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.
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
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In these heartfelt lectures Steiner took his listeners through the inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants of the spiritual world.
These are the first four of eleven lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in the Fall and Winter of 1914. They are from the lecture series entitled, Occult Reading and Occult Hearing, and were published in German as, Okkultes Lesen und Okkultes Hoeren.
This translation, by Dorothy S. Osmond, is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Cover Sheet | ||
Lecture I | The Human Being and his Relationship to the World | October 03, 1914 |
Lecture II | Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World | October 04, 1914 |
Lecture III | Inner Experiences and `Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World | October 05, 1914 |
Lecture IV | Inner Mobility of Thought | October 06, 1914 |
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