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223. Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man: Lecture II 28 Sep 1923, Vienna
Translated by Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

Rudolf Steiner
The other factor is this: when now he gazes into the vast cosmos he observes the outer forms of the stars and constellations, but he no longer has any inner spiritual relation to what is spiritual in the cosmos. We can go further: the man of today observes the kingdoms of nature that surround him on earth—the manifold beauty of plants, the gigantic proportions of mountains, the fleeting clouds, and so on.
312. Spiritual Science and Medicine: Lecture VI 26 Mar 1920, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
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.
54. Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory 14 Dec 1905, Berlin
Translated by Lisa D. Monges, Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
An event took place in the universe that belongs to the most important in the evolution of man. Gradually, the constellation of earth, moon and sun arose that made the descent of the souls possible. It was in that period that the sun gained its significance for the growth and prospering of man on earth, and also for his fellow creatures, the plants and animals.
228. Report on the Work and Travel Impressions in England 09 Sep 1923, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
When the sun makes its daily path, the shadows of these stones fall in a variety of ways, and you can now distinguish, let's say, when the sun passes through the constellation of Aries, the Aries shadow, then the Taurus shadow, the Gemini shadow and so on. Even today, when deciphering these things, one still gets a good impression of how the Druid priest was able to read the secrets of the universe from the various, qualitatively different sun shadows that this Druid circle revealed, from that which lives on in the sun shadow when the physical sunlight is held back, so that in fact it contains a world clock that speaks of the secrets of the world.
102. The Festivals and Their Meaning II: Easter: Easter: the Mystery of the Future 13 Apr 1908, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd, Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
At the time when this kind of consciousness had evolved from a still earlier form, the sun in the heavens rose at the vernal equinox in the constellation of Libra (the Scales). As the Atlantean epoch took its further course, the kind of consciousness that is ours to-day gradually developed.
53. Fundamentals of Theosophy The Origin of the Earth 09 Mar 1905, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
If you expand this thought to all the other natural conditions, it shows you that the human being is in truth completely dependent on the constellation and configuration of the forces within which he lives. He becomes another being if he is in another interrelation.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whitsun Festival. Its Place in the Study of Karma 04 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
What seems apparent to us—namely, that the Sun is speeding on towards the constellation of Hercules—is only a spatial image of the Time-evolution of the Sun-Being. To His intimate disciples Christ spoke these words: “Behold the life of the Earth; it is related to the life of the Cosmos.
4. The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (1986): Thinking in the Service of Apprehending the World
Translated by William Lindemann

Rudolf Steiner
Let us suppose that, at the moment of impact, someone covered the field on which the occurrence that takes place; then I—as mere observer—am without knowledge of what happens afterwards. It is different if, for the constellation of relationships, I have found the corresponding concepts before the covering takes place. In this case I can say what will happen, even if the possibility of observation ceases.
83. The Tension Between East and West: Spiritual Geography 04 Jun 1922, Vienna
Translated by B. A. Rowley

Rudolf Steiner
External nature, and indeed the entire external world right up to the constellations, seems to him an echo which is, however, fundamentally the same as what he bears within him.
108. Novalis 26 Oct 1908, Berlin
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
Hymns to the NightI Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light—with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant-world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its blue flood—the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning multiform beast inhales it—but more than all, the lordly stranger with the sense-filled eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips.

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