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270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Third Recapitulation 11 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

Then he shows us how we can delve down into feeling, how in feeling being and seeming are united, how there our being—selfhood in the good sense—arises with half its strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what is perishable and seeming in our being arises, but also the life-forces of the world, of the cosmos.
That we have entered in reality is expressed in that we first “revere”, which is an inner soul function; in that we then “understand”, where we gradually come alongside the process; in that we first arrive at the “guiding Beings”, who are to guide us; then the “living powers”, which weave and live through life.
We have now come farther. It is no longer “understand”; It is “grasp”, which is an action. The “Creative cosmic force” instead of “living powers” is placed at the beginning of the line to indicate the complete reversal we make when rising from “sham” to “being”.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Fourth Recapitulation 13 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

We have here the escalation [the words are underlined on the blackboard.]: “support”, “sculptors”, “caregivers”, “helpers”. We also have another escalation.
Everything coincides with its inner meaning with which we should unite ourselves in meditation on the mantric verse. We have an escalation [underlined on the blackboard] “touch”, “experience”, “feel”, “think”. It is a special escalation. So in meditation we must also sense the inner, meaningful structure of such a mantric verse.
The request may not be done in writing—it has happened, so I must be clear about it—but must be done orally, except when exceptional circumstances make an oral understanding impossible. Least of all in esoteric matters should even the hint of bureaucracy exist. Everything must be alive, just as it should be in the Anthroposophical Society.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Fifth Recapitulation 15 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

But we use this corpse for our usual abstract thinkingbetween birth and death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory world. Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the corpse that lies before us.
We must prepare the soul: [As the following is spoken, the words between quotation marks are underlined on the blackboard:] On the other side, we find “light's shining force”. It lives in our thinking.
I unite myself with the Spirit. Thus, we may understand what is spoken as having been strengthened by Michael's sign and confirmed by Michael's Seal, which is thus, thus and thus, [indicating the Seal gestures on the blackboard] which is impressed over the Rosicrucian words.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Sixth Recapitulation 17 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

The escalation is: [The following words are underlined:] Experience Sense Consider Shape Beat Force The three lines must be strengthened by concentrating on these figures.
The guardian of the Threshold admonishes us: [The third verse is written on the blackboard and “limbs” is underlined.] The limbs' force, You can think it And thinking becomes The will's goal-oriented human striving.
The escalation is: [Now the following three words are underlined:] weave live strive. The other escalation is: wisdom glow virtue.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Seventh Recapitulation 20 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

And since the seventies of the nineteenth century we are again under the sign of Michael's reign. It is in its beginnings. But Michael's impulses must flow into all legitimate esoteric activities in a conscious manner - what can be clear to you, my sisters and brothers, through the general lectures for members.
Therefore, everything communicated here is not to be understood as my words, insofar as they are the content of the lessons, but rather as what Michael communicates in an esoteric manner to those who feel they belong with him in this age.
[In the first part “thinking” and “sensory light”, and in the second part “feeling's” are underlined. How in sleep's dim-like dawning Life streams in from cosmic distance; (There it was “Willing arises from the body's depths;”, here “Life streams in from cosmic distance;”) [In the third line of the first part “Willing” is underlined, and in the second part “Life”.]
Esoteric Lessons for the First Class III: Introduction
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

If the texts are available in German, why should they not be available in other languages, especially English, in order to be studied by members and non-members of the G.A.S and the Free School who do not understand German? Practically everything Rudolf Steiner wrote and said has been published in German.
271. The Nature and Origin of the Arts 28 Oct 1909, Berlin
Translated by Harry Collison

“I have a name rightly applied over yonder among those only on the physical plane who bring men intelligence from the spiritual world. They understand how to apply only my name correctly, for I am called intuition, and I come hither from a wide-flung realm.
She comforted and tended her, and the other woman gradually grew warm under the influence of what the soul of her companion had brought back as the result of her night's experiences.
She hears the voice of the poet who has apprehended the majesty of the experience that can come into the human soul out of the imaginative world. She understands now that she must act as the savior of what upon earth is half frozen knowledge; she understands that she must warm it and permeate it with her own nature, especially with her art nature, and that she must recount the memories of her dreams during the night to this half frozen knowledge.
271. The Sensible-Supersensible in its Realisation Through the Arts 15 Feb 1918, Munich
Translated by Violet E. Watkin

The endeavour has been made plastically to awaken this gesture which in the ordinary human being is kept under—not the gesture made by the soul but the one that is killed before it leaves the soul, the one held under by the life of the soul—and then to bring it to rest again.
This something, a potentiality in every man but obviously held under by the higher life, is the asymmetry existing in us all—no-one's right and left sides being formed alike.
It is clear, however, that this is the way to understand how in one particular sphere the colour, the sketch, can be so used in creative art that in its application is everything of which I said it is held under the spell of nature, and from this spell we free the super-physical, which is hidden in the physical and deadened by a higher life.
272. Faust, the Aspiring Human: A Spiritual-Scientific Explanation of Goethe's “Faust”: Goethe's “Faust” from the Point of View of Spiritual Science 23 Jan 1910, Strasburg

The second part was sealed at his death, like the great testament he had to give to humanity. It is a momentous document. We can only understand this document if we follow Goethe a little, as he himself sought to struggle towards knowledge.
Then that appears to him which appears to everyone who undergoes development: the worry that approaches everyone who still has selfish aspirations within them and which does not allow them to ascend into the spiritual world.
It may appear pedantic when I state here something that one must know to understand the final words. Goethe spoke somewhat unclearly in his old age because he was toothless.
2. Faust, the Aspiring Human: A Spiritual-Scientific Explanation of Goethe's “Faust”: The Relationship Between Goethe's “Faust” and Goethe 17 Dec 1911, Berlin

So it could well be that here and there his “Faust” seemed rather questionable to him, when he undertook what he had written decades ago. In the meantime, he had progressed. Now, what he had created years ago is to be continued.
Faced with this figure, Mephistopheles says, because he does not understand her: With this potion in your body, Soon you will see Helens in every woman.
With these words of conviction, commentators have tried to explain the strangest thing, because they could not understand that it is not a matter of conviction here, but that Goethe, in the sense in which he speaks of the superhuman, is speaking here of a conviction.

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