The Sun Mystery & The Mystery of Death and Resurrection

, by Steiner, Rudolf; Creeger, Catherine E.; Bamford, Christopher

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ISBN: 9780880106085 | 0880106085
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Copyright: 7/31/2006

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These lectures were given in 1922, midway between World War I and Steiner's death in 1925. They will be of particular interest to anyone wanting to comprehend Rudolf Steiner's mature understanding of his mission.

A Note on This Edition

Introduction by Christopher Bamford

1. The Life of the Human Soul in Sleeping, Waking, and Dreaming

(16)

BERNE, MARCH 21, 1922

Dream life: image content and dramatic sequence.

Soul exercises to cultivate Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition.

Imagination: perception of the cosmic ether.

Inspiration: perception of spiritual beings.

Intuition: perception of the higher hierarchies and one's own karma.

Form in animals comes about through the breathing process, in human beings through the word.

Christ and Ahasuerus.

2. The Three States of Night Consciousness

(12)

DORNACH, MARCH 24, 1922

The drama of dream life.

The world of deep sleep.

The world of dreamless sleep.

Christ and Ahasuerus.

3. The Transformation of Worldviews

(11)

DORNACH, MARCH 25, 1922

The evolution from earlier, unmediated perception of the soul-spiritual to the perception of the corpse of nature today.

Ancient Indian exercises to achieve stronger self-feeling and thinking.

The strengthening of the "I"-experience among the Greeks.

The meaning of Greek tragedy.

The form of Dionysus.

The Mystery of Golgotha.

Divinized nature today and reflection on the corpse of Jesus Christ.

The "unchristianness" of contemporary theology.

Necessity of an enchristening of social life.

4. Historical Changes in the Experience of Breathing

(11)

DORNACH, MARCH 26, 1922

Breathing used to achieve "I"-experience in ancient times.

Sophia (wisdom): the content of inbreathing reproduced through sense experience.

Inbreathing: perception; outbreathing: action.

Pistis (faith): the process of spiritual outbreathing.

Science and faith today.

"The Kingdom of the Heavens."

The meaning of Earth for Heaven.

5. The Human Being as Portrayed in Greek Art

(19)

DORNACH, MARCH 31, 1922

The four members of the human being.

The legend of Niobe.

The task of Greek tragedy.

Fear and compassion, Catharsis.

Goethe's struggle for a worldview.

Meeting with Herder, journey to Italy.

The Niobe group and the Laocoön group.

Lessing on Laocoön.

Goethe and Shakespeare.

Hamlet.

6. Investigating and Formulating the Cosmic Word in Inhalation and Exhalation 62

DORNACH, APRIL 1, 1922

Change in in- and out-breathing processes in recent times.

The head as replica of the cosmos; the circling streams of the Earth in the chest organism.

The working of the Earth forces in the limbs.

The mystery of the AUM.

Mauthner's "Critique of Language,"

7. Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity

(14)

DORNACH, APRIL 2, 1922

The Risen One.

In the earliest times there was no death; experience of death came with the development of the intellect.

Ahriman as the bringer both of death and the intellect.

The sending of Christ to constrain Ahriman's power.

Ahriman's influence on human consciousness, The Mystery of Golgotha as the expression of a struggle among the Gods.

The teachings of the Risen One to his disciples.

Paul's Damascus experience.

8. The Teachings of the Risen Christ

(13)

THE HAGUE, APRIL 13, 1922

The Mystery of Golgotha.

Presenting Anthroposophy in public and in the Branches.

The revealed primal wisdom of humanity in its origin.

Increasing waning of dreamlike clairvoyance leading up to the Mystery of Golgotha, it the same time increasing experience of birth and death.

The task of Christianity to communicate knowledge of life and death to the Gods.

The Resurrection of Christ.

Paul's experience at Damascus.

The teaching of the keen One.

The meaning of the Catholic Mass.

9. Spiritual Insight and Initiation

(17)

LONDON, APRIL 14, 1922

Anthroposophy is an initiation science starting where natural science ends.

Anthroposophy strives for exact clairvoyance by developing the fundamental powers of soul life: thinking, feeling, and willing.

The results of supersensible cognition can be understood by healthy human reason.

Cognition of the soul-spiritual reality of the cosmos and of humanity is the task of Anthroposophy.

10. Perceiving the Christ through Anthroposophy

114

(11)

LONDON, APRIL 15, 1922

"Exact clairvoyance" as the foundation of modern initiation science.

The Goetheanum in Dornach: its architecture and paintings.

The Waldorf school in Stuttgart.

The power of thoughts as the corpse of the soul-spiritual.

Paul's saying, "Not I but the Christ in me."

The meaning of the Mystery of Golgotha for the redemption of the strengthened "I" in the face of the death of the soul spiritual and the bodily.

The mystery of birth.

"Unbornness."

The Gods' "not-knowing" of death.

The re-enlivening of Christianity and the resurrection of the religious life through Anthroposophy.

11. The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ

125

(12)

LONDON, APRIL 24, 1922

Present dangers of the Ahrimanic.

Human development from the old Persian epoch to the Greeks: Zarathustra, Osiris, and Zeus.

The Threefold Sun in Greek and Roman culture.

Julian the Apostate.

Through the Mystery of Golgotha, the Threefold Sun-Being came to Earth.

Old mysteries: secrets of birth.

The Risen Christ: secrets of death.

The uniting of the Christ impulse with the "anti-spiritual" Roman sphere.

Modern science as the foundation of freedom.

Cardinal Newman, his spiritual background, life, and strivings.

Overcoming Ahriman through setting free thinking from its bondage to the brain.

12. Anthroposophy as an Attempt to Enchristen the World

137

(18)

VIENNA, JULY 11, 1922

Esoteric character of the Anthroposophic Movement.

Necessary dialog with science.

Gap between esoteric and exoteric.

Training of the human intellect.

Ahrimanic powers in the being of nature.

The coming age of light.

The different kinds of elemental beings and their relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman.

The Rosicrucian saying.

Editorial and Reference Notes

155

(12)

Bibliography

167

(2)

Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner

169

(13)

Rudolf Steiner Collected Works

182

(17)

Index

199

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