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• Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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  • Thanks to an anonymous donor, this lecture has been made available to everyone.
  • conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that
  • time. The course of human evolution has brought it about that ever
  • hindrance to the development of a Christ-Experience. And we have
  • clear that just as other incisive events in human evolution come
  • familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development have taken
  • for the right kind of development — then out of this mood, out
  • has developed certain methods. It has established a certain
  • scientific thought of today, so that he presents an ever greater
  • intellect, the development of which has been and still is of course
  • been developing in one's soul since childhood, and comes
  • supposed to lead the several nations, those who at any rate hold
  • on the world which would trace everything back to inherited
  • its denial of everything spiritual, than the emergence of the
  • physical body will not take place until the seventh condition, and
  • however, man can already understand that this has to happen; he can
  • And by developing the consciousness-soul now, I am preparing myself
  • earth has passed over, through a certain cosmic development, into its
  • is my task, even now, to understand.”
  • states of consciousness tend to transform him even as regards his
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• Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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  • several things were mentioned which, particularly at the present
  • development, the much-debated question mentioned to begin with was whether the outstanding and
  • leading individual personalities are the principal driving forces in this development or whether
  • approach which was then particularly developed, and that it was not the ideas in history that
  • were pursued but only a sense that was developed for the external world of facts. Attention was
  • might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
  • propelling forces of history lie, even though these spiritual forces will have to be expressed
  • when, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, we look more deeply into the historical development
  • the stream of physical-sensible facts lie the driving spiritual forces. But everywhere in
  • historical development there are times when what has real being and essence
  • phenomena into the depths of historical development.
  • something which otherwise is at work everywhere, but which does not show itself in such a
  • seen from such points, the remaining content of world events be recognized. Goethe says of
  • attention for what is usually called history — but which, nevertheless, for a deeper view
  • of humanity's development, is indeed significant. Around this year there was a kind of learned
  • theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
  • stream which then became the determining one for the development of the Roman Catholic Church of
  • if I can so call them, of this primal oriental wisdom. And then, like a rapidly developing
  • element in the development of humanity from Platonism. And, if we follow Aristotelianism further,
  • civilization and was first grasped by Aristotle. In Aristotle, however, this only sounds a first
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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  • civilized humanity of the Northern Hemisphere, in which the human individuality began to develop
  • will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
  • way, 'we are individuals': it is rather a matter of the whole development of humanity taking such
  • Every age, every epoch, that we can trace in the
  • course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
  • individuality is developing — when I-consciousness is developing fully, when the
  • evolution. And the human being who, through the development of his individuality is being
  • life, are emerging ever more strongly from the depths of existence. On the one side we have the
  • everything that can foster this social living together. We have shown in the past,
  • scientific way of thinking about social life, a certain view of life has been developed. This
  • differentiated, the social views of, let us say, the proletariat, which then, however, colour
  • influence of the modern technology and industry, there has also developed among the broad masses
  • socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
  • respect in the West. Even if it seems that the discrepancies which are there could be settled, it
  • develop from these impulses, we can nevertheless dearly perceive how the views of life which do
  • develop, and which have developed in recent times, have taken their incentive from the impulses
  • which had developed
  • there. He, however, transformed them into a theory, into a conception of life. And Marxism as a
  • external expression, however, is in Central Europe. In the aims of the social democracy there, it
  • import. If it were not for that distinction it would be far more evident that, even now,
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • it, in the after-effects during waking. And in this way they bring in everything they wish to pit
  • imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
  • and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
  • human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
  • the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
  • through it, but can no longer find a link between what he believes about the spiritual world and
  • In the Orient even completely worldly aspirations
  • is to be traced to the fact that it is actually conceived by the people of the East, even by the
  • From the Roman culture, and even already from the
  • Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
  • thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
  • in which Rome developed to particular splendour and in which the Roman Empire arose — were
  • monasteries or the like. And out of the decline of the Roman world in Southern Europe developed
  • shall not go today into the historical details of what developed throughout the Middle Ages out
  • of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
  • The characteristic phenomenon of Western development, of development in the more southerly
  • developed in this direction. But all this was interpenetrated by what entered into these Roman
  • [of the human being being penetrated from without by everything that arises from language]
  • would be extremely constricted. Above all, however, one must be clear that what can then manifest
  • pre-eminently suited to adopting and Anglo-Saxon developing natural-scientific thinking and to
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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  • philosophical treatise. This way of presenting concepts, of developing ideas, was not unfamiliar
  • not picture the human being so simply, or present human development so simply, and thus he wrote
  • Now, however, it is already possible to indicate in
  • a certain way — even though Goethe had not himself yet done so — how the Golden King
  • In every line of these
  • today in which, basically, behind what is structured and developed intellectually, the human
  • being. In Schiller everything still has a totally personal
  • even into the intellect. Schiller lives there in a phase — indeed, in an evolutionary point
  • of the modern development of humanity which is of essential importance — because Schiller
  • higher level of the Personality — which I will colour with red (see diagram) — was
  • Schiller had managed to work himself clear of this even though he allowed himself to be taught by
  • But even here he managed to
  • the spirits of the East; they tried to pull him into ecstatic reveries
  • or to take up oriental revelation.
  • development, these two soul-constitutions, which I have characterized for you, stand side by
  • side. They live anyway, so to speak, in every significant Central-European individuality but in
  • to raise the curve of the lemniscate (see diagram) to a higher level.
  • Golden King, the Silver King, and the Copper King — we see a prefiguration of everything
  • threefolding of the social organism is not brought to the surface arbitrarily but that even the
  • and nothing more one would never come to an impetus for actual outer action. Goethe was at the point
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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  • a kind of renewed manifestation of the Christ-Event is to take place. This will need a certain
  • We know that a new age in the development of
  • impossible an event like this, resting as it did on an idealistic spiritual background, has
  • It is the longing for knowledge. Now, when one looks back into former times, even into the
  • eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of European development, it is possible to
  • faculties in his soul which enabled him to achieve a relationship to nature — a
  • relationship to what was revealed in nature as spirit — and thereby also to achieve a
  • development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
  • when it came to what moved him to perform his work in the world, and so on. Everything that lived
  • since the middle of the fifteenth century. And even when we consider the great philosophers of
  • the striving for knowledge, even though pursued in isolation as was still the custom, enters more
  • from the fact that it is just in this time that we find the particular development and
  • dim. But one can nevertheless say that, to a certain degree, the last effects of the old
  • clairvoyance — though not the old clairvoyance itself — were still present even in
  • dreamlike way, they were nevertheless faculties different from those of everyday life and it was
  • that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
  • every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
  • divine-spiritual. Later on there developed in the central regions of the earth that which came
  • it had to develop further and could only do so under the influence of the dialectical-legal life,
  • through birth. In the time of oriental wisdom, everything — despite the civilization which
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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  • of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development. We remember that human development
  • characterized the different epochs of human development in such a way that we have placed the
  • place as a fact, but as a fact which, in its inner essence, can never be grasped by the
  • of an intellectual development. This was particularly so in the Romans. And one can therefore say
  • Intellect itself, however, was not able to penetrate the Mystery of Golgotha.
  • Golgotha gained through clairvoyance. But then there spread out over humanity's development the
  • the dialectical-legal, development of the human soul. In the midst of everything that occurred
  • was everywhere permeated by dialectical-legal forms. The clergy were the bureaucracy. They held
  • however, one only had images. A symbol of this kind is the mass with the sacred Last Supper and
  • that this Christ-force was able to stream into the physical world for the believers was subject
  • But what was developing here as the
  • continuous protest against authority. For when everything is based on authority, as was the case
  • authority, who wished to comprehend Christ out of their inner being — for which, however,
  • fortify this authority — to put, in a sense, everything that proceeds from the Mystery of
  • rejected the Christ-principle. It did not develop a Christology but a fighting doctrine for
  • Jesus: a Jesuology. Even though Jesus was seen as one reaching beyond all human beings, that
  • which led to the Mystery of Golgotha through Jesuitism was nevertheless to be something founded
  • wanted to speak only of the man Jesus. But as this whole development took its course it gave rise
  • event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
  • ways. For an event that has to be understood by higher forces one is concerned with how it looks
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• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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  • how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
  • European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
  • that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can
  • able to develop. And we have already pointed out how the particular constitution of soul that is
  • Golgotha. But one has to be clear that just as other crucial, incisive events in human evolution
  • before that time. History does not take this into account because external history ever and again
  • last decades, ideas which have become familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development
  • a stimulus for the right kind of development — then out of this materialistic mood, out of
  • Science has developed scrupulous methods. It has
  • scientific thought of today and thus he presents an ever-greater riddle to himself. Only a very
  • developing in recent centuries — and is so still today — this intellect creates a
  • earlier times of human world-view development.
  • ancient times every oriental knew that what worked its way out of his soul during childhood, in
  • growing and developing in one's soul since childhood comes from the spiritual world.
  • Today, however, this feeling has given way to
  • is from whom it has got this or that characteristic. And the reply, however, is seldom that the
  • to be leading the several nations — who at any rate held positions which imply leadership
  • utterly rsactionary world-view that tries to trace everything back to inherited characteristics.
  • vast numbers as a world-leader, even though there are no concepts in his words whatsoever —
  • perhaps, shows more clearly the materialism of modern times, its denial of everything spiritual,
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