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Acquaintance with the human kingdom is limited: between death and a new birth - and this begins immediately or soon after death - the soul has contact and can make links only with those human souls, whether still living on earth or in yonder world, with whom he has already been karmically connected on earth in the last or in an earlier incarnation.
Rudolf Steiner
Death
Soul
World
Living
Birth
Earth
Immediately
Those
Kingdom
Only
He
Contact
Soon
Between
New
Make
Limited
Souls
Still
Been
Links
Begins
Human
After
Whether
Acquaintance
Incarnation
Connected
Whom
Earlier
Last
The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.
Rudolf Steiner
First
Important
Build
Reading
Become
Lesson
Drawing
More
Written
Thus
Underlying
Printed
Subject
Provides
Up
Itself
Forms
Then
Should
Based
Letters
Basis
What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Will
Thinking
Sight
Visions
Attained
Developed
Discovery
Different
Ordinary
Realities
Consciousness
The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.
Rudolf Steiner
Great
Soul
Reality
Human Being
World
Illusion
Sense
Thinking
Our
Everything
Perceived
Perceptions
Only
His
Human
Being
Achieves
Senses
Oriental
Connected
Her
Thinks
Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.
Rudolf Steiner
Reality
People
Ideology
Distinct
Those
Kinds
Eat
Souls
Western
America
Form
Viewpoints
Orient
Europe
Oriental
Beings
Two
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Knowledge
Personality
Only
Springs
Subject
Which
Us
Standards
Satisfies
Inner
External
Inner Life
If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?
Rudolf Steiner
Freedom
Me
Matter
Thought
Kind
Strongest
Forced
Because
How
Am
Proves
Motive
Affects
Ceases
Any
Whether
Meaning
Then
Should
Act
Compelled
Thing
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Rudolf Steiner
Needs
Nature
Own
Our
Gifts
Some
Born
Bestowed
Seem
More
Abundant
She
Still
Leaves
Endowed
Them
Us
Activity
Satisfy
Among
Desires
Dissatisfied
It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.
Rudolf Steiner
Soul
Will
Healthy
Unless
Possible
Insights
Develop
Educate
Impulses
Energetic
Awaken
A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
Rudolf Steiner
Art
Strength
Human Being
Understanding
Living
Running
Thread
Direct
Rests
Individual
Through
Students
True
Attention
Participate
Stimulates
Human
Being
Teaching
Keep
Necessary
Treatment
For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Great
Thoughts
People
Training
Thought
Think
Guiding
Evolution
Part
Study
Development
Opened
Most
Principles
Without
Been
Human
Order
Ordered
Ordinary
Which
Human Development
Ordinary Life
Forms
Planetary
Viewpoints
Bring
Bringing
All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.
Rudolf Steiner
You
Yourself
World
Space
Will
All Things
Physical
Case
Something
Directing
Physical World
Facts
Soon
Force
Exist
Cease
Cease To Exist
Done
Which
Plane
Persuaded
Actually
Things
Here
Imaginative
Imagine
The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
Rudolf Steiner
Old
Living
Our
Evolution
Architectural
Stem
Essential
Us
Activities
Elements
Saturn
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Rudolf Steiner
Architecture
Space
Organization
Project
Outside
Human
Human Body
Then
Body
Specific
You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.
Rudolf Steiner
You
Memories
Memory
World
Matter
Value
Wish
Out
Carry
Could
Idea
How
Get
May
Your
Certainly
Away
Utterly
Present
Dissatisfied
In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Death
Good
Soul
Evil
Active
Earth
Earthly
Possible
Spirit
Conceal
Longer
His
Person
Form
After
Whether
Expression
Presents
We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.
Rudolf Steiner
World
Will
Thought
Universe
Enter
Ourselves
Out
Carry
Must
Open
Know
Exercises
Want
Eternal
Us
Aspect
Portals
We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Thoughts
Will
Thought
Thinking
Our
Push
Generally
Instead
Namely
Most
Make
Concerns
Learn
Content
Aside
Us
Use
Element
Conscious
When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.
Rudolf Steiner
Reality
Training
Live
Thinking
Unknown
Our
Find
Finely
Through
Period
Learnt
Hitherto
Being
Us
Engage
Whole
Imaginative
Through systematic exercising of our thinking faculties, we can train ourselves for exact clairvoyance. Imaginative Knowledge is the first step in supersensible perception, and through it we reach the first element of the supersensible it is possible to reach, namely, the supersensible body that we bear within our earthly body in physical space.
Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge
Space
Perception
First
Thinking
Our
Earthly
Systematic
Ourselves
Possible
Exact
Physical
Bear
Through
Faculties
Step
Namely
Reach
First Step
Within
Exercising
Train
Body
Element
Imaginative
By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
World
New Life
Nervous
Thinking
Our
Way
System
Ourselves
Kind
Nervous System
Mental
Had
Longer
New
Pictures
Know
Make
Learn
New Kind
Brain
Dependent
Ordinary
Use
Now
Consciousness
Need
While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.
Rudolf Steiner
Science
Memory
Experience
Speak
Once
Out
Must
Spirit
Someone
He
Steps
Over
Him
Fresh
Scientist
Repeat
Led
Discovery
Process
Ordinary
Which
While
Again
Working
Speaking
Who
Original
Whole
We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.
Rudolf Steiner
People
Will
Other
Those
Able
About
Only
Wrong
Talk
Understand
Impressions
Front
Getting
Realize
Avoid
Things
Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.
Rudolf Steiner
Education
Result
Mother
Will
Parents
Own
Way
Correct
Born
Morally
Only
Unconscious
Particularly
Until
She
Continuing
Accomplishes
Intellectually
Child
Transfer
Then
Such A Way
Expresses
Acts
Her
If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.
Rudolf Steiner
Education
Spiritual
You
World
Will
Sense
Harmony
Temporal
Perceive
Objectivity
Observe
Understood
Still
Task
Children
Then
Bodies
Body
Connected
Fully
Grow
Sufficient
Bring
Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.
Rudolf Steiner
Teacher
Spiritual
Relationship
First
Living
Ourselves
Must
Above
Something
Primary
Between
Namely
Make
Exists
Task
Children
Conscious
Inner
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