Rudolf Steiner Archive 

Calendar of the Soul

Northern Hemisphere

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.

Southern Hemisphere

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

See GA 40 for full calendar and German text.

The Evolution of Consciousness
GA 227

In these comprehensive lectures, given to an English audience, Rudolf Steiner explains how it is possible to develop higher faculties of consciousness — Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. A particularly vivid description is given of one's life after death and the progress of the individual through the planetary spheres where tasks and goals for future incarnations are prepared in cooperation with the spiritual beings of the Hierarchies. The lectures culminate in the call for humanity to gradually take in hand its own destiny through the conscious and free development of spiritual capacities.

Evolution of Consciousness consists of thirteen lectures given at Penmaenmawr, Wales in August of 1923. They were published in German as, Initiations-erkenntnis. Die geistige und physische Welt- und menschheitsentwickelung in der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft vom Geistespunkt der Anthroposophie.

I. First Steps towards Imaginative Knowledge August 19, 1923
II. Inspiration and Intuition August 20, 1923
III. Initiation-Knowledge — New and Old August 21, 1923
IV. Dream Life August 22, 1923
V. The Relation of Man to the Three Worlds August 23, 1923
VI. The Ruling of Spirit in Nature August 24, 1923
VII. The Interplay of various Worlds August 25, 1923
VIII. During Sleep and after Death August 26, 1923
IX. Experiences between Death and Rebirth August 27, 1923
X. Man's Life after Death in the Spiritual Cosmos August 27, 1923
XI. Experience of the World's Past August 27, 1923
XII. The Evolution of the World in connection with the Evolution of Man August 27, 1923
XIII. The Entry of Man into the Era of Freedom August 27, 1923

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