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• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Contents
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  • science. Reflective thinking can lead to egoism; truths arrived at by
  • creative thinking, which lead into the future, liberate us from our self.
  • thinking. The earth holds the moon in orbit. The forces of the moon work to
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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  • man's life. We think of human character as having a basic consistency.
  • and that something has gone wrong if their thinking, feeling and doing do not
  • think of founding a phrenology on general principles. Anyone who knows about
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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  • choose anyone familiar, but a sixteenth century thinker who was unknown
  • he did, mediaeval habits of thinking and feeling and wished to gain knowledge
  • seventeenth century thinker who is of great significance for anyone who can
  • see into the history of human thinking.
  • solitary thinker during the second half of the seventeenth century in
  • those days. This lonely thinker discusses the great central problem of the
  • to a later thinker, Descartes, and puts the same question, and here the
  • answer is that man is a thinking being.
  • two representative thinkers can give no answer to his question; for —
  • nature as a thinking being. For although we may know that man is a thinking
  • being, we do not know what he must think in order to take hold of life in the
  • is given to scientific ways of thought, but for our solitary thinker it was
  • was no help for him to know that man is a rational animal or a thinking
  • being. At last he found his question answered by another thinker who had it
  • the twilight time of our solitary thinker, when human evolution took a rest,
  • earth; these new faculties compelled men to think of the earth as going round
  • thinking could fail to admit that human cognition is by its nature a
  • to give access to the super-sensible. One particular thinker reduced this
  • This thinker was Kant,
  • conclusion. For what does he think about man's relationship to a
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• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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  • thinks of nothing but developing his Ego, he may fall into the other extreme
  • are thinking only of wild, unjustified outbursts of anger, we shall get a
  • united with it. Nevertheless, eminent poets and thinkers have rightly claimed
  • think that the striving for truth leads inevitably to the most contradictory
  • from himself. The other thinker, Herman Grimm, leaves himself entirely out of
  • the 19th century German thinker, Solger.
  • egoism. Whenever he wants to force on others something he thinks right and
  • is acquired by thinking, we must realise very clearly that there are two
  • called the truth derived from “reflective” thinking — we
  • first observe the world and then think about our findings.
  • thinking we can rediscover the element that enters into the creation of the
  • come to it by thinking out something not given to us by observation or
  • he expects. Anything we think out in advance must prove itself in practice:
  • reality of Nature in all its fullness, but the truth we derive from thinking
  • about Nature is only a passive image; in our thinking it has lost its power.
  • that Nature sets before him. He does not merely think about it; he opens
  • work of art which does not embody merely an act of thinking; it is imbued
  • different with creative thinking. Here a man is himself productive. His
  • observation and reflective thinking and allows something not to be gained
  • mere reflective thinking is bad and leads to deception. But the truths
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• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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  • the name given by true mystical thinkers to union with the eternal-feminine,
  • is it that I am able to think not only about my development in the past but
  • permeated by thinking. Its primary role is to receive impressions from the
  • levels; he has permeated the Sentient Soul with his thinking and with
  • feelings induced by thinking. In the Intellectual Soul, accordingly, we do
  • the world. But if a man likes to keep his pleasures and desires, his thinking
  • Soul — the strength and sagacity of thinking. The Consciousness Soul
  • can come to expression only because man is a thinking being, for its task is
  • highest instrument of knowledge—thinking.
  • and must penetrate his thinking through and through. This impulse can come
  • thinking is stimulated by both these powers, it will never be impelled to
  • and of thinking. Feeling must give the impulse for the verification of
  • thinking in general, but for thinking about worlds with which we are at first
  • feeling is the foundation of thinking in the widest sense, we must be clear
  • that the unknown super-sensible can be grasped by feeling before thinking
  • can be taken hold of by our thinking. Thus it is that reverence becomes the
  • that when a man endeavours to grasp with his thinking some external reality
  • in any direction, as a human Self, unless it maintains in its thinking a
  • Thinking itself
  • cannot lead the soul out; this comes about through devotion, but thinking
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• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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  • existence. Think, if you will, of this withdrawal of the astral body and the
  • speak as follows: “Think of the plant, how it is rooted in the earth
  • requires a person to cleanse and purify his thinking, feeling and willing, so
  • world; and especially if we tone down our thinking, feeling and willing and
  • worlds; it can be no more than a support for someone who thinks to himself: I
  • must maintain our healthy thinking, our reliable character, our unerring
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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  • consideration will show us how precarious our position is if we think only of
  • of speech, of thinking power, and of all those noble qualities which can
  • shall I think now? What shall I do? What's that pain I feel coming on
  • have touched on today has deeply interested all the thinkers who have
  • Philistines. They have not stopped to think that Goethe had no intention of
  • Those who think this impossible might be advised to read Fichte;
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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  • its significance from its whole way of thinking and forming ideas. Our best
  • Buddhist way of thinking. Milinda, the mighty and brilliant King who has
  • Christian way of thinking make of all this? It regards any single part of the
  • thinking thus leads to findings very different from those that derive from
  • definite difference between their respective ways of thinking, and this
  • This is evident in their ways of thinking about things great and small and in
  • Maya, the great illusion. Christian thinking would reply that it is wrong to
  • tells us that what we call our intellect, our scientific way of thinking, did
  • not come from thinking things out. Men could not then proceed as modern
  • Christian education had not made it possible for them to think as they
  • enables them to think in this way. It would be unpromising, to say the least,
  • thinking, so that his ideal man waits to reach the state of perfection until
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger
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  • soul-substance, so to speak. We must certainly not think of the soul
  • rational thinking. For example, suppose we have a rose before us. We perceive
  • connection by 19th century philosophy. We need think only of Schopenhauer,
• Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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  • make some remarks which fall outside the way of thinking now called
  • the rise of that scientific way of thinking which had its dawn
  • must be taken in dealing with mere analogies. When a stimulating thinker such
  • that a living, thinking being is made up of nothing but an assembly of
  • little way into the spiritual-scientific way of thinking, I would like to
  • means the only great thinker who looked with a spiritual eye on such things
  • creative thinking goes through an empty period, when the soul is like a
  • received, to penetrate with his thinking the illuminations, the imaginations
  • technique of thinking follow a rhythmical course. The spiritual researcher