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 the first six lectures (out of twelve) from Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works Volume 188. All of these lectures were given at Dornach in January 1919 and translated by V. E. Watkin. They are from the lecture series entitled, Goetheanism as an Impulse for Transformation ... Human Science and Social Science, originally published in German as, Der Goetheanismus, Ein Umwandlungsimpuls und Auferstehungsgedanke, Menschenwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaft.
Translated by V. E. Watkin
The Difference Between Man and Animal | January 03, 1919 | |
St. John of the Cross | January 04, 1919 | |
Clairvoyant Vision Looks at Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man | January 05, 1919 | |
Human Qualities Which Oppose Antroposophy | January 10, 1919 | |
Paganism, Hebraism, and the Greek Spirit, Hellenism | January 11, 1919 | |
Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation | January 12, 1919 |
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