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Title: Gospel of John: Preface
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given courses led to something else. Only members were present, and
the public. In this inner circle I could talk of things in a way different
something in this duality — the public and the private writings
such. The manner in which the privately printed works unfold is something

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture I: The Johannine Christians.
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is nothing new, not even for us today; but its form is new. All that
as profoundest essence was nothing different from that in which originate
the writer of the Luke Gospel endeavoring to show that something quite
things must be taken entirely literally.
something of His greatness as the most significant phenomenon in the
words, there must be something in man himself that can be brought into
is something that is related to Christ Jesus?
import and significance: that there is in every human soul something
every human soul something that is called awakening, or
by these terms. Looking at the various things around us — things
life, come up and then wither; and though there are such things in the
very name differentiates it from anything in the outer world. To everything
come to something that spiritual scientists of all times have emphasized
in his surroundings but gradually learning to understand things: he
event, as it is called, something he can experience as the birth of
what exists in every man and all that pertains to it, but something
being of man derives from the divine. In Jesus of Nazareth something
John Gospel emphasizes even more strongly the existence of something
What is now important is to understand, above all things, how the higher
of the John Gospel aimed to set forth. Something known to all those
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture II: Living Spiritual History.
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opportunity will be missed to show that everything the spiritual scientist
Everything that happens
all things that have happened in the world by the imprints left by their
spiritual counterparts. Nothing can occur in the world without leaving
Antiquity: everything that took place there has been preserved in the
forces that move it. In the same way is to be seen everything that went
some battle he planned. Everything seen by his contemporaries originated
in such matters might object: Your tales are nothing but day-dreams
these things know that the less familiar one is with such events through
He has studied history; he has learned how things are handed down in
paper — perhaps just the ones containing something very important
for history is nothing more nor less than a fable convenue.
sees everything quite differently in the akashic record, it
these things likes best to speak of ancient times of which there exist
there appears in a leader of mankind something which in its nature towers
nevertheless the truth for one who is able to see things with the eye
he who understands these things knows that something of spiritual truth
question to ask: Why does that sort of thing not still occur today?
moment arrives. One must not imagine that anything pertaining to the
spirit can be hurried: everything of the sort must be absolved with
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture III: The Metamorphoses of the Earth.
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pertains to it is an expression of the etheric body, everything connected
being. Were nothing of a spiritual nature to intervene at this time,
things hardly calculated to further the wise and ingenious workings
satisfaction in things like coffee, that are poison for the heart, thereby
and what it teaches is nothing but a materialistic fantasy; nor does
of a later one, something else. For comprehending the outer structure
but they are of no avail in helping us understand anything higher than
nothing of all that surrounds us today existed on that primeval cosmic
nothing of our animal or plant life, or even of our mineral kingdom
Something now happened on
everything that constitutes our present earth, sun, and moon was united
anything in the present animal world, and it would strike you as utterly
find something like hardened replicas of what dwells on the sun.
But something in the
Something now occurred
something like lifeless statutes would have developed, growing up out
Something of this sort happened to the earth after the densest substances
that all about was nothing but aridity and death on the Earth; for
evolution, everything had come into being out of the Logos;

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IV: The Hierarchical Beings of our Solar System and the Kingdoms of the Earth.
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things would have died — or, more accurately, mummified. The moon,
everything physical to his conception of spiritual beings — only
blackberry is made up of tiny individual berries; and everything that
— it will occur to you that he demands certain things of the world,
and gives it certain things. Goethe summarized this very beautifully
and ultimately, of love. By his taking something from the world and
giving something else to his surroundings, his capacities keep constantly
to a higher plane? They would be sacrificing themselves, and nothing would
attention to the existence in the cosmos of something that corresponds
of Fire. Nor could they create on the Sun anything beyond what they
human kingdom, highest of these, as the first one. Something in the
nature of an outcast, something of the human kingdom that remained behind,
us today is nothing but what was sloughed off by the higher kingdoms.
that everything else forming the solid foundation of our earth is also
animal beings, such as the shells of snails and mussels. Formerly nothing
winter nothing of the real being of the plant persisted, or if you looked
during spring and summer, something of the sun being approaches and
and then something of great importance occurred, something I shall ask
never was any such thing. If one had been able to see only with external,
physical eyes, something of the sort could indeed have been perceived:
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture V: Human Evolution within the Embodiments of our Earth.
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— had survived the moon crisis of the earth. But when everything
Had nothing else occurred
Well, if nothing else
another factor, something else that they had given him as well: the
however, he derived greater pleasure from things of the sense world
but everything that the father, grandfather, and even early progenitors,
influenced the astral body. The Luciferic powers obstructed everything
come to understand that something very different would have occurred
that the outer world is nothing but a material existence, that there
is no such thing as spirit underlying and permeating all material substance.
calls that spiritual world “nothingness”, because it is
what is nothingness to thee I hope to find my all”. — Only
into the spiritual world and discern loftier things than could the others,
attack against everything that united human beings, against blood ties
There is something eternal thou canst find if thou remainest within
And the “I am” was nothing other than the name which Christ
me there dwells something that existed long before Abraham; I have no
moral maxim: When you see something evil in the world, do not say, Here
are as yet unable to grasp the perfection of this imperfect thing?

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VI: The Atlantean Oracles.
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there existed nothing like a mutual understanding among men resting
Especially was there still present to a high degree something we know
remnant of this sort of thing is our inclination to yawn when we see
Nowadays one who knows nothing of spiritual science laughs when you
and their disciples kept a careful watch for everything that excited
passions, instincts, and desires, for everything emanating from that
was to practice this self-knowledge, to guard carefully against anything
the teacher, everything the teacher did, worked hand in hand with men's
point where everything the teacher possessed in the way of deeper spiritual
Mysteries which were something part-way between church and school; and
— not merely as related to things of the sense world.
was he apprised of anything pertaining to a higher grade. Through this
This implied the ability to reflect in his etheric body everything he
coffinlike box or bound to a sort of cross — something of that
something different from sleep: in sleep the physical and etheric bodies
in a deathlike state. Everything that had been learned through meditation
ways. There was nothing like a natural science of any kind — or
what is so called today — because everything that could be observed
said, The flower is something we must value, for it is an integral part
of the universal spirit existing in all things; matter grows out of
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VII: The Baptism with Water and the Baptism with Fire and Spirit.
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one with the spirit underlying all things. — And he knew in addition
as a symbol, as something that served, so to speak, under the powerful
that everything taking place in man in a physical way is ultimately
has just been said. He maintains, among other things, that a man does
Even today, when everything
something that is taking place in him. Inherent in the sensation of
shame is a feeling akin to a wish to conceal something. And what is
his impulse is to protect himself from something he considers threatening:
view turns the simplest things upside-down. Were we to go into the matter
not believe that back of the physical human embryo there is something
of something spiritual. Another man — stimulated by spiritual
and everything that functions apart from this spirit will gain the upper
though it is quite justified within a narrow scope! Whenever anything
hereditary tendencies are invoked; and because people know nothing of
everything here concerned depends upon their attitude toward spirit.
and death he is simply an egotist: he wants everything for his own selfish
other things, we learned that our sun split off at a given time, together
to which everything else is related, and I can fathom the significance
the Christ impulse something has come to earth which enables the human
No physical substance is involved in this baptism — nothing but
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VIII: The Initiation Mysteries.
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in a sort of lyrical hymn — nothing more. On the one hand, so
is a materialist. The means of research is the important thing. But
us something more, with which for the present I shall deal only in outline.
fulfilling His mission. Everything we think, all that we express in
to the worship of the Persian Mithras Bull; for everything we find in
how the Christ event was received by those in whom there lived something
differently. Everything in the way of external occurrences appeared
undergone an initiation in the past, something special happens to him
no one else would see anything unusual in this journey. The individuality
Himself, hence he had something to give which contained the germ, so
but for the far distant future. He proclaimed something that will remain
into the roots of things; then it becomes clear that the greatest, the
had really been present on the earth. What, then, had to occur? Something
everything that is indisputably related to what we know about it. In
in the eye and ask whether there might perhaps be something wrong in
begun again to reflect, so to speak, upon such things — not in
that everything in Christianity rests upon the idea of the Resurrection,
the Christ impulse would be an impossible thing: there could be no Christianity
be poured into them is something they indeed crave and for which they
form the molds, but something they lack; and this can come only out

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IX: The Artistic Composition of the Gospel of St. John.
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of miracles? If you listened attentively to a number of things that
The capacity for self-consciousness was something they had to acquire
everything else about man has changed as well. The belief that conditions
must always have been as they are today is due to nothing but human
shortsightedness. Everything has evolved. Nothing has always been as
know something that the other felt and thought vividly, livingly. Love
meant something quite different from what it does today, albeit in those
historical documents may report nothing of all this, the tablets and
act soothingly upon the growth of a plant, to accelerate or retard it.
we must take everything in the Gospels literally — that is, we
that something occurred which had to take place in Galilee. It means
Old Testament, everything that today seems miraculous, occurred through
things happening today as they happened then? Aside from the fact that
The first thing we are
to that: For the human being, things are of the nature in which they
the same effect in his organism. Nothing else is necessary than that
capacity for sensing that sort of thing. Only, a transition had to be
had to be assisted by something. By what, then? Here we come to the
and then look up the Greek text. This contains nothing more than the
the others. Then she knew that something like an invisible spiritual
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture X: What Occurred at the Baptism?
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nothing remarkable about him. Why? Simply because the physical body,
Earth evolution. Nothing of all that man passes through in
that evolution would carry over nothing into the future unless the form
future nothing in the way of harvest and fruits of his sojourn on Earth
sheath; in ether words, something from the spiritual world unites with
everything presents itself as in a mirror, reversed, as soon as we enter
first gradually learn to find his way about, for everything appears
must learn to observe, in a certain sense, everything else as well in
eyes are open, in reversed order. While in a physical embodiment something
in the form of a white dove. Something spiritual appears as it detaches
that everything of that sort is part of your being. — But how
that a man is bounded by his skin. Everything surrounding him is part
of him as well, even in the physical sense; so that when something happens
things will come to mankind only by slow degrees.
in Palestine, narrated in the John Gospel, as something strange indeed.
told of an age in which such things were wholly within the range of
been astonished? Outwardly it was nothing but a repetition of something
There is another thing
thing come out of Nazareth?
personality it is necessary to penetrate to something deeper. And this
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XI: The Harmonization of the Inner Forces of Man through the Christ-Impulse.
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Earth evolution. We learned that something completely new entered this
Palestine and everything connected with it before and after, and that human
lectures to mention everything connected with the Christ event and with
because naturally everything in the human being is interpenetrative:
that everything people have in common, the generic factor, so to speak,
and is not merely external; in other words, not from anything bound
Looked at only from the point of view of external science, these things
state. In this way there can be seen something of what lies beneath
the outer surface of things.
their mutual antagonism, something like a struggle for existence, would
above all things that the ancient sages who thought along these lines
of the relation between this inner father and inner mother is something
the result of this? Something occurred that was expressed in a formula
what is beheld in the Mysteries. One of the things acquired in line
wisdom cannot help man past a certain point in evolution. Something
different, something wholly new, had to replace the old wisdom. Had
Something passeth
of Christ Jesus. True, everything that was destined to come about through
about something whose outer reflection is shown us in the relation between
And one thing more was

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XII: The Decline of Primeval Wisdom and its Rejuvenation through the Christ-Impulse.
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for we know that everything corporeal is a result of psychospiritual
encloses, and that everything else is made up of outer objects which
everything was surrounded by a great colored aura. That was because
there is spirit — spiritual beings — in and among all things
were indistinct; but because he saw the spirit he also saw everything
lacked anything like a strong ego sense — self-consciousness in
senses ever more clearly and distinctly. But nothing that evolves in
an old heritage in certain people and in mediumistic natures. Something
in the face of this legacy of oracle wisdom, nothing could at that time
for mankind, saying: That is what would happen to you if nothing came
something else took place as well: this etheric body that had cut itself
but a certain portion of his father's money, and he earns nothing to
add to it. In time he will come to the end of it and have nothing left.
torn himself loose from his father-wisdom, had added nothing to it
on anything he has earned. He lives on his capital, so to speak. In
infused into human observation something like a dark smoke cloud that
fund, spends it all and earns nothing additional, his prospects will
same position as his father. The father at least inherited something and
could go on spending, but there remains nothing at all for the grandson,
nor does he inherit anything: for the time being he is left with nothing
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIII: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
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the outer world is nothing but matter; for if you consult the remnants
It underlies everything that is creature. So what exactly is it that
was hidden from man when all things became obscured by maya, or illusion?
man should see everywhere and in all things the divine Father principle,
of which all things and he himself are a part. The Father principle,
sense world, it is something that pertains to the divine-spiritual Father
facts in the case. Something had to occur whereby he could learn that
what he had known about death, what he had felt about it — everything
Lucifer-Ahriman. But that is something no earthly being could have accomplished.
An earthly being can extinguish, within earth development, anything
into the world. This deed called for a Being having nothing whatever
way connected with any cause of human death — that is, with anything
anything whereby men became guilty, fell a prey to evil. For the death
the earth of itself had nothing left to infuse into the etheric bodies
What takes place, now that there is always something of the Christ light
at that time, as an effect of the Christ light, for something new to
appear, something living and breathing and immortal, something that
then, the human etheric body has held something that is not subject
to death, to the death forces of the earth. And this something which
but their death as well, and they knew that something of spirit dwelt
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIV: The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center.
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embraced something like creations apart from the outside proper. All
there existed, as yet, nothing of our air, our water, our earth —
we have said that if nothing else had occurred, and if the moon had
anything to do with the retarded beings: they broke away from them.
nothing less than to keep all earth beings in the form of dense, physical
upon all things attracted into matter could the divine Father Spirit
over it. Seek as you will, nothing is to be found that is not interwoven
with death. Everything on earth is steeped in death.
capacity for taking something along from this realm of death, he would
everything that formerly existed as his apprenticeship can henceforth
symbol of everything that streamed into man from the Earth
the new “Year 1” there occurred something of the most profound
in the earth and in everything it brings forth. Human beings must also
learn that failure to recognize the Christ Spirit in all things means
and the earth is in a process of dissolution. We shall see things in
their true light only if we discern in every atom something of the Christ
And now, consider anything
in which we must see these things. And just as everything evolves from
things which existed primarily as a bridge must then grow and develop
us the same thing? In the case of Paul it cannot be doubted that, with
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