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Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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magnitudes has become in recent years a powerful educational means for

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture I
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is the same as it was in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, and

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture I
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fullness in recent times — from every kind of scientific
very centre of the soul's life. By thus directing all the
concentration on a single thought) — and the length of
centre of the Earth towards the circumference. When we come to
is the central point, and that the laws of life are working
then, which work from the centre of the Earth outward, we add
knowledge of the laws which work inwards towards the centre of
concentrate upon one particular thought; we arrive at
the Universe towards the centre of the Earth, in
from the centre of the Earth outwards in all directions. So
thought that we have concentrated upon, but it is also possible
descent into earthly life, so now we know the continuation of
say that in recent times Medicine has not made immense
remedies in recent times we find that they have only been
there were the Mystery Centres in which a knowledge was
have been a centre of knowledge at the Goetheanum at Dornach in
centre of knowledge where mankind would have been able to
there should be added to the Goetheanum a centre of Healing.
by side with the centre of Knowledge, a centre of Healing. And
used as a blessing for humanity. Therefore, such a centre of
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Title: Art of Healing: Lecture I
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fullness in recent times — from every kind of scientific
very centre of the soul's life. By thus directing all the
produced by concentration on a single thought) — and the
on, which work from the centre of the Earth towards the
must say that the entire globe is the central point, and that
these laws, then, which work from the centre of the Earth
towards the centre of the Earth from every direction, and which
Meditation we concentrate upon one particular thought; we
periphery of the Universe towards the centre of the Earth, in
from the centre of the Earth outwards in all directions. So
thought that we have concentrated upon, but it is also possible
is before the descent into earthly life, so now we know the
do not mean to say that in recent times Medicine has not made
way of remedies in recent times we find that they have only
ancient times there were the Mystery Centres in which a
connection with the Mysteries there were Centres of Healing.
There was to have been a centre of knowledge at the Goetheanum
rebuilt. It was to be a centre of knowledge where mankind would
course that there should be added to the Goetheanum a centre of
is established once again, side by side with the centre of
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture II
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Descent into the Physical Body, Goethe and Schiller

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VII
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during recent years will be eliminated;
the Earth in the twentieth century as the gathering together of a
for during the first half of the nineteenth century when the souls of
of the nineteenth century, when, in the spiritual world, mighty,
century in order to prepare for what, on Earth, was to become the
appeared in the last third of the nineteenth century and is the most
ages — through centuries, nay, in many cases
centuries of the Christian era had spread in Southern Europe
first centuries as the mighty ‘Sun God.’
no longer see in the Sun the great spiritual kingdom at whose centre
the descent of the Christ to the Earth became superseded by mere
world. Until the seventh and eighth centuries these individuals found
Christian centuries until the seventh and eighth centuries
which occurred in the early Christian centuries. Then, from the
seventh and eighth centuries onwards, they were preparing in the
you when I said that in the first half of the nineteenth century a
centuries, and in the ancient Pagan Mysteries prior to Christianity
Earth during the early centuries of Christianity but remained in the
super-sensible worlds and only after the seventh century
the first half of the nineteenth century. It was like a great cosmic,
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture III
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it is attracted by the scent of what is in the plant. Such a
reason why many phenomena of recent times remain unexplained is
recently, where horses have carried out simple arithmetical
then concentrated in the calyx, the petals, the stamen, the

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VIII
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next immediately adjacent spiritual realm, the Beings whom we call
example, during the three centuries preceding the last third of the
nineteenth century, namely during the nineteenth, eighteenth,
seventeenth centuries and part of the sixteenth, we must think of the
nineteenth century. Thus, in reality, it is only since that time
propagation. And so it is only since this recent Gabriel rulership
Archangel in the three preceding centuries comes to expression in
becomes accentuated. So, if you ask yourself why it is that such
third of the nineteenth century, at the end of the seventies, a new
century. For between these two reigns of Michael falls the Event
the thinking of all subsequent centuries was based; it conditioned
eighth century of the Christian era, in the earthly realm itself. And
them. Only now, from the eighth century
eighth century onwards this was the spectacle of the Earth as
Intelligence they had been obliged, in the Mystery Centres, to look
profound secret of the descent of the pan-Intelligence in the
evolution of humanity was known in a few Mystery Centres over in the
beginning of the ninth century, under the leadership of Haroun al
this Court were concentrated all the treasures of wisdom, of art, of
flourished in Baghdad that brilliant centre of Oriental, Western
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture IV
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deep impression was made on me recently, when at the request of
remained in the first third of the 19th century. When however a
are supposed to dance around a central nucleus: for things of

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IX
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central theme of these lectures, we shall appreciate the significance
of the fact that in the centuries preceding the founding of
away from Michael and by the eighth century A.D.
predestined to carry their work on into the nineteenth century when
last third of the nineteenth century we have been living in the
must come to pass in the twentieth century. For before the end of
this present century a considerable number of human beings who have
when the ninth century of the Christian era had come, those around
of evolution which from the beginning of the fifteenth century
development on Earth began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Michael, being free
Conference had taken place at the beginning of the thirteenth century
eighteenth centuries, under the direct leadership of Michael —
nineteenth century in mighty Imaginations, as I have told you,
the end of the fifteenth century, Michael gathered his hosts of gods
sixteenth, seventeenth centuries and on into the eighteenth,
the twentieth century.
in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
of the century is reached. What we must do is to ennoble the art of
a beneficent power — for beings who on one level of
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Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture V
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given earlier; concentration is possible. Then, after about 4

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture II
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remains far more at the periphery, is concentrated far more on
where the senses are especially concentrated, that the silicic
concentrated; then we have that which fills out the limbs and
‘centralised,’ we have the strongest silicic acid
senses, he needs more and more silicic acid; in the centre of

Title: Art of Healing: Lecture II
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remains far more at the periphery, is concentrated far more on
concentrated, that the silicic acid process is intensified;
circumference where the senses are concentrated; then we have
and the “centralised,” we have the
the senses, he needs more and more silicic acid; in the centre

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VI
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we can produce colours which are iridescent and begin to

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VII
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a philosopher is really indecently naked in regard to the
and explain something which demands a more concentrated
comparatively recent times. And now I am going to tell
centimetres behind the forehead, the potato substance begins to
be active here also and to form the same eccentric circles. The
complete unity. At that time there existed Mystery Centres
which were also centres for education and culture, centres
sense-perceptible beauty existed in the Mystery Centres, as a

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VIII
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the Greek element up into Central Europe. If you study Italian
or ugly, or magnificent or wonderful — all these things
century, and in some other century; describe plastically,
and growing up, we can reckon that in the course of a century we
further ten centuries, you will get all told 11 times 3 or 4

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture IX
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educational questions were widely accepted in Central Europe,
education without teaching. With him everything centred on how
centre of speech situated in the left half of the brain. We
that the Greek's whole world-perspective was centralised in the
place of the gymnast; there the entire cultural life is centred
18th century, had as its main purpose the training, one might
century, in order not to remain too much behind others, that
now with the 16th century we come to more modern times,
be seen in the 15th century. Once again something that still
since the 16th century our entire education has been focused on
the first half of the 19th century we find such professors of
right through the man of today is neither centred in his
something centred in his thoughts. And so it has come about
This was still so in the first half of the 19th century. Then
longer stands as a personality in the centre of things. If one
century in the shade. I appreciate them fully; indeed I see in
the teachers of the 19th-century men of genius and great

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture X
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of humanity when Mystery Centres were to be found here and
those old, sacred centres human beings have had, as it were,
point of the 19th to the 20th century it has become possible,
Waldorf School suits their children admirably. Recently two
state of economic affairs in Central Europe, even though it has
centuries, with what is approaching us with all the violence of
hand, through the fact that this art of education is centred in

Title: Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture III
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interwoven. The nerves, as they continue on into the centre of
withdraw to some extent from the central — the white
central brain, the astral organisation withdraws more from the
is dislocated. The central brain begins to be less serviceable
the place it has left — into the central part of the
into the central nerves-and-senses system in the head, but we
centrifugal processes where the metabolic-limb system is
forces in the metabolism. The excessively active centrifugal
centripetal forces. Both the pathological and therapeutical
centre which is devoted to healing — near to the
Mystery-centre, a therapeutical centre, because a comprehensive

Title: Art of Healing: Lecture III
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the centre of the brain from the senses, form a marvellous
Ego begins to withdraw to some extent from the central —
withdraws from the central brain, the astral organisation
organisation of the head is dislocated. The central brain
— into the central part of the brain ?
true, send back the Ego into the central nerves-and-senses
question of paralysing those centrifugal processes where the
The excessively active centrifugal forces which give
rise to hay-fever are combated by strong centripetal
men, there is a centre which is devoted to healing — near
to the Mystery-centre, a therapeutical centre, because a

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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course of the 19th century humanity became materialistic in

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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common ego in the centre of the earth, in the lower spiritual
forming a centre in the spirit world, for the ego of the
concentration are the means here used.

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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ascent. In Christ the Deity had for the first time come down

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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to Central Asia, to the region of the present desert of Gobi.
There a colony was founded, and from this centre colonists
fostered in this centre. This took place about the time when
descent had to come if humanity was to progress; only when
the Spirit has descended fully into matter can its reascent
post-Atlantean Epoch has signified a descent of the human
spirit into matter. But the purpose of this descent is the
after the deepest descent, an ascent to conscious, spiritual
Descent of the Spirit.
Ascent
of Christianity which is to bring about the ascent. The Star

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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with man. The plant turns its root downward, to the centre of
sleep. The consciousness of the plant is concentrated in the
centre of the earth. The plants are so closely bound up with
then left to itself; it creeps away to the centre of the

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Basel, 11-23-'07
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In i we have the center to which the etheric

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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generations; the man of more recent times meant by it

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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Mystery-centres there were men whose eyes of spirit were open in such
from the depths of the centuries.
us lies in the results of ascent into the super-sensible world. When
physical body evolved in the line of physical descent. But then there
the events that took place before the Baptism by John and the descent

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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centuries a somewhat different attitude was adopted by Christian
centuries. For all those who were bowed down with sorrow or suffering
central point and came to expression in the events there. We may
humanity, a stream which, several centuries before the coming of
in the East, five to six centuries before our era, there appeared in
means of ascent into the spiritual world. Being himself proof against

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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ascent to the pure, ethereal heights of the Spirit; a very great deal
his complete descent into a physical human body. If we enter into

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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mid-nineteenth century were deeply preoccupied from the scientific
Five to six centuries
what has been said. In the fifth–sixth century before our era there
lines of descent, the ‘Solomon line’ and the ‘Nathan

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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innocents’. Has the thought never struck you that those who read
that the enlightenment of the Bodhisattva and his ascent to Buddhahood
concentrate all the power he had ever possessed. Hence he could not
direction of the great Mother-Lodge of humanity in the central
he appeared to be according to his bodily descent; in respect of the
spirit he was the reborn Zarathustra; in respect of bodily descent

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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First and foremost we must learn to know the great central Figure of
who in the fifth/sixth century before our era became Buddha. We have
physical body. It was not until the fifth/sixth century
development of the other, adjacent, stream is as it were held back.
Even as the words of power once spoken by Elijah in the ninth century
noble descent. These Brahmans claim that a man's worth is determined
by his descent, but I say to you: Man's worth is determined by what
he makes of himself, not by what is in him by virtue of his descent.
much store by your descent from those who in the service of the

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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development of the central Being of our Earth — Christ Jesus
indicates in broad outline the development of the central Figure of
Leader of all the Beings who send their beneficent influences from
belongs. The Bodhisattva who became Buddha in the fifth/sixth century
the time when the Bodhisattva appeared five to six centuries
the great Spirit-Lodge grouped around One who is their Centre; they are
became Buddha five to six centuries before our era was endowed with
to teach, and for whose descent into a human body such stupendous
from his arbitrary control. If this beneficent deed of the Gods had

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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centuries, has remained unchanged, and that conditions not existing
point of the process has now been reached, and that the ascent to the
be restricted through the centuries to the acquisition of inner
centuries before our era; we have now become like Buddha in our own

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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humanity and observes that development in some particular century
Bible as it has been accepted during the last four or five centuries
how the sentence has stood for centuries. But has anyone ever
Christ meant. Translators of this passage have for centuries confused
possible that this kind of thing should have dragged on for centuries and
centuries and roughly five more have now elapsed since the
These words have for centuries succeeded in obscuring a
became Buddha five or six centuries before our era, ascended into the
his predecessor. Entrusted with his mission five or six centuries

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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Reincarnation exoterically a few centuries ago; and it would have
teaching been proclaimed in the early centuries of Christendom in the
that in what has been imparted to humanity for centuries from the
faculties originating from the line of descent and from the seed; and
centre of man's being, from his Ego. The proclamation rings out

Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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little the will is directly influenced from the centre of your being.
investigation of recent years, undertaken by individuals among genuine
comprehend the event that has its beginning in the Twentieth Century:
century. A number of individuals will see the Etheric Christ and will
from century to century returns ever and again in a body of flesh, not

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
how little the will is directly influenced from the human center. Why
esoteric research of recent years, undertaken by individuals among
that has its beginning in the twentieth century: the appearance of
as were the achievements of electricity in the nineteenth century. A
Buddha and who from century to century returns ever and again in a

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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the nineteenth century, we shall find that in the eighteenth
and seventeenth centuries we approach ever closer to a time
ordinary man of the eighteenth century say to himself if he
which to the men of the eighteenth century was the first
although they appear some two centuries after the end of the
nineteenth century. Only someone who can look more deeply
century, and how for that reason everything had to become
perspective of the man of the eighteenth century went back
What happened in the nineteenth century — and this is
civilization of the nineteenth century. This penetration by
nineteenth century if he concerned himself with spiritual
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will be very clear about
to be found in Homer as well as what took such magnificent
the nineteenth century. One name alone will suffice, a name
century, and this will convince us that something came from
profound relationship between this nineteenth century man and
in the second half of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century a complete transformation, a metamorphosis
that belongs to the eighteenth century. He will then see that
of the nineteenth century that all over the civilized world
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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soul of the Faust of the sixteenth century, to become a kind
century, increased the difficulty of really understanding the
course on St. Luke's Gospel the whole magnificent figure of
take the Bible (and recent historical research shows that the
emphasizing of the descent of the blood through the
from different sides, streaming in and uniting in the center,
together as in one central point in the blood of the old
center? We have yet to see why it took place. But if we now
centuries following the conquests of Alexander, a

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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through centuries and millennia, as a spirit who could not be
accentuated manner. And then we are faced with the fact that
which is to enter into the divine inner center of the human
center. That is the point. In a world view such as this the
someone who will be reincarnated. For you the central
twentieth century again as a physical human being.”

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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middle and toward the end of the fifth century
flowed on for centuries in the East, throwing up mighty waves
follow up the centuries during which Buddhism was spreading
successors down the centuries. Everything the Buddha had said
century may really be considered contemporary. In the
century is of little importance. Therefore we can say that if
to be put a century later, as far as human evolution is
In the fifth century
understanding of the last centuries it is a good thing to
pupils and remain active for centuries. On the other hand,
thing and then concentrate on this one thing and then
Buddha. And then four or five centuries later there is this

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 5
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centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. In doing this we
Buddha stands in the fifth or sixth century before the
centuries before the Buddha, but that is not the issue here.
twentieth century. It is entirely comprehensible that it is
different. I am referring to everything that in recent years
regarded as the newest evolutionary phase of the human ascent
spirit of creation, its beginning, its center and its end.
months and all centuries and all millennia and all millions
center, here where we stand!
stands there as a conclusion. Then, a few centuries later,
human soul itself feel in the course of subsequent centuries?
magnificently.”
Krishna.” Buddha's teaching in these later centuries
conclusion centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, in which

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-20-12
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be that nothing special results from the exercises in concentration

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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animals. Although some foolish persons have recently begun to
regularly through the centuries. Only when we consider really
magnificently grasped by the knowledge of the East.
presented in such a way that recurrence is of central
abstract concentration on the One, this tendency to look for
everything should have a center of gravity. So if people
for the one fulcrum, the single center of gravity, and not
develops in this people is a form of descent through the

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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concentrated within him that he could live without using the
in the concentrated etheric body, concentrated in such a way
been maturing during the preceding centuries and took place
Western world. In particular we can trace the descent of
remarkable philosopher of the sixth century before the
the Western world as late as the sixth century,
sage of Syros; he lives scarcely two-thirds of a century

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-22-12
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order only then to be able to feel like a center for the reception of

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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recent occult research, the significant truth was indicated
have a continuous line of descent which in several points we

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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of its descent, could only be directed toward the future, and

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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eighteenth century modern consciousness has been seeking, as
Until the eighteenth century actually very few questions were
the centuries for them to think it necessary to ask whether
man Jesus of Nazareth; and the more the eighteenth century
Jesus of earlier centuries. This, from the point of view of
entirely natural that in the course of the nineteenth century
which they have been preserved. Secondly, in recent years
“Christ research,” which in recent years has come
Christ in recent years. But Christ is in no sense real; He
beginning of the anthroposophical movement in Central Europe
Christ problem within the theosophical movement of Central
ago! It has often been emphasized of recent years that the
doesn't take part in such things. In Central Europe people go
black white. Even if our anthroposophical Central European
opposition to the dreadful dogma of Central Europe. It is

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Three: Awakening Spiritual Thoughts
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development, especially in the last third of the nineteenth century.
While on earth, let us concentrate on our tasks here and leave the
century of scientific development. Then they will look to spiritual
then become ever more important for people in the twentieth century
an idea of what people in our century will have to know about the
is just as good is to live in the center of an epidemic or endemic
materialistic science against germs. In the course of this century,
heartfelt realization that in the twentieth century people will need
self-centeredness and apply the description of a particular case to
these things recently in a public lecture, but now I can be more
that so saddened us in recent days could not recur. I am referring to

Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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unselfishness, and to become acquainted with all those incentives to
longer realize it but in the first centuries of Christianity the Christian

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture VIII: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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18th century. The feeling was sound and true, for we ourselves shall
who in the 18th century had a deep, deep feeling for the Mystery of
In converse with the Father God, Jesus is speaking of the descent

Title: Lecture Series: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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the true idea when the human being, standing in the centre of
in the centre, in the state of balance.
much after a particular pattern. In Central Europe this is
of Northern and Central Europe — to consider these

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture III: The Supersensible Being of Man
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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
and concentration are described in the books mentioned above),
in order to concentrate all the powers of our soul upon this
way of thinking was made possible three or four centuries ago
thoughts that we place in the center of our consciousness, the
his eyes the sun was not there — A more recent scientist
A brilliant scientist of the 19th century, Du Bois-Reymond,

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture IV: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
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its meaning. It was the central star of the earth, shining out with
Denmark, was the centre from which, in those ancient times, important
ordained by this Mystery-centre was taboo; and in this tribe of the
inferior being. For the impulse went out from that Mystery-centre at
Tacitus, writing a century after the Mystery of Golgotha, was due to
wrapped in subconsciousness, and led to all births being concentrated
are called Ingaevones, those of the centre, Hermiones, the remainder

Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Eight
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nineteen centuries ago when it endeavoured to give some kind of an
part of Denmark today, there existed a centre from which emanated in
about because the temple priests of this secret Mystery Centre on the
sexual union outside this period decreed by the Mystery centre was
was sent out by the Mystery centre at the time of the first full moon
Tacitus — writing a century after the Mystery of Golgotha.
Nerthus. Those connected with this Mystery centre called themselves

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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“No mind, where no nerve centre, where no brain, the
— “No nerve centre, no brain, we say if it were not
centuries, before it enters the sense-perceptible existence at
(1838-1917), who died recently, had a rich knowledge life
centuries. As it is correct if natural sciences exclude the

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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appears to the world today, it knows that after centuries that
Because during the last centuries and up to now natural
example, of a lecture which at the beginning of this century
things lags behind. As recently as in 1822, the Catholic Church
Copernicus and Galilei. Maybe it needs centuries that a decree,

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture III: What Spiritual Science Has to Say About the Eternal Aspect of the Human Soul and the Nature of Freedom
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independently. However, this is not the central issue. When I

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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in the second half of the nineteenth century.
since centuries and which showed to advantage in particular in
the nineteenth century. The mere science, the mere knowledge,
lost. For centuries, for millennia there were instinctive
from nature. The recent historical development means that the
the nineteenth century up to now. Scientific mental pictures
describing the first Christian centuries did not describe the
recent time, these things have become particularly important
because just in the nineteenth century the scientific approach
the waters of scientific consideration. Just in the recent time
approach of the recent socialism, in particular the materialist
centuries up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Karl Marx
described the impulses of the last three to four centuries.
sense of the dreams of the last four centuries, Karl Marx wrote
scientific psychological concepts of the recent time,. It will
Central European peoples, of the East European peoples, which
However, one has done various attempts in the recent time to

Title: Et Incarnatus Est: The Time Cycle of Historic Events
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centuries closely associated in the human heart with the
the Resurrection. We might even say that the central mystery of
people of the nineteenth century to see whether the idea of
consciousness of the nineteenth century. We will listen to some
of the voices of leading thinkers of the nineteenth century.
personality known through the centuries as the Redeemer of the
that humanity for centuries has associated with the life of the
centuries, is attractive to a thinker of the nineteenth century
century. Let us listen now to another, the voice of John Stuart
of the nineteenth century to the being whom humanity for
choice! We even choose in the nineteenth century!) “that
nineteenth century, by denying their own spirit, have given to
that being whom humanity for centuries has recognized as the
first centuries, as it sought to equal its divine founder in
humanity for centuries has recognized as the Redeemer of the
century. He was therefore good enough to be as great as those
us take another thinker of the nineteenth century. You know
thought of the nineteenth century about Christ Jesus expressed
eccentric persons, the epileptic, hysterical, or crazy, who
attractive male whom they proceed to make the center of a cult.
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VII: The Nature of the Human Soul and the Nature of the Human Body
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of the soul life in the last third of the nineteenth century.
centuries.
ideas for three to four centuries, and in particular, in the
nineteenth century, psychology has to advance if it does not
centuries. Not that the human beings have learnt to think from

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conscious reminiscent life is associated with all kinds of
obvious that, actually, the development of the recent natural

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the earliest Christian centuries to feel in the Crucified One
recent centuries to the Christmas manger something of a
become trivial in the course of the centuries. And many a song
spiritual life of Switzerland of the fifteenth century, with
magnificently symbolized in the Christmas conception. In
century. Let us recall today, as we desire to enter deeply into
nascimur. If we look at the centre of the human
But, in his centre-most being, man comes out of the spiritual
middle of the nineteenth century, though in stammering accents
humanity when we grasp the central kernel of the

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illuminating strength for our thinking, a powerful incentive for our
of Christmas and Easter. During the early Christian centuries, when
from the way it has concentrated in recent centuries upon the Christmas
in a bad sense — has become trivial in the course of centuries.
with the images associated with that spiritual genius of fifteenth-century
of human birth, which is so magnificently symbolized for world history
us to contemplate it in the twentieth century. As we try today to grasp
than by saying: man's central being leaves the spiritual world. He is
in such a body. But he has come, in his central core of being, out of
after-effects of his recent life in the spiritual world.
been put forward by some minds since the middle of the nineteenth century
— may I say, in stammering accents, but quite distinctly. When
born with the individual. But they are not used by him beneficently
mystery in the evolution of modern humanity if one grasps this central

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four centuries. Let me illustrate this for you in a particular case.
This view places the sun in the centre of our planetary system; the
the centre, and the sun and stars revolving round the earth. Man had,
that is to say, a geocentric picture of the world. Copernicus replaced
it with a heliocentric picture of the world. Man has now no longer the
Now, this heliocentric picture of the world already existed in earlier
into early Greek times, into an epoch many centuries before the Middle
the earth revolves round the sun as centre, while the sphere of the
fixed stars, whose centre is also in the sun, is so immense that the
of the fixed stars as is the centre of a sphere to its entire surface.
We find thus in Greek times the heliocentric conception of the world;
olden times, however, this heliocentric conception of the world was a
such knowledge, has shown itself frequently in later centuries in the
product only of the last few centuries.
thinking such as is necessary, for example, to grasp the heliocentric
himself in the very centre of his soul — he discovers that he is at

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magnificent natural science of our time. It aims to rank
19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the opinion came
also how spirit-knowledge needs the picture of this central

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during the 15th and 10th century A.D. When the human being entered the spiritual world, he

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back over a period measured by centuries only, we find something that
recent centuries, turned his thoughts in prayer to the dead who had
fairly recently, whom we knew during his life on earth and who left
thoughts of antipathy and hatred are formed half innocently. But when
Quite recently, perhaps not even a year ago, one of our friends, and

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back with spiritual vision even but a' few centuries to olden times,
a few centuries ago, turned his thoughts when at prayer to the dead
world a man we knew on earth who recently died leaving behind him
centred on trying to get into touch with the loved one, our vision
dislike are innocent, so to speak. When such a teacher dies, one sees
recently died, he came to the conclusion that the soul of his father
into Kamaloca and in its further ascent, than it is to see the

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sixth or fifth century B.C. Human nature changes in this respect more
— the tenth, eleventh, twelfth centuries B.C. — there arose
was that decades, even centuries, before birth, we ourselves so
— this life lasts for centuries, so there is naturally a middle
century was in the spiritual world at the beginning of the nineteenth
and during the second half of the eighteenth centuries. From that
the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries; an
innocent of all the forces in man's nature.
most innocent forces are at the same time those which, when they are

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century as it is in the average man today. In this respect the nature
of the prehistoric times, of the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries B.C.,
centuries before our birth, that it should be so, we shall find it
— the inner experience of the soul is chiefly centred on the
Suppose a man was born in the second half of the nineteenth century
century and end of the preceding one. From thence he looked down at
the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, who took as
of man. These innocent forces — I beg some of you to note this

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which has never been surpassed throughout the centuries.

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century, especially through Lessing, we must agree with that
alive and unequaled through the centuries.

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century the Italian Scientist, Francesco Redi, was looked upon
sin of acknowledging a truth two centuries before science had
it has followed since the 17th century the time will come when
customs are different from those of the 17th century. But the
In the 17th century heresy was prosecuted by methods which no
must be accentuated is that Anthroposophy has the same
13th century, who said that there existed as many species of
19th century. (Note. The writer of this lecture cannot be
master who has again announced recently that we must not speak

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recently Ernst Haeckel in his World Riddles
in the 19th century; while during all centuries before unreason and
theories. But it also does not spare the science of the 19th century.
science of the last fourteen centuries. However, he is wrong concerning
different. Only during the later centuries of Christianity the faith
18th century who said: there are as many types of living beings as God
19th century freed us in their area of the concept of the miracle. The

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by the events of the past. When in the 17th century the Italian researcher
of the 17th century with regard to life. According to the present-day
of antiquity, could not do some scientific observations in the 4th century
centuries. However, we do not want to assume the perpetual miracle of

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wants to build up a spiritual current and to bring up a centre of humankind
you of a spirit of the 15th century who set the tone and was actually

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mysticism could root only in the heads of eccentric people. This is
of the 19th century, the calling resounds from Zeller in the middle
of the 19th century and of the present. However, he caused something
the centre and made another body, the sun, to the centre which was once
cognitive faculties the centre of the physical world view. He really
philosophers of the 19th century that one has to turn around. You can
can also understand the development of the philosophy of the 19th century,
of the 19th century not proved to you that our experience is nothing
in the 19th century agreed apparently completely with Kant. Take the
the 19th century confirmed this law of the specific nerve energy apparently.

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to you everything that developed in the course of the 19th century, and what
is inconceivably fast. Physics of the 19th century transformed any light sensation
19th century can present to us is the reasons which physiology delivers. The
of the 19th century: the transformation of truth to a world of dreams. The idealism

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same time how the whole scientific development of the 19th century, whether
which had the mastery over the minds for centuries, before there was Kant’s

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Central Asia somewhere in the neighborhood of the Gobi and Shamo
Christianity: the hallowing of the personality, the full descent to
main value to physical continuity, was more accentuated. The
a kind of Nature worship, reminiscent in many respects of Egyptian
in Europe, in Central Italy, the mixing had been less complicated. We
represented symbolically by the descent of the Dove. Only the most
We have come to the culminating point — or the center. The
and 14th centuries, and was prepared in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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it, the 19th and the beginning 20th centuries do not want to know. Our time
The 19th century has tried to put
during the thirties of the 19th century to historically investigate the actual
human type, thought in the abstract. This is characteristic that the 19th century
in a personality, in similar way as in the first Christian century when all
the 19th century people have born witness to that which we got from Kant’s
what leads to any statement I make today. But I can at least point to the central
issue which is indecent to the materialistically minded theologian. Already
during the first Christian centuries with the Word that became flesh that the
in the course of the centuries the factual sense has developed that the human
centuries. These habits of thinking have arrived at their top height. As everything
a way that wisdom had flowed into the mystery temples for centuries. Outdoors,
That was the custom for centuries.
The Lamb of God was the most innocent; it is able to do the sacrificial death.
the culprit only needed to make sacrifices, the innocent lamb on the cross would
teachers taught in the first centuries. It wants to serve the Christian message;
extinct during the past centuries, that sense which does not look for the criterion

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Since the 16th century this has
knowledge appeared the sharpest in the 19th century. At that time the spiritual
of the scientific age to the thirties years of the 19th century. One has pointed
century. And one has said rightly that all the preceding millennia together
have not performed so much in this field as the 19th century.
peculiar that just the science of the 19th century became absolutely powerless
characterises the standpoint of psychology in the second half of the 19th century
of the thinking and the attitude of the 19th century which observes the soul
Indeed, the 19th century has the
advantage over all former centuries that these exceptionally important questions
scholars in the course of the 19th century is written against spiritism. Some
century the materialistic turning point took place when the higher beings saw
tidal wave about humankind. They are working for centuries. Unknown, misjudged,
century. Just because the scientific leaders failed, it was necessary that obvious
it concentrates substances and forces in the brain and makes the brain the suitable
The medium is a reminiscent sign

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when in the outset of the 19th century, in the last third of the 18th century
of the 19th century: “if the sun of the bright daytime consciousness sets,

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setting the tone for centuries which have done big, tremendous actions disappeared
remains for centuries or millennia; and may the human eyes feel contented at
soul endure that on one side innocent human beings live in bitterness and misery,

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was in the centre of the whole human thinking and striving, one divided the
Buddhism and of the Greek philosophy and in the first centuries of Christianity.
third centuries you find the trichotomy of the human being acknowledged by the
the 15th and 16th centuries one no longer had a consciousness of the old division.
physical research which pressed its stamp onto the 19th century and its mental
organs of our brain and our nervous system. Natural sciences of the 19th century
centre of speech, another part of this soul activity, another part of another
view? No, because in the 18th century everything that one gives as something
19th century.
At that time, in the 18th century,
to say that on the contrary the materialism of the 18th century hovered over
the minds of the 19th century and that the materialistic creed was setting the
sciences and form psychology differently. During former centuries one realised
not even have a consciousness of that which soul researchers have for centuries
a scholar centuries before Christ what has been found on quite different ways.
a few words about the psychology of the 13th century, about the psychology of
creed of the 19th century. This science which strives only for the external

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century that fish, frogs and the like could develop from mud.
the recently deceased great English philosopher, has shown. He realised —
in miracles, is superstition. Still in the 18th century, one said that there
he discovered the most important physical law of the 19th century. Those who

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is concentrated in particular, or also by simply speaking to the person concerned
system. In every adolescent human being, from the birth of the child, through
a secret within the movements of the soul of the adolescent human being. If
we face this spirit, we make the adolescent human being dependent of our interests
our wishes and desires be active with the education of an adolescent human being,
adolescent human being with a true, holy shyness and understands the words of

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the progress made in the 19th century, is felt to be
3rd century A.D. — the truth about the human soul
Even before the close of the 18th century, when Goethe

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happened in a coffee party recently which is, however, not at all so untypical
the sneering and the reproach of rapture, as just in the example the recently
last centuries to give this spiritual science as it was given once. What one
which the old Central European peoples have in their myths: Niflheim, nebulous
— The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism (1873)

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to the underworld was an initiate, for the descent into the
when the physiological nature of man is able to attempt the ascent by
descend into the innermost depths, regarded this descent as something

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The lecture cycle on the basic elements of Theosophy that I recently
century, which had a great influence on culture, this knowledge was in
18th century and especially at the beginning of the
19th century, these esoteric schools disappeared from the
celebrated its greatest triumphs in the 19th century.

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absolutely novel, or has humankind gone on them since centuries or even since
Middle Ages through, till the 17th century. Only in the 17th century spiritism
13th centuries — they existed at all times, but they did not appear publicly
these prejudices came from. When in the first centuries of our calendar the
till the 18th century. I cannot explain in detail how this happened; I can only
and 17th centuries, Robert Fludd. He shows for those who have
17th and 18th centuries. Nobody claimed till those times that a dancing table,
since the 16th century sense-perception became decisive for truth; what one
Swedenborg. He influenced the whole 18th century. Even Kant
in the second half of the 19th century, one also made experiments in Bavaria.
with Ennemoser, also with others. Already in the 19th century you find with
in more inspired heads — in the second half of the 19th century.
of the last century and proved to be a clear and keen thinker at every step.
and materialistic ways of thinking since the 18th century — we can call
what one has searched for in recent time on other ways. It is based on the old
for in the same way as the sensuous. In the 13th, 14th centuries, he expressed

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times saw the Earth as the center of the universe and believed that
will have reached his highest point of evolution, when in the center

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at most since somewhat more than half a century. You allow me to give you evidence
from the 17th century. The evidence which I would like to give you is from a
of the 19th century know that Hansen laid the people, after he had transported
states of consciousness are also found indicated in the books of the 17th century
Keep in mind this story of the 17th century that this wisdom was transmitted
The following centuries, since the
17th century, were not especially convenient for such matters in the external
Kircher explained to us in the 17th century, this procedure had to be carried
form the basis of the question for centuries, and it does not depend on something
centuries, did not know what to do with these phenomena.
in a strangely surprising way at the end of the 18th century. Mesmer was a much
18th century in bigger number than this could be the case today; a person who,
how little the changed science of the 19th century can do justice to that which
was written from quite different preconditions in the 18th century. Preyer dealt
18th and still the 19th centuries.
magnetic cures in Vienna in the last third of the 18th century. He made use
century in the age of Enlightenment that in France the emotions were running
— and it is the strange fact that the scholars of the 19th century were
the second half of the 19th century. Only with few exceptions this question
of the 19th century that is ignored, however, by the official science as a rule.
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which are reminiscent of later crystals and plants — even
cell organisms, which are reminiscent of this process. These animal

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occult mystery for the outside world for many centuries and will seem
might be at the end of the nineteenth century, at the transition from
the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Nostradamus,
which have already been fulfilled. In these ‘Centuries’ by
Nostradamus (Century 10, 75) the following prophecy can be found: At
the close of the nineteenth century a Hermes Brother will come from
from the third century

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We still stand in the currents which the 19th century has produced,
the second half of the 19th century. It means not only for some people,
had come, up to the last third of the 19th century, to a height which
is admirable, indeed, for someone who has an overview of the centuries.
This science is something that fulfils the 19th century with just pride.
It is the big heritage which the 19th century is able to hand over to
The 19th century has even
produced the fruits of that which was sowed in the preceding century.
Everything has prepared during the previous centuries. This is to be
human ken from the middle of the 15th to the 16th century, and also
the religious element formed quite differently during the past centuries.
different from that which one thought centuries ago.
got lost to those who were the bearers of education in the last centuries
and the most significant people in the 19th century. People had designed
for so many centuries. And from whom the human being could have expected
Go back to the first centuries
accordance with the science of their time. Only the last century knows
to produce harmony with the views of the previous centuries.
the end of the 19th century; this was the only thing that the 19th century
could have given as a legacy to the 20th century unless another impact
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We are led to a particular centre whence this

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it an important central need has been met. A supplement of the book The
Who only has an overview of the last centuries cannot at all get it clear in
already because the researchers of the former centuries knew nothing about the
big discoveries of the 19th century.
But the questions, these important central questions which Bois-Reymond put
They had many followers in the first third of the 19th century, as well as even
of duty flow like from a single centre of the human being, from common intuition.
around the turn of the 15th century to the 16th century splitting again what
the natural sciences. In the 15th, 16th centuries this separation takes place:

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the centaur was sacrificed for Prometheus Chiron was already suffering
If there is an ascent on the one hand, there must be a descent on the
— the centaur Chiron — must make a sacrifice. The man of
earlier times must be sacrificed. The sacrifice of the centaur is as

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Centaur Chiron did this for Prometheus. He was suffering from an
still has an affinity with his animal nature, the Centaur Chiron, has
The sacrifice of the Centaur Chiron is just as important for the

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century. He spoke so that one recognises: He does not only want to teach
from the 18th to the 19th century, because then the quarrel began because
that natural sciences have spoken of up to the 19th century. Modern
Within the outer oval you find a strange, blue shimmering or blue fluorescent
new flame which begins to gleam in the centre of the blue flame. This
highest member of the soul in the centre of the blue shimmering place

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About the eighth century B.C., a very important epoch sets in as
eighth century B.C. With it there dawned an objective knowledge,
all-embracing primeval wisdom. In the eighth century B.C., the passage
In the eighth and ninth centuries B.C., the pupils of the Greek

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Christianity, too, in the early centuries, had Mystery Centers, places
of the first Christian centuries found popular, simple words through
A Christian of the first centuries would have refrained from speaking
centuries called the “Word” and even then, it can be done
cosmic truths within the hidden crypts of the Mystery-Centers, could
that the Lamb Who became flesh denoted a deeper descent into humanity,
other religions. This was what brought him to the core and center of
central figure in the Apocalypse, and that only through the Lamb can

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century before Christ, there existed in India a reciprocal respect
groups in Central Europe. Three races come under
the Celtic race we owe magnificent poems, songs and scientific
place in the 11th century throughout the whole of Western Europe,
Middle Ages, in his work on the Czech race in the 15th century. Long
freedom, a consciousness for which the 18th century fought

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research of the 19th century. He has to ask himself: what happens before
development correctly. In the 18th century the great naturalist Linnaeus
the 19th century tried to explain this instinct, this soul element in
in the spiritual fields, for example, a philosopher of recent time,
only in the last century before Christ. Some think that the daimonion

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Christian era. But before this, for some centuries before Christianity

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The picture of Central
6th century A.D. This change involves a complete replacement of the
with in Greece in the 8th and 9th centuries B.C. Thus in Greece we
Asen. Its descent was traced to the first race of giants.
between. In the first centuries A.D., Tacitus describes the Germani
4th, and during the 5th century, we see all these races compelled to
calm and fixity set in with the end of the fifth century. Through

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only few centuries have elapsed. The 17th century belongs to this epoch.
them in their physical-technical interrelation. While in the 18th century
plants mechanically, the 19th century was able to do this. Development
the beginning of the 19th century a theory of evolution, the Lamarckism.
was not understood. Only the middle of 19th century was mature to understand
The whole situation in the middle of the 19th century enabled humanity
this principle in the first half of the 19th century which meant the
of the way of life in the 19th century faces us in Darwin's theory

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order to see what far-reaching changes preceded the fifth century.
At the end of the fourth century we find the Visigoths east of the
Danube; a century later the map shows them in Spain. And just as
revolution which a hundred years produced in Central Europe, we must
begin with, in the third century the Burgundians advanced against
they conquered Rome, and, in the fifth century, founded the
— which, for a whole century, imprinted its stamp on Central
material considerations. The conditions of Central Europe were
In these centuries,
power throughout the centuries. Whether or not for the good of all,

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century by the catchword Naturalism! I do not mean this in any
magnificent. Yet for all that his gaze is not focused upon human life
nature is ensouled. In the 16th century Giordano Bruno still
well as in its religious aspect — lay at the very centre of his
by culture and civilisation in the different centuries. And he awaits
endeavour to be our material welfare. For centuries past mankind has
former case we have the line of descent, here we have the line of
ascent. As little as an aged man who has already attained his settled

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Bruno in the 16th century. He still finds life in the whole nature,
of life had also to be in the centre of his soul, of his thinking and
from the culture of the different centuries. He expects a time again,
For centuries humanity intended

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centuries and is still extant today in many versions. It is the
beginning of the fifteenth century
fifteenth century, it has often been repeated and explained in the
and iron. In this line of descent, stemming from the Elohim, were all
the centre of the earth. He was led by Tubal-Cain to Cain, who there
eighteenth century, as guardian of the innermost secrets of the

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quickly forward at the change from the 11th to the 12th century. New
4th century. These two things indicate the alteration in the life of
century, a rivalry developed between the sovereign and the new
centure. This alliance between the papacy and the Frankish
as early as the turn of the 7th to the 8th century, Moorish rulers
its kingdom there The Moorish cities became centers of serious

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founded by Manes about the third century after Christ and its great
of St. Augustine until the 15th century.) The Life therein is
that was the contrast in the third and fourth centuries after Christ.

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manifested in about the third century
the time of the third century
recounted to you recently. All such spiritual currents connected with
century was the Christian life. The life therein is Christianity.
the twelfth century. They called themselves Cathars because
the contrast which developed in the third and fourth centuries
in later centuries. They are the offspring of ancient spiritual currents.

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going to speak — the 8th or 9th century — you will find
16th century; but private government gradually became legal
king's central fund. Those who looked after communal concerns
developed from the 10th century onwards, and therewith a historical
century. In the older times nothing of this kind existed. The Church
the 14th century, endeavoured — at least at one juncture
centuries. Now some may feel it to be unjust that the masses at that
ago, up to the 12th century, nothing was held more solemn, more
In the 9th century
century understands as Science. Erigena had to fight against hostile
official in the 13th century.

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directly as a cultural-historical action which shines for centuries,
develop the intellectual life. Since some centuries in particular, the
of the 19th century. The thought, the idea itself became appearance.
in a magnificent way. This was the primal drama of the ancient Greece.
that Nietzsche suspected that problem of our time which we recently
tragically, perished tragically in the materialism of the 19th century

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until he reached the centre of the earth where fire has its origin.
cathedrals and churches. After the thirteenth century they also began

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of the Middle Ages up to the 19th century; whereas now they are
century, Meister Eckhardt calls Plato the great Greek

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centuries, because everything that it comprises belongs to a range of thoughts
which originated many centuries before our calendar? — Today we want to
what was called Gnosticism during the first Christian centuries. Knowledge by
between esoteric and exoteric content, in particular in the first centuries.
first centuries tell that in the words of Origen, of Clement of Alexandria if
In the last third of the 19th century
onto humankind in the last third of the 19th century. Mrs. Blavatsky was nobody
16th centuries, has not only materialised science, but also the confessions
century only very little understanding was there of a more profound wisdom.
19th century that they were dissatisfied with that which they could hear from
needs found the least satisfaction in the confessions of the 19th century. These
confessions of the 19th century were revived in the core by the esoteric core
century could only accept little from this Rosicrucian brotherhood. Thus it
at the beginning of the 19th century who then gave the stimulus. The European
investigation of Buddhism in the course of the 19th century argued from their
of Cusa renewed this view in the 15th century, also the Christian mystics,
century and examines the words of that time finds that it is more difficult

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odd, but it is so. Since the eighteenth century Freemasonry has been
in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. As this is not the case,
because, since the sixteenth century, man has had little
during the first half of the eighteenth century, no one had any
importance. The next point is one which exists in all centres of
contained in the religions and centres of hidden wisdom have occupied
the sixteenth century, must be carried right into the atom. Thus,

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VII: France and Germany
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9th and 10th centuries.
dependence. Thus the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries were filled with
States with central administration and uniform armies. Hence arose
relationship with the Church. Powerful enemies threatened Central
century a certain unity had been established. This increased the
century, celibacy of the clergy became involved with the world
how monasteries and bishoprics had become the central point of the
cities, and you will feel that a century was dawning which would

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Recently I have endeavored to sketch the being of man and the three
nation, the race or the century we live in, are subdued and
Their content must be true not only for today, yesterday, a century or
century, but they extend over the whole of evolution. They were true

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produced in the soul if that which surrounds us as age, century, people
today, yesterday and tomorrow, not only a century ago but are always
being, any family, any century, any generation; they extend to the whole
them. This had to be said because I have been asked how it is that recently

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nineteenth century historians, who have no idea of the difficult
stage. For during the last third of the eighteenth century,
truth to appear in print recently. Therefore where this should have
less the right idea. It is only very recently that science has been

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represent a custom that did not exist a hundred years ago. A century
any mention of them. The custom is a quite recent phenomenon that has
nineteenth century. Trees first appeared as symbols of the Christmas
the birth of the Christian Redeemer only since the fourth century A.D.
In the first Christian centuries, December 25th was by no means
has been so only since the fourth century. Nevertheless, in Roman
developed, began in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The
centuries B.C. to the time when Homer sang his poems to the Greeks.
century B.C. the sun had entered the sign of Aries, the Lamb. In our
he first had to experience the descent of the Trinity to the earth
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries A.D. You will find full
people have ceased to grasp the fact that the center of their

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centuries before us. This period is important, full of significance,
late as the 13th and 14th centuries, these regions were still

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forward to an age when, as I recently indicated, understanding will

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to an age when, as I indicated recently, men will understand what the atom

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the Festival of the Three Magi from the East. Until the 15th century,
available. But since that century some light has been thrown on the
What is the new revelation, the new manifestation of Love? The descent

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
in the Eighteenth Century. But what has remained, is the
Century. In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries the deepest
sense as had been done for centuries. In France, stimulated by
Eighteenth Century had their origin here; connected with the
Century could not have spoken thus of Liberty, Equality and
centre of study was philosophy. Deepest questions of
central problem for all Schiller's life: How is man born from
its centre now that the old traditions have gone?

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the help of some phenomena of our Central European cultural life. It
The 16th century did not
on a new basis in the nineties of the 18th century. In his Faust Goethe
The descent to the mothers:
the gradual development of the bodily in a magnificent picture at the
him. A magnificent picture of this process: “And as long you do

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture II: Schiller's Work and its Changing Phases
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
Eighteenth Century and how the ideals of the Age of

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture III: Schiller and Goethe
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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.

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days, about the theosophical idea of the origin, of the descent of the
the second half of the 19th century. You may assume that the results
serious, also Christian, researchers in the former centuries.
of the supernatural creation history have recently still formed.
and up to the 14th century. You can explain the real course of the Western
centuries, this old evolution doctrine disappears. More and more it
centuries the human being is no longer familiar with them. All memories
century people believed to give something quite new with a natural creation
confessions in such a way, as the researchers till 13th, 14th centuries
nature. That is why since centuries the modern thinking is not accustomed
were beings which lived in a translucent corporeality, partly in very
This is the descent theory which is destined to substitute that which
longer fantastic but spiritual, we can get again to a descent theory
descent theory is the task of theosophy. The “natural” creation

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IV: Schiller's Weltanschauung and his Wallenstein

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.

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century) they met forever and complemented each other. At that
who in good faith, but in his own eccentric way,

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
central place, and it is from his character that the inevitable
in humanity. (More recent research has revealed the truth of

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complacent, selfish attitude. They cannot recognise the high value of

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
was, for him, the central point.
Nineteenth Century and what he will still be to us. It is not
all the writings in the Nineteenth Century of men like Vischer,
— is centred entirely in the ego; that is the significant
is an infinitely tragic conflict. All is centred on a
hopes that were centred on him found expression in the letters
Nineteenth Century. Men began to realise that Schiller's spirit

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him closer to the centre of the garden. There he finds a golden lattice.
find out the state of the centre of the garden. The old man accepts
on which the young man comes now into the centre. Music sounds from
he wants to go further into the centre of existence. Something in his
garden, he sees the innermost centre, a temple surrounded by porticoes

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
Century
active during the Nineteenth Century and then to pass over to
want to describe Schiller's place in the Nineteenth Century, we
century and Schiller's place within it. In general, it is very
beginning of the century when Goethe said in a conversation to
this will show how in the first decades of last century
German culture of the first half of the Nineteenth Century. It
steadily, and on the centenary of his birth, it is the best men
influence on his relation to the Nineteenth Century.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
different in the second half of the Nineteenth Century from
of the century, in the honour done to Schiller; the growing
something to the second half of the century because in him the
(Weltanschauung): even Herman Grimm concentrates his eulogy on
lived and that of our own age: — indeed a recent
Century. Men like Jacob Minor may write large tomes about his
first half of the century had become so foreign to the leading
Century.
descent and of Darwinism. This book was anonymously
Ninety-eight per cent, of our life goes on without laws; and

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recently: one made butterflies hatch at temperatures at which they do
immediately from the living nature, what separated the centre of the
took place. One centre became two centres in a more mental way. We see
this separation of the centres achieved in the later development in

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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recent acquisition in his aura brought about by his own activity.
living in Berlin at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the
end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, men
the world has changed in the course of the last century, and what
before him and he experiences this descent of the spirit, this

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in Berlin and in the beginning of the 20-th century. At the end of the
18-th and at the beginning of the 19-th century, the human beings have
how the world has been changed in the course of the last century and
livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
being last time. He experiences this descent of the spirit, this separation

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completely different the time was around the turn of the 18-th century,
a century, what existed in revolutionary and other ideas penetrated
own life. For half a century he looked for human happiness and truth,
for the centre in the personality that destiny relocated in the personality.
ideals. Thus it was in the 18th century.
century with its demand for freedom, for personality. What is freedom?
to that, the 19-th century had become the most rationalistic one. The
the individuality which shines from the personality. The 19th century
19-th century cannot understand mysticism, one talks of it as something
If, hence, the 19th century talks of mysticism, it speaks of something
and he found nothing there, everything that the 19th century offered
century drawing to an end he wrote his When We Dead Awaken.

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the 19th Century, and the idealism he created.
centuries these views remained stationary. We know that even
until the Eighteenth Century when Baumgarten grew up in the
Century a vast literature grew up around the problem, and whole

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begins to increase toward the end of the thirteenth century. This is
myth of the 12th and 13th century the emperor is under a spell and dwells

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the 19th century. Wherever we go we can find nothing that does not remind
a certain accentuation of the exclusive skill and sense of authority
the 16-th century till this day. It encloses the time of the emerging

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the last fifty years. In the first half of the 19th century, Schiller's
from the spiritual currents of the 18th century if we want to completely
and thinking of centuries. Approximately around the turn of the 15-th
to the 16-th century the time begins when the human beings looked up
difference of the old world view of the12th, 13th centuries with that
which arose around the turn of the 16th century with Copernicus and
Comedy with the world view of the 17th, 18th centuries. One may
longer be ours. But it had what the 18th century did no longer have:
in this divine world order as its centre, he himself belonged to this
world of the 18-th century faces us there. Nice sentences are in this
which faces Schiller in the beginning of the nineties of the 18th century.
path of the divine in the world was shaped most beautifully in the descent,
not in usual language, but in sublime language about the descent, the
what the 19th century aimed at. In this drama, the spiritual is represented
that the 19th century wanted to enter the land of knowing through beauty's
Schiller in such an idealistic way. Recently, in the last decade of
the 19-th century, a man wrote a biography on Schiller who had grown
through the minds and souls before half a century when we revered Schiller.

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which one needed as worldly knowledge; however, the central issue was
fulfilled its task in the widest sense of the word? In the centre of
is the central sun of any wisdom and knowledge, and that from it the
centuries of modern times, it was not in such a way. Only today, a kind
theology and sermon for centuries. A good sermon would be that if a
past centuries. One wanted to see independently. One also told in anecdotes
The past four centuries
last centuries, concerning this science and wisdom of the mind that
If you look at the great sages of former centuries, you can see everywhere
centre in itself, rotates, pushes off rings which form to planets, and
thinking of the modern human being since four centuries that the sensuous
of thinking has on the human beings for centuries. It worked on all
that he exercises something that was stimulated for centuries. One thinks

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with that, however, goes the fact which I mentioned recently — that
a voice from the centre of the earth. This came from Cain himself,

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17th centuries, even in the 18th century until the 19th century. We
it has no longer any direct connection with the central issues of life.
is why it has happened that one could study philosophy for centuries
18-th century there still was something that made philosophy the world
was there in the first time of the 19-th century. Then, however, one
development of law that the Roman people, magnificent just in this field,
of the Roman thinking. Hence, the prejudice crept in the course of centuries
Therefore, the Gnostics, the great mystics of the first Christian centuries,
developed during the last centuries when one did no longer know that
a magnificent lawyer, a great practitioner and a great mathematician;
views of law which one had in the course of the 19th century, and you
not know that the centre must be controlled, before one goes to the

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Christ-problem stands in the centre of the drama. Out of Parsifal
century. This new culture penetrated into these regions like a
the crusaders fought. The idea that Jerusalem must be the centre was
spiritual centre, and at the same time as an outpost of the future.
we ascend is connected with a descent. For every man who grows more
twilight of the gods of the ancient northern saga shows us this ascent,

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was to be the centre and from there the secret concerning the

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progress which the natural sciences have done during the last centuries
of Galen, two to three centuries AD, for example, and the medical scholasticism
comes from this materialistic way of thinking. In the 16-th century,
according to this system the 17th and 18th centuries taught. The human
being had to think materialistically for some centuries to do all big
the 19-th, 20-th centuries: that of coincidence. You can often notice

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is engaged in an ascent. But this is not brought about by any outer

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ascent is gradually prepared for the whole of humanity. The initiates
ascent must be re-enacted of the stages through which the whole of
the descent of the Holy Spirit which will lead mankind through to the
Evil. This weft of the Spirit's descent is consummated at
body.. The symbol for that is the descent of the Holy Spirit into

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originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, and we can still observe
up to the 18th century how somebody who wanted to climb up to the heights
as a core in the centre instead of taking the second place behind the
With the help of this central
should receive the doctorate who has absorbed this central attitude

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centuries? Towards outer possessions, towards the ordering of the
During the last centuries man has exerted his intellect only for the
operation at the centre of the life of the peoples. There were
conditions should be able to do so. Even a century ago, a person who

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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appears at first in symbols. If man concentrates for instance on his
feeling they are prepared for understanding. In the first centuries

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we have the following ascent: firstly karma, activity, what needs to
century is the precursor. It is a kind of losing oneself in the
central point was created whereby the tumultuous emotions of the world
through the Ich. This centre point is literally the Christ.
spirituality of the East should bring a central point into the chaos

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are gathered together in the centre of the soul. Without this
In a condition of deep trance the central consciousness is silenced.
somewhat more centralised consciousness, one more like the
comes the moment when we have the feeling that the centre of
rationalisation is brought about during the ascent from animal to man.

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alchemy. As late as the 18th century one could read in the German
century. At that time a number of articles dealt with the so-called
malachite and so on developed. The central zone of the Alps arose out
Stone. The man of the 18th century who pointed this out was indicating

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life, its own central point. What lives on a particular plane has on
this same plane its central point.

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again and again and in this way there was an ascent from stage to
19th century was a professor in Jena, was acquainted with all these

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12th century onwards and reached its climax about the year 1800. This

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are the seven stages of matter. In his descent man experienced these
The 14th century was the time of the creation of towns. Within a few

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heredity dies out. One reckons three generations to a century. The man
from what was good or bad in his ancestors of the 17th century. Thus

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Cosmogonies of the Nineteenth Century,
century a totally different spiritual attitude prevailed from
nineteenth century, set themselves to confront the great riddle
view was, during the first half of the nineteenth century, to
century — for instance, to those of Burdach — you
end of the third decade of the nineteenth century, and, seeing
development of the nineteenth century, and anyone
centuries, a time when a greater spiritual sensitiveness
genealogical tree — in fact, the lineal descent of all
their adherence to the theory of man's descent from the higher
the conclusion that a line of descent existed leading from the
higher animals to man. In more recent times scientists have
centuries past have educated the human heart and soul were
his theory of the descent of man. In another lecture Du
this quiescent matter?
as “I see red,” “I smell the scent of the
descent of man. It is obvious that in a single lecture like the
Natural science traces the descent of the physical living being
apes. But there can be no question of the descent of our
may therefore ascribe a twofold descent to man in primeval

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Century (The Riddles of Philosophy) to have
century, the spiritual orientation was different from in the
middle of the 19th century, you find two attitudes.
19th century only with the German philosophers, for example,
naturalist of the first half of the 19th century, for example,
cellular life at the end of the thirties of the 19th century.
the development of the 19th century. Somebody who wants to
study the development of humanity in the 19th century as a
the 19th century, when one still had a more spiritual
soul for centuries of education. Thus, it happened in the
descent of the modern human being from a being that equals the

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development of self-consciousness during the descent to the physical
plane. The re-ascent to the higher planes through schooling towards
concentration and meditation on the thoughts of the Masters —
meditation and concentration he takes with him up to the Arupa Plane

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reincarnation, forms a central point, around which what is to be added

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from the turning point of the 15th and 16th centuries on into our own
written down until the 6th century. This is why scholars deny the
the Pseudo-Dionysius, as though it was in the 6th century that old
magnificent Organisation would have come into being. At that time the
as the 6th century a Dionysius committed the teachings to writing.
to differentiate three zones: a western, a central and an eastern
central with the Germanic and the western with the Latin peoples. The
peoples, the Central European by the Germanic, the Eastern European by

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is why the Egyptian occult teaching in esoteric centres called the
Christianity. Christ had to raise and purify the self-centred ego, so

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the 14th century to the time of the French Revolution. In the
schools of the Rosicrucians in the 14th century. But the inner
the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries there lived certain unassuming men
Now there is a further descent into the earthly. The mental picture

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14th centuries. It is important that the materialistic images of the

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help should be an auspicious sign of the next century.
centuries, and there we find a prince, Henry IV of France, in
the 16th, 17th centuries, who stimulated the idea of such a
Central Europe.
Rousseau was still spread at the end of the 18th century that
us in the last third of the 19th century: yes, it would be nice
future. We have a particular task here in Central Europe.

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century.
back many centuries, and in the l6th/17th century we come
and seventies of the 19th-century. generally accepted was- the
disharmony into its harmony. At the end of me loth century the
the 19th century the scientists assured us: it would be fine if
for an ascent to a spiritual outlook.
Here in Central Europe we have a special task: It would be of

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One must conceive the descent of the ‘Sons of Manas’ in this pictorial
formation is reminiscent of those which appeared in the Lemurian Age,

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draw closer, so that a common spirit inspires us, so that a centre is

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When we concentrate on a plant in the same way as on a crystal we must
receive a shock which brings about idiocy. With a further descent the

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of the 20th century, but at the end of the 18th century.
What the animal feels and experiences today is the central
grasped it now, as an ascent of the soul to the spirit. Then

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of the 18th to the 19th century, the sun left the constellation of the
especially from the fourteenth century onward.
central focus for the Theosophical Society, since we know what the

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great centres of spiritual activity will spring up. You see,
We must subject everything to rigorous concentration, we must work
upon our inner being by strongly concentrating our soul in the purely
concept which brings about a strong concentration of our inner being,
more recent times, therefore, much more was learnt in concepts; more
only describe broadly how the descent into the etheric body takes
then reach that point once again in his descent. He descends from the
fettered ego. Only then can he accomplish his ascent into the
through this descent into the universe, through this pilgrimage. And

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at least until the late seventeenth century, any kind of female member was,
his greatest success. Then he was led by a figure to the centre of
occultist. Up to the eighteenth century it was known that things were
century paved the way for the sexes to come together.
opposite sex in man. Man developed in himself, by concentrating, at
during the Middle Ages. This is nothing else than concentrating to

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with the female element. Until just recently, this rule has been
fertilising principle in the perception of the Divine centre in man's
led to the centre of the earth by a figure whom he recognises as
[power] which presses the foot [of man] from the centre of the
as the eighteenth century. And in 1775 the first of the so-called
which would complete him, as a means of concentration. He was already
to human development, in the fifteenth century. This was a matter of

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been coming before your souls recently. Today, may I amplify
reverence, then the dark centre appears to be blueish; just as a
who have recently died, can now be seen fighting on the side of the

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Devachan into the astral region and in the course of this descent has
met by the Monad on its descent into the astral world. This was in the
This is how the descent of the soul takes place. But in order that it
later develop, forms at the same time a kind of central point in the
The intervening spaces between the centres are filled with the main

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them from the centre of their own planet. They were totally different
as Moon and Earth. All life and all warmth streamed up from the centre

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Europe, which lasted until the ascent of the Germanic peoples in
Northern, Central and Western Europe. Two further civilisations are
himself. All experiences are then within him, as though concentrated
further ascent. The first three Rounds were repetitions of earlier

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mean to say. Recently a clear example in the political field
percent of the total population have less than 3,000 marks
former centuries. That is not the case. We would decisively be
centuries—have come to these demands. At this point the
centuries. All human beings have taken up this press for
descent into the physical world. More and more the human being
bring about in this soul a change in direction, an ascent,
thing in the here-and-now. If it is to find an ascent again, it
century.] that
thought thus. In the first half of the 19th century there have
century spoke of “sacred industry.” Saint Simon was one of
half of the nineteenth century. You read his work like a
the 20th century, the strike of the textile workers of
the center of which stood the demands for am eight-hour day,

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be concentrated in the Lodge of the Masters.

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Second Logos the One who in the quiescent substance in things creates
were to follow the line of growth, we would come to the centre of the

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heart came into existence. If one concentrates on the activity of the
Whoever concentrates on the heart sees the genesis of the human
Through concentration on the interior of the brain, which developed
appear. If one concentrates on the solar plexus one is led to the
heart. Through concentration on a particular organ, corresponding
appeared within man. Since that time there was the beneficent fire

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seventies of the nineteenth century. The War of All against All and
into the 19th century.

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be concentrated in special organs of living beings.
towards the centre of the Earth when it was united with the Sun. They
chemical process? There is an ascent in evolution, chemistry is
to be. The whole course of human evolution is a descent and a
re-ascent. Man had to descend to the lowest point. And it was in order
in the future is a further ascent from plant to mineral nourishment.

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materialism. Preparation for a new civilisation the task of Central
The Europeans also came over from Atlantis to Western and Central
came to expression in so magnificent a way, but which here remained at
and the future of Christianity came to magnificent expression through
So think of Europe, Central Asia and Egypt as sown with the seed of
Old Testament this is magnificently expressed as a kind of dawning of
descent to the deepest point and then the ascent.
Jewish Prophets, in the centuries before Christ, we find here
ourselves in Central Europe are the advance post. Eastern Europe must
The Rosicrucian Schools always taught that Central and Western Europe

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form and is as a reminiscent sign of it, becomes degenerate
side, around this centre is a belt of human population that had
would like to say that a magnificent monument of the middle of

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inkling how much more elated and more magnificent the concept
from which central site the great sages came who went to the
the different religions point back to the central site where
point to such a central site. Our materialistic cultural
such a thing like a spiritual central site of humanity, and
central site. It speaks again from experience about the matters
central point, the core of truth in the different religions.

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View seems to go against what people have found recently. In certain
thirteenth centuries. They could not have come about without such a
from life. Only in the sixteenth century we see spiritual life
law. This condition progressed even more in the last century. In the
stuck in self-centered isolation, our talents are uprooted like a

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we go on some centuries, we find that this principle faces us
artistic achievements of the 12th and 13th centuries. They
From the 16th century on, we see the spiritual life developing
more developing in the last century, while in the Middle Ages

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development of man” here refers to the ascent of the human
prescribes for himself. He must be able to concentrate to such
a degree — and he must acquire practice in this concentration
himself the center of his own being, to stand on his own two feet, so
yourself in the morning when you concentrate. You must adhere to this
large percentage of today's human beings was previously much further

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reminiscent of estrangement, of distance from the outer
freedom which enables him to look for the centre of his being
concentrate. You must observe this hour. There you have to
into the inner soul life. A big percentage of modern humanity

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descent of the Divine Sons of the Spirit.” Ever since Lemurian times
arose that made the descent of the souls possible. It was in that
fourth century to establish the festival of the birth of the World
century, the time of the Christian festival, the festival of the birth
of Christ, varied. It was not until the fourth century that it was

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celebrated in the areas of Northern and Central Europe in old
higher being, but still more like a reminiscent sign of
moment of human development the descent of the divine sons of
moon, and sun gradually appeared, which made the descent of the
fourth century to reschedule the birthday celebration of the
celebrated. Until the fourth century Christmas, Christ's
fourth century, one decided to let the Saviour be born on that
spiritual science for the adolescent child, if in all streets

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the year? Wonderful Fire Festivals in the northern and central regions
descended. This descent of the divine ‘Sons of the Spirit,’ this great
only work unconsciously on its dwelling-place. The descent is

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aristocratic, with its ascent from degree to degree, and its pride in
those who could attain entry to these Mystery centres; for certain
before the eyes of the pupil in living pictures, in magnificent
lost their meaning in Freemasonry in recent centuries. What has taken
place in culture during recent centuries has been largely
in a masonic context, that is, the twelfth century of our European
thought by several centuries the events that are to occur in the
relates to the course of events in the coming centuries, in the same
time [in the twelfth century] it was dangerous to know [in advance]
for the very heart of what was attempted in the twelfth century. That
you who heard my recent lecture
separately on these matters until [just] recently. On the other hand
medieval people of the twelfth century reflected, in looking back to
medieval thinker of the twelfth century looked back at the occult
founded the movement of the Holy Grail in the twelfth century said
century; who had to hide themselves from the world under pseudonyms,

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for something different for centuries, even for millennia. With

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century, it was not only a superstition of the big mass, but
centuries exactly just as the scientific truth, the
centuries? Imagine this element in the human nature, and then
centuries of the new development, this was not possible because

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of free-thinkers, especially in recent times.
and truly comprehending. We have recently mentioned here that
exercises of meditation and concentration, was achieved in a
exercises of meditation and concentration. I particularly
real ego of man, the bearer of the higher centre of his
child. One could be tempted to say that these innocent

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beneficent, preserving, life-sustaining, and life-giving powers
between pain, evil, grief, and the beneficent powers of
just in the last century.
centuries. You all know that Goethe transformed the medieval
Even in the 16th century, the folk spirit represented this
beneficent to the human being, Lucifer, prevailed in him who

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night. Only beneficent beings must be allowed access to the

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the last third of the 19th century it was granted to some
the last third of the 19th century, it was granted, as I said,
in the last third of the 19th century. That is why they could
third of the 19th century a breath was to be felt that
appears as an after-image of the descent, the suffering and
the second current. It was in the fourth century of the
— in the fourth century. These two currents of the human
However, it degenerated in that time, in the fourth century, to
The whole drama ends magnificently, in the sure certainty that

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followed the seven stages of spiritual ascent in the life of
hidden mystery temples, or centres, and according to the
centres and temples in Egypt which were often built into the

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and 19th centuries. Today, however, I would like to show
Central Europe and in Western Europe, at a past, in which
— In all initiations, one calls this the descent into

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German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
18th to the 19th centuries the most important German thinkers
around the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries, there would
of the 18th to the 19th centuries is the very best for the
life of the turn from the 18th to the 19th centuries originated
the 18th century had taken up the cause of it. Kant says,
centuries, what everybody has taken up from the common
time, around the turn from the 18th to the 19th centuries. It
spiritual life of the 18th century. However, Kant's philosophy
that thinking to which the 18th century came and beyond which
than one century after Fichte a German university professor
of the 18th century. He did not represent it in the same way as
century whose end forms in conceptual respect Johann Gottlieb
appreciated the individuality during the former centuries less
of the 18th century, who were sitting at his feet and listening
century, not yet thirty years old. Who becomes engrossed in his
the 18th century (presumably Claude de Saint Martin,
such a fine way in the 19th century again. He stimulated
century later are led automatically to reincarnation and karma.
in the 19th century the book about this strange woman appeared,
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was something like a surprise when in the 18th century the
was almost forgotten for centuries. One hardly knew what the
the 18th centuries, and spirits, who were able to recognise the
centuries were only later creations of a much older folk
Wagner (1813-1883) in the second half of the 19th century.
recollection, it was for our ancestors in Central Europe that
Therefore, it seemed to the human beings in Central Europe in

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which Central European thinking and feeling express themselves
Central European population. This consciousness is sunken in
a worldview completely new to Central Europe, had spread out
Christianity maybe was nowhere expressed as magnificently and
bit and in which the task of Christianity within Central Europe
lord of these sages who formed a spiritual centre, a kind of
spiritual monarchy. One felt that this spiritual centre, I
secret of the Holy Grail is the descent of the god who
with magnificent correctness, maybe not quite philosophically
felt Christianity that way in Central Europe. No name and no
the folk in magnificent legends, which Wagner tries to renew.

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the 6th and 7th centuries, wished to connect itself with
During the first Christian century the symbol of Christianity
the period in which the Sun in winter resumes its ascent, and
then look back upon man, we see concentrated in him the whole
reasonable creation possible; it is a concentration of the

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When in the sixth and seventh centuries Christianity wanted to
expressed in external customs. In the first century of
whole nature concentrated in him, we see him as a microcosm in
concentrated in the Easter festival. Richard Wagner felt this
strength. We are in the centre of spring, at the Easter point

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his higher development. To this end certain concentrations are done in
yoga exercises. When a man concentrates on a point between the eyes at

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centuries. It is left to the free will of every human being

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the medical centres was another. It was the intuitive view,
adolescent. Such a human being is almost rude compared to the

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personalities of the last centuries. In the aurora of a quite
new time, in the turn of the 16th to the 17th centuries, he
which appears like a completion of many centuries. He stands
one knows the spiritual life of the 19th century exactly, in
education of the 19th century produced is far away from the
words from the beginning, which were taken only from the centre
the centre in yourselves only.
other great spirits of the 19th century. Only when materialism

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the Gods feed on is the love of men and women. Man's ascent takes
animal one. It's an ascent when a man overcomes the forces of physical

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Founding new religions came to an end with the central
recent times. Modern human beings feel that to hate and
century the transition took place to a more tolerant
justified in the nineteenth century, which kindled noble
in the twentieth century when other soul forces are called
centuries religion has had a strange history. In Spain,
from the ways and customs that over the centuries have become
obtained from religion. Recently a conference of scientists
science, advancing as it does at great speed, a center of
color, light and sound to affect her soul. Recently a new

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germinal only and are centred in the ‘I.’
scientific investigation. A book on the effects of thinking has recently been published.
and 15th centuries. More serious crimes were tried in secret night sessions.]

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century.
nineteenth century. What was true Rosicrucianism could not be found
century.
peak of the mountain can be reached. During the ascent, one has at
quality. In the violet, one can behold a symbol for a calm, innocent
must carry out his meditations and concentration exercises daily, at
way is a prerequisite for ascent into the higher worlds. But no one
to concentrate his thoughts on certain parts of the body. Those of
his pupil thus: direct your thoughts and concentrate them on this
microcosm and macrocosm is evoked. Through a similar concentration on
concentrated. Or he finds the sun in concentrating on the eye. This

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The mystery-center is the
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The cultural history of the

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has of late arrived at exactly the same conclusion. Quite recently a
A recent school of naturalists is of opinion that feeling, in its
external events. Ancestry, or descent, places us where we stand in

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recent commentator, Professor Jacob Minor.
reading was published recently about the mimicry of thought.
has discovered recently that if blood from one animal is
different lines of descent are mingled. Our modern
“I” forms the center; and physical body, living

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to explain the cause of suffering. We see in the centre of this view
thing, however, the more recent natural science has accepted for some
in its own centre and overcomes it. Thus death — as a gifted
lecture, a knowledge based on the most recent research of natural

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appears as a testing, as an incentive to greater striving. In
central figure is often the tragic hero. The hero is faced
natural science has recently arrived at a conclusion that

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magnificent, marvelous fruits in man.
work of an architect, built in stone to withstand centuries, is

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way. They are exercises of meditation and concentration which are to

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through exercises in meditation and concentration, a person

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the central position between the two.
next stage will bring about the soul's descent into the fluid

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held good for centuries but today has little importance attached to
in previous lectures, for many centuries these words were in a way a
biblical sayings because in the course of centuries they have become
the human ego, the central point of man's being. We must then be
it sets up the greatest concentration of impulses, desires, for the
nature. As we have the physical principle concentrated in the teeth,
the principle of growth is thus concentrated in puberty. Then the

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death,” were for centuries regarded as an answer, a
In the course of centuries their meaning has changed,
astral body; and fourth, the “I,” or the center
greatest concentration of urges and cravings, that is,
physical nature. As the physical principle is concentrated in
growth concentrated in bringing about sexual maturity. This

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not the case. The Christmas Tree is a very recent European custom,
however, the Christmas Tree is a recent custom, the Christmas Festival
a Sun Hero and was conceived as such in the first centuries of

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recent and does not date back more than a few centuries. The custom of
decorating a Christmas tree is a recent phenomenon, but the
first centuries of Christianity. His birth festival was, therefore,

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young through education. At the center of education is the
center of the being, the “I.” When an individual
Homer (8th centure B.C.) was a Greek epic
include the whole of a human being's evolutionary descent. A
Moses (c. 13th century B.C.) was a Hebrew
Zarathustra (c. 6th century B.C.) was a Persian.
child to the time up to the twelfth century, the time when

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until he attains that central goal of existence known to spiritual science
universe, with itself as the center. If, for example, you imagine yourself
as the central point in this room, surrounded not by these six surfaces of
you will see yourself, as the central point, reflected on all sides,
everywhere. In like manner you can picture a Divinity as a central will,
kingdom,” distinguished from the will itself. The will is the central
central being is reflected in a hollow globe.
Think, now, of a meditant who concentrates wholly upon this meaning of
that is central to Christian life, the Lord's Prayer, expresses this primeval

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are incarnated in musk scent. People who know about such things use
like an inner warmth. One concentrates this feeling in the heart and
concentrates this in the heart, lets it radiate to the head and then

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Nothing is more remote from concentrated spirit than shadowy
abstract logic — and our bodily organs are concentrated

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used as an incentive for egoistical striving. It is often
person experiences the hope, strength and incentive to action

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seen with physical sight; it is like a center of energy that
shows that of those who die in infancy, 16 to 20 percent have
been breast-fed by their own mother, while 26 to 30 percent
line of descent develop and become established during the

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centuries of German culture. Some say that it is impossible
existed in the Occident since the fourteenth century, and
Christian Rosenkreuz (15th century) was the founder of Rosicrucianism,
beginning of the sixteenth centuries. On journeys through the
appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the
still exists, and has done so since the fourteenth century.
Oriental. A few centuries before the Christian era began,
centuries later. And today it is different again.
different method. That is why in the course of centuries and
humanity's whole outlook. It will for long centuries to come
a Rosicrucian is the first rule that only recently has been
is why until recently no Rosicrucian divulged what enabled
loftier aims that link him with the central Rosicrucian
existed for centuries. What it is possible to say about it
lectures, material that had for centuries been guarded in
closed circles. However, what has been released in recent
roots are sunk into the ground, pointing towards the centre
beings turn their reproductive organs towards the centre of
root points towards the centre of the earth; human beings
the eighteenth century there appeared in an earnest
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centuries, the Gnostics, have thought otherwise, as does
viewpoint. No seeker after Truth of the nineteenth century
upon as a mystery. Mystery centers existed for the
itself in its own creation. This descent and resurrection of
pure. Only an innocent maiden's love can redeem the Flying
continent. A scientific journal, Kosmos, recently
person's higher development. It made him place at the centre
as regards descent, and it would be regarded as irreverent to
descent, but because of what he was. He was a free individual
became the basis from which he created his magnificent Good
"innocent fool" filled with questions of its secret, can

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the heavens. In the first century A.D. the symbol of Christianity was the Cross,
Christmas Festival. When the Easter Festival is celebrated the Sun is continuing its ascent which
human being, we see all Nature concentrated in him. That is why sages have spoken of Man as the
can possibly be imagined. The sum-total of divine wisdom is concentrated in a single human body.
before the cosmic wisdom was concentrated in this human being? The cosmic wisdom is concentrated
When the Sun again begins its ascent,
When all the waking, nascent forces of
rightly celebrated at the middle point of the Sun's ascent; for this corresponds with the time

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the Word of God. We must realize that for centuries the
for centuries has been considered a source of Truth, can
centuries, for millennia, noticed these contradictions that
that took place in the early Christian centuries, the
century showed that already then they contained what we know
the early centuries the attitude of learned people towards

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last centuries and in particular in the last century? Who does
far as they are accessible. During former centuries, it was not
hardly see ten centimetres away. He does not see a lot,
age of nervousness and lacking concentration. These states
the ancient imperial Rome in the first Christian centuries. He
in these once magnificent, now decayed buildings? They wanted
picture change in the course of the centuries? — Those, who

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they never were once. Slowly and gradually, for four centuries
it has prepared itself. However, in the 19th century, it has
centuries which humiliated the feeling and thinking of
prepared itself slowly. In the 19th century, one came with it
and understood with the intellect. In the 19th century, it has
immense progress when during the thirties of the 19th century
19th century so much: one saw obviously how the organism
the feeling and thinking of the 19th century. They got their
almost forgotten when in the 19th century the so-called theory
premise in the middle of the 19th century. You find the merits
World Views and Approaches to Life in the 19th Century
materialists of the 19th century primarily relied on this fact
scent. Here is an uncrossable limit of knowledge. One cannot
under full canvas into the materialism of the 19th century,

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the world before the end of this century, such a movement would
of the 17th Century, not only comprised all the knowledge
In the 14th and 15th centuries there were quite

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Human evolution will evolve as a gradual ascent into the

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astral bodies and consisting of nascent spirit: manas, buddhi,

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spiritual development. Then more recently the sun left the earth-moon

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up then to the Middle Ages, to the 16th, 17th centuries and
beings are the same today as they were centuries ago. Those who
tacitly. The human beings of different centuries differ really
a few centuries. We need only to mention one thing that deeply
depth of the world to the highest degree, to a centre from
were usual in the course of the last centuries in the secret
that the circle line is always equidistant to the centre. What
plant sticks toward the centre of the earth, just as the human
sticks his organs of conceptions toward the centre of the

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say. To a minor degree that applies to a big percentage of the
fiftieth birthday recently in another country, who had
they have no connection to theosophy, are reasonably decent

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from the lectures given here recently that when we ascend with clairvoyance
beneficent beings who, compared even with the mildest human nature,
expression as the ego itself finds its centre, finds its inner centre
spirits which particularly work upon man through scents and slip into
an attractive book[2] that has been written recently
catastrophe took place in recent years, and where the Minister and dignitary
science. In the Prometheus myth we have a magnificent expression of

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centuries ago, one still believed in procreation, for example,
this nascent freedom than respecting that freedom of that which

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could the order be maintained as it were by the “central
intelligence is with the central authority, with the group-soul
central organ. However, the hand must be practised, and when it
way. However, it reacts on the central authority. It seems to
the descent theory is rather near to bankruptcy. Serious
only imagines this descent, but it knows how to investigate it

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we imply, in a certain respect, that the sun which is today the centre
beings established itself at the centre of our system. Therefore two
of matter gradually gathering together at the centre, this first, dawn-condition

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equator through this ball and put a needle through the centre. Now one
blood. Thus what has recently been found in a Zurich laboratory is in
two planets which have split off as the centres for those Fire-Spirits
there were also Mystery centres where the most advanced human beings

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mankind, who guided man's further development from the Mystery centres,
body, he perceived if this were sympathetic or unsympathetic, beneficent

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compare it to the environment centuries ago or also before
this life as it has gradually developed for centuries with
development of humanity during the last centuries.
centuries crystallised in our industry, in the threads of all
them in admirable way for centuries up to our time concerning
that have taken place since centuries and still project with
the emergence of the machines during the last centuries
during the last centuries concerning occupation and

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but in streams of force going down and forming a kind of centre where
marvellous, it is no longer anything extraordinary. A few centuries

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Ascent of the Spirits of Wisdom to Spirits of the Revolution of
are living, yes, even if we go back to the first Christian centuries,
centuries, and one compressed the contents of this memory into a unity
The Christ became the centre, the focus, in so far as the single personalities
of departure for the creation of the present moon, a central situation
ascent would result. But the matter is again not so simple. We know
consequence that in early Christian centuries the Luciferic principle

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centre of creation.
initiated for a long time, but just in the 19th century, it
that in the 19th century the admirable advances of the natural
which assigns itself to the centre of the earth whereas the
now clearly drawn, now evanescent,

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we already used recently when I talked about sun, moon, and

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translated in the 4th century by the Gothic Bishop Wulfila.
central idea of Christianity comes to birth, how it bursts the bonds
gave such magnificent expression in the “Ring of the
Nibelungs,” this central Idea of Christianity found still wider
can hear tones, be aware of scents, see colours on surfaces —
them cropping up again, and during the last four centuries their
As I have already said, the purpose of man's descent into a
same stages as on the descent, but now in a higher form. To-day man
the point where man's descent into the physical body was countered by
which enables them to find their own firm centre among the gods. Men
its importance for him, that physical things are becoming evanescent.

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evil is concentrated who want to explain our existence from the
depths of the world existence. How magnificently and greatly
by side and in a certain way reminiscent to the Nordic legend.
through another life centuries ago developing and using those
extension, of increasing accompanies this reminiscent picture.
Thus, this reminiscent
reminiscent picture sticks to him and presses like a weight of
themselves to be thrown back to a level which was beneficent in
poem. The beneficent element becomes a consuming, hampering
fire is beneficent if the human being controls it, while it can
infernal ones, and where they turn out to be beneficent, while

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stand today looked quite different a few centuries ago; the earth is
Now the people in the Mystery centres knew well that here too guiding,
born in the 8th century, he would not have become what he became in
if Giordano Bruno had been born in the 8th century. By such things we

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This is the ascent of the
and at this place of Central Europe but hundred years ago and

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prejudice the statements contained in recent lectures and in a certain
centre of our world conception, as the microcosm. To understand man
well as beneficent; we have a moral element woven into the world process.
in wisdom! The recent inventions for instance are a witness to it.”

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soul. Man advances through the gradual descent of his ego-endowed soul
group themselves round centres. The feelings streaming in this way to
a centre once more give beings the opportunity of working as a kind

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central point for the etheric and physical parts approximately between
prophetically through the descent of the “fiery tongues.”

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less so in more recent ones. However greatly one may esteem Bocklin,
with its rounded arches, which has formed churches with central and
science. It will be as it was centuries ago, where in every lock, in

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simple picture can show us what the centuries-long research

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is the central point. Understanding human nature means, really, to
can look on this being exactly like a center, a middle point, from which
in this way a confluence of these currents, concentrate them in themselves
round their ego-centers. For that is the most important thing for our
soul-life; we must collect all these currents round a center that lies
through the center of self-consciousness rises to the surface. It will

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all these forces stream to the central point of the planet. A force
the center of the earth. That is what regulates the direction of the
center, which is the direction given to the plants by the soul-nature
by forces, which all strive towards the center of the earth.
for all astrality, showing only forces that strive towards the center
to the earth's center with others interpenetrating them that are only

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scene at the end of the eighteenth century. An address based on the
the nineteenth century and is to-day forgotten, uttered a very
delle Grazie cloister at Milan and in spite of recent restoration looks
‘considering your age, no doubt they were decently

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of the eighteenth century in Jena.
of the nineteenth century and is forgotten today, Heinroth

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know that through the recent discovery of many a document we
experience of the nations which lived in the centuries
centuries into the 8th, 7th and 6th centuries after the
into the centuries before Christ? The people who enter
and is then reborn in the 7th or 8th century of the
experiences of a soul appearing in the first centuries of
the first Christian centuries, and again died and passed into
one another, beginning from the 4th century before Christ and
shows a decline. This descent is in connection with the
ascent of civilisation; we observe man in early primitive
side, a history of descent, just as we have a history of
ascent on this side.
were centered in the physical world — the more these
more into the spiritual world, and a period of ascent, of

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He shows there how the ascent on the road of knowledge follows in

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centuries and millennia, to those who could not search the
in three successive steps the ascent on the path of knowledge

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find personalities in olden and recent times who can in actual
century.
decades of the eighteenth century — in an all encompassing
century. Whoever views this extraordinary bust will, if he or

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of feeling as such, and of willing as such — depends our ascent on
through occult exercises in the right proportion. The ascent into the
The ascent to the higher

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the end of the fifteenth century. Perhaps regarding connections
the sixteenth century. It is exactly clear what kind of

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stream here in our central European regions, things are discussed
ego, however, has another characteristic. It is not so centralized.
towards its centre. Thus we have here an etheric circular body which

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strange illusions seen today in a recent trend of natural science.
remains behind, but in a concentrated form. The astral body is the

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centred in Salerno, Montpellier, Paris and also certain parts of

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centuries, but of millennia if one wanted to describe the
that took place in the course of the last centuries with
Still a few centuries ago, the Bible was believed to be
speak about the Old Testament first. For centuries, it was
that it is no uniform document. In the eighteenth century, the
was for centuries. If this research comes to fruition, the
centuries ago. We come to an understanding of the
was not communicated in the old schools and training centres
repeated as tradition for centuries. If we read Giordano
of the external nature since the sixteenth century takes place
during the last centuries. However, if one thing extends in the
see how during the last centuries the scientific methods
get to know the human being by the methods of concentration and
life is involved in the descent of the human being in the
centuries, one did not criticise the Bible in reality. The

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fact that in the seventeenth, eighteenth centuries a criticism
beings for centuries, and attacked its bases. One would have to
centre of the whole world history is different. This sight has
particular, in the nineteenth century, this view settled in the
only in the second century. Not from the original story, but
like a Christian up to the second century, however, it was no
century.
figure of Christ Jesus survived which prevailed for centuries,
the descent of a spiritual being from spiritual spheres that
centuries, memory survived in the old far-off past, and another
holding on the same recollection, for centuries from generation
generations at that time, for centuries. As we speak today
meditation, concentration and the other exercises. The soul of

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depended upon the initiates in these cult centers to provide the
center for ego strength is created. Whoever destroys marriage thus

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may regard this as the biggest superstition some centuries
spirits. A Leipzig scholar took great pains till recently to
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, about Ramon Llull
been known for centuries and is right even today. This shows

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philosopher of the nineteenth century had a saying that has

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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astral body. Only present-day man does not notice this descent into
ought to continue. But a rapid ascent causes a rapid fall. This is
and sixteenth centuries an age of abstraction, of external science,

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and hearts in the course of the centuries. But in the modern
eighteenth century, dying at the age of 29, describe the
was unknown. It is a young and quite recent institution. In
festival itself is so ancient and our present symbol of it so recent,

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centuries and recall Odysseus and the giant Polyphemus in the

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Hence in those great centers of the Oracles in ancient Atlantis the
world. In the ancient Oracle centers the Atlantean Initiate beheld in
“The little folk ne'er scent the Devil
fallen into perverse and evil paths. Centers of black magic and its
There he has the center of his activity; and whereas his spiritual
established the beneficent phenomena around the earth-globe, are
events it is actually only twice or three times in any one century —
announced from the centers of Initiation. For you must remember that

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synchronises with the central clock which, in its turn, synchronises
in the second third of the nineteenth century. Consequently the

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture VIII: Issues of Health in the Light of Spiritual Science
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percent in the last decades. Those, however, who say that these

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concentrate solely on what concerns the question of the karmic cause
the centaur Chiron. It is Chiron the centaur who teaches Aesculapius,
elsewhere on the earth. What kind of being is Chiron the centaur? He
ascent of mankind, for mankind's real welfare and real progress.

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attention to that in the soul, which emerges from the centre as
way beside the real centre, the centre of his soul, always he
Thus, he lived until the seventies of the last century. Then
could satisfy his searching. Recently it was in such a way that
is even magnificent how he contrasts these simple human beings
dollar and 20 cents. Never again — so says Carnegie
this dollar and twenty cents. Nothing made more joy to him
we find the centre in it, which we may imagine possibly in the
way of life is different, a centre is there that is different

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maybe since centuries and which are strictly compulsory. He
weight. Only during the forties of the nineteenth century, the
adjacent fields regardless of his own activity. Otherwise, it
have recently stated in other connections that one wants to

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of much that has been said in recent lectures, various phenomena of
Thus, the descent to earth of an avatar being is significant, among
Through the descent of an avatar being the essential soul-spiritual
perceive that, in the early centuries of the Christian era, the
from that of later centuries. In the first Christian centuries
Christian teaching in various lands in the first century, gave to the
the early Christian centuries.
centuries it was the documents and the impressions of the physical
tenth, eleventh or twelfth centuries it was no longer possible to
present. From the fourth or fifth centuries up to the tenth or
What made it possible for a number of people in those centuries to be
copies of the original. In these centuries there were those who could
presented in that wonderful work of the ninth century, the Heliand,
between the eleventh or twelfth centuries and the fifteenth. Here
Europe. In later centuries, from the twelfth to the fifteenth, it was
that existed in previous centuries through the interwoven etheric
thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Nazareth. In the early centuries there were people who were entirely
centuries came those to whom the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth
between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, people tended more
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true that we have a long way to go in our ascent before we
generations. Thus, the descent of an avatar being is, among
descent of an avatar being affects the soul-spiritual
disseminated was different in the first few centuries from
that of later centuries in the Christian era. In the first
few Christian centuries the dissemination of Christianity
a man who contributed so much in the first century to the dissemination
especially emphasized in the first few centuries of
dissemination of Christianity during the early centuries, it
eleventh, and twelfth centuries. It was then no longer
tenth and twelfth centuries, a large number of people would
possible for a number of people in those centuries to be able
had been preserved and were in these centuries woven into the
original. There were indeed human beings in those centuries
the ninth century, the Heliand.
like a leader of a Central European or Germanic tribe, and he
century, and it is here that we discover an entirely
in Central Europe. But later, from the twelfth to the
fifteenth century, it was numerous copies of the astral body
fervor was magnificent and exalted.
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has been said in recent lectures.
is the center that in the ancient Hebrew narrative a great part
descent to earth of an Avatar-being has the significance,
especially significant: namely, that through the descent of an
in the early centuries of the Christian era the manner in which
later centuries. In the first Christian centuries the spread of
who in the first century contributed much
was especially emphasized in the early Christian centuries.
spread of Christianity during the early centuries it was the
Augustine up to, let us say, the 10th, 11th, or 12th century.
century up to the 10th or 12th there were a large number of
happen that in those centuries a number of people were able to
those centuries the multiplied copies of the etheric body
these centuries there were those who could possess such an
century, known as the Heliand poem, which
or 12th century and the 15th. Here there was an entirely
of Christianity in Middle-Europe. In the later centuries, from
previous centuries because of the interwoven etheric body of
wishes, but through several centuries, simply by means of this
centuries that humanity had implanted into it through scholasticism
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body to the centre.

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of the center of his being something that must be the fruit of
taking place. We begin to appreciate why the nineteenth century held
overcome, just as was the scholarly opinion of an earlier century,
substances. As recently as three hundred years ago, scholars believed

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just the nineteenth century saw its biggest results,
centuries was overcome, that life could originate from

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the centre as the worthiest object for which the good and evil
pour into the earth's centre.’
character who had lived in the first half of the sixteenth century.
sixteenth century, at a time when for history much had been
centuries, when studious lives were led, we find a great
difference. In the twelfth century it was possible for those minds
the sixteenth century, a time when many saw the setting of an old
sixteenth century. So he meets us as a legendary figure or
the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is expressed in the
way, in the centre of his soul, seeking to drag him down through
the sixteenth century there was no longer a clear idea of these
‘Faust’ in such a magnificent way. In the scene

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time in 1831, after he had recently worked since 1824
of the seventies of the eighteenth century, and how he began then
spiritual powers pour forth in the centre of earth.”
century. Faust was the object of manifold folk plays and puppet
century, a time in which many things were decided in history.
If you compare this time to the eleventh and twelfth centuries
different. In the twelfth century, it was possible for those
Faust lived in this period, in the sixteenth century, in a time
figure of the sixteenth century. Thus, he approaches us in
of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries expresses itself
the eighteenth century to concretise himself in the Faust
being more internally, in the centre of his soul, and draws
century. One did no longer know how Lucifer and Ahriman differ,
in such a magnificent way in the second part of
Mephistopheles speaks there, in classically magnificent way,

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One scents the Mysteries, perhaps withal
perform, in meditation, concentration, and so on, which are

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now clearly drawn, now evanescent,
of meditation, concentration and so on, which are given to him
magnificently everything faced Goethe's soul that is there of
see, after he is recently removed from the physical body, his
beholds in the supersensible world. It is magnificently shown
cross symbolises the descent to the sensuous world and the red

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century.
nineteenth century sees that an immense jerk forward is done in
second half of the nineteenth century: think of Haeckel (Ernst
performed in the nineteenth century. It appears to us compared
century, Richard Wagner (1813–1883, composer), attempting to
his soul that happened in the nineteenth century.
were developed to ritual acts. The descent of the primeval
nineteenth century in which is searched and worked according to
the nineteenth century. Darwinism shows how the evolution of
century had to lead the deeper feeling personalities.
the nineteenth century. This tragedy appears in particular, if

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altogether. In the recent public lecture

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which for centuries has endeavored to find expression in art; it is
erroneous what today is called evolution, the ascent from the lowest
recognized. The scientific theory of evolution and descent is fully
centuries, where we find Madonnas with the Child groping for the
with art, it is a long way to the fifteenth century, to Michaelangelo
crescent, but actually represents the fruitful working of the forces
the Egyptian evolution as the Isis symbol was received in more recent

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express itself in art for centuries, which has also found its
reminiscent with Goethe, the expression “the
Christian centuries in the catacombs where we find the Madonna,
fifteenth century, when after multiple changes the child and

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him not from below, from the centre of the planet, but from the side.
from the earth's centre to its surface, and the influence of the sun
effect of the centre of the earth on its surface and everything

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one could compare a recent corpse with one from the 13th
century, one would find differences in structure and in the windings

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concerning the evolution of mankind through many centuries. The
descent to Earth, who has not been given a handbook of Greek
figures in the centre, and on their right and left other
right and left to the central group he could see that through
with rapture the symbol in the centre. We are looking into
“Disputa.” In the centre we see “God the
mystery of Christ, His whole descent from the higher worlds was
the spatial sense. Hence the descent out of a birdlike

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is an Initiate. Through all the ages there have been centres for
It was not ripe in the centuries immediately following the Coming of
with the Holy Grail. Thus in the eleventh to the thirteenth century,
centuries as the founder of Rosicrucianism, a Mystery-School having as
Rosicrucianism. Since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the

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represented the centre of attraction in the circle of the
meant an ascent to a divine-spiritual world, but the breath of
of Golgotha. Also during the following centuries after the
the thirteenth centuries that way. The knights of the Holy
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This school has to foster
since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries who were the

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beneficent effect of sleep, an effect resulting from the fact
made manifest in the magnificent art of the Greeks—the
of seeing the beneficent spiritual beings beyond the world

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before. However, that embodiment in the 6th century before Christ was a
century before Christ â€” sitting of the Bodhisattva under

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so to speak. From the 16th century onwards, the relationship between the soul
choose anyone familiar, but a sixteenth century thinker who was unknown
in the way that had been followed for centuries, and yet were moving on
seventeenth century thinker who is of great significance for anyone who can
solitary thinker during the second half of the seventeenth century in
those days. This lonely thinker discusses the great central problem of the
Aristotle in the fourth century
seventeenth century tell us what man ought to do in accordance with his
exceptional progress made in recent times by the sciences concerned with the
centuries ago. For example, thousands of years ago the sun rose in the
have been acquired centuries ago. How is it that we know so much more and
to be with us since the 16th century.
always been just as it is in our century. The soul has changed; its
the 19th century, are doing something out of line with the facts. That is why

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in the 6th century B.C., was a Bodhisattva.

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man is intended to become increasingly a being who has a firm centre in
centre. The more he has a firm and well-endowed centre in himself, the more
this central point in himself, he will be in danger of losing himself through
and an ascent to higher stages of the Ego comes within reach. The outstanding
who died recently, was
the 19th century German thinker, Solger.
goddess; she demands to be at the centre of a unique love in our souls. If
turns into a recluse or a one-sided eccentric makes no difference; in both
fruitful is true” — a magnificent, luminous saying of far —
magnificently shown what mere reflective thinking involves. This is connected

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part, its ascent to exalted spiritual peaks of human cognition.
the firm center of gravity provided by anthroposophy.
reach that peak diminished more and more through the centuries —
rejecting each other, but in recent times the contrast is sharp.
philosophers of the nineteenth century had to work with when they
in the nineteenth century, everything pertaining even to philosophy

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kind in question results from the animal's premature descent into
we must not think. Quite recently, special events have brought
calls aroma, pleasant or unpleasant scent, etc., as the case may be.
however, does not center in feeling as such, but in the clash of

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was born in the sixth century before our era, and Euripides, who was
born in the fifth century. You will find no mention of conscience
Teachers of humanity also go through a period of descent and one of
ascent, and differ absolutely at the different periods.
It could only be made possible by the descent of a Being who had
higher, for he learnt through his descent.
extent, of the nature of a necessity. In the 5th to the 6th century
from the 5th century onward. His own particular mission only comprised
descent of a Bodhisattva — if we may use this Eastern term —
very special experience at the time of their deepest descent. The

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should stand at the center of his life, for him, for he is a small
center of spiritual life, and this radiates out into his environment

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and in the center, where they act upon each other, they form the

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turn to the various doctrines of the descent of man. Here we
materialistic doctrine of descent, the crux of which is the so-called
in view of the materialistic doctrine of the descent, the foresight
his whole line of descent was he like a fish or any other animal
human descent.
through the center of the larynx would indicate the direction of the

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central point of the soul which can lead to the real Self and makes it
through the endeavours that man must make to strengthen this inner centre
of ascent; then comes a pause, and finally, in the later years, a decline.

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made their presence known were not reminiscent of any
centuries, and which is concentrated into one short moment,
all the opposing currents flowing through centuries and
centuries in the history of nations, and its inspiring effect

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the Gospel of St. John during the last three years centred around the
from day to day, from year to year, from century to century, from
a long time ago. In the first half of the nineteenth century there was
forces of Nature, both manifest and hidden, concentrated in the single
St. Mark. Then we shall begin to discern all that is concentrated in the

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and descent, through their generations, of the Hebrew people.
extending over long, long centuries, are now recapitulated in the destiny
with a special mission the whole process of development through centuries

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gave it in the 19th century.
concentrates all his powers on contemplating the pictures. They are not meant
justified, but during the last century it has been the source of much error.
centuries. We shall understand the true meaning of asceticism as described
soul-forces which provide the inner life with a sure centre and endow us with
strengthen the weakened body from the centre of its own forces. Anyone who

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centuries there was a veritable mania for prophecy. Here, there and
Therefore two lines of descent go out from Abraham, the one through Isaac,
from Abraham onwards were specially gifted and chosen, was concentrated

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central aim: “The abolition of egoism”. All its members had to
as spirit, concentrates itself in man, rises to a summit, and becomes in
hidden and which can come to expression only through being concentrated in
for centuries that men ought to love one another. But bring the human Ego
concern outstanding men during the 18th century, a time when man as an
18th century can help us to understand why Wilhelm Meister is led away from
18th century and can have no interest for people today. For Goethe, however,

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Benares, about the fifth or sixth century before Christ.
in the ascent to Nirvana, Christianity sees, as the goal of its
lived in the first centuries after Christ) that will become more and

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Benares in the fifth or sixth century,
those who lived in the early centuries of Christianity, and it will be
Then people will understand how it was that six centuries before Christ one
the dominion of death. Six centuries go by until the Christ comes, and after
six more centuries have passed a symbol is raised which will be understood
decisively from one of the most significant personalities of recent times.

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century advanced, the statements of science with regard to the moon became
past centuries. And since everything that happens on earth, year in and year
comparatively recent past, people were inclined to speak of the moon as
earth. Moreover, as late as the first half of the 19th century, serious
and sunrise in the middle of the 19th century, the inclination to allow the
centuries-old tradition of attributing to the moon all sorts of influences on
view of the moon fought its last fight in the middle of the 19th century
physical and etheric bodies have been left behind; Meditation, concentration

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healing and beneficent influence on their environment. To what do
will remain alive in the centre of his being.
world he will be able to make his own vital centre stronger and

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bodies from its inner centre. And the last activity which

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 1: Spiritual Science and Language
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successful in our century in uncovering the secret of language. That is why

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descent from one generation to the next — were based entirely on
descent to earth; but that influence caused him to descend earlier. It
this descent into matter had not taken place till then; his soul would
have been more mature for the descent. He would have descended into
“from below.” The re-ascent will be a quicker progress than
the descent; but it cannot be expected that in one or two incarnations
That was the descent of man to Kali-Yuga. It was the time of deepest
descent. Into that had to come the impulse for re-ascent. That is why
— was completed at the end of the nineteenth century, and because
with the twentieth century began a new age, in which men must prepare
half of this century. For it is only by means of that which Spiritual
new relation to Christ in the course of the first half of our century,
can be attained during the first half of our century by purely human

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ego, this deepest centre of man's spiritual life, encounters some
ego, the central point in man, which expresses itself in laughing and

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more and more ennobled in the course of the descent from generation to
propagated by descent through the generations, and appeared in its
progress in the mission of humanity brought about by the descent of
ascent into the Spiritual had to begin from that time. For this
that deepest centre in man's being which can be designated as the ego.
centre in the ego, will, as a result of their work on themselves,
directing attention to the force within, the centre point of which
Century. The Kali-Yuga was concluded in 1899! We are now approaching a
will be distinctly apparent in the last half of our present century.
prophets those were who spoke at the beginning of the 20th century!
prepared centuries ago, but which must now, in our own age, evolve to
The centuries that lie behind us were fitted for cultivating to an
humanity; before the first half of our century has elapsed, those
century men must work their way up out of the Kali-Yuga into a century
In bygone centuries it was, comparatively speaking, not harmful for
times, and they continued into the 17th century, when the approaching
Epistles of St. Paul. In the 17th century there went forth from Smyrna
Christ’ in our century, that greatest of Events, signifies that
up towards Christ! Therefore in our century, the Sermon on the Mount
and rebirth. For that which takes place in the 20th century is not of
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to present-day concepts if we start with the still fairly recent forms of
onwards, during the 13th and 14th centuries, up to their culmination in that
and other mystics of that century, leading to
mystical descent into the soul occurs, even if only in the mediaeval sense,
the centre-point of our life, is always working to create unity in our entire
great thinker of the 17th and 18th century, said to himself: When we look at
a single centre of the soul. The path through the external world leads by
it said in these lectures that there is a path of ascent to the higher
Now we have to concentrate our attention on this activity, on what the soul
objective being that it is akin to the centre of the human being, the ego.
They involve a descent into the depths of the human soul before the mystic
knowledge too early in his development is that he may become an eccentric or

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recent lecture on mysticism I spoke of the particular form of
development of the last centuries, even from a spiritual
remember, however, that the last centuries have been
restricts our ascent to the spiritual?
soul to concentration on an ever-increasing inner perfection.
meditation and concentration, and from that point on we are
concentration. This is also true of other prayers.
that by meditation and concentration. We must approach the

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During recent
centuries, the nature of prayer has been misunderstood in all sorts of ways
will not be easy. If, however, we remember that these centuries have been
restrict our ascent to the spiritual?
concentration, and from that point we are directed to the real work of
of meditation and concentration. This could be said of many other
devotion, meditation and concentration at various levels. With the aid of

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in the 17th century on a lower level.
century it was believed that the lower animals, insects, etc., could
book from the 7th century AD
bullocks created hornets, donkeys, wasps. It was in the 17th century that the
believed, Redi was considered a dreadful heretic still in the 17th century
regarding living things which Francesco Redi put forward in the 17th century
in Central America took place, very noteworthy

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the divine Spiritual life of the world. A descent beneath those
ascent into the higher worlds, and to translate the truths into
does not mean a descent into matter, but rather the driving of that
century, which are called shallow and superficial and which Goethe so
the second third of the 19th century was preceded by the appearance of
unfold all the more forces for its re-ascent — we shall be
during the first half of the 20th century an etheric clairvoyance will
etheric clairvoyance may be acquired. For the spiritual ascent there
man in this century through his newly-awakened faculties, will bring

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ego works from a strong central point.
ego-centre remains in relative obscurity and he may be hardly aware of it. At
accomplish this stage-by-stage ascent. In the first place it has to suppress
to a higher life but can give us some support in our ascent — if for
about our ascent into higher worlds by vegetarianism or by not eating this or
content to develop inner vision and inward concentration, for a life which is

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amount by the association of ideas. He concentrated on his walk to the tax
certain effort was necessary to keep up the concentration on the
Francesco Redi voiced in the 17th century in a different field: living matter
descent. But here, too, the principle is the same. The work of the
is central to the evil of our time: the disbelief in the spirit, But it will

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depths of our souls. For centuries philosophers and thinkers the whole
the human soul. If we go back a few centuries into ancient Greece,
Northern and Central Europe had a different one again. They all had to
wonderful teachings which then flowed from the sacred centres of
similar centre in Chaldea. That which flows from the various centres
believe otherwise than that in a few centuries of time our
of Europe, that they might develop as early as possible a firm centre

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during the later eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth. His opening
explanations of conscience that have been given over the centuries by the
of the 19th century, there lived a philosopher who for nobility of soul,
philosophers of the 19th century have gone further still. Paul Ree,
yet able to say “I” regarding himself, to find the central point
himself to that centre of his being which today is still imperfect but will
increasingly to the fore. In so far as man found this central point of his
for man to find in himself his ego-centre, the external vision was
look back to the fifth and sixth centuries BC, we
present-day sense; but he never quite gets that far. In that century, the

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considered as a descent, a new descent of Spiritual life, of Spiritual
super-sensible ones. Such a descent had to take place for the further
As our own age, our nineteenth century drew near, the time came when
from the method in which for centuries men have contemplated the
mind go by what has come to us from Paul the Apostle. (In recent times
considered as an earnest and scientific work, which is centred upon a
arose in the course of the nineteenth century, that there should flow
the external documents? What was being done in the nineteenth century
the twentieth century are, can be seen by the concept they have of the
preparing for centuries: although it asserts that it wishes to rise
among us. We will not merely study books written centuries ago, but
number of people in the course of the twentieth century will
what I have just done!’ This will begin in the twentieth century.
is outside. Why is this? Because, in his descent into matter he

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of the human soul, and their central purpose has been to seek for truth and
up with the existence of a firm centre in the life of the soul, whereby a man
past. But for this very reason, because man lacked this inner centre, his
central point in his soul which now enables him to live within himself and in
in the 8th or 9th century BC, to the works of
centre of things. The epic had to emerge under the influence of the pictorial
is the central character.
immense step forward in time — on to the 13th and 14th centuries of the
further giant stride over several centuries, from Dante to another great
this descent of poetry into the everyday world — still often looked

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present century has contributed towards an understanding of the
Christian circles and has been accepted for centuries, but which
the spiritual world in past centuries. How our horizon can be
nineteenth century through the liberation of certain spiritual
over recent centuries and note the difference between a man at the
turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and one of a century
recent years, within what Western cultural development had to offer,
perhaps a quite decently behaved person, who does not make any very

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ourselves to the contributions made in previous centuries
handed down and believed in for centuries. All this makes it
which, in recent centuries, man has had to seek an
take as an example this master-spirit of recent European
to us in the nineteenth century through interpretations of
centuries been no knowledge of concepts such as that of the
important, when reviewing past centuries, to emphasise
nineteenth and twentieth centuries and men living in the
eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, as well as the fact that
until about a century ago very little was known in Europe
Why are we not shown how to make the ascent quickly

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the last centuries lies in the field that grows out of the
reached another viewpoint in the nineteenth and our centuries
present, it is important to realise that a century ago even
by no means a century ago as this happens today on the ground
are so advanced in the course of a century concerning the whole
reminiscent of reincarnation and is compatible with his
and a half centuries ago. At that time, the tendency prevailed
cannot say in the same way as a century ago that that does not
a century ago or still later, without contradicting the
that there were spirits in the course of the nineteenth century
fifteenth centuries, before the art of printing spread the
question in another sense than a century ago when the scope of

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in recent lectures.

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three centuries ago. I have often, pointed out that it is
of the 17th century, it. was considered quite possible, not
living is not yet old, for only a few centuries ago Francesco
was done all through the centuries, up to the time of
centuries as the authoritative writings of the most modern
say that the inmost kernel of man, from whose centre has
what lies behind the individual Ego centre, which we

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engaged a person before their descent, they must go in the
was a truly long descent from all the occult laws of
of the twentieth century, the coming Christ event. It is a
the senses' innocent delights.
to with adolescent scorn. This is the fact that our soul
and lying in his soul and may appear to be quite innocent. But
what they have perhaps been in distant or more recent times and

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of the soul life calls for consideration of the adjacent realms.
from within, disregarding what is adjacent, and clearly expressing in
of this ego conception, this soul center, with the other conceptions

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typically magnificent soul life as Goethe's that we look upon it as
own, so that through our own incentive we can infuse something into

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itself, as it were. Desires seem to arise in the center of the soul
surging from the center in all directions and expressing itself in
sources toward the center of the soul life and spreading in all
constant relationship to our central visualization, the ego

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Jesus Christ's Descent into Hell. Like The Wandering Jew
similar feelings you have had recently. Try it, and you will see how
incarnation, with the visualizations of the recently acquired etheric
research at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this
necessarily remained the center of interest; now the time is ripe for

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this knowledge innocently, and applied it to his physical
Christian centuries it was quite impossible for men to grasp the
necessary after so deep a descent that he should begin to rise once
only beginning, hence the need of a constant incentive to this upward
of centuries after his day, men were no longer capable of realising
century produced a smart idea — “Psychology without
nineteenth century was strangely satisfied with the psychology put
four centuries, this part man must win for himself. The teaching of

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spiritual world since his descent into the physical world.
simply not possible in the first centuries of Christendom to
lowest point of his descent from the spiritual worlds.
lowest point the re-ascent must begin. Although in a certain
descent, it also gave him the strongest spiritual impulse
the grasp of human concepts. But a few centuries after him
this time, therefore, it is imperative that the ascent of
century produced a really bright idea: Psychology without
plates, but nineteenth century science was wonderfully
ascent until the thirty-fifth year. After that there is
for four centuries — must now be mastered by men through

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course of nature this is transmitted through lineal descent, he
rush of blood takes place from the centre to the periphery, we have

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is very interesting that recently a popular book appeared where
rider to the horse that is after the picture of the centaur
Indeed, certain modern ideas about the centaur seem to comply
themselves maybe even in the centre of the soul life. We must

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through initiation in different centres of the Mysteries; that this
pre-Christian centuries. If wishing to enter the spiritual world he
split up here in the centre where I have drawn a small circle.

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recent Members to master the elementary principles of
different centres of the Mysteries. Generally speaking the
never as an historic event, concentrated into a few years. It
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of Christ. When a man of very early pre-Christian centuries

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century have been absorbed. Yes, a person feels himself in a rather
made in the nineteenth century, thoroughly illuminating the nature of
should be reminded that in the second third of the nineteenth century
the middle of the nineteenth century, he actually tried to take into
advances of the nineteenth century. He was unable, however, to think
century. It must simply be understood that even the greatest
the one between Fechner and Schleiden in the nineteenth century,
concepts of the nineteenth century may find trivial, possibly even
time armed with the botanical concepts of the nineteenth century, can
example, what the botany of the nineteenth century has brought. There
is much in this botany that is actually magnificent and truly
the center of the earth. All stems of plants would cross at the
earth's center if we extended them to that point. This means
that the earth is able to draw out of its center all those force
able to encompass nature magnificently with his spirit: Novalis. He
during summertime is directed toward the earth's center, which
That is why all plants strive toward the earth's center. That
the plant organs, and these entities direct toward the center of the
earth all organs they need in order to unite them with the center of
throughout the nineteenth century to recognize what has just been
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only the present, even the last centuries give.
of the education of our time at least of Central Europe or of
world nebula, the central gas drop forms from which the earth
have already indicated in the first talk that the ascent to the
our time — even where one longs for the ascent to the
or at least imagining the ascent to the spiritual world
it. Since it would be absurd to believe that the centre of soul
is, the ascent to the spiritual worlds requires a stimulation
attention to the spiritual centre of the human being, to the
centre of any experience, and if we go on with that respect,
means very much to feel the devotion of this concentration of
as the centre of thinking, feeling, and willing without

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grown so enormously during recent weeks that it would not have been
descent of the ego into the abyss of its own human nature.
there beholds what beneficent Divine Beings spread over the surface
threshold acts beneficently towards us, making us unaware of our own
is nothing else than the descent of a man into his own being through
this descent is set before us in Buddhistic writings. Such things are
Northern Central Asia. Here these two streams eventually met. All
the form temptation assumes at the descent of a man into his own

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so astonishingly in recent weeks that it would now not be
the Buddha, is a descent of the ‘I’ into the
world; and there he sees what beneficent Divine Beings spread
than this descent into the inner core of being through the
Buddha had to experience in order to complete this descent.
attempts the mystical descent; they urge him to some
called to experiences connected with the descent. In the
near or more distant past. And when the descent is as intense
finds the way to the spirit of the universe. This descent
one way, the mystical way; it is the descent through a
Buddha's descent into his own being, will take place at
through Europe, to Northern and thence to Central Asia. There

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accustomed in the course of centuries.
Christmas festival meant to people for many centuries in the past.
centuries the celebration of this festival awakened in the souls of
our souls: What has the Christmas festival been for many centuries,
recently as a few decades ago. The souls had then a natural way of
only a minor aspect of what was extensively present in past centuries,
villages in recent decades. When the celebration of Christmas
thing, which had spread through centuries like a magic breath of air
If we would go back several centuries we would find vast regions where
the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century, when the Hungarian
migrated into Slavic regions during the previous centuries, had
lead a decent life,
16th, 15th, 14th century and even further, when the relations between
descent of man from spiritual heights to the physical world — and
centuries. These words were often spoken, even in the eighth, ninth,
and tenth centuries, in those regions of Europe where Christianity had
earth through the Fall — and the ascent of man through Christ
the 15th or 16th century, and how an awareness of spirituality was
We intend to present such a Christmas play in our art center. It is
taken hold of human minds. When we go back to the 14th or 13th century
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we face, for example, as educators an adolescent human being
face the adolescent human being only with the right attitude if

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recent years concerning the super-sensible worlds. We have learnt
the Event of Christ and in the Event of Golgotha the central point of
something was given which is comparable with the descent of man into
a slow and gradual descent of man into matter (whether he be called
have been spared this descent? Why had he to enter a fleshly body and
Christ the true central point of the whole earthly evolution of man;
confronted Orpheus they hardly considered his descent from father and
to the life he led on the physical plane, and because of his descent
“Eurydice” his own innocent soul, which must be lost to
of Nazareth. The three innocent stages of childhood's
consequence would be as this innocent life of childhood sought to
connection with the descent of the

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Golgotha as the central point of the whole evolution of
comparable with the descent of man into the flesh. For
gradual descent of man into matter — whether we call him
ask: Could man not have been spared this descent into matter?
incarnations. Their course, to begin with, is one of descent:
world. Then he begins an ascent and can rise to the extent to
sees in the Christ the central point of the whole process of
to the period several centuries before the rise of
own innocent soul — which it is the fate of modern man also
Nazareth: the three innocent years of early childhood merged
And the consequence was that this innocent childhood-life, as
spoken in connection with the event portrayed as the descent

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centuries, and this will be the case even more if they don't

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centuries before the Christian era. It is however significant that
religion, must be placed a great many centuries before Buddha. Greek
enlightened spirit shine forth clearly across the centuries. Those
ascent into higher worlds, it is right to state that the man who
would make the ascent must to a certain extent develop both kinds of
— there is the centre of spiritual
Brahma, the Eternal, shining like a luminous centre in man,
necessarily be more than one central spiritual power. But just as
centre, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Light and Shadow, are intermingled, and
centre of the Earth, from the darkness where his servants, the
have accentuated the contrasts presented by the division of the
our thoughts and feelings and so unpleasantly accentuate the chief
of a mystic descent into the inner being. Before man can penetrate to

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
fixed at some six to six and a half centuries before the birth of
great many centuries before the time of Buddha. Greek historians
concealed within is the centre of spiritual existence in so far
there be more than one central unity of spirit-power. But even as
we recognize not merely one centralized power (whose existence is
ascends from Aries to Taurus, and again during its descent toward
centre where our personality receives its crowning touch.

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standpoint of time, we pass to the 16th and 17th centuries of
16th and 17th centuries in individuals such as Galileo and
the 17th centuries — the time of Galileo and of
retrospective glance over the centuries immediately preceding
theirs, viz: — from the 11th to the 15th centuries, we
realise that during these centuries, Scientific Knowledge was
scientific teacher in the centuries preceding Galileo and
Giordano Bruno laid stress upon the fact that a few centuries
literally after the lapse of so many centuries, still, on the
are so prodigious and so magnificent that even if they learnt
centuries preceding Galileo and Giordano Bruno. Hence people
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Minds like
which had recently been promulgated in the
result! The Sun was placed in the centre while the planets
concentrated in the personality of Giordano Bruno. This flood
centuries which have to be bridged when we pass from the days
and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, but in such a
the eighteenth century maintained that man did not possess
the last decade of the eighteenth century, Goethe had written

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the last centuries, and especially during the nineteenth century,
century — but also already prior to that — has made such
latest, superimposed by the most recent occurrences on the earth. As
to determine how one layer has been deposited over the subjacent
here we see a very interesting dispute being carried on as recently
as the first half of the nineteenth century about the conception
formed — in any case, in most recent times — as a result
and it is to this that they owe the ascent from primitive forms of life
beginning their ascent on the foundation of the solid earth. In the
“the geological epic of the nineteenth century,” namely
geologists of the nineteenth century; do not let us speculate, but let us

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recently been compelled to go back to ages more and more remote in
only understand ancient centres of culture if we begin by
external documents have told us in recent Egyptian research (if we
to follow this path of descent into his own inner being, to learn
sixty-five days in the year. They had reckoned thus for centuries,
recent work by Alfred Jeremias,

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
centres of culture, when we accept that knowledge which Spiritual
is adjacent is closed (Ed.)]. Hence, he who desires to penetrate
centuries, was most convenient in operation and lent itself
from a recent work by Alfred Jeremias [Licentiate Doctor and
the new information obtained ... few surprises in recent years
fifth millennium B.C., up to the sixth century B.C. This fact has

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not inform themselves intimately with what concerns the central nerve

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one path was a descent into the inmost being of man, into the
descent into his inner being finds expression in sorrow,

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felt comparatively recently in the spiritual life of the West. Think
at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When we
culture we find that Lessing had a magnificent conception of the idea
centuries before the Christ Impulse was destined to dominate Western
world in the throes of decline, of a descent from Spirit into maya
closely interwoven, he should have evolved the idea that this descent
but in such a way that each descent was deeper than the last.
appeared during the time of man's gradual descent from the spiritual
the following centuries man again sinks so low that the last remnant
not a process of descent from a higher to a lower level; rather is it
which cannot merely be called, in the Buddhistic sense, a descent
concerned not merely with the direct descent of which the Buddhist
But since another factor has entered into the process of descent I
that higher nature which man's process of descent has veiled. He
a central point. Just as there must be one equilibrating point on a
liberation from the world, man, gazing at the central spiritual Sun,
nineteenth century the different branches of culture yielded such
at the same time that thought in the nineteenth century was not equal
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When such people — and they

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
its comprehension has only recently entered into the spiritual
and nineteenth centuries, which influence continued so potently
the materialistic Anthropology of the nineteenth century, that in
evening sky of Indian soul-life, but a few centuries before the
to alternate in this fashion throughout the ages, every descent
centuries to come. But according to these same concepts, when man
descriptions as are concerned merely with man’s descent
man’s] descent from Divine spiritual heights into a world
descent, as is the case when ‘The Fall’ is viewed
intimately connected. The Christ-impulse, the centre of all,
During the progress of the nineteenth century the
Science, but it is worthy of note that during the last century,
of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth
century, man realized that he could not hope to understand and to
twentieth centuries. When an ‘Unconscious Buddhist’

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Century made such a mighty impression upon Europe. There is nothing
first impulses of Christianity and the few centuries which followed.
song are so important, which, after being handed down for centuries
alive even into the 16th and 17th Centuries.
mightily even into the 18th Century. And we shall win a
Century, when these ancient songs were revived. And it is this which

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beginning of mankind upon the earth. The descent of Jesus of Nazareth
ourselves passed through in recent years we sketched out a certain
when much that has been touched on recently as general spiritual
recently of many things in human life, and in the composition of the

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humanity on Earth; the descent is traced to Adam who, it is
reveals itself when man's descent is traced back to the
recently touched upon must be connected both with facts
paid to racial descent but rather to the living impulse

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destiny of the biblical studies in the nineteenth century. One
nineteenth century. Nothing can exceed that diligence, that
of the nineteenth century. Since the more they advanced, the
trip to a temple site, a priestly training centre, but the
willing at first, which work from the centre of the ego and
power, with the centre of the human soul forces which is the
holiest centre of the soul life that lives in the ego where the
human soul realises its centre. If the human soul feels
centre of his soul life today, it is still something that must
felt directed to this centre of their soul life in particular
this centre, he feels that in the wonderful words “I
am” this centre of his soul life sounds intense and
centuries which should create the basis of the intellectual
the innermost centre of the human soul that, however, only this
time, but the concentric Christ source behind any unity.

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
researches of the nineteenth century.
parallel during the nineteenth century.
recently some of our mythologists during their researches into
centralized system in this connection and did not look upon his
primeval man regarded his soul, not as a centralized unit in
previously regarded as separate and detached, in one centralized
The spectacle of the ‘burning bush’, so magnificently
its very centre.
In these days, if we consider the centre of our
actually confronted with their true centre of being. Jean Paul,
plentitude. When man withdraws himself to this central point,
centuries to come those external methods and means which would in
interwoven throughout the whole earth, is centred in the ‘I
was essential that the centre of our being should first unfold in
simple unit proceeding from some great universal Ego centre. If
Christ-Source — which underlies and is concentric with all

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in recent years, but it is possible to show in a parable how this
appeared again in the religion of the half-moon, the Crescent, that
continuing to about the 12th-13th century. This means that after
we must reckon a period of from six to six-and-ahalf centuries for
of Christ, and until the thirteenth century it enriched that
Europe, and up to the middle of the thirteenth century (which again
and sixth centuries until between the twelfth and thirteenth, this
been in gradual preparation since the twelfth and thirteenth century.
already existed through the centuries that followed. This was because
religion of the Crescent during the Renaissance, the time is now come
concerning the repeated cycle of six, and again six centuries, we
will never be able to throw light on the central facts of our
other elements, not by solving in any way the central mystery of
Rosicrucians, with Christ as its central idea, will be established in
How the central-idea
stage at which he stood five to six centuries before our era I Can
past; of a teaching given by Buddha five to six centuries before our

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lectures and lecture-courses in recent years, but I can
humanity. First it is a descent, beginning when man was
descent was transformed gradually into an ascent. The Christ
the Christ Event, in the religion of the Crescent, carrying
take things superficially, the use of the Moon and Crescent
lasting up to the twelfth and into the thirteenth century.
beginning in the sixth century A.D. and exercising a very
to six-and-a-half centuries for such impulses as I have been
describing. Thus actually six centuries after the Christ
century enriching the Christian culture which had received
also be aware that until the middle of the thirteenth century
streamed in like tributaries to unite with it. Six centuries
sixth/seventh century up to the twelfth/thirteenth century —
preparation since about the twelfth or thirteenth century. It
culture which during the next centuries enriched everything
which was a kind of centre among the seven post-Atlantean
by the Crescent and had reached its conclusion during the
central fact of our world-conception, of our Spiritual
different elements; it could shed no light on the central
Rosicrucianism, with Christ as its central idea, will
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nineteenth century something was added that introduces us in a
century our science was seized by the knowledge: we rest here
nineteenth century that the excellent spirits of the nineteenth
century used approaches that were predetermined by the just
Excellent spirits of the nineteenth century thought possibly in
the nineteenth century more and more: the world of atoms and
attractive for some thinkers of the nineteenth century if they
the nineteenth century, penetrating any physical knowledge with
a great ideal before the thinkers of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century ingeniously: the fact that heat can be
of the nineteenth century astronomy was limited. However, one
space and time in the nineteenth century: the astronomic
century. Since thermodynamics is based merely on this
pointed more than one century ago at the mere utilisation of
nineteenth century in its application to astronomy — like
sciences as our century, or he was inspired.
leading physicist of the nineteenth century said this. Now
from the spirit in the course of the nineteenth century where
scientific development of the nineteenth century, which has

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southern city I passed northwards to Copenhagen, where, in a recent
centuries, because they desired to experience in their own souls all
twentieth centuries to what they were even fifty or sixty years
into our own souls. For the past half century souls longing for the
and power in life. At the beginning of the nineteenth century people
the nineteenth century when some remnants of the old life still
as if the expected advance in culture of the nineteenth century had
the first half of the nineteenth century. To show what I mean I will
completely disappear in the course of the nineteenth century, yet he
the year 1847, when the first half of the nineteenth century was
thirteenth centuries the Masters of Rosicrucian wisdom had been
century and will go on further into the twentieth. What was indicated
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and what the spirit has
since the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it
existed in Atlantis. The activity it has recently developed, becoming
here to-day) were born in past centuries into other surroundings and
into another world than that of the nineteenth century. Let us look
centuries, when many who are here now were incarnated, and let us see
strange theosophists of recent times; for these things have no value
half of the nineteenth century materialistic culture arose, and all
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recently. Then, when I gave a course of lectures in
of the nineteenth to the twentieth century because of a
of the century conditions were very different from what they
of the nineteenth century people had forebodings that in the
During the first half of the century, when vestiges of an old
nineteenth century that will completely wipe out the
first half of the nineteenth century, many voices are to be
the course of events in that century it was bound to
towards the end of the first half of the nineteenth century,
the second half of the eighteenth century.
centuries the Masters of Rosicrucian wisdom have been
century and will continue in the twentieth. The future longed
centuries is present in our Theosophical Movement in a more
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; it was always
present here to-day — were born during past centuries into a
nineteenth century. Let us cast our minds back to the sixth,
seventh or even the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of our
the first half of the nineteenth century; and then, in the
second half of the century, came the materialistic culture
significant. In the first half of the century there were only
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Title: Human History: Lecture I: The Relation of the Human Being to the Supersensible Worlds
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bigger. Indeed, one has to admit that recently within our
also in the recent heyday of natural
Let me point to an older and to a recent
of the last century in the Vienna Academy of Sciences by the
that would be again a complacent contemplation, as the
complacent life in thoughts and ideas.

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recently, although nothing but an entire absence of understanding for
investigations pursued during recent centuries in the European
esoteric schools, the European centres of occultism. All that has been
Nazareth,” concerning the two Jesus boys, the descent of Christ
in Jordan, concerning the Mystery of Golgotha and now recently, in
the twelfth century down to the present time. Christianity cannot be
centuries. It was only later on that they could be recognised in the
century the Being described in Esoteric Christianity is to appear in
in the twentieth century. We admit it. Is there therefore any real
century. This has been done, for instance, in my book, The Spiritual
assimilating the most recent results of occult research.
told that Christ will incarnate again in the twentieth century, but
market of a town in Central Germany. — One man said: “So-and-so

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wise without significance to the life limited to Central Europe. You
now constructed the first Central European Lodge and house. And those
the occult research of the last century in the European esoteric
has recently been said in Carlsruhe about the Mystery of the
from the middle of the twelfth century down to the present day. And
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. These were
— were now to say that in the twentieth century the being she
twentieth century. We admit that. Is there actually any point at all
since the thirteenth century. Such results as have been produced
Christ will incarnate again in the twentieth century — and
place in the market of a town in Central Germany. One man said that

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already since more than one century from the Western cultural
descent relations were known to what extent the qualities of
persons of the nineteenth century rest, and even before the
recent Darwinist natural sciences approached, the idea of the
from the body. Meditation, concentration, and contemplation are
thought of benevolence or of something else in the centre of
exercise concentration of thinking repeatedly, to practice
inner life in meditation and concentration. For example, he can

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psychology of the nineteenth century the following expression has
nineteenth century and well on into the twentieth it was possible
central point of the human being.
century — but we must say that it was very little understood.
nineteenth century understood just as little of the “pure being

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psychology of the 19th century the following expression has come into
19th century and well on into the 20th it was possible that such a
official psychology respecting what we designate as the central point
century but we must say that it was very little understood. We might
century understood just as little of the ‘pure being’ of

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globe complete in itself and radiating forth from its centre that
radiated back to the centre. Thus we have to think of what comes from
the Spirits of Wisdom as proceeding from the centre; this radiates
we obtain a picture of ancient Sun: We think of a centre in which is focused
centre of the Sun absorbed in contemplation of the vision of the
globe of inner space, in the centre of which the picture of Saturn is
contemplation of what they perceive in the centre of the Sun as the
has been described of the Sun as absolutely concentrated in the soul
of the universe of radiant light. Imagine all this concentrated in
for the remainder of the earth-existence. In the centre is the One
When I concentrate on the central Figure with those other around Him,

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forth from its centre that which is given. It radiates out to the
periphery — whence it is radiated back to the centre. Thus we
from the centre; this radiates forth in all directions, is collected
a picture of ancient Sun: We think of a centre in which is focussed
centre of the Sun absorbed in contemplation of the vision of
We must think of it as a globe of inner space, in the centre of which
absorbed in the contemplation of what they perceive in the centre of
described of the Sun as absolutely concentrated in the soul of one
of the universe of radiant light. Imagine all this concentrated in
for the remainder of the earth-existence. In the centre is the One
picture really take place? When I concentrated on the central Figure

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centuries ago, for instance in the 16th century, very distinguished
vogue in the days of Kepler — and only a couple of centuries
15th and 16th centuries. Either as the result of inborn gifts,
minds of the 16th century and of outstanding
centre-point; what lies before — youth and childhood —
then what took place a number of years before this centre-point of
the causes of happenings in the recent past again in the immediately
remembrances from an earlier life, rather reminiscent of Greek

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centre we have the sacrificing Thrones, then in the heights above the
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
which is a globe encircled by rings; for that which is in the centre
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable

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centre we have the sacrificing Thrones, then in the heights above the
the centre of this globular formation the meeting of the accepted and
which is a globe encircled by rings; for that which is in the centre
centre. In order that that which makes mankind of such immeasurable

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adjacent site. A car was taken to drive to the so-called
fifteenth century at this place, and his little son was the
undertook to the adjacent places. One can consider as sure that
licentiate, the old Bombastus von Hohenheim taking the
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries, a deep knowledge of nature
its variety. It is nice as he sees the innocent coltsfoot
not only as the Faust of the sixteenth century before us who
figure as from the Paracelsus figure of the sixteenth century.
reason immediately. The times since the sixteenth century have
Paracelsus figure of the sixteenth century to a Faust figure of
sixteenth century. That is why for Paracelsus that became more

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to the Central Committee of Wine and Spirit merchants!
this feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not
the central basis of life. This basis can only be provided by a
Lake Vann in that lonely grave which for a century has closed over
cannot but feel a veneration for them. So, on the centenary of the
centenary of the death of one of the greatest German poets.

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Central Committee of Wine and Spirit merchants!
feeling is represented in an accentuated form. Hence we do not find
never be satisfied, but yearns for the central basis of life. This
that lonely grave which for a century has closed over his remains.
the centenary of the tragic death of one who was consumed by that
also theosophical, on the centenary of the death of one of the

Title: Lecture: The Hidden Depths of Soul Life
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such an experience? If we call to mind what was said in recent
entity which is man's basis, we must say: This central core works all
faculties connected with his outer accomplishments. This central core
as a draughtsman and to express what he saw in forms. The central core
newly-won faculties, the moment this central core rises to
transition. While the man remains unaware that the central core is
is ripe for this central core to rise into consciousness, this is
central core of man's being works in both physical and super-sensible
to observation and how the central core of man's being works upon his
those 19th-century philosophers inclined towards pessimism. The
investigator they appear implanted and functioning in the centre of
descent in full consciousness. We obtained the same result when we
start our descent through Imagination, that is, not fantasy but true
although it enables man to make his descent he does not go so far as to
and concentration one can acquire what is needed to carry the conscious
focused, and concentrating his normally disbursed soul-forces. He must
in true meditation, true concentration. By means of such exercises the
depths rises into consciousness. In this conscious descent into the
concentration, after which the will forces he has applied to this
work out of the centre of his soul. Through this natural tendency man
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has its beginnings in our twentieth century. From now on these
century. They will have to wait until they are again incarnated and
taste death at all without descent into the physical world in order

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beginnings in the 20th century. From now on these capacities will
Christ for the next three thousand years from our present century.
death at all without descent into the physical world in order to

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century, has included in his Essays a short article on “Fortune”,
habitually in Central Germany pictures to himself how fortunate it would be
existence — what then can such a man, grasping his central being in this
would prompt the individual to say: In me there dwells a central core of
permanently rejected. Yet we see that firm faith in the central core of man's
longer has power over us. And to him for whose central being good fortune
is only an incentive to higher development, ill-fortune is also a challenge to
success but to take it as an incentive to further development, we also arrive
man has this central core of being within him that he can free himself from
on the strong central core that transcends birth and death, the central
yet is linked with the whole beneficent foundation of our world-order. If we

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central figure in Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Plays — the
Akasha Chronicle. Something reminiscent of their forms did indeed
traveled in Egypt and the region of Asia Minor only a few centuries
the centre to the periphery and the interior space itself will then

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Viennese philosopher, Günther, in the nineteenth century, raised
is a strange coincidence that just recently a book by Brentano on
was achieved in its field by Western culture in the last centuries
that in the fourth century B.C.
descent, but with hereditary traits. The soul element appears as
mother. Thus Brentano's most recent book contains the clear

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meditation, concentration, and so forth. Thus the facts of the
More recent attempts such as that of Rudolf Eucken,
concentration, and so forth. If you penetrate into the whole spirit
meditation and concentration. Certain moral attributes of the soul
concentrating without first having sought the frame of mind that has
applied here, “These fellows would not scent the devil out,
as more recent world conceptions interpret the concept “God.”
physical plane with the descent of man from a super-sensible origin.
evolution of humanity. It lived on even into the nineteenth century,
that appears to have been resurrected in recent times and is
doctrine had always had adherents, even in the nineteenth century.

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whole meditation was that he brought this thought in the centre
his inside as the central issue.

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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
constituted a united and centralized monarchy was already divided
in the manner described, and his thoughts were ever concentrated
centre of his soul. That he acted rightly in so doing was made

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century.
specific recognition for what this personality has done in recent
representative of psychoanalysis, stepped front and center. He

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: III. Imagination--Imagination; Inspiration--Self-fulfillment; Intuition--Conscience.
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meditation, concentration, and so forth, to conceptions that also

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careful concentration and meditation or through special aptitude,
concentration, namely, by endeavoring to let our memories unfold with
Just think how all that, concentrated, makes you feel in the evening
have had nothing but gratifying experiences, again concentrated; you
theosophy that the theosophists of the eighteenth century so often
pneumatosophy. How did eighteenth century theosophists like Ottinger,
this utterance of the eighteenth century theosophists into more
re-ascent to the spirit has commenced may this ardor abate.”
That wonderful utterance of the eighteenth century
century, and theosophical activity and endeavor fell off completely
in the first two thirds of the nineteenth century. In the eighteenth
century genuine theosophy of the older kind was to be found in
divinity, those eighteenth century theosophists knew that

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Finally, the King arrived at a magnificent castle, but he came
imaginatively, before someone's soul what we recently described
something like magnificent pictures before his soul. He lived
From an inner center outward everything moves toward this
had developed in Central and Southern Europe, and in the Near
Central Europe. There it could absorb the strength of will, the
expression. In the alliterations of Northern and Central Europe

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in the second half of the nineteenth century by the big,
nineteenth century. Which view has formed when Darwin
The Descent of Man
second half of the nineteenth century worldviews mushroomed
nineteenth century. To a worldview which had at that time by no
meditation, concentration and the
impulses consciously in the centre of his soul life, he can
extended by meditation and concentration backward beyond birth
certain time of life, later in life this concentrates upon a

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concentration, one gets to know one's doppelganger to whom one

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recent times, are not in a position to share the opinion of those
A great part of the thinkers of the present and the recent past did
But in contradiction to this idea many philosophers of recent time have
developments in recent mental life can show us — so to speak —
research in natural science recently, cannot teach us that
Century, was convinced he was authorized in his explanation of the
centuries ago, when Francesco Redi spoke the sentence: “Living
throughout all the earlier centuries before Francesco Redi's
Century how mice, eels, and frogs originate out of that which is
the expedients of the most recent mental attitude, if we would

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this may represent the number of centuries that have elapsed since
preceding incarnation took place four centuries ago.”—

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CHRIST AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Thus in the first centuries after the advent of
during the first Christian centuries. This is not because the
was contained in the ancient Gnosis of the first Christian centuries.
conception of this descent of a purely spiritual Being into human
significance — for it is indeed the ‘centre of gravity’
first Christian centuries onwards, of the qualities of the soul of
there has lived, through all the centuries, an echo of the ‘Christ’
century onwards, this kind of ‘double entry’ process grew
of the 19th century the whole course of evolution had led to the
Impulse. But in the 19th century, wide circles (among which we must
century, research into the life of Jesus was substituted for an
similar works. We need only indicate briefly the most recent results
Since we are speaking of such recent occurrences, it is only
century) for the purpose of proving historically the events which are
only so, but research into these things has recently taken quite
those things to which for so long in the 19th century they were
taken place through the course of centuries, and which was brought to
in the spiritual evolution of the 20th century will be the
recognition that the 19th century was on false paths when the life of
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Christ and the Twentieth Century
Christ and the Twentieth Century
During the first post-Christian centuries,
gnosis magnificent ideas of the Christ Being develop. These
how did gnosis imagine this descent of a wholly spiritual being
century to his mind admits just like that that such an image
the sixteenth century on this kind of “double-entry
century the whole course of development has led to lose any
nineteenth century a mere quest for the historical Jesus
needs only to point to that which one attained recently from a
which were applied in the nineteenth century to prove, so to
the nineteenth century to have to talk. One wanted to
the course of centuries, but around the turn of the era that
them to the central issue in the single Gospels, one realises
twentieth century that it will recognise that the nineteenth
century was on the wrong tracks. Since it wanted to reduce the
century something else has to be added to the habitual ways of
big task of the twentieth century will be that the concept of
If the twentieth century can take the great
twentieth century and as he will completely take it
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Christ and the Twentieth Century
evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
CENTURY
During the first centuries which followed the
the first centuries of the Christian era — not, be it
few centuries of the Christian era, this ancient gnosis put
wisdom actually look upon this descent of a purely spiritual
centre of human evolution. When we compare this gnostical concept
early centuries of the Christian era and onwards, the existing
centuries side by side with that simple idea of Jesus, which
from the sixteenth century onward, this twofold method of thought
attention to the fact that in the nineteenth century the course
made to centre all in the personality of Jesus of Nazareth, and
methods employed during the nineteenth century in order to
which, during the greater part of the nineteenth century, it was
human frame remains quiescent and sleeping, the actual centre of
deepest life-centre has always been, so to speak, near at hand,
nevertheless this very life-centre was something the awareness of
that in the life-centre, the Ego, there manifests an element
this ultimate centre of life broke in upon man’s
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make these forces turn around and direct them to certain centers

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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Individuality who lived in a special incarnation in the 13th century.

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century which was only directed to the outer appearance also
with the outer physical form. One can trace back the descent of
founded this logic as science only few centuries before our
that by meditation and concentration someone who wants to
with Thales five to six centuries before the Christian calendar
strange experience quite recently. In my book
a point where he completely realises his ego, his central
magnificently. At that time, one pointed to it when one knew

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the world of the sixteenth century, the earth on which one believed to stand firmly resting
that time in the sixteenth century when already after the death
one takes the fact into account that in the centuries up to the
what Aristoteles had produced as a scientific spirit centuries
comprehensive, magnificent work of Aristotle, one realises that
it does not get, a level that resulted since centuries before
fifteenth, sixteenth centuries when the greatness of the old
sixteenth century; he was a man in whose inside largely and
in the centre, and that the planets circle round it. What would
the outer sensory facts, he put the sun in the centre of the
legend in the sixteenth century that also has a historical
education of the sixteenth century as the consciousness, while
that what was connected with it in the course of the centuries.
the universe concentrated in a human body as it were to extend
again at his death and to concentrate later again. He imagines
appearance in meditation and concentration, so that the thought
as effect with the adolescent human being. But monism says it
centuries can be offered for reincarnation any time. But as

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Recently, indeed, some
retrospect leads us, as it were, to the center of our being, which
as has already been indicated — that recent natural science,

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work only inside with concentration of thought and other
concentration for the intellectual culture, the possibility to
disharmony. Because in our time the belief in the concentration
his nervous system by mental concentration. Briefly, everything
How complacent is the human being. The human being is
especially complacent if he stresses repeatedly that nothing
spiritual-scientific truth: “During all centuries, the

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existence by way of union between man and woman and then the descent
human being as a direct embodiment of the Spiritual, a descent of the
Post-Atlantean epoch a constitution of soul reminiscent of the
descent of the Christ-Impulse into humanity. But side by side with
scholarship in the first half of the nineteenth century disclosed
olden times but will illumine it, vivify it with what the more recent,

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converges ultimately towards one central point which he calls
holds together, as at a central point, everything experienced
ego that proves itself to be the enduring central point. We
quite recent times, their speculations about its nature are
know how this centre of our soul-life remains the same in all
sleep obliterates, but also this central point, the ego.
attention on this central point to which he is at the moment
them we have the active ego as powerful centre, the ego is
concentration, we can so school ourselves that experience and
concentration: thought alone is not enough. In
concentrate with his mind, but his thoughts must be fired by
their strongest. They are now inwardly concentrated at one
united. In like manner the highly concentrated forces in
gate of death in a concentrated form, in readiness for
pattern as though round a central point, seem to be an ego,
Science says the opposite: that the ego is the concentrating
as an ego I have done something, it remains with this central
accord with Spiritual Science. Only recently I was reading a
century after Christ by the great mystic and philosopher,

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mixture to the pupil to drink. A few centuries ago any esoteric would

Title: Chance and Present-day Consciousness.
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described above, even if the central figure had not been a clergyman;
eccentrics. But it never once enters his head that he is merely

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ninth century, to a Viking, Ottar Jarl, and led his pedigree
nineteenth century.
of the nineteenth century.
intellectual life of the nineteenth century which is given only
knowledgeable investigations only in the nineteenth century
matured humanity only in the nineteenth century?
century for the Goethe edition of the
nineteenth century that one has to consider the cranial bones
that in the second half of the nineteenth century on basis of
second half of the nineteenth century that intervenes deeply in
nineteenth century searches that what he believes to need for
century. One may say, if it had been possible that Darwin would
nineteenth century was destined to divert the attention for a
not —, one may abandon them, the idea of descent may be quite
nineteenth century. If we realise that a common plan of the
nineteenth century done without knowing it? While it has
of the nineteenth century.
such a person in the nineteenth century to whom that was a
natural sciences of the nineteenth century explained so
magnificently if he looks at the spiritual world and notices
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the centuries? How are we to apply to these recorded traditions the
descent of man as a being of soul — a threefold soul — into
nineteenth century! For it had been entirely forgotten and was
compiled during the course of that century from folk-songs extant
In the early years of the nineteenth century, nothing had been written
nineteenth century a certain doctor, realised that the people sang of
into the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries, the Folk-Soul became
this day retain many customs and arts reminiscent of an ancient form
who, so far as the last centuries are concerned, have remained remote
age represents the lowest point of man's descent to the physical
magnificently irregular — about the appearance or awakening of

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The sacred center of

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recent times, but also to play a real part in the whole evolutionary
due course, by an ascent. Graeco-Latin culture, for instance, was a
Earth-lives, and of Karma. Whereas Christianity through the centuries
only in the innermost centre of man's being, in the “ I ”.
the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was a time when
central figures are Aristotle, Plato, and so forth — fades into
sects. Recent times, however, have had little understanding of the
Germany and in the west of Europe during the eighteenth century there
century, leaving aside what occurred in Catholic countries and turning
centuries? No means of preservation devised by the mind of man will be
centuries everything will have vanished. The subjects themselves, of
Raphael. He observed Raphael's fame through the centuries, its decline
during recent years. When we think of these things, it seems as though
especially as it has unfolded since the thirteenth century, opens up

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sixth century B.C. — a certain thought found frequent utterance,
Remembrance arises of experiences undergone before the descent into
passion. Everything in the Greek legend centres around this; the Iliad
seven centuries before the inpouring of the Christ-Impulse into
significance that, six centuries before our era, Lao-tse and Confucius
six centuries before our era, consciousness begins to stir that love
is true and in accordance with reality? It was recently stated in
being conducted from a certain centre in Leipzig of which you have
centuries, another is to succeed to some slight extent in expressing
See also: Christ and the Twentieth Century (25.1.12).

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the descent to the physical plane and now there must be a gradual
re-ascent. We are living in the age when the re-ascent must be
were paramountly conscious of the descent of humanity, the descent to
the Fourth epoch — the Impulse for the re-ascent. This Impulse had its
Now that the ascent to the spiritual world must begin, a spiritual
such importance. The re-ascent to the spiritual worlds — this must
to concentrate primary attention on the single personality living on
different epochs, but concentrates upon the existence of the one

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a planetary age it is always the case that the being of central
olden times been an affair of one or another particular centre of
example occurs in a book recently published:
“England together with India, at the centre; America and Germany,

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constantly new sides. Since the last third of the nineteenth century
what it was through almost the whole of the nineteenth century. Until
the last third of that century men had little access to the spiritual
you a concrete example. In the early twelfth century, a man named
and concentration of soul, we should await a revelation of the
presented to it. Whereas we must be absolutely quiescent if
the world of colours, sounds, scents, tastes, mental pictures which
recently this fact presented itself to my spiritual sight with
astral and etheric bodies were as quiescent as possible and the Ego

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carried out during recent months. It is only as our studies progress
whereas nowadays men on Earth are divided by race, descent and so
magnificently in the Old Testament in the passage describing the
stemming from a Mystery Centre had been established among a
Mystery Centre. People were always given a leader from their own
descent, race, and whatever separates human beings from one another.

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Earth. Only during the last four centuries has consciousness of this
with the Macrocosm. A twelfth century allegory. Reference to
during the last four centuries that man has lost this consciousness
the twelfth century a story, a splendid allegory, became current in
brother promised to give the girl the most fragrant scent in the
eighteenth century. Herder translated many of Balde's lyrics and
the seventeenth century. There is also an exposition dating from the
thirteenth century by the poet himself, so it cannot be called a mere

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and hearing expand into space; from the centre where he is standing
were outspread and what he perceives is really the centre. He looks
incarnation. He looks from the circumference towards a centre. It is
yourself at the centre, and could drink in the forces of the
the centre. Translated into terms of spiritual reality, this is
adjacent part of the astral aura is, on the other hand, particularly
clearly of all in Aristotle who lived in the fourth century
magnificently by Kepler. But the nearer we come to modern

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thirteenth century we associate everything that has to do with the
Rosenkreutz in the thirteenth century. Today I shall speak of a deed
he performed towards the end of the sixteenth century. This deed is
what that ascent means and also of the world-wide significance of the
few centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, in a Mystery school
Mystery Centre in spiritual bodies. One such Teacher was the Being
spoken of as Gautama Buddha. And in the seventh/eighth century after
Mystery Centre referred to above; but everything was clothed in a
the Mystery Centre of which I have spoken.
impulse of the Mystery of Golgotha then made an ascent possible in
the evolutionary process. The ascent is at present only beginning,
the Mystery of Golgotha and thereafter a phase of ascent — now
Impulse is necessary. Similarly, there were phases of descent and
ascent in the evolution of Mars, into whose sphere we pass between
death and rebirth. Until the fifteenth/sixteenth century the
from the spiritual worlds was undergoing a phase of descent, just as
Christian era. By the time of the fifteenth/sixteenth century it was
ascent, for the consequences of the phase of descent had become all
Cusa in the fifteenth century was dedicated in mind and heart to the
into the spiritual world. That the ascent into spiritual worlds
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centuries was affected when such a soul, having first felt
spiritual side of it, it works out magnificently in the old
felt in the early Christian centuries.
not feel how those, which throughout the centuries were
concentrated world-wisdom.
‘concentrated wisdom’ of the child with the greatest human

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matters such as the one spoken of recently, namely, the mission for
esoteric expositions of past centuries. And many people who hear

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recently reappeared as if of itself among the Norwegian

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found in his own solitary mind, even in his century, received
his first work, The Dawn in Its Ascent, came into being,
spirit of recent times. This same sixteenth century, in which
century.
Ascent and we shall see at once how that which is elsewhere
other thinkers of the nineteenth century also admired the
simplest spiritual culture on Central European soil. We find
that something lives in all the souls of Central Europe
a Leipzig scholar of the past century, Dr. Harles. It seems

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centuries ago. It is what we today mean by the expression ‘public
opinion’. Even as recently as the thirteenth century it would
in these earlier, often despised centuries. In earlier centuries
centuries, however, people attached more weight to authorities whom
centuries. People belonging to our civilisation usually concern
primitive human being in earlier centuries endeavoured to have some
individual living in the thirteenth century. In those days there were
study the history of Florence during those centuries and in later
centuries and one can speak of its actual beginning. Such things must

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mid-nineteenth century. In doing so, he established, so to say,
phenomena and facts of past centuries. This adaptability, this
the nineteenth century, he was able to hold his famous Goethe
possible in the last third of the nineteenth century, has now
this reason, he was unable to arrive at what recent spiritual
did, however, frequently touch upon results of recent spiritual
centuries both in the visual arts and in literature. He sought
he saw an instance of someone in the nineteenth century who
apparent at the source, in the ninth or the tenth century
eye as something so beautiful, so colossal, so magnificent that
backwards, drawing her after him, the whole magnificent figure
evidence that, in approaching the -twentieth century, the

Title: Lecture Series: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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was born from the soul of Raphael in the 16th century. Again, we turn
centuries but his creations form one organic whole with all preceding
to human evolution as a whole during the last few centuries, is not intended
was going on in world history and concentrate wholly on the inner
of Greek culture which had for long centuries been buried under ruins
ascent to the point where the most inward elements, the very loftiest
mighty impulse which then worked on through the centuries.
that had arisen in the spiritual evolution of Italy in the 16th century.
infinite spheres of the Spiritual, but was concentrated into forms that
The first Christian centuries

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to think of yourself as the centre of this eternally existing
in the sixteenth century.
only lives on in the centuries that follow him; what preceded
humanity over the last centuries is not meant as a
be one of the noblest, most magnificent works of art in the
buried for centuries under rubble and debris on Roman soil were
What precedes this time? We see, first of all, the centuries in
of Italy's development over the following centuries? Why did
line of ascent to the point where the most inward, the most
of the centuries that followed.
and others. Similarly, more recently, such an inwardly advanced
that revealed the Greek spirit. The centuries of the first
Raphael fully. We indicated recently how close he stood, in

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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Initiation. During the ascent into the higher worlds a moment comes
Mystery centres as “Experiencing the Elementary World”. The

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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FROM what has been said we can well see that the ascent into the
illuminated through the exercises of meditation, concentration and
really a vice — of indolence. In recent times we have gained some
you are beginning your ascent into the higher worlds, and then you
acquires for the ascent into the higher worlds. Quite definite

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Ascent into the spiritual worlds is accompanied by certain unavoidable
an ascent, but he also feels himself forsaken and alone. He feels that
question all the beings whom he meets after such an ascent concerning
if the ascent has been undertaken according to the true rules of
those who in ancient times undertook the ascent. But they did not feel

Title: Poetry/Fairy Tales: The Poetry of Fairy Tales
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the springs that have given rise through centuries of human history
magnificent world of art there is no greater art than this one, which

Title: Fairy Tales in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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others, often simple people, we come upon accounts reminiscent
done its part over a period of centuries to estrange the human

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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new Initiation, must have centres where there can be recalled to human
Golgotha took place was concentrated in the influences that streamed
that had to be changed in the human soul in more recent times is
as false as the assertion that the “speech-centre” has
learnt to speak, and so the speech-centre is the result of speech.

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meditation, concentration and contemplation, and leave everything

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or conception. The conditions of central importance here are quite
book about Goethe has recently been published, in which his
born, perhaps centuries later, from a line of ancestors, regulates
the world of the senses and will concentrate attention on what is

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figure of the Christ in the center, and on either side of Him the
satisfactory with the means available to man. If in the centuries to
course of time; but until the Fifteenth Century, there still remained
still they felt that in the center of their being they were connected
man the treasures of natural science. In the course of the centuries
that has been gained through natural science in the centuries since
become ripe for that, and for that centuries had to elapse since
Century. For in earlier incarnations insofar as these earlier earth
physical body. A fifteenth-century body could not bring to expression
course of the three following centuries, some of them indeed have not

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making use of powers that were only to emerge in later centuries. --
centuries.
given the means available. Though in later centuries no human
even in the fifteenth century a remnant of this clairvoyance
they nonetheless felt united in the centre of their being with
the course of the centuries since the appearance of Copernicus,
natural science in the centuries since Leonardo's time. The
Humanity had first to become mature for this. The centuries
secrets of the universe. Born into the fifteenth century, he
fifteenth century could not bring to expression what Leonardo

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last decades of the nineteenth century, when the writings of Buchner
beneficent Powers of health and salutary forces sent down from the
have died. I recently had an experience that others too may have had.
Someone asked me about a friend who had died very recently and it

Title: Lecture: Errors in Spiritual Investigation
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In the recent lectures it was described how the human being,
about by a rightly applied concentration, contemplation, and
concentrating his whole life of soul on individual mental
compared in this realm to certain other people. Until recently, there
worked on the solution of squaring the circle, until recent
“In all centuries poor truth had to blush over being

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beginning of the seventeenth century Brahmanism was absorbed into
which has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha comes from
century, should be said to be the first region of Devachan, of the
proclaimed since times primeval. And centuries after the Mystery of
region of the Cosmos. At the beginning of the seventeenth century
‘centre of gravity’ in the Mystery of Golgotha. When we
Earth has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha, while on
ancient times, has its centre of gravity in the Mystery of Golgotha

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture I: The Spiritual World and Spiritual Science
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centuries, which may also apply to spiritual science that has a
last centuries. However, one has to develop the
concentration of the spiritual life in spiritual science. We
call it concentration of the spiritual life because the human
picture, any soul impulse, and to put it in the centre of his
through the world. A symbol. Now I concentrate my complete
true is in it, but that all soul forces are concentrated in
concentrate your whole soul life onto this one point. That
to, and concentrate the whole soul only upon one point that he
concentration, the increased attention wakes the forces
central nervous system; it is an outflow of the central nervous
bound to the brain that one cannot think without the central
life, is bound to the central nervous system and to the
central nervous system that is necessary for thinking in the
separates from the bodily by concentration as I have indicated.
that he is beyond his central nervous system and that he faces
methods of concentration. You know only then how the cerebral
exercises and has the devotion to concentrate his whole soul
attention, the increased concentration. You already notice this
in particular concerning the central nervous system. If you
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offers little incentive to agree anyhow with it. However, not
beings, our developed inner life with its distinct centre of
century AD, Lives and Opinions of
fright. The forces of the organism are concentrated
concentrated researcher who really lives in his scientific
just now. He must concentrate upon the one-sided thinking; he
what can be given in the beginning of the twentieth century as

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they have developed for three to four centuries in our
cultural life, of the last times of the nineteenth century can
as it has developed during the last three to four centuries
century pass by, as they have developed until our
researches of the nineteenth century, and until our time. There
already say since centuries about the inner experiences. As
Since centuries, since millennia one no
races and epochs, and that with the ascent to the real
impulse, as there can only be one centre of mass of a balance.

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spirits of the nineteenth century finally denied the life after
nineteenth century refused the life after death.
thinkers of the last century said that it belongs to the human
have been educated during the last centuries scientifically.
concentration for many years. I have said there that if the
forward in his recently appeared booklet

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture V: The Meaning of Immortality of the Human Soul
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something and that thereby imaginary or real descents are
realise how a highly educated man of the more recent past who

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increasingly removed from past centuries. In the past, plays like the one
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, which present with the
body by the recently deceased. "Remember, you living ones, the secrets of
the same way we must see in the form of the innocent child the Being that

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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— Parsifal was one who some centuries after the
here lies the secret of ascent. Since the Mystery of
and the physical world as it existed before the descent

Title: Lecture: Michelangelo
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notable book recently published disputes the claim of history to be
artist like Michelangelo in the Sixteenth Century and study him in
In the Sixth Century B.C.
sixteenth century the “Laocoon”, the “Hercules

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men can ever have looked towards the centre of the Earth
concerning which so many who lived in the early centuries
105-111.) Thus in the 17th century we again find evidence

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thinkers of the nineteenth century and our time, and you
only to point to thinkers of the last centuries before the
and Approaches to Life in the Nineteenth Century
old stoic wisdom; and one cannot say that the later centuries
that has already advanced for some centuries. However, we can
nineteenth century gave, that the evil is nothing positive. It
century, Hermann Lotze (181
approaches a spirit of the sixteenth, seventeenth centuries
his soul for the ascent to the spiritual world; this is also
the nineteenth century could teach this, for the time up to our
philosophers in the nineteenth century, of that worldview which
spirit of the nineteenth century. From a certain viewpoint I
century, namely from the viewpoint that the human being, while
thirds of the nineteenth century, this echo could not exist.
very much because the spirit of the nineteenth century, in
centuries, it experienced a time where one always spoke of the
some centuries. However, more and more one will feel it not

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significant and prominent thinkers of the nineteenth century
refer to thinkers in the last centuries before the foundation
Nineteenth Century,” since it is still only little worked
real progress in later centuries. At the same time this can
progressed for a few centuries. But how things truly stand with
major philosophers of the nineteenth century have given: that
East, who lived in the first half of the seventeenth century,
us, as was said, in the first half of the seventeenth century,
of the nineteenth century, who truly was one of its most
nineteenth century, whose very significant
meaningful philosophical works for the nineteenth century. Let
centuries, into which not many nowadays even wish to penetrate,
nineteenth century, as a confession by Lotze, we can say
adjacent world, next to that towards which the soul strives
nineteenth century and on up to our present time could teach us
this. Against this in the nineteenth century amongst the
but to another spirit of the nineteenth century. From a certain
nineteenth century: from the viewpoint that a human being must
second and third thirds of the nineteenth century that echo was
nineteenth century a spirit before us, who only did not make a
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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
account of the evolution of Western thought from the sixth century
B.C. up to the nineteenth century A.D., and then by adding to the
say that it first appeared in the sixth or eighth century B.C. Before
thirteenth centuries will say somewhat as follows: “Draw me a
when in recent times a Western thinker did consent to think correctly
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant
Thus, for more than a century now, people have worried themselves
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
twentieth century, and during it certain events have taken place.
nineteenth century; these again were caused by events in the second
third of the nineteenth century, and these again by those in the
condition of the nineteenth century as a result of the French
century it was looked upon as immensely clever. But what should we be

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(Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).
account of the evolution of Western thought from the sixth century
B.C. up to the nineteenth century A.D., and then by adding to the
say that it first appeared in the sixth or eighth century B.C. Before
thirteenth centuries will say somewhat as follows: “Draw me a
when in recent times a Western thinker did consent to think correctly
into movement. That was his great central act; his most significant
Thus, for more than a century now, people have worried themselves
That appears very reasonable. And yet for a century people have been
twentieth century, and during it certain events have taken place.
nineteenth century; these again were caused by events in the second
third of the nineteenth century, and these again by those in the
condition of the nineteenth century as a result of the French
century it was looked upon as immensely clever. But what should we be

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puzzle for centuries over questions such as that of the hundred
Realism arose (from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries) there
centuries gets a deep insight into what human acumen can produce. For
nineteenth century the belief existed that ideas rule history. But

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puzzle for centuries over questions such as that of the hundred
Realism arose (from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries) there
centuries gets a deep insight into what human acumen can produce. For
nineteenth century the belief existed that ideas rule history. But

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remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the

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remain occult until, through meditation, concentration and so on, the

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the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
the central nervous system. It sets in motion — let us say if

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the central nervous system forms the thought. For anyone who sees
the central nervous system. It sets in motion — let us say if

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture XI
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descent of man to earthly incarnations and the onset of
play a part from about the eighth century B.C. and

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moral human life in a magnificently
psychological thinkers of the most recent past do no longer
soul contents that one puts in the centre of the soul life. If
to concentrate them upon clear soul contents of which he knows
crowded together gradually by this stronger concentration of
so-called concentration. This is something that the human being
experience in the Imaginative world, however, its centre is in
experience that you lose the centre of gravity as it were; you
gives us a firm centre of gravity feel their consciousness
do not lose the centre of gravity and that it is something that
death we recently celebrated. He says, what is the sensory

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from the consciousness of the eighteenth century.
dates back behind the eighth to tenth centuries before our
until the eighth to tenth centuries before our
Century (final title:
the fourteenth, fifteenth centuries preferably demanded the
century? At this time, a net of lawfulness spreads out as it
fourteenth century. From the eighth, tenth pre-Christian
centuries until the time of the fourteenth, fifteenth
post-Christian centuries the development of the intellectual or
centuries on. We live for about four centuries in this
century that got its shine only in the modern natural sciences,
century what Kant tried to derive from a principle, the
adjacent to a divine-spiritual world, we see the divine world
Stopp'd by these accents in her mid
to the magnificent, clever worldview that he could create
century that had to put everything in the right light on one

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century the great discoveries that Darwin made. It has

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nineteenth century, to Goethe and to the less known Robert
twenties of the nineteenth century, he remembered former
with Frankfurt accent, the writer understood Orden
In the sixties of the nineteenth century, a

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relate to recent or not-so-recent events, or scenes where such events
power. Our own being is the center of everything. Our own being shows
incorrectly but perceive ourselves as the center of everything going

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Basel. One does not intend to concentrate spiritual science

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their soul to what is great, beautiful, monumental, magnificent, and
lines — to concentrate the soul inwardly if it is awake and to
half of the nineteenth century who was also widely known in Austria
of Robert Hamerling as a poet of the late nineteenth century who was

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The central point in our
When we look at this process, we find the central element is that we
artistic spirit. Many years passed, and then recently, when we were

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the centre of everything we aim for in spiritual science.
soul. In Central Europe the national element comes to
feeling that an element was being striven for in Central
been to understand what is going on in Central Europe.
the way will be found to the teachers of Central Europe.
like boasting in someone who comes from Central Europe.
that had their last incarnation in Central Europe. This
to Central Europe we find ‘...what is forever
Central Europe always longed for Italy, to achieve
has really always been there through the centuries. Note
a Central European living in the ego culture. In my
public lecture I said that the Central European aspires
it, but it is right only to say: ‘the Central
what matters in Central Europe and in the Nordic
during the 19th century had specifically to do with home
situation as regards the Central Europeans, including the
soul in the British Isles. In Central Europe and up north
definitely acquire on the physical plane. In Central
The Central
soul. If we are really seeking the I, the ego, in Central
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here during recent years I have often drawn attention to the
consummation in the last two to four centuries: the sphere of
able to prove in the course of centuries — what it was
concentration, the more the content of the thought vanishes.
the force of our concentration on it, it awakes to a life of
concentration. We have to ‘stop thinking,’ in order
it through intense concentration. You lived in the thought, and
died in the process of thought-concentration in you; but it has
that of thought-concentration, and form as it were the second
the thought becoming concentrated, dying, and evolving as
Whereas first the will is concentrated in the single point of
through thought-concentration, we take possession of our own
preparation of thought-concentration and meditation, how
meditation, through thought-concentration, and the effluence of
Cosmic and Life Conception in the Nineteenth Century,
Precisely in the spiritual culture of Central Europe the stages
saying that the human soul, by thought-concentration, can make
Central Europe enabled him, by discovering the nature of his
spiritual life of Central Europe, the spiritual life of
experience of Central Europe even this spiritual life is

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present century the revelation of Christ will be made to

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for a long time to come, into the 8th and 9th centuries
epoch, began mainly around the 15th-16th centuries. That
imagine, for instance, that during the 15th century
following centuries — the essential element of the
the centuries theologians were in dispute, defending or
Central Europe. These Central European people include
appearances within the Central European community. The
way it happened in the case of the Central European
10th, 11th and 12th centuries to that later height that
beginning of the 19th centuries and which we may hope
Central European fighters of the present continue the
in the 6th, 7th 8th and 9th centuries, and accepted
in Central Europe that the soul life of the German
advance over centuries. We see it all taking shape. It is
Central European culture, how preparations have been made
century event when Joan of Arc had to save France because
centuries, as we have consistently shown. In the future
will be people — and in Central Europe there will
between Central Europe and Eastern Europe.
across Central Europe, by brute force. It is possible to
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impulse resolved a major issue in the 15th century
entirely different. Since the 15th and 16th century
changed specifically over the last centuries —
since the 15th and 16 centuries — at least for the
or five centuries at that time. Now in our time he is
century he was not the actual leader and therefore had to
century could still be appropriate now that we are in the
16th century to this day. And if we say we do not
but by trying to concentrate our powers of understanding
beginning of the 19th centuries. This mission was in
preparation during the preceding centuries. This is what
of the ascent to the spiritual worlds.
who only recently again managed to point out

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quite recently. It is number twelve in a series now being
great deal in more recent times. If things continue the
The reason is that he belonged to that Central European
of more recent times. Of course we are not anywhere near
three or four centuries people gradually had to accept
particular nature of the Central European spirit,

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recent weeks, dear friends, karma brought it about that I
what happened in recent weeks when an older member
who died recently. Fritz Mitscher went through the gate
this life now that it had concentrated in the soul. The

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place so entirely in the center of our consciousness that we identify
made the center of the consciousness are taking on a kind of
center of my consciousness; but now it is beginning to unfold a

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personality. We make them the absolute centre of our
significance, it can learn magnificent things as it were.
elevated or far less a moment of utter concentration than
is the most marvellous, the most glorious, magnificent

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mantric meditation or other and make it the centre of our
free will we have to make a thought the centre of our
that we are capable of such powerful inner concentration
are merely the centre.’
life of the early 19th century you will of course look up
the beginning or in the middle of the 19th century and
19th century and yet are totally unknown to most if not
literary life in the 19th century, will be different,
19th century when some individuals still has a certain
progressed the 19th century really could do no other, in
first half of the 19th century it was still possible for
Physical body during meditation, through concentration.
half of the 19th century, evidence was again given, one
thought here in this place in recent times, and this is

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meditation and concentration the process I have already
As we meditate, as we concentrate, we leave an imprint in
same thought process. If we concentrate just once on some
beginning of the 17th century and in England in the
middle of the 17th century. Shakespeare wrote his works
the 18th century, but we then find it ascending again
around the middle of the 19th century. The situation is
magnificent and worthy of the deity appeared merely as
revolution in recent times, the Reformation; what is
more, over the last century one of the most marvellous
literature for recent decades will have to be rewritten.
its ascent. In other words, Germans must come to

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life, with the sun's ascent to the zenith, and sunset with the
explanations repeatedly given in recent lectures.
was greatly alarmed and said that quite recently a man had been

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with the ascent of the sun, and dusk with the need for
what has been the basis of my recent lectures.
quite recently in the neighbourhood. She strongly advised

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found expression in its most concentrated form in the
head of this figure really has a form reminiscent of man,
head is shaped so that it is merely reminiscent of the
centre, but it cannot stop at the centre, it has to swing
the 18th century he called it a barbaric composition.
the turn of the 18th century as to what he intended his
of the 18th to the 19th century that his Faust would have
Egocentric motives — 6% (categories 2 and 3)
the percentages of the converted in such a way,

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someone working out of the centre of the world, as nature
natural course of events, however, is that in Central
Russian folk soul, it must learn its lessons from Central
worked through in advance in Central Europe, it will be
the 15th and 16th centuries. Previously, the whole of the
from this central place of activity we call Golgotha.

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century orator could not, of course, arrive in Roman
reminiscent of him. After his oration, which to the
Central European mind consists of nothing but empty

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fruit for ourselves. Man sees himself everywhere as the centre. And

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Central European peoples and those of South Europe and above all the
the battles of the Central European peoples with, let us say, the
the following centuries, the facts lie thus: the events of these
centuries are karmically connected with their causes, the battles of
the souls lived and developed in the following centuries, in
political opposition between the nations of South and Central
following centuries will result from what is happening’ — he
you picture two centuries later, how different everything appears!
forming, in a sense, a kind of central point of our cosmic horizon,
the centre. We regard our own life in its chronological course.

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number not of centuries but of decades, have come and gone in the
attained in the Nineteenth Century, and man would be swamped by it

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We have devoted the recent lectures to considering from a certain
referred in a recent lecture. This memory forms part of our experience
novels to be found in the more recent literature of Germany and in it,
President! You know as well as I do myself that I am innocent;”
innocent Markus Freund. The officers immediately did their duty and
blameworthy criminals, than with innocent defendants, who really are
innocent man to be convicted?’ As I have told you: man then has
since my birth or conception, which then concentrates itself and

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of Fichte as regards his intense concentration on the spiritual message
when the Napoleonic chaos was enveloping north and central
century, that — we may say it without the slightest fear of

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our souls, this Saga which belongs to bygone centuries; which has been
Century has been directed to developing human thought and
by Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century in order to prove that man
centuries passed; that which was formerly carried on below in the
‘Christmas reminds us of the descent of Christ Jesus on to the
children sat thus a pale light blossomed in the sky, in the centre

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human life is in a kind of central position, a point of balance
was actually in the course of the nineteenth century that
this until the middle of the nineteenth century, for a very
here in Berlin in the middle of the nineteenth century in an
disappeared in the middle of the nineteenth century. Right up
centuries, until it had to recede into the background for a
was made in the fifteenth century. This clock is really a
century in an extraordinarily impressive way. And the
with “guilty” or “innocent.” Obviously,
lectures given here recently I drew attention to the fact that
through recent world events. Just think, there are many people
his recently published book that people believe in

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fifteenth century people had a feeling that just as positive
necessity. Ever since the fifteenth century people have
personality of the nineteenth century will no longer be
considered great in centuries to come, whereas people who have

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looked with complacent satisfaction at everything he had done
(Of Central European Cultural and Spiritual Life),
down in us centuries before, and unites them on a spiritual

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of the Middle Ages the Roman world and what is now Central
Central Europe. And we can look for the consequences in
Teutonic tribes, the whole subsequent development of Central
the course of the centuries up to our time would have been
up to Goethe's Faust and all that nineteenth century
the physical plane through the centuries from then until
of the third or fourth century speculating on the
development in the eighteenth century. We can pick out some
lived in the fourteenth century, he would certainly not have
freedom. As I have already said, in the fourteenth century
the fourteenth century there was no space for anything
preceding centuries in which the stream of events had taken
to spiritual currents that even go beyond the centuries,
that something will arise that will live for centuries.

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the greater part of humanity only for the past few centuries,
we go back beyond the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries, we
remnants of an ancient perception. Even in the tenth century,
but in earlier centuries it was still quite an ordinary,
essential difference is that in fairly recent times human
awareness. We know that at present we are only a few centuries
fourteenth century, for we count the fourth
till the fifteenth century, and the fifth post-Atlantean epoch
from the fifteenth century till as long again; so we are now
the nineteenth century.
public very recently. On the one hand, there were the dreamers
proceeding from the center of one's being are lacking, people
in Central Europe in particular this I is uniting itself

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certain matters bearing on the needs of the age, for our recent
us and which for centuries have brought uplift to the simplest human
mankind in general through the descent to the earth of the Being who

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centuries uplifted even the simplest human hearts, guiding them to the
worlds. What all humanity received in the descent of the divine human
In our recent talks here we have spoken about
in such studies for several years—might well think our recent
Recently everything has been conducive
eyes, and with bowed head imagined a flower in the center of my
from the center to the periphery, exactly like the recently discovered
naturally, because this novel was written only just recently.
about in school, a central nucleus of gas forms, which later becomes
who created philosophies. He rails at all philosophy. Now this man recently
and he just recently wrote

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Thus, be cause our nervous system lost its life in its descent into the
about the descent of Christ from the cosmos into our earthly sphere.
of several great minds of the nineteenth century, who were striving
represents a demand of the best minds of our recent past. It did not
nineteenth century; they are magnificent and important works. However,
and more lively and urgent in recent times. Yet, most people only reach
example, I used to know a very dear man — he died recently here
who died recently — at least it was something like memoirs, not
music merely a means to improve his concentration and was not really
nothing of it and merely enjoyed his enhanced concentration. Only on

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suffered in recent days. You will undoubtedly know what I mean: the
and symbolic brotherhoods and societies. In my recent talks I have characterized
at the stage of mere groping toward this reality. In one of our recent
sciences. I have explained that Franz, the protagonist of Bahr's recently
copy, made by inadequate means. He thought he had found its center
why? Well, he remembers once again the eccentric whims of the Englishman:
really was only pretending when he wrote the magnificent, grandiose
and complacent run-of-the-mill monist the neo-German senior professors
In my recently published booklet, I have
our members, Fraulein Hübbe-Schleiden, I have recently received

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When we think of a centaur, a very well-known

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often recently. As we have seen, we need to look at the activities,
events of recent decades, and from these they will understand why the
fruits of the art of versifying at the end of the nineteenth century.
could not be used at the end of the nineteenth century since it brought
the century, between 1898 and 1901 or so. Back then he was striving
A pathetic example of this has recently caught
trade. [You see, this must have been published very recently for it
things were better in the nineteenth century, in the days of Büchner,

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later, in fact only just recently.
an event we have recently learned about. It is already a bit dishonest
events that have recently taken place on a small scale, in one person's
beginning of the nineteenth century and grew up in poverty. One day,
lives the whole culture of Central and Western Europe — in his
connects us with nothing except the eccentricities of the gentlemen, or,
the whole of European culture up to the end of the nineteenth century
blame exclusively on the Central European powers, while exonerating
century and so far also in the twentieth century we have been wedged
in Central Europe, and that the way out through spiritual science must
development: in earlier centuries, people were also reading the four
Then came the people of the nineteenth century who were naturally more
and even in the twentieth century. Well, are people of earlier centuries
to nineteenth century people that their ancestors had a different sort

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just recently I told you that the shape of our head can be traced to
Just recently we went to see a friend on leave
than the popularizing stuff produced by our common writers. Recently
things as well. For instance, somebody just recently told me about a
Views of Life and World in the Nineteenth Century
Well, just recently someone wrote that he
In this man's circle a letter was written recently — not by him
as say anything about such things, then we get threats! Recently a letter

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Recently Fräulein Motzkus herself suffered the loss of a dear friend,
century must bring to humanity the Vision of the etheric Christ. Just
among men in the twentieth century, the whole earth over. This event
the twentieth century, that the great moment is being now prepared.
of men in bygone centuries; they no longer have any conception of the
the centuries rolled by the impression made by the inner content of
time indicated, in the twentieth century, in various forms near to the
standing in the centre of these things, one who is an occultist,
than in centuries gone by. Till now the Gospels have spoken an inner

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‘We owe what lives in the very centre of our being to the Higher
We know that now the sun rises in Pisces. Up to the fifteenth century
call a cosmic step when at the vernal ascent it returns to the same
example) to speak of my family descent and the way in which I did this

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course of the nineteenth century and up to now looked for a
knowledge questions of the nineteenth century in the most
nineteenth century. I have drawn your attention to the fact
just the excellent thinkers of the nineteenth century to say to
education of the nineteenth century in special way stood in his
concentration of thinking, by additional methods described in
century who because he was not only a speculating, but also a
the last century.

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certain thoughts in vigorous meditation and concentration. It
are at the end of a descent line. I have also here pointed out
down maybe from a human being in the fourteenth century through
a descendant in the fifteenth, sixteenth centuries up to the
twentieth century: the physical processes live on there; in
centuries, there also something spiritual happens. There is the
speaking: if a human being is born in the twentieth century
parents who were born in the nineteenth century and so on, we
come through centuries; in the end, there the current of
is active already since centuries in that which brings together
human couple to descendants since centuries. The soul itself

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provides him with a religious centre and appeals to him as such. If

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provides him with a religious centre and appeals to him as such. If

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the Spiritual development of the last century, we observe how strongly
centres, whose mind and disposition have been formed in accordance
forgotten, in the course of the last century, how to think truly of
the Christ Mystery which must take its place in the very centre of the
connected with our physical descent, and with everything which
have now become displaced; but the central event which is adapted to
and fifteenth, and indeed in the sixteenth century, there were some
developed in the cinema, with this descent below sense-perception, man
must at the same time develop an ascent above it, an ascent into

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century and up to our time that are on the way to this
made the unconscious mostly popular in the last half a century
the centre of the planetary system and let the sun circle
completely upside down: we have to put the sun in the centre of
which one had for centuries.
course of centuries. The human being must not search a union
usual consciousness only, but an ascent to that what does not
century must be waited until they happen that there the outer

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to the whole universe, just as Christmas should point to the descent

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stand within the subjacent nervous system, then a
any central organ, from the brain, they excite the respiratory
in the sense as I have recently characterised it. One has to
central sentence from this book:

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spiritual directions of thought and investigation of recent
and researchers who have sought in recent times to penetrate
It deserves admiration, it is magnificent. Also, on the other
say to two literary publications of recent times which contain
as the standpoint which developed in the 19th century and has,
that is attributes, accentuating the life of representation;
breathing organism with the central nervous system. These
breathing process run from a central organ, from the brain, but
sense, but in the sense as I recently characterized it. Feeling
certain scientific-philosophical direction of recent times,
your attention to the fact that recent developments in
conclusion a sentence, I would say, a key, central sentence

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in the first third of the nineteenth century by which ether
inner higher human being to them... In recent time even Kant
“Even if it is extremely pleasant that the recent
recent times the analytic psychology appeared. It is, I would

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said: as things have developed in recent spiritual education
assumed by more recent physiological psychology. In contrast,
therefore, developed in recent times a strange ether-concept,
nineteenth century by German Idealism — not in this
1860, quoted in my most recent book,
the sixties of the nineteenth century. At first, he concerned
to that degree of concentration that reaches through to the
recently gave here. When one's thinking has been so
speculation of the last centuries has ship-wrecked countless
inner human being. ... In recent times, even Kant in his
“If it is indeed highly welcome that the most recent
way through to the experience of the negative. In recent times
right relationship with the outer world. More recent natural
children already become familiar in school — the central
can have peculiar experiences in this regard. I recently

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nineteenth century. This book is of the very greatest interest, more
the eighteenth century. In his fine preface, he says: ‘Most
One could not have spoken in that way in the eighteenth century, for
somewhere about the end of the first third of the nineteenth century,
century. Perhaps no man in the eighteenth century spoke with such
the eighteenth century. By the way he writes it can be seen that he is
the eighteenth century. In speaking of these, a three-fold nature was
real. A man of the eighteenth century knew that the whole complexity
The men of the eighteenth century did not think in this way. Indeed it
Saint-Martin could well be understood in the eighteenth century; it
the first third of the nineteenth century) lies between us.
Saint-Martin gave out at the end of the eighteenth century, being then
century; he was born in l702, and died in l782, as Prelate in
Murrhard. A very remarkable personality, in whom was concentrated in a
Theosophy of the eighteenth century which influenced Richard Rothe,
a century. I cannot exactly say that it does not fit, still less can I
the first half of the eighteenth century, so that he was a century
Spiritual creative-forces work and concentrate to bring about a
an enormous concentration of forces. If you read what takes place at
eighteenth centuries, and much later still, had a much more
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recent past have of which some people believe that they
cooled, we say, to 200 degrees centigrade below freezing point.
who died before some days whom I have recently mentioned here
such a way as I have recently described it: by handing over the
dealt for some centuries up to now repeatedly with thinking
literature of the first half of the nineteenth century which of
recently said that it repelled Herman Grimm, for example, as

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exposition. From the sixteenth century until 1839 all the
standpoint which in the course of centuries has been more or
influence during the first century, or at least during the
first two-thirds of this century. There are indeed Christian
adduced that in the first century of the Christian era people
relation to the recent investigations into the life of Jesus.
Christianity in the first century of our era is virtually
century. One thing appears to be demonstrable historically,
namely, that in the second third of the first century a
first century. The latter admitted to being a disciple of
century. From that time even enlightened Jews became
century and testify to a growing discord between Christian
realize that in the first century the learned Jewish Rabbis
from that which is given today. Since the nineteenth century
eighteenth century as a sacred tradition in the form of
had any meaning to nineteenth-century man. Those who speak of
recently quoted to you several extracts from this book which
the eighteenth century in which a book such as
century especially the possibility of understanding the Old
early centuries sought to preserve the threefold division of
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recently has not shown everything that exists there? Only
century, even of the twentieth century, want it with
Since the whole thinking of the last century has brought the

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already prepared the ground in recent lectures will be the
the central theme of my book
time to understand the central event of our Earth evolution
central theme of our study. I have shown how the idea of the
deep impression upon the thinking of recent times. In
And when, in recent times, a tendency developed to draw upon
already anticipated in Aristotle a few centuries before the
fourth century B.C.
nineteenth century especially, scholars were at pains to
Ages down to recent times and which is still taught in
few centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha man had entered
had undergone an evolutionary process. Over the centuries
enlightened Greeks had already begun in the fifth century
the central idea of these Mysteries which is of particular
central idea of the Mysteries as they were practised up to
of the Emperor Julian the Apostate. In recent times attention
recent times people have gone even further. Strangely enough,
collected over the years and had been centralized, so to
tragic years of recent times past events have become unreal
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, show great
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philosophies of the late nineteenth century down to our own
the Baptist which was a comparatively recent development
of nineteenth-century Protestantism. Ernst Haeckel even
arrive at millions of years. As I mentioned recently in a
will be possible to read the newspaper in its phosphorescent
relatively recent times.
second century, that touches upon this problem. He writes
Thus, at the beginning of the third century, people were
— (the Freemasons of the nineteenth century of course
corporeal is expressed in the line of descent from father to
there is the line of descent on the physical plane, in which
the spirit participates; but the line of descent is permeated
this in connection with what I said recently — and on
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to accentuate this cleavage between the physical and the
in considerable embarrassment. Moreover whenever innocent
mind also what I mentioned recently: that spiritual
Force” — which, as I said recently, had to be
the present century the Impulse that streams from Him will be
explain away many of Christ's statements. And recently
nineteenth century has tried to reduce the Gospels to the

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spiritual history of recent times I have often mentioned the
Herman Grimm made about the pressing needs of recent history,
souls of men there is almost total ignorance of the centuries
occurred in those early centuries with their own
centuries in such a way that people fail to perceive that the
evolution of mankind during those centuries. And when a
knowledge which the nineteenth century has attempted to
destroy. The scientist of the nineteenth century was only too
nineteenth century, namely, that our perception is limited to
Science. I recently came across a pamphlet which has had
that this author recently gave a course of lectures which
the first century, if we examine this period with the
innocent man had been condemned to death because he had been
experience of centuries, it prescribes the code of
happenings in the centuries when Christianity was first

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were manifested especially in the early centuries of the
centuries in Europe from a certain standpoint will be able to
first centuries A.D.,
add further information based upon our recent investigations
taken over by the Roman Mystery-centres and merged with the
practical experience of centuries she prescribes the code
Rome as the centre of the world power was to be destroyed, at
of the first three centuries of our era. And during this
policy up to the fourth century.
fourth century a remarkable personality appeared on the scene
actually came to pass. I pointed out recently that the deeper
sheds its beneficent influence here shall, like the Sun,
a particular centre of primordial wisdom had been deposited
originally in the secret Mystery Centres of the
in the early Christian centuries and in the age of
present century? What steps must we take, especially in our
split the Church for a century and a half.

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in the West, up to the end of the ninth century we find
works were centred round the figures of Zeus, Apollo, Pallas
form, in its ramifications in the sixteenth century when the
a third possibility; we can concentrate on the external, the
especially in the nineteenth century.
recently in a public lecture that natural science thinks
phosphorescent light. And I spoke of the scientist who
scale. And the Christ Being must occupy a central place in
similarity to certain writings of the nineteenth century.
by the liberal theology of the nineteenth century
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which reveals most
were already anticipated by Julian. The nineteenth-century
the nineteenth-century criticism displayed enormous industry,
policy was to establish a highly centralized political
the position of Julian the Apostate? If many recent writers
become the central problems of our time.
to Athens in 354, the intellectual centre of Greece, he
theology in the nineteenth century were Bauer, founder of
century was: is the Gospel true and how can we know that it

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nineteenth century. This Gospel criticism has yielded only
the development of Christianity during the early centuries of
development during the early centuries we realize in effect
centuries of the Christian era. Today, for example, there is
Christian centuries pagan temples, with their statues of a
sixth century. Countless edicts were promulgated ordering the
these centuries a wave of iconoclasm swept over the world
to recent history. Here we find other distortions but we fail
fourth century B.C.
Mystery practices which over the centuries had sought to
happened in those years seems centuries ago. Things have
fourth century B.C.
usually described. People often speak of them complacently
century was Friedrich Nietzsche in his book
historians of the nineteenth century. I am aware that anyone
evident that in the first centuries after the Mystery of
which lasted for centuries destroyed not only priceless
course of those centuries is comparable to the loss that we
man has for centuries been destined to live a life that was
the school therefore flourished several centuries before the
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I recently came across a publication which I felt would give
can well imagine from the statements I recently made about
which Christianity in the first centuries destroyed the
post-Christian centuries, we must be aware that they were
based upon a central core of belief (which was right for the
The eighth, ninth and tenth centuries before the Mystery of
the Sun Mystery (of which he had recently received
centuries, but the crisis, the critical moment in this
evidence of the early centuries the people were kept in
example the bishop's mitre of the eighth century. This
half of the nineteenth century. We shall not come to terms
centuries. I shall describe what is foreshadowed and from
the nineteenth century and compare these words with another
present predicament. I have only time to refer to the central
who recently gave a lecture here in Berlin entitled
our individualism, our ego centricity for the benefit of the
recently appeared with the title
unexpected propositions which the listener innocently

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centuries immediately following the Mystery of Golgotha
example from recent times which is accessible to all and
over the recent past it is possible that many may have
been prepared in the centuries before the Mystery of
giant among philosophers, made every effort a few centuries
best Aristotelians of recent time, says in his study of
century? Faith, he says, is our starting-point — the orthodox
arise once again. The central figure of Plato's

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widened. In our recent considerations we have in fact worked
disposition of man's soul has changed. Just a few centuries
such as those made recently to a member of our movement, to
century. In that epoch mankind's general age corresponded to
recently in Austria. A certain Robert Scheu, a man of great
translucent; we are still dominated by the Middle Ages. The
decently (geziemend). Who feels anymore the

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during sleep, and he experienced the descent into the body as
a descent into darkness. There was no longer the close
the West or in Central Europe, is very far from the truth. A
Central Europe intellectuality has become widespread. The
events that took place in the 18th century, particularly in
the '60s of that century. At that time remarkable impulses
innocent blood, his Imperial Majesty on his part wishes to
much quoted by 19th-century philosophers: “Vera

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be treated in the peculiar ways I have indicated in recent
after all have investigated the subject since no decent
fourth, fifth and sixth centuries of the fourth epoch were
In the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries
actual beginning of it was in the fifteenth century, and we
sixth centuries” the fifth epoch was being prepared; as
our blood has run through our veins for many centuries. Its
understandable picture: from the centre of the circle

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which we have been engaged in recent weeks is the effort to
recently. Today I would like once more to speak about the
world views. He was reticent about his work and very little
This book by Brentano, which is long out of print, is a magnificent
saying, centaurs do not exist, I also pass judgment by
their lives for centuries suffering shipwreck in the last
to the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
times because for centuries the concepts of spiritual life

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people who are philosophically inclined have in recent years
less awake than Western or even Central Europeans. That is
the average Central European will side with the Poles. A
example Theodor Ziehen, to whom I referred recently, simply
through concentration and meditation.

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in our recent studies. Today, in the lecture to follow, I
recently. But let us first look at something that belongs to
for our next life on earth every web of thought at the center
recently, concerned with the course of man's lives on earth.
century we have been living in the fifth post-Atlantean
we must have an inner incentive to do so, and today that can
remained a severe critic well into the 20th century;
to power early in the 20th century, everyone said how good it
the Central Europeans the I, while the Russian people are
reminiscent of the other ideas as they had been in different
knowledge is exact and far-reaching, and has for centuries
century, evolution could go on without the individual
insight is essential especially in Central Europe. If one is

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19th century there were trends struggling towards it. But
misunderstood in the second half of the 19th century. It was
dissatisfied, we would lack the incentive to cooperate in the
Eastern Europe. We in Central Europe are placed in the middle
Eastern Europe is very little understood in Central Europe
what is happening in Eastern Europe! Recently I read about an
through a stage resembling the one Central and Western Europe
said, in Central and Western Europe more faith, more of a
Western and Eastern Europe is in particular for Central
We have in Western and also in Central Europe what might be
Western and Central Europe is, to put it bluntly, concerned
These things become more numerous the further West we go. Central
none. Some may have appeared in Central Europe because these things
adopted to some extent in Central Europe — is that what
establish a central office which collected all the best
central office. Of course, due to different languages,
could be centralized.
from the same central office. Those newspapers which are
lies behind this East-West union into which we in Central
the fact that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
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speaking about an interesting personality of the 19th Century, someone
the 19th Century cultural life around him On the contrary there comes
world views held by those 19th-century thinkers who lived in the same
Spir presented his view of the world one realizes that his 19th-century
course of the 19th Century, had a premonition that something like spiritual
in that century. African Spir was such a thinker. If we read his writings,
into Central Europe, a Russian who, being influenced by Central and
'I' in people of Central Europe; while the Russian people of Eastern
only when spiritual science, developed in Central Europe, becomes absorbed
consciousness soul placed next to one another. In the Central Europeans
of Eastern Europe merging with that of Central Europe.
degree robbed the first half of the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements;
to the 19th Century; even more than I have done in my book Vom Menschenrätsel.
Some day the history of the 19th Century will have to be rewritten.
history of the 19th Century is when one attempts to study its history
I said that our time has robbed the 19th Century of its spiritual achievements
is because that century produced many thinkers who, for lack of recognition,
last third of the 19th Century produced a great number of highly significant
who in recent times have been victims of spiritual isolation and robbed
19th century comes to be rewritten, could well be inserted as characteristic
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material to our recent considerations. The primary aim has been to show
insight. Many examples related to our recent studies could be chosen,
at a further stage through centralization. At this stage the function
to momentary needs, from a center which is able to assess the need on
of greatness in the 19th Century, but it is necessary to have a proper
in the 19th Century. Souls without a rudder, souls without a firm grip
another. At this point investigations come to an end. The 19th Century
it. In the 19th Century someone wrote a book with the title “Force
and matter. In the 20th Century we must substitute that title with “Lucifer

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quite impossible for a theologian in the 14th century. This fact may
It is because man, during recent centuries, has endeavoured to avoid

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century; particularly in the sphere of aesthetic interpretation of music.
for in recent cultural achievements. However, if Herman Joachim —
— this distinguished and unique representative of Central European
to cultural life in recent times. When a dear friend of his, the unique
knowledge accumulated over centuries. Just because of his high position
from the physical plane in recent months, Olga von Sivers,
which are now, in Central Europe, considered to be enemy country. She
others was Frau Maud Künstler who also died recently.
age they are often shattered. In recent lectures I have described deeper
In the 18th Century, striving to develop reason was synonymous with
Century. He begins by saying that: “Before the war the West imagined

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of the 19th Century practiced in Jena and other cities. We still find
In the mystery centers it would be possible to receive inspiration but
without having as its center a living concept of the Resurrection is
what I recently termed “iron necessity.” During his earthly
law should be particularly in evidence and concentrated, so to speak,
Recently I was sent another
first experience of Christ was on the physical plane. Through the centuries
19th and 20th Centuries. That the present situation should arise was

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several decades ago in a Central European city. There was an important
I recently described the
Century there was a great upsurge of natural-scientific thinking and
of the 19th Century positively revelled in atheism. But such tendencies

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a residue of this clairvoyance persisted right into later centuries
into the 17th century a vestige of the ancient clairvoyance was still
world in the 16th and 17th centuries and what is possible since then.
And even in the 17th century most people would not have been able to
arisen in the 14th, 15th, 16th or even 17th centuries. Much of the literature
in the 13th Century, attained the concepts and ideas he elaborated in
since the 16th, 17th but especially since the 18th century, we have
17th century.
17th century a little-known philosopher, Henry
of the 17th century yet he knew that only through a more receptive consciousness
even 17th centuries people appear who know of the spiritual world through
direct communion. The reason is the following: Those who in these centuries
present on earth in the centuries prior to the Mystery of Golgotha.
They then had an intermediate incarnation in the 7th, 8th or 9th century
was said concerning Christianity during those later centuries. Through
insight into the world's coming-into-being which, since the 17th century
tragic centuries leading up to the Mystery of Golgotha, made an enormous
between the 14th and 17th centuries, takes on a deeper significance
interest for man today. The period between the 14th and 17th centuries
Recently a very interesting book: Luther's Creed by Ricarda
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i.e., the 16th century; which according to the spiritual-scientific
This epoch, as we know, began in the 15th century and the preceding
Graeco-Latin epoch began some eight centuries before the Mystery of
16th centuries than modern historians are inclined to admit. Great transformation
far too little into account. The people of the 13th and 14th centuries
the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries vividly before my soul. When one looks
at those who during those centuries were engaged in science, one comes
exists in religious conceptions of the universe. In the earlier centuries,
was different from what could be taught in the following centuries,
does springs from the very center of his being. What he knows or believes
theologian in the 13th or 14th Centuries and those of his counterparts
legend of “Dr. Faustus” emerged already in the 16th Century
to the devil was at first rejected in the 16th century. At that time
Goethe and Schiller belong in recent cultural development because it
century be presented just once as they truly were—merely those
of the 19th century! — it would be an immense blessing for mankind.
those, now regarded as great figures of the 19th century, would no longer
great ones from the grey mist of that century.
began in the 8th century B.C. and ended in the 15th century A.D. united

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with unprecedented speed especially in the last centuries. Occasionally
during the war entitled The Bell an article recently appeared discussing
fact they are also taken seriously within Europe; though we, with centuries
established it would only be a matter of a few centuries and they would
evolution move in lines of ascent and descent. If one epoch has developed
on today. I have recently spoken with various people about what is necessary
while up above the old social order continued as before. But a few centuries
we learn from Roman history? Within a few centuries it had dissolved,
talking about spirit, spirit, spirit. I recently read on the cover of

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to-day what has particularly struck me during my recent journey
centuries, and how slow men are to arrive at decisions of any weight.
satisfactory sign that during my recent stay in Switzerland a number
science. Endeavours were being made in the nineteenth century to
gradual ascent of Christianity, its growth and
with the history of the last four centuries, especially that of the
especially in regard to the last two centuries form a picture of
simply set up as theories what humanity dreamt in those centuries,
most recent events if Spiritual Science is left out of account. I
West, and only in the century following the “discovery of
Jung, who has quite recently written another pamphlet on
past centuries. I should like to speak of Spiritual Science as
denied, as is done in our time. We shall speak of this descent of the

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to how he considered it five to six centuries ago. In
since the middle of the nineteenth century already the academic
already said during the seventies of the last century looking
or four centuries.
centuries and millennia haughtily, will easier cope with these
since centuries in vain. However, a more precise consideration
humanity” for centuries and millenniums. Humanity
particular since the thirteenth century, unfolded a thinking
recently. You can learn from this article what spiritual

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— to its centre of support, the skeleton. We have all seen a
heart-man; because in the heart everything else is concentrated. We
evolution. To observe this we need only go back four centuries,
tremendously the life and thought of the 18th century differed from
whole of human life has changed in four centuries. Human thinking has
wholly changed, ideas formed before the 20th century have gradually
When we compare the rich ideas of the 13th and 14th centuries with
the natural science of this 19th century, we find an impressive
intellectualised for four centuries, and in this spiritual, which we
all other Mysteries, as the central point of Evolution. Of this

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the spiritual life of the West in the twilight of the ninth century.

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nineteenth century biology, for example, has advanced so far
supersensible in the soul life and the like for centuries. If
until the end of the second third of the nineteenth century is
the middle of the nineteenth century with a certain right that
since centuries already any human worldview has intended to
its life. I want to refer to that what I have recently
are clear in your mind that the ego stands in the centre of the
not feel the inner activity of a central being in his soul
already mentioned two weeks ago that recently Pastor

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century, as far as they point to outer scientific facts.
world and allows it to concentrate in the human being. Not

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central station of the nervous system, to the brain, via the
investigations have appeared, for example, recently in

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In a recent lecture held here I spoke

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hear from a very significant physicist recently: if one wants
course of the last centuries so suggestively on humanity,
beginning of this century. He calculates that after millions of
a temperature of below 200 degrees centigrade would be;
light for a while, it will become luminescent. Hence, if one
at temperatures below 200 degrees centigrade, with these
luminescent walls lacquered with lacto protein, which cows will
youth. From the rotating primeval nebula, the central gas drop
to deal with the things seriously. At Darwin's centenary a

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central line of gravity of the head falls, so to speak, into the
stands to the earth. If we take the central line of gravity of the
the central line of gravity of his head falls within himself, and he
perfect brain because the central line of gravity of his head passes

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people from the first Christian centuries up to now to the
history of Central Europe. One detects that he finds out the
imagine this within Central Europe. Another relation between
development of Central Europe. These are original ideas. He
tries to realise how this being of the Central European people
has developed in the course of centuries, since the third
century up to now. One notices that he has internally worked
to the third century, the German people developed according to
comes the period from the third century to the eleventh,
twelfth centuries. Lamprecht calls it the categorising one.
centuries in which knighthood develops particularly; Lamprecht
individualistic age with the turn of the fifteenth century
This lasts about up to the middle of the eighteenth century.
nineteenth century to which the great classical period of
(Edward G., 1737-1794) portraying the first centuries of
the third, up to the eleventh centuries and so on even if he
significant soul phenomena of the beginning twentieth century.
twentieth century are just these both movements: the movements
fifteenth centuries. It is also very typical that he calls this
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. However, while one
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prejudices, which during recent decades have led to a
speak of one recent example. It is of great interest because
The Occult Movement in the 19th Century

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descent of man, we must think of the head alone, disregarding
If we concentrate through the presence of the dead upon a directly

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Anyone who has rightly understood what was brought forward in recent
point of view. A central Europe is meant to which France and Italy do

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thing as a Central-European, Herman Grimm, also says; and yet it is
raised: How do the Central European nations stand? We are speaking
more of geographical relationships, not considering Central Europe in
relationships. We cannot speak of a ‘Central Europe,’ to
Folk-Soul Working in Central Europe is that — in a sense in
through warmth. The Folk-Spirit in central Europe chooses the by-path, the
it can be individualized. There may be people in Central Europe in
is again warmth; so that in Central Europe, warmth, in so far as it
of the methods of working of the Folk-Spirit in Central Europe, and

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however, which was fully justified up to the approach of the recent
something we all know. In the 15th century of our era, mankind
the fifth cultural epoch began with the 15th century A.D. Till then
world-philosophy, as has been done in more recent times.
former centuries, but that it erected a spiritual wall
will only mention that in the center between the East and the West,
epoch, which began in the 15th century of our era, a remarkable
Darwinian theory of the descent of man from the animal. This was not
only expressed in the Darwinian doctrine of descent. The animal has a
what has appeared — only in a coarser way —in the declaration of the descent of man
descent, as I have often explained.

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the object. This can be found in Plato. The more recent ideas
proceeds from the magnificent intuitive life in the
ninth century by the Church Council at Constantinople, by
considered possible. For what I recently remarked is

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substance; this process is of course spread over centuries,
from the center of the Earth into the Universe. In olden
from the center of the Earth into the Universe, which line
the center of the Earth to the Universe discloses itself as
centuries to achieve.
in articulate speech. A certain centrifugal force lies in
develops a certain centrifugal force in an outward direction,
within you, an average Central European, would not have a
chauvinistic Central-European feeling, but is the result of
again the Central-European is placed between the two
recently a mere detail showed me this, in a very ridiculous
the more absurd. I have been recently busy with bringing out

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century. However, it is always interesting to point to this
half of the nineteenth century brought this to our attention;
medical centres and laboratories can also investigate the
him the “greatest genius of the century,” and his
about the eccentricity of the present, which believed that from
down below 200 degrees centigrade. There is no mistake: then
nineteenth century, Wilhelm Heinrich Preuss (1853-1909) had an

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have recently sung the praises everywhere of Oskar Hertwig's
the “best book of recent times” as regards his
wrote long columns in an uncommonly complacent manner, and
this work, but that for centuries the great Ahrimanic forces
century we have to record another spiritual undertaking which
question. In the 19th century a concept was first
19th century a remarkable Ahrimanic practice of coarsening
century could be relied upon to push such a thing through.
culture of the 19th century had to be disclosed some time.
19th century, or whether he had to deal with an enterprise of
by Christianity during the past centuries and thousands of

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which shook me again recently. I finished a book in 1894 in
years. Now recently the necessity has arisen to work through
human knowledge where in similar way as centuries ago the
get to the spirit. Go back to the older centuries, and you
concerning the concept of nature. However, the former centuries
centuries. Because one saw everything approaching the human

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century, one regarded these two questions almost as arisen from
the central issue has not changed. One can say, the
you succeed in strengthening the soul life by concentration of
because it concentrates its attention on this maintaining. With
that during the seventies of the last century the famous
humanity of former centuries and millennia that had another
against it the usual research is difficult in medical centres

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centuries, in those countries which come into our
development of natural science in the 19th century and into
impulse of dexterity from the center of there being. For that
organism at its center serves not nearly what is poured out
organism functions into that of the child through the center
put them in a false light. For centuries our social structure
that I do not do so from any personal foolishness. Recently I

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— had been born in the eighth or ninth century or at
century, but because he had passed through a crisis which
it; more recent cases of the present day would not be so
century; that is too recent. Then you have written one on
of books of a former century and look up and aesthetician as

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physical form: the man of head, chiefly concentrated
The period which began about 700 to 600 B.C. marks a deeper descent
eighth century before Christ. In earlier times, human nature
back, beyond the seventh or eighth century before the Mystery
If that had been written ten or twelve centuries before the
that what became evident in the seventeenth century had been
century.

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proceeding to draw conclusions from our recent
developed only during the last century. The most paradoxical
,work is done by machines. Indeed, during the last century,
headlong owing to his injury. The right hand of the central
— ,that this central figure is in no way aggressive, but
in the central figure, which is of course a physical form
framework, the curious fact was noticed that the centre of
genuine ascent to the spiritual must be undertaken in purity
head of the central figure in profile, as of necessity it
head of the central figure is complete.

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numerous realms, farces, and centres in the universe. We will
eighth centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. Just then, a
century after Christ, not so very far behind us, there was
third fourth century B.C., a man of normal
present-day man, but in the early centuries of the fourth
certain spiritual centres in the West to cause the gradual
real estimate of recent events. Something escapes the notice
are tending, the Central European peoples are there. That is
magnificent understanding of all aspects of human culture was
centuries, 540 million extra hands, machine-hands, have been
said before. Within the last four centuries this exploration
twelfth century till now, or in a wider sense between the
seventh or eighth century B.C. and the

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seventh or eighth century before the Mstery of Golotha. In
the earlier centuries of this epoch many souls were able, in
found in recent history. A certain fraternity, known to you
seventeenth century. Yet what is contained in their symbols
has been entirely concealed since the seventeenth century,
centuries, and fewer still reflect on the real character of
tremendous! Yet that will not mean much, for the centuries in
find that the third ends about the seventh or eighth century
century A.D. At this point there lies, not far behind us, an
personality of the twelfth century, and indeed of the age
the fifteenth century was no longer possible in Europe.
began in Europe about the third or fourth century A.D., and
century. The third to the fifteenth centuries was the time of
an even more concentrated power of Faith, the age in which
fifteenth century as the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, in which
fourth century up to the fifteenth, took the place of the
early part of the third and fourth centuries onward, was its
centuries of the Middle Ages, was the shortage of coinage due
different guise from what it was in the early centuries of
the first Christian centuries out of true knowledce, will see
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centuries, and those of the of the human soul of to-day. As
of Clairvaux in the twelfth century. Such examples might be
centre.” We speak of our Ego and we have the idea:
a kind of spiritual centre. If only we could rise to the
physical earth nothing is altered. This “descent of the
Mystery of Golgotha, was in its early centuries implanted in
task was from the third, fourth, fifth century onwards. The
fourth century, and later on, is substantially the story of
Christ, and fundamentally through all these centuries man;s
and his associates in the twelfth century, none of whom at
Cartesianism in the seventeenth century, and by the
century, when through the Arabs the complete philosophy of
importent to note that it is of recent date) an article on
Catholic-Scientists of the nineteenth century are convinced
meet and are accentuated side by side in this man: this

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to understand in the course of our recent studies.
century, about 1413 A.D. (The figures are of course to be
27 B.C. until about the end of the 7th century; (693 A.D.);
8th century before Christ, and in respect of this feeling of
centuries before Christ. Humanity had withdrawn into the
century after the Mystery of Golgotha!
early centuries were far removed from an inner
organisations fostered during the early centuries of
direct perception. The entire history of those centuries can
ninth centuries, a sort of obscurity descended on European
these particular centuries. Many other men resembled him; he
centuries between the eighth and 15th one finds always the
which was not in existence in the early centuries (although
living since the 15th century, approximately since 1413 A.D.,
— since the 15th century — arrived at rejecting
Catholicism of earlier centuries — says: “All
ninth century onwards, in the central and western countries
only through revelation. The races and peoples of Central
centuries from spiritually grasping the super-sensible, the
with 15th century. And as the Luciferic severance from the
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comprehension evolved during the recent centuries leads men
Church doctrines for centuries and who do nothing but trace
the events of the last centuries according to the Church,
center of the family, and the family is the foundation of the
the 18th century, born in 1749 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, who
as an ordinary 18th-century citizen, is no real book. A
Science, and if on the other hand we accept what has recently
of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and that we, bringing

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spirit. In more recent times, the spirit has become very mechanical,
the middle of the fifteenth century, it was not necessary to attach
middle of the fifteenth century, but it is not necessary that he
concentrate our efforts upon the task of being ready to cope with

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centuries — to regard medicine as one of these sciences which
or four centuries. For the further back we go in human evolution the
illness is indeed, strictly speaking, a product of man's recent
ages up to the last two or three centuries B.C. Such matters as these
science today, any branch of science, in one of the usual centres of
of centuries this spirit-filled organic life has been suppressed by

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comparatively recent production. This indifferent knowledge, shown for
been developed only in course of the last three or four centuries;
nineteenth century an event of spiritual importance took place; that
during the seventies of that century, behind the scenes of
about. Thus we may say: In the second half of the nineteenth century
two events and that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most of
the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, and will know
century. — But no, it was quite different then. Cculd people only
The men of the third, fourth century before Christ's birth were clearly
centuries before the birth of Christ creative art was already in
became habitual in the course of the nineteenth century is certainly
it the middle of the fifteenth century and is called by us the fifth
since the fifteenth century people have attained to great heights as
particularly developed since the middle of the fifteenth century, to be
reflected images, the man of the nineteenth century was debarred from
the spiritual world during the second half of the nineteenth century.
matter. You will certainly realise that during the nineteenth century,
the nineteenth century — materialists have right on their side;
The thinking that has come to the fore in the nineteenth century must
nineteenth century, materialism is actually justified. That life of
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of the Central European governments to those of the other
brought about the events of the most recent years. Such
members of the Central European countries had adopted during
what should have been made to prevail directly in Central
had been manifest around the turn of the eighteenth century.
Central European life from the West has also swept away what
Central Europe, and wrenched itself from my soul in the form
that the distress which had come over Central Europe would
do something like this from one center, for it could have had
Central Europe into the wide world, in particular towards the
activity during recent times to southern Germany and

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and the immortality of the soul based on their century-old
identified it in the eighties of the last century in my
center of human feeling; when human beings will go about in

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exponentially in the last century, particularly the
19th Century. It seems to me that among all the
phenomenology of recent times was established again by
fertile time for science in the 19th Century, much
know very well how in the 19th Century several
(19th) Century in relation to Goethe's concept of
nature on which so much of the 19th Century had been
science during the 19th century nearly always refers
the 19th Century how certain parties of science in a certain
it had developed in the course of the 19th Century,
previous (19th) century, I tried to copy the image
of the 19th Century. This happened in the following
particularly in the 19th Century and how people were
the 19th Century it occurred that everything the
19th Century appearing in this un-Goethean atomic

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Century, it could not be stated in this way — also for
if you admit to everything which has been presented by recent

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we look back a few decades at people in central Europe, the
different experience, in central Europe, as it is today in the
second decade of the twentieth century, where we basically have
than what had been experienced for centuries. When one looks
fifties, sixties and seventies of the nineteenth century,
perhaps even later, which the central Europeans could have, it
nineteenth Century, which didn't lead to any kind of solution.
situation in the last third of the nineteenth century, in its
the second half of the twentieth century comes clearly before
viewpoints of the West, of central Europe and Eastern Europe.
no kind of centralised nervous system. For this reason, he
of the 19th Century, was outwitted during the second
third for central European philosophy because what was
we have the central European aspect.
central Europe, like Soloviev, then he will primarily have an
and wrestle in the centre with the problem of how to create a
Christian Centuries of the West.
humanity in the West, the centre and the East, we can see that
ways in the West, central Europe and the East, how they love
still be an inner condition of the soul. Now however, in recent
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educators to the emerging, growing adolescent, to the child.
19th century in the pedagogical sphere, presented by
and 12th Century for instance, are of a completely
middle of the 15th Century to the soul constitutions
of civilised humanity. Yes, up to the 20th century

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treaty, a time in which value relationships in central and
search further, then one could — namely from central Europe —
lead to a significant, acceptable ascent which from then on and
quite honest about healing central European economic life, and said:
century, through which the soul constitution of civilised
these two streams became more and more common in recent times,
finds this connection at least in one of them. Recently a kind
central European population, they unfortunately also fell for
During 1917, by contrast, I tried to show individual central
concentration of what this school master Woodrow Wilson had
associations are different from those which in recent times

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Towards the end of the previous century one had a certain
entire development of recent times and particularly apply to
in the course of the last centuries adapted to the outer
acknowledged in the first Christian centuries. We then see how
supersensible worlds. This is why I have always been reticent

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of central Europeans, I actually had to do these lectures which
You are going to see that in the soul of central Europeans, in
differently in speech by central Europeans compared with the
place somewhere in the 15th Century. There are
is completely drawn to a single point, a central point to which
central point it is a spring of warmth, which streams with
experience the inward streaming towards a central point of
it is no longer valid for a decent scientist to believe in

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life. Then came a time about the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries
period of time. During the last third of the nineteenth century, the
century the time has once more come on earth in which the Michael
force which did not descend in former centuries. Thus we can face the

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concentrated in Jesus of Nazareth had been acquired
concentrated in this one personality in order that the
of the blood of Abraham's descendants were concentrated
humanity, were concentrated in the physical personality
essential qualities concentrated in the body of Jesus of
who had undergone special training in the centres of
the Iranians. And in the immediately adjacent lands to
divine worlds, he revealed the path of re-ascent to the
— which lasted, not for decades but for centuries
place, to ask about the central figure — the

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original centre of Zoroastrianism had been established in
19th century and repeated times without number is that it
language in the course of the centuries, the forms of
in ordinary intercourse for centuries proved to be
the centuries, was destined to unite with an entirely
harboured in the Mystery-centres in the regions around
he had moved from the more distant Mystery-centres to
centres of learning in ancient Babylon where he was also
sixth century B.C. — were in a position to hear
into one inner centre of consciousness of the Divine,
found the God in the centre of his own being, in his

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each with an independent centre was pursuing a further
concentrated into a unity. And it is also indicated that
and could then be concentrated in a single instrument, in

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subordinate Oracle-centres to which the Mercury-, Mars-,
— withdrew to secret centres in the heart of Asia,
several Oracle-centres, each of the seven Rishis had his
taken by the Jalive-revela-tion six centuries before our
descent ? He is at pains to show how the blood was led
For as not even half a century had yet elapsed, it was a
came slowly into existence in centres of which external
line of descent, the power of the Buddha radiated into
been recently revived, and he must not be confused, as

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of Pandira, Jeschu ben Pandira, and the central figure in
as the second century A.D. Although Jesus, the son of
Bodhisattvas and at its centre the living source of the
sixth century B.C., the successor of the Bodhisattva who
activities centred in the communities of the Therapeutae
flourished a century before the Christ Event in order to
descended into matter, for the path of ascent was known
Just as there are 42 stages on the path of ascent to the
hundred years had elapsed after the century in which he
Essenes it was fundamentally a matter of descent into the
the spiritual periphery, with man himself in the centre.
spreading as it were from the centre, but he must expand
Cosmos from the centre, he looks inwards from the
its vehicle, the descent must equally be through times 7
taking effect during the descent of the Divine Power
because this Gospel is describing the descent of the
descent of the Divine-Spiritual into a human

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obtained before the descent of the Divine Man in the
scholarly treatises recently written on the subject of
ancient Chaldea in the sixth century B.C., where the
occupied throughout the following six centuries with the
Ego-vehicle of the Nathan Jesus. This is magnificently
a passage which already in the early centuries of our era
A recent study of this subject from exoteric sources

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his Egohood, entrapped in his Egohood, concentrated with
necessary that both the descent and the ascent (or
the descent into his physical and etheric bodies. This
incarnated in the 6th/7th century B.C. as Zarathas or
descent into the physical and etheric bodies, and the
ascent into the Macrocosm. This He did. But from the very
descent into the bodily sheaths, Christ was proof against
bodily sheaths. Christ's descent into a human physical
Initiation, the descent into the bodily sheaths. The
the Cross. He had been concentrated in one point of space
the story of the Temptation: the descent into the

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Mysteries and Mystery-centres of ancient Egypt that
feeling only out of my own Ego-centric nature! —
temptation in its extreme form. The descent into a man's
physical body. When this descent into the physical and
the model for the ascent of the human ‘I’
proceeds to describe the stages of the ascent of the Ego,
centuries were becoming audible — audible, of

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evolution denoted by an ascent of the human soul to the
especially in the last centuries before the appearance of
can therefore imagine how in many centres of the ancient
were content to describe what was of central and
of man's descent into his inner being, where he
evidence that in the 17th century there was a student who
that all human nature to-day centres in the Ego, and that
the Ego, comes fully into expression; ascent to the
its centre in the heart. Therefore the sixth Beatitude
compilation was made more than two centuries ago by

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so-called Temptation was a descent into all the
harmonise with the indications given a century before the
— this, as we know, indicates ascent into
together. An ascent has therefore taken place into the
century a few human beings will actually develop the
Before the twentieth century has run its course, a number
the centuries.
twelfth century a false Messiah who pointed to one still
the south of Russia, North Africa and Central Asia, to

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focal point, a focal centre, as it were, for forces that
concentrated in Christ Himself. Through Him, forces which
themselves’ are always accentuated, in the second
ascent of man can also be likened to the development and
has been said in recent years. The idea of karma is not
when the aspirant for Initiation first makes the ascent
descent into the nature of Man. Even happenings in the

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has descended and taken possession of the centre from
are these two possibilities: the ascent of man to
descent of divine-spiritual Beings into human bodies or
Mystery-centres concerning such men. Directives of the
classes the teaching concerned the actual descent of the
of Christ, the descent was infinitely complex and it
a basis for objections would be forthcoming from recently

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Many of you know that recently in Munich we repeated last
the experience of oneself within another, a descent into
well-known words, which we have heard through the centuries as
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through the centuries — words of the Delphic oracle
recently gave you on St. Matthew's Gospel I said, ‘Try not to

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deal with much that has concerned me recently in the sphere of
within space, of being concentrated in one point, has quite a
appeared quite complacent towards it, comes to hate spiritual
reminiscent of the Old Testament. Christ points to the fact that a
the cosmic expanse has concentrated itself again in an embryo borne
how in the concentrated brain structure an imprint of the total
Such considerations, related as they are to recent research, help us

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and significant triumphs over the last four centuries we must fully
properly speaking, begins with their descent.
this central statue in our building. Looking at this central figure,
concentration could never have developed. Humanity, however,
can be seen everywhere will be concentrated in a few simple words
radiates out from the earth its meaning, its central

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have their origins in the habitual natures of those who have recently

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centre and the sun and the stars move around it. As this
spatial worldview had to be substituted by the heliocentric
exercises of thinking, of feeling while he concentrates, for
meet former lives on earth, not in a reminiscent way, because
Quite recently, I have held a talk about the same objects as
of fact in this absurd teaching. In the centre of your
Wahle still recently writes this way.

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
that has appeared recently to support what is called the theory of
of date. Read the recent book by a theologian, a book remarkable in
etheric reappearance of Christ in the twentieth century and that I
of Golgotha and the necessary ascent of humanity, starting from our
In my recent book,
of the earth only through humanity's ascent to spirituality. Of this

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spiritual-scientific research places itself in the recent
centuries.
considers it. Recently I have pointed out in a cycle of talks
that that which is so often misjudged in the recent time which
former centuries and millennia, people had a certain
centuries especially if he describes that what perished? Why
Indeed, from the sixteenth century on the European life begins
last centuries.
Central Europe, of East Europe, of Asia have certain other soul
the recent time such considerations of the social-moral and the

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for ever and ever; but for the recent, by the natural sciences
not an accidental meeting for the last centuries, but that a
nineteenth century, scientific research has rightly eliminated
scientific age. It will appear if just in the centre of the
century, we do not realise that the human being thought
withdrew substantially during the last centuries. Because it
in old times, or as in recent times the naturalists do, they
now the truth appears naked in Eastern Europe and Central
development of decades and centuries which are connected with

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development, which began in the 15th century of our Christian era, is
the Greco-Latin civilization from the first half of the 15th century,
period, which commenced in the 8th century B.C. and finished in the
15th century A.D., was pre-eminently the period in which humanity
age which has comparatively few centuries behind it. Each age lasts on
central point out to one side without also swinging back to the other.
impulses must become, right on until the 30th century. For men to
personalities, as the center of the review. What have we gained from
what has now borne fruit, after the recent destruction of opposing
begins with the 30th century. From this we can see the fact that
In the Central European countries there is a middle condition of
In the Central European countries, which are now in such a state of
the Central European nations is really suited for political life. When
is firmly anchored in the soul, in the Central European countries, it
Appearance. However, the people of the Central European countries
simply no disposition for politics. When the Central European people
If you turn to the Central European people what will you find, when
Threshold but who are invisible to ordinary consciousness. The Central
the Central European countries as a being penetrated with the powers
inclination to be satisfied with exact truth; whereas in the Central European
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worlds were able to penetrate. And it was from these centers that
centers in East Asia, began suddenly, at the age of about
of the earliest Christian centuries.
north of Africa, and in Asia Minor during the first centuries of
faculty of comprehension until the fourth century
middle of the fifteenth century we have been living in an era in
third of the nineteenth century the spiritual has been
wisdom still survived. In the first centuries of Christendom,
Gospels; often they are scarcely even reminiscent of the original
life. Another book has recently appeared:

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And it was from these centres that men received
of the Mystery-centres in East Asia, began suddenly, at the
centuries.
first centuries of Christendom. And when the Mystery of
faculty of comprehension until the fourth century
since the middle of the fifteenth century we have been living
last third of the nineteenth century the spiritual has been
centuries of Christendom, men's understanding of the Gospels
Gospels; often they are scarcely even reminiscent of the
life. — Another book has recently appeared:

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thought — or at least it was until recently, for today people
centuries, back to the Middle Ages, and, I might say, we follow the
centuries, and now live more in the north — they are, to be
lineal descent, and which we take up with the first feelings of love
the south during the first centuries of Christianity and who then
the first Christian centuries, at the time of the migrations of
something entirely different from what in the first centuries had
those of the following centuries were so constituted that, in
Christianity a few centuries after it had come into existence.
descent, if we are not able to take into consideration what the souls
understood in the most varied ways. The people of the first centuries
during the first Christian centuries now incarnated in western,
course of the nineteenth century the principle of nationality arose,

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learns to control his muscles and limbs in such a way that the centre
next descent to the earthly world, possess already a power which in

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and social respect in this enlightened twentieth century, there
reality through what can go out in future from Dornach as the centre

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administrative centre for the content and the impulse of
while ago I received a letter from a fairly recent Member of the
recently asked in Prague whether the Bohemian
recently, can happen no longer. A great deal of the hostility, for
the first centuries of Christianity this wisdom was completely
were true knowers in the first Christian centuries were able to
centuries of its existence.
Orient, on a magnificent scale. Together with the warlike campaigns
personality of whom tradition says that he made magnificent provision
of Arabism continued for many centuries, as we know from the wars
al Raschid inasmuch as in the seventeenth century
century A.D. We are led
sixth century, we have to come back again to the later Conrad
in the twelfth century at the Court of Henry (II) of England.
centuries A.D. and
slave-overseer was born again in the ninth century
‘innocent guilt’ in connection with the cruelties that
ninth century brought this wedded couple into connection with many
century and on into the modern age) impulses took shape once again
woman in the ninth century A.D.

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of mankind as human love were seen to be concentrated within
history. It traces the line of descent in a certain people.
concentrated within the race of Abraham; how for three times
descent of its qualities through three times fourteen
concentrated within the physical personality of Jesus of
Here in this central region of Asia a people settled who
settlement in Central Asia even soon after the Atlantean
everything on earth was also changed at the descent of man.
attitude that persisted for a long time in Central Asia: an

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Matthew emphasis is laid on the descent of the physical
as the principle of Ormuzd, the beneficent Being of Light,
quiescent Time, Time flowing on in its universal course. The
uttered in the course of the nineteenth century, is that
truths which, in the course of centuries, have been
expression — words — have for centuries been
of Chaldea and Babylon, who in the sixth century before
concentrated as into a single point, invisible but inwardly
— it was now found by man in the centre of his own
which was concentrated everything that in the age of ancient

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an independent centre. In a primeval past the whole substance
the one centre, and the Earth the other.
centres of occult science. Indeed, the possibility of this
experienced was an ascent, a beautiful ascending progress.
the world drawn from recent excavations and fragmentary
another: through physical descent. In order that a physical
writer of the Gospel of St. Matthew. In his table of descent,
whole Hebrew people, and was then concentrated in a single

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from Atlantis to Central Asia, and founded post-Atlantean
into the secret sanctuaries of Central Asia. It was he who
ordering of the stars. In the line of descent from Abraham,
detail — in the descent, in the conferring of the
whole line of descent from Abraham to Joseph if he wished in
beginning of our era. Half-a-century had not yet elapsed, so
stream’ was slowly prepared in centres of which
therefore, the leader of the Essenes about a century before
literature of the Talmud. Thus, a century before our era,
fables have recently been revived. He was a great and noble

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The secret of the blood in the line of descent, and the secret
century of the Christian era. Having stated emphatically that
Bodhisattvas, and the centre of this collegium is the living
by Luke. From the sixth century
has passed through forty-two stages in the line of descent;
experienced his inner self; where he felt the centre of his
century before these forty-two generations could be
apparent that the teaching concerning the descent through the
see what was external from within. Man's descent into
the centre of which is man himself. Now man does not reach
from a centre outwards; he must expand in spiral form; he
central point of his own self; he regards it from the
Gospel of Matthew describes the mystery of the descent of the
descent of the divine force which built the astral body and
of initiation; the descent by certain stages of the Divine
explained in the next lecture how a table of descent is also

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AN examination of the descent of Jesus, as
find the descent of Jesus is traced back to Adam, and to God.
to man as he was before his descent into physical
existence before the descent of divine man into what the
man's first descent into earthly incarnation.
The incarnation in the sixth century
the Babylonian Captivity. During the following six centuries,
The incarnation in the sixth century B.c. is of special
Babylonian Captivity. During the following six centuries,
the line of descent, a part of the tree of the human race.
descent into earthly incarnation, when as yet he led a divine
first centuries was regarded as heretical, a noteworthy

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Mysteries. Descent into the physical body and expansion into
sense-world, concentrated on one point of view from which he
ego, and concentrated into one point, by desiring to be
macrocosm. Both this descent and this expansion had to be
descent into the physical and etheric body as a free
both sides — the descent into the physical and etheric
body, the microcosm, and the ascent into the macrocosm.
these events, that is His descent into a physical and etheric
bodies. In the descent of the Christ into a human physical
side of initiation, the descent into the physical body and
concentrated within this one point in space; but now He
with one side of initiation, the descent into the

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that is, the descent into his physical and etheric sheaths,
egoistic inner being.’ Descent into a man's own
youngest gods, the more recent divinely spiritual forces who
descent into their inner being by the methods of initiation
descent into the etheric body that brought man in
is the descent into the physical body. In his physical body
concentrating on the most exalted wisdom to which the soul
making the descent into his physical organism a man is again
strives to evolve after having made the descent into his own
who makes the descent into his astral, etheric, and physical
man's descent into his own being that is so wonderfully
stage of temptation arises after the descent into the astral
the third stage, the descent into the physical body. When
this descent appears as a temptation, it is described in a
ordered sequence tells of the phases of the ascent of the
centuries — so that those who have the will to hear can

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centuries immediately preceding Christ. Let us suppose that
attention fixed on this mass of detail, concentration on
descent of man into his inner being, the descent into the
the ascent of man to the Kingdom of Heaven; never before had
following way: In the seventeenth century there was a student
recently translated from English into German to make it
nature is centred; everything brought into the world through
man from progressing in the right way; but since the descent
expression, after which he can make further ascent, in a new
physical body, and that its centre is in the heart. Therefore

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the ‘Temptation’ was a descent into all these
hearken to such magnificent utterances as those of the Sermon
there. (This has often been spoken of as the ascent into
conversing together. This fact indicates an ascent into
happen that before the expiration of the twentieth century a
it emerges again and again in the course of centuries.
twelfth century, a false Messiah appeared at Fez in Morocco,
Central Asia. It was a great world movement, and created a

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point, a living centre for forces passing from the macrocosm
disciples. Such a concentration of forces was only possible
allow what we have heard in recent lectures concerning the
by me when referring to the descent of Jesus of Nazareth. We
teachings of Spiritual Science during recent years you can
spirals, and, in the centre between them, a little
initiation who has made his first ascent into the spiritual
we recognize all that came to pass through the descent of

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The upward development of man, and the descent of divine beings
accepting the descent of beings from higher regions, beings
upward evolution of men to spiritual heights, and the descent
carrying out more recent research. Popular but not very
given concerning the descent of the inner Light-being, the
In Christ we see this gradual descent in its most complex
from texts more recently discovered some contradiction of

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lowest stage. Then theosophy points to the central Being of the entire
without a central organ they would be nothing, for without a heart they
theosophy come and say that it contains no moral incentives. Theosophy

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human culture. The last few centuries have led to the practice of
somewhat, let us say, like a centaur. The more pictorially alive the
first step. Through intense concentration upon the soul life, brought
action is the tendency to relate itself to something as a center. And
central core of man's being and the physical organization. It is not
philosophical development of the nineteenth century to have

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extremely strange fact that in Central Europe something of
Something like a snake-shaped ring contracts in Central Europe
centre, the Normannic tribes move in the 9th century down who
Central Europe. But they push their way into the Romance
One has the idea that in Central Europe are mainly Teutons and
blood, in Central Europe is more Celtic blood, this is true.
Thus the people in Central Europe are encircled as it were. The
Central Europe basically complete hostility could never hold
Central European civilisation to relate to the future culture?
different how it arises. In the Central European civilisation
centre an ego-culture is founded. You can see that easily on
Thus the ego-culture of Central Europe is aroused from without.
ego-culture in Central Europe.
An important point in time is again in the 15th century. At

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cents.
person living in the 13th or 14th century! Such a person lived at a
century the danger that humanity would sink completely into
have great influence. Yet a few centuries later ancient Rome has
centuries, will rise above industry, learning, and the various

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course of the twentieth century it will quite definitely become a

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the twentieth century it will become widespread. It will take this

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evolution of humanity has consisted in man's descent into

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stage in the descent to a new incarnation is when the human being

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all these secrets of the Universe are concentrated. The
becomes evanescent, and finally dissolves in the Universe. As

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supposed to be a kind of globe filled with incandescent gas
densified, incandescent gas in empty space, as science alleges,
picture the Sun as a globe of incandescent gas? It is because a
destiny in his incarnation in the nineteenth century was due to
Spirit. Nor are the other stars so many bodies of incandescent,
concentration and application of the methods for the attainment
incarnation in the nineteenth century took shape.

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matter and replacing it from within, from the inner centre of
incarnation. In the nineteenth century this individuality
century as Voltaire.
Another individuality takes us back to Central America, to
the eighteenth/nineteenth century. The other individuality who

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movement since about the turn of the century, I have to say that what
twentieth century, the so-called Dark Age came to an end, and a new
the turning-point from the 19th to the 20th century that man has to
I see that young people who have come down recently from the spiritual
earth. Men who became so very clever during the 19th century have no
the 19th century as the most enlightened attitude has been given up by

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the first century
centuries. He witnessed the cruel persecutions of the
experiences which, as the eighteenth century approached, were
Saturn sphere discloses itself. The intense concentration upon
appeared again in the second half of the eighteenth century
its basic trend on the one side in the early centuries of
century. But in the eighteenth century there were no bodies on
personality of the nineteenth century. What struck people
thirteenth century had been engaged in a struggle with Rome,
enacted in the form of a sacred rite in a Mystery Centre of
century. In this case too, what had been retained of the great
Frenchman of the nineteenth century and therefore altogether

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resembled their lives in the nineteenth century. But the two
nineteenth century — Garibaldi was born in 1807

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faculty to gaze into the life preceding the descent to earthly
turn of the nineteenth/twentieth century was accompanied
the close of the nineteenth century when an Age of Light would
living in the nineteenth century and their ideas flow on
youth is peculiarly sensitive, with the turn of the century an
nineteenth century — have the instinctive feeling: we
twentieth century. What is this Youth Movement really seeking?
living, now, in the nineteenth/twentieth century; formerly this
century. The two personalities are linked by the life
in the eighth century, you must be capable of loving your own
although the being who lived in the eighth century is there
and promote this oriental scholarship at a centre of learning

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has recently been drawn to what a man loses if he loses his
recently been able to generate such enthusiasm. A few more
lead one back into the early Christian centuries, when they had
centuries when in the South and also already to some extent in
influential Christians in the first century and faded away in
the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh centuries

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centred. So the waking hours of the day are used for the
the present time, in the twentieth century, having lived before
in the fourteenth or eleventh century. During his life in the
eleventh century he performed a really significant act, one
comes again in the twentieth century it wants to be finally
century is of such significance that it cannot make use of a
short life in the twentieth-century incarnation. Here
incarnation. Such action or thinking in the eleventh century
the deed in the eleventh century brings about the death in the
twentieth century. And the death sends the illness on in
eleventh century, when we are asleep we encounter what took
place in that century before anything dating from a still
earlier incarnation, let us say in the second century B.C. Thus
in the evolutionary process of Nature, in what is reminiscent
plants is reminiscent of the conditions prevailing in our first

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century, he uses the body which this century can provide and
previous earthly life, say in the tenth or eleventh century, as
century. He is not the same person as he was at that earlier
spiritually that now, in the twentieth century, he is the man
commune. They came together again in the nineteenth century.

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and fourteenth centuries when the spiritual stream of
subsequent incarnations he led the occult schools of Central
There were many such Mystery Centers on the ancient Atlantean
centers, the mystery schools, by the term “Atlantean
Atlantean Oracles and their centers of wisdom, spiritual life
capacity, but there was one center in which the capacities of
of this center, of the Holy Sun Oracle, had been initiated
modern languages. All the magnificent words that you find in
sixteenth century achieved such significant results in
century who prepared himself for a great task after two
high and the magnificent that lives in the sun descended to

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and fourteenth centuries, and called Rosicrucian training.
why this universal wisdom was communicated in secret schools and centers
nineteenth century, as the result of external conditions that we shall
nineteenth century the Guardians of this knowledge said to themselves that
intelligence prevailing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. There were few at that time who
theosophist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the forms
during recent centuries — this was first possible for modern science.
in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries took place at the time when
self is formed out of, born out of the whole universe and our own ascent

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planet and have their habitation in the center of the earth. You may
the kingdoms of nature ascends, the nearer we come to beings whose center
world. The animals are creatures that have a center in themselves and
its center in itself, in the realm that is invisible. We must look for

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for the descent into a new existence on earth.
fairy tale of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “We ourselves

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member. What a truly magnificent structure it is, this physical body

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reminiscent of those conditions. The fire breather of Old Moon, the
existed on Old Moon, the descent of the astral body would have taken
again into globules that circle round the central globule. In this way
a certain amount of wisdom from the last third of the nineteenth century

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were also centers of culture and ritual — we will call them the
powerful Sun Oracle. This was the leading center of the Mysteries whence
this highest leadership, all Mars men were under that of the center
from the Jupiter Oracle, and so on. All these Oracle centers, however,
of cultural center in Asia. He drew these individuals to him in order

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the physical world and into a life wholly centered in the individual
descent into Hell.

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descent of humanity during the post-Atlantean era through the different
century B.C.
exercises of meditation, concentration, and other indications. In his

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character on which they concentrate their mind, and as they
concentrate upon these formulae they feel that divine spiritual life
Central European civilization, the Greco-Latin and Chaldean peoples,
not concentrate on the force radiating from itself in order to lend
entire universe, showing how the divine Will as a center is reflected
center of illumination inside this globe is reflected in myriad
Godhead — where the Godhead occupies the central position and yet at
descent. At the same time every man has his own individual

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thinking habits, and powers of concentration.
habits and powers of concentration are as valid now as they were when
not. At the beginning of the last century it was a complicated affair to
nebula that began to rotate and then densified into a central body from
oil were thrown off from the central drop creating a miniature planetary
condition in which many people are unable to recollect their most recent

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thinking habits, and powers of concentration.
century it was a very long and troublesome business to post a letter.
nebula. It began to rotate, drew together into one central body from

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Spiritual science, or as we call it more recently,
we see how from the center of his nature something evolves which is
century considered this discovery of the development of the species
centuries was overcome: that the living can originate from the
lifeless. Even into the 17th century the learned and the unlearned
should have to go back more than centuries if we wished to
perhaps has acquired centuries earlier this or that quality and the
lived perhaps for centuries in an entirely different world and is
absorbed into his inner essential being. It is as if upon its descent
who has a strong firm center in his inner being. If the ego
center of our being; we can make spiritual science the greatest

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
more clear in the middle of the fourth decade of this century,
another descent of Christ into the flesh, as another physical
led humanity's descent into the physical plane appears again after

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descent into a man of flesh, into Jesus of Nazareth, was necessary in
times could realise: The descent of the God to men is necessary in
the middle of the thirties of this century, approximately in the
thinking will conceive of this event as a descent of Christ in the flesh,
re-ascend along the path by which the descent was once made and

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thoughts are about to centre has been for many centuries the turning
those who for centuries have held firmly as a rock to all that is
by the intellectual currents of thought of the eighteenth century, it
came about in the course of the following century that what could be
We might say that the Historical Jesus of nineteenth century thought
How did the historical research of the nineteenth century examine the
research of the nineteenth century collected out of the Gospels
Is it not the case that those who in the nineteenth century presented
understood in that century?
exactly the opposite of that which formed the central point of the
that in the course of two centuries, during the time of the Greek
These were of two kinds: the one proceeded from that centre of
then used the most terrible and magnificent powers were brought before
deeper sense held that even as through Adam the descent of man into
Thus in the centre of the history of the world was set an historical
after the descent of the Mithra Being had to experience the
almost to the end of the eighteenth century. It is pointed out in
what was lacking in the whole of the nineteenth century researches on

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of occult spiritual life in recent centuries, for as
When we place before our minds these two recent
the other movement, which for centuries has existed
Such Imaginations, because they are concentrated in
Thus we see how in recent centuries we encounter
few centuries there is hardly a greater contrast

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both of religious life and of occult spiritual life in recent
centuries. For as regards spiritual development in Europe during this
before our minds these two recent streams, we must see in the
Jesus-Principle. In the other movement, which for centuries has
Imaginations, because they are concentrated in the most intense,
recent centuries we encounter these two movements, among many others:
men. In the development of civilisation during the last few centuries

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thirteenth century. At that time it was recognised by those
particular attention to the fact that since the thirteenth century
thirteenth century. I want especially to point this out because in
in the thirteenth century and on through the following centuries, for
twentieth century. Outsiders, particularly, will fall — more or
in the thirteenth century has been to establish a rule which must
most holy element in man's inner life, his Will-centre, as
centuries has again had to be modified for our time. The
Rosicrucianism of those earlier centuries could not reckon with a
excluded for many centuries from the external, exoteric teachings of
Christianity. In the thirteenth century the teaching of reincarnation
to break with everything that the thought-forms of the last century have
century who at the zenith of his life gathered up his thoughts and
In more recent times
the idea occurs sporadically. Drossbach, a nineteenth-century
the middle of the last century, a small society offered a prize for
otherwise in the fifties of the last century, when the necessary
century. Hence in my little book,
applies to the single individual; all the attention is centred on
nineteenth century had not yet produced the corresponding
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agree that during the centuries since the Mystery of Golgotha there
again — it is only in the twentieth century that a renewal of
from the twentieth century onwards, a third begins. It arises because
concentration and other exercises will occur. As we have often said,
beginning from our twentieth century?
research how it is that from the twentieth century onwards Christ
— so in the course of the twentieth century, towards the end of
the twentieth century, a significant event will again take place, not
connected with the evolution of humanity in the twentieth century,
many centuries, and is denied by no occultist who knows these things.
But recently it has been verified again with the utmost care, by
centuries. We shall have to characterise this fact more exactly in
Jesus there have been many opinions in the course of the centuries,
that Christ — who from the twentieth century onwards will be
preparation for the Christ who from the twentieth century onwards
Christ which will have its beginning in the twentieth century. In the
sense of the Monistic philosophy of the nineteenth century; to the
merely subjective. In the preceding centuries Faith had been demanded
as a necessity. In the nineteenth century Faith is attacked just

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centuries to the question we ourselves have raised today. Men such as
centuries removed from them, as Heraclitus and Socrates were. Justin
of Golgotha — how it was felt that between the centuries before
other historical instances that men in earlier centuries consciously
quality.’ Someone living in the third century after Christ,
looking back to men who had lived in the third century before Christ,
mystical views of the early Christian centuries that the most
the first Christian centuries, we can say: Certainly it is now
twentieth century can stream into us.
century. From what he writes we learn something that can be fully

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our life up to that time, and we take with us a concentrated etheric
know that this epoch began about the eighth century before our era,
and ended in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries
back farther than the sixth or seventh century before our era, though

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someone meditated in a rooming house, and a man was in the adjacent

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take up a question which is central to the whole Christian cosmic
middle or in the last third of the nineteenth century had accepted
his work on Reimarus, a thinker of the eighteenth century, we read:

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magnificent picture of human evolution opened up.

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points are given in my recently published book,
of his life his mere presence, or his touch, had beneficent effects —
degree that they could have a beneficent magnetic influence on his
that the Bodhisattva, who on becoming Buddha five centuries before
recent years have led to the recognition of a very important
philosophical streams which have developed during recent centuries up
to the nineteenth century, in so far as they are Western spiritual
centre, as in a tabernacle, and because of this it had quite special
There was a transference from a Mystery centre in Western Asia, where

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In hardly any other century has there been such
the century. More and more men came to lose the knowledge of the way
eighteenth century formed on their way to the Christ-Impulse. Even
the first half of the nineteenth century was illumined by a certain
the most part in the nineteenth century this path to Christ was lost
nineteenth century was only natural in face of the fact that in the
twentieth century a quite new epoch for the spiritual life of men
recently through the inflow of the concepts of reincarnation and
which Theosophy was cultivated in the eighteenth century. At that
theosophical subjects written by Oetinger in the eighteenth century.
forties of the nineteenth century, as it had come over from many
forties of the nineteenth century, must appear significant when it
old Theosophy that was handed down from the eighteenth century.
of the nineteenth century. Only through what we may now accept as the
heart and every soul can understand it. During the nineteenth century
theosophists of the eighteenth century still fully possessed; they
recently, and gave rise to a rich literature, buried though this is
there was in the nineteenth century! It is impossible in a short
of the nineteenth century concerning Christ Jesus. And anyone who
very real difficulties, if the views of the nineteenth century on
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ascent. He acknowledges before the Twelve: ‘As the animal
Very few are capable of it now, but from the middle of this century
the nineteenth century must carry over into its present existence
reincarnation reappeared in the eighteenth century, it appeared as a
twentieth century and may be called the second Christ-Event, so that
the twentieth century takes place, many of those now living will be
full illumination, upon the Christ-Event of the twentieth century.
be such that in the course of future centuries and millennia human
slandered individuality who lived about a century before our era. He
preceded Jesus of Nazareth by a century. Jesus of Nazareth Himself
century. It is impossible to speak here more exactly concerning the
centuries — he is quite dissimilar in his youth from what he
path. The Christ would have had an ascent, but humanity a downfall.

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concentrate upon that which he should do, it is also with the
This happens by concentration, contemplation, and
usual life. This happens by meditation, concentration, and
concentrates on one mental picture, on one sensation. He rests
soul, which it gives as power; one has to concentrate only upon
century when Francesco Redi, a great naturalist, said, life
It was heresy of Redi in the seventeenth century what one
centuries. They could look out into the cosmic space and say,
laborious; one can attain it only with much concentration.
concentrates to become a new plant, the spiritual-mental
essence concentrates in the human being more and more, the more
“During all centuries the poor truth had to blush about

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centuries, his rule over the physical world. It is a
that around the 16th century men lost the vision of the
wishes to indicate the necessity of man's descent into
from humanity while this descent took place, and this
“magnificent progress” of modern times! Spiritual
16th century, care was taken also in Europe to establish the
Around the 16th century, lived certain people who were able

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it must resound from the central point of our being. No
being. Through the Ego, and from this centre, man works upon

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something new and pass through new experiences. Centuries
earth in the second century after Christ. What aspect did the

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MAN'S DESCENT INTO AN EARTHLY INCARNATION.
have to describe man's descent into the world, but you need
not object to the word “descent”, for it is not a
spatial descent, but a gradual process of development whereby
real. In centuries to come, men will turn to this very book
beginning of the 20th century.
the essence towards which all men develop. He is the centre
Father as the centre of a reflecting hollow sphere: The

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an apparently innocent man is born in the midst of misery and
disappeared only during the 16th century. Quite a definite
fore during those last 400 years or so. The most innocent
above all has been heading towards materialism for centuries.
which men have a sound conception of life, a strong central
towards a centre, thus producing symptoms of neurosis, of
of concentration; in fact, we can see this already to-day.

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in the first centuries after Christ's birth, up to the 8th
and 9th century. But these are average conditions, for the
centuries — equality in the face of God, and equality
centuries of Christianity and who then passed through the
many centuries and it was taken over by Christianity. That is
and if the sun rose in the sign of Aries from the 8th century
of Taurus. In fact before the 8th century B.C. the bull was
the 11th century A.D., we can easily understand that the
centre of this course of development, and one might say: This
in the centre of the sevenfold human being: physical body,

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cents.
centralised, and the first basis of the organs of growth reaching as

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body; the sense organs thus became centralised, and the first

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constitutes a centre for certain forces and streams of the

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populations concentrated themselves in the most unfavourable
in our descent and this rendered possible the greatest
progress upon the physical plane: This descent, however, must
raise man out of this entanglement. Man's ascent from matter
this ascent into the spiritual world.
control our body. With the gradual ascent into the spiritual

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deepest descent into matter through the spirit. We recognised
that an ascent must once more come, a spiritualisation, and
adopted a name reaching far back into the centuries, because
because the power of memory was preserved for centuries, and
through the centuries producing such a memory was named
schools which were at the same time churches and centres of
they can overcome the deepest descent of the spirit. Before
it was usual to designate throughout centuries the nearer of
“Descent into Hell”, and it is followed by a

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and 15th century, particularly in the so-called Occult
which was introduced into Europe since the 14th century in
with the descent of a winged being. You may even find this

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of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, certain
innocent body, is connected with the fact that he began to
thus concentrate yourself upon that point where the physical
is concentration, concentration of thought. Consider how your
of the 19th century; we could cite many examples in support

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its content, the subject of these lectures, was for centuries taught
which this teaching has been heard for centuries recognized the same
cultivated, since the fourteenth century, a spiritual, a genuinely
Baptism of St. John, a direct line of descent can be traced to Him

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is to be disclosed here in the next few days has been known for centuries
circles in which for centuries the same message was proclaimed within
of Europe ever since the 14th Century. This Rosicrucian Society which,
points emphatically to this line of descent:
on the other hand, the attempt is made to trace the descent of this
world as rocks and mountains that seem to defy the centuries we need
of this divine descent is still apparent. For this reason the writer
the evolution: first a descent from the cosmos into the physical elements,

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whose bosom he was born. A descent from the Gods, followed by a
re-ascent to, and a reunion with them — such is man's path in his
extent, and in earlier centuries to a greater extent, though this
presents nothing but a sum of experiences demonstrating his ascent to

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able to turn to the Gods in whom he had his genesis. A descent from
was still developed to a certain degree, and in earlier centuries even
his ascent into the higher worlds during previous incarnations: the

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them these substances and established their centre of activity by the

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existence in consequence of the descent from space of souls who were
blood and could trace their descent to the survivors of the
it alive through the line of descent. Now the human race increased, as
Hebrew nation, because the latter had most recently preserved what we

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in the center.
substances of the period, then, that man molded his evanescent, tenuous
those who traced their descent to the human beings who had survived
that the ascent to the old Gods should be made by way of the early forebears.
the whole line of descent if they would find the way to the Gods. Had

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‘The Devil, your good-folk ne'er scent,
corresponded to the origin of their descent. There were human souls
centred in the physical world and had rendered desolate his life
point of view. Christ represents the descent to our Earth of the force
before us vistas of the future of the twentieth century. If we give
methods by which to know and understand Him. In earlier centuries

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“The Devil your good-folk ne'er scent,
call meditation and other exercises designed to develop inner concentration,
like a magnificent tableau; spatially side by side, all the situations
desire, in varying degrees, to find the center of gravity in personality.
the descent to our earth of the spiritual power of love, though even
he places before us a forecast of the 20th Century. And if we read his
find new means of comprehending Him. In former centuries other ways and

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collects his forces and increases their strength in the centre of his
the centre of its being. Here we find the physical, as the effect of
the inherited tendencies; but we also know of the inner, central
body. Thus, for Anthroposophy, the central figure in the whole tableau
whole picture tending towards and focused upon the great central point
central figure, on which everything else depends. I understand the
understood the central figure!’
to the central figure, the Christ, and understand all the details of

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He would assemble his forces and consolidate them in the center of his
back into the center of its being.
in the blood, in the line of descent. But in every case of this sort
way of inner, central soul forces, and that if sufficiently strengthened
Weltanschauung sees the Christ Being as a sort of central point
only when the whole immense picture focuses at the great central point,
this sheds light on all else. It is a picture with a central figure
the various phenomena of the spiritual world; but then we concentrate

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is, whom we must now place in the centre of our vision. If we bear in
to the previous life of the person in question but to concentrate upon
standpoint when he says: ‘Everything in Christianity centres upon the

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Luke traces the line of descent back to Adam, and from Adam to Adam's
employs phrases reminiscent of Persia, and how this old mode of expression
their descent — that is, whether from Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus.

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Where in the world could we find a lyrical document so magnificently

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had to be used because Christ is the Being Who had but recently approached
concentrating on the crucial words of the chapter in question. In the

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its centre, back to the heart. When oppressed with sadness, the tears
In the old initiation there were definite stages in the ascent to
world with the descent of Christ into the threefold sheath of Jesus of

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when frightened he drives his blood back inward into the center; in
until recently united with the forces of the earth is very different
center. Thus He was able to say that His astral body had achieved sufficient
into the world with the descent of the Christ into the threefold sheath

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more recent times as is presage to fulfillment. In the legends of Oedipus

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may call the central European civilization) to the Graeco-Latin
About the sixth or seventh century before Christ, as the pre-Christian
was on the decline. From the eighth century before the Christian era
centuries before the coming of Christ, from which the results of
in the thirteenth century intensely penetrated by the Christ-impulse,
science and Christianity. Even in the thirteenth century he would have
alone, not with the science of the thirteenth century, he could have
the thirteenth century were obliged to revert to Aristotle; he still

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time, which we may call the Central European cultural epoch, we can
epoch — say, in the 6th or 7th Century before our era —
in the matter of knowledge. From the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries
or 7th Century before the appearance of Christ we see established something
of this. Suppose that a man of the 13th Century had been profoundly
science and Christianity: even as early as the 13th Century he would
collaborating with Aristotle, not with 13th-Century science, would he
13th-Century scholars had to revert to Aristotle, who still possessed

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in His descent by the seer Zarathustra in ancient Persia; then by
our earth; whereby our earth was placed in a centre of equilibrium
evolution of those beings who were forced to remove their centre of
the blood flowed from the wounds of Christ Jesus. Let us concentrate
An innocent Being, therefore, was to suffer and become united with
Thus by the innocent death on Golgotha the proof was furnished and
innocent death, was a contradiction in itself. Now what was actually
spiritual centre and scene of activity by a spiritual being. The
cosmic centre was created. We were there as human beings, whether in a
generations of the first centuries of Christian evolution could learn,
Jesus of Nazareth. His descent can be traced through three times
showing that the physical line of descent and inheritance of the body

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supra-terrestrial regions and that It was seen in Its descent, so to speak:
up to the entry of the Christ impulse, and let us concentrate on a quite
utterly innocent death — could extinguish all guilty death.
An innocent Being, accordingly,
Thus the innocent death
by a contradictory death, by a death that was innocent.
a new spiritual center, a new sphere of activity. The formation of a
from the wounds of Christ Jesus, a new cosmic center was created. We
the first place a book from which people of the first Christian centuries

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the evolution of the earth. We see the central light still burning in
then, where you see the central light, is the point of time when the
light next after the central is kindled and begins to burn brightly;
Yes, a new centre was then created when that Death was consummated on
created therein a new centre of light. He penetrates the Earth, sends
whether they are extended in space or are centres of force. Atoms of
and kindled within her the memory of everything which she had recently
— that is, we know, at this stage, what is meant by the Descent
words, the ascent into the spiritual world. This is the stage of which
experiences, his ascent to a still higher world, He revealed to those
understand how the separate events group themselves within the central
receive them. This was the case in the earliest centuries of
lost during the centuries immediately preceding Christ's advent; this
that had been spiritually bestowed on mankind in earlier centuries and

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The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center.
as well. It can be said that with the event of Golgotha a new center
created a new light center; He permeates the earth, shines forth into
extended or whether they form force centers — that is immaterial.
that is, in this stage we have learned the meaning of the Descent into
to more advanced stages; and what He experienced — His ascent
Ram; the adjacent one, the Bull; the one with the hands, the Twins;
during the first centuries, when it was men's task to reconquer through
had lost during the last pre-Christian centuries, and this could be
nature which had been vouchsafed mankind in earlier centuries, and which
Buddha. At that time, six centuries before Christ, the Buddha being

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concentration. He should put his everyday thoughts aside completely
catastrophes such as the many we've had recently and like the

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sets up a center against his error, he will also master them. Art is

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always but assumes a different form in every century. The reason for
an extremely important period: the thirteenth century. Human beings in
In the thirteenth century, spiritual darkness fell for a time upon all
century came from tradition or from men who in still earlier times had
In the thirteenth century, it was necessary for especially suitable
men were incarnated again in the thirteenth century and formed part of the
culture of the thirteenth century and of our modern age. These seven
“College” of wise men in the thirteenth century; the twelfth
added to what you know of history since the thirteenth century.
fourteenth century and this earthly life lasted for more than a
matters. Again in the nineteenth century — an age so ill-adapted
the 'forties of the nineteenth century a certain scientific body
Rosicrucian inspiration is given, in each century, the bearer of the

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century. This is because rosicrucianism must always adapt itself to
of an extremely important period: the thirteenth century. Human beings
In the thirteenth century spiritual darkness fell for a time upon all
century came from tradition or from men who in still earlier times had
In the thirteenth century it was necessary for especially suitable
the thirteenth century and formed part of the twelve; it was they who
the culture of the thirteenth century and for that of our modern age.
the wise men in the thirteenth century; the twelfth had fewer
history since the thirteenth century.
He was born again in the fourteenth century and this
matters. Again in the nineteenth century — an age so ill adapted
the forties of the nineteenth century a certain scientific body
rosicrucian inspiration is given, in each century, the bearer of the

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adolescents — have become so precocious, so old beyond their

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third of the nineteenth century, is this: when a man has passed through
or fourth century after Christ, in which she had acquired certain
that at a definite time (in this case about the Third or Fourth Century

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in a century which unconsciously, from its as yet chaotic soul-force,
during the last few centuries, and our friends know how often I
century; but we must bear in mind that this Natural Science has become
century; for this writer tries to prove mathematically that the earth
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; he did not know why he

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survey the centuries of Christian development, we see, even in the earlier
for example, the descent of the Messiah who had been proclaimed, or
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Apocalypse began to be interpreted
In more recent times,
concentration to work on their soul. They must immerse their souls in

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it to have begun in the eighth or ninth century of the pre-Christian
centers at that time. Our present-day mystery and occult schools work
much more secretly than theirs did. The mystery centers of Atlantean
were mystery centers that were especially concerned with the various
epoch. Living in the Near East in the sixth century before Christ's

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times, in the last centuries before Christ, we still find group souls.
usefulness in the ascent of the entire human race. However, the great war
of all against all. On the one hand we can thank the descent into matter
from a descent into matter that would be too deep. they first had to

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in the seventh or eighth century before Christ and lasted until the
thirteenth or fourteenth century after Christ's birth. Only then do
it would have contributed to a new ascent to the spiritual. Celsus,
rise to ascendancy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. We see
of the second century. Around 180 he wrote “True Discourse”

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by many even into the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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period, on the other hand, from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
In the first centuries
But later centuries could not have built upon these alone. Especially from
the sixth and seventh centuries onward, great proclaimers of Christianity
centuries we then see people who received into their own astral bodies the
the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries such people became
centuries on, something like a copy of Jesus' I
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the individuality named Christian
again an ascent into the spiritual world. The theosophical teaching

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beginning with the thirteenth or fourteenth century of our
the Mystery Centers kept not only the multiplied copies but
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries? A mysterious, occult
Christian writers in the first few centuries after the
building block for later centuries, and that is why a copy of
with the sixth and seventh centuries. One such herald was
centuries. Such a personality was Francis of Assisi. When we
from about the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries such
twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, something like
founded in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as a
divine, and thereby to undertake again the ascent into the

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expressed in the forms of the centaur and the sphinx.

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by human hands. The rider with a bow is as innocent as bright sunlight.

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to the Christ being, who has been working in the central regions of

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concentrated in a certain geographical area. It is difficult to

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humanity in more recent times; it is important to know that a

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incarnate in a particular region. This is central to their mission;
follow the evolution of humanity in recent times and to discover that

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which is, so to say, the central theme of our lectures. To-day, for
The Intellectual-soul or Mind-soul, the central member,
they perceive centers therein. These centers are the human egos,
perception in which there are certain centers; these centers, these
central points, are the several human personalities, the several
consciousness. That to them is a number of centers around which the
as centers within him, the Archangel has the feeling that what comes
the people in question, when the several perceptions, the centers
perceives as a withering of the centers in his domain of perception.
centuries. For instance, in the very country in which we now have
centuries this play of the Archangel of the Germans in co-operation
Such peoples are not so much centralized, they pay more

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which you will find rather more difficult to grasp than the central
the Intellectual Soul or Mind-Soul, the central member, and
therein centres or focal points. These centres are the human egos
field of perception in which there are certain centres; these
centres, these focal points, are the individual human personalities,
centres or focal points round which the inner experiences of man are
centres within him, he feels that this, experience does, in effect,
people in question when he perceives the individual centres beginning
the life of a people as the withering of the centres in his inner
may last for centuries. In Germany, for example, where there is an
centuries this interplay of the Archangel of the Germans and the
like this are little centralized; they look more to the development

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centre and that it is divided into so and so many races, then one has
the East; but the Central European domain must call to mind its own

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fixed centre and divided into so many races, then we fail to grasp
is for example a point or a centre of cosmic influence situated in
the interior of Africa. At this centre are active all those
we now cross over to Asia, we find a point or centre where the
Europe, a third point or centre is reached which permanently
When we look more closely into these separate points or centres we
centres still exist today. The centre in Africa corresponds to those
childhood; the centre in Asia corresponds to those which give man the
characteristics of youth, and the corresponding centre in Europe
determined by the peculiar characteristics of these different centres
forces concentrated within the youthful organism must be allowed to
power, spiritual substance, from the East; but Central Europe must

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planet by radiations from within, from the centre. We may therefore
Thrones, the Cherubim and the Seraphim work from its centre. We must
that when we look towards the centre of our planet, we may say: There
To our observation they are concentrated in what we call the rays of
concentrated for us, and we see how streaming life, weaving sound,
from the others and all are equidistant from the centre. The centre
in man signify nothing else than the creating of an active centre in

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the right (to the East) and over the central plateau of France on the
we see how the radiations from the centre influence our Earth planet.
Thrones), the Seraphim and the Cherubim work from the centre. We must
towards the centre of our planet we are aware of the presence of
issuing from the Earth. To us they are concentrated in the rays of
which these threefold forces are concentrated for our spiritual
Cherubim and the Thrones, work upwards from below, from the centre of
the Nature-forces emanating from the centre of the Earth, the forces
from each other and all are equidistant from the centre. The centre
in man signify simply the creation of an active centre in his nature
from within, from the centre of the Earth. Thus into this tapestry of

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unfolding its powers from out of the universe towards the centre of
in combination with the normal Spirits of Form, who are centered in
These have their centre in the other five planets, speaking of the
planets in the old way. You must therefore seek for the centre of
the normal Spirits of Form are centered in Sun, one of them —
centered in the several planets. From this we see, that through these
abnormal Spirits of Form, there are five possible centers of
centre of the Earth, really produce what we know as the five
our recent statements we placed in Africa, by saying, that through
centered in Mercury, the negro race came into existence, we are then,
then drew through the central points from which the several races
directed from such centers.
whose activities proceeded from the centre of Mercury also worked in.
According to the astrological co-operation of these various centers
in accordance with this the centre of balance was taken as the point
himself the whole human nature. But now from the Mercury centre the
were guided in quite a definite way from the original centre, and
from a centre. We have to suppose this centre as being at a definite
centered in the several Planetary Spirits (with the exception of the
towards the six Elohim who are centered in the Sun. In the Mongolian
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Universe towards the centre of the Earth. Man does not become aware
when they are reflected from the Earth's centre.
centred in the Sun (for Jahve withdrew towards the Moon sphere solely
These have their centre in the other five planets, in Saturn,
normal Spirits of Form are centred in the Sun and one of them, Jahve
the Earth and ray outward again from the Earth-centre as was
abnormal Spirits of Form who are centred in the several planets. Thus
potential centres of influence where these reflected planetary forces
are concentrated and produce in effect what we know as the five Root
us now look more closely into the centre which, in Lecture Four, we
the abnormal Spirits of Form centred in Mercury) then from an occult
us now continue along the line joining the centres or focal points
to America which is the centre where civilizations or races die, we
standpoint you will become aware of the five centres where the
planetary forces are concentrated and are manifested in the external
the different centres on the Earth is again only valid for a specific
migrate from a centre in Atlantis and sought the particular centre
old Atlantis specific Mystery Centres called the Atlantean Oracles
accordance with these spiritual centres.
Mercury Centre. The Centre of equilibrium on Earth was selected in
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going on in the great world. This ascent is connected with the fact
Asia, Africa and Europe, whose centre the Greek people had become.
impulse then given was, in the course of the following centuries and
ascent into the region of the Spirits of Form, which would at that
ascent, and had undertaken another mission, that of becoming the
a long time even in the Middle Ages, in Central and Northern Europe
seventeenth century (beginning from about the twelfth century), was
Now from the twelfth to the sixteenth century something
Archangels of Europe — especially those of Western, Central and
Celtic Archangel had founded a new Centre in the noble citadel of the
Grail. From that spot which in ancient times was the centre for the
now lies over Central Germany, but is really situated above the
Europe. Hence, because the great centre of inspiration was there,
past, was that great centre of inspiration, which later on
transferred its chief activity to the centre of the Holy Grail.

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destined in the course of the following centuries and millennia to
descent of Christ upon Earth, the Greek Time Spirit renounced for our
Central and Northern Europe was chiefly in the hands of the
twelfth century, it was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries that the first steps were undertaken towards the
from the twelfth to the sixteenth century something gradually
Archangels of Europe, especially those of Western, Central and
spiritual centre on the continent of Europe which at one time
radiated the most powerful spiritual impulses, the centre which was
Archangel had established a new centre in the High Castle of the
centre of Europe. It must seem the height of folly, as I said, if we
were to indicate as the central source of inspiration for the various
Germanic tribes that district which now lies over Central Germany —
Hence, because the great centre of spiritual inspiration was situated
centre of inspiration; in later years its spiritual mission was taken

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it. He understood this down to the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries
ascent to higher stages. He learned to know Odin as one of the
Thus even in the Christian centuries he still understood

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witness of it. Even until the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries AD he

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everywhere placed in the centre of human life, according to its
behind the figure of Loki, who possesses a remarkably iridescent
of the Luciferic influence has brought about the deeper descent of
anthroposophical centers one is sufficiently advanced to make it

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occupies a central place in human life in accordance with its
remarkably iridescent form. Because Nordic man could perceive the

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center. He would be in ecstasy or “beside himself” in the

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European felt this gradual ascent to the individual ‘ I ’
the Germans of Central Europe as appearing to belong to separate
All this was poured into the Spiritual Souls of the Central European
The philosophies of Central Europe, those philosophies
the nineteenth century, are apparently far removed from the sphere of
Central Europe.
creating his mighty civilization and his magnificent spiritual life,
understood. Solovioff recognizes that two Will-centers must be thought
significance of Christ becomes the central point of philosophy, and
Thus are the missions divided between Western, Central,

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Central Europe as apparently belonging to separate tribes and yet as
peoples who, until recent times, lived on the soil of France, if you
Central European and Scandinavian peoples and its after-effects lived
philosophies of Central Europe represented by Fichte, Schelling and
Hegel in the nineteenth century seem far removed from the sphere of
mission of the Nordic Germanic peoples in Central Europe is to ensure
that we must think of this Being as possessing two centres of will.
significance of Christ occupies a central place in philosophy and
the various missions are distributed between Western, Central,

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capacities he has developed in the course of centuries, that which
the descent of those human souls who, in primeval times, before the
the form of clouds; that was the condition when the descent of those
descent of the psychic-spiritual human beings, who had once upon a
Folk-spirits have played a great rôle. The vision of that descent has
descent of the divine-spiritual into the physical.
will, (from the middle of the twentieth century on), gradually
Christ-revelation will announce in the twentieth century as the
happened for centuries. Certain people have always profited by this
case of such an one was in the seventeenth century, when a man called
personality of Sabbatai. In the seventeenth century the tragedy was
truth; but in the twentieth century it would be a great misfortune
the seventeenth century. It will be a trial, a severe test for those
him in his soul, will find that in the twentieth century the capacity
belongs to us all in Northern and Central Europe, will again stand
hope that that which must be the central nerve and the vital essence
minds to work. One can go astray in the twentieth century because
to go through during its early centuries and millennia, when the
South, East, West and Centre of Europe become aware that it is

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over the centuries and that henceforth modern spiritual research will
describe as the descent of those human souls who, in primeval times
and this descent can still be verified today in the Akashic Records.
old Atlantean clairvoyance the descent of these souls out of the
descent of the psycho-spiritual beings who in olden time had risen to
Folk Spirits have played a decisive part. The vision of that descent
descent. Especially here in the North, the Finnish tradition still
itself. The descent of the divinespiritual into the physical is still
course of the next centuries, increasing numbers of people will be
middle of the twentieth century on, gradually experience a renewal of
the new Christ-revelation will announce in the twentieth century from
what has already existed for centuries.
well-known case occurred in the seventeenth century, when a man
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
century. It will be a severe test for those who have been prepared by
already told you that in a folk community which has so recently left
find that in the twentieth century the power to see the Christ can be
Central Europe will again be visible to man. He was held secret in
effort. In the twentieth century one may fall by the wayside because
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and always has been, what has in more recent times been called
Passing on to more recent times, we find that in Christianity the
centuries, very little trace of theosophy is to be found. The
societies in Central Europe, calling itself a “Christian”
happened in the course of the centuries that men have come forward and

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spiritual life, then again its concentration. And the latter we

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the consciousness which is centred in the fact that man becomes aware
must centre his attention also on the development of a new and higher

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and mysterious member of man's nature, the very centre of his
longer in his right mind. Our ego, which is the centre point of our
within him as it were a centre for all the weaving of his life and

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begin to understand how it is with the I, the centre point of
concentrated in the heart. This is the third member. Then you will

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especially in the case of the male human being, the real centre and
the centre of the organs belonging to the middle man, the “plane
of the blood, which has its centre in the middle man, is to be brought

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outwards in all directions as from the centre of a circle, we should
ruler, the Sun, became the centre of the whole planetary system, the
look for a “centre of gravity” for this evolution. It can,
are not prepared to admit this centre of gravity of evolution, —
about six centuries before Christ and has continued on into our own

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working through the centuries. If nothing else indicated the
life of the last centuries, we are met from century to century
centuries and centuries men have applied their noblest, most
all the impulses within men which through the centuries have
the centuries with an unprejudiced mind can raise any serious
centuries before the founding of Christianity, we find there an
happened among men through the centuries of the Christian era
channels through the subsequent centuries. At the time
centuries after Christ, we find in Greece and Italy numbers of
centuries go by, Christianity spread over Europe, among peoples
centuries. But then we are astonished to find this same
natural science on into the nineteenth century. This natural
'twenties of the nineteenth century the writings of Copernicus
the peoples have achieved, even in the more recent centuries,
repudiated. Thus we find that in the early centuries,
is Christ Himself Who, through the centuries, wends His way
descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles? When with clairvoyant

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had, it is true, behaved somewhat strangely during recent days,

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they like to hear and to have said to them. In magnificent

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the greatest discernment and concentration and gave astounding
form of Mithraic worship. Temples and centres dedicated to the
centred in the Church of St. Peter is in many respects a
journey about the country, he came to know these centres of
communicate for the first time when just recently we were
the humanity of those times was as it were concentrated. He was
direst, most concentrated form ... had seen how sacred rites
purview of Jesus of Nazareth. Tidings reached the centre of the

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of Nazareth and his kinsmen also traced their descent. And
everywhere, a prayer once offered by men in the Mystery-Centres
recent publications is a volume entitled:

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Europe up to the beginning of the twentieth century resulted in some
was a kind of centre, has ceased to exist. We are living in its
middle of the fifteenth century. There is a store of spiritual
Science has acquired a magnificent knowledge of the world and we are
alone can set the feet of humanity on the path of ascent. People like
fifteenth century have led man to wrench himself from his true nature
centuries it will pass through others, that during the day it passes
portrayed as a kind of centaur, half horse, half man, and so forth).
the scientific view of the world since the middle of last century has

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centuries.
mental pictures, concepts, thought-content, into the centre of the
complete survey, deliberately and as a free act of will at the centre
their faculties and their capacity for concentration.
with sustained and deliberate concentration. If care is taken to
descent through birth into physical existence, is experienced as a
aware of the ‘I,’ the central core of our being, in all
descent to the Earth must be made over and over again in order that
It is well-nigh incomprehensible to me that again, quite recently,
catastrophic period of the second decade of the twentieth century,

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course of the past centuries. Anthroposophy is in no way directed
set at the centre of our consciousness by systematic practice, so
shall be particularly successful in concentrating upon concepts which
the centre of consciousness, and we then concentrate upon them with
the whole life of our soul, with all our power of concentration. Our
space of time which must not be too long, we try to concentrate
the nineteenth century, I wrote my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
that even in the first decades of the 19th century people should have
The disease of spiritism has arisen in recent times; which in just
Real spiritual science seeks for an ascent into the spiritual worlds

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most recent... you will find nothing but minute objects which are
more superficially. So that on his descent a man is either permeated
during the descent to his next earthly life, he will arrive on the
decade of the twentieth century in the evolution of the Western
he is to pass from a decline to a real ascent, man must overcome the

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In recent times we
exercises, such as those recently described to you, strengthen
exercises, such as those recently described to you, strengthen
meditation, concentration and other soul exercises described in
these morphological thoughts described to you in recent lectures
humanity in the course of the past centuries, it endeavors to

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recent times we can observe above all that there are scientific
Meditation exercises, such as those recently described to you,
with a thinking intensified by meditation, concentration
in recent lectures, exist in our ordinary consciousness only as
here recently, experiences the moment of falling asleep
recent lectures and indicated in detail in the books already
course of the past centuries, it endeavours to rise up to the

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cent of solid substance; he is a liquid column in regard to the
remaining 90 per cent. But he also consists of finer materials,
concentration, so that he can live in thoughts in the
knowledge, through meditation and concentration, etc. But we
nineties of the past century I wrote my Philosophy of
the early nineties of the past century I was therefore obliged
acquired through meditation, concentration, retrospective
centre into the environing spatial world, into the spatial
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The Central Question of Economic Life
Central Question of Economic Life.
characterize something quite different as the central economic
— somehow to answer this central economic question in a
during the last centuries. One would like to say: The fact that
of life which during the recent centuries has become more
whole development of recent times this state of affairs has
again for centuries, the whole full meaning of that emerges
know that at a certain time during the 19th century
comes into being in outer social life. For in recent times
has more and more come to the fore in recent times, but also

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accordance with Darwin's theory of evolutionary descent, but
must link him up with the animal line of descent (this has been
natural-scientific discipline, along the animal line of descent,
descent up to man, as Darwin or other Darwinians or Haeckel did,

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evolutionary descent, but methodically, it can hardly be denied
the animal line of descent, as far as man. No speculations

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so to order his descent at the end of his life between death and a new
recent years. True, someone may say that it seems to him as though he
had lived through centuries in these few years, but in general there
otherwise have come to pass only in the course of centuries.
I want you to think of the fourth century A.D., or rather of the
period which reaches its climax in that century. In the South, on the
consider the early centuries, the first, second and even the third
centuries, we find the old, inherited wisdom being brought to bear
not until the fourth century, just at the time when Christianity
Church. In the fourth century, that which in Christianity had once
to the fifteenth centuries, the Christian life which develops in the
in the third and fourth centuries, that is to say in the same early
centuries of the post-Christian era. External history gives no true
had taken place. In the first centuries it had still been found
Spiritual was taking place — in the third and fourth centuries
fourth century, when the men of the South were becoming more and more
in a particular form in the North during the first centuries of the
what these peoples have experienced through the centuries, realising

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over the course of the last three or four centuries, when the
life, and from which arise colorful iridescent dreams. If we
initially, through active thinking, concentrated fully on
moves as in the described example into the center of his
concentrated all of the powers of his soul on certain
through conception — and the descent to this earthly

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world-evolution. I shall proceed immediately to the center
preceded our descent to earth; and also to that time
dissipated out into the cosmos and we, concentrating on our
receive new incentives for the movement of its stars, the
coming days — has placed us into the center of life

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are weaving, in magnificent spiritual grandeur, the woof and
more magnificent work than all earthly cultural activity is
for centuries, the human being — except in the first
underwent in the course of long centuries. We feel great
executed, during centuries, as a spiritual being among

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Until the fourth century after the Mystery of Golgotha there were
in the early Christian centuries: “Thanks be to the Christ-Being
After the fourth century A.D. the human mind
Gospels worked throughout the centuries with such power that they
say for a century, that everything is material, they would lose the
the historical figure who centuries ago dwelt on the earth — the

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center.
was natural and self-evident in the middle of the fifteenth century,
of the nineteenth century.

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the last few centuries became more and more enamored of abstractions,
more one becomes a stranger to art. For art desires and is centered

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first third of the fifteenth century. And the same vigorous
speech is the fact that the speech-center of right-handed

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across the stages described by me during the recent days. My

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recent days. Our souls undergo repeated earth-lives that are
There was still a feeling in comparatively recent ages that the
century — had a similar feeling with regard to his
pre-Christian century until the fifteenth post-Christian
century, for until then, the echo of Graeco-Latin culture still
reach this stage until the eighth pre-Christian century.
the eighth pre-Christian century, did man say to himself (still
ninth or eighth century before the Mystery of Golgotha. It was
centuries preceding ours that the Christ, in His infinite
Just because since the fifteenth century human evolution must
preceding centuries, Christianity developed in a way that still
centuries.
particularly in the nineteenth century, many a theological
Throughout the centuries, people have subjected themselves more

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the center. If we let yellow speak its own language, we make it strong
in the center and gradually fading and lightening toward the periphery.
its center. From this point of view one can appreciate the painters
with the fifteenth century it was natural and self-evident, and added
the nineteenth century notwithstanding. Once a Munich artist told me
the Messiah. He no longer dared to do this in the eighteenth century,
by having for centuries now held up, as an ideal of art, the imitation
is the way the poet shapes and forms it. Ninety-nine percent of those

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developed during the recent stages of historical evolution. He
pre-Christian century and the fourth post-Christian
century, the feeling prevailed in the folk souls of civilized
such as was uttered during a recent medical Congress. Impelled

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remains the slave of his lower ego. The ascent from Kama to Mana is

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Descent of God into the world,
and rests in a crescent-shaped sheath.
Sixteenth Centuries the new age led everything spiritual

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a luminary of the nineteenth century, brought clear and well-defined
meditation, concentration, and so forth, he begins to develop his
an intuitive knowledge of this Schopenhauer assigned the central

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He seems so innocent, like crystal clear,
such centres from which such streams emanate and have their
The influence of the cooler North, the descent of the Ego into
symbols what man's ascent should be. But the second portal hides
symbols he has let the ascent of the human Self work upon his
The sky o'erflown by lucent streaks of haze.
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the Mystery Centers are now increasingly accessible to all of
the Hebrew Mystery Centers knew it; they worshiped the Christ
fulfill the Mystery of Golgotha through His descent into a
be. The Mystery Centers everywhere taught what is now
proclaim more beautifully and more magnificently the

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man could only find this way by the descent of a Divine
We will let our mind's eye sweep across twelve centuries —
And now we will cast our mind's eye over twelve centuries,
during the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries, on to the tenth, in whom
to men of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth centuries of our era
In the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
through the centuries since the Event of Golgotha, to ensure in secret

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look at a period of twelve centuries: the six centuries
before and the six centuries after the Event of Golgotha. And
view the period that comprises twelve centuries — six
was the case in the first centuries of the Christian era, for
sixth centuries, and on to the tenth century. These exemplary
fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries after Christ
the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries other
beings through the centuries who had to see to it that
forces of the past that were sublime, magnificent, and full

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
bore the guilt for the descent of humanity.
to the relatively recent doctrine of the Buddha that the individual
this century, and in the following two thousand years more and more
toward the earth's center, and its upper part stands in relation to
as man believes that the ascent of the physical into the etheric has
whether our vision is clear or clouded. Even in this century, and

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Christ in the 20th Century
IN THETWENTIETH CENTURY
course of recent centuries increasing emphasis has been laid on comparing the
in speaking as I have of this preparatory, Twentieth Century form of the
undergone tremendous changes through the centuries. If we follow it back to
certain lofty concepts, all centering in an attempt to grasp the Christ idea.
the descent of the other kingdoms when titan descended to the earth. It was
would lack his true human ego that works front a central focus outward into
nature was believed to have joined in that descent; instead, something of a
him in his descent because he plunged so deeply into physical embodiment
centered in the living action of the Christ impulse as Christ enters into
animals, we can by no means assume that he evolved in straight-line descent
remarkable concepts of evolution in the first Christian centuries. It must be
that lies still closer to the time of man's descent to earth, we come upon a
possible for a humanity recently descended from spiritual heights to
however, an ever-deepening descent of man into physical existence,
the place of Gnosticism. We find people who lived in the centuries after its
recent times to take the third step in a gradual weakening of faith. They
own, and then go on developing with the march of the centuries toward ever
this case quite free condition, when we deliberately concentrate all our
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descent of the physical light and this withdrawal of the Spirit
of the Soul is contained in volume No. 40 of the Complete Centenary

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They found some pleasure? The complacent ghouls
I scent thee as the Soul within their deeds!
add to the Theosophical Movement the stream which since the thirteenth century has been
Theosophical Movement. In recent years knowledge and truths of many different kinds have
culture proceeds in a different way, concentrating on individualities and neglecting the
Raphael was understood in recent times is shown by the fact that Goethe, when visiting
through the whole of eighteenth-century literature, we shall find hardly anything about
figure of Raphael, how he has lived through the centuries and is still living today, and
themselves have perished. For centuries yet, reproductions will of course be available; but
century had been receiving the teachings of Western esotericism given by Dr. Steiner.
the eighties of last century — vary considerably in value and it is
given by Dr. Steiner in 1915, entitled The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century.

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carrying out concentration and mediation with great willpower. On the

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alone we had, till recently, any understanding, began with Greece, and
Now in the nineteenth century something peculiar appeared, something
poured out into the nineteenth century by means of the Bhagavad Gita.
within its own being, is sharply accentuated; and in contrast to the

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eighth century of the Christian reckoning. We need not devote much
For in that we find again, in the very centre of our scientific
undisturbed by all battles?” In magnificent manner out of the

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eighth or seventh century before the Mystery of Golgotha, all human
7th Century B.C. 15th, 16th Century A.D.
by our own age some fifteen or sixteen centuries after the Mystery of
light at its beginning, and then its descent into matter in order that
in the Gita the chief emphasis is laid upon the ascent through Yoga
spiritual, and it confirms the beauty of the ascent into the

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answer that leads us into the centre of the soul — into Purusha:
means through physical descent — both Jesus-boys descended from

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it is to a certain extent the central phenomenon for the whole
central phenomenon has been considered. This has been taken
especially capable in that he concentrated less on himself and
concentrated format.

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Golgotha more than recognizing it as earth's central event?

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of the last centuries and found out about the external world
professor Wincenty Lutoslawski, is a fool, he would have again

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The later epochs had quite a different mission. We know that a descent
an ascent and that, as already mentioned, Anthroposophy or Spiritual
Science has to prepare this ascent. We know that in the seventh
statement that lately the centenary of Darwin was celebrated, and

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of created beings; thus does he bring about his own ascent together
standing in the centre of the world, feel that the world would be
eighteenth century a celebrated author wrote: “A single country

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which has arisen in the course of recent centuries of human
what comes to us from the Nordic or Central European, Germanic
in more recent times, Wilhelm Jordan has tried to imitate the
the fourteenth century. This extract is from the C-text version,

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return centuples the forces of each individual. For the sake of
of hardly a century, is a drama of such, greatness that men of

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culture during recent centuries abstract thinking
course of human thinking. The ascent to this conscious
forces of ascent which can be achieved in waking. Therefore, he

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the Arabian Culture” which Spengler placed at the center
world-conceptions which, centuries before the appearance of
in the western Christianity of the first centuries Magian

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century, is that of a few noble families which competed for the
century B.C. (and ‘contemporaneously’ in other Cultures)

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centuries. Moreover, we have frequently emphasized that spiritual
centuries!) This is evident through the fact that it is the
MEDITATION, CONCENTRATION, or CONTEMPLATION. What does this mean?
thought, fully concentrated upon it, it is immersed in
concentration or contemplation.
meditation, but the essential thing is to practice CONCENTRATION,
to concentrate fully upon this thought. This is the same as
thoughts which form the subject of meditation and concentration
meditation and concentration our thoughts take root in the life
thoughts as seeds. Meditation, concentration and contemplation
past centuries gave rise to materialism, or — to use a
who showed this in many of his writings, recently also occupied
recently, the almost yearly attempts to transform a circle into a

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century was the leading influence in artistic appreciation
materialistic conceptions that swept over the 19th century,
spheres of life during the second half of the 19th century
by “Semperism” at the end of the 19th century.
acanthus leaf. Quite recently, therefore, I have discovered a
Just recently
materialism of the second half of last century, painters (not

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character, the central form is the bridge between the other
we leave the doors we concentrate with all the forces of our
centres of earthly and spiritual peace, harmony and love may

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is equidistant from the central point. As soon as we picture
centre, we have the sphere, or circle. It is the very easiest
we must make an addition. All lines to the centre of the
from the centre — but it is also the result of
since the sixteenth century is only the preparation for a

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train in the nineteenth century, rendered great service to
Northern and Central Europe who came into contact with

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Herman Grimm, the cultured Art-Critic of the nineteenth century, has
century, who was greatly gifted as draughtsman and painter, Carstens.
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And it is this which is so little
nineteenth centuries to the Homeric figures from Raphael to the
nineteenth century the time began when the artist had to look for the
nineteenth century to see how Art stands in this respect.

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the very intuitive student of art in the nineteenth century,
the sphere of art at the end of the eighteenth century as a
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. So little is this
nineteenth century from the relationship that existed between
century’ it began to be necessary for artists to seek
of the history of art in the nineteenth century would reveal
in face of the outer waves of colour; it denotes man's ascent

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Spiritual Science. Before I pass on to the central theme I will
concentration, in the exercises that are given for the purpose
concentrate, our primary goal always is to suppress our egoity.
bearings, for this descent into the etheric body is not as easy
as the descent into the physical body. In very truth it is like

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to find, in the spiritual world, one who recently or some time
meditation, through concentration of his thoughts finds
concentration the soul is really in the condition in which the
central point of the series of pictures.
described as the centre-point of them, I must go right into

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concentration, something approaches which one is seeking
and concentration have called forth these pictures and we have
meditation and concentration, then we experience the process in
world. We sink into meditation or concentration. Thereby we

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concentrated his consciousness at a time that is not our
century. Thus we do not remain in our own epoch. Supposing this
living being, having in himself the centres of consciousness of
meaning of things bursts forth like fruit out of many centres.
a different mood is developed, the etheric body concentrates in

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exercise of concentrated thinking, in order to essay any
the extant 13th and 14th century documents about Italy, from
learn, learn very much, from our recent experience, Through

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either more or less unconsciously, and reach into more recent
central part of the design [ Figure 2b
expressed by allowing the central part of the design to be
concentrated upon the trans formation that took place,
form in the spirituality of Jacob Boehme in the 16th century.

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have for centuries been gathered together, making it
is Faust's ascent into the spiritual world at the end of Part
who in earlier centuries: migrated from regions more to the
of Siebenbürgen are Saxons; they are of Rhenish descent.
would be there, certainly, but it would never become a centre
the East we see a magnificently finished philosophy of
Central Europe does it hold good for the East, that
became, as it were, a cosmic soul, forming a cosmic centre of

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represents the will sphere, and the ascent the feeling

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recently that the art in our Building must contain a new
clear that anyone who concentrates on the actual drawing in a
humanity. To feel as it were in concentrated form those
genealogical tree through centuries, Probably there are very
Mothers — an actual ascent into the spiritual

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in the neighbourhood of a centre of initiation need not at all be a
here, as the centre of the Graeco-Byzantine culture, may be taken, if
magnificent epic poem “Kalevala” the three characters
live. Its influence can continue through the fact that a centre
centre should be there, in the same way in which the thoughts that we

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man and makes there centers of will. Then there are regions in
recently deceased persons. In the condition in which he is, with his

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HE essential aim of the lectures given here recently has been to build a
prevailing to-day began to develop about four centuries ago. And the
19th century, with all its pride of achievement, made a tremendous
In the age prior to the last four centuries, not only
Right on into the 15th/16th centuries, man's connection
into the modern age, into the 15th and 16th centuries.
phase which lasted into the 14th or 15th century. Men still heard
physical sound only. But until the 14th or 15th century something
the 15th/16th century. Humanity was wrested away from the genii of
15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Something of real significance was
experienced by the human soul prior to these centuries, when the

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beginning stages. It was about four centuries ago that things
began to get like they are today. Then the nineteenth century
to the time that preceded the last four centuries, man not
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries we could say that man
century. If you are not aware of this fact you cannot have
and fifteenth century. Whenever they spoke people heard
in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Mankind was torn away
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, unless he

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and eleventh centuries, this relation between external,
right until the eleventh or twelfth centuries through
evolution has made a descent so deep that a swamp has formed.
in its descent.
aesthetics that have come to the fore during the last century

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perform that function today are a contradiction of all decent

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earth spirit is to be able to concentrate its forces within.
earth, the earth spirit, concentrated within itself,
was most concentrated.
legend which has recently been extricated from old accounts,
that Olaf Asteson experienced something of this descent into
described in a wonderfully graphic way and centred in the
after-echo that we have today, and which was found centuries
in the first centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, in
the first centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch
notion of from the first four centuries of the fifth
In the fourth century of modern times, or, as we say in our
that everything agrees with everything else. I recently saw a
for fraternity, liberty and equality in the fourth century of
in more recent times, observing that often we do not notice
the past four centuries. Modern times were ushered in by the
centuries the part of the soul was awake that founded
spirituality again. During these centuries mankind was really

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the world from the point of view of Art. We have recently tried to
everything else round us and concentrating entirely on experiencing
and by shutting out all else and concentrating entirely upon it, and

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in forgetting everything else around us and concentrate
concentrated at the centre, and now goodness and mercy enter
Here in the centre (a drawing was done) we shall have to
green meadow, shutting out everything else and concentrating
cosmos, almost a hundred per cent so. At a time when people
are so proud of having reduced the percentage of illiteracy

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over the last few centuries.
his fiftieth birthday recently, and gave a leaflet out on
enough to concentrate the whole of his forces on what has to
be done, just as a child concentrates all his forces in play.

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we call thought concentration will come naturally to
more and more feel the need really to concentrate their
concentrate on a definite thought, so as to focus their soul
discovery in the course of concentrating. If we place a
thought in the centre of our consciousness and focus all our
of the physical body, and we concentrate the kind of thinking
concentration exercise, we did not attempt to do something
thought fades when we concentrate on it, but it will carry us
centre, a focal point around which the kind of

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centrifugal forces in space, in the cosmos, to what I would
like to call the branchlike centrifugal forces (on the
incentive for really acquiring imagination, inspiration and
along the hard path of meditation and concentration described in
first half of the nineteenth century. Then the second half of
the nineteenth century came, with all the discoveries that
nineteenth century that had insight into these matters still;
the first half of the nineteenth century, of this connection
at the literature of the first half of the nineteenth century
century. But neither of these kinds of clairvoyance can

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of being developed by those difficult paths of meditation and concentration
of the 19th century. Then came the second half of the 19th century,
Already I have said that in the first half of the 19th Century, people
Century in the life of mankind. As the first clairvoyance described
of the first half of the 19th Century — you still find —

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concentration described in
literature, was really the first half of the 19th century. Then
came the second half of the 19th century, with its so highly-rated
have already said that in the first half of the 19th century people
of this still existed up to the first half of the 19th century in
first half of the 19th Century — even if it cannot be described

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thought-life first awoke in the 7th, 6th century B.C. Before that
that comes to light so magnificently in the thought-structures of
All the questions which have arisen since the 16th, 17th century are
general. And for the first time since the 16th century we
—Consciousness soul! The magnificent example of how free
centuries B.C.; it lies before Homer, before historical times. But
through history for whom a century is a year; evolving in accordance
evolves as humanity except that a year is as long as a century. This
century corresponds to a year.
century has entered, so to say, into its ‘forties’. The
slowness where a century corresponds to a year of human life. Yet all

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recently pursued have shown that all true Art eventually
the last few centuries of evolution have in reality eclipsed
same extent, five, six or seven centuries ago, as they are
Dante arrived at the magnificent pictures of his poem, people
magnificent poem, as it were out of the void, out of mere
fourteenth century, when the natural scientific way of
descent into yourself you come into the region of your eyes
centuries preceding Dante's age, we find again and again with
seventh and eighth centuries. Some of them actually refer to
course of centuries, showing, however, that the secrets of
have had very little of Christ in the past centuries.
Recently, you

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today because the incentive is community with dear ones who
have recently gone away from us through death.) if it is
men — and in recent times young ladies too —
written in the sixties of the 19th century, you will gather
tale that was written in the sixties of last century is
in the sixties of last century. It is the phenomenon of the

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such a case recently — he has taken up into his
among us recently, when we attended the cremation of a dear
during the sad occasions caused by the recent loss of dear

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many painful events that have recently happened we have
little as possible in the central point of the universe.
out recently that the moment of death is really not to be
us recently. It would be a false picture of him if we were
has died so recently. The nature of this soul can best be
even on the horizon ... let alone at the centre of what he
most recent period of our work, creative activities and
centre on this hill. May there be a home here for this

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Meditation and Concentration
Meditation and Concentration
state all our will is concentrated on our connection with the
strivings, which through meditation and concentration of
concentrated.
concentrate and unite by means of his life-forces into what
must be reversed in the ascent to the spiritual world. There,
have the whole process concentrated within your own skin. So
glorious most magnificent sequences of colour and form, which
colour and tone, this starts off with the most magnificent
if clairvoyance begins with magnificent forms, especially
held recently and which were dealt with
rise at the beginning of the 19th Century. The task of
the 19th Century was quite filled by this fear, this horror
one thought like this in the 19th Century; but I can prove to
Feuerbach, a philosopher of the 19th Century who especially
This happened in the forties of the nineteenth century
Century; One must say: It is as if laid down afore time in
in the course of the 19th Century, a certain love of all
order to show how in the course of the century, thoughts

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Recently I
receiving as it were a concentrated picture of this process
and death. This process is concentrated in actual physical
cannot always act in such a drastic way as was done recently

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grains (centre) of the successive years. What I draw here (right) are the

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evolution, who transmuted this very central part of the Moon man to an
centre — (you may call him the Christ, if you wish), with Lucifer

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peninsula from the European centre and the East a life-bearing
in the centre. One can then see, for instance, how pains were taken
Century European evolution had so progressed that
Centuries one could see that it had no special
Century, the wave of Latinism drew completely over
left, there has poured in what came from Central Europe and the

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as I described yesterday, a type of humanity from Central Europe who
this whole great cosmic event of the descent of the Christ to Earth,
centre, the Ahrimanic and Luciferic beings at the sides. So that in

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many centuries to speak of spiritual science or to be understood when
Him. And we must give back the truths to the cosmos from the centre
concentration of the entire human evolution preceding
distribution, a bringing again into movement, of what is concentrated
concentrated in the Christ we take out and distribute again in
cannot be united with that which blossoms, as if from a new centre,
individuals who felt this way was the sixth century Byzantine emperor
For a long time (five or six centuries)
wisdom. The later centuries of the Middle Ages worked for the most

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however, in us human beings a connection between these two centres
link between these two centres in us does not actually come to our
centre. He came to a point where he asserted: ‘Yes,
as the centre from which, as shown yesterday, we can receive the
extraordinarily central phenomenon of earthly evolution must, however
century as
century.
century
century
century,

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lies centuries earlier may be related later. Sometimes, too, facts

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recently released from your spell. But I have decided to send the letter
only recently released from your spell.” I believe you all know

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We cannot simply assume that all the people out there are so decent
of decent and respectable actions. We cannot expect them to be concerned
In recent months, not only
no longer be considered a decent or respectable interpretation. This

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Into this central theme Steiner introduces a fascinating description of
theory, which is only one of the many that have been advanced in recent
the lecture to concentrate upon himself. One could, of course, ask:
only as a means of indulging in self-enjoyment. But we want to concentrate

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is actually a deepened and more concentrated form of waking consciousness.
point of which is equidistant from the center has a correct concept
is equidistant from the center, and am now to recall this concept, I

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Into this central theme Steiner introduces a fascinating description of
nice? Humanity took many millennia, not just centuries, to replace
Would e'er these people scent the devil.

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Into this central theme Steiner introduces a fascinating description of
was founded in the eighteenth century based upon what Jacob Boehme
further details reported about the adherents of that eighteenth century
prepare ourselves to make the right kind of understanding ascent into
recent German use, was simply taken over, to become the German word

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approach, into the statement made here recently when I characterized
mentioned recently, we are the only ones to gain by this; our thoughts
life. It is a sharing with the earth reminiscent too of the ancient

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In earlier times, even a couple of centuries ago, throughout Europe
made Goethe have the centenarian Faust go to heaven surrounded by the

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Would e'er these people scent the devil.
mobility is only the first stage of ascent into the spiritual world.
with what is perceived. Very few people of recent times have had any
body. It would be impossible to imagine anything as magnificently built
recent and indeed present times. Kepler talks of the “anima”

Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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one thing in mind. Just suppose that recent events confronting us had
great the percentage is of people who have the things we talk about
more recently. These more experienced members do not necessarily have
to the central impulses of spiritual science.

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friends, if the Society continues to be of as little use as the recent
joined us only recently can easily make mistakes, but I wonder what
had been, many recent events could not have taken place.

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of his day had to offer. A whole committee of experts has recently been
come alive in several recent lectures.
resound is concentrated in the larynx and adjacent organs. Thus the
now prevails, as I described in a recent lecture.

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is really confronting us in the Goesch-Sprengel case. In recent lectures
theory, the central complex involved in neurosis is a boy's forbidden
centres round the theme of incest and how the same theme, in countless
sexually deviant, although most of it is totally innocent. In most cases,

Title: Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
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What we have seen recently

Title: Community Life: Lecture 6: The Concept of Love as it Relates to Mysticism
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heart and mind only for the past six or seven centuries. Before that,
we have come so far that love occupies a central position in many people's
Recently, after so many attempts by men, a woman,
you to work on eradicating the mystical eccentricities that come about
fact until quite recently, as I pointed out yesterday), a much more

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nature is in a process of descent. Therefore, when we look at human
since a descent from the spiritual to the material has taken place in
it if we are aware that a descent of the physical human being takes
exist alongside more recent ones. I have showed you how this manifests
the course of descent can exist side-by-side with others that are still
process of descent can go on still further, so there could even be a
evolution reached its lowest point and a gradual re-ascent began. However,
point of descent with this curved shape at the bottom of the diagram.
This is where the earthly process of descent stopped. You can tell from
ever more clearly, our sexual organs represent the lowest level of descent.
down into matter. Our adult sexuality comes about through the descent

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
realised from lectures given recently that in our times a
centuries and millennia man participated in spiritual life to
and seventeenth centuries. This nature-knowledge was very
nineteenth century, actually in the middle of that century.
of the nineteenth century had reached their peak in the
middle of the century; it was then that these tendencies
the nineteenth century. It is certain that conditions will
century, and then there is again an ascent. But understanding
nineteenth century, when the materialistic tendencies of men
nineteenth century were men who, although they had seen
situation in the middle of the nineteenth century was that
nineteenth century a difficult situation confronted those who
came about that in the middle of the nineteenth century the
of the nineteenth century. Indeed the clashes and discussions
of the nineteenth century things had not reached the point at
esotericists of the nineteenth century were not prepared to
of its propagation. In recent weeks we have often spoken of
middle of the nineteenth century this popularising did not
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
developed to make ascent to the spiritual realms
the middle of the nineteenth century, had been the outcome of
the nineteenth century. I bring this forward because I must
even in the sixties of the nineteenth century.
name, a powerful sea-pirate of the seventeenth century. This
a bold sea-pirate of the seventeenth century who then, in the
nineteenth century, was involved in significant
century.
nineteenth century. We therefore have evidence of very
in the eighties of the nineteenth century, and in 1891 she died.
a history of world-views held in the nineteenth century. I
thought in the nineteenth century, it continues:
waged in Germany in the nineteenth century concerning views
here as “mystical eccentricities”.
“mystical eccentricities”.

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
Movement in the nineteenth century and its relation to
century; simply to adopt an attitude of criticism would be
view of the world arose in the nineteenth century quite
in which it appeared in the nineteenth century, as an actual
materialism of the nineteenth century, it will be quite
Middle Ages, or in the centuries immediately preceding the
century.
century: Atomism is an assumption, a working hypothesis which
nineteenth century. I have indicated to you in many ways that

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Four
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
nineteenth century.
the nineteenth century; and further, how an attempt was made
spiritual development of the nineteenth century to the
as our starting-point the fact that the nineteenth century
of that century was the time when the whole of mankind was,
century were enamoured of materialism.
arisen in the course of the nineteenth century in regard to a
Lucifer. In the nineteenth century men had no faculty for
nineteenth century and those who so desired were able to take
the nineteenth century men had not been in a position where
the nineteenth century could produce a type of person whose
materialistic tendencies of the nineteenth century; here,
century.
advantageous to the materialism of the nineteenth century
system. This was sharply accentuated in order that men should
end of the nineteenth century. H. P Blavatsky and Sinnett
materialism of the nineteenth century to be grappled with?
Eighth Sphere is centred in the Moon, is actually present up
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth.
necessary to go very thoroughly into matters recently

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
recent studies that when man tries to find his bearings along
that especially in recent centuries Western civilisation and
understand them. In earlier centuries, however, certain
century. But humanity is emerging from this condition.
materialism in the nineteenth century, then men must
are corporeal, strive towards the centre, and in so far as
from the centre and circling towards the outer regions.
towards the centre, so far as they are spiritual to the
strange contradiction with which we have been just recently
the antagonistic criticisms published during recent weeks, an

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
In a recent
recent weeks. But in order to follow this course strictly, it
years or decades ago, or quite recently, are most easily

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
century, it can be said that the Orders working with
centuries, those in the three lower degrees to whom, as the
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, these
nineteenth century, has affected the human soul in such a way
and sixteenth centuries were presented to the lower degrees,
centuries, symbolism ought to have been developed with
unearthed are of great antiquity. During recent centuries,
really magnificent would have come into being — but
lasted for seven centuries! Seven centuries would have taken
presented in recent lectures. Passive phenomena of nature,

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Nine
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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
practising this method in the course of the centuries man
during recent weeks what is the outcome if man limits himself
living, already for a number of centuries, in this world of
know. The second half of the nineteenth century did
in the nineteenth century, this nature-maya gradually emerged
speaking, in what has been developing for centuries there is

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The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century
in the 19th century and points out their effects even in our time.
touch of what we have recently encountered in the form of
“mystical eccentricity” — to use a rather
I recently

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From the lectures“Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle of the XIXth Century”
Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle of the XIXth Century.

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
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of the XIXth Century
A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
Occult Movements of the 19th Century (formerly GA 164).
Century
recent lectures given here my endeavour has been to show how in the
middle of the 19th century a flood of materialism burst into the
Particularly in the most recent lectures [“The
Occult Movement in the 19th Century.” Course of 10 lectures.]
middle of the 19th century there were evidences in the external
crowning point in Polish literature of the 19th century.
century, the young freethinker Gutzkow — then in his twenties —
was published in the thirties of the 19th century — at the
of the 19th century, a work in which a comparatively young man
The description of the field of battle is magnificent.
in such magnificent contrast in this drama. As is clear from the
a magnificent expression of Polish Messianism. We see how with the

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of the XIXth Century
A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
Occult Movements of the 19th Century (formerly GA 164).
the evolution of humanity, who in the middle of the 19th century
centuries and reaching a peak in the 19th century. This tide of
centred in the Mystery of Golgotha. Such feelings will enable these
markedly so since the last few centuries. They are remains from an
recently [See “The Occult Movement In the 19th
Century” — notably Lectures IX and X.] that a course
From indications I have given recently you will have
atom, of which I have recently spoken. These are fantasies of natural
19th century through a crisis of a particular kind. This crisis
14th century, of course, things have changed in this connection. —
case of Petrarch it was different, 1 century later, in the 14th
century, Petrarch read Virgil with far greater credence. He turned
century concerning that which — ever changing yet ever present

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of the XIXth Century
A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
Occult Movements of the 19th Century (formerly GA 164).
which I have been speaking here in recent weeks.
[“The Occult Movement in the 19th Century,”
four centuries — such men dimly divine and feel that they must
the full in the spiritual wrestlings of the 19th century. At the time
the beginning of the 19th century who believed, as did Fichte,
the 19th century when a certain mistrust of thinking became
the thirties of the 19th century, this soul found that a certain
Theodor Fechner, who in the fifties of [the] last century tried to build
19th century. He was the same man who had the controversy with

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
in later times and for centuries became a custom in certain Christian
evolved during the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries in the
countries of Central Europe (of which we have just seen one small
was developed in Central Europe, we see the wonderful, active,
middle of the eighteenth century the time begins in which they
only go back two centuries further to find something else which
which these Christmas plays became part of the life of the central
some church. This was in the fourteenth or fifteenth century; but it
centuries there was not as yet the knowledge of the Holy Mysteries,
more remote times of Christian development in Central Europe, nothing
Ernst Haeckel has recently appeared called Thoughts about Life,
domain. Let us consider science in the later centuries, especially in

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
centuries. Already in far distant times in various regions, mostly
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries in Central Europe, of which we
festival, was developed in areas of Central
eighteenth century, but it is wonderful to see how some remained
centuries to find something different, to encounter something most
gradually developed in areas of Central Europe, we are able to see
(This was still the case in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, for example, familiarity
of Christian development in Central Europe, only the Easter thought
book has just recently been published — perhaps you have read
there is in any way a wisdom-filled providence, a beneficent God
believing in any kind of beneficent providence or wise guidance of
centuries, especially from the nineteenth century until today, with

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first centuries of the Christian era, we find great spirits arising,
being, Jesus of Nazareth, we find everything concentrated that had
drawn together and concentrated in a single point, in the body of
concentrated into one point — the body of Jesus of Nazareth. This
the center of earthly and human evolution. Spiritual science can do

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indicated in a recent lecture, we are preparing ourselves in the

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winter night we hear the message of the Sun-Spirit's descent to

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nineteenth century, and I have again and again emphasised that the
natural science during the nineteenth century and on into the present
the fundamental type of the thought of the nineteenth century. I have
The most capable thinkers of the nineteenth century,
get no further. This unworthy thinking of the nineteenth century is
last century purely external sense-observation obtained and gave its
Hence the extraordinary progress of recent years.’
of the nineteenth century, even down to our own day, have shown
investigators in natural science in the nineteenth century proved

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I said of this yesterday] We have indeed made such magnificent progress that
come to think what a power newspapers have in the 19th century and the large

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actual beating in of the waves of this Central European
19th century, and to recognize that which is in these,
the whole central European German Folk substance. Because of

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itself into the physical in order after centuries to lead the
individuality who then later on after many centuries wants to
Recently we
century by Master Bertram and I want to tell you something
in the 13th, 14th century presents Lucifer there on the tree
Recently in my
WORLD AND LIFE VIEW OF THE 19TH CENTURY,
the enemy has national jealousy against the Center. The
Just recently
century needs it, needs it in order to take up a new form.

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the 19th century. H. P. Blavatsky was not a personality whom
the Central and Western Europeans.
Greco-Latin cultural period is continued in Central and
and Central Europe cannot occur with the Russians in so far
now has for the Western and Central Europeans and especially
strong ego as is the case in West and Central Europe can
dose of the Central European aspect. So there was present in
Central Europe, however, one must strive more and more to
able to go back to the beginning of the 17th century and find
of the 15th century and the task of this 4th period was to
period which begins with the beginning of the 15th. century.
concepts developed since the 15th century; the ancient
15th century. All of these arose previously in the
beginning of the 15h century something was threatening. What
in the beginning of the 15th century. The whole of external
only happened since the 17th century, at the time when the
the 10th, 11th, 12th centuries used as a curse by the
beginning of the 17th century, a certain soul incarnated in
there. Now, the people of Central and Western Europe were in
just what was taught there. Thus, the Central and Western
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since the beginning of the 15th century we lived in the
15th-century. This ether body could perceive much more of
When people in those centuries were still able to speak of
just poetical. However, to the people in these centuries,
13th, 14th century. We can see that at that time human beings
lost since the 14th century.
from that? Previously, before the 14th century, one could
to people since the 14th and 15th century; that could no
the 15th, 16th century, but they are so configurated now that
France in the 18th century by St. Martin, who is called the
do which was necessary the service of the 18th century. All
and 9th centuries in certain areas in Europe. For example,
recently but some time ago special effects went out which

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going back through the earliest centuries to that which was
exist and in those periods which preceded the eighth century
communities from generation to generation, from century to
century and sometimes it was utilized in a very bad way as I
of memory. That ended in the 14th century. However, beyond
the 14th century certain sensitive people did feel that the
understand the 15th, 16th, 17th century, you must get an idea
the 17th century, there were sensitive natures who knew: The
about the time of Savonarola in the 15th century, for
Mirandola, who lived at the end of the 15th century and also
to the 15th century in the soul mood in reference to how
century and this feeling died away.
17th century. A book by Friedrich Eckstein entitled
was recently published. Friedrich Eckstein is one of those people
the 16th, 17th century, we have in Amos Comenius a human
want to add some more things. A book has recently been

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of Hiram. So you see, the Easter thought stands as the center
valid for 2 or 3 centuries.
Central Europe attributes the same qualities to the Germans
there is much more of a Celtic element living within central
scientific development in the last four centuries, that the

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Morgenstern's poems recently appeared. Now you know that
understanding for this. We are living in the 20th century,
to the 19th century. Very shortly after the outbreak of the

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first half of the 16th century. That is not so long ago. But
in the 18th century. No, in order to understand his concept

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14th century. You will see that the way which he regards
the 13th century do reckon with the fact that overall there
century. One could work upon the astral body of these Indians

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development of Central Europe during the last centuries could
of the spiritual development of Central Europe which
Goethe are looked up to very much in recent times; Fichte
ideas. The whole spiritual development of the 19th century
century, what would have happened had these germs really

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curve passing through his spine has its center point in the
center point in the earth. Therefore man is connected with

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dear friends, centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha
back centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. One could say
German. We see that this book really belongs to the centuries
seer is Robert Hammerling, the great modern poet of Central
in the book I have recently written. What I would like to
figure who stands in the centerpoint of this Mystery of

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has been used frequently in recent decades. In viewing Weininger's
the last century had a marked influence on him. And the society around
Vienna of the end of the nineteenth century, a member of circles of
century Weininger was a member of circles whose most gifted members
something curious about these ideas: they are reminiscent of what we
Then he returns home, having recently felt much distress at the
the ideas you develop as you live in the twentieth century belong to
the twentieth century, the ideas you need for your next incarnation
many things that make death magnificent — and I am speaking now

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to calculate eclipses of the sun and moon that will happen centuries
of the Christ's descent from the sphere of the Sun to the Earth. The
Gospels, for they could understand what lay behind the descent of the

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middle of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries.
during the stage when they were approaching their most recent life in
encircling realm whose polar opposite is the point at the centre,
concentrate our attention on the first fourteen years of human

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this or that convolution of the brain is the speech centre, he is
centre in the brain that this speech centre is, in the first instance,
affects the blood. You should not concentrate too much on the physical

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— or stream — of justice works toward the centre.

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century. According to this point of view, the presence of cork-like
in more recent times. For the ancient Egyptians, most knowing was an

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a fundamental truth to which reference has been made in recent lectures,
detail in recent lectures.
itself? It is true that during the 18th century a loose kind of thinking

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mixed together with the sense of warmth, although more recently there

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on in the life processes and their central organs. Remember how we
Recently, a book written by a doctor who is interested in these things
is so free in his investigations that, especially more recently, he
centuries. In those days it was called the ‘sweet tone.’
During the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries the fifth was
Strangely enough, a book has been published recently:

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too. At the beginning of the nineteenth century people still spoke of
nineteenth century there arose a philosophy which expressed a longing
has lasted from the second half of the nineteenth century into our own
which refers to a concept that is central to Schiller's account of

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are truths of the kind indicated recently when I said: the Greeks
if we ask the right questions about what has been recently described
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the nineteenth century people still spoke of vital forces. Naturally,
of the spirit. When, at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, a
nineteenth century up to the present day. But it must be realised

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analysis of some recent directions in recent philosophical thinking. I
recent intellectual life as my point of departure. Later — very
fundamental to some of the most recent of contemporary schools of
some recent schools of thought find themselves in when they need to
their place in recent times.
recently. Initially, the physical sciences were his field. He turned
thinking up to the last third of the nineteenth century. Although it
the principle of Pragmatism as it has recently appeared.
in the more recent schools of thought. One must ask oneself,
examples. In recent times, a boundless flood of empirical knowledge
certain things that have emerged recently in the sciences, the example
ongoing stream of recent thought. Naturally, remnants of earlier
thought are always being intermixed with the more recent thinking. But
almost all recent thinking is based are already contained in what I
concerned with those. Now, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
It was left to a thinker of the final third of the nineteenth century
If you will observe all the various recent schools of thought, you
Whereas Biran, living in the first third of the nineteenth century, still
particular tendencies at work in recent thought. Bergson notices, on

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from the negative qualities of humanity. The nineteenth century

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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philosophers in the nineteenth century but there were also those who
not there we should be like innocent lambs, for the impulse would continually

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substance of the ether!’ The most recent time during which it
— indeed, as we said, until recent times this view was also
truth. It might even be ninety-eight percent true, but the dynamic
impetus of the remaining two per cent corrupts the whole thing and
quickly and not measured against reality. Recently I read an article

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responsibility for the truth. Of recent years this sense of
is uttered. It may be that 98 per cent of truth is spoken but yet the

Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen
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has become especially evident during recent phases of human
lofty wisdom — he cannot understand the innocent jokes that
learning to live in the innocent delights, delights that come to us
innocently from without and entertain us. When we take pleasure in a

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innocent joy and delight in the world outside. Lucifer cannot bear

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Recently we have had repeated occasion to cite a result of
the physiology of our more recent science has now added the senses of
the head as a kind of central point. The organ for perceiving another
our central nervous system also provides us with the sensory apparatus
warmth, but the sense for perceiving warmth is very much concentrated
our soul bring the part of our movement organism that is concentrated
evolution, become more and more concentrated in external speech.
a recent lecture concerned with philosophy. These men really have to
hypomochlion at the centre of a pair of scales, we have a sphere that
this centre, the more immobile the arm of the scales becomes. To

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the course of the centuries. You will discover this inwardly active
centuries ago, even though it was an atavistic understanding:
centuries onward, as the fourth post-Atlantean period came to an end,
centuries — not to that fable convenue that passes for
world in order to discover the next, central task of the fifth

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
seen from recent studies, we call them luciferic or ahrimanic,
ideas so strongly that, centuries later, men who have had to rethink
by side, we can hardly find among the factors of recent evolution (I
instance, Herbart in the nineteenth century, were anxious that
the sixth century ruler of the eastern Roman empire who codified the
question is often raised as to whether the central figures represent
coffin was started in the 4th century, and Justinian later only drove
Greek world light up again in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to
from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries onward we have again the

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
entirely from Rome with the strictest centralization and the utmost
its central point in 333 A.D. It ended about 1413 A.D. and it began
fifteenth century. It does not matter whether something occurs a few
avoid devious paths. In the seventeenth century one had to speak of
time to become luciferic and ahrimanic forces. Only the center was
Atlantis, as we know, is gone and the center transposed to Asia. You
century and went rapidly through many editions. I believe the
century: The Life of Jesus by Renan, The Life of Jesus
always takes the same path. In the early centuries of Roman
repeatedly in the West until, in the thirteenth century, national
sixteenth century the word has had the same significance in such
In complete accord with the science of the nineteenth century, he sets
opportunity for concentrating the myth forming activity of mankind
over the world, are concentrated in this single man Jesus. They are
force and strength. In Him it is concentrated. Strauss, therefore,
that a man of the nineteenth century is able to conceive! The element
nineteenth century in a threefold description. The Life of
written with all the learning of the nineteenth century. Then came

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
alluded to in the previous lecture because, in more recent times, in
taking shape in the course of past centuries. The general population
following for the teachings that came from them. Like a single central
Now at a certain time a being was born in Central America who set
At this same time in Central America another man was born who was
paramount, and the relatively beneficent conditions of the time of
interest in the Jesus figure would naturally decline and would center
beneficent ways, but it also has a strong tendency to become the
recently, then it is clear that other and deeper impulses must now

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which is to stand as a promise that into the recent development
Surveying the centuries which follow, we find that again,
which passed over Europe, particularly Central Europe, and had
that in the eighteenth century a human yearning turns to the
Greek art-spirit. We see the nineteenth century, inspired by
the nineteenth century, that wonderful, yet, after all,
century in the revival of antiquity. But everything is prompted
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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
Association have not heard the recent lectures held here, I will not
one's understanding the facts that have been presented in our recent
and for good reasons — for three or four centuries, resembles a
times. With the exception perhaps of its very last centuries, but
material life. It begins in the eighth century before the event of the
twelfth centuries of the Christian era differed more radically from
and tenth Christian centuries.
from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, bears essentially the
its course approximately in the middle of the nineteenth century. As
century. In the period from the fifteenth century to the middle of the
human evolution in an earlier century than the one in which they did.
centuries, did not formerly exist. In fact, they correspond to a
centuries. The Greeks or Romans could not have looked at the world
from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries? They are mainly the
has created the natural science of the last three or four centuries,
represents the faculty that belongs to those centuries. It is clear to
from the middle of the nineteenth century on for the gradual
in the last three or four centuries. Why have these faculties arisen
nineteenth century. Those who know something of the spiritual life
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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
this fourth epoch lasted until the beginning of the fifteenth century
A.D. With the dawning of the fifteenth century, trends began to
fifteenth century until the fourth millennium, consists in the
century of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, but behind the curtains of
the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D.
Remarkably, at the battle of Liegnitz in the thirteenth century, the
century, have been deeply engrossed in the question of the birth

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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
preparation since the fifteenth century. We have seen what new
concentrated and clearest manner what the impulses of our time ought
since the fifteenth century, and that will be at work for about two
fifteenth century because things that are to develop spiritually must
fourteenth century, when the Templar Order — not the individual
societies over England, France, Spain, part of Italy and Central
beneficent, the divine, but also the luciferic and ahrimanic forces.
innocent, they were accused of every imaginable vice. One day in
right into Central Europe and Italy — action was also taken
intellect as we have done also in the other examples given in recent
the first time in the eighties of the last century, I faced the
vigor as if crippled, then, from what we have had to say recently
cultural life of humanity. Not only centuries but millenniums will be
nineteenth century and now on into the twentieth. A great number of
fourteenth century.

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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centuries to the sixteenth and seventeenth forms a remarkably
Faust originating in the legend of the sixteenth century, you
will see that not only this sixteenth century Faust but also
to an end with the fourteenth, fifteenth centuries, of which
and needs in former centuries, is indeed nothing but
centuries, even the centuries immediately preceding the age
soul in former centuries, in centuries long past, while at
sixteenth century, the historical Faust who actually lived
centuries, and also the wisdom in particular of pre-Christian
of the sixteenth century, this wisdom was definitely on the
Faust of the eighteenth century, of of the nineteenth and
indeed of many centuries to come. Hence we see Goethe's Faust
was looked upon in centuries long past, was by no means so
magic like the Faust of the sixteenth century. But he is
casts for the scent strayed from his master's
the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth centuries. As I have
the soul-development of past centuries. In the days of Faust
eighteenth century, from which I should like to read you a
since the 14th, 15th, centuries that his impulses have been
up to the 14th, 15th centuries, a certain number of the
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Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture VII
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western black magic mysteries centered in Mexico. New light is also
and nineteenth centuries in Europe, one must naturally have in mind
the nineteenth century and their constitutional conflicts, will
generations, centuries. This way of thinking about religious matters
fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries is, as we know, also permeated
further in the super-sensible impulses from the fifteenth century on
recent times, however, have at last arrived at seeing that the sun is
in the center and Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
thinking from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, has had
centuries. They had to give themselves up to fantastic ideas about
been greatly intensified in men during the last few centuries
followed a course in the centuries just past that drew man away from
of spiritual matters ever since the fourteenth century. It has been a
sense of these faculties, slept deeply in the centuries indicated. On
they had left reality. Because these capacities slept, past centuries
humanity has even become freer than it was in earlier centuries, and
I chose for an example. In the centuries gone by, and right up to
will bear the traces of our having passed through the centuries since
centuries. Quite different practical operations, practical mastery of
the past centuries. This mystery must first be grasped on its depths;

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Goethe and the Crisis in the Nineteenth Century
Goethe and the Crisis in the Nineteenth Century
crimes, of which they were most certainly innocent — as can be proved
centuries.
important for all the succeeding centuries of modern times. If it had been
impulses which appeared among mankind from the 15th to the 19th century.
succeeding centuries.
the tragedy broke out in the Order of the Templars — a whole century
still from the earth — became in succeeding centuries for many others
hidden stream; and then at the end of the 18th century we come to a
whole of the 19th century and right on into the present time. At the end of
the 18th century, we see the French Revolution spreading its currents far and
works in Man to begin with through the I. At the end of the 18th century, Man
century, because everything was applied to the body, and ideals which only
spirit, and when the three ideals of the end of the 18th century are referred
spirit. That people were unable in the 18th century and have continued to be
unable throughout the 19th century to understand this, was a result of the
evolution in the way I have described. The 18th century mixed up Equality,
the way it has been understood in the 19th century, it can only mean social
centuries, by Galvani and Volta. People give far too little thought to such
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Nineteenth Century, published in German as, Innere Entwicklungsimpulse der
trace how these impulses pass over into a recent material. And
in the last lecture, we saw at the end of the 18th century, it
centuries and flowed into European development could be
19th century. In this 19th century all those impulses of which
middle of the 19th century was a most important time; —
century, really entered upon a quite definite crisis. That
brought about in the 15th century, through this intellectual
the social ideas of the 19th century, all have as their aim the
humanity, and to concentrate them on that Figure. And so, that
how the Myths of Centuries all flow together. With D. F.
so, in the middle of the 19th century, as I have told you, that
our 19th century, reached a certain crisis. At that time, the
century, the striving after happiness was gradually transformed
19th century, both in the sphere of knowledge as also in the
disturbed them especially that the 19th century should bring
forth a striving especially concentrated on the principle of
question of how humanity should be led in the 19th century in
concentrated on the phenomena of Birth and the question of
as it really entered the world of the I9th century, did not
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Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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of Christianity, and the following centuries until the beginning
first Christian centuries. Should the Redeemer be represented in
faculty which they had still possessed in former centuries under
succeeding centuries they lost the power to create true plastic
man's gaze is now made inward and centered upon the earthly life;
changes in the course of centuries. It was a tremendous change
composition is reminiscent of the former picture, you will see,
place of the Earlier Art, creating as from a single centre of
— raying outward from the centre — how each single
we come on into the 14th and 15th century, we see the longing,
for example, at the magnificent building here. Observe how the
Filippino Lippi's work, both in the central figure of the
that for his time the artist's answer is magnificent.
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52. Fra Angelico: Descent from the Cross. (Academy.
concentrated on a single feeling, and yet this single quality of
progress from the 14th to the 15th and on into the 16th century
everything proceeds as from a centre, and we feel his composition
therefore, from the 13th, 14th, 15th centuries, we recognise the
of the soul. And now, coming across from Central and Eastern
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Nineteenth Century, published in German as, Innere Entwicklungsimpulse der
only exists in man's body up to 6 per cent. 90 percent of man's
reminiscent of that, even as the book appears in translation.

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men in recent times, by way of pictorial representation and the like.
century Italian Christianity witnessed the rise even among the Popes, of
reckoned with), — this Earth was the centre of the whole Universe.
the world which only came forth in the succeeding centuries. He had
their way to the surface during later centuries), of Michelangelo, on
a true concentration of the existing order of the world. This Florence
were concentrated, for example, in Vittoria Colonna, hoping to permeate
Of Raphael we may say, he carried Urbino — East-Central Italy
This is a very recent
reminiscent of the peculiar composition in the Last Supper, but aims
26. Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs. (Bas-Relief.) (Casa Buonarotti. Florence.)
57. Tomb of Lorenzo. (The central figure.)
61. Tomb of Lorenzo. (The central figure.)
Christ in the centre, as the cosmic Judge. You will see how Michelangelo
corner of East-Central Italy.
once more the center of Christianity by rebuilding the derelict Church
of the Pope, wishing to achieve a new greatness of Christianity centered
because the two central figures are supposed to be Plato and Aristotle.
was to contrast the supersensible Inspiration, the descent of the
two central figures are to be understood as follows: On the one hand
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture I
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post-Atlantean epoch, and much to which I have recently
recently? Did not his published letters number six or seven
thousand by the turn of the century, and today number almost
Now, I have often referred recently to the strange error of an
century, whereas his mother's family, the Textors, was old,
the third and fourth centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean
young people are anxious to wipe the most recent learning
Doctor of Jurisprudence — Licentiate
the sixteenth century, but whose part in them was of such a
half of the century.
the life, and the struggle of the sixteenth century
concentrated in one personality as he could never otherwise
Bear in mind, it was the sixteenth century, the time of the
the Sixteenth Century as is known today by many a pastor about
it were, to what had come about since the sixteenth century. In
the second half of the eighteenth century. It also surrounded
abstract way, Goethe presented it in a magnificent visible form
literally that if Faust had been a decent man, he would have
century, was certainly narrow-minded. Yet at least it is

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fundamentally concerned with the truth. In my most recent book,
when concentrated in Schiller's
but it will take centuries to do so. It may well be, therefore,

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does when concentrated in Schiller's
the course of centuries; so that Goethe, when he comes

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whose main center is the brain, centered in the head, the
nerves that are centered in the spinal cord, and the nerves
sense of sight, merely through scent or hearing, as the one
through this? You see, for many centuries it has been so that a
gradually been introduced since the nineteenth century, and a

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first there are the nerves whose chief centre is in the
brain—nerves, therefore, which are centred in the
head. Then there are the nerves which are centred in the spinal
emerged recently in the somewhat dense and idiotic way in
long centuries past, a man who grows into the life of
has indeed become less flagrant in the 19th century,

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mainsprings in Middle Europe. I mean that Central Europe which we
magnificently in the older Mid-European miniature painting. This,
centuries. Then from the West emerged another impulse, which had
13th centuries it was completely interwoven with the united impulse
and concentrated most of all in Southern France, there came what we
which, concentrated in the South of France, grew especially in the
9th, 10th and 11th centuries. It brings into the Gothic Art that
West, notably in the 12th and 13th centuries, to permeate once more
say that in the centuries before Dürer, the Mid-European
thirteenth century. At that time the Mid-European feeling had grown
which was then flowing over Central Europe.
This is the central
thirteenth century into the fifteenth, and on into the
This is the center-piece of the ‘Paumgartner altar.’
history of evolution, magnificently expressed by placing the
the center; for this Madonna of Nuremberg belongs undoubtedly to a
the 16th century or perhaps a little later. Much of the tenderness

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the fifteenth century. If men would pay more attention today to
since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They would
since the fifteenth century would cause astonishment to those
people to criticize the fact that, in recent times, vocations
have become more specialized and that not so many centuries ago
of the recent fifth post-Atlantean period have become
only two or three centuries ago, you will find that the human
are made about other more recent endeavors, and ideas are

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of these lectures are tending more or less to the central
you know, began about the 15th century. It is a pity the
changed since the 14th and 15th centuries in the
and vocations, since the 15th century. Anyone who really let
there is little wisdom in such criticism. ‘Not many centuries
adolescent children and declaring them fit for this or
culture — even a few centuries ago — you will find
Church in the centre. Six days of the week are devoted to trade

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opinion.’ (Public opinions, according to a 19th century
important for the last few centuries. He invents
— which, it appears, a theologian recently described
that one's judgment of what constitutes a ‘decent and proper

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of the nineteenth century termed “private foolishness.” To
century. But it is Mephistopheles who really invents it. Faust
sediment. A theologian recently called it somewhat coarsely —

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centuries we witness the development of a unique artistic life in
until the 12th and 13th centuries if we merely consider what we
earlier centuries from what it afterwards became. It was only in
manner of excesses even before the twelfth century. And while in
moral life, as we showed in a recent lecture, fell to the state
the centuries until the 12th — nay, the beginning of the
centuries to which I now refer, in Middle Europe, are all devoted
centuries from that time onward until the 12th and 13th there
from the 13th century onward a certain decline can be observed.
of work and progress in the best souls, from the 11th century on
century, had been preserved. All that we now bring to light
of the 12th century, which has been found at Tegernsee in Bavaria,
the 12th and 13th centuries were well aware of these possibilities
magnificently and independently side by side with the Art of the
the 13th century. They are at Halberstadt.
There is Mary, there is St. John, and in the center the Christ,
as we go on into the following centuries.
wood, and dates from the first third of the 13th century. None the
the first third of the 13th century. They show an altogether
14th century, and see what had occurred by that time. We have a few
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the 19th century. In the recently published biography we are
see: All his queer cranks and eccentricities — and he had
century, and on a larger and larger scale in our own
recent discoveries. Max Eyth, however, finds that the
bridges. Magnificently he describes the faculties he has,
magnificently described. He himself is in the first train to
attempts of recent times to penetrate into the secrets of

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the nineteenth century. The biographical sketch
We have often experienced this in the nineteenth century and up
that the author was quite familiar with various recent endeavors to

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content of my recent lecture at Liestal, where I pointed
understands what was spiritually at work in the first centuries
seventh century A.D. — if he knows these spiritual
people of former centuries and millennia — they could
upon the life of the nineteenth century? The type of humanity,
said Mill, which the nineteenth century developed, is
Liberalism of the 19th century —
— our time must concentrate on the Reality (meaning
really was for the whole course of the nineteenth century. She
— In recent times they had fallen more and more in the
purposes which they pursued in the way I recently described to
give you an example from the most recent times in Europe,
of the war, which, as I indicated recently, will in all
preserved in silence. These people may be quite innocent; for
sources. They may be quite innocent. Nevertheless, they too
recently chose the example of a very ‘enlightened’ pastor and
as Maeterlinck did recently: to represent Goethe and Schiller
told you in these lectures of a book recently written by the

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to do with the inner life. As a whole, the central concern of
spiritually at work in the first centuries of the Christian
centuries — so that we know the spiritual impulses of that
social character upon the life of the nineteenth century lead?
developed in the nineteenth century and asked how the bourgeois
the sixties of the last century! Mill, who speaks first of his
century, to a conglomerated mediocrity. Referring to what Mill
course of the nineteenth century. She appeared at the very time
the most recent times in Europe, without thereby intending to
— probably never entirely explained, as I recently suggested.
innocent as children, in spite of the fact that they may be old
recently gave an example in St. Gallen and Zurich of an
has most recently done, and to write long articles about the

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sixteenth century. In order to consider the hereditary
sixteenth century was a rather versatile person but also an
century, was a highly respected man. As a pupil of this man, he
that in the middle of the nineteenth century we reached the
of the nineteenth century continue to develop further? In the
century was the period in which the view was presented that a
nineteenth century have written, and you will find at what
century for it deals with the human soul. Every possible effort
nineteenth century.
recently pointed out to you that modern humanity is cruel even
of all. But I saw so many decent working class couples here

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inclinations of the feeling life. In the nineteenth century
these self-centred notions by describing the successive epochs
work I recently placed before you a sorry picture of our
naturally from our recent considerations.
Graeco-Latin epoch, or notably beyond the fourth century B.C.,
into the fifth, sixth or seventh century (so that we might even
eighth century after the Mystery of Golgotha. In the times when
done in the third or fourth or fifth century B.C., ‘Thy Angel
to know what it is to get beyond this self-centred limitation
steam-engine was not properly invented until the 18th century,
comparatively recent? The year 1763 — what I now
Think now of what I recently told you, what will happen in the

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bore obvious fruit during the nineteenth century: in the rise
happening recently may not constitute a violation of the time
it recently happen, for example, that a book was published by a
we should pass beyond the fourth century before Christ all the
way into the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries — we might
seventh and eighth centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. The
Christ in the third, fourth, or fifth centuries, cause a gentle
century. What existed before that time constituted nothing more
bear in mind what I recently explained as something that will

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expressed in a magnificent image at the beginning of the Old
centuries preceding the Mystery of Golgotha, therefore, they
partially possible. In this ascent the possibility is lost to
century, this truth has been exactly reversed in Sinnet's book,
appeared only during the centuries just prior to the Mystery of
in this book is reminiscent of what I have mentioned most
recently in lectures, even about actual events, although I
related to our views of the world. Recently, Hermann Bahr also
orthodox, or let's say, more recent Catholicism. At any rate,
middle of the 19th century. During that time, the people who
the middle of the century that mankind was indeed ready to be
the 19th century, but those who held this view were, in a way,
contrast to what I explained in my recent speech in Bern, the
before 1870 and established magnetic centers in the North,
magnetic centers established by Bismarck had been at work,
because I had talked about these things recently and because

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of the nineties of last century. It was curious to see what a far-reaching
significance, especially so for the close of the 19th century. People
Human souls no longer had the force to penetrate to the heart and center
the 19th century. In all directions it had become essentially a culture on
only in a superficial way. What, after all, did the late 19th century
dependent on that artistic movement which I have characterised in recent
arch-representative of those who felt themselves in the 17th century so
recent lantern lectures, have brought before our souls the flowering
Gall in the 10th century, and relating how Mid-Europe was overwhelmed
509. Descent from the Cross. (Alte Pinakothek.
16th century in this weaving of the light. — But Rembrandt had
558. Descent From the Cross
mighty personality, lighting forth in the seventeenth century.

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the England of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to allow for
‘At the centre of all the
prevailing at the centres of modern civilization ...’
the events of recent decades side by side, so that out of these
events of recent decades are such that they cannot be judged
about what lives today in Central Europe has to be made from a
everything contained in Central Europe each single individual is
world these days about the so-called guilt of the Central Powers. The
periphery about Central Europe. At the end of the article we read:
article Brandes wrote recently, following an argument with Grey,
the premise that the Central Powers alone (namely, certain persons)
free again within half a century. Alliances never last as long as
myths and sagas and literary materials of West and Central Europe,
We must realize that the population crowded together in Central
years. In Central Europe we have to do with the treasure of the
been created over the centuries. It would be utter nonsense to
it really so? A Swiss newspaper recently published articles which, in
the nations of Central Europe. Even in articles expressing judgements
people in Central Europe who are equivalent, say, to Maeterlinck.
saint of charitable love, Vincent de Paul, who still has many
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eighties of the last century, was practising analytical psychology,
Whoever, since the nineteenth century, has concerned himself
nineteenth century — there, ideas have been borrowed from
century was more a matter of feeling, of passionate impulsiveness,
nineteenth century imitated British institutions. In many places
In England during the nineteenth century, let us say up to its
the nineteenth century, and as such it is, in a certain way, the
the nineteenth century by those who are concerned with such things.
against the Triple Alliance that had come about in Central Europe
straits and, secondly, over the course of the centuries far too much
of the nineteenth century there were three directions in which the
ancestors have lived for centuries; but I would set it on fire with
bit has taken place recently that could astonish us. Where social
since the nineteenth century and has now entered the twentieth is not
gone on in Romania recently has been puzzling. This is connected with

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heart. (You will find a note on Schröer in my recent
the seventies of the 18th century — 1772, 1773, 1774;
century). Once in a church in Paris a Canon was preaching in
a small percentage of what is solid. Thus you need not
Thither where our aims are centered
legend arose in the sixteenth century. The spirits left
directed it, for men were like that in the 18th century, they

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connections”, others by his rumoured descent from an exalted
eccentricities, but by and large nothing crucial, necessary or
I said that someone who has lived through recent decades in a
recently. Yet in it there appears a passage that I shall quote in a
In more recent years his beloved friends in Danzig have invited
by the way, that his recent book about expressionism is full of
recent novel that through his very worldliness, through his longing
the necessity to discover something about man's ascent into the
nineteenth century, a paramount endeavour to find a way in which the
whole history of Austria-Hungary in recent decades, with all those
they have thrown off in recent decades in order to found individual
society which, though centred in Serbia, had threads leading in every

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and significant in European life during recent decades: that there
a situation arose in the second half of the nineteenth century, when
influenced by the European periphery, formed themselves in Central
degrees of these secret brotherhoods. In Central Europe the Omladina
recent decades. In the western, particularly in the English
nineteenth century, of the coming world war, and it was always
recent times but, above all, they have for decades been the plaything
century. Little is discussed nowadays which can really throw light on
second half of the nineteenth century. He was an attractive
connections in all the states of Central Europe, it is easy to
blending. Even in the seventeenth century this played a considerable
yet ready to agree to the ascent of Karageorgevich to the throne; at
Recently I have often had to ask myself what might be the origin
negotiations with the representatives of the Central Powers he plays
between Central Europe, England, America, and so on — in other
a number of people in Central Europe, particularly in Germany, the
Everything that has happened in recent years is full of deceptions,
Still, a situation had now been reached in Central Europe that
century. I shall now quote one of these voices. You will have to

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towards the end of the 15th century and on into the 16th.
emerges — century after century during these epochs — what
in its nascent state, as it were, in the very moment of its origin,
chance that this special development in the 15th century took place
the middle portion above the Altar. The figure in the center, in Papal
in the first third of the 15th century. Hubert Van Eyck died in 1426;
of the 15th century.
we will show the angel-pictures, to the right and left of these central
centuries. It could not have been embodied in this beautiful artistic
it thus. Throughout the centuries of Christianity this idea had gradually
of the Middle Ages, grown and matured in the course of the centuries,
15th century.
18. Rogier van der Weyden. Descent from the Cross. (Berlin.)
19. Rogier van der Weyden. Descent from the Cross. (Prado.
about 1452 — the middle of the 15th century.
16th century, other elements mingle more and more with what was
45. Hieronymus Bosch. Descent from the Cross.
this is already in the 16th century.
definitely of the 16th century. I spoke just now of the

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century ago. For had they done so today's painful situation
century. Certainly some insights — and much depends on insights
books, that in Freemasonry the ascent through the various degrees is
fifteenth century and died in the first half of the sixteenth
century. We may well ask whether all he did was to refuse the king
‘There was recently a rather
turn of the fifteenth to the sixteenth century; the Lord Chancellor
in the eighth and ninth centuries. I am not concerned at the moment with
Then in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries we see that the
Spain, and we see that not until the eighteenth century can Italy
begin to think of recovering from centuries of pain and suffering.
We are in the fifties of the nineteenth century. How did it come
more on the feeling level, and a more practical attraction to Central
practical tendency of Central Europe.
tendency which leaned towards Central Europe. It is interesting, for
with Central Europe came to be taken for granted at that time. I am
these days. Italy joined Central Europe in 1882 in what came to be
The consequence was that Italy's practical links with Central
the connection of the Apennine peninsula to Central Europe took on a

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fact that, on the part of America, the twentieth century is
the spiritual world. Yet he lived a whole century after the beginning
bodies — of course not during the course of a few centuries but
I have spoken recently in various places about the connection
centuries!
Consider the imposing number of centuries one would remain within
century. They continued into the twentieth century, but it was
particularly in the nineteenth century that they were taken up, at
century, is composed of those peoples who are called upon to speak
what is going on in the North, what developed through Central Europe
the twelfth century, when the Papacy began to be no longer what it
roughly the end of the eighteenth century. As a rule, when such
had come by their knowledge. Particularly since the sixteenth century
stood in relation to Central Europe, so a configuration will have to
ogre — for which many in Central Europe want to take him. I

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also come to be known recently, if one makes the effort to go
This aversion has recently intensified into a burning hatred which
which lies in the centre of Europe. It is not my task to speak about
century. There are people who challenge the founding of the German
about whether a German Reich in Central
which this empire in Central Europe arose. They do not consider, for
many centuries a kind of reservoir, a kind of fountain-head for the
from Central Europe, as from a reservoir of peoples, all sorts of
This spreading out took place in all directions. In Central Europe
centre had to develop differently is that jump — which I do not
the periphery stood by what was to be found in the centre to the
of what is present in the consciousness of Central Europe is linked
with the way the soil of this empire in Central Europe has constantly
This was particularly the case in the seventeenth century, during the
Thirty Years' War, in which Central Europe lost up to one third
destroyed. The peoples of Central Europe were utterly flayed by those
Now it is not surprising that in Central Europe the inclination
that. I said it is not surprising that the impulse arose in Central
side, to build up some protection against the centuries of attack
necessary for Central Europe though not, of course, for the East.
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What was important in centuries now gone by was not so much the
custom was guided by Mystery priests in a Mystery centre focused on
what is today Jutland, part of Denmark. This Mystery centre was able
more recent times, which appeared increasingly as the age of
Central Europe right into the eighth, ninth and even the tenth
centuries, for these feelings originated from prevalent usages, such
centre which laid down the season when provision could be made for
that on the Jutland peninsula there really was a Mystery centre which
of mankind. So this Mystery centre could only exist in most ancient
the Mystery centres a ‘sun hero’. Now he was destined to
until quite recently in history, right into the early Christian
centuries. There were Ertha processions even in Swabia. These were
preserved, appears in Anglo-Saxon. As I showed recently,
matters we have discussed recently. So let us take an example. I have
social life. In what has been said in recent lectures you will have

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lingered on into the eighth, ninth, tenth centuries after the Mystery
spread from Jutland across Europe, especially Central Europe.
Situated in the region of Denmark was the chief Mystery centre
centres such as that in Denmark, which I described as regulating, as
the spring and their fading in autumn. From this centre in Denmark
What is the question our soul might place before us? In recent
discovery. Coming from the West to Central Europe you discover that
this is impossible unless it has been imported from Central Europe.
But in Central Europe there are isolated individuals who have a kind
mission in Central Europe. It was to link the West with the East in

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impulses living in the more recent karma of mankind, namely, the
middle of the nineteenth century, an endeavour was made to draw the
go over it again. Around the middle of the nineteenth century, then,
it was the concern of a certain centre to draw people's
Now in the middle of the nineteenth century
been attempted at that time, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
middle of the nineteenth century. But it soon became obvious that the
tendencies of the nineteenth century, had set this attempt in train.
harmless. In recent decades, as you know, the pronouncements of
But the nineteenth century was no longer like earlier centuries in
French soul’; this has been repeatedly said in recent years. It
about the time around the tenth century, when the constitution of
that, in Central Europe, at that time the members of the ruling
perfectly natural that the countries of Central Europe should take
the lead. Life in these Central European countries was shaped
routes. It was quite different from what came later. As the centuries
origin. Recent history cannot be understood without the realization
little significance is attached to Central Europe, for they are
Central Europe. A great deal of importance was attached, however
You see, the fact is that the whole of recent history has to do
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Our recent considerations have, on the one hand, referred to human
concrete experiences of the day with the nerve centre, the inmost
me that some of the things I have said recently have indeed been open
May I remind you that in my recent book
the Central Powers; we are not to blame for the commencement of the
recent times, for it depicts a logic riven beyond all meaning. This
events took the course they did in recent years. Of course, if you
things. For in accordance with the nerve centre of spiritual science,
with China. From the end of the eighteenth century there was a lively
something else. From the seventeenth century onwards the habit of
before the seventeenth century they had not done so. For those who do it,

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penny or a centime invested at the time of the birth of Christ at
all, this has been going on for a century — is something which
decades or centuries to come, people will condemn with an equal
moral patriotism. In the centuries to come, today's events will
observed in very recent centuries. For instance, those scientists who
I have given here in recent weeks have not been without a wider
nineteenth century or at the beginning of the twentieth. Now since
population has increased considerably in recent times, and so many
to the true core of the myths. That was in the eighteenth century. By
the nineteenth century the most total and utter nonsense was being
seeing what has happened in recent weeks a different judgement could
describes has been peculiarly English for a century.
which long has been or which has recently come to be. Had Austria
that, preserving the peace for nearly half a century, is enabled to
know the truth even about Central Europe. It is not right that we

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hypochondria, the eccentricities, the dissatisfactions, the
the languages of Central Europe this can be felt quite clearly: many
sometimes in a very concentrated form, if they refuse to accept what
endeavouring to describe for such a long time, more recently even in
ascent from mere onesided intellectual life into Imaginative life,
nineteenth century the yearning for objectivity deserted us
twentieth century in comparison to all that went before. The effect is
American humanity in the nineteenth century; it is the karma of
understanding it, we can come to comprehend one of the central aspects
Now quite recently the author — known, and yet unknown — of
allowing this to be seen as proof — that the Central Powers never
the Reichstag is saying that the Central Powers did react to the
said, for it is Sasonov whom he is quoting! The Central Powers never
England to Prince Heinrich. In other words, the Central Powers did
concludes that the Central Powers did not reply and have thus made
written quite recently. A perfectly honest attempt is made in this context
final volumes have only recently been published. Other strange things

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Comprising an evolution through several centuries, they will bring before
of the early Christian centuries into the times of the Renaissance.
Mysteries whose center, as I told you, was in Denmark. This stream is
and less understood in the further course of centuries. True, it also
recently. Our friends drew up the Horoscope for that point in the course
of these things did not decay or die out absolutely until the 18th century.
Even as late as the 18th century people still spoke of something which
that underlie the appearance of the Three Wise Men. In the 18th century,
Even in the 18th century it was expressly stated in certain circles
(15th century) The Nativity, etc. (German Woodcuts.)
4. The Nativity, 11th Century. (Limburg Monestary.)
5. The Flight into Egypt. (Evangeliar of the 12th century.
century once more; and we now go on to Correggio.
of the 15th and 16th centuries, to Albrecht Dürer.
(Codex Egberti. Trier. 10th century.)
from Menologion of Basil II (Vatican. Rome. 11th Century.)
we find ourselves in the 13th century. We go on into the 15th and come
century is Piero di Cosimo.
old Mosaic, of the 6th century.
(Menologium Basilius. Vatican. 11th century)
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outdistanced mankind in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today's
in the nineteenth century. This shows that in their soul development
continue its development along the lines of the nineteenth century,
only stem from the culture of Central Europe. But in the form it has
to the most recent events, our age is thoroughly disinclined to accept
peace and they must also create legal norms which can centain their
century, and also in the twentieth century, in various parts of the
points during the nineteenth century it could have been possible to
expressed in a long novel about recent times, which caused a very
is used today instead to show that the world in most recent times has
in recent decades the impetus for the whole development of this British
imperialism. This is what has always been striven for in recent times,
British politics right up to the nineties of the nineteenth century.
beginning of the century — she gave a lecture on theosophy and
Until quite recently a remnant of the puritanical element was still
recently in The London Magazine

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souls of Central Europe it is the ego that is receptive, and for those
century, the historian Professor Seeley
British history as it had developed over the centuries from the point
I have told you, during the final decades of the nineteenth century
century an English book
in Treitschke's definite antipathy towards more recent history and
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as aimed consistently at the
centuries; yet at the same time the Russians claim to be entirely
first water — the Tsar's decree that has recently been going round the
break out in the twentieth century between Russia and Austria.’

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of most recent history leading up to the present, I expressly stated
obvious bounds. But it is clear from various recent publications —
West are the Slovenian Slavs; to the East, adjacent to them, the
entirely federalistic, not centralistic, and before the war it tended
From 1867 to 1879 centralism was the aim; from 1879 onwards the efforts
to centralize had to be seen as a failure, and from then on federalism
century we find everywhere in the occult schools of the West, under the
have been in opposition to one another most strongly in recent times as
nineteenth century and, looking at the situation objectively, it could
the following: In recent decades, imperialism has led to a general
The events of recent decades have been like a chain reaction: In
gone before. The most recent point of departure — of course we could go
England. After the Algeciras Conference sensible people in Central
that Russia's pretensions would lead to a conflict between Central and
realities of history will say that this conflict between Central and
between Central and Eastern Europe. There were manifold forms it could
gathered over the participants, an agitation in which was concentrated
Central Europe to take precautions with regard to the East, always
in Central Europe because the whole of the European periphery was seen
to have turned against Central Europe. Opinions differed only in the
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Since the nineteenth century it has been the custom to construct history
Recently I have perhaps described things rather too realistically,
recently, not simply to throw light on them in one way or another, but
Terrible accusations are being continuously hurled at the centre
enthusiastic champion of the nascent German state; for he worked in a
Central Europe, there lived in him something that is not known in the
always placed at the centre of his considerations the question of human
nineteenth century, defends most beautifully the human personality in
the nineteenth century, yet it was often enough consulted by those who,
during the course of the nineteenth century, were endeavouring to reach
freedom. Of course the nineteenth century was in one way the time when
in the sixties of the nineteenth century, Treitschke set himself to
nineteenth century. Those for whom it is possible to gain a point of
difference that exists between western European and Central European
is no intention of doing anything to the peoples of Central Europe!
this utter historical ignorance and lack of understanding about Central
from people who know nothing of what exists in Central Europe, yet who

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spiritually, we have to seek the centre of the ego in the head. Since
in a way we do belong to the devil. We are at least partially decent
concentrate on oneself, if one cannot get away from oneself. The more
During the first half of the nineteenth century a well-known
the solid element in our make-up, of which ninety-five per cent
pillar of water containing only five per cent of solid ingredients. Yet
board yesterday is clearly a kind of payment on account. The Central

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five per cent of our body is made of this earthly element, I said that
Well over ninety per cent of our physical being is a pillar of
period which ended in the fifteenth century, and of the fact that it is
from the eighth century BC right up to the fifteenth century AD, the
beginning of the fourteenth centuries. This is at the same time the
century.
the thirteenth century. In order to describe it in a way which is
and fourteenth centuries.
worked up to the thirteenth century — when it was, you might say,
of the nineteenth century. How far back it goes beyond that I do not
being demanded. Only compare the most recent note to Wilson with the
Central Europe is not to be touched in any way. Well, this too is
from the newspapers too. They write: Let us see whether the Central
terms, which ought to be eminently acceptable to the Central Powers,
First let us return to the centre. Our concern here is that the
another, and in this clash reality evolves. In Central Europe a
These forces certainly stream outwards from Central Europe and make
will find also in Central Europe the forces that oppose those I have
Central Europe. It reached a certain climax in Luther and its greatest
profundity in the mysticism of Central Europe. Not only German elements
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that great Art in the center of which is Raphael.
recent communications on the Guardian of the Threshold we had to speak of
so magnificent that it draws the subject-matter into its own sphere.
or beginning of the 16th century.
16th centuries. We must remember that at such times, at the turning-point
For in those centuries the plague was raging far and wide in Europe
the 15th and beginning of the 16th century. One question cannot but
century. True, the pictures of the period, which we shall show, give
And as I mentioned recently, they had brought the laws of perspective to
districts in the first half of the 15th century the spatial conception
in the first half of the 15th century — how hard it is for that
first half of the 15th century: Lucas Moser.
This alter-piece was done in the first half of the 15th century. How
the 19th century, artistic evolution was decidedly on a retrogressive
this art. How remote, after all, is that which emerges in the 19th century
Lucas Moser and Multscher worked, is, after all, the central region

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reach not only those who have died recently, but all those who have
centuries the life of mankind on the physical plane has tended towards
for centuries, certain feelings, certain sensations have developed
have lived during recent centuries and who have, under the influence of

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in Dornach, near Basel. This is the result of a recent visit of a group
have recently appeared in print about our efforts which had their
breast, centred around lung and heart. Let us look at them without the
their influence. The direction in relation to the centre — one would
centre — is eastwards. An eastward-facing hemisphere.
as coming from the centre of the earth, but differentiated, with all
ancestors. The forces all come from the centre of the earth, but with
determined by forces from the centre of the earth with differentiations
forces which operate, not centrifugally as here on earth, but
centripetally towards the centre of the earth. He enters into the
from the centre of the earth, differentiated according to territory
since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Expressed in commonplace
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the interest and the work of the dead
has been concentrated increasingly on individual personalites rather
In recent history, unlike former times, we have the remarkable
here, I have recently been endeavouring to discuss, using lantern
recently come to be defined in relation to the spiritual world for
tracing mankind's descent from the apes, even from a particular ape, to
with the descent of man from the apes in general, they even traced the
Only consider in this connection the fact that in Central Europe —
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— which are recent additions from the time of ancient Moon and the
recently we spoke of how these brotherhoods are eager to make
Perhaps not those of you who have recently joined us, but certainly
that in Central Europe there existed what we might call the ‘primordial
mercantile element. At the centre there remained something that has
whereas in the German language of Central Europe there still exists, in
developed in its own way in Central Europe it stands out like a sore
Europe. He is presented as typifying those views about Central Europe
which justify inflicting on Central Europe its just deserts. But let us
surround and starve out Central Europe. Among the various reasons given
out is an English invention of recent history. So the objection now

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a man like Winckelmann, in the 18th century, strove so wonderfully to
and Goethe, in the latter half of the 18th century, tried to express in
the Fifth or of the end of the Sixth century
descent of Art from this sublime feeling of the ethereal. Not that the
beginning of the 5th century B.C.
7. Runner (middle of the 5th century
of the 5th century and find in such a shapes a tryly high degree of
drawings made by the Frenchman, Carrey, in the 17th century. Subsequently
discovered by Lord Elgin in the 19th century.
realise that in the 18th century, when Goethe and others, stimulated
century, — let alone the 20th. For otherwise it would have been
Pallas Athene. These things even become a little reminiscent of
fashion-plates! We can but divine how magnificent were the works from
is magnificent:
5th centuries
brings us to the 4th century
Going on into the 4th century,
descent of Art from the Typical to the Individual — though in
the 2nd century.
the last century before the birth of Christ. We come to the School of
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and in the more recent
recent lectures, out of the spheres of the entire cosmos. The
throughout this scent we see Goethe's wonderful feeling for
with the astral body is in men concentrated in the sense
and answered: Innocent IV's. Now another historian, of a
candidate a question. Tell me, Mr. X, when did this Innocent
when did Innocent IV die? The student did not know. Well
then, tell me anything else at all you know about Innocent IV
with the actual can be imagined thatn the note recently sent

Title: Lecture: Mans Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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point. In the 8th century before the Mystery of Golgotha, until
about the 15th century after the Mystery of Golgotha, the sun could
in the Mysteries to the older disciples, up to the fifteenth century.
as the pamphlet which has recently been published in Switzerland,

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its position in the Zodiac. So from about the eighth century before the
Mystery of Golgotha until about the fifteenth century after the Mystery
right up to the fifteenth century. Before any knowledge was imparted to
various other minerals, five per-cent solids, so much that is liquid,

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of what has been living in more recent evolution.
century, and in lectures given here
Theosophical Movement as it existed at the beginning of the century. It
Movement. You know that in the nineties of the nineteenth century and
subsequently in the twentieth century, Mrs Besant played an important
formed the centrepiece of theosophical work both in London and in
beginning of the twentieth century as if she were some kind of modern
nineteenth century also had Sinnett's book or, rather, books. The
incentive for a high level of insincerity which was easy to discern in
century and the first decades of the twentieth, there appeared — if not
century, old traditions could be found in the circle led by Saint-Martin,
clothed in a more recent form. If we follow these traditions further
which the nineteenth century made for itself. This concrete concept of
different in the nineteenth century! For the nineteenth century was, in
course of the twentieth century, in a considerable number of
into etheric processes. The first third of the twentieth century can be
would happen? In the forties and fifties of the twentieth century the
peculiar phenomenon, the Anthroposophical Movement of Central Europe
evolutionary situation in the nineteenth century and at the beginning
of the twentieth century, it was possible for a great number of people
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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happened not just years but centuries ago.
century. The question, you may remember, was:
achievements in the last few centuries and has been
to the twentieth century. Yet, strangely enough, the
centuries for anyone who is awake in them, as I have said
significant of recent events. Consider also what has been
between the Russians and the peoples of Western and Central
has been preparing for centuries. The new element wanting to
of the nineteenth century, when people put the same effort
of the nineteenth century there would have been greater
decades of the twentieth century. Spiritual awareness simply
nineteenth century, the powers of destruction would not have
century.
the twentieth century. Many of them have been caught up in
nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century
dead in recent times, and those longings are being met with
little of what it says in those records in recent decades
on the surface in recent years show any degree of maturity.
been dawning since the sixteenth century. In some parts of
centuries cannot find a way of achieving order out of their

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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taken up spiritual life in recent decades is small, and the
Strangely enough, recent developments in materialistic
instruments — most recently especially the instruments
fourteenth century, those alchemists who must be taken
is a magnificent and awesome truth that sleep helps our
spirit. I have recently been much concerned with a
The work was written in the early seventeenth century. People
ten years of war in the seventeenth century, because war has
endeavour that arose in the seventeenth century but was
remember, the Graeco-Latin age began in the eighth century
the fifth post-Atlantean age, in the fifteenth century,

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will speak of early twentieth century
century a peculiar ideal arose, which was to make the world
typical of the early twentieth century.
I was recently
way it is. If these fifty per cent of such people do not
been giving lectures in recent months.

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centre, we see a kind of altar with a chalice on it and the
spiritual world. In the centre we can see the Holy Ghost
central Christ figure appear Saints, the Madonna on his right
Century and compare it with the complexity of sensations a
the 15th into the 16th century. Beneath
16th Century and how his mind worked quite
Century onwards. These impulses depended from the one side on
centuries further back when Christianity already had power. I
century; secondly the entirely different social understanding
16th century mankind had a view regarding the world
centuries in which imaginative cognition developed gradually to
cessation in the 16th Century, these centuries are
10th right back to the 9th Century, but
these mentioned centuries, which we find difficult enough to
6th Century we need to imagine the Christian
might say that these ancient centuries before the
sight of the world. When we go back to the first centuries
9th Century Europe needed Christianity while
9th Centuries. These impulses were pushed together
and developed independently from western European and central
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 10: Disputa and The School of Athens of Raphael
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to show the role of those two pictures in the more recent history of
observe that all of them are taking part in what descents from above.
our of the indeterminate space of the Spiritual world. In the center
century, and compare this picture with the complex of feelings which
have to say: At that time, in the 16th century, when Pope Julius II
times, came to Rome at that time, the beginning of the 16th century.
Rome to penetrate humanity from the beginning of the 16th century on.
himself in still earlier centuries, even those centuries when Christianity
of America at the end of the 15th century, second the totally changed
worlds. If we say: Humanity, up to this 16th century, had the concept
The centuries where the,
form, so that it found a certain conclusion in the 16th century, these
centuries are then : the 16., 15., 14., 13., 12., 11., 10.,centuries,
back into the 9th century, but not further. If we want to go further
these early centuries, when making oneself a picture of the world, people
Yes, we have to say that, if the people of those older centuries formed
And if we go back into the first centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha
And so, from the 9th century
8th and 9th century on. There,they are held fast, developed apart from
has been pushed-starting at the 9th century — back to the East,
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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it is, people have grown tense and fearful in recent times,
human evolution in recent times. Think of the destructive
eighteenth century onwards are of the same kind as those used
it takes to be a decent pet rabbit fancied themselves as
takes to be a decent rabbit, but if someone establishes a
nineteenth-century impulses which destroy social life in the
twentieth century have certainly taken root. We will continue

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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As you know, this began in the eighth century before the
Mystery of Golgotha and ended in the fifteenth century after
and in the centuries which followed did not actually relate
it only has come to have meaning in more recent times and it
decent poem; the doctor will immediately tell you what

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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seventeenth century when Jacob Boehme
still knew this at the end of the eighteenth century —
eighteenth century, Saint-Martin knew that if we are to have
higher worlds. No previous century has been as godforsaken,
really, as the nineteenth century and the beginning of the
twentieth century. It is important to realize this. Nor was
any earlier century so vain and so proud of being
the way it did until the fifteenth century. We will have to

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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twelfth century, you will always find that people understood
of Central Europe and America see the east of Europe exactly
without being harmed, they were considered to be innocent.
nature had this quality: Innocents who were utterly convinced

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or four centuries, and the fact that as such it has become
consider, in spite of all the advances. Magnificent
discoveries have been made in recent times about physical
nineteenth century. Really, all one gets is old styles
bit of naughtiness in a recent lecture. It is still quite a
given is only valid from the sixteenth century onwards;
tremendous break that exists between more recent life and
what is so important; it is what we must concentrate on.
first railways were being built in Central Europe. Speaking
single eccentric but a whole group of medical men — I
nations have been in recent centuries. They developed their
to concentrate on the real situation. Some of the tirades to
in recent times did not even originate on American soil. We
Wilson's more recent tirades may be found in those pages.
Some of the fabrications Wilson produces against Central
occupied for centuries and where one is now able to sit and
have been doing for centuries must now be the salvation of
word for what has been going on for centuries in Russia.

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and "The Dragon"
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America in the middle of the nineteenth century, and
the fifth decade of the nineteenth century actually took part
century and of our own time are not inclined to pay attention
compare the occurrences of the last century with something
out how much these organs change over a period of centuries.
the twentieth century.
surprised how great is the percentage of direct influences
nineteenth century. 1917 is its mirror-image. If one realizes
nineteenth century and has therefore been dead for a long

Title: History of Art: Lecture XI: Icons, Miniatures, German Masters
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of the 15th Century, from about 1413 onward. The
beginning of the 15th Century was a significant,
Century.
the centre of the Middle Ages, we may look at the rule of
10th, 11th and 12th Centuries
epoch, and in these three centuries, the 10th,
particularly in the 15th century.
can say these centuries just mentioned was a time for
9th century, before the middle of the 9th
century where the ruling of Europe was so vigorously taken
century or even today. It can rather be said that in those
areas of life needed, in west, central or southern Europe. I
at the time to the East, what the west, central and southern
reigning in western, southern and central art; it is something
distance in the 9th Century from western, southern
and central Europe:
Simply on the grounds that the nations of Europe — central,
transplanted into central, western and southern Europe, it
could never grow together with the central, western or southern
western, southern and central Europe, an area for what
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 11: Fourth and Fifth Post-Atlantean Epochs, Medieval Art in the Middle, West, and South of Europe
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fifth post-Atlantean age from the start of the 15th century, roughly from
1413. This means that the beginning of the 15th century is a significant
this powerful transformation at the beginning of the 15th century prepared
that after Charlemagne, in the 10th, 11th, and 12th century — it
in later time, from the 15th century on.
for the time of preparation, for the centuries just mentioned, Rome
being, in its activity and effects, like the Papacy of the later centuries
to be kept away from Central Europe, from West-, Middle-, and South-Europe
especially, from the ninth century on.
And so we see that from the ninth century on, through the following
centuries, there was created by Rome a space with a strong hand, so there
for being told. The period of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries
was a thing which truly lived in the souls at that time. In those centuries
people of those centuries were deeply convinced. They felt in a way, that
11th, 12th, centuries), the age of blossoming of the Roman-German
following centuries, the 13th, 14th and 15th, there arose to Middle-Europe
fact that in those centuries, in the 13th, 14th, 15th centuries, what
specific locations. The time of the 13th, 14th, 15th centuries cannot
how in the 11th, 12th, century — it is also visible in the 13th
course of three centuries of Roman-German Emperorship, and before the
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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the twentieth century, but it cannot be said that the last
a group existed in the eighteenth century and still continues
happening in the nineteenth and on into the twentieth century
would happen. In the eighteenth century this group decided to
half of the nineteenth century, ‘the Press’, as we call it
of the nineteenth century than any other work. But I ask you,
happened that in the eighteenth century a society spread
published by such a society in the eighteenth century —
Enlightenment was at its height in the eighteenth century,
century that they would take root in the minds of many
would then arise in many nineteenth-century minds that people
scientific ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
relate to what will be a few centuries later. They will be
eighteenth century really saw the last remnants of the old
third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the
twentieth century a kind of knowledge would radiate out which
souls whilst they are being educated. In a recent public
complacent in recent times and this prevents them from

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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called, was a special feature of the eighteenth century.
circumstances I have spoken of in recent times, people of our
rather tedious. The request is always to speak about central
Adolf Keller's article, which is decent and well-meant and

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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unfolding evolution during the last two to three centuries the
the first centuries, to illustrate what I'm trying to present.
magnificent flowering in the 4th post-Atlantic
entire century ahead. During the very first centuries of
central mystery of Christianity.
worship of the dead during the first centuries this was
of the first Christian centuries depicted in reliefs and most
sarcophagus art of the first Christian centuries in particular,
4th Century.
the centre is the married couple to which the sarcophagus is
being awakened, Jonah there in the centre; thus we have the
the centre, below, how in the Jonah scene composition comes
central figure: the Christ. Notice how the two other figures
build a kind of central theme ... and how to some extent the
a centre. When we draw these lines we start to consider spatial
filled with reverence — rushing towards the centre
Sarcophagus, 4th Century, back section of the Exarch
beings — but filled in with animals. You have the central motif
therefore, Christ construed as the Wheel of Life in the centre.
before. Instead of the central Christ figure we have the Christ
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 12: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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from the old Christian art of the first Christian centuries. They will
artistically, it still faces centuries of work. In the earliest centuries
we find only such clumsy descriptions of the central mystery of
Christian centuries, especially also in the three dimensional works
Christian centuries means, to seek deeply for what Christianity did,
a sarcophagus of the early christian centuries.
from the 4th century.
4a. Sarcophagus. 4th century
not disappear until the 18th century, much of it only in the 19th. If
runes far, far back into the centuries before Christianity. This keeps
early Christian centuries there was an attempt to bring to expression the
got lost just a few centuries before America was discovered by Spain. From
Scandinavia, there was always travel to America. Only in the 13th century
the “Free Cities” began, as I explained recently (Lecture
the following. I did say, that in the ninth century, the Church, the
of view, how, from the 9th century on, the forces which, so to speak,
9th century, and the more northerly located Europe, when also there
9., 10., 11., 12., centuries. There we see the sign everywhere. By the
well-understood in those centuries, the 11th, 12th, 13th, century. It was
possible. In the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, centuries that was not so.
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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far as the fifteenth century. Echoes still persist, of
is a major break in evolution. Up to the fifteenth century in
into our own time. For from the nineteenth century onwards,
nineteenth century the situation has been completely
humanity. In more recent times, therefore, the spirits of
century. From this time onwards, the old impulses based on
you get exactly the opposite of their function in more recent
times, that is from the last third of the nineteenth century.
third of the nineteenth century they have been lagging
particularly in the nineteenth century, and this insistence
the nineteenth century. A fourteenth-century person who spoke
centuries which continue to be preserved by the luciferic and
twentieth century, will know nothing of the
sought to see such things as the theory of descent in the
the fifteenth century, the end of the Graeco-Latin epoch, and
population native to its soil for centuries. As you know, a
there in recent times. Careful observation shows that

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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60s and 70s of the last century, always hoping for
centuries. The spirits of light were using the old measures
that I recently told you how the present age is dependent on
subject up again in recent years (1875). Why such a long
century. They hail everything which has been achieved from
the sixteenth century onwards as great and glorious
inwardly able to look ahead to the twentieth century and
for the twentieth, twenty-first and later centuries. This will be only
sixteenth century, written in grand style. Consider the way
developments from the sixteenth century onwards were the
see the magnificent irony with which the creations of that
twentieth century.
Part 2, and in his magnificent discourses in
twentieth century without feeling embarrassed. A moment of
history it is indecent for people to base their judgement on
century. People are utterly confused in their judgement with
Goethe perceived to be the content of the twentieth century.
the voice of the twentieth century. Yet this voice will only
though in the eighteenth century this meant something

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of world history — during the nineteenth century. The
fifteenth century. This has been characterized in many ways,
century marked a specific period in earth evolution and in
In the fifteenth century the earth held the greatest
eleventh centuries we find the earth's power of attraction
the fifteenth century. Strange as it may seem to many people
their centres of civilization to make the whole earth their
the nineteenth century had been infected with it.
century brought everything which can cause people to be
the most important phase of nineteenth-century evolution. It
centre in modern science. These theories cannot be proved
the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century,
view of the spiritual world and know that in recent decades
century which had not been possible in any previous century.
on into the twentieth century this is different. Modern
than what I said yesterday, that in the nineteenth century,
became a science in the nineteenth century. Before then,
nineteenth century; you can give expression to the real
concocted for the nineteenth century are certainly not what
decades of that century, which really came to life in the
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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in the centre the Χ and the
3rd centuries onwards.
Century nothing had been done in the western cultural
How focussed and concentrated the creative cosmic forces were,
we also find the concentrated expression as seen in laws
in the first centuries were beardless. We see how there is a
Here you see — it belongs to the first centuries — how the
these ancient centuries, the old battle of how Christ had to be
Mosaic, 12th Century, Christ, and below Him, Our
content for two centuries from Greece, right up the blossoming
humanity in that century and their sculptural inventions
can now continue. You see, we then find fallow centuries,
Throughout the following centuries everything developed out of
Rome, the striving was to make Rome the earthly human central
path up to the 13th Century with suggestions coming
we want again to hold on to the 13th Century form
been flowing into souls during all the previous centuries. You
beings. Still, the complete descent created out of the
Central Europe itself, which we have often seen originating
from Central Europe: the very new impulse to configure the
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 13: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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fully unless we concentrate our attention on certain, what might be
screen — with the monogram of Christ in the centre, — the
with the “p” in the centre, or in the form you see on the
from the second or third century onwards.
said that up to the beginning of the third century nothing had been
he was portrayed among the animals, and it is reminiscent also of Greek
of their creative power — the human organism. As a concentration
such figures a I have enumerated, we find therefore the concentrated
— the creative power of the cosmos concentrated on Man.
in these figures (which are preferably Fauns or Satyrs) more reminiscent
succeeding centuries are still beardless, But we see here that,
to the first centuries, and there you already see how the endeavour
such peculiar significance in those early centuries, the old conflict
11. Christ. Mosaic from the 12th century.
Apollo-type, is to be ascribed to the fact that during these centuries
and find whole centuries that lie fallow, with appropriation by Rome
centuries everything really emanated from Rome, so much so that it became
their aim to make Rome the centre of the terrestrial human world order,
century by building again and again just what they themselves desired
the form that the Christ-type assumed in the thirteenth century.
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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(see diagram). According to Plutarch in the centre of this
all. If we only concentrate on this one thing, on these
has been developing since the sixteenth century, the devil

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recent studies.) That is the peculiarity: Whatever evil
himself at the Emperor's Court: “I scent the Witches'
once more, he scents the Witches' Kitchen. We are reminded of
past centuries also knew Helena, but they knew her in the
recent lectures! The concepts, the ideas, that lead to such
great errors as I mentioned recently, — all these are
this fact with what I told you recently of the macrocosmic

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since the last third of the 19th century the Beings whom I

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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recently been showing, inner spiritual connections prevail,
of the nineteenth century there have been working among human
concerning his descent, for his companions drew his attention
sixteenth century naturally had no more inkling of them than
nineteenth century, one treads on very thin ice indeed! But

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture I:
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science of the 19th century. The psychoanalyst is confronted by
Zürich, 1917.] recently published, which

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to concentrate upon psychoanalytic sanatoriums, where the
events taking place in the 14th and 15th centuries were
prepared in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
About five lines further on I say that the sixth century was a
centuries. Thus he says “sixth culture
it be claimed, as recently reported, that Anthroposophy

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movement to the fact that this century should bring human
sense that during this century — and even during the
that since the middle of the nineteenth century this
earth-sphere, becomes a destructive centre.
destructive centres, because they are held back in the
during the second half of the nineteenth century. Then it
I have often told you, in the course of the nineteenth century
century will lead to that appearance of which I have often
Christ should pass by unobserved in the twentieth century; that
widely during the twentieth century, for another being (of whom
century. Anyone who looks only at the surface of life, and pays
individuality during the twentieth century, some other
manifest in etheric form during the twentieth century; and this
the first Christian centuries. More than any other spot on
the fourth and fifth centuries Irish initiates were at work in
central Europe and they set themselves to prepare for the
century — in 1413, as you know — the fifth
fifteenth century, indeed, the peoples of Europe knew nothing
living organism, and from its centre it sends out particular

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
the middle of the nineteenth century, certain truths must be revealed
middle of the nineteenth century. This event was the struggle between
because it is related to all that through many centuries has been
veiled this fact for centuries or millennia, but one must consider
explanation for the unique task of Ireland throughout the centuries.
could be raised by sixty per cent. The chosen ones are thus made,

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The Occult Movement in the 19th Century
fifteenth century, who hold that certain truths, if only those
nineteenth century, these brotherhoods felt that this event was
with the souls of the dead. Their interest was centred on
centuries with the dearest possession of our souls: with
evolution. For centuries, even for millennia, it has been
the quite individual task of Ireland through the centuries. In
effected that wages could be raised by 60 per cent. Thus the

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XII: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 3
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
centuries. There is much talk today about the ancient alchemy. The
the sixteenth century on, a fog has been spread over these things;
spiritual science that has marked the centuries since the sixteenth
century. It was necessary for humanity to sleep through the spiritual
evolving during the last centuries, ideas which, in the way they have
centuries. In the ancient atavistic sense they were also viewed more
knowledge. While science for centuries has beheld only processes
Christ impulse, as it appears in the twentieth century, is to be
centaur; he contains this lower, bestial, astral nature. His humanity
of the eighteenth century.
the end of the eighteenth century and the representatives of the new
seventeenth, sixteenth centuries — must therefore be harnessed
sixteenth centuries, which makes itself noticeable by clothing itself
war today between the Entente and the Central Powers. There is
realities. The struggle between the Entente and the Central Powers is

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to arouse in you any magnificent ideas, but so as to bring
they are far too complacent to go in for the serious study that
continued up to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. People
sixteenth century. They have receded into the background of
the whole period since the sixteenth century. Man had to fall
During the last centuries three ideas have gradually emerged in
centuries. Experiments in the old style were carried out: the
egotistic sense — as cosmic knowledge. For centuries
attempt will be made to paralyse the twentieth-century
animal nature. A human being is really a centaur in a certain
been overcome since the end of the eighteenth century.
end of the eighteenth century and the power representing the
sixteenth centuries, must be yoked by artificial means to the
centuries, but which passes unnoticed because it clothes itself
Entente and the powers of Central Europe.

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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held recently, I was anxious to point out the problems of
boundary-line really lies in the very center of man. In order
the last years, decades and centuries? Yes, this is true, but
central organ — let us suppose, to the spinal cord. The
impression on the skin, is led as far as the central organ:
the central organ; there, the order is given to lift the hand
— that the sensation is conducted to the central organ
to the central organ and then, in the form of will, from the
central organ through the second half to the periphery
immediately connected with the center of the over-valued
four centuries. This is the present situation.
nineteenth century been different, the events in 1914 would
are luminescent substances — there are such substances;
a, being luminescent, actually illumines b,
and that b, being luminescent, illumines c,

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the public lectures held recently, in human life the forces
dreams. Therefore it was possible recently to say here in
accentuate it once more — in the soul relationship
recent history. You know that in a certain external way human
destruction. A beneficent world wisdom has only caused us at
cannot form thoughts. In recent public lectures I have said

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and because — since about the fifteenth century —
unaccustomed, since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
of this. Through several centuries, one of the Time Spirits
beginning of the twentieth century? — Because they were
century. — Why did certain events happen at the end of
the nineteenth century? — Because they were caused by
events in the middle of the nineteenth century. And events in
the middle of the nineteenth century were caused again by
events at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and so
nineteenth century was an important time in the evolution of
conscious, even at the end of the nineteenth century, that
In the second half of the nineteenth century important things
way as to say: In the fifties of the nineteenth century a man
the middle of the nineteenth century a high spirit lived in
the spiritual history of the nineteenth century leading into
the twentieth century is the least significant part of all

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Since the last third of the nineteenth century, means and
real centaur. The centaur is a truth, an
rhythm. The head belonging to this centaur sees the cosmic
centaur. But in spite of his wisdom, this centaur is equipped
But the centaur's animal nature — please connect this
centaur of this incarnation is, in the next
transforming the centaur, the animal in him, into a human
master it; he needs it because he must transform the centaur
Especially in the nineteenth century a few scattered spirits
reality scares us. In the nineteenth century some spirits
the nineteenth century expressed himself in an extreme manner
He meant this centaur, of whom he was dimly conscious.
from a center; here on the earth he has his eye, and from
incarnation. The centaur, of whom I spoke to you, who is to
able to perceive truth and reality, but the centaur cannot as
no longer, or is not yet, a centaur; then his actions will be
intimately connected with the taming of our centaur-nature.
This centaur-nature is contained in us in such a way that it
reality of the centaur, but only the Maya. If we let

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emphasized recently from the most varied points of view that
results of moral fantasy, these incentives to action, which
in the 15th century and closed the Greco-Latin period; in
15th century and one of the centuries in a coming millennium.
19th century, and then assuming that the events after
decade of a certain century, are the consequence of what he
third of the 18th century. I shall speak of this more clearly
of the 19th century, and so on. But you see, these historical

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century was essentially such an age — in which
fact that, as the 20th century approached, evolution took a
unquestionable truth. At the end of the 19th century men had
omissions in the age approaching the 20th century. If we wish
19th century, Karl Christian Planck. In many places I have
1880 of the past century. Men like Karl Christian Planck, who

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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century to the present has set itself the particular task of

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refer to the last third of the 18th century, when European
for the Mysteries. In recent lectures I have cursorily
referred to the fact that in the 18th century there still
impulse of the time during that century.
century, on the other hand, Saint Martin's ideas and ways of
19th century — nay, even on into the most recent
the 19th century, cannot be said to have been influenced by
there in his work, was utterly lost to the 19th century.
of those impulses, whereby the humanity of the 19th century
transformation, at the end of the 18th century, the
humanity. Thus, in the 19th century, only a very few people
of the 18th and 19th centuries — is Dupuis; and his
conceive the outlook of men in the 19th century, we generally
assumed the character and stamp which the 19th century
century, in the channels of Philistinism. Philistine
limitation was the essential characteristic of 18th century
century, we must look for this impulse of Philistinism
the learned and brilliant men of the 19th century.
began to work from the end of the 18th century onward; and
scientists of the 19th century only looked for the material
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taken during the 19th century and on into our time; I showed
18th century a clear and distinct consciousness of the fact
the end of the 18th century there was a consciousness of the
consciousness of the 18th century. In Dupuis, on the other
of thinking which was typical of the 19th century. This
19th century, which was fundamentally Philistine, the
sense, the whole of the evolution of the 19th century —
the 19th century to develop a certain fund of purely materialistic
truths; this century had to collect a fund of purely materialist
I have recently pointed out. Whatever a man undertakes
is, through a whole century.
century. I myself have often been present at discussions,
19th century point of view, many reasons no doubt could be
19th century, and in a preparatory way even before that,
of the materialist abstractions of the 19th century. What
science of the 19th or even of the 20th century. They could
the ideal of the 19th century. Spiritual Science must
Spirit, even as the 19th century emphasised the turning of
pointed out during our recent lectures, the two fundamental
of this. That is quite true, and for the 19th century it was
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Mysteries which place into the very centre of their life what
century. Men like Carus declared that the pure study of the
the rest of his body, with the centre in the heart, to the
chiefly with problems of descent — with all that
science during the last four centuries, can only justly be
centuries of our era. Julian the Apostate still tried to some
in those centuries.

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observations to a positively magnificent materialistic explanation of
such beneficent arts and institutions but that he undertook journeys
the Egyptians throughout centuries through the influence of Osiris.
newcomers brought about, not while the other was extending beneficent
in a human being, had found his centre there in order to work in the
for some centuries mankind has lost practically all consciousness

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begins with the 7th or 8th century before our era, there was a kind
by those people who set the Osiris myth into the centre of their
World-Saviour) so too have those whose thoughts centred on the Osiris
up to recent centuries with Imaginative clairvoyance, but the
about the 6th and 5th-centuries B.C. — in the work of Thales,
like an ascent of still more inward Imaginations: it was the human
constellations which appear after centuries, after millennia, what

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living, since the 15th century, in the fifth Post-Atlantean epoch,
period of the Egyptian civilization that was a central thought. And
to be the central point of the Building. This statue presented a
In recent days we have
forgotten the matter, but centuries ago something was placed before
short at words! In the 15th, 16th, 17th centuries — so said the
16th, 17th centuries.’
physical beings of the line of descent. Fundamentally the so-called
but a conception placing the doctrine of physical descent in the
centre. For the idea of heredity plays far the greatest role in the
must practise, and which must be put in the centre of pedagogy, the
just as it means a descent from physical beings, that one is born and

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course and came to its end. So that from the 15th century onwards, as
8th century B.C. and ends in the 15th century A.D., those conditions
15th century when the Aries-culture passes over to the Pisces (the
understanding into the time before the 14th century and read the
on at Brest-Litowsk between Russia and the Central Powers! That is

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year. We are now living — since the 15th Century — in the
evolutionary history of mankind which lies in the 15th Century. This
19th Century, in 1828 in Vienna, a number of lectures were held by
deserved so well of Central European culture. Friedrich Schlegel
evolution of the 19th Century and the coming age.
one hand he looked back at the 18th Century, how it had gradually
gone on in people's minds during the course of the 18th Century then
Century. And side by side with this event to which he turned his
this motto because he believed that in the men of the 19th Century,
Europe have become in the course of the 19th Century! I repeat: it is
that one cannot stop short at the way in which earlier centuries had
19th Century who turned from Protestantism to Catholicism because
us, by one of the most significant examples of the 19th Century, that
the 19th Century with its science and political life permeated by
19th Century, compared with which the materialism known by Friedrich
what it will be like in later centuries; for them the right form will
by the Representative of mankind who stands in the centre of our

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in the twelfth, thirteenth centuries; they could not in the least
Since the third century of our era, when in the West the prejudice as
did not matter so much if people in the last few centuries gave no
developed since the 8th, 9th centuries, knows that many different
centuries, since the 8th, 9th centuries, with regard to anyone
relationships in Europe in the last centuries — it did no harm
played its part for centuries will become different. We are standing
concentrated; for a wave of hatred was prepared, as may now even be
my dear friends, not mere human beings will hate. Central and Eastern
perhaps be hated even more than Central Europe.
can look back over the last centuries and what they have brought ...

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whom I have often mentioned in other connections, has recently
instinctively take it into account. I have recently given an example
materialism had become general, has a deeper meaning. In recent
investigator cannot lecture by giving out what he has only recently
value of the so-called peace negotiations between the Central
our epoch which begins in about the 15th century of the Christian era
recent times. In ancient times it was responsive to cosmic

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through the active devotion of the workers. In these months of my recent absence in particular,
face of their own consciousness they are innocent nevertheless, the fact remains.
greater; the attention given to our impulses has recently become undeniably greater, at least in
recent months. It is not without meaning that I remark upon this distinct increase and
given at the art centre of our friend Herr von Bernus in Munich, when I tried to show a large
sincerity spoke in opposition to what was otherwise noticeable in this artistic centre (that is
Munich, it goes without saying; it is a well-known fact). Thus was shown how in this centre of
less directly connected with our cause, nevertheless connected inwardly, is the recent increasing
Recently an awkward thing happened in our midst
that recently has particularly and in the widest sense taken hold of mankind, something I can

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the saying holds good that man should never be curious to see what the beneficent Godhead has

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human evolution, go back perhaps farther than the eighth pre-Christian century (you remember that
intellectually impenetrable — after the eighth century before Christ. We are living now in
quite well known in the various centres of Initiation. The whole of eastern spiritual life, the
accessible to man up to the eighth century before Christ. Indeed it is not only the spiritual
actual evolution of the American people during the nineteenth century. And Wilson speaks right
evolution, particularly in the nineteenth century and on into the twentieth, find they have to
perfectly justified in saying that since the last third of the eighteenth century man's power of
in the least, in America, a more intensive descent into the body. Man will go towards what seeps
possessed by him before the seventh, eighth century of the Christian era; moreover with this
ultimately centres in this. Christ was seen in
century we men have been losing the possibility of seeing into the universe. What then would men

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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was the manifestation of unified goodness, the active centre
of the world. With this central good that is of a spiritual
century, beginning in the year 747 before the Mystery of
The Foundation of Culture in the Nineteenth Century,
Recently we have heard of a religious discussion that has
centuries flowed on it was the task of the Church to conceal,
during all those early centuries was passed through by man,
descent of Christ from cosmic heights to the seed in man, the
that I make it also as an image (see violet in centre

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was describing here recently.
his most recent spiritual member, in his physical head, he
between the previous death and the most recent birth or
concentrated in the breast, which, however, for modern man
centuries, these last two centuries; this has formed men's
century; that this significant invention took the place in
century, all through the nineteenth, and especially so far as
we have gone in this our twentieth century, men have given
course of the nineteenth century you will see that the
In recent years people have been breaking each others heads
but that monks in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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as children, some as adolescents, some in the middle of the
century. Men had concepts that came down out of ancient
century, ideas were in fact circulating everywhere in the
centre in yellow circle, diagram not available) but in
can enter what I have recently been calling the young spirit.
being able to understand that extremities man is a recent
because extremities man is a recent metamorphosis he has not
ancient mysteries. Since the eighth pre-Christian century
next weeks. But then after the eighth pre-Christian century,
heritage down to the nineteenth century — abstract
nineteenth century there came something startling. Man
was lost. The nineteenth century was needed to rediscover him
nineteenth century — the eighteenth century too but
something startling to men of the nineteenth century; it
in the seventeenth century was
the last century a number of people foregathered in various

Title: Lecture Series: St Augustine, St Simon and Auguste Comte
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recent epoch clearly inclines on the one side to a dualistic
century. We can clearly see the approach of this end, starting
from the 3rd-6th Post Xian centuries. Now St. Augustine had to
which more recent views of the world have made, (as I have
this in recent lectures). They consider that those secrets
Mysteries put the Mystery of Birth in the very centre of their
which appears so magnificently on the horizon.
centuries had concluded a silent contract tending to wipe out
which have contributed through many centuries to the life of
come to their positivism in recent times, that it would have

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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recent epoch clearly inclines on the one side to a dualistic
in the 15th century. We can clearly see the approach of this
end, starting from the 3rd-6th Post-Xian centuries. Now St.
which more recent views of the world have made, (as I have
this in recent lectures). They consider that those secrete
Mysteries put the Mystery of Birth in the very centre of their
so magnificently on the horizon.
centuries had concluded a silent contract tending to wipe out
which have contributed through many centuries to the life of
come to their positivism in recent times, that it would have

Title: Lecture Series: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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Personality, in the 20th Century.” The fact does not enter
Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was endeavoured to
abstract concepts. And so came the centuries where, in place of the
Centuries. There was another idea of Truth then, which was

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture II
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Personality, in the 20th Century.” The fact does not
Third Hierarchy. Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was
came abstract concepts. And so came the centuries where, in
Centuries. There was another idea of Truth then, which was

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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not go back so extremely far; in the 6th, 7th, 8th pre-Christian centuries
fully in existence in the 6th, 7th, 8th pre-Christian centuries. It
of time was lost still earlier than those pre-Christian centuries. It
contrast in the world of which I have spoken during recent weeks. My
you recently, where man develops in such a way that what he can conceive
the region of duration. I spoke of this region in a recent lecture

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in a recent lecture
in the central figure of our Group, in this Representative of mankind,
perception concerning much in our Group. One can feel in the centre
their forms; one can feel the contrast between the central human being
the trinity: the central human being or Representative of mankind, Ahriman,

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we have gathered from our recent lectures, including yesterday's lecture,
among civilised nations since the 60's, 70's of last century, and the
sought in that Centre which in a high degree — approximately at
We have already referred here to this occult Centre, in many connections.
be seized upon by Luciferic forces, the Luciferic principle. The Centre
which is anchored in that Centre and from there strongly influences
of spiritual truths from the spiritual worlds; this Centre consciously
in the civilised world have in the last decades, or last half-century,
Centre; For these other civilisations in their present structure are
tendency originating in his Centre.
just as much in accord with occult precepts as that other Centre does.
all the more intense will the enmity appear. In recent times one has

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Volkelt, in the seventies of last century, ventured timidly
This gives the firm centre of gravity in the surging element.
foothold, his centre of gravity:

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beneficent act of the Guardian of the Threshold that he hides
recent philosophers could produce out of understanding and
macrocosm Luna. The man of the centre, the breast, would
twenty years of the eighteenth century during which these

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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explanation of nature? bince the eighties of the last century
nineties of the eighteenth century he believed, as did other
century, in which is contained in embryo what belongs to a
passed the gate of death. It is just with such a concentrated
the matter today? since about the 16th century very strong
Christian Churches has become accentuated. The historical
recently by seriously minded men, from which you uc uld see

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next few days I should like to draw from our recent studies some
my recent remarks on Goethe's world-conception, we may say: In so
— as I said recently in connection with Goethe's
form of thinking different from that which I recently described to
so but certainly for centuries, perhaps for an incalculable time. How
it centuries old. And when you speak of the Rhine, you probably do

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next few days I should like to draw from our recent studies some
my recent remarks on Goethe's world-conception, we may say: In so
— as I said recently in connection with Goethe's
form of thinking different from that which I recently described to
so but certainly for centuries, perhaps for an incalculable time. How
it centuries old. And when you speak of the Rhine, you probably do

Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
sixteenth century something similar is happening again — a kind
initiates by claiming divine descent.
Only in the third century after the Mystery of Golgotha —
century.
the second or third century; and then, in the life after death,
those who, towards the end of the second century, or from the third
century on, wrote about the Christ Impulse. Hence the writings about
the Christ Impulse from the third century onwards take on a special
centuries. And it was a piece of good fortune — a foolish
third centuries this inspiration could begin. For had
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries
century became mature enough to gain a full understanding. This
understanding was able to grow during the fourth century, but
sixth century this difficulty went on increasing, until finally the
done by Rome in the ninth century, in 869, at the Council of
to-day — I have mentioned this recently — say: “In

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to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
sixteenth century something similar is happening again — a kind
initiates by claiming divine descent.
Only in the third century after the Mystery of Golgotha —
century.
the second or third century; and then, in the life after death,
those who, towards the end of the second century, or from the third
century on, wrote about the Christ Impulse. Hence the writings about
the Christ Impulse from the third century onwards take on a special
centuries. And it was a piece of good fortune — a foolish
third centuries this inspiration could begin. For had
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries
century became mature enough to gain a full understanding. This
understanding was able to grow during the fourth century, but
sixth century this difficulty went on increasing, until finally the
done by Rome in the ninth century, in 869, at the Council of
to-day — I have mentioned this recently — say: “In

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an understanding until the second or third century after the Mystery of
written about the Mystery of Golgotha in those centuries was inspired by
of the second century. I might just as well — but then
confronts his fellow-Romans in the second century. This personality
concentrated on the realm of the senses, they had no wish to
its way into the whole of man's outlook. For centuries prior to the
Tertullian in the second century? — we must look to the dead

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an understanding until the second or third century after the Mystery of
written about the Mystery of Golgotha in those centuries was inspired by
of the second century. I might just as well — but then
confronts his fellow-Romans in the second century. This personality
concentrated on the realm of the senses, they had no wish to
its way into the whole of man's outlook. For centuries prior to the
Tertullian in the second century? — we must look to the dead

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passed through a decisive moment in the fifteenth century, when the fifth
fifteenth century the age of the Consciousness Soul began —
recently, in the sphere of a religious community, we have
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
Darwinian colouring, talks of man's descent from the animals. The
have been the true centre and it would have been the zenith of the
and hear people describing the wonderful progress made in recent decades
describing. Men were hurrying on towards the fifteenth century; if
the fifteenth century, he would by then have gained complete control
is included at the end of the Sinaitic Codex (fourth century).],
century mankind has come such a wonderfully long way in humane
century you will find high-sounding articles — whole books

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passed through a decisive moment in the fifteenth century, when the fifth
fifteenth century the age of the Consciousness Soul began —
recently, in the sphere of a religious community, we have
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
Darwinian colouring, talks of man's descent from the animals. The
have been the true centre and it would have been the zenith of the
and hear people describing the wonderful progress made in recent decades
describing. Men were hurrying on towards the fifteenth century; if
the fifteenth century, he would by then have gained complete control
is included at the end of the Sinaitic Codex (fourth century).],
century mankind has come such a wonderfully long way in humane
century you will find high-sounding articles — whole books

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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which began in the fifteenth century and will last until the end of
the fifteenth century on, but artificially in the seventh century
teaching which was given out in the seventh century at
Jundí Sábúr during the seventh century.
follow attentively the evolution of mankind from the seventh century
themselves from the confusion of to-day, the confusion of recent
without needing from the fifteenth century onwards to develop his
century and will continue to the middle of the fourth millennium,
having to secure it by his own efforts during the course of centuries
in the seventh century, it was to have come to mankind in the
truth for centuries. You can follow their struggles in my book
centuries for the knowledge of which I have just been speaking,

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which began in the fifteenth century and will last until the end of
the fifteenth century on, but artificially in the seventh century
teaching which was given out in the seventh century at
Jundí Sábúr during the seventh century.
follow attentively the evolution of mankind from the seventh century
themselves from the confusion of to-day, the confusion of recent
without needing from the fifteenth century onwards to develop his
century and will continue to the middle of the fourth millennium,
having to secure it by his own efforts during the course of centuries
in the seventh century, it was to have come to mankind in the
truth for centuries. You can follow their struggles in my book
centuries for the knowledge of which I have just been speaking,

Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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souls during the fourth century, at the time of the turning-point,
Emperor Augustus was the centre-point of quite conscious Roman
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
ourselves rightly to this central point, the sacrifice of the Mass,
Thus to-day, in the first third of the twentieth century, we are
the twentieth century. It is not an event now in the physical world,
reaching them before the first third of the twentieth century has run
century sensitive spirits have repeatedly felt this urge to move away
for if it is studied in a positive way it offers magnificent
this thought will arise the creation that is to be the centre-point
must be able to take account of what the centuries conceal, and yet

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souls during the fourth century, at the time of the turning-point,
Emperor Augustus was the centre-point of quite conscious Roman
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
ourselves rightly to this central point, the sacrifice of the Mass,
Thus to-day, in the first third of the twentieth century, we are
the twentieth century. It is not an event now in the physical world,
reaching them before the first third of the twentieth century has run
century sensitive spirits have repeatedly felt this urge to move away
for if it is studied in a positive way it offers magnificent
this thought will arise the creation that is to be the centre-point
must be able to take account of what the centuries conceal, and yet

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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
impulses which determine the recent evolution of mankind.
to study this recent history up to the moment when we shall
after tomorrow — the historical survey of the recent
early years of the fifteenth century, when the fifth
century which ushered in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.
absurd to regard the sixteenth century simply as a
continuation of the eleventh or twelfth centuries. People
beginning of the fifteenth century and persisted in the
back to the period before the fifteenth century, we wish to
fifteenth century, we cannot help turning our attention to
developed over the centuries out of the Roman Empire. We
through the centuries was a universalist impulse, the most
for centuries when it was not yet fully conscious — (it
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries showed that it relied upon
fifteenth century. Up to that time intelligence was to some
which has come to the fore recently, and which has no idea of
consider this event as a symptomatic event in the recent
centuries these countries had shared a common purpose,
differences began to emerge in the fifteenth century. The
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Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
outline the symptoms of the recent historical evolution of
seventeenth century. This enigmatic figure appeared on the
post-Atlantean epoch and the nineteenth century, a century
sterile. And yet the soul occupies the central place in man's
Persian Kings, of the Mongol Khans and even in the century
on the threshold of the seventeenth century, occupying a
century, and this turning point was signalized by the
seventeenth century, a personality who typified all the
least in the course of centuries. But because in the course
Europe, the years of his ascent to power, then seven years of
revolutionaries of the eighteenth century, but was unable to
to pursue further the symptomatology of recent times we see
relative peace. Up to the end of the nineteenth century it
century we never really know how a later event came to be
century is this absence of motivation. No reproach is implied
the vast majority of people during the first centuries of the
was losing his former centre of gravity ... and must find a
epoch constitutes the centre without any corresponding
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Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
very inadequate picture, of the development in recent times
have failed in recent times to give adequate attention to the
those personalities who in the nineteenth century, and more
especially in the twentieth century, were largely oblivious
to study the course of recent history we realize that these
centuries. We realize that the old political impulses which
eighteenth century when natural science began to be
nature and is centred in man. ‘We murder to
century are doomed to perish if left to themselves. And this
through the centuries, how the self-dependent personality
in the centuries following upon the civil wars of the
fifteenth century provides ample evidence of this. In the
personalities of recent time. In contemporary history the
of the fifteenth century and especially in respect of its
as we have learnt from our study of the symptoms of recent
fifteenth century. These are destructive agents unless
is pure spirit, with that which can penetrate to the centre
attention to this centre of his soul life through a sensible
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
consideration of the recent development of human history. We
Soul. That is the essential. But we have recently seen that
they have come to the fore in the centuries since 1413 when
since the fifteenth century. Today we are in a position to
eighteenth century, and even in the early nineteenth century
upon this subject over recent decades — these new ideas
of Czarism the centre of the state was at first occupied by
centuries the life of mankind has undergone a fundamental
recent centuries belong to the pre-machine age ... for
loom in the eighteenth century, the entire political economy
forties of the nineteenth century, about 1840 or 1845, the
The evolution of the nineteenth century is fraught with
nineteenth century from that envisaged in the forties! One
called, in the different countries in the nineteenth century
important achievements of recent time are fraught with death.

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the nineteenth century. Or else they have been cultivated in the way
last third of the nineteenth century (though it also applies to a
we have been living since the beginning of the fifteenth century. They
You see, when we think of these things we come very near the central
something concrete. I recently said: An essential impulse in human
understanding of history which I have called for in recent lectures
matter, I have cited an example. I repeated it recently during a
mid-European culture of the nineteenth century, with essays on the

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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
Nonetheless, in all the so-called secret societies of recent
the last third of the nineteenth century these symbolical
nineteenth century can also be regarded as a criticism if
I recently said
undertaken in the field of art in recent decades clearly
he was a typical representative of Central European culture)
Swiss history from the fifteenth century until the present
the experience of recent years has often demonstrated the
survey of recent history in a public lecture in Zürich
in Central Europe who, from an understanding of certain
imagine a more sterile attitude than that of Central European
Masonry in recent decades. This is shown by the fact,
science with the Freemasonry of Central Europe. On the other
told me recently that one of these pundits had said to him

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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
active in the civilized world since the fifteenth century,
appeared, as you know, a quarter of a century ago and has
time — in the early nineties of the last century. Those
century circumstances have changed; but for certain reasons I
nineties of the last century in Weimar one could observe the
art centre — was what might well have provided
centre, a focal point where many and various cultural streams
eccentric behaviour of an American professor
nineteenth century and its Weltanschauung. I wanted to
recently from a different angle — a free community life
late nineteenth century however — through the medium of
which I recently wrote in the Reich and especially by my
this group had recently written an article in the
the world at the turn of the century, questions with which I
diffusing theosophical teachings from any random centre, but
there is drawn towards a common centre, towards the
a quarter of a century I should like to emphasize that it is

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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
lectures that, for my part, I should like the centre for the
the name ‘Goetheanum.’ As I said recently there are many
spiritual science, and equally what I said recently in
recent decades. The origin of my
recent decades, we are left with a sorry picture—the picture
Austrian living in the last third of the nineteenth century
German by descent and racial affiliation. To be a German in
where I lived, even amongst the most important centres of
seventies and of recent years has come perilously close to
beginning of the nineteenth century and to what I should like
recent time. One outgrows the clerical Catholicism to which
reached its zenith in Central Europe at the end of the
eighteenth and in the early nineteenth century. They came in
expression of the Central European spirit and which in a
the nineteenth century, contributed to the world? In what
intimately connected with the historical evolution of Central
Europe. We see, an the one hand, in Central Europe, in
over recent decades and you will find that Kant is quoted
again and again. In recent weeks many of these war-mongers
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
now living and which began in the early fifteenth century
beginning of the fifteenth century the first stirrings of the
long been prepared — since the tenth century or even
the ninth century in the spiritual life of Europe and the
began to awaken at the beginning of the fifteenth century and
and tenth centuries onwards it was possible for the ‘people of
arose because, in the ninth century, that which continued to
eastwards since the ninth century that spiritual wave which
of Rome has interrupted this continuity, it has concentrated
Throughout the Middle Ages and up to the fifteenth century
human and physical nature of Jesus. This was the central
the beginning of the fifteenth century are characterized by a
epoch beginning with the fifteenth century and leading via
into recent religious developments through a study of their

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
the Church developed in the centre of Europe and spread from
not only of Goethe, but of Goetheanism. For, as I said recently,
is usually manifested in the Church of Central Europe, we must now
fourth century which was felt long afterwards. From your
modern man. In the first centuries of Christianity it had
and Central Europe.
subordinates. In Central Europe these elements are
developed in Central Europe there arose in the West,
And this is what happened in Central Europe; it was more in
the People of the Christ in Central Europe this impulse has
the attitude of a member of the People of the Church in Central
itself at diverse points. It starts from different centres.
its ethnographical and ethnic situation, Central Europe is
spirit; the West to an understanding of the body; Central
course of recent centuries, indirectly through Jesuitism, to
it — any more than one can understand Central Europe
attempted in the recent fateful years to draw attention to
genius of Germany? And then he recalls that in recent years
most in recent years is judgement that has allowed itself to

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has gradually led to these catastrophic events of recent
our recent reflections, you will already have seen that the
As I recently
in Central Europe seem to people like something springing out
compelled in recent years to the discuss these matters with
West. When I recently called your attention to the future
to this so-called war catastrophe of recent years and its
for the world catastrophe of this war? Is it the Central
recall various things I have said here in recent weeks, you
Central Powers what is called “guilt” in
the governments of the Central Powers have contributed to the
What I explained to you even in the most recent lectures has
in Central Europe will fall. This will be the inevitable
serious moment in the developments of recent years in
nineteenth century. But this thinking is suited to grasp only
into the nineteenth century. Human nature came under the
his influence even into the nineteenth century, but so also
nineteenth century — indeed, precisely during the fifth
decade of that century, which I have often designated as an
recently said, will be a psychiatric account, socially
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during the last centuries has gradually taken on such form
recent centuries. Now, these recent centuries have brought
date centuries ago, whereas life has naturally moved forward
during recent centuries. An essential element that has
for centuries. Without their doing anything about it, without
eighteenth century. Thus the destiny of world history for the
of society, being administered by the centralized
characterized precisely these last centuries. During recent
centuries, men have gradually formed the habit of developing
the provision of the means of existence. I have recently
century, as I have said, Jehovah could no longer save

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up to the fifteenth century of our Christian era. They will
epoch that began in the eighth century, 747 B.C., and ended
in the fifteenth century A.D., the Greco-Latin epoch. Man
this appeared first in the fifteenth century of the Christian
epoch, the time that begins in the fifteenth century of the
During recent
Central Europe, for example, were predominantly amateur
East and in Central Europe demonstrates how terrible
now in Central and Eastern Europe demonstrates that nothing
No matter what lofty ideals may be set up in Central and
in certain secret centers of the West? Surely it is necessary
carefully practiced in these centers gives rise to enormous
centers in the West to which I have often referred. It is
centers. It is this that is concealed from the East by people
action, which is the ideal of those secret centers, it will
special measure among the people of the Central countries.
present on the basis of birth. The population of the Central
those of the Central countries will have to receive material
Central countries, and eugenic occultism in the Eastern
intelligent minds of those centers of the West, a purpose
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is valid for the present age for the reason that it centers
they are from the evil human beings of the Central European
in the form that I recently analyzed here. The things about
I have recently
the development of the epoch since the sixteenth century.
What people have been thinking since the sixteenth century is

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
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way that I recently explained. To assist him, man shall
consider what I referred to yesterday and also recently in a
cerebral fluid; with inhalation, an ascent of the cerebral
peculiar fact that, in the middle of the nineteenth century,
nineteenth century was it really necessary for the first time
twenty centuries during which Christianity has previously
folk culture in which everything is related to the descent
circulation, that is, upon the line of descent, upon
door became unusable in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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other as a human being. In short, he shall center his
centuries, which is true with reference to modern history
on the part of the Central and Eastern Powers. A complete
mastery over the Central and Eastern Powers by the Western
proletariat of Central and Eastern Europe.
recent times. Even if it was inevitable that the bourgeoisie
descent who are united with the English-speaking peoples. The
people of Roman descent constitute really successors to what
true as regards the people of Roman descent who are united
the future of the Central European German world, as the Latin
this reason that the population of Central Europe fell under

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century and will last into the third millennium
what comes to expression in a recent speech by Trotsky. If
Man in the very center of our World-conception, such words as
center of attention at the beginning of a political speech.
— different since the time of the 15th century when the
had begun in the 8th century
14th to the 15th or 16th century. I have told you of many
instinctively. It is only towards the 16th century that men
to the 16th century, do we see this conscious thinking about
Economy towards and during the 16th century. Men direct their
As much money as possible was to be concentrated in the given
we say that much attention has been devoted in more recent
Nature-basis of his economic life? In more recent times there
of the last century Lasalle stood out for it with all energy.
half of the 18th century? What were the methods of
half of the 18th century! Kautsky and others like him even
the 15th century. Through the very development of this age of
active. When suddenly they concentrate or consolidate; then
Then there appears to mankind in a concentrated form what in
center of gravity of his own being. Instinctive evolution
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measuring — let us say — 30 centimeters each way.
measuring 30 centimeters each way, is raised up a meter and a
author and philosopher of the name of Berdiayeff recently
century and until the present day. There are two remarkable
by people who — well, who wore at any rate decent
as I told you recently when giving you the history of my
man since the sixteenth century, and here in deed and truth
a certain space of time, notably for the most recent time of
all, was generalized. Indeed, only the last four centuries
taken place since the 16th century in a way that can well be
century does not reveal the true reality. The true reality
16th century. The age itself compels us, not merely to

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add something more to the studies we have recently pursued. I
age that began in the fifteenth century and that will last,
fourth Post-Atlantean Age, ending in the fifteenth century
modern time, since the fifteenth century, the outcome of
the turn of the fifteenth century. This kind of error, this
instance at the turn of the fifteenth century when men ceased
what is here being concentrated into one. The spiritual life
when I said recently that at the Guardian of the Threshold
took place in the ninth century and was completed in the
spread over the whole of Christendom in early centuries, has
the recent war-catastrophe; whereas this question about guilt
whose characters have been unveiled in the most recent time.

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it through the centuries. Anyone who fails to see this
about it through the course of the centuries. But all that
fifth Post-Atlantean age (of which we have spoken recently
centuries or thousands of years ago. They had a stronger
centuries
or in the pre-Christian centuries. That in man
(which began in the fifteenth century
the last few centuries, human thinking has in a certain
brought forth a magnificent understanding of the Wisdom of
asleep, as it were. Thus, as I told you recently, there are
predestined center of opposition among these who look upon
dear friends, the central nerve in the comprehension of the
Christianity of the twentieth century. Against it —
evolve. In the first centuries
recently; the fundamental Social idea of the future, the

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resounded through the centuries, of the Divine Mysteries
through our souls in recent weeks — then we may say: It
through many centuries, as concerns man himself, the dark
are still observable in the last centuries before the Mystery
on through many centuries. An advance-guard — albeit
world-historic facts of the last few centuries according to
Christianity will solve. In recent lectures I have told you
centuries, which, nonetheless, is necessary to mankind.
century, the Germans took pains to be like the French. You
(approximately in the 12th century) till far beyond the
middle of the 18th century, the Germans endeavored to be like
strongly into the German soul since the 18th century. It is

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2
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the center of their religious creed and that beside Him all else of
a strong contrast. Solomon's Temple embraced in marvelous, magnificent,
in the gigantic, magnificent spatial images of Solomon's Temple.
with the Spirits of Personality — as I explained here recently.
in societies founded on symbolism that is reminiscent of Solomon's
recent years, surely cannot help wondering whether some sort of light

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other ideas have recently been forced into prominence in a tumultuous
science, for they have been ignored by the recent developments that
about the early centuries of Christianity, whether from a Roman Catholic
of much that existed in those first Christian centuries is either entirely
centuries of Christianity as the Gnosis.
fact that in the earliest centuries of Christianity gnosticism did indeed
or fourth century did these begin to fade in the West. But then there
the first Christian centuries, in whom there lived not merely mental
from what we find in books that have been written about these centuries
to the Egypto-Chaldean epoch, that is, up to the eighth century before
period, which continued, as you know, into the fifteenth century of
Only in the fifteenth century did it begin slowly to rise again; by
Christian centuries.
in the third century, and we still see it as it passes over
Golgotha. This ebbed away, strangely enough, in the early centuries,
would be like by the fifteenth century with the ancient, hereditary,
a peculiar fact that in the early centuries there was a struggle between
from century to century how the Mystery of Golgotha appeared to people
at all. Look at that work from the ninth century,
this becomes more noticeable from century to century, so that finally
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face to face with what I have just characterized as the descent of the
the actual ascent through the various stages by which a man had descended
in that part of the nineteenth century when materialism, theoretical
and the second half of the nineteenth century were insisting that if
human being coming to know himself. That is the central feature of this
reflection which they call their ego. I remarked recently that anyone
of this descent in the sense of ancient Mystery initiation, will grasp
century especially, human beings were far removed from it. Only at the
end of the century was it again possible to approach a real, living
I spoke recently about that. And the way we speak of ancient times must
without any center of gravity. But this must be gone through, so that

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center of human soul-life, real ego-consciousness, appears to more
in the human soul, has been dividing since the fifteenth century. To
centuries to completely abstract dogmas, which were not intended to
century) the struggle of the human being to win through to an experience
more recent theologians those of the New Testament, in the way present-day
of the last century I indicated clearly in my introduction to Goethe's

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centuries an effort was made to understand the Christ Impulse and its
in this evolution, of what led to His descent to humanity and His union
in the early centuries that the concepts of the ancient Gnosis should
centuries they were entirely withheld from believers, reserved for the
come about in Gospel interpretation. While in the earliest centuries
change that occurred in more recent evolution, toward the beginning
of the fifteenth century and particularly in the fifteenth century,
century into the fifteenth. A strange impulse, a strange longing —
to note the following: In the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries
fading-out during the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of
a few centuries. In this short period, what changes have taken place
centuries, experienced also by those who went through initiation in
certain center of gravity. I mean to say: After he has recognized himself
would have no inner center of gravity. He must find this inner center
a center of gravity, a direction — perhaps I could better say,
soul-mood has been undergoing in the course of these centuries. But
the middle and during the last third of the nineteenth century there

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at the beginning of the nineties of the last century. Now, it is human
have often faced us in recent years, especially when we were giving
their hereditary leader. The German people have innocently done wrong
innocent dependence and irresponsibility. If, however, after calm and
the fate of centuries and of millions of men on the earth, then it has
in recent times so particularly by the poets and writers. Such opinions

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You remember, I said recently
For some time, especially from the beginning of the twentieth century
it. And don't take what I say as mere imagery! For the centers, the
is fact, that just by living on the earth as men of the twentieth century,
oneself. Recently somewhere or other I spoke on the subject, and then
his examinations!) But let us assume he had become an innocent professor
of botany, innocent from a cosmic point of view: then things would have
mankind if in some particular century only a twentieth of the population
with the spiritual laws of existence. I showed you recently how we have
60,000,000 the police tracked down only twenty to twenty-five percent;
that, in spite of all that was scented out and confiscated by the police,

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thoughts of Walther Rathenau, (see Z-269) I have recently shown that
part of the western powers, the central powers, the eastern powers,
through the centuries by the various churches. This has not arisen outside
which we have often described by saying that, since the fifteenth century,
because centuries of Christianity have brought about materialism; this
gases into the world with timidity; this has definite import. Recently I
the Life of Man” in the recent number of the publication “Das
West, the European centre, and the East meet the Guardian of the Threshold

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They go back to the Church Fathers of earlier centuries and from their
soul which began with the fifteenth century.
to the accusation of Pantheism recently made against Spiritual Science
how one speaks in the twentieth century to men soaked through by scientific

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for men on earth. Up to the fifteenth century, and, since things do
in the time since the fifteenth century, that man stands within his
knowledge there is always a gradual ascent from semblance to actual
once again it is in the centre between the conception and the will.
the animals is—as I recently sale—in reality sick (see Lecture
century, in the epoch when the conceptions of science are dominating
for the fact is that men actually became headless in the fifteenth century—you
fifteenth century than it was before that time. But it is only now that
up to the nineteenth century, the other nature, man's breast nature
weary desire, to go on thinking incoherently. Just recently I have drawn

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practical experience there is indeed a very concentrated sunlight.
by the beginning of this century, as you know, I had published communications

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follow the stream flowing from this mystery down into the most recent
otherwise generally recoils in fear from having recent history permeated
a physical event of the physical world. But only recently I have pointed
in the whole Roman Empire. Throughout the centuries this event worked
Recently I have expatiated on this fact from another point of view.
let us say a point during the fifth century before the event of Golgotha,
that up to most recent times one can picture as spiritualising all that
very recent times history for modern man has in general became thoroughly
of what happened as the eighteenth century passed into the nineteenth,

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external arrangements (recently I have given an account of these in
Mystery of Golgotha on the part of more recent mankind can be particularly
century passed into the nineteenth; where does Goetheanism stand with
Eastern Europe, all this has been rayed out from the centre of Europe;
Europe is, has been rayed out from central Europe. And in this centre
with the exception of the period during recent decades when other forces
developed throughout the centuries by reason of the personal characteristics
see all this streaming forth from the whole of Central Europe. How little
established in the course of recent decades, since the year 1867; let
in what has for centuries come from Central Europe.
wave came up against what radiated from the centre, and what radiated
from the centre was pushed aside by the Slav wave—in the west
still remained in the womb of the centre, turned in such a way that
well able to make a calculation about the future relations of central
But particularly in central
as I have presented it, will have to be understood. It will be central
ordering. And perhaps if this centre of Europe has no external state,
if this centre of Europe is obliged to live tragically in chaos, there
Chauvinism or anything at all reminiscent of Chauvinism or nationalism,
a ghost out of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and not what
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first three. The old ideas of the Kabiri centered round the
represents the centre condition of the human being, and the
about all that Goethe stands for will, as I said recently,
Today we should say: We represent how in the centre of the
being's descent to earth — from conception, throughout
being, the ascent into the elements, which is a finding of

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the Grecian myths. He shows often in this scent how far in
ascent of a mountain was a far more living experience than
shattered when the descent is made again into the external,
eighteenth century that Goethe took flight to Italy —
century. By then he had grown older, and that means younger

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the nineteenth century. What Christ brought into the world,
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To imagine thus that
teeth, can appear. It is a real concentration and
the reverse. Here there is no concentration of life-forces
contract — expand, concentrate; expand, concentrate.
When in the eighties of the last century I wrote my first
most recent number of the periodical Das Reich
what is so distressing, my dear friends, that in the recent
extolled as the great achievement of the nineteenth century
of view, this achievement of the nineteenth century, that
the nineteenth century, that still haunts the twentieth, al
human evolution. At the end of the nineteenth century
century. I have given many lectures about it, even before the
century was able to represent the man Homunculus in this way?
scent we are today presenting, finds itself in a world the
century. What must be sought will become something good and a

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the social life of the present in the light of our recent studies of
Goethe. The nineteenth century represents a very significant
the social life of our own time. The middle of the century brought a
Looking back before the nineteenth century to the end of the
eighteenth century, we can observe a significant impulse. It was the
Letters” and Goethe's fairy-tale in my recent small book on
eighteenth century. He had no particular expectation as to what would
believes that when sensuality and reason meet at the centre of his
as the greatest man of his century. Goethe could not understand this.
The middle of the nineteenth century was a much more incisive point in
nineteenth century. And we can understand this fact only if we ask:
fairy tale. Since the middle of the nineteenth century this
middle of the nineteenth century and humanity was thrown back on its
the middle of the nineteenth century, one cannot really grasp what is
quite dark. The time before the middle of the nineteenth century
after the middle of the nineteenth century looks only at the world.
way. Today he concentrates everything upon a single power in himself,
century has everything flowed into one, with the rise of materialism.

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in central European countries. A comic paper recently published
Bolshevism and in the whole central European chaos, which has already
certain leading men of central Europe must be blamed for it. (I have
The strong impulse of Christianity (I have spoken of this recently) was
middle of the nineteenth century. It is absolutely necessary to reckon
the souls who would only have incarnated after four or five centuries,

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which I have recently delivered to you, will have shown you this, for
have slowly prepared themselves ever since the 16th and 17th century;
The economic orders which existed up to the 16th and 17th century have
middle of the 19th century, they were replaced by a kind of economic
19th century, humanity has been striving to form social corporations
time which preceded the 17th and 17th century, we find that people were
was now striving. We therefore see that from the 16th and 17th century
demolishment: during the 16th and 17th century, we discern a transitional
movement, and this really lasts until the middle of the 19th century.
mind that in recent times, the western states and North America have
In Central Europe, the
clear way. What has been the fundamental character of the central European
upon very old, traditional forms. In Central Europe, and even in Russia
states. These modern states of central Europe, stretching as far as
the fact that the central European structures have been swept away.
In the central European
the past centuries, they are firmly convinced of a manner of thinking
past century, when the German social democrats, who were the most advanced
the last centuries, these judgments rose up into human consciousness,
and people began to look upon the human being as the centre of every
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order during the past centuries of human development. Those. who now
that which has developed through capitalism during the past centuries.
of humanity during the past three or four centuries, if we study above
to four centuries all this changed. After a period of transition, which
went from the 15th century to about the 16th/17th century, a complete
change took place during the past three to four centuries. For, what
only developed during the past three to four centuries.
the incentive of accumulating capital, then the chief element in this

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in its ranks should concentrate their attention exclusively upon physical
during the past centuries. The characteristic trait of the bourgeoisie
in the direction of capitalism has in the past centuries utterly confused
development during the past centuries, these spiritual ideas were

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I have recently held here I have dealt from several aspects with the
and in his most recent development, this social question has taken a
of the previous century. We have spoken of this here from various points
phenomena is this deep gulf between the two human groups. In recent
in Zurich, Berne and Basle. Recently, various people with whom I have
the structure of their empire, set up half a century before, to be secure
has shown that the thoughts prevailing for half a century and more,
knowledge will dawn on than that, half a century earlier they founded
And in the lectures recently given in Zurich — held there because
years with a little insight. They really appear like centuries which

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forget that the way the relations in life have recently developed has
thinking, feeling and willing having developed in recent times without
of taxation. But what if you were to stand alone with your magnificently
a kind of echo of what man lived through in the life before his descent
we experience the echo of what we lived through before our descent to
centuries how much has been spoken in a sentimental way, when men have
beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, has up to now continued
recently, there is an understanding in accordance with reality different

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I recently read out to you, the practical ideas which must arise from
middle of the fifteenth century, and how the whole of our history, if it
there has been a one-sided tendency to centralise the social organism,
into what lies behind all this. For, as I recently said in Basle, as
here is most easily approached when in the centre of our considerations
economic order, gradually built up in recent times, men have held the
that the most varied socialistic ideas of recent times have been formed.
ways this recent historic development, namely, the relation of the proletariat
the proletarian, as he has recently evolved, could have looked, in whose
how already through Marx a definite outlook on the recent and future
during recent centuries, formerly chained to the financial State as
I said recently that those
correction. Recently, in drawing your attention to the German Committee

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materialism which has arisen during the last four centuries. This materialism
of art in recent times, you will find this everywhere confirmed —
towards the State and the agents of the State. Thus, within recent times
has arisen during the last four centuries, above all, on increasingly

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have to observe the more recent life of history.
forceful thinkers of recent times and, in the truest sense of the word,
reminiscent of Fichte's
a special relation to the external world and is centred in itself; just
again the digestive system are centred in themselves, as these three
State in which everything would be centralised, it becomes clear that

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recently gave to students in Basle we find a remarkable sentence. Eisner
way of thinking during recent centuries. For it is this customary thinking
upper classes to an increasing degree during the last four centuries.
in the course of the last centuries in the sphere of art, for example,
the decadent and their desire to sleep in rooms scented with hothouse
and repeated over and over again in recent weeks. Only a few days ago

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times? I have recently attended a so-called League of Nations Conference
concerning recent previous events was of the same caliber as the speeches
books decades ago, I heard again recently in an address given in Berne
again and again, my dear friends, that during the last four centuries
thoughts as have been drubbed into them for centuries through the method
is now spoken of absolutely conforms with the dead thinking of recent
centuries, which has greatly increased in the world-conception of purely
members of my recent audience in Berne are supposed to have been very
from our recent discussions that what belongs to every human head today
submit to the control of a single centralised super-State. The answer

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The reason is that this spiritual life has in recent times taken on
of spiritual life which has recently arisen. It must be realised that
that just at the turn of the eighteenth century, and on into the nineteenth,
but also the tragedy of the nineteenth century; it has been in a certain
centre, the luciferic extreme on the one side, on the other the ahrimanic
a point of transition for the nineteenth century. To recognise Hegel
twentieth century set out to prove their great spirituality by going
century. For we have to learn not only to wish to live abstractly as
centuries he has maintained. We should not take those thinkers who are
spirits have behaved during the second half of the nineteenth century

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born in recent times, since 1912–13, say, come from
immediate forbears or ancestors of the last century. I told
that in the course of recent times, until well into the
twentieth century, the materialistic tendencies,
century. So those children born in the second decade came to
essentially to the events on the earth in recent years.
bright side of the sad, the terrible events of recent times.
of recently-born children. It is an expression of soul which
in the most recently born children is something quite
early twentieth century. It is now essential that mankind
this is because since the middle of the fifteenth century, at
the fifteenth century. But this thinking in imagery has been
last centuries the more abstract has all life become. Only

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fundamentally, to concentrate their gaze on the fundamentals.
flow into the social movement which, begun half a century
rights-state is, as I recently pointed out, such a one as is
century. Whoever follows attentively the literature of that
century until the last third of the century will soon notice
dictionary, written comparatively recently, and hunt therein
recently become international, men have with a certain

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proletarian masses. In the course of recent historical developments, the
More recently
of how Christianity endeavored for centuries to imbue humanity with a
Then came more recent
more in recent times and has laid the basis, more than anything else, for
of the last centuries human beings have turned away more and more from
spirituality. I recently emphasized here once again that one should not
has become increasingly naturalistic in recent times. Perhaps I already
said, much of recent art is formed on the basis of this way of thinking,
But recent times have turned ever more to naturalism, amounting to
emerging materialistic naturalism of recent times that has taken hold of
century has
century this
circles of humanity over the last centuries. One need only take account
respect. In recent years, for instance, German culture has frequently

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soul belonging to earlier centuries — by those decadent Nibelung
mid-European life from the thirteenth until the twentieth centuries,
eighteenth century. The demands for freedom, equality and fraternity,
Among those who of recent years have been talking a great deal about
gave at the University of Berlin in the seventies of the last century.
developed through the centuries to the condition in which it finds
since the middle of the 15th century the spirit has to be brought to
And so it was only in the very recent past, in the era after
Germanic world during the first centuries after the founding of
flows on through the centuries, but from the 15th and 16th centuries
Middle Europe occurred almost without exception in a single century.
twentieth century, one would have to say: spirit, as conveyed by the
the 15th century, which we call the epoch of the evolution of
At the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, however, a new cosmic
incarnated in those regions. In the 15th century this sympathy began
century, souls have been less and less concerned with racial traits;
distributed over the whole body but are really centralised in the

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A RECENT series of lectures and discussions with workmen
civilized world in recent years you will say — I hope:
culture that arose after the middle of the fifteenth century. I
fifteenth century. Since that time natural science has
since the middle of the fifteenth century and rob men of their
fifteenth century that not only two life-elements have been
Capital accumulates, concentrates; bigger and bigger groups of
process of increased concentration of capitalistic groups will
fifteenth century approached, we did not experience a renewal
spheres of life that the middle of the fifteenth century
to the ninth and tenth centuries. At that time, it was just as
of the fifteenth century it had a normal price.
the fifteenth century shows this great incision in history. At
so they concentrated exclusively upon that. Engels said: In
Much has been said about rights in recent years, about the
in the second half of the nineteenth century on the subject of
I have recently quoted a neat example of this. The famous
science in middle Europe at the present time, has recently

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evolution since the middle of the fifteenth century. Everything
to the middle of the fifteenth century. Across the Greek
office. These things all lead back to Romanism. The descent by
century, however, there exists in mankind the subconscious
century the evolution of modern man has been filled with the
have to form since the fifteenth century are different from
mankind prior to the middle of the fifteenth century knows that
since the fifteenth century. We shall reap something different
the fifteenth century for perceiving the spiritual world in
middle of the fifteenth century we have developed a knowledge
to the middle of the fifteenth century man willed instinctively
concentration. This can be achieved, in the way modern man

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fifteenth century there can be no question of people
impossible in recent times because the more people have evolved
connotations the expression has acquired in recent years,

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course since the middle of the fifteenth century it becomes
of the fifteenth century is what might be called the
last three or four centuries right up to our time, we shall see
centuries we gradually acquired the habit of observing man only
three to four centuries when the trials of materialism have
recently that the head in its spherical form is, so to say,
its center within itself, the chest-man has its center at a
three-membering through strong concentration upon one's self,
have. If through inner concentration we withdraw the head from

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Egypto-Chaldean period came to an end in the eighth century
again, since the middle of the fifteenth century, a gradual
coming centuries and millennia this intelligence will become
fifteenth century religious communities, instead of bringing
People who have recently come from the East of Europe tell with

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If we go back as far as the 8th Century,
Whereas from the Graeco-Latin epoch, beginning in the 8th Century,
up to the middle of the 15th Century
Centre there is a civilization differing from that of the two poles
applied to Central Europe, but these explanations were not taken as
indicated in recent lectures. Consider the fact that a great number

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Atlantean age begins in the eighth century B.C.; further back

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centuries, of course — is that man's blood is losing the capacity to
to investigate bodies from the tenth or ninth centuries in order to discover
century.

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or four centuries — if we take a wide survey of the
them. If they become merely an incentive to egoism, then they
re-ascent, and that is not to be done by theorising.
good for Asia? What is good for the twentieth century? What
is good for the twenty-fifth century?” They are asking
Europe, there is every external incentive to do something
beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century (of which
in the first half of the 18th century, or a little later,
even laid hold for a time of Central Europe. And over and
Central Europe, with all that it was, lies in the dust. What
lived in Central Europe is, to a great extent, sunk in a
symptom that has especially manifested itself in Central
see the old Asiatic spirit lighting up again in recent years.

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way we introduce them. If they become merely an incentive
is to turn to where forces can be found for the re-ascent. That
20th century? What is good for the 25th century?” They
every external incentive to do something about the social
beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, of which it still
century, or a little later, — party tendencies took shape
of Central Europe. And over and over again here, — I
life of Central Europe, with all that it was, lies in the dust.
What lived in Central Europe is, to a great extent, sunk in a
especially manifested itself in Central Europe, but it is
recent years. Those people who are spiritual leaders in Asia

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centuries a kind of experiment was being made to combine
European civilisation, has gone on through the centuries until
and 20th centuries reached a sold, of crisis. There came a
been going for four centuries. And to-day we are still lining
a certain town in Central Europe, not long ago, there was a
political life of recent years. Well, you know what
taking an active part in the political life of recent years

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the 8th century before Christ, from which point the
15th century.
— the age that ended about the middle of the 8th century
truth the ruler, down to the middle of the 8th century before
there were in old days, before the middle of the 8th century
Graeco-Latin age down to the middle of the 15th century, were,
pre-Christian century down to the middle of the 15th century
century B.C., the constitution of man's soul then was quite,
the 8th century B.C. If one takes the soul of the man of
century B.C.
pictured himself as a centaur. His physical body he looked upon
himself as a sort of centaur.
Then came the age that began with the 8th century before
longer pictured himself actually as a centaur, as though a
the 4th century after Christ. It was in the 4th century after
look back at the first, second and third Christian centuries,
was only after the fourth century that the feeling entered more
the middle of the 8th pre-Christian century, — beginning
4th century after Christ; for from that time on, intellectual
for in the 19th century there was truly not much to be looked
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already know from the explanations which have recently been given
that which was to become law. It was so that for centuries ahead that
exist at the end of the 18th century — and even certain Secret
century it was very clearly felt that in ancient times men
the eight centuries preceding the rise of Christianity. We may even
the form of true science, true wisdom, up to the 8th or 9th century
the 8th and 9th century, as contained in my book,
century, at the time of Galilei. Until that time, knowledge has
centuries the moral impulse was borne by the Christian impulse.
the middle of the 15th century, an impulse which completely severed
recent time? What was it, in reality, while it was being borne in
with the 15th century.
advanced very far in this new direction. The few centuries which have
elapsed since the middle of the 15th century have brought us some
made towards the middle of the 15th century will have reached its end
of the 19th century and up to the 20th century ... but Goethe was no
concentrate our chief attention upon the methods leading to the
research, mystical soul-concentration, and the methods of
you concentrate deeply, if your soul becomes quite mystical, you

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that it began in the middle of the fifteenth century
century B.C. and is called the Greco-Latin
form, until the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of
the nineteenth. In the nineteenth century the source ran dry and such
But since the middle of the fifteenth century, since the impulse for
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and for a few centuries'
radiate and were still powerful in the early Christian centuries;

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fifteenth century A.D. We speak of it as
epoch which began in the eighth century B.C.
end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the
nineteenth. In the nineteenth century the source ran dry and
of the fifteenth century, since the impulse for the
Mystery of Golgotha and for a few centuries afterwards, a
in the early Christian centuries; indeed they are working

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recently been studying. It has been our aim to demonstrate the
recently published letter of Romain Rolland, in which he says that
Ahriman's incarnation. Hence all these things, including this recent
swing between the one extreme and the other. In recent times the
acquired through the gnosis in the early centuries of Christendom.
of religion during the second half of the nineteenth century. At his
or is going everywhere; and by the end of the century, unless the Almighty
have been discussions recently about the deterioration in morals and

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social problems we have recently been studying. It has been
example, the recently published letter of Romain Rolland, in
including this recent letter addressed to the world by Romain
between the one extreme and the other. In recent times the
early centuries of Christendom. Understanding of the Mystery
the nineteenth century. At his investiture as Cardinal in
all sides. There have been discussions recently about the
going everywhere; and by the end of the century, unless

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to five centuries as highly paradoxical. It is generally thought that
center of the earth. When something takes place in the mineral
you what may be called the center of gravity of your own physical
structure. When people are awake, this center of gravity lies just
There are therefore some 1,500 million of these centers of gravity
the force of human will that is concentrated in our center of
arises: What relation is there between the forces of will that areconcentrated in our center of gravity, and the external, physical,
concentrated in our center of gravity, so the up-building forces lie
takes place around the centers of gravity of human bodies and also
centers of gravity and what would happen if you were suddenly
no human beings in existence; that whether they behave decently or
The development of art in recent centuries affords
into prominence only since the last three to five centuries. Earlier
course if humanity were not there. I recently showed you that it

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in the course of the last three to five centuries as highly
side. — Here (X) is the centre of the earth. —
within you what may be called the centre of gravity of your
own physical structure. When man is awake, this centre of
of these centres of gravity spread over the earth, producing
concentrated in man's centre of gravity. If we speak of
forces of will that are concentrated in man's centre of
that is concentrated in man's centre of gravity, so the
centres of gravity of human bodies and also the effects of
region of your centres of gravity and what would happen if
in existence; that whether they behave decently or not makes
The development of art in recent centuries affords evidence of
to five centuries. Earlier than that you will find that
run the same course if humanity were not there. I recently

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last three or four centuries.
descent of man into earthly existence, there has been taken
century, increased to the utmost conceivable extent. Of
the middle of the 15th century when the direct understanding
century. Artificially, as I might say, like plants in a
still preserved a primeval wisdom even in the 19th century.
(In the 19th century it was somewhat different), but in the
19th century they still preserved some things of which one
Central
this way of culture in the West, in Central Europe, one must
characteristic of Central Europe, as the ethical type is of
how it is that just in Central Europe this Aesthetic type
Central-European man, could not take into himself this
Aesthetic spirit of Central Europe is united with Greece.
utilitarian; Central earth-regions — Aesthetic; the
Centre or in the lest, wherever ethical truths have
Centre, or in the East they all originally spring from the
West. Beauty arises from the Central region.
found Anthroposophy in Central Europe, then in this
as that bit Aime Blech, which recently appeared as a
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made the descent, human beings would have been obliged to
luciferic beings. We know from recent lectures that the Lucifer
been current for centuries in the civilized world, people shrink from
century; but the tendency to split up into smaller groups has been
I recently read some notes
some indeed until the sixth and seventh centuries of the Christian
the last few centuries, and are still being achieved. There may
without bias at what has been achieved most recently, you will arrive
understood. If you study recent findings of natural science or
soul is involved. I spoke of something I have recently

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the various epochs of culture. But having made the descent,
evolution of the Luciferic beings. We know from recent
of education that has now been current for centuries in the
markedly since the beginning of the nineteenth century; but
I recently read
sixth and seventh centuries of the Christian era. Up to that
centuries, and are still being achieved. There may have been
and without bias at what has been achieved most recently, you
been understood. If you study recent findings of natural
recently mentioned to you, namely, that a zero-point is there

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seriousness what I have said in recent lectures. {See Rudolf Steiner,
future will concentrate in the incarnation of Ahriman of which I have
that one of the recent decrees of the Holy Office in Rome prohibits

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from the general popular thinking of the last few centuries. But I
evolution. Through the culture of the centuries we have become
conception as it developed in the course of the nineteenth century and
into the twentieth century will have to say to himself: all that
occurred. Thus it has nothing to do with an actual descent from the
expression, has animal descent; a strange animal descent, to be sure.
close of the nineteenth century — all oriental wisdom points to
the importance of this close of the nineteenth century, although from
nineteenth century the time has come when human beings must recognize
The question of his descent was raised, and the reply was given that
Whence comes the notion of man's descent from the animals, whereas the
truth consists of the facts we have stated in regard to the descent of
The theory of man's descent from the animal is an Ahrimanic
comprehend the descent of the human head in the right way man also
of Golgotha. Since the last third of the nineteenth century Michael
interpretation of the evolutionary theory of the descent of the whole

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in the Greco-Latin period up to the fifteenth century. Since that
observation, for it is filled with more than ninety percent of fluid,
the nineteenth century he is able, in growing measure, to find the
characterized in a recent lecture
evolution signifies a continuous ascent we forsake true reality. We
Every ascent is followed by a descent; every ascent bears in itself
the germ for the descent. It belongs among the most insidious
end of the seventies of last century he is engaged — if we but go

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various events in relation to the central point of Earth evolution;
man's own evolution. This central point, this center of gravity is, as
approximately in the fifth century before the occurrence of the
place in Greece during these last centuries prior to the event of the
about four and one half centuries elapsed from the time when the
say, approximately, four and one half centuries. Thus we have to
thirteenth, the fourteenth century, which still comprises theology,
four and one half centuries have elapsed since this natural-scientific
century, human beings of the Occident begin to think in the way we
between the four and one half centuries prior to the event of the
almost limited to Greece, and the four and one half centuries in which
During four and one half centuries prior to the Mystery of Golgotha we
With the fifteenth century A.D. a new way of thinking begins which we
Now, in the former centuries and millennia of mankind's evolution,
see, the Greeks, during the four and one half centuries (number one),
recently: it is the intellectualistic culture. Clarity rules in our
centuries have elapsed since we have begun to acquire this world
head wisdom. He also would have what has arisen since the fifteenth century
A.D. But in regard to his central being he would be
one half centuries there was bestowed upon the human being, like a
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centuries had a soul mood completely different from that of human
beings after the middle of the fifteenth century. We can trace this
of the eighteenth century, had certain instincts; (since the French
post-Christian century up to the sixteenth post-Christian century. We
an earlier time, around the middle of the fifteenth century; but it
became clearly discernible only in the sixteenth century. At that time
evolution of the last few centuries to acknowledge a certain
whole evolution between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries the
centuries, one will become aware of the fact that a quite definite
for human beings prior to the fourth post-Christian century to speak
realities. Prior to the fourth century, nobody would have
fourth century sixteenth century
Wisdom was considered the fundamental attribute of the Divine Being. The concept of Omnipotence only gradually penetrated the idea of the Divine Being, from the fourth century onward. It continued to develop. The concept of personality was abandoned and the predicate was transmitted to the mere order of nature, which is conceived of more and more mechanically. And the modern concept of the necessity of nature, the omnipotence of nature, is nothing but the result of the evolution of the concept of God from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Only, the qualities of personality were abandoned and that which constituted the concept of God was taken over into the structure of thinking about nature.
(See diagram, red) And since the sixteenth century there exists a new
I recently drew your attention to the fact that what takes place in
explained to you recently what it means to be externally visible, and
fifteenth century. These beings possess chiefly the impulse of a force

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fourth age begins in the eighth pre-Christian century. At that time
the year 1413, really only about the middle of the fifteenth century.
consciousness, as I have described it to you recently. Then we shall,
(not even a century ago), the learned Medical College of Bavaria was
with that of mankind two centuries ago, then we must say that people
quotations I read to you recently where it was said that people should

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recently. You will remember how in another connection I brought them
these things are not presented as they would be in poems of recent
cent are superfluous. The poems that are derived from an ancient
event is placed at the very centre of our picture of the history of
example, at the turning-point in the middle of the 15th century. And
Some Swede or Norwegian has recently written a book in which he gives
relevant writings from before the 15th century have accordingly to be

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let us say, since the middle of the 15th century.
middle of the 15th century. The most characteristic phenomenon in all
centuries seems to me to be the following: The external practical
during the last three or four centuries. These views in what they
is all this? Well, if we go back to the 9th, 10th, 11th centuries and
centuries. And few people are particularly inclined to go into this
the last three or four centuries. Most people today when speaking of
civilized humanity in the last three or four centuries. We have in
especially the last three or four centuries have so largely
since the beginning of the 19th century, when it became the actual
what I mean with an example. In one of my recent books,
illustration from it: from the eye the nerve goes to the central
organ, then from the central organ it goes out to one of the members;
telegraph wire from this organ, the eye, to the central organ; that
an ascent to a higher point, and after having reached this point is
then a descent to more and more simple forms.
significant leap occurred at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries,
or more properly, in the middle of the 15th century. And what was
of our century. And it is truly no weaving of idle fancies but exact
which recently have reached such a culmination, disclose themselves
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middle of the 15th century. What is exteriorly and academically
human being was essentially the same in the 8th or 9th century as,
soul forces which had been developed before the 15th century are now
Christian century, we come to the forms of Gothic architecture, which
but caused to tend toward one central point, toward a
mysterious central point, the whole spirit of humanity striving
post-Atlantean period, there stood in the center the temple of the
Pallas.” And at the central point in that
the central point the Holy Grail was enshrined, there it was
for only a few centuries have elapsed since the great change in the
middle of the 15th century. Most people scarcely notice what is
of the group-soul. Up to the middle of the 15th century the
striving to concentrate individual forces of personality, to find a
central point within himself.
of the 15th century and will not come to a close until about the
Christ-Form as the central figure — the Christ-Form which we
century, and they are really not in any way true portraits, if I may
After we have placed in the center, as it were,
15th century, — a fact which frequently comes to expression
in the form they had be-fore the middle of the 15th century —

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Lecture III: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century
which began about the middle of the 15th century. Certainly what was
Matters have come to a pretty pass indeed, as the recent events on
the European calamity of recent years, although it has apparently
third of the 19th century. Side by side with the fact that we have
last third of the 19th century, and that people who open their souls
middle of the century, will be years in which more and more people
the middle of the century, approximately speaking. The new forces
accustomed in the course of recent centuries to consider everything
no longer have any; and I have pointed out — only recently in
as early as the 9th century; and, as I have frequently explained, the
century will be an important point of time, the statement was made —
The middle of this century, however, will coincide with that point of
of the 15th century will have fallen into the worst decadence; hence
humanity must resolve before the middle of this century to turn
Greek epoch and up to the middle of the 15th century — alluded
who in the sixth decade of the 19th century expressed his opinion
of this century will be a very significant point of time. The whole
question begin also. If a man is to work, he must have an incentive
for it; and the incentives that have existed up to the present time
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with the seriousness of the present time. In the course of recent
Why? Because from various centers of this
pedagogy of the 19th century has become can no longer suffice for the
strange nightmarish visions. One such it had recently when it
way? Well, there actually was in Central Europe a method of
man of Central Europe sent his son to an office in London or New York
There has always been in Central Europe something
illustration of it is the Central European philosophy, of which
devastation in the heads of Central European humanity — with
nature; and in Central Europe there already exists the first
the first half of the 19th century, even at the end of the 18th
century. It must be borne in mind, however, that there are
nevertheless in Central Europe important impulses in this very
force throughout the centuries, but not the ability to sustain this
scientific insanity of the 19th and 20th centuries!

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I said here recently, the essential principle of social community is
this ego-image when you look at the body with that centre of
In past centuries, not so very long ago, this freedom in thinking was
in the old way, as for four centuries you have become accustomed to

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should be made the centre of the movement for Spiritual Science from
it has become so because for centuries modern humanity has hardly received
its greatest intellectual development in the last few centuries, can
our most recent times. Or, on the other hand, the element which is to
humanity. This disadvantage itself is the sign of decadence of recent
centres of support. (Kräfte-Lagen). For instance, if you
You see it here cut in two through the centre. You can thus see under
and limbs and the trunk, with the heart system as the centre, he then
with the great cupola. This cut through the centre from East to West.
certain axis. Certain lower organic forms alone evolve from the centre;
here, certain more perfect forms of building than the centrally constructed

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about at the centre, just when you have what is most complicated, this
concavity of the fifth, and the centre pillar with its capital stands
Building in a certain sense. So that this sculptured central group might

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of this child here if you keep in mind the two adjacent forms.
that in which ourselves stand — in the 15th century, developing
further into the time of Faust, in the 16th century, that which was
seeking few men as yet are conscious. Since the 15th century we have
seeking of these principles an incentive to what makes man free but
Child, this Figure of the 16th century, below Death, the remainder less
picture is to be found nearer to the central Group, that of the representative
clearly in the next picture the kind of centaur-figure which is essentially
Picture 13: (Centaur)
the upper portion of the Central Group. The middle figure shows the
art representation, to the Christ. That is, we shall discover the central
which one merely enquired its significance, in the central point of
is the traditional one arose only in the 6th century after Christ. For
centre-point of our considerations and of our feeling within our anthroposophical
which presses in upon us since the last third of the Nth century must

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phenomenon recently, and discussed by those who are more or less
century — we must realize that they are the recent products of
centuries before the Christian era. We find imperialistic empires in
of recent times has changed so much that the true character of an
of people in general of the third to fourth century before the
eleventh and twelfth centuries in Europe the consciousness existed
gods, the “Holy Grail” has been lost and now, in Central
pastoral letter was written by a Central-European bishop —
twentieth century, since Chamberlain and his people coined the
go back to the second half of the seventeenth century, when that
revolution of the eighteenth century, but the French people today are
century what has been called the will of the people in the public

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Central European tribes of Germanic origin were united since the time
people of Central Europe were left with a striving in all directions,
exist in Central Europe. And in order to understand what happened in
Central Europe, history should not be studied based on abstract
beneath the surface. What was Russian tsarism in the 19th century in
central issue results in lack of power. A community can only be
century there were two opposing parties in the English parliament
half of the nineteenth century these names were seriously meant. The
name originated in Ireland. In the 17th, 18th century the papists

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incentive for achievement of complete national unity was brought
against French impertinence, caused the cool restraint of the central
imperialism, as for example in the 11th century when the
which arrived recently from Oslo. “One of our anthroposophical

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Greece of the fifth and fourth centuries before the Christian era,
Humoral pathology accepted until well into the nineteenth century —
century — are not a beginning only, but to a very significant degree
regarded less and less as the centuries went on; but nevertheless
of Hippocrates until the fifteenth century. Contemporary scientists
therefore have great difficulty in understanding pre-fifteenth century
fifteenth century, we find a collection of inherited maxims that
end of the fifteenth century into the seventeenth, and contributed
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stahl's school has wholly ceased
one comes to purely arbitrary assertions, and the nineteenth century
century had a rather different bearing upon medical thought. It was
the preceding century: the De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen
conception in medicine. In the first half of the nineteenth century
these two decades, the forties and fifties of the nineteenth century,
have recently been spoken of even among minerals; and that there
half of the last century he devoted much energy to maintaining that

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all the organic activities centering round nutrition, digestion,
quality of this return is often different from its centrifugal

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century, these deficiencies in the medical conception led to what was
maintained that the more recent literature dealing with Paracelsus has
materialistic tendency of the nineteenth century has led to a complete
one from the centre to the periphery, and also one from the periphery
to the centre. Thus each motor nerve would have a complete double
growth should strictly speaking be the immediately adjacent part, its
strictly adjacent parts, but those of most use to the organism.
Therefore, it is quite impossible that the normally adjacent structure
of the human head with its various enclosed nerve centres, reminds one
that the nerve centres are enclosed in a firm armour of bone. The
to mankind, but if we postulate a starting point in the center, as it
Thus the central point of departure would lie not in the mineral

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at work to concentrate carbon; to make this substance the base of all
carbon concentration. Do not forget that the same substance is also
We have the initial stages of this process in what I have recently
this concentration on the nature of bacilli has nothing whatever to
I have recently termed the upper and lower spheres in man, which may
ascent of so-called more perfect classes, into what we can recognise
forces concentrated in two organs: the Pineal Gland and the so-called

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forces are active in this centrifugal tendency. All that is associated
concentrating tendency in which imponderables are held together. So we
concentrated in phosphorus. But as in that case, all depends on
and concentrate the imponderables, minerals that repel the
the mineral and the human. In recent times, there has been a very

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follow a spiral course around the central stalk. This spiral course
towards the centre. We have here the polarity between light and
very centre of these mighty forces and tensions is placed in a
in a recent public lecture, and in spiritualistic circles photography

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are not directly due to lunar influence (as recent theories claim),
obstinate life centred in one point meets the resistance of another
that has been recorded in medical literature for centuries, in order

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what happens as you pass between the trees, enveloped in the scent of
scent of the lime blossom. And you conclude that a process takes place
in the air as scent from the lime trees — arising without a doubt from
the scent of the lime blossom, though appealing to another sense, say
towards the evanescent scent of the flowers, while that of taste lives
that in the scent there is already an element of salification; there
“representation.” Yet it must be something organically adjacent to the
process of digestion, just as respiration is organically adjacent to
is the infinite circle concentrated to a point. The whole world is

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recently described in his extraordinarily illuminating address,

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automatically and irresistibly outwards, from the centre of the human
The elements most recently detached in the course of evolution, must
of outer nature, but in our “centre” — to which our digestion
discrimination between the peripheral man and the more central
dominion of the planets and stellar constellations. Centrally, as an
telluric-central man? Both these aspects of man are complexes of
On the other hand, the more centralised region, which is more
should have here a concentration of all that is both spiritually and

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substance affected to become fluorescent or phosphorescent, either
The kidney process may also operate in such a way as to accentuate its

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Levico water, which are as though compounded by some beneficent spirit
acquired strange features in its recent form; the power of rousing
concentric spheres. This is what can be perceived; the one element
as I have had occasion to point out, a concentration of the whole
world, to counteract the centrifugal radiance of the metal.
processes directed from above downwards centripetally are those into

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Central Europe, and is accounted of outstanding importance. Yet
that happened in the recent years of the war, but I refer to that

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Central Europe,
merely the catastrophe that happened in the recent years of the war, but

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receives his blood through descent, through birth, and when he is 25,
blood-wisdom persisted right on into the 15th century
spiritual to descent, to heredity, until in the 19th
century even this glimpse of the divine and spiritual was lost and man
19th century there befell the great catastrophe; men had
17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and
end in the 19th century and the fact is that the body of
19th century the dire need arose to discover the Event of
element made its way to the surface during the 19th century
impulses which laid hold of mankind in the 19th century and
century. The first impulse which came to the fore and gained an ever
century, which reached its apex in Woodrow Wilson's phrase about the
19th and 20th centuries. Nationalism and
the Jesuits are completely at one. That too is reminiscent of the

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Recently, however, it appears to have dawned on some other people that
of nature become interiorised and centralised in man.
organism and that which goes inside and becomes central in the same
processes of the external world. For the last century and a half,
lies nearer the centre of the total organism. Call

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less concentrated in the Hippocratic School of Medicine. Let us
thinks less in its periphery than at the centre of its being. Mankind
centrally — that is with heart, lungs and so forth, in unison with
existence centrally in primeval mankind, is driven apart in modern man
with the whole man, and restricted to the central area. The diabetic
sphere causes the ego to work upon its own central organisation —
the whole earth. This process is centralised in the animal itself,
sphere is centred in the animal itself and is removed into its
lacks are simply what they require in order to unfold from a centre an
man it is situated more towards the centre of the whole physical
central man, for there we resemble the animal formation — but
result would be a magnificent herbaceous plant, with profuse blossoms.
concentrated there than is generally the case with plants; and on the

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aroused much interest of recent years. It is significant that we
the operation of the unconscious will. The centre for these conditions
working centripetally. In the legs and feet, the will works through
the astral body very strongly in a centrifugal direction radiating
above downwards, we find that the organs above the centre benefit
descend from the centre, in massage of the trunk, the greater the
penetrates all the organs adjacent to those of consciousness. This

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It is one of the chief services of the nineteenth century to have held

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centralised, in the human organism itself. By virtue of its lungs the
apart from the forces that organise and concentrate themselves in the
holds apart the telluric forces of the upper human being, which centre
inwards, towards the earth's centre.

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centuries a longing has arisen among mankind for a democratic
nineteenth century has been overcome, but this statement does not

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family descent among hæmophiliacs bleeding itself only appears in
bleeders. But if these marry women free from hæmophiliac descent, the
far clearer proofs than all the recent experiments by Weismann, etc.,
into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries active still in the
forces are especially concentrated in those substances. What operates
from the cosmos what in concentrated form is manifested as antimony.
force as present on earth and in its specific concentrated form, but

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development a fulfilment of the aphorism which won respect centuries
is true to say that from the middle of the fifteenth century, man's
century intellectualism has spread over the whole of the so-called
centuries? In its relation to the Universe, it has become a mere
mathematical-mechanical calculation, to which in recent times have
abstractions which began in the middle of the fifteenth century, Man
say that the liver is so many centimetres to the right of the
symmetrical axis, the stomach so many centimetres to the left, for the
middle of the fifteenth century, man has really known no more than

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you will call to mind our very recent lectures, you will realise that

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opposites, and the central, Rhythmic man is the adjustment between the
concentrated in this small grain. The seed then withdraws from the
the fifteenth century, when the Fifth post-Atlantean period began, we

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the fifteenth century when there was an increasing tendency towards an
since the middle of the fifteenth century. If we wanted to develop and
quite in keeping with the ways of thought of the last few centuries,
materialists of the nineteenth century, who remarked that so many
centre a hollow, which reflects as a mirror. That is the Sun! I have

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cone around the Earth's centre, and the period of 18 years for its
great significance. If you remember what I said recently, we may put
also in a certain sense in the Gospels, as I have recently shown you.

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stronger and stronger ever since the middle of the fifteenth century.
take place in a manner that would allow us to look on the Sun's centre
the centre of the Sun and the centre of the Earth. In telling you this
to assume as pivot a point that is not the centre of the Sun, but lies
body. It is just this descent into the physical that is the cause of
I have recently spoken repeatedly. We realise that in a certain sense,
air. Only when our observations are centred upon actual assimilation,

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century that man began to have the right to speak of such a
drawn attention recently to the real truth concerning the human heart.

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while today, in this materialistic age, he has made such magnificent
then from the periphery upon the centre. And we know just as
little of the periphery as we do here of our centre or interior. But
nineteenth century materialism is now overcome! No! It is not overcome
centrifugal force to escape the centripetal force. Such things as

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central organ, the brain, proceeds through the so-called motor-nerves,
80's of the last century — a most interesting discussion took
will, as it were, come out and show itself — and magnificent results
into the eighteenth century (where they may be found in the literature
of the period), and perhaps into the nineteenth century, though here
eighteenth century, however, we can still find traces of a certain
indulged in materialistic chatter for centuries; but they have

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already spoken of it recently — that the human head sits upon the rest
science for the last three or four centuries has been such that it has
fact that in the nineteenth century there was much discussion
century, and try to form an idea from them of what people then thought

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is quiescent, like we are when we sit still in a railway carriage,
last centuries, people are not accustomed to connect such things with
They have quite disappeared. About six or seven centuries before the
fifteenth century. But men such as Pythagoras, for instance, still

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the fifteenth century. A sixth will follow this, and so forth. I have
century, but to speak more accurately, it really ended in the year AD.
successive post-Christian centuries, but the actual intervention of
consciousness and the economic conditions of the last centuries
phenomenon of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries
instance, that what has taken place quite recently, although it does
unless something has recently occurred which is related by some
in some way connected with quite recent occurrences. If one wishes to
through our being in the cycle of time whose central point is the
recent public lectures. On the one side the Church has reached the

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This I say for those who are interested in the theory of descent. I
simply continue to develop, as did the science of the last century,

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centuries actually has no Christology. I have often remarked on the
science is absolutely the off-spring of the nineteenth century; and it
nineteenth century, one who directs our attention directly to the
century view although in his case it leads to some misunderstanding.
can examine thoroughly the mode of thought of the nineteenth century.
century. The secondary effect is right outside the bounds of the
century, and even Kant in the eighteenth, formed their view of the
the twelfth or thirteenth century, we find that what people had then

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For centuries man has had these empty word-husks. This has gone so far
century did. They actually carried out to its logical conclusion the
century before Christ. Man did not then perceive himself as an
enclosed in his skin, but up to the seventh or eighth century BC. he
spirit of reality. I have recently said a good deal on the Theory of
middle of the nineteenth century and the preaching pastor; they have

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first to meet with this intervention of the central force, which was
centre. Thus, over against that picture which was essentially the
possesses within him, rays out from the centre. The endeavour of those
central force, makes itself felt through the Mystery of Golgotha.

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We can say: Thomas Aquinas tries in the thirteenth century
we look now at the central point of this study, at Thomas
persisted into the sixth century, and then ebbed, but so that
century hit on the idea that I was not presenting true Marxism.
recent philosophy, under the influence of Kant and
centuries, as I said before, as a fighting personality in the
questions had for a man of the fourth and fifth centuries.
Founded in about the third century in Asia by Mani, a Persian,
and so we always see in the history of any century the
influences at work from the preceding century, and so on. In
Concerning this philosopher of the third century we have next
the third century, — Augustine was a predecessor of those
in the course of centuries that there were once men who knew
court of Charles the Bald in the ninth century, and who wrote a
for Plotinus concentrated in Adam. Adam was all humanity. And
thirteenth century, bore the burden of it.

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aspect of the matter was recently refreshed because Pope Leo
medieval philosophy with the central personalities of Albert
century, in a way that is hard to comprehend with our thinking
If you look now at the centre of our
influence lasted until the sixth century, and then it
personality in the fourth and fifth centuries, as I have
centuries. Augustine experiences an internally moved, excessive
the West already lived. In the third century, Manichaeism came
historically in any century as result of the preceding century
century, we may say at first, that what we experience as our
back through the centuries
ninth century. He wrote a book about the division of nature
bearers in the thirteenth century.

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sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth century are further developed
centuries; and from such a review we can get the impression
few centuries before Christianity was founded, and continued in
the first centuries
the spread of Christianity throughout these centuries is the
the twelfth into the thirteenth century, and Thomas, who lived
century into our own day, a period from which we have drawn our
an impression if we turn our eyes back to the centuries which
later centuries had it, appears in advance. So he can only say:
which the thinkers of the twelfth or thirteenth centuries could
mysteriously from the sixth century into European spiritual
sixth century, or whether the other view is right which
and eighth centuries right up to the time of Thomas Aquinas,
Christian centuries as the materialists of to-day do, anything
centuries, and continued traditionally in the
introduced Plotinism even in the ninth century. But his ideas
In the twelfth century Scotus Erigena was declared a heretic.
himself, just as here the centaur and similar things were
developed in the centuries I have named. This sense of
While a man's soul concentrates on things, its contents are not
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of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth centuries, are continued
centuries, and one can get the impression by such a
processes. These events which happened already a few centuries
of Christianity in these centuries is the fact that the
the Great who lived from the twelfth to the thirteenth century
and Thomas who lived in the thirteenth century wanted to
fifteenth century until our days, and from which we take our
impression if we look back at the centuries, which preceded
human beings of the later centuries had it. Hence, he could not
Nineteenth Century. I would only
centuries could dedicate themselves who did not think much of
the European spiritual life from the sixth century on. Today I
written in the sixth century or whether the other view is right
point that the thinkers of the seventh, eighth centuries and
writer of Dionysius' writings related to the ascent of the
development during the first Christian centuries in such a way
leaders during the first Christian centuries, then it lived on
brought Plotinism into the ninth century.
In the twelfth century, one considered Scotus Eriugena as a
are chimaeras as already the centaur was a chimaera to
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fourteenth century taught at Paris and Cologne, Duns Scotus, we
in the fourteenth century, the chief thing about him being that
seventeenth century. We learn everywhere in the history of
path to God. One might say that Spinoza was not reticent about
century. Locke's formula was: That which we observe as colours,
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where Nominalism
so it goes on till Hume, in the eighteenth century, for whom
indecisive up to the eighteenth century.
the thirteenth century and see Albertus and Thomas leading
thirteenth century. And now let us take a look at the
nineteenth century. We see a remarkable fact: in the seventies,
seventies of the eighteenth century Kant's problem is not the
of the nineteenth century. You need only look at Fichte and see
nineteenth century. This movement takes no count at all of
the nineteenth century. We see this philosophic effort coming
understood, was completely lost for the nineteenth century,
Thomistic philosophy, which in the thirteenth century still had
in the thirteenth century threw out several scholastic lights
twentieth century shape in Spiritual Science, then it
thirteenth century. We see what it means sincerely and honestly
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the fourteenth century in Paris, later in Cologne, that as it
in the first half of the seventeenth century. Everywhere in the
in the seventeenth century. He says, what we perceive as
centuries. For he says, one has to do away with the
H., 1711-1776) in the eighteenth century to whom even the
unconscious struggle up to the nineteenth century. There we
century and see Albert and Thomas teaching humanity about the
century.
Now we look at the nineteenth century.
the eighteenth century, not anything that would have appeared
just in the middle of the nineteenth century that strictly
nineteenth century. We see this philosophical pursuit
worldview of the nineteenth century, with the exception of
twentieth century, and then it is back again as spiritual
that he wrote in the thirteenth century?
this thirteenth century surveying the entire European
development since the thirteenth century. This resulted from
Thomism, as it existed in the thirteenth century, beside that
In the thirteenth century, one could not
twentieth century is penetrating into the spiritual world, so
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the beginning of the last third of the Nineteenth Century something
of the Nineteenth Century and on those which had prepared the way for
that century. At the beginning of the last third of the Nineteenth
Century people everywhere spoke in quite a different way, their
decades, and still more in the decades of the Twentieth Century. The
beginning of the last third of the Nineteenth Century the belief
disguised. In the sixties of the Nineteenth Century the belief
recently in connection with Julius Robert Mayer and the Law of
Centuries, I began to speak in public lectures on certain
has been said in recent lectures here, and you will at once see what
last third of the Nineteenth Century — true freedom —
the last third of the Nineteenth Century. There were always certain
I say quite frankly that in the sixties of the Nineteenth Century in
Nineteenth Century, the freedom of science had become a household
You see in the course of preceding centuries and culminating in the
last third of the Nineteenth Century there had gradually developed a
of the Nineteenth Century could become a generation of Liberals but
Nineteenth Century, but for a much longer time than that they have
have achieved is what I might call the concentration of all
from authority into the Thirteenth Century, which we have recently
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Roman Catholic Church during the last half century. It began with the
centuries as modern science, enlightened science — all that is
to the Twentieth Century in our universities and in our secondary and
middle of the Fifteenth Century, but what has now become a shadow. Of
Fifteenth Century.
Since the middle of the Fifteenth Century, what has appeared as
really been going on all through the last three or four centuries for
science — ripe for condemnation since after four centuries of
certainly not have entered had it not been for recent events here, of

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that has been developed in the last three to four centuries should
Century has certainly been sufficient for the making of technical
Century. The human being wants ever more and more to form his own
undermining what since the middle of the Fifteenth Century has been
they should since the middle of the Fifteenth Century! Although the
You see, this magnificent foresight is something one has to recognize
In the first decade of the Twentieth Century a Papal Encyclical was

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thing. In Stuttgart I recently had to give a lecture to the
cost five cents in 1914 now costs thirty-five cents. Of course,
obvious while faith in a new ascent seems a delusion? We
which in the last three or four centuries have grown up
where an upward movement could appear, where another center of
especially here in recent years but also in other places. I

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influence over the youth in Central Europe, and that one will
yesterday, this influence reaching out far beyond Central Europe.
Oswald Spengler, at a gathering 130 years ago, in Central Europe,
than a century democracy has been a necessary demand of our time.
century if you had asked those peoplemr, who were then in Russia because
of the mere post-mortem life through centuries and millennia,
centuries, what then results from this in terms of the logic of
find how for instance in the recent speeches of an archbishop
presented for centuries, you have lost them. If you thus still

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mankind. Since the middle of the fifteenth century man has
since the middle of the fifteenth century.
of the fifteenth century and we shall presently see what
century man's life of soul has gradually come to the point of
things. In the spiritual life of the nineteenth century the
fifteenth century, through his abstract, intellectual
century — either to remain at a standstill with his
religious traditions through the centuries have utterly
centuries. People to-day are frightened at the very thought

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the occident since the middle of the 15th century, the period has
into himself since the middle of the 15th century he has been
destiny of mankind since the middle of the 15th century; to
world since the 15th century, in regard to soul existence, has
development of the 19th century, felt most deeply how what
the 15th century. For what purpose then has he made himself
ever more serious matter since the middle of the 15th century
Because the religious traditions for centuries have expressly
centuries the instinct for knowledge was suppressed which solely
something here which I have recently noticed again. We have

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degree, even though recent philosophy may in some instances
Switzerland and Central Europe, where these things happen,
are all part of the world. So, too, is America. I recently
has led into the decline of the present, and the ascent must

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also be viewed as a nineteenth- and twentieth-century
recurrent theme of my recent lectures. Humanity has arrived
functions. We must shed this abstract nature if the recent
materialists of the nineteenth century felt that it was
nineteenth century. A person who is only used to the ideas
of the last centuries, however, since the middle of the
fifteenth century, mankind reached a point where, in a sense,
of the fifteenth century. And by the middle of the nineteenth
century, just that particular segment of humanity which is
materialists of the nineteenth century stated nothing wrong;
automatically. Nineteenth century materialism was therefore
recent cultural development. It therefore cannot be a matter
relates to the tangible forces of ascent and decline in
character, concerning which Western and Central Europeans
the East, elements opposing czarism have for centuries tried

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like to add depth to what has recently been discussed by
hearing, smell, taste and touch. In more recent times, even
scent reminiscent of rue, a herb with a tart, but not
never arrive at impulses that lead again to an ascent until
to come to an ascent again.

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it had been possible for the nineteenth and twentieth century
was done by many during the course of the nineteenth century,
freedom has been the central theme of the studies I have
placed by us today in the center of each and every true
recognition for them, himself and his Mystery center. The
corporeal sense. In a way we are its concentration, elevated
have recently pointed out,

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in the complacent manner customary today, but that man can
century ago it was otherwise. You should have seen what would
civilization than the days of the recent past. People will
by himself what time it is. Recent events have demonstrated
nineteenth century learned discussions were held concerning
into the last third of the nineteenth century,
descent. We deal here with true, genuine, totally discernible
decline to an ascent by drawing on the sources of spiritual

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recently. We spoke about the external sense world in its
sixth centuries A.D. Even a person like
who lived in the ninth century, was fully
interesting passage, for example, in a recently published
to arrive at an ascent again from our general decline.
me recently how necessary it is to lead humanity today to a

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discover the heritage of Central European peoples by reading
was born at the turn of the nineteenth century, that is so
coined by a man a century ago out of the innermost sentiments
inundated today by what arises from the West. In Central
soul's most recent development. It must be of special
minds of more recent times, in the economist Adam Smith, for
in fact a completely Western thought form, but in Central
than half a century that people speak of it as if it had
been brought about in recent times by the unfortunate
created in Central Europe and the West is in a certain sense
out-and-out Central European mind, has really been
would have been otherwise. When, in Central Europe, something
basically the case in recent decades. This was the underlying
to roll out Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Thus, in recent
works. In the eighties of the last century, Eduard von Hartmann

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to Central Europe, we find that the European, provided that
central regions of the earth on this basis, dwells in the
The Central European lives in the rhythmic system and is not
leads to insight in a special manner, so the Central European
given the effects of these matters in the souls. The Central
the Central European's nature to live in the rhythmic system.
The Central European lives in the rhythmic system. He strives
today in books and newspapers in Central Europe, in Vienna or
reflection of this spiritual life is found in Central Europe,
man of the middle (the Central European). From there, it
Strange as it may seem, something was astir in Central
unconsciously, in Central Europe in the eighteenth century;
half of the nineteenth century had so conscientiously
philistine academia has said for over a century about
this West is asking for the ascent into what lies beyond
that is intimately connected with the forces of ascent, not
politics of the last century in connection with the testament

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the essence of the Central European cultural life, which,
Having played a certain role in Central Europe, this cultural
all else, there existed something like a concentrated
summation of the entire cultural essence of Central Europe
century, Schelling and Hegel published the
this whole spirit of philosophy, comprising in concentrated
in Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was
the second decade of the nineteenth century. One is moved to
that had pulsed for centuries in the minds and souls of
Central Europe came into inner soul existence at that time in
Eckhart, of Johannes Tauler. Recently, we have become
It was around the mid-forties of the nineteenth century that
century, and how they actually died within that same period.
very true has been expressed. As this nineteenth century
the nineteenth century are at bottom expressions of
It is intended to have as the central group in the middle of
time, in the second decade of the nineteenth century, mankind
in the center, working himself out of it with all his might
since the mendacities of recent years. It is something best
through Central Europe, not in order to counteract the
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during recent centuries in the development of
course, what humanity has come to in these last centuries by
what mankind has accumulated in recent centuries and utilizes
the truncated knowledge of the last few centuries, believe
however, only come into contact with this centripetally
intercourse, with this centripetal world.
beyond the threshold, this centripetal world is cold and icy.
organized so that he can sense this centripetal world
why does one? Man brings into this world of centripetal
three to four centuries, the whole of civilized mankind has
recent philistine, middle-class philosophies, mysticisms, or
sense; for during the last three or four centuries people did
last three to four centuries; to stress how one must leave

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equipped with centripetal forces that hold the spiritual
centrifugal forces. These are active perpetually, expanding
centrifugal forces, but you must not picture them as physical
that through him a world of centripetal forces and a world of
centrifugal forces are connected; in fact, they meet one
three to four hundred years. Have these last centuries
cosmos. Divine beings who serve the centrifugal motive powers
and divine beings serving the centripetal powers meet each
find their balance? The centripetal forces work principally
through the human head; the centrifugal ones work primarily
consonance and harmony between the centripetal and
centrifugal cosmic forces. Consider what that means! It
are related to the centripetal, compressing forces of the
centripetal forces work into our senses, into our eyes, ears,
apart into distant space, yet is held together centripetally
Hence, it is from the centrifugal forces, the fresh organic
be calculated is connected with the centrifugal forces, the
structure and judgment which deal with the centrifugal, the
this relates, the centrifugal forces, are indeed the youngest
the measures intended to lead to an ascent will deteriorate
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central areas, in Greece, Middle Europe and the Roman Empire
thinking developed throughout the central regions of the
juridical. It is only in recent times that an actually
We need only recall Michelangelo's magnificent painting in
the spirit became in Central Europe, the more it culminated
central regions, we are dealing primarily with the element
central regions. There, we come to the development of the
conscious manner that has been reached in the central regions

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kinship with them. Due to the forces concentrated in the
associations have recently cropped up from time to time in
were great teachers in the mystery centers whose teachers

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could magnificently grasp the causative connections between
the magnificent poetry of the Orient. It must be sought as a
recent age, particularly since Bacon, the human being has
recent natural scientific world outlook mocks Christianity by
the most recent physical conditions are brought about by the
most recent past spiritual activities of mankind.
nurtured in mankind during the past few centuries. One must

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centuries, materialistic impulses have melted away a
of people. Instead, they turned to the initiation centers. In
the universe in these centers was the actual leading advisor
initiation centers those who were found to be sufficiently
In recent
cultivated in its purest form in the initiation centers
and finally died out. For, even in the thirteenth century,
thirteenth century does not refer to stars, to planets,
thirteenth, fourteenth centuries, although in its last
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; if, following
developed during the past few centuries. These bad habits are
the fifteenth century, the thinking of which modern man is so
from Switzerland through Central Europe, which brought Lenin
scientific thinking of the past few centuries has emerged
the suppositions of the past few centuries, for they no
above all else the generally prevailing frivolity. Recently,
sort of center from which the impulse could go out that is
mankind's ascent!” To be sure, from certain quarters,
here chiefly as the result of efforts made by the Central
European countries. But when Central Europe's financial
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the various fields of spiritual science, including the recent
here recently — that we bring down from the spiritual
began around the middle of the fifteenth century A.D., man,
fifteenth century. Human fantasy is, in truth, only a
humanity since the fifteenth century.
the middle of the fifteenth century, human beings have
fifteenth century. Man brought along into the waking state
interesting that even the theology of the nineteenth century
Mystery of Golgotha. Just because it is the central
Golgotha into the central point of human thinking and
brought with him since the middle of the fifteenth century,
which people meet them. In recent times, the need has arisen
I have recently
Philosophers of recent times have set up any number of

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in the last three to four centuries, but particularly since the nineteenth
century, has been raised with certain ideas that are outgrowths of the
as those that arose from the scientific experiments of the last centuries,
developments in the nineteenth century to pass before the mind's
the nineteenth century it became increasingly necessary to replace the
nineteenth century, scientists already believed themselves very close
third of the nineteenth century: it is now on the decline again. Over
of the nineteenth century the attempt was made to carry this point of
nature simply cannot be achieved within. In the most recent attempts

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out of the first half of the nineteenth century: Hegel. Only in the
in the recent past. In the last third of the nineteenth century the
theological conservatism on Hegel. There was a center for Hegelian studies
And even if one considers the Hegelian center headed by the amiable
of the nineteenth century an alarming factor in the evolution of human
century with the great Idealist, Hegel, who lived only in the Spirit,
only in his ideas, and in the second half of the nineteenth century
life in the course of the nineteenth century, one feels with all one's
within the first half of the nineteenth century, but carrying over into
see that the appearance of such extremes in the nineteenth century is
in the highest degree characteristic of the whole of recent human evolution,

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translucent essences of light from sprawling space:

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web like the world view woven by recent science but rather to come to
center of gravity within itself.
in the last century to characterize in a modest way this other pole,

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recent times of a man who entered this region without full preparation
in the most recent decades. On the other side, that of the boundary

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These have been described very recently by those who are able to study
by studying attentively recent human evolution as it manifests itself
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to arrive at clear concepts,
centuries to see how human beings strove to understand what capital

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only, to which recent physiological research adds a few inner senses.
In this regard even philosophy has reverted to childishness in recent
of Golgotha were drawn during the first Christian centuries entirely
beyond the knowledge provided during the past three or four centuries
a path of ascent and not of decline. Generally speaking, however, it

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During the first Christian centuries, however, the ways and
centuries from the science and observation of Nature.
civilisation may take a path of ascent and not of decline.

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of Goethe. This was at the end of the last century, in the 1890s. And
of the blood. The descent of cerebral fluid is bound up with the activity
philosophy. Hegel had worked at the end of the eighteenth century,
science in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was misunderstood,

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were taken by the so-called Mystery centres to guard against
To begin with I had to concentrate on pure philosophy: I had to
is required. For a time we should strive to concentrate on a
very core, concentrating on it beyond the possibility of being
exerts pressure on the circulation of the blood. The descent of
had worked at the end of the eighteenth century, together with
in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was not

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century, with its intellectual conceptions. When Klopstock began
greatest significance. And in the nineteenth century, too, all
of Central Europe
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy

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It seems to me that a belief has arisen with a certain urgency in recent
true sense of what for centuries, for millennia, had been called healing.
half of the nineteenth century would have to be astonished, amazed, at its
customary in recent times, that prevents us, in the transitions from one to

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nineteenth century — we can study the process of becoming ill or of
social phenomenon in recent evolution: through the split of humanity

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striving away from the center of the earth. You may make a stimulating

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center. In order to do this, however, one must depart from those

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part of the magnificent Finnish Folk-epic, the Kalevala.

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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century
since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
century Wilhelm von Humboldt
the course of the nineteenth century it was precisely the opposite historical mode of thought and
which we do not find in the Orient but which, entering in later, arose in the central regions of
indeed, before Plato. So that we see how, since the eighth century BC on the Italian peninsula
which did not concentrate to such a point as that of the I-experience. Into what, then, did the
still finds echoes of it, and we find the last echo then in the fifteenth century in Nicolas of
out with full force in the Middle (or Central) culture. Thus we can distinguish between the
Middle (or Central) culture — primarily that in which the 'I' is experienced. And we see
Centre, another aspect arises. At the end of the eighteenth century something comes to the fore
Central culture in which the 'I' came to full consciousness, to an inner experience — was
his earlier writings — a pupil of the rationalism of the eighteenth century, which lived
which, although an excrescence squeezed out of the world-view of the Centre, nevertheless fitted
involved with the culture of Central Europe — that which is now the culture of the West.
the Central region of the earth's culture still set itself against this with all force in Fichte,
spiritual life. In the Central areas something developed which was dialectical-legal, which
philosophy it would have been magnificent. If the human beings living in Central Europe had
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century - 1
since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
The fifteenth century ushered in an era for the
West, the European Centre, and of the East are placed in the whole course of human evolution. We
have pointed to different things that are peculiar to the human beings of the East, Central
develop, and which have developed in recent times, have taken their incentive from the impulses
born in Central Europe and was nurtured in the Central European stream of thought, had to go to
external expression, however, is in Central Europe. In the aims of the social democracy there, it
Central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and on into the twentieth century as
political in the Centre; and in the East it assumes a distinctly religious character. A
of a religious impulse. The social impulse in the West is economic, in Central Europe is
world. The more recent life of humanity can only be understood if one understands this
differentiation — a differentiation into the Western economic element, the Central European
economic nature; purely economic aspirations can have no success in the Centre because all
reckoned as belonging to the European Centre, for what is characteristic of the West is actually
impulses that have arisen naturally within human development in the last three or four centuries.
everything which comes from Central Europe and is conceived not out of economic points of view,
instincts. Napoleon's 'Continental System' at the beginning of the nineteenth century was a
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century - 2
since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
one wants to understand how the human beings of the European Centre are wedged in, as it were,
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
Where, for example, does the whole magnificent but
taken from more recent science — which is international. But what coloured his whole
the other hand, moves more towards the centre of Europe. But it unites there with what lies there
immersed in the Latin element. This 'being one with the language' only remained in the centre of
Europe. This means that in Central Europe the language is indeed not bound particularly strongly
human constitution of those peoples who have gradually asserted themselves in the centre of
Europe. This has the effect that human beings came to the fore in Central Europe who were not
described yesterday to assert themselves in the leaders of the people of Central Europe. But this
people of the Orient as imaginations. But in the people of the Centre these imaginations remain
Centre that over the course of centuries it was barely possible for any individual who attained
[of the Centre]
characteristic personality from the civilization of the Centre and one will be able to touch
gives the leading personalities of the Centre — and the other human beings, of course,
follow these leaders — their characteristic stamp. The human beings of the Centre were
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since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
characteristic of the civilization of the Central-European countries in contrast to the Western
twentieth century, whereas Goethe wrote his
at the end of the eighteenth century.
Thus at the end of the eighteenth century we have
Otherwise he would have fallen into the usual intellect of the nineteenth century. Goethe
As a human being of Central Europe, Schiller had
Kant had succumbed to this. I spoke about this recently
side. They live anyway, so to speak, in every significant Central-European individuality but in
of the impersonally intellectual. The nineteenth century developed it to
being with in natural science and the second half of the nineteenth century already began to try
of medieval Europe. Since the middle of the fifteenth century we have only had the possibility of
the eighteenth century there stood Goethe and Schiller. Schiller said to himself: I must pull
Goethe sensed something of the tragedy of Central European civilization — certainly not
become Goetheanists feel how, in the very nature of German Central Europe, this singular working
said yesterday that in Central European civilization the balance sought by later Scholasticism
Schiller. But, fundamentally, the whole of Central European civilization wavers in the whirlpool
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century - 4
since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
is the special way in which, in the first half of the twentieth century,
civilized humanity began around the beginning of the fifteenth century. People today no longer
become since the beginning of the fifteenth century. People do not consider the completely
which can be attributed to this more recent time, one wishes to single out the most significant
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of European development, it is possible to
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
since the middle of the fifteenth century. And even when we consider the great philosophers of
the first half of the nineteenth century, we are presented with ingenious elaborations of the
Then, in the second half of the nineteenth century,
the fifteenth century. All human beings, or at least those who strove for knowledge, had some
divine-spiritual. Later on there developed in the central regions of the earth that which came
bloodline, his descent, was. the outer sign that this was how it should be. There could be no
already in Greece but then particularly also in Rome, by which Central Europeans were beginning
century was 1,400 million but that as much work was being accomplished as though there were 2,000
me recently: 'yes, the new age has brought us machines, and with them urban life; we must take
done. They believe that one can shut out what the centuries have brought. That is nonsense! But
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since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
intellect which since the middle of the fifteenth century has constituted the soul-life of modern
where, as I related yesterday, there was still a nature-based economy. Central European
about, with its culmination in the nineteenth century, in which the Christ-impulse as something
life which then led to the modern theology of the nineteenth century which finally erased from
Jesus of the theologians of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, who only
look at history from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries. They developed out of the Church.
also experienced how in the course of the nineteenth century, under the philologizing of
human consciousness in the idealistic philosophy of Central Europe asserted itself, as it were,
nineteenth century when the idealistic philosophy of Central Europe was born. We see then how the
Western element expands in the second half of the nineteenth century; how, to a certain degree,
devastated state, of Central Europe is an external sign of a deep inner process which humanity
to revelation in the East, the nullity of the Centre and the rationality of the West, still
Centre were simply not there — of the great conflict that lies ahead between Japan and
the East and that which is as yet unborn in the West clash together through ignoring the Centre
— then the sense of 'I' which came to expression in the Centre is submerged in that chaos
idealistic philosophy of Central Europe. It has ceased to exist since the middle of the
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20th Century.
culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks,
since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries,
Christ-Experience of the first half of the twentieth century will
the middle of the fifteenth century, the disposition of men's
period between the middle of the nineteenth century and our own day,
familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development have taken
occasion here recently to consider the scope of the various branches
the dominant impulse of recent centuries, completely hollows man out,
political stupidity which has spread through the world in recent
years! This folly has been slowly gathering strength during recent
centuries; it has come to a climax in our own day. Those who are
second decade of the twentieth century by talking about the
in our ideas; because this twentieth century has had to give us an
century, this question will be more important than anything else
recent centuries that has created the conditions which make me
century.

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since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
this yesterday already — that the prophecies of those who see the most central matter of
culture of Middle Europe, as we have come to know it in recent weeks, will be wedged.
that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can
the Christ-experience of the first half of the twentieth century will come in an unexpected way.
fifteenth century the constitution of people's souls has become quite different from what it was
nineteenth century and our own time, the soul-constitution of humanity as a whole has undergone a
last decades, ideas which have become familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development
modern science. We had occasion here recently to consider the scope of the various branches of
developing in recent centuries — and is so still today — this intellect creates a
recent times to account for the human being, we have, on the other side, claims of all kinds
political stupidity which has spread through the world in recent years! This folly slowly
gathered strength during recent centuries and then came to a climax in our own day. The great
crisis of the second decade of the twentieth century was ushered in when those who were supposed
organizing mankind according to the will of its individual nations. It was indeed in our recent
twentieth century had to give us a taste of the fact that there can be a man, marvelled at by
of this century, this question will be more important than anything else or any other feelings
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the Earth; he is thus not in the centre of the Earth but
activity of the new Moon is concentrated on the back of the
streams from the centre-point of the Earth, sending its

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the next hour. I would like to remind you that in central
the 19th century, besides events to which we have
have recently referred to the contrast which arises when
of the 19th century with Hegel on the one side and
life, being surrounded by the constant contrasts of the central
did not come from knowledge which had been unknown in Central
studied in Central Europe, if this wasn't merely done in
Central Europe but that it was thoroughly stated: In the
in the Central European faculties had been read by Hegel. Hegel
recently.
This philosophy, as it belongs in Central Europe, he presented
the Central European way; however that which he refers to, the
Central European elements we see within idealized cosmic
first half of the nineteenth century was, passed and people
antitheses in the central regions of our civilization's
the other a particular formation from the East. In Central
Within life's riddles, contributing to the centre of

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antitheses. Think of the planets: weight draws towards the central
light only as quiescent: in reality it is directed outwards from the
the spheres of the other adjacent heavenly bodies. Their effect on him
sun can be regarded not only as the concentration of crumbling

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the 19th century, theoretically, quite strong points
of thought had developed in the recent times. Actually one
third of the nineteenth century, this fascinating power of
recent times, it doesn't tolerate a moral world order and now
those people who lived in the middle of the nineteenth century
recent times a new way of thinking has started regarding the

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different way of judging Gymnastics. Just recently a famous

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Let's take a region, say Central Europe. Let's examine it by
considering the characteristics of the central European people
18th century, the French to the 18th
century and so on. We see to a certain extent a straight stream
the three to fourth century and even longer have developed and
During recent years I have made indications regarding these
central European population who carry souls who had lived in
as living in the last centuries in the European world, and yet
are very far away from Central Europe and continuing to Eastern
like those living in Europe during the first century — and were
didn't incarnate again into the Central European population.
century in Europe and who were present in the cultural spread
of the second decade of the twentieth century is so closely
American ancient population like the Central European
Christian centuries more towards the south. These are now right
number of souls who already in the first centuries AD lived
been brought about in the course of centuries. These facts can
Christian centuries came out of the Orient. One actually learnt
first centuries, we find — but not applied to Christianity,

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terrible problem that weighed upon men in the nineteenth century and
early twentieth century: How is it possible to conceive of any
existence of an incandescent globe of gas, there is merely the

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that weighed upon thinkers in the nineteenth century and
early twentieth century: How is it possible to conceive of
astronomy speaks of the existence of an incandescent globe of

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in the very centre of our consciousness, drawing them there with a
appeared in the course of the last few centuries will be able to

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thoughts in the very center of our consciousness, drawing
that has appeared in the course of the last few centuries

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For many men of the early Christian centuries it was a
centuries, then we must ask the question: “Has this feeling
experienced today as it was experienced even five or six centuries
tree is not something ancient, it is scarcely two centuries old —
Europe, but it is only in recent times that it has adorned the
terribly urgent. Fearful things have come about in recent years and

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center of the view found in the cultic rituals performed by the priests in
people since the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century
Christmas. We must realize that since the nineteenth century even theology
Christians in the first Christian centuries, and who felt the Mystery of
century, not through the arrival of external events alone, but because

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stands, as it were, in the centre, and that there are certain
had a central place in the cults performed by the Egyptian
way in which it has been done by many people since the 18th century
and throughout the 19th century right up to our own days —
century even theology has come to look upon the Christ merely as the
first Christian centuries, and who knew that the Mystery of
spiritual form during the 20th century, not through an external

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called into being by the terrible catastrophes of recent years have

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century and reaching its zenith in the 19th, although it was last
clearly present in the 18th century, especially in the West of Europe
Let us think of the 18th century, and of the English
And in France, in the 18th century, we find efforts
19th century and deluged all scientific views. Such objections as
the 18th century, there is an inner connection between the meagre
century, particularly in Central Europe, in the West already in the
18th century, we find men like Dupuis in the West and Ludwig
Feuerbach and others in Central Europe who, with the strange
before man in the middle of the 19th century, first by Dupuis and
In France, in the 18th century, man was conceived as a
machine; in the 19th century he was seen only from outside and his
In one of the most recent books (another has since
it said that much in Anthroposophy is reminiscent of ancient
Anthroposophy. He is a Licentiate of Theology, a very learned
A friend recently gave me a copy of the Rheinische
a new ‘Economic Council’ was recently formed. Out of
not for ascent but for decline. And the majority of people today want
decline and simply delude themselves into the belief that an ascent
practical, as well. Recent centuries have not only dulled human
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we have tried to do in our recent lectures, one sees how what
the 13th or 14th Centuries, and reads the things written and
which has developed from olden times up to recent times, there
2nd, and last third of the 19th Century that man has entered
Century there still lived these ancient instincts in the social
the 19th Century, in order still to have moral views. Men had

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train. In recent times, one sees these attacks appearing
because of the recent publications of the “Kommenden
the course of the last third of the 19th Century. Then only did
the second half of the 19th Century.
half of the 19th Century, in Parliaments and other corporate
bodies the discussions everywhere centered round the Gold
of these men. But it became necessary in recent times, when so
Spiritual world before their descent on to the Earth. Of
enjoy before their descent is absolutely not what many
to say recently in Stuttgart is true; it has not yet been

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second half of the 19th Century, have been too little
last half Century, transformations of quite a definite
the last Century work upon us. If a person to-day wishes to
strivings of recent times have been entangled. It cannot of
economic life of our recent times, of the economic necessities
have to consider that in the 70's of the last Century, the
world-traffic, and then, in the last third of the 19th Century,
the 19th Century; — and this arose perhaps in its most
lived entirely in that centre, never having been one of those
the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th Century,
They are not of recent date, one heard of their activities in

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the chaotic life of recent times without any sense of
things in Nature in the 12th centuries, but they do not read
is really only a few centuries ago — that in the 11th,
12th, 13th and even 14th centuries, they thought quite
It is only in the last century that man was first reduced to

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lecture, as the chaotic life of recent times without any sense
written about the things in Nature in the 12th, 13th centuries,
as they think now, is really only a few centuries ago —
that in the 11th, 12th, 13th, and even 14th centuries, they
Spiritual. It is only in the last century that man was first

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unorientated life of recent times and if this should continue
was written about Nature in the twelfth, thirteenth centuries
thinks as he does now is only a few centuries old. They would
world in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth centuries, even in
the fourteenth century; that in the stone, in the earth, they
recent centuries that man has merely a geology and a cosmology

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is, since the fifteenth century, both the intellectual life and
century. The world was filled, so to say, with judgments that
Modern technics can only furnish the great triumphs of recent
nineteenth century. What took place after the conclusion
in the last third of the nineteenth century. Man's whole mode
knowledge during recent centuries.
Such things are no doubt reminiscent of Inspirations and
— slinks round our modern educational centres and would

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centering round three significant impulses of culture or
in our lectures) in the last three to four centuries, during which
world-conceptions of our recent times, and even the mechanical
done?” (He means in recent years.) “Where are now their holiest
lay in the feeling of Goethe when, in the 80's of the 18th century,
European humanity has produced in recent times, especially in the
19th century. To-day when we are living in the age of great
which that magnificent medieval human being was developed who, in

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Schools of Initiation the so-called Heliocentric view of the world,
in which the Sun is seen as the central point of our planetary
souls, for what was said with reference to the Heliocentric view of
popular idea, for the ancients (and up to the 14th century) lay on
evolution in recent times, he has, as it were, entered the sphere
Threshold. And so Roman Catholicism stands there as a magnificent
15th centuries. But after that came times in which modern Natural
further than they already are. For the last three or four centuries
Catholicism has produced. In recent times it has brought forth
for at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. And there is a
In recent times there
appeared quite recently. A French Ambassador, Paléologue, who

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because they become repetitive. For instance, I recently
which, as I have recently quoted, it is this possible that

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Christ-stream. You know indeed that the central Group of our
centre balance?

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recent years lost this consciousness of the presence of
Europe seven or eight centuries ago. It is intellectual thought
middle of the fifteenth century. It is an absolute fact that
since the middle of the fifteenth century, it is this working
fifteenth century approached, the culture of Europe was tending
When one experiences such things as the recent attacks that
which appeared recently in Germany, in the highly respected
the recent one in Germany in order to cast suspicions on what

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beings; for our civilisation has in the course of recent years
civilised Europe before the 7th and 8th centuries. It is just
since the middle of the 15th Century. It is an absolute fact
— that since the middle of the I5th Century, it is this
That kingdom then, in the recent age, since the 5th Post
there is found in utter decadence. As the I5th Century
the recent attacks, is it not obvious that these people
you recently of the especially ruthless and ugly attack which
appeared recently in Germany, in the decent paper,

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The all-embracing wisdom by means of which in the first centuries
the materialism of the West. In those early centuries, materialism had
the fourth century A.D., Christianity became a
picture which from then onwards persisted through the centuries —
it is a fact that with the concentration on this picture of the
magnificently in the Sistine Chapel at Rome as the Dispenser of
ecstasy in pain — this, for centuries, was associated with the
how then, in the sixth century, men looked upon death and felt it to
the centuries. A true understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha is what
magnificently portrayed, but to those, as for example Goethe, who feel
the fact that since the end of the first Christian century, Western
that can bring about this ascent. And the moment we truly understand

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centuries was still capable of penetrating to the Mystery of
had not fully emerged in the early centuries; it was prepared
the first centuries, which was hardly perceptible, only changed
century Christianity became the state religion, which means
centuries, is a Christ Who can no longer be grasped in His
so magnificent a manner in the Sistine chapel in Rome. The
the mystery of Christmas — which emerged magnificently at
call the fate which in the course of the centuries overtook
happened since the end of the early centuries through Western
will have arisen within human alimentation. A new concentration

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centuries or millennia this or that will happen — does

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
Materialism was justified in the nineteenth century; clinging to it
developments in the nineteenth century when the physical body,
middle and second half of the nineteenth century that
today's lecture we will center our interest more on the
nineteenth century.
materialism this was the middle of the nineteenth century.
of the nineteenth century materialism was in a certain sense
remain. On the other hand, what the nineteenth century drew
culmination in the middle of the nineteenth century.
about the middle of the nineteenth century. Since then, a
in the middle of the nineteenth century, the organs that
than they were in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is
physical sense, as had men of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century!” If on the other hand, one is a
pedant like those of the nineteenth century, wishing to cling
the nineteenth century. At no other time was there so much
the nineteenth century.
the twenties of the nineteenth century — only, people
century the human organism reached a culmination in respect
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
half of the nineteenth century; the evolutionary impulse of
materialism of the nineteenth century should therefore not
the senses and nerves. This is chiefly concentrated in the
of an ascent to Imaginative thinking is to have before your
us, concentrated into one moment, in regard to the whole
of the nineteenth century life has gradually become so
organism that are centered in the organs of breathing and in
century. This culmination viewed death as something that must
exceedingly rare. In the nineteenth century people
in the nineteenth century, followed in turn by a decadence.

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Rainbow’s incandescent ring!
style in which the French classics were, until quite recently,

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
Fourth century A.D. final loss of Logos knowledge. Conscious
the fourth century before Christ, there emerged what
behind. I was able to point out that in the eleventh century
the population settled in central Europe still occupied a
compared to the Greek development of civilization. In central
Greeks anticipated much of what came about for the central
century.
around the turn of the fifth and sixth centuries
compelling, magnificent aspects, the outpouring from all
certain sects of the first Christian centuries to the point
century until the fourth century
between the fourth century
and the fourth century
fourth century
first Christian centuries, where much was still pervaded by
Gnostic elements, up to the fourth and fifth centuries of our
those eight centuries, in the middle of which lies the
recently, I have had to call to mind an extraordinarily

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the way this threefold nature is concentrated spatially
system, we know that it is chiefly concentrated in the head
But the physical forces concentrated here extend over the whole

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little granules and that is not quite ten percent of the
ethers on the one hand, pressing centripetally from above
pressing centrifugally from below upward. By this means the
as center. It is inhibited, however, by the vitalizing

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the thyroid gland in its neighborhood. What appears in more recent

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first medical course last year. He explained how recent
concentrates the individual aspects of a symptom-complex into

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the real center of the deficiency. The deeper this center
the lower the potency required. The nearer this center lies

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the process of their becoming. One must concentrate less on what comes
sphere. It is a copy of all those forces that are centralized in the

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
Until the fourth century A.D., a form of Oriental astronomy and medicine
the development of humanity in recent history. Basically, we
in the nineteenth century. It will be our purpose today to
fourth century. There emerged at that time a figure still
something attempting during those first Christian centuries
early fifth century in the most intense way. And in
existed prior to the fourth century
picture may be since the fifth century, as unclear are all
the ordinary ideas concerning the preceding centuries. Yet,
period prior to the fourth century
first Christian centuries in both the stream of wisdom and
heliocentric world system — I have spoken of this in
heliocentric system as a kind of esoteric-physical science, a
in man remained well into the fourth century
century and physical astronomy took the place of the old
etheric astronomy in the fifteenth century, so, too,
considered to be a treasure of wisdom belonging to centers of
centuries extending from East to West; we can follow its path
centuries. The tendency arose to connect the historical fact,
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show an insufficent digestive activity and, who therefore, have
at least adjacent to it) that is, into the circulation and into the

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its center in the heart — if I may put it so — and

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
Transition in the fourth century A.D. Nature of Greek culture, its
ancient astronomy and medicine. Its reality, concentrated in the
of Occidental civilization in the fourth century
central and western Europe. These two streams, one a cultic
significance had taken place in the fourth century
the fourth century
twilight of a magnificent world view which modern history
most evident in the transition in the fourth century. All
Supper, a synthesis of sorts was contained, a concentration
and is synthetically concentrated in the bread and sustains
regarded a concentrated extract of the cosmos, so the blood
sacred mystery centers. This age was over already around the
eleventh, twelfth, and ninth and tenth centuries.
the first third of the fourteenth century. By that time,
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries merely on the basis of
which began in the first third of the fourteenth century, was

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the other person, this exerting of one's concentration on him combined
not in order to particularly accentuate an emphasis on the right or

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make a very concentrated decoction of the seeds, if this
modern materialistic view, namely, that of a centrifugal and
a centripetal nerve activity. Such a view is no more
elasticity of a rubber ball by ascribing to it some center
called a metamorphosis of the central heart organ.

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
fifteenth century. Soloviev's call for Christianized state. Forces
Christian century. It was also necessary to point out how
civilization of central and western European culture came
northern people who due to their nature and in concentrating
the blood-ego-feeling, particularly in the central and
lived on through the centuries.
centuries. A new spirituality has indeed emerged since then
in the first third of the fifteenth century, but it was an
first third of the fifteenth century must be striven for in
in concentrating together all the elements that, while they

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centre of the world's movement, who must take part in its affairs while

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effects stream in from all sides. They have no center from
which they radiate, for they are not central forces but
in my more recent writings I am now trying to embrace the

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connection we may conceive of these cosmic powers as working centripetally
case they would work towards the centre; the planets are there for the
is working centrifugally, thus making the head large, and, in doing
are insufficent, that the plastic forces in the organs are running
his ascent to the outward formative forces, to the objectively intuiting
appears as a particularly magnificent and beautiful picture: on the

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considering them as working towards the center and forming
centrally again — the planets are there to modify them)
and gather them around a center so that the earth can come
the form is working centrifugally and making the head big,
urinary process becomes a luminescent process in an abnormal

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
during last third of nineteenth century. Image of man, meaning of earth
significant ones of European history, for today central Europe's
fourth Christian century.
outlined how after the fourth century the element that could
middle of the nineteenth century modern humanity underwent a
nineteenth century, particularly in the last third,
twentieth century, stands under the influence of what
occurred in the middle of the nineteenth century.
in the last third of the nineteenth century. I am referring
third of the nineteenth century through the person of
this period of the nineteenth century. He is the personality
Friedrich Nietzsche grew up in a parsonage in central
conceit, and trivial contentment. I say complacent,
that in the first half of the nineteenth century there still
ancient times, concentrate on history. We should study the
ascent lay in Bayreuth. This tragedy prevails especially in
I would like to say this concentrated itself in his mind into
northern Europe in general and central Europe had had an
recent times. He believed he could find it through a kind of
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
well as their buoyancy, their ascent. They sensed within
nineteenth century. Thus, the human being became lost to his
ascent to the intellect where everything experienced in our

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
The nineteenth century as culmination in history of abstract spirituality
and materialism since fourth century. Dogma and ritual. Formerly: life in
present and the immediate future. Recently, we have referred
development in Europe in the fourth century. Earlier, at
fourth Christian century passed over into the solidly
dogma, it continued on through the ensuing centuries. This
some of those who came from the Irish centers of knowledge;
through the centuries. One particular reason why it was able
centuries of historical development in Europe. Side by side
Christian century that, in a sense, sank all the ancient
primeval wisdom throughout the ensuing centuries.
century.
nineteenth century. Intellectual striving, pure rational
been flowing since the first third of the fifteenth century.
centuries, this mood reached its culmination in the middle of
the nineteenth century. How can we understand this
it then disappeared in the fourth Christian century. From
People were most spiritual during the mid-nineteenth century.
condition was in the middle of the nineteenth century, but
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
man awakened from cosmic sensing to cosmic reason. Since fifteenth century,
century of bringing reality into shadowy thinking by way of the
In recent
We know that the time from the eighth pre-Christian century
until the fifteenth century
pre-Christian century in southern Europe and Asia Minor. We
human soul developments until the fifteenth century. It
attained a kind of high point in the fourth Christian century
the eighth pre-Christian century up until the fifteenth
century actually developed the intellect. However, if we
eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, when people
a Greek or even a person of the eleventh or twelfth century
the eighth pre-Christian to the fifteenth century
subjective. Even as late as the fifteenth century — and
soul. Up until the fifteenth century, people had the feeling
century, people did not believe that. They actually felt that
the eighth pre-Christian century to the fifteenth century
and particularly in the fourth century, human beings
characteristic thing is that in the fifteenth century people
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
sentient soul culture; in central Europe, a legacy from the fourth
century A.D. In Eastern Europe, this process has largely been slept
nineteenth century is an important time in the development of
emerged in the human being since the fifteenth century was
characteristic of this developmental phase of recent human
nineteenth century, the human organization, in the physical
that I am a human being of the nineteenth century.
century, people by and by have received a great amount of
tenth centuries
the nineteenth century all sorts of things already existed
century. In particular, this patriarchal life spread out from
influence proceeding from the initiation centers in Ireland
nineteenth century; nobody was elected to Parliament who did
they are unaware of how recently these things have developed
of the eighteenth century due to the technological
to the transformation of the textile industry, the nascent
outwardly, we are in the eighteenth century, say 1770 (see
this time period, the first half of the nineteenth century?
the nineteenth century and found it necessary to reckon with
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
The two main streams of nineteenth century: formally juristic Roman
since fifteenth century. The necessary counterbalance and renewal through
in the middle of the nineteenth century that then, in a
actual underlying history of the nineteenth century. After
all, it is true that the middle of that century is the point
body during the whole preceding age; from the eighth century
until the fifteenth century
century. Along with this, the human being has in fact become
Ahriman, these two cultures confront each other in recent
eighteenth century. As I indicated yesterday, there lived in
characteristic moment in humanity's evolution in that century
on in the nineteenth century. But the national element in the
in the beginning of the nineteenth century. This phenomenon
the beginning of the nineteenth century and is still fully
grounded in Roman Catholicity. All this is concentrated, I
should say, in the first third of the nineteenth century in
since the beginning of the fifteenth century, but that is
the nineteenth century. He himself has long since died, but
that since the beginning of the fifteenth century the course
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seemed to him to be concentrated in the living Sun, and to withdraw
Consciousness Soul since the beginning of the fifteenth century have
incandescent gas, and this picture is then transferred to the Sun in
are centrifugal forces. This does not contradict the fact that these
the human countenance. The Moon forces stream out from a centre in the
you know, began in the fifteenth century, we have to become free of
Like the Moon, the centre, from which the Mercury forces work, lies in
entering. He prepares for his descent to the Earth and — since

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
centers. Initially, the mysteries provided the basis of this
revealed to them concentrated, as it were, in the sun's life,
since the beginning of the fifteenth century in the age of
radiating outward from the center.
the face because the effects that proceed from the center,
our age, which, as you know, began in the fifteenth century,

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kingdom, we ascent — precisely as we ascend from the lifeless to
spiritual. I ascent through the realities; but Nature gives me only

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Think of a quiescent white. Then we will let beams of different colours
from opposite sides play on to this quiescent white — it can be a
happens: we have a quiescent white, into which we throw rays of colour
not quiescent — they would vibrate, as it were. In fact, it is the
opposite of what we had up here: here was had a quiescent white and
colours. With one we must take a quiescent white — and thus we must
must have a full yellow in the centre and from there it must shade off
off towards the center. It demands to be strongest at the edges and
center, and then paling off. Blue piles itself up at the edges and
concentrating; that is red's nature. So you see there is a fundamental
to blue, the concentrated luster-colour. Then we must leave the usual
Yellow is the luster of the spirit. Blue, concentrating, intensifying
contains the differentiation; the other colours are quiescent images.
quiescent images, and that which differentiates the Cosmos in
colour, of it sown accord it wants to be strong in the centre and shade

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this coloured appearance of material nature. Now since in recent times
fact a product of the last three or four centuries. If you take this
three or four centuries has man reached a state of soul which enables
century, how they sought the means to comprehend landscape. Open air

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human order,” who since the seventies of the last century have been descending
lectures I have given recently on the nature of
which took place in the nineteenth century, it is no longer rooted in reality.
personality. He was able to become a personality because of the concentration
of the forces that were to build his body. And this concentration of forces was
in the nineteenth century.
it was until the epoch of the fourth century after Christ. It was then for the
been increasingly rapid since the fifteenth century, and today, although the
which reached its climax during the nineteenth century. And today man is
significance came to pass at the end of the seventies of last century. It is an
seventies of last century, other Beings — not of the human order — have been
century, super-earthly Beings have been seeking to enter the sphere of
centuries more and more Spiritual Beings will be among us — Beings whose
the nineteenth century Spiritual Beings from the cosmos have been coming into
since the last third of the nineteenth century, but with this ghastly brood of half-mineral,
of plant-life and the theories that were evolved during the nineteenth century
place within his reach since the last third of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century. The cultivation of Spiritual Science is in very truth a

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
century; their activity becomes possible only by way of a thinking that
Particularly since the developments of the nineteenth century
century was the culmination point of this development. I have
characterized this repeatedly in my recent lectures. Already
continued up until the fourth century
and particularly after the fifteenth century, that the human
nineteenth century and today human beings altogether lack a
nineteenth century. Whereas in ancient Atlantean times these
the eighties of the nineteenth century, heavenly beings are
next few centuries, more and more spirit beings will move
last third of the nineteenth century, we are actually dealing
century, but instead with these ghastly mineral-plant-like
the ascent, my dear friends, is indeed outlined. We must take
convolutions reminiscent of the caduceus, they will produce
torturous concepts developed in the nineteenth century
third of the nineteenth century by beings from the
since the last third of the nineteenth century. It is a real,

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European Spiritual Life in the 19th Century
The Development of Thought from the 4th to the 19th Century
RECENT lectures given at the
And as a matter of fact in the most recently written histories it is
to the fore in the nineteenth century, and speak about their origin
nineteenth century — and the character of the first twenty years
of the twentieth century is really very similar — the impression
usually is that thought in the nineteenth century developed along an
century a very radical change came about in the development of thought.
half of the nineteenth century were all characterised by certain spiritual
century. In following up this particular line of development we shall not
be able to concentrate upon those who were either scientists or artists
in the course of the nineteenth century. More and more it was borne
nineteenth century, we find a representative personality in
nineteenth centuries, may be taken as a typical example of the scientific
so widespread in the eighteenth century, and even before that time.
we study the structure of the life of thought in the nineteenth century,
sounding over into the nineteenth century, which led men like Saint-Simon
of the nineteenth century, men like Saint-Simon stood as it were without
century, there loomed the shadow of this conflict. On the one side men
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European Spiritual Life in the 19th Century
The Development of Thought from the 4th to the 19th Century
the middle of last century a radical transformation took place in
nineteenth century thought and the spiritual life in general that
turning point in the west which we have to look for in the fourth century
the fourth century A.D. which is for us such an
ancestors. It was their ancestors whose voices they heard for centuries
of the fourth century these tribes settled down again. Some of them
fourth century the possession of a fixed dwelling place becomes an
century, had been accustomed to exercise over the southern peoples, that
in the fourth century A.D.
it then lived on through the centuries. Our present-day educational system
the man became externalised by this culture. And in the fourth century,
thought of the Greek epoch right up to the fourth century
fifth century from the way we should do so to-day. When we discuss things
in the centuries which follow this substance is propagated in the Latin
And from the fourth century
on right up to the fifteenth century. For what history usually relates is
centuries, in a far deeper sense than the ancient Mysteries were kept
And the centuries between
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
of humanity. Since fifteenth century this flows into the groundwork
took place in Western civilization during the fourth century
point in human evolution as the one in the fourth century,
lines of the most recent documented records. Then, going back
transition in the fourth Christian century; I outlined the
the fifteenth century. Finally, I described how a turning
century.
particularly well that human beings in the relatively recent
who lived in the ninth century
well into the second half of the ninth century, is truly a
thinking of the ninth century
the first Christian centuries. John Scotus Erigena apparently
surfaced in the sixth century, and many scholars therefore
sixth century by an unknown person, which were then
passed on in those early centuries. A school like the one in
something that was centuries old. Furthermore, the great
being written down in the sixth century. They were considered
the times prior to the fourth century, people simply had more
end of the first Christian century into the second one. This
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
of ancient, body-bound spirit force took place in the fourth century. By
first centuries of Christianity that throws its light into
the ninth century. Based on everything we have learned
recently, we can say that the manner of perception, the whole
way of thinking, differed in the first centuries
occurred in the fourth Christian century. From the middle of
that century onward, people simply thought much more
fourth century
all prior to the fourth century
century. In men like Scotus Erigena it emerged once again,
in the course of these centuries. That is why it is so
centuries after Christ. Only with the help of spiritual
the first centuries
present in subsequent centuries in the general consciousness
the fourth century
centuries and completely contradicts the Gospel of St. John.
the first Christian centuries, which, as I have said,
centuries; it was even understood by people who were by no
sway in the most recent generations.
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which shines over from the first centuries of Christendom
into the 9th century. The mental process, the whole life of
thought and idea in those first centuries of Christendom was
fundamental change occurred in the 4th century of our era. From
the middle of the 4th century onwards, the thinking of men
consciousness that was natural before the 4th century still
the 4th century of our era. It never occurred to men in those
4th century and in men like John Scotus Erigena it flashed up
at the world had changed in the course of that century. And
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
discussion and debate. But as the centuries took their course,
subsequent centuries. Think of the first verses of the Gospel
world. In the Christian mind after the 4th century, the
through the centuries and completely contradicts the
a fundamental change came about in the 4th century. In the early
Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
centuries of Christendom to teachings such as those now living
early centuries, even among men who were by no means learned
9th century after Christ. None the less his books contain
Fathers of the first centuries of Christendom. Their
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
Transition in the fourth century from the viewpoint of the changing life
century
century
century changes in part have begun to develop, in part will
century
the soul-spiritual being has worked for centuries.
century
with the eighth century
who lived in the fourth century
centralized in the arteries leading to the heart and is
(they called it yellow gall), which has its center in the
its center. In the rosy flush of spring and the yellowish
came, they said: Now, the fluids having their center in the
who lived in the second century
essential development between the eighth century
and the fourth century
Look at Greece in the fourth century or
in the third or fifth centuries. Look at modern Italy. You
fourth century it had been in its prime, and we have heard
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century, that the understanding for these connections has
lost since the first third of the fifteenth century. The
seen and interpreted as an ascent in higher cognition —
the ascent from ordinary object cognition through
fundamentally also an ascent to the elements. We will speak

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unfolding toward the periphery and toward the center with the
most a mere 8 per cent as solid in the human being; 92 per
cent of the human being is a column of fluid. Man is not
literature that appeared before the fifteenth century.
Central European, takes the expressions in which are clothed
not progress. We will come into a frightful descent if wider

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following: as I have recently explained to you, the human
of thinking, since the fifteenth century — this
centuries — according to which the abstract,
death and this most recent birth. In order to reach the
absurd, and even indecent, I might say, when someone who

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are concentrated all the forces that in the next incarnation
kidney-excretory organs, we will see that they concentrate
way, are concentrated in the heart; and when they are pressed
perceiving outer objects and concentrating these in the
course, and I recently calculated for you the number of
century erected a barrier against this knowledge, and this
forces of decline into forces of ascent.

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When we concentrate upon the whole soul nature we must not say:
concentrated in the same way within the liver all the
concentrate within themselves the forces which, in the
hunger, leading to karmic satisfaction, are concentrated in the
concentrate in that organ through perception of outer objects.
breathe, do we not? And I recently reckoned for you the number
nineteenth century erected a barrier against this

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studies we have been conducting recently, a basic fact of
we carry with us as our head is always reminiscent of the
materialists of the nineteenth century, this consciousness of
recently when I read that there are still people who, going
the practical life as something important. Recently a news
practical life really should be conducted, whereas in recent

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connection with earth existence. When in the fifteenth century
or five centuries Ahrimanic influences have
dedicated to Ludwig the German in the ninth century, but which in

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what I have already said recently, I should like to begin by calling
concentrated at the very surface, whereas actually the whole man is
taken hold of by the scent of a flower or by any other aromatic

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We know that in recent centuries, since the middle of the fifteenth
century, human progress has consisted predominantly in the development
recent centuries to the other pole of human experience. Anyone who is
In the centuries that followed, this dogma became more and more firmly
centuries-old custom of assuming man to consist of body and soul.
somewhat since the middle of the fifteenth century — also knows a
the fourth century, will form his judgments about the relations of man
those three pre-Christian and three post-Christian centuries.
centuries that I have just mentioned, To-day, of course, we cannot go
fourth century A.D. For at that time there was still an instinctive
which was lost only in the third and fourth centuries A.D.
spiritual world that had once been seen. By the fourth century A.D.
of the fifteenth century. By the time this intellectualism emerged,
century the last scrap of consciousness of this spiritual world had
fifteenth century civilised humanity is, as it were, in labour with
intellectualism which is fully born only in the fifteenth century, and
century it reaches its high-water mark in this respect.
intellectualised, and that, as I said, began in the fourth century
development of the Gnosis brought about its complete descent.
nineteenth century has already reached a certain climax, has to know
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Anthroposophy as has again recently been made, in a debate which took
centuries allowed itself to become entangled in certain abstractions,

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During my recent lectures I have brought forward a few things with
centuries subsequent to the Mystery of Golgotha. We may say that in
the course of about six centuries, humanity has been trained to take
those six centuries. External documents (I have already called
continued to exist even in the post-Christian centuries, had an
fourth century of our era. Particularly a man like Augustine clearly
study) obtained its contents above all during the centuries which
in the following centuries, up to the fifteenth century.
the fourth and fifth centuries of our era, up to the fifteenth
century, with all the experiences connected with that time —
those centuries and all the experiences connected with that
born at the end of the fourth century of our era, but we may also say
thinking, evolved up to the fifteenth century. That human beings were
place in the fourth century. But to begin with, intellectualism
been developed up to the fifteenth century as a technique of
century was, therefore, the development of a technique of thinking.
century onwards, and then more and more quickly; new spheres of
scientific world-conception. Up to the fifteenth century, the
In the centuries which followed, up to the nineteenth century, those
centuries which preceded the nineteenth century, one of these habits,
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nineteenth century onwards, the sensualistic or materialistic
end of the nineteenth century. Let us observe how the external facts
nineteenth and early twentieth century have become great. It was
were prepared in the fifteenth century and they reached a certain
culminating point, in the nineteenth century, at least in so far as
decade of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century.
the past three, four, five centuries, something entirely new had
birthday at Jena, in the nineties of the last century. I happened to
gradually came to the surface in more recent times, and that it was
great historical significance in the nineteenth century, particularly
the nineteenth century. Recently, I have described to you from
way through the spiritual culture of the nineteenth century, began to
world-conception of the nineteenth century. This is altogether the
speak of Kant, from the second half of the eighteenth century
fifteenth century and reached its climax in the nineteenth century,
of thoughts. This is possible, for the nineteenth century has proved
it. The nineteenth century has also proved the justification of
we would reach, at the end of the twentieth century, the war of all
century... They are sound, clean people, whom we cannot in any way
century; nevertheless, in the books of Russian writers, who knew how
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to various things I have already mentioned recently and reach a
in the last centuries between nature observation and the moral
friends. Since the end of the 19th Century a wave
Century in such a terribly way, ultimately is the bracing of
Century. Obviously materialism prepared this long in advance. I
15th Century. It developed slowly, certainly, but it
the second half of the 19th Century they came to
19th Century when people were completely excluded
Century so he hadn't seen it: our modern doctors, said Comte,
been introduced since the middle of the 15 Century as

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mental outlook of man through the centuries. If we tell people to-day
world which had grown up since the fifteenth century. In his youth he
world and his view of life since the fifteenth century? It is, in
century runs parallel with the development of intellectualism —
fifteenth century that our thinking has been so influenced by our
century. Anyone who really studies the writings of a man like John
Scotus Erigena in the ninth century will find no trace of similarity
manifested in later centuries and above all we can see it in a man
period since the fifteenth century, and this is the point in which we
eighth century B.C. outer history can tell us
beginning with Galileo, in the fifteenth century is an age of inner
the eighth century B.C. to about the beginning of
the time when attention is concentrated on the principles of measure,

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"At the Center of Man's Being: I," or
AT THE CENTRE OF MAN'S
— a special centre was ancient Ireland — then the
Mystery centres, their gaze having long been directed outwards so as
speaking of Central Europe) learn to know in secret societies what
it often flows into action. In later centuries after about the middle
of the 15th century — the human constitution became such as to
eccentric garb and sit down, with his harp-maiden seated in front of
the 15th century.
development of the last few centuries. The two things belong
reason, whoever has had to learn of the presence of this centre of
him he has a fiery centre of destruction, and in truth the forces of
decline can be transformed into forces of ascent only if he becomes
This centre which is isolated in man, and should work only within
prevails, when we become aware once more of this human centre of
destruction within — a centre, however, which must be
physical body. This centre of destruction within modern Western man
is a fact, and knowledge merely draws attention to it. If the centre
of history since the middle of the 15th century, and especially in
the 19th century materialistic world-conception. Why did these
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colonies still further to the West — a special center
that, as time has evolved, many people — not in Central
into action. In more recent centuries, actually since the
middle of the fifteenth century, the human constitution has
eccentric garb and sit down, with his harp-maiden seated in
since the middle of the fifteenth century.
centuries. The two things belong together. A man such as
of the mystery centers that came to the West could penetrate
forces of ascent only if man becomes conscious of this, that
fifteenth century, and especially in the nineteenth century
last few centuries to the investigation of outer nature, we
the West and will become a world culture. The center of

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mit dem Kosmos. Band VII. It is also known as, The Center of Man's Being,
The Center of Man's Being, part 1,
of Central Europe, but those of Western countries) learnt a
impulse. It is indeed so, that during the last centuries,
already since the middle of the 15th century, man's
the 15th century.
arose in the last centuries. There is a connection in such
Therefore, he that is to see this centre of destruction in man
man is the enveloping frame of a centre of destruction, and the
man will realize that he envelops a destructive centre.
will again be there, if man will again be shown this centre of
physical body. This centre of destruction exists in the modern
however, when this centre exists and man is unable to reach it
conscious knowledge of this destructive centre and proceeds
middle of the 15th century; it lives especially in the
materialistic world-conception of the 19th century. Why did
that, what constitutes the highest achievement of more recent
destructive centre which must be recognised in order to keep it
the connections of life during more recent times. The world
appearing as such a destructive centre, is to be found within
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"At the Center of Man's Being: II," or
AT THE CENTRE OF MAN'S
within man a kind of centre of destruction. I showed how as long as
described as a kind of centre and heart of destruction meets our gaze.
needs be such a centre within us, for only in such a centre can the Ego
of man establish itself. It is a centre for the strengthening and
unreflecting, if we lacked this centre within us. For this centre
of matter. But in this centre of destruction it really happens that
centre of destruction. Then, in this very centre of destruction, the
being formed to-day in man within this centre of destruction. It is
and strengthening to take place within the centre of destruction
15th century were to continue, mankind would fall into decline; for
century. In the 19th and 20th centuries he has become incapable
Christian times, up to about the third or fourth century, when there was
engaged attention in the early Christian centuries have long ceased
Christian centuries, in the endeavour to realise in consciousness the
out even to modern men how they carry in them a centre of
recognise in man only the laws of nature. But in this centre of
into it. As we have said, this centre of destruction is below our
indeed so — since the middle of the 15th century man has developed
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developing since the middle of the fifteenth century were to
since the fifteenth century. In the nineteenth and beginning
of the twentieth centuries he has become incapable of forming
Christian times until about the third or fourth century A.D.,
people's attention in the early Christian centuries, under
that were fought during the first Christian centuries in
indeed so — since the middle of the fifteenth century
century there has been a tendency to study and investigate
cannot tolerate a center. Matter concentrates toward the
center of the moon but cannot tolerate it;it stops short
in this way at all; true, it does approach the center, but
stream out from the center. It does not splinter and
center in every direction. Together with this life it
something that is permeated with inner life, where the center
center of the sun lives the cosmic fructifying activity. In
early Christian centuries these things were seen

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more what lies in the center: the world of our ordinary
for understanding the world and man. Take this as the central

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briefly what we have been studying during recent days in
into decline but to come to a new ascent.

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case for centuries — the relationship of the archangel
actually may be attributed to the souls who have recently
differentiated breathing. The concentration of these forces
links the more recent science of the spirit so closely to the
world is to move toward its ascent and not its decline.

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Our recent

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reasonable action comes from the center of his I-being. Their
decaying civilization of the nineteenth century: Nietzsche.
the center, forms the present experiences of the human being

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whether we accentuate brightly or darkly, this we do solely

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whether we accentuate brightly or darkly, this we do solely

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the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
case, for example, in recent history — by extending the
until the 13th or 14th centuries, when, what was the free,
the 13th to the 16th or 17th century, the universities slip
centralized in the cities seeks protection in the larger
America, just in the last third of the 19th century, a
who was recently here.
regards the materialistic coloration of the last centuries:
something which one might sniff. Thus, the scents of the

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the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
case, for example, in recent history — by extending the
until the 13th or 14th centuries, when, what was the free,
the 13th to the 16th or 17th century, the universities slip
centralized in the cities seeks protection in the larger
America, just in the last third of the 19th century, a
who was recently here.
regards the materialistic coloration of the last centuries:
something which one might sniff. Thus, the scents of the

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concepts of an audience of the bourgeois, because in recent

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concepts of an audience of the bourgeois, because in recent
concepts exist within the working-class, and the central concept that
populace that has developed in recent times as the active and truly
still further sense. Once can refer to the fact that in recent times
economic life. In the last third of the nineteenth century, they
be very different from each other. But in the social life of recent
the middle of the fifteenth century. This was when it slowly began.
For if we go back further than the middle of the fifteenth century,
differences and even classifications in recent times. One has to go
declined in the past few centuries! Because of the manner in which
what the figures in it express. He has recently developed these

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In our recent

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and Central Europe, it can be taken quite literally, word for
astonished at the percentage among patients of stomach

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of the recent development of humanity, public life as such,
America and England. For both Switzerland and Central Europe, it can
during the dreadful catastrophe of recent times (the First World War)
from Central Europe, on the other from England and the West. He only
border, and since one has through many centuries called oneself
question why this Austria, which only had centrifugal tendencies,
centrally together for the reason that each (country) begrudged the
nineteenth century, the cultural life has been absorbed by the life
fight against its constraint. Much has emerged in recent times out of
percentage of people among patients of gastro-intestinal specialists

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back once more at our recent observations. We have tried to
whole of intellectualism, which has comprised the centerpiece
century, is something that has significance only in earthly
or so of the fifteenth century, such an outspokenly
civilized life. Before the fifteenth century, however, human
become proud of since the fifteenth century, precisely what
of the nineteenth century, when the materialistic outlook and
the middle of the nineteenth century, the more representative
the middle of the fifteenth century. This age perceives only
ourselves, always has something of scent associated with it
are described you will find simultaneous mention of scent
comes back after death as a scent impression.
scent that accompanied warmth he now perceives something
Scent
century, however, man still possessed a kind of legacy from
since the middle pf the fifteenth century. What the human

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come into being only in the last third of the 19th century,
simply holding yourself onto the sounds. In recent times, one
that they are an ascent, as it were. Each line causes an
speech-study, if you will — of recent times. One has

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come into being only in the last third of the 19th century,
simply holding yourself onto the sounds. In recent times, one
that they are an ascent, as it were. Each line causes an
speech-study, if you will — of recent times. One has

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fifteenth century, man may gain freedom between birth and
fifteenth century), we cannot say in the same sense that the
fifteenth century. The divine-spiritual worlds vanished from
the middle of the fifteenth century, through the kind of
exist even in more recent eras, the conception of the end of
straggler, even in more recent times. In enlightened
nineteenth century, it still gives historical development a
permeation with the spiritual more and more from the center,
Mystery of Golgotha, at the center of the earth's evolution,
is led to such freedom by an activity that I have recently
center. We learn to recognize how everything before the
center of gravity. It dissolves into fog and mist which
perceive the sun. This central spiritual being was
sun. More recent humanity must now not point away from the
ascent. This should be realized deeply and thoroughly. This
center is missing, the Mystery of Golgotha is missing

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epoch; i.e., ever since the middle of the Fifteenth Century, man
until the middle of the Fifteenth Century), we cannot in the same
of man's development since the middle of the Fifteenth Century.
Fifteenth Century, through the form of knowledge which has arisen
feeling, continued to exist even in more recent epochs; the
as a kind of straggler, even in more recent times. In historical
from the centre, instead of from the beginning and end. Even as
Mystery of Golgotha, at the centre of the earth's development,
freedom by an activity which I have recently designated in
obtains a new meaning when it receives it anew from the centre.
— an illusory episode without any centre of gravity. It
human race felt the presence of this central Spiritual Being.
forces of descent and enter the ascending forces. This should be
The centre is missing, the Mystery of Golgotha is missing

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deepen what we have recently considered. If we envisage, to
covered by the earth. In the four central members the stars
for Sagittarius is a human being sitting like a centaur
Pisces. We now live for many centuries under the sign of
the middle of the Fifteenth Century, he is repeating this
the Fifteenth Century, he is growing into his abstractions,
the center) we must breathe and eat; this is our nurse. And

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presented in recent lectures may be summarized in somewhat the
of the inner will itself, which a beneficent creation conceals by
Then, from about the fourth century A.D. onwards, came the time when,
In the fourth century A.D. there were schools which taught that the
Living in that same century was one whose ardor for what he had
In the fourth century A.D. there was sunset; now there must be
Indeed during the first centuries of Christendom, Christ was still a
according to their own conditions — a belief reigned for centuries,
lasting indeed until the beginning of the twentieth century, that in a
be kindled once again to light. For like a fluorescent body, the
in itself, it will light up, will become fluorescent when it is

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suggest descent from the Roman-Latin people.
birth, during his descent out of the divine spiritual world into what
during his descent out of the divine spiritual world. All the single
geometry, music and astronomy. In this ascent through the various

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materialists of the 19th century, though they misconstrued it.

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many centuries. But today in particular we should bear in mind
lived for centuries, and they can only look with a certain
of our century. To an unprejudiced mind everything coming from
European region which has for many centuries been the stage of
the Mystery of Golgotha we look back six centuries and come to
centuries: It learned to love death upon the cross, that death
world-wide cosmology which led to a conception of the central
led to a conception of the central human being filled by that
the 19th Century gradually changed Christ Jesus into a

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THE Festival of the Holy Night has for centuries been a great festival
Christianity until the fourth century A.D. It was in the fourth
century, for the first time actually in the year 354, in Rome, that
a contribution to the times was made in the fourth century of our era.
In the course of the first four centuries of Christendom this longing
centre around which Christendom coheres. The feeling that lived in the
century, Christianity brought its contribution towards the union of
this Christmas Festival was celebrated through the centuries, we find
something of outstanding significance through the centuries which
festival was a celebration of the descent of the Christ Being, whereby
received a new impulse. This Mystery of the descent of a heavenly
centuries went by. But at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, enough
And so in the early centuries of Christendom the Mystery of Golgotha
century after Christ, this wisdom had almost completely disappeared.
remained, on through the subsequent centuries. The ancient wisdom was
Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christendom as to the manner
centuries this was a Mystery which addressed itself to a living wisdom
centuries from the minds and hearts of men to the Jesus Child in the
from earlier centuries of Christendom. If we let these things work
In the course of the centuries, understanding of the Risen One, of the
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belong. During the course of recent centuries the world of nature has
achieved during the course of recent centuries.
times, the fifteenth century. Let us look at this period and see how in
more recent times and see how people turn and look outwards towards
element in their striving for balance. And in more recent times human
an abstract way, that the Middle Ages were luciferic and more recent
circle or another recently I have a number of times given a striking

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further eastwards, even in the regions of central Europe bordering on
recently in the culture of the middle region. It is characteristic of
modern theology in Central Europe that it is uncertain in its
come more interjections. Some recent novels are tending in this
of a new age. By the fourth century AD mankind had lost the wisdom of

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abstract. Yet right into the fourth century AD it was still something
into the fourth century AD a geosophy of this kind still existed. And
which began in the fifteenth century, geosophy, too, paled. There
the fifteenth century. And with this world of abstract ideas, which
nineteenth century there has shone into the earthly world from the

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of the fifteenth century is entirely different from that of earlier
Ages until well into the fifteenth century. Any mention of ‘the
spiritual configuration of the early medieval centuries is only
of paramount importance in very many Mystery centres. The preparation
initiation varied, of course, in the different centres. But these
the physical, bodily aspect. Since the fifteenth century the human

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since the fifteenth century. It is extremely significant that
being which has become entirely lost in more recent times. This can
recent lecture tours and especially the recent eurythmy tour.
evolution in recent times depends, firstly, on our developing our

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lost its inner vitality as a result of our descent into the physical
we experience prior to our descent into the earthly world as a fear

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came into being in its most extreme form in the fifteenth century,
post-Atlantean period, in the fifteenth century. But in an ahrimanic
fifteenth century. It did happen in the fifteenth century, but it was
the one stream as it appears in more recent times. The other is the
sixteenth, seventeenth centuries — to reach a harmony between
centuries of the Middle Ages we see the struggle taking place most
theoretical kind of knowledge. For actually we find that the ascent
death that the ascent into Christianity is unfolded.

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more pointed out in these lectures that in the most recent cultural
strongly in recent times this force of thought has emancipated itself
the cultural life of the eighteenth century, which was actually far
the end of the eighteenth century, we see how, encouraged by
stage begins in the twenties of the nineteenth century, when Goethe
the end of the eighteenth century when he composed the
eighties of the last century, Schröer was working on
thoughts to life. In the recent number of
beginning of the eighties of the last century Schroer believed that
His grave, we could say, was in Central Europe, in the
strata of the old states of Europe — who, in the last century,
and their courts must be the centre and epitome of culture, insight
‘But every political factor today — the recent peace

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which falls in the fifteenth century, is very much more
tremendous transformation on the civilized world. Yet, a century
fifteenth century has been little noted in external, recorded
about some aspects recently. For instance, we saw that Calderón's
time. Faust belongs to the sixteenth, not the fifteenth century,
the space of only a year or even a century. It came about gradually
over centuries. So the Faust figure came towards Goethe like a
come from earlier times and would go on into later centuries. We can
efforts were concentrated on seeing spiritual realities, spiritual
eleventh, twelfth centuries those who strove for knowledge did not
Goethe looked at this Faust of the sixteenth century, or rather at
that scholar of the fifteenth century who was growing beyond magic,
of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural evolution that
century. In the figure of this professor he depicted his own inner
centuries, when he said: Goethe made a big mistake in depicting Faust
Faust is one of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries stand as the representative of what
sixteenth century Faust — that is the legendary Faust, not the
the devil. We know that this sixteenth century Faust could not be
century. Now it was necessary to endeavour to show that once again
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development in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth centuries was no
constellations. At the end of the eighteenth century Schiller felt
familiar in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to those
what remains you still have a magnificent drama. Schiller could have written
revolution was political, whereas in Central Europe it was spiritual
is indeed one of the best treatises of recent times. Goethe sensed the
probably have been truly magnificent. The whole principle of the
have already spoken. Before that, in the ninth century, the legend of
kind of Faust of the eighth, or ninth century. He makes a pact with
Theophilus, this Faust of the ninth century, and consider the
legendary Faust of the sixteenth century, to whom Goethe refers. The
ninth century profoundly condemns the pact with the devil. Eventually
sixteenth century gives the Faust legend a Protestant slant. In the
described. The sixteenth century protests against this. There is no
Theophilus in the ninth century. For in the end it is the Queen of Heaven
century — though of course in Goethe's case it is obviously
is an expression of the way in which the recent spiritual and
then, in the nineteenth century, the thread breaks entirely! The
nineteenth century, so splendid in the realm of natural science,
nineteenth century, a man of party politics, only a bit more crude
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constitution of civilized mankind with the fifteenth century —
or even in the seventeenth century, and who had, ‘Straight or
fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth centuries. And here we hit upon
which Goethe and Schiller in Central Europe had stood in their whole
see that in Central Europe this becomes an impossibility. Goethe and
from the ninth century, when Goethe in his turn allows
Although his genius lets him present it in a magnificently grand and
ninth-century Theophilus.
fifteenth century was something of which absolutely no account is
in advance: Even though Parzival goes back several more centuries,
into the seventh or eighth century, all this was nevertheless
the second half of the fourteenth century,
seventeenth century also possesses a kind of Parzival, a comical
the seventeenth century too, after the great change had taken place,
back a few centuries prior to the great change. Read
fifteenth century, soul could work on soul much more strongly than
external fashion. What do we find in the nineteenth century?

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fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In this age, human beings come to
great world-wide movement of the end of the eighteenth century.
the way it manifested at the end of the eighteenth century, could not
artistic activity which is reminiscent of a child at play. His
lies the great contrast between Central Europe and Latin western
power of the state, and it still believes in it today. In Central
concentration exercises and so on, can certainly experience
to remarks I have made on my lecture tours in recent months. But this

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rise up again and regain consciousness, and this re ascent is
in Central Europe, where there was still a vivid, ancient,

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Christianity, too, especially as far as its central point, the
the first centuries after Christ, no longer exist. They may exist, at
souls experienced before their descent into an earthly body through
of the 19th century until about the end of the 19th century; in the
already, and particularly, during the fourth and fifth centuries
fifteenth century — the beginning of the fifth post-atlantean
quite impossible — for an innocent man to be condemned to death
into error — into an error so strong, that the most innocent of
of the most innocent of all. First, this conviction must be gained

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that were still extant during the first centuries of Christendom
before the descent into an earthly body. The experiences of the
soul before descent into a physical body through conception
nineteenth century, his heart rejoiced — although to speak
century, Theology itself became materialistic. I have already
centuries, weight was still attached to this living continuity,
century after the Mystery of Golgotha and received its great
impulse in the fifteenth century, at the dawn of the Fifth
centuries the essence and substance of esoteric Christianity was,
lawful judgment. An innocent man condemned to be crucified ... it

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grow paler (drawing in the center). Suppose this next sketch is
the reality. However, the moment the ascent is made from
long nails. You can be certain that what is today at the center

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less than ten percent. For the rest it is a water organism, an
less than ten percent of the total organism, we have within us

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knowledge which is more concentrated in the heart, not so much
However, when the ascent has been made first to

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number of impressions. Present-day man has for centuries been
and has done so for centuries. These concepts about the world
world view in recent times. When we utilize nature's laws in
Century — I am referring to the civilized part of the
in the course of recent centuries, particularly the 19th
Century. But certain fundamental things which are still
disappeared already in the Fourth Century. They

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teeth. And a true power of judgment, when the child or adolescent
descent, when he approaches the earth to imbue himself with a new
This is of great significance. On our descent into the earthly world,
that these rays, having grown together here in the center, form as it
in the center becomes especially living. And in the midst of this
central etheric structure, at the time of puberty, the physical heart,
new, the real, etheric heart. This etheric heart is a concentration of
etheric, too, is concentrated. Therefore the heart is the uniquely
influences collect together and form a kind of astral center.
together all our actions. And so from puberty a central organ is
created wherein all our doing, all our human activity, is centered. It
activity is centralized — centralized, in this case, neither
have a cosmos gathered up into a center; while at the same time, as
and concentrated there in the human being becomes increasingly cosmic;

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awaken and the child or adolescent begins to make his own
focus our attention on how he draws near his descent to earth
is of extraordinary significance that we, in our descent into
the center, form, as it were, a distinct structure (red). It
in the center becomes particularly vivid and alive. Within this
without inwards. It forms a center within which the physical
thus rayed together into a center becomes, at the time of
etheric, too, is concentrated. This is also the reason why the
of astral center (red).
which centralizes all our deeds. Thus, from puberty a central
activity is centered. In the same region where man has
his heart the sum total of all his activity is centralized, but

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today is to transform, in meditation and concentration, the otherwise
acquire a new habit and during that time I shall concentrate my whole
for example, such an exercise as concentration each morning upon a

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concentration, the otherwise merely logical connection between
acquire a new habit and during that time I shall concentrate my
that if, for example, such an exercise as concentration each

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which began in the first third of the fifteenth century and has
in recent centuries. However, it must be said that the intellect has
Giordano Bruno right up to the nineteenth century. Especially in
attained in recent centuries.
Yet the practice of centuries continues through a certain cultural
develop predominantly between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
difference whether one uses these terms or prefers the more recent
that the intellect developed by man in recent times is very
third of the fifteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century
Jupiter existence. Therefore, all the magnificent achievements of

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of the 15th Century and has now practically run its
accomplished in recent centuries. However, it must be said that
19th Century. Especially in Western civilization the
greatest intellectual achievements have been attained in recent
centuries.
centuries continues through a certain cultural inertia.
15th and 19th Centuries.
recent ones of solid, liquid, aeriform bodies and conditions of
in recent times, is very impressive. But these
Century to the end of the 19th Century — these elemental
magnificent achievements of these sciences are related only to

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humanity — from the 15th century onwards. Yet we must ask
being: The nervous-sensory being centred chiefly in the head,

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way his soul life has developed since the 15th Century. I have
into the magnificent spiritual life of Greece, into Greek art
cultural life of more recent times is still in its early
chaotic interaction with forces of ascent against which man

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recent times, it is true, men have sought refuge in the conception,
the 19th Century, when the ideas of
19th Century. People said, Man cannot be
the right-hand side to the central plane of symmetry. For any
and you become the plane in the middle. And when you are the central
historic importance emerged in the 19th century, which still present
Then we see the cloud of light creating itself in the centre as a
thus comprise the human being in his central plane, we are

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existed the Mystery centres which really fulfilled the functions alike
centres were the source of all the knowledge which flowed into the
In these centres the initiates dwelt — men who by dint of special
in the centres of the Mysteries, the old initiates, when they had
evil may work havoc in a wider, less concentrated sphere. The other
more, passing in their descent through the sphere of the moon, and

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concentrated exclusively in the planet Mercury. They permeate the
merely a manifestation of the Mercury-forces in a concentrated mineral
heavens they are concentrated in a physical-mineral form and so are
The Venus-forces again are all-pervading. They are merely concentrated
interpenetrate, but their concentrations stand at different places in
You know that 90 per cent of you is a column of fluid. So if the
Therefore there must be a concentration of the Mars-forces in the
The human being appears to be concentrated inside his skin, but this

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the universe, it represents the concentration of those forces —
crude theory of man's descent from animals is a fallacy) — but

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which you find in the central Alps. Here are two great and important
appearance differs very considerably from that of the concentrated
towards the centre of the earth — and then unfolds outwards. The

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Christian centuries has been completely buried, that
four centuries thereafter is based on sources which have come to us
Christian centuries. In this sense I have recently attempted
centuries, as presented in the usual historical descriptions, are
and fourteenth centuries remains completely unclear in the usual
the culture of recent times, we must understand the soul life of
during the time from the fourth and fifth centuries after Christ
through the following very dark centuries up to the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries, when it was brought to a certain
Christian centuries, a way altogether different from that
following centuries.
In the ascent to Imagination, in the
theology of the first Christian centuries, which has been
Christian centuries was actually viewed from within.
descent of Christ into the earthly world, was essentially seen not
concerning which I spoke recently, which set for itself the task of
theologians, say from the first or second century after the mystery
through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries before being
fourth century, when the northern culture mixed with the Roman. You
[e.g., Pèlerinage de Charlemagne (eleventh centNote 8]
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very recent creation. It did not arise until the time when the
economic life has changed, even during the nineteenth century. You
during the first half of the century, what was practically the modern
century. The great social questions which arise out of economic
first half of the nineteenth century: and those who wanted to think of
come into being by the first third of the nineteenth century. Through
as the first third of the nineteenth century. Starting from this time,
first third of the nineteenth century it still essentially
first third of the nineteenth century were essentially old:
half, of the nineteenth century. In England, during the first half of
the century, there was already what we may call a reckoning with
third of the nineteenth century. Then there rapidly took place an
system. In the first half of the nineteenth century Germany had been
character still existed in the first third of the nineteenth century.
nineteenth century took place far more consciously than in England. In
true, is it not, that as the last third of the nineteenth century drew
nineteenth century, the structure of the economic life was permeated
one. In the second third of the century its evolution had been subject
depended. The whole economy of the nineteenth century, as it evolved
twentieth century, though the world was unaware of the fact, we stood
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the century, which at that time was entitled: “Theosophy and the
15th or 16th century — economic questions
interesting study — especially for the first centuries of the
centuries and reached its climax in the nineteenth century. Then the
be complete. For it would mean that the maximum concentration of work,
published long ago.* In recent times our economic life has begun to

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centuries mankind has grown accustomed to sharply outlined concepts,

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create this form: weak stem, distinct leaves, concentrated leaf force
(drawing 1). With the same idea I get a second form: concentrated
first four Christian centuries, in any case, still at the time

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centuries what we could call the Christian teaching still
fourth century A.D.,
following the fourth century, people still looked with reverent
first period after the fourth century: In a certain sense the
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries of the Middle Ages that this
centuries, if someone had struggled through to Christianity and
someone so confronted in the earliest Christian centuries.
However, in these early Christian centuries that person would not
someone living in the first centuries of Christendom have
in France at the court of Charles the Bald during the ninth century.
century we see two personalities confronting one another:
In the ninth century the strife was
rediscovered. Everything reminiscent of his teaching was burned and
ninth century, and it was exceedingly difficult for serious minds of
bread and wine in the same way people in the ninth century A.D. saw them,
possessed by people living in the ninth century. The thinness
and abstraction of the concepts and ideas in the ninth century were
already by the ninth century, and still more in later times, these
ninth century, and which influenced men to fight such devastating
last decade of the eighteenth century when Goethe and Schiller were
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consuming process. This contrast has played a great part recently in

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longer be understood after about the eighth or ninth century.
it was before our descent into the earthly world. But a precondition
cosmos. Within the mystery centers and through the mystery centers, a
principle. They looked then to the mystery centers, within which a
form in the last remaining mystery centers of antiquity. And
later civilization in the course of the first four centuries of
freedom would have arrived in the fourteenth century A.D., human
the ancient mystery centers became also applicable to him. In the
in the earliest Christian centuries; only later was it covered

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of the economic process as it were in the nascent state — to

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can be no doubt about it, during recent times it has clearly emerged

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I am referring to the price of rye in certain districts of Central
the economic life of recent times. Take France, for instance; I take
France was innocent of the. War. For, the moment we want to prove that
into the economic life. (In a certain community it has recently become
recently, I have far too often heard this word, the
century and on into the twentieth, and so you can observe this
should have to go to the nineteenth century for a rather glaring
recent times England has been chosen by Marx as a means of studying
of the eighteenth century, it is the functions of Trade Capital which
of what is decent and proper conduct, it may become very fair, but it
century, if we are considering the world-economy which was gradually
century, the economic processes of trade and industry
Loaned Capital only began in the nineteenth century — indeed only
towards the second third of the nineteenth century. And it is at this
nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. With the
last decades of the nineteenth century, the circulation of money has
a peculiar phenomenon of the nineteenth century, particularly the end
of the nineteenth century. In Economics, everything depends on an
Down to the first third of the nineteenth century, there were true
— that is the end towards which, as the nineteenth century drew

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we? In this case, the clock is completely innocent.

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Now with the last third of the nineteenth century, there was a
about a century ago no longer hold good to-day. What we need is an

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ethical thinking. During the eighteenth century it lost its
century is a spectacle of such magnitude that to human beings
only one culture, and, perhaps, for only a few centuries.
time by saying that since the middle of the fifteenth century
in its true significance only since the fourteenth century. He
concepts with slight but ever-present accent of light pursue
into visible distances from a light-center. This

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the course of recent centuries. Spengler can be regarded as a
He is in the highest degree what may be called in Central
Europe a brilliant man — not in France, but in Central
been said, in the Central European sense he may undoubtedly be
throughout recent centuries and into the twentieth century
necessary for this to occur from the sixteenth century up
the secret societies of more recent times.
nineteenth century advanced the more impossible it became
— entirely so in the twentieth century — for these
life. In most recent times there has been much which has
centuries, that the practices of the various secret societies
most recent centuries a human brain was gradually
thinking. Since the sixteenth century an extraordinary
was the condition existing in Central Europe throughout
the nineteenth century. If people today had any kind of
able to notice that in the nineteenth century those threads,
the last third of the nineteenth century it gradually came
conditions of the nineteenth century, really spun these
exceedingly well at about the end of the eighteenth century,
now in more recent times have had their meager education,
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of natural scientific knowledge in recent times. What is
few centuries are preeminently adapted for gaining
philosophy as it still existed in Greece. In recent
sense existence. But in most recent times men have only
it has developed that in recent times, alongside the knowledge

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more recent times.

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concentration by the soul on a conceptual content easily
consists in concentrating all the forces of the soul,
which it concentrates totally on certain concepts, holding them
humanity even in the eighth and ninth centuries A.D. Everywhere
the ascent into supersensible worlds in the books

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about by the concentration of all the powers of the soul on a

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previous lectures here, consists in concentrating all the
one's powers of soul in meditating are centered, and view it as
meditation. When we concentrate on a mathematical problem we
concentrated on what our mind is focused. We know that nothing
is best then if we concentrate on an idea-complex that is
reminiscent of the sun, moon, planets and the fixed stars, and

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certain sense as a more recent part of the soul. That which is

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When, on the other hand, philosophy centers its attention
as the beginning of the last century, but chiefly at the end of
the eighteenth century, a “rational cosmology,” as
recent times, lived therefore in fact on the traditional
that led in recent times to so many scientific triumphs. They
experience in the spiritual world, vanished for more recent
can observe how in recent times this incapacity of

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recent times, the question of the unconscious has come to the
in recent times in regard to solving specific problems of
which figures in so many ways in recent science as “the

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pre-earthly existence prior to his descent from the spiritual

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meaning. Previously man knew, as I have described, of the central
Christ a Being of the spiritual world before his descent to earth.
The remnants of this knowledge lasted into the Fourth Century, and
last third of the nineteenth Century has a stage in human evolution
initiate knowledge should disappear for a few centuries, and that man
The figure of Jesus stood for centuries in front of the ordinary

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the spiritual worlds, in His descent from extra-terrestrial
methods of the initiation centers were still preserved.
His descent to earth so that man, by perceiving and
descent of the Christ and the path He took until His
continued until the fourth century A.D., though weakening
evolution, lasting several centuries, brought about what
the period from the fourth to about the fifteenth century A.D.
centuries, and one of the fifteenth or sixteenth. A person who
the ninth century, sees how the ego consciousness, possessed
century. In this turning of man to mere sense observation
the fourth century A.D. and scarcely a trace of it continued in
Christian centuries, even though that had been but a vestige,
Thus, for these centuries, the Church's development could not
about in the first Christian centuries, nothing could now be
centuries and finally led to a theology purporting to be
nineteenth century the supposed Christian theology, which
the first Christian centuries, out of the vestiges of the old
Christ and later arrived at Jesus. By the nineteenth century,
the first Christian centuries when human beings were still more
in the following centuries, as Christianity evolved, its
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into contemplation; for the soul now lives in the eternal centre of
being — man. It sees how the spiritual centre of man's nature

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pre-earthly existence; in the ego exists the eternal central being of
centuries the Initiates had to tell their followers: The degree of Ego
Christ-guide through this result. After the Fourth Century this old

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three to four centuries later, said to those who wished to be
Mystery of Golgotha, or lived a few centuries afterwards, said
humanity. After the fourth century, however, as I have set

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forth the divine. Once the spirit-cell has ripened, its descent to

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cosmos. Just as we stand here at the center and look out
or who lived in the following centuries up until the third and
fourth century, could say to their followers: The form which
century in my book,

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IN RECENT
as the cosmic forms sank into him. In recent lectures, some public and
which were used in olden times in order, from the centres of the
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, of course, and for a few centuries
century B.C. the procedure of which I have

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Since the fifteenth century, mankind has been laid hold of by the
and fifth centuries of our era, elementary Spiritual Beings from other
centuries of our era. In public lectures, as well as elsewhere, I have
that the Benedictine Order was a magnificent institution in the period
as a comparison, very reminiscent of modern trends of thought,
present day. In order to do him justice I told you that quite recently

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place. By the fourth or fifth century A.D., the
and fifth centuries A.D., it has been borne in
centuries, and even later, although hidden in obscurity. Men now
fifteenth centuries, with the birth of a completely intellectualistic
century there always existed, as well as these others, very earnest and
form of thoughts but which he clothes in pictures often reminiscent of
numerous in the first half of the nineteenth century than later on
eighteenth century, many things were written in a style which has no
mummified the human form. Since the fourth and fifth centuries

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condensed when it is found in the earth's strata. Thus at the centre of
indicating the earth in the centre and the larger circles the paths
“nascent” mummy is transformed back again. Thus what is
centres of instruction where such intimate connections were thus
centuries A.D., but it comes more and more to
Mystery of Golgotha. Through the centuries, however, there were always
inwardly experienced a nascent mummy-formation and its immediate

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BEEN HEARING in recent lectures how fundamental impulses in the
of which I have spoken recently and have frequently expounded here,
fifteenth century of our era is, in very truth, a corpse and that is
then the jaunty pistil in the centre. But a mushroom must do all this
and well-developed pistil in the centre. What he really ought to do is
eighties of last century, you will find the sentence: Goethe is both
lives, we can thus see the human being as a metamorphosis recently
beginning of the eighties of the eighteenth century leads on to the
become an altar. Forces leading to progress and ascent will not be able

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in a comparatively short time, after about a century or a century and a
eleventh century — 1096 is the year usually assigned — and
centuries. A pivotal point in history and one which throws a flood of
century, between the years 858 and 867. Before his inner eye, Nicholas
of Pope Nicholas I in the ninth century. The whole tendency in Rome was
much dimmed since the third or fourth century (when a society had
an actual centre in the outer world, a geographical centre.
lived on — in the central rite, but also in the whole ritual
from ninth-century Rome, in the days of Nicholas I, there arose the
the ninth century, at the time of Pope Nicholas I. In the West,
century, would have to include description of these three different
materialistic. Already in the eleventh and twelfth centuries we see how
— although for long centuries bearing faint traces of the
ninth century, from the days of Pope Nicholas I, to the eleventh
century. We must picture the three great question marks standing like
linked with their centre in Jerusalem.
pilgrimage and the intense yearning towards the real centre in
effects of these impulses from the fourth and fifth centuries of the
Christian era to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and who grasp
ninth century, was so profoundly concerned: How can happenings in the
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Central Europe, to turn these areas into markets. This was, in
fact, the original intention. The economy of Central Europe
the centre of a controversy. Should he or should he not remain
why one is reticent to talk about politics. It's like going to
by a statesman in recent weeks. You see, even though his speech
Question: In recent lectures we have discussed
early 'nineties of the last century, about thirty or thirty-one
Schleich, whom I knew well — he died just recently

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and even of the ego; it is an image of their descent from super earthly
vibrates the rhythm of circulation and in the nerve adjacent to it,

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go back a few centuries only — a couple of centuries are not much
soul, has begun. We go back from the 15th, 14th, and 13th centuries
century the activity of the kidney was most important. Since then, the
in the course of centuries, and especially of millenniums. One cannot
in civilization, such as that from the middle ages into recent time,
of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries an attitude comes about in Europe,
civilization of the 13th and 14th century. All poetic motifs, but in
8th, 9th and 10th centuries, for example, one was still deeply permeated

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occur around the turn of the 19th and 20th century — the time
at the great turn in the first half of the 15th century that one did
18 and 19th centuries. The old physical medicine always had traditions,
as under the influence of the etheric organism. Only in more recent
human being: he renews the material substance from the center. Now assume
age of thirty because man is only a decent human being up to his 30th
more recent times. He could acquire his freedom only because the light

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the course of man's descent to the earth from the cosmos.

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attention was directed in recent lectures here. I said that
Beings of the Hierarchies are not centralized, they are
orientation of gravity, towards the center of the Earth, but it
is concentrated in himself and then has expanded into the
recent lectures here. He passes the Moon-sphere, the
cause such destruction, we must include this recent earthquake

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is convincing evidence that the human body is magnificently

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century, no particular significance was attached to the thyroid
nineteenth century; this has become the most important
since the last half of the nineteenth century. They know that a
in recent times, this has led to a more attentive
patient is encouraged to think and concentrate on one word, he

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recent discussions, [Refers to Rudolf Steiner's lectures,
result of a magnificent spiritual activity, which man, together with
reminiscent of musical instruments, and the totality and harmony of
pronounced in some Central European dialects. When I was a little
and vowels live side by side. The consonants are lost with the ascent

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in recent lectures how certain functions or activities of the human
speech, there must always be something in our feeling reminiscent of

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recently have seen in the newspapers some interesting and
of the 19th century, how clever and ingenious were the

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miniature stars, radiate light toward the centre. If we were as
experience ourselves as standing within the centre of the
be the centre of the world. Therefore, it is of great
should be formulated only after many centuries have passed
anthroposophy should emerge only after many centuries.”
aware of this, just as were men even a few centuries ago. Thus,

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has experienced. This trait is greatly accentuated when a man

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in connection with other questions you have recently posed, we
of sight, but by that of smell. If you have heard recently how
follows the scent.” Yes, gentlemen, that is true, the dog
does indeed follow the scent. But think about it. Police dogs
the track of thief Y, one right after the other. The two scents
distinguishing between the various traces of scent. That,
range, just as a dog can detect a scent. They are warned of
is located slightly off-centre to the left, as are the rest of
the wrong way, as it were, whose heart is off-centre a bit to
hearts are off-centre to the right.
fragrance arising from the lily. When the vapor-like scent of
wags its tail. On account of the scent, the dog's whole body
The dog can do this; the scent enters its nose and is
tail. What enters its nose as scent travels down the spinal
possesses a spinal cord, but he cannot transmit a scent through
the right nostrils how the scents appear to either one or the
other. The dog always has in its right nostril the scent of
scents of everything it has already pursued. The dog
memory for scents, and that is why he becomes such a keen
is caused not by what we human beings absorb as scents but

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first third of the fifteenth century, human evolution has
began approximately in the eighth century B.C. and continued
into the first third of the fifteenth century was the age of
Græco-Latin culture and that the most recent phase of time
what he has experienced in pre-earthly existence. And recently
the eighth century B.C. and lasting until the fifteenth century
thirteenth centuries — although the urge is by then less
divine-spiritual world. Through these centuries of the Middle
was applied in those old centres of research and we shall
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Western civilization that
only since the first third of the fifteenth century that man's
familiar to us since the fifteenth century, in which Time
third of the fifteenth century. Its aim is the attainment of
century this has changed. Since then, the divine-spiritual
fifteenth century, the Gods have felt as if the whole human
say to himself: In recent times we men have become estranged
ingrained in man since the fifteenth century. But when through
world, i.e. since the fifteenth century — all the spatial
of the fifteenth century that man has brought ideas of a purely
century which may be characterized by saying that the rulership
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taste anything. Our constitution is ninety percent water,
scents from the flowers is pleasing to them, and because it is
ninety percent water, and then we must account for the air and

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This descent of the astral body into the physical and etheric
you of something I said here very recently, describing how
centre of our being, in communion with the world of the
is the ascent into the world of spiritual Beings.

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substances. As it is, we are only ten percent solid
see, in the middle of the nineteenth century, when natural

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religion. But as I have said, in those ancient centres of learning
But in the centuries immediately
8th and 9th centuries B.C. — these
century, however, the insight was lost — such men experienced
ovary at the centre of the blossom is a product of the Winter —
evolution — until about the 4th century — it was this

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en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el original
se celebraban también en tiempos pre-cristianos en Europa central,
en esos antiguos centros de aprendizaje y cultura, el arte, la ciencia y
únicamente en la flor. Incluso el ovario en el centro de la flor es

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said, in those ancient centres of learning and culture, art,
in the centuries immediately preceding the Mystery of Golgotha
— beginning as early as the 8th and 9th centuries B.C.
the Mystery of Golgotha — by the 4th century, however,
only in the blossom. Even the ovary at the centre of the
— until about the 4th century — it was this that

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El título del volumen en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el
El título del volumen en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el
El título del volumen en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el
pre-cristianos en Europa central, del norte y del oeste, nos llama la atención
arte, la ciencia y la religión. Pero como ya he dicho, en esos antiguos centros
únicamente en la flor. Incluso el ovario en el centro de la flor es un producto

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research in recent times and the mode of thinking that can and does
underlie it, we must go back several centuries into the past. The
through several centuries. We must go back to a point in time that I
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. At that time, an altogether
the early Fifteenth Century — the various sciences were less
medieval Christian theology sought as an ascent to the divine, to the
to mankind in earlier centuries was no longer open in Meister
One century lies between the two. During this century Western science
understand this century that lies between the Docta Ignorantia

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Sun! (The name Micha-el is still reminiscent of this.) Think of
time in the Autumn in the last third of the 19th century,
Michael-revelation of the last third of the 19th century, and
Nature — which in the course of the last few centuries

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all that happened in the early fifteenth century in mankind's
footsteps) was for the fifteenth century. This backward glance into
for knowledge that surfaced in the Fifteenth Century from the depths
not go back as far as the Eighth Century B.C. Yet, we can only gain
fifteenth century.) This man of pre-Christian times was accepted into
journeys and visited other mystery centers, but it was the same
wherever he went. Already in the Eight Century B.C., only traditions
ancient times. This contrast is the central trait of all thinking in
the eleventh or Twelfth century. It was quite different from the
of the fifth century B.C. as an atomist in the modern sense, because he
cannot speak of the atoms of a body, but only of centers of force,
1543. one century later, Copernicus, with his mathematical mind, took
We see how the first phase extends to the Eighth Century B.C. to the

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Going back a few centuries, perhaps to the fourteenth century, and
existed in the first centuries of Christianity, as can be
mystic of the first Christian centuries, mysticism was something that
system” because it is centered mainly in the head, but it
of digestion (metabolism) and the limbs. Concentrating on the most
come about in recent times. In the age in which mathesis,
which has appeared in recent times in mathematical thinking, was once
are centered. Is it imaginable that in the seventh or eighth century,
blood with the heart in the center.
actually happened, what had to happen in recent times for science

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ninety percent water, and the refuse dissolves in this whole

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astronomical system with its center in the sun. Man had to lose the
its center outside the earth. The rise of the Copernican system is
of the cosmic center from the earth to the sun. Fundamentally, the
century. Man today can form scarcely any idea of the latter. All
something undefinable about this space, with its arbitrary center of
Going back to a thinker of the fourth or fifth century A.D. —
them.” So it was for a thinker of the third or fourth century
fourteenth century. Thinking geometrically about space, man did not
I mention this here because recently, in preparing these lectures, I

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only arisen along with the more recent civilization. We see it slowly
eighteenth century. His writings show what an up-to-date thinker of
Finally, in the Eighteenth Century, this led Kant
unknown. — In the Nineteenth Century science chewed on this problem
recent times.
It is interesting to place a recent example side by side with Locke's thinking.
a biologist of the Nineteenth Century,
unicellular beings that was famous in nineteenth-century biology. Why
But this is impermissible even with a man as recent
Century, this whole dreadful cell theory of Schleiden

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Instead of this they specialize in order to accentuate some
centre, gathered as it were, in a single point.
soul-and-spirit working together in the inner centre of our

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abdomen, which I described recently, is disrupted. A large
in the way I discussed with you recently. The brain begins to
the seventeenth century, and proceeding all the way into the
hand is connected with the left speech center in the brain,
I recently explained to you, and the eye — what a

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about that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
something that has recently taken place in connection with a Movement
fields of scientific work have recently been started within the

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that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
about something that has recently taken place in connection
scientific work have recently been started within the

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consequence of all that had developed since the Fifteenth Century in
the scientific field, in the Nineteenth Century the tendency grew
Century; how we picture our relation to the world on the basis of
materialistic thinkers in the Nineteenth Century asserted that man
scientific thinking since the Fifteenth Century. Then they will throw
development since the Fifteenth Century against the background of
Century science has taken the world of living beings and separated

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I have frequently spoken about recently; namely, the right-left,
my recent morning lectures
Until the beginning of the Fifteenth Century, all the conceptions of
onset of the Fifteenth Century begins the divorce of the observation
Fifteenth Century, let us look at a man in whom the transition can be
At that time, around the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, a
begins to mean something only in the Seventeenth Century.
From the Fifteenth Century on, the whole orientation of the human
We know how, by placing the sun in the center instead of the earth,
conceiving things somewhat as follows: A central body, let us say a
us go back to a scientist of the first Christian centuries, the
and concentrate on measuring externals (thus remaining stuck in the

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since the last third of the Nineteenth Century, after the high tide
super-sensible world. Since the last third of the Nineteenth Century,
beginning of the Fourteenth Century, opinions prevailed in the
in the Ninth Century. They do not bother with it because such
Thirteenth or Fourteenth Century, the understanding disappears almost
Fourteenth Century, though less and less understood. This ancient
Christian centuries, described the following fluids in man: black
Christian centuries; hence Galen could speak of the four components
Fifteenth or Sixteenth Century.
Century, it was an easy thing for the philosophers to deny all
Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, and if we leave aside isolated
In the Seventeenth Century, a theory arose that remains quite
poured into this bag. In the Seventeenth Century, of course, there
are observed. This is why in the Nineteenth Century, people were
In the Seventeenth Century, people really began to totally ignore
Century had great difficulty in getting rid of this concept. It was
rather the mechanics, of the Eighteenth Century, such as we see in
Nineteenth Century suffered from the inability to take hold of man
Eighteenth Century man was compared to the machine and in the
Nineteenth Century he was traced back to the beast. All this is quite

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first half of the nineteenth century, an age when science was
of the nineteenth century, observed a wasp who needed such an
you can see how scientists proceeded in the nineteenth century.
characteristic of scientists of the nineteenth century that
centuries ago. Before this, man wrote on leather and so on. How
collecting. It enters man as I described recently in the
employ. As you know, a natural scientific course was recently

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soul. Take physics, for example, which in recent times has become
the nascent state of being. In order to have a proper natural
understand what they observe as nascent states of being. Only then
illuminate. But what is this “nascent” or “initial
Now this nascent state is in the outer world, not within. It is what
the history of natural science in recent times.
necessary to concentrate upon the dead; it thus entered into the
that technology has produced in wondrous ways in the most recent
by natural science, impress itself on him and then (centuries after
recent times in a merely documentary fashion. Rather, I wanted to

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the metals in the earth. We may say: The center in the astral
development of natural science in more recent times, you will

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centre for the working of the gold stream lies in the astral

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have been alleviated. Remember that in the last century little
attention to another evil that has recently made its appearance

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There's something peculiar about a remark recently made by an
With the beaver you can see in reality what I recently

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recent evolution. Originally, human beings did not smoke, and
it is only recently that the use of tobacco has become
is actually true that in recent times people who really do not
want, because, since about three or four centuries ago, the
Now, remember what I recently told you about how the blood is
centuries if these little beasts were not contained within
recent times, Jews have gradually neglected their dietary laws,

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the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries right on into our
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is one of those who strive to
Jacob Boehme’s magnificent, albeit stammering utterances, his
succeeding centuries proceeded to build up an idea of the make-up of
century and had reached a certain climax at the time of Giordano
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries still showed traces of this
since the fifteenth century, man has lost the capacity to discover
to information which dates back beyond comparatively recent times.
the Middle Ages and that it originated in Central Europe. There is
of the human soul. Centuries ago it was known that with their dreamy

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century. Now this 4th Post-Christian century lies right in the
early years of the first three or four centuries of Christian
age, — from the 4th Post-Christian century onwards
century, evolution took the form of destroying everything which
and middle of the 5th centuries after Christ, countless temples
of the 4th and the middle of the 5th century after Christ,
2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ was
the 19th century, and in India what is real can be often
intensity when they perceived the world in those magnificent
everything destroyed in those centuries. Now if with that

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spun, and this is concentrated into an after-copy — the physical
short time before the descent from pre-earthly to earthly existence.
descent to earthly existence. If he is truly good, he links this

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times. Of course, one must consider centuries, not decades.
have recently explained, the production of the blood depends on
Recently, an interesting case of flu occurred that is most
fluid is present. This recent case of flu was extraordinarily

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the fifteenth century. We have spoken again and again in recent
third or fourth century A.D., was also now
too base to be able to ascent through my own power into those regions
century, we had arrived at the point of no longer noticing at all
the gods. Man must turn his descent into an ascent. Out of the purely
same words I used here recently. Why has pride arisen? It has arisen
beside themselves have quite recently gone aside again. The Movement

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lectures, I spoke of man's fall into sin and of an ascent from sin. I
spoke of this ascent as something that must arise in the present age from
if the views acquired in a more recent age — especially in the
air-like, evanescent, imponderable parts of the body. Thus thinking became
as a heresy. Something that is forced upon mankind for centuries
gradually becomes a habit. Think of the more recent evolution of
fall and not under the sign of an ascent from sin. The root of the
Plato as if he had taught in the 19th century at the Berlin
University in the 19th century. Yet all that tradition relates of
Plato is changed into conceptions of the 19th century, and people do
are numerous examples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one
particularly in the intellectual sphere we need a true ascent
the centre of the evolution of the earth, as a higher Being, and from
re-ascent from sin. For this reason too, anthroposophical ideas are

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Mystery of Golgotha was enacted thirteen or fourteen centuries ago.
born into Time. People thought about his descent from the Father.
greatest value is placed on the question of Christ's descent. When
what is connected with descent, and can be comprised in the
scholastic Nominalism, these old ideas of the Spirit's descent from
Golgotha it finds the central point and meaning of the entire history
recently in an English periodical discussed the question of whether

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19th century. Think of the immense contrast between the present time
were small suns, centres around which electricity accumulates; we
recent modern theory, then the qualities of Evil are attributed to

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time, dating from the first third of the fifteenth century, is the time of
human race, of this or that century. And just as, for a lower form of life,
this or that century take its place in the whole development of our planet.
particularly since the first third of the fifteenth century, has trickled
At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and for centuries afterwards, man
With the recent development of humanity all that has changed. Now man says:

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here, and I have recently described the life of the wasps to you.
centred in love; they bring, so to speak, the love-life of the

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most ten to twelve percent of the whole. When we find the human
eighty-five percent fluid, a watery fluid.
still on the ascent, they abhorred all this drinking. They only
even seek these effects with cocaine, as I told you recently.
from this know also what it was like a century ago. I can
recent years the learned scientists have become more
into regions that only recently had been covered with ice.
summer comes, something reminiscent of falling snow would pass
German could be spoken in the universities of Central Europe
until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The professors
lives of wasps. There is much that is similar. I recently
suppressed in bees and concentrated in only one queen bee, what

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few centuries ago when symptoms of illness appeared in people,
in recent times a number of other medications have replaced
way we know it from school, the sun is here in the center; near
Neptune, but these two planets were discovered most recently. I
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries these observations
into being; in modern centuries, the so-called civilized
but the more numerous incidents are of recent date. They also
recently he was in Cologne. The enemies of anthroposophy differ
out into the primal mountains of central Switzerland and you

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in various recent studies I have explained how the physical
most of the sense organs are concentrated, but I should actually draw
being, moving centrifugally; the nerve process, which is in fact a
breakdown process, is always directed centripetally, toward man's
organization, in a centripetal direction — when too many of the
centripetal direction and to dissolve again toward the outside in a
centrifugal direction. In the normal processes of the human body,
(etheric) permeated by outer, centrifugal astrality
centripetal astrality — on the path of disappearing
after it has permeated the same with centrifugal forces,
centripetally active [force] — of the nerve-sense

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science. You may have read of the lecture recently delivered in Basle
go into the central Alpine region where the hardest rocks are, there
centre — lungs, etc. — that one heals very well with
there now. When I recently went to Stuttgart to inspect the Waldorf School
in 5 per cent dilution.
5 per cent but 5/10,000 — not even 5
fifty of these would have got well without him, and 20 per cent would
per cent of cures are not to be attributed to modern medicine —
30 per cent at most.” This is what Virchow calculated and he

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Graeco-Roman age from the Eighth Century
B.C. to the Fifteenth Century
Fifteenth Century man's whole relation to the world of the
the Fourth Century A.D. the human soul had
Century formed and described his ideas, shows us that he believed
centuries which induced men to believe that by rising up to
centuries, this feeling towards the universe underwent an
magnificent, triumphal technical achievements, based on the
say, as far as the Seventh and Eighth Centuries
entirely in accordance with this central point of religious life:
came to the fore in the Fifteenth Century. No longer did the
Golgotha thus stands at the centre of the whole human evolution
spiritual path. And this inner push — recently I spoke of
of Anthroposophy. It suffices to mention a few recent examples,

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Middle Ages until the 14th. 15th, 16th, 17th centuries when

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century, Western man's development has again reached a point where he
in magnificent new forms transcending even those of Greece.
real significance of the scientific progress of recent centuries. I
all truly sincere study. In the course of recent centuries, my dear

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too plain, I had to speak to the Central Executive Committee in
of the nineteenth century, the generation gap about which people talk
twentieth century, perhaps not in a sharply defined form, but
century have rather vehemently stated it as their opinion that Gregor
searching during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then
How were things done in the last third of the nineteenth century?
have to withdraw. As I said in Stuttgart recently, I had to strike
reasons of members of the erstwhile Central Executive and called the
magnificent contributions were interspersed among what I will refer
recent years. These leading personalities in Stuttgart are extremely
person who has recently joined the Society.

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recently played an important role in the Society. Young people in
Recently they have been growing into the communities we call social
recently developed to a point where the members of a given class
consciousness soul, which began early in the fifteenth century and
has come increasingly to the fore, has recently been making itself
the end of Kali Yuga — or, in other words, since this century
had recently been tending to lay increasing emphasis on sermons, to
attention to a fact of the greatest importance in this most recent
will see how little there is left when we omit sermons of more recent
Now if the recently
last third of the nineteenth century. Granted, discontent still
century, and it will grow increasingly urgent. It is a need that will
be apparent throughout the twentieth century, despite the time's

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about. One might say: Black, yellow, white in the center: as a
in recent times. For what does Spiritism do? It wants to talk
in the last third of the 19th century nothing more of a human
position in educational centers in recent years, recent

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gleaned from the spiritual world in recent years and put before you
now, of course, why that cannot be, since the Society has recently
been developing in recent years has tended to keep out people who

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the 15th century mankind has been living in the Age of
third of the 19th century this state of things has been
centenary of Schiller's birth. In a certain sense,
in order to change the present decline into an ascent leading

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work within him before his descent to the Earth. These forces
say, since the 15th century A.D.
lived before the 15th century — and this applies to all
15th century man was a self-sufficient being to a greater
century it has become characteristic of human evolution
of that kind; in his consciousness he was a thoroughly decent

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Recently,
century A.D.
becomes different in that century. Without spiritual scientific insight
sensed and felt before the fourth century A.D.
research that, up into the fourth century A.D.,
of humanity now approached the fourth century A.D.
century A.D. a person who can discern
event took place in the fourth century A.D.,
completed only in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries
A.D. The fourth century is just the mean
century, which is mentioned so as to pinpoint something definite in
relatively recently, man is within himself when he experiences music.

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transformation of consciousness in the 4th century A.D.
Recently it has repeatedly been my task to
place in the 4th century A.D.
Western world changed during this 4th century
feelings and sentiments as they were before the 4th century
round about that century. Today we shall turn our attention
investigation that until the fourth century
the 4th century A.D.
say with reference to the times which follow the 4th century
place in the 4th century A.D.,
approximation applying merely to the central period, whereas
until the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries
A.D. The 4th century
is only the central period and is alluded to in order to
which as you know is comparatively recent, man remains within

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By referring to the 4th century
century of our era is to be regarded approximately as the
the course taken in those centuries by outer historical
Christian century the Spirits of Form held sway, not only in
Beings during this epoch, that is to say, the first centuries
life from the 4th century A.D.

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which I said that it belongs essentially to the 4th century
since the 15th century A.D.,
of Form. Until the 4th century A.D.
right on into the 15th century, the Spirits of Form were, so
of the 19th century this cleavage has again and again
people have thought in the course of the 19th century about

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well-known point of time in the 15th century, our thinking
fact which since the 15th century has constantly asserted
altered essentially since the 15th century. Until then,

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13th and 14th centuries, when man was struggling onwards to
astir, otherwise the ascent of mankind would not be possible.

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since the last third of the nineteenth century — from spiritual
nineteenth century the Michael force took up the struggle with the

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But in the first three centuries of the Christian era, the last
remnants of it at least still existed. Hence in these centuries a
Such an understanding became blunted in the fourth century, when
third of the fifteenth century; namely, man's life in abstract, dead
centuries, when the Easter thought was spreading throughout
forms the centermost of the three soul elements in Rudolf Steiner's
sense world. The people of the early centuries felt that they were
The Christmas initiation was felt as a descent into the depths of the
for humanity in the fifteenth century, when mankind will excel to be
the first Christian centuries about how the Easter thought is to be
into the Ahrimanic forces in the wintertime and also into the ascent
expressed in the Creed as “the Descent into Hell.”
This Descent into Hell provides the opposite pole to the Resurrection.
therewith entered, I might say, as the opposite pole of the Descent
into Hell, the ascent into the spiritual world, in spite of the fact
a certain way the Descent into the region of Hell, and through this
descent the winning of the heavenly region for the further evolution
“Through what is symbolically expressed in the Descent into Hell
in the period that dawned in the first half of the fifteenth century,
centuries of Christianity, directed toward a kind of inner perceiving
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how with the yellowing of the leaves there is a descent of the
ascent of the spirit takes place, how the spiritual is the
ascent, to unite human souls with the original formative cosmic forces

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I have frequently referred recently to the connection the course of
in recent days.
in autumn of which we have recently spoken. We must come once more to

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deemed to be the very center of the most ancient moral conception of

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recent lectures, you will, I think, be able to call up a picture of
Hierarchy who lived in his language as in more recent times. The
civilisation, a culture and a civilisation fired by what I recently

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they have been received recently in Switzerland with enmity.
achievements of the last three to four centuries and, above
all, to those of the nineteenth century, all of which it fully
human beings occupied a central position within the existing
modified recently, and is known to practically every educated
disc and its center is pierced with a pin. A drip of oil is
especially in today's most progressive centers for educational
know about the so-called correlation coefficients recently
approximately fifty percent of the pupils.
drawing in children who have recently entered school, one must

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some ninety-nine percent could just as well be ignored without
our inartistic time — but it should concentrate on how
be achieved by concentrating on meaning alone. For a thought to
completely in more recent times, as some of our present
seen as something intended to represent the center of the
Things have come to such a state that, very recently, I had to

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concentration, and so on. In that case, intellectual ideas are
in a town in central Germany. When they walked next to each

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fully centered within the physical body. Anyone who can observe
recently come into the world, are suddenly expected to absorb
wrong course. Think of the recent scientific tests that study

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Particularly during the nineteenth century, programs for
best, only ten percent of them, because ninety percent of the
century — but this was already prepared for in the
eighteenth century — was tremendously proud of the new
feeling realm. Only after the fourteenth year is the adolescent
we work on the powers of judgment and on the adolescent's
the center of soul life.” A dictionary defines it as
religious education out of the center of life itself. It is

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can show their students how what is concentrated within one
will not develop the necessary incentive while learning to read

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possibility exist for the adolescent to observe the activities
adolescent is enabled to observe other people's activities
awareness, so that in a certain way the adolescent comes to
of adolescents. To do so we must realize what it means to stand

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red in the centre, the green around it. Now picture the red
green circle in the centre and surrounding it the red
there will develop what in recent lectures I have called
with regard to the earth, it radiates with a centripetal

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twentieth century (perhaps even around the end of the
nineteenth century), and which was considered by natural
middle of the nineteenth century and was also a teacher at a
century, to be hailed as the most convincing theory regarding
adolescent should have been helped toward developing sufficient
the pre-adolescent child, through natural authority, to love
maturity, from the inner being of the adolescent, the third
so must adolescents feel this new sense of duty arising freely
needs of adolescent pupils, one has to face the bitter
time to make the transition, leading the adolescent into the
the center of gravity iis within the staff of teachers and
recently, a memorandum was handed in by the pupils of the

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he too has followed the descent.

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downward from the head, the center of the senses and the
centuries — more so than is generally realized.
Education for Adolescents,

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descent from the Spiritual as far as the rudimentary basis of the
future, that is, up to about the fourth century
Ascension, and the descent of the tongues of fire upon the heads of

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the course of recent years the four Gospels have been
central point of earthly evolution falls within the middle of
actual centre of its evolution. From this you must conclude
about the fourth century, were confronted with the danger of

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ODAY I propose to carry further certain points made in recent lectures
of these turning points has often been designated as the fifteenth century
century; and we might in this way go still further back. I have often
period prior to the eighth century before Christ; more different still
of the recurrent seasons. (I have recently and repeatedly lectured on
the centuries, had gradually faded, consciousness focused, instead,
century, at the start of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch; that,
pre-Christian centuries the Greek felt how cosmic thought was disappearing
of the sixth pre-Christian century would have considered it comical

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frequently and recently described) is a soul-permeated, spirit-permeated
before my descent into the physical world. But color, tone harmonies,
spherically above us. And that the adjacent area is an image of the

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striving after descent into the physical world.
natural entities which are not spiritual; that is, in minerals. Recent
appeals to a phantasy concentrated in our eye, for this human eye with
that is why it appears yellow. Physics (I have characterized a recent

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HE LAST two lectures concentrated on artistic feeling and creation. I
four centuries, now, while marvelous relationships in nature were traced
the eighteenth century there emerged a guiding idea which Goethe and
during the nineties of the eighteenth century was regarded as as the
half of the nineteenth, century. With Schlegel, Tieck introduced Shakespeare
not less magnificently, they influenced Novalis.) In his younger years
century was mirrored in a receptive personality; how something like
century (I have often mentioned this) that man entered into materialism.
Goethe's time, indeed, right up to the middle of the nineteenth century.
and his century: a glorious presentation of the strivings of a personality

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space. Could one ever believe that the magnificent, comprehensive images

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from this truth, let us consider one of the arts: painting. Recently
in the sense of our recent lectures. Perceiving the gold in gold's color,
seventeenth century it was otherwise, for materialism affects the
for the gigantic tragedy which during this very century will break in

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about the people who are central to such self-reflection: yourselves.
concentrating on the pleasant things in life. We go to dances and
whose interest is concentrated less on worldly happenings as they
decades of the nineteenth century — we could take any number of
strongly reminiscent of certain essays which were written by Hans von
the end of the nineteenth century, it was possible to see how the
the latter part of the nineteenth century. A person might, for
its magnificent laws was proven of course! There was no way of
for instance, appeared recently in
dying person. It is very moving, very magnificent. I have spoken

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child-life quite acquiescently as souls, are not so
the last twenty or thirty years of the nineteenth century and
twenty or thirty years of the nineteenth century. We might
nineteenth century, that the most interesting of all were not
century, one saw these souls regularly tossed to-and-fro, and
really from the end of the nineteenth century), how difficult
nineteenth century, and so much more difficult really even than
all its magnificent laws ... why, that was all demonstrated

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were looking for at the start of our century as anthroposophy was
talking in a language not of centuries, but of millennia past.
put to me recently. When I was in Vienna in 1918, for instance, I was
like that around, even at the turn of the century. At that time
about Central Europe, in the first instance, the philosophy of
Idealism from the first half of the nineteenth century presented a
human beings to speak, for that leads to a theocentric perspective.
exaggeration to say that it was not easy at the turn of the century
The second thing is that at the beginning of the century I
century, all knowledge was transformed into abstract concepts and
ideas. In Central Europe one of those who began with such abstract
the nineteenth century with his idealism, Oliphant with his realism,
phenomenon of the spiritual life of the late nineteenth century.

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beginning of the twentieth centuries, these homeless souls in
the beginning of this century would be most likely to find
whole, even at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century,
begin with, I could discern in the 'eighties of last century
confine our reflections for the moment to Central Europe only,
philosophy of the first half of the nineteenth century.
‘to-day’ he meant the last third of the nineteenth century.)
makes a theocentric standpoint, to which one can only aspire,
the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century, — it was
of the century, I delivered a series of lectures in a circle
century, — everything, really, had passed over into
of the first in Central Europe, who began with these abstract
nineteenth century, more from the idealist side; and Laurence
nineteenth century, — it certainly was a problem, what
the departing nineteenth century, this phenomenon of

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Blavatsky's works at the end of the nineteenth century prompted the
at the end of the nineteenth century revelations from a spiritual
Up to the fifteenth century or thereabouts it was not an
who had a magnificent vision
that up to the fifteenth century it was very common for an apparently
century they became hard enough too. But it was nevertheless men who
different from the brains of other nineteenth-century women. Thus,
relationships? How was such experience, which presents a magnificent
There was a period at the turn of the century in Berlin during
contemporary which merited the concentration of ones ideas, feelings
nineteenth century. Those beginnings have to be properly understood

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the spiritual life of the closing nineteenth century. I was
century, led to the association of the people, whom I classed
conclusion which I described to you recently, — to the
nineteenth century, from — let us say so far — a
civilization in recent times, and would thence be able to
incentment; and this incentment worked practically in the same
century, and you will find, my dear friends, that it still,
century it was still possible, through a comparatively, to all
have inner revelations through incentments of such a kind. This
grown considerably stiver since the fifteenth century. And this
last half of the nineteenth century the women's brains too
nineteenth century. And then it might be, that, — just
There was a time, about the turn of the century, in Berlin,
could centre the whole range of one's thoughts and feelings and
last third of the nineteenth century, and how little people's

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founded at the end of the nineteenth century, was to found a
Central Europe, among certain circles at least, had as much of an
those centuries in which learning was the province of those few who
thirteenth centuries. These things must not be overlooked. Education
centuries modern education has increasingly comprised only the
essential element in the spread of religion over the centuries lay
in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. The important thing was for
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the urgency with which

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century, that they took the dictionary meaning of the word
people in these recent times have felt inwardly impelled
Central Europe, — better known in some circles at least,
educational tendency of the last three, four, five centuries.
back my dear friends, to those centuries, when as yet this
man of the eleventh or twelfth or thirteenth century. Such
This education has come, in the course of the centuries, to
More and more during the course of the centuries has this
earlier centuries, before this modern education existed?
spread of religion, throughout long centuries, the essence lay,
in the fifteenth centuries, in Christian countries for example.
centuries, the teaching of Christianity was carried on in an
thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth centuries, with
centuries, in the same old forms, but forms, which the modern

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individual mystery centres were harmonized and unified. Thus what was
experienced began to fade in the fourth century AD, so that the
happened at Golgotha. This applied into the fourth century. The real
century AD, Rome took possession of Christianity. The empirical
revelation. At the beginning of the twentieth century there was still
something upon which I would ask you to concentrate in your
reported very recently. A professor announced a course of university

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the fourth century after Christ, all those impulses vanish,
when, in the fifth post-atlantean century,
parsonage in Central Europe, — not only the son of
century, there were people who still could approach the Event
objectivity. For as a fact, from the time of the fourth century
described to you recently, — one who simply, having once
say that whereas, at the turn of the century, there was still a

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widely throughout central Europe — in Germany, Austria and also
we were in a position to start a centre for the anthroposophical
sense that they belonged to various societies. Of course centres for
effervescent way of his, and he was amusing to have tea with and so
— just as I was not especially surprised to hear recently that

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its centre in London, and that this Theosophical Society had in
namely, in Central Europe, in Germany and Austria, and also in
founding a sort of centre for the anthroposophic movement
there, ... as you know, centres gradually came to be founded
and in Austria, the Vienna centre, and in a way, too, the one
at Prague. In short, various centres came to be formed; and at
the time when the centre was being formed in Munich, there were
books, — you will find in them magnificent diagrams of

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Working from the centre like this, which was, of course,
the end everything concentrated on the artistic side. General human
worlds and spiritual methodology. By concentrating on these three

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recently published, and entitled The Secret Machinery of
This practice of working solely from the central source, which
of work; but to lay these foundations really from the centre of
Anthroposophy, to work direct from the central sources.
everything, of letting everything take shape, from the central
the anthroposophic centre itself, and then of waiting, and
anthroposophic central source be advocated in such a way before
the very centre.

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this material was not central to anthroposophy itself. For
As you are aware, I concentrated on two important phenomena. The
others. We will not understand the nerve centres of modern
another at the beginning of the twentieth century simply because of
from the central sources of anthroposophy. It is absolutely necessary
not in the nineteenth, but in the eleventh or twelfth century. It
the tenth, eleventh or twelfth centuries have said? Or someone like
Paracelsus in the sixteenth century?
The eleventh or twelfth century doctor would have explained this by
twelfth-century doctor would have concluded from bleeding his
Mayer, the Paracelsus of the nineteenth century if you like, was left

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if we then look at things as they are now in recent times, we
nineteenth century; and so push on to the spiritual principle;
century. The general verdict amounted to this: — Natural
see, my dear friends, what at the beginning of the century,
working from the central source of Anthroposophy. It is
evolution in science, owing to the experiments made in recent
particularly well in recent times.
a doctor, not in the nineteenth century but, let us say, if we
eleventh or twelfth century only. It would never have occurred
been (and for the nineteenth century, Julius Robert Mayer was
tenth, or eleventh, or twelfth century, — what would
of the twelfth century would have said: ‘In the temperate zone
or twelfth century would have said (in those days he would have
of the eleventh or twelfth century would have arrived at some
will, of the nineteenth century, — found, in his day, the
popular, but we must go out straight from the centre and
be felt to proceed from the very centre of all that is
is that we should look into ourselves and find the inner centre
centre of our being with aid of the spirit to be found in the

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we recently had in one of our oldest members of our
when you ask about circulated poetry of Central Europe today,
unbelievably deep roots in Central Europe and western folklore;

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emerged in the course of the last three to four centuries and
elements which has been going on for centuries, this inner
are accomplished these days centre around the child in the
an outer manner. Recently in a delegation meeting we spoke
us contemplate the central focus of the ritual from this
the third and fourth century — times during which there
Rudolf Steiner: Recently I saw a big poster which came

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the ground of the earth, counter positioned to the central
concentrated minute matter, which expands in the heights and
descent to earth. We must discover all the secrets of water,

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magnificent and sublime through our understanding of its

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and acting being. For many centuries it was justifiable to hold such
centuries of Christendom. It was said that Jehovah united with matter
in humanity taken as one whole, a Being who remembers its descent
centuries — and the hearts of many men in those times were
the first three and greater part of the fourth centuries of our era.
any real sense before the second half of the fourth century of our
us try now to summarise what has been said. Throughout many centuries
aftermath in Central Asia (Southern Asia too was affected to a
through the centuries to our own day, an Ahrimanic form of magic
and Central Asia, in the spiritual world immediately adjacent to the
Fauns and Satyrs who peopled the astral sphere adjacent to the
centuries of our era these astral beings withdrew into regions lying
immediately adjacent to the Earth, together with the efforts that
century and especially in the nineteenth century was influenced in a
of an astral region immediately adjacent to the Earth — a
Since the later Middle Ages and on through the centuries of the
which have been preserved in the astral regions of Central and

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researches carried out during the 19th century into earthly
concentrates again in the solar warmth.

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These things of the earth want to go down there to the earth's center
attained. What was achieved during the nineteenth century7, so
and weight. In this, the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
din a world-philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century. Ancient
had so much of in the nineteenth century. Icons have no weight at all;
place it in the centre of the earth, in order to blow up the earth
it in the sense of the nineteenth century — then we really must

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perceived of them is only an appendage, reminiscent of growth forces,
concentrated in the Moon were once united with the Earth. These
we find these old heathen centers of ritual show that what they
of Northern and Central Europe about 3,000 or 3,500 years ago. Men had

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percentages; in fat the percentages are different and in the
percentages in which the various constituents are present. But that
matter, with the percentages of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen contained in
an audience of clergyman, licentiates, professors. And now, on the

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four centuries we have developed a magnificent natural science

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have, first, a solid core in the centre
autumn, finally concentrating themselves in their seeds. What is this
Sun-activities are concentrated on the forming of this new life. Thus
is enabled to come into being through this concentration of
the first Christian centuries, and of which the last echoes have
we think of the meteoric iron as concentrated in the sword and
Sun-forces can find entry, and the innocent Jesus-child, who must be
magnificent Imaginations. So, in order to represent all that is

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wholly Earth, with a concentrated Earth-nature. In high summer
out of clouds (yellow). In front, these wings would concentrate into
a sort of enlarged larynx; at the sides they would concentrate
[The central motif
central point of our Goetheanum. Thus, in a certain sense, the Easter
mystery was to have stood at this central point. But a completion in

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Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works.
time in summer when man walks in the open and sees the lovely iridescent

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concentrated Imagination of Cosmic Understanding.
light. Through the power of attraction residing in the concentrated
concentrated in the flowing form above we feel and experience the
concentrates itself into Inspiration, united with the Spirit-tones of

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magnificent picture — but if one
say: Uriel makes his descent as summer passes through autumn into
reached his cosmic culmination. Then he begins his descent; in spring
Here is a beneficent healing force which I can give to man in

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It has often been said in our studies, as was evident in the recent
circulation of the air immediately adjacent to the Earth, as does the
people, somewhat like a rationalist of the eighteenth century over

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From the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries up to our own day the
speaks. And Central Europe, which is imbued with much of the culture
his life like a liberation — central Europe is particularly
civilization, which, spreading over centre and west, would hinder
The following would happen. In the course of the last centuries, under
of the west and centre; and thereby it would become possible to
Now turn your thoughts to what would happen if the centre fell a prey
of the centre is exposed, such is the existence which could hang like
Centre.

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whom we have spoken in recent weeks.

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longing for the heavenly works and weaves above the iridescent petals

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recapitulation, we will again consider what I said recently about the
emerges the butterfly, which can now in its iridescent colours
centred on its joyous delight in the colours of its wings.

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It is only quite recently that people have begun to manufacture all
centuries all the great advances, as well as our social conditions,
you recently that soda is especially important for everything
has to do with soda. You will remember that I recently explained this.
recently we have had a fire alarm test here. Naturally in such tests

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this can be gathered from my recent descriptions — simultaneously
and thus becomes inwardly ensouled. It is like a concentration of the
spiritual world before his descent into earthly life, of what is
remind us of the beings which man knew before his descent to the
earth, and of the fact that the human being has made this descent to
reminiscent of those spirit-forms among which man dwelt before he
his head when he is striving towards his descent. And it is the head
and its re-descent. Here the materialistically minded person naturally
the ascent. Drops are formed, and when they become heavy enough they
the circumference of a large circle concentrating its force in a
in a way which is even more apparent. In the centre of the human head
its centre-point, that this is above all things necessary to it as

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to Infantile Paralysis which just recently has become so prevalent in
illness, since it has only assumed its present form quite recently,
body. Just recently there has been discussion in
it is mostly children who are attacked. Yet just recently there was a
obtains, say, a 1 per cent solution. A drop of this is taken, diluted
then the 1 per cent dilution, then the .1 per cent, the .01 per cent

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face of the earth in such magnificent variety of form, which develop
carried into the seed bud as concentrated cosmic warmth on the little
buds. In order to carry the concentrated warmth, which must descend
concentrated fiery element, the concentrated warmth, goes into the
this form is circled around by the fire-spirits which concentrate the

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need only recall what I recently published in the
seventeenth centuries were still fully aware. Of course today people
as “quackery” in the past centuries, but I am drawing
could be beneficent juices have been changed into juices which are
almond. With other fruits you have the white core in the centre and
there in the centre, and around it the flesh of the fruit is quite

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phosphorescent play of colours. It shines and glitters with every
become phosphorescent. And as they absorb the play of colours, as they
themselves become phosphorescent, there arises in the undines
in a vast, in a magnificent cosmic picture, one sees how, emanating
breathing-existence to the higher hierarchies. Again a magnificent
phosphorescent uprising of the undines, which pass away in the sea of
these lightning flashes, these phosphorescent and evanescent undines.

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In the lectures which I have given recently you will have seen that
this is about 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37° centigrade). In the warmth of
many. The other circulation, the circulation which is concentrated
therefore in his central organism, in his organism of circulation, he
our central organism healing impulses continually arise, they leave
situated at the outer boundary of our planetary system. In the centre
them as concentrated upon the earth, are the illness inducing forces,
radical concentration.
nothing other than applying to the central nature of the human being
which, whether concentrated in the physical or concentrated in the
must be cured by the central system of man. All these things pass one
adjacent to the blood, they lead to inflammatory conditions. But if
adjacent organs and even into the blood, then impulses towards every
in the blood trespasses into what is adjacent to it, inflammatory
is adjacent to it, all kinds of formations arise which can be grouped
the adjacent nerves, just as breathing must stand in a certain
is concentrated in the nourishment of man is the groundwork, as it
from what continually encircles man, they are concentrated in the
rhythmic system; and what comes from above is concentrated in man in

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say to us: O Man, how pure and innocent can be the desires which you

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fifteenth century and has developed in an intellectualistic way on the
dissolves — the first to melt away being what is reminiscent of
In the course of long centuries something very strange has come to
over. During the course of the last centuries this residue has

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
from the central point of our being. Every man is aware of this; he
from below, up from the centre of the earth, but everything comes in

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
to the seventh century. In this book dealing with heredity there
existence he traverses that path which I have described recently in
but was in this way made to be reticent, to speak very little, to
Thus, when man, in his descent into earthly existence,
descent to the earth man is exposed to the influences of the impulses
earthly element upwards in a centrifugal direction.
consist in man’s concentrating inwardly on certain organs of
contracting a muscle through concentration when standing still). When

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of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of

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above all, in the centre of the head and go through the shortest

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I made recently is quite correct. I said the bees have a sense which is

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
most beneficent, most perfect, most beautiful. This is shown us when

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result that the percentage of red corpuscles in the blood of these
leaving, after a honey-treatment, the percentage had risen to
had milk only, and benefited by it, but the percentage rose only from 70%
The percentage

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
descent thou hast separated the plants from thee. They are cast off
evanescent plant-formation absorbs the albumen and becomes something

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
back into a time six or seven centuries or even earlier before the
Mysteries at Ephesus centred in the first place in that which sounds
concentrate on human speech. Again and again the pupil was urged as
descent and the drawing down with it the animals to the earth, is so
as the Goetheanum had become the centre of anthroposophical activity.

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century. One cannot as yet say very much against these artificial

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Mystery Centres
The Mystery Centres of Hibernia
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
to speak today of another Mystery Centre which also stands in a
Mystery Centres and their keynote-giving impulses, once to be found
relatively much harder to approach the ancient Mystery Centres of
Record, than it is in the case of the other Mystery Centres. For when
these Mystery Centres of Hibernia are approached with inner vision
one receives the impression that the pictures of these Centres
In these Mystery Centres there were of course Initiates,

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
into the vision of the last condition before the descent into the
different Mystery Centres the vision into the super-sensible world is

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
backward s into the time which immediately preceded the descent to
with inner honesty could say such a thing when inhaling the scent of
centre, as if the air in him became condensed, so that, if we would
through so many trials, a Centre of the Great Mysteries, a Centre of
centuries after the rise of Christianity and approximately to the
ninth or tenth post-Christian centuries. Examine historical works
centuries. — Then the material begins to be set out more fully.
constructions which are now placed in these centuries. But that is
spread in the most magnificent way. But it finally overwhelmed that
magnificent imaginative pictures which announced the Redeemer as a
revelations of something magnificent, mighty macrocosmic images,
In the first half of the 17th century there flowed in that which was

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many diseases which have recently appeared among the bees. As
hairy, but everywhere the small germ of the wasp is in the centre. At

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
further activity in their journey towards central Europe and the
to central Europe, through the British Isles, through Brittany,
in the first centuries of Christian development, we find here and
knowledge, in order to find in the first Christian centuries those
fairly numerous personalities. In the later centuries, from the 8th
and 9th to the 15th and 16th centuries such personalities became
quiescent state. Thus it is the Saturn lead-forces which enable thee
beneficently inspired with the forces of memory by the Cosmos. It was
Greek civilisation, as the fourth century began, this first
become the thought-world of humanity for many centuries, try to build
philosophy in Central Europe.
certain human beings in Central Europe. Theophrastus had given his

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in the centre we have a kind of hillock, and all round it looks as
recently a most ludicrous article in the newspaper. Once more a new

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
of the ancients in the fourth pre-Christian century, that in spite of
the fact that he only sent out a kind of system of logic into central
Spain, and spread into certain regions in Central Europe as the

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
deepened in the various Mystery-Centres which were to be found here
during the first few centuries after the foundation of Christianity.
third of the 14th century, when people saw everything in the aspect
centuries came the great transformation, when man dropped with his

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that we should be discussing the insects just at the time of the centenary
bee makes a covering over it, in the centre of which there is a hole.
is not so concentrated as in the ant-heap, nevertheless, you are
recently become insufficient.
magnificent all this is! But the human soul has not carried the process
were performed in the villages, even in the 15th and 16th Centuries,

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
the earth commenced a few centuries after the foundation of
centuries when, as you know, a new epoch in human evolution began.
the 14th and 15th centuries.
as regards our knowledge in recent times; and it was this dreadful
nothing today — and even in the 12th to 15th centuries very
In the epoch during the first centuries after the rise
epoch, a few centuries after the rise of Christianity Astrology
which in the Middle Ages, let us say, in the 14th or 15th centuries
the 8th, 9th and 10th centuries, and even into the 13th century, we

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Mystery Centres
of humanity through the centuries including: the Ephesian Mysteries of
to the 15th centuries.
striving for knowledge which existed during these centuries in almost
every region of Europe, in Central Europe, Western and Southern
but who laboured between the 14th and 15th centuries. I mentioned in
laboratories between the 14th and 15th centuries, but something which
the pupil had been prepared through the majestic and magnificent
epoch from the 10th to the 15th century after Christ. The medieval
This occurred as late as the 15th century, that the
Dinosaurus is found in the Desert of Gobi as recently. That is an
metamorphoses which are so magnificent — the change from carbon
Aristotelianism worked so strongly right on into the 15th century,

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century. And though a certain kind of scientific knowledge
picture of the descent of world evolution down to man you
ascent from Imagination to Inspiration, and to Intuition.
we would look forward to in the outcome of the recent meeting

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centre and its home here on Swiss soil in the manner
the fact that the Goetheanum, as the central point of the

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was in the last third of the nineteenth century that on the
spirit for the approaching twentieth century. In contrast to
those difficult times, all efforts had to be concentrated on
In recent weeks I have pondered deeply in my soul the
see, at the turn of the century something took place very
reached its culmination just at the turn of the century.
this. And when in recent times I have met in all kinds of
nineteenth century leading up to the twentieth century. My
which wants to have its centre here at the Goetheanum in
necessary for the centre at Dornach to designate or nominate
Society. As with eurythmy, the nerve-centre of this form of
nerve-centre that we must concern ourselves. This
nerve-centre is what we have to recognize and there is no
the centre of its activities, together with all that
Science in Dornach as a centre for its activity. The School
central leadership of the Society at the
facts arising here over recent weeks. This is the person with

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10th, or 9th century
Russia, we find them everywhere in Central Europe. All

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recent years.
that it has become concentrated in the abstract ego-point or

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central point of all our work. Whatever else needs to be said
Let me just say, however, that in recent months we have begun

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the centre for its activity. The School will be composed of
substances which come not from the centre of the earth but
really lead us to the centre of the illness, then we cannot

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has recently appeared, and you will find right at the beginning

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be co-ordinated so that independent centres from which to

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magnificent Vedas, in the profound Vedantic philosophy,
talked of in recent times and concerning which there has been a
it was so that in this ancient Mystery centre they knew how to
the first to experience the descent of the Ego-consciousness,
the descent of the Ego into the physical and etheric nature in
Mystery centre of Ephesus
Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres,
centre of the Mysteries. In the Ephesian Mysteries the centre
up to the centre, he became one with such an image. As he stood
Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres.

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Vorstand which takes into account the central initiative
not only centrifugal forces but also centripetal forces that
recently, and it was absolutely no use. Indeed in many ways
the central Vorstand which, as I have already said, is
this central Vorstand. The central Vorstand will have to
know what this central Vorstand represents, since from the
members at their delegates' meeting recently. This situation
in which I consider that the central Vorstand, working here
Vice-president of the central Society. You were justifiably
is of central concern. That is why it says that the
the centre of its activities, together with all that

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Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres.
of which I have recently spoken to the
of the pupil's being was concentrated in the circulation of the
Hibernia, and continued so to come until the first centuries of
and 5th centuries
13th and 14th centuries, who possessed a clear spiritual
beginning of the 13th century wishing to describe the campaigns
albeit 15 centuries after the life of Alexander, tells the

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reports: “She [Marie Steiner] spoke recently about her memory

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sees the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach as a centre
up to the nineteenth century,
up not only with more recent times but also with most ancient
content of my most recent lectures, including those given
central leadership of the Society at the

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more recent times when we understand and appreciate the
time of year, on the course of the century, or on place; but
centuries; that independence too of place on Earth. In Ephesus
centuries after the birth of Christianity. These Mysteries of
historian, lived in the fifth century B.C.
this way continued to work for centuries in Asia Minor,
Greece for many centuries to come.
closed. In the 6th century
the old physical Ephesus stand in men's memory as its centre,
Mystery centres, and in the foreground Ephesus and her pupils

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and then the centre here will have the task of raising the
exist by paying him 2, 5 or 10 percent of the weekly
recently I was so interested to find the endless envelopes

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Im Obersteg, Centralbahn Platz 9, Basel, who has frequently

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century, as far as initiation was then possible, by one of the
grown up through the centuries of the Middle Ages and developed
from the 3rd or 4th century after Christ and continuing down to
been with us since the middle of the 19th century, and is still
tradition. Only in the very earliest centuries were there those
in recent lectures
Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres.
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, and there they
centuries after Christ, but even there too the time came when
until towards the end of the 19th century, beginning from the
made accessible since the end of the 19th century. That is now
and then Aristotle with inner concentration and in a meditative
century. See
in the 19th century, when men could no longer understand
in meditation — only in the 19th century has it come
century Aristotle was a book for the exercise of meditation;
but in the 19th century the whole tendency has been to change
late as the 19th century, but these universities had no use for
during the later decades of the 19th century, know well, if we
seventies of the last century. Moreover, it is also true that
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of carrying the central impulses further. Thus a matter that

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The Fifteenth Century and the Transition from Mind-Soul to Spiritual-Soul
in the first third of the 15th century, and that marks the
Until the 14th or 15th century this vision and knowledge
up since the 15th century, know of the relation, let us say, of
consciousness that took place in the 15th century, there
present, and we could name many others. Before the 15th century
thought a student of Nature of the 9th, 10th or 11th century.
10th, 11th or 12th century. He had no balances, he had none of
from the centre of the Earth. The physical body of the human
the forces coming from the centre of the Earth.
working in everywhere towards the centre of the Earth. It is
the centre of the Earth. The moment the albumen is inwardly
to the earthly or central forces. But we can also imagine these
proceeding from the centre of the Earth. What is my etheric
towards the centre of the Earth. His etheric body is the one
the centre of the Earth. Move them in a living way, and you
are invariably subject to the central forces of the Earth,
of the earthly central forces and place them in the midst of
came to an end about the 15th century. We must win it back. We
period from the 15th century until now may be described as an
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the middle of the nineteenth century a general despair began
century and more has passed since then, and now any

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imagine, I have recently given much thought to the idea of

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central Vorstand with other offices. Thus I too would not be
the central Vorstand. I am in the very same position. Perhaps
close link with the central Anthroposophical Society. Or
between the central Anthroposophical Society, which has its
as members of the Vorstand of the central Anthroposophical
that it is an obvious thing for the central Vorstand to be

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and more in the physical world. The external centres which were
significance. By the time of the 13th and 14th centuries it had
and especially the 15th century onwards, if one wanted to
here and there in Mid-Europe, in the 14th and 15th centuries,
body which your physical eyes can see. The centre of the Earth
fifteenth century a profound instruction of the soul being
of the later centuries. It is no longer present in our
third of the nineteenth century, is born a longing to speak to
Centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha took place, brave men
gaze of those present away from earthly realms to the ascent

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Mystery centres gods and human beings encountered one another
By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries they had lost it
or fourteenth century onwards, but even more so from the
fifteenth century. The temples of the Rosicrucians were
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Central Europe
in the form appropriate for more recent times the divine
external, physical eyes can see. The very centre of the earth
third of the fifteenth century, hidden away from those events
the last few centuries. It no longer belongs to our
mankind since the final third of the nineteenth century
certain race of gods grew envious. But centuries before the
their souls towards the ascent from earthly realms into
out of this very pain the incentive to act, the incentive to

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they emerge from the central core of Anthroposophy. Of course

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that until the nineteenth century mankind was childish and
recent decades, and observing them spiritually experience
bodies. During recent decades, explorations connected with the
last third of the nineteenth century hardly any human beings
will be created a living centre of spiritual knowledge.
in recent years.

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think, and until recently most people thought, that until the
nineteenth century mankind was childlike and primitive in its
incumbent on us as a result of this Conference. In recent
human beings slept has, in recent decades, given rise to
especially in the final third of the nineteenth century
certainty: In Dornach a central point for spiritual knowledge
made bad in recent years.

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itself, there takes place, in concentration, the same thing
nectar in the hive. The other process is concentrated in the
whole, however, is exceedingly wise. Quite recently a very

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process is concentrated, it happens all at once. Through your

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thought has been given for five or six centuries — that
it a center for the forces which throw out lead. This center,
at the back of the crown of the head. That is the center of
thirteen or fourteenth century, we find the beginnings of

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
eleventh centuries A.D., and which only very
among stragglers, as it were as late as the nineteenth century. I do
people belonging to these centuries. In point of fact it is not
as between the ninth and tenth centuries A.D.,
scholar of the ninth century to imagine Angels, Archangels, or
eyes. You will find that before the tenth century, scholars always
centuries countless priests of the Catholic Church were quite
the Intelligences of the Cosmos. With the ninth and tenth centuries,
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — even in a sense, the
scholars of the eighteenth century — had ideas of warmth, air,
centuries one would have been able to give the account quite
enthusiasm.” Even in the beginning of the nineteenth century
centre or kernel; and the Seraphim enwrap the whole in a mantle of
established a kernel and centre, where the Cherubim have made a kind
And indeed until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries men knew what
would have had to speak in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries.
iridescent play of Colour he has to see in a great cosmic harmony,
at Newton's theory till the eighteenth century, but in that
end of the eighteenth century, whence colour comes, who knew with
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the twelfth and thirteenth centuries one could have put it
of the nineteenth century than it is now. It still happened then that
particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, — if raised as a unifying
where the thrones and Cherubim and Seraphim had thus formed a center,
And actually till the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was known
is Sun. In the thirteenth and twelfth centuries one would really have
initiated have smiled up to the eighteenth century, and which then
things, but even at the end of the eighteenth century the learned knew
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, one must understand such things in
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Now the Fourth Hierarchy. We
never speak of it; but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries one
iridescent world became alive. It is not only then that Angeloi,
tenth up to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and whose
century and even into the beginning of the nineteenth. Only then were

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medicine. If you once grasp this, you see that a center for
nineteenth century, at a time when there was so little that
central disease itself. You have all heard of medical
said to have been cured, one can assume with fifty percent of
percent it could be said that the remedy had done actual
in the medical world last century. I know eminent men today,
degenerate form, but, for all that so magnificently and
are of particular significance in the plant. One is the scent
that is connected with the oils. The scent, or aromatic
found, in its most concentrated form, in the mineral kingdom,
elementary beings who come down through the scent. In ancient
plants we can acquire an understanding for their scent, if we
the plant gives off its scent. That is the first thing.
the scent can draw life from this leaf nature. And streaming
towards drop formation is concentrated, in the mineral world,
formation, and then again think of their scent, you will
centrifugally in the human being. There is a centrifugal
force at work when the nails are cut. The centrifugal forces
out centrifugally through the human being. They express
which in the scent of plants strives upwards and attracts the
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Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
of the ninth or tenth century after Christ. We learnt how such strivings
and beginning of the nineteenth centuries; and I endeavoured to tell
was able to take place. I described in the lectures recently given at
centres and the adoption of them as the official places — if I
say that from the time of the fourth century it is no longer to be
into the fifteenth century. The spiritual streams that were working
during these centuries are in large measure to be traced to the
as it is in that time — it is about the twelfth century —
impulse was working in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The
whole man, concentrated in the organs of speech; the secret and
several centuries to spend their lives in endeavours of this kind. It

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flows in the centrifugal and centripetal directions. You will
fluid nature has a centrifugal and centripetal movement in
training that has its center in Dornach? You will be able to

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
open for many centuries and given entrance by way of natural gift and
and on through the following century. They heard tell how, only a
continued its way. And after a few centuries we come to the time when
time from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, there was still
century, being born about 1430. Raimund of Sabunda is a remarkable
century, it is all given in a vague, impersonal style, philosophical
great Initiate of the twelfth century, whose work and influence I
Pico della Mirandola, who also belongs to the fifteenth century.
century. He says: “What is on Earth has undoubtedly come about
Earth.” Thus we have in the fifteenth century, in such a
the fifteenth century, on the occasion of a ritual arranged for this
succeeding centuries, we can always find individual spirits who lived
fifteenth century onwards through the sixteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth centuries. You might find him in some country village as a
men, who were often regarded as eccentric, no clear and exact answer;
of the eighteenth century, the nature of the Divine and the nature of

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century, medicine still had an inkling of the existence of
century, of course, it was all tradition, but this tradition
centuries, when men had not only tradition but also actual

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ninety percent of cases leads you right. These moral

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posture, they actually go down to the central point of the
connection that exists between the central point of the earth
gold is a center of a whole sphere and I learn to live and
center of the human being.
the center to which you adhere here in Dornach, at the

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
What I have been telling you in recent lectures requires to be carried
spiritual knowledge through the centuries, and of the form it has
taken in recent times, and I have been able to show how from the
the nineteenth century, the spiritual knowledge that was present
thirteenth centuries. In a personality like Agrippa of Nettesheim,
also a Demon. When we go back to the twelfth or thirteenth century,
the fifteenth century. Then came the tremendous change, which no one
fifteenth, in the sixteenth centuries, and even later, there was a
the Earth must be for Man in the centre of the Universe, and the
Earth in the centre, could now be set another World-System, that has
the Sun in the centre, and the Earth revolving round the Sun —
happened in recent times? (The teacher is speaking to the pupil.)
eighteenth century such communications became impossible, but until
the great change that has come about in the last centuries in the way
taught much later, say in the seventeenth century. — You will
But in the seventeenth century this externality was taken as a matter
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is genuine and true. Beautiful
eighteenth century who speak of a downfall of all that is human, and
these men of the eighteenth century say applies just as well to our
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Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
modern times, particularly after the eighteenth century, for what I
have told you is really true, namely that in recent times what has
recently made its appearance, is the external observation of Nature,
as the middle of the nineteenth century. And in order that we may
nineteenth century and are really survivals of the ancient wisdom.
the nineteenth century. Once more we find a small group — call
it a school if you will — a lonely school of Central Europe.
became aware that at a certain place in Central Europe there existed
late as the nineteenth century, within this little community or
century by men who based their knowledge on good old traditions of
the scent of the dog was connected with these currents of warmth and
the East too speaks of this concentration on the root of the nose,
this concentration on the point between the eyebrows. (This is how
the exact spot is defined.) But in truth this concentration is a
concentration on the miniature man that is situated in this spot and
guidance: he learned to apprehend, in intensely concentrated thought,
astral light his whole life long. The dog scents only that which has
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entered ever since the last third of the 19th century, and into which
third of the 15th century than he ever did before. This new relation
Recently I have been
follows. Quite distinctly until the 4th century A.D., and in a
rudimentary way even until the 12th and 13th century, man was able to
remained until the 4th century A.D. Even among the first Fathers of
persons, even until the 12th or 13th century. But when the age of
— even into the 12th or 13th century — we find the
already in the 12th or 13th century. What happened can be expressed
the 13th or 14th century. Then human beings began to write in the
expanse. For a time — until the 19th century — men wrote
concentrates on the objective, — that is the great difference.
of the 1870's, the last third of the 19th century: — The same
nineteenth century, men can meet Michael in the spirit, in a fully
century and became strong in the twentieth — stronger and
ordered, or rather, disordered in the most recent times. For they

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
the nineteenth century, and into which human beings will have to
the spiritual world since the first third of the fifteenth century
Recently I have been
follows. — Quite distinctly until the fourth century
twelfth and thirteenth century, man was able to draw forth from
century A.D. Even among the first Fathers of
persons, even until the twelfth or thirteenth century. But when the
the twelfth or thirteenth century — we find the visions
already in the twelfth or thirteenth century. What happened can be
the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Then human beings began to
in the vast expanse. For a time — until the nineteenth century
mainly to the subjective life; the new Initiation concentrates
nineteenth century, men can meet Michael in the Spirit, in a fully
century and became strong in the twentieth — stronger and
ordered, or rather, have become sadly disordered in the most recent
fifteenth century; so that the form, the mechanism which comes to

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe

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speaking about the insects recently, we heard
occupied all the time with this nascent poison; they absorb it

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
with the help of such ideas. And for the last few centuries man has become
bears within him an ancient past in a twofold way; a more recent past

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
the surface until, at last, what was in the centre of the body reaches
the earth, estimate the changes occurring in the course of centuries,
as little there a certain number of centuries ago, as your own substances

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
certain direction, the more elementary considerations recently begun. In
has taken since the first third of the fifteenth century magnificent
consciousness, and concentrating one's whole consciousness upon it.
point is simply that we concentrate our consciousness on this one thought,
and again, to make it present in our consciousness and concentrate our
way or other. By such concentration one strengthens and intensifies his
thoughts’. But through such concentration one really comes to
solid things. But it is not so at all. Ten per cent., at most, is solid;
the other ninety per cent. is fluid or even gaseous. At least ninety
per cent. of man, while he lives, is a column of water.
merely take account of the body, they only describe ten per cent of man.
The oriental meditator did this directly by concentrating on his breathing,

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
everything else that is astral is discovered streaming in centripetally;
his astral body by subduing the centripetal astral forces.
in this centrifugal tendency. In this connection you need only think
period between his last death and his last descent to earth. And he
centuries; otherwise he could not have developed the intellect he has

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
incarnation (sketch, right centre), and of the etheric body which extends

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
we become stronger and stronger in concentrating, in holding fast the
This leads us to the studies we shall be pursuing tomorrow. They centre

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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
from the earth; and the heart indicated in some form or other reminiscent

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sphere. I described the eye recently and how it is formed from the
told you that recently we have been making researches in our
scent there is. All is so fresh. Yes, and what is so fresh there by
about 90 per cent of water. Man too is a fish, for the solid part
which is only 10 per cent, swims there in the water. We are really

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derives, and the Center can be seen by those who wish to be
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But a center must exist from out of which this deepening
derives, and the Center can be seen by those who wish to be
throughout the centuries and millennia, but revealed in each

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a certain limit, whence it returns — has recently been upheld,

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physical corpse and say that it is lifeless, then a descent

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catastrophes of recent times would not have happened as it did, in
fish; for he consists, as to 90 per cent, of a body of water, and in

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law. This law, which I have described here recently, says that
the greatest disasters of recent times would not have occurred.

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in its very first elements, and due to a remarkable fact which has recently

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as if to concentrate the strength of the hand in itself In this way

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as adjacent, melodic notes. This will come to be presented one day.

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possibility of really concentrating on spiritual striving and
after the first third of the fourth century had passed. And now
everything. And the dead thinking of the nineteenth century
unconscious. And he concentrates this agitation on the
south, from eastern, southern or central Europe. One must
concentrate on the will's unconscious impulses in order to see

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possibility of really concentrating on spiritual striving and
after the first third of the fourth century had passed. And now
everything. And the dead thinking of the nineteenth century
unconscious. And he concentrates this agitation on the
south, from eastern, southern or central Europe. One must
concentrate on the will's unconscious impulses in order to see

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spiritual life, which there is today. Now let us concentrate on
our Initiate from sitting down quiescently, letting the world run its

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of love in a former life on earth, when he behaved as a decent man
century we are in the age when men are becoming ever more free and
centuries, in this direction. This principle will be consciously
environment. Education in coming centuries will have to be placed far
Nor can a man who is destined for the 20th century live in the time

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decent human being because of the rigid duty which hung over
the first third of the fifteenth century we have been in the
taken up, will continue to develop in the coming centuries with
in coming centuries, the education of a child will have to be
man who is predestined for the twentieth century unable to live

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that, especially in recent times through a Wagnerian influence, as well
way, once more a kind of meditation (I recently spoke to you about the
several centuries, to observe that it has gradually dropped many ah,
more unmusical in the course of centuries. (I am speaking now of the
speak. I do not mean by this those dashes of which recent poets are

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for tone eurythmy, therefore, is a concentration of your consciousness
been put forward in recent times. If people, in such a case, did not
always emphasized that a real attempt has to be made to concentrate

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carries within it the central organ of feeling, the heart. And the physical
the eight-bar phrase (which has four main accents) by clearly showing

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here, once more, the breathing function is mainly concentrated in the
surface, with a black hole in the centre of it.
evanescent, like dreams. It is not the ideas which have gone down
quite evanescent. As to what really remains, we do not conceive it at

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concentrated.
with a black hole in the center. (See
we form as we occupy ourselves with the world are as evanescent

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this descent within the soul. That is why this verse is

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this descent within the soul. That is why this verse is

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the academic world during the 19th century came to his knowledge —
of the 19th Century. And it was in truth a kind of
of the 19th century. The great man sits there with his legs crossed.
Galileo-destiny in the 19th century. On one occasion when Dühring

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were one continuous stream of happenings: events of the 20th century
are related to events of the 19th century, these again to events of
the 18th century, and so on. That it is men themselves who carry over
from epochs in the remote past to more recent times, entering again
soul-and-spirit just before the descent to earth. Here, up to a
century. The incarnation in which the karma of his latest earthly
life was prepared lies somewhere about the 8th century A.D.
individuality, who afterwards lived in the 19th century as Friedrich
Theodor Vischer, tried in the 8th century to establish close
century A.D.
following centuries, right into the 19th century, a spirit-bond, a
we are studying had been drawn, that through the coming centuries it
should be allowed to stream on through the centuries.
on into the Christian centuries — fell to a number of
individuals who were born into Arabism in the 7th and 8th centuries
steady progress through the centuries. A number of souls born into
until in the 19th century the majority of these souls came down to
descend in the 19th century. [Vischer was born in 1807 and died in
7th/8th century was an especially good preparation — (it is of
culture, who died during those centuries and came up into the
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in the newspapers recently that this hitherto undisputed knowledge of the
computed as ten lunar months. It is only comparatively recently that
difference is due to the fact that throughout the centuries the Jews
formerly in the Sun. In the first Christian centuries, Christ was
in the world. Moreover in the early Christian centuries this was in
— it was at the beginning of the eleventh century — an attempt
the beginning of the eleventh century. Lutherism came considerably
Rome, should stand as the centre and citadel of the Christian
this whole conception has remained in oblivion through the centuries
eighteenth centuries that it was completely swept away. The Middle

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what is concentrated within the skin is an illusion; for man is
heavenly bodies who know that in every century, in every age,

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what is concentrated within the skin is an illusion; for man is
heavenly bodies who know that in every century, in every age,

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influence in philosophy, but thinkers of the 19th century —
spirit with extraordinary apathy. Indeed, the men of the 19th century
century that has now begun; it is impossible to shake them out of
another recent series of lectures I gave a picture of the encounter
Christian centuries knew what it was to live in union with the
centuries, when the peoples of the South came into conflict with
20th centuries. But if those men were to return in the mood of soul
met with at every street comer, so to say, in the 19th century. But
nerves-and-senses organism, which is concentrated mainly in the head
half of the 19th century: The Philosophy of the Unconscious.
during his life. It was in Naumburg, in the nineties of last century,
at the end of the 19th century, an incarnation which finally
maybe, in quite recent times.
effect of this concentration upon making the body fit for salvation

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of starting from personalities in more recent times and then going
praises have so often been sung by poets, at the centre of a wide
flourishing over yonder in Asia that illustrious centre of culture of
which I have spoken, the centre of culture around Haroun al Raschid.
recently able to show you how the work and achievements of
to find him again than to go the reverse way, as in recent lectures —
spiritual individuality in the 9th century, bearing in mind what he
adopted by European civilisation in the 8th/9th centuries to Haroun
Spain at the beginning of the 8th century. Battles are fought, and
the 8th century, he now bears with him through the gate of death,
in Western Europe. And he appears again in the 19th century, bringing
Baghdad, we find Mamun ruling there in the 9th century. During
centre of Mohammedanism, Medina, which later on became the seat of
indeed from many centres of culture, to Asia.
is a representative spirit in the first century after Mohammed, but

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Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
learn about the next descent, into the water-element, through
remains in this descent. When we live in our remembrances, in
it is in this descent from thinking to perception where we

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Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
learn about the next descent, into the water-element, through
remains in this descent. When we live in our remembrances, in
it is in this descent from thinking to perception where we

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in the events of the 19th century. Today, then, we will make a
the 19th century. He was born in the year 1807 and he held a
century. This means that the way he expresses himself as a man is
highly characteristic of the 19th century.
in the first half of the 19th century, when Liberalism and Democracy
first half of the 19th century, it happened one day that for the
centred in Italy — it was not granted him at first to take a
now the time came, in the middle of the 19th century, when all kinds
it was the same all through. At some campaign or other in the centre
other greatness in evidence in the 19th century! A most remarkable
18th century the idea of repeated earth-lives was by no means a
him a kindness, and as he had recently written a most enthusiastic

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circumstances. In Nice, at the beginning of the 19th century,
century, A.D., and his
last incarnation in the 19th century, there was no further
ago — had to express itself during the 19th century in
19th century representative of materialistic Monism.
I said, of the 9th century. In the 19th century this comes to
expression in the only way possible during that century. You will
incarnation had emerged in the 19th century, together with his
by the men of the 19th century. He would have been considered quite
conceptions and ideas facing Garibaldi in the 19th century, he became
certain period of the 19th century — it is long past now, at
18th century he was unable, so to speak, to come right down into his
body. In the 13th century, as a repetition of his life in ancient
concepts; and then, in the 18th century, he became the journalist par
century. Then, if you will keep in mind what I have just told you, a
century, he might perhaps have written in his youth a beautiful
18th century. And so it was only in extreme old age that he was
in the 19th century had been shifted out of place. For we find, first
19th century. And he is drawn to the very same region of the earth to

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in the 8th and 9th centuries, who was the figure-head of a wonderful
light in the Oriental culture of the 8th and 9th centuries. For he
work for several centuries; it was the time, too, when the
came Comenius, that significant figure of the l7th century, with his
worked together over in the East during the 8th and 9th centuries.
8th–9th century — a little later, however, than the time
all, and came again to earth in the 19th century. The man who had
8th–9th century, and you will find a new light falling upon
could be expected? In the 8th–9th century, when men sat
different style from that customary in the 19th century, when Hegel
century. There sit the conspirators, cursing, railing in the language
speech of the 19th century, and you have what comes to expression in
active in the seventies of last century. Truth to tell, ever since I
not a Pole at all by physical descent but only by civilisation and

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Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
This cosmic force is the one concentrated from below by gravity
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
concentrated in the head. Feeling stays in the heart, where it
realize then how willing, concentrated in the head, is the

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Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
This cosmic force is the one concentrated from below by gravity
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
concentrated in the head. Feeling stays in the heart, where it
realize then how willing, concentrated in the head, is the

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In recent lectures
who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries
time. Bacon and Amos Comenius, having died in the 17th century, lived
19th century, were in the spiritual world together with the souls of
of the 19th century we find souls who had become dependent already in
19th century whose names will be known to most of you. One of them
throughout the two centuries, in the life beyond the earth, under the
one of the greatest historians of the 19th century — Leopold
concentrated on the real, outer world. Everywhere he demanded
lives on earth. For in the thoughts which I have recently placed
form what was always present in him in a nascent state. His
the time of the 6th century in Italy. There we have the feeling: We
come to an incarnation in Italy in the early Christian centuries
12th century. He learns of the strange destiny of Thomas à
in the story of what actually happened in the 12th century between

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recent Parisian newspaper stated that it is possible to be taught to read
and religion which I have described to you recently. And Adonis was
centuries of the Christian era itself, the Easter Festival was not celebrated
century did it become customary to celebrate Easter in the spring.
Moon. By the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era,
the fifteenth century onwards, that too was forgotten. At the time
Mystery of Golgotha. — By the eighth or ninth centuries, men
century there were two Emperors, one a little later than the other. The first
exterminated altogether by the Emperor Justinian but for centuries
third and fourth centuries A.D. all kinds of

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Goetheanum be understood as the center of the anthroposophical

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associated with the Easter Festival for centuries — customs and
In the first centuries of Christianity — not at its immediate
foundation but in the course of the first centuries — Easter
centre of the Christian consciousness, passes through death. Good
Friday and Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday is the day when the central
peoples of Asia Minor. A sacred image was the central point of the
Yet even in the first centuries of Christianity there were only few
of Nazareth, that the Earth had really been fertilised by the descent
through our initiation, the Christ whom we could reach by our ascent
For how did it really appear to the human beings in the centuries
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century A.D., instead of looking upward to the
aspect concentrated in the one historic action upon Golgotha.
succeeding centuries. Man's penetration into spiritual things becomes

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have become associated with the Easter Festival through the centuries
centuries; a Christian festival linked with the fundamental idea, the
evolution. Nothing less occurred, in the early Christian centuries,
— what is its essence? It is this: the central figure in
Sunday is the day on which the central being of Christianity arises
constituted the center of interest. It portrayed Adonis, the
Initiation, enacted through many centuries, had become a
In the first centuries of Christianity very few men knew that a
How did the matter appear to those living in the centuries
Century, instead of seeking Christ in the Sun from the Mystery
ultimate degree, unified and concentrated in the historical deed on
Then, in the following centuries, the evolution of humanity took
more recent times. But it must once more become so; and the awakening

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associated with it through the centuries, we cannot fail to
so during the first few centuries. It is linked to
These earlier festivals centered around the spring
development. In the early Christian centuries, nothing
essential content of Easter. First, the figure central to
Finally, on Easter Sunday, the central being of
long spans of pre-Christian antiquity. At the center of this
over many, many centuries became in this way a historical
the first Christian centuries very few people knew that a
centuries immediately following the Mystery of Golgotha?
the old initiation center (red, at right), neophytes gazed up
is the eighth century; the Mystery of Golgotha (cross, at
center) had already taken place. Human beings, instead of
unified and concentrated, in the historical deed on
remarkable development began to take place during the centuries
recent times. It must, however, once more become so through

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through the centuries religious customs and ceremonies having
From early Christian centuries — not indeed from the
centuries — this has been a festival of the greatest
the early Christian centuries, with an entirely different
the centre of Christian consciousness, Christ Jesus, passed
which the central figure for all Christendom rose from the
central point. This statue represented Adonis the spiritual
the early Christian centuries only a few people were aware that
in the centres of initiation. The most essential fact regarding
in the centuries immediately following it? In ancient places of
who lived in the 8th century, instead of looking out from the
were concentrated within the historic deed on Golgotha.
the centuries that followed we now become aware of an

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centuries humanity of the civilised world has undergone an evolution
in the first centuries of Christianity, could learn to know the
first Christian centuries which intended that all knowledge of such
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that can evoke such thoughts. During the last three to five centuries
Mysteries in the pre-Christian or early Christian centuries could
in the early Christian centuries. It is therefore not surprising that

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five centuries we in the civilized world have undergone a
even in the early centuries of Christianity someone who was
connected with a Mystery center could have experienced
exterminate such knowledge in the early Christian centuries
central to all earthly life is at the root of the Mystery
Feel at its center the birth of worlds.

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centuries, who was closely associated with the Mysteries could
Persia; so powerful in the early Christian centuries were the

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gathering now. Because of the very concentrated form in which
and nineties of the last century when the titles of these

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receive the faculty of movement concentrated into his etheric body.
directly from the Sun before man's descent to Earth. Thus from the Sun
Thus we look back to ancient times when the descent of man
Mysteries, while the ascent, the resurrection in the Spirit,
simply superimposed on the Springtime Mystery of the descent. The
remember his descent into the Physical; and again when Nature is
declining man was to remember his ascent, his resurrection in the

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is concentrated there.
the etheric body immediately before the descent to Earth: that which
saw the descent of man from the pre-earthly to the earthly life,
while others dwelt on the ascent in the spirit. But in later epochs,
combine the autumn Mystery of the ascent with the spring
Mystery of the descent into one
their descent from the spiritual world. Precisely where Nature begins
to ascend, man was to remember his descent into the physical; and
where Nature disintegrates, man was to contemplate his ascent, his
incentive to work, such as the more primitive man needed during the

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the period immediately preceding our descent to earth,
our descent from pre-earthly into earthly life, while others,
the autumnal Mysteries, recognized our ascent into the
cosmos, the autumnal Mystery of ascent was mistakenly combined
with the spring Mystery of descent.
human beings were reminded of their descent into the physical,
center to Mystery center seeking knowledge, were able to have
portrayed as traveling from one Mystery center to another. And
festivals gave them the spiritual incentives they needed
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during that period, he turns his attention to the descent to
the centres of the Ancient Mysteries something like the
descent to earth thou hadst need of powers that were built up
assumed by thine etheric body at its descent into thy physical
immediately before its descent to earth, is what comes to him
man's descent from pre-earthly to earthly existence, and in
there was knowledge concerning his ascent to that which was
of man's descent
stir in spring, man had to think of his descent into physical

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out what is in your minds so that the discussion can center
until recently, has caused difficulties to many of us.
which may become a central meditation. If you think about

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Never did human hearts and minds partake so intimately in this descent
could experience the final steps of man in his descent out of the
sense. Only at his descent to Earth did he become man and woman. But
How infinitely much had happened in the course of centuries for those
during a certain century. And once more the J O A resounded

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intimately, so fervently, in this last phase of the descent to Earth
steps of the descent from the spiritual
differentiation between man and woman did not enter until the descent
terrestrial. The Ephesian disciples were able to achieve this ascent
centuries! What a wealth of spiritual light and wisdom had suffused
certain century. And once more there resounded the J O A, and again

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their descent from pre-earthly into earthly life, guide them in
his descent out of the spiritual world. As he did so, however,
a state preparatory to the descent to Earth. In the Ephesian
Such was the Mystery center that went up in flames through the
experienced throughout the centuries, how much spiritual light
alphabet on paper. The entire magnificent content comes to you

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of the other planets a man was guided at his descent from
so much interest in the descent of the soul from pre-earthly
stage of this descent, in man's clothing of himself with the
the arrangements at this centre of the Mysteries were so
Ephesian Mysteries to experience the final steps in his descent
It first became man and woman at its descent to
inwardly and outwardly, preparing him for his descent to earth,
the things that have happened in the course of centuries to
times they had passed through together in a certain century at

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to our souls. For this we must not concentrate on the elements,
rather must we concentrate on what pulls the planets that

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to our souls. For this we must not concentrate on the elements,
rather must we concentrate on what pulls the planets that

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at the centre of our study of the world. Two ends are attained
concentration of all that is to be found outspread in the far spaces
centre of our studies, but now in his whole being, as an
— The very fact of placing man at the centre of study, makes
somewhere about the 9th century A.D.,
overseer is born again, in Central Europe, but now as a woman, and
first century before the founding of Christianity, when they had
officer is now, in the 9th century A.D.,
in a commune in Central Europe where
finished in the medieval incarnation in the 9th century; for the wife
education in the 18th century, is the karmic fulfilment in relation
century A.D., and then
them they become the centre of our observations and disclose a great
told you, to the 6th century A.D.
of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th century
century now overshadows the picture of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer in the
Ferdinand Meyer does in the 19th century.
century, and can find there no explanation of this. And so we are
in the 6th century and the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer incarnation —
6th century, when he went to England from Italy as a member of a
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centrifugal forces are working within the human being and
today. Especially just recently, there has been a great deal
reason for this is that at the end of the nineteenth century
nineteenth century goes on rolling for the time being. But
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there were brought
the second third of the nineteenth century were men of the
has striven for centuries is not so that it merely makes one

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Arabian-Mohammedan culture. These matters have recently been
that center of spiritual culture which was at its prime when,
spiritual culture centers around Harun al Raschid
working for some centuries.
sub-consciousness but that for three or four centuries it has
up in recent times at universities. Originally there were
happen. It has appeared in a dreadful form recently in the

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empty space with a slightly condensed earth at the center
see there is only ten percent of the human being. As long as
juices is particularly concentrated in the liver, let us say,
take the skeleton of a dog or other mammal and concentrate

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concentrated deeply on this reading, then we begin to hear in a

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center of life. The astral body and ego structure have,
his own center of gravity which lies in his subconsciousness.
ascent to inspiration.
eighteenth century, something of the spirit still remained in
feel itself a center with a definite task. Then the

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death is something that breaks in upon man. The descent from the
soul-and-spirit for those of earthly existence. The descent entails
4th centuries A.D. it was
lived in the early Christian centuries as an Initiate, with a soul
the inner concentration of soul-forces that was still possible in the
3rd or 4th century of our era, is so no longer. And so the following
certain Mystery-centre in Asia Minor, typical of all such
centuries. Traditions were everywhere alive in those olden days when
Christian centuries these very Mysteries of Asia Minor were occupied
concentrated in the Mystery of Golgotha? How will it unite with the
Asia Minor in the early Christian centuries. It is a shattering
Mystery-centre, when an experience came to him of an event that made
Initiate-knowledge, received in a Mystery-centre in Asia Minor, was
born again as a woman, at the beginning of the 17th century, before
incarnation as a woman in the 17th century, was born again in the
19th century. All that had become even more inward during the
century, poured into a peculiarly characteristic view of the world
into the life of the 19th and 20th centuries, to work effectively
why recent times have produced so many really splendid examples of
beginning of the 20th centuries, but an additional factor has been
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destruction. A few centuries later, that is to say, a comparatively
Remember that this was in the eighties of last century when there was
so-called innocent life.
centuries of Greek civilisation — in fact it was so for a
therefore, there is the descent into the inmost being; on the other,

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respiratory and circulatory organs are concentrated. All
[red dots]. Man speaks his I from out of his center of his
of which we sense in us. When we concentrate in meditation on
Resound in heart's center
Resound in heart's center
Resound in heart's center.
center” —
gathered in the center is where the source of the love-forces
— “height”, “center”,
“limbs”, what strives from the center
Resound in heart's center

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unless it is considered on the basis of the spiritual. Recently I
this play (which, as I recently mentioned, is a perfect horror from

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the nineteenth century solved it simply by asserting: It is not true,
centuries Christianity has developed many pagan characteristics,
of the West — those who came from Greece, Rome and Central Germany
Jews have been doing for centuries — but that this practice
twentieth century was due to an urge that is also present in the
of the nineteenth century was a Jew. Jews who have really merged into

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him concentration. Always to be looking at the place where a button
breast is longer than the part from the centre of the chest up
to the neck. If the part from the centre of the chest to the neck is
has made the ascent to the mid-point very quickly. He passed through
descent.
half, in the ascent, and then quickly completes the descent. Thus
human head, there is nothing that is reminiscent of Imagination. But

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comparatively recent times. Rousseau, for example, tells us that in
century, has diminished through the course of the ages and has now

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Before the exercise begins, concentration in the soul
It is the ascent to the rank of the second hierarchy where
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souls how by concentrating on the field of thinking we could
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nerves-and-senses system is concentrated mainly in the head, it
of life, just as the nerves-and-senses system is concentrated mainly
whose last incarnation of importance occurred in the first centuries
century. (— This does not imply that there has been no other
incarnation in the first seven or eight centuries after the founding
their incarnation during the first seven or eight centuries after the
founding of Christianity. In these centuries the feeling in the human
centuries: ‘I have descended from the spiritual world into
grew stronger and stronger during the first Christian centuries. The
incarnation during the first Christian centuries, were not strong

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centuries ago in Northern Africa by St. Augustine, or, later on, by
the 18th century, this same individuality passed over into a man who
wrought in the Mars-sphere, Voltaire came again in the 18th century

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recent lectures and will eventually lead to an understanding of
Mysteries — actually until the 14th century

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egocentrically, but it says: “My life”:
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I have been telling you here recently, and especially the lecture in
a sense organ, but because the sense organs are concentrated chiefly

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nature, another life of soul, a spirit soul, which makes its descent,
permanent soul-life is behind; it makes its descent and passes
When, with the descent of soul and spirit, the synthesizing activity
centrifugal impulse is at work all the time, pushing the body out.

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recently gave a lecture in Zürich dealing with the subject of
occurred to an eccentric person to make a milk jug like an hour glass

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you in the course of recent lectures, that the phenomena of nature
way as we have examined them in recent lectures from the point of
human souls in their descent from pre-earthly into earthly existence
moon in the centre, so to the gaze of Initiation a whole world

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and 13th centuries, all understanding of it was then lost and people
century so very difficult to follow. What is important for you,
sweating should be always mildly present in them in nascent state.

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what is generally expected of decent people in
concentrated in one point in space. But these cosmic forces

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unfolding of the will causes him pain. Pain is present in nascent
process of creeping into the physical organism when the descent to

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moment, concentrated as it were into a single moment. Such a thing

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that the sun became the center. This is taught to children quite
planetary system actually forms with the sun in the center.

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the arrangement there is centrifugal. In the metabolism-and-limbs
system, it is centripetal; we go here inwards from ego to
centripetally arranged, from physical on the outside to ego within.

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that evolution of civilisation which is concentrated mainly
in Europe. The time I mean lies in the 14th or 15th century
century. But as to the mood of soul which preceded this, we
century A.D., was altogether different from that of
Mind-Soul. In the 14th and 15th century, the Spiritual Soul
centuries, was by no means in a position merely to submit
individuality, and that we must concentrate above all on
century.
people. No great man of the 13th or 14th century could have
be experienced in the 13th or 14th century, are quite
or writer of the 13th century. He writes down his thoughts.
13th century were directed against Averroes who was long
well be understood. For about the 13th century there were

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time in that evolution of civilisation which is concentrated
century or around the middle of the Middle Ages. It is the
to the surface of civilisation in the 14th and 15th centuries.
stream of civilisation as late as the 12th century A.D., was
Mind-Soul. In the 14th and 15th century, the Consciousness Soul
12th centuries, was by no means in a position merely to submit
and that we must concentrate above all on his individuality
not really come to an end until the 16th or 17th century.
people. No great man of the 13th or 14th century could have
13th or 14th century are quite unknown. Then it would happen
writer of the 13th century. He writes down his thoughts.
13th century were directed against Averroes, who was long dead.
This doubt can well be understood. For around the 13th century

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say that any large percentage of them are distinguished for skill and
percentage and let the child have a bath in it. This will work upon

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consciousness that he knows himself to be in the centre of
the periphery. From the centre the Sun is seen as the field
centre of the Sun into the essential Spirit-land, and in
period of the middle of the 19th century, were received as
middle of the 19th century. What one then saw passing into
century — the deeds of men, their relations to one
in the late 70's, the 80's and 90's of last century. And it
in the 70's, 80's and 90's of last century. It is so
the 19th century.
or that, of the last third of the 19th century.’
last third of the 19th century have the greatest imaginable
past century is an all the more fruitful field for the
possible of these ghosts of the past century and bring them
century — Ideas which, for all men of insight, are
19th century is working still so strongly into the 20th.
three decades of the 20th century. Nearly everything
century.’
notably in the second decade of the 20th century. It has
this century?’ And how much more do we feel it when
of the last third of the 19th century! Their shadow-forces
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concentrated. If therefore you bring lead into the human body, you

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you know, calcium sulphate with 20 per cent water. So that here again
secretion. The medicament must enter the body in a centripetal
direction, in order to evoke a reaction that works centrifugally.
enema, a five per cent decoction, twice a week. If this does not help,

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for the following reason: In past centuries, when they had
11th, 10th, 9th, and 8th centuries after Christ. There we
century. In the first half of the 19th century there were
in the first half of the 19th century, there were souls in
7th and 13th or 14th centuries A.D. by way of dire and
19th century.
them a concentrated feeling, gathered from manifold
experiences, a concentrated feeling within their
20th centuries. And as I said, all manner of things were
which was frequently the case during the centuries to which
century. There he had to live through it again; and he
first half of the 19th century.

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with Berberis vulgaris 10 per cent, and Curative Eurythmy: L —
centrifugally and drives the substantiality of the organism to the
opposite principle that works centripetally. You will accordingly
anyway, let us concentrate our attention on the main point. What L.
century that that sentence of Goethe's found its way, through me,
So you have here in Jena a centre for currents of influence that are
author of the “History of the Creation” and concentrate

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interesting mammal skeletons which are more recent. Now the fossils
the more recent, the younger. One must realize how that has happened.
first quite simple, a nucleus in the center with an albuminous mass

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the first half of the nineteenth century the power to behold what is
first half of the nineteenth century people still had the idea that
conceptions in the first half of the nineteenth century; this idea of
development — egoism in the sense that man centres his

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central point at all costs.
5th century after Christ. (We find it nearly always, spread
centuries. Sometimes it is later — even as late as
the 7th or 8th century). Above all things, we must look
early centuries of Christian evolution, one could still
centuries of Christianity they still understood the
19th century. Then it was that these souls among others
concentrated into a great longing, that they might now at
turn of the 19th and 20th centuries — having received
first half of the 19th century, and if you translate all
first half of the 19th century. It was not on the earth,
the 19th century. Quite as a matter of course one sees it
there. Nay, even at the end of the 18th century one sees
end of the 19th or at the beginning of the 20th century,
Paganism. Even in the first centuries of Christianity the
indicated — in the first half of the 19th century or
19th century took its course in such a way that
that first half of the 19th century: a resolve

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formed only comparatively recently, and we have seen to what an
recently. Earlier plant and animal forms were different from the
recently. If we think of the earth, on the one hand we have America;
science held in the nineteenth century. It no longer holds that view;
century a learned traveler, Dubois,
even of Switzerland — maps which are only a few centuries old,

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incarnations during the first centuries of the founding of
fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth century A.D. In
first Christian centuries, we find ourselves in an age when
human beings who lived in those early Christian centuries
century that this condition ceased completely in civilised
Christianity in those first Christian centuries, whether it
Christianity in the first centuries of Christian evolution.
first Christian centuries, and afterwards. Now all this had
of the pure and innocent spirituality in all the working of
another. In the very first centuries of Christianity, such
regions of Europe, but in the fifth and sixth centuries
these regions). Thus in later centuries, and indeed for a
Christian centuries of the first half of the Middle Ages
19th century. All that they had lived through when they had
as harshly as in later centuries. Still, they were regarded
14th century.
first few centuries, spoke to their Christians
first Christian centuries could preach, people today, where
9th century (or somewhat earlier) when they had passed
or 8th and the 19th or 20th century, no matter whether
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Europeans had not in recent centuries extended their domination over
centuries of ill-treatment at the hands of the Europeans.
recently, and the audience enjoyed it immensely. Well, the same kind

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better idea of this had not our good Europeans in recent centuries

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revelation at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries,
centuries. For only when we are aware of these conditions,
14th (15th) century. Before that time, the relationship of
into the 7th or 8th century, when we still find a delicate
Then we have the age beginning in the 7th or 8th century
in the first Christian centuries, partaking in that former
— from the 6th, 7th or 8th century onwards —
centres of learning. In isolated centres of learning men
the first Christian centuries. Nay more, it was possible
were indeed isolated centres where teachings were given in
an end in the 12th, 13th century, when at length it all
centre for the real connection of man with the spiritual
until the 7th or 8th century — in a kind of echo of
centres that had remained as the high places of knowledge,
relics of the ancient Mysteries. In those centres human
the 7th or 8th century in the last relics of the ancient
15th centuries of which we have so often spoken. In certain
centres we still see these old teachings cultivated, though
especially the 12th century, reaching on to the 13th, a
centuries had been led to a conscious experience of the
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turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. An age of light has
mankind in general. With the close of the 19th century, the
is as though the first decades of the 20th century had
habits on into the 20th century; and just because the light
Michael began with the last third of the 19th century.
three centuries before the end of the eighteen-seventies,
as in the three centuries preceding the last third of the
19th century.
the 19th century the problem of heredity became the most
great part of the 19th century.
century in the question of reproduction and indeed in all
sexual questions. In the centuries to which I have just
that began at the end of the seventies of the last century,
the new Age of Light beginning in the 20th century. For the
leadership in human evolution for about three centuries, in
centuries. His place is now taken by Michael. There are
the next three centuries, these national impulses will be
connected with the descent of Christ to the earth: Michael
fulfilled especially in the first Christian centuries. In
the earliest Christian centuries we still see those human
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recently been describing to you, everything would long ago have been
down strongly into the intestines. You can see how magnificently the

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evolution, gentlemen, which I have recently been describing to you,
intestines. You can see how magnificently the human body is arranged!

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of the 15th century. To characterise it we can say: Michael
dominion, having lasted three centuries and finding its
spiritual Beings. It is indeed of fairly recent date that
from him entirely since the 8th or 9th century A.D.,
the last third of the 19th century, when the Gabriel
century) which became even more so in the 14th and 15th
centuries. They said: “Now everyone has his own
(these only came at the beginning of the 19th century) but
three-and-a-half centuries. In the last three or four
centuries it has been the dominion of Gabriel. Now it will
sight, — overpowering, magnificent. And every time a
pre-Christian century had been well-nigh extinguished. They
courageous ascents to the spiritual world that had taken
earth in sinless form. From the centre of Alexandria the
conclusiveness, the magnificent certainty of aim with which
significant above all since the 8th or 9th century, when
the beginning of the 15th century. In individual spirits
In recent
century is almost like an earthly reflection of the great
of Sabunda still taught, even in the 15th century, that the
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nineteenth century, where the souls who were selected to be
the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth centuries, and which
nineteenth century.
nineteenth century.
centuries.

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In recent times when everything has become materialistic, people have
thirteenth centuries, or still earlier, were different from ourselves
has drunk very little alcohol; he has lived a really decent life. But

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itself. In recent times when everything has become materialistic,
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, or still earlier, were
really decent life. But in his earlier years he did eat rather a lot

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Michael-forces throughout the centuries, in order to see what
You see, in the last third of the 19th century it did really happen
century — and especially in the time when the end of the Kali
years of the 19th century, — it was a shattering experience to
In the last third of the 19th century, and especially in the last
School of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and in the great
super-sensible Cult of the beginning of the 19th century, among all
Just at the end of the 19th century these things showed themselves
of the 19th century. But it had been prepared for, in the spiritual
the end of the century, and others will then unite with them, for by
since the 15th century has it become most thoroughly possible for man
world. And now go back a few centuries, go back into the 13th
century, and see whether such a thing is there at all. It is simply
imagine yourself in the 13th century. They managed without the
Compare the 13th century with the present time. We may put it thus: —
When you transplant yourself into the 13th century you can look out
And all this that has come about since the 13th century, what is it?

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these Michael-forces throughout the centuries, in order to
last third of the 19th century it did really happen that
was above all in the last third of the 19th century —
century, — it was a shattering experience to see
of the 19th century, and especially in the last decade,
the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and in the great
super-sensible Cult of the beginning of the 19th century,
of the 19th century these things showed themselves with
19th century. But it had been prepared for, in the
century, and others will then unite with them, for by this
— Only since the 15th century has it become most
through the world. And now go back a few centuries, go back
into the 13th century, and see whether such a thing is
the 13th century. They managed without the newspapers and
the 13th century with the present time. We may put it thus:
— When you transplant yourself into the 13th century
has come about since the 13th century, what is it? It is

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adolescent, to find the ways and means of giving sound
than in ordinary life. The child or adolescent confronts
that otherwise come in your way, you do not find the centre
the 20th century are coming ever more into the things of
end of this century, with those who now come to the things

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find human beings formed in the way I described here recently, out of
way. During our recent trip to Holland we bought an illustrated
existence for only a few centuries. Before that, people had to write
later, in the nineteenth century, when they came to the regions where
centuries. The Greeks would have carried out their construction with

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it shows the trend of man's thinking. During our recent travels in
few centuries. Before that, people had to write on parchment which
later, in the 19th century, they came to the regions where Indians
the 15th or 16th century. The Greeks would have done their

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9th century A.D. as the point of time in the evolution of
in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, in the time when in
independent life on earth. In former centuries, man having
now told you. Remember that with the 9th century A.D. the
In that great School in the beginning of the 15th century
centuries approached — the 8th, the 9th, the 10th
century A.D. — it happened that the Planetary
which is signalised above all by the 9th century and the
in the history of recent times. This has brought into the
history of recent times more and more social chaos, chaos
centuries, come down to earth, devoted still, with their
the 9th or 10th century. This again is the shattering
of recent times, one of the greatest authors — a very
century, were severed by the thinnest of thin walls from
more recent editions. There is a passage where he is
centuries. And now the requirement is to bring these cosmic
today, will be called again at the end of the 20th century,

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have different scents. This is also true of the various human races.
connection. Just as the plants have their scent from the earth, so
scent that is always pleasant; the asafetida has a smell that is
The fact of the matter is that any object with a smell or scent emits
is devoid of smell as far as they are concerned. Only recently I met
their scent. His defect is a grave disadvantage. The cause is, of
composed? It is obviously solid, yet it has scent. We must picture to
crime. The dog picks up a scent at the spot where the crime was
The lovers went a-roaming in the enchanting moon-scented night, in a
the moon, the scents would not be so very pleasantly fragrant! Again,
scent-body accordingly, while the asafetida has a delicate perception
have they no scent? As a matter of fact, to sensitive noses all
plants do have a certain scent — at the least, they have what
scent of Mercury. It holds the scent, as I have indicated, between
its solid parts and exhales it; then the scent is dense enough for us
chestnuts — you know the scent of horse chestnut, or of linden
adjusts itself to the scents of the planets just as do the plants
not have an odor depends upon whether it is perceiving the scents of
we wouldn't know where we were, for scents and tastes would come to
legends, mythologies (there was recently a question about this), much
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Society. Hitherto this society was as it were the administrative centre
the last third of the 19th century. Our conception of the
during the last four to five centuries, they are adapted only to receive
impulse. When at the beginning of the century the Anthroposophical
with in ordinary life. For centuries now we have been arming our senses
would have gazed into these glimmering, sparkling, iridescent auras of

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able to centre all our work here on the Act of Consecration of
concentrated summary in John's Book of Revelation in a form
Next came those Mysteries of which the Mass of more recent

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deal, and it is concentrated and summarized in John's

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which the gods descended into the mystery centers in order to
was the center of the holy act of consecration of man. Priests

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nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
about three to four centuries. And when we consider the
Previously, again lasting for three to four centuries —
that is, from the last third of the nineteenth century back
through three to four centuries — was the reign of the
going further back we come to the centuries in which a kind of
anthroposophist. The responsibility for being a decent person
effervescent springs, to the shining sun, to the gleaming moon

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— requires us to concentrate on circumstances in the life of a
concentrating on these facts of his profession or of his philanthropic
very centre of the Middle Ages. We are astonished to find him thus, for
reminiscent of that life which dawns upon one who spends much of his

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wonderful and magnificent in our soul. Just consider the human
wonderful and magnificent like the macrocosm. Even just in the

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inner soul life becomes ever more magnificent. Look at how
concentrated and took on human and angelic forms, and the past,

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recently raised the question of whether something of a medical nature
earlier days, and it was taken care of through the centuries rather

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recently raised the question of whether something of a medical nature
earlier days, and it was taken care of through the centuries rather

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A man who had spent the recent part of his life making
centuries. In those days people saw the Christ as an appearance
olden times. It came to me recently in such a living way when
Round Table. They received the incentives for what they had to
Man in the centre, on the throne the separate stages of

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of thinking in the first Christian centuries, very foreign
that time, and what was taught at these centers went out to
distant past. I ran into it again recently in a very graphic
of man in the center, the individual stages of humanity

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recently been given a crass interpretation by Lombroso
tremendously magnificent, with spiritual beings moving within
of what flowed in a magnificent way from Greek theology into the

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recently been given a crass interpretation by Lombroso
tremendously magnificent, with spiritual beings moving within
of what flowed in a magnificent way from Greek theology into the

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recently about the nearness of Mars to the earth, and the newspapers
streams back toward the central region of the earth. So that if
to you quite recently how the earth too was once in a condition when
that the scents of flowers are related to the planets. Does this also
that flowers, and also other substances of the earth, have scent —
said that the plants really do come into being out of the scent of
the universe, but this scent is so rarefied, so delicate, that we
in some way that a thief has been there and he picks up the scent;
would come to light if one were to study how scents that are quite
police. It is only rather recently that this has been discovered.
entire plant is a nose; it takes in the scent of the universe, and if
can say: The scents of flowers, of plants in general, and also other
scents on the earth, do indeed relate to the planetary system.
extent to the moon. The scent and the color of plants do not,
therefore, come from the same source; the scent comes from the
the plant has its scent from the planets and its colors from the sun
year before that. Going back through a few centuries we find that the
aromatic; garden strawberries have less scent, are less sharp in
century foodstuffs will become quite unusable if a certain knowledge
of anthroposophical spiritual science. Recently I gave a course of

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eighth pre-Christian century to the fifteenth century after the
take into account that only four or five centuries have passed
fourth post-Atlantean age had reached by the third century BC,
olfactory nerves which carry the scent into the very being of

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them in recent times. Priests must now become aware of the real
developed from about the eighth century before Christ up to the
15th century after the Mystery of Golgotha. A new consciousness
beginning of it. Only about five centuries have elapsed since
century with respect to the preparation of the fourth post

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recently been abandoned by a human soul and spirit. We observe

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they will approach the events of the second decade of the 20th century,
evolution in the successive centuries. But it is also not be denied that
a certain period — the 8th and the beginning of the 9th century
Where were they in recent centuries? They were here indeed but we must
which the new age can provide. And the recent evolution of mankind
other hand into Central Europe. They were great powers, these two
even several centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. We look back to
throughout the centuries down to Haroun al Raschid who lived in the 8th
century
Powerful as it was, magnificent and penetrating, deeply united with
into the 13th century, one of the most popular subjects of narrative
Christian centuries in a district not without interest for the
most important and essential events took place in the 9th century. And
century the time had already come when European humanity, even in its
the true Christians in the first Christian centuries, I mean that Christ
century. The full greatness of the Christ Impulse had as it were been
centuries after the life of Christ.
recent stay in England during the Summer Course
magnificent impression. There live and weave the elemental spirits
preserved through the centuries of the post-Christian time, even into
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centuries there were some individuals who understood things
fifteenth century, the importance is returning of what existed
fifth post-Atlantean cultural age for three to four centuries.
these secrets were even being mentioned in the twelfth century.
fourteenth to the fifteenth century who still knew something of
century onwards, the age of Raphael, the physician among the
nineteenth century.

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the first Christian centuries one finds that a few people have
age, that is, since the first third of the 15th century, we are
reigning for 3 to 4 centuries in this fifth archangel cycle
places like the School of Chartres in the 12th century. They
the beginning of the 15th century when Samael was reigning
age which began in the 10th and 11th centuries, where things
a directly adjacent world, just as we were only separated from
it by a spider's web in the last third of the 19th century,

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where it seems to be concentrated. This physical notion, that the sun

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where it seems to be concentrated. This physical notion, that the sun

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centuries, and let us connect it with general cosmic evolution
consciousness soul in the fifteenth century. The year 333 falls
centuries of Catholic ecclesiastical development it was no
to the assumption more recently that human evolution can only
Christianity? as an example of recent theological
people in the nineteenth and even in the eighteenth century

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Let's connect this time of the first Christian centuries with
15th century. This year 333 stands right in the middle. The
for the catholic church in later centuries.
something out of recent theological developments such as
the 19th and already in the 18th century. The important thing

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Those members who have recently joined may only receive the

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these last lectures. For many centuries these conceptions have in
been lacking to the greater part of mankind in recent times. No —
recent studies we are coming to do this once more. And we do so
time preparing the Michael stream for the 20th century, the Michael
stream in which we stand since the last third of the 19th century and in
which mankind will be for three or four centuries to come.
of the 17th century, a stream which lies not in the straightforward line
personalities on earth in the course of the centuries. These were the
in the centuries following the 9th, we see Platonic spirits descending
stream down on the earth in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries. On
recent lectures, a school which was spiritual through and through and in
schools and spiritual centres to which I have referred we find the
the very way in which this had been taught for centuries as I have
throughout the 12th century, and then a kind of super-sensible exchange
the 12th and 13th century, as to the manner of working in the future.
very strong karma underlying the fact that to-day and in recent times,
who took part in that super-sensible school in the 14th/15th century.
what has gone before in the last few centuries. We must indeed be
centuries, but we cannot take our start from them. With the
taken place in the super-sensible during the last few centuries. In

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By bringing before our souls the central points in which the
consideration of the central points, so that tomorrow we can
seen right up to the fourteenth century as the spiritual
fifteenth century. The totality of all the opponents of the
years had passed, in 1332, in the fourteenth century. At that
humanhood: Sorat stirs. In the fourteenth century we see Sorat,
the last third of the nineteenth century he has again been
Michael, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, as
beginning of the twentieth century during
on the earth again at the end of the twentieth century. Dear
century, initially in the form of great, all-embracing, intense
end of this century the time will come when Sorat will once
experience during the first half of the twentieth century when
century have still to run before Sorat once again raises his
and feeling of the tortured Templars. And before this century
example, in the way something that is at present concentrated
already decreed that at the end of this century Sorat will be
the end of the nineteenth century, and the appearance of the
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as it were, we place the main centers in which the
centers today, and tomorrow we will begin to explain its other
beings evolve, and that's why it's located at the center. We
the intelligence of the planet up till the 14th century. We can
intelligence of the earth. And up till the 14th, 15th centuries
went by as 1332 in the 14th century. There we have
century we see Soradt the adversary rising up again.
the last third of the 19th century in order to go on working
some of this recently in a lecture, where I pointed out that a
the 14th to 16th centuries, where souls are being prepared who
20th century during Michael's reign. If one looks at what was
century. For everything we can do now in this age is of great
deeds which should be done at the end of the century. After a
666:1998. We are coming to the end of this century, when Soradt
first half of the 20th century through the appearance of the
century until Soradt raises his_ head in a mighty way.
Templars. He will show himself before the end of this century
what is concentrated in a small region in present-day Russian
be loose again at the end of this century, when a striving to
the 19th century and the appearance of the etheric Christ in
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will view us in future centuries as anyone living today in our
nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. If you go back two
health. A certain person lived in the nineteenth century. I'll speak
of him presently as he was in the nineteenth century, but first I
important consequences for his life in the nineteenth century. This
in our age, in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in this
convalescents, their physical healing will not be complete without

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will view us in future centuries as anyone living today in our
nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. If you go back two
health. A certain person lived in the nineteenth century. I'll speak
of him presently as he was in the nineteenth century, but first I
important consequences for his life in the nineteenth century. This
in our age, in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in this
convalescents, their physical healing will not be complete without

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shown such irregularities through the years, particularly recent
noteworthy. In the course of centuries their number has increased,
place again. In the course of centuries they have increased
science in the 19th century that first caused people to have
illuminated, becomes phosphorescent. It has caught the light, “eaten”
strong sunlight. But the mineral is phosphorescent and if the room is
night, it is throwing off the light, it becomes phosphorescent. In
days; it was in the 16th century that spectacles first began to be
when phosphorescent Venus is in transit across the sun were also

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influence of intellectualism in recent times, Christianity has
first century but especially in later centuries after the
century, but in later ones, from the second to the
North Pole and that a degree of coldness is concentrated there.
pole on the earth where all culture was concentrated, in other
concentrated around the human soul, and the crowning glory of
i.e. the continuation of the sensory nerves towards the centre
risen upwards out of the earth, and this was concentrated in

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importance to have the gospels interpreted for one. In recent
later centuries after the Mystery of: Golgotha — not in
second to sixth centuries — but not before — who.
are collected. This was a pole for the concentration of outer
center. The peripheral brain is more like man's digestive
in the continuation of the sensory nerves into the center of
becomes concentrated in the old Jerusalem. This came to an end.

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School of Chartres still had the impulse, even in the 12th century, to
which was to begin at the end of the 19th century, should have been
hold good for the spiritual life of coming centuries. And it may be said
life. All that was reminiscent still of the great and deep impulses of
first centuries. They witnessed all that came into the world as
over decades and centuries.
feeling for its inner meaning, a certain event in the first centuries of
adequate are the narratives that centred round the personality of
through the centuries into the Middle Ages and it escapes us. But when

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element of air. But when we come up higher to the region centered
of the sense process, not this central activity; that's why the

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element of air. But when we come up higher to the region centered
of the sense process, not this central activity; that's why the

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we have the magnificent concluding picture of the new Jerusalem
magnificent picture appears before our soul, namely, that
magnificent picture where the Apocalypticer sees what he calls
magnificent Imagination is none other than the unified God. And
magnificent. It is quite natural and a matter of course that
downwards — as I said recently, he considers this state
magnificent: He has a name written on him which is known to no
with the magnificent Imagination that appears here. Just

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separate ourselves from our karma and concentrate on the instreaming

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separate ourselves from our karma and concentrate on the instreaming

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In our century in particular, during which much will he decided
everything that comes from the will sphere and the centre of
In Babylon, or rather at the Mystery centre of Babylon,

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century, and one has good reason to direct the eye of one's
centers of Babylon in which one could be initiated into the
descended into the mystery centers, and one could really

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beautiful and magnificent in the outer world, remains dark and
true self-hood So we must realize that if we only concentrate
for centuries, and which is expressed in the dictum:

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16th century; we find arising in him once more, in a Christianised form,
reappears in the 16th century as Tycho de Brahe, and stands face
the 17th century he passed on through the gate of death and entered the
18th and beginning of the 19th century which are connected with this
super-sensible School of instruction in the 15th, 16th centuries which
the 19th century would have broken in upon the world in a far more
beginning of the 19th century there took place in super-sensible regions
century there hovers in the immediate neighbourhood of the physical
the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, especially at the end of the
19th century, these souls have descended to the earth, prepared not only
centuries, and they were looking towards it again during the enactment
century. But on the other hand, many who felt themselves drawn to what I
the 15th, 16th centuries, and by the great religious act that took place
century. It was in vision of that super-sensible action that my Mystery
spirit of his working through the centuries and the thousands of years.
for this century, is very clearly foreshadowed.
of the 19th century, for instance. If you do so open-mindedly, if
we can trace the spiritual life of the 19th century backward in a living
of the 18th and first half of the 19th century was, to say the least of
life of the first half of the 19th century. They were lost sight of,
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as was the case in nineteenth-century Europe, but the medical profession.
— again, the exact opposite of what recent materialistic

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as was the case in nineteenth-century Europe, but the medical profession.
— again, the exact opposite of what recent materialistic

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Since the beginning of the fifteenth century, dear friends,
expressing metamorphosis than the solid-fluid land adjacent to
the centuries leading up to the fifth post-Atlantean age, but
eighth or ninth post-Christian century, when people looked at
century. Much rays forth from this picture that will bring

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beginning of the 15th century, and in this period we have the
be placed approximately in the center of this age, if we take
magnificent, but the substances were soft and cartilaginous and
indistinct in the centuries just before the fifth post
9th centuries looked at the morning sky and saw how the
I recently mentioned in Anthroposophical lectures, the teachers
Imagination during the course of this century. Much

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that from every possible center, whatever it may be called, all kinds
the field of theology. For human thinking in recent times,
the center of the circle,
to speak, place humanity in the center of the cosmic uterus. Now we
system centered in the head. Summer in the macrocosm is the creative
recent times when the great discoveries were made, for instance, of

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that from every possible center, whatever it may be called, all kinds
the field of theology. For human thinking in recent times,
the center of the circle, where we have the 25,920 breaths that, so
to speak, place humanity in the center of the cosmic uterus. Now we
system centered in the head. Summer in the macrocosm is the creative
recent times when the great discoveries were made, for instance, of

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definite moment in the nineteenth century, namely the beginning
century, when the trumpet of the seventh angel will begin to
Mystery centres the period from the Crusades up to our time now
recent.

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referred to a particular point in the 19th century in this
the end of the 20th century, when the seventh trumpet will
Crusades. In real occult centers one always looked upon this
recently.

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corporeality as beneficent fire. What brings the will to
expands to include the universe, which is only concentrated in
upward pointing triangle. Let us concentrate on this.
should concentrate on this line in order to sense the mantric
three lines must be strengthened by concentrating on these
concentrate on the force we normally use when we move a limb,
endeavor to concentrate to the extent that we will each
heart, in which the rhythm of our humanity is concentrated. We
at this point we must get used to concentrating on a line in

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Earth-humanity with the last third of the 19th century. For among many
third of the 19th century and came to a kind of rationalistic
earthly life at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century,
Now we must concentrate on this: Why did
This was in the 13th century, immediately
of the 19th century when he claimed his dominion especially against
in the last third of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th.

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lightning begins where a concentration of heat exists, then in the
Central America; over here we have Africa; here we have Europe. And
Central America, from the Colima volcano
we have Central America, here the South Pole, here the Caucasus, and
fled because they already scented what was coming; human beings are
researches in the 40's of the last century into the nature of the
modern times, in the 19th century. Thinking independently: that is

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eighteenth century the physical, bodily nature was still able
thought. Very many people especially in Central Europe show
books like a memory within him. Looking at various centres we

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men on earth up to the end of the 18th century because of the
meets a large number of such rainbow men in central European
there are many cloud men, in the center many rainbow men, and
see that the whole of Slovakia was recently separated from
the wise men proclaimed about the world in the mystery centers

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who lived at the end of the first Christian century. Already at that
transmitted in the first centuries
first Christian centuries and passing over into the clearly defined
of magnificent skill, but not coming out of the depths of the heart.
which was held in the 4th century, where the decision was made for
Christian centuries, and brought it forth. They did indeed dispute with
4th century
imbued at that time in the 5th century with all that was the real

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centuries ago has passed away completely. There is the heredity
meadow in, say, the thirteenth century, for then
fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth century, and also the
humanity since the middle of the nineteenth century, even
preparation for future tasks, to concentrate more on intensive

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centuries ago has perished completely. Spiritual seeds that
meadow in, say, the 13th century, but that there was another
16th, 17th centuries, at the climax of materialism
during the 40's of the 19th century and at the development of
raging in humanity since the middle of the 19th century,

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recently about Julius Robert Mayer, who is regarded today as a most
they came into use for the first time in the 19th century. Before
in the forties of the 19th century. When the
recent centuries. That is a crude example of how spiritual science
time, in the 18th century, when superstition was still rife, a
the center of the universe; then come Mercury, Venus, Moon, Earth,
split up as it subsequently did. In the 19th century it was still
remained as it still was in the 18th century, a collision would be
meteors. Gradually through the centuries it is throwing off its
living in the 12th or 13th century, when very, very few people could
who was a nobleman of the 13th century. He composed
the 12th or 13th century. At that time a nobleman could not write.
forties of the last century who believed so “stupidly”
of the last century who would simply put on their nightcaps in the
bodies. We eat what the comet has been giving us for centuries! This,
the early seventies of the last century I could look out the window
sixties and seventies of the last century, people said: The worker

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thing that appeared was a very beautiful and magnificent meteor

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nineteenth century has been guiding human affairs - something
the 19th century. And since the seventies of the
nineteenth century we are again under the sign of Michael's

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individuality incarnated in the 6th century
Christian centuries at a time when the spiritual substance of
centuries. But at that time they could experience Christianity in a far
6th or at the end of the 5th century
personality who in the pre-Christian centuries had been a woman
and a man during the early Christian centuries, who on the first
extraordinarily mixed blood according to his physical descent, this one
was born again in the 16th century as the Italian Utopianist,
century.
century, the neurologist or psychiatrist of the 19th or 20th century,
the 20th century did in a certain respect pronounce a very similar
centuries. This is the strange thing. While the age of the Spiritual
then reborn in the last decade but one of the 19th century or just a
wonderful in him in the first Christian centuries. True, these things
learns languages and literature magnificently; he does not learn the
descriptions of Atlantis, magnificent, but of course entirely mad from
that came to him during his journey, magnificent ideas about the
the 6th century before the Mystery of Golgotha until to-day. That indeed

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These centres of secretion appear as the phials of divine wrath,

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secretions become exuded here; the secretory centers appear as

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happening all over Central and Western Europe as well.
are still relatively harmless in Central Europe, but you should
statistics are compiled about what percentage of the population
People work out what percentage in certain professions commit
revealed the machinations of the satanic power in Central
sown decades ago in Central Europe and then merely transferred
seventh century, since the year 666, will be snatched from
the early centuries of Christian development and experienced
century. His name was Trahndorff, and he was an ordinary
into fashion over the last few centuries, so that as soon as

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forcible way in the east, but they're also present in central
These things in central Europe and in the West are still
the U.S. they determine the percentage of the population that
determines what percent of the people in particular professions
central Europe and in the east. It became a philosophy in
that the seeds for Bolshevism were laid in central Europe
There was an individual in the early Christian centuries who
that had been present in Rome throughout the centuries, who
Berlin in the first half of the 19th century; he was a high
the last few centuries, so that one doesn't want to bring in

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general case of a soul that lived in the centuries before the Mystery of
seventies, eighties and nineties of the last century.
forth from former times in human souls. Nay, at the end of last century
second half of the 19th century bore within him a strong spirituality
In Plato the philosopher of the 5th and 4th centuries
mankind ponders on for centuries to come. You will remember when I drew
was that he reincarnated in the 10th century in the Middle Ages as the
century, who did indeed receive Christianity in a truly Platonic sense
century, a truly intensive Christian and Platonic spiritual
of the teachers of Chartres into the spiritual world, the descent of
19th century. He became an individuality of the very kind I described
of the 19th century which it will not come near.
individuality stands upon earth anew in the 19th century. He grows up
into the intellectuality of the 19th century but lets it come near him
Schröer wrote a history of German poetry in the 19th century. In
this sense so concentrated — but it is all so fine, so delicate in
History of German Poetry in the 19th Century.
all people there enters into the end of the 19th century a world of

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especially just recently, that these few do not know what they should
I told you that at a recent Farmers' Conference it was
until we again take hold of life so that our concern centers upon the
me. Those of you who have come recently are naturally interested in

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In recent months we have frequently spoken, my dear friends, of the
be accomplished for human evolution in the course of this present century by
Germans have thought of Raphael in the course of history through the centuries.
century, and that shall lead mankind past the great crisis in which it is

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which reached its culminating point in the 19th century. In
to the 4th century after Christ, and from the 15th century
shadow existence. This culminated in the 19th century. Man's
significant event in the 7th decade of the 19th century. Man
century.
Man's ascent was brought about by their descent. In this way

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Central and Northern Europe there is something tragical.
root-race. In Central Europe Christianity was spread abroad
the Descent of the Dove into Christ Jesus.) — the

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of Art which have succeeded each other through the centuries, and you
capacities was called in the Mystery Centres a Second Birth.
heart. That was called the descent of the God, his Resurrection and
Paul were written down for the first time in the sixth century, in
as countless human beings have done through the centuries. Early in
he learns to know the origins of evil. This was called the descent

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of culture then journeyed out from this centre like rays, or
science to prepare men to form a centre for this end, to prepare them
materialistic civilisation reached its climax in the nineteenth century,

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magnificent the language in which the ancient wisdom of Egypt speaks,
through all the centuries of evolution from the beginning of our era,
nineteenth century or thereabouts one can speak of this world wisdom
through the centuries of our time, through the Middle Ages into the
the physical body in the centre became ever clearer and clearer,
Consider what the situation then was. In the centres of knowledge,
centres of secret knowledge for instance, the word Mercury was

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upon the earth, the central point of importance was always given to
within his inner being. Fire or warmth was placed in the centre of
must pay for this in smoke. From what was formerly translucent and

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concentrating over a stone, you really do raise a bewitched spirit
part of the warmth, had realised the Self as the centre of their

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the surrounding universe the Thrones concentrated on one point in

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central point and would reach so far outwards that the Saturn of
Sun has in its centre nothing solid, but only gas. Only, this gas —
globe, the mass of which, if you place the Sun in its centre, you
world-globe, which having our Sun in its centre would have reached as
imagine a globe with the present Sun for its centre, and for its
nineteenth century has the physical eye discovered again, so to

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stood in the centre of our system, and that the planets coursed round
system topsy-turvy, when the earth was deprived of its central
will say: ‘From the fifteenth or sixteenth century men ceased
sixteenth century onwards it was quite correct. ‘Men had for a
our Sun at all which stands in the centre of the system, but the
perspective chosen. If one asks, where is the centre of our world
its centre, we then get other boundary lines; the planets then become
this must be done from the centre of the whole system. I have said

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the Sun as the centre, and we must draw a sort of circle —
becomes the centre point. We must do the same with the other heavenly
that a physical body can be so liquid and evanescent that it does not
of these leaders of mankind. From these hidden centres they worked,
Oracles’ is quite suitable to these centres of instruction, and

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formation began, after the centre had been reached. We are now

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centre is to be found in the great circumference. Hence, all teachers
of the Mysteries said: If you want to understand the centre,
stages of the ascent in the Angels, Archangels, etc.; we have learnt

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what he has achieved; that is his ascent. But we ask ourselves
the centre from all sides. And now I say — be it understood
— I say: Matter draws together more and more towards a centre,
and the strange thing is that in that centre matter disappears.
contracts more and more towards its centre. In its centre it
absolutely disappears into nothing in its own central point! So that
towards the centre, the whole of the earth will some day disappear in
that central point. But this is not all: in the same measure in which
it disappears in the central point, it reappears again in
side, its material particles having disappeared in the centre.
work upon that which you have absorbed in this descent, and carry it
voluntary ascent into the higher worlds. Man takes the Christ-force
this point in the centre of the universe — in accordance with
We stand at the central point of the world. Everything around us
to draw together to a centre, and when this is done — then from
centre, disappears there, and then emerges again out of the

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werden’: ascent from the body into the soul). Beggars
spiritual world. The Descent of Christ was necessary in order
Before the first half of the century has run its course, a
Christ's new descent to the men of Earth. In reality,
however, it is an ascent, for Christ will never again
now proclaim the new Christ Event of the 20th century. Later
understood it. In the first half of the 20th century, false

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development of mankind, we shall find that in the comparatively recent
telegraphs, of recent inventions.
last few centuries a material civilisation has spread over the earth,
through the centuries, says to a Buddhist: ‘If you would reach the
central nerve of Buddhism. And the Christian, too, hears of a
of Nazareth through the centuries. But the Christian's view of the
descent, and then again an ascent. At the deepest point of descent the
impulse for the ascent was given by Christ.
henceforward to tread the path of ascent — to conceive this was
possible only to a few. And so in the centuries that followed, men
From the 13th and 14th centuries onwards,

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observation. It is, of course, true that in recent times a few
fact that to behold only oneself through a number of centuries is not
people in our time live with those who have died recently or at some
that have died centuries ago but this only lasts for a certain period
over the last centuries. It is the task of anthroposophy to bring
impulse stands as a fulcrum at the center of earth evolution, the
a specific moment had to be prepared from the ninth century onward.
centuries so that he might have the right parents.
worked for centuries from the super-sensible world. At the moment of
Recently I came to know an individuality who died an early death. My

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truths we have studied in many aspects during recent years.
post-Atlantean epochs. The centers of the mysteries were the places in
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, science and
of West European culture, and particularly of Central European
Western and Central Europe is to introduce into men qualities that can
Western and Central Europe. They say, “You pay no heed at all to
across from the East to Western and Central Europe in many reproaches
are, accuse Western and Central Europe of having lost all feeling for
Herzen, an excellent thinker who lived in the nineteenth century and
bring about the descent of spirit self. Just as it is being striven
about Soloviev's main and central idea. Soloviev is far too good a
and Central Europe to understand became the main and central idea in
altogether from the central idea held by the great Russian thinker,
that he is God. How different it is in the West and in Central Europe!

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fifteenth, sixteenth centuries started seizing the human beings
particularly the Central European culture that the human beings
Western Europe and Central Europe have the vocation to develop
of Europe and also Central Europe. They say: you do not pay
barbarity et cetera to Central Europe and Western Europe from
say: Western Europe and Central Europe have already lost any
century, said as the last consequence: in Western Europe,
one needs the community spirit to the descent of the
Now I want to put, I would like to say, a prime and central
starting point, of course, also to the Central European, became
a prime and central idea with Solovyov. This is the following.
different it is in the West, how different in Central Europe.

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face me recently again with particular liveliness when I had
Their whole being seems to be concentrated there, as it has

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real event of recent times, experienced by quite a number of our
that come towards it from the great universe. It is a magnificent
central figure of the group will stand upon the projecting rock. It
is quite indifferent what name we give to this central figure,
him the Christ, then we may also see the Christ in this central
in art and everything towards which art has striven in recent times

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and in this projection is a cave. The central figure stands on
see Christ in this central figure. But this must not happen in

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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
natural sciences in the course of recent centuries and
especially in the nineteenth century. Anthroposophy,
concentrated on this one idea or group of ideas. This can be
being concentrated with the uttermost attentiveness upon a
meditation or concentration, a thinking is to be
One who practices meditation and concentration must
is developed through meditation and concentration,
concentration, one becomes able to say at a certain point of
reached through concentrated and strengthened thought
exercises of concentration and meditation in the way that has
can give one's attention to such meditation and concentration
completely absorbed in the subject of this concentration. It
in concentration, it is necessary to do others which are
one has concentrated. This must be dismissed with exactly the
which first have been placed in the center of our consciousness
possible; one must go so far as to imagine the ascent of a
staircase in reverse, as if it were a descent from the top to
well. In a way it is consolidated or concentrated in the
century. In educational practice, a real knowledge of man is

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concentrating on their handwriting.

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significant methods of recent times, the results which can be obtained
three, four or five centuries, and we also find that these last three, four
and five centuries reveal something completely new, compared with the
11th and 12th centuries, derived from a still earlier epoch. Whenever we
In earlier centuries, when the
earlier centuries looked back upon his own self, he did not strictly separate
not fully understand to-day, because during the past centuries the times have
Now the last centuries have
the two great, important means of education used during recent centuries:
19th century and have also carried their fruits into the 20th century.
out of the things which could be learnt during recent centuries through the
magnificent impulses of natural science. Consequently, the very forces which
science of biology, and in more recent times even the science of history, do
during recent centuries. External life reflects this in every way. Far more
the spiritual life of humanity during its more recent course of development,
beings. In quite recent times the religious question confronts us, because we
it turns its innocent eyes to the surrounding world, when it unfolds its will
19th century once wrote: During his first three years of life, man learns far
centuries, however, that results which thus confront us have developed in
concentrate their attention more and more upon the man Jesus, thus losing
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state the place where they actually are — in the very centre of
trade winds. All these plant egos at the centre point of the earth
the root — is directed towards the center of the earth where
the plant egos have their common dwelling place in the center of the
soul. The more a being is individualized, and the deeper its descent

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various incarnations must now work itself out in a concentrated way

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personality who lived during the sixth century B.C. as the son of a
mystery center situated in the southeast of Europe. In this center
such mystery centers had already developed lofty faculties for
taught in that mystery center, and Francis of Assisi in a former
At the beginning of the seventeenth century another planet was
Mars during the Mars crisis of the seventeenth century. After Buddha
Until then Mars had been the chosen center of forces designated by
in the seventeenth century. Another impulse became necessary and the
the beginning of the seventeenth century. These two wonderful events
lived during the seventeenth century owed their remarkable talents to
comparatively recently that the Buddha accomplished the Mystery on
nineteenth century there were already some personalities — and
concentration or to let such thoughts pass through his soul. One

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world. One calls that concentration, meditation, and
arbitrarily in the centre of his consciousness, and calls all
everything is concentrated upon one point. If you have to do
forces with meditation and concentration, namely with forces
concentrate on a mental picture. That is the point that we
centre [of our consciousness]. If the human being calls his
Then, however, he puts one single mental picture in the centre
is that part which develops from concentration; it is that part
a certain time on to concentrate upon certain mental pictures,

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last century the postage stamp had to be invented and introduced into
personalities of world-historic development of recent times —
circumstances women have recently entered universities. With the
Lombroso. He describes Woman by saying that at the centre of
insinuates itself more and more into the central position in the
this area only in the second half of the 19th century. And it
half of the 19th century to such an individual as
life of the first half of the 19th century and sees what sort of
influence this woman had on the men of the 19th century, will no
labourer in earlier centuries. One cannot say that the peasant woman
because in past centuries and particularly in the last century, our
last century. It was necessary that old religious feelings and
centuries, this logic? If we wish to look into the depths of its

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practitioner at that time when in the last century the postage
human being because of their scientific views. Still recently,
under which unfavourable conditions the women recently have
and dependence is in the centre of her mental character. George
into the centre of the woman's soul more and more. A great
half of the 19th century. Hence, it probably seems justified to
19th century compared with such a personality as Rahel
life of the first half of the 19th century and sees, which
influence this woman had on the men of the 19th century is no
the farmer and his wife in former centuries. One cannot say
classes has originated because during the last centuries, and
in particular in the last century our civilisation has become a
century.

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The heart is the center of the human body.
i — is the center of a being, means inclination

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this progress coming up at the end of the 18th century, when
centres and cities, the wageworker, the proletarian appears in
develop during the 19th century. However, we also realise that
possible. We know that in the 19th century not only adults had
the 19th century who said, oh, humanity has made immense
centuries. He had two virtues that enabled him to intervene in
should inspire to become decent human beings. An exemplary
established that it is indecent to found everything on personal

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the events in Palestine. But in recent times this has all
reckoned in centuries, men have begun to notice the
recent times, the point of view has
century A. D. — although perhaps even in the second
several centuries among men who have come more and more to a
which has been in process of development now for centuries.
them. However, in the course of centuries, this spiritual
15th centuries came to fruition in the 19th in natural
a thing. With the writings of recent times it is the same.

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appeared in the early Christian centuries called the

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concentration and what he experienced inwardly through them,
concentration. This was a process which often took place
preserved for centuries in this same blood, and a descendant
central point of which was the ancestor. For what held the
the egos which for centuries had preserved the memory. This

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incalescent by fire. This has become the same human being who
hold back their descent into matter.
descent, but just as he has made this descent, so will he
impulse through the descent of the incarnated “I

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the very central point of this Mystery and wish to express it
stands at the central point of all earthly happenings. Anyone
earth's ether body, we must imagine its central point exactly
at the center of the earth where the physical earth body also
has its central point. This entire physical earth body is

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magnificently organized; these two do not coincide in the
we have just described as the ancient Persian cultural centre
of the nineteenth century. Just think, for instance, how much

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line of descent back to Abraham. That was, in general, what
into the very center of the Gospel of St. John.

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concentrating in the person of Christ Jesus, then continued
beginning with the 1oth, 11th, and 12th Centuries. It came as
descent of the Messiah. As second chapter he experienced the
descent of the Christ into matter, and as third chapter he

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whole lecture course we are to concentrate our efforts on
Concentration or Contemplation. These are exercises which are
descends into Hell. That is the “Descent into

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in the human astral body through Meditation, Concentration
Meditation and Concentration, is called by an ancient name,
Concentration in order that there might be the strong impulse
but that the ancestry, the line of descent, can be traced
the other Gospels as the descent of the dove, of the Holy
Evangelists — who view the bodily descent of Jesus as
symbolized for us in the descent of the Dove at the Baptism

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altered essentially in the course of the 19th Century. We must not of course
In the 18th Century there was a French investigator who came to the
historical document in the minds of some investigators of the 19th Century.
four centuries ago by the mighty achievements of scientific research;
That was the great change that took place three or four centuries ago —
For centuries the Bible was taken by a very large number of men to be the
world, just as centuries ago the new age began to acquire direct knowledge of
developed by Meditation and Concentration, that is to say by sinking the

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to the earth in the first descent to the earth of Christ Jesus. He
ascent in all reality; we shall then have the will to make our inner
richness was not always available to man in the centuries in which
Let us look at the first Christian centuries, right up to our own day.
of the first Christian centuries. Little is done by attempting to
We know that a few centuries before Christianity began, another
Christianity, which for centuries harboured no thoughts of
earlier centuries? Undoubtedly the exoteric Christian sees in it
In this way, a great deal of what has been said recently in our
already before the close of this century new forces will develop in

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man who experienced it has become a decent fellow, and a useful member
What matter if it is read to-day or later — even if centuries
materialistic culture of the second half of the nineteenth century,

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recent culture, neither did Descartes hold this view, although in many
Descartes so completely, for this shows us that in past centuries

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recent years in regard to health and the actual investigations into
accomplished in recent years it is Spiritual Science that should do
will also successfully illuminate the scientific conquests of recent
centuries. If we survey the questions of disease and health, we gain
past centuries they tried to heal one complaint or another. It is

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opinions in different centuries, and one need not go so very far back
times, about the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, when the idea
lasted for a long time, even into the nineteenth century, and when we
beginning of the nineteenth centuries and for some time later, we are
In the nineteenth century this view was reversed into the exact
of the nineteenth century and which won more and more favour. The
used for centuries in such a way that they almost outdid what is
the course of the nineteenth century so that you may realise how ideas

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the course of a relatively short time, during the last century,
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that view was developed which was
the nineteenth century, and side by side with this we showed the
self-concentration and through brooding within themselves, they will
devil, and so forth.’ In the thirteenth century it was said that
your attention to the fact that a clever man in the eighteenth century
which, during the course of several centuries, came to mankind as a
Try to conceive from the point of view of the last centuries the

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then concentrate, and after our re-entry into the physical and etheric
we are capable would be concentrated within this Ego. All this egotism
the result of the descent of the Ego-man into our physical and etheric

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are in no way aware of its beneficent force. If this is the case it is
incarnation, and how the beneficent forces add pain to the organic
influences are to be counted among the beneficent powers, whose
destruction of an organ the beneficent activity of spiritual powers,
destroy organs in order to assist the beneficent effect of the ancient
which render an organ useless are beneficent forces because they work

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to smallpox, we are concentrating only on the external side of karmic
concentrate upon one side only and lay no emphasis upon the other, we

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contact with these of the other half. It is only recently that the
outer aspect of the human being, the more is accentuated the
Man's nature is more condensed, more concentrated; it has been
thought is expended in a wide circumference, facts are concentrated
iridescent feathers of bluish tints? This is to be traced back to
possess these bluish iridescent feathers. In this way the other cocks

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elements, even in the nineteenth century, were still considered to be
of the nineteenth century, were incapable of being further divided.
changed in ‘each fifty years’ of the nineteenth century, so
hypothesis’ of the nineteenth century. Therein one sought to find

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cultural impulse, so that through countless centuries of human
many centuries and many thousands of years of human culture,
century there will be people possessed of a natural etheric
before the end of the first half of the twentieth century — who
it was not in vain that at the turning-point of the twentieth century

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that as it has passed from one epoch to another, from one century to
performed at centers that served both as schools and churches. Through
centers those souls whom the leaders of the schools believed capable
There were basically two kinds of center[s] where pupils were trained to
the first kind, under the guidance of the centers' leaders, especially
Central Asia, man was led to the secrets of life by an opposite
centers had to experience, in a special way, the change from one
Humanity's course of development was then on the ascent. Man was
human evolution entered upon its descent, the human soul can revive

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This is why it has so beneficent an effect upon us, as the plant's
as the inner surface of a beneficent, inner hemisphere, everywhere
They live in him in such a way that they are centred in his head, and
many centuries; and there are many documents, still existing to-day,
disappearance of this vision, are events of only a few centuries ago.
last three to four centuries, the formerly extant, more atavistic and
to live (not his recent abode, but where the writer reports him to

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
centuries the teachings penetrated out of small brotherhoods and, for
era in which the ascent to higher worlds must take place with clear,
with it the cyanide compounds, as has recently been established by
centuries; at the time of Christ the vernal equinox was in the

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spiritual power, the central spiritual power, of the Sun was

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twentieth century onwards many people will have this

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the centre of the earth towards the sun, when he learns to
before His descent to earth. We all share the responsibility
half of the 19th century men were not as unspiritual as they
writings. In the first half of the 19th century he asserts

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And yet it is not so. It is only one or at most two centuries ago that
arise in man at the Christmas season. The Christmas Tree is a recent
For centuries and centuries men could not bring themselves to believe
during the first three centuries of our era. It was the Festival which
was meant to revive in human souls the remembrance of the descent of
centuries of Christendom an inkling still survived of the mystery that
the descent of the Christ Being into the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
Christianity during those early centuries? They said to themselves:
And when, through many centuries, the evolutionary preparation had
The hearts and minds of those who in the early centuries of our era
celebrated as a Mystery in the early Christian centuries. The insight
the body of a man of earth. And so in the early centuries of
fourth century onwards, with the approach of the materialistic age,
who are of good-will. And so for the centuries when the higher reality
your reach. And if you conjure before your soul all that is innocent,
It is remarkable that during the centuries of Christendom, wherever
human soul itself, strong, innocent, tranquil, leading us along our

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been in preparation for many centuries and which has by now gained
various instances in two lectures which I recently delivered. In the
the very centre of the Universe — Man. Wrought by the will of
universe — as it were, like a strongly concentrated extract of
correct thinking. I recently cited a very simple example to
significant philosophers who have lived in recent times. The manner

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enter into these worlds and build there centres of attraction for
when we are on the path of knowledge and are making the ascent into
etheric bodies. It is an absolute necessity, in making the ascent
my ascent into higher worlds cannot be made aright.

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wandering about always with this one single centre-point of ‘I
nineteenth century, so says even the theologian of the nineteenth
century in so far as he is a theologian of the liberal school. But
in man a centre point where Lucifer and Ahriman meet in their own

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come quite innocently up against a very great philosophical question,
thought fully now that we have in such an innocent way come up

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life? It gives us certain concentration and meditation exercises
who's concentrating on a sublime problem, forgets to pay

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know his ego as the centre of his being. We can, therefore,

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central point. The working of the environment on the whole man. The
souls — belonging to the earth, and having in a way the centre
of their being in the centre of the earth. So that it is not enough
in the earth's centre their own spiritual centre. And then
grows towards the centre of the earth, because what it really wants
is to reach the centre of the earth, and it is only prevented from
centre of the earth, where is the centre of the spiritual being to
important point in the centre of the earth, whither the root tends,
the earth all through the centuries of the successive epochs is

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findings of this recent research.
In the recent investigations of the life between death and a new
beginning of the descent into the abyss, and at another time as a
only kinship among those related by physical descent, but among all

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thinks me: the descent of the spiritual archetype from the Father

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concentration every day — the first subsidiary

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One of our members has recently died. Still before the cremation I
recently gone through the gate of death. The necessity arose to
next centuries through that what the Maid of Orleans did.

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select group East to the center of Asia, where he founded the
center of the post-Atlantean culture. After the group had
arrived in central Asia, it was kept in isolation from the
a curious personality of the fifteenth century. Here we can see
who lived in the sixteenth century. To be sure, this body of

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
period extending over a few centuries or millenia. Only one who
relatively few centuries. You might then ask yourselves how much the
the course of these few centuries. Try for a moment to call before
the versions that circulated in Rome even a century after
once described it to be or what was learned in recent times. These
convinced that the descent of Christ to the earth, which was expected
to take place during this century. It is just as important for those

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Central Europe, for example, actually without anyone knowing
the last, third of the 19th century the spirit — the spiritual
body” has been changing during the last three to four centuries
spirituality (which is not suitable for us). We in Central Europe

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when it concentrates on the air itself, indeed, on the purest air
exercises which consist of meditation, concentration, and so on, and
meditation, concentration, or other esoteric exercises is to be

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of our ascent, first of all gain some idea of all that underlies the
ascent to the beings of the First Hierarchy, and to those beings which

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It will only light up in future earthly days as the real center of
having the physical as a kernel in the center, and round it the
tenth centuries still projected out into the sea. Although the periods

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concept and here in the center imagine the Sun (S), and the outer
they all have a common center, and this is none other than the Sun.
belonging to our Earth — if we seek for the center, the starting
there would be, so to speak, concentric globes, flattened balls in
Let us suppose that we had at point S the centre-point of the
the Spirit of Form working from the centre of the Sun works the rebel,
from the Sun, centrifugally; he brings about the occult Saturn, which
is then to be seen as a mighty etheric globe with its centre-point in
our Earth must also be a sort of flattened ball having its central
the center-point of the planetary system, from the center of the Sun.
done here, but in Central Europe they are always told — that
off and rotate, while in the center remains the big drop, the Sun.
way just described, by the beings of the higher hierarchies centered
being from the center-point of the Sun into the periphery, was

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of the Niebelungen in Central Europe; and finally of the Kalevala, and
pedagogic cult could have maintained all through the centuries up to
self-centred! A being in whose soul divine-spiritual impulses are at
which appears so remarkably in the Sagas of Central Europe. Siegfried
impression — that the most essential thing in this magnificent
of the 19th century: it acknowledges the importance of the idea of a
and seventh centuries before Christ. The collective configuration of
Saga of Central Europe. The whole representation of this epic shows
of the most significant, most pregnant, most magnificent national epics

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that the Sun is actually the center of activity of all these spirits.
actually the seat, the center, of the activities of the Spirits of
of which has recently passed through the gate of death. Although these
completely concentrates himself upon this system of planets, makes the
(as in living animal and plant bodies) which appear centered — I
say that now by way of comparison — centered in the fixed star
— as the life of the animal is centered — let us say —
in the heart; or as plant-life is centered in the various organs which
with a center of the planetary system, which we must seek in the fixed
of spiritual force center; this center attracts all the harmful astral
casts it out into cosmic space. Then the center of force builds itself

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center of soul-life through a strong effort of the will.)
self-chosen picture and concentrates upon it more and more until the
concentration of the will, is centered upon this self-chosen content.
chosen, but from the strong concentration of soul forces we have
sharp concentration upon an object, so that other soul activities are
kept in the background. The concentration upon an inner, freely
it is also a kind of concentration; yet it is at the same time the
very opposite; for the concentration upon a shining object blots out
placed at the center of our soul life by a strong effort of our will,
endeavour to practice such concentration, such meditation, by forming
world by concentrating upon our inner self. The first thing we thus
One who concentrates in this way, or meditates, soon perceives —
concentration. We should make an effort of the will to concentrate
full consciousness, and at the same time concentrate upon the thought
towards its inner center, abstracting them from the external world.
concentrates its forces, so that everything which we have
stands at the end of life — the inner concentration of life's
concentrate upon this thing, and now upon that; now you must do this
activity; so that humans may take hold of the central point of their

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astral plane, in the super-sensible world; there only it has the center
from these centers, for only from there can they do so. For only
magnificent in so far as he did not go beyond the facts. For
by connecting the sun with the center point of the earth; that is to
which is always striving towards the center point of the earth. Thus
sun or towards the center of the earth and that which winds itself
ovary, in the center of the plant. When the course of the plant is
of the sun with the center-point of the earth. In the plant-forms we

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sea he sees luminescent things rising that form themselves into

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concentrated on the physical plane, is in the case of the mineral
planetary centers. Thither must we also go if we wish to seek for that
it from outside, not concentrated and held together inside as in man
sunlight is reflected. When for instance, the crescent moon reflects
physical eyes perceive, the shining crescent moon, disappears, for
crescent moon, we must say: The moon owes its origin to the
not reveal himself here, above the crescent of the moon, but is to be
of the crescent they represent Lucifer chained, curbed. This is an
Hierarchies. When with physical eyes we see the crescent moon shining
dark part; then to occult vision the crescent moon is transformed into
center to our earth, creates — we can even say — the substance of lead. At
as the spiritual center of our planetary system. It is not a question

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Only during the last century has the fame of
of Central Europe, when he first became acquainted with this Eastern
spiritual life of humanity through the centuries, indeed through
that have only become known in this last century, very little
central nerve impulse of the whole of this great poem. When we
centuries before the founding of Christianity to a soul whom one of
the greatest spirits of Western lands made the central figure of all
it has been a Socratic civilization throughout the centuries.

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feelings are concentrated in a single moment and storm through us
something new. Here in these very first discourses we find an accent
conceived, abstractly, as the center of man's being) — the
the senses. In the 18th century what was considered a great word was
centuries had been most holy to the highest men of that age —

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in a practical way with the ascent of the soul into higher worlds
or less recently, or perhaps even many years ago, has reappeared in
made in the nineteenth century. It of course is easily proved that

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the last third of the 19th century, wishing to enhance the honor of
but become altogether wrong if they linger on for centuries, or as in
to prepare the way today by speaking of man's ascent into the third

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fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the last third of the
nineteenth century, there have been signs of an altogether different
say for instance in the 40's or 50's of the nineteenth century, about
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the last third of
scientific thought began about the fifteenth century, so the era of
the thought of the last four centuries, though the latter had to be
knowledge — these same forces, during the last four centuries,
nineteenth century mysterious forces were at work in man's bodily
different from what they were five centuries ago. What is under man's
the seventeenth or eighteenth century. As he stands there before us
brain. From the fifteenth to the nineteenth century he saw what was
twentieth century onward men might raise themselves to spiritual
From the fifteenth to the last third of the nineteenth century the
example, some remarkable essays recently published by Woodrow Wilson,
our spiritual thinking was being prepared in the last four centuries.
fifteenth and twentieth centuries A.D. from what
centuries the kind of education that forced men to think out natural
of the eighteenth century could experience by suspending the forces
being who has worked through centuries and centuries on the human
centuries B.C. onward — of entering

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suggested by looking to see if there is not a central point, a climax
wonderful approach we are carried on to the central point of the
center, no beginning see I in Thee, O Lord of All! Thou, Whom I
tells that there is a center in man’s being that has to develop
in the age to come; that into this center there were focused the
in the sixth or eighth centuries before the foundation of
that happened between the tenth century before Christ and the tenth
century afterward, we may say that into the universe the Krishna

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unpleasant characteristics a child may have. These innocent qualities
innocent childhood, and then in sleep it is awakened in the
the forces related to the innocent sex-forces in the child. Thus the

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tenth century before the foundation of Christianity, cannot be
of Central Europe than Fichte's philosophy. Not that it is kept
depth of this spiritual current. It is true that in the centuries
fifteenth to the nineteenth century. As a matter of fact, it is most
Shankaracharya seven or eight centuries after the foundation of
Shankaracharya himself, had come again in the nineteenth century and
permeates the souls of these nineteenth century men quite
the magnificent view, from that of a man who has never once seen the

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rise to still higher conditions. This ascent was called “entering
through the following centuries. In many respects human civilization
in the centuries following the foundation of Christianity was only
central point of the whole of earthly evolution.

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have taken over from the last century and with which we have
for three or four centuries in a way in which it had not spoken
you investigate nature as has been done in recent centuries?
We are very proud today that for centuries we have had
so. We say: we have the heliocentric outlook as compared
with the geocentric outlook of the Middle Ages and of the
childish when compared to the heliocentric system. But if
we go back even further, for instance, to a few centuries
before the birth of Christ, we find the heliocentric system
from learning about the heliocentric system and many
heliocentric system in the same way that it was told to the
human soul has evolved during the course of the centuries
instinctively, as it was in the tenth or twelfth centuries. We
technical sense, concentration on certain spheres of
concentration, when we want to become scientists of the spirit.
this continual concentration on particular images can lead to
entered the world a few centuries ago. Today the Science of the

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line with recent developments.

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to-day is a very different being from the child of a recent past, and
the fact that centuries ago there lived a humanity very different
during the nineteenth century. There is no desire to cast everything
in the human being, but centred, nevertheless, in the bodily
the nineteenth century. In this connection, what I shall say does not

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sixteenth century, and the most conspicuous thing about the
sixteenth century is that civilized humanity as a whole loses an
sixteenth century people have begun to reflect about education and
is the tragedy that has existed since the sixteenth century and has
until the sixteenth century that people began to talk a great deal
century, when there arose a certain inner revolt against it.
does civilization signify up to the sixteenth century? It signifies
of civilization through the Middle Ages up to the sixteenth century
seventeenth centuries for a different kind of education arose because
consider civilized mankind in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries
and seventeenth centuries, came forward with a significant statement
place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whither then
characteristically in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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century, we cannot but conclude that there must have been much confused
thinking on the part of the teachers about the beginning of the century.
beginning of the century were equally the result of the confused
thought of the last three decades of the nineteenth century.
educational methods of to-day, when all eyes are so concentrated on

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civilization, where all eyes are concentrated on outer, material things,
to find a path of ascent and not be led to its downfall, we need the reality

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Golgotha and came to its close in the fifteenth century
living for some centuries is as yet little known or felt, albeit it
fifteenth centuries man has acquired a knowledge that penetrates
Wisdom, of Theology, which for centuries contained full knowledge of
fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, feel the third great riddle of
which they have been so proud for some five centuries, represents a
knowledge has fallen in recent times?
Initiation Science in this our age and in the following centuries,

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to describe how the whole of its growth is finally concentrated in the
reticent on this subject and on many others too, in these

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always the same during the two hours. The child thus concentrates
century is represented by three or four generations. The line of
generations running backwards from the twentieth century brings him
instance, describe the life of some town in the twelfth century, but

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world. Hence to concentrate before puberty on all that relates man to
“dissenters,” as we say in Central Europe, that is to say
religious confession. As often happens in schools in Central Europe,

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ascent until more art is introduced into schools. Not only must the whole

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to prevent us from concentrating. As soon as we notice this, as for

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central domain of Agriculture itself, albeit this of its own accord
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central portion of the subject itself. But this necessity
True, we know that certain atmospheric changes will accentuate
a higher percentage than that of any other substance on
beneficent results. Silicon forms an essential constituent of

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— only a few centuries — when this black fellow, carbon,
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establish the right percentage-relationship between our whole inner
breathing. We live and weave in concentration and meditation.
has made in recent times. With coarse-grained, wide-meshed

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Universe. And yet, until a relatively recent date, a few
in concentration and meditation. But all these spiritual
and this is where science has erred of recent years — has

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— and indeed, if one concentrated on the limited aspects which
most recent period. Why has it to correct itself? Because it takes its
scatter its scent abroad is held together, so that the aromatic elements
the scent-kindling life within it. So we might say: an organic body
aromatic scent! Then you become aware of the marvelous mutual aid prevailing
from the mere aroma of life — it spreads its scent abroad for
scent abroad, is thereby held together. The nitrogen, in fast, is that
up in this manure. Thus in the content of the horn we get a highly concentrated,
our recent tests (in Dornach), as our friends discovered for themselves,
all the odoriferous principles are concentrated and assimilated in it.
was altogether scentless to begin with, a rather delicately sustained

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diffused as a scent is instead held together so that the scent
its scent-producing life to escape outwards through its skin.
the flower) is designed not to give out scent but to take it
thus there is a highly concentrated, life-giving manuring force
concentrated and worked up within it. You have here a
find that a faint scent develops from what is at first

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Notably in the most recent
combined in a truly model way with potash, not only works magnificently
plenty of calcium — 77 percent of the plant substance, albeit
The innocent yellow dandelion!
that which is in the soil of the adjacent meadow, or of the neighbouring

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beneficent, so yarrow growing freely has an extraordinarily
— seventy-seven per cent, of its substances is calcium

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used to do until the nineteenth century. They also sowed according to
ash, you will have concentrated in the ash the very opposite force to
air whose temperature is seventy degrees centigrade, hot or cold, above
tee or decoction — a pretty concentrated decoction of equisetum

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century) of observing the phases of the moon at seed-time and
literally in concentrated form, the force that is the
adjacent fields. The government had therefore to be called in,
fairly concentrated brew (or tea) of equisetum arvense

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differentiate, to individualise, as between the scent of earthly plants
and the scent of trees. Then, in the former case you will become clair-sentient
You see, the farmer can easily become clair-sentient. Only in recent
and similar creatures distantly reminiscent of the larva. Indeed, in

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the scent of plants growing in the ground, the peculiar smell
atmosphere such as we sniff with such pleasure when the scent
sense of smell to distinguish between the scent of soil-grown
(herbaceous) plants and the scent of trees, you will have
clairvoyance, has been much neglected in recent
how beneficent such a control over this animal-world in.
the bushes has a beneficent influence, for in Nature all things

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the earth. There the manure permeates it, as we have Seen, with a nascent
way it lives in the Earth, the root absorbs this nascent Ego-force.
gathers up the ray-like nature in a concentrated “tabloid”
plant, and afterwards gathers-in its ray-like force in concentration.

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around. Because the senses are centred in the head and take in
recent date. It is very popular as a food and also extremely

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lived in the middle of the last century. He and his wife had a noble
water ether, crescent moon at fifth day, white, tart, digestion;

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third of the Nineteenth Century.
Centuries; let us see what form it took in these times.
which is then later concentrated in the small grains of
understand Wolfram. In the Nineteenth Century it was not

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MAN'S ASCENT INTO THE SUPERSENSIBLE WORLD
MAN'S ASCENT INTO THE SUPERSENSIBLE WORLD
of his being are concerned. Let us now consider man's ascent into the
our materialistic age. Let us look back into the 13th or 14th century

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the great central truth of the Vedanta philosophy resounds in this region.

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disease of leprosy in the Middle Ages. Such putrescent substances, carried

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definite capacities, that was incarnated many centuries ago and now
in the fauna and flora of Central Europe since the past 1500 years? Spiritual
the descending into the physical body, so that its center of power becomes

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that a rainbow could only arise after the descent of Atlantis and the

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between animal and man be tought of? The theory of man's ascent from apes
human beings who were expelled and condemned to degeneration. The ascent
they say with their blossom they strove towards the center of the planet,

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concentration and meditation. Even this can give inner strength to the
inner loneliness for their concentration. The second fundamental

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beginning of the 17th Century was a keen renewer of the
upwards. When that descent occurred into the waiting bodies, which

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a region of central Asia, and from that point cultural colonies were
this period. The epoch begins in the eighth pre-Christian century,
fifteenth century A. D. After that we have the fifth period, in which
located among us in central Germany. In this picture, which is

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Our fifth period stands at a central point in the world, hence it must

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The Old Initiation Centers.
current from this center. It has already been pointed out that these
ancient Atlantis. Let us enter in spirit such a center of initiation
concentrate for weeks, months, or even years on a certain thought,

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The Descent of the Primeval Word.
human form, a thought-picture, on which he had to concentrate in

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were then present in the mist in transparent and translucent form.
There was a translucent vapor, permeated by warmth and light. Think
translucent gas. This grew brighter and brighter, and through the

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We have the first form when the moon appears as a tiny crescent in the

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evolution at which man then stood, even as the centaur reflects an
spiritual sense than were the other Greeks. Thus, the centaur was once
centaur-man was still sexless. Sexuality appeared when the sun stood

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the centaur. The various parts of the body, the members that gradually

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the beneficent fullness of light, the god Ahura Mazdao or Ormuzd, and

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Had nothing occurred other than man's descent into the physical world,
center in Asia, where other peoples are still settled, and Buddhism

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into them. This occurs through certain exercises of concentration and
concentration, these are so adjusted, in accordance with thousands of
It has recently been said that certain beings pursued a different path
completed his descent to the physical plane. He completed it so that

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this descent is materialism. True, in no period has man mastered
Christ-impulse, that gave the stimulus to a new ascent. The entry of
in the magnificent way that is described in the Gospel of John, in the
conditions of the Germanic regions in the first century after Christ
death there was an ego. The ego reached back for centuries in the
memory continued upwards for centuries. As far as man could remember
through the centuries, so far was he given his name. Adam was, so to
were to concentrate on a schematic representation of the higher

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ourselves with something which requires concentrated thinking —
first time about the sixteenth century. This explains the great
century, from the 1930's on, and ever increasingly to the middle of
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
once in nearly every century in order to bring humanity forward. To
five centuries and a half before the beginning of our era. The
century since that time, is now also already incarnated, and will be
the century — who will behold the Christ in etheric raiment.

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with something which requires concentrated thinking — study a
the sixteenth century. This explains the great progress in the
century, from the 1930's on, and ever increasingly to the middle of
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
been incarnated once in nearly every century in order to bring
Buddha lived as a prince in the Sakya family five centuries and a
century since that time, is now also already incarnated, and will be
later in the century — who will behold the Christ in etheric

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During recent decades there have been few truly spiritual fundamental
found. Insufficient cultivation of concentration and insight makes one
upward to Christ, Who will appear even in this century on the astral
has, since then, been incarnated once in nearly every century; who
before Christ. Five thousand years are needed for his ascent to the

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During recent decades there
will appear even in this century on the astral plane, a greater
time, been incarnated once in nearly every century; who lived as
Christ. Five thousand years are needed for his ascent to the rank of

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world. Then we realise that during the centuries before and after the
some centuries previously.
developments of the last few centuries. In tracing back the evolution
said about the world in the sense of the early twentieth century.
world-picture. In the Anthroposophy of the twentieth century we have
back at these children, these poor dear children, who centuries ago

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centuries: the advent of the Grail idea, concerning which we shall
centre of an imposing world-picture. But if on the other hand we look
This divine-spiritual line of descent from spheres beyond the earthly
century.
attempts that were made in subsequent centuries to understand the
at the very beginning of the Sibylline age. From about the eighth century
many centuries — indeed all through the fourth post-Atlantean
where anything of a spiritual nature is concerned. Until quite recent
centuries the ideas of all classes of people were influenced much
drawn to the fact that in comparatively recent times the nature of

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not produced by our exercises, for in them we concentrate on
the purpose of this concentrated thinking? To divert us from the

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centre. What is really meant by the themes will then gradually
Again and again, especially during the early centuries
mythology from the ninth century B.C. onwards.

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Greeks, the Romans and the European peoples of central and northern
there was a centre of the Adonis cult. Bethlehem was one of the

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centuries they conjured up from their chaotic soul-life a mixture of
Friday he came to a hermit, named Trevericent. The hermit tells him
with the hermit Trevericent. This meeting with the hermit is

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this if we concentrate our thoughts on a point as much as possible
strengthening of thought power occurs through such concentration and
trouble in his ascent into the spiritual world since he must leave

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the time — the fifteenth century — when the fifth
in the earth. The soul is in the centre of the earth; it sends out
it may also be the seat and centre of pure reason and the source of
“In the whole creation there is a magnificent and
the Trinity: the Father is the centre, the Son the surface, and the
Holy Spirit the uniformity of the distance from centre to surface
Mysteries in the new way — with the powers of the innocent soul
centre, the Son the surface, and the Holy Spirit the uniformity of
the distance from centre to surface (the radius); and so it is with

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The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture
and the Central European Striving
Intimate Element of the Central European Culture
the Central European Striving
parts of the other earth population — to be in the centre
particular the population of Central Europe — which
can learn basically only now! The human being of Central Europe
that what draws attention of the Central European souls to that
sides around this Central European population really not with
in particular the world which is around us Central Europeans,
European powers round Central Europe, so that from this union
encirclement of the Central European powers in the last time,
Central Europe, which began long, long ago, in the year 860 A.
has originated, however, as something strange to the Central
which thereby faces the Central European being, actually,
encircling Central Europe like in a snake-form, stretching its
in Constantinople. In Central Europe that is enclosed like in a
in this Central Europe an intimate culture prepares itself, a
Central Europe with that of the West, so we must say, in the
to their place, which we must have in Central Europe, that one
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centuries, whereas it is not so long ago that he used to look into

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he assumed in the course of the past few centuries, whereas it is

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century. Moreover, the name Anthroposophy takes us still further back
into literature. It was already used in the eighteenth century, indeed,
first Christian centuries. But one who really learns what our spiritual
of the eighth or sixth century
science, which for three or four centuries has been developing out of
meant for mankind when three or four centuries ago the revolution took
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three or four centuries, and especially during the nineteenth century right
recent centuries, and more especially our modern era, have given a
the great advances made during the recent centuries and the immediate
human life which have taken place during the past three or four centuries.
19th century and which has been unveiled and shown to be erroneous only
powers of soul, and familiarizing himself with the more recent
remain just questions. People who lived during the 19th century, even
during the 19th century. I will not cite as an illustration anything taken
existence in the upper Austrian Alps during the 19th century. Konrad
achievements of science during the 19th century. During his youth he
led astray by the currents of his century came to reject all spiritual sources
children are now being taught this — the central gaseous sphere is formed
real course, however, of scientific evolution of recent date, shows that this
the anthropomorphic ideas uttered by some 19th century philosophers
Natural science has led in the course of recent time to a recognition of the
biology, were especially developed in the middle of the 19th century. And
then at the close of the sixties of that century
amateur; he knows nothing concerning the central facts of scientific
recent and highly important work: “The Genesis of Organisms, a Rebuttal
for Haeckel's magnificent scientific achievements within the cosmic scheme,
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Christ's central, but equalizing position and Central Europe's mission
and ahrimanic forces in the West, and it was Central Europe's destiny
that France was more interested in presenting herself as the innocent
that Rudolf Steiner's message to Central Europeans must be read. In
Materialism was there, as was Ahriman. Steiner admonished the Central
central position. When Hitler was finally destroyed, Central Europe
central position has yet to be fully received and responded to not
only by the people living in what is left of Central Europe, but also
spot, a sculpture dominated by three figures. In the center of this
facial expression and in every gesture reflects a magnificent degree
being, as it were, with hatred, and thereby caused his descent. Such
pendulum. In the center, the pendulum is in perfect balance, but it
map of Europe so magnificently, but rather the Christ impulse working
Central Europe, notice a person who earlier in his life did not yet
hundred people. Fourteen percent of all these souls experienced a
conversion out of sudden fear of death or hell: five percent claimed
altruistic motives; seventeen percent because they aspired to ethical
ideals; fifteen percent had experienced pangs of conscience; ten
percent acted in obedience to what they were taught; thirteen percent
nineteen percent because they were forced by a good whipping at the
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example. If we see in Europe, in particular in Central Europe,
hundred people, more or less. Fourteen percent of those who
attacked by fear of death or hell; five percent because of
altruistic motives; seventeen percent because of striving for
moral ideals; fifteen percent experienced pangs of conscience;
ten percent because they observed teachings given to them;
thirteen percent because they have seen that others were
converted — by imitation; nineteen percent because they
Central Europe between West and East is to find the balance.
Central Europe does not understand that, as it also does not
not compatible with the clearness and cleanness the Central
as a spiritual power is connected with all that. In Central
public lecture yesterday. I said: something exists in Central
of the last century: strive again and again. — But this
striving is innermost nature. In Central Europe, the mystics
already has happened, while the Central European human being
Central Europe, so that this connection of the ego with the
means “I.” While one pronounces I (ich) in Central
as it must be striven for in Central Europe in any spiritual
must happen in the twentieth century, so that the
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that are closer to us now than they were in the nineteenth century,
the year 1899. The turn of the twentieth century is significant for
of the twentieth century, the spiritually awakened soul will feel:
That is to say, at the turn of the century a relatively new kingdom of
spirit. But it will begin in the twentieth century, and a greater and
was said in the course of previous centuries, particularly the last
four centuries. When we survey this and work on it with the methods of
practical occultism, as has been done recently, in order to make a
In the eighth century there lived a man called John of Damascus
represented in the form it has taken in our century, even though here
word. And in all these occurrences grouping themselves round a central
century, too. It will only become recognisable during the time that

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beginning of the 19th centuries. Any one who approaches those great
written in the middle of the 80's in the 18th century, and was
the center towards the outer regions. If one may assume that beings
insofar as they are embodied strive towards the center, but insofar

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These lectures reveal the Christocentric nature of Steiner's teachings
concentration and contemplation, through strengthening his life of
direct it more to the centre when we grow pale, more to the surface

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Twentieth Century
These lectures reveal the Christocentric nature of Steiner's teachings
CHRIST IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
even in the ancient Greek tragedies, during the five centuries before
century, Michael may again be regarded as the leader.
inspired mankind for several centuries, for almost five hundred years before
been going on since the sixteenth century. At that time it was the
and in the next few centuries will give to the world something that in a
stage since the sixteenth century. Just as his companion Archangel
receive from him during the next few centuries increasing spiritual
profundities can only be unveiled in the twentieth century when,
of a spiritual revelation that is to come in the next few centuries
that which since the 16th century had become necessary for the
materialism that has prevailed since the sixteenth century. More and
on the earth. After the sixteenth century more and more seeds of
intervening nineteen centuries as a result of the opposing
men on earth between birth and death in the twentieth century. In a
century onwards, what has been lost by mankind in the way of
twentieth century will be capable of perceiving the manifestation of
nineteenth century, when those who since the sixteenth century had
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that the forces of the soul are concentrated upon it alone. In the
within it by imagination and concentration. This power is attained in
through meditation and concentration, and then to empty of content
which we took in inner activity and concentration of will in order to
only as the concentrated physical object that is seen by the senses.
concentrated when we look up to the sun. Though it may sound strange
physical moon is only the physical concentration, while the
place, but beginning with those that were the most recent and tracing

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imagination and concentration, by means of certain exercises, the
becomes so strong that he is not only able to concentrate the full
more recent times of human evolution. It began, gradually, some three
or four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. In the more ancient
century after Christianity that gradually developed in humanity dead
that until the third or fourth century after Golgotha something still
four centuries to understand the Mystery of Golgotha; even as the
the first few centuries there was a certain understanding of the

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fifth century before the Mystery of Golgotha, man had lost all power
has its centre and representative in the Sun. The real essence
of initiation, during the first centuries after Christ, —
three or four centuries of Christian evolution, a good deal was still
first Christian centuries, to recognise from these how deeply
centuries after Christ. Since that time man has gone through a
centuries too early. This method of attack on the part of the

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fifth century before the Mystery of Golgotha, man had lost all power
has its centre and representative in the Sun. The real essence
of initiation, during the first centuries after Christ, —
three or four centuries of Christian evolution, a good deal was still
first Christian centuries, to recognise from these how deeply
centuries after Christ. Since that time man has gone through a
centuries too early. This method of attack on the part of the

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The Descent of the Spirit
movement that is reminiscent of the planetary movements. Then into
whole theology of the 19th and 20th centuries has failed, because
time it was what we find described by the Greeks as the descent into
example I gave recently to Oxford of how this liberation has to
the world in the last third of the 19th century, opposing powers were
19th century the possibility began to arise for men to seek

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The Descent of the Spirit
movement that is reminiscent of the planetary movements. Then into
whole theology of the 19th and 20th centuries has failed, because
time it was what we find described by the Greeks as the descent into
example I gave recently to Oxford of how this liberation has to
the world in the last third of the 19th century, opposing powers were
19th century the possibility began to arise for men to seek

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such a magnificent way in Oriental writings and in the Oriental
century theology suffers from the inability to understand the
descent into the underworld were important, it is the obligation of
initiate then could awaken memories of the time before the descent
example that I have just recently mentioned.
who have left the earth, either recently or long ago, is one of the most
its proper power in the last third of the nineteenth century, the
century, adversary powers were already at work. Above all they wanted

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has been made in the newspapers recently to questions that are being
course of the centuries it has gradually come about that men are so
will be the forces he receives in the course of his descent from
he establishes with the spheres in the course of his descent from the

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has been made in the newspapers recently to questions that are being
course of the centuries it has gradually come about that men are so
will be the forces he receives in the course of his descent from
he establishes with the spheres in the course of his descent from the

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Earth. At the centre of these sublime God Beings is the Christ Being,

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Earth. At the centre of these sublime God Beings is the Christ Being,

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supersensible worlds and even scientific men have recently made
concentration upon thoughts, of self-training, and so
say, of exact meditation and concentration. Particularly
capacities something which is immensely evanescent and liquid
centuries.
among spirits. This is a life which lasts for centuries. During

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thought, concentration upon thoughts, self-training and the like.
conscientious, systematic meditation and concentration. Many a human being, especially
quiescent and as insensible to impressions from outside as is otherwise the
quality so fluid and evanescent that it quickly passes away pours as it were
asleep and quiescent, when it has no perceptions, when the will is not
childhood; hence the life after death lasts for many centuries. The period during
a purely spiritual life during which man lives for many centuries as a

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The Mysteries were centres of
been men — above all it was so up to a comparatively recent past
thoughts became translucent, so that he saw nothing that is in the physical
was of no importance. Thus, by making his thoughts translucent, the pupil was
Mystery of Golgotha and on in to the third century of our era. To those who
and also by many who were Initiates in the first three centuries of
Christian centuries, this was the attitude and feeling prevailing in men who
devotion continued through the centuries, directed now to the Being of Whom
concentration in such a way. that he penetrates into the spiritual world as a
concentration in the sphere of thought and in the sphere of will, then the
of automatic writing. When through meditation and concentration a man becomes
reverence and veneration for the Guru made the thoughts of the pupil translucent,

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I would like to bring our recent studies to a certain conclusion. To
As I have mentioned in the recent public lectures, this can happen in
the Moon, living as they do also here on Earth. Concentrated though
backward recapitulation of his recent Earth-life. A few days ago I
will recall, I was telling in recent lectures. In the age before the
centuries later.
birth. First he experiences the ascent to independent consciousness
present earthly time it is as I have been relating. In his descent
prepared it for himself within the starry spheres, at his descent he
19th century changes whose origin is in the spiritual world began to
with true cognition, whereas for many centuries before, while
information accumulated in the last few centuries? It lives as

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I would like to bring our recent studies to a certain conclusion. To
As I have mentioned in the recent public lectures, this can happen in
the Moon, living as they do also here on Earth. Concentrated though
backward recapitulation of his recent Earth-life. A few days ago I
will recall, I was telling in recent lectures. In the age before the
centuries later.
birth. First he experiences the ascent to independent consciousness
present earthly time it is as I have been relating. In his descent
prepared it for himself within the starry spheres, at his descent he
19th century changes whose origin is in the spiritual world began to
with true cognition, whereas for many centuries before, while
information accumulated in the last few centuries? It lives as

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this lecture at our London centre.
of it where the illuminated crescent is continued. What we are seeing
too then faded out; during the fourth century after Christ it vanished
so inordinately proud. Hence it is interesting to see a book recently

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the spiritual world. Thus, in the centuries which preceded the
that we can scent its aroma and the aroma of the plants that cover

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the spiritual world. Thus, in the centuries which preceded the
that we can scent its aroma and the aroma of the plants that cover

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these events as though we might find in more recent times the effects
that took place from the beginning of the century until the year
the end of the 18th century out of the events that preceded it. Many
striking way in the 18th century. Last year I spoke of him in
crazy, to give out imposing and magnificent descriptions of the
founder of the Society of Jesus, who died in the 16th century. When
again, what part has he played in the more recent history of mankind?
century A.D., not long after St. Augustine,
individuality himself appeared again on earth in the 18th century, as
the retrospect is extended it cannot last many centuries for when it
magnificent description of the lands of the Spirits, albeit in
early years of this century I was several times in London. On the
that are connected with birth, embryonic life, descent and so forth,
century. Brunetto Latini still possessed a knowledge whereby nature

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these events as though we might find in more recent times the effects
that took place from the beginning of the century until the year
the end of the 18th century out of the events that preceded it. Many
striking way in the 18th century. Last year I spoke of him in
crazy, to give out imposing and magnificent descriptions of the
founder of the Society of Jesus, who died in the 16th century. When
again, what part has he played in the more recent history of mankind?
century A.D., not long after St. Augustine,
individuality himself appeared again on earth in the 18th century, as
the retrospect is extended it cannot last many centuries for when it
magnificent description of the lands of the Spirits, albeit in
early years of this century I was several times in London. On the
that are connected with birth, embryonic life, descent and so forth,
century. Brunetto Latini still possessed a knowledge whereby nature

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which come above all from the magnificent natural surroundings of
Arthur, where we look back as if in memory across the centuries that
over the sea with its iridescent colours and breaking waves, the
is the case with all such occult centres, chosen this spot because
they were able to receive in the first centuries after the Mystery of
connected with such centres as that of King Arthur's Round Table. And
European population — barbarous at all events in Central and
centuries which followed the Mystery of Golgotha this all took place
centuries of our era men looked out over the sea, and had been
across Central Europe and bore the Christ as a Sun Hero, whether the
9th century.
during the first centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, when, as I
the end of the seventies of last century. The Ruling Power, known by
the name of Gabriel, who had held sway for three or four centuries in
last century by Michael. And the Rulership of Michael will last for
three to four centuries, weaving and working in the spiritual life of
happened centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, when, taking its
is always a time when that which has been founded in a centre of
ruled civilisation in the 4th and 5th centuries, belongs to the
Samael, whose Rulership extended a little beyond the 12th century.
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture VI
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which come above all from the magnificent natural surroundings of
Arthur, where we look back as if in memory across the centuries that
over the sea with its iridescent colours and breaking waves, the
is the case with all such occult centres, chosen this spot because
they were able to receive in the first centuries after the Mystery of
connected with such centres as that of King Arthur's Round Table. And
European population — barbarous at all events in Central and
centuries which followed the Mystery of Golgotha this all took place
centuries of our era men looked out over the sea, and had been
across Central Europe and bore the Christ as a Sun Hero, whether the
9th century.
during the first centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, when, as I
the end of the seventies of last century. The Ruling Power, known by
the name of Gabriel, who had held sway for three or four centuries in
last century by Michael. And the Rulership of Michael will last for
three to four centuries, weaving and working in the spiritual life of
happened centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha, when, taking its
is always a time when that which has been founded in a centre of
ruled civilisation in the 4th and 5th centuries, belongs to the
Samael, whose Rulership extended a little beyond the 12th century.
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upon the fact that during the last few centuries our entire
thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. Since that time we learn only in
During the course of centuries a vast store of external knowledge has
But during these centuries all knowledge connected with man which
centripetal and tends earthwards, and another man, whose orientation
is centrifugal and tends to leave the earth. It will be seen that a
recognising these outward-streaming centrifugal forces in man, we
trace no centrifugal forces. Minerals are subject to the laws of
central brain (the continuation of the sensory nerves and their
organism appears as though too much exposed to the centrifugal forces
of the Cosmos. They are not in equipoise with the centripetal forces
itself in some particular organ. The centrifugal forces — that
which otherwise strives centrifugally to project the physical
which I have described, one comes upon centres of knowledge quite
These centres of knowledge, which we have become accustomed to speak
the life of to-day. They were centres of religion and of art, as well
The centres of art were indissolubly linked with the centres of

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upon the fact that during the last few centuries our entire
thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. Since that time we learn only in
During the course of centuries a vast store of external knowledge has
But during these centuries all knowledge connected with man which
centripetal and tends earthwards, and another man, whose orientation
is centrifugal and tends to leave the earth. It will be seen that a
recognising these outward-streaming centrifugal forces in man, we
trace no centrifugal forces. Minerals are subject to the laws of
central brain (the continuation of the sensory nerves and their
organism appears as though too much exposed to the centrifugal forces
of the Cosmos. They are not in equipoise with the centripetal forces
itself in some particular organ. The centrifugal forces — that
which otherwise strives centrifugally to project the physical
which I have described, one comes upon centres of knowledge quite
These centres of knowledge, which we have become accustomed to speak
the life of to-day. They were centres of religion and of art, as well
The centres of art were indissolubly linked with the centres of

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today. In fact, the human Organisation changes from one century to
only been developed since the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. It is
centuries. We can well imagine that it is impossible for a detail of
the human Organisation shows signs of changes as the centuries pass
just in this twentieth century. Whilst on the one hand an
that in this twentieth century a beholding of the Christ will occur
importance to what occurred on Golgotha. In the centuries to come a
our clairvoyant development. From the twentieth century onwards, in
our century in his reincarnation in the flesh — but not as Buddha
to appear in the twentieth century, as every occultist knows that he
a certain age nobody should be given the duty from certain central

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also by the magnificent sunlight that shines on us
nothing but the official message from the orthodox center of
here, where nature and the magnificent, spirit-endowed
human beings from the sixth to the ninth centuries had a copy
spanning the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries the
centuries many human beings, for example Francis of Assisi
outside indicate what is beautiful or magnificent in nature,
course as it becomes one of the centers where the kind of

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have experienced the second decade of the twentieth century have gone
through more than is otherwise experienced over a span of centuries.
conclude with a brief consideration of some recent historical events.
and Waldorf education. All sorts of things are said about this. Recently
instinctively comprehended for four centuries. In the early centuries
one, or only one? Yet in the early Christian centuries this was a
Golgotha. In the first third of the fifteenth century intellectualism
that lies in the fourth century AD, the point when the wisdom which
that took place. And finally, as the fifteenth century approached,
the nineteenth century the Christ was entirely lost, and the most
major global questions. In Central Europe people are particularly
Here in Central and Western Europe we have only a God-consciousness.
twentieth century, the great challenge and the great trial, is that

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contained in Volume No. 130 of the Complete Centenary Edition of
contained in Volume No. 130 of the Complete Centenary Edition of
such magnificent expression on the physical plane. Conditions in that
gradually become able, from the twentieth century onwards, to
they concentrated their gaze upon them and made themselves
Middle Ages and in recent years it has been confirmed by very
centuries before the beginning of the Christian era has not since
century and well known throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. It is
connected with the future ascent of humanity to Morality. Although
our century. From the thirties to the forties of this century
existed since the 13th century, by the words: In Christo
century but it is a truth that has at all times been known to many
one century before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus we must
centre of his further evolution, so for the whole of future humanity
century in the case of the Bodhisattva who later on, in three thousand
in the 17th century a certain individual proclaimed himself to be an
intelligent examination. The Bodhisattva of the 20th century will not
appears in every century until his existence as Maitreya

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as those during the period between death and a new birth. Recently in
This leads me to some of my recent research. The early experiences
will keep our soul open to the light of the Hierarchies. Recently I
that in the nineteenth century this way of viewing the ego was
If one considers the evolution of humanity in more recent times
least to impart to you some of the results of my most recent

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At a certain point we experience ourselves as at the center of the
early death and therefore one is innocently involved in an earlier
I have given you a few results of recent research into the conditions

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elements; then a new world arises. In the first Christian centuries
explanations became, especially in the nineteenth century — when
only in the sixth century. Before that the Bull, Taurus, was worshiped

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for this most readily if we take a look at the ancient mystery centers.
that otherwise only took place in the mystery centers. The course Christ's
of Golgotha, which was placed in the center of the world. The chosen
initiation, an ascent, to begin with, through learning on the physical
is indicated in the swallowing of the book. It expresses the ascent
Mystery Centers

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century will one day be described as the materialistic century in the
history of humankind. The people of the twentieth century cannot really
imagine how deeply the nineteenth century was entangled in materialism.
forties of the nineteenth century there was an extreme low point in

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into ascent. When the writer of the Apocalypse wants to describe the
into a descent. Especially in middle European esotericism, the I is
The soul is white; it has become innocent when it has developed to the

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study has existed since the fourteenth century, A.D. in these
existed since the fourteenth century as something that is true, quite
Until far into the eighteenth century, the wisdom of which we are here
In the eighteenth century it was the mission of this Brotherhood to
In the course of the centuries many people have endeavoured, in one
century — in Goethe. In comparatively early years Goethe
it was necessary for Western culture during the nineteenth century to
large part of the second half of the nineteenth century, little of the
fourteenth century. Think of the relation of a human being then living

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being or centre of consciousness intrudes.

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Lecture IV: The Descent to a New Birth
THE DESCENT TO A NEW BIRTH
first century after Christ; what he thought, felt and willed in those
In north Germany, in central Europe, eastwards of Atlantis, long

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We have heard that on his descent to a new birth, man is clothed with
to the mother; the “ I ” to the father. The whole descent to
years before Christ; before that epoch it rose in the adjacent
were associated with this symbol. During the early centuries of our
the Cross and underneath it the Lamb. Not until; the sixth century
As a result of technical progress in recent centuries there developed
own people. This was due to the fact that during recent times in the

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disposition is a source, a centre, of certain processes in Devachan; a
of Reason.” We shall understand in this way how on his descent to
existence — has in his next life a well centred physical body and
there is no steadfast centre of will. The materialist scatters himself
is the outcome of the materialistic attitude of the last century. And

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VII: The Technique of Karma
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transferred to different centres, but not filling the regions between
plane. The death on the Cross of the Redeemer, of the one central

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VIII: Human Consciousness in the Seven Planetary Conditions
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Many will wonder why we are just standing so nicely in the centre.

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picture in colour they perceived themselves in taste, in scent, in a
with taste, scent, warmth, everything, and radiated it out again.
Earth was the Sun, this Spirit was the central Spirit of the Sun; when
a directing Central Spirit.

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Recently among other things a very characteristic book has appeared,

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XII: Evolution of Mankind on the Earth. II
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centimetre lower, and a second point in the etheric head which would
sight of sun, moon and stars is magnificently described in records of
the centre of the civilisation that we call the Post-Atlantean
Culture. From this centre civilisation radiated out; it proceeded from
Central Asia they founded in India the first civilisation, which still
this descent in order to find the way up to spirituality out of his

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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connected a descent into the world of matter. And another force is
again to spirituality; and as the descent is linked with the
predominance of egoism so does the ascent depend on men's
lies at the centre — occult truth.
undertake a great spiritual ascent.

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That is one way which man can take. The most recent way of attaining
itself to mortal man. That is the Descent into Hell; each one

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me recently in an area especially rich in these institutions,
possibility of becoming the center of creativity and production
inner abundance that streams out, and also a center for his
in this way? Because the soul strives to create a will-center
it. It is actually a gathering of the blood to the center in
century. Here you have a picture, an imagination that is set
towards the central point of the earth. The animal stands in
Because the human being has permeated the pure, innocent plant

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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referred, only recently, to Egos living upon the astral plane
plants is to be found at the center of the earth. This is

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-5-'07
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14th century was replaced by a new one. Previously all
1879. What had slowly ripened since the 14th century could
In four to six centuries the small group of men who are being prepared
during the Renaissance and Gabriel from the 16th century
Let's take the vowel i. This always expresses a centralizing, a
striving toward the center. The a means something quite
i strives towards the center of the universe, whereas the
strives towards the divine center, in a it retreats devotedly,
into the divine center. Then in ah of
the soul is led (i) ever deeper into the center of the world.

Title: Illusory Illness: Lecture II: Feverish Pursuit of Health
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body. The fourth part is his ego, the central point of his
central point of the human being.
individual. Compare him with a man of more recent cultural
and scents of flowers. This, however, a person must himself be

Title: Lecture: Man and Woman in Light of Spiritual Science
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noteworthy scientist of the nineteenth century described the basic

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 11-8-'08
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central core in our soul. They're complements to the exercises that an
intensely that we're a big family gathered round the shining central

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has been said recently that it is no longer possible to be a
the ascent from the purely physical to the spiritual realm can be
central position within the bodily functions. Let us examine what
centered within him. It is a fact inwardly perceived through

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churches, ceremonial centers, or schools in the modern sense,
ceremonial center and school; that is what we call the
mystery sanctuaries or centers. Leadership of the Atlanteans
in the mysteries. We therefore designate the great centers of
seven oracle centers because the populace in ancient Atlantis
characteristics. The names applicable to these oracle centers
other oracle centers.
His small group of chosen people and made His way to Central
Leader inspected, as it were, the other oracle centers for
developed in the mystery centers. You have to visualize this
centers. Such methods are employed behind the scenes of
been preserved in a magnificent form in the Vedas,
can be found up to the most recent times, and as we trace
Galileo died in the middle of the seventeenth century, and
Michail Lomonosov was born early in the eighteenth century
centuries the dissemination of the idea of Christianity
centuries, it was asserted that those who had been disciples
on the physical plane from one decade and from one century to
another. However, in the following centuries, from the fifth
of Christianity is clothed in Central European imagery. Why
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from a previous life and appear as inborn character. Man's inward centre, his
the external limbs of the body. We see this inner centre pouring itself
this centre holds the members of the human organism together. Even in the
human nature at the moment when the human Ego, the centre which holds the
a man loses his unified character when bereft of the Ego, the strong central

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in the womb of time. And the central point of this faith, its firm
spiritual ideas within us. That is the other centre of force on which

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centuries has gradually evolved from this Christ impulse in the form
investigated by so-called clairvoyant research, through the ascent
concentration and other exercises given to those who wish to tread
part of his daily waking life in meditation, concentration and other
meditation, concentration, etc., at night when it leaves the physical
meditations and concentrations, which have to be followed in waking
wrong meditation and concentration man would therefore be brought
will say that it is a divine and beneficent world when he carries
etheric body the shape which, through meditation, concentration,
concentration, etc., might be called an inner experience of the
warming, illuminating beneficent sun as compared to the budding and

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world along with phenomena of colour, sound, tastes, scent, etc. It
scent, or as we say in Spiritual Science, behind fire, air, water and
into a good one, the Erinyes change into the beneficent Eumenides.
centuries and millennia there is slow and gradual development; but
the fifth century BC where an earlier tragic poet makes no mention of
stage where their beneficent influences could flow down to the earth
beings who have their centre in the Sun; behind the Maya of the inner
yet it was the Christ's descent from the sun which gave this inner
under the mountains of the earth, near its central point, a cross,

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IV
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old Greek sage, Zeus fructified Chthon. The beneficent influences of

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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centers in Europe, whose existence is reported in old sagas. For
inspired people who were connected with the mystery center.
concentration The earth and everything on it disappeared before his
and seemed to give him a center there. And he felt a third force like
around his center. He felt that his left hand was grasped by a force
when we concentrate on an object (white lily) 2 is another force that

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the ascent into the spiritual worlds, or descent to the realm of
was made between the ascent to the upper gods and the descent to the
lower gods, and that this descent was regarded as more essentially
dangerous than the ascent to the upper gods, and on this latter path,

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or ego had only developed because of the descent to the Earth —
central spiritual being was Dionysos. So it is natural that in
Dionysos, this central figure of the inner circle of gods, men
descending into physical incarnation. For this descent requires a
Christ, a descent to the inner life will reveal a being which is
they are men who have reached the apex of humanity. Centuries
obscurity. This was the time of the Christ's descent to the earth,
the time of the descent of the Christ there could be accomplished
deeper descent into the soul, and it will become possible for man to
proceed a few centuries further in human evolution and see what has
understand that the Christ was a cosmic god before His descent upon
his soul to the great central figure of the Christ, by allowing the
the centuries have been able to do is to propagate the Gospels; so
when we receive them as traditionally handed down for centuries in

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historical descent into incarnation of the Christ was a necessary in
centuries following His appearance. Since the Atlantean catastrophe
spiritual there must be ascent to a certain grade of clairvoyant
forces as make Lucifer a fructifying and a beneficent element,
did so in magnificent pictures. One such picture is the Oedipus

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-30-1909
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learn to stand fast in the center of his existence by living entirely
outside of his center. He stands there firmly enclosed in himself
concentration. He learns to see the light world of spiritual beings
concentration, otherwise that source of strength through which we

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their central figure, led outwards; but that the way into the Kingdom
the way leading to those gods who were associated with the beneficent
have a central one standing alone, the Graeco-Latin epoch of
ego-centre, having seven or nine members around it, all of which are
of the Sun-spirits, in the realm whence the beneficent influences
which he becomes aware of a taste or a scent. During the Egyptian
colour, or scent, or taste. Today they have grown fainter and more
spiritual being called Ishtar, who was known to be a beneficent moon
prepare for the descent of the cosmic sun god upon the earth. The

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descent? Whose son is he? Therefore in speaking about the Luciferic
ancestry and descent, the blood poured — itself from generation
assume in consequence of the descent of the Christ principle upon the
between that Being to whom we must ascribe such a central position,
first centuries after the Christ event, who considers that which was
teacher of the first Christian centuries could tell him no more about
because the men of the first Christian centuries were pre-eminently
sense-world. Accordingly in the first post-Christian centuries little
very high messenger of Christ. It is said that a few centuries after
personalities of the fourth century after Christ. In this figurative
Manes was this council, himself in the centre and around him
it was then thought necessary to curse will become the centre for
those who will best make Christ comprehensible to man, a central
from eternity to eternity. So shall the central Being of the world,

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— let us say — the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries, and in
descent of man into the physical world. But by no means should things
sphere, than in that where what is produced comes from the centre of
again to his centre. Hence in a certain connection, it is a new speech
central point of man's being is grasped through what we take up as

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tenth centuries after Christ; we are now actually in the middle of
real are connected with humanity's further descent into the
center of one individual's being and speaks to and is understood
rightly by the center of another. Thus, in a certain way,
the true core of the human soul. The central essence of the human

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the centre of his being, should not limit his idea of evolution to a mere
as the beginning of the 17th century the learned as well as the laity
who in the 17th century first championed the
the germ of an earth-worm must first be there. And yet, in the 17th century,
connection by 19th century philosophy. We need think only of Schopenhauer,
this central point, we should be merged passively with the outer world. Our
concepts and ideas have to be taken hold of in this centre; more and more of
itself in the course of succeeding lives; it must become a centre whereby man
more he radiates from the centre of his individual self, the nearer he
must work to become always richer, a powerful centre from which much can
judgment, but we can react from the emotional centre of the Sentient Soul. Of
that if the Ego concentrates on this single aim, it finally impoverishes
thus endured by the human Ego and its inner rebellion are magnificently

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to move something new into the center of our life, something that
life, to really feel that this is the center from which he directs all
That's why for the more recent esoteric schools that exist rightfully,

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Christian centuries, and for a long time through the middle ages, was
quite different from what it has become in recent times. The Gospels
Fundamentally, in the first centuries, only those had the Gospels in
centuries ago took the Gospels in hand get on with what one today
us this in a magnificent way. He shows it by saying: The Ego of

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toward the Gospels in the first Christian centuries and even
this in a magnificent way by saying that the I of Zarathustra was to

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awaken in man. Before the first half of the twentieth century has
and not in a physical body. From the middle of the twentieth century
Recently, I explained that these new qualities give us an insight into
those early centuries after Christ, Solomon's symbols could be
reminiscent of the events that occurred when Moses received the Laws
The centuries up to our present time have been filled by this spirit.
In the next centuries it will often be proclaimed that Christ will
last centuries in this light will be neither surprised nor exhalted
the Crusades and also in the seventeenth century, when a false

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
twentieth century has passed, some people will, with full
in a physical body. From the middle of the twentieth century on, and
the possibility for attaining this development. Recently, I explained
those early centuries after Christ, Solomon's symbols could be
if dead, as he preached. This is reminiscent of the events that
The centuries up to our present time have been filled by
In the next centuries it will often be proclaimed that
of the last centuries in this light will be neither astonished nor
happened just before the Crusades and also in the seventeenth century

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Let us concentrate on
too the inner soul-force which causes it to happen; concentrate for a

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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Let us concentrate on
too the inner soul-force which causes it to happen; concentrate for a

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forces diverging from a central point in every direction. Thus the
diverging from a centre in every direction to illimitable distances.
to diverge, as from a centre in all directions. The sound
its centre. Thus you imagine a point within space whence forces
radiating from a centre outwards into space and back again, in such a
is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition

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forces diverging from a central point in every direction. Thus the
diverging from a centre in every direction to illimitable distances.
to diverge, as from a centre in all directions. The sound
its centre. Thus you imagine a point within space whence forces
radiating from a centre outwards into space and back again, in such a
is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition

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make the Sun cohere round its centre. Then you have the inweaving of
The stream of forces which moved from the centre to the periphery and
from the periphery back again to the centre at first embraced the
a centre. The something between is nothing tangible, it is just a way

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make the Sun cohere round its centre. Then you have the inweaving of
The stream of forces which moved from the centre to the periphery and
from the periphery back again to the centre at first embraced the
a centre. The something between is nothing tangible, it is just a way

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— that is to say, with the descent of the elemental consistency
in the direction of density — there is a corresponding ascent
sound-ether permeates our nascent earth. Let us then ask ourselves
upward of part of it, and the concentration downward of the other
centuries they have completely ignored what occult investigation has
recently in Christiania

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— that is to say, with the descent of the elemental consistency
in the direction of density — there is a corresponding ascent
sound-ether permeates our nascent earth. Let us then ask ourselves
upward of part of it, and the concentration downward of the other
centuries they have completely ignored what occult investigation has
recently in Christiania

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evolution, and for forces centralised in the earth itself to arise

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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evolution, and for forces centralised in the earth itself to arise

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only applies on the earth from its centre point up to the surface
that all is concentrated upon this last product of creation, upon
which in the baby are still decentralised. Thus, in the human being
this concentration signifies an advance to a higher level. We can
century make of this? It says: “We find in one passage the name
nineteenth century, perhaps more than on any other scientific or

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only applies on the earth from its centre point up to the surface
that all is concentrated upon this last product of creation, upon
which in the baby are still decentralised. Thus, in the human being
this concentration signifies an advance to a higher level. We can
century make of this? It says: “We find in one passage the name
nineteenth century, perhaps more than on any other scientific or

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immediately think of evolution as an ascent from the condition of the
knotty point of which the commentators of the nineteenth century have

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immediately think of evolution as an ascent from the condition of the
knotty point of which the commentators of the nineteenth century have

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every point of the outer physical body towards a center, which is the

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Had he not delayed his descent to the earth, he would have had to
descent as follows. At the beginning of the development of the earth
the creation the incarnation of man is represented as a descent from
more urged by greed, more self-centred; in short what we today call
expulsion from Paradise as a descent from the periphery to the earth
to a descent from the periphery, we are describing almost word for
criticise it. This kind of outlook has only arisen in recent
centuries. A Schoolman of the twelfth century would be astonished, if
with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It would never have
occurred to anyone in the early centuries of the Middle Ages to think
centuries ago. Those who inveigh against the Bible the most

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Had he not delayed his descent to the earth, he would have had to
descent as follows. At the beginning of the development of the earth
the creation the incarnation of man is represented as a descent from
more urged by greed, more self-centred; in short what we today call
expulsion from Paradise as a descent from the periphery to the earth
to a descent from the periphery, we are describing almost word for
criticise it. This kind of outlook has only arisen in recent
centuries. A Schoolman of the twelfth century would be astonished, if
with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It would never have
occurred to anyone in the early centuries of the Middle Ages to think
centuries ago. Those who inveigh against the Bible the most

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with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this
incarnate on the earth prepared for their descent.

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with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this
incarnate on the earth prepared for their descent.

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with considerable concentration and yet be unholy within oneself.

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centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
their various initiation centres — Plato especially, but even
further, not as a continuation of the series, but by a descent upon

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centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
their various initiation centres — Plato especially, but even
further, not as a continuation of the series, but by a descent upon

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concentrated form, in art. In actual fact, the material for the

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born again in the next four centuries. A suitable number of men must
12th centuries.
concentrates oneself. So John the theologian calculated the
descents into our interior two dangers threaten us. We can have a

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phase of descent, from the most ancient times until the appearance of
Christ on the earth, and the phase of ascent which begins with the
Why must the Christ Event be given this place at the very centre of
therefore to do with a descent and an ascent of man. In respect of
It must not, however, be forgotten that this descent into the
a firm centre within his own being. In order to work his way upwards
physical world. The impetus for this descent was this action, this deed,
a factor in man's descent from spiritual heights into physical
possibility of re-ascent, also without merit of his own. Just as
now for more than a century — words such as ‘liberty’,
century — when they begin to behold the Living Christ, they will know
thereby they prepare themselves for the ascent into the spiritual

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taken shape in recent centuries, and what are its immediate needs. If
suited to the conditions which have developed through the centuries,
think and to feel during recent centuries, and what it is that they
have come about through centuries of development. The signs of
budding, innocent love. Eros is its ruler ... that is what the
fruitfulness, in its interplay with budding, innocent love. This is
have received in recent years will enable you to view our present
and fashioning from the evanescent forms taken by the spray the

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taken shape in recent centuries, and what are its immediate needs. If
suited to the conditions which have developed through the centuries,
think and to feel during recent centuries, and what it is that they
have come about through centuries of development. The signs of
budding, innocent love. Eros is its ruler ... that is what the
fruitfulness, in its interplay with budding, innocent love. This is
have received in recent years will enable you to view our present
and fashioning from the evanescent forms taken by the spray the

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which virtually reproduces the contents of my recent lectures in
thought even of people as recent as the Greeks. When the modern man
this twentieth century, it is also made clear that this return of
begin to happen in our own century that one here and one there will
twentieth century, this upward development of human nature towards
come little by little to all humanity, beginning in our own century.
our own century, will become visible as an etheric Being to human

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which virtually reproduces the contents of my recent lectures in
thought even of people as recent as the Greeks. When the modern man
this twentieth century, it is also made clear that this return of
begin to happen in our own century that one here and one there will
twentieth century, this upward development of human nature towards
come little by little to all humanity, beginning in our own century.
our own century, will become visible as an etheric Being to human

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still conscious of the ruler, the centre of all these forces in the
make good the claim that the ego is the central governing power of
the central ruling power outspread in macrocosmic space, but closely
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more
about the microcosm, about man himself, the centre of our own world,
has been possible recently to confirm experiences which occurred in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as to the
should like to be one with the scent of the trees!’ Imagine
suppressed, and self-knowledge is concentrated upon the astral body,
contains the central forces of both astral and physical bodies; it is
youth-giving forces emanate. Because the ether body is the centre for
pentagram has been reduced to a central pentagon with its point

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still conscious of the ruler, the centre of all these forces in the
make good the claim that the ego is the central governing power of
the central ruling power outspread in macrocosmic space, but closely
for him its central ruling powers; whereas the modern man thinks more
about the microcosm, about man himself, the centre of our own world,
has been possible recently to confirm experiences which occurred in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as to the
should like to be one with the scent of the trees!’ Imagine
suppressed, and self-knowledge is concentrated upon the astral body,
contains the central forces of both astral and physical bodies; it is
youth-giving forces emanate. Because the ether body is the centre for
pentagram has been reduced to a central pentagon with its point

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controlling centre, as superpersonal, superhuman, we have what Greek
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
that it is actually in the twentieth century, actually in our own
Mars. They raise their eyes to Mars, receive its beneficent
spiritual. It concentrates their attention upon individualities

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controlling centre, as superpersonal, superhuman, we have what Greek
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
that it is actually in the twentieth century, actually in our own
Mars. They raise their eyes to Mars, receive its beneficent
spiritual. It concentrates their attention upon individualities

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‘Curse God and die.’ There is something magnificent,
all these laws at some time concentrated in a human body, walking
upon a time, exactly in the manner of today, a human soul, centred in
walking about as an Atla.ntean appears to be concentrated in an
soul-forces concentrated in our astral bodies.’ If clairvoyant
the body, that it is bounded by the skin; the centre of the human
the central power of the macrocosmic forces which correspond to the
the Titans, the gods centred in the forces of the earth, to cut into
world, he can picture the world as a whole. To the Greeks the central
enable man to overcome this egotism, concentrated solely upon his
a magnificent picture when it tells how Pallas Athene rescued the
wonderfully what is given in the magnificent pictures of the old

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‘Curse God and die.’ There is something magnificent,
all these laws at some time concentrated in a human body, walking
upon a time, exactly in the manner of today, a human soul, centred in
walking about as an Atlantean appears to be concentrated in an
soul-forces concentrated in our astral bodies.’ If clairvoyant
the body, that it is bounded by the skin; the centre of the human
the central power of the macrocosmic forces which correspond to the
the Titans, the gods centred in the forces of the earth, to cut into
world, he can picture the world as a whole. To the Greeks the central
enable man to overcome this egotism, concentrated solely upon his
a magnificent picture when it tells how Pallas Athene rescued the
wonderfully what is given in the magnificent pictures of the old

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in recent years, the physical body can only be known in its true

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in recent years, the physical body can only be known in its true

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external physical organism; it all takes place in the adjacent

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external physical organism; it all takes place in the adjacent

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he was centuries ago on Earth. Then we come to a sentence which is
centralisation in the heart. Thus there are forces which were
way as to bring about the blood-system with its centre in the heart.

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he was centuries ago on Earth. Then we come to a sentence which is
centralisation in the heart. Thus there are forces which were
way as to bring about the blood-system with its centre in the heart.

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like; he must make concentrated study his duty for the sake of

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influences reached the Earth as if driven outward from its centre
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We find a certain awareness of it
which has been available since the thirteenth century one undertakes

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influences reached the Earth as if driven outward from its centre
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We find a certain awareness of it
which has been available since the thirteenth century one undertakes

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there could have been celebrated the half-centenary of an extremely
that important dissertation on the speech-centre which the great
known to it. Why is this? Because the way this speech centre is
configuration of this speech centre. Why is this speech-centre
from without, the brain can be so moulded that a speech-centre
his speech-centre, that this speech-centre has been fashioned from
without. The speech-centre arises from speech, not vice versa.
course of recent lectures we have called the sub-earthly, the true
century and on into the nineteenth, Aristotle began to be studied

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there could have been celebrated the half-centenary of an extremely
that important dissertation on the speech-centre which the great
known to it. Why is this? Because the way this speech centre is
configuration of this speech centre. Why is this speech-centre
from without, the brain can be so moulded that a speech-centre
his speech-centre, that this speech-centre has been fashioned from
without. The speech-centre arises from speech, not vice versa.
course of recent lectures we have called the sub-earthly, the true
century and on into the nineteenth, Aristotle began to be studied

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beginning of the ’nineties of the eighteenth century.
nothingness; on the other hand the descent into the turbid
are struck by the universality of his genius, the magnificent
nineteenth century may be said to have opened up the
the nineteenth century, it was shown by the facts which
applied to the descent of man, by following up all the
the latter, but, following the descent of man is not
and twentieth centuries bear incontrovertible testimony to
century, Francis Brentano. He wrote the 1st. volume of a
universal mind so magnificently. He fulfilled those
century. The physical science of the present day can only
of the conceptions and words, is concentrated in our hearts;

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thirteenth century.
Since the thirteenth century, the Movement connected with the name
in the thirteenth century to enable the influence connected with this
not until the fourteenth century that he was known by this name. In
the fourteenth century he was born again and lived then for more than
of the thirteenth century, is connected with the name of Christian

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recent scientific meeting in Koenigsberg: ‘Facts of physics are all
twentieth century. Progress will only be made in this direction when

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gave a concentration exercise that enables us to help in the work on
concentrates on the place where he feels the heart in him,
heart he's concentrating on — they ray or pour out from
whose center is the archetype of what the heart is the sign for. And
heart through concentration. The experience forms itself into a

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thirteenth century.
Since the thirteenth century the movement connected with the name of
in the thirteenth century to enable the influence connected with this
not until the fourteenth century that he was known by this name. In
the fourteenth century he was born again and lived then for more than
century, is connected with the name of Christian Rosenkreutz.

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Christian century; and then we speak of our own, the present, the
decade of the 19th century, that it can be seen how the human
12th century, and about which much has been said, to work out clearly

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want to attain through esoteric exercises is to concentrate
thoughts do it, look upon them as models of how we can concentrate

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been conducted during recent months. There has been no little talk about
astral body was presented here in two recent lectures

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public life. Quite recently, there has been no little comment on
public affairs in this direction. This very phrase was recently
during recent months. People began to perceive how very
what he is doing — that is, in other words, to bring the centre

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But through an irregular descent into sub-consciousness, this
an imaginary person in whom all those things are centred
will say: — “If innocent people perish through a
worked out truthfully. Our groups, our working centres, are
this case our groups and centres are schools which are meant

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the beneficent influence of certain beings who retreat
“Well, when innocent human beings are destroyed by a
this life entirely innocent. It will be made up to them later.

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members to concentrate their trust so much on one person, that is,
exercises into the center of their life. Others run into events which
whole life from our esoteric center, if we had always directed our

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20th century, an event will occur, in human evolution, which we may
the 20th century. It is also quite possible, on the other hand
fruitful, strengthening and beneficent forces through good, normal,

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spoken recently of many things concerning the existence of
century there will occur in human evolution what may be
this must come about in the 20th century. It may, however,
influence upon the demonic or beneficent beings inhabiting the
destructive and beneficent forces, he will become ever
has been recently reported that many do not understand how to
this concentrated gaze extinguishes the vision it is proved to
his own inner procedure in concentrating upon the rose and its

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As in recent years at the beginning of our Munich lecture course, may
course of the recent years? It was the importance of the moment in the
of centuries, or over the last 2000 years, how the European can look
has been working through the centuries, this European soul that felt
movement in Central Europe that we have such a personality among us.

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centuries. Thus the soul felt directed upwards when it turned its gaze
everything proceeding from the mysteries, the initiation centres. A
anthroposophically we see the inmost centre in the course of time and
from the mysteries and initiation centres pass over into the general
life, and of how the various initiation centre's and initiation
reincarnated in the nineteenth century. But it is not my task here to
one centre of stability. I have said that this is an objective result
physical evolution and forms its centre of gravity.

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worlds are reached. It is a peculiar feature of this ascent into

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passed through during the ascent into spiritual worlds are akin to the
hardly adapted for a bath in molten iron at 900 degrees centigrade,
ourselves by meditation and concentration, by what is called in
ourselves, by previous meditation, concentration and so on, so that on
concentration and permeating oneself with moral impulses, one can

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central point. Experience in the astral body, however, appears as a
concentrated in time; I do not wish to be poured out into
would like to be concentrated in independence at some point of world
all — by what is reminiscent of the world of the senses. You will
make sure of one point, the wish to be concentrated in temporal
away from eternity to a state of independent concentration in the
as a kind of central point, is the Christ Being, fulfilling the
concentration upon one point. For today, I should like just to say

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quick ascent into higher worlds, there always seems to enter what, in
is found — everyone wishing to start on the ascent into higher
must be taken by every soul for the ascent into higher worlds, for
appeared recently, has an important task, and I take this opportunity

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a history without making Buddha the central point. This is not said as
always look up to the Being Who should stand forth as the central
Such is the ascent from life in the senses to spiritual life. Whereas
central Individuality of the whole planetary system, by the Spirit of
its central point, by Him Whom we call the Cosmic Christ. In primeval
twentieth century, a super-sensible event will come to pass in the

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with this verse that describes man's whole descent and ascent:

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concentration of thinking, of imagining, of feeling or also
concentrated upon this one picture.
has to say, this concentration work is not there to copy the
concentrated, compressed. Then you live, so to speak, only in a
concentration of the soul forces. However, the same forces

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chapters of spiritual research. In recent months it has been my task,
that is advanced because in our Anthroposophical Movement in Central
Mystery of Golgotha at the center of the evolution of humanity.
my recent occult investigations. They astonished me because they

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meditation and concentration themselves, as such, if pursued,
especially to have concentrated before one what must be
merely recall the heliocentric system of Nicholas Copernicus,
he says: — In every century poor TRUTH has had to

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possible that you face your concentrated own self. Thus, you
“During all centuries the poor truth had to blush about
meditation and concentration. If the interrogator says
meditation and concentration is a quite intensive degree of
concentrated thinking, feeling, maybe also of willing. Hence,
extraordinary measure with meditation and concentration if the

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in recent times have died in all parts of the world before their

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connected in some way with his recent life on earth. He is emerging
century the character of the Mars beings had invariably been one of
Just as the process of the earth evolution is a process of descent
until the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and of ascent from then
point was at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Until then,
the evolution of conditions on Mars had been a process of descent and
from that time onwards a process of ascent has occurred because an
eighth centuries there was a mystery school in the southeast of
Then, in the seventeenth century, the Buddha withdrew from earthly
beginning of the seventeenth century the Buddha became the redeemer,
beginning of the seventeenth century when, with all his abounding
remarkable, magnificent paradox. The greatest blessing for a

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confession coming from one of our recent or slightly older

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order! These eccentric philosophers are actually found in great
opinions, the eccentric ideas and false, extravagant idealism arise.

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or if you recall the recent performance
the top to its center. Then comes something like a circle that is not
quite closed with a horizontal line in its center; finally come two
appeared recently that is worth reading even for those who have
And because in the elemental world things are still reminiscent of
recently an infinite number of papers had been written on the
center of the spiritual realm, where we can behold these beings and

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earth life of the people was thereby prolonged for centuries, and
original one they had inhabited centuries before. And it was apparent
but between them there is something in the center. In whatever is
central divine position free from the influence of Lucifer and

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of deep significance that in Central Europe both kinds of writing,

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crossing the threshold in its ascent, first passes through the
The ascent could be described in the
understanding, of an ideally normal ascent into the spiritual world,
in other words, the ascent of a soul in a completely undisturbed
ideally normal ascent out of the question.
showing how the individual ascent takes place, as, for example, in
if a soul's ascent were the ideal one, an example in which all the
A higher ascent is brought about by
the ascent to the super-spiritual realm, the perceiving of a

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been “a decent sort” here on the physical plane, one will
see how the “decentness” gets on well with the laws of
world. At first one stands, in a sense, in the very center of one's
from infinity towards a central point what must return to our

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Recently

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we don't feel otherwise. We can concentrate on our body —
excludes all other thoughts and concentrates on this one point. Then
that at all, I'm too decent a person for that. But we should, admit

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Central Europe of course present a different aspect from the European
century, something special arose within the world-conception of
when the great ideas of the Central European world-conception had
of centuries of work on the part of the higher Hierarchies.
quite a decent life without having a knowledge of the spiritual
recently discovered a proof that may be advanced externally. It
with spiritual science. In the 13th and 14th century, Master Bertram
painted, shows that up to the 13th and 14th century it was possible
they are now, only a few centuries ago. This can be proved, and you
a human soul-quality only a few centuries ago. Before that time, man
But we can learn to know that even in the 13th and 14th century
this is so, for a Central-European writer would not describe things
which must become united with the Central European qualities. We can
experiences of the East during the 19th century; nothing can be seen

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started at the beginning of the twentieth century to send its impulses
not the case. America was unknown for only a few centuries. Still in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there existed a lively traffic
the European family of peoples in the nineteenth century, and what is

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trends in the art of recent times, whatever we may think
actually living in art. In recent times, where the study of
that in all the various tendencies and endeavours of recent
our soul, and that this centuries-old connection with the
artist of more recent times we get no such feeling, The
significance everything gains that recent painters have
feel — although it remains quiescent — to be aroused
or will anyway try to, reduce the quiescent form, which to
see this in certain attempts made in recent decades and
kind — we understand the recently-deceased Gustave Klimt,
of art; and by reason of man's general development in recent

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that in the last third of the nineteenth century, in contrast to
I have repeatedly pointed to the end of the seventies of last century
At the beginning of the forties of the nineteenth century, when the
middle of that century had not quite been reached, the Archangel
seventies of the last century this spiritual being prepared himself
nineteenth century, their task in the spiritual world was to create
beginning with the forties of the nineteenth century. The time arrived
nineteenth century are simply a reflection of what occurred in the
in a certain sphere, beginning with the forties of the last century.
You see, at the beginning of the twentieth century it gradually became
the descent of the Archangel Michael into our earth region.
Many people speak of this descent. But if they are seriously called
stars” when the forties of last century approached. If occultists
In the forties of the last century the many people who adhered to
century was one; but this is not true of our time. Our time demands
theological development of the nineteenth century concerning the
said that the whole theological development of the nineteenth century
as I have recently done, {See: Rudolf Steiner, Geistige Wesen und
Someone recently handed me an interesting slip of paper mentioning a
things. In previous ages this was different. During the centuries

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of the rest of man's being is quiescent. Feeling and willing
states. When he concentrates on the colour of a human being,
central point of the body coinciding with the line of
this. In his recent book Stufen (Steps), Morgenstern

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century. At that time these forces worked extraordinarily strongly,
century which was expressed for the first time in the works collected
the thirteenth century we see that primitive clairvoyance had
elementary clairvoyance. In the middle of the thirteenth century this
The rosicrucian stream began in the thirteenth century. During that
century personalities particularly suitable for initiation had to be
again in the thirteenth century, and who were part of the council of
council of wise men in the thirteenth century. A twelfth had the
middle of the thirteenth century is the time when a new culture began.
thirteenth century, and therefore the education that the twelve
fourteenth century, roughly in the middle. In this incarnation he
thirteenth century had remained intact, none of them dispersed after
the new incarnation, the individuality in the fourteenth century.
Rosenkreutz in the thirteenth century, but exoterically he was named
thus only from the fourteenth century. And the pupils of this
century. These are the rosicrucians.
was being prepared from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century.
Now it is also of great importance to know that in any century the
Rosenkreutz became ever stronger and mightier from century to century.
who became his pupils. From the fourteenth century onwards Christian
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Christian Rosenkreutz. This work began in the thirteenth century, is
again in the fourteenth century, in an incarnation lasting more than a
eighteenth and until the beginning of the nineteenth century. About
meditation and concentration. By means of inner development of this
of the Christ Impulse. From the twentieth century onwards all the
secondly that He will appear in the twentieth century in etheric form.
Great individualities will certainly appear in the twentieth century,
twentieth century the name of Christ, and no real occultist will
expect the Christ in the physical body in the twentieth century. Every
Spiritual Science. In the thirteenth century this individuality lived

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circumstances in the thirteenth century and that since then this
age and one who lived centuries ago. Before the days of Copernicus,
centre with the planets revolving around it in elliptics. In no far
concept. Thus towards the end of the sixteenth century, there took
thirteenth century. — In this later occult Conference of leading
the Individuality who in the sixth century before Christ had been
In the seventh and eighth centuries, for example, there was a very
important centre of Initiation in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea,
time was one who incarnated again a few centuries later. We are
speaking, therefore, of a physical personality who centuries later
people in many respects alien, and in the seventeenth century, Buddha,
nevertheless, that since the seventeenth century, every human being in
through that great Conference at the end of the sixteenth century,
resembling what had happened on Earth in the thirteenth century, when
sixteenth centuries we must find our way to their esoteric meaning and

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circumstances in the thirteenth century, and that since then this
individuality has worked unceasingly throughout the centuries. Today
lived centuries ago. Before the days of Copernicus everyone believed
science were themselves maya. In the middle of the sixteenth century,
appeared. At the end of the sixteenth century the
towards the end of the sixteenth century one of those conferences took
initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz himself in the thirteenth century.
individuality who in the sixth century before Christ had been
In the seventh and eighth centuries, for example, there was a very
important centre of initiation in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea,
Buddha at that time was one who incarnated again a few centuries
centuries later lived again in a physical body, in Italy, and is known
the sixteenth century, called together a large group of occultists in
earth's fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was as decisive and
catastrophic a time on Mars in the fifteenth and sixteenth century as
So you see that in the fifteenth century you could have said Mars'
an ascent. In the fifteenth century the necessity had arisen on Mars
conference met at the end of the sixteenth century. This conference
people in many respects alien, and in the seventeenth century Buddha,
seventeenth century every human being is a buddhist, a franciscan, an
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introduction of Christianity into Central Europe and also here in the
Central Europe.
especially the population of the North, Central Europe and
century and beginning of 13th century. He died in the year 1213, and
concentrated from the spiritual world, regarding the advent of a
out that in them were concentrated all the moral impulses of Francis
of Assisi. These concentrated impulses had then transformed his

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Christianity into Central Europe and also here in the North,
and Central Europe.
of the North, Central Europe and England?” We need only
There was a poet who lived at the end of the 12th century and
beginning of 13th century. He died in the year 1213, and was
significantly everything was concentrated from the spiritual
place; I need only point out that in them were concentrated all
the moral impulses of Francis of Assisi. These concentrated

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a condition which was a moral descent, so that there remained on the
but little. Century after century this people developed in order to
since the fifth century before Christ.
Christian impulse along with it, were able in the early centuries of
descent and has now undertaken an ascent again.
human nature before man's deepest descent. Fundamentally, a great
effective. It stands in the centre, and it is that which, in that
evolution. Let us go back a few centuries into the pre-Christian era.
reticent concerning the highest things, the actual secrets, but what

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condition which was a moral descent, so that there remained on
population of which modern history tells but little. Century
after century this people developed in order to rise to a
spiritual heights since the fifth century before Christ.
with it, were able in the early centuries of Christianity to
first gone through a descent and has now undertaken an ascent
man's deepest descent. Fundamentally, a great part of what is
effective. It stands in the centre, and it is that which, in
evolution. Let us go back a few centuries into the
wrote, we can recognise that he was reticent concerning the

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those in central Europe.
vessel with a source of warmth at its center that streams through the

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the centre of the balance, can be swayed each moment of his life, now
centre, in the state of balance.
descent, but in this there is not what is called sensuous passion. As
after a particular pattern. In Central Europe this is often described
of Northern and Central Europe — to consider these subjects,

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the true idea when the human being, standing in the centre of
in the centre, in the state of balance.
much after a particular pattern. In Central Europe this is
of Northern and Central Europe — to consider these

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being, standing in the centre of the balance, can be swayed
interest we stand morally firm in the centre, in the state of
descent, but in this there is not what is called sensuous
particular pattern. In Central Europe this is often described
and Central Europe — to consider these subjects, and when we

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who in the first Christian centuries tried to determine their

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in the first post Christian centuries tried to determine their personal

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or, in other words, the concentration of our thought life.
What is this concentration of thought life?
upon the concentration of thinking, begin just where our everyday
the center of our full consciousness, so that for a longer period we
turn our attention away from everything external, concentrating on a
another, in this case we marshal all our soul forces, concentrate
such concentration is to be fruitful, that person must indeed become
of the senses ebbs away. Then we lose consciousness. In concentration,
a single mental image. This is what makes concentration radically
to work for years on such concentration exercises; it is impossible to
But the one exercise that I have characterized as concentration or as
how he has to concentrate and refine all the forces of his soul that
It took the Church until the nineteenth century to remove the
the being whom we call Christ is to be recognized as the center of
which were simultaneously centers of religion, art, and science.
terms of recent spiritual evolution. The researcher must point to a sort
lead us to the Christ as the Being at the center of religious life. It
sense of belonging toward the Christ-Sun as the center of our

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nature of human souls. Of recent years, a man of poetic nature joined
around us, and then see it reflected in the magnificent paintings of
to the souls who will live in the coming centuries; into them will
A second example calls for mention. In recent years we
our very small circle came together at the beginning of this century,

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Of recent
poems, which have been recently published. Owing to the difficulties of
world around us, and then see it reflected in the magnificent paintings
the souls who will live in the coming centuries; into them will pour
example shall be mentioned. In recent years we have had occasion in
this century, it was always very easy to count the number present. For

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doesn't place Christ at the centre of esoteric life one leads them to

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whereas He was innocent and yet had to experience the same fate. And

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innocent, and had yet to experience the same fate. The malefactor on

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phantom-like entity. In earlier times it was much more evanescent; by
the humanity of the Earth. Christ became the central spirit of the
that certain theologians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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much more evanescent; by the time of the Mystery of Golgotha it had
the central Spirit of the earth Who has to save, for the sake of the
theologians of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries peremptorily

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centuries ago, the majority of men could not read the Bible, although

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present year Nuremberg can celebrate an important centenary,
his soul in centres of profoundest secrecy. Above all we must
Central Being, the very Centre of the spiritual world, has
Centres, who have left the sense-world in order to enter the

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speedy return of Christ Jesus, a descent from the physical
century Joachim of Floris, who died at the beginning of the
thirteenth century, gave a notable exploration of this
this was particularly fostered in the following centuries
centuries of Christianity cannot be compared. For at that
century. The thoughts of a genuine materialist of the
nineteenth century regarding the Apocalypse may be described
century? It was the beast which made war against the
speaking of these. Thus the nineteenth century has come to
meditation, concentration, and other practices which a person

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is enclosed in the centre like a kind of kernel. During the
about one centimetre (3/8 inch) behind the forehead. That
life he performs the exercises of meditation, concentration,
the centre of the second picture seal was only indicated in

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historians of the nineteenth century have been the victims of
descent below the sphere of the human has only just come
descent. There were always spiritual impulses present in this
descent into matter. Christian life is only now gradually
Man; in the centre is the “I”-principle. These

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peoples of Europe, of northern and central Europe, proceeded
individuals in Central Asia. From this point the colonists
to smile most graciously with the must innocent man and or
now embodied in the horse; and in the form of the centaur,
your faces to-day, nor even after centuries; but it will
the ascent of humanity.) “And to him was given a great

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then rotated by means of a pin stuck through the centre of
the centre around which many smaller ones revolve. “A
earth surrounded by all sorts of colours; in the centre the

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the higher spiritual worlds, and this ascent will be possible
ascent would not be possible if he had not taken part in that
banking affairs in the second half of the nineteenth century.
impulse behind their activity, then the ascent takes place,
spiritual ascent; instead of ascending he would descend and
seals represents nothing else than the descent into the

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central Asia; from there proceeded the various civilizations
seventh, that they experienced a descent, so will it also be
evolution there will be an ascent into the spirit of forms
contain beings unfit for the ascent because they are unable
this he must say that the ascent produces in the present body

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the descent of man there was really no mineral kingdom. The

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of this descent into the abyss in the far-distant future. It
centuries man has become more and more materialistic; but
well. This descent into evil is gradual. In the period when
of the nineteenth century wished to unravel the mystery of

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this, the thought we recently considered will be seen in a

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all went towards Asia and founded in Central Asia the great
went with him to Central Asia and from there called the
Central Asia to India. The Manu sent his first pupils to
today. — Osiris was the central God of Egypt, the God who was
age, when mankind needed the impulse for re-ascent. And in
clearer. The ascent begins in the history of life in that
Thus in the spiritual world, too, there is an ascent.

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whose legends have recently been dscovered and which are found to correspond
Central-American peoples Quetzalcoatl and Vitzliputzli play a role which is
recent attempts to explain these ancient documents. A little book has
twentieth century, but that the civilization of that time has merely
Let us suppose that he lived five or six centuries before Christ and
that even five or six centuries before Christ he can go back into the
during the 5th and 6th century before Christ, a personality who would
in Sicily during the fifth century before Christ, and even external
spheres and that he accomplished magnificent things just here, in
centuries before our Christian era. This is a tremendous
the capacity to understand the ancient traditions. A few centuries
that one century before Christ a man who is endowed with deep insight
Empedocles has experienced during the 15th and 16th century, who
16th century and what he was unable to grasp in any way during his
century before our era: “A man must come who will give us
this prophetically, more than one century before our era, within the

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of the Christ in the twentieth century; in the Karlsruhe course he
announcement to mankind. If we keep in mind the recent periods of
of this twentieth century. This event can be brought before our souls
Christ-event of the 20th century, it will make no difference whether
spatial centre from which to spread the culture of the epoch. The
actual centre of his being, from his ego, we come next to the sheath
the same as the body of love. Thus at the very centre of a man's being
In truth, this begins in the 20th century and will hold good until the
end of the earth. It is in our 20th century that this judgment, this
during this century the new revelation and the new super-sensible

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most recent cycle of mankind, and should, in a certain sense, be
The souls incorporated to-day have only recently advanced to the stage
concentrate thoughts on their dead. There is no question of there not
centuries before the Christian era to realise what a countless number
increasingly accentuated, so that it becomes necessary for them to
few centuries before. The event was then already in preparation; and
in that epoch, because, with Him, the ego made its descent in a

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family, but that there are people in the adjacent apartment who
repeatedly arise during inner concentration and meditation we

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fundamental mood of the soul in concentration and
centre of our ego. Or when we look at the evening or morning

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why we have in recent years spoken in these circles of times to which
upon us daring the 20th century. The children and grand children of
the midst of the events which will befall mankind in the 20th century
these children. In the 20th century our descendants will need strong
accumulated throughout the centuries of human development. And other
the centuries which have elapsed since that time, the Christ-Impulse
assumed. Any other concept of history relating to the past centuries,
souls advance in knowledge, I want to speak to you of a recent
that the Central-European civilisation must uphold, when we feel that
the civilisation of Central Europe above all, is intimately connected
that of Central Europe, not to mention that of the distant
characterizes the Central-European, the spiritual forces that pervade
philosophy!): — these very qualities which characterize Central
(disorder will increase), come and make order. — Central Europe
process. It would be the greatest misfortune, not only for Central
inasmuch as our Central-European world-conception always makes us
Central Europe must say to ourselves: In spite of all, the East is
waiting; for the spiritual wisdom which must rise up from Central

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20th century times come for which we must look ahead with a
humankind of the 20th century experiences must be aware that
offsprings of the 20th century will need strong internal forces
centuries. To quite other storms of life the offsprings of
this Christ Impulse in the course of the centuries, since the
the last centuries, in so far as it concerns the distribution
light, he spends a time as a nascent human being in a true
most recent time. It appeared to me with quite particular
defended as Central European culture if you just feel this
Central European culture intimately connected with that which
from the soul kind which is just that of the Central European
Central European, that he has combined his talent with the
distinguishes Central Europe. The opposite of that is in
Central Europe has a vocation to bring spiritual productiveness
biggest misfortune for Central Europe, not at all, but for
world, who the whole culture, the whole putrescent
always try to find out that of the Central European world view
to that what will once make this East great. We in Central

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drawing to an end since centuries, but must be replaced by the
Central European peoples after all our discussions during the
further existence, the undisturbed development of the Central
— about the middle of the 16th century, — then you
French people about 1600, in the beginning of the 17th century,
and for the English people in the middle of the 17th century,
it was the case so often in the 19th century, from the
the 19th century, in so far as it speaks of ideas in history,
magnificent difference which is there in the German life in the
human beings of the 19th and 20th centuries and the human
half of the 19th century took such a course that this German
century, and has then released the people again.
in a different way than with the West-European and Central
development is. Have a look only once at the Central European
also of the Central European peoples is similar, that a
dawning in the individual peoples from the 14th century on.
19th century, we see the German people getting just as much of
There is a possibility of free development of the Central
the 19th century — because the development of the
spiritualism lives in the Central European cultural current.
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centuries as the Christ-Impulse. One could even come to the
the past centuries, we see from century to century a
centuries men have utilized their highest, most meaningful
Christianity through the centuries could seriously contest
great figure of Aristotle, who lived centuries before the
order to see what occurred during the following centuries.
developed spiritual life, which in the subsequent centuries
sub-continent up to the second, third Christian century,
over the centuries Christianity spread within Europe to
the spread of Christianity over the centuries. But then we
and natural science up to the nineteenth century. It could
until the twenties of the nineteenth century. But that
peoples did, also in later centuries, is a result of
first centuries irrespective of scholarship and the
the world over the centuries, whether or not people

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previously often indicated: the descent of a higher,
Recently a
truly unearned suffering, innocent suffering! The Fifth

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when we recently laid the foundation stone of our building
souls in which were concentrated all the human sorrows of
concentrated misery – how through religious
center they were aware of the wisdom which Jesus'

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a great teacher had recently been more or less ignored. For
sound reminiscent of the prophets of old? He repeated
well, for he had recently descended from the spiritual
prayer to him, which I told you about. He concentrated
especially on the center line of that prayer: “Now

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he had been in touch before his descent to earth; and he knew
the sign that before your descent to earth you dwelt in
to the fourth century after Christ it was always known that the
fourth century.
centuries prayed: Thanks be to the Christ for having come down
After the fourth century had passed people were no longer able
From the fourth century until our own age men had only the
throughout the centuries that through them men were able to

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in recent years friends have come forward to carry it also into
the magnificent discoveries of modern natural science. In an age which
beneficent influence upon their fellow men. They can — if I may

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In order to attain to the spirit in the twentieth century it is quite

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through our century-old natural-scientific development we have
which comes several centuries after the work of Copernicus and of
and the body should be translucent to the spiritual world. We must

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magnificent modern natural science is brought together and

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the growth and development of natural science in recent centuries,
especially in the nineteenth century. Human beings proceed in
We must place at the center
concentrate all the forces of thinking and perception within us upon
cent fluid, and the proportion of solid constituents immersed and
swimming in these fluids is only about ten per cent. Nothing
per cent water — if I may call it that — and through a
ideas, concentrating one's whole soul upon them, but one must be
concentrate on some idea and then to drive it entirely away.
accustomed ourselves to concentrate upon a particular thought.
A thought content upon which we have concentrated begins finally to
For many centuries European
and concentration to become exercises for the will.
the laws of decent behavior in the age of materialism, he will feel

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development of the last centuries, the nineteenth century in
into the center of our consciousness. Although the content of this
to concentrate all our powers of thinking and feeling upon the
90 percent fluids; and the 10 per cent solid constituents are
are, if I may put it this way, approximately 90 per cent water; and
meditations upon ideas, beyond concentrating our entire soul
development of super-sensible knowledge we must learn to concentrate
concentrating on the thoughts. A thought content we have
concentrated upon eventually begins to get a firm grip on us; then
For many centuries now European humanity
our exercises, meditations, and concentration more in the direction
is something unreal. Certainly, if he has remained a decent person

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from us we now feel the Universe which until recently was ours. It
death and rebirth goes on for many centuries, and if a man is born,
say, in the 20th century, his descent will have been prepared for
gradually, even as early as the 15th century. All through this time
great-great ... grandfather of yours, way back in the 15th century,
spiritual worlds. And in the 17th century when a rather less distant
of human beings. Even as late as the 12th or 13th century A.D., souls
12th century were aware of these mysterious forces working down to
realize that even as late as the 12th and 13th centuries there were
15th century, and at long last the 19th and the 20th. Now man no
thinking-in-images, has run its course. With the 19th century it has
You may have to proceed as follows. One day you concentrate on him as
abstract notions. Therefore you concentrate on some real
the 4th century of our era an actual organization, a specific body of
faculty to concentrate in a single point within the heart and thence

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from us we now feel the Universe which until recently was ours. It
death and rebirth goes on for many centuries, and if a man is born,
say, in the 20th century, his descent will have been prepared for
gradually, even as early as the 15th century. All through this time
great-great ... grandfather of yours, way back in the 15th century,
spiritual worlds. And in the 17th century when a rather less distant
of human beings. Even as late as the 12th or 13th century A.D., souls
12th century were aware of these mysterious forces working down to
realize that even as late as the 12th and 13th centuries there were
15th century, and at long last the 19th and the 20th. Now man no
thinking-in-images, has run its course. With the 19th century it has
You may have to proceed as follows. One day you concentrate on him as
abstract notions. Therefore you concentrate on some real
the 4th century of our era an actual organization, a specific body of
faculty to concentrate in a single point within the heart and thence

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is only a magnificent part of our cosmos, our heart even more so. For
until recently vanishing from us. It shrinks together and
many centuries. If a person is born in the twentieth century, his or
her descent has been prepared for gradually, even as early as the
sixteenth century. And the person himself has been working down
back in the sixteenth century, fell in love with a great, great
spiritual worlds. And in the seventeenth century when a less distant
thirteenth century A.D.felt very differently than they do now. Not
the men and women in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries knew
centuries, who were aware that a human being passes through repeated
elemental beings in my head.” Then came the fifteenth century;
and in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries we no longer have
century, that has become a thing of the past. If we now continue to
thoughts. Therefore you must concentrate on some real, concrete
in the fourth century of our era there was a special organization, a
enlarge into a universe. For if we had the faculty to concentrate in

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certain circumstances be a magnificent illness. It may be very bad
it and to treat it lovingly it can be a magnificent illness.
left over for their fantasy; whereas the most magnificent doll, with

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recent advances of materialistic science of the world come into their
science in recent centuries. And so people believe that anyone who
it is so enormously important to know that one must not accentuate
centres in man, then one can find the answer to educational questions

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and spirit which had preceded his descent to Earth. He experienced
Golgotha approached — in the 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th centuries B.C.
4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st centuries B.C., this question lived,
they dwelt before their descent to Earth, Christ had been the centre
of their vision — the Central Being to whom they had looked
before their descent to Earth. For by this time Christ was already a
Earth. It was so in the Mysteries of the second and first centuries
descent to Earth. Now that the souls of men on Earth were less and
fulfilled, in Jesus of Nazareth. In the centuries before the Mystery
problem was not the earthly biography of Jesus. It was the descent of
Christ. They looked up into the higher Worlds and saw the descent of

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certain details of their life of soul and spirit before the descent
mystery religions entered through the gates of the mystery centers,
the following centuries before Christ's appearance on earth. If
fourth, third, second, and first centuries before Christ without
earth Christ was the center of their attention. He was the central
descent to earth. In the mysteries the students learned to know
third centuries before the mystery of Golgotha initiates looked, in a
the chief content of much of their teaching in the last centuries
up to super-sensible worlds, saw the descent of Christ to the

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
yet been recognized by human science. In this twentieth century of
portion of humanity. Before the end of the century, for instance, it
twentieth century from the following. Paul could learn about
experience the event of Damascus in the twentieth century will
to these false messiahs of the twentieth century: you have announced
been in the sign of Pisces for several centuries. In the near future
has been foreseen for many centuries by those who call themselves
a portion of humanity of the twentieth century, just as the others

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It is only of recent times that the truths of occultism have been the
or distorted. In the eighteenth century they entered upon a phase of
nineteenth century they were put entirely in the background by the
re-emerge and in the coming centuries they will play an important part
glance at the centuries preceding the advent of Christianity and
the centuries to come, and to which he will be wending his way from
In this sense, Christ is the centre of the esoteric evolution of the

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when the etheric body was centralised in the physical brain. Not until

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at the end of the eighteenth century, we find mention of this

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The central core of truth is ineffable and divine. This is wonderfully
The pyramids will perish in the course of the centuries but the ideas

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have entirely changed since the sixteenth century and above all in the
that the self and Manas are the central points of man's development.

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(1) Control of thought. We must be able to concentrate our thought
may be employed in meditation and inner concentration. They are very
ancient and have been used for centuries by Initiates. Their meaning

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Christianity represents, in a sense, the central moment, the turning
second century after Christ has made certain theologians of the school
an epoch of concentration upon earthly efforts; he was to work towards
All life is thus concentrated, illumined, deepened and transfigured in

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture VIII: The Christian Mystery
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time when man had descended most deeply into matter. This descent was
centre of voluntary movements, is a development and a metamorphosis of
nerve-centres.

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concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject

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moment, man's activity has been concentrated on the development of the
physical body but he can now begin his ascent to the spiritual worlds

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XI: The Devachanic World (Heaven)
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the Zodiac. Eight centuries before Jesus the Christ, the vernal

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during the first centuries, Christianity contained esoteric teaching
the ninth century, John Scotus Erigena again taught the esoteric

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XIII: The Logos and the Word
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more or less equal in size. A certain centre in the etheric brain
Atlantean man, this centre moved to the interior of the skull. It was
of descent; man and Earth have reached the greatest degree of
The one primal source and centre of manifestation is the first Logos

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and he will pass through others too. There is always one central
the centre of the horizon. Each state of consciousness develops

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the central core of which the consciousness of man unfolds. Many
our own, this power of the Logos, is Christ. He came at the central

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toward the center of the globe; when the sun separated off they
during a certain period are concentrated in a celestial body outside
earth. In reality the earth consists of a succession of concentric
of the moon. If one is able by means of concentration to attain a
infinity. If one takes a plant or a crystal and one concentrates on
center of the earth with its surface. Underneath the solid earth there
receded more and more toward the center and as a result volcanic
Ego-centric-egoism

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the Earth, each of these lunar kingdoms makes a descent into
all. Around an imperishable centre, the surrounding sheaths alone
down from outside, within the centre of individual being. This is what
intervenes in this karmic process and becomes its central pivot. Since

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This descent into materialism was necessary in order that the fifth
centre of the planets, including the Sun. The map of the heavens given
world — the Sun is at the centre of the solar system. The

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concerned with the history of a single century or a single era, but
in the fourth through the sixth centuries.
This descent into matter
astral plane wherein the earth forms the center point of the planets

Title: Lecture: Macrocosm and Microcosm
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the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the 20th Century,
the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the 20th Century,
man stands before us in the world of sense, he has concentrated
of the plant are concentrated in the seed or germ.
Meditation, Concentration and Contemplation. These are
from our brain centres. But my dear friends, it was not the

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are from the actual house. Since we can read, we do not concentrate
are beautifully reflected in his recent poetry.
vividly as possible your thinking in those years. Then concentrate on
The mood we need will be there only if we concentrate on our

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“spiritual chemistry.” Concentration and meditation.
was three or four centuries ago.
few centuries. To investigate nature, we use only those mental powers
within us — are concentration and meditation. Meditation and
concentration are not some kind of miraculous mental performance, but
joyful religious feelings. Concentration is attentiveness, raised to
we can center our inner forces completely on these thoughts for a
certain amount of time. The content of what we are concentrating on
our attentiveness, our powers of concentration.
Focusing, concentrating the
attentiveness, by concentration. In the process we must develop the
concentration, but you will find detailed descriptions of the
Christian centuries, the friend whom we knew in her short life here
can see the divine nature of the magnificent sensory world around us.
assimilation of the capacities the sciences have created in recent
centuries, these souls long to be strengthened so that they can live

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from anything produced by the civilisation of the last few centuries.

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the Sun according to modern physicists? An incandescent globe of gas,
incandescent gases, but within this empty space there is nothing

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Sun-existence often for centuries, for time is more prolonged in the
the Mysteries had ways and means in their Mystery Centres of
Ireland, during the first Christian century when those great
important figure in the 19th century. He had lived out the
appeared again on Earth in the 19th century he had now, by contrast,
an impulse of will worthy of our soul life before the descent through

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concentration of all the laws and activities of the Cosmos. In
indications point to the fact that if a man is to be the central point
Mystery-centres which in those days served as universities for those
concentration, is by finding the way over from purely passive
drawn entirely from within and give it the central place in our
thinking active through meditation and concentration, as I have
happens that, by concentrating all the forces of his soul on a subject he
before conception and descent into a physical body. This is the first

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centres which were school, church, and art-school at the same time,

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recent descent to Earth.
before making this descent, every human being has gone through such
my descent; and when as an embryo I was given my earthly, physical
And he saw also how beneficent the flowers were for him. He saw the

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture V: The Relation of Man to the Three Worlds
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with preparing ourselves for meditation and concentration, we have to
time. In the case of those I pictured coming to the Mystery centres

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clouds. Hence we can understand how it was that such centres
comparatively recent times. In this region it has always been felt

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contemplative observer; whereas Paracelsus, concentrating more on the
meditation and concentration; when he becomes able to fill with inner

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fraction! Scientists know that the centre of speech lies in the left
case of left-handed people the centre of speech is situated in the
These movements are held back and become concentrated in the organs of
reminiscent of the content of the poem. At that time also there were

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in the medieval Mystery Centres were made aware of this feeling, the third
spiritual world. And perhaps, as we are so close here to centres
reminiscent of the old European Druids, it will be appropriate to

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their coming re-descent to Earth. This co-existence, it is true,
for its central point, this spiral movement now takes a man a further
down upon us; the Sun is in the centre and sheds its rays all around.

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concentration, a microcosmic concentration of all world processes within
in more recent times has actually only been made in the area of surgery
development of the so-called centrosomes — you can read about that in
forces; the centrosomes, after fertilization, are called forth by the

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at the vernal equinox moves forward year by year. In recent
centuries it has advanced from the Ram to the Fishes, and
connected with the Earth in comparatively recent times, have united
one after another, until, centuries later, his parents are born. To
as the final act in his descent, he draws from spiritual worlds, out
gift of the Moon, out of the past, to the first centuries of
Christianity — particularly the first four centuries, for

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streaming up from the centre of your being to your head, has been
a downward trend. They have a kind of central point in the heart, and
speech-centre in the left half of the brain, and a left-handed person
countenance can appear perfectly innocent, although we are inwardly

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I have just been explaining was known, until the fourth century after the
personalities of the first four Christian centuries it is possible to
first four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, was the great
those who in these first centuries were still initiated in Christian
Sun — in the way I mentioned — and the descent of Christ
poet-priests, as I might call them, of the first four Christian centuries,
into being in those early centuries of Christianity. And among those
centuries. Yet this poem had been there. It was rooted out, together
the fourth century, even up to the beginning of the fifth. But this
centuries of Christianity. It was also a leading motif in the lost
fourth century of Christianity, the poem referred to no longer existed,
centuries. One of those who still had some notion of the poem —
had been there in the first few Christian centuries.
must come again. This assumes that during the present century
The idea that light from a centre streams out into endless distance is

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in the central point of the earth. The plant is absolutely not
“I” in the centre of the earth.
the physical, and we must not imagine this descent as something

Title: Lecture: Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
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recent Group meetings have already heard much concerning this Mystery:
Mystery of Golgotha stands in its very center. Everything that went
center-point of human development, and everything that has since
until the sixth and seventh centuries before Christ. From that time
The fourth post-Atlantean civilization began in the eighth century
before Christ. About three and a-half centuries later thought had
fifteenth century after Christ the fifth post-Atlantean age began.
civilization of mankind for centuries.
than by seeing the Christ-Impulse as the central point. The whole
human memory will understand the central point of world-evolution. A

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture II: How Does One Disprove Spiritual Science?
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seventeenth centuries.
centuries nobody beheld something in the spiritual world that
eccentrics; such people arise from theosophy! — The

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structure the heart, which we readily experience as a sort of central
human organism and having the heart as the central point of all its
obviously be for everyone the central system of the entire human
of as pressed together, contracted, as if into one centre; so that
all that we denote as our innermost soul-centre, the ego; so that in
concentration of the soul on such imaginative concepts, forming these
and, as a result of this inner concentration, draws it back to a
in strict concentration upon his ego, he holds fast to what he
consequence of this is that, by means of such inner concentration,
concentration the entire nerve-system is removed from the
concentration, to separate the blood-system from the nerve-system,
through inner concentration, he separates his nerve-system, lifts it,
with the life of the blood is the very central point of the human

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means of strict concentration of thought and feeling, the human being
through strict concentration of feeling and thought, feels as if he
related to those radii that we might direct away from the centre of
centre, between the outside world and the inside world, is placed our
through concentration of thought, concentration of feeling, and
concentrations as go right down into our inner life, our inner world
— by which is meant in particular that sort of concentration
primarily a concentration or drawing down of the entire force and
central instrument of that being, the blood, should be able to

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central point, the heart, as placed in the middle of the organism
agreement was reached, there has appeared during more recent times
we have to do with material processes when we centre our attention
which concentrates at one point, and announces: “I will now
situated in the centre of the brain, which is the physical

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force-centres, deposits itself within the lines of force. Through the
that organ which we must consider the central organ of the human

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture III: How Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
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You attain them by meditation and concentration of thoughts,
expert educator at the adolescent human being, we can see how
life? What urges the adolescent child to such performances that
a decent human being. — Nobody can think this way.
life; now you lay the foundation for a decent, human being you
causes for a decent human being now, you cannot become one in

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 6: The Blood as Manifestation and Instrument of the Human Ego
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to its centre, draws inward. When a man would like to hide himself
active in the skin is the most recent one in the human organism. In

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salts. These deposited salts of the bony system are the quiescent
beneficent sleep acts upon us in the way we need, to the end that we
the central processes of our organism than does the bone-forming

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conceive the heart standing as the sun, at the centre, and caring for
The plant-element is fitted to the central, more inward part of the
incentive, even if only in outline, and thus to bring it to new

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thing is to concentrate our feeling, to feel ourselves living and

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to the 16th century. A spirit of the ages leads the destiny of
the earth for such a period. Since the 16th century, another
century before the Mystery of Golgotha in any incarnation on
has died in the third century or also in the second century,
foundation of Rome up to the 16th century, the spirits we count
centuries. They alternate in such a way that about six or seven
live from the 19th to the 20th centuries what we would not have
ages works for a certain time. Since the 16th century a new
16th century in the world. Therefore, we do not need to look at
sun. The sun is in its centre. — Spiritual science
What we have found since the 16-century remains as eternal
spiritual beings like this is one in Central Europe who
divine or — because in Central Europe Christ is working
— to the Christ Impulse. So that the Central European
Central Europe. Still during the Roman time of the Christian
own soul. These Central European human beings tried to
long times in the course of the Central European development.
There the Central European folk-spirits worked, so that it
expression. Except in Central Europe nowhere anybody says
Central European spiritual being is as it is connected with the
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Central Europe between East and West
Central Europe between East and West
in the deepest sense. This group contains a central figure. One
may call this central figure Christ; one may also call it the
seventh centuries. But a spirit that is good at a certain time
and the ahrimanic principle of the West in Central Europe, but
world, it is there. Also Central Europe is seized by this
only acknowledge the Copernican world view in the 19th century.
religiousness also in Central Europe unless the spiritual world
Central Europe to look at this pendulum movement correctly.
of Central Europe are sitting who strive rightly for
after this victory. Imagine that the Central European nations
Central European spirituality, an external victory would also
not be salutary for this Central Europe. Since centuries, the
in our Central European theosophical movement. For that which
Central Europe how we have to imagine what approaches humankind
not allowed to extend about the area prepared for Central
spreads out, floating over Central Europe and radiating from
imaginable as a hypothesis that this Central Europe would serve
was a time of the literary development in Central Europe when
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Title: Lecture: Goethe's Personal Relationship to his 'Faust'
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the 18th century, from what was generally recognised
false mysticism, the everlasting and only find the most recent
magnificent, vivid tragedy of Margaret. It also makes it
central European people. I believe, that all man's weaknesses,
the central Europeans but the entire world has appeared in a

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twentieth century experience this. What we learn from external history
historical epoch, began in the first third of the fifteenth century,
fifteenth century. Naturally, it evolved in various ways in the
century; that this thinking became ever more and more completely dead
exactly in the last third of the nineteenth century.
thinking in the first third of the fifteenth century had been in the
thinking occurred in the fourth Christian century. I mean that in the
fourth Post-Christian century there began the first trace becoming
their appearance for the first time in the fourth Christian century.
century, the consciousness (which we still possess today) clearly took
fourth Post-Christian century occurred the beginning of an
during the fourth Post-Christian century.
death. This descent of Christ to the earth was the entire essential
This descent was far more important for human beings of that time than
what followed after the descent. The fact that Christ wished to be in
inner, living thinking; because until the fourth Christian century
that Christ had carried out the human destiny of the descent, which
human beings. This is the magnificent element in the belief of
initiates in the first Christian centuries: that they felt Christ had
need for the idea of resurrection, but rather that of the descent to
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture I
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and recently we have been hearing about the wonders of the atom and
historians say holds good for a few centuries only, namely, that

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture II
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region which they surmise to be full of incandescent gases and which
presence of incandescent gases, they would find a condition that is
sketch of the whole Universe. The whole Universe is concentrated,

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them in our astral body when the time comes for the descent to
centuries — Haroun al Raschid
typical products of the 8th and 9th centuries, were nevertheless the
Baghdad itself at that time was the centre of the very widespread
souls who in the 8th and 9th centuries worked at the Court of Haroun

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of the 19th century he set out again and again, quite voluntarily, on
here implied — that for centuries now the effect of the whole
their way across to Europe in the early centuries of the spread of
to 9th centuries after the founding of Christianity led him from
that possible in a body belonging to the 19th century. Garibaldi
that was typical of the 19th century. The three others I have named
led me to the discovery that in the 10th or 11th century, both these
Greece. This impulse led Byron, in the 19th century, to the very
who lived about the 9th century in the north east of France as France
born again in the 19th century, when inwardly, in mind and soul, he
Dornach recently I was able to call attention to another connection
a follower of Mohammed in the 7th century, and Woodrow Wilson,
centuries of Christendom there was extant in the more southerly
since the recent revelation of Christianity man cannot draw near to

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peoples. The Atlantean culture was magnificent, and mankind
special and central point of perception.
Atlantis was gradually destroyed in the course of centuries
clairvoyance in mythology, in which the central concern was
from the magnificent images by which His coming was
or sixth through the tenth centuries who had developed
about the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, and this explains
see later. Beginning with the sixteenth century, copies of the

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necessary to look at the old mystery centers where the
centers. Here we shall point out only their most basic
magnificent images, so that everything was permeated by art
exercises similar to the ones we have described in recent
in the beginning it was more or less completely reminiscent

Title: Lecture: The Supersensible in the Human Being and in the Universe
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past centuries.
developed during the past centuries.
Nineteenth Century has learned to reflect over the fact as to how
gradually evolved from lower animal forms. The Nineteenth Century
Century, learned to think that everything we carry along with us
of man's descent from divine-spiritual worlds into his physical
meditation, through concentration within the life of thinking, we
centuries brought us the greatness of natural science. We cannot,

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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an inhabitant of the Sun-sphere sets in about a century after death.
Christ has had charge of our ascent. If on the Earth we have received

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evolution of the human spirit over the course of centuries, or
striving spirit vary essentially from century to century. And since
indeed, in certain realms this took centuries. This Copernican world
recent written work,
“No spirit where there is no nerve center, where there is no
center, no brain had they not been prepared for by countless stages
the beginning of the century, Professor Dewar delivered a very
senses. To avoid misunderstanding I recently called what can be
through which we have been preparing ourselves for centuries and
the physical world becomes the center of destructive forces that lay
becomes a center of destruction.
half of the nineteenth century we have seen the rise of a certain
half of the nineteenth century. Maybe I have already remarked upon
better not believe that human society can for centuries use
that Goethe acquired in his magnificent theory of metamorphosis, in

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sixteenth century, until the emergence of the Copernican view of the
that centuries have passed during which the human soul has been
confronted again and again with the magnificent advance of this view.
anything on earth but are really only centers of destruction.
one wanders around as a destructive center on earth. At best one can
the region of the earth as a destructive center, you have also
since the sixteenth century.
the naturalistic world, thus obstructing the ascent after passing
century, natural science discovered that the nervous system is
such things for the extension of their power. In the coming centuries
human being in the coming centuries will have to know more and more
the fifteenth century, our present period beginning in 1413. The
since the fifteenth century. In the fourth post-Atlantean epoch it
being. Already in the centuries before the fourteenth century, the
what developed at that time. In the centuries preceding the
fourteenth century, the human being had to be guarded from this
the following way. Since the ninth or tenth century, conditions in
was still important for human beings in earlier centuries, the sixth
and seventh centuries A.D. Beginning in the
ninth century and especially from the twelfth century on, the entire
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture X: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 1
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
twentieth century is one that should bring about in the evolution of
Christ will come about in the course of the twentieth century, and
We know that since the middle of the nineteenth century this
the event of the twentieth century, this event of the appearance of
five centuries.
the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, about which
nineteenth century, many brotherhoods of the West introduced
more intense in the next five centuries. These evil brotherhoods now
lead, in the course of the twentieth century, to the appearance about
century, for His coming as etheric individuality to be unobserved by
through Christ in the twentieth century and to continue further, to
counterfeiting the appearance of Christ in the twentieth century. He
century, not by substituting another individuality; for that purpose
course of the twentieth century. Humanity is actually inserted within
centuries. It was truly protected from all possible illusions, more
disseminators of Christianity in the early Christian centuries
impulses of humanity. In the fourth and fifth centuries particularly,
Irish initiates were active in Central Europe. They began there, and
initiate-knowledge that revealed that in the fifteenth century (1413,
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Title: Three Paths: Lecture I: The Path through the Gospels and The Path of Inner Experience
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external exoteric culture, created through many centuries, then
something which, through the centuries, has been connected in men's
which was a path for millions of souls through the centuries. This is
characterized here. We all know that, in the course of the centuries,
centuries as today they are read by a scholar, by a man who has gone
centuries as the educated man of today reads them, how were they read?
Gospel-readers of earlier centuries, and still does not occur to many
that men felt in this way through centuries.

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comparatively recently has been attained for a lower plane.
fact that in the 17th century not only the laity but also
centuries to an earlier, psycho-spiritual condition. And if
onwards, this psycho-spiritual center develops by degrees
century — but tomorrow, in the not-too-distant future,
concentration which so develop the soul that, as an actual
something but must go forward yet further. Goethe centers
deeper, especially during the nineties of the 18th century. These
the spirit of Helena, who lived many centuries ago. She has
ascent into the spiritual world. Here it faces us —
need to concentrate deeply upon Spiritual Science in order to

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beginning of the 19th century. The daughter's

Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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eighteenth century, on a quite unnoticed occasion, an Initiate made
space. Just as the empty centre of a flame appears blue when seen through

Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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from history as a starting-point on which to concentrate. This he does

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will you see spreading out from the bluish sphere which is his Ego-centre.

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harvest of the last life remains like a concentrated essence of forces
behind what I have called a concentrated essence of forces. So with each
was incarnated a few centuries after Christ, compared with the conditions
possibilities of development, and after a few centuries they will always

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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karma and the central fact of Christianity will not be hard to find.

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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Germans and other Central European peoples, they created a wave of fear
influences. But you will at least find some evidence for the descent
materialistic outlook of the eighteenth century. Without that, the

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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is connected. Centuries ago, with the future development of humanity
the evil which opposes it. The task of evil is to promote the ascent

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solution: this has been discovered only quite recently.
by the centre of the Earth. Man is the opposite of this: his head is
the centre of the Sun. When later on the Sun left the Earth, the human

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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spoken of in theosophical literature as the descent of Manas, or

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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nineteenth century. European colonists had induced some Red Indians
life only in world-renouncing ascent to the Spirit.
political institutions for centuries ahead. The Greek drew his ideas
through his descent to the physical plane he has lost his connection
at the centre and the situation is as the ancients described it. We

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Development
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exercises of meditation and concentration at a chosen time every morning.
set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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to the nineteenth century a good deal of information about occult
concentrate on a single sense-impression for a specified number of minutes
his mind sharply concentrated on such symbolic objects, not to be found
the most difficult of all. After concentrating for a very long time on an
the Descent into Hell. Then he experiences the tearing away of the curtain

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the fourteenth century, and it had to be introduced because mankind
the Pope! It is only in quite recent times that this conflict has gradually
being. If the pupil concentrates his attention on himself objectively, as
though on something outside himself — if for instance he concentrates
corresponds to this point and he will come to know it. If he concentrates
and of the sun. The nature of the astral can be learnt by concentrating
organ on which he concentrates his attention. This method has become
specially important in recent times because humanity has become deeply
inner part of the eye. After concentrating on it for a while, he drops
The occultist is able to investigate this layer by pure concentration.
fact that its substance, if one concentrates on it, changes all the
layer. If with developed power one concentrates on it, something very

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spiritual center around which the sun, and with it our earth and all

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and fourteenth centuries did not have the meaning it has today, but
forms. Centuries go by. What the soul has absorbed through its

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sixteenth century and extends into our own, we notice a tremendous
century there was an outward unfolding of mystical life; it was
spiritual earth that unfolded later after the sixteenth century. The
Since the sixteenth century, the intellect has been evolving, the

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manifestation of men, which is represented by the lamb in the center
head-like roots towards the earth's center, a man turns his head to
the senses in the primal source of all that lives. This is the center

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terminated in the eighth century before Christ. We know that this
This was centred on the one hand in the wonderful Greek race, with
us as being placed somewhat more exactly upon the centre of his own
upon the centre of his own human nature. With this feeling of
from the sixth century the Cross with the dead Jesus makes its
Everyone knows this wonderful figure of the Virgin in the centre of

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centuries — I say centuries, not thousands of years. There is a

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The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
live, and which forms the centre of our studies.
sense, have also something hidden behind them. Just as the central
it in the centre of the earth. There the ego of all plants is to be
centre of the earth for the egos of plants. In fact, when clairvoyant
to an organism having its ego in the centre; this ego includes all
being the centre of such a hollow globe, and that these are present
is a centre in himself, a “man-centre.” Plants form a wider
centre; taken together they form an “earth-centre”; and the
a man is found the human ego is always the centre; the mineral ego is
and how the ego is in the centre of the earth. Let me point out once
plant to the centre of the earth. The activity of the plant's ego is
which passes through it to the centre of the earth. Thus earth, plant,
century we see how certain similar spiritual tendencies occurred in

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density of the atmosphere. The beneficent effects of the sun were now

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births (1525–1879). A 16th century man would not have

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been sufficiently mature for the descent to earth of that Principle
descent of Christ and his work was retarded by the intervention of the
today, and who prepared him for the great event of the descent of the
They always wished, up to the time of the coming of Christ, to centre
relationship. Then the Christ appears and centres man entirely within
which sought to centre man in his own personality. We can see how the

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inner centre, found a certain balance, so that they have within them
evolution of humanity, and the disciples of the early centuries,
descent into the physical world, so by a truly spiritual effort he

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the universe. Plants have their ego localised in the centre of the
discovered in recent times; it was an accomplishment of human
which leads it towards the centre of the earth — to its ego and
have a man; his reproductive organs are turned to the centre of the
directed him to the centre of the earth. The position of animals is
centre of the earth. When he perceives the sun-tone he becomes one
with the planetary being that dwells in the centre of the earth; he
taken place in more recent ages of earthly existence, in the Egyptian

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Central Asia, others into Africa. There were already in these parts
could be gained from ancient tradition as well as from recent
value; for it portrays in mighty pictures man's descent from divine
the story of Christ and His descent. Let us for a few minutes consider
This is found even in the most recent legends of the Teutonic gods,
to comprehend the complete descent of Christ into the physical world
Old Testament; an entirely abstract God, condensed within the centre
of a mere I-principle, stands at the centre of the religion of the Old

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what had been imparted as a mighty central impulse to the earth should

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The sun, in a spiritual sense, was at the centre of Egyptian thought
appeared in the central epoch of post-Atlantean evolution Who has cast
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries we come to the fifth
Let us suppose that this descent of man into matter had not taken
place; what would have happened? We considered a like descent in the
last lecture, but it was of a different nature; this is a new descent
contemporaries who say: “Until the nineteenth century man was
only the last century has produced what is true.” In the future
returned to a central point, where it received reinforcement. We must
namely, the descent to the physical plane. The further we descend the
descent into the world of the senses. This development of logical
had not yet been given. If the Christ had appeared a few centuries
humanity. Do we not see in recent times how this unity is being
shown in the descent of the Gods into matter; this is presented to us
the descent of man and his entrance into the world. He is also
repetition but an ascent; that a progressive development is taking

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revealed. During the sixth century
in a characterization of philosophy as such does not centre round the fact
his technique of thinking, that became the standard of the central period
in the thirteenth century. When mention is made of this early
thirteenth century) to concern themselves with Aristotle. The first
were taken to accentuate the breach between faith on the one hand, which
but that the nervous system has its centre in the brain the Aristotelian
whose influence the nineteenth century has become entangled in a web from
meshes of which the philosophical thought of the nineteenth century has
thought of the nineteenth century; not only to the theory of knowledge, but
the matter was recorded during the nineteenth century. “The eye
philosophical thought of the nineteenth century, until the present day,
philosophical thinker of the nineteenth century, with whose views, however,
Aristotle. Vincent Knauer, who in the 'eighties was lecturer at the
“Science has superseded nineteenth-century materialism” appears
are in a centre where pure thought produces its own essential
“pictorial thought.” Consciousness is made to centre upon such

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established from Central Asia. The first was the creation of

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know, at the central point of all religious thought and
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from the beginning of the century until the years 1911 or 1912, Dr.
matters as were treated of here in recent lectures, with regard to the
evolved, a consciousness that was reminiscent of a dim, shadowy
RUDOLF STEINER BOOK CENTRE,

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
in the nineteenth century from the way it thought in the eighteenth,
nineteenth century had a physical brain and an etheric body suitable
appeared. In the eighteenth century there was the so-called
the I. In the second half of the eighteenth century the average human
its central effects.
corresponds to the ascent to a spiritual life that has just been

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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
human beings have learned to know that the I is a firm central point
century, before the next millennium — indeed, for a few human
beings during the first half of the twentieth century — to
human beings even in the first half of the twentieth century, and for
middle of our century, as delicate saplings of human soul life in
understanding in the middle of our century, because Kali Yuga has run
apparent in the middle of the twentieth century, however, it will be
pre-Christian centuries will be renewed for humanity, but everything
teaching according to which Christ in our century will become truth
into all spiritual worlds — just as the descent of Christ into
which will present itself in our century, have its effect also in the
middle of the twentieth century who will use the materialistic
century a man appeared as Christ in Smyrna and gained a huge
In the past centuries this was not so terrible, because
the Christ again in our century in a higher form. Those who strive
century to century. Again and again those who stand in this

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look into the spiritual worlds, the firm centre we call the
as a firm inner centre, they are led out of themselves again in order to
century before the next millennium — indeed for a few
individuals in the first half of this century — to develop the
during the first half of the twentieth century and in more and more
the middle of this century, they appear like delicate buds of the
middle of our century. The explanation is that Kali Yuga has run its course
the middle of the twentieth century, this will be no proof that the
more of what existed in pre-Christian centuries will be renewed for
become a reality for men in our century.
reached into all the spiritual worlds. Christ's descent into
Event that is to take place in our century will also work —
twentieth century there will be plenty of them, making use of the
created a great sensation. In the seventeenth century a man who
centuries this kind of happening was not so deplorable, for the demand
be made if in this present century men were not to find Him
imparted to mankind from century to century. Those who are connected

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concentration, etc., as a counterpart to the physical spinal cord in

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reminiscent of past forms in which the Eternal, manifesting
become inwardly quiescent during the time of approaching
near this descent into death and darkness was felt for weeks
characteristic of the centuries immediately following, that
consciousness of Egohood. In its childlike, innocent state
nineteenth century, or at any rate during its latter half,
the nineteenth century these Plays were regarded simply as
during the fifties and sixties of last century had been a
into one of reascent to divine-spiritual existence. That is
birthday, denoting the impulse given for man's reascent
from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth centuries onwards,
reminiscent of the attitude to truth adopted in the
half of the nineteenth century people collected these Plays,
century it was still possible to find people who were
we cultivate in our anthroposophical centres become in the
centres of anthroposophical activities, and bearing the

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the Goddess. A scene takes place, directly reminiscent of a Biblical
him, reproaching her particularly for her most recent attachment. Thereupon
culture-epoch might be brought together in one centre. And gradually
this centre of culture, everything that formerly was super-personal,
be found in the last two centuries before the beginning of our era.
to Archbishop Theophilus in the fourth century and to his kinsman and
Mysteries was reincarnated in the 4th century
end of the 4th century,
5th century
woman at the turn of the 4th-5th centuries of our era.

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even in the 19th century, in Ranke's exposition of history
worked through human beings right up to our own century — and
and 15th centuries and on until the 16th, will realise how infinitely
Europe have been if at the beginning of the 15th century the
indeed the whole of Europe in the 15th century, would have taken on
of what has developed in Europe during the last centuries through the
the whole cultural life of humanity during the centuries following!
published in the first half of the 19th century. I will read you just
human soul is felt to be the centralising factor for our organism as
the ascent into super-sensible worlds which, because he was an old soul,
centaur. Such ancient symbols correspond more closely to reality than
is generally supposed. A centaur — half man, half animal —
Gilgamish gave the impression of a centaur to those who were capable
picture of the centaur is cropping up again in the field of modern scientific
thought. There has recently been published a book which sets out to
a remarkable picture. Quite certainly he was not thinking of the centaur
Yes, the centaur is here again; things will develop rapidly, and before
of the centaur arose because the old inhabitants of Greece saw certain
ingenuous! This picture of the centaur, which did not arise because
as independent of the bodily nature — this idea of the centaur
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of the soul itself, the efforts of the central core of man's being.
memorial of recent times. For what was his aim? He says: One cannot
in the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, B.C.
appeared at the turn of the 12th and 13th century as a significant,
history in this way we actually see a kind of descent from spiritual
heights until the Greco-Latin epoch, and then again an ascent. During
such as Hypatia, when she was incarnated again in the 13th century.
depths. Then the pupil was armed for the ascent into the unknown purlieus
the 18th century, and through the 19th century played a role which caused

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and Egyptian epochs represents a descent from clairvoyant vision to
and must be attained in ever-increasing measure during the coming centuries
and millennia, should be conceived as a reascent, a reattainment of
of these Babylonian souls is entirely in accordance with this descent
the 19th century as a result of the decipherment of the cuneiform writing.
egohood. Thus the Tower of Babel was to be the cultic centre for men
the reascent is possible — which it would not have been at that
fact this measure persisted until fairly recently—when everything
century something that stems from the mission of the ancient Babylonians,
are periods of descent; in Greek civilisation the point is reached where
the essentially human is unfolded on the physical plane; then the reascent
begins. But this reascent is such that it represents one aspect only
a progressive descent into materialism. Hence in our time, side by side
the path of ascent. Of course, such things are confined to Small circles;
one. Here again, Chen, we can see how on the path of descent a certain
a reascent begins. So that in very fact the Greek epoch lies in the
in the first centuries that there were men who could not regard the
epoch in the 4th century, who experienced these things in the arena
of a man of the 4th century, of an entirely personal human being whose
particular life, this particular individuality. During the 16th century,
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here through suitable willed concentrations and thought exercises.
present etherically-astrally and can only be formed through concentration

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in the 4th century
in the way destined for the 16th century. We shall find entirely understandable
“Zodiac” is reminiscent of the word Zervana Akarana. The
personality of the 15th century there appears the continuance
from the year 1250, which was its central point in time. What streamed
progress effected. You know, too, that in our century, but proceeding
turn of the 18th and 19th centuries; but if you take what I have said
who gather round a personality as the central figure, are destined to
again in these cyclic movements certain laws of ascent and decline prevail.
interesting to notice how cycles of ascent and of decline alternate

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another, certain periods of ascent and equally of decline occur in definite
in order eventually to begin their development and ascent, and to contribute
by one of the most recent translators.
prevails during these times of ascent. But the moment the questions,
which an the arc of ascent form a unity, fall apart into separate streams.
upwards to truth through the mystical ascent of the individual. One
stage. And what has developed during the ascent peters slowly and gradually
away since the 16th century. For since then all the specialised questions
until the Greco-Latin epoch and the re-ascent now demanded of us.
transition to the ascent into the spiritual worlds. Everything is prepared

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something that recently happened to me, not for the first time, and

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shown in the central questions of religion, in the evolution of the
seems utterly eccentric! Do not, however, take this example to imply
Only recently I heard
since the fifties of the 19th century, only since Foucault's
century. Earlier than that there was no wholly satisfactory

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an esoteric center from which we look at life and let it be
Eckhart in the 13th century and who belonged to the
course if we manage to leave it through meditation and concentration
heavens like a huge, colored circle with a pale, veiled center.

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through concentration and meditation we must fill ourselves with a

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particular language is given to central Europe out of a mystical

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which have occurred on Mars in the course of recent centuries.
centuries, we find that the forces radiated from Mars which
centuries and millennia, stems from an influx of the forces of
changed in a certain way its mission during the last centuries.
warlike life of the previous centuries; new life from inciting
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Mars had reached a
the twelfth century, the decisive preparations have been made
seventeenth century, came into contact with those forces
beautiful accents, and perhaps only Goethe has found again
accents as beautiful about the life of Nature. What is the
eighth century, in a Mystery School near the Black Sea, was the
Rosicrucian Mysteries since the twelfth century. There it was
With the beginning of the seventeenth century, at the turn of
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Buddha who

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particular in the middle of the nineteenth century. This
recently died in the spiritual world, that is if a human being
recently died we are exposed to all possible personal errors.
develop the soul: meditation, concentration, and so on. Certain

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for the kind of instruction meant here by concentrating

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and approaches to life of the nineteenth century
centuries, which have changed our whole life largely. If that
be a basic achievement of the nineteenth century —, the
meditation, concentration, and contemplation. I have already
know what one understands by meditation, concentration, and
with the inner means of concentration, meditation, and
not do in the usual life at all: concentrating on such an
meditation, concentration, and contemplation somewhat
human being carries out concentration, meditation, and
the most beneficent if it proves to be sleep after the heavy
of the fact that it is the most beneficent if he sleeps without

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inwardly, as warmth, if one can concentrate on still more distant

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centuries are governed by a different Being from the one who directed
centuries, or from the one who directs the cultural evolution of our
epochs the period which began about the 15th'16th century and which
century, a greatness which cannot be sufficiently admired. When one
these centuries, one sees that it has been accomplished by certain
end for the spiritual world with the last third of the 19th century.
For with the last third of the 19th century — and this is a fact
the 12th and 13th centuries. That was the special task of the age in
as these forces accumulate in mankind in the coming centuries.
century.

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of souls. Whereas during the course of previous centuries it was
to what past centuries have brought. Nor will it be long before those
nineteenth century a spiritual ‘tidal wave’ from higher
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.
what we can find of the teaching and outlook of the last centuries of
order from those that were there formerly. In the sixth century before
centuries before the Mystery of Golgotha. We find it everywhere. One
recently in a certain town, and as the practice often is, questions
In the intervening centuries other Beings from the rank of the
centuries since the Mystery of Golgotha down to our own time. But the
however which will make itself manifest from this century onwards. He
order to be within the Earth world. And all through the centuries
If it is possible in the 20th century for souls to evolve to an

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though he's done his concentration and meditation exercises for

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brain when we think them. What do the concentration exercises that
from the thought shadows as we concentrate and contract
gets stronger through thought concentration and our inner self
through concentration and so on, so that through this splitting of

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centuries ago, which had prevailed for thousands of years of
concentrates solely on observing processes in nature without
science since the middle of the 19th century. And it is a
it is only recently that outstanding scientists have
the second half of the 19th century.
The important thing, however, is not to concentrate on

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least in human experience has found recognition recently among
it. It is the region that we have more recently become
of the unconscious. In the cultural life of Central Europe the
Hartmann. I discussed this difference recently in
dreams. I shall then deal with a subject that more recently has
other things. As someone said recently (someone who
something iridescent and vacillating enters into the sphere of
I have recently spoken about the various phenomena of
the center. Even when dreaming, a human being cannot simply

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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
admirer of the magnificent and tremendous progress which
humanity has enjoyed as a result of scientific work in recent
the magnificent and admirable work of scientific thinking
way more recently, the moment I see the book about mollusks,
future we look forward to, and in concentrating in our souls
and then constantly concentrate upon it and devote
center of our soul life with full consciousness, so that
Constant attempts to concentrate our soul life upon our
organism), the more central organism connected with the breast

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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
the beginning of our present century, when the events we are
century A.D. and we find that everything that happened in the
that from the 4th or 5th century to the 11th century it is
middle of the 15th century. Lamprecht characterizes this
around the middle of the 15th century. He believes that the
whereas from the middle of the 15th century onward it is the
the middle of the 18th century.
earlier centuries which prevailed in the relations of the
19th century in the center between the west and the east of the
scientific method. And in the 19th century historical research
excellently for the first Christian centuries, all the forces
the centuries when the Roman Empire was declining,
consciousness, and that has provided such magnificent results
the middle of the 15th century. But he was not able to make use
the middle of the 15th century.
the beginning of the 15th century. Everything that Karl
century that is not sufficiently recognized, that brings about
Central Europe. If we go back to the time before this age we
This is superseded around the middle of the 15th century, and
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between the lines, things which in recent years, as you
has recently gone forward in a gratifying manner”.
in which is represented quite openly what in recent years
since the sixtieth year of the 19th century; only, men
recently, in the last four centuries, what one calls
world changed from the 13th, 14th 15th centuries on into
the following centuries. That that has all evolved slowly
3 or 4 centuries of the spiritual life-habits and
centuries has the general schooling at the Universities
course of the last centuries men have lost their
Persons such as he, who in recent years were responsible
painting as it has developed in the last century. Do you
way of popular lectures, peoples' courses, centres,
middle of the 19th century for it was then approximately
(I speak of the middle of the 19th century; later it
the last century, the Luxury-culture, a culture that
century? Thoughtlessness. Preeminently, it was
entered into it in the last four centuries through the
about state-life. I was recently In Berne where the
decentralized threefold organism. In all the
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since the 15th century that he must now cultivate
most recent book Concerning World-mutations, and
members, each centred in itself, so in the social
because of the very fact that it is centred in itself.
centralized, unified being. That is not true. Even in
organism also must be threefold, with each part centred

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with the central forces of the world, but which
central forces of the world. Thus persons like Fritz
century into the 20th century, speaking quite
century for a supposed absolute incapacity for knowledge
which it was connected with the central forces of he
world, that are at the same time the central forces of
possibility of contact with the central forces of
existence which are at the same time the central forces
evolved in recent times.

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to point out what a fearful counterpart it has. Quite recently I reminded
connection I have had to sing the praises of a recent remarkable work by
there exists something that is on the ascent, something that must be
commodities, finally reaching the collecting centres represented by the
his social organism and finds it in the collecting centres of the great
the last three or four centuries brought evolution to the point of making
true spiritual foundation of what today is on the ascent. Here, it is
our age. As consequence of this fact — you know that recently I
centuries has increased to ever wider dimensions, and will increase
recent times. Were I to speak exhaustively on this subject, I should have
recent times two streams meet in diametrical opposition to one another:
those who are in process of development will concentrate all his effort
its part rightly — what is done by learning to read is concentrated
concentrated in the faculty of arithmetic. But just think how it is when
undesirable product of the second half of the nineteenth century, when
historically in the middle of the fifteenth century can be. That, I
know how mankind has developed since the middle of the fifteenth century.
the fifteenth century. This foolish proposition that nature never makes a
that in the fifteenth century men became different in the finer element
centre of their being. If there is a desire to understand the present

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ground; the educational centres in question become mere institution s for
reasons, the deep lying reasons, for all this? Whereas in recent times
recently of the tremendous importance of this knowledge of man's being
energetic stand against much of what in recent times has aroused growing
the course of the nineteenth century the concept of natural rights has
to build it up again in the nineteenth century. It foundered, under the
the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, we
to our modern age at the end of the fourteenth century, we come with the
state; then in the last third of the nineteenth century and on into the
twentieth, — particularly in Central Europe, we trampled on our
European dynasties in the nineteenth century. By deluding ourselves, and
achievements in the nineteenth century are concerned. This cannot be done
central Europeans. Nevertheless these impulses are on a grand scale; and
without economy, these two being held apart by us in Central Europe. We
their meaning. The primary and secondary education of recent days has led
work? When today in their complacent way, they talk about the wrongs
of recent educational methods. It is something which must above all be
Grimm. “In the nineties of last century this man said: When we

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inevitably lead to the ruin of Central and Eastern
Central European Reality. In not one quarter, where the matter
nineteenth century. I made acquaintance with what today is
will. — During the last three or four centuries,
fact, that since the middle of the fifteenth century we have

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complacently as human heads with superficial opinions. These are a
concentration to be so thoroughly undermined. What we must begin upon
human being shall concentrate on one subject as long as it is necessary
life he has to concentrate on one thing without interruption. Out of a
his soul to concentrate especially on a certain subject, and that I
concentrate upon one thing at a certain age, and that, before going on to
nineteenth century. Ultimately all those within the German life of spirit
already arrived at maturity before this more recent system had destroyed
educational centres had been imposed upon him. We must reflect on such
looked upon as a bugbear, was the only centre of preparation for higher
The more recent cultural life of spirit has abolished all these things.
specialisation of recent times. It ha s constantly been pointed out how
universities and other centres of higher education — and where the
because, where it is meant to be cultivated, namely in centres for higher
just as a reasonable school system, thinking more of concentration than
what must otherwise be imposed upon us, not in the course of centuries
others will impose them. Ours is the task here in Central Europe of
create a social centre for egoism; who it is exclusive it lives at the

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spirit prevails in Goethe. The recent un-German
professor in Tübingen did recently out of the
Tübingen professor did recently, who brought up this

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people believe) or from the surface of the skin to the nerve centre
centre. A kind of demonic being is imagined as residing in the
central nervous system, although of course present-day science will
century. We see in a number of spheres something like a forward leap
the middle of the fifteenth century, only it passes unnoticed when
fifteenth century. Looking at history from the inside, the middle of
the fifteenth century was the end of an epoch of human evolution that
actually began in the eighth century
continuous line of development running through the centuries from 800
until the middle of the fifteenth century
we find that prior to the eighth century
feeling was still a part of nature. Not until the eighth century did
historical development from the eighth century
to the fourteenth century
In the middle of the fifteenth century, however, these forces
middle of the fifteenth century onwards what we can call the
middle of the fifteenth century the education of mankind consists of
understand fully what belongs to the era from the eighth century
till the middle of the fifteenth century
centuries from inside at man's soul development, the spiritual
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the fifteenth century. And only now is there coming forth, from

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on Herbartian psychology. Now during the last few centuries and up to
recent times there has been something present in the life of man which
the last few centuries, has been to identify being with thought as
error that has been put at the summit of recent philosophy, for in the
in our physical body. We have, as it were, three centres where
sympathy and antipathy interplay. First we have a centre of this kind
broken off, at every point where there is a gap, there is a centre

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centres, in which sympathy and antipathy meet. We can then say:
sympathy and antipathy, occurs at the centre of the human
through it centres at which sympathy and antipathy meet, these

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school constitution of recent years has been the habit of keeping the
only in the second half of the nineteenth century, and which arose
applies to. It was a tendency of the nineteenth century to lay down

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nineteenth century to making furniture to please the eye, for

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concentrate on your willing, you will find that in every act of will
can say: From a certain central boundary there stream forth on the one
other hand to the point of drinking in the pleasant scent of a flower,
phenomenon of recent times, one which has even influenced actual
of music is a clear sign that recent psychological ideas about the

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completely lost sight of in recent times. You can see this in a

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dreaminess. This must be an incentive to you to work upon such
But now we can put this question: How is the true centre of the human
the centre whence rises all that comes out of the feelings into waking
this knowing, which is indicated by arrow 1 is the descent into the
descent into the body and the re-ascent, which happens in the

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statement, translated into decent German, runs roughly
beginning of an ascent. That is a radical difference. That is
in this way to the soul-life of an individual who died recently
system of Central Europe. You know that especially the teachers
in the universities in the early decades of this Central
middle of the fifteenth century the surviving traditions of the
the fifteenth century these are only the clattering after

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constituted that at the surface of the body and in his central organs

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immediate surroundings: if it scents danger in its
the nineties in the eighteenth century. I have again and again
contains very many practical hints for teaching. In recent

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concentrated in them persists as an external historical course

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Metamorphosis in bones. Head centre is within: breast centre outside:
limb centre in periphery. Sense of cosmic relations in ancient
understand this central member of man's nature, the breast-form, when
centre somewhere within. It has its centre centrically, if I may put
it so. Not so the breast. Its centre does not lie within the sphere.
The breast has its centre very far away. (In the drawing this is only
shown.) Thus the breast has its centre far away. Now where is the
centre of the limb system? This brings us to the second difficulty.
The limb system has its centre in the whole circumference. The centre
surface of a sphere. The centre is really everywhere; hence you can
in each child is situated a centre for the whole world, for the
macrocosm. This classroom is a centre — indeed many centres

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accurately. You simply have to scent out whether a matter is
Then you add a square underneath, adjacent to the hypotenuse of

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geography of the immediate neighbourhood and then, concentric
something else. This concentrates the teaching and

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connection with the central portion of the other external processes.
should they decompose. Man unites himself in body with a central part
process, so that the bacilli scent a comfortable place of sojourn. The

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century, and penetrated so deeply into our educational method,
to write a decent business letter. Certainly he may not have to
another, has the most beneficent influence imaginable on the
has grown up recently, healthier conditions may be brought

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Now the second half of the nineteenth century has stormed against the
nineteenth century there were brilliant men, men such as Schelling,
of pedagogy of the first half of the nineteenth century. His work was
century, when everything seeking access to man's soul by way of

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the form of decrees what was until recently common spiritual
Central Europe — must approach the curriculum with a
in other schools of Central Europe. This we shall do and we
of commodities and finance, that is, for doing percentage sums,

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Recently it has
illustrate what I mean by an example. Now I recently had a
So, then, I recently received this letter from someone active
of what, strictly speaking, has arisen during the centuries
science having in the nineteenth century Julius Robert Mayer
century of our era. Since then the evolution of man as a
do so in the middle of the fifteenth century, the beginning
that he reached in the middle of the fifteenth century did
same courage that in the fifteenth century where the old
end of the nineteenth century, that since the last third of
the nineteenth century it has been necessary for mankind to

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religious creeds through the centuries. It was very much more
century which led them to do so. Such professors as William
Copernicus and having in the 19th century one of its most
the 15th century. But since that time the progressive
middle of the 15th century at the beginning of the fifth Post
middle of the 15th century, had they the image or figure
attitude which men had at the beginning of the 15th century,
century man's former relationship with them ceased and that
since the last third of the 19th century, it has become

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ascent from below upwards the activities of the Archangels;
is a matter for rejoicing when this is not so. I was recently
development it has come about that in past centuries the
good and right for the centuries immediately following,
Herr Molt recently, that there are people today who say:

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Last Third of the Nineteenth Century,
marked the evolution of mankind in the course of centuries, of
in the course of its descent, in the course of its evolution, which
with the knowledge thus acquired. Thus from these Mystery centres
legal Act, even that magnificent painting of Michelangelo in the
Spiritual concerns were borrowed from the East. In Central Europe,
life. Of the legal element there is much in Central Europe, whilst
In the nineteenth century, again and again, we can see how men strove
first time in the much-confused nineteenth century how men attempted
century, attempted in particular to fertilize the remnant still left
Central Europe which had already revolted against tradition. We find
point out that already in Central Europe, the intellect, the pure
Central Europe, and this intimate knowledge reflects itself in the way
I was recently informed of something which is significant in historic
The periodical, The Threefold Social Organism, recently
Recently an article by a doctor in Sociology was brought to me. It
especially in recent years. So one can even call this man the Rasputin

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the 19th century, and we still find it on all hands in the whole way
movement in such a way that the latter goes a centimetre a second
centimetre a second quicker every second, we know the ratio between
body which would be able to impart an acceleration of a centimetre
forces “centric forces”, inasmuch as they always issue
from point-centres. It is indeed right to think of centric forces
forces always come into play. It may well be that the point-centre in
next few days. It is as though forces were concentrated at the points
such point or space forces are concentrated, able potentially to work
All physical research amounts to this: we follow up the centric
forces to their centres; we try to find the points from which effects
assume that there are centres, charged as it were with possibilities
measures, how strongly such a point or centre has the potentiality of
thus centred and concentrated a “potential” or
then have to trace the potentials of the centric forces, — so
we may formulate it. We look for centres which we then investigate as
everything in mechanical terms. It looks for centric forces and their
this method, looking only for the potentials of centric forces. Say
understand even organic phenomena in terms of potentials, of centric
in terms of centric forces. Why, in effect, — why not?
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Last Third of the Nineteenth Century,
When I have had occasion in recent years to speak on any of the great
about a new ascent?” For it must have been very clear to you in
nineteenth century, or towards the last third of it, who, from a
especially in Central Europe, for the dreadful conditions into which
so much of the fate of Central Europe depends?” If we do not
twentieth century, that which was suitable to Caesar's day is
came to pass in the last third of the nineteenth century, the event
inspirer for three centuries, at this very time the demonic opposing
the centre between Ahriman and Lucifer. The Christ power must permeate
first, Ahriman's the second, and in the centre, between the two, is
What then has happened in more recent days? Something has taken place
centuries, much that is Luciferic is hidden behind what is called
Christian evolution, that it was not till the third or fourth century
Christ. The event of Golgotha had already taken place some centuries
before, when those whose thoughts were centred upon that Event,
the third and fourth centuries the institution of Christmas; people

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came to pass in the last third of the nineteenth century, the event
inspirer for three centuries, at this very time the demonic opposing

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make a solid body glow with heat, — incandescent (
the Sun or from an incandescent body.

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of which we spoke last time. You will remember: when an incandescent
lead us on the way. Even in the 17th Century, we may remember, when
“Phosphorus” today; it refers to phosphorescent bodies of

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Last Third of the Nineteenth Century,
since the middle of the fifteenth century, since the rise of the fifth
especially that which has come about since the fifteenth century
to present-day consciousness, is to be found in the centre of gravity
centred in the rest of his organism. That which comes into existence
arise from — the human centre of gravity. If a being adequately
points; in these points are centred the forces from which the course
that he must look upon the centre of man if he wished to find the
of the fifteenth century, has produced in the man of today. We cannot
age since the fifteenth century. At the same time another Ethics,
the Science of Initiation. I have spoken recently about these facts,
the eighth pre-Christian century. We see, about two hundred years
climax in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. But this age of
are the men who, during the nineteenth century, have applied to the
come from the Gospels through the scientific method of last century?

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phenomena of light in rather recent times, historically speaking.
the 16th century. The way men thought of such phenomena before the
16th century was radically different. Today at school we get so
century were only able to creep in because these things were not
16th century, has quite lost hold of this difference. The
been the bane of Physics since the 16th century. In course of time
century conceived this strange idea of universal, inorganic, lifeless
to study it alone, as they began doing ever since the 16th century
recent developments set in, our physicists assumed that behind
In more recent times
Thus in more recent
not at all easy for Physics if these more recent phenomena really

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from the circumference towards the centre.

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Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
Last Third of the Nineteenth Century,
NINETEENTH CENTURY
content. Since the last third of the nineteenth century, the Spiritual
of the nineteenth century, the Spiritual World has willed to re-enter
more since the last third of the nineteenth century, to enter our
spirit of the past has recently uttered quite remarkable words at
‘Anthroposophy’ after his exit, complained recently that he

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century at the earliest. By such examples you will most readily
especially took up the study of these things. In the 17th century
did it arise? Nearer the centre of the disc are fewer holes,
real in the world outside myself, — then I must concentrate
not seem so simple if you recall what I said recently of the whole

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Last Third of the Nineteenth Century,
century (i.e., the eighteenth century) and the beginning of
wonderful world of plastic forms, so the German, more concentrated
of the people of Central Europe at that time.” At that time it
nineteenth century. Modern man stands before a terrible fact today
of last century an educationist, Heinrich Deinhardt, lived in Vienna,
slight accident. Yes, in Central Europe, men whose will was directed
“I happened to have a talk recently with a young Swedish

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— it was only at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries that
is, the 19th century was chiefly filled with the idea that we must
emerges. The meditations of physicists during the 19th century kept
extent when near the end of the century Heinrich Hertz, a physicist
idea of 19th century physicists was once again fulfilled to some
thinking of 19th century Physics had been right.
first fifteen years, say, of our century; you must admit that a
the green light on the glass; that is fluorescent light. I am sorry
strangely reminiscent of the properties of downright matter.
into some other form, e.g. into fluorescent rays. In pursuit of
recent times is compelling even Physics — though, to begin
recently been saying is quite true — very true indeed.

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nothing more revolutionary in any realm than this most recent
revealed in that the glass becomes fluorescent when we send the
the property of making the glass intensely fluorescent. Please
greenish-yellow, fluorescent light. The rays that shew themselves
but into those of Nature generally. The Physics of the 19th century
the 19th-century thinking to penetrate into the phenomena. But this
19th century, the Geometry itself began to grow uncertain. It
century thinking went a long way in this direction, especially
recent times the physicists have had recourse to a new device.
and concentrated etheric-astral part of your being. It is quite
feel impelled to expand what in the other case you concentrated

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19th century which has given a great deal of support to a
your fingers which have been in the outer vessels into the central
water the water in the central vessel will feel warm, while to the
finger which has been in the warm water, the water in the central
For all that the 19th century has striven to attain it may
views built up in the course of the 19th century on the
plays a role. All the 19th century theories, abandoned now
recently news has gone forth to the world that after infinite pains
century as this general tendency to unify things schematically. You
distant form the first they are concentrated and focused so that an
considerations. In the 19th century the mechanical theory
19th century, begins to fail. For a large part of the
physics of the 19th century into wrong ideas of reality. It

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17th century and took their fundamental character from the
How recent our ordinary ideas are may be realized when we look up some
17th century, and quite simply, by saying: When heat is
century. At the same time, however, people were backward in a grasp of
century. The art of experiment reached its full flower in the
19th century, but a development of clear, definite ideas
the 17th centuries. The consciousness that our earth is a

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During the course of the 19th century there was added to
19th century the “mechanical theory of heat.”

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own surface perpendicular to the line between itself and the center of
center of the earth. The whole earth conditions the
to think of this as a unity in relation with the central point of the

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center. If I may express myself somewhat paradoxically I might say:

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the realm of physics in the 19th century and the early part
of the 20th century.
the 19th century. The first person to call attention to
19th century, we see that such ideas as expressed by
This is what the 19th century investigators did. They
abstract method of modern 19th century physics through and
century physics. Physics itself, insofar as it rests on experiment,
And now we pass to the realm next adjacent to the gaseous. Just as the

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the 19th century in such a way that the light itself is
clear to ourselves that something of a unique nature is in the center

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this ice lens can be used to concentrate the heat rays just as light
rays can be concentrated (to use the ordinary terminology.) A
thermometer can then be used to demonstrate the concentration by the

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have existed right up to the twentieth century, and it is this
place, all that is related to and centralised in the head system
feel that no Western or Central European people could ever interpret
recently said quite frankly to a gathering attended by a number of
ladder to spiritual knowledge. But on their path of ascent from the
at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was the germ
internationalism is not the first stage of an ascent but the last
made their appearance in recent times. This quest for loving

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19th century. It has not had such ideas as we are

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20th century. So far I have taken into consideration only

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central portion of the spectrum is thereby entirely blotted out and
will remember that we have to consider this central portion as the
by showing that when the chemical portion is there, the phosphorescent
discover by unfolding themselves adjacent to solid bodies, in relation

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active in fluids, for instance, proceeds from the earth as a center.
we pass outwards from the center of the earth toward the surface of
percent of it is water, what plays through us as a delicate chemical
phosphorescent marvel in this fluid nature. We are in our inner nature
injected. And this something must have its center in a spiritual

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concentrated in our business-undertaking, the Kommender
utterly wrong end. I delivered a lecture recently on the idea
the first centuries of our present, Christian era, all over
century come to be a injurious
century on, money has played a similar role in the economic
something, which is not merely a bank, but makes a centre of
concentration for economic forces which are both a bank and,
at practical life, and learn to see where the centres of injury
really lie. And one centre of injury lies in the fact, that
century. Here we have then simply a practical idea, taken up

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say that when today someone in Central Europe speaks about, e.g.,
19th century European nations, speaking generally, have learned
considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you will find
who have to decide about spiritual questions in Central Europe,
all into our highest educational centres. Later these bad
lies before us the calling of the Central European nations,
out of the whole concrete Central European spiritual culture
education, we have something to give the world from Central

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PEDAGOGY OF THE WEST AND OF CENTRAL EUROPE: THE INNER ATTITUDE OF THE
someone in Central Europe today speaks of
concerned, for from the last third of the 19th century onwards the peoples
of Central Europe have taken their lead in such matters from the people of
ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
heads of people who set the tone in spiritual matters in Central Europe.
this is the very thing that introduces into the higher centres of learning
however, the world-historical mission of the Central European peoples to
Central European this the peoples of the West will not be able to
to give the world from Central Europe which nobody else can give

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per cent, and in Germany at times as high as 8 per cent; and
number of strikes went up 87 per cent between the years 1907
last century, somewhere in the 'seventies: the streets were
said, that 99 per cent more literary works were turned out in
to say indeed, that if 99 per cent fewer books were produced
last half-hundred of years in the nineteenth century. And
practical. Only recently, a practical man from the North said
19th century; and now it has reached the perfection of
since the middle of the fifteenth century, to detach the
19th century, they very essentially contributed amongst other

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from the head. In the head are concentrated, as it were, the
conflict which I described in connection with the adolescent
convinced that up to the sixteenth or seventeenth century
still appears in comparatively recent times we simply have

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role — are concentrated so to speak in the head. And
fully convinced that up to the 16th and 17th centuries traditions from the

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or the central organ, conveying perception and mental imagery, and his
motor nerves, that apparently run from the central organ to the organs of
run from our periphery more towards the centre, and we also have nerves
that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they
streaming through the sensory nerves to the centre for instance, undergoes
a break, as it were, at the centre, and has to jump across, without however
fifteenth century, thinks with his brain. Materialism is actually a

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that carries our ego on its descent from spirit worlds through birth into

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descent of a Being from the heavens. The wisdom of the shepherds is
wisdom remained. In the first centuries of our era, certain Gnostic
intellectual analysis and reason. And in the nineteenth century,
hardly a century old. The Christmas Tree was not adopted as a symbol
of the Festival until the nineteenth century. What is the Christmas
presented in the Christmas Plays of earlier centuries, is gradually

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soul-forces, to have been in all past centuries and millenia
untouched by earth, was descending to it, and this descent had to make
into its weaving life as it perceived the descent of the heavenly
shown how the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped in the first centuries
analytical reasoning powers alone. And in the 19th century naturalism
likewise are in direct line of descent from the Eastern Wisemen. The
Christmas Tree came into being only in the 19th century. What is this
earlier centuries — and in the appearance of the Christmas Tree

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Astronomy in, say, the 13th and 14th centuries, because this
and 14th centuries, which distinguished Individualities in
humanity since the middle of the 15th century needed
own opinion in recent times, — well, my dear friends,
magnificent thoughts on this question of the human
middle of the 19th century, Biology has largely been built
middle of the 15th century, if we cannot relate the events of
15th century without taking all this into account.

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the Sun. The Sun formed the central point, as it were, for
radically with the idea of the center of coordinates being in
the center of the Earth, and transferred it to the center of
coordinates was removed from the center of the Earth to the
center of the Sun.
So, when taking the center of the Earth as the center of
effect: ‘as an experiment, I will place the center of
the whole coordinate system in the center of the Sun.’
element, simply the distance from the center of the Earth in
century.

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no longer shoots into outward form; it concentrates, if I may
put it so, into a point; it becomes centered in itself.
center. Here we begin to apprehend the relationships of space
The Planets move in ellipses round the central body, which
ellipses round the central body and the central body is not
the mean distance from the central body). This Law, you see,
darts into the center, bringing time into it and therewith
you who continually relate yourself to the central

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a central body, the Sun, with the planets revolving around it
past few centuries by deductive reasoning were the real
have eccentric orbits, — they describe ellipses. This
eccentric orbits and describe ellipses, in one focus of which
upon the picture of the planets moving in eccentric orbits,
equator, and that the orbits are eccentric ellipses, —
agree that this mutability of the eccentric orbits, and of
lectures given recently in Dornach by our friend Dr. Blumel,

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other things there recently appeared a certain divergence of

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Science. For many centuries men have grown accustomed to look at only
been customary during the last few centuries and which is utterly
through the centuries. To take a concrete example: How does a German
incarnated in a previous life during the early centuries of
are led back to the centuries of the conquests of America and to
first centuries of Christendom were in the more Southerly regions of
the present population of Western and Central Europe and the lands
the Mystery of Golgotha and in the earliest centuries of Christendom.

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Philosophy’), only a few centuries into the past.
15th century, one of the most essential in the more recent
in his interesting work “The Central Problems of
was going on in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. About
and 14th centuries; — it is not seen clearly and
beginning long before — in the 8th century B.C. We may
farther back — beyond the 8th century BC — we
often mentioned, this rhythm is reminiscent — purely
man in a concentrated and contracted form — and the

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system, and they have recently been leading scientists to
anything most recently discovered is seized on to explain
periphery. Through some central switch or commutator the
and acts of will. From the centripetal nerves it was supposed
to be switched over to the centrifugal; they compared it all
The 19th century, of course, no longer believed the comets to
century they had statistics purporting to connect them with

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and b as the center of the axes of a co-ordinate system and
conditions, — take C as the center of the co-ordinate
always turned towards the center of the circle, while now (in
the case of the straight line), we are shown that the center
are obtained, the centres of which are opposite to one
motions. There is no desire to accent what is real; in order

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were continued by others in a way more akin to 19th-century
polarity. Take the tubular bone and think of this centre-line
what corresponds to the central line of the tubular bone. But
centre-line of the tubular bone towards it inner surface
meet in the centre of the Earth
— tending, as it were, towards the centre of the Earth
— we should have to think of a polar point in the centre
point in the Earth's centre. But, or course, it is not to be
sphere concentrated in the centre of the Earth, we should
what is within the central point. However we look to the
study them simply according to the laws of centric forces,
related to the laws of centric forces as is the sphere to the
mechanics in the development of the laws of centric forces;
phoronomy, which has essentially to do with centric forces,
familiar system of mechanics and phoronomy to the centric
forces and centric phenomena of movement, only then shall we

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from the celestial Sphere towards the centre of the Earth,
pathway of the centripetal nerves, through the nerve-centre
and outward again to the termination of the centrifugal

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centre. We then have a system of forces which we may conceive
can be gone into. But if you really concentrate upon the

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Sun as centre. He then assumes that the sphere of the fixed
stars, — its centre likewise in the Sun, — is so
stars as is the centre of a sphere to the surface
difference at all. Aristarchus lived in the third Century
heliocentric, as we may call it, — thereafter vanished
post-Atlantean, the heliocentric idea comes forth again,
in the 3rd Century B.C.!
heliocentric conception of the World the more widely
recognised authorities the heliocentric conception prevailed
noteworthy fact. The heliocentric conception of the World is
in an eccentric circle round the Earth. The planets also move
moving in this eccentric circle which he
its turn the centre of another circle. Upon this other circle
the centre of the latter circle moves along the former. The
superimposed upon another circle, and an eccentric one to
heliocentric system is fundamentally no different from the
Now take the movements Ptolemy attributes to the centres
same figure. The movement of the centre of Mercury's epicycle
centres of their epicycles move along paths which correspond
the centres of the epicycles are diverse, — shall we
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central circle in the Figure) is the Earth, whilst the whole
Moon's centre) from the centre of the Earth. So large is the
the further development of the embryo proceeds. Eccentrically
therefore, near the periphery, a centre forms, from which the
centre somewhere between animal and plant — a centre
centre-of-gravity of the three bodies — Sun, Moon and

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centring as it does in the nerves-and-senses system, is
points are equidistant from one central point. We were
like a centre, but the centre is in the infinite sphere.
attribute to these paths some centre or other within ordinary
space. But if we want to think of centres for the path of
central point. The other, which is all the time annulling and
within, and becomes manifest to me from this centre.
its central point; we will investigate it on the
understanding that it is a body and that its central point is

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figures, and then the centres of observation. Such is the
move deliberately, we move our centre of gravity in a
direction of it outward from some central point. It takes its
that goes outward from the given centre. And now in contrast
are not thrust outward from the centre, but on the contrary;
the central point to which they tend just as phenomena that
will tend together, striving towards the centre.

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example of dogma — I want to refer to a central dogma
four centuries didn't exist before. Not so very far back the
conservation of matter” in the nineteenth century was
obvious — I have recently mentioned it in an open lecture
ways since its inception at the start of the twentieth century.
foundation of what I have recently wanted to characterise, by
dear friends, at the beginning of the (20th) century the way

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be said to move his centre of gravity parallel to the surface
space, even from the Sun, towards the centre of the Earth.
centre and looking outward, — only we should then have bank
Earth's centre; only for this comparison the Earth's inner
the planets with the Earth here (Earth in the centre) and
being in the centre of the system.
think of the Sun in the centre and the Planets around it
making a lemniscate loop-curve the centre of which is the
old heliocentric system and the new heliocentric, the
carry out his voluntary movements while moving his centre of

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they work outward from the given center to the wide
and kind. The one comes from the centre of the Sun, towards
which negative matter is tending; the other from the centre
arise. Comets are ever-nascent phenomena, perpetually coming
ever-becoming, ever-nascent. Out there at last it melts away
may not treat it as though there were a centre here, and here
one hand and centrically on the other

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until recently investigators in psychology and education have
diminished in recent times. We are not so intimately

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concentrated in the head, in the life of the senses, and yet

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system is concentrated primarily in the head, as I said
the central nerve organs. Then, inexplicably, a reaction to
It leads to the solution of a problem that is central for
central to such investigations because it discloses the fact

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concentrated in an outer visible form. This something does
the fifteenth century, humanity in all its various groups has

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recent phases of modern thought. Goethe used the intellect as
of inner rhythm — meditating, concentrating, creating
recent years, that the needful — indeed, indispensable
efforts, which have been very active and are magnificent in

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century between the time of Constantine and Julian the
recently for a small circle, by looking exclusively at the
recent times, cannot help but seem primitive compared to what
knowledge is what I have recently been describing. These two
science has given us recently is really in large measure no
researcher. Whether we look at recent astronomy or the views

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recently seen in some of our lectures that these signs point
children. Until recently he hadn't told me of his intentions
the external aspect. His recent conversation with me was

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In the course of eight lectures given at the recent
of the last century had upon the whole life of humanity today. As a

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third of the 19th century, wished to disentangle the problem of freedom

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reasoned thinking and instead concentrating on something dimly stirring
the middle of the 15th century. In earlier times, Imaginations were
Then, in more recent times,
at a form of presentation reminiscent of earlier, instinctive Imaginations.
to evolve the anthroposophical view at the turn of the century it really
more recent origin. And these concepts have gradually become dead concepts
pedigree in terms of evolutionary descent. (Translator)

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just as meditation, concentration, is used to make Imagination possible.

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In most recent times, to be
century, like a devastating wave, proceeds when all is said and done
centuries, and especially in very recent times, and see to what moral

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have been trained over the last centuries, he will decide in favour
Very recently, however, a
in the habit of visualizing it in recent centuries, then there is no
century have in the final instance arisen from the accord, the unison — though
last few hundred years and particularly in most recent times, it is
of the thought and philosophical habits of very recent times absolutely

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which started in the 15th century, has advanced to scientific research
a child achieves, so the means used by civilized 20th century man cannot
which has come to be the scientific way of thinking over the last centuries.
of recent centuries, using it to bring clarity into a system of nature
And modern aesthetics, evolved out of the thinking of more recent times,
comes from the centre that is God. It is a perversion of the truth to
in the 20th century, also where the Christ event is concerned. People
example, not with the intention of using a recently published essay

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Education for Adolescents
Education for Adolescents

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recent date. These forces — in the way they are working in you
— are scarcely older than this century. They are forces which
century. But today, I shall speak about these forces in their more
nineties of the last century, people were stressing, both in art and
tempted to date it about the twelfth or thirteenth century, in order
influential centers of culture, is nevertheless an evolutionary
century. So there we have the Middle Ages in the present. In Middle
fact, forgotten in the second half of the nineteenth century. But
taken by Middle Europe and its cultural life, the leading centers of
fifteenth centuries from the spirit which still remained in the West.
particularly marked in the last third of the nineteenth century.
the nineteenth century. If we study the literature and the writings
life, we find during the last third of the nineteenth century, up to
in the last third of the nineteenth century, our modern style is raw
century, was finely chiseled and full of spirituality. But those who
place in the last third of the nineteenth century. You can follow
romantic poets in the first third of the nineteenth century. Think of
last third of the nineteenth century. Those who are sensitive to such
reached its culmination in the last third of the nineteenth century,
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general. I do not wish to accentuate either the one or the other, but
recently it has reached a climax making it more clearly perceptible.
it reached a climax during recent decades.
the nineteenth century it showed itself through a particular
imagination cast an eye over the higher forms of culture in recent
centuries, he made acquaintance at every turn with this objective
noticeable in the new century. That is one aspect. The other —
can decently assimilate what will enable them to become old in a
Centuries
repetition of a repetition. Until the fifteenth century A.D. mankind
Up to the fifteenth century the human being, in his soul, was by no
themselves in the soul. But from the fifteenth century onwards souls
the first time. Since the fifteenth century the earth has been new.
century the earth has become new for the first time. Before then
human beings were fed on the past. Since the fifteenth century they
fifteenth century? Since then, the son has inherited from the father
that from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century tradition was still
eighteenth century things had gone so far that the father had really
the situation at the onset of the nineteenth century: The feeling
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beyond the time of the fifteenth century, before the age I attempted
although after the fourth or fifth century A.D. it was very colorless
nineteenth century, the word spirit conveyed nothing to the mind,
great change took place in the middle of the fifteenth century: this
Pictorially I would say: In the tenth and eleventh centuries of
nineteenth century those who regarded themselves as the most
century. At that time man did not think only with the brain but with
thinking which has evolved more and more since the fifteenth century
insignificant figure! Since the last third of the nineteenth century
atom say from the fourth or filth century going around in his brain!

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Educational and Spiritual Impulses for Life in the Twentieth Century
a review of ethics up to the end of the nineteenth century. I do not
strike dumb any recent attempts to base ethical judgments upon
world at the end of the nineteenth century, so that it could be
judgments are modified as human society changes from century to
century. And a reviewer in the nineties of last century says that it
nineteenth century makes it eminently necessary that men, as time
century was a time of tremendous significance for the spiritual
since the end of the last century are faced with quite a different
situation in the life of soul from that of previous centuries. And I
century, man stood, in his soul-being, face to face with
Nothingness. This turning-point of the nineteenth century revealed
twentieth century with alert and wide-awake consciousness, Nietzsche
century, making a new dawn necessary for the century just beginning.
philology in the middle of the nineteenth century. With a mind of
philological standpoint of the middle of the nineteenth century and
he found in the middle of the nineteenth century, namely,
towards the beginning of the last third of the nineteenth century,
fifteenth century. What Nietzsche experienced was the intellectualism
early seventies of the nineteenth century there grew in his soul the
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Educational and Spiritual Impulses for Life in the Twentieth Century
nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries; to describe
century and more powerfully in subsequent centuries, what had been
that actually nothing more was known about them. For centuries
natural before the fifteenth century, moved onwards automatically and
of which I have spoken, persisted through the centuries and
contributed towards such statements. Before the fifteenth century,
anyone during the first centuries of Christianity spoken about proofs
still less! For in the second or third century before Christ, to
impulses for today. When in the first third of the fifteenth century
therefore, at the end of the nineteenth century it was said that all
and in the nineteenth century a history of culture was established.
first third of the fifteenth century. But if we go back in time and
point in the first third of the fifteenth century. Human beings
century: Certain circles realized that the old intuitions, the
century] who delivered a speech about the boundaries to the
consistency was not a characteristic of the century then ending.
modern man, since the first third of the fifteenth century, thinking
back before the fifteenth century, it becomes evident that thinking
the beginning of the fifteenth century the human being was still able
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now young, entering the century in full youth, and its relation to
over something from the last third of the nineteenth century, but one
cannot, as the first, after the last third of the nineteenth century,
human heart in the West during the past centuries, we can but say:
For a long time existence before the descent into a physical earthly
centers of art were all united in the Mysteries, something which
problematic, up to the first third of the fifteenth century, we find

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of the century, this feeling breathed of the present, whoever has now
The generation which at the beginning of the twentieth century
experience became evident, at the beginning of the twentieth century,
century, derived a quite special character — the character of
the nineteenth century. They were thoroughly healthy forces, but
the first third of the fifteenth century, all man's striving
in writings of the twelfth or thirteenth century, for instance. This
century, to implicit belief in all we find there. We shall certainly
nineteenth century, as, for example, Herbart — one could name
third of the nineteenth century — whoever realizes what a
and reached its climax at the end of the nineteenth century.
similar experiences. But in the nineties of last century I was always
approach to knowledge generally at the end of the nineteenth century.
movement at the turn of the nineteenth century. Often they were not
the nineteenth century is extraordinarily significant. Yes, but this
are living not only centuries but thousands of years later —
many of those who are true sons of the nineteenth century are shaking

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published in one volume of the Complete Centenary Edition of Rudolf
taught by their spiritual leaders in the Mystery-centres how they should
received from the Mystery-centres, and they were able to carry out of

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and published in one volume of the Complete Centenary Edition of
Complete Centenary Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works in the original
and published in one volume of the Complete Centenary Edition of
the Mystery-centres how they should relate themselves in their
the Mystery-centres, and they were able to carry out of ordinary day

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about the turn of the nineteenth century, by considering the trend of
fifteenth century; in an inward study we find ourselves led back to
the fourth post-Christian century. A date indicating some important
cultures were extraordinarily intermixed up to the fourth century;
disposition of soul changes from one century to another. There was a
century. We find then something that for the very first time caused
we approach the fifteenth century, we discover with what intensity
why did those souls who, up to the fifteenth century thought about
century, being reincarnations from the time before the year 333 from
centuries. Essentially, however, civilized mankind was made up of
many centuries before, arose the impulse to dispute about the reality
era in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth centuries? What actually
we observe the souls who lived from the fifteenth century on into
[or] ninth post-Christian centuries, at least those who were teachers
again about the turn of the nineteenth century.
been entirely lost. It was at the turn of the nineteenth century that
the first third of the fifteenth century the receiving of thought
if since the fifteenth century man has lost the faculty of perceiving
life on earth before the sixth or seventh century, particularly
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to the fifteenth century — the so-called intellectual or mind
centuries preceding the modern age, that is, up to the fifteenth
century, human beings met and spoke to one another out of the
nineteenth century. It has been brought about by circumstances
century, a real modern youth movement would not have been possible.
preceding the fifteenth century. One had first to justify the claim

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fruitful soil in Goethe because at the end of the eighteenth century,
nineteenth century he was persuaded by Schiller to revise Faust he
greatest age the soul and spirit were on the ascent, how the soul is
exercise of the will that goes right to the center of the human
growing up about the turn of the nineteenth century. Try to feel that

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the nineteenth century. Now he was also a child of his age, that is

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past, and this is of quite recent date — in fact, it entered
human evolution with the century.
what in this century has come for the whole of humanity. Former ages
spoke of how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the so-called
were only willing to concentrate on what existed outside the world of
It is not placed upon the head. It is bestowed by a concentration of
then it would describe, in connection with recent centuries, men's
might say that those people who in the last century really
sixteenth century, especially in the sixteenth century. Then we
appearance. And so we must picture the people of recent centuries who
who want to find their way livingly into the twentieth century should
realize that those who represented the nineteenth century can no
century by the philistine Lewes, or the pedant, Richard M. Meyer, can
third of the nineteenth century which can give some idea of Goethe is
something of it can be taken over into the twentieth century, for the
all are caught. In the centers of culture which have retained
who come from Vienna will sense that in the last century this was
ascent only when, in its experience and whole way of working,

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thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, we have the feeling that it was
that has come to pass during the last few centuries, reaching its
culmination in the nineteenth century, is that the concepts dying in
magnificent theory of evolution provide? It gives us a survey of how
century onwards natural science has been triumphantly progressing,
century the dragon stood with particular intensity before the human
century on into the nineteenth. We see it correctly only when we
from the fifteenth century and on into the nineteenth, humanity was
door to this knowledge was firmly barred in the nineteenth century,
a true spiritual knowledge which conquers this center of life (which,
for man's inner being is a center of death) — the
century, at the turn of the nineteenth century and on into the
nineteenth century — Michael's intervention with which we
beings at the beginning of the twentieth century — they felt
the last third of the nineteenth century, the older generation felt
be able to live. The epoch from the fifteenth century to the
third of the nineteenth century, has been striving to enter our
natural to human beings, there were Mystery centers. In these Mystery
centers, which were at the same time church, school, and center of
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nineteenth century a kind of axiom was put forward by nearly
reality itself. This is the ascent through the three stages
from empirical science. In recent times it has been impossible
arachnoidal space, the central canal of the spinal cord, and

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us be quite honest with ourselves. During the nineteenth century
takes his start purely from empirical science. In recent times people
arachnoidal cavity, central canal of the spinal cord and the

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think concentratedly and putting a warm cloth round his head. (The

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sets in, it is the rhythmic organism which is the centre of activity.

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the human nervous system that run from the central nervous

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parts of man's nervous system which run from the central

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of what one has conducted to the formative centre with the movement
depends upon one's understanding that a sort of centrifugal dynamic
is not exactly centripetal, but which could be designated as a
similar-to-centripetal dynamic that works into every human organ.
a centrifugal and a centripetal, in each human organ. For everything
a great role. For everything which is centrifugal, radiating, a great
this way the consciousness centres on exactly that which is to be
to consciousness, in order that, as I have already said, this concentration
seen as a sort of central telegraphic apparatus to which the so-called

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Organismus. Ela estÃ¡ contida no volume nÃºmero 218 da EdiÃ§Ã£o CentenÃ¡ria Completa [em
inglÃªs, Complete Centenary Edition] dos trabalhos de Rudolf Steiner.
Esse processo rÃtmico constantemente repetido pode ser comparado com duas coisas diferentes aqui na existÃªncia fÃsica terrena. Pode ser comparado com a inspiraÃ§Ã£o e a expiraÃ§Ã£o, e tambÃ©m com o sono e a vigÃlia. Na existÃªncia fÃsica na Terra, ambos sÃ£o processos rÃtmicos â€“ ambos podem ser comparados com o que venho descrevendo. Mas com os processos que ocorrem no mundo espiritual entre a morte e o renascimento, nÃ£o se trata de saber algo de uma forma puramente abstrata, ou â€“ devo acrescentar â€“ para a satisfaÃ§Ã£o de curiosidade espiritual; trata-se de reconhecer a vida na Terra como uma imagem do supraterrestre. E surge necessariamente a questÃ£o: o que acontece na vida terrena que se assemelha a uma faculdade de memÃ³ria nÃ£o possuÃda pelo homem em sua consciÃªncia comum, uma faculdade que pode ser possuÃda por seres das hierarquias, arcanjos? O que hÃ¡ na vida fÃsica que Ã© como uma memÃ³ria de se viver no mundo dos seres espirituais, ou como uma memÃ³ria de se experimentar a si mesmo lÃ¡?
Pois bem, por que descemos ao mundo fÃsico do mundo espiritual? VocÃªs poderÃ£o deduzir, a partir do que eu disse aqui da Ãºltima vez, que as forÃ§as que nos mantÃªm juntos com os seres espirituais superiores decaem. Aqui na vida fÃsica, envelhecemos porque as forÃ§as que nos mantÃªm em conexÃ£o com a Terra fÃsica diminuem; lÃ¡, enfraquece o que nos mantÃªm ligados aos seres espirituais. Diminuem principalmente as forÃ§as que permitem que nos apreendamos em meio aos seres espirituais e que nos possibilitam sermos independentes. No mundo espiritual, por um perÃodo considerÃ¡vel antes de descermos Ã Terra, perdemos a capacidade de conviver com os seres espirituais. Com o auxÃlio dos seres espirituais, formamos a semente espiritual de nosso corpo fÃsico, que enviamos primeiramente; daÃ nos apropriamos de nosso corpo etÃ©rico e prosseguimos. Ilustrei-lhes isso em minha Ãºltima palestra. Nossa capacidade de viver com seres espirituais no mundo espiritual desbota e percebemos como, por meio das forÃ§as da lua, nos aproximamos cada vez mais da Terra. Sentimo-nos como um eu, mas cada vez menos capazes de compreender as regiÃµes espirituais, ou de nos manter nelas; tal capacidade se torna cada vez mais dÃ©bil. Temos um sentimento crescente de que o desfalecimento prevalecerÃ¡ sobre nÃ³s, no mundo espiritual. Isso cria uma necessidade de que aquilo que nÃ£o mais conseguimos carregar conosco â€“ o sentimento do eu â€“ seja sustentado por algo externo, a saber, nosso corpo: surge uma necessidade de sermos sustentados por um corpo. Eu poderia dizer que, gradualmente, temos que desaprender a voar e aprender a andar. VocÃªs sabem que estou falando figurativamente, mas a imagem estÃ¡ em absoluto acordo com a verdade, com a realidade. Ã‰ assim que encontramos o caminho para nosso corpo. O sentimento de solidÃ£o encontra um refÃºgio no corpo e se converte na faculdade da lembranÃ§a, e temos que nos empenhar para alcanÃ§ar um novo sentimento de comunhÃ£o, na Terra. IfŒD!
Descrevi esse estado de sono sob um determinado aspecto, a Ãºltima vez que estive aqui. Agora quero acrescentar algo sobre os processos entÃ£o mencionados. Eu sei que essas coisas sÃ£o facilmente mal compreendidas. Repetidamente, ouve-se dizerem: â€œDa Ãºltima vez, ele descreveu a experiÃªncia do homem entre dormir e acordar, e agora ele estÃ¡ nos contando algo diferente sobre issoâ€. Meus queridos amigos, se lhes digo o que um oficial vivencia em seu posto de trabalho, isso nÃ£o contradiz o que mais tarde lhes direi sobre ele, quando no seio de sua famÃlia. As duas coisas caminham juntas. Portanto, vocÃªs devem ter claro que, quando conto experiÃªncias entre o dormir e o acordar, nÃ£o se trata de toda a histÃ³ria, assim como Ã© possÃvel um oficial ter uma vida em famÃlia, fora de seu posto.
Esta Ã© a glÃ³ria essencial da arte: ela nos leva, por meios simples, ao mundo espiritual, no presente imediato. Quem Ã© capaz de olhar para a vida interior do homem dirÃ¡: de modo geral, o homem se lembra apenas das coisas que vivenciou no curso de sua vida terrena atual. Mas a forÃ§a pela qual ele se lembra dessas experiÃªncias terrenas Ã© a forÃ§a enfraquecida de sua existÃªncia como um eu na vida prÃ©-terrena. E o amor que ele Ã© capaz de desenvolver aqui como um amor universal da humanidade Ã© a forÃ§a enfraquecida da semente que frutificarÃ¡ apÃ³s a morte. E assim como no canto e na fala declamatÃ³ria aquilo que um homem Ã© deve estar unido, pela memÃ³ria, Ã quilo que ele pode dar ao mundo por meio do amor, assim tambÃ©m Ã© em toda arte. Um homem pode experimentar uma harmonia de seu eu com o que estÃ¡ fora, mas a menos que seja capaz de mostrar externamente o que estÃ¡ dentro dele â€“ seja no tom, na pintura ou em qualquer outro ramo da arte â€“, a menos que mostre na superfÃcie o que ele Ã©, o que a vida fez dele, qual Ã© o conteÃºdo essencial de sua memÃ³ria, ele nÃ£o poderÃ¡ ser um artista. Tampouco Ã© um verdadeiro artista aquele que Ã© acentuadamente inclinado a ser egotista em sua arte. Somente aqueles dispostos a se abrir para o mundo, os que se tornam um com seus semelhantes, os que desdobram o amor, sÃ£o capazes de unir esse desdobramento do amor intimamente a seu prÃ³prio ser. AltruÃsmo e egotismo se unem em uma Ãºnica corrente. Confluem naturalmente e mais intimamente nas artes sonoras, mas tambÃ©m nas artes plÃ¡sticas. E quando, por meio de um certo aprofundamento de nossas forÃ§as de conhecimento, nos Ã© revelado como o homem estÃ¡ conectado a um mundo suprassensÃvel, no que diz respeito ao passado e ao futuro, podemos tambÃ©m dizer que o homem tem um antegosto presente desse vÃnculo, no criar e fruir artÃstico. Na verdade, a arte nunca adquire todo o seu valor se nÃ£o estiver, em certa medida, de acordo com a religiÃ£o. NÃ£o que tfŒD!

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find ourselves by looking away from the outer world and concentrating
consonant reminiscent of something hard and angular, the other
reminiscent of the quality of velvet. In the consonant we adapt
magnificent advances, and these advances of science — though they
Recently when I was in Berlin I saw again what quantities of notebooks

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then the Society began to feel that it needed a central building of
the Anthroposophical Society felt moved to establish its center in
shaping ideas for the past three or four centuries; words are not
the need to concentrate all the forces of their hearts and minds on
center fruitful for all life's various realms. During the hard times
The Christian Community with its center at Stuttgart. The next to
on in fact, quite recently — another movement made its
way these scientists still speak with an undertone reminiscent of the
members has recently grown a great deal longer, lacks inner stability

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pinpoint it in the first third of the fifteenth century, for it was
descent of Christ, the spiritual sun enters from spiritual heights
been following my recent activities will have seen how occupied I

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In recent times the
those based on such physical and more recent chemical concepts as may
recently developed the ability to form about it. For if we go back to
earlier times, say to the thirteenth or twelfth or eleventh century,
quiescent, by becoming a pole of stillness in the motion one
in recent years, anthroposophy has been carrying on its research.
consistently my more recent lectures have concerned themselves with
years of the Twentieth Century, I gave my first Berlin lectures
the spirituality of Western civilization, centered in the Mystery of
that evolutionary development in man's life on earth that centered in
been worked out and related to its central core, the Mystery of
phase of the Society's life, everything centered around the goal of
a recent issue of Die Drei,
anyone aware to what extent it has been possible in recent years to
spread anthroposophy beyond the boundaries of Central Europe, will
made the crowning peak of science's most recent developments. Our

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last week I concentrated, even though sketchily, on their
practice that civilized man has developed in recent centuries is just
escape from what the civilization of recent centuries has produced,
religious and will impulses of recent centuries are the very same
and religious impulses that have evolved during recent centuries. But
few centuries. An anthroposophist feels that he would have to be
to the kind of life and practice that past centuries have brought us,
modern external life and practice during the past few centuries,

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common; last week I concentrated, even though sketchily, on their
practice that civilized man has developed in recent centuries is just
escape from what the civilization of recent centuries has produced,
religious and will impulses of recent centuries are the very same
and religious impulses that have evolved during recent centuries. But
few centuries. An anthroposophist feels that he would have to be
to the kind of life and practice that past centuries have brought us,
modern external life and practice during the past few centuries,

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suffer with each other recently, because that suffering is the
meetings, and listening there to debates reminiscent of the ordinary,
that the last Central Executive Committee accomplished a great deal
I accomplished when I was similarly active at the center in my role
Anthroposophical Movement. They will ruin any Central Executive
to hear what the two members of the Central Executive Committee would
[The members of the Central Executive Committee were
go on devoting himself to the Central Executive Committee, ideally
an attack on any member or members of the Central Executive

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Society's various centers of activity. But again, that would require

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that, preceding this descent from the spiritual world to the physical
human embryo, they in turn have been affected by the descent of the

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to become acquainted with this whole matter. The center of music
gives you the chest, the central organ of the spirit; and the ability
eurythmy it is necessary that this part here — the descent of
of the human organization. The element of harmony contains the center

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ninety-nine per cent of our versifiers.) And not only Platen, but
back to the first half of the nineteenth century, an age when the
Forgets the gold centre, the golden

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spiritual life of Central
is connected with man’s entire soul-life, as being the centre

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to its primal innocent state. Particularly when man felt himself
reversion to the primal innocent state. And when Homer
the primaeval innocent state, things were quite different –
century Wilhelm Jordan tried, as you know, to revive alliteration,
language, notably in Central
material fate may befall Central Europe, the German spirit will not

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darkened, the eyes themselves begin, like two phosphorescent suns, to
phosphorescent, glimmering light. It is not surprising that this
which could immediately perceive this phosphorescent glow.
phosphorescent glow, this resounding music — it is these that
music into the recently-experienced earthly sounds. They are in a
gentle phosphorescent glow, this living music, are an outer revelation
The mild phosphorescent glow, proceeding from the eyes; the living
eyes, one sees this phosphorescent glow, inwards, changing into
phosphorescent light — the occult script corresponding to
sounding, this living music, this gently phosphorescent glow, these
ever since the first third of the fifteenth century. What he

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centuries, before we descend again to an actual life on Earth.

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of evolution in a comparatively recent period, though we do not like
Christian centuries, unless you realize that the inner activity of men
written in the ninth century, for example, or the older writings on
Human thinking since the fifteenth century has acquired a particular
I was particularly impressed with all this recently. (I have often
to serve as burial places, for at all times the most important centers
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most important cult-centers, just such places in which the spiritual

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little of this and so as soon as we get a few centuries away from the
development only during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, though
described as the guidance of mankind in the old centers of ritual and
consolation. This is the epoch which exhibited such magnificent
inner concentration — not acquired in the way described in my book,
course extend for some thousands of years) cease through inner concentration

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as a decent fellow, and if after he has got into this mediumistic
In recent periods of human evolution, however, when men plunged into
inner harmony. Since the fifteenth century, when this modern
still in course of preparation. For centuries now, even millennia, the
attitude. At the beginning of the forties of the nineteenth century

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the centre of our considerations; a picture which is in truth a deep
through space to combat this sulphurous element are concentrated in
of recent centuries, we can see that the chief feature of this
recent times; it is iron that has planted in the physical world everything
materialism of mankind in the last four centuries is shown not merely
impulses of recent times man has applied iron to this material
continued to appeal to man for centuries, even thousands of years.
the last few centuries, especially the 19th century, there would be

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say with some brief remarks I made recently in a course for
Then, from the fifteenth century onward, the rhetorician as
century into the modern age. Hence it is not so easy today for
corn, is composed of such and such a percentage of

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the last three or four centuries. It is this that we must find
entire dynamic system; the center of gravity shifts a little,
combined with carbon, and also nitrogen. The percentages
percentage of nitrogen in the air that is good for breathing,
and also a definite percentage of oxygen. Suppose a man comes
than the normal percentage. If the person breathes in
certain percentages in his environment than within his

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physical existence on Earth and while, before the actual descent, he
physical substance from the centre of his being and produces new
us say, between some year in the nineteenth or twentieth century and
will amount to nothing; it can be accepted only as the centre of
concentrate on this thought.

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and beginning of the twentieth century, lived in earlier epochs
the mentality of the nineteenth century.
that particularly in the last two thirds of the nineteenth century, a
this attitude continued on into the twentieth century and has helped
century and the earlier character of this spiritual life. Perceiving
thirds of the nineteenth century there are men who cannot fail to
provided the foundations for a truly wonderful centre of culture
in the eighth/ninth century A.D. And at
personality of whom I am speaking was a magnificent organiser
last two thirds of the nineteenth century was deeply influenced by
oriental Court in the eighth/ninth century. We know how intensely and
century was linked with three other men with whom he was connected
which, in the nineteenth century, he established relations with the
to Alsace where he taught in a centre of the Mysteries and where he
education provided in a given century do not make it possible for
centuries, we shall everywhere find Arabism in its new forms.
century A.D. but I have
northwards, whither the civilisation centred in Constantinople would
century A.D., in the
gate of death in the ninth century and were born again in the
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innocent state of the human race. Before men succumbed to the
second century A.D. in Rome,
century A.D., were
eleventh century, as a woman. The experiences undergone in the life
then came again to the Earth in the eighteenth century and was born
eighteenth century as Goethe. Such is the origin of the wonderful
spirituality, this individual in the nineteenth century
incarnation, he was born again in the nineteenth century as the

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avsnitt. Særlig blir hjernens centrale partier mere uavhengige

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bedøvelsescentrer i hjernen. Alt dette oppleves på en egen

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the central body of the entire planetary system. The lightness
eccentric when striving for psychic development, in order that
in spite of the ascent into the spiritual world, to stand
is concentrated in the activity of the heart, is none other
seem like little benumbed centres in his brain. All this is

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accentuated; for fundamentally every human being has all four

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he specially concentrates upon this etheric part, he always
feels this concentration to be connected with a melancholy

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above the mere innocent vision to the inner understanding of
his astral body, and yet were as innocent as regards its
egotism which accentuates the narrow, personal interests as the
interests being concentrated into the ego, the acme of the
grandly Augustine attacks self-centredness.
us pass on a few centuries. We then meet at the University of
in a magnificent way; personally he seems to have worked
the sixteenth century, in central Europe, we meet with another
Central Europe the legend of the third Faust, John Faust, also
sixteenth century welded together all the horror of the egotism
Augustine, that of Erasmus, and the Faust of Central Europe,
Central Europe, which also became the Faust of Marlowe. Out of

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beneficent powers of the other being, thou desirest to pour
wish to unite ourselves with the beneficent forces proceeding

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half of the '80s of last century, he said to me that he was
and twentieth centuries! They believed themselves able to
nineteenth or twentieth centuries; for the forms which man had
all the animal forms around man in the nineteenth century. And
nineteenth and twentieth centuries traced back their ancestry
form of the Centaur! The upper part, which appears in the
Centaur as the human part, bears the human face, but in a very
our present animal forms, but which is reminiscent of them in
reminiscent in a later time of what belongs to the animal
science, about the sixteenth century. When intensified, this
natural science. It was precisely in the sixteenth century; it
century was able to point out that, fundamentally, Ahriman will
given in the development of humanity many, many centuries
twentieth century onward Christ will be seen in an etheric

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as the six auxiliary occult exercises: Concentration of thought;
that is, strenuous exertion of thought, the concentrated gathering

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cents.
evident in the 15th century. It was then that it slowly began to
century indicates a specially low point of human evolution in the
sent its ramifications into the 20th century, and now these
recent human evolution.
years of the 15th century. That time was the beginning of that epoch
15th century, when our present epoch began.
more recent times. The time of probation has indeed come! Great tasks
15th century, we have acquired in an abstract-theoretical way a
century, when, in the year 869, the Eighth General Oecumenic Council
power. And then came the 19th century, in which the ordinary
people who only see them outwardly. Central Europe, that is now
Harnack established in Central Europe really signifies the negation
waking up, we pass through events that are connected with the descent
19th and 20th century. Yet they did not think that we do not only
and to our place in life! The centre at Dornach was not intended to
be a sectarian centre, but one that renders fruitful every branch of

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organised speech centre in a certain area of the brain, the so-called
— that the development of the speech centre on the left side of
the nineteenth century physiologists joined hands here even with
am here describing is the ascent to so-called “imaginative
independent of ourselves. For example, in recent times we have come
times, but to times more recent — we found much of what had been

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a space as peripheral as earthly space (physical space) is central. A
in which the force of gravity works from the earth's centre outwards,
centrifugal forces working outwards and opposing the former. Man in
It is repugnant to you. (I tried it recently, at least in relief.)
together in a wonderful synthesis. And what is concentrated in the
human form at rest. Then, concentrating on man's inner life,
infinite depths when, with our soul's loving gaze, we concentrate on

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his descent through birth from the spiritual world into the physical
in the first Christian centuries looked back to the Mystery of
enabled men, until the fourth century A.D., to
Apostles, and so on. This continued until the fourth century
first four centuries of Christendom thanks to the remaining vestiges
century onwards, but its beginnings can be traced to the fourth
century.
themselves. It was taught them by Christ. And until the fourth century
centuries following there remained only an elementary kind of
those who understand and recognise them, are unmistakably reminiscent
have arisen in the 19th century a kind of theology which

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Golgotha during the first centuries A.D., how differently those
an old instinctive clairvoyance. And up to the 4th century A.D.
to the 4th century A.D., and the teachers of that century
first four centuries A.D., thanks to the remnants of old
force since the 15th century, but it was already in preparation
from the 4th century A.D. on.
it is in a certain sense something magnificent. We cannot
first four Christian centuries this knowledge continued
esoteric sense. During the subsequent centuries only a
the 19th Century a theology developed which does not wish to
was evident from our recent lectures

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century, the 19th century. People still experienced the aftereffect of
birth, the soul-spiritually magnificent human germ is gradually
suitable to us, although the more recent science of initiation shows
his descent from cosmic worlds to earthly existence: that, after an
relatively late, prior to our descent to earth. When the human being,
detail how, on his descent to the earth in order to unite with the
choose for their descent to the earth who desire to become women, for
stated, upon the phase of the moon during this descent, and thus it
since the descent is not made so very rapidly, but he remains exposed
his descent, he still has at his disposal the remainder of the moon's
the lunar forces as we pass them, on our descent from the cosmos into
experiences during the descent through fixed stars and planets. At a
centuries, and even the fourth century, is fundamentally a
falsification; for in those centuries Christianity was quite different
to be taken over again in the moon sphere, during the descent, in
Golgotha, and even in the three or four centuries following
his descent through the moon sphere to take up his karma again of his
our karma on our descent through the moon sphere. No matter whether we
need today of true Anthroposophists who will bring about an ascent for
We need not be clairvoyant in order to work beneficently after we

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and deaths. In the course of centuries it has become quite natural to
the last few centuries, my dear friends, materialism has found its way
the East, in Asia, and draw a line right through the centre of the
that is reminiscent of the human form — but reminiscent only to a

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endeavours of the past centuries and of the present time, which
existed in the 19th century, argued: If I am dreaming in
content, but to concentrate on that which works within him, is

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would concentrate all his powers on inquiring into the influence
knowledge upon which he set himself to concentrate, and for the
Let a man follow the exercises — in meditation, concentration,

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villain can walk about with an absolutely innocent face. But when the
the centuries, it may well be that you have a curious experience. You
events that happened several centuries ago. You say to yourself:

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reminiscent of the form we bore in earthly existence has by this time
impulses can be found that will lead once again to an ascent.
concentrated all that we are morally, all our qualities of soul and
concentration, in the germ of the heart, of his whole soul-and-spirit
World-All are the circulation that now centres itself in this
There, at the centre, beats the spiritual heart of man. And the beat
from them. And just as the blood-stream on Earth centres itself in the
further back, through many centuries; for long before a human being is

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rock is slightly transparent, slightly translucent. But when our
incandescent through the power of fire, played an essential part in

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to which we owe the magnificent achievements of modern times, are
historical sciences have added to our stock of knowledge in recent
today, did the Mystery Centres arise, Centres that were dedicated to
recent scientific discoveries of Darwin, Huxley, Spencer and
how much we have learned in recent times about the functions of the
from the model — at least this was the practice until recently.
abhorred everything taught by these ‘eccentric’ Mystery
be illustrated diagrammatically — the sun in the centre

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to which we owe the magnificent achievements of modern times, are
historical sciences have added to our stock of knowledge in recent
today, did the Mystery Centres arise, Centres that were dedicated to
recent scientific discoveries of Darwin, Huxley, Spencer and
how much we have learned in recent times about the functions of the
from the model — at least this was the practice until recently.
abhorred everything taught by these ‘eccentric’ Mystery
be illustrated diagrammatically — the sun in the centre

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the centuries we would eventually get out of step with the Sun. We
the Sun by day as a luminous sphere surrounded by a magnificent
approximately as follows: a luminous, greenish-blue centre,
luminous in the centre and surrounded by a halo. It travelled
times. I use the term prosaic advisedly, for to concentrate on the
concentrating on certain precise concepts and linguistic
can not only practise concentration and meditation, as

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the centuries we would eventually get out of step with the Sun. We
the Sun by day as a luminous sphere surrounded by a magnificent
approximately as follows: a luminous, greenish-blue centre,
luminous in the centre and surrounded by a halo. It travelled
times. I use the term prosaic advisedly, for to concentrate on the
concentrating on certain precise concepts and linguistic
can not only practise concentration and meditation, as

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centuries now men have become less and less accustomed to turn their
few centuries have inaugurated an age of materialism which has set
human beings who are living to-day or who lived centuries ago were
like myself were born in the sixties of last century have lived
and a half centuries was superseded by the Michael Rulership. The
end of the seventies of last century. In the time immediately after
the eighties and nineties of last century there was opportunity for
19th century. In a neighbouring world, separated from the physical
19th century. There were momentous happenings, grouped around the
External life offered no incentive, for all that was done there was
took hold of a man, they worked on into the 20th century. And even

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centuries now men have become less and less accustomed to turn their
few centuries have inaugurated an age of materialism which has set
human beings who are living to-day or who lived centuries ago were
like myself were born in the sixties of last century have lived
and a half centuries was superseded by the Michael Rulership. The
end of the seventies of last century. In the time immediately after
the eighties and nineties of last century there was opportunity for
19th century. In a neighbouring world, separated from the physical
19th century. There were momentous happenings, grouped around the
External life offered no incentive, for all that was done there was
took hold of a man, they worked on into the 20th century. And even

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distinguished persons in the course of the nineteenth century, and
since the fifteenth century. When, therefore, people expounded
centred on his inner spiritual life. He builds up his Karma in
before our birth or descent to earth; we did not know it at all. That

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active, spiritual principle in the Cosmos. In its progressive descent
I am firmly anchored, I cannot drift from my moorings; the centre of
mineral being and we really begin to feel in ourselves that centre of
the clear impression that his centre of gravity lies in the heart.
This centre guards him against extremes, prevents him from being the
dense, too concentrated, pain ensues. The loss of consciousness
that everything that provides stability is centred in the cardiac
the heart centre of man. On the basis of this information we are now
as we know it, we concentrate upon its colour, its hardness and all
heart. By concentrating on other metals, on iron and its properties,
familiar with all its aspects, we concentrate intently on iron,
forgetting the entire universe and concentrating solely upon the
group-soul of the animals. By concentrating on the metallity of iron
concentration upon iron and we feel that we are no longer the same
and iron we next concentrate upon tin, upon its metallity, its colour
anchors your consciousness to the Earth. That which has its centre in
that which has its centre in the forehead (tin). The iron
meditate on lead or some similar metal and again concentrate on its
consciousness that is centred in the cranium man always remains in a
in the head centre. What determines your human condition between
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active, spiritual principle in the Cosmos. In its progressive descent
I am firmly anchored, I cannot drift from my moorings; the centre of
mineral being and we really begin to feel in ourselves that centre of
the clear impression that his centre of gravity lies in the heart.
This centre guards him against extremes, prevents him from being the
dense, too concentrated, pain ensues. The loss of consciousness
that everything that provides stability is centred in the cardiac
the heart centre of man. On the basis of this information we are now
as we know it, we concentrate upon its colour, its hardness and all
heart. By concentrating on other metals, on iron and its properties,
familiar with all its aspects, we concentrate intently on iron,
forgetting the entire universe and concentrating solely upon the
group-soul of the animals. By concentrating on the metallity of iron
concentration upon iron and we feel that we are no longer the same
and iron we next concentrate upon tin, upon its metallity, its colour
anchors your consciousness to the Earth. That which has its centre in
that which has its centre in the forehead (tin). The iron
meditate on lead or some similar metal and again concentrate on its
consciousness that is centred in the cranium man always remains in a
in the head centre. What determines your human condition between
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course of the nineteenth century. The children certainly learn a
— even in the middle of the nineteenth century such things

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sulphate solution. By concentrating and meditating upon this
self-confidence, for example, and exercises in concentration upon
explore the nature of copper from all angles and to concentrate on
his time dissecting corpses. Recently a scientific congress raised a
heart centre. Other states of consciousness are associated with other
dead, the consciousness below the heart centre is modified; it begins
review of man's whole attitude to knowledge over the centuries may
made in recent times in the knowledge of thermo- and electro-dynamics
knowledge a few centuries ago.
thirteenth centuries we come across men — though they were
eleventh and twelfth centuries, such as Bernardus Silvestris,
the magnificent Cathedral still stands today, speaking to his pupils
extent as a related whole. If we look back a few centuries we see

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sulphate solution. By concentrating and meditating upon this
self-confidence, for example, and exercises in concentration upon
explore the nature of copper from all angles and to concentrate on
his time dissecting corpses. Recently a scientific congress raised a
heart centre. Other states of consciousness are associated with other
dead, the consciousness below the heart centre is modified; it begins
review of man's whole attitude to knowledge over the centuries may
made in recent times in the knowledge of thermo- and electro-dynamics
knowledge a few centuries ago.
thirteenth centuries we come across men — though they were
eleventh and twelfth centuries, such as Bernardus Silvestris,
the magnificent Cathedral still stands today, speaking to his pupils
extent as a related whole. If we look back a few centuries we see

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Alexander the Great. And as a result, many centres of learning in the
of Haroun al Raschid in the 8th and 9th centuries after the founding
centuries at the Court of Charlemagne in Europe, men of the highest
Europe was proceeding in the 8th and 9th centuries and on into the
course, preceded them in earthly existence by many centuries —
the days of Haroun al Raschid. It had long possessed a centre of
Centuries had passed since the Mystery of Golgotha. What Alexander
these two souls beheld it flowing on through the centuries, during
in the 19th century.
earthly rule for a period of three to three-and-a-half centuries. At
14th century A.D., there follow the Rulerships
to four centuries. Gabriel is Regent from the 15th until the last
third of the 19th century, when Michael again assumes dominion. Seven
the 19th century. We ourselves, do we but rightly understand the
the century when the meeting with Haroun al Raschid took place,
centuries. This is our own epoch and it behoves Anthroposophists to
century A.D. confronted each other in
the Papacy in the Middle Ages. He was born again in the 19th century
the 20th/21st century — therefore in less than a hundred years
the earth in less than a century in order to give effect to the

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Alexander the Great. And as a result, many centres of learning in the
of Haroun al Raschid in the 8th and 9th centuries after the founding
centuries at the Court of Charlemagne in Europe, men of the highest
Europe was proceeding in the 8th and 9th centuries and on into the
course, preceded them in earthly existence by many centuries —
the days of Haroun al Raschid. It had long possessed a centre of
Centuries had passed since the Mystery of Golgotha. What Alexander
these two souls beheld it flowing on through the centuries, during
in the 19th century.
earthly rule for a period of three to three-and-a-half centuries. At
14th century A.D., there follow the Rulerships
to four centuries. Gabriel is Regent from the 15th until the last
third of the 19th century, when Michael again assumes dominion. Seven
the 19th century. We ourselves, do we but rightly understand the
the century when the meeting with Haroun al Raschid took place,
centuries. This is our own epoch and it behoves Anthroposophists to
century A.D. confronted each other in
the Papacy in the Middle Ages. He was born again in the 19th century
the 20th/21st century — therefore in less than a hundred years
the earth in less than a century in order to give effect to the

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there was a Conference on Agriculture in Central Europe, on which
lost, though only comparatively recently. In the eighteenth century
up the scent of the man, follows it and finds him. All this is due to
scents for a dog. The bearer of these scents is the olfactory nerve

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twelfth centuries and the manner in which knowledge was fostered in
soul which has recently passed through the gates of death.
chemist discovers about the scent of violets or of asafoetida,
of scent or smell are spiritualized. From the standpoint of the
directly the consciousness is concentrated on the metallity of
concentrates on the peculiar properties of silver — and
concentrates within himself those forces which are responsible
very interesting case of this nature occurred recently in Dr.
incarnations. And this is precisely what happened recently in a
convalescent suddenly developed an unexpectedly high temperature, a

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twelfth centuries and the manner in which knowledge was fostered in
soul which has recently passed through the gates of death.
chemist discovers about the scent of violets or of asafoetida,
of scent or smell are spiritualized. From the standpoint of the
directly the consciousness is concentrated on the metallity of
concentrates on the peculiar properties of silver — and
concentrates within himself those forces which are responsible
very interesting case of this nature occurred recently in Dr.
incarnations. And this is precisely what happened recently in a
convalescent suddenly developed an unexpectedly high temperature, a

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symmetry. Concentration exercises to awaken an active thinking as
conditions in Central Europe.) This can easily happen, but it is then
enormous gain to the child if the concentration on one subject for a

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concentration and meditation in the manner already indicated. But if
Moreover through concentration, meditation and the development
dreamless sleep. The purpose of concentration and meditation is to
slumber through meditation and concentration. The otherwise
i.e. between the fifteenth century and today. During these centuries
meditation, concentration or some other spiritual exercises, either
retrace our steps from the present, the twentieth century, back
through the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, to the century
eccentrically situated point on the external wall. Then encapsulation

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concentration and meditation in the manner already indicated. But if
Moreover through concentration, meditation and the development
dreamless sleep. The purpose of concentration and meditation is to
slumber through meditation and concentration. The otherwise
i.e. between the fifteenth century and today. During these centuries
meditation, concentration or some other spiritual exercises, either
retrace our steps from the present, the twentieth century, back
through the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, to the century
eccentrically situated point on the external wall. Then encapsulation

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centuries very little emphasis was laid upon putting together a whole
to thinking of wrongly for the last four or five centuries; they have

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indicate later, begins in the last third of the nineteenth century,
an epoch that lasted for three or four centuries. To those with
of other personalities of the ninth to the twelfth centuries
and even of the thirteenth century. Each of these personalities was
century, the situation is quite different. In this epoch there is
entered in the seventies of last century, it is above all the
or four centuries.
eleventh century takes its particular colouring from this
the ninth to the fifteenth centuries) and can inform us of the
enter into the Raphael epoch, from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries,
invisible, but their existence has recently been demonstrated
incarnate on Earth, but live in the adjacent world as
recently saw in an illustrated paper. Something streams out of the
that the medium recently saw in an illustrated paper or comic
already indicated, natural science has recently developed a technique
the centre of whirling forces, a condition that is dangerously
associate with human beings. Thus centres of black magic arise where
activities of this kind have been practised in recent centuries, a

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indicate later, begins in the last third of the nineteenth century,
an epoch that lasted for three or four centuries. To those with
of other personalities of the ninth to the twelfth centuries
and even of the thirteenth century. Each of these personalities was
century, the situation is quite different. In this epoch there is
entered in the seventies of last century, it is above all the
or four centuries.
eleventh century takes its particular colouring from this
the ninth to the fifteenth centuries) and can inform us of the
enter into the Raphael epoch, from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries,
invisible, but their existence has recently been demonstrated
incarnate on Earth, but live in the adjacent world as
recently saw in an illustrated paper. Something streams out of the
that the medium recently saw in an illustrated paper or comic
already indicated, natural science has recently developed a technique
the centre of whirling forces, a condition that is dangerously
associate with human beings. Thus centres of black magic arise where
activities of this kind have been practised in recent centuries, a

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nerves, crawls along the nerves towards the central organs, towards
like strings of an instrument in the centre of the body, that is,
and were not present before the descent to earth, are copies of the

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‘commissioned’ from the world immediately adjacent
Ahrimanic beings in the world immediately adjacent to our own
have recently died are surrounded by strange demoniac forms. At the
that remains to us. When we take in the magnificent spectacle

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‘commissioned’ from the world immediately adjacent
Ahrimanic beings in the world immediately adjacent to our own
have recently died are surrounded by strange demoniac forms. At the
that remains to us. When we take in the magnificent spectacle

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all over Central Europe when, let us say, several criminals are
do. In Central Europe it is customary to give a 3, or a 4. At the

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concentration, the weft of dream life can be interwoven with
world immediately adjacent to our own. It is there that we find the
established his heliocentric system from the point of view of the
founded in the course of recent years, has accumulated an abundant

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concentration, the weft of dream life can be interwoven with
world immediately adjacent to our own. It is there that we find the
established his heliocentric system from the point of view of the
founded in the course of recent years, has accumulated an abundant

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people coming to me recently and describing the manner in which they

Title: True/False Paths: Lecture Ten: Influences of the Extra-Terrestrial Cosmos Upon the Consciousness of Man
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middle of the nineteenth century there lived in Germany two
Vatican for centuries! This path is indeed a well trodden path which

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middle of the nineteenth century there lived in Germany two
Vatican for centuries! This path is indeed a well trodden path which

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spiritual life began in the seventies of last century and was
and will last from three to four centuries — signifies that the
13th century, Thomas Aquinas speaks of Beings in the stars although
since the 15th century, since the entry of the Consciousness or
descent of the Intelligence from the Sun to the earth is accomplished
by about the 8th century A.D. In the 9th
century men are already beginning, as the forerunners of those who
It was in the age of Alexander and for a few centuries previously
earth. Until the 8th or 9th century the Intelligence is gradually
it was to begin in the last third of the 19th century —) when
centre, and whose twelve companions were trained in such a way that
Such was the Round Table: King Arthur at the centre, surrounded by
individuals who in the 12th century taught and worked in the School
the end of the 12th century they passed through the gate of death
time but in which full account was taken of the central truth of
little later, from the 13th century onwards.
transpired. At the turning-point of the 12th and 13th centuries, at
the beginning of the 13th century, a kind of conference took place
already lived on the earth during the early centuries of Christendom
future when' in the last third of the 19th century, Michael would
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spiritual life began in the seventies of last century and was
and will last from three to four centuries — signifies that the
13th century, Thomas Aquinas speaks of Beings in the stars although
since the 15th century, since the entry of the Consciousness or
descent of the Intelligence from the Sun to the earth is accomplished
by about the 8th century A.D. In the 9th
century men are already beginning, as the forerunners of those who
It was in the age of Alexander and for a few centuries previously
earth. Until the 8th or 9th century the Intelligence is gradually
it was to begin in the last third of the 19th century —) when
centre, and whose twelve companions were trained in such a way that
Such was the Round Table: King Arthur at the centre, surrounded by
individuals who in the 12th century taught and worked in the School
the end of the 12th century they passed through the gate of death
time but in which full account was taken of the central truth of
little later, from the 13th century onwards.
transpired. At the turning-point of the 12th and 13th centuries, at
the beginning of the 13th century, a kind of conference took place
already lived on the earth during the early centuries of Christendom
future when in the last third of the 19th century, Michael would
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untrue. This situation stems from centuries of education. I would
earlier centuries. They were far more inclined to believe those who
which is by no means easy to overcome. During the course of centuries
which they are presented in recognized schools or centres of
centuries the impulse towards music has been growing and
magnificently portrayed in Renaissance and pre-Renaissance

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untrue. This situation stems from centuries of education. I would
earlier centuries. They were far more inclined to believe those who
which is by no means easy to overcome. During the course of centuries
which they are presented in recognized schools or centres of
centuries the impulse towards music has been growing and
magnificently portrayed in Renaissance and pre-Renaissance

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men of the 18th century descend from souls of the 16th century, and
18th or 19th century must come to an understanding with other souls
already during the 16th century in order to arrange the whole net of

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hereditary line of descent. I have no quarrel with the fact that they
centuries human beings descend. All these souls must already have
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries must already have reached a
reciprocal understanding in the sixteenth century in order that the
its descent into the physical realm makes a blossoming, flourishing

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this state by inner means, by meditation, concentration, or
any mental picture in the centre of his consciousness
things, we concentrate our soul life completely, even if only
degrees centigrade, we can imagine the pain probably in
that you have to imagine the whole plant concentrated in the
human can last. No, we acquire something that concentrates in
the human life internally; the soul life concentrates, we carry
to ruin, we feel the inner ones concentrating. The seed of the

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It's true that meditation and concentration exercises will be the main

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we behold with understanding the cosmic Word whose descent our

Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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several centuries, of course — is that man's blood is
bodies from the tenth or ninth centuries in order to discover that blood
to grow weak lay in the middle of the fifteenth century.

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since the turn of the century, the time which those who can see
belong at all to the 20th century; sometimes we feel we must have
certain spiritual beings have withdrawn, while others, whose central
century feel this in their unconscious, feel it inwardly, like an
subconsciously in him was what older people call â€œthe adolescent
have also asked many young people about the â€œadolescent crisesâ€ some
century rebellion? Imagine! It was followed by the greatest amount of
narrow-mindedness and pedantry than at any time in the last century.
century find this sort of thing, if they are honest with themselves,
everything the centuries have piled up on us!
of the century there has been a completely new impulse entering our
described as the great task of the century, the spur to action of the
A century
the spirit, alive and luminous. But during the 19th century up into
perhaps prevent the youth movement of the 20th century from becoming
and pedantry will be infinitely greater in our century than that
which followed Rousseau. In all the many centuries before, there
proper citizens than in the 19th century; people in the earlier times

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comprehensive principles and magnificent way of looking at
discovers a magnificent scientific law. Many before
connection with the chief, central questions of Æsthetics,
His equals through the chain of centuries:

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namely the centre of the earth. It is as if the earth is being
plant soul and plant-Ego mingle, their actual centres so
intermingled, that they unite in the centre of the earth. Now

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self-knowledge the ascent becomes just as dangerous as it
self-centred brooding. Right here we must shift our examination
descent and inheritance, we will not get any further. Here only
central sun, and all other consequences capitulate by

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presented to him by colours and light, sounds, scents and so forth. A
so that for a time he is not aware of the colours, sounds, scents, and
from the world of the senses and concentrates it upon his own inner
the world, depends upon the fact that in our Ego we have a firm centre
desires he has recently experienced. That is the first experience. The
evanescent, as it were, having been poured into the Macrocosm, and in

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We are taught as children that the Sun is at the centre of the solar
at the centre. The teacher will point out that this represents, on a
at the centre. I will leave out details. At a certain time of the year
with the Sun at the centre of the loops-it is the same line as the one
Taking the moment of going to sleep and that of waking as the centre,

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The mystic prepares himself by concentrating on the following
descent into his own inner being, he was taught to live with the cycle
As a result of the progress of his intellectual life during recent
centuries, present-day man has become incapable of undergoing the
itself as the centre of living spiritual streams flowing to and fro
the central experience connected with the mood of Christmas. [* See

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ordinary life this descent occurs every day and that at the moment of
But Spiritual Science foresees that if in the coming centuries there
descent into our inner being; we ourselves must work at our own

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to a deeper descent into the inner being without troubling about any
in ancient times. The path of descent into the inner self was followed
himself in his conscious descent to the power known as that of Venus.
before birth, a portion which comprises centuries; for centuries have
concentrated as it were in the present etheric body and were given
their stamp through the foregoing centuries, have always been called
The descent into his inner being would have been fraught with great
danger on this descent into a man's inner being is that his Ego may
the ordinary conventions of life, are good and decent characters, but

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and Winter, and to concentrate their whole life of feeling on the
had poured into him — a conscious ascent into the Macrocosm.
The process of going to sleep is in very truth an ascent into the
ascent into the Macrocosm.
This ascent into the Macrocosm can of course proceed to still higher
worlds. The higher the ascent, the more difficult this becomes. If we

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The ascent into the Macrocosm leads the candidate for Initiation first
them. It is accordingly very important before attempting an ascent
sixth century BC. Anyone who is versed in this subject must learn to
and only then, in his incarnation in the sixth century BC., did he
forces for the ascent must be derived from even higher spheres.

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be an example of a simple one. — If we concentrate on a plant
exclude the pictures from his consciousness and to concentrate only
concentrating upon the activity we ourselves have exercised in

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ascent through these three stages would be as indicated yesterday.
ascent into the higher worlds, for in the ordinary life of today man

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looking through the door into the adjacent area. He looks at something

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exist at all, man needs the Sun that is stored up and concentrated in
of the Earth. Man is an individuality centred in the Ego and it is
Microcosm, we grow into an organism of which the heart is the centre;

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become a decent person. He has found a real foothold in life. He realizes
This is what I have called in my two recent public lectures the process of
the attempt to emancipate oneself from the complacent personal self, the

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youth, he has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The True Attitude To Karma
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has turned into a decent, self-respecting human being. He has found
self-centred. On the other hand, struggling with the great secrets of

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required to recall something even recently forgotten; genuine mental
lot of men living in the thirteenth century of our era, for very
world. In the thirteenth century, even those who in earlier
period during that century and although men who in former times had
incarnations, in the thirteenth century they could not themselves gaze
thirteenth century, the darkness lifted, strange happenings transpired
place in Europe in the thirteenth century and had found one another
thirteenth century could not have been said to be that of an
figure in the Gospels. Only recently a lady informed me that she had
The Twelve in the thirteenth century were far from being fanatics;
existence; in the fourteenth century he was born again and lived,
then, for more than a hundred years. Thus in the thirteenth century
his life was brief, in the fourteenth century, very long. During the
search of the different centres of culture in Europe, Africa and Asia,
the previous century; then he returned to Europe. A few of those who
had brought him up in the thirteenth century were again in incarnation
on into the 'nineties of last century; one became aware of certain
century had dawned, however, these influences resolved into harmony.
I have told you of the strange event in the thirteenth century, purely
Thirteenth were necessary. The event in the thirteenth century was

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required to recall something only recently forgotten; genuine mental
in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of our era, for very
spiritual world. In the thirteenth century even those who in earlier
period during that century, and although men who in former times had
incarnations, in the thirteenth century they could not themselves gaze
thirteenth century the darkness lifted, strange happenings occurred at
certain place in Europe in the thirteenth century and had found one
unusual circumstances during the thirteenth century could not have
personage or figure in the Gospels. Quite recently a lady informed me
The twelve in the thirteenth century were far from being fanatics, and
existence; in the fourteenth century he was born again and lived then
that had developed in him in the thirteenth century. Then his life had
been brief, but in the fourteenth century it was very long. During the
search of the different centres of culture in Europe, Africa and Asia,
the previous century; then he returned to Europe. A few of those who
had brought him up in the thirteenth century were again in incarnation
from the eighties on into the nineties of the previous century; they
harmonious. When the new century dawned, however, these influences
I have told you of the strange event in the thirteenth century, purely
thirteenth were necessary. And the event in the thirteenth century was

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Lecture IV: Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
Recent Results of Occult Investigation Into Life
am deeply grateful that recently I had the opportunity to concern
I would like to relate a particular instance. In the twelfth century
love made a strong impression on me during my recent investigations
particular passage became fully clear only during recent occult
course of centuries will not fade because of the spreading of our
is the knowledge that the Mystery of Golgotha stands in the center of
century at a Mystery Center in Europe on the Black Sea, Buddha lived
musicians of more recent times, in a Beethoven, a Wagner and

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can only come from one who has recently gone through the gate of
the central point of the plant world and rays forth its light in all

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centre of the sensible horizon, now really becomes the world, and we
look towards a single centre and there behold oneself. It is as if
within it — then, at the moment of concentration [outside the
difference may be expressed as follows: Thou canst concentrate upon
thou canst so concentrate on thyself that an inner star-world comes
spiritual expression in all the Beings concentrated in the life of

Title: Nature of Man: Lecture 2: Vision of the Ideal Human Being
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inner life into something spiritual. In recent public lectures I

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In recent lectures I told you
half of the nineteenth century, a statement made by Oetinger, who
century we need only take Lotze, who tried to produce in his

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the centre, on the earth, together with all that the earth reveals to
anything about any other being except our own. That is the central

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feeling home to the human beings. And just the last centuries
began. It came in the 14th, 15th centuries all the more. But
following centuries, after the Christ Impulse had entered, we
centuries, and it would probably be the worst way to want to
centuries. The people who quarrelled there about its
fourth century A.D., in 312, on the 28th October, which
entered the historical course in the 15th century in the form
centuries than the conscious way to be effective in

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thinking and feeling. And the past centuries had to bring
14th/15th century it was in its most active stage, but when the
first Christian centuries which immediately followed the Christ
centuries there were endless theological disputes, and It would
which lasted for so many centuries. The people who were
very centre of evolution.
event which took place in the 4th century, in the year 312 A.D.
(Epiphany), during the Thirteen Holy Nights. Recently, a Very
century Spiritual Powers really entered the course of history

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Central Europe and the Slavic East
Central Europe the ego is inspired. I do not pass any value
approximately in the middle of the 16th century, about 1550.
of the 17th century. At this time, the folk-soul completely
the 17th century, about 1650. Only then the British people got
of Shakespeare was caused not in England, but in the Central
Central European people? — However, the case is somewhat
world of Parzival, of the Grail originated, such a descent of
the time between 1750 and 1830. The Central European life is
on the consciousness-soul, with the Central European nation the
prepared for centuries.
speaks of the biggest matters in Central Europe, but they speak
characteristic of this Central European cultural life? You all
Central European being. Imagine which infinitely deep emotion
internationally on the ground of the Central European culture
characteristic that this Central European folk-soul is
conscious efforts. If this Central European human being should
in Central Europe. If once the East-European culture develops
approach that world as intimately as the Central European human
sentient world of the Central European human being and would
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consciousness soul; in Central Europe the inspiration takes
century, around the year 1550, was the period mentioned by me,
beginning of the 17th century. There the Folk-Soul seized the
of the 17th century, around the year 1650. Then the British
but in the Central European, development of spiritual
members of the Central-European nation? There matters stand as
in Central Europe, that the Folk-Soul soars down and withdraws,
have repetitions. Thus we have a descent of the Folk-Soul, when
Grail. Then the Folk-Soul withdrew and its next descent is
between the years 1750 and 1830. At that time Central-European
life is most deeply seized by the Central-European Folk-Soul.
the Central-European nation, through the Ego —
throughout the centuries.
takes place in Western or in Central Europe. To begin with,
philosophers, do not speak in the same way Central
of the spiritual life of Central Europe? You all know that
This characterizes the whole life of Central Europe Think of
completely international way in Central European culture, in
the spiritual life of Central Europe —
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for centuries — since the fifteenth or sixteenth century,
face of the scientific attitude of recent times, this has
illumination from the ancient Orient, the magnificent song
certain readily comprehended concepts at the centre of our
meditation, by concentrating on certain subjects of
centre of our consciousness, with a great effort of will,
out all other consciousness, and concentrate only on this one
incentive to seek a kind of thinking no longer founded on
ten years ago, since life has only recently imposed them on us.
way by meditation and concentration take on a quite special

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nature of both views has been perceived by recent
recent years, however, psychology has, understandably and
some eccentric or other, but by that rigorous thinker Franz
Brentano, who made psychology his central concern in life and
so-called normal consciousness is eccentric or
concentrated all our attention and inner strength of soul, so

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a scientific discipline, this study is of fairly recent origin,
Historians have produced magnificent things. In developing from
the eighteenth century, however, history, falling as it did
eccentrics, it is best for us to start from concepts and
element of more recent origin, if we work our way up to a
This philosopher of the second half of the nineteenth century
of expression of these philosophers of Western and Central
fathers; and in those early centuries of Christianity there
central region between East and West. We see it, for example,
representative Central European, we find art and science
within the history of recent times. Goethe made himself at home
inspired the best minds in Central Europe. Schröer's
together has been finely expressed by another Central European,

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Looking at the East, Western man — the man of recent
incentive not merely to accept them, but to apply them to the
significance it has assumed in recent civilization, just as
that it has had in recent civilization. We can thus see that in
wide circles of humanity for centuries. Encompassing
this mood, this “ideology.” It is recent and
something that has only been attained in the West and in recent
features of life and of human attitudes. As a Central European
here in Central Europe, I would rather not give my own opinion
Central Europe in relation to a certain aspect of spiritual
beginning of the sixties of the last century, of Buckle's
was produced in Central Europe at the same time as Buckle wrote
it, and the Central European looks at what inhabits the realm
Centre, where man is presented as he thinks and feels, the two
Central and Western men, we come to understand that, although

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pantheism perhaps or a conception of life reminiscent of
or four centuries in scientific conscientiousness and a sure
saw them half a century ago), did not exist, what would be
accounts of ancient and recent times — from which those
most part — some ninety per cent, in fact — he is a
All the magnificent results that ordinary science has achieved
militates against such a reconciliation. For in recent
centuries we have grown accustomed to count truths as exact

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of very recent times alone. And when we try to discover why it
of three or four centuries, there has emerged from within the
to speak, of very recent times, is also suited, as it stands,
on the social needs of recent times. These needs, as they are
Central Europe, in Germany, where a particular social
rôle of capital in Central Europe and then in England, we
nor the child of primary school age, nor even the adolescent
have educated ourselves, in these three or four centuries, to
four centuries. Not only through spiritual profundity, but
socially active in recent times was Rosa Luxemburg. In personal
in the trees like an ape in an extremely indecent fashion,
four centuries intellectualism has come of age, so much
magnificent as it is — within natural processes. And here
productive aspect emerging in the last three or four centuries
most recent discoveries, we can follow how, in anyone who
point of all these social ideas? Here in Central Europe the
very recent times, this is beginning to be understood even
these ideals incandescent; something that impels our will to

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found among the Greeks, and even in earlier forms of Central
Central Europe
Central Europe. The writings of
[The magnificent language of the Authorized
Innocent is her touch as the
Central

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centre of gravity has shifted from the Baltic and Atlantic to the
course of centuries and have changed so significantly as
nineteenth century onwards) must also be followed by a profound
about Central Europe and in particular about Germany,
Central Europe, what they say — and write in their books
initiative. But when we look across at Central Europe — I
determine, from the centre of national life, the nature of
centralized and more or less autocratic system. If we were then
with the externals of life. In Central Europe, as the
recent times. For millions upon millions of people, the name of
Marx was educated in Central Europe, in Germany, where he
development of recent times. What he studied were concrete
social organization such as only a Central European temperament
West, but in Central Europe. And we may say: the concrete
thought even in Central Europe differs from that in Western
Central European and with what is just beginning to appear in
zenith, the tribes in Western and Central Europe were still in
certainly something here faintly reminiscent, I would say, of
characteristic of the civilization of Central Europe.
judge magnificently symbolizes the transition from a purely
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century, makes this surprising statement: “When we survey
century, at the end of which it was made. Nothing that has
sense of self, a sense of personality that is still quiescent
that the hordes which, mainly from Northern and Central Europe,
them, as the central feature of their being, this sense of
that, as early as the eleventh century, a kind of Socialism
seen as the central social problem, was also found in earlier
disappeared into thin air during the butchery of the recent
— we need only go back to the thirteenth century —
the centre of something that pervades man's soul and brings
the centre of the world's development, also reach an

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throughout the nineteenth century. And as the social
sixteenth century onwards, there have increasingly come into
and can simply concentrate his attention on his own humanity.
recognized as such; but just as the educated man of more recent
would take centuries. Nothing is more of an obstacle to
can hope for this. This hope is native to us in Central Europe
where, throughout the nineteenth century, the best minds sought
enormous amount of good was achieved in Central Europe, as a
always been drawn, in England, to the way in which, in Central
down to its speech-centres, on the company a man keeps, the
thus brought to bear on man's true centre in turn affects the
was in Central Europe that the finest minds sought for
of the temperament, the volitional side of children. Central
European educators in the nineteenth century tried to discover
world to look more closely at Central Europe, which has gone
century — Hegel, Fichte, Schelling — who have gone
is why Central Europe itself forsook the paths it had been
genuinely vital. A rapprochement with Central Europe can bring
There existed in Central Europe a spirit which proclaimed that

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conditions thrown up in the course of man's recent
the central argument was taken to be my main point. In order to
going on in Europe in recent years, beneath the surface of
yesterday — the will, which is the true centre of man's
the obstacles which, in recent times, with their
affected the unconscious depths of men's souls in recent
arisen in the recent development of civilized man, alongside
stronger and stronger as the nineteenth century wore on. It
at every moment. Forces of ascent, growth and maturation are
perceiving, side by side with the forces of ascent,
become increasingly apparent in recent decades. It is the
of the nineteenth century, of what we may call the search
nineteenth century.
the nineteenth century in Europe the historical school
century, at the height of intellectualism, a battle over the
nineteenth century, the essence of the state became, for
has developed in recent times, and which I need not describe,
individual. In the nineteenth century, when intellectualism
programmes. We have seen recently how, with the best and
also perceive clearly that in recent years there has developed
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unfolded its intellectual life in the course of many centuries.
to the Ahrimanic powers. During the past centuries, when the
the case during the past three or four centuries. But this has
changed since the beginning of the 20th century. The
19th century as the end of the “Dark Age,”
20th century, our deepest concern should no longer be

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splendid way in the course of the last three or four centuries, but
especially during the nineteenth century. Therefore, I shall speak
magnificent contribution which scientific research has brought
us even up to the most recent time — the magnificent
been spoken about until a relatively recent time. We need go back
only to the first half of the nineteenth century to discover
all the powers of his soul in inner concentration upon this thought.
should be selected for this content of concentration that one
if one concentrates upon such a thing. What one fixes, therefore, in
the very center of one's consciousness is something entirely
What matters is the concentration of the forces of the soul and
scientific research as material for concentration; these prove to be,
element has become, by means of this concentration, an experiential
content upon which he has concentrated, and which has enabled him to
force, after we have become accustomed to concentrating upon a
powerful force needed for concentration. When we have succeeded in
concentrating upon a definite thought content; and after we then
own soul life. We learned first in concentration to efface what
by the magnificent achievements of natural science — which

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have come about in the course of the last three or four centuries,
but especially during the nineteenth century. I shall speak,
We can observe the magnificent contribution which has been
bestowed upon us even up to the most recent time through scientific
research — the magnificent contribution in the findings about
relatively recent time. We need to go back only to the first half of
the nineteenth century to discover that personalities who, by
soul in inner concentration upon this thought. By means of this
something should be selected for this content of concentration that
concentrates upon such a thing. What one fixes, therefore, in
the very center of one's consciousness is something
the concentration of the forces of the soul and
material for concentration; these prove to be, indeed, the most
element has become by means of this concentration an experiential
has concentrated, and which has enabled him to possess a real
after we have become accustomed to concentrating upon a
powerful force needed for concentration. But, when we have succeeded
strengthened our inner being through concentrating upon a definite
first in concentration to blot out what is external, and we then
upon us by the magnificent achievements of natural science —

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civilization in the last three or four centuries. It is true that
case, even as late as the 18th Century. People of today have no
That was not the view in comparatively recent times: it was really the
Even as late as the 18th Century, when those who had not been infected
the most enlightened spirits even as late as the 18th Century. I shall
is that sprouts in the innocent green of the plants and what is even
men even in the 18th Century. They still felt vividly the difference
Century, experienced nature and man and described them to their
men in the 18th Century — outer nature in its essential
innocent nature becomes, in the form of guilt in the welling-up of
as the 18th Century said: And the Dragon, the Old Serpent, was cast
definitely in the Gemüt of 18th Century men that one could
Thus the situation had changed for people of the 18th Century from
and persisted into the 18th Century. But those who held this view knew
to lift their gaze. And as a matter of fact, in the 18th Century there
Century would have to be represented pictorially somewhat as follows:
dragon still harbored by many people of the 18th Century. It was also
It was at the end of the 19th century that Michael could say: The
— In the evolution of mankind the last third of the 19th Century
more and more, and in the last third of the 19th Century there
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18th Century souls this conception was still fully alive.
Gemüt, then, dwells in the very center of
manifold, mighty and magnificent are indeed the spiritual effects,
Undoubtedly you will admit that in the course of the last centuries
the 19th Century is in effect an apostasy from the Michael
19th Century. What the Dragon had hoped to achieve through
warmth into this human Gemüt. Recent centuries have heaped
centuries; but what we need today is warmth of Gemüt, and

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being in a purely spiritual world before my descent into the earthly
central nerve, of super-sensible knowledge. So is it, likewise, when
element in the world, in his innocent faith as a naive human being

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Conflict with the Dragon persisted into the 18th Century as
be found in the first half of the 19th Century, men for
inner exaltation, shutting itself off and concentrating within itself
Similarly, all through Central Europe, in parts of Germany, in the
The more a renascent spiritual science makes it possible for us to
is the enthusiasm, the incentive, for what must be done on earth if a
Century naturally refused to believe in any relation between the
circles about the great 19th Century botanists Schleiden

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something that may be practical for a day, but never for a century. In
order to be practical for a century, the matter in question must be in
three or four centuries mankind has simply acquired the habit of considering
Mystery of Golgotha through the descent of Christ, the Sun-Spirit,

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pointed to a higher member that has its centre near the heart,
clairvoyant knowledge wants to be an incentive and a help to

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can be a source of powerful incentives to deeds of love.
withdrawn from him. This new element led to a descent, a descent
centuries in that direction.”

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India, c. 2nd. Century
and the inner forces of the earth, are most concentrated. Those who

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concentrated. Indeed, those who are specially inclined

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spiritual requirements of the 20th century.
centuries, and particularly in the 19th century and our
thought and research in more recent times. This will be
19th century, a viewpoint which enables one to realize that the
century, for a solution to the great mysteries of man were
the 19th century) that the inmost being of man can be explained
Hertwig makes use of everything that even the most recent
has been the most wonderful progress in more recent times, for
help of the most recent philosophical thought.
The philosophers of more recent times who inherited the work of
century and in the first half of the 19th century, pointed out,
More recently even Kant in his Dreams of a Spiritual
recent philosophy, which ... must be manifest ... in
penetrating scientists of the 19th century. Here, too,
great teachers of science of the 19th century have
the 19th century that should affect our study of nature, but

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Greeks and Romans; that the following centuries down to the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries continued to be influenced by
century mankind has been living in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch,
the preceding centuries down to the fifteenth century, and our own
centuries, particularly during the Graeco-Roman period of
form in the nineteenth century but are gaining the upper hand more
centuries of the Christian era this or that may have been adapted to
man's development at the time, and that in the following centuries
centuries yet before it — that from among those who understand
Spiritual science must be the centre around which all
concentration upon self-education.” As I have already said; I
this book takes exception, and that is the ascent, to knowledge
the central impulse of earth evolution, to the Christ impulse. The

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spread over a longer period of time are concentrated, drawn together,
sufficiently the changes which have recently taken place in the
are infested with modern learning, think that many centuries ago

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century, and even in the last third of the 19th century — the
This is what happens when you concentrate your thoughts on the dead
in towards the centre; it is very important to remember this.

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throughout the last third of the nineteenth century, and they always
nineteenth century, especially just before its turn, one could hear
spiritual-scientific movements during the nineteenth century, and
much greater insight. In the nineteenth century, a remarkable Order
half of the nineteenth century was an extremely important period. I
century onwards, that is to say, to enter into the souls of men as a

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last third of the nineteenth century; it is an event known to all
revealed from the twentieth century onwards, from flowing into the
to receive, from the twentieth century onwards, the spiritual
both slow and gradual. And in our present century, for the first time,
nineteenth century and from then onwards, to find its way to men. The
with the spiritual world. Although for many centuries now, atavistic

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character of humanity is different in the 20th century from what it
was in the 15th century, let alone before and at the time of the
century B.C. to approximately the 15th century,
in progress since the 15th century. This is a factor in the evolution of
in human evolution from the 15th century until the beginning of the
present epoch which began in the 15th century and will last until the
evolution of humanity. It may come a century earlier or a century
Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, since the 15th century. Only since then

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Post-Atlantean evolution began in the fifteenth century. It
of Golgotha, which had taken place three centuries before
third and fourth centuries, whereby the soul was drawn into
in the first centuries of Christianity, both on earth and
recently presented should be the preparation.
course of the nineteenth century, when in European culture at
fifteenth century. The year 1413 can be cited as the
fifteenth century the nature of man's soul became what it is
that prior to the fifteenth century, men thought differently,
in the eighth century
centuries which followed, the Mystery of Golgotha was the
fifteenth/sixteenth centuries. Then came the time when the
descent. This point you can easily calculate; it is the year
through the following centuries. An essential change,
the third century after that Event. Those who had lived in
Earth. But it was not until the second century
the second or third century — when the inspiration from
of the Church Fathers in the third century
standing, but as a writer with a magnificent power of
These works are written with a holy fervour and a magnificent
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war catastrophe which has broken over mankind during recent
history of more recent times I need to address in my upcoming
during the last few centuries. Vehemently it was shown how the
middle of the 14th and 15th centuries up
(heliocentrism), remnants remained of a withdrawal from
Century. One still finds in some proletarian programs such
discourse at the centre of various forms of the social question
track. The nervous system and senses centralised in the head is
not centralised but exist beside one another and work freely
it is believed that the human organism is centralised, while it

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centre of their creative activity.
invasion of human souls by the materialism of the past century. On
recent development than that the social problem has come to a head;
freely; for since the middle of the fifteenth century we have been

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senses are centralized, the head organisation.
not an complete centralisation of the organism. These three
exists, what the tissues could be and so on! Recently a book
nerve-systems the central circulation or rhythmic systems, so
recovery to take place. In various areas in central and eastern
Central Europe, it is clear the work needed for the bananas,
breathing and hart in the breast, concentrated, centralized in
can eventually be said: no healing in the central management of
Century took the trouble to show how impossible it is to make a
theoretical parliament or some unit assembled and centralized,
centralized government and administrations no longer remain in
broken out over many people in central and eastern Europe,

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ruling class, as it has developed during the last century, the
15th and 16th Centuries. What is the
the nineties of the nineteenth century fanatics appeared as if
arises, which is an incentive to make spirit something real out
of itself, in the world; an incentive to experience the spirit
14th Century gradually became so blunt, weakened and
botched together to centralize the three systems in chaos so
member of the social organism must have its centre in the free
centre of the human individuality and the physical and
life. Against this works centralization which steers everything
century? Here we have the so-called empire state. In this
recently but where events prepared it, in the second half of
the 19th Century — into four councils, the

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deal which under modern influences has become centralised. What we
the central event of earth-evolution — the Mystery of Golgotha.
everything is centralised, if everything is piled on to a chaotically
to the men of the twentieth century. Not in such a way that people

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more recent times up to the present. More perhaps than most
shifts in the course of recent times — into social
the 15th, 16th Centuries. Only if one
the 15th Century entered later mankind, while what
newer time what was designated in the 18th Century
unfolding and is being limited, becomes changed by an adjacent
paralyzed by the adjacent system. All organic processes are
within, so that the other system adjacent to it develops and
own existence, that they both work adjacent to one another and
beginning of the century. However, people were sermonizing about
idea which has come about in the more recent history that the
defendants, instead of judges presented out of the centralised
Century. At the time of Plato, the divisions of the social
been split up. They all became concentrated and responsible to
Central and Eastern Europe, above all in Europe. You have the
towards Central Europe. How could the rest of the world

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into the social mood of recent times which can seem like a
new; it only appears to be different in more recent times. The
recent times, by the human instincts and human subconscious
our more recent times is that humanity can no longer remain
people's focus in recent times only on to economic life, and
see, as technology and capitalism moved into our more recent
start of our more recent times, the bourgeois working class has
This decisive moment in the more recent historic development
Century and still continue in remnants later. Out of this
indecently climbed around trees from animalistic origins which
orientated in his point of view in more recent times. The
people at the transition into the more recent machine and
empty, the centrifugal spiritual force becomes paralysed and
have developed, somewhere rise as a centre, a real centre from
four to five Centuries. The social organism of earlier times
Just take a single fact, take the most recently appeared fact
recent times.
interests of the state in more recent times. This growing
recent times, people are gradually not thinking like this anymore.
state we must see as something which in recent times has grown
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is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
centuries. When we observe where this development of the last
centuries has led up to, then we can sum it up in the following
from the modern state through the influences of recent times.
the capitalistic world order particularly in the most recent
What can we now see as a central focus in the Proletarian
as the Proletarian progress? In the centre of this we see what
perhaps in recent times not been clearly spoken about, but
existence, which is lived through in recent times as an
refuge in the framework which has been created in recent times
inheritance what had been built up in the recent times out of
admit that a single centralized system exists in the human
centralised in itself, each has its own approach to the outer
just what has been striven against in recent times.
state life, and now is taken further. So we see that in recent
However, one might believe that things in recent times have
now in recent times, from what had happened before in the
the economic life has brought disaster into our recent times.
What has come out of the chaos of the recent world war due to
immobilises one. I have just recently had many an opportunity
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Let us observe how the trend of events in the past century has more
as the result of centuries of habit, will find it extraordinarily
— in recent centuries no one has spoken any longer of these
statesmen of Europe, especially those of Central Europe — this
Central Europe especially, in their party speeches. I could show you
have often said in the course of recent years: We are living in the
in recent centuries, men have moved away from the true reality. They
recent centuries. Now consider, if Lenin and Trotsky had lived in a
In every century, I
to what I have said recently.

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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which has been growing steadily for more than half a century.
nineteenth century, claimed to have discovered laws, according to
the fifteenth century, something in the attitude of the human soul
War of Secession in the sixties of last century, Woodrow Wilson
Central and South America, into Europe. What was formerly an exchange
the value of commodities has been concealed in recent times by the
that long ago in Central Europe and until the end of the Middle Ages

Title: Social Future: Lecture II: The Organization of a Practical Economic Life on the Associative Basis
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centuries, certain evils have arisen. The evils are evident enough:
administrative districts. Then there must be some kind of central
management over the whole, and, above all those, a central board to
demand nothing less than that this hierarchy of the central
shall be engaged and appointed to their places by the central office
shall be effected by the central office. The entire production would
in the recent periods of modern civilization, seven hundred to eight
production on his own initiative these are the results of the recent
metals began to be introduced into Europe from Central and South

Title: Social Future: Lecture III: The Task and Limitations of Democracy, Public and Criminal Law
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last few centuries, as I have already shown in the first lecture,
evolution of humanity for centuries has been that the conceptions of
unnoticed. Of course, the institutions of the last centuries have
the course of centuries. And this dogma has become so firmly fixed
will be found that since the middle of the fifteenth century the
During recent years we
followed the events of recent war-years knows that at the end the
century that the demand for democracy, that is, for a representative
industrial centers; 3. Chambers of Commerce; 4. Provincial Councils.
markets and industrial centers, with the Chambers of Commerce or the
calling itself the Center, representing purely cultural interests,
centuries and think of the incentive given to the men of that period

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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century. We have always called this period — of which we are really
eighth century B.C. to the middle of the fifteenth century; and
secret circles, right into the nineteenth century. They have even been
to man from Lucifer. And in the first Christian centuries, men
Impulse was received in the first centuries of our era.
conditions of recent years we shall find that men have been brought to
Luciferic incarnation, in the center, the incarnation of Christ, and
the pre-Christian age and continued into the first centuries of our
the middle of the fifteenth century and will increase in strength
laws we grasp it magnificently! A student of spiritual science is
economically oriented men have thought. In the nineteenth century the
in terms of banking, and in the nineteenth century there is created for
The Gospel was given to those who lived in the first centuries of
of the last century. It consisted of a series of studies, imbued

Title: Social Future: Lecture IV: Cultural Questions, Spiritual Science, Art, Science, Religion
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century have been dealt with, we can find only one answer. Although
views which are the result of half a century of social work from
isolated, very commendable efforts of recent years, the chief
will be the future of art, if it is inspired only by the recent
him it appears that for the last few centuries the religious bodies
forbidden to the sciences for centuries, the sciences themselves now
throughout the centuries of human evolution, the question regarding
evolution of the last few centuries, is no longer able to solve the
the central organ, is the sensory nerves, which are stimulated by
center. The second kind of nerves, the so-called motor nerves, pass
from the center out to the limbs. These motor-nerves enable us to use
to the central organ, so that the outer sense-perceptions may be
covering for a spiritual center of work; for external social
likely to reverence them? Since the middle of the fifteenth century
was very different in earlier centuries from that even of many
theologians of the later centuries, especially of the nineteenth. How
in recent times! The man of Nazareth has been designated “the
social future. Much, very much has been said recently on the subject
centered at Dornach, which has to a great extent met with
spiritual-scientific movement. But when we recently began, in Zurich
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Title: Social Future: Lecture V: The Cooperation of the Spiritual, Political and Economic Departments of Life
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that actually for centuries the most important impulses of humanity
preparation has been made for centuries, the work of bringing order
that a unitary, free, spiritual life came into being centuries ago,
organization has completely merged itself in the course of recent
centuries in the powerful interests of the economic body. It has
the population, demands that a political system, centralized, and
the last centuries to be carried to their final consequence. The
last few centuries have the impulses of law and morality been torn
actually been developing for centuries apart from the realities of
actual evolution of humanity in recent times up to the present day.
It sees how, in the course of long centuries, one form of social life
centuries, it is comprehensible that there should be persons

Title: Social Future: Lecture VI: National and International Life in the Threefold Social Organism
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century they have asserted themselves with particular energy, and
ever more and more decidedly up to the beginning of the 20th century,
the beginning of the 20th century. Just as production and consumption

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture III
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inscribed into man during the final stage of his descent from the
perception they possessed in centuries by no means very long ago. It
to include in the News Sheet short, concentrated aphorisms for use in
the centre at the Goetheanum. I had for many years kept apart from

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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with the word ‘Mysticism’ itself. Quite recently it happened that
the nature of Mysticism. In the first centuries of Christendom the
Among all the ancient peoples there were Mystery-centres. These
centres were temples as well as institutes of learning and they
existed in Egypt, Chaldea, Greece and many other regions. As centres
maintained. Every ascent involves a descent and this implies that at a
is created by the ascent of the one and the descent of the other. Such
with the beginnings of Ego-consciousness; the central core of his
Central Europe. It seemed to them that the waters of the Rhine had

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
go back through the Middle Ages to the first Christian centuries we
the centuries when Greek philosophy came to flower in Plato and
the end of the fourth century A.D. I have often referred to one aspect
His descent to the earth — such were the questions which even at
But then we find that from the fifth century A.D. onwards, this old
philosopher is Plotinus, who lived in the third century A.D. Plotinus
by the time of the fourth century A.D. and which in the later
in regard to the outstanding figures of the early Christian centuries
four centuries of Christendom — for example, of the way in which
certain personalities in the first three or four centuries after the
lived at the beginning of the third century A.D. It is said that
century A.D.) only the first, elementary traces of this kind of
four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. With this wisdom men
also tried to understand the descent of the Christ into Jesus of
Christian centuries in regard to the super-sensible worlds. But
And then, on the soil of Italy at the beginning of the fourth century
School — which lasted beyond the third on into the fourth century
South of Europe during the first four centuries after the Mystery of
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Title: Community Building: Lecture One
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to build for it a home center of its own, which should be
recently suffered together, because this suffering was the
new birth until the time of the descent to the earthly life. In
Recently, after participating for weeks in meetings, both small
last Central Executive Committee achieved in a fundamental
in any case, not any more than I achieved in the central field
sense, as we have not understood in recent years, if we set
Movement. They will ruin every Central Executive Committee, no
wish that he should devote himself to the Central Executive
Central Executive Committee would express themselves in regard
Central Executive Committee. Personalities are not being

Title: Community Building: Lecture Two
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have been made in recent years — influenced in part by
— undertook in the year 1913 to build a home center for
adjusted themselves in recent times to the need for finding
ritual, of its central place in the Movement for Religious

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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15th century, very different from anything that went
which had its beginning in the 15th century, if we
the 15th century. Humankind has to undergo a major
century, particularly in this respect. We tend to take
the case, however, Before the middle of the 15th century
state, from the middle of the 15th century onwards,

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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These then spread further from a number of centres in
century, as I said on the last occasion, but it was in
preparation for centuries and indeed millennia before
recent times, assuming its true character in intellectual
freedom can be the central principle. The people of Asia,
century and even to this day consisted in the physical
1st, 3rd and even the 10th and 11th centuries. Our
middle of the 15th century onwards the influence of the
religious communities. For many centuries the tradition
particularly in Central Europe even more austere.
19th century particularly in Central Europe you really
have to say this: The bodies of people in Central Europe
Something quite special exists therefore for this Central
human evolution in more recent times. They have their own
half of the 19th century.
in Central Europe today walking over the graves of
emerging in the life of humankind today. Central
Western Europeans are far from understood by Central
Europeans fail to communicate, but Central and Western
age; it cannot hold true in Central Europe, and the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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fundamentally speaking it is only now, in quite recent
particularly in Central Europe. It needs the point of
is really true that very recently a pastoral referred to
ideas until quite recent times. After all there existed
in Central Europe until 1806 an institution that in its
thinker, still had ideas in the 13th and 14th centuries
published as late as the 13th and 14th centuries unless
centuries, indeed millennia, they had known exactly what
recent years, but they have not succeeded very well with
As Central
themselves for centuries—he said something that was
young and German in the first half of the 19th century

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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clearly understand — making it the centre of both
got used to it over the centuries, indeed soon it will be

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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has come to Europe over the last three or four centuries,
the 20th century. It has a peculiarity that seems
more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed
second half of the 19th century, human beings will indeed
nonsense, and I also said so recently in a public
truth in recent centuries; on a purely emotional basis
where thoughts that ought to be concentrated are drawn
time. Thoughts that ought to be concentrated, for that is

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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here in recent times. Again and again the point has been
centuries. Basically it has entered into all areas that
European civilizations over the last centuries. I have
metabolism. It seemed to him to work towards the central
but an infant also experiences this concentration of
organic activity in the heart. Sensing this concentration
opposite to the concentration of activity in the heart.
for childishness is seen to be the descent of the spirit
to the recent issue of our Threefold Order journal. [

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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recent times are in error when they look for the
the opposite view over the last centuries.
someone is concentrating on his inner life and exactly by
centuries for the sake of human freedom.
century onwards have become standard in Western
beings who, from the middle of the 15th century onwards,
15th century, and in their case it does apply. People

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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quite a recent development. The view is that science
already been made for a long time, for centuries —
centres. It was the task of initiates to regulate the way
purposes originating in the mystery centres, could be
mystery centres where honest work was being done had long
since been concentrating on guiding the transition from
the middle of the 15th century, when the fifth
is in any way connected with this centre of materialism.
Roman Catholicism in recent times contains much that is
and so forth. [ Note 58 ] I have recently
So we get a centralized state and within it two parts
the centres run by Mr Knapp [
I cannot help remembering that until recently there have

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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nerves and senses merely have their main concentration in
the part where the main concentration lies, i.e. the
‘Centre’.
of the 18th to the 19th century. That was the time of
life of Central Europe at that time, tremendous
concentrated entirely on that particular problem. There
world, on animal nature. Darwin presented a magnificent
century was unable to answer the question: ‘How do
be done at the present time. The Central European element
middle of this century. I shall speak to you about the
Christ appearing before the middle of the 20th century.
Tolstoy. There we see a concentrated form of something
grown senile and come to a final concentration once again
living in this century and on the other hand we must be

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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in human evolution have undergone in very recent times, compared to times
permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
belongs to the first half of the 20th century, as I have mentioned a
recent times and the coming of this powerful technology has changed the
This change determined the course of events in recent years. Yet there
human technology which had evolved in most recent times had reached a
therefore, that in recent times human work has come to consist more in
90 million by the Central Powers [Germany and Austria]. A large part of
particularly the most recent achievements of technologY, have been
and in the final instance this had to decide the issue. In very recent
like those we have seen in recent years. Human destiny actually depended
which we may expect during the first half of the 20th century, enters
entering into human evolution in the 20th century. In my first mystery
discussed at that recent public lecture. The 19th century has really been
century some people, certainly the more radical thinkers, did begin to
get an idea as to what was coming. The 19th century brought events which
18th century. He was one of the 18th-century materialists who were the
forerunners of 19th-century materialism. His statement went as follows:
of the 19th-century idealists. Those idealistic thinkers pretended to
this world. The life that developed during the 18th century was largely
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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century, during the first half of the 20th century, and
grown particularly strong over recent centuries, from the
beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. In a recent
centuries, however, the scientific spirit appeared on the
particularly in the 19th century — and found them
recent kind. It is no longer there. If modern theologians
eighties — of the last century I drew attention to
19th century. He did not go as far as that 19th century
personal level, as it were. 19th century science
ideal. 19th century scientists said, and present-day
the centralized state in the figure of the King of Mixed
today, where the centralized state is supposed to
the 20th century.
this in a recent public lecture. [
matter? In the last three decades of the 19th century
century. The law will only come alive when human beings
Central Europe's King of Mixed Metals collapsed, and
concentrated on the great task. I feel it really has to
recent book. [ Note 81 ]

Title: Lecture Series: Life Between Two Incarnations
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new. Follow the centuries, how the face of the earth is changed, torn

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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certain connection between the recent great events throbbing
transferred from that egoistic realm and centred more and
be the case. The three or four centuries ending with the
seen some of our contemporaries, in the centre of the
climax within the last four or five years. In these recent
fifteenth century A.D. According to Anthroposophical Spiritual
the earlier Graeco-Latin one, which began in the eighth century
instance, the tenth century, and the centuries following the
century. Some time has passed since then, and we are now
of the fifteenth century, we must say, if we still keep in view
course, lasts through centuries. Outer observations will not
Central Europe men have accepted the falsehoods told them from
fallen to 2.15 centimes, but I have not yet met anyone who sees
should feel themselves as a centre from which may radiate the

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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I said, the middle of the fifteenth century brought with it a
before the middle of the fifteenth century, it was not
the last half-century. They assert that the genuine reality of
and early twentieth centuries.
concentrated in private capital will pass over into other
men (and in recent times young women also) have had to go
and 'eighties of last century, the regulations were very small:
directly traceable from Central Europe to Ancient Rome. This is

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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occurs in the middle of the fifteenth century, we must admit
have only recently been able to plunge entirely into the
achieved in earlier centuries, therefore there was no
in, the eighth century B.C. and lasted until the fifteenth
century A.D. When about a third of this period had elapsed,
development was superseded in the fifteenth century by that of
first Christian centuries could not last: it was bound to
perceived instinctively through the first centuries, was
the Event of Golgotha as a real fact in the centre of it
this tormented Central Europe, who have never deigned to see
the word, who is gripped by the central purpose of his time and

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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least in Central and Eastern Europe, by the old ruling powers.
Minister of one of the Central European States, announced
Marxian thought for half a century. It is not enough to-day
nineteenth century — the masses have been more and more
nineteenth century this was literally so (things have improved
so bad in the recent past as they must become, if such State
the State lies the first, central problem of the social
not one from which men shall be ruled from a centre, but where
fools or madmen who maintained in the nineteenth century that
centuries when Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Goethe and others
being, to the great glories of Central Europe, then, in spite
of the stress of our times, will peal forth from Central Europe

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