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
Given during the East-West Congress of 1922 in Vienna, these challenging lectures lift the veil from modern social and spiritual problems by exploring historical and philosophical paradoxes found in Eastern and Western ways of life. Steiner emphasizes the need to develop new mental faculties to bridge the gulf between matter and spirit, faculties that will provide conscious social certainties to replace uncertain instincts.
The first half of this volume builds up the foundation of knowledge; the second half gives the impulse to right action.
Translated by B. A. Rowley, and with a Foreword by Owen Barfield, this volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Cover Sheet | ||
Translator's Note | ||
Introduction by Owen Barfield | ||
PART ONE | ||
Anthroposophy and the Sciences | ||
Lecture 1: | Natural Science | June 01, 1922 |
Lecture 2: | Psychology | June 02, 1922 |
Lecture 3: | East and West in History | June 03, 1922 |
Lecture 4: | Spiritual Geography | June 04, 1922 |
Lecture 5: | Cosmic Memory | June 05, 1922 |
PART TWO | ||
Anthroposophy and Sociology | ||
Lecture 6: | Individual and Society | June 07, 1922 |
Lecture 7: | The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure | June 08, 1922 |
Lecture 8: | The Problem (Asia-Europe) | June 09, 1922 |
Lecture 9: | Prospects of its Solution (Europe-America) | June 10, 1922 |
Lecture 10: | From Monolithic to Threefold Unity | June 11, 1922 |
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