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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Twelve lectures given in Dornach, February 13th through May 30th 1916. Also known as: Things of Present and Past in the Spirit of Man. Published in German as: Gegenwaertiges und Vergangenes im Menschengeiste (und erweiterte Inhaltsangaben fuer die naechste Auflage).
The translation of these lectures has been made from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer and published as Volume No. 167 in the Complete Centenary Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner in the original German. Translated by E. H. Goddard
I. | (no title) | February 13, 1916 |
II. | Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature | March 07, 1916 |
III. | A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky | March 28, 1916 |
IV. | Secrets of Freemasonry | April 04, 1916 |
V. | Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia | April 11, 1916 |
VI. | Death and Resurrection | April 18, 1916 |
VII. | Man's Four Members | April 25, 1916 |
VIII. | Thomas More and His Utopia | May 02, 1916 |
IX. | Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay | May 09, 1916 |
X. | (no title) | May 16, 1916 |
XI. | Fragments from the Jewish Haggada | May 23, 1916 |
XII. | Luciferic Dangers from the East | May 30, 1916 |
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