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Title: Lecture: Woman and Society (Die Frauenfrage)
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the faith based on the testimony of the Initiates who speak from

Title: Lecture: Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
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in the human power of erectness. The Initiates, whose mission it was
by the Hierophants, the Initiates of the Egyptian civilization, when

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy and Christianity
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live in muddy swamps after death if they have not been initiated into

Title: Lecture: Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman
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initiated by Czar Nicholas II.

Title: Lecture: Social and Anti-Social Forces in the Human Being
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it said by the greater number of Anglo-Americans initiated into the
those who are being initiated are not taken out of their nation and

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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governing types then? Initiates. The Egyptian Pharaohs, the Babylonian
rulers, the Asiatic rulers — they were initiates. Then the

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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Here we come to the point where he who is initiated into the secrets
foremost as a Spirit-Being. Those who were initiated conceived of this
what radiates from man. And in every epoch the initiates

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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there was a secret known to the initiate in Rome. The initiated
those who were initiated into the deepest secrets of Roman existence
Legends are still extant, even today, among; those who are initiated

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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On being initiated into this fact, the pupil in the Mysteries would be told

Title: Lecture: Polarities in Health, Illness and Therapy
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must be initiated, for almost every remedy can be used in three different

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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at Damascus? We must bear in mind what it implied for Paul, initiated
resurrection to the disciples who were really initiated?
Earth. He is an initiate, a sage of death, and for this reason he is
his initiates that he came from a world where death was unknown; he
of the esoteric teachings given by the Christ to his initiated
his initiated disciples, after his resurrection. If we are to
element which Christ gave to his initiated disciples consisted
use to him. What the initiated disciples received as the esoteric
Christ to some of his initiated disciples.
one of those who belonged, in this sense, to the initiates. But
the Christ himself taught to his initiated disciples after his

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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containing only consonants, an initiate would say of such a language:

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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connected with occult science have initiated their members. Somebody may
to a certain degree initiated. There is a correspondence between the

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Science answers that they emanate from the ‘Initiates.’
through by the would-be Initiate in a kind of living dream in these
Initiates of the Mysteries beheld during their Initiation. If we
teachings received from Initiates in regard to the spiritual world,
Whom the previous Initiates were able to retain a remembrance.
a mighty historical event, whereas previously the Initiate was led to

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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real world into which man can enter through a higher birth. Initiates
reason. As an Initiate, Goethe knew that there is indeed a world of
Initiates, where a higher wisdom has its home. The legend of Lohengrin
Initiates send down their influences into human life. We must always
influences of Initiates intervene in the course of history and they
evolution is represented in the Initiates who come from mysterious
who is working from spiritual worlds, for the position of an Initiate

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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significance of the Event on Golgotha. Those who had been initiated
evolved independently were unknown. Whereas the Initiates of earlier
were immediate pupils of the older Initiates. The wisdom might only be
able to say: “There are indeed Initiates — of whom
Iamblichus was one. It is the Initiates who teach true Christianity.

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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initiated such a courageous plan, had chosen the name because the
who had to some extent been initiated.
Spirit has been received. The mission of our age is to initiate an

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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accompanied by Priest-Initiates: one to India, the other to Africa. He
principle followed by the Initiates is: the mingling of what is new
Medes and Bactrians. Here labored the first Initiates of Zarathustra,
foreground. In this third migration a group of Initiates went to the
Rome) The task of these Initiates was to take in hand the formation of
We have therefore come to know three groups of Initiates, the task of
— this is Art. Among the Greeks, the Initiate of the third group
family out of which an Initiate was to issue was selected with great
had made preparation for and proclaimed in advance, the Initiate who
Initiate for all that was to be fulfilled on the physical plane. This
only been prepared for. The highest Initiates had actually seen it.
matter of certain Initiates elaborating for individuals the
The first attempt leads back to an Initiate who as yet could play no
A new impulse and a new possibility were created through the Initiate
alley, and in order to work upon the initiate “Lohengrin,”
initiated there by the Grail. This happened at the turn of the 13th
this Being is called the “Leader of the Christ Initiates” or
initiated again and again. Hence the Fifth Root Race from its outset
has always had Initiates, men who were so initiated as to enable them
Race that mankind is left free. Then we have Initiates who have a
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Title: Lecture: The Mystery of Golgotha
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as the Spirit of the Father God. The highest Initiate in the
stood before the highest Initiate, they saw in him the representative
of the Father God. The “Fathers” were higher Initiates
initiates lived in expectation of the Healer, the Hælend
strangely, where pupils were initiated into the Mysteries —
Nor was it only in dim memory that the pupils of the initiates
called Christ appeared to the initiates as One who had lost His
Thus as the initiates lived on, ever and increasingly
typical figures of initiates who had learned in their several places
the initiates knew that the Being who afterwards was called Christ,
future, from the standpoint of the initiate of modern time. I
initiate of olden time, and of the initiate of the time of the
Mystery of Golgotha. I will now try to describe that of the initiate
of our own time. The initiate is one who does not approach life with
When the modern initiate enters into the Sciences of our
Science which is valued above all by the world to-day, the initiate
initiate, the Sciences are indeed the grave of the soul. While he
This is what the modern initiate discovers, and it is a
Yet if as initiates of modern time we fill ourselves with

Title: Lecture: The Souls Progress through Repeated Earth Lives
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the ancient oriental striving for wisdom, the pupils of the initiates

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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and listen spiritually to the description which an Initiate would
concrete and unerring intuition the Initiates of olden times were
retrogression of humanity, but who were nevertheless initiated in a
again in nature outside. For a long time there had been Initiates who
wished to lead mankind on the downward path. Such Initiates did not

Title: Lecture: It is a Necessity of Our Earnest Times to Find Again the Path Leading to the Spirit
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develop its peculiarities. Those who are initiated into the spiritual
be evident to those who are initiated in the true mysteries of more
apostle Paul who was initiated by divine powers and to whom the
only consists of the body. Certain devilish initiates are now

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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that is discovered by an Initiate, and can be communicated, is
necessary efforts are made. It is a primary task for the Initiate,
human reason. And even the Initiate, if he has not developed his

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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individuality and rather strive to amalgamate. Certain initiates in

Title: Lecture: Relationships Between the Living and the Dead
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an initiate) has to experience a thought about something which exists

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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has taken even the first steps of the initiate-life lives differently

Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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to you that an initiated spiritual scientist can perceive the human
applicable to the Ego, which was only known to the initiates, had
could only be pronounced by the initiates, or shown to the

Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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ancient initiates had experienced there through their heightened
initiates strictly isolated the ‘self’ from the external world.

Title: Lecture: The Significance of the Mass
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eternal name was given to the initiate. Of his own free
“I” to his own body; but the initiate knows
initiate.
priest who is not initiated and

Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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initiated into the Mysteries of the ancient East, were to turn his
for the pupil and as a reminder for every Initiate in regard to the
“No-one who is not initiated in the sacred Mysteries should
secrets in the presence of a non-Initiate is inadmissible; for

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science, a Necessity for the Present Time
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initiates, thanks to the place given to them by the general Karma of

Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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obtained it from the Mysteries of the Initiates) that this wisdom
the follower of pagan wisdom received pagan wisdom from his initiate

Title: Lecture: Three Epochs in the Religious Education of Man
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education. It fell to the old Initiates, the teachers of that ancient
actual experience. It was the task of the old wise Initiates to
The old Initiates knew how
Initiates of the age of the Mystery of Golgotha. The Initiates could
Spirit, of the Logos, of the Universe. The old Initiates had pointed
the Initiates could teach man how he can be united with the Divine
preserved — proves that as the Christian Initiates contemplated
so the Initiates were now able to impart a new consciousness of
hearts. The Initiates of our age say to themselves: “We are
of evolution, the third epoch, not only of “uninitiated”
this was the answer given by the Initiates in the earliest times
the age of the Mystery of Golgotha the Initiates sought to solve the
from the sleep of life? And so, just as the earliest Initiates had

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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evolved. It was nurtured by only the few who were initiated into the
disembodied initiates in the presence of the Christ and in the
drop in a third, and so on. In the case of each of these initiates,

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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Initiates who even in Orientalism do not speak differently from

Title: Lecture: The Supersensible in the Human Being and in the Universe
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they were told by initiates who were their teachers; they felt

Title: Lecture: East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
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initiate in the mysteries of his time, could not believe in the

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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in accordance with the laws of the mineral world. Initiates

Title: Lecture: 'Goethe's Faust' from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
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initiated. Where is this super-physical world?
— the sensual. But the initiated will at once perceive

Title: St. Augustine
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all ages those who have been initiated into the Mysteries, have
has been recorded by the Mystery Initiates of all ages as the
Mystery Initiates this blind alley was Fatalism.
certain Mystery Initiates as a secret which, they think, may
Moon. With this is also connected the fact that the Initiates
Initiates knew the Mysteries of the Moon.
ancient Mystery Initiates said to their pupils: “Try to
Christian Initiates on the contrary said to their disciples:

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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the proving ground for the Initiate. Eventually, we regain our innocence

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture II
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the proving ground for the Initiate. Eventually, we regain our innocence
initiated into Goethe's meaning, once, at the time of the great

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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the proving ground for the Initiate. Eventually, we regain our innocence
the initiated.’

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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the proving ground for the Initiate. Eventually, we regain our innocence
grow, like an initiate, into that world from which this music
truly initiated. The things ‘long ere this
he experiences what those about to be initiated into the spiritual
stand as initiates in the physical world and range with their
initiated into those things.

Title: Contrasting World-conceptions of East and West
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EXPERIENCED by him as man, but the initiate of the Mysteries

Title: The Mystery of Golgotha
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Initiate experienced upon the astral plane what Christ lived
initiate woke up again and returned into his body, so that he
his three days' sojourn in the higher worlds, the initiate
certain moment, the initiate saw a certain scene: His own
following meaning: When the initiate sits there
Every initiate experienced this in the Mysteries of the heart.

Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture III: Lecture 3
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inspired by the previous figures, the Initiates of the third post-Atlantean
The fact that you see here the child as it were held up by the Initiate,
what had to be shown here as an Initiate, i.e. such a man who could
such an Initiate through the medium of form and colour. For this reason
only there is more to see; the Initiates are here to be seen. Of course

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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initiated. It was an initiation, and the writer describes his
the Lord loved is he whom the Lord himself has initiated. The
he able to say this? Because he had been initiated, first on

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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earth, it was possible to become an initiate — to
know them as morally advanced pupils and initiates after
initiates who felt their higher self to the extent that they
Only an initiate of the third grade can understand such
called that of the “Lion”. Such an initiate had
a Raven an initiate of the first grade — he tries to
initiate of the second grade, an “Occult One”,
initiate then this community became his dwelling place. The
initiate of the fifth grade had so overcome his personality
him. In Persia such an initiate was called a
meaning when one spoke of souls initiated to the fifth grade.
Nathanael is here acknowledged as an initiate of the fifth
of Life before he was ready for it. The initiate of the fifth
recognition between initiates. “Nathanael answered and
apparent that he is more than an initiate of the fifth grade.
the inner sanctuary where one is initiated into higher worlds
give the name James to an initiate, he is to me the symbol
technical name for an initiate who especially governs the
called by their initiate names: James means water, Peter
you have at the same time, the initiates who govern the four

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture I
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him, he was then led into the Holy of Holies. He was then initiated,
When a man was initiated into this grade and could see this
be initiated, the Mystic had to be united in the Temple of the
conflict. After this event the youth was initiated into the three
time when every man will be himself an Initiate. This is what Goethe

Title: The Story of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily: Lecture II
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deeply initiated into the secrets of the Rosicrucians. From that time

Title: Lecture 8: Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature
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again to the celebrated passage, written by an Initiate: “All

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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all ages those who have been initiated into the Mysteries, have
been regarded by the Mystery Initiates of all as the Dualism
Idealism and Materialism, for those same Mystery Initiates this
certain Mystery Initiates as a secret which, they think, may
Moon. With this is also connected the fact that the Initiates
initiates knew the Mysteries or the Moon.
ancient Mystery Initiates said to their pupils:
Christian Initiates on the contrary said to their disciples:

Title: Manifestations/Karma: Lecture: The Nature and Significance of Karma in the Personal and Individual, and in Humanity, the Earth and the Universe
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but which comes somewhat later.’ Everyone who is not an initiate

Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture I
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without sympathies and antipathies. The new trend initiated by
physical earthly environment? How can we initiate an interaction which

Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture II
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belief in authority and it should not be difficult to initiate such

Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture VI
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same forces utilised by the plant to initiate the formation of flower

Title: Excursus/Mark: I: A Retrospect
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another investigator, one or another initiate, has been able to
perceived by an Initiate differ from those heard by a man who has
Does the Initiate understand them better than those to whom they have

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture I
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do? While the Rischis appear like holy initiated persons of a far
poured, Zarathustra comes before us as the first initiate of
be initiated into that form of Mystery-knowledge (truly

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture II
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soul of the would-be initiate and the secrets of the spiritual world
pre-Christian times. An individual initiated in accordance with
the person of Christ Jesus was initiated in so open a way — the
— and to a certain extent only by initiates in the depths of
person initiated can look into the spiritual world, and can then go
that what formerly had only been seen by initiates in the temple of
Hebrew Initiates and Prophets.
From former lectures you know that a man can either be initiated by
soul-expansion of one Initiate was directed to the macrocosmic
him would be an Initiate of Picis, the initiation which follows on

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture III
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The possibility of anyone being initiated in this way has only
contradictions in the Gospels. Mark had been initiated into such
ministration of spiritual Beings. Luke was initiated in another way.
Initiate!” But Siegfried's individual evolution does not

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture IV
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spiritual leaders of men appear whom we call Initiates, who speak not

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VI
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times people only attained knowledge through being initiated into the

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 4: Contrasting Principles of Ancient and Modern Initiation
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The man of old, when he was initiated, really became a Christophorus.

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5: The Change in the Human Soul Constitution
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science, or actually to initiate vision, is that he shall develop his

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 6: Transformation of the Human Being in the Course of Evolution
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the initiate and the non-initiate lies in the perception of processes
the choice of the individual to be initiated was not made by a priest,

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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Who are such initiates?
himself has seen. Then he is someone who is initiated in these
matters. There are also such initiates with regard to
initiates into two classes: in real initiates and in
clairvoyants. What is now an initiate in the narrower sense?
is an initiate. However, someone who can enter these invisible
ago, a strict separation existed of clairvoyants and initiates
in the secret schools. One was able as an initiate to ascend to
one could be a clairvoyant without being an initiate to an
however, is initiated into the principles of the light. Thus,
somebody can be initiated into the supersensible world and sees
initiates for a long time. In order to comprise the fullness of
initiates and clairvoyants.
separation of clairvoyants and initiates can no longer be
between an adept and an initiate if you imagine the following:

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture IV: Initiation
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sighted, initiated finally.
our time, initiates and disciples of the initiates always
meant to be initiated? One differentiates an initiate, a
that someone who wants to become an initiate has to overcome
initiate.
the test before the pervasive view of the initiate could be
and higher stages begin up to that of an initiate in the true
this concept first. What is an initiate? If I assume that there
initiate would be someone who has an insight into these higher
pronounceable if one is allowed to pronounce it. The initiate
those to be initiated. The pupil creates a figurative notion of
ears of which also Goethe speaks who was deeply initiated into

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XII: Sun, Moon and Stars
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working from star to star. The great initiates taught not
initiated for a long time, but just in the 19th century, it

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture XV: The Heaven
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knows now from experience what the initiate can see: the world

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture I
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initiated by Christ, wanted to give to the later Christian
alchemical processes. The priest was an initiate who saw how

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture II
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or cultic act, let's look at a view which the initiates we call

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture III
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physical body already. So that when an initiate looks around

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture V
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the highest initiates, although there have been ever fewer of
example, don't think that an initiate sees the world like a
non-initiate does. Something similar applies to successive

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture VI
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When someone became initiated in the ancient mysteries, one of
today, but one initiated the person concerned into the working
where he was initiated into this secret of numbers, it was his
certain diseases, and in many other things. These initiates
the Old Testament the initiates of Asia said that Michael went
ancient mysteries, where pupils or adepts were initiated into

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture VIII
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every initiate can recognize him. For each of these spiritual
initiates could see him. When the second 666 came he already

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture IX
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what did the ancient mysteries really convey to initiates? They
physical activities. So that the initiates in the ancient
Christian initiate gets past this point. He wants to take what
times initiates always chose the detour, through nature. New
initiates, that is, many half or partly initiated people in the
Christ. This is the way such an initiate looked upon the

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture XI
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centers of Babylon in which one could be initiated into the
discerning initiates — have very questionable moral
etheric body. Depending on whether the initiate who brings this
Hence a true initiate must have the right attitude of soul for
closely connected with Christ Jesus, he was initiated by Christ
Jesus himself, he is an initiate of Christ Jesus. Therefore, he

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture XVII
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language of an initiate, which he doesn't always use outwardly
That is initiates' language. What does it mean? An initiate
and becomes a colored surface. This is the way initiates think
an initiate says: Let thunder become quieter and ever more
will arise. Thus initiates look upon the sensory tapestry that
warmth, an initiate sees lightning flashes behind it. The real
initiate looks upon all of this as the outer I manifestation of
find that the more worldly initiates in the Middle Ages always

Title: Real Being of Man
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Initiates as belonging to the Realm of Jahve or Jehovah,
been initiated before the Mystery of Golgotha, into

Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture XI
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spiritual worlds. And only the Initiates in the ancient

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture III: Fundamental Impulses in History
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Rule of the Initiate, the Priest, the Business Wan;
“Initiates.” The Egyptian Pharaohs were, down to a
certain date, invariably persons who were initiated. They were
initiated into the secrets of cosmology, and regarded what they
those Pharaohs, and the Chaldean initiates, too, — or
so-called initiates — did a great many things that were
that modern rulers, who are not initiates, also do a great many
initiate must necessarily act from virtuous motives. And in
Initiates, all that it must be understood to mean is that they
initiate, — he who could receive into his will, not
B.C., were troops in the service of the Initiates. Such regular
of the Initiate type; from the middle of the 8th
essential feature about the Priest and the Initiate of old days
Initiate type of ruler. The Initiate type of ruler works
the civilisation of Initiate of what was a spiritual
Initiates, by those who were to a certain degree
initiated into spiritual things in a real, actual way, not

Title: Fundamental Impulses in the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times
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an Oriental sage of ancient times, initiated in the Mysteries
initiate's attention in general, in respect of the experiences
one: No one who is not initiated in the holy Mysteries should
allowed to speak of such secrets before a non-initiate; for

Title: Social Life: (single lecture)
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the Earth and is destined to be initiated through the Mysteries

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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containing great truths, which great initiates have related to men.
initiates lead the course of evolution also in the North. In Wales we come
across a brotherhood of initiates of the pagan period, a priesthood and
development of politics are all connected with great initiates
personifies the medieval soul. Lohengrin, the great initiate, the
misunderstanding to place questions to an initiate concerning things
great initiates always brings about the promotion to new stages of
consciousness. As an example illustrating how these initiates work,
great initiate Wotan, the god of the Aesir. Wotan is an initiate of
initiates.
Barbarossa we find a great initiate. We are told of his journeys to
the Orient; from there he brings back from the holy initiates a
messengers of the higher initiates. What was this initiate
Barbarossa. The influence of the initiates becomes crystallized for
Germanic spiritual civilisation and the initiates who work in an
Wagner makes Wotan, the ancient Atlantean initiate, oppose Alberich,
and is an initiate of the Aryan period. When similar new impulses

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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relate first of all of Siegfried, an initiate, who was able, after a
initiate for a dwelling. This we may find in all the Mysteries. Even
initiated stage by stage, in order to bring about the higher development
incarnation is Siegfried, the descendant of gods. Human initiates now take
applies to the myth of Baldur. Also in Baldur we have before us an initiate.

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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higher initiates and is shown the path leading to Brunhilde, the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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who were imbued with spiritual life lived something which the initiated
every one of these races was inspired by great initiates. The fifth root-race
initiates, the druids, spoke of the twilight of the gods out of which

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture I: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism
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spiritual worlds. There have always been initiates who knew
clairvoyant eye and the ear of an initiate are of course

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initiate the higher Devachan World, the Arupa Devachan of the
Hindoos, or the higher Mental World. When an initiate passes
sense, Goethe was an initiate, and in this meaning we should
initiate, for they simply say: A poet needs images ...

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture IV: Man's Further Destinies in the Spiritual Worlds
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only accessible to an initiate, and after death, they can
an advanced initiate experience when he penetrates into the

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture V: Metamorphoses of Our Earthly Experiences in the Spiritual World
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plays here on earth. The initiate perceives the dead in the

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture VIII: Supplementary Thoughts on the Law of Reincarnation and Karma
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has been handed down by the most ancient initiates, and
initiates have explained this course of development over and
past, were formed by initiates. In an introductory course I
formation of speech was still still dependent upon initiates,
initiates made these seven names flow into that monumental

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture XII: The Stages of Christian Initiation
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worlds, through the guidance of the hierophant who initiated
and as an initiate he continued to use his new name. A
every initiate — this was a law — words rose to
initiates, you would find that they closed with this

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the present state of things. But the initiate sees a future

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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great Initiates have not cast the Serpent down but, like

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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the one who was to be initiated had to be brought into a kind
Thus all the pre-Christian initiates had undergone the
and others were initiates of this kind. In Jesus there had
times the statement was often made; ‘The initiate is a
during the ceremony of initiation the initiate was above in
of St.John's Gospel was a great Seer who was initiated by
technical expression and signifies the one who was initiated
St. John's Gospel being initiated by the Lord Himself that
little more closely. In all the occult schools an initiate of
Jews the initiate at this stage was called an
Nathanael was an initiate of the fifth
the case of an initiate, the ego of the astral body is
initiated still more deeply, the ego of the etheric body is

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for what was outside in physical nature; for the Initiates it

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the carbonic acid for himself. The initiate can already see
These are the same in all true initiates; for all have
experiences. What the initiate had to experience on the path
and all initiates of the same degree had to go through the
highest Initiate, who was not initiated by anyone else.
initiated pupil, whom He loves. This pupil is to bring to men

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In very ancient times those who were initiated in the Mysteries were
initiates of the Mysteries had to make themselves understood, they had

Title: Lecture IV: Man in the Light of Occultism
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themselves an occult path, or to receive teaching from initiates who
founders of religion, — initiates who had themselves experienced

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whereas the truth of the matter is that the initiates, the aspirants
the Sun. And the initiates in occultism then led such people, in whom
heavens (of course the initiates did not say this, I am adding it)
initiates in occultism knew that the instrument of the brain is really
main Sun worshippers or Day worshippers, because their initiates
initiates.
men. When initiates in occultism came to people of this kind with the
worshippers and Star (or Night) worshippers, the initiates made this
Egyptian initiates, and was himself one of the greatest of those who
Stars. This was known to the initiates, but it could not be said to
had no need merely to believe what the old initiates told him

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with the accounts that have to be given of the life of initiates,
“initiate” — that is, one who has direct and immediate
through initiations. We can say that He is an “initiated”
“initiated.” That is a profound distinction.
Compare all that is told of the life of the “initiated” with
set out to relate them of some other initiated person you would have
fell from him like blood; in the case of another initiated person you
other initiated person? We must be shown how he advanced step by step
on the path of knowledge. In the case of higher initiates we may
Man. In the case of any other initiated person we have to tell how he
some other initiate but by the Divine Power that comes from beyond the
other initiated persons is called “Resurrection” has to be
brought about by the deeds and instructions of an elder initiate.
initiated one of olden time had to pass through. What the initiated in
Christ if we speak of Him not as one already initiated but as one who
Christianity as though its Founder were not already an Initiated One,
but had first to be initiated, as though in describing the life of
of religion, we have to speak of them as men who have become initiated
performed. He Himself was able to initiate; but we can by no means say
that Christ was initiated on Earth in the same sense as we have to say
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I told further how the initiates were able to meet with
the initiated find the Buddha engaged on a great and mighty task, a

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just now. If a man has been initiated into the mysteries of corrupt

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initiated, the mysteries of the construction of the whole

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took great care that those who had been initiated into occult
were not initiated. Now we know that such things are still
one of the reasons which make the Initiates afraid to
initiates and those keeping guard over their knowledge for

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usually supposed by initiates of a lower grade, the form of

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recognised in initiated circles, and the significant thing in
initiates know that?” We need only recollect what I

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that the Initiate has to overcome consciously is working in
Though only the Initiate beholds what is present in these
approach this feeling — which the Initiate sees with

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clear definition. But as you know, there are also initiated human
initiated into the secret of cosmic existence we shall know that
happens in the case of an Initiate is as I have just described: he
who have made this impression on him. In those who are not initiated
initiated, these individuals, even if they do not speak within him,

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at the Court of Haroun al Raschid — had been an Initiate in the
true sense. You will ask: Does an Initiate, then, not remain an
Initiate as he passes through his incarnations? It is possible for a
man to have been a deep Initiate in an earlier epoch and then, in a
deeper impulses; in earlier times they were Initiates. Nor do they

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beauty in a picture, as little need a man himself be an Initiate to
teachings can be understood even when one is not an Initiate, but
clearly. An Initiate can hear the inner voice as well as the
person with whom an Initiate was karmically connected in the past and
unambiguously as people speak in the ordinary way. The Initiate hears
an inner speech. You will say: then an Initiate must have around him
register destiny; but immediately an Initiate encounters
first time, again the experience is different. Naturally, an Initiate
the world must develop into fine sensitivity. An Initiate has a
unambiguously from within him. Hence when an Initiate encounters
a certain character to the intercourse between an Initiate and
consciousness. The Initiate is actually a different being in all his
biographies of ancient Initiates. Study these biographies and
great Initiates underwent similar experiences in
the world was meant to know about the great Initiates was biography
meeting between an Initiate and some individual takes
place for the first time in the Cosmos, the Initiate has to establish
perception, the Initiate gains knowledge of the world of the Angeloi
whereas an Initiate may recognise a previous incarnation of the

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their records before we descended to the Earth. An Initiate has
judge him only by the external impression he makes, the Initiate can
painting the impression which the Initiate has of an acquaintance in
perceptible to an Initiate but is no more than a dim inkling to
meeting a plurality. For the Initiate, this means acquaintance with a

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the impression of being an Initiate. But he himself, as well as the
Initiates, knew that in an earlier life on Earth he had been one of
those who were most highly initiated. Thus in a later incarnation, at
appear outwardly as an Initiate but who had been an Initiate in an
earlier incarnation had been an Initiate. It may well
one who was an Initiate in bygone times does not, in a later life,
and again of a number of ancient Initiates, of teachers and priests
once lived in these Initiate-souls to express itself. They are
men in whom the Initiate is not apparent in the later earthly life
He had been an Initiate in an earlier incarnation and became a
earlier life he had been an Initiate, filled with impulses of will
been an Irish Initiate; he had come over with a mission from Ireland
was an Initiate in a previous life are obliged to express themselves
such a personality to appear outwardly as an Initiate.

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tell, even an Initiate cannot see the circumstances of life between

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all, taught their initiated pupils. Strange as it will seem to the
initiated pupils: — ‘As we contemplate the universe
evolution of the world it is so that those who are initiated into the
gaze of the Initiates, Being was implicit in what worked in
speak of the work of the School of Chartres, of how Initiates in this

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secret which was known to Initiates in Schools such as those I spoke
chosen pupils could be initiated into this secret by certain deeply
some of Haroun al Raschid's initiated
Initiate in earlier times and whose spiritual driving forces were

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were initiated when they were fit for Initiation. Thus it has been
Earth. Always there have been Initiates who, in the Mysteries,
Initiates received the impulses coming to them in the Mysteries. But
Mysteries, how men were initiated, how from our hallowed realm in the
the Initiates of the Mysteries. Let us bring this
gathering together the old Initiate-Wisdom in a new form, calling up
to them in mighty, cosmic language the ancient Initiate-Wisdom, and

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Jahve or Jehovah, and who were regarded by the Hebrew initiates
initiated before the Mystery of Golgotha into the Hebraic

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to say here — one who had been initiated into the
pupil and as a reminder for every initiate regarding the
“No one who is not initiated in the sacred mysteries
these secrets in the presence of a non-initiate is forbidden;

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consider humanity in general or the initiates and the

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study was devoted in the most ancient Mysteries. For the Initiates of
into themselves in this way. The Initiates knew, too, that this took
day-consciousness. And the leadership given to mankind by the Initiates
of the kind that is current today. Nevertheless the Initiates of the
the case today. In the earliest period of human evolution the Initiates
inbreathing, became their helpers, the Initiates of the ancient
Initiates had been able to make elective in the days of ancient India
times of human evolution after the Atlantean epoch. The Initiates of
to describe what then took place between the Initiates and the
Moon-Beings, I will say the following: When an Initiate of the
would often reply to the Initiate: During the hours of
But the Initiates would
black magic, and with this the good Initiates would, naturally, have
dwelling-place on the earth. The Initiates of these Mysteries were thus
for study of this intermediate period. The Initiates among the Chaldean
astrology. For what the Chaldean Initiates learnt through their
on the earth. And so the Chaldean Initiates substituted a power of
The Initiates of Egypt
these Beings the Initiates of the Egyptian Mysteries sought to provide
Initiates, did indeed succeed in providing dwelling places on the earth
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Greek) in this connection. I told you how the ancient Initiates sought
Egyptian epoch, were used by the Initiates in order to give direction
Beings who were used by the Greek Initiates, for example by the
Initiates of the Orphic Mysteries, as their helpers in the inauguration
task, our position is the reverse of that of the Initiates of ancient
Egypt. The Initiates over in Asia, before the Egyptian epoch, were
and the Initiates were forced to provide for their helpers dwelling
provided by the Egyptian Initiates for these Moon-Spirits were the
without whose help the Initiates on earth could do very little to
opposite position. The Initiates of Egypt looked back to what had been
Initiates were obliged to wrestle with the problem of how to bring down

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The Egyptian Initiates used this form — in which the soul and the
of complication. True, it would have been possible for the Initiates to
the Initiates, to obtain, without further measures, enlightenment on
lingering with their mummies that the Initiates of Egypt, in their
Initiates said to themselves: Before death our bodies are not suited to
of the Initiates in ancient Egypt was this. They said: In order to
Initiates of Egypt there were some who acted unlawfully, who used the
soul that once was present when they were conducted by the Initiates of
were being enacted among the ancient Initiates — a spiritual life
something resembling what went out from the mummies to the Initiates of

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am now referring, the Initiate of Egypt spoke to his pupils of those
things I have very briefly outlined. But the Initiate also said to his
and the earth. But — so the Initiate would have said to his
An Egyptian Initiate
what happens in the human physical body — so would the Initiate
Initiates were obliged to adopt methods different from those used by
the Initiates of ancient Persia or ancient India. The Initiates of
been lost and the Egyptian Initiates were obliged to resort to other
means. The Initiates of Egypt led their pupils to the mummies, taught
told you, too, that although the pupils of the Egyptian Initiates were
Initiates were helped, as they spoke to their pupils, by the spiritual
way. The Initiates would say to their pupils: The human head is
next earthly incarnation. But the Initiates impressed upon their pupils
next earthly life. Such was the teaching given by the Initiates of
the Initiates of Egypt was brought to a majestic climax when they said
all the manifold teachings given by the Initiates of ancient Egypt to
The Egyptian Initiates
concerning the mummy given by the Egyptian Initiates to their pupils
were an echo of the Yoga teaching imparted, for example, by Initiates
of ancient India to their pupils. It was not difficult for an Initiate
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tendered in faltering words, for what the old Initiates could have

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sages, for the so-called Initiates of the ancient East, a

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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The Great Initiates
essential nature of such schools — and of the great Initiates
— finds expression in Initiates giving to the various peoples
strokes to illuminate the essential being of these great Initiates.
an eternal truth of the kind that flows from the great Initiates, or
great Initiate such as Buddha does not speak out of a vaguely felt
Initiates and their pupils. In all anthroposophical handbooks you can
out of the great Initiates' deepest knowledge. Initiates know that
you see how the great Initiates essentially gave their directions for
Chela, a real student of the great Initiates. Then he can be led
stages which belong to the great Initiates, those Initiates who at
great religions that came forth from the great Initiates; it was
exercised on the world by the great Initiates who have gone through
Initiates to receive the mighty truths contained in such
religions we meet in antiquity are from what the great Initiates
experienced in astral space. And the great Initiates emerged from
Initiates themselves had experienced in the mystery schools. This was
possible for man to be initiated as an initiate of nature, just
It was the great Initiates
mankind are given by the great Initiates. Thus the man with a
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were initiated, so that they could go into the spiritual world,
souls like the Maid of Orleans, who are initiated for the whole

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IV: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving
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same forces as an initiate has. When the human being goes

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture V: The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events
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of their karma, are natural initiates, by the place on which

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Bards; third, Druids. A man who had been initiated into the
drink. At his initiation the Northern initiate was first
then a company of twelve great Initiates; the thirteenth was
others. This Initiate was called Siga, or Sieg. Having
lived as a great Initiate in Atlantis. During the decline of
initiated. He had brought the chalice of Wisdom into the
are the race of initiates within the fourth sub-race.
carries the Cross! it is said that the next initiate will not
Initiate. He only gives way to the representative of the
Christian Initiates, — the Pope.

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the Initiates will pour over the souls of men and bring a new age to

Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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majority of the audience, the initiated will not miss the
Faust for the initiated. In the second part of this
his union with his higher self, he can be initiated into the secrets

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God” was pronounced by the Initiates, when they dimly perceived

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has lived among men leads back to great Initiates, leads back to
so-called Initiates.
there have always been Initiates. In ancient India it was the Rishis
initiated.” And in another passage he says: “It was as if
Initiate, he had been “born again.” One could say of the
experiences as an initiated seer, who could look into the Spiritual
view of an initiate. Whoever looks upon it as a book that one should
and thank them.” He who would become a Christian Initiate must
stone.” As an outer symbol the Initiate experienced at this

Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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Initiates.
form of prayer was born of this great knowledge; and the great Initiate

Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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initiated by them. In future, we approach the Mysteries of the

Title: Lecture: Man's Relationship with the Surrounding World
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great initiates, who possessed a direct insight into the spiritual

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intermediaries between them, of the Initiates; those who
spiritual world. The Initiate not only lives on the physical
history flows from the experience of the initiates — A
beyond. You can picture it in this way. When the initiate,
could the initiate, when he passed over from the earth to the
depended in the physical world. That which the initiate could
pre-Christian times that which the initiates brought over as
previously came about by means of the initiates. We know what

Title: Lecture: The Bible and Wisdom
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written by Initiates and inspired souls; a man who can to-day penetrate into
them to have been true Initiates, ‘awakened souls’ who have
expression is evidence to experienced Initiates that Paul speaks with perfect
We should realise that those from whom the Gospels proceeded were Initiates,
Gospels were Initiates of different degrees. It is understandable that there
writer of the John Gospel was the most deeply initiated into the mysteries
everywhere contains a message to Initiates from Initiates; awakened souls

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same time we know that according to the old Egyptian initiates, the
initiate who had acquired the faculty of clairvoyance already in his
after death — that he could be united with Osiris. The initiate
Hence the initiate is in his soul united with Osiris.

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The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
of those who were Initiates in the ancient Mysteries. It is not
ancient Mysteries and their Initiates, for the nature of our education
were to speak of the nature of the Mysteries and their Initiates in
is an Initiate. Through all the ages there have been centres for
often heard how man to-day can be led to the Initiates, how his
be initiated was to live through all those processes which enable the
Mysteries (Druid denotes an Initiate of the third degree), the
— the spiritual world. The Initiate experienced the union between
which men were initiated in the regions of which we are speaking.
Trottic Mysteries, founded by the Initiate who is known as Sieg, or
the old Initiates was a higher faculty than the innate, natural
those who were initiated could readily misuse what they learnt in
began to degenerate, the unripeness of the Initiates began to give
tragedy. Let me put it thus: The Initiate in the ancient Druidic or
more popular parlance, the Initiates would have said: ‘Our Gods
an earthly body among men. And the Initiates realised that all that
Mysteries the Initiate had not fully vanquished death. — But now
deeper understanding than elsewhere. The attitude of the Initiates may
known to the Initiates that besides such outer teaching as can be
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initiates. And who are the initiates? They are those whose spiritual
in which the initiate finds himself in his relation to
The true initiate will
of the initiate lies in the fact that he is able to see into the
Rishis. These Seven Rishis were the initiates of this age and guided
period another initiate spoke about this Being. It was Zarathustra;
period, we again meet with a great initiate. Knowledge had, we might
present in the earth. For the initiate, this Being had descended
upon the cross. Then he was initiated. That this was possible was due

Title: Lecture: The Wisdom Contained in Ancient Documents and in the Gospels
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initiated leaders of humanity possessed this wisdom, and if the
history knows that he was a profound initiate in many different
the same time he was initiated in many different mysteries. He was
initiate of the community of the Essenes, which was closely related

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was uninitiated could describe or understand it.” There was a
of Mithra. Both leaders and men were initiated into the Mysteries.
those who could no longer be initiated in the old Mithraic sense;
death. Henceforth he preached that what for the Initiates had

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originally gained by initiated persons, to results of initiation. But
field charlatans will be found beside to conscientious initiates who

Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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existence, belonged to those initiates who had raised themselves in

Title: Lecture: Macrocosm and Microcosm
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experienced here by the Initiate. Let us take the chief
Initiates, but we cannot then perceive what the sense organs
perceive. The Initiate can learn about the life between death

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we would understand the experiences of the old initiates when
always called by the initiate the “awakening”,

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One can no longer initiate a modern unconsciously. Since the breaking in

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endanger a high initiate's life if in spite of his high

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Great initiates can't bring these forces down from the highest
great initiates gather round the Christ and let themselves be

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is a particularly good fuel for Lucifer. Ancient initiates always

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us to have this survey as modern initiates, we are able to form
which an initiate has in advance in a fully conscious state.
of a modern initiate which enable him to gain an exact
the above-mentioned books, lead those who wish to be initiates
Those who become modern initiates in this meaning are also
right judgment of the fact that in the initiate's higher
When an initiate looks back upon his earliest childhood, he

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Thus the initiates have

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the teachers of the first initiates. Just as the first initiates became
work as the teachers of the first initiates. From this you may realize
to the first initiates, so that the Mercury beings exercised a twofold
of the initiates when they worked in a fully-conscious way. The Mercury
besides that had to be the great schoolmasters of the great initiates.

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to be initiated under the protection of the Archangel Phanuel. He was
whose consciousness no longer descends to the animals. When the initiate

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time.
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perceptible to the initiate Moses, saying to him, as it were from
Him, while previously He could speak only through Initiates from
in those times the Initiate spoke to ordinary people of these Divine
names; the Initiate spoke of such Beings as Wotan and Baldur, for they

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom. Temple sleep. Isis and the Madonna. Past stages of Evolution. The bestowing of the Ego. Future Powers.
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hidden, those who are not initiated into the deeper wisdom of the

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature. Group-egos. The Centre of Man. The Kingdoms of Higher Spiritual Beings.
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Initiates have always known these things and have told them to man; he
One great Initiate spoke about this in a very significant manner.
We need never lose respect for the writings of true Initiates when we
substitutes are made use of. Why have the Initiates of all ages urged

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VI: The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence. Participation of the, Luciferic beings. The formation of race.
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age when men possessed dim clairvoyance, and when initiates had still

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms -- the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt -- a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
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Of what was it the duty of Initiates to remind man when Christ
seeing the fish symbol everywhere, received the words of the Initiates
Such things as these were studied in the schools of the Initiates, and
described as the first teachers, the first Initiates of humanity;

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies. The earth's mission.
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known in certain circles. Goethe, who was an Initiate, knew it; hence

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The progress of man. His conquest of the physical plane in the post-Atlantean civilizations. The beginning and up-building of the 'I am.' The chosen people.
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When the Mysteries still existed in Europe, and Initiates — who
when the initiates brought all this in mighty pictures before the
of environment in ancient Europe caused even uninitiated persons to
up to the Initiates and besought them to allow them to become
culture was founded under the influence of Initiates by means of
who were instructed by the Initiates — the Holy Rishis.
knowledge. This small company, whose Initiates had preserved the
the earth. The Initiates in Asia and Egypt also knew Him as the
invulnerable and had the strength of an Initiate according to the
other Mysteries into which Moses was initiated, from which the Old

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture X: The reflection in the fourth epoch of mans experiences with the ancient Gods and their way of the Cross. The Christ-Mystery.
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How did Initiates at that time represent the life after death? It was
happened in the Atlantean epoch; and those who were initiated into the
finally only perceptible to those who had been initiated into the
Mysteries. He united himself with high Initiates, and it became more
Initiate in a human body and taught in the Mysteries, being able,

Title: Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture XI: The reversing of Egyptian remembrance into material forms by way of Arabism. The harmonizing of Egyptian remembrance. The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
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Initiate, one who, as we have seen, knew the Christ aforetime, could
we see another union consummated, that between what Egyptian initiates

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture II
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great Initiate made this possible, and this is why the astral
himself the astral sheath of the great Initiate. Permeated by
An initiate
the initiate Chaldean disciples, as well as teacher of the

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to-day for those who are initiates. Truths such as these were
Nazarathos taught the initiates among the Hebrews.

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to the ancient Atlantean Initiates, the ‘Priests of the
consequence — and I said there that the Sun-Initiate
distinguished from the initiates of the lesser Oracles, those
civilizations. This great Initiate, for such he was, withdrew
mysterious Initiate who imparted initiation to Zarathustra.
collegium. The great Sun-initiate, who brought the
mighty Being as the great Atlantean Sun-initiate it is not
by the great Sun-initiate so that he might make himself known
to Abraham. The meeting of Abraham with the great Initiate of
with the great Sun-initiate is of the greatest, the most
had the same origin as the consciousness of the Initiates
Initiates of the Christian Mysteries recognized in the
the wise men who were initiated into the secrets of the
the great initiate Zarathustra incarnated, the order of the
veiled, and was only comprehended by a few Initiates. Hence

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Chaldean Initiates; they knew of the individuality
teaching came from initiates among the Essenes. This

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to say, where the Initiate also is; but the Initiate is
would-be initiate, enabling him to develop the necessary

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture VIII
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bodies. Those who were initiated according to this ancient
practised among the Essenes. Such an Essene Initiate might
ancient initiation between the experiences of an Initiate and
An Initiate

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture IX
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splendour thereof. Every pupil, every would-be initiate went
which occurred to the initiate in the ancient Mysteries. We

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture X
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desired to depict Aesculapius as an initiate who had acquired
way as they were attracted to Initiates of old; but, as was
initiated by the Christ, so that they could perceive the

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture XI
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hand along the path that all initiates must tread. I will
point where the forces of those who had been initiated could
become initiates for humanity. He taught them further that
the highest Initiates. It is not known to those on lower
through the spirit-self. The Initiate was then not only a man
highest initiates can judge when initiation is about to
(those initiated with the spirit-self, nor to the Son (those
initiated with life-spirit), but only to the highest
Initiates, those initiated with the Father.’ Here once

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture XII
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a person could not in those early times have been initiated
those who were to be initiated were graded into different
seeking initiation were not initiated into everything. There
were different classes and degrees of initiates. Thus to some
heard by Lazarus, he who had been initiated by Christ Jesus

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 1903 or 1904
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teachers, leaders and great initiates, whose symbol is the snake. It's
difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, December 1904
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teachers, leaders and great initiates, whose symbol is the snake. It's
difficult one. Great initiates could make the task easier for

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 1-20-1907
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Memory gradually disappears in an initiate and is replaced by direct

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 9-15-1907
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initiation schools: initiates, clairvoyants and adepts. In ancient
times it often happened that initiates had a full understanding of
they saw, so the initiates explained it to them. Today there's less of
able to put what the clairvoyant saw and initiates explained to

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 3-14-1908
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from the cold and storms. That's the way an initiate is; his life body

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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Every meditation has been handed down by great initiates for

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 5-27-1909
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initiates didn't have a clear idea of the importance of the Mystery of
Golgotha, and this was true of a great initiate who had known
First higher beings reveal something to mankind's great initiates, and
The childhood of great initiates differs little from that of other

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 8-27-1909
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After Atlantis sank, great initiates led two main streams of people
among initiates that not only knew how to defy outer enemies but was
initiate who proclaimed the mystery wisdom to his pupils.
Now, it's an occult law that some initiates withdraw to spiritual
another high initiate withdrew for whom north European people had been
about this incarnation of the high initiate in the legend of the Holy
reincarnation of the high initiate who was supposed to prepare things

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-1909
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higher element. Paul, who was an initiate in these things, uses

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture IV: Arabic Influence in Europe
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and the strongest moral current of the church, had to initiate its

Title: Anthroposophy/Civilization
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consciousness was changed — but if a Mystery Initiate of
ancient Initiate would have called a sleeping humanity,

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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earlier existence, belonged among those initiates who had

Title: Insanity from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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Initiates can do that consciously. In order to be able to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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they belonged to the terrestrial world. Those who, as initiates
of the mysteries, were initiated in the more profound aspects
the power of his initiates and knew of his pre-earthly
the kind of connection man has to it. The initiates of that
of the remnants of the old initiation, the initiates, who were
— the riddle of death. The initiates pointed out to the
descriptions given by the initiated contemporaries of the
in a manner somewhat like this that the initiated
initiates at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and even
sensitive to these questions. The initiates, however, had drawn
old initiate said to those whose souls — as early as the
initiate to his followers in the first Christian centuries,
organism.” This is how those initiates of the first
Thus, through the initiates of the first Christian centuries, a
the Mystery of Golgotha had taken place on earth, the initiates
Father-consciousness that the ancient, pre-Christian initiates
initiation in the mysteries, the initiate represented the
by the initiates of the early Christian centuries, who still

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IX: The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
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initiates who employed methods other than those that must be
used in initiation of the present day. Those ancient initiates,
his own forces,” said the old initiates to those of their
thus spoke the initiates of old, “so he must be taken by
initiates presented the spiritual Sun Being as the lofty
initiates, who lived at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and
Therefore, the initiates, who were contemporaries of the
the spirit land. Thus spoke the initiated contemporaries of the
Mystery of Golgotha, as had the initiates of antiquity: Through

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture X: The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
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Prior to the Mystery of Golgotha, when the old initiates wished
initiates who were contemporaries of the Mystery of Golgotha,
initiates. These instructions directed man to mortify his
the old initiates told their followers about experiences

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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relationship. Whoever was initiated into the Austrian
war. Whoever is initiated in this area knows how the disaster

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Three
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The initiates of the East and the initiates of the
peoples, that is to say their initiates, have quite definite views for the future evolution of
And the impulse that the initiates of the East wish to give to evolution rests essentially upon
ingredients of culture rejected. It is not only the initiates of the East who feel a decided
American initiates are striving towards another

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 1: The Being of Man
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uninitiated. At the same time, it may be stated that this cycle of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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so-called initiates. The initiates were fully cognisant of these
a divine instrument!' The initiate would never have admitted that, he
less, and so it came about that when an initiate, a real initiate
was more withdrawn from men. Augustus, who was an initiate to a
consciousness, under the influence of the Athenian initiates in
in the Mystery of Golgotha. He was in a high sense an initiate of the
initiate, yet as one having knowledge to a high degree. In his

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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could only be uttered by the highest initiate, by the High priest. This

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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or become initiated, the same thing happens as in the case of a blind-person
were inspired, that is to say, they were initiates who possessed the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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atmosphere of Devachan, the initiate and the human being living between

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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occult disciple, or even of an initiate.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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case of an initiate this influence on the etheric body manifests itself
In the case of an Initiate

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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city in which the highest Initiates lived which was spoken of in the

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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development are called Initiates. The path which they tread and teach is that
Initiates do now, the soul-content of their fellows. To-day the word can

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