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77b. Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921: Anthroposophy: The Science of the Human Being 24 Aug 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
It was formed out of what one had grasped as the essence of man, as an image of the cosmic, the zodiac, the zodiakus; but not as one has it in mind in its abstract form, but in such a way that the individual formations of the zodiac became truly essential, so that the spiritual essence of the zodiacal constellation emerged and revealed how it now came together with the individual elements of human nature: the world as an image, within a certain sphere as an image, the living out of inner thoughts, striving towards cosmic imagery.
117. Deeper Secrets of Human History: Lecture II 09 Nov 1909, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
In this people everything must be so regulated as to ensure the continuance of the stream of ordered law which, flowing from the universe, has organised the human physical body according to the principles of number, measure and weight prevailing in the constellations. Again this is indicated in an utterance in the Bible, which is completely mistranslated. “I will make thy seed as the stars of heaven.”
180. Mysterious Truths and Christmas Impulses: Sixth Lecture 30 Dec 1917, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
We are now living in the age in which, on the one hand, man is exposed to the radiations that permeate him from Pisces, but on the other hand, he is exposed to the radiations of the differently acting, opposite constellation of Virgo. But this age must find the way out of spiritual infertility. Of course, we can no longer simply take over what humanity once knew, because that knowledge was in a form that was useful for ancient humanity.
192. Spiritual-Scientific Consideration of Social and Pedagogic Questions: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question II 01 May 1919, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
And the sun—which you can at least suspect to have some relation to our life—men observe how its rising moves back in the Zodiac a certain number of degrees every year, in such a way that if spring comes at a certain place in a certain constellation one year, the next year it shifts back a few degrees. So the rising of the sun circles around the whole ellipse in what is called a Platonic world-year, which consists of 25,920 years.
161. Perception of the Nature of Thought 10 Jan 1915, Dornach
Translated by Mabel Cotterell

Rudolf Steiner
And if we try to bring personal karma into connection with the constellations which relate to the zodiacal signs, we are then living approximately in the sphere of that world-conception which must be employed for the laws of the ancient Saturn epoch.
162. Artistic and Existential Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science: Third Lecture 29 May 1915, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Because, think about what it would be like if the sun suddenly decided not to rise above the horizon at a certain time and everything that makes day into night happened all at once. You cannot possibly imagine that a constellation will arise in the universe that is analogous to man sleeping when he wants, arbitrarily arranging his waking and sleeping times.
177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: The Search for a Perfect World 01 Oct 1917, Dornach
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
Nevertheless, the present age does offer enormous opportunities for a kind of lazy outsider attitude. The specific constellation created by the war means that some people have really nothing to occupy them. If they are part of our movement they will also be aware of it.
233a. The Easter Festival in relation to the Mysteries: Lecture II 20 Apr 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
In this way we shall also understand why man even today looks upward to the Sun and Moon and determines from their mutual constellation the time of the Easter Festival. For this alone has still remained. We calculate when is the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the Spring Equinox.
233a. The Festival of Easter: Lecture II 20 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
From this we can understand how man still looks up to Sun and Moon to-day and from their reciprocal constellations fixes the time of the Easter Festival. This method of reckoning is something that has remained from former times.
323. Astronomy as Compared to Other Sciences: Lecture I 01 Jan 1921, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Here, within the framework it has a solid part which is due to the working of the one planet on the other. And suppose that here there were another constellation of planets, working upon each other along the line joining them (b,b1). Figure 5 And here again there might be yet another planet (c), this one having no counterpart;—it throws the whole construction, which might otherwise have been rectangular, out of shape, and the structure takes on a somewhat different form.

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