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149. Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail: Lecture V 01 Jan 1914, Leipzig
Translated by Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

There are events that reflect, as though through dreams, the activity which the Christ was undertaking in the depths of the soul in order to bring human soul-forces into a right alignment with the course of Western history.
Thus I did not know how to proceed when I once asked the Norwegian Folk Spirit, the Northern Folk Spirit, about Parsifal and he said: “Learn to understand the saying that through my powers there flowed into the northern Parsifal saga ‘Ganganda greida’”—“circulating cordial”, or something like that!
It was the same when I was coming out of St. Peter's in Rome under the strong impression made on me by Michelangelo's work that you find on the right-hand side as you enter—the Mother with Jesus, the Mother who looks so young, with Jesus dead already on her knees.
149. Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail: Lecture VI 02 Jan 1914, Leipzig
Translated by Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

The fact that the earth truly has a soul is shown most clearly by observing weather conditions and the aspects under which they habitually occur. Under certain aspects and constellations the air is always restless; if such aspects are not present, or are few or transient, the air remains quiet.”
But the forces which had guided human history from below the surface were gradually to emerge; and Parsifal, accordingly, had to come by degrees to understand something that will never be understood unless it is approached with the pure and blameless forces of the soul, and not with traditional knowledge and scholarship.
The fact that the earth truly has a, soul is shown most clearly by observing weather conditions and the aspects under which they habitually occur. Under certain aspects and constellations the air is always restless; if such aspects are not present, or are few or transient, the air remains quiet.
Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail: Note on Ganganda Greida
Translated by Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

It is really to be handed—as is revealed to us when from the exoteric story we enter into the esoteric presentation of it in the Mysteries—it is really to be handed to the human being who has obtained the understanding of what makes man mature enough gradually to raise himself consciously to what the Holy Grail is ...”
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Luciferic and Ahrimanic Aspects of Contemporary Cultural Life 12 Jan 1913, Leipzig

For better or for worse, these personalities had an influence on world life. This can be understood by studying the history of Florence between the years 1100 and 1500, for example. Today, this influence corresponds to those people who strive to achieve a connection with the spiritual.
Ahriman lets human beings sink into the swamp of matter; Lucifer draws them away from the truth, preventing them from realizing that they are lost in an illusory world. Maya has a right to exist if it is understood as an expression of the reality behind it.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Two Currents within the Ongoing Development of the Human Being Must be Taken into Account in Education 14 Mar 1913, Augsburg

But in the second seven-year period, too, something occurs that we can, in a sense, understand as a current that is not connected with the merely progressive divine beings. From a certain point of view, this has already been repeatedly characterized in us.
I wanted to give you a characterization of what is in the human soul, and how we must take into account Lucifer and Ahriman if we want to understand the full human nature, if we really want to consider everything, not just look at it and say: we must fight Lucifer and Ahriman.
And from this point of view, it is actually easy to understand why people who do not at least mix something from the soul's summertime into their waking lives dry up so easily.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: The Beginning of Spring, Easter Moon And Easter Sunday 23 Mar 1913, The Hague

In such years, a very special writing is inscribed in the universe for those who are entering into the spiritual knowledge of the world, and especially on this day of such a year, it behoves the soul, which strives to learn to understand the spiritual secrets of the universe and the becoming of time, also to learn to understand what should be written into our human development on earth with this spring festival.
And anyone who knows the connection between the sun and the moon hears with an understanding-awakening sound the legend of the Fall of Man and their seduction by Lucifer, of the words of God resounding in divine justice. Those who try to understand some of the things contained between the lines of my “Occult Science in Outline” can sense the connection between the sun-moon mystery and the mystery that is usually characterized as the temptation of Lucifer and the influence of Yahweh-Jehovah.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Sensory Experience and Experience of the World of the Deceased 13 Apr 1913, Weimar

You can get an idea of it by considering the difference between feeling hunger and feeling satiety. If man did not understand himself inwardly, he would know nothing of his own corporeality, of well-being or malaise. Just as one speaks of the sense of sight, so one must speak of the sense of life.
When a hand is held out to a child, the child understands and imitates the movement. The sense of movement awakens in the inner experience of the imitated movement.
There are sleep-like states of consciousness and also a longing for death, just as we would like to understand life, but there is no death there. One should not believe that one could perish in the spiritual world, one cannot die there either.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: The Influence of the Dead on the Living World 13 Apr 1913, Erfurt

One of the figures is Paul, who appears among the philosophers in Athens. I could understand many things if I traced back through the Akasha Chronicle to see what had led Raphael to paint this picture.
It looks at nature but does not understand it. But nevertheless, out of intuition, it can communicate wonderful things. What is developed with intellectual thoughts does not come to the dead.
However, this anthroposophy can only reach the dead from the earth. I hope we understand each other on this point. It is indeed the case that when someone comes to you from the beyond, they experience something like a longing.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: The Transmutation of the Soul's Powers in Initiation 05 May 1913, Paris

This science must be spoken of first if the transition from microcosm to macrocosm is to be understood. This science takes on a special significance because in it we enter the spiritual world after death.
This is the way to gain experience about life from the last death until our present birth, and at the same time the way to understand the evolution of humanity. We understand the forces that guide the evolution of human history. And we recognize life from birth to death.
But he will only receive an impression if we send him ideas and concepts with spiritual life. The task of anthroposophy will be understood when we understand that we have to remove the abyss that separates us from the dead. Even a soul that was opposed to anthroposophy can feel a benefit from such reading aloud.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Nature and Spirit in the Light of Spiritual Science 08 Jun 1913, Stockholm

It is very easy to find refutations of profound words in the world, and it must be clearly understood, especially in a spiritual-scientific movement, that nothing is easier for the foolish in the world than to refute the words of the wise with a great semblance of right.
In general, the importance of the child's ability to learn in the first few days is greatly underestimated. When the child learns to see into the light, more capacity is needed than for anything learned in the first academic semester.
A human being in youth, middle age, old age and so on is only a whole, and we cannot say: 'The human being undergoes a development from the natural to the spiritual', but we must say: 'In his first childhood, nature and spirit were intimately connected.

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