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Title: The Inner Development of Man
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any means under any sort of dependence upon another. Nobody evaluates
of human society, will soon discover that by these means least is
would lead too far today to disclose the ways and means by which the
several profound meanings but among the many interpretations it
point and there are means and directions that will call forth this
sufficient to assume that one comprehends the meaning of these
extraordinarily effective means for the development of the soul eyes.
and everyone is required and this is what is meant with higher, occult
emerge. On the level of enlightenment man gains the means of
called, “Music of the spheres.” This is by no means meant

Title: Lecture: Woman and Society (Die Frauenfrage)
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something absurd, something to be suppressed by all possible means.
with all means at their disposal to get their women out of the
made by means of a microscope concerning the life and immortality of
and mean me. The word ‘I’ can never fall on our ears when
it means me. People have always felt this to be something of
means: “I am the I-am”.
are working on your astral body. But there are other cultural means
culture because it was meant to be a material culture. But we must

Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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antithesis of men, and the animals represent the mean between the
means. When a man eats vegetarian food, it demands a great deal of
means of the right kind of food. A time will come when a vegetarian
forces. What I mean can be seen in the tendency of gossips at a
means of developing certain forces in ourselves. Those who are

Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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means as easy to achieve as many people believe —
mean to speak truly of his inner life, his life of soul, we shall not
that means develop to a higher stage.

Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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meant to be taken pragmatically, gradually comes to carry conviction
improvement in the near future. The prospects of change are by no means
means of remembering where it is. This does not, of course, apply to all
mean that we need become fanatical about the indifferent use of our right
A most important means of strengthening the control of the ego over the
The results to be attained by these means can be clarified by an example.
them were experienced in our souls. Our lives would by no means be

Title: Jesus and Christ
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external life is not meant to be taken metaphorically. It is intended
External facts must be used as a language, as a means of
own being am I a man in the fullest meaning of the word.” This
fulfill its end, because he was the meaning of the cosmos.
its youth, had lost their meaning. Furthermore, something happened

Title: Lecture: Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
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Christ Jesus; there are no means whereby we can make him understand
approached in these first stages of his life by means of our external
to everyone able by means of Spiritual Science to look into the
ideas about Christ without dogma, and all we can convey by means of
still unable to work on the child by physical means, he will look upon
Ego-consciousness has awakened, is destined by means of the rudiments
force by means of which man raised himself into an upright position. Thus,
Thus, by means of two principles, viz., the upright position and
man. If, by means of training or other methods, animals were to be
for the power of speech to create, by means of words, actual signs
create language as a means of communication between the different
When we take into our hearts the meaning of such words as these, we
Science, what it means for the full development of the individual soul

Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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was thus permeated by the Christ. Through this means a force was
pain. To be ill means that an organ has become selfish and is leading its
We see also the meaning of the extraordinary pronouncement of Justin
Mystery of Golgotha! Then we shall know the meaning of the spiritually

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy and Christianity
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significance of what is meant by spiritual science, about the point of
into hydrogen and oxygen, the spiritual scientist, by means of an
statement that previously meant nothing to him: “I know that I am
clothed in its thoughts. We know what it means to have separated our
out that entering the spiritual world means entering a world of real,
science presents its findings, although this means that spiritual
to delve into the spiritual world by means of the spiritual scientific
third year? Does this mean that what lives in him now was not already
words, it means to behave just like those who condemned Copernicus,
science about Christianity mean anything to them. That depends on what
need fresh means of understanding ancient wisdom and need to continue

Title: Lecture: Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman
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what Steiner meant.
see how the meaning of this interaction could easily be misunderstood.
purely by intellectual means, it is not surprising to find that there
whoever wants to elevate himself to spiritual heights by means of a
was meant to influence evolution on earth, when the Christ is not
means to him. But this notion held by Frenchmen or by anyone else from
explain by means of a comparison: causes are mistaken for effects, and
with great fervor, endless variations of absolutely meaningless
with the meaning of the rose cross so that we can perceive it in the

Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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spiritual science. It is not without meaning that among us there are
meaning of the idea of community, saying to ourselves: Apart from the
to the city meant something different to the individual from what
community between human beings means today. In our time the individual
factor of blood is not meant to encompass great communities of human
many other things to grasp the meaning of death, the significance of
everything in the world contradicts the divine nature. By what means,
Christ had not risen, the world would be meaningless, therefore Christ
in the attempt to understand by what means God reveals indisputably
the world has meaning, significance and purpose, and that the world is
through direct knowledge that the world has meaning. By this
what He means by the words: “I am with you always even unto the
meaning and purpose are revealed. Faust expressed the same truth when
worlds, of universal purpose, of the meaning of death itself and the

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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characteristics of our race. But these things will have no meaning
delle Grazie would like to proceed, but she lacks the means enabling

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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is no more intended to be what is ordinarily meant by the word
knowing something about the meaning and essential significance of life.
life. In this way the eternal meaning is disclosed of what occurs in the
existence by the means at its disposal. But anyone possessed of intensified
science could give a comprehensive explanation of the meaning of the
the light of natural science, and the life of religion. If the meaning of
revolved by means of a pin. And behold! tiny particles do actually sever
must emphasize the fact that by no means everyone desiring to make
prepares, so to say, only the means which communicate the knowledge of
researcher is in the position to form such means by which everyone who is
nature of this means. While on the one hand anyone who constructs the
assemble external things by means of which some secrets of nature may be
— that the living ideas contained in it can become a means in the
means of the senses alone, and of the intellect bound fast to the senses.
which does not merely impart results of knowledge, but we can secure by means
the spiritual researcher discovers that even as we behold color by means of
— by means of the “spiritual eye,” within this physical man,
is hardly necessary to state that in saying this it is not meant to imply that
the plants, but this by no means exhausts the possibility of further
time. Observation of this activity by means of the “spiritual eye”
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Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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are by no means comfortable.
from a certain point of view — I mean, to comprehend him pictorially.
listen to a serious warning of what it will really mean for the world
any means with better ones.

Title: Lecture: Social and Anti-Social Forces in the Human Being
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the full $5. What does it mean that you go out with a $5 note in your
mean possession of adequate insight, really have no knowledge. Thus
from the past does not mean denial of the past. We gain it in another
What will then have been achieved? You will discover the whole meaning
Nowadays Spiritual Science is the only means of seeing things truly in
their totality; it is the only means for understanding our time. Just
wishes by this means to become a politician — then one easily becomes
instruments; for example, hunger and social chaos. By this means,

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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which can have meaning only when the threefold social order becomes
culture was devoid of spirit. What is meant here, of course, is spirit

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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super-sensible knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the
are spread out around us. Let us represent diagrammatically by means of
forces by means of our ordinary senses nor by means of our intellect
cannot carry out unconsciously any more by means of our blood, we have
were no means of resorting to doing consciously what was once done
In every department you find well-meaning people today, who want to

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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member of his constitution. We shall presently see what I mean by
condition. But that ‘organism’ is by no means identical with the
means that, without being conscious of it, we look into a void, a

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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as the moral. By the ‘moral’ I do not of course mean what
philistines mean by it, but I mean the moral in its totality, that is to say,
— I mean the impulses that come to us when the knowledge yielded
death by cunning means. There are reasons which induce certain occult

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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But by what means do our actions evolve to greater perfection? To use
apriority, means "from what is before."
with the heart. This means of union is the life of feeling, which is
thoughts. In our ordinary consciousness we live in an element by means
part of our manhood, but also means something in the cosmos. Think of

Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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evolution, to penetrate the meaning of human evolution on earth — in all
and meaning that the evolution of the earth has acquired through the fact
it — from a point of view which can reveal, as it were, the meaning of all
between the powers of heaven and the powers of earth in a deeply meaningful
meaningful way. The Egyptians not only recorded what they knew as the
what he means for us, cannot be lost.
morality, so that the moral meaning of the world's order cannot be found
has come to look upon Christ merely as the man from Nazareth. That means
would raise humankind to the comprehension of the meaning of its existence.
understanding of the meaning of its evolution on earth! All the problems

Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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tradition sees the meaning of all earth-evolution. These three
planet. By means of an inner soul-language, in a certain sense, they
Our modern conceptions of these things are by no means always
grasp of what it might mean to take in the sciences of arithmetic and
“a priori” truth. With “a priori” he means a truth
nothing at all is said with this “a priori”! A meaning
and by its means they knew of the advent of the Christ-Being.
What does one experience by means of the forces peculiar to man
And what does one experience by means of the forces which rise up from
itself known by means of the wisdom of the heavens, which knew that
fill the festival of Christmas with a certain meaning. Has the
Christmas festival any meaning for most human beings nowadays? It is a
Christmas Tree really? It is not so easy to find its meaning. In
the world. We fail to grasp the meaning of the world's redemption, and

Title: Lecture: The Threshold In Nature and In Man
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by no means easy of fulfillment.
processes in the life of soul, cannot bear the same meaning for
present-day mankind. What man meant in olden times when he spoke of
means of an exact and thoroughgoing discipline of the will — a
enhanced self-consciousness; which means, that his detachment from the
say, with a thought-content that is the means of detaching him from
This means that in order to form a judgment we do not merely pass in
We discover that our feeling life is by no means so illumined with the
schools of philosophy, themselves originate in the feelings. By means
men of old wanted to avoid. This does not mean, however, that we are

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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means of sleep? We have no knowledge at all of how this inner will
that the priests of the Mysteries there saw in it the means whereby,

Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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convey the meaning of Alpha, these would be: ‘The one who experiences
receiving into himself consciousness of his breathing, is meant to be
expression to a concept, a meaning, a truth about Man simply by saying
is something quite different. We can get an idea of this by means of a
add this S in the middle of it, and this would mean that not only the
What is meant to be expressed here in a more abstract way, was more
does not enter the curriculum. But that was once the meaning of rising

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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more beautiful than has ever been wrought by mechanical means — a
there — the intentions and ideas, I mean, out of which we perform our

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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blood, we know that he is one among many. Yet the one has no meaning
If man is to be true in a higher, this means spiritual, sense, he must
To glow in response to beauty means that in his soul man must create
by means of a picture, to the spirit he has left because of his
beauty means that in the physical world we do not disown our
this future to be bestowed on him, may be by means of some outer

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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of Golgotha. And we have often considered what it meant to live before the
civilization was based. It meant that really enlightened people in those
immediately after death.’ A more modern man, who has meanwhile lived
man is able to develop an awareness of what St. Paul meant when he said

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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and healing consists of supporting, by external means, what is
a case, by what means the etheric organization, permeated in the
body, restraining them to their proper degree. By this means we can
organization must be supported. This means that it has to be given a
and breath. If we then come to know by what outer means one or the
What outer means we use is
the means were available for diverting the forces from one to the

Title: Lecture: Polarities in Health, Illness and Therapy
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penetrate into what is actually meant with this membering. He said: these
in turn works upon the other systems. Some remedies are meant to be
and it is up to others to find the ways and means to make use of them.
That is the essential point. People must find the right ways and means to

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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in his poetry with a well-nigh heavenly splendour. The meanest and simplest
meaning of Michael.

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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utterances. Paul's words acquire a particular meaning, for he assures
clairvoyant capacities. This means nothing less than this: Divine
birth and death had no meaning for life. Life alone was known —
has a meaning and that life on earth is something that ends.This, of
Golgotha meant this for the gods: a greater wealth of knowledge
upon as something earthly, but as something having a meaning for the
to him in the event at Damascus. What did this mean for Saul? It
meant that a divine wisdom no longer existed, for the Ahrimanic

Title: William Shakespeare
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would be difficult to trace a concept of guilt in this meaning in any

Title: William Shakespeare
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means of the different viewpoint.

Title: The Manicheans
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What is the meaning of the utterance of Manes that he is the
Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, the Son of the Widow? It means that he
because Cathari means ‘the Pure Ones.’ They were human

Title: Mathematics and Occultism
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Now Plato looked upon mathematical science as a means of training for
Mathesis.” They did not mean by this that the essence of the
considered. This will certainly mean, for many, a giddy height of
educational means.
super-sensible. We comprehend the sensible by means of its
magnitudes has become in recent years a powerful educational means for
means of education, and no more than this is here implied about
it does present itself as a good educational means. It teaches him to
truths are acquired by super-sensible means, they can always be
realms of being. But one here has the means to see at least an
the words of the Occultist must at first seem devoid of all meaning.
mathematical science itself ceases. For in its direct meaning

Title: The Dead Are With Us
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investigated by means of Spiritual Science, but they can be understood
is the animal kingdom. I do not of course mean the individual animals
be outside them means that we do not notice them. If we look at some
meaning for man so long as he has not developed his clairvoyant
world than waking and sleeping life as such. I mean the actual act of
That an event is past means simply that it is farther away from us. I
sphere of earthly man. The meaning of this difference can also be
significance for the soul; the Catholic ritual will mean less in such
— not only by remembering things he said which meant a great deal
Just think what it means at the present time when so many human beings

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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means when a person has a healthy left convolution of the brain. But
means that something happened to the brain while the child learned to
All of this is imitation. This means that children take in, see,
the brain. This means that even while the child is crying —
languages differ in different regions of the earth. What does it mean
consonants? It means that he or she experiences the outer world more,
Northern Hemisphere. This means that we could draw a map of the

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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mean? It means that the person will to some extent inwardly alter his
physical by means of the spirit. Materialism has brought not only an
abstractions, which have no meaning but are only admissions of
of course, the way of a modern materialist) means by catharsis a

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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means that while an unfree man may serve his friends as a duty, in
particularly by socialising the means of production. We must appeal to

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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subjectively present in consciousness. What do I mean by that? I mean
feeling, are by no means our own individual property. They take place
world-processes. This means that when you feel, you have of course an
in the meantime elemental beings have concerned themselves with it,
great change in the meantime.
an origin, it does not by any means follow that nothing of the kind
Mystery of Golgotha. What meaning can it have for people who are
The more exact domains of knowledge are by no means yet at their
means that we must take full cognisance of the environment of Man; we
means the external metal. But in the book from which he is quoting the
words mean something quite different. They do not refer to the
but then one gets no meaning out of it! One is bound to regard it all
as nonsense. It has meaning, however, as soon as we know what
was meant by the words antimony, mercury, and so forth in those times.
which one had other means of approach than those we have today. The

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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the colour of which the Greeks used a word which simply meant
beyond the Earth. By means of spectro-analysis and other methods
The processes that take place within the human being are by no means
‘upper’ man. By ‘upper’ man I mean, in this case,
Please do not misunderstand me This does not mean that Saturn is not

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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different. When you speak of the ‘look’ of a man, you mean
really mean what lies behind the eye, within the soul. And if I now
speak of the Spiritual in the light, I too mean what lies
meaning. Musical experience is already a foretaste, if I may so
spiritual knowledge. I do not mean through clairvoyance — that is

Title: Education for Adolescents
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this I do not mean that you should make as many mistakes as possible

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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subject next time. A week from now I shall speak about the meaning of the
exercises of different kinds, by means of which societies and brotherhoods
contribute nothing at all to your own means of subsistence. What has still
within us. Think of what this means. — You are building a house. You
means nothing else than to spiritualize the mineral world. He knew that the
meaning and purpose; they are in line with the structure of our period of

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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feelings of anxiety, of joy, of compulsion. The meaning of the
the life of the cosmic formative forces. This means that, when

Title: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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mean can be described, quite in accordance with the intentions of the
they meant something very much more significant than is generally meant
to-day. We have to learn to find again a deeper and deeper meaning in
meant by these members of man's being. It is always possible to go

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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— not by means of modern habits of thought, but with faculties
spiritually by means of the inner faculties of soul.
referring to a God and that the stories only have meaning and
process would be meaningless if the ideas which surge into the souls
attainable only by means of spiritual-scientific, super-sensible
the soul. The soul was freed from the body by external means, and
show what is the whole meaning and purpose of human evolution,
mean that the Christ brings into the world the principle of the
gives him an image of the world, but which is a powerful means of
portrays a world to him, but its laws will become a means of
“The world is my Idea.” In other words this means:
of inner redemption man will learn to know the meaning

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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speaking of Richard Wagner, I certainly do not mean to imply
that he was fully conscious of this impulse. It is so meaningless when
this simply means that they have never taken the trouble to understand
they could work only by means of commandments and decrees. When Wotan,
that to ask about his birth, name, rank or calling, is meaningless. To
name means “I am the I am,” and the latter the Luciferic
the cross — All other interpretations are meaningless.

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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revelation, in its more scholastic form, was by no means a body of
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha men were trying to answer by means
could still have been discovered by means of the old

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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human being together with humanity. What does this mean?
of “Christ” — yet they always mean nothing but their

Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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expanded.” This means that in his fantasy he had caught, a
this be termed realistic, in the true meaning of the word? I do not
is meant by physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego, we
they really achieved extraordinary things in the meaning of

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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to-day. In ancient times, human beings had at their disposal means of
made to Solomon's Temple. We know that this temple was meant to
is tautology, but for all that it underlines what is here meant,
the point clear to you, very briefly, by means of an example.
Masters and must finally be freed by means of the powers he has

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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teaching of reincarnation was by no means of cardinal importance. For
about by the Manu. Meanwhile, out of the suppressed Lemurians came the
Church means nothing to us. But we proclaim the Christ who walked in

Title: Lecture: The Mystery of Golgotha
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the essence and meaning of the whole evolution of the Earth lies in
picture he would discover that a far deeper meaning lies hidden in
meaning which belongs to the Mystery of Golgotha, the Being from a
meaning Christ the Saviour] the healing Saviour.
descendants of primæval humanity, which was by no means animal-like
Meanwhile the simple and primitive among mankind felt as
expressed in the words I am now speaking — such was the meaning
Mystery of Golgotha as the true meaning of all Earth-existence. Then

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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studying something that has to do with the Earth, it is by no means
had to be sought there by means of Intuition. “The Word was
The Archangels had to transpose themselves by means of Intuition into
ourselves. And as we are able to enter into their deeper meaning we

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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physical life of humanity. It is by no means enough to admit that the
Middle Ages, then, were the period during which man was meant to
try now by means of historical documents and an external mode of
needing to convince them by means of speech.

Title: Lecture: The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
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fettering of the legs in this case I mean the presence of modern
are by no means far away from us; they are far nearer to us than we
one main point, and you will understand what I mean in this
rid of it. Think what this means: to get rid of that which has
Science bear the fruits which it is meant to bear, and which it truly
One more remark in conclusion. Think what it means that at a certain

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution
themselves were concerned, had meant nothing but astronomical,
piece, by means of spices and all sorts of other arts she made a
something very deep and of great meaning. It shows that in those
what these Gods were — I mean now in the Greek consciousness,
that the Greeks had the idea that what they meant by Zeus had been
with what the Greek meant when he spoke of Uranus-Gaea, or
[Schwefel (Sulphur) has also a slang meaning of ‘hot air’.
Alchemists something different is meant from the ordinary earthly

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution
Imaginations was the age when Osiris wandered upon Earth. They meant
said: Osiris was slain. They meant to say: the old life in the
find the corpse; that means to find the picture-script transformed
the meaning of the Old Testament — be led from that living in
that the ancients meant by the divine, which as you can now readily
arrange social conditions in the Roman Kingdom. This, however, means
cock ... I don't mean any special one, not simply Clemenceau ... one
without meaning anything foolish by it — he is a learned man.
the cross-sign means nothing else than that the human being takes
moon, that is the star. But the deeper meaning lies precisely in the
the meantime man does not know how he is to unite the abstract ideas
alive again, we must find ways and means to bring Osiris to life. I

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution
meaning of the concepts which perhaps do not come to clear
Osiris-myth. We have seen that this early age meant to say: there
collected the pieces; with the use of spices and by other means she
from ancient times into newer times, which lost its meaning through
is meant.)
her clairvoyance there one day arose in her the deep meaning, as far
age, deeply justified in what this age is meant to become and must
men's words and concepts have only an abstract meaning, where man
And so the owl ... I mean the modern scientific profundity, sees in
man of what is meant by the Mystery of Golgotha, by the true
experience. The letter ... by this is meant, as you know, the
not what is meant, but the sentence is connected with impulses of
what it originally meant. And in many instances, Just as in this one,
every day, then this really means a meeting with spiritual beings,
just as it means a descent from physical beings, that one is born and

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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that the saying on the Statue at Sais actually meant: He who will
a means of further studying the riddle that was first propounded.
however, meant that observation of the universe was taken into the
endless possibilities just in our age. Only, meanwhile, men do not as
the time must come in which the child learns what it means to become
Thus in our present time it means a good deal if someone simply

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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realize the tolerance that he means — a tolerance not inclining
nowhere has what is meant by the actual Christ-Impulse penetrated in
away from it so strongly that in the meantime he has become an
not meant to be merely something for people who have cut themselves

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means that man will learn to solve his own riddle, to say to himself:
Very much lies in these words and it means very much when man is so
a man as Schlegel suggested unsuitable means — since he was
stood to the rest of Europe. I do not now mean merely the political
relation, I mean the whole relation of France to the rest of Europe,
and by this I mean all that any European could feel in the course of

Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution
find water or metals under the earth by means of the divining-rod. In
we mean much more spiritual elements in man than this lowest, almost
means in the camera obscura. Still there is a connection. Precisely
right meaning to such customs. I will remind you of one.
materialism had become general, has a deeper meaning. In recent
now comes the sentence which I mean:
and in Lenin and Trotsky’, (he means that enthusiasm for the
mean that every single person can go in for such study, but men whose

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means of his intellectual life, his feeling life, his will, that is,
by means of his morality, is imparted to the whole cosmos. In the
word for you, is it not? It means “there from the very
by means of physical heredity or what is handed down to them through
ways and means. They do not shrink from any sort of defamation. I
already today many unsavory methods are employed. The meanness of our
courage, we do not really understand what Anthroposophy means for the

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human activity is at rest. But sleep is by no means merely rest; we
world. This means the child can move freely in any direction without
by artificial means; in all those who are not born dumb, thinking is
human organism is thought to be. But it is by no means so.
with whom life brings us into contact. I do not mean sympathy or
This means that in a previous life feelings of strong antipathy or
this period is not rightly spent, it means that weaknesses are
world-justice. Understanding of karma means that a man has a true
perception of world-justice. It does not mean that he becomes
phlegmatic towards happiness or unhappiness, joy or pain; it means
Ego and astral body are working in the physical body. This means that
this is by no means a mere naming of particular stages, but we are
German word here is ‘Gemut’ — a word that means

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We can have no clear idea of what this really means unless we
any means the abstract concept — was imbued with life.
To live in the word as the Greeks lived in the word meant that
repeated one after the other, really meant something. World-mysteries
meant, namely, the Imaginative element of speech, the instinctively
meaning of the word, to the world where speech itself is shaped and

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in this way, by means of certain exercises carried out by the faculty
now, by means of this living, pictorial thinking, I experience
means of which we grow, the sum-total of the forces which work, also,
What has here been said is by no means as unessential as might
Let me try to explain by means of a simple
before the soul. But what is it that is grasped by means of
By means of the exercises indicated in my books, we must be armed
Theorising is by no means sufficient when it is a matter of treading
earthly lives spoken of by Anthroposophy is filled with meaning. The
confidence inasmuch as the purpose and meaning of earthly life become
Science strives to tread by means of genuine research and not through
Anthroposophy is a means whereby the religious feelings, the

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wisdom, gained through super-sensible means, is still alive in a
connecting a meaning with what had once been given to man in a
meaning with the old spiritual wisdom, reaches its climax in the
which originated from old traditions, but their meaning could no
of considering things. The spirit and the meaning contained within
never became a Darwinist in Haeckel's meaning. Gegenbauer, who
Gegenbauer meant to say

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Haeckel, and meant by this that he was celebrating the sixtieth
observance of this commandment is, in a Christian meaning, far more
natural science. But what was meanwhile raging in the
world-conception really has a true meaning, that it is not merely

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age. What does this really mean? — A concrete example, already
the aid of an example, which was only meant, as a comparison. Take
body. Now I do not mean to speak of the further path taken by the
the tremendous importance of this fact! It means, that it will depend
representative in the highest meaning of the word. And if we see the
with the thought: “That is meant to be the Christ”, for
meant to be Lucifer.
this with the artistic means of the past. Every movement of the

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words are entirely devoid of meaning. They were used, of course, by
Boehme with a different meaning.
these expressions — salt, mercury, sulphur — still mean
it is first dissolved by means of the fluids in the organism, but we
mystical meanings. Jacob Boehme connected the thinking — the
meaning but who still felt that some great value was contained in
but of a salt-process, of a sulphur-process, and they meant thereby,
are by no means so opposed to Philistinism that they would find it
ancestor of the Three Kings. Such people have by no means grown
tried by means of dogma to replace the new form of knowledge by mere
universe and the universe in man, not by means of a recrudescence of
inner clairvoyance but by means of new clairvoyant faculties acquired

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who wish to study human evolution in the meaning of spiritual
intellect, the thinking, into our consciousness soul. That means a
longer able to understand anything. Hypochondria for instance, means
formations in certain parts of the body. These names mean far more
excogitating means of educating the human being materialistically, of
end not by means of psychic influences, but by means of ingredients
material means, so that its capacities may develop in a bodily way.

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called Ahura Mazdao, a golden dagger, by means of which he was to
by no means without significance for what we do during our earthly
for men — by no means for their good — to be held in the
we understand how to imbue earth-evolution with its true meaning and
what corresponds to them nowadays, this would by no means conduce to
Arithmetic, Dialectic, Rhetoric, and so on. This no longer means
because it means tearing themselves away from the convenient things

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presentation in the plastic arts and presentation by means of tone
rites were the means whereby the external actions of man’s will
or allegorical art, but true art — which means creative,
only assumes its true significance and meaning when it lays hold of a
by means of their ordinary, sound human intellect — provided it
true aims when it adheres with intelligence and vigor to the meaning
neither as regards the acquisition of material means — in order

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a real event, in the true meaning of the word, because spiritual
materialistic meaning, will argue: “We are thoroughly
be studied from outside, this spatial interior is not what I mean
meaning. For we can hand over to the earth only those parts of our
grows tired, yet this weariness means that a knowledge of the heart's
live. If we grasp this, in the meaning of a spiritual-scientific
would mean if spiritual science were to disappear, and if no one were
this would mean! In that case, all those forces would become the

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meaning of these forms. They are the expression of an inner being.
disappear after having fulfilled its mission, has its meaning within

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that what I am about to say could serve many a listener as a means to
harmonious and consistent with them. But they are by no means an
with “Sophia,” meaning the content of consciousness, the
to the totality of that life. Just as growing old can mean developing
feels dissatisfied not only because other people are so mean and
invariably a featherbed. Living means work. Here one has this hard
practice. That means making one single whole again of the person
is not meant as a criticism of any of our institutions. The Waldorf

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alter and improve the plant by means of all sorts of horticultural
“forgotten”, has by no means disappeared from your whole
is meant to develop and yet is not helped in its development creates
things are facts, and they help us see even more meaning in the

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and meaning of the

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series of aspects the comprehensive meaning of which will not dawn on
because we want to enquire into the meaning of the arising of the two
can enquire into such a meaning, for physical evolution receives its
meaning from higher worlds. As long as we are in the physical world,
spiritual. Thus purpose, meaning and goal are words that we can apply
meaning behind the two sexes gradually developing and then
meaning will become clear to you when you see what we call
individual characters from birth. So the significance and meaning of
this is the true meaning of ‘original sin’. That is the
person by means of spiritual treatment.

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temperature. For the human body is meant to be healthy, and that is
makes the astral body even-tempered, as it were. By means of careful
of divinity. This is the meaning behind rhythm becoming independent.

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meanwhile moved on to one. It will be roughly another five minutes
around its planet is by no means mere chance, nor is it unconnected
modern physicist explains the Kant-Laplace theory by means of his
four quarters of the moon. It is by no means nonsense to look for a
soul. Men have freed themselves from external rhythm. By means of
only point out what men meant by the ‘inner number’ at

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in his development. This is what the pilgrimage of life means for me,
no means always be worked out in a single life. It can then happen
destroyed and rebuilt afresh. And by means of this rebuilding of the

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animal soul, into man, it does not mean He created it at that moment,
meaninglessly. However, as he has his ego within him and can work
even man's breathing process itself changes. By means of this example

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contrasts that acquired a meaning the moment the sun began to shine
also wanted to conquer what was external by means of the inner being.

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way. By means of connecting-nerves running from one part of the brain
means of which man goes beyond himself and then advances further and
something new that he himself creates? And what does it mean that man
brotherhood. This means nothing else than that each individual is
as it really is. Only by this means shall we arrive at accurate

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of what I mean is our study of the four Gospels. This autumn I
a more inward call. Before 1899 such calls were made by means of
we form for ourselves by means of our intellect, so in the spiritual

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of himself, and there is nothing further to be learnt by this means
be maintained only by means of ‘collisions’.
took place — which means, of course, the less we are
deepest roots and from the very beginning Christianity was meant to
understand his words can realise something of what they mean,
for all men! This is indeed what St. Paul meant in the words
earthly life has meaning and significance for all that life.
understanding. And what this means can best be explained by referring
impresses the meaning of this utterance forcibly upon us. From then
utterance will have no meaning for us in the Sun sphere if by our
result of different means is drawing nearer and nearer to a close as
What has been said is meant to indicate a fact of

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because human beings of the present age are by no means particularly
and means to break through the boundaries of the physical world and
other means makes his thinking more mobile, will have moments in his
manifest as genuine dream-experiences which have meaning and point to
Anthroposophy, this will be a means of educating humanity to be
of men as a living force and when by its means we not only comprehend
the bodily constitution. An analogy may be the only means of helping
between this method and what is done by means of the electric
Paris could be sent by means other than the electric telegraph. The
head above provides the most convenient means, in the conditions of

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qualities during life on Earth. Man is not meant to witness what
consciousness. Why not? The reason is that he is not meant to witness
during waking life are restored and man is not meant to witness this
is in our meaning of the word, for logical thinking did not yet
be meant by ‘proof’, he would still have insisted that it

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what that ascent means and also of the world-wide significance of the
it meant withdrawal from all the externalities of life and absolute
as a means of strengthening the heart and the forces of the soul. We

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soul during that period would be meaningless. Fundamentally speaking,

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Ego-consciousness dawns in him. This experience does not by any means
stops, this means that formative forces approaching from outside are
at present. By no means was it so! And in certain cases we need go
centuries ago. It is what we today mean by the expression ‘public
try to grasp material conditions by means of material thinking. When

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Now the human body — and here I mean the physical
Earth does not by any means derive in all details from the physical
inner man in process of coming into being. This means that we are
vision of what is in process of coming into being; and what is meant

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earthly life means loneliness and darkness in the spiritual world
there is indeed a future life, and meanwhile if here on Earth we
body, even the very convolutions of his brain, by means of the forces
from the spiritual world forces by means of which we have been able
the light means that all the gifts have a particular colouring and
cleric cannot propagate his ideas by means of his logic, for both he
attitude to life, we shall be able, by means of spiritual
external regulations are the sole means of promoting health.
This does not by any means suggest that such work should be
This by no means applies to everybody. There are some people who take
replace one that has been torn off; that again means that they cannot
example, a being is meant to assimilate certain things on Earth, it
seemed that he was trying to make himself noticed by means of all

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yearns to be able to think by means of a brain such as was available
the soul acquires the forces by means of which it can build up a new
This means liberation from everything that is significant on the

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
to bring livingly before one's soul what thinking meant for
be reached by any of the means that are applied nowadays to
One can get a clear idea of what is meant by this

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
will be given later — in the epoch when all the means of
into this way of putting it will be able to grasp the deeper meaning
are studied with the means of Spiritual Science — it seems as
significance exists and should give occasion for reflection. I mean
contrasting remarkably with his meditative demeanour. She raises her
but it became less and less authoritative as a means of fathoming the

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
centre. What is really meant by the themes will then gradually
anthroposophical explanations. I mean the Jesus in whom lived the Ego
soul-organs would have become disordered. I mean that willing would
Pythia, who was imbued with the dragon-vapours. It meant that Apollo
openly; only in the Mysteries was the meaning of it understood.
language means “He who heals through God”. He is the

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
should find them permeated with Geology, in the sense meant here.
so to save some of them. For if their rejection has meant the
reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean? Nothing

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
Many of you will perhaps guess something of what I mean
I knew that many meanings can be attached to the Holy
clarified their meaning. In occult investigation, too, one is, led
work of art (this was a leading of the kind I mean), there came to
(Christ is often called the Bridegroom), the picture had a meaning,
done anything about it — had a meaning also.

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spiritual development in its search for the meaning of existence. He
we can be sure that for such a purpose any means would serve.
vernal sun, which means the sun that is gathering strength —
strength, must be within it. This means that, according to an ancient
mean an animal in the ordinary sense, but a living organism.] “One
denied, he wrote, that such spirits — he means spirits which
through the air, and by this means, with God's permission, much
which means that it will be necessary to learn to read the stellar
how it was that a spirit such as Kepler's could in the meantime
Anthroposophy should mean to us — must be deeply grounded in
one day find themselves in agreement with what is here meant by the
Was that meant to be a hint, in the
Impulse, as was meant to happen, in accordance with the Parsifal

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philosophy, presented in such a way as was possible in a book meant
about abstract being by means of logic, thoughts of nature, thoughts

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never be based upon the argument that the world has a meaning only if
the world only has a meaning if it presents a certain definite
which mean to us far more than those we otherwise make in the course
course of many years and decades. I do not mean that it comprises
really means to him. We could ask each person: “Why have you
discover that in the meantime an accident has occurred along the way,
meaning which I have explained to you on various occasions and

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every-day life, they are by no means without significance for us. No,
I mean not the inner life that lives in clear, well-defined memories,
etheric body — only by this means can we, who are here in the
relationships to other people (I mean precisely those relationships
human love arises in the dead. This does not mean that he cannot
described is not without its results, for it means that an
the leading spirits in education — I mean not the charlatans
— I mean to influence them directly, working right into their
age’ (I mean now, spiritually speaking, not in the legal sense)
is not what I mean; that is a different matter. I really mean the
from the influences — even the well-meant influences —
this very means, the continuity of evolution is preserved — out

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when knowledge is no longer obtained by means of combining abstract,

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spiritual science does death become a real event in the true meaning
ordinary science, in the usual materialistic meaning, will
interior, is not what I mean when I speak of man's inner being. Even
this is not the case, in this meaning. For we can hand over to the
weariness means that a knowledge of the heart's structure becomes
meaning of a spiritual-scientific knowledge, it will spontaneously
Imagine what it would mean if spiritual science were to
self-sacrifice! Imagine what this would mean! In that case, all

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intervals, and by what means they are established — this we
eyes and could speak to us by means of the instrument of the physical
course, just when the human being, by means of his opened soul,
world even by means of concepts. In fact, many people believe that it
with the earth, be it by means of fire or decay — these differ,
even this fact only with regard to its meaning for the physical
Consider now, for a moment, what this means. When we
his birth through physical means alone, indeed, no one knows anything
is the experimental rabbit. He must register, by means of another
compared, but the comparison is a lame one — for it means for
means of atavistic clairvoyance — as we may call it — to
wishes to do so to-day, can show by means of what is strictly
mentality. And here you have an example of what I mean: People simply

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Perhaps you will better understand what we mean if you
complete consciousness to work on his astral body, and by means of
in the meanwhile going through their own evolution, and then that one
to the progressed humanity, by means of intuition, that which he
himself has in the meanwhile acquired for his higher mission. We look
by the otherwise meaningless name of Spirit of the Age, and may say:

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Spirits of Form or Powers, and by means of certain attributes can do
really guide human progress by means of intuition?’ They do it

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only able by means of abstractions such as the truths of mathematics,
impressions of it by means of his senses, it does not exist at all to
everything which you have received by means of external perceptions,
think about that which comes to us from the outer world by means of
were inwards, but can, by means of the senses, open itself outwards
Now just as man by means of his sense-perception looks
several souls, and by means of this agency is brought about what a
however, something takes place which closely concerns man; by means

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humanity, is not comprised in the middle third of life. By means of
be no sense according to the real meaning of the word in speaking of
civilization bloom, those which do not experience a revival by means
arrive at nothing; for to speak against it means to put hindrances in
That is the reason why precisely in Europe, — I mean in the
character of Rosicrucianism. Rosicrucianism means acting in
mean to act in harmony with the evolution of humanity.
Archangels down to the Angels, we see the means which were necessary

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you by means of an example, that man knows only the most external
thought, feeling and will within himself, by means of which he can
been expressed in quite a special way by means of a geometrical

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activity of the three hierarchies. These things are by no means so
devoted to the influence of Jupiter or Zeus, and by that means this
of external form, external life, contained important meanings for
in black shapes, as little dwarf-like beings — he meant the

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spiritual forces and spiritual capacities by means of which they
grasped by means of the forces which had developed out of the Indian
viz., seeing how the soul worked its way up by means of the various
through what is represented to us as the initiation by means of the
everywhere ruling in the wind, he saw how he formed speech by means

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Atlantis to look into a spiritual world by means of the old

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this again occurred at a time when man could perceive by means of the
to be found in the world of the East. By means of these feelings this
meaning in it unless one accepts the facts of a divine and a human
civilization. By means of this the whole Christ-Being and the whole

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which they had received by means of their clairvoyant capacities. In
northern people by means of these pictures, really comes from the
possession of his free will, although by means of his perception —
its means a sufficient number of persons will be developed enough to
Folk-spirit, by means of which the things we now find clairvoyantly
when other forces have meanwhile been at work upon the human soul.
which had in the meanwhile been educated on the physical plane. Freyr
clairvoyance, — instead of developing the new by means of new
correctness of what has been said. Make use of all the means you can
have said about Christ Jesus, test by means of all the sources at
possible by all the means at your disposal on the physical plane; I
By means of Anthroposophy — as we shall see more

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means so very far distant. Humanity as such is becoming younger and younger.
evolution. He must know what it means to say that the moon once left the earth
in the ordinary way. We shall be connected with the earth by other means than
time. And we must learn to connect what is happening today — I mean the fact
of an animal can be understood by the means employed by anatomists and
and personality. It is a phase by no means to be undervalued. It was necessary
Science means to open the doors to those influences from beyond the earth which
future. I do not know what meaning has been read into the chapter in

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means of which he thinks he can understand it. Anthroposophy and the
“Anthroposophy” is by no means a new name. When some years
to something new. For us it does not mean, “Knowledge of human
meant for mankind when three or four centuries ago the revolution took
ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a
speak intelligibly about the ways and means found by spiritual science
life, and which he also uses in ordinary science, are by no means able
can. By means of the soul-exercises undertaken and carried out by the
meant not something merely imagined, but it is meant that man, by
is that the spiritual is actually experienced as a fact by means of
meant by these principles of man's being. Spiritual science shows that
research in the true sense of the words, as it is here meant, that must
ordinary spiritualism. By this it is not meant that all manner of facts
spiritualism is presented to the outer senses, whether by means of
meaning in the universe if the Mystery of Golgotha had not taken place
earth and see what it is, they would see no meaning in the whole
upon it.” The event of Golgotha gives meaning and purpose to
means of the passage in which Nathanael is spoken of. It has been
that the ideas of spiritual science are pictured by means of symbols or

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time of Summer. To understand the essential meaning of these
revelations. But this meant that he did not live in his thoughts in
This act was merely meant to signify that the offering made by man's
Midsummer festivals had meaning only as long as men received their
by men to be a means of escape from the Luciferic powers. They strove
This meant that the festival once
beneath the soil of the earth. — But the meaning of this must
this means, he endeavors to protect himself from the Ahrimanic
Try to grasp the full meaning of this
meaning in the fact that at the time when the Earth is shrouded in
indicate that he has by no means always done so but has very often

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epoch to another, are the souls of human beings. Sense and meaning
this way we can see a meaning in the study of single epochs; their
every means to understand the secrets of our existence, we shall find
we all know has two horns; but it is by no means sufficient just to
that is by no means all, there is something else equally important.
different means. While he was still quite young, in 1498,
means; he made himself sensitive to what was inward in outer nature.
realistically through the natural means which Michelangelo had
means. In the end we feel that the block was presented us with what
was held up by the multifarious jobs to which in the meantime he had
there today in Rome is by no means what Michelangelo painted. Not
allegories without force and without vitality. Use every means that
ourselves stand, was also well aware what it means if the soul and
just the greatest spirits that teach us most vividly how the meaning

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If we are to understand what is really meant by these
What I mean by this arrogance is that someone may say to himself: “I
have not only the meaning resulting from observation of external
Nature, but also the meaning they receive when the Cosmos is viewed
A construction of this kind is by no means devoid of
milieu of applied technology, means that we create a thoroughly
soul if any real headway is to be made. “Well-meaning”
means whereby he could do so. And if anyone were to long to retire
give them a new shade of meaning. This shade of meaning is always
verbal sequence, too; but the nuances and shades of meaning are
Speech is by no means only what modern materialistic
Rhine,” what does he mean by this? Surely such an expression
mean? I hardly think that when people speak of the “ancient
When with the means afforded by Spiritual Science we
and the sound is experienced as something that carries meaning. In
means of support different from those available in former times. And
I said that in our Building it is not meant to be so, but that our

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means sufficient. Everything depends upon understanding conditions as
there is meaning and purpose in it all. Having investigated the

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meaning of the word. Of course, all theosophical facts discovered

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wake up to the meaning of Goethe and proceed from the study of
lifeless things to that of living things. This is what I mean when I
mean, when they speak of God? It is an Angel, an Angelos —
nevertheless only mean their Angel. The selfish note of religious
Hierarchies in thoughts and concepts, with the aid of the means just
social question; namely, that through a means such as the Goetheanum,

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Sleeping man is indeed a beautiful sight — I mean, to the

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utterances have absolutely no meaning — Woodrow Wilson, who
For the earth can by no means satisfy man; it will have to be

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retains this older meaning as well. “True” meant “true
to the Divine Order”; the abstract meaning came later. When the
means of nourishment man has a feeling of well-being. Conditions,
to-day, useful though it be, and by no means to be disparaged. From a
approach the world, feeling our way towards it by means of our
of cognition. It is by no means so easy as some people think, to
found that “true” comes to mean for us sound or healthy,
I need hardly say, I mean by this nothing of a mediumistic nature,
not present in earlier and other paths to initiation. I mean the
being, we know how to give personality its right place and meaning in
The meaning we have been led to discern in our personal,

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mean? This abstract statement, rightly understood, contains the
element in the fourth post-Atlantean epoch has no longer any meaning
people see what this means and feel how necessary it is that we
the right means to this end. For social understanding, what would be
means that the members of it must constitute the chief reason for its
judgment upon the results of medicine in public life. If what I mean
post-Atlantean epoch. For very much is contained in what I mean by
experience here in a small way” (he means by ‘a small
as a means of deepening life and as a remedy for destitution of soul,
of the spirit, to concrete knowledge of the spirit; which means that

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means the case. Just as we perceive red or blue and hear C sharp or G,
the system of nerves and senses. Therefore, when we think, we by no means
Something extraordinary happened to the yogi by this means. The process of
reproductions of memories, called up by means of yoga breathing, of the
north-south direction means something special, for the manifestation of
recognize what it means when the spine is horizontal or vertical. We
ascetic suppressed some function of the body by means of physical pain,

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The Meaning of Easter
means for bringing to expression man's connection with the worlds beyond
meaning still in this plan of a movable time for the Easter festival. It
Paul was a man who could not be persuaded of the meaning of the Christ
of death means can be understood only from the point of view of
mean a very great deal for us; only it is necessary to realise that the
can be placed in the realm of reality, then Christianity has meaning; or
meaning. It is important that people should face such conclusions, for
absolutely essential for us to take things in all their depth of meaning
time. For in very deed a world-catastrophe is upon us. I do not mean

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beautiful atmosphere there is in Koberwitz — I mean also the
receive them especially from me. I know what it means to give
Anthroposophical Movement, were meant to counteract these things.
means to grow mangolds, potatoes and corn! Without this foundation
and in these Calendars, beside the proverbs full of deep meaning for
the silicious element. I mean the chalk or limestone substances and
in the life of plants, by what means can the process be more or lese
quickened or restrained? By what means can the influences of Moon or
Saturn on the life of plants be hindered, and by what means

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are seized and held by means of the stones and the rock, which may
reality a means of transport, for the influences of cosmic entities
effective for the growth of plants. I mean, the crystalline forces
mother-animal, does not by any means simply continue its existence in
sparingly replace by artificial means the fertility the Earth itself
fodder plants — I do not mean turnips or the like, but plants
means we cause the cosmic to be strongly retained — held up

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clear to the outer science of to-day. I mean the four sisters,
alchemists and such people spoke of the Stone of the Wise, they meant
breathing process reveal its meaning. In breathing we absorb
less in need of it—I mean now the nitrogen in the air we
Stegemann. I mean this working-together of the soul and Spirit in us,

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Science has corrected itself in the meantime. To-day as everybody knows,
kind of manure. I mean the compost, which is sometimes even
despised. In compost we have a means of kindling the life within the
even from dead animals ... These things should not by any means be
powers, which, pressing inward, are meant to penetrate right into the
Meanwhile, let us proceed).
mean that you should water them with it in a crude way; you spray the
by such methods too, something is attained, which I by no means wish

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of the materialistic world conception. Meanwhile, in all the different
positive ways and means at the same time. No doubt, what I have now
I mean, in the sense that you like to stroke what you are fond of. This

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because a continuous stream reforms it, ever anew. I mean, for example,
called so in a meaningless way. To attain our end within the plant world

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of the tree? In other words, what happens by means of the cambium? What
I mean
very essence of good farming, and we shall attain far more by such means,
— by means of its metabolic and a portion of its breathing system.The
day they do not understand what Goethe meant when he spoke of “give
of plants over the earth's surface. Meanwhile beneath the earth the

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theory — I really mean it, brilliant. And when people begin to
by no means a matter of indifference, in practice. Suppose you are using
be combated by means of the tomato.

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The Mystical Meaning of the Mass
The Mystical Meaning of the Mass,
which means to “see a Mystery.” Those who were
means The Way. Moses means The Truth (ethical or moral

Title: Lecture: The Universe
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Perhaps we obtain the best picture of what I mean by this,
must therefore try to grasp what I really mean.
things really mean. For it is necessary to consider them in
possible to speak of the Zodiac in the old meaning, you

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had gained the power actually to attain Christian initiation by means of the
these powers Philippe le Bel knew what it would have meant if, into the
objective spiritual stream. And this could only be accomplished by means of a
particularly cruel deed, by means of a terrible act of
who committed them for trial knew what this torture on the rack meant. The
consciousness was by this means placed outside, objectified, and embodied in
soul who strives by means of inward purification to attain the life which the
means of which an ether body that is being prepared from out of the far
means of its light. And it also breathes in light. As we breathe in and out
of this mystery. For the failure to comply with the conditions would mean, as
in the manner described. And the ether body is the means or medium whereby
into Man's hand a means whereby he may find blessing in his own soul.
Man, the body that works by means of the etheric principle in the human
have meaning when Man is seen as a trinity were aspired to as the ideals for
for the physical body of Man. Freedom only has meaning when it is referred to
then is one speaking in a sense and meaning that is in accord with the inner
meaning of the spiritual world.
the way it has been understood in the 19th century, it can only mean social
beginning of all the discoveries that rule the earth today by means of the
means to sound through. All this is closely connected with the evolution of
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meaning of the word, is not understood in the right way if people
is not meant personally, but, as you will readily admit, it belongs
mean.
upper thigh bone. This means that the inner side of the thigh bone
Please do not misunderstand me. I do not mean that the forces which
of Anthroposophy, as it is meant here, treads the paths leading to
Even as a person is a full human being in the true meaning of the
the full meaning of the word if it is not a mere knowledge of the

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Losing consciousness in the spiritual world means a stupor, a
fogging; it means the saturation of consciousness with all that can
mean exactly the same in relation to the super-sensible world if a
What does this mean, however? It means nothing less than the
appears as described. This means to be in the position of allowing
yet one need not come by this means to a real understanding of the
possessed by a leaning toward phenomenalism. This means that they
losing consciousness regarding the spiritual world means
notice, however, that all this actually has no particular meaning and
the spiritual investigator cannot be grasped by means of the ordinary
circle”; that is, one would seek by means of a
circle would have to be to equal a particular square. This means that
it alone gives meaning to life. The goodness of a belief, however, is
meantime. So it goes with the course of the spiritual evolution of
means wanting to enter the spiritual world with inadequate organs of
investigation but also victories over error, victory by means

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characterise the paths by which the kind of spiritual science we mean
mobile limbs and everything that is connected with these. By means of
For as our soul development progresses by means of this active
of memory means for the cohesion of the human personality in
something unconsciously into the body by means of which we can later
people do not like the term yet. Again it is by means of direct
So they look at anthroposophy and say: They mean well, these people,
sense of the word, as an attempt (we mean this modestly) to bring
it encounters, even those from well-meaning people.
inexactly. I will give you one example of what I mean: There is a
materialistic outlook by means of some very clever philosophy,
with eastern animalisation, which means that social demands

Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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but one consciousness, which means that these two consciousnesses
He meant the great cosmic years of which I have spoken to you to-day.

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— who is not convinced that one cannot by any means arrive at
evoke within itself by means of its nervous or other activities. When
connected with this. This I will explain by means of a
accidental-senses, which means that supposing that we had not our
Goethe really has given to mankind, for he has no other means of
Goethe had to express his whole genius by means of twenty-three
in such things, I mean the things concerned with the true efforts of
every other means, something in which they can feel confidence? Nothing
does not only mean that those who have no faith in the medical
understand in their true meaning the teaching of Spiritual
means of furthering Natural Science increased in rapid succession.
Natural Science to-day by no means excludes the most superficial

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— the so-called system of nerves and senses. By means of
organisation they are by no means absolutely the same the whole Earth
being, in which man is firmly rooted and by means of which he relates
only means he has of approaching these cosmic, super-sensible gifts is

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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and perceptions are so pregnant with meaning that they are well

Title: Lecture: Some Characteristics of To-day
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believe them. But what does this mean? It only means that they want
revolution of the soul. This means throwing off one's absorption in

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy's Contribution to the Most Urgent Needs of Our Time
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super-sensible cognition by means of Imagination, Inspiration and
Today, in so far as we wish to understand man by means of natural
a stable connection with the world, not only by means of thinking but
through anthroposophical spiritual science, by means of Imagination,
takes by means of Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition. I
entirely personal experience. By this means we prepare ourselves
stage, then by means of all these practices we are able to strengthen
means of Inspired cognition.
of our whole life as man, that means, if we have acquired the forces
forget this Ego in its present stage, that means, to thrust out its
lives for the first time within his own thoughts, by means of
means the nerve-sense system can be the basis for thinking, for
means nothing else than that in so far as a man consistently follows
can be destroyed, sets itself there within him as a means of
be proved afterwards, by means of pure thinking, since the spiritual
dutiful.’ For in the Kantian sense, Schiller meant, one must
penetrate the human being by means of anthroposophical knowledge of
in true human love. For one can show by means of anthroposophy

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induced. Magical effects were produced by means of these symbols and
effect that in earlier times was produced by means of these
therefore by no means long ago — the name of Gautama Buddha was
Buddha means that the Individuality concerned does not incarnate
of Christ Jesus. This means that our Karma is linked with Christ,
can be substantiated only by means of occult investigation. Yet

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The prospects are by no means hopeful; for there are many harmful factors
means of strengthening the control of the Ego over the astral body is to
of them were to be formed in our minds; it would by no means

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back then, we are by no means where we were when we found our way
“In the moment when I learnt to know the inner meaning of what
Grammar meant the practical use of language. Rhetoric
meant more: the artistic use of language. Dialectic was the
different epochs had to advance by means of exercises — in

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ask: What does this mean? What does that signify? In Dornach no
single form is intended to mean anything — in this sense. Every
means itself, expresses itself.
everything in relation to it, instead of to a point by means of
meaning of the word. Beauty is indeed the imprint of the cosmos, made
beauty by means of plastic art, we must become aware that the beauty
nose, this wonderful means of expression, one can say: As a man is in
grasping the external world, not only by means of thoughts or natural

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this quite clear. I mean a sage of the ancient Eastern civilisation would
But by means of all that the men of the East brought to the Western
self-knowledge was to be approached. The precept I mean is frequently
around him by means of his sense-perceptions. What he sees, he orders
what they saw they afterwards uttered those words which were meant to
that one can go further only by means of devotion and love, by a

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to have meaning for modern man, who has been occupied in developing
fact, entered a realm where it is meaningless to speak of subjective and
distinction between subjective and objective loses meaning. We stand
and weave. To begin with, he perceives these Beings by means of
By means of
For what we see of the stars by means of our senses — that too

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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what it meant to Paul — who to a certain extent had been
means that it was actually possible for humanity to be taught by
mean? If Ahriman were to succeed in imbuing man with the
by which means they could speak to us again. And this way was
no means identical with simple forms of mysticism. To argue that
this means: when man is thinking he does not truly live; he pours

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If we take the meaning of
what was meant by medieval scholastic Realism. It was not called
lamb into the wolf! If an idea really means nothing at all, the wolf
any more about such ideas) is a Nominalist in the widest meaning.
as mere names, no meaning whatever as far as reality is
the following instance, and you will see that the entire meaning is
lost as soon as Realism loses its meaning.
lost its meaning, it became possible to speak of atheism within the
Golgotha it finds the central point and meaning of the entire history
Theosophists — I mean the members of the Theosophical Society

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Is there a prophetic meaning in the terrible torch of war burning
above our heads, does this have a prophetic meaning for the whole
somewhat into the meaning of these words. If this is the task of the
real meaning The man in whose veins flows the blood of his ancestors.
means to us should enable us to have an open spiritual eye for such
these legends in history have a meaning far deeper than any
meaning, a truly prophetic meaning, for they indicate something that
“Indeed, what can man mean to you? — He takes you by the

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sense and meaning which I have often explained to you: namely, that
longer knew what was meant by the expression “Word”.
that this primeval knowledge had any meaning at all, and they
in our modern meaning. For this arises towards the middle of the 15th
and by “several” I mean many — particularly those
paths which are meant to lead into spiritual science.

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socialise with anti-social forces. For socialising means
must be by means of the forces that are actually present in
have been describing it — I mean, if it were like that
is true?” — they mean, “What is true
them. But they were not endeavouring through these means to
full meaning of this, it is, I need hardly say, necessary to
means a proof that the impulse of freedom itself is really
materialistic man of our day, the “Nation” meant
Müller used the simile, he can only have meant, that he,

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— things that were not by any means a secret to the
means attribute to ourselves in ordinary life. We see it as
meaning to do so.
my meaning at this point to be quite fully understood. No
means that they describe as foolishness and as absurdity all

Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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mean. For each has only one meaning. The fact that the
form these things always have the same meaning. There is
That means:

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a past by no means far distant surrounded this most
means of developing the perceptions, experiences and
speaking to the heart by means of symbols: ‘Where you
artistically that hardly more than the intellectual meaning

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meaning as are our dream pictures to-day but were related to
meaning of it all did not wholly penetrate his consciousness. The
hand, a meaningless thirst for existence on the other. And so
suffering.” Buddha then sought the means whereby man could be
ideas have arisen as to the meaning of “Nirvana.” One who
earthly wisdom. Treading this path a man will find the means
the world of sense and co-ordinate my impressions by means of
earthly lives, he can resolve to use them as a means whereby the goal
Christ Event could be repeated is as meaningless as to suppose there
endless repetition to the belief that there is meaning and an
true meaning of human life may again and again be implanted in him,
strives upwards, for a yet deeper meaning lies in the striving of
alone give meaning to man's earthly life.
impulses, perceptions and feelings as give meaning to human
knowledge.” In the Kantian sense resignation means that man is

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and moral life — I mean the intellectualism obtaining in our
people here or there have come to this conclusion does not mean that
meaning of life will arise.
mean if Spiritual Science succeeds in transforming science in this
what it would mean if the care of health were taken in hand by the
teacher who is continually giving instruction and indicating means
teacher realise what it means if he helps the child to speak
sense this means: If the body is healthy, if it has been made healthy
meaning of the phrase is this: a healthy body bears witness to the
based on practical experience this simply means that they interpret
“physical” means — by healing the organs of man,
sleep — I mean processes that ought not to take place, because
what it would mean to explain the right proportions of sleeping and

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Nor is this confined by any means to the organs of speech and song
here meant. For when the human being brings forth a musical note in
though by earthly means — of that which we experienced in the
earth can only speak and sing by means of the air, we have in the

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evolution was not by any means the same as in the epoch crowned by

Title: Lecture: Concerning Electricity
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final scene of my first Mystery Play can show you what it means to

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this means that the angel was sent by the Christ. He states
hidden meaning. This would indeed be superstition, and Harnack could
theology means “wisdom of God,” but it is just this
consider what all of this means. It is indeed tremendously important
greatest, most meaningful human need of our time. Until now, human
says, “I think I see a light yonder” (which means,
mean.

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‘where’ we feel the prick-meaning
is meaningless merely to speak of the contrast between the
and bodily. It is meaningless, for if we wish to discover the
the modern consciousness. Hence even the most well-meaning people
— well-meaning for the conception of spiritual things

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and so on. So that it is by no means an easy task for the geologist
of the. Earth — by no means thought of as fiery — made it
And what, with the means elucidated, in the lectures given so far, has
which were the means whereby forces of spirit-and-soul worked upon
processes of destruction in the first place — are the means of
spirit and meaning of this exposition, we shall in no wise be taken

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carry out by means of our will, even then experience lies at the back
thought as a means of building up his body. ... Particularly
quite meaninglessly, purely out of the activity of the physical body,
these movements so that they become imbued with meaning. Thus there
sense-qualities, and that the faculty by means of which I am able to
more to say later. The point is that it is only by means of thought
penetrate behind the tapestry of the senses by means of this power?
that we cannot understand it by means of purely mathematically
constructed thoughts. What we are able to understand by means
be fathomed by means of pictures. You must take up a position
To live according to the laws of logic means that each concept is
induced by the one which went before, it means that one passes
make this clearer by means of a simple illustration. For instance,
Law by means of the senses. We understand it with our whole human being.
The present we comprehend by means of imaginations.
to understand and experience these pictures by means of inner effort
matter coming from the rest of the organism. By means of his thinking
concerned. When we develop Imagination by special means we are

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work in Munich, it is inevitable — if by means of all that may
understand Christianity by means of Eastern conceptions. These only

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or, in the same way as the physical body does for its means of
cosmic appearance of ancient Saturn. This means that a man who wishes
of time endeavour to seek the origin of things by means of
ideas than anything else: space ceases! It no longer has any meaning
or ‘left,’ these have no longer any meaning. In this
Saturn.’ ‘Before’ has no longer any meaning because
nonsense. Just think what it would mean if we were to say,
intellectually. And you must comprehend what is meant when some

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Cherubim. The condition by means of which the Beings of Time
conception of what it means; to be ready to sacrifice what he has,
what is meant here. And if a man should make a sacrifice, not because
everyday thought work out whatever self-will has created by means of
means the manifestation of the bestowing virtue of the macrocosm, and
was meant by describing ancient Sun as consisting of air. We now know
might be told concerning the meaning of the Earth would become clear
to him. He would understand that the Earth had a meaning, and he

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means of which anything is described must necessarily be drawn from
means universal. We have seen that the deepest being of all
mind to bring something about in the world by means of inner
means, we repress and control our wishes and desires; (this is only a
gradually to grasp, by means of meditation, what is comprised in the
itself. Thus when we say that Time is continuous it means that when
subject to Time, which means that all arising and passing away which
as it were, we have before us the meaning of the earth, the Christ.
While trying to penetrate the whole meaning of the picture, let us
teach him the meaning of the earth. The incident represented in the
believes the evolution of the world is accomplished by means of
the artistic ways and means to convey to the consciousness and

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regarding them which only have meaning in our ordinary life. It will
is here meant.
these conditions by means of thought, we must once again turn to
overcome one-sidedness of longing by means of variety, by change and
unable to grasp the meaning of life, just because he was an
very clearly that he could not possibly gain the victory by means of

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comprehend by means of our own souls. Now if we are really to
service, as the flowing sacrifice in the world, it means precisely
exactly like a man who cannot be contented within himself by means of
attain its real meaning, if it could be offered up.
actual meaning, their great Cosmic purpose.’ Certain Beings
it had a meaning. The physical body without the etheric body, astral
body, and Ego has no meaning, it is purposeless; at that moment it is
meaning in the spiritual; and as soon as it enters Maya it encounters
condensed out of that. The death of an animal means the casting off a
death has only meaning for the Earth-existence of man.
higher than man, is there any meaning in speaking of actual death.
said, be renewed for an ample multitude of mankind. This means, that
becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher faculties

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that was created hundreds of years ago. Events which meant
bloodshed are really not necessary as a means of helping them
vengeance, the inner meaning of which is quite clear, though
have meant that the powers of destruction were paid off! If
real feeling for what it means when a miserable individual of
know what I mean. You know I am referring to the Papal Note
asking themselves the question: What does it really mean that
statements it contains, but to know that a statement can mean

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development of humanity. Just think what it means —
means we are challenged to do everything we can to encourage
27 years old even if they live to be 100. It means they have
To get oneself elected to parliament means one has committed

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‘the present time’ I mean quite a long period of
What do I mean
illusions come in all shades of meaning; they are coloured by
can they gain an idea of what Jesus Christ meant when he
meantime? We have some time to spare. Tell me about your
meaningless. But people are able to imagine they could be
little. This loosening should only be a means of gaining
attitude. The specific constellation created by the war means
does not harm anyone's esoteric development. Ways and means

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it means to enter into iron necessity. Looking for an easy
necessarily mean that much will have to change in the frame
means that when the pendulum travels this distance, the
anthroposophy — which is the only means of finding the
meant. Ricarda Huch says: People who did not even have what

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mean.
means that they continue in something which is below them.
it only has come to have meaning in more recent times and it
would have been meaningless at the time of the ancient Greeks

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power, or the gift, of the intellect. What does this mean? It
means that we are able to form ideas. For the moment we need
was not meant to be as visible as it is now. These things
human evolution on earth. The rest of the body was meant to
has turned into chaotic dreams as a means of entering into
joke. The point is that some ideas mean one thing in the
sense. He means something quite different, something he keeps

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feelings, and this meant that he did not really understand
raised, and this is what should be done. It means that due

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— which in our time means the most abstract —
saying to you since my return. It does, however, mean that
are able to make comparisons certainly does not mean that we
correct. Well, in saying that it is correct I meant that it
mean something quite specific. But far be it from me to mean

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means they are no longer to be found in the heavens, to use
realms, which means that the late 1870s were a particular
use physical means to put protein on a wall where it will
their heads; they are meant as a challenge to see things
only possible to say what I mean by using an analogy.
philosopher Soloviev it is possible to express by means of an

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atmosphere of spiritual life. This means, however, that
consider anything which is ‘real’, meaning anything which can
others were not lifted until 1835. This means that until then
it is, of course, possible to find ways and means of speaking

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will know what I mean.
Adolf Keller's article, which is decent and well-meant and

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means to say that a battle raged for decades in the spiritual
have meant that people would have become spiritual very
take effect. This means that from the last third of the
blood principle meant progress for as long as it was under

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literature — here I mean not only fine literature
the progressive spirits of light guided humanity by means of
were on earth. From the 1840s onwards these souls were meant
mediums, that is essentially by physical means. If this had
point in time. It would have been the means by which people's
it would have been the only means if the spirits of darkness
physical means. I have told you that the spirits of darkness
to discover their deeper meaning in Part 2 of
as something different from what they actually mean to
though in the eighteenth century this meant something
different from what it means today. Goethe's viewpoint

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deflected from the truth. Just think what it really meant
to go against it. What I mean is this: never before in the
‘history’ will only have real meaning when
It means that
present-day life. It means, of course, that initially you

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from this point of view, to characterize what is meant by the fall of
preparation for the fact that earthly humanity is meant to acquire a
‘sinful’ meaning separated from the divine spiritual
spiritual raising of man mean? It means nothing other, in fact, than
means that we must not limit our knowledge merely to the earth, for,
that is only meant, in fact, to satisfy a voluptuousness of soul that
that only our opponents, who mean to tell untruths, can still call
Renewal, which is not meant to be sectarian, it is not gripped right

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their brilliant results arose (I do not mean to contest them to-day),
meaning of the word. We do not even know what the Greek meant by
Cosmos does not only mean Universe — it means Nature's order of
Plato's definitions we can feel what the Greek meant when he wished
means more or less the following: “Here on earth man is not at
say that “beautiful” meant for the Greek that which reveals
its heavenly meaning. In this way the idea of beauty becomes concrete.
an important book on aesthetics (important, in the meaning of our
by his own forelock. What is the meaning of the expression “the
what is meant by “the idea.” If the thought-corpse that
Greek sense. The Greek definition has a meaning and gives us
(excellent, in the meaning of our present age) — they write of
the need of taking a true Christology seriously. This means that
humanity will be unable to raise itself. This means that it will not

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really mean? Which are the most important parables in which Christ Jesus
approach of winter means an awakening of the divine forces, a union
ancient consciousness placed in midwinter the festival that was meant
gives it meaning, and this for the sake of material, industrial
ought to preserve if men were to forget the essential meaning of such
had meaning for ancient clairvoyant consciousness have been handed down
Aries was full of meaning and living content to the men of old; the

Title: Lecture: The Spirit in the Realm of Plants
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and animal realms, etc. To enter into the means by which the spirit
suggest to you what is significant here first by means of a
themselves belong to our earth. This means that we may not look at
earth's center if we extended them to that point. This means
means the digestion of the soul by the body. Novalis is always
order to look at itself, to feel, to sense, to think by means of this
means that we would have to look exactly into the structure of the
plant does not see by means of them; rather the sun being looks
open their blossoms at 5 a.m. and at no other time. This means that

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impressed on nearly all human activities. I mean, what we
Heine greeted Jesus. I mean the character of bourgeois
people; for only by such means could they be ruled and
are voiced by an individual like Dupuis, it only means that
the intellectual sciences generally. I mean for instance all
had their good meaning and their real value in those olden
I mean, over against the higher spiritual Powers) to keep
glitter means than by knowledge. The leaders of the ancient
this means can we drive out what works in the direction I
part, humanity to-day has not an inkling of what it means to

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deep meaning of the Christmas Festival. It is to remind us
yet deeper meaning in it, that the time between Christmas and
by no means all of equal intensity; some of them work more
you will ask, is there any sense or meaning in this? Is it
a meaning in it — important, significant, immense.
gives an answer to this question (I mean, however, the
result, — if only humanity finds ways and means to
fulfilment in it, — I mean the word of the poet who

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something quite different is meant by ‘the
times, I mean, before the arrival of the Mystery of Golgotha,
different means, it is true — but a true science none
means an abstract knowledge which they had, of man's relation
fraught with meaning, though for the clever people of to-day,
no doubt, it may seem nonsense. It meant that among all other
Meanwhile the Science of to-day, which concerns itself
also means the building of it bridge, once more, between
celestial machinery. Meanwhile, all that takes place on Earth
means simple. Suppose for a moment that Christianity had not
the Spirit, to-day, is nowhere contained in the words. I mean
— this means to go beyond the words to the Spirit. This

Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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this in the fullest meaning of the word only when super-sensible
most felt darkly. This enigmatic something which I mean and which
people believe that it is well meant … they nevertheless
meaning of a modern natural scientist. He does not bring any
contemplates the external physical world in the meaning of
it has a real meaning to say: Man belongs to the development of
in the meaning of modern civilization, we find on the one hand
the natural-scientific demands we now consider, in the meaning of
the anthroposophical meaning, if we approach many other sayings
development of the earth only acquires its true meaning through
spiritual science in the meaning of Anthroposophy strives above
spiritual science in the meaning of Anthroposophy they do not

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in our modern meaning, but they perceived instead the ruling
anthroposophical spiritual science which is meant here speaks of
spiritual science as it is meant here because, as a human being
in the full meaning of the word, he is predisposed to truth, not
comparison may help to explain what I really mean. Take, for
(please do not misunderstand the comparison; it is not meant to

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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means, who goes to a more solid concert or to a lecture, not late
sensory perception. Imaginative knowledge shows us what it means
shows us what it means to dive down into the physical organism
mean to be irreverent, nor do I destroy any ideal through lack of
meaning, should not only strengthen his thinking through
will. The ordinary will in life acquires a meaning when directed

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meant to express in the language of the East the characteristic
meaning. The great impression made upon mankind by the star
deeper meaning which is to be revealed by the Mystery of Golgotha
meaning lies in the words of Angelus Silesius: “Though

Title: Lecture: Man and Cosmos
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not; even in other cases, one does not look so much at the means
meaning of human self-knowledge. In physical life this also

Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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of the earth, and it obtained its meaning through the conceptions
united with a divine spiritual weaving. History has a meaning. If
history acquires a meaning. Whereas the conception of the end of
which gives a meaning to history. The significant, peculiar fact
external Nature as an illusion, history began to lose its meaning
appears to have no meaning. Let us realize this.
courage to admit that history has no meaning; it is meaningless,
of meaning in history, when one sets out from occidental beliefs.
meaning in history. We should be filled with the longing to
rediscover the meaning of history in some other way. The world of
Nature, particularly in Goethe's meaning, if we give up
most intimate means of an education towards freedom.
ceased to have a meaning, because beginning and end were lost; it
obtains a new meaning when it receives it anew from the centre.
more acquires a meaning, whereas otherwise it is an illusory
with the Mystery of Golgotha and the meaning of the historical
world's beginning and end, this no longer means what it meant in

Title: Lecture: Knowledge Pervaded with the Experience of Love
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spontaneous generation in the meaning of modern scientific
(by this one meant the Father-God), and the Logos was God.”
spirituality, and this style of art, which was meant to exercise
— I mean, the leading opponents — know that truth as
would soon discover ways and means of ousting the foe. Observe

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saying and its deep cosmic meaning?’ That deep cosmic meaning
means into the line of generations, into the original family from
from a deeper point of view. A deep meaning lies in the fact that in
shell. Have these thoughts of the wisdom of Providence any meaning in
the play of endless atoms, has the life of man any meaning in
for a meaning to the earth. That it is denied to humanity to seek in
a spiritual way for a meaning!
meaning. Then it is as Haeckel says. And at that it has to remain,
that is, that this life has no meaning! That is his opinion. A
‘Just because no meaning can be found in the external, it must
as he does to-day to deny all meaning to Earth-existence. It may seem
as such has no meaning. But if we grasp it in our way — as we
external world, it is impossible for them to find a real true meaning
sense and meaning as to a meaning for the Earth, just as in any other
of which Haeckel is a follower may lead either to sense and meaning
or to nonsense and lack of meaning, so, in spite of its greatness, it
man can reach by means of science.
to birth of that which in the thoughts of man gives a meaning to the
Earth, that meaning which became the objective of the Earth when the
men which has a meaning for all times, whether in such times as men
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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that unite us with these words and their deep and universal meaning
— that deep meaning for the world experienced by countless
came by some means into the sequence of generations that were the
deeper foundations. There is a deep meaning in the fact that in
this meaning holds good for the present as well. It will become clear
the portal of death and follows this path in reverse. This means
(this is meant in a specific sense). Humanity ought to become
to present a deep meaning it was considered important that those
thoughts of divine providence, have any meaning? Must not just such
does human life really provide a meaning for earthly
book is also a Christmas book! It is a Christmas book meant very
seek in a spiritual way for the earth's meaning, that humanity is
prohibited from looking for a meaning of the earth in a spiritual
this meaning. This is what happens to Haeckel. Then the situation
must remain with the recognition that this life has no meaning.
This is what Haeckel means. Looking for meaning is not permitted!
we look only at these events and no meaning results, then precisely
because of this we must seek for this meaning in a deeper way. It
for and believe in meaning by looking just at what is going on now
person could come and say that precisely because no meaning can be
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questions arise in Spiritual Science, among them that of the meaning
Science, we find that there is a very deep meaning behind the fact
that of Buddha, which would mean that he lived some five or six
meaningless reminiscences of the outer world. Interwoven though they
means of inner contemplation, in your own soul life.” On the
To get at some conception of the meaning of
Amschaspands. There are twelve pairs of nerves and by their means man
understands their meaning as I speak them will experience much evil

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the way in which we grasp the outer world by means of our senses and
world of dreams. But whereas our dreams are chaotic and meaningless
descended upon Isis from Osiris, who had meanwhile passed into
be used as a means whereby we are led into the whole world of feeling
Egyptian this path was a means whereby man could learn to know the
Isis-power. Yet there is a means whereby he can pierce through to

Title: Lecture: On the Nature of Butterflies
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butterfly does not start life as such, but evolves by means of a very
or other such means. The matter, however, is not so simple. One has to
Jahve had the same meaning as “I.” In old Hebrew, Jahve
butterflies by means of light. The ego thinks thoughts and these
moves in the water by means of a tail. Then his blood vessels extend
the blood has already evolved a heart, these feet move by means of the
extracts means of nourishment from Nature, but no longer understands its
China. Of course this means that ideas have solidified in his head.

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earthly life that we do not know the interior of our body by means of
life through love. For love discloses its meaning when with his ego and
listen to speech without taking the meaning into consideration, whoever
essential glory of art: it takes us by simple means into the spiritual
know what I mean — what mere colour-grinding implies, science

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external world by means of observation and experiment, aided by the
want to restrict ourselves to those means of attaining knowledge which
We fully accept the fact that with such means of acquiring knowledge as
fathomed. We fully accept the fact that as far as these means go we can
with the ordinary means of attaining knowledge, it is impossible to
open-minded person can, with no more than the ordinary means of
ordinary means of knowledge, must, on the other hand, endeavour to find
other means of knowing the world. And, as you are aware, such have been
Inspired, Intuitive Knowledge. By means of these special ways of knowing
ordinary means of knowledge clarity can never be attained.
man cannot, with ordinary means of knowledge, tell what his soul does
farther into these experiences. Do not suppose that we can by this means
about dreams in daytime consciousness with the ordinary means of
we have a knowledge about sleep itself by some other means. He who truly
physical. The means of knowledge that hold good today admit only a
is quite possible to recognise by means of ordinary natural science
that they may be continually carrying the means of nourishment to the

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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thought that the soul originated by means of spontaneous
Natural Science as a means of proving its truth. What
do not, however, mean to assert that careful thought and
nature in a matter-of-course way, and by means of trivialities,
and that by its means, Darwin has thrown light into dark regions
means of their intrinsic forces have clustered into balls in
knowledge of nature is by no means sufficient to conceive how
and reflections of later days have, however, by no means
lower kind of souls? We search in nature for conditions by means
of the soul, or of reincarnation, and miracle is his means of
if we meant that the most eminent among the new believers were
explain his meaning accurately. For that reason I will now

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maintain the breathing by artificial means, we might quite
That means that life would continue, even if the brain were
means of it consciousness, the organs concerned becomes
this means of intervening in life. If we are able to instil
artificial means and should man at the same time lead a life

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for this is by no means clear to the average person. And for
abandoned it. By what means do they accomplish this? And what

Title: Lecture: 'Goethe's Faust' from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
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apply the means and methods calculated to develop these
means of entry. But Goethe never was identical with Faust in
enormously profound meaning for the soul. Before the soul
the true spiritual perception. This does not mean that man
against Goethe to say that here he means the female sex. He

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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it, must lie very close to our hearts: I mean the
spiritual light or means of light to the dawn of the great
thought, deepening and penetrating into the meaning of
is meant to express the highest human striving, yet at the same
Into his arms by means of magic craft.
have a meaning where a contrary power comes into play. But the
powerlessness! For it would be meaningless to approach the

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people, their sole means of participating in Spiritual and
clearly to man, and learn from there the meaning of the
investigation of the human body, carried out by means of his
of demonstrating more clearly the most acceptable meaning of
heart. The meaning of this statement is hidden. We can only
it is he really meant. Thus, when he speaks of nerves, we
must not ascribe to the word the meaning given to it to-day,
nor the meaning it had even in the time of Galileo and
Aristotle speaks of the nervous system, he means the Etheric
Body of man. By which we mean the super-sensible part of human
currents he did not mean nerves in our sense of the word, but
he meant super-sensible currents, super-sensible forces. These
learnt by means of Spiritual Science about the super-sensible
Current. They thought he meant the physical nerves, so they
to penetrate to the real meaning of the works of Aristotle.
means that it was from the Spiritual forces of Michelangelo
the letters of a book, and to arrive at the author's meaning,
wish to know the, true meaning of the wonderful
manifestations which Nature unfolds, by means of human
a discovery had been made in Holland, by means of which it
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in our day, — I mean mathematics, although even here we
taken seriously as a philosopher, by philosophers. I mean
— unless the acquaintance with theosophy has meantime
see what I mean. You will see that the latter contains an
meaning of the word theosophy, or spiritual science, when it

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however, employs as means of investigation, what he can
forsaken by all the ordinary means of help. One will then
lazy in applying expressly a right meaning and understanding

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to bear on the vocational life. Frequently, though by no means
outlining for the ‘Karma of vocation’ are by no means
such a man need not by any means have the corresponding vocation.
another thing as well. It is by no means easy rightly to
she has married meantime according to her station. For her
forgotten has by no means disappeared. The soul is not
means: all that is rooted in life, coming, so to speak, from flesh
conclusions on these matters. Meanwhile these people are quite
meaning this wrecking of a plan in life may have for the human
soul's life’ (though, as I said, the expression is by no means
from literature to explain what I now mean.
this or that human being. (I mean now, not in a

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really meant. In this way many a misunderstanding can
What does it mean when a biographer — in this case it is
not otherwise — not by any means.
given a more modern form. Meanwhile, however, while he
system. Now he is a first-class lawyer. What does it mean to be
means, to devise all manner of clever points, completely to
conducted brilliantly), — meanwhile, he has not given the
able to get hold of them properly. And many means have been

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At the portals of the old world (meaning Europe) there stands
— our time must concentrate on the Reality (meaning
choosing the right places and using the right words, (I mean
purpose. One only need know the ways and means that are
applied the word with this meaning. Into the midst of
exposed, once people see things clearly. I mean the connection
especially if you also know the ways and means of joining
commonly imagined. I mean the stream proceeding from certain

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God? Are they conceiving what the word God must mean when the
meaning through the Mystery of Golgotha. Indeed we have already
and more exactly, to recognise its full meaning. To-day men
by means of the machine, and that is all. But to give oneself
— fear of the void. They meant something quite objective.
They meant that space itself always wants to be filled with
one can sensibly imagine that this is meant to imply that the
to be abolished, for the steam-engine is by no means the most
are not meant to be abolished. We cannot be reactionary or

Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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“Ex deo nascimur,” he meant the human
acquire by means of his physical body — that he entombs
achieving by means of this burial in the body capacities which
humanity in its true meaning only when we know that truths are
united, which is to find its deeper meaning in the new

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this legend there is profound meaning. We are to
symbolic meaning of these three kings, these three wise men of
for him to understand in ideas the meaning of this profound
inner meaning. What is the meaning of the Cross? He knows that
at a place where the profoundest meaning of Christianity is
The meaning of the symbol clearly showing.
kings, and with its inner meaning. This star has an enduring
meaning. The Brothers have experienced life's joys and sorrows;
but that does not mean that their work is at an end; the
This is the meaning of Goethe's lines:
at Christmas time. This is the meaning underlying the words in
the spiritual power of the sun, he must learn the meaning of
the Christmas festival. For those who do not know this meaning

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
what is meant by the term Folk Soul or Folk Spirit which one hears
consciousness and, by means of his ego, transmute his astral body
so on. The earlier Spirits, meanwhile, continue their own

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
should by no means have exhausted the characteristics of a people if

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
world. Just as man sees colours and hears sounds by means of his
task; the Angels are nearing the end of this task but are by no means

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
the Earth-evolution, to bestow upon man, who is by no means mature
because people might take offence. By no means everything can be
associated with these processes by means of which all these higher

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
propose to illustrate this by means of an example.
thought, feeling and will within himself by means of which he himself
special way by means of a geometrical figure. Amongst geometrical

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
Hierarchies. These things are by no means so simple, and in order to
of external life were imbued with deeper meaning. They perceived the

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
post-Atlantean epoch. Meanwhile the other peoples of Asia who were

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
of how the soul, the inner life, was gradually developed by means of
remarkable way. It was described as a Divine Initiation. The means by
cosmic element of the air, saw how he formed speech by means of his

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
spiritual world by means of the old clairvoyance still prevalent at
then, was the destiny of these Indian peoples meanwhile? For the

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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
again at a time when man could perceive by means of the forces of the
that this conception can be meaningful only if one accepts the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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various folk-souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern
The Festivals and their Meaning. Vol. 1. Christmas.
the mind and soul of this Northern people by means of these symbols
again in an epoch when other forces meanwhile have been at work upon
which meanwhile had been developed on the physical plane. Freyr was
can be investigated by means of spiritual perception. To us the
will realize how right I am. Avail yourselves of every means at your
means at your command on the physical plane. I am convinced that the

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organised this year is meant to be a direct expression of this
is in accordance with spiritual science, in the literal meaning of
meanwhile
are thirsting for as a means for the spiritual deepening of their
reconstruction of the Mystery of Eleusis, represents the means
means easy sacrificial task actually experiences something spiritual.
meaningful, and that the Baroness should feel this is among the
meaning of the three figures Philia, Astrid and Luna can only partly
subtlety of meaning expressed by such figures as Luna, Astrid and
us — that Spiritual Science is not meant to be something
the German word meaning miracle; when we experience some premonition

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what does it mean, when we apply what Greek mythology and the Mystery
time no laws in the later meaning of the term, there were no
profoundly meaningful figure is regarded in our materialistic age is
we know once more what they mean! When the soul steeped in Spiritual
him. There we are saying in a modern way what the Greek meant when he
meaning of the development of our European civilisation. Going back
must become ever higher, and that it would mean stagnation if in our
meaning in the old Rosicrucian formula about God the Son, who once,

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opposite of soul or spirit. Now what the man of today means by
to eliminate altogether what you mean today by the term
for you. For these relationships can only be expressed by means of a
shaded by means of horizontal lines. If you compare the size of the
this script means to read the signs of the great world-wonders, which

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lecture will have enabled you to see what I meant when I said at the
meant these Angelic Beings, and the ancient Egyptians who were
anew in human evolution, having meanwhile reached a greater degree of
events took place. That means that as time went on Christ brought
epoch, and it is because of this, because they have meanwhile been
‘Christ-ened’, have meanwhile absorbed the Christ
the Indian epoch, have also meanwhile absorbed the Christ Impulse,
Christ Impulse means in human evolution.
mean Lucifer. Let us consider these two individualities, Christ on
in mind for it shows that the whole meaning of the Mystery of

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antiquity, and the profound meaning of which will only gradually be
powerful, in these words, and they can only mean that union with
Jahve, as the extract of the Elohim, means life itself to the ancient
union with any other hierarchy would mean turning away from this
progressive principle of human evolution, would mean death to human
substance of the Elohim, or of Jahve, meant to die.
meaning. For a modern consciousness it is somewhat difficult to come
that he saw through his eyes by means of his physical body, but he
— meaning by that the satisfaction of hunger and other lower

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because there is so much unclear thinking, that what I mean by the
as he now is. That could only happen by means of clairvoyant
consciousness. What then does it mean that Semele was to see Zeus for
a moment as he now is? It simply means that Semele became for a

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everything which had to do with the upper gods exoterically, by means
attain!’ In terms of Spiritual Science that means that no
knowledge which man can acquire by exoteric means will lead to any
‘Is there really any means of penetrating into what is
Ages; it means no more than to have been born in Germany, but in this
are changed, that they even take on a completely opposite meaning,
What was the meaning
instructed by the gods, it was the truth. They meant that men who
means beautiful — or at any rate they can only be regarded as
realises the profound meaning of Greek history if one enters into
the meaning of Greek spiritual culture in the sense of ancient Greek

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then is meant by the expression ‘ordeals of the soul’?
at the meaning of what he reads, as he would do whatever he was
into the meaning and the true significance of Spiritual Science, we
and the heart mean to us? They are the ether-world condensed, they
state in which they entered it. All that man has meanwhile developed
whose range is properly speaking more comprehensive, I mean those who
soul: it thinks. What does it mean, to think? It means to bring

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understand fully what is meant by ‘Wonders of the World,
continued to develop, since it was by no means the solid lump of
up the human being and which have a profound meaning for human
being no longer at his disposal. But if by means of the esotericism
is what is meant by the halo, that is what becomes visible to the
means of occultism. Let me draw your attention to the fact that in
would mean the death of true spiritual life. We have to recognise

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materialistic phase. And unless meanwhile man has become much more
to undergo this ordeal if it wants to experience the meaning and the
‘If a healthy soul with the means available to modern knowledge
life — then it is seen that, by means of systematic activity
is only meant to give a slight indication of how it is possible to
light and warmth themselves by means of atoms or atomic vibrations;
you all know that I do not mean anything that the orthodox creeds
Willing thoughts — but that means divine Beings, spiritual
the widths of space as thoughts filled with will, which means real
meant by this. What he really meant will not be grasped until it is
confidence that the human soul is meant to bear aloft her divine self

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first time what it means that the being of man should appear again and
of humanity. Spiritual Science is seeking the meaning and purpose in the
That could only be if one were able by some means to place his pictures
living in Raphael's soul, — I mean the Sistine Madonna which is
was meant to signify. Then during the age of the Emperors, when Rome
soil of Italy, I mean, Christendom. The mission of this inward deepening
human soul that had meantime passed through a new phase. It was buried,
of the feeling living in the soul of a man of our own time, — I mean

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immediately the fact shines forth, that by means of these national epics
years ago, — I mean Hermann Grimm, the nephew of the great philologist
at all understand the sense, and spirit, and meaning of it all unless
to ask ourselves: — What do they actually mean?
mean to man. Thus Hermann Grimm always spoke of the creative imagination
acquired, won, the treasure of the Niebelungen, By means of what he
mortal. By means of his special powers which he has as the possessor
us that in Brunnhilde is meant something which belongs directly to the
And thus by means of Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy, we are led
as if we meant to say that before this time men acted from such instincts
within him. Man felt himself to be a vessel by means of which super-sensible
the meaning of the progressive evolution of humanity. Man would have
does the human soul by means of the clairvoyant forces see into the
— to call forth the clairvoyant condition by means of spiritual
world not merely by means of the external senses, but by means of something
by means of which man can make the spiritual, super-sensible inner being,
or ether body. This etheric body lies within our sense body. By means
longer see by means of our physical body, we no longer hear through
our physical body, we no longer think by means of the brain connected
body. And then we have a still finer body, by means of which we reach
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this means that strong forces play in on the Earth as a whole.
sulphur, mercury and salt; while the arrival of deep winter means
salt-crust, the Moon-forces are particularly active — I mean
of Mary is like a radiant star, which means that her whole

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The Festivals and their Meaning, Vol. I: Christmas.

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time of Michaelmas — means for Nature, must experience in
Its meaning first dawns upon the mind when as human beings we learn

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Think what they mean:
on the nourishment to Raphael, and it then becomes a means of
on further there, they become not only a means of quenching hunger
can act as a means of healing, in this or that case. The healing
tremendous impression on him. But the meaning I have been able to

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means very far distant, when countless human hearts turned to
theosophists, were by no means highly educated people. The
restored to words a living meaning lets us recognise him as a
nourished? It would certainly mean starvation if scientific
is forthcoming from Spiritual Science as to what is meant when

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as it is meant. I ask explicitly that what I have to say
better understand what I mean by “overcoming

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dear friends, to understand this in its true meaning and
read by Beings in the higher worlds. This was a means of
many meaningless passages in this book there is also the
does it mean — that this Spirit had lived in conditions
earth? In theosophical parlance it means that this Spirit was
not always taken in their deep and essential meaning. When they
effective means of making a stir among the people! He goes so

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took place around Christ Jesus are not by any means all
it, is by no means without resemblance to the ancient Attis
“Essin” or “Assin.” This means
happened one day ... I know what it means to narrate these

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have for mankind? All this is, in reality, meaningless. If
teacher. Jesus knew well what the aged Hillel had meant for
ears to hear. It is useless and meaningless to speak of these
that men on the earth below must nourish themselves by means of
which they all shared, and what it meant to them when after the
the people ... and the one who spoke was by no means always
experience what it means to turn stones into bread. For Ahriman
worked, there would have been no spiritual means of discovering
there was one who employed the means which Christ did not
was working could He be seized. The only means of recognising
also come to light. What I have tried to do by means of the
Gospel means. It means that together with the truth known to us

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sense be learned. It is not easy to describe what its meaning for us
meanings of the word are rather different. (Tr.)] A Philistine
from the past. To become wise means that one develops what has been
life means to abandon a number of forces to Lucifer; and these are
others. That is what all-comprehending Justice means. To live in
Wisdom means to derive the best fruits from the forces we have stored

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quite different. I mean the function it long ago assumed
means of arranging phenomena so that through their own
great. It means that we must look upon thinking as something
be a genuine means of cognition was later perhaps used only to
knowledge. I do not, of course, mean that it is right to
transformation of thinking by other means, so that through this
and other books of mine. By these means, one gradually succeeds
the man. How this works I can only suggest by means of an
penetrate with exactitude into the meaning of human
by means of diagrams, but the diagrams are not essential to the

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looking from within, we ourselves, by means of ordinary
but that we cannot deal with the soul by means of ordinary
sublime.” He means the highest form of the sublime. This
which, by means of an advanced psychology, penetrates to the
means to the community of souls, the sympathy and togetherness

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many people; but it is not meant to be banal. No one can say: I
nature as a whole in the course of historical times. I mean
meant something different from what we mean when we speak of a
meanwhile, we still have the remnants of that early unity
spirituality in Goethe's sense. This is what he meant by

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through the world! How we regard it by means of abstract
is “ideology,” by which is meant “idealistic
spiritual world, as I have described; that we can see by means
meaning of the world had to become “ideology” for
meaning. At the same time, it must be able to perceive that
meaning in its own way, just as the Orient did.

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mean the endeavour to draw from the soul dormant powers of
When we examine our own reaction to nature by means of this
provides a means of systematizing external phenomena, our
move into the super-sensible world by means of higher knowledge.
psychic health by means of preparatory exercises that emphasize
states of the earth by means of this world-memory, how can we
and rotating the drop of oil by means of the pin. Individual

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have made already. I do not mean by this that we can say anything
really mean something different; they mean man's feeling that
to create social configurations by means of the
People need only look, for example, at what capital meant in
it means in England itself. In England, simply because of the
not at all what people mean by any particular concept; it is a
When we contemplate human life itself by means of a spiritual
mean in this way: quite certainly, there are on the staff of
But what people often mean by it is simply that they will

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they had to ascertain from the spiritual worlds by means of the

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the perspectives of Europe. I mean Plato.
but in a geometrical progression. Meanwhile, the particular
Aristotle means by pity and fear more extensively than it is
usually interpreted. He means in fact, as we come to perceive,
really means that, in looking at tragedy, man enters a world of
existence. This is not what it meant for the Greeks; it meant
ensues, ways and means of integrating this whole man, but also
body, soul and spirit really means. This is what a social order
This will also mean, however, that everything connected with

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marketing of the finished product and the means by which it
— into the great modern means of acquiring knowledge of
we mean only the psyche obscured, so to speak, by our own
orders by means of the spirit was definitely there in those

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social problem are not by any means located where they
do not mean to suggest that today we must still attach any
foundations of law had been lost also meant, therefore, that it
that a life may come about that shall infuse the meaning of
People tried increasingly to run their lives by means of
capital is represented by the means of production. The
of no importance to argue about the way in which the means of
This will mean much for the solution of the social problem, and

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our blood, into all the blood-vessels. This means, if you could follow
of the Tree of Life meant this inner gratification. That might
society would have no meaning) develop a certain brotherliness and unity
Thus the inner meaning
of the life-principle of our building, and the inner meaning of the
thus the inner meaning of the co-operation in the forms of our building

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blood, and into all the blood vessels. This means that if you could
Life. Eating of the Tree of Life would mean this inner
(otherwise the society would have no meaning) develop a certain
Thus the inner meaning of the
life-principle of our building, and the inner meaning of the
Thus the inner meaning of the co-operation in the forms of our

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Buddha, that suffering must be overcome, A means must be found
which means, only by grasping Spiritual Science with one's
with those means possessed by St. Augustine, the means
in St. Augustine a personality who, with all the means which
with the ordinary means of the 5th Post Atlantean age; he seeks
means of which «e can come behind this external Nature to
Golgotha; which means that one could never come to understand

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mean to say. Recently a clear example in the political field
out of work, whose means of livelihood are insufficient,
inequality has no meaning for contemporary life. When the
advocating the use of democratic means to achieve a gradual

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the meaning of the building whose foundation-stone we laid

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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ideas with my eyes!’ He meant that just as an individual
experience, so his proto-plant, although invisible by means of an
one does by means of external sense perceptions.
on what they are meant to illumine. He used the phrase, speaking of
He repeatedly emphasizes how unreal and meaningless Fichte's
ever higher and higher by means of methods applied to inner
mean when I remind you of a picture which many to-day cherish. You
not to leave any doubt as to his meaning he adds: ‘It must
essential secret meaning. In accordance with ancient custom we
No one will doubt that these words are not meant to give
Canary are put inside it. By this means — and the Snake
of meaning are exchanged between the newcomers and the Kings.
it. But it turns out that the Giant's coming has a good meaning.
to examine the means whereby man has to develop himself upwards to
By what means can a man develop his inner powers? Schiller
great means of education, a means of aesthetic education, a freeing
means of the narrative events how Goethe shows the way in which
The meaning is that man must acquire such truths that when
These addresses, which are meant to bring Goethe nearer,

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this to-day that symbolic and allegoric meanings are forced out
to explore the deeper meaning of Goethe's ‘Fairy Tale of the
‘Oh, all sorts of symbols and meanings with profound
going to be caught by such symbolic meanings of poetic
means this or that, there we have a Golden, a Silver, and a Brazen
is able to increase the capabilities in him and to discover by means
‘principle of initiation.’ This initiation means nothing
and by this one understands so frequently is meant only the
means of well-founded methods of the teaching of cognition) for such
comprehension by means of thought, of feeling and will as required,
and the nature of things either by means of thinking, feeling or
meant, but used it to express what he felt himself, then we
question of the characters meaning this or that. That is certainly
what creative spirits have produced in literature. I do not mean to
faculty of soul, there would not be the means to open the Temple for
philosophy not as a theory, but as what it is meant to be, he who
knows that just such conceptions, even the highest, are meant
is a means to throw light on things, so Goethe illuminates the things
round him by means of his ideas.
never have the feeling: that is Goethe's ‘meaning.’ He
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of a spiritual kind by means of which man climbs the stages of
appearance, the higher meaning will not escape the observation of
show how Goethe's Faust poem, in the true meaning of the word, is a
world; men who in the fullest meaning of the word, felt in
speak in direct way of the real grandeur and meaning of these
souls, for the meaning was hidden under an outer garb which
penetrate behind these secrets and arrive at the real meaning. But
a way of penetrating to the deeper meaning. So Goethe left
possessing a very deep meaning. Through formulae and retorts all
At that time Goethe did not understand the deep meaning of
‘student scene.’ Only later did Goethe find the means
choice, order, harmony, and meaning, and at last rises to the
inner forces, even if that means waiting a very long time!’

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The idea, as the now meaningless stage instruction tells us, was that
different meaning from what they have in ordinary external life.
some meaning, becomes for Faust the expression of the fact that one
during his Frankfort period. He knew what it meant to penetrate
Faust shudders. He knows what it means — that lie touches on
has to be prepared by means of worthy symbols. One of these is
this scene is meant to be: Faust's penetration to the first stages
detail would be a proof of its meaning. The Homunculus seeks
robe and veil. The man who goes deeper into the meaning of such
things, knows what Goethe meant with the ‘robe and
What does this mean? Nothing else than that he may not
that it may be a touchstone for us of what his meaning is:
We must take these words to mean that personal egoism
learnt what it means to say: ‘The act is all, the glory is
have been overcome by means of the keys which lead into the
intentions a delimiting form and firmness by means of the
supposed to mean):
who make it mean that Wagner has the conviction that the Homunculus
grasping its deeper meaning, could not explain these words
otherwise. Their true meaning, however, is this: that which
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exactly what that really means. Ten years ago you experienced
great experience it was for him, and one of deep meaning, when
know how much the power of memory means for the man of to-day.

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the temporal memory. This means that the Asiatic period of
spirits of water and of earth. This was Asia. Asia meant the
consciousness. The Initiates, by means of their developed
land by every means in their power; for it would be quite clear
him: He can write, he makes signs on paper that mean something,
to-day lost their chief meaning. At that time these differences
youth-forces. Now what does it mean to-day to be young? What
does it mean for men of our present epoch of evolution? It
means to bear within one in every moment of life sufficient of
means look on the knowledge thus attained with the indifference

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means of which we can take ourselves back in time — was
there, as memorials by means of which he put himself into
not as built up from below by means of physical and etheric
the evolution we have now to consider, — I mean, the Epic
Cosmos. It was, however, in the meaning of those times, what I
on finding his way by some means or other into the very heart
immortality, betokened something full of meaning for
for him, of which he then partook, and by means of them
is, however, one thing by means of an initiation to acquire
incarnations on Earth, had a clairvoyant knowledge, by means of
indeed! For only by means of spiritual vision can one penetrate

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pupils were by this means trained to content themselves,
Very well then, we must remain in the illusion. That means,
of Truth means, in short, that he tears out of him his own
human feeling. For unless one has learned what it means to live
harmony. This is what it really means when we say that our
meaning and import; he saw too how it went upward to the
who understood what this meant. Men of the present day build up
must not imagine this to mean that when one travels to Asia one

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no means easy to search into the hidden mysteries of the
accomplishing things by means of our will, we with our feelings

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last of the hierophants of the Eleusinian Mysteries. This means
that meant a great deal. For Aristotle's works have a character
of Nature were brought, by means of the expeditions of
Universe. The recognised scholars meanwhile were occupying

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and tries by some means or other to study these same chemical
means of processes that are many times more delicate than the
albumen can by some means or other be held together in inward
to transform any substances within it into inner means of

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but through spiritual means of communication. Notwithstanding

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and education means that he enters the spiritual world

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value of Anthroposophy — that by means of the living
should lead to the misunderstanding that it was meant for the
gradually to be held that, by means of the strict methods
like to do it by means of a sort of comparison, which is,
means to be denied, they are nevertheless connected with what
point of view, by means of the way we are then related to the
means of the body — we at first regard it as
idea, quite independently of the outer meaning of the concepts
Therefore this obliteration means something entirely
thought-life, by means of which he comes to self-knowledge in
pre-earthly existence, but when he now learns by means of this
means of it to the perception of the true ego, that ego which
element of nature, but we understand nature by means of it. We
must first produce geometry within ourselves, and by means of
so — we must mean exact clairvoyance, just as we
which without art would never be revealed. This means that
This is what Goethe meant when he said: “Art is a
would never be revealed.” And this is what Goethe meant
This does not mean that Anthroposophy has anything to do with
that the building had a symbolic meaning, he speaks as one who

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— that means members not only of the present humanity, but of
consciousness by day — that means an Ahriman-free
means, only that which can be related to the external sensible
“The good (that means what should be striven for as an ideal)
possible. (That means, of course, what is put forward as the

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Consciousness means spreading the destroying, withering life
picture of what astrology is really meant to be, if it is at
spirit realm. It is not without meaning when in folklore we
that has absolutely no meaning for them. It may actually
a reporter wrote: “What is this spiritual science meant
spiritual science must mean both familiarizing ourselves with

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was meant?)
concentrate and unite by means of his life-forces into what

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mean between the two.
words: “Thou must find the mean,” so that through
balance, the mean between the two.
the mean at once, he will attain gradually in the course of
then, the happy mean, which must be found and followed if a
Moon, and the meaning of Karma and so on. It really comes
enthusiasms or interests, and thus observe the happy mean.
gift of the gods to find at that time the happy mean in
Egypto-Chaldaic age, the wise and happy mean was easily
full weight and meaning of the word “truth” and
to another until he has exhausted every means to ascertain
bravery and valour is the mean between foolhardiness and
who overwhelm others with their sympathy are by no means
it as a state of balance, as the mean of what exists in the
nor gluttony, but the happy mean between these two; and this
the means to gain the right consciousness in this realm also.
balance, the mean, may come and thus the goal be gradually

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conditions clearly of much meaning for his life. The family of
in a somewhat pedantic humor, have more meaning than may be
that Gottsched's entire demeanor corresponded little with that
lacking in skill as a lawyer. That was by no means the case. He
universal meaning. And this is what distinguishes Goethe from
have seen it. This was what he needed. To him, this meant
meaning for him. He took this tedious, badly written
disclosed by means of the badly written history of Gottfried of
Goethe was by no means a bad statesman and performed his
legend of Iphigenia was only the means for solving this life

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no means suppose that America would never have been discovered
Schiller, this would by no means be so hard to prove; as the
far from being a revolutionist. But by no means is he so remote
the delicate manner in which he renders assistance by means of
spiritual meaning.
understand what such an event means to his life. I know how
the life of sleep is by no means a direct effect of the

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it mean to say that a more intimate relationship comes about
with the ganglionic and spinal cord systems? It means that the
then fully understand what it means for a person to be fitted
that the real meaning of human external labor is enveloped now
by means of this nail is not of further concern to the worker;

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real vocational life is by no means so insignificant for the
means of those points of view that may be developed through
what he was producing and what this meant for the world. He
is by no means especially intelligent for people to criticize
profession will take on an entirely different meaning. Today we
be said that we must first begin to understand the meaning of
also understand that this meaning is not clarified until we
meaningful for the Vulcan evolution, but something else is
will most clearly understand what I mean if you consider it in
in them. This means that each human being should fill his soul

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vocational karma are by no means the sole determinants in
through all sorts of means that are well-known and need not be
means, although in most cases patients only seem to be cured.
means grow from the manure, in spite of the fact that it must
death and continues further. This constitutes a means of
the character and demeanor of the corporeality. This is so,
how the human being has placed himself in the world by means of
lived with others in previous incarnations. By this I mean how

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such concepts, he actually slashes — spiritually, I mean —
acquiring the means for performing black magic by having the
no meaning whatever. Now, beginnings toward some understanding
mean when one, as a judge, is a competent jurist? It means such

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world in any vocation is by no means something to be set aside
our souls with what is really meaningful for life. I have often
discussing the problem of heredity today mean that children
the portal of the old world (he meant Europe), there stands no
you by means of a simple example how those who are craving
light from Indian sources, they are by no means able to disturb
well-being of European humanity. What I mean to say is that we

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real meaning only if we do not take them in a merely
life. This means that we must learn to compare the nature of
example, a kind of illustration of what I mean. We are now
through his genius has meaning for the physical world. The fact
meaning, but is, on the contrary, most meaningful. There also
that even well-meaning persons are by no means inclined to
I wanted to present to you a by no means isolated example of

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manner, does he conceive of what must be meant by the term
his soul by means of this untruthful conception. This
Just bear in mind how we endeavor by means of spiritual science
the evolution of the world really acquires meaning only through
indicated — and means only his or her own angel, but it is
different meaning during the time when the ancient atavistic
means of the words, “Thine angel holds thee dear.” That can no
in the Gospels are not taken according to their true meaning
be brought about by means of it. But to give oneself up to such
a belief means to establish what may be called negative
by no means old? What is the basis of this possibility? You
means far removed from Goethe's conception of the Faust.
Something objective was indicated thereby. It meant that space
Watt had finally made his machine really workable by means of
because they are by no means the most demoniacal. Whenever
way to the physical stars and into the cosmos by means of the

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soul must find the way to Him for himself with those means that
truth, it cannot represent anything but the meaning of the
no means is it so, but the relationship of the two is just as
meet us, something not to be understood by earthly human means.
profounder meaning of the luciferic temptation. What does
does it mean that the earth has a moon as its satellite? It
means nothing more than that it acquired a force through which
means that we must change to a sacramentalism in which man's
Christianity in its deepest meaning must get beyond the problem
means to get in touch with the realms of the spirit.
employ improper and incorrect means in order to reach any goals
very means. This may not be clear at first blush, but it is

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the present confusion is not what we are meant to be striving
the following. What I am now sketching is only meant as a
merely a picture, an image, having no meaning in itself, in

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the place where he is destined to meet his death. The meaning
our head means to have a headache. Men only know about their
you have what has meantime been passing since that
your senses outward. There by means of your senses you find
mechanism. Just imagine what it really means when a man has
Not without justification has an old and by no means foolish

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arise in man to which by the means today called scientific
right meaning with these questions and has no idea that there
no meaning. Between death and a new birth there is only
meaning when we speak of the spiritual-Sun Plato still
find my meaning so puzzling. Now let us assume you possess
bring meaning and significance into this confusion if he does
itself Maya. The higher self has only one meaning when we
without reference to this world, means that we are speaking
themselves about basic questions they would find means and
buttery ideals, by means of which you would bring universal

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kind; but now, in the meantime, during the period which had
existence of certain laws does not mean that man's free will
must die too! Statistics are meant for something quite
productions; it was in those days by no means a matter of
meant by it always is something purely abstract, which figures as
by means of which I defraud other people, this proceeds from
all sides. I don't mean a kind of spiritual science that
way upon the human will? By means of the
various branches of business; and this gives the means of
life only are produced, the extent of their production means
spiritual” parts of Man; but all it really means in

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that of propaganda; a how and through what means the
hardly very profitable, to-day, to discuss the ways and means
understand to-day, it simply means that he has no feeling for
the moment they are actually realised, will mean the
said in the most good-natured, well-meaning way: ‘Here,
these days. And until we find means to put a clear
until we find means to do this, we shall get no further. When
else about it is, that well-meaning people keep coming and
for a moment what it means: 49 numbers of the Threefold.
every petty detail of ways and means. We shall only begin to
meaning as a rule themselves only and their own intellectual
might be done by means of combining the various
party-shibboleths have lost their meaning for present-day
bye-gone things like Syndicalism, has no real meaning any
might be able, by means of a still more plastic brain, to
in German means ‘fellow.’]

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means of the ordinary senses, and which are far removed from
means that we have to seek this basis in our human nature
perceived with the ordinary means of acquiring knowledge.
meditating, and by this I mean meditating in the proper
Staring at shining objects, for example, by means of which
self-directed mental images by means of meditation, results in
the development of our imaginative life. This means that we no
statement he proves how far he is from what is meant
captivate a public without thinking as to the means by which it
imaginative knowledge is by no means satisfied with this world
of pictures. He regards it only as a means for proceeding
accompanied by a strengthening of our means of
the important factor, for by these means the soul becomes
pictures, but that we have the means to penetrate into this
by taking into our souls the first available means to penetrate
pictures for itself, but by means of this inner strength it no
spiritual world is only a lot of meaningless words, is quite
important to grasp this. We know that by means of imaginative
cannot be attained by empty phrases or meaningless mystical
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that it is an attempt to use every possible means that are
by means of the understanding that is confined to our ordinary
meaning and into the forces existing over the whole earth that
experience of the body, becomes younger. This means that it
spiritual world by means of his instinctive knowledge. This
necessary mean attitude, it is easy to be so very clever, much
way that I meant. If Planck were alive today in conditions that
means of imagination, inspiration and intuition it will be

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to the ordinary means of thinking, into an impossible
By means of it the soul now manages to experience itself in the
or perhaps even an allegory were meant. But this is not the
person within him, we would frequently be understood to mean
something pictorial or contrived. This is not what is meant
who is by no means averse to including the more marginal areas

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the meaning of the human memory in the whole life of the soul.
think” is by no means fully justified. Anthroposophical
what is meant by the great picture of our lives described here,
What is meant by this can become clear when we consider
Nothing superstitious or traditional is meant by this, but
the soul which many are unwilling to accept as a means of
a means of knowledge as it exists in ordinary life. But through
its further development it becomes such a means. This is the
For moral action it receives meaning, security, and purpose for

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by means of steam, electricity, modern economic and social
cells, by means of which it was hoped to explain the
Naegeli therefore proves by means of his own scientific
with our normal consciousness by means of a study of the very
perceptive consciousness is. It is not acquired by means
what we call our self, by means of true and intimate
to penetrate into the spiritual world by means of the science
for us to find it. It does not come into being by means of any
do not need to quote the rest. He means that there must be a
mean no more than do different photographs of a tree
released by means of the energetic pursuit of these
freer and freer, and more and more spiritual. By these means we
to use the spiritual eye in the etheric body by means of the
expressions but what he means is quite clear even without going
into what these expressions mean.
means of empty theories. This is what he meant. And similarly
translator really meant solipsism - e.Ed] (that is, to a
spiritual world, will not mean an end to the wonders that

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transformed into finer vibratory movements which by means of
music, is represented in Eurhythmy by means of a different
instance, by means of evolutions which precede and follow it,
of which are full of meaning, then the whole of its being,

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the universe, in its entirety — which means when we
placed on the earth through birth, and by means of the
uniform thing. When I naw speak of knowledge, I mean not merely
into a position of being able to produce only; that means, of
the East by the West in an economic way. That means making
and obvious. There exists no other means of
realise in their inner being that there exists no other means
believed he was now on the track of. That means, Goethe is
they will not learn from each other. Because that would mean
remained behind in humanity — that one means something
by no means so easy to reckon with this fact, that Spiritual

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impulse which will come to mankind in this way. That means,
Spiritual knowledge, simply means the mechanising of the

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touched upon here. This keynote is meant as an indication
spiritual deepening by the appropriate new means to spiritual
spiritual deepening with the new means to knowledge, how
how really to take seriously what today is meant by striving
illustrate what I mean by an example. Now I recently had a
all this mean? Today I shall consider the matter entirely
mean? The man is in theoretical agreement with the lecture.
with anything. It means that the man has no feeling for the
notice how in the one case — I mean this quite
our instincts. We have therefore to seek the means of finding
meaningless beyond reason is the prevailing tendency of our
this mean when grasped in the light of reality? Let us put it
feel the anomaly of this pedagogic law-giving, would mean
spirit in earnest. Taking the spirit in earnest means if we
worthy of your consideration — what it means to bring

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about by means of those new methods of obtaining spiritual
illustrate what I mean by an example, Not very long ago I got
to absorb the content of anything many only mean that one has
What does this mean — if we look at it
official paper gives well-meaning instruction, in all
that means that we may find a starting point for an
thing means — would do far more for the healthy
earnest, means that when anyone enters a lecture hall he is
what this means, to cause harm through the proclaiming and

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(Naturally I mean the consciousness of Space in a wide
physical means that such an investigation can only come to
pass by means of spiritual science And that it can
moving. But what I mean here is not that. I want to point out
know, not by means of external mathematical considerations,
the reality of this world journey. Yet there is a means
authority. Everyone can understand it by means of an ordinary
understand what is meant when it is said that man is within a
something in this way — I mean those of us who have
is by no means rare in our modern days, and it deserves to be
means easy nowadays. Much may be said in this direction but

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this thought is by no means popular; people will not accept
being necessary an his part. By no means is it so. A man may
Nature, for intellectual concepts are dead and by their means
not the pumping machine by means of which the blood is driven

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experienced in spirit — not by means of empty symbols or
passes over into another — in the sense Goethe meant when
meaning here answers the question: Why is it impossible to
alone That would mean erring in two directions, But what art

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clairvoyant vision of the spiritual world. For what we mean
mean by seership — even by those who believe themselves
point is to understand what is meant by genuine seership.
from this gaze into ‘Nothingness.’ I mean this:
imagination. I do not mean by this that the seer, when in
ordinary meaning. Each of the several arts, from the
introduces into his buildings, by means of the thinking that
inherent life. These are the thought-forms by means of which
nevertheless attempts to form something by means of
image, is obliged by means of compasses and lines to
of speech, as a means of everyday mutual understanding and
as the means of everyday mutual understanding is really a
think always of the ordinary meaning of words, they find it
question arises: By means of what process does the musician
power of cognition. The only means for overcoming it, is for
meant to remain such, and also those impulses which the
What is meant

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ask ourselves: By what means are the forces contained in our present
you by means of a picture. Suppose a botanist or an horticulturist wished
of the grain of wheat from the point of view of wheat as a means of
and purpose of what we call the True?—I mean, in the sense in
outstanding example of the ‘golden mean’ in this respect.
That they were able to hold this ‘golden mean’ was not due
can become the means of nourishing higher Spiritual Beings. Our concepts

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mean between the two.
words: “Thou must find the mean,” so that through
balance, the mean between the two.
the mean at once, he will attain gradually in the course of
then, the happy mean, which must be found and followed if a
Moon, and the meaning of Karma and so on. It really comes
enthusiasms or interests, and thus observe the happy mean.
gift of the gods to find at that time the happy mean in
Egypto-Chaldaic age, the wise and happy mean was easily
full weight and meaning of the word “truth” and
to another until he has exhausted every means to ascertain
bravery and valour is the mean between foolhardiness and
who overwhelm others with their sympathy are by no means
it as a state of balance, as the mean of what exists in the
nor gluttony, but the happy mean between these two; and this
the means to gain the right consciousness in this realm also.
balance, the mean, may come and thus the goal be gradually

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these beings communicated to the human entity by means of the
instinctive clairvoyance, and by means of this instinctive
more and more aware that death means a big break in human life,
means of the explanation of the latter as it is possible at
without meaning that the teachers who then appeared
attentive study can discover, by external means, how much
possess a day-waking consciousness by means of which he would
beheld by earthly means, which can only be perceived by means
meaning only through the fact that in the middle of earth
believe and know through earthly means!” It is
the ability to know what can be fathomed by earthly means. Even
by earthly means. If he is willing to acknowledge the fact that
see, to perceive by means of this crude-material substance.
must realize what it means that Nietzsche partook of certain
Nietzsche's Zarathustra. By means of intuition we
meaning, unless a meaning is first inserted into it. The
event which has given the earth its meaning is of such a
soul. And all the means at our command concerning human

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who have by no means gone through various incarnations
something like a copy of Shem's etheric body. Now by what means
of a human being. What does it mean, then, that a man like
should have an Avatar-being woven into his body? It means that
was set upon being able to prove by means of such physical
could by no means equal what his etheric body contained, for
development by no means equalled what their astral body
of the human being is solved for us by means of just such knowledge.
wishes, but through several centuries, simply by means of this
its content, but as a means of cultivating and disciplining the
That is the reality. By this means humanity has learned to
scholasticism of the Middle Ages. Everything by means of which
Middle Ages. This, indeed, would mean to observe world history
Christ Himself. And by what means must this come to pass? By a
meaning. We comprehend more and more what we have to do,

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that we understand by such means this different cognitive
But let us consider: by what means in
longer a finger; the finger has meaning only in the context of
Spiritual science in the sense meant here
the image. But by what means are the images images? By the fact
of illustration, although this is not meant to be personal,
but is meant rather to be entirely objective.
things if I did not try by all means to bring down what arises
Spiritual science as it is meant here wants
meaning to all earthly goals.

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meant as an introduction. The aim is to acquaint the
this winter's programme that will demonstrate what is meant
a means to make Christianity more accessible to the scholarly
we are meant to obtain answers to the crucial questions of
comes to questions about the meaning of life or mankind's
To questions concerning eternity or the meaning of death? At
life that can answer questions about the meaning of life? No
meaningless words that appeals only to people with an
secure, aware that their lives have a higher meaning, it has
means of the following comparison what I mean by that.
say: Give me the means to see for myself. Actually, anyone
can attain the means, provided that person seeks guidance of

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undoubtedly meant the words spoken by Mephistopheles at this
described in exact terms by means of modern spiritual
means that a person's soul impulses come to expression on the
and finally build up and sustain the body by means of the
meaning, it is not always the ideas that are at fault. In
means that not only do currents of fluid move within it, but
people would dimly sense the meaning contained in the words
sense, it is not what can be seen physically that is meant,
plants and animals also possess, and by means of which they
within the blood, whereas when they, by means of sense organs
peoples. It heralds the birth of the intellect, which means
over his or her blood. That is the profound meaning of the

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greatest riddles. When attempts are made to find meaning in
shows, or is meant to show, that undeserved suffering can
The meaning and
When a substance contains life it means that disintegration
Life means that
initiation by means of which a higher consciousness is
This is meant

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to insight that cannot be attained by means of the five
nectar and ambrosia, both words meaning love. Love comes into
were naked.” That means that human beings saw
comparable to what the leaven of the old dough means for the

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birth. That means that the ether body is born and becomes
Meanwhile the astral body is still surrounded by its
understand what things mean is a faculty of the ether body,
feelings can be awakened in the following way: by means of
sense and meaning but sound; the children were made aware of
meaningless. For example: “Fly beetle fly, your father
“Pommerland” meant motherland. The expression
origin. Yet it was not the meaning in such rhymes that was
do meaningless things like, for example, braiding. Talents

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words have lost their meaning for most educated people.
In the course of centuries their meaning has changed,
alter the original meaning; we must endeavor to transform the
meaning given by modern theology into the original one. It
which means that when we are born we bring with ourselves the

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has meaning will emerge from their time at school.
symbolic meaning. But most important is that the child is not

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This means that the “I,” together with the
is quite useless to attempt a cure by means of abstract

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meaningless suppositions was pointless. The most significant
the power to eradicate unhealthy conditions, which means that

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is all too easily misunderstood. The real meaning points to
person's higher self to be found? We can by means of a
the saying means: We know for certain that without eyes we
self-knowledge rightly understood means self-development.
However, it also means that forces are released as they no

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transforming base metals into gold, they meant that it was
scholars. The disputes were by no means confined to the usual
the author meant the books to be taken seriously or whether
they were meant as satire, mocking a certain secret brotherhood
discussion in our circles To be initiated means that
pedantic. But in this case what is meant has nothing to do
no dose connection. What is here meant by study is something
we are discussing now is not what is generally meant by
is meant by imaginative thinking?
meant by imaginative knowledge.
World-Body. He meant that human beings represent the highest
pupil grasped all of this in its spiritual meaning. He
permeating and glowing with spiritual meaning. When everything
will have meaning: “Who added to the cross the wreath
grasp what is meant by the overcoming of the lower, narrow

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What is meant
arts; he saw this as a powerful means of pouring into human
is meant by this, let us look at a significant legend from
meaning, is aware that this legend expresses a spiritual
entangled in matter. What does that mean? Existence keeps
means of attaining perfection. He who lacked the urge, who
to evolve, by the power of love, which is the means to ascend
human feelings, but had no means of expressing impulses once
cannot be portrayed through external means; the outer aspect
Nebelheim (Nebel means “mist”),
Grail. At one time he meant to incorporate the idea into his

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so-called harmonizing of the Gospels took place. This meant
Christianity was by no means the same as that of modern
What do we mean
by the inner disposition of the spiritual scientist? We mean
happen. It means never to lose sight of the fact that not
what is here meant by heaven is something existing in an
This word had a different meaning; it did not indicate "being
Their deeper meaning can be understood only if approached
contained in the Bible. We shall understand what it means
the name Jehovah, we find that it means something like

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dem Steine eingegliedert - meaning unclear. Trans.]
not only by means of philosophy and science, to lead us to freedom,
souls to the meaning of those more distant tasks which must grow from
is not meant to be doubted in any way.
what is meant.
in Munich and above all the meaningful beginnings in Stuttgart; and
be interpreted [sic]. This means that by that time a number of
Meanwhile work was undertaken in various areas through the nomination
knowledge of jewelry art by means of Dr. Steiner's suggestions. A

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of his truths out of the external reflection by means of thought, and

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meaning for the development of mankind), man's progress and
it would have been meaningless to say, for instance, that human
in harmony with the times, and this is not meant trivially.

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(he means by this: when the drops of Christ shall all have entered
literally, in the meaning that the earth is the body of Christ
word “grace” in verse 14 has for St. John the same meaning as
following meaning: When the initiate sits there
upon Jesus' heart. This means that all the lower forces, every
general meaning of “Mother name.” The Gospel records:
had to flow. A special meaning is attached to this. Wherever

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necessary to use an imaginative language, as I mean to do

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does it mean: man sees the surrounding world? If, for once, we look
merely on the factual act, it means that something makes an impression
also radiates into the eye, is by all means not a dead watery substance,
under the impulse of the ego. On the ways and means, how these two currents
because they have to meet in the right way. What does that mean: to
for human life, basically it really means the whole of human life.
great importance for life. It means, for example, that everything we
meaning. It has for example, the meaning that a very bad form of illness,

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be revived anew on the way to the heart. Being enlivened anew means,
in the finest way. Otherwise it will not work. Being ill means, that
The simplest means to achieve
but it is not the same. Sälde means being penetrated by
of today. Those, I mean, were the writers of the Old Testament, where
But to become sleepy through Anthroposophy means that one gives much
urea, uric acid, which is not meant to be contained in the sphere of
had written “sulphur — shack”.) That I don't mean. But

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that they meant that the transition from the Dark to the Light Age would
what the difference is between a Light Age — meant in this way
conscious that this dead light was of no meaning to them.
taken to mean the ether body and blood, those vibrations which
means overcome it. If finally I push a rusty nail into myself and my
plants might give help. Yes, you see that is what was once meant, and
What I mean is the question
ourselves will have a reviving effect on the light. This means we must

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can show you this by means of a very simple example. As
of the physical plane by means of thoughts. And as we watch
means finding the inevitability. If you look with sufficient
a way we can penetrate by means of our concepts and their

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wonder just how many people's souls he had helped by means of
whole series of good deeds by means of one single deed. So this
done by means of his judgment.
objectivity of judgment. Does this mean they are bad, however,
this mean? I approach an object or a process accompanied
What does this signify? It means that sympathy and antipathy,
means bearing a necessity within him. What belongs to the
you now put your hand on a solid object, what does that mean?
It means that what is in the solid object was once being

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the meantime the former headmaster, because of his insight into
pupils I have.' And by that he meant that he can in a certain
living way on themselves; they thought the only means to gain
in what took place previously. But that does not mean at all
between his previous death and rebirth. This means that we must
in a certain sense by way of a mirror. Knowing always means

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if we look at things this way we do not by any means exhaust
done. A bad deed is not willed. And repenting means that the
law, yet complying with it does not mean one is not free.
and saw that it was good. This means that what comes first for
us look at what this means. You cannot say we are completely

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that he could mean your I. He can only mean his own
efforts to strengthen themselves by means of the impulses
hatefulness be explained as meaning more than a flower's beauty
human being by means of ecstasy.
This means giving people spiritual science that, far from
science, they mean nothing to him; he cannot understand a
it makes my head spin.” Which means he plops down with a
is, “But how can you prove that?” meaning that

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is by means of thoughts that one does communicate with the
concretely. To speak of a germ does not generally mean that a
something that moves; which means that you go from the
and rechten, meaning “to judge”,
means of such things that one can succeed in linking concrete
is meant in order to come to terms with the book at all. The
whole meaning of such discussions depends upon the
know what they mean by these vibrations, in any case they
means of many-sided conditions of the conceptions in

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judgment rightly on what I am now meaning. We Germans, for
of meaning; but in so far as we use the uniform educated, we
word from one's own language is taken to mean exactly the
certainly mean the same, but it does not do so where inner
one form one's thoughts so that one gets the shade of meaning
experienced as the only meaning of speech in ordinary life
consideration in it as a means of making themselves
speaks of a table he means a chair, or when speaking of a
chair he means a table. For that men here on the earth merely
merely as a means of making ourselves mutually understood is
mankind language is not much more than the means by which
note this communicating by means of speech comes from other
deepening. Language as a means of mutual copper hedging could
a mere means of communication it depends very much upon
means one thing in one language and in another something
means to man is utterly lost. Yet the economic life, as I
life. For by that means this subconscious soul like is

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best they allow that a spiritual world can be disclosed by means of
difficult, but nothing ought to be too difficult for us and we are meant
for in the meantime I have never come across this Revision of Logic.
mean by this that were he not a witty do-nothing ha could do tremendously
affair will meet you in its true meaning. For you see when we start
do not draw them up, bring them into consciousness, as they are meant
does this mean? It means, as I have shown you several times, that we are

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mean by Spiritual Science is its being pantheistic. One of the chief
are concerned or consciously lives in them—what I mean is, he
by means of the intellect.
statement mean that God Himself is alone active in the soul, when it
means further that nobody may assert it to be heretical if it is said:
theveils are removed from Him”. (He means God). At the time when
and the divine will, becoming uniform, which means, when there is nothing
conceptions. For what does it actually mean to be permeated by a scientific
today on the path to supersensible knowledge” mean something else.
honestly meant when it is said Rituals that are very old can do no harm

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to look for a new relation to external nature since the old means to
this is what I meant were there beings who on being examined anatomically
Now look! Were you able to fly—I don't mean with a machine but
soul, which means the age of the intellect, lives as I have explained
what is permeating the region of his will. By this means an ordered
wave of events, is not an affair only affecting mean subjectively; it
will forgive mel To become headless means that the head could no longer
if some means is not found to compensate, s0 that the evaporation of
is made active, this means the spiritual world is coming into play.
men are meant to live in social co-operation. This is recognised by
neither two men (I mean physical men) nor two things (physical things)
such as is meant here with something else drawn, more than ever from

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penetrating to the spiritual world always means pain. Therefore we have
by means of microscope or telescope; but they take no interest in what
what I mean by this. The solving of present-day social demands depends
as physical men on the physical earth we should by no means be able
not meant as a criticism of the culture and conditions of the times;
the Chinese—I don't mean Europeans who know them but those who,

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 5: Paganism, Hebraism, and the Greek Spirit, Hellenism
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not have been possible for Christianity to arise. This means, the greatest
of the earth, for the evolution of the earth to acquire its meaning.
is logic meant for? Logic is meant to do away with contradictions wherever
death of the spirit that was to give the earth its meaning. Highest

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did not mean that He would be inactive among men but that He would be
masses of our forefathers (which means of ourselves, for in our former
East and the North of Europe, who by no manner of means possessed the
these there rises the Temple, the new temple, by means of which the
about nature, into something by means of which the supersensible world

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means to have advanced in the spiritual scientific fields, that
Ancient art was mostly produced with meaningful symbols and
human being has no idea what it means to live in an endless

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the key to exactly that which had depth in the most meaningful
the form of conceptual knowledge. By this is meant: whoever has
as is usually meant. Goethe had as a younger man turned to mere
work, containing specific meaning, which shouldn't only be

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expression means a great deal, even much more so for the
means something which the human being represents basically as
in a normal life? I must straight away indicate the means which

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By this means great progress can be made along the lines followed in
possess the means of giving man an explanation as to himself. People
when you are confronted with that which is meant to be representative
of a living organism. No one will understand what I mean by this, unless
is symbolically expressed in the structural forms, it means that in
will feel what the whole structure means. The attempt has here been

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an understanding of what is meant, then you will of course be wrong
change from Saturn formation into the Sun formation. I do not mean to
say that these pillars are symbolic of Saturn and Sun, I simply mean
in their actual inner reality by means of such simple forms. In this
have given a false meaning to that which this building is meant to express,
easily follow what I mean. But it becomes easier and easier as time

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an idea from these copies of what is meant by the paintings of the dome,
Certainly it does not mean
as such. To see blue means to feel an intense desire, longing, to go
red will always help if we wish to express physiognomy. But what I mean
from nature. But to break adrift from nature means to identify oneself
a question as: What does this or that mean? The inartistic man will
stand before this figure and say: What do there two or three heads mean
whatever with which to meet the question: What does that mean? —
attempt has been made to draw out of the colours just what is meant
been made to find the true Representative of, Humanity by every means
certainly find that which is meant to be expressed., may be experienced
about which man can enquire the meaning, but when you — rather,
And it means that true Spiritual Science is not understood if men will

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was looked upon in centuries long past, was by no means so
and just what is recorded in books by material means. It does
means that we find our will transformed, so that we know that
it has been noticed that this is what Goethe meant is still
Goethe had meant it to be accepted as such deep wisdom, he
profound wisdom, whereas Goethe simply means to represent how
from reaching the inner meaning of the Gospel. Why does the
appearance. This is what he means, and this is how it was
Thus, by means of the art he describes
of what was striven for olden times. By external means taken
books have no means of knowing why in the olden days Sun and
culture said ‘Silver’ he did not mean only what
we mean when we say ‘Silver’. In the language of
faculties, and he meant a certain kind of force-activity
the Gold, we live in Copper, we live in Silver. He meant
methods of investigation; then, with the means of modern
it! by external means we could make man more efficient. It
meaning and there is wisdom in human evolution; I have tried
in history happens — although often by means of most
meaning man imagines and he has to suffer much on the paths
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bear in mind that Goethe's meaning was really of a spiritual
A voice from below answers (and this means
clambered for three hundred years. That means that Goethe
That means he
be no doubt that Nikolai is meant, he makes the

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By this means he sought to feel the union of the inner human
easily lead into luciferic channels it meant danger.
find some way, but was by no means clear how to find it.
shows how homunculi may be produced by means of certain
Paracelsus expressly assures us that by means of certain
by means of concepts — concepts that do not float in
By the ‘misty ages’ he means the Middle
expression, to ‘become young’ meant to ‘be
Spiritual Science gives us concepts by means of which we can
understanding is there, that it makes us see the meaning of
meaning of those words of Mephistopheles:

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in him if we are to have any notion at all of what is meant
import Goethe meaning is.
so full of meaning: “Mothers, Mothers! How strange that
those worlds, goes no farther than the means by which
he himself must undertake the action. But in what is meant to
set up by means of the whole earth, the current goes down
the one meaning of the sentence. The other is connected with
here with double meaning. Goethe employs this ambiguity
performed, ha meant to show that these impulses had already

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himself will have to free himself from all this by means of
ask ourselves more precisely: “What is the meaning of
outwardly, whether by smoke or any other means. For him to
indicates his meaning with the greatest possible intensity.
without meaning that it is Mephistopheles who acts as
achieved by means of the impulse of Evil.
illusion of the economic life. What does he mean to tell us
illusion. Illusion lives — this was what Goethe meant

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he saved himself by means of Ariadne's thread. Theseus became
not mean it trivially — as Faust's competitor or rival?
placed into the midst of evolution that which is meant to
into our consciousness. Only by this means is it possible to

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interplay of earthly forces, I mean that these divine beings
and to supply by means of your imagination what did not
are with our waking consciousness, no longer have meaning, As
earth. It has no meaning at all to talk of such things when
mean the physical vapour or the mist we have now, but this
myth means, this is what Goethe means. And his presentation
men; they first begin to have meaning when translated into
I could add, perhaps tomorrow. In the meantime I shall only

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element that is by no means chaotic, it is merely different,
then you will know what I mean by saying: In sleep you speak
meditation, a meditative dream, yet is full of meaning and,
the meaningful course these pictures take. If we pay
different. Cosmos is a word meaning beautiful world-order, as
humanity. For it means handing men over to the forces of
knowledge of the right-man by means of the left, we arrive at
one tooth. This implies that the senses are not meant to be
the hidden meaning to the observant by dint of contrasted
come to truth by means of mutually reflected concepts. Thus,

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a kind of supersensible entity, and that by means of the
what is earthly by means of a sound knowledge of the earth,
means directing the we to the phenomenon to what appears,
the phenomena; it means making merely a useful servant of
then too, my dear friends, by means of what this reflection
has not sufficient/go upon — it works with inadequate means.
at present an impossibility, it has not done so? It means
Christians and should be better ones, if what is meant by
one meaning and ran on one track. Then we accustom ourselves
with only one meaning and on only one track; it demands of us
only one meaning, with life that has only one meaning. There
dear friends, the world has not only one meaning. I do not

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meant by saying he had put a great deal in a veiled way into
Initiate, however, is meant to find there profound secrets of
great deal that is veiled, and is meant actually to introduce
means, such ideally conceived means as would. naturally be
concerning the nature of man. He was by no means one of those
Hercules. This meant that he sails out into the limitless,
any coast. For man today that has ceased to mean very much,
but for the Greek it meant entering a completely different
be transformed into Home. In the meantime, while they are on
answer the weighty question: What do you mean exactly by the
prefer to forgo the spirit — I mean, of course, only in
(1918). It is shown there how, and by means of what forces, a
he grows old with a certain gift. I mean here with a gift of
way, that outside lives the spirit, means nothing at all,
himself tried every means of approaching the secret of life

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then touch upon. I mean, the conclusion of the scene.
meant to be represented merely as a man striving after the
deeply into what Goethe meant to convey in his Homunculus,
us consider his more obvious meaning. In his Homunculus-idea
world-conception — by no means confined to what is
they mean, what they stand for, passes over into the
being shown by means of the sailor boys, and the Dorides who
shell-chariot of Galatea. There is deep meaning in the
century. By then he had grown older, and that means younger

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by means of his will, so that he should be able to experience
evil, in a way overcame it, by what men were meant to be in

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of soul which I actually mean. But I mention beforehand that I
meaningful.
kind. That means we must actually be outside our physical body
believe to have certainty by means of an ordinary backward
that means, the dream must be strengthened.
knows that one makes them oneself. Then one is by no means a
realised what it means to experience oneself free of the body

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meaningful proclamations from the spiritual worlds, it was
actual meaning is: “I am the god working continually from
- It actually means that a soul is inwardly strong because it
Here you have the meaningless: “Honour father and mother,

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incorrect objection if we believe Anthroposophy has no meaning.
milk from its mother it does not mean there is pain, but a
what it means when spiritual science considers not a single
of years, a spiritual and meaningful stages were reached. High
the body of Christ! How meaningful this becomes with reference

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of mankind by means of his book,
can be investigated by means of instruments, there still
(apes). At that time this could but mean that man was descended
humanity. By this means everything of a spiritual nature became
means of help, since these two parts of his being have never
fairly bears out my meaning.
science means to ‘understand’ this atomic motion to its
the use of such means as serve for natural science we are
scientist perceives by means of his senses, but he is no
Yet, if they, by such means, obtain an insight into the
of a dream or by means of the senses. Let us, for instance,
convey to the seer a new meaning. In the language of the
who can grasp Goethe's meaning from this point of view will be
revealing, as it must, an entirely new meaning. According to
upon an error of thought. This error may be cleared up by means
those animals, down to the meanest living creatures, are but

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mainly in Europe. The time I mean lies in the 14th or 15th
was by no means yet accompanied by the same feeling with which
never have come to expression in the fullest sense: I mean the
12th centuries, was by no means in a position merely to submit
evolved under the most appalling inner conflicts. I mean that
are dry. Those who wrote these works were by no means dry in
Speaking of the ghosts of the dead, they meant precisely what I
by no means very far behind us. Imagine a Scholastic thinker or
Meanwhile in others, who always sleep soundly because they are
under an influence which has really killed all meaning. To

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understand what it means. The peace of the world depends upon this,
telescopes, examine their substance by means of the spectroscope and
The meaning attaching to the word ‘deathlessness’ nowadays is very far
apparent — I mean the chest-structure. Try to conceive
of meaning. Once again, and this time in full consciousness not with
means without significance in life. In the following lectures we shall
consciousness means that the forces of nourishment and of growth are

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And so throughout our life, by means of what we cultivate over and
consciously, by means of the experiences described, what takes place

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brings with him through birth is brought out by these means. But it
in the period after death, with the means at the disposal of spiritual
you that I mean it seriously when I say that separation in space is no

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Meissen. ... Young Gottlieb, however, felt by no means at home in
by any means suit him. He observed that the manner in which the
meantime his benefactor Baron von Miltitz had died. The funds so
means the man to circumscribe within the limits of his profession
quarter. Meanwhile Fichte, again through Kant's intervention, had secured
can only grasp the inner meaning of my lectures by really reciting
for it must be admitted that Fichte was not by any means the
human spirit, would mean an offence against honour, not his
accept the resignation which Fichte had not really meant to
point the way towards a meaningless view of the world. The gist of
inability will mean small loss to them, and none to the world. It
will simply mean that they do not count in the process towards the
however, does not mean that there was any lack of harmony between
and by no means adopted a negative attitude towards it, is proved
intelligence. Only imagine what a blessing it would mean if such a
philosopher, Robert Zimmerman, by no means in accord with Fichte in his
self, if we mean to experience that existence in the spirit which

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Here he surveys the meaning of Christmas in past, present, and future.
Steiner goes on to outline the history and meaning of the traditional
what is meant to flow through the souls and hearts of man?
“What can this ‘Christ festival’ mean to us?”. And in their
festival of gifts cannot be said to have the same meaning as what the
Christmas festival meant to people for many centuries in the past.
life on earth, so that they can mean humanly as much as possible to
mood was achieved by the simplest means. But perhaps only the
what it would mean not to be allowed to participate in these Christmas
they presented with the simplest, most primitive means the holy
says, “The time has come, I see a little child”, this means
we find that people knew full well that something spiritual is meant
means to introduce the secrets of Christ into the hearts and souls of
more meaningful deepening of the soul. This is the same
Child in the manger. Today we need other means to awaken this mood in
in a primitive time. Today we need other means.
Now I ask you, please notice what this means: to call upon Nature in
Today we need to make use of other means. We need ways which will lead
and these candles, through the symbolism of their light, are meant to

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have a beautiful, poetic picture that Western man knows and that means much
I do not mean to censure them — in whom this wonderful scene
the spiritual worlds, that it needs him to do this by means of the
full of meaning. (Are not the opening words of

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what it means to be ripe for occult development: To be able to
for the benefit of my dear friends here in Finland, that I mean by
natural — this thinking activity was by no means always so
“fish,” it was by no means natural for primitive peoples
concepts is by no means natural to primitive races even in the
cannot now discuss what they really meant by it — that gold
prefaces it with the other chapters, he is by no means a dogmatist
Krishna means by this exhortation. He does not mean that the contents

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perception even though in a more hidden way. I mean that
free ourselves from them in quite another way if we really mean to
means we are struggling against the very forces that allow the images
who try to apply external means that can have certain effects in

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something else was still present in the self; I mean, primeval
power, by means of which there arises in the soul the instinctive
their time speculating on the meaning and purpose of life? How does
thought, for it is by no means so banal as it might appear at first
by means of the brain-bound intellect, something steals into his soul
soul life is meaningless if life really ends with death; if man has
meaningless, unreal, if the whole of existence were included between
of our description must remain meaningless for the physical world.
Perhaps he who uses words most lacking in meaning for the physical
of raising one's soul into the higher worlds than by means of vain
they became foolish in their fury. I mean the point where I had to
have no meaning to ask of a flower whether it is true or false, there

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fix our attention on a great law of existence, I mean what is called
what is meant by the cyclic course of life, for alongside the actual
came to an end with the discovery that by means of the spectroscope
thought is needed to understand anthroposophy. I mean the habit of
self-consciousness. Meanwhile people had to live quite differently

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the higher worlds the matter is by no means so self-evident. I have
higher worlds, however, we do not perceive by means of sense organs
wonderful way, so filled with meaning. For those who are able to
really means when a new impulse is given for a new epoch in the
be reached through Yoga, we shall begin to lay hold on the meaning
are able to do by means of what is given, for example, in our occult
who can think specifically, “all mankind” by no means

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know in himself those forces that are the actual means of knowledge.
a certain unconsciousness. I mean the forces having to do with the
in such a way as to give it sense and meaning for those who can
construction. I do not mean to lay this down as a general rule for

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in abundance, but not a deep perception of its meaning. This is
approach to the meaning of that poem than to the deeper contents of
whatever. I do not mean to say anything against it, rather I would
meaning. We can understand how the Eastern man looks up with
dreamlike, picture consciousness, by no means the same as it was in
depths of the future for them. I mean what we call Imaginative
out the meaning of concepts in commentaries. He would just set to
sattwa, rajas, tamas is meant a certain kind of living one's way into
a little nearer to an idea of their meaning. When man today

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is permeated by feelings and shades of meaning saturated with ideas of sattwa,
constitution meat is essentially a tamas food, but the Indian meant
his surroundings meant not only a certain understanding of the outer
world, it also meant bringing to life his own inner being. He felt it
person. To follow his teaching exclusively means to strive for the
progress of humanity. To understand the Christ means not merely to
become a means of shedding light on all religions. He must learn to
in this way do we understand what it means to seek a unity in all
have tried by means of a particular instance to indicate how

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means of experiencing what lies behind them. "Opinions" and
harm, and by this means he can go very far along the Way. The path to
figure in ordinary soul-life must all become a means to higher
them a means to higher ends. In ordinary life a man looks out on a
a means of experiencing what lies behind them.
object of the life of the soul, thinking must become merely a means to
certain stage of Initiation these opinions no longer have any meaning
we develop so assiduously for the physical plane can be only a means
in themselves but a means of expressing what he wants to say in his
themselves; for the Initiate they become the means of expressing what
when the entire soul-life is reduced to being a means, instead of
by means of definite meditations. It can be done. Only, generally
expressions have a valid meaning and can be rendered somewhat as
phrases mean and must be capable, so to speak, of living in two worlds
what is meant by having “come into contact with Death”, by
the Initiated a mere means to an end. Let us try now to be quite clear
experiences of his soul. All this must become merely a means, as soon
things with the usual and familiar means ceases completely. Try to
vault of heaven at all. This means that the first moment in the
to the Gate of Death.” For the person knows now what is meant by
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falls at once into unconsciousness. This means that in normal life the
entry — which means that even in this realm one can discern good
fall. And behold, Frau Professor Schleiden was by no means in

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enters by means of this training into the spiritual worlds; and there
to his having prepared himself by means of his yearning for the

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Creative Word and its meaning, which represent the ground-forces of
meant in any figurative sense. In our own time it must be said that
by this means can human soul-development advance fruitfully from the
searches with the means normally available to-day, the more does he
that means we shall draw into our inner being such a self as will be a

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture I: The Birth of the Intellect and the Mission of Christianity
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no means comfortable, man still lived with his head in the heavens.
said to the High Priest: Shem-Ham-Phores, which means: What is his
Joph, meaning God, Nature, Man; or again, the inexpressible
forces by means of which humanity en masse passed from the

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body by means of his blood, just as the plant works with the carbonic
The interest of the Gods is the element of human love by means of

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guiding his way by means of this organ. His perceptions were of a

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture V: Yoga In East and West
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his etheric body and by this means ‘affix his seal’ to the

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ancient and have been used for centuries by Initiates. Their meaning

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Cana, water is changed into wine. The symbolic meaning of this miracle
wine was the means to this end.
significance must be attached.) Such, too, is the symbolic meaning of

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evolution. The esoteric meaning of the Washing of the Feet is that
To identify oneself with all beings does not mean that the body is to
following comparison will give us some idea of what is meant. We

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which manifests itself by their means in an especial manner to the
by means of another organ.
being bereft of the physical body, has no means of satisfying them.

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etheric body by means of fasting. Harmony is brought into life
new meaning to the incarnations occurring in them. 2,160 years is
to the body of the world as it were upon a Cross. What is the meaning of

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meaning. It becomes more and more possible to decipher the meaning of
Runic scripts — every letter of which has ideographic meaning
means of which man was enabled to penetrate the world of Devachan. A

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thought limited to the search for food and means for defending his
by means of an inherent, plastic force. The further we go into the

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physical world we evolve ideas simply by means of the sense organs and
perceive by means of the senses but by the sympathy which makes us

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The spinal column of the animal is in the horizontal. It is by means
abstract these three layers by means of our thinking, we would then
of the moon. If one is able by means of concentration to attain a
These various layers are connected by means of rays which unite the

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birth as we know it, but by some other means. Certain parts of the
world by means of the senses owes its existence to the Luciferian
St. Paul meant when he said that freedom and love are the highest
them. Karma and Christ — the means of salvation and the Saviour.

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beautiful language. This was what Angelus Silesius meant when
what is called meditation. This means that the soul sinks
sets forth the means whereby his soul was led to perception
it; so it is meant.
is what it means: The Word came forth, came forth out of the
primal forces. Thus “in the beginning” means:
seven meanings. For the mystic, immersed in contemplation it
has however this meaning: The knowledge, the Word which
does it mean to say: something becomes conscious. Can we
will use a crude comparison to make clear what I mean. You
John means nothing more nor less than what is described in
able in this way to find the deeper meaning of the John

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This latter remains as though dead. This is what is meant
means, when he says:
Christianity attains its real meaning when it is followed as

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meaning on the gospel, but that by means of occult teaching
sayings. This does not mean that the ordinary person cannot
Meanwhile the consciousness of a person who has passed
people. All these names have a hidden meaning. For instance,
meaning when one spoke of souls initiated to the fifth grade.
grade. This means that he had learned to know what for us men
the fig tree, I saw thee.’” This means, we are
mean to be born anew and to see the Kingdom of God? It means
eternal core of one's being is awakened. What does it mean to
enter the kingdom of heaven? It means to see not only the
a comparison. Take it literally. To be born means to proceed
meaning of ordinary life. It could be quite easy for someone
heaven, which means to be born again. Man has to go through
realise that everything we do by means of our eyes, ears and
meant.
God of Jacob, it was the higher self that was meant. One can
Think, if someone meant what is supposed to be said here: The
noble meaning.
John. This is significant. Let us clarify the meaning of this
Peter, James and John — up a mountain: this means into
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brotherhoods; ordinary people were meant to have only the fruits of
means by which an Initiate could work in those times. For instance,
though the reader had not consciously taken in their meaning. Trithemius
to satisfy idle curiosity or inquisitiveness; it was meant to be put
means of growth and so forth. This is the etheric body.
us to show what this means.

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It is by no means useless
has been written about this saying, but to the pupil its true meaning
Goethe means the spirit
the world of Devachan. We can see that this is indeed what Goethe means
external means. Hence they often play a part in spiritualistic

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means of enjoyment: thus we need gums and so forth in order to eat.
death. But the man no longer has any means of satisfying his desires,
All the Gospel sayings have a deep meaning, and we come to know their
meaning in Kamaloka. During his life a man does not merely do things
These rays indicate the forces by means of which a man gains power over

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This means that there
something important was connected, for it meant that the Sun's rays
by the light for the light.” He means that light is the creator
his tasks in Devachan; but he has many others also. He is by no means

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by lesson-books or verbal teaching, but by means of example and imitation.
and in feeling is the best means of education at this stage. It is not
couldn't do anything because it would mean interfering with the state
reincarnation. This does not mean that each one must bear the consequence
mankind, this means that he does not understand karma. The same is true

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use anyone as a means to an end but has to treat everyone as an end
of the Huns, is called in the Nordic language, Atli — meaning someone
way; and this meant that many passages were not expounded but undermined.
ago a “nervous” man meant one with iron nerves. Simply from
the change in the meaning of the word you can see that something quite

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surrounds us: this means that man at one time contained everything within
mission of evil. In all such relationships there is a deep meaning.
By this means the members of his being learnt how to acquire good eyes,
will have to be a karmic adjustment between them, which means that the

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the unit position means the Globes; in the tens, the Rounds, and in the
that this meant 343. The Secret Doctrine gives the riddle but not the
In the meantime, however, man had gained the power to separate something

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means after millions of years — the Earth became more solid. The
Meanwhile, the Earth had

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— he meant their books — “from which you learn the
that he must seek for God with his spirit. That is in fact the meaning
with the Godhead; religere means to re-unite.
world by means of the laws of nature they had discovered, they had to

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of fellowship, which means overcoming all regard for your own Ego if
to listen to him. By this means his own powers are enhanced, and his
dreams have a meaning, but not that of experiences in waking life. When
that your dreams become more regular and meaningful. Above all, you
what he sees is true. This means that it is wrong to use dream-pictures
has a consistent meaning. But when you reach a certain stage, one image
has available certain means through which he can bring this harmony
The means available consist
This means preventing, at least for a short time every day, all sorts
Tranquillity means that you are master of yourself in the most intense
from its ordinary meaning. During occult development you must never
experiences; by this means your physical and etheric bodies will be
higher powers through some artificial means without attending to all
the means available on the physical plane. A penetrative thinking can

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private means whose capital is invested without his knowledge in a
nothing, is especially hard to carry out. It means that the pupil
means the observance of religious customs. In India, where these rules
3. Asanam means
surroundings.” What does this mean? We breathe the air in, use it
poison; and this means that with every breath we draw we are dealing death

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by this means we cannot reach the higher self. When we look into ourselves
to know the Divine. “Know thyself” means also “Overcome
pupil should find no book too difficult; if he does, it means only that
All this stimulates the Imagination, and by this means the pupil
means one comes to see things surrounded by their astral element.
example will show you more exactly what I mean. With the close of the
between Microcosm and Macrocosm is emphasised. This means the
self-development, when the pupil is taken out of himself by means of each
for birth, who worked their way down into the physical world by means

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understood to mean any dilettantish interference by one side into the
work of the other side. It certainly does not mean that the
consciousness means that you are intervening directly in the ordering
say, a fever is suddenly lowered by some therapeutic means. In this
can it mean that they work together? Surely not that the priest does
work together. It means that one offers help to the other out of

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the meaning of the first verse of the Gospel of St. John: “In
the beginning was the Word.” “The Word” is meant
priest must find ways and means to relate to what such a person
conceptions of health and illness cease to have any meaning. If such
have no meaning in a higher sense. For as a matter of fact, very much

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abnormal conditions do not have such meanings in our everyday speech.
and draws the intestines out with it. This means that the person

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super-sensible worlds into the sense world: that means, they combine
What does that mean?
stars, acquires meaning for human comprehension. And one begins to
instance, a person thirty-five years old — and I mean

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concerned and we should find the means — physical, soul, and
spiritual means — to cure what is already pathological. It is
place in a human being's karma, although it may mean misery in that

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once what I mean.
accordingly. It was based on finding the means to bring out of the
cruelly. Even as a boy he tormented them, he was mean to them; in
— namely, that illness comes from sin — which means that
This does not mean one becomes sentimental and goes calling on a

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If one had no other means of investigation
cannot reach the human being by this means, because in human life in
means that modern science provides it is not possible to gain an
means of modern science at our disposal.
research they are able to do in this field with physical means, and
can merely mean anger. On the other hand, what piles up there because

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is by no means a childish image to think of the sun as a receptacle

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are permeated by ego — that means, by all the hierarchies who
etheric bodies. In other words, to be a materialist means in a finer
spiritualism does not by any means offer a remedy for materialism,

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direction. This means that in the course of time there is a gradual
has come back to the same spot. That means after a certain period of
days, which would mean 360 human lives. Then we would get 360 human

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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
physical-earth world than they were originally meant to. Although
“upper and lower gods.” What does that mean? We have
essential to us means that nature preserves in the sleeping human
medicine in this sense and as it was meant in this pastoral medicine
meaning of Christ's path after the death on Golgotha. For his going

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understood to mean any dilettantish interference by one side into the
work of the other side. It certainly does not mean that the
consciousness means that you are intervening directly in the ordering
say, a fever is suddenly lowered by some therapeutic means. In this
can it mean that they work together? Surely not that the priest does
work together. It means that one offers help to the other out of

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 2
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the meaning of the first verse of the Gospel of St. John: “In
the beginning was the Word.” “The Word” is meant
priest must find ways and means to relate to what such a person
conceptions of health and illness cease to have any meaning. If such
have no meaning in a higher sense. For as a matter of fact, very much

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abnormal conditions do not have such meanings in our everyday speech.
and draws the intestines out with it. This means that the person

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supersensible worlds into the sense world: that means, they combine
What does that mean?
stars, acquires meaning for human comprehension. And one begins to
instance, a person thirty-five years old — and I mean

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concerned and we should find the means — physical, soul, and
spiritual means — to cure what is already pathological. It is
place in a human being's karma, although it may mean misery in that

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once what I mean.
accordingly. It was based on finding the means to bring out of the
cruelly. Even as a boy he tormented them, he was mean to them; in
— namely, that illness comes from sin — which means that
This does not mean one becomes sentimental and goes calling on a

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MEANS OF INVESTIGATION than that provided by modern science, one
cannot reach the human being by this means, because in human life in
means that modern science provides it is not possible to gain an
means of modern science at our disposal.
research they are able to do in this field with physical means, and
can merely mean anger. On the other hand, what piles up there because

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is by no means a childish image to think of the sun as a receptacle

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are permeated by ego — that means, by all the hierarchies who
etheric bodies. In other words, to be a materialist means in a finer
spiritualism does not by any means offer a remedy for materialism,

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direction. This means that in the course of time there is a gradual
has come back to the same spot. That means after a certain period of
days, which would mean 360 human lives. Then we would get 360 human

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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
physical-earth world than they were originally meant to. Although
“upper and lower gods.” What does that mean? We have
essential to us means that nature preserves in the sleeping human
medicine in this sense and as it was meant in this pastoral medicine
meaning of Christ's path after the death on Golgotha. For his going

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the means of expression for moving, weaving spirit which, during the
as a means of manifestation, a force of very revelation which, as it
near to the meaning of that word. Where can we turn for help? The
spirit. And anyone who wishes to grasp the meaning of the word bara,
quickens itself inwardly; then we have what expresses the meaning of
reach in some measure the meaning of this archetypal word
meaning and a definite goal. What was this meaning and this goal?
can only have a meaning, if during its course something arises which
there would be a meaningless existence, and unless the Hebrew sage of
would have regarded its genesis as meaningless. Through the coming
the potent meaning of the ancient Bible words. Let us consider those
our souls in the next few days as the true meaning of those

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— without form and void. To understand what is meant by
meaning of the phrase inadequately translated as without form and
earth evolution means that the light, which it still had so long as
help to bring out the meaning.) And if you think of the energy of
the meaning of the verb used here to convey what the spirit does in
activity of brooding conveys today is not what is meant. What is
meant to be conveyed is the activity of the outraying warmth. As
means of the warmth element into the other elementary states. When
you think of this, you have a picture of what is meant by the words:
this higher ether permeates the sound-ether just as the meaning of
transforms tone into a word full of meaning; then you will have some
sound-ether and giving meaning to it — the Word which
I mean, what he is to the spiritual scientist, not to ordinary
— a script which by means of its very characters is capable of

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moment indicated by those meaningful words of the Bible: And God
sea over the true meaning of the impressive words of Genesis. Thus we
This word means something which should not be interpreted in a
phenomenal sense — it simply means the separation of two
exact rendering of what is meant; the Elohim separated what tends to
it means is that the plant nature was there in the form of group-souls,

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standpoint, without further reference to well-meant objections. In
externally by means of warmth, light and air. It is somewhat as if we
a Being who disseminates this warmth, and finds thereby means of
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters really mean that
had to say about the real meaning of the words with which our Bible
those who try to find a way out by giving a geological meaning to
meaning of the word yom, which is usually translated as
not mean periods of time, but Beings. They mean that a first Aeon
Aeons, they meant Beings guiding development in succession, one
Tuesday and so on, one did not mean simply periods of time, but the
“day,” to mean a spiritual Being; then you have the
first day.” We shall only understand the still deeper meaning

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time which is what the word “day” means now, but refers to the
particular stage of development, it means something; it has
does it really mean to be awake? All the activity of our souls, all
And lay'lah does not mean our abstract night, but lay'lah are the Saturn
circumference. That means that through the constellations of the

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means of making existence comprehensible. We must be clear that when
meaning when we can penetrate through all the details of that

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images of outer objects by means of external perception. But that
greater error if in these early stages by some means or other it were
Let there be light, it meant that something new had happened, that
document there is nothing superfluous, nothing meaningless. If only
to ascribe to it nothing that is not pregnant with meaning, to take
still an echo of what it meant. The word “beautiful”
covers all words in all languages which mean that an inner spiritual
element reveals itself in an external form. To be beautiful means

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learn to understand more exactly what “Adam” means. The
what this means. When today can we study the laws of the astral body,
meaning in complete harmony with what clairvoyant investigation has
Jahve-Elohim, to enable them to fulfil the meaning of earth
the deeper meaning behind this, and only Spiritual Science will
influence. To express more precisely what we mean by this, we must
understand what this means if we say that man's life of wish, of
true meaning of the Bible, and so clear the way for the tremendous

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could not have given to man his true earthly meaning. All that we
— that by no means all human souls abandoned the
developed further. But meanwhile, on the earth, those who, as the
souls were preserved on the earth. By that means the etheric and
night: he made the stars also. For by the stars are meant the
water, which means that it is far denser than the earth. It therefore
with this moon-nature, it means that it is Jahve-Elohim who has

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the meaning of the words translated male and female created he
(phtheiresthai). By this he meant to say, “Of course,
principle.” That is the meaning of the word
actually mean? We only understand it aright if we realise that this
evolution. That is what is meant by rest from earthly work, by the
reasonable meaning for it. Anyone who claims to do so had better not
which means “subsequent generations”;
discoverable by external means, and the farther back we go in

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such traditions were a means for bringing to expression man's
worlds beyond the earth. And there is deeper meaning still in this
who could not be persuaded of the meaning of the Christ Impulse by
the gate of death means can be understood only from the point of view
connection aright would mean a very great deal for us; only it is
be placed in the realm of reality, then Christianity has meaning;
Christianity has no meaning. It is important that people should face
all their depth of meaning and to be ready to contemplate the
a world-catastrophe is upon us. I do not mean merely the catastrophe

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least of all is it possible by means of compromises — which are
this hatred of the spirit means to-day, what nationalism means to-day!
King” which appears on every ministerial decree, really mean
— that and that alone can give meaning to present existence.

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and everywhere else? It is all a means of providing humanity with food
could not immediately be understood. To grasp the full meaning of this
means are incapable of portraying an Event which is an affair of the
So stood the Cross, weighty with solemn meaning,

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The all-embracing wisdom by means of which in the first centuries
this Chrestos was meant to kindle in the soul the power that makes man
triumphant from the inmost being. The sight of pain was meant to

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that which was possible later on. It is not without meaning that at
external means what value was placed upon the testimony: I have had a
“by earthly means, but only by means higher than those
“for the first time received its true meaning and purpose,
“beyond the comprehension of earthly means of perception,
through faith what I can never know by earthly means. This is a
be fathomed merely by earthly means.” A man is lacking, even were
embrace only what can be grasped by earthly means. To perceive the
perceive, by means of the crude outer materiality. This was a
which lie at the opposite pole. We must understand what it means that
the sacrament at the altar was conceived as a means of pointing to the
the Bible, can obviously have no meaning unless meaning is imbued into
the human destiny of birth and death, the earth received its meaning
the inner forces of the soul. All the means, therefore, at the

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This will help you to understand what I mean when I tell you that the
It is also significant — and here again I mean something more
meaning of Christmas in the light of the Mystery-knowledge. If from a
ancient human times. If meanwhile he has lost consciousness of the
What will the Christ Mystery, the Christ Deed, come to mean in the
no means far distant, man will find that the physical world is losing
To confront a reality that is unrecognisable, means to be shattered
To know Christ means to know man as a spiritual being. To be filled
with the Christ Mystery in the future will mean that Christianity as

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insight how the festivals are meant to link the soul with all that
understand what this means we shall have to penetrate into deep
legends. But so profound is their truth that we need all the means
meaning as that of Easter — then the soul will realise something
of what it means to live no longer within its own narrow, personal

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of meaning as the Easter festival is that they make our hearts and
without meaning that Faust is called back by the Easter bells from the

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these lectures the meaning of the altar in early Christianity.
around it; it has no means of expressing what is going on within it or
world-history people are meant to learn through Spiritual Science, to
ceasing to have a right meaning. Something that held good in earlier
significance. Hence anyone who thoroughly understands the meaning of
other questions must be put: Does faith, as such, mean anything for
would soon see what it means for evolution. By losing the forces of
what have they meant for people up to now? They have been something
the clouds, interpreted His meaning in a materialistic way.
meant to gather together a large number of people, until fulfilment

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so full of meaning, so infinitely deep and holy. They compensated for
means the re-awakening of faculties that will lead the soul once more
does not mean neglecting — let us say — mere theories; it is
refusing to look into Spiritual Science, or Anthroposophy, means
ego must come for all souls; but it will mean disaster for those who
means is to harmonise what has been said in successive epochs, just as
region, by means of all kinds of perfected appliances, something for
thoughts are cheerless; more-over, since we have had our present means

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nothing of it by human means, goes somewhat further. If one does not
that by means of ordinary knowledge, we can really know but very
acquire between birth and death through the external means of the
fashion individually. That means that when at birth we enter the
For as you know, no man can with ordinary physical means of cognition
precisely the means by which we retain our Ego-consciousness after
long, long labour, and is accomplished by means of forces of the
I am saying, than I know myself. But what I mean is this — and I

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spiritual means. The trust in our cause that we require, will often be
those times. That means that the events to which we have alluded, are
and again leveled against us that with the accepted means of cognition

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everything which can be experienced by means of the interaction with
view. By what means does it come about in the general cosmic relations
exists in the astral body a true thought, I mean a kind of knowledge
does it mean for his epoch when a man, as in the case quoted, really
of being.’ What do I really mean by this? Nowadays hardly
of it. ‘Existence’ means the forcible realisation of that

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bear upon this outer reality of his. And if at any time by some means
without by means of its physical embodiments, becomes nothing but a
do they mean to him? Now in spiritual investigation when such a
For it always meant the flashing up of something beautiful for the
other souls and relates itself to us. That really means the insertion
not form this friendship for its own sake, but as a means to something

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ordinary consciousness. By means of a widening of this consciousness
certain meaning for us — we are unconsciously conscious.
memory. That does not mean that we necessarily lose our memory on
acquiring spiritual sight, but it does mean as already characterised
secrets of nature by means of reflection, but by quite different
means. If, as I have described in my public lectures, we strengthen
ultimate aim of the Path of the Gods.’ He meant that when we are
— I mean this to be taken in the above-mentioned sense, for that

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Cosmic elements, we are enabled to create the organ by means of which
investigating it by means of critical knowledge. And many to-day call
shall just make clear to you, by means of the same comparison of the
expound all these things to man by means of thoughts of infinite
just said: that the Christ can be known by spiritual means — thus
whole meaning and significance of our conception of the world. And
There lies a deeper meaning in this when it is said — as we have

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became visible to themselves. By means of the so-called Kundalini Fire
now become their servant. Not many people understand the meaning of
by means of stories. Even today such teachers have a concept of what

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activity we usually mean something very general. The esotericist
they are extremely numerous they balance each other. By means of an
creating willing servants by this means. It is the rule of white
continual self-knowledge, self-observation. By this means, at the
receives a quite other significance. This is what is meant by the
have the sign ICH to express the inmost being of man. By this means a

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We can regard plants and lower animals as the means whereby higher
The plant has its roots in the mental plane and man by means of his
not know the means whereby it can be achieved. Rationalised
consciousness can direct the means. Blavatsky says quite rightly: ‘A
The real meaning of the cross is infinitely deep. The old sagas also

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the mineral kingdom by artificial means. In the Fourth Round man can
new remedies are sought by means of experiment, in which one tests

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Maha-para-nirvana plane one acquired another means of perception. When
element, one finds oneself on the Nirvana plane. Nirvana means

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first the pure man had found no means of incarnating on the earth. He
and has thus become a creator, is called a Bodhisattva, which means a

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the former means of reproduction. Through speech man propagates

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child he must learn to write. The stream of culture has meanwhile
various occasions. ‘On the mountain’ means: in the mystery, in the
reincarnation. By his coming again Christ means his reappearance in
that rebirth has meaning. The human being is reborn approximately

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something lives in us which is beyond space and time. This is a means,
dream means to turn towards the inner Deva-forces. Man dreams almost

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The origin of the physical body. The Kundalini fire as means of
adapted itself to its environment by means of a hard shell that it had
the organ of consciousness. That means the paths he had previously
Everything that is now known only by means of anatomy was at that time
his way by means of intellect and concepts — but the Master spoke
for ten hours. By this means he very soon progressed so far that he
by means of the driving, organising power of the astral body.
physical environment. The word ‘verwesen’ (decay) does not mean only a
body. The Dutch word ‘Lichaam’ does not mean ‘Leichnam’ (corpse) but

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heavens and the earth.’ This means: The God of the Beginnings, who

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powerful means of developing devachanic organs. In no way can
means of awakening the organs for Devachan exists other than spiritual
existence’ means, will now become clear to us. Before we descended to

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language of symbols. No value was laid on the spoken word as a means
order by their means to mount still higher to a complete
is meant everything that lives itself out in the will. In these three
domains the mediaeval esotericist saw the means for the further
meaning of Nidana is string, loop.) There are three groups which

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world by means of another activity having a form quite different from
we explain the world by means of thought, this world-explanation is

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speak, then he is a Chela, an occult pupil. To be a Master means: To
must think in pictures, in images; that means ‘to imagine’. In this
expression there already lies what is meant: ‘By means of a certain
it reveals itself to the senses; it is however created by means of
actual is meant. This spirit who stands behind everything living is
means ‘heil sein’, to be well: it expresses the fact that the Spirit

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organs in the etheric body. By this means they could enter into
beings with its rays ... [Gap in text ...]. If one had found the means

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The overpowering of a human being by means of hypnotism is a still

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are united. To be a black magician means to develop more and more the
there, but the means for its satisfaction are not to be found.
something living, by no means a rigid automaton.

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feeling known outwardly by means of an action and yet we can feel
what the following means: ‘I need no other person in order to know

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force. The astral body is built up by means of the pictures of the
Meanwhile the astral body has become ever finer and finer, so that at
Meanwhile in the upper region the opposite evolutionary processes have
means looking out into the surrounding world. Man now consists of four

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When in Christian esotericism we speak of Power we mean ‘going through
meaning through living consciousness, then once more religions will be

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others would be too quickly spiritualised through Lucifer. Means of
Deep meaning lies in many other things. The separation of the Moon

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produces by means of combining. When out of one substance something
nothing. Creation out of nothing is however not meant in such a way as
thoughts through clearly, we have the meaning of church ritual: that
except such as have meaning, whereby meaningful beings arise on the
would produce meaningless creatures for the next Globe. This is Karma

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The sense of sight perceives by means of the light ether the objects
order to illuminate the world for him. The divine being had no means
being was the mediator for the Godhead. The latter wished by means of

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to wish to arrest such things. The appropriate and serviceable means
brotherhood dissolves what streams into the world as means of decay,
spirit was called: Air, Wind = Pneuma. Pneuma means a current of air

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gained from minerals, that is to say, by means of a chemical process.
This is indicated in Genesis. What is it that was gained by means of a
wine. By means of a mineral-chemical process something was produced
stage of development. This means that we stand before a new so-called

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beginning of the Atlantean civilisation there were no tools. By means
teaching of the Brahmans became is by no means only religion in the
The Indian teaching was expressed in the Vedas. ‘Veda’ means the same
consciousness developed that one does not master nature only by means
were called Druids: Drys means Oak. The strong oak was the symbol of
powerful way. Esau is still a hairy man, that means he represents the
but what must of necessity come about. ‘Israel’ means: He who leads
man to the invisible God, who dwells within. Isra-el: El means the
Jesus Christ was a native of Galilee ... ‘Galilean’ means: ‘The
Stranger’, someone who does not really belong; ‘Galilee’ means a small
provide the means, the human material for what is here being founded

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does not mean that the human riddle can be solved by means of natural
authority. Instead of winning affection by means of personal
postulating abstract ideas and concepts, but by means of pictures.
the basis for society. This is what we mean when we say we must solve
Anthroposophy acts not by means of sermons, exhortations, or

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been given. In the meantime let it be emphasized that when life and
said that thinking can apprehend what is meant when reference is made
What do we really mean when we speak of “spirit”? We
soul experiences of the animal. This means that soul experience in
means of it he instructs his organs afresh, teaching them what they
occurs, this can only mean that the etheric body cannot carry out an
of his soul, the means to struggle against bodily pain; whereas the
That is what Goethe meant by the words: “The animal is
points the way to, and is the seed for, the future, the means whereby

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in the fact that — I beg you not to misunderstand me, I mean
consciousness. Meanwhile we find in the animal the expression of how
the word content. To give you an example of what I mean, really not
development of a concept is quite a different story from the means of

Title: Lecture I: Human Questions and Cosmic Answers
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Mysteries. That was why they relied upon other and more external means
paper in front of him, and by means of the human brain alone solve the
By means of an initiation suited to modern times, however, we are
True, he receives external impressions by means of his senses, but
consideration merely its physical aspect. By such means the intellect
out of them, then we have the means to prove how such a powder is

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meant. For it must not be thought that in these happenings the actual
rightly what is meant when, in what follows, I shall be speaking of
sent out into the universe, were the means whereby the Mars-forces
infinitely varied. They meant nothing at all unless a man was inspired
is an answer to a question asked by means of ritualistic acts.
means of which, from out of the spirit, we permeate our bones and
If, therefore, a man speaks out of real knowledge of copper as a means

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with their ordinary meanings is an absurdity.
existence — to understand, by means of all the faculties we
understood by means of the faculties acquired only on the Earth; it
earth by means of the senses. It is quite understandable that he
meaning for him. As long as the words of human language have to be
of the mystery of number, because even number itself has meaning only

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We must therefore be clear in our mind what it means to study the
earth in terms of geology. It means forgoing at once any chance of
no means coincide with the slate-formation, just as, for instance, a
this slaty formation by means of spiritual investigation. Then we
tendency to skeleton-formation. I do not mean that they have a strong
and slate element — by which, of course, I mean the inner forces
physical and chemical means. In reality, carbon is the element which
This means that a constant struggle is waged in us between the forces
meant when it was said that lead is to be found everywhere in nature.

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
evolution of humanity — I mean the moment in relation to world
no means personal to me.
to life. How could anyone with genuine feeling for what it means for a
modern soul. Let us consider an early Greek soul. Let us try by means
would mean applying rigid concepts of the intellect to all that lives
presenting the matter out of himself, quite freely, by means of his

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
by means of what we may term “the perceiving of worlds outside
belonging to the soul and to illustrate it by means of the following
in the body that one only succeeds in reaching by means of a journey
and all the enrichment that it means for man. We do not acquire much
objectively and is there, yet it would be meaningless to speak of this
initiated like other initiates, of Whom it would be quite meaningless
that anyone possesses through the body by means of which we speak in
Individuality without the aid of education, simply by means of

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
hate” he does not mean a burning like the burning of a fire in
the super-sensible worlds are concerned, but it would have no meaning
called desires, but by means of a real process. If the clairvoyant
beautiful and ugly with approximately the meaning we have in the world
case, and between ugly and untrue in the other, loses all meaning. So
form some idea of what is meant when, for the sake of simplicity, we
can be learned during incarnation has no further meaning.” It is
meaning. If this becomes a living feeling, then one has a living
mystery play, The Guardian of the Threshold, is meant to be

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
the means described in
fast in memory what has been experienced.” To be immortal means
that.” Were we unable to speak thus, it would mean a break, a
thing will be noticed, that, when by means of any particular measure
make this clear by means of a comparison.
astral body, means in the first place that one feels oneself to be a

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
the life that runs its course by means of external natural forces
outside them,” lose all meaning. You are with them, just
is a feeling that perhaps I can picture to you by means of a contrast.
works of the world as a reflection, an echo. What I mean is that if a
something else accompanies it. It is only by means of a concept that I
the words before and after cease to have meaning because as you go to
before and after have ceased to have meaning. If I now use the
there an eternal being has no meaning for spiritual consciousness.
Real meaning lies in something quite different. What underlies
because there they cease to have any meaning. There we have to speak
existence has acquired meaning. Do you think it unnatural that when he

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
investigated by means of the scientific methods recognised today about
done. I should like here to describe what I mean by a comparison. By

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
existence understanding must come after seeing. That is by no means
From the whole spirit and meaning of these lectures, it will have
able by means of education to read and write, and the public at large
confiding love, so that — and I mean this in a higher sense there
you appreciate the whole meaning of what is said in
means of initiation he comes to direct experience and perception in
with the cosmos; by means of this we should keep in view how the
more comprehensive picture than is possible by means of mere theories
the means given in the etheric. What thus we are allowed to tell of
— if men looked for the meaning in all they have been given, they
much opposition may arise, it cannot mean the extinction of occultism

Title: Inner Nature of Man: Lecture 1: The Four Spheres of the Inner Life
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means of which we create knowledge for ourselves regarding what is
distant, as that, by means of which we make the outer world into our
of the senses means that our inner life is impoverished through our
means of thought.
which can then be observed, is by no means always the same. Were a
meaning and existence only within the physical body, but it is that
One now finds, not what one formerly saw by means of the body and its

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means of leaving the body by going into Space. Lecture 2 describes
of space itself; space ceases to have any meaning for him. He leaves
to have any meaning, for outside signifies a relationship in space.
to be of value in this world; we act consciously by means of our
Anyone who means to bring up a child seriously will take care not to
The Gods have meant well by us;
they have given us all they could in the meantime; they have made us
This means, in other words, that we should force our way into the
all that thou has acquired!’ Lucifer tries by every means to
sees the world by means of his bodily senses and his bodily
consciously all that occurs in our lives, we could by no means go

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physical body. The meaning of 'before' and 'afterwards.'
rest remains outside our consciousness. What does it really mean when
When through spiritual science we really recognise the meaning of

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meaning death in the physical or going forth from the physical to
means whereby we can enter more deeply into this subject than was
obvious,’ says Lotze. He means that one God cannot be the son
never be proved by external means from the chain of causes and
for to be a materialist means at the same time to be illogical.

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means of the light streaming from within. We now reach half-way
being is the Holy Ghost. 'Holy' means a Spirit without
the portal of death. To him the leaving of the physical body means an
connected with this leaving of the body. To him it means an inner
the physical body, he has left all that he was able to see by means
creating a new world-light which illuminates our being and by means
without a body — (for this is meant by the word Holy, namely, a

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By means of early death, forces are accumulated before the
companionship, but one is meantime constructing a spiritual
mean that we should ever say, when on the physical plane: ‘At

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture I
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existence its true meaning and purpose, cannot be dealt with in that
questions stir in you and make it a means of working for mankind

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— I mean the practice of religion, as this takes its course in
experiencing similar needs. The upbringing of a child means that one
aberrations have a relation full of meaning to all that we experience
it is solely by political means that I am given an exclusive right
law, together with the means taken to protect a society from external
creeds, in their deeper meaning, bear witness is as follows. The
What is the meaning of
reach the meaning. The usurping Prince of this world rules whenever
always, even unto the end of the world.” This means: Christ did
if one comes close to what these people mean by the Christ, one finds
sort of illness in mankind. To deny God, to be an atheist, means that
way, we can by no means find the Christ. This is possible only if we

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the symptomatic meaning of certain things to-day.
find terrible. Suppose one asks: What do you mean by
this is how you should organise private property as a means of
production, or public property as a means of production. I am bound
contract must by no means be settled in terms of so much labour; the

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and simply as a means of grouping the phenomena. Staying amid the
to outer Nature. I mean Geometry, — all that is known by means
of action in certain directions. And we have sundry means of
impregnable, is none the less beginning to be undermined. I mean the

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impossible ever to gain valid ideas of what is meant or should be
meant by the word “Ether” in Physics. As I said
Truth is, the brain by no means weighs with the full 1250 grammes
— I wish to speak today. I mean the relation to the outer world
dimness, and by this means the dark or bluish colours are
bodily part and is by no means independent. In the eye too it is

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I really must ask you to swallow the bitter pill (I mean, those of
Goethe had to pack the instruments to send them back again. Meanwhile
the other colours in between. By means of such a double prism I
In our attempts to follow up the phenomena of light by means of lines
mean measured. I now only refer to the main principle. To what can
the object thither. What is the meaning of this? In the conventional
movable by means of muscles. From the lens onward the light then

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light, and by this means the bluish and violet shades are here
get pictures by means of the one mirror and also pictures by means of
light it up. Meanwhile, the others are recoiling from the lower
arises within the light itself by means of this apparatus, so that a

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By means of this
— by means of the pure facts. Fact upon fact in proper sequence
“phosphores” or light-bearers. This is what they meant:
of that time, you need not take it to mean what is called
velocity”. By means of space and time we only measure the
with the old Konigsberg habit, by which I mean, the Kantian idea. The
them by means of light. We ought not to ascribe objectivity to light
mean now, a phenomenon that takes its course purely within the light.

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in a too trivial meaning. You have to learn to sense the facts, and
in debt. I will by all means distinguish between more and less
by means of which my forehead would attract my right hand. But in
sensation of light is produced by means of this vibrating ether. And
ascertain by means of such phenomena as we have seen in our
means that we shall now have to explain these radiations themselves

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saying which I do not mean to imply that it would be better if I
in the meantime as a kind of preparation. We are not advancing in
if I engendered red by means of green, it would stay red. Goethe in
real process by means of which I see the green when I see it thus,
think it over in the meantime. Taking our start from this, we will

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phenomenon. I mean the following for instance, — it has in
which we aspire to, are not so easy to conceive. It is by no means

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means of different metals with the help of liquids. The other thing
itself, we perceive it by means of a phenomenon of light. This led

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was that they could explain the phenomena so beautifully by means
presented by Nature. Meanwhile however, for the thinkers of the
triangle is by no means 180°.
have at first no means whatever of deciding, how our own
phenomena of warmth) — by means of geometrical, arithmetical
say: By all means let us calculate some law of Nature; it will hold
a former lecture — means that he enters into the sound or
was meant as a beginning in a real work for the evolution of our

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means of everyday occurrence. Let it again be emphasised that ecstasy
real meaning, but call it a world of apparitions, of phantasms. The
this ecstatic condition can be induced by natural means only if what
Macrocosm, means that at the moment of passing out of the Microcosm
By what means, then, can man, provided he deepens himself inwardly, to

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be done in the following way, but I emphasise that it is meant only as
slow and the other quicker — means. The child will eventually be
time is half-past nine. But that would not mean very much. The child
planetary system becomes for us a kind of cosmic clock, a means of

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was by no means as general in those times as it is today. Men's

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we can do very little by means of our own forces to transform these
There is only one means of counteracting this destruction, only one
means can at this crucial moment enable us to stand firm. It is that

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idea of what it means to pass the Lesser Guardian of the Threshold. In
his external bodily sheaths. What this means, and the preparation it
The lecture yesterday described what is meant by acquiring knowledge
the “Upper” — meaning the heavenly or spiritual man.
But again this is by no means an easy matter. Under his teacher's
realises what it means to see the physical body from within. To see
man consists of physical, etheric and astral bodies, this means that
‘Friend of God from the Oberland.’] By what means did

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Ecstasy, therefore, can by no means be considered a desirable way of
means of expression for the physical world. If therefore the spiritual
meant; physical water is only an external simile for what is seen at
And now we can realise that the comparison with a clock is by no means
stages, for the Macrocosm has by no means been exhaustively portrayed
upright, to think by means of the brain and to develop intelligence,
prevailing materialism. But in a past by no means very distant the
word still conveyed its original meaning. The faculty man unfolds here

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is by no means easy. It is relatively easy to acquire knowledge of
when we can endure this spectacle. To have this experience means to
Beings and to witness their evolution means to live in the World of

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any means wholly within man during the hours of waking consciousness.
ourselves in inner contemplation to the meaning of these symbols, we
means of which we can mould the substance of our soul. By working thus
building up the pictures. This means that we direct our attention to

Title: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Lecture 9: Organs of Spiritual Perception. Contemplation of the Ego from Twelve Vantage-points. The Thinking of the Heart.
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anything by means of the lotus-flowers, nevertheless during sleep
mean the physical heart but the spiritual organ that develops in the
or through enhancements of sense-perceptions by means of instruments
is true or false. To put it exactly, this means that whereas in
unity and means impoverishment. Philosophers whose only aim is to
and again from another. By such means we train ourselves to acquire
saying, “That am I”, he means the sum-total of what he
these impressions by means of the thinking of the heart, just as the

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future. From this we can also perceive what evolution means, namely,
spiritual world there is no such convenient means for correcting
by means of the organs of the brain and spine. Brain and spine were
expressed physically as well. This means that we must picture a man of
find our bearings by means of a kind of Ariadne-thread, we must
of it ordinary questioning ceases to have meaning. We must also learn
intellectual questioning no longer has any meaning. There we must
resort to other means of enquiry, other means of cognition. People who
only by means of the forces which find expression in the thinking of

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logic of the heart is not by any means active yet to any great extent
existence. We see here that questioning ceases to have meaning when
that by means of questions. And so when great cosmic truths are
presented, questioning ceases to have meaning at a certain point.
are by no means fully developed today but they will reach greater
individuality. Intervention in the breathing process means penetration
knowledge in its true meaning, something works within our soul like a
We do not promulgate human brotherhood by means of programmes, but we

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questions of the soul or spirit with the means at his disposal,
the means of a stringent science. On one page he says this
meant by dividing man not only into a being with a soul and a
different from the means employed by natural science. And so my
and really experiencing them, and this means giving up the
accustomed to, just as the Copernican outlook meant a
of the soul, is not what is meant by true self-observation by
the soul itself. This means that we have to observe how one
science of spirit, by means of which we can really penetrate
by means of the inner functions or exercises which you can find
means of the mood of renunciation. And we gradually notice that
anything in the sense world, we know what it means to say that
acquired in inner strength by means of true
become quite different. This happens, above all, when, by means
of will. By means of
more by intensifying our spiritual observation by means of the

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kind of border area by ordinary scientific means.
one usually means what rises up from unknown regions and
the view that this unconscious can be reached only by means of
means of hypotheses and logical deductions, but by bringing out
raised into our consciousness by means of a strengthening
to the super-sensible world in full consciousness by means
means of inner processes in the soul (if we wish to be
means of scientific observation. Having acquired this
mean by the science of spirit it is easy enough to say that the
this soul life. What is meant here belongs to the border areas
their nature, for the simple reason that by means of the
This is the one thing. By means of this he acquires a view
scientist of spirit therefore knows what it means to be outside
uses the body as a means of perception. But it can also happen
psychoanalysts know that dreams only have a symbolical meaning.
means a lot to them by seeing how their dream life is
they see how it becomes increasingly full of meaning, and that
spiritual knowledge. In fact, it is by means of this
of the whole body by means of which it establishes a
means of sending mediums and somnambulists to him. Sir Oliver
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soul, about the meaning of the whole world and about the
meaning of human activity, he can only link them to what his
being or about the meaning of the world and of existence; on
the contrary, we acquire deeper and more meaningful questions.
means of our enormous and widespread industrial life and world
why this was so by means of a simple example.
world. By means of our heightened self-consciousness we have to
what it means when part of our life is extinguished, when we
realize what it means to live outside the human body. With our
The power of love can be developed, if by means of it we are
whole human organization by means of abstract laws or
meaning of Christianity. For what has become of the Christ
human body, who gave the earth a new meaning? He has been made
action only has a meaning between birth and death, but what I
do on the earth has a meaning for the whole world
that has meaning for the whole world.
meaning for the whole world. His social life also becomes

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a seer, using the means at his disposal, were to come into contact with
that man is able to perceive by means of his senses, whereas — as in
mission of human life upon earth is by no means without purpose; on
the contrary it has very deep meaning and purpose. If human souls had
used for the acquisition of data of knowledge produced by means of
acquired by means of the senses, which needs the organ of the
means, the physical instrument, for the application of certain powers
the present one. For this physical organ will be the physical means
destroys something in the brain. Every thought means that a minute
this example, by means of meditation we hold the thought back so far
256–61.] by means of which he can become aware of his
sixteen-petalled lotus-flower in the region of the larynx. By means
until its end. By means of this organ he also learns to recognise the
region of the heart. By means of this organ the nature of the earlier
you will now realise, occult development is achieved by means of
remembrance results from the study of occult science, which means
way to occult development are vitally necessary. It is not by means of

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always looks for a standard of comparison by means of which things
of grasping reality by means of the intellect alone, ceases. The
a useful instrument, it is no longer in itself a means of acquiring
because realities cannot be grasped by their means. There are, of
earth its meaning and purpose.

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If we want to acquaint ourselves with the real meaning of scientific
with our concepts and thoughts. By means of these we can take hold of
the I. — In the meantime, however, in humanity's forward
to understand the true meaning of science, we must study the

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was named by means of words customary for that time. Translated into our
soul being. Thirdly, man experienced his corporeality; and by means
atom-filled space. This has meaning only within a consciousness that
I mean that it is dead for us since, of course, nature contains life

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I mean by that?
whereas mathesis, the other mysticism, as experienced by means of an
meaning the physical one — into the nerve-sense system, the
has that of the blood. Try to picture vividly what I mean. Imagine
means of the different colors, is a time experience, a sequence of
know himself as well. He learns to know what it means to experience a

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The kind of mathematics prevalent today, by means of which man wants
Here I do not mean single mathematical deductions, but mathematical
is juggling with ideas. This is not meant in a derogatory way; I only
Modern science set out to master the natural phenomena by means of a

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pictured by means of spatial forms. I can visualize their course in
and finally somehow entered the brain. Our thoughts were a means of
with the means available today to examine the nerves in every
existence of a corpse. This means that the concept of death is not

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see how man is in a position to comprehend right-left by means of the
inner soul-spirit means, one looked for it in such external features

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by means of opposite effects (“opposite” in the sense
begins to mean something only in the Seventeenth Century.
term for inertia, Trägheit, really means laziness.)
with uniform velocity. This means that throughout all time-spans it
felt the following. In the complicated lines, by means of which the
to one another, and so forth. This means that, although the inner

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into their deeper meaning. Reading his works, we find ourselves
gall, blood, phlegm, and the ordinary means of the intermingling of
meaning in them. Awkwardly and with great difficulty Boehme presents
by means of the external processes. Therefore they seized the idea of
dealt with by means of physics, which had in the meantime also been

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In the beginning man experienced all this inwardly by means of his
ago, man accompanied motion by means of inward experience and judged
velocity as movement per second, hence by means of space. This means,
its motion, meaning its change of position in space. We can do that
only if we find ways and means to inwardly take hold of the spatial,
You see, here lie the great tasks that, by means of the historical
chemistry, meaning a chemistry that is also a knowledge of man.
mean it in such a radical sense in this case — you say: These

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create a body of meaningful views of a physical sort within a general
itself, a relation which must be all means be established in certain
What then does it really mean when I say, if I put my fingers in the
thinking by means of reality and abandon the pure thought process.
spectrum analysis. The method is to be by means of instruments not
of gas by any means. Consider a moment, you have matter here on the
than zero. It has a very real meaning. As his father, you really have
They are very different things. Only meaningless abstractions result
instance, where I secure motion by means of heat. A very convenient
means of the differential concept. When the observed conditions in a

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rod, differed for different substances. If by means of further
give attention to the enormous meaning that the being of the sun has
I have already said that the real meaning of those ideas and concepts
It is quite erroneous to think that we carry our own meaning of the
the same meaning there. When in old writings, we come across the word
correctly translate old writings. But a profound meaning lies in this.

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aggregation I mean what I referred to yesterday as called in the
the fluid condition. By means of a thermometer we can determine that
determined it by means of the expansion of quicksilver. The expansion
condition, in so far as the temperature shows this condition, by means
have to exert pressure. This means nothing else but that you have to

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heat that by means of this we bring about the gaseous condition, and
cannot by any means interpenetrate this solid with another. The
physicist announces that he explains all phenomena by means of purely
really mean then when I say: Heat as it is applied in the steam engine
shows itself as motion, as mechanical work? What does it mean when I
the heat condition by means of your organism, that you can do it with
that we have certain organs within our bodies by means of which we

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sort of thing. I mean all that is obtained from pure mathematics. Such
has a very real meaning for us. If space were inside of us, it would
have no meaning for a person whether he were born in Moscow or Vienna.
stated but are meant when it is said over and over again: The
meaning as an organism if it is considered in its relation to the
whole organism. The meaning that the solid has in itself, can

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do by hanging a weight over the ice by means of a thin wire. The ice
meanwhile. The alloy finally solidifies. By measuring the temperature
What is really involved here and what does it mean? What we are

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Now what does it mean when one speaks in such a fashion? It means that
so that the paddle rotated by means of this apparatus will transmit
we now have to the fluid. This means nothing more or less than that we
a meaning. Gravity rules only solid planetary bodies and is only
this heat condition. By dawn we mean that after the earth has sought
region. By this means you see how to attempt to build such real

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mechanical effect by means of heat, in a way similar to that by which
confused theory which as he worked it out meant little more than this,
These two principles fundamentally, then, mean precisely the same
evaporation of matter means a becoming similar of this matter to heat.
arising in this way: I can by any suitable means bring about this

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instance, in the realm of the gaseous by means of the forces of form.

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by means of the alum solution.
But what does this mean mathematically? Suppose you set down the
being have to be made negative. What is meant by positive and negative

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means of the alcohol column, let us show the chemical activity of the
this spectrum we can only do so by means of a mental picture. The
What do we mean by a “development of rarefaction”? Well,
the possibility of also making fruitful these suction forces. (I mean
“There is no meaning in expressing as work a heat quantity which
fact, that I cannot turn into work, but there is no meaning in simply
below the melting point of its constituents, and what it really means

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it is a statement of a preconceived theory and is not by any means to
means of our formula. How must we represent qualitatively the relation
today are only vaguely felt and not by any means explained, namely the
handled mathematically and have, so to speak, more than one meaning.
What I mean my friends, is this. The same sort of difficulty that

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effect by means of an alum solution, the light portion by a solution
really mean something to you, you must work them over within
entities, these considerations of ours are limited in their meaning by

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place through the earth. By means of the forces of the earth, the
meaning of tone in the air, namely that an opposite kind of force is
of tone by means of our sensations without paying the slightest
effects in the world itself. It is by no means without interest to

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subject of the super-sensible world by means of the strictly controlled
conducted by means of the senses, and what Reason thinks
Religion in its original meaning is based on that experience whereby

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reality. Therefore we seek after all possible theoretical means to
pointed to reality precisely by means of this content. Nor had such a
rest. By this means we finally realize, if such a process is
This ‘imaginative knowledge’ is the means whereby we can
can only come into being by means of this imaginative knowledge. And
embryonic life and birth, to lay it down again in death. By means of
speech, and in this form have a meaning which throws religious light

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When success is reached by means of such exercises, we find ourselves
has progressed by means of the powers of growth from childhood
in which the Spirit of the Cosmos could still be seen by means of

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By means of developing intuition by exercises of the will it comes
mind. Through these exercises man is brought into a condition by means

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example, we speak of ‘longing’ we shall mean an
life both awake and in dream by means of that conception of the soul

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‘Cell’ we usually mean the small physical beginning of a
meanwhile has taken over her etheric organism, can unite. She can

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meaning. Previously man knew, as I have described, of the central

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researcher into the spirit. He does by no means replace the ordinary
physical functions than the man who perceives the outer world by means
its being, and can contemplate this by means of the continuation of

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strength from the rest of the physical organization by means of which
This actually means that the etheric body dissolves after a very short

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ego; and the cure can be found only by means of such knowledge. For in

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beings in the religions or by other means, were able to satisfy their needs
all that they insist upon testing things by means of this intellect.”
of the inner character of this ancient Chaldean culture. External means
inner means. Theosophists and Rosicrucians, however, have the spiritual,
by means of the intellect and the external devices of our civilization
the Rosicrucians was to formulate a science by means of which they would
science today investigate the effects of its remedies? By means of the
means the elaboration and later manifestation of the new.
which is possible by external means, it can be observed how on the top
and perceive. The true meaning of the mandate, “Know thyself!”
there the true meaning of the word, self-knowledge.

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is turned out to graze, it means happiness for the plant souls, not
when a certain degree of maturity has been reached, means bliss for
forgotten that these points of view are by no means always authoritative
and suffering mean in the plant kingdom, we must turn to the study of

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much love in him that willy-nilly he will do what is good, meaningful and
astral bodies into the three higher members. Meanwhile, you have heard
is at present can perceive only by means of physical organs. There are

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picture. Let us try to make this clear by means of an example. We see
by means of which his greed can be satisfied. His condition —
what it means to have desires that can be satisfied only through physical
the methods by means of which it can be observed. It is difficult to
an idea of the Spiritland by means of analogy. A solid land can be found
to meditate on the “That art thou,” it means that already in
this by means of a comparison. What enables man to have sight in the
Thus, it is by no means
beings meanwhile incorporate into the individual concerned the etheric
which means that he struggles against entering into the physical body.
but by no means all, emphatically not all.

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and more beautiful meaning when we realize that in a certain sense the
You will grasp what this means if you realize that there is never a
that spiritual science, in a time by no means far distant, will prove
means for working on the astral body. Ideation, mental pictures, should

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and ego — the bearer of the ego, which means complete independence.
Because of its longings, the astral body needs to have the means for
no means fortuitous but of deep significance. The name given to a thing
this no longer has meaning; what modern science calls an element does not
coincide with what the occultist means by the word. The modern expression
“aggregate condition” means roughly the same as
I will describe it to you by means of an example of conditions that are
what this means I will give an illustration. Think of a metal plate
and weight. The inner oscillation is here meant.

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by means of an experiment. A globule of oil in liquid of equal density
then on began to have a certain meaning, a certain significance. Race

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to be understood in the physical sense but as meaning in respect of
it must not be thought that this means hard and dense in the modern
man's astral body, but man himself had meantime progressed and the ego
process means that he controls the lifeless, mineral force in the coal.
say — can be applied by magical means without at the same time
powerful magicians who worked by means of magical forces and were able
and by this means develop the forces of the soul, and let the Eastern

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would have meant that these souls would bring egoism with them into
begin to change for souls after death. This was the meaning of Christ's
physical eyes and then with clairvoyant sight, they are by no means
earthly world and also into the world of the dead was meant to establish
earth. This means that in the future man will again have powers whereby
does this mean? It means that the body was immediately transported into

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example, the death of a lion here on the physical plane means as much
as it means to you to cut a fingernail. A lion is at first an astral
first began to have meaning during the Lemurian epoch and in time will
involved can achieve what, through the old initiation, was meant to be

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I should like to ask you, by means of the example of a great
and what he meant was that a man who enjoyed “Faust”
by means of symbols, they therefore spoke of one substance being
penetrated them by means of the laws of nature, — this state of
same meaning is applied to this word as we find in Goethe. In the New
which go ahead of our actions. By means of these forces we feel
means can man attain his development? By ennobling the lower
that means that man tries to follow his own way of life further.
River. This means that at the present age there are moments in a
hold of you unawares.” The meaning of the giant is moreover
detail; every single word is fraught with meaning. But it would lead
Mysteries.” He did not teach his pupils by means of abstract
of the word a Theosophist. He understood what it means that all the

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purified by the Soul-life. This means that if man cannot pay with the
Goethe by this meant
itself. And now we understand the meaning of love, it is a Sacrifice

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In the first Christian centuries, December 25th was by no means
I said, and we shall see presently in what sense it is meant, that the
one who is able to look at history with different means can gain
We can understand the deeper meaning of the Christmas festival only if
conventional meanings and gain new significance. Thus, to read the
great cosmic truths in this manner, means to celebrate the cosmic

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the word, which we can dispute or swear by, means more than what it
in divine heights. “Glory” means “revelation.” “Today God reveals
means. It is the expression of the glory permeating the world. This
Divine” (Vergottung). What does this word signify? It means that those

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We shall now hear the words that reflect the deepest meaning of the
his inner nature. Man must learn to know the things of earth by means
arrived when, as chosen ones, they experienced by means of their
Thus, in the meaning of the Christmas Festival, we feel something
meaning of the pentagram may not now be mentioned, but it is the star

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world influence us, and transforming our souls by means of this
world lying around us. What is meant by perceiving the whole world
Let us now reflect upon another feeling by means of which we can in

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means of his occult vision, he perceives them as beings connected with
memory means very much more in the sphere of occultism than it does in
important events of one's life. In occultism a right memory means that
consciousness realizes the sense-world by means of its perceptions;
they seek for a meaning behind things. Why does the plant-world
phenomena of nature, and wish to analyze the meaning, and to combine
in this seeking after the meaning of existence. Through feeling, one
If we still seek a meaning as to the laws of nature in the things of
this meaning as the imprint of the Planetary Spirit in the
meaning in fact to the whole planet. In this Maya lies the direct

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meant when allusion is made to spiritual beings. It will be necessary
he would, simply by means of his Will, immediately have to pass over
simply bring about in themselves just as they are, by means of their
We might, by means of a crude comparison from life, define the
external world by means of an untruth. This is a possibility which
moment what it actually means “to be free from oneself.”
to let anything be revealed to them by this means. Fundamentally,
water, but you must imagine that in the half-filled glass by means of
that the forming of such symbolical conceptions is a powerful means
By this means a man succeeds in recognizing something like a world

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interests in order, by that means, to rise into a sphere which he
is meant by these beings of Third Hierarchy, but even if he goes
means not to see with our eyes, hear with our ears, or think with our
his etheric body. By means of this he can even in ordinary, normal
consciousness can by means of sympathy and love plunge into the
vision. He must perform these; and not educate himself by means of his
plant-world and educate oneself further by means of this. Here someone

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means of a special enhancement of the experiences which we have in
the being of other men or of the higher animals, and by that means
educate ourselves by that means and perceive behind the human beings
by means of which they have, in a certain sense become quite
by means of an analogy. Let us consider a bee-hive or an ant-hill, and
occultist when he looks up to the Seraphim, we try to grasp such means
the concepts taken from ordinary life, nor by means of all sorts of
cannot by means of such ideas describe, even approximately, these
between one fixed star and another. By this means alone does the
which alone gives meaning to the whole system up to the consciousness

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other heavenly bodies, as a man by means of his speech enters into
do not wish to manifest externally they have no other means of
of their nature. That would mean nothing less than a deadening, a
filled their own inner being with it, and by that means developed an
Sun. That means that the Spirits of Form corresponding to our planets,
opposition, and by that means a notch is hollowed out, so also do the
quite clear and comprehensible, the children are shown by means of a

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means of the Seraphim. They are, as it were, to the whole system, that
means the world of planetary systems is integrated and forms a whole.
system belongs to other planets. When man, with all the means at his
does for other men; we cannot regard this activity as directly meaning
expressions he means something essentially different. It certainly
fix our attention on the forces by means of which the Archangels
comparing them by means of occult vision, he can gain from the form
plant-bodies and make use of those means which the practical occultist
first trouble about the astral body, for we already have that by means
you consider human life upon the earth, you will admit that by means
existence in the meantime. The Anthroposophist should be able to
evil astral matter by means of its comets.
undertaken with occult means, one can raise oneself up to the Thrones.
note that we can never grasp these matters by means of merely

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means that to those beings, to the Angels or Angeloi, the whole cosmic
consciousness of such a being. For clairvoyance simply means calling
Let us examine the matter still more closely by means of a concrete
a comparison which will make clear what I actually mean. Suppose you
in which the one will always throw light on the other. By means of
impression, we can only do so by means of a comparison. I must admit
experience has a faint conception of what is meant when it is said:
condition in which a separate sun no longer has any meaning.” For
sorts of nice, neat symbols, what is meant by “seeing the sun at
made to explain them by means of symbols, but are taken as literally
quite different meaning in them all. I admit that the intellectual
the physical world, has no meaning except to certain modern
natural-philosopher would certainly not ascribe a soul; I mean a
a meaning for the inner relations of the forces of animals. I should

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We will now pass on to show more in detail what all this really means.
what is actually meant when we speak of group-egos of the animals. It
means that in the animal dwell spiritual forces, belonging to beings
it sees in another. Space is by no means a homogeneous affair; it is
astral plane,” that really means that when occult vision wishes
Mercury. That means the Individuality who was the Leader of Buddhism
a Boddhisattva therewith became a Buddha. That means that his spirit
means of studying the actual orbits of the individual planets through
Rishis knew, as also did Zarathustra, that what is meant by

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forth; but the active forces by means of which it is put forth are not
are not created from the planets by means of these planetary streams,
content, the inner nature expressed in the etheric stream is, by means
certain things work in such a way that one might explain it by means
everywhere be broken through. If anyone were to prove by means of a
with a merely symbolical explanation; for what the Bible means by good
meant as good and evil is that which is seen externally, not as
the Luciferic temptation. That means that the fixed stars as directed
We have pointed out what meaning this life has in the planetary
fructification of the group-ego by the astral body, and by this means
means of attaining the high ideals of our Anthroposophical life is to
they belong to all men. This might be explained by means of a physical

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discussion of the nature and meaning of the Ten Commandments of Moses.
these concepts gain new meaning in the light of our latest
is not at all in the spirit of their original meaning. When we enter
observe how these Ten Commandments are not meant to be merely external
laws, how they are actually meant to be just what has been discussed,
That means that when the ego has become permeated with the essence of
transformed it to buddhi or spirit self, when by means of his ego, he
sublime; all gods who are served by this means are lower gods than the
meaning of the Egyptian temple sleep and how it affected the health of
Only people familiar with spiritual science will know what it means to
to imagine that beyond all that can be spiritually expressed by means
We see that what is meant is not merely an abstraction, but something
means to foster his existence. He develops what we refer to as
the means with which to become integrated into the external
possible manner, but its true meaning is as follows. “The strong ego
correct sense only by means of spiritual science. Everything connected
them because by means of these Commandments their external life was to

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meaning. They indicate that something of a most essential nature took
means could be known and understood in the dark age of Kali Yuga.
instance, derive healing and refreshment by means of this ecstatic
of consciousness, and the time came when only by means of a long and
this by means of his own ego. But when the promised time came it had
Still, by these means alone the change would not have been possible. A
This was by no means a sermon for the masses. The Gospels read, “When
fairyland but meant to be the spiritual world, the Land of Shamballa.

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souls of the present day, doubt and insecurity as to the means used up
itself in a position to create clarity on these points by means of its
force, what life-meaning they gained through these pictures —
written them not with earthly means, but with impulses from the
does it mean that the bearer of the Ego first becomes really active in
the 20th or 21st year of life? Here we must observe, by occult means,
means, one can say that only around the 20th year does man develop his
year on? This means that in the present cycle of man's development he
not meant in a bad sense, but in such a way that each of you would
the means of the old religious confessions; in the ancient
we mean a form of human feeling in which there was an especially

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meaning that as a spiritual revelation it will show itself to men.
and these deaths mean in the course of evolution?
learn to know the unending pains of men, which mean something entirely
different for a god from what they mean for a man. Therewith the gods
single physical incarnations meant for them.

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meant the church turning into a worldly organisation, then we
learning, not through the means which one believed at the time,
to re-discover Christianity, but with the means of

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of life. Such is this meaningful order of occurrence. We shall soon
see why it must be this meaningful succession. It can, as a matter of
understand one another in the relation of man to man by means of the
understand one another here by means of thinking, — this we have
manifestation in the forces of the earthly life of speech, by means of

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responsibilities, such as he can discharge only by means of his
means of certain instinct, even though an instinct humanly formed. We
the vessel into which we draw the thoughts by means of our ego. But
soul which are by no means the same as our present activity in
oneself to think means to inject human will into this thinking, and
human soul life, it becomes clear to us that there is meaning in the
thinking occurred in the fourth Christian century. I mean that in the
intellectual, abstract thinking. This means, however, nothing else
although only by means of spiritual research — with persons even
means of external thinking. What Augustine called Manicheanism, what
arrive in which the human being must bring about a kingdom by means of
means of his own forces. This was a prophecy at the time of the

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by no means an unpleasing relic, quite the contrary, and in many
not get any nearer to each other by such means. We can only come

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nature. People do not know any longer what it means to be young and
what it means to be old. Nothing is known about it and that is why
means an unwritten page. Before then, many things rose up of
refusing the legacy has been missed. But this means a definite amount
profounder natures in the modern youth movement. By no means
life, must mean something to one another. It is this that has from

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fundamental feeling for what is here meant by the Spirit.
what they meant by reality anything in addition to what they
things in the meaning which people are anxious to exclude today.
Everything is assimilated by means of the head, formally and
theosophy is by no means essentially different. It comes down to

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have known what was meant. In earlier times they would have known
thinking, by which I mean the unfolding of primary, original
living means first to attain vision. What we need to reach the living
meant something but had real existence. Then indeed they would not be

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that the world-riddle has been solved by means of a cognitional
But such a statement is meaningless. It is just as sensible as if
means of head knowledge.

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because what I really mean is only fully intelligible to those who
kind of knowledge. I mean times when those possessing a certain
Science — I mean science as it was actually pursued, not what
does not mean merely to lose oneself in phantastic mysticism and to
means in the face of life itself to speak about actual realities. We
Brahmin schools spoke of four means to knowledge on the path of life.
And these four means for gaining knowledge are — well, it is
four means to knowledge in the following way. First, there was that
was the first means of acquiring knowledge.
second means for acquiring knowledge was what we might describe as
third means to knowledge was what we might call thinking that aims at
a fourth means for acquiring knowledge was also taught with all
This was a fourth means for the attainment of knowledge. Perhaps this
as one of the means of acquiring knowledge. A philosopher who dabbled
others as a means to knowledge would never get through with his
us to contribute towards a Solution, but a solution which may mean

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by no means convinced that the human being could create his
I mean for the external science of the times following his; for
is God-given — I mean that there was no longer even an echo of
scientists' meaning of the word. These souls not dried up
a material means, possibly in the meteor-showers flying through

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soul and consciousness soul, which means for modern humanity the
may at first seem grotesque. But it is not meant to be so. Now let us
one. I shall explain this by means of an example in the monastery
meant that to begin with one avoided giving them definite knowledge.
manifestation of secret forces of Nature,” which simply means
permeate ourselves with the meaning of the path, [that] only through the
mean this in all seriousness. There are vast numbers of very clever

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only way to listen to lectures on Spiritual Science, as meant here,
inner activity. To listen to Spiritual Science means to invite the
spiritual. In this respect my book was intended as a means of
meaning of the terms, “life body” or “ether body”.
means to look at black, red, green, yellow, white. Let us call up in
But what is found in a botanical textbook cannot mean anything to a

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head observes and what can be worked out by means of the head.
in the right way what is meant by the
what does it mean to experience another human being? We cannot
about chemistry, how do we set about it? We have no other means than

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perceive it anew with the spiritual means of today. We must permeate
the senses. This was by no means the case. They had a much fuller
mean — as when the peasant out in the country puts potatoes
make calculations about Nature. Calculations in those days meant
indifferent to it by means of what I described yesterday as the web
meant to do this in such-and-such a way.” Knowledge of man —

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better what I mean.
meaning and pointed to what would come in the future. But olden times
universal death, yet such a view is not sincere. And by no means
sincere, by no means honest, was the view that considered moral
of energy simply means that science has entirely barred the way
means of which to enter our civilization. And this chariot reveals
what becomes the chariot by means of which Michael will enter our
progress in their evolution. This means to bring knowledge to life
again, it means to call forth in full consciousness what once was
the means available at present, we shall have to guide man again to
lectures were actually meant. Their aim was that you should not
your hearts. If hearts have found some connection with what is meant

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powers; that means, on the one hand, to use the Luciferic tendency
other Christ does not mean that it is the Christ. If one wishes to
wishes to point to the Christ impulse in its true meaning, it is
Divine, but for the paradise that has been lost, that means, the
This does not mean that we ourselves have to become denouncers of

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sense perception by means of the brain processes does not know at all
its real meaning. The earth would not have its meaning if man were to
meaning, for the waking human being and the earth belong together. The
meaning. The possibility has arisen for the human being gradually to
accomplishes in the world by means of his head he owes to the wisdom
of the Gospel, we read that much has been left unsaid. By this means
end of the earth cycles.” That means: “I have revealed

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everyone. That means, human beings are brought together through
forces of the human head means, in truth, to be able to diagnose all
means to think in the sense of Michael, to have Michaelic thoughts.
I will characterize more precisely what it means to think in the
walk among invisible human beings — this means to think Michaelically.
way means simply that we have to learn to know them in a different
the super-sensible beings means to think in the spirit of Michael.
live by means of what draws us away from the earth. This may be stated
Michael wills to speak to us. That means, we must try to recognize our

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evolution received its meaning, its true inner content.
In the occident this is, at the outset, comprehended by means of this
they are lacking, because mankind in the meantime will have become
his new life, but he does by no means completely take up into this
ordinary life. The life of thought means complete wakefulness. We are
through external observations; we know the facts, but with the means
And what does it mean if we do not find the Spirit? To be unable to

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the All-Mighty. Few people know that it would have had no meaning
explained to you recently what it means to be externally visible, and
countries, unite! What does this mean? It means: Foster your antipathy
hate, and unite; that means, love one another, unite your feelings of

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line. (It will receive its full meaning only through that which will
lost. That means, we have to acquire the ability of taking hold of
am now saying. For just consider what it means that reality itself, in
oneself with this consciousness means to permit the Michael culture to
be built, for people who would use such a means of transportation
Mass, the meaning of every single piece of his priestly garments, if

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falling asleep. We are by no means awake with our entire being between
detrimental to European conditions at the time; it was well meant.
influence over others by means of personal magnetism or by
reasonable sense, without attaching to it any secondary meaning. We
This is not meant as a reproof, for such pain and mourning are

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do we really mean if we say: “ours is a spiritual time”?
Most spiritual conceptions today, although well-meant, mean very
mean extraordinarily much to them. It is an interesting fact that
body. What do I really mean by pointing to the natural-scientific
Michael, which means that the counter-striving powers have been
inadequate means; to reveal the spiritual worlds materialistically.
what I really mean.

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themselves with these things today lack the means of knowledge
means of hypnosis he drew from her little by little all the
general inadequacy of their means of cognition. But I must
to be true, which means that he has a demon which torments him,
devil is everywhere at their heels; I mean that they are

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soul realm by inadequate means of cognition. Perhaps nothing is
take mysticism to mean a desire to swim about in all sorts of
is made of means, if more clever a better choice. In this case
improper, allowed or not allowed, the right means could not
attitude that “the end justifies the means,”
It cannot be possible that he means himself. In this case he
reliable means of knowledge. He must so submerge if he spends
therapeutic instructions of the psychoanalysts are meant, but
his work. I do not mean to say that egoism is always bad. But
means of our ordinary consciousness. The wise guidance of the
tries to master by such inadequate means of knowledge, but
may be handled by means of mere ideas. Such connections lead

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means that the human being must submerge himself in the
his works by means of logic or outer observation. He knows
further and further we acquire real discrimination. This means
that by means of this experiment we accustom ourselves to look
give us the kingdoms. This means that our own inner self
is this meant? In the following way: Let us suppose that
our own desires that at last they are overcome. By this means
same. What does that mean? Well, is it not true that in the
carefully worked out personal possession of the means and

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but by means of simple sight could arouse a desire that the
before himself he will be able by its means to exert an

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independent members; I mean, in regard to the formative forces
truths concerning repeated earth lives remain by no means
organs, naturally by means of spiritual sight. What exactly is
they called it hypochondria, meaning a process of
They have meaning only if we can enter upon the single concrete
human metabolism is by no means a mere simmering and seething
examined by means of physiology and chemistry, but bears within
in his entirety means to find in him the forces which reach
more exact diagnosis can be made than by the means in ordinary

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are naturally not meant as if any one epoch of evolution sharply came
descent of man into the physical world. But by no means should things
idea whereby the group-soulness chiefly expresses itself loses meaning
meaning, especially in our age.
this, that he knows by means of the anthroposophical view of the
clairvoyance, their word then meant something which existed in the
“air,” then he means something external, physical. The word
employed, one did not merely mean something external, physical, but a
busy themselves seeing only a materialistic meaning, even behind those
in the speech of the time. This has no longer any meaning for a
disembodied soul, because it only has meaning for what is the physical
speak of things in this way ceases to have any meaning. Then indeed it
progressive methods of evolution appearing. By progress we do not mean
meaning for the sixth period. Races have only in themselves the
This is the meaning of earthly evolution, that man acquires more and
has attained the Christ nature in himself. That is the meaning of a

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modern spread of books, when these Gospels were by no means in all
will express such powers as Zarathustra possessed. That means, one
the great main stream of our present spiritual life. That means, just
nothing called the discoverer of arithmetic, that means, that faculty
physically from one generation to the other. That means, this perfect
arranged in harmonious relationships of number. That means these
stream in; that means, we have to conceive that
through an external revelation. That means, the Jews had to go over to
Mysteries, they attained through external means what they needed to
Canaan: that means, the soul of Zarathustra; and the three Magi

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Greek speech still meant with a word. And if we read the Bible today,
to the meaning of one quite definite word, when one uses it of
truly absolute nonsense. What is meant by it? Everybody in ancient
was meant thereby which was connected with the soul-progress of the
it, for the I,” then you have a meaning in these significant
receive the sun-initiation, that means, enter the secrets of the
of the heavens as a means of expression. So that John the Baptist
drew to the sea of Galilee — that means, when the sun was so far
understand it, unless we enter a little more closely into the means of
Our modern means of expression is pedantic. If a man stands before us,
meant by such designations. One did not give names as one does today,
Gospel where we have mention of the Christ, the sun-force is meant,
then the Spirit drove him into the wilderness — (really it means

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suffering must be overcome, A means must be found to be able to
which means, only by grasping Spiritual Science with one's
with those means possessed by St. Augustine, the means
in St. Augustine a personality who, with all the means which
with the ordinary means of the 5th Post-Atlantean age; he seeks
means of which we can come behind this external Nature to that
Golgotha; which means that one could never come to understand

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feel ourselves as earthly human beings — that means
— that means an Ahriman-free consciousness — so
to have any value. That means, only that which can be related
which Bentham put forward: “The good (that means what
combated in the sharpest way possible. (That means, of course,

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the peoples and are understood exoterically in their literal meaning.
people search for their symbolic meaning. Behind these two
and what she writes will enable you to see what a profound meaning is
sons of the ancient Greek god Uranus and his wife Gaia. Uranus means
means whereby they could save themselves and be no longer entirely
they were meant to see the past and the future of the whole of the
entire root-race. His brother is Epimetheus. Prometheus means
‘thinking in advance’, Epimetheus means ‘thinking afterwards,
Try to acquire an idea of what we mean when we speak of this
This does not mean that people were given a vague abstract account of
after another. Uranus means heaven, Gaia the earth. If we go back
exoteric meaning, secondly the allegoric — the human struggle
Chela means pupil of the Mysteries; Master means teacher in the Mysteries.
Manas. Here is meant the higher Manas. In the book Theosophy Rudolf Steiner calls it ‘the spirit-filled Consciousness-soul’ or ‘Spirit-Self’. (p. 57, revised English edition, 1954).

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Mysteries were taught the occult meaning of this saga. They were
means simply that an earlier race — the Persian-Iranian, with its
aspires. Read Homer's Odyssey! He means that man is in search of his
Cyclopes only mean that Etna had erupted and that the scene of the
property. This means that the man who had recognized the unimportance

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into tragedy. Hence he is also called Sieg-urt, which means, “he
means, “that which leads to death, to destruction.” It is still
what is meant. Attila shrank from nothing that he encountered in

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same time they have an external meaning on the physical plane, that is
deep esoteric meaning is hidden. You must realise that what I put
pontoi pilatoi”, which means merely “in compressed
means to be dead to the earthly and withdrawn to a higher plane of
a symbolic meaning as well, they are mystical facts. The concept of
For the fifth root-race music will be not merely art, but the means of
Hence their betrayal would mean the public announcement by someone of

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them will be set forth in their deeper meaning. I bid you note that
clarity. If you should now ask about the meaning of such things, then
you could hear or read that it means this or that — a triangle,
for instance, would mean the higher trinity and the like. Frequently
interpreted; they are said to “mean something”. To reach
behind the sense, behind the meaning, to recognize the reality of
meant we can make clear with an example.
meaning of a symbol. All signs and symbols that we meet in occultism
figures. They then are the means toward reaching cognition or
thinking out contrived, arbitrary meanings for these signs. One must
give meaningful names to things. It was given its name out of its
shows many regularities that have a deeper meaning. One of these is
Meaning, the first book of Moses, Genesis. e.Ed]
into the meaning of these biblical words.

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The Symbolic Meaning of Noah's Ark and the Gothic
e.Ed] Now, in order to understand the meaning of this Ark
mentioned in the Bible (I Moses 6, 15), [Meaning, the
what it means that a vessel through which man should be rescued has
God that should express or mean this or that. Something much deeper
comic journals. This is not meant to be a fanatical agitation against
and fourteenth centuries did not have the meaning it has today, but
meant to become. Hence it is that at a definite time, they form
on earth is meant, but all that is fluid. Then all the gaseous
the meaning of this development. On Saturn the germinal foundation

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proportions have a certain meaning for the cosmos and the world. It
intimate numerical symbolism, the meaning of which we can only touch
an idea of what is meant when it is said of the old occult
and magic, nor of a superstitious meaning of some number. Its
the number of revelation in occultism. This means that whatever
What does this mean? From the time of Augustine to the sixteenth
This is what is meant when certain religious systems speak of the
that men today stand in the mineral kingdom. What does this mean?
has meaning for outer events.
a meaningful development through which you can attain spiritual
today was meant to give you roughly sketched thoughts.

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meaning. In man there is to be found a kind of extract of all the
Word!” This does not mean a philosophical word in the
wonderful way, as a summation of the meaning of the other seals.
we find its meaning in the mystery of the Redeemer. Just as we are

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means that our souls' gaze must rise to those beings who, in
those of the Eastern wisdom, but renewed by means of fresh forces
would have had no meaning to speak of physical stars, when the
an example), did they mean by it the physical orb of that name? No! —
even the ancient Greeks did not use it in that sense; what they meant
part is meant of that which was originally understood by Moon,
the same words something ever more different may be meant. In spite
and ‘Powers’ the same worlds were meant. With the name

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meaning as it has nowadays. It stood for a certain state in the
the solid, the watery, the gaseous, by means of the light. One does
festival comprehending its meaning. Such a man has not only an outer
really means. If anyone thinks that man is here spoken of, he does
have had to show, by means of a comparatively difficult example, how
the true meaning of life and to realise its importance, so that this
stream void of meaning.

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mean by it our present moon which is only a part, a residue of the
ancient moon, we mean a former condition of the earth, which existed
not mean only one degree of the gods, but he meant the whole sequence
‘But warmth can only come about, only be perceived by means of
placed it on the altar there, meaning that he was conscious of owing
men on Saturn. What does it mean to become men? It means to attain
fire and smoke or air. By means of the light they let their shining
force stream out into universal space; by means of fire they lived
are the messengers, the heralds of the Archai.’ Angel means
Messenger, Archai means the Beginnings. The Archangels were nothing

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give. Fundamentally, the whole meaning and spirit of evolution rests
the deeper meaning of the thing itself.

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brought before our souls by means of two examples, that on ancient
means, that when the Sun has got so far as to be reunited with its
which mean Powers.

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time. You have here to do with that which represents the meaning and
could describe the meaning and the mission of, for instance, the
has to appear in harmony with the meaning of the whole earth's
meant, when it is said, that fundamentally the great guiding
meant when she pointed out that the Buddhas represented Maya. You can

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Angels; behind this physical body, which is by no means so limited as
actions had a meaning, an influence on the whole concatinations of
recognise in connexion with the whole manner and means by which the

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advised to move it by the means of ice, what would he say? Thus,
density. Just as one cannot move a mill by means of ice, one also
meaning is to be made clear.
detail, for the meaning of these designations and the whole procedure

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found by this means the impulse for movement within itself.

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Thoughts in the sense of to-day — I do not mean scientific
three dimensions. In the meantime, it is in other dimensions.
although in the name Uranus some meaning still is left; it was given
when people still had some feeling for the meaning of names;
which the mind of man could ever imagine. What did this mean? To show
where it is specially clearly expressed. It is, of course, not meant
the Godhead who, by means of evil, wishes to develop more powerful
Cosmos, it can happen only through Freedom, that means, only through
knowledge. This means that the knowledge gained through spiritual

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participators of its working if we endeavour to apply all means at
means of the Christ principle, it had to ripen by the aid of the
the whole of the deep, inner meaning of the Christ; but side by side

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mathematics or geography today by means of old documents, written in
is the meaning of unnatural forms being built into the astral body?
It means that forms are built into it, which contradict the great
what means can man acquire such independence of his physical body,

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world experienced by means of the sense organs they are to be found
threefold constitution on Earth. Evolution is by no means such a
us now enquire as to the spiritual meaning of this separation. We
the meaning of the separation of Sun from Earth.
was the meaning of the separation of Moon? Man could not have kept

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Sun and Old Moon has evolved into our Earth. In its concrete meaning
discovered by means of super-sensible investigation without the aid of
and Chthon. Now what precisely did he mean by these names? It will at
meaning when used in ancient times, for it was applied to spiritual
for to believe in reincarnation seriously means to realise its goal
idea of historical progress, he may easily lose sight of the meaning
a conception of that being by means of spiritual sight. We have
this example I have tried to show what it means to throw light upon

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a human ego consciousness in the spiritual world had neither meaning
am the All.’ And they took the two together to mean the
the Western mystery schools of the Rosicrucians. When by means of the
Substance into the human soul is understood henceforth by means of
understands by Lucifer what is here meant, must necessarily have
and develops those faculties by means of which we have to penetrate

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At the present day the human soul can only attain to it by means of
would be understood if this were known. But all this has a meaning
observed by means of the instrument of the human physical body. This
means of the senses means nothing much to me; in order to realise the
super-sensible worlds by means of systematic training.
of being able to send it out empty. What does that mean? The etheric
when by means of suitable preparation, that which was manifest
experienced by means of that kind of clairvoyant research which is
usual conception that man perceives the outer world by means of his
means of the spiritual faculty that is bound up with the physical
is non-existent for the realistic thinker. Sense perception by means
speaking of feeling in a superficial way we mean the sense of touch,
true that by means of occult research we can substantiate the fact
known by means of clairvoyance. The Greek consciousness would say:
that what comes from spiritual worlds will once again mean something

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sixth epoch in a very special way This was the intention and meaning
soul in the way that it has become today, would have had no meaning
That is the meaning of the deep expression, an expression which is
were the essential means of approach to all the wisdom of the first
laws, which the initiate — for it was he who by means of
by means of the astral body he had still to a certain extent astral
to have the same super-sensible meaning and the connotation of

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a framework built up by means of the number seven. We must not build
and speculate and attribute all kinds of meanings to the number
number seven. In the first place this number seven is only a means of
meaning as regards the evolution of the earth.
and evil have their meaning in evolution and seven is the key number.
inner meaning of these things.
must be things whose meaning is very hard to fathom.
external vision — is designated, by means of an expression
completeness by means of the highest teaching.
to come into the world just at a time when the means of understanding
consult with them as to the means of reintroducing the wisdom that
knows, if it can decipher the name of Josaphat, the meaning of that
word. This cultivation of occult knowledge in the West by means of
means of tradition — so they may also believe that it accords
means of making one such beginning, by bringing the teachings of

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employment of quite special means the possibility of seeing anything
theosophy; unless the above-mentioned means are employed to see with
as those means are employed. Then we can say that theosophy is what
top but is not in a position to do so with the right means? We can
theosophical, but what means does he employ to attain the summit?
that they should no longer be open to the ordinary means of
heights, but for its means it depends upon something that was once
of theosophy, with the wrong, inadequate means of a defunct
philosophy. The meaning of philosophy can really no longer be
proclaimed these, by means of his partial initiation, in a way that
attempted to transcend anthropology without employing the right means
through theosophy; the latter must provide the means for recognizing
something within himself, as it were; by their means he feels
mental activity of the individual. The perception of the meaning of a
the meaning of what is expressed in speech. That is why the child
tossed in with our seventh sense, temperature. Only in this meaning,
mean “to touch.” Indeed, the sense of touch is der
“groping,” as one gropes in the dark by means of the
sense, the second (berühren) as meaning “to come in
world, the fourth sense leads us into this outer world, and by means
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entice and snap up its nourishment by means of certain contrivances,
anthroposophically. By means of spiritual-scientific observation, man
smelling. We shall see why all such things are accomplished by means
significance that Gefühl can mean “touch” as
mean nothing to sound thinking. Somebody would have to be inside to
the consciousness soul. This path can be readily visualized by means
consciousness soul; one effort can be sensed by means of the other.
must be brought about by means other than through the sense of
nothing by means of which he might develop out of himself a sense
its meaning. Thus we can experience the inner nature of a sound we
sense of sound by means of the lymphatic current.
[TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: Ich means I (or also,
by no means immaterial, for example, that the word “Adam”

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concept, but in its everyday meaning. That is, I hear a word spoken
and I visualize its meaning. This sense could also be called the
verb vorstellen means imagine, in the loose sense (“I
or sound, asking ourselves what it means “to have a sense of
the spoken sound is meant.] come about?
artificial means. Under favorable conditions some three to five of
when we hear a word we understand its meaning by means of the word
we achieve this power over the harmonics, which means nothing else
but it should be understood that only the meaning it has, for
By means of this imaginative sense we are able to “sense”
that we have a back, and we know it by means of the various senses,
should be understood as meaning that it operates in a current upward
Higher up lies what in the narrower meaning we can call our senses.
body. That would mean that the ego and the astral body act together.
sense world by means of his senses, and with his mind understand the
latter by means of the former. The building of each of our organs can

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action, owing precisely to this separation that meant a higher
be properly studied with the ordinary means of human observation. As
of embarrassment. This judgment expressed through feeling means that
countenance by means of the senses, the sense image is true. That is
the sense of sound develops, and then, by means of this, the sense of
by means of the speech man had acquired, but in order to do this he
soul was developed. Reading by means of the intellectual soul had its
In such considerations we find the means for comprehending all cultural

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transcription of it could have any meaning for those unacquainted
of means for passing the time and how these, in turn, affect the soul
a conception what we mean by the pure soul principle. We must acquire
NOTE: Knüpfen means literally to knot together.]
psychologists, no matter how well-meaning, invariably overshoot the

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contradiction. Keep it firmly in mind, for it is by no means easy to
Boredom is by no means something that arises simply of
the future; that means that he has a soul life directed toward the
means of more clairvoyant observation has gradually been forgotten

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Laid upon meaner spirits: never to make known
in addition to meaning “sensation” (as here translated)
stimulated by our own soul lives. By means of outer experiences we
commonly used word meaning distaste, antipathy, disgust. The English

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reasoning we mean mental activity, the faculty that desires to
to get a picture of this by means of which we can describe the
that occurred before the ego became a means of reflection. If
can impair his health. That means that in the etheric body there live

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fact, it is our aim to bridge by means of these lectures the gap
mention the meaning of visualization again, nor, in view of what we
to “willing,” wollen can also mean “desiring”
interesting double meanings can be explained but not translated, so
meaning later on. Had the God created the spirit-man without having
enable it to continue its development. But within Aristotle's meaning

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possible to a slight degree to convince our opponents by means of any
are ways and means of meeting that science, and that in championing
derived through a method of observation that must be created by means
taken seriously the refutation of the first objection by means of the
of an independent activity of the spirit, meaning the independent
material objects bring about the image by means of the mirror. You
super-sensible world by artificial means. The super-sensible world
penetrating into the super-sensible world by means of an error
that cannot lie within Aristotle's meaning either. We cannot admit a
into worlds in which it means nothing. Quite different is the

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practically never used in German to mean ‘imagination’ in
commas, but without these it has the technical meaning. If the reader
mere combination of visualizations. Our psychologist by no means sees
soul but with which the soul makes contact. That means that there is
judgment within the present meaning.
could first point out that when living in them we by no means feel as
it. There is, indeed, a means of overcoming error, as everyone knows.
primarily through visualization. It is by means of visualizations,
sense, he himself can by no means approve, with whom he cannot be
development. By means of a visualization that is outwardly an error
imagination is not visualization either. By means of perception, the
outer world. By means of the process described, visualization adapts
all the ways and means by which visualizations are ordinarily given a
means something that arbitrarily manipulates cosmic laws, but that it
this, something external as well, lies by no means outside the circle
would have to be able to think out all that and realize it by means
with intuition in the higher sense, such as is meant in my book,
The other part I will explain to you by means of another
imagination has prepared us, we then perceive by means of the event

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the meaning of reincarnation, anyone developing a justified
learn its true meaning, is a matter of development. As a human being
does that mean, that a man must learn to know himself through
imaginative cognition? It means that through the agency of the images
realize that we are by no means as well adapted to this world as we
really, in life? Well, by means of logic and the theory of knowledge
ideal for man's inner law. It was by no means fortuitous that in the
concept, “the goal of God's ways.” It means that by

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Festival, have any clear or profound idea of what it means? How seldom
mean any kind of pedantic summary; I mean a gathering-together of all
means more than the Word conceived as the power by which the world
This brings us to the true meaning of Christmas as a Festival of the
religion we have the ‘Gloria in excelsis.’ The meaning of ‘gloria’

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contemplation they were to be made aware of the meaning and import of
Hero. We must understand the meaning of this appellation. Then we
There is a legend which gives expression to the true meaning of the
more death. But in the meantime only he who is an Initiate may take
of the tree. Of the deepest meaning of the pentagram we may not now
symbolises the very essence and meaning of earth-existence. It comes

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was meant to revive in human souls the remembrance of the descent of
festival of the 6th of January ceased to have any essential meaning.
point to the loss of a great truth, such profound meaning lay behind
all, the import and meaning of the Baptism by John in the Jordan.

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earth-evolution in order to give that evolution its meaning, has for
meaning of the union of Christ with Jesus, in the Being whose physical
physical man, to impart meaning to earth-evolution. And in Jesus we
the Temple of Solomon was to inculcate the meaning of worlds into the
this means, realising that these old Initiates of the Temple of
its meaning. It was the central star of the earth, shining out with
concept of Jesus emerged was by no means very sublime, but it gripped
meaning, the far deeper significance, remains in the subconsciousness.
But they had forgotten the import and meaning of these ancient
became Ahrimanic. This meant that the union of the woman with the
the Germanic languages, but no one understands their meaning. They are
whom the whole meaning of the earth was to be made new, he in whom the
discloses this to-day and this alone explains the meaning of the
and more deeply and thereby grasp in concrete reality the meaning of
deeper meaning, will become fully comprehensible when its place in the
no meaning!

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whole of earth-evolution receives purpose and meaning.
meaning is rightly understood.
there any understanding of what is meant by saying that our
they are a priori. By this he means that they are determined before
meaning only when we realise from spiritual-scientific knowledge that
is meaningless to base spiritual science upon knowledge acquired
this Festival still has any real meaning for the majority of people?
Tree, in reality? When we endeavour to discover its meaning and know
meaning of world-redemption is not understood and the mind turns again

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You will remember that I have spoken of the meaning of the Christmas
These three offerings are full of meaning and in keeping with the
Festival is pregnant with meaning. The 6th of January is the same date
death. What is the meaning of dying and of resurrection, as
representing the Third Root Race (Lemurian). A deep meaning lies in
the Cross. What other meaning could these words contain: “My God, my
very largely lost their meaning to-day; the feeling of their
so-called lower, or astral mysteries. To be led by a Star means

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Nature, by the Christ, imparts meaning and purpose to the whole of
word ‘Immortality.’ Indeed all that the word ‘Unborn-ness’ can mean to
the Christ Being in Jesus of Nazareth, it has lost its meaning and
purpose. The meaning and essence of Christianity must be found again.
to look with unprejudiced eyes, the old meaning is still discernible.
This is the meaning of the words which will now be given and which are

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Who pervades all earthly evolution, giving it meaning and purpose.
the earth, giving the earth meaning and purpose.
with a new impulse, be fraught with the meaning and purpose imparted

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that means, that what was at first outside, then entered into the soul
sufficient unto itself, as we might say. What does this mean? It means
you meant. To him such words would have been mere sounds, without
meaning. The great Teachers could not have taught the Old Indians by
had to communicate through the etheric body. That means that the
would mean to deceive oneself utterly; for while the outer appearance
Bodhisattva became Buddha, which means that he really rose a stage
fully developed, man will, by its means, gradually become sufficiently
the physical plane by means of music, and he taught in such a way that
he must not look around him; for that would mean inner death; —
etheric body. That means that when some day man, through Spirit-Self,
meantime it is necessary that they should learn that the Christ-Being

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the light of the Anthroposophical conception. It is by no means
If the illness takes such a course that we recover from it, it means
Anthroposophy is, when they feel that it furnishes us with the means
should regard themselves as pioneers for Anthroposophy as a means of
and by this means they become active. Not only is this a wrong

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in the meanwhile intervened, was afterwards given to him through the
gods before he was meant to do so, we have to describe a delay of the
was the preparation by means of which the ego was to learn in its most
as that deed of Christ Jesus by means of which he turned what was
1940, and by means of these a number of people will enter into new
half of this century. For it is only by means of that which Spiritual

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mean that the activity of the astral body will suddenly cease, or that
by normal means or not, — the gift of clairvoyance. But this
the spirit!’ That means, those who can no longer rise into
for by this means they will, through themselves, discover the Earth.
translated contains a meaningless word, tells us the following: Those
but rather those are true Christians who understand the meaning of the
Spiritual Standpoint! — What does this mean?
faculties by means of which the event of Damascus becomes a personal
of clairvoyance. They must ascend to Christ by means of the capacities
souls, can we realise what it means to each human soul and what it

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any means signify that we know the last truth about it; rather must we
world is Maya,’ but a man cannot grasp its meaning, if he does
inkling of what it means to think in the spirit, to live in the
brought this forward as an example by means of which we can gain some
characterise what I mean, by referring to the three last appearances
does not mean a descent into matter, but rather the driving of that
understand this decision; if he does not, that means that he has not

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that world and are therefore able, by means of those thoughts and
Those public lectures have indeed the mission, by means of the
the possibility of having even an inkling of what we mean to-day by
Egyptian-Chaldean epoch. That means that we had at one time to be
further complications thus arise in evolution. By this means more is
meaning of what thus flows forth is not to be found in the content of
by means of which man could grow in the East, desiring to preserve for
together with the ego-consciousness and by means of it, brings the
Christ by means of a certain etheric clairvoyance, and of

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human being. This means that the author of The Christ Myth
also feel an urge to prove everything by means of such external
by means of which men will be able to obtain spiritual truth in a new
the person in question may be the means by which the spiritual life
Theosophy which does not provide the means of understanding
events in Palestine proves nothing. I will show you by means of an

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which we are fixed, by means of our thinking activity. We must, as it
to that of the initiate. This should not be taken, however, to mean
earth we receive our perceptions by means of the senses, so after
means of our eyes and ears. Now, however, we encounter a difficulty
that would mean a dimming of consciousness for every soul were it not
until the time the Greeks experienced the meaning of the Mystery of
receive from without the impulse by means of which he could gain
transmitted by means of tradition, that gave the power to maintain
that means to have become an “I.” The possibility of
consciousness across an abyss, and this is done by means of the
with a necessary form of nourishment. By means of an understanding of

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life on earth by means of visions, not through the senses. During
on earth can be recalled by means of initiation, we discover that
former conditions of clairvoyant knowledge, and by means of

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What does it mean to work at the development of the “I?”
and death a certain means is at our disposal. We can always make
from there, we cannot have an astral body. What does that mean? It
means that after death, and it is also the case in the process of
clairvoyant, he knows everything! It is by no means so. In the
take? With the means of perception at his disposal after the period
is not meant as an attack upon the Monistic Union. It is merely a
forces we need; which means that in the next incarnation we shall
been used up, reserve forces, as it were, by means of which the
and the same saying means something different when made from two
Christ Jesus means by these words
The meaning here is entirely different. The same
examination will show what depth of meaning lies in the few words
Hindu need not reject Christ. Just think what it would mean if some
earth to realize the deep meaning of Christ's words, “When

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knowledge acquired in the sense world by means of our senses and
means of our eyes and ears come to us. Only in the higher realms of
struck by lightning. Such events are by no means rare in history. A
meant by it. Actually, the whole of our life after death once
the physical world by means of colors that the eye conjures forth for
after death by means of visions in which we are enveloped.
in kamaloca, which means that we are still longing to be connected
One learns to know these strange facts by means of spiritual
to know when the corresponding discovery has been made by means of
Europe. Through the understanding given by means of spiritual science
we have previously done so by means of spiritual science or
for us. Increasingly what we hear spiritually grows meaningful. The
become quite meaningless. The Sun still has a limited influence on
with meaning, expressive of its actual being. The harmony of the
a moral inclination, it means that on the return journey during the

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although it can only be done in outline. This does not mean that what
by means of occult research but we will take two. For instance, let
This is not meant to be a principle on which to base judgments. It is
unintelligible. The true meaning of the Christ Mystery has only been
human beings we have met during life on earth. The forces by means of
but the two utterances mean the opposite for man. Indeed, shattering
sense, receive enough of what is meant by them.
This understanding, however, is meant in quite a different way from

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merely mean to create future obstacles in one's path.
means of spirituality bridges of communication are created between
not only a lack of knowledge. It also means that we dwell within a
he has arrived somewhere. He knows this by means of sense perception,
That means that knowledge of the different possibilities is withheld

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Now by means of forms as they have been created here, our studies can
can mean for us. We look in all directions and feel the power of
different meaning after death than during physical existence. All the
another. Yet this interpenetration does not mean togetherness. The
can be accurately investigated by means of spiritual science. A
a lasting nature, an impulse is formed in the soul by means of which
behind on earth can know by means of spiritual science that the
all present. By this means the living can help the dead.
senses and what he can construe by means of his intellect in relation
means of sense perception. But there is much else that does not
happen and yet is of considerable importance. What does this mean?
would have been run over. That means that had we left at the right
the gift of language on humanity by means of fire. A great fire was
a totally different meaning according to whether spoke by Lucifer,
time this is only possible by means of anthroposophy. The
independent etheric body, expressed by means of the forms of the
meaning of the legend that tells that when Michelangelo was alone in

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spiritual science can mean quite practically. Spiritual science is
because for a cold, abstract view of life they are quite meaningless.
What is an earthly language? Every language has meaning only for
moon. This justifies what the initiate means when he says man has
in the underworld meant to lead a miserable existence. Before the

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means of earthly words. It is different and one has to translate it.
possessed a spiritual heritage by means of which he was linked to the
cannot be propagated by the means usually available and is commonly
place by means of which we can acquire the possibility of developing
a phenomenon by means of super-sensible cognition that might appear to
If, however, such a phenomenon is carefully studied by means of
surrounding world because to him life is meaningless. To extinguish
in the world means to be condemned to loneliness in the spiritual
any means of communication. This is what one achieves if one excludes

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still there.” Obviously this is not conveyed by means of
is nothing that could permeate the soul with that substance by means
unless a link is forged from soul to soul by means of spiritual
importance than sense reality. I do not mean the super-sensible world,
responsibility may be created by means of which much can be achieved
spiritual truths. The old means of orientation are no longer
to explain what I mean by way of an example. There are a number of
forces that in fact enable us to reincarnate. That means that we have
of special descriptive means, to evoke at least a limited concept of

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From whence comes the light by means of which we can illumine the
last earthly life by means of our interest in the spiritual world.
bodhisattva to that of Buddha. This means that he became a Buddha and
means of spiritual science. If he fails to draw near to spiritual

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possible by means of a remarkably complex structure of forces that he
is obtained by means of heredity.
appears as chance occurrence in life is actually conditioned by means
In order to clarify still further what is meant, let us consider the
responsible for it appears well-meaning and no doubt thoroughly
means of super-sensible cognition, for example, we can follow souls in
in our surroundings are only partly explained by means of the current
by means of super-sensible forces directed by beings of higher
by karma by means of external events. That we suffer such a fate
— this comes about by means of forces directed from the
meant here because in respect to their external occurrence they are

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such feelings as can be satisfied by means of bodily organs and
person has not available the means to rid himself of anxiety. From
meaning and purpose of these inscriptions in the Akasha Chronicle.
means we come into contact with the souls who in their life after
spiritual environment. Realization of what these things mean can then

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clairvoyance. They not only saw the sense world by means of the eyes.
can receive by means of a spiritual scientific understanding of the
his mind. He therefore was able to say, “I know by means of my
we see that spiritual science is like a language by means of which
thoughts in sleep is the substance by means of which, in a certain
others, but it does not mean that because of this you are aware of
with what is inherited out of the physical substances. By means of

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has no meaning in the super-sensible world. This is even the case for
A flower, for example, investigated by means of natural science, will
have to call it in human language, loneliness. Death can never mean
this fully means when it happens, that is, to know nothing except to
himself. This is not meant trivially because it is truly a shattering
created by an immoral person, but you will understand what I mean
is a sick member of humanity. This means that through this immoral
To be moral also means to acknowledge that one has a relationship to
in the midst of them.” Christ did not mean wherever two Hindus
decided that involves a deeply stirring activity. By means of our
being. All this has to be determined long in advance. But this means
meaningful. Let me relate an actual instance. I met a hydrocephalic
dangers of loneliness by means of one's relationships to other
human beings, by means of moral and religious connections. Then one

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relate words to spiritual reality and conveys by means of words an
In the physical world, by the physical in man we mean that which is
world, what we have experienced by means of our organs that make us
into physical, earthly beings, and what we have done by means of
world consists of what he has been able to experience by means of his
they have no meaning for the dead. These thoughts create an external
so forth has no sense because these laws are meaningless in the
spiritual world. This enables one to understand rightly the meaning

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thing-in-general whether we clarify the question by means of the
means that the whole is in movement, and each entity brought forth by
idea is meant to evoke — the general thought is in motion, and
forms. The philosophers I mean have never made up their minds to go
that subsequent events are always explained by means of preceding
have described, and it is by no means rare. Indeed in the nineteenth

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present day. This is what gives its deeper meaning to my remark of
stretched; then the world-nails were added, and by means of them the
word had a different meaning then). The Realists maintained that
even to listen to what such characterisations are supposed to mean.
material phenomena is in itself devoid of meaning. It has no real
meaning unless there is within it a progressive tendency; unless from
external life its due; their view is that life has meaning only if
show that the world would be purposeless and meaningless if ideas
in this realm Idealism is fully justified. But by means of it one
real science as there is mathematics. This means that from being a
this means one obtains very fine results, which show that this way of
Hierarchies. For to stop short at Pneumatism would in this case mean

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human soul. I mean this in the following sense.
Voluntarism, therefore, is not the mood that I mean here, neither is
ordinary means of cognition.” Occultism! The psychic
experience what it means to be a Gnostic, a Logician, a Voluntarist,
Scorpio. In short, by means of the constellation given through the
with imagination, so the occultist, the Intuitionist, as we mean him

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means of a special example.
oneself externally in the world” I mean placing by means of
education, by means of external conditions; they come into account
some sort of movement; by this means they become a mirror-apparatus;
that is here worked up in this way by means of the psychic-spiritual.
does it mean? It means that through an earlier incarnation Nietzsche
If only one thing were to be achieved by means of such a

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thing-in-general whether we clarify the question by means of the
means that the whole is in movement, and each entity brought forth by
idea is meant to evoke — the general thought is in motion, and
forms. The philosophers I mean have never made up their minds to go
that subsequent events are always explained by means of preceding
have described, and it is by no means rare. Indeed in the nineteenth

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present day. This is what gives its deeper meaning to my remark of
stretched; then the world-nails were added, and by means of them the
word had a different meaning then). The Realists maintained that
even to listen to what such characterisations are supposed to mean.
material phenomena is in itself devoid of meaning. It has no real
meaning unless there is within it a progressive tendency; unless from
external life its due; their view is that life has meaning only if
show that the world would be purposeless and meaningless if ideas
in this realm Idealism is fully justified. But by means of it one
real science as there is mathematics. This means that from being a
this means one obtains very fine results, which show that this way of
Hierarchies. For to stop short at Pneumatism would in this case mean

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human soul. I mean this in the following sense.
Voluntarism, therefore, is not the mood that I mean here, neither is
ordinary means of cognition.” Occultism! The psychic
experience what it means to be a Gnostic, a Logician, a Voluntarist,
Scorpio. In short, by means of the constellation given through the
with imagination, so the occultist, the Intuitionist, as we mean him

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means of a special example.
oneself externally in the world” I mean placing by means of
education, by means of external conditions; they come into account
some sort of movement; by this means they become a mirror-apparatus;
that is here worked up in this way by means of the psychic-spiritual.
does it mean? It means that through an earlier incarnation Nietzsche
If only one thing were to be achieved by means of such a

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the meaning and significance of life, he finds before life's door a
find its meaning, people have above all tried to recognize the role
found to be not so meaningless to believe in such a connection. The
of Job. It is a figure which shows us, or is meant to show us, how
was only meant to point to a basic impulse of the human soul which
the actual meaning of life and its origin. Modern natural science has
been able to give few clues to the meaning and nature of life. One
in its substance. Life in substance means: resistance to decay.
the food taken in becomes enjoyment because it is the means of
is meant to be only a sketch which is to point to the connection
we can realise the meaning of suffering and pain when we see how they

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means that human beings saw themselves for the first time; previously
old dough means for the new bread: this, from the earlier planet,
Lucifer means for us. Evil is good in its place; with us it is no

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lived in his day did not attribute at all the same meaning to the
inverted. And if we do modify them, not by altering their meaning but
by making it clear that we change the present theological meaning
kind of snake poison in order to use his saliva as a means to heal
something which proves itself in life to be a spiritual means of
proof of it is demanded. Anthroposophy is not meant simply to be
means of healing, and then works in life in a fructifying way. It

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of spiritual laws. The Greek loved life. This means the Greek
Christ. The meaning of the events of Golgotha we considered in
be reported over there, which was meaningful for the Other
something happened which also had meaning for the Other Side.
discoveries, are used to generate external cultural means

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no means gratifying impression. For if we consider impartially what
possibility of influencing life by means of anthroposophy; moreover,
influence the world by means of them. So that in these lectures there
of making clear what is meant when one uses such and such a word. In
no means superfluous; for if real progress is to be made in
not have been thus bored if, for example, in the meantime he had
and means to neutralise the harm which has been done to him. The
certainly done so by means of powers which have unfolded and developed
in this way?’ is by no means futile. If we follow up this
connection by means of Spiritual Science.
that something spiritual lies behind a phenomenon observed by means of

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somewhat strongly expressed, but you will understand what I mean. Now,
common to both. What then has happened in the meantime that the animal
behaved in the meantime that he now no longer possesses all he once
which the animals manifest outwardly, and by this means he has brought
evolutions of all the kingdoms of nature do not by any means proceed
later the animal kingdom. By means of this separation man was able to
meanwhile had not been united with the Earth, and must now return to
but each pain is for us a means to perfection; through overcoming it
power to raise itself above pain, and to triumph by means of it. That

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actual knowledge and discoveries of Natural Science are by no means
for the modern consciousness have lost the meaning they possessed at
can make this very clear by means of an illustration.
the other and study his meaning. One must carefully take into
of means its growth and development, and heal the injury. Notice for
would mean a considerable risk to health. The lower animal on the
another member by means of its etheric body.

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means of proving it and had not even the words to describe exactly the
again received the means by which to rid himself of the luciferic
itself that forces are imprinted in him by means of which he will
means of that which he has acquired through illness. Then the healing

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end of certain period. By means of statistics he was able to prove
by means of which it is trying to develop. We shall also be able to
produced for no other reason than to provide the means of a cure. And
means of his work upon the physical plane. In other words, if the
half ill and half well. If the patient by means of a strong discipline
combination by means of which someone then produced a telescope.
different lines. Let us try to find a meaning in human evolution, and
We are aware what Luther's translation of the Bible means to the
perceive a meaning in this, and then let us consider the following
cognition of the whole meaning for human life of illness and health.

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them by means of those forces which only the Ego can bring to bear
‘The sleeping’ of the astral body means that we are in
necessarily mean that a person in this consciousness cannot perform

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himself against such delusions. The means which external science
no means by which to oppose Ahriman other than a power of judgement
work of Ahriman upon earth. By means of the organ which owes its
not good to ask what is the meaning of this or that. We must be
Earth evolution they influence human life by means of forces which are

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us by means of all that confronts us externally. Thus it is Ahriman
the person in question by means of revelations of Spiritual Science.
body. In the course of time, into these sheaths we have built by means
incarnation by the ordinary means of external reason.
mad ideas we shall not succeed in healing him by means of logical
aware of it. But this does not necessarily mean that we are inactive
meant by an effect of luciferic influence in an earlier life, and, as
which in spite of all means at our disposal we can find no causes in
have still the possibility of influencing our inner being by means of
lack of charity will be counteracted. By these means, however, the soul
a person by means of a corresponding spiritual education. This would

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‘influencing’ does not mean that we have removed it, but
That is why such people rush from sensation to sensation. When means
tendency towards deeper intervention in the organism by means of the
must be educated by all sorts of means before it can lose its
meanwhile, we may perhaps find that the one has been standing there

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really healed through human assistance by means of remedies or other
can never, by means of the methods at its disposal, bring the
transmuted. It is not possible today, by scientific means, to bring
consist?’ If we were to make research in the same way, by means
that which must be called, if we truly realise the fundamental meaning
find the means, in the case of a man who has the luciferic element in
by the luciferic element on our earth? It is love! Hence only by means
psychic means — by love — or by the external means of
not mean that it absolutely could not be done.
according to the means which offer and they are able to work
of the spiritual world — I mean the late Frederick Myers —
means of radiations from the spiritual world and by the help of the

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evolution of mankind itself both meaning and significance are to be
— the impulse to extend its frontiers by means of physical force.
treasures of Eastern culture which could then be transformed by means
forward to the West by means of purely external force. The Roman
by means of Anthroposophy.
only by means of knowledge. Firstly, through self-knowledge, we make
within our Ego by means of which we are able to resist the luciferic
mastery by means of the knowledge of the external world, which must be
means of the Divine Breath, the capacity for absorbing the Ego. If
By this means Love and Wisdom will enter the human soul. Love and

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have a special meaning, as well as what is connected with them during
Lucifer: I mean to fight.
places, they can be spoken so that in each place they mean something
quite different. What they mean at the end of Scene Ten of
the end of Scene Ten: “I mean to fight” —
realize that the same words in a different context mean something
physical plane — must always mean the same thing. Here we have
I feel the secret meaning they contain.
conceal dark meaning in transparent words ...
this or that person can hide meaning — clear meaning — in
people that an obscure meaning can be hidden in clear words.
obscure meaning may be hidden is of the two the higher
obscure meaning. Something important would take place if the many
of what you say has meaning for me now.
conceal dark meaning in transparent words.
seem to hide a dark meaning in clear words.”

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world by means of the various methods we have apprehended, that is,
into his own special kingdom. This means that all love that can be
spiritual world means that a person will most easily become the prey

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elemental world is antipathetic, it means that it has a distinct
have to will the feeling of ego; we have to find out what it means
himself by means of his own elemental or etheric capacities. These

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of arbitrary signs to their meaning. Learning to read as we have to
because what one is experiencing there is truly reading. The meaning
by a man who means well and who would like very much to come by
absurd. It is an interesting phenomenon that a well-meaning man,
using the thinking habits of today, becomes foolish. I do not mean
of the existence of the spiritual world by means of experiments
physical means prove to me the things of the spiritual world.”
spiritual science we will get from the most well-meaning people the
theorizing; we bring about a life in the realm of spirit by means of
understand its meaning at the present time, however, we have to

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so that you can perceive in them their meaning. They themselves
speak out their inner, essential meaning. The further you go back in
language groups means that the spoken word moved halfway towards the
to discover anything further of meaning, for every word revealed its
spoken word, pronounces them correctly. When you mean the Sonne,
obviously at work, for this would mean forbidding solitary thought.
way of the spoken word — for indeed the Word was meant to be
mean bringing Lucifer into the right relationship to the Word. We
the stream of death: writing is the best means of keeping thoughts on

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sense of the word, the harmonious balance of polarities by means of
future have no meaning for you; your being is made up of what you

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spiritual world for the first time. This means that he is able to
A person who has this important, meaningful
itself is complex. To approach it means to ascend step by step into
spiritual realms. It means also that you become a being of memory, a

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science. Ever and again we have well-meaning, good-natured friends
phenomena, according to this gentleman, if we explain it by means of
won't find much meaning in the phrase: it is oneself. Of course, we
rightly what Benedictus means when he describes his clairvoyance as
meant as a reproof — far from it. No, it is said because almost
those who are sensitive to the meaning of responsibility would be

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On the Meaning of Life
urgently put: “What is the meaning of life?” If in these
What is the meaning of it all? Ever an arising, ever a passing away
all around us! What is the meaning of this arising and this passing
problem, with the question: “What is the meaning of existence
question which we formulated as to the meaning of life, and
especially as to the meaning of man, occurs not only to man, but to
Adam.” (Adam is related to Adama, and means: “Out of the
earth.” The Angels now began to have an idea of the meaning of
penetrate into the meaning behind them. If we succeed in this, great
the meaning and value of life by placing it in a wonderful form into
religion the meaning of life can be summed up by saying: “Life,
which is suffering, only acquires a meaning when it is conquered,
the question as to the meaning of life. Now, we are not going to
approach this question as to the meaning of life. Let us take the
occultism, in order to decipher the meaning of existence, gives no
ourselves, we have something which throws light on the meaning of
impulse is at hand (he means the Christ-Impulse). Therefore I say
meant for children’s heads or angels!” Goethe heard this
the riddles of life; things which so truly can illuminate the meaning
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On the Meaning of Life
the meaning of life and existence could be put in such a simple way
that one could ask: “What is the meaning of life and
few words, saying perhaps: “This or that is the meaning of
question as to the meaning of life. It is true that an abstract
that the meaning of life consists in the fact that spiritual beings
ourselves what is the meaning of it all. But there is something that
with all the means at our disposal; for only then does spiritual
in a nutshell, as it were, we can grasp the meaning of existence,
that it is precisely in this that wisdom and meaning in existence are
place understand what this boundless world of vision really means. It
can perceive by means of his clairvoyance. Let us impress this on our
wolf-substance. Let us suppose that with all the means and methods of
meant) of a community of Amazons where never a man was allowed, which
clairvoyant, or is by any other means in his visionary world; and the
approach it. That which lives within us is by no means a mere
is the meaning of life?” although, after all, the abstract
the evolution of the world may proceed. Our meaning, the meaning of
the whole meaning of life and realise that that, which at first is
Now we see in what way we have to think of the meaning of our life.
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Rome. Let us try to picture to ourselves what the Greek world means to
Today, when we ask what the Greeks mean to us, we must give far more
what was meant, later changed it to the more common term
means that, as the fourth post-Atlantean age was passing over into the
it is something that had its proper meaning only in an earlier time

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this means. They had expected the civilization of Greece, the fourth
Ahriman, who works with much more external means than Lucifer.
this task. Free imaginations as sought through spiritual science means
unfettered and undistilled into fantasy. It means imaginations in
me.” He means by this how the imaginations arise in him.
divide the world between them.” Things are by no means so simple
You can hardly find a more telling description of what I mean than in
hear why, and Soloviev's conception of the meaning of the Christ event
meaningless to portray an abstract Socrates who might have lived
anywhere, anytime, and it would have been equally meaningless for him
means can be truly understood as a real and actual super-sensible Being

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epoch, for they mean to try again to achieve their purpose.
meanwhile been developed in the Eastern Hemisphere of Europe and Asia.
fuller and wider measure by means of the most frightful magical arts.
experience its inner meaning, they then learned the nature of the
and experiences were to be created on earth by their means. Now,
examines the matter with occult means. This being set himself a quite
place his soul under a ban, by this means rendering its activities
I wished to indicate to you by means of this description the sort of
By these means earthly humanity would tend to be enclosed increasingly

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description of what is on the page to the meaning of the words. We can
only learn to know this meaning when we advance from describing what
— can make of it. By these means, we unite ourselves with the
like letters that can be read. In this domain the meaning of existence
is revealed, that is, the meaning of life and all human activity
way the meaning of historical evolution and the concrete forces that
Now, we have tried to study the fundamental meaning of this modern
is completely false when understood in the way it is usually meant.
of evolution powerful forces are to be observed that by means of
only by their means can man go through a certain stage of his
to research the spirit by materialistic means.
verified by means of investigation in a laboratory or clinic. Now, in
— of these methods. Today I want to make clear what meaning it
What was to be expected was that by these means a knowledge would come
of the old means and methods.

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driven souls away from the earth. By this means the service performed
influence of a bird having drawn near to her. If by occult means, so
super-sensible being but in human form, battled with every means at his
only be discovered by occult means — in the year 33 A.D.
By these means the ahrimanic impulse was inculcated into the etheric
Europeans were meant to acquire knowledge of this world, and indeed
means to institute a culture of mere prosperity. This would mean

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counted for little, but he meant much to those who were his vassals,
found the means of incorporating such impulses into humanity's
deep insight into the Mystery of Golgotha and its meaning and into
meant here of which gold is a real symbol. Read once more
question of the gold in Goethe's fairy tale, the meaning of the story
So stands the Cross weighty with solemn meaning
One only learns the meaning of history when one turns one's gaze to

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In our previous studies I have tried to show that a meaning, a
know them in their deeper meaning. One can understand why this
French or English. This means that one accepts it as something that is
the religion of England by Henry VIII. That is the inner meaning of
is by no means rooted in reality; it is far less so than was an
what all this means. The true reality was of no consequence at all to
the man say who knows this and who also possesses the means to confirm
has he let me sleep?” This means putting oneself with one's
veil means that one cannot penetrate behind wisdom, that one will
stands there, one must explain it as meaning that the veil is not

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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physical sense world. That means he has to go through, as it were, by
Three-fold Division of the Social Organism. By this means the eyes of
the stream of the Spiritual Life (in the full meaning of the word
amongst us in our social life. By this means we are linked to our
the nature of man by means of the facts of the world of the Heavens,
meaning, because this once only had meaning as long as the leaders
History tells us that that which had a meaning in ancient times is
Greek civilization still grouped in a way which had a meaning for that
division of mankind was still there, but the meaning had been
gradually lost. And that which for the Greeks still had much meaning,
abstraction without meaning for those whose lives are cast in it. From
others, meaningless. No one thinks any more about the meaning, because
what is meant by this term he could only say: “It is that which
meaning, but today it has lost all meaning. And if anyone wishes to
something of the meaning of the life of Economy. Just as in the
caste system still prevails, we find something of the meaning of that

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of the true meaning of what entered human evolution at the Mystery of
thoughts. This means that these men have remained in a life of thought
some meaning.
It hardly means anything to thousands, to millions of people at the
What I mean by this will become quite clear to you through the
Christ Jesus the Divine Leader of the whole human race. This means
recall how that which gives its own particular meaning, its true
meaning to the Earth, entered into human evolution.

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hand, which means bringing his Will into operation, of this the
ordinary man knows absolutely nothing. This means that the Mystery of
those means given by Spiritual Science of which I have often spoken to
spirit-life by means of the apparatus of the nerves and the brain;
These things are in preparation. Among the most important means
these theories, knowledge gained by means of experience is abstract,
Spiritual Science, but through Spiritual Science alone. That means
understanding with the former has absolutely no sense and no meaning;

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with the usual means of knowledge we are really unable to see
hasten to step behind the mirror — which means facing the future
have first strengthened them through that, which, by means of
what it means when an official representative of religion says:

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human body. Now, consider the spiritual meaning of that which has been
in a physical human frame, is the means by which the Luciferic Powers
The means which can be used so that man shall appeal to this inner
of those who raised the warning cry: “We must prevent by means of

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means of our ordinary self-knowledge as the three forces or faculties
the next stage if, by means of the exercises referred to earlier, we
anthroposophical science of medicine. By its means we learn to see how
way. By this means we develop strong forces of will and carry the
raise our arm; that will-process by means of which we pass from
anthroposophist would by no means decry, but would maintain that the

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science of initiation. That insight is by no means something which,
imagination and concentration, by means of certain exercises, the
This is how we can regard the Mystery of Golgotha by means of the
modern initiate can understand it by means of the new science of
into his physical life. Death to him did not mean that tragedy which
it was to mean later when the soul-life had been drawn into the

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of the Dragon — at least, the image means something to him.

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way back to spirit must be achieved by means of the strength that can
never have had any meaning in the world had it not commemorated what
cover the meaning, but they do express the realities inherent in
longer sees spirit in things, which in the meantime has entered into
But in the meantime much has happened in the world. Man has in a sense
of divine-spiritual forces by means of his loving will. For the
— not in the first instance by means of some sort of
means of kindling it so it may pervade him with its fire. And just as

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connection with the cosmos. True, by means of their materialistically
faint echo of what they once meant, expressing themselves in all sorts
first create a feeling for what it might signify; for by no means must
To illustrate what I really mean by all that, I need only ask you to
penetrate the spiritual world by means of the ordinary
to imagine that the spiritual world can be comprehended by means of
means of the mental capacities developed in the course of the last
candle. When spiritual science reveals the truth by means of such
before the mind's eye. And this means something different from having
again at once. The same is true of imaginations by means of which we
holding sway within him. Light is by no means mere phos: it is
shadow formations and by means of them determine accurately, this is
stellar script by means of the methods known to the Druid priests. But
latter has no means of establishing the interrelationships that can
provide clues to the meaning of this man on the bull. In order to
relation to the functions mentioned. Subconsciously by means of the
amazed to learn how they can establish, by means very different from
perceive the course of the seasons within himself by means of his
Mithras followers perceived by means of their heart-science could not
Here the symbol begins to take on significance. By means of ordinary
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such a universal grasp of reality; and by means of such methods as I
winter mean in a spiritual sense? It means that those spiritual beings
years: well-meaning people who do not want the Easter Festival to be
that is what is meant by “passing out of one's own inner
the term “to develop spirituality” does not mean to become
abstract: it means to be able to follow the spirit in its being and
What possible meaning could that have? The term spirit takes on
meaning only when it speaks to us in concrete details, when it keeps
speculations means nothing whatever. Only the living spirit, that
same intellectual means. But never in the world will anything but
offer, and what this anthroposophy can mean to the human

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but it is meant to imply that when a man really experiences thinking,
you, and by means of them you will live intensely in the past. Or
by means of an old garment perhaps can have the powerful effect I
meaning with this prophetic force, so that you get a feeling, which

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brings into it. I mean, everything which we are accustomed from our
through the gate of death, he can only reproduce, which means
by means of the body alone. Therefore the Spartan boy was urged to do
himself, by means of all kinds of massage with oil; indeed with
the adaptation of man to his environment by means of a corresponding
Karma; for that which comes from the outer world by no means always
lies in Karma, but has first to be woven into a man's Karma by means
Now by means of certain
weigh down his own will. He can do this by means of exercises which

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means to about the seventh year of life — the soul-element
This means in reality that you are living with this
That means, the thoughts which are first experienced in

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the hardest on the earth, he penetrates by their means directly into
That is the first acquaintance which man makes by means
the metals we also learn that metals are by no means confined to the

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today man speaks of the “word” he means, as a rule, only
meant by this Logos, this Word? And how is this meaning connected
trickles downwards as water, as a fluid element. By means of this
brought before the soul of the pupil by means of his own speech it
investigate the meaning of “In the Primal Beginning was the

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the external letters by means of which they must begin to decipher
character which placed before the pupil the meaning which lies in
meaning — after the pupil, through all that he had experienced,

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the spirit-world, so that by means of specially impressive inner
gazed by means of the new consciousness born of the numbness would be
still deeper meaning — in that, at the stage where I closed the

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Imaginations that he was about to penetrate further by means of these
perhaps by his commonplace nature, but by such experiences we mean
the inner meaning of these writings. He himself understands nothing

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of speaking, dimmed; that means that they could not develop any
Initiates with their pupils; and there, without any means for the
mystery of Golgotha, which is really only comprehensible by means of
metals within by means of ordinary scientific methods, if one
analysed the substances in man, then by means of this external
that man is a real microcosm; that means that everything which is to

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wouldst like simply to observe it in its results, by means of thy
have no meaning; but such phrases as “warm airiness,”
“cold wateriness” mean a great deal. These are contrasts
cosmic spaces and then, in a penetrating way, though only by means of
system by means of the different metals, and the pupil, who did not

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man of today. It meant a great deal to look at the earth as a divine
Samothracian Mysteries something else existed by means of which man
the Kabiri was experienced by means of the mantric words in which the
means logically and abstractly, there lives in his head only the

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when we investigate the ancient Mysteries by means of the Akashic
mean that his etheric body would have no basis in his organism. If
initiated into the ancient Mysteries had been asked whether by means
means if he does not reveal them to you. Just imagine for a moment
that a man should seek to investigate by means of experiment the
means of observation; it was intercourse with the Cosmic
of Christianity this ancient Astrology, that means, intercourse with
no longer find his way to them by means of the path of knowledge

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knows what was known by this means in these olden times, and which
really was evoked by means of these many exercises and through
preparation. I mean that this direction of the vision inward into the
means of a still further preparation of his soul he could also

Title: Fundamentals of Anthroposophical Medicine: Lecture I
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understand the meaning and significance of our studies, for it
civilization, we find that although they were by no means as
as we see them today by means of our senses and the products of
glasses, and by this means the contours of objects become
facts. Yes, but now suppose that this is by no means correct,
connection will mean something especially to those who are
The squabbles in such realms are by no means different from the
say as if it were meant to tend in the direction of
pictures than the pictures alone yielded me. I know by means of
observed under a microscope, through a telescope, or by means
the complicated association of ideas — I mean a picture
whole meaning of the breathing process, just as Imaginative
knowledge leads to an understanding of the meaning of the
breathing process cannot be understood by means of Imagination;
unfortunately, be followed by means of merely empirical
research but only by means of Intuitive knowledge. This
in the human being unless you investigate them by means of this
of the human being can well be understood by means of ordinary

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the subsequent processes must be studied by a different means
transformations of substance by means of analogies, just as we
— the vascular system — is the means whereby the

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human being. This means that when the human organization is
metabolic organization at the age of seven. This means that the
environment in his breathing, by inhaling the air and by means
observed in the plant — I mean, the contrast between the
no means want to renew; I only mention it so that we can
factors. This means that it is necessary for us to look into

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iron-bearing blood corpuscles must mean for the whole life of
spiritual science, this means that the relationship of the
fall into disorder. You can provide the means, however, of
organism is by no means as simple in the case of the
means that a process is strongly on its way to the inorganic, a
the possibility of counteracting the congestion above by means
active. This means that it is not performing its form-giving
as it were, by means of everything that underlies the silicea,
nerve-sense organism by means of alkaline salts. Then in the
results than pure experimentation. I am not by any means saying

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course along the proper path by means of calming, supportive measures
could then be explained by means of movement, for then light would be
“means to create nature.” Indeed, if what is expressed in this
unable to see into the place where new formations appear; this means that
highly gifted man that “to know nature means to create nature”
sentence stands as: “To know nature means to create nature,” which we
as, “To know the spirit means to destroy the spirit.” This sentence
shrouded in a certain mysterious darkness: “To know the spirit means to

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which show a kind of daring. He simply said, “To know nature means to
that Schelling meant; rather, by putting things together, by a
“To know nature means to create nature,” and this sentence would be,
“To know the spirit means to destroy the spirit.” This last sentence
inspiration. Schelling, who certainly was by no means an initiate but
nature, we can say nothing more than that “To know nature means at
would say, “To know this nature means to create this nature.” The
as a child, one would have to say that to know actually means to
create, means to develop creative activity. We are able to see this
The sentence, “To know the spirit means to destroy the spirit,” is
penetrated. Just as the sentence, “To know nature means to create
“To know the spirit means to destroy the spirit,” leads us to the end
to this sentence in a paradoxical way — “To know the spirit means to
develops self-perception in the right way, to know the spirit means to
means to destroy the spirit,” is this: if a person wishes only to gaze
means that in such a moment a person would have to diminish, to
spirit, and it tries to pursue its effects and succeeds by means of
illnesses abstractly by mental means; instead it leads, particularly
What does that mean — spiritualism in the material realm? It means

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Healing, then, means simply that if the head system, for example, is
strongly poisonous on the head system, which means working over
the human being, by means of which we can bring about a healing,
the ability to see organs. Such organs are by no means at rest and can
in a certain way polarically. By this means we can be guided into

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conscious soul life, has its physical carrier by means of which it
means only physically — to the way it normally works when
are connected; by means of a specific case, which is actually only
were, diluting it. By means of this dilution the restrained rickets of
that must be undertaken by means of the human head's mediation.
known what it means to bring about a partial consciousness in the arms
and hands through massage. It means that the soul-spiritual element in
degree of consciousness brought about by means of the massage.
to help the person afflicted with this illness particularly by means
gives the earthly evolution of the human being its full meaning. We
extraterrestrial female organism by means of the fertilization.
to whom they give birth will contract hemophilia. This means that
was first known by spiritual scientific means. The objection often
We are not dream-spinners in any realm. We do not by any means want

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always be remembered if we would understand the meaning and
by no means so childish as many people imagine nowadays, they did
sight looks through spectacles, and by this means the contours of
now suppose that this is by no means correct; that by virtue of its
raising of questions. If questions never arise, it means that a
mean something to those who are specialists in their particular
form. They are by no means dissimilar to the seemingly trivial
to take what I have to say as if it were meant to tend in the
a microscope, through a telescope, or by means of Röntgen
ideas — I mean a picture of the ideas which associate and not
Inspiration, we learn to understand the whole meaning of the
means of Imagination; here we must have Inspiration, we must rise
unfortunately, be followed by means of purely empirical research, but
only by means of Intuition. Intuition leads us beyond the mere
investigate them by its means.
man can well be understood by means of ordinary objective cognition.

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I mean the physically solid system — is directly related to its
substance by means of analogies, just as we study things in the outer
the means whereby the foodstuffs (which have now entered the

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mean the rhythm of day and night, of sleeping and waking. Then there
system. I mean that the metabolism is not quite able to adapt itself
the air and by means of all that arises in his blood circulation as a
activities. In the outer sense this means that up to the seventh year
I mean, the contrast between the principle of growth which is derived
called in ancient terminology. This, of course, means the mercurial
which results in a formation composed of both factors. This means

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blood corpuscles must mean for the whole life of feeling and
terms of Spiritual Science, this means that the relation of the
physical-organic nature of man is by no means so simple in the
If a flower contains a certain amount of sulphur, this means that
above by means of a strong counter-pressure from below. (The forces
astral and become as active as the astral organism itself. This means
the astral organisation out, as it were, by means of the forces
by means of alkaline salts. Then in the middle, rhythmic system of
mere experimentation. I do not by any means say that this cannot also

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I do not by any means
in later times also knows the meaning of a word which occurs
well-meaning philanthropists, exclaim ‘Utopia!’ and they
the means of power must be taken away from the various trusts, that
private ownership of means of production into public ownership, has
words. They mean that the holders of such views desire that something

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to mean that an independent administration is demanded for the
look for their true meaning we shall find that there is an authentic
other. If the cry for democracy has any real meaning at all, everyone
shall be its administrators. This means that from the lowest class in
the means of production are in the hands of individual owners. When
in control of the means of production, the evils will cease.
means of production, or capital which is its equivalent, should be
of certain means of production has led, for instance of European post
administration of the means of production the very powers to which
present rule. It means extinction and death to the economic body when
his intellect and take part in the ordering of the means of
What do we mean by
of companies? We mean that whoever takes his stand on the
as of equal value. This means that people are forced to produce if
purchased. That means wages are produced by capital. One argument can
use has a meaning in social life. We must look at the result of the
means available to make the demand possible. We may want things; if
we do not possess the means to satisfy our wants, we shall not be
workers on that particular product. This means that in the future the
possible in future to carry on business by means of money and for
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the means of a livelihood, upon whether they work for him in such a
way that he can support himself out of his own means. To put this in
regarding the nature and meaning of law, but what is generally
capacities in the teacher, in the educator, which by no means belong
efficiency will be formed by means of contract. These are the facts
‘What is really meant by public rights? It is neither more nor
often emphasize the fact that the worker is separated from his means
characteristic of what I mean. I once entered a barber's shop in an
for the means of restoring health to the social organism must look

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the aims and object of this building and the meaning of the movement
regarding this movement of spiritual life. In reality, the meaning of
understanding. What is really the meaning of all the subconscious
conscious thought of our present humanity? What do they mean, above
in art? One need only ask, what meaning has such a criterion with
means the measure of their greatness? Do we not see the measure of
understand — forgive the personal remark — what it means
but these have been by no means decided enough, though much has been
means than the dry, sober intellect and the investigation by
can by this means get away far enough from the reality to judge it,
to penetrate into the spiritual world by means of spiritual science
structure in these three regions of culture. To explain what I mean,
the political life of the present day. But what does he mean by
freedom? We arrive at an understanding of his meaning when we read
book may appear to some to be pedantic, though this was by no means
desire this today. I will explain what I mean by this quality of
impotence to penetrate the universe with understanding by means of
the knowledge that is meant here, which we gain for ourselves when we
perception by means of the intellect, but is instead saturated with
psychology, and you will find that there is no profound meaning
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of the present day. But, as we all see today it can by no means be
the conditions of ownership. and that means neither more nor less
means free. It is a portion of the spiritual life, torn away from the
the highest degree. Those who possess the economic means today
spring from the human soul and spirit, by means of taxation, namely,
for it is plain that the value of such measures is by no means beyond
a lack of understanding of the means by which that spiritual
handing over the means of production to the community, we transfer it
means of production is circulated within the community; this
brought to pass. Today we are absolutely convinced that the means of
to reach a just determination of price as long as the means of
its ownership, and the disposal of the finished means of production
transference through the legal means, on the principles of the
spiritual organization. The means of production through which
personally use his capacities. But the finished means of production
land, and to the right of disposal of the means of production, will
confused, by no means reasonable, manner. Just as in the society of
familiar. That means that the spirit and soul which live in the

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say that these lectures have not dealt with the means by which bread,
chances of the market are the means of bringing about the
there is no means of communication between them through the exercise
over the evils of life seize upon the first means at hand to carry
the concrete one, found through spiritual perception, will find means
of expression in manifold ways. By this means the many will be able
sincere self-conquest, by means of the impulse of the spirit. Men and
well-meaning, full of insight and permeated by social ethics, would
precisely the means for the understanding of other social bodies, and
will thus become the means by which true world-economy will be
carried on. Unless such means are created, the old so-called national
out that the so-called idealists are by no means the most ignorant
meant by such an assertion. He who knows the relationship of idea to
It is not the point whether or not we agree with the literal meaning
judge the extent to which this meaning accords with reality. In this
Here are two examples of what is meant.
conclude with words that are, indeed, truly and earnestly meant. I

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near, the German State was consolidated purely by means of external
that was consolidated, and moreover by means of sheer force. And this
Order. Set to work with the Threefold Order. That is the only means of
meant to do. They did not understand it, however often they declared
that the principle of Archimedes holds good. I mean that every body
be done.” Meanwhile, the great calamity was taking place: the

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Price, but it is by no means a simple problem. You need only consider
that in the meantime many other houses have been built around it: the
— the most important in Economics (I mean the concept of Price)
science of Economics we can make no progress by this means: quite
Labour and that which is derived from, or directed by means of,
economic value? It is by no means a faulty image if we say, for
human being's forces. I mean it is unjustifiable in this connection,

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have a real meaning when we regard prices and values much as we regard
less closely merged. I mean, of course, religious organisations in the
be complete. For it would mean that the maximum concentration of work,
Meanwhile it is absolutely true — and indeed self-evident —
though not perhaps in the severe meaning we attach to it today. But
fellow-men. We must realise how by this means each individual will, in
— though he by no means makes his products for himself — a
it is of course impossible, but I mean mainly in this sphere — if
Mean Price midway between the two poles where we have two persons
prices will tend towards a mean. If under normal conditions (we shall
mean position. To find, the mean price-level, we must not go to the
trades with middleman, buying and selling. Here it is that the mean

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domestic economy. I did not mean that the tailor has not a perfect
workers have no other means of arriving at the place where they' do
very likely mean that the new-comer will only be concerned in
means of a different kind of Spirit. He will then turn the values to
becomes the means of expression, the instrument, the medium for the
value by spiritual means. Therein lies its true economic significance.
meaning of this will only emerge in the further course of these

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yesterday, the man who produces by means of Spirit becomes a debtor.
this means very much in the economic process. It means that, when
instructions, the thing will be improved.” By such means it will

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work it out economically. I mean the question: How far (if at all)
how means of production, for instance, are to be transferred, by a
economic knowledge is by no means great. People are little inclined to
V1 alone. All it means is that the two together will now do
that it is by no means a matter of indifference whether in a given
economic process, we can give them a very good means of regulating the
done in the one case or in the other. I do not by any means wish to

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mean that the commodities decrease in value; it only means that the
“power” or “right.” By means of power, rights
this has a very real meaning, albeit you may have to think a very long
time to find your way to that meaning. But in respect to agriculture
and forestry it has no meaning. We must never forget that, when we are
in other walks of life. What is a means of healing for the head, is
pernicious — is a means to disease — for the stomach; and
in the economic process. For then we shall see that it is by no means
will see what I mean directly. Remember that Capital is, properly
counter-clockwise movement, but absorbs it — Means of
Production arise. What we call means of production is something
which the Spirit needs. From the pen which I possess as my means of
production to the most complicated machinery in a factory, means of
becomes means of production.
And now, what arises at this point with the help of means of
Just as Nature is here received by the Spirit, so can the means of
Labour. What have we then, when Labour receives the means of
production — when means of production and Labour are united? It
get a movement whereby means of production and industrial Capital coalesce.
with the help of means of production a and industrial Capital, then
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and P (price), as mutually independent variables and by that means
perhaps defend themselves. In that case they must have the means to do
will by no means be recognised that I am allowed to keep what I have
in the number of picture postcards will mean that new postmen will
means of consumption in the very least. You merely bring about a
available means of consumption.”
social reforms in this way, merely giving means of subsistence to the
I do not mean that there is deliberate deceit, but that the whole

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lose on it.” What does this really mean? To begin with, it means
From all this you can see: It can by no means be said with certainty,
I mean the material life.
example — I mean the so-called “Opium War,” whereby
did not go quite so easily by purely military means; even there —
politics by other means.” Such definitions are all very well,
“Divorce is the continuation of marriage by other means.”
the continuation of marriage by other means,” but when it is
by other means,” they do not notice the absurdity, but on the
great economic progress. This she did by means of trade; and
recent times England has been chosen by Marx as a means of studying
especially serve the process of lending — I mean the banking
I mean, as contains a real economic substance — economic meaning.
colonies we must pay for them — and that means that they at once

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speaking to a few among you. I mean the relation between Labour and
you can by no means admit that the seller alone makes a profit in the
— for peas, I get the peas by means of barter and I can, if I
economic process. I mean it literally, in the true sense of the word
pictures taken from what is immediate perception. This means, in other
an undertaking or an institution and to produce by means of it. He
element in man, in the most comprehensive meaning of the term. It
This was the real meaning of The Threefold Commonwealth —

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at any rate, adduced for their assertion, you would by no means be
the one private economy or business will gain by means of the other
radical example of what I mean by their working together industrially.
Earth stealing advantages at the expense of another by means of
To conceive what world-economics really means, we must see clearly, to
it only means that progress is partial. This state of affairs is
other people do the work. Unless he himself in the meantime sees to it
can somehow get the means to pay for it, and pay more or less dearly.

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greater or less value to a certain sum of money. I mean value not only
buying and selling? It comes about by this means: He who makes use of
own household — the slave was, of course, a means of production.
Your money may in the meantime have acquired a different value in
of origin has a real meaning (and by “growing old” I mean

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We have now therefore a means of comparison, namely, Labour on the one
The direction is exactly opposite. Physical Labour only has meaning
someone who did nothing but save himself Labour by means of his
signifies a saving of work. Only by this means is an effectual

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always many-sided and contains many meanings. Many of you may
manual Labour, upon, say, means of production. On the one side we must
have Labour uniting itself with the means of production, while on the
book-keeping must mean something. An item — A — which I
Every such item must have concrete meaning. But it can only have a
meaning if it represents something which is comparable, or which is at
amount of physical Labour upon some means of production which is saved
another angle, we shall find means of reaching such an assessment. For
on the one hand we have the physical Labour spent on the means of
definite amount of Labour. I mean that at a given time a definite
that is expended upon the means of production. Think it through
Labour expended on means of production, Labour invested in economic
other than an expressions of the sum-total of means of production
available in a given region — means of production including in
precisely, but you will soon see what I mean). What would you have to
own accord, Of course you will not believe that I mean what I am now
after a time prices are different, it can only mean that one has taken
start from — our figures must mean something. It simply leads
made evident. Our currency will be referred to the usable means of
production upon which bodily work is done — the means of
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mean is a much more ancient teacher of mankind. In those olden times
the initiates, was a language by means of which, it was in those
you feel an urge to do so will mean that you are awake to the fact of

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saying this, we mean: Beneath us is all that which is preparing the
with the one in yonder world. Now he must find some means of mutual
insisting no longer on the abstract meaning of the words but entering
at long last I am entirely within it. It is with this kind of meaning
— meaning that issues from the sounds themselves — that
than empty. Few people have an adequate idea of what this means. Now

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Yet it is surely not without meaning that the guiding Spiritual
that all who give any thought at all to the meaning of existence on
not mean to imply that man's astral body assumes every night the
not mean of course that we receive into us every night the entire
means of his heart-eye. There are however, dreams in which we can
And now man comes into the next sphere. This does not mean, he leaves
by means of his Sun-eye man
the Mystery of Golgotha. If we have once felt what it means for the
are your organism, your cosmic organism by means of which you
meaning is that he is going through an initiation which yields him
that it was given her at last to have her real meaning.
something new, something that means a new step forward. What he does

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goes forth, from the planetary spheres — we mean of course the
and origin of the moral ether; but when the Sun shines, then by means
means that the moral ordering of the world has gone out of the ether.
conscience, — and this will mean of course at the same time
danger has by no means always been so great as it is today. In the
weaker; and that meant also that during sleep he did not sail so
for a moment dear friends, that I mean to speak scornfully or
depends on the decision; for it is by no means a matter of
means, we cannot see it at all — then the soul that is

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that is possible, — namely, in pictures. This will mean that I
will mean, I shall be able to stay on the Earth. I shall not die any
entirely with such Ahrimanic sub-human beings. By this means they
nature of man. Man is by no means merely an earthly being; influences
of which I have been telling you. And a prime means for them to
are confident they will be able to achieve their end by means of
Sickness, whether in mind or body, means disappointment for Lucifer
description shows itself in a man's physical nature, it means that
means left to the good Powers, to rescue man from the fangs of
out-and-out egoist. But that will mean that he, as an egoist,
it is the Christ who provides now for man the means of reconciliation

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ask: What does it mean for the physical body to be thus laid aside by
your astral body. Once more, the “laying aside” means
point out what it really means, when we are out yonder in the world
ancient world-conceptions. Though it was meant to typify the
with the Hierarchy of that constellation, meanwhile the planets are
the meantime, from the planetary spheres, shines up into the sphere
consciousness was darkened for a longer time, — I mean the
Meanwhile the forces of the Moon arise within us. We feel once more:
only means of re-uniting with it — we now begin to draw to

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mean is a much more ancient teacher of mankind. In those olden times
the initiates, was a language by means of which, it was in those
you feel an urge to do so will mean that you are awake to the fact of

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saying this, we mean: Beneath us is all that which is preparing the
with the one in yonder world. Now he must find some means of mutual
insisting no longer on the abstract meaning of the words but entering
at long last I am entirely within it. It is with this kind of meaning
— meaning that issues from the sounds themselves — that
than empty. Few people have an adequate idea of what this means. Now

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Yet it is surely not without meaning that the guiding Spiritual
that all who give any thought at all to the meaning of existence on
not mean to imply that man's astral body assumes every night the
not mean of course that we receive into us every night the entire
means of his heart-eye. There are however, dreams in which we can
And now man comes into the next sphere. This does not mean, he leaves
by means of his Sun-eye man
the Mystery of Golgotha. If we have once felt what it means for the
are your organism, your cosmic organism by means of which you
meaning is that he is going through an initiation which yields him
that it was given her at last to have her real meaning.
something new, something that means a new step forward. What he does

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goes forth, from the planetary spheres — we mean of course the
and origin of the moral ether; but when the Sun shines, then by means
means that the moral ordering of the world has gone out of the ether.
conscience, — and this will mean of course at the same time
danger has by no means always been so great as it is today. In the
weaker; and that meant also that during sleep he did not sail so
for a moment dear friends, that I mean to speak scornfully or
depends on the decision; for it is by no means a matter of
means, we cannot see it at all — then the soul that is

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that is possible, — namely, in pictures. This will mean that I
will mean, I shall be able to stay on the Earth. I shall not die any
entirely with such Ahrimanic sub-human beings. By this means they
nature of man. Man is by no means merely an earthly being; influences
of which I have been telling you. And a prime means for them to
are confident they will be able to achieve their end by means of
Sickness, whether in mind or body, means disappointment for Lucifer
description shows itself in a man's physical nature, it means that
means left to the good Powers, to rescue man from the fangs of
out-and-out egoist. But that will mean that he, as an egoist,
it is the Christ who provides now for man the means of reconciliation

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ask: What does it mean for the physical body to be thus laid aside by
your astral body. Once more, the “laying aside” means
point out what it really means, when we are out yonder in the world
ancient world-conceptions. Though it was meant to typify the
with the Hierarchy of that constellation, meanwhile the planets are
the meantime, from the planetary spheres, shines up into the sphere
consciousness was darkened for a longer time, — I mean the
Meanwhile the forces of the Moon arise within us. We feel once more:
only means of re-uniting with it — we now begin to draw to

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and again in new embodiments, what can be the deeper meaning of this
the whole meaning of earthly life that we penetrate the significance
their real meaning for us lies in the fact that each of these
this means for our souls. Toward this end we must link together many
world. This is the lowest means by which something about the
who comprehended that moment in time, who knew what it meant that
might, by means of these naturally developed faculties, be understood
means that the human spirit, who had previously been permeated by

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meaning. At the same time, we must also ask ourselves if it is not
which he is able to apply to sense perception and by means of which
without meaning: “Nature makes no leaps.” This sounds
should and can mean to us, how it should prepare us to fulfill our

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impulse. This is not meant to place these streams in opposition to
3,000 years. “Maitreya Buddha” means the “Buddha of

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feminine spiritual life. Mark well — I do not mean the
imply by any means that many a brain in a woman's body has not
will speak tomorrow about the great spiritual meaning of our time.

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event. It was by means of what man had learned through the wisdom of
ground as if dead. This means that everything of a lower nature in
for human beings to acquire by means of these human faculties —
from this deed — it can have no other meaning than to show me
that death would mean nothing other than another physical event for
Christianity by means of the mere story. Those whose intentions are

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of the deepest meaning, because they indicate that something most
refreshment by means of this ecstasy.
Still, by these means alone the change would not have
as it is called. This was by no means a sermon for the masses. The
writings as a remote fairyland, which means the spiritual world, the

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world of the senses to be able, by means of a growing capacity for
being in direct connection with a physical body. This means that the
faculties that today can be acquired by means of initiation will in
He will appear in an etheric body. By means of spiritual science we

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meaning; every ant feels itself to be a member of a whole. Human

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the human soul is by no means as easy to achieve as many people
reality, but a thought is only a thought. By this is meant that one
this corpse, since they themselves will by that means develop to a

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therapy, and soon, most likely, social and political means, the
allowing this or that to be publicized by such means as would be
things are; meanwhile it is not at all necessary to occupy ourselves
some causes by using words with antithetical meaning. How this is
variety of things and by means of which one can come to special
exist or that their activities are harmless. They are by no means
lodge (see drawing, orange). This means that dead people have been
circumstances. This means that we are not only a fusion of body,

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Well-meaning, spiritual members of the brotherhood thus
these well-meaning members of the brotherhood had surmised would
manifestations of the spirits of the departed. The well-meaning,
in human evolution as a means for power. It is self-evident that
over the whole field. The well-meaning initiates gradually lost all
all a system. Meanwhile the life of thinking leads to one world (W1),
frequently discussed what this means. It cannot be otherwise than
devoutness. It gives new meaning to the legend about which I just
one workman to another. Then he worked with arithmetic means. You
know that it does not matter if one uses arithmetic means in
mechanics, but with human beings one cannot employ arithmetic means,
arithmetic means, however: he selected those workers who recovered

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tackles these situations. The what lies simply in the meaning of
to these forces by artificial means, to forces emanating from certain

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relationships are added to immediate ones. I mean this in the
existence, for all cosmic existence. It means that actually, in a
through the rest of life. This means nothing other than that, beyond
destiny in the world, in great events and small. What do I mean by
which will show you what I mean, and it is only one case out of
means severed by death; they continue. This enrichment of life is the
time, however, and I am sure other ways and means will be found by

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nation-spirits. If we try to observe by means of spiritual science
Italy is the means through which the nation-spirit impresses his
It can be asked: how is it with the other nation-spirits? What means
point of view. A central Europe is meant to which France and Italy do

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feeble outlines; but it is meant to show you that it is possible to

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make the man of today understand what is meant by “glowing
clearer to you what I mean. Let us suppose you have an affection for
its true meaning. Red — surely you do not think that red is, in
Hierarchy was not meant the two-legged being that goes about the

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chance. In those days one could not find a teacher by means of books,
conversation between them. I do not of course mean that only one
the objects of Nature are in their deeper meaning, when one observes
and the meaning and significance of each for the whole. And he felt
much misunderstood, and it is by no means easy for us to find out
Logos by means of that self-knowledge for which so powerful an
means fully clear to Raimon Lull; with him it was more of a dim,
the pupil had come to know the meaning and significance of

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to human thinking as the means of attaining knowledge.
period. One has to discover for oneself what it really means, by
the spiritual world — may have very deep meaning; from it can
really meant, and asked about them. But they received from these wise
knowledge that lives in me, a knowledge I can by no means enclose in
intercourse went on among men by means of a silencing of thought. No

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known if one is to understand aright, in all its shades of meaning,
the symbolic meaning of this or that sign, concerning all of which

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We have seen how the old knowledge that was once acquired by means
still able to learn how the true meaning of such symbols is only
means of the inner knowledge and feeling of his skeleton. A man does
By this means did the
interchange with the astral light, and to perceive by means of the
by means of the inside of the bones of the lower leg, and you
Form by means of his experience of the inside of the thigh-bone, its
Substance once more by means of the organ of the head, the

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have written in it. For what does it mean to say that the ancient
repelling it, driving it away with deprecation. He means to show that
the writing has them. What does it mean, “the writing has
them”? It means that in our wrist, in our hand, we have a

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First of all there is a challenge to discover what is actually meant.
forth of the meteoric element that sets us free by means of the iron
something by means of it, so can we turn to the service of our will
meaning which has to be ascribed to that brazen writing in the astral
merely as a rarity, or as something one seeks to explain by means of a
does not mean that such an Imagination is merely built up out of
added a spiritual element penetrated with the meaning and sense of
not be understood as meaning that here or there one celebrates a

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ourselves have written in it. For what does it mean to say that the
repelling it, driving it away with deprecation. He means to show that
them. What does it mean, ‘the writing has them’? It means

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undoubtedly use every available means to fight against it, it will yet
past epoch were by no means inactive. What an external physiology
This is what the Michael Rulership means.
will be able to remember, — that is, those who by means of occult
Science means fundamentally nothing else than to have a true feeling
understand this. It means that something which in all previous epochs
world-conception means for individual souls, we shall learn to

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when one means his face or countenance.
observation we study the things around us, we learn to know by means
ideas. Yes, — to be an Anthroposophist in our age means to know
and out, means to have the right consciousness to-day in relation to
a sensitive understanding of them, and to consider what it means now
the Dragon which is now meant was not yet a Dragon; it will become a
future. To defeat this means to stand in the service of Michael. That
again, which for earlier times had another meaning and which must now
acquire the right meaning for our age. When we are conscious of the

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What do I mean by saying that men experienced the “course of
the year”? It means that they knew through immediate perception,
Jehovah” and by “countenance” it meant the
Michael” means that we should not organise our life merely out of
time mathematically, by our earthly means alone, whereas for the real
through death in the right way. This means that death and
it means for us and for our age that the soul of the earth is exhaled

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What I mean by this will become quite clear to you through the
Christ Jesus the divine leader of the whole human race. This means

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The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales
This edition of The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales was prepared
things that seem to have a personal coloring; it is not meant to be
world, how the soul can be understood only through spiritual means,

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The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales
This edition of The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales was prepared
meaning. What is built on a good foundation will work out well, but
it all meant. “Well,” said the latter, “just look
first thing we must do in order to understand the meaning of genuine
strength nor any rough force. By means of the consciousness soul we

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thought and impulse of Christianity, I mean, with that impulse which
that the Christian Easter is by no means coincident as to its inner
essence and meaning with the Heathen festivals of the Spring Equinox.
himself. Such was the meaning and intention of the Mysteries: the
meaning and purpose of this ancient Pagan festival which was connected
(Charfreitag is Good Friday; Chara means mourning).

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are plenty of formal explanations, but of the substantial meaning of
earthly creatures. Here they represent medicaments and means of
celebrated the Easter Festival in its full human form, by which I mean
inconceivable what it would mean to husbands and wives, for instance,
the same meaning I can only tell you of these things in modern
by calculation and the like, was considered altogether meaningless. In

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forms. But this by no means exhausts what the Moon is for the Earth
To understand what this really means we must look back to the event
meant to say in the ancient Mysteries: “Oh Man, remember that
become a light being of the Moon. I do not mean it in a symbolic sense
that which determines the whole meaning of the year.

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cosmic writing, when the stars mean more to us than something merely
Doubly esoteric is the meaning that dwells within these eight or nine

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may soon be found. What does this mean in Tibet? The Tibetans are
Meanwhile the sinner is thrown into prison together with his family,
by the Count. In the meantime the mother has died. The child had told

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and this means in our future incarnations — men must be
arts. For example, it was possible by their means to observe the
when this body died, the individuality would meanwhile be in the
pedagogical means for the development of the free will. We have
evil” (which means to search for the ideas in the outer world)
read this non-Christian literature, and what it meant to him
who cannot grasp the meaning of the Mystery of Golgotha confronts

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our age — and “our age” means the last three or
means of the recognised science of today. Spiritual science points
man is in his inner being. — So there is meaning, indeed a
thoughts. A good means for turning the dreams of materialists into
lies with men by means of a different world-conception, to prevent

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we consider only the physical as such. This is materialism. It means

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totally different. The energies and laws by means of which food is changed
problem of means was a fundamental concern; when (for this is
dear ones, to help them find the lines, planes, forms, by means of which
Which does not mean that we should wish to retrieve the past; only to
— dimensions which had no meaning
tone melodies, have very much meaning in the spiritual world.”
artistic meaning of the colors and styles of dress, the art of costuming
to find meaningful costumes, you must go back to more ancient times.
lies the meaning of costuming. Modern man may say that clothes
certainly, that is one of their materialistic meanings. But it

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means seeing man artistically.
into that body. Which means a sharp contrast: whereas architecture begins
be overcome. This does not mean that in the future painters should be
is placed into space full of present meaning. None of this concerns
who knew a great deal about these matters, meant by the lyre of Apollo.
poem, the thought element of the cosmos. Epic poetry always means letting
the upper gods speak; means putting one's person at their disposal. Homer
ingenious hero who wandered afar,” meaning Odysseus. Never would it

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perhaps awakens him to the full meaning of earthly existence by making him
felt what it means, on the one hand, to be dependent solely upon one's

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merely of phantasy but of spiritual perception; and it was by this means
beyond the prose meanings of words into rhythm, rhyme and imagination.
words are but a means, the fact that poetry's aura of mood echoes cosmic
We still can divine what it meant for Homer when he said: “Sing,
in the present case, poetry — makes use of is only a means to
To repeat: today “science” has only an earthly meaning; its
carried out scientifically has meaning only for the earth. Having acted

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a meaning which is independent of man because rooted in the spirit.
means that the beautiful bears a relation to the spiritual outside us.
thing is how the whole world acts upon his subject; and his means of
not mean to do away with drawing, but to let it rise out of the colors,
soon as a painter represents the virtuous, meaning that which man realizes
become free is the whole meaning of the fifth post-Atlantean age. But
means of his creation, something spiritual into the world, so that it
subjects appear side by side. Painting lost meaning when it passed from

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Acceptance of modern science means yielding to dead thoughts and looking
as it were, naked to the world. The need is to see, by means of a purely
starting point of architecture had great meaning. Primeval instinctive
of costuming merges with the other arts. It is not without meaning that
to fashion it artistically by means of architecture, sculpture, painting,

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the very source of such activity. And I indicated how the meaning of
dead mineral components, it is yet the means whereby the living shows
important to focus attention upon its meaning within the evolution of
direction, which always means taking hold of the spirit. On the stage,
what it means when an actor walks from left to right, or from right

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highly developed. By means of Biology, Physiology and Anatomy we have
You must not deny Anthroposophy, for it is only by this means that
easy to be a grown-up person — easy for the spirit, I mean, for
what you ought to be doing with him; I mean, you must take the
means, with the first simple beginnings of Arithmetic. All this must

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the meaning and spirit of what man wanted to express in picture
image and each picture could have but one meaning.
ways and means of your own. The teacher must be inventive, he must
Europeans, communicate with each other by means of little devils,
is just what letters are for children. They mean nothing to them. The
have already become a means of magic because they are merely
cleverly thought out: what is intellectual has but one meaning and it

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living by means of manure. It is impossible that they should

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according to his temperament, means that you have done something to
this; it only has meaning if you talk about it first for a time,
all means remember what he can, but what he has forgotten is of no

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real meaning for man when he knows something of his former earth
by means of external things which he can see, and keep him as far
way.” Then Henry said: “What does that mean, divide it in

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and to find ways and means of making faithful reproductions of the
little crude, but which will make clear to you what I mean. I do not
come to feel what it means for their own musical being to flow over
not mean any interference with Gymnastics, the teaching of physical
By means

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found everything that is metamorphosed by means of the different
newspapers. I should like to know what meaning a sum like that can
years together certainly have no meaning; they will all of them be
receiving teaching which is meant for an age of life different from
giving of reports. I could never in my life imagine what it means to

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meant 30 nuts. The farmers' only concern was to gather the nuts
untruth. What does drawing mean? It means representing something by
meaning in it than this, namely, that we ought not to make the child
meant to bring into the school a philosophy of life or anything
do not mean that everyone who has passed a State examination is

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give any direct impetus to such reform by means of a course of
been baffled by the question: “What does sickness mean and what is a
meaning what we describe simply as warmth. They held that these four
human organism must therefore function by means of the correct
Meanwhile a quite new current made its appearance. We have followed up
systems of underjaw, arm, leg, foot — by means of this
means for material. This is quite justifiable in certain departments,

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infections. A case which may be by no means hopeless, becomes serious
If we take all these symptoms together what do they mean? They are,
necessary to stimulate coughing by artificial means. If the lower
must be subsequently countered, at the appropriate moment, by means of

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basis of medicine as practised today. This means very “heavy going,”
between man and the external world, from which we take our means of
certain external processes and human processes, by means of examples
middle and hind portion, independently. This means that if the
— by means of a plant product or some other substance used as a
means of vegetable and animal substances, we help the organism thus
addition of iron. This means that a continuous healing process is
heal by means of the administration of the requisite mineral, iron. To
depict what happens to our blood by means of a graph, we must show the

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simple means whereby these cures would become more and more
not use this means although one might be led to use it. And I can, of
investigations by means of the methods proper to physics; but you will
or animal micro-organism. They mean this and nothing more.
What does it mean? What arises in your thoughts is entirely within the
metamorphosis of light. This means that man does not only transform
transmuted light, by means of what can be drawn from the remedial

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capacity to grip the lower human sphere by means of the higher
get much further by means of chemical research into various
means that they tend to reverse the process of depositing salt. They
And what does this opposition to earth-solidifying forces mean? It
means nothing less, in essence, than the liberation of the lower man
are particularly vivid and frequent dreams. This means that the astral
herbal plant springs up out of the earth. This means that we must

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laymen, in a rough and obvious way, by means of the following
planetary forces means that various other planetary influences combine

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consideration of Time. Only by these means can we learn correctly to
during childhood. This means, one should try to ensure the most normal
waking state, but its “installation” means that the collaboration
but retains the globular form. This means that the mercurial element
This means that the region below the heart and above the organs of
What I have said does not mean any “pushing” of certain remedies. But

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process of taste. I mean that in the act of seeing, we are performing
inwardly free. But by means of the blood, our whole organism works

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relationship with the meteorological world, in its widest meaning. And
artificial means or better still by natural ones) into a more highly
lime has been withheld. Of course, the ways and means to carry this
internal structure of the lung; I do not mean the function of
cardiac activity towards the pulmonary; I mean the inner organic
there must be a meaning in the fact that quartz exhibits very regular

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every human individual with the means to observe nature independently.
away from the blood the forces working normally by means of the iron,
stimulation means a certain risk, if too much silicic acid is
man in this way means to look on him somewhat as a finger which is an
malformations showing in anatomical deformities, but I mean
circumstances mean nothing at all in the examination of the organism
is the true meaning of this duality in the human organism, between the

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have heard these lectures, especially Dr. K.'s, will grasp my meaning.
appropriate to plot out the different effect of potencies by means of
one hand, to the generation of light. You will realise the meaning of
blood; and on the other hand, by means of the secretion of the gall,
there is a means of studying this extra-telluric sphere in all the
people actually think that anything can be explained by means of such

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so forth, we should not limit their meaning to the inherent forces and
susceptibility to the iron within one's self, by means of some remedy,
first period, ending with the cutting of the permanent teeth, means,
should and can then be counteracted by means of administering either
application of remedies, through friction, by means of ointments, and

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with their culmination in cancer, by means of merely physical methods,
organic forces is opposed. Let us try to elucidate this by means of a
You may corroborate this statement by means of a test which can only
Mistletoe provides, beyond question, a means which — when given in
thought by means of stimulation through coffee: that is to say, a
promoted by other means than this or that form of diet. But in order

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into the operation of intellect and judgment. This will not yet mean
world by means of the eye, represents par excellence the erecting of
This consolidation takes place because by means of the formic acid the
by means of folding inwards and invaginations. In following up the
in the processes outside ourselves. To understand this rightly means
it to your aid; not this time by means of immersion in any bath, but

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organism indicates too strong an ego. It is just the contrary it means
the bath water and treating the patient by means of oil-baths. It is
question, by means of such vegetable life tendencies. Now, however,
foliage; and this means a tendency to beneficial action in cases of

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imbue it with a certain awareness, by means of massage, we take action
will understand what I mean. Let us take an individual case, in which
the condition will mean that the best remedy can only be sought in
so thou strengthenest the actual forces of the ego”: — the meaning would be
something of this sort; for the things are of course meaningless
would call them — are built up, which are not meant for use during
certainly be diagnosed by means of a psychoanalytic method, wisely
substances which they in fact possess. That means one is estranged
and above all, it means the loss of the perception that every organ of
inquire: what is it that the teeth draw into the body by means of this

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the soul into the fingers means to promote all the forces that go to
possible — of course if it has not been started too late — by means
conquest of something distasteful means the reconstruction of an organ
treatment by means of suggestion we are placing the human being wholly

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break through into the lower. This means that an etheric breach takes
later states of our university education, it is possible (by means of
with the extra-terrestrial world. These hints are not meant to

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influence which springs from the earth-forces in heredity, by means of
forces of crystallisation. By means of the smelting process we can
nightshade, Atropa Belladonna. I have tried to show by means of
As I have already described, the birth of the belladonna means a

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promoted by means of the limb exercises which I have already mentioned
means very much for the constitutional health of mankind that man
receive sensation by means of an interior, so to speak “turned inside

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thinking, feeling and willing, this means no more than that it has
the “being ill” really means. And in this connection I
What do I mean by that? It brings together all the activities of the
of heredity means that before conception there was a lack of
world; and this would mean that when they passed afterwards through

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irrefutable. The lecturer had even confiscated — I mean, had
pupils. You must envisage quite exactly what this would mean.
we set out to investigate with all the means afforded by Spiritual
means that the thinking, and the forming of mental pictures, which
does this mean in practice? If you find that the etheric body of a
alternative. This will mean that while we must do our best to come to
using occult means for practical ends; won't that be steering too

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world, of the forces of the external world. What does this mean?
however, at the moment is to know that this is what we mean by
directly. And this is very important, for it means that, while he is
being has no possibility of making direct connection, by means of
and exercises, and work primarily by means of internal therapy.
clear what that means. When you meet with the characteristic

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pre-natal education — meaning education in the embryonic
cannot fill it in a right relationship. This will mean, that they are
means. He has difficulty in taking hold rightly of the equilibrium
means of curative education, then, when the child attains puberty,
mean that the child is then obliged to let, not the feeling of
the tempo. By such means you will find you can work very strongly

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organism, and the moment something is caught and held fast, by means
does this mean? When metabolism and limbs are too weakly developed,
means of such rhythmical repetition. You can change the impressions,
child. Naturally, this does not mean we are to sprinkle his food
he does not convey their meaning to his legs; it is as though the

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I do not mean an attentiveness merely of the intellect, but a
Believe it or not, the boy is a genius. What do I mean by that? (He
doesn't understand what we are saying.) I mean that, in accordance
part; for it will mean he has roused himself to inner mobility.
and by means of baths or lotions. When you give a person medicine to
is certainly meant.] For this gives, as it were, a helping

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following her calling with enthusiasm and devotion. This meant that a
parallel with one another, especially in a child. This does not mean
means, you see, that by the time the child reached the third year,
by any other means. Indeed, it is quite possible you may fare like

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it has a more individual significance. It may mean nothing else than
appetite. A poor appetite, which means then of course impaired

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His interest is in "discovery". Good and bad mean liking
has no means of access to the capacity for judgement that ordinarily
and thine” has no meaning for him. His astral body does not get
attach any meaning at all to what he hears people say about
meaning of “good” — by bringing it about that the
learned, I mean, before the change of teeth — if we notice, for
is here looked upon by no means merely as a necessity, but as
these means, for the child is actually not yet responsive to light.
other means. Nectar was given — the content of the nectaries
most effective means of inducing decomposition, disintegration.
what this means. You introduce the lead, by means of injection, into
keep her still, we have to resort to mechanical means. First of all,
mean? For when we divide the human being into
set out to develop Waldorf School pedagogy and really mean our work
means nothing else than that they want to be God-forsaken, they want
spirit-man. It means, they would rather not have any knowledge of the

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has been castrated, means that in his case we have to reckon with a
Movement. I mean a certain vanity that shows itself there on every
are by no means written plain for all to see; and you may take it
please do not think I mean just persuading yourself of this truth
the old. But now consider what it means, That they can stand there so
Nietzsche meant it? Why, you should be leading lives of joy —
means of algae injections, healthy astrality will be

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inflammation require to be neutralised, and can be by this means.
he has never attempted to imitate. This means, in other words,
also into the alternating conditions that can be induced by means
moderate temperature. You will by this means call to life that which
he has learned to place in you, contrive some means to make his
the Moon is at the same time standing before Libra. This means, the
the eyes at all — I mean, without any reading. On the other
sift the pyrites powder finely on to it. By this means you can bring
do you mean? That Trüper was the first to concern himself with
have really no means of discovering the simplest facts without the
will provide another means of stimulating the ego.

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indeed to be brought into it by means of education, these men of an
what has to be done by the head by means of a gentle admixture of
with the conditions — I do not mean merely knowing them in
theory, I mean faithfully fulfilling in real earnest the conditions
attention upon his own I, values his I too highly. What does it mean
for a living connection. This will mean that anyone who practises

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carried further by means of the reason and intellect. It is the
questions regarding the meaning of life, the duties of life,
he can progress by means of this development to still further
further; and Anthroposophy provides the only means in
can never be experienced by means of any ordinary science or
between birth and death by their means.
of this is learnt by means of theorising, or by subtle
explanation of our real human nature by any other means; and if
From this moment we know what it will mean when we lay aside
true they are. But no thinking is developed by means of
we do not as a rule mean that “there is the river-bed
`Rhine,'“ but we mean the flowing water which we look at.
do not mean to say that in recent times Medicine has not made
learns to heal by means of a real and artistic conception of an

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to point out how by means of the kind of knowledge cultivated
physical organisation which is perceptible by means of the
as regards the actual Ego-organisation, by means of which man
created by means of the nervous-system. The
man ‘perceives’ by means of his separate senses — sight,
the means are there by which it can
injections. By this means we introduce a substance
means to introduce just this silicic acid process into the
means of spiritual scientific investigation. Precisely
who can really perceive what is meant will certainly not have

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the general principles by means of which the knowledge of healing
body which we know by means of our senses, but the
to sleep but do not bring about total sleep — I mean
head by means of lead and cause comatose conditions, etc., so
the sufferer — I mean migraine.
the Ego by means of silicic acid; (3) regulation of the
despised by ordinary medicine but it is by no means so
means if we pick gentian, for instance, in the first weeks of
system, we shall arrive at a possible means of healing.

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and carried further by means of the reason and intellect. It is
find the answers to questions regarding the meaning of life,
means of this development to still further knowledge, and to a
and Anthroposophy provides the only means in this our modern
by means of any ordinary science or through the ordinary
means.
existence. But none of this is learnt by means of theorising,
by any other means; and if we can learn it in this way, then we
we know what it will mean when we lay aside our body in this
true they are. But no thinking is developed by means of
the Rhine,’ we do not as a rule mean that there is the
river bed ‘Rhine,’ but we mean the flowing water
I do not mean to
heal by means of a real and artistic conception of an art that

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means of the kind of knowledge cultivated by Anthroposophy, man
physical organisation which is perceptible by means of the
Ego-organisation, by means of which man is raised above all the
by means of his separate senses — sight, hearing and so
instruments at our disposal, though all the means are there by
digestive tract. The second way is by injections. By this means
it. How can we find ways and means to introduce just this
into the art of Healing by means of spiritual scientific
be cured. Anyone who can really perceive what is meant will

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means of which the knowledge of healing can be made fruitful
we know by means of our senses, but the substance of which is
sleep but do not bring about total sleep — I mean
head; just as we drive them out of the head by means of lead
sufferer — I mean migraine.
of the nervous and sensory activity of the Ego by means of
but it is by no means so complicated as it appears when we
medicaments we must also learn to know what it means if we pick
at a possible means of healing.

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either by means of experiment, or by direct observation — and
means of his physical senses and his reason alone — because he is
be observed by ordinary physiological means. But, out of all this
attributes of the human being by means of which he attains his “sense
purely physical means of healing to a knowledge which works with
spiritual means.
said. Let us suppose that by means of this kind of spiritual diagnosis
means to combat it. This is just one example of how illnesses can be
physical phenomenon by means of the blood. A remarkable example of
the human being by means of the mistletoe, and the etheric substance
of the tree, carried over by means of the mistletoe, works as a
that it is only possible to reach it by means of the spiritual vision
not instruct their pupils by means of mere abstract concepts, but by
means of pictures — of imagery. These pictures, by reason of
consciousness which we have evolved in ourselves by means of exact
the human soul with its origins by means of inwardly conceived ideas,

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either by means of experiment, or by direct observation — and
means of his physical senses and his reason alone — because he is
be observed by ordinary physiological means. But, out of all this
attributes of the human being by means of which he attains his “sense
purely physical means of healing to a knowledge which works with
spiritual means.
said. Let us suppose that by means of this kind of spiritual diagnosis
means to combat it. This is just one example of how illnesses can be
physical phenomenon by means of the blood. A remarkable example of
the human being by means of the mistletoe, and the etheric substance
of the tree, carried over by means of the mistletoe, works as a
that it is only possible to reach it by means of the spiritual vision
not instruct their pupils by means of mere abstract concepts, but by
means of pictures — of imagery. These pictures, by reason of
consciousness which we have evolved in ourselves by means of exact
the human soul with its origins by means of inwardly conceived ideas,

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evolved forms, in which the means of production have gradually
means of production, didn1t lead to what was
future, — this, and what this means, — the whole
What do we mean by Capitalism? By Capitalism we
simply mean, in other words, the private ownership of the means
the means of production, and the use of these for the same
and the conditions arising from the means of production. Our
from the soil, and from the means of production. And into this
the Rights arising from the means of production; and we must
be a means of production, and nothing more; and that a
means of production can only accumulate labour-value until it
is a thing against nature; that land and ready-finished means
to man by some other means than by exchanging them for
coerce me by unjust economic power through the means of Wages!’
Wilson-Utopia’ I simply meant what the previous speaker, Mr.
fine words and words which are meant to be very ideal, but
also to this Utopia, I meant to say that in those days people
this means, that we must give our minds in deepest earnest to
as well as for the present time, is that we should find means

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By this we mean not only that they should be well prepared in

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Shem's etheric body woven into it. Now, by what means
body alone. From this example we can study what it means when
of a human being. What does it mean, then, when a human being
into his body? It means that every time the essence of an
language, but this does not mean that the language in
innumerable times; by ego, I mean the “I” as an
by means of just such knowledge.
body and this is My blood.” Christ meant with these
the meaning of the Lord's Supper. Just think about the
discussions about the meaning of the Lord's Supper
look not at its content, but perceive it as a means of

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Now there is a certain method by means of which
meant to be revealed that is presented to the earth in the

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According to divine providence, mankind was certainly meant
me-phis-to-pel, which means the liar, the cheater.

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means “paying attention,” but was erroneously

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spiritual message that is meant to have an effect on the
a spiritual life that is meant to lay the foundation for
hearts. We will also learn what it means to behold the sun
meaning of death for this spiritual world through this
that to be united with what one does not love means

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The Festivals and Their Meaning: II Easter
to grasp the meaning of these legends quickly with our dry
meaning of this requires that we enter deep shafts of
so profound that we need all the means available to Spiritual
Christ, however, saved mankind by means of what He Himself
express this certainty is the meaning of today's
something of what it means to live not simply in one's

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The Festivals and Their Meaning: II Easter
beings desire only what they are meant to receive. They no
longer suffer from the lack of things, for if they are meant

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was meant to receive a special mission had to use this
the means the student himself has been instructed to utilize
prepared something positive, and since anthroposophy is meant
anthroposophy within yourself means to change the soul in

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content of the human soul: that which gives life its meaning.
study means that the soul reaches out beyond the concerns of
wooden box similar to a casket. This means that Osiris did
The fact that this is dimly divined in many a soul means that
Zarathustra's soul understood the meaning of this

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in the means employed by anyone seriously trying to struggle
original meaning had faded, Rosicrucianism, received the task
mean when we say we work on ourselves? It means that we
contribute to the founding of a new culture. They were meant
words as I say them and to the meaning that I give to them
spiritual means everything that one can perceive with
into the water. What does that mean? It means that he was
name was Michael Lomonosov. Unknown and without means, he
Buddha. This means that such an individuality does not

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grasp the meaning.
that is the only means by which he can draw on his inner powers and

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increasingly arose. Men felt — I mean of course those who were
had means to feel their way consciously into sleep and so got to know
during deep sleep. Only the priest of the Mysteries by means of his
least he could raise his spirit into the starry spaces. By means of
the very greatest — I mean the experience of free-will, of
possible to be initiated into the secrets of the stars by this means.
spirituality of the Sun's being penetrates also. By means of a sort of
nowadays (and by nowadays I mean our present epoch of history which may of
This was meant as a serious scientific statement, and there is nothing

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it is part, not of ourselves only, but also of the Cosmos. The meaning
of Golgotha is related closely to the meaning of earthly revolution
means of which we may move further over the ocean of life. Thus we
Golgotha is therefore closely related to the whole meaning of earthly
remain just things which can be studied but convey no real meaning.
Now people who are unable to see with insight into the meaning of the
mean that in the future men will dream the whole night through, but
meaning we have to develop a new faculty; we have to pass with right
you remember what I have told you, you will understand what it means.

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which I mean, of course, the more ancient epochs of civilization,
degree into the Druid culture. With the means accessible today to
lived in the impulses by means of which these Druid priests guided
epoch when the Druid Mysteries were in their prime. And with the means
was created by means of the stones, which were fitted into the soil
healed. And at length they said: We have many means of healing, but

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the living and the dead by means of Spiritual Science.
means to the dead. It creates an obstacle to his good intentions in
tried to drink as much beer as they can hold! That means that the
him. By means of these glimpses we can learn much as to the relation
mean what is known as “Reading to the Dead.” It has been
Thus we see that it is by no means necessary that the dead we wish to

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The forces by means of which we look back later at our former
grey brain-substance. This grey brain-matter was by no means so highly
way means are gradually created by which we can really perceive the
between death and rebirth, forces by means of which he can contemplate
easier to bear. We shall know that it was a trial, a means of
should like to show, by means of a few examples, how life before birth
certain spiritual regions. That is why other means are generally used
means, one of which may strike one as strange, but it rests upon a
means, which many suppose to be merely accidental. He may meet a man
This is a case of outer means being resorted to. The man in question

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spiritual cosmic connections, the meaning of the festival year. And I
initiation connected a deep meaning with the view which placed the
the Spirit of the Universe. And the meaning of this manifestation was
reads the meaning of letters on a sheet of paper, in those times
meaning was read in the relation of Aries, or of Taurus, of Venus, or
into words. And according to the meaning of what was thus put into
the following: They began to understand the inner meaning of the Earth
Europe, felt most livingly the inner meaning and spirit of this time
souls. This was the meaning they saw in the cycle of the year.

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earth-evolution, man had a certain instinctive clairvoyance by means
means of this initiation, man forsook in a certain way the periphery
could by no means have accomplished.
to the will-powers: to take up the Michael force, which means to

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meant to them.
meant for the most part permeating with spirit not only what they saw
out her soul. What does this mean?
It means that certain elemental beings which are just as much in the
(Erganzung) of the Easter mood. But by means of this, something
Christ. This means, taking the risen Christ into one's soul during

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consciousness by means of which they perceive very clearly the plant
songs and such dances, by means of which there could arise what I have
but in the meantime it has been filled with the content of the
to discover a meaning in what was given in signs. Let us say that the
divine its meaning.
discovers that it takes on shapes whose meaning is then supposed to be
by means of festivals. And these festivals could be celebrated only at
the Earth which cannot be gained by means of geology or mineralogy but
an inner understanding of what the cycle of the year can mean to man

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These people believed that by means of the ceremonies I have
world in which it revealed itself was by no means regarded in such a
“Light,” spiritual wisdom was meant. It designated that
particular meaning. This meaning emerges when one can perceive the
two shades of meaning. One is “recollection” or
speaking in meaningful cosmic language. The trees are becoming bare;

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legends are full of meaning: Mephistopheles is very often depicted
means nothing to him, whereas the man of ancient Greece was vitally
basic meanings must be understood.
theology is a nerve-process. But this means that wisdom is shackled to

Title: Lecture II: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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the head are very similar. This means that the forces of left and
liver. The stomach is the means with which Lucifer fights from left to
of occultism, this means nothing else than that he is placed in still
how Lucifer and Ahriman work in the human being of space by means of
with the true cosmic working in the world. I mean our building here in
That is, however, by no means the case. The most important part is
nothing beautiful in it!” We mean, I see no beautiful cake mould —
meaning and significance of the step forward in spiritual evolution

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there by means of thought. There are also places which seem to be full
two ideas of duty and of right — I mean, the

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and are not meant to be symbolic or allegorical figures. They are

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture II: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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feeling had been completely lost for what Homer meant to convey
real meaning of this expression, maer –

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stress on the meaning, this is an
to start with the handling of speech, the material by means of

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tendency towards materialism. In our words and their meaning lies
which Anthroposophy aspires means precisely the reimmersing of
demeanour of Anthroposophy.
meaning-content of the words. A stress on the word-for-word content
If we look at the means by which
experiences, the intellectual significance or literal meaning must
Apollo’s lyre, meaning man himself as a work of art: a

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We shall see most clearly what is meant by this

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upon spiritual reality. The moment we arrive by means of logic at a
meaning. For this reason it has become necessary for our own
declamation, where what has been debased through the means of

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[Though by different means, Sir John Davies also
Or by what meanes were they
weaves within corporeal man, and how artistic creation means making

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about the art of poetry by means of an illustration. It must,
artistic will grasp what I mean.
the outer physical world of the senses. To create poetry means to
well-meaning one – which does not always accord with the

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flesh’ is meant everything that lies more in the subconscious.
powerful means; or to see the will-power of one person working
Cognition should be the means whereby one soul comes to an
itself directly in the Jesus-element of the Son, which means in the
exercises mean for the whole man. But this Imaginative presentation
earth, and we who belong to His army have to employ every means to
Imaginations, which means by occult methods, it acquires the capacity

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Rosicrucianism. So it is that persons who by means of our
have any meaning at all. For it would have no meaning if one soul
soul only in the New Testament epoch. It has meaning only if souls
earth-lives as logical — which means hypothetically true. So do
This means that

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ensuing period that it will provide a direct means of perceiving the
every means available to occult research. We will now enter more
existence. It would be meaningless if the soul were to end with
spiritual, meaning an empty abstract thought-world which pervades all

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means to an experience of the Christ-Impulse — an experience
apart from the fact that in the West no meaning could then be
grasp Christianity truly as a mystical fact, the full meaning of
special degree. What does this mean?
It means that today
meanings, which can no longer be found simply by reading the
unworthiness, of their inability to grasp the true kernel and meaning
recognise what He means by saying ‘Thou sayest it’. If He
means ‘Thou art right’, there is no meaning m it, for the
then can this be an answer full of meaning? Or, from the side of
mayest give as answer’, which means, when we understand it
it have a meaning.’
the secret meaning of certain things?
Initiation, when by means of it a man attains clairvoyant power,
There are no means
one can be compelled — by any means available on the physical
what Jerome meant when he said that they would serve not for
task is to go back to the true meaning of Christianity, concerning

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of mind and spirit is needed to understand its full meaning and range
external sheath. This means transforming the individuality so that it
Nagasena meant to say, has just as much in common with the man of his
next incarnation, and so on. This means that what goes through the
mean? To die means to throw off the physical body. External Maya
physical body may disappear!’ It could not mean anything else,
understand anything only if he can understand the means whereby God
set before us. And they mean that we shall have to widen in a certain

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means can we see into the heart of what the Christ-Impulse has become
meaning, if the Resurrection is not true! That is what is said by
starting-point. And it means that anyone who is willing to give up
(which means Teacher). Jesus said to her,
meaning if it did not refer to a fact. Attention was drawn on a
or these words would have no meaning.
attention. There must be a meaning in the words, ‘For they did
the words have no meaning. The more deeply you enter into the text,
Paul wishes to say by means of a simple diagram:
writings; one ought not to twist the meaning of something so clearly
allegorically and to say it was meant in such and such a way; but all
these interpretations make no sense. If we wish to connect a meaning

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VII: The Mystery of Golgotha, Greek, Hebrew and Buddhist Thought
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endeavour we have tried by means of words to bring the Christ-Being
with it. Thereby he can go through a development by means of which he

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means the bodily instrument, the entire organism, of the Nathan Jesus

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way, are by no means new in Western history. Anyone, however, who
objectivity of the act of Redemption. One cannot by any means treat
something concrete, something real. By means of meditation,
meant here by ‘bad enough’. No censure is intended, for
men sought to conquer the Bible by means of a science worthy of

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today, as it could especially in earlier times, by exoteric means. We
meaning of this Christian Initiation, and he will see also that still
is also attained, only by somewhat different means. A bond of
repetition of the incarnation of this Being, it simply means that the
Karma.’ This means that in future the ordering of karmic
earth-lives.’ Then men will see what it means for them to

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existence are there; people endeavor with every possible means at
become firmly fixed in your life it would mean nothing less than that
bestowed. What does this blessing mean for man? Is karma something at
various means into thinking that his ‘I’ is a product of the physical
what this has meant for man. We have described what was wrought by Him
Thus to ‘cultivate’ spiritual science means to understand that the
— By no means does that suffice. A man who does not concern himself with
if he knows it not,” — What he meant was: Of what use is the
understand what is meant when we are told that the Buddha attained his
actually has a deep meaning, namely that the Buddha imparted to those
then our answer will be: everyone who is aware of what is really meant,

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world through means dependent upon the efforts and labors of physical
help human beings because we may be sure that our help means something
means so. To believe any such thing would be as “clever” as to say:
of the materialistic research pursued here on earth. It is by no means
mean that the mysterious connection between earthquakes and the karma

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the plants. By means of the Prana (life-force) of plants he propelled
meaning. In the course of some of these lectures, I shall speak of

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to understand the whole meaning and spirit of a work like the
of understanding the meaning and spirit of a work like the Apocalypse
mean anything. Those who did not participate in the Mysteries were not
he was on the island of Patmos, meaning a place of initiation, and
only by means of a comparison. The highest to which man can raise
tries to twist the meaning of the God made Flesh, this Word which is
passed away, are immediately present. This means, therefore, that at
messengers of the Godhead. “Angel” means the Messenger of

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“Promise” means nothing else than that what took place in
but in the Word made Flesh. That is the meaning of this utterance. It
the opening of seals mean, in the language in which the Apocalypse is
opening of a seal means nothing else than the proclamation of
words of the Apocalypse in their true meaning. We shall learn more and
unshakable confidence but can never come to an end of their meaning.

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indeed it involved a radical change from customs by no means very ancient.
opens between knowledge and art, and man no longer finds any means of
demonstrated to the eye, illustrated by means of lantern-slides or

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will be made to explore the means by which, in this particular age,
of man. But there is a total misunderstanding of what was meant in
see no meaning or purpose in Greek education. Thus by studying the
perception to the meaning of these ordered movements in a Greek

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‘divine gymnastic’ by means of education.

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of the spirit. I do not here mean a nebulous and absolutely
held together by external means and are fixed one above the other,
by means of which we observe men, shall become human. We must learn
What Socrates meant is seen at a higher level.

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insignificant meaning we have when we express ‘word’ was
the line. He would mean something quite different. With us, the
to educate by means of sense-perception, because the
have to find to-day, however, are the means which will lead us to

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walk means to set the whole organism in a right orientation with the
educational measure very frequently applied in earlier days, I mean

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it is essential to develop by means of a true observation of the nature of
observe this we must by our demeanour respond to it. It need not be
spirits to be tangible, to reveal themselves materially by means of

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is, from the beginning to carry out any special activity by means of
and so forth, has absolutely no meaning for human life, or at most
no meaning apart from the human head. Its meaning lies simply and
Similarly, the plant only has meaning in its relation to the earth,

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Moreover, at the same time and by other means we can give an idea of
teaching means that one lesson shall not perpetually encroach upon
mean that it should be a matter for rejoicing whenever children forget.
has a fertile, inventive mind, he can find other ways and means of
as that. At all events, we must try by every possible means to awaken

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engine! This means that they are surrounded on all hands by
seven. By this means we endeavour to give our children something that
This again is irrational, for it means nothing else than that in some
about the world, but about himself as well. To think about oneself means,
All other study, all other books and reading, should be a means of
by ‘universal divinity’ I mean the divine

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thing has to be done. It means that Dr. Karl Schubert to whom, on
that is why a true knowledge of the human being, by means of which
musical instruction is not only a means of unfolding his artistic
profound meaning in these words of a German poet: ‘Only through

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means of healing. Whether in this case there has been a cure,
external means and the following questions arise: what sort of
mean this ironically, but quite seriously. There has never been
such games are imitated they have no meaning whatever.
has therefore no means of learning to know the child, while
meant here leads the teacher, in his task of educating, of

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the whole of human life can be observed by means of spiritual
we are to comprehend the being of man by means of true human

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are more profound than can be discovered by means of the
thinking. He thinks: 5 + 7 = 12, and by means of suggestion the
be stimulated from outside, as, in this case, by means of
must do so by means of an unquestioned authority. When I want
what the naturally accepted authority of the teacher, by means
one and only means of salvation. But through the very fact of
I am a philosopher and by no means of thought can I convince
what this means for a child! When they are grown-up, people
learn by means of the consonants to imitate inwardly outer
which were related to their meaning. Up to a certain point the
What does this mean? To begin with I call up in the child's

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speculation. Anthroposophy as a means of knowledge rejects all
educate the child by means of pictures, when we build up
Now, just as we teach the child by means of pictures, just as,
out of your head. The hair only has meaning when it is
he have meant? Of course in actual fact this statement of
studied by means of an anthroposophical knowledge of man.
are introduced. By means of gymnastics, however, we do not
about eurythmy. On that occasion I said that as a means of
gymnastics may have their justification as a means of
must say that gymnastics as a means of education are nothing
early, especially if it is done by means of crude external
externally visible by means of some kind of machine in which by
forth and this is prepared and examined, but by means of
sense. In saying this I do not mean the

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knowledge of man. It means of course that this knowledge must
the child must be estimated rightly by means of inner
misdemeanour; but there will be an awareness when something
there is no means of knowing in which subject he is a
misdemeanour noticed by the teacher and nevertheless it had
each school and class by means of regulations which apportion

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by this means the mutual understanding between teachers and
of teachers and the parent-body by means of an understanding
back to your own childhood; realise what it means, particularly
all kinds of rather meaningless activities which have
have the path of learning made smooth for him by means of
do much better — today we actually have the means whereby
has meaning if eurythmy is first introduced as an art; for then
simple concepts by means of which we would seek to explain
to assert that the child should be taught pictorially, by means
and the joy of saying: “Ah, so that was the meaning of
not mean that gratitude should cease with the 7th year or love

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spiritual world by means of abstract concepts, as being
spirit. In anthroposophy physical man is contemplated by means
beholding the spiritual by means of sense-perceptible pictures
together that, as a means of getting rid of this boredom, they
child broods more than ever. All these means of effecting a
can be induced just by this means.

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the human being. The following explanation will make my meaning
cannot be comprehended by means of the intellect, but rather by
wanted to portray plants by means of sculpture! Out of sheer
college, for it provides the means whereby the teacher may
inwardly, so that he is able by means of this inner perception
other hand, can only be grasped by means of a deep and
which enables one person to speak to another. There is a means
you the means of doing so. Then you say testa. You give
development of this or that human being, and by means of the

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done by means of direct instruction. Schooling of this kind
corn merchant or an outfitter; for trousers mean as much to him
again. Then people will understand what it once meant when
education was looked upon as a means of healing, and this
of what is meant by the Waldorf School. A sectarian striving

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anthroposophy can work fruitfully: I mean the sphere of
very precarious. Less than six weeks ago there was no means of
It was by no means unnatural that such a suggestion was put

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will have to use them as the means of rightly developing the
culture have no direct meaning for super-physical humanity, for
a fact, it is in the form of special translation by means of
a meaning in them. While cultivating further what the child has
will have a better idea of what “together” means,
“sum” means in contrast to the
authority should be cultivated, that does not mean that a
willing by false means into the wrong direction, but to secure
the strengthening of the will by artistic means. To this end,
to the nose result. The inner meaning for forms one would never
meaning. Try to act through your whole intimacy with the
myself. No kind of concept can make immortality mean anything

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the meaning of sounds?” People have not realized that
u are all sounded, it means a feeling, at
this linguistic study of meanings, is completely absent in
sleeping really mean? The meaning of waking and sleeping is
course, mean the collapse of earthly civilization. The rise of

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it would mean if people were to say: “As the head is a
individual who means well to humanity is faced with to-day,
expresses the meaningful wisdom from which the world is built.
would mean a certain progress if one were to pursue the attempt

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children by all possible means: the child must look up with
knowledge of life, is like playing at things; it is meaningless
of address of which we must become conscious by all means. When
language works at its construction means a great deal. This
What I have just said is meant to permeate you as educators and

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what you mean when you say Bath and when you give a name to
means. But then people did not want to write so complicatedly;
That is what I meant when I said: “The transition must be
of imitation to that of authority.” What I meant by this

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far more exactly what the Waldorf School really means than can be
means of acquiring such psychological laboratories and of
concerned to the meaning of such a reading passage. Then, after
with the meaning, by making “scheme” or plan, it is
first the process of familiarizing himself with the meaning of
have understood the meaning than when you have not
understood the meaning. It has been “determined by
it is useful firstly to understand the meaning of a reading
when its meaning has been understood than when this has not
This heretical statement is meant particularly for the
first understand the meaning of a thing which is to be
assimilated by understanding the meaning, only affects the
analysing the meaning of everything that he absorbs. And, in
fact, if we were to analyse merely the meaning of things, we
light on the meaning of a thing. The will likes to sleep, and
call the perpetual unchaste laying bare of the meaning. And the
upon this simple truth of the value of revealing meanings, so
lay bare the meaning. Then we shall educate his will.
principles of explaining the meanings have been
human life to interpret symbolically what is meant to be
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be aimed at in the child by means of natural history teaching
history. You must know, in the meantime, that in man we have,
cuttle-fish — I mean, a transformed lower animal, for the
means of its head, man cannot do this. The head must be poised
have any concrete meaning.

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that, by means of different devices, by means of the Morse
be produced, in the case of a closed circuit, by means of the
it succumbs to gravitation.” But that really means
gravitation” is actually meaningless; it is one of

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the golden mean is better than extremes. You will not be able
only be followed in so far as the means — in this case

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means that in our civilized life we are no longer capable of
way. Everybody to-day tries to ascertain facts by means of

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of streams and rivers. In short, we try by means of the map to

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means public life is carried on with colossal extravagance. It

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We teach him the elements of listening by means of
which have no meaning for the child at this age.

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effects on life are not by any means fully appreciated.

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education has been done in the light of the old education; I mean in
meaning. We are asked how so-called pre-natal education should be
soul — meaning by spirit what for the physical world of to-day is
aware that this breathing cannot yet, by any means, function so as

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meaningless, as I have often explained to you.
are by no means such simple beings as it might seem. In three parts of

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spirit, are regarded as meaning much the same thing.* Nearly all
laws, but if they have been discovered by means of the intellect and
prehensile arms cannot of course be perceived by means of the senses;
or if the touching of left and right meant as little as it does with
faculties and through their means he grasps all that is dead in
this means that men are quite unaware that the continuous giving over
Hence it is by no means a matter of indifference whether man is living

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picture of the relation of man to the animals. I mean a mental picture
The beaver makes his dam by means of the organisation of his body. He
meaning into the world. We contemplate the animal bodies and see them
mean what is more of the nature of mental picture or idea in the will
what I mean. I mean something that can be faintly heard beneath the
is, the wish. I do not now mean the strongly developed wishes

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by this means that the feeling of antipathy in sense-perception is
into them. When we pour antipathy into them we do it by means of our
at all if one imagined that feeling played into it.” He meant
arising out of a mistaken conception — I mean mistaken on both

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do not by any means completely grasp with the light of consciousness.
will in a child of this kind. That means that you must work into his
of sleep. For if you were awake it would mean the greatest pain
and has avowed to come into their fully awake consciousness by means
conditions. Suppose you have a nightmare. This means that the
indicated to you they would mean fearful pain. So that we can add a

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have a meaning which differs entirely from that we would give them in
is more to a Hungarian College — and that meant something in the
child with the life in the body of an old person. By means of this
standing on its head, and we have to set it on its legs again by means

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speech that they believe that thought is always conveyed by means of
perception of movements by means of these senses the will works in.
in by means of your sense of movement comes up into knowledge, that
Now you see into the deep meaning of our connection with the world. If
must be grasped by means of conditions of consciousness such as
waking, sleeping and dreaming. The soul in man is grasped by means of
sympathy and antipathy that is by means of conditions of life. These

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knowledge must be truly real, which means it must rest upon a true
means of this activity that you can lead a conscious life which
can it have a healthy life; that means: the conclusion is only
Now what does this really mean? What is this dreaming soul? It is more
or tenth year you graft into him concepts which are meant to retain

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mean? Muscles and blood are the organic instrument of the will, as we
vertebral theory of the skull, as it is termed. What is meant by this?
It means the application of the idea of metamorphosis to man and to
— for the macrocosm. Think what it means when this is felt in a

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Nature has made use of the adult merely as a means to the process of
him you should realise that he must grow rightly. What does this mean?
It means that you must not by your teaching, by your education,
do not know by what means you can work through the soul to retard or
also by means of the powers of imagination and memory themselves; for

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But by means of your trunk and your limbs you prevent a whole animal
Nature's processes. And this means that the soul life, which is the
nothing of the man, should be photographed; I mean the forces

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example, when a man does bodily work he moves his limbs. This means he
here within us by means of this damming up, matter is constantly being
outside world, He introduces meaning into his activities. That is the
there is meaning in the movements we carry out in our work we
movements, movements penetrated with meaning, so that the child does
and has a meaning — the more we can alternate gymnastics with
moreover, has become void of all sense or meaning, that we have made
and not only lack all sense and meaning, but are contrary to sense and
meaning — this fact is typical of the endeavour to drag
difference between outward activity which has meaning and purpose and
that which has no meaning, so there is a difference between the inner

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is mostly meaningless. For one cannot explain well what one does not
grasp the theorem of Pythagoras by means of the flying and settling

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means of a creative activity of the spirit.
means of his senses — observes unconsciously. The whole life of
We can perceive by means of a fine physiology what the development of
childhood by means of these plastic forces of which I have spoken. And
every idea: is it logical? No, but a knowledge by means of which the
reverence, to learn, in the most comprehensive meaning of the word, to
and the work and meaning of the world, pictures which we create for

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people take it to mean something like ‘intellectual’ or to
mean much the same as the English word ‘mind.’ But what I
mean here by ‘spiritual’ and by ‘spirit’ (Geist)
meant by intellect or mind.
If I may use an image to indicate what is meant — not to explain
means of vowels. The vowels, as it were provide the substance, the
for help (The gesture of M is meant. See Eurhythmy.). A by itself
seeking, so that we may agree upon the meaning of spirit and soul when
East by means of the so-called Yoga method, Now the mention of Yoga
our lungs, we breathe with our brain. But this means that our brain is
not the means whereby men of to-day should come into spiritual realms.
apprehend it artistically, not logically. Then logic would be a means
by means of their sound judgment and sound observation. Just as not

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knowledge by means of asceticism. Hence just as we must replace the
training the body by means of pain and suffering, by mortification,
Let me make my meaning clear by an example: Suppose we observe the
impressions of light to the human being. What is the sole means
This is meant relatively of course, but things must be stated in a
meant of course in a spiritual-psychic sense — then we must, as
Certainly I do not mean to say that our physical organism as it stands
nothing of the spiritual world by means of it, — just as one can
know nothing of light by means of an eye that has cataract. And when
psychic-spiritual means without damaging our bodies' fitness by
by means of this natural-scientific development. What I am now
the ascetic of old achieved by external means.
time. And this means that one has to take into consideration the whole
But just consider what it means when, say, in my thirty-fifth year
must possess the means of penetrating into human nature in the proper
by means of the nerves, just as we perceive light or colour outwardly.
modern means.
It is of particular interest to see by means of a scientific spiritual

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— that, indeed, would mean that we were very bad teachers. We
means that there is something in a man which we may not touch,
healthy as it possibly can be; this means, to use every spiritual
cannot attain this inner satisfaction by means of abstract moral

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means of educating.
child's organism really means. It is just as if we habituated the
By this means we avoid introducing an utterly alien F, a thing which
really mean it — one can think out the most splendid things in
teach writing by means of art. Then reading can be learned afterwards
the change of teeth and puberty a child can by no means distinguish
the time of instruction by means of suitable preparation beforehand.
later. In the meantime we must be aware that such a differentiation
It means this, that later in life we shall find him suffering from
satisfied. This means that we shall have some children further

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the skeletal system. This means: Between the 11th and 12th year the
especially the art of dealing with human beings. This means that part
raging by means of artistic sensibility. You will see the child will
with the sanguinis and the phlegmatics. By means of this social

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organisation of the Waldorf School I do not and cannot mean it in this
school. Similarly with regard to the children, — I mean, of
by this I do not mean the kind of love which is often spoken about,
also, the child learns the language without the meaning being

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my meaning by a concrete example than in abstract sentences.
to perceive himself by means of the liver, to perceive, that is, what
how — by means of figures: 1, 2, 3, 4; each number means that a
This we inscribe in his report. It is meant as a guiding line for the
up between individual teachers and individual children. This means
talk of Anthroposophy they think it means something sectarian, because
at most they have looked up the meaning of the word in the dictionary.
the literal meaning of the word. And they take it to be some kind of
No, indeed, I mean no offence in saying this, but others have taken us
methodical means, by a method based on knowledge of man. And its aim
the meaning of speech can be put, — and into a movement which can
those on the right slack — as is expressed here by means of the
Naturally, when I speak of veils this does not mean that one can
means of the movements.

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advocates a thing so alien to the world — not that I mean that
somewhat drastic mode of expression which brings out my meaning —
historical epochs, the meaning of present day life, etc. And these
perceive them all By problems I do not only mean those things for
details of life. When I say the world sets us many problems, I mean
If one desires to be a Waldorf teacher, which means to work from a

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certain points of contact appear, by means of which it will be possible
respiratory system. It is by means of the transformation of the movement
have given today was meant as an introduction to guide you to the path

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In speaking of vowels today, we will speak purely of the meaning of
with their steps, it always means that the circulation suffers under it.
easily tired when standing. It would also mean, for example, that one
outside with healing by such spiritual means, this too must of course
be applied with caution. That means that one must inspire a child who
along his breastbone, thus by means of feeling, closing the whole to
distinct articulation of the consonants by means of these exercises,
digestion is too weak or too slow, that by means of these exercises

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one expresses by means of the blowing the fact that one really wants
palatal R rather more upwards. By this means one can modify the R-sound
to become fat can be combated by means of the O and the tendency to
That is the peculiarity of it — one must explain by means of such
outward physical studies, but also by outward means, this process of

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the person with whom one hopes to accomplish something by means of the
by other means. I want to point out that if the effect of the N-movement
to be achieved. Thus one can balance one by means of the other.

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means counter a tendency to shortness of breath. You can for example
of breath may be the symptom of, by this means one will be able to
by means of this detour through the etheric body this constitutes what
human constitution by means of the byway through the etheric body.
to the body than it usually is. And by means of such a movement the
alternating it with the movement for U. This means that the astral will
pains, what we have demonstrated as a means of combating clumsiness
will become supple and inwardly flexible. And by means of them one will
materialism, since by means of it materialistic thought is transformed
— those described today, I mean — carried out by adults

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something which is in essence the meaningful word, a meaningful
apparent as well. The result is that by means of the physical movement
One stimulates the astral body and the ego by means of this detour through
crash against the resistance of organism and metamorphose; that means
What does it actually mean when man becomes egoistic? Organically
expressed it means that the force of plasticity in the organs is
more crystalline. By means of consonantal eurythmy this tendency can
really meant only to enlighten, one must have time if one wishes to
We could stimulate them by outward means as well; it would be natural

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is rampant. What does it mean, when we say that something of a plastic
nature is growing uncontrolledly? It means that the plastic
by means of eurythmic vowel exercises (in accordance with the diagnosis

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I would like to speak to you about the whole purpose and meaning of
the whole is carried over into the air by means of the speech-system,
means, something entirely different is achieved than when I pass over
the head. When it is fitting to treat corpulent children by means of
the whole physiological and therapeutic meaning of eurythmy. Of course,

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means of expression, embody itself in a new form of art. It will
Speech is a universal means of expression for the human soul. And one
and is by no means unusual at the present day, of putting one's hands
most striking characteristic was, that by means of this piece of
organs of speech and song, when vocalised and given form by means of
have become simply a means of expression for scientific knowledge, a
means of communicating the things of everyday life. They have lost
means of the teeth, tongue and palate. While the consonants are formed
himself at liberty to express himself by means of other sounds if he
these things by purely scientific means. Science, however, although on
acquires for himself by means of movement of the right arm. In the
movement of the hands and arms in much the same way that we find means
purely Eurythmic movements are the truest means of giving outward and
— when such movements arise as a means of artistic expression,
provides a means whereby these feelings can be brought to expression
principle were to be more generally adopted — I mean the
discovered that Eurythmy can serve as a very important means of
when, as in the Waldorf School, it is used as a means of education.
being, and offering to the human being a means of expression suited to
The fingers are quite meaningless when they are inactive. They only
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himself by any other means. Only think for a moment how strong people
mean? I have crushed them into tiny, tiny pieces. And you see. what I
means, then the stomach does not have so much to do, or the intestines
which means one must eat the right kind of protein, which will be

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the plants themselves. And that means, we must realize that plants are
That means that you carry in you something that the body can develop

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becomes even more discontent. There are means, however, by which man
because he feels like a victor over his etheric body by means of his

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configuration of the ear. All musical talent is meaningless if a
means that which passes from space into time.

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language, and here we acquire the means that serve to express our
means of recalling the experience of pre-earthly existence. We stand
one first acquires imagination, imaginative cognition. Meanwhile, one
earth, we can speak and sing only by means of air, and in the air
of the cosmos, one has the human body. This means that if one has the
prosaic age; nevertheless, I did not mean all this figuratively or

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the strange fact that nowhere in the well-meant instruction of music
physiology only for sounds; there is none for tones. With the means
now began to have meaning that would have had none in the ages of the

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does this really mean in relation to the whole musical experience? It
means that within the experience of the fifth, man with his “I”
intuition is. What I mean is that in the experience of the seventh

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in the same way as one describes the physical-etheric world by means
but this is only an approximation, a mean point in time, as it were.
A.D. The fourth century is just the mean
meaningful thing for them to say was, “I live in music made by
again what Goethe meant when he said, “Beauty is a

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[a phrase meaning back and forth – e.Ed],
of meaning and purpose — either good or bad. And if by what may
ensure that such means of power come into the hands of worthy men.
certain dread of those whose death was brought about by violent means
that these souls who met their death by violent means come into
It is very remarkable that both meaning and purpose are revealed in
simply out to draw attention to misery in the world; it is a means of
meaning suddenly becomes clear in the light of the knowledge that
was evidence here of an attempt made with ineffective means, or
rather, with means that had been deprived of their effectiveness. It
that all these attempts by means of assassinations of which I have
Asia, did not arise out of mere desire — the desire, I mean, of its
secrets which can only be disclosed by this means, namely, that in
are instilling by such means.
inject them into the Earth by rightful means. This, indeed, is an
means whereby factors connected with processes of disease, with the
viruses have been discovered as means of protection against illnesses,
attended those previous attempts — by means of such premature
with full knowledge of the means required.
provisional attempt made with ineffective means.
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Intimate and penetrating knowledge of these things is the only means
being with super-sensible meaning, that he might be able to find in
significance for him. And it is by no means a matter of no consequence
inadequate means of knowledge and it is a very dangerous game. It is,
Let me make myself clear by means of a comparison. You will say:
means of a simple and trivial analogy. There are bad chess players and
that does not mean that his skill — the skill of a really good
sure you will see what I mean.
knowledge of the future by such improper means as I described last
achieve their end by such illicit means as I described last time,
Truly, the service to be rendered by Spiritual Science is by no means
done with. By no means! The events of the present time are portentous

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means comprise all its depths. It is possible to penetrate these
means of his intellect and the other faculties of his soul. Beyond
learnt to express their visions of that world through means made
Chronicle’ is by no means as easy as observation of events in
means the same in which the Ego was formerly incarnated. And the same
question of grasping the meaning of the information regarding the

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recognize this or that truth by means of my intelligence and my
man can accomplish to-day by means of his own capacities, he had at
means of which they themselves are able to think logically to-day,
simply been handed down from ancient time. Human beings were meant,
means of ascent into the spiritual world. Being himself proof against
simply by means of fasting and external measures of the kind, without
means of these faculties.
mean simply: Hitherto the Bodhisattva has taught you what is

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everyone. What does it mean — to be ‘dimly clairvoyant’,
or ‘clairvoyant’? To be clairvoyant means to be able to use the
experience the very essence and meaning of human existence in the
attainable by means of the strongest forces of the astral body, and
best understand what Buddha meant by this, if we remember how many
be the orthodox religion. But in the meantime Buddha himself had

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from the normal, the facts must be approached by means of a
this is a hypothetical experiment only and is not meant to be
formed meanwhile out of the universal substance. Certain souls were
out of strength simply means ‘growing old’. Civilization after
means that certain of the forces of the etheric body were kept back
the form of the angelic host, for they are meant to behold in vision
meaning a place where the intentions of spiritual Beings are

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Buddha succeeded in ‘turning the Wheel of the Law’. This means
(Zarathustra) means ‘Golden Star’, or ‘Star of
existence are by no means simple. What had happened on this occasion

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described what this most significant event meant for humanity and we
simultaneously. The transition from Bodhisattva to Buddha meant that
he was ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ — meaning that the
reveal it. But the evolution of humanity does not by any means
meant the beneficial or harmful workings which run counter to each
‘huma