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170. The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience 15 Aug 1916, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
For instance, we have said: the realms of the senses, as they exist in the human being today, are in a way separate and stationary regions, as the constellations of the Zodiac are stationary regions out in cosmic space as compared with the orbiting planets, which make their journeys and alter their positions relatively quickly.
Just as the planets cover one another, and have a significance in their mutual relationships, while the constellations remain stationary, so is it with the regions of the senses if they pass over into a planetary condition in human life, becoming mobile and living; then they achieve relationships to one another.
173c. The Karma of Untruthfulness II: Lecture XXIV 28 Jan 1917, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis

Rudolf Steiner
Note, please, that astronomy takes no account of the constellations, so you will find that calendars still say that the sun rises in the constellation of the Ram at the beginning of spring, which is in fact not the case.
185. From Symptom to Reality in Modern History: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times 20 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by A. H. Parker

Rudolf Steiner
What is especially important here is the rhythmic course of cosmic events, and it is this that we must study. We must ask ourselves: In what constellation were we living when, in the nineties, the present influenza epidemic appeared in its benign form? In what cosmic constellation are we living at the present time? By virtue of what cosmic rhythm does the influenza epidemic of the nineties appear in a more acute form today?
231. Supersensible Man: Lecture I 13 Nov 1923, The Hague
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
In ancient times men visualised this movement of the planetary bodies by saying: The paths of the planets go through the Zodiacal constellations. The Ancients knew how to describe the courses of Saturn and the other planets as each takes its way through the constellations of the Zodiac.
343. Lectures on Christian Religious Work II: Twentieth Lecture 06 Oct 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Of course, in poor churches it is not possible to change the chasuble every day or even every week, but there the change of the chasuble could be based on the respective constellations of the stars; a varied chasuble could certainly be used for each day according to the ecclesiastical calendar, which, according to the Catholic view, essentially gives us the constellations of the stars, the sun and the moon.
265. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two: The Rose Cross

Rudolf Steiner
From this point, forces come to meet this effect, but the incoming forces are strongest. Thus, through the influence of the twelve constellations from the surrounding area on a point in space, the first embodiment of the present earth as a ball of heat, as the old Saturn, arose at that time.
Just as today's plants grow out of their seeds towards the sunlight, so on the old sun there arose a growth, a spreading out and a coming forth into the light from the centers into the environment. Not only did the forces of the twelve constellations act on the old sun from the surrounding area, but it itself sent something in return to these forces in the radiating light.
2. The Science of Knowing: Inorganic Nature
Translated by William Lindemann

Rudolf Steiner
The opaqueness and unclarity of a phenomenon or relationship in the sense world can be overcome only if we see, with total exactness, that it is the result of a definite constellation of facts. We must know that the process we see now arises through the working together of this and that element of the sense world.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Three Lights 17 Dec 1911, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Record A (with additions from Cycle 20) from the estate of Elisabeth Vreede First degree It has been said many times that the symbols and rituals of our temple are not created arbitrarily, but have a deep connection with cosmic constellations and correspond to laws that can only be revealed to us slowly and gradually. They are handed down from century to century from the mysteries of the most ancient times, so that they may serve as the right channels for the spiritual currents that the wise masters of the East pour over us.
224. The Festivals and Their Meaning IV : Michaelmas: The Creation of a Michael Festival out of the Spirit (extract) 23 May 1923, Bern

Rudolf Steiner
The Spring Festival, the Easter Festival, cannot therefore be fixed on a particular day, in accordance with earthly things alone, but must take into account the constellations of the stars. A deep wisdom lies in this, coming out of an age in which men were still able to perceive the spiritual nature of the year's course through an ancient instinctive clairvoyance.
97. The Christian Mystery (2000): Christian Initiation and Rosicrucian Training 22 Feb 1907, Vienna
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
The sun moved into the sign of the Ram, or the Lamb, about 800 years before Christ. People felt the new constellation had brought them the new fruitfulness of spring, something new and good. We see from this that they felt the Lamb or the Ram to be important.
A vortex had occurred in the realm of the spirit. This constellation with the occult sign of Cancer can still be seen in the calendar today. Many such signs are known to man.

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