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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Here are four lectures, given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in 1919, from the lecture series entitled, Goetheanism as an Impulse for Transformation ... ... Human Science and Social Science, published in German as, Der Goetheanismus, ein Umwandlungsimpuls und Auferstehungsgedanke. Menschenwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaft.
Lecture 1: | The Migration of People in the Past and the Present. The Social Homunculus. | January 26, 1919 |
Lecture 2: | What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take on at the Present Time? | January 31, 1919 |
Lecture 3: | The Emancipation of the Economic Process from the Personal Element. The Separation of the Moral-Spiritual Life From the External Realities of Existence. | February 01, 1919 |
Lecture 4: | The Three Conditions Which Determine Man's Position in the World, Towards His Fellow-Men and Towards Spirituality. | February 02, 1919 |
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