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Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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Weekly News for English-speaking Members of the Anthroposophical Society
We must attain the faculty to speak of the realms of Life and Soul,
are able to speak of the circle independently of the
Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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hearts through which she feels and speaks ... Her crown is love,
this sense that he speaks of primeval plant, primeval animal.
speaking to him of that world:
it was possible to speak of certain secrets of our being in any
worldly things. For this reason, he speaks of a perceptive power of
Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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as spiritual seed, so to speak, in the soil of the mind's life, and
will never speak otherwise about positive findings of super-sensible
so easily be misunderstood. That is, the manner in which he speaks is
so to speak, facts of experience in the inner soul-observation. It is
of the antithesis described, this method would, so to speak, flow in
Title: Mission of Spiritual Science and Its Building at Dornach
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most of those who nowadays speak of history, political economy, etc.,
stress on the fact that at the time when I was invited to speak to a
And now, before speaking
speak intelligibly about the ways and means found by spiritual science
speak of these faculties at the present time, for the reason that they
inward processes. The spiritual investigator is not speaking in a
conditions are called, and speaks out of the subconscious, which is
it happens that spiritual science is accused of not speaking of a
personal God, when it is said that I prefer to speak of the Divinity,
seeing that one may speak not only of the personality, but even of a
reproach that the spiritual investigator only speaks with deep
say that the drop is the sea? If I say that something divine speaks in
say, speaking from the convictions of spiritual science, that the
Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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This answer is perfectly correct, generally speaking. Accordingly it
us, so to speak. They are present in the soul as soon as the individual has
future. Anyone today speaking about these consequences may appear to be
science. I am going to speak about a simple son of the soil caught in the
speak of human life. It may be said that natural science has in a sense
about which I am going to speak. According to that concept the earth and
yet possible to speak of Spiritual Science, or Anthroposophy, as we can
Let us begin by speaking of an event which establishes a certain connection
beings, etheric beings, growing downward, so to speak, out of the entire
physical plants attain fullness of growth, we see, so to speak, just as many
animal, e.g. upright posture, ability to speak etc.? The solution of this
these ether plants the earliest forerunners, so to speak, of spiritual beings
considerations, and to allow facts as they develop to speak for themselves.
Therefore I should like here to speak about a point which the historical
Title: Article: Knowledge of the State Between Death and a New Birth
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materialism of Natural Science the less the speakers are able to
He who speaks to-day of investigating the spiritual world encounters
Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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This answer is perfectly correct, generally speaking. Accordingly it
us, so to speak. They are present in the soul as soon as the individual has
future. Anyone today speaking about these consequences may appear to be
science. I am going to speak about a simple son of the soil caught in the
speak of human life. It may be said that natural science has in a sense
about which I am going to speak. According to that concept the earth and
yet possible to speak of Spiritual Science, or Anthroposophy, as we can
Let us begin by speaking of an event which establishes a certain connection
beings, etheric beings, growing downward, so to speak, out of the entire
physical plants attain fullness of growth, we see, so to speak, just as many
animal, e.g. upright posture, ability to speak etc.? The solution of this
these ether plants the earliest forerunners, so to speak, of spiritual beings
considerations, and to allow facts as they develop to speak for themselves.
Therefore I should like here to speak about a point which the historical
Title: Article: Luciferic & Ahrimanic in their Relation to Man
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world, the will would be something completely unknown. One who speaks
The above exposition speaks of an experience within the soul
Title: Lecture: Mathematics and Occultism.
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Weekly News for English-speaking Members of the Anthroposophical Society
We must attain the faculty to speak of the realms of Life and Soul,
are able to speak of the circle independently of the
Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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hearts through which she feels and speaks ... Her crown is love,
this sense that he speaks of primeval plant, primeval animal.
speaking to him of that world:
it was possible to speak of certain secrets of our being in any
worldly things. For this reason, he speaks of a perceptive power of
Title: Article: Supersensible Knowledge
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To the experience of soul, of which I am here speaking, these limiting
Title: Oswald Spengler: Article I: Spengler's "Perspectives of World History"
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longer speak. Everything which is decisive withdraws into
Title: Oswald Spengler: Article II: The Flight From Thinking
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Spengler speaks of the sleeping plant-life and uses
The author has a right to speak of this decline. For the forces
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or superfluous." A man must speak this way when he
Title: Oswald Spengler: Article IV: Spengler's Spirit-Deserted History
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can he continue to speak everywhere of the "blood."
Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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further metamorphoses. We understand why Tacitus does not speak of
the Asen, but of Tuisco and his son Mannus. He speaks of races which
Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture III: The Impact of the Huns on the Germans
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to mention one of all the facts which speak to the same purpose, in
farther still the Romans speak of the tribes in the northeast as of
Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture V: Charlemagne and the Church
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going to speak — the 8th or 9th century — you will find
Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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Charlemagne. But we cannot speak of an empire of Charlemagne, as we
speak of empires today. The ownership of large territories made it
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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speaking to the sensibility of his contemporaries.
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture II: Schiller's Work and its Changing Phases
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behind the appearance; man cannot even speak of it. But there
"Thou shalt" speaks so decisively that the harmony
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture III: Schiller and Goethe
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picture of freedom, that we can speak of charm. And dignity is
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IV: Schiller's Weltanschauung and his Wallenstein
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nature herself speaks and acts in him, so Schiller comes in
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VII: Schiller's Influence during the Nineteenth Century
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to speak to-day of the way in which Schiller's influence was
Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VIII: What can the present learn from Schiller
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Then there will be men who can speak in the spirit of Schiller
Herman Grimm about Goethe, will be able to speak about
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture I: The Eternal and the Transient in the Human Being
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nobody can speak about anything impartially in which he is interested.
Will he be able to speak then impartially about this question which
violates the modern natural sciences, I would not be able to speak about
the physical heredity. Goethe himself felt in such a way speaking in
of that is given. Nevertheless, Haeckel speaks of a kind of unaware
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture II: The Origin of the Soul
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Somebody who speaks today about the nature of the soul
all, the theosophist, who speaks from his standpoint, from the standpoint
who represent an uncomfortable opinion. Somebody who speaks of the soul
today, like the naturalist speaks of the external facts, is no longer
must have the right to let his persons speak out of the situation. If
however, no initiate, arrives at the concept of miracle where he speaks
who himself was no theosophist, speaks in one of his often misunderstood
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture III: The Nature of God from the Theosophical Standpoint
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The theosophist does not dare so easily to speak about
which theosophy speaks about the concept of God. The theosophist speaks
about these concepts possibly in the same attitude as a Hindu speaks
he speaks, he says nothing about it.
because one cannot speak about it any more. Everything that the human
is a reason why we speak of the idea of God. — Hence, I may point
to look with the senses and understand with his mind speaks that way
speaks in the human soul if this human soul forms thoughts and opinions?
member of all things that surround us in the physical world, so to speak,
the thoughts stream from the human breast. But what speaks out of the
human breast? God himself speaks out of it — if the human being
theosophy speaks. It speaks of seven levels of the human consciousness.
speaks about that, too. Spinoza developed concepts of the divinity in
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture I: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy I
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philosophical education, and even if he has also acquired it or speaks
from my own philosophical education and speak, nevertheless, out of
How can we speak now of
beyond experience? How can we speak of a connection in experience that
that there is nothing sure. Is anywhere anything where one can speak
we could not speak of any higher beings. Hence, this is also an objection
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture II: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy II
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how it may be in the external reality. That is why we are not allowed to speak
We come now, so to speak, to the
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture III: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy III
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You may allow me now to speak about
so to speak, a level of human knowledge is hidden.
of the theosophical system, it appears to us as arrogance to speak about a philosopher
point of view, to speak about a philosophical system if he is not aware to have
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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beings look up, and they speak a lot of ideals, but that they could realise
— was deposed, so to speak, because one strove for real facts.
to speak not only about the teaching, not only about logical proofs, but they
wanted above all to speak about the fact that they themselves saw with their
man from Nazareth. One single word of an indeed significant witness must speak
knows that Paul is, so to speak, a posthumous apostle that he had the appearance
being. Only he knows what an initiate, like Paul, means, if he speaks of the
still imagine the ideals at most which contain abstractions. Then he speaks
one does not speak in materialistic views, but which rises to the highest levels
from to speak two languages, so to speak? The simple comparison can say it to
highest matters that the simple reason, which is, so to speak, in the natural
it, we know if we have heard the true whether it speaks to our hearts whether
speak in other words than the old priest sages had spoken; a message which is
somebody who is born again who is born from above speaks that which he says
— He speaks words like Angelus Silesius has spoken them at the end of
makes who speaks out of the spirit. You should not listen to him, not to his
words only, but let evoke in yourself what speaks out of him.
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture I: Theosophy and Spiritism
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it should speak about the soul. Our official science is powerless in the face
reality of spiritistic phenomena later, one also split him, so to speak, in
speak, what can be the flat, the home of the soul in the physical world. We
speaks. The theosophical researcher tries to lift his clear consciousness to
being in trance more than somebody who speaks from his clear waking consciousness?
knows the dangers can speak about the immense powers facing him in that world;
in English-speaking countries. Steiner uses the latter terms for the opposite
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture II: Theosophy and Somnambulism
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note at that time only indicating. In particular I want to speak about the phenomena
himself, so to speak, he can face himself in the dream. We retain at first that
The most usual dream action is speaking
in sleep. We know that it is a very frequent phenomenon that sleepers speak.
dream speaking to the dream actions as I already said in my introduction. The
to speak today. This ego uses the other members of the human being as its tools.
We can show, so to speak, experimentally
in a particular way, infiltrates them, so to speak, so that the external sense-perception
present, so to speak, at this whole process.
individualities are already among us who are, so to speak, again free of the
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture I: What Does the Modern Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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the soul, so to speak, draws back again in its own being. This is the activity
has united more and more with it, the spirit speaks at any moment of sympathy
and antipathy. The human being hears the spirit speaking from his soul; he perceives
speaks to the soul.
because the spirit becomes more and more speaking. However, we only recognise
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture I: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part I: Body and Soul
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body. This remained that way. Those who speak of psychology today do not know
that they speak under the influence of a Christian dogma. One believes —
speak of the soul as one did it for thousands of years before our time. The
has, namely that one cannot speak of the soul in the old sense because one can
that one can no longer speak if a certain part of the brain falls ill. The old
the whole. Just as the human being knows that he cannot speak without certain
regard and which sum of ignorance comes to light, if today one speaks in apparently
Today you allow me to speak of the psychology of Aristotle who completed as
gives the best, one has to speak about Aristotle above all. Nevertheless, this
most scorned of enlighteners whom one also knows least. I want to speak with
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture II: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part II: Soul and Human Destiny
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there if we let our own ego speak? What do we discover if we do not see with
If we speak of guilt and merit, we select what befalls the human being and what
There is a fact which speaks so
But not because this fact does not speak clearly, but it is simply because modern
are which speak to our outer senses. But can we hope that the subtle soul-life
beings up to the highest ones in natural way. However, where Aristotle speaks
who comes afterwards and wants to persuade us that the soul researchers speak
removed by this law. We hear these naturalists speaking in such a way that somebody
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III: Lecture III: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part III: Soul and Mind
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Facing his death, Socrates speaks about the eternity of the spiritual core in
about the human mind, and the strength of conviction speaks in his inside. Not
look up to a solemn moment when the everyday life does no longer speak when
how theosophy thinks about the eternity of the soul. It does not speak in this
inside, so that we hear the spirit speaking in our inside?
speak about the immortality of the human mind. It cannot be a matter of proving
the spirit in the environment speaks to him; then he experiences this spirit
thoughts. But just these thoughts do not speak to him with the same concrete
like of the physical laws, then these shadow-images start speaking the living
language of the spirit to him. The spirit speaks to him from the surroundings.
the spirit of the surroundings speaks to the human being who lives without desire
speaks about the world of ideas, of the spiritual world. It talks about that
which the human beings should become; it does not speak about proofs. Nature
speaks to a human being differently who has purified his soul, so that it does
spiritual things round us speak to us. That is why the theosophical teaching
speaks in a different, in a new way to him. Then we look into the covered sanctuary
the sensuous sense. Then he hears self-consciousness in his inside speaking
to him as the mathematical truth speaks indifferently to him, but in such a
way as mathematical truth also speaks in another sense. Mathematical truth namely
of time and space that speaks in our inside to us which appears before our soul
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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like this Philosophy of the Unconscious. A man speaks there, actually,
for a few seconds. But I would like to go deeper; I would like to speak of the
cannot investigate this. In no other sense theosophy speaks of objects and matters
divine wisdom. Thus it is meant if one speaks of theosophy. One does not speak
— This speaking of proofs is something that appears over and over again
speaks about moving atoms, then that cleverly thought-out construction of monads
about which I have to speak. Which physicist would not disparage what one calls
Goethe's theory of colours. It is a matter of impossibility to speak about
has a right to speak about the fact that also the calculated has an objective
of which Goethe speaks: what the skilled ear of the musician is, this is the
Kosmos, 10th issue, a naturalist speaks of animals and plants
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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Today it is my task to speak about a topic that has millions
It may be not easy to speak just
in whose name I myself speak has not chosen the slogan only like a signboard,
to speak about that. You know that there is in any science a rule which is simply
to speak about the matter in a sense which really throws light from this point
shows that there are mysterious ways to get to the highest truth. He also speaks
speak about things about which they can never speak in the waking consciousness
always only Swedenborg speaking; he did not hear answering. The case became
I do not want to speak now about
I could speak in detail of the fact that still quite different powers stand
the scientific spiritism in Germany who did not want to speak like Hellenbach
but who wanted only to speak about the reincarnation of the human being and
I will speak next time, they all explained the facts in their ways. There were
We know that one had to speak in
the English speaking world to distinguish spiritism and spiritualism (Spiritualismus).
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV: Lecture IV: The History of Hypnotism and Somnambulism
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Today I have to speak to you about a chapter of the newer cultural
— I would almost like to say — painful word must be said speaking
the case and the way would never have had the audacity to speak about these
I would like to speak of an experiment
also not to that which he speaks about hypnotism and magnetism. Already as a
the word which I speak to the person concerned has an effect in such a way that
this sense, one can speak of a prosperous development of this field. Hence,
us again worthy to speak a clear word in these fields.
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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now shows the basic concepts of which I speak in eight days. We see a thing
Just as you digest and speak, you feel, wish and desire. Digesting and speaking
perceive the events, so to speak, in the spiritual realm, the theosophist is
Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V: Lecture IV: Is Theosophy Buddhist Propaganda?
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produced researches which deeply speak to the soul of the modern human being.
who are able to independently speak in its sense. You cannot deny this. And
connection itself by which the word of the spirit speaks to the co-brothers
Buddhism reads that way and a ban to speak to anybody of the fact that death
one can repeat a hundred times, but over and over again people speak of renunciation
of life. Nirvana is exactly the same about which also Christianity speaks. But
the Areopagite. You find with him that if one speaks of the divine being
identical to that which is in the world. Hence, Dionysius the Areopagite speaks
nirvana from philological side. That who speaks of the theosophical movement
wisdom conveys speaks to the whole human being. It runs through the whole human
that somebody is a theosophist if he speaks of the astral world and of devachan,
depend on speaking about karma and about reincarnation, but on that: to make
we do not speak at all with the words which were valid in the theosophical movement,
nor a Buddhist one. We speak to every human being in such a way that he can
It is not correct if we speak to
the teachers of wisdom that they found words and concepts to speak to everybody,
theosophy as a modern spiritual movement speak to the Christians in Christian
for bread if one speaks to him in strange forms.
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture I: What Does the Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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to him to whom it wants to speak today. What is then, actually, the
from such wisdom. Then the researcher gradually learnt to speak of "primal
moral philosophy speak to the human beings in such a divine-lofty way.
was much misjudged, because it speaks a language that has developed
them, could not be maintained. Now one speaks of a "powerlessness
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture II: The Nature of the Human Being
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Indeed, if today one speaks
of ideological associations if one speaks of monistic or dualistic views,
the mistake and stop speaking, unless you are able to open their eyes."
speaks of the entity of the human being one has to do it not only with
and the sentient soul. These are, so to speak, inserted into each other
and we will see how they will develop speaking about reincarnation and
Goethe gained insight into that world of which we speak profoundly.
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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touch this fact only in general because I speak on Darwinism and theosophy
so to speak, a result of two factors: of that in what the descendants
that it is not the same if we speak of a human biography. Everywhere
of a person and the biography of an animal. If we want to speak of that
animal. Hence, in the animal realm one speaks of an evolution of the
to speak of heredity that way without getting involved in the gravest
contradictions. We could speak of hundred and thousand cases where animals
possible to speak of heredity in the soul-life like in the physical
effect of the animal soul-world. We speak a little more exactly about
the statement of the impossibility to speak of the transmission of soul
qualities of ancestors to descendants in the same sense as one speaks
so to speak. Today we want to state that theosophists are so far advanced
point in the European history of civilisation where one speaks of conscience
to the soul, so that the human being understands to speak of cause and
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture IV: Theosophy and Darwin
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This mind cannot develop at one go. It must realise, so to speak, gradually
if we speak about the philosophy of Ernst Haeckel.
again. I do not want to speak of the fact that the scientific investigations
Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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manifestations of life, and fundamentally speaking, all naturalists do
exactly the same laws. Again Tolstoy speaks significant words
dogmatist, who speaks only about the ancient wisdom without ears or
wisdom, which speaks, too, of the development to come in the future,
something more than mere speaking. With his speaking he must combine
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture V: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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field, in the field of art. I want to speak only of a typical phenomenon
this form of existence and almost falling into despair, so to speak.
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VI: The Soul-world
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is not directly a desire. However, what surrounds us if we speak of
at the end of his famous Ethics where he speaks of the fact that the
this consideration today which speaks of the interrelation of the sensuous-limited
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one can only speak comparatively, in a more symbolic language of which
eye. I speak figuratively saying this, but it corresponds to the facts.
you see with the eyes, perceive with the senses constitutes, so to speak,
that is filled out with the physical matter is, so to speak, left blank,
so to speak, the airy sentient world completely penetrating the space
connected with the earth, which, so to speak, shine from a very different
with the basic concepts of theosophy. Then I also speak about the way
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VIII: Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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stimulating way, so to speak. They faced him friendly with their effects
to speak, from its mother soil. Our time has developed thinking in the
of the spiritual life. This life transmits, so to speak, the spiritual
if the mystic word which exists in the things speaks to him. What Schopenhauer
Title: Lecture: The Inner Development of Man
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world and the spirit world. Later on, I plan to speak about the main
eliminated, the soul will begin to speak of its own accord. This will
case is he truly appointed to speak about the truths of mysticism, the
is the moment when his soul begins to speak, when his own inner being
Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters it
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture IX: On the Inner Life
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internal development. They are, so to speak, evidence of this internal
a while, then the soul begins speaking by itself. Not immediately; but
it is necessary that the human being gets it to speak first of all.
If this is the case, he is only destined to really speak about the truth
of mysticism, to speak about the truth of theosophy and spiritual science.
the own soul starts speaking when the own inside starts beholding the
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture X: Goethe's Gospel
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Goethe always speaks of
Theosophy speaks of three
does not speak of external pictures if Goethe says:
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XI: Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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Somebody who speaks today
if one speaks in such abstract higher ideas. Hence, the creation history
He speaks of perpetual "impacts" of spiritual kind which
human spirit, one can only indicate it then one speaks of the true spirit,
ego-feeling in the soul. So that speaking of the human soul we can also
speak of buddhi which enjoys life in kama, and if we speak of manas
or the real spiritual of thinking, we speak of the reason which enjoys
physical creation. Plato also speaks of it if he says that the spirit
speak. These were animal-like figures which lived in a more malleable
and the human being formed in that which one calls fire mist. One speaks
of which we speak now and which already parallels states of strong densification
of spirituality. We speak of it later after we have got to know the
theosophical view generally speaking. This is the evolution theory,
It is hard to speak about that because this question,
I would like to speak impartially about the question. Indeed, the
future in prospect. I speak of this higher future in the next talks,
on the 16th February, 23rd February and 2nd March where I speak about
perpetually takes place there. That is why we also speak of the so-called
if we speak of spirit with the present-day human being, we speak of
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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said that he could speak on such a question only pictorially. He did
Theosophy speaks of the
was, so to speak, initiated in the secrets of the mystic world view
We speak of ahamkara in
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speaks of a sounding sun in his Faust in the Prologue in
hand free! The silver king presents the sceptre to him, speaking: graze
mechanically by other forces, so to speak, not by his own forces. Now
speaks: "recognise the highest." The young man receives
we must realise speaking of Goethe that we apply this
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from speaking as far as speech expresses something ordinary or accidental,
and gives life and movement to the events. He is a philosopher who speaks
Goethe speaks of himself. You find it in the outset of Poetry and
separated. He feels, so to speak, like a sound which is not yet part
speak in mental pictures, in images.
this fine mood, the intimate forces which play a role there speaking
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XV: The Evolution of the Earth
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of view only somebody should speak who is also familiar with the whole
spirit he could not speak, without spirit no higher spiritual activity,
remarks about the acquisition of such capacities next time when I speak
did not yet have the sense of seeing. This still was, so to speak, an
in millions and millions of years. However, it is difficult to speak
limitation does not take place if we speak of a heavenly body like the
course backward. We meet the human being there, so to speak, still without
certain abilities can be developed. The human being could not speak
light around him or still more properly speaking to sense the objects
Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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nature, so to speak — at the point of time that lies
absorbed since he was able to speak and think self-consciously, is a
as one can speak of the wings of the lung, which also bear only a
great Initiate such as Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
I will now speak of the
have drawn your attention to how the practicing mystic, when speaking
so to speak, in this physical world. One must not misunderstand this.
teachings speak also of an inexpressible name of God. That is
the world "I." He speaks out of the world "I"
as one speaks of a poet of nature. There have been Christian mystics
this standpoint that they have been able to speak in as inspired a
Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVI: The Great Initiates
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investigations of the present approach us, then one often speaks of
the human being he was placed so to speak, by the hand of nature on
speak and think self-consciously, is a new impact in his aura, caused
just as one speaks of lungs which resemble to wings. The two-petalled
lotus-flowers. I would like to speak only of the 16-petalled and the
Such a great initiate like Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
ideal, he speaks out of the knowledge of the human nature, and he knows
to light up again, so to speak. In times of very distant past this lotus-flower
Now I still want to speak
he speaks of a sounding in the spiritual world that he speaks of a luminescence
so to speak, in this sensuous world. One must not misunderstand this.
can call I. Therefore, the Jewish secret doctrine also speaks of the
world-self. He speaks out of this world-self. He is allowed to say the
as a nature initiate as one also speaks of a nature poet. There are
were able to speak so enthusiastically like Goethe. But you also find
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from the aesthetic point of view, but from the world view I might speak
had to be felt once like a hollow skin. One speaks mostly of personality,
is fulfilled with individuality, one speaks of it least of all because
If, hence, the 19th century talks of mysticism, it speaks of something
speaks from Ibsen's dramas: we must appeal to the human personality,
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world thereby becomes that sounding world of which Goethe speaks and
human being as a personality, we can control him: if we speak of general
duties and rights, we speak of the personality. If we speak, however,
may be said. If I speak here, the word fills the airspace. The oscillations
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longer speak so familiarly and intimately to our contemporaries. Hence,
There Schiller speaks of death in such a way, as if this is no completion
speak vividly for themselves in nature. I see, Schiller says, the chrysalises
he was no longer on Kant's point of view. Kant speaks of the duty
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any dogma, then they knew how to speak intensively to the hearts. They
he handles it. Then he speaks in such a way, as if he himself had participated
pupil, disciple and successor he is. He speaks out of their spirit and
one could once not speak of. Now we could go back to the oldest times.
by these modern ways of thinking. With somebody who speaks today about
Hence, we cannot speak about
also speaks to us today that once spoke with the announcement of the
he can speak again lonely in the heart with the spiritual heart of the
will forge ahead and find the popular expression. The spirit speaks
wishes that wisdom may flow into those who are appointed to speak to
welcome the day with pleasure when one speaks of wisdom in the sites
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life. If one speaks possibly of the theosophical movement that it has
with our economists, look around with those who write or speak in the
the conceivably biggest circumference. It is hard to speak popularly
life if you have exercised psychology. I do not want to speak of the
suggestion by the speaker works on the listeners. And the listeners
I wanted to speak only about
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of his time also speak to us from his paintings. He called the external
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And here I may say that I should hardly have dared to speak my
universe when I speak about Haeckel; for anyone acquainted with
will understand that I speak here without prejudice, for I
intense sensation, and became, so to speak, a gospel for
of which we are speaking. We call this epoch of materialistic
results of Haeckel's research constitute, so to speak,
world of spirits, he speaks of these sounds:
hardly known; and when our opponents speak of it, he who
primeval ages of which materialistic science speaks do not
speaking, we may say that the soul "selected" a
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Speaking about the subject: Haeckel, the Riddles of the
right. However, it seems to be a necessity for me to speak once
not dare to speak so impartially today if I were an adversary
peculiar position if I speak about Haeckel.
arguments. I may be allowed to speak impartially because I
so to speak, a Gospel for humanity at that time. Matter and
only at the time of which we speak. We call this epoch of the
Haeckel's research results establish, so to speak, the first
possibility to start. The sensory consciousness does not speak
I speak about that in detail in my ninth talk about the
part, he speaks again of this sounding, "in these sounds
opponents speak of it, someone who knows it notices immediately
the primeval times of which the materialistic science speaks do
mammals, with the great apes. However, one cannot speak about a
speak to Faust characteristically:
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of spiritual science. I could demonstrate examples speaking
facts speak distinctly and will speak more and more distinctly
we speak of a single animal species in spiritual science, we
speak of it like of a single human individual. An animal
There we have to speak not only of peace, not only establish
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practical life. To-day we shall not speak of the events that
which speak very clearly, but you can read them in the
the facts speak clearly and will speak more and more clearly
When we speak of a single animal-species in the theosophical
conception, we speak of it in the same way in which we speak of
souls, or in sex. But if we were to speak of a struggle for
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unscientific in certain circles to speak about the human soul
if one speaks even about the mind or spirit besides the soul.
touch with his hands. For if the human being speaks about his
life, he speaks very seldom about his bodily appearance
perceptible to the senses. Then he speaks about his destiny,
world. One normally speaks from the immediate view. Envisage,
speak of the fact that the mental streams into the body. A
him a theosophist — speaks about the sleep, when the soul
third thing about which we have to speak is the mind or spirit.
this drop of water. Briefly speaking, you are not contented to
speak sounding round him, say their innermost names to him,
initiated into such a hearing of the world speaking of the
the sounding sun. However, no, he speaks: "In ancient
so to speak, completely in the soul. It does not create
to speak, in his inside. However, the human being emerges again
it; we shall still speak of these methods. Then you also see
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spiritual-scientific worldview does not speak in the same sense
philosophers, religions et cetera, and it speaks of a
Indeed, in the same sense in which Haeckel speaks about this
cannot speak about this matter out of its experience. I have
know that my words I speak here are carried away by the
soul. While I am speaking here, this whole airspace is filled
speak here makes an imprint on the medium around us also the
vividly. Hence, the Nordic legends also speak of
a god who speaks to us in the clouds, in the waves, in the
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at first, does this speak convincingly to my sensation,
speak of the scientific laboratories and astronomical
observatories as research sites, in the same sense we speak of
sent from there to the various peoples to speak to them in
strange culture of the Chinese. I do not speak about the
in India and China, but I would like to speak of the remains of
One did not speak in this religion of a transcendent god at
all, one did not speak about anything that is beyond the world,
times than today if one speaks of the word.
speaking of the Veda, of the Logos, and later of the Word. The
it. Buddha did not speak out of his imagination but out of his
of these hundred lives as the human being speaks of one life.
speak no longer about the experience of the sensuous world, but
central site. It speaks again from experience about the matters
those speak in such ways who do not have the will to listen to
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is our task today to speak about two soul contents, one of which is a
narrow." One, so to speak, looked into one's brother or sister
speaking of abstract things if they talk about folk-spirit or
then speak or act as a member of such a community there speaks or
what fight one talks about because one speaks in today's life about
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is our task today to speak about two soul contents one of which
Hence, the spiritual scientist does not only speak of abstract
things speaking of the folk soul or of the folk spirit, of the
and I repeat once again, I do not speak of anything figurative
we harden and strengthen our organs. If we act or speak then as
speak in us, but the spirit of the community. This is the
which struggle one speaks, because one speaks in life generally
nobody regards that as wrong. Indeed, we speak a lot of the
the other speaks, than to interrupt him. This gives a
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Of course, he who speaks as
united with my fellow men; the one speaking to me out of higher
human being, that he need only allow his inner man to speak and the
assertion. Just try to let your inner self speak, and you will
self is making an appearance, it is the lower self that speaks. The
to speak about these again in order to add the higher concepts. It
however, we will speak again about further and deeper things. I
then he sees the other side of existence, so to speak; then
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anybody who speaks of occultism establishes any general human
course, someone speaking that way as I do today knows exactly
uniform being with my fellow men, then is that who speaks to me
his inside speak and the highest truth is revealed. —
once to let his inner human being speak, he will see that as a
rule his lower self speaks, even if he imagines ever so much
outside world and he must regard an experience, which speaks
Thus, you see that I had to indicate — we have to speak
intimate to speak about them with others, every soul has to
speak again about the other and deeper matters after Christmas.
other side of existence, so to speak, then that presents itself
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We live in the midst of her and are strangers to her. She speaks with
Here also the Ravens are the messengers. Even the Old Testament speaks
love of which Goethe speaks in the Hymn to Nature I have quoted, when
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intentions of those — we are allowed to speak as
live in the middle of her and are strange to her. She speaks
being like the modern materialistic thinking where he speaks to
ravens be again the messengers. Even the Old Testament speaks
need to speak of spiritual science, if from all pulpits
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that it would never have occurred to me to speak about the core
Indeed, there are many for whom you can speak today. However,
human beings to whom one has to speak differently. It does not
but on the facts. If you observe this and let not speak what
you do no longer speak to many people. To those one has to
speak in a new form. They are those to whom the spiritual
scientist speaks.
However, spiritual science has not only to speak to those. It
will also speak to those who remain in full Christian
which speaks to us by the world of the facts. We have to submit
three and a half days, they were dead, so to speak, they came
of initiation speak of a renewal of the whole human being. One
Christianity. If one speaks of the fact that in Palestine the
Christianity, we have to consider that Christ did not speak
Then He speaks again to us, then He shows us that He is there
something higher speaking. We are able to become citizens of a
The disciples, in the most intimate sanctum, speak here about
tell anybody that I come again? That is, until I speak again to
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speak today. There are indeed still other explanations of
Spiritual science speaks of the fact that the human being
finer, more intimate things in the human being. We speak of the
basic being, that it is of triple nature. We speak of the fact
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Persian legend speaks of two contrary divinities, of Ormuzd,
speak about Lucifer in the sense of this knowledge as that who
that leads us to bygone times of human existence, so to speak,
completely when we speak about the evolution of the planets.
worldview, we also speak about this starting point of human
evolution, but we speak of an evolution that leads us back to
to speak, with and among the physical realms in the world. If
religion, also the Bible speaks of these beings. It speaks of
the Christian mysteries of the Middle Ages we speak that the
superstition, to speak of developmental stages of such
speaking of developmental stages of the human being. The gods
speak of gods and luciferic powers, of the divine and of the
luciferic principles in us as the physicist speaks of
so to speak, to further its existence. Imagine only once that
escaped, so to speak, to a higher realm, to the plant realm,
interest in the human realm — if we want to speak here
Christianity — speak of the fact that God or the gods are
founds states. In this love, which appeals, so to speak, the
that which lives in Lucifer is closer to him, so to speak, is a
As well as Schiller speaks of it:
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We still have to speak something about this chapter in the next
Goethe speaks while he lets his Faust begin with the
Dionysus disciples did not only speak of the god, but lived the
who know a little bit about it speak of the forces that one
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speak. Then they have already attained, while they are still in
which I was speaking already last time in the talk on Lucifer.
sentence, which, so to speak, penetrates all worldviews as a
about which we still speak in the talk of 19 April. Who has
look goes back to those times when one speaks of figures, as
middle, so to speak, in Greece. We can see that two quite
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Novalis speaking about mathematics. However, you can only take
Fichte could speak of a special spiritual sense because he was
and speak to them of colours and light. Either you talk to them
Schubert speaks of a pre-being of the soul; he also discusses
regard it as Christian. However, he speaks of a pre-being whose
self-knowledge and self-development. Novalis knew how to speak
particular also because of that which nature speaks to him. He
was allowed here to speak about Goethe, Herder, and Schiller
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and, so to speak, related with Wotan is destined in his youth
need to be the case with the artist. One speaks so easily of
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Eight days ago I was allowed to speak to you about the esoteric
we speak of the possibility of development of humanity, it is
speaking has arrived at the third stage of the path of
Spiritual science speaks in another way, but what it lets
understand how the peoples and times speak in these single
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from Kolchis. The Christ Jesus speaks of himself as the Lamb
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Today, I would like to speak again to you about inner
one speaks of the fact that the usual human being lacks the
theories that speak of certain cerebral parts only. Even if
connected with the world inside where one can only speak of
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with the personality about which we want to speak today quite
delivers the basic tableau, so to speak, from which this
Paracelsus speaks of something concrete: "That is why you
does not express himself in such a way that he speaks of the
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sophist reproves him" if he speaks of the beginning of
clear in their mind about what Jacob Boehme means speaking of
then. Boehme does not speak of a fantastic primeval nebula, but
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here about the social question, today we want to speak from a great
Spiritual Science should speak about this question in the same way as
not really speak of the women's question in general at all, because
are speaking of things which must follow from the very nature of
were, I would still ask you: who is in the position today to speak in
science in its speculations already speaks a little of that which
the faith based on the testimony of the Initiates who speak from
spiritual-scientific sense, we speak of a second body of man's being.
designated by St. Paul as the spiritual body. We speak of the
sensation (Empfindung) of pleasure or pain, for one cannot speak of
external. One can only speak of sensations when the outer stimulus is
This domain of present-day physiology, which speaks of a body of
speaks of the third body of the human being, the astral body. Man has
purely human. Theosophy does not speak of the genesis and development
Goethe speaking from the depths of soul, once said, 'The
speak of the Eternal-masculine in the feminine nature. Then true
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want to speak about the question of the women's rights from the
science speaks about the question of women's rights in the same
Briefly speaking, the assessments fluctuate in every direction.
the question of women's rights constitutes today. One speaks of
should not speak, actually, of the question of women's rights
have the view today that one speaks, actually, of matters that
Modern science already speaks speculating about something that
which rests on the testimony of the initiates who speak about
speak of the second member of the human being. We find the same
body. We speak about the etheric or life body. A certain sum of
A plant feels no joy and sorrow, because one cannot speak of
external. One can speak of sensation only if the external
experience. This part of modern physiology, which speaks of a
impulses, desires and passions begin, one speaks of the third
itself "I," speaking with itself in such a way as
beyond the genders, the purely human. Theosophy does not speak
being as a woman in themselves. They speak about it in the
the same time. One will no longer say when one speaks of things
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speak of the social question in the sense that our time must
spiritual research speaks of many facts, for example, of the
speak once about this subject just to show how spiritual
human work speaks from such a sentence. We have a man before us
does not attain the ability to look, so to speak, behind the
speak here about views that the spiritual investigation has
about the various fields of life. We were able to speak about
this and that of its teachings. However, we will not speak
a certain result, and about this result, I want to speak
Hence, we do not speak only about a spiritual point of view,
phenomenon of any development. I would like to say, speaking
once how within the widespread socialism one speaks of
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to whom the Bible and religion no longer speak. But modern
basis that will speak to the most erudite and also the
investigators, people who can speak about the supersensible
could still speak on the
as natural science, it would speak to the human soul and
spiritual science speaks. The supersensible is not treated as
speaks about the supersensible. I have often made clear by
science speaks, the situation is exactly the same.
who relates many specific details. He speaks about what
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that about which, so to speak, the real fight must be waged, when it
speak, in order to bring about at that height what was to be
body, and may therefore indeed speak of the 'boundaries of
things, you will no longer speak of the 'boundaries of
divine nature, is enabled to speak. Here, then, begins that which can
expression in the body of man. I shall have to speak in similes in
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not that of which natural science speaks. The life body or
ether body, and will no longer speak of "limits of
one who speaks it: the little word "I." No one
we speak of the physical body in a spiritual-scientific
the human body. I shall have to speak in similes if I am to
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suffering and unspeakable pain can be connected with a completely
Spirit in them. We speak of a rebirth of the Spirit which has flowed
in the outer world in a certain way. We speak of the Form, of the
of Consciousness which appears within the Life. So we speak as of
must be reflected inwardly. Only then can we speak of the first
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exist, that unspeakable pain can come about in a life without
speaks of a rebirth of the spirit which, having flowed into
a certain form. We speak of material form, of life that
the living form. Thus, we speak of the three stages: physical
only then can we speak of the lower form of consciousness,
generally speaking from a unity in humans must separate; a
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is characteristic of the whole of modern literature that it speaks so
speaks of cruelty, destructiveness, but one cannot call the animal
earth-existence. One should not speak therefore of the lower
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with evil. In the animal kingdom one can speak of ferocity
consequently, we ought not to speak of a person's physical
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expresses the fact that what speaks is the soul's primordial
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ever solve. People who speak thus have no idea how arrogant these
is not so fortunate as the other sciences as to be able to speak in a
understand that when speaking of illness and death a distinction
essentials we shall be speaking about men, and other things will be
Today we shall speak
his being together out of nature. Strictly speaking, everything in us
it is a mystery how anyone can speak as if it could work in the body
brought to mankind by spiritual science. Today this may well speak to
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People who speak like that have no notion of the arrogance
other sciences, spiritual science cannot speak in such an
characteristic. In the main we shall speak only of human
strictly speaking, only these organs that come into being
speak, mainly from the physiological viewpoint, about the
it as something that speaks only to the intellect, but if the
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name is actually misleading; one cannot speak of the spirit
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speak of spiritual diseases Further, the greatest errors have
speaks of illusions of grandeur, persecution, religious mania,
Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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throughout nature. Strictly speaking, it is only a human
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obtained. That is why religion speaks of the ordeal by fire
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We shall speak
initiation is revealed to him; to speak in Goethe's sense:
speak. The power to recognize the great World-Self is
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that to speak about an artist from a particular
would have thought of it before speaking. It must be borne in
able to speak. The artist lives and creates according to
be made that Wagner did not speak about things that will be
people, educated and uneducated alike, speak of mysticism as
Although history does not speak of it, his vision was true
also speaks when showing that everything in the world
aware that even natural science speaks of an Atlantean
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godlike within human beings must speak. It begins to speak in
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Someone who speaks about occult science
so easily that people come running if one speaks about
which we want to speak in the course of the winter.
it at all to speak of any supersensible world, any invisible
home because you do no longer have the right to speak of
talents and capabilities and, hence, he is not allowed to speak
is impossible. — Someone who speaks in such a way assumes that
disadvantage. This also does not speak against the validity of
in general? We shall see if we speak of the dangers of occult
three ways to the supersensible world gradually. If I speak of
can never come out, however, about which we can speak in the
speak of the mission of occult science in our time, I should
speaks. However, what one does not regard is that already a
more detrimental. We still speak about such questions and facts
science. — Who speaks in such a way does not know the secret
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talk I do not speak opposing natural sciences. With the big
One speaks much of former
daring, the most adventurous superstition to speak of such an
of soul and mind from that, it excludes to speak of mind and
speaks his "ignorabimus:" we shall never know. — He
that forms the basis. Today, they are just speaking of liquid
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to the knowledge of spirit, and if one wants to speak about the
consciousness exists of the fact that one has to speak of soul
so to speak, the mind, and only since the (fourth) Council of
Constantinople (869/870), one speaks of body and soul. The
fields had the courage to pronounce what is, so to speak, only
spiritual science speaks of matter, material, and body, it
speaks of it in such a way as it speaks of ice and water. Ice
call etheric body or life body. If we speak of ether, it has
spiritual science speaking of an astral body. This is the third
manifestations of life in the plant. When do we speak of an
dilettantism. One is not allowed to speak already of soul or
upside down. One can speak of soul or astral body only if to
relation to the outer object, only there we can speak of soul
correctly: here the divinity speaks the first tone, the first
prepared with the animal. Because we will still speak of the
initiation. I speak about them in the next talks. We must hold
colour is, so to speak, compressed spirit, and the force that
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If one speaks of the
speak about such matters and say, "we" or
speaker concerned who wants to make himself the standard
in which he speaks of a special initiation of the
is elicited. In no other sense, we speak in spiritual science
speak of such extrasensory perception. Fichte says, if a
speaks in spiritual science of higher worlds.
existed. However, one did not speak about that publicly. What
such higher worlds pursued, so to speak, secretly? Why did one
not speak of it publicly in former times? We speak of the
one also speaks in a certain way at least in the elements how
Strictly speaking, all
speak, the pupil faces the teacher with that luminous eye which
to speak immediately of those principles of initiation which
cultures and about what we shall still speak you cannot see
that they live, strictly speaking, under suggestions, that they
those who speak in such a way have no idea of the conditions of
the principle, the method of initiation. What I speak in a few
happen, if I speak to you? What I speak are my thoughts at
ears of which also Goethe speaks who was deeply initiated into
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speaking now only of illnesses that originate within, not of
bone, an upset stomach, or a cut finger. We are speaking of
The facts speak loudly. Observe the animals that in our culture
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However remarkable it may be when speaking of the feverish
Thus it is that we cannot speak today in clichés as
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to say in what they consist. For where one speaks so much of
wants to speak of dangers in this field must differentiate
other hand, perhaps they would speak different.
one may also speak of that once publicly which gives cause,
speaks of it as little as possible and strives for it very
personality at first. Thus, it is once a phrase to speak of the
about the treasure seeker: he must be taciturn. If he speaks a
should be a strong light. Where one speaks of the so-called
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difficulties judging the animal and looking, so to speak, into
card. I do not want to speak of that man who asserts to have
can tempt us to speak of a very extensive intelligence activity
Nevertheless, they all speak for the same.
animal soul retained, so to speak, earlier than the human soul,
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attempts to speak about occupation and earnings. For many of
outset that strictly speaking such a reproach is even justified
so to speak, from the other.
so to speak, a piece of his soul to the products he
longer provide any moral impulse. Reflect once how one speaks
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would speak out of spiritual science on such contemporary issues
longer possible in the strict sense to speak of man and woman,
science speaks of how human beings strive after ever greater
this theory speaks pure nonsense to the human mind. Thus it declares
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careful thinker like Aristotle speaks of the fact that
scholars speak only reluctantly about that. For the physicist
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Speaking about the great ideals and about the determination of
only. Then it becomes dark, so to speak, if one wants to count
earth, so to speak, according to the documents that the
spiritual science farther than, so to speak, up to the point
observation and own experience, one can show, so to speak,
speak, the experimental evidence of an astral body that can
eyes" and no "spirit ears", to speak with
substance is included, so to speak, only between the pores of
human vocal organ. What is it capable of today? If I speak to
you what happens there? My words that I speak to you live in my
A human being speaks the word, and the word will be a human
originate by the word at the end, he will speak the word at the
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We could speak there of
which our spiritual-mental arises repeatedly. We speak in the
science what lies, so to speak, in the bed, from this essence.
speak, a perspective that needs not to be an immediate reality
from all that what chains him, so to speak, to the former
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surprised, and at least that who speaks about these matters in
such a way as I want to speak today if a big part of that what
almost the following. The human being speaks of any
not to those who speak in such a way, as I have indicated.
speaks in such a way does not know that this
to speak of repeated earth-lives that the human being enters
human being. We speak in spiritual science of the fact that
now if this light of the thought about which he then speaks as
world speaks to us in spiritual tones.
Those do not speak of these worlds who fight against wind mills
If one speaks in
spiritual science of the heaven, one speaks of it in this way
Thus, we speak of two
in his field where he speaks about physics, but he does not
suspect those details of which someone has to speak who really
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of the spirit. Today, there is hardly anybody who speaks about
about matter. If we speak of the soul, we are never allowed to
Spiritual science could speak of three human members, of body,
would be a mere quibble speaking of an astral body. However,
than the physical body. We see how in us today, so to speak,
spiritual organs in such a way. One can speak only of light and
develop and to form. So spiritual science speaks of the spirit
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on what they are meant to illumine. He used the phrase, speaking of
While he speaks from the heights of the spiritual world as
of his philosophy. We shall have to speak of this in the last two
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went, so to speak, against the younger man's grain that there
Fichte. Schopenhauer does not tire to speak about Fichte almost
— While Hegel speaks as a philosopher from the height of
research had, so to speak, another physiognomy. Even more than
the deep basis of his worldview. We have to speak about that in
tale at first, because it is not possible to speak about it
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point of view just described. It is not my task here to speak for or
factor, and letting the matter speak for itself. This exclusion of
speak of purification or catharsis, as it was called in the old
evoked, in so far as it cannot speak to mere concept capacity.
lead deeper into the nature of a thing, speaking however to other
only the nature of things to speak, so that he says: whatever
things something which can speak not to thought at all, but only to
thought possibilities, things which speak to one's soul and the
characterize every figure in it, I should have to speak not for three
to speak stationary: the mineral, the vegetable and the animal
When Goethe speaks of the sacrifice of the idea and the soul-material,
nature. When Faust speaks of his father, who was an alchemist, and
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ideation, and as if anybody who feels called, so to speak, is
forces lying in him? Spiritual science is as old, so to speak,
and let only speak the thing for itself. One has always called
thoughts from the influence of the personal, we speak of the
solely, insofar it cannot speak to the mere imaginative power.
the being. There is something in the things that cannot speak
things that speak to the soul and to the feeling. There are
speak about this fairy tale not for three hours but for three
There are three realms which are — so to speak —
of the things. Where Goethe speaks about the sacrifice of the
snake. After it experiences, so to speak, by symbolic processes
that the bronze king speaks to the young man: "The sword
nature. When Faust speaks about his father, who was an
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speak about the Old Testament first. For centuries, it was
themselves. The spiritual researcher speaks not about forces
Man. Spiritual science shows that Yahveh is that God who speaks
a palpable tip where the Bible speaks of the sensuous solar day
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speak of the simple man of Nazareth. Hence, he was never
ourselves, is it yet possible to speak about Christianity as
such under these conditions? Is it possible to speak about
it then possible to speak generally in the true sense of the
somebody who speaks in such pictures does not want to speak
of these three human members. The teaching of Moses speaks
speak, that God who was the last to come concerning the
speaking in the fourth verse of the second chapter of the
we speak in the sense of spiritual science, we speak about
it will seem absurd if one speaks about the nature of memory in
generations at that time, for centuries. As we speak today
recognise that only a materialistic prejudice can speak the
Christ, so to speak, spiritually from face to face and to find
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which I had to do. One could not speak at all with him, because
most scornful sense one speaks about all possible forms of
present that those who speak about superstition have no idea of
can also appear. Just somebody who speaks scornfully about the
where one does not speak at all of superstition, although the
human being. If speak of the weird idols, fetishes or
especially dangerous where it collides, so to speak, with
"silver" mean something else. If one speaks of the
behind, but only speak about the way of superstition.
direction in natural sciences that speaks of the omnipotence of
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much to take into consideration that I do not speak for
human organism? I speak only about the human being today, not
speak about these questions from a general human viewpoint
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which comes to somebody in mind if one speaks about health and
remedy against certain illnesses, so to speak, a remedy that
speak, a concrete example best of all. Imagine a human being
sensation. They advised him first, urged him, so to speak, to
to speak, just the point for itself to begin where the plant
speak more drastically, a lighthouse for knowledge can be to us
whole human being. That is the point. If we speak in such a
— Today, you get a lot of approval if you speak about the
that he has, so to speak, an indicator in his taste, in the
spiritual. The spiritual scientist is — if he speaks of
we do not want to speak about its logical or epistemological
value, we want to speak about its curative value.
fanatics of the external facts may speak about it ever so much
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spiritual science. Secondly — to speak in the sense of
the care of a relative who is, so to speak, the embodied love,
to speak, something that is obvious foolishness to the
death, who is generally able to speak about the meaning of
characterised, so to speak, his maturing soul and have seen
new principles would have to enter, so to speak, in the social
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have already spoken partly; we will have still to speak partly
reality and its principles. Indeed, if one speaks about the
one speaks about the practical development of thinking.
invention. Then he came back and said, he could speak the
talks when we speak about the invisible members of the human
plant. You could speak in the same sense of an ensoulment of
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speak today with any natural force. However, practical is only
(1794), he protests that none who speaks from such
Spiritual science speaks of these invisible members of the
adjunct of the visible, but it speaks just of the spiritual as
give you an example where, so to speak, with hands is to be
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or life-body predominates, we speak of a phlegmatic temperament. And
a deeper interest. These things should be allowed to speak to him, to
sense been tried by life, who act and speak on the basis of past
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speak, and imprints the mood into them. If the ego-bearer
life body prevails, we speak about the phlegmatic temperament.
a slouching gait. He does not tread orderly, so to speak, he
has a deeper interest in them. One must let these things speak
certain way who act and speak out of life experience. The child
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'The Prologue in Heaven' where God speaks with
speak in direct way of the real grandeur and meaning of these
'My sorrow speaks to an unknown crowd,
speaks out of such Eastern writings. It seems as if the gods
themselves desired in them to speak with men to express the wisdom
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the 7th September, 1783, in his youth, so to speak:
theory, as if anybody speaks about things that he has not yet
being. He is, so to speak, the regent of all natural human
Mephistopheles speaks there, in classically magnificent way,
Great, tremendous profundities speak from such Eastern writings.
It is, as if the gods wanted to speak to the human beings and
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Faust was to be taken. The words Mephistopheles was to speak as
He leaps and dances, speaks a tender word.
'I want to speak! Listen to me, all ye who
he who has professed evil faiths with his tongue. I shall speak of
has taught me. Whosoever will not hear His Words, as I speak them,
of Faust, when Mephistopheles speaks of the 'Mothers,'
re-incarnated?' We must keep in mind that a poet is speaking
this cottage. Here there is a last remnant of egoism which speaks
Next we meet those people who are, so to speak, the
souls into it. And then we see how Goethe lays down, so to speak,
where he speaks of the spiritual world from his own
exhortation to mankind, that when someone speaks of a thing in the
In such words could Goethe speak of the way to the
spiritual world. In such words could he speak of the powers of the
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should drop his mask, descend from his cothurns and speak a
understood. The words, which Mephistopheles should speak as a
speak, the thread of representation, even though something in
it also enough in that which he lets Faust speak in the first
have a bath in roseate dawn. Hence, the sage speaks, "Go,
speaks of the "mothers," Faust shudders. He knows
ties together, so to speak, spirit and body.
peculiar thing, originates, while, so to speak, the spiritual
that a poet speaks about what he has experienced in the
leaps, moves and speaks spirited words.
see outdoors in the physical existence, how, so to speak,
There we face those human beings first who are, so to speak,
way. Goethe speaks in his poem, which he titled
to speak, which characterises him as a relative of that
esoteric poem of Goethe where he speaks about his own
should mean which Wagner speaks there:
speak as wrong as all those people have spoken since Goethe,
Thus, Goethe could speak about the way into the spiritual
world. Thus, he could speak about the soul forces which —
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palpable. He lives, so to speak, separated like by a wall from
longer serve him, he cast it off, so to speak, he divests
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secrets of the world and knows what speaks through Isis and Madonna sees
been spiritual science through the ages has never been able to speak
to speak, of the spiritual and soul nature that once was his. We look
we gaze into man's being of soul, and speaking not merely in imagery
speaks of the human soul as the "eternal feminine" that draws us
Therefore in the true sense of spiritual science we do not speak only
have to speak for hours were I to give a picture of the masculine
and knows what speaks through Isis and Madonna sees in them something
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the spirit who is included, so to speak, in the forces and
contains, so to speak, the divine substance of all is
speak, the mother problem of the world faced Goethe when he
all times could not speak about a purely material development,
speak, to the present human being as water solidifies into ice.
today, we say to ourselves, the human soul is, so to speak, the
while we speak not only figuratively, but also really, we say,
beings. If one speaks about the kingdom of Osiris, it is not
see, so to speak, the last physical figure of a spiritual
Hence, one speaks, if one speaks in spiritual-scientific sense,
have to speak a lot about it if we wanted to represent an image
the world and knows what speaks through the Isis Madonna sees
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want to speak of that clairvoyant recognising which has led, so
to speak, our ancestors to their views that are overcome today;
have already mentioned that spiritual science has to speak
speaks of development in the usual sense, one usually means the
existence. Spiritual science speaks of the development of soul
so to speak, of every stage in later times, and we can see such
so to speak, with his whole being in his self-consciousness,
learns to speak and not the dog. This is connected with the
speak, the ghost before yourselves that which appeared as an
speak, the subconscious experience of seeing the Lore or Lur
his intelligence. The human being faces, so to speak,
Everywhere you see, so to speak, the gods becoming companions
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in the legends and myths which speak of goblins, elfin-beings, dwarfs
were to speak of the nature of the Mysteries and their Initiates in
which men were initiated in the regions of which we are speaking.
Epistles of one who was an Initiate or speaks with any truth of Paul's
Wolfram von Eschenbach speaks in his poem of the three stages through
another cycle of legends and sagas, but it is difficult to speak of
speaks of an ancient pair, "Flor" and
in this legend, of which it is only possible to-day to speak briefly.
Geheimnisse he speaks of a man who was led to a house and found on
instance when he speaks of the twelve gathered around the table
speak a mysterious language, the time has now come to speak openly
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this only in mysterious ways; but today it is the time to speak
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make up in some way a harmonious unity. We speak of a split in a man's
contrary to it or at least discrepant, we speak of a break in his character,
bespeaks his nobility and greatness, is torn with anguish, above all the
confessions which can speak to us as more than theories. He must devote
Consciousness Soul. Generally speaking, man has little power over his
its chief means of outer expression. Speakers who have the so-called
the heart. They are men who speak with passion and are not concerned with
example, there are popular speakers who thrust their thumbs into their
from being objective, they speak directly out of the Sentient Soul, putting
the formative forces that work into man's very bones would speak only of
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from the form it must take today. In speaking of the present, I naturally do
so to speak. From the 16th century onwards, the relationship between the soul
so to speak, from ascending towards the spiritual world, and preferred to
then, any rational grounds for saying that it is nonsensical to speak of a
but to follow the voice that speaks to him from spiritual depths, an
the senses. He feels that duty, the categorical imperative, conscience, speak
speaks to me, but I am weak; in the ordinary world I cannot carry out fully
today it is again possible not merely to proclaim the old, but to speak of
When we speak of
knowledge"; but we can also speak of "imaginative
been so, at all times. And if Spiritual Science is to speak to mankind in
a humanity which would never have understood the way it speaks today, for the
powers other than those needed for speaking to present-day
gone through by those who had to speak to the people in ancient times, led
it was proper for Spiritual Science to speak to the human soul through the
spiritual researcher has to speak of realms which are not far removed from
Science or occultism must therefore speak in a way that can be grasped by
relationship to the spiritual researcher; if he is to speak in accordance
with the demands of his time he must speak in such a way that every unbiased
researcher, for his part, should speak if he feels himself to be truly at one
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striving towards it. He speaks of truth as a distant goddess whom men may
kindle in himself a genuine sense of truth. Hence we cannot speak of a
paid; and so, strictly speaking, it is with all men.
account. He does not speak about himself, or ask what sort of opinions or
something which, fundamentally speaking, has nothing to do with the egoistic
before the world and speak of the future, he would say: "I hope for
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eternal-feminine, then we can speak of mystical union, and this is the
stronger and stronger, one can speak of it as a powerful impulse towards the
the reaction to reverence cannot itself be called reverence, we may not speak
ourselves in reverence. Thus we can speak of an Almighty in this sense, while
a true feeling for the meaning of words prevents us from speaking of an
love because it is to cover two objects. It is false to speak either of an
we may without misunderstanding, speak of the element which must
speaks. When Goethe speaks of the regions to which the higher reverence
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When we speak of
speak as follows: "Think of the plant, how it is rooted in the earth
sake of immediate gratification. The material of play is not, so to speak,
speaker, when he is talking about things not yet known to the student, has an
speaking of the etheric body, these people picture only the physical refined
beyond a certain point, and then they speak of etheric
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generally occur to us to speak of egoism in connection with the plant. It was
to expression in the plants could be called egoism. Normally, we do not speak
has in common with the mineral kingdom. We speak of higher members of his
strictly speaking, at one remove from actuality. The whole character of the
sense. Goethe himself speaks in this sense when he says, in effect: We can
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and the foundations of human existence. He would not speak of these.
He would speak only of the means by which mankind could enter into a
opposition to his own ideas, comes to Nagasena to speak with him
speak of an uninterrupted 'I,' in the true sense of the
of the carriage, and could now say, speaking of course, out of the
so to speak, from what is perceived, in order to surmount it and to
to Buddhism, we can speak of it as a 'religion of re-birth.'
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world and the foundations of our human existence. He wished to speak only
Buddhism from Spiritual Science, for Spiritual Science never refuses to speak
sets before King Milinda. The King speaks: "You say, O wise Nagasena,
no right to speak in any true sense of a coherent Ego which passes on from
then return to his parable of the chariot and might say, speaking now in a
Christian education, use them to attack, so to speak, their own mother. What
last traces of his earthly existence are extinguished, but speaks the great
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the soul's being." We shall be speaking here of the soul and its life,
come to speak of some of the humanly interesting characteristics of the soul.
soul-substance, so to speak. We must certainly not think of the soul
'unspeakable name' of that which cannot be designated from
been speaking of conscious work by the Ego. In the far-distant past, long
then we can properly speak of a righteous anger. No-one does better at
overcomes it at the sight of injustice or folly? Something within us speaks
speak of the mission of truth, we shall see how Goethe's thoughts on this
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comparatively recent past, people were inclined to speak of the moon as
the moon are such that it is hard to speak of an immediate relation of cause
we cannot speak of the moon at its meridian as having an actual influence on
picturesque way of speaking but deeply true to say that in the morning the
wrong, even taking only the external facts, to speak of a direct influence of
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character of a whole people speaking a common language is in a
Ego. And just as we may speak of three of the members of our being as
being products of the past, so may we speak of three other members
future. Thus we speak of a sevenfold nature of the human being,
therefore, we may speak of the sevenfold human being: the three soul
therein. We must speak of the existence of spiritual activities in
we speak of Group-Souls to-day in the animal world. The individual
moulds the nervous system. Therefore it is only correct to speak of a
speaking of the eye: "The eye has formed itself from the light,
to speak, a further elaboration of his organs of speech. The organs
When children learn to speak, we can continually observe
is a somewhat figurative way of speaking, but it expresses the truth.
It is a subconscious activity that has produced the speaking human
It has only been possible to speak of these things in
Fundamentally speaking, the whole Semitic language has been built up
give unsatisfactory indications, but it would be necessary to speak
prehuman artist, we shall also realise that when we want to speak or
living feeling for speech. To-day, if a man can speak at all, he
otherwise, so many people who can really hardly speak or write, would
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When we speak of
whole people who speak a common language is in a certain way dependent on
today we will try to illuminate aphoristically so to speak, in broad outline,
members of our being which derive from the past, we are able to speak of
work of our ego. We can therefore speak of the seven-membered human being by
being had an ego. That is why in spiritual science we speak of the human
seem strange that we speak of
experience can be observed with children as they learn to speak. One can see
indications for the simple reason that one would have to speak for two weeks
and fewer people, who can hardly speak and write, will embark on literary
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an ego, but we speak of the group-ego which directs the animal from outside.
With man, by contrast, we speak of an individual penetrating right into his
a speaker who calculates the effect his words will have on his hearers,
to understand. But there are also speakers who always want to get the laugh
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experience, and since I must speak quite objectively, with no bias one way or
speaking of the same thing — but they will have passed through
understand his personal background and so come to see why he speaks as he
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This speaks even more emphatically and definitely to us. In
speak these great and significant lines to
which all those speak who can understand prayer in its true
of view. I will speak bluntly, but there is good reason for
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still has within it a world of its own, so to speak. This world is always
speaks to us in even clearer and more emphatic language, since we are here
level. And the Lord's Prayer is not for speaking only. It can call
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descriptions that the astral body is only an outward fact, so to speak, for
internalised through the ego. This demonstrates that we can speak of an
reach out, so to speak, for our physical and ether bodies, but at night we
personalities of ancient cultures wanted to speak of certain things by means
not make any attempt at healing! To speak like that would not be in the
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definitions, roughly speaking. But if we inquire how these deeply rooted
soul passing from one stage of evolution to the next, and, if we are speaking
without any definite ideas or feelings; then he listens to a speaker who
may be affected not so much by the speaker as by the acclamation won from the
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speaking of error and start speaking of pathological mental
refer to the inner human being, we do not speak of a chaotic,
truth to another person and then has to listen to the other speak who is not
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to be heard in the concert of voices which speak of the great and fruitful
they are taken literally or metaphorically: "When conscience speaks in
the human soul, it is the voice of God that speaks." And one could
philosophers who speak of conscience in terms of the highest praise. One of
today. For when we say that conscience is a voice speaking out of a divine
virtuously. Conscience speaks with elemental power in the human soul and is
of virtue speak through his words? The reason is, that the ideas, concepts
Everything I have done speaks in my favour. But the blood of my mother is
great poet as he was, cannot yet speak of conscience itself, while his
successor, Euripides, does speak of it. With this development in mind, we can
it speaks to us in the form of a clear message. Popular consciousness says:
When conscience speaks, it is God speaking in the soul. The highest spiritual
consciousness says that when conscience speaks, it is truly the cosmic Spirit
speaking. And spiritual science brings out the connection between conscience
natural and right it is for the human heart to speak of conscience as
determine our direction and our goal. When conscience speaks, no other voice
conscience speaks in him, it is a God speaking.
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let art itself speak to us of its significance for mankind.
In speaking of human
speaking." Thus the Homeric poems are directly connected with primeval
philosophy of the Middle Ages speak from his soul. And for the development of
enabled each one of them to speak with a distinctive voice. Goethe creates in
when he refused to speak of the idea of truth and the idea of beauty as
they speak for humanity when the characters and revelations of their art give
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this custom also this year speaking about the meaning of the
speaks about "humanities" (German:
speaks of humanities, I want to speak here. If one speaks of
peoples and states. One probably speaks also of general ideas
ideas speaking of the forces, of that which guides the human
another sense, one speaks about humanities here assuming a
the human being is. One speaks about an existing spiritual
even speak a single word against it? However, this suggestive
ground to speak generally of the investigation of a spiritual
objectivity of the things speak if it concerns results of
personal faith were due to it, one could not speak of spiritual
does no longer speak but that now not sense-perceptible but
supersensible beings and forces speak for which his
necessary in order to reach the spiritual world where it speaks
healthy logic, in that what speaks as our healthy sense of
one normally speaks today of disproofs, are not so particularly
Hegel's philosophy. — I do not want to speak here about
speak, a deep impression on those who want to disprove Hegel
philosopher should be great who speaks such nonsense:
do you still speak about the spiritual beings that should stand
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dare not speak in the same way of the death of a plant or an
really speak of death, although no brain were there at all.
embarrassed in speaking of life at all, and when all life was
could only speak of the smallest parts of life as living on,
to-day is already attempting to speak of a sort of
wished to speak of the immortality of unicellular beings have
one cannot speak in the same sense of death in plants, as in
course, I am speaking here with the limitation which this
speak more exactly of this development in a later lecture).
write the biography of our pens! One could, then, even speak
species, there would be no history. One could then only speak
a cultural development. Therefore, natural science speaks of
instance. We speak of fatigue both in the animal and human
absurd to speak of the fatigue of plants. We can, therefore,
know, indeed, that I am speaking figuratively; but all the
become other than it is? Can we speak of an "Extension
Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Animal Soul
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When we speak of "soul" in the sense of spiritual
cognition. He alone can speak of knowledge in the real sense who says
self-contradiction referred to above. Therefore in speaking of
these worlds. We speak differently of "soul." We speak of
experiences spirit, creates out of the spirit. Thus we speak of the
form, it remains inwardly alive in the animal. And we speak of this
What do we really mean when we speak of "spirit"? We
organism. The spiritual investigator speaks of the astral body when
spiritual science we speak of a species — soul of the animal,
It is quite easy to say: How is it possible to speak of an animal
are many good reasons for speaking in this way. Once we have acquired
into what it is, and when we speak of the building of the organs we
are speaking of the spirit as it works in the etheric body. When the
the higher animals — it will be better to speak of the lower
after death returns again to the spiritual realms. Therefore we speak
experience that we may speak of a being in man who is not inherited
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man. Therefore we may not speak of animal soul and human soul by
When speaking of the
if obliged to grow up alone, would never arrive at speaking, nor
certainly possible to speak of this imprinting of life into the
saying that we are not speaking here of those spheres of the
not speaking here of word content — in the inner nature of the
the way in which they speak. In ordinary life we have often to
less subtle, I shall speak figuratively. Let us imagine that what man
spiritual end of man, so to speak, we have also the reverse side —
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Some philosophers could doubt about themselves, so to speak, if
they speak of the being of the soul and spirit, which reveals
Now one has to ask oneself only whether one speaks quite
speak as in general as one likes it today. If we speak of the
nature of sleep, we speak only of the sleep of the human being.
speak still about the sleep of the animals. Therefore, we want
to say in advance that I speak about the sleep of the human
human beings are able to speak of soul phenomena within
speak, his soul life, and he would become aware of this soul
clearly how, so to speak, the ego is overpowered by the mental
real own spiritual researches. Now I want to speak of the very
senses. Therefore, one should never speak — as in the
activity is limited, is reflected in itself so to speak, while
life; we destroy it perpetually strictly speaking. While we are
dream if one speaks of the fact that one recognises in these
at all. We have to speak as it were of a mysterious soul life
they are true. The spiritual research must speak of the fact
strictly speaking the entire rest takes place only one or one
time. One would have to speak about a certain kind of weariness
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through which man passed the moral law did not speak in him
To speak of
it would be wrong to reject the word chance when speaking
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of the world is made rather frequently. Even those who speak of the
spirit in objects, however, usually remain with speaking about the
spirit in general, i.e., they speak about the existence of spiritual
taken to those who speak not only of the spirit generally but of its
science, we should not speak about the spirit in the vague and
general way indicated today; rather, we should speak in such a way
science and then want to speak about 'the spirit in the realm
One cannot speak about
complete human organism. It is impossible, therefore, to speak about
astronomy, geology, or mineralogy — basically speaks about the
mineral element, of lifeless matter. Spiritual science may not speak
in this way. It can only speak in such a way that everything found on
to speak about how the origins of all life — including
this condition with human sleep. I will now speak of what appears to
lives in us astrally, if we speak from the viewpoint of spiritual
aware that we speak correctly only if we say that those beings who
speaking of the soul of an eye. Although a remark able linking of
remain caught within. If one speaks of a soul in the Venus fly-trap,
a soul can also be attributed to a mouse trap! We should not speak
immediately to speak of memory when a later event occurs as an effect
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to speak, shall lead to the region of the most impersonal, to
speaking about Goethe's specific way to the spiritual world
he had held in the winter 1874/75 where he speaks of that
today's considerations where Herman Grimm speaks of something
its longing. Therefore, if we speak of the ways which should
lead the human being into the spiritual world, and speak in
that one speaks to them about wholly outer means, for example,
operation. It could also be — I do not want to speak of
elements — so to speak, in their ABC — in my book
letting subjective feelings and sensations speak. The soul
can say strictly speaking, we cannot yet differ completely from
certain passage very clearly speaking about the sense
appropriate to speak more and more to the healthy sense of
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However, it is forgotten in the sense as we normally speak of
speaks out the basic positions of spiritual science. I have
often said, if one speaks in this sense of individuality, one
to take the things trivially one can also speak of the
human being which goes from birth to birth, so to speak, uses
speak of the soul as a uniform being which has thoughts,
longing for categorising and speaking many words. The
child can imitate in the first years what we speak, act and
aware of it; you can speak to his soul, but he himself cannot
logic could only speak if generally desires and instincts are
helps if you speak to a sick person who is in a certain
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become a single current of culture. When we speak to-day of the
spiritual world, did not speak in this abstract and vague terminology
have to speak of something which may appear extraordinary to-day to
antagonist of Ahriman, he said: "I will speak! Harken, ye who
Highest, the Primal One has put into my mouth. I will speak what
understands their meaning as I speak them will experience much evil
Leaders of whom we shall speak in these lectures, may be summed up in
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During this Cycle of Lectures I shall speak of
stream. When we now speak of entering the higher spheres, we
consider their forces as being, so to speak, condensed in man,
when it is alleged that Zarathustra, speaking of twelve
'I will speak! draw nigh and listen unto me, ye that come
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to-day. For we are now speaking of the days before the
his time is unspeakably important. But, for the moment, the
ought to go to the great book of Nature, which speaks so
it is he really meant. Thus, when he speaks of nerves, we
Aristotle speaks of the nervous system, he means the Etheric
had no idea that Aristotle was speaking of the Etheric
Nature speaks the Divine Spiritual. We men approach Nature,
is the fact that, if we would be consistent in speaking of
reproduce this language to-day, so that it will speak
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though the great questions about which we shall have to speak still
— a conception which takes us back, so to speak, to an age of
so to speak, as a witness of the oldest times of our earth.
He held that, generally speaking, nothing that we are able to observe
make its watery origin less apparent today. Everything, so to speak,
not to a primeval state in which the earth was, so to speak, dead matter;
ground formation of our earth is, so to speak, only the one stream,
speaking, the distribution of water and land, the formation of
Spiritual science lets the spiritual facts speak for themselves and
science speaks of what it has established by its own methods: the two
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his knowledge by speaking of it as a renewal of the wisdom given to
being." The modern anatomist would speak of the two entrances
Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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in the soul of a man (as when he speaks of experiencing the
at midnight, for, metaphorically speaking, he may at all times
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speak, can only be understood if this spiritual origin of man's
could be two focal points in a balance. Eastern wisdom speaks of a
to his own weakness and speak of "boundaries of
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speak of this condition we must use a negative, an indefinite,
Now, regarding Buddhism, and speaking in an
Buddha will of a verity be the last.' Speaking of that
wrong to speak of that event which gave rise to what we term the
speak of a repetition of the Christ-event as it would be to
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actually. Hence, we speak, if we speak about him, about
spiritual science. This makes it difficult again, so to speak,
human development, so to speak, a certain mission is assigned.
speak, a period is assigned to such a mission. If this period
speak, for the concerning national mission. What is included in
speak, the point in time at which a new mission should replace
concepts which we have today. Today we speak of the human soul
has, so to speak, no suitable organ to realise that those
clairvoyant documents talk. For Moses speaks a new language,
has to lead your people. — From it something speaks by
We learn to recognise what, so to speak, the world spirits
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Moses, or to the great patriarch himself, we speak as if we were
starting with our current ideas as a basis. We speak in these
'receptacle', so to speak, for the coming content. It
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also something that speaks in spite of any abstractness and
the starry heaven, which speaks so deeply to our mind if we
molecular and atomic things would approach, so to speak, more
speak, as the stone which falls to the earth is controlled by
stages how, so to speak, a planet goes through developmental
natural sciences have shown this. — Those speak that way
not quote Darwin who says there, we are daydreamers if we speak
what Schiller means speaking to the astronomers:
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At that time about which we are speaking the
indeed, we can speak of progress in connection with the
souls can be implanted the germ, so to speak, of those things
am speaking, the actual bearer of the spirit of Elijah was a
his whole soul-state which had become, so to speak, fully
While speaking of
parable form, when speaking to all who could not understand or
Naboth who was speaking, and that it was he who would turn the
Elijah the prophet speaking through Naboth that answered
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yet man had been unable to receive. The Gnosis, then, speaks of this
the spiritual life of the present day. When one speaks of a
Since we are speaking of such recent occurrences, it is only
Christian soil, these biblical documents simply do not speak of the
forced to the conclusion that the documents do not speak of a man
significance when one speaks of a God at the starting-point of
is that the biblical documents are speaking of a God — whom,
historical science is that it speaks of 'historical ideas,'
were, so to speak, the ritual of Initiation. When we compare such
Ego; for through my own Ego God speaks to me. In
my ordinary consciousness He speaks to me when I rightly understand
Temples. But above all the God speaks to me when I have made of my
The entrance of Divine consciousness that speaks through
speak to man through the Ego kernel, just as it had spoken to
consciousness that the Divine-Spiritual speaks to the soul-sheaths
even when the Godhead speaks of Himself, as "Ejeh asher ejeh"
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Nazareth, we must speak of a Deity; but this same period and same
records speak of a Deity, but it knows of naught else to do with
is, that it actually speaks of historical ideas as if
deepest life-centre has always been, so to speak, near at hand,
forth as a grand historical event. But especially does God speak
awakening of the Divine consciousness which speaks through the
Spirit which even now speaks through the Ego, when man has indeed
speak through the deep centre of man's being, the
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If one speaks of a science of the
materially imagined ether which one regarded, so to speak, as a
speaks of it so that it makes your blood freeze in your veins
once speak leads away from the thought. Materialistic science
talk, I speak about the topic how the human being can attain a
will say that the usual cognitive forces — if one speaks of the
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If I speak about death and immortality
between birth or conception and death. Then one speaks of
ourselves. Spiritual science is just forced to speak not only
corporeality. Hence, we speak in spiritual science of repeated
speak, where our life directly finds the
speak about death in a later talk that has a quite different
cannot yet speak; then we see the forms becoming more and more
bodily, so to speak, as a spiritual, the developing elements of
Today we stand strictly speaking only at
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which we have been speaking in previous lectures and shall speak in
history can speak with authority, it will not be possible to ignore
teachings of Spiritual Science, I must speak in a way which will
speak of certain facts that can be collated by observation, as truly
sense-image. When he speaks of Saturn and Mars,
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definitely shows what that boy Paracelsus let speak to himself
something from the way everywhere — to speak with
nature is a uniform, but she speaks in many languages, and just
speaking. That is why he said that one could not learn anything
nature speaks out of him, he said, the kingdom is mine.
Paracelsus. We feel this, when Faust speaks to the spirit of
this happens at once, while he speaks to the sublime spirit of
connected with nature, or to speak with Jacob Böhme
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connection with what we consciously think, feel or will. In speaking
all that relates to the senses and the brain? Have we reason to speak
evident there too that they could speak only things he had experienced
the soul. These hidden depths often speak quite a different language
Title: Lecture: Good Fortune Its Reality and Its Semblance
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Rudolf Steiner speaks as follows concerning the character of this privately
that it might be quite impossible to speak of fortune or misfortune if a
we shall hardly venture to speak of fortune or misfortune in connection
indeed, we cannot deny that we have something similar when we speak of
circumstances either leave him indifferent or impel him to speak directly of
misfortune. But unless we are speaking merely symbolically, we cannot,
without falling into a fantastic vein, speak of the ill-fortune of crystals,
comes to life. We feel that to be justified in speaking of good or bad
speaking of human life, we soon notice a limit beyond which we can no
longer speak of fortune at all, in spite of the external forces by which man's
speak of misfortune when we see a great martyr who has something
authorities. Are we justified in speaking of misfortune in the case of
there is something in the man himself which makes it impossible to speak
at every turn it projects us, so to speak, from the outer world into the inner
and weaves in his environment. In reality a man speaks of good fortune
contrary, when he speaks of good or bad fortune he means in the deepest
poet. At the time of which I speak he was writing a play. This play would
everyone knows that a man can, indeed, speak correctly only of something
had perhaps to spend almost all his life as a common soldier. I am speaking
existence. What is it that fails to happen? Why can we not speak here of good
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tried so to speak to visualise in the outer phenomena of the
The time about which we speak now is also a
just a dreadful famine was there. If we can speak of a progress
speak, in the souls to work in such a way that one does not
can speak in me in right way that I appropriate the abilities
with which the religious documents speak to spiritual science,
speak, before a kind of fateful question. At this moment, he
This is a spiritual experience. He hears, so to speak, from the
regions where the spirit of Elijah speaks to him say to
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still animal, bodily life where it does not make sense to speak
speak, an appearance for this worldview, a mock substantiality
still undeveloped shrivelled brain, so to speak, and a figure
cannot speak of the fact that the human being has developed
hypothetical forms, so to speak, for the naturalists. This goes
stop once in this primal time, so to speak, that there the
transferred, so to speak, more and more to heredity, and the
Title: Lecture: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science
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will be today still less easy to speak about the origin of the animal
struggle for life and in adaptation to the surrounding, so to speak,
has proved his legitimacy, his qualification for speaking about
to speak of something lifeless in an absolute sense. He says we have
developments in recent mental life can show us — so to speak —
speaking of these original forms of life in such a way that he
the first to speak about the natural development of living beings to
speaks he to whom one appeals today — quite rightly —
when one speaks about the doctrine of evolution. But at the same time
Kant-Laplace's theory; unless we had, so to speak, to take up
comparatively speaking, in sleeping man a living organism, and
seized by the formative principle. Therefore, when we speak about
crystals, we can speak today not yet about life, but only recognize a
to speak, taking up the nonliving, which it had previously separated
present in the earth atmosphere as mist. We can absolutely speak
today, was non-existent — and we must speak about mists and
the conditions, so to speak, in such a way that they really could no
present themselves to us so that we need to speak about a special
differently in olden times. Thus we can speak very well about the
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not yet embody itself, so to speak, in the outer material form.
directly take up from the spiritual world. Gnosis speaks of
already given to us, so to speak, in its elements if a special
Beside that what one, so to speak, told as
speak, historically what should have taken place at the
speak at all of a "human being" Jesus of
and have sense only if one speaks about a god at the starting
discovers, if one wants to speak about Jesus of Nazareth, that
one has to speak about a god. However, it is the same time and
only that the biblical documents speak about a god, but it can
what history still soars is that it speaks of historical ideas,
as if, so to speak, outer abstract ideas intervene in the
perceived the spiritual world; this was, so to speak, the
speaks to you through your ego. He speaks to you for the usual
in the depths of the mystery temples. However, God speaks to
consciousness that speaks through the ego is the being of the
he becomes independent of all earthly conditions speaks through
should speak through the ego to the human being, like that what
consciousness existed that the spiritual-divine speaks to the
speaks of itself as "ejeh asher ejeh" — "I
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Today one speaks of the fact that the human
that it would be quite impossible to speak of the animal
animals prevailing with which we cannot speak of the fact that
because they recognised that one can generally only speak of a
speak only that way after this spiritual world had disappeared
always recognises that the old myths and legends speak of gods,
logic. As even today the child learns speaking, before it
learns thinking, humanity learnt speaking before thinking. From
yet allowed to speak of that now which still exists in the
spiritual heights, so that we can speak again of a spiritual
humanity, which, indeed, he did not yet speak out of the
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speaking only the outer tradition of Aristotle remained the
Ages had, so to speak, only for that more talent which one can
becomes more difficult to the human beings, so to speak, in one
directly to the action of Copernicus. Strictly speaking, this
consciousness of it still speaks of the human being as composed
wait. It waits while speaking to those who understand already
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to speak, to the phenomena of life, must be able to bring the
the parts. Looking only at the external phenomena it is easy to speak
to preserve a completely open mind, one might speak of that death
To speak, then, of
amply shown by Huxley himself when, in those pages where he speaks of
existence? How are we to picture, so to speak, the birth and death of
speak of the effect of poison with reference to organic activity, we
fatigue; one would have to speak at great length to analyze these
is in the season from autumn to spring. Hence, we cannot speak of a
and as we do not speak in this connection of the death and birth of
our thought world either, if we wish to speak correctly, should we
speak of the life and death of plants. We should keep the whole earth
to speak within us — all that we have experienced back to a
individual animal form. We could only speak of a real death in
to what we call the human will nature — if we then do not speak
clashes, so to speak, with external life, and becomes conscious of
reference to death we could only speak in the plant world of a waking
really speak of death only when we are referring to what we may call
this reason we cannot speak of a true death with reference to other
beings. As regards man, however, we must speak in such a way that not
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like to stress from the start that this talk wants to speak on
if one speaks of self-education, one means, of course, that
If one has really to speak of
self-education, it is a given that one cannot speak as one has
if one wants to speak spiritual-scientifically about
Speaking of self-education we maybe can get
being gets beyond his personal and can stay, so to speak, with
already to speak with the education of the child that except
world. I said, now someone could state, so you speak against
to speak, we take charge of our will-education in certain
If we speak about these questions, a newer,
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Race'. He speaks there of reincarnation, of the
related to this enduring point, we can no longer speak of
Hence, we cannot with truth speak of permanence in connection
possible for anyone to speak of the ego, not by focusing his
our own inner life; it would indeed be impossible to speak at
Spiritual Science goes on to speak in more detail about life
Buddhism to see how modern Spiritual Science, speaking from an
Although they both speak in a similar way of Reincarnation
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him, because he believed to be able to speak of the
working spirit as to Goethe which conjures up, so to speak, the
to the result that strictly speaking in this physical
facts demand to speak no longer as simply as Ernst Haeckel once
forms and plant forms to construct, so to speak, a pedigree of
from the spirit. We realise that, so to speak, in Gobineau a
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speak, of the age and the surroundings. We see, for instance,
can, to be sure, speak of a "dream dreamed in the waking
as an apprentice and often had to stand guard, so to speak, in
so to speak. Thus a pre-earthly occurrence appears for Jacob
speaks out of the souls of the human beings in the forests of
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when he speaks of "the Education of the Human Race" assume
Then we can truly speak of an "Education" which the human
What we speak of today as the "inwardness" of the soul when
of Raphael. Grimm speaks of the picture called "The Marriage of
then to Florence, then to Rome. Fundamentally speaking, his life ran its
whence the being of man proceeds. Speaking figuratively we cannot but
is that if we study the literature of those who speak of the experiences
And even if the inner being of the human soul speaks somewhat haltingly
or was speaking those uplifting, godly words to Christian devotees,
have been able to speak with the same fire that is later found in Savonarola.
depth, cannot but realize what it is that speaks from those wonder-works
exist no longer; yet in spite of this Homer speaks to us through his
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whom I was able to speak here last time, attempted to trace
really speak of an education the human soul undergoes in
things and sensory observation as, so to speak, two worlds.
spiritual fire, so to speak, though of a quite different kind
approach of the human being. To speak metaphorically, we must
Something was now to speak to humanity, not as had the external
in which Christianity is able to speak
the whole Christ tragedy within itself, in speaking its words
such extended feelings to comprehend what speaks to us out of
Greek spirit speaks to us.
originals. Even so, Homer's poetic works speak to us. But, what
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reasons why it would seem a somewhat risky enterprise to speak about
in speaking about it all; nothing else will do to describe these
early mankind's primitive clairvoyance; we will speak further about
speak about it now — possibly on another occasion. During this
reasons, we speak about the earth — before its "earth"
only a piece of it; we can speak of an ancient sun-stage of the earth
sun moves across the sky — of course I am speaking of its
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connected with the speaker and who look up to Him so devoutly, after
before us to speak in detail of his paintings. If we absorb ourselves
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speaker, who look up to Him so reverently — we see all
not possible to speak about Leonardo's paintings in detail.
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against them. It is not possible in relation to this realm to speak
speaks of the experience of the Guardian of the Threshold.
mystics we find, when they speak of the "God within,"
he feels little obligation to test what he says, speaking rather of
which anthroposophy or spiritual science has to say when it speaks
speaks with a certain outer justification (not with a merely inner
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start because I want to speak about concrete facts. What
death. We still speak about that; today I want to indicate like
current of existence, so to speak. Not only this has to occur,
development about which I still speak in these talks. This idea
thinking speaks in such a case about self-formed wishes,
spiritual science; and one can hear someone speaking who has
his body on the market, as it were, but his soul if he speaks
goals of spiritual science generally. Wilson speaks in the book
bears in himself. To speak from the spiritual-scientific point
that one can be considered as the one or the other, one speaks
strength to speak about this spiritual research only because he
human soul for itself. The spiritual researcher who speaks of
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strictly speaking —
first childhood. The human being sleeps or dreams, so to speak,
worldview as correct that one regarded as right, so to speak,
theosophy speaks out of the sources of existence.
speaking, any barrenness of the soul, any pessimism, any
even if spirits of the past times could not speak about the
speak. It would have to lose the strength and dignity that are
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his soul, and speaks to his soul. Your soul is connected with
some people speak of the fact that the human beings advanced
is, so to speak, at first only a means to penetrate into the
only. You have to submerge in the things, so to speak, to come
development, I would like to speak of this climax of soul
human beings speak about something true in this aesthetic
founded in the human nature to speak about artistic truth in
healthy soul life to believe that the colour speaks only from
feeling speaks only from the soul that a divine-spiritual world
nature concerning the religious life. We come, so to speak,
If one wanted to speak, for example, about
abstractions and dilettantism which speaks of the equality of
dilettantism to speak about an abstract equality of all
categorical imperative can speak in the soul, duty can settle
which the human being does not live this imperative speaks to
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It is not easy in general to speak just
considering the fields about which it speaks in the strictest
and animal realms. I intend to speak about death of the human
were, so to speak, halfway of art, science, and religion, the
One often speaks of the fact that the
to speak about the latter another time. Suffering seizes the
speaks only with a certain melancholy and deep seriousness
— I speak
to speak. However, as spiritual researchers we must now have
to speak about all the other fields of life very brilliantly
spiritual science can speak about them. Since just that which
speaks about death as Maeterlinck does and says, he does not
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Today I would like to speak about the
consideration, I do not speak using conceptual definitions or
overcomes that impossible point of view where one speaks that
speak, within his physical body and uses this as tool to make
only of which the materialistic worldview speaks. These
pains, all memories strictly speaking; we are in them, are one
ones about which I will still immediately speak you learn to
speak in the area of spiritual research by inner consideration,
single listener if I speak this way about the meaning of human
being must die, so to speak, when he has experienced his life.
However, someone who hears speaking about the meaning of
I would not like to speak here abstractly.
to speak, the possibility to destroy the physical body, and
that human lives can also perish, so to speak, by
matters in words that lie, so to speak, beyond the usual life
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we cannot really speak of the philosophy of any earlier times.
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cannot speak about it as about something positive. However, if
become the most dreadful vices! Who can speak about education
Lotze objects to it that one cannot speak
world, while he stumbles against the things so to speak. The
aware of itself. There one cannot yet speak of the evil, but
characteristic, so to speak, of all human evil. In my last
would have to speak for many hours; but I only want to put it,
only. I pursue them also in the next talk where I speak about
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understand it? In such a way, that it speaks from another world
and cognition. Therefore, he speaks about a quite different
at all speak —
of such a world of which Kant was still speaking.
something speaks into the human nature that comes immediately
right which speaks about limits of knowledge in the sense as I
cognition about which I do not speak today; this is the
You know that spiritual science speaks of
moral impulses come which speak in the human soul?
from they speak. However, they are there and speak in such a
them. Where from does that come what speaks into the human
speak as impulses into the soul. The effects of that what the
this voice speaks in our soul, you shall not hate! What has an
to ourselves in the spiritual world, speaks into the life on
yourself. The origin of conscience speaks down from there. It
conscience does not speak, being is speaking through him by which he has made himself
in his true spiritual being in the spiritual world speaks
that spiritual worlds speak through the soul, on the other
wholly quietly, a God speaks in our breast, wholly quietly, but
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development. Thereby one can really speak taking up the idea of
distinct from the sentient soul we speak of another soul part
If we speak about the three soul
speak, completely defeated by the power of the view of nature,
soul. Thus, Voltaire's core was occupied, so to speak, by this
conscience projects where the categorical imperative speaks
world against himself strictly speaking. Voltaire searched a
extract its forces from the surrounding nature, so to speak,
quite really! How does he speak of Fanaticism from which/whom
the national disposition in modern times? He speaks about
and cynicism, besides, so to speak, kicking over the traces
6256). Strictly speaking, these
a real continuation of the Goethean worldview. We speak of the
experience himself emotionally, we speak with the words of
Nevertheless, we speak of it in such a way that the
even speak to that derived layer. Today we can hardly
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following introductory remark. I am well aware to speak in a
these scientific results I would like to speak about the object
fields, I would regard it as frivolous to speak before this
I am aware of the responsibility to speak just about these
the soul forces applies, strictly speaking, only to the life
consider that we have to speak about a field, for which the
Actually, one cannot speak at all of such a separation of
common with which we formed an entity so to speak.
speaking of the soul's immortality than that which a mere
happen with the plant seed. Hence, one can speak of the
speak —
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Literature in 1908) who speaks in his essayistic philosophy of
1889, Austrian poet)) about whom I would like to speak
spirits speak in his sleep, like Ariel, and others. Therefore,
earth with his huge stethoscope, and he speaks with a gigantic
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confirmed to me by facts what can be revealed, so to speak, by
soul. One feels, so to speak, that one has no inner power to
because it has to speak about matters and
clear for any soul immediately. Since that does not speak
direction. Except various other reasons that speak for the
healthy sleep. I cannot speak, of course, in this talk how one
speak, at its origin are still active with their
I would not like to speak here about truth
someone speaking about spiritual science.
be very right what those human beings argue who speak of the
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And speaking of Fichte, here is a single lecture given by Rudolf
had heard just before. He paused to meditate and then, speaking as
by the outbreak of the French Revolution. We can, so to speak,
Zurich a school of public speaking. For he believed that through
is, so to speak, confirmed by the observations of the senses. But
he was aware that he must speak in quite a special way. Fichte's whole
had, so to speak, overheard in his meditative conversations with
German nation, on its highest level, and speaking from the depth of
any other man, that he represented the German soul speaking, at the
speaks between his soul and that of his hearers, so that we seek to
every single lecture; so that when he had finished speaking, he
all, directly as if he were a living presence speaking out
teacher's chair at Jena and later when, as he said, he was speaking
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There I would like to turn your view to a man who still speaks
one liked to speak scholarly, one could say, he tried to
From this way, in which Karl Rosenkranz speaks about this
cast out; the thinking itself is empty. Speaking theoretically
speak, before the gate of spiritual science. That means that he
speaks about the life and weaving of that which is seen by the
the repeated lives on earth. About that, I would like to speak
in the next talk where I speak about the destiny of the soul;
we hope fulfilment by spiritual science, he speaks of the fact
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cannot deal. Strictly speaking, the course of the human destiny
which I want to speak. However, I would like to pick out a
speaking: if a human being is born in the twentieth century
comparatively speaking; since it presents itself to the
lives on earth comparatively speaking. With this mental vacuum,
I would like to say, roughly speaking, the technique in what
itself. Hence, I speak in the next talk about single questions
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who speak of the subconscious or unconscious in the human soul
speak in such a way of the fact that one realises that they are
strictly speaking. But it is the destiny of spiritual science
searches, actually, if one speaks of the deeper soul riddles.
more exactly speak about this question. I said, if the
someone as a daydreamer who speaks of the outer life proceeding
Spiritual science wants to speak the true language of the eyes
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speak if they talk about human soul and human body quite
about which we want to speak today.
Theodor Ziehen speaks in such a way, as if feeling is,
not speak of the real feeling, but of the emotional aspect of
mechanism that necessitates to speak of willing.
speak about willing in the scientific area. What happens if a
philosophers, but the naturalist has no reason to speak of
language indicates if it speaks of soul phenomena that the
be not right to speak of the fact that something may be assumed
which one receives the impression that one speaks the words
that if one speaks as a spiritual researcher about the fact one
Spiritual science shows now that we have generally to speak of
the nutritional organism if we speak about the relations of the
justified. But in such a way as Eduard von Hartmann speaks of
a hypothesis. One may speak of the unconscious, but one has to
speak in double way of it: one has to speak of the subconscious
in the consciousness. But one must not speak of the absolutely
unconscious, but one has to speak of the fact that the
subconscious can become conscious. Likewise, one can speak of
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speak two different languages when they come to speak about the
in the sphere about which we want to speak today.
in addition, the activity of will. Theodor Ziehen speaks in
attribute of representation. He does not speak about feeling as
mechanism which requires him to speak of willing. For this
reason, Ziehen denies altogether the justification to speak of
to speak of these things, even if one does not go as far as
itself indicates that when one speaks about soul phenomena one
have, in fact, no right to speak in any other way than that
impression that one speaks the words, "I ask for the
here I can only speak in more comparative terms — but
the situation that when one begins to speak, as spiritual
scientist speaks about the relationship of the human soul to
speak of it in relation with the nervous system only. The soul
Spiritual science shows us that when we speak of the
relationship of willing to the human organism, we must speak of
thing which, fundamentally, only spiritual science speaks about
speak, finds her right relation with the metabolism, she then
which Eduard von Hartmann speaks of the subconscious, it is
which can be gained through spiritual science. One can speak
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organism more or less if one speaks of the mental-spiritual
pleasure is connected with melodies. Can one speak there of any
speak, with the means that are bound to the material bases.
strictly speaking, only regular compulsive acts appear. Someone
speaks about this animalic basic mud of the soul does not go
deeply enough into the soul life. If one speaks about the basic
mud of the soul, one should also speak about that which is
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conception know not only all that which speaks for the
point of view, but also all that speaks against it. For
evident when one allows to work upon the soul that which speaks
for a certain thing, as well as that which speaks against it.
one speaks of the soul-spiritual, more or less as a kind of
Can one, in this case, speak of any kind of connection of the
processes; but it is not to be grasped, so to speak, with those
when one so to speak, traverses it in all directions, one comes
been speaking, occur, come into contact with external etheric
memory. Memory places itself, so to speak, in front of the
speaks about this animalistic primeval mud of the soul, who
only speaks about life's disappointed hopes and other similar
one speaks of the primeval mud of the soul, one should also
speak of everything which is embedded in it. Certainly, there
lecture, in which one recognizes both what speaks for a point
of view and what speaks against it, then just out of this
science not only speaks in vague, indefinite ways about the
etheric, but also speaks about it in such a way that just the
deny ethics as such, but one today speaks about ethics in the
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(1912) in which he tried to speak about a future final state of
the soul life co-operate. If one speaks not in the
as well as astronomy speaks of this world system. However, one
purely mechanical laws in the age in which, so to speak,
literature within the English-speaking world during the last
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speaks of the fact that we have only pictures in the usual
can speak in such a way, and then one practises anthroposophy
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one speaks of the aims of spiritual research, one refers,
I say here. Walther Rathenau also speaks of those who want to
man speaks out of this book who has taken an interest in that
what had to be performed within this war, a man speaks, after
years, and he speaks about the causes of the outer catastrophic
endlessly. There speaks a person out of the lively need to make
come from full reality. He speaks in abstract forms about the
does not want to defer to the single. We do not speak about one
Thus, one does not speak of the spirit generally, but of the
beings fear even today if one speaks in spiritual science of
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Speaking about the problem of immortality and about the riddle
give — speaks of a duality of body and soul. I would like
self-consideration shows this of which we can speak now, after
speaking for the imagining and other consideration; the real
is hard to speak impartially of these things already today.
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to the highest degree to speak of things of another world. He
world, so one speaks of such nullities like of the things of
speak of the things of another world. Yes, the naturalists
which Gideon Spicker speaks. However, Goethe felt that such a
how Goethe speaks, what was near and dear to him, actually. Not
thinking. About that, I will speak in detail in the next talks.
antipathetic to him to speak of the things of another world.
the natural phenomena. Hence, it was unpleasant to him to speak
only!" Goethe did not at all want to speak about nature
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often say with another author, he is simply by how he speaks
of that about which he speaks. You can put the question to
where he speaks in a very nice article about Raphael, which may
met Michelangelo today. — Speaking such stuff in a
physician and physiologist) speaks of seven world riddles as
However, about that I do not want to speak.
methods if one speaks of the clairvoyant beholding of the outer
world. About such things, I will speak in detail in the talk on
destiny of spiritual science today that it speaks not only of
unknown things, but that it has to speak in quite different way
conditions of sleeping and waking if one speaks from the point
speaks of the absence of the consciousness in sleep. Now, these
investigation of the body. They refuse even today to speak
about that about which I speak here. Hence, the naturalists
speak another language than the spiritual researcher does.
that is not more than a word. Pikler speaks of a "drive
present psychology speaks exceptionally seldom. However, once a
(Karl F., 1806-1881, German philosopher) speaks about it once,
thoroughly speak later about nature where we can enter into
intertwining. The spiritual researcher does not want to speak
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worldview speaks in almost mocking way about a talk, which
research gets around to speaking about the spirit if it
generally wants to speak about something essential behind the
after five minutes, even if the speaker spoke loud. There are
one speaks about the connection of the soul life with the
they do not consider them properly. I will speak about that in
should be talk of it in the next talks where I speak about the
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these human beings can be understood strictly speaking from
immediately have to speak of it. However, he gained everything
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reason I must also speak of borderline regions which through
which I shall speak is to some extent known to everyone, for
foundations of life. I shall therefore also speak of the
I shall speak
to speak first of these conditions because they provide the
sketch, but I want for all that to speak of particular points
and ebbing life of pictures arising in dreams. I shall speak
to speak of certain points.
speak of still another characteristic of the dream which even
speak of something else. In the course they take the dreams
— metabolism, digestion, and so forth. I cannot speak
to speak leaves a space free. If it were functioning normally
speak of one recent example. It is of great interest because
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contradiction compared with those who are used to speak about
of creation. — It cannot be my task today to speak about
not speak about scientific results like a scientist.
radically on the other side. Now I do not want to speak about
about which natural sciences cannot speak at all. Since they
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and speaking about the supersensible so easily and so often.
the way in which he speaks about that is completely scientific.
in an example of his own soul life that he continued speaking
he had continued speaking without his thoughts having gone
knowledge of the whole world, nevertheless, strictly speaking
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itself from the pictures, that "speaks" from them.
were and that which can speak as reality from them really
speaks to the human being. There you notice something
which speaks by Imagination, the consciousness relates more
speak wholly philosophically, so that all those can read this
thinking is strictly speaking something that is experienced
hear speaking of "intuition," but much less of
are completely right if they do not speak about free actions;
speaking, all efforts of the outer science are minor compared
philosophers do not speak of body, soul, and mind today? They
has continued into modern times; and if today Wundt speaks
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emerged from the bosom of Divine Spiritual Beings. We may speak of man as
the descendant of the Gods in the same sense as we speak of the child being
Paul at all, but that he speaks of something quite different. What gave the
expression is evidence to experienced Initiates that Paul speaks with perfect
speak to awakened souls. Spiritual investigation does not in any way
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Steiner speaks in this pamphlet. He makes no special claim for
understood me correctly if you realize that I am not speaking for
only need allude to this generally familiar fact, that speaking
that I am not speaking to mystics nor to anthroposophists who are
having to make too much of an effort. Yet, speaking from the
I am speaking here of human nature in general,
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into two main groups, and a speaker must take them into account, especially
people today, both in Germany and elsewhere, who cannot reconcile speaking of
have shown themselves a source of uplift and of schooling, who speak of
person otherwise famed for his free-thinking views, speaks of Christ exactly
in speaking as I have of this preparatory, Twentieth Century form of the
this age. The spiritual scientist takes the same attitude in speaking of what
consciousness. Conscience is the other. It speaks to our innermost being; the
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speak about these questions and about the method of spiritual
everything that speaks, otherwise, in the wake state to him by
different from that of today so that we can speak of times of
we find numerous passages where they speak about the fact that
given the human beings. Plato speaks of human beings of the
most as history. One dives, so to speak, back to register the
Speak to the human senses;
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speak about such objections, we have only to come to an
theosophical book. Above all, I want to speak of theosophy as
awakening. About these means, I speak particularly in the next
the just mentioned way. Then there we speak of the fact that
body" or life body. We speak of this etheric body in such
further speak of the fact that except this etheric body another
Then theosophy speaks of the fact that life does not only run
conscientious researcher of truth has many reasons to speak
Thus, the mood, the sensation of someone may speak who faces
those people who have become clairvoyant, so to speak, express
justify the pretensions of those who speak of ways to
want to speak only about that to which opponents of theosophy
argues in ourselves. If we make, so to speak, a part of
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difficulties. However, from it I feel justified to speak in
or spiritual science speaks. However, they can dawn on us if
speak, like a divine force into the human soul, and then with
one speaks about the religious element that can come from
speaks most intensely to the human individuality, while it
Speak to the human senses,
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scientificity. This time I want to speak about the pros and
could seem peculiar from the start that one can speak about
Hence, it is the more inevitable to speak about the ways of
a particular mood. If we speak about this mood in which the
concentrated, compressed. Then you live, so to speak, only in a
stronger consciousness than in the everyday life. If one speaks
into the human being, so that he/she speaks or writes with
speak your own words, if you use the own organs. About this
human being knows if he speaks that he can form words that he
which is pleasant but also to speak about that which is true.
want to speak the day after tomorrow that the spiritual
analytically with variables. Thereby one can speak of higher
of space and time, if one can even speak about conditions of
then, so to speak, like an oracle. The things of spiritual
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everywhere, so to speak. However, it is disguised in most cases
learnt, then one knows that here something speaks through the
Since strictly speaking you are everything that you have formed
the just described occurs when, so to speak, not the own
point where he can place himself, so to speak, beside himself.
thereby such facts remain often unnoticed. Strictly speaking,
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This evening I would like to speak about important questions of
approaching you. However, if our sensations speak in life if
cannot forbid it to him. In no other way, we speak in spiritual
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works in the human being. If one speaks in such a way, someone
things. — Someone who speaks in such a way speaks only
materialist, because it speaks of ideas in history. Thus, many
researchers would refuse to speak of folk souls or spirits of
themselves really. One considered it as more correct to speak
opponents are strictly speaking only those who do not know the
soul, so to speak, is gradually led and what it experiences.
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the present, one does not speak about something popular and
accepted if one speaks about spiritual science in the sense as
Indeed, Goethe had the right to speak this way. However, one
can really consider, so to speak, our thoughts, as we
extinguish himself, so to speak, if he did not believe in his
least today that one speaks not only of soul and spirit, but
people already concede that one speaks of spirit and soul. One
already permits that one speaks of single phenomena in nature
spiritual science speaks of single beings and says not only,
milder, one also speaks of tolerance —, but today
strictly speaking only another method is applied to the same.
regards it as a pipe dream if spiritual science speaks of the
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Somebody who speaks about spiritual science today cannot count
everyday life. We never exert our souls, so to speak,
life takes place. — Someone who speaks that way is in the
see it establishing link about link. One speaks of the fact
speaking that you develop interest for the big riddles of
being could speak also about a joyful material life. However,
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as the world, and one would have to speak a lot if one only
would be a wild-goose chase to speak of the fact that the bases
— Those who speak in such a way prove that the eyes
me speak about the mental capacity first. In the usual life, it
the outside world. You feel, so to speak, that you belong to
walks from life to life. One speaks about immortality not only
speaks about the soul, you find the following words, and
to speak about soul and spirit in general which are behind the
Hence, may popular writings speak of figments and prophecies,
spiritual science is not a sect, but that it speaks about the
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similar institutions, were, strictly speaking, only suggestions
with which they did not want to be present, so to speak, with
sciences lead so often. You know, many people speak of the big
boundary questions of cognition. One speaks of the fact that
Well, thinking is important, because strictly speaking a big
However, no human being speaks this way who has learnt a little
philosophy from the learnt concepts. Thus a human being speaks
psychology that one normally starts speaking about the nervous
speaking always a developmental process in the body. A beam of
do not like speaking about personal experiences; what I tell,
pursued the problems about which I speak today and in my
speak only of a relentless struggle for existence, but it will
purposefulness. It will not only speak of perfection by natural
is the fear of death in the outer life. One can already speak
originate. Tomorrow I speak about the fact that this science of
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difficulty arises there for many people. They say if one speaks
such a way, yes, he is right maybe completely if he speaks
militates for it, but also what speaks against it.
way of the religious truth speaks from every page of this book.
Because religious confessions speak of the spirit and
Other directions speak different. I want to bring in the
strictly speaking the representatives of the religious
speaks like Frobenius (Leo Viktor F., 1873-1938, ethnographer)
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speak of spiritual-mental goods, which in a certain respect the
Because I do not want to be repetitive, I will today not speak
the today's talk, I do not want to speak how one investigates
spiritual researcher speaks of the most elementary truths
audience —, and he wants to speak in such a way that the
more often know that I speak about something personal only
the emotional life as something independent; he speaks only of
Tomorrow, I would like to speak how necessary it is for our
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one speaks about the research methods, about the things that
researcher speaks of his research results, he is dependent on
his facts about which we will still have to speak then.
possibly says, if a spiritual researcher speaks of the fact
has entered into the area of research. While strictly speaking
About that, I continue speaking the day after tomorrow.
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that spiritual science speaks of a certain higher knowledge
very widespread today. While I speak of this example, one may
wait for that. However, the signs of the times speak so
and one brings out something that does not speak only to the
imagination and sensory percipience, but speaks to that which
one has to speak — as I believe — inevitably under
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waters. If one speaks of modern psychology, one has to remind
is why that which psychology offers today is strictly speaking
However, this would be the first negative step so to speak to
tomorrow I speak about the further details — you do this
physical-sensory world. About that, I want to speak more
— about other concepts I speak in the following talk
About other things, I have to speak in the third talk. However,
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nature. One stumbles, so to speak, against energy and matter.
speak about the things they generate themselves. I do not
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difficult how one speaks about these things; others find it
Hence, I would like to speak in particular about the most
soul life. This new psychology is able not only to speak about
experience ceases speaking with unclear pantheism: there is
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Today I would like to speak about the relation of the
impression very easily if one speaks how the human being
such a way that one can speak of this other, then one will find
in such a way — if one speaks from authoritative place
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Gentlemen, I should like in these three days to speak on
through a certain universality. So that, when we speak of
extraordinarily difficult to-day to speak of these things in
other. I want in these three days to try once more to speak
the senses as material and when it speaks of the spiritual it
meaning for Manichaeism to speak of either matter or spirit,
quite naturally speaks of astronomical things and world
phenomena in the same way as it would speak of moral phenomena
speaks of what apparently moves as sun in the heavens as
impulses in the development of mankind; and that it speaks of
sense in which one is justified in speaking of cause and
to understand. When the Greeks speak of ideas, of conceptions,
when Plato speaks of them, people now believe that Plato or the
Aristotle, unless we know that whenever he speaks of concepts,
which meant something to him, of which he spoke as we speak of
of which one speaks in the sense of Plotinism. Surely it would
have only before you the image of a meadow, you speak of the
the same way Plotinus speaks of the one idea-world, not of the
of experience. That one should speak of abstract concepts
that part of humanity which was cast out. We shall speak
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speak about a topic that one normally considers from a more
monism! Today it is exceptionally difficult to speak of the
like to speak about the phenomena, which I have indicated,
which presents itself to the senses if it speaks of the
for Manichaeism that it speaks of astronomical phenomena, of
world phenomena in such a way as it also speaks of moral and of
same time even more than one thinks. Manichaeism still speaks
impulses within the human evolution. It speaks of the relations
mere effect of the preceding in the sense as one speaks of
If the Greek speaks of ideas, of concepts,
— if he still speaks
border of abstract understanding that he speaks, however, still
strictly speaking Plato's dialogues and in the least the
spoke as we speak about plants, minerals, animals and physical
which one speaks as a world in the sense of Plotinism.
meadow that is outdoors; in the same way, Plotinus speaks about
speak how Pelagianism, Semipelagianism grew out of it. However,
speak of that which lived in the individuality; they spoke of
that which speaks as a general humanity, as a type soul, as a
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to speak is revealed by the individual human souls, is merely a
are faced with what so to speak poured forth from the
times when we wish to speak of the essence of Thomism.
to call it if one were to speak in Plotinus' sense. It is
intellectual world, to that world of which Thomism speaks as of
are of whom we speak to-day, are wrapped up in such problems
the thinkers before Albertus and Thomas speaking of two truths.
Aquinas died in 1274 this question, historically speaking,
adopt towards it, of this we shall speak to-morrow.
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missionaries had to speak to people who more and more strove
the bottom of the souls, if we want to speak of the nature of
the soul on the body. If I wanted to speak in modern way, I
a soul mirror if one wants to speak in the sense of
world, in that world about which also Thomas speaks as about a
speak about how alive scholasticism is still in us and which
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speak, become too large even for all the wonderful, intensive
speak, in the world-existence, as I have assured my existence
scientific part. In Bacon the spiritual world has, so to speak,
audience a very learned Cistercian. I can speak about this
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speak, from everything that is delivered to him
speaking nothing but a transformed and on top of that
speaking understand nothing of philosophy, which degenerated,
taken amiss by the Catholic clergy, and I said, if one speaks
the so-called free spirits. However, if one speaks, objectively
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case speaking of the pathological condition).
the moment of birth. When I speak of our not being overcome by such
an example that will at the same time also — figuratively speaking — take
today, when speaking on the basis of Anthroposophy.) Dr Unger repeatedly
power-hungry organizations it is considered downright treason to speak
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the way we enter into our ideas, into ideas that strictly speaking appear
Here we cannot just speak of the type of metamorphosis Goethe spoke
to transform one shape into another. It will be necessary to speak of
Unger and I were using yesterday — of inversion or involution, speaking
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So I believed I must speak in
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The things Anthroposophy speaks
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anthroposophical spiritual science speaks of may therefore be defined
I speak with a personal note, but behind this personal note lies my
we should not really speak of a lung, a heart, of kidneys and a liver.
We should speak of a heart process, the sum total of heart processes,
to something that fundamentally speaking changes into something else
science of the kind I am speaking of to do more that establish that
will not be speaking of a Christ other than the Christ who has gone
through the Mystery of Golgotha. But spiritual science has to speak
in that case, too, he might have said: 'You have no right to speak
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Let me first of all express regret that I am unable to speak to you
speak more fully elsewhere during the next few days (Cp.: Paths to
may be found. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science cannot speak of the
am speaking of pictures of which a complete survey can be maintained.
speaking of the colourlessness, the pale cast of
that those who speak of such boundaries do so with good reason, but
must not be afraid of having to endure them. I shall speak of this
Spiritual Science speaks. Yet anyone who pays attention merely to
consciously to do this. If I may speak rather paradoxically, we must
that is now permeated with will. He can speak of the super-sensible
ordinary science speaks of the material world. And because he
speak of Inspired Knowledge because just as the air
anthroposophical Spiritual Science speaks of the astral body of
Many people take offence today when instead of speaking in
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have been asked to speak to-day on the subject: Paths leading to
regard to natural science they speak of boundaries to human
Consequently Anthroposophy must not only speak of different subjects,
but it must also speak in a different way. Nevertheless it is in full
Anthroposophy does not speak of such a vital force. It speaks instead
soul. Most frequently of all modern psycho-physicists speak of
through heat-processes. We therefore speak of latent heat and of heat
Anthroposophy does not wish to speak of the higher worlds in the
we already have in ordinary life (one has to speak in terms taken
What is it that gives us the right to speak of reality in the
should have to speak for hours from the standpoint of a theory of
Let me now speak to you only of two kinds. The first is what we call
and how it develops. For it is only an external illusion to speak of
which resound from the speaker's platform, the scenes on the
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spirit. As I do not wish to speak in abstract terms, let me
But one who speaks
faculty can, so to speak, transcend space and time. This fact
observe carefully. Things must, so to speak, become enigmas and
physical human organism which flares up, comes, so to speak to a
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sphere of the soul and of the spirit. As I do not wish to speak
one who speaks of the foundations of anthroposophical research,
one who speaks from an anthroposophical standpoint, must draw
that this perceptive faculty can, so to speak, transcend space
interested in observing carefully. Things must, so to speak,
speak, to boiling point, if I may use this expression, and lead
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distance. One also speaks of telekinesis, or of certain forces
therefore speak of telepathy, telekinesis and teleplastic. When
Anthroposophy does not speak of anything fantastic nor of some
logical inference when it speaks of the repeated lives on
which we longingly turned on growing old, so to speak, in the
since we first perceive most clearly of all, so to speak, the
of forces which constitute his character. Essentially speaking,
renounce speaking of freedom of the human will at first, and to
speak instead of a freedom experienced in thought, in pure
can speak of human freedom when we speak of human actions
Spiritual Activity. I had to speak of moral impulses in the
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apologize immediately, because to speak about the social
which I speak — only an economic abstract theory, an
when he speaks about this treatment it is still from quite
historic life, and he actually speaks of a theoretical region
as the just. But if one does not speak out of practical life
speak in such strong abstractions about the concrete questions
speaking of the three-folding of the social organism I do not
product of which I am now speaking through statistics or such
wishes to speak of practical life. What this means is that a
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when speaking of these. The way in which I characterized the exit
so to speak, of the etheric body's woof of formative forces. In
we simply must begin to speak of the world in a different way
perceived through super-sensible knowledge make us speak
When speaking from
speaks of things which can be perceived through spiritual vision.
dulled. When we wake up, thinking must, so to speak, have a free
conscience, for he knows that he does not speak on the foundation
if the anthroposophical spiritual investigator speaks of the
mathematics, so that it is out of the question to speak of
ventures to speak in a certain way of the conditions after death
the right to speak negatively of science and of scientific
right angles, so to speak, with the animal's spine, with his own
sentient-volitional being, we must speak of loneliness and of a
to the beginning and the end of the earth, hypotheses which speak
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man's inner and outer being, when speaking of these. The way in
and that we make use, so to speak, of the etheric body's web of
hence it is evident that we must begin to speak of the world in
a different way from how we speak in ordinary life, in ordinary
things perceived through super-sensible knowledge make us speak
When speaking from a knowledge of the higher worlds, many
by communicating its truth it speaks of things which can be
up, thinking must, so to speak, have a free hand to dissolve
for he knows that he does not speak on the foundation of
speaks of the spiritual world as I have taken upon myself to do
speak of sailing into some sort of fanciful domain. But just as
the one hand ventures to speak in a certain way of the
the right to speak negatively of science and of scientific
his two legs, at right angles, so to speak, with the animal's
soul-spiritual, sentient-volitional being, we must speak of
hypotheses which speak of the Kant-Laplace nebula for the
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days I have been speaking to you on the spiritual science of Anthroposophy.
has to speak of the necessity for a renewal of culture, one only has the
this quest. I cannot speak of course from the standpoint of your nation,
where I have the great pleasure of being your guest; I can only speak to you
divine essence of the universe; we no longer feel the voice speaking within
were a riddle. We no longer know how to speak out of our full human being,
and into the language which we speak as grown-ups we can no longer bring that
this, we cannot speak to youth in a living and intensive way. We then speak
which may be characterised as follows: "You old people speak a language which
we cannot understand; you speak words which find no echo in our hearts and
going back to a comprehension of the spiritual we must again learn to speak
to youth in the right way, and even to speak in the right way to
School in Stuttgart above all a body of teachers able to speak to children
out of a spiritual rejuvenation reached in maturer years, to speak to
speak of the necessity for a renewal of culture. And this is particularly
often believe that Anthroposophy speaks of a Christ coming down from the sun,
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reach. Serious and exact researchers do indeed already speak
see, the one who speaks from anthroposophical points of view
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
not correct — just as when a mathematician, when speaking
the phenomena. One would speak in a specific way about nature.
phenomena, to speak of subjective thoughts or objective laws of
inorganic for organic nature. I'll speak more about this during
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
beings. For those who want to understand if one could speak
it is valid that one can speak for instance about the sense of
we may speak about the sense of equilibrium as we speak about a
sense of seeing. Let us be clear about this. When we speak
process; so we need to speak about it as having a sense of
compared to a sensory organisation, so that we can speak about
hearing, of taste and so on, speak about the organisation of
quite different. Further, we must speak about a sense of
call it movement or rest. Likewise, we must speak about a sense
of life — ordinary science already speaks partly about
our limited time I wish to speak only with indications, but
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
and its laws. Yet when we speak about "philology"
philosophic. When we speak about "philosophy", we
undefined experience when we speak about philosophy or involve
was seeking, could so to speak be illustrated. In comparison,
Soloviev speaks like the old priest who lived in higher worlds
with Herbert Spencer, speaks the man of the world who wants to
awakening it to life, that so to speak the flesh could also
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
child finds its way into speaking, with inner pleasure and
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
moment — one can only speak about such questions while the dire
must speak about the threefold divisions of the social organism
in some or other way arrive at speaking about problems
into the social form, how so to speak everything which ruled in
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
speak in such a way that people actually always have to do work
which speaks about the supersensible world, but it forms a
speak about radically, should not be misunderstood.
and one can really speak about a resurrection of the human
how you present it. We must add that you speak to people
congregation who have a certain education; we, however, speak
into our work in evolution, that we don't imagine we speak for
imagine I speak for all people — and could be very
to imagine you speak for everyone, but to ask: are there minds
Thus, I've always regarded it to be my task when I speak to
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of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
means that through a person speaking, something is unfolding
what is present as we speak, that is only partially the actual
consciousness, also when one is speaking. I would like to
English speakers from those who belonged to other nationalities
speakers; because when people want to hear something about
Anthroposophy, wherever it is presented, I always speak German
I would today again speak in front of individuals who listen in
himself in speaking and speech.
unconscious substance which in speaking only partly comes to
is for instance not pointless that when the Greek speakers say
experience. If today you hear someone speaking in Sanskrit or
English. When, by contrast, we speak High German, we can
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characterise it by speaking, first, of that branch of mathematics
accustomed to speak of three-dimensional space; we picture it so
dimension of space — standing vertically, so to speak, upon the
space we speak of in geometry, we extend our consciousness
world of intermingling colours and tones. We should speak of an
objectified world of flowing colours and singing tones, as we speak
evolution. My historical survey can also show you that I do not speak
domains we speak of being caught up in the "rapid tempo"
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should now like to speak of the considerations
able to speak from the whole compass of man's being. It must
therefore be able to speak, not only from the theoretical, scientific
spirit, but from an artistic spirit also. It would speak from a
anthroposophical view of the world. And just as one can speak in the
living spirit that speaks from the rostrum or confronts us from the
stage — should speak also through the artistically plastic
that I have just described. It is of this that I wish to speak.
When we speak
Dornach could be started — when we speak of visual art in this
when one speaks as I spoke yesterday, one does not arrive at the
"imaginative cognition". I have still to speak
if I were to speak platonically, I should have to call an expression
creation too. Then the same spirit that speaks through the words when
world, will speak from our plastic art. Art and science then derive
(Urkunden) speak from old, instinctive, clairvoyant
when he speaks or sings, can be extended over his whole being —
our forces act in speaking or singing. When one has grasped these
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speaking, what is interesting about science is something
start of my lectures, to go on to speak of these paths.
ways of knowledge must be different. We shall be speaking of
tomorrow's lecture, where I shall be speaking about the special
of life of which I speak stands in no sort of opposition to the
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functions is, strictly speaking, only indirect knowledge,
must be apparent to the impartial observer today, I speak to
philosophical standpoint from which I speak definitely
ought not to speak of an "I" at all! For in this
human eternity. We rightly speak of immortality; but we ought
also to speak of "unborn-ness." For this now
"sense-organ" (to speak loosely) or a spiritual
organ (to speak exactly) of vision, so that we not only look at
must realize that he has to speak, think and will in
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someone who speaks out of the spiritual world gives a lecture
cannot speak of such a "solution," for the reason
what I have to say today. Today, I shall speak rather about the
meant something different from what we mean when we speak of a
perceived only a quarter, so to speak, of the problem.
philosophy of life of which I have been speaking seeks to
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— by youthful science and knowledge, so to speak, as
speaking in the last few days. Yet there is a dream-like
world and himself, he could speak of "ideology;" it
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With the kinds of knowledge I have been speaking of in the last
psychic walls, so to speak. This in turn has repercussions on
speaks, with spiritual entities and forces. After the
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fellow-men. It is, of course, easier to speak of social
that — to speak somewhat sweepingly — there is
social impulses. But when people speak of social needs, they
to speak, of very recent times, is also suited, as it stands,
present. Nowadays, we speak in rather inexact terms, for the
was in her personality. Yet when you heard her speak from
the platform, her way of speaking was ... well, I will quote an
Rosa Luxemburg: they speak about society without the power in
social aspect of man. To speak of society is possible if, with
in this age of severe social tribulation, to speak of the age
trying to speak about social life once more and to take an
short while before, were speaking with incredible confidence of
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date it has only been possible, generally speaking, to extend
you listen to the way educated Englishmen speak about Europe,
very diluted form, metaphorically speaking; so that,
else too: what strikes him is that, within the German-speaking
Well, it was proper to speak of the "vanity" of a
birth-place for vital thought, will speak, not perhaps of a
speak of being able to solve the social problem all at once,
shall not be able to speak of solutions, but of a vital human
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speak, and giving it its value. Those who look more closely,
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able to speak in such a way that we are not felt to be academic
speak from a party viewpoint, to provide the people with
could see that, if only you will speak out of your full
what a man will say if he is willing to speak freely —
speak — part of a philosophy of life.
ourselves, however much we may deny it, speak, even in
social humanity, so to speak, at the present time; to look at
of will. Many people, indeed, believe that they can speak to
which is the gulf, so to speak, that the cosmos sends into us
also know that to speak of drives, instincts, and all the other
things that people are always speaking of nowadays, is to
nature. When we speak of drives, instincts and the like in man,
we mean only the psyche obscured, so to speak, by our own
outlook. In speaking of our human make-up as it really is, we
supposed to speak about political economy. But I always arrange
spiritual science. And you could see that, whereas if you speak
much for us here! Yet when you speak of this kind of thing,
converse will happen: You wish to speak about these
are speaking a language that is not for the people. You already
knew this. That was why, when speaking to people who expect a
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speaking, have other limitations — limitations that
of their rooms, so to speak, something that afterwards
man's innermost essence, socially speaking? They believed that,
law is being made" — so speaks the democratic
allow things to speak to us and shape natural laws accordingly.
that of spiritual life, it is for the individual to speak. In
the democratic sphere of law, it is for all men to speak, since
speaking in Germany to a fairly small group of working-men
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circulating blood. Life-force, if I may speak in this
flowing, etheric world, so to speak. And with this flowing,
can really speak of a time-body, for a man becomes aware
to speak, really to speak, from the other side of existence.
spiritual world begins to speak; but it is a language to which
make use of sense-qualities and sense-impressions in speaking
soul. The spiritual world now speaks to you through the silence
Anthroposophy does not speak from philosophical speculations
elementary Anthroposophy, if I may speak thus. And when anyone
speak of exact mathematics, in contrast with the mystical,
shell, so to speak, of what was proclaimed within through the
— all this was like an admonition to speak in a manner
was like a continuous challenge to the speaker to put his
that the building had a symbolic meaning, he speaks as one who
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In speaking about man's external observations and
man, so to speak. How can one have actual
Inner Aspect of the Activity of Speaking
can be awareness of the activity of speaking. And a
when there is nobody to speak to — to remain passively
fully prepared to speak but has the ability to suppress the
then the spirit begins to speak out of the
nature, such thoughts are, figuratively speaking, neatly
of the 'I' it is my intention to speak to you to-morrow.
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foster the impulse to speak but hold back the words before they
Then we no longer speak, but
speaks. And then we become aware of
but individualised Logos speaks to him, not in a
Logos speaks. But if one wants to advance still
comparatively speaking, is only a process of forming images, to
weaving and flowing speaks out of the deep silence, so that one
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speaking of man's place in the Universe. On the one side we
The second Hierarchy speaks to us.
belongs, we cannot speak of experiencing this astral world
where to speak of space would be quite misleading; but in a
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Anyone who speaks today
of the Anthroposophical Movement (and shall speak again today), lays
the most rigorous natural science. It is possible, however, to speak
especially during the nineteenth century. Therefore, I shall speak
precisely this demand, and I wish to speak in another lecture
external world. But it is possible to speak in a different
Whoever speaks, not as a dilettante, but as one thoroughly at
impossibility of speaking about the super-sensible worlds as they have
knowledge of which I shall speak here has an insight into this demand
of which I am here speaking replaces the ancient vague meditation,
experience of the soul. Fundamentally speaking, I can describe
we shall speak a little later. For eternity was conceived in ancient
times in such a way that one grasped both its aspects. We speak
mode of super-sensible cognition about which I am speaking seeks to
weighing. The spiritual scientist, about whom I am here speaking,
he can speak of spiritual worlds with the same justification with
which he speaks of a physical-sensible world in relationship to
that everyone who speaks in the spirit of natural science
speaks also in the spirit of super-sensible research, only without
speak rightly today about nature are really giving expression, though
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Any one who speaks today about super-sensible worlds lays himself
and shall speak again
possible, however, to speak from various points of view in regard to
but especially during the nineteenth century. I shall speak,
that this tends to fulfill precisely this demand, and I wish to speak
to speak also in a different sense regarding the achievements which
Whoever speaks, not as a dilettante, but as one thoroughly at home in
present time a necessity to admit that it is impossible to speak
That form of super-sensible knowledge of which I shall speak here
cognition of which I am here speaking substitutes a truly exact
speaking, I can describe at first only by means of a comparison what
regarding which we shall speak a little later. For eternity was
its aspects. We speak nowadays of the deathlessness of the human soul
which I am speaking seeks to bring into the very cognitional
I am here speaking, applies his exactness to the
corporeal eye out of bodily substance. And he knows that he can speak
with which he speaks of a physical-sensible world in relationship to
that every one who speaks in the spirit of natural science speaks
exists today as a demand of the times: that those who speak rightly
when it speaks, although they are constantly giving expression to the
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about which I do not wish to speak here because the time would not
objection: "To be sure, one may speak in this way, perhaps, who
here I have always found it necessary not only, so to speak, to
those regions of the super-sensible where we can no longer speak of
the true and the false but must speak of the healthy and the
super-sensible world of which I am here speaking. I will mention only
of life — about which it is permissible, after all, to speak:
service to life becomes, so to speak, service to the spirit. He must
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derive from divine sources. The Orientals speak of a divine ancient
which we kindle the thoughts so they live. The spiritual speaker
speaks in a different way to his listeners than does a common speaker.
He speaks so that a kind of spiritual fluid, a spiritual force flows
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the future, of which we have still to speak. We call the humans of the
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cycle, in which I will speak in more detail about this subject. Also,
understand evolution in the theosophical sense. When we speak of
so to speak, before it takes on form in the outer world. Such a
which everything living on the earth sleeps, so to speak. But it isn't
number, but equipped with energy. The esoteric researcher speaks here
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expression of esoteric truths. Today I should like to speak of one of
speak of one that is not very easy to understand, I want to speak of
Try to acquire an idea of what we mean when we speak of this
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which he becomes capable of speaking of an apocalypse and
I shall speak of what any Initiate of this degree experiences in
developed to physical density, the esotericist speaks of the Eagle
earth write and speak, a symbolic language, a symbolic form of speech.
meaning. In the course of some of these lectures, I shall speak of
Apocalyptist is speaking about these stages of evolution. They also
different forms of life, of which we will speak on another occasion.
we call, speaking in the widest sense, the Germanic sub-race. It
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To-day I should like to speak about a very important myth, also Greek,
which took place at that time. The Beings of whom I am now speaking
speaking, Penelope is the human soul in the fifth root-race. The fifth
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simple words, for one who would proclaim truth must find ways to speak
to the simplest hearts, they must find words in which to speak to
all of them capable of speaking of these revelations of the highest
spirit. In other places he speaks a little differently. At the
The Initiates of all epochs speak as St. John, the writer of the
Apocalypse speaks. But the Apocalypse of St. John differs in one
different. The theologian, John, speaks in the Apocalypse as a
A Christian of the first centuries would have refrained from speaking
I am now speaking entirely in the sense in which an initiated
this to himself, he said, Just as when a man speaks, his words
revelation. We will speak next time of why the Word made Flesh was
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through faith. Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; though it be
indicate things upon which I will speak more fully in later lectures.
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should like to speak of one in particular of those sagas which are
Before I begin to speak about this saga, I should like to refer to
matter of which alone we can treat when we would speak of physical
The poet, the initiate, who speaks of such things, always expresses
hero Achilles. It is of the Kundalini fire that the poet speaks
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clarity and harmony. He it is who speaks in the Vedas that poured from
speak of a trinity, of a threefold Divine Person, but solely of a
have been speaking of. Now, however, a new climax was reached. Even as
as we have said, and in spiritual science we speak of the knowledge of
the harmonies of the heavens speak to us. Every festival of the year
exalted leaders when we are seized by the Christmas mood. It speaks of
that we are told by those human beings who speak, not out of mere
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draws near and must be fulfilled when Christianity begins to speak
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speaking of Richard Wagner, I certainly do not mean to imply
impulse of which we shall speak lived in Richard Wagner in the form of
definite ideas. Whether or not one is justified in speaking of it, is
anyone deny him the right to speak about the plant from this aspect
the sun. And when people speak of obscure feelings and premonitions
And now let us speak of what is really the fundamental conviction of
element of life. He speaks in a wonderful way about symphonic music.
are talking about, speak of music. The Music of the Spheres
speak openly of this world. We are reminded here of certain words of
in the physical world they work upon each other when they speak
say, science is already beginning to speak of old Atlantis. An article
is able to speak with greater clarity of what natural science is only
between one people and another. Learned professors speak of the
lands. Spiritual Science speaks of advanced individualities and again
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I shall speak about theosophical cosmology, about
the Apostles so that they started to speak in all manner of tongues.
This means that they could enter into every heart and speak according
Gospel, when it speaks of the Feast of the Tabernacles which was
attended by Jesus. The founder of Christianity there speaks of the
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Lodges. Today I should like to speak about a related subject, but one
expression of profound esoteric truths. I should like to speak today
understand the language of sagas first. Today I wish to speak about a
to imagine what is meant when one speaks about the technology of the
out of the physical, by which man is severed, so to speak, from the
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into the Kingdom of Darkness. Thereby a leaven, so to speak, came into
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Manicheism. So first we need to speak about this much more important
himself an adherent of this faith. We have to speak about Manicheism,
to which also belong the Knights Templar, of whom we shall speak
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from the Manicheans. I shall still speak about the connection between
sides of Freemasonry we shall have to speak again.
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about, or which we still intend to discuss, as I usually only speak
instance I should stress to you that I am speaking to you as a non-mason
said to you that only a Freemason himself could speak about what it
Freemasonry is, so to speak, only a kind of husk devoid of its true
revealed; that he was able, in a certain sense, to speak in
speak is Goethe.
Goethe speaks here of the masters and he speaks of them within
speaker's words are thrown back and are thereby changed in their
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important that we should speak about the higher degrees of
already indicated, when people speak about Cagliostro, it is as
though Hottentots were to speak about the erection of an overhead
lets the pieces play, and how he, so to speak, controls the Karma of
we have been speaking about here, what
things will mature in the near future and therefore we shall speak
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series of lectures I have been speaking about occult schools and secret
time. A week from now I shall speak about the meaning of the days
put it bluntly, it is quite unjustifiable to speak in public in the
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IN a series of lectures I have been speaking about occult
subject next time. A week from now I shall speak about the meaning of the
it bluntly, it is quite unjustifiable to speak in public in the style of
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speak about the connection between theosophy and the practical things
which has to be rebuilt, we are speaking about everyday
history speaks about seven Roman kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius,
anatomist will always speak with the utmost admiration of the human
spiritual world. It was, so to speak, a stratagem of the great sages,
man's own will, law and order once again shall speak in a loftier and
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time should have arrived when Christ will again speak to humanity —
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particular Cross of which Christ speaks, the very Cross on which
to speak, serving as it does only our convenience, makes itself into
between plant and man. It has made a half turn, forming, so to speak,
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did speak about some of the things to be mentioned today, a year ago.
of evolution, do we speak about what we call freedom of choice. Only
quite correct to speak of Races here; the forms which then lived
keep speaking of Races. There were other forms that manifested
the earth, essentially speaking, developed itself in these four types
forces of his own physical body — which the materialist speaks of as
no longer speak out of himself but out of the divine Spirit. He is
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When Goethe speaks of the Spirit of the Earth
Naturally, we can now only speak indicatively about these things,
Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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would like to speak about the relationship of occultism to the
only indicate very broadly why that is so. We must then speak only
heard me speak about such things. Occult brotherhoods are the guiding
brings it about that two people, both able to speak on the same
speak through us. When it concerns the propagation of occult life, it
is the Masters who speak. When it only concerns the Organisation of
Masters speak; when it only concerns Organisation, since error is
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taking to speak about these things to you. However, particular occult
for this purpose. Therefore it was the custom to speak about occult
culture, is, spiritually speaking, primarily connected, not with the
about the balance. Only in theosophy can one speak about an occultism
speak, mummify it in its old form. The plan of the higher [worlds]
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attention rather less to higher vantage points, but rather speak
Present-day man is so to speak condensed out of the astral basic
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speak to you today about something which is subject to many
become something else nowadays, and we do not want to speak of that
name, I am able to speak about them.
of which I am speaking, to be a Freemason meant to stand in vehement
other, because then spirit will be speaking to spirit, not sensuality
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Wisdom, which is also called Word, and thirdly Will. When we speak of
When speaking about man, we speak of his astral body as being Karma,
ideals, duty, are bound up with the astral body. When one speaks of
joy and sorrow, desires, wishes, etc., one is speaking of the astral
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
form, life and consciousness. Today we will speak about the different
plants. When we speak of these we must be clear that we are not only
The plants can also speak and answer us, only we must learn to observe
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
that one should speak less about what is not, than about what is. When
that of the Rosicrucians, while Indian literature speaks of four
act of speaking one brings forth the wisdom of the world. What is
hears or speaks man expresses himself directly in wisdom. At the
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
the beginning of Genesis the Bible speaks of man, it speaks of this
sequence of which Helena Petrovna Blavatsky speaks.
speaks about this, for in earlier times
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
speech. What man speaks remains in the Akashic Record. It is the
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Persians also speak of the Twins.
incarnation, so that in the next they might become eloquent speakers.
speakers, for of these the Church can make good use. When St.
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
therefore also speak of the atomistic ether.
are speaking here of the sense of touch as the perception of warmth
As now, when man speaks he influences the air, so later he will gain
Jupiter will be a result of feelings on the Earth. What man speaks
is not correct to speak of the physical body as the lower nature, for
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture X
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
therefore speaks of the physical Globe. As physical Globe the Earth is
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XI
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
At the present time it is very difficult to speak about the Gods or
materialism or whether he speaks about the Gods in a more or less
existence of Dionysius the Areopagite and speak about the writings of
is not brought about from within. One must accustom oneself to speak
What we speak today will actually be present there as foundation, just
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIV
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
We will speak today about man's sojourn in Devachan between two
Formerly I was not able to speak the word I, now I have become for
speaking this is a similar condition to that in which we, in the
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
in the speeches of the French Revolution, men speak as men.
possible to speak openly about reincarnation and karma. These truths
Paracelsus and other mystics did not speak about reincarnation. This
was quite natural. They were not able to speak about it. But for all
John still speak of the great importance of Wisdom, Beauty and Power,
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
We can look back at the time when man did not as yet speak, but only
of humanity began in the world. As soon as human beings speak with one
actually spread around us more than just ourselves. In what we speak
humanity. In his speaking however a man cannot be entirely selfish,
can be simply my own concern; what I speak, I speak as member of a
for his next incarnation; what a nation speaks has significance for
still think? Just as little as a new race will speak the same language
boundaries of speaking and thinking. If we do away with these, for the
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVII
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
existence. What we speak concerns not only ourselves alone, but
speak for himself alone; words concern a group of human beings.
alone behind our actions. When we speak we are not quite alone in our
speak, then he is a Chela, an occult pupil. To be a Master means: To
development speaks, he will try in certain cases, while speaking, to
mediums also speak in imaginations, in pictures and symbols, but
we are speaking remain behind, formative forces which create new
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
of this kind without this knowledge, speaks of something miraculous.
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
the error of believing that one is speaking to Dante, whereas today
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Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXII
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
When in Christian esotericism we speak of Power we mean going through
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVI
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Today we shall speak about the Fourth Earth Round. In the course of
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVII
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
is. Now he is conscious on the physical plane when we are speaking
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVIII
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
fundamentally speaking, man works destructively where elemental beings
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXX
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXXI
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In these lectures, Steiner speaks to a small group of active members
Schools towards the end of the period of which we are speaking: they
Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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and next time I am going to speak about the Gospel of St.
of which John speaks. He says it with great clarity:
Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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everything took place knows that he speaks the truth and says
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worlds. One is perfectly justified to speak of a higher world
be understood that Jesus speaks to Nicodemus of a genuine
time. In Greece it was then usual to speak of the power that
conception of God. Jesus too speaks of the God living in man
three sentences speak clearly enough. Neither had he sinned
and where one also speaks in occult language. Then it is
Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture I: The Birth of the Intellect and the Mission of Christianity
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properly speaking, the vital principle within him. He has this etheric
Before speaking of this world of Spirit, we must understand one of the
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love. Ancient Greek mythology expresses this reality when it speaks of
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certain phenomena which do not any longer belong, properly speaking,
We cannot speak of evil in the absolute sense. Evil, indeed, plays a
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"Before the voice can speak in the presence of the masters, it
Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture VIII: The Christian Mystery
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appears before him and speaks these words:
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of which occultism speaks are as follows: —
that speaks and manifests her presence, her power, her pervading life
"And thus as we descend the scale of being, Nature speaks to the
senses — to known, misunderstood, and unknown senses: so speaks she with
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religions. Divine wisdom speaks through the rites and cults which have
Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XI: The Devachanic World (Heaven)
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speaks of the symbol of the Cross, saying that the soul of the world is bound
speaking, in the horizontal direction. Man and the plants stand
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the great religions are, properly speaking, the language of the
of L'Od, speaks of this phenomenon in connection with sensitive
speaks in Faust in connection with Helena. In this realm of Devachan,
terminology we speak of this Record as the astral impression of all
even speak. The astral form of Dante would speak as he spoke in his
'Swan.' He hears the sounds through which his master speaks
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have a physical body. When the occultist speaks of the mineral
only speak of a body of sound. It is in this sound — the Cosmic
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it possible to speak of them openly. They have been called the seven
In speaking of the planetary body which preceded our Earth — the
and myths speak of fire as the primary manifestation of the Gods.
— we may speak of them as Luciferian Spirits — man became
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of itself, the God begins to speak within that individual soul.
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one speaks of the knowledge of higher realms posssed by Initiates but
speak with knowledge she shares in our familiar world.
a solid foundation for it. If we speak the truth about our neighbour,
and lends him strength and vigour. If I speak lies about him, I pour
will take much greater care to speak the truth and avoid lies than if
beings who speak to us through colour.
speaks of the Sun resounding; he indicates the secret of Devachan. When
Sun and the spheres speak in music:
speak a confusing language, because the Akasha is alive. The Akasha
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when he finds himself without a body is unspeakably severe.
time, and may come to speak through a medium. People then begin to believe
that it is the dead man speaking, when it is only his astral corpse.
it can even answer questions and give information, and can speak with
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so to speak, and ceases to have any significance for the soul as an
Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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Today I want to speak
a person in that particular situation. In speaking of karmic relationships
physical body. It is laid down once for all, so to speak, and retains
misunderstood, when it speaks of God visiting the sins of the fathers on
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Kant speaks of the
Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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the first is, so to speak, the lowest; the etheric body is higher and
Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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into him together with the air he breathes. If we speak of an Ego common
Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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he can understand; his God speaks to him in this language. He hears
his God speaks to him. He hears the water rippling in the brook, and
is brewing. Everywhere he can hear his God speaking, and the lesson
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why the sacred books of all religions tend to speak almost entirely
have to speak to us in pictures. Everything narrated from the Akashic
speak to him in an intelligible language. They tell him what they are,
of Devachan, the Music of the Spheres. Everything speaks forth its own
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Now we will speak about
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yourself to speak neither too loudly nor too softly. Things such as this,
is, so to speak extinguished, rather as the second layer extinguishes
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We shall speak today about Karma
Spiritual Science since it applies to repeated lives on Earth. We speak of the
being. In speaking of the soul-nature of a human being we do not mean only the temperament
Today we are speaking only of
single phenomena, but you can realise the magnitude of the domain of which we are speaking.
influence upon the karmic formation of the following life. There we must speak to begin
Approximately speaking, therefore, there is a karmic process which represents the
cases find their adjustment in a future speaking of the cause of the pessimistic mood in
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speak to his teacher now and then, or that his teacher must often be
speaking in symbols. Every word is a symbol. Even science, which
in that its words work symbolically. If you speak of the wings of the
speak," they have no idea of the danger that lies therein.
the outer world and its beings! What is in your soul shall speak to
know his higher self. Then he speaks to the flower as to a member of
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which we are now to speak has to do with a Sun belonging to a far
longer understands what speaks to him in the rippling of waves, in the
speak. But it is the star of humanity, of evolving humanity; it is the
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Goethe lets his representative of mankind speak these mighty words in
festival we will speak about today. This sun is a being of much
nature. What speaks to him today in the lapping and surging of the
Title: Lecture: The Lords Prayer
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Correctly speaking, at that period in the Lemurian epoch, the highest
speaking in the far-off past, must begin with spirit self, continue with life
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Brahmanism speaks of three aspects of the Deity, namely, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. The supreme
speaks of man as the quintessence of all that is outspread in external Nature. Nature
contents of that world. Fundamentally speaking, what man perceives in the external world is the
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want to speak to you today about
behind the mysteries of which we have been speaking, one
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filled out these bodies. And from that time onwards we speak
walk, to speak and to become independent.
When speaking of the last Judgement, Christ says in his
speaks of the Word that existed upon the earth from the very
could again hear and speak with his physical senses, he uttered
Title: Lecture: The Structure of the Lords Prayer
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an " I ", then the God in man begins to speak, the God who speaks
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that time! Generally speaking, this is difficult to realise and
could understand the language of Nature and could hear God speak to
of ancient Atlantis in a beautiful way, when it speaks of
delightful way it speaks of the Rhine and all these rivers as waters
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really speak of a real ensoulment — reflex machines.
Thus man says to all animal beings (speaking of himself), "All
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Let me speak to you to-day of many different things which can easily
Let me speak to you above all of man's
speak in a certain sense of self-consciousness in the case of animal,
it" ... such people speak without any knowledge of things. For
There are grades everywhere; we shall not speak now of the various
From this standpoint, we may therefore say that, generally speaking,
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precisely when we speak of such difficult matters, that we
just as, imaginatively speaking your fingernails do not each
— and here the cultist speaks of Warmth-Ether,
Essentially speaking, they are wedding-flights — for
simplest. It is an utterly senseless way of speaking to
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who, in the simplest words — as a child might speak, not in
by the words the Brother speaks, that he is the bearer of the
And speaks to us, by strange emotion stirred:
I hear him speak, but oh, how much there is
The aged brother speaks unto his guest:
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physical body. A man speaks of his physical body as "I" —
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the very beings of whom we have been speaking.
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lectures; however, it is not my intention to speak of the
when we come to speak of the destiny of the human being after death.
speaking was preserved within a strictly secret Brotherhood, bound by
To speak of Initiation in connection with Goethe may easily be
need not speak further now, that a kind of betrayal took place.
I will now speak of two characteristics of the Rosicrucian wisdom,
aspects to consider. We shall speak, first, of
applicable in theory only; we are speaking of teachings which can be
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to speak of reincarnation and karma, of destiny in the evolution of
When the occultist speaks of higher worlds, he means worlds that are
world. Just as in the case of a human being we speak of an individual
soul, in the case of an animal we speak of a group-soul which is to be
Transformation can proceed in two ways and to be precise we must speak
method speaks of three times three members = nine, which is reduced to
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he were standing before him, speaking with him. But when a man is
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physical sheath he receives. We will now speak, in broad outline, of
Up to this point we have been speaking of the normal evolution of the
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the Bible speaks of the driving-out of demons, this is not an
literally. The wise man Socrates also speaks of his Daimon
speaks the truth or lies; for beings created by truth or by lies
In order to understand the Law of Karma we shall have to speak about
their very eyes; it is materialism which speaks of Christ Jesus as an
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in human life, I shall speak of what happens immediately after the
certain sense speak of processes of physical heredity, and we will
free, more and more independent. In occultism therefore, we speak of
same as Wotan; Tacitus speaks of Wotan's day, in English Wednesday.
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it, they are beings who uninterruptedly sleep, and if they could speak
freely in space, wrap themselves, so to speak, round the objects. One
speak. On the Moon he began to send out inarticulate tones and cries,
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purely physical body; it was surrounded, so to speak, by an etheric
beings, under their guidance, so to speak.
again, it is, so to speak, no longer in existence. It passes over into
speak of man's passing through the mineral kingdom, we must not think
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Saturn. We must therefore speak of two kingdoms as being formed on the
The Moon of which we now speak contained not only what the present
together you would have that Moon of which we are speaking and which
speak in the case of man, the Holy Spirit. We could only have seen
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speaks of German, French, Russian National-souls, people look on that
so to speak, the good spirits of the Moon time, for which the
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IT IS now our task to speak somewhat of the progress of human
audacious to try to speak about the future, or even that it is
After these introductory words we will now speak of some few things
opinion. On the contrary! The more a man speaks of universal brotherly
when it has learnt to speak? First it learns to speak and then learns
Theosophy to speak of races as if they would always remain. The
proceed from the human being, man will speak forth man. And
spittle; it will be of a plant-nature man will, so to speak,
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WE have yet to speak today of the principle of Initiation, or esoteric
training. And we will speak of the two methods of training which take
that is just indolence. Rosicrucian theosophy lets the facts speak,
the facts in the cosmos speak, for that is the most impersonal kind of
require it. He wishes to speak to the pupil of what exists, quite
that speaks to him. And everything corruptible or
be chaste and pure, and speak forth his likeness into the world
only speaks of this inward brooding never comes to real knowledge. To
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speaks in quite a different way, for instance, concerning the
speaking to you now, your souls could not then have
has the right to speak of "limits of knowledge",
literally. Also spiritual science speaks in this sense of the
how to enter these kingdoms of heaven. Every religion speaks
takes place in the higher worlds; it speaks of the
Rudolf Steiner used to speak to theosophical audiences,
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through the physical world, every portion of the earth speaks
purely speculative way, by speaking, for instance of vital
is, so to speak, the architect of the physical body. If you
Beings of this astral world are, trivially speaking, clever
Thy Works, unspeakably sublime,
Schools speak.
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religion, for instance, when speaking of man's inner being,
it was referred to as the unspeakable name of God. For the
The God within man begins to speak — this is the pure,
shall speak of the development of the more advanced pupil. He
After every incarnation a new leaf is added, so to speak, to
We shall speak
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does time run backwards, so to speak, but the whole
it is possible to speak of spiritual ears. When you have
illustrate this through at example: Now I am speaking to you,
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myself have, so to speak, prepared my bed in the very place
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in which he has, so to speak, transformed everything which he
speak, wherever you have to look for something. But you
speaking of the Folk-soul: The Folk-soul is a real being,
which constitutes, so to speak, the very opposite of a
sense, for a child chooses its own parents, so to speak.
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speak of what is designated as the Law of Karma, the law of
universe. Even the Bible speaks of this law at the very
We can speak of
it was not yet possible to speak of Karma in the meaning in
which we generally speak of it. But in the Latin epoch of
beings . But we can speak of Karma not only in the case of
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between two incarnations. Generally speaking, it is therefore
time that the clairvoyant sets the earth so to speak in the
judgment induces one to speak like that, for it is not more
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usually described in occultism. When speaking of the soul's
substance. When speaking of bodies in occultism, we speak of solid,
liquid and gaseous bodies. And if we speak of the elements, in the
think that the men of olden times, when speaking of the "elements",
speaking, the Moon's foundation consisted of a mass resembling a mash
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When speaking of the soul's development along the path of
an idea of Saturn's fundamental substance. When speaking of
bodies in occultism, we speak of solid, liquid and gaseous
bodies. And if we speak of the elements in the old manner,
must not think that the men of olden times, when speaking of
Comparatively speaking, the Moon's foundation consisted of a
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scientist only speaks of the fauna and of the flora of
existed. Essentially speaking, the whole surface now covered
clairvoyant faculty and, astrally speaking, would have become
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was not possible to speak of an Ego foundation. In regard to
therefore speak of group souls. All the horses
belong to their group soul. Consequently we cannot speak of
more vertical position. Parrots and starlings learn to speak
speaking, the Atlantean had a dull kind of clairvoyance. As
speak, that which they had already overcome and they knew how
Christianity will speak of the external world as condensed
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the spiritual eye. We use empty words when speaking only of
speaking of the eye without taking into account the existence
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of every epoch: "It is impossible to speak of human
influenced, if they were, so to speak, predestined in the
speaking to you. Yell can hear my words; you hear the
whenever I speak, I cause the whole volume of air around me
process which takes place in space, when we speak. The
independent of the senses. Generally speaking, you will find
in "Faust" speaks:
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words or picked them up so to speak, also in regard to the
the plant, so to speak, the opportunity to build up its body
when speaking bf the Rosicrucian path of training. In the
of a carrot? Because these things speak to him, as they do to
truths themselves speak; these spiritual facts should stir
instrument through which the truths themselves speak to men.
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"Logos" speaks to him. In the same occult
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united, we often speak of seven parts. Spirit-Self is the
they can speak of injustice. St. John's Gospel shows the way
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and it is held with great tenacity, although new facts speak
preserved their belief in a monotheistic Spirit, which speaks
(I speakJohn 13:18)
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down without speaking a word, and wrote with His finger on
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physical bony framework. Thus, when the occultist speaks of the
has been thought out, but rather he is speaking of it as the
speaks of light and would thereby point to wisdom, this he does not
today, the natural scientist, probing into nature, speaks of the
Thus is it to be explained that religious documents speak of light as
speaking of a celestial harmony. With spiritual ears one can hear it.
objects, so to speak. Naturally, this other kind of perception was
covered the earth. Hence it is that the myth speaks of Niflheim, of a
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of numbers. When speaking of occult signs and symbols, it is
This is what is meant when certain religious systems speak of the
speaking of evil only where fivefoldness appears. When, one day,
know you might not speak German, but you shall get the
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While I speak to you,
movements, so to speak, and thus through the larynx we have a mineral
mineral, but also plant-like vibrations. They will speak
speak "feeling beings." On the highest stage of their
call people into being through their speaking, so it was that the
matter, and he will be able to speak creatively into this fiery
astral sheaths rather than physical. One can speak with them as to
from which all beings have, so to speak, physically crystallized.
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speak from the aspect of Spiritual Science about various facts and beings
worlds we meet with certain beings who, so to speak, extend part of
we will speak today.
in consequence when these beings withdraw, so to speak, to their habitat
As soon as we speak from
will, through strong forces of his soul, if so to speak, he loses control
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speak, into the intricate workings of the cosmos.
When, apart from this, we also speak of a planetary Sun-existence, saying
speak, to the rank and dignity of a sun in the Cosmos. It was once united
evolutions in an age which, speaking in the sense of occult astronomy,
express it. Speaking in analogy, however, we can say that the forces
in the Zodiac remain, relatively speaking, fixed and permanent. These
only once. Fundamentally speaking, what is happening continuously is
speaking, in the five constellations of Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn,
we can therefore speak of forces which are going forth from man and
in the middle of those phases of evolution of which we are speaking.
preponderate. If we were speaking of the proportion of forces descending
have to speak differently of the conditions then prevailing, enumerating
connected with all this. You must realize that in speaking of these
cosmic processes, we are not speaking of physical or etheric bodies
but of beings in-dwelling the several heavenly bodies. When we speak
beings of whom we must speak differently. The members of which man is
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important advance in science to speak of spiritual forces and spiritual
science as something not fit for polite society. But facts speak a plain
of humanity. We speak of ancient Saturn as of nothing but a sort of
to receive a sphere of action, so to speak, on which they could preserve
someone might say that one can speak of no connection at all of chlorophyll
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we speak today; for the masses the truths were veiled in pictures and
"trickled," so to speak, the life-rain down on to Saturn.
the planet, has been put together, so to speak, from outside. All that
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a densification that we can speak of a gaseous or airy condition. The
and lifted itself, so to speak, out of the darkness of cosmic space,
not think that when we speak of the earliest warmth condition of the
Earth we are speaking of such a warmth as arises when you strike a match.
That is mineral-fire and mineral-warmth. We are speaking of the fire
speak actually of combustion. That would not be correct. We should speak
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to Earth-conditions. Thus if one speaks of recapitulations, according
to the actual facts one must speak of a reversed recapitulation. What
that which, so to speak, is enclosed within his skin. At that time men
the Moon. These group-souls who, so to speak, set individual Moon-men
complete their development on the Moon, who remained, so to speak, midway
living in the body, what really makes him, so to speak, an entity who
of Wisdom who are meant now, had, so to speak, arrogated authority to
Christ then the human body — if we speak in a comprehensive sense
one speaks, in so far as one can speak of light, of something externally
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speaking, night became more intensely night, day more intensely
true to speak of an equal possibility, on the one side of remembering
What is religion, fundamentally speaking? It is the intermediary
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SHOULD like to speak
the Seraphim. Then only, beyond the Seraphim, should we speak of what
doctrine it speaks of man's Guardian Angel and that is a conception
to speak, do not exist for them, the plant kingdom is too subordinate,
When one speaks in occultism
of the folk spirit one does not speak of an incomprehensible being difficult
to grasp. When in our materialistic age people speak of the folk spirit
They did not speak of Archangels but they had the same feeling about
have stood still, so to speak, in world-evolution. You will be able
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and a spiritual part, which broadly speaking make up the threefold being
move forward to a higher racial form. I cannot today speak about the
become nature-spirits, so to speak, of future evolutionary periods,
of the different periods. Everything has now been graded, so to speak,
will stream forth from all beings and speak to us, as the wisdom speaks
the different animal species have been gradually ejected, so to speak,
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to speak, the severing of the members which then extend into the physical
the spiritual-science world-conception speaks today. Such a phenomenon
one in the memory which meets up above, so to speak, in a common
Gospel can grasp with spiritual hands, so to speak, that that is true.
in the future. Then we shall no longer have to speak of racial connections
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beings which are to be found, so to speak, between the sense-perceptible
so conditioned that — speaking loosely — similarly-formed
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beings live, so to speak, out of the spiritual worlds and extend their
the dry commonplace intellect of which we speak in ordinary life. For
one today speaking broadly calls naturalism, where man merely imitates
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exponent of Spiritual Science speaks about the Gospel of St.
comparatively late period, — but we shall speak of
felt impelled to speak of the Logos as the origin of the
Therefore they speak of the Christ as the Apotheosis of
ordinary humanity when they speak of "the simple Man of
creation, to speak in our present manner of days of creation
rotating earth and the sun. We can only speak of days in our
and night possible, one cannot speak of days in the present
along comes the Gospel of St. John speaking of such lofty
Alexandria, the Greeks have a writer who also speaks of the
Grecian circles one spoke of the Logos when wishing to speak
"Forasmuch as many have undertaken to speak of those
speaks of the "Logos" without this culture. Such
St. John. What was a writer speaking about, if at that time
from the written word. The lecturer was speaking to
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speak of the "Ancient Moon," we do not at all
when speaking of our present physical body, that it is
mineral. Speaking in very elementary terms, we emphasize the
speaks truly when it says: When the human being has reached
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nature. The wisdom of which we are here speaking, is a kind
Gospel of St. John speaks? It is this we wish today to bring
— If one speaks of the I, as I speak, then is the
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we have yet to speak. The old form of initiation must end,
raised, can I speak concerning it!" And so we have in
inconsistency of constantly speaking about the future Christ,
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Places. One speaks of the "Raven" when words have
"verily, verily" we shall speak about later. Then
Why is it that we can speak today of reincarnation, etc.? Why
Christ-Jesus wished to speak to those who could understand
example, He speaks of the re-birth of the soul in the chapter
"When I speak of Myself in a higher sense, of the I AM,
speaks these words: —
earthly and speaketh of the earth; he that cometh from
God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not
sent, speaketh the word of God, for God giveth not the Spirit
utterances, Christ says: "When I speak of My Ego, I
speak of the Eternal Ego in men which is one with the
spiritual foundations of the world. When I speak of this Ego,
I speak of something which dwells in the innermost depths of
the human soul. If any man hears Me (and now He is speaking
say, for I can speak of nothing that flows from Me to him.
speaking of the union with the Divine and of the submersion
only to speak in halting words to become a witness of God.
earthly relationship with God speaks in the poetic measure of
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rebirth which the Christ speaks to Nicodemus in the 4th verse
life." One who speaks in this manner, stands about on
alive." Whoever speaks in this way does not know that
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of the Gospel of St. John speaks of the healing of the man
born blind, he is then speaking out of the depths of the
am now speaking of what is taking place spiritually in the
speak of such real mysteries as the insalivation of the
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call the ancient Indian civilization. We are not speaking now
wonderful books of the Vedas, nor are we speaking of what has
people, it is not possible to speak in this way of the
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speak? Reference is made here to the passage in Isaiah 6: 1
the Gospel of St. John speaks. The writer of this Gospel
evolutionary periods of Christianity. The manner of speaking
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strictly speaking, we, ourselves belong and which developed
possible for him to speak the words, "I am an I"
speakest unto them of My laws, tell them that My Name is the
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speaks in this manner demands that others too should perceive
of course, only what the speaker can perceive and understand.
speak of the way in which these organs are built into the
differ. We shall speak tomorrow of these differences and show
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abstract, dry, prosaic sense in which we usually speak of
"Holy Spirit" into himself, speaks forthwith in a
different manner. How does he speak? When he speaks about
speaks about Saturn, it is Saturn itself that is speaking
through him. When he speaks about the Sun, the Spiritual
Being of the Sun speaks through him. He is the instrument.
which to speak. Therefore, in true esoteric teaching which
proceeds from esoteric Christianity, one should not speak of
to esoteric Christianity, whoever speaks with the right
received by the Virgin Sophia and which can then speak out of
written and therefore they do not speak as they should. It
speak quite esoterically it would naturally be necessary to
speak of the idea of the so-called "virgin
speaks through the body of Jesus during these three years.
speaking through him in order to teach and work. This is the
when they speak thus to him, he is guilty of no fault. A
And if people, at present, speak of the Synoptics —
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yet was man. He was able to wait, figuratively speaking,
and the moon was rising on the other. I speak, as you know,
general course of human evolution. To speak in the words of
ancient initiates wished to speak of the highest that was
"I." Here the soul speaks within itself in a word
Divinity speaks. Hence the name "I-Am" was given
to speak to his people.
speak quite differently from the pupils and disciples of
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than the speaker to cultivate for a short period of time
spiritual, and how it can speak to us in a new language. A
place." The modern materialist speaks in this way, it
speaking of these. Thus the nineteenth century has come to
screen here and behind it a man is speaking whom you cannot
are heard, and then the last veil falls away, so to speak
the man is standing and speaking. We see the man himself; we
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The individual did not speak of himself in the highest sense
say, we cannot really speak of a "before,"
etheric bodies, surrendering them to death, so to speak; they
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speak of ages of civilization, in contradistinction to races.
race. Hence we speak of the ancient Indian civilization, of
eight or nine thousand years behind us. If we speak of the
civilization of which we are now speaking was directly under
these cultural epochs. When he speaks of the community or
leader of the first cultural epoch. Christ Jesus speaks as if
Venus, and Venus Mercury. In truth if we wish to speak
must speak of Mercury as the morning star. By the morning
four preceding ages would have to speak to us, and we should
Revelation of John, it must fulfil what the speaker, this
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course, how it will divide, so to speak, into two streams, into
speak. They carry him within them as, for them, a past stage
to speak, was a kind of mush, a kind of pulp or puree. The
compared to wood. Of course this is speaking comparatively.
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arose, so to speak. The other beings also with whom we became
crystallized, so to speak, out of the spirit. Although you
which was above, he felt himself safely hidden, so to speak,
when it was night, so to speak, his soul and spirit entered
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art. The question now is: What grounds are there for speaking
separate "I"-personality, so to speak. This he has won. Now
plane, so to speak, which separates the spiritual kingdom
every-thing chaotic, so to speak, but as yet no wisdom. Only
to give to humanity in anticipation, so to speak, when
speak, a world of the abyss, where man will again have
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Atlantis we may speak of races. A sixth and a seventh
followed. These were, so to speak the lukewarm races. They
of developing, they were overripe, so to speak. You may still
speak of good and evil, but they do not know that it is
transform evil. When we speak of the great leaders of mankind
conditions, one could not speak of anything which looked like
truth if we speak of the whole of Atlantis as consisting of
comparatively speaking, not long ago; so that if we survey
of the fourth period we speak of the Mars forces, of the
forces given by water, so to speak, and we speak of the
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another condition, when the physical dissolves, so to speak,
may speak of these seven principles, but if we wish to
astral body. So that if we speak of man to-day we have to say
descended from the etheric, so to speak, by becoming first an
speak; he thereby became a being born from his like. We must
important matter at the time of which we are now speaking.
formed, so to speak, a kind of secondary planet of hardened,
to speak, before man descends into the physical, before he is
to speak, as something which assumes its form again as soon
now speak to you in a concrete manner. All the physical
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seven, they then begin to speak of superstition, although
other realms one speaks of the number seven — and rightly
so. In our study of the great cosmic relationships we speak
when he speaks of the seven colours, and, in acoustics, of
to be described. Then, when man is saved, so to speak, when
account, we may describe the stages of life by speaking of
dissolve, so to speak, into finer and finer substance.
speak, into our world. They precede our mineral kingdom. We
is necessary of which we must now speak.
speaking intellectually, that the highest moral principle is
Thus we speak
speak. We must rise from this purely intellectual scheme,
reality, then one is not by any means speaking of true
to speak; and when he went to sleep he was in the spiritual
destroyed, so to speak. For each time a man dies the
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first four, each head, so to speak, appears with two
not only speaks of horns, but must speak of them. The
held fast, so to speak, to the animal group-soul, the
a free view, so to speak, in every direction. There will.
frightful fate of which we have still to speak.
beast. Thus there appears on our horizon, so to speak, the
sketch out the great outlines, so to speak, which Jupiter is
who, as the representative, so to speak, of the sun-genius,
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matter, which excluded itself, so to speak, from the
very feeble. Even if a man were now to speak in such a way
(if we speak somewhat inexactly) he callously abandons his
still needs helpers, so to speak. Upon Jupiter he will be
exist there, so to speak, as man now exists on the earth with
through the higher spiritual development, so to speak. This
so to speak, of beings in the spiritual world, and themselves
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13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. \
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room filled with people; only when they begin to speak do they reveal
the beings become visible, then the inner life of the beings speaks
beings. Christianity would never be able to speak of the community of
Apocalypse speaks of: "... a Kingdom, priests to his God and
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acquire an attitude that seeks, above all, to see what speaks of greatness
like to speak out of a critical spirit might perhaps say: It would have
Society. Therefore, when I speak about regions of the spirit inaccessible
I will speak about spiritual
On June 20, 1908 he said, "... we speak of ages of civilization,
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the first two letters — the evolutionary secrets, so to speak,
are ordinary numbers and measure? What are the numbers physicists speak
about when they discover wave motion, when they speak of oscillations?
Apocalypse speaks of very bad conditions of our earth, devastating
the place where he speaks of the overcoming of death. When you find human
in the Bible is what we mean when we speak of the manasic nature flowing
(Jahweh) is the "blower," and when we speak of Wotan, and
his army that rushes here and there, then we are speaking of the Odem,
— then the esotericist, when speaking of this, will refer to the
the future? He speaks entirely in the following way: What you can see
entirely different from the sense organs in the physical body. We speak
The Apocalypse speaks of these
sees the earth as the body of Christ. When Christian esotericism speaks
of the body of Christ, it is speaking of the planetary body of the earth.
(I speakJohn 13:18)
things that Christ Jesus could not speak about in those days because the
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and dwelling in a human body — that he had descended, so to speak,
so to speak, they had to spend some time, usually three and a half days,
describes the same thing to us when he speaks of the "Son of
humanity. He speaks to us of the seven communities in seven letters
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so to speak, the very best human material.
body for themselves, but in certain states of consciousness their speaking
Apocalypse speaks of the "community at Ephesus" he means the
Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Three
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I. In this way they ruled over the others. We can speak of these four
but rather through knowledge. Preachers who constantly speak of love
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must look into the future. Because he is speaking to the descendants
Then he speaks to the
people of the second cultural epoch, the age of Zarathustra. He speaks to
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It is an abstraction to speak of "oriental philosophy."
behind the sun. He did not understand Manicheism because it speaks of
of the future will not speak of atoms; they will scientifically understand
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When we speak of the earth we mean, of course, all of the spiritual
science speaks of a large ancient earth, from which the other heavenly
bodies have come, so also spiritual science speaks of a large, ancient
what lived within them to speak. In ancient times, the Edda was not
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was woven into those men who then began to speak of an "inner
Christ." Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler were speaking out
inspires them. Today only those people who feel that Theosophy speaks
Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Eight
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forces in the earlier times of Lemuria. The apes represent, so to speak,
as, for example, the Evangelist Matthew speaks of the succession of
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a beautification; it received, so to speak, a cover of beauty and art.
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We are speaking of the time when the human being will already have begun
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speak, a sacrifice for the good of humankind when they united their
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have to speak for years. In these lectures we can only give a kind of
the voice box will become increasingly powerful. What we speak forth
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of which we shall speak during the next few days. We have a very
own day. When we speak of Egyptian civilization in the occult sense we
surrounds us, and of which people speak and dream, has sprung like
to earth. Previously it was perceived as hovering, so to speak, above
Him, while previously He could speak only through Initiates from
to speak of the deeper secrets of the world's evolution could let
which we are speaking, had not taken on bodies of flesh, but possessed
Beings he was not speaking of something that was strange to them. It
was the same as when today we speak of men and call them by their
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom
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Mother with the child; speaking from the standpoint of Spiritual
speak of Universe, Earth, and Man. In what follows we shall have to
speak not merely of the past, but also of the forces of the
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body; it is therefore no childish idea, but profound wisdom, to speak
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture V: The sacrifice of substance by the Thrones, Kyriotetes, Dynamis, and Exusiai
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departed from it with the moon. We can therefore speak of a
existence on earth. Now it is only a rough way of speaking to say that
Something like this took place at the time of which I am speaking; man
change of consciousness. But we must first speak of another
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VI: The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence
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the blood speaks, in reproduction, and in all that is connected
Spirit-Self. Those who (to speak symbolically) are thus hardened as
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms - the physiognomical expression of human passions
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of which I am speaking. They were times when man was physically at the
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies
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Spiritual Science one can by no means speak of the world as a mere
this development we shall speak later. In the first place let us ask:
We know this, but we have to speak of it as the human stage. The
universe; he could speak of nothing that takes place beyond the earth.
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natural clairvoyance, and man could speak of the Gods from his own
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such secrets as we are speaking of in the privacy of an
Risky as it may be to speak of such matters, it is the mission of the
Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture XI: The Reversing of Egyptian Remembrance by way of Arabism.
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When a person speaks of races today he speaks of something that is no
no justification for speaking of a mere development of races. In the
true sense of the word we can only speak of race development during
throughout the seven periods that one might speak rather of different
this, it is [in]correct to speak of races in the far back Lemurian epoch;
speak of races, but all that remains of these today are relics of
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 1: Spiritual Connections between the Culture-streams of Ancient and Modern Times.
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lift ourselves, so to speak, above ourselves. The soul that overcomes
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 2: The Reflection of Cosmic Events in the Religious Views of Men.
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approach to the repetitions. When in the realm of occultism we speak
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 3: The Old Initiation Centers. The Human Form as the Subject of Meditation.
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we can speak at all of night or day in that time. By day he perceived
Then we understand what dreadful folly it is when our scholars speak
folk-imagination. One who really knows the folk does not speak in this
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 4: The Experiences of Initiation. The Mysteries of the Planets. The Descent of the Primeval Word.
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In the fourth, Man speaks. This was the verse of the
fourth speaks Man.
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 6: The Influence of Osiris and Isis. Facts of Occult Anatomy and Physiology.
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aspect of the moon, what about all the poetry that speaks with such
clairvoyantly and we are entirely justified in speaking of them
the moon, we may speak of beings, of elements, that had to be expelled
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neophyte not only learned, but clairvoyantly observed. I shall speak
we shall speak further of this, and also of the other signs of the
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say point of time, we are not speaking literally, for
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 9: The Influence of the Sun and Moon Spirits, of the Isis and Osiris Forces. The Change in Consciousness. The Conquest of the Physical Plane.
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to whom the Rishis still could speak of how things actually had been.
nonsense to speak of oriental lawgivers, such as Hammurabi. There were
were to speak objectively about this kind of science.
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clarity only through the fact that the initiates could speak of
could be more beautiful! One cannot speak of a sacrifice when it is a
Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 11: The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of Evolution. The Cosmic View of the Organs and their Coarsening in Modern Times.
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also the older forms of the gods, who had, so to speak, taken a
on the sun and moon. These beings collaborated, so to speak, on the
speak in a condescending way of Egyptian medicine, you can soon tell
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Devayana. When we speak of Devachan, we should understand that
nothing personally; if I say something, Osiris must speak; if I do
brotherly love. It is best to speak of that as little as possible.
Speaking in such phrases is like saying to the stove, Dear
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those others who were seeking have gradually, so to speak, crystallized.
Group-meetings — we could speak of things of the various regions of
the higher worlds as one speaks of events and experiences of the ordinary
here, and often emphasized, that we have now come to the point of speaking
hesitation to speak on a certain chapter of the higher worlds that will
of the human being, if we speak today of a few facts, only a few facts
astral plane, of whom we have been speaking, must also be regulated.
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anthroposophist must be aware that with regard to many things, he speaks
understanding for spiritual science can be achieved only if one speaks
it speaks quite a foreign language. If we have the patience to accustom
have become accustomed to speaking of physical body, etheric body, and
When I speak of plant soul-nature and of the earth's astrality that
separation, you must speak of different bodies; it is a single body when
you can listen calmly to one who speaks quite a different language and
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world by means of external history. When we speak regarding
immediately behind us, when we speak of their discoveries and
we do when we go back one or two thousand years and speak of
we speak of such an epoch we assume something known to you
speak of all these who were messengers of the Gods or spirits
spiritual world existed. They could always speak in this way:
in the physical world. He could speak to them and give them
Title: Astral World: Lecture III: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation
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that not personal sympathy or antipathy speaks, but that feeling itself
themselves to us in symbols. In Inspiration, the things speak to us.
plane. Rather, the inmost being of the thing itself speaks to us. When
not only speaks to the soul, but that all around the soul becomes
Title: Lecture: Four Human Group Souls (Lion, Bull, Eagle, Man)
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we should not advance if we did not venture for once to speak about
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 1: Forgetting
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scientific literature, for to speak of memory in the plant is
right way on the free part of the etheric body we have been speaking
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speak about the same theme in a very elementary way, of course, but
would like to speak today about the nature of illness from the point
into things in all manner of ways, like the way it is now speaking
bearer of the ego. I could speak to you for hours about the types of
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understanding of this early document of man as well. We actually speak
Second Commandment. You shall not speak in error of Me in you, for
speaking false of him.
You shall not speak in error of Me in you, for everything false about
fellowman, if he disparages his worth by speaking falsely of him, he
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want to speak of other aspects that will not appear to be directly
know that before this we cannot speak of such a division of the sexes
in the human kingdom. I want to emphasise that we are not speaking of
you are sitting facing someone and speaking to him. We are referring
even imitates the movements of the vocal cords, and speaks with the
speaker. Everything you hear you also say with a gentle movement of
difference whether the speaker has a croaky voice and those are the
only in those times it was far richer. If we wanted to speak as they
cannot be understood otherwise. I will now speak of ordinary mineral
to speak of any plant medicaments but purely mineral ones, what is
Some time we shall have to speak of the effects of plant forces and
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 4: Rhythm in the Bodies of Man
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this is only roughly speaking. A rough idea is sufficient for a
that we really have to speak of a kind of sinking down into a cosmic
etheric body, symbolically speaking, revolves on its own axis, and
have to speak in great detail if you are to understand it all. You
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The essential point is that, fundamentally speaking, Lucifer had
This is the shallowest stratum, relatively speaking. Then begins the
this is, so to speak, a last vestige on the earth's surface, of forces
are speaking they are immensely powerful. I will tell you one of the
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 5: Rhythms in the Being of Man
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course speaking figuratively, for they are not really rotations but
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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beautiful words of Christ, when He was speaking of man's entry into
another. Strictly speaking all our strength was acquired by the
the son of Apollo, is so to speak the father of Greek physicians. And
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now speak again of this epoch, reminding ourselves, to begin with, of
shall speak later, will stand as hindrances in the path of the
to speak more precisely did these Luciferic Beings entrench
body. Fundamentally speaking, man is still working at this unconscious
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 7: Laughing and Weeping
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aspects as possible. Today we will make it our task to speak of
their way into the general organism. If we wanted to speak of the
were just making comparisons. Speaking of them in general it could
have a breathing process that is so to speak strictly governed from
vehicles of the ego, so to speak, but the ego can be very undeveloped
speaking this is what is really at the root of laughter. And this is
Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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below that still had no density to speak of. These bodies were too
For this belt of the earth and its inhabitants had so to speak solved
the mystery of the ego. Strictly speaking all evolution since
so to speak, and they became Red Indians. What would they have said
divine man to speak out of them, talking incessantly about the higher
need to learn at all! Just let the God within you speak! Today, when
speak; on the contrary they have given us quite specific impulses for
within us speak, or by imagining that each individual carries his own
speak modern, more spiritual versions of what we met with in
only wanted to let the divine speak in them, and their egos made them
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twenty-second year, which is the time when strictly speaking the
a certain respect we can speak of evolution and involution
the plant. In the plant we can speak of involution and evolution, but
in the case of man we have to speak of yet a third factor. If we were
not to speak of a third factor, we should not comprise the whole of
speaking, any kind of logic is something added to things from
about in it, but strictly speaking it will be an entirely new
on Vulcan, something not yet present on Saturn. Whoever speaks of
evolution and involution only, will speak of development as though
example given that we cannot speak of anything actually coming to an
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awareness will be able to develop, which speaks out of these
Title: Lecture: The Theory of Categories / Kategorienlehre
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only really speak of thinking, when it takes its course in
is expressed about the kind of existence, when we speak of
is the WESEN-being. We speak of the WESEN of man when we
WESEN, then we are speaking of WIRKLICHKEIT (Reality). No man
speaking about the world must be permeated by those concepts
the concept can go out. Then we are speaking of a concept
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a result of a wish from your chairperson we shall speak today
experienced in an open lecture like this. When we speak about
we need to immediately make a note when we speak about these
consciousness, knows which image speaks nobly and which doesn't
speak the entire perception of tone, of hearing, the world of
world for quite a while. The human being must so to speak go
Kamaloka. Here you have, so to speak, not yet freed your
are, so to speak, laying a stepping stone in the astral world.
to speak, how the soul is formed externally — through
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physical plane. Thus we speak as it were in a spiritual
and for this reason we must speak about these dangers. We
so to speak the yard stick for all which the person will
life of feeling. Once and for all we must speak right into the
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post-Atlantean time could speak of lofty spiritual truths. We
certainly knew how to speak about the highest spiritual Beings
sensory-supersensory image so to speak, to the people. They had
peak, so to speak, of the continual "I" the human
Second Commandment: You will not speak in error of Me in you,
notice from the entire tone, that God speaks through it to
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happenings? When we speak of the experiences of the periods
spoke to humanity somewhat as follows. I will speak 'Give
proclaimed wrong beliefs. I speak of what is greatest
also speak of history in the life between death and rebirth,
it was He of whom Moses was speaking when he proclaimed the
Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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cannot really speak of a self-contained life in the ordinary sense,
Novalis speaks of the
of his deep insight into occult truths, Novalis speaks of Christ as
sense. He speaks of Christ as the 'God of the
can speak of human beings in their present form or having the
Thus did the great Atlantean Initiates speak to their pupils
He was not proclaimed, whenever one can speak of human culture and
speak of the great Sun-Aura, of Ahura Mazdao, of the God of
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construed into it. We speak both for those who are narrating and also
Title: Lecture: The Way of Knowledge
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souls, we find so to speak those things closest to us —
value. When such knowledge for example speaks about the
plant, but so to speak looks at the plant growth over the
return, that it so to speak expects everything which the earth
speak to us, when they want to tell humankind something like
so to speak unaware of the outer physical world; it would have
Title: Lecture: Practical Training In Thought (1966)
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speak about practical training in thought, for there is a widespread
This is, so to speak, nothing else but a certain expression of confidence in
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called upon to speak of practical training in thought. For people
speaking, the shortest imaginable time, the thing was carried out.
whole planetary system came into being." People who speak like
work on in us, when we ourselves, so to speak, are not there with our
Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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Today we shall proceed a little further and speak again about more
possible for these beings to descend vicariously, so to speak, into
literature that speaks of Noah's son, Shem, traces the whole
have to speak to a lowly tribe, to speak to the Hebrew people in a
events when he was speaking of the Christ. Thus, he was able to
Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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to elucidate here that Hebrew literature, speaking of Shem as
speak to the Hebrews in a comprehensible manner and to give
speak to a primitive tribe, he would have to learn its
to hold rigidly to historical events when he was speaking of
Title: Lecture Series: Christianity in the Evolution of Mankind
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regard, and here also we shall speak again about more complicated
individualities who from the beginning, so to speak, have
speak of this soul sphere, we may say nevertheless that however
evolution, to descend vicariously, so to speak, into just such
himself, so to speak, without experiencing anything here
can speak first of one such mission; and in order not
simply realize clearly that the Hebrew literature which speaks
were, in order to speak to the Hebrew people in an
advanced person would have to speak to a lowly tribe. He would
them to wear these as a garment, so to speak. There was inwoven
historical events when he was speaking of the Christ. He
forward. First it was, so to speak, the memory
of Nazareth, so to speak. Wholly sentient soul of Jesus of
more, so to speak, toward the astral body; hence the copy of
Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture III: More Intimate Aspects of Reincarnation
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task to speak to the various groups about the more intimate
that is why we now want to speak about these things in
shall speak about the reason for this at another occasion
to the Zarathustra of whom we are now speaking; only his last
and of an astral body, we know it is insufficient to speak
speak, the founder of the whole classical literature movement
were preserved, so to speak, in the spiritual world. In the
themselves. They will be ready to absorb, so to speak, the
Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture IV: Results of Spiritual Scientific Investigations of the Evolution of Humanity: I
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forces within whom they were, in a manner of speaking,
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of Christ began to work in him, for he speaks not of the
what he calls "soma." In speaking of the
Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VI: On the Occasion of the Dedication of the Francis of Assisi Branch
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to speak to you here, sense something like a future force at
have passed since I was permitted to speak in the same spirit
what a magnet spiritual striving is. I was to speak to those
place where I was to speak looked differently, and it was on
that it was possible to speak as freely and frankly about
our time speaks to us and that the most significant event of
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some respects, to the West. This legend speaks, too, of a
Vishnu namely, Krishna speaks of Himself,
Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VII: The Macrocosmic and the Microcosmic Fire: The Spiritualization of Breath and Blood
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and recognized Him as the speaker of the words, "Tell
Krishna, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, speaks of himself
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speak of an "inner Christ." Meister Eckhart and
people who feel that Spiritual Science speaks to their hearts
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speaking, it could not extend its hand to another soul. But
that speaks of the Three Wise Men from the East who came to
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permit me to speak more intimately of such truths. I shall
whom I want to speak to you, all the way back to the ancient
too far afield to speak about this in detail. Suffice it to
from above. Thus, they were able to speak of all this exalted
such people the seven bearers of wisdom could speak. They
to speak, now hearken and listen to me, you from near and
want to speak about that which is the highest truth to me in
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may be given. People speak so much today about higher or lower degrees of
They also are perpetually learning. When we are speaking of one of the
event of which I shall speak again later on, namely, the event of the
body, and speak for three years in a man, Christ Jesus. This was known
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be necessary to speak of a number of subjects with which many in the
theme, I want to speak of a matter of exceptional importance. Why is it
we can properly speak of a mineral soul. You must not, however, judge
inhabiting it, is, so to speak, milk for the beings that belong to the
so to speak, implant the form arise in the higher realm of Devachan.
and it is therefore self-evident to speak of happiness and suffering,
Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture III: The Nature and Being of Man
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is not, properly speaking, the physical body. The physical body as such
this tableau lasts. The time varies a great deal in human beings. Speaking
Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture IV: Man Between Death and Rebirth
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dreamlike; all events are experiences in Devachan. We will speak later of
but in the spiritual world." Hence you no longer speak of your
of a new man. This operation takes a long time; today we will speak
of the etheric body and of the physical birth we will speak tomorrow,
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We must now speak briefly
speaking, connected from the beginning with the product of fertilization.
exchange of the ego may take place. We will speak of that later. The
becomes free; a third birth, so to speak, takes place. The astral body
speech a long time before he is able to speak himself. He should therefore
Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture VI: The Configuration and Metamorphoses of Man's Physical Body
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them. Before speaking of the fact of reincarnation and discussing questions
I will now speak briefly
not to speak at this point and to which we will return in the course
Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture VII: Evolutionary Stages of our Earth before the Lemurian Epoch
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no such conditions. We may perhaps speak later on about what an occultist
speaking, during sleep he is therefore in the physical world with only
exposition of this first form of our earth. It speaks of a kind of
thus it was possible to speak of Saturn men, Jupiter men and so on.
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astral body. Fundamentally speaking, this is still the case today; it
world to appear to him as maya, as matter, We must speak of Lucifer
magicians mishandle forces that are, generally speaking, withheld from
kinds of foolish activities. Generally speaking, they are unprofessional
epoch one should no longer speak of races but of civilizations,
Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture X: On Karma, Reincarnation and Initiation
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Atlantean catastrophe to speak of an initiation available to human beings
Title: Lecture: The Dedication of an Anthroposophical Group
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appropriate to speak about these things.
Now what does spiritual science say? It speaks of many things which
eyes have been opened, and who can therefore speak of the spiritual
the seer speaks of the etheric body, the sentient body, etc., and of
blind people we may speak as much and as exactly as we please about
would not stir. But if instead of speaking, we get wood and coal and
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When we have to speak of what we call the Spiritual Hierarchies, it
existed the wisdom of which we are going to speak: it is the PLAN OF
magnificent the language in which the ancient wisdom of Egypt speaks,
nineteenth century or thereabouts one can speak of this world wisdom
one could speak more openly from the sources of Western occultism,
The time has come when one can speak from those ever living sources
humanity through the Christ Impulse. When one speaks of Western
one who speaks with knowledge of Rosicrucian wisdom will ever expound
Buddha, or say that anything in them is untrue. Every man who speaks
quite senseless to speak to them of the heavenly bodies spread out in
would have been no sense in speaking of Mercury or of Neptune or of
Saturn, etc., as our astronomy speaks. The way astronomy speaks of
its spiritual content. He could speak only of the spiritual, for it
would have had no meaning to speak of physical stars, when the
All the holy Rishis speak of that knowledge. In the times when men
thinks it impossible that one could ever speak of Copernican
speaking of the ascending scale of worlds: of the Moon, of Mercury,
Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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elements are, so to speak, separated from each other, but we see the
has, so to speak, two sides to it. An outer, which it shows when we
we may speak of an outer fire which we realise in the other elements,
all observations of nature, because fire is, so to speak, the portal
all air, and will even be bewitched, banished, so to speak, to a
Bhagavad Gita of which I spoke in my last lecture. It does not speak
here at all of the human Ego, it speaks of those nature spirits, of
belonging to the spiritual hierarchies. We have been speaking of the
divided from night, if these elementals were not so to speak
those know that these sentences speak of the ascension or of the
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things are, so to speak, jumbled together, and through this the
first planet to which we look back when speaking of incarnations of
divine spiritual beings. It is the same thing whether to speak of
yesterday that warmth has, so to speak, two sides to it. One side is
because the warmth returned, so to speak, in a higher condition.
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can give only his thoughts; that speaking truly, is not as yet much
now begins to shine outwardly; but it alternates, so to speak, from
Archangels, so to speak, with open arms. When the Archangels spread
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vicinity of the highest Godhead of which we can speak at all: the
themselves for the task. The Beings who, are so to speak, nearest God
which had been chosen for the new world-system. If we speak very
ancient Saturn. If the Thrones have reached, so to speak, to its
We are not speaking now of our present Sun, but of that ancient Sun
speak, the devastations produced by the Fight in Heaven. You have a
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lecture, the fight in heaven, which has left, so to speak, so many
speaking, only as far on during our present earth evolution as man
regulates, so to speak, the relation between separate men and the
continuity of human existence. Fundamentally speaking, they regulate
did is not that he, so to speak, took a chair and gazed into space to
speaking of the appearance of the heavens, they calculated everything
When one speaks of the Copernican and of the Ptolemaic systems, one
conditions. It left the earth to itself, so to speak, so that man
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Generally speaking we may say: as much of his astral body as man has
Spirits of Personality did speak through human entities in the
find those, through whom the Hierarchies speak The great Hierarchies
speak out of the Cosmos downwards into the Planets, and only by
Thus, when you hear of the Buddhas, for they do not speak of the one
only the inhabitants of Mercury who speak with us, when we have a
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because it is my task to speak in these lectures not of speculative
already told you that ancient Saturn was, fundamentally speaking, as
something more, but we must first be clear, that when we speak of the
fundamentally speaking, one with universal space, so that I might as
other. When they have covered each other up, they form, so to speak,
These things can naturally only be said, when speaking to
pole is Mars. When speaking of Mars as the third condition of our
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Jupiter, as a mighty living being, had been, so to speak, killed;
conditions were such that we have to speak of a Sun. But when after
with once and for all. But when we speak of the Earth's
touch on everything, when one speaks of the whole world.
In speaking of Saturn, I spoke of a globe of fire or of a large fiery
If — trivially speaking — one took an egg desiring to
Beings or Hierarchies. For when we speak of the contraction of large
it has, so to speak, come to a conclusion, when it is complete; you
are speaking of the first Saturn development — the Saturn globe
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evolution. They formed, so to speak, the foundation on which the new
stand on a totally different footing, and fundamentally speaking have
Hierarchies who, fundamentally speaking, were his human forefathers?
to speak, by the Godhead; that would be unthinkable because of their
who, so to speak, looked at the way the hindrances
the human-animal stage. Then those Angel beings who, so to speak,
Christ! Does He, fundamentally speaking, work through His teaching?
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During the next few days we shall often have occasion to speak of the
that what he finds in his inner self is the being of which he speaks
speak, of finding a second Ego which, looking down upon the first Ego,
in this respect, we may truly speak the following words: 'In the
was regarded with mere physical eyes. God, so to speak, was behind the
speak of himself and his mission. In this manner was the universal Ego
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture I: The Johannine Christians.
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to speak — a new standard of values will arise.
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that he speaks of past ages in human evolution (for example, of Adam's
archaeology, and so on. Strictly speaking, all his disturbs his vision
happiest to speak of ancient times of long past phases of our
which we will speak later) which render the soul ever more spiritual
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture II: Living Spiritual History.
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these things likes best to speak of ancient times of which there exist
ancestors of men, so to speak, and men the descendants of the Gods. The
life brings him as a recurrence, so to speak, what he had once acquired
the spiritual world, so to speak, leaving mankind to its evolution.
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required a higher sphere of action than those who were, so to speak,
the beginning, is one who speaks thus. In the Gospel of St. Luke we
have, strictly speaking, exactly the same order. Just try to read with
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from the most elementary facts of spiritual science, comparatively speaking.
independence; that they detach themselves, so to speak, and can live
speak; but these had become finer instead of coarser after the separation.
so to speak, although they were not animals. Now, in dealing with the
were their physical images, so to speak. The latter required a lower,
are spiritual counterparts, so to speak, of what is in the process of
speaks thus was such a minister or servant of the Logos as it was from
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influence upon them, so that, strictly speaking, the evolution of the
we have said that their scene of activity is, generally speaking, on
In speaking of this event, I always like to compare it with an event
spring till autumn. Thus, in speaking of those times, we may say that,
impossible to form and shape the substances on the Earth. Speaking
Not to speak of the ancient Greeks, with their host of divinities,
people say: 'There is of course, generally speaking, spirit in matter,
Moon. Strictly speaking, everything was changed by it.
how does He now speak from out of a human being? 'I am the light of
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who required baser, inferior substances, so to speak, for their further
yesterday's lecture merge, so to speak.
be left of them! Thus speaks the materialistic soul, incapable of understanding
to keep pace with the sun development. Speaking figuratively —
had been able to wait longest, so to speak, to unite their spirit with
that which heretofore had dwelt in cosmic space, on the sun, now speak
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Strictly speaking, the perfection of the human being on the physical
and astral bodies; he appeared, so to speak, in his first earthly form
case. Strictly speaking, man should have descended from an airy to a
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so to speak, in his first earth form, that is, the only form possible
the beings that could not continue, so to speak, with the denser and
as it is today, is bequeathed. At the time of which we are speaking
demanded, so to speak, that he incorporate himself, after the withdrawal
the normal sensations with whatever cropped up, so to speak. As it was,
form sooner than the divine-spiritual beings had intended, so to speak.
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especially with regard to Christianity. But he speaks of Tolstoi as of
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live in water-soaked air, whereas at the time of which we speak the
an epoch in full perspective — apocalyptically, so to speak. While
and high-minded, especially in connection with Christianity. Yet he speaks
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understanding of Christ. Today even those who are prone to speak of
the spiritual world. They disbelieve it unconsciously, so to speak,
new. It was His task, so to speak, to create a transition from the one
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VII: The Baptism with Water and the Baptism with Fire and Spirit.
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as a symbol, as something that served, so to speak, under the powerful
the new one gradually. He had to create a transition, so to speak; He
truths it is possible to speak so openly that everything can be made
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It may perhaps surprise some of you that I speak of theologians as of
body of Jesus of Nazareth were speaking to us through St. John in his
philosopher Solovioff assumes, strictly speaking, the Pauline
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to speak, for three and a half days, even though during this time he
be surprised to hear me speak of theologians as materialistic thinkers,
body of Jesus of Nazareth speaks to us through John, in his Gospel.
Man spirit, and that is because this writer knew, so to speak, the Man
begun again to reflect, so to speak, upon such things — not in
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only one of that name? Why does the Evangelist, in speaking of this
speaking to you with regard to this miracle, the belief which anyone
of that we shall speak later.) But we notice here again an increase of
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IX: The Artistic Composition of the Gospel of St. John.
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Speaking of his being forced to remain prone, the
Of the manner in which this event could take place we will speak later,
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human being for the outer organs of sense? Speaking superficially, his
he is speaking with One who knows more than he and who is above him.
no longer speak of Himself as I except in the sense of His union
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to speak, for the first time. The significance of this fact can be set
touch another profound mystery of which we are constrained to speak
to speak, with which the common blood was inoculated through the female
links up, so to speak, with what could be accomplished in olden times
so to speak, in this physical body than hitherto — that is, powerful
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maternal element is in him; beside the external mother, so to speak,
terrible fate clung to him, he brought unspeakable misery upon his
of good, in order, so to speak, that he should accomplish yet anther
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that everything people have in common, the generic factor, so to speak,
plane, he has, so to speak, the maternal element within him —
of his mother; but he survived, so to speak, as a tool, because he was
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within your skin were cut off. Strictly speaking, therefore, we must
his etheric body. It was, so to speak, his fatal misfortune to become
speaking, it has made no impression hitherto. Here we see one part of
happened. And Christ speaks of what had happened, saying:
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XII: The Decline of Primeval Wisdom and its Rejuvenation through the Christ-Impulse.
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on anything he has earned. He lives on his capital, so to speak. In
misfortune, so to speak — his fate — to be forced to experience
he gathered his wisdom from his father's treasury, so to speak — from
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impelled, when he considered the human race, to speak as Buddha spoke.
opportunity to speak to His apostles without parables. For the
when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but shall tell you
Let us feel that the moment was at hand when He desired to speak to
'His disciples said unto Him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly and
speakest no proverb.
you speak of a super-sensible birth in the face of this table of
Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIII: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
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supra-terrestrial regions and that It was seen in Its descent, so to speak:
would have been constrained, in contemplating mankind, to speak as Buddha
cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in parables, but shall shew
He would speak to His disciples of the Father.
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest
thou plainly, and speakest no parable. Now are we sure that thou
that Gospel thereby established, so to speak, the loftiest truths of
precisely those features that held an intimate appeal, so to speak,
becomes meaningless. To speak of a super-sensible birth in the face of
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it is founded. Strictly speaking, this is equivalent to saying that
which we have been privileged to speak in our 14 lectures.
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heaven from the earth, so to speak. In the animal kingdom as well the
Spirit that has imbued it since the time we speak of. Of what has the
to Paul, so to speak; to acquire for himself the faculties that will
Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture I
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however, which comes to us when clairvoyant investigation speaks,
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speaking into his ego. And the difference between a normal person of
and we speak now of the spiritual outer world — may be
death-like condition. And speaking in the abstract, we may say for
live in that which meets us (speaking according to spiritual science)
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speaking in the human soul, it interposed itself in front of the
speak of the transition from Saturn to Old Sun and of this to Old
Moon, we could not speak thus simply of the Old Moon evolution
speaking, of Moon and Sun. Saturn and Sun may perhaps be spoken of as
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speak of these matters with great accuracy and precision.
Earth, and of which one can only speak by analogy.
earth, having come over from pre-terrestrial ages; he also speaks of
speaking of him in his present condition. Is it to be imagined, then,
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self-consciousness within it. He said: 'I, speaking to myself,
in his human 'I' consciousness. He knew that to speak of
within them as their original 'cause,' so to speak,
order to carry out some purpose. It is not permissible to speak of a
speak of an inner mystical experience of the Christ; but we must also
the world. When modern men speak of the mystical Christ within the
His soul, but can also describe Him, can speak of Him and picture Him
they satisfy us; the Christ speaks through them, and He does so even
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speaking). That word is the word 'feeling.' We speak of
speaking of feeling in a superficial way we mean the sense of touch,
feeling of which we are here speaking is an intimate soul experience;
earth), through the fluidic, or water, to speak in the spiritual
regarded differently at different epochs. In speaking of the
way when speaking of the time of Oedipus as when speaking of the time
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chapters we speak of it by pursuing the path which the soul has to
withdrawal, belonged, strictly speaking, to neither of those
we speak of the Luciferic beings, we must become acquainted with the
the danger of a certain species of Luciferic being the speaker is not
be right to speak of certain species of Luciferic beings in the sense
Apollonian Mysteries desired to speak to their pupils of the
spoken such wonderful words to Zarathustra, would speak to men in the
of many kinds are to be found in the world. Speaking from our
speak of children and of their origin, of the children of spiritual
we speak of beings existing simultaneously, in whose nature,
being to the brothers of Christ, a transition of which we shall speak
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of space and time; but if we do not confine ourselves to speaking of
itself in time. Hence everything which is to speak to the inner being
descent? Whose son is he? Therefore in speaking about the Luciferic
whose child it was who was speaking to the human soul. We speak of
the children of Lucifer in this sense when we speak of those who in
in the olden times, it was natural to speak of those who were
with brother love, that is to follow Christ. If, therefore, we speak
Christ principle. We might speak at great length about the relation
Therefore we speak of seven as remaining over from the twelve. When
we wish to speak of that which is good and which acts as our guide in
time, we must speak of seven wise men, of seven Rishis, for this
speaking. And what we then described as their wisdom had poured down
teachers an incarnation of a Bodhisattva. It is permissible to speak
Being of Whom we are here speaking, was once incarnate in a human
Bodhisattvas, we speak of great teachers of mankind, because the
Him and speak about Him, so that He is the object and not the subject
various lectures. [We are here speaking of these Beings in the
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remembering that strictly speaking there are three stages on the path
him speaking behind the screen. It is certainly possible to renounce
we speak of the Christ Event, a source for us is also that great
both speaking of the same being — John Smith.
whether we speak of Him as Jesus of Nazareth before the Baptism by
in such records or by speaking of 'fiction' when
opportunity here to speak of things of which there was no occasion to
speak in detail when we were studying the Gospel of St. John namely,
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it was a fount of consolation, speaking with such tenderness of the
way conscious — and strictly speaking this applies to everyone
man. I will only remind you of Plato, who speaks of a horse led by a
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speak to men only of what Initiates had to say; his primary mission
the human soul itself. Hence he could not speak only of the fruits of
his own enlightenment, but he said to himself: 'I must speak to men
himself in them and lets them alone speak to him. This is right
Generally speaking,
the moon. In the West we do not speak of the 'hare in the moon'
nature of man. Spiritual science speaks of several 'births'.
Jesus-child. Hence the boy was able to speak with all the simplicity
was speaking in a way that astonished those around him, because he
to speak. It so happened that at this very time, King Kanisha of
of the Jesus-child and was thereby able to speak in a new way to the
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immediately put into practice. I speak of it by way of comparison
humanity. This was, so to speak, the Adam-soul as yet untouched by human
— knew it too. For this reason he speaks of it in a special way. He
speaks of Jesus of Nazareth?
St. Luke, was the 'Son of God'. St. Luke was not speaking of the
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But if we were content to speak of the happenings in an abstract way
with the 'kingly' nature (speaking in the technical sense),
understand his words, for now the Zarathustra-Ego was speaking out of
where Dr. Steiner speaks again of the mysterious process connected with
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are about to speak. The Hebrew people had to be 'screened' from
listening to how he actually speaks. Five to six hundred years before
been silenced. He speaks, although no longer incarnated, when he
St. Luke speaks so impressively. Only by endeavouring to understand
to everything that is near him, and stand alone; he had to speak from
where Dr. Steiner speaks again of the mysterious process connected with
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speaking, however, the constitution of the human being cannot be
what now concerns us. When speaking of the element of soul in man,
mysteries of Earth evolution. Generally speaking, it will
It is therefore quite correct to speak of the twelve Bodhisattvas in
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Relatively speaking,
speaking, therefore, it may be said that the soul-and-spirit can work
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when Christ speaks of 'deeper sin' — sin which reaches
connection do we speak of the secrets of the physical body as though
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speaking is not at variance with what we ourselves preach. But we put
with love. To those around Him Christ could speak to the following
in our own day. How should we have to speak if we wished to apply to
a third type. We may therefore speak of three categories of men who
among others, must be impugned at the present time, if one speaks
the world to-day does not, properly speaking, possess the Bible and can
words, and indeed the Gospel of St. Luke as a whole speaks to the
In many and various ways Christ speaks of how the Ego must overflow
'Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.'
(O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speakMatt. XII, 34.)
highest Christian ideals! The mouth speaks from the overflowing
of the Ego. The meaning is therefore this: 'Speak from an Ego which
the heart the mouth speaketh!' this is a cardinal principle of
'Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh'
another became Bodhisattava. A Buddhist legend speaks of this in
profundities of the Gospel of St. Luke. This Gospel does not speak to
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speakMatt. XII, 34,
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great pioneers and missionaries must speak in such a way that men
needed at that time was to speak in a way that could lead by degrees
those who were around Him speak in this way? In order to understand
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charged them not to speak of it, this other 'raising' was
new principle into their souls. He indicates this when speaking of
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speak, a 'virgin birth', something that flows into the process
before Christ Jesus could speak to men only by using the faculties
indicates this when He speaks to His disciples of John the Baptist
St. Luke where Christ is speaking of a higher revelation, is as
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of theosophy, that emanates, so to speak, from the high regions of
cycle, the time seems ripe for speaking in a more comprehensive sense
within you speak; what He reveals of the world is theosophy."
you speak. Speak of what is beneath as well as what is above you, and
Occult physiology speaks of Sun and Moon elements of the
examining only what is on the ground, so to speak. Important matters
that speaks to our own soul in tones. That is the eighth sense, the
activity sets in. We speak of a sense as of something that functions
The child learns to speak before he learns to reason. A
the individual. What speaks to the senses is not subject to the
learns to speak, or at least to understand what is spoken, before he
speak of touching. Hearing we can no longer describe as
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bestowed upon him, so to speak, by the surrounding outer spiritual
dealing with a number of senses we can speak of touch sensations, but
ordinary human being. He speaks of "pressing," but does
Folk Spirit speaks through the two a's that succeed each other in
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the astral tentacles, so to speak, with no resistance present, then
whole line, so to speak; it forms the longitudinal axis of the body,
speak, to the rear wall is that the brain has become an eye. The eye
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turnabout, so to speak, a reversal of the direction. If the physical
sentient body had, so to speak, bored the holes for the sense organs
but they are frequently misinterpreted because the senses that speak
speech? If he was to learn to speak, not just to hear, it was
animals cannot speak. The ego had to be acting downward from above
vertical direction of influence. If men were to learn to speak under
could they have learned to speak if they had remained in one spot.
were to learn to speak? We know that the etheric currents flow from
its peculiar development. Man learned to speak at a time when his
between Asia and Africa. Thence, in order to learn to speak, he
to speak.
They were advance guards, so to speak, and their task was to develop,
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experience, can be described in two ways. Speaking accurately in
spinal cord and that transmit messages to the brain, so to speak, are
it lives on. With this in mind we can actually speak of our soul
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infuse blood, so to speak, into our description of the soul. We want
be permitted to speak of one of his poems, upon occasion, as I have
person speaking to us depends upon our soul life. You, for instance,
speak, and engenders an uncomfortable feeling in us. One's own soul
have the right feeling when we speak, that is, when we yield
that while we now turn to the man. This man speaks. You perceive his
speaks. Keep in mind the three verdicts — the tree is green,
the bell rings, the man speaks. In all three we are concerned with
the genius of speech is highly intelligent you can never speak of
verb that helps you, in speaking, to live in time. True, we can
Now we come to the third verdict, the man speaks. There,
question, the ringing, but in the verdict, the man speaks, something
speaks," you wish your own inner being to confront the man's
substance, before the matter that really concerns us. In speaking,
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speak, while having a color or tone experience of the outer world
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it not only can flow along in the soul unconsciously, so to speak,
to speak; it is not itself present. Then it begins to unite with all
body, has entered the etheric body — has itself, so to speak,
soul. Our soul is the stage, so to speak, where these forces
measure of what speaks to the feelings. On the other hand, one whose
inner experiences in words that speak powerfully to men. Such a one
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I will sketch the former for you. Aristotle speaks
of man. He speaks of the spirit as of something superadded to the
latter, he is constrained to speak of the spirit as of something
quite impossible to speak, in Aristotle's sense, of a single
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arrives at inferences such as were described yesterday. Hegel speaks
it then be possible, in the materialists' sense, to speak of a world
justified in speaking of the spiritual world who either envision it
participate, so to speak, in so far as we look up from the man of the
Here, as you see, is a man who speaks sincerely and
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context? It is that we should be able, so to speak, to form a valid
perception, then and only then is it possible to speak of forming a
justifies our speaking of visualizations and emotions as though they
standing dynamically side by side, so to speak, but to start
speak. We try to understand it, then we seek the essence underlying
peasant woman was floating, so to speak, in a world of devotion and,
speak, the thoughts we frame about objects. The objects are given,
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our own soul and spirit, that we should, so to speak, first of all
saying agreeable things but with speaking the truth objectively. We
learned to know our own tone, so to speak, we discover how ill
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upon me to speak upon a very sublime subject with which man is
is necessary for us to grow accustomed to speak in such a way on these
been such Beings in the development of our earth. (I am only speaking
impossible in any part of the earth to speak about the Ego in this
beforehand to speak of the Ego in that special way, well, it could not
of civilisation, has it become possible to speak in the form of pure
speak like that along the lines of the theory of knowledge, for there
inner voice speaks, telling him: You ought not to do this. You
to speak, prove historically that there was a beginning to the time
when men began to speak of conscience. When this was, is clearly
word was, so to speak, only the call to attention, the signal, that a
things flowed in from outside, so to speak as we saw in the
sentient soul and instill into it, so to speak, the power of thought,
in man. Yet, although he made use, so to speak, of all the human
body. Humanly speaking, there was something tragic in the fact that
all along been speaking of those Beings who formed the sentient-soul
the inner nature of man, so to speak. For indeed we cannot but say to
Buddha influenced the intellectual soul from within, so to speak,
surrounded by twelve Bodhisattvas; we cannot indeed speak of more than
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the law of karma. As a rule they do not see, figuratively speaking,
may certainly seem as though one could speak of unfulfilled wishes,
things to-day to speak of them from the high horse of
but that one should speak of the spiritual world in general
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spiritual world, so to speak, with the qualities he has acquired
speaking, much longer than the Ages we still have to describe. After
applied to larger spans. We are now speaking of the divisions of time
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would not people, speaking in a materialistic sense at the end of the
In bygone centuries it was, comparatively speaking, not harmful for
to speak. Those persons will be God-filled (or blessed) who, through
Anthroposophy, speaking from spiritual investigation, will tell men of
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matter. People come along to-day and speaking from their trivial
speak of man and woman we only refer to the configuration of their
being of man; so that we cannot, in an occult sense, speak as our
makes a man or woman a human being, it can only speak of them as it
sees them. We are not now speaking of the human being as such in man
understands these things it will no longer speak as foolishly as it
Eastern writings speak with deep sorrow of that land, asking:
why Eastern literature speaks with such tragic despair of the vanished
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shall speak on that same subject in our group-meeting to-day. There is
that a man who has already mastered certain basic facts can both speak
speak in a study-group we assume that the minds of those present have
looking at things and speaking of them in one way only, though that
that precious possession of the human soul, which speaks like the
is not so very long ago, comparatively speaking, that the human
forth far and wide, speaking as it were for the spiritual-world:
we, speaking in an external and spatial sense, have referred to as the
innocence of conscience! How does it speak? It speaks in the same way
from the lowest to the highest, already speaks in the Sentient-Soul,
passions, and speaks there like a voice from God, urging man to
pressing forth from the depths of the soul. Conscience speaks like an
describe it, are far from hitting the mark. It speaks with the same
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in the womb of time, so to speak, and had to be brought to birth. In
renewed when it had, so to speak, grown old; but in the course of time
is an egotistical expression of the human soul. Those who speak thus
dwell in each human soul, so to speak, and can be realised within each
spiritual vision the voice of God will once more speak to him, the
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Because the Being of Whom we are speaking can say of Himself: "I
of the peace. In speaking of matters as grave as this it is not good
to take contemporary examples, so I will speak of something that happened
with the Gospel of St. John we may speak of great, transcendental
the Gospel of St. Luke we find that which speaks at every moment to
the whole nature of that Being? It has been necessary to speak of these
speak of a third attribute, but as it involves matters which have not
John we speak of Christ as the sublime Sun-Being, as the Light of
St. Luke we speak of the warmth of the Love streaming from Christ;
in connection with the Gospel of St. Mark we shall speak of the
speak of Sentient Soul, Mind-Soul and Spiritual Soul, and study the
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that the things of which we shall now be speaking call for accurate
been speaking that full manhood became, for the first time, a possibility.
the Ego, the 'I', the Godhead speaks; earthly conditions have
no longer a voice. In the 'I' the kingdom of the Spirit speaks;
the Spirit from the heavens speaks when the 'I' has become fully
of man." When we speak of mineral, plant and animal kingdoms we can
look back into the whole course of human evolution, could speak as follows:
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In the first years of our work in the German Section we so to speak
speak to-day on a subject that concerns the theosophical attitude of
shall do well to speak, a matter that is closely connected with our
This is why there is such difficulty with old books which speak of
Science speaks of evolution; so does Spiritual Science. If you have
then he continued to speak of how it is really nonsense to presuppose
sees the sun! You would then be speaking the truth." He would
who scorns the path of thought develops powers which, so to speak, do
spiritual world we have, so to speak, enough. It is necessary that we
A man may, so to speak, be a clairvoyant without knowing it; and one
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knowledge is to be found among all the peoples of antiquity. We may speak
Now, speaking generally,
of the spiritual life. They are very ready to speak of prophets who
they all have: they speak of an event that is to come, but neglect so
unto Abraham. You speak without understanding when you say: "We
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most eminent sense for the post-Atlantean age. We do not speak of an
We speak of an old-Indian period of civilisation, of an old-Persian
if we would speak of our time preparing a sixth race. If relics of the
would always repeat itself, so that one could always speak of seven
lets the facts alone speak, when one heeds no reasons derived from
personal opinion, but lets facts alone speak in this sphere.
so it speaks to the deepest kernel of man's being, so it grasps this
kernel of man. As we usually speak from man to man, fundamentally it
is only surface speaking to surface, something which we have not
man's being, and, when it is understood aright by another, speaks
speak in the various national languages what has to be announced, the
spirit. Physics speaks of an impact of bodies. It has
we speak is only comprehensible to those faculties of our soul which
speak of things in this way ceases to have any meaning. Then indeed it
we learn to speak a language, which is really not merely understood by
spoken. There we speak to all human beings. Because in a certain
whether they are in the one or other condition. Thus we speak a speech
In the future, that which speaks to the depths of man's soul will
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epoch are already being prepared. Roughly speaking, people in our
this concept of race in its original meaning. Thus, we do not speak
true or proper to do so. Instead, we speak of an Indian, a Persian,
speak. Consequently, in the beginning of the theosophical movement
one could always speak of seven races and seven sub-races. However,
decision. We begin to be objective only when we let the facts speak
regardless of race or nationality. This movement speaks only to the
the innermost core of the human being, and it speaks to and touches
this core of a person's being. We usually speak to each other only as
center of one individual's being and speaks to and is understood
anthroposophy speaks a new language. Even if we are still obliged to
speak in the various national languages, the content of what is
speak of an "impact" of bodies. They have forgotten that
but the material. What is in our soul while we speak can therefore be
begin to develop spiritual perception, speaking in this way ceases to
more important than all theories, to learn to speak a language that
being, we are speaking a language that can be understood here in the
so-called dead. They are fully at one with us when we speak the same
language. With this language we speak to all human beings. After all,
living or dead. Thus, in anthroposophy we speak a language that is
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day, spiritually, by always speaking on what concerns the day, but one
of spiritual science, we can speak of a tribal father of the Jewish
a revelation from outside, through a revelation which speaks through
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It is not by speaking of what lies on the surface of daily life that
through a revelation that speaks through the outer world.
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Speaking still quite generally, one can say that during
was their companion, so to speak; he felt that he belonged with other
yourselves that we can learn to speak and to think today only if we
speaking. We thus see that the way in which any being develops
experienced it, one knows it and can speak of it as something with
Age." If one is moderate, so to speak, in one's claims,
which we have been speaking. Then human beings will learn to perceive
therefore, that we must speak of the second coming of Christ and of
surrounding us, and they speak a different language. Of all that is
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time will still have to pass before it will be possible to speak of the
Speaking still
were obliged so to speak, to exchange our consciousness of the
will remind ourselves that we can learn to speak and think today if
knowledge speaks of this age when man was still united with the
those days to speak about spiritual things; one could have
experienced and known and a man can speak of it as something with
speak, demands are kept moderate and one is satisfied with the range
into the spiritual world themselves. Thus we may speak of the return
surrounding us, and they speak a different language. The Dead
are speaking also for those who are living between death and a new
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to our progress if we could not occasionally speak about the more
what spiritual investigation offers us. I shall now speak to you
ourselves: we can indeed speak of ages of transition, but we should
about which it will be necessary to speak, whether one understands it
When we speak in this way, we feel what anthroposophy
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(Blessed are the peacemakers ...) whoever speaks to injure
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had brought him into this world. One speaks in a Christian sense,
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being. For this reason we may not speak of a mammal as a microcosm,
task. Halley's Comet — we are speaking here of its spiritual
will speak tomorrow about the great spiritual meaning of our time.
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that says, as if speaking from heaven, that humanity needs a
the wisdom, so to speak, of the higher worlds. In the same way, the
faculty is trampled to death, so to speak, if one who talks about
We are retracing our steps, so to speak, along the path of evolution.
is the one about whom the ancient Hebraic esoteric doctrine speaks!
It is spoken of as one would speak of an ancient fairyland, one that
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spiritual world withdrew more and more from man's vision and speaking
fundamentally speaking it was the wisdom of Solomon through which men
out, if those who speak about faculties of this kind are put away as
Halley's Comet — we are speaking of its spiritual aspect
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not speak to him about spiritual worlds because man no longer had the
Generally speaking, the ages of history repeat themselves, but always
teacher instead, after which Tauler was able to speak of God with such
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Even the teacher, the preserver of tradition, could not speak to him
Generally speaking, the ages of history repeat
to speak of God from his inner being with such force that a number of
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today, let us speak of some intimate concerns of our spiritual
One can speak about these things only in a circle where
must become wiser through truth, but one must also speak ever more
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hallucinations; others will be afraid to speak about them, dreading
woman, not in one's inner being (we are speaking now of the outer
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mighty picture which speaks to the very depths of our soul. It is a
us in another picture, speaking powerfully to all hearts which have
understand the Christ, feel as if they were not speaking to people
speaking about the Christ Impulse, of working in the significance of
that the Holy Spirit speaks out of his own inner being, in the measure
Hence it is the Easter festival that speaks to us of that force which
to let speak the fiery tongues, the individualised Holy Spirit within
earth? Within the Christ Impulse dwells the power to speak to all men,
Christianity by the Founder Himself, the Word that Christ speaks in
exoteric teaching in Buddhism. It is quite wrong to speak of an
with us, speak in us.
ever farther and farther and will speak to men in ever new tones; that
boundaries separating the different parts of humanity and speaks a
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himself from the objects around him. Fundamentally speaking, it is
human beings. I am speaking, to begin with, of experiences that arise
in speaking of a Macrocosm, a Great World in contrast to the
produces effects we can no longer speak of a non-reality.
Actual experiences therefore justify us in speaking of man as a
lectures will speak in greater and greater detail of the paths leading
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speak of all the hypotheses, some more interesting than others, that
difference between the two states. It would be easy to speak of these
sleep, to stop speaking, tasting, hearing, and so forth. A power is
that speaking and acting during sleep rarely occur. The influence that
Mind-Soul; when he begins to speak or to act in his sleep, an
man becomes a sleep-walker; he speaks and acts in his sleep. In the
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Fundamentally speaking he does not see the objects themselves at all,
sense-world had so to speak died away. The pupils of the Mysteries had
speaks purely to the intellect, can be a Thread of Ariadne, helping us
point of importance. Until now I have been speaking only of knowledge
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begin by speaking of the regions lying beyond these frontiers. Man
physical and etheric bodies, and we know that fundamentally speaking
relatively speaking, we can do a great deal to develop our powers of
into us from Cosmic Thinking. Only a theorist would speak in this way,
feeling of obligation, we can now speak further of what is called the
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Generally speaking, however, it is not good, nor is it without danger,
can experience by descending into his inner being, we will speak of
inherit is a reconstruction, so to speak, of everything we ourselves
nature of our physical body. And when we speak of the etheric body we
During the next few days we shall describe the other path by speaking
made them desire to speak the truth it may happen that as soon as
guided, who like to speak constantly of the need to find the
quicken and inspire, speak in them. Hence their constant insistence
sleep and then pass on to speak of the macrocosmic spheres into which
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deeper mystical path, it was necessary to speak of the chief danger
considerable reduction, for it can be said, broadly speaking, that
can speak only in similes, endeavouring so to choose the words that
about by twelve Beings. Only in this way is it possible to speak truly
We are speaking here of the deeds of these spiritual Beings. A
we are speaking now of the physical world, not of what becomes of our
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it would of course be possible to speak of these worlds not merely for
rest. The choleric man will speak of how fiery everything appears, for
a certain respect. If we speak with unprejudiced minds our ordinary
reached a higher level we shall know more. Anyone who speaks about
pass from there into a still higher world and of this we will speak
be thought of as designations of offices. If we speak of Spirits of
speaking of a councilor, privy councilor, or the like; the man may
It will now be our task to speak of the first world revealed to man
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external reality, will speak derisively of the Rose-Cross symbol and
In order that we may understand one another fully, I will speak about
are therefore somewhat condensed. I wanted today to speak of certain
and to-morrow we shall speak of what he becomes and what is eventually
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In speaking yesterday of the so-called Rosicrucian path into the
meditation pictures that are taken from life and speak to the heart,
it but I will speak of something that may make it intelligible. There
fault of the one who is speaking, but not necessarily so; it may be
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so to speak, constantly to congeal, to coagulate. Think of it in this
possessed in life. Therefore we may hear such people speak of having
sets in we speak of a Pralaya. These are expressions drawn
from Oriental philosophy. We can therefore speak of a
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subjects were to be presented, one would have to speak, not for weeks
We reached the point yesterday of speaking about an experience of
speaking of the Elementary world a quite different conception of
utterance shows that the speakers are incapable of any similar
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But there is something else which may console us, so to speak, even if
to be the law of causes in the general way before we speak of
before, material science would speak of cause and effect in the
cannot speak of an effect following upon a cause. This preliminary
Now we must not speak of karma in a way similar to that of the sunray
the term karma in speaking of a simple relation between effect and
speak of the effect of the shot arrow in connection with its cause as
so to speak, on the bow. Thus an effect is obtained which reacts on
something quite different, we cannot yet speak of karma.
We may speak of karma only when the effects which react upon a being
speak. Now, if we look back after death we see numerous events of the
the latter reacts upon them! Thus we see that it is possible to speak
So we have now been able to speak of the conception of karma, of its
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these occasions also we can acquire the ability to speak about the
know that in the case of animals we cannot speak of a reincarnation
dissolved, so to speak, into chaos. Up to a certain time of cosmic
shall see that we can indeed speak of a relation between the karma of
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Let us suppose that two persons are speaking together. One says to the
Now when we are considering karma we must speak of connections of
being. If we speak of health and disease from the standpoint of karma
the case of illness. When speaking of people who are ill, and also of
We may certainly speak of the diseases of plants, for a real
one does not go to work in a fantastic way, one cannot well speak of
clearly perceive that we must still speak of the healing forces in the
incorrectly built, so to speak, and which manifests irregularly formed
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the disease come, so to speak, and waiting to see how the self-healing
case, and I must again repeat that I avoid speaking from any sort of
In the course of these lectures, we shall have to speak on the causes
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speak of ahrimanic predisposition to disease. We then pointed out in
From this we see that in a certain respect we can really speak of a
Thus we speak of external causes of human illness and health. And the
really speak of chance. This word is really disastrous for
themselves that induces us to speak of chance, but that it
is at its strongest. So that just where we have to speak of important
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event in a veiled form, because in those instances where we speak of
in speaking of hereditary disposition, we suffer from a delusion,
descending into his own inner self. He speaks of Ent
intimate connection was, so to speak, dissolved. Thus before the
We must not apply this statement without limits. When we speak in
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we realise how profound these records are. Before we can speak about
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mania. When we speak in the terms of Spiritual Science things must be
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this respect we might speak of a brain being frozen to a certain
I have said before, that we cannot speak of karma for animals in the
follows death. To speak of an animal's birth and death in the same way
as we speak of man's would be absurd, because they are preceded by
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We are now speaking, on the one hand, of the deeper nature of material
are now speaking, matter and soul? What are they in their deeper
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speaking of this plan we could never fall into the error of saying:
not speak of our culture as necessarily everlasting.
thousand years there would still be persons who would speak of the
intention thus charged with our own karma. Therefore we cannot speak
really speak of free will in connection with karma. The expression
to speak of these things in an anthroposophical circle, among
again say on this occasion that I have endeavoured to speak of the
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It affords me great satisfaction to be able to speak
as we are not now speaking about the path of knowledge — what
there are good reasons why one should now begin to speak of this
do not exist, so to speak. It may perhaps not be so difficult for our
that there are, so to speak amongst the beings perceptible to the
that we may therefore speak of a Swiss Folk-spirit as we do of the
body and ' I ', we have before us so to speak
to us today; here we comprehend man, so to speak, at the present
There is still something else to note, in speaking of
speak, from what those beings do whom to-day we call men. There is
the fact that there are, so to speak, seven consecutive epochs
speaking the same language, out of this or that language of form, in
speaking the language of that people? That is not an individual
see what belongs not only to his evolution, so to speak, but to the
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pleasure to speak at greater length for the third time to our friends
speak quite impartially about the mission of the individual, Folk
their mission hitherto, so it is in order today to begin to speak of
fingers and hands. We may therefore speak of a Swiss Folk Spirit in
the same way as we speak of the Spirit of a man. We can just as
speaking of Old Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon conditions another
speak the language of his people. He does not acquire this by his own
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of the physical world should speak thus, for he only knows what he
exhaust what he knows about this particular country. When we speak of
materialist we are only speaking of an abstraction. To clairvoyant
ground, so to speak, but upon the last inhabitants of that territory.
and so to speak, work in conjunction with them. Now from this
Hierarchies; we shall then, so to speak, find the names of these
work who belong by rank, so to speak, to the Archangels, but are
the very reason that, so to speak, out of love high Beings remained
that there was a point in the evolution of mankind, when so to speak,
people like the Swiss, who live in one and the same country and speak
three languages, and on the other hand peoples who speak one language
have to speak later. Peoples whose existence is more under the
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picture of a particular geographical area. To speak of a particular
cooperate with the Archangels and, so to speak, work in conjunction
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who expresses himself in the Spirit of the Age becomes, so to speak,
speak, compelled to take something away from the Archangel, because
are certainly right in speaking of a German, a Dutch, a Norwegian
nation, but we speak of a Germanic race. Now what acts in the idea of
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directives, when he is compelled, so to speak, to take over some of
communities. We rightly speak of a German, Dutch or Norwegian nation;
at the same time we speak of a Germanic race. Now what lies behind
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if I may be allowed to speak somewhat metaphorically I might say,
of evolution we can reasonably speak of the idea of race. There could
be no sense according to the real meaning of the word in speaking of
in evolution. If a person were to speak against necessity he would
arrive at nothing; for to speak against it means to put hindrances in
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germinal condition. And if I may speak somewhat figuratively I might
opposition to the intentions of the Spirits of Form, so to speak —
period of evolution when one can justifiably speak of the idea of
speak of race in the true sense of the term before the Lemurian
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to speak work together, and that in a people, an Archangel who is
to speak, by the Cherubim and Seraphim. The Cherubim help in the
schools speak. It is that too, which Goethe describes when he speaks
this equilibrium which, so to speak, is established in the
element at the lowest stage, it begins so to speak with the lowest
the development of races and peoples and so on, we shall speak
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arises, so to speak, a frontier or boundary which is the apparent
occult schools speak. That too is what Goethe describes when he
speaks of the Sun, not as the giver of light, but when he says:
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These have their centre in the other five planets, speaking of the
one such Mystery-Oracle the truths of which we are now speaking were
peoples whose sign, so to speak, lies in the Venus-character, the
nineteenth century, a representative of these old Indians speaks of
by something else; he is made great by the Great Spirit, Who speaks
and lightning! That is the Spirit Who to us speaks truth. Oh, the
Great Spirit speaks truth! Your Spirits, whom you have here on paper,
and who express what to you is great, they do not speak truth.'
letters — hop about on the paper and who do not speak the
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Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury, speaking in terms of the seven
such Mystery Oracle the truths of which we are now speaking were
it is the Great Spirit who speaks to him in the soughing of the wind,
who to us speaks truth. Yes, from the lips of the Great Spirit comes
great, they do not speak the truth." Thus spoke the Indian
letters — "dance on the paper; they do not speak the
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to speak, progressing a stage further in their own development. Since
of the Age, and undertook, so to speak, the guidance of that which
is of course exceedingly difficult to speak impartially of these
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differentiated. It is of course extremely difficult to speak
world it would be regarded as the height of folly to speak of that
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because — on account of certain preconceived ideas, (to, speak
migration was finished, the most mature, so to speak, the most
development sprang forth, so to speak, from the Spirits of Form or
belonging more to the normal side, so to speak. To the abnormal side
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to observe how human development sprang forth, so to speak, from the
so to speak, to the outer. He could still respond when he learned
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civilization that one first began to speak of the relation of the
has been permeated by the Luciferic power. When, therefore, we speak
of Lucifer, we are speaking of that which has caused man to sink
speaks of both Luciferic and of Ahrimanic powers.
indications here; but if it were possible to speak for weeks at a
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speak of the relationship of the human ego to the surrounding
speak of Lucifer, we are speaking of that which has thrust man down
speaks of both Luciferic and Ahrimanic powers. It will seem very
from the Greek — that St. Mark's Gospel does not speak of
indications here, but if it were possible to speak for weeks on end
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will not be the last time we shall speak together here on similar
thousand years, Christ will be able to speak more and more to the
scientific spiritual knowledge, that persons may, it is true, speak
necessity of the facts alone compels us to speak on these matters in
speaks in the sense of Rosicrucianism knows neither Orientalism nor
the future, if we would speak with the words of Vidar, the silent
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will not be the last time that we shall speak together here on
truths, people might venture to speak of a future manifestation of
speaks from the point of view of Rosicrucianism accepts neither
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be quite clear as to the point of time in evolution we are speaking
something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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be quite clear as to the point of time in evolution we are speaking
something unspeakably poverty-stricken compared with what the ancient
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is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition
nature a certain cleavage. When we speak of man today, we do not
verb racheph by praying in aid, so to speak, all the
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
breath have to contain, in order to make this form begin to speak? It
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is an ascent to the light element. Thus, speaking of the transition
nature a certain cleavage. When we speak of man today, we do not
verb racheph by praying in aid, so to speak, all the
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
breath have to contain, in order to make this form begin to speak? It
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yesterday when speaking of the rarefaction of light. That is a very
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yesterday when speaking of the rarefaction of light. That is a very
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my speaking ofa cosmic body consisting only of warmth, I must refer
shall there speak not only of the whole basis of Anthroposophy, but
in order to satisfy contemporary minds, I shall speak also of the
to. But mark, please, in what sense we speak of warmth or fire in the
the Sun, the second phase of the evolution of our planet, and speak
faculties of seers who speak to us across thousands of years.
into existence of our earth. Whether we speak of the denser states
trinity, we usually make use of Christian designations, and speak of
Genesis first speaks of the setting up of sun and moon as directing time.
the sun was not there until the fourth "day," we cannot speak
and when one spoke of weekdays, as we speak of Sunday, Monday,
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my speaking of a cosmic body consisting only of warmth, I must refer
shall there speak not only of the whole basis of Anthroposophy, but
in order to satisfy contemporary minds, I shall speak also of the
to. But mark, please, in what sense we speak of warmth or fire in the
the Sun, the second phase of the evolution of our planet, and speak
faculties of seers who speak to us across thousands of years.
into existence of our earth. Whether we speak of the denser states
trinity, we usually make use of Christian designations, and speak of
Genesis first speaks of the setting up of sun and moon as directing time.
the sun was not there until the fourth "day," we cannot speak
and when one spoke of weekdays, as we speak of Sunday, Monday,
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Genesis speaks of darkness, it is speaking of the manifestation of
the backward Saturn Beings. And when it speaks of light, it is
light of which Genesis speaks is not the light which we can see with
from cosmic space. Up to that time Genesis speaks only of the plant
language, will endure as a document which speaks to mankind for all
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Genesis speaks of darkness, it is speaking of the manifestation of
the backward Saturn Beings. And when it speaks of light, it is
light of which Genesis speaks is not the light which we can see with
from cosmic space. Up to that time Genesis speaks only of the plant
language, will endure as a document which speaks to mankind for all
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within it, the very spirits whom we have been speaking of for days as
around us, it speaks to us in the Being of the Thrones; but it is
longer seven, but a sevenfold whole. We can now speak of an
possible. That is why the Bible begins by speaking simply of the
stage, when they have advanced to a unity, it speaks of Jahve-Elohim.
speaks in the second part of Faust with the doggerel in the first
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within it, the very spirits whom we have been speaking of for days as
around us, it speaks to us in the Being of the Thrones; but it is
longer seven, but a sevenfold whole. We can now speak of an
possible. That is why the Bible begins by speaking simply of the
stage, when they have advanced to a unity, it speaks of Jahve-Elohim.
speaks in the second part of Faust with the doggerel in the first
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Beings whom we speak of as belonging to this or that hierarchy had
something outside us; earlier, all the Beings of whom we can speak
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Beings whom we speak of as belonging to this or that hierarchy had
something outside us; earlier, all the Beings of whom we can speak
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weaving warmth we can speak only of the first rudiments of physical
observe that Genesis, when beginning to speak of the creation of man,
from what it was in the time of which Genesis speaks. When man sleeps
body" coined in the Middle Ages is correct. We speak of the
Genesis speaks the astral body was not the same as our own astral
that Genesis indicates it in a most wonderful way by speaking first
much further that we can speak of a unitary consciousness, a
"days" of creation, speaks of Paradise we must look for
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weaving warmth we can speak only of the first rudiments of physical
observe that Genesis, when beginning to speak of the creation of man,
from what it was in the time of which Genesis speaks. When man sleeps
body" coined in the Middle Ages is correct. We speak of the
Genesis speaks the astral body was not the same as our own astral
that Genesis indicates it in a most wonderful way by speaking first
much further that we can speak of a unitary consciousness, a
"days" of creation, speaks of Paradise we must look for
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into the third "day" of creation, we cannot speak of
the good effects of the moon forces. For we must speak of good moon
different from that of the earth. The astro-physicist speaking from
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into the third "day" of creation, we cannot speak of
the good effects of the moon forces. For we must speak of good moon
different from that of the earth. The astro-physicist speaking from
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we cannot speak of the human creation of the Elohim as separately
Spiritual Science. When we speak of the human soul, we distinguish
superficially speaking, man has the same bodily functions as the
corresponds with the Lemurian age, in which we speak of the
Now the Bible speaks
understand that the Elohim give up, so to speak, only a part of their
speaking of the Jahve-men as the descendants, the subsequent
speaks of the descendants of Noah. Thus this passage must be
speaking of the descendants of the heaven-and-earth beings who were
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that
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we cannot speak of the human creation of the Elohim as separately
Spiritual Science. When we speak of the human soul, we distinguish
superficially speaking, man has the same bodily functions as the
corresponds with the Lemurian age, in which we speak of the
Now the Bible speaks
understand that the Elohim give up, so to speak, only a part of their
speaking of the Jahve-men as the descendants, the subsequent
speaks of the descendants of Noah. Thus this passage must be
speaking of the descendants of the heaven-and-earth beings who were
speaking of these things at all. Nevertheless I think I may say that
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had the opportunity of speaking in Switzerland of the
sinks into the human soul when we speak of the Gospel of
element of understanding, speaking of the ultimate
John. John speaks more to our understanding, Luke to our
the birth of a man; this is, when he speaks of the star
affecting the whole future of mankind. Thus in speaking of
I must emphasize that in speaking here of Zarathustra I do
language. Speaking as a teacher to his pupils he might say:
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third opportunity I have had of speaking in Switzerland
therefore speak of 'contradictions' in the
John. That Gospel speaks more to our faculty of
in the manner and style of speaking in the two
will be necessary to speak with greater precision of
world, were on familiar terms, so to speak, with the
whom I am speaking was said, even by the Greeks, to have
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There it was shown how unusually difficult it is to speak in
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and to speak of only a few of the teachings that are
speak of something in cosmic existence without being
principles, or — better said — speaks of two
a carnation, but speaking only of features that are
extraordinarily difficult it is to speak in terms of
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emphasized how impossible it is to speak intelligibly and
Universe. In speaking of this ether and of this sound we
are therefore speaking of something far more spiritual,
why old traditions speak of Jahve or Jehovah as a Moon
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he could speak as I have already indicated.
immediately possible to speak in comprehensible words to
and to say: He of whom we speak, did not live at the
that men were still able to speak to eye-witnesses who would
Whom the Gospels of Matthew and Luke speak; but we have also
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spiritual-scientific sense it is not correct to speak of
speak in the way I have already indicated.
was speaking with the same voice as the eternal,
speak without more ado in words that are intelligible to
shall speak further of this. I only wanted now to call up
mattcr of speaking to those who had been actual
Gospel of Matthew speaks in the first place.
of Nazareth' of whom we are speaking in these
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hence in a society like this I can speak without hesitation
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emphasize, however, that to speak about the personality
understand it in all its depth we must again speak
reference has often been made when 'we have been speaking
Gospel, as well as of the other Gospels. We shall speak
which makes man part of the physical world, we can speak
we speak of 'astral' body — the purest
Gospel is speaking, came down from God himself. This is
speak again to-morrow of the reasons why the Gospel of
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Jesus of whom it speaks. In the Jesus of the Gospel of
which speaks more clearly than other sources of knowledge,
Jesus of whom the Gospel of Matthew speaks — for as
Nathan line? He was able to speak thus because the
truth, it was withheld. The Gospels speak the truth we have
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Adam' — speaking now in the Biblical sense
prepared blood of which the Gospel of St. Matthew speaks.
that they learnt, comparatively speaking more quickly, to
happenings of which I have still to speak, after the
the Jesus of St. Luke's Gospel, we will now speak in
understanding what the Gospels say — for they speak
Zarathustra (or Zarathas) who was now speaking out of the
In speaking
the early chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel speaks —
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speak of the temptations and delusions that took possession
now speaking of the rebirth of these three sheaths, since
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St. Luke. It is the more necessary to speak of this,
speak of an objection that is very naturally made. It
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the ancient Hebrew language by three words. Just as we speak
speaking to us directly from far-off time. It is like the
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feel that such records speak to us across the ages. It is
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been speaking, souls have progressed from clairvoyance to
the ego dawns. Therefore we must speak of the reception of
Blessed is he in whom is truth, and speaks truth to his
evolution in this sense the Gospel of Matthew speaks on every
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that needed to be changed. He would have had to speak to
want still to speak of something particularly
Properly speaking, knowledge of the surrounding
very arduous, relatively speaking, to undergo the true
is he in whom is the truth, that he may speak the truth
of this the Gospel of St. Matthew speaks on every
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Matthew desired to emphasize. Speaking out of occult
speak of something else. In ancient times a crowd or mass of
when He tells them He does not speak of the old leaven of the
our duty to speak of this fact, just as the great Essene
speaking entirely in the sense of that inspiring Bodhisattva
are not speaking in accordance with any religious confession.
We are not speaking of a return of Christ that will be
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speak, in what your Ego says to you.' — Hence
is that the Gospels are speaking here of miracles. But
times. A person speaking of conditions of life as they
when the writer of the Gospel of St. Matthew speaks of
sick. So you see, the Gospels are speaking of something
speaking out of occult consciousness, I can say: The
lecture. I want now to speak briefly about the following.
that He is not speaking of the old leaven of the
speak entirely in the sense of the inspiring Bodhisattva
not speak of how the Christ is to become perceptible on
religious denominations. We are not afraid to speak in a
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He speaks of the events that are about to take place, and of
is the conscious Peter who now speaks, who fails to
death are to follow. So when the conscious Peter speaks (he
now speaks in thee but that which thou hast evolved within
speak of the historical origin of corresponding
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speaking here.
deepest powers in human nature — were speaking out
Peter. Immediately afterwards He begins to speak of what
was speaking; he now gives utterance to what has already
conscious faculties is speaking, Christ must reprove him,
Mention was made of this when we were speaking of the
can speak to those around Him of the beginning of
Christ speaks to the following effect. — Initiation
Christ draws special attention to this by speaking of the
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who enter into man and speak to him. Modern people regard
Matthew and Luke speak of the man who evolved towards this
People who know of these things do not speak in empty phrases
to the astral body of the Sun, speaks of 'Ahura
said — speaking altogether in the sense of Zarathustra
speaking of the inner nature of Christ Jesus, describes
speak of those human relationships established by the God Who
Christ Himself. And we know when we speak in the right way of
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we can speak of Him as a descending Being. As such He is
resounded Hence the Persian legend speaks of the Sun Word
speaking there of the astral body of the Sun, of Ahura
Word, the Sun Logos, speak through the Sun Aura'...
Matthew Gospel is speaking of the Sun Being who has
way. He is therefore speaking of the direct effects
speak to other, non-Christian peoples of Vishva Karman,
each. — Naturally, when we speak of the different
to a conclusion, I want to speak in the way I am
accustomed to speak at the end of our Summer courses, but
Benedictus is speaking:
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life. How many say light-heartedly: — "People speak here
qualities of which we have been speaking and towards which we must
a man there to lay on himself the command to be truthful than speak
In speaking of the
We shall speak at our next group-meeting of what was then attempted, at
a more general way. When speaking here or elsewhere of the conditions
of spiritual life we speak of these as they are right for every soul.
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of progress in Spiritual Science. People speak glibly about a
have opportunity to speak here often but it is the only thing
In speaking of
speak here or anywhere else of the conditions of the
spiritual life, we speak of them as they concern every soul.
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moment to speak somewhat more exactly about humility in respect of
defining man, by speaking of his being or nature. If you study my
himself to what is of objective value only, he must never speak of
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humility and it is of this humility that I want to speak a
physiognomical expression, so to speak, of a spiritual world
must never speak about anything that concerns or affects
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university professor mounts the platform, or a public speaker
he is to speak about, and retain it in his memory. Certainly, there
speaking in this vital picture-language which came whenever they had
concerning super-sensible worlds, and they could speak of them in the
ideas, for the facts they have accumulated speak for themselves. In
such a conception, and for this, when speaking of cause and effect,
connections, but must speak of the future as something real;
which are about to begin. But first I had to speak of the necessity
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speaking, been pressed down into the subconscious. It does
speaking generally, the lines of the bodily structures have
public speaker must take care that he knows beforehand what
say that knowledge arose at the actual moment of speaking. In
to speak for themselves. With Psychology — the science of
considered. We shall have to learn to speak of the future as
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accepted in a very special way. As I intend to speak on the Gospels during
soul) could come before men and speak of the secrets of the spiritual
which this personality, Jesus of Nazareth, could speak of these
the Mysteries, so that they might then go forth and speak of these
possible for them to speak of the secrets of spiritual realms and
Prophets looking to the future could speak as follows: —
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different centres of the Mysteries. Generally speaking the
able to speak to others about the secrets of the spiritual
of Nazareth was able to speak of these secrets through what
go forth and speak to their fellow-men of the secrets of the
there was no possibility of speaking at first hand about the
From the beginning he speaks of how humanity has developed in
in the sense in which we use it when, in speaking of the
prophet Isaiah speaks is to make men aware that they must
the Director and Ruler of the soul-forces. Nowadays we speak
to speak, by the twelve signs of the Zodiac. The souls flowed
Macrocosm. Generally speaking, a very great deal was
and speak of a higher Power — an Angel who speaks through
Universe was speaking to men in what took place in Palestine
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because opportunity offers itself today to speak of the Mark Gospel.
If we speak of this, we must be quite clear how necessary it is to
which one felt the responsibility that GOD should speak from out of
in the Greek text: Behold, how it appears, how it there speaks in the
Isaiah speaks of John the Baptist, how he points out thereby that
the gospel speaks quite exactly as if this sun-force dwelt in a
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different ways, so to speak. We hope these lectures could establish
evangelists. Today, therefore, I have set myself the task to speak
the speaker expressed his innermost being through his way of
the picture, so to speak — of what was outside. We can say that
speaker's soul. When A
responsibly, and through which God would speak. That is why it
in the Greek text. "Behold, what speaks in the solitude —
understand that Isaiah speaks of John the Baptist, that he points out
would they have had to speak of him if they had understood such
speaks of this being moving purely spiritually exactly as though he
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speaker's inmost being, whereas the consonants were
seems to speak in the desolation of the soul — call it
understand the sense in which he speaks about the future John
Wherever St. Mark's Gospel speaks of the Christ, what
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days men will speak only of their Ego and as long as that Ego
John speaks of himself unambiguously as an Aquarius Initiate.
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speak about similarities in such a case are not aware of the
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the result of sense-observation and not reality. When we speak of
therefore when in speaking of this in spiritual science we say: The
Speaking of this
(I am not speaking now of the "individuality" of
in which the leaders of mankind arose. In speaking of it we have
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lecture began by speaking of the distinctive character of St.
I shall shortly be speaking in a lecture for the public. The
When we speak
we speak of this in terms of Spiritual Science, we rightly
In his account of these temptations Buddha speaks of beings
am not speaking now of the Individuality of
I shall now speak of the mode of Initiation which was to be
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Archangels on the other hand, we speak of Spiritual Beings whose
but a real individuality, just as we speak of the
"individuality" of separate men. And when speaking of the
leader is called an Archangel. In speaking of these exalted Beings we
speak of real super-sensible entities having their own spheres of
different from "Folk-Spirits." We speak, for instance, of
doing so speak of something allotted to different parts of the earth.
spiritual leaders of men appear whom we call Initiates, who speak not
new was speaking to them; that through this man who had appeared
synagogue: we feel when He speaks as though one of the Exusiai spoke
"Johnnie wills." It only learns later to speak of itself
time of which we have been speaking.
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day speaks of a 'Folk-Spirit' he thinks, purely
a real individuality just as we speak of an individuality in
Archangeloi or Folk-Spirits. If we speak of the French, the
contrast to the single Folk-Spirit we speak here of the
can certainly speak of the different effects of food upon
entirely new was speaking to them; that through this
speaks it is as though the Exousiai were speaking, not merely
parcel of the whole environment. He even speaks of himself as
speak of himself as 'I'. Modern child
been speaking.
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scribes.' What does speaking 'with
the Exousiai, who as I have said, speak through events of
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have with our subject. We will have to speak to-day, for instance, of
ideals." We must therefore acknowledge when speaking strictly:
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particular line of study belongs. To-day we shall speak of
generally speaking, lacks any such inclination, who acts only
speaking, then, it must be admitted that in ideals there is
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members of man's being, and shall speak of similar things
the infallibility of each. In speaking of such things we mention what
beforehand what ye shall speak, neither premeditate, but
whatsoever shall be given you in that hour that speak ye; for it
is not ye that speak but the Holy Ghost." —
But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
science, will clearly show that those who speak of the Spirit in the
all amazed that He should speak these words openly before all
about and said: "In speaking thus Peter, thou givest
not speak in accordance with the divine wisdom men had in the
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man's being. I shall be speaking in a similar strain
long time yet regard it as madness to speak of this ordered
thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
hour, that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak, but the
that of the other Gospels as well. Generally speaking, St.
Jesus turned about and said: 'In speaking thus,
The way in which you speak of this truth now belongs to the
world-evolution. Anyone who speaks in a contrary sense is
not speaking out of divine wisdom but is distorting the
so to speak, permeated with music and give expression to this
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In speaking of
space, and following each other in time. Those who have to speak of
Speaking scientifically what meets us in Arabism is a synthesis of
truly progressive Buddhism. This means, there are people who speak of
Buddha's, that you speak as if Buddha had remained at the same
speaking thus, these people refer to a teaching suited to a time long
things of which we are speaking.
to speak of Buddha as he exists for us to-day, when clairvoyantly we
of which I have been speaking a union of the Jahve-religion with
speak for weeks if we were to give out all that reaches us from the
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Those who speak of these things from the point of view of
Speaking scientifically, what we have in Arabism is a kind of
imagine that Buddha has not progressed? When you speak as you
do, you are speaking of teaching that was right for his
of the Buddha, we must speak of him as he actually exists
would be necessary to talk for weeks if we were to speak of
concepts are available. When speaking to-day of heredity in
Consequently when speaking of the development of the human
appearance of the new stream of which I have been speaking.
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to speak casually of introducing the ideas, feelings, and knowledge
occasions that we can speak of the spread of our spiritual ideas, but
the souls of all men, it is easily silenced for it does not speak
meant when we speak of a theosophical spirit, the spirit of
to-day and speak to mankind in ideas as will be done later; to-day
you must speak to them of the king's son, of the flower-queen,
speaking of theosophy in 1847 at Heidelberg, says: —
Rosicrucians did not speak in 1847 so that these could be perceived
age has once more come round in which the Holy Temples speak, not now
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to speak of how the ideas of Spiritual Science are being made
I can speak of this spread of spiritual-scientific thought in
heard speaking in this strain and I will quote one example of
spirit. These minstrels did not speak about theosophy, about
their mission was to speak of the spirit in the way it was
To-day we speak simply of a good deed, a deed of love and
we have been speaking the picture used was that of the bell
subjugated one of the kingdoms of nature. To-day we speak of
the second day. We speak of the astral body with its surging
the copper, silver and golden cloaks we speak to-day in terms
We speak
done later on; you must speak of the King's son, of the
voices from the holy temples are speaking — not in pictures
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speak about certain peculiarities of human self- knowledge. For
and with its mouth I have to speak:
thus speaks your star.
there speaks around me brightness,
they speak the very language of my soul.
speaking about Faust, I explained that the poet did not
comes toward him; he has learned how to speak with the very
character speaks, but particularly to how the soul forces speak
us compare the words Philia speaks next:
into this new life and speak out of our own nature
speaks out the antithesis of what is happening above. From
understand the world. One can speak about the conditions of a
one speaking about spiritual science could wish to be
When then we speak of self-knowledge, we should realize how
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Mystery Play, I should like to speak of certain properties of
speak with that other being's own words. This tells him that
what each individual speaks; — you should hear how
they speak, in relation to one another. The Sentient Soul
with the quite different way in which Astrid speaks:
dive down into this life, and in our own being we speak
willing to ascend into the higher worlds, so to speak, by the
comprehend the world. We can speak far more exactly of
listeners present. He who would speak about Theosophy can never
Thus, if we speak of self-knowledge, we must also realise: It
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to speak further about it. I feel not only justified in
speaking, however, though this is not really the question, but
also in a sense obligated to speak about what lives in this
speak for days, for weeks, even for years, in order to describe
one speaks in too general a way about the various characters,
She speaks ...
Who is it that is speaking here?
and through it he can speak.
speaking to him out of his soul, but it sounds to him from
silenced. One can scarcely try to speak out, "I
can no longer speak with his own mouth but with the mouth of
to speak, much more real, and of a more delicate and
point, he will be able to speak of the spiritual world in
says how gladly he listens to her because she speaks out of the
because it speaks more to my heart.
that seems worthwhile to speak or to be heard.
too, one could speak for a long time. Were we to look with soul
worlds by speaking about them with the words sentient soul,
carefully to the words when, for instance, Luna speaks,
too, must be taken into consideration. When speaking
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speak, of what has been deposited within them) which now come to the
which he gives for these symbols; he speaks of them in such a way
will then speak of all kinds of things which are not quite correct,
for it is not possible to speak correctly about things if they are
strengthening words, words of strength. They do not speak merely to
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quite primitively, yet they could speak in a very real and living way
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speaking to the heart by means of symbols: 'Where you
Pressburg. And he — I am speaking of my old friend Karl
to learn how to speak in strict rhythm. At the present time,
when the Art of speaking in the ancient sense has been lost,
today when we have forgotten to such an extent how to speak
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and this time heard them speak.
speak about anything beyond the sense world, or if he wishes to
these anthroposophical circles, we certainly speak a good deal
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have been made in different groups to speak about historical details,
materialistic age we speak of historical personalities, we are convinced
— which comparatively speaking is not so very far. Nevertheless we
epoch. I shall therefore be speaking of two parallel happenings which
into human personality; it is the personal element that speaks out of
Orphic Mysteries was the loveable personality of whom I am speaking,
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Fundamentally speaking,
it is considered an antiquated attitude in our time even to speak of
approach, to speak of certain ideas, abstract ideas which properly speaking
that spiritual Powers of the super-sensible worlds are speaking to her.
will towards a definite point — I am speaking to begin with, not
— I am still speaking only of actual historical documents. And
bearing; she speaks little and shows remarkable sagacity; when she
speaks she has a pleasing, delicately feminine voice. She eats little
speaking, older souls than people who deliver scientific lectures. Investigation
speaking in terms of what is happening in his own soul. Thus,
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time being to the Post-Atlantean period, we can speak of a law according
Because we are speaking
the activity of the ego had, so to speak, to be substituted in the ancient
the manifestations of those spiritual Powers who desire to speak to
soul. We will not speak of the particular characteristics of the different
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in each case we can speak of a particular mission. And we may ask: To
anyone fail to realise to-day that thinking and speaking are two quite
speaking. It was not so among the Sumerians, this ancient people whose
whereby men who speak a common language are scattered over the earth.
I am not speaking of a hypothetical case but of something that has been
for the secrets which in the starry script speak down to us from cosmic
there was in his conception of the world when he was speaking out of
He went too far both in the matter of speaking openly of the Mystery-secrets
Europe, and in his very cradle, so to speak, everything was laid —
that I do not speak of such matters as the connection between Julian
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speaking directly, but an Angelos, an Angel. Ranking only one stage
to him and therefore able, as it were, to speak more directly. It is
most closely related to man, is able to speak with the greatest directness.
in such a way that we can speak of twelve cosmic radiations, twelve
the things of which I have just been speaking there are also hidden
But that belongs to a different stream — I am speaking now more of
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a period when it was, so to speak, under the influence of the teachings
Greeks came to feel: Now we can speak of the weaving of the ego in the
(Mark well, I am not speaking of a reincarnation here; it is
of Galileo. But it is strange that in this oration the speaker should
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constitution and we then speak of his physical body, etheric body,
and then to speak. Such rubbish as is written today in popular
the child who is speaking — but perhaps this applies now only
speaks through the child, but men are not aware of it. The wisest can
learn most from a child. It is not the child that is speaking, but
the angel is speaking out of the child.
member of an angel? — for we can speak of these "members"
Egohood, that Christhood, of which St. Paul is speaking when he calls
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karma has brought us together here instead, it may be useful to speak
To begin with, I want to speak of two important concepts which
evil, he can sin, he can commit immoral deeds. We shall never speak of
with which, properly speaking, he can no longer be a sinner today, for
being able to speak in the ordinary sense of moral wrong on our part,
Christ! One who speaks in the sense contrary to St. Paul may say:
truly speak of merit. But the fact that Christ is present, that we are
Therefore to speak of the existence of Original Sin and of Grace does
not denote misunderstanding of the idea of karma. For in speaking of
the idea of karma we are speaking of the reincarnation of the ego in
those who believe that to speak of developing Christianity is only to
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all these feelings that were astir in the depths of the soul speak a
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at last speak upon this theme as the result of mature reflection
when a man speaks of aspiring after self-knowledge, of aspiring to
or ribbon-shaped formations, pictorially speaking, which must first
that when one observes the brain carefully it looks, so to speak,
of the spinal cord, so to speak, through this alteration, the brain.
suggest itself, when for instance we speak as we have just been doing
organism, in what, roughly speaking, is called the "human
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speak merely in outline. We may repeat accordingly that, adjoining
recall that the human heart is an organ which, properly speaking,
the two upper ones the auricles. I shall not speak about the
as blood which has passed through the brain, so to speak, in the same
blood flows upwards, so to speak, in order to capture these
organs inner worlds, so to speak, come to meet us, just as
not speak of the ether-body, or life-body, in the same way that
anthroposophy, when it speaks of the ether-body, speak of some thing
everything can, so to speak, be jumbled together — we must
successful, ought, properly speaking, to be really lofty, moral or
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means a man plunges down, so to speak, into his own divine being,
into his own being and becomes aware, so to speak, of his sympathetic
rhythms of which we shall speak later. This is due to the fact that
must be set apart, so to speak, within himself, isolated from what
speak, with everything from outside in the same way as the Saturn
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the course of these lectures how, in principle, so to speak, such an
speak, they do not simply consent to this at once as a matter of
is, so to speak, the outpost. In this changing of the rhythm,
of organs it would shut itself off completely, so to speak, from the
counteract each other. Outer world and inner world, so to speak, have
being would be yoked to two worlds, so to speak, providing him with
himself. (We are not now speaking of the consciousness, but of those
up, so to speak, these impressions which we have received. Just think
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when we speak on the basis of our spiritual science about such organs
when we speak about it from the spiritual-scientific standpoint, of a
coarsest, so to speak; but that it underlies the entire organisation
substances, themselves become movement; so that we can rightly speak
processes back, so to speak. You have now heard something more in
confront each other all along the line, so to speak; but we find
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or anxiety it is as if we wanted to guard ourselves, so to speak,
inner stability, an earthy quality, so to speak, this bony system
strictly speaking, already dead!" Our bony system is like a
in the man. When, therefore, anyone speaks about the idea of
reincarnation and says: "That is something which, speaking
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relation to what we call the human ego, so that we had to speak of
speak, which is caused by a certain activity in our blood and which
observation, we are obliged to speak of a real action of the soul
an inner warming process, so to speak. Processes of combustion, the
that it has on the one hand turned its entire being, so to speak,
blood, which is the opposite extreme, so to speak, from the bony
that they have to prepare beforehand, so to speak, the entire
speak, by introducing salt-containing substances, so we may also
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again outward, so to speak, to which we must here call attention.
something basic in him, so to speak, reopens himself in order to form
this organisation thereby evolves these two sides, so to speak: the
to speak, not for weeks but for months, if I were to explain all the
wished not to speak about those things which appear nonsensical to
impregnation. If we retrace the course, so to speak, from this
can see that it is an organ in a descending evolution, so to speak.
terrestrialising process, so to speak, in what we call the tendency
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speak, quite regardless of our own inclinations, regardless of what
Demeter which speaks throughout all ages of time as an impulse of
the other hand what speaks to us in the figure of Eros? It is
I am speaking of the three figures Luna, Astrid, Philia, the true
each of those who stand on the stage his heart should speak out of
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speak, quite regardless of our own inclinations, regardless of what
Demeter which speaks throughout all ages of time as an impulse of
the other hand what speaks to us in the figure of Eros? It is
I am speaking of the three figures Luna, Astrid, Philia, the true
each of those who stand on the stage his heart should speak out of
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figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
development, when we speak of old age, when we speak of the
expressed by the pupil of Spiritual Science, who no longer speaks in
thousand years the Maitreya Buddha will descend, and will speak to
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figures; so that men did not then speak of abstract forces, but of
development, when we speak of old age, when we speak of the
expressed by the pupil of Spiritual Science, who no longer speaks in
thousand years the Maitreya Buddha will descend, and will speak to
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When we are speaking microcosmically they are the forces in us which
our lasting emotions. Macrocosmically speaking they are forces more
to speak of the physical body, the densest part of the human being.
Microcosmically speaking we have to look upon the physical body as
speak of clairvoyance, or clairaudience, so one may speak of
faculties. But in this case one can no longer properly speak of a
revelations of the spirit. We will begin to speak about it today; we
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When we are speaking microcosmically they are the forces in us which
our lasting emotions. Macrocosmically speaking they are forces more
to speak of the physical body, the densest part of the human being.
Microcosmically speaking we have to look upon the physical body as
speak of clairvoyance, or clairaudience, so one may speak of
faculties. But in this case one can no longer properly speak of a
revelations of the spirit. We will begin to speak about it today; we
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speaking of the ones who only inspired men, but of those who really
evolution can speak.
the death of the Earth? Not at all. I have just been speaking, for
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speaking of the ones who only inspired men, but of those who really
evolution can speak.
the death of the Earth? Not at all. I have just been speaking, for
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in the monologue which Capesius speaks when, after
speak of an intellectual ego, as we do today, but he was aware of
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in the monologue which Capesius speaks when, after
speak of an intellectual ego, as we do today, but he was aware of
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psychology and ordinary science speak as belonging to anything but
dry-as-dust way, we speak of physical, chemical, biological laws. The
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psychology and ordinary science speak as belonging to anything but
dry-as-dust way, we speak of physical, chemical, biological laws. The
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human organism. That one speaks of 'Dichtung' in German
descriptions of the higher worlds. When we speak of the spiritual
if we are speaking in the true sense of the higher worlds. Hence you
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human organism. That one speaks of 'Dichtung' in German
descriptions of the higher worlds. When we speak of the spiritual
if we are speaking in the true sense of the higher worlds. Hence you
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occult experiences of the kind we have been speaking of has to
whose range is properly speaking more comprehensive, I mean those who
great Earth-sacrifice we can speak of a Sun-sacrifice in that a
evolution, for reasons which we shall speak of tomorrow, this Being
things, resembles Him completely. Hence in a certain way we can speak
spoke of Jehovah or Jahve, they were speaking of Him, and that all
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occult experiences of the kind we have been speaking of has to
whose range is properly speaking more comprehensive, I mean those who
great Earth-sacrifice we can speak of a Sun-sacrifice in that a
evolution, for reasons which we shall speak of tomorrow, this Being
things, resembles Him completely. Hence in a certain way we can speak
spoke of Jehovah or Jahve, they were speaking of Him, and that all
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those who speak in this way of Aristotle who are in the wrong. The
because this astral part is so to speak tied together or sewn
used the word 'Phantom' when speaking of this
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those who speak in this way of Aristotle who are in the wrong. The
because this astral part is so to speak tied together or sewn
used the word 'Phantom' when speaking of this
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of speech, and that another part must be in order for him to speak,
comes from speaking, not speaking from the speech-organ. That is what
than make a brief reference to such things. Were I able to speak at
truth is the Christ Impulse; and when I speak of the Christ Impulse
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of speech, and that another part must be in order for him to speak,
comes from speaking, not speaking from the speech-organ. That is what
than make a brief reference to such things. Were I able to speak at
truth is the Christ Impulse; and when I speak of the Christ Impulse
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everywhere, even theoretically speaking, that the mass of
great mass of facts now brought to light by science to speak
speaks to us in the forms of modern, intellectual life, when,
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etheric body is the basis of the physical body. As soon as we speak of
So we have to be clear that in so far as we speak about Bodhisattvas
could speak immediately after birth in such a way that His mother
places to speak about occult matters. This has been stressed for
years. When younger people speak, they may do this for good reasons,
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I am very happy to be speaking to you today among these
other in the future, a voice will speak in their souls urging them to
what can speak to us from the spiritual world.
we can speak of pure inspiration in the case of just those people who
thought that speaks out of every book to be found even in the lowliest
about this, too, but they did not speak about it in this way then.
same way, begin working in the etheric world. So we can speak of a
spirit at the point where the spirit of nature also speaks to us
sense we can also speak today of new times, in preparation for which
change for our time, about which I have permitted myself to speak to
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speak of certain facts which belong essentially to the ethical and moral
individual. In the case of most Europeans or, speaking
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which gives me the opportunity for the first time of speaking
personality in one evening, so we shall speak about Christian
To speak about Christian Rosenkreutz presupposes great confidence in
Strictly speaking the rosicrucian movement began in the thirteenth
We shall be speaking, then, of twelve outstanding individualities. The
now speak of quite new experiences. The twelve could recognise that he
time that must pass before it is permissible to speak of it in the
Tomorrow we will come to speak about the work of Christian
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real occultists and who, for reasons of their own, speak of a Maitreya
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mean to speak truly of his inner life, his life of soul, we shall not
asleep to what is then and there happening and we can rightly speak of
speak words of consolation to him. The Christ will become a living
appear 3,000 years after our present era and will speak of the Christ
Buddha himself, as transformed Bodhisattva, speaking in powerful words
proclaim the great secrets of existence. He will speak in a language
Question: How are the words used by St. Paul, "to speak
is the phenomenon of speaking present in the waking state, but that
this speaking. This is the phenomenon to which St. Paul refers. Goethe
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difficult for us. Man is truly a complicated being, and if we speak
will appear and speak words of consolation to him. The Christ will
Bodhisattva, speaking in powerful words of which no adequate idea can
existence. He will speak in a language that must first be created,
speak in tongues"
not only is there present the phenomenon of speaking in the waking
flows into this speaking. This is the phenomenon about which St. Paul
we must speak of a fourth dimension; it can extend itself in a
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speak of the conceptual life as a part of our soul life.
occult science is in speaking of the three worlds. And, when we take
another individuality. Thus we must speak of a successor of the
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concepts of the world surrounding us, and we may speak of the
speaking of the three worlds. And, when we take this into
must speak of a successor of the Bodhisattva who had now risen to the
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But when we speak in this way of the Christ Impulse we are concerned
speak only of those which have been accessible to mankind since the
possible to speak of a sign by means of which Christian Rosenkreutz
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So we must speak of these inner forces of our own time, whenever and
In order to speak about contemporary occult trends it would be a good
branch of it which, strictly speaking, likes drawing its knowledge by
tending in a certain direction. People always used to speak of the
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higher forms in the aesthetic and moral spheres. But when we speak in this
speak only of those which have been accessible to mankind since the
to speak of a sign by means of which Christian Rosenkreutz calls to
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child cannot speak, cannot think; everything must be done for it by
those who have received it in their midst. Then it starts to speak.
a first period when it can neither speak nor think, a second
when it can speak but not yet think, and a third when it becomes
The first revelation of which we can speak, as coming to mankind
can either speak or think. What is done for the child by its
until then have, as it were, lacked the power of speaking and
thinking. People, however, have now learnt to speak or, rather,
speak: they have gained knowledge of the Mystery of Golgotha through
may be compared with how a child learns to speak. Through the Gospels
way that they may be said to have learnt to speak, in their fashion,
each soul awaken the ego to a higher stage of existence. Speaking thus
those of race. We can still speak, in a certain sense, of an old
speak about the human sheaths in another way, and to-day we will take
details of our super-sensible life, or, to speak more bluntly, whether
the millennium. How many indeed we find to-day who, speaking almost
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guise; strictly speaking only since the events in Palestine, when
strictly speaking, an endless amount of what is most important to-day
something which yesterday was likened to how children learn to speak.
Even to-day, however, speaking from the ground of Anthroposophy, we
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IT is necessary that we speak somewhat further this evening concerning
new continents — that is, our life. We speak of the first, the
Christian century; and then we speak of our own, the present, the
But now we can also speak of the fact that, of the various members of
unhindered, so to speak, by the other members. Indeed we live in our
will speak of himself otherwise than he does now. How does one speak
of himself now when he speaks in the sense of spiritual science? He
further and further ... In the future man will have to speak
he is placed midway, so to speak, between his lower and his higher
we permeate ourselves, so to speak, with a human ego nature; and that
speak of beings who during that time should have reached their seventh
embody it completely, but to look up to it. When we speak of Luciferic
Now you see we have distinguished three classes, so to speak, of
One may not speak of the Luciferic spirit as if he were something
themselves, so to speak, will be extolled, and looked upon as a great
without effort or exertion of any kind — and speaking in such a way
Nazareth died away, so to speak. Slowly these sheaths died, so that
her in another form. She recognized Him only when she heard Him speak.
Resurrection must be effaced." — The reason which speaks thus
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tomorrow I shall speak of matters which will give: us deeper insight
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in closer detail of
of which I am about to speak came to pass cannot yet be communicated,
We shall, speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age.
we shall speak the day after tomorrow. It remains now to be said that
lives. Naturally, this essay does not speak of reincarnation in the
is only permissible to speak of happenings of a hundred years ago; for
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tomorrow I shall speak of matters which will give us deeper insight
successive epochs of culture. Today we shall speak in greater detail
We shall speak today of the dawn of occultism in the modern age. Twelve
now able to speak of quite new experiences. There had come to him,
which could do justice to them all. Of what was taught we shall speak
this essay does not speak of reincarnation in the way as Spiritual Science
permissible to speak of happenings of a hundred years ago; for this is
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stages but speaking generally these are the three categories. Moreover
recollection of some sorrowful event, but generally speaking the pain
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stages, but speaking generally these are the three categories.
generally speaking the pain will have greatly diminished after this
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own individual case. If one lectures to many people, one can only speak in
so to speak, drawn out of a previous existence. The forces that we have
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people one can only speak in a general sense.
I have been speaking merely of two ways of accepting karma. From one
which it is only possible to speak in general terms. But all the
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addressing a number of people one can only speak in a general sense.
domain, of which it is only possible to speak in general terms. But
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I want to speak to you today of something which may seem remote from
I am now going to speak of an historical fact that is not preserved in
roughly speaking not quite 700 years ago. Conditions were such that
individuality of renown. In speaking of previous lives there is
intuitive perception, Goethe speaks in that poem of the College of the
higher Spirit were speaking in him. Something entirely and essentially
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I want to speak to you therefore of something which may seem remote
I am now going to speak of an historical fact that is not preserved in
roughly speaking not quite seven hundred years ago. Conditions were
been said to be that of a person of renown. In speaking of previous
deep, intuitive perception Goethe speaks in that poem of the council
happens to be speaking.
him. It was as though a higher spirit were speaking in him. Something
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I SHALL Speak to-day of certain matters in a way that could not be
used in public lectures but is possible when I am speaking to those
The importance of the subject of which we shall speak first, will
frequently been made to this subject but one cannot speak too often of
would not have been possible to speak, as we can speak to-day, of a
Needless to say, such civilisations still exist. We speak, and
If the Christian who has become an anthroposophist were to speak of
anthroposophical Christian will speak of the return of the Buddha
the anthroposophical Buddhist speak of the return of Christ for
As I have spoken here to-day, so did the Rosicrucians speak in
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Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
speaking, therefore, of a physical personality who centuries later
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Friends have expressed the wish that I should speak today on the
later. We are speaking, therefore, of a physical personality who
speaking incorrectly when one says that between two incarnations on
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If the human being is able to speak of the freedom of his will, this
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so, physically speaking, there was really born through the processes
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In speaking on the Gospel of St. John I have already
received the Spirit, began to speak in the most
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received the Spirit, began to speak in the most diverse tongues. Here
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so that we can speak of it as a Christian-Rosicrucian Initiation. In
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died, a God overcame death — we will speak later concerning the
Baptism by John — even if we do not now speak of the Christ —
speak of miracles, numberless miracles are recorded in connection
Apollonius of Tyana, and of him we speak as a really high Adept.
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shall speak more exactly about the gradual building up of the
ventures to speak of the mysteries of Christianity should remain
not speak much about the concept of Grace, we must make great use of
must ask why Christ Jesus speaks so indefinitely that no one can
true, of that I cannot speak; the acknowledgement of this truth lies
yesterday how on the ground of Christianity we should speak, for
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evolution, so to speak. If we let the Pauline Epistles work upon us,
Saturn time we cannot speak at all of etheric body, astral body, and
speaking thus, for everything further must be left to a deeper
regard to the physical body we cannot speak at all correctly unless
shaft, body of carriage, seat, and so on. Thus thou canst not speak
hast named nothing real in the carriage. If thou wilt speak of what
it received this first on Earth. Hence we speak of the
the earth, and, so to speak, disappears. Thus in the answer of Job's
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Apocalypse and of the John Gospel, in his greatest age, could speak
and speak, but only someone who had become a Greek with all the
become a Greek could speak in this way; no one else.
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must speak of it. For a genuine follower of Buddhism it would indeed
be heretical to speak of the Ego-nature as we must represent it. On
in the Ancient Saturn period we speak of the beginning of the
physical body, so in the period of the ancient Sun we speak of the
yesterday how people speak of the Resurrection when they approach it
people who speak thus, what must now be said will seem very strange.
not given us in its completeness. We do certainly speak of the nature
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speaks. The peculiar contradiction between the beginnings of the
contrast, the remarkable fact is that he could speak as soon as he
which, strictly speaking, the Earth-evolution of man took its start.
certain point of time in this Lemurian period that we can speak
are now speaking, when the Event of Palestine was to take place, it
was still in the same condition, if we wish to speak according to the
We speak in the true
from the starting-point of human evolution the faculty of speaking,
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that what they think, speak, and feel is not without significance for
When I speak like
we were speaking of a false path, but so that a person saw
many times in speaking of these questions, in one form or another, we
came about; and indeed — speaking quite objectively — it
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than the mineral. If the plant could speak and feel, it would bow
development. How could one speak of the evolution of the whole of
century. It is impossible to speak here more exactly concerning the
all that is connected with it, will speak in such a way that his
will speak in a language as yet possessed by no man, but a language
which is so holy that he who speaks it can be called a Bringer of the
were pursuing. He could have passed by, so to speak, far above the
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observation of life. I might say a great deal if I were to speak
when I reflect that in order to speak about Christian Rosenkreutz at
may be. Anyone speaking after the manner of the modern theologian
it is not right in occultism to speak in so impetuous a manner. Still
speak to-day, Madame Blavatsky fell away from the influences
Initiates who even in Orientalism do not speak differently from
Theosophy speaks of this Bodhisattva-Individuality. And to the
ourselves when we cannot agree with those who speak of Jesus ben
but it is true. Therefore we cannot blame them when they speak of the
prepare the ground presently to speak here upon Christian
Rosenkreutz, to speak on the threefold principles of man and their
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wrong to speak in this way. For what has once happened is fulfilling itself
speak in clear concepts — they avoid speaking of the mighty,
the sort in their writings. Now I shall not speak of those in which I
understand what underlies the world it does not suffice to speak of
their full depths — naturally not as modern theologians speak
time. In the old Saturn-existence, speaking very comparatively
abstract time of which we usually speak, but independent being. We
can now first speak of something that begins. Time begins with the
makes it possible for us to speak of the Saturn condition as having
the elements we have around us now, the only one we can speak of as
And if we wish to speak truly we must say that wherever there is heat
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speak in this way. For what has once happened is fulfilling itself
found. The philosophers are as a rule extremely clever and speak in
clear concepts — they avoid speaking of the mighty,
the sort in their writings. Now I shall not speak of those in which I
what underlies the world it does not suffice to speak of it in
modern theologians speak of them, but in such a way that he has drawn
is true of the old Saturn existence, speaking very comparatively,
here is not the abstract time of which we usually speak, but
independent being. We can now first speak of something that begins.
possible for us to speak of the Saturn condition as having anything
around us now, the only one we can speak of as being on ancient
Externally heat is really only maya. And if we wish to speak truly we
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and air, but of "heat." So, too, in first speaking of
even exist. When we speak of "space" we are speaking
could not speak of coming from one part of space into another, but only the
of heat are the external expression — speaking in a general
occurs comparatively speaking at a later time than the gift of
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air, but of 'heat.' So, too, in first speaking of
even exist. When we speak of 'space' we are speaking
not speak of coming from one part of space into another, but only the
of heat are the external expression — speaking in a general
comparatively speaking at a later time than the gifts of the Spirits
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them in the last two lectures when speaking of Saturn and Sun, Time
resignation — so we see, speaking now of the ancient Sun alone,
accepted the proffered sacrifice, they would — speaking
begin with; it is released from the forces, so to speak, which would
generally speaking from the immortal beings. So now, when we learn
fault — if we may venture to speak of such an original fault
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the last two lectures when speaking of Saturn and Sun. Time would
resignation — so we see, speaking now of the ancient Sun alone,
accepted the proffered sacrifice, they would — speaking
to speak, which it would otherwise have absorbed, and is now obliged
generally speaking from the immortal beings. So now, when we learn
fault — if we may venture to speak of such an original fault
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now under consideration, we must clearly realise that in speaking of
be incorrect to speak of "sin" or
peculiar states of the soul which only appear, so to speak, when the
oneself; so to speak. When we come on to the more earthly conditions
which we are now speaking. Just as we have inherited other things
when in that person's presence. And as we are now speaking of
evolution, so to speak. We see egoism flashing up in the
In speaking
grasp, when we speak of the combined action of the sacrifice of will
— a singular Karmic link has caused us to speak here, in
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now under consideration, we must clearly realise that in speaking of
be incorrect to speak of 'Sin' or
vision to peculiar states of the soul which only appear, so to speak,
even to giving oneself, so to speak. When we come on to the more
which we are now speaking. Just as we have inherited other things
when in that person's presence. And as we are now speaking of the
— which later on was poured into evolution, so to speak. We see
In speaking of the
to grasp, when we speak of the combined action of the sacrifice of
redemption — a singular Karmic link has caused us to speak
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Beings have within them something, which, speaking symbolically,
that the "displacement" — if we may once more speak
in speaking of individual plant-organisms, only of the organism of
rank, nor to those higher than man is there any meaning in speaking
higher, super-sensible worlds — we cannot speak of death. And in
regard to man can we speak of the incision into life that we call
say — speaking of external history — that it cannot be
Anthroposophy speaks cannot be injured by any objections, however
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have within them something, which, speaking symbolically, could only
'displacement' — if we may once more speak
no sense in speaking of individual plant-organisms, only of the
higher than man, is there any meaning in speaking of actual death.
super-sensible worlds — we cannot speak of death. And in the
speak of the incision into life that we call 'death.' Man
say — speaking of external history — that it cannot
Anthroposophy speaks cannot be injured by any objections,
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a matter of speaking about the essence of these things, I should have
at the last minute and we will speak of the reasons later on), some
to speak about Christian Rosenkreutz at all, in order to understand
that relates to the great Appearance of which we have been speaking
understands the Resurrection, for example. Those who speak like the
to speak so passionately and illogically) although it might be
do not speak otherwise than we the loftiest Individuality is
speaks. And to clairvoyant vision it seemed as though nothing of
cannot agree with those who speak of Jeschu ben Pandira as the
speak of the Being, whom they too recognise, as though He could come
is usual in theosophical circles. It speaks of an Individuality who
ignore matters of which we speak in connection with the beginning of
our era. We speak of the two Jesus children, the Baptism by John in
by the other side, too that they are speaking of Jeschu ben
misled into thinking that in her latest book Annie Besant is speaking
for that book speaks of a being who lived 105 years before our
speaking about Christian Rosenkreutz here, too, I want to speak about
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shall presently speak will nowhere be found, in the same peculiar
ourselves speak of the evolution of man and of mankind in the
that their phantasy, when it speaks of the connection between the
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will certainly be prone, where these laws prove inapplicable, to speak
which conformity to law cannot be admitted. When modern science speaks
come into question here. I am speaking of the scientific
speak, God-forsaken, and can therefore easily fall into
fellows with his normal consciousness only, he can speak lightly of
speak glibly of chance. For then, everything in their
you will speak of them light-heartedly as such, if you know nothing of
Spiritual Science. But it will not be possible to speak of
insist upon speaking of chance will naturally want to do
ruins. A materialist who speaks in this sense will certainly be ready
which even in their apparent fortuitousness, speak an eloquent
themselves speak so forcibly. In these days, as a matter of fact,
where he must call upon all his inner forces and let them speak with
the same compelling power with which Nature happenings speak to him.
man speak of law in the phenomena of Nature? It is for this reason.
where he speaks of those happenings which today he still ascribes to
chance, as the Exusiai speak in the facts of Nature. Human
courage has broken down. How does man speak of destiny, of destiny in
humanity? He speaks just like the grammarians who have eyes only for
must learn to speak of events in the life of humanity as though the
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expressed the wish that I should speak to them about the venerable
friends in the Finnish Section desired me to speak of the occult
world. Therefore when we look into the spiritual world we can speak of
us? How does Spiritual Science enable us to speak with this people
from the other peoples of Europe? We speak with them about what is
teaching, may not previously speak to the outer world of their
of which we may speak prophetically and a clear realisation
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epochs which lack certain characteristics. Although we speak again and
world of thought from which Buddhism has grown speaks of many Buddhas
whom Oriental teachings speak, he was a Bodhisattva. In
is then no longer called by a proper name. In speaking of the
Vinci among many others. The West speaks of the single personality
Going further, we can speak of that most remarkable personality who
birth. In a manner of speaking it can be said that he let
attentively as Paul speaks. When the picture is actually before us,
Art and a distinguished student of Raphael, speaks of the painter.
It is interesting, here, to speak of a case which I could
recurrent phenomena in human existence. I am speaking of the poet
suffered. The poem speaks of five returns, four of which lie in the
culture of times to come and speaks of a future return of Christ to
for all the world to see and he speaks, too, of the function
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sense, we also realise that it is not possible to speak forthwith
of Earth-evolution. Let me speak, to begin with of the
alleged in certain quarters outside that here we speak of Christ as
abstract concept, people allege that we speak of the Christ as the
is said that it is not possible to speak of a return of
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generally speaking the human being lives on after death;
enclosed in his body ... Those who speak like this, have paid
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IT will be my task today to speak of the nature and being of Man, in
him; so that in speaking of man as a being of the Earth, we can only
here been speaking. In order that consciousness may exist at all, the
In what sense may we speak of a strong moral impulse in the principles
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principle of Spiritual Science to speak today of continental limits,
"believe" you when you speak of the same Individuality
speaks of the incarnations of human beings long since dead, this must
And so it is the task of occultism — if one may speak of
meaning in evolution can speak, if they like, of the eternal
Earth-existence as brought to light by occult research, will not speak
the assumption that it speaks to the innermost soul, the innermost
true occultism will ever speak of such an abstract principle of
to speak truly of an Individuality who is so misunderstood, even among
and get to the root of them. Is it possible to speak of the progress
particular nation. To speak of our work here as being an affair of one
Theosophy. The occultist does not speak without reflection. He knows
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as this world is ruled by external science, when people speak of
speak further about it. Let us hold all this well in mind, and on the
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can only conceive of it — still speaking for the moment purely
when we said that we ought to let the things speak, let the things
attitude to the things of the world, and let them speak out their own
speak for itself? How will he think of that invisible quality of wolf
facts speak. And now, let us imagine this man has the opportunity to
not speak to him; everything says something, and says it in such a
working find actual expression. When it, so to speak, withdraws from
of man by night, the sleeping life, is, so to speak, made use of, to
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senses. You will remember that we went on to speak of how behind the
speak of a preponderance of astral over etheric body, and then the
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one upon which — to speak metaphorically — countless
you experience time in your own soul? Let me speak more clearly. I do
lectures could not last a month for then we could speak more exactly
very important. So when we speak of "forms" created by
It is in reality a spiritual sheath that has been, so to speak,
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to speak of how we, as human beings, are yoked to material existence,
evolution — of this we will speak to-morrow.
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perfection. And in its perfection it will speak out what man can
way that we could speak of each single plant as ensouled, in the same
whole. And as a matter of fact we are only speaking of a reality when
we speak of that to which the several plants belong, as parts belong
natural science speaks of the principle of the so-called "struggle
so to speak, a reserve store. But this reserve of spiritual substance
to speak as Faust did when he had been blinded physically —
speak who has turned to the world of the spirit. But the other, the
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you that we are speaking of probabilities!) — if we wish to
circumstances that we cannot speak of them reappearing in the same
nonsense to speak of a following incarnation, and that this life was
real significance for the physical plane, but when we are speaking of
time speak of their transformation in conformity with those worlds.
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stretch of time, we speak of it in relation to the soul-life as
In the last lecture we were speaking of functions of the soul, but
soul. In ordinary life we usually speak of them as accidental. We
speak of accidents when we do not perceive how the things that befall
we have been speaking, what comes to life in the soul has in it an
to speak some particular language in a given incarnation; for while
lead to impulses of will, does not prevent us from speaking of a
ideas before it can speak; it relates itself to the surrounding world
shall be able to speak more fully of what can only be indicated
the name of Christian Rosenkreuz speaks to those whom he chooses from
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generally speaking we shall realise that if we have been frivolous
might speak as follows. I once saw a landscape; I have forgotten what
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karma, and the endeavour was made to speak of them in such a way that
matter to speak quite precisely of what makes a man of the present
anthroposophist and, fundamentally speaking, was not contained in the
fundamentally speaking, within the reach of every modern man, and if
speak in concrete detail about how Anthroposophy must penetrate into
receive wages corresponding to his actual labour. To speak like this
humanity, that fundamentally speaking, the way in which men developed
course taken by human evolution be able to speak of any possibility
destiny. I am not going to speak about the theory itself but only
root, even in the minds of children? — I am not speaking now of
discussion where one speaker declares that up to now human progress
there is no need to take account of it just as a man who speaks in
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presented, with the feeling that in those to whom one speaks or with
matters. Even when we are speaking of what is absolutely fundamental
the time of Lessing, who speaks of the subject in his essay,
who have heard me speak of it or of modern natural science in general
reality will no longer speak like this, for he knows that men's
otherwise than speak of 'chance' when thinking about his
connection with those who are his blood-relations. He speaks of
feeling of responsibility. In the same way we might speak of love, of
signification according to whether we are speaking of man, or animal,
Anthroposophy. It is therefore understandable that when we speak
we speak of matters closely concerning every Western soul. It is
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requested me to speak about the spiritual beings we find in the realms
spiritual beings. So that in spiritual science we do not merely speak
this understanding if we intend to speak about the things which are to
understanding, to the present power of comprehension. I am speaking to
We will not today speak of still higher principles of human nature,
strictly speaking an etheric or life-world a plurality, a
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To-day we shall speak of two other forms or categories of
plants are, so to speak, drawn out of the earth by certain beings
changing their forms, for, strictly speaking, they have no form of
free from moisture as possible; so that we may now speak of
kingdoms of nature. Now can we also speak of a sort of astral body of
bodies of animals), that we cannot speak of a mere life-giving
these spiritual beings of which we are now speaking, that they are in
and they speak to us in spirit. It is as though we perceived thoughts
feel, so to speak, as if all the qualities of our physical and etheric
perceptions as what we call the Forces of Nature. When science speaks
natural scientist speaks of the laws of nature and combines them
normal consciousness of present-day humanity speaks of the external
world of perception, of the facts that can be perceived; speaks of the
also speaks of the Laws of Nature; that again is a Maya. Underlying
Maya is something which, in spite of its Maya-nature, speaks to the
planet and also the feelings of the planet, of which we shall speak
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beings, of which we are speaking as the next category above man, are
world appears before his senses. He surrenders himself, so to speak,
he speaks, or makes a movement of the hand, or in any way externalizes
world of whom we are speaking, all their perceptions are at the same
external world. When these beings of which we speak as a first
higher category we call them, speaking generally, the beings of
we wish to have from the world for ourselves alone, so to speak. The
have offspring, so to speak, but they are, in a sense, of a lower
Thus we can speak of a relationship between the nature-spirits and the
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the external world through his eyes. He can then, so to speak, carry
perceiving his own etheric body, so to speak; but on attaining this
All this becomes as livingly speaking as the physiognomy of the human
being. And when this speaks as livingly as the physiognomy, the
gestures, of a man speaks, when we feel how the blossom which opens
are their offspring in the kingdoms of nature. We shall speak further
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speaking, but that life which they have accumulated for decades, and
the stage of clairvoyance of which we must now speak. In western
overwhelming wisdom, and we will imagine that such a wise man speaks
speaks to us as the world itself, which we experience. If we imagine
such a look or imagine that such a wise man does not speak to us in
In speaking of man he is described as he reveals himself to occult
just as we speak of a threefold external covering, so can we speak of
consciousness. These principles of human nature are such that we speak
nature of the hierarchies. Just as we speak of our Manas, Buddhi, Atma
with a certain reverent caution to speak in concise concepts
many significant and speaking ideas; ideas which, to a certain extent
cosmos come into existence. That which, so to speak, the planetary
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which stands, so to speak, nearest to humanity in the spiritual world,
speak, their own being. If they were to wish to be untrue, they would
their own nature, to deny it. They had, so to speak, to bring about in
intend: in the same way the spirits of which we are speaking,
only a body (bl) which is, so to speak, on the outermost limits of the
If we can speak of a place in which these beings are, where is this
there would be, so to speak, concentric globes, flattened balls in
and Seraphim throw themselves against them, so to speak, and insert
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little from the inner to the outer, so to speak, and to show how
their moons (speaking of our earth we have our own moon) and
the Seraphim, we have that which speaks from the
speak in picture (and in relation to these exalted conditions
is, so to speak, allotted to the Spirits of Form from the Sun. They
and Form can, so to speak, do nothing for the evolution of the beings
speaks to us when we focus our spiritual sight upon the moon. When we
plant-world of our earth. But comparatively speaking it will suffice
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IT will be well at the very beginning of today's lecture to speak of
lunar life; and of the planetary life. In speaking of these heavenly
a being? We may venture to speak of these matters, for indeed we could
not speak at all of the whole super-sensible world which lies behind
really in its original, living form, but is so to speak
speak, fixed itself only upon the moon) we get the remarkable
represented to us were not now paralyzed, so to speak, by other
seen by occult vision; I do not wish to speak in abstractions, which
speaks of a past. Just as if I, in my thirtieth year, could only
to describe that, we can speak of the condition of our planetary
vision, so to speak, the work which has been accomplished in order
of one's normal consciousness. We must speak of such an
writings it was the custom to speak accurately. I should like (in
Yet to speak of an ego in the animal, as a phenomenon of
little as we can speak of a soul-nature resembling the animal soul
in speaking of things extending beyond the physical sphere of man. It
Now we must also speak of an ego of the plants, when we observe them
mineral, its growth, and the self-development, so to speak, of
feet; that is what St. Paul represents when he speaks of the sighing
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Whoever speaks of
to arrive at the results of occultism. When I speak of occultism, I
through this form of occultism, speak of the development of the true
must speak of the development of a person's soul-spiritual
lives. Consequently it speaks of reincarnation, of repeated lives on
a spiritual-scientific standpoint, these publications also speak of
by means of something lying, so to speak, within our own power, what
dissolving deeper processes within our organism. I cannot speak in
is something which never speaks to us from outside, and this we call
that speaks to us inwardly and can be heard by us inwardly.
begins to speak and does not listen to its voice but only listens to
what speaks from the physical environment through sympathy or
without feeling dazed, conscience is a phenomenon that speaks to the
and possess, so to speak, an obtrusive, almost importunate reality.
spiritual cosmos, as does conscience, and we observe that it speaks
to us in the same way in which conscience speaks to us in our
which inspiration speaks to the imaginative consciousness; but then
what comes from father and mother. Now we no longer speak merely of
speak, be one of our own choosing and not a guru assigned to us. We
which I am speaking, it will always constitute a danger for spiritual
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what is actually meant when we speak of group-egos of the animals. It
Men did not then speak without reason of the Zodiac or Animal Circle;
have their parts assigned to them, so to speak, and have their abode
they have their headquarters, so to speak, but first send out their
that he could come directly in contact, so to speak, with those beings
the Seven Holy Rishis had to say to humanity; each one speaking what
Christ. In the solar system we cannot, in the ordinary sense, speak of
speak of the Christ, who passes through the spheres of the different
that out from the cosmos everywhere speaks that which permeates our
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perception, generally speaking, only the forms of the minerals exist.
speak of all that works from the planetary system, with regard to the
group-ego of the minerals is, that, strictly speaking, it does not end
onwards, for they, so to speak, belonged to it from the beginning.
also. To-day we have, so to speak, grasped the moon as a field of
According to this the moon, so to speak, is designated as the
We must recognize that in the realm of the spiritual, we speak of
Christ just as in that of the physical we speak of the Sun; that in
the realm of the spiritual we speak of the planetary spirits and of
speak, perhaps, of the principle of Buddha. Here again is a point
time turns its countenance, so to speak, to all the stars which shine
Anthroposophy to look in an unbiased manner upon all which speaks
starry heavens, where spirits speak the same language to us through
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together of what these three words mean. When we speak of occultism,
then for the majority of the educated world today we are speaking of
going to speak is in our own time undergoing change, but it has been
speak in the Mysteries or occult schools with ordinary words, that he
language that speaks in symbols, one was able to come right out beyond
receive it. Thus, through the very fact that one was obliged to speak
particular sphere of life about which they were speaking.
is always made to speak to every human heart and every human soul, and
means at his disposal. Thus, speaking in the ideal sense, we can just
supplied the outer cloak, so to speak, of occult truths, differences
possibility should again be given for speaking with a single voice
what a Bodhisattva is, I know that the Buddhist speaks absolute truth
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will be necessary to speak first of the occult point of view. And we
therefore of the development of these few that we shall have to speak.
are speaking. Had he not become an occultist, he would perhaps have
then attained. The pupil has, so to speak, to force himself to be
peculiar difficulty, and it is, ordinarily speaking, impossible to
It is a fact that when one begins to speak quite openly of things, it
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Speaking to theosophists, I may cut the matter short and say at once
stages of evolution. Generally speaking, these forces have to a large
already been speaking to you in shadow pictures which you yourself
could experience. Through the outer word you heard speak the inner
interests of life to obstruct and hinder what can in this way speak to
heard to speak metaphorically when man has
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therefore, may speak either more to the brain or more to the heart of
we find that some speak more to the understanding, to those
speak rather to the ideas and feelings of the heart, appeal to the
all the experiences of the human soul he lets speak only the
We shall see, when we go on to speak further of occultism, into what
must be looked at quite objectively; and when speaking with
he enlarged his heart to cover his whole soul. I am not speaking of
of the heart. I am speaking of mystics who make great endeavours, who
Mystics of this kind abound who, so to speak, love their God and their
The outpourings of their heart speak of the Bride of their
manifests erotic passion for the Divine and Spiritual, and speaks of
her Divine Lover in the same terms as men speak of human love, she
use high-flown language, but speaks in such a way that we can always
it quite plainly religious love, and speaks constantly of
Fact. We shall have to speak of that later. One thing you will
knowledge. We will speak further tomorrow about this higher
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Herein lies the cause why mysticism, generally speaking, although it
speak of himself as being a different ego from what he was ten, twenty
not after all quite correct. When you speak to your fellowman of
this. We are constantly speaking of our ego and we are persuaded that
contradicts the philosophers who speak of an enduring ego and think
extinguished. So that when we speak of our ego in this way, we are in
continually being broken? The explanation is that when we speak of the
of that of which we mean to speak when we say I.
What has here been described is, so to speak, the first elementary
half for being too full of desire we were speaking of an inner
some detail. Speaking in scientific language, let us dissect the human
important thing about him, so to speak, the first member of his
constituted as to enable him to be a speaking being. Sound can
members of man's form upright posture, speaking, symmetry
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on to speak of how man is orientated in a forward direction, to
express it better, for the act of speaking. We have, therefore, as
speaking. The third, you will remember, was symmetry. Taking
If we wanted to speak of art in Nature and the whole of
adapted to the work outside. Let me say in passing, we must speak of
the female. We have, therefore, to speak of the reproductive organs as
speak further tomorrow about the meeting with the Guardian of the
Mysterium Magnum. Of other aspects we shall have to speak later. For
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as you know, generally speaking, the sense of sight that predominates
of occultism observed not what is, so to speak, on the upper surface
speak more of the one or the other. To people who were more
speak of how this or that section of mankind came to be Sun
quality of present-day thinking. When it is a matter of speaking or
instead of speaking of the starry heavens the night was substituted
Speaking generally, we can say that where peoples felt themselves
speaking, where the processes inside man, the Sun nature in the middle
preserves, so to speak, the memory of the old clairvoyance, then one
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Generally speaking, what remains, for example, after an impression of
Since the experiences of which we are now speaking are not of the
otherwise, owing to certain conditions of which we shall speak later.
sees himself flayed spiritually speaking , when his form
it transpires that, although not always, yet generally speaking, a
would be absurd to leave out the Daimon in speaking of Socrates that
We can speak of the Christ, right from the very beginning, as of an
one cannot in the case of the Christ speak of His
initiation, one cannot speak in His case of progress
Christ if we speak of Him not as one already initiated but as one who
It is accordingly necessary, in speaking of the life of Christ, to
could be made than to overlook what has just been explained and speak
Christ Jesus. Let us never forget that when we speak of other founders
of religion, we have to speak of them as men who have become initiated
beware of speaking as though Christ had passed through various stages
super-sensible world then appears to him, of this we will speak
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cannot speak of Him as of a person who underwent initiation on Earth,
connected with all those things of which we were speaking yesterday.
hand in a spiritual manner. Here we can no longer speak of an
people who speak of an influence of the moon on the nature of man. As
that we are speaking now of the star which the astronomers of today
Lucifer has, by a method of which we shall speak further, acquired
use throughout life. It is the movement of speaking, the
speaking movement earlier than the other. (You will find a
here two inner movements, the movements of thinking and of speaking.
The sixth movement we are still speaking of movements inside
And the same is true whether we are speaking of male or female body.
Movement of speaking
Movement of speaking
speak of Lucifer and of the several Spirits of the Planets, but they
the Buddha, so to speak, allows us to have a glimpse of his further
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were considering I had to speak of how Christ vanquished
That of which I am now speaking can be actually experienced, and when
speak more in pictures; human words do not in the least suffice
part of the realm of the Sun. When you know this I am speaking
than the Spirits of the planets. For there of course we were speaking
therefore possible to speak of a higher, a third consciousness of a
and then speaking in a language of symbol. By this means it was
states do indeed exist; we can speak of a fourth and a fifth
is, therefore, possible to speak to Earth man of these higher states
Earth, so to speak, as a legacy from old Moon; and finally how, were
occultist speaks of different states of consciousness. In reality they
man from the standpoint of occultism, where we speak of
theosophy. For where the occultist speaks of conditions of
consciousness, the theosophist speaks of successive planes. Occultism
Just as we found that in theosophy we speak of planes, so again are we
clothing the truth in the garb of theosophy when we speak of the
which is, in effect, the Christ Impulse. To speak of re-incarnation of
way to Mars, so that the Buddha and Christ so to speak passed one
notwithstanding all opposition. It has, so to speak, the longer life,
comprehensible to many, because theosophy is able to speak to man from
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speak about all kinds of spiritual matters with the German art
— of that we may speak.
human form. On the other hand, now try to imagine how, in speaking of
may speak of the following.
is. Let us feel that we must never speak of any matter until we have
which I speak to you, it may be that you will accept many things that
We have tried never to let ourselves speak of "tolerance" if
We may well speak of these things by way of introduction, although it
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intimately related to spiritual life. We shall have to speak of what
some of its secrets and laws, we must go on to speak of the
initiates in the course of human evolution. We shall have to speak of
In these lectures we shall be speaking of the demands the soul must
objectively and is there, yet it would be meaningless to speak of this
to speak as having gone through initiation like others, is Christ
that anyone possesses through the body by means of which we speak in
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If we would speak of initiation and its significance for human life
be justified. At the same time, we can at most speak of an echo, of a
clairvoyant, and that is when we speak in symbols and metaphors so
worlds. Everyone knows that when he speaks of a "burning
the external world. He knows that he is speaking figuratively, but
processes of nature by calling moral ideas to his aid. In speaking,
in the physical world would speak of hate burning him. Lucifer would
body. When speaking of the physical body, we can talk of raising a
interwoven in the super-sensible worlds, and in speaking of some part
a different way from how love is expressed. We may speak thus where
foolish to say that one cannot speak of desires and so forth in
Still, in diverse ways of which we still have to speak, one may
ourselves of the habit of speaking of things according to the ideas we
experience. When we become conscious that we are speaking in the
have been speaking, enters the super-sensible world from the world of
meet a man and make his acquaintance, and when he speaks and behaves
terror and fear. With proper schooling we need not speak of danger
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spiritual world. Pictorially speaking, that is quite correct.
that." Were we unable to speak thus, it would mean a break, a
awakening of the etheric body, so that we may speak of the sleeping
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experience in the higher world of which we have just been speaking,
world of which we are speaking, would never be struck by the idea that
speaking, we feel ourselves in eternity with this one desire, "If
and we cannot speak of it in any other way." But that is not the
speak about being confronted with a Luciferic being?" When, in
only then does it become possible to speak with reality of a contrast
spiritual world that lies — to speak from a transitory point of
Wherever you go in the world, when speaking from the standpoint of
speaking of abstract opposites such as the temporal and the eternal
because there they cease to have any meaning. There we have to speak
of beings. We speak, therefore, of progressive, divine beings and of
harm. Why is this so? Why do we repeatedly find, when we speak to the
man we shall speak of tomorrow.
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which we can speak, one of which is our ordinary sensory existence,
should be evident to you that we must speak of human concepts in a
our physical world. Also, when wishing to speak of super-sensible
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light of the spirit to speak naturally to human souls, it will then be
could no longer either speak or write, were men only to build further
If now at the close of these lectures, I may be permitted to speak of
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though only externally. Generally speaking, Rome overcame
indeed extraordinarily interesting to hear an Indian speak
Christianity was quite remote from the Indian speaker —
world. It is remarkable to hear this Indian speaking about
which we have been speaking (during which the doctrine of
his life in Sicily. It was he who was the first to speak of
stands, so to speak, first the figure which he creates, and
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these Jewish prophets in a very special way. When we speak of
theosophical tendency to mix everything together and speak
about the prophets in the same way as we speak of other
seems, so to speak, to spring from their own genius, and this
Trivially speaking, it is as though there were a gradual
Maccabees who speak out of their souls of a uniting, a
Baptist speak. How comprehensive and grandiose is this figure
speak of Him. Beings from the super-sensible world recognize
speak of man. He speaks now of a heavenly super-sensible
it would be utter nonsense to speak of the sun of our
Mars, so it would be nonsense to speak of Christ in the same
sectarian belief. When we speak of Christology in a true
is a cosmic being. The Indians speak of their national gods.
might perhaps speak of a Western-Christian principle in
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appear, so to speak, in his full greatness. I have often
Theosophical Society in Berlin to speak more fully on this
21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. \
we speak of the personage of Naboth, we are speaking of the
was, so to speak, still in Elijah the group soul of the
Elijah-John. For this purpose I will venture to speak of the
the spirit of Elijah-John. The Bible does not actually speak
Jesus appears after the arrest of John the Baptist and speaks
about which people speak so often, ought to be taken
could not understand it; for someone to speak like this was a
question is what happened there. And I should be speaking in
Buddhist who insisted on speaking about the possible
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say, speak as Buddha spoke to his pupils. Only once does he
the immortality of the soul he was surely speaking then like
speaks somewhat as follows, "Have I not striven all my
his pupil Sona and speaks to him somewhat in the following
faced the crowd that wished to hear Him. He speaks to this
Christ Jesus taught, we must speak of this in a more complex
speaking to people who still retained the last heritage of
point of time to speak in a different way when He was
addressing the crowd from when He was speaking to His
that it speaks directly to the human mind, but in the
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consideration how Krishna speaks about the divine spiritual
height, yet they speak to us as if from a high point of
I should like to speak candidly about this and state clearly
canto Krishna speaks as follows:
to speak, characterizes his own nature. What is he really
characterizing? His way of speaking is truly remarkable. He
Krishna actually speaking? Of nothing else but what a man can
they manifest themselves in life. He speaks of the human
speak today for our own age, so Krishna spoke to his own age
over the being of all things. So when we speak of our higher
ego, the higher being dwelling in man, we do not speak of
speaking of the nature of the human soul as it would have
speak of the ego.
similar to what we express when we speak of the highest of
cultural epoch has been called after them. If we speak of the
into external life. It is these records which also speak of
should believe when he speaks of written records that they go
language, of vocabulary. What is important is that we speak
the Buddha. How does he speak of the marvels of the world
have been able to speak about him? He would have said
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speak of several incarnations of Christ they are making the
something different to speak through ourselves, and we take
had to speak to the crowd in the way used by the old
human reasoning capacities. He could speak to the new sense
tells how they speak to Him, and then later it is said,
is not permissible to speak of the mysteries. That is what
speak about death and resurrection, about raising from the
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contrast, in speaking of the Mark Gospel we have emphasized,
how Christ Jesus speaks of how the Son of Man must suffer
individuality, if, indeed one may speak of an initiation at
would have understood Him. But because such a way of speaking
experienced? It was memory. He had to speak in such a way
in India of what we today speak of in the fullest sense as
survey clairvoyantly, in one fell swoop so to speak, a number
descriptions. So does a man today speak who imagines himself
introduces, so to speak, a hostile element. If we examine
of which we shall speak again tomorrow.
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the Jesus boy of whom Matthew especially speaks the
Christ Jesus we have, so to speak, in Moses those forces
Gospel is explained through occult research it speaks a very
began to speak to it, "Never to all eternity shall
way that we can speak of the starving Empedocles, we can
speak of the hunger for the spirit that all men felt in the
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it was in Greece that beauty, which speaks out of external
other words Christ Jesus is here speaking of circumstances
like this?" The reason is that He is now speaking about
something entirely different. He is now speaking about how
Christ Jesus if He wishes to speak of the Christ and
offense, because He would then be speaking of His cosmic
mission; or if He wishes to speak of the fact that He is a
further we find how He speaks everywhere of how the cosmic
lives in the individual human being. Indeed, He speaks of the
cosmic when He speaks of immortality, and it is noteworthy
how He speaks of this just in connection with His appearance
of a merely physical son of David, for David himself speaks
we can experience through the Mark Gospel which speaks to us
away, so to speak, from Christ Jesus, do we discover the
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to perceive for themselves, so to speak, only too clearly the
all in the sense that one speaks of historical documents, as
speak of the "plain man from Nazareth" rather
of Nazareth, for the Gospels speak of Christ and they
to speak, the outer environment which enabled him to give the
thoughts in this Gospel I should have to go on speaking for a
feel what speaks to us from the Gospels and allow ourselves
European speaks about Christ Jesus with the way other peoples
speak about their national deities, for example the way a
Chinese speaks about Confucious or the way an Indian speaks
speak of Christ Jesus from a purely objective historical
Word when we speak of Christ's own words, not only those that
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receive the light of the Hierarchies. Generally speaking almost every
been levied against our Western spiritual movement that we speak out
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until this phase we can speak in terms of astral color phenomena in
Again it may be a shock to speak of what is experienced only
during our physical existence we speak of getting old. In the
another opportunity in the not too distant future to speak further on
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speak about more intimate matters that can only be dealt with in
like to speak of the period that for super-sensible perception is of
life, so to speak, in the spheres of knowledge and art, do we have to
Now, as I wish to speak more intimately of these things, I shall have
the spiritual world, how he speaks as a prophet, that one only learns
yet another experience on Mars. As we are speaking more intimately
and "Dusk." One easily speaks about a cold allegory, but
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he no longer says, "Carl speaks," or "Mary speaks,"
but "I speak." Knowledge of the "I" therefore
To speak only of unity amounts to saying that salt, pepper, paprika
expressed in these different substances. Of course, one can speak
with in a single lecture. It is only possible to speak of particular
Christ Jesus speaks profound words in the Gospel when He says to
relation to all religious denominations and world-conceptions speaks
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must move around them, so to speak, and examine them from every point
image. We are enveloped in the cloud of our visions, so to speak, but
this is unintelligible, it is even more so to speak about an abstract
A particular prejudice still prevails today. People speak as if
this Being or that Being is speaking — that is the point, not
placed them originally. But I want to speak mainly about the four
We shall speak further on this subject in the lecture the day after
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on earth. Yet, generally speaking, there is little prospect that a
ways of which we shall speak when the opportunity arises.
Are not the things of which we have been speaking really there? Let
consciousness between death and a new birth. I will speak quite
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of feeling we can freely experience what speaks to our soul because,
speak of a common kernel in all religions. They in fact, however,
The adherents of the Hindu and Buddhist religions speak in terms of a
A similar group egoism is true of most peoples when they speak of
as far as the Sun sphere. There it acts as a guide, so to speak, from
larger, so to speak. Below us we have the Sun and above, the mighty,
blood. We shall often speak further about these matters in the
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grace. The gates are flung open by the dead. They can speak to those
In Europe we do not speak the same languages as in India. But
Today we are gathered together and speak of spiritual science. We
In speaking about life between death and rebirth we open up a
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able to speak after death if we wish to be rightly there for the
souls are transposed, so to speak. We should consider the earth as a
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The departed one will speak to him as follows: I have left my
other one speak a few words to him, while the other silent and cannot
speak. Thus the soul that has filled me with bliss for such a long
otherwise than to speak to his fellow-beings about spiritual wisdom,
urgent necessity to speak about the super-sensible worlds, a necessity
wishes to speak within you. You may then think or feel: Whence do the
earthly life is concerned. The dead will begin to speak. In the
person is speaking within their soul. They will gradually learn to
recognise who is speaking to them. Only because to-day men pass by so
the dead wish to speak within the hearts of the living.
the dead and that the dead will be able to speak to the hearts
accustomed to speak; after five, six, eight years, however in
known to us as the spirits of death and illness. We must here speak of
Let me speak of still another phenomenon. The seer will experience
Something else will then arise: namely, that, generally speaking, the
this way of speaking about these things may awaken within our hearts
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then she appears unable to speak. It can be compared to two people,
to speak to his fellow men about spiritual wisdom. He sees the sorrow
Those whose mission to speak about the super-sensible stems from the
of possibilities that they cannot hear what the dead would speak to
to speak to the hearts of those who have developed a spiritual
language he used to speak during his lifetime, because during the
language the dead used to speak. But after five, six, eight years,
answer out of the spiritual facts themselves that speaks directly to
spiritual science. Whenever one speaks about matters such as these,
these matters. But to speak precisely about these matters in this way
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the sphere of Venus, human beings are so to speak confined in
religious feeling; when, so to speak, he has developed a deeper
of Buddhism; and of other faiths; will indeed speak of the
increasingly develop so to speak two natures, the farther
speak, loses his old task; let us give him a new one. —
speaking quite correctly: At that precise time the Buddha
Prince of Peace, crucified himself, so to speak, though not
the distant spaces of the universe, became so to speak a giant
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was below in the life on earth; she was, so to speak, the
speak, to come into contact with the whole spiritual world. On
these children of whom I am speaking, something remained
speak, carry out the further development of world wisdom.
when with the eye of the seer we penetrate, so to speak, into
they are, so to speak, bound to the earth by the heaviness of
so to speak, escape them, these souls who could not, by their
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earthly incarnation one can speak of an "embodiment"
dead. People will speak with the dead, and they will listen to the
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speaking is pure nonsense. When we cross the gate of death we are, to
attracted by the mixture within the hereditary stream, so to speak,
confront these beings consciously. Pictorially speaking, one can
before he learned to speak, and there grew up without ever hearing
the human voice, he would never learn to speak! This shows clearly
that children do not learn to speak unless speech comes to them from
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It is not really incongruous to speak about the dead in words taken
greatest value and significance. We will speak in a moment of the
the Moon sphere into the Mercury sphere; I am speaking entirely from
to speak about certain aspects of the passage through the Mars
speak in this way. We have to develop in our lives on earth the
from his earlier incarnations. We are justified in speaking of him as
lead far off the mark when speaking about successive incarnations. To
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together in our group meetings we can speak more precisely about
must not escape his mental representation, so to speak. In general,
have known on earth who have died before us. It is difficult to speak
what he inherits he would be a totally inhuman lump, so to speak. The
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It is exceedingly difficult to speak about life after death in words
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As we are together here for the first time, I want to speak in an
whom one is speaking. Books cannot be read in the spiritual world.
In order that we may really understand one another, I want to speak
speaking, the soul of the dead has a very clear perception, a very
dead sees the hatred if I may speak figuratively. The
also of service to the spiritual worlds. In speaking to the living for
words and human thoughts. Any attempt to speak concretely about them
vision. To speak figuratively. After something has been
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will have to be of an aphoristic character. I should like to speak a
living beings, so to speak. Then the souls of the dead draw near and
dislike are innocent, so to speak. When such a teacher dies, one sees
Often when one tries to speak in a concrete way about the conditions
symbolically speaking of course: You have brought me here to
more easily. These are the things of which I wished to speak to you
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makes the human larynx capable of learning to speak. Therefore
in being able as it were to listen inwardly without speaking aloud and
comparatively speaking, to attain the degree of clairvoyance necessary
projected outwards and is, so to speak, around the soul. One sees in
speaker himself knew nothing about it is a pointer, helping him
The seer who gladly speaks about the period stretching between death
speaks a great deal fallaciously for the most part about
the spiritual world. I have thought it advisable to speak in a rather
It was from this standpoint that I wanted to speak to you during this,
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able to listen inwardly without speaking, and to develop this feeling
difficult, comparatively speaking, to attain the necessary degree of
is, so to speak, all around one. One can see in visible imagery the
part of the speaker, lead to a retrospective view of his past lives.
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am very glad to be able to speak here again after a comparatively
seriousness when speaking of the spiritual worlds. This, after all,
Before entering into the main theme of these lectures I want to speak
exactly the opposite holds good. I am speaking always of the present
activity when the spirit is not speaking. And quite certainly no
I want now to speak of so-called spiritual healing. Here
the same way we are surrounded after death, figuratively speaking, by
Homer, thus indicating his spiritual seership. In speaking of the
speak of something else as well. There was a certain truth which I
particular aspect of it had not struck me before. I am speaking now
for instance. Homer speaks of the spiritual realm, a realm of the
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the language he uses he speaks of himself as if he were another
have some consciousness of himself and to speak of himself in the
I said, I have to use trivial words in speaking of these two thrones;
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example. When somebody speaks of telegraphing today he has the
known it would be possible for people to speak from one town to
is not, properly speaking, criticism at all.
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or less normal time. Objectively speaking, an afternoon nap is a
in appearance at all events; we cannot, however, speak of an actual
Speaking generally it can be said that the number of individuals who
experience. Plato speaks of it as 'recollection',
theories back again. He does not speak of the physical heavenly
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shall not be speaking today about the Christmas Festival as in
Rosenkreutz in the thirteenth century. Today I shall speak of a deed
made this possible. We will speak on another occasion in greater
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Ego which, basically speaking, passes through all the periods of
learning to walk, to speak and to think. There is a natural
'I' or Ego which, basically speaking, passes through all
philosophers speak is another matter altogether. Anyone who insists
philosophers speak is refuted by the simple fact that during the
they are during sleep at night, to speak of the permanence of man's
soul during that period would be meaningless. Fundamentally speaking,
not the 'I' of which the philosophers speak — is
the human being is not yet able to speak and has to learn how to do
so. Try to remember how you first learnt to speak, how you learnt to
walk, to speak and to think? The actor is the real, true 'I'!
upright, to speak and to think. But he is not at once capable of
faculties of speaking and thinking are still undeveloped. When the
upright, walk, speak and think, he is an expression of the form
walking upright, speaking and thinking. It is impossible to conceive
vertical spine, and who can speak and think. Even a parrot is able to
or Ego which have enabled him to think, to speak and adopt the
learn to speak, to think and to walk upright. The Spirits who cast
in his earliest years of speaking and thinking in the real sense, are
to speak and to think! All this is beyond his power because he is
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have been nonsense to speak of public opinion as we do today. A great
speak about the influence of public opinion upon the life of an
centuries and one can speak of its actual beginning. Such things must
first place he wanted to speak to a wider circle of people and,
later life of which I have spoken. When a seer speaks of Buddha
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fundamentally speaking, entities attributable to the fact that
speaking, that is absolutely correct in the sense I have often
by speaking of the states of bliss or blessedness which can be
incarnations. We have to speak of these things in a world which with
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enlightened, one could often hear a way of speaking that is
As I said, this way of speaking could be heard time and
speaking, their hands are offering gifts which we do not receive
to take a human being before he has learnt to speak, put him on a
speech, he would never learn to speak. And so anyone who argues
speak, for speech does not come of itself. So our free-thinking
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period of evolution. In an age when it was not yet possible to speak
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speak on a subject which is capable of indicating in manifold ways the
stream; there we survey a continuity so to speak, a connected
source of their philosophies in the Mysteries, not to speak of such a
World-Self is attained. What the Veda speaks is the God-Word which is
single souls existing, so to speak, from Eternity; or, at any rate,
Sankhya philosophy. Here we have, in the first place, so to speak, the
were given to man, so to speak, without his having done anything to
sound produced by man when he speaks undulates and moves and lives
Krishna speaks of the Cosmic Word, of the Creative Word, of the
The Divine Logos, of whom the Gospel of St. John speaks is the Living
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primeval Indian wisdom. What we meet with first, what, so to speak, is
to age. And as we speak about the beginning of the evolution of our
foundation of the Story of Creation), as we speak of how at the
the Sankhya philosophy speak of original substance, of a primordial
philosophy calls Ahamkara. Whereas Budhi stands, so to speak, on the
differentiated already so that when we speak of Ahamkara we must
differentiated form between Budhi and Manas. When we therefore speak
of Manas in the sense of the Sankhya philosophy, we are not speaking
of quite the same thing as when we speak of it in the sense of
handling, walking, speaking, he reacts on the physical world around
this is only a manner of speaking, and that in reality we realise cold
darkness through the organs of sight. Thus we speak of warm and cold
of colour; they can speak of certain notes as representing red, and
provinces of the external world, we can speak of one which fills the
the astral body of man. The Sankhya philosopher speaks of the combined
underlying it, so to speak, was that old wisdom which we now endeavour
now speaking of moral characteristics, but of pure characteristics,
meet a man who, so to speak, walks about under the weight of his
muscles of our face in harmony with the speaking of the soul, the
Therefore, even Aristotle himself in speaking of the soul part no
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done this or that; or who so speaks about the highest concepts of
was, so to speak, only the means through which he expressed himself to
today speak of mankind in general, they speak of it in the abstract,
has become our common destiny. When one speaks of mankind in general,
Those who speak of Krishna as of man in general, do not mean the
as an individual man, and speaks with the mouth of a man once in every
highest speaks; that which is the divine in every human nature and
matter what our hands may carry out, even speaking of the Gita
situation what our swords may carry out or what we may speak
all that we speak with our mouth and do with our hands, this it is to
which he speaks for the first time, which he is unaccustomed to speak,
itself to me. Thus speaks Arjuna, when he is alone with Him Who
it aright. Mysterious it is, so mysterious that it must speak in a
Truly we are confronted with a mystery when human being speaks thus to
human being. And Krishna again speaks to his pupil: I have
should approach the cosmic mystery that speaks from out the Gita who
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enlightened it. After the Mystery of Golgotha we can speak of that
which the Sublime One, that is to say, Krishna Himself, speaks, and in
beginning of the newer age had to speak in accordance with what was
the personal element speaks; that is why a personality thunders
The Bhagavad Gita can speak in words full of wisdom because it
of whom only the material speaks, who live in the material, who
the spiritualising of the human soul. Yoga may only speak of that
shall have to speak further of the overwhelming greatness of the
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the so-called speaking with tongues comes under consideration.
What is this speaking with tongues that we find spoken of in St.
our initiation-methods, we speak of Inspiration, it is understood that
gives the following admonition: Some there are who can speak with
to those who speak with tongues, but also to those who have not that
working of men. In connection with this very speaking with tongues St.
Wherefore I make clear to you: that just as little as one speaking in
characters, others that of speaking different tongues, and to others
administration of the community, and a seventh He set aside to speak
shall all be teachers, all healers, shall all speak with tongues, or
Then Paul speaks of the force that can prevail in the individual but
Paul spoke to humanity in its different members. Then he speaks of the
the way that is higher than all else. If I could speak with
spoken with tongues ceases when it can no longer speak to human
must also strive after love; for whoever speaks with tongues speaks
not among men, he speaks among Gods. No one understands him, because
in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. We see how St. Paul
understands the nature of speaking with tongues. His meaning is: The
speaker with tongues is transported into the spiritual worlds; he
speaks among Gods. Whoever prophesies speaks to men to build up, to
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diligence can work wonders. Let me speak in detail, for example, of
what speaks for one course as opposed to another, you were out of
is another way. We can observe from day to day how he acts and speaks
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things in our time? We need not go so far as to speak of a
things where he put them. It may seem strange for us to be speaking
always to put it in the same place; but we will speak of a far more
it, if instead of acting under the influence of that which speaks for
to day how he acts and speaks, and let this form a basis for our
things speak for themselves and to understand a person in himself,
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nothing to do with its usefulness. It is like a voice which speaks
so to speak, does he experience in full a purely spiritual life or
speak, forgotten their previous lives on earth. Yes they have
permitted, so to speak, by the cosmic powers will draw to an end, and
birth he will, so to speak, feel no difference between Kama-Loka and
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those to whom he was speaking; and he was hardly ever able to revise
voice of conscience would speak.
so to speak, because he still looks back upon his impulses and
asking for explanations. If you even begin to speak about
speak, their earlier lives on earth. Indeed, they have forgotten
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Yesterday we saw that we can speak of hidden aspects of man's
our consciousness as if we were walking, so to speak, in a
so to speak — the sphere of our personality. Hence,
speak, come out of ourselves at the moment when we are being
It is exactly that part which has, so to speak, brought about
soul-life — when we experience, so to speak, our own
super-sensible facts? Here on the earth we can speak of
brightly over the just and the unjust. Speaking figuratively,
we imagine a world where it is impossible to speak of a
so to speak, of existence, varies in the different worlds. We
opinion! Hence today everybody has, so to speak, his own
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primarily upon ourselves, does not leave, so to speak, the
just what has, so to speak, brought about the apparently
speak of Devachan only because in clairvoyance, when the self
alike but, if we may speak figuratively, it darkens upon the
of existence, so to speak, is quite different for the different
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when we speak of sub-consciousness, in contrast to
— are in reality such, that we must speak of the impotence of
sympathy and antipathy — and, generally speaking,
intimate connections, so to speak, existing between the Universe and
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Generally speaking, it must be said that a complete
get a good idea of all that is, so to speak, embedded in this
clairvoyance which is, so to speak, a kind of obscure
speak, any other parts of his organism except the
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On these two more intimate evenings we shall have to speak of a
enlightenment. Thus in speaking of Christ today we speak of something
But when we speak of the inner way to Christ, we encounter more and
shall try to speak of the inner Christ-experience in such a way
feel what speaks out of the Buddha, can feel all that first came about
initiation we have still to speak. But since the time of the Mystery
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animals, but I am not speaking of this now; I am speaking of the
to speak, of beings belonging to the super-sensible worlds learned that
to speak, upon their creations. Had evolution continued in this way,
who, symbolically speaking, serve the Holy Grail or, speaking
may speak of the secrets which they know and which work in
and dignity, reply to one who should speak to him of a Christ
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speaks to His disciples? They are those which, as a rule, are not
speaks in a parable of the seed that is sown and undergoes different
The process of which He is speaking belongs to the kingdoms of outer
given to all men through all time to come — then He is speaking
of reality, He is speaking of the Spirit.
Earth that it is not possible to speak of sleeping and waking,
realise that we can actually speak of the Earth-spirits beginning to
knowledge and speak of its inner significance.
have to speak of these things and it is done only because it is a
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Awakes. Who seeks to speak of this at all
our grateful thoughts to her and speak a few words of unvarnished truth.
spiritual Individualities. Naturally, today is not the appropriate time to speak about
unable to give while in the earthly body. And I know that not only am I not speaking
Oriental culture speaks only of
For instance, it speaks of the Bodhisattvas and describes them as individualities who pass
really in mind when speaking of the Buddha is not so much the historical Buddha, the
speak of
and think of them only in the one incarnation. We do not speak of the individuality who goes
from incarnation to incarnation, but we speak of the personality. We speak of one Socrates,
one Plato, one Goethe and so on, we speak only of a single life in which the individuality
gifts to humanity. I am speaking of Raphael. He was born on a Good Friday as if to show
time. True, there was then union, but we cannot really speak of a physical incarnation of
crudely, speak of a programme which Spiritual Science must carry out in the future. In this
Why do we speak of these things at
would like to have spoken to you in the way that one likes to speak to those who are
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When we speak of karma, we mean that which as cause in the one life
however, speak truly of love; we cannot speak of a deed of love and
In regard to strength or might we can speak of degrees: weaker,
do to speak in the same way of degrees of love. What is universal
love, love for all beings? In the case of love we cannot speak of
enhancement as we can speak of enhancement of knowledge into
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— has, so to speak, reawakened. We feel how this figure
him speak: ('Confession of Cyprian.')
learned by being, so to speak, initiated into the pre-Christian
'Divine.' We can speak of the 'all-power,'
speak of 'all-wisdom' as of an ideal; but over against it
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which we shall have to speak to pass beyond the standpoint of
or value. But as we are speaking about regions of the soul-life so
various other inner moral qualities. Of these we shall have to speak
speaking, people lack sufficient perseverance for the kind of
Whether we are speaking of Eastern Mysteries or Western Mysteries, all
phrases mean and must be capable, so to speak, of living in two worlds
are, so to speak, transparent, that he sees through everything. But at
moment a new world is taken from him. We shall have to speak more in
he is, so to speak, an undifferentiated unity with the whole world
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not speak of this death at present. But there are other deaths. There
There are many theories of political economy. I need not speak about
waking or sleeping person. Also when he has, so to speak, laid aside
if the Sun were speaking, as if it were looking down on the plants and
need what I can send them! Exactly as the Sun might speak to the plant
speak of his ego. And just as he learns to speak of his ego with
reference to his physical and etheric bodies as the Sun would speak to
the plant, so does he learn to speak of his astral body as the Moon,
and also the planets, would have to speak to the plant. That is a
must, so to speak, open out his soul for conditions essentially
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one must speak of as Cosmic Tones and the Cosmic Word. The aspirant
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Lower Gods in the widest sense of the word. We have to speak of the
Now it is extraordinarily difficult to speak in ideas and concepts
Fundamentally speaking, the phrase the Holy Grail, with
speaking of the apparent movements, because they sufficiently
been speaking. For at that place one can speak of the very worst
learnt to speak, and so the speech-centre is the result of speech.
opportunity to speak in still clearer words, if that can be, of what
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have to speak to you on a subject which may be important to
speak of the changes which these human sheaths undergo under
speak about the changes in the physical human body, for the
speak in a learned manner, I should say that the organs pass
grapes, or generally speaking, that which comes from the
ego must normally produce in the blood — speaking
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to speak later of the difference between vegetable and animal
food — all of which will be dealt with when we speak of
specifically earthly; and if you wished to speak about milk you
the result of cosmic forces. When we speak of albumen, this in
the foods of those who eat meat. We are speaking of animal fat.
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speaking as it were in paradox about this experience, we might
earth if we were to speak of the sense for language — I
do not mean the sense for speaking? Those who heard the lecture
speaks enthusiastically of this or that interesting quality,
account. We shall speak further on these matters in the next
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And when we speak of a Spirit of the Earth, we must conceive
speak, as we human beings are during our sleeping state. Of
we speak of a differentiation of its parts, so now we may
really speak of varied lives we live through in the course of
speaking of the etheric body, we must in reality make a
the sixth and seventh. Seven — or relatively speaking,
is truly not speaking of visionary fancies when he sets forth
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speaking of this or that as unsympathetic, it is better to keep
may also speak without prejudice of the fact that, as regards
here we come to speak on a point which shines, it might be
arrive at what we are now speaking of; for this must appear as
need not here speak of other processes which a person may
worlds, because in Occultism it is the custom not to speak of
into that world; hence it is not the practice to speak of the
stage, so to speak. At that time these Primal Forces or Spirits
cold. We may also speak of these currents of heat and cold from
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of his physical body and etheric body. We will speak of the
creation. We so divide this earthly creation that we speak of a
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frequently to speak of what he least possesses, of what he
speaking about it. Now the advocacy of this exoteric principle
can also speak in each. When the pictures of the legend of
reason also — though it might seem as if I am speaking in
to a minimum of ritual. We are not now speaking of these things
consideration when we are speaking of the peculiar nature of
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there above. It is another being that speaks out of the one
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these things in speaking of the changes which take place in the
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speaking of that which in ordinary life leads a person to
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IS MORE than a year since I was able to speak here about those
speak to you here last time we let our spiritual gaze journey far
world. We shall speak about a subject that will apparently lead us
We are going to speak of one of the greatest and most penetrating
forth page by page as it speaks to us, will experence, page by page,
this soul, to have knowledge of him who is speaking such sublime
souls can do better because they speak not only to understanding but
who speaks to Socrates.
death he speaks to them of the immortality of the soul. Many people
man speaks to his pupils on the immortality of the soul, it can
same. But Socrates speaks in the hour that immediately precedes his
speak about immortality to the pupils he is leaving behind in the
the situation under which he speaks them. Let us take all the power
just said." I know too that those who speak like this do not
evolution. Of what does Krishna speak? Of I, and I,
else than I speaks from out the teaching of Krishna.
that speaks in Krishna. It does indeed seem to us as though through
When we are speaking
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of St. John, and again on a later occasion in speaking of the Gospel
through which Krishna, God, is to speak to him. Here in this first
speaks to him. In the first four discourses we observe three
Thus speaks Krishna,
strange that while for all of you it is quite natural to speak of a
to Archangels and Angels, these are beings who must speak to the
understanding we speak in concepts and ideas. Krishna speaks to
It is easy to speak of
Science, speaking in it about Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions, and
Arjuna. We shall speak of this more in detail tomorrow. He describes
level of consciousness. We shall still have to speak of Yoga, and
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speaking of present-day man, for even in ancient Greece the human
he would speak of light-air, or air-light. On the physical plane
Beings. In the physical world we often speak of the forces of nature.
to speak of that still higher realm through which man ordinarily
to prepare the way today by speaking of man's ascent into the third
strange and wondrous truths that Krishna speaks to Arjuna —
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Just imagine someone trying to speak before such an audience as this,
question to speak of these things as we do now, at any time from the
speak, ought we therefore to refrain from teaching them to speak?"
himself allows Darwinism to speak through every page of his writing.
self-conscious life of men. In this connection we can speak of a
speak to Arjuna in words saturated through and through with
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speak intelligently and intelligibly about such a work as the
speak of it today. At most one could say that in ancient India
important point. We have tried to describe their natures, speaking of
bring to mankind's ears the voice that should speak of slaying
speak to the individual man speaks through Krishna to Arjuna. The
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argument one would speak the same fallacy as if someone were to say,
what we call the Lemurian Age, the beginning, strictly speaking, of
charioteer. The manifestation of this special soul, speaking through
all that has happened in the past. True science will not only speak
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he has to speak in words altogether permeated by those shades of
we shall speak more fully in the last lecture
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classified, and he also speaks to him of the different ways men may
entered we may call the Jesus-path if we would speak in an occult
their imperfection than the present speaker. But the endeavor has
months have shown — and my speaking here on this significant
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sense world, what we may call (and we will speak of it at length
was attempted in the words Maria speaks in the Spirit Realm (Scene
one can only express in such words given to Maria to speak at the end
You should take notes of how the Guardian speaks:
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that we've been speaking about, it is necessary to know how to
phenomenon in human life that we will speak about later in more
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been speaking about is a peculiarity of the human etheric body, which
is that in our usual way of speaking in the physical world we
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speaking about the spiritual worlds as we are doing in these
transformation I've been speaking about is a peculiarity of the human
however, should be noted. One is that in our usual way of speaking in
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the word we can speak of reading the cosmic script in the spirit
in which Maeterlinck speaks of the actual relationship of
spirit language. One spirit being speaks to another; thought language
spiritual world as well. It is in speaking that these beings work,
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speak about the luciferic and ahrimanic elements, but though Capesius
Benedictus began therefore to speak about these things
speak out their inner, essential meaning. The further you go back in
loneliness of thought. An individual does not speak a language of his
peculiar in this: that one speaks all the short vowels long and all
organic; people speak more and more a book language. This is the
between the two, so to speak. It is neither necessary to stop short
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groups that speak different languages and there are also those that
physical world; we will speak first of the realm of art. In this we
spiritual element, as I said before, when speaking figuratively of
of which Johannes Thomasius speaks at the end of
present moment, to speak of one's being as a mere 'has been,'
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that much exists in his soul-being that can be dug out, so to speak.
speak, and how one, now a point-like being, must listen to the
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I would call it — and I am not speaking from animosity but with
that should be taken into account when we speak about the kinds of
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theme I intend to speak about during these [next] 4
that I may speak about this Fifth Gospel, however, an
and in a primitive way, using ordinary ideas, speaking to
were, suddenly began to speak in various tongues about what
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theme on which I propose to speak in these lectures seems to me
speak of such a Fifth Gospel and that in fact no title is more
order that I may be able to speak about this Fifth Gospel, we
already been able to speak on several occasions in this very
schooled theologians? No indeed! Comparatively speaking, they
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from the depths of our souls, so to speak – much of
day. One can only bring one's self to speak of these
speak of these things in our times; with full knowledge
speak of miracles in the usual sense, of the breaking of
speak of these things now. What I would like to say though,
know that the time will come when one will be able to speak
future will come in which one can speak more precisely, in
obligation exists to speak of these things today as a kind
resistance to speak on this theme, the obligation for
That led to my speaking to you for the first time about
I speak about the secrets which I would like to call the
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am speaking of how it was experienced by the Apostles
observe them and hear how they were speaking now, they seemed
Festival. The decision to speak of these things can only be
certain inner reasons it seems necessary to speak of these
occurred, of course, both before and since, and to speak of the
Spirit in the universe. I do not want to speak of miracles in
This is, so to speak, the first knowledge we are able to read
it my duty to speak about these things now. What I want to say
that times will come when it will be possible to speak of these
the near future when it will be possible to speak with greater
matter of duty to speak about these things to-day by way of
reluctance in speaking as I have done, this was outweighed by
was what led me to speak on this subject to you here. When I
speak of having overcome reluctance, please take this exactly
so to speak, as my karma that the duty is imposed upon me to
these things of which it is my duty to speak. This personal
something of what lives within me when I speak of the mysteries
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of the Fifth Gospel. They were able to speak as they spoke,
point where we must speak of the earthly life of Christ in
speak of this suffering however, I must bring something
mean? It means, anthroposophically speaking, that that
following days we will speak of the Being who descended
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of soul! And the words the Apostles were then able to speak,
were able to speak as they did, to work as they did, because
speak of them in the words in which this Fifth Gospel has to be
reached a point where we must speak about Christ's earthly
before I speak of this suffering, I must call your attention to
another ... This is how Renan speaks of Christ Jesus. He had
lectures we shall be speaking of the Being who came down to the
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for me when I speak about the Fifth Gospel today. We
listened without speaking to what the others said. At the
Elias, for example, no longer speaks." What did still
speak, however, which many believed to be an inspiration
only now possible to speak about them in the confines of
speak to the Essenes. What he had seen on the gates always
changed voice, and what it means – we'll speak
speaking to Moses and the prophets; for at Sinai the
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I set myself to the task of speaking to you to-day on the
speaking, as I wish to speak in these particular lectures,
want to speak to-day of certain happenings in the life of Jesus
were saying without himself speaking a word. But while this was
who once descended, for example, upon Elias, speaks no
longer; but what still speaks" ... and many of the
heights ... "what still speaks is a feebler voice, yet a
ancient Hebrew teachers would speak no longer in the stream of
which I have been speaking. Jesus of Nazareth heard the
things we will speak further in the lecture to-morrow.
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console him by speaking about the things which had become
mother speak so enthusiastically about what he considered
I could also speak as a son of David, as Hillel does, the
speak thus now is useless and of no worth.
scales, so to speak, by their insistence, he was able to
times make it necessary to speak about this Fifth Gospel
peculiar way. I don't wish to speak of this now,
scruples. I would really prefer not to speak about such
The same man speaks seriously here of demons. Isn't
speaks of the Christ-Being as spiritually descended, and
obliged to speak of this Fifth Gospel, which is sacred to
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sensitive to everything that speaks to man from the world of
so she tried to comfort him by speaking of all the noble and
grew heavy while his mother was speaking in this way, prizing
could speak as the great Hillel spoke ... to-day there is
ears to hear. It is useless and meaningless to speak of these
in this conversation with the mother he went on to speak of
to speak of the man who as Jesus of Nazareth had come among
Being were actually within him, and he would begin to speak
the Apostles would speak — here or there, another —
and the people might easily believe that the speaker was Christ
scribes speaking together to this effect: It would be possible,
wrong one, for they all speak alike. Such an act would be of no
that it is a necessity of the times to speak now of this Fifth
much prefer not to speak about these matters, but they must be
speak about it in the groups, but also say how it ought to be
Spirit, Spirit! This is how men speak of the Spirit to-day
Soul. Here the man is speaking seriously of daemons, after
Being made use of the garments, so to speak, of the ancient
was my duty to speak of the Fifth Gospel which is very sacred
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speak to you of what we have become accustomed to call the
Mystery of Golgotha, but I will attempt to speak of it in a
Now, however, I am obliged to speak more
of our [Christian] era. I will speak of the events, the forces
observed esoterically. Tomorrow I will speak of the reasons why
and Matthew, I have already had the opportunity of speaking
John the Baptist, although strictly speaking neither were
could speak to her about the threefold suffering he endured
him, for while speaking to them his eyes took on a very special
following. On one hand he felt the need to speak, on the other
that soul was feeling, Jesus again was obliged to speak. He
These words encouraged the leper to speak
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disappear into nothingness, melt away so to speak, and finally
nonsense to speak of a strand of hair as having an independent
would we speak of the Mystery of Golgotha? We would have to
When we speak of such things words must be
used in a different way than in ordinary life. One must speak
when speaking of the spirit one goes even a little beyond
Perhaps the easiest way to speak of
speaking to him, and he repulsed the attack. He defeated
traveled about the land with his disciples. He would speak
speaking if he's the right or the wrong one. If we grab the
although it is quite difficult to speak of these things.
Nevertheless, although I may be inclined not to speak of them,
Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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speak, in the way that may be possible in the intimate
despairing man was speaking, the being he had seen in the
intelligible. It may, perhaps, be possible to speak here
event. To-day I will speak of one or two points only.
Christ Impulse, but to speak of something that underlay
beings in those times did not stop at learning to speak,
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Baptist. Had he not his reasons for speaking in this way
derived from the Fifth Gospel for in speaking of the
figure of John the Baptist, I am speaking now from other
sources). He had his reasons for speaking as he did to
shall now speak rather more abstractly. — Bearing
Jesus of Nazareth, could speak concerning Himself
— it is this to which Christ points when he speaks
was experienced by on well-qualified to speak. In 1607,
worthy to receive Him? By learning to speak with the same
primal Father when I speak of the foundation of whatever
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to-day but speak of something else, namely, that the
by the physicists, who rightly speak of the
Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture One
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these lectures I speak of the Mystery of Golgotha, I do not wish to
star (I speak symbolically), or the spiritual Being of whom one says
will speak of it only in so far as it bears on our present
Darwinism in terms of that mentality. Or, strictly speaking, at the
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Now we must speak of the way in which Paul tried to come
speak pictorially again: the disciples of Zarathustra would have
any knowledge about the being of Christ Jesus ... not to speak of
Now, fundamentally speaking, it is certainly not easy to
unravel the riddle I have been speaking of, and I avow that in the
ways of spiritual research. Obviously there is not time to speak of
as though in the style of a bad speaker she wants to add all possible
power. Then the Cumaean Sibyl! She speaks with half-open mouth, as
devoted, so to speak, to the immediate element of Earth.
and fundamentally speaking upon the whole Indian culture of the first
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Of one of these we need not speak further here,
with a superhuman Being who (if we may speak in this way) lived in
Nazareth, but we are speaking now of an event that took place in
string instruments. And when once a child was born who so to speak
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journeys of the sun; but it is the spiritual sun that speaks
Earth. These Sibylline forces, which so to speak draw into their
sinking himself into it and speaking through her. The Prophets wanted
Pythia had to prepare himself, so that the god might be able to speak
commandments, making a covenant with his people, speaking directly to
is much more closely bound up with the Earth; is so to speak an
Pythia and speaks oracular words concerning human fate, then we can
Thus wrote he of whom tomorrow we will speak further,
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those that come from subconscious depths, but those that speak to the
out the forces that speak through the clarity of the Ego. This indeed
those which can speak through the Ego.
emerged so chaotically in the Sibyls were cleansed, so to speak, by
stellar script must once more become something that speaks to us. And
"As Parsifal men speak of me."
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The girl is of appealing beauty and manly bearing; she speaks little
and shows remarkable sagacity; when she speaks she has a pleasing,
allowed to speak through animals: he spoke to Eve through the serpent
these spirits from then onwards: whenever they could speak to men
speak, someone we can leave unheard? No, for without him we should
have heard how he speaks of the new influence which gradually enters
Earth-evolution and its connection with the Cosmos, we are speaking
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propose speaking to you about an important concept of
of a physical atmosphere, so Occult Science speaks of a
speak first of the Science of Initiation whenever that
from the ordinary life of the soul. In order to speak quite
if we set free our power of thought, we can speak with those
could speak with the soul of one who had gone before. He had
Speak to the minds of Men.
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Meeting, I should like to speak from a particular standpoint about
Ages, it leads to something of which I will now speak.
be drawn differently. Properly speaking it cannot, but we
Goethe himself speaks, you are not stuck with an isolated concept
real thoughts, but merely a flow of words, and if one speaks to them
When does one speak to people of "thoughts"? When, for
in which one always speaks of "causes and effects", so
for him, is merely speaking; hence there is no sense in studying
rightly speaking, no logic, logicians are fools. And then he says: In
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Meeting, I should like to speak from a particular standpoint about
Ages, it leads to something of which I will now speak.
be drawn differently. Properly speaking it cannot, but we
Goethe himself speaks, you are not stuck with an isolated concept
real thoughts, but merely a flow of words, and if one speaks to them
When does one speak to people of "thoughts"? When, for
in which one always speaks of "causes and effects", so
for him, is merely speaking; hence there is no sense in studying
rightly speaking, no logic, logicians are fools. And then he says: In
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useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
Again, there may be other persons who speak as follows. Around us are
one cannot speak of ideas in history. Anyone who understands that
figures it is somewhat doubtful to speak of a "unity".
is a world which appears to me; I cannot speak of anything more. I am
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useful and valuable facts; but in speaking of the Spirit they may
Again, there may be other persons who speak as follows. Around us are
one cannot speak of ideas in history. Anyone who understands that
figures it is somewhat doubtful to speak of a "unity".
is a world which appears to me; I cannot speak of anything more. I am
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outline before his inner sight. The other man not only speaks of
it is outside its home. Logically speaking, one is not justified in
There is another world-outlook-mood. Here I speak of "mood",
whereas otherwise I speak of "signs" or "pictures".
hidden being." Anyone who speaks in this way speaks very much
at rest round the circle, so to speak, but we must recognize that in
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outline before his inner sight. The other man not only speaks of
it is outside its home. Logically speaking, one is not justified in
There is another world-outlook-mood. Here I speak of "mood",
whereas otherwise I speak of "signs" or "pictures".
hidden being." Anyone who speaks in this way speaks very much
at rest round the circle, so to speak, but we must recognize that in
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powers. Hence, if one speaks in the symbols of astrology, one would
that, spiritually speaking, Venus stands in Aries — Mysticism
Thus does the collectivity of the Hierarchies speak in the cosmos!
crazy modern physiology which speaks of two kinds of nerves, the
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powers. Hence, if one speaks in the symbols of astrology, one would
that, spiritually speaking, Venus stands in Aries — Mysticism
Thus does the collectivity of the Hierarchies speak in the cosmos!
crazy modern physiology which speaks of two kinds of nerves, the
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are to speak, in the first place, of that realm of man's aspiration
souls the force that in everyday life we employ in speaking. Speech may be
applied in speaking, we develop meditation from these thoughts that
of which we will now speak briefly.
speak in the next lecture.
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evolution of the earth, could one speak of the Mystery of
And it is this that we have indicated in speaking of the evolution of
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speaks of spirit in general; but if one proceeds to
classes, orders, individuals, as one does in speaking of plants,
Speaking in an external way one might describe it as follows. In the
Fifty years ago it would have been impossible to speak to men of what
not of the same nature nor of the same rank. When we speak of the
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is a matter that should not be lightly passed over. For when we speak
turning-point. It is not necessary even to speak of the Mystery of
speaks of spiritual things, the objection is so easily raised: You
often speak of the Folk Spirit or Time Spirit, and of other spiritual
facts, but you rarely speak of God. People do not notice why
one does not speak of God, for the reason, namely, that no
but one does not on that account presume to speak of the whole man
Jehovah; men preferred to speak of the representative through
than speak of Jahve Himself. Michael was in fact at that time looked
feeling. As formerly man could speak of Jahve-Michael, the Leader of
the age, so now we can speak the Christ-Michael. Michael has been
Messenger of Christ. And so when we speak of a right understanding of
the Michael Impulse in our age, we are speaking of a right
such a Being is. They do not know it by speaking of Michael in this
now he is the Messenger of Christ. We speak of the Christ in the right
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