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---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Mysterious Truths and Christmas Impulses---
In the Christian view, the beginning of the world, that is, the beginning of our immediate earthly existence, and the greatest event of earthly existence, that event which gives meaning to earthly evolution, are thus brough... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Tension Between East and West, Part II: Spirituality and Sociology---
When the conversation turns to what is lacking in society today, there is scarcely anyone who does not have something really significant to contribute, from his own particular position in life.... |
###Book by: Karl Heise, about freemasonry, written right after world war 1.###
The government--which, quite rightly, maintained its secret diplomacy just like any other government--should have found out how the Entente lodges had been working for three or more decades. Bismarck also opened his eyes to lodge matters, a... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Reincarnation and Karma: Their Significance in Modern Culture---
People who have made some study of spiritual science, and particularly of the basic principles of reincarnation, karma and other truths connected with man and his evolution, may well ask: Why is it so d... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment---
The training of thoughts and feelings introduces into the soul and spirit the same organic symmetry with which nature has constructed the physical body. Before this development, soul and spirit are undifferentiated mas... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Christ and the Human Soul---
One of the concepts which must occur to us when we speak of the relation of Christ to the human soul is undoubtedly that of sin and guilt. We know what an incisive significance it had in the Christianity of St. Paul. Our present age, howe... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Gospel of St. Matthew---
When we think of the evolution of humanity advancing from stage to stage as described by spiritual science, we shall attach the very greatest significance to the fact that man, incarnating again and again in the course of the different ep... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Life Between Death and Rebirth---
In materialistic circles a phrase is currently in use which, though quite sensible from an outer aspect, acquires a totally different complexion when viewed in the light of spiritual science. It was prevalent at the time when theoret... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Easter as a Chapter in the Mystery Wisdom of ManGA 233a---
We have seen that out of the Mysteries grew something that made man aware of being related to the world in a way that can be expressed in the annual festivals; and in particular we have learned that Easter is... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The ancestral line of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew is not about a physical family tree, but a spiritual map. The forty-two generations symbolize the stages of development a soul must complete to reach divinity, a concept understood by the Egyptians with their 42 judges of the dead. When... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Bridge between the Ideal and the Real---
of man in the period between going to sleep and waking up that is, the sleeping condition. Of course, diagrammatically, the sleeping condition is well-known to you. That which we call the astral body and ego separate from ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karma of Untruthfulness---
Many people have the custom of celebrating every year the physical birth of that Being Who entered into earthly evolution in order to give meaning to this earthly evolution. In keeping with the task of our spiritual community, a task of whi... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Presence of the Dead---
I remember with great pleasure our meeting last year, and my greeting at the beginning of this lecture is as sincere and heartfelt as that memory.
Today I want to talk about a subject closely connected with the core of our spiritual movem... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The Michaelmas festival occurs yearly around the autumnal equinox to acknowledge the spirit Michael and his success over the forces that pull us downward. There are beings who were banished from the heavens for revolting against the divine will, seeking a freedom for which they were not re... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness---
To get even closer to the problems we have opened up, I want to make some incidental comments today. You probably know the amusing experiment so often done by conjurers: they show the audience some heavy weights and the effort r... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Moral Education and the Stages of Life---
Everyone involved to any degree at all in social life will certainly feel that the moral aspect is one of the most important aspects in the entire field of education. At the same time, one realizes that it is precisely this a... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Inner Nature and the Essence of the Human Soul---
The ideas and concepts in which spiritual science expresses what it gains in a certain way through so-called supersensible knowledge have, in contrast to the concepts that one is accustomed to in scientific life t... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background---
I refer to the expression: the "unconscious." On the one hand it admits that in respect of the soul we are obliged to speak of forces or the like which do not play into the ordinary consciousness; but on the ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Materialism and the Task of Our Spiritual Endeavor---
When such a matter is discussed, one is obliged to point out one thing again and again, that has already been the subject of discussion here many times. Yet it is necessary to focus on it time and again. I am refe... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman---
Some day when a certain building that is dedicated to the spiritual sciences is completed, it will contain, in a significant spot, a sculpture dominated by three figures. In the center of this group a figure will tower as ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: On Spiritual Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting---
When our spiritual science, the aims and nature of which I have presented, gained greater currency, and artistic work was created from this spiritual science, the intention arose to create a central building for i... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mystery of Death---
When once a spiritual center, dedicated to spiritual science, is finished, it contains a sculptural group at an important place. This group primarily presents three figures. In the middle of this group a figure stands as, I would like to say, ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System---
Today I want to clarify certain deep world-mysteries, the knowledge of which has been lost in modern civilization. To realize some of what has been lost, think of the modern conception of the planetary system, ... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The consciousness of humanity has not always been as it is now; our current intellectual thinking evolved from an earlier, dreamlike clairvoyant state in which people directly perceived the spiritual world. This old form of sight gave a direct knowledge of one's origin in spiritual realms.... |
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The wisdom that was once guarded in secret circles is now flowing into the world more openly because the times require it. People are now compelled toward self-introspection, and so the truths once held in the mysteries are being made available to all. This knowledge is not a new invention... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The History of Humanity and World Views---
In ancient times, people came over from Asia to Europe, to Greece, directly along a whole series of islands. You must remember that in Greece, from about the year 1000 or 1200 BC, everything I have told you about developed, ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Gospel of John and the Three Other Gospels---
The Gospel of John differs in many respects from the others. Thus, nothing is presented there in direct narrative. It always says that one or the other has seen something, that one or the other has been seen. How are ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Festivals and their Meaning II:Easter---
Easter is an appropriate occasion for such study, and when we think of the numbers of people in the grip of materialism to-day who have no real right to celebrate an Easter festival, it is obvious that the subject is also ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Karma of Materialism---
From spiritual knowledge there must flow into man's thinking, feeling and willing the impulses needed at the present time. That spiritual impulses are needed must be obvious to many from even a superficial observation of present events.
L... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I Ancient Wisdom Teachings, Christology and Mythology---
Today I will simply describe the rounds to you. You will have to be patient because the facts will be manifold. I can therefore only sketch them. It is also extremely difficult ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Soul Economy: Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education---
From what you have heard so far, you may have gathered that the key to this form of education, both in its curriculum and in its methods, is the understanding of the human constitution of body, soul, and spi... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Cosmic Memory---
In the preceding chapters has been shown how the components were successively formed which make up the so-called "lower nature of man"--the physical body, the ether body and the astral body. It has also been described how, with the appearance of a ne... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science: A Treasure for Life---
Although there has been much discussion about the moral life and the moral world order, it is good to summarise what one can say from the viewpoint of spiritual science about the bases of the moral world order in the human li... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The self, or ego, is not just a personality; it is a spiritual substance that works within our physical, etheric, and astral bodies. The way it asserts itself in each of these sheaths determines much of our human experience. A certain influence from the Lemurian past, the Luciferic one, in... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Temple Legend---
Since we have spoken several times about Christianity and its present and future development, we have reached the point where today we have also to consider the meaning of the Cross symbol--not so much historically as factually. You know, of cour... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Child's Changing Consciousness and Waldorf Education---
Eurythmy is an artistic movement that draws on previously unfamiliar sources and makes use of a new language of forms. Every art must speak for itself, and one should especially not attempt detailed explanat... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?---
The spiritual science that is represented here--of course, always only piecemeal--is regarded by a lot of people who do not know or do not want to know it as a field of daydreamers and of such human beings who, as one says s... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and Speech---
It is fascinating to study the different ways in which the being of man expresses itself. Let us consider the expression of the spirit of man in speech, and also another aspect of man's power of expression, laughter and weeping, which ... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:2022-11-02, topic:Geopolitics, title:Putin's Speech at the Valdai Forum.###
Putin's speech at the Valdai Forum on October 27, 2022, in Moscow dealt with the end of Western hegemony and the dawn of a multipolar world order. His contribution was a response to the question posed by th... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Challenge of the Times---
It has been pointed out that the so-called social question is not so simple as it is usually supposed to be, and that it is necessary to take careful account of the complicated nature of man. We must take account of the fact that both so... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul(continuation)---
comes to quite different views about the spiritual world when this spiritual world can be gradually seen through the exercises of the soul powers. Anyone who approaches spiritual research wi... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Physiology and Therapeutics---
For the future development of humanity, it will be necessary that the widest circles are familiar with the guiding principles of healing in order that a trusting relationship, well-grounded in facts, may develop between physician and pa... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Essence of Spiritual Science---
Spiritual science aims to lead human knowledge to those areas in which the great questions of life and soul lie, the questions that deal with human destiny on a large scale, with the question of the eternity of the human soul, with... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: An Occult Physiology---
It will be my task to-day, before we continue our studies, to present certain concepts which we shall need to use in the further development of our discussions. In this connection it will be especially important for us to come to an understand... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?(continuation)---
the fact that in such nebula any star drives from anywhere, would have compressed the matter that it has taken away, and increased the temperature that way. If it were possible that such a star... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars---
In other words: the indications upon which the culture of the human mind was based issued from the Mystery-Sanctuaries which existed here and there in Asia Minor and Southern Europe. Now the secret of man's connection with the ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: An Outline of Religious Ideas in post-Atlantean Times---
It is significant for spiritual life to understand how those who profess spiritual science can take their stand in relation to other spiritual currents and contemporary issues. A broad outline of the developmen... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Universe, Earth and Man---
Yesterday we considered one portion of the earth's evolution in connection with the whole. We saw how beings have been active in various ways, from the time when earth and sun still formed one body up to our own day. We saw also that in the... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Philosophy of Freedom: The Theory of Freedom---
Philosophers have found the chief difficulty in the explanation of ideas in the fact that we are not identical with the external objects, and yet our ideas must have a form corresponding to their objects. But on clo... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Sound Outlook for To-day and a Genuine Hope for the Future---
I want to continue the observations I have begun concerning the progress of the human soul through its various earth lives, and to continue them in such a way as to make the experiences referred to usefu... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Spiritual Hierarchies---
The first observation I have to make is difficult, perhaps even almost impossible of comprehension by the consciousness of the present day; but it is good to know that something of the sort exists. It is the question: in what way do these... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: World History in the Light of Spiritual Science and as a Foundation for Knowledge of the Human Spirit---
The present age is however one that is peculiarly prejudiced in its thought about the evolution of man and of mankind. It is commonly believed that, as regards hi... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Responsibility of Man for World Evolution---
You will have observed from our various studies that a connection exists, even though an inner connection, between a principal being inhabiting a planetary body at a certain period and this celestial body itself. One c... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Mystery Centers---
If we seek to continue the study of the soul-nature and investigate the activity of the soul-nature in physical man in reference to those things which we also discussed, we are led in two directions. Memory points the soul back into former experien... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Essence of Christianity---
This spiritual movement has now long since taken deep roots in the intellectual life of the present. Nevertheless, most people misunderstand this spiritual movement. In many circles, these teachings are seen as a renewal of ancient, chi... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Gospel of St. John---
We know that man, as he confronts us in daily life, consists of a physical body, etheric or life body, astral body, and Ego or "I". We know that the daily life of the human being alternates between waking and sleeping, and that, from morning... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mission of the Archangel Michael---
IN PURSUANCE of the considerations I placed before you in the lectures of last week I should like today to prepare the ground for what I shall develop in detail tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It will be a matter of callin... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:12. December 2015, Anthroposophy, Esotericism, Spiritual Science as a Personal Experience IV -- The Terrors of Self-Annihilation.###
The fourth meditation deals with the "Guardian of the Threshold," and it introduces the full drama of the soul's profound transformation as it embark... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Threefold Social Order---
Our technically-based industrial economy, together with modern capitalism, has dictated the form in which the social problem presents itself today. Acting like a force of nature, it has given our social life its peculiar internal structu... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The World of Dreams as a Bridge between the Physical World and the World of Moral Ideas---
If we want to give its proper place among familiar things of life to what we come to know as stages on the road into the spiritual world, it is important first to have the righ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science, An Introduction---
You have seen from the preceding lectures that a study of man's faculty of memory can give us valuable insight into the whole of human life and its cosmic connections. So today we will study this faculty of memory as such, in the... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse Part One---
The Revelations of John seek to tell us what will happen in the course of time. The Apocalypse is written in pictures that express the appearance of the eternal spirit of the world. John, who beholds them, is to reco... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Goethe's work, especially Faust, is a depiction of the human being's development and place within the universe. It is not merely poetry about external life, but an illustration of a journey. The universe is understood to have physical, mental, and spiritual strata, and the human being is a... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Agriculture---
Nature and the working of the Spirit throughout Nature must be recognised on a large scale, in an all-embracing sphere. Materialistic science has tended more and more to the investigation of minute, restricted spheres. True, this is not quite so bad in... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Crisis of the Present and the Path to Healthy Thinking---
He wants to be concerned with the roots of practical life, with the forces that shape this practical life; he wants to be concerned with everything that shapes this practical life out of the spiritual, wit... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: From Central European Intellectual Life---
The situation of someone who wants to say something about the nature of the soul on a spiritual science basis, insofar as it can be described as immortal, is perhaps characterized by the story of a particular book. This book... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation---
The Mysteries of ancient times were of such a nature and character that in the places of the Mysteries an actual meeting with the Gods was able to take place. An initiate or one about to receive Initiation could verily meet wit... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:June 21, 2023, topic:Censorship and State Control, title:Master Flea and the State Security.###
...a gift that nature gave me and by virtue of which I get my enemies off my back and remain in the best well-being myself. I have to laugh that the council believes how much I care abou... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Our inner life is split into two distinct experiences. On one hand, our thinking, concepts, and ideas feel like reflections of an outer world, as if we are merely seeing images. On the other, our feelings and impulses of will feel entirely personal and self-contained, with no connection to... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Temple Legend Part III---
It has long been a custom in certain occult brotherhoods to discuss some intimate matters separately for men and women. We will explore the reasons for this, as particular occult currents make it necessary to understand. Within these cur... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Migrations, Social Life---
Socialistic thinkers believe that what they designate as the socialistic economic order is an immediate and causal continuation of what has gradually arisen within the economic order during the past centuries of human development. Those. wh... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Universe, Earth and Man---
We learnt also that when the Greeks and Romans were the leading peoples in human evolution man had established a kind of balance between his understanding of the physical and spiritual worlds. He had come to terms with the material world; h... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols---
Let us move on to discussing some very characteristic signs and symbols. Only humans, as they live here on the physical plane, have an individual soul, an ego, and that the animals that surround us have a group ego, a gr... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit---
Let us consider two images: one that you may know from the course of your life and the other that may arise from spiritual insight. One of the images is Raphael's Sistine Madonna, which you... |
###Article by: Robert Freeman, date:2023-03-08, topic:Geopolitics, title:Ukraine and the Tunnel at the End of the Light.###
"Light at the end of the tunnel" was an iconic phrase used by warmongers to keep the U.S. in Vietnam long after the war was lost. It implied that insiders could see through the fog of war and kno... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration of Social and Pedagogic Questions(continuation)---
possible through the metabolic system, not through the nervous system in any elementary way. The thought of willing is transmitted through the nervous system. Only when you have as ... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
To begin, one must see the bee colony for what it is: a single, complete being. It is not a collection of thousands of individual insects, but one entity that acts with a unified consciousness. This is why a colony can recognize its keeper after a decade, even though not a single material ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karmic Relationships---
It is by pointing to all-embracing secrets of cosmic existence that spiritual wisdom penetrates most deeply into the foundations of human life, for man is the microcosm in which all these secrets of the Universe are concentrated. The illuminat... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mission of Folk-Souls---
This particular subject contains something that is as yet rather remote from modern human thinking, but which nevertheless belongs to the most profound truths of spiritual science. The province which we touch upon here is one which up to ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: From Central European Intellectual Life---
Allow me today to make a few suggestions, perhaps in a somewhat aphoristic form, about the interrelationship between body, soul and spirit in humans and then, based on this, to make a few comments about the relationship of h... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Man and Nature: Intellect in Man and Nature Bereft of the Gods---
Let us realise once for all that with his materialistic frame of mind, and his tendency to reject spiritual conceptions and occupy himself only with ideas concerning the natural world, man is making hi... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Every person carries three essential impulses that unfold over the course of a lifetime. The first is equality, an inner sense brought with us from the spiritual world at birth; this impulse is strongest in childhood and then follows a descending path. The second is fraternity, or brotherl... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The circumstances of life in the civilized world have become confusing and permeated with misery, a decline born not of circumstance but from a specific way of thinking. This mode of thought is shallow, drawing its methods from the natural sciences. While these methods are excellent for ex... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The words we use for our inner life, especially the word 'soul', have become empty husks. People think they are designating a reality when they speak of the soul, but in truth, they are only using a word inherited from a time when it still had content. Unlike the word 'horse,' which clearl... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The meaning of life isn't a simple question with a neat answer; it's understood by looking at how the world is put together. You have to see the secrets of how things exist to get it.
Life seems tragic at first glance because countless germs of life arise, yet only a few reach their full d... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Earthly Death and Cosmic LifeGA 181---
An Introduction to the Winter's Lectures, 1918
I need not tell you what pleasure it gives me to be with you again at this difficult time so full of trials. As this is the first occasion for a long time that we have had the oppo... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
In teaching, history and literature must be woven together to form a living bridge to the present; students should feel the entirety of a work like Parzival from a small piece and see how figures from the past echo in today's world, fostering a real capacity for judgment. This is not just ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Essence of Christianity---
The spiritual worldview we discuss did not arise from the arbitrary will of any single person. It arose from the realization that the spiritual treasures that have given people hope and joy since time immemorial must be brought to human... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Genesis - Secrets of the Bible Story of Creation---
The essential preoccupation for spiritual people is with the facts of spiritual life and evolution. What is of primary importance as regards the Genesis story is to ascertain what were the super-sensible events, the... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Our existence is a continuous journey through multiple lives. Between our physical embodiments, we inhabit a spirit land known as Devachan, which is a realm of causes. It is here that we process the experiences of a past life and actively build the capacities and abilities we will carry in... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:March 19, 2012, topic:Esotericism Research, title:Gaeasophia and the female angels of the Earth.###
"Geosophy"--Gaeasophia--could be considered the translation of the Persian name for Sophia, the female archangel of the Earth, "Spenta Armaiti." Mazdaism views man as the son of this... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Spiritual Background of Human History---
We seek to know more precisely the world that surrounds us in such a way that we share it with those who have passed through the gate of death and that we also share it with those spiritual and soul beings that we count am... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The forms of a true spiritual sanctuary are not meant to be symbolic of something else; they are the direct material expression of spiritual events and realities. The creative process is inverted from what is common. One does not start with a sensory impression and attempt to elevate it; i... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The way science understands the world is missing its other half. Modern science, particularly since the fifteenth century, was built by divorcing its observations from the human being, creating an artificial split between man and the world. Before this, what a person learned about the worl... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Soul's Probation---
A chamber in the castle whose exterior was shown in the preceding scene. Decorated throughout with symbols of a Mystic Brotherhood. Columns, arches, and vaulted roof with the mystic symbols. First the Knights assemble; then the Monk and one of... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?---
There is in our culture certainly no document that has intervened so deeply and so intensively in the whole spiritual life as the Bible. One would have to write a history, not of centuries, but of millennia if one wanted to ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Relation in the Configuration of the Human Organism---
When we consider man from a spiritual point of view, as we have done before, we first have to distinguish in him the physical organism. We have this physical organism penetrated by the etheric organism,... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit: Part III: The Wisdom of Man---
It has been found that in a certain way there is, after all, something like proof of the existence of the spirit that will satisfy our personal consciousness, provided the latter is rightly... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Ego: The God Within and the God of External Revelation---
Today we shall occupy ourselves with a general theme, and indeed with the question of the significance and the tasks of spiritually orientated spiritual science in the present, and then with a more individ... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:January 6, 2015, Anthroposophy, Esotericism, Theosophy, The Path of Discipleship -- I -- First Steps -- Purification.###
First Steps KARMA YOGA. Purification Brothers, -- when I first spoke in this hall two years ago, I directed your gaze to the creation of the cosmos as a whole, t... |
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