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184. The Cosmic Prehistoric Ages of Mankind: Romanism and Freemasonry 22 Sep 1918, Dornach
Translated by Mabel Cotterell

They enter man's lower nature when it becomes so spiritual under the influence of materialism, and when this very materialism prevents anything from man himself flowing into the lower nature.
Now there is a counterpole, a polar opposite, to the form of the mineral kingdom, and I ask you to come to an understanding through the following picture. We will approach an important fact in life through a picture.
These things, my dear friends, must be thoroughly realised, They must be seen through all the more as they touch upon facts which lie under the semblance of external reality. To possess insight into these facts requires the goodwill to pursue seriously and intelligently with sound human understanding the researches of spiritual science.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul 18 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

Clearly such an experience works upon the soul and so might contribute indirectly to a better understanding of the impulses which lead to self knowledge! But the way in which history treats of the battle of Marathon adds little to man's real understanding of himself.
But all these social stratifications were indoctrinated with Catholicism, and in the form that Christianity had assumed under the impact of various impulses of which we shall learn more in the following lectures (and under the impact of those impulses which I mentioned in earlier lectures).
Archduke Henry of Silesia was defeated at Liegnitz by a force under Kaidu and in 1241 all Hungary fell to the Mongols. The death of Ögödei in 1241 saved Western Europe from further invasion.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries 19 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

In conversation with others he was intelligent and shrewd, but nobody really understood what he wanted because all the others wanted something different. He came of an old Catholic family, the Stuarts.
People were oblivious of what had really happened; they were asleep whilst events took their course. And finally with great difficulty, under the compulsion of circumstances, under the influence of what has happened in the last four years (i.e. 1914–1918) a few people have begun to open their eyes.
Housewives complain that maidservants are unwilling to undertake certain duties; they seem unconcerned that not only factory workers, but also maidservants are saturated with Marxist theory.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times 20 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

One cannot live the life of nature and at the same time know or cognize in the sense in which the modern Consciousness Soul understands this term. One cannot do both at the same time any more than one can be asleep and awake at the same time.
One must probe beneath the surface in order to discover the factors underlying world events. Recall for a moment that important moment before the birth of the Consciousness Soul.
In return however, he will also feel a desire to strive towards the opposite pole at the periphery. He will develop an understanding for what is pressing towards the periphery—his somatic nature. If in order to understand history we must look inward, as I have indicated, to the underlying symptoms, then in order to understand medicine, for example, hygiene and medical health services we must look outwards, to cosmic rhythms for the source of pathological symptoms.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking 25 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

We shall only understand the significance of the brain for the life of the soul through a more intensive study of the mentally disturbed.
Our hearts must be filled with a tender concern for our neighbour, with sympathetic understanding for his peculiarities. And precisely because this compassion and understanding must take hold of mankind it is so rarely found today.
That is why it is so vitally important that in the epoch of the Consciousness Soul man should have a clear understanding of forces of birth and death in their true sense, i.e. a knowledge of repeated lives on earth, in order to acquire an understanding for birth and death in the unfolding of history.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History 26 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

T1 The indications I gave on that occasion were not without a deeper motive, for he who understands these things knows what unplumbed depths of human nature we touch upon here. There is ample evidence that in reality the will to understand these things scarcely exists today. But the will to understand will assuredly come with time and we must ensure by every means at our command that it is awakened.
But perhaps in the not too far distant future this antipathy will be transformed into sympathy for the right understanding of man. This second phase of future development will bring a totally different understanding between men.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of ‘The Philosophy of Freedom’ 30 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

In reality that period was not particularly propitious for an understanding of The Philosophy of Freedom, and for the time being I could safely let the matter drop.
But what really matters is not that my most important books should sell in large numbers, but that they are understood, and that the spiritual impulse underlying them finds an echo in men's hearts. In 1897 I left the Weimar milieu where I had been to some extent a spectator of the evolution of the time and moved to Berlin.
Under the circumstances it was neither an ideal, nor an encouraging moment to have The Philosophy of Freedom reprinted.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of ‘Goethes Weltanschauung’ 01 Nov 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

But one should not forget that the literary world with its many ramifications—including, if I may say so, journalism—has been under the influence of a bourgeoisie that has been declining in recent decades, a bourgeoisie which is fast asleep and which, when it embarks upon spiritual activities, has no understanding of their real meaning. Under these circumstances it is impossible of course to arrive at any understanding of Goetheanism. For Goethe himself is, in the best sense of the word, the most modern spirit of the fifth postAtlantean epoch.
With a background of modern education he has no idea and can have no idea how far, how infinitely far removed he is from the most elementary understanding of Goetheanism. The climate of the present epoch is unsuited to a deeper understanding of Goetheanism.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch 02 Nov 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

About the time when the fifth post-Atlantean epoch began, not only many things, but also the religious life of mankind was caught up in a movement that has repercussions, a movement that is by no means concluded today. We must have a profound understanding of this movement if men really wish to make use of the Consciousness Soul. For only when men arrive at a clear insight and understanding of what is happening in evolution will they be able to participate in the further development of mankind on earth.
‘We visualize the historical event—Christ summons and assembles all men under His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, under his standard.’ One must have an exact visual picture of the standard.
The aim of Goetheanism is the exact opposite of that of Jesuitism. And you will understand Goetheanism from a different angle if you consider it as by nature diametrically opposed to Jesuitism.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day 03 Nov 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

One can scarcely call ‘Christ is Teacher’ an impulse, for, as I have already said, the Russian soul does not really understand what it means, does not understand that one can teach Christianity and not experience it in one's soul.
The religious impulses of the particular ethnic groups will contribute in their different ways to an understanding of this tripartite division of man. The East and the Russian people to the understanding of the spirit; the West to an understanding of the body; Central Europe to an understanding of the soul.
But it is important that these problems should be thoroughly understood. It is only by gaining a clear understanding of these problems that we can hope to escape from the present calamitous situation.

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