Rudolf Steiner e.Lib 

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Throught the year 1910, Rudolf Steiner spoke to audiences in Denmark, Germany, and France, discussing a wide range of topics — from positive and negative human soul capacities, true self-knowledge, and karma, to changes in human consciousness; from ancient times to the modern era, all in the context of Christ's incarnation on Earth.

These talks illustrate the diversity of Steiner's approach when speaking to different audiences. Reflecting on Novalis, for example, he is urgent about the responsibility of Spiritual Science to help humanity awaken to the New Age. A few months later, speaking of Hegel and deploring the fact that an interest in spiritual matters often fails to be accompanied by an equal interest in logical thinking, Steiner uses dispassionate or philosophical tones. Nevertheless, throughout these lectures, he is consistent in his view that Spiritual Science does not reject conventional science. Trained, philosophical thinking leads to conclusions that are different from those of materialists; but there is nothing in the field of Spiritual Science that needs rejection by rigorous scientific thought.

There are strong thematic links running through all of these lectures that include:

• the relationship between philosophy and science;
• the nature of clairvoyance;
• Christ's presence in the etheric realm;
• reincarnation and karma;
• the mystery drama The Portal of Initiation;
• Christmas and its symbols;
• and the transformation of consciousness when Christ incarnated physically on Earth.

These fourteen lectures offer tools that bring contemporary, spiritual approaches into everyone's lives.

CONTENTS:

• Words at the Novalis Strassburg;
• Philosophy and Hegel;
• Methods and Goals of Spiritual Humans;
• Philosophy and Science Today;
• Self Knowledge and the Mystery Play, “The Portal of Initiation,”
• On the Rosicrucian Mystery Play, “The Portal of Initiation,”
• The Wisdom Contained in Ancient Documents and in the Gospels;
• Schiller adn Goethe;
• Knowledge and Immortality;
• Effects of Karma, or Envy, Lying ..., or Karmic Effects;
• The Christmas Festival in the Changing Course of Time;
• The Yuletide Festival.

Known Publications:

• Wege und Ziele des geistigen Menschen. Lebensfragen im Lichte der Geisteswissenschaft, German language editions: 1973, 1992. ISBN 978-3-7274-1250-9,
• The Christmas Festival in the Changing Course of Time, ISBN 0-88010-271-3, paperback, copyright © 1988 Anthroposophic Press, a single lecture, translated by Ernst Katz and edited by Marguerite Miller
• Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas, ISBN 0-88010-060-5, paperback, 3 lectures, copyright © 1983 Anthroposophic Press, translated by Ruth and Hans Pusch
• Paths and Goals of the Spiritual Human Being. Life Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science, ISBN 978-1-85584-421-6, paperback, 14 lectures, 296 pages, copyright © 2015, SteinerBooks, translated by Christian von Arnim