GA 204

Man in His Connection with the Cosmos, Volume IV

Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos, Band IV

Seventeen lectures given in Dornach between 2 April and 5 June 1921.

Contents (selection)

Materialism in the 19th century / Constructive forces in the human organism / Mithras cult and Christianity. Basilius Valentinus, Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus / The Essence of Greekism and its Tragedy. Bread and wine in the Grail mystery / Nietzsche's ideological development and tragedy / Measure, number and weight. Mankind's loss of reality / Man's connection with the planetary forces. Constellation and earthly birth / Materialistic science and spiritual science. The Way to the Transformation of Thought / World's End and World's Rise. Father-power and Christ-power / The body-experience in Egypt, Greece and the turnaround in the 4th century. The task of anthroposophy

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung, GA 204 (1979), ISBN 3-7274-2040-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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