Folk soul

The folk soul is the expression of the characteristic feelings, moods, sympathies and antipathies and habits common to a people. It is the soul atmosphere in which all members of a people are more or less strongly integrated. This unmistakable fundamental soul mood of a people changes in the course of time, it undergoes a process of development and is gradually refined. But this requires the creative-inspiring activity of the folk spirit, which is taken up by individual outstanding human individuals - by artists, sages or important folk leaders - and incorporated into the folk soul. A very clear distinction must therefore be made between the folk spirit and the folk soul that belongs to it.

Literature

• Hans Erhard Lauer: Die Volksseelen Europas. Versuch einer Psychologie der europäischen Völker, Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 1965
• Heinz Eckhoff (Hg.): Europa und sein Genius. Die Volksseelenkunde der Anthroposophie - Ein Beitrag zu einem schöpferischen Frieden, Fischer TB Vlg., Frankfurt a.M. 1986
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Geheimnis des Todes. Wesen und Bedeutung Mitteleuropas und die europäischen Volksgeister, GA 159 (1980) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mitteleuropa zwischen Ost und West, GA 174a (1982) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner, Erdensterben und Weltenleben, GA 181 (1967), Zweiter Teil, Berlin, 30. März 1918 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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