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206. Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness 19 Aug 1921, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

Also known as: The Ego as Experience of Consciousness, lecture 4 of 5, or Pythagoras, Galileo and Goethe. Lecture 10 of 11 from the lecture series: Human Evolution, Cosmic Soul, Cosmic Spirit.
We can see quite clearly how all that unfolded in Greek culture since the age of Pythagoras manifested in later centuries and above all we can see it in a man like John Scotus Erigena. During this era the human soul lived in a world of absolutely different conceptions, and it was precisely for these conceptions that Goethe was driven to seek by a fundamental urge connected with the deeper foundations of his life of Soul.
The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth: Foreword
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Frances E. Dawson

They then passed on appropriate parts of the wisdom teaching to the rest of the populace in the form of myths, as well as giving guidance for the affairs of outer life, while keeping the deeper secrets strictly for themselves. Plato and Pythagoras among the ancient Greeks had knowledge of these Mysteries. The later Christian Mysteries, including those of the Holy Grail, cherished remnants of the ancient wisdom, but the great Spirit of the Sun, who had been variously known as Vishva, Karman, Ahura-Mazdao, Osiris and so on was now recognized to be none other than the Christ/Logos Who had come to Earth.
55. Supersensible Knowledge: Education and Spiritual Science 24 Jan 1907, Berlin
Translated by Rita Stebbing

Between the change of teeth and puberty that epoch of evolution is repeated in which great spiritual teachers have appeared among men. Buddha,5 Plato,6 Pythagoras,7 Hermes,8 Moses,9 and Zarathustra10 are some of the latter.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: Introduction to Theosophy III 27 Mar 1909, Rome

When the sense of hearing is developed, the person, who was previously in absolute silence, will begin to hear the harmonies of the spheres, as Pythagoras spoke of them. Music, the spiritual Word, or as the church calls them: the choirs of angels. Just as a plant bears fruit when its cycle has run its course, so too does a person in devachan reach a point of maturity.
8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1947): The Gospels
Translated by Henry B. Monges

Plato knows himself to be in agreement with the priest-sages of Egypt when he is trying to set forth the core of Greek wisdom in his philosophical view of the universe. It is related of Pythagoras that he travelled to Egypt and India, and was instructed by the sages in those countries. Thinkers who lived in the earlier days of Christianity found so much agreement between the philosophical teachings of Plato and the deeper meaning of the Mosaic writings that they called Plato a Moses with Attic tongue.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: The Deification of Man – The Task of the Arts 15 Jan 1905, Berlin

When the continuity of consciousness occurs, the human being perceives the sounding world: the spiritual world begins to resound. What Pythagoras described as the music of the spheres is real truth. The inner essence of the world is expressed in sound: “The sun resounds in the ancient way.”
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Easter and Theosophy 21 Apr 1905, Berlin

There has not been a single great spirit who did not believe in resurrection. Plato, Pythagoras, Giordano Bruno, Nicholas of Cusa drew from this belief in resurrection, and it gave them strength.
92. The Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends: Reading the Akashic Records of Wolfram von Eschenbach 01 Jul 1904, Berlin

The other great personalities were teachers of humanity: Buddha, Zarathustra, Pythagoras, Moses - they were all teachers. They are the “Way and the Truth”; the “Life” in the occult sense is only Christ; hence it is said: No one comes to the Father except through me. - Life could only find its sanctification when the Word moved directly into the human body.
94. An Esoteric Cosmology: Yoga In East and West I 29 May 1906, Paris
Translated by René M. Querido

The union of these four elements was venerated by Pythagoras in the sign of the tetragram. The evolution of man consists in transforming the lower bodies with the aid of the self into spiritualised bodies.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Formation of the Aura I 12 Jan 1904, Berlin

The Pitris are present in various degrees of perfection; not all have reached the same high level. It is exactly the same as with Plato, Pythagoras and so on, who, when Nirvana of the Earth is reached, will be further along than the general human race; they were simply more advanced.

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