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- Title: Memória e Amor
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- Também conhecida como Arte em sua Natureza Espiritual [em inglês, Art in its Spiritual
- Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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- spirits in human development. On the other hand, we can study
- Stoics. And as an ideal for humanity, that strove to insert its
- humanity is enabled to insert itself in full clarity in the
- itself; and this deadening happens if a human being allows
- ideal before Stoicism. And that which inserts itself as wisdom
- so its wisdom must also reach up into the flowing of cosmic
- position itself in the whole structure of the cosmic order?
- embed itself into the cosmic order) to unite firstly with that
- science itself, but only go up to the doors to the same). This
- looks up to as to the spiritual, and it permits the human soul
- permits the bodily to take part in everything through which is
- soul must plunge down with its Ri into Ki in its experience,
- comes desire. Thus, the human soul in its life is involved in
- of the nineteenth century, who truly was one of its most
- to deny its existence. How have we attempted to answer the
- develop humanity and to elevate it to the free use of its soul.
- one's own true being and its true worth.
- its appearance up to the point where he felt something like a
- “amicably.” A being that allows its activity to
- grasp its own self. This activity must, one would like to say,
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- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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- is to be an introduction to the theosophical world-conception and its
- astral body separates itself from them. But at the moment of death something
- etheric body emancipates itself from the physical body, it can follow
- its own movements and memory is more free than ever. Normally, the etheric
- itself wholly from the fourteenth to the 21st year. It begins to unfold
- which is unique in its kind. For “I” is the only name which
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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- inhabits. We then have a second world, the astral world, and the third
- they cannot read its phenomena. Everything appears in the form of pictures
- lock, each key had its own characteristic quality: everything had its
- Man's spirit descended as far as the physical world and clothed itself,
- it clothes itself with natural substance and condenses itself into certain
- which goes out from the thing itself; the forms collide and destroy each
- and its prescribed journey
- which they gave them were intended for the Spirits of the Planets. The
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 3: The Different Conditions of Man's Life After Death
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- the whole earthly life unfolds itself in every detail before the soul
- palate for its enjoyment. After death the longing for these enjoyments
- though in a weaker form awaits those who lost their life suddenly through
- compensated in Devachan. When the soul has laid aside its earthly desires,
- friendship will find its full, pure expression.
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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- appears as a terrific tempest, unchaining itself in lightning, thunder
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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- life implants itself in the next one. After death man leaves behind
- experience every smallest action in all its details. He must halt before
- arranges itself in a way which corresponds to his individual nature.
- its own accord in order to be incorporated with man's structure, but is
- incarnated human being completely fits into his physical body. Many disharmonies
- body which fits approximately.
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 6: Man's Return to a New Earthly Life
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- causal body frees itself. This asserts itself in the form of rays which
- to live for a time in an existence of its own and then it is absorbed by
- karma. Also the character, the inclinations and habits express themselves
- in one life depends on inclination and habits of a past one.
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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- itself when we study man's life of thoughts. Our thought-life is an
- does nothing but criticize, this inclination will express itself in
- case of an initiate this influence on the etheric body manifests itself
- kingdom cannot change of its own accord. Everything that changes within
- the descending into the physical body, so that its center of power becomes
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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- we shall deal with the evolution of man and of the earth itself, with
- 2) From the standpoint of science which considers itself far cleverer
- “TAO”. Its sign, the ancient cross-symbol of the Tao is
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 9: Lemurian Development
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- which plays a very great role to-day was then in its very first beginnings.
- The moon severed itself from the earth and formed a secondary planet.
- also has a soul. So also the moon has its soul. The moon went out of
- the earth with all its forces, with its whole aura, or its astral part.
- earth-moon planet, for it does not turn around its own axis as does
- the earth, its “sun” and never the back side, so at that
- itself from the earth, the plants turned completely around and again
- lifeless has arisen out of life. The minerals are deposits of living
- Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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- development, its present state may be changed by training, particularly by a
- Planets", through which the earth passes in its development. The names of
- earth. This is the Germanic-English-American culture; its chief task is the
- will be to lead external civilisation again to a more spiritual life. Its
- Every epoch has its particular
- itself will become creative; then the human beings will be magicians of the
- Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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- should like to mention for its importance is the following. At the beginning of the nineteenth
- something which otherwise is at work everywhere, but which does not show itself in such a
- not manifest itself in such a significant way in the time before and after as it did here. If one
- reality, death itself is not real and, therefore, the ransom money could not have been paid to
- it is indeed quite noticeable that it is not the concept of redemption itself that is discussed.
- constitutions of soul, one of which has its origin in ancient times in the Orient, and another,
- latecomer, found its
- then arose what occidental civilization gave itself up to under the leadership of Rome —
- death. And the constitution of soul which occupies itself primarily with the human being's
- transforms itself through births and deaths. There was that which lives in
- philosophy with the categorical imperative which is supposed to manifest itself out of
- force wishes his whole philosophy to well up out of the 'I' and who, through its simplicity,
- battles of which I spoke, in part, in my lectures on the limits to a knowledge of
- this `thing in itself' as he called it — but the important thing for him was to prove. Sure
- The 'I' is indeed present, and is present not dimly, but bores itself into
- the Central region of the earth's culture still set itself against this with all force in Fichte,
- a constitution of soul in which the 'I' is absorbed, takes its course below the level of
- associations. If only one would apply this thinking to the economic life! That is its proper
- which, above all, was to become great through its economy, they had of necessity
- that appears in all areas as a three-foldness that has evolved of its own accord. This science
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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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- consciousness-soul is, as it were, giving itself contour, becoming integrated in itself —
- Marxist ideology and took hold of the broad masses of the population. It also found its way into
- character of the East. But here again it expressed itself in another form. Economic in the West;
- This arises because the Bolshevism making itself felt there is in fact a foreign
- its terrible aspect will show itself throughout all Asia, because it works with all the fervour
- finds expression in the East. This shows itself so strongly that one must say: It is natural for
- developed in the European East and has set its characteristic stamp on all the aspirations of the
- Anglo-Saxon. And, in its basic instincts, this 'Anglo-Saxondom' moves completely with the
- all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
- to how, for outwardly inexplicable reasons, French merchant shipping suffered its greatest
- element could be destroyed — North America freed itself and the political connection no
- The second kind of spirits of this nature are those
- itself as its special task: to prevent the human being from coming to individual
- to give itself new form — all spirituality of the civilized world is, in actual fact, a
- Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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- and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
- what happens here on earth. This shows itself most strongly in Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, in which a
- faith, completely estranged from the world, has secured itself a place alongside worldly
- so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
- of the Latin, of the Roman, element to assert itself beyond the purely human in the course of
- science, there remained, as an external appendage, leading an abstract existence of its own, what
- has its origin in those beings who incarnate in human beings and who play such a great role in
- to any sort of significance to save himself from the embodiment of the spirits of the West on the
- one side, and from the spirits of the East on the other. This always caused a kind of schism in
- attacks of the spirits of the West which influenced their desires, their instincts, lived in
- attacks of the spirits of the West that asserted themselves in his will, that surged particularly
- from the impulses of the West; who, as it were, is tormented by the spirits of the West and who,
- Gothic style. But here there emerges a striving towards the spirits of the past, to those spirits
- which nonetheless were basically the successors of those spirits which once inspired the oriental
- no longer bear the spirits of the West, how they torment him. And he tries to balance this by
- entering into an existence before birth or after death. Nor can its justification be found
- West where a new element of economics establishes itself as something especially appropriate for
- Reason, bound to body and soul, is what is asserting itself here.
- spirits of Central Europe were faced with an immense question, a question that was set them as
- spirits as Albertus Magnus,
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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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- on the one hand, the seizure of the human corporality by the spirits of the West and, on the
- other hand, the feeling of those spiritual beings who, as imaginations, as spirits of the East,
- which, in the West, expressed itself tumultuously as a large political movement orientated
- disintegrates, represents the 'Uniform State' which can have no permanence in itself.
- intellectuality just before that point at which intellectuality tries to emerge in its purity.
- human element and the social life, did simply present itself in such pictures. But he was allowed
- con-fronted the spirits of the West. They wanted to lead him astray into the solely intellectual.
- Goethe had to do battle with the other spirits, with
- the spirits of the East, who pulled him towards imaginations. Because at that time spiritual
- Orient was still preserved. He learnt how the spirits of the East still worked here as a late
- between Schiller and Goethe. Schiller had to battle with the spirits of the West; he did not
- the spirits of the East; they tried to pull him into ecstatic reveries
- finest spirits of modern human evolution have already moved in this direction. But if there were
- the spirits of their myths. When, however, it was a matter of deciding something of great
- manage it, the economic life itself would cause it to circulate. Destruction would inevitably
- the spiritual life to those who are engaged in its administration. This is the inner meaning of
- economic life and thereby ward off its destruction. For the economic life, if it runs its own
- course, destroys itself. This is how we must look at things. Thus we must see how at the end of
- take hold with any effect on life itself. I would leave the economic life below me like something
- have indicated this fact — that the economic life today continually works towards its own
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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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- evolution itself.
- relationship to the spirit world itself. Certainly, longing for knowledge has been spoken about a
- clairvoyance — though not the old clairvoyance itself — were still present even in
- world-being — and did, in fact, penetrate to its spirituality. Thus was knowledge
- spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
- took its course there and was shone through with wisdom — everything, fundamentally,
- machine technology with its stupendous transformation of the economic life and the social life
- taken out to the land. What has arisen in the cities will transplant itself into the country.
- establish itself at all in the same way as it did in occidental civilization. But that is a time
- spirits are again working which in earlier times were perceived by the human being in nature. In
- gains a life of its own and that, despite the fact that he brought it forth from the intellect,
- the intellect itself can no longer comprehend it. Perhaps people today can barely form a clear
- bring forth everywhere destructive, demonic forces out of itself. It would not work because the
- economic life. Elemental spirits
- in the letter-patent of nobility or similar documents, something that is already showing itself
- spiritual itself and, on the other hand, to find in the economic element what people in earlier
- qualified him really to control the spirits which assert themselves in the economic life. An
- But this does not show itself clearly until after the child leaves primary school and it will
- hand, is capable of perceiving the economic life in its inner spiritual vitality and, on the
- economic life its configuration. This can only happen if the cultural life is independent, when
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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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- reappearance of Christ is to find its place in the soul in the right way it is necessary to
- place as a fact, but as a fact which, in its inner essence, can never be grasped by the
- that, in its reality, in its essence, the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped at first only by those
- particular characteristic of the ancient oriental peoples and existed essentially in its last
- Intellect itself, however, was not able to penetrate the Mystery of Golgotha.
- wave which had already taken root in Greece, as I have described to you, which had its source
- oriental direct perception clothed itself, spread out over Europe.
- ecclesiastical element, and that which tried more or less to free itself from it, produced
- receive its content? It was — one cannot put it differently — 'inborn'
- dialectical-legal Roman element also bore in its bosom, as it were, its other side. It bore the
- has nothing more of the Christ. Jesuitism already contains in itself a complete rebellion against
- about, with its culmination in the nineteenth century, in which the Christ-impulse as something
- wanted to speak only of the man Jesus. But as this whole development took its course it gave rise
- knew full well that the way the Church itself presented the Mystery of Golgotha was
- irreconcilable with a common knowledge of the Gospels. For the Gospel in its true form actually
- without a belief in Rome itself, is the mentality of our universities today. It is also the
- mentality in Protestant countries. The Catholic Church only fights on for its authority, with the
- exclusion of everything spiritual; it calumniates everything that goes beyond its
- clothed itself. People begin to debate, for example, the significance of the Last Supper. But as
- Golgotha itself. And preparation must be made so that this Mystery of Golgotha may shine forth
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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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- their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
- one of its most distinguishing features is that it is incapable of comprehending the human being.
- ancient times every oriental knew that what worked its way out of his soul during childhood, in
- of himself shows itself in all its poverty; the human being no longer feels himself to be a child
- organizing mankind according to the will of its individual nations. It was indeed in our recent
- times that national chauvinism was aroused in its very worst sense. And it is national chauvinism
- perhaps, shows more clearly the materialism of modern times, its denial of everything spiritual,
- the 'I' is appearing. And there will appear in the future, when the earth enters its next stages,
- the transformation of the earth into its three following conditions for them to appear fully. And
- the limitations of natural science and directs his soul's gaze upon its own nature. He will have
- one day live when the earth has passed over, through a certain cosmic development, into its next
- its inner nature, grows beyond what I can be as earthly man. As earthly man I am forced, in a
- will have first to transform itself into other conditions.'
- outgrowing the constitution of soul which permits him to think of himself as a purely earthly,
- youth in its care. One can deduce from this that there is an attack here on spiritual science.
- instead, one sees how people just let life run its course; how they look at those who direct life
- fundamental principle in our present time. For the damage of our time has its source in our
- Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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- reality is attributed generally only to what arises and forms itself, as it
- what has sprouted in the physical world is in its turn eliminated,
- surrounds you, this does not stand there by itself but is the result of
- what suits him and who simply lives for the moment, is not strongly
- harmony with what surrounds it, when it is completely alien to its
- which concerns itself only with the way in which one gets into the human
- Title: Talk To Young People:
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- phenomena there is resistance in an object to changing either its
- motion or its lack of motion, inertia is also a property of human
- experience they are having and the actual inner experience itself. We
- Its result was the loneliness that young people feel today within
- this “youth crisis” in its very dawning; now it is already noonday. I
- observed it in its first misty light, when the youth of the 1870s
- anthroposophical movement and its principles. Otherwise we will not
- itself through heartfelt action and heartfelt efforts at human
- Shouldn't youth find its way to youth? If this anthroposophical
- changed to its very foundation.
- is a symbol — not bad in itself but nevertheless a symbol — of the
- anthroposophy, the spiritual essence of anthroposophy in its full
- movement must be able to find its way to unite with what I have
- our old habits. Let us try to divide our sleeping and waking, to keep
- in our time and how nature with its flaming color speaks to us of the
- its coat.” In other words, Carlyle always had time to take off his
- bring into being out of the fullness and immediacy of life itself. We
- everything. The word itself will then reach its true meaning. The
- , spirit, in itself. That is self-evident: we need
- the youth experience, in all its strength.
- Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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- Saturn-man in deep sleep produces intuition for the Spirits of
- in his deep sleep is sent out into the worlds by the Spirits of
- Then will the intuitions of the Spirits of Personality become more and
- intuitions are preserved within the Spirits of Personality. But when
- Jupiter begins to exist, these Spirits of Personality advance to the
- rank of Spirits of Form, and. the impulses they have learned to form
- second evolutionary half period of the earth the Spirits of Personality
- activity of the Spirits of Personality, he is the germ for Jupiter.
- a glimpse of the Spirits of Personality and their task during earth
- this man the Spiritual-Scientific Man, despite its queer sound, who
- conclusion: If the development which the earth itself has so far
- Our Spirits of
- Personality will then have advanced to Spirits of Form; our Archangeloi
- to Spirits of Personality; our Angeloi to Archangeloi; man will have
- this Science of the Spirit — conscious of its task in the Cosmos
- This is the atom in its
- be changed to an atom for Jupiter by the Spirits of Personality, who,
- upon Jupiter, will hold the rank of Spirits of Form. Thus, is the world
- fact, but I also trace its evolution.” But they only trace the
- towards that which the Ahrimanic spirits call “the nothing”
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- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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- we can only hope to advance slowly towards its actual depth and
- — that is to say, of its knowledge. Now, men
- We know that since the Mystery of Golgotha not only have its tidings
- in its various branches. This New Testament theology, as is only
- natural, has made use of already existing ideas in asking itself:
- at its starting point have been formed by human beings themselves. It
- how Roman thought is at great pains to seize with its ideas what lay
- form of the old Roman language with its marvellously structured
- logic, but with its almost entirely lost life-element. This Latin
- speech was preserved with its fixed and rigid logic, but with its
- its other form as the Cross erected on Golgotha —
- incorporate the life of Golgotha in its concepts.
- doubt, but its essentials are still to be recognised. Now the
- him, which expresses itself in his form and which in fact is derived
- this Latin knowledge would have been able to pour itself out over the
- Lombard's where today the Elbe has its lower
- and to hear. This has later experienced in English empiricism its
- For much of what I have said is still fulfilling itself in our own
- poured itself over these peoples in such a way as not to enter the
- influence proceeded and which itself became the successor of Rome,
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- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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- — immense in its consequences —
- life-without-knowledge, which unites itself like a young shoot in
- to themselves: Yes, this or the other came; it placed itself before
- the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
- ordinary instruments of the physical body. There within sits
- world make itself concrete, woven through with the spirit. By reason
- itself to us at every turn, stays behind in the etheric. But we feel
- world but it does not make itself concrete for us. Above all, what we
- hand the living faith that is devoid of knowledge, because its
- stream which then found its outflow in what was depicted yesterday,
- Then its development would lead it to reject the facts which are
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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- spreads itself out in them. Now and again a man will feel in
- humanity to make acquaintance with these spirits, who falsify
- expressing itself so abstractly, but it clothes itself as it were in
- of its kind is hardly to be enhanced, to be brought to greater
- poured out into form, was now itself in human evolution. (c)
- looking up to Him, one waits again for revelation.
- its details. We assign our physical body to Saturn, the etheric body
- bring plastic forms into musical movement. That is its fundamental
- to overcome it as such, in order to come out through its form into
- it overcomes its own boundaries; all that forms walls really wants to
- which a state- government increasingly feels itself to be today, but
- known to men through the Mystery of Golgotha itself was still very
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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- ‘thing in itself,’ but one
- thing in itself is nebulous, is unknown; but that which thrusts up as
- was that brought about by the spirits from the hierarchy of
- through those Luciferic spirits who have an archangel nature and who
- the sunlight and unites itself with the intellectual life so that we
- is obviously a logical contradiction in itself.. For one ought to
- trend of modern science must disappear, since its only aim is to
- science must disappear. In its place must arise an understanding of
- through this aberration from Luciferic spirits. He would immediately
- only slowly and gradually can the Mystery of Golgotha in its depths
- find its way into the whole course of humanity's evolution. Only
- outside, lives in itself. And the Jahve-God has concealed in a world
- the human being, can, as it were emancipate itself from the Jahve
- presses through and interpenetrates the conceptual world with its
- itself to him as the Imaginative world. But since in this whole
- instincts and in the digestive processes and loses its way upwards as
- takes on the form of false cosmic pictures, expressing itself through
- its own possession but takes it from the other as something objective
- confidence which lead to its original sources.
- Society all the various habits, inclinations, sympathies and
- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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- earth and has its home under the earth and never comes above the
- about inside and learns by its creeping about to know the roots of
- sun-activities, shoots, leaves, fruits are called forth, and
- makes itself a world-conception. In the picture that it devises as
- That is, that the sun comes with its warmth and light and brings
- world-conception means nothing for its correctness. One who can set
- correct and complete in itself, there need be no logical error in it,
- itself is a world-conception, it does not follow that it gives one
- us something, anything at all, that limits, truly limits our ordinary
- within, runs its course in time — we are thereby
- space and time, as the worm dwells down there in its earth. Space and
- observes is our soul, which itself lives in the concepts
- that which takes its course in time is nothing but an outer sign,
- meaning of life on earth must in some way have prepared itself. The
- our own person unites itself with something which is outside the
- history we meet with the human race in its innermost striving, we
- myth. The myth seeks to lift itself above space and time. This means
- now comes our mode of viewing things when it takes its course in
- appertains to a mind that from its sense-exhalations likes
- feel that tragedy which expresses itself like a mood in Nature when
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- Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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- and the Earth as far as its development has progressed. We have
- relation of the astral body in its activity to the other organs. I
- open itself naturally to the spaces of the whole cosmos.
- spirits — regularly lay hold of them, one might
- but observes the perceptions it has in its own inner being. This
- really feels its skin as a kind of enclosing sheath and pays
- Sun. This means that Luciferic spirits thrust their influence from
- opened outwards and we see the world itself.
- should see its justification, its relative justification.
- this particular age mankind has reached the point of its evolution
- fact that something separated itself, as Old Moon, from the
- happened there, with what separated itself?
- in its turn on the physical body. And this working upon the physical
- to some extent withdraws from the surroundings, it draws itself
- forth hollowness here in its surroundings. For what the etheric
- substance requires it takes from its surroundings, and hollow spaces
- Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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- text is entitled: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung. From a
- Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung.
- soil is red, or its geological constituents include certain
- Again, the bodily form of the human being is itself affected by
- possessed the knowledge in its real form, for he lived in the
- development of humanity itself in the different races and
- itself into the bodies of men, but the Father God has been
- namely the Nature Spirits. The minds of men during the first
- obliged to wage perpetual warfare against the Nature Spirits
- distinguish him from the Nature Spirits. What these men of old
- Nature Spirits, nor from the Father God who worked creatively
- Nature Spirits, but from the Son, from the Logos whom the
- would feel himself dwelling as a Spirit among Spirits —
- the Earth, as it had been when men drew their powers from its
- condition in which man lives as a Spirit among Spirits as the
- with milk and honey, that there are no evil spirits in Heaven
- would have said: Hitherto these evil spirits were within the
- us. The Earth is going towards its end — in so far, that
- was. It is breaking up, falling to pieces. In its mineral
- itself. But with shadowy intellect we have evolved our natural
- Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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- The reproach is only made because contemporary philosophy, having itself
- erred into false tracks, fails to perceive that the nature of its own
- vent itself in quite indefinite feelings which, welling up from the depths
- outer circumstances of life. Though we are often unconscious of its nature,
- be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
- Science, however perfect its future development, can supply us with the
- Science itself.
- cognitional method in response to which the real world will reveal itself.
- cognitional process and an anthroposophical knowledge exist, habits of
- Science with its wonderful achievements and great expansion, and to certain
- scientific character which philosophy, for instance, and its knowledge of
- (especially at the hands of philosophy) is justified. A short sketch of its
- development will show how often philosophy has estranged itself from true
- and be subject to transformation. Many an erroneous view of its true nature
- origin, from purely philosophical thought with its leaning towards the
- differed essentially from later methods of knowledge. Its origin as an
- at its prime — a period which came to a close with St. Thomas Aquinas
- movement of the present day often bases — its appeal upon totally
- what Scholasticism in its prime felt of science, the technique of thinking
- which was revealed to mankind; human thought with all its technique falls
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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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- the most part made itself dependent, dependent through and through, on the
- matters among other topics that they should utilize the habits of thought
- Fichte (I will not lay any special importance on its details), you will
- presents itself, they can pursue further what they have learned from us in
- education should have its foundation in genuine empathy with the child's
- perception itself would spring awareness of how we should proceed. In this
- fulfilled its purpose, if after working for a year with this first class we
- and insight: knowledge as such, no matter what its content, knowledge that
- Only what leads to this knowledge, what is on its way to this knowledge, is
- teaching, achieves its value only after a man has died. This knowledge only
- loses a large share of its interest for the man who made it. This loss of
- that the rest of our organism shows its true form, which is the form taken
- thing to speak tragically (but out of the nature of the thing itself) and
- spreading it out over its surroundings, so that we are aware, say when we
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- emancipates itself from the body, is active no longer in the body but for
- itself. In the seventh year forces begin to be active, arising in the body
- itself slowly throughout the cycle of years from seven to fourteen or
- — for the consciousness is only now forming itself, and
- from the world outside of man, from the observation of nature and its
- processes, above all from observation of its rhythms and a-rhythms. A
- will, that is living itself out in battle with a willed element from
- proceeding from the head and having there its seat, and the
- using the head as a point of entry to disperse itself throughout the
- man, and afterwards it stems itself, pausing at the larynx; it does not
- in its structure.
- the non-physical in the air of music, that unfolds its true effect only
- word, as such, we lose relatively soon after death; only its spiritual
- body maintains itself.
- above on its way downward shows itself as defence. Were we not to have
- between man and the musical-lingual on the other hand, works itself out,
- when this lives itself into the etheric body and thereby takes hold of the
- or paint, etc. has its origin. This is what makes the art of painting one
- devotion to the world. That which lives itself out in painting and drawing,
- retarding its influence. For this reason our drawing classes will have
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- food in its natural form. And then, when we are giving the lesson, from out
- the art of education itself. This has actually to be invented by the
- organisation of the head metabolism, and although in its general character
- subtle colour nature in its various sounds, that comes to expression more
- looking at the astral body which straight away passes its vibrations onto
- for the Greeks has gradually imprinted itself into the brain. This is
- study of man, that goes into its inner aspect where the study of man is
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- body, organised the body, emancipates itself from the body with the change
- of teeth, frees itself from the body to work on as intelligence. Thus we
- absorbed; yes, this process is from one of its aspects indeed best
- itself with that which is being liberated, so that from birth to puberty,
- seventh year on the ego fastens itself only to the etheric body, while
- itself precisely through this imitative activity in the physical body, and
- itself well into the organism, provided the child takes it in and works it
- the wonderful structure of the human organism and its harmony with the
- that carries our ego on its descent from spirit worlds through birth into
- its whole state of life. No matter how paradoxical this may appear to
- which adjusts itself to the rest of the organism so that, in a manner of
- head of the human being receives its configuration basically not from the
- can observe how the head forms itself out of the mother's womb, not yet
- face him, in this way you can see what expresses itself musically; you
- within itself, you would have to retreat and make room for the head
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- our time. In that case it is vital to understand what its connection is
- tells you, we can see human life running its
- its capacity to take what it has grasped in the spirit and bring it down
- The forces of will enter into us from the planet itself. This is how the
- the second period of life, that is, what the earth itself is embedded in.
- draw on what comes from the earth and its planetary system in the way we
- commonplace concepts if they avoid giving the child anything beyond its own
- worked. But our blood has grown weak and has lost its power. This activity,
- be set up on its own basis. Then thought life will be able to give
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- event itself has already been discussed many times, especially in
- in the thirtieth year received the Christ entity into itself, is composed
- reached its climax in Gautama Buddha. He had gone through embodiments
- time, however, when humanity has become mature enough to find for itself
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- of exploring how the event of Palestine presents itself, without drawing on
- thinking, feeling and willing, then stands, so to speak, each for itself.
- understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that
- that the Davidic line of kings splits into a Solomonic and a Nathanic line.
- received the Christ in itself.
- itself. It is different to bring the teaching of something than to bring
- the thing itself.
- the power of love flowed down and manifested itself through this high solar
- again it was necessary that this power of love manifested itself earthly
- this people to whom he brought it as a law rooted in the soul itself, but
- deepest power of the soul itself the law that I tell you.
- preconditions. If we observe the plant in its growth, we see first the
- its lawgiver commandments in which one did not appeal to one's own soul.
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- A lecture given by Rudolf Steiner: from Vergangenheits- und
- question asserts itself in the most decisive manner in our time, as a
- present age is little prepared to approach the social question in its
- concerned other matters than cultural life itself. And it should not be
- literary. Ever less understanding showed itself for the pictorial, for
- education. This soul-duality in social life has manifested itself ever
- expressing itself for the most part for people in language, has become
- corresponds only to the human countenance with its features. The human
- countenance with its features is an expression of the soul-life. With
- gestures, and we recognize this mobility expressing itself in physiognomy
- the human figure, portrayed purely according to its physical form is
- materialism yielded its ingenious results. This spread far and wide. And
- abstractions limits itself to saying, the human being consists of
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- forth long before the advent of Christianity joins itself for
- presents itself as a kind of middle epoch in the development of
- came Greek civilization with its own characteristic world of
- freed itself from the bodily nature to some extent in Greece,
- spirituality as what presented itself to their senses. — Then
- human soul had to withdraw into itself and experience its own
- seem with regard to the spirits of ancient Greece! There we see
- historical development of humanity shows itself divided as
- what the spirit can ascertain when giving itself over to purely
- turning point in the spirits that follow the Greek period,
- Raphael brought forth something that distinguishes itself as
- itself. One then gains the impression that in the age of
- to realize itself in figures such as Raphael alone was able to
- of history itself?
- its isolation (joining other artists and painters working in
- reproductions found throughout the world. This shows itself to
- itself with the kingdoms that stand below the human being. Thus,
- ideas, but forms them into a picture. By virtue of its inner
- its whole disposition, — one that must have gone through epochs
- and outer splendour. Greek paganism was represented in its gods
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- element. Indeed, a wonderfully dramatic moment presents itself
- well as the entire space itself was such that comparatively
- moisture coming out of the wall itself. The whole room, a
- course. Such a question arises of its own accord in
- only with nature and itself, one says to oneself: a tremendous
- member so as to discover how this fits into the whole human
- organism in its natural size. Grotesque figures with the most
- Leonardo soul, too great in itself ever to be able to manifest
- its own greatness.
- Leonardo contributed to the city of Milan and its
- manifests itself with its secrets in Nature.
- almost of itself. For, if Leonardo had wanted on the one hand
- itself to the human eye; how light-and-dark and colouration are
- figure, its emergence from the other figures, seem justified in
- as though of itself: here the painter strove to make evident,
- behind this countenance grants it luminosity of itself, so that
- onto itself justified by nothing in the surroundings.
- which one can believe that it will confirm itself still
- could have its justification only in the Christ figure. It
- does not live this one life only, but, with its whole
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- the difficulty of the subject itself, since the sources
- essential nature of the fairy tale itself is destroyed through
- the human soul in consequence of its relation to life. In
- radiates and pours forth out of itself joins forces with the
- substance of the fairy tale run through its spiritual
- immerses itself once again in the physical body. As already
- be designated the battle of the solitary soul seeking its
- itself existentially, the soul has now to unite itself with the
- immerses itself, so as to make use of the senses and of
- submerge itself in the purely natural, a longing that
- fulfils itself with every awakening. There is at the same
- investigation presents itself at the moment of
- falling asleep. Having withdrawn itself from the senses and
- the human soul may be called a feeling of its own
- the inner battles that arise unconsciously by virtue of its
- is alone with itself. And all sorts of further moods then
- might separate itself from a vast lake. But this dreaming
- palpable connection between what expresses itself in
- itself inwardly, such as a simple “companion”
- the child to be talked out of it. The child grieves for its
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- body, protruding at that place on the head, its rays extending
- would exhaust itself, and human beings would have to separate
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- underline its overall importance for Rudolf Steiner: Held January 16th 1913
- range of cultural life, a realm subdivided itself for Herman
- that breaks through. One accepts his style despite its
- acquires its “skeleton,” however, its necessary
- significant event and its aftermath. For there were
- indifferent traits. Rather do we find an immersion in
- lived in his soul, and how this re-constituted itself, taking
- led by Herman Grimm to the point where the work takes its start
- What Herman Grimm ascribed to Goethe in this way has its roots
- experienced has found its rebirth in the works of Greek art,
- into a culture that in Homer's time had long lost its
- ones. Each new cultural cycle has its task, that of introducing
- everywhere at how the manifold Christ impulse makes itself
- to send its impulses into the rivulets and streams of western
- the millennium at the dawn of which spirits such as
- distinguishes himself in significant ways from other spirits,
- soul needs to identify itself more fully with its own being,
- world. In this way, wholly forgetting itself and yet in a rare
- sense conscious of itself, the soul immerses itself in the
- is overpowering in its effect, in spite of the familiarity of
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- Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
- conscious of its relationship to the total phenomena of the present
- what will show itself to be an even more effective imperialism in the
- future will be its bearer — the Anglo-American people. As far
- as its name is concerned, it has shown itself to be something new:
- spirits who surrounded the highest God — that view came later
- looked up to, just as the Protestant mentality looks up to its God or
- more and more lost its meaning, and the local princes remained. So we
- have in the Holy Roman Empire something which gradually had its inner
- retained in the Catholic Church and its institutions. Therein lies
- that of the Russian peasantry itself.
- identified with the true reality. Now the state can spread its wings,
- their real names. On the contrary, its effect is that the names
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- Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
- 1870/71 with its inner contradictions. A German “empire”
- and beneath its surface something else appears [blue]. When the first
- appears as its continuation.
- 1871 to 1914 was not apparent then, for the Reich itself was an
- reality? What Russian tsarism was then has appeared in its reality
- surface; but what tsarism really cultivated appeared in its true
- reality after tsarism itself was swept away. Lenin was nothing other
- people under a more or less unified faith, must always reinforce its
- it has insisted on its creed, and less powerful the more it has
- concerns its possessions, but rather its internal objectives. Why is
- codex of platitudes? The State, and its author is
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- Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
- defend itself for a period of time, then it is surely justified to
- characteristic of the second stage, and can only be grasped in its
- something and the color green, whereas the color green is itself the
- stage, which shows itself to be economic imperialism, especially in
- of its own.
- of humanity can only be free if it is dependent only upon itself and
- economic forces of the economy itself are active. I doubt anyone will
- concerning the spiritual life from the spirit itself if the other two
- spiritual sector itself.
- living. And one sees it as living only when it is considered in its
- reality from the sources of the spirit itself.
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- with this causal orientation, which has proved itself so
- view its monistic and methodical character, it's the manner and
- from lifeless nature, concepts which are applied through habits,
- itself which Goethe introduced into natural science is not only
- its cause, there is actually nothing different between it and a
- expressed it like this, he meant: ‘When I draw a triangle its
- gained something from within which fits the totality of my
- Physician and lawyer. — “The plant and Its Life”,
- not for what lies behind it, but for its correlation to other
- unconsciously join the single forms together and encounter its
- symbol, for instance by taking the W and search for its
- principles are adhered to, nature itself presents something
- admits to all which is within justifiable boundaries. It
- theory, which doesn't limit itself to phenomena but constructs
- itself. People will learn to understand how the empowered inner
- spiritual world outside reflects itself in the form of lungs,
- Anthroposophy and its methods will gradually gain an opinion
- dissatisfaction. It acknowledges matter in its own organisation
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- organ formation were transformed and then gradually through its
- itself, in its forms, only depends on the animal and the human
- fosters its basis as a sense perceptible function. In the same
- the eye which loses itself in the inner nervous system. Thus,
- itself, and then everything connected to it in the totality of
- relationship of the human organism with its position of
- the animal, which stands on its four legs and which has been
- given its equilibrium position and sense of equilibrium, the
- within itself than a person does mathematically. We find the
- something which emerges from the organism itself as is found
- from that. Just as the human being frees itself in its cosmic
- being simply has an organisation within itself which is not yet
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- and its laws. Yet when we speak about “philology”
- its course in the consequential development. To such an
- situation in the last third of the nineteenth century, in its
- thought could reach its fully entitled, one-sided development.
- out of it was interest created to observe the world in its
- live completely in a thought itself. For Hegel Goethe's
- spirituality, which gradually casts its shadow images on a
- itself. It appeared in full consciousness to him, it appeared
- spirituality itself. It was more or less a dreamlike attempt to
- said: “Nature is Spirit in its dissimilarity,”
- itself.” In all these stuttering expressions lie the
- loving wisdom expresses itself in a magnitude of ways. Perhaps
- organism for which the integration into its concepts depended
- understand the scientific way of thinking in its purity and
- then also try to characterise it in its purity. Now these
- question itself. This is experienced everywhere: what is now
- negate but only want to put it in its correct place —
- observation of the given elements, we don't fathom its complete
- reality has its seed in the eastern philosophy of Soloviev.
- us in philosophy. This task also directs itself into
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- view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
- its characteristic is to only relate practical interests to the
- school, for the educational institute or its equivalent, must
- expression — but an insight into the world and its secrets, it
- soul-spiritual as one of its functions. A third theory is
- surroundings enter into the childlike organism itself. One can
- body is left to itself more; the soul-spiritual does not
- itself.
- sharp contours in its soul. This is false! With anything which
- goal of learning. Out of this the Waldorf School has taken its
- developing childish nature itself. The effort has been made to
- at a particular human age out of its latent position and in the
- appropriate for grownups, which has as its most important
- say whatever one likes — has its deepest entitlement; it
- are deduced from the essence of the child itself, teach us what
- itself could only lead to a definite decline of culture and
- child in a lively way, which works in the child itself already
- child finds its way into speaking, with inner pleasure and
- how the spirit works right into its very fingertips. The
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- life in its relationship to the area coming under discussion.
- life within the social organism needs to establish its own
- develops its individual branches from out of its own
- are linked regarding its contents. Some theoreticians
- itself so brilliantly in the field of natural science and in
- been dealt with — has shown itself as completely incapable of
- grandiose way to outer sense perceptible nature and its laws.
- utopianism already in its third potency, but one must be clear
- about finding contemporary humanity in its real conditions in
- itself; the result can't be solved through discussion but
- its own conditions in which the spiritual life itself works;
- considered out of its own conditions, then the state life can
- social organism works according to its three members, just like
- a natural organism under the influence of its relative
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- remain thoroughly neutral in its working sphere, I'd like to
- philosophy. Philosophy had to separate itself from those
- its own working methods. On the one hand it wants to take into
- the spiritual world and its knowledge. The human being is
- statement applies: “Except in the mind itself.”
- be created out of the senses, only the mind itself can't 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
- environment, also in relation to work itself, in relation to
- must be of help with its methods. I can only briefly
- natural science has grown to its maximum intensity and where
- where the attempt was being made to separate itself from what
- apply itself to finding differences in separate theological
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- its foundation, or if it is merely a process being grasped
- within the current speech habits of people, acquire a certain
- to them. I thought this was something through which its
- the child can be guided in these steps inwardly in its earthly
- example during the times in which Sanskrit had its origins;
- the same feelings when regarding its expression, when regarding
- its language, as we would do with a language today.
- its vitality, with a different soul constitution as it has
- really existed and how the life of speech played its part.
- conscious dream — with its inward living within the
- within itself a number of sympathies and antipathies. These
- in ancient times, in which Sanskrit had its original source,
- the bearers of the soul life — and the soul itself one
- — which permeates our inner being, we say that as its
- experience in its inner concreteness, because only then will
- that Anthroposophy in the course of its evolution must stick
- its nose into everything. When this remark doesn't remain in
- down to Anthroposophy sticking its nose into everything, only
- Anthroposophy is and in how far its legitimacy goes against the
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- spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
- times. This spiritual life can be deepened in all its aspects.
- matter itself demands this. And on the other hand, we must
- that this difference be felt in all its explicitness by the
- world and delights in its own existence and the warmth of its
- planted the sum of its secrets. Thus, they can be discovered
- itself. For whether we go out into space, the abyss is
- is there; if we enter into the heart itself, the abyss is
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- Its teeth in a warped face, scornfully it lies,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- to consecrate itself in healing.
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- Its teeth in a warped face, scornfully it lies,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- to consecrate itself in healing.
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- Life creative manifests itself;
- Which finds in creating its very activity,
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- Its teeth in a warped face, scornfully it lies,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- To consecrate itself in healing.
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- us in school and in life itself, our thinking is a corpse. It
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- thinking had gradually been preparing itself since the year 333
- Which hollows out its own soul
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- Which hollows out its own soul
- according to its inner meaning. And they can become a guide on
- Of thinking, that denies itself
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- Which finds in creating its very activity;
- held in the hand. The world, the world order itself, provides a
- merely an imagined chair. The chair itself provides proof of
- its reality.
- immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
- way, his feeling goes its own way, his willing goes its own
- urge to deny this is so strong that one submits to the illusion
- Its teeth in a warped face, scornfully it lies,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
- feeling goes its way and willing goes its way, which otherwise
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- Lived its life in fields of spirit.
- Which hollows out its own soul
- that his breathing awakens life. He commits himself to this
- being on the earth. Just as he commits himself to these things
- guiding spirits
- even when the soul is making its way to the spiritual world
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- well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
- enthusiasm, all its inner warmth, all its inner fire. You must
- than where memory has its roots, is where we should grasp and
- toward us in streams and seeks to pour itself into human
- stands before us today - its conception originally from the
- morning; it goes down in the evening; its light streams across
- Press its forces in your being,
- Press its forces in your being,
- earth that, despite all its beauty and majesty that spreads
- over its surface, for us humans the downward force is at the
- Of thinking, that denies itself
- Lived its life in fields of spirit.
- Press its forces in your being,
- Which hollows out its own soul
- ghastliness is characterized by its mocking face.
- about its conditions must be taken seriously. So I have been
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- independently than previously in the soul, shows itself to be
- Feeling shows itself to be related to the forces which hold man
- threshold itself. And our being able to perceive the threshold
- increase of warmth means that the spirits which are active in
- with the essence of the earth itself and with the other
- chained to the earth by its gravity. They wish to absorb him in
- who wants to unite us with its light and pull us away from the
- it will be seized when it finds itself in the middle of the
- to suck it in to itself. Just as the light-beings, the
- the air there is a battle in which the Luciferic oxygen-spirits
- do battle with the Ahrimanic nitrogen-spirits. As long as one
- oxygen-spirits, what exists in the life-element when one wishes
- Whereas in the element of life the spirits want to hold us in
- side - that of the Ahrimanic nitrogen-spirits - we are thrown
- just experienced - and certain spirits whisper:
- lectures. But the admonishing spirits keep appearing during
- ourselves for the next earth-life, the spirits warning us at
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- expression: chemical ether and its effects. Because the
- air is good or bad you notice indirectly according to its
- meaningful processes. The universe has opened its doors, so to
- its true elemental nature, does not make us human, it makes us
- its own place - in the earth. They describe in detail how
- thinking actually hurts when it appears in its particular
- impulses. He can feel it himself when fits of hate and anger
- When Cosmic Forming itself in you is felt
- When Cosmic Forming itself in you is felt
- stunted angel soul would take its place. We should listen to
- When Cosmic Forming itself in you is felt
- friends. The intention is to let the spiritual word itself
- world itself.
- manifested itself on earth poorly because human beings have
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- and I am therefore obliged to again say a few words about its
- activity, as thought, is anthroposophy itself.
- will spread its power over the neighboring regions. Then - they
- being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
- If you observe the human head in its true cosmic significance,
- into the distance, where the universe seems to reach its
- mirror image in all its details.
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- Anthroposophical Society must itself be anthroposophy. Since
- Christmas the Anthroposophical Society must occupy itself with
- be its principal task, but rather to make anthroposophy flow
- itself. Once one has been a general member of the General
- the Goetheanum to fulfill its mission all the members of the
- detaching itself from feeling, feeling [green] is on its own as
- otherwise is sleeping in the limbs, transforms itself and
- Let human will transform itself
- Let human will transform itself
- Let human will transform itself
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- itself to create it, then it will be able, through this
- empowered force, to liberate itself from its corporeality.
- in movement through the cosmos itself. And thirdly, if we then
- itself, then we will gradually and harmoniously be more and
- everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
- from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
- the moment when the child stands on its feet and begins to move
- about is when its movements become susceptible to the earth's
- forces and it must find its own equilibrium, at that moment the
- itself, we are then not perceiving earth forces, but we begin
- into fire. For in ordinary life thought appears to you in its
- differentiating itself into various nuances of color.
- holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
- we have grasped feeling in its cosmic being separated from
- accompany it on its rounds without perceiving its weight: bound
- it again to a standstill, thus making the earth itself a
- Among pure spirits.
- In the realm of spirits.
- Only seen thus does the human body appear in its true form.
- Among pure spirits.
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- itself sufficiently and is free of prejudice. But it is just in
- its physical elements? We must deeply feel our relationship to
- read in the deeds of the spirits.
- in the deeds of the spirits.
- deeds of the spirits are teaching to me,
- [3] I read in the deeds of the spirits,
- ( The deeds of the spirits
- [7] The deeds of the spirits are teaching to me.
- the deeds of the spirits,
- of the spirits are teaching to me.
- deeds of the spirits call to me.
- in the deeds of the spirits,
- The deeds of the spirits are teaching to me,
- in the deeds of the spirits,
- The deeds of the spirits are teaching to me,
- The deeds of the spirits call to me.
- second line, we hear the spirits calling us to them, how
- afterward we feel: the spirits have called us so that they can
- included — and the heart reciprocates with its dedication
- the deeds of the spirits:
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- himself from the narrow limits of his
- certain way incorporates itself into a general universal
- individual gradually frees himself from the limits of his
- which does not directly show in its form the cosmic image.
- itself be taught by the beings we have always referred to as
- stars, sense that cosmic space itself is sending us words.
- the rhythm of breathing which by its very nature reveals that
- Paths of spirits acting!
- Paths of spirits acting!
- Paths of spirits acting!
- Paths of spirits acting!
- world-foundation itself. It is what makes us earth-people.
- the language of the cosmos itself in the majestic tones
- verse, but in its mantric character. The mantric character is
- Paths of spirits acting!
- It has acquired its foundation. And in it are those spiritual
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- itself as an invitation to knowledge:
- cosmic knowledge to stream out of the spiritual world itself;
- later in its true form, in its real essence, then the Guardian
- mind, the soul should imagine itself as being perfectly silent.
- But the soul should also imagine itself to already be on the
- spiritual world. And, although being perfectly silent itself,
- The one speaks who among spirits
- The one speaks who among spirits
- 3.) The one speaks who among spirits
- called into cosmic being itself. This resounds from the
- self-knowledge asserts itself in us, where the Guardian advises
- the whole content in the meditation appear before us in all its
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- thinking can be perceived in the human organism itself
- In respect to the region of speech itself: when we say
- which we can discover the Angeloi; in the speaking itself the
- first cosmic space speaks, the universe itself resounds to
- The one speaks who among spirits
- consciousness immediately shows its maya; for it is maya when
- I-organization can feel itself, can perceive itself. And
- I-organization may be conscious of itself and come into
- Cherubim it weaves itself into humanity and at first resounds
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- is, with all its amazing variety of colors and forms, what I
- foretells what awaits us there in the spiritual world.
- the spirits of the higher hierarchies. It is a different kind
- Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
- it interpenetrates us, transforms itself into our blood.
- longer forms us, for its formative force has ended. Once in
- itself. And what it means when
- the ahrimanic powers seize humanity when its consciousness is
- preserved the habits of the mind and carried them over beyond
- I abandon its foundation — the earth's solidity, that is
- I feel rapture, for from now on I do not need its
- Christ: I leave its foundation as long as the spirit
- Lucifer: I feel rapture, for from now on I do not need its
- Now the heart omits “as long as”
- In order that the soul fully dedicate itself to what is coming,
- to usurp for itself the fire element that comes from the sun,
- for itself the fire it had captured on earth and carry it
- Ahriman: My I has its own fire, which ignites through
- The I wills not to blaze in the spirit, but to develop its own
- One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my
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- I abandon its ground, as long as the spirit bears me.
- My I has its own fire, which flames purely through
- learn to feel when we are in the spirit-world among its
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- recognized as one which brings down its information from the
- perceived as communications from the spiritual world itself.
- leadership exercise its right to revoke a membership whenever
- habits which correspond to the physical sense-perceptible
- which the Jehovah-spirits once breathed into humanity its
- its just atonement — what we have done here on earth.
- experience: not yet light, but the light is making itself
- experiences itself in the warmth. And this inner self feels
- It held its breath within
- And may its presence still
- It held its breath within
- And may its presence still
- karma and therewith the I itself.
- It held its breath within
- And may its presence still
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- and reveals itself to be a moral element on the other side of the
- It held its breath within
- And may its presence now
- majestic rainbow, then he can feel as if the spirits beyond the
- through its colors. It is there, builds itself up from the
- Not referring to the view of the rainbow itself, but to the
- observe the cosmic bowl with its content of color-flooding
- cosmic bowl with its flood of colors seen from the other side of
- themselves, to the even higher spirits, to the spirits of the
- second hierarchy. For the spirits of the third hierarchy,
- Angeloi, Archangeloi, Angeloi, are the helping spirits of the
- To serve the higher spirits.
- To serve the higher spirits.
- despite all its greatness in comparison to the earth, it is a
- To serve the higher spirits.
- — that every such letter can form its own answer as being a
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- To serve the higher spirits.
- the higher spirits, which they serve, to the Exusiai, Dynamis,
- Kyriotetes tell their serving spirits to fulfill the needs of
- gaze to the highest spirits, the first hierarchy, who now turn
- the non-embodied beings live, where the spirits live their lives,
- where the spirits think their truths, where the spirits radiate
- spirits of the second hierarchy, which they wish to serve. We
- turn to the Exusiai and Kyriotetes, to two categories of spirits
- deep below, where the spirits and gods of the depths prevail, and
- And the powerful spirits of the second hierarchy
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- itself were acting together with the higher hierarchies.
- To serve the higher spirits.
- The spirits of the third hierarchy explain how
- they wish to serve the spirits of the second hierarchy for
- knows itself to be in the realm of Spirit-Word borne by the
- knows itself to be in the realm of the Spirit-Word borne by
- – The human-I knows itself to be in the
- with the esoteric earnestness can only be maintained if its
- earnestness by its own character, must also be treated with
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- Free School for Spiritual Science, with its various sections,
- the brilliance of the Mystery of Golgotha asserted itself
- the esoteric during the Christmas Conference, its esoteric
- spiritual power which is incumbent for its guidance at this
- is being said but what the Michael stream itself wishes to
- that it be understood; for such understanding is in itself the
- night-cloaked wall that reveals itself as the beginning of
- being in it, with our gaze directed to the limits of sensory
- reflects its light from all that grows and moves and lives, but
- in its threefold character of willing, feeling and thinking. We
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- Its teeth in a warped face, scornfully it lies,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- to consecrate itself in healing.
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- is in that other world, in which one's own self finds its
- then the third beast — created in its ghostly nature by
- itself the strength to create in one's own soul [Gemüt]
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- All its skin is a dull blue;
- Behold the second beast, it bares its teeth,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- By consecrating itself to strive for healing.
- Otherwise its beasts will devour
- All its skin is dullish blue;
- Behold the second beast, it bares its teeth,
- Yellow with gray spots is its body;
- Its eye is glassy, posture slouching,
- Dirty-red its form appears to you;
- by consecrating itself to strive for healing.
- the world. It can be nothing of itself. It can only be the
- reflection of the solar power that emits cosmic feeling
- so that its strength does not serve the divine above, but the
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- — selfhood in the good sense — arises with half its
- into our selfhood. Seeming transforms itself into being. It
- which we should not only receive its content, but rather with
- that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
- felt in its spondaic rhythm. Here we have trochaic
- into the cosmos, into the world with all its forces if we want
- first not distinguishable according to its place, whereas in
- our soul, our narrow humanity, feel itself to be a member of
- If your willing trusts itself
- speak to our thinking so that it integrates itself in the
- If your willing trusts itself
- must look above if our thinking wants to unite itself with the
- unite itself with the cosmic forces. Below is the place where
- them if our Self would find itself.
- needs today for its esoteric life, which here acts from the
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- feel for itself, feel itself to be a part of the entire human
- body. If the finger could feel for itself it would say: I am
- finger. The finger loses its meaning when separated from the
- (We can touch everywhere, but when we feel the touching itself
- serves to fill an empty space. Everything coincides with its
- what mutually draws the planets' orbits around the earth, how
- one planet or another draws the orbit. The orbits have a
- kingdom of the planets and their orbits. The Guardian of the
- ... through the cosmic orbits.
- cosmic orbits of the various planets are drawn together into
- man, know thyself”, is clarified in all its parts. It now
- O man, become yourself through the cosmic orbits.
- Michael's might itself, that Michael is present with his force,
- itself. However, in order to receive the verses, permission
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- our thinking when we become aware of its deadness, and realize
- the fear will give birth to its opposite and become the courage
- that thinks itself. If we don't go beyond it, untrue spiritual
- When shining light in you itself does think,
- When world-form feels itself in you,
- The Guardian speaks as though the Cosmic-Word itself were
- When shining light in you itself does think,
- When world-form feels itself in you
- When world-form feels itself in you,
- When world-form feels itself in you,
- wrong hands, it loses its effectiveness for those for whom it
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- being, the world in its true spiritual nature. They resound
- the physical human form, in human souls, in human spirits, what
- itself rests in deep sleep, as do the things in our soul rest
- thought extracts itself from the black gloom. We know that
- that in its roundness, with an opening below, it imitates the
- breathe it out again. The world in all its grandeur and majesty
- spirits offer resistance when you extend your thoughts to them,
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- spiritual world itself.
- reality occurs in the spiritual world itself. Therefore, this
- reign. It is in its beginnings. But Michael's impulses must
- receive its true spiritual strength. For this it is necessary
- leadership of the School retain for itself the right to allow
- freedom. The School's leadership must also have its freedom and
- the Michael impulse itself.
- that despite all its majesty, how the sun blazes and illumines,
- it in its sleeping state, we find that it wakes up when
- thinking. We observe human will transformed into its reality
- human will transform itself;
- human will transform itself;
- human will transform itself;
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- years has thrown its dark light on the social question in
- particular and its correlation to humanity's mobility in the
- question works itself into every emotion of fear, clearly seen
- wants to become familiar with present day habits, can gather
- the social demands are apparent in life itself. Despite all
- question as it comes to the fore in its true form today when
- itself for such a long time, now met only those who one would
- workforce itself one always has the feeling: Yes, here various
- proletarian movement. It is to some extent the first of its
- as its origins are claimed out of purely scientific impulses,
- is far more connected to the deepest lifetime habits of modern
- points of its revolutionary development.
- place in human consciousness itself.
- and their aesthetic needs. This work itself gave something to
- for fulfilment, wants to unfold its entire circumference. The
- in human evolution. Its arrival coincides with certain steps in
- previous element and clearly carries indications of its origin
- and its brilliant methods, at its endless conscientious
- mindfulness. Science itself has also to some extent torn itself
- when science freed itself more and more from religion, wanting
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- technical operation of economic life and its relationships and
- habits, the entire way we imagine the world to be has not
- as it is presented in its natural processes. In a way one could
- research it according to its own laws, just as you do with
- learn about its laws, in that moment the game of analogy
- nerve-system relates to human spiritual life with its spiritual
- sense-life, which is its spiritual system. Certainly the life
- civil life, allows itself to be between the two systems of the
- comparing how the human organism has, between its digestive and
- as an independent organism throughout for its success towards
- We will soon consider its characteristics in order to
- foundation with its relationships of people with people. This I
- It has so to speak penetrated human life with its own rules.
- social membership, each in its place, where it is positioned.
- totality of the social organism — its character. However,
- socializing of its original form. This needs consideration.
- its natural foundations. All circulation of goods and also all
- the measure of work necessary in relation to its natural origin
- belief that modern technology and ancient thinking habits in
- life — with all its laws on the one side — and the
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- difficulties have been experienced during its development, have
- last decades up to the present, has its particular thought
- habits, particular inner impulses forming a basis for its
- thought habits and what I characterized last week, this having
- developed out of quite a specific peculiarity in thought habits
- all sides into the thought habits of the bourgeois circle
- steer itself ad absurdum. What will happen then, will reveal
- itself soon enough.’ — People are always preoccupied with
- habits, has developed thought forms which prove extremely
- social life itself, the social phenomena and impulses of life.
- thought habits of today, are not able to grasp the reality of
- events in the social sphere to enter into actual life itself.
- This fanaticism shows itself in the most varied masks in a
- a certain unrealistic view of life, a view of life which omits
- reflected also in thought habits: one world movement wants to
- aspects work from its basis into the everyday, profane
- while it distances itself from the everyday things, from direct
- feeling which relate to practical habits.
- called Utopian, and out of this finely fits and crystallizes a
- This fanaticism should contrast itself with real truthful
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- how its origins actually developed out of two different human
- attention to this: the historical life of humanity in its
- fore gradually and slowly but it distinguished itself by
- up the nerve of the social question and dresses itself only
- classes, a struggle which throws its forces in a disastrous way
- social organism to form itself instinctively. Because the
- expresses itself in individuals as this or that necessity to
- — formed out of ways of thinking, habits of thinking. It
- the state organism and this formed itself as by necessity in
- life be responsible for its own natural laws, wanting it to be
- others are not needed and economic life develops its own laws,
- itself.
- considers the social organism as something which allows itself
- its own being. Whatever has come through its own content of
- life, through its own thriving and sprouting impulses of life,
- order to be a reality, must have oppositions within itself.
- to be limited in a certain way, in its laws it needs to
- value building itself if the social organism is to be healthy,
- consumption so that the consumer of the goods benefits as far
- useful, that in any case its entire content depends on
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- thoughts towards its foundation would not be mere thoughts
- of life itself, living in the social movement actually stands
- positioned itself at a decisive moment in a hostile opposition
- follows, as it spread itself from olden times into the direct
- Purely scientific orientation itself works quite differently. I
- spiritual as something which is created out of itself,
- itself, was basically only a product of thinking in the last
- really protect its own true worth, which it carries within,
- when it can govern itself through its own forces, when out of
- its direct initiative can give the state what it is, when it
- unfold itself properly, calls for the ability to always develop
- again, so that it can unfold its own supporting power and then
- objects has its roots in the relationship of people to laws.
- laws as those from within the state itself.
- Proletarians and could be made clear through Marxism and its
- itself; the force of labour was placed on the market like other
- is fully developed from its own basis as merely economic
- disrobed from its characterisation of goods — but rather,
- maintains and governs itself out of its own forces, and out of
- in such a way that its regulation deprives a person of what he
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- with its numerous illiterates. It meant that of the
- itself with sociology, with national economics, that it
- resisted everything which presented itself as an understanding
- understand its needs to be considered as a question of human
- rewarded? How can human labour in any way come to its rights?
- earns its pay.
- each item of goods must have the possibility through its value,
- goods, owes its sensation, the basic experience of its
- process and the circulation of the economic life itself, the
- — that of the modern state. The modern state itself must
- make itself into a big cooperative through which the production
- be. Each exchange of commodity which benefits both the needs of
- economic life develops the life of rights by itself, as it will
- centralised in itself, each has its own approach to the outer
- foundation, out of the needs of consumption in its relationship
- of the laws of the economic life and its administration, out of
- from thinking-habits in this sphere, more than elsewhere, that
- the obligatory tax to satisfy its needs, so, on the other side
- organism, when its validity also depends on free recognition,
- stage where it should penetrate the human soul and take its
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- we realise that its impulse has already made itself felt in the form
- and try to discover the laws underlying its growth and life? Is not
- this the very thing that helps him to understand its nature? And will
- just because the plant itself is not conscious of these laws? There is
- with the word Mysticism itself. Quite recently it happened that
- which its melodies and tones can be heard. We are surrounded by worlds
- express itself in a symphonic whole, it is doomed to inner congestion
- could express itself outwardly in action. That which cannot be
- and that in the course of its evolution certain beings are continually
- between Africa and America. Science itself is gradually beginning to
- influences down into a later age, that they were Spirits because
- Initiates, where a higher wisdom has its home. The legend of Lohengrin
- spirit emerges from the old. Two Spirits of an Age confront one
- evolution Lucifer fell from the ranks of those Spirits who guide
- said to the pupils of the Grail: Look at the plant. Its flower may
- not be compared with the human head. The flower, with its male and
- stretches out its calyx towards the light, receiving its rays,
- bores into the earth, the animal with its spine in the horizontal
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- had reached its prime, two streams of spiritual life were flowing
- revelation, in its more scholastic form, was by no means a body of
- mystical, abstract or indefinite thought. It expressed itself in
- Church. The Church, by virtue of its continuity, claimed the right to
- Thus when medieval culture was at its prime, it was realised that
- Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
- the ideas, and this is at a lower level than the picture itself.
- cycle, repeated visibly in the Sun, repeats itself every year. But the
- the planetary Spirits. I will draw (on the blackboard) this pentagonal
- it was there in its earliest beginnings.
- Beings. As Christianity began to find its way into Roman culture, the
- found its way to men who were interested in these matters and who
- abstraction, albeit working on in the guise of revelation, took its
- in its place recorded traditions of Initiation-wisdom.
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- might seem to be justified that a movement which directs its
- an external testimonial of its essential nature. But in the
- spiritual movement through its growth brings about in the minds
- to build for it a home center of its own, which should be
- of a comprehensive movement which desires to manifest itself
- Anthroposophical friends, can bestow out of its pain, out of
- its sorrow, a power for everything to which we shall be
- my ear this statement — and I certainly felt its
- especially in a spiritual movement which takes its rise out of
- with the language and its genius are by no means taken into
- evokes, simply through its own nature, the community feeling.
- itself, if it is not to be threatened by a certain peril from
- merely of pictures of the supersensible world, but of its
- nothing to do with his dream consciousness itself. Man isolates
- become the realizing of the supersensible itself.
- souls and spirits to spirits, so that you enter the
- constitutes its own proof, that Spirits hold a spiritual
- fountain heads of human consciousness itself.
- foster, each on its own basis, what they have on their hearts.
- that it has once taken these foundations into itself —
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- human strife reaches its rankest growth in these brotherhood
- affords us the possibility through its own knowledge of
- the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment; but for those few
- corrected by the natural environment itself. But, for this
- Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
- things into itself, as our Society has done since 1919, one
- simply fails to understand its innermost impulse. All the more
- individual detail on its own merits.
- of the single units of members — I do not say the single
- Anthroposophy itself. In this, likewise, much is lacking. If no
- leading personalities among its members. It is their duty to
- these things into itself without endangering Anthroposophical
- described to you in a positive way from the viewpoint of its
- Goetheanum, in its destiny of almost ten years, has really
- constitutes an objection against Anthroposophy itself.
- Anthroposophy itself in any way whatever because of these
- this deeper discussion, I should like to put in its true light
- by its opponents. It cannot be so destroyed. Through opponents
- Anthroposophical Movement itself can suffer no harm; at
- have been available, the persons who have contributed to its
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- said to be taking its normal course. Spiritual science
- enables us to follow its progress over extended periods
- which had its beginning in the 15th century, if we
- has its own processes. We reflect on those processes in
- universe in which the cloud revealed its essential nature
- than my little finger is able to think itself isolated
- to be in communion with nature spirits. Today we may say
- himself happened out of will impulses of the spirits of
- independent of the guidance of spirits with whom they had
- be the way it presents itself to our observation. Then,
- has the qualities of an image. Its relationship to the
- its forces into them, as it were. What significance does
- scheme of things the spirits with whom human beings had
- their function. We will have to picture those spirits
- the spirits who influenced the thinking in images which
- today's lecture we refer to them as luciferic spirits.
- spirits that should only have influenced the old form of
- itself can do so. We find, however, that the mental
- habits humankind has acquired put up great resistance to
- said to be wrong in its views, particularly where
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- edifice that seen in its entirety can show us the
- that the human race in its present state of civilization
- the course of its preparation and later as it proceeded
- moved from the west to the east. Civilization itself
- recent times, assuming its true character in intellectual
- thinking as the soul itself became inwardly active. But
- may call intellectual more into its soul elements. We can
- these peoples, constituting itself in a way that was
- had fewer abstract concepts, a culture that found its own
- specifically isolates itself from the rest of the cosmic
- Golgotha it had already reached its culmination and was
- have nothing in them that permits them to acknowledge the
- matter as its instrument. The event which occurred at the
- word. Europe initially was given the explanation, its
- itself able to take in the ideas coming from Asia.
- Gospels and people took their cue from life itself. As
- which came as though of its own accord as human beings
- nuturing of spiritual science itself. On the basis of
- being considers its role to be that of a soul asleep. If
- only within Germany but also outside its borders. [
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- in its appendage, America, over the last three or four
- office by the priesthood and its institutions. They felt
- down from spiritual heights to take up its abode in a
- enable spirits from the higher hierarchies to speak
- so that spirits of the higher hierarchies would be able
- preparation as dwelling places for spirits of the higher
- in Central Europe until 1806 an institution that in its
- people but within certain limits also to what was being
- of divine spirits lost its meaning. The word
- no need for someone living in ancient Egypt during its
- life its meaningless, conventional character. Things we
- older awareness lost its substance and became empty and
- its historical development. It lives like someone who has
- of its sleep, to point out that humanity needs to be
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- it a number of times over the years — that has its
- rather secretive about its work. It is however
- its extremes this movement is represented by people who
- based on Jesuitism has initiation knowledge and in its
- to work its way to the fore, to be the most intelligent
- to expression in so much of what is usually said in its
- an illusion indeed that today merits punishment —
- casting its shadow somewhere or other, and of these
- — and then its shadow arises; a shadow arises of
- something quite different. Preachers in their pulpits
- pulpits—irrespective of the particular creed
- eternity on what it had done during its one and only life
- occupied itself with the contemplation of what had
- their wits that people might find out about this, that
- teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
- light in its true form. Gnosis — one is supposed to
- conception, that the soul has its roots in the spiritual
- consequence of the probabilism which the Jesuits have
- ideas as the Jesuits, only they take them the other way
- to its true form when the pre-existence concept, of a
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- nature of the world to its fullest extent.
- analyzing it bit by bit as it presents itself to the eye.
- understand it in its transformed non-physical form, our
- help the world to its death. The only possible outcome of
- proceeding in this way is to help the world to its death,
- approach to its practical conclusion something has
- — has its basis in spiritual work. Without the
- widest sense must come to its senses and get rid of the
- die. Materialism does not arise of its own accord; you
- habits — and those are the habits we must acquire
- movement where all untruth eliminates itself because we
- itself to be what it is.
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- its goal.
- the Jesuits, by positive Protestantism and so on, would
- spiritual, for it speaks of the spirit when in fact its
- eaten its way into everything spread about by way of
- transforms itself. Materialism can be metamorphosed into
- kind of outer reality—like a solid bridge with its
- impresses itself on the senses. You will come to see this
- right to exist in its one-sidedness as materialism has,
- path of mysticism. The genuine fruits of Goetheanism must
- we must clearly understand that the fruits of mysticism
- mysticism in its right light when we realize that all the
- inner experiences mysticism provides in its one-sideness
- every organic form that goes through its complex chemism
- that materialism shows itself to be what it is — a
- materiality, in the processes of its physical organs, is
- it will kick its legs in the air and wave its arms about
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- matter, its infrastructure and essential nature, in the
- matter and its infrastructure, its laws. It has to be
- reveals only physical matter and its flame, we cannot get
- shall find its laws. The essential nature of gravity is
- working towards anthroposophy always bases itself on
- that normally belongs to childhood. This is seen in its
- subsequent life stages, then this element, which in its
- we must look for its reality. Let me ask you this. Would
- that presents itself in the physical world is an image of
- spirits: the Christ, Ahriman and Lucifer. It is of course
- hatred of the party in question. These are the Jesuits.
- spiritual entity and that Jesuits are very well aware
- due to the fact that it trains its followers to be the
- therefore have the strange phenomenon that the Jesuits
- refuting the refutations of the Jesuits. They know
- every world has its own laws, and today we face the
- flesh, creating a physical Image of itself that consists
- and the human being of flesh and bone that is its image.
- itself away from the brain. People must make efforts to
- we shall only come to understand it if every one of its
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- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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- should only concern itself with things perceptible to the
- substance, that felt itself to be in communion with
- ways of letting their souls and spirits enter more and
- of knowledge. Science has had its roots damaged, as it
- can find its ways to experience, to grasp the spirit.
- Jesuitism, which is more or less its polar opposite. The
- something into human evolution that now presents itself
- and the true aim turned into its opposite. Knowledge of
- extraordinarily brilliant in the clarity of its
- reasoning, its sheer readability. The Jesuit literature
- of the] Jesuits would be excellent if they confined
- [of the Jesuits] to use their description of the material
- descending completely and taking up its mission on earth.
- learn to get beyond putting its trust in mere names, and
- Christ; they really ought to call themselves Jesuits,
- Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 9: East, West, and Middle
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- going to sleep does not reveal its spiritual and soul
- world which has its soul and spirit aspect. Today the
- where the original wisdom of humankind had its origin. An
- spirits experienced their relationship with the heavenly
- spirits — the heavenly and divine ideal of an
- of something that once presented itself to the soul as
- and assuming its true form in the Roman world —
- intellectual culture reached its high point at the turn
- from that great culture, for its mission was to emphasize
- physical body. That culture had its limits, however, in
- death, will reveal its eternal aspect through the special
- the South; its first beginnings go back as far as Egypt.
- The specific configuration of the West really fits the
- view of its evolution. At the top is a kind of rounded
- its task will be to deepen its perception of human
- of despair it has to find its way to the light.
- Middle will have to turn its attention on the one hand to
- turn its attention to the West with a thorough
- future. The culture of the Middle must take its place in
- take its place there and point the way.
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- units based on the work a horse does in a year. During the time
- number of elemental beings — let us say demonic spirits.
- on into the phenomenal world. We know that spirits are indeed active in
- elemental spirits. spirits
- around them, that did not depend on them for its existence. The modern
- This only concerns itself with forces that can be abstracted from nature
- at the phenomena of nature and say: ‘Elemental spirits are at Work
- phenomena. They have not the least idea that demonic spirits are active
- would be superstitious to say that demonic spirits are active in the
- machines they have produced. They are active nevertheless. The spirits
- nature; the spirits active in machines, in all products of technology,
- West, which is totally lacking in cohesive vision, reaches its limits
- their books, where credits and liabilities are recorded. They fail,
- It is therefore making itself felt in real life.
- life in its immediacy? It has to be clearly understood that human beings
- brought the fruits of those earlier earth lives into our present life.
- Then, we knew that nature spirits around us determined our destines, and
- that we had those spirits within us. Today we consider nature entirely
- itself to humankind in those four forms. You cannot, however, use the
- earth lives. In the past, people came to see elemental spirits active in
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- is not yet fully developed but in its essential nature
- to the earth and its forces. Yet we also have to say to
- and its forces in developing our essential human nature,
- earth must be seen as something that cannot in itself
- the earth has to give — its beauty and its
- ugliness, its pain and suffering — none of the ways
- not itself originated in that realm; because the Christ
- ourselves that the earthly realm itself does not contain
- scene. It also addressed itself to the Gospels. Very many
- addressed itself to the Gospels — this was
- comprehend, it interpreted the Gospels in its own way.
- spiritual science wants to be as scientific in its
- encompass everything, must smash itself to pieces, and
- cannot help us with this. Science itself has to become
- the ego. In its decline it will still be encouraging us
- has passed the mid-point of its evolution. It is dying.
- to life in its first beginnings through associations. The
- must first of all show itself in associations formed in
- in its true sense, believe that the Christ principle is
- to try again later on. Although my visits have been
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- stone, has a form, and it retains its form until an external process,
- destroyed at death by its own law of physico-chemical substances, and
- being can pronounce this word in the soul to its soul, in whose nature
- the God-being reveals itself. The revelation of God in man is a fourth
- Just as a drop from the sea is not the sea itself, but only a drop from
- occurs, which stands before you with all its details like a great
- in its full size. On what is this based? It is due to the fact that the
- body was still in the physical body during its existence on earth, it
- desire has its seat not in the physical but in the astral body.
- for its mother, who felt attracted to this mother by her longing for
- so the astral substance arranges itself to the reincarnating I. Then,
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- themselves to its culture.
- will so develop that personality and all that has its origin in
- true, its aim is Socialism — but its basis is that of
- “catch-saying” with its absence of truth. These
- judge of it as is agreeable to them, not according to its
- and we can really only understand what has entered its
- Earth-evolution; the body itself can contribute nothing more to
- its own perfection. What had arisen in earlier times as
- the body itself, it is forsaken by the activity of the beings
- of a body, which has now reached its completion, and develop
- into the lives of men. Then that attitude will make itself
- assert itself in various fields. Man is just at the stage of
- of human evolution itself dictates that. For this reason, I
- humanity has its choice to-day — to go along the path
- its consecration. And these rooms will be best consecrated
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- comparatively easy, for human egotism asserts itself there
- notice forces from the spiritual world arising from its inner
- through a physical evolution about its seventh year with the
- man went through in soul and spirit expressed itself into much
- eighteen, and we are amazed at its evidences. Here is an
- proved that old age no longer understands its own youth,”
- youth, but through its whole span between birth and death. For
- and what displayed itself as science, art or religion was like
- their pupils to carry their reasoning to its logical
- West, reached its climax in the second half of the nineteenth
- all that will happen of itself. Something fatalistic has
- waiting until the air improves of itself.”
- developed. Every world-philosophy has, in its inner law,
- speech, with its tunes and sounds, even with its grammar, a
- them the physical tone loses its significance, while the
- the spiritual must be sought behind language itself.
- in its primal force in the sphere beyond that of the Angeloi.
- language, in the configuration of its sounds and its grammar,
- parents, then, stretching out its talons, it trains them to be
- as the guardians of personal development, Nation Spirits
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- happens with humanity itself, in that it has to experience
- Soul, the Event of Golgotha itself came to be regarded more
- accomplished within the supersensible and reveal itself in the
- towards its establishment — nothing but a few
- evolution must be dealt with from its depths, not by any
- trivial speech. The Earth acquired its own meaning in relation
- forth its minerals, plants and animals: things would go on more
- in its evolution would long ago have fallen into decay and
- lies within its evolution. Man does have a share, and
- its development, whereas if he lives through the period
- consciousness. These are certainly not sensational bits
- that if it exerted its full weight it would crush the
- safeguard against this temptation and its consequences is to
- take the Christ into its scientific, exact view of things, that
- Folk-spirits. If you read those lectures you will find many
- presents itself the fruit we carry through the gate of death
- such misery over Mid-Europe (misery not at its end, but only
- for life; how this fantasy asserted itself with shattering
- 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
- fearful disaster. The proletariat found itself in a new
- It was itself called upon, to a considerable extent, to set its
- ideas to which for years the proletariat had devoted itself
- with its heart's blood proved inadequate when realization
- or could, be any guide for all that was forcing its way out in
- itself in a terrific disaster.
- time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
- civilized world occupied itself for several years in killing,
- proletariat which has educated itself in a rigorous school of
- of the old order have proved itself much more effective than it
- prevented him from looking rightly into its ordering, into the
- as a result of such facts something grew up of which the fruits
- poured out over the proletariat by its leaders. “In
- when carried to its logical conclusion with practical sense and
- unfortunate proletariat which is raising its just claims lives
- them: on the other, the proletariat with its acquired, abstract
- correctly as to its social significance. Can it have as little,
- in this catchword itself that we find expressed the whole
- the social question taken as a whole — its spiritual
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