World History and the Mysteries
In the Light of Anthroposophy
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- English
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World History and the Mysteries
In the Light of Anthroposophy
About this book
In this landmark series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner challenges the notion that human consciousness has in essence remained the same throughout history. On the contrary, we can only see the past in its true light when we study the differences in human souls during the various historical eras. Consciousness, he says, evolves constantly and we can only comprehend the present by understanding its origin in the past.Delivered in the evenings during the course of the 'mystery act' of the Christmas Foundation Meeting – when Rudolf Steiner not only re-founded the Anthroposophical Society but for the first time took a formal role within it – these lectures study world history in parallel with the ancient mysteries of initiation, showing how they are intimately linked. Steiner describes consciousness in the ancient East and follows the initiation principle from Babylonia to Greece, up to its influences in present-day spiritual life. He also discusses Gilgamesh and Eabani, the mysteries of Ephesus and Hibernia, and the occult relationship between the destruction by fire of the Temple of Artemis and the burning of the first Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.Published for the first time with colour plates of Steiner's blackboard drawings, the freshly-revised text is complemented with an introduction, notes and appendices by Professor Frederick Amrine and an index.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Publisher’s Note
- Introduction, by Frederick Amrine
- Lecture 1 Dornach, 24 December 1923 The development of memory in the course of human evolution
- Lecture 2 Dornach, 25 December 1923 Ancient oriental experience of the world
- Lecture 3 Dornach, 26 December 1923 Gilgamesh and Eabani—The Mysteries of Ephesus
- Lecture 4 Dornach, 27 December 1923 The Hibernian Mysteries and the Mysteries of the Logos of Artemis at Ephesus
- Lecture 5 Dornach, 28 December 1923 The conception of nature and of spirit in nature of the oriental Mysteries and its shadow image in the Greek civilization
- Lecture 6 Dornach, 29 December 1923 The time between the burning of the Temple of Artemis and the death of Julian the Apostate—The working of Aristotelianism up to the spiritual revelations in the last third of the nineteenth century
- Lecture 7 Dornach, 30 December 1923 The losing of insight into the relationship between humans and the universe in modern times
- Lecture 8 Dornach, 31 December 1923 The jealousy of the Gods and human jealousy—The burning of the Temple of Artemis and the burning of the Goetheanum
- Lecture 9 Dornach, 1 January 1924 The right entry into the spiritual world—The responsibility incumbent on us
- Appendices:
- Notes
- Rudolf Steiner’s Collected Works
- Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner
- Index