Therapeutic Insights: Earthly and Cosmic Laws
GA 205
How do the human organs: heart, lung, kidney, liver, spleen, etc., reveal themselves in a person's psychological makeup? Knowing this, might a person relate to the world out of higher knowledge instead of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is given in these lectures to the relation of the inner organs to soul activities and disorders.
This edition of Therapeutic Insights: Earthly and Cosmic Laws, is a translation of five lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, June 24, 26, and July 1, 2, 3, 1921. They were not revised by the lecturer. The July 2 lecture appears here in a revision of a translation by May Laird-Brown which appeared in Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy, published by the Anthroposophic Press in 1946. The other four lectures were translated by Alice Wulsin and Gerald Karnow from the most recent German edition in Menschenwerden, Menschenseele, und Weltengeist.
| Lecture I | June 24, 1921 | |
| The lawfulness within the earthly world, the cosmic world, the world soul, and the world spirit; the mineral, plant, and animal worlds and the world of the human being; the ancient Greek and the element water. | ||
| Lecture II | June 26, 1921 | |
| The human being and the elements. | ||
| Lecture III | July 01, 1921 | |
| The nature of hallucination, fantasy, and imagination. | ||
| Lecture IV | July 02, 1921 | |
| Spiritual knowledge of the organs and their working over into the next earthly life; memories, compulsive thoughts, raving madness, hallucination; rational therapy. | ||
| Lecture V | July 03, 1921 | |
| Life between death and a new birth; judgment and conclusion; the human being as memory pictures and love; influences of Lucifer and Ahriman on the human being. | ||