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233a. The Festival of Easter: Lecture I 19 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Our attention is attracted to the connection of this festival with the mysteries of the universe by the fact that it is what is called a moveable feast and has to be regulated year by year according to those constellations of which we propose to speak more exactly during the next few days. When it is noted how all through the centuries religious customs and ceremonies having an intimate connection with humanity have been associated with the festival of Easter, we realise the very special value that has gradually come to be placed on it in the course of man's historical development.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner II: Forty-Fourth Meeting 23 Jan 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
You could also have a star chart in the ninth grade where the various constellations are connected with some figure, with stylized figures of the heavens, as used to be done in star charts.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Sixteenth Lecture 20 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
You have the same symbol, for example, among the “seals and pillars”, and you will also find it again in the Apocalypse: the woman who is on the moon, the sun in front of the constellation of the Virgin, which points to midsummer, when it approaches the Christmas season. Here you also have the sun, with the moon below it.
354. The Evolution of the Earth and Man and The Influence of the Stars: How did man originate? Earth life and star wisdom 24 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
On the 21st of March, the day of the beginning of Spring, the sun rises at the present time in the constellation of Pisces. But it rises only once at that exact point. The point at which it rises shifts all the time.
123. The Gospel of St. Matthew (1946): The upward development of man 12 Sep 1910, Bern
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
He said therefore: ‘With these methods of applying Myths and Constellations to any great event, it is possible to do anything. If someone comes and points out that in the life of Christ we have a Sun-myth, in order to show that Christ Jesus never lived, one can also assert by such methods that Napoleon never lived, and can easily prove it.
Marvellous connections can also be discovered between the name of Napoleon's mother, Letitia, and Leto, the mother of Apollo; further, that Apollo—the Sun—had twelve constellations around him; Napoleon had twelve Marshals, who are nothing more than symbolic expressions for the Zodiacal signs surrounding the sun.
89. Awareness—Life—Form: Theosophical Cosmology I 26 May 1904, Berlin
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
How does a solar system evolve, and the planets and constellations? How did the Earth evolve, what stages has it gone through and what would still lie before it?
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On Devachan 18 Feb 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
What shines from this Akasha Chronicle into these three worlds from the outside, as it were, appears to us when we are within these three worlds, in much the same way as when we look out into the starry sky and see, as it were, a heavenly writing in the constellations. Man comes to decipher this writing when he is able to work his way up to the highest regions of Devachan.
93. The Temple Legend: The Mysteries of the Druids and the ‘Drottes’ 30 Sep 1904, Berlin
Translated by John M. Wood

Rudolf Steiner
In the instructions given to the neophyte, he is told that the greatest and most ancient of gods is called Alfader (the father of all), and has twelve epithets, which recall the twelve attributes of the sun, the twelve constellations, the twelve superior gods of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Among the gods of the Scandinavian theogony there is Baldur the Good, whose story, as already hinted above, formed the object of the initiatory ceremonies.
122. Genesis (1982): Light and Darkness. Yom and Lay'lah 21 Aug 1910, Munich
Translated by Dorothy Lenn, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
While the Archai themselves are still active as Aeons, for the deployment of their forces they make use of the Archangels, the light-bearers, who act from the circumference. That means that through the constellations of the light-Beings surrounding the earth, the Archangels work out of cosmic space in such a way that the great ordinances laid down by the Archai may be carried into effect.
123. The Gospel of St. Matthew (1946): Jesus ben Pandira and Initiation among the Essenes 05 Sep 1910, Bern
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The best approach to these mysteries is through the stars themselves which, in their movements and groupings into constellations, provide a form of expression—a language. As, by passing through six times seven stages man attains the key to the mysteries of his own inner being; twelve times seven or eighty-four stages are necessary before he can rise to the spiritual mysteries of universal space.

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