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Title: Lecture: Woman and Society (Die Frauenfrage)
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the human being, so long as people knew that these truths had to be
explained why certain character features can arise in Man. In truth

Title: Lecture: Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
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upon truth — it will be because thinking has acquired, through the
living and weaving of thought in truth is the causative Spirit.” What

Title: Lecture: Anthroposophy and Christianity
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truth when it considers the course of natural science at the beginning
hundreds and even thousands of years old. But truth possesses powers
the truth and effectiveness of his work, let us turn to the nature of
acknowledging the truth of reincarnation. It can't change the fact
Spiritual science recognizes the truth of repeated earth-lives out of
it makes them uncomfortable to know that he acknowledged the truth of
truth of Christianity change when spiritual science is used as a tool
spiritual science confidently proclaims these ancient Christian truths
in a new form because it has understood the depth, truth and
been convinced of the truth of Christianity by spiritual science. For
permeated by the truth if he lets it work upon him without bias.
Otherwise, he won't be able to free himself from prejudices. All truth
seer's view of spiritual truth, but the more our thinking is freed
paths. He only wants to make us aware that there are truths that can
science knows that we can trust our sense for truth. Through the
related to the truth. As a result, he believes — signs of the times
he counts on the truth-loving and genuinely religious life of the

Title: Lecture: Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman
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pronouncement is therefore patently false; the truth of all
controversy. That is the spiritual truth and quite different from what
spiritual truth is from what is happening in the physical world! This
truth, which must have a shocking effect on us.
what mere physical eyes can perceive! This spiritual truth will ring
through death and in so doing, affirmed the truth of the spiritual
spiritual scientist who can clearly demonstrate that truth finds its
however, there must be souls who will perceive this truth and prepare

Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
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unwilling to enter deeply into more intimate truths connected with the
truths we have studied in many aspects during recent years.
truth so. In the first epoch of culture, what was to descend from the
semblance, that the soul in very truth lives on when it has passed
meaning and purpose are revealed. Faust expressed the same truth when
Christ, the Christ lives in them in very truth. All those who in this

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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truth, for one day this will be true. The materialists of to-day are
truth. Of this inner truth we may say: What the materialistic
hold fast to this truth!

Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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because this, revelation is man's warrant for their truth. Such truths, in
endeavor to discover the above named truths by means of knowledge developed
Besides these truths of pure faith, Thomas Aquinas admits others which can
be attained by man's own powers of perception. Such truths he denominates
“Praeambula Fidei.” These include all truths dependent upon the
of the world is not merely a truth to be accepted on faith, but a fact of
character of these truths of pure faith, and that on the other, all the
treated exactly as the truths of pure faith are treated in a higher domain.
can only be acquired by being communicated. In a higher domain the truths of
through human communication, so can the events corresponding to the truths
that domain. It thus wins its way to truths which support the truths of
faith more actively than do the truths obtainable by mere intellect. Thomas
into the domain of the truths of faith, but that the former can defend and
the service of a truth which has to struggle and strive for victory in the
teeth of opposition. — No one in whom anthroposophical truth has taken

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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consciousness. Again and again I must emphasise this; it is a truth
tell humanity the plain unvarnished truth, the truths one has to tell
man? Of a truth, they are not present in the Universe for the express
represent merely a wave of deepest untruthfulness now passing over the

Title: Lecture: Social and Anti-Social Forces in the Human Being
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dreamy idealism or, at its worst, into untruth. The Russian on the
this conflict makes itself felt to the genuine seeker after truth in
inclination to be satisfied with exact truth; whereas in the Central European
question. There, in the searching for truth, one trembles in the
doubt in man, this vacillation with regard to the truth. It is this
the truth — in philosophy — so as not to fall prey so easily
to the generally recognized impulses of truth in society.
truth of these things. I will tell you of a formula which was

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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the truth: until it came to the spirit, there was truth in a man like
man than for communicating truths about nature. Only a naive mind
enshrines an essential, inner truth. Indeed it does not! The purpose

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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anthroposophical truths in particular that I would like to develop for you.
particular truths have, and that is what we will talk about tomorrow.

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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oneself up to illusions. People nowadays flee the truth, and one
disregard of the weightiest truths is precisely what will build
not an absolute truth, by no means an absolute truth. It is one aspect
furnish man with absolute truth about the universe, but with illusions. The
absolute truths, not that they are only points of view, like
half- or quarter-truths. Total errors are soon seen through, whereas
half- and quarter-truths mislead people. They live with them, these
partial truths become a pan of life and cause the most horrible
people who acknowledge a certain half-truth, a very significant
half-truth, and who do not go into the question of the purely
of Christianity is simply a half-truth. It is therefore also a

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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truth merely its external expression, this is the same as seeing only
must in very truth build the bridge between the bodily constitution on

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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world-order. But today it is desired to keep this truth concealed and
order in juxtaposition, but the two are one. This is a truth that must
considered that such truths were dangerous for the masses and did not
wanted to impart these truths to the world and was then brought to his
restored to mankind — truths which hitherto have in a certain way

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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success or lack of success of our deeds, how in truth all action is
by side with one another; the truth is that whatever is an active
thought as such is in truth not a reality of the immediate
only. The truth is that matter is continually passing away in that it

Title: Lecture: The Two Christmas Annunciations
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“a priori” truth. With “a priori” he means a truth
You will say that this is a contradiction of the truth that we are

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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between the senses and the outer world is in truth no longer our own
itself radiate light but at most throw it back. The truth is that in
enunciated as a categorical truth in every book of physics today. But
In truth, Julian the Apostate and Constantine stand before us as two

Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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expression to a concept, a meaning, a truth about Man simply by saying
original word of truth, his word of wisdom, was lost. Speech was
the form of an axiomatic truth or as part of an axiomatic truth. Thus

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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observed by anyone with an unbiased sense of truth. But they are
the heart. But there, in truth, it is. Man has brought with him through
In truth it is so. When we consider the human organization in its

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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Truth Beauty, and Goodness
verities" of truth, beauty and goodness, and these in turn in science,
as the “eternal verities” of truth, beauty and goodness,
his connection with the universe, when Truth, Beauty and Goodness had
Let us try to understand how Truth, Beauty and Goodness are related,
does not know what this implies. We speak of Truth, little realizing
that a feeling for truth is connected with our consciousness of the
from inaccuracy, laziness or positive aversion to truth, he may evolve
truth, he is in harmony with the feeling he has of his physical body,
and pre-earthly existence. If out of laziness or untruthfulness he
cut the thread that binds him to pre-earthly existence. Untruth severs
existence, and they are severed by untruthfulness. The purely
physical point of view. But when, through untruthfulness, he severs
This bond is strengthened by a love of truth and Integrity. Nothing
feeling for truth and truthfulness. To feel himself in duty bound
ideal of Truth.
experience of Beauty. When truth and truthfulness enter the realm of
the etheric body of formative forces. Whereas Truth is connected with
Enthusiasm for truth and truthfulness can kindle in man — in the
is absent can possess no real sense of truth and truthfulness. But
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Title: Lecture: Man As A Picture of The Living Spirit
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day but rather that we owe it to the night. This is the truth. It is
Truth is, we never bring our real and inmost Ego with us from the
Therefore in truth, throughout our earthly life our physical body is
Saturn is but a very small portion of the truth. The significance of
able to look up with inner truth who knows that in the stars, raying
truth confess: This Light am I myself in my reality.

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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truth acquire weight and significance if we add to them Paul's
convinced him of the truth of the Mystery of Golgotha. In spite of
great truths of the past connected with man's earthly evolution, a
the spiritual truths, whereas the new wisdom was not there. To a
utter the pregnant sentence: What is Truth? Paul, as Saul, could not
judgement, might not be truth. What a conviction had to be gained by
Paul? The conviction that there can be error in the truth which used
contain truth — thought Saul. But he had to think otherwise.
must contain error in its truth, and error brought Christ to the
truth of esoteric Christianity.

Title: The Manicheans
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with super-sensible truths, a mighty cosmic legend. The Spirits of
believe in the truth of the Gospels unless the authority of the

Title: The Dead Are With Us
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This indicates a truth which should be emphasised, namely, the supreme
truthfully be used, but the relationship is reversed. When we put a
Dead can be adjusted in accordance with these truths. In the case of a
awaken within us the consciousness that the dead are, in very truth,

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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much more freely about certain truths than is now possible, for such
truths are at once taken in too personal a way and awaken personal
example, truths which concern the human being very deeply but could
are truths of the kind indicated recently when I said: the Greeks
their perception of the truth, one has to speak more in generalities
if one has, under some circumstances, to describe the truth.
important truth about human beings, for it enables us to understand
gone into here embraces far-reaching truths. Take one example: it is
things, one may touch the highest truths, and yet sound as if one
heartedly before the real truths. Take a work of art, the Sistine
reality. But in fact you have described an untruth; what you have
regarded as truth. A crystal is a truth, for it can exist
everything is relative. A rosebud is not a truth. A crystal is; but a
truth of them. You have to be carried away from the earth if you are
in its place as much untruth as previously there had been Art.
come through aesthetic comprehension to a higher truth; but if he
comprehension of the world into untruth. There is always this forking
thinking, but with truth.
set the great truth of the entry into humanity of primal goodness,

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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The truth is that men's failure to comprehend these things is the
healing. This is a truth that must now begin once more to find its way

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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the fertilised germ, but the truth is that the human embryo merely

Title: Lecture: The Ear
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but give ourselves up to an illusion. For the truth is that the inner
strange saying. Nevertheless, it is the truth. Man might become an ear
deeper sense, is an illusion. In truth it is the Cosmic speech which
think. For we are born in truth unorientated for walking and standing,
strongly. But in very truth, one would have to be inwardly dried up if
in truth an organ of Heaven. Such a fact can only be found by
only be there in order that the super-sensible truths may be found. But
the task of man on earth is to understand the super-sensible truths
as a special sin to say that the truth of Spiritual Science was to be
experience it thus: Man is in truth not only a physical but a
un-German, or what you will. In truth it is the purest product of the

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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real experience, to have the feeling that one belongs in very truth to the
and is cultivated as tradition. Selfless activity is, in very truth,
for others, not for yourself. You can in very truth take into yourselves a
same time done for all. — This is the truth that was known to the
indicated will be within man's power when the occult truth that thought and

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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repeatedly inwardly assimilated and digested. External truths
That is not possible with spiritual-scientific truths, the
reason being that the truths of natural science are lifeless
formulated into concepts, whereas spiritual-scientific truths
we accept them as if they were external truths, then they
to gain knowledge of historical truth we must turn our

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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“Truth and Science”
to know the truth in regard to world phenomena and have a true and
knower does not correspond to truth. He only acquires true
only exists because of the light, the Sun. Both truths must
unite in one all-embracing truth. Thus Goethe’s words are

Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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deeper underlying truth, he would be using a phrase when he writes:
These words are either an indication of deeper truth or mere
and art arose. Truth was expressed in the form of art, in
truth deeper than the superficial doctrines of conventional erudition.
vague abstraction. Wagner is expressing a profound truth when he uses
truths can only be expressed with the greatest delicacy. Richard
Everything was immersed in cloud-masses. In very truth the Spirit of
existence. — Such is the deeper truth underlying the myth of the
A great cosmological truth is contained in these words, for all things
turning-points in evolution, for the truths they contain are deeper
life of the peoples. Consciousness of this truth is expressed in many
the less it is truth but truth that will be subjected to the same fate

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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he would enter a world where super-sensible truth would be revealed to
heart. Truth and truth alone was his quest. And the great obstacle in

Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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past four or five years, can send a great truth trickling into

Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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as a truth: In your thoughts and, in your observation, add the
glimpse of the truth. It rose up on his spiritual horizon at a time
developed. Indeed, this truth even rose up on Schelling’s
bear within them a great truth. Oken subdivided the human being as
After all, it was merely the exact repetition of a truth which
Capesius, conversing with Benedictus, feels the approach of truths
to man. Truths of this kind may increase the vanity of many, who may
based upon truth. We should gradually be brought to the point of
feeling that such beliefs are not based upon truth. For this
by spiritual scientific truths.
possible, without the slightest idea of spiritual scientific truths?

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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its truth and glory? Here indeed there is a riddle! Herodotus

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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characteristic is that instruction was given in telling the truth
sublime imagery could be used to express the truths which apply here.
Shamo, state, Sibylline, theocratic, Trojan, truth, Turanian, Tyrian,
truth,

Title: Lecture: The Mystery of Golgotha
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spiritual Freedom. These thoughts are in truth the only ground on

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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Deep truths, deep facts of evolution, lie hidden in the ancient

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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Forces belonging in truth to the world of the Pleroma were dragged

Title: Lecture: The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth
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of the patient. For what is called illness today is in truth only the
law. Even today these truths can only be hinted at. For as a rule, if
the dead. In truth, those who have passed through the gate of death
quarter-truths have far worse effects than complete errors. Thus it
is a half- or quarter-truth which underlies what is so frequently
I said half- or quarter-truths often have a far worse effect than
quarter-truths. Compare it with what we have pointed out today. The
frequently arranged instinctively according to these truths. Customs
that work from the spiritual world, knows that in truth a man cannot

Title: Lecture: The Souls Progress through Repeated Earth Lives
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absurdity. Spiritual perception alone reveals the truth. And a
doubt the truth of what is communicated to them. The fabric of life
showed you yesterday in an example how untruthfully these opponents
proceed, how they simply lie, stating the objective untruth. [*Bern,

Title: Lecture: The Forming of Destiny in Sleeping and Waking
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and feet. It can be said with truth, that speaking is not unconnected
that, in truth, this phenomenon is connected also with deeply inward
exist. What can be said, and with truth, is that we behold how the
Such truths must be viewed in their true light. It is but a slip-shod
The truths of Anthroposophy need not remain in the realm of

Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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in very truth, to think in pictures, in Imaginations.
can be said with truth that, to begin with, the brain is a plastic
denotes complete misunderstanding, for the very reverse is the truth.
In very truth we enter as it were into unison with a rhythm. Our
and material life. In very truth man must lay hold of the Spirit, for

Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas had dogmatically preserved truths
longer be grasped. To begin with, these truths had to be protected as
dogmas. The highest truths required by the human beings were sought
although in a certain abstract manner — of the truths which
how the truth, the absolute truth of Darwinism may stand, it

Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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otherwise. Why? Let us bear in mind a truth which I have often

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Body as a Reflexion of the Universe
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recognises this truth in regard to the external world of physical
themselves. Spiritual science must teach that this truth should be
external physical body (we know this, for it is a trivial truth)
truth.
really correspond to the truth.
the propagation of spiritual-scientific truths at the present time!
Consider the strong opposition that spiritual-scientific truths
encounter on the part of people outside. Consider how these truths
nothing.” Although this is not an absolute truth, it is
learning in a theoretical way one or the other truth which spiritual

Title: Lecture: It is a Necessity of Our Earnest Times to Find Again the Path Leading to the Spirit
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realities, these are truths. These realities should be well impressed
year 333, it was still possible to grasp this truth to a certain
person may or may not accept one or the other truth, is of no
revealing the truths of Karma. I have often listened with great pain

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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all, too, the force of truthfulness that are worst off. The moment
untruthfulness asserts itself, the super-sensible experiences fade
Anyone who observes how humanity is handling palpable truth today
‘varnish’ the truth in one respect or another. Further,
speaking the truth at all about certain things, because of national
in which truth must be conceived to-day. Hence the truth is virtually
avenues to the truth lie open? [Steiner was quoting
those who wallow in such swamps of untruthfulness as were disclosed
grasped as super-sensible truth by the healthy human reason. There is
relations between man and man must prevail if super-sensible truths
‘varnish’ truth on the one hand and, on the other, wish
super-sensible truths into the world. Thereby it could achieve
world these vital truths of the age? People may not realise why it
of truth; but with some people it has not always been a question only
of truth, but often only of opportunism. Naturally it is unpleasant
nowadays to have to witness the attitude to truth adopted by the

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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of spiritual truths, truths regarding the actual spiritual content of
strive after the truth in the way in which it must disclose itself to
man when he is conscious of his human dignity, then the truths
important above all is that the spiritual truths now accessible to
for the truths of Anthroposophy are perfectly comprehensible to the
especially in this — that the spiritual truths which want to
spiritual truths. They will then find the way, which will be on the

Title: Lecture: The Ego-consciousness of the So-called Dead
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truth! It would lead us closer to the real truth if we were to say:

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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expresses in a wonderful way the truth that the Finnish nation had to

Title: Lecture: Awakening to Community - I
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The real truth is that what we have had drummed into us from about
For the truth is that everything in life that flowers and bears fruit
experiencing the super-sensible nature of all truth. Sharing the
goodness nor truth are accessible to man unless he acts in the very

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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find the abstract truths that are the pride of present-day humanity.
More and more we find pictures, truths expressed in pictures.
We wrestle our way through the deeply significant truths still
during the previous day, would have to admit, if he knew the truth,
early state of development, the progress of humanity was in truth
The truth is that human beings on Earth can do nothing in the secrecy

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Destiny
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of these great general aspects, of these general truths, but also of
certain particular truths. If we grow more and more acquainted with
special aspects of truth, spiritual science itself will also acquire
I have now expressed truths which have a great weight in the
evolution of man's future, but these truths should become

Title: Lecture: On the Connection of the Living and the Dead
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beings. For in truth our whole life between birth and death —
fruits of our life embodied in the cosmos. This is a truth we must
the simple reason that, if we did so, highly unpleasant truths would
relationships. Then, of a truth, as fire is avoided by our hand, so
spiritual-scientific truths — people will connect their life
— truths into which we look by spiritual vision. But alas,
these truths. It was not always so. Anyone who can study history in a
spiritual way will know this. Today people are afraid of these truths
may be an unpleasant truth — very unpleasant, I doubt not. None
thoroughly objective reasons. For such a truth as this can only be
our own soul is rooted, which soil is in truth identical with the

Title: Lecture: The Moment of Death and the Period Thereafter
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closer to the truth! It would lead us closer to the real truth if we

Title: Lecture: Relationships Between the Living and the Dead
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day, would give this definition: “Truth consists in the
lead to an inner truth in the picture. Imagine to yourself that you
again a feeling for Truth, for real Truth.
Truth. We have gone astray through materialism — and especially
where the idea of Truth is concerned. Compare for yourselves, for
descriptions should correspond to the Truth grows weaker and weaker.
And so long as this feeling for Truth does not permeate humanity, the
any concepts of Truth in our thoughts, our concepts become falsified.
take hold of lies, and allow truth to become inwardly distorted.
feeling for Truth most intensively, we cannot gain access to the
true, what Spiritual Science brings down for us as Truth, from the
own personal interests, to be able to see how untruthfulness glitters

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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beyond the earth? It can be said with truth that the separation of the moon,
It can be said with truth that the
nineteenth century. The cultivation of Spiritual Science is in very truth a
reflects the sunlight back to us, is in truth deeply connected with our

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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of those who did not hold this view. He regarded as truth both what
to speak of one and the same truth in art, in science and in
in truths such as have now once more been expressed. He should feel
who said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” But
the way to the Truth and to the Life in the Spirit has to be

Title: Lecture: Michelangelo
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truths which exist in eternity. We could not conceive of anything
should select to represent plastically the truth which Spiritual

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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indications, we must remind ourselves of a familiar truth of
Hierarchies for whom we have in truth been spiritually born, this
truth that he is protecting himself from Ahriman, for there are no
to a more impersonal grasp of the truths of spiritual life than the

Title: Lecture: Past Incarnations of the Peoples of Today
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of the truths underlying human life and cosmic existence is by no
not be difficult for us to be convinced of the truth of repeated
earth if we do not apply in an absolutely concrete way the truth of
truths of Spiritual Science in all seriousness. These truths seem so
courage to apply these truths neither in practical life nor even in
truth, or at all events diverges very widely from the truth. It is
precisely the deeper truths which seem at the outset strange and
Europe and on towards Russia. We shall never get to the truth if we
this reason those who are sincere students of the truths of
of a truth until the proper time has arrived. It is right, for
truth. Nothing will make me accept these things merely on the basis
truths such as those of which I have spoken to you today —
abstractions to a concrete understanding of the truths themselves.

Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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sources, when certain truths are transmitted which do not seem to be
untruth, and does not change it. Only if we begin to take an interest
voicing the following truth; Men who are to learn how to use their
it is to set up certain truths contained in the threefold structure
These truths enable us to gain a feeling for the requirements of
anthroposophical truths which we are able to gain for ourselves
and the will to push through with anthroposophical truths. The worst
accessible to truths which must be known, so that they may rise up

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
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differentiate them. Truth can only be reached if we are able to
example, related by Erasmus Franceschi and based on truth. In his
should grasp that the truths connected with the spiritual world

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Knowledge: A Way of Life
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stands there before us in its truth or untruth and our personality
— be filled with enthusiasm for the truth, and turn with
truth and falsehood with other relations of life, we find a
to a conclusion between truth and untruth in the realm of science we
truths of spiritual science. As we gradually find our way on this new
As we come to apprehend the truths of the pre-earthly
too, we learn to understand how the lack or neglect of such truths is
when we have learned to apprehend sound spiritual truths, then ideas
truths leave man to feed upon himself.
enables us to distinguish spiritual truths in yet another way, for it
brings home to us that truth is related to love, that healthy and
a deeply significant truth begins to dawn upon us, namely, that man
we recognise that when man devotes himself to moral truth, he becomes
sincere seekers after truth, they will receive health and healing
the truths of the spiritual world — let me say —
truths; he can grasp them, take hold of them with the entire forces
who receive the truths with warmth of heart. And within the societies

Title: Lecture: How Can the Destitution of Soul in Modern Times Be Overcome?
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The truths we look for in spiritual science should not
All the conditions and circumstances of life proclaim this truth; on
due weight to the spiritual-scientific truth that in the present age
post-Atlantean epoch those who worked to spread religious truths did
it is still not possible to say very much, yet certain truths must be
science that what may seem to us abstract truths have in them magic
truths we take in during our meetings, we shall be fellow-workers at

Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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truths in former times did not take this view. They were quite clear about
great religious truths which fill our soul with awe, conveying as they
cannot be reached without painful inner experiences. The great truths do
to discourage anyone, but because it is the truth. It may be discouraging

Title: Lecture: The Significance of the Mass
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means The Way. Moses means The Truth (ethical or moral
truth). Jesus is The Life. Jesus says to His disciples:

Title: Lecture: The Universe
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humoristic, but they conceal a deep truth which should be

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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on historical grounds, if one is but ready to see the truth — but they
under torture to speak untruths about themselves. This fact — not
with high spiritual truths, the general culture became more and more
themselves. What makes itself manifest in the world is indeed truth; but the
of the real becoming of the earth. The truth of the matter is as
infinite. That is an altogether abstract conception. The truth is that time
Truths
like this must be clearly envisaged again, for it is only with truths like
certain minds came upon such truths. For the fact that people went on such
truths. When the Lord is conversing with Mephistopheles in the

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full harmony with the scientific truths which have emerged in the
guarantee for the truth of our soul’s experience, the reflected

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to know not only the path of truth but also the sources of error, so
investigation of truth. One has to do with errors that must be not
of individual truths or errors, but it is necessary to be clear
soul, man can fall into untruth on the path of spiritual
sense perception — not caricature and untruth but the truth,
kind of immoral or weak moral mood, any kind of moral untruthfulness,
outer, everyday life and in ordinary science the content of truth,
security in truth, everything that gave him the possibility of
the truth and not fall into error, because the support that one has
differentiate truth from error in the spiritual
from what is truth. If he does not learn to delimit himself in this
between phenomenalism and ecstasy, in knowing both, lies the truth,
or at least truth can be reached if one knows both. The path of
life with common sense, without sentimentality and untruthfulness. It
genuine feeling for truthfulness. All fanaticism, all inaccuracy,
untruthfulness. The spiritual investigator, therefore, must strive to
feel himself obliged to hold firmly to the truth, to mix nothing with
the unconditional truth that exists in ordinary life, for in the
truthfulness; the moment the spiritual investigator demonstrates that
no proof of its truthfulness. Although six hundred million human
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understand spiritual science this is really only an excuse. The truth
they make other excuses. In truth, they are afraid and therefore seek

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him he has a fiery centre of destruction, and in truth the forces of

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truth for him; it is not a truth for him to-day. We can see this
The truth is that we are living in a stage of evolution when man
untruth has thus found its way into modern religious consciousness.
is the very thing that modern man needs to learn. There must again be truth
truths such as I have been indicating to-day. That is the only way we
right form for these truths — a form which would enable
truth, this is all that is accessible to the pure intellect on its
clarity of thought, if man wants to say of himself in all truth and

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an abstract truth, as a theory, but it should be grasped with the
soul. Little by little all the truths and forces of knowledge which
encouragement inducing us to fill ourselves with the great truths of
days of peace, when the truths which we have implanted into our souls

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extraordinarily significant truth in the history of human
evolution, this truth which I have just explained to you, is
to make a great effort in order to convince a friend of the truth of
the deepest truths of the science of initiation appear strange to the

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purpose. Our civilisation, in truth, aims at nothing more
about absolute Goodness and Truth. They are not asking about
all-comprehensive universal truth; the various types of men

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of the development of super-sensible cognition maintains in truth
knowledge. He sees reasons which are in truth no reasons, and knows
knowledge reveals its truth through itself when its revelations are

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can reveal the truth that one who opposes right demands in social
Such a truth can be

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events in the form in which this truth is now often conceived. For to
nevertheless true, and its truth is brought home to us by the
reincarnation being of course an already recognised truth — is
admit, hypothetically at all events, some of the truths investigated
physical ‘appearances’ into reality and find the truth.
truth. How great a contrast lies here between the wisdom of Buddha
truth. This however is not the point at issue. The point is that the
truths through the successive epochs, but to a unique event occurring
repeated earthly lives, comes to cry in truth, “Not I, but
rise above all illusion and lead to truth and freedom. True, a
the world can be known in its truth, yet I can evolve to it.”

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Spiritual Science, for we know in very truth that the human being as
We realise the truth of

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that the Buddha found the four great Truths, one of which awoke
corpse he had discovered the truth of suffering as a last
the Earth, they were able to instil into humanity the truth of the
brother; in death and in life you die in Christ.” The truth of
truth of birth from God the Father, and to Ex Deo Nascimur was
to the truth “Out of God the Father we are born” —
this truth — “In Christ the Son we die, in order that we
knew the truth of that which the old clairvoyant powers of the soul
soul, we live.” To these truths Initiation Science will ever
in full clarity to the human heart, this other truth — a truth

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writings and would be able to communicate those truths without the
What is the truth behind the Mystery of Golgotha? On the one hand, we
ashamed to admit the truth of the miracles, so they struck out

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can really have it, and then we gradually come near the truth that

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science if in all earnestness and truthfulness it were obliged to come
to the oldest, the first and deepest sense of truth.”
spiritual investigator who knows the truth of the words of Goethe:

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lecture to-day will contain certain truths which will
have, not an atomic present, but in very truth a past which is related
is which can reveal itself to man as a great and significant truth:
accordance with truth depends upon the fact that between the
manner of thinking which we meet with here conceals the real truth

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truths were necessary which we had collected in the course of the
occult truth. There cannot in reality be an Eastern and Western
these truths. We cannot really understand Christianity, for instance,
number of occult truths have penetrated into the world, and any one
works they contain an immense number of truths. — Truths of
inspiration? There are great Rosicrucian truths in Isis
had not the possibility of an insight into the truths of
reincarnation and karma, did not possess these truths in the
contains great truths concerning everything not Christian, —
domain in which these truths were not cultivated. The whole course
Orientalism regards it as a truth that precisely five thousand years
goodwill not dependent on the denial of any truth that may have been
denial of the truth. But in so far as we are logical, goodwill must
our task to enter more deeply into the teachings and truths we have

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The world only acquires its truth when we know that behind every

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through the illusion in order to penetrate further into the truth of
being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth

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Cherubim. And yet in truth we must say that a sacrifice such as
raised. From resignation comes forth water; water is in literal truth

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quite a good comparison if we were to say that the world of truth,
than the great occult truth: ‘In the whole world of Maya one
displays an undeniable reality, a direct truth. What then is real on
renunciation and resignation. To these three truths we have to-day

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Truth and Science,
inwardly to real, spiritual truths, and they say: Everything must be
— one has attained the simplest truths. There, quite
us, however, to dictate program truths. Above all, they must
the truthfulness that, to begin with, one acquired for oneself in
himself to truthfulness when speaking about the spirit. For in the
truthfulness; one must bring it with one.
is to be accomplished, then we must educate ourselves in truthfulness
to be truthful in the spiritual world. Otherwise we will tell people
inexact, then we will recount nothing but untruths about the
that only our opponents, who mean to tell untruths, can still call

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advance as far as truth. For the misunderstood fall of man has ruined

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Anthroposophy does not translate the truths which it includes in
leads us to spiritual vision, or by communicating its truths it

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reached the point of perceiving truth and reality and that which
is organized in such a way that he is predisposed to truth, and
not to untruth. Not everyone is able to investigate the
painted artistically, so can anyone take up the truth of
in the full meaning of the word, he is predisposed to truth, not

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modern scientific truths, of modern ethical life, and to develop
any other person in this room, but the truth must be shown, and
the truth of abnormal observations which interest those people

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something of the truth that tells us that through the power of an

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really an untruth, for it cannot exist in the form in which it
contains a profound foreboding, far profounder than the truths in
natural-scientific truths pertain to man's circumference. But in
contemplation, truths that may bear fruit. For the

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absolute accord with truth, with reality. Thus we find our way into our
is real truth in what is expressed in the more ancient languages by

Title: Lecture: The Experiences of Sleep and their Spiritual Background
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preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he would
constitute our inner being. Thus during sleep man becomes in very truth
thoroughness, they will not be found to tell against these truths. On
the contrary, these truths, which are correct in the main, open up for

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sin of acknowledging a truth two centuries before science had
Natural Science as a means of proving its truth. What
existence. To-day, most people who trouble at all about truth
truths come to man without his seeking; the literary supplements
Anthroposophical truths are not in opposition to the truths of
sphere of Science Anthroposophical truths are to be found again
who accept certain ideas of Darwinism as incontestable truths,
a most important truth. Galileo is said to have found the
the simple truth that every human being has a biography, but an
contemporaries object to serious thinking. In truth, those who

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in a complicated way, and the highest truths are not the
is, in a certain sense, only a half-truth. We must transform

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nucleus of this truth must be present and discoverable in all
continuation upon a higher plane, pure truth which only
First, a truth pronounced thus brings accusation of heresy;
it will take its place as a self-evident truth, and the
by this truth. We could give hundreds of such truths that would
These truths
truth, attracted to what spiritual investigators can
truth. And all those who have trodden the path of this
He himself tells us so in his “Poetry and Truth”.
with today's striving after truth by our science? At that
that profound spiritual truth has been included in the second
Just as truthfully does he show, what comes to life in our
poetic truths of life, sinks down into the realm of spirit
is truth in the spiritual; what was aspiration in the

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or of an axiom, or the question of any truth whatever, it was
truth by minute investigation. He affirmed that to endeavour
to arrive at the truth by speculation, instead of studying
mind is capable of recognizing truth in its
in the complex. And truth is beauty.
born in 1648, reflected in his mentality all the great truths
understand the truth about the physical body according to the
further, draws nearer to the truth, instead of going further

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such an impression of sincerity and truthfulness on us,
only because he was forced to conquer every truth for
this truth, and the disagreement among scientists is
present day. Let us suppose that truth and uprightness
truths regarding colour can only be understood in the future,
to some degree of the truth, that the methods applied to the
the truth. As this has been pronounced by many — even

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learn to know, in addition to the characteristics of truth,
ourselves from the hindrances which meet the seeker for truth
the cloak of truth, in a form difficult to discern, not only
investigator can only push forward to truth, when he really
discover, in all these declarations, truths of the cosmos and
Truth stands behind it, the same in both, but having passed
processes it is difficult to say where error ceases and truth
attain an approach to the truth, and exclude the sources of
is truth, what is error, but to find the path beyond error
into the sphere of truth, which one seeks to approach as a
standpoint, held fanatically, contains the Truth. One might
conceive then that the truth lies between two opposite
instead of on one! Goethe says: “Truth does not lie
of uncertainty regarding truth, but also to an investigation
furnish opportunity to approach the truth, which would then
There exists no other way of excluding untruth than that of
then say: here is truth, there is error — but, the
investigation of truth. Otherwise, listeners, lazy or lacking
faithful often hold the purest charlatanerai for pure truth,
error in the discovery and spreading of spiritual truths
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masses in the truth of the higher planes, towards their

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stand quite firmly on the ground of facts, of truth, of the attainable,

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this for those seeking to found a genuine, truthful Monism. Those who

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in truth no outer world, but a world which lives in our blood. When

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is in truth no outer world, but a world which lives in our blood.

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any knowledge of the truth itself. It was doubt of the
knowledge of the Truth through which St. Augustine also passed;
truth; that man can gain nothing out of it on which he can
reference to what man experiences in his inner soul as truth,
is the truth; that is certain. That firm basis for the
admittance of an indisputable truth, formed one of the
human beings will not admit this. They like to have truths
presented to them, not as the truths for one definite epoch of
assumes uncertainty as to the truths of all external
forms. Their waking life of truth dived down, as it were, into
that what was experienced as inner truth, was not only truth
still cling to certain living Mystery-Truth. The Mystery Truths
that which shines indubitably in us as truth, without doubt
truth shines in our inner being, but it shines simply as a
should be, if we experienced our inward truth as though it were
experiences inwardly as Truth.
seriously although that is simply cowardice, because in truth

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truthfully create artistic forms from it. If mankind does not
day, we had to seek truth in this architectural thought, people

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in the pursuit of Truth. The trials and tribulations of everyday life are
an external objective truth with that representation given by the
separate sense-observations, arrives at truth and reality just as
to Fichte. They were, in truth, a hostile pair — at least
still on one fixed point, but, in order to find truth, to climb
that truth which he himself considered the real one, and he once
The meaning is that man must acquire such truths that when
fruitful. That was his criterion of truth: ‘That which is
something of genuine truth in Goethe, for he is fruitful, and what

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in the pursuit of Truth. The trials and tribulations of everyday life are
because it does not recognize an absolute, unchangeable truth,
but only a wisdom and truth belonging to a given stage of evolution.
his own truth, and it is always the same.’ It is always the
view that in what concerns truth and objective reality only physical
completely objective truths, which men have recognized as such, quite
apart from external experience, and these truths are the same if a
the truth even if a million people think otherwise. For instance,
everyone can find such truths confirmed as those dealing with numbers
Because regarding such truths such as mathematical truths, most
soul-types, how it harms and benefits. In truth, if someone
surface for all who strive in truth after knowledge and wisdom. The

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in the pursuit of Truth. The trials and tribulations of everyday life are
first part, especially in the beginning, is full of deep truths
soul, that he could truthfully describe them. When he stood before
is only now that I can give it as truth.’ So we see how this

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in the pursuit of Truth. The trials and tribulations of everyday life are
metaphor, but a truth, and Goethe remains consistent to it, in that
same, these masques and pranks contain deep truths and are
little, but in truth it is saying a great deal. For usually between
Whoever is acquainted with the elementary truths of

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That is the Fundamental Truth which we mast
realise. With reference to this Fundamental Truth, modern humanity,
truth itself has undergone a complete transformation.
not as yet realise aright the fact, that the very concept of Truth
Truth as human beings get to-day under the authority of Natural
him, truth consists in the coinciding of an idea with external
of Truth simply did not exist in the first Christian
Centuries. There was another idea of Truth then, which was
of truth which lives in all souls to-day really did not exist then.
is more easy to recognise the concept of Truth which lived then, if
if that were so the duel would hardly occur; the truth only emerges
truth at the present day, in the case of war. We should not wage
of truth is rooted even to-day, that truth itself can only he
old concept of Truth.
Socialists to-day, have completely broken with this idea of Truth.
They only recognise a truth as such, where the event in its course
of Truth in our modern age. But, my dear friends, with the concept
life through this idea of Truth, which Auguste Comte and
concept of Truth as divine Judgment, for that stood under the
influence of the Delusion of Life. Our modern concept of Truth
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this above all for it is a deep and significant truth: that
is generally deduced, abstract truths and beings would form

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truth.
age of instinctive wisdom. You will perceive the truth of
first to learn the truths about the cosmos and about human
fulfil our mission. Mighty truths are made known to us, when
the word truth, for as we have now become more
full weight and meaning of the word “truth” and
important it is to be filled with the moral element of truth
indeed still speak of truth, but when the general life and
truth is something which must, to a great extent, be lacking
that it probably happens in every fourth case. Untruthfulness
to describe truth as a characteristic of our times.
the truth of his assertions; and it is only when he
of truth. And then when someone has either written or said
that comes with a materialistic age, is opposed to truth. In
the duty of truth.
today is not to say how far truth has been already realised
if the moral ideal of truth is thought, felt and perceived in
truth. A man is described, who gave freely of his
for great spiritual truths. Although Anthroposophy is still
to love. We have also seen that wisdom has become truth. To
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developed to grasp, for example, the truth about man, as I
atom, or anyhow to some matter or force. But the truth is, my
religious primal record are literal truth.
truths — to set up a bridge between these two domains can
the truths of life are concerned. For penetrating spiritual
threefold Sun. This again is connected with all the truths

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a question of the truth of anything. Then the most varied
truths.) The other people have not troubled themselves about
threefold man, his connection with cosmic truths and the

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the truth. The holes in the brain, what indeed is more than

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History, is added; but as a truth of quite a different
truths, which can indeed produce many other things out of
once were essentially Spiritual truths; Asia,, even if in
Spiritual truths.
from the West as economic truths, and with what streams over
from the East as Spiritual truths. Human beings living in
ethical truths, of moral truths, has come from the
ethical truths, the form of its general cosmology, and so
stars, the moral truths were permeated which resound from out
intellectual element, to a recognition of truth,
Centre or in the lest, wherever ethical truths have
It is no matter whether utilitarian truths spring up in the
the element of truth. That same element which is expressed in
also in the thought structure of truth. One must come to say,
truths must be brought to humanity, because as humanity is
truths are not adapted to be taken up in their purity by
to take up generally human and spiritual truths with national
Spiritual truths among humanity, without also spreading a
that these are deep and earnest truths, and they must run
must cultivate in himself a sense for truth! When one speaks
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a sort of illusion before us; and we only come to the truth
truth, the Being , lies behind this illusion. That illusion
break through both sense-illusions and come to the truth; for

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mineral — below him, he is stating merely a half-truth
human beings today able in this sphere to stand the truth,
the basis for what is truth today, We should just say: These
truth even if this truth is considered necessary only from
truth that is often overlooked because words are left as just
when discussing this matter, to be truthful, unreservedly
truthful. I have wanted to speak to you in this way so that
is true today must be expressed in accordance with the truth.
present the truth, we have also to present the truth in a
evolution when truth can be spoken untruthfully. Man must
learn to speak the truth truthfully. In many spheres today
out of the truth of their own souls. Words are not enough
also to the well-spring of truth. More deeply inward than
this longing and to realise all the untruth so prevailing in
our time between man and man. Let truth prevail! One would so
said you will not again fail to help the truth to be spread
need — the order the motto of which is to uphold truth
truthfully. The secret of this is that truth can be spread
about harm by making truth prevail in a way that is untrue.

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you think it could truthfully be said that in our time men
things soon burst into flame when some spiritual truth is
mineral — he is stating a half truth only, if he does
able to hear the truth about these matters to-day, it would
heart of that which must be proclaimed as spiritual truth at
us take it seriously, as being truth in these present times!
Truth even if one only believes this to be necessary from a
systems into a living art of education. And a truth which is
you to-day. In our day the Truth must be expressed in a way
the Truth, but the Truth in a true way. We have come to a
advocate untruly! In many places to-day truths are as cheap
all that works on into the future Truth must be expressed
source of Truth is, and not alone perceive the logic of the
sway Untruth holds in the world to-day among men of our age.
It is Truth, TRUTH, which humanity must champion, with all
spreading [of] the Truth among men — not merely in an
externally logical form — but Truth in its essence. And
Truth” (Die Wahrheit wahr zu
vertreten). It is possible to spread Truth in a false
assertion of Truth in a false way.

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begins to feel things more in accordance with the truth than
one's heart bleed to realise the truth of what was said by

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who desires to clothe spiritual truths in speech, must have a
Bois-Reymond has said, with truth, that contemplation of
times it was felt, and with truth, that every form, every
truth. Thus we can say: The sources out of which a true

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truth is always simple and that what is not simple is not the real ‘truth.’
of Truth’ they are clouding their minds and are altogether labouring
a fundamental truth to which reference has been made in recent lectures,
the subject of the nature of cognition, of knowledge, of truth, of wisdom.
of knowledge, idea, truth, wisdom, is not that of enabling us to form
of our efforts to get hold of truth, is to develop forces within us
impossible to imagine a more erroneous line of reasoning. The truth
sphere of working. I beg you to take this truth in the deepest earnestness.
All the truth that a human being makes his own, all the knowledge he
being in the form of knowledge and of truth.

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the truth of knowledge in the beauty of art. This drove him to the south.
experiences in vision the content of his truths, and knows them in this
of his truths out of the external reflection by means of thought, and
of truth, the man of the East will understand him. if, at the end of the
dreams of truth in a true awaking, the man of the West will then have to

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full of grace and truth.”
Buddhi; “truth” is Manas, the Spirit-Self.
the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
all who know something of the Mystery-truths, these words must

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has been made to develop structural truth, architectural truth. That
an enormous amount of untruth and deception. In our civilisation there
is so much untruth in our forms that it can hardly be wondered at that
that everything shall absolutely and truthfully express what it actually

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That is what we chew here. That is the truth which expresses the life
of the idea that if we want to attain to spiritual truth, we can go
the Building to express in every form of truth that I have again and
will lie. But it is not a matter of convincing liars of the truth; they
will not be convinced; they do not want to hear the truth. The thing
it is not a question of this or that truth — it is a question
of turning minds against us. And if we were confront them with the truth

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esoteric truths to humanity, and yet how impossible this is because
to communicate certain truths of Initiation to humanity. Only it cannot
doors with the communication of certain esoteric truths, because men

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truth exist in all unprejudiced observers of life.
Yet there is a profound truth, namely this: When man loses the
deed and truth, man can only find himself when he realises his

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be taken into consideration.. For life here on the Earth is in truth a

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truth of a different nature to that proceeding from other
them with our conscience and our sense of truth. This is the
see genius. Although one learns the truth of Christ Jesus
then out of its inner being there arise the eternal truths
experiences what the sense world really is. The truth of the
forces, and rises up to the words of truth. Every truth has
this you will be able to understand certain hints and truths

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everything took place knows that he speaks the truth and says

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the way. Moses is the spiritual scientific word for truth. By
fundamental Christian truth: I am the Way, the Truth and the
Christian mystical truth — “I am the Way, the
Truth and the Life.”
religious, profound truth of reincarnation uttered in the
dealing either with truth or with error which we can censure.
It is not a question of absolute truth or error, but of what
truth and yet it would be folly. I must give a person what he
spiritual truths. They brought down a vast knowledge of the
John Gospel. We will become aware of the deep truth of one of

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particular truth or achievement in a special branch of human
the ages, have striven to press through to the source of truth.
one and the same. That is a truth, Theosophy teaches us to be modest
to clothe the highest truths in words and to give them forth in open
truths were not then spoken of openly. Those who gave a hint of them
truths, who believed that a particular sort of mood, a sort of
truths; they could not be grasped merely by the intellect. A certain
be too arid, too dry and cold to express the highest truths. Besides
learn these truths should first make themselves worthy of them. This
3rd century A.D. — the truth about the human soul
truths, but which the students had to recognise as living truths and
man before the Holy of Holies; he had to understand that truth is
the Mysteries, he was to acquire the holy shyness before the Truth,
life, he learns not only to penetrate the truth with his thought but
Divine Truth, as Theosophy. Goethe has expressed this conviction in
was then considered worthy to have the highest truths communicated to

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out esoteric truths to all the world. Only in small circles, such for
instance as that of the Rosicrucians, could the higher truths be
die of it; he cannot take in the truth and transmute it as does the

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there certain truths which tell us that there are various worlds

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external world by means of an untruth. This is a possibility which
had to be given to man, in order that he might come to the truth by
long as they retain their nature. The possibility of untruth does not
external world. These beings must live in a kingdom of absolute truth
of an untruth, immediately be stupefied, transferred into a state of
their own nature live in the realm of absolute truth and sincerity.
Every deviation from truth would render these beings less conscious.
know that certain truths, certain things in the world, simply please
free from all that concerns only himself. This is a truth which is
truths. If we have recognized something as right, we say, “This
could be wrong in our inner being.” Moral truths also reveal

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lowest principle and as in this form, which in truth, as we encounter

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be consistent with their own nature. Every untruth would be a denial
own nature; untruth, falsehood. You see, it is important that you
Untruth — spirits which betrayed their own being — in other
had no intention of doing something in order to sink into untruth.
time became Spirits of Untruth. Now all the spiritual beings which in
in truth a combined working of two forces; and only because, in truth,
For in truth here we have actually to do with a turning in, and to be
behind this Maya does the truth lie; for the truth behind the material
the truth which at the present time can be found in occult
investigation, and when this same truth shines towards us from the old

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mentioned among the great truths which, as every experienced student
brings great truths, but they must be recognized in the right way. We
book. Of all the great truths taught by the true occultist,
equivalent to Mercury” — that hinted at the great truth of
occultism, and in these subtle and great truths things must not be
important, so many occult truths have prevailed, if we were to confuse
look into the depths of the worlds becoming. All occult truths show us
Blavatsky identified the Buddha with Mercury, a great truth was
hearts with truth, love, and that piety which carries forward the

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Jehovah; the truth nevertheless presses through, and the description
expression of a truth. The presentation given from inspiration by

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any knowledge of the truth itself. It was doubt of the
knowledge of the Truth through which St. Augustine also passed;
no unconditional certainty, can give no unconditioned truth;
experiences in his inner sou1 as truth, he gives himself over
as one's ideas and feelings, is the truth; that is certain.
That firm basis for the admittance of an indisputable truth,
human beings will not admit this. They like to have truths
presented to them, not as the truths for one definite epoch of
assumes uncertainty as to the truths of all external
work, but in other forms. Their waking life of truth dived
truth, was not only truth but also reality, because one knew
cling to certain living Mystery-Truths. The Mystery Truths, to
that which shines indubitably in us as truth, without doubt
life. We can say: — it is true that the truth shines in
inward truth as though it were a reality like the external
experiences inwardly as Truth.
seriously although that Is simply cowardice, because in truth

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That is the Fundamental Truth which we mast realise, With
reference to this Fundamental Truth, modern humanity, by reason
Therewith, my dear friends, the concept of truth itself
aright the fact, that the very concept of Truth has undergone a
under a theocratic Ordering, have no such idea of Truth as
him, truth consists in the coinciding of an idea with external
concept of Truth simply did not exist in the First Christian
Centuries. There was another idea of Truth then, which was
concept of truth which lives in all souls to-day really did not
realised now. It is more easy to recognise the concept of Truth
were so the duel would hardly occur; the truth only emerges in
of truth at the present day, in the case of war. We should not
old concept of truth is rooted even to-day, that truth itself
fall. That is the old concept of Truth.
have completely broken with this idea of Truth. They only
recognise a truth as such, where the event in its course can be
Truth in our modern age. But, my dear friends, with the concept
historical life through this idea of Truth, which Auguste Comte
old concept of Truth as Divine Judgment, for that stood under
Truth stands under the influence of our Delusion in
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on the fundamental truth of the principle. What is important is that

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truths, the ancient wisdom of humanity, preserved a kind of knowledge

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thirty years is a kind of absolute truth which may, indeed, be
discern between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and evil.
within the limits of good or evil, right or wrong, truth or falsehood,
untruthful, the actions which proceed from untruthfulness will again
individual life for good or evil, truth and falsehood, the astral body

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another, we grasp only the one aspect of truth. For anyone beginning
truth the egotistical principle may be concealed behind it without our

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Here it is necessary to bear in mind the law, the truth — the

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We fall into untruth in our judgement of the external world and our
through a study of Anthroposophical truths. For this reason we insist
comprehend the truths of the spiritual worlds, only he can defend
which before had led them into the spiritual world. The truth of the
to be found only truth and no illusion. The more he becomes entangled
which binds us to the earth. This truth is connected with the fact
be produced. Occult records are always in accord with the truths which

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possession of the truths of Spiritual Science, that they have become
truths of Spiritual Science. With these truths that stream into life
achieve more than with external rational truths. When nothing can be
the truths of Spiritual Science, be able to bring impulses to bear
penetration of the etheric body by the rational soul. For the truths
possess truths and amass such knowledge as may become forces for the
etheric body. In external truths, though one may be learning an
In the case of a person who is affected by these truths to such an
truths of Egyptian astrology. In his reincarnation during that period
to the truth.

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spiritual truths. The spiritual world conception as it is today

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absorbed some of the truths relating to the deeper foundations of
based on truth, are not right for five years only — as one doctor

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Anthroposophical truths just as we ourselves do today. We know that we
Anthroposophical truths. Let us endeavour to bring ourselves

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as dweller on the earth. Just as it is a truth, though a very
superficial one, that humanity is a single whole, it is also a truth

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the kernel of truth in his work. But we need not stop short at the
this truth as a significant educational rule of medicine. They said:

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this truth, as we shall see) to prove, that only the processes proper

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us to many results. We must reconquer these truths ourselves. And in

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in truth a manifestation of the whole earth's interaction with the
as a unity, whereas in truth they should be considered in the in the
a truth that is quite general; though its statement is apt to be
rhythmically within the limits of the body. But in truth, man with his

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is a certain truth in the axiom “Like is cured by like.” But it may
organism as an aggregate of cells. Whereas, in truth, man is a whole

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mystical view and to approach the concrete grasp of spiritual truth,
Here is the same truth revealed by another approach. In thought we

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from scientists upon whom these truths dawn: “The old mythologies have
shock and surprise; but the remark has its deep core of truth.

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the whole extra-human world. For on the other hand, observe this truth

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the plant in very truth contains both the physical and etheric bodies
of man which you can acquire in no other way. For in very truth man

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grain of truth, for this grain of truth is accepted, exaggerated and
from the standpoint of diagnosis, there is some truth in

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the truth is very different: the spirit works in all these things —

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ideas. To follow this path, which leads to truth, to beauty, and to

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ideas. To follow this path, which leads to truth, to beauty, and to

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You see, truths that are otherwise presented merely in the form of

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it is typical. For again and again you will find that truths which
Such a conclusion is of course a crudely mistaken one, the truth being
The truth is, the whole form of man has been put together by forces
The truth is, my dear friends, we have here touched the very heart and

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the service of our development. The truth is, development takes place

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of harmonising their desire for truth with what is taught in
understanding and new conclusions with regard to Christian truths are
means that aid us in deciphering Christian truths there is one that
when stirred by its great spiritual truths. The thing that matters
within our souls when the great truths of humanity strike these
knowledge of great spiritual truths; the feeling that the nature of
these great truths is such that we must approach them in humble
Whether absolute truth regarding the appearance of anything can or
the greatest of all truths without which the human soul, in its
of truth which thou hast been able to grasp is the whole truth.
beyond it, the truths concerning life and death: all such questions
development, can test them, and can recognise the truth of them by
his own unprejudiced logic and the feeling for truth that is in every
natural feeling for truth. The clairvoyant must in fact first
connected with the spiritual truths and spiritual communications
ordinary sense of truth of any age. Do you know what would happen to
truth.
acceptance by him of spiritual truth. Even if all spheres were
things he has investigated and brought into line with truth and sound
results of spiritual research from others? How do spiritual truths
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sided view if the truth is to be reached.
different individuals concerning truth. You will recall how at our
Theosophical truths. The further one advances the more one realises
Why do Theosophical truths seem obvious and right to many in spite of
the human soul is really designed for truth, not for untruth; it is
There is a feeling for truth in man; and he should realise the
necessary truth can alone be seen are so infinitely high. If people
of the value of these truths for human life. But every soul, are
these truths are imparted, can realise them and make them its
of a soul that receives these truths compared with one able to
exactly with the spiritual truths given to us by spiritual science.
of truth we accept and make use of them, they serve us for the
on. We can make use of these truths. They serve us. Just as a boot
protects us from cold, so these truths shield us from spiritual cold,
allow that the truths presented to us by those who can bring them
purpose of evoking in you a sense of the manifold nature of truth.
The experiences of one who seeks earnestly for truth is this: —
cautious in translating the truths gained at a higher level into
lecture, these truths are really only valuable when so translated, it
understanding, that sound logic and a healthy sense of truth can
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or macrocosm. Though this is a truth, yet it is a very abstract
truth, and as generally stated does not mean very much. You will
easily be made to the fundamental truths of Astrology so undervalued
Copernicus as given to-day is not so very true, its truth will first

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Maya. The truth regarding the sun is that it is a meeting-place of
fragments of cosmic forces. If we desire to know the truth we must
truth regarding this were to be described, we would have to describe

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— as a quite abstract and general truth — that in every
no mere legends, but the reflections of profound truths experienced
inwardly — truths concerning the soul. These experiences in the
intended as a mere poetic image, but is an occult truth presented
what is worst in us, what is not in accordance with truth. Hence an

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In reality, they were not far from the truth when they said in the
who know the truth regarding such occurrences know that it can happen
if we are not to wander far from the truth we must not follow the
this in no way denies the truth, but only their own powers of

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spiritual truths be developed by those who cannot see into the
for me to see them and realise the truth of what I am told concerning
truth of the saying that it is not possible really to satisfy their

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against all the opposition that will be stirred up against the truths
thyself over to Satan; for stating this truth as thou dost is
of those truths that will convince people more and more that man is
every particular with such truths as deal with man as well as with
those in the future who desire to give expression to spiritual truth

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spiritual realms, and who imparts truths to us to-day concerning the
it was objected, with a certain amount of truth, that he thought too
science is to make the truth known; to declare the truth with full
some other path. But -those who desire the truth, such truth as is
important is not that we should say in what form we desire truth, but
truth must necessarily be spoken at a certain point of time. O! there
edifice of spiritual science is raised on a foundation of truth I
foundation of a carefully tested if perhaps difficult truth, and the

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bequeath these truths to others who are unable to travel the path
mission of truth, of devotion, of anger and so on that what we
truths to others who are unable to travel the path on which alone
merely in images and parables, but in truths, which, though still
the sum of all truth dwells in each separate soul like a seed which

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of that life, the concepts of the truths of existence
realise: it simply is not true. The truth is that the
truth at all. For in ordinary life, what we all-too-often
world of truth and not in a world of Maya; you will also
where reality is in play, there too is truth. Reality does
occult truths in the form of stories or poems ... in the age
direct truth and declares that such things are realities.

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that it is not possible to find a foundation for the truth
such a point today that the opposite of truth is
truth of their being has been able to connect itself deeply
living witnesses to the profound truth that the impulses of
deep, and inward truth is now confirmed when we have passed
the truths he held most sacred; this eagerness was always
To essential love of truth

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Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse,
truth, intimately united with human aspiration and for
more deeply into the evolution of the earth. This truth, which
thought, which is no longer directed to the truths of the
my dear friends, that truth from which the earth received its
meaning, the truth toward which humanity has looked for
truth and virtue, we may surely conclude that the influences of
the greater truth and correctness of their morality more than
this saying true for us?” To realize its truth requires
truth that which will arise as the Easter star after

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for truth.
evolution of humanity properly when we realize that truths are not always
birth and death from the way the universe is ordered? What is the truth
in full, clear waking consciousness the cosmic truths that have been
As these truths are made known and as he comes to understand them, they
inner union with these truths and you will observe three things. First
that untruthfulness approaches you, untruthfulness in any form, either
when you yourself are tempted to be careless about the truth or when
you, warning you, pointing to the truth, admonishing you and impelling
you to hold fast to the truth, wanting to prevent falsehood from entering
A sign pointing the way to a sense for truth—apart from all other
me, directing me toward the truth”: then you will have found the
truth, illness through health-giving thoughts that put us into immediate
is not just a phrase, it is truth. Christ has not only revealed Himself
feel it to be the Christ-truth raying forth from Him and reflected in
truths in the right way if we see them in their contemporary reflection—not

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for truth.
then something happens that is truth, not illusion. Something is drawn
into a sacramental act; and this act contains exact truth in contrast

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for truth.
saving truths. Think how it was with Scholasticism in this respect:

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for truth.
can discover the truth about himself by reviewing his own biography
fact. That is the truth. You will see from this also that since those
to enter the world of truth! If you want dogmatism, you will not be

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for truth.
the truth because he is confused by a philosophic maxim that plays a
certain leitmotivs; but its truth will only be fully revealed when we

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for truth.

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for truth.
The human soul-attitude is not always described so truthfully as Bismarck
the truth. He has thought it all out; it is not something that can be
will acknowledge the truth of what we have had to repeat over and over

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for truth.
or hear a scientific talk, we are learning the truth. If we are really
independent of what they do in their body. This is the task of truth—the
other is a caricature of truth. And such caricatures of the true spiritual
of peace. For, in truth, men love to hold thoughts that act like narcotics.
that we shared last night. One hopes that the truth of that experience

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not govern! People felt that there was a great deal of truth in this
the proletarian movement through Marxism. Lassalle felt this truth, when
into this contradiction, we discover in it a truth of tremendous import
of a truth is the circumstance whether it is uttered fifty years sooner
wish to understand the social organism, without grasping the truth of

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Think how far they are from considering and applying a truth such as
But he would speak the truth, if he would stress the following point,

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things, we don't, need' to investigate truth, for we have it through
to devote themselves to the investigation of truth, in earnest fruitful,
they do not bother about investigating the truth, for their chief aim
people care at all for a real investigation of truth? No, their chief
enclose spiritual-scientific truths within their own abstract limits
between truth and that which people gather from their inner being; emotions
our subjective views to objective truths! In order to have a clear outlook

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untruthfulness. Do not let us forget one of the most fatal facts in

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should like to insist before going further that the truth
regarded as unimportant, when in truth they are symptoms

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truth) when they speak of the authorized “Kingdom
actually the truth. The truth is, the earth is asleep in
perhaps quarter-truths. One has to investigate every
up toying with analogies if one wants to reach the truth.
organism one comes to the truth only if one stands upside
reality, the truth! The social organism is our angry
reaches the correct and helpful truth only if one knows
corresponding truth. This man is Fritz Mauthner, who has
truths, be comprehended by a healthy human understanding.
proclaims its truth. That is also something that we must

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in general, it is a truth. With the means that natural
actually is the truth? Something quite different from

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anthroposophical truths were cut up into trivial phrases
me, truth reigns in external events, for that affair is
I will not cease to declare the truth to you; I will be

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term occult science for the sum of truth and knowledge about
the spiritual-scientific truths. We must get clear about the
spiritual-scientific truths in our inside; any external can be
profundities. These are the most common truths at the same
comparison completely suitable. The mathematical truth is
as you want, you can never find the steadfast truth that these
truths.
things compared with such truths that one recognises inside.
right. The majority decides nothing at all on truth. If you
truths inside. As true it is that majority decides nothing on
mathematical truths, as true it is that — if the conditions are
of mathematical truth. However, it is long ago that one looked
continues this scientific truth wrongly comes to the
necessary today to show how to use the scientific truths, as
understand the spiritual-scientific truths after they have been
truths. Everything that will be said in this winter course as a
only what eyes see and hands seize and to be able to take truth
first and then the physical one. The truth of this example is
basis of the single truths. This attitude matters. What does
ground of occult science, who is aware that truth must be found
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enabled them to distinguish appearance and truth, vision and
certain events, of truth and wisdom. Today, however, the

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spiritual-scientific truth. Does occult science bear the blame
can protect the human being to see the truthful behind the
truth of something obvious to the human being, it would say how
acquaintance with the truth of occult science the human being
into the truth and knowledge of occult science, and not taking
spiritual-scientific truth. As the wood and the coal make the
stove warm, the real spiritual-scientific truth makes the human
the ego. The theosophical or spiritual-scientific truth is so
spiritual-scientific truth, only frees the human being from
It is a high truth on the
significant truth. Hence, it is useless at all; if in
world and proclaim spiritual-scientific truth. Before, they can

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famous Greek temple remains an everlasting truth, even if this

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truth! We come to a sad chapter concerning occupation and

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truth, the processes are in the mental-spiritual world, and the

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many deep spiritual truths: “The eye is formed in the
those who point to the spiritual forces! What do these truthful

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what is true is true! Indeed a certain amount of the truths, let us
truths cannot be true either in a bourgeois sense or a proletarian sense.
the point, the point is that the truths enclose a certain field; if
be truths, but they are truths that are useful, convenient and suitable
just for middle-class circles, whereas outside are many other truths
the point is not that the truths of chemistry and mathematics are true
but that there exist besides other truths able to throw on the former
or not but how much truth man wants. And the whole affair is coloured
by the quality of the truth. Certainly the Professors of Chemistry at

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sway impulses directed to quite different aims. This truth is particularly
has, in truth, arisen from the ineffectiveness of the concepts of modern

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yesterday, we will now consider a few of its relevant truths.

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truth about what surrounds us in the external world. It is particularly
realise the truth of this.

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accustomed to talk. In truth, during the last four-and-half years they

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man keeping the balance. If you wish for the truth you can neither be

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knowledge of the truth in the phenomena of Nature? And do we
truth. In my latest book,
to criticise it, in face of the love of truth with which
profound truths which so surprise us in his
nay, even a sleeping truth, for it is nonsense. Otherwise we
was able to express the very deepest truths in his
in comparatively early youth — truths which grew

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knowledge of our time, is calculated to conceal certain truths,
brain- system, so we may say with equal truth, In sleep he must
is of course a fragment of truth in all these things. But we
truth-—so deep that we may call it a truth of the
remarkable truth lies hidden here. That which on Earth we often

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
truths which have been and are being given in order to assure a
apocalyptic things. This is how great truths were taught in

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
many people doubt that Anthroposophical truths support and
soon as one sees that Anthroposophical truths are valid because
they all support each other, so that the truths mutually
truths mutually support each other, and one will then work

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
The truth of the matter is that what is created by the

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
materialism as a truth with the deepest inner cynicism today

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
between truth and lies. Here one gets into a region where
and truth which one has in the physical world. It is a complete
error to think that one can use the concepts of lies and truth
are truthful in their own way. Of course this is difficult to
and the corruption with respect to truth and lies then' extends
himself. There is a deep truth connected with this and a truth
thinking and feeling, for it is a real priests' truth, that is,
a truth which draws a priest into the spiritual realm in a

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
who are not really human. This is a terrible truth. They walk
This is a terrible truth, which is present, it's a truth, and
call cabalistic truths spread and a few people who might have

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
salvational truths to be preached in intellectual forms

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
untruthfulness and all of their other weaknesses in order to
where can one find truth anymore? One sees that things are
being introduced everywhere in such a way that truth of action
discussed here in connection with the Apocalypse are truths

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put the old truth of the opposition coming from the Luciferic
Air, and Water. That was a deep Initiation-Truth of the
knowledge, it was known as an Initiation-Truth, that Jehovah
seeks an outlet in materialism, and mocks all truths permeated

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structure correspond as a truth to the living man, but when I
But a corpse is an untruth and as it is it cannot exist, and so
deeper than any which have arisen as physical truth in Natural

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Who will not honour truth.
And universal truth
And universal truth
And universal truth
And universal truth
accord with this occult truth the festival of Christmas,

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right preparation, he would in truth be exposed to great risk, for he
Thus during sleep man becomes in very truth a cosmic being. This
these truths. On the contrary, these truths, which are correct in the

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After a shattering struggle to arrive at the truth, Steiner presents here

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After a shattering struggle to arrive at the truth, Steiner presents here
truth of Christ's Resurrection? We must here consider the
living in the Aura of the Earth. That is the great truth

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After a shattering struggle to arrive at the truth, Steiner presents here
And we may say with truth that in ancient Greece, St.
feeling and willing. Great and sublime truths were often
ether-body, we realise that in very truth one part of the
flowed, in very truth, into the Earth-sphere and that

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us set out from the truth that what takes place, as it were, in
truth.
learn to bear such truths calmly — it is nevertheless
Here we touch upon truths which show us that behind that veil
in ordinary life the truth is not revealed to us. Although as
demands of external physical life with the truths to which we
is possible to say that the truth is of course, contained in
festival was fixed in accordance with occult truths, not with
truths received in unconscious inspirations in the form most
they are telling the truth: The man stumbled over the stone,

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— forgive me but I speak the truth — simply because

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it really makes one despair when, in face of this truth, which
For to tell the truth what is generally meant by making a

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room is considered dirty. But the truth is that the flies are
it cannot be adhered toj for what is the truth of the
truth is that Mother Nature will abandon us without

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things are practicable. I look at it in this way: the truths of

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the case. We cannot reach spiritual truths merely by analogy.

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purpose. Our civilisation, in truth, aims at nothing more than
are asking about absolute Goodness and Truth. They are
all-comprehensive universal truth, but that the various types

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Protestantism, Lutheranism. Science on the one side, one truth;
on the other side the rival truth, Faith. And the two shall mix
not a reason for turning to his truth because one sees it to be

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own modern times, the thing has a basis of truth in it. Amongst
truth, what took place and the things that underwent a
perhaps not very idealistic but therefore all the more truthful
truth the ruler, down to the middle of the 8th century before
Whereas the truth is that in the economic life, as elsewhere,

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foundations this utterance has: — The truth always
The real truth, the whole truth lies between the two. The
is true, but only a one-sided truth; whereas the real truth

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of Cosmic and human truths, which we have been studying of
sort of truths we discussed in the last lecture, truths

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and we only come to the truth when we can penetrate to those
illusion; the truth, the Being, lies behind this illusion. That
to the truth; for the real beings do not appear in this

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but bones. And so, not now speaking allegorically, but in truth,

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the higher spheres can be recognised through its truths of
overcome in our modern civilised life, if we want to see the truth
general battlefield of modern views truth itself can appear more
— some a little more untruthful , others a little more
the actual truth is to be found. The external sense-world is a
alone can understand who has a goodwill for the truth and for the
investigation of the truth. In modern science we have learned only
to look at the truth superficially, and that has brought bitter
for truth. Anthroposophical Science does not deny what exists as

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say the truth, you live entirely immersed in fear, fear rules

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these truths, and we shall then find a possibility of showing
themselves the truth of certain dogmas.
when it deviates from the truth, it may also be an error when
it is the direct opposite of the truth.

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inclined people are to envisage truths which are immediately
attainment of truth, that proofs may be correct, but that they
attainment of truth, then it will be possible to stand upon the
proofs may be correct, they cannot lead us to the truth, this
their pocket, they are convinced of the truth. But spiritual
however meaningless for the attainment of real truth. It is
description of an existing truth, and it has to be accepted as
everywhere the confirmation of the truth discovered by
nation in Europe can grasp such truths in the way in which
life, and stating that from the East the Truth should begin to
the truth. What did he discover? He investigated the statements
the fine nuances, we see everywhere the truths revealed by
gives expression to the truth that the Folk-soul worked for
very characteristic. Only a very small portion of the truth
far more truthful way.
truth as Maya; this is really a calamity.
materialistic form the truths contained in a fine,
fact that the truths which animate every one of us do not only
stand before us as a theory, but that these truths uttered as

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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
containing great truths, which great initiates have related to men.
Böhme proclaimed great, profound truths. Whence did he obtain
expression of deep inner truths, of great truths; for instance, the

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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
fulfilled. The riddle of Baldur conceals a truth. The strange

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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.

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Occult Truths in Old Myths and Sagas.
occult truths. First of all to compassion. Parsifal at first passes

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good knowledge of modern scientific truths, of modern ethical
revere as much as any other person in this room, but the truth
need not deny the truth of the abnormal observations which are

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know the sure foundation upon which such truths are based. I

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the truths which it includes in its spheres of knowledge into a
by communicating its truth it speaks of things which can be

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the most truth-loving natures this longing has even grown.
souls have frequently heard the deep truths which will be
druidic teachers of ancient times already taught the truth of
instead the possibility of grasping truths in the form of
these teachings, we could not understand the spiritual truths
continually takes on a new shape and therefore truth must be
things. The truths exist in their old, earlier forms.
Spiritual science can show how those truths can be rendered
theosophy is merely the instrument whereby the deepest truths
truth is always accessible to us, and we must comprehend it
ancient truths, in different forms. There were always leaders
of humanity who took care that the truths which had paled
foundation for a new way of proclaiming spiritual truths.
truths which were to guide humanity throughout thousands of
these truths in such a way that no science could raise any
give him new strength in regard to religious truths and
disclosing anew this fundamental truth contained in every
spiritual truths and spiritual wisdom, and they can become

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science, and many who had no inkling of this truth have used

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Religious truths will be gained anew through the greatest

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example such a truth; it contains however, a great
always taught this truth, and the difference between genuine
truth. Many a passage in the Gospel of St. John can only be

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legends, particularly in the Bible. Consider the deep truth
this truth, but nevertheless he was inspired by this

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laugh at truths when they are revealed for the first
concealed his knowledge of these truths in images: he created
be deeply moved and seized by truths which are now revealed

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exoteric into esoteric truths. They received a living
self--discovered truth.
you briefly how we may attain knowledge of the truths of
devotion and truth.”

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who can connect the truths of Christianity with the truths
connected with the higher truths, with God and the higher
world, for such truths had to be grasped independently of
investigate these truths. Logic suffices, however, for the
understanding of the truths contained in spiritual
these truths theoretically. The advantage of such truths is
the truths which theosophy describes in connection with facts
which cannot be grasped through the senses. These truths
to the pupils of the Rosicrucian Schools, and the truths were
“Truth and Science”
mind. You do not only deduce an inner truth from something
the truths which were taught in these Schools.
story of the stork! Children should be told the truth.
wing a child's fancy, if you understand the truth underlying

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when he tells you the truths of the spiritual world, these
truths themselves speak; these spiritual facts should stir
instrument through which the truths themselves speak to men.
it; in every lie there is a grain of truth, in everything
to bear in mind is that spiritual scientific truths should
show that these truths are able to permeate every sphere of

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fountain of Truth which springs up in it is abundant and
“risen above” religious truths. But many of
devotion and truth. (in St. John's Gospel truth —

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was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
“grace and truth,” or devotion and truth, which
the understanding for the true knowledge. Devotion and truth
devotion and truth in place of the Law, is only at the
to act that devotion and truth are the motives for their
begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” It
then experience for himself the truth of what is written in

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contradictory prove to contain the deepest truth. The men of
hides the spiritual truths of Christianity. In the sixth age
time; although there is a kernel of truth that is common to
them all, the various expressions of this truth are

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these he seeks to find the truth. But what he there finds is
not the truth; for it is not good. The brown man does not try
to find the truth in those little magical signs. He hears the
of this great truth is to be preserved to succeeding times

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Christ says: “I am the way, the truth, and the
“I am” lies the way to the truth and to the truth
the Truth
of St. John we can also find, direct Anthroposophical truths.
from it again. Here we see a profound truth of occult

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Will to the Cherubim. The world only acquires its truth when we know

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truth of the matter. For instance, the old Saturn period is described
being; and we have seen that spiritual achievements formed in truth

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the Cherubim. And yet in truth we must say that a sacrifice such as
raised. From resignation comes forth water; water is in literal truth

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be quite a good comparison if we were to say that the world of truth,
great occult truth: “In the whole world of Maya one thing only
displays an undeniable reality, a direct truth. What then is real on
renunciation and resignation. To these three truths we have to-day

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One abandons this restriction and proceeds to clothe occult truths in
and correctly done, then occult truths are within the comprehension of
occult vision. When occult truths are clothed in ideas, as they are in
theosophy, that is to say, occult truths clothed in familiar ideas.
occult truths. A way had to be found whereby such could attain a kind
have insight into what theosophy was able to give. And so the truths
of theosophy began to be poured into a new mould and became the truths
man's ordinary faculties of knowledge. The truths of philosophy are
supplied the outer cloak, so to speak, of occult truths, differences
show themselves; but that is because the truths have had to be clothed
the occult truths. The foundations of occultism are always and
must set itself the aim of being a faithful expression of occult truth
ideal of being a pure expression for occult truth. It was, for
expounder of its truths. For theosophy is in a position to understand
the truths of religion. And then forms and expressions of some
important truths of reincarnation and karma. For these truths are
learn to recognise not only that you know this truth out of your
knowledge, but that I too must receive it as truth.” For as
what a Bodhisattva is, I know that the Buddhist speaks absolute truth
about these Beings, he utters a truth which could be spoken in lands
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communications, in the form of ideas, of the recognised truths of
acquired by his own efforts. This was in truth a task of quite

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ourselves thinking: “It is in very truth my own self that is
those connected with the physical heart, then he can in very truth
when a theosophical book came into your hands or some truth out of
— be responsive to the truths of theosophy. The truths of
theosophy, we need no such preparation. To appreciate the truth
certain theosophical truths. For these theosophical truths are facts
most important theosophical truths can as a matter of fact be clothed
adequate understanding of the fundamental truths of theosophy. A very
easily established theosophical truths before the world in such a way
it will become abundantly clear that there is no truth which

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truthfully be reckoned in this category we have to go rather far back
turns round on himself and tells himself the truth from the ordinary
moments when he tells himself the hard plain truth, then we can feel a
boundary of the Divine, but expresses herself with honest truthfulness

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the truths which are drawn from the deep wells of occultism give us a

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to have understanding of the whole being who is in truth a
explained, it can be a right symbol for the truths with which we have

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have the desire to rise to the knowledge of higher truths, there is
Having come so far, the pupil was then able to apprehend a truth of
whereas the truth of the matter is that the initiates, the aspirants
Night, for the truth was often clothed in such a way that
truth formed and shaped from out of the whole of Cosmic space. What he

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evoking some conception, some picture only of what is in very truth

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truth.
very truth an epitome, an extract of the whole World-All.
knowledge is in very truth a knowledge that has to be received under a

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connection I gave expression to a truth which was perhaps at first
— the truth, namely, that Lucifer shows himself in a completely
livingly experienced in its pure and original truth, without attaining
truth which we expounded yesterday concerning the Buddha, unless one
whether the truth concerning the life of the Buddha after he left the
virtue of its own nature. Therefore in relation also to this truth
go out of itself; in the recognition of such a truth it is not
clothing the truth in the garb of theosophy when we speak of the
intelligently stated truths, so that men may have insight into occult
the truth in this matter. We know that Buddha was before a
the world of legend these echoes of the truth. Unforgettable is the
intervening time when men did not look up to the occult truths that
theosophy, occultism — are in very truth ways of understanding

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may not always come before one in unvarnished truthfulness, it may
seekers after truth. I have no desire at this point to go over again
And in very truth, when a man
the human larynx, which is, in truth, like the ear, a musical
human existence. And truth to say, there would never have been such a
are bound to arrive at truth when we make correct and reasonable
accuracy of reasoning need by no means lead to the truth.
in the soul that wants to penetrate to truth, this condition must
arrives at the study and investigation of truth, takes his start from
face of the facts of the world, then it is in very truth as when you
with truth that may be compared with making a plant of papier-mache
truth. You will, of course, think it out very beautifully and piece
anything whatever to do with truth and with knowledge. Or, if he does
have anything to do with the investigation of truth — that you
avoid building upon my correctness of thought, I must follow truth, I
they can acquire this or that truth and would be concerned instead as
to how they might grow mature for the comprehension of truth.
experience in your soul! For you can only grasp that truth when you
see the truth of this confirmed in life.
soul to which man has to attain if he would arrive at truth. And that

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expect that my thinking can give me knowledge of the truth, I ought
ever to arrive at Truth? If, however, we have learned that where the
I will not use it for the recognition of truth. For that I will be
any thought about truth, if not by forming judgments in the ordinary
investigate truth, does not allow himself to judge but tries to let
which does not seek to investigate truth from out of itself, but
which looks for truth to come from the revelation that flows out of
arriving at truth at every step; surrender, on the other hand, does
truth, rather do we seek to educate ourselves and then quietly wait
until we attain to that stage of maturity where the truth flows to us
differentiated workings of will. But the truth is that for the man
he would be quite dried up. And as for an untruth! If with every lie
it we begin to discover in very truth a means for attaining to a

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primal truths of religion if they are but rightly understood. For
lies a very deep truth. We are not to understand that the eyes only

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trivial truth that things are extended in space according to three
certain time. Before we can come to the occult truth about all this

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go on from this and give a fuller description of a truth that can
very deed and truth, the whole influence that is exerted by us on the
because it is in very truth a mystery, cannot be grasped by the

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the realm of the spirit. The truth about the soul nature of the plant
which can bring us near to the gateway of truth, but only to the same
knowledge to the gateway of truth.
accessible to man's vision. And in very truth those spiritual
senses is truth for the world of the spirit, and the next step
those for whom the world of the spiritual is the truth.

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untruthfulness.
has to do with lying, with untruthfulness. And in our age man must
objects or events, we then call physical truth.
physical truth, this implies that our conceptions fit the facts of
the physical plane. In order that this truth-relationship may arise,
nonsense to imagine that such a relationship to truth could have
activity. In order to be able to speak the truth as free beings, the

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fall into decadence. Understanding of the in-streaming of the truths
way from the spiritual into the physical world the truths of
utterance which really voices a spiritual truth penetrates into and
untruth is taken hold of by Ahriman and imprinted upon the cosmic
untruth is spoken — either with deliberate ill-will or out of
responsibility for the truth. Of recent years this sense of
The truth —
declaration of views, no hastily expressed opinion can be the truth.
— where a half, a quarter, an eighth or sixteenth of the truth
is uttered. It may be that 98 per cent of truth is spoken but yet the
every aspect shed light upon the truth about the amount of
lying. Otherwise it may happen that an actual truth, too hastily or
really think of nothing more inherently untruthful than this very
physical world we need, first and foremost, this sense for truth; we
death. This attitude to truth is all essential, for without it there
that Spiritual Science must change man's attitude towards truth in
abstract ideals of Truth, Beauty, Goodness. But remember what I have
said on previous occasions: that Truth, Beauty and Goodness
Beings of the Hierarchies and not merely to abstract ideals of Truth,
connection with the goal of the world will come. Truth will become
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from the less fit to the fit. Those who know the real truth as
was a mere catchword. The truth is that the secrets of the Heavens
life. The truth is that the Heavens explain the Earth, and the Earth
truths, thousands of printed copies of which are sent out into the
truth.
relationship to truth which is a determining factor in the life
of man on Earth. This unbiased relationship to truth, where we strive
for truth as the accordance of idea with objective reality, is
truth (in the human sense, of course, one would not call it
‘truth’) he is concerned only with effects. What
Building, let us say, with entire indifference as to its truth, but
quite unconcerned as to the truth of what they say. Their only aim is
can enter into a pact with Ahriman and declare a truth which in the
human sense, of course, is not truth at all but which will
consciousness, and the other, lying and untruthfulness. These things
acquire the faculty for the perception of truth in this physical
interests of truth.

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to spread darkness over some of the most important truths of
then b would in truth be lighted by a, and

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truth of these things.

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This leads us to a truth which was kept secret, one might
real centaur. The centaur is a truth, an
etheric truth.
spiritual truths cannot be gained with the same ease as
scientific truths, which can be digested so comfortably by
the mind. These high truths often have this quality; their
able to perceive truth and reality, but the centaur cannot as

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at first like an abstract truth. But it is a fundamental

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unquestionable truth. At the end of the 19th century men had
which those who love truth and try to understand things
through truth must say that what used to be considered as
truthfulness of our age in regard to such things; it is never
Christianity shall gain the truth through which it will
fundamental truths of our age — then an insight must be
to penetrate wholly into this truth. And then, to seek in a

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bringing together the relevant truths from the spiritual

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that it is also the simple truth that the human being, as such, is
superficial truth), so it is also true that the separate parts of the

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with spiritual science as a very weighty truth; of course it cannot
that in truth, comprehensive, penetrating thought can really
containing many of the truths of Spiritual Science, are far more
as one gives publicity to other truths, is wrong. Those who believe
comprehend that the conception of truth and righteousness which most
more the accepted prejudices, by the truths of Spiritual Science. But
absolute truth in regard to any particular matter for thought,”
or: “We now know, what is absolute untruth.” There cannot
be absolute truth or absolute truth. Searching great conceptions of
us the truth in contradistinction to the ‘untruth’ of
comes very close to the truth. For it is absolutely true that the
that such truths should not yet be communicated to the humanity of

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certain old truths cannot be understood to-day, truths which
respects what we first encounter is the opposite of truth.
get the truth we have exactly to reverse certain conceptions. We
life-forces within us, so that we come to the truth; we

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to the fact that occult truths, though coming from other
justification. Thus, certain truths are even today still
scientific truths, they too as spiritually scientific truths,
reckoned as belonging to such truths, to such knowledge, as
guarded. Those who today hear these truths simply announced,
should recognize in the truths themselves that they should be
towards these truths in the man of today. Certainly we cannot
regards as truth, nor are those things very much profaned by
truths may lead man's observation very, very far, and serve
in truth our Ego-consciousness belongs to the Universe into
called your attention, keep guard over certain occult truths,
things which formally expressed truths were counted of no
traditions you find everywhere the profoundest truths clothed
expressing the real truth of things. Mythical, pictorial
untruthful as possible; it is done to cover up the reality,

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point is that the truth must be spoken; for the decision as
truth is then discovered aright. Mankind must above all take
its stand on truth.

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example, only a small illustration, of truth and untruth. I

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childhood.” Yet it is absolute truth that what you

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The truth is
truth, we not only bear the past and future in our outer
truth, the etheric body weaves in our subconscious, and
truth. With a brain of the coarse development normal for most
fine, artistic caricature of the truth. His life is certainly

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to give us a link with certain truths that we shall begin to
development without taking account of such truths as
reception, of this truth. There will be a longing so to
and only truth is to believe in God, and this truth should

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can really say, from the standpoint of truth, that the
favourite idea — that truth must be
“simple”, meaning that truth must be easy for
to bring lofty spiritual truths before quite simple people
church to hear you?" As truthful men they could only answer:
terms with the truth that gradually, under the influence of
Spiritual Science is inherently inclined to reveal the truth
truth.
clever, who believes he has really grasped the truths of

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the matter is not as simple as that. The truth is that in a
conceptions would change if we accepted the actual truth
man does not in truth behold either the mutability of his
from all quarters; the' truth must be recognised, and this
truth is as follows: —
the spirit. The spiritual kingdom has in truth come among us.
able to discover the relative truth of the different
is to distinguish the truth contained in the different
content of the matter is expected of him. The truths of
it was a rich store of truths, all united as in a focus in
heretics, made it necessary tc unite these truths in a
convinced that no two sides of truth exist, or can exist. God
is the source of all truth; He has spoken to us through the
of the truths of Nature. eBcause God cannot contradict
supernatural and natural truths; between the teachings of
but it acknowledges as a matter of course an ordained truth,
courage to face truth and to maintain it; otherwise such

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the “truth of Faith” and the “truth of
Such truths may
be unpalatable today, but they are truths nevertheless, and
it. No one knows the truth unless he knows that ideas often

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truths which, within the only circles open to them, point to
truths connected with things in the universe which are in the
force and matter to be a truth underlying the whole of
they must nevertheless say the following. — In truth

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as to how things should be done?” ... Truth to
deeper underlying truth? It is this, my dear friends. We have
bind their eyes and shut their ears to the truth of the
connecting their thoughts with reality. Yet in truth this

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truth consists. Today men ask so lightly: can this or
has no insight into those truths, with which you must by now
be thoroughly familiar — I mean the truth that in the
Truth. Russians have been much interested in the philosophy
it strives towards “The Truth.” They only take up
the truths of philosophy inasmuch as they are serviceable for
not, like a Western man because it is the Truth, but because
are far in advance of us. They do not imagine that Truth must
follow life; they really believe that Truth is
Truth; the Truth is there, and life must take its
science contains the truth; it has at last established the
concept of Truth, and that is a thing that cannot be
Russian Folk-Soul to believe that this Truth too can be
that in this conception of Truth from the standpoint of life,
indeed will that which men call the “Truth” today
attention to some peculiar facts in this respect. This Truth,
concepts. And this transformed conception of the Truth will
Berdiayeff, there was already the tendency to regard Truth
And, truth to
institutions which they were to make; and how in truth it was
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in truth is a policy of violence, and all the rest of it.
Truth to tell, there would be sufficient cause for a
the ear for inner truth which so few people have today.
otherwise, he is proclaiming the untruth. He, on the other
untruth through ignorance of the facts, or, knowing well the
the books of today will you find such a truth as I have just

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truth is that nowadays, only those can think in really sharp
— are not the truth. They are more Wilsonism. To speak
latter still bears witness to its truth. In it I showed how
dear friends, sublime and venerable truths are contained in
symbolically this or that truth. Though indeed in many cases
the truths newly discovered which are to serve the new
for its defense than to tell the truth and to refrain from
lying. Whoever tells the truth about anthroposophical
to speak the truth) — he is defending it. That I know;
objective truths in the foreground, making the life of the

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veil of outward phenomena. We cannot take this truth too
arrives at the real truth. Our whole world-picture would
world. The truth is we should distinguish ourselves
us. That is the truth.
Christianity to grasp the Christian truths in a new way. This
dear friends, the most valuable truths are paradoxes today,

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Moon is in truth the home of lofty spiritual Beings whose task once
and Sun are in truth the two gates in the universe into the spiritual
Then we feel that our destiny is in very truth an image of the world

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Movement — which is in truth a spiritual stream
was founded, ancient Mystery-truths were still current in Christ's
environment — truths deriving, for example, from specific
truth is that Comenius believed in definite epochs in the evolution
artistic achievements. The truth of such things will quite certainly

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Moon is in truth one of the portals showing man the way into the

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truth that even these few remnants are not really understood.
expression to anthroposophical truths on such themes as life,

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The truth
— in short, pure abstractions. The truth is that the same
about these intimate esoteric truths. If one wishes to avoid abstract
of the truths of karma and their connection with the evolution of

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human being passes through the gate of death, he moves in very truth
in very truth more all-embracing, more splendid than the Cosmos
existence through the epoch from fifty-six to sixty-three. Truth to
not mind it. In the paradoxical and the strange lies the truth. Man's
the destiny of each human being? In very truth it is

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the truths of religious life to be found in the East —
picture, for it is in keeping with the truth, a gathering-together of
the nineteenth centuries it is, in very truth, the

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to express, what is, in very truth, the wisdom of Michael. Such a one
vision, however, shattering, overwhelming truths connected with the
truth only now are there being presented to the Anthroposophical

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picture, and we only reach the truth if we go back to the
or down: the truth, the essentiality, lies behind the
sense-illusions he comes to the truth; for the actual Beings do

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The Anthropos is in truth when he really manifests his being,

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The old truth of the opposition coming from the Luciferic and
and water. That was a deep initiation-truth of the
initiation-truth that Jehovah did not form external man out of
seeks an outlet in materialism and mocks all truths permeated

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consider these clever people when we present the truth, for
truth, a true insight, we must not fall asleep when sense

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— of the truths concerning repeated earthly lives does
understands the human organization can read these truths
as merely abstract truths but will be beheld concretely, as

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the truth of the Kantian philosophy that is so erroneous.

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able to become a truth for him, for Christianity actually is
not a truth for him to-day. We can see this most clearly when
development at all. The truth is that for modern man in the
untruth has thus found its way into modern religious
must again be truth in calling ourselves Christians. One must
however, one must present truths such as I indicated
itself with all that streams forth. The sun is in truth

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digesting. The whole mood of the creatures reveals the truth

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture V
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give only an approximation of the actual truth, but even this

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture VI
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truth will be fulfilled, the saying that sheds its light from
striven for by the human being — the truthful saying,

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grasp with our intellect is in truth much less real than what

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in the mummies. We can, in truth, only understand the origin of what is

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with truth that as earlier creeds speak of a Fall into Sin, meaning a
for modern evolution lies in the fact that whereas, in truth, the

Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture III: The Revelation of the Spiritual World in Old Indian Culture, -or- Old Egypt
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however, is an illusory conception. The truth is that purely empirical
who, although they do not know the whole truth, none the less indicate
the first elements of spiritual truths, which have been learnt again by
souls can give enlightenment only about spiritual truths which can be
whereas the truth is that they all surge upwards together from the

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mirror, a reflection of the whole cosmos. In very truth, everything
change in the brain is, in truth, a deed of the outer world. The
truth, was the essence of Egyptian culture, which for us today is so
rock and breaking his skull. If the real truth were told, one would, of

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fifteenth century of our era is, in very truth, a corpse and that is
this observation of things in strict juxtaposition is not truth but
But the truth of the
which in very truth promote the further evolution of humanity. And then
truth glimpsed by Paracelsus when he took some substance from the human

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the super-sensible truth was possible to men in whom the ancient
pursued in deed and truth, the souls of those belonging to it would
truth of the super-sensible world had been within man's reach as an
into a body of dogmas — wherein super-sensible truths are matters

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Truth can be unpleasant, perhaps even cruel, at times. But
Instead of speaking in this way, as the truth demands of me,
in harmony with truth. After all the misfires of the Kantian,
way of the spirit, how truth and science are
related. The truth that dwells in a spiritualised science would

Title: Lecture: Evolution of Human Freedom and Personal Consciousness
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truth at the re-union of the Moon. These materialistic
of the Divine must be developed further. Truth cannot be

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IV: The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
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outset, one cannot set about testing the truth of this. It is a
body of man. In truth, we have a physical space-body and a time-body,
super-sensible truths to others that one becomes aware of this
transformation in the memory in reference to spiritual truths. This
super-sensible truths must at that very moment bring them to birth. I
these things are not philosophical truths that one thinks out:
truth that comes to us when we have entered the spiritual world is
one must first have an inclination towards truth, because truth, not
untruth and error, is one's object. Then one who follows this path

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It is the same with the geometrical truths that we accept. But
leaving aside a certain fundamental stock of such truths, we may say
an eternal truth of the kind that flows from the great Initiates, or
need to secure the truth in order to compare his ideas with the outer
Initiates to receive the mighty truths contained in such
pictures. For this reason, the truths were not simply represented but
eternal truths. In every historical process the mystic sees such a

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture II: The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life
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To pure truth-loving being;
As truth's true servant
And made a space for truth for you.
Hence, it is not only a legend, but corresponds to a truth when
also for our feeling death will be, actually, an untruth. Since

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Thus maya stands against truth. Only the inhabitants of the
— Truth is something general, but it is something

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truth of that using unbiased thinking and understand what the
To pure truth-loving being;
As truth's true servant
And made a space for truth for you.

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should not conceive that only as an abstract truth, as a
To pure truth-loving being;
As truth's true servant
And made a space for truth for you.
This has never taken place that way. In truth, these Varangians
truth. Because it means something prophetic, something really

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VI: Moral Impulses and Their Results
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the West-European peoples are, this would be an untruth with
look at the truth. We have to realise it, because we cannot
think about these matters in a dreaming way. The truth is, for

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the truth of the matter.
truth quietly: if the human being really feels burning hatred
just touch a truth where we can see that life begins to have a
life does not reveal the truth in the everyday sense. Although
abstract: all religions contain the truth. But this is exactly
once arranged the Christian year. Out of esoteric truth
— which gave them the truth unconsciously, as it had to

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such a truth which must prove itself as immediately clear to
truth that proofs can be correct, but mean basically nothing
special for the progress of the knowledge of truth, only then
lead really to truth. Think only once of the comparison I have
truth.
reason have no significance for gaining real truth. That is why
simple characterisation, the representation of a truth which
exists, and one has to accept this as such a truth first of
could already be, that from the East the truth must now spread
part of the truth only; but what works in the subconscious
over the truth, this is the actually bad.

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have found completely valid truth for all future. — One
materialistically calculated apparent movement. In truth it is
truth it is another line. The time will come when the external
becomes more modest if one knows that truth is announced in a
truth.
himself to no other task than to announce the truth, and,
therefore, he would be able to know the truth. The editor of

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture X: Central Europe between East and West
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fact that the teacher must turn the pin. In truth, however, you
serious truth, honestly and affectionately in this room. If

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XI: Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
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is an absolutely wrong saying, and the truth of the development
in Germany is negotiated by these both sides in truth. This is
the spiritual truth which is completely different from the
the spiritual truth is from the external events in the physical
human beings, but it is the truth. This truth must stupefy
only with physical eyes. Spiritual truth sounds into the music
off by human beings who, confirming the truth of the spiritual
that shows clearly that truth finds its way. But spiritual

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sciences recognise this truth absolutely that forces never get
something crazy corresponds to the truth.
matters but that one recognises the truth.
truth in the present. Take into account that the human beings
truth. Take into account that this truth is defamed, that the

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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familiarise himself with certain more intimate truth of the
lives in truth, while it goes through death. But this is the

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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truth indigenous to the human soul.
truth forms the basis of all religions. This logic saves one
details, because one gets by with the sentence: a core of truth
truth is expressed terribly in the worst affect and in an

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truth, which is gained, is gained without this help, that the
To pure truth-loving being;
As truth's true servant
And made a space for truth for you.
foolish assertions. Since with the truth of that great

Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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very truth, spiritual worlds are all around us. The astral world is
himself. The occultist knows the truth of the words: “I am with
that, in time, the truth will come to light. If we do not want this
again revealed to us the harmony of the primeval truths, have taught

Title: Address: The Spiritual-Scientific Basis of Goethe's Work
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sacrificed, can the initiation into the higher truths and powers
truths in the form in which they have been given to him in the
religious truths presuppose a receptive, believing disposition.
on a profound penetration of the truth. As an artist, he wished

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One gifted with a knowledge of souls has not without truth remarked:
theosophical truths. If these truths should in the ears of many sound
ego is expressed. Beauty and truth possess a man only when they

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
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clothe their truths in sentences so full of power and impulse that no
must never lag behind but always press on to find the Higher Truths.
of the senses. It is immaterial whether a man recognizes the truth in
and the other: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” If
Teaching of the only Son of the Father, filled with Grace and Truth.
way and the truth.” All were teachers. Christianity has brought
the Truth and the Life.”
all oriental esoteric. The truth is, the Christian esotericism is the

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the deepest truths. Seeking these truths brings to light how wisdom-filled

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occult truths in Manas, in the purest element of thought. The
mission is to let this truth and wisdom flow into men.

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preserved for example such a truth; it contains, however, a great
taught this truth, and the difference between genuine Christianity
truth. Many a passage in the Gospel of St. John can only be

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such a truth. We can feel it in the following way: When we go out in
not correspond with the great truths, such as the union of Christ's

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truth, related to us by the Greek Poets of the foremost men
spiritual world, they who had been so completely in truth and
conformity with truth when the sages attributed the words to
truth. Just as truly as Christ wandered among men during the
deceased. This is an occult truth. He could then tell them

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as clairvoyant experience, for the human soul ought in truth,
are concepts. One has, in truth, habitually called the
the germination of a concept, and this, in truth, is the

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Truth, and to see what relation these objections have to the Bible.
to help us to understand the biblical truths?’ We must here enter into
truths as are there contained. Let us take for sake of example an old book
investigate the truth about this composition. It had come to my knowledge that
that is, not as a result of physical but of super-sensible truths. Now what
reveals, moreover that there is in very truth a spiritual world. And Paul
Christianity upon this super-sensible truth and that it is conviction
They are in most cases honest, sincere seekers after truth. But then we come

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From the text: “In truth, whoever has knowledge of the spiritual
was to him the interpreter of truth. It may be said that in this
different languages that give expression to certain truths living in
the human soul. They are often the most secret truths, the most secret
Today our attention is to be drawn to a secret truth of this kind
himself was able in his soul to approach this truth from very many
but with reality say: Knowing this soul being in its truth, we
nevertheless founded on profound truth. If, however, we trace this
truth the mightiest human problem, though closely veiled, confronts us
definite feeling of the deeper truth of the Madonna problem. Very
statements. The truth is that this is the external, pictorial
expression of a most profound truth.
— and this corresponds with a deep truth — that the sacred number
symbolic expression of a profound cosmic truth. What lasted throughout
to the human souls thirsting for art. Here we see how in very truth
art, as in Goethe's words, becomes the exponent of truth. We see how
In truth, whoever has knowledge of the spiritual secrets of the world

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Epistles of one who was an Initiate or speaks with any truth of Paul's
truth, I have turned to the things of the outer world. The Initiates
matter to say what is truth. This is the “stupor”
truth. Profound achievements of spiritual life were influenced by the

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ardent seekers after truth have gradually begun to think of late that
this? Where are the sources of these truths? They come from the
relationship, and in truth for him “who can see”,
whole-heartedly acknowledge the truths and merits of science. He must
communications of spiritual-scientific truths. They are fuel for
And does everyone really go to church? In truth the church does not
the simple communication of truths from out the spiritual world
time they think that the communication of higher truths is of no
science, in communicating spiritual truths, does not teach

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what is capable of investigation as a Truth, unconnected in our day
Form, reveals itself in all its emptiness! There is no truth in
Noble Truths: viz., the knowledge of sorrow; the knowledge of the
These are the Four Holy Truths which Buddha, after his
in truth melts away like mist in the sun, but all the deeds that you
truth that this death is to be the starting point for an immortal and
truth a ‘realistic’ world-conception, which brings down

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Science and Speech
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light would not exist for us,” is only half a truth. The other
present stage of human development, to present as Truth what is the
is a somewhat figurative way of speaking, but it expresses the truth.

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truth of these legends, when they were, let us say, in a special
would, of course, be a serious prejudice to think the truth can be
truth!” Let us suppose that we are actually facing such a man.
prove the truth of what I have told you to-day.

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no doubt, such truths will be vehemently opposed, but none of this
truth — and this is no figure of speech, no simile, but an
actual truth — an angel, that is to say, a being of the nearest
modern savant, we should be very far from the truth. If a man were to
In very truth we stand here at the dividing-line between two spheres
Golgotha in all its truth and to a real understanding of the words:

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'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life'
I am the way, the truthJohn 14:6.
“I am the Way, the Truth,
everything would be known, but the truth is that the
The truths of
truth through knowledge. Thus we can say: through the work of
Truth. Through the “I,” man raises
knows the Truth of the higher worlds, then this
“I” in man can affirm: I am the Way, the Truth
Truth and then, in full consciousness, you will also find in
following incarnations. This is the Truth that must become
human being is capable of grasping spiritual truths through
his thoughts. This ability to grasp spiritual truths
truth. The only way of overcoming this dismay is to unfold
another truth must be written deeply in our hearts. Christ
mankind. It is a sacred truth and must so be regarded by us,
the truth as a man understands of a balance who says that it
the truth will more and more be borne in upon him that since
not yet able to receive the full truth of the Gospel.
Christ will in very truth speak to men — and blessed

Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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surface of karma, [are] in the astral body. We can say with truth that human
are in very truth living beings within our evolution. For the Living

Title: From Jesus to Christ (single lecture)
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as to appreciate anthroposophical truths bearing on the more obvious
in which the preceding ages could come to the truths and wisdom of
to-day when they confront scientific truths. What we now call science
Truth, that it is independent of mood and feeling. For the pupil of
to the great Truths, he should go through something whereby his soul
as a simple scientific truth would not have been put to him so that he
soul approached the great Truths and Wisdom and how it reacted to
truth when he writes, “I seemed to be approaching God, I seemed
more a consequence of the Truth in all its ramifications when Nature
being was gained, and with it a feeling for truth and fidelity; the

Title: Jesuit and Rosicrucian Training
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truth to the other.
the ways of truth.
truth, or against the alienation from life of many

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of the lifeless is by no means a new one — it is, in truth, the
anticipating, advocating a truth which will familiarize itself with
of the animal world it becomes clear to us that in truth the entire
gaze to the whole world, by what means, in truth, does all that which

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Let us keep this truth of everyday life clearly before our minds and
truth of reincarnation. There are still countless people upon the

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clever and equally true. The truth, that a mirror can produce
a man, has just the same value as the other truth, that a
beauty and ugliness, truth and falsehood — all this
then the Spirits of Truth will withdraw from him in Devachan.
truth-loving soul this will instead flourish and come to
to admit with more or less truthfulness that love toward
worked out truthfully. Our groups, our working centres, are

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repeated earthly lives be in accordance with truth, they
Hence, we cannot with truth speak of permanence in connection
is enough to show the truth of that. We then have to say: As
question the truth of that would be forced to maintain that
into an inconsistency directly they rise from the truths of

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truths which do not come from the world of the senses.
and to take into our souls truths of the kind uttered by conscience,
external world. Today, we designate as truth those concepts and ideas
value such thoughts have for the attainment of truth, but to bear in
scientific thought, and this will contain truths that penetrate and
truth-images of the higher world that he or she had gained, thus
arisen who revealed to humankind great and significant truths, truths
truths, penetrating deeply into super-sensible mysteries. Things of
things, her books contain truths of extraordinary significance,
truths independently. With her own capacities, she could never have
reached them. These truths need no recommendation insofar as they are
inner truth of occultism. No matter how much good will might be
must now be recognized through sound common sense. Truths which can
of occultism or initiation imparted in the spirit of truth. Credulity
case of scientific truths, one is not always in the position to test
results of initiation contain truths which every human being needs,

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in the smallest particular to offend against the truth — which,
everywhere; that is, the resolution never to offend against the truth
expression with complete truthfulness and probability. Because he
truth, we only obtain a proper reverence for the whole course and

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Thus they feel the necessity of proclaiming anthroposophical truths,
connected with the necessity of revealing spiritual truths. But there
truths, because the old form of knowledge no longer exists. The

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against the spiritual-scientific statement or truth that when the
thought as a mere representation. The value of truth is
they wish to acquire super-sensible truths which are really
physical facts, truths pertaining to the physical world, but this
begin with truth takes on a paradoxical form, for this has always
way. He sets forth truths pertaining to the super-sensible worlds.
truths. They can see that the teaching of repeated lives on earth
supporting this truth, proofs which must be advanced in a
has no idea where the proofs for super-sensible truths should be
truth. Although six millions of people adhere to it, although it
accessible to the ordinary intellect. To such truths one cannot
thus grasp spiritual-scientific truths, we develop within the
To luminous truth.

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external truth; but it has a deep meaning, a deep

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Historically, The Karma of Untruthfulness, Part 2 of 2
the task of Anthroposophy to reveal the truth, the real connections
truth in their materialism, it is not surprising that people should

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things, no longer have a consciousness of the deeper truth of the
Thus, my dear friends, since the truths which Spiritual Science has to
they are indeed serious in cases of special importance. These truths

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Now the truth is that one cannot find the human being in another

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deceiving himself. A pupil must be honest with himself. Truthfulness

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control him. But if we have wrestled through to a knowledge of truth

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a man tries to see the truth in this statement through little everyday
see the truth behind the maya that they stretch out to us? There is a
truth behind these things. We can also awaken pictures and feelings
absolute truth. This should happen in our meditations. If we look at

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of the harmony of feelings give us the great world truths in symbols,
evil and that truth can be found. For us this lies in the words:

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the same? How can we carry a quite simple theosophical truth directly

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about good and evil, truth and other virtues that the creator Gods
mankind, for instance about truthfulness, he can get into a

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how to make concepts we can give life to truth and do living things
of warmth have real truth value; everything else is Lucifer's work. And if
will then grasp the truth.
the pupil has attained the way, the truth in the last three, and then life,

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he may keep are the capacity to make concepts, a sense for truth, and
truths that he'll get to know.

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strengthened by meditation or an influx of theosophical truths. The

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rightly with spiritual truths it thereby receives new forces, and
man permeates himself with spiritual truths or if he just lets the

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the “truth,” and that we don't have to take this or
untruthfulness. Thanks to our education, we don't tell any big
really are. Or if the truth could endanger us, we prefer to keep
Such untruths work on our astral body and then on our light ether.
tends to be untruthful will usually be able to feel a choking,

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let Paul's words live and become truth in us, “Not I, but

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especially acquire a subtle feeling for the truth. For if an
saying that he thought that he was telling the truth. That
untruthfulness even if he thought he was saying the truth.
them. How often one hears: I thought it was the truth. It's not

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tell ourselves: if what we have is really the truth, it'll
find the truth in my next incarnation through my fervent search for

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eventually we can't distinguish between truth and lies
experience all truths of the spiritual world as fast as possible
the highest truths, pride, lies and dishonesty in himself. We must

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truth in the world, we must ascend from the Spirit of Form to the Spirits

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transformations in us that lead us to the truth. But if we want to
of theosophy has grasped the great truths about world and man in such a

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truth or should not have to take this or that from him. When such
untruthful than he realizes. Many say: I don't really have any dishonesty
have the desire to appear better than we are or to conceal the truth

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if an esoteric hasn't overcome a certain untruthfulness that

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increasingly become a truth. We should become deeply aware that we
reality, we wouldn't look for truth and perfection any more. We
creation — that's the great truth that we must look for
until we arrive at a knowledge of the truth through our own efforts.

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especially to the untruthfulness that slumbers potentially in every
to notice it. But now the untruths we hadn't noticed crowd into
before he can know the truth, spiritual reality; Azazel brings us

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esoteric life by discussing esoteric communications and truths with

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absolute love of truth, so that one doesn't even permit oneself

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first quality that one needs is truthfulness, the will to be true.
the master should be known through inner reason; the truth can be
himself. One should always remain factual. One should let the truth
reason can get worse. One should try to be dutifully truthful to
should not only try to be truthful oneself, but should investigate
the truth in everything that comes to meet one.
One shouldn't bustle around and look for truth, but should be

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exoteric. For instance, he should keep in mind that the truth he
strives for can only be a relative truth, that as an esoteric one
can't speak of eternal truths at all. Our wishes always mix
accept a truth that pleases us than one that doesn't. For
accept it as a truth just for that reason. But an esoteric should not
tendency to believe in and defend absolute eternal truths is an
recognized truth as a generally valid one. A man does this out of a
“I've recognized this truth through this or that
experience and therefore it's a truth for me,” but
set up personal truths often leads to hypocrisy and dishonesty.
truth. This is done by people who would rather wallow in feelings
only look for truth in inner immersion. In occultism one calls this
to know which truth is the right one for the particular age. Buddha

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spiritual truths into exoteric and esoteric theosophical life. An
truth. Nothing should ever hinder us from saying the truth freely and
openly. Every attempt to deviate from the truth must be paid for at

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truths from the spiritual world. We must learn to lead a double life,

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truth, life and creativity. We often run into love of truth, but love
love of truth. And who can still be vain if he cultivates the love of
truth. We must increasingly cultivate the love of truth.
the truth through the Holy Spirit who thinks in me. I love life through
that were us out of the truth:

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Besant. For reasons of truthfulness we can separate ourselves from

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truth. We get the strength to bear the thought that Lucifer thinks in
truth we must meditate on the sentence: It weaves me — with
maya, since we can't bear the truth. Meditation on the mantra: It

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truth on an esoteric by eloquent means, for then Lucifer would be at

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untruthfulness that's still in us.

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distrustful of these, for untruth lies in the speech that's
we say is untrue. There can only be as much truth in
tell the truth, then Lucifer at the Temptation should not have said:
unpleasant. We don't meditate about love or truth, for that would

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of this truth, just as little as one who believes in it as a

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thing that one has to learn in esoteric life is truthfulness. One who
good Gods wanted to educate man to be truthful when they placed
by facts. The inclination for truthfulness can only be acquired in
flows to us will depend upon our morality, love of truth, and on how
truthful or if we've let anger or aggravation arise in us, then
reason why we weren't graced with the spirit in some untruth, in some

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morality, love of truth and on how we've lived and been since the
last meditation. If we weren't entirely truthful or if we let anger
truth in our rosicrucian verse:

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anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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anticipation of truth. It's a guessing, a feeling of the new self.)

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ideal magic, for such truths can give us an insight into the
obstacle which prevents us from accepting the truths revealed
the truths relating to experiences through which we pass not
modern times when one speaks of spiritual truths. The subject
aspect, if our souls are willing to take in the truths

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kingdom? — we must reply: In truth, the astral battle of
truthÂ«, We cannot accept the rule that a struggle

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture I
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that someone who has only lately met the truths of Spiritual Science
take into oneself the truth concerning higher worlds means to become
expressed the mighty truths of existence in the myths. There is no myth
out of the depths of art. Deep truth, for instance, underlies Richard

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modern astronomy. Nevertheless it is a truth of cosmic evolution that
For truth to tell, the object of all existence in the Saturn-condition,

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in a spiritual sense, then the myths disclose their truth in a surprising
children! One must feel the truth of such a myth; if it is not felt,
this truth to us in a wonderful picture. There is only one possible
we speak today; for the masses the truths were veiled in pictures and
men have discovered truth only in the last forty years and that all

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is a truth, however, only to those who look at things from the aspect

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followers: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you
free.” Knowledge of full and complete truth and reality can make

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future, spiritual truth will create the union between individualities.
a time must come when there are as many religions and truths as persons.
great truth, the great law, will be realized that the most individual
truths, those that are found in the most inward way, are at the same
on the fact that today there is really general agreement upon the truths
can say that he finds mathematical truths through external experience;
all truths, the arithmetical, geometrical, are found inwardly, and yet
opinion prevails only as long as pure truth is not clouded by passions,
inner world of truth. Then in spite of all individualism, in spite of
truth being found by everyone for himself inwardly, harmony will prevail.
If mathematical truths were not so simple and obvious then the passions
wider regions will be grasped by this form of truth and more peace can
come to mankind if truth is grasped in this manner. The human being
take its place. Those who will again grasp spiritual truth as it has

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people color the truth, we there have to do with a lie in the sense
if not with lies, yet with manifestations bearing an untruthful coloring.
and untruthfulness, untruth even in the affairs of life, has a definite
un-truthful, piling up lies, then he will have many such effects in
a railway-station so that it streams out truth like a temple and is

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deep truths of life.

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answered (and we shall see what deep truth lay hidden in the
Egyptian sage in his meeting with Solon could say with truth: “Oh
souls is none of the ancient truth!” He refers here to the age of
sage when he spoke of the “ancient truth”? This will be
it was not merely an abstract truth to them, it was a truth in which

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found; this is an important and essential truth. Whereas we see the
quoted above. It is true that such truths as these will only again

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develop certain truths step by step; we give them forth gradually, in

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they must be accepted generally, partly as truth and partly as

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epoch? He could, in truth, be much better understood by these

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yourselves acquainted with the truth, not with all those legendary and
again, and our modern truths are the re-born myths of Egypt. Were it
present-day man rejects ancient truths. For it is the case that things
forms of truth.
something different. The forms of truth continually change. In order
science to prove revealed truth. At its prime it said: Men can gaze
theoretical reason which has lost all connection with spiritual truths
wisdom and that which had been rescued as the truths of belief. This
truths to produce a Rosicrucian science, but science and
have to see the truths upheld by faith, in the lower the purely
wisdom and truth in ancient times; that these are contained in the old
harmony with the mighty truths given to the world by H. P. Blavatsky.
We are not concerned with the imparting of theoretic truths, but that
Spiritual Science only attain final truth when they are changed into

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individuality just in this search for truth. It is the true
sworn an oath that every truth that can ever take root in humanity
must agree with what is given validity as truth by Rome. It was a
of science because one is bound by the truths of mathematics, he goes
one is compelled to teach as truth what is given by Rome; and one of
afterwards he speaks the truth.” But Jesuitism stands behind
us, you will only find two things that can be affirmed with truth.
contains traces of the eternal truths of all ancient wisdom; it plays
for themselves what the truth is. Up to the present, in all these
Divine rules (the Way, the Truth, and the Life) but only the ‘wise
human question must be clearly seen. It is a question of truth and

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truth by the Roman Catholic Church; which means, in fact, what is
on oath? Is it a possibility to administer an oath for the truth? Can
truth of its own inherent force is its own guarantee in the human
be the truth. Anyone who examines our activities here will have to
with its Syllabus condemning eighty modern truths; in the declaration
comes to know what it means to maintain dead, withered truths by
am to give a public lecture on “The Truth about Anthroposophy
and its Defense against Untruth.” But in any case I must

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the truth? They can only do so by receiving a new spiritual science.
with the whole inner life of his soul were to grasp the truth that
human beings the possibility of distinguishing truth from untruth.
lying and untruth with all the means at our disposal, but we must not
belief that what is said is the truth; for if these people spoke the
truth, they would not attain what is their purpose to attain, which
Anthroposophy, of spiritual science, should be a search for truth,
inclined to let the truth about Jesuit training be known. The world

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of the knowledge of Nature by saying: We only grasp truths in
minds and see if there is not truth in what I say.) The

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picture completely fitted the reality. It was in truth an

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different ages felt convinced of the truth of the most
the truth, it is no mere comparison to say: The starry

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scientific truth, so to speak. To anyone who looks more

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find its truths in the external, empirical reality. But in

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The perennial retains its stem or trunk, and the truth is:
course an approximation to the truth, needless to say; yet in

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into all the details which would testify to the truth of what

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Important truths will follow from this, We must conceive,

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'Truth is', they said to themselves, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
truth is, the ancient heliocentric system was derived, not

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reach the truth by scrupulous investigation, must begin by
the outcome of it, in all reality. We must face the truth: to

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complicated notions of how the Universe is built. Truth is,

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able thoroughly to illumina with a truth of pre Geometry we

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only want to get at the truth. As it is is however, the
lies hidden that which would lead to the truth. Instead of

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Truth is, the empirically observed phenomena will only reveal
truth if we imagine that as we go from the circumference
Truth is that
will not reveal the truth and the reality? What else are you
empirical verification of these truths, which must be taken

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ordinary language of such mighty truths, truths comprising
every truth can be expressed simply, and that the mode of
truth or not. Such a statement only shows that those who use
it are not in possession of absolute truth, but only of those
truths which, in the course of centuries, have been
clothed in the motions of the stars; whereas the truth is

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is not with modern physics, but with truth.
to-day for those who are initiates. Truths such as these were
nearer the truth than many results of modern anthropological
the truth. It indicates that Abraham was actually the first

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matter; they alone knew the truth of the fact which can be

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experience the truth, or as long as people did not desire the
truth, it was withheld. The Gospels speak the truth we have
to hear the truth, nor wished that it should come to light.

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all world movements based on occult truths is that the
them. When a man is constrained to communicate truths which
resulting mystic preception would exclude inner truth, and
with truth. It is therefore wonderfully instructive to study

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to recognize intrinsic truth without breaking through the
general. Realization of this truth awakens in us a holy

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the historical truth of the Christ Event may rightly point
repetition of initiation. Can we wonder that this truth which
Christ had wished to refer specially to this great truth. He
truth as regards the physical body.
a new power to the etheric body. Hence the new truth
new truth, and find in themselves the solace for every
truth concerning the astral body must read as follows:
Blessed is he in whom is truth, and speaks truth to his

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teaching, but live only for the truth, and we declare the

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The truth is that current opinions concerning the deeper

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would do so What we are concerned with is the truth, not with
humility, but at the same time pointing to the inner truth

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if he's permeated by the fundamental truths. One such truth is that

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Truth, wisdom, immeasurablity, O God,
higher than all reason. That's what the formula: Truth, wisdom,

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Primal-truth, primal-goodness, immeasurability, O Brahma

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spiritual truths and laws, although they weren't clairvoyant. Others
and sisters, couldn't receive some of the highest truths. If I would
tell you such a truth this room would be empty in a few minutes. Even
stand certain truths. And yet these are the very highest truths, and

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them. If this happens in the right way the pupil experiences truths

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The truth in this verse makes up a large part of esoteric life. One
men. Only esoteric truths promote human evolution.
Now it's a law of occultism that every esoteric truth is used up after
proclaimed. So what do we need a new truth for, some say. They want to

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A pupil can assume that basic truths like karma and reincarnation are
saw ugliness. One can discover at least a small kernel of truth and

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truth, to get to Christ.

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order to eventually become knowers of truth, to become an instrument

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practical truth there then springs forth a confused medley of alleged
senseless conventional untruth, but on what has really happened, knows

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need is inner guiding lines to direct us to important truths; the
is unable to see the truth rightly and never ta ke s a right stand in the

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his Poetry and Truth of Professor Ludwig and others, if in his
factor for the bettering of the soul has in truth not yet been torn from
our Government. — Whereas in truth in the Government there is
the truth, I beg, for truth will be the basis upon which all social life
must be founded. Truth should not be forsworn in anything that is said.
conscientiously strive after truth.
truth about themselves. On the other hand they should be permeated by the

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eternal cosmic truths, when we learn to create in the world of
truth of our times. We must speak of the dead and lost Isis, the
truth are spread out over the marvellous and manifold and secret
so full of calamities and chaos. This is in truth the deeper cause

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knowledge had already become feebler, and truth to tell it was only
in truth a continuation of the faculty with which the Magi from the

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this lie when I was a young man. In respect of the truths and
come from the innermost being, truthfulness among them, appear in the
untruths. A man who writes such lies in this book will naturally

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certain truths, even those which reach to the highest levels, are
practical and real significance. For such a truth as I have
a great and significant truth is connected. The traditional
to die in the soul along with physical death. That is the truth
seriously take in this truth, then one does not have an insight
truth, is even more serious. Namely, if the human being with
truths, for when one makes clear some such truths, then people
This last truth the

Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture II
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truths by single outstanding personalities. Truths that arise in
deeply into such one-sided truths. Then this destiny itself
live in human beings, and that this ancient word is a truth: the
the deep truth that the location of the gods is itself within the

Title: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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Dialectics is the art of defending a truth against an attack,
question of permanently defending a truth; it was not the age of
might volunteer to defend any truth, for 24 hours long, against the

Title: The Human Soul in Life and Death
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for him becomes the direct experience of truth. He knows that

Title: Anthroposophy/Civilization
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people who founded it had heard some of the spiritual truths
opposition, taking its roots in objective untruth, develops
untruth. And at the same time, we must be able to raise
can only exist in an atmosphere of truth. We must develop a
feeling of what it really means when so much untruth and so
if we see everyone asleep while the flames of untruth are

Title: Renewal of Culture
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truly unprejudiced person can hear the truth, that we no longer understand
permeate their inner being with the truths which anthroposophical spiritual
realize the truth of the words: All for one and one for all! In regard to
the right way by the truths which we can see and comprehend in regard to

Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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shall see, he valued so highly: the search for truth. The
should never violate the truth of the impression with respect
most wonderful way in conformity with the truth. Nothing
in his work for the truth of Nature, Leonardo worked with a
expression in all truthfulness. Thus, he could not do what he

Title: Christ in the 20th Century
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one held by thoroughly dedicated modern searchers after truth. In accordance
something in the nature of a Christ idea. Earnest, educated, truth-loving men
assert two basic truths. The first is that all things are related. This is a
truth proclaimed by every religion, one that no thoughtful person can deny.
The second truth is that what we call good and evil derives from forces
truth of statements made by the spiritual investigator. The only people who
existence to perceiving eyes; the truth is rather that eyes are created by

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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spiritual science, spiritual art and truth-filled religion,

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture III: The Imaginative, Inspirative, and Intuitive Method of Cognition
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qualities such as strength of character, inner truthfulness, a

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture V: The Soul's Experiences in Sleep
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inner facts, rather do they veil the real truth. For this
truth, in relation to what is meant here, can only be perceived
soul-spiritual world. Every night, the truth concerning the

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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of these truths were able to speak to their followers out of
become a truth for his soul.
acknowledge the truth of the Mystery of Golgotha; if we
truth we succeed in replacing that force that was once a part
the truth of this Mystery. Then, as the saying of Paul,

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VIII: Ordinary and Higher Consciousness
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the truth. The truth is the imaginative view of time as

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture I: Human Being and his Relationship to the World
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possible, that the highest truths cannot be communicated when
knowledge of the truths contained in the book, it ought also to
to look into the spiritual world and see the truth, he must,
know that what I have just said is a self-evident truth of the
in the same way, whereas the truth is that something will be
case; the facts are quite different. The truth is that the
signs which express the truth. We can acquire knowledge of the
as the descent into the physical body. In very truth it is like

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture II: Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World
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truth, then, is this: our organism is a reflecting
truth of the matter, therefore, has to be experienced when we
For by becoming one with them we put an important truth into
and takes in the truth. As a rule, this hearing, this spiritual
becomes a truth the moment we enter the spiritual world in the

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture III: Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
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question of Spiritual Science. We ask: What is the truth of our

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture IV: Inner Mobility of Thought
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thrown on the truth that life in the physical world is not
was not merely in order to impart truths to you, but to

Title: Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition
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truth about our relation to the world.

Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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appears as a naturalness, as an absolute truth, which can only
only truth for his economic life.

Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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indications of truths in the following lectures. In modern
some or other scientific facts adjusted as truth and
causes quiet shudders when things are truthfully defined. To
picture of more truthful, more realistic impulses for the human

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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truth, they were either not understood or misunderstood or
This fanaticism should contrast itself with real truthful
other way, what in truth is not some abstract idealism, but is

Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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equivalent, I don't in truth work for myself but put myself
That holds no truth, it is hidden through social relation means
an achieved untruth, which penetrates and damages economic
retains the function it must get according to the truthful
stress that the words of Marxism are the truth: The philosophers

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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labour movement, which I still maintain as absolute truth. At
healthy sense of judgment for the recognition of truth.
me it is important that the meaning of what I say is the truth
and I will speak the truth in every instance where I am
permitted to speak the truth. I only speak the truth; that is
branch, that we speak the truth, unconcerned about the

Title: Anthroposophy in Daily Life
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this sphere and accumulate spiritual truths it is not a help but a hindrance in a sound
down the most important truths in a few words and circulating them in a catechetical form.
moral conclusion may be drawn from all these truths. This constitutes the immensely
divine-spiritual world. If we are pervaded by the right feelings, the truths which we
astral body absorbs the truths which come from the spiritual world, in the same way in
spiritual world and will be filled with darkness. But if it is filled with the truths which
present time he must first fill his soul with spiritual-scientific truths, which will

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture One
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the truth is to be found only in our small confined circle where it is recognised, through the

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Two
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(Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse),

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Three
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knowledge. We know that these boundaries to knowledge do not in truth exist, but that in actual
striving for the truth.
malicious incidents I have intentionally introduced into the truths that have just been

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 1: The Being of Man
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easily see that there is a certain element of truth in something

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 2: Human Duality
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is in truth to be our task: to learn to see clearly the whole visible

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 3: Co-operation in the Human Duality
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truth of the origin of man. To make possible the expression in

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 4: Man's Inner Cosmic System
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truths of spiritual science, we must accustom ourselves gradually to

Title: An Occult Physiology: Lecture 6: The Blood as Manifestation and Instrument of the Human Ego
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Whereas in our blood we are alive, we are in truth already

Title: Destiny or Karma
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truth implied by the spiritual-scientific doctrines, in the real
take in spiritual-scientific truths we are still a long way from
tread an easier path, which is to accept spiritual truths on the
spiritual-scientific truths is a very difficult path; the other path,
Those who strive after spiritual truths will more easily gain a
conviction of these truths by observing facts supported by life
expressed a deep truth when he said: “Folks do not notice the
prove the truth of theosophical teachings. Let us observe a certain
truth, it should become manifest that by adopting the right attitude
valuable truths. Those who are led together with him by Karma must
be recompensed by truth; these are two extremes which bring about a
results can be achieved if he brings him positive truths and has real
truth; namely, that we are in the position to be of very little help
observing life itself. This will enable us to recognize the truth of
its laws. Theosophy is not only a theoretical truth, but a search for
proofs which establish this truth in life itself.

Title: The Secrets of Sleep or Karma
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nature of such truths. Ridicule and criticism place
within which they can be recognized. But as regards truths

Title: Talk To Young People:
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guilty of untruthfulness — for it has become altogether different. In

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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imagine that this diagram in any sense reproduces the truth. In
our souls as Spiritual truth, we will find that we can again and again
Jupiter, and, finally, seriously ponder over the truth that within the

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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truth. If the southern regions had remained populated by descendants

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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experience like this (a), the truth is that what was gained by day
one to Christ. One can only know the truth if one conceives of

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Him. And we must give back the truths to the cosmos from the centre

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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notion that truth is imparted to him from two sides, that he attains
truth, or something like truth by observing the outer world through
imperative,’ from which he derived all truths related to
truths of belief in contrast to the external truths, which, however,
and significant truth which is given us by Spiritual Science, on the
— and so simply accepts it as truth because it is
universal truth. Here you have the facts as to how, from a certain
day when he himself dies. Truths may be contained in all this, but
spread of spiritually scientific truth and for work in the stream of
same way, it is an axiom, so to speak, in the spreading of the truths
kind of appeal, when the truths are made public, to unnamed Masters
spiritual truth into the physical world, who moreover, take full

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perpetuated, made eternal; the untruth must not persist that it is
a great truth: — when the true poet goes beyond

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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unintentional untruthfulness. We must never flatter ourselves that
then only in the position of being somewhat more untruthful through
fundamental truth.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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the great truths come to expression, especially in Christianity and
In a few decades these truths

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 2: Man's Ascent into the Supersensible World
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of the being you are talking about. But in the case of an untruth the
other. An untruth, a lie, does have a life-destroying, killing effect on

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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the great central truth of the Vedanta philosophy resounds in this region.
mentality, this truth of the one life contained in everything, will

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 7: Effects of the Law of Karma
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more perfect. The capacity of distinguishing truth from error is only
error. Mathematical truths also arise through the fact that the opposite

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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There is a deep meaning and ancient truths in legends and fairy-tales.

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 10: Paths of Occult Training
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truths concerning our earth: The earth too is a being subjected to

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