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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 1
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
the world. These deeper impulses can be difficult to discern and spiritual
does not belong to the external physical world at all. On the contrary
in its own being and nature it belongs to the spiritual world. We already
experience the spiritual world, though not consciously, when we really
conscious of himself within thinking he knows himself to be in a world
myself to be in a world of permanence, subject to neither space nor
time; a world of eternity.” He enlarged on this observation saying:
“When one turns away from the world of thinking as such and contemplates
what we experience when the external world acts upon us, then we are
are eternal. In the external world everything is transitory; what is
aspect of the transitory world of illusion and the reality is the force
external world is an illusion, nowhere is it completely free of pain
so it cannot be true reality. The real world, the soul-world, is plunged
himself an eternal world. He maintains that this eternal world proclaims
and reach salvation. Spir insists that the external world is semblance,
world does not conform, is not of like nature, to thinking that he says
world views held by those 19th-century thinkers who lived in the same
Spir come to experience the world the way he did? If we look for an
comments: Insofar as we are surrounded by the external material world,
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 2
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
of the organic world.” This means that if we want to understand
is a consciousness of belonging within the world. Weakness and inner
question is in fact: Where and how do I fit into the world? This is
Where, as man, is my place in the world? then at best the natural-scientific
world view will tell him where his physical body belongs within world
world view has absolutely nothing to say about how man's soul, let alone
spirit, fits into world evolution. Compare for a moment the evolutionary
the world consists of atoms. How does this view compare with what spiritual
attempt to build up a world picture. Here again the very first stage
and Matter” in which the world is presented as consisting of force
other. In mutual balance they serve the wise guidance of worlds. When
in the book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
the world in general. There they become what we behold in the time between
world. Just as here, in the physical world, we need light in order to
after death to become our external world.
becomes our inner world, not that which we have merely wished; but will
into the external world, the actions we have carried out become our
inner world in the time between death and a new birth, whereas our thoughts,
our inner life, become what illumines our external world. The outer

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 3
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
shows man to be a microcosm, a little world. Man's breathing copies
the processes of the Great World, the macrocosm. However, in regard
of, the world would be different. It is because our cognition is dependent
whole relation to the world, was intended to be different. Knowledge
to whom we look up, when we turn to the spiritual world are the Angeloi.
pictures of what had surrounded man in the world of the senses on earth.
world must be visualized all around us and not in some far away cloud-cuckoo-land.
The spiritual world is literally everywhere about us and it is possible
to stifle man's consciousness of his connection with the spiritual world.
spiritual world nearest to us lies above our consciousness. Within this
the world through the Mystery of Golgotha, whereas earlier it was the
Mystery of Golgotha, to attain a connection with the spiritual world
that the spiritual world flows towards him and again ebbs away as it
and other spiritual beings within the spiritual world forgot man, just
world through the impulse coming from Christ just as he sees external
the spiritual world. This is why the Mystery of Golgotha is veiled in
clairvoyance, that Christ was there above in the spiritual world and
the Mystery of Golgotha is meant to illumine our world of concepts,
is established in the world and Ahriman cannot abolish it. That is beyond
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 4
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
may find through this event also our own relation to the spiritual world.
with him, but we also look forward into that world which is receiving
who has gone into the spiritual world with all his incomparable and
the spiritual world.
moments the secrets of the spiritual world reveal themselves with particular
wisdom governs worlds. In significant moments of his life an individual
to himself the question: How do I unite with the world-guiding spiritual
for me to think of myself as a responsible link in the world's spiritual
when man's relation to the spiritual world becomes manifest to him.
of his trust in the spiritual guidance of the world he was full of hope
to me as something he freely chose because, from that other world his
arise from the fact that we are in the physical world, incarnated in
which brings us into contact with the spiritual world. For if our thoughts
truly express our spiritual-scientific view of the world. If we honor
who not long ago went from the physical plane into the spiritual world.
those who have gone from her side into the spiritual world. We shall
world. One has such hopes despite the fact that in our materialistic
spiritual world. There are many today who enthuse in general about the
mystical unity of worlds, vaguely declaring that science alone does
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 5
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
Slowly and gradually man lost the spiritual world from his consciousness.
Whereas formerly everyone was able to experience the spiritual world
with the spiritual world. Eventually humanity would no longer be able
hovered above them in the spiritual world. Only those souls who, in
their bodies from above. Consciousness of the spiritual world would
possible only because a Being from the spiritual world, the Christ Being,
today, they are revealed to contemplation of the spiritual world; making
is on the one hand a need to understand the spiritual world and on the
writer manages to appear high-minded and worldly while remaining a thoroughly
one strives to attain a world view which does not rely on mere phrases
but recognizes the reality of the spiritual world and what is demanded
a sense for what the spiritual world at this moment wants from him.
this task connected with the enormous world-historical events taking

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 6
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
and impulses which flow into the physical world from the spiritual world.
do penetrate everywhere into our world. However, they do not escape
world than they do in a materialistic age like ours. Let us look at
to convey to the world certain facts concerning spiritual matters, the
communications from the spiritual world. Such communications are all
plane and the spiritual world, in which the dead are living, was so
but also among certain beings in the spiritual world. There are spirits
world. Their opportunity to listen to such a conversation can arise
the spiritual world and the physical plane. These channels are very
in order to establish what caused the terrible World War. On this basis
they can enter the world and carry out their intention. They attack
is the penetration of certain spiritual powers into the human world
the world. It is necessary to see things in their true context and to
as others like him, has a certain fear of the spiritual world, fear
world and enters the spiritual world. He would then have to overcome
to enter the spiritual world itself, one very easily succumbs instead
of the Hierarchies who live behind the sense world that Ahriman darkens
his comprehension of the spiritual world. Through the ahrimanic temptation
the spiritual world appears as “the great unknown,” as “the
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 7
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
world in the 16th and 17th centuries and what is possible since then.
into the spiritual world and is conversant with the nature of what is
man's relationship to the spiritual world. Naturally it can cause clashes
of views when an initiate, from his knowledge of the spiritual world,
he was in contact with the spiritual world. It must be realized that
inspired him before writing what he was to communicate to the world;
human mediator for what the Angel proclaimed concerning a higher world.
of the inner presence of the spiritual world in human consciousness
there for man, but man is equally, in the adjoining spiritual world,
even 17th centuries people appear who know of the spiritual world through
knew most about man's connection with the spiritual world had been on
their communion with the spiritual world these individuals derived an
insight into the world's coming-into-being which, since the 17th century
of the spiritual world. We enter the minds of those who lived in that
literature that circulates and even wins awards in the academic world.
the possibility still existed to have awareness of the spiritual world.
was being cultivated with the spiritual world, to a time when he himself
when someone is able to look into the spiritual world he sees things
world affects man differently once he becomes conscious of it.
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
still had a direct relationship with the spiritual world through the
an immediate recognition that the world seen through the senses is not
the only world. The transition in consciousness to later times was far
was then in its dawn, it drew a veil as it were over the spiritual world
behind the physical world. I can well imagine that a modern student
the confines of the physical world by virtue of changes in man's inner
epoch, man's former connection with the spiritual world has grown dim.
world. All the deprivation a materialistic age would inflict upon the
from the spiritual world, as he is bound to forget what he formerly
received from that world? If you imagine this feeling intensified to
that universe interested him greatly. However the relation to the world,
former's thoughts and feelings, his whole relation to the world is determined
by the natural-scientific view of the world, whereas the latter's thoughts
pictorial and audible revelations from the spiritual world. Everyone
was aware that a divine spiritual-world lived in his soul. Man felt
world has to cease. In this epoch he has developed, through special
world; no longer is there a path leading from the soul to the spiritual
world.
knowledge and religious feelings concerning the spiritual world were
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Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 9
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Addressing the rise of materialism as a world view, Steiner shows
life. There are those who ask: Why is it that all over the world there
on in the world. However, due to modern man's lethargy and love of ease,
all over the world which is far worse than anything that has happened
from the spiritual world during sleep and bestows upon them on waking.
for interest in the spiritual world must take hold of man if morality
surge and pulsate through the world. There are many reasons why this
becomes capable of functioning in the spiritual world. This means that
in his thinking he experiences the spiritual world as a reality. This
fit to present to spiritual worlds; it illustrates the kind of mistaken
concepts apply to nations with their group souls. Yet around the world
moral ideas they exist entirely in the spiritual world, for they arise
we see spread all over the world today, if only people would have the
current flows like a current through the world taking hold of souls
To want to make the physical world into a perfect paradise is to want
something impossible, for in the physical world there is perpetual oscillation.
permeate the physical world with spirituality and recognizes that man
Those who want to turn the physical world into a paradise, whether in
magnitude as Christianity itself. What today dominates the world as
This world issue, this world
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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world other than the physical-material one. They knew: In
that world, those who died young had other tasks to
still had a satisfying view of life and the world.
lead man into the spiritual world, illumining it for him.
mysteries. Direct vision of the spiritual world was lost
see into the spiritual world, though in decreasing measure.
heroes: “It is better to be a beggar in the upper world
through direct vision that the “upper world” and
because of this vision that the spiritual world as such
kind of spiritual world. That is why it is of such immense
with loss of all connection with the spiritual world.
receive from the external world and ordinary history, people
one's own pleasure while believing to have a world mission;
ideas about peace, which have swept through the world, are so

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture II
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attempts are made to understand the world and attain a
into the world with forces of growth, of thriving, and
world of the Gods.
The connection man formerly had with the spiritual world came
tragic destiny, for Christ — from the external world
understand what is actually taking place in the world can
from this world of the senses into a reverie — then a
about the world catastrophe of 1914.” What is one to
who suddenly hears about the world war of 1914. So during his

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture III
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same natural way a certain worldly maturity. No one disputed
were in the spiritual world. They became aware of this once
spiritual world became dark. The teaching about Ormuzd and
experience. Man was aware that he was in the spiritual world
spiritual world which he could experience through
spiritual world had been experienced directly through
fourth epoch when the surrounding spiritual world had faded
stars was perceived; the world was seen more or less as we
world in ancient Greece. That the soul lives in the body and
founded a philosophy of the world of stars. He interpreted
world. The time had come when something had to intervene: the
worlds and enter the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Man had to
Christ Jesus in the modern world.
a concrete grasp of the spiritual world and thereby rekindles
world. We can find our connection with spirituality only
sense the soul's necessity of union with the spiritual world.
experiments how the world will end.
thoughts about the spiritual world will be mere fantasy. One
concepts of the spiritual world. One's thoughts remain unreal
are taken from the external physical world, but today other
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Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture IV
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man can regain the connection with the spiritual world which
discover the interplay of forces between man and world, he
with forces that entered me from the spiritual world, and
stem from higher worlds. I cannot regard it as belonging to
that spiritual powers in higher worlds wish to communicate
forces proceeding from the spiritual world, and what I am
worlds; I may not look upon it as belonging to my ordinary
— is working out of a spiritual world through me on
through tubes or wires to a spiritual world, thought of in
one gains knowledge of facts belonging to higher worlds
example of how the modern world presents anthroposophy. This
absorbs the pictures coming from the external world and made
world, one certainly meets with things that are neither easy

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture V
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world views. He was reticent about his work and very little
all-encompassing view of the world based on psychology. I
the inner world of fluctuating moods and feelings. Thus,
exists out there in the external world is experienced in the
external material world, the world of mere appearance.
of the external world; where is the world of appearance? What
related to the whole world through his ether body. That he
world, and in that world are the impulses of good. In the
spiritual world also holds sway what for man is good and

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VI
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and its relation to the world. There is at the present time a
death into the spiritual world. But one's life of feeling
world. From what we see inwardly as a thought picture of our
I, the world will prepare for our next incarnation
of the world. When asked by our friends to write something in
written: “To find yourself, seek in the world; to find
the world, seek in yourself.”
one's experience of the world. However, in this respect
World War gypsies have practically disappeared but those who
connections in life one is contemplating the world rather
physical world. It corresponds to someone walking through a
in the physical world, it is rejected. However, there is a
events of the spiritual world must be sought in subtler ways
than is customary today. Life in the physical world is
completely different from life in the spiritual world. It is
spiritual world, which requires a much more delicate
aim should rather be to seek within the world those hidden
flows into the world, issue from the I that was the dried
“Our path through the spiritual world can be traversed

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VII
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is spiritual in the world, from our knowledge of the
provide him with, i.e., what the world can make of him, will
feelings and perceptions. Our mental pictures of the world,
world around him, but an interest directed towards the spirit
confines of the immediate sensory world into that realm of
the spiritual world which reaches beyond what is perceived
spiritual world. You will understand that the spiritual
the spiritual world itself the spiritual researcher sets
physical world, then the corresponding physical facts must be
stands in the modern world with all that nature provides,
future. If such a person could be found in the modern world,
dreamed of a world court of arbitration, which is a typical
benefit the world. But what Lloyd George cannot do is
When one is able to look behind the scenes of world history
intervened in the world situation which could not have arisen
convictions because all that lives in the physical world is
on behind the surface of world history. As long as mankind's
become the pivot around which so many things in the world

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture VIII
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related to world evolution in the widest sense, but to truth
immortality of the soul, the meaning of world evolution, and
there exists no short summary of a world view which can be
notion that pessimism means a view that considers the world
world, to work with and for the development of the world.
to further the upbuilding processes in the world. Thus Eduard
content of what is to satisfy us as a world view must be
world. Because the spiritual aspect is endless it can never
world, provided we retain an open receptivity for what comes
to meet us from the world. We must above all become
In the world things
finished view of the world. Much of what comes to expression
are not interested when told about the spiritual worlds
continues to develop to extremes in the Western world. It is
in this way been thrust into the world seeks materialization;
sense, but actually to materialize. The Western world has
forces which at present are shaping the world, and we are
adequate view of world events. For example, without such
world. Yet that same Lord Haldane had in his youth, while in
still loftier saying the foundation for his whole world view,
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