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-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The human organism isn't a fixed thing; it undergoes constant metamorphosis, not just over eons but within recorded history. A person from ancient Egypt or Greece was different from us in their very inner constitution. Our modern capacity for abstract thought is a relatively recent develop... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Etherisation of the Blood---
Wherever we, as human beings, have striven for knowledge, whether as mystics or realists or in any way at all, the acquisition of self-knowledge has been demanded of us. But as has been repeatedly emphasised on other occasions, self-k... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Reorganization of the Social Organism(continuation)---
will then fall out by itself. It is hard to believe that this is not known. This, too, is a consequence of today's poor psychology. It is hard for a person when his memory is so mistreated during this time th... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:May 31, 2020, topic:Health Regimes, title:Who Controls the Health Regimes?.###
The Corona crisis disempowered the sovereign and gave the executive control over political life. The crisis was often referred to as the "hour of the executive." Health regimes were established under the... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom---
It will be relatively easy--I am saying relatively, of course--for a person to take up more or less theoretically what we understand by the spiritual-scientific world outlook. But it will not be easy to fill our whole bei... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Human and Cosmic Thought---
I will first indicate what this standpoint is.
Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in thought he can feel himself directly active, able to exercise his activity. When we observe anything external, e.g. a rose or a... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Metamorphoses of the Soul---
If we examine the human soul, comparing one individual with another, we find the greatest possible variety. We have spoken of some typical differences and the reasons for them, relating them to character, temperament, capacities, forces a... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mystery of Death---
The intention during these days is to bring something home to our souls that is able to throw some light from the spiritual-scientific point of view on our big events. Therefore, it is our task to turn our sensations to certain points of view ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting---
It might seem as if our world conception, based on spiritual science, could impair that simple joy, so full of love, that filled many hundreds of hearts throughout the ages whenever one of the old plays, portraying the Heaven... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Cosmic Memory---
One can extend this comparison further. As among contemporary humanity, men of different ages do not only follow upon one another, but also exist side by side, so it is with the development of the stages of consciousness. The aged man, the mature man... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Prayer---
Medieval mysticism prepared the way for spiritual science; prayer prepared for medieval mysticism. Today the essence of prayer has been misunderstood. Prayer is intended to produce the divine spark, the special life of the soul. For this, we must understand... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Principle of Spiritual Economy---
You will have been able to see from the one lecture given here on the more complicated question of reincarnation that the spiritual scientific view of the world continues its progression. Hence, what in the beginning could be pre... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The human soul breathes with the yearly cycle of the earth, a process that can be consciously experienced week by week. In spring and summer, the soul expands outward, uniting with the light and warmth of the cosmos. This is a time of out-breathing, where personal boundaries soften, and on... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness---
It cannot be said that our present age has no ideals. On the contrary, it has a great many ideals which, however, are not viable. Why is this so? Well, imagine--please forgive the somewhat bizarre image, but it does meet the cas... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Spiritual View of the Social Question(continuation)---
only badly-paid work I do? Why, the very man sitting next to me, and complaining with me of oppression, procures the labor of my hands on precisely the same terms as the well-to-do whom we are both attacking. T... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Historical Necessity and Freewill---
What we may call the threshold between the usual physical world of the senses and the soul-spiritual world lies in man himself, also psychically. It lies in him in such a way that in the usual everyday consciousness with which man... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The world we see is just the surface, a collection of puzzles. The answers to these puzzles are found in the spiritual reality that is constantly active behind and through the physical. To grasp this, we have to move beyond our own personal viewpoints and see the larger picture.
Our existe... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and Medicine---
We will start our inquiry from a fact that is common knowledge, and can fundamentally help us to judge the relationship of man to external nature, but has not been given anything like due attention, in ordinary medical and biological... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Sun, the Moon, and Destiny---
When we contemplate the world around us we find as our environment on Earth the beings of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, and whatever belongs to and is produced from these kingdoms--mountains, rivers, clouds and so fo... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The inner voice we call conscience is not an arbitrary moral code; it is the accumulated result of experiences across many lifetimes. It began when a being, after inflicting harm, eventually experienced similar harm and, in the state of Kamaloka after death, truly felt the pain of the othe... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karmic Relationships---
Man lives to-day in three states of consciousness, only one of which, really, he recognises as a source of knowledge. They are:
Ordinary waking consciousness;
Dream consciousness;
Dreamless sleep consciousness.
In ordinary waking conscious... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Gospel of St. Luke---
Whoever turns to the Gospel of St. Luke will, to begin with, only be able to feel dimly something of what it contains; but an inkling will then dawn on him that whole worlds, vast spiritual worlds, are revealed by this Gospel. Spiritual rese... |
###Article by: Terry Boardman, date:Jan 14, 2018, title:The Cecils and the End of the British Empire.###
The mediaeval arc of destiny runs from Philip 'the Fair' of France to Henry VIII of England, two 'golden boy' princes who became the two darkest kings of mediaeval Europe. As a result of this arc, William and Rober... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends---
I shall continue, in a more aphoristic form, to bring you further thoughts on the subject we have been dealing with for weeks now, which has been characterized by saying that the great difficulty in matters of world-view ... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The arrangement of yearly festivals like Easter reflects humanity's age-old effort to connect the disorder of human life with the great, orderly events of nature. Historically, this isn't a new idea; the Egyptians had their Osiris cult, the Greeks their rites for Bacchus, and in India, the... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The Christ Impulse stands as a significant event in the whole evolution of the earth. Everything of deep interest to humanity connects back to the appearance of Christ. The human conscience, which feels like an inner voice of God, is not an eternal part of the soul. It is a faculty that ha... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha---
I would first like to speak about what we can know within spiritual research about the Christ Being, and then link an examination of the progress we have made in our knowledge of the Christ since the Mystery of Golgotha. Within o... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Destiny of Individuals and of Nations(continuation)---
organ, the brain. If on the other hand you use, shall we say belly clairvoyance, to lift the astral body and ether body out of the stomach. the liver, the gallbladder and other organs, the colours have not be... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Man in the Past, Present, and Future---
If we go back three or four or five thousand years--it varies in different parts of the Earth--we can always penetrate into a quite different type of soul-quality, and we then find that the whole spiritual and social guidance o... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Understanding Art---
A very clever man has made a remarkable statement about all human philosophizing. He said in a recently published work, which discusses at length the impossibility and futility of all human philosophizing: Man has no more philosophy than an anima... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: PneumatosophyThe Riddles of the Inner Man(continuation)---
it brings down from the pre-earthly existence. This is what leads to real spiritual knowledge and also at the same time to the artistic and the religious comprehension of the world; namely, that we are able t... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mission of the Archangel Michael---
The error which has entered our modern spiritual life and which is very little noticed today is very important. It is imperative for a sound development of the spiritual life of mankind that there be clarity in this matter. Suc... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Man in the Light of Occultism, Ancient Wisdom Teachings, and Philosophy---
We saw also that the man of the present day finds help at this point if within the Earth world he has been able to receive the Christ Impulse. And we went on to show how the Being we call the ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: World Economy---
Needless to say--to begin with, such a formula is only an abstraction. And it is the object of these lectures to work the whole science of Economics, at any rate in outline, into this abstraction. The formula I have proposed was as follows: "A "true ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karmic Relationships---
The truth of repeated lives on Earth was once expressed in German literature in impressive words to which attention has often been called in spiritual circles. At the height of his powers Lessing wrote his memorable treatise, "The Education of... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The starting point for any real knowing is a devotional mood, a feeling of reverence for the spirit that moves through the universe. This isn't a vague sentiment; it's the very method through which great minds like Kepler actually made their discoveries. True science is born from this inti... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit---
Our division of the totality of the human being into his physical, soul and spiritual nature might attract notice, but within the realm of spiritual science there is naturally nothing startling about this. It is our ai... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
There are two main dead ends people fall into when seeking deeper truths. The first is pure intellectualizing, trying to reason your way into understanding things like immortality. This kind of thinking, detached from real experience, just spins in circles and leads to uncertainty. The oth... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Eurythmy is visible language. It is not a form of dance, nor is it pantomime; it is the art of making speech and music visible to the eye. This comes from a specific observation of the human larynx and speech organs. When a person speaks or sings, there are movement tendencies within these... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit(continuation)---
ascent to the point where the most inward, the most impressive and noblest becomes manifest in outer form in Raphael and his contemporaries. Entering in feeling into the way in which Raphael... |
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To begin, a teacher's entire being must be present in the classroom; any distraction, like marking a record book, is a spiritual absence that invites chaos. This presence is shielded by a strict school confidentiality, a silence about internal matters to the outside world that starves the ... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:December 2, 2012, topic:Alchemy, Esotericism Research, Hermeticism, Medicine, Paracelsus, Protestantism, Renaissance, Spirituality, title:Alchemy, Paracelsus and German Natural Philosophy.###
Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim Alchemy plays a significant role i... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:29 September 2015, topic:Esotericism of Islam, title:Esotericism of Islam -- V -- The Hidden Imam and the Last Things.###
The widespread assertion that Islam is a purely legalistic religion, whose entire content can be identified with Sharia and whose revelation is definitively con... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology---
Some time ago, a highly peculiar book was published that shares the fate of receiving far too little attention with similar literary phenomena of its genre in the present day: "Chaos in Cosmic Sele... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Philosophy, Subjectivism, and the Path to True Knowledge---
It is often said that a spiritually oriented science will only attract the attention of the right people when it is able to engage with philosophical matters. Until it does so, it may make an amateurish impr... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Everything begins with warmth. The way solid things expand when heated shows us something about their own character. Each substance, each metal, has its own rate of expansion, its own individual response to the being of warmth. When we calculate this expansion, especially for volume, there... |
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The world and everything within it operates on a principle of polar opposites. To navigate this, one must cultivate both a deep reverence for the spiritual worlds and apply energetic, conscious work to one's own soul. This means learning from every experience to maintain a firm grasp on on... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
To truly develop, we must find a way to experience the world without relying solely on our physical senses. Our actual identity is psychic-spiritual, and we live within a spiritual world that is always present. The teachings and meditative verses offered are communications from that world,... |
###Article by: Terry Boardman, date:Apr 28, 2022, title:2022 -- War in Ukraine.###
This year, the Year of the Tiger, March was dominated by the movements of the planet Mars. When Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, Mars (lower aspect: aggression; higher aspect: courage and daring) was conjoined wit... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Bhagavad Gita and the Epistles of Paul---
How different are the impressions received by the soul when, on the one hand, it allows the well-balanced, calm, passionless, emotionless, truly wise nature of the Bhagavad Gita to work upon it, and on the other hand that... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:2022-11-02, topic:Geopolitics, title:Putin's Speech at the Valdai Forum.###
...recognizes the supreme dignity and spiritual essence of a human being. And it is enormously important to have a common foundation on which we can and must build our future. What do I want to particularly... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:April 4, 2013, topic:Esotericism, title:Sacred and Profane Science.###
Spiritual intuition is the root of all traditional civilizations. In other words, their essence consists of a purely metaphysical doctrine. Everything else is derived from it, either as a consequence or as an ap... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Humanity's current deep immersion in the physical world is a specific phase of evolution. Our intellectual abilities are highly developed but are aimed almost exclusively at material needs, creating a split between science and religion. This mode of thinking wasn't always the case; it grew... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Kalevala(continuation)---
of the soul, which were linked to clairvoyance and connection with nature, over into the present human condition. At what transition does Siegfried stand? This is shown by Brunhilde's relationship to Kriemhilde, Siegfried's wife. It cann... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation---
From our considerations of yesterday you will have seen how easily the whole course of human evolution can be misunderstood and how it is particularly misunderstood from many sides today to the detriment of presen... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The destiny of the earth is to transition from a physical state into an astral one. All beings who have learned to master their material nature and place it in the service of the spiritual will pass over into this new astral earth. Those who cling to the material, however, are separated ou... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues(continuation)---
metabolic system through the methods that exist today solely through our university teaching, which is modeled on Greek and Roman life. And actually, our whole medical-scientific way of thinking i... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:February 21, 2018, topic:Politics, History, Esotericism, title:The three devastations of Europe and its future resurrection.###
In the 20th century, Europe was struck by a threefold devastation.
A spiritual devastation through Bolshevism, which began in the first third of the 20th... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Lectures to Priests: The Apocalypse---
Let's imagine that we are in the world into which the Apocalypticer wants to translate men during the next earthly period. He describes his visions of the breaking in of spiritual worlds and of how they will take possession of e... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Four Seasons and the Archangels---
of Michael battling with the Dragon, as shown to us through an inner understanding of the course of the year. And art can really be nothing else than a reflection of what human beings feel in relation to the universe. Of course ... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:June 21, 2021, topic:Biopolitics, title:In the Shadow of the Pandemic.###
In the shadow of the pandemic, our spiritual constitution and our understanding of social life have fundamentally changed. Emotions we believed had lost their significance thanks to our intellectual or moral ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: On the Transformation of Perceptions and Ideas---
Important necessities must be pointed out with regard to the transformation of certain perceptions, concepts and ideas. We are still living through a catastrophic time, a time that has been so often and repeatedly poi... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The physical body you inhabit is an expression of your soul, a form the soul has created and is constantly transforming. In our ordinary state, we feel separate from the world around us, and even from the inner workings of our own bodies, such as the neurological process that lifts an arm.... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for a Social Reorganization---
In recent times, we have often heard that events as terrible for mankind as those that have just taken place have not occurred in the entire period covered by human historical thought. It i... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Aspects of Human Evolution---
Today, my task will be to contribute further to the fundamental theme in our quest to understand the problems of our time. It is justifiably required that man should be awake, and pay due heed to the many spiritual influences that affect... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge: Christology and Mythology---
These gatherings are intended to develop into truly intimate gatherings of our spiritual community. Those present should speak as much as possible. I believe that this is the best way to enable a real dis... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
It's strange how people assume the idea of love is as old as humanity. It's not. The way we think about it, the central role it plays in our lives and art, is only about seven hundred years old. You won't find our modern idea of love in ancient Greek or Roman writings; they distinguished b... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science---
The word health means something very precious to every human being, and rightly so. Not only must we recognize health itself as a precious thing, which is only a product of selfish sentiment, but we also feel tha... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Freedom of Thought and Social Forces---
When people see the present distress and misery, they ask what has caused it, and usually they look for the causes in external circumstances. They will first look back at the painful years that have passed, perhaps becoming awa... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The way human beings think and perceive reality is not a fixed constant. It has undergone distinct shifts over millennia, and to assume that an ancient Greek or Egyptian had the same inner life as a modern person is a severe error that makes true history impossible to grasp. Our current mo... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
There is a distinct shift in a child's being around the ninth year of life. Before this time, the child is more merged with their surroundings, and learning about the world is best done through stories and narratives. After this point, their self-consciousness increases, they feel more sep... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
To understand any person or any work of art is to find their specific individuality within the depths of our own being. We all contain a secret creator, and connecting with the creation of another is merely the act of discovering that creator in ourselves. Life is like climbing a mountain;... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity---
It is perhaps not well known, given how the whole make-up of the human soul changes over time, but also how what is considered necessary for the human being in the social life is subject to transformation... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman---
The phase of evolution beginning in our own time has a very special character. The same may, of course, be said of each epoch but in every case it is a matter of defining the particular characteristics. The present phase of ev... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Riddles of Philosophy---
Ludwig Feuerbach, who had previously penetrated the world conceptions of Hegel, now forcefully attacked them. The declaration of war against the philosophy in which he had grown up is given in a radical form in his writings. In the activity o... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
In the sphere of insight into spiritual reality, any particular viewpoint can be proven correct, and it can also be refuted with equal validity. Both materialism and spiritualism can be argued for with compelling reasons. The actual truth of a matter is only revealed when the soul consider... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Goethe's Standard of the Soul---
It is Goethe's conviction that man can never solve the riddle of existence within the limits of a synthetic conception of the world. He shares this idea with those who, as a result of certain proofs of inner life, have acquired insigh... |
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:March 5, 2017, topic: Anthroposophy, The Development of Christology in the Work of Rudolf Steiner 1906.###
Christ, the Bread of Life
The statements in the Gospel of John, "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" and "Your fathers ate man... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Macrocosm and Microcosm---
The difficulties on the deeper mystical path are mainly due to the fact that on descending into his inner being, a man becomes almost entirely filled by his egoistic impulses. The Ego awakens with a strength that would place everything in i... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Practical Course for Teachers---
We must not close our minds to the fact that the relations of man to his surroundings are far more complicated than the part of which we are always conscious. I have attempted to make clear to you from the most various angles the natu... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
The event of Whitsuntide was an infusion of a spirit of universal understanding that transcends language. It was a harmony of the spirit, allowing a single truth to be comprehended by many different people in their own unique way. The disunity in the world today shows this spirit has not y... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karma of Untruthfulness(continuation)---
shall be alluding to what I have prepared. The following was taught and is still taught: The evolution of Europe can be comprehended if, to start with, one looks at the transition from the Roman, the fourth post-Atlantean peri... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man---
The question relates to the fact that certain people can tell whether a person's entire body is healthy or sick by looking at the color of the iris, the colored ring-shaped body in the eye that surrounds the black of t... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
There are two primary streams of thought through which people view the world: Idealism, which is concerned with the spirit, and Materialism, which is concerned with matter. Finding the balance between these is critical. Without this balance, one can fall into Dualism, which sees spirit and... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Overcoming Nervousness---
Let us try to add something to what is already familiar. What is said here may be useful in that it will lead to a more exact idea of the nature of man and his relationship to the cosmos. Spiritual people often hear objections to spiritual u... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Aspects of Human Evolution(continuation)---
in regard to the I that lives in the will. In ordinary life we know it no better than the I we depict in our thinking. That such is the case is shown by the fact that some thinkers simply ignore the will. They cannot discov... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: On Ideals and the Power of Art---
It might be expected that one would speak, above all, about new ideals. But I am convinced that it is not so necessary to speak of new ideals today as it is to speak of a wider question, namely the following: How are men and women of... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Essence of Christianity---
Goethe, who had such a penetrating insight into so many things, once said the following remarkable words about the fate of the Bible in more recent times: For many centuries, people did not actually get their hands on the Bible, but onl... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Speech and Drama---
Today we speak and talk, knowing no more of what is going on within us at the time than we do in regard to any other of our actions; for of the complicated inner processes that accompany all human activities we are quite unaware. And it is of cour... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Festivals of the Seasons---
The Churches call the faithful together the whole year through by the sound of bells. The sound of bells indicates the times, important dates, and also those hours in which the faithful are called to church. This sound of bells, so full of... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Collection of Meditative Exercises---
The essence of practice lies in the appropriation of the imaginative activity that can elevate spiritual reality to knowledge. The essential thing is that this imaginative activity is experienced independently of the physical o... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Apollonius of Tyana---
To examine the standpoints from which various seekers after the spirit in earlier epochs took their start has a certain importance at the present time. It is important not only because ill-intentioned and dilettante opponents of Spiritual Scien... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Origin of the Animal World in the Light of Spiritual Science(continuation)---
only now, but decades ago. If the spiritual outlook does not adhere only to external matter, but penetrates the surface of things and into a spiritual basis, then something works within... |
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW-
Our inner life is threefold. We live in our limbs, which carry us through space, and here we can practice recalling the spirit in the depths of our soul, where our own self comes into being within the greater self of the world. We live in the rhythm of our heart and lungs, which guide us t... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Geographic Medicine---
I have indicated that some of our contemporaries here on the physical plane take up conceptions coming primarily from the sense world, or gained with the intellect bound to the sense world. Such individuals want to know of nothing but the sense... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit---
Let us consider the nature of Dionysos. As one of the Greek gods, a question arises as to the nature of the Greek gods in general. In considering the part played by the higher hierarchies in the ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and Contemporary Intellectual Currents---
Anyone who knows the essence of the spiritual school of thought and the reasons why it has become, in the present day, a subject of public discussion, rather than a matter of concern for the souls of a few i... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Secrets of the Threshold---
The soul, as it becomes clairvoyant, will progress further, beyond the elemental world we have been describing in these lectures, and it will penetrate the actual spiritual world. On ascending to this higher world, the soul must take into ... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mission of the New Spirit Revelation---
Spiritual science, when properly recognized, gives life assurance and strength. How can it be beneficial in life? Many people believe that learning and gaining spiritual knowledge is more of a hindrance than a help to a tru... |
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Inner Nature and the Essence of the Human Soul---
It gives full recognition to the progress of natural science in modern times, drawing indeed, in a certain sense, the ultimate necessary consequences of the whole trend and spirit of modern science. This will be p... |
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