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Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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Basically, what we have to deal with today is an ancient issue
view that, fundamentally, this question cannot be defined any
and again. For this question is indeed not one that rises up to
far more of a question that human souls are confronted with
that our questions have always been issues for the deeper
and of our time, and we will find that even with these
issue. So today, we wish to try and consider what arose from
that this significant question must be addressed in a wholly
particular way: Spiritual Science does not only open that
may perhaps be able to feel about such a question, that it is
one that easily throws up the highest questions, as they are
knowledge in a certain way. That leads to real striving for
of all, permit me to raise one point in advance, that should
of Christianity in Greece: to the Stoics, that group of
behave, so that their behaviour corresponds to their deepest
Stoics. And as an ideal for humanity, that strove to insert its
stoical world view. But one point at least must be raised, that
in Stoicism an awareness came into play, that human development
see what must often be raised here, as the first step on the
of this: that the wild waves of the being of pain and emotion,
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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the hidden beings, looks upon man in such a way that the visible part
time except that the etheric body slightly projects above the head.
is like a dull red cloud that passes through the astral body; a pure
The external form of the aura is quite different from that of the physical
influence upon the etheric body. In what way can we exercise an influence
moments his whole past life rises up before his soul. What has really
is underbound a clairvoyant perceives that the finger's etheric body

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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supersensible worlds. For this purpose we must cast a glance into what
should bear in mind is that the outer worlds are not to be found in other
clairvoyant, we first live in the astral world and perceive what has
mass of phenomena. What they first perceive, is so different from what
they were used to seeing, that they must first grow accustomed to the
see the egg and then the chicken that slips out of it; but in the astral
to be borne in mind is however that in the astral world all the images
hatred and love, appear as if they were rushing towards us. A clairvoyant
we know what is taking place in the astral world. But when people obtain
a tiger that attacks them. This is how all these wild shape should be
person is unable to cope with them and thinks that they are illusions,
fantasies. Yet this is not true, for what he sees, is an image, a mirrored
and picture to ourselves a German town of that time. There everything
was formed out of the sense of beauty of that time. Each house, each
for the soul. But think of all the things that people read to-day: sensational
it. Of course, this does not imply that we should long for the things
so that it appears as a religious passion in a mirrored picture, as
nothing arbitrary or uncertain, for he was perceive that pain or joy
contains beings that we can never learn to know on the physical plane.
that never clothed themselves in flesh. They continually hover to and
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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We have seen that when we
three days, until the next separation, namely that of the etheric body
— and a new condition begins for the human being. What is this
We have seen that during
in this world, how everyone seeks to satisfy his senses. What a human
The further courses is that
that torment us. In Kamaloca everything is reversed: what used to satisfy
for they were the prey of an illusion: they do not consider that in
following comparison: the soul resembles a bee that flies out to the
Everything that we drew
earthly life is the expression of what we worked out for ourselves.
In the East there is a proverb which says: what you think to-day, you

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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a description of Devachan, that is to say, of man's experiences in that
that our language, our words, are only coined for the physical world.
would exactly fit into the vacuum. It is however strange that this only
In Devachan, all that constitutes
life here on earth, all that enables plants and animals to grow, may
may be felt like the winds which blow on the Earth. Every calamity that
will impress these pictures so deeply upon us, that our ordinary memory

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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from death to a new birth and follow how that which comes from a past
condition, will observe that his etheric body needs a long time before
The fact that we live through
every detail of our past life in reverse order, brings with it that
you will reap what you sowed.
of a living body and destroy in life. At that time many people, and
active. The intention that leads to vivisection comes less into consideration.
Everything evil that claims
What thus streamed into us is the spiritual counterpart of the feeling
to tread the path that leads him back to the Earth. It is very interesting
to observe clairvoyantly these souls that return to the Earth. The clairvoyant
fact that a returning human being must surround himself with new astral
substance. It is new astral substance that gathers round man's nucleus
a new astral body exactly corresponding to what he developed in Devachan;
Ego. The mahadevas are among those Beings that live within man; they
with hereditary conditions to that family and human germ which are most
are due to the fact that he does not entirely fit into it, many inner

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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as bell-like shapes, which arise through the fact that the astral substance
will show us that behind them always lies a definite character-disposition.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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the effects of the law of Karma, and report what has already been explained:
the etheric body of our next life, that is to say, the lasting moral
is due to the fact that in a past life such a person had unsatisfactory
that this person will soon grow old and not evince much youthfulness.
with the objection that there are our families in which all generations
once said: It is not true that children resemble their parents, it is
rather that the parents resemble the children. Let us throw light upon
error. Mathematical truths also arise through the fact that the opposite
elaborated his astral body. That part of the astral body which has been
the more he becomes what is cllled a religious, wise person.
the method of working upon the astral body, but also that of working upon the
so that he acquires the faculty of exercising
in such a way that in certain phases of his life he can command over
forces which he would otherwise not have. What thus arises, as a result
definite capacities, that was incarnated many centuries ago and now
A great musician will need a line of ancestors that can give him a body
the contrary, he also works on the remaining world. The fact that man
plane have their origin in the spiritual worlds. What produced the changes
kingdom cannot change of its own accord. Everything that changes within
the warm-blooded animals are concerned. Everything that undergoes a
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Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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in mind that modern natural science is better acquainted than in the
past with what can be seen through the eyes, but the old science of
the Mysteries knew of more encompassing, more powerful realities. What
is not yet admitted by modern science, namely that also man already
was adapted to the conditions of the earth which existed at that time,
water, it was a land of fogs and mists ... at that time there was no
that a rainbow could only arise after the descent of Atlantis and the
the leader (the Manu) whose task was that of guiding the peoples out
of the sinking Atlantis. It was at this moment that the rainbow first
you will feel that the critic in you becomes a mere apprentice.”
human being of that time differs from modern man. The Atlantean's did
from the head. Human evolution consisted in fact that the etheric body
gliding machines were propelled by the life-forces that lie concealed
ancient Mysteries as the city with the golden portals. At that time,
being existed even at that time. This leads us to the relationship of

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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the fact that man was endowed with a living soul.
which was at that time still permeated by powerful streams of life.
soul that soared above the body. The soul entered the human body in
At that time man had the
with them; for they are quite degenerate descendants. At that time there
or of the human beings of that age.
assertion that man is descended from apes is like saying that the perfect
of certain beings is only possible through the fact that others sacrifice
Earth and the evolution of man are closely connected. What the astronomer
sexes began to separate; before that time the human beings were hermaphrodites.
This applies to all living beings. At that time, certain forces were
eliminated through the exit of the moon. At that time earth plus moon
the earth, its “sun” and never the back side, so at that
beings, animals and plants, still lived together with sun. At that time
for at that time everything still stood at one stage of planned-existence.
i.e. the sun, and that their roots stretched upwards. When the sun severed
turned their blossom to the sun. From that time onwards the blossom stretched
Man made a complete turn, so that he is a reversed plant, even as the plant
therefore says that the world-soul
that cross, by passing through the three realms of Nature. This is the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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development are called Initiates. The path which they tread and teach is that
sub-race of the Atlanteans, the original Semitic race, that lived
he saw reality only in Brahman and in what could be grasped by Brahman.
who indicated the inundations of the Nile, when that star appeared in a
qualities which man must have; he must be able to bear what one calls great
development must first be below and feel that they are there below.
Before that there was the

Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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stipulating that history should be treated in such a way that one would not only consider the
encompassing, synthesizing force, would see what is at work in the unfolding of history —
which can only be found by someone who knows how to get a total view of the facts in what in a
approach which was then particularly developed, and that it was not the ideas in history that
were pursued but only a sense that was developed for the external world of facts. Attention was
also drawn to the fact that, with regard to this last question, one can only come to clarity
might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
substantiality can do something. Spiritual science points to real spiritual forces that are
behind the sensible-physical facts, and it is in real spiritual forces such as these that the
of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
that
symptomatology constituted from the fact that one is aware that behind what takes it course as
historical development there are times when what has real being and essence
Let us suppose that this is a flow of historical facts (see diagram). The driving forces lie, for
the fact that what is otherwise hidden comes here to the surface. Thus we can say: Here, in a
Let us assume that this (see diagram) took place in
some year of world history, let us say around 800 AD What was significant for Europe, let us
wished in general that all
perception of the world should be directed to significant points and then, from what could be
that, within the abundance of facts, the important thing is to find a
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
that, in humanity as a whole, the individual element of the human being will take on greater
a course that the individual human element can work into it.
Every age, every epoch, that we can trace in the
course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
because of the separateness that we see in the individual human being today when the
increasingly educated for freedom, must also take up a conscious stand more and more to what
results from this. Above all it is essential that a social life take shape, but a social life
fact that the strong egoistical forces of the consciousness-soul, which are opposed to a social
everything that can foster this social living together. We have shown in the past,
have pointed to different things that are peculiar to the human beings of the East, Central
Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
We know that, under the influence of our modern
other strata of the population. We have, distinct from that of other peoples, the conception of
that materialistic concept of life which has often been characterized here. This arose side by
socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
aegis of economic strife, for it is permeated by economic concepts, thoughts and struggles that
This is the characteristic stamp of what is going on in
Anglo-Saxon proletariat that the impulses of socialism arose.
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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differentiation that exists among the peoples of the present civilized world. I indicated how the
beings that have progressed in an irregular way, that are more advanced than humanity, but for
we find in the East that certain beings, that had their real significance in the far distant
imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
Greece there mingled in with it what then became Aristotelianism, what was already intellectual,
dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
civilization, and, with the exception of what stems from natural science and what can stem from
the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
spiritual life is, in fact, completely decadent. This spiritual life is of such a nature that it
through it, but can no longer find a link between what he believes about the spiritual world and
what happens here on earth. This shows itself most strongly in Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, in which a
— aspirations of the social life — take on such a spiritual character that they have
is to be traced to the fact that it is actually conceived by the people of the East, even by the
so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
mixed up and at cross-purposes in much the same way that is the case today over basically the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
and Eastern ones and what arises in quite a unique way in
over to instincts, to the sensible-physical — and the other possibility — that of
being given over to the logical world of reason. Schiller holds that, in both cases, the human
instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
so that these logical necessities do not also enslave the human being.
It is an extremely important fact that Schiller's
towards external upheaval and change also moved Schiller — but moved him in such a way that
he sought to answer the question: What must the human being do in himself in order to become a
that the human being can become free? Schiller asked: What must the human being become in himself
so that, in his constitution of soul, he can live in
that if human beings are educated to this middle mood they will also represent a social community
governed by freedom. Schiller thus wishes to realize a social community in such a way that free
Now we know that Goethe's soul-configuration was
soul-constitutions that these two became so close. Each could give to the other just that which
— for Goethe this was all far too cut and dried, far too simplistic. He felt that one could
to Schiller that he did not want to treat the problem, this whole riddle, in such a
this and on the far side of the river, in a pictorial, rich and concrete way; the same thing that
Schiller presents as sense-life and the life of reason. And what Schiller characterizes
— of the fact that the outer structure of human society must not be monolithic but must be
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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attention to the challenges that are placed before us with regard to the evolution of humanity
We know that a new age in the development of
form an exact idea of what the constitution of soul was like in the people who lived before this
which, since that time, have become particularly important. But if, from the many characteristics
speak of a definite longing for knowledge in as much as the human being at that time had
relationship to what was revealed in nature as spirit — and thereby also to achieve a
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
Striving for knowledge was an intense affair of the human soul; for knowledge that had an inner
when it came to what moved him to perform his work in the world, and so on. Everything that lived
there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
idea of what had previously existed as a longing for knowledge.
thus also takes on the configuration of this technology. What then is the cause of this? It comes
from the fact that it is just in this time that we find the particular development and
dim. But one can nevertheless say that, to a certain degree, the last effects of the old
idea of the faculties rising up out of the human soul that are higher than the faculties
faculties that people tried to probe to the depths of the
what people understood as knowledge.
into a deterioration. And it is this decline of real intensity in the pursuit of knowledge that
What then is needed here? It is that which exists
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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If an understanding for what one can call the
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development. We remember that human development
characterized the different epochs of human development in such a way that we have placed the
Today we will remind ourselves that there were
that, in its reality, in its essence, the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped at first only by those
towards the West — to the Greeks and the Romans — one could receive what was related
by those people who, out of the remains of the old clairvoyance, had understood what had really
come to pass on the earth. And in order that there could be a perception through an 'eyewitness'
truth, of the genuine nature, of the Mystery of Golgotha. What St Paul was able to relate out of
his conviction — what those who had preserved the remains of an old clairvoyance could
the form of speaking about the Mystery of Golgotha in the way that was possible with these
oriental perception. One could say that this ancient oriental perception was preserved up to the
Mystery of Golgotha to such a degree that a truly human grasp of this Mystery could find a place
particularly in Rome and which can be seen as the wave that prepared the later intellectuality
the dialectical-legal, development of the human soul. In the midst of everything that occurred
Golgotha became clothed in dialectics. Out of what was Christian Gnosis, which still relied on
establishing of the European Empire that later became
ecclesiastical-theological influence. It was a kind of theocratic empire that spread there but it
You know from history and from what I have related
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
disappearance of what, in many areas of our modern times, is still considered by people to be the
that, for many who would rather go through the coming times in a comfortable sleep, with a
this yesterday already — that the prophecies of those who see the most central matter of
must be absolutely correct. But what must be regarded as imminent is what I characterized for you
world-conception, based on science, that the most intense need will have to arise for what I have
that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can
properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence. We saw, too, that
able to develop. And we have already pointed out how the particular constitution of soul that is
Golgotha. But one has to be clear that just as other crucial, incisive events in human evolution
came about in ways other than is expected among philistine circles; so, too, what one must call
fifteenth century the constitution of people's souls has become quite different from what it was
before that time. History does not take this into account because external history ever and again
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
from this clinging by force of habit to what has been inculcated when one observes with a wakeful
encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
science. And this is connected with the fact that popular science has totally captivated the
still cling to a certain piety, a piety that wants to know nothing of what is laying hold of
rooted in this piety; a refusal to face what is spreading here and which one can only define as
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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If you put together what I told you yesterday
processes I pointed out that, from the aspect of the physical world,
reality is attributed generally only to what arises and forms itself, as it
so-called destruction, at processes of dissolution, at what finally arises,
what has sprouted in the physical world is in its turn eliminated,
destroyed. I have shown that those processes which life brings forth in us
physical world. Indeed, the truth of the matter is that when we perceive
that the most important process of destruction for the life of the human
during the time after death. Through the fact that our soul-spiritual
souls: ‘What happens during the time through which the
often been pointed out that this period of time is a long one for the
in a manner inimical to the world, and have done only what may be called,
‘By what is the return of a human soul to a new physical
Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
quite specific conditions. You should consider deeply that our life between
born. What we think, what we feel, in short the whole content of our life,
readily understand that what thus surrounds us when we are born into
physical existence is dependent on preceding causes, on what took place
previously. Suppose that we are born at a certain moment and go through
life between birth and death. But if you also take into consideration what
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Title: Talk To Young People:
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it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
it necessary to be honest, what is needed above all? Courage! Something
with all the questions and problems in your hearts that assail young
even say that events in these last two decades have become even
discover that we have emerged from an epoch in time when we were
unconsciously guided by creative spiritual forces that led our souls
what is living and working today in young people, more or less
between what comes to the surface in response to this inner
all; they were attempts to escape from what older people call
it's been clear to me from the very beginning that in the deep
solid realization: that an earth-shaking change
fate decreed that I should step out of my door just at that moment,
and I realized that even though he was so young, in ninth or tenth
started.” We talked together and what he said showed clearly that
subconsciously in him was what older people call “the adolescent
asked many of these older people what they think about adolescence;
of an answer for me. Yet I know that many of them know very well this
it is clearly present within them. What they feel clearly and very
instance, by Rousseau and his disciples. That was also a youth
movement, one that burst out like an explosion, much more alarming
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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What way has man to take
conception of the Cosmos — whether that of Spiritual Science or
any other — contain this basic query: What is the evolutionary
his thoughts educated through Spiritual Science, may also ask: What is
the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
thought, and that, for the mind cultured through Spiritual Science, the
You all know that human
various previous stages, and that this earth-state was preceded by the
Moon-stage. And we must remind ourselves of the fact that, in a certain
therein; we can put it this way: that we are earth men, but that we in
further, namely that the Moon man also encloses the Sun man, and the
imagine that this diagram in any sense reproduces the truth. In
this ‘dual’ man, the matter stands thus, for example: That,
become evolved in the human being that which we now call the earth man;
previously we have to do with evolutions or developments that
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural
You will all be aware that in
attitude that has led to a materialistic conception of the Universe,
— and that, this materialism we endeavour to impregnate with the
and know of the world, — all, that constitutes man's
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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questions, a solution of their problems. That is quite natural and
feeling must be added, a certain perception that the more one strives
sanctity. That is to say, we can expect in our future incarnations
gradually to have an enhanced feeling in what a lofty sense, in what
expect just that regarding this Christ-riddle much will be solved for
us, but also that much of what we have hitherto found full of riddles
becomes still more difficult. Other things will emerge that bring new
this great problem. And I beg you to be entirely clear that only
from various aspects. And so something shall here be added to what
has already been said that may bring us again some understanding of
announced that now men had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil they must be banished from their present abode, so that they
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
that the Mystery of Golgotha, in so far as it was accomplished within
We know indeed that the Mystery of
the Graeco-Latin age and that two-thirds of this age follow, having
regard to the Mystery of Golgotha. The first is what took place as
purely objective fact: in short, what happened as the entry of the
say, it would be conceivable, for the Mystery of Golgotha, that is,
perhaps even known what had taken place there. It might quite well
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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forming world-history may be divided on the one hand into what may be
the same facts somewhat more subjectively, will give our attention to
rhythmic alternation that occurs in man's daily life; namely, that he
considered more closely and exactly, but for today's study what has
it can happen that, without any special development having been
come before his soul that at the moment of waking he, as soul-being,
lifts himself out of a living and weaving in what one might call a
conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
more etheric, lighter weaving and living than what we pass through
struck many people, in waking, that they lived during sleep in an
that I cannot bring clearly enough into the waking consciousness. And
special occult training, a man can be clear that during sleep he was
two-fold saying to which we referred yesterday, that two-fold
What does it really mean: Not eat of the
Tree of Life? You will perhaps no longer find incomprehensible what I
himself: If what we call the Luciferic temptation had not taken
that we should have had a different knowledge of things if the
Luciferic temptation had not come to pass. This is exactly what the
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of
the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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what we call Spiritual Science.
how intimately connected is the thought-content with what we are as
concepts, and they have the consciousness that through these thoughts
that the images in fact reproduce something of the world. This is the
the feeling that because he sees the trees etc. concepts come to
life, and that the concepts are inner presentations of what he
perceives, and that he thus in some way takes the world of external
world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
that thinking is an inner activity, an inner work.
fact that every thought is essentially different from what people
moulder. Every thought that arises in us seizes, as it were, upon our
It goes on working continually and again and again replaces what dies
away in us. So it is not only the case that we perceive our concepts
through what we conceive in ideas.
downwards, so that with every thought we actually insert in us
something is being destroyed, is actually crumbling away. And what
longer noticed — that the breath spreads out in
him, and that breathing has something to do with his re-building and
scarcely feels any longer that the thought is actually striving all
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
point of merely seeing images of something external in what he
receives as concepts and ideas, and how he does not notice that at
bewitched in the inner being of man, so that when he feels, when he
brings his will into activity, he has the consciousness that he is
then entirely and solely within himself, that he is concerned only
with himself, and that what takes place in the impulses of feeling
cosmos. We believe that in our feelings we only bring to expression
pointed out that this originates from the fact that certain spiritual
Sun-evolution. What entered their destiny through their not having
pronounced separation between something in us that wishes to be
what is in us, and which are, far more turns outwards and tries to
to make a sketch of what this denotes we could perhaps
fact that here within, it is raying out and continually calling forth
not aware that they now also go out into the cosmos, that they really
notion that truth is imparted to him from two sides, that he attains
come if one extended what tries to go out in the cosmos from the one
that (Drawing 1, yellow) must certainly go out to a
thing in itself is nebulous, is unknown; but that which thrusts up as
however, give our chief attention to this: that as a matter of fact,
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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the possibility of going into some important matters that we will
suppose that here were the surface of the earth —
arable land, meadow, or what you will (a drawing was made), and
plants, any kind of plants grew in this meadow. And suppose that here
were a worm or some little creature, that lives and burrows under the
surface. This little grub or caterpillar, or whatever it is, creeps
recognise the roots. And what will happen is the following, is it
— that this caterpillar or grub were a
makes itself a world-conception. In the picture that it devises as
that the sun comes and the shoots spring forth —
notices quite clearly that something is going on, that the roots
become different, and also that in the part of the earth lying round
That is to say, a world-conception arisen in this worm-philosopher
know, this worm, whence this warmth comes ... That it becomes warmer,
that all sorts of processes go on in the roots, all that he
opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
effect and say: Now the earth becomes somewhat warmer from above
downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
earth as cause and effect. But it would not include that fact that
see, it is quite clear to you, I think, that this worm-philosophy
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Let us remember that the human being was built up in
stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
of human evolution, is that these sense-organs as such have to do
with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
of the physical into whatever else is forming in man, so that the
nevertheless that all has to do with the
as the most external of evolved members; what [
seen in the fact that during sleep the ears are naturally influenced
obvious that just the same would happen as during waking. We can
and we must be clear that if we did not sketch it as a diagram, but
Now you can conclude from this that the
of what in fact works as the external world. You can indeed follow
photographic apparatus, and what is created within is then seized
world that we first build up our soul process, insofar as the process
What I have now depicted is how things
divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that
perceived what was within him, he would have the feeling: in me is a
It is interesting that in the first
consciousness that they are enclosed as if in a sphere which really
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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so are my other books. Only one who knows that in every
different from what it came to be later on. A great and
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
consciousness that was natural before the 4th century still
echoes on in sayings like that of John Scotus Erigena —
that man forms judgments and draws conclusions as a human being
soul. This very fact indicates that man's whole way of looking
at the world had changed in the course of that century. And
that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
unmistakable indication of the fact that what was previously
Gospel carefully, we find a statement that has been overlooked
and without him was not anything made that was made.’
namely, that all things visible were made by the Logos, that
literally and maintain at the same time that the creator of
spiritual world that had survived from ancient paganism. We must
Christ. What did such a mystery really signify to these men?
everywhere that veneration was paid to the element flowing down
that generation after generation had passed by since the
stock, and that the soul and spirit of this father of the tribe
the blood. Whenever an adherent of that ancient view of the
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Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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philosophy I attempt to show that this reproach is entirely unjustified.
erred into false tracks, fails to perceive that the nature of its own
in respect of the human self — that is, self-knowledge — is one
should realize that no external measures, but only a thorough knowledge of
that we should really feel the resistance of the two obstacles which human
in order to realize thereby that we endow them with their true value by
apparent. The belief that true reality is grasped by Natural Science is
also be admitted that an incalculably distant future will reveal the method
ideal of Natural Science. Yet it is essential that we should, in the face
“Boundaries of Natural Science,” that human knowledge would
experience, but we should at the same time feel that the distance between
observe that they do not result from comprehension or feeling, and we shall
reach the point of admitting that we do not, in truth, devote ourselves to
experience that we were bound to follow the course of Natural Science, but
that we were disappointed in the expectations raised by our diligent
insight into the natural processes. We then abandon the belief that Natural
to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
us concerning our own being, is a sign that we have not sufficiently
advanced in the experiences that are possible within the scope of Natural
belief that actual reality, or something in the nature of unity with the
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
according to what I have just learned there are so many things to be done
during this time, that I am hardly able to say whether we shall get further
What I
would like to speak of in this introduction is this: to what I gave you
the educator. Of course what I shall have to say about the nature of the
— it is of course true that we hardly have a real sense,
a valid sense for what is meant by the esoteric. We believe today that what
is true is true, what is right is right, and that it should be possible to
proclaim what is true and right before the world, once it has been
so: here matters are quite different. The essential point is that you can
that produce them are guarded in the soul as a most sacred, hidden wealth.
sacred, hidden wealth, regarding it as something that plays a role only in
people today, we must always bear in mind that we are working on the
clear that our present work is to prepare this next generation for definite
tasks that will have to be accomplished sometime in the future of mankind.
what is the real cause for mankind having fallen into the widespread misery
manner of thinking and feeling peculiar to western man. We can say that if
Berlin or Vienna, than he is from what is being felt and thought today in
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
development of the physical and the etheric bodies and that of the astral
given here or there — by the change of teeth and by that
the man, but spread more over the entire organism. You know that between
But the years that follow the change of voice (or what corresponds to it in
call to mind what the change of teeth signifies. The change of teeth is the
outer expression for the fact that in the child's organism up to then
— that is, between birth and the second dentition
what happens formatively in the rest of the organism, in the trunk and
organism of trunk and limbs, to the physical and etheric bodies. What
activity, notwithstanding the fact that it proceeds from the physical body.
It is the same soul activity that works in the soul later as intelligence
and memory. It is only that later, after the change of teeth, the child's
modification of the child's soul life demonstrates that certain psychic
that appear after the seventh year as forces of intelligence, as
we have an interplay between soul and body that is quite real
is that what streams upward from the body is thrust back, and conversely
struggle between the two sets of forces — those that
those that need to be used especially in drawing, painting and writing. We
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
essential, in life, that man's connections with his environment are
properly if we were to imbibe produce that had already been partly digested
by man. This shows you that the essential thing is that certain things
education. Here, the essential thing is to know what we ought to learn and
what we ought to invent out of what we have learnt, when we are actually
kinds of principles and formulated statements, that is roughly the same, in
the human being in this way, what you are then receiving corresponds to
like to call one of them the musical element, the element of sound that we
see. Other sense qualities are intermingled with what we hear on the one
is essential that we really understand these processes right down to the
point where we understand what is actually going on in the body. You will
know that nowadays external science sees a difference between man's
so-called sensory nerves, that apparently run from the senses to the brain
motor nerves, that apparently run from the central organ to the organs of
movement and set them in motion. You will realise that from the standpoint
actually giving the impulse of will. So we can say that we have nerves that
that run from the centre to the ends of the organs of movement. But they
are basically the same nerve strands, .and the essential thing is only that
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Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
then that which we see is essentially the incorporation of the ego.
Considering this incorporation of the ego we can characterise what is
stress has been laid on the fact that that which has hitherto worked in the
at birth, the etheric body round about the seventh year. So what seen from
This is what people who understood something of these matters in bygone
that is to hear the various explanations in harmony with one
what happens further., In that which is set free —
gradually organising it through and through; which means that there takes
place a mutual permeation of the eternal I and that which is being formed:
fourteenth year, that is up to the time of puberty, we can say from a
certain point of view that an element of will, a musical element is being
described when we say: is being absorbed: for what lies in the outer world
is really the musical element and all that which is being absorbed as
itself with that which is being liberated, so that from birth to puberty,
that is up to the age of about fourteen or more, we are concerned with a
then later, even after puberty, the ego penetrates the astral body. So what
artistic education. What does this mean?
means, for example, that the ego must not enter the physical body, etheric
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Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society
He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of the
truths in particular that I would like to develop for you. We shall then
see what a great impact on a person's everyday life these particular truths
have, and that is what we will talk about tomorrow. Today I just want to
merely by saying that there is a possibility of acquiring supersensible
knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the actual
ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making knowledge of
supersensible worlds really fruitful in ordinary life. It can be said that
our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
know, the first of the capacities that leads man into supersensible realms
— You will see that the latter is the case. As my little book
that the nature of man's development is entirely different in the three
I have often mentioned, is connected with the development of forces that
obvious that the forces doing this work of developing the physical body are
as leading to Intuition. For the forces that are applied in the acquisition of
intuitive knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of
forces that are active within the human body until the seventh year are the
the forces that are active from the seventh year to the fourteenth year and
the power of Inspiration. And the forces that in bygone times used to be
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture I: Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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was done in Basel, it was possible to touch especially on what can be
spoken many times. But about that which lives as the personality of Jesus
of Nazareth before our soul and has taken up that being, can be said more
That personality, which
have nevertheless an overview of what has been elaborated in the Basel
clairvoyant, the Akashic Chronicle, reveals to us in living characters what
is usually such that first facts of the Akashic Chronicle are made known,
that all these things can be found in certain documents, especially in the
In Palestine at that
spiritual currents that met in the Christ event. One is linked to Buddha,
precisely in that Christ event. One usually speaks of such spiritual
special beings, which must be formed in such a way that the currents could
before. However, that embodiment in the 6th century before Christ was a
significant climax in his existence. It was then that Gautama became what
is called a Buddha. Before that, he was merely a bodhisattva, that is, a
himself this or that. But it was not like that in the primeval times. At
that time, for example, man would have found nothing about the moral in
the laws of compassion and love. At that time, man would have searched in
higher, spiritual regions was that Bodhisattva who then incarnated in India
bring down such teachings as that of compassion and love. There comes a
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Title: Buddha and the Two Boys: Lecture II: The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Boys of Jesus
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the question that someone might ask: Yes, if so much has already been said
Jesus, is it possible that there is also something to be said about the
other Gospels, that in a certain sense one would get the same understanding
what we are looking for within the spiritual-scientific research should not
down, but as something that can be researched with the means of spiritual
and the Gospel of John, that we have taken out of the enormous volume of
the Akashic Chronicle what can be found again in the Gospel of Luke and the
shown that in the Gospel of Luke one has the opportunity to discuss
actual Jesus of Nazareth, above it we see shining what we called the
Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, what we see as the aura of this child. It is
that form which the Buddha assumed after his last incarnation, in which he
became Buddha. We could emphasize that what we call our occidental esoteric
teaching fully justifies what is contained in the oriental scriptures: that
specific embodiment. Thus, that individuality had reached such a stage of
development that it no longer needed to be embodied in a physical body on
earth. This is a great achievement, that an individuality does not need to
be embodied anymore. That this can be, however, depends not only on the
embodied himself in an earthly-fleshly body, but only in that, as the
lowest physical-bodily entity, what we call the etheric or life body.
physical body on earth. What we see as a physical body with an
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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hat is called the social
themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
could be said to have been still more unfavorable. At that time there was
life did not take the form it does today — such that
before God. In the same way, if you look back for that matter to the
and Pharisees, single communities that stood out, that were in possession
of a certain spiritual life, but what they gave out of this spiritual
forgotten that throughout the Middle Ages the content of spiritual life
times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
what is of an imaginative nature. More and more, people sought
the form that made it possible to a certain extent that, alongside the
the profound social chasm that now has such frightful
transpired that in this fifth post-Atlantean time-period involving the
person to be convinced of another. On that account, spreading ideas is so
here and elsewhere in our Society, that nowadays, on the basis of no
feeling that a point of view for judging life is to be won by way of
becoming convinced of what lives in the soul of the other person
spirituality. I recently emphasized here once again that one should not
deceive oneself in that people still go to church, maintaining they have
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
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Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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that appear all at once, like a star, who are simply there, so
that one has the feeling, they arise quite suddenly from
this spiritual history. Closer observation reveals that such
Raphael's influence, his renown, through the times that follow
Raphael's own age, up to our own day. He was able to show that
unified stream of spiritual development that continues beyond
preceding age leaves us with the impression that it already
expression of Raphael's creations. Thus, what Homer brought
us to an organic whole through what arose from Raphael's soul
contemplate the works of Raphael, we have the sense that
only lives on in the centuries that follow him; what preceded
Thus, an expression that
especially in such outstanding figures as Raphael. What we have
on further significance in contemplating what has been said. We
become aware of the significance of the fact that the human
to another what is to be implanted in mankind's spiritual
in human evolution. It does not want merely to present what
periods. In appearing again and again in earth-lives that
all that is cultivated and achieved by the common spirit of
What is put forward here from a spiritual scientific standpoint
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Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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We can say that he [Leonardo] bore within him the whole spirit of
making use of powers that were only to emerge in later centuries. --
We can say that he [Leonardo] bore within him the whole
making use of powers that were only to emerge in later
s a result of the distribution of what is perhaps the most widely
marvelled at the tremendous idea that comes to expression in
and bearing are so individualized that we have the impression:
these figures, every manner in which an individual of whatever
temperament or character might respond to what the picture
After these words have been uttered we see what goes on in each
to Leonardo da Vinci, we find that, in depicting the Last
Supper, Leonardo introduced what can be called the dramatic
in Milan, in that old Dominican church of
This is all that remains of the original painting that has
back, one has the impression that for quite some time already
it has not been possible to see much of what people witnessed
What must indeed at one time have spoken to human beings from
terms of the idea that has just been haltingly enunciated, but
the wall. — What has this picture not suffered in the
course of time! [It should be noted that from 1978 to 1999,
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Title: Fairy Tales: in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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“Old fairy tales that are an expression of the
ancient spiritual secrets of the world, arose such that
spiritual secrets to them, so that how they are put
second difficulty is that, in regard to what is magical
that the original, elementary impression, indeed the
that they destroy the immediate living impression
with one's power of judgment in what wells up so pristinely
that what may be offered as a kind of spiritual scientific
explanation remains something that touches the source so
from being impoverished, one has the feeling that
original that one would like best of all to bring it to
may be regarded as entirely natural that someone like
again for the soul's most noteworthy experiences. This is what
that
the Human Race. It lies in the nature of what is magical in
fairy tales that explanations cannot ultimately destroy their
(If I were to say all that I should like to say about the
That is to say, whoever seeks to come to the aforementioned
sources from the standpoint of spiritual research finds that
Tragedy depicts what the human soul can experience in
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Title: A Mongolian Legend
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throw it to the ground again in disappointment, so that
herself that it is not her lost child. She does the same with
all certainly know that with a child after birth the bones up
primeval times. At that time, had one been able to see in the
body, protruding at that place on the head, its rays extending
wondrous lantern that is only quite inappropriately
freely and unhindered into what we call the astral world. With
this, they could see not only bodies, but also souls, and what
the different religions, in what lives in human souls. If human
mother of humanity, searches the world, seeking for what will
because she no longer sees what she was once able to see when
What human beings expressed in such grandiose truths so
beings. That power of spiritual seeing which is an attribute of
external, physical aspect of things, but what is expressed of a
spiritual nature in external objects. What has become merely
physical bodies will be spiritualized once again. That woman of
world. And whereas she now throws away things that show only
their sense-perceptible side, not finding in them what she is
spirit in matter and find what belongs to them. They can then
themselves off in love-lessness from what is outside them and
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Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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“Spiritual science aims to show what can be
said that for the purpose of gradually entering into the whole
t could easily appear as though what is set forth here as
spiritual science stood in isolation to what is otherwise
conceives of this spiritual science in a somewhat
become aware that parallels can be drawn to modern cultural
life in various ways. It will be seen that this manner of
Herman Grimm, he appears as a kind of mediator between all that
that she was his mother-in-law, the same Bettina Brentano who
close proximity to Goethe. In all that he took up in his
starts out from whatever stimulated him, that furthered the
Grimm that suited his aims, a realm in which he felt at home.
appeared to him as though it lived on. And in seeking out what
derived from Goethe and what was compatible with him in
Goethe that he sought. This then became a yardstick for him in
forefront, rather than what proceeded from Goethe. During that
that he certainly hoped would come, a time in which Goethe's
that he regarded himself as, so to say, the
Grimm stood somewhat apart in his relation to cultural matters.
that interested him. We also talked — and I was pleased
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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historically, not so much referring to the present — that can
time. But when such things are discussed, what is not taken into
account, or at least not enough, is that we live within the
historical course of events, that we stand in a very definitive
historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
Basically, what is most effective today and
what will show itself to be an even more effective imperialism in the
economic imperialism. But most important is the fact that
how in these times realities are completely different from what is
Swiss friends know very well that while Woodrow Wilson was being
in Switzerland, for what Woodrow Wilson is today, he was of course
complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
him unfit to govern, that there are doubts about his judgment.) The
true, for what was behind them was something completely different, it
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
it's about, what is said, thought and judged, it is necessary to
century — we must realize that they are the recent products of
of recent times has changed so much that the true character of an
what the fundamentals are.
of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
will have already noticed from what I said yesterday that it is
platitudes. It is necessary, however, to realize that platitudes need
that is, into something existing yet illusional, then the new reality
life, fully conscious of the illusionary nature of what was formerly
It is only natural that people
platitudes; for to realize that they have become platitudes causes a
feeling of insecurity. They feel that there is no longer solid ground
deception, they feel that they are adrift. They will no longer feel
be especially possible if all English-speaking peoples realize that
very important. At the moment when it is recognized that we are
otherwise with platitudes, as I also explained yesterday. At that
moment of realization must come when we can no longer defend all that
we maintained till now. Reality for us is what we do for our stomachs
recognized them for what they are, as long as we do not realize that
the economy is the only reality, we will not be able to admit what it
is necessary to admit. If we do realize all that, then human nature
That moment of truth must dawn.
For the same reason that we go forward towards a new spiritual life,
exist that prevent the illusions from being seen through so thoroughly,
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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When you consider what has been said here
during the past two days you will see that what belongs to the
essence of imperialism is that in an imperialistic community
something that was felt to be part of a mission — not
create certain professions for that purpose: police and military
us now consider once again from definite viewpoints what is apparent
in the historical evolution of mankind. We find that in the oldest
discussion was grounded in the fact that a god in human form walked
the earth as the ruler. That was, if I may say so, a secure
Gradually all that which was based on divine
will and was thus secure passed over to the second stage. In that
symbol for what is not actually present in the physical world, but
was when it first occurred to people that a possibility for
discussion of public affairs was possible. What we today call rights
thing that mattered was the concrete will of a physical person. To
human form should or should not do this or that made no sense. In
spiritual world in physical institutions, if one spoke of what Saint
called the “City of God” — that is, the
heavenly facts and personalities, then one can hold the opinion that
what the person does who is a divine image is right, is a true image:
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
committees of this High School week that I give an introduction
What has surprised me the most at the reception of the
that Anthroposophy's methods stand in an unauthorised, opposing
19th Century. It seems to me that among all the
that Anthroposophy in relation to natural science doesn't want
anything other than that the methods used by natural science
arrive at an anthroposophic understanding, than that which one
people means that the particular way thoughts are linked
inorganic nature. What you have appropriated as a system of
organic nature. This is what is usually understood today, as
This is of course quite the opposite of what Anthroposophy
metamorphosed idea need to be contained, so that if you want to
go from one sphere of world phenomena into another, that you
don't merely apply what you have learnt from lifeless natural
same in all spheres which is what gives the scientific point of
way in which you can position yourself internally to what can
the separation of the philosophic world view from that of the
which at that time had a certain historic rating of fruitful
Goethe arrived at this point by establishing what he called the
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
would like you to consider that I had assumed last night, to
out what I would say and I can only hope, as a whole, to
problems to which he was exposed, namely the problem of what
a separated bone, made people believe that this part of the
and animals. Goethe didn't agree. He was of the opinion that
out to how lucky he was, that the human being actually has the
Anthroposophy it could not be stated in this way. What Goethe
evolution created the possibility to make space for what is
place in the animal and human organisms. We may assume that in
life. Certainly one could say: what for instance do the senses
when I say: What takes place in the mouth and palate as a taste
experience, what takes place in the process and function with
it is valid that one can speak for instance about the sense of
much duller position than that of our perceiving through the
senses about what takes place in the process of seeing; so that
the ear, and then explore what becomes indirectly perceptible
(sensory) organization which corresponds to the hearing of what
to know that a person is standing in front of us, when we see
like two eyes and so on, and through an analogy conclude that a
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
we are aware that we are developing a science which is derived
from words. I would like to say: what we have today in the word
are contained in all that we feel in
Philosophy implies that the words — which no doubt came
into question when philosophy was created, that only words were
than what had been experienced for centuries. When one looks
in the rising scientific world view sees what should be taking
What I'm sketching for you now as a situation in which the
that one can't sketch it in the same way as I've done for the
organism is bound to what it can develop under the influence of
What lay ahead for the West with this? It meant that scientific
What lay ahead was the finest observational results and
experimental talents developing out of folk talents. What came
encompassing concepts. What came out of it was also a tendency
what I could call, a kind of fear of rising up to one
but exist in what the sense world presented to them, simply
appeared the belief that the entire spiritual world should be
handed over to the singular faiths of individuals, and that
Let's go now from Herbert Spencer to what we meet with Hegel.
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Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
can't be verified from the outset by anyone and that nevertheless
most unjustified ones that can be made against the
Anthroposophical Movement, because it doesn't stipulate that
with their research results being presented in such a way that
case this doesn't make it unnecessary that at least the first
before that, as shown in the small publication “The
Whatever is taken up through anthroposophic ideas, when they
anthroposophic research that their results work on the entire
is what must be especially treasured in the pedagogic didactic
asserted that for a satisfactory education, satisfactory
So we couldn't rely on anything but on what began on a purely
They pose the following question, for example: what is the
coloured theory assumes that the bodily-physical should form
the basis, so that the bodily-physical brings forth the
that of psycho-physical parallelism, which assumes that the
absorbed by the child. That is why in the second period of life
seen in such a way that everything which develops in the child
is an adaptation of the people surrounding it. Not what the
people do in the child's surroundings, because that is
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
that time, I urged everyone to observe the social economic life
with that which moves in the entire circumference of the social
question. Yes, most people at present can hardly sense that the
frankly, because that is what matters most — contains an inner
contradiction is namely nothing other than what permeates our
from the spiritual life, so that the economic life becomes, for
introduction because in connection to what is based on
on the other side of the standpoint, that in overcoming these
misconceptions lies what we first have to strive for
situation in such a way that I hoped to believe a large number
social life in general. At that time you could say to yourself
that a person could think out of this complicated world
—; that these ideas would be made
would perhaps have given quite a different result to what could
be fixed in a manuscript. It is not important that ideas are
presented in a utopian manner, that an image can be presented
misinterpreted what had been said completely, wanting to turn
that be? — ie: what one could actually expect. It turned out to
the economic life, who know about this or that branch of
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
Now, my dear friends, this event may be anything; what it
program item of the course) by thinking that what we were
Thus, you will also allow, my dear friends, that not all sorts
of misunderstandings will again be linked to what I have to say
possible, but unfortunately it has resulted that many attacks
scientific research stands in a somewhat puzzled manner towards
epistemologically clear in what sense the scientific methods or
account what can be achieved in modern thinking and research
natural world I'm as much in agreement with Haeckel as at that
the experience of the mind, that means in the weaving of the
mere sensory experiences, so that when a natural scientific
no obstacle to now observe what inwardly to some extent can be
admits that out of the seedling, if you have an inner image of
it, you gain a truth which is that the mind itself can't be
created out of the sense world. One remains true to that which
result of what I've suggested here and in other places, of the
often forced that what one is observing — I admit this
from the simple basis that speech, as in all modern languages,
words what we have observed through Imagination, Inspiration
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impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
aphoristic manner to open our discussion. I am aware that this
about today and it became clear to me that one really needs a
speech scientifically, then one must be clear that it is not as
Certainly one can discuss to what a degree observation lies at
the course of thought. What is presented as an object of
means that through a person speaking, something is unfolding
and what rises, connects to conscious elements which gradually,
stream. That which is momentarily present in the consciousness,
what is present as we speak, that is only partially the actual
for. When it became known that this course was going to take
twice, one after the other. Already before this I believed that
again construe that I spoke out of direct experience, as it
towards which the child needs to be orientated so that it is
nationalities, the latter with their frame of mind being that
11 what I had to say about their experience of the
allow nuances of experience to flow into what happens when one
activity flows the feeling, as to what belongs to this
what is directed from within, like how thoughts are being
You are going to see that in the soul of central Europeans, in
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explaining that situation, but I wanted to stress the
friends. And I would like to emphasize that in this School
spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
card, to begin in a way that will make you conscious of the
fact that every word spoken within this School is based on the
— that same spirit which has been revealed to humanity
humanity what it is able to receive.
must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
towards what the sense-world has accomplished for humanity when
of the spirit. We must also clearly recognize that the
it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
course be what it is possible for the spirit to give us. It
will however be demanded of the members of the School that they
have gone into these things in our weekly periodical, What
that this difference be felt in all its explicitness by the
members of the School, so that eventually only those persons
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
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will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
the world that surrounds him - can feel himself related to the
the influence of “Know thyself”, he only sees what
What you are, what you were, or will become.
Unto that light that shines out of the darkness.
that we can never find our own being in this world. For the
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
that can carry us into the spiritual world. Yet just as by
world, we must also bear in mind that the person of normal
consciousness in normal life is unprepared to encounter that
spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
it is the case, my dear friends, that we must always keep in
mind the fact that the Guardian stands before the [entrance to]
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
What we should feel at the abyss of being between the maya, the
must be quite clear, my dear friends, that bravery in acquiring
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
time that cowardice is what holds back most people from even
Your hate of spiritual revelation
That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants
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spiritual world, which characterize what the human being can
spiritual world. And we should not say that when someone
his thoughts - what the person in process of initiation
realizes in reality by entering the spiritual world, that the
former does not actually participate in what is revealed to the
in thought one approaches the description of the path that
superficial, he will experience and feel fully what it means to
That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
observations - when man uses the things that he encounters in
looks everywhere for the facts behind it. He asks: What
experience proves this or that? He doesn't like to accept
something in ordinary life which is not proven by this or that
himself: What is true is what is seen, what is real is what is
Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
between birth and death in a way that you could never really
know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
being real or merely a dream. Just imagine what insecurity,
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
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well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
certain stage of maturity - not that he became what most people
words; what I have to say is merely clothed in human words.
What I have to say to you are the gods' thoughts, and these
be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
renewed for what is to be received. Everything should be new
said that I do not appeal to your memory, to your capacity for
remembering. That does not mean that tomorrow you should
remember nothing of what is said to you today. But you should
what your memory makes of it. What should lead you to me
the innermost feelings of your soul; they should preserve what
is said to you today. For you see, memory, that capacity for
remembrance, is for learning. What the esoteric has to say,
is in fact true that whenever we are dealing with esoteric
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essence of this Guardian. In particular, we have seen how what
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
that, my dear friends, is exactly what must be made clear -
that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
feeling and willing are somewhat separated, apart from external
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
submerged, and dreams are not what can directly describe the
physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
element lie deep beneath what people experience.
What is closer to man is his breathing process, which is
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
That the element of warmth is extremely essential to man is
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
needle for example, we feel the cold places that have been
with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
be sufficient that I have indicated what air and warmth means
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Guardian's continuous admonition is that man be aware that he
deep relationship to that world exists within him.
rather must one return to what is revealed between them.
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
what the solid earth consists of is also present in the
feet to what is to a certain extent at our own height, what is
the watery element. Although it is true that man's life on
earth has developed in such a way that he only senses this
condensed, it is nevertheless true that he also lives in this
solid as such, in the earthly, we can only say that we live in
differentiate it. We do not specifically differentiate what is
which exist outside of ourselves. We do not consider what is
around us and at the same time within us, so that we must
have what we designate as Earth, what we designate as Water,
what we designate as Air and what we designate as Warmth.
up to what we have always described with a dry, abstract
shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
lesson that the human being, according to the manner in which
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have repeatedly spoken - also outside [Dornach] - about what
not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
the members than that they honestly recognize what
anthroposophy is and that they are in a certain sense listeners
to what anthroposophy says; and that they receive from it what
become members of this School declare that they want to be true
that only those who are recognized by the School as true
members can be recipients of what the School teaches.
Therefore, whatever a member of the School does should have the
member if it considers that he cannot be a representative of
if we do not feel that the School is like building a rock to
members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
that an Executive Committee has been esoterically formed.
alone. Therefore, anything which indicates that a member is not
that person's membership.
is a fact that negligence has entered into the Anthroposophical
Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
should feel responsible that every word we speak is tested to
the extent that we know it is true. For untruthfulness, even
when derived from what is called good intentions, is
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It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
is true that before the Christmas Conference it was always
emphasized that the anthroposophical movement and the
consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
and life. And it had to be continually emphasized that
That has changed since the Christmas Conference at the
which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
the Anthroposophical Society; now whatever happens through the
must be an administration. But that is not what it considers to
Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
Conference statutes that contain paragraphs which detail what
rather do the statutes describe what the Vorstand intends. And
that is how the Anthroposophical Society is constituted. It is
issued a membership card, which is signed by me, so that even
least present. It has been suggested that I have a rubber stamp
made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
must also stress that it must be clear to the members - I
stress it because it has already been sinned against - that
Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
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vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
in the sublimity of what the vast universe offers, we will gain
minds so that we no longer need to even look up at the heavenly
we can also observe all that radiates down and streams through
then when we are conscious of all that binds us to the earth,
that we are heavy bodies among other heavy bodies. In other
words what lives in us as a feeling of being bound to the earth
from these three inner experiences: what we have gained in
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
This leads to the question: Why is it then that so few do so?
perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
we can read in the stars, what we can feel in the movements of
the planets, what we can experience in the forces which hold us
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
sensations - or experiences, it doesn't matter what we call
now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
organization, in not a facilitator; that is, to live with the
a picture of what a human soul can pass through on the way from
spiritual world is what will be provided in these class lessons
a way that those who have participated — it is also karma
impossible for us to grasp what the spiritual world reveals as
two possibilities. One is that the person hears about
them to be self-evident. It is obvious that everyone sitting
here today belongs to that group. For if someone who does not
belong to that group wishes to participate in a lesson as a
another group of people who find what is presented by
visionaries. These people show by their behavior that they are
between people. For if you honestly consider that you possess a
esoteric striving. And we should treasure the fact that healthy
the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you
plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
Then, however, we will also feel more and more what the
starting point for esoteric life can be. Then we feel that in
according to the usual methods and called to this or that work
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news that Miss Maryon* has departed from the physical plane
are all gathered here, I will say what I have to say about
is sufficient to say that the First Class has lost a truly
she not only participated in what is being esoterically
friends are here, it will be my task to say what is to be
on his karma, on what conditions he brings along from
But not only that, it also depends on which physical and
When the right time has come, we will surely find what has
that existed in the Mysteries in the past when they
If you will remember what was presented here in the last
Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
directly into the individual's experience so that he frees
the meditation we confront not only what resounds from our
soul but also what resounds to our soul, which in a
objective way, then will he be able to follow that intimate,
You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
That which can be known theoretically can also be
organizations. He must be clear about what takes place in his
active. We notice that when the head is ailing, thinking is
circumstances. This doesn't mean that the head is really the
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First let us recite the verse which reminds us of what comes from the cosmos
Self-knowledge, my dear sisters and brothers, is what, in a
been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
threshold; that the Guardian of the Threshold stands at the
It has also often been said that this living in the
therefor not lead to envisioning something similar to what is
the point where you can sense the speaking, that you sense the
that makes an impression on me relative to the present: Can I
also sense that?
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
profile]. When speaking is sensed so that it must be moved here
[green]. That is, the sense of thinking is moved
somewhat up against the back of the head.
good to think like that, because you will never progress that
to what life brings from morning to night and nevertheless
force. That is best. To withdraw in solitude in order to have
peace is not what works best, but rather to create solitude
through one's own forces. That is what definitely and securely
these lessons were like that. We have however advanced to
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which can bring our humanity into contact with what is
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
tells us to be attentive to what the beings related to us
so that we hear the universe from the distant cosmos
And so, my dear sisters and brothers, we can say that
spiritually perceived. We should ignore the fact that we are
What remains for us to consider today, my dear
the human organism, that is, when the human organism is set
intimate concepts if you want to penetrate into what the
arms. Normally we think that we move our legs and the legs
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
we believe that we walk with the legs, with the physical
legs, that the physical legs exist for walking.
brothers, that you should go out into the world of triviality
and cry out-loud: “It is not true that man has his legs
in order to walk.” For that would of course not be
is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
The great illusion does not only include what we observe
body [red] — the part of the human etheric body that
astral legs, but we walk with the forces that correspond to
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to see what our relation is to the Guardian of the Threshold
I will repeat what has been considered in the previous lessons
which he develops his normal consciousness. He realizes that
— and that he has every reason to consciously be a part
of it. But he also realizes that he can never know himself if
is, with all its amazing variety of colors and forms, what I
myself am, what my origin and being are, cannot be found in
And it also becomes clear that in normal life we are
at night, for what we would then perceive, unprepared, would
be such a terrible shock that we would not be able to lead a
The Guardian of the Threshold also makes it clear to us that he
Thus the person realizes that before he enters the kingdom of
which rise up as spiritual figures from this abyss, that one
should realize that these beasts are the outer reflections of
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
foretells what awaits us there in the spiritual world.
And from what has entered our souls through the mantras, we will
realize ever more that the human being must become different
when he crosses the abyss, when he wishes to live into what
with the fact that when he crosses the abyss and experiences
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inner heart and soul what certain cosmic beings and events
in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
world in which we live, which surrounds us here, and that
kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
feel that we are a part of the world around us. But we should
conscious of the fact that our true highest human self cannot
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
nobility; that we must seek it in a world separated from our
perception by an abyss; and that what is beyond that abyss in
humanity; we are really within it, that must be emphasized.
that we may not enter immaturely. He is the first spiritual
have participated in these lessons, and leads to what was put
We contain in us, by what is called
Regarding what we inhale through our breathing, the
air-element, in regard to what we take in through warmth,
And the cosmic powers act in us, in order that an
answer forms in us to what the Guardian of the Threshold is
with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
that as long as we are earthly beings we must always return
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spiritual world to human souls. Therefore, what lives here in
the School and what is brought to human souls are to be
From this you will understand that membership in the School
the Anthroposophical Society than that they feel themselves
what is generally expected of decent people in
that the member recognize the serious conditions for
membership — namely the basic condition that anyone who
in such a way that he is in every respect a representative of
the world necessarily means that whatever he or she does in
School, that is, with the esoteric Executive Committee
Therefore, it is necessary that membership in
the School be understood in such a way that the member feels
in his whole being that he is a part of what is being done
give what it has to give to whom it considers right to do so.
And the fact that no one is obliged to be a member of the
School, but that it depends on his free will to be a member,
means that the leadership may also place conditions on
membership without anyone claiming that his free will is in
Furthermore, in order that the School really be
taken seriously, it cannot be otherwise than that the
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We also begin today with that verse which, by a correct
that is and all that is becoming as a call to self-knowledge,
Once more let us review in our souls what summarized the contents
from what the human being can experience when he feels himself
experiences the world in a new way in that he first hears what
the Guardian says, but also what the beings of the higher
What becomes of the fire's purification, which enkindled
light about which we can say that he sees it.
And the Guardian reminds us that the one who has come over to the
sisters and brothers, that when we cross over from the physical
Then the Guardian instructs us to penetrate through that
which is on the other side, to look back from that cosmic
When we look back from out there, if you imagine that you go
flood of colors that fill the bowl. They are breathing the colors
We observe how what flows from the cosmos to the rainbow,
What so magically appears
Through the impression we receive from that outlook point of the
floods of color in order that what exists here on the earth as
breathed in what they took from the sensible world, what has
penetrated them through the rainbow, what they have transformed
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that what was previously dark and gloomy — although we knew
that it contained the source of our being — expanded and
What you have received
speak to each other, so penetrated with what the highest beings
let stream into human souls as the cosmic-word so that the human
And now we realize that spirit, in which we now
live, alone is. We now know that even here, in the
What is expressed here in the drawing is spirit. It
What is here: Is — is spirit. And what
here Is, here Is, here Is. Everywhere that
spirit revealed to our souls. Over there we did not see what is
drawn here in red. We are too weak there to see what is drawn
here in red. What remains there then? Nothing. Over there
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
and give names to what is fundamentally Nothing, that it is the
great illusion. And what is Nothing, and what we give names to
the spiritual world that we have now entered. Names dedicated to
If we are not clear about the fact that here on
the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
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that is, was in the past and will be in the future, calls
Guardian of the Threshold into what is at first a dark,
resound together. Let us now bring that to mind once more
– how we had already continued from hearing what the
What you have received
Spirit-Word that underlies the creation of the world. We
enter the esoteric realm, we should first feel that the
which resounds from that other worldly reality. What our
We must be aware that the true “I
am” does not come from us in the earthly realm, that
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
They are the thoughts that come from all the
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
First it was the flames that speak the words;
the star-flames speak the words. The glow that come from
This is what the human being who stands within it all says.
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
What impels in the Spirit-Word
Cosmic-Word, which gleams from the cosmic-thoughts, is what
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Two), so many new members had joined, or wanted to join, that
the previous lessons. But it is also true that a repetition of
that it works again and again on the soul. Therefore, for those
the advantages of their continued striving, in that again and
that sense. And so for the members of the School who are here
said yesterday — an esoteric breath that can already be
anthroposophy, is to take the place of what has been previously
the future, this cannot continue. The intention of what was
formed together with me as the Christmas impulse was that the
reflection of what has been founded in the super-sensible
that in the succession of the reigning hierarchy of Archangels,
nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
is the case that in human evolution life is guided successively
that is, from the last third of the nineteenth century back
Then we come back to the previous reign of Michael, that
through Alexander the Great and Aristotle, which until that
Asia, to North Africa, so that what was the spiritual life of a
that what had previously blossomed in one place streams out to
and would come again to Michael. And we would find that after
my dear friends, we should be aware that the Michael impulse
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Despite the fact that a number of new members of this Esoteric
words. Therefore, I must insist that if the new members receive
night-cloaked darkness. But the hope exists that in order to
truly solve the riddle of humanity, what shines and is radiant
is in that other world, in which one's own self finds its
being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
self-knowledge is dismaying, even shattering.
we must pass through knowledge of that self, which is the
then the second beast — born from the hate of spiritual
and tepidity in respect of knowledge, yes, hate of knowledge
doubt about the spiritual world that today gnaws at the souls'
Your hate of spiritual revelation
Your hate of spiritual revelation
When the Guardian shows us this - the shattering picture of our
a further clarification that can begin to support us again: a
our willing. And he gives us a certain teaching in what he then
dear sisters and brothers, one feels, even exoterically, that
unreal. What is then this thinking?
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
the thinking that we have between birth and death is the corpse
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therefore request that the members who give the new ones the
souls hear the words that human beings — if they have
envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
true bridge to what the human being needs for his thinking, for
they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the
Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
nature [Scheineswesen] that cannot bear our true Self; but how
strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what
light in order that we find the light that can illuminate our
Seeming world is what you see,
Seeming world is what you see,
that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
Seeming world is what you see,
Seeming world is what you see,
That we have entered in reality is expressed in that we first
“revere”, which is an inner soul function; in that
alongside the process; in that we first arrive at the
to advance in spiritual knowledge. For what is within us is at
to west, permeating us. These are the same forces that grasp
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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previous mantras to the newcomers in the usual way, that they
unbiased sense that in them lies the exhortation to seek true
self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that leads to knowledge of the
words that urge the soul of man, if he wants to hear them, from
what this Michael-School should mean:
stood there shattered by the impression of the three beasts,
we have already heard what the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
that we need this image. We need — if we wish to feel in
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
find that we must remain erect. And we must know that we are
then when we consider our feeling, we must see — in that
that is permeated by ahrimanic Beings who would cause us to
between that spiritual blissfulness into which the forces of
warmth, the forces of heat, of fire wish to bring us, and that
ourselves in the substance of darkness. We must strive for what
but the powers of darkness must press up from the soil so that
from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
clear to us that our real being is not revealed by all of
wondrous sensory nature, nor is it what leads us to
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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has made clear to us that what surrounds us in the exterior
of nature, what on and from the earth lives and moves, what
— all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
self; that the brightness, this glistening in the sunshine,
what we should strive for as human beings in order to achieve
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
fainthearted and having fear of knowledge lives in us, as hate
for knowledge, as doubt about the knowledge that is
feeling and thinking. It must be a shattering experience for us
corpse that lies before us. We look at this corpse. We say to
it is now. It is what remains of a human being whose soul and
the spiritualized person must have existed beforehand in what
that it is the corpse of the living thinking that was in us
Then the Guardian reminds us that our feeling is only
Guardian of the Threshold also reminds us that in order to
look up to the heavenly heights; that to grasp the nature of
Christ-path. The Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us that
nothingness; that we must find willing in the Middle Way.
That, my dear sisters and brothers, is what the Middle Way is
beyond the yawning abyss of being into that deep,
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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Once again, I must say that the introduction about the
must request that those of you who were already here and have
from all that interweaves and lives in the earthly depths, in
water and air, in warmth and light, from what lives in the
the physical human form, in human souls, in human spirits, what
which leads us to where we become aware that, when we seek our
own being in all that lives in the depths, flows in the air,
all that creeps and flies, in all that our senses perceive in
universal space, in the immeasurably distant flow of time, that
all that does not contain our being, the true source of our
humanity, that it becomes gloomy when we look here for our
humanity. The description has led us thus far to show that we
to what is still night-cloaked, black gloom, so that it can
must be clear to us that in the moment — and we have come
abyss of being, past the Guardian of the Threshold, in that
moment an important change takes place in the human being, that
in the near future, we consider it first, so what we carry out
out in impulses of will. We feel that it is worthy. We feel
love flowing to this or that being. Because we feel it, we form
a thought about it. Or we go beyond that and carry out a deed
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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cannot be created by human arbitrariness, nor from that human
of spiritual life, so that everything that occurs in such a
that this same Michael-Will - which we can also call the
always cosmopolitanism. What differentiates people on earth is
by that of Oriphiel, and after Oriphiel came the Anael impulse,
manner - what can be clear to you, my sisters and brothers,
Conference leads to what is constituted as the basis of the
lives with the deepest sincerity. They must feel that they
lessons, but rather as what Michael communicates in an esoteric
Therefore, what these lessons contain will be Michael's message
it is because of this that the anthroposophical movement will
that what membership in this School means be taken with the
brothers, truly and deeply necessary, that it be indicated in
for what really flows through the anthroposophical movement,
be in the forefront of what humanity can gradually develop as
the necessary earnestness. Therefore, it is necessary that the
fact that this Esoteric School exists under the direct force of
Conscientious care of the mantric verses so that they do not
earnestness. It has happened that members of the School have
that whole piles of the News Sheets, only intended for members,
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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burning question. In particular, one may say that the terrible
under the fear of the question: ‘What will happen if the social
have discovered that the most powerful contradictions of life
direction. However, in what one could call social will is
something completely different to what is spoken about.
played by the subconscious, undeclared elements than what comes
consider themselves practical you can certainly doubt that a
or that spiritual effort; they smile because for them it is an
not lie in what they are talking about, but it lies in their
of proletarian workers. I learnt to know what lives and strives
to recognise what lived in the labour unions in the most varied
movement, where it is carried by the workers, will know what a
that a still unknown mind with an elementary intelligence could
— that one can have human thought develop the highest measure
already indicated it — what the modern proletarian expresses
that without the enormous turnaround, without the technical
struggles, what is obvious in social life today does not stand
scientific approach who considers all that is human, the
is clear that nothing which is technically or scientifically
created has an importance in today's social question but that
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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way. The relative theme is so comprehensive that it can only be
Perhaps I may use a comparison to clearly communicate what I
of the social question. Please consider that with a comparison
the social question. Whoever wants to consider what we know as
the most complicated organism — that of the human being
consider what I would like to call the rhythmic system, in
interact in a healthy way, of all that is contained in the
digestive systems are maintained — that these members
evolution of knowledge. This means however that our thinking
ideals, they will soon come to the view that such observations
understand that this social organism, if it is to be healthy,
exists, what the tissues could be and so on! Recently a book
scientific laws are simply transferred on to, what they call, the
to what we are considering here. Those who at the end of this
— would prove that the real spirit within the meaning has
transplanted on to the social organisation. What I want is for
the natural organism that this method, this way of sensing can
that to social organism, like Schäffle has done, like others
learn about its laws, in that moment the game of analogy
the following. You would say that this human head- or
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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During the lectures last week, I pointed out that the present
thought habits and what I characterized last week, this having
what we call the social question today.
appears far more important what happens within the awareness of
to be found here, but more what lies to a certain extent behind
these observations. Behind that lies far more social psychology
has an ear for such things, one could say that in both places
languages are spoken that one could doubt that the one spoken
driving forces related to the social question. All that has
many, will stand out, that the modern Proletarian, considered
has taken on, that the actual impulse of this modern
proletariat, through their observations, know what to say about
this movement became known when it was examined more at that
felt more resigned, but the question still arose: ‘What form of
community, of human community-living and human actions, what
steer itself ad absurdum. What will happen then, will reveal
marching classes favours him so that when he has power in hand
That was programmatic. This is not actually properly thought
evolutionary powers in history this is the question: ‘Yes, what
what people have to say about their feelings, how they
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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that it is justified to say that the situation of current
these origins works into the present, works in such a way that it
have mentioned in my lectures that solutions are not to be
found towards understanding such things by doing what one
conclusion by what had gone just before. I have tried to draw
crises during the course of events — are similar to what
development; results arrive without a leap out of what went
misunderstood conception that nature makes no leaps in a
demanding certain satisfaction; how that changes in relation to
what had arrived before that moment.
community. At that time, in the place of instinctive thinking
other stream appeared somewhat later but is clearly
to all that was created as the newer state which had gradually
linked to what we have placed under the three members I have
their interests more or less to what many people held as the
endeavour took on a certain course and we see that within
last time. The essential aspect from this view is that social
entire thinking and feeling unfolded in such a way that it was
like a mirror image of what was being experienced in the
they developed more and more in such a way that even these days
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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procedure.” I don't know exactly what the motives are for
it extraordinarily lucky because it corresponds in tone to what
more clearly than what formerly had been discussed and
Towards such a social organism there is a striving of, what one
our more recent times is that humanity can no longer remain
stuck on mere instinctive will impulses, that simply out of the
learn. They must learn to think that they actually can't
proceed if they think: ‘What must happen in order to withdraw
imagine what social illnesses are, to a certain extent. One can
mutual harmony in their reciprocal relationships to unfold what
me that the basic question, which is considered today as a
What has arisen out of the modern capitalist economic life has
but because I am of the conviction that if the Proletarian
of the social question, that the spiritual aspect must take a
impulses of what actually lives in the socialistic orientated
has formed that the socially disadvantaged class can expect
these thoughts and will impulses. What comes as challenges out
themselves. If I want to briefly express what I mean, I must
must surely allow the observer to notice that within this
such a way out of the old spiritual impulses, but that this
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Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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What Significance Does Work Have for the Modern Proletarian?
“What Significance Does Work Have for the Modern
concluded that now again an understanding needs to be
confusion, and those in it notice that the water is up to their
appears to me that in the time in which we are living, quite
other things are necessary. If we look at one another, at what
has actually happened and what is going on at present, for
What is called the ‘social question’ today has in no way only
is more than half a century old. However, what has actually led
progressed. One can hear how it has come about that humanity
through a certain education and taken part in what they called
foundation. What was in this foundation? In this foundation
life give us what our human existence is worth? Why have we
It developed in such a way that the carriers of the so-called
with its numerous illiterates. It meant that of the
So it came about that the Proletariat on the one hand within
scraps of what human dignity within a healthy economic order
that despite various things having been accomplished in both
challenged by the question: ‘What significance is there
actually in my work in relation to what each person in the
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Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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dawn upon us that this is indeed the mission of Spiritual Science when
we realise that its impulse has already made itself felt in the form
life. To-day we shall consider how an impulse akin to that of
that he was fully conscious of this impulse. It is so meaningless when
we could prove to you that he never thought of them in connection with
himself.’ Such an objection is so patent that even those who think as
we do could raise it. I am not suggesting for a moment that the
lead us too far, but a comparison will show that our method of
this the very thing that helps him to understand its nature? And will
no need to reiterate the generalisation that ‘an artist creates
unconsciously.’ The point at issue is that the laws
with the word ‘Mysticism’ itself. Quite recently it happened that
for he admitted that very much remains obscure and nebulous in the
sphere of human knowledge.” He showed by this remark that he
clear cognition can attain; from that point onwards, however, we grope
the depths of existence with a light as radiant and clear as that of
this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
thought to be akin to mathematics but because it was known that the
in the domain of true Mysticism, and it is purely in this sense that
And now let us speak of what is really the fundamental conviction of
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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I HAVE said on many occasions that at the time when medieval culture
stream of Scholasticism acknowledged that this knowledge acquired by
Thus when medieval culture was at its prime, it was realised that
knowledge no longer accessible to mankind in that age must be
shall find that the characteristics of this knowledge through
School, for instance, that a distinction could be made between
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
communicated afresh. True, the Greeks realised that higher spiritual
knew too that by dint of spiritual training and through Initiation, a
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
of this change by saying that the Mystery of Golgotha occurred in an
But then we find that from the fifth century A.D. onwards, this old
certain individuals, saying that their teachings were to be avoided at
obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
It is strange that a man like Franz Brentano should have inherited
from medieval tradition a hatred of all that lived in personalities
Brentano had allowed himself to be influenced by this hatred and
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Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
frame of mind in which I speak to you today is not that in
in flames. The truth is that, for all those who loved the
might seem to be justified that a movement which directs its
case of the Goetheanum that we have lost the matter is somewhat
the building that what might perfectly well have been true in
question here was not simply, as I have often said, that a
the situation was that Anthroposophy stands upon a spiritual
sort of religious or scientific or artistic movement, but that
the artistic. Thus, it was quite impossible that the purpose
plastic shape, in every colored surface, that which comes from
that of art. For example, the friends who have seen Eurythmy
have received the impression that everything which responded to
every molded form, was something that responded, that spoke
that anyone who had expended his labor on this Dornach building
felt that his own emotions, which he had embodied in this work,
mentioned, we have lost the home that sheltered us, we must all
take the place of that which we have lost. With all possible
that we can do in future in the realm of Anthroposophy there
dear friends, I believe that what was then experienced,
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Title: Community Building
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
— everything that has occurred during these days —
of the immediate interest of the meeting. I hope that an
what was to be indicated in these two lectures was the manner
of view for precisely what is to be dealt with here. I spoke
yesterday in that manner in regard to the community-building
in which it is manifest that the Anthroposophical conception of
order to present the counterpart of what I spoke of yesterday,
upon a foundation similar to that of the Anthroposophical
Society. I shall later indicate to some extent that which
wish at first to point out that there have, of course, been
what was possible in the successive epochs of history and also,
fact that a certain moral atmosphere is created in them —
present — which may be described by saying that a true
statement that it strives for brotherliness on the one hand and
on the other for an insight into the spiritual worlds. What is
is that, within these societies based upon brotherliness and
who have withdrawn, and the like. In short, what may be called
understanding this phenomenon. And what I have to say in these
we go back once more to what I referred to yesterday, we find
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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quite clear on a number of occasions that to understand
the powers that intervene in the course of earth
a number of different approaches to show that as human
beings we are part of an ongoing evolution that may be
of time. I have also pointed out that there are certain
powers that have different goals for mankind than the
15th century, very different from anything that went
compare it to the preceding age. We may say that one
particular feature of the present age is that
with the intellect, and we have come to believe that
people have always been thinking like this. That is not
will impulses that can be experienced in the human soul.
that older evolutionary forces persist into later ages
and continue to be present side by side with those that
earlier times in human evolution we find that the further
earth had taken a physical form in the cosmos that
well, but in an entirely different form. During that Moon
form that preceded the present one, the human being, the
etheric. His soul became active in a way that was
peculiar thing about this was that it related to the
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 2: East, West, and the Culture of Middle Europe, the Science of Initiation
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of view, that it is important for us to consider the
edifice that seen in its entirety can show us the
that the human race in its present state of civilization
has by and large descended from the human race that
It has been said on a number of occasions that Atlantis
America that is today covered by the Atlantic Ocean. We
know that under the influence of that disaster — in
— the peoples of that time migrated first in an
they moved on, and that the European and Asian peoples of
peoples of Atlantis. We also know that civilization then
cultural contents that had first been achieved in Asia.
Europe. Thus I would say that the physical basis for
and Asia, descendants of the ancient Atlantean race that
in conventional anthropology and it is not realized that
migrations that proceeded from west to east.
science fully confirms it — that the peoples who
ordinary terms this means that the soil of Europe had a
The difference is that particularly during the earliest
8th, 7th and 6th millennium BC and the millennia that
that.
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 3: Political Empires
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for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
the only ones that enter into the realm of feeling for
world to be that the smaller communities of past times
not go far back in human evolution to find that social
times, that large empires have arisen, that the empire of
ideas about these things, ideas that fully relate to
that then, too, people formed certain kinds of
of occasions — for that would cause tremendous
term. Let us say that ‘realms’ arose. Such
today states are taken so much for granted that no one
What is
worse, they are so much taken for granted that people are
this, however, lies something that unites human beings in
back to prehistoric times, times that only partly extend
into historical times, we find that in those prehistoric
— whatever words we use do not really fit those
earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
earthly realm came very close to what people knew to be
highly paradoxical to modern minds, though that is only
consideration of things that existed during the past in
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 4: Western Secret Societies, Jesuitism, Leninism
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of anthroposophy. I am referring to the fact that modern
powers of decline that are clearly in evidence, to powers
that must inevitably take our present civilization to the
have to admit to ourselves that many things are coming up
realization; or in other words that there is a great deal
attention to what is really going on.
reasonable to say that at the present time little effort
and pay genuine attention to the forces that shape our
it a number of times over the years — that has its
movement that has come together because people want to
that are understandable and indeed also justifiable. In
principles that mean progress for the world. Certain
natural inclination for criminal activities that is in
movement that has an effect in cultural life is based on
also know very well what they want. They are the
fountainhead of everything that usually comes under the
what is really going on.
that when it comes to their frame of mind, particularly
are in many, many instances continuing in a way that was
Ages. That was a great and significant way of thinking,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 5: How the Material Can Be Understood Only through the Spirit
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heart, to discuss some of the things that really need to
be discussed. It is possible that most of what I have to
say today is a repetition of things that have been
often stressed that it is necessary for a sufficient
that can only arise if spiritual science reveals the
the 20th century. It has a peculiarity that seems
true causes. The peculiar thing about materialism is that
more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed
by a great many people, namely that the heart is a kind
of pump in the human organism that pumps the blood
facts are therefore entirely the opposite of what every
result that it is dinned into people's heads at school
therefore has to be said that materialism has not even
whatsoever under the influence of materialism. The heart
the wrong idea about the nature of the human heart that
serious about it, that being hung up on wrong ideas would
dinned into us and we have become used to thinking that
things are the opposite of what they really are. That is
some things that are important to know are a closed book
doing so, people never consider one thing that is
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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made that when any work is undertaken or any proposal
been in accord with that basic theme. It should also help
want above all to refer to something that can help us to
spiritual-scientific movement that has anthroposophy for
now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a
come to the realization that the search for truth is a
realize that when we gain insight this is no mere theory,
centuries. Basically it has entered into all areas that
journals where people are informed as to what is
‘true’; it is present in everything that is
religious confessions must of course attack anything that
is new; they must fight intensely against anything that
interpretation. If we wish to share in the work that
know what materialistic anatomy, materialistic
the present time to give full consideration to what
no reason at all to despise the things that materialism
modern life, a life that in the first instance is a
feeling, the very feeling that many people of the present
have. This is the feeling that everything immediately
real and that we should not look for reality in that
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 7: Materialism, Mysticism, Anthroposophy, Liberalism, Conservatism
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between what I have said before and what I wish to add
today. I have explained that the road to spiritual
One fact is that it is impossible to imagine that matter,
the basis of many different things that can be learned
the laws pertaining to it in that outer nature.
and that they want to follow the inner mystical path to a
mysticism shows that in their view, too, Physical matter
things right essentially means that we must no longer
very clear in our minds that however far we extend our
understood that all that exists in the outside world is
shall never find anything material in that outside
It is that the nature of matter, which materialism is
but the flame, I would say, that is lit within us by
in thinking that these men had a special faculty for
Until we know that external observation reveals only the
world of phenomena, Maya, and that inward observation
aware of gravity, so that we know from inner experience
what it really means to experience gravity. Concrete
inner experience should show us that between the
matter that merely comes to expression in mystical
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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well aware, it is often said today that spiritual science
genuine perception, and that it can only be a matter of
science working towards anthroposophy is that a kind of
subjective knowledge that really can only be a matter of
knowledge but merely the subjective belief that something
distinction that is made between science and belief is
quite a recent development. The view is that science
senses, or at most with things that can be established
and explored on the basis of experiments, and that
realm and it is said that one should never assume that
anything that is the subject of belief can be transformed
supersensible, non-physical world on the other that may
takes life seriously really ought to feel that the
can genuinely show the reason for the efforts that are
something that is infinite, permanent, supersensible. You
know that everything that is presented here from the
has been taught that there is such a difference between
this a number of times — that was inherited from
then. Knowledge came to people at that time when a power
arose in their hearts and minds that was not the power of
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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sleeping and waking that human beings experience within a
view that has so far been used less frequently in
that there are three main aspects to a human being. One
know of course that this is only an approximate way of
occupied. We have to be clear in our minds that the
the head and that they are in fact present everywhere in
question is, what happens to the sensory organism and the
consider this dream life you will be able to say that it
presents you with a kind of surrounding scenery that in
know very well when they are awake, that dream life
presents them with images that, in a way, derive from the
an unbiased way, we find that the dream images are
connected—that they relate to each other; they
interrelate in a way that is as definite as the
interrelations and connections that exist in our waking
be said, however, that whereas human beings have full
in which dream images follow each other we find that it
all doubt — that the human brain, which in a way is
state. In the waking state the situation is that our will
In our dream life we have no such control. What is more,
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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root causes lie that have led to the disastrous situation we are facing
that relatively speaking were not that long ago.
permitted to take the great disaster that has happened in recent years as
few words at the end of my last talk, to the specific Christ event that
view of the disastrous events and of their consequences that continue
immediately that large numbers of people, including those in authority,
have not yet become fully aware of what has come upon us. They have been,
we know of in historical times. We have seen that at the time when the
thoughts that were in people's minds, and that this spectre is still
there in the minds of people today. We have seen that this spectre of
no idea that really and fundamentallY something quite different was going
on to what they imagined the events of the time to be.
work — labour — had taken on quite a different form to what
human beings that will then work more or less independently. I would say,
therefore, that in recent times human work has come to consist more in
will find, for instance, that during the period preceding the outbreak of
war, 79 million 'horse power years' of that kind of energy were produced
from coal-mining. They did not arise from something that human beings let
What does this really mean?
shows that on average every single individual in Germany had a horse by
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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recall a number of things that are already quite familiar
that there are four major aspects to the human being and
that human beings may be characterized as possessing a
and an ego. We also know that we can only really
four. Essentially the first four refer to aspects that
the spirit-man. We know, however, that these three
aspects of human nature are such that we cannot consider
that we now have a physical body and so forth, going as
far as the ego, and that in time to come we shall have a
the anthroposophical literature that is already available
that those different aspects of the human being are
What do we
mean when we say that we relate to the ego we bear to the
present earth? It means that inherent in the elements of
the earth, the forces of the earth that are known to us
principle that activates the ego. Our ego is intimately
find that human nature as we know it today relates
time of the Ancient Sun, and so forth, and that our ego
that the elements we refer to as spirit-self, life-spirit
this means that we have something in us that needs to be
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Title: Life Between Two Incarnations
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higher worlds in front of a somewhat larger circle. Today it may be
and a new birth, but in order to be able to understand what is
for some time, what will be explained in the introduction should not be
of the descriptions that follow.
not merely that essence of a material kind which appears to the outer
physical world by physical lawfulness. Spiritual science shows that
can look around outside in the natural world and see that everything
physical body, on the other hand, or that of another living being, is
science now shows us that in the state between birth and death, that
able to see this. Let us assume that a man stands before us. In this
room he occupies, in this hand he uses, is there nothing more than what
exactly that something more is in it. This something more, that is the
because it is everything that runs in sensations and in feelings, from
one thing in man that can never approach him from the outside. It is
out through the name "I." All great religions also felt this, that in
"Yahweh" meant nothing other than "I" or "I am." That the God himself
expresses himself in the human being, it should mean. And only that
member of the human being. But we should not think that we are God
himself. It is a spark from the sea of the Godhead that flashes in man.
the fact that man can say: "I am", that is the crown of creation. This
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture I
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world-history, that we cannot as in earlier, more peaceful
aims, so devoted that men can work towards them together,
the historical development of man- kind demand that what men
transferred from that egoistic realm and centred more and
judged it by what appear to-day as aims. The social movements
kind of living is to come into being, that whatever occurs in
stress. It would, further, be wrong to assume that the future
will so develop that personality and all that has its origin in
what men call the “objective events.” That will not
may say without hesitation that the great movement of the
true, its aim is Socialism — but its basis is that of
We see that the real reason in striving for Socialism is that
drawing that seriousness into our souls, as well as fostering
frequently what is present in, consciousness and finds
we have the catchword, the “slogan!” What is the
six years, to be convinced that the estrangement of the world
facts will not excuse it, when a man will realize that
subjective belief in the truth of what he says matters nothing
that we should learn what phrases and catchwords really
that we may hold any view if it is agreeable to us, a belief
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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impulses that they worked in human evolution. In our times,
with the question; but we shall see that they do provide the
great importance that it forms, and always must form, a
is generally handled by the creeds, that they appeal largely to
existence of the soul after death” — that is, the
emphatically. Man simply cannot bear — apart from
extinction at death, so that a certain response is always to be
this also is important: that people of our day must hear a very
different language about immortality from that to which they
should not only speak of life after death, but also of that
passed between our last death and that birth through which we
are now in the physical world. That is the view which men must
learn to hold — that the life here is a continuation of
essential thing is an attitude which never forgets that
recognize that our real humanity lies in the depths of our
occurs; but after that what goes on in his evolution is
outwardly less noticeable. In olden times this was not so; what
proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
and went out. I replied that I quite saw we had not understood
him, for the simple reason that his speech and behaviour had
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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most part what these tests bring goes on - in
Men, as I said, can know, and must know what it means “to
happens with humanity itself, in that it has to experience
for comfort in man to-day, the unwillingness to know what is
fall asleep and return to them as we awake. That is a general
in a general way that on waking man returns to his physical and
that the ego and the astral body plunge fully into the physical
that, until that definite point, in human life as a whole there
that soul and spirit — the ego and astral body —
significant mystery, in the evolution of mankind. What is the
It signifies that by means of it we are able to develop
to mankind. We owe it to them that we have the power to plunge
in a kind of sleep. That is why events happening around them do
consciousness of what forces are dominant and active in our
people from childhood onwards so that they can rightly enter.
know that at the present time there are a remarkable number of
them, and can cope with it. If we have them not, we lack that
power. It is in this sense that we must understand the feeling
Further, we must fully realize that the Christ-Impulse entered
there entered into human evolution what gives meaning to the
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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is beyond doubt that the War and all its terrible
noticed what changes have come about inside the ranks of the
proletariat with regard to the social question. We saw what
catastrophe we know as the World War. Then came the end of that
They showed that the hitherto ruling classes had, during the
or could, be any guide for all that was forcing its way out in
remarkable thing was that those who had power to act in the
restricted that they could not stretch them to include the
market.” He who will is able to see that since the social
purpose than is customary. It is, after all, obvious that ideas
(a bigger one might have laughed me to scorn) to sum up what
development of the present conditions. I then said that for
anyone looking with open eyes at what was going on in the
idealist,” not to say a fool. What I was then obliged to
say was a great contrast to what at that time, and indeed even
time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
to the enlightened representatives of the people that the
making pleasing progress, so that they could be assured of
that the relations with St. Petersburg were the most friendly
possible relationships. What a difference between
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