Remembering Heraclitus5 lectures, Dornach, March 31 - April 8, 1923 (CW 223) "Human beings must attain an esoteric maturity in order to think not merely abstractly, but to be able to think so concretely that they can again become festival-creating. Then it will be possible again to unite something spiritual with the cycle of sense phenomena." --Rudolf SteinerThese five lectures were given at Easter, 1923. Rudolf Steiner, in a fully conscious way, laid a foundation for celebrating the Christian festivals--Christmas, Easter, St. John's, and Michaelmas. This is begun with a description of how the festival year evolved over long ages from the Earth's cycle of inbreathing and outbreathing. These forces are the Earth's soul activities in relation to the cosmos. Rudolf Steiner reveals the deep relationship between humanity and the seasons of the Earth, the solstices, and the equinoxes. And through the festivals of the seasons, he reveals humanity's relationship to the Christ Being The esoteric realities behind the festivals are also discussed in relation to sub-earthly and supra-earthly forces, the ancient Mysteries, the activity of the Archangel Michael, morality, and the arts. This book is a translation from German of Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier grossen Festeszeiten. Die Anthroposophie und das menschliche Gemüt (GA 223). |
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... conscious human being has access if rightly aligned to receive it . We have to be out there , however , out on the edge of the abyss at midnight , waiting for the word . We are Hamlet on the parapet , hearing the ghost say , “ Remember ...
... consciousness. In the ancient world, Socrates was the most famous instigator, the gad-fly of classical Athenian society, prodding the sleeping citizens to awaken, to realize who they were and what they must do to preserve their ...
... consciousness of their cultures and thus of the world. It is highly probable that intimations of this revolution in thought not only reached Ephesus and Heraclitus but were indeed nourished there. The intelligentsia of Ephesian society ...
... consciousness. For Heraclitus the idea of transformation finds itself represented in many of the fragments. Indeed, as we follow the notion of Heraclitus as an instigator through the fragments, we notice right away that they are ...
... conscious link to the One, must approach the Divine Mind through a supernatural insight. In order to accomplish this feat, the individual must follow disciplines, simplifying his or her life, being alone and abiding where the One ...