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107. The Astral World: The Law of the Astral Plane: Renunciation; The Law of the Devachanic Plane: Sacrifice 26 Oct 1908, Berlin
Translated by M. Gotfare

How can one admit that anything so vacillating, so dependent on personality as sympathy and antipathy can become an authority for knowledge and can be so far disciplined that they could grasp the innermost nature of a thing? That thought does so can be easily understood, but that when we confront something, and it arouses a feeling in us, this feeling can be of such a nature that not personal sympathy or antipathy speaks, but that feeling itself can become a means of expression for the inmost being of the thing—that seems hardly credible!
That which changes from the color-nuances into tones—that under all circumstances is bliss. At the present stage of evolution, all in Devachan is a bringing forth, production, and in respect of knowledge, a spiritual hearing.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: The Place of Anthroposophy in Philosophy 14 Mar 1908, Berlin

Among the representatives of this trend is Spinoza, who cannot be understood otherwise than by linking him, on the one hand, to Western Orientalism and, on the other, to Kabbalism. All other talk about Spinoza is talk in which one has no solid ground under one's feet. But then “empiricism” spread with a vengeance, especially under the aegis of Locke and Hume.
In the first centuries, something else lived in the souls, which prevented scholasticism from [gap in the transcription] rising above subjectivity. We can easily understand how to get beyond subjectivism if, in the manner of the scholastics, we understand the difference between concept and representation.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy 20 Mar 1908, Munich

But when you compare it to today's arbitrary understanding of all concepts, then you first feel the benefit of that view that there must be an understanding of the concepts.
Then the intellect enters. It breaks down into an understanding of matter and form. All things contain matter and form. These two concepts take us a long way.
We have the form of the lamb and the wolf. He identifies the underlying form with the genus lamb and the genus wolf. Aristotle makes a clear distinction between the genus and the generic concept.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Formal Logic I 20 Oct 1908, Berlin

Above that arose what lived in his soul as an attitude toward Greek culture. We understand this when we learn to comprehend what lived in his soul. This image was not one in which sharp words could be chosen.
These things go their easy course, floating above reality, quite understandably. Then a twofold event happens for him. He gets to know the soul content of a person who has already died and of a living person.
He felt it in such a way that for a hundred days of the year he had the most terrible headaches. Then you can understand how this came to life in his soul: this was there countless times, it will return countless times.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Formal Logic II 28 Oct 1908, Berlin

The philosophers of the Middle Ages, who today are somewhat contemptuously grouped together under the name of scholastics, did not regard logic as an end in itself either; it did not serve to learn anything substantial.
This can be shown by an example: a boy sits in the forest under tall trees. A person comes along and admires the good-quality timber. “Good morning, carpenter,” says the bright boy.
For if I win the lawsuit, you must pay according to the judgment; if you win, you must pay according to the contract, for you have won your first lawsuit. But the student: Wise teacher! Under no circumstances do I have to pay. For if the judges rule in my favor, I have nothing to pay according to the judgment; but if they rule against me, I pay nothing according to our contract.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy and Formal Logic 08 Nov 1908, Munich

Certain laws can be established about judgments. The laws of inference will only be understood once the tenets about the concepts and judgments have been established. So today we will first deal with the laws of judgments and concepts.
They differ in the following ways. Think about what all falls under the concept of “mammal”. It is a large group of individual objects, for example, monkeys, lions, marsupials, and so on; that is much more than we summarize under the term “lion”, which gives us only a small part of the “mammal” concept.
But the friend realized the futility of such an undertaking and advised him to leave as he was and take his chances. The next day, the examinee was asked: Do you know what an analytical judgment is?
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Friedrich Nietzsche In the Light of Spiritual Science 10 Jun 1908, Düsseldorf

Now, in order for you to see what is meant by this, I would like to give you an understanding of formal logic. Logic is the study of concepts, judgments, and conclusions. First, we need to understand a little bit about how concepts relate to judgments and conclusions.
It is significant that he seeks to ascend from representation to concept. Anyone who understands the matter knows that one does not arrive at the concept of the horse by leaving out the differences and keeping what remains.
Now the law teacher says to him: “You will pay me the fee under all circumstances.” But the student claims: “I will not pay it under any circumstances.” And he wants to do this by taking the teacher to court for the fee.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Life between Two Reincarnations 02 Dec 1908, Wrocław

And since the physical existence of man is connected and interwoven with significant processes in those worlds, one must penetrate into these secrets if one wants to understand the human being at all. I would like to start by describing the life of a person between death and a new birth, but in order to understand what happens in this interim period, we must first consider the nature of the human being.
But we must nevertheless consider these things very carefully from the outset in order to prepare ourselves for a complete understanding of the subsequent descriptions. For anthroposophical spiritual science, the essence of man is not merely that essence of a material nature, as it appears to the external senses, which we can touch with our hands and which is bound to the physical world by physical laws.
Well, if you followed yesterday's public lecture, you will understand that those people who are able to see into higher spheres are also able to report on the conditions after death.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Questions on the Law of Karma 21 Nov 1909, St. Gallen

Then this mystery came, the development continued, we understood the event of Palestine better and better, we digested it in our lives between birth and death, and when this great mystery was understood, the earth was ripe to disappear again, because we incorporated what was the most important thing in the whole earth evolution.
Man cannot fulfill earthly karma without having attained this understanding of the Christ. And the achievement of the goal on earth will be a karmic effect of the acquisition of the understanding of Christ. Thus we can say: We will understand the smallest as well as the greatest event when we consider the law of karma.
108. Novalis 26 Oct 1908, Berlin
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Perhaps you could, when you allow yourself to admit it, obviously see the inability of a way of thought bound by outer experience coming to the fore here in what we must experience in judging these relationships, which can only be understood if we want to understand it in its spirituality, in our present materialistic time. People say science must be based on documentation; it must absolutely lead from everything concrete on the physical plane.
It descended with the Mystery of Golgotha when Christ appeared in a physical body. Humanity understands Christ in His universal unfolding when the life of Jesus of Nazareth is followed back to His spiritual origins, to the unsolvable riddle of death.
Dost thou also take a pleasure in us, dark Night? What holdest thou under thy mantle, that with hidden power affects my soul? Precious balm drips from thy hand out of its bundle of poppies.

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