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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These lectures were given by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach at various dates from 1916 through 1919. They are grouped and titled, Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II, and are published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Erlaeuterungen zu Goethes “FAUST”. Band II. Das Faust Problem. Die Romantische und die Klassiche Walpurgisnacht.
This is a typescript edition of these lectures and is entitled, The Faust Problem. The Romantic and the Classical Walpurgis Night. Some of these lectures were published in the weekly journal, “Anthroposophical Movement” in the Fall of 1930, while others were on typed pages. Translated by George Kaufmann and edited by Harry Collison.
I. | The Problem of Faust | September 30, 1916 |
II. | The Romantic Walpurgis-Night | December 10, 1916 |
III. | Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete. Shadowy concepts and Ideas filled with Reality | January 27, 1917 |
IV. | Faust and the “Mothers” | November 02, 1917 |
V. | Faust and the Problem of Evil | November 03, 1917 |
VI. | The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom | November 04, 1917 |
VII. | Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations in Connection with the “Classical Walpurgis-Night” | September 27, 1918 |
VIII. | Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night | September 28, 1918 |
IX. | Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science | September 29, 1918 |
X. | Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself and of the Forces Actually Slumbering in Man | January 17, 1919 |
XI. | The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths | January 18, 1919 |
XII. | Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism | January 19, 1919 |
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