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54. Christmas 14 Dec 1905, Berlin

At that time contrary to the view of the materialist naturalists, something happened in the big universe that belongs to the most important events of our human development. At that time, that constellation, that mutual position of earth, moon, and sun gradually appeared, which made the descent of the souls possible.
96. Esoteric Development: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages: The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path 20 Oct 1906, Berlin
Translated by Gertrude Teutsch, Olin D. Wannamaker, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin

You can observe this whirling of a vortex when you look at a star cluster, as in the constellation of Orion, for example. There you see a spiral, only it is on the physical plane. But you can view this also on all planes.
93. The Temple Legend: Concerning the Lost Temple and How it is to be Restored II 22 May 1905, Berlin
Translated by John M. Wood

The previous Persian age was designated in the constellation by the sign of the Twins. And if we go still further into the past we would come to the sign of the Crab for the Sanskrit culture.
141. Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture III 03 Dec 1912, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, E. H. Goddard

During the period on Earth between birth and death, while the soul is living in a physical body, the life of soul which strictly belongs to the sun and the stars has no more to do with this physical body than time as such—which is in reality conditioned by the solar and stellar constellations—has to do with the watch and its mechanism of wheels. It is quite conceivable that if, instead of living on the Earth, we were born on some other planet, our soul would be adapted to a quite different planetary existence.
143. Experiences of the Supernatural: Towards a Synthesis of World Views: A Fourfold Mission 16 May 1912, Munich

In the illustrations for the calendar, which were created by a dear and beloved member of our group, you have a renewal of that which has already become dry and barren: the imaginations that relate to the constellations of the sun and moon and the signs of the zodiac, renewed for the soul of today, given in such a way that you really benefit from it when you look at the sequence of weeks and days.
163. Chance, Necessity and Providence: Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States 27 Aug 1915, Dornach
Translated by Marjorie Spock

This alternation between outer and inner is one that belongs every bit as much to our life as the fact that the sun shines on the earth and then goes down, leaving it in darkness, belongs to the earth's life. In the latter case the spatial constellation is the factor involved in the alternation between light and darkness, bringing about the cycle of daytime and nighttime.
196. Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity: Fourth Lecture 16 Jan 1920, Dornach

He not only experienced earthly nature in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but he also experienced cosmic events, he experienced the age of, say, a certain Sirius constellation, and so on. What was later calculated in an elaborate astrological way was experienced in the human being, just as today we experience satiety after a meal or hunger when we are expecting a meal.
179. Historical Necessity and Freewill: Lecture IV 11 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translator Unknown

In this length of time, in 25,920 years, the sun returns to the same constellation of the Zodiac. If the sun is in Aries in a certain year, it will rise again in Aries after 25,920 years.
180. On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: The 33 Year Rhythmical Cycle 26 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translated by George Adams

It is in fact the attack of materialism on one of the last and outermost ramparts of a spiritual view of the world,—on the arrangement of Easter according to the heavenly constellations of the Sun and Moon. But there is a yet deeper meaning in it, that the time between Christmas and Easter is made to vary in successive years.
312. Spiritual Science and Medicine: Lecture VI 26 Mar 1920, Dornach
Translator Unknown

In that case we shall find as many days in the course of life, as there are breaths in one day of twenty-four hours: namely 25,915. Now take the path of the sun through the constellations of the Zodiac, the platonic year, namely, the time necessary for the point of sunrise to return to Aries at the Vernal Equinox; this amounts to 25,920 of our terrestrial years.

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