Donate books to help fund our work. Learn more→

The Rudolf Steiner Archive

a project of Steiner Online Library, a public charity

Search results 1781 through 1790 of 6552

˂ 1 ... 177 178 179 180 181 ... 656 ˃
223. The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth: Lecture V 08 Apr 1923, Dornach
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Frances E. Dawson

And so we may say that the conception underlying this was: at midsummer the divine-spiritual world revealed itself through moral impulses which were implanted in man as Enlightenment (see diagram).
Hence in this ancient wisdom all sorts of things were undertaken that induced men to atone for what they recognized as deviations from the moral impulses they had received through Enlightenment.
For example, everyone says today: “If I have some sort of tiny living creature too small to be seen with the naked eye and I put it under a microscope, it will be enlarged for me so that I can see it.”—Then, however, one must conceive: “This size is illusory.
The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth: Foreword
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Frances E. Dawson

In his opera “The Magic Flute,” he revealed, although still in allegorical form, some aspects of the temple Mysteries, notably the trials undergone by a candidate for initiation. Indeed Mozart is said to have seriously offended thereby those who still zealously guarded the Mysteries in his day.
224. The Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny: Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny 28 Apr 1923, Prague
Translator Unknown

This manner in which we understand one another here by means of thinking,—this we have acquired out of the pre-earthly intercourse with the Angels.
It is from the Angels that the human being receives the gift of thinking, but these bestow this upon man under the influence of the highest hierarchies. Thus are things woven in the cosmic order, and man is understood only when he is clearly seen in this relation of being interwoven with the cosmic order. In this way one understands, not only the single person, but also the nature of a living or dying branch of language, a deficient or a perfect capacity for thinking.
224. The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities: A Perspicuous View of the Mood at St. John's Tide 24 Jun 1923, Dornach

Of course, precisely when the development of the spirit must be grasped in a living way, it must be done by learning to understand how changes and metamorphoses occur in the development of humanity through conscious spiritual knowledge.
John's mood in relation to Christianity. We must understand intuitively that the St. John's mood is the starting point for the event that lies in the words: “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
John's mood - towards the future of humanity and the earth! No longer the old mood, which only understands the sprouting and sprouting of the external, which is glad when it can also imprison this sprouting and sprouting, can put under electric light that which otherwise thrived happily in sunlight.
224. The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities: Mauthner's “Critique of Language” the Inadequacy of Contemporary Thought, as Demonstrated by Rubner and Schweitzer 04 Jul 1923, Stuttgart

In our time, outside the circles of the anthroposophical movement, there is little understanding of how to arrive at a true view of the soul. I am saying something that may sound incomprehensible to some people, because it is often assumed that one knows what soul is, what one is dealing with when one speaks of the soul, and so on.
Here one must indeed say: there is actually only a belief that realities lie behind the words. Therefore, one can also understand that Mauthner thought deeply: Should one even still use the word “soul”? There is nothing real behind it, as when a person speaks of a horse with the word horse.
Man does not take his thoughts with him, but he does take his feelings, and even more so his volitions. Understandably, during the day there is nothing to be done with the will. I have often said that a person can make a plan, he has a thought.
224. The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities: Man's Fourfold Nature — The Mirroring Character of Intellectual Thinking and the Reality of Moral-religious Experience 11 Jul 1923, Stuttgart

We want to assume that within the anthroposophical movement there is always an effort to understand how the human being is composed of members, each of which requires a certain understanding, so that the understanding of the whole human being is only possible if one is able to unite the understanding that one has brought to the individual members into a whole.
The human being's physical body must be understood from the standpoint of the physical world, but the etheric body or formative forces must be understood from the standpoint of the etheric world, and so on.
We can do this because all of today's education and science is based on understanding the physical body of the human being. But today there is no similar endeavor to understand the etheric body or the body of formative forces.
224. The Forming of Destiny in Sleeping and Waking 06 Apr 1923, Bern
Translator Unknown

What really matters most of all is the mood of soul that is born from this understanding of karma. The whole feeling and attitude of soul that must emerge from a true understanding of karma, is one which makes us realise when, perhaps some misfortune befalls us as consequence of an earlier weakness in the life of soul—that if this misfortune had not come about, the weakness would have persisted.
This again leads us to something more that it is essential we should understand. The workings of speech (and the same holds good for karma, too) accompany us when we die.
The German word here is ‘Gemut’—a word that means more than “feeling,” for it includes also the perception and understanding that belong to the heart.
224. The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech 13 Apr 1923, Dornach
Translator Unknown

When we learn history at school or at the university, we are, he said, exhorted to take pains to understand what we learn; but as we go back over the evolution of mankind, we can only understand history as far back as Roman times. Cicero and Caesar we can still understand, for up to a point they are similar to the man of the present day,—although it must be said that the understanding generally brought to a study of Caesar is far from being free and natural.
But, thinks Hermann Grimm, if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot claim to understand Pericles or Alcibiades. We understand them in the same way as we understand characters in fairy tales.
224. The Cosmic Word and Individual Man 02 May 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Adam Bittleston

If one contemplates this etheric organism with spiritual vision, and begins to understand its phenomena, one is bound to describe it as consisting simply of the forms of thoughts, of flowing thoughts.
To Beings one must come at last in all understanding of the world. For Beings alone are real. Anything comes into existence only through the co-operation of Beings—presenting then an unreal appearance to unclear vision.
Physical matter, too, is an illusion of this kind—something of the nature of a Being underlies everything. Men must understand this again, in order not to speak of something that is not really there: of Matter—or (which is no better) of Spirit in general—in order to learn to speak about beings, individual Beings of the universe.
224. Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man 23 May 1923, Berlin
Translated by Frances E. Dawson

Now you have the three successive conditions: experience in the spiritual world in learning to walk; manifestation of the spiritual world in learning to speak. (For this reason, that which as Cosmic Word underlies speech we call the Cosmic Logos, the inner Word. It is the manifestation of the universal Logos, in which the spiritual expresses itself, as do the gnats in the swarm of gnats; it underlies speech.)
But then, beginning with the Mystery of Golgotha, the human being must understand the Resurrection while he still lives; and, if he feelingly understands the Resurrection while he lives, he will thereby be enabled to pass through death in the right way.
The ancients understood the year, and on the basis of the mysteries which I have been able only to indicate today, they established Christmas, Easter and the St.

Results 1781 through 1790 of 6552

˂ 1 ... 177 178 179 180 181 ... 656 ˃