Study Guide to Insights of Rudolf Steiner
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Introduction
How to Use this Study Guide
Alphabetical List of Books Included in this Guide
Key Word/Phrase List
Spiritual Scientific terms in this Guide
The Fifty Fundamental Cycles of Arenson's Leitfaden
Quick Reference Listing
Spiritual Hierarchies Table
Sevens Table
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Introduction to Original Guide [by Bruce H. McCausland]
In addition to an alphabetical listing of keywords and phrases from some of the lectures and books of Rudolf Steiner in English, this Study Guide includes short quotations and descriptive comments to help you find the exact passage you're looking for.
It grew from a card file listing started for my own research some years ago. From time to time certain thoughts or observations by Steiner on a particular subject would surface and I had no idea where the exact wording could be found. "What else did he say about that subject? What context was that quote in? What did it relate to?" These and similar questions prompted my card file. This work is therefore not limited to the standard, basic concepts, but also includes thoughts that I wanted to memorialize in this format for my own use. The job of preparing it for publication and enlarging it was inspired by the ambitious bibliographic efforts of J.W. Haslett of Chicago, to whom I am very grateful.
A few words of caution are called for: This listing does not stress the fundamental themes of anthroposophy. A certain basic knowledge on the part of the reader is assumed, i.e. a familiarity with Rudolf Steiner's books Theosophy and An Outline of Occult Science or, minimally, either of his early, introductory lecture cycles, At the Gates of Spiritual Science or Theosophy of the Rosicrucian. It presupposes, at the least, a passing knowledge of Steiner's cosmogony, and of the dual aspect of evil as seen from the human perspective (Lucifer & Ahriman), together with the Path of Christ we must follow if we are to maintain a balance between them. Also required is a basic knowledge of the inner nature of the human being: physical-, etheric or life-, astral-, and ego-bodies; together with the three future states: Spirit Self, Life Spirit and Spirit Man (Manas, Buddhi & Atma.)
This Guide should not be construed as a compendium of Steiner's final word on any of the subjects listed. The observations he makes in his lectures are almost always part of a masterfully crafted architectonic structure. To remove a stone from such a structure for closer scrutiny may tell us a bit about the stonemason's skill, but precious little about the architect's vision. Also, with stones removed the structure--at least in the mind of the observer--may topple. Such reductionist analyses could be compared to a mad scientist dissecting the tongue of a cadaver in an effort to find out what words it uttered when it was part of a living human being. Rather than such limited approaches, which have little value in any truly meaningful investigation, the reader is encouraged to develop a holoscopic approach. Holoscopy, a new term, could be seen in this context as a contemplative study of the interrelatedness of various phenomena. Holoscopy is synonymous with Goethe's little-understood yet highly fruitful approach to scientific investigation, sometimes called "Goethean Science."
I am aware that some of the passages in this Guide, taken out of context as they are, may appear absurd, even ludicrous. Any such appearances should be ascribed to my lack of editorial skill, and not to any shortcomings on the part of Steiner. Although, too, it's good to keep in mind St Paul's observation, "Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool." (I Cor. 3:18, New Testament in the Language of the People, translated by Charles B. Williams) In other words, wisdom in the eyes of God may appear as foolishness in the eyes of men.
The selection criteria used in compiling this Guide are difficult to explain because some are rather subjective. In a few cases there are only one or two selections from an entire cycle. In others, e.g. Foundations of Esotericism, there are many from each of the short lectures. It is fascinating to watch Steiner's style and content develop from these early works to, say, his Karmic Relationships series given towards the end of his life. To study the evolution of the mind of this quintessential genius or, it is safe to say, the greatest genius in recorded history, is immensely rewarding in its own right. So, if they are seen as important, many such contrasts have been included. Importance, at least in this student's opinion of what is important, is the main criterion for each of the selected entries.
A few citations are from obscure publications long out of print. The reader may have some difficulty in procuring a copy. In such cases I have usually rendered a fuller account of the theme in question in order to minimize the dangers of contextual distortion.
Anthroposophy is much more than a body of knowledge, or even a body of wisdom. Back in the 1970s Alan Howard was fond of saying, "Anthroposophy is strong wine. It can go to the head." While that's an apt metaphor, I prefer to call it strong medicine. And unless taken in measured doses, worked upon with good will and enthusiasm, and thoroughly digested with intense inner effort, like many good medicines when misused it can have a devastating effect on the patient. These compiled thoughts are far more than a specific remedy for ignorance about the various topics covered. They are, rather, the generic remedy of choice for the multitude of ills society has contracted. In these matters the serious student is not only the patient, but also the physician. And we are well reminded of Luke's report, "Physician, heal thyself!" Hopefully this book will serve as a Materia Medica as well as a Repertory. This modest effort is not the medicine, but only a guide to its selection.
Can any thinking person, with unprejudiced, holoscopic vision, not see that strong medicine is required? We live in one of the most exciting and fascinating periods in human history. Strong manipulative forces are militating against our gaining mastery over ourselves. Television, computer games, bio-engineering and other 'quick fix' or instant gratification techniques are cleverly contrived to shorten our attention spans and give us the illusion that our salvation lies in the miracles of modern technology. All technology can really promise, however, is to make our lives easier, it can say nothing about making it any better. And, as far as it goes, there's nothing wrong with that! so long as we keep it in perspective and remember its limitations. How can anyone study the achievements of modern technology without feeling moved to praise them? What we're seeing really is the logical extrapolation of the invention of the lever, the wheel, and countless other ingenious devices developed over the past several millennia to make our lives easier and more productive. But there's the key. What do we mean by 'more productive'? If we mean more productive in developing greater technologies I think we could safely say that we've gone far enough in that direction. Indeed, many have said that we've gone too far. We have followed our heads without harkening to our hearts. The result is that civilization has become increasingly cold, calculating and heartless. For countless souls life has lost all meaning and purpose. It is for this reason that they have turned to psychotropic drugs, "virtual realities," random shootings and other escapist past-times. Furthermore, whole institutions have devolved and degenerated into their antitheses, the opposite of what they purport to be. A subtle yet pervasive Inversion Factor has permeated our times. It appears obvious that the direction of our seeking and the thrust of our endeavors must radically change.
What is this new direction? It's not really new at all, only new for our times. We must endeavor now to apprehend the spirit, that vast reality operating behind what we see with our physical senses. Therein lies our only salvation. Therein lies the "real reality." And we are indeed blessed that a great teacher has come forward to show us a safe and sure path to a deeper comprehension of that hidden reality, to the wisdom of the universe from which we have strayed so far.
Because of this Inversion Factor, growing numbers of people with intellectual integrity are no longer satisfied with what the 'authorities' have to say. They feel constrained out of an inner necessity to 'test the spirits, to see that they are of God.' Only then can an erstwhile shaky faith--dogmatism being in direct proportion to, and indicative of, such shakiness--become knowledge. (And make no mistake, dogmatism is just as virulent in the so-called 'scientific' community as in the most fundamentalist of sects.) Finally, erected on a solid epistemological and ontological foundation, such knowledge can house that rarest of present-day human virtues, a living and meaningful wisdom.
But such wisdom can never be a marketplace commodity. There are no instant-wisdom kits for sale in even the best stocked bookshops or amply-endowed universities.. This Study Guide is no exception. It should, therefore, not be construed as a substitute for the inner effort required for a true working knowledge of Steiner's spiritual science called Anthroposophy.
While this work is designed to be used by itself--i.e., I've tried to make it as 'readable' as possible--it's main function is as a study guide. Study is, after all, only the first step in the pursuit of modern initiation.
It is important to remember that Steiner sometimes modified and revised his observations as his powers, and his audience, matured, and as he found more modern terms for the highly technical and sometimes difficult to understand Sanskrit. Some references listed in this work are from his earlier lectures and may well have been refined later. For this reason the year that the cycle of lectures was given is listed below. Also the cities are listed where the lectures were presented. It is interesting to note how varied his approach was to different audiences in different parts of Europe.
The 50 lecture cycles covered by Adolf Arenson in his Leitfaden are not included in this work, except perhaps only briefly for important cross references. Unfortunately, Arenson's great work has not yet been translated into English but many serious students probably have their own copy anyway. A listing of the cycles covered by Arenson is included in the Appendix at the end of this work.
If this Study Guide helps the reader to a deeper appreciation of the vast scope and depth of Steiner's living anthroposophy I will feel amply rewarded for my efforts in compiling it.
Buffalo, New York
Michaelmas, 1993
Many thanks for taking time to go over this work. Any comments, criticisms about, or contributions to, this Guide will be gratefully received. This is a major undertaking, virtually endless in its potential and scope. If you have a card file--or similar source--of quotations you'd like to see included in this Guide, please send them along and, time and money allowing, I'll consider their inclusion as I update and enlarge this work.
First, look up the key word or phrase you're interested in. This is usually followed by a short quotation or description. After this is a number, usually followed by a slash, then another number. The first of these is the number of the lecture in that particular cycle. After the slash is the page number.
Example: 19/146, FE. The Lecture Cycle is Foundations of Esotericism, Lecture 19, page 146.
Note: If you click on the Abbreviation FE, it will take you to the Book/Lecture Cycle in the First List.
Different editions of the various cycles may have slightly different page numbers. This is why the number of the lecture is included. Booklets of only one lecture will not have the slash, and will only have the page number. Then comes the abbreviation of the name of the lecture or cycle.
Cycles to specialized audiences (Waldorf teachers, physicians, eurythmists, etc.) are not covered in this more generalized work except for a few quotations seen to have a more universal application. One of the most difficult jobs of editing a Guide such as this is having to decide what not to include.
Boldface words within a citation refer to additional listings.
Abbreviations used in Text
rel. related , or relationship
betw. between
CTC Citations to come
??? Request for assistance
257 AC Awakening to Community; Dornach, Stuttgart, 1923
193 AD Ahrimanic Deception, The Zurich, 1919
339 AL Art of Lecturing Dornach, 1921
323 AS The So-called 'Astronomy' Course (The Relation of the Diverse Branches of Natural Science to Astronomy - MS) Stuttgart, 1921
158 BW Balance in the World and Man, The, Lucifer and Ahriman Dornach, 1914
306 CC Child's Changing Consciousness & Waldorf Ed., The Dornach, 1923
186 CT Challenge of the Times, The Dornach, 1918
354 EE Evolution of the Earth & Man, The, & Influence of the Stars, The Dornach, 1924
233 EF Easter Festival in relation to the Mysteries Dornach, 1924
93a FE Foundations of Esotericism Berlin, 1905
RSU/Xmas FM1 Festivals and their Meaning, Vol. 1, Christmas Various, 1905-1921
172 KW Karma of Vocation Dornach, 1916
191/193 LA Lucifer and Ahriman, The Influeces of Dornach & Berne, 1919
201 MH Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe Dornach, 1920
214 MT Mystery of the Trinity-Mission of the Spirit Dornach, Oxford & London, 1922
210 ON Old & New Methods of Initiation Dornach, Mannheim & Breslau, 1921
101 OS Occult Signs and Symbols Stutgart, 1907
104a RP Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse Munich, 1907, & Christiania, 1909
155 SF The Spiritual Foundation of Morality; Anthroposophical Ethics 1912
243 TF True & False Paths in Spiritual Investigation Torquay, 1924
184 TS Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind; The connection of the Luciferic- Ahrimanic Impulses with the Christ-Jahve Impulse Dornach, 1918
Including Publication Information for Specific Editions Used in Compiling this Study Guide
93a FE Foundations of Esotericism Berlin, 1905
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1983)
101 OS Occult Signs and Symbols Stutgart, 1907
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1972)
104a RP Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse Munich, 1907, & Christiania, 1909
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, no date)
123 (A15) Gospel of St. Matthew Berne, 1910
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1965)
257 AC Awakening to Community; Dornach, Stuttgart, 1923
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, no date)
158 BW Balance in the World and Man, The, Lucifer and Ahriman Dornach, 1914
(Steiner Book Centre, N. Vancouver, 1977)
172 KW Karma of Vocation, The Dornach, 1916
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 2nd Edit. 1988)
184 TS Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind; The connection of the Luciferic- Ahrimanic Impulses with the Christ-Jahve Impulse Dornach, 1918
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1965)
186 CT Challenge of the Times, The Dornach, 1918
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1941)
191 & 193 LA Lucifer and Ahriman, The Influences of Dornach & Berne, 1919
(Steiner Book Centre, N. Vancouver, 1976)
193 AD Ahrimanic Deception, The Zurich, 1919
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1985)
201 MH Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe Dornach, 1920
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1972)
210 ON Old & New Methods of Initiation Dornach, Mannheim & Breslau, 1921
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1991)
214 MT Mystery of Trinity, The; and The Mission of the Spirit Dornach, Oxford & London, 1922
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1991)
233 EF Easter Festival in relation to the Mysteries Dornach, 1924
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1968)
243 TF True & False Paths in Spiritual Investigation Torquay, 1924
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 2nd edition, 1969)
155 SF Spiritual Foundation of Morality (formerly Anthroposophical Ethics) 1912
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, no date)
306 CC Child's Changing Consciousness & Waldorf Education Dornach, 1923
(Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1988)
323 AS 'Astronomy' Course (The Relation of the Diverse
Branches of Natural Science to Astronomy)
(Manuscript copy) Stutgart, 1921
339 AL Art of Lecturing, The Dornach, 1921
(Mercury Press, Spring Valley, 1984)
354 EE Evolution of the Earth and Man, The: and the Influence of the Stars (Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, 1987) Dornach, 1924
RSU/Xmas FM1 Festivals and their Meaning, Vol. 1, Christmas
(Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 2nd Edit. 1967) Various, 1904-1921
Some confusion may arise because of various translators' and publishers' renderings of the previous and future incarnations of the earth. There is little consistency in Saturn, Sun and Moon (the previous physical incarnations or 'Conditions of Consciousness,' nor in Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan (the future incarnations). Except for Vulcan, they can easily be confounded with the existing planets of the same name. Since all quotations cited in this text were lifted verbatim, the reader can become unnecessarily bewildered. Where the context does not clarify this situation, I have inserted the word [old] or [future] in brackets. In fact, throughout this text, brackets are used to distinguish my comments from Steiner's.
In his early lectures to Theosophical audiences Rudolf Steiner used terms they were familiar with. What he later called Great Epochs which were sub-divided into Cultural Epochs, he earlier called Root Races and Sub Races respectively. For example, if in an early lecture he referred to the Fourth Sub-race of the Fourth Root Race he would later have called this the Fourth Post-Atlantean Cultural Epoch, (the Greco-Latin). See the Sevens Table for a simplified overview of this cosmogonic schema as Steiner saw it.
It is particularly interesting to note the qualities of the first Condition of Consciousness or planetary embodiment (Ancient Saturn), reflected in the first Great Epoch (Polarean), and further reflected in the first Cultural Epoch (Ancient Indian). Similarly, the second Condition of Consciousness (Ancient Sun) reflected in the second Great Epoch (Hyperborean), with its correspondence in the second Cultural Epoch (Ancient Persian). However it would take far too much space here to explore these correspondences any further, as it would to explore the reflections of the first in the seventh, the second in the sixth etc.
Since it is possible even for long-time students of anthroposophy to get confused in these matters, the Sevens Table has been included for quick reference.
Another frequent source of confusion is in Steiner's naming of the various choirs of the Spiritual Hierarchies. Perhaps the most famous cataloging of these exalted Beings was by Dionysius the Areopagite (q.v. in Guide ), whose The Celestial Hierarchies has become something of a classic. (Translated from the Greek by the Editors of The Shrine of Wisdom. Manual No. 15, The Shrine of Wisdom, London, 1935.) It is because of Steiner's intimate converse with these lofty Beings that he was able to ascribe names to them which are much more meaningful to the modern student than the traditional Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, etc. That he was able to do this, in great reverence for these Beings, without costing anything in the loss of such reverence, no, in fact, enhancing our reverence for them, is a great tribute to Dr. Steiner's genius and sensitivity. The Spiritual Scientific names, together with their traditional counterparts, are listed in the Spiritual Hierarchies Table
The Fifty Fundamental Cycles of Arenson's Leitfaden
[Not Included in this Guide, Except for a few Isolated Cross-References]
Arenson Bibliographic
No. ~ Survey # ~~ Title ~~~~~~~ City, Year
1 95 At the Gates of Spiritual Science Stuttgart, 1906
2 99 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian Munich, 1907
3 103 The Gospel of St. John Hamburg, 1908
4 105 Universe, Earth and Man Stuttgart, 1908
5 106 Egyptian Myths and Mysteries Leipzig, 1908
6 104 The Apocalypse of St. John Nuremberg, 1908
7 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the Physical World Düsseldorf, 1909
8 112 Gospel of John and its Relation to the Other Gospels Cassel, 1909
9 113 The East in the Light of the West Munich, 1909
10 114 The Gospel of St. Luke Basel, 1909
11 109 Rosicrucian Esotericism Budapest, 1909
12 120 Manifestations of Karma Hamburg, 1910
13 121 The Mission of (the Individual) Folk Souls Christiania (Oslo), 1910
14 122 Genesis (Secrets of the Bible Story of Creation) Munich, 1910
15 123 Gospel of St. Matthew Bern, 1910
16 126 Occult History Stuttgart, 1910/11
17 116 Christ Impulse and Development of Ego-consciousness Berlin, 1909/10
18 129 Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit Munich, 1911
19 131 From Jesus to Christ Carlsruhe, 1911
20 134 World of Senses and World of Spirit Hannover, 1911/12
21 136 Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature
Helsingfors(Helsinki), 1912
22 137 Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy Christiania (Oslo), 1912
23 138 Initiation, Eternity & the Passing Moment Munich, 1912
24 139 Gospel of St. Mark Basel, 1912
25 142 Bhagavad Gita and Epistles of Paul Cologne, 1912/13
26 144 Mysteries of the East & of Christianity Berlin, 1913
27 145 Effects of Occult Development on the Self and on the Sheaths of Man The Hague, 1913
28 146 Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita Helsingfors (Helsinki), 1913
29 147 Secrets of the Threshold Munich, 1913
30 124 Background to the Gospel of Mark Berlin, 1910/11
31 149 Christ & Spiritual World - Holy Grail Leipzig, 1913/14
32 153 Inner Nature of Man - Life Between Death and Rebirth Vienna, 1914
33 151 Human and Cosmic Thought Berlin, 1914
34 155 Christ and the Human Soul Norrköping, 1914
35 132 Inner Realities of Evolution Berlin, 1911
36 133 Earthly & Cosmic Man Berlin, 1911/12
37 141 Life Between Death and Rebirth Berlin, 1912/13
38 (Has not appeared in German)
39 157 Destinies of Individuals & Nations Berlin, 1914/15
40 157 Forming of Destiny & Life after Death Berlin, 1915
41 166 Necessity & Freedom in Human History Berlin, 1916
42 167 Things of Present & Past...(MS) Berlin, 1916
43 169 Cosmic Being & Egohood (MS) Berlin, 1916
44 175 Building Stones to an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha Berlin, 1917
45 175 " " " " " "
46 176 Aspects of Human Evolution Berlin, 1917
47 176 Karma of Materialism Berlin, 1917
48 181a Earthly Death & Cosmic Life Berlin, 1918
49 181b Anthroposophical Life Gifts (MS) Berlin, 1918
50 181c A Sound Outlook for Today...(MS) Berlin, 1918
A 107 Being of Man & His Future Evolution Berlin, 1908/09
A\OP 128 An Occult Physiology Prague, 1911
AC Awakening to Community
AD Ahrimanic Deception, The
AL Art of Lecturing
AS The so-called Astronomy Course
BW Balance in the World and Man, The; Lucifer and Ahriman
CC Child's Changing Consciousness & Waldorf Education, The
CT Challenge of the Times, The
EE Evolution of Earth & Man, The, & Influence of the Stars, The
EF Easter Festival in relation to the Mysteries
FE Foundations of Esotericism
FM1 Festivals and their Meaning, Vol 1, Christmas
KW Karma of Vocation
LA Lucifer and Ahriman, the Influences of
MH Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe
MT Mystery of the Trinity-Mission of the Spirit
ON Old and New Methods of Initiation
OS Occult Signs and Symbols
RP Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse
SF Spiritual Foundations of Morality
TF True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation
TS Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind; Luciferic/Ahrimanic-Christ/Jahve Impulse
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Abel (or Seth): as initiate. ~~~Pt. 1, 4/61, RP.
Abraham: Founder of the Fifth Sub-Race [Epoch]. The task of Abraham "was to carry into the human realm all that had been held in veneration in the outside world; to create initiates who laid great value on what was human, in order to found the cult of the personality." ~~~31/259, FE.
Activity, Wisdom (or Word), & Will: Steiner's early conception of threefold man. ~~~2/7 ff. FE.
Adonis Festival: ~~~1/19 ff. EF.
advertising: "Here is a shoe store, a hardware store, a butcher shop. then a tavern, etc. All this is alien to the inner soul processes; it is related only to the outer man. Thus, it generates those soul forces that tend towards materialism. These influences work much more strongly than do the dogmas of materialism. Add to these our horrible art of advertising. Old and young wander through a sea of such abominable products that wake the most evil forces of the soul. So likewise do our modern comic [books]. ~~~2/17,OS.
Agni: fire beings, from whom man drew down warmth. "The Promethean-Saga is based on this fact."~~~28/228, FE.
Ahaseuerus: Legend of 'wandering Jew,' because he had pushed the redeemer away from himself. ~~~Pt. 1,4/51,RP.
Ahriman: in Hebrew, Mephiz-Tophel, Mephistopheles. ~~~Pt. 2, 4/87,RP.
Ahriman: "One of the developments in which A.'s impulse is clearly evident is the spread of the belief that the mechanistic, mathematical conceptions inaugurated by Galileo, Copernicus and others, explain what is happening in the cosmos. That is why anthroposophical spiritual science lays such stress upon the fact that spirit and soul must be discerned in the cosmos...."~~~1/11,LA.
Ahriman: "Another tendency in modern life of benefit to Ahriman in preparing his incarnation is all that is so clearly in evidence in nationalism. ~~~1/13, LA.
Ahriman: "But the truth of the matter is that Lucifer and Ahriman must be regarded as two scales of a balance and it is we who must hold the beam in equipoise.
"And how can we train ourselves to do this?--By permeating what takes Ahrimanic form within us with a strongly Luciferic element.... There is nothing more Ahrimanic than this knowledge of the material world, for it is sheer illusion. Nevertheless if the Fata Morgana that arises out of chemistry, out of physics, out of astronomy and the like can fill us with fiery enthusiasm and interest, then through our interest--which is itself Luciferic--we can wrest from Ahriman what is his own.
"That, however, is just what human beings have no desire to do; they find it irksome. And many people who flee from external, materialistic knowledge are misconceiving their task and preparing the best possible incarnation for Ahriman in earth-existence. Again, what wells up in man's inmost being to-day is very strongly Luciferic. How can we train ourselves rightly in this direction?--By diving into it with our Ahrimanic nature, that is to say, by trying to avoid all illusions about our own inner life and impulses and observing ourselves just as we observe the outer world. Modern man must realise how urgent it is to educate himself in this way....
"A man [complains about] how indignant he is with countless human beings. He describes minutely how this or that in a, in b, in c, and so on, angers him. He has not an inkling that he is simply talking about his own characteristics. This peculiarity in human beings was never so widespread as it is to-day. And those who believe they are free of it, are the greatest culprits."~~~2/28-9,LA.
Ahriman: "Through certain stupendous arts he [Ahriman] would bring to man all the clairvoyant knowledge which until then can be acquired only by dint of intense labour and effort. Men could live on as materialists...and there would be no need for any spiritual efforts.... When Ahriman incarnates in the West at the appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for the practice of magic arts of the greatest grandeur, and what otherwise can be acquired only be strenuous effort would be poured over mankind.
"Let it never be imagined that Ahriman will appear as a kind of hoaxer, playing mischievous tricks on human beings. No, indeed! Lovers of ease who refuse to have anything to do with spiritual science, would fall prey to his magic, for by means of these stupendous magic arts he would be able to make great numbers of human beings into seers--but in such a way that the clairvoyance of each individual would be strictly differentiated. What one person would see, a second and a third would not see. Confusion would prevail and in spite of being made receptive to clairvoyant wisdom, men would inevitably fall into strife on account of the sheer diversity of their visions.... all culture on the earth would fall prey to Ahriman....No more evil advice could be given than to say: 'Stay just as you are! Ahriman will make all of you clairvoyant if you so desire. And you will desire it because Ahriman's power will be very great.'--But the result would be the establishment of Ahriman's kingdom on earth and the over-throw of everything achieved hitherto by human culture; all the disastrous tendencies unconsciously cherished by mankind to-day would take effect.
"Our concern is that the wisdom of the future--a clairvoyant wisdom--shall be rescued from the clutches of Ahriman.... The issue is whether this wisdom is in the hands of Ahriman or of Christ. It cannot come into the hands of Christ unless men fight for it. And they can only fight for it by telling themselves that by their own efforts they must assimilate the content of spiritual science before the time of Ahriman's appearance on earth."~~~4/57 ff. LA.
Ahriman: "We know very well that we have no occasion either to hate Ahriman or to fear Lucifer, since their powers are inimical only when they are working outside the realm where they belong."~~~3/32, BW.
Ahriman: "When we are awake, Ahriman has the upper hand over Lucifer, and when we are asleep Lucifer has the upper hand over Ahriman."~~~3/41, BW.
Ahriman: Thinking is a result of Ahriman exerting his influence in our etheric body [willing a result of Lucifer's influence]. ~~~3/34, BW.
Ahriman: is responsible for similarity, uniformity.~~~1/28, TS.
Ahrimanic: "All that is connected with man's lust for ruling over his fellows, all that is in opposition to healthy social impulses, is of an Ahrimanic nature.... The man possessed by Ahriman would like to have as many men as possible in his power and then to proceed...to make use of human frailty in order to rule over men."~~~1/20, TS.
see also chauvinism, fundamentalism, tedium, languages.
Ahrimanic/Luciferic cycle: While the outer influence of one is stronger, the other is weaker. In Atlantean times Ahriman's influence predominated. During Lemurian times and during our present fifth major epoch Lucifer's influence is stronger. Illustration of these two cycles.~~~2/31-2, TS.
Alexander: A. was born during the burning of the Temple of Ephesus.~~~4/71, EF.
alcohol: see wine.
Amen: when the I has worked down into the physical body (in Christian esotericism). ~~~Pt. 1, 4/53,RP.
anatomy & physiology: not real knowledge, does not look into the real interior of man. ~~~7/110-11,MH.
ancestor worship: Shows the progress from a.w. (of Archai, or Time Spirits), to Polytheism (Archangels), Monotheism (Angels), and finally to Divine Man (Christ). If Christ had not intervened we would be worshiping humans, as was started with the Ceasars.~~~10/191 ff. KV.
animal: "in the a. the being of the astral is made manifest."~~~2/33.MT.
animal group souls: described. also, seeing them as a spiritual exercise.~~~2/50 ff.TF.
animal group souls: "In the astral world one finds beings like one's self, but in astral sheaths rather than physical. One can speak with them as to one's peers. These are the a. g. s.~~~4/52, OS.
animals: Snake, symbol for the earth; fish is the symbol for spiritual being as it has developed itself out of the Sun; butterfly, as an air being, goes through four forms: egg, larva, pupa, and butterfly. "This is the hieroglyph...for the airy condition of the human being on the Sun." The bee, taken as a whole group, stands somewhat higher than man. It is a fire being.~~~2/27 ff. OS.
Anthroposophical Society: "Things must be seen as they really are. Actually the people of today should be yearning to see things as they are. Therefore, it is a duty to describe these things wherever possible, and they can be described today within the A. S. I hope that this society, at least, may some day wake up."~~~1/27,MT.
Anthroposophical world view: "Those who take the anthroposophical view of the world seriously, and the movement associated with it, will see in what it has to say to mankind no child's play but great and earnest, soul-shaking truths."~~~4/68,FM1.
Anthroposophy, preparation for: "The world presents a picture of disruption and increasing chaos. Yet we know that amidst this chaos, this welter of dark, obscuring passions that threaten to destroy everything, the intuitives are aware of the presence of spiritual powers who are actively striving to awaken in man a new spirituality. And preparation for Anthroposophy consists fundamentally in listening to this voice of the spirit that can still be heard amid the clamour of our materialistic age."~~~6/121,TF.
Anthroposophy: could have a new name every day. ~~~2/23,CC.
ants: Their soul is in the ant heaps. This is why the behavior of the ants is so precisely regulated. ~~~3/21, 29, FE.
apes: represent the last lower instincts to fall or be pushed into physical matter before the soul of the human being was itself hardened in matter. ~~~Pt. 2, 8/114,RP.
Apocalypse: as book of initiation and a prophetic book.
~~~Pt. 1, 4/47, 48,RP.
Apocalypse: "Must souls of the present day be condemned to incarnate in a morally degenerate humanity, in an evil race? [as indicated in the Apocalypse] We must answer with a decisive 'no.'". ~~~Pt. 1, 4/49,RP.
archangelic time periods: [from Steiner's notebook, as footnote]
1879-1510 Gabriel Moon
1510-1190 Samael Mars
1190-850 Raphael Mercury
850-500 Zachariel Jupiter
500-150 Anael Venus
150-200 BC Oriphiel Saturn~~~7/139, TF.
Ark, Noah's: proportions of N's. A.~~~1/14 ff. OS.
arteriosclerosis: from too much protein.~~~6/102, EE.
arteriosclerosis: as polar opposite of hey fever, "a kind of safety valve against arteriosclerosis." Materialism contributes towards a.~~~7/113 ff.EE.
arms: more awake than legs. part of man's rhythmic system. ~~~9/125-6, MH.
Artist, Greek: used no models, rather he painted or sculpted from spiritual impulses.~~~1/29, TF.
ash: (tree), In Germanic mythology the threefold human nature is portrayed by the world-ash. ~~~Pt. 1, 4/53,RP.
astral, in plants: Where the belladonna, the black deadly nightshade grows, "if you transpose yourself into the state of consciousness of which I have spoken, you will meet with totally different beings, horrible, demoniac beings who also belong to this world. Colchicum autumnale [Autumn Crocus] and belladonna therefore are mediums which permit beings of the next world to enter into them and which in their other aspect really belong to the world of the dead."~~~8/158 ff,TF.
astral body: CTC
astral light: ether densifies to astral light. "In this Astral Light radiates the third Globe (condition of form), the Astral-Earth; it radiates in the purest Astral Light, and this Astral Light is in fact entirely composed of the same substance in which later man's auric egg shines out." great deeds of initiates not found in astral light, but in the ether. ~~~10/68, ff. FE.
astral space: errors that one encounters when one enters a.s. ~~~20/153 ff. FE.
astronomy, Egyptian solar: ~~~13/175 ff. MH.
astronomy: Two different astronomies: stellar/Lunar and Solar. Also: Saros period. ~~~14/190 ff.MH.
Asuras: As., as retrograde beings from Old Moon, feed on lower astral substance. "Through our baser thoughts we provide nourishment for these asuric beings. ~~~19/143-4, FE.
Atlantean Mysteries: like schools or churches. Later Steiner called them 'Oracles.' ~~~Pt. 2, 2/73,RP.
Atlantean physiognomy: "If you look today at someone with hydrocephalus, he does not have a backward sloping forehead, but a high, prominent one, so the Atlantean head was much more like the hydrocephalic head." These were watery. Later, in early post-Atlantean times, the Neanderthal type appeared with slanted forehead. This was a transitional stage. Then later the forehead became more prominent again.~~~4/57 ff.EE.
Atlantean physique & Powers: Physique was much thinner than we see today. Could deflect cannonballs (if they existed then) by power of soul. ~~~Pt. 2, 6/104RP.
attacks, answering [when lecturing]: "Just in such things it is a question of the unwavering decision to be only, only, only truthful and when the attack is not such that we are challenged to a discussion, then there are present, as a rule all the conditions for understanding."~~~1/18, AL.
Augustine: A's quote on Christianity, or true religion, existing before the Mystery of Golgotha. ~~~Pt. 1, 1/25, 26 f,RP.
Augustine: Augustinian doctrine of predestination had to make its appearance to counter the ideas of reincarnation. ~~~8/55, FE.
Augustine: see also evolution/involution.
Aum: expresses the Trinity, the breath. 'The breath is related to the word as the Holy Spirit is to Christ, as the Atma is to the Ich.'. ~~~2/14, 15, FE.
aura: green, sympathy & compassion. red, "brownish red, brick red, blood red. Especially with droshky-drivers one can see such a red, indicative of the lower passions." ~~~10/64, FE.
auric egg: "With every human being all the fluctuations of the astral body are enclosed in an egg-shaped sheath." Blavatsky calls it the 'auric egg.' "In the lower parts however little children also have dark clouds, indicating lower impulses. This is the inherited Karma...inherited down to the seventh generation." ~~~10/64-5, ff. FE.
authority, faith in: "This is a bitter truth today. [choosing the least qualified to lead] Yet, it would be recognized if the present age were not entirely under the influence of the most far-reaching faith in authority, stupor of opportunism, and dominated by what is called public opinion.... People would see what is of real importance here if it were not for the immense influence of present public opinion that flows from such muddy sources. We must, therefore, understand that our age has to be educated to a stronger grasp of life through learning to see that we are immersed in one-sidedness, in the selection of the worst. This must come to pass in spite of so-called public opinion and its hero worship of the least qualified people."~~~5/89-90, KV.
Averroës: How he was influenced by the Academy of Jundí Sábúr. ~~~5/91 ff. TS.
Avitchi: leading to inhabitation of Eighth Sphere (q.v.) [hell]. ~~~14/106, FE.
axiom of polarity: "Every quality has two opposite poles." ~~~
~~~6/40, FE.
axis, of Earth: vis-à-vis the ecliptic. ~~~13/172, MH.
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Bacon, Roger: How the gnostic wisdom of Jundí Sábúr flowed into him.~~~4/90,TS.
bacteria: caused by fear, hate and alarm. ~~~29/234, FE.
Barnabas, Epistle of: (included in the early Greek Bible) Steiner's reference to the Epistle's indication of the fact of Christ holding the Beast (Sorat) in balance.~~~4/79-ff, TS.
Beast: with two horns. ~~~Pt. 1, 1/23, RP.
beauty: b. can only be developed out of pain.~~~Pt. 1, 1/90,MT.
bed: oriented east-west for easier cures. ~~~5/69,MH.
beehive, consciousness of: is immensely lofty. The wisdom of this consciousness will be attained in the Venus existence. ~~~ ~~~4/24, 25, FE.
"Beginning, in the": in the Bible this refers to the Archai, or Primal Beginnings. ~~~13/89, FE.
belladonna: see astral, in plants.
Besant, Annie: Certain individuals within the Theosophical Society tried to keep her on track.~~~7/139,KV.
Bhodi tree: as cerebellum. ~~~12/82, FE.
bird: and man comparison.~~~1/13,EE.
black magicians: and hypnosis. ~~~2/12, FE.
black magicians: we can meet them in the astral space, their training, etc. ~~~20/149-50, FE.
black magicians: B. ms. employ Moon forces that still exist on Earth. They contact elementary beings. "The black magician...who works with the Moon forces, who has captured them in his retorts and crucibles is caught in a vortex of those elementary beings."~~~
~~~7/149,TF.
Blavatsky: praise of her writings. ~~~Pt. 1, 3/38-9, RP.
Blavatsky: How she appeared "at the very time when the struggle was most bitter between the so-called esotericists and the so-called progressive occultists. That is, the reactionaries called themselves the esotericists."~~~7/134 ff.KV.
blood: as a living thing. forms the heart. ~~~3/46,MH.
blood circulation: in one life becomes nerve system in next. ~~~
~~~7/117,MH.
blood circulation: b.c. dependent on Deva beings. ~~~12/83, FE.
blue sky: "What you sense in the coldness of the blue sky, unmitigated by earthly sultriness--this is an all-embracing ahrimanic influence. The ahrimanic influence causes space to be petrified, congealed into blueness. Take note of this expression! It is unusual, but if you gradually come to sense what it means to say that space is petrified, congealed into blueness, you will have discovered the ahrimanic tendency in external nature."~~~6/63,ON.
Bodhisattva: described. ~~~6/42, FE.
bodies: "In the physical body form and force are the essentials, in the etheric body, movement and life: in the astral body, consciousness." ~~~3/40, BW.
body: "The body is here as the school through which to wrestle through to immortality with self-consciousness."~~~3/34,OS.
Boehme, Jakob: The karma of his vocation as shoemaker.~~~3/65 ff. KV.
Book: Swallowing (in Apocalypse), indicating the seer's expanding of his consciousness over the entire earth. ~~~Pt. 1, 1/34,RP.
Book: B. indigestible for the lower human being, but like honey for the higher. ~~~Pt. 2, 9/120, RP.
brain: story of weight of Bischoff's brain. Bischoff maintained that women had lighter brains than men. When he died it was found that his was the lightest of all. ~~~5/73, MH.
brain: B. rel. to starry heavens. ~~~15/206, MH.
brain: b. is stiffer, more rigid than in Egyptian times.~~~11/185,EE.
breathing: as an exercise. ~~~4/51,MH.
Buddha's: most important pupil, Cassapa, incorruptible body. ~~~
~~~Pt. 2, 4/91,RP.
bull: symbol of fertility; lion is symbol of courage.~~~
~~~23/183, FE.
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Cain & Abel: Abel represented the Moon race, Cain the Sun race. "Thus when the Lemurian Age was approaching its end two human types faced each other: the one kind, [Cain] the Sons of the Moon, who bred animals and nourished themselves from what the animals produced, from their milk; and a second kind who fed on plants, on the produce of the Earth." ~~~30/244, FE.
Calderón (de la Barca y Henao), Pedro: "How can man be filled with Christ? This question lived most strongly in Spain, and we see in C. a poet who knew how to depict this struggle with great intensity.... C's. most characteristic drama in this respect is about Cyprianus, a kind of miracle-working magician.... A later metamorphosis of this character is Faust.... The whole of the Christian struggle of the Middle Ages is contained in this drama" [El magico prodigioso (The Prodigious Magician), 1637]
~~~9/103 ff.ON.
Calvin: see evolution/involution.
cancer symbol, [two interwoven spirals]: "This symbol has always stood for important matters in the universe. If we have to speak of an atomistic world, we should not imagine it in the abstract way common today. We should imagine it in the image of this spiral...."~~~3/30, ON.
Capella, Martianus: his involvement with the seven liberal arts in his De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. ~~~1/22,3,MT.
carbon: rel. to philosopher's stone. ~~~4/26 ff. FE.
Castes: will return in 7th Post Atlantean Epoch. ~~~Pt. 2, 9/117,RP.
Cassapa: Buddha's pupil.
Categories: Cs. listed, together with the comment: "And fundamentally speaking, all that Anthroposophy has brought forth, and all that it can ever bring forth, is experienced from out of these concepts just as what you read in Faust is experienced from out of the letters. For in these simple concepts as the Cosmic Alphabet, all secrets of the spiritual and physical worlds are contained." ~~~4/73 ff. EF.
[See also Karmic Relationships, Vol II, Lecture 9, p. 143, and Vol III, Lect. 8, pp. 129-30. Also "Man, The Creation of Cosmic Powers" by Ita Wegman, Golden Blade, 1969, p. 95.]~~~
Catholic Church: One of the principal reasons why Anthroposophy is prohibited from the RC side is that in Anthroposophy we have to relinquish the erroneous statement that man consists of soul and body. In truth man consists of body, soul and spirit. ~~~
~~~9/130-1,MH.
Catholic Church: The C.C. struggle with occult societies. Questions of the encyclical of December 8, 1864, Freedom of Conscience and of Worship. ~~~7/143, KV.
Catholicism: Contrasts between those who seek the ritual of C. and those who seek spiritual science.~~~6/115 ff.TS.
cerebellum: is the Bodhi tree. ~~~12/82, FE.
Chaldean Calendar: "The Moon phases of twenty-eight days corresponded with the pattern of their own life experience of periods of six or seven years. And they felt that a Moon phase of one month was equivalent, in the life of man, to a period of twenty-eight years (4 x 7 years). This they expressed in the calendar by inserting an intercalary month every seventh year. In brief, their calculations were based on the Moon, not the Sun. See also Saros period. ~~~2/43, ff. TF.
Chaldean magician: description of. ~~~Pt. 2, 12/140,RP.
Chaldeans: how they saw or perceived things.~~~2/41, TF.
Chaldeans: "Cs. lived in larynx consciousness, whereas we today live in the heart consciousness."~~~3/71,TF.
channaling: see mediums, spiritism.
chauvinism: "C., perverted patriotism in every form--this is the material from which Ahriman will build just what he needs."~~~3/42,LA.
chauvinism: "C is more and more gaining the upper hand until it will finally lead men to split up to such an extent that at last a group will embrace only one single human being!. Things could come to the point where individual men would again split into right and left, and be at war within themselves; left would be at loggerheads with right. Such tendencies are even now evident in the evolution of mankind. To combat this, a counterweight must be created; and this counterweight can only be created if, like the old wisdom inherent in Paganism, a new wisdom, acquired by the free resolve and will of man, is infused into earthly culture. This new wisdom must again be in Initiation-wisdom." ~~~4/57,LA.
Chinese & Japanese: Ancient cultures, during Atlantean times, were vast in Asia. The present-day C. & J. are descendants of these. Description of changes. Their art, culture, etc. The present condition of the Chinese is a result of centuries of ill-treatment at the hands of the Europeans.~~~5/65 ff.EE.
Christ: as Lamb, at foot of cross. ~~~Pt. 1, 1/20, 21, RP.
Christ: as Lamb of God.~~~2/40, MT.
Christ: as Cosmic Man.~~~11/217, TF.
Christ: in every living thing, even the smallest. ~~~Pt. 2, 5/97, 98, RP.
Christ: "It is not enough to address Christ as: Lord, Lord! Christ must become something which fills the whole human being."~~~2/20,ON.
Christ: "In entering into Jesus of Nazareth, Christ nullified, through his entrance, not only the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body, but also the I, to the extent that it was developed in Jesus of Nazareth at that time. So that in Jesus Christ there dwelt the higher Christ principle, which is related to the I in the same way the I of the human being is related to the astral body."~~~4/62,MT.
Christ: C. mystery was proclaimed in its clearest and most pure form in the last remaining mystery centers of antiquity.~~~4/63,MT.
Christ: C. and freedom.~~~4/66 ff. MT.
Christ Impulse: "No real connection with the C. I. can be achieved to-day merely through reading the Gospels--but only an hallucinatory picture of the Christ.... without the deepened knowledge yielded by spiritual science the Gospels can give rise only to an hallucination of the Christ, not to vision of the Real Christ. And so Paul's vision at Damascus is also regarded as an hallucination."~~~3/45,LA.
Christ Impulse: We are never able to understand the C. I. through our senses, while in the physical world.~~~2/40 ff.TS.
Christ, reappearance of: in the 20th century.~~~6/114 ff. TS.
Christ, understanding: see other streams, Mystery of Golgotha.
Christianity: as the greatest possible individualization of the human being, the freedom of the human being as an individual. ~~~Pt. 1, 3/33,RP.
Christianity: "C. today is not realized in the world. C. is not realized, for fully to understand Christ means: to find man as man within oneself. Christ is no folk god, no god of any race. Christ is not the god of any group of human beings. He is the god of the individual, in so far as the individual is a member of the human race as a whole."~~~2/13,ON.
Christianity: "Only a clear understanding of C. will build the bridge between the life here on earth and the life that exists in the spiritual world. Quite a few people today have a need for this spiritual world but we must admit that their number is insignificant in relation to the large number of those people who are either mired in traditional religions--and thus have fallen prey to materialism even if they don't admit it--or whose lives are directly determined by materialism and who do not have a real connection with the spiritual world."~~~10/209, KV.
Christians before the Mystery of Golgotha: Heraclitus and Socrates.~~~6/61-2,ON.
Christmas: "For the Christmas impulse must not remain a merely intellectual, theoretic and abstract one. It must be an impulse of the heart, it must not be dry and matter-of-fact. It must be sacred, solemn, joyful, not in sentimentality but out of the reality of the thing itself."~~~4/76-7, EF.
Christophorus: As initiate of the third degree in ancient Mysteries. ~~~2/40, & 3/57 ff. EF.
Christ's words from Cross: "My God, my God, how you have glorified me!" ~~~Pt. 1, 1/27, RP.
Christ's words from the Cross: and when spoken by Christian initiates ~~~Pt. 1, 1/28,RP.
ALSO: as mistranslation by writer of Matthew Gospel.~~~123 (A-15), Gospel of St. Matthew, 12/220
Christ's Descent to Underworld: ~~~Pt. 2, 4/89, RP.
cigars: "A smoker, who was in the habit of smoking ten cigars a day, promised his doctor to smoke only nine from then on, to which the doctor replied, 'Oh no, by all means stay with your ten cigars: one more or less makes no difference!'" [quote by Steiner] "The Man, Rudolf Steiner," by Andrei Belyi, Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner, P. 14, by Andrei Belyi, Aasya Turgenieff & Margarita Voloschin, Adonis Press, 1987
civilization, collapse of: "...in truth, salvation for our collapsing civilization can only come from a spiritual life drawn from the real sources of the spirit. There is no other salvation. Without it, modern civilization, in so far as it is founded in Europe and reaches across to America, is drawing towards its close. Decay is the most important phenomenon of our time. There is no help in reaching compromises with decay. Help can only come from turning to something that can flourish above the grave, because it is more powerful than death. And that is spiritual life."~~~10/123,ON.
civilization, collapse of: "Civilised mankind must either establish the independence of the spiritual life or face collapse--with the inevitable result of an Asiatic influence taking effect in the future."~~~2/21,LA.
claws (in animals): created through aggression. ~~~
~~~Pt. 2, 8/114,RP.
clock face: as zodiac (2x12). ~~~Pt. 1, 1/22 RP.
coffee & tea: Rel. to concentration and conversation, respectively.~~~7/118 ff.EE.
cold-blooded animals: developed in a different way from the warm-blooded. ~~~6/40, FE.
color: subjective (after-images). ~~~7/96, MH.
colors: Greeks used only four: yellow, red, black and white. ~~~6/90,MH.
comets: and prussic acid. Steiner's observation, later confirmed by spectroanalysis.~~~3/46,EE.
comets: cs. break up and cause meteors which, in turn, give us 'cosmic remedies' for nervous disorders.~~~13/218,EE.
Comforter [Therapeut]: In the earliest days of Christianity Christ was the C.~~~Pt. 2, 3/117, MT.
comic books: see advertising
Confucius: see Chinese & Japanese.
consciousness: "We live now in an age when man must consciously begin to make clear to himself what is working in his soul. We know why the time is past when man could draw from an unconscious source the impulses he needed to guide him further. To-day he must begin consciously to enter the realm in which lives his soul-nature, and this soul-nature is generated by consciousness."~~~1/26,TS.
consciousness, five stages of: ordinary day consciousness; in the larynx; in the region of the eyes; "a fourth, that reaches out into the universe, at the crown of the head; and a fifth that is unrelated to the worlds of space and leads us back into the world of time. We travel through time; when we attain this fifth level of consciousness we share the same time-scale in reverse as the deceased."~~~Lecture 5,TF.
consciousness soul: CTC
consciousness soul: see scholastics.
contradiction of our time: "This is the fundamental c. of our t. This contradiction is what we must be attentive to. For if we fail to look at these spiritual realities we shall never understand the source of all the confusion, of all the contradictions and inconsistencies, in the endeavors of the present day. But the easygoing comfort of our time does not allow people to awaken and really to look into these contradictory tendencies."~~~1/26,MT.
corpse, cosmic: We work on the corpse of our spirit and soul element in our world of thoughts.~~~8/86 ff.ON.
cosmic script: see Categories
Cosmo-Sophia: In the 3rd Post-Atlantean period they achieved a Cosmo-Sophia. "This cosmosophy still contained an indication of the divine, spiritual beings, but what was seen tended to be merely a cosmic script expressing the deeds of these beings."~~~
~~~3/24,ON.
Creating: The three ways of creating:
Combining of existing parts: Form
Producing new formations with new Life
content out of existing foundations: Life
Creating out of nothing: Consciousness~~~27/213 ff., FE.
creation out of nothing: Through two forms: evolution and involution.~~~3/39 ff.OS.
cross: "The symbolism of the Cross depicts the development from the Sun, through the Moon to the Earth. On the Earth the symbol of the Cross was attained by the addition of the upper vertical member above the T [Tau, q.v.] ~~~23/177, FE.
Crucifixion: "The crucifixion is not merely a single deed; it is a continuing deed. So long as we do not drive out the demons through what lives in our souls by changing external mechanical actions into holy actions, we will continue to crucify Christ. It is from this point that our education to a true Christianity must begin. What was symbolically practiced in the ancient cults of Christianity and was once performed only on the altar must take hold of the entire world.~~~10/206,KV.
cruelty: "...a quite definite characteristic that is widespread in the thought system of the present and is rooted in the subconscious. Since people lack the courage to practice this cruelty outwardly, they are cruel in their concepts and ideas."~~~6/105 ff. KV.
crystal: meditation. ~~~21/157-8, FE.
crystal: meditation.~~~3/59 ff.TF.
crystals: created by humans during old Moon. ~~~Pt. 2, 11/129, RP.
Cultural Epoch: related to Great Epoch. ~~~Pt. 2, 6/101-2,RP.
rel. of C. Es. to constellations. ~~~7/52, FE.
cycles, diurnal: rel. to man. ~~~3/43, MH.
cycle of head: seven times slower than of body. ~~~7/105,MH.
cycles, seven day & seven week: seven day cycle includes all the planets. seven week cycle as 1/7th of entire year. ~~~7/103-4,MH.
cycle of seven years: takes that time for anthroposophical truths to mature. ~~~7/107,MH.
Cyclops: When human beings possessed eyes like the C. illumination was brought about through the outstreaming light; this light streamed from within outwards. ~~~27/224, FE.
Cyprianus: see Calderón
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dead, communicating with: common memories, use of vowels, "language of the heart" etc.~~~Pt. 2, 2/100 ff.MT.
Descartes: Error in his Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.') ~~~16/214, MH.
Descartes: his Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) goes back to Augustine. "The proposition would have to run differently if we wished to establish the truth about man as he lives in the world of the senses. We should have to say: I think, therefore I am not. For the moment we begin simply to think, the moment we develop purely inward thinking, we are no more."~~~5/95,TS.
decay: "...we attain our freedom precisely through this decaying body, which is the base for our intellectual, abstract thoughts. Through this decaying body the human being has attained all that which a person, as an intellectually imbued scientist, is so proud of today."~~~Pt. 1, 4/59, MT.
demons: At the turn of the fourth to the fifth post-Atlantean period were two streams, the abstract heathen and the Christian. The heathen saw all natural creatures as inhabited by elemental spirits, "demonic spirits, those very demonic spirits who, in the Gospels, are said to have rebelled when Christ came amongst mankind, because they knew that their rule was at an end. Human beings failed to recognize Christ, but the demons recognized him.... Heathen consciousness...wrestled with that other form of knowledge which now sought in all earthly things the substance of Christ that had united with the earth through the Mystery of Golgotha."~~~9/101,ON.
Devechan: as world of effects (physical world as world of causes). ~~~14/101, FE.
diebetes: d. shows that a person has lost his instinct for nutrition.~~~7/116,EE.
diabetes & rheumatism: Caused by undigested vestiges of memory in the soul of a child. ~~~2/22,CC.
digestion: Man does not carry digestion so far as the animal; the digestive process ceases earlier, thus becoming the vehicle for what he sends to the head through the Will. ~~~10/138, MH.
Dionysius the Areopagite: not Pseudo-Dionysius. the Akashic Chronicle teaches that Dionysius "actually lived in Athens, that he was initiated by Paul and was commissioned by him to lay the foundation of the teaching about the higher spiritual beings and to impart this knowledge to special initiates." ~~~13/88-9, FE.
disharmonies: "Ahrimanic powers are working, in fact, wherever disharmonies arise between groups of men."~~~12, AD
directions in man: Lucifer on the left and Ahriman on the right in the realm of thought. In front L. & behind A. in the feeling realm. And L. above with A. below in the realm of will. See also planes (in human). ~~~2/23 ff. BW.
double: rel. to insanity. ~~~2/13, FE.
dragon: on Old Moon man was reptilian, "This gave rise to the tales about the winged serpent, about the dragon." ~~~18/136, FE.
draft [draught] of forgetfulness: see Mysteries, ancient.
draft of forgetfulness: d. o. f. [and the shock which followed] not the essential point. "Negative things are never the essential point."~~~6/59 ff.ON.
dreams: "The peristaltic movements of the intestines are symbolized in the dream as the writhing of snakes."~~~2/47,TF.
dreams:ds. necessary for poets. "People who are unable to dream will always be inferior poets."~~~2/48,TF.
dreams: "nothing can be learned from them." [dreams]~~~6/114 ff.TF.
dreams: What is missing from ds. is the power of thinking.~~~4/34 ff.ON.
drugs: "It is important, therefore, to understand the difference between the physical constitution of man in those times [ancient Chaldea] and that of today. Then one will no longer be tempted to induce other states of consciousness by administering medicaments, which was the normal practice in ancient times and was still frequently practised in the Middle Ages."~~~4/77, TF.
Druids: "...the Twilight of the Gods was taught and the future of Christianity came to magnificent expression through these Northern prophets in what later became the Siegfried Saga. This may be compared with the Achilles Saga.
"Achilles is invulnerable in his whole body with the exception of the heel, Siegfried with the exception of the spot between the shoulders." Siegfried an initiate of the Fourth Sub-Race [Epoch.] The cross of Christ later made the area between the shoulders invulnerable.~~~31/257,8, FE.
duty: "It is in...going-out-of-himself in the feeling of duty, that man can begin to learn how to get beyond his ordinary self.
"There is, however, a danger to man in all such going-out-of his ordinary self, in all such endeavour after spiritualisation. If man were to give himself up entirely to this, he would lose the ground from under his feet, he would lose his feeling of gravity. Therefore he must endeavour, when he surrenders himself to duty, to find within himself at the same time something that shall give him weight, so that he may keep his sense of gravity. Schiller expressed it very beautifully when he said that man has the best relation to duty when he learns to love duty....
"Thus we are truly, in a certain connection, redeemers of Lucifer. When we begin to be able to love our duty, then the moment has come when we can help towards the redemption and release of the Luciferic powers; we set free the Lucifer forces which are held in us as by a charm, and lead them forth to fight with Ahriman. We release the imprisoned Lucifer (imprisoned in self-love) when we learn to love our duty."~~~3/42, BW.
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ear, otoliths: rel. to plant root-tip starch granules. ~~~3/18, FE.
Earth: and 'counter-earth.'~~~11/156-7, MH.
Earth: E. not as a globe, but four tetrahedra. Rel. to volcanos. ~~~12/192 ff.EE.
Earth: "Not only is the earth a mighty living being; the earth is an exalted spirit-being."~~~4/68, FM1.
earthquakes: Animals can sense them before they happen.~~~11/186,EE.
Earth's Axis shift: The north pole was once tropical.~~~23/183, FE.
economic balance between East and West: can only be achieved if they have trust in one another.~~~4/43,ON.
economists: "If you go back to ancient times, even to those that I have characterized today as the Luciferic--who were the governing types then? Initiates. The Egyptian Pharaohs, the Babylonian rulers, the Asiatic rulers--they were initiates. Then the priest-type emerged as ruler and the priest-type was really the ruler right up to the Reformation and the Renaissance. Since that time the economist has been in command. Rulers are in fact merely the handymen, the understrappers of the economists."~~~15. AD.
education: "We will begin to spiritualize what the religions call 'baptism' when we look upon every human being who enters the world through birth as bringing his/her Christ forces with him/herself. Thus we will have the right reverence before the growing human being and can then direct the entire education and especially the teaching of the child in this spirit so that we bring in this teaching a sacramentalism to fruition. We can achieve the same end when we not only look upon educating and teaching the child as a divine service, but also make it such a divine service."~~~10/206,KV.
education, religious: is built on egoism. "Because people want to live beyond death, immortality...is spoken about. People long for this...because it is disagreeable to appeal to knowledge--knowledge is omitted and mere belief is called into play."~~~
~~~4/41,ON.
Ego: beyond the zodiac (no freedom). ~~~6/93,MH.
egohood: "Through the fact that human beings nourished themselves from the lifeless it became possible to make the transition to egohood. This feeding on what is dead is rightly connected with the desire for the ego." ~~~30/144-5, FE.
Egypt: decay of: ~~~13/177,MH.
Egyptian solar astronomy: ~~~13/175 ff. MH.
eighth sphere: inhabited by black magicians. ~~~Pt. 2, 12/134,RP.
eighth sphere: "When a human being uses the life on earth only to amass what is of service to himself alone, only to experience an intensification of his own egotistical self, this leads in Devachan into the condition of Avitchi. A person who cannot escape from his own separateness goes into Avitchi. All these Avitchi men will eventually become inhabitants of the Eighth Sphere....It is from this concept that religions have formulated the doctrine of hell." ~~~14/106, FE.
eighth sphere: "A great part of the astral body, as it then was [on Old Moon], fell away....It formed, as a conglomerate substance, the astral sphere of the moon, the so-called eighth sphere." ~~~18/136-7, FE.
eighth sphere: "E.s. was introduced into earthly evolution in ancient times. As one of its aspects, the e.s. consists of man's acquiring such a preference for and attachment to his lower nature that Lucifer is not able to remove the higher nature from it."~~~10/199 ff. KV.
18 Years as one cosmic 'breath': (see also nodes) Tied in mathematically with the breathing cycle of man. ~~~4/53,MH.
1841: "The opponents of spiritual life (elemental beings) had, in 1841, the strongest point of attack in the evolution of humankind. [BHMcC Note: Does anyone have a good reference as to why this date is significant?) ~~~Pt. 1, 3/40 f.RP.
Einstein: example of man in box. how far man has deviated from reality. ~~~8/117-8.
Also 15/206. MH. (see also, Relativity, Theory of)
electricity, oscillating: O.e. will be used by man to spiritualize the mineral kingdom. ~~~4/27, FE.
elemental beings: in 1841 (q.v.) have taken possession of a large part of humanity. ~~~Pt. 1, 3/40,RP.
elemental beings: E.bs. have their consciousness on the physical plane and their body in the astral. These are creative beings and natural laws are their thoughts. ~~~27/218, FE.
elemental beings: 'kings' of the elemental beings [Indian] as follows: gnomes, Kshiti, undines, Varuna; sylphs, Vayu; salamanders, Agni.~~~27/220, FE.
Elohim: as "Spirits of Light"~~~1/7,OS.
embryo: "In the germ of the e. in the mother's womb, in the germ of life, the chemical laws are suspended, reversed, and in the realm of nature this means chaos. Because the germ is chaos, the cosmos can work into it."~~~5/51,ON.
emanations, from man: Various Moon beings, former teachers of man on Earth, interested in our emanations: solid element in writing, movement, fluid, aeriform, etc.~~~7/140 ff. TF.
embryonic development: continues for three months after birth. ~~~3/41, MH.
English: as less advanced language. ~~~7/101, MH.
Ephesus: description of E. initiation.~~~4/89 ff. TF.
Ephesus: Mysteries of.~~~Lecture 4, EF.
equal, all men: "The notion of regarding all men as equal is sheer Luciferic fantasy; the point is not to cherish a general idea but to penetrate to the actual character of every individual man and to develop for it a loving--or, perhaps better, an interested--understanding."~~~1/17-8, TS.
Esau: "...is still a hairy man, that means he represents the human type which is still more enmeshed in the physical."~~~
~~~31/259, FE.
Eternal Feminine: as Divine Soul. ~~~Pt. 1, 1/30,RP.
ether: absorbs; matter presses. ~~~ 4/58,MH.
etheric body: CTC
evolution: "The great goal for which man must strive is the attainment of the power to gaze into the course of the evolution of humanity."~~~4/68,FM1.
evolution/involution: The "distinction between two processes--the one in which the seed's forces have unfurled themselves and unfolded into the plant, evolution, and the other in which the plant has folded itself up and, as it were, crept into the seed, involution." Followed by a discussion of e./i. spiritual life from Augustine to Calvin. ~~~3/35-6, OS.
Ex deo nascimur: Before the Mystery of Golgotha, people felt e.d.n. must be true.~~~Pt. 2, 3/114,MT.
exercise machines: don't take you anywhere. ~~~7/148, CC.
exercise: E. in visualizing light.~~~1/8, OS.
exercise: see pentagram
extermination of human race: danger of if we don't return to the spirit with full possession of the intellect.~~~8/137,EE.
eye: choroid & retina exchange from one life to next. ~~~8/116, MH.
e. must be selfless, transparent for us to be able to see. So too must the material nature of the physical body become transparent to spirit and soul.~~~7/75 ff.ON.
eyes: at first were united--one eye. Need for two es. to develop sense of self. See also cyclops.~~~Pt. 2, 2/104 ff.MT.
eye, nose, mouth, etc.: Connected to light (head), air (planets, breast), and earth (limb man & metabolic) etc., also head as appendage of eyes, breast as appendage of nose, and limb man as appendage of the organ of taste. ~~~15/204,MH.
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fairy tales: How they come about by people relating tales of their experiences in dreamland, encountering their physical body as a castle, etc.~~~3/38-9, BW.
Father: "In the past the human being felt the spirit, from whom he had separated himself, as the spirit of the Father.... The 'Fathers' were higher initiates than the 'Sun Heroes.' The Father principle ruled before the mystery of Golgotha."~~~Pt. 2, 3/112 ff.MT.
Father Principle: the highest Adept, the Saturn Adept, the Hidden God. ~~~23/187, FE.
Faust: Goethe's evolution with.~~~10/108 ff.ON.
Faust: "F. is Oedipus reversed, i.e., the human being [Oedipus] who takes the Lucifer-nature into himself.~~~1/16 ff. BW.
fear: "In earthly life f. certainly puts in an appearance here and there. But it must never be allowed to fill our soul entirely."~~~8/91,ON.
fear, cosmic: as what impels humans back to earth life.~~~8/83 ff.ON.
fear, feeling of: "The feeling of fear that fills our soul before we descend to the physical world is metamorphosed here on earth on the one hand into the feeling of self and on the other into the will."~~~9/95,ON.
feelings: importance of, not the letters (or words). ~~~3/37,MH.
Fifth Post Atlantean Epoch: Task, the development of egotism [sic]. ~~~Pt. 1, 3/41,RP.
Fifth Post Atlantean Epoch: "Germanic". ~~~Pt. 2, 4/93, RP.
Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch: of "Celts, Germans, and Slavs." Goal is to adapt the human being fully to the physical plane. ~~~Pt. 2, 12/139,RP.
finger dexterity: Movements of our fingers are to a great extent the teachers of the elasticity of our thinking. ~~~9/128,MH.
five stages of consciousness: [see consciousness, five stages of]
flowers, language of: see heart, language of.
folk: "In order for anyone to attain to real occultism, thus serving the whole of humanity, he must outgrow his folk character." Must become 'homeless.'~~~6/201, CT.
folk spirit: "...if our inner spiritual experience is not intense enough, our angel cannot lead us with our consciousness to the folk spirit....Either we grow into the folk spirit consciously and with love, or we are forcibly led into the sphere of the folk spirits. When, after death, the moment is reached at which we turn to descend once more to the sense-perceptible world for a new incarnation, then it makes a great difference, as our soul is led down, whether we have consciously united in love with the folk spirit, or whether, unaware of what is going on, thistakes place forcibly, under coercion....a great many people today lack a sufficiently loving relationship to their folk spirit. This statement hints at the cause for what today brings about disorder among nations. The conflict prevailing among nations today stems from the fact that many people are born with little love for their folk spirit and therefore find themselves in a forced relationship to it. The love which leads us to a particular folk spirit can never bring about a conflict with other nations. We must do everything we can to help people regain a love-filled relationship with their folk spirits. This is most urgent."~~~
~~~5/50-1,ON.
food: from chemical laboratories, see Last Supper
foods: Discussion of carrots, potatoes, grains, fats, etc. Four necessary foods: minerals, carbohydrates, fats and proteins.~~~5/85 ff.EE.
foot construction: connected with our whole human earthly nature. (hands - super-earthly) ~~~9/128,MH.
forces: fs. of propagation come from the moon, of growth from the sun, & of thinking from Saturn.~~~14/227-8,EE.
form of man: as product of the extra-earthly. ~~~5/75,MH.
form of man: Formed by the force of the Sun lagging behind the stars. see Saros period.
form of man: formed by the mathematical inversion of the heart. ~~~1/14 (MS) AS..
four soul types (Bull, Lion, Eagle, Man): defined. ~~~Pt. 2, 3/80,RP.
free, on the physical plane: "Man gradually becomes free on the Physical Plane the more, through knowledge, he has become incapable of error." ~~~10/76, FE.
freedom from karma: when man's astral body is totally transmuted from within. ~~~2/9, FE.
freedom: "This is a point of view from which opposition to Anthroposophy can very well be understood. Human beings do not want freedom in the spiritual realm. They want to be compelled, led, guided by something."~~~14/171 ff.ON.
freedom: "...human beings definitely need that freedom of thinking in their soul constitution which can only become possible if they raise themselves to a position in which they can take in spiritual truths. Without this we come to that decline of culture which is clearly to be seen all around us today. Healthy judgment, the right immediate impression--these are things which mankind has for the most part already lost. They must not be allowed to get lost, but only if human beings can press through to an acceptance of spiritual things will they not be lost.
We must pay attention to the fact that human beings can find in Anthroposophy a meaningful content for their lives if they turn with their healthy common sense to what can be won through Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition. By opening themselves to what can be discovered, for example, through Imagination, they can recapture that inner vitality which will make them receptive to medicines. Or, it may be that they will also become free personalities who are not prone to succumb to all sorts of public suggestions. [followed by a description of what humans gain by entering in a living way into the teachings of Inspiration and Intuition.]~~~14/175-6,ON.
freedom: f. could not be developed while spiritual beings dwelled in us and impelled our actions. The intellectual age had to arise. Yet "the time is already past in which it was right for us to develop mere intellectuality, mere thinking in pictures."~~~Pt. 2, 2/98-9, MT.
freedom: "Only intellect enables man to become free. By means of his intellect man can become free."~~~9/136,EE.
freedom: see Prophecy and Freedom.
freedom, grasping it: Our task is not to prove freedom, but to take hold of it. ~~~16/217, MH.
freedom, in relations between men and women: "...full consciousness and complete freedom are never present in the external conditions that bring men and women together. These are things that still lie entirely outside the range of human understanding."~~~Pt. 2, 2/97, MT.
freedom, physiological concept of: rel. to sense-free thinking. ~~~
~~~10/137,MH.
fundamentalism: "Again, what will be of particular advantage to him [Ahriman] is the short-sighted, narrow conception of the Gospel that is so prevalent to-day. You know how necessary it has become in our time to deepen understanding of the Gospels through spiritual science. But you also know how widespread is the notion that this is not fitting, that it is reprehensible to bring any real knowledge of the spirit or of the cosmos to bear upon the Gospels; it is said that the Gospels must be taken 'in all their simplicity', just as they stand. I am not going to raise the issue that we no longer possess the true Gospels. The translations are not faithful reproductions of the authentic Gospels."~~~1/14 ff.LA.
fundamentalism: "A good way of playing into Ahriman's hands is to exclude everything of the nature of knowledge from denominational religion and to insist that simple faith is enough. If a man clings to this simple faith, he condemns his soul to stagnation and then the wisdom that must be rescued from Ahriman cannot find entry. The point is not whether men do or do not simply receive the wisdom of the future but whether they work upon it; and those [who] do must take upon themselves the solemn duty of saving earthly culture for Christ, just as the ancient Rishis and Initiates pledged themselves not to yield to Lucifer's proviso that mankind be enticed away from the earth."~~~4/59,LA.
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galoshes: Anecdote of Steiner's followers in Berlin. ~~~5/69,MH.
gastric disorders: "G. ds. arise because one is too much attached to the dead." ...the world that is more real than the physical world.~~~4/80,TF.
geosophy: The ancient Greeks transformed the older cosmosophy into a g.~~~3/26, ON.
generation: "...sins of the fathers [inherited karma] are inherited down to the seventh generation....After the seventh generation heredity dies out. One reckons three generations to a century." ~~~10/65, FE.
gnosis: Its importance, yet we cannot revert to it, we must move forward. ~~~Lecture 4,FM1.
God: "Humanity has been fragmented into bits and pieces. All that survives is merely the word god, which has a common sound for the peoples using the same language, but each individual conceives something different in connection with this one word; that is, his own angel. He does not even ascend to the archangel who guides society.
"At the bottom of this lies a certain concealed egoism but people will not admit it.... There is only one single way of avoiding misinterpretation of God and that is to acknowledge the spiritual hierarchies." How this brings on materialism in various religious sects through Luciferic intervention.~~~9/172 ff. KV.
god-forsaken: "In the physical world man is left to himself, here nobody leads him, he is in very truth god-forsaken." ~~~10/75, FE.
Goethe: and Schiller,~~~3/49 ff. MT.
Goethe: G.as member of 'certain lodges.'~~~4/61, MT.
Goethe, life of: ~~~Lects. 1, 2 & 3, KV.
Goethe's plant science: opposed to Linnaeus'. described.~~~Pt. 1. 2/29 ff.MT.
Goetheanum: How it was named.~~~363,TS.
good & evil: Man has in himself both good and evil. In the future this will become externally apparent as a kingdom of good and a kingdom of evil. ~~~1/6, FE.
Gospel: "The Gospel must be deepened by spiritual science if we wish to gain an actual grasp of the Christ. It is then interesting to examine the separate Gospels and arrive at their real content. To accept the Gospel as it is and as numberless people accept it today, and particularly as it is taught today, is not a path to Christ; it is a path away from Christ.... These very people who swear by the Gospel alone and reject every kind of real spiritual knowledge, form the beginning of a flock for Ahriman when he appears in human shape in modern civilization. From these circles, from these members of confessions and sects who repulse the concrete knowledge brought by spiritual endeavor, whole hosts will develop as adherents of Ahriman."~~~17 ff. AD.
Gospels: "In the absolute sense, nothing is good in itself, but is always good or bad according to the use to which it is put. The best can be the worst if wrongly used. Sublime though they are, the Gospels can also have the opposite effect if men are too lazy to search for a deeper understanding based on spiritual science."~~~3/46,LA.
Gospels: "Fortunately there are four Gospels, which outwardly contradict one another, and this has so far prevented the great harm which...one-sidedness would cause. By being faced with four Gospels people do not go too far in the direction of the one, but have the others beside it.... A great wisdom lies in the fact that these four Gospels have come down to the civilized world. In this way man is protected from being caught up by some one stream, which will take possession of him--as in the case of so many members of sects--if he is influenced by one Gospel alone."~~~20, AD.
Gospels: "We are touching here on a very important secret which we must bring with all exactitude before our souls. The contemporaries of Christ had first to go through death, had to live in the spiritual world until the second or third century; and then, in the life after death, knowledge of Christ could dawn upon them, and they could inspire those who, towards the end of the second century, or from the third century on, wrote about the Christ Impulse."~~~2/40, TS.
Gospels: "Truths of mighty, awe-inspiring significance are contained in the Holy Scriptures, not just the trivialities of which we so often hear in religious teachings to-day, but sacred truths which thrill through the very fibres of our being, stirring our hearts to the depths. These are truths which flow through the whole evolution of humanity and resound in the Gospels. And as spiritual science reveals their deep, deep source, the Gospels will one day become a precious treasure, prized at their true worth."~~~4/66-7,FM1.
Gospel translations: "...the translations that have been made into the different languages are not faithful reproductions of the Gospels; often they are scarcely even reminiscent of the original meaning of the words in which the Gospels were composed."~~~3/44, LA.
Götterdämmerung: (Twilight of the Gods) in Siegfried Legend, characteristic of all the northern mysteries. ~~~Pt. 1, 2/30,RP.
grains: As a good food.~~~5/92 ff. EE.
gravity: effect of on plants. (starch granules at the root-tips). ~~~3/17, FE.
groups: need for gs. and group work. ~~~14/100, FE.
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Hamlet: as Faust's 'pupil'~~~10/129 ff.ON.
hands: clumsy hs. rel. to materialism. ~~~9/127, MH.
hands: connection with super-earthly. ~~~9/129,MH.
hands: "To be an Ego-being we must make the right and the left meet." We need two hands for the ego experience.~~~2/21, BW.
hands: see also finger dexterity.
handwriting: changing one's h. as an exercise of will.~~~Pt. 2, 1/87-8,MT.
head: "The organism of lungs and metabolism of our previous earthly life--not its physical substance, of course, but its shape--becomes our head organization in this life."
head, threefold: To the front of the head lies the thinking part; above, the part of feeling; to the back of the head that of willing. The esoteric pupil brings these into conscious connection with each other "in the same way as an ant heap controls the males, females and workers." ~~~4/29, FE.
hearing organization: The spleen in a former life becomes the hearing organization. ~~~9/129, MH.
heart: on way to pineal gland (in next life), source of sublime experiences. ~~~7/115,MH.
heart: as the organ that made man kama-rupic. ~~~6/44, FE.
heart: "The moment one sinks oneself into the heart, one creates for oneself the surroundings as they were when in the Lemurian Age the heart came into existence." [brain, Atlantean age; solar plexus, Hyperborean]. ~~~28/227, FE.
heart: is a world turned inside out.~~~Pt. 2, 2/108,MT.
heart, form of: Formed by opposition of Solar and sidereal forces. (See also Saros period). ~~~14/192 ff.,MH.
heart: Heart is the 'mathematically inverted' human form. ~~~1/14, (MS) AS..
heart: "...in its true essence our heart is something much more majestic, something vastly greater than any sun." see also, man, richness of. ~~~Pt. 2, 2/95, MT.
heart, language of: awareness of moods of vowel sounds etc., developing into a language of flowers. ~~~Pt. 2, 4/142 ff.MT.
heart-liver: Heart is to liver somewhat as the Sun is to Mercury in the outer world. ~~~10/144, MH.
heart, warmth of: see pituitary gland.
heat, body: Thought rel. to b.h.. B.h. rel. to external heat, etc. ~~~Lect. 16.MH.
heathen and Old Testament cultures contrasted: leading to art and science respectively. ~~~8/92 ff.ON.
helix as "orbit" of Earth around Sun: (Note: this is listed as 'spiral' in text.) ~~~2/33, MH.
hell: see Eighth Sphere, ~~~14/106, FE.
Heraklites: Greek philosopher. description of his initiation into the Mysteries of Ephesus.~~~4/89,TF.
Herta-Mystery: ~~~3/62, FM1.
higher self: "Man must be clear that the higher self is outside him. Were he to seek for it within himself, he would never find it." "What in the course of some thousands of years will become our self is not the higher self." ~~~20/149, FE.
Hinderences, Spirit of: see Mammon
history: Nothing is to be known of the Mystery of Golgotha by external, historical means. Faith is required. "The Mystery of Golgotha does not admit of historical proof by the senses."~~~2/37, TS.
Holy Grail: a place where "all those who were pure in heart and Christian in the true sense went to the Grail while they slept--while they were between sleeping and waking." also, rel to Parcifal and Lohengrin (Ambassador of the Grail).~~~13/162, ON.
Holy Grail: how knights and guardians of the H.G. were selected.~~~Pt. 1, 1/19 ff.MT.
Holy Spirit: as dove.~~~Pt. 1, 2/40, MT.
Holy Spirit: sent by Christ.~~~Pt. 1, 4/67 ff. MT.
Holy Spirit: "When we bring Christ himself as the Resurrected One to life within us, then our knowledge of the Trinity is not dead but alive, for Christ is the bringer of the H. S.~~~
~~~Pt. 2, 3/122,MT.
homeopathy: in ancient Chaldean times.~~~4/76, TF.
hooves (in animals): sign of a hardened nature. ~~~Pt. 2, 8/114,RP.
horses (of the Apocalypse): ~~~Pt. 2, Lect. 9, RP.
hostility: "...But one cannot so conduct oneself in the name of the Christ since it is an absolute impossibility for two human beings who are hostile to one another to confess the Christ."~~~9/177, KV.
human form: fashioned from the force of the Sun lagging behind the stars. [See form of man.] ~~~14/188 ff.,MH.
human being: We need to look beyond the maya of the physical h.b. we see, and see the influence of divine spiritual beings working there.~~~10/195 ff. KV.
human being, true: "For to be a true human being in the universe means to be the instigator of one's own worth."~~~4/33,ON.
hypnotism: "The overpowering of a human being by means of hypnotism is a still stronger killing [than murder], for it destroys the will. The occultist therefore never intrudes into a person's freedom; he only relates facts." ~~~19/146, FE.
hypochondria: as hardening of abdominal & lower parts. ~~~7/101, MH.
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ice age: In five to seven thousand years will be another i.a.~~~11/173,4,EE.
ich: [German for I] as J(esus) Ch(rist). [BHMcC Note: One could also add "Je" in French, and "I" (which is identical to "J" in many languages) in English, etc.] ~~~2/14, FA.
initiate consciousness: differences between i.c. and ordinary consciousness.~~~Pt. 2, 1/74 ff. MT.
initiation: "...Initiation was in truth an Easter Festival."~~~2/34, EF.
Initiates, famous: "Men...whom we should describe today as savants, men adjudged to be the outstanding scholars of their day [at Chartres]...such as Bernardus Silvestris, Bernard of Chartres, Alanus ab Insulis. These personalities were still fortunate enough at that time to be associated with Initiates...such as the famous medieval Initiate Joachim of Fiore or that other illustrious personality known to the world as John of Hanville." ~~~4/83 ff.TF.
Initiation, ancient: [see Mysteries, ancient.]
initiation knowledge: life of thought must be fully developed. "This life of thought can be especially well schooled through an immersion in the natural scientific development of the last centuries...."~~~Pt. 2, 1/75,MT.
Initiation, modern: 1st stage: we carry over our dreams into waking life. 2nd stage: waking dreams become a form of perception higher than the normal perception of everyday life. ~~~2/49-50,TF.
Initiation, modern: "Today, our aspiration is not to withdraw the body but to draw out the spirit, by strengthening and enhancing our forces of spirit and soul. The opposite of what used to take place must happen now; now the spirit must be drawn out [of the physical]. No changes must be allowed to take place in the physical, bodily aspect. Since the fifteenth century the human being has been organized in such a way that changes in the physical body, of the kind that were customary in those of [ancient] Mystery pupils, would denote a condition of sickness. It would be a pathological condition, which must not be allowed to come about in normal development."~~~6/62,ON.
initiation, modern: Attempts to exterminate m.i. Courage needed to pursue it.~~~Pt. 2, 4/143 ff.MT.
initiation, modern: "Through the descriptions given by modern initiation science, I would like to awaken strength so that a few people are actually present in the world who can find the proper place between what wants to come into the earthly world from spiritual worlds and what, from the direction of the earthly world, wants it to be impossible for spirituality to penetrate into the life of earth.~~~Pt. 2, 4/145,MT.
initiation science, task of: "...to take away from natural existence the absolute reality it assumes for itself and to give reality back once more to the world of moral values. It can only do so by using means of expression different from those given by today's language, today's world of ideas and concepts.~~~1/2,ON.
initiation, stages of: In ancient mysteries.~~~2/34 ff.EF.
injuries, self-imposed: not always carried over into next life. ~~~7/103, MH.
intellect: "For our understanding of the spiritual world the intellect is of minimal importance. If we wish to enter even the first of the spiritual spheres that border on our world the intellect must be silenced."~~~5/101,TF.
intellect: One of the most important facts given to us by higher knowledge is that our forces of i. are bound up with our forces of dying....But a moral ideal, which can intensify until it becomes a religious ideal, lives in us in quite a different way. ~~~5/53,ON.
intellect: We must return to the spirit in full possession of our intellect, otherwise we will exterminate ourselves.~~~
~~~8/136 f.EE.
Intellectual (or Mind) Soul: CTC
inversion of life & death: also, i. of astral/ego and physical/etheric.~~~11/213 ff.TF.
Isis: "I am the All; I am the Past, the Present and the Future. My Veil has no Mortal ever