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• Title: At the Gates: Notes from Answers to Questions - Stuttgart, 4 September, 1906
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  • plant-substance, like living peat or spinach-stuff, penetrated by a
  • lived the Moon-plants, real plant-animals, halfway between the plants
  • into being the four kingdoms of nature — minerals, plants, animals
  • and men. Some of the plant-animals failed to transform themselves
  • completely into present-day plants. The sponges arose in this way.
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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  • is certainly true of plants and animals. Man has in common with the
  • plants his capacity to nourish himself, to grow and propagate; if he
  • the plant and animal kingdoms. Ordinary observation can confirm that.
  • away” a crystal; but in the case of a plant or animal we do, for
  • faculties as well. He can feel pleasure and pain, which the plant cannot
  • identify himself with the plant. Animals can feel pleasure and pain,
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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  • but also the archetypes of plants, animals and men in so far as their
  • be seen because they have no vibrant life; but plants, animals and men
  • and whatever conscious beings have experienced is depicted there. (Plants,
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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  • physical that has ever existed on this Earth, whether as mineral, plant
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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  • forms of man, animal and plant, flows freely like the waters of the
  • Externally he sees it flow in a reddish-lilac stream from one plant
  • of animals, and with the souls of plants?
  • on strings like marionettes. Plants also have group-souls of this kind,
  • finds the Egos of the plants as his companions, and there he can alter
  • the forms of the plant-world. In this way he can collaborate in the
  • Thus it is true to say, when we look at the continually changing plant
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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  • and kingdoms, minerals, plants and animals, within himself, and can
  • needs a nervous system: a plant has no nervous system and therefore
  • cannot have an astral body. In fact, if a plant were to be permeated by
  • an astral body it would no longer be a plant, but would have to be
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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  • in barest outline. There were no minerals, plants or animals. Man is
  • the plant stage, and on Sun there were thus two kingdoms, the mineral
  • kingdom and the plant kingdom; and the latter was man. But these plant
  • the deeper relationships will regard the plant as an inverted man. Below
  • innocence the plant stretches out its reproductive organs to the Sun, for
  • the “head” of the plant, which stretches its reproductive
  • at the top of his body, and below are the organs which the plant spreads
  • If you revolve a plant through 90 degrees, you get the position of the
  • a plant-being, upside down compared with modern man. He lived in the
  • of light-ether; man was still plant-like, his head directed towards
  • plant had to turn round; it remained true to the Sun.
  • to the plant kingdom by ejecting the mineral kingdom. Thus there were
  • grew the plant kingdom, as it then was. These plants, however, were
  • really a sort of “plant-animal”: they were able to feel
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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  • ancestors of humanity there were already forms of plants and animals,
  • destined to be man's companions. The plants were of the lower types
  • their present-day shapes. There were shining plants and animals that
  • appearance. Animals and plants were now like jelly or white of egg,
  • rather like some of our jelly-fishes and sea-plants. In this more condensed
  • organs. The forms of animals and plants were increasingly densified
  • for reproduction. The plants secreted a substance rather like present-day
  • milk; a last survivor of these milk-secreting plants is the dandelion.
  • to replace a lost limb; they could make plants grow, and so on. Thus
  • but by the use of the organic, germinating power of plants.
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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  • the seasons, of day and night, and so on. Plants, too, grow rhythmically.
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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  • could not be transplanted to Europe as it stands.
  • up and all living creatures would die. It is thanks to the plants that
  • this does not happen, for in plants the breathing process is the reverse
  • and men and animals breathe it in again. So do the plants renew the
  • We owe our life to the plants, and in this way plants, animals and men
  • The plant, as it builds up its body, takes in the carbon dioxide and
  • the plants, take in the carbon, and give it up as carbon dioxide when
  • leaves to the plant. Just as man passed through the plant and animal
  • retrace his steps. He will himself become plant; he will take up the
  • plant-nature into himself and accomplish the whole plant-process within
  • up his body with it, as the plant now builds up its own body unconsciously.
  • only by a very little, towards bringing the plant-nature back into man,
  • world. If a plant were able to think, it would thank the minerals for
  • the animal would have to bow down before the plant and say: “To
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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  • for example, a living plant, look at it carefully, sink yourself into
  • were in the plant, as is described in the book,
  • proceeding from the plant: that is the astral counterpart of its growth.
  • Again, the pupil takes a seed and visualises the whole plant, as it will
  • remarkable appears. For example, a plant held in the midst of this layer