Week 6
There has arisen from its narrow limits
My self and finds itself
As revelation of all worlds
Within the sway of time and space;
The world, as archetype divine,
Displays to me at every turn
The truth of my own likeness.
Week 32
I feel my own force, bearing fruit
And gaining strength to give me to the world.
My inmost being I feel charged with power
To turn with clearer insight
Toward the weaving of life's destiny.
—Translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch
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Rudolf Steiner gave the six lectures in this volume between January 1911 and January 1912. Soon after Steiner's death in 1925, Marie Steiner — realizing the importance of those lectures for understanding the evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that process — collected them under the title, Turning Points in Spiritual History.
In these lectures, Steiner provides us with astonishing views of esoteric history and shows the remarkable ways in which the spiritual world guided and nurtured the spiritual evolution in preparation for the Christ's appearance on Earth.
From the lecture series entitled, Spiritual Science's Answer to the Large Questions of the Present Time, published in German as, Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf den Grossen Fragen des Daseins. Translated by Walter F. Knox
Preface | ||
Translator Preface | ||
Introduction (part 1) | ||
Lecture 1: | Zarathustra | January 19, 1911 |
Lecture 2: | Hermes and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt | February 16, 1911 |
Lecture 3: | Buddha -or- Buddhism and Christianity | March 02, 1911 |
Lecture 4: | Moses | March 09, 1911 |
Lecture 5: | Elijah | December 14, 1911 |
Lecture 6: | Christ and the 20th Century | January 25, 1912 |
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