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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These lectures reveal the Christocentric nature of Steiner's teachings and show the Incarnation of Christ as the pivot of cosmic and human evolution.
Translated from a shorthand report unrevised by the lecturer. This printing says:The German text is published in the book Okkulte Wissenschaft und Okkulte Entwickelung. Christus zur Zeit des Mysteriums von Golgotha und Christus im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (Vol. No. 233 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).In actuality, these lectures are nos. 1 and 2 of 10 from, Background of the Mystery of Golgotha, Published in German as, Vorstufen zum Mysterium von Golgotha (Vol. No. 152 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961), formerly Bn 150.2.
Lecture I: Occult Science and Occult Development May 1, 1913 Lecture II: Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the Twentieth Century May 2, 1913
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