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323. Astronomy as Compared to Other Sciences: Lecture XII 12 Jan 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
As you are well aware, to explain all the phenomena, Astronomy today must have recourse not only to the primary notion of a stationary Sun supposed to be at the focus of an ellipse along which the Earth is moving—but to a further movement, a movement of the Sun itself towards a certain constellation. If you imagine the direction of this movement and other relevant factors, then from the several movements of Sun and Earth, you may well be able to deduce a resultant path for the Earth, no longer coincident with the ellipse in which the Earth is said to be going round the Sun, but of a different form which need not be at all like the supposed ellipse.
323. Astronomy as Compared to Other Sciences: Lecture XIV 14 Jan 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Assume to begin with,—assume that in some way the forming of the animal is really brought about by relation to the Sun. And now, apart from the constellation that will be effective in each case as between Sun and animal, let us ask, quite in the sense of the Sun's light in the cosmos, not so immediately connected with the Sun itself?
326. The Origins of Natural Science: Lecture II 25 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar, Norman MacBeth

Rudolf Steiner
It was a recollection of far older visions, a recapitulation of what wise men of a much more ancient age had beheld when they directed their clairvoyant sight into the cosmic spaces whence the motions and constellations of the stars had spoken to them. To the sages of old, the universe was not the machine, the mechanical contraption that it is for men of today when they look out into space to the wise men of ancient times.
218. Planetary Spheres and Their Influence on Mans Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds: Life in the Spiritual Spheres and the Return to Earth 12 Nov 1922, London
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Man goes forth, from the planetary spheres—we mean of course the copy of the planetary spheres—and enters upon an experience of the constellations of the fixed stars. So that between falling asleep and awaking, man actually covers the whole cosmic existence beyond the Earth.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Christmas Course III 04 Jan 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

Rudolf Steiner
The in-streaming is essentially modified according to the position of the constellation from which it comes. This is a thought around which there is nothing but dilettantism today, but in olden times it was the basis of great astronomical wisdom.
The Festivals and Their Meaning I: Christmas: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun 24 Dec 1905, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
In those remote ages—and this is contrary to what modern science teaches—certain constellation of Earth, Moon and Sun was in existence. It was not until then that the Sun assumed the significance it now has in the process of man's growth and life upon the Earth and of the other creatures belonging to the Earth—the plants and animals.
121. The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: The Five Root Races of Mankind 12 Jun 1910, Oslo
Translated by A. H. Parker

Rudolf Steiner
Even at the time when) especially under the influence of the new planetary constellation, the cooperation of the Jupiter or Zeus forces with the universal Elohim forces took place, they felt themselves to be the people of Zeus.
108. A Chapter of Occult History 16 Dec 1908, Nuremberg
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
They looked up to the stars and saw in their constellations and movements a script of the Gods. They saw revelations of divine-spiritual Beings in physical manifestation.
214. The Mystery of Golgotha 27 Aug 1922, Oxford
Translated by Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Looking up to the stars, he saw them not in the mere abstract constellations which we see to-day. He saw them in dreamlike Imaginations. In a dreamlike way he saw the whole Universe filled with spiritual pictures or Imaginations, and as he saw it thus he could exclaim: “This is the last reflected glory of the spiritual World from which I am come down.
199. Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms: Lecture XV 10 Sep 1920, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Likewise, these individuals who could read the course of the stars said to themselves, “This or that constellation of the stars signifies to us one or the other intention on the part of those divine spiritual beings who guide and direct everything we may call human destiny.”

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