Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.