GA 212

Human Soul Life and Spiritual Striving in Connection with World and Earth Development

Nine lectures, Dornach 29 April to 17 June 1922.

Contents (selection)

I. Human soul life in connection with the development of the world: Man's relationship to the world / Transformation of the vital organs into sense organs. Death as the birth of the will / The soul's faculty and consciousness. Mental one-sidedness and illness / The experience of a spiritual outer world in the imagination. The knowledge of the heart in inspiration. The Heart as an Organ of the Senses / The Ancient Mysteries and their Prophecy. The Pure Thought. The Christian primal mystery

II. Human Spiritual Striving in Connection with the Development of the Earth: The Ages of Man. The Incarnation Process. The formation of the etheric heart / The Bhagavad-Gita. Yoga and modern meditation exercises / The recognition of the elemental world.

III. Eastern and Western World Contrasts: Contemporary conceptualisation and the thought life of ancient oriental culture. Eastern ghost thought and western instinctual ghosts. Developing spiritual thoughts as a task for the future.

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Menschliches Seelenleben und Geistesstreben im Zusammenhange mit Welt- und Erdentwickelung, GA 212 (1998), ISBN 3-7274-2120-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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