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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First Edition ranslations of 10 lectures from volume 69a of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Work, original title: Wahrheiten und Irrtümer der Geistesforschung, Rudolf Steiner Verlag Dornach (Switzerland).
The translations of Goethe's Faust were taken from: Faust I and II, edited and translated by Stuart Atkins, Princeton University Press, paperback printing 1994. Copyright © 1984 Suhrkamp/Insel Publishers, Boston, Inc.
Some translations of Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems, edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York. Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.
Lecture I: | Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity | February 24, 1911 |
Lecture II: | How Does One Disprove Spiritual Science? | March 19, 1911 |
Lecture III: | How Does One Defend Spiritual Science? | March 25, 1911 |
Lecture IV: | Truths of Spiritual Research | November 25, 1912 |
Lecture V: | Errors of Spiritual Research - 1 | November 27, 1912 |
Lecture VI: | Errors of Spiritual Research - 2 | February 19, 1913 |
Lecture VII: | The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 1 | February 16, 1913 |
Lecture VIII: | Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2 | May 17, 1913 |
Lecture IX: | Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences — their Relationship to the Riddles of Life - 1 | March 01, 1913 |
Lecture X: | Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences — their Relationship to the Riddles of Life - 2 | March 03, 1913 |
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