as though we saw
Society, and hence too with the karma of the great majority of the
greater height of culture, I mean Haroun al Raschid.
were joined into a great organic whole. And side by side with him there
He rendered the very greatest service to Haroun al Raschid.
other hand into Central Europe. They were great powers, these two
last great wave of evolution towards Asia had gone forth from the
Alexander the Great and Aristotle. The flower of the Grecian spiritual
life had been carried across to Asia and Africa by Alexander the Great
the campaigns of Alexander the Great where the treasures of wisdom to
everywhere in Europe was that connected with Alexander the Great. Thus
which from the spiritual world was of the greatest importance for the
century. The full greatness of the Christ Impulse had as it were been
with which Alexander the Great had carried the Grecian culture and
is of the greatest significance to trace the further development in
the spiritual life, we find that the great organiser Haroun al Raschid
the great teachers of Chartres.

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was to see great cycles of time following their courses in the
sixth age a great many things are decided, and preparations are
the Great Flood, the fall of old Atlantis and the rise of new
will separate the next great period — after
everything we are told about the Great Flood. The separation
fifth from the sixth great period of earth evolution. It will
of what will happen at the close of the greater post-Atlantean
hear indications about the end of our greater post-Atlantean
greater cycle of the post-Atlantean period. Let us investigate
the meaning of this. We are living in the fifth greater period
In this very age of ours Michael has experienced a great
powers from Venus. In that age we find the great deeds of love
and in consequence great decisions have to be taken which

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and content of the Apocalypse in a great variety of ways.
great deal is always decided in a sixth cycle; the end is
Michael has undergone a great metamorphosis in our age, and the
greatest perfection; we must, as it were, learn to make things
Venus. We find the great deeds of love which spread
away a great deal from the evolution of humanity and which
of being ruined; a great deal was healed in this way. But in
great will impulse which was behind the crusades. One of the
four and this gives rise to great decisions which enable one to

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great deal depends upon whether one can differentiate between these
replacement of by far the greatest part of the substance does indeed
parts of the substance that are not replaced, although the greater
great deal to do in these first seven years of life. It works quietly
toward the intellect. Whoever has an eye for it can see the greatest
school, the faculties you train, the child accomplished the great
first life period, but even so a great deal. Again forces remain
forces that have now become free for soul activity. That is the great
Gradually a great deal of permanent structure accumulates. The older

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great deal depends upon whether one can differentiate between these
replacement of by far the greatest part of the substance does indeed
parts of the substance that are not replaced, although the greater
great deal to do in these first seven years of life. It works quietly
toward the intellect. Whoever has an eye for it can see the greatest
school, the faculties you train, the child accomplished the great
first life period, but even so a great deal. Again forces remain
forces that have now become free for soul activity. That is the great
Gradually a great deal of permanent structure accumulates. The older

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being. In conjunction with these two great cosmic principles he
Mysteries, we find that in the greatest, most developed
only externally, there is a great deal in human destiny which

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being. In addition to these great world principles he must also
historical element is great and tremendous. He doesn't express
greatest and most advanced ones. Let's take a look at what this
forces in the way he lives his life. There is a great deal in

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been lacking to the greater part of mankind in recent times. No —
Verulam, who had a great influence on the spiritual life of Europe, but
powerfully for materialism. For in effect, he laid the greatest stress
which there worked such great spirits as Bernardus Sylvestris, Alanus ab
but behind all this life and movement they saw a great and living Being,
scholars of the Middle Ages felt the great Goddess Natura as the Goddess
sunstroke and a great shock as he came near to Florence, the city of his
Chartres, and what preceded and what came after it. For the greatest of
threads of spiritual life which are indeed of the greatest value for
Teacher, gazing back over all that had been the great teachings of the
our materialistic age offers the greatest imaginable hindrances to souls

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— to what gives him his greatest joy in life. You'll find that
because they are pushed into the physical world to too great a

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— to what gives him his greatest joy in life. You'll find that
because they are pushed into the physical world to too great a

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beings — were gathered in great numbers around
though in a great, supersensible school in which those souls
taking in the spirituality of these teachings is of great
century, initially in the form of great, all-embracing, intense
deeds of the spirit, after a great deal will have happened that
great revolutions that came about in Europe as a result of the
demons, the adherents of the great Demon Sorat. To gain an idea
greatest of these demons is Sorat. Such are the attempts Sorat
Hermes wisdom that also belongs to the great Mysteries in which

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fact the breaking in of Arabism gave rise to the great danger
Michael in large numbers in a great, supersensible school in
century. For everything we can do now in this age is of great
is of great importance if we grasp spirituality for the
preparation for the great, extensive and intensive spiritual
great deal will have come before, which will be contrary to the
second 666 stood in the sign of that great upheaval in Europe
already, and he will appear in a great many people as a being
followers of the great Soradt demon. For instance, one only has
greatest of these is Soradt. These are the attempts from
today, for this wisdom belongs to the great mysteries where one

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standpoint there is no great difference between the health spas that
teachings include a great reverence and love for animals; they extend
of the people. He took these up with great fervor. He was able to
own great genius has to be acknowledged — is the fact that he

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standpoint there is no great difference between the health spas that
teachings include a great reverence and love for animals; they extend
of the people. He took these up with great fervor. He was able to
own great genius has to be acknowledged — is the fact that he

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health and a great deal else is affected by them — depend upon
the fact that the greatest part of the population then living in
affect the weather. These particular influences are of great
grandparents, not to speak of our great-grandparents and
great-great-grandparents, were quite different. They would sit
these great-grandparents there may have been one or two “wiseacres”,
great-grandchild: Look, there's the moon — the moon, you know,
Our great-grandparents knew these things and said to
about great changes. The descriptions of it are very interesting. And
something in and gives something back. As it cannot take in a great
the greater is the pressure it exerts against the walls of the

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The great starting point of Christian development on the
So for outer history these great impressions would have
what was already enshrined there through the great
great — they mean what the ancient world saw
apocalyptists, is equally great or even greater; for nature
greatness the substance, the material from the earth that could

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can say that of course the Mystery of Golgotha is the great
Nevertheless, the great impressions which were there would have
waking up. It was inscribed there already through the great,
Say: “Nature is great,” — they meant what one
apocalypticers is just as great or greater.” For nature
When Jerusalem became great all the substances and materials

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Chartres and its great significance for the inner spiritual life of the
can truly recognise in the spirit of Brunetto Latini, the great teacher
those great impulses.
life. All that was reminiscent still of the great and deep impulses of
Here we must seek the way into those great connections which proceed in
the greatest imaginable wonder when I first came to it as a result of
was so little receptive to the greatness of Christianity. It was simply
him to the ancient Mysteries he found great sincerity — positive,
Alexander the Great. How vividly his life appears, as I already said, in
follow it we have the greatest difficulty, so to speak, in keeping it within

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I can only describe it as the greatest possible respect for modern
a great pile, but no work starts. To start the work, what goes on
have to do is to get rid of this great pile of building materials

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I can only describe it as the greatest possible respect for modern
a great pile, but no work starts. To start the work, what goes on
have to do is to get rid of this great pile of building materials

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see another significant sign of it being one of the greatest

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another clear sign that one is dealing with one of the greatest
certainly say that a great deal exists in a large number of

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further. We think of the sun as being at a great height and of the

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further. We think of the sun as being at a great height and of the

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angel as rejoicing at the great tortures, at the frightful
A good many world views have adopted the great error of
will be the greatest and most significant experience through
greatest conceivable prospect of encountering John and then the

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great deal concerning human evolution will be decided in our
great suffering and terrible things which accompany this
went through this development from the greatest revelations of
they think that Satan is an evil power. But he is also a great
earth, a great power that has gone astray. And archangel
greatest and most important experience that people will be able
leads deep down into the region where one has the greatest

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The Guardian speaks with great earnestness:

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succeeded in doing something that made a great sensation.
possible for Kepler afterwards to reach his great results. For it was on
great an impression on his contemporaries as a discovery relatively
him in those great events in the super-sensible world at the end of the
I told you already of the great
I mean the individuality of Alexander the Great.
what I have already described as the enactment of a great and sublime
world of sense a great super-sensible event, consisting in super-sensible
the great ether-workings of the universe and the human workings upon
There was, then, a great super-sensible
present upon earth in Tycho de Brahe, plays a very great part. And it
was his constant striving to preserve the great and lasting impulses of
Michael, and Tycho de Brahe had a great influence in this. At the end of
the 15th, 16th centuries, and by the great religious act that took place
At this moment of great significance he has begun his earthly rulership
germinating seeds, though very sparingly, within the great texture of
All the greater was the preparation in the
great abstractions as in Hegel, or in abstract pictures as in the case
he is perhaps unique — who combined the greatest conceptual
work Klara, wherein the super-sensible world plays a great part.
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time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
world. And indeed this is the greatest anomaly of our time: that it

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time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
world. And indeed this is the greatest anomaly of our time: that it

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ocean — with its even greater capacity for

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it will appear in the near future, and where it took on a great
a great deal, in connection with the spiritual life of

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This is all of great importance. The intent of instruction about
greater rhythms that extend from one Ice Age to another, and so
belonging to one great year, a year consisting of days that are human
lives. Let us reckon this great cosmic year in which each single day
recent times when the great discoveries were made, for instance, of

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This is all of great
greater rhythms that extend from one Ice Age to another, and so
belonging to one great year, a year consisting of days that are human
lives. Let us reckon this great cosmic year in which each single day
recent times when the great discoveries were made, for instance, of

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Book of Revelation. A great deal can be interpreted through
certain parts of the world. Population growth is greatly longed
It is a great error to believe that one need not behave
a great deal of what they show is really present in our
everything was turned more or less inwards, and the great
over such things today. So hardly a great deal has remained of

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content is very important for one. But it is of very great
interpret a great deal through the Apocalypse, and the events
can only say that a great deal of this is already here as far
smoke of incense. Then our gaze immediately falls upon a great
within. The great geniuses of mysticism appear. Previously one
great many people should be aware of this trumpet period, since

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exposed to weather conditions. The ancient physicians laid great
mystery begins, the mystery that creates a great test for real
Christ. A great sum of knowledge and life experience can be acquired
through the death on Golgotha was the great healing event. Then the

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exposed to weather conditions. The ancient physicians laid great
mystery begins, the mystery that creates a great test for real
Christ. A great sum of knowledge and life experience can be acquired
through the death on Golgotha was the great healing event. Then the

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Michael there have been the greatest difficulties for the men of modern
philosophy, he wrote and spoke with great enthusiasm of Lessing's
Moon, find the great primeval Teachers of mankind. They were not here in
greatest difficulty. And in this case I made the strange discovery that
mind, find the great hindrance in the shaping of their karma, inasmuch
Minstrels? The greatest German poets were there together, vying
at the very time when Christianity, just where it was greatest, had
great conflict of his life, when with a Christian rationalism he tried
We see here how great the difficulties are

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somewhere. In consequence of the greatly overheated cosmic gas —
regular solid, you'll have to explain it by imagining that a great
at a lecture given by Falb. He went with great pompousness and a
looks upon him as a great genius and puts up a monument to him in his

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great riddle of our time that has emerged since Napoleon. It
symptoms such as that a truly great man like Masaryk who heads

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important for priestly activities, for the great riddle of our

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idea of karma in real earnest. But we are living in the age of great
decisions and great decisions must take place to begin with in the
individuality enables us to learn a very great deal about karma. I have
in that incarnation is of no great importance, he was a certain
earthly evolution, when the great primeval Teachers wandered upon Earth
now made so great an impression on him as he looked back after death,
was this, that in it he had still been able to see a very great deal of
super-sensible life, this individuality went once more, with great
Cardinal Mazarini. We may study the Cardinal in all his greatness
Mazarini. He was a great statesman with a wide sweep of vision, yet on
peculiar mentality. It was a mentality which held fast with great
great age. In karmic sequence he had to use up in this way the remnants
Pope Gregory the Great.
of the Monk Hildebrand, who became Gregory the Great and whom you know
the Great.
probably be of great and deep value to you all. Though I almost shudder
perceive whence thinking receives its inspiration. It became one great
brought forward such great and important things. Discover in the soul

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throughout the seasons, and we see greater natural events such
learn to extend it to include the great transformation of the
glass. Thus do human beings participate in the great events of
autumn of 1921 in the Great Hall of the Goetheanum and was

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that occur over the years and we see greater events in nature
able to extend this to the great transformation of the earth.
men will work together on the great events of the future. Here
much greater effect upon events in nature than they do today.
greater influence upon events in nature at the beginning and

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illustrious man and a very great scholar: he was shut up in an
There is a very great difference between eating potatoes
had to be expected that the comet would cause great convulsions in
a great number of shooting stars! The comet had indeed come nearer
that the Day of judgment had come. Again there was great alarm.
in Paris, the father-confessors had made a great deal of money
number of other comets that have done the same. A great deal of
development of the movement. At that time Lassalle was still greatly
great progress has been made in this direction, but the fact is that
world are constantly changing. And the greatest misfortune, one might

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with the earth this would most certainly cause great masses of
purification of astral bodies. There is an immensely great
exceedingly powerful realities, great and

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end of the world was at hand. A great deal was said and written

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humanity, in the great questions of civilization before the
despite all the beauty and greatness accessible to the senses,

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received among other things what was then living with great intensity,
with great impressiveness, even in Asia Minor, elaborating in various
Mazdao, the great Spirit of Light, who sends his impulses into the
evolution of mankind, so as to be the source of the good and great and
Imaginations that now stand before my soul? How great and mighty
were to play so great a part in all teaching and education throughout
now a woman, gifted with great intelligence. And once again (we can well
experiences which I described, and in addition, very great cleverness.

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them to some extent as the functioning organs of mighty, great
hierarchy, whereas the first hierarchy in its mighty greatness
What I am telling you now, dear friends, is of the greatest

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What. I'm telling you here is of very great historical
hindrances which are slightly greater than normal are mixed
little about it. Of course this applies to an even greater

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Satan, however, can make use of this great moment in the
A time will come when the satanic power will have made great
great that it will approach all the groups that have formed; so
succeed in guiding everything in this direction will the great
beginnings of this today and we can also see the great danger
greatest conceivable intellectuality — all
great threat to humanity, but people are not at all inclined to
urgent work, worthy of a great task, will accompany all that
Michael will be the great mediator between the paths of gods
our daily work, hoping not for smaller but for greater things

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priests. One could of course say a great deal more in
be sure, Satan can use this great moment in the evolution of
become further, although men are left free. A great deal will
into channels that run along these lines will the great
clearly, and we can also see the great danger that mankind is
— which put people in a great uproar, so that they're
of these things expose humanity to a great danger, but men are
ideals of your work as greatly as you can if you make these
is worthy of your great task will accompany everything that you

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offers the greatest imaginable hindrance to the revelation of any
your attention to the great spiritual contents of the School of
sense it was in the great teachers of Chartres that this Platonic spirit
the greatest difficulty in entering a new incarnation. When he had
— Hroswitha, that forgotten but great personality of the 10th
scene, all that it had received from its incarnation as a woman, great
woman for she considers Schröer a great man. — This was his
emerges with great hindrances and difficulties. Yet on the other hand it

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though poetic in form — indicates the existence of great wisdom
(Yes, yes!) Of course, a great deal could still be said, but there
of you who have been here for some time have heard a great deal from
all is protein. Not only in eggs but in the greatest variety of

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great numbers of their fellow-men, beings who, however, only show themselves
and who are the spiritual Individualities of the great original Leaders of
association with the great Cosmic Healers, he transforms for his
was so radiant with light, showed itself now to him in the great cosmic
And thus was he, who on Earth had unfolded so great a love for art,
is of very great significance. A personality who was most deeply devoted to
century, and that shall lead mankind past the great crisis in which it is

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we read that certain great events have played
of great significance; we shall be connected with the Earth
mineral kingdoms. They will be endowed with great power of

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then a company of twelve great Initiates; the thirteenth was
into himself — (That. is one of the greatest Mysteries;
lived as a great Initiate in Atlantis. During the decline of
the minerals and plants. It was all enclosed in one great
old northern Saga-world. He is the great Atlantean
great lumbering clay-giant whose name was Ymer. ------------ More
until the hair of a great head appeared. On the second day
day a noble form sprang forth. He was endowed with great
“Ygdrasil has three great roots; they suck up the

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world through civilisation goes back ultimately to a few great
great individuals, who were not themselves directly concerned with
by an activity that is purely external. It would be the very greatest
greater measure of the spiritual currents that flow through human
has lived among men leads back to great Initiates, leads back to
painter such as Raphael, or again some great religious event in
great World Powers invented death in order to have “much life”

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adepts, Those who were suited to be the pupils of the great
the greatest distance from the inner essence of things; it is far
of the great WHITE Brotherhood are always in harmony with one another
Life-Spirit. The great goal of the spiritual-scientific movement is
a gradual flowing out of wisdom of the great white brotherhood
for through long periods of time. The whole activity of the great
founders of religions was a preparation for the ONE great event, for
Christ-Jesus, whilst maintaining the greatest possible individualisation,

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knowledge and all wisdom is to solve the greatest problem of all —
past, when some great teacher was teaching? We can certainly learn a
great deal if we do; but to come into touch with true primeval
forms, it appeared in a form known to many of you: after the great
ancient, holy Rishis, the great teachers of India, during our first
greatly changed since the times when the great teachers of India
East, but also a great deal of that which streamed as a clear light
the Rosy Cross; in them is to be found absolutely all that the great
the fountain-head of the Christ Impulse. All the great treasures of
anything that would be against any of the writings of the great
thou, great Buddha, through thy inner illumination, hast seen of the
great truths about pain and life is exactly true, it is true to its
beyond and above it through that great Impulse. Why could the Christ
pain and illness are bound up, and the great healing help had to
of that wisdom, could only understand it with great difficulty; it
difficulty. In ancient Atlantean times, before the great catastrophe,
he evoked the idea of a great spiritual world. When he, pronouncing
greatest difficulty to all those who want to explain it within the

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the great question which was put by the Holy Rishis. Can we do
world, release and set free great numbers of these bewitched
(for they are but reflections) be seen in all their greatness. We

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smallest to the greatest, even such a being as our earth — a
Mysteries; he told him, that it was a truth of very great importance,

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become a helper in its turn. So too in the great universal evolution
space. They did in great measure what in a lower sphere of existence
great helpers.
In what way did those great helpers meet them, and what appearance
consciousness as read in the Akasha Chronicles. These great Universal

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which we have come to know in the Zodiac, those great, sublime
is very great, greater than that of any other mythology. This will be
two planetary frontiers in the heavens lies the great battlefield of
the wreckage of that great battlefield, of that fight in Heaven

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also know that the greater number of people have to-day no
greatly from the other planets of our solar systems. We shall see
power guided humanity. These were the great conditions of lordship in
meant, when it is said, that fundamentally the great guiding

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those laws which he received directly from heaven. The great leaders
government. From them the great teachers worked, so that others might
place, the great leader of the Atlantean Oracles preserved the seven
most important etheric bodies of the seven great initiators of these
Atlantis. Those seven, who were sent down by the great Leader, to lay
garment, the etheric bodies of the great Atlantean Leaders, who had
they spoke of the greatest mysteries of our solar system and of the
the great leaders of the post-Atlantean times were ensouled through
The great leaders of humanity in the post-Atlantean times did not
lived within them. Therefore, these great leaders could look back
what they appear to be on earth. The great leaders of humanity of
The great founders of religions were men possessed by Angels. Angels
humanity still needed such great leaders, carried within them a
find those, through whom the Hierarchies speak The great Hierarchies
great men to be inspired by the Spirits who have to be active. Thus

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Wisdom. The Thrones are Beings of greater power; they could let their

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of the physical human body. This is the great Cosmic Man, the Man who
the great Cosmos; microcosmic man is formed out of this giant. Up
the great primeval wisdom. The mystery for instance, of the process
fructification takes place! The mysteries of the great Cosmos will
the great mystery which is contained there, and which will only be
centre is to be found in the great circumference. Hence, all teachers
of the great world. You can see the same process in a nation. Think
then. On each planet, such things are the reflected images of great
not at all the case! But the great question arises: Is the humanity
great questions which each of you may ask who has let these lectures

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whether the great thoughts, the great impulses, which great men have
standpoint to acquire ever greater powers of knowledge, of will,
has to arise if the way were always smooth. Greater things must take
be heavier to push, but you would develop greater strength. Suppose
themselves; on the contrary, they were the great promoters of
body from great Atlantean forefathers in whom that exalted Being had
religion of the ancient times! They are the great Teachers of
greatest deed of the Christ was that which ended with death, was His
not any more physically present. This is the great difference between
the Christ and the other great founders of religions. This difference
untouched by all hindering influences.) So it goes on, but the great
ourselves: Be they ever so great, so wise, so good that they never
err from the right path, yet the great mission of man is to bring
force, with force to carry out our own intentions, our own great

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certain point of view the smallest and the greatest
the smallest is just as significant as the greatest. Insight
right feeling for the great revelations of existence and we
what we elaborate in the soul. There may be no greater
give us the right attitude to the great and incisive
jumps are constantly occurring. The greatest of all in the
standing at a great turning-point. It was the last echoing of
of humanity took a great forward jump because men were able
prepare us in such a way that we can make this greatest Event

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understand with greater clarity that no body can subsist without a
but that another Being united with him. A great deal could be
who is a great Founder of religion has achieved the complete
inasmuch as they all point to a Founder who was a great
Christianity is not that it looks back to Jesus of Nazareth as a great
in essence, founded by a great Teacher whose pupils then promulgate
greatest riddle: birth and death.The fact that beings can die is the
great Teacher who was the originator of his religion; but the true
religions on the earth can belong to Buddha the great
among themselves, he through whom the greatest of all tidings of peace

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We can perform the greatest service to a dead person by forming a
disposition are simply of greater value here on earth than people
lacking in morality. A moral human being is of greater worth for the
great-great-great-grandparents were. Obviously, we cannot influence
discovered only with great difficulty.

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Movement. It is therefore of great importance to grasp this fact in
intelligentsia as something great and significant among their people.
factor of blood is not meant to encompass great communities of human
A great
soul brings a great many other things in its train. This leads us to
public lecture yesterday I mentioned the great philosopher Soloviev,
altogether from the central idea held by the great Russian thinker,
of the greatest thinkers of Eastern Europe: “If Christ had not
believe that those great masters of wisdom who guide human progress
well that the great masters who guide our work from the spiritual
this group the spirit of good that is in you, great masters of wisdom,

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people as something particularly great and significant. They
is a great and very important symbol that the two states from
lecture, I have already mentioned the great philosopher
Solovyov, the great Russian spirit: there is evil in the world,
greatest spirits of the East. If Christ did not rise again, the
the Great Masters of Wisdom the human progress and the human
too. The good genius of you, Great Masters, and the good genius

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material is the greatest, the most significant that can be
from studying the great miraculous world development in its
terrifying cheering after great victories. One noticed that

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can see that our Dornach Building is enveloped by the greatly
of life in great cities, of metropolitan habits). Darkness envelops
that come towards it from the great universe. It is a magnificent
the portal of death, it still contains a great, great deal of unused
greater powers. They can be used and they can help us more easily
that in the near future such a great number of etheric bodies with
would not yield such a great number of etheric bodies, had the war
science is something tremendously great and sacred. The new
remind you of one of the greatest works of art that have so far been
science, something that is able to overcome even the greatest
we touch upon a great mystery, connected with the evolution of
the greatest things in the evolution of the earth may rise up before

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Imagine then what a tremendously great significance for the
you of something that really belongs to the greatest pieces of
so that the greatest achievement of art is also overcome which

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answering the great riddles of existence, which natural science
what is meant by the great picture of our lives described here,
which has great importance for further research. One becomes
soul and spirit. The great moment now comes in such research,
life. A great alteration in the nature of the will can then be
great opaque eye. Through such exercises of the will, our
expressed by the great educators of the nineteenth
alone. Like a great threat, there hangs over our entire

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there will be a great number of deaths over there. That cannot happen. The
this means great pain, terrible suffering. It means that these souls begin
his daily consciousness, yet have a great longing in him. It is quite
eleven. He was a painter. He was not a great painter so far as external
achievements go, but he had great ideas in his head, although he could not
There was a great deal of fantasy in him, but the physical capacities

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takes place, as it were, within this domain, takes on the aspect of one great
where I have the great pleasure of being your guest; I can only speak to you
great soul-spiritual-physical organism of the universe.
the two great, important means of education used during recent centuries:
great expanse of Nature's life: namely, man's being, which greatly transcends
point, the great riddle, the search for the nature of man, really begins. At
discover the greatest mystery when they see how week by week the child
expression of our mature culture. But this fact exercises a great influence
have given rise to the great achievements of modern culture, achievements
what many people say to-day and one's heart should feel the great
direction which has, to be sure, produced great results in the spiritual life
described the external physical world as Maya, as the great illusion, for it
external world nothing but Maya or the great illusion.
something of which we can say: It has resulted in great and significant
conception of the world in the great age of
human being, since through the great achievements of modern time, man has in
people's minds, that by enhancing this great error of modern times Karl Marx
with the spirit, while its conception of Nature has become great. This in
be shown, has acquired a great importance in our modern civilisation. But its
mathematical-mechanical cosmos, only the great machinery, as it were, when
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builds than in the greatest engineering feat. And the intelligence
been one great process of transformation, the passing over of the
forth out of the great whole. From that we begin to perceive our self
as a small world resting in the great world; and this arouses in us a

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Otherwise an esoteric is in great danger of becoming morally worse in

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allowed him to appear in incarnation as the great mystic who was to

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
achieved great things also with the development of those tools
1909, a great scholar, Charles W. Eliot, held a lecture about

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today which looks to the very greatest enigmas of human existence. In
with the great questions of Eternity, that it holds itself aloof from
from a world-view which looks to the great problems of human
here about the social question, today we want to speak from a great
arrangement would cause such a great change in commercial or business
question regarding women is one of the greatest present questions of
scientific and other great minds have seen in the women's question
with the greatest energy against the admission of women into the
able to fulfill the profession of a doctor. With the great authority
to ridicule by presenting, little by little, all the various great
This is no fable! This man asserted that the greatness of the spirit
question of women. A great deal has been written on the psychological
A great scientist,
Thus we could say a great deal and, on the one side, could list all
occupied itself a great deal with this question, and Science enjoys
great authority. But the statements of scientists concerning the real
something that is far greater and more decisive than sexual
many respects these discussions are characterised by great
life, how they were equal to men and played a great part. And
culture has become, in the greatest sense, a male culture
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great cultural point of view, from the spiritual-scientific
into the centre of the woman's soul more and more. A great
men and played great roles. Finally, would one have spoken
great influence on the cultural process. One had other views in
character with external masculinity. The greatest spirits, in
This is an important point. The man played a great role,

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repeated lives on earth and of the great principle of the
Indeed, one does not need to go as far as a great naturalist of
side, he is led to the greatest perspectives. However, that has
great school of life. It makes it impossible that one goes

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to make this great document itself comprehensible by means of
developed when we are dealing with any of the great
his own spiritual faculty, and afterwards takes up the great
to discover the great cosmic facts presented in the Gospel of
however, differs greatly in its narrations from the other
“Yes, we have also a Socrates and other great
through were our age not one of the greatest possible belief
caused great difficulties, for they say: We should have liked
consider a thing of greater or less importance according to
very great importance. They looked down upon the lower animal

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great world and in the small world is subject to the law of
about us, nevertheless, we must keep in mind the great
great apostle of Christianity, used his powerful, fiery gift
as he will be at the end of it! But by bringing this great
plunge down into the great cosmic facts can penetrate into
great cosmic evolutionary periods called

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Ocean, and which sank beneath the waters through the great
law which develops the greatest strength with the least
great cosmic love that here upon the Earth is beginning its
drummed into the heads of the school children, the great
confront a human being in the same way the greater part of
times. Now, let us glance behind existence at a great
great beings of this kind who had progressed far enough to
greater degree in that ancient time when the human being was
greatest importance and the writer of this Gospel had to lay
great emphasis upon it because it is a fact that after the
had to represent himself as the great bringer and quickener

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especially in the great religious documents we should never
cases the form signifies a very great deal. To be sure, we
place always in the greatest secrecy and the outer world knew
perceptible group-ego in the astral world. The great
individual ego, there still always existed a greater ego that
told in the Gospel of St. John that the Christ is the great
interpretation a great deal is meant symbolically, but with
they felt, in fact, I and the great Primal Cause are one! And

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shalt see greater things than these.” The words
Yet greater things than they had already seen would be seen
they made a great deal of the idea that love was based upon
greatest impulse for re-finding a union with the spiritual
the symbol of Dionysos. In the Marriage at Cana, a great
epoch of human evolution, always becomes known. That greatest

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already called attention to the fact that before that great
perished through great changes on our earth. It occupied
period. Although you have already had to endure a great deal
physical sense perception, you would be greatly disappointed.

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physically similar. There is a very great difference between
Therefore it can be said that through this great Event, the
souls, if we can behold in the Last Supper the greatest
greatly metamorphosed that it will, at the same time, be as
The greatest force will be needed to conquer this lowest
means the greatest victory for the human being. When mankind
— one of the greatest performed by the Christ —
great and mighty mysteries which mankind is not yet entitled
go through the great Mysteries. They can know of them, they
say: “I know that Karma is the great adjuster. Whatever
great law which is the law of the Christ-Spirit Himself.
not even today attained a very great understanding of true,

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great mistake if you were to seek all that is etheric or in
of the human head changed very greatly, for the head of the
designated the ancient Semites, was a great initiate who
Asia, the great Siberian regions were still covered with
great mass of people joined with this germinal group which
great hordes of people out of Atlantis who settled there.
Other great groups of people who had been driven from other
and Asia. The small number who were led by that great
to foster the greatest possible spirituality. From there
that great individuality, Manu, there developed what we may
ancient Holy Rishis, those great teachers who in the far
that greatest of initiates and his followers into Tibet,
clairvoyance. The great initiate and guide led away the
guidance of great leaders. The first colony founded the
the great discoveries and inventions of the new age, that is,
fifth epoch might have the greatest possible consciousness of
institutions of the State. It is a sign of the greatest
greatest of all events which was to be enacted upon the earth
great Roman Empire, does it not actually seem as though the

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first great post-Atlantean cultural epoch after the Atlantean
generations. We have already called attention to that great
great picture of the Last Judgment, and look up. You will see
tried to grasp the greatest event in cosmic history, seemed
Gospel. Thus we must ask the great question: — How does

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characterized this epoch. To a much greater degree than is
possess a common Wisdom in a very much greater degree than at
is the great perspective which we have in prospect for the
in the great mission of the Hebrew people. When Moses, an
received without understanding, it has become very greatly
materialized. Because it has been so greatly misunderstood,
indications of great, comprehensive spiritual happenings. You
actual experience, but that it is, at the same time, a great,
an overpowering prophecy. This marriage expresses the great
The Christ Impulse was so great that mankind of the present

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Just as the great differences of colour and race came into
barriers and bring about great peace, great harmony and
beginning, receive the same rudiments of great brotherly
nothing. There is no greater intolerance than that shown by

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physical without a very great disturbance in all its
be accomplished for a great part of humanity which was
intolerance will become greater and greater in the future and
Christianity will experience the greatest danger just from
legacy of the writer of the Gospel of St. John, the great
the minds of men and which Voltaire, one of the great
us not shrink from collecting a great deal in order that we

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been greater than that of any other document. It may truly be said that as a
That was the great change that took place three or four centuries ago —
How has it come about that to-day we are in a position to do greater justice
greater independence. And what Anthroposophy has to give to man of modern
slumbering powers and faculties exist within him; that there are certain great
its root in the ground and growing upwards to the blossom. Compare the greater
this image to work upon it, it makes greater and greater progress, and is
the spiritual world, understands the great Scribes of the Bible. He knows
word for word. I tried to show that a great deal of what is to be found in
The Old Testament lends itself to a great deal of controversy, for the
great deal that can lead us to this realisation. When we study the earliest

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of human fellowship which in ever greater measure has lived in human
greatness! That alone is true Christian humility which says: The scope
A great and mighty impulse, the greatest ever given in the earthly
preceded it. Accordingly it contained in itself all the greatness of
something infinitely perfect, that should live in himself as the great
In this way, a great deal of what has been said recently in our
the flowing together of these two greatest religions of the earth

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realms of Spiritual Science which play a great part in life. From the

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great understanding, that the idea often advanced by western
them. Indeed, the matter has gone so far that the thoughts of a great
solely from its external side and not from the inner, the great
art, great as it is, is far from achieving.
themselves; he also received these powers, indeed in a far greater
degree than the animals. For although the latter bring a certain great
And it is this which brings about such great complexities in life,
universe for man's sake, through this great change in our solar
themselves over this time. As I have said, by far the greater number
experience a great and all-embracing feeling of sympathy for the

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be seen to a great extent. Let us descend to a very low order of
show us that the etheric body must make greater efforts to call forth
etheric body have to make greater efforts to manifest themselves? This
time. Hence the etheric body has to exercise greater powers if it has
departs to any great extent from its instincts, or that it follows its
a great difference on our inner organisation between the reaction of
In the course of his life a person has a great number of experiences
they develop into concepts which he works upon, etc. But a great many
death. First of all we observe this great difference between the
There is a period in our life when we experience a great number of
up to the moment when a person can first remember, a great number of
great impression. Now if we investigate, we shall perhaps find that

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can't get an inkling of with the greatest human
intellect — and us, all the great hierarchies are present.
Great
Great
around him to make them into servants of the great Ahura Mazdao, and he
of the harmony of feelings give us the great world truths in symbols,
feel a great confidence growing in us that pure love must overcome all

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to find how greatly these have changed.
incarnation in which he will encounter the greatest opposition to his
and circumstances where he meets with great hindrances, so that his
evolution. This influence plays a great part in human evolution; but
the part of a great teacher. If we study illnesses in this way we

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we have something of which the knowledge is of the greatest importance
health which would otherwise be much better is in fact greatly
oppression and so on he would thereby gain great satisfaction. For if
read a great deal so as to avoid thinking of this, he would naturally
great deal with himself, though not in the ordinary egotistical sense.
have mentioned are present in a great many lives and especially in
disposition for the illness within us. A great many forms of illness,
greater number of monuments to Chance.’ And if we examine
does not greatly appreciate, and when we are driven to some act from
Today words are as a rule handled with great facility. A word,
however, can lead to great error and confusion. The word has but to
penetrate us with the greatest strength, and here our thought refuses

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the greatest possible. Now let us examine in detail how such
the suitable organs. Thus if someone has received a great many musical
something of still greater significance. What is taking place within a
body and the etheric body was greatly loosened. The earlier and more
We should be under a great delusion if we believed that the experience
ourselves of it, but when we have no pain we do not greatly trouble to

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the illness would lead to no great improvement during the life in
moral culture, he will be in great danger when penetrating his inner
any auditory perceptions must be treated with the greatest
the main there is nothing to which he has a greater aversion than the
forth. Such people have a great aversion to any serious study that
connected with the depths of spiritual life. This may be of great
become too greatly entangled in Maya or illusion and may find our way
to the point at which the ahrimanic powers may exert the greatest
influence upon us. At no time is the danger of illusion greater than

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Great

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What has been said in our last lecture is of great significance and of
great deal about the physical world and yet be a gross egotist,
that the great events in the course of human evolution could not come
of greater age. For up to our thirty-fifth year we direct our forces
appeared successively as a great prophet, a great painter, and a great
individuality there perceived, was expressed in the great spiritual
being brought about, these too are subject to certain great karmic
a great number of people, because of uncharitableness, had been impelled

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AS I have several times pointed out, the great karmic laws can be here
with the great laws of human karma that we at definite periods adopt
these measures. With regard to the great plans of life, human
Indeed, such matters are ordered by great laws. The discovery of one
see how greatly they stand in need of an anthroposophical world
penetrates most deeply into the soul, will have a greater tendency to
she retains a greater degree of free spirituality, and for that reason
there should be found a greater number of women than of men. Any man

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karma, be it to a greater or less extent. Such questions as these one
and love, which would otherwise be side by side throughout the great
interested only in causing the light to be spread abroad to as great
the whole great world, inclusive of mankind, as One Being. In

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great part of civilised humanity, nothing further occurs than that
observe the great achievements of ancient India. But if we compare
Science relates to us of the great culture of the Indians, we then are
compelled to admit that the original greatness of what this people
desire, springs forth also the wish for great ideals, the desire for
Greek civilisation, in the Greek heroes, in the great men and artists
That is the great disappointment of the luciferic spirits; they are
greater number of people do not wish for such enlightenment. You will
see a great part of mankind succumbing to a certain religious egotism,
own souls attain the greatest degree of well-being. This egotism is
passions may play a part in it. Nowhere does Lucifer play a greater
greater degree the director of his own will. It is not the will which
deeply, and which again are connected with the greatest destiny, even

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requested by our friends here, a subject having great significance for
being, apart from the body is the great experience of the spiritual
that is of great importance in mankind's development. Because it is
egotism, not a decrease. The leaders of the mysteries thus set great
Christ. Men will experience Christ in ever greater measure, and

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been referred to, about the greater, real world, which embraces both
these great events. In other words, within our circle, we are
ourselves touched by the great spiritual world, because souls who
Now, it is a great prejudice of the modern materialistic
great, an essential, importance for the one who has passed through
very great one. It is something mighty, something unfathomably
planet which he is leaving. It is a very great experience, an
physical body. For the dead it is of the greatest significance that
event, viewed from the other side, is the greatest, most wonderful
places before us, in its entirety, the greatness of the idea that in
great. When a deceased person (and exactly the same thing applies to
fool. There is no greater inward intolerance than that of a
In order to attain this, a very great deal of what is
of Eternity”, starts out with the present Great War. What is

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The greatest secrets are disclosed to one who studies its pages
fact standing right before our eyes and yet connected with a great
development. Great artists have always felt these imperfections.
great spiritual forces that will carry us upward. Through
association with small and great. You may take as an example of this
Christ in His etheric body. Without books and documents this great
to the dead as well as to the living. The great and sublime event of

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pictures. A very great deal could be conveyed in a few words
attempt to use other means to express a great deal that words
great deal can be expressed more truly than in words. If a
feeling for such things could be aroused there is a great
heavens was used to express the great secrets of the
initiated into the great Mysteries. Such things cannot be
was always the great Ahura Mazdao to whom men looked up: they
when He wanted to unfold His greatest and most powerful
Gospel indicates great cosmic connections between processes
in his three great laws. These three laws describe in words
the great Cosmos and what was to come to pass once on our
Every word in that Gospel is of great significance.

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to stream into us in greater and greater abundance, so that
us ask ourselves this great question: Who then, is
man must make greater and greater efforts to acquire

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permeates it completely with feeling. One can only do this with great
actually are men today who are born with great capacities and reach

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symbol but each year anew it reveals to man a great, eternal truth.
time on will be understood in ever greater measure. And so it came
fixed as the day of Christ's Nativity because a great truth had been
point to the loss of a great truth, such profound meaning lay behind
heights and there recognise the great Sun-Spirit, you bear within you,
however greatly man's forces threaten to decline and his sufferings to
Nor is this revealed until he is initiated into the great mysteries of

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and to do so with great apparent justification. There are in our day
whole. And then, as we develop this feeling towards the great world,
greatness of what we call our moral ideals; when we look into our own
sensitive to the greatness and sublimity of moral ideals. And we can
the moral ideals and purposes of man. A great warmth of feeling can
and canst ever do, in comparison with the greatness of the age moral
far removed from the other? That is actually the great riddle of
to lift itself up in a worthy manner to a consideration of the great
illustrate how great an error is involved in this assumption that we
gifted man, who could adduce with great clarity proof for all
point of view, he would take great delight in bringing forward
doubt. He was too great a man to stop short at a mere dogmatic
Catholicism, but on the other hand his Catholicism was too great in
not laugh at you, at best he will say: “I can feel great
brought certain moods and conditions of soul to greater and greater

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secrets. A great deal of error would be avoided if men would do this.
of beholding the world. The world has undergone a still greater
and has a great future before it. From what the larynx itself tells,
conscious. It is on this account that we have to undergo great pain
bring us great pain. You will find in my book,
lashing it up and down into great waves, and with every beat
greater and greater height of surrender; because we feel ourselves
of continual cosmic births, in great and small. And it is for

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greatly in our understanding of the world and especially of the
in this case a too great activity of the etheric body in relation to
books, namely, as nothing else than a great big apparatus of
great digestive apparatus, that takes in food, works it up and
materialistically inclined as the greatest pleasure in life —
inflict the greatest loss and sorrow to man, the very event which by
be outside Paradise has become his greatest pleasure. It is indeed a

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come quite innocently up against a very great philosophical question,
against the relation of time to space; for the greater number of you
you see, man is really a being who has undergone a great coarsening

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creation — that's the great truth that we must look for
living under great delusions about ourself. For we can't see

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the case of the nerves there is a greater measure of
without significance for the world. He has, in fact, great
have the great difference that exists between the two men in man. The
which stands like a great mystery in our whole existence, and which,
great mystery. And whatever is false in thought, whatever is ugly in
greater materiality. Whereas blood has been designed to shoot up and
or that he attaches great value to Faust's signing the contract
sevenfold nature that we now have to acquire with so great toil and

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more and more important. We can only estimate the greatness of this
like. Great new vistas are opened up for a knowledge of the nature of
seed, will have developed to greater and greater beauty and
teach us a great deal. Thus in the mineral world, for example, we can
transformations that will lead to greater perfection. Quicksilver as
Thus, roots contain great forces of healing for the nervous system,
great mass of fish spawn in the sea that is brought into being year
to lift the veil a little and gain some vision of the great flood of
and Intuitions were communicated in great abundance to the spiritual
Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science gives Imaginations of great and

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uttering an untruth our worth is greater than it is afterwards. For
astral body must be created for us out of the Great World, the
investigated with great exactitude, new discoveries can be made all
through death a less moral tenor of soul. This makes a great
the man brought with him through death a greater or lesser moral
A moral disposition of soul is therefore already of great
things that inspired the greatest wonder in him were the starry
territorial religions; their original greatness lay in the fact that
religions towards a great goal, we must seek to understand this
the greatest calamity. For I could imagine that such a person does
shall be filled with the great impulse. When the spirit-knowledge we
kinship with the whole universe! What could give us greater strength

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should pay greater attention to these moments, for after awhile,
eternities. It thinks me — the great world thinking, thinks me.
fill the soul completely with thee words and feel the greatest piety.
two. With this sentence, we should feel the greatest thankfulness
towards great, sublime spiritual powers. The exoteric expression of

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individuality. This idea will only be of great value when it
what we can do feeling, so that the great, destiny-exciting,

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
great differences exist when one looks at the course of human
remember that there are great leaders of humanity, initiates
continent of Atlantis, which was destroyed by great
“saga of the great flood.” The Atlanteans —
and that is we ourselves — had their great leaders and
this Sun-existence was the task of the Great Sun Oracle. For
who reside on the sun. These great beings were exclusively on
great Being who was to be called the Christ united with the
Venus, Mercury, and Vulcan oracles, each with its great
of what is today Ireland. The Great Leader chose a few from
Great Leader, however, chose the best people in order to lead
developed the qualities necessary to make them great
the Great Leader, to make the necessary preparations for
only the Manu had preserved from the great initiates of the
but in certain cases it was preserved. The greatest of these
seven best etheric bodies belonging to the seven greatest
Only the etheric body of the Great Initiate of the Christ
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communicate through exoteric lectures to the greater public, to the
further back than this, we find the great Atlantean catastrophe that
Spiritual life especially proceeds in leaps. Great and
gods in the old way. Herein lies the greatness of the event that took
that a great change would take place regarding earthly clairvoyance,
shall then also be able to understand how great the dangers are that
living the life between death and a new birth. It is of the greatest
false prophets would be able to prevent the good and the great were

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does not go through life half asleep. We have seen the great
four or five years, causing great harm; we can turn our thoughts
that a great social movement has developed out of the
to-day. How helpless, in the main, is the great majority of people in
one hand, the spiritual world is willing to reveal itself with great
himself from his greatest entanglement in what is material and come
confronted by the greatest trial of his strength — his power to
all possible excuses in order to escape from the great problems. How
glad people are when they can escape the great tasks and riddles of
great problems of the age find partial expression. But they did not
differences became greater and greater, the gulf between the
bring the greatest misery to mankind if not illuminated by the inner
but appears of the greatest importance when viewed
should become conscious of our great responsibility and conscious,
that possesses an instinctive political life of great perfection and
had wished to give the German people the greatest lesson by imposing
the greatest test. This nation was to be shown the Spirit cannot be
about that in another year there may be as great, or even a much
greater, increase in our numbers. For the more human souls there are
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regarding it not only as a great unity, but as specified into
lying next to us, presents the greatest surprise to the present-day
— something infinitely multiform. That is the great difference;

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Now to occult observation there is a great difference of
the great sense-apparatus of the earth, through which the earth-planet

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get, the greater the danger is that bad spirits will try to make nests

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beautiful or ugly can be very greatly disputed all the world over; but

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upon our soul as may be aroused by earnest people of great worth;
the loftiness and greatness and sublimity of the beings of this
comparatively great yet without going deeply into these matters, we

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the great illusion. Where physical astronomy places a planet, there is
a great and mighty etheric heavenly body is there, which, through the
visible proof that this was also once enacted in the great cosmic
Now there is no great teacher outside, making the axis of the world
period in a sublime way by the great Zarathustra to his pupils.
great teachings of antiquity. And only when we permeate ourselves with

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years ago, — I mean Hermann Grimm, the nephew of the great philologist
in the great national epics.” Hence, for Hermann Grimm, the intellectual
the great, mighty figures, and whose observation of course the undoubted
— certainly in a more primitive but yet in a great and noble form
echo, and which in still earlier times existed in much greater measure.
grandmother and great-grandfather, in short, to that which is the result
the second part of Kalevala. Thus everything in this great national
active sense of spiritual culture, can perform immeasurably great service.

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only perceives “ maya,” the great illusion. We only reach
The differences certainly become ever greater and greater. The
clearly present, but it is no longer so great as that between the
resemblance becomes infinitely greater if we now demand from occult
comet comes from very far away and it also returns to a very great

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greater and more powerful is the impression received in the manner
disturbances are so great that we can scarcely succeed, without
treasure of the Nibelung and did a great deal of good with it; but
then gain an impression of the present-day sun, which to a very great
say; “A great deal of nonsense has been talked.” just as
even in theosophical books, a great deal said about the expression
then, for the first time, one knows that though they yield a great
perceive all, or at least a great deal, of what is contained in them.

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the moment of waking up to the moment of falling asleep, is greater
we no longer feel the deep significance, the greatness and power
activity greatly resembles, while also being the very opposite, the
or adept, is forced upon them as a great teacher. In the field of
chiefly upon great teachers whose authority is enforced from outside,
arisen who revealed to humankind great and significant truths, truths
which did it great harm. I do not mean to say that in itself it was
an error, nevertheless it caused great harm that H. P. Blavatsky
super-sensible world or initiation are just as great today as doubt,

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descriptions as a very great acquisition; and in a certain respect it
from each other than do the human races. Certainly we find great
these with the great difference of the animals from the imperfect up
the sun and Mars; you see that there are a very great number of
wider spheres than that of the Spirits of the Age. These great epochs
growth of humanity that they stimulate the great impulses of
of Motion are inspiringly active in great spheres; one Spirit of
the great civilisation impulses in the evolution of the earth which
Spirits of Motion the racial forms of humanity, these great impulses
mentioned among the great truths which, as every experienced student
brings great truths, but they must be recognized in the right way. We
single thing in it; then only shall we recognize the greatness of this
book. Of all the great truths taught by the true occultist,
equivalent to Mercury” — that hinted at the great truth of
occultism, and in these subtle and great truths things must not be
fact, it will have to correct a great deal of the former astronomical
great Individualities. So it came about that these seven successive
to humanity was the great recollection of the ancient Atlantean
greater earth-sphere than that of the separate Spirits of Motion. As
Theosophical Movement, in which so much that is great and true and
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were greater and often became extreme, that is, the loosening of

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account of its greater proximity when it penetrated the
earth-organism, bears a still greater resemblance to the planet
revealed as a reflection of the principle of the great Sun-Spirit Whom
across in H. P. Blavatsky. What great revelations there are in The
such a contemplation may acquire great moral importance if in much

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great pleasure that I greet you here in this place for the second
wrestling spirit of man such as are given us in some great work like
We are going to speak of one of the greatest and most penetrating
arises Krishna, the great spiritual teacher of Arjuna, and a
central nerve impulse of the whole of this great poem. When we
Arjuna cosmic secrets, great immense teachings. Then his pupil is
embraces all things, a great, sublime, glorious beauty, a nobility
the greatest spirits of Western lands made the central figure of all
important lives there, of far greater significance than logical
says on immortality to be spoken by a man of great culture, depth
case with the great works of man, we find the opening words of the
often an object of the greatest enthusiasm. Yet we may say that,
mood he is met by the great teacher Krishna. Here we must call
that blows through the forests. I am the greatest of the mountains,
of the rivers. I am the greatest among men. I am all that is best in
The greatest
very greatest riddles. Truly, a hard one seems to be given us when we
It is not through logic but in the perception of the great

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dramatic power the story is carried up stage by stage to a great
episode we already have a moment of great intensity and also an
just for this reason that such great care must be taken to give the
on the great horizon of the world.
its very life. Now think of the great contrast between all that
do they honor Pythagoras as such a great man when every schoolboy and
Pythagoras was not a great man in having discovered his theorem just
the senses. In the 18th century what was considered a great word was
power of reason!” Today a great word must resound in men's
the great beauty in the artistic composition of the

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intellect, then my soul had greater power. My soul could come freely
happen the change is of very great significance because it

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Somehow a great respect
great turning-point in time, when, from the twilight of the old
that higher realm we perceive it with far greater force. There we see
must be included which come from the evil beings. There is great

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fix our attention on a great law of existence, I mean what is called
greater part of our intelligence enters the brain through eyes and
of thought, the way of thinking that produced the great materialistic
the great significance for Western spiritual evolution of that moment
the blue cup of the heavens was suspended over our earth. These great
of spiritual understanding that brought forth the great triumphs of
of somewhat greater significance than that of waking and sleeping.
these two great epochs is an important point in evolution. Before
ancient time mankind was best educated by the inspiration of great
had something that worked into their lives with great power and

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most difficult in our time to gain a true judgment about the great
one of the greatest creations of the human spirit, a creation that has never
its beauty and greatness were increased a hundred times.” These
that no trace is to be found in this great poem of philosophy as we
definite, familiar feelings. Then comes a still greater climax. We
radiance of the Sun, immeasurably great art Thou! Lost beyond all
thought, unperishing, greatest of all Good, thus dost Thou appear to
infinite in realms of space. Great are Thine eyes like to the Moon;
moods of this great poem work upon us we shall gain much more than
great mistakes by confusing these two revelations. What I have

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great truth if we can thoroughly enter into the thought that all that
greater detail in my
and will carry it to yet greater heights.
it does to a certain understanding of that great moment pictorially
feeling for the real majesty, the greatness and wonder of these
something that was vouchsafed to all mankind from the great universe
attitude toward the great riddles and secrets of the cosmos, to

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circumstances, are as far removed from this great poem as are the
combined with great fervor of feeling, but with this there was no
and special spiritual movement is greatly distorted and falsified. As
great European thinker said on his deathbed, “Only one person
spiritual substance that represents a great height of achievement but
by their great poem. In effect they still have more ways of
great, however, is the spread of that angel's mighty wings that the
great men would have said, “What we were striving for back in
they value the great efforts that achieved it. That is the personal
what that great poem contains. We must study it not in an external

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tamas man.” Thus is Krishna the great educator of the human
self-liberation, but here again, what then required the greatest
Arjuna's highest endeavor has become the greatest suffering for many
lose nothing of their greatness and majesty. How sublime was the
greatness that appeared to us in the figure of Krishna even when we

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gives us any answers to the great questions of human
have not brought solutions for the great riddles of the world,
bother about the great unknown which exists beyond the sea and
great ocean as Columbus and his followers did. But at that time
great going to sleep which the human being experiences when he
conception. This is the great world memory. Since this world
I can remember how the great medical authorities at a
of plant life, of each individual plant and of the great
the past created great and impressive works. How did they
his full human existence. No, if we wish to solve the great
great riddles which life brings in quite a different way from
finished and still needs a great deal to be done to it, and we
some of whom were great experts in various sciences, in
Spirit can give to the great questions which humanity has about
And the third great question of present day civilization

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which I consider so important, and it gives me all the greater joy to
was a great joy to welcome them there, and we were delighted to hear
greatest artistic achievement of the Cosmos — man himself.
bore witness to the great need of our time for moral impulses to be
the great need that exists to-day for moral and spiritual impulses in
him to raise to greater

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education there is full recognition of all that is great and worthy
greatness, all the perfection of Greek culture was not directly
admiration for the spiritual greatness of Greece is linked with the
into two separate spheres. The Roman still set great store by the
the course of the Middle Ages, came the great swing over to the
side with this, however, a new ideal has emerged into greater and
greater prominence in the modern age. It is the ideal of the
greatest significance for the essential nature of human civilization.
out of the Cosmos, great Ideas are revealed to man. Just as music was
the great problem of education raised by the evolutionary course of

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itself in the body — this must be developed to the greatest
— this was the great and far-reaching maxim of Greek education.
applies fundamentally to the greater part of humanity to-day.
tradition for him, whether his piety was great enough to enable him
the many efforts for educational reform indicates that a great
are conscious of this we shall realize to what a great extent
great problem before us to-day, and it must be solved if the most

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are in quite a different position. The very greatest illusions in
way to understand human thinking in our age in its greatest scope is
these very phenomena the great transformation that is taking
greater detail in my books), if beyond Imagination, one attains

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A great
deal is known to-day about positive and negative magnetism: a great
decades of life, is an anthroposophical truth of great significance,
we educate? That is the great question.
so we talk a great deal about the children's naughtiness and it never
in their immediate feeling of antipathy. And the great question for
that people know a great deal nowadays about how children ought to be
until the sixteenth century that people began to talk a great deal
possessed of a deeper knowledge of human nature, a great deal of talk
the telescope when they want to see the most minute or the greatest,

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however, will never make the teacher fully aware of the greatness of
spoke words of great truth v/hen he said that in the first three
child is one great sense-organ. The scope of this truth is not
walk’ is but the limited expression for something far, far greater. We
is one great sense organ and his inner physical functions are also a
No greater harm
The first great essential is to learn to deal with children wisely and
Kindergarten systems, in other ways worthy of all respect, have made great

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civilization penetrated with artistic quality. This has very great
alternating rhythm of our waking and sleeping is of the greatest
happen if we make too great a demand on the intellect, urging the child
essential thing — how greatly man is enriched by this artistic
of the Gods, the great question must be: What have the Gods placed
child's life of feeling, a great question arises between the ninth

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one great whole, we see it — in spite of the many valleys and
great misunderstanding, to the Vedas and the Vedanta. If we look at
in immediate experience. But there was a great riddle and it arose in
added the second great riddle in the history of evolution —
with the physical body, was experienced by him as the greatest riddle
great intensity among the ancient Egyptians, for instance. They
mankind to experience the greatest event of earthly existence. He
that the Buddha found the four great Truths, one of which awoke
directed by the great Divine Teachers of the world, there was added
The great riddles of the
fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, feel the third great riddle of
great riddle — that of man's earthly nature; to the second
And so the third great
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A great many
to be of great assistance here for there we have gestures that truly
he has already been employed. This is of the very greatest
as much as do the minerals. And now another point of great significance.
geography, which can play a great part in the child's development if
movement are developed in great diversity of form in the higher animals.
The one great

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teaching accordingly, great vitality can be generated in the being of
part of history; figures like Alfred the Great, Cromwell and others
by unfolding not a dead but a living perception. There is a great deal
in the unconscious life of heart and mind, they have all the greater

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world and with the whole earth is of great value to the well-being of
efficiency during the last sixty or seventy years. Great progress has
call forth in man to a greater extent the elements of feeling, music, or
children; a great deal of time, moreover, is devoted to this subject.
enabling the teacher ultimately to read the great book of the world.
Protestant Priests. But a great many pupils in the Waldorf School are
fact the great majority of the children attend, although we have made
realize the significance of all the great Christian Festivals, of the
the greatest imaginable significance. It may seem paradoxical, yet it
Christ Jesus. The child is exposed to great dangers if we have failed
live in all their super-sensible greatness. If we teach the child too
inclined to relinquish their own point of view. We hear a great deal

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of the memory is of the greatest importance. Through the whole of a man's
pictures than it is to put too great a strain on his powers of
know a great deal about medicine.” It seemed to him quite
School we take the greatest care that there shall be an intimate contact
We try however to the greatest possible extent to induce the parents
greatest harmony between the members of the teaching staff at the
character, temperament and his great capacity of love. This
teaching slowly or stimulating the element of will into greater
activity. Great attention of course must be paid to bodily training
and again to one fixed idea. This tendency is obviously a great
then, if it is not too late — in fact a great deal can be
forces, teaches us a great deal when we come to deal with the
great power of love and unselfishness is of course necessary when it
mineral-lore, to physics and chemistry, where greater claims are made

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bear fruit in the future. The great masters have promised us this. The
together, but with the greatest wisdom. Meditate everything

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great symbol of Christ Jesus — dying, perishing life that has

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around our own small lower ego and we're directed towards great,
thoughts. The greatest man of sorrows or soter was Christ, and

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these things existed. And the instincts frequently worked with great
in the life of the Earth. Nowadays we are wont to attach the greatest
constituents and is nevertheless of great importance for the life of
the outer Universe. The nearer we come to man, the greater this
into account is this. The greatest imaginable part is played in this
accustomed to call it, silicon plays the greatest imaginable part,
plant coniferous forests, where the Saturn-forces play so great a
and here they show their great significance. Alas! the life of people
Then the great riddles arise. Why, for example, is it impossible

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terms. There are to-day a great many books and lectures on
silicon. And in general silicon plays the greatest
great, may discharge itself in a thunderstorm. Now what can we
conifers, where the Saturn forces play so great a part, it will
these things play so great a part and that the importance of

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down into the soil by the greater or lesser limestone content
great difference between the warmth that is above the Earth's surface
Earth have the greatest longing to become crystalline, and the deeper
— then they are of the greatest importance; they ray out the
from the great Universe from all sides (Diagram
within the plant itself. Then it will not reveal itself to any great
speak, in very great excess, yet in such a way that it does not go
stand face to face with a great change, even in the inner being of
very great importance.

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lime presented in it in greater or smaller proportions. The
great, an immense difference between the warmth that exists
substances of the Earth have a greater “longing”
of Nature; and the deeper one goes, the greater one finds this
insight of the greatest positive value and practical
great importance which must be thoroughly understood. It is a
of exceptional complexity, and science lays great stress
greatest possible chaos. This has to be the case whenever we
another, this possibility had to come greatly into
the great majority of our existing fruit trees were brought
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of nitrogen's activity, has fallen into great confusion nowadays.
nevertheless it is of great importance; for it is along the paths of
great plastician. It does not only carry in itself its black
behold the Spirit-activity of the great Universe, moistening itself
By day we have great need of the oxygen, and by night too we need
of the greatest importance for agriculture. Nitrogen becomes the
eventually be led back again into the great Universe. It must be able
greater detail. This is the point where the Spiritual in our inner
shall perceive the great significance of the papilionaceae. It is no
foundations of these things. Otherwise the danger is very great that
greater distance from the Earth. See how they tend to colour their

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of nitrogen is at present in a state of the greatest confusion.
is not much greater than the knowledge we might have of a man
modifications, the diamond. But it is hardly of very great
great deal of nonsense has been spoken about what was really
in Nature. It is the great sculptor of form, whether we are
cosmic prototypes, the great world-imaginations from which
cause us to faint. Whenever too great a degree of life enters
along these paths. Nitrogen is the great “dragger”
upon perfectly real processes. And as I shall show in greater
within a great whole, the organism of the plant-world, just as
great whole, then we shall see the immense importance of these
other plants, which unfold this process at a greater distance

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to the great cosmic relationships. This is most necessary nowadays.
the greater part of what we daily eat is not there to be received as
substantially. By far the greater part is there to give the body the
inner mobility, activity. The greater part of what man thus receives
this they may well be of great importance; but we are under an illusion
work it involves. The burden of work will really not be very great.
call it so, you will soon see how great a fertility can result from
great difficulty in doing so. Why should it not be possible to make
astonished when by some measure he gets great results for the moment

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range of cosmic relationships. How greatly the scientific ideas
greater part of it is not there for the purpose of being taken
into the body and deposited there as substance. This greater
greater part of what is taken up as substance in this way is
particular case will, of course, depend to a great extent upon
great fertility will be produced. In particular, it will be

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growth. Hence it was of great value for us to recognise that the soil
into the great connections of Nature has been lost — as indeed
such conditions in the dung-substance itself. But there can be no great
connection? Great Nature does not leave us so mercilessly in the lurch
great intensity, precisely where living things are concerned. Now, however,
the entire process of plant growth. Yarrow is always the greatest boon,
to a greater distance and through Large masses. But the question remains:
the great and wide circles of life — the macrocosmic, not the
Truly it is the greatest benefactor of plant growth in general, and
is in the human organism. The stinging nettle is the greatest boon.
of great benefit to grow stinging nettles in this district. However,
We can attain the greatest perfection in the description of disease,
histological or microscopic diagnosis, but from the great universal
of plants. In reality, it is of the greatest significance.
And the nitrogen which is formed in this way is of the greatest benefit
— transmuted into a substance of great importance, which, however,
In whatever district it grows, it is the greatest boon; for it mediates

Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture V
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all understanding has been lost of the great inter-relations in
substances in the manure. Great stress is laid upon the
great value to soil which is to be used for plants; but silicic
the bladder, we greatly increase its capacity to combine its
intestinal walls has great importance. If, therefore, we
nettle. The stinging nettle is really the greatest of
really a great boon. In order, therefore, to draw iron from the

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to one's student days. Thus I endeavoured, though with no great
as weeds — are greatly influenced by the workings of the Moon.
its cue from great Nature.
reproduce themselves and increase greatly.
our reckoning upon this great force of dispersal (while pointing out
is saturated with water, and with greater difficulty when the earth
not only out of what the Earth provides. Nature is a great totality;

Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VI
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great extent on what you have heard me say concerning
the earth, has caused great harm. Let-us take a special case to
great many results are to be obtained in this way, as you will
greater extent upon reason and common sense than on police or

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humanity has no idea how greatly farming and forestry
it becomes too great. If the soil is tending to become too strongly
greatest value to the earth — are none other than the earth-worms.
For in great Nature — again and again I must say it — everything,
this give and take, and you perceive once more what played so great

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great length, but in order to obtain a fruitful starting point,
for these natural processes always have a great
These lovely creatures, for they are of the greatest value to
greater ills in plants. If, however, we can contrive to nave

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to be taken are thus transformed into great complication.
look it all up. But the results will not be very great, for it may easily
of the tomato by man is of great significance. (And it can well be extended
It is, in fact, of great significance for all that in the body,
the liver of all Organs works with the greatest relative independence
from mouth to mouth. It has done us much harm. It makes a great difference,
as a piece of real hard work, work which is tending to great and fruitful

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can be embodied in general formulae, but need to be greatly
channels and has done great mischief. To speak of
Here something of great importance takes place. I have
working, should be fed so as to absorb the greatest possible
show a very great contrast to one which seeks out its food with
the ego. in man the greatest possible quantity of intestinal
and can teach us how to stir it to greater) activity). But the
valuable as an object of study. One can learn a very great deal
consumption of the tomato by man is of great
is, in fact, of great significance for all that in the body

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that there lived in Wagner a great deal more than he
great deal more is to be found in Wagner than is generally
to the works of a great artist.”
made an intensive study of man and his place in the great
to him in a new way. In 1857 the great ideal contained in
understand a great revolutionary change that took place
understand the Great Mystery of Golgotha, which is the
greatness as an artist. We must not think of him merely as
great process of initiation in a drama. There is, however,

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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the great law of reincarnation and karma, and also the origin of man,
the great truths come to expression, especially in Christianity and
In plants, animals and children projects greatly by the physical head.
in many different ways. People who have a great deal of sympathy and
of great danger, for example when a person is drowning or suddenly precipitates
from a great height, and afterwards regained consciousness. At such
it would be of the greatest harm to him. A time will come to which the
This is a greatly significant

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The astral world greatly
in such great numbers.
friend has been in great danger, that he passed unscathed through some

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every night during sleep. But this after-death condition greatly differs

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of Devachan, have a great regularity. One might compare them with the
the great central truth of the Vedanta philosophy resounds in this region.
great school leading to this degree of perfection.

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images of his life-panorama are of great importance, for they now become
Our experiences at Kamaloca are of a lasting time and are great upon

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were musicians, and they will trace this back to heredity. A great theosophist
clairvoyant sees a great difference in the astral body of a developed
or less larger part coming from the astral body, the greatest part coming
appearance he bears a far greater resemblance to the appearance which
A great musician will need a line of ancestors that can give him a body

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greatly differed in aspect from modern man. Atlantis had a quite different
world upon Atlantis differed from the present one as greatly as the
of memory. The larger the anterior brain, the greater the intellectual
mankind's evolution. The conditions of the earth then greatly differed

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the will, which also had the greatest influence on the form of the physical
which plays a very great role to-day was then in its very first beginnings.
speak of a cosmic event of greatest importance, without which the soul

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inaugurator and chief guide was the great Zarathustra, or Zoroaster. The
qualities which man must have; he must be able to bear what one calls great
this must be overcome. All people who achieved a great deal require this

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performance would denote for a man a great spiritual effort. A deep
bodies differed greatly in development even in external form. What
once reached. But its instrument has become weak, like a great

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look up to the great events of the history of the world and its
great migration from west to east. We ourselves were these peoples.
It must not be imagined that those who, in the last great migration,
under the special guidance of great individualities, through Europe to
those great compendiums of Wisdom called the Vedas, we have only the
with a painting of great importance that has surely passed before all
inclination that souls have today to lay great weight upon the outer

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turn. At the end of our fifth great epoch, the post-Atlantean, there
three bodies together like a broth in a great world-kettle, and if we
have been greatly handicapped had they remained bound to lower beings.
glory, glittered as a great sun-aura in space. On the other side
epoch. After great fire-catastrophes had terminated this Lemurian
Persian period. The great initiate saw an opposition between two

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 3: The Old Initiation Centers. The Human Form as the Subject of Meditation.
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whole of Atlantean culture was destroyed immediately after the great
part in the great migration from west to east. In others, however, it
greatest initiate (generally known as
great leader led this group farthest into Asia, so that they could
Asia, whence the great cultural streams could flow into the most
territory. Earlier still, before their great migration from west to
concepts. The great masses could form only ideas that were a sort of
greater influence over the physical body. If today a person were to

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campaign to India under Alexander the Great.
later yearned. Hence it was a great moment in his spiritual life when
Who were these seven great teachers of ancient India? As far as
this happen? We shall understand this if we realize that in the great
influences had need of an intermediary. Through the great Manu this
in ancient Egypt there were still a great many people who could absorb
exert a much greater influence on man. Today, when he sleeps, man
great teacher of that first sublime culture. In the first

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disregard the great cosmic events and direct our attention to what
ultimately this vapor-mist appeared like a great sun that shone out
earth-cosmos in its great variety; inside, with the light flowing

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baser beings are connected other higher ones, who have so great a
previously like putting on and taking off a garment, a great change
Each of them has had a great and powerful influence on man in his
something that today is of the greatest importance. We know that the

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 7: Evolutionary Events in the Human Organism up to the Departure of the Moon. Osiris and Isis as Builders of the Upper Human Form.
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The greater part of the people, who were unable to raise themselves to
at about the stage of a great amphibian. This is what the Bible calls

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Now the great beings, the leaders of evolution, departed as they
appeared as the symbol of Christ, to remind men of the great cosmic
fish symbol as something of great profundity. Such a significant sign,

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 9: The Influence of the Sun and Moon Spirits, of the Isis and Osiris Forces. The Change in Consciousness. The Conquest of the Physical Plane.
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scarcely crystallized out of the water-earth, and that a great part of
when the great catastrophe was past, a great part of mankind had
we tried to characterize in all their greatness, in the spirituality
time immediately after the last traces of the great Atlantean
cultural period, out of which arose Zarathustra, the great pupil of
physical, was the great initiator, Hermes Trismegistos. It was
he, the thrice-great Thoth, who first showed to men the entire
wonderful work. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every
As in the great temple buildings, so was it in everything artistic
greatest pride to be a Spartan or an Athenian. To be a personality, to

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during his life a person was a gourmet, taking great pleasure in
changed greatly since then. We need only look into materialistic
death was not great. In primeval antiquity man had long periods of
of all spiritual development. It was the concern of the great
We should not think that the other great leaders of mankind did not
point in evolution, but Buddha, Hermes, and the other great beings
Blavatsky took great pains to show her intimate pupils how complicated
made great strides among them.
great prophets. It was a well-known being in the more ancient
were specially prepared for him. The Christ had the greatest powers,
it is beautiful, and the sacrifice is not great when one looks at it
greater became the power of death. We must bear this in mind if we are

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From our studies of the earlier great epochs of earth evolution we can
patient. A great treasure of occult wisdom in the domain of medicine

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 12: The Christ Impulse as Conqueror of Matter.
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that among us in Middle Europe the great Goethe, in his Faust
by steamer? Great spiritual force has been applied to building up such
ancient Egyptians. What was taught in the great mysteries was also
insight into the great cosmic connections, and let us imagine that
system. These men gave birth to their great laws out of Their
connections. Life becomes great and powerful, and we feel our way into
under-value the great material progress, but there is also the

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becomes clear to us in all its greatness when we view the matter in
first time about the sixteenth century. This explains the great
great earth catastrophe. This will be the age when man will be
It is a fact that, in the course of evolution, ever greater powers of
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
an etheric form. This will constitute the great advance beyond the
in His glory, as the form of the greatest ‘Ego’, as the spiritualised
Ego-Self, as the great Teacher of human evolution in the higher
Who was this Jeshu ben Pandira? He is a great individuality who, since
by a Bodhisattva who is to become the Maitreya Buddha, changes greatly
And during the final period of time, before the great War of All

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to us in all its greatness when we view the matter in this way.
the sixteenth century. This explains the great progress in the
that is to be the last before the next great earth catastrophe. This
course of evolution, there awaken in the human being ever greater
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
an etheric form. This will constitute the great advance beyond the
Christ in His glory, as the form of the greatest "Ego," as the
spiritualized Ego-Self, as the great Teacher of human evolution in
Pandira? He is a great individuality who, since the time of
who is to become the Maitreya Buddha, changes greatly from epoch to
of time, before the great war of all against all, the situation will

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developed by people — this can be of great value to us. I must
surveys great stretches of time can see in this way the connection
materialistic view of life. There are really by no means such great
plane, a greater understanding of this advance for humanity can be
The greatest of such transformations that ever occurred took place at
Thus does he prepare for a great event. This will be as follows: The
then will he come forth as the Teacher of the Good, as a great Teacher

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people — this can be of great value to us. I must repeatedly mention a
even decades. Only one who surveys great stretches of time can
There are really by no means such great objective reasons for a
will appear even in this century on the astral plane, a greater
The greatest of such
great event. This will be as follows: The old ego passes out and
then will he come forth as the Teacher of the Good, as a great

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us, at this great distance in time? That might be a troublesome
period will have great difficulty in understanding it. Our souls are
cosmic evolution. They find it a great relief, these souls of today,
so we often find souls who are greatly comforted when they can apply
lying like a weight on the soul, becomes even greater if we reflect
period at the beginning of our era was a great riddle. I want you to

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endeavour encountered the very greatest difficulties. We must pause
the greatest historical mystery in the Earth's evolution; but
can enter into the souls of the great teachers of the ancient Indian
We know that the souls of those great teachers were open to cosmic
soul of one of these great teachers of ancient India, one must say
great intelligence is chaotically mixed up with arrant humbug. And
the great paintings in the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo
the Prophets, we find, have to a greater or lesser degree something
he is a man on Earth. That is the greatness of this portrayal of the
the great Universe, and out of this working of the Cosmos on their
themselves truly to the great phenomena of the Cosmos, but they would
Paul is great throughout the world where the olive tree is

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great danger to which humanity was exposed on Earth.

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and resounds through it, because in the great world-orchestra the
Jahve took great care to place man on the Earth so that in his true

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a great deal that we may think strange, if we look at it
if we observe that on October 28, 312, when Constantine the Great,
committed the greatest folly — looked at externally —
Rome's greatest enemy.” A truly oracular utterance!
him in great suffering and with dream-like visions of a quite
great Mysteries that had been shown to him. We then hear that he went
in the heavens, with the dark moon like a great disc dimly visible

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exercises are of the very greatest importance. A soul can find its

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events of the greatest importance for the destiny of Europe in the
and with God's help she will accomplish still greater things.
respected and powerful Duke and greatly honoured master! I commend
this approach brought with it a great deal of superstition,
character; a great part of astrology has to do with this. Probably
earth is ensouled, and thus the great harmony is brought about, not
Kepler's writings. The greatest astronomical laws, the three
great harmony is brought about, not only on earth but between the
than is a great deal of talking about the unity of religions, which

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he is able to do this. Such great events take place that almost
see that great Germans have seen the matters always in the true
nuances to a great ideal in the course of human progress. Each
European being to stand in front of the present great events
has accomplished the first great action of the great researcher

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great events of the present are taking place, to those who must stand
few things on death, on this great event, and on the facts of human
Immanuel Hermann Fichte, son of the great thinker Johann Gottlieb
existence, from the Moon existence, and even from a great portion of
greatest, most beautiful and significant event. Moreover, this
constitutes a great deal of what we generally designate as our life
from a loftier standpoint, we human beings are extremely great
death. In regard to the wisdom of the great world, we are fearfully
structure of our organism, of this great work of art, arises within
greatness of the divine spiritual world.
we do not gain an impression of the loftiness and greatness of the
transformed sphere, is a real microcosm, a true image of the great
boast of the great extent of their knowledge. But we know that in the
without any pride, we should realise modestly and humbly the great

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few things on death, on this great event, and on the facts of human
great thinker Johann Gottlieb Fichte, to Troxler and others. Indeed,
great portion of the Earth existence, are super-sensible forces. These
physical. It then appears as the greatest, most beautiful and
life between death and a new birth and constitutes a great deal of
beings are extremely great dunces (excuse this expression!),
the great world, we are fearfully stupid if we believe that here on
great work of art, arises within us in the form of an image. But
soul-impression of the loftiness and greatness of the
loftiness and greatness of the divine-spiritual that pulses and
microcosm, a true image of the great world-sphere. Within it lives,
completely materialistic people of modern times boast of the great
the great difference between a soul that is gradually finding its

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great, momentous achievements of the physical sciences, and on the
to declare something still greater and grander about the Christ than he
discovery in the physical or spiritual domain the greatness which
future, the great truths of Christianity will outshine them all. This

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the great advances made during the recent centuries and the immediate
Spiritual Science certainly does not underestimate the great progress made
that natural science would be able to solve the great riddles of human
dazzled by the greatness of human progress, and who do not comprehend
that a great professor or teacher, a giant professor, ought to be located in
Grimm, the great authority on art, set forth his conviction that
great fantasy of Laplace and Kant concerning the origin and eventual fate
human feeling which urgently demands a solution of the great problems of
human life itself is the greatest. I can, in the course of a brief lecture,
fact that science itself is a great problem, to which something must be
The great expectations based upon Darwinism, the hopes coming from the
connection it is allowable to refer to a greater event. And I should like to
of Spiritual Science, even distantly, with the greatest event which has

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forward. In its place he has gained a greater degree of independence
the greatest seriousness and it is called forth by the deepest
that great spirits are not appreciated during their lifetime, but
bring about premature deaths and great misfortune. That is the
begin to think is in fact far smaller in comparison to the great
to play on our instrument. This ability is much greater in early
greater wisdom than is normally realized. Then we can also picture
greater the wisdom and ability of man.

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great objective!” Indeed, Constantine carried the symbol of the
This kind of perception can certainly lead to great and significant
and Ahriman. In a period, even the greatest phenomena are not always
the greatness of the painting, in fact, we acknowledge it. We simply
state and something I can now dwell on in greater detail than was
the greater blame to England. Yet all these conjectures do not take
with great fervor, endless variations of absolutely meaningless
grasping spiritual laws, can progress from the state of greatest
imperfection to one of greatest perfection. People found this too
The greatest damage is done when what is poured into a child's soul
even inspired one of the great British writers to compose a work that
connections to great values that are just now germinating but will
a great event, how to sacrifice themselves for their people's
world. Mankind's greatest sin will be to ignore what the dead call out
learn, and must learn, from the dead how they contribute to the great
great pride in the fact that he was able to present an article about

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illustrative to you by the following. Also the greatest, which
contains the greatest in one respect, is not always free of
as particularly important. It is a great, typical phenomenon
Something great is in such a connection.
there, Ahriman inspired a great author, so that this author
written by a great philosopher. The editor of the magazine

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will become the kind of maya that is beautiful and great, for the very
also feels a great responsibility, a great obligation towards this
knowledge of the spiritual life. For what is the greatest thing that
During our lifetime there has been a year of great importance:
nature relatively little will be seen of the great change at the turn
this. And further: though it would show great apathy of soul if a
by these visions. When they have made a greater contact with Spiritual
spirit. But it will begin in the twentieth century, and a greater and
greater number of people will acquire this capacity in the course of
We all know, of course, how the great event took place. It happened
The first great deed that the Buddha had to accomplish as a purely
He relates that there once lived a great teacher who became the
the great Christian truths. And if you investigate all this you find
give birth to great wisdom. This is how we must understand one force
Before that time, the greatest variety of concepts could be
Great things will happen in the next epochs of culture. What only
of the great martyr Socrates in the
then be able to say: ‘In the Maitreya Buddha the greatest teacher has
he, the greatest of teachers, will be the bringer of the most exalted
As it happens so often that great things that should be brought into

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Anthroposophy will only be able to fulfill its great and universal mission
beginning of the 19th centuries. Any one who approaches those great
and spiritual-scientific basis of the great advancement in the
Germany's great poet and thinker has derived his creative
features because the beholder is able to perceive the greatness of
himself at one with the world as a great, beautiful, worthy whole,
conception of the two great driving-wheels of all Nature, the
The advantage that arises from this is very great; one does not require
Make ready for the great emprize!
through all changes it is the great task of his life to harmonize
I read the manuscript you sent me at once with the greatest delight; I

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it, but occult knowledge has a greater significance for the world than it
greatest service, not only to those on the other side of death who
only by dint of great effort on the earth, through Spiritual Science.
themselves that to overcome this fear was of very great significance.
by far the greater majority of people is possible now only through
a fruit of such meditation one may look back over a great part of the
soul to cause the blood to pulsate faster or slower, to direct a greater

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a great deal of misunderstanding may arise from this statement, but
been said, Michael was the greatest, the mightiest, among them.
a further stage of development. This is of great importance, for according
now think of the laws of Nature. A great deal can be understood by studying
consciousness; and the greatest fear by which man is possessed —
of the greatest possible importance, above all for the present
through the name of Jehovah, but directly. And the great
has led to the great achievements of natural science in modern times.
greater intensity than hitherto arose in mankind. In earlier times
little-known corner of Palestine, something that was the greatest
life of Christ the greater number of His contemporaries were

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thinking life. This subject is dealt with in much greater detail in my
needs a still greater activity, a greater power, to hold the soul in

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Mystery of Golgotha is shown as the great solace in world existence.
in the spiritual worlds. From out of the great masses of men who thus
earth in a human body. That is the great mystery that we must

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it was, you know, quite a common custom for the pupils of a great and
succession of pupils of the great Zarathustra. Now, this great
whither our eyes are turned when we look at the Sun, lives a great
consciousness see the physical Sun, Zarathustra beheld a great and
connection, that is of very great significance. A good deal of this
The great and sublime Sun Being descended from cosmic heights,
Christianised. We talk a great deal about our civilisation and
and the young monk of whom I am speaking learned a great deal of
achieves his greatest successes by shortening the second half of

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it was, you know, quite a common custom for the pupils of a great and
succession of pupils of the great Zarathustra. Now, this great
whither our eyes are turned when we look at the Sun, lives a great
consciousness see the physical Sun, Zarathustra beheld a great and
connection, that is of very great significance. A good deal of this
The great and sublime Sun Being descended from cosmic heights,
Christianised. We talk a great deal about our civilisation and
and the young monk of whom I am speaking learned a great deal of
achieves his greatest successes by shortening the second half of

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the time of falling asleep and the time of awaking a very great deal
on Earth through man, by far the greater part is accomplished during
have first to pass through the Earth. For it makes a great difference
Guide, is a matter of the very greatest importance for us. For, the
in the great Mist of the Cosmos, — I must rest in the bosom
with increasing opposition and resistance. So great are the forces
standpoint, I shall never fail to recognise the greatness and
earthly point of view to call a man great, and at the same time, from
after having has, to my great satisfaction, opportunity in Oxford for
actually to take great pains and put forth all one's strength

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the time of falling asleep and the time of awaking a very great deal
on Earth through man, by far the greater part is accomplished during
have first to pass through the Earth. For it makes a great difference
Guide, is a matter of the very greatest importance for us. For, the
in the great Mist of the Cosmos, — I must rest in the bosom
with increasing opposition and resistance. So great are the forces
standpoint, I shall never fail to recognise the greatness and
earthly point of view to call a man great, and at the same time, from
after having had, to my great satisfaction, opportunity in Oxford for
actually to take great pains and put forth all one's strength

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asleep to waking up a very great deal happens to the human being.
But a great deal also enters the human being unconsciously when
to bring about a great leveling of people, also in the spiritual
misunderstand the great significance, spoken from the merely earthly
readily assimilate, that someone like Rousseau can be called a great
spirit, a great personality, from the earthly point of view but
lecture, such as, to my great satisfaction, we were able to
a great exertion of force. Therefore, it should be understandable if
inspiration for the greater togetherness that unites all our

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knows only half the life of man; for things of the very greatest
exceedingly great, and it can easily happen that in the morning he
danger has by no means always been so great as it is today. In the
aristocrat in sleep. Yes, sleep is a great educator, more than you
through the sphere of Venus the soul is endowed with greater or less
to disregard the Venus sphere. Such a soul will then have no great

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knows only half the life of man; for things of the very greatest
exceedingly great, and it can easily happen that in the morning he
danger has by no means always been so great as it is today. In the
aristocrat in sleep. Yes, sleep is a great educator, more than you
through the sphere of Venus the soul is endowed with greater or less
to disregard the Venus sphere. Such a soul will then have no great

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great influence upon him.
in the weather! — these beings attach great value to the moral
play into him from the whole great Universe.
mutual conflict. But, as a matter of fact, by far the greater number
man in the past. The first great teachers in the Mysteries were
disappointment and great frustration that you meet with, time and

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great influence upon him.
in the weather! — these beings attach great value to the moral
play into him from the whole great Universe.
mutual conflict. But, as a matter of fact, by far the greater number
man in the past. The first great teachers in the Mysteries were
disappointment and great frustration that you meet with, time and

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(From greatly abbreviated notes, not revised by the lecturer.)
There is no doubt that in the present time a great number of
which is connected with a great deal of
forces which are far greater to be sure than anything which can
of to-morrow's lecture will be the Event which is of greatest

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again with greater or less intensity. Once again I am the human being I was
us, too, to understand something of great importance, namely, how we can “keep
form of magic which resorts to external means and is fraught with a great
microcosm is the outcome of great and mighty experiences in the spiritual
modes of activity and realities of being far greater and mightier than can

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great Teachers, or Gurus in these Mysteries. And when other men desired to
great deal that ordinary logic will regard as highly questionable. These
earnest, regarding its results as truly great achievements of modern
element of sense-life is absent, this, the greatest of all Events in history.
path is inner reverence and awe as we contemplate the great Mystery enacted
comes, with far greater assurance now, to a man possessed of supersensible
social reform and social progress. Who will be the great Reformer of the
and rite in olden times. Christ Himself in very truth will be the great

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shining forth in our etheric body a reflection of the great Universe.
detests it, who regards Anthroposophy as his greatest enemy. Now
with the great Universe. Do you imagine that the Universe will
forming a body for ourselves,” you would be making a great
mistake. Nothing that you can ever do on Earth can be as great and
this temple of the Gods, the human body. This is by far the greater
time upon this spiritual journey, the greater the proportion of our
to Earth. For at this very point something of great significance is

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shining forth in our etheric body a reflection of the great Universe.
detests it, who regards Anthroposophy as his greatest enemy. Now
with the great Universe. Do you imagine that the Universe will
forming a body for ourselves,” you would be making a great
mistake. Nothing that you can ever do on Earth can be as great and
this temple of the Gods, the human body. This is by far the greater
time upon this spiritual journey, the greater the proportion of our
to Earth. For at this very point something of great significance is

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foundation of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain.
Lastly the physical body; if we ourselves had to achieve all the great
it from the great Universe, the Moon reflects to us like a mirror. And
on Earth at that time they were the great leaders and educators.
behind when at a certain time of old Atlantis the great teachers of
great Universe. Whoever seeks Initiation-wisdom in present time, must
Now this is only one of the ‘cities’ in the great Universe —
most part quite unconscious — which none the less play the greatest
equity, the great ‘restorer of the balance’ for all that happens
life is connected with the Earth itself and with the great Universe
of the great cosmic writing. For they are but the written signs of the
great Universe — of the eternal, all-embracing spiritual life and

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Animals too were seen in great and mighty auras; in their case it was
of the great and lofty Spirits as taking rest by day in these
course of ten thousand years or thereabouts, the great change has
there lies, in truth, the great mystery of human karma.

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Animals too were seen in great and mighty auras; in their case it was
of the great and lofty Spirits as taking rest by day in these
course of ten thousand years or thereabouts, the great change has
there lies, in truth, the great mystery of human karma.

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succeed in explaining the Great War simply as an effect of the events
the ideas of karma and put them as great questions to the history of
find that a great deal in this gifted poet is due to the fact that in
of a spiritual kind in one earth-life, let us say has been a great
painter, we must not draw the abstract conclusion that he was a great
years old he was a great and notable scholar, of such repute that the
take a personality like Voltaire. I am choosing a few great
undergone such great changes in a later age. In subsequent wanderings
Kabbalistic doctrine, teachings which open out a vista of great
consider Voltaire's great gift of language and on the other hand his
point of view this. Mars Being, will begin to be of great interest to
certain events on earth received great illumination. We meet in
implies a great selflessness that is present in Jesuitism and again
abnormal things do constantly occur in the great world-connections.
separated himself from it. A great deal of what is set down as
be one of the greatest scholars of his time; but it was not until his
face with Brunetto Latini, the great teacher of Dante in the 13th
it subsequently found its way into the great work of Dante —

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succeed in explaining the Great War simply as an effect of the events
the ideas of karma and put them as great questions to the history of
find that a great deal in this gifted poet is due to the fact that in
of a spiritual kind in one earth-life, let us say has been a great
painter, we must not draw the abstract conclusion that he was a great
years old he was a great and notable scholar, of such repute that the
take a personality like Voltaire. I am choosing a few great
undergone such great changes in a later age. In subsequent wanderings
Kabbalistic doctrine, teachings which open out a vista of great
consider Voltaire's great gift of language and on the other hand his
point of view this. Mars Being, will begin to be of great interest to
certain events on earth received great illumination. We meet in
implies a great selflessness that is present in Jesuitism and again
abnormal things do constantly occur in the great world-connections.
separated himself from it. A great deal of what is set down as
be one of the greatest scholars of his time; but it was not until his
face with Brunetto Latini, the great teacher of Dante in the 13th
it subsequently found its way into the great work of Dante —

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the great question arises: How has the previous earthly life, with
even in the age of the Mystery of Golgotha. And a great deal of this
cosmopolitan stream connected with the name of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great, just as it is there now, in our own time.
concentrated in the great and influential city of Alexandria with its
kind of thought that had been carried by Alexander the Great over to
individualities living in Alexander the Great and in Aristotle with
great spiritual exchange, a great heavenly Council, if one may call
were projected with great intensity in the spiritual world which
great Teachers — Bernardus Sylvestris, Alanus ab Insulis and
others. And the teachings lived and worked too in the great teacher
of great significance now took place. Those who had grouped
the great process of instruction instituted by Michael himself for
those who belonged to him. A great super-sensible School was founded,
took part in this great School in the super-sensible world during the
to spread. The great War, with all its attendant evils, will be
beings to-day are facing a great crisis. Either they must see

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the great question arises: How has the previous earthly life, with
even in the age of the Mystery of Golgotha. And a great deal of this
cosmopolitan stream connected with the name of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great, just as it is there now, in our own time.
concentrated in the great and influential city of Alexandria with its
kind of thought that had been carried by Alexander the Great over to
individualities living in Alexander the Great and in Aristotle with
great spiritual exchange, a great heavenly Council, if one may call
were projected with great intensity in the spiritual world which
great Teachers — Bernardus Sylvestris, Alanus ab Insulis and
others. And the teachings lived and worked too in the great teacher
of great significance now took place. Those who had grouped
the great process of instruction instituted by Michael himself for
those who belonged to him. A great super-sensible School was founded,
took part in this great School in the super-sensible world during the
to spread. The great War, with all its attendant evils, will be
beings to-day are facing a great crisis. Either they must see

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towards all that is best and greatest in modern medical achievements.
the more we find greater and greater reality in our thoughts, and it
greatest exactitude the health and disease of every separate
exercise enough control, in greater or less degree the peripheral
the greatest effect upon the spiritual in the human being. For
that oxide of copper has the greatest imaginable effect upon the
their spiritual energies inwards in order to attain to greater
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towards all that is best and greatest in modern medical achievements.
the more we find greater and greater reality in our thoughts, and it
greatest exactitude the health and disease of every separate
exercise enough control, in greater or less degree the peripheral
the greatest effect upon the spiritual in the human being. For
that oxide of copper has the greatest imaginable effect upon the
their spiritual energies inwards in order to attain to greater
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element of the intellect is of great importance for the human being.
the human being is subjected to a far greater number of changes in the
he comes, he has understood a great deal about the macrocosm.
greater and greater number of people will reach the stage where they

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
beautiful, great, and noble forces of nature, they will
efforts. Also, this family must find great satisfaction in
relate to you the words of our great harbingers of the new
participation in the great advances of the Atlantean industry
and their inability to participate in this great industry.
spiritual world. These people, despised by the great scholars
call The Great Initiate of the Sun Oracle. This small group
by the great scholars and inventors. Yet it was precisely
they whom the Great Initiate of the Sun Oracle led from the
events of our evolution. Let us look at the great sensation
to remember the great events from the beginning of modern
times, such as the great voyages of discovery by Columbus and
greatest conquest in the Atlantean era emanated from the
Great Initiate of the Sun Oracle. And when those descendants,
could be born. Therefore, the greatest spiritual event and
technical progress. We also see how the great inventors and
people so that they were able to behold the Great Initiate.
gathered around the Great Initiate of the Sun Oracle, then
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It's the greatest sin against the divine spirit not to develop

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himself. And it's the greatest sin against the Divine spirit to

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whole great turnabout that has taken place will no doubt only be
true reasons for this great human misfortune will it be possible to
experiencing. Both the greatest and the smallest matters and events
Western Europe's great thinkers, Herbert Spencer,
greatest achievement in a human being's life is to beget other human
beings. So therefore education must also be greatly important. From
that the great misfortune of mankind in the second decade of the
twentieth century, the great challenge and the great trial, is that
great questions of life, those that lie beyond birth and death, must

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of the great truth of reincarnation, of repeated earthly lives, and we must
man has developed in such a way that great progress has been achieved
follow our own. And then another great catastrophe will befall the
a firm resolve to do what is moral. There is a great difference
14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man\'s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. \
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? \
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. \
that at the beginning of his life in Kamaloka man feels a very great
given by a great Individuality of the fourth post-Atlantean
of great significance that through the inspiration of Buddha the
of immorality must turn to Christ with all the greater strength in
seventh in a mighty Cosmic Ego that is like a great
in Jeshu ben Pandira and again and again in others, became the great
Buddha gave the great intellectual teachings of right speech, right
patterned on the life of Christ. In ancient times, when a great
different ego passes into his body. The greatest example of this is
individual as a great soul, merely on authority. It is important
aesthetic feeling and insight, to morality. And the greatest Teacher
progress of culture and happenings in the great process of evolution

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fear are connected. There is no greater fear after death than this
advent of the great Buddha in pre-Christian times. A careful
the great Fichte and the contemporary philosopher Bergson. Both agree
the divine exclusively in man. Because of this, ever greater
even greater obstacles for itself in its cloud of visions than during

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to maintain consciousness, however, a great transformation begins. We
characterized the moral element is of even greater importance for the
the greatest importance, the sum total of the last incarnation as it
not take this view. In great poets we find again and again echoes of

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divine. The more divine what we pull into the dirt is, the greater the

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authority of the first beast ... And it causes all, both small and great,
13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, \
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: \
great flood on earth. The Lemurian age preceded it. If we go even further

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characteristics appear wherever the lives of the great apostles of
was said concerning what the very greatest heroes of humankind experienced
of the great initiates.
fulfilled. This one time only experience of Christ represents the greatest
great Atlantean flood and then further back we do not find the I in a body
the greatest possible individualization of the human being, the freedom

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acquire an attitude that seeks, above all, to see what speaks of greatness
in a human being. Then, in comparison to this greatness, all the little
faults that incite criticism must fade away. Just as with other great
from her. But the great things she has accomplished will remain.
He, too, has left the physical plane, he who stood there as the great
who finds the key to what is great in these works will come to admire
that what is therein expressed could only have come from the great
a distorting mirror, are truly great.
through their devotion, is making a great sacrifice for the world. All
renderings of the great truths are distortions. If someone wanted to
the truth as I can. This sacrifice is much greater than a moral sacrifice,
a martyr among the great martyrs for the truth. This is how we consider
a great sign appeared in heaven ...”
with signs representing the great phases of the evolution of humanity.
the path to that great point in time, they must have something to hang
is directed to the Ephesians. They put great stock in the development
of the greatest spiritual documents. There are hardly any great spiritual
Atlantis was the age in which seven great races developed one after

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their race. There is a great difference between a human being who says: I
When we look to the great
them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those
(11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and greatRev. 11:10,11)
leads to the great work of the brotherhood of humankind. The Theosophical
books that have been given to us by great individuals, only then are

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literature. Those who are able to interpret it rightly know a great
Rosicrucian wisdom, and above all its great Founder, who since its
a succession of fine mathematicians. An individual may possess great
the smallest thing in the world can be of importance to the greatest,

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great differentiation within the etheric body; you will realise that
then. Obviously we have learnt a great deal. Everyone has assimilated
accomplished than the acquisition of great learning. Here lies the

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describe this condition with greater exactitude we must say that the
body to the great astral ocean in which all human beings, animals,
body to the great astral ocean, think of one drop of a liquid in a
great cosmic astral ocean. Because only harmonious and sound laws
morning. Having lived during the night within the great cosmic
physical world; hence the feeling of greatest vigour does not arise
The period immediately following death is of great importance for the
the dead as in a great tableau of memories. This happens to every
would make no progress. Original creations given to the world by great

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great Flood, we can follow the happenings and conditions of life in
moment the evolution of the earth. How greatly certain regions have

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development, greater or less consciousness of communion with those who
obtain here. These significant facts shed light upon a great deal that
of a man, the greater is the similarity in two successive

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application of the great law of the Cosmos, for the law of Karma is a
outer world and the seer can follow with great precision the effect of
good health, who has great powers of endurance, unfolded good
been known to the occultist, for the greatest wisdom of the world is
next life as great physical beauty; great physical beauty in a human
as a counteraction, the Great Teachers of mankind have recognised the
derangement will gain greater and greater hold over humanity, and just

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a strange feeling that arises during the experience of this great
Bach family, among them the great Bach. A good musician needs not only
great musical faculties hundreds or thousands of years ago; he is
the greatest virtuoso can do nothing unless he has an instrument.
It is a great and potent thought to know that nothing we do is in
future. By way of introduction we will consider a fact of great

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and on the Earth the Ego, which brought it to a still greater

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body, but this last sends out tentacles towards the great astral
commit the “great sin” of not advancing with evolution, then
in the great general astral body of the Sun. And there you worked down

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round itself Such a different kind of movement, however, had a great

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effect on the fiery masses that they became ungovernable; a great part

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will be the greatest differences between individuals. The further we
There is a great difference between living in an atmosphere like the
soul into the great works of art, into drama and jurisprudence.
the love which still flowed in the earlier blood shows greater and
greater cleavage; a love of a spiritual kind must take its place and

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understanding of this problem and in fact it presents very great
completed. We have two streams today, a great materialistic one which
as the great task of mankind. He thinks of it as inseparable from
working towards the great moment in the Sixth Age, when humanity will
undertake a great spiritual ascent.

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Christianity. It took on a special form through that great initiate,
Thus the pupil looks up to the great Ideal. What comes to pass in the
does one learn to know God as One. The world is like a great book. We
bring about humanity's great goal, unity; and we shall reach this goal
Thus Spiritual Science appears to us not only as a great ideal, but as
practical aspects of life, just as the great law of existence
science. Then we have grasped the great task of civilisation which is

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great effect on the human being's inner life. Thus, the
the great world-secret when you see the development of the
from the great world relationships will not be able to dismiss
being always looks up from the single, the lone, to the great

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must take great care, from the very outset, to realize that
of the higher worlds to a still greater degree. If we
precisely this fact which explains the great variety among
autumn, to see how great waves of well-being streamed over the
The great
greater then, will be the longing for the Divine. The very

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physical laws, but the great spiritual causes are hidden from us. It's
through by spiritual streams that proceed from the great masters of

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self or manas. Through impressions from art or great
the solving of enigmas is too great. This is only a symptom of
Someone comes along who takes great pleasure in nightly visits
health onto the right tracks sets humanity a great challenge.

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great world laws concerning human and world evolutions. A man must

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science must not concern itself solely with the great riddles of
with great potential which, however, he was unable to develop because
science speaks of how human beings strive after ever greater
initiate great and noble deeds. Therefore nothing could be worse for
the artist is able to mould life and form into his great works, so is

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greatest care and patience in creating well formed, proper spiritual

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Every meditation has been handed down by great initiates for
not bearing any fruit. This is depressing, but there's no great danger
great danger. The occult way to combat this is to imagine the rose

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means. When a man eats vegetarian food, it demands a great deal of
In spite of the fact that one can point out great human differences

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
greater detail and in a more intimate sense. Just saying that
of the Atlanteans differed greatly from those of human
in the mysteries. We therefore designate the great centers of
Mars also knows a great deal about the spiritual mysteries of
was to guide humanity in such a way that when the great
Specifically, the task of the Great Initiate of the Sun
cultures. To put it differently, the Great Initiate had to
inform ourselves a little about the task of this Great
which today's great leaders in, say, scholarship, art,
magical powers whom the Great Leader of the Sun Oracle
through and beyond the great Atlantean catastrophe. No, the
scholarship and external industrial life—the great
The Great
Atlantis a long, long time to come to its end. Great masses
intermingled. Then the Great Leader of the Sun Oracle took
Great Leader has taken something else with Him. And here we
The Great
etheric bodies of the great initiates had simply been
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richness and greatness as often as possible. Then we'll feel that fear

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What greater gift can life on man bestow
events of great significance for the development of the world took place.
to put pen to paper and express our thoughts in writing? A great deal must
poet; but the only really great men are those, whose work derives from the
great world-secrets, and many people today who talk glibly of originality and
the like have no inkling of the depths from which the truly great
whole. But this work, a great and famous one, has been very often
for whose work I have the highest respect. But the fact that even great minds
One of the greatest German
bespeaks his nobility and greatness, is torn with anguish, above all the
honour Winckelmann as a great personality — we look repeatedly and
up the greatest obstacles to the Consciousness Soul and the Ego, if the Ego
great, beautiful ideals. Rotteck is always at pains to show how we can be
inspired by the great thoughts of the heroes and to kindle the enthusiasm
himself again and again to contemplation of those great philosophies in the
into the great, all-embracing cosmic secrets. If we can immerse ourselves in
great deal about his character.
great, wide-ranging conceptions of the world.
What greater gift can life on man bestow

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in great matters. We shall say: we stand firmly rooted in our truths

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ancient times, than it is for us, when studying the great wisdom of
body, have to work together to this end. Now there are greater
produce a different organisation of the astral body. It is a great
It means that forms are built into it, which contradict the great
certain power of attraction, man lives, and by far the greater part
great experience on the way to clairvoyant vision of the World. The
This is the first great experience man has.
second great experience is that this second personality which now
it is moreover of much greater importance than the first. With it
energy of lucid intellect to the greatest possible height, so that we
we do this, the great, comprehensive, strengthening, encouraging and
experiencing the great moment when the beings of fire, air, water and

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he would make a great mistake. For transitions such as this take
substance to prove their greater power. For those who are able to

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speak of these matters with great accuracy and precision.
teach. A great deal of oriental wisdom came over in this way.
case of great Indra, and since that time there has streamed from him

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After Atlantis sank, great initiates led two main streams of people
directed a prayer to it: “You great Enveloper, you whom I feel
a messenger of the great Enveloper who seemed to lead him in a circle

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the lower gods, but a great distinction was made between them. Man
judgements; he can submit in a greater or lesser degree to the
world have played a great role in human evolution and because the
greater tendency to delve into their soul life, into their inner
northern peoples had a greater gift for observing the world, the
external world; the brain itself grows to greater perfection under
corporeality. Physical corporeality was developed to greater and
greater perfection, and so the individual souls passing from one
for the successors of a great Individuality to retain his name
nearer to the earth, to find a dwelling place within a body of great

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sun spirit, in the body of Jesus of Nazareth was the great event
in the first epoch after the great Atlantean catastrophe, the ancient
living as man among other men. This is the great and mighty Christ
great significance in the evolution of the world and humanity. Before
his soul to the great central figure of the Christ, by allowing the
into His greatness, His significance and His causative connection
the cosmic Christ was felt to be penetrating the earth to a greater
and greater degree; Lucifer again became visible, and was once more
becomes a cosmic god. He will appear in ever-greater radiance in the
the Christ will to an ever greater degree be realised by inner

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and corresponds with great cosmic laws, for man could not attain the
Luciferic world, a great and powerful inheritance brought over from
there is a great difference in the character of the different
great difference, viz. that as regards the ear, one can very easily
today. At the present time, inner soul experience is to a far greater
feeling was then to a greater extent bound up with the external
expressed not only in great things but also in small ones. These
which is outside it; hence the Indian lived to a greater degree in
possesses in rudimentary form what was once of great significance in

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beings, however, which to a certain extent were still greater
In the great kingdom of the Light-bearer, of the beings of Lucifer,
appeared in a newer guise as the great laws of Kepler which today are
Mazdao. For in the sixth epoch there will come about in a great
clown in the Vedas was the teaching of the great teachers of ancient
old Indian people, the etheric body was to a far greater extent
and with this vision they could proclaim great world realities. What
The characteristic of an etheric body which was still to a great
for it was beset with great dangers for a non-initiate. And when an

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man, his inner being, that is, as did all the great teachers of
Hence in those ancient epochs wherein the great sages spoke, one
may be termed the external aspect, the outer view of the great change
Christ principle. We might speak at great length about the relation
these, up to the next great catastrophe, and beyond it. If we inquire
is the great teacher of all civilisations. The Being who was the
Being whom we may designate as the great teacher, who in the
this one name, ‘The Great Teacher,’ and to him those
incarnation of that great Teacher who may be called the essence of
in this sense — call other individualities who also are great
Great Teacher, the incarnation of wisdom, which pervades all the
of Bodhisattvas, who were, for their age, the great teachers and
great teachers there they gather that which they are to teach, and in
their midst is One Being Who is great not only because He teaches,
and that is the Christ. He is not alone great because He teaches,
being great teachers; the Christ is to the world what He is, through
Bodhisattvas, we speak of great teachers of mankind, because the
they are because they are great teachers. Therefore if we wish to
knows nothing of human progress; he does not know that the greatest
over into and beyond Europe from old Atlantis brought with them great
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We know that since the great Atlantean Catastrophe, which entirely
five great epochs of civilisation are to be distinguished. We have
Now we can say: “Immediately after the great Atlantean
significant that already for a great number of people, quite different
culture, so they will also change into the sixth, and a great number
great number already in the next incarnation, with others, in the
of race. If we go back beyond the great Atlantean catastrophe, we see
stream the great spiritual beings of the world. And so the content of
e.g., for the greater significance of, let us say, the Christ,
an ancient script in which the greatest ideal for the evolution of the

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know that since the great Atlantean catastrophe, which entirely
transformed the earth, there have been five great epochs of
Immediately after the great
prepared in our time that a great many people will have quite
again in the sixth. The capacities of a great number of people living
soul, when the great spiritual beings of the world stream into this

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point to the great event which enables a man to become a spiritual
great moment when his soul is awakened and the spiritual world around him
great religions and philosophies have always regarded this name as the
belief arose from imprecise observation, and it was the great natural
how in art and poetry, when they are great, the primal wisdom of the world is
own souls. This is true of all great poems and other works of art: they
spring from typical great experiences of the human soul.

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isn't especially great. The resolve that an esoteric should make is to

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also serves it by assimilating a knowledge of the great connections of
great events of existence, and we can only rightly judge our own life,
when we estimate it by the greatest phenomena of life. Hence it
historical document for the knowledge of the greatest Individuality,
of the greatest Impulse, which has entered the evolution of humanity
reverence, unthinkable today, for the great Christ Event through the
greater humility, when we see the events of Palestine presented from
four sides. For this event is so great, that one cannot understand it,
have four Gospels, which describe this great event from four sides. We
flowed into the one great main stream, and still others, in order then
individuality whom we mention as Zarathustra, was the great teacher of
600 years before our era as a contemporary of the great Buddha. He
the great main stream of our present spiritual life. That means, just
physical body; the greatest missions especially were not bound to a
solely to what was within, and then the great inspirations about the
development corresponded with the great world-laws. The brain had to
words themselves, the greatest truths are contained.
say: This people, like a great individual, must so develop from
the great teacher of ancient times, with Zarathas. He there became
their teacher, united himself with them, they took up there the great
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the great events of existence, and only when we judge our own life on
the basis of the greatest phenomena of life can we assess it rightly.
the Gospels historical documents about the greatest individuality
for the great Christ event. Indeed they felt that precisely because
perspectives, for clearly this event is so great that it cannot be
great mainstream. All these various streams are now contained in
the great teacher of the second post-Atlantean epoch who first taught
greatest ones, were not connected to a physical instrument, the
great inspiration about the secrets of the world was revealed, and
organization corresponds to the great cosmic laws. The brain had to
streaming in astrally and hair. In general, the greatest truths are
Zarathas, the great teacher of that era. Zarathas joined them and
That event is so great that the four evangelists found that each of
body for the great I of Jesus of Nazareth. Through his initiation,
grows when we study this greatest of human events. I wanted to give

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Great
the ages of 7 to 14. If a child doesn't take in great model
affairs. Their etheric body is hardened and it takes a great effort

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number of men would have had to have a much greater experience of the
Thus, in the Sermon on the Mount the great message that the Kingdom of
appeared to them. This was the case with Tauler, who was a great

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greater experience of the spiritual world through which the
teachings are in complete accord with the great teachings of primeval
In the Sermon on the Mount, therefore, the great message
Himself to them. This was the case with Tauler, who was a great

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had great ability; in the course of their evolution they had acquired

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had great ability; in the course of their evolution they had acquired

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of the real and the great problems of existence. So, although in a
spirit. You know what great efforts we Anthroposophists have made to
in the case of man; and it would be a great mistake to think of
comes to realise that truly it is by no mere chance that this great

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of the real and the great problems of existence. So, although in a
spirit. You know what great efforts we Anthroposophists have made to
in the case of man; and it would be a great mistake to think of
comes to realise that truly it is by no mere chance that this great

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the main lines, so to say, after they had exercised their great
have today. To avoid too great a shock, let us take it step by step.
everything fits together into one great system, even for our

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the main lines, so to say, after they had exercised their great
have today. To avoid too great a shock, let us take it step by step.
everything fits together into one great system, even for our

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space in such a way that the great ordinances laid down by the Archai
question of how to progress further and into greater detail. For

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space in such a way that the great ordinances laid down by the Archai
question of how to progress further and into greater detail. For

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the great illusions into which men can fall.
greater ability than was theirs during the preliminary stages. To

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the great illusions into which men can fall.
greater ability than was theirs during the preliminary stages. To

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make a great mistake if he were straightway to think that what he
impressions of them. Then, when after his great sorrow his
as an external phenomenon in astral space. It would be a very great
greater error if in these early stages by some means or other it were
inspirations from outside. That is the greatest error into which one
for anyone who begins to hear voices to cultivate the greatest
should always be received with the greatest caution. It is a kind of

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make a great mistake if he were straightway to think that what he
impressions of them. Then, when after his great sorrow his
as an external phenomenon in astral space. It would be a very great
greater error if in these early stages by some means or other it were
inspirations from outside. That is the greatest error into which one
for anyone who begins to hear voices to cultivate the greatest
should always be received with the greatest caution. It is a kind of

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will be to show with still greater precision the point of time at
will remember what great importance I attached to two significant
about that the great majority of human souls had to relinquish their
union with the earth. Here we come to something of great importance
itself withdrawn from the earth. This brought about great changes in
great variety in earthly incarnations. Those of you who are familiar
“day” of creation: And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
whole series of events are the great benefactors of man. Who were

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will be to show with still greater precision the point of time at
will remember what great importance I attached to two significant
about that the great majority of human souls had to relinquish their
union with the earth. Here we come to something of great importance
itself withdrawn from the earth. This brought about great changes in
great variety in earthly incarnations. Those of you who are familiar
“day” of creation: And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
whole series of events are the great benefactors of man. Who were

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Great
that he is doing a great injustice to all men and to higher spiritual
towards great divine beings.
that one has laid these qualities aside and has advanced a great deal

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still remained above in the great reservoir of the spirit did not
great difference between a true theory of evolution and a fancy one.
and with them the feeling of the great responsibility incurred in
about the great goal of their activity, which we call man. Let us
contemplation of the great truths of Genesis ought to point us to the

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still remained above in the great reservoir of the spirit did not
great difference between a true theory of evolution and a fancy one.
and with them the feeling of the great responsibility incurred in
about the great goal of their activity, which we call man. Let us
contemplation of the great truths of Genesis ought to point us to the

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the various groups in different lecture-cycles, for a great number of
spiritual eye the great event of Palestine, the Mystery of Golgotha,
as inspired occultists, wanted to represent this great event each from
consider the great event of Palestine from one special side. From a
side it is the John Gospel which gives us an insight into the great
Jesus, up to the moment where the great inspiration of Jesus of
those great, tremendous facts, which are imparted to us and which
Isaiah points to that great, mighty event, which should be the most
great strides being gradually prepared, which then occur. This was the
greatest event in human evolution; thus you understand from this how
Now let us hear the great, beautiful legends of Zarathustra. As his
greatest cosmic connections. And I wanted to show you how basically,

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have tried to recreate in our minds the great event in Palestine, the
great event from one perspective only, just as we take pictures or
consider the great event of Palestine from one particular
having become, to a great extent, philistines. Our language expresses
be acquired. For Isaiah pointed to the great, tremendous event that
in the evolution of humanity, certain great steps forward are
greatest event in human evolution. You then
“And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose and went
Saint Mark's Gospel take us into the greatest cosmic context. I

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of St. John, St. Luke and St. Matthew and the great event in
growing realisation of the greatness of this unique event. We
wished to describe the great event from a special angle, just
particular of the great event in Palestine.
St. John gives us insight into the great events in Palestine
that in the use of our language we have to a great extent
words the great facts proclaimed by the Gospels. People
concept of great importance, without which there can be no
greatest importance to realise that John the Baptist was maya
words of the prophet Isaiah; they point to the greatest of
action was of the greatest importance at that particular
visible Sun. ‘And in the morning, rising up a great

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clairvoyance, due to the greatest freedom of the etheric body and the
astral body; and into these bodies with their greater freedom there
mind is that man's physical body will make still greater demands in
In the Greeks there was great
The ego is in reality a sculptor and the greatness of what it
Post-Atlantean epoch. Immediately after the great Atlantean
truly childlike among the men of that epoch were the great Teachers
Face of the Earth” is a great geological epic of the earth. It
one passage in Suess's great work and you will see that here,
without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the
traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust

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upon a great secret here, for of course the Apocalypse arose much

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applies, to a greater or less extent, to nearly all of them in the
divine-spiritual life shone with greater strength into the human soul.
of the development of the ego. This is of great significance, for if
Yet we attribute greatness to individuals in whom the idea of liberty,
So again from this point of view, Spiritual Science has a great and
it contains the greatest of all impulses for all time to come. And then
endanger it will see how greatly they are in error. These are the people
Christianity there are glories still greater than have yet been
greatness are men who know that the words that Christ is with us to
greatness. Those who are always saying: ‘That is not in the Bible,

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vaguely exalted religious response to great powers of the universe;
think greatly influenced the course of our Middle European
become a ‘waste land’, the great, the overwhelming need
necessities of existence. However great our personal inclination for
great may be the authority which it enjoys, is like a tree that has
symbolical presentations of great spiritual impulses. To those who
the greatest wonders of Nature, she is an archetypal form which
capacities we tackle such a great work as this
The Great Initiates,

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vaguely exalted religious response to great powers of the universe;
think greatly influenced the course of our Middle European
become a ‘waste land’, the great, the overwhelming need
necessities of existence. However great our personal inclination for
great may be the authority which it enjoys, is like a tree that has
symbolical presentations of great spiritual impulses. To those who
the greatest wonders of Nature, she is an archetypal form which
capacities we tackle such a great work as this
The Great Initiates,

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goes into Greek mythology, the greater is one's respect,
me is under the control of the great Demeter. But Demeter sends these
looked up to the great Demeter, and in ancient Greece man was still
governed by Pluto, obtained a greater and greater influence on the
microcosm, an expression of the macrocosm, the great cosmos. As
to himself: ‘I gaze upwards to the great Demeter, and whenever
one great mass of superstition. What new life such profound and
of the Greek gods. That will be the greatest event for the future
etheric world which is to come. That is the greatest event of the
Herein lies the great

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goes into Greek mythology, the greater is one's respect,
me is under the control of the great Demeter. But Demeter sends these
looked up to the great Demeter, and in ancient Greece man was still
governed by Pluto, obtained a greater and greater influence on the
microcosm, an expression of the macrocosm, the great cosmos. As
to himself: ‘I gaze upwards to the great Demeter, and whenever
one great mass of superstition. What new life such profound and
of the Greek gods. That will be the greatest event for the future
etheric world which is to come. That is the greatest event of the
Herein lies the great

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glimpse, how it throws light upon those great figures and images and
look into the macrocosm, into the great world; the macrocosm gives
occult investigation in this direction is being pursued with greater
this script means to read the signs of the great world-wonders, which
guide us into the great world-secrets. Thereby we gradually acquire a

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glimpse, how it throws light upon those great figures and images and
look into the macrocosm, into the great world; the macrocosm gives
occult investigation in this direction is being pursued with greater
this script means to read the signs of the great world-wonders, which
guide us into the great world-secrets. Thereby we gradually acquire a

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the position of the three great gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Pluto in
were asked who were their great leaders they answered, ‘the
great leaders of civilisation were actually men (I am not now
which we still get a faint echo in the Vedas, we come to the great
Beings who, of all superhuman Beings, had the greatest need
the greatest independence and freedom; for they were hoping to attain
anew in human evolution, having meanwhile reached a greater degree of
voice of the Holy Rishis will come to pass in great glory and
great spiritual Beings who lead humanity forwards, whether as Angels,
spirituality with the greatest intensity could not become incarnated
of whose full greatness we can only be dimly aware. These stronger
That is the great
he detected the great longing which reaches out as a living bridge
distinguish these two things, then the greatest truth will throw

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the position of the three great gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Pluto in
were asked who were their great leaders they answered, ‘the
great leaders of civilisation were actually men (I am not now
which we still get a faint echo in the Vedas, we come to the great
Beings who, of all superhuman Beings, had the greatest need
the greatest independence and freedom; for they were hoping to attain
anew in human evolution, having meanwhile reached a greater degree of
voice of the Holy Rishis will come to pass in great glory and
great spiritual Beings who lead humanity forwards, whether as Angels,
spirituality with the greatest intensity could not become incarnated
of whose full greatness we can only be dimly aware. These stronger
That is the great
he detected the great longing which reaches out as a living bridge
distinguish these two things, then the greatest truth will throw

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reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
Jahve. Those were the two great poles of civilisation in the
over the whole macrocosm, every soul is there within the great
incarnations. It would be a great mistake to overlook a single word
particularly in this monologue it would be a great mistake not to
our hearts beat for the spiritual world and for its great ideals,
the younger Dionysos who made that great journey, his soul has

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reached their full development upon the Moon. That is the great
Jahve. Those were the two great poles of civilisation in the
over the whole macrocosm, every soul is there within the great
incarnations. It would be a great mistake to overlook a single word
particularly in this monologue it would be a great mistake not to
our hearts beat for the spiritual world and for its great ideals,
the younger Dionysos who made that great journey, his soul has

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our own body is just like that of other men. Thus there is a great
Dionysos had to participate in the great Illusion, in maya.

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our own body is just like that of other men. Thus there is a great
Dionysos had to participate in the great Illusion, in maya.

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consciousness of it, something of great significance. This physical
all ages there have been great teachers of mankind who have remained unseen,
normal consciousness, to look upon the great Teacher. The aspirants
looked upon the great Teacher, who was not yet visible when they
need only recall that a great number of wise sayings are attributed
or illusion. Then we are told something which made a great impression
super-sensible world, and the maya, the great illusion, of
— emerged as Plato, the second great teacher of Greece, the

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consciousness of it, something of great significance. This physical
all ages there have been great teachers of mankind who have remained unseen,
normal consciousness, to look upon the great Teacher. The aspirants
looked upon the great Teacher, who was not yet visible when they
need only recall that a great number of wise sayings are attributed
or illusion. Then we are told something which made a great impression
super-sensible world, and the maya, the great illusion, of
— emerged as Plato, the second great teacher of Greece, the

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able to bring to adequate expression the great wonders of the world.
that a man has to make great efforts to endure certain pieces of
ignorance, as man's greatest sin. He learns to acknowledge that
greater, until it will at length really be able to fulfil its
to bring these two currents into harmony great strength of soul is
brought upon yourself.’ Many men have a great longing to make
organs have reached the point of greatest densification in earthly
well see that there must be a great difference between these two
great Earth-sacrifice we can speak of a Sun-sacrifice in that a
Zarathustra's great merit to recognise ‘In the sun in the
great deed on Golgotha during the old Sun evolution, was first shown

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able to bring to adequate expression the great wonders of the world.
that a man has to make great efforts to endure certain pieces of
ignorance, as man's greatest sin. He learns to acknowledge that
greater, until it will at length really be able to fulfil its
to bring these two currents into harmony great strength of soul is
brought upon yourself.’ Many men have a great longing to make
organs have reached the point of greatest densification in earthly
well see that there must be a great difference between these two
great Earth-sacrifice we can speak of a Sun-sacrifice in that a
Zarathustra's great merit to recognise ‘In the sun in the
great deed on Golgotha during the old Sun evolution, was first shown

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intended to represent the great riddle of human evolution, then you
Mysteries, who had to wrestle with the great riddle of the Sphinx.
pictorial image, one of the great symbols which have come down to us
the human being, will encompass him to a greater and greater extent,
Aura or Ahura Mazdao — the great wisdom-filled Spirit,
the great wisdom, the great aura. And then what up to that time had
even the history of civilisation will still be greatly enriched by

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intended to represent the great riddle of human evolution, then you
Mysteries, who had to wrestle with the great riddle of the Sphinx.
pictorial image, one of the great symbols which have come down to us
the human being, will encompass him to a greater and greater extent,
Aura or Ahura Mazdao — the great wisdom-filled Spirit,
the great wisdom, the great aura. And then what up to that time had
even the history of civilisation will still be greatly enriched by

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turn. The great arrogance of our age which maintains that mythology
abstractions will not succeed in feeling this great impoverishment as
into our own soul-depths we feel ourselves to an ever greater extent
confronts the great danger of falling into immeasurable
great stumbling-block to an understanding of Spiritual Science. The
that important dissertation on the speech-centre which the great
right side. Are we not driven to say that it is the greatest possible
greater length about characteristic examples of this kind you would
look to; I am referring to the great macrocosmic Christ Impulse. We
the great illusion, she feels that within this maya there

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turn. The great arrogance of our age which maintains that mythology
abstractions will not succeed in feeling this great impoverishment as
into our own soul-depths we feel ourselves to an ever greater extent
confronts the great danger of falling into immeasurable
great stumbling-block to an understanding of Spiritual Science. The
that important dissertation on the speech-centre which the great
right side. Are we not driven to say that it is the greatest possible
greater length about characteristic examples of this kind you would
look to; I am referring to the great macrocosmic Christ Impulse. We
the great illusion, she feels that within this maya there

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period or another of his life. We may note a truly great
hear the words of the great physicist Helmholtz repeated,
that great and wonderful discoveries have been made in all
fated to be discarded by the great physicists, who then
know how great were the hopes built on the progress of
biology, the science of life, when Darwin's great work,
great mass of facts now brought to light by science to speak
modern research would cease. Here, Goethe may be our great
an incident of no great importance, but at the same time we
attain a greater intensity of the inner life. Not the mere
quarter we shall inevitably live to see a great revival of
great that the hall could scarcely contain it.
of theosophy, as a great spirit incarnated in the body of
a fleshly form in which there dwells a great spirit whom we
hesitate, even when great numbers are present at a course of

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105 B.C. there was living in Palestine a man greatly defamed in
great revolution takes place in the soul and the personality is
of Christendom. Great and incisive measures have been and are
twelve great religions and world-conceptions have united into one
all the great religions and systems of thought in the world. And he
synthesis of the great religions. His influence today is waxing and
growing greater all the time. Many a person of whom we do not expect
time of Jesus of Nazareth. The greatest deed wrought by Jeshu ben
later on, from what the great Church Father Jerome himself says,

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with the great goals of mankind.
great relief to talk about what is oppressing you. People were often
one day, in a great state of agitation: I have just this moment
and intellectuality is added to this to a greater degree in the
surpasses all human egos in inconceivable greatness, and with such
connection with the astral world, and even greater still are the

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the words of the prayer to the Sunday spirit: Great embracing
pay to the surrounding world is of greater importance than most people

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resolutely opposed above all by the churches of Christendom. Great and
twelve great religions and world conceptions have been given to us,
synthesis of all the great religions and systems of thought in the
establish the synthesis of the great religions. His influence today is
Nazareth. The greatest deed wrought by Jeshu ben Pandira was that he
later on when the great Church father Jerome
great revolution takes place in the soul and the personality is

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five cultural periods, up to and including our time, since that great
ancient Indian cultural epoch; of the second, the great ancient
distinguish this great, most important evolutionary stream, which is
connected with the great embodiments of our earth planet itself, from
belongs to the greater evolutionary stream, had already undergone a
time in an epoch in which this ego has the great and special mission
and it is told of them that here and there they were founders of great
cities, were great leaders of peoples, and so on. They were not merely
great cultural progress of the earth, and it is narrow-mindedness in
descended from the macrocosm to our earth, to bring into it the great
that He was great and significant because of the perfect development
themselves, so to speak, will be extolled, and looked upon as a great
instead of being presented on a great stage in a capital city. He
said: “It is absurd that the greatest drama in the world should
not be performed upon a great cosmic body. It is exactly as if a great
the great simple truth which is given in the Christian legend. And if
then it does not seem absurd that, in contrast to the greatest cosmic
indication of that great teaching which spiritual science is to give
often seen — but how are these great truths contained in the Gospels?
The way in which the greatest truths are there presented to man is the
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esoteric life a great deal. A man who longs for company dissipates
and turn them inwards instead. That way he'll gain a great

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workers and others whose professions demand a great deal of writing.
strength of will was the greater.
body is greatly strengthened. Try to carry out what I have just described

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‘political alcoholism’ with regard to the great events of
forgetfulness is a great nuisance in life. Anthroposophy says more
all-too-great antipathy. What are you then to do? There is a
it greatly strengthens the control of the Ego over the astral body.

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belong to the outer world, this would be a great illusion.
in us, but transforms himself within us; he changes greatly.
shall make one mistake after another. The greatest mistake of

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discomfort. We should understand a great deal if we were to
greatest mistake in the Theosophical Society was first made by
secrets has no greater value than that of the one who simply

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sometimes to such a great extent that their esoteric life suffers
wonderful structure that's the greatest thing about us is weak

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in the human soul differs very greatly from all processes in the
Furthermore, a great part of what we must term man's etheric body

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
My dear friends, you may talk a great deal with people outside in the
past months. Like all our undertakings it is to serve the great
me such great pleasure in such an occurrence? Allow me to say this

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
the deepest secret of this his greatest poem, by making Faust say to
passing moment the basic mystery of his greatest poem. It seems then
greatest poems in human evolution, a poet, wishing to portray a great
have we to emphasise that so great is the force and power of this
connected with the words eternity and spirit light, all the great men
reverently of all that in the first post-Atlantean epoch the great and
individualities who still bore within them all the inward greatness of
culture. We have also pointed out how great and significant man finds
to all the greatness that, so dimly sensed today, has only come down
according to the needs of the age, great initiates give to men from
definition of an initiate. The great initiates, who gave man the
the corresponding etheric part is far greater than the difference
difference is not great between what may be achieved through a
much greater between what our hands accomplish in the world, and what
When we learn this fact, and think of the great difference between the
of the great initiates as the real driving force, the real
connection between what these great initiates have to do and what
“Those are the great figures of world history.” When
initiation and become able to turn his gaze on the great figures of
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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
doing him a great injustice by assuming that some physical deformity
in the great majority of cases by external things — by what a
great deal in the world, but he does not concern himself with all the

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
himself in sensory existence, one thing of the greatest importance
dread of the spiritual world can be so great that it becomes the acme
on?” That is a question of the greatest importance, and through
But there is something of still greater importance. In ordinary life
one must live deeply, of how little one corresponds to the great ideal

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
Now there is a great difference between life, observation and
more or less super-sensible states come before us in the great poetic
chapters, or sections, of the really great poetic works. These moods
turn to some great poem and find there something like its shadow
They do not consider that what is above depends to any great extent on
relationship to Christ, he might even become a great occultist and

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
individual it can rejoice in its power to grow individually great. If
there as the great Light-bearer who leads, really leads, to bringing
eternity should be held fast in the inward greatness of the individual
with him into these worlds too great a measure of what in sensory
the power to develop within him inward greatness that wells forth from
his inner being. For what is individual greatness in the individual
soul but the seed of all the greatness in the whole world evolution of
epoch the mediators of the greatest spiritual deeds of mankind. In
power behind all the greatness that radiates into human evolution from
greatest possible distance. That would not prove that the men of this
for eternity, is generally much greater than the other tendency,
existence. There is a great deal he would prefer not to leave but to
super-sensible world what has no value, then this has a great deal of
penetrated by the light of its spirit. The greatest mistake that men

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consciousness. Steiner distinguishes between the great initiates who
judgement as to how we should place into human evolution the great
Where have the great founders of religion lived, those who were the
great initiates and who gave their people what they needed out of
unknown corner of the world, far removed from great empires, and there
Who indeed accomplished His greatest deeds of culture among a people
That is the great step forward out of the darkness of life to the
wisdom, but that great initiates have come to their greatest impulses,
into a great cosmic whole. We see him ascend to yet another planet of
work is of great significance.

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Great initiates can't bring these forces down from the highest
great initiates gather round the Christ and let themselves be

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
beauty and greatness, a beatific world. However, persons who

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life after death. Attention has often been drawn to the great
world with far greater intensity than could ever be the case in the
physical world. In addition, something else may cause great pain to
life. In the Venus sphere he is taken up into one of the great
Christianity has not yet made great progress in its development
has gathered out of the cosmos, and it is the greatest sin to allow
can say that that is a great teaching!
Being. In the Sun sphere the greatest danger is to take
I have occupied myself a great deal with Homer. Lately the fact that
greatest possible activity of the etheric body in sleep, then he
do no greater injury to some souls than by pouring blind love and

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far greater facility to a medium than after spirit-science
various starting points. This must occur in greater measure

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
great extent.
This self-knowledge must take place to a much greater extent
poet, and composer) to a great extent. Many people would

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one's attentiveness must be very great if one wants to perceive

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times. Unfulfilled wishes acquire great significance for him but
existence, the greater our efforts to acquire a true knowledge of
great cosmic panorama, a cosmic firmament between death and a new

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wanders in even greater darkness. One might well despair and think
it is due to maya. Maya, the great illusion that spreads a veil

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rebirth and how that life is connected with the great realm of the
earth sphere. By far the greater majority of communications from the
a great number of intentions in the course of their life. It need not
greatness that had conceived the plan of the poem prevented him from
shortcomings but in a sense because of his greatness that Goethe was
small or important matters. Now there is something great in a poet
Goethe's astral body, namely, that he had conceived a great,
greatest value and significance. We will speak in a moment of the
event of the greatest significance for that planet then took place.
The passage through the Mars sphere can therefore be of great
journey, and we are obliged to inscribe a great deal even if not
The imperfections of really great men are also recorded in that
observation is Leonardo da Vinci. He is a spirit of greatness and
remarkable, magnificent paradox. The greatest blessing for a
however, imperfection originating in great men whose influences have

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All these experiences may take place with great anguish
their great benefit, and yet discover this: to understand as now

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sense world and the super-sensible spiritual worlds. It is of great
their thinking out of its place in the great cosmic order. The result
these luciferic allurements in regard to love, for a great part of
greater detail. The luciferic element in love is actually cherished
great deal of advice is given in this direction and certain
We see therefore that what is great and sublime on the
artistic impulses, there arises in humanity from his activity great
order! These eccentric philosophers are actually found in great
erroneous, refutes itself. In the case of its greatest mistake —
has the greatest difficulty in becoming clear about certain of its
ensure the greatest possibility of segregated independence.

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diving down and entering this particular entity one feels greater
we have to experience something of the greatest significance: that

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particular entity one feels greater sympathy, while in immersing
will myself”; we have to experience something of the greatest

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world have to be given up to a far greater degree. It is terribly
great mistake springs from the fact that those who make such claims
naturally meet with a great deal of opposition from people like
do indeed play a great part when impressions are fished up out of the
complicated, there is a great deal in the subconscious that does not

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great fortress. Within it lived many people, of all ages; they were
Felicia told how a great number of these people had the
great number, dwelled between the figure from above and those
earth. They lived in small fortresses that were copies of the great,
his great learning — would have had more trouble grasping it
great extent by the luciferic element.
gained greater and greater importance (and to recognize this, one
we have built great ahrimanic strongholds. It is not yet the custom
place!” Yet that would be the truth. Libraries, great and
“literary speech,” which the children to a great extent
long period of my life, and only with the greatest effort could I get
enlivening story of the fortress that multiplied itself into a great

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something that can be of greatest use in understanding the life of
element is present to the greatest extent in the development of art.
added. Because of the great responsibility in writing all this, I
destiny! This is of great significance for your spiritual perception
And then we begin to divine something of the great cosmic secrets

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a great many things can be observed in the process of growing into
great many areas. But human souls that have taken the path of
destiny, we must say that there is a great deal of fulfilled karma in
through a great deal in a former earth life that requires
say of a great deal of the karma of our youthful years that it cannot
great deal that looms up on the way to his other self. Since Johannes
of shadows. Here great secrets of soul life make themselves felt.
must approach it with great confidence that the true ego will he

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arrogantly; even so, we shall not deviate greatly from this custom of
Allomatics is presented as a work of great learning,
higgledy-piggledy mixture, stirring up a great deal of violent
great benefactor of mankind in not allowing himself to be seen, for
— actually prefer that to acknowledging what they are today, so great
an effort will bring about a great change in the disposition and mood
imagine a great swarm of gnats. From a distance it looks like a
and greatest thing that could happen now and in the near future; at

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subconsciousness that would horrify him if he saw them. The greatest
should pay great attention to everything and watch and be awake. And

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body can experience great pain in kamaloca. These pains in the
takes in esoteric teachings with great attentiveness and does his
terrible things that give him great pain. It's the thoughts of his

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the great difference between the forms of the animal kingdom and of
the great differentiations which exist in regard to the various
find such a great difference as may be found, for instance, between a
lion and a nightingale. If there would be such a great difference in
borne in mind is that the animals show infinitely greater differences
when the great ideas of the Central European world-conception had
to penetrate into such a great idea, went through a terrible time. We
bear within them a great truth. Oken subdivided the human being as
without knowing, all these, things” ... Yet a great error
that great symbol at the beginning of the Old Testament: Adam and
the greatest admiration which we may have for the penetrating
life in a dream or in a state of intoxication. Yet great things
enjoyed a great reputation in England. But read the letters written
greatest possible number of souls that are inclined to unite in their

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concepts demand a greater exertion of thinking, a greater intensity of
Today these facts are considered extremely grotesque by the great
has brought about such great catastrophes. In regard to this I should
the social life of mankind is, on the other hand, of great importance.
similar to that of another historical prophecy made by a much greater
can only be grasped with great concepts. When Friedrich von Schiller
themselves members of a great family and will no longer tear each
attaches great value to mere phrases. But it must wean itself from
the great task master for the generation that must live through it,
the task master to a much greater degree than has been the case so

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need. For whatever we may think about a great many of the
A great deal
given greater prominence. This something, a potentiality in
greater prominence and what is held together in a higher life
attack us and tell us a great deal, the blue colours take the
Naturalistic art therefore offers us a great deal that has no

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during our incarnation, it is possible to observe with great vividness
connected with the fact that his great catastrophe has befallen
earlier periods of time, great changes took place in human evolution.
certain distance. If mankind is not to expect still greater misery,
were, the great procedure of the Christ Jesus Himself, to take his
Now at time of great significance arrived in the evolution of mankind,
repetition of what preceded them. If one expresses something great in
such great importance of which mankind does not even dream today; and
be characterized as follows: Great possibilities existed if only the
left his family; he has, in reality, remained here. Something of great
inhale too great an amount of air. Only spiritual thoughts among those
Now let us consider the following: We can learn a great deal if we
There is a great difference between a slow death through illness and a
looks back upon this flaming up. This flaming up greatly resembles the
pain arises from it. There is a great relationship between the two
spirituality, but it would have rejected it to a still greater
observed even in regard to the greatest, the most significant events
In regard to the greatest event in world history, human evolution has
to the greatest event of world history, namely, the Mystery of
as follows; Among the great number of dishonest compromisers one arose
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mystery and charm, opening up vistas into great depths of
gives form to the spoken word by greater or less emphasis, by
great significance for man, namely, the line through the
called the temple of the soul. Such expressions contain great
to be capable of mastering the great tasks approaching him

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It gives me great joy to be here for the first time in this newly
founded group bearing the great name of Christian Rosenkreutz,
about Christian Rosenkreutz at greater length. What is contained in
To speak about Christian Rosenkreutz presupposes great confidence in
in the great secrets of the life of the spirit. The founding of a new
effects emanate also from the etheric bodies of great individualities.
Great forces emanating from the etheric body of Christian Rosenkreutz
great soul, a pious, deeply mystical human being, who had not just
one could give him. He was educated with the greatest care, and every
permeated with the greatness of Christianity, although in the outside
the various religions into one great whole. They were convinced that
awakened like a new soul. He had experienced a' great transformation
Now it is also of great importance to know that in any century the
outside world. The temptation is too great that people would idealise
far greater degree. The etheric body of Christian Rosenkreutz has

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him into great danger. It leads to the edge of a precipice, perhaps.
the three great processes of nature.
look up to mightier gods above them. And permeated with great piety
tremendous joys, the great natural events, including pain and sadness,
Great individualities will certainly appear in the twentieth century,
Rosenkreutz lives on and on. And the nearer we approach his great
spirit the stronger we shall become. We can hope for a great deal of
strength and help from the etheric body of this great leader, who will

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shall hear still more of Christian Rosenkreutz as we study the great
great and eminent occultist has to reckon with the conditions peculiar
to admit that although these ideas can lead to great achievements in
the last attacks, one of the last great attacks made by Lucifer upon
other great Individualities concerned with the leadership of humanity.
A Conference of the greatest and most advanced Individualities was
friend, the great teacher Buddha, participated in these counsels and
the service of Christian Rosenkreutz. Thus do the great Beings who
Christian Rosenkreutz is thus revealed to us as the great Servant of
through that great Conference at the end of the sixteenth century,
veneration by what consistent paths he has carried through the great
Rosicrucian-Christian path of development. That the great teacher of

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Rosenkreutz as we study the great task which devolved upon him at the
admit that although these ideas can lead to great achievements in the
of the last great attacks made by Lucifer upon the evolution of man.
other great individualities concerned with the leadership of humanity.
between death and a new birth went through a great crisis in the
great importance for the soul between death and a new birth. Christian
the service of Christian Rosenkreutz. Thus do the great beings who
Christian Rosenkreutz is thus revealed to us as the great servant of
through that great conference at the end of the sixteenth century,
way he has carried out the great mission entrusted to him, which in
great teacher of Nirvana is now fulfilling a mission outside the
a picture of Christian Rosenkreutz, the great teacher of the modern
soul, if a man feels that something streaming from this great and

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be able to obtain a great deal towards a moral conception of
receipts and expenditures with great accuracy. If he does not like
characterised two great sections of humanity which, were quite
was extremely great when these two ways of looking at the world,
great deal in France, where he carried on his business. We also know
that the father of Francis of Assisi was a man who set great store on
had a vision in a dream. He saw a great palace and everywhere weapons
dreams had only longed to become a great warrior was transformed into
great moral impulse, for though the individual cannot always raise
himself to the greatest ethical heights, yet he can only learn of
greatest forcefulness. It is precisely by turning our attention to
the greatest and most characteristic manifestations of moral
a poetic story, it expresses what actually occurred in a great number

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from which we may perhaps be able to obtain a great deal
receipts and expenditures with great accuracy. If he does not
have now characterised two great sections of humanity which,
extremely great when these two ways of looking at the world,
Bernardone, and his wife. Bernardone travelled a great deal in
father of Francis of Assisi was a man who set great store on
vision in a dream. He saw a great palace and everywhere weapons
had only longed to become a great warrior was transformed into
personality. It is important that we should study a great moral
to the greatest ethical heights, yet he can only learn of them
greatest forcefulness. It is precisely by turning our attention
to the greatest and most characteristic manifestations of moral
occurred in a great number of cases at that time through the

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him were given spiritual aid and great comfort. It is true that many
also precisely those amongst whom were preserved the greatest
Atlantean catastrophe took place, great bodies of people gradually
development great secrets of existence were betrayed; these were
great truths, concerning life, which are of infinitely greater
mysteries, great bodies of the Atlantean population became possessed
there in this European population were others who during the great
caste that wielded the greatest power in Europe in primeval times,
time of the Migration of the Peoples, great bodies of people came
His invasion was the cause of great terror to many of those who lived
great and mighty individuality of Buddha. We also know that Buddha
experienced and felt deeply in himself the great truth of life and
sorrow, he had attained the greatness to announce in Asia the
world. You know how Buddhism spread in Asia. You know how great is
particularly to point out that the portion of the great teaching of
human nature before man's deepest descent. Fundamentally, a great

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through him were given spiritual aid and great comfort. It is
whom were preserved the greatest wisdom and treasures of
When the Atlantean catastrophe took place, great bodies of
development great secrets of existence were betrayed; these
were great truths, concerning life, which are of infinitely
greater importance than all those to, which post-Atlantean
to the violation of the mysteries, great bodies of the
others who during the great emigration to Asia had remained
greatest power in Europe in primeval times, but in their way of
Peoples, great bodies of people came over from
invasion was the cause of great terror to many of those who
that this was only possible through the pre-eminent1y great and
of his life, experienced and felt deeply in himself the great
truth of life and sorrow, he had attained the greatness to
in Asia. You know how great is the number of its followers
out that the portion of the great teaching of Buddha relating
man's deepest descent. Fundamentally, a great part of what is

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alcohol and meat. One's spiritual being becomes ever greater

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helps us to think with greater readiness of what is spiritual and to
it is therefore particularly necessary that the great dangers to be
acquired by modern life, truth is something which must, to a great
the foregoing is extreme, and not universal to any great extent,
and more for great spiritual truths. Although Anthroposophy is still
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
see humanity in perspective before us, like a great organic
this great organism, and through their own deeds form their impulses
the course of earthly evolution, for a great community, which can be
world may be considered as a great immortal individual which
his work? Through the Mystery of Golgotha the greatest Individual
with Him as with a great immortal Individual. The thought that the
mission, lies in man's forming one whole with this great Individual,
born from you alone, pushes you away and separates you from the great
this great immortal Individual in the way above described, that you

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apathy which passes everything by and occasions great moral
to think with greater readiness of what is spiritual and to
great dangers to be found at this point should be
truth is something which must, to a great extent, be lacking
extreme, and not universal to any great extent, still the
for great spiritual truths. Although Anthroposophy is still
uncultivated human being, is but little affected by the great
Christ-impulse. We see humanity in perspective like a great
great organism, and through their own deeds form their
foundations, in the course of earthly evolution, for a great
reasonable world may be considered as a great immortal
Through the Mystery of Golgotha the greater individual
with a great immortal individual. The thought that the
great individual, is realised in the second principle:
you away and separates you from the great individual, you
great immortal individual in the way above described, that

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active, helps us to think with greater readiness of what is
therefore particularly necessary that the great dangers to be
which must, to a great extent, be lacking in the understanding
extreme, and not universal to any great extent, still the
great spiritual truths. Although Anthroposophy is still scorned
is but little affected by the great phenomena of the world. It
a great organic structure. When people understand how to member
their actions into this great organism, and through their own
for a great community, which can be permeated and
great immortal individual which uninterruptedly brings about
Mystery of Golgotha the greatest Individual entered into human
with a great immortal Individual. The thought that the only
mission, lies in man's forming one whole with this great
separates you from the great Individual, you thereby destroy
something; but what you do to build up this great immortal

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beginning of the Old Testament as the great picture of the Temptation
to be the greatest blasphemy that Christ Jesus could have uttered.
think, present great difficulties for all who reflect more deeply. It
understand it as one understands a great deal in the Bible —
really not at all — for behind this passage a great mystery is

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Which must be manifest to us men as bearing the greatest importance for
claim to be the greatest blasphemy that Christ Jesus could have
Testament there is a passage which must, I think, present great
written in them. One understands it as one understands a great deal in

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faithfully, the great and significant moment comes when real spiritual
way they want to see it. They know that Lessing was a great man, but
Christ lives in each human soul. If our souls acquire ever greater

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developed very great strength below the surface of the gradually
teaching for his own greater perfecting, but because it has become

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Movement, developed greater force under the surface of the gradually
nothing more for I have the whole great reality before me,’
to the greater perfecting of his own life, but because it has become

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speak of karmic adjustment. But there is a great deal more to be
true understanding of Christ, a greater earnestness will manifest
be changed! A great deal of modern writing will be ruled out when

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if they can speak of karmic adjustment: but there is a great deal more
Christ a greater earnestness will manifest itself in many other things
consciousness of being filled with Christ will become of great import.
they really know nothing about it? Much will be changed! A great deal
greatest irresponsibility — pure nonsense. It is for no personal

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order to live. Deep truths are indeed expressed in great religious
greater depth, greater insight into the spiritual world and its
become spiritually freer and freer, and in this greater spiritual

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in great religious revelations, but in such a form that their real
knowledge of greater depth, with insight into the spiritual world and
and freer, and in this greater spiritual freedom their communion with

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well-known phenomenon, about which men have thought a great deal, if
soulless forms, of great beauty, certainly, but without soul. The
not correspond with the great truths, such as the union of Christ's
great initiates, who possessed a direct insight into the spiritual

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greatest German spirits within her walls. He was one of those
historical figure. And it is the greatness of the Christian
like the great Maja, over the world of spirit. And humanity
can be, a great and mighty moment when these forces awaken.
the greatest Being who has trodden upon the earth, Christ
the greatest proportions among the followers of the Old
the important thing, that he is the greatest example as
very great significance; testimony shall you bear for unto
grasped by the one who has written the great principle of the
consciousness — therein lies the greatness of

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me express my great satisfaction that we are able to
search for the knowledge of great spiritual truths, and a
which meets us in life, great or small, also be deepened and
than a great part of the Mysteries of Christianity, the
forced great religious movements into one-sided fanatical
and their opinion was that what the great seer saw —

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this astral body are outlined a great number of different
were members of a great community, just as to-day your two
experienced the great moment when the astral body was
flesh. This can only be represented in great symbols.
revolutions or seven great Saturn days and five great Saturn

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gives us in a great and significant symbol. We have indicated
in this age? The answering of this question is of great
imagine the great Atlantean Flood, at the other the great
between Flood and War, two after the great war and four
fifth great epoch.
Atlantis was the age in which seven great races developed one
the influence of the Atlantean flood, or the great glacial
the ancient past than in the present. The greatness and power
by a great longing for what their ancestors had seen in
Maya, the great illusion, the great deception, from which
telegraph to America and obtain thence great quantities of
higher spiritual beings who are the leaders of the great ages
that could lead astray from the really great purposes of
great Inspirer, demands of this age. What does he demand and
spiritual life by following the great individuality who gives
flock around the great Leader; it will unite them around this
great Leader. They will already belong so far to the

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cycle of human evolution lying between the great upheaval upon our
the great flood, he comes into the Atlantean epoch. We need
our own. There, too, the greater part of the Atlantean
under the guidance of a great leader of humanity and
fulfilment of the mission of the earth by following the great
meet a great Leader of humanity, let us suppose such a
and again because he rejected Christ Jesus. Great truths
survive the great period of destruction — the War of
the great War of All against All man will have quite a
no longer be the case in the epoch following the great War of
written on his forehead. After the great War of All against
will divide into two great streams, the good and the evil.
represent a branch of the great tree of humanity. In ancient
intelligence. After the great War of All against All he will
ones) will be there in a following age, and survive the great
the epoch following upon the great War of All against All.
fruit in the epoch after the great war. You are now uniting with
come after that great war. In the sixth
So step by step, after the great war, will issue
imagine the beginning of the great war; the soul which has
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as the present human beings? “It would be a great mistake to

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together the present moon and earth in a great cauldron, and
would be greatly shocked if I were to describe to you the
great extent of a volcanic nature. Man worked soothingly upon
condensation of the water led to flooding, when the great
Spiritual Science you will gain the greatest respect for the
moment of great importance, when the whole aura assumes a
other stages of evolution had to be united in that greatest
understand the greatest event in the earth's evolution. Of

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but there will be a very great difference. In the Atlantean
group-soul. After the great War of All against All man will
Atlantean flood and the great War of All against All man has
to him after the great War of All against All. But this
great cosmic event in the middle of our epoch which runs its
itself for the great event of the appearance of Christ Jesus
great forces. The forces which brought men together were
that the greater carrying capacity is attained with the
preparatory school of love; it was, in fact, the great school
but imparts it to the soul, is the great Christ-impulse in
great-grandfather had experienced. This was in his memory,
father, grand-father, great-grandfather, etc., a common name
periods were times of preparation pointing to the great
then live into the future until after the great War of All
against All, but he would have nothing of the great
period following the great War of All against All. After our
that is to say, not yet beyond the great War, but primarily
needs; to slay one another they will employ much greater
spiritual forces before the great War of All against All.
foolish judgment, show that great personalities have the
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another which brings them to the great War of All against
also survived the great flood but there was no living
in our epoch. We are now looking with great longing towards
civilizations which will arise after the great War of All
other hand the great mass of all those who are lukewarm, the
the great War of All against All, gradually the evil
great War of All against All; to rescue what can be rescued
from those who after the great war will only have the impulse
good will receive its greatest strengthening. For after the
great War of All against All, the good will have to make
will co-operate. For in this next great epoch men will
necessary in the great plan that evil, too, should come to
that a still greater good results from it.” The most capable
great War of All against All when men will confront those who
much will be accomplished. The good would not be so great a
great as to be able even to overcome the wickedness in the
through it may come the greater good.” Those who are being
future they will, be able to accomplish this great task of
transform evil. When we speak of the great leaders of mankind
civilizations. After the great War of All against All
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more closely. The greater portion of humanity will only have
neighbourhood of the present Ireland, the great impulse came
led beyond the great Atlantean flood to our new culture, from
less self-conscious “I” which first received the great

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and other numbers play such a great rôle in our studies
so. In our study of the great cosmic relationships we speak
greatest divisions in our whole evolution which with
great number of learned men say that plants and animals are
the great difficulty, for you must now say, if you wish to
post-Atlantean epoch, between the great Atlantean flood and
the great War of All against All. The sixth will follow this
its course between such events as the great Atlantean flood
and the great War of All against All must again be divided
of the 16807 in our epoch between the great Atlantean flood
and the great War of All against All, and that previously we
it was an event of the greatest importance. Up to this event
great War of All against All without having had the

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which were added during the ages. Before the great flood of
understand that the forty-nine great transformations of
was the great Atlantean flood. After our own will follow the
civilization. Then follows the great War of All against All.
to the great main conditions we are in the middle; but in
prepared at the present time. Three great main conditions
when we have reached the great War of All against All, and
into themselves, already in the period after the great War of
period and the fifth sub-period. After the great War we shall
pass into the sixth epoch; but before the great War there
who will lay the first foundation of the great bond of
be possible. But mankind will continue beyond the great War
epoch of the sounding of the trumpets, and when six great
description of the writer of the Apocalypse. The last great
great War. Then man has a second and a third opportunity as
adversary of Christ, who has the great power to prevent their
greater and greater spiritual conditions on the one hand, and
the great Babylon, the community made up of all those who
swell the population of the great Babylon, and on the other
sketch out the great outlines, so to speak, which Jupiter is
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one hand was great and powerful, filling one with bliss,
great deal for one who can grasp this theoretical statement
the good will be far greater than the compulsion
of the world, in order to live beyond the great War into the
great brotherhood which will live over into the epoch of the
incarnations of the present souls before the great War of All
great War. And afterwards in the epoch of the seals we also
great impulses his own which flow from John's Gospel, from
him the great pictures brought before him in John's Gospel,
the greatest revelation which has originated in humanity,
time the intellect has been acquired. This may be a great
that the writer of the Apocalypse gives you a great deal when
written. I should indeed have to say a great deal if I
Apocalypse, who is a great seer, knows that in ancient times
the great Event of Golgotha. If some one had observed the
with the sun, the great Earth-spirit, Christ, will be the
understand him. He is the great teacher of the true Event of
should have to write a very great deal, but I will show it to
further, greater depths will be found. For below the surface
there is a very great deal of which we have been only able to

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the time of the great Atlantean Flood. We observe the
this great Flood which has been preserved as tradition in the
great pyramids built by the Egyptians, the Greek temples, and
great Flood. The less advanced Atlanteans went from West to
all went towards Asia and founded in Central Asia the great
holy Rishis, who were the pupils of the great Manu.
great Indian Teachers. A feeling of reverent awe arises in
great part of their life. But there were times when the
the Planetary Spirits and then they could impart great and
mighty things to men. Far greater things were spoken through
the souls living between death and rebirth. The great
it is true, proclaim the same great spiritual truths of which
now became their great Teacher. The teachings that had flowed
task of this great Teacher was to create a counterweight to
totality: Ahura Mazdao, the great Sun-, Aura-, Ahura Mazdao,
proclaimed wrong beliefs. I speak of what is greatest
as are always to be found with the great Initiates and who
pupils, in later incarnations, were : Hermes, the great
advanced a stage and men had a greater love for the physical
world. Nor would this have been of any great significance for
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hand, however, there is hardly any other alternative for the great
falsehood. This feeling may be found in great men and in
insignificant people. Benvenuto Cellini, who was a great man, once
experiencing his value. Compassion is a quality which is not greatly
developed among men. It still contains a great amount of egoism. Of
great school — but he will reveal instead a new, plainly marked
greatly. We can, however, be of great help to others, whereas we
therefore be of great help to others; our bad qualities cause us
great harm, but cannot cause much harm to others, at least not
able to guide ourselves. Here we see a great difference between the

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greater number of the friends who are now present. It is a lofty,
The documents themselves contain this wisdom. Indeed, the greatest
the loftiest things which can be found again with great effort
This is the great difference which appears to us. We may therefore
unlearned person — the difference is not so great — we
or less greater inclination toward poetry or toward a matter-of-fact
caused a great sensation. And according to this same method evidence
at all. This too has caused a great sensation.
the atmosphere of Sicily, and this is a great mystery connected with
condition which was still possible at that time to a greater extent
spread that there is a great field of illusion behind everything
spiritual world. A great darkness spreads over the spiritual world.
we must understand. The gospels are a great, beautiful and mighty
console the intellect concerning its own nature. This is the great
the impulse which will bring about the great turning point in the
Nazareth. Jeshu ben Pandira, the great prophet of the Christ,
you will find to what a great extent life itself and your own soul

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followed in September 1912, the great courses on the Gospels had
indication of the great mysteries of destiny that worked in these
commandments will find great cause for wonder. The fact is, however,
from this couple, so, in order rightly to understand the greatest gift
scenes and pictures drawn from the Gospels by great painters to work
This indeed is connected with a further great event which mankind can
stead the great Counselor will appear, in etheric form.
knowledge of the great Counselor who is becoming at the same time the
thoughtlessly passed by this third great forewarning to mankind given
catastrophe we can say: Among the great differentiations prepared
have merely to picture to ourselves someone who is actually so great
greatest egoist, thanks be to God, for even in egoistical striving
with which to fortify mankind and to fill them with great and powerful
that a great catastrophe would fall upon the earth. Neither of these

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the people of those ancient days, up to the time when the great change
there was a great deal in the dreams of both husband and wife to
think of it only in a materialistic way, was faced with great
this picture can be looked upon only as a still greater illusion than
epoch of human evolution, when the great events were taking place in
That is one thing we must learn from the whole character of the great
make no effort to learn about the great spiritual truths, for the
etheric body, and in the seventh, before the great catastrophe, the
connection with the three great human forces, Faith, Love, Hope, was
to mind lives of the great men of our age, Richard Wagner's for
inearnations ever greater powers as teacher of the greatest of all
once Jeshu ben Pandira, this great teacher of mankind will have become
that will spring from the words of that great teacher of humanity. His
greater than it is possible to conceive to-day — a magical moral
This great teacher, who will be able to give to men ripe for it the
greatest teacher of the good. For that reason he has been called in
the great Christ-event for all who are willing to listen. And we can
force of hope within them — hope that after a great catastrophe a

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great impulses, the great manifestations of forces which pervade the
those who are now living will have to pass through great and
inner forces as a support for their souls, to a far greater extent
midst of the greatest and most terrible war-events which have ever
cosmos, through the forces of the sun which then reach their greatest
darkness unfold their greatest strength in the middle of the winter,
A great deal lies concealed
itself (indeed, future epochs will grasp the greatness of Fichte's
greatest gift consists in absorbing things, but if anyone says that
The greatest misfortune
process. It would be the greatest misfortune, not only for Central
Europe, but, for Russia itself — the very greatest misfortune
development; also that they would commit the greatest sin by laying
civilisation as a great illusion — the whole foul
greater than itself and of sending light into life; before it can
those which will one day be the source of its greatness. And we in
battlefields. These etheric bodies will form a great complex of
encouragement inducing us to fill ourselves with the great truths of

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a significant, great task of the fifth culture-epoch.
immediately notice the great difference to the whole tone of
This moment belongs to the most marvellous, greatest at which
gave rise to great hopes just for our movement. He died in the
productive power. The talent will still become greater and
greater. That, however, what distinguishes, for example, the
to that what will once make this East great. We in Central

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anybody got involved only to look at the really great,

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sustaining him with great power. The Archangels bear him more mightily
Such intercourse is most certainly possible but it presents greater
once to the other person. This is the greatest error when it is a
sleep, we shall find they shed great light on the spiritual world. In
human being. A great deal of what we undertake in life is really
Now there is a great difference according to whether a soul passes
Spiritually perceived, there is a great, great difference. When little
Just such a matter as this can show us the great significance of
oration referring to the life of the one who has died, will have great
— not only by remembering things he said which meant a great deal

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our study of Spiritual Science there is a great deal that we
as though they were bearing him, sustaining him with great power.
greater difficulties than the first form of knowledge, which is
ascribe it at once to the other person. This is the greatest
they shed great light on the spiritual world. In remote country
Dead to every human being. A great deal of what we undertake in
perceived, there is a very great difference. When little
has died, will have great significance for the soul; the
great deal to us but by thinking of what he was as an

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great figures of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. With these
great figure of Aristotle, who lived centuries before the
have to consider the great cosmic Christ thoughts, but only
who represented Christianity with a certain greatness. We
Darwinism. And the greatness of the idea in Darwinism

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back, the great events dawned on them which had to do with

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contemporary concepts. But we can approach that greatest of
greatly have they been misunderstood over the ages! And
great benefactor of humanity, who however was seduced by
In great

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great hopes for him and hung on his words. Nevertheless, he
same time great ideas, meaningful moral impulses arose in
that great spirit, that powerful spirit which came to
with great effort: clairvoyant power. He experienced in
But the teachings and life of the Essenes made a great

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entered into his soul he felt only the great richness of
know that a great change had taken place in his soul during
great capacity for feeling — an angelic, gentle
and often spoke with him about all the beautiful and great
reminded him of the renewal of the great teachings and wise
a great teacher had recently been more or less ignored. For
accomplished great things through gentleness and love.
experienced that great Zarathustra impulse. All the
beautiful and great of the ancient Sun-Teaching arose in
greatness of the Mithras worship lived in his soul with
with his mother about the greatness and glory of paganism
united and contained everything which was once great
described the beauty, the greatness and the glory of the
others in order to be happy themselves. Those words greatly
when they do. There is a man who has won great respect
are greatly respected nowadays. It is difficult today to be
such volumes are written, for that is how one gains great
what previously existed. And such literature is greatly

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greater or lesser events that have played a part in the life of
humanity as a whole. The greatest of all of these is that event
looked on the sun as the greatest of all the stars, and of all
the Beings belonging to the sun he called the greatest the
great Sun-Spirit.
great Sun Being gave to them the power by which they were able
great Sun-Being of whom they spoke to believers was the same
now became greatly troubled over the fate of their immortality
Christ Who was the great Sun-Spirit and the Christ Who dwelt in
unite their hearts with that great event.
that in three days it might be raised again, great sorrow for
Such sorrow is not, however, to be compared with the greatness
truly great knowledge, my dear friends, is born out of sorrow
in the Christ, but the great mass of the people would reject
by Christ. Then will come that of which humanity has so great a

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the tragedy and the great failing of our age that there is a constant
includes the life-time of the great natural scientists, the leading
has not succeeded, for all its great progress, in reaching the
It was the great task of natural science as systematised, for example,
by such a personality as Huxley — it was the great service it
and cheer our spirits. We can say to ourselves: “Man is a greater
increasingly difficult to put in practice the great findings and
world, so must it sleep a great deal. For whenever it is confronted
lively in this great organ of sense, the child. Thus a child lives in
Hence in the Waldorf School we set the greatest importance on the
grown-up person. Perhaps it will take the form of a great love and
the great school of manhood, which is life itself. We must not learn

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Fisher which have just been read out. They give me great encouragement
sounds made up of consonants and vowels. Observe the great difference
achieved its greatness. But also we must feel differently from the way
What I am saying here seems a small thing; but it is great in terms of

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in a position to master so great an educational enterprise earlier to
not look into his very being. Natural science has attained great
I may add to what I have already said that a great part of the work I

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child is exposed to sense impressions in a far greater degree than is
particularly well when the great range of facts provided by our
the greatest importance. And what this is can best be shown in

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great and tragic question that faces the thinker: “How do
experience teaches that the greater number of those who enter upon
great day, when one makes a certain observation. One observes an
being to a lesser extent solid body and to a greater extent water,
the super-sensible worlds. This we can experience in greatness, in
very greatly enhanced when this inner stage of development is
a great tomb, and they need a knowledge of the moral

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and it fits. Here we come to the great question, I would like to
way — to the least extent solid body and to a greater extent
greatness, beauty, and meaning, but after it has been experienced
beings live will again sink into a great graveyard. Humanity needs
and antipathies. The great effort required to find our way
elementary knowledge, it can then become an even greater experience

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gradual is that great transformation in the bodily, psychic and
Now all this implies that a great deal shall have happened to the
educational principles of which we have been speaking makes great
It was particularly important here to achieve the greatest economy in
One can make a beginning for instance with botany — that great
grasp a whole, not always to proceed from the less to the greater. And
will very greatly affect the way he will meet us when we want to give

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not be a sight to compensate for all the greatness and beauty of the
is vastly greater and more sublime even than Sun and Moon are, here
People speak of Maya — the great illusion of this present
our heart. The heart in its true essence is vastly greater and more
Universe, with all its erstwhile majesty and greatness, is shrinking
body on the Earth. For the great Universe we had before, withdraws,
great-great ... grandfather of yours, way back in the 15th century,
fell in love with a great-great ... grandmother. They felt the urge
great-great ... grandfather and great-great ... grandmother loved
greater and more majestic than the Sun. Seen from the earthly aspect
must imagine it to be, even from our great-great-great-grandmother,
great-great-grandmother, great-grandmother, grandmother and so
and from the constellations of the stars in the great Universe. The

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not be a sight to compensate for all the greatness and beauty of the
is vastly greater and more sublime even than Sun and Moon are, here
People speak of Maya — the great illusion of this present
our heart. The heart in its true essence is vastly greater and more
Universe, with all its erstwhile majesty and greatness, is shrinking
body on the Earth. For the great Universe we had before, withdraws,
great-great ... grandfather of yours, way back in the 15th century,
fell in love with a great-great ... grandmother. They felt the urge
great-great ... grandfather and great-great ... grandmother loved
greater and more majestic than the Sun. Seen from the earthly aspect
must imagine it to be, even from our great-great-great-grandmother,
great-great-grandmother, great-grandmother, grandmother and so
and from the constellations of the stars in the great Universe. The

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Between the 11th and 12th year a very great change takes place in the
Nevertheless one will sometimes have great trouble in controlling the
great scene. But what did our Waldorf School teacher do? He went along
great a dominion over the sanguine child. Hence the sanguine child
him, which requires a show of great choler and much pantomime, so that
This makes very great demands upon the staff, especially where art

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lung and heart will be then is something much greater, something much
earthly world is a great illusion, but they do not really believe it.
something vastly greater than any sun.
A great, great ... grandfather of yours, way
back in the sixteenth century, fell in love with a great, great
great, great ... grandfather and great, great ... grandmother loved
that the human heart is greater and more majestic than the sun. Seen

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what I might call the tiny difficulties. A greater difficulty arose
have been a minor difficulty. The greater difficulty is this, that no
This has made, naturally, increasingly great demands on the Waldorf
could not bring a great deal with us — in addition to our natural

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physical and bodily, one can do a great deal for the children's health
If there is a great deal to do in the physical sphere apart from the
requests of the children themselves, — to my great distress, I
does eurhythmy makes a great difference to his appearance. Whether,
into their art. You can see there is a very great deal in the forms

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knowledge, this is of great significance. For growing, the overcoming
seems to me of great significance.
the Earth called Anthropos seem so great a riddle as he does to
this microcosm, Man, in this Anthropos, so great a change has
And then, what came out was what I have just described: a great
way as before. For an enormous wonder, a great curiosity concerning
Now the children said a great deal that was rather remote from the
fact of spiritual knowledge. Now people think that it is a great
knowledge of man so infinitely greater than ours? Strange as it may
no grasp of what man is. As a result, men act to-day a great deal out
lectures had had to be given — nevertheless it has been a great,

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time once more to this the greatest question of mankind, inasmuch as
Christ-Being in the spiritual worlds had been the great Teacher of
the greatest fact that ever took place on Earth, answer was given to
Then it was that He spoke to them as the great Healer —
the Therapeut, the Comforter — to whom the great Mystery was
consciousness, feel the greatest satisfaction) he finds himself
knowledge, the greatness of which he is truly able to appreciate,

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our present time it is essential to turn our attention to the great
as the world physician, as the great healer, only then will we be
the great teacher for what the soul could still remember after having
greatest event ever to take place on earth — not in an abstract
body. For this reason the great question for those souls educated
He spoke to them as the great healer, as
the heights of modern scientific knowledge, the greatness of which he
furthermore, how he gave to the earth the great freedom of Pentecost

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teachers, and I could listen to those great leaders and masters of
old; I could hear the great leaders who spoke to me from the wisdom
incarnation of Christ that this possibility arose. All other great
Consequently, we see that in earlier ages the great leaders of
ourselves. It will be necessary to observe this great event with
boundaries, but in this group we breathe such an air that these great

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and transfigured by the Good. The great feature of Manicheism is that
ideal is not necessary for action is a great error. A man without
But the farther back we go in history, the greater is the difference

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semi-animal. The Earth herself was, as it were, a great animal-being.

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pineal gland is the surviving remnant of an organ of great
The rôle played by the pineal gland was thus of great significance.

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The advent of Christianity wrought a great change in the manner of

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was a transformed, new-born being. The greatest Greek writers have
spoken of these mysteries with great awe and inspiration.
Belief in reincarnation and the law of Karma had a great

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rising from the depths of materialism demands greater effort and
verily I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord;
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.” Theology
are brothers and companions, involved in the great process of
is not bounded by the skin; it is united with the great organism of
The Mystic Death, — In the grip of the greatest of all

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separates with great travail, whereas in natural death the detachment

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All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant

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body, having greater quiet and less to do, partially detaches itself
Earth of their relation to the heavenly constellations. The great

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At the first stage of clairvoyance, greater order enters into dreams;
the great religions are, properly speaking, the language of the
sounds have a greater clarity, brilliance and richness. In a mighty
are by knights of the Grail, who represent the great spiritual
great cities had its rise, coming from Scotland into England and
borne by the symbolic swan. The messenger of the great Initiates is a

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Before the great Atlantean race, of which all European and Asiatic
This great transformation was of cardinal importance to man. In
of descent; man and Earth have reached the greatest degree of
What underlies this great process of evolution? Where was the home of

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The one great Messenger, He alone Who manifested in a human body like
of substances is required before we can begin to understand the great

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They bring from birth great spiritual pre-dispositions because,

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water from the celestial ocean, led down to Earth by the great streams
Thus there are seven great epochs of Aryan civilisation in which the
‘elect.’ Man will bear the signs of the seven great phases
Him as the hosts around the Lamb, and the great harvest of evolution

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its exoteric form — appropriate for the great masses — which
that the writer of the Apocalypse had, the great seer of Patmos, who
connection with these great beings of the firmament. They perceived
from ours. Great, tumultuous catastrophes will precede it, for the sixth
transformation can only occur through great, physical upheavals. Everything
seven great epochs. We see the laws of evolution slowly unfolding. Human
the exercise of their free will and through a great exertion of their
the mark of the seven great phases of earth evolution. The book of the

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gives; and in this way that symbol may have great significance.

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remember with great pleasure our meeting last year, and my greeting
and having learned a great deal about the results of spiritual
Munich, preceded, to our great delight, by
Naturally, it seems most obvious to attach great importance to the
and giving greater scope to our ideas, feelings, and soul impulses.

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sciences to celebrate ever greater triumphs in the course of the last
its greatness, its color, and to project myself completely into that

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aspect becomes the great revealer. Having passed through death man
he beholds his whole life in one great, simultaneous tableau. During
were among men on Earth great, primeval Teachers; it was they who
brought the primordial wisdom to mankind. These great Teachers were
experiences because the great primeval Teachers of mankind pour the
greater than that of the earthly life.
death has far greater intensity, greater inner reality, than the
remember that after death man passes into the great Universe, into

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character it will enter that sphere greatly mutilated. With these
dwellers — the great primeval Teachers — were at hand to
his whole life back to his birth, presented in one great spiritual
of the Sun nature. The greater part of a man's life between death and

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anatomy is concerned, but a being as great, mighty and majestic as
the greatest influence on a man between death and a new birth, if it
lectures, namely, that in earlier times there were great Initiates
greater hindrance still. When a person who was an Initiate in past
appear in life as great figures in a different sense, but not as
Ireland, during the first Christian century when those great
have been selected with the greatest exactitude. How do they help us to
Mysteries had at one time been a factor of great significance in

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saying this expressly — do not penetrate to any great depth.
This gives him a feeling of great exaltation. Now a really good
year as a great mystical experience.

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our ears. Suppose it to be some great modern city, such as London.
purse? Less than nothing; and the greater the debt, the more we have
inner negative of audibility, at this peace greater than the
the universe and the course of the stars. The King had the greatest
for love has been so greatly enhanced that any other being, whether
greatly men's attitude to both the natural world and the spiritual
man, everything he saw through his senses was a great riddle. For at the

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of how it leads us first to a great life-tableau, in which we see the
greater part of our geometry. But in the spiritual world it is the
little word plays such a great part in the physical world,
simply an appeal to men to call up in memory the greatest treasures
to impart to men the great truth: What is living in you lives also

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of daily existence, but it has the greatest imaginable significance
dreams have power to lead people into the greatest imaginable
great difficulty is to distinguish the immediate content of the
and then runs into great difficulties, ending in an insurmountable
dilettanti. Even from the standpoint of Spiritual Science the great

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dream-veil behind which lies the spiritual world. It makes a great
outward manifestation; in reality this is a great illusion. For
middle man there is a great deal of intermingling and for this reason we
leave them in the right way. Dreams can teach us a very great deal

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greatly enhanced.
in the world will find it everywhere, though in a great variety of
that the difficulty of holding an Imagination is not so great as in
— greater intensity, but in words which are weightier and more
cross this Threshold, and we have still to speak about it in greater
say that, looked at from the spiritual world, people have lost a great deal
shall have to speak in greater detail of the characteristics of these

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different way. Sensation in his case was combined with greater intellectual
been one of the greatest geniuses of his age, but at a certain moment

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we shall have to speak of this in greater detail.

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naturalistic tendency, in which certain arts often attain to a greater
It is the task of Anthroposophy to bring a greater depth, a wider
evolution. Such primeval languages were, however, to a far greater
imparting something of great significance, while at the same time
the greatest possible misunderstanding would arise, if for one moment
And so, as Eurythmy develops and attains to ever greater perfection,
be present! The great thing is that all I have said to-day in this

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of the Cosmos is such that even the things which shine out in the greatest
ourselves to be as great and all-embracing as the Cosmos itself, and
scope of the events which enter into earthly life. A great deal that
a great deal of handwriting to-day — it is hardly legible! The

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and rebirth, we must above all grasp the great difference between them
matters in civilised circles. Were one to show great consideration
etheric bodies, were the great Teachers of men upon Earth. And really
and now also to the present, and whose great representative is

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It could indeed be said that the greatest progress imaginable in medicine
contrast, in the area of actual therapy, there reigns great confusion —
metabolic system, we recognize that it naturally works with its greatest
naturally speak about these matters in greater detail. I will mention only

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value our deeds have for the whole great universe.
the great leaders of mankind, he can then find the way over from the
Earth, like any great mass of rock, is somewhere resting on firm
there — a work far greater and more comprehensive than anything
great, spiritual, archetypal picture which is the spirit-germ —
is at first majestic and great, like the Cosmos itself. While a man is
mankind. Then, together with the latest great instructors, they
world-evolution, they were like ambassadors of the great community
the great Moon teachers on Earth.
great, momentous event we call the Mystery of Golgotha.
of this can really understand the Gnosis, which has been greatly
for intermingling the great with the trivial, but trivial symptoms can
sometimes throw light on the great. A few days ago I said that in

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island of the Earth to the great cosmic ocean in which the stars have
life. There is a great difference between all that tends more
product of world-evolution, is to a great extent broken up, even
all to his next earthly life, and then to the great periods in the
that they give the greatest stimulus to the life-force. In this way

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certain sense signifies the greatest crisis in the whole evolution of
keep to the astral body first. Before the year 333 the greater part
divine-spiritual Beings exercised upon man their greatest influence.
possible. Much that gives men the greatest pleasure rests on that,
sickness. Thus Christ became for mankind, in very truth, the great
years before the great crisis, the Mystery of Golgotha should take
Then, through the Mystery of Golgotha, came the great universal
mankind's future evolution. They were shown in great and powerful
first four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, was the great
when spiritual research claims that this greatest of poems, evoking
about the great healing of which I have spoken, had become rigidified
greatness underlying the frozen dogmas. The aftermath of all this is
become the great spiritual Phosphorus working to overcome the
though they knew of it only in a greatly changed and weakened form
A great part

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It already has an account of spiritual-soul facts of great
a single being, but becomes part of the great living being,
linked to a great living being which is our planet. We learn to
development. While no great difference in the physical exchange
spiritual way to reach an understanding of the great religious

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after the awakening of the Ego-consciousness will there be any great
Sixth Great Period of humanity when men will look back upon that which

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
great moment takes place. If this also happens on a higher
Where does remain there the great word that one acts morally if
life that makes a biography possible. For the greatest as for

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observation can know concerning man, there is to-day a very great
be found enclosed in organs affording the greatest protection against

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significant expression, the greatest and most important
and in this tissue there is a great number of tiny little granules
There results from this a great variety of content within the ego; it

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to the great outside world and to the life of man, to the circulation
of great value to us to be able to point to the fact that, if our
which we began our studies is expressed in even greater exactness. We
a very great deal in the world is, as a matter of fact, dependent

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much greater hindrance to the continuation of the spiritual
interaction may be a harmony. The system of the great outside world
great difference between this human blood, which has been prepared as
oppose each other under the greatest possible tension, just as two

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are absorbed in the greatest variety of ways.
may incorporate in the greatest variety of ways the substances taken
again are to a greater degree determined through the currents of the
organ-systems, with what they contain, are determined in the greatest
organism. It is, therefore, of far greater importance for them to be
resistances are to be found within the entire organism in a great
to the great world as a whole. We might, to be sure, imagine also

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,

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find, in the skin organs of secretion, glands of the greatest
great defect. It does, to be sure, correspond to the form of the
who would not look upon the human organism with the greatest
have gone through the greatest number of transformations, the
greatest number of stages, which must have begun with the lowest

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and structural parts of the human being participate in the greatest
influences that play a part in our environment in the great world. We
of the macrocosm, of the great world about us. Here in the stability
very greatest interest. For it will be for the first time possible in
does this to a greater degree than any of the other systems of
nowadays, to the great injury of humanity. We know, at the same time,
great extent this external skin-boundary is already forecast by the
processes in the greatest measure independently of the outer world.
irregularities in the greatest measure in our entire organism. And
Just as the blood-system manifests the greatest quickening of inner

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functions that a very great deal is needed. Whatever more is now to
adopted into the organism that what goes on in the great world or
stages of evolution, these stages differing very greatly among
themselves, and which are connected in the greatest possible variety
earthly, would bring the human organisation to a far greater
us, a great corpse, into indeterminate cosmic space; and there will

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occult path, we can only prepare ourselves with the greatest humility
arrive at greater clarity about his own personality is to look at

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The great founders of the religions
there were great individuals and many people connected with them.
Thoughts of great spiritual
with the outer world have arrived, as they had to. A great

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is inspired. Think of Dante, of all the great Italian artists.
during the last thirteen days before birth. This is the great
philosopher who had written the article was regarded as a great
Platonist, as a great logician. He himself said that he devoted

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which was of great importance for many who

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human soul as the case may be. Approaching the great All, we
towards that which the great universe revealed to humanity.
This is the great tableau at the closing of
great work in world literature which allows us to lay our eyes
more accomplished through the fact that great power flowed into
because the greatest good is that towards which mankind should

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is in great measure only outside occurrence, far less the history of
active in the human being, but what constitutes the greatest thing in
that the great Sun Spirit now no longer remained the Sun Spirit, but
And the Scholastics in their greatness — they really are great

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of earthly conditions alone have to be considered is the great
great renown — anyone who can get to the depths of what this
even greater and more significant a primordial, archetypal wisdom.
incarnation, are the great Teachers of humanity. Man knew that he
them as great Teachers had gone forth into the Cosmos, that they were
moral impression upon us. We can describe him in great detail. Our

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world lies open, has both kinds of experiences, but in far greater
spiritual Moon Beings who were the great Teachers during the age of
philosophers who give a great deal of thought to it. Just think: if
understands the world around him was by nature capable of great joy,
great happiness, in the preceding life. That is very interesting: men
interest at all has great significance in life. In this respect,
environment. This is of great importance for the soul. If a man is
warlike undertakings, often calling for a great deal of manoeuvring

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“The world surrounding us is Maya, the great illusion.”
of far greater splendour is experienced as we gaze downwards now
that the great problem is there being solved. When I have dealings
consider one such fact. At the time of Charles the Great in European
called to his Court the greatest sages of Western Asia, but a
offer. At the time when Charles the Great was struggling with
in which Charles the Great lived are not comparable in any way with
unessentials and the essentials in respect of the great affairs of
counsellor of Haroun al Raschid, and for that epoch a man of great
— a personality endowed with great powers of initiative. Such
great deal. And then, in the form appropriate to the epoch, this
Europe. He too was a great and gifted organiser but the effects of
it in a trivial way — they met in Middle Europe. And a great

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the modern age? Where are they, these great personalities who worked
past, we find deep and profound Mysteries, great Initiates, in
realise how greatly earthly Maya, the great illusion, the semblance
excellent constructor might well have led to my great affection for
greatly loved teacher, I was guided to his earlier incarnation. With
greatest pomp and pageantry to Constantinople and hidden under a
obscured. When such things are investigated, a great deal in history
themselves have done a great deal to garble and falsify history in
the great majority of people belonging to a certain class. Strange as
all its great setting and its imagery were no longer understood. The
does not tally with the realities and a great deal of what was
about me as the founder of Anthroposophy. In The Great Secret,
an even greater open mindedness what I had to say to you in

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
that now can be retrieved only with great difficulty. Just as
Christ is most clearly evident, and the great significance of
Assisi and the great Dominicans who reflected the wonderful
with such a clear image of the great truths they practiced
theory and practice. Of the great Dominicans, St. Thomas Aquinas

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
clear when one looks at two great individuals who prepared
look at another great representative of Christianity: Thomas
great thinkers who preferred intellectual work to the wisdom

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world conception that has reached such a great development in the
natural-scientific world conception achieved the greatest
great and imposing as it is today. Many details clearly show
religious world conception, the great riddle was the riddle of
life on earth. Birth was the great problem. “What is man's
task on earth?” was the great question. Today, we look at
the great problem connected with the true essence of man's
here as anthroposophical spiritual science. But a great number of
of freedom. The human organism has acquired a greater
thought, which has rendered us such great services particularly
centuries brought us the greatness of natural science. We cannot,

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plane into the spiritual worlds, in spite of the great gulf which
can learn to read this great script if, on the Earth, we have accepted
greatness. Man says to himself: “In the world of the stars I
deeply on this concept it will become a great and might power within

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greater reversal of this kind. Those who believe themselves convinced
great intelligence, has spoken about only seven world riddles, but
say that by ever greater application of inner work, working away from
A great deal is
first experience a great deal of disappointment, disappointment that
arises because what is experienced in this way differs a great deal
every sentence the great modern scholar who was as well acquainted
years a condition of the earth will have to arise in which a great
less significant, but this one becomes greater than the others.
significant organ. Hence, a great deal depends upon our consciousness
But how much greater a
great and significant it would be if there were no longer a
reliable, and great path of natural scientific investigation. Last
humanity is now tragically experiencing. A great deal is being
great in the natural sciences but can never intervene formatively in
greater and greater elaboration of the conceptions regarding reality

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acquainted with them would result in great confusion. We will not say
another, a great deal is done for the life in the spiritual world.
ourselves with a great deal that is accomplished with propaganda, we
regardless of the initial great enthusiasm from which they derive
developed a great deal of love, of course (for having to remain is a
Today the human being is already developing a great many concepts,
this fully, however, one must know a great deal more. One must know,
referring pertains, of course, to greater historical impulses.
essential individuals in the greatly significant mission movement
territory but must receive from one another what is good and great in
increase power and power and power. And the great danger emerging
and then believes that what he fails to see is not there. A great
called “history,” a great deal whose influence is quite
humanity will have to decide to remain ignorant about a great deal
cannot be otherwise, but man must be conscious of them. The great
sub-earthly, to a much greater degree than the anthroposophical

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dangers related to this matter must be regarded with great concern.
essentially only a consequence of what is transpiring in the great
themselves were concerned, they had to know and understand the great
but how it is metamorphosed depends greatly upon man. Two significant

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in the presence of these great and powerful pictures — this was
So if we consider the members of man in the light of the great
become always greater. If man only once reaches the point of intensely
great moment in his life, when he can say: “Here I stand with my
other great founders of religions. Into the life of Jesus of Nazareth
revealed itself in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. All great religions

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great religions, and in so far as we study them at their points of
have flowed out of what great initiates have been able to give to men.
great truths of initiation.
the great truths of the Gospels. Perhaps he has already attained also
great truth which is valid not only for Buddhism but for all men, and
such a way that they had to crowd in a great deal of what man can
incarnations occur as in this fourth period. Men had to do a great
incarnation. Thence the remarkable fact that Pythagoras, the great
Greeks, even the greatest among them, laid especial value on what the
post-Atlantean period men will add the great teachings of Karma
my Karma, and that it comes to me because it is my Karma, my great
great and understanding union, the synthesis of the religious

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are the greatest conjurers of spirits. Every
doesn't look at these experiences in the light of a still greater

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Humanity as a whole has a very short memory for great events
worms and fishes, could develop. It was the great naturalist
which occupied him during his whole life as his greatest most
pious feelings to the great God of nature Who speaks through
he feels himself in the world as in a great, beautiful,
second part lay there sealed, like the great testament to be
needed for its development a great experience — one
so great a significance for this city — the Cathedral.
great idea of the architect celebrated a resurrection and he
world so as to recognize the spirit ruling within. Great and
God”. Just as the great Spirit of Nature spoke to the
great Spirit of Existence in the world of Spirit speak to him
he leads him out into the great, exterior world — the
touch that Great Fact, which Goethe incorporated into his
masculine of the cosmic world. That is the great secret

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contains spiritual ideas. We can do a great service to souls who have

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the world recognises as the great men of history were not really the
greatest; the greatest, the Initiates, kept in the background.
“Jacob, Jacob, today you are small, but one day you will be great.
between Boehme and his visitor, who was a great Initiate, and the source
in the world. In this way all the great advances in the development
great treasure of occult knowledge of all ages to be made accessible

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Nor do these legends grow up by chance: the great Initiates created
will take much greater care to speak the truth and avoid lies than if
a battle appears like a great thunderstorm, fiery flashes of lightning,
need not involve any great discoveries; they may belong to everyday

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certain relationship; but even so there is a great, decisive difference
entire life appears before his soul in a moment, like a great tableau.
Something like this can happen during life, in rare moments of great
from a great height, when death seems imminent, may see his whole life
him, for he will have worked greatly on himself. The remaining part

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power to the great laws of nature, it was the wisdom of nature which
spiritual affinity continues with great intensity. The circumstances of

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the great changes in the countenance of the Earth, and also the greatly
importance. It may happen that a person who went through a great deal

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faculties so early. Our age sins greatly in this respect. Care must
of the great men of history, but there must be no talk of “this
teachers, since the future of mankind depends on it. Here a great
These are the great basic
Theosophy can be drawn from a study of the great law of karma: a law
of karma answers the great human question: why are children born into
to wealth, perhaps endowed also with great talents and surrounded by
to failure — or a child may have great abilities but no chance
everyone recognises, and it is this great natural law of cause and effect
the world is really one great unity and brotherhood. And just as in

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ideas, experiences, feelings, and all this produces great changes in
the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon, for example, were cholerics.
anything else. If, however, a man has learnt a great deal from experience
was this that gave occult leaders their great power.
related to physical heredity? Physical heredity plays a great role;
Bernoulli was a great mathematician, and eight other gifted mathematicians
to the next. In a family, then, where a great deal of music is performed,

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himself a great deal that was later externalised. And today he still
members of the Order were specially trained for their great work. The
even of the external world. We are led to these great interconnections by
into a force, and he carries a great number of such forces with him

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individualities, we find a remarkable passage. But the great Initiates

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a great cosmic event took place: the whole vast ether-body contracted
A great number of the
Moon carried off with it a great part of the forces that human beings
within himself. And with this something further of great importance
in consequence the Earth had to endure great upheavals, convulsions
had greatly changed, and had acquired a form which resembled the form

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how the great Initiate selected from the primal Semites, who were living
The Indian could find no Divinity in nature; it was in great and powerful
a great wisdom governing all natural processes; that everything happened
in accordance with great laws, and these they tried to fathom. The ancient
There is a great and powerful

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of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
over egotistically to them. The greatest artists owe their greatest
Here, in place of individual Gurus, there is one great Guru, Christ
way, which leaves the pupil with the greatest possible independence.

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by the great teachers of humanity, conditions were much simpler: stealing
strive to need nothing. Even if you have great possessions, in so far as
a great loss for human development, especially for development in the
be a great change. Man will learn to extend the range of his innate
is an idea which opens up a great perspective for the future; and when
the great Guru is Christ Jesus Himself. Hence it is essential to have
the great Guru Himself and can itself be a source of instruction. This
Washing of the Feet. We must understand the significance of this great

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learned men were also those of the greatest faith and piety; and for
“I”. It is in the whole great world outside, in the sun
only a small part of the Great Self outside. Certain methods of so-called
but to seek to know the Great Self which shines down into us. The lower
world and to gaze into themselves. That is a great illusion, for then
we study as how we study. If we study the great truths, for instance
nothing about planetary systems, we show great egoism. True wisdom
connection between the great world and the small, or between man and the
way? There is a great difference between the Earth seen by the occultist
it as merely a sort of great lifeless ball, with an interior not very
moment when we think and feel, we are working on the great structure of
as the one great Truth. The more a man renounces himself and sets his
own opinions aside, becoming instead a channel for the great Truth,

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awakens a great force in the soul, that a man needs once he can ascend

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of great importance to do exercises such as the following. At first,

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influences. What the eye sees is of far greater importance, for it
great parson”. Because there emanated such a deepening from
these great souls, the Rhine was named at that time, “Europe's
Great Parson Street”. Do you know where these soul forces were
great ideas of initiates. Human souls take up the force of these
fact, they lived in vessels, under the influence of great initiates,
reflected image. To present this in greater detail would take us too
turf, slime or spinach was formed. The greatest densification

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reflection lets one see this. It's the greatest riddle for modern
him in himself has accomplished a great deal. One who does this will
more spirituality into life and make the light and life that the great
your goal and at the great masters who stand by us.

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however, a deep reason for the great Pythagoras to tell his pupils
him, On the Divisions in Nature which reveals a great
inner warmth poured itself out over great numbers of people. Not only
greatest things in the world have gone forth from the thoughts of the
life a great deal can be done by observing certain laws of education.
great importance. This is why, in the past, at the direction of those

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the great world, the macrocosmos; in us, the small world, the
which, to be sure, has a great future connection with the heart. At
forth all that is in the world today is the great prototype of men.
grouping of the five group souls, the four of man around the great
The time will then draw near in which great changes will take
sword projecting from his mouth. In a symbolism of great profundity,
essence of world force and of great cosmic essence. This world spirit

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First the Egyptian age with all that belonged to it — and a great
deal belonged to it — then the Greco-Latin age with its great
its sculptures, those great, ideal, and perfect human forms described
cloud out of which develop a great number of similar little children,
say something of the greatest significance if we do but consider them
roll. When the great Atlantean flood took place, the knowledge of the

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flexibility of thought forms. This is of great importance for him.

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learn to understand this again, for he would then understand the great
things which to modern thinking — at least to the greater part of
Nevertheless, it is of great use to the inner being of man to dwell on
spiritual, will have a great influence on educational principles.
Spiritual Science will again prove to be a great, a universal remedy,
ETERNAL; she is the great HEALING PRINCIPLE to which humanity will
After the great Atlantean flood, in the first holy ancient Indian
active today, and what will go on working into the great to-morrow of

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greater part of what is most essential is hidden from the outer
in autumn a reaper cuts corn the clairvoyant sees great currents of a
feels pleasure, it has a sensation of well-being. Great currents of
together again it would cause very great pain. The same fact may be
One great Initiate spoke about this in a very significant manner.
when it develops the flower from outside? It does something of great
body. There is a great difference between human beings in this
of guardian angels. These guardian angels have a great duty to
more, or that he looks up to his Angel as his great pattern, it is

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Thus we pass to greater and ever greater grades of' Spiritual Beings,
These Beings are all greater than the man of today, but in the next
be as great as the Angels are now; and he will continually expand to
ever greater degrees of perfection. This is also the case as regards
although on Saturn they were greater than the humanity of today, they

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If you go back to a time long before the great catastrophe swept
During the Atlantean period man had great power over the shape of his
downwards on the other. Through this something else of great
great importance is here involved. If man had reached the middle of
today, and who prepared him for the great event of the descent of the
a very great influence; an age when there was a consciousness among
expression, in forms of art, to the great conceptions of the world.

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but thoughts and passions of all sorts worked into a great piece of
evolution. There is, of course, a great difference in animals; between
higher forces whose leader is Christ — the great Sun-Spirit
who acted as great teachers in the Atlantean schools of initiation.
to him the great impulse for the future.

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first consider the great world and then look down to the limited
its particular mission in the great household of cosmic existence.
earth-moon. In the great universe evolution proceeds in such a way
remarkable quality. These beings possessed a great deal, but one thing
because of the blood tie. This was a great time of preparation for
are of greater value than the mere observation of external objects. In

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greater insight that lets one oversee things better without much
deliberation. The greater force doesn't exhaust us, but summons
time it gives one a feeling of great joy.

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a very great purpose.
good; he gives to the poor. The gift calls forth great thankfulness in
for the hidden world of the spirit; they looked with great reverence
partakers of this lost world. The first great age of post-Atlantean
for the spiritual world was so great that men strove by artificial
In the great migration towards the East there was another group which
“chosen people,” had to make preparation for the greatest
Testament, who in their Testament possessed the greatest and most
personality. Those with the greatest spiritual force, who had remained

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supreme Being — the great Sun-Spirit. This is the meaning of what
age, it is necessary to touch the fringe of a great mystery which
had already passed through three great epochs; the third being the
epoch came to an end through great fire catastrophes; the Atlantean
great subdivisions; the ancient Indian, the Persian, the Egyptian, the
they would have developed greater powers) or whether they would take
great mystery.
Christ — the great Sun-Spirit — the effect reached even into
something of very great importance! A part of the world is to be
physical plane, and having developed so great a love for it, and
side clear and bright and restored the Christ to him with even greater
only a fact of great importance to man, but is of infinite importance

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gives us no direct conviction of this union, although it is a great
longer quite correct; even in Theosophical handbooks great mistakes
willing to recognize such secret connection of the great laws of the
religion, as he felt the great thoughts of Divinity to be reflected in
What else was the great effort of Richard Wagner than a spiritual
greater than Christ that does not decide anything, for this depends on

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Science with its wonderful achievements and great expansion, and to certain
Anthroposophy. (I have dealt at greater length with this tendency of all
case, but Aristotle states the reverse, and I have greater faith in
particularly strong impulse in the direction given by the great
of far greater interest to us at the present moment is this web in the
sound theory of knowledge; secondly (and this is of great importance), the
great philosophers who lived and worked after Kant would not have been so
the greatest philosopher in the world being understood. People will only by

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east. Then the great Flood came and after that colonies were

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understanding of the revelation regarding the greatness, the
these ancient Rishis, these great teachers of the
who had to prepare the great event through which the spiritual,
gigantic pyramids were built. A great army of people was needed
there was still great effectiveness of these physical forces.
fountainhead, the great World-I, that the realm of the surging,
image of the individual “I,” that was the great
From these viewpoints we will understand how this great
regarding the divine had to be after-images of the great
people to have time to prepare for the greatest event, the
Mystery of Golgotha, then one sees exactly what a great

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its inner ordering something of the laws of the great cosmic system.
of the great cosmic connections, and of the examination and testing of
will see that even those great and all-embracing truths which have
But now you will find that a testing of this kind requires great
use? Is it not right that he should learn a great deal, and especially
to learn how to think the thoughts with greater exactitude, came and
this respect and able to see a great deal. Or again, the other case is
possible: A man who knows a great deal about the theosophical truths
their former incarnations? This question is of the greatest
a greater or less degree — because in those times they had not
occupies itself with analysis. Hence the greater simplicity of the
world is taken away. Such a man may certainly be able to see a great

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as in other spheres it soon becomes evident to a greater or lesser
divine it, he will learn with greater and greater precision through
earth in the macrocosm, in the great world, repeat itself in man, the
friends, that in this moment something of great importance is being
comets, you would realize how great and powerful it is for the soul —
These matters are of the greatest importance in the
The comets appear at great intervals of time. Let us
continue, a new appearance of it might bring about a great
connection with the greatest tasks of spiritual life in — our
tomorrow we may understand through greater relationships an important
will speak tomorrow about the great spiritual meaning of our time.

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great achievements of humanity, what we call the characteristic
in the burning bush as the God of the elements. It was a great
of Christianity. We thus have the preparation for this great event in
without as the great law of human action. Just as the World-I streams
of initiation yield as the great spiritual teachings about the
something demanded by our times. To prepare humanity for great
great Christ event. We have seen that humanity has now experienced
again in Christian inwardness the great moment that Moses experienced
Damascus. The greatness and power of the next age will consist in the
Christ Jesus will become greater and greater. Those human beings are
himself as the Christ created a great sensation. In the seventeenth
as the event that signifies the greatest turning point in the
greater Christ will appear to them, the mightier He will appear! When

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connection sheds a great deal of light upon questions such as: What
as the great achievements of humanity, as the fundamental
Elements. And it was a great advance when, through the teachings of
founding of Christianity. The preparation for this great event was
thunder, in the great revelation from the Elements of laws for men.
of a great, supremely gifted man of whose preaching it was said that
with a power as great as that of the revelation from the Elements to Moses
great spiritual teachings of the cosmic secrets yielded by the
great moments in the process of evolution is among the tasks of
the great impulse experienced by Moses through the vision of the
repetition of the event of Damascus. The great and momentous feature
be able to perceive the etheric body of Christ as an even greater
created a great sensation. In the seventeenth century a man who
years for a greater and greater number of human beings, there will
men achieve, the greater and mightier will Christ appear to them to

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time, when we go out into the streets of a great city and
become for many of those who want to be regarded in the great
great Universe out of which man is born, in order that our
great world of Nature. They were full of thanksgiving for the
sun's rays, full of reverence for the great Universe —
repose to a state of exultant abandonment to great
devoted a great deal of time to research among the Germanic
among the country people. Later on he told me a great deal
even greater significance. We know that in the Mysteries
great a certainty there stands before our souls the
Religion, Art and in the whole life of humanity. The great
will celebrate the great Easter Festival, the Resurrection

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for example about the reincarnations of the great leader of the ancient
upon. As soon as we descend from the great truths concerning the universe
as pervaded and woven through by Spirit, from the great cosmic laws
evolution and human happenings, and that in the greatest, most significant
through the culture-epochs after the great Atlantean catastrophe —
to-day. This applies, shall we say, to Hermes, the great Teacher of the
in the physical world of great events of the preceding period.
There was once a great
prior to the great Atlantean catastrophe.
the great catastrophe.” Xisuthros then tells Gilgamish: “What
Mysteries of Diana of Ephesus and in the Ephesian temple. A great deal
flings the burning torch on the day when Alexander the Great is born
— the man who is all personality! Alexander the Great stands there
the Great stands there as the shadow image of Gilgamish, as a projection
the physical plane, is Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great.
epoch there is carried over, as it were, by Alexander the Great but
in order that the great achievements of the Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean
of greatest significance in the fourth culture-epoch developed, when
Christianity was already in existence. There the great scholars were
— Alexander the Great. For now, through the very existence of
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the folk-individualities and under this influence a very great deal
the greatest difficulties, led the armies to victory and the King to
still greater things. The girl is of appealing beauty and manly
and greatly venerated master! I commend myself to you in all humility,
any great number of men to look back into their earlier incarnations.
respective gifts differed so greatly, we see the same kind of co-operation
a whole series of great names in history as those of his former incarnations
treated with great earnestness, there must be no unlawful play of fancy,
journeying, Gilgamish was brought to the great Atlantean Being, Xisuthros,
the test, Isis again signifies something of great importance, namely
great inaugurator of ancient Egyptian culture, it must be said that
of ancient Egypt there was greater interplay between these two aspects,
itself. Not long ago I was talking to a philosopher who sets great store

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came into consideration. Other forces of great significance intervene
perpetually in human life, in every incarnation, to a greater or less
had already been achieved during the last epochs preceding the great
the great catastrophe by which the whole Post-Atlantean epoch will be
the urge has arisen instinctively in personalities of great artistic
vividly in the great woman mathematician Hypatia, in whom all the mathematical
universal spirit of later history, one who had a great influence upon
reincarnation with a grand and divine object for the few. Those great
the Macedonian and Napoleon the Great in the realm of physical conquest
Now it is of the greatest
a great educative principle was now be experienced through the medium
be no great loss if the larger part of these volumes had been burnt;
by higher worlds. Shall we then wonder that the greatest Spirits of

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Babylonian people presented a great riddle to historical research in
of greatness and significance existed in the regions which later on
very fact that through our many different languages we express a great
times of the greatest antiquity we find something like a primal human
learn to have at least some respect for that still great and powerful
the heavens possessed by the Babylonians, and for their great mission,
man as an earthly personality, mirrors the great law of the heavens.
an 10 — a number which causes great difficulty when it has to
death another grandchild is born, and a great-granddaughter 9,996 days
the first grandchild and the death of the grandmother, a great grandchild
has collected a great deal of such material, he says: “Periods
by, there is much to be found that sheds great illumination on the occult
to Greek culture with overwhelming greatness and depth of spirituality,
was feared that his death would cause too great an uproar, and because
crept into Julian's writings against the Christians, we know what greatness
of great honour in the traditional life of that time. Because, in line
he had originally set up his first great planisphere and the gilded
had been great and significant wisdom before his time; one who could

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as Tycho Brahe, the great astronomer, one thing may strike us particularly.
the greatness and power of the personality of Tycho Brahe, as outlined
worlds withdraws to the greatest extent, while what a man expresses
most closely related to man, is able to speak with the greatest directness.
the destiny of the great majority of mankind makes it inevitable that
have to submit to a great deal of revision in the course of the next
element already asserted itself to a somewhat greater degree. The Spirits
after 25,000 to 26,000 years. But between these great periods of time
the greatest physical transformation of all, the most drastic action
influence upon the physical and the greatest influence, precisely of
that there may he a point in history where the reverse of the great
as though impelled to express with the greatest possible precision how
Hence we see that this year 1250 was the starting-point of great and
it was the starting-point of Scholasticism, which is greatly
There are two points of time, one of them marked by a great upheaval
this period there lies the starting-point for great revelations; that
in greatest intensity from this very starting-point, although there
happens on the earth is brought about by great celestial conditions,
This is of great importance,
this is what I wanted to bring before you today — how the great

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Seleucid anchors … Maha aya=the great nonexistence.

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profound, so infinitely great. The poems of Aeschylus should not on
for it must be realised that the full greatness of what lived in Aeschylus
upsurge of the old temple-treasures something so great could be imparted
course with the greatest possible happiness and inner peace? To this
an inspiration not easy to observe but no less great for all that, which
things which to a great extent are right. For it is extraordinarily
When they looked back to the great figures of history in pre-Christian
the great mechanistic thinker, taught humanity in terms of the intellect

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a great part with us, you will also have seen from the way in which
in the great world, these beings act upon us through this colour and
dragon is vanquished by a great being who belongs to the higher Hierarchies
which has been touched upon today, and the greatest sins are committed

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think back to something that caused you great pain ten or twenty
greatest philologist or linguist has to learn his mother-tongue by
greater if we had not done this thing. Many such actions are marked
them through mere reflection, nor that with great respect for his
forces become more fertile, more full of confidence, a greater

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age was so great that until the year 1822 his book was on the Index,
— the great merits of which and therewith its significance as a
to be heard perpetually and give rise to a great deal that deludes
great deal of hidden egoism.
great earnestness for it must be established that Anthroposophy has a
greatest wisdom in life comes from our failures; we learn from our
benediction possible, consciousness of the great law of karma must

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Here it's of the greatest importance for us to stand firmly at
Culture will greatly impress Europeans, for since it goes back to
greater spiritual significance. Ku Hung Ming is a bright man. What he

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esoteric lesson can be held on a Friday, because of the great

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of the greatest thankfulness for this. Es wirkt mich, It works me, that

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earth-mysteries, in which the decision is made for the great
the Mysteries, the great spiritual decisions are made, there
Mars-sphere, we must consider the following. A great decisive
great and powerful, on the one side, yet on the other the rules
hearts, disciples of Francis of Assisi or of his great teacher,
and essence of Mars. For Mars, the Buddha has become the great
been acquired on earth. It is the greatest short-sightedness of
germ unites something immeasurably great and significant,
“Two things have made a great impression on me: the

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to observe that he is really a spectator to a far greater extent than

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,

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There is a great difference between one soul and another here
may become of great importance for the intercourse between
common knowledge, is going to be of great significance.
Just imagine the great upheaval, one might also say of the
and the great majority were incarnated in Egypto-Chaldaic
perhaps find it especially when outwardly the greatest

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find that he passed by many things in the world with great
indifference and thereby weakened his ego a great deal. It's a

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century, a greatness which cannot be sufficiently admired. When one
partakers in things of great significance.
still greater importance. When a promotion of Michael has been

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from many different sides, and have seen it to be the great centre of
the Christ Event as the great centre of gravity of human evolution.
the great transition was occurring from a life in outward surroundings
bring a greater deepening to human souls, and which will have an
The Event itself stands there as the great turning-point in human

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great riddles of existence scientifically from a different
fact that great and outstanding scientists of the present time
a book, even from a scientific viewpoint, has great
great emphasis to the need for the coming into being of a
by Dubois-Reymond, the great physiologist, which I have
which the human soul turns to in great longing
greater view of life. We guide the will into our life of images
about the connection of air to a greater mass of air which is
any particular religious confession. It is the greatest

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great unconscious sphere of purely material atoms and
nature of man independently of the bodily nature. However great
city — a city where a great
It is a great moment when the scientist of spirit has
arbitrarily. — It is a great
the great mysteries of existence. One feels as a scientist of
Of all the great number of personalities who could be
in the world as belonging to a great, beautiful, worthy
nature of the outer world, and that the great harmony between

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out with the greatest hopes of achieving something, but soon
Such examples he describes in great numbers, and others have
exercises is a great help in enabling something to happen.
great mistake to imagine that the scientist of spirit becomes a
means a great deal to those who look at life in a one-sided
great discovery that we make.
For they indeed make great demands upon us. We have to take
the rocks of human evolution, however great the pressure
through, however great the weight of opposition and slander

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great family, to cut each other to pieces. This judgment, the
each day brings a very great deal. Catastrophic events breaking
Germany who were deceived and thought he was a great man for
says, who perhaps even make great mistakes. What Grimm and
great difference — on the one hand a personal
Wilson could offer no greater proof of what he described as
being, inasmuch as he belongs to the great dream of history
evolved, and that a great change then comes about, under whose
happens in history when we are able to appreciate such great,
science of spirit certainly leads to the great religious
if they found that we have constantly to speak about the great
out of the great spirit out of which they spoke then?
than the kind of understanding that has produced such great

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teacher — I mean, as the latest great teacher,
something that, to you at least, is of greatest
conviction have been called to think-through the great
greater magnitude which we are bound to encounter in the
spoke immediately before the great world-war catastrophe.
that is the great anxiety regarding civilization that one
this place for years as the greatest need for the present
in the world of men considers as the greatest
things. Those people are the greatest menaces to mankind
there are really great and sudden changes. Just such a
Goethe had a great comprehensive conception of the
evolution of mankind. For that is the great misfortune,
significant. There is a great difference between the men
the best examinations were the greatest camels. Ah! but
precisely in the spiritual life that a great change must
people to extricate themselves from the great illusion
evolution of mankind has already brought about a great
through the great demands created on the one hand by the
increased railroad trade, and on the other by the great
about the great talent that went into the improvement;
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greater contrast to the life that flows out of your
finds that there is no greater contrast to the particular
here on the physical plane. They are the two great
That is the greatest illusion. It is to no purpose to
because it can be a great help to those who think
science which has made this great progress, which has so
instance; it says the greatest nonsense about feeling
sensory nerves and motor nerves. There is no greater
indicate to you that speech has a great significance for
is a man of our time who has developed great acuteness in
true. One may have a great respect for this cleverness
believe is a spiritual content. It is a great danger.

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in the great world evolution of mankind. And it is clear
the great Atlantean catastrophe which made the
scientific knowledge has made great, by which we have
principle of the smallest amount of force. I was greatly
his books, and they had a great influence over many
The great
a great deal in this connection that would show you,that
actual participation in the great rhythmic swing of the
words, that great spirit that breathes when we are born
life-days; a great sun-year consists of 25,920 of our

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have had to remark how this man has followed up a really great book on
greater emphasis how, on the one hand, bourgeois culture is on the
great banks (Gold heart)”. Thus this scientist seeks a heart for
his social organism and finds it in the collecting centres of the great
but understand the great social impulses, perhaps we do not value this
through to things. Those today who talk a great deal about freedom from
a great mass of the people and to found institutions for their higher
From this, and from a great deal of the same nature, you will realise
but with it will go the greater part of such examinations in their
great deal of physical culture that is decadent and belongs to the past;
hand-in-hand with geography. It would be of the greatest importance for
sphere children today learn a great deal only to forget it, only to be
been brought to such a stage through the work of great minds in the past,
which receives great praise when coming from the ordinary natural
intelligible to everyone what I have shown to be a great leap

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the very great task s at present facing us, insof ar as, out of the very
the teaching who must rise to the level of the great and all-embracirg
experience. In the educational sphere itself a great deal is said against
admiration as a great achievement; otherwise we shall never make any
teacher must be directed towards the great world phenomena; he must be
for instance, of the great impulse of Goetheanism has flowed into the
build this railway we see here as a great political problem of world
great, conspicuous world affair. Indeed, many people have never noticed
hearing of these great world events. Because of this we are experiencing
today the comfortless fact of how entirely ignorant a great part of the
that bears fruit if people will not trouble to rise to the great points
there have played the great political impulses so damaging at present to
all the great impulses in the political life of the present time have
among us here, in great historical impulses. Whoever knows how to study
hours, with great diligence and keenness. But I have repeatedly heard a
things. Then we shall see that much of what today is looked upon as great
obviously no will to enter into the great contemporary questions and
seldom that, when it is a matter of discussing the great questions of the
way as they proceeded before the war catastrophe. A great proportion of

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those great social problems which mankind is urgently called
greater and ever greater grew the following of this Utopia in
are obliged to speak, because the great audit of accounts is
ground from which one can attempt to approach the great
said, that the great anxiety, the great problem of
basis for a great science of the natural world, but is bound to
for great measures of social reform. This university-made
the World-Catastrophe, which is the great
themselves evolve what then is to be the salvation of the great
is the great creed, and such the mis-practice of life amongst
those great questions were gathering, which to-day can only
about which people are fighting today, there is a great deal
consequences, this great, new, up-welling life-impulse,
of life in all the great questions of world-politics in modern
itself! — Or else, — to the great misfortune of the
one which sets a great task before us; the task of combining

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is part of some social activity. We meet with a great deal of this kind.
Here we have a great and
particularly great significance for the lower classes in a school —
colosally stupid where the great problems of man kind are concerned,
requirement for a social science. This sociology seeks to be great by
way out into life in such a way that our greatest inner satisfaction
naturally great-hearted German people a governmental automaton, a machine
embarking on the great tasks of the present time. There is something
The task is great, but the
greatness of the task must be vividly before us. What is set before

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A great
lawgivers, had to point with great severity to the
took great pleasure in saying: “Goethe's Faust
the value or words today, there is no great sense in
to me, a great number of people today want to conjure up
greater tyranny and much worse conditions of life than
what has it been else then the great Protector of

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science, but which sheds great light on the mystery of man's being.
days man was still to a great extent united with nature; he did not
is already responsible for the great progress made in natural
scientific thinking. However great Plato and Aristotle were, they did
spiritual scientist sees this as the greatest event that has ever
strong to an ever greater and greater degree.
Nazareth,’ a person no greater than a somewhat more
this Impulse, which is the greatest and most powerful Impulse in the
knowledge in order to show mankind the greatest Event of human
disharmonious to an ever greater degree — because the
evolution into the age of great and outstanding perceptions of an
which had its beginnings in the Great Age of Germany. Then what is
greatest need.
shall acquire great respect for their intellectual
ours that has such a great heritage, to tread the path to the spirit

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mother-body. Now this breathing signifies a very great deal for the
friends, it makes a very great difference whether one teacher of the

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first we shall attach great importance to cultivating the
and his greatest imaginable joy will be when he puts

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influenced great numbers of people, founded its educational standards
in it the character of existence or being are subject to a great
One of the great mistakes of the last period of man's evolution during
such. Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am), is the greatest
consciousness will is really a very great enigma. It is the crux of
pre-natal life. And this cognising, which possesses great reality
heightened antipathy. You could have no memory if you had so great a
great love, albeit selfish love, we want to hold it fast in the body,
easily see that there is a great difference between the formation of

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great veneration — whereas it is absent from Occidental
life as a day in the great year of the universe, so that again
great cosmic process. If you look at it more closely, the

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from a misconception of a really great achievement of physical
It is the great stumbling-block to any understanding of man. For as
This question presents a great dilemma for the philosophy of modern
either; for a great many animals, and particularly the higher animals,
upon which great cosmic events continuously play themselves out. I

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as if doctors, turning into great pedagogues, were to
technical-industrial bias, we should render the school a great
service. For just imagine what a great cultural problem the
from seven to fifteen years of age; in these years a great deal
what the child can love, but he can absorb a great deal of
of the greatest importance, particularly socially, will be the
it is always tyranny to attach the greatest value to the prose,
Only in linking up in this way with the great facts of the

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himself (to a greater or lesser degree) as a plurality, in contrast to
done again. I do not, however, lay the greatest stress on the mental
This has a great significance in the development of the human being.
We must take great care that there are men who know that progress in
presentation of the thing is of the greatest importance: after that it
has a great effect upon the development of the will. In the first

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say a great deal to the child which he will only understand
educating conceals a great tragedy, and this tragedy again is
assimilation of teaching in this case is of the greatest
into play. The greatest value must not first of all be attached
acquire a feeling which has also to a great degree already died
structure of language contains the greatest wisdom. And you can
language works at its construction means a great deal. This
ceremony, people would have been stunned by it, so great was

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This can show us to what a great extent willing in man's practical
dispute which — at all events externally — was of great
the eye, the ear, the nose, etc., all in one great abstraction as
should find such a great difference between them that we should lose

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to the part. This has the great advantage for education and
greatness! Not to mention the people who knew him, whom

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need to light a ball of paper and immediately great clouds of smoke
of sleep. For if you were awake it would mean the greatest pain
really experiences in such action, with a greatly dimmed consciousness
“Faust” — at least the greater part of it. This was how

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summarize the steps taken in great detail, this is the
greater maturity, what he could not understand before. There
great mark of progress that their former state is at last a
greatly when the children are passed every year to a fresh
are people who can remember great passages of prose in contrast
there don't even want to know anything about the greatest
learnt a great deal, that they have gone far beyond

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great many old people become quite feeble-minded.” A favourite
consistency, the materialists argue that even such a great man as Kant
get nothing at all from the book as a whole, but a great deal from

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here it is of great importance to know that the development to
to the great God of nature — a rebellion against what
himself towards that end, he won Schiller's great admiration

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that the interest we arouse for the animal world becomes greater and
greater. The greater the interest such lessons arouse the more they
great extent towards making his memory strong and efficient. For the
combinations of the senses. Besides that, we have a great many

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point he begins to take an inner interest in the great
again does the child a great deal of harm. We should concern
great a distance from life and teach the child empty
infected with the thought: “Of course I know a great deal

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life. That is to say, you must take great care to talk over with the
It is of very great importance to make it your constant and conscious
rightly and with greatest power.
that the world is moral. This is the greatness and sublimity in the
imitated. Thus the child lives in the past and is to a great extent a

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will achieve a great deal by simply remembering that for
all so-called foreign language teaching the greatest waste of
process their thoughts are borrowed to a greater extent from
will take you yourself a great deal of time to discover

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greater capacity for seeing forms, they were not wrong in speaking of
I have always found that for most men there is a great difficulty in
the vertebral forms. This made a great impression on Goethe. It drove
miniature; and the limbs as part of a great heavenly body which
you have great feelings for the universe which arise from ideas such
order to practise that great art of life, the art of education, are
only kindled by contemplation of the great universe and its

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curriculum, to pay attention to the greater or lesser aptitudes
are. But we shall nevertheless be able to remould to a great
to what gives the children the greatest imaginable pleasure: to
You will discover that it gives the children really great
in a foreign language greater regard must be paid to making
popular, such incidents are staged with great enthusiasm, and
composition to any great extent in the elementary
in this way. You will save a great deal of time and, besides

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absolutely unformed. This is the great secret of man: when he is born
that the child brings something of great consequence to meet you. He
someone who has greater possibilities than he. We must of course
than we are. We can learn a great deal from the articulation of
way we should inevitably have a great gap in human development. Man

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indicate the great rivers and draw their course on the
great ocean, and gradually open his eyes to the fact that there
greatest understanding to bear on such teaching. You can now
This, of course, imposes upon you a great responsibility, but
rock-substance. Particularly here you can do a great deal

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him ill. And if he can eat a great deal of unripe fruit, like
there is an illness the medicine of to-day sets the greatest value on
this, these gentlemen will not be able to bring about too great a
whole series of shadows. You make a great mistake if you believe that

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the subconscious plays a great part along with consciousness
great significance for the entire complexion of the human soul
must always remain a matter of great satisfaction to see people
certain branches of industry are of the very greatest benefit
such a notebook he would derive a great deal of benefit from
great joy, because it proves that geometry books written in
because the Benedictines are a Catholic order who take a great
Certainly, by overcoming great difficulties, he can learn it
difficulties. You do the child a great kindness if you teach
of great significance. We shall have to make compromises, as

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expression of something of great significance in the whole life of
out at the forehead. (This turning inside out is a process of great
towards these things unless we appreciate their very great
examination you are assimilating a great deal in opposition to your

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finishing touch. The great problems for us arise at the
not to estrange children too greatly from modern life.
great deal of simple talking with the children. We read to them
that is of great benefit to the growing child. The first school
instrument. This, again, will prove a great boon to the child.
see in this connection we must naturally pay great attention to

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A thing of the very greatest importance, a thing to be particularly

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it with feelings of greater obedience if it is sent to his
of nature. We have taken great pains, too — and I hope
and talk a great deal about themselves when they are still only
teach about plants so that a great deal is left to the child's

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do this as teachers, it would be greatly to be deplored. We
remembered it sufficiently. Naturally a great many things ought

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what spiritual angle they come. And there is still a great
a state of evolving. When the Great Flood of Atlantis had
a great step forward. It was the same in the second
example, during the Egypto-Chaldean period man had a great
for they may do great harm to what actually has to come
School belongs to the very greatest of them all.But that does

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page he finds a great deal to grumble at because the tone of
we are living, to a greater extent than we realise, within a
found in the Earth. When the great Atlantean flood had
not yet discovered and a great deal still rests in the bosom
humanity. A great deal too has already been said and has not

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conceive of the Earth as s great sphere in universal space,
very great deal will have to be done in the future if we are
incorrect theories have made the illusions far greater than
sense; but it must do so again to a greater degree. Men must
consciousness will be of great significance, especially
great deal of abstract talking today about the ages or
about and written about in the present day has no greater
judge with greater kindliness and not to be so critical,
spread. And a great many other things are connected with this

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learning. But that is not really true; there is no greater joy than
of the great festival that reminds us that the Christ entered our
Our great ideal is to cultivate this

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a great sum-total of the phenomena of Life is really included.
passage through the Roman world? It became that great System of Law
these Russian revolutionaries write to one another. They greatly

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is of great importance to have the right direction of ideas, at any
example, how great is the leap from kinematics into mechanics. The
so many times greater than the force needed to make a gramme go a
as to reveal the very great importance of what is here involved. For

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say it moves with a greater or lesser “velocity”. Let us
greater or it may be smaller. So long as we go no farther than to
accordingly, we shall say that the point has a greater or lesser
only happens to a slight extent we can still bear it; if to a great
observe as an objective phenomenon in Physics, is of great importance
in greater detail in due time. Now in and with the light the colours

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When I have had occasion in recent years to speak on any of the great
widespread sorrow of the times, and to recall only the greatest Event
You all know those persons who to a great extent are responsible,
greater part of these self-vindicating books?” I have tried from
become the great World-misunderstanding which now fills the hearts and
Ahriman's appearance on earth. A great many of the exponents of the
of the Divine and the Diabolical. It is the great error of modern
to them Divine, and Ahrimanic qualities. And a great part of that
Leonardo, who once as you know, painted in Milan his great picture,
wanted to put a great deal into it, and could never finish it, because

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goes through less matter — the force of it is greater than

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become the great world-misunderstanding which now fills the hearts and

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great significance. What I am trying to make clear is what here
a great difference there is between taking the phenomena purely as
Please set great store by this. Mere spun-out theories and

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speak of other great difficulties in the entrance of the Science of
importance to us, but it is of great importance to the Cosmos. This
taking in these great truths with the deep earnestness with which they
as the greatest illusion. What does the man of the present day really
make when we give ourselves up to the great illusion of modern
never tired of speaking of the greater value of pre-Socratic Greek
Socrates a great age came in for Mankind, an age which reached its
arisen the greatness of Greek culture itself, that unique ancient art,
Lucifer had given to the evolution of the earth, was the greatest
soul-content, however, is a great hallucination — certainly a
of the Mystery of Golgotha. Just as it is in the greatest interest of
his greatest interest that man should cherish more and more a form of
realize that a great part of the creeds existing today is the
No greater service could be done to Ahriman than to make sure that a
great number of people do not read anthroposophical literature. I have

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it still is to a great extent today. There have indeed been

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Friends, our bodily nature is indeed of the greatest interest even
great achievements of modern Physics; it is in truth a very great

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Science, through contemplation of the great Cosmic events. How does
sources — to the great human relations, and to feel for the whole

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like that is of untold significance; nothing could be of greater
or oscillations. We must make greater demands on the qualitative

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great and insistent are the demands of the present moment as regards
ideas. I had pointed out two great dangers in the domain of thought,
two expressions defining the two great foes of human spiritual
great period of German evolution, a personality such as Schiller, was
sorely needs is the greatest earnestness in the sphere of Spiritual

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had discovered something of very great significance. He had found
led upon the one hand to the great triumphs in materialistic
revolutions. They seem like great and shattering events in social
revolution has here been going on, far greater in its domain than
I cannot go into these phenomena in greater detail, but I should
and bone in different ways and have thus proved of great importance
madness! Often and often, when speaking of the greatest activities
great spiritual streams to which the web and woof of the world is
great all-embracing agencies of Cosmic Evolution.

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effective. At the beginning of the War we suffered greatly because

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19th century which has given a great deal of support to a
greatly in their capacity to react to the being of heat. Through
process. A great deal pertaining to our condition of life rests on
nothing of the kind. His stride is greater than that of the tortoise.
to a greater or lesser extent, are of such a nature that in order to
is not usually considered as empty space but the greatest possible
great a misleading effect on the observers of the 19th
great. This is because in the time since Goethe the whole physical
and are small and conceived of as separated by relatively great
through this pressure one can measure how great the temperature is. It
foundation. A great deal of pride is taken in this so-called
opposed to the real. The understanding of this is of great importance
heat in particular. There are also great inorganic processes that are
would be to disagree with reality. In the face of the great phenomena

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Also since the expansion is greater the higher the temperature, I have
whose denominator is greater than its numerator, then when I square or
occupied by the quicksilver becomes greater. It sinks at first, and
ancient Greeks. And at this time was formed that great chasm between
then it becomes a matter of great importance that entirely different
takes place, we have a great deal of difficulty in answering on the

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other. The greater the pressure the smaller the volume, and the
greater the volume the smaller must be the pressure acting on the gas.

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greater than the part, etc. The basis of our mathematical concepts
probably greatly astonish you. Let us suppose you have advanced
becoming a greater mechanist than before. An orderly occult training

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on the substance we are using. The tension is greater in the case of
considerably greater when we raise the temperature. When we cool the
sufficiently great pressure, it will melt at a temperature below its
Then we will have, indeed, taken a great step ahead. We have advanced

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gaseous also belongs to it. Now there comes about a great distinction

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if we would produce work. Only recollect how great a part of our
reaction of the whole great system as the reaction of my whole
great whole in which the perpetuum mobile seeks to arise. The form of
of similarity between matter and heat becomes greater and greater as I

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have seen that great difficulties arise when we try in this way to
heat to his surroundings. This in turn involves a smaller or greater
with a representation in the greatness of nature herself, which is an

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a great deal of body building. The nearer we approach the condition of
childhood, the greater the body building, and as we take on years

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such things, a great deal may be conjectured about the inner being of
over. Another great error in modern thought is to imagine that one
real understanding of the true greatness of oriental philosophy, for
that is great and holy in the oriental nature, he gains a knowledge
great are not possessed by the others, and we can understand these
and knows that this is necessary. If he discovers what is great and
of all the great philosophers who, having thought about Nature and
question as well. Nearly every great German Philosopher has been
Now here lies a great danger. Whereas the
Westerners, this is the great responsibility facing the West at the
danger, but also the great responsibility. The danger is that the
by assimilating all that is idealistic, great and beautiful in other
individual ‘man of flesh’ there is another man, greater
of greatness in Middle Europe, with the internationalism of
place in the great chorus of the peoples on the Earth that it

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rays. This has not yet been fully demonstrated and it is of very great
particles with each other and with the walls of the vessel. A great

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equilibrium, and when the difference is great a larger quantity is
becoming greater when this is large and less when it is small. That is,
how much heat I will need to get a certain degree of conduction. The greater
is, the greater will be the amount. Thus the
Finally, the whole process is dependent upon time. A greater effect is
blossom color above. If, by the employment of a sufficiently great

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account of the great size of the earth, we find we are really dealing
coin phrases and accumulate great amounts of money to perpetuate their

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attended for the greater part by working men only. The
really a great deal here, which was thrown to the winds,
when I concluded a great number of my speeches in those days
arrangement. So great is the external power of the State
get further, when people have hearts and minds for the great
great motor forces to-day.
said a great deal to the same effect before now, and all in
vain; — namely that it is a question of the great motor
bringing the great world-moving questions of the day really
towards a great many movements of all kinds. I myself could

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but what I did see gave me great pleasure. I saw how patiently and
to love your teachers. You can be sure that in the great building that

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above all, that there are people who are taking great pains to guide
everything that is so great and beautiful and

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give only an introduction now and then go into greater detail
it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
imagine a greater mistake in our method of education than to
which have been considered such a great advance, Germany has
great importance. That is that we must quickly strip off our

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nonetheless it will become clear to you. I should have to say a great deal
education. Among these principles is one on which he lays great emphasis:
if we had entered the classroom each morning in great trepidation, without
thing in particular is of great importance, however, and that is that we

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and they look upon it as a great achievement, that this
is at the back of the great crisis we are going through now;
able to come in, and to show the great connections; because
I wanted to throw into the discussion to-day. A very great
economy; and that is the point. There are a great many
picture post-cards, and I write a great many: it contributes
It has not got a great many books, which are in great demand;
[Spoken during the time of the great inflation

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conditions, we acquire greater enthusiasm for teaching,
body. What comes from speech can be a great boon to us after

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human organism, the counter pressure is greater. For this reason they must
of greater importance than this, that we are able as teachers to develop in
spoken word can be of great benefit to us after death, particularly if we

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have to understand in great detail.
place nevertheless, and is of great importance to your general well-being.

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of his body, how he gains greater and greater mastery over his organism,
must permeate history with ideas, must show the great connections. Thus,
matters of great importance the subtle differences are often more
has too great an effect. It is wonderful to think that through spiritual
understand him with greater and greater love. And precisely through that we
pedagogy, and this despite the great interest taken by many people. The

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soul into a different relation with the great events from which the
The Easter Festival makes great demands upon man's powers of
And so the great Christian Mystery is illustrated in a threefold way
that the tenor and mood of the human soul has undergone great changes
been the simple shepherds in the fields who with their great purity of
them to pupils specially chosen because of their greater maturity of
he regarded as being akin to a great and wonderful Hymn.
the revelation made to the three Magi from the East. The great mystery
before birth. We were living then in the great universe, experiencing

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ancient instinctive clairvoyance was already greatly dimmed. Men's
To-day in our great learning we agree that we do not know what the
sensed when he felt mathematics to be like great poetry —
great mystery of earthly life was imparted from two different sides.
the great wide universe. There we experienced what could be
after death. These forces worked with great intensity in the ancient

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scientific combinations must arise. This will meet with great
But then there is the great difference that when we look out
the human skull has played a great role in modern biology. I
become so great in its present form just because it is a
a great variety of forms. This then is studied. The method of
out of the great universe that the minute and microscopical
great universe. We do not understand what came about in the

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external to the human being in considering the great
aspects one can have great reverence for the celestial
great significance whether or no one assumes a movement
very great dependence of man on the solar life, — on
the Moon. It may be that a great deal of what has been said
in theory, it discards what was of great importance to

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greater inner connection with the cosmic surroundings of the
signified a greater livingness when it only moves in a
ellipse”, implied an element of greater livingness than
contains a great deal if one still understands it in
too great an area. This outer point which moves in the

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great thinkers at the opening of the modern age —
great intensity of spiritual force which Kepler brought to

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the midst of this great whole which is thus separated for him

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of investigation which may seem highly improbable to a great many
this brings us to the question: Where were the souls of the greater
religion. Their hearts were turned in aspiration to a great Spiritual
people had a living and vivid experience of one great Spirit
pantheistic impulse, connected with the worship of one great
generations, say to the age of Charles the Great and even earlier,
many enigmas today — unless we realize that a great many souls
great many men were able to form very clear and definite conceptions
were men who indulged in a great deal of speculation, but their
concern me — the birth of Alexander the Great, for instance —

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Take Aristotle and Plato, and above all the greatest
attached no great importance to the precise description of
Platonic Year — the great Cosmic Year, lasting
prevailed over the greater part of Europe and in America too.
point in the great Cosmic Year. Now it is in the day that man
great Universe. If then there were a Being who breathed in
miniature, what is manifested in the great cosmic
— we find great attention paid to the Platonic Year. I
phenomena of the great Universe. Therefore he spoke of his
Great Spirit.
begin to get some notion of the great distance which men at
25,920 years. It was indeed a great Spirit — a very
great Spirit — whom man conceived in this way and whose
not be uninteresting to compare how great is the distance

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greater than that of sound. But anyone who thinks in keeping
seasons had a far greater influence on man than after. Man,
approaching will cause great difficulty to many people of
meet with great resistance. Yet it is necessary to draw
greater detail. Here is something to be seen and recognized,

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have been adopting, bringing together a great variety of
such things at all. Kepler said: In the great Universe
we follow it up we must admit that this too is of great

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have taken it here, is greater than a, equal to a, or less
b is also greater than or equal to a √2. Moreover, when
less. When n is much greater than m, we find a circle with a
very strong curvature; when n is not so much greater, the
great value is laid upon the forming of such thoughts in
impose greater demands on the human capacity of understanding
a phenomenon we get into the greatest disparities, without in

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of certainty is just as great as in your conception of a real
greater than, equal to, or less than b. I obtain the
greater than b.
a greater or smaller than b. Between these there are an

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the forming of the head to all that derives from the great
form of picture which has evolved through the great changes
constellation, which you know so well, the “Great
great Sphere to the human head-formation. You cannot but
of the great Sphere above us. It reveals only that part of
Our attention is drawn to this great differentiation: The

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formulate it with great care.
now follow this loop-forming principle in greater detail. Is
— and in the great Universe this answers to the
in perspective (for here again we must express it with great
put it so, call now for great definition. Yet we shall only
must there be movements in the great Universe which relate to

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opinion the Universe is far, far greater. He takes the stars
calculated with great care the positions on the Heavens at
in greater detail.
great school of emancipation of human thoughts from

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of that is the Moon, — far greater than the Earth. The
diameter (or semi-diameter) of the Moon is as great as what

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drawn. This need not cause you any great surprise, for in

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The greatest
from them. To recognize how the great cosmic conditions
the great Universe.
this in greater detail. For instance, it is a physiological
great significance. It is not a matter of indifference,

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knowledge needed for the great task of our time. When we say
“with regard to the great task of our time” we
which belongs to the great task of our time. This should
apply to the great task of life and to every small daily
teachers of mankind, who should be the great Keepers of the
the greater affairs of life. Finally falsehood today itself has
which is a direct application of ideas regarding the great
the greatest part of our cultural life. Anthroposophists for

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with the great universe that is visible to us; only in this
them with the greatest possible precision, but do not cling
is arriving there from some great distance and then making

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again, I would like to consider in greater depth the first
our feelings by themselves have no greater intensity in our

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possible to any great extent to speak for the scientifically

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to us as only part of a great whole. In this way, for the
world in general, there is a great lack of clarity. Let us
exercises in forgetting can be practiced with greater force,
practicing self-discipline, which gives us a greater capacity

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later in greater detail, we are in a position to advance from
fully conscious way, with greater penetration of the will

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presented in greater depth. Today, however, I would point out
characteristic form of memory pictures but with a greater
lectures one cannot go into any great detail. We may form a
this way we develop a great inner mobility of soul —
relation to his environment. Naturally, a great deal is
recognizes there are great questions in outer life, and that
they require answers. It does not overlook what is great and

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Dante. In the study of history one will meet with great
It aims for the greatest possible exactness and not some sort

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our joy they have in fact appeared in great numbers. It is
us with great social questions. But above all we seek to take

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be grasped in a monistic way? Upon these questions Haeckel, the great
of the plant world that Goethe was especially great. One can understand

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often much greater, intensity.
carrying out certain intellectual operations with much greater intensity,
are present in the soul, in great clarity and lucidity. The soul content
process is a great deal more interesting if we observe it in a mind
man who at one time used to visit me a great deal, has published a dissertation
disappear from sight in the great mass of unread dissertations that
of the greatest value. Until he reached the age of forty, Swedenborg
something has flowed into this that came from a great, far-seeing mind
and Swedenborg is of the greatest interest, for here a road was taken
in a pathological direction by one person, while another, with greatest
and constructively, and tear off the final pages, which are the greater
book of great value for anyone wanting to find the right way of entering

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of perception develops, for they now arouse greater personal interest.
without making too great a jump. This stops when we approach the essential
things in much greater detail — how it is possible to progress from

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in our day the question of morality is of the greatest urgency

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outside of man. We then establish hypotheses, with greater or lesser
conscious awareness at that point. With the exercises described in great
he took in a great deal from Kant with regard to theoretical philosophy.
Great and sublime word, you have nothing in you of what is favoured,
Great and sublime word, you have nothing in you of inclination,

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appear to the soul in even greater glory? No one would ask why there
that they have these powers of transition in them, and a great many
a freedom that is able to awaken the greatest depths of the human soul

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within them an extraordinarily great interest in the world outside of
feelings are concerned, pain only becomes greater the more we think
concerned, this does not really make such a very great difference. By
the children must say to themselves: “Great thunder and

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entirely different languages of the soul. This is so to a far greater
wear it, often to their great annoyance.
extraordinarily great. And now there is a very symptomatic phenomenon
we shall find this great difference. The forms of the thoughts have
the other by. The individual's greatest interest is only in
Goethe but also a great deal of what was there in the Middle Ages and
century, it was said that the great pioneer of the nineteenth century

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greatest warmth of youth, broke out into the vaguest expressions
human perception there still lived a great deal of what was old.
ago all this was quite a matter of course. Today a great deal is said
Christ away from Jesus pass as the greatest theologians today. Quite
concerning the greatest Event that has ever happened in evolution.
am not overlooking its great merits — will, in spite of

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great progress, naturally attaches the greatest importance to the
great change took place in the middle of the fifteenth century: this
of understanding it at all. And for a great number of University
a little child, he needs the greatest amount of sleep. If ever a
the spatial sense, but its greatness could be experienced. His soul
I really do not find any very great difference between those people

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thermometer, so we can find out a great deal about the undercurrents
Nietzsche felt something of great significance.
great comforter, helping to overcome what was lacking in material
the Greeks had set up as the great consoler for the material life
its ideals.” This was a moment of great pain for Nietzsche. For
the whole age as a great man — but whom he had unmasked as a
has not always been emphasized. A great deal that has been said about
wish to feel the greatest enjoyment in the absence of enjoyment. That
absence of enjoyment is their greatest enjoyment shows us how they
view of psychology a very great deal might be learnt from it.
The achievements of the modern age are great. The moment the human

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the greatest disaster for humanity if this had not happened. There

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great many people think thus about the solution of the world-riddle.
epochs, we find a great range of inner impulses arising like
great deeds,” are true. But if we speak truly and not in mere
described before. Great and pure love, working from within outwards,
great demand of the future — must permeate social life.

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a great part of humanity has been asleep to this youth movement. When
for the soul in the later Middle Ages, have to a great extent been
the picture given, let us say, by Albertus Magnus, as the great
others but Herbart had a great influence on education up to the last
great deal of confidence in a man who faced the hidden being in one
great extent a sleeping draught for the soul. People were actually
evolution had arrived at a point where people said with great
into the laps of those who have had this great longing. Indeed the
great rejection, a rejection of something which was there, which man
could not use for his innermost being. And behind this great
experience the greatest thirst for air. But the lung cannot out of
because the child takes in a great deal that is based on tradition.
father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Thus tradition and

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today is made to cover a great deal. I refer to the expression: the
in consciousness in ordinary day-to-day life, show so great a dependence
the instrumentality of consciousness is of great significance, it is no
it were like a wave in a great sea, a wave that is organised within
preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he would
for the support of the spiritual makes itself felt in the soul, a great
that when you experience something consciously in waking life, a great
time between going to sleep and waking is of great significance in its
find a disintegration of the soul into the greatest possible number of
short, we live our way into the cosmos with far greater intensity than

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cover a great deal. I refer to the expression: the
in ordinary day-to-day life, show so great a dependence upon bodily
what we do with the instrumentality of consciousness is of great
say, the soul feels as if it were like a wave in a great sea, a wave
right preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he
a great need and longing to be united with the spiritual. In the
something consciously in waking life, a great deal is going on at the
waking is of great significance in its after-effects during waking
begin with, we find a disintegration of the soul into the greatest
short, we live our way into the cosmos with far greater intensity

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consider the great difference here between the souls of the present
what shines through with the greatest intensity out of the previous
philosophers say has no great influence, but it is symptomatic of
what their age considered of greatest value — in other respects
emptier of spirit. They hoped, for instance, for always greater
microscope — which, with ever greater perfection, allows one to
our present age enters with the greatest intensity into the spiritual

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something of the greatest significance for the intercourse between
great problems of world-culture. If one really looks into life today
needed to meet the challenges of life. The great German writers
have come to know a great deal. But it never leads us nearer to the

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great age. This was a matter of course. Why? Because what exists
bring an offering to the great God of Nature by lighting a
great scene:
rejects for Faust the great tableau of the macrocosm and allows only
greatest age the soul and spirit were on the ascent, how the soul is
consciousness to a far greater age. Herein consists the evolution of
can at most reach a greater degree of proficiency but make no
the great experience contained in the difference there is when we
the right way, can be of the greatest significance for the epoch of

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just because he knows a great deal. This leads to absolute absurdity.
educate somebody who will be greater than we. It is impossible to
to say, he was a materialist, and that was why he had so great a

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we to go back to the first epoch after the great Atlantean
soul-spiritual nature. But these men did not ascribe any great
suffering from the great cultural disease of modern times,
great transition to this newer age consists in man meeting man free
now let me tell you quite frankly when the great step forward in
in practical everyday life we must be right within this great
become impoverished. Yet it is of the greatest importance that we

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NATURALLY a great deal
the whole of Dante's great poem. Then came the time when
dragon must now begin, for the power of the dragon has become great!
soul. Nowadays a great deal of what constitutes a library is only

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great, nature is not simple but highly complicated. We can
greater measure that the outer structure of the brain does,
if you take a series of ideas) that bear a great resemblance,
course, that to a great extent the human being is a column of
objects, a great deal can be said about them, but it is not the
are greatly significant in the organism, it is known how to and

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regions embraced by material empiricism. I lay great stress upon this
In all her manifestations, small and great, Nature is highly
great results when it is a question of mastering reality, but the
about the structure of the brain. It has been proved in ever greater
will bear a great resemblance, for instance, to Meynert's
great extent the human being is a column of fluid. But now ask
objects, a great deal can be said about them. But it is not the same

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a few hints about this wide and all embracing domain. A great
animal retain a greater resemblance to the outer organization,
organism. Sense-perceptible, empirical science has a great deal
research. This is of the greatest significance, for only in

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great deal, therefore, of what I have to say will be based upon an
the animal retain a greater resemblance to their constitution in the
in short with an astral organism. Empirical science has a great deal
for true investigation. This is of the greatest significance, for
root or even the seed. There is a great difference between a decoct

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threefold nature of the physical human being is of the greatest
arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one that can be
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness
human being to disease ceases to a great extent. The system of
itself can offer the human being the greatest possibility of
not yet sexually mature. If it were otherwise, a great many
here may make a great deal appear fantastic. Everything can

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great importance. Very little heed is paid nowadays to what I have
greatest significance for pathology and therapy. According to this
senses. This is a relationship of great significance.
this way we arrive at a fact of the greatest importance and one which
instance the fact that the greatest possibility of illness occurs,
ceases to a very great extent. The system of education which it was
can afford the human being the greatest possibility of health during
otherwise, a great many diseases would attack the sexual organs.
make a great deal appear fantastic. Everything can, nevertheless, be
then a great deal which seems to have been left rather in the air

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process that arises in greater intensity when a remedy is
activity and also, to a great extent, conceptual activity
tract will be stimulated to greater activity. The stomach and
in the eye lies in the domain of pure optics. A great deal in
perspiration. Great attention should be paid to this, for
does indeed lead to certain goals, but with this method a great
synthetic remedies we can learn a great deal by understanding
great deal, too, can be found in our literature, and there are

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most delicate metamorphosis of the process which arises in greater
Ego-activity, for instance. This Ego-activity and also, to a great
greater activity. The stomach, and subsequently the intestinal
optics. A great deal in the eye can be beautifully depicted if one
heart and lungs. A disturbance may arise here. The greater the age of
plastic forces. In this type of disease it is of great importance to
that there is less perspiration. Great attention should be paid to
be fruitful. It does indeed lead to certain goals, but a great deal
that some of our doctors will have done so in other lectures. A great

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mental representation to the greatest possible degree and brings volition
into intoxicating simplicity by spiritual science, but rather to greater
a great role. For everything which is centrifugal, radiating, a great
truly great vistas, which can have an extraordinarily great future.
then demonstrated, one does a great deal to help weak-looking children
they are experiencing a great deal of success in their field at the
under circumstances be able to achieve a great deal with the E-forms,
one will be able to achieve a great deal with E-movements. An E-movement
There is a great deal to be done in order to give back to a healthy
is used for the soul which has not a much greater importance for the
than contradicting, we must add a great deal, out of an extremely
“After a short pause we will proceed with greater reference to

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gives me great satisfaction to be able to speak to you today
world into the physical we go through the great oblivion. Who with
the spiritual world and lived there in the way described. The great

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and conclusions of great importance to human life.
fourteenth year. Hence we can have so great an influence on the moral

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the spiritual world to an immeasurably greater number of people than
rather addresses itself to the great task of the age: that of taking
greatest importance, and I ask you not to misunderstand me when I
properly is cause for the greatest anxiety, for really deep worry
spread to a great extent by just these means, without any help from
anxiety, particularly because of the immeasurably great loss we have
scientific endeavor. I am truly speaking with the greatest inner and
members has recently grown a great deal longer, lacks inner stability

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test the great majority of my lectures in this respect will find that
do, taking the greatest care to leave the reader free, even in
experience is one of the great secrets of existence. The capacity for
Christianity has not reached its ultimate perfection. It is great

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references being made these days to the great change that came over
heavenly bodies have come to assume a great deal more importance than
quite rightly proclaiming anthroposophy with great enthusiasm. But
case of those whose opinions carry greatest weight — the
learns to say, “You harbor in your will sphere a great variety
worked through, along with a great deal else. By the time it became
which lasted to 1916 or 1917, was spent in a great survey of the
great concern whether the people who found their way to anthroposophy

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held, to discuss at greater length the subject originally intended
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
without any great inner stirrings into the will tendencies of the

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held, to discuss at greater length the subject originally intended
will certainly discover that by far the greater number of those who
without any great inner stirrings into the will tendencies of the

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mankind's great ideals: the moral-religious, the artistic, and the
living, spiritual anthroposophy came to no harm in the fire, a great
great deal of sacrifice and devotion went into the work on the
saturating a great many present day sermons with a rationalistic,
world to the greatest possible extent, to withdraw from people. But
conceivably become one of the greatest threats to the
cultus takes. The cultus speaks to greater depths than those of
great dangers the Society faces want to learn about them?”
that the last Central Executive Committee accomplished a great deal

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have been a great many societies that have based their existence on
there is a great — an immeasurably great — chance of
tolerate the other person to an immeasurably greater degree than one
degree of unity or the greatest tolerance. Strife and quarreling take
great many more escape channels will be opened to the world at large
made fruitful for a great many others when it is clothed in some
greatly from experience of the ordinary physical world. Something in

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experience. A great portion of the musical experience consists of
great role, until it began to have an unpleasant effect. As the human
proof of man's existence. The great spirit took hold of the
music. The great progress made by humanity in the musical element is
already joined the five old tones, d, e, g, a, and b, to the greatest
what is important. One does the child a great kindness if one
the tones of the great octave. [The great octave refers

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be pictured as the greatest possible unity. A Greek actor even felt
The rhythmic element, on the other hand, assumes the greatest variety
contained in the twelve fifths within the seven scales. The great
themselves; they were within the great, all-pervading spirituality of
is therefore always a great experience when a composition by an

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three greatest impulses behind all human evolution and all
beginning of certain great works of art we hear words which, I
we pass through the period in which man traversed the great,
only of his own soul. But there too, at the beginning of the great
great All to grow divine.

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sensibility there is the greatest conceivable difference between

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who was greatest

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affairs, a great deal that has been lost, and must be renewed. The art I
consciousness they knew a great deal about these realities. But this
to which the great German thinker ascribed a conceptual faculty,

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But this is a great self-deception. And just as we can better
characteristic of our great-grandfathers, we shouldn't
forget that while this great grandfather was alive, we took an

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penetrated, to a lesser or greater extent, by the spirit, in such a

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men of that earlier time. Without reflection they experienced a great
with what came from the priests, the great comforters of mankind.
indeed, human consciousness at that time was greatly in need of
periods) in the spheres of art and religion, and a great deal in our
have experienced one of the greatest blessings of humanity, perhaps
the very greatest — I mean the experience of free-will, of
But we shall be able to talk of this in greater detail only if we lay

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dealing with another stratum, divide the smaller into the greater
This sort of logic always reminds me of the logic one of the greatest
time when humanity has been in greater need of it.
far as they were able to wait — to see what Schelling's great

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great deal of what one knows has to be brought together. And so just
manifests in the great world outside in gigantic and majestic
majesty and grandeur out there in the great cosmos, goes on
This is the great and powerful picture given us in the approach of
ordering in relation to human beings. And all the great paintings and
great, genuine works of art arise, the great works that were created
the bunglers with all kinds of frippery till the real greatness that
great artistic motifs of painting and sculpture never would have
of mankind. The Michael Festival must be linked with a great and

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great deal of Ahrimanic influence can be found in the world

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because the adult today does not really see anything of great
achieved? — are of little use. What is of the greatest
a kind of obvious secret, let me say that although a great deal
important factor. This plays a great part. These are the
recognized outer physical forces in their greatest delicacy and
instincts the human being has a far greater interest in his

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receives little attention, because a great illusion prevails
understand; he fails to realize that a great deal of what is
their great social task, and they should ponder a great deal
deeply permeated by awareness of the great needs of modern
appalling conditions and for whose emancipation he did a great
because he is a great soul, defined as crime: the crime that is
the judge for a great human being, on the other you have

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universe has always attached the greatest possible importance for
poetical language of great majesty and what tradition has preserved
only the last offshoots of something infinitely greater and more
a great deal to do with each other. If two people in this situation
great difference between the path we have arranged unconsciously so
comes into consideration. We shall find that there is a great
There is a very great difference between these two kinds of
been recorded in those great books of destiny kept by the Moon Beings
is a great difference between meeting someone with whom we have
expect results from this beginning in which there are great

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great happenings in history and are aware that the keynotes in
intelligible. This is of very great importance.
Court were gathered the greatest minds of that time, men of
development of the great Arabist souls between death and a new birth
time? Now an individuality with great spiritual enlightenment in an
incarnation of souls in repeated lives a great deal has been brought
Constantinople by Constantine the Great, who caused a pillar to be
century. However greatly the outer circumstances differ, speculation
Arabist trends were inculcated. In the modern age too, a great deal
with certain passages in the Koran. You will then find that a great
put into practice today with greater and greater thoroughness. These
anthroposophical life, becoming the foundation for greater and

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referred to, it comes with very great intensity. We live backwards
into the Moon sphere and encounters these great primeval Teachers as
existence in backward order, to experience it all with greater
his death know well that through the magical power of the great
experiences of yonder life have an intensity infinitely greater and
that is concealed within his being. But it is much greater, much more
are souls on the Moon: the souls of the great primeval Teachers,
time has come to speak more openly, with greater freedom and
as it then was, and who with great sensitiveness of perception had
individual who lived to a very great age and who had witnessed so
great age. This trait was softened and mellowed and became a faculty
consciousness, he beholds his whole life in a great tableau. But he
great amazement, because it is so different from anything one can
revealed in great majesty. Let me try to make a comparison with
individual had had a great deal to do with Greek plastic art and also
the spiritual world! He also worked a great deal at his karma in the
mellow, Olympic fire, and great wisdom, Eliphas Lévi dabbles with a
if a great deal seems paradoxical and

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
much greater extent than among those who live in towns, and who
greater independence within itself. This again may give rise to
literature such a great role is played by something which many

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should always approach our exercises with the greatest
Lucifer's voice, and this is the greatest temptation that a man can
great and tremendous that an esoteric doesn't dare to say the

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
difference between vegetable and animal food is greater to an
differ very greatly) — this last sensation is aroused by
realisation of the Ego is not of such great importance as in
beings, you will find that in the former a great deal of sugar
experience of a normal person is greatly heightened in a
contribute a great deal towards the acquisition of stability.
alone, a man may very greatly sin against what is reflected in

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
ear had much greater significance for man than it has now. At
an impulse to make greater efforts when he undergoes an
changing of the etheric body depends the greater sensitivity of
acquire a sort of self-observation; but he does this with great

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
feel inwardly a great difference between summer and winter,
fact the case that we carry with us a great deal belonging to
idea of how it is possible gradually to live into those great,
phlegmatic and sanguine moods. It takes on the greatest variety
consideration will be greatly struck by the agreement of what
person carries within him the greatest number of

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
student acquires a great sensitivity with respect to what goes
certain opinion. Only then does he realise the great
in feeling, in perception. Let us pay great attention to this,
hierarchies. But there are a great number of all sorts of good

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
of reproach. A very great deal is attained towards a higher
to a greater and greater extent, a very great deal has been
great melancholy, overcomes when we look up to the cosmic

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
such legends it is especially necessary that the very greatest
great Atlantean catastrophe, the processes of the human etheric
enclosed in ideas, and a great part of that which runs counter
may obtain a very great influence over the latter. It is then
greatest ideal of the occultist who is to attain anything
traditions, all the great and good aspects of the third
upon him as their deadly enemy; yet he made a great impression

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
Paradise-Imagination had now become his own greater astral
what he once was. And we then know with great certainty what we
seen to be the great egotist; the self is more than that

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
to such an extent that the head would become like a great
have always given rise to a great number of theories. How many
organism underwent great changes. From this you will be able to
may be said that a great deal of esoteric development is
epoch after he had made the great leap forward.
What we bear within us in our astral body played a great part
at night. After the first great misleading, which left in its
greatest illusion is the materialistic theory of physics about
intellectual development will exercise great influence upon the

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of the reality of the great legends, notably the Paradise story and
picture — a painting of one part of the great cosmos.
greatness, and take into himself its stimulus and feel it with

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through a great deal during the fourth post-Atlantean epoch. Roman
great deal. At the beginning of the fifth epoch, the consciousness
temptations and leads man into great soul-dangers and even into
are now facing a great turning point in the whole civilisation of
more recent times. The time of probation has indeed come! Great tasks
we have just passed through the age of the great egoism.
and pre-Platonic times, still knew a great deal of the processes of
greatest event of the earth's evolution: the Mystery of Golgotha.
that time it was to a great extent decadent, but at any rate it still
ancient knowledge to enable a great number of men of that time to
as a great scientist; the very man who reached the point of saying
speech. Languages contain a great store of ancient crystallized
be so much better if, before going to sleep in the evening, a greater
we should have the great modesty of recognising that the experiences
Hierarchies. Man's great temptation in modern times is the modern
natural science with its great triumphs and its admission of purely
revealing the truths of Karma. I have often listened with great pain
its spiritual science must become a concern of the great masses of
clearly realise that mankind would face a great misfortune, if it

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— it made a great impression on me — regarded with astonishment

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great danger confronts us here: the danger of having ideas about this
to add: the universe sets us a great task, but the beautiful human form
is the answer. Man's inner life also sets us a great task; we explore
point). The human form in plastic art is the answer to the great

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it before any real approach can be made to this greatest of all
times by the divine Teachers. A great deal is already known to you.
human being. And in the divine worlds where dwelt the first great
greater part of the historical records have been destroyed, but those
Even of this tradition a great deal has been lost. But still more
reality of the super-earthly within the earthly, a far greater inner
great deal from these rituals because they contain much wisdom, even
Christian. He concedes that there may still be a great deal in the

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from ever new aspects this greatest of all secrets in
which would have been of great and fundamental interest to
in which the first great teachers of human evolution lived
ancient great teachers came; but through the decision of these
then appeared put the greatest emphasis not on written
great deal of this has been lost. But even more has been lost
stammering words, for our languages do not offer greater
greater inner activity.
was entrusted to the first disciples. And the further great and

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as spiritual germ out of the whole cosmos — it is the greatest,
connection with earthly existence alone. What great value does our

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who is utterly insignificant in relation to the great Universe.
man? — we must answer: — He knows a great deal, he knows
and a great, majestic, living picture arises from all that is
would have drawn a line that is of the greatest significance for the
this picture is? We unriddle it and discover what it is — a great

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no great importance for the life after death; we need, therefore, only
be described by saying: The spirit-form becomes one great
very great deal. Much can also be learned by studying the forms
very great variety! And among these wandering forms move the Beings of
from without in the great Universe, the Sun shows itself as a
done in spirit-land, and it is far greater in content and in
of destiny will link the future to the past. Then the great process of

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have yielded the greatest successes in the field of natural
science and which have also brought about the greatest
it cannot be denied that natural science owes its great
and the number of these people will get ever greater.
which one sees in the described way like a great but concrete

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knowledge. It has achieved a very great deal on its own ground, and
evades us like a dream; its great and far-reaching conceptions slip
Guardian of the Threshold, we have the greatest trouble to bring to
only with the greatest difficulty can one lift them on to a higher
kind of experience one may have from the painting of a great artist.

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In my books and lectures I have often spoken of the great primeval
was given long since to men on Earth by these great, superhuman
And now think of the great primeval Teachers of man. It was they who
certain moment these great Teachers should withdraw. If they had never
them on by pointing to the great primeval Wisdom and saying:
all, a great deal that is bad. Hence it falls to the lot of a great
By this time — and often at the cost of great suffering —
Mercury sphere depends to a great extent upon whether, here on Earth,
is the great cosmic meeting-place of all those Spiritual Beings who
great change of which I have told you, when man's lower being is
is utterly insignificant. Great and majestic is the work that is
speaking to-day — the great primeval Teachers of the human race.
worked upon the Earth with greatest strength. Man was, however, in
attention to great affairs of the Universe which underlie our whole
death in greater or less degree. From the super-earthly regions in

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spiritual image of the great cosmic sphere. On and on leads the path,
has learned to understand the speech of the great world, the speech of
existence a man comes to learn of what he is in the great Macrocosm
You have no great cause to pride yourself upon your present condition;
facts of Earth, but only by the facts of the great World, the

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upon thee, art verily one with the great World-All!” Living in
of greatness and mystery that the memories we take with us through the
has to bestow, the greater the measure of understanding we shall bring
Anthroposophical Movement will do a great deal to open up the truly
of men, for it is of the greatest importance. In times gone by it was
spoken of a great deal. Nowadays people read what was written long ago
Hierarchy. The greatest mysteries of the world will be able to reveal
relation to the great spiritual world, it is with us now as it is here
great riddle — the riddle of the working of karma, or human
under the influence of great heat, — amid all the sulphurous and
it must not be imagined that what takes place out in the great

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IS THE GREAT ILLUSION“KNOW THYSELF”
that we perceive with our senses is Maya, the Great Illusion. And if,
world is Maya, then he must transcend the ‘Great
to that which, purely in the external world, was the Great Illusion,
were felt to be an expression of the Great Illusion. And so, in order
to even greater illusions.
the true self for a knowledge of the Great Illusion in the sense I
stimulating researches. They deserve our greatest respect and
follow in great detail the first human egg-cell; how it gradually
being whose organs can only apprehend the world of the Great Illusion
could offer no answer to the great riddle of human nature when
soon as we touch upon the problem of man, any perception of the Great
the standpoint of Maya, the “Great Illusion,” from the
knowledge of external nature, which is knowledge of Maya, the Great
the Mystery teachings Marduk-Micha-el was great and powerful and all
both forms of knowledge were treasured. Men set great store on the

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IS THE GREAT ILLUSION“KNOW THYSELF”
that we perceive with our senses is Maya, the Great Illusion. And if,
world is Maya, then he must transcend the ‘Great
to that which, purely in the external world, was the Great Illusion,
were felt to be an expression of the Great Illusion. And so, in order
to even greater illusions.
the true self for a knowledge of the Great Illusion in the sense I
stimulating researches. They deserve our greatest respect and
follow in great detail the first human egg-cell; how it gradually
being whose organs can only apprehend the world of the Great Illusion
could offer no answer to the great riddle of human nature when
soon as we touch upon the problem of man, any perception of the Great
the standpoint of Maya, the “Great Illusion,” from the
knowledge of external nature, which is knowledge of Maya, the Great
the Mystery teachings Marduk-Micha-el was great and powerful and all
both forms of knowledge were treasured. Men set great store on the

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personality appeared, one who accomplished great things for mankind.
observe personalities in history who have had great influence upon
Soul, aloof to a greater or less extent from the physical world.
Michael's activity. And it was there that the great challenge arose
in the region where Michael was at work, the great questions were

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personality appeared, one who accomplished great things for mankind.
observe personalities in history who have had great influence upon
Soul, aloof to a greater or less extent from the physical world.
Michael's activity. And it was there that the great challenge arose
in the region where Michael was at work, the great questions were

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Again, I take great trouble
children who make a great deal of healthy noise, who shout properly,
naturally we are all weak individualities and we copy a great deal.
There are great differences
A very great deal is

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with greater immediacy upon the heart than upon any other

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with greater immediacy upon the heart than upon any other

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great deal there, they almost learn to read. They are supplied with
year he became a splendid Eurythmist and developed a great
you must make a point of doing a great many things yourself that they
imagination and the child can take no great pleasure in it. But if
the child can add a great deal to it with his imagination.
great help to you because the sounds are already formed in the
life. But a very great deal can be done nevertheless when one knows
greatest liberty, and yet the teaching in each class is what is right
quality in life. A very great deal passes over from teacher to child
speak of them in greater detail during the next few days, but there
of very great significance and must constantly be borne in mind. In
laid down for the guidance of teachers, but it is of far greater

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The work of Aristotle and Alexander the Great. Gregory VII. Ernst
civilisation to a greater extent than is imagined. It is true, of
Alexander the Great. And as a result, many centres of learning in the
the expeditions of Alexander the Great, a certain rational and
has not come down to posterity, but he was a man of great wisdom and
Charlemagne held in great veneration. But this was a kind of culture
result of the achievements of Alexander the Great, it was the more
of the greatest importance to take account of these two individuals,
Alexander the Great and Aristotle.
lives of Alexander the Great and of Aristotle in those particular
the Great, the pupil and friend of Aristotle, had with stupendous
other giving effect to a great genius for rulership — all this
infinitely greater moment than mere discussions in words. When people
even a shadowy image of what transpires when great decisions
the time when Aristotelianism was carried by Alexander the Great to
reborn Abbot Hildebrand, Gregory VII, Gregory the Great. In giving

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The work of Aristotle and Alexander the Great. Gregory VII. Ernst
civilisation to a greater extent than is imagined. It is true, of
Alexander the Great. And as a result, many centres of learning in the
the expeditions of Alexander the Great, a certain rational and
has not come down to posterity, but he was a man of great wisdom and
Charlemagne held in great veneration. But this was a kind of culture
result of the achievements of Alexander the Great, it was the more
of the greatest importance to take account of these two individuals,
Alexander the Great and Aristotle.
lives of Alexander the Great and of Aristotle in those particular
the Great, the pupil and friend of Aristotle, had with stupendous
other giving effect to a great genius for rulership — all this
infinitely greater moment than mere discussions in words. When people
even a shadowy image of what transpires when great decisions
the time when Aristotelianism was carried by Alexander the Great to
reborn Abbot Hildebrand, Gregory VII, Gregory the Great. In giving

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containing the plant belongs to a much greater area of soil around
earth. This is of great significance for his whole life. For think
greatest variety of soul qualities, and we characterise each single
eighteen hundred millions of him, of greater or less value, but he
standing on some great living creature, like a whale. This is the
but he will think of the whole animal kingdom as the great analysis
very great importance that from the tenth year until towards the

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after their death. I said that it was a condition of greater reality.

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after their death. I said that it was a condition of greater reality.

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did not yet know why she felt such great fear. Then a dog ran by, not
wickedness said: “Oh, that is a great giant violet like you and
this great violet has grown so big that it can crush you.” Then
look up to the great big violet any more, but hid herself under a big
she stayed all day long, hiding in her fear from the great big
the night wondering what to think of the great blue sky-violet who
thought again of what the dog had said, that that was a great big
great big violet, blue like yourself.” Then the violet began to
“Dear lamb, do tell me, will the great big violet up there come
“it will not crush you, that is a great big violet, and his
love is much greater than your own love, even as he is much more blue
understood at once that there was a great big violet who would not
felt so happy, because what she saw as blue in the great sky-violet
one must have the gift of letting a great many things pass
example I greatly admired the way one of our teachers handled a
teacher had made a great fuss the boy would have gone on being
story like the one I have told, I must treat him with an even greater
is afraid because she sees the great big violet above her in the sky.
of fear comes up, you can recall this story. Things small and great
are contained in this story, for indeed things small and great are
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imagine; with their dreamlike knowledge they knew a great deal about

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imagine; with their dreamlike knowledge they knew a great deal about

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very great difficulties into education and teaching. Just consider
a great deal on authority, but he must take it in a natural,
for the child. But that does not matter. It is of great significance
for indeed it is good to call forth the greatest possible skill in

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beings who were once the great Teachers of mankind and who no longer

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beings who were once the great Teachers of mankind and who no longer

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through great changes as regards the qualities he formerly possessed.
one must of course have a great deal of artistic tact and, I was
going to say, a great deal of authority too. If you can, you should
early as possible. For it is of very great importance that you not
There is a great difference between animal and man in this

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pointed out that it gives an impression of far greater reality than
principle is of great benefit to man for the brain floats in the

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pointed out that it gives an impression of far greater reality than
principle is of great benefit to man for the brain floats in the

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of very great importance.
is the real nature of rhythm? Now if I think a great deal,
first talked over with them in great detail, so that the subject is
own fantasy. This is of great significance, and I would earnestly beg
boys and with greater eagerness too. You will find many other
instance, is made. There are a great many people who do not know how
that the children make, and they learn a great deal from it. This
great stress upon keeping in touch with all the parents so that from

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world of much greater reality than our present world envelops him.
a great mathematician or not. — That is approximately the
discuss this in greater detail in the course of the next lectures

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world of much greater reality than our present world envelops him.
a great mathematician or not. — That is approximately the
discuss this in greater detail in the course of the next lectures

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these things. They have their place simply because they play a great
in development is an error. It is not of great value in development.
really shown great consideration by the authorities. It was even
great devotion in the hearts of the children.

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deepening will to a great extent have to be achieved during the
these two streams brings to light the great problem arising from the
again take hold of the Intelligence? And now the great problem of our
looms the great question: How can Michael become the giver of the
surrounded by a great company of pupils. Remembering what was
the intervening period something of great significance took place.
great agreement was reached under the leadership of Michael himself
super-sensible worlds, a great host of elemental spirits, and many,
physical world. But a great and mighty super-sensible School was

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deepening will to a great extent have to be achieved during the
these two streams brings to light the great problem arising from the
again take hold of the Intelligence? And now the great problem of our
looms the great question: How can Michael become the giver of the
surrounded by a great company of pupils. Remembering what was
the intervening period something of great significance took place.
great agreement was reached under the leadership of Michael himself
super-sensible worlds, a great host of elemental spirits, and many,
physical world. But a great and mighty super-sensible School was

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A great deal
communications of Initiation Science. We are greatly mistaken
commonly committed today. This is to commit one of the greatest, most
significance and greatness.
Raphael is valued so highly because, to a greater degree than any
character to a greater or lesser extent. Music, which includes also
these limitations. On one hand we admire its greatness, but on the

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A great deal
communications of Initiation Science. We are greatly mistaken
commonly committed today. This is to commit one of the greatest, most
significance and greatness.
Raphael is valued so highly because, to a greater degree than any
character to a greater or lesser extent. Music, which includes also
these limitations. On one hand we admire its greatness, but on the

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connection, or they have the greatest difficulty in doing this,
which cannot be overlooked, for this would be the greatest sin of all.
Real are, for instance, a great number of herrings in the sea;
there obtain the following impression: “How infinitely great and
proved to be an enormous benefit to the dead, one of the greatest
may, as it were, develop and be of great help to the souls in their
overcome a great difficulty, consisting therein that the old spiritual
great number of recruits! It is this lazy indolence which influences
human life to a great extent. Even modern political economists now
relationships. A great deal of work must be done between death and a
adapted only for the physical world, and it requires a great effort in

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greatest sin if they did so. They feel it a necessity to proclaim
I would like you to realize that there is something of far greater
It has shown itself to be a special service and one of the greatest
together is a matter of great importance. Souls born in the

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 1
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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,

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most of its earthy weight and thereby enjoys greater freedom. A man
clear as after long fasting. The greatest saints lived on fruit, bread

Title: Article: West-East Aphorisms
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value of work. A great part of Roman history represents this growing
rights. The re-establishment of harmony between the two is the great social

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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see what a great impact on a person's everyday life these particular truths
I would now like to bring something of very great importance. When people
blood has grown weaker. And the great turning-point when human blood began
of the visual aids used in primary school education, and they attach great
education still plays a great part, that is, the kind of education that
of extremely abstract dimensions. People long for a great deal, but nothing

Title: Lecture Series: A Talk to Young People
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century rebellion? Imagine! It was followed by the greatest amount of
regard I put greater value on the mind than on feelings).
described as the great task of the century, the spur to action of the
and pedantry will be infinitely greater in our century than that

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point of contact with the greatest spirit of latter times means
however, a permanent achievement, and no greater
pendulum, which are of so great importance in Physics.
following great task accrues to us in the field of Goethean
showing how he attempted to solve his great problems with
but with the greater means at our disposal, and on the strength
same uniform stamp, and form links within a great uniform
elementary tendency. Even the great Aristotle, that
great idealist of the Greeks, the ‘divine Plato,’ had been, of
with Goethe's views. He sees in the world one great whole
thought in a way that does the greatest honour to human nature.
greatest freedom and according to its own inherent conditions,
great works of art are brought into existence by men, as are
the great works of Nature, in accordance with true and natural

Title: Lecture: Regarding Higher Worlds
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greatest, under layers of Devachan, in Rupa-Devachan. Here the

Title: Lecture: What is Self Knowledge?
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expression means a great deal, even much more so for the
stream, what develops from great-grandfather to grandfather and
on learning a great deal but rather that one has this or that
transformed way. Whereas you had experienced great pain and
more, then you deepen yourself selflessly in the greater
reach knowledge of the great cosmic relationships of our earth;

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 1: The World Behind the Tapestry of Sense-perceptions. Ecstasy and Mystical Experience.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
that leads into greater depths of our inner nature, behind our
nothing. Now for a certain reason of which we shall hear a great deal,
impressions of waking life, is called the Macrocosm, the Great World.
in speaking of a Macrocosm, a Great World — in contrast to the
forgetfulness man passes into the Great World, when on going to sleep
mystic are vastly different in quality. There are also great
lectures will speak in greater and greater detail of the paths leading

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
spiritual investigation confirms this. In the great majority of
far the greater number of people these two states are so predominant
must learn a great deal more, for example, to relate the movement of
penetrating invisibly into space behind a great cosmic timepiece. We
system we can pass on to contemplate the great spiritual
forces and Powers behind the great cosmic edifice of our solar system.
order of our planetary system, regulating the great cosmic timepiece
Microcosm, and the forces working in the great cosmic clock, driving
in all epochs have chosen corresponding designations for the Great
recognise not only the planets as the hands of the great cosmic clock
the Great World, the Macrocosm.

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 3: The Inner Path Followed by the Mystic. Experience of the Cycle of the Year.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
of outer Nature. He learnt to feel with great intensity, no longer
Midnight. The Sun could be seen in its greatest splendour and glory
something else of great significance was connected with this beholding
individual planets pointed to the great spiritual experience just
feelings which are experienced in the very greatest intensity. Such
read the great script of Nature were still active in these peoples at
second Guardian, the greater guardian of the Threshold, who stands
approach this Greater Guardian of the Threshold consciously, but still
Lesser Guardian of the Threshold, at the other, the Greater Guardian
Great World when we have passed the Greater Guardian of the Threshold.
Once past the mysterious Being who is the Greater Guardian of the
interactions between the Great World and the Little World, between
portal, when he passes the Lesser and the Greater Guardians of the

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
passes either the Lesser or the Greater Guardian of the Threshold.
relatively speaking, we can do a great deal to develop our powers of
angle to the great truths of existence. We will endeavour today to
can be compared with something very great; also that the individual
the capacities of that great Being with whom, however, it may feel
realise with ever greater certainty what is right and what is wrong;
akin to it. The great universe is pervaded by Cosmic Will, Cosmic
Even though today my soul is paltry as compared with the great Cosmic
into this stupendous greatness.
infinite thankfulness towards these great Beings is born in our souls
everyday life as gratitude and is an experience of the very greatest
himself up with greater and greater intensity to the feelings of
to Cosmic Feeling as absorbed in sleep. The greater human intelligence
is a cause of great uneasiness that attention is beginning to be
between the Lesser and the Greater Guardian of the Threshold? After
were macrocosmic forces, stored up by great spiritual Beings. So it
light, were to flow back into the great reservoir of Cosmic Light and
physical space. Hence it is of great importance that nobody should
holds good for the path that leads past the Greater Guardian of the

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
willing to submit to the greater demands made upon them if it is said
he was therefore under the guidance of a great teacher whose own
grandfather, great-grandfather, and so on, we should find — if we
great-grandfather, and so on. In the ancient Egyptian Mysteries of
The only possibility of learning about it in greater precision is to
the feeling of greatly enhanced obligation and responsibility
incarnation, he experiences a great deal more as well. At this point
Atlantis. Before the great Atlantean catastrophe the face of the Earth
was quite different from what it is today. We lived on a great
The descent into his inner being would have been fraught with great
it, Eckhart protected himself by inducing a feeling of the greatest

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
in existence. In order to indicate still more explicitly how great
experience with far greater intensity all the hopefulness connected
and how trivial in face of the great realities and Beings of the
great cosmic clock or timepiece. Just as we infer from the position of
lying behind. And so it is in the case of the solar system. This great
the material aspect of man, so too we see of the great outer world

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
the path out into the Macrocosm, into the Great World, in contrast to
which, because of his natural make-up, he has the greatest kinship.
would also be before us that other great figure who shows us what we
pass the “Greater Guardian of the Threshold.” It is this
Greater Guardian of the Threshold who effaces consciousness when we go
figure, the Greater Guardian of the Threshold. This mighty Guardian
present much greater hindrances. The call for self-knowledge must also

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 8: Mirror-images of the Macrocosm in Man. Rosicrucian Symbols.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
our nervous system and what is expressed in the great symbols of space
great cosmic prototypes even in the smallest reflections in the
daily experiences and deriving new strength at night. A great deal
very slow process in many cases and a great many experiences are

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 9: Organs of Spiritual Perception. Contemplation of the Ego from Twelve Vantage-points. The Thinking of the Heart.
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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
himself inwardly that his life of soul is greatly enriched, these
or certain formulae in which great world-secrets are briefly
Admittedly, there is great cause to disregard thinking during the
true understanding of life. In by far the great majority of people an
individual, who being anxious to accomplish a great deal in a short
and he finally came to inform me with great glee that he had actually
a far greater extent than is the case in other experiences, with the

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
become dangerous. He will have great difficulty if he has to recollect
great flaw: it reveals things in a shadowy way and details are lost.
he himself originated. This explains the great reverence with which in

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The human being's life alternates between the great outer macrocosm and
But in order fully to understand the great problems which have to be
logic of the heart is not by any means active yet to any great extent
satisfied by current explanations of the great problems of existence
the shadow-sides of modern civilisation to be found chiefly in great
that by means of questions. And so when great cosmic truths are
are by no means fully developed today but they will reach greater
he produces in his larynx. Where is the greatest human perfection to
innate in the folk-spirit. Hence a great truth is contained in what is
to such exercises and the teacher must feel the greatest possible
into a higher sphere and this demands the very greatest sense of
Macrocosm — heights far greater than we, with our ordinary
the great ideals which shine down from the spiritual world. Our will
but to lead men towards the great goal of brotherhood, to promote

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the greater part of our pain and suffering is sought by imperfections that we
our thoughts accordingly, then we can learn a great deal. When a person at
in any other experience, we will understand a great deal more about these
so that it is filled with meaning, we can gain a great deal. Obviously, we
life, just as is the faculty of speech. The greater part of our ideas live in
is dependent on karma. A great deal is said with this statement. This means
In contrast to this, the struggle with the great secrets of existence,

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture III. The True Attitude to Karma
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be expunged and greater perfection attained.”
that the wiser being is gaining greater mastery and this wiser being
suffering expunges some imperfection and leads to greater perfection.
all, is not of much account. A great deal is achieved, however, if in
strength. And then we shall have acquired from such moments, greater
others who give us the greatest help. The relationships are manifold.
This certainly seems strange, but it is the case, and a very great
relationship with another ... perhaps he falls in love, makes great
friends, quarrels, or has some different kind of contact, a great deal
egotistical. On the other hand, a man who wrestles with the great

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imperfection and leads to greater perfection.
of much account. A great deal is achieved, however, if in certain
certainly seems strange, but it is the case, and a very great deal is
relationship with another ... perhaps he falls in love, makes great
friends, quarrels, or has some different kind of contact, a great deal
filled with meaning, we can gain a great deal. Obviously we must not
self-centred. On the other hand, struggling with the great secrets of

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have passed into the depths of forgetfulness and a great deal must
Twelve men in Europe of great and outstanding wisdom, whose spiritual
He was born many times, with great and profound qualities of heart. It
out of them into him and were resolved, in his soul, into one great
utterance to the greatest, most wonderful secrets; he did not repeat
imparted to them, and to each individually, greater illumination of
first half of this later incarnation he went on great journeys in
ether-body radiated far and wide, but although Solowioff was a great
great and splendid thinker but his conscious philosophy was of far
greatest significance in many human lives; it is something that

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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Twelve men in Europe of great and outstanding wisdom, whose spiritual
matters the greatest care must be taken to prevent fantastic notions
He was born many times with great and profound qualities of heart. It
them into him and were resolved in his soul into one great harmony. It
In this way the soul of the boy had to bear a great deal, and
in one single radiance, and he gave utterance to the greatest,
greater illumination concerning what had been known to him hitherto.
first half of this later incarnation he went on great journeys in
who is sensitive to influences from contemporaries living a great
radiated far and wide, but although Soloviev was a great philosopher,
head, the intellect; he was a great and splendid thinker, but his
greatest significance to many people; it is something that transpires

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affords me great pleasure to be with you this evening on the occasion
Although I have concerned myself a great deal with Homer, yet a
are not truly great will not be singled out. Passing greatness will
of great artists and poets. This is also the case with the great
The greatest contribution to the development of spiritual life and

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dismissed us in anger. After death we can do them no greater service
greatest furthering effect for them.
bridged. A great deal of good can be done by bringing spiritual
recognize a great genius if he were dressed like a teamster. One has
human beings, the living can perform the greatest service to the dead
develops a far greater sensitivity for the complexities of life, for
moon. The greatest wisdom is contained in these matters.
cultivate spirit and soul through spiritual science have a greater

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great variation is possible. These lectures will investigate what
our will! The great variety of human action really comes about
and thought one has the notion that there is a great deal outside in
thing compared with this great world. When the clairvoyant

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spiritual post-mortem teachers can give us, depend greatly on what we
have made of ourselves in previous incarnations. Then comes the great
throughout spiritual life, or at least for a great part of this life
into the spiritual worlds, for the Gods have given thee a very great
turning aside from the path leading to the great ideal of humanity.
direction of the great ideal of humanity, these it would have to
evolution of humanity has Lucifer greater power over man than at this
unconsciously. All this is the outcome of a much greater wisdom than
further towards the great ideal of humanity, the IDEAL of the

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really is that comes to us as light. This light has a great deal
certain sense we should say to ourselves: ‘It will be too great
example the great importance of what is called the threshold of the
great deal really takes place in the inner part of human nature, and

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and it is there in the greatest abundance. To a certain extent we may
That is a most astonishing thing, but it is a fact. To be a great
great number of fairy-tales and sagas. These are gradually
the same way as here in the physical world we have to employ great

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this wide subject, a great deal can be but indicated and much else
death as a great tableau. To the circumstance of thy sojourn within
last great memory which we have after death in the form of the
great loss when after death the power of memory is overcome and we
expand into the great spiritual world, or withdraw into ourselves.

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speaking of what I described as the great ‘Midnight Hour of our
world, small or great, that is of value to the world. That is one
the greater portion of the time between death and rebirth — but
this and naturally it would be the greatest folly if a person were to
great inventors are often people who in former incarnations died
other purposes. A great deal more has to be produced by nature than
living towards a future when this will appear in ever greater degree.
wait to see how many are bought. This tendency will grow greater and
greater until it destroys itself and when I say the following you
is the great social problem confronting those who understand life;
for an outer world has reached its greatest intensity because we have
earth we attain to an ever great consciousness of our Ego, we thereby
of great importance; and as we develop on into the future, it will be
their new incarnation. The Spirit must work with greater power, so
through the Holy Ghost we are awakened in the great Midnight Hour of

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Constantine, who was called “the Great,” the son of
is the great secret of the Maid of Orleans that it went through
great, something immense, something valiant, combined with
sacrificial actions, occurring. But we see this great that
spiritual senses to the spiritual worlds, then something great

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light upon the great events of our time. Next Sunday too I
feelings for the whole of mankind, as a great all-encompassing
physical body and his etheric body belong to the great cosmos,
individual self becomes extended to the great Self.
Constantine called the Great, the son of Constantius
appeared again and again in small and great events that in the
January, and this is the great mystery connected with her: that
great, mighty and heroic events are taking place, joined to
there is a great difference! When a person dies as a result of
blood/courage/suffering and sacrifice will be great and
which follow spiritual science, are directed towards the great

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know that there was a time of the great mystics in which Master
great Russian philosopher. Although one also notices with him
great teacher of the Slavophils concerning their world view.
that in Goethe's theory of evolution a really great, spiritual
seen in wider circles. For Goethe gave a great, tremendous and
time. For this death is a great master at which those look back
Hochland. This article caused a great sensation. It has

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Of course, it is a great and also a significant task for the
experience the great events of our time from a high standpoint,
connected especially with the great events of the present time,
significant and deeply incisive events in a great part of
there was a time in which the great mystics lived;
Consider the great profundity of these words! The man who
Bruno: This friar penetrated with greatest passion into
certain sphere, Solovioff, the great Russian philosopher, was
the great teacher of the Slavophils in the field of a
large field. But the inhabitant of Great Britain rejects it. To
it. Maya, the great illusion, arises in connection with that
contributed greatly to the development of materialism.
theory of evolution really contains a truly great theory of
gave us a great, powerful theory of evolution, which is truly
the immensely greater depth of Goethe's Colour Theory in
Colour Theory, and the immensely greater depth of Goethe's Theory
souls a feeling for the great warning which we must see in the
East who have to. defend the great fortress of Central Europe
so great in their warlike character that they cannot be
the portal of death reminds us of the great tasks which must be
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it would take a great many words to survey the triumphs of
great. It means that we must look upon thinking as something
shall attach the greatest value today is precisely one that has
Nowadays, when we look out at the world, we attach the greatest
centre of our consciousness, with a great effort of will,
find the systematic exercises described in greater detail
then does one see what a great service the so-called

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great problems in life, but life itself. They become the happiness
different form, to psychology itself. It would need a great
may say: for psychology, also, the great riddle of the
Now, however, a very great deal depends on our carrying over
greater strength gradually; and just as at first we
greater inward power, will be able to see further in the
great is external appearance and the laws we discover in the
us light and warmth; noble and great is our experience when we
inner law would be even nobler and greater than what we
which, here too, will discover greater and more potent laws;
but greater still is what is present and goes on in the
eternity, of the great riddle of the human soul, and thus of
psychology and to the great riddles of existence in relation to

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who gave simple expression to so much that men find great and
differentiated whole, a great deal has to be discovered about
is certainly a great disappointment to many who struggle to
this change the expression of great transformations in human
earth. We can perceive this presence in a great philosopher of
what was Goethe's great longing when, with what I would call

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semblance, the great illusion, maya. It would, however, be
great non-being, maya. But this in turn gives a particular
Even in Buddhism, which gained a far greater influence on
maya, and experience of the great illusion, the great
great value that, even though we may treat it as senile, we

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appeals, from Schopenhauer and others. A great deal of material
do without? — Those who gain great inner satisfaction
so great that the mystic will believe he is drawing from the
clouds, mere illusions. In these exist the greatest value we

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great importance, precisely because of its inner structure, for
introduction. People at present talk a very great deal about
the day, the misery of the moment is so great that,
something. Never was there a greater perplexity in a society

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spiritual life, wished to sing of the great deed of the Messiah, as
sinful man’s redemption.” Here something of greater
strengthened, and great value is attached to technical adjustment
and the sensitivity we value so greatly.
Rebel Thrones, but greater rage to see
The greater Heaven in an Heaven less.
sacred Hymnes, and Order, The great

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The greater part of public affairs is left to individual
great importance, which affects all the social structures of
— though in fact it has not been realized to any great
throughout the world are very much greater still, and that only
so many of these, a great deal survives in a disguised form, so
the Great War.
West, which in turn has adopted, to a greater or a lesser
something that later became a great flood, the influx of
the Great War, a notable Englishman pointed out how
to the great enigmas. Through civilizations that

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before the outbreak of the Great War, or during it. His
peninsula jutting out from a great continent.
secret places have exerted the greatest conceivable influence
subjugation of large numbers of people. A great deal has
properly, we shall naturally find a great deal that is
— became the great social question round which countless
it has on a sick man, if used in greater strength.
this light a great deal of labour within society which, though
great battle that is being fought over the division of labour
great spiritual advances have been possible only because we
There is a great deal of talk nowadays about the necessity of
association with others. But here precisely is the great

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There are, of course, self-deceivers, on a greater or lesser
great deal nowadays depends on whether the man who has to
— into the great modern means of acquiring knowledge of
time, played a much greater rôle in mankind's
should be like today. In primary education today, a great deal
linked with the great cosmos.
large number of men, we may hope to attain, in not too great a
great deal from those with scientific education, you set
in the West, or was at least until the Great War. Attention has
Then came a great mass of humanity who made will

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disturbed by the social aftermath of the Great War, I published my book
would be easy to point to a great deal that should be
widespread in life and results in a great deal of
decomposition. And man owes a great deal to them. To overcome
a given year will have changed so greatly, twenty years later,
Thus, in the social order that existed before the Great War,
help one a very great deal in the spiritual sphere, is not
right that the three great ideals of liberty, equality and

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something which cannot appear to it as spiritual. The great
intellect is thus exposed to the great danger of falling a prey
that great influence on man which they have now. The life of

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture III: Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Age
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positions deserving the greatest respect in the sphere of scientific
be done in the greatest variety of ways. When I say that something
according to scientific thinkers, when anyone is exposed to great
life. Moreover, we now become aware that, in spite of the great
the degree of our selflessness, and the greater must our love become
have to work with the greatest intensity will struggle to birth out
of this great seriousness of the times. This external seriousness

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greatest respect in the sphere of scientific research are willing to
greatest variety of ways. It may seem trivial when I say that
is exposed to great terror, a severe shock, at the moment of
spite of the great advances registered in the evolution of
selflessness, and the greater must our love become in compensation.
will have to work with the greatest intensity will struggle to birth
out of this great seriousness of the times. This external

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to my great satisfaction, I am able to deliver to you here in Vienna,
how great a proportion of what so-called clever people call fantastic
the future, all this is seen to pass over again into the great

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with the great spaces of nature, lest he might lose his ingenuous
being, to be sure, in the great scale of cosmic interrelationship, but
dead when his body dies. He derives greater satisfaction from such a
similar spark in the soul is what so often causes great anguish —
Gemüt as great confidence in spirit, if you will consider
will you comprehend the nature of the great confidence in spirit. We
greater part of this active confidence in spirit has been
envision today the other great fact that out of free resolution man

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greatest imaginable role in every-day life. These are conceptions
many persons are the victims of a great delusion in this field.
great sense of responsibility is necessary in bringing this to
— to the greatest blessing for this human life, because, when
Only thus can that which is so greatly needed by our sorely

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of great interest to many people; but for those who see deeper into
development of a dream, on the other hand, is of the greatest import.
mediums do it, and sure enough, it worked! But he was greatly
in which during sleep we penetrate into the spiritual world, greater
clairvoyant way of looking at things takes on greater value than it
spirit of the universe. The great language of the heavens was
the greater becomes our respect for it. A spirit of reverence for the
knowledge of what should take place on earth. How infinitely greater
there flow the impulses deciphered from the great cosmic script he had
circles about the great 19th Century botanists Schleiden
without any particular instruction — as indeed we develop a great
study the great cosmic-historical course of our planetary system,
out in the universe and think of him as some great and mighty school
rains! In certain localities where there is a great deal of rain, it

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computations really calls for the greatest respect. It is exact, it is
the greatest danger, because they are incapable of refutation. Given
epoch this was celebrated in the great and profound rites performed in
learn to listen to what the year as the great living being has to tell
conceptions; and now that humanity is confronted with the great

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Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems,
the great researchers and thinkers came at the end of the
of bowl that surrounds our world. It was a great moment, when
beings as it were. It was a great moment when Gordano Bruno
great action to put a spiritual picture beside this sensory
is very important that we face Giordano Bruno as a great spirit

Title: Lecture: Love and Its Meaning In The World
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To disseminate love over the earth in the greatest measure possible,
development, for he has still greater debts to pay to the past. He
greater perfection of our own being. Love for a few or for many beings
great egoists unless the impulse of love, the Christ Impulse, is
great danger that — if it is cultivated without the Christ

Title: Lecture: The (Four) Great Virtues
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The (Four) Great Virtues
THE GREAT
very great deal. Today I would like to choose out one particular
the great philosopher of ancient Greece, distinguished these four
man attains in the way of wisdom enables him to reap the greatest
a great distinction between the brain and the heart in their relation
and these have to make the greatest efforts within themselves,
way even the greatest and noblest works of art of the greatest poets
science these things will have to be developed in greater detail.
its greatest power.

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With a great number of those who have gone from us, wonderfully
Plato, the great philosopher of ancient Greece, distinguished
on our great brain, the more — the outer anatomy does not
There is a great difference between the brain and the heart
beyond the brain, and then they must make the greatest efforts
biggest and noblest fruits of art, the great poets of humankind
are on the fields where they have now to serve the great duties

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the great questions of life take on a new character in each
century, for a solution to the great mysteries of man were
wonderfully advanced laws of physics and chemistry. The great
let us examine where this approach with its great hopes has
of the ways of approach, with its great hopes. We see as it
were, these great hopes disappearing into the world of
of space that we can add nothing toward answering the great
another sphere there have been just as great hopes, and
think of the great hopes people had with the advent of the
great as is the difference between the various species we see
think that Naegeli, the great botanist, was really a one-sided
great pupils of Haeckel, the most radical exponent of
honest and conscientious, do we not have to admit as the great
great and shattering truths which stand at the start of every
the soul, active solely in the life of the mind. After a great
life is let go, it enters into much greater depths of our life
anthroposophy, climbs to greater heights, and it must be
science of spirit. Thus also the son of the great Johann
with great care and immerse ourselves in their manifoldness.
people had the greatest hopes of gaining a new view of the
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to each other. In this respect there is a great, difference between
to make friends. We must know a great deal about each other before
undertakings depended to the greatest possible extent upon personal
in their next incarnation. Sympathy and antipathy are the greatest
authority has become so great and so intensified that under its
There are, however, a great many people whose sincerity
These three things must be the great true ideals of the
THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS. These are the three great aims and impulses of
because the three great true ideals of human understanding,
way’ the place where he lives) “is in a far greater sense
should be the three great concrete Ideals of our fifth post-Atlantean
great ideals to direct the sciences. It will be for them to refine
penetrate and further the life of modern humanity to the greatest
the greatest tasks of our time. And our souls will then be filled
In this sense the three great concrete social ideals and

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of these great general aspects, of these general truths, but also of
greater value for the individual and concrete life of a human being.
a physical body. A far greater sphere of connections arises if we
greater sphere of forces develops than those which arise between these
beginning we feel that there must be a great difference between a man
form of violent death, and a man who attains a great age before he
attained a great age.
other side, this lofty, great and uninterrupted sight, also brings
greater amount of inner experience, greater results of inner
easily show you that the perception of death itself has a great
Indeed, spiritual science is a great life-treasure, also in the
... indeed, many a teacher of Greek thinks that he is far greater
inoculated with the great, encompassing impulses which can only arise
I have now expressed truths which have a great weight in the

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only be hinted at. A very great deal will yet be necessary towards an
with the great universe, the macrocosm. Therefore, what is
universe than a great mechanism. Truly it is a strange mechanism
and here. You will find a great deal about the conditions of
for time plays a greater part in it than space. Nevertheless, it is
to do with you, and now you must begin making great efforts to get

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great power over other, large masses of people.
mutually illumine and explain each other and in doing so greatly
much greater insight. In the nineteenth century, a remarkable Order
greatest importance that men shall learn to see into the realities of
that a great deal must often be done that yields no gratifying
enough! Where necessity is greatest, remember, there the opposition is
another, on this or that date, a certain man died. A great deal may
conversation that means a great deal to you. A materialist, naturally,

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undergone very great changes indeed, it cannot be said that equal
undergoing great change — when we are able to observe not only
great deal that is unintelligible on the physical plane only begins to
inability to understand the great difference between the West and the
the Beings superior to them. These Beings of lower rank fought a great
greater importance than it ever had before. At no other period could
This is a truth that was destined, after the great changes in the
greater extent than people believe, the grievous and tragic events of
be imbued with greater and greater reality.
being a matter of no importance, there is a very great and essential
men astray in regard to the events of greatest importance in the
other player is always there? It is a very great help indeed to be
future. Our time is suffering great harm, in that the forces that were
leave unexpressed my thanks for the great efforts made in connection
may appear within the great stream of tragic, devastating happenings
today, we are doing something of great and incisive importance for the

Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Mans Astral Body
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watching out for the signs of the times. A very great deal is
world-evolution. One of the greatest defects, one of the principal
consider in greater detail the nature of man himself. In the sense of
in any way. Great world-events often pass men by just as something
These events can be characterised in greater detail, for to know what
great significance — and they want to lift man to their own spiritual
excellence of materialistic Darwinism. He is also the great teacher of
technology, so that with somewhat greater refinement, men shall
great danger may arise and men must be alert to it. If they are not,
future evolution of the Earth, a great danger to this evolution will
Here lies the great danger for the age of the Spiritual Soul. This is
Everything connected with medicine will make a great advance in the
into the spiritual world is itself a greater awakening from ordinary
great or middling importance of which you will be able to say: It came
I have already spoken here in greater detail about such matters. From

Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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denying the greatest of all events on Earth. When a man
a participant in the greatest event on Earth.
soul is too feeble to comprehend this greatest event.
plan it would have taken a course leading to greater and
greater participation in the destinies of the body, including
great, very wise, on the Earth, but, by instilling this
and from the consideration of these we can rise to the great
Eurythmy, are greatly in error. Words are nothing but
great mystery of everyday life. It makes all the difference
is actually the greater in what has been inspired in this
greater Rerversity when, holding our crimes proved by our
his many and great volumes, as it had been with thunderbolts

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clearer feeling than this: a more or less greater role is

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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feel: “Standing there, you bring a great deal to expression in
is the same with the child as with people in general — a great
only to the experiences that will come in later life. A great deal
great social task if you take the force of feeling which social

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question Based on Life's Realities
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as much as possible; with the greatest degree of association

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing.
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experiences is of a far greater importance than can be
can with the greatest human ingenuity, applying the deepest
result of slavery and you will, even by employing the greatest

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change overnight. We must strive towards a differentiation of a great
been the great tendency of the last four hundred years. And to-day,
through a book he is already sharing these thoughts with a great
Christ Himself, it is a great mistake to suppose that the solitary
my dear friends, that people have thought a great deal about this,
Nature of Christianity; in it he speaks a great deal about the
great mark of our time.
a great thing — but it ought not to be all-sufficient for human
Feel the great
the great difference between youthful enthusiasm and the enthusiasm

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity.
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considered great in Greece and also later times, and the

Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure.
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relationship could be even greater than one to a hundred. So,
Commerce, the great land owner, from the curia of the cities,
Just think back to the great ideals of the French Revolution:
must not forget what a great change can develop between one
a state like Austria could expect great success from this.

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How would this great cooperative be set up? Here one must take
interest. To a greater extent what had been the case in earlier
What the first speaker brought, for the greatest part, doesn't
Now, the greatest part of course doesn't involve me but it has
how great the temptation is, when inspired youth who have

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HERE is truly great significance in how certain
evil spirit! Imagine a great thinker, knowing nothing of our time and
are the one great mirage in the world, while the substance of our
— you may object — a great deal is said about the
has to say: It is like a dream... even a great thinker of two
foundation. It is here, in this great illusion, that we have to
reality. For this is the great difference between human life and
a great deal which was formerly instinctive is now rising into the
such a way that there is not much to say about it, but a great deal
how thought could be carried like an arrow over great distances by
But a great deal
life of the spirit. And the loneliest of all were the great thinkers,
Gottlieb Fichte. You will have heard and learnt a great deal about

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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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
occurrence of great, of immense changes in the whole structure of the
of the world has produced great, epoch-making results, especially in
of social will; since it is true that the greatest philanthropists,
great majority of people, when they hear of the social ideals of
unbiased judgment he watched how the great accumulations of capital
life. He saw the formation of trusts and of the great financial
those companies which with their massed capital acquired great power
economic conditions were there: — great accumulations of
I have taken great
rights, to political impulses, which can meet the great demands of
of life, of great masses of people at the present day, and it shows
The economic aspect of life has to a great extent over-spread
consumer is expressed by the price. It is a great error to confound
modern business books, when we know how to read them, a great change

Title: Social Future: Lecture II: The Organization of a Practical Economic Life on the Associative Basis
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idea of the threefold membering of the social body, there is a great
region, might be able to form a great federation in which all the
like. In short, a great federation embracing production and
little insight into facts knows that the idea of founding this great
more easily seen. The great federation embraces a vast social area.
an error which leads to the foundation of a great federation in which
absolutely foreign to its nature. But by far the greater number of
in the greater part of the patent schemes for the reform of the
company-principle, not even on the great syndicate-principle, but we
Today, however, a great deal is said from the ethical standpoint on
great deal. In public life to-day, in a life fruitful of results,
the ability to spend a great deal is just the sign of a large income.

Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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very great extent that the ability or inability of any individual to
unpleasant for the average man. For it is a matter of great
which they develop and form their capacities, have become to a great
in the following aspect: Among great masses of people there is a
question turns has been hidden by this dogma through a great
greatest seriousness. He must ask himself: What is the significance
sections: 1. The great landowners; 2. The towns, market and
identification with the great land-owning class, with the towns,
great landowners about anything that benefited them economically, a
that in the old German Imperial Parliament there is a great party,
what part of the world it goes. His work is a small part of a great
fellow-men in one great circle, eventually with all their fellow-men
some great machine need not put his whole self into the contemplation
great error must be overcome — the great error: that we need

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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of our time, it makes a great difference if one speaks from a
great part of mankind today is already under the control, from one
philistinism could make one also flee from the beauty and greatness
materialistic, you must receive the answer: a great part of modern
a great part of modern Christian theology succumbs when it no longer
Ahrimanic powers can use and which will give Ahriman the greatest
predominate in modern times. You know, indeed, what a great difference
earth is robbed of spirit, robbed of soul, even of life. It is a great
consciousness through the tenets of these great spirits in human
evolution merely shows the universe as a great mechanism.
things are there; they live within it. And much of the great discord
still children. We have made such great strides — right ‘to the
that it is illusion. Ahriman has the greatest possible interest in
superstitious empiricism, one is dealing with a great illusion, a
deception — that men should not recognize this is of the greatest
prevail into the third millennium. He would have the greatest success
confusion over mankind that will gradually become greater and greater
such a great temptation to contribute to Ahriman's triumph!”
already, for surely the World War catastrophe was a great folly! Yet
great harm which such one-sidedness would cause. By being faced with
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Title: Social Future: Lecture IV: Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion
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in the greater part of the civilized world, opportunity to carry out
before the great catastrophe of the World-War, in the spring of 1914,
to any other real work of art? Do we not see in such great works of
means the measure of their greatness? Do we not see the measure of
their greatness in the creation of something from within that is far
evident in social life that great numbers of people look on art as
great deal to them, since they had themselves the desire to be
great is the terror they experience at the thought that any other
worlds, great errors and misunderstandings have been spread abroad
is no great difference externally between a child of five and one of
great and social significance to men, that everything by which they
greatly has humanity fallen away from the perception of the true
Him correspond to the experiences of those who draw near to the great
renew religious life, the very great importance of which must lie
centered at Dornach, which has to a great extent met with
will not call this great drama which has held the world in thrall for

Title: Social Future: Lecture V: The Cooperation of the Spiritual, Political and Economic Departments of Life
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from which a great part of the population of the world is striving to

Title: Social Future: Lecture VI: National and International Life in the Threefold Social Organism
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idealistic aims whose greatest value lay in their international
by saying that while other interests which bore a much greater
That this great
with which we have dealt. The greatest hindrance is the lack of
editorial presents no great difficulty nowadays. For there is so much
In that speech from the throne there was a great deal said, very

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first great Teachers of humanity. They were not incarnated in physical
in previous lives — it was as if the Great Teachers spoke from
The great
Today the great Teachers form a kind of spiritual colony on the Moon
these great “books” kept by the Moon sages. Before we
great Recorders of our past life and therefore constitutes part of
Moon, its dark shadow becomes for him the great Admonisher formed by
spent. I have said that the Moon Beings, the great Recorders,
today and what was taken for granted not so very long ago. A great
— that there are great similarities in
great Initiates underwent similar experiences in
the world was meant to know about the great Initiates was biography
a great deal of knowledge about the outer spiritual world. In
may meet an individual and then have a great deal to do with him,
a rule, and a great deal of talk goes on about world affairs, about
the great counterparts in the Universe of the microcosmic destiny of

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Spiritual Science lived in one of the greatest artists of our time. In
of the greatest possible clarity — a world where ideas shine into
poet as great as Goethe does not use phrases; and if there were no
domains. The great riddles of the universe were presented to those who
greater perfection in the animal and finally to self-consciousness in
time had now come for a re-union of the arts, and with his great gifts
for the myths portray Beings far greater than physical man can ever
truths can only be expressed with the greatest delicacy. Richard
is able to speak with greater clarity of what natural science is only
A great cosmological truth is contained in these words, for all things
individualised Ego-consciousness was of the greatest significance, and
with the greatest delicacy; we should try to get at the whole mood and
which lived in all the great masters. It lived, too, in Goethe who

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ideas. The great spiritual picture to which Plato tried to lift the
universe. Great and sublime was the wisdom presented in the schools of
Hierarchies, in the great structure of the spiritual universe.
totality, one great system — the four hundred and seventy-four
absorbed a very great deal from pupils of men like Iamblichus and who
heart. Truth and truth alone was his quest. And the great obstacle in

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are necessarily so great and of such a character as to be
Movement, ought not to have so great a cause for grieving over
according to all these various aspects of the great ideals of
course, yet nevertheless a great amount of work which we had
by a great number of human beings, that the Anthroposophical
give expression to some thing to which I attach great
persons, and I can bring this to ever greater perfection within
great importance — that from this direction of
Religious Renewal one of the greatest perils for the

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participated in these societies. Among the great multitude of
of wrangling, the greatest abundance of occasions for
world — there exists the very greatest possibility that
greater degree than is customary in the physical world. To
among men from the higher worlds the greatest unity, the
greatest possible practice of tolerance as a quality one has
great proportion of the opponents are really of such a
was greatly pleased with this description because it showed
that persons were present who observed what I greatly desire to
is not for the spiritual-scientist greatly modified even by the
great number of persons when it is molded into a different
the greatest danger can arise for the Anthroposophical Society
Renewal, and of its absence from Anthroposophy will be greatly

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mind. He saw himself no more isolated from the great
forming ideas on the basis of thought. Within the great
ideas of the West have a great deal of human
times. Our thinking is still greatly influenced by
habits humankind has acquired put up great resistance to
knowledge of the heavens came with the great increase in

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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the great culture which had grown out of the soul and
that was truly great at a time when the Mystery of
thoughts of those great minds, not in an external way but
Once again the great difference between the Latin and the
even greater significance where a more profound view is

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can go to great lengths to explain that one should not
that Dante, who after all must be considered a great
That is what has happened to the great, far-reaching
our inner life by considering the great events of world
that People today have been given great tasks and yet

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realization; or in other words that there is a great deal
Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
the greatest opposition to this idea? The greatest
thinkers. Dr Boos was going great guns in a liberal
one feels very humble in perceiving the greatness of the
His blood. The priest therefore has greater power in the

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by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind
as ‘historical materialism’ plays a great
were and still are as great in the socialist movement as
getting a great deal more serious than people are

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form to the brain of a child is far greater than the
petrified. A child still has a great deal of the spirit.

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given great emphasis. It simply has to be admitted that
Protestant element, and Rome will continue to make great
called Christ. This happens a great deal nowadays and it
Protestant clergyman who had travelled a great deal. [
travelled a great deal. To stop you from developing
greater degree than has been the case until now.
to a great many people about the threefold order in

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an even greater extent when we are fully asleep. The way
world around them and focus it on the great illuminating
The great
nature of those great minds and you will see that I am
Fichte, Schelling, even Goethe. What made them great?
Their greatness and significance has to do with
example. You will find that great emphasis is put on the
from that great culture, for its mission was to emphasize
particularly by Hegel, but also by all other great
but it has fallen into decadence. In the West a great
tone for political and economic life. Greatness for the
great man for a time.
economists. Spencer would have done a great deal better
evolution. We can certainly call the time when the great
people of the Middle were faced with a great question:
earth?’ That indeed is the great question
refused to wake up and ignored the great necessity that
me great pain and my heart feels sore because souls are
go; that they shrink from the great tasks that have to be
generated in the human organism, studying them in great
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permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
they call it a ‘war’ behind us; a much greater war than any
another great event [ Note 68 ] took place
Belgium together had 35 million horse power years available. Great
position of Great Britain those 98 million horse power years could not
reached the front lines indirectly. Those energies were opposed by Great
human soul life in those past times when the great struggles in which
immediate conscious awareness of the will. The great danger is that the
great problem of our time is that people slide into the ahrimanic sphere
has also existed in earlier ages, but it will happen to a much greater
of these young people. A great longing is going to come, a kind of
have a science that I have taken to great heights; have a life in the
what I am.' This mood will be the great question mark of the age, a
something is restlessly astir in us that I have called a great longing, a
great need in the souls of people in the decades to come. This need in
experiencing a great deal of the future; all such writers can do is
Great Britain, 35 million in Belgium, France and Russia, and finally the
‘The League of Nations must be created, for it will be a great

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concentrated on the great task. I feel it really has to
a serious Anthroposophy that is considering the great
That of course is the great evil in our time, that people

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human body the same physical processes appear, but there is a great
out through the name "I." All great religions also felt this, that in
occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
receives a great shock from the fright. People who have been subjected
great cities are today, what were they like a thousand years ago? For

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great and far-reaching events of world and human
times, attend with so great care to such outward things of
certain connection between the recent great events throbbing
great events throbbing through our time.: Out of such feelings
may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
great and revolutionary impulses occurring in the earthly path
have felt and experienced this great revolution, which, of
always had to live according to karma, the great law of
great achievement in the education of the future. A social
have taken the trouble to find out a great deal about what is
prefer to sleep, to sleep so soundly that in mid-Europe great

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great importance that it forms, and always must form, a
we stand at the beginning of the greatest conflicts, the
greatest spiritual conflicts of the civilized world, and
(I have discussed this at greater length in the first chapter
a great whole, we shall defend this word “ideology”
were greatly vexed by something I said in a lecture in a South
great migrations and the spreading of Christianity. The
into everything which works for the great interests of
more and more deeply into the Greek world. This has a great
difficulties had shown him the much greater importance of a
pensions them off. It means a great deal when a man can assure
few days after there appeared in the papers great announcements
the greatness of the German people, so gloriously displayed in

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evolution men are confronted with great tests, though for the
consciousness. The great obstacle to be overcome is the desire
feeling, everyone could realize that a great, important and
— became fainter and fainter. This great Mystery,
is felt, how men avoid approaching the great knowledge or
five years. The great thing in all these things is to prepare,
standing like shadows beside the great truths destined to

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became possible, and at this point occurred a great historical
place about us might have become the great instructors of
great imperial states, the affairs of these states had acquired
say was a great contrast to what at that time, and indeed even
life. Opposed to these circles stands the great mass of the
although in social questions he falls into great errors
men who were divided by a deep golf from the great masses to
very distinguished scientist, for whom I have great respect (I
control. That is one of the great objectives we must specially
One-half of a great truth was uttered more than a hundred years
what I fain would discuss at greater, length. I have only been
dominated by the three great ideals of “Liberty,
being, to the great glories of Central Europe, then, in spite

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