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 1918

Date Title
01/04 Lecture I: Ancient Myths
01/05 Lecture II: Ancient Myths
01/06 Lecture III: Ancient Myths
01/08 Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
01/11 Lecture V: Ancient Myths
01/12 Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
01/13 Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
01/22 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 1: The Present Position of Spiritual Science
01/24 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
01/29 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
02/05 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 3: The Living and the Dead
02/07 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
02/10 The Dead Are With Us
02/10 Dead Are With Us: Lecture
02/14 Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- I
02/15 The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
02/17 Lecture: Signs of the Times: Michaels Battle and Its Reflection On Earth -- II
02/21 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
02/25 Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
02/26 Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture II: The Psychological Expression of the Unconscious
02/28 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IV: Mind, Soul and Body of the Human Being
03/05 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 4: The Cosmic Thoughts and our Dead
03/07 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture V: Nature and Her Riddles in the Light of Spiritual Science
03/12 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 5: Man's Connection with the Spiritual World
03/14 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
03/19 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 6: Feelings of Unity and Sentiments of Gratitude: A Bridge to the Dead
03/21 Lecture: Manifestations of the Unconscious
03/26 Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 7: Confidence in Life and Rejuvenation of the Soul: A Bridge to the Dead
03/30 The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
03/30 Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
04/01 The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
04/01 Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
04/02 Life Gifts: Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth
04/09 Life Gifts: Lecture IV: The Eternal and the Imperishable
04/15 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VIII: The Animal and Human Realms. Their Origin and Development
04/16 Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
04/18 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IX: The Supersensible Human Being
04/20 Eternal Human Soul: Lecture X: The Questions of Free Will and Immortality
04/24 Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture I: Free Will, Immortality
04/25 Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
05/06 The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
05/14 Life Gifts: Lecture VI: Spiritual Science, the Practice of Life and the Destinies of Souls
05/21 Life Gifts: Lecture VII: Whitsuntide Lecture
06/12 Goethe's Relationship to his 'Faust'
06/25 Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
07/03 Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
07/09 Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
07/16 Sound Outlook: Lecture IV: History and Repeated Earth-Lives
07/23 Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
07/30 Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
08/06 Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
08/17 Occult Psychology: Lecture One
08/18 Occult Psychology: Lecture Two
08/19 Occult Psychology: Lecture Three
08/24 Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
08/25 Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
08/26 Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
09/06 St. Augustine
09/06 Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
09/07 Goethe, Comte and Bentham
09/07 Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture II
09/20 Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
09/21 Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture II: Lucifer and Ahriman
09/22 Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture III: Romanism and Freemasonry
09/27 Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
09/28 Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
09/29 Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
10/04 Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
10/04 Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
10/05 Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
10/05 Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
10/06 Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
10/06 Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
10/09 Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Man's Astral Body
10/11 Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
10/11 Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
10/12 Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
10/12 Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
10/13 Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
10/13 Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
10/16 Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
10/18 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
10/19 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
10/20 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture III: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
10/25 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
10/26 Evil and the Future of Man
10/26 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
10/27 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
10/30 Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VII: The Nature of the Human Soul and the Nature of the Human Body
10/31 Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VIII: How Natural Sciences Justify the Supersensible Knowledge
11/01 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
11/02 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
11/03 Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
11/29 Challenge/Times: Lecture I: East and West from a Spiritual Point of View
11/30 Challenge/Times: Lecture II: The Present from the Viewpoint of the Present
12/01 Challenge/Times: Lecture III: The Mechanistic, Eugenic and Hygienic Aspects of the Future
12/06 Challenge/Times: Lecture IV: Social and Antisocial Instincts
12/07 Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
12/08 Challenge/Times: Lecture VI: The Innate Capacities of the Nations of the World
12/09 Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IX: How Does One Justify the Anthroposophical Psychology?
12/11 Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture X: Moral, Social Life and Religion from the Viewpoint of Anthroposophy
12/12 Lecture: Social and Anti-Social Forces in the Human Being
12/13 Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
12/14 Fundamental Social: Lecture 2: The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality
12/15 Fundamental Social: Lecture 3: The Metamorphosis of Intelligence
12/20 Fundamental Social: Lecture 4: The New Revelation of the Spirit
12/21 Fundamental Social: Lecture 5: Understand One-Another
12/22 Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
12/22 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
12/24 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2: The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
12/25 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 3: Brotherliness and Freedom ...
12/27 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 4: Contrasting Principles of Ancient and Modern Initiation
12/28 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5: The Change in the Human Soul Constitution
12/29 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 6: Transformation of the Human Being in the Course of Evolution
12/31 How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 7: Experiences of the Old Year and Outlook over the New Year (part 1)

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