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112. The Gospel of St. John: The Initiation Mysteries 01 Jul 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
But the manner in which primitive men had to be initiated, in accord with the demands of those ancient times, depended upon the origin of their descent—that is, whether from Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus. Even in Atlantis, therefore, there existed oracles in manifold variety. Some had adjusted their spiritual vision primarily to the beholding of what we have described as the Eagle spirits, while others saw the Lion spirits, the Bull spirits, or the Man spirits: the initiation accorded with the specific traits of the candidate.
113. The East in the Light of the West: The Luciferic Influence in History 29 Aug 1909, Munich
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Shirley M. K. Gandell

Rudolf Steiner
Now it is in the etheric body that all the forces necessary for the organisation of the physical body reside, all those forces which unite the members of the physical body and produce harmony between them. In the humanity of Atlantis the forces of the etheric body and especially of the head worked at the building of the physical body from outside.
123. The Gospel of St. Matthew (1965): Lecture IX 09 Sep 1910, Bern
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Mildred Kirkcaldy

Rudolf Steiner
As you know from my lectures, this was the case from the early epochs of Atlantis onwards. But the faculty that was still universal and functioning in full strength during the first epochs of post-Atlantean evolution, gradually declined.
118. True Nature of the Second Coming: The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World 06 Mar 1910, Stuttgart
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
It is the last that is of particular interest to us to-day. The earlier ages take us back to old Atlantis. In very ancient times, vestiges of the ancient clairvoyance still survived and prior to the Dark Age man was directly conscious of the presence of a spiritual world because he was able to gaze into it.
103. The Gospel of St. John: The Mission of the Earth 20 May 1908, Hamburg
Translated by Maud B. Monges

Rudolf Steiner
After that came the Atlantean period when humanity dwelt for the most part upon the ancient continent of Atlantis, a region forming today the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, and which sank beneath the waters through the great Atlantean flood, remembrance of which has been preserved in the deluge-sagas of nearly all peoples.
162. The Lost Union of Speaking and Thinking 18 Jul 1915, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
And so highly developed Intelligences, Angeloi beings, hovered hither and thither as retarded Spirits during the epochs of Lemuria and Atlantis. These were Spirits at a lofty stage, an exceedingly lofty stage of development. Again, to put it trivially, therefore, we can say: The plan of the Spirits of Form was thwarted.
118. The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric 06 Mar 1910, Stuttgart
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Ruth Pusch, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin, Margaret Ingram de Ris

Rudolf Steiner
The last interests us today most particularly. With the earlier periods we come back to old Atlantis. In ancient times there still existed remnants of the old clairvoyance, so that before the Dark Age man still had an immediate consciousness of the existence of a spiritual world, because he could see into that spiritual world.
112. The Gospel of St. John: The Artistic Composition of the Gospel of St. John 02 Jul 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Those are the three stages which humanity has in part passed through, in part still has ahead of it. In Atlantis men still lived in a sort of dream consciousness, but this was clairvoyant. Then they gradually achieved self-consciousness, outer objective consciousness, in exchange for which, however, they gave up the old gift of dim clairvoyance.
114. The Gospel of St. Luke: The Evolution of Consciousness 24 Sep 1909, Basel
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
Attention must again be drawn to what has often been said in the course of our studies, namely that our ancestors—that is, our own souls in other bodies—lived in ancient Atlantis, the continent once stretching between Europe and Africa on the one side and America on the other.
116. The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity 02 Feb 1910, Berlin
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
He would otherwise have remained entirely dependent upon the spiritual world until the middle of the Atlantis epoch; neither would he have been able before then to distinguish between good and evil, nor act from his own impulses.

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