Rudolf Steiner Archive 

Calendar of the Soul

Northern Hemisphere

Week 5

Within the light that out of spirit depths
Weaves germinating power into space
And manifests the gods' creative work:
Within its shine, the soul's true being
Is widened into worldwide life
And resurrected
From narrow selfhood's inner power.

Southern Hemisphere

Week 31

The light from spirit depths
Strives to ray outwards, sun-imbued;
Transformed to forceful will of life
It shines into the senses' dullness
To bring to birth the powers
Whereby creative forces, soul-impelled,
Shall ripen into human deeds.

—Translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch

See GA 40 for full calendar and German text.

Lectures Given in 1915

Date Title
01/01 Colour: Part Three: Artistic and Moral Experience
01/01 Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Five
01/02 Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Six
01/03 Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Seven
01/04 Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Eight
01/04 Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
01/04 Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
01/10 Perception of the Nature of Thought
01/17 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
01/19 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 5: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 2
01/26 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
01/30 Lecture: Brunetto Latini
01/31 Lecture: The (Four) Great Virtues
01/31 Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
02/05 Problem of Death: Lecture I
02/06 Problem of Death: Lecture II
02/07 Problem of Death: Lecture III
02/19 Mystery of Death: Lecture II: The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life
02/21 Mystery of Death: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and the Mystery of Death
02/22 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 7: Personal and Supersensible Aspects
03/02 Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
03/02 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
03/07 Mystery of Death: Lecture IV: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving
03/09 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
03/13 Lecture: Spiritual Science, a Necessity for the Present Time
03/13 Mystery of Death: Lecture V: The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events
03/14 Mystery of Death: Lecture VI: Moral Impulses and Their Results
03/16 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
03/27 Meditation and Concentration
04/20 Lecture: The Etheric Being in the Physical Human Being
04/20 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 11:Etheric Man within Physical Man
05/07 Mystery of Death: Lecture VII: Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep
05/07 Effects of Christ-Inpulse
05/09 Mystery of Death: Lecture VIII: The War, an Illness Process
05/09 The Subconscious Forces
05/13 Mystery of Death: Lecture IX: The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies
05/15 Mystery of Death: Lecture X: Central Europe between East and West
05/18 Lecture: Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman
05/18 Mystery of Death: Lecture XI: Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
05/23 Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
05/30 Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
06/03 "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
06/10 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
06/13 Lecture: The Etheric Body as a Reflexion of the Universe
06/13 Mystery of Death: Lecture XII: Spiritual Science as an Attitude
06/15 Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
06/15 Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
06/17 Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
06/19 Mystery of Death: Lecture XV: Overcoming Death through Knowledge
06/22 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
07/06 Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
07/24 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
07/25 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
07/31 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
08/01 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
08/07 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
08/08 Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
08/21 Community Life: Address 1: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Part 1
08/22 Community Life: Address 2: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Part 2
08/23 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 1: Probability and Chance
08/27 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 2: Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States
08/28 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 3: Necessity and Chance in Historical Events
08/29 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 4: Necessity as Past Subjectivity
08/30 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 5: Necessity and Past, Chance and Present
09/04 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
09/05 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 7: The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World
09/06 Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 8: Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
09/10 Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
09/11 Community Life: Lecture 2: The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being
09/12 Community Life: Lecture 3: Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World
09/13 Community Life: Lecture 4: Methods and Rational of Freudian Psychoanalysis
09/14 Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
09/15 Community Life: Lecture 6: The Concept of Love as it Relates to Mysticism
09/16 Community Life: Lecture 7: The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being
10/10 Occult Movement: Lecture One: Seership and Thinking
10/11 Occult Movement: Lecture Two: Mediumistic Methods
10/16 Occult Movement: Lecture Three: Materialism of the 19th Century
10/17 Occult Movement: Lecture Four: The Attempt Made by the Occultists to Avert the Lapse into Materialism
10/18 Occult Movement: Lecture Five: The Eighth Sphere
10/19 Occult Movement: Lecture Six: The Dangers of Aberation Along the Path into the Spiritual World
10/22 Occult Movement: Lecture Seven: Investigation of the Life between Death and a New Birth
10/23 Occult Movement: Lecture Eight: The Purpose of the Use of Symbols
10/24 Occult Movement: Lecture Nine: Investigation of the Mineral World
10/25 Occult Movement: Lecture Ten: Human Consciousness between Objective and Subjective Reality
10/31 Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
10/31 Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
11/01 Significant Facts: Lecture II: Ancient Occult Magic. The Ahasver Mystery.
11/07 Significant Facts: Lecture III: The Tragic Wrestling with Knowledge. The Secrets of the Future Sixth Cultural Period.
11/16 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 1: Spiritual Life in the Physical World and Life Between Death and Rebirth
11/18 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 2: On the forming of Destiny
11/20 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 3: The Subconscious Strata of the Soul-Life and the Life of the Spirit After Premature Death
12/07 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 4: The Connection Between the Spiritual and the Physical Worlds, and How They Are Experienced After Death
12/14 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
12/16 Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
12/19 Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
12/19 Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
12/21 Forming of Destiny: Lecture 6: Lecture on the Poem of Olaf Åsteson
12/28 Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
12/28 Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
12/31 The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
12/31 Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year

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