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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • And thereby men would be prepared for the festivals of the year, the
  • consciousness the festival the calendar sets at the end of September,
  • at the beginning of autumn: the Michael Festival. This will regain its
  • Michael Festival — because the impulses spring directly from the
  • Festival with the sprouting, budding spring. Then, as citizens of the
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • But when we hear it stated that a Michael Festival must be
  • place among the other annual festivals, it is naturally not enough
  • Michael Festival! My dear friends, if anthroposophy is to achieve its
  • should be we must consider in what manner the festivals — once
  • Did the Christmas or Easter Festival come into being because a few
  • people had the idea of instituting a festival at a certain time of the
  • is not the case. For something like the Christmas Festival to find its
  • transcendent event had to occur. And the Easter Festival? It could
  • humanity. If nowadays these festivals have faded, if the whole
  • seriousness of the Christmas and Easter Festivals is no longer felt,
  • imagined that one should add to these festivals simply by establishing
  • a Michael Festival with equal superficiality at the beginning of
  • — as were all events that led to the institution of festivals.
  • The possibility of celebrating a Michael Festival in all seriousness
  • movement out of which an understanding for such a Michael Festival
  • must be able to arise. But just as the Christmas and Easter Festivals
  • so to a lesser degree in the case of the Michael Festival; but
  • question of reviving the Michaelmas Festival: only those can be
  • Thus, we see that what can lead to a Michaelmas Festival must be an
  • the preparation needed for the Michael Festival.
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • Autumn Festival, Druid and Mythric Mysteries, Organization of the Heart
  • Autumn Festival, Druid and Mythric Mysteries, Organization of the Heart
  • discussing particulars for a Michael Festival at the beginning of
  • have become very dim. Human feeling for the traditional festivals has
  • festivals like Christmas or Easter exerted a far-reaching influence on
  • Now, if we intend in some way to realize the Michael Festival with
  • Festival.
  • the course of nature, celebrating festivals that have social
  • Festival is the call for the spiritual light of day.
  • things that can inaugurate a Michael Festival as a festival of
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
  • Realistic Thinking, Earth Spirit and Human Spirit, Michael Festival
  • celebrate the Christmas Festival during the winter solstice. Then the
  • hold the mystery of the Christmas Festival. The Redeemer could unite only
  • the festival intended to induce a feeling in man that he belongs not
  • his soul can be awakened through cosmic agencies, for this festival
  • Christmas Festival linked with phenomena pertaining to the earth, with
  • hand we see the Easter Festival so fitted into the course of the
  • earth being, and that at the Spring Festival of Easter he has to open
  • years: well-meaning people who do not want the Easter Festival to be
  • instituted the Festival of St. John. This was the time when the
  • St. John Festival was celebrated in its original significance, were
  • adding the autumn festival, the Michael Festival, to the three we
  • have: the festivals of Christmas, Easter and St. John, that have
  • Festival could be celebrated at the end of September with the whole
  • Gemüt sensations: a Michael Festival calls for human
  • What does Easter represent in the year's festivals? It is a festival
  • time goes on; and in addition to this festival that brings alive the
  • This makes of the Michael Festival a reversed Easter
  • Festival. Easter commemorates for us the Resurrection of Christ from
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
  • Michaelmas. The esoteric realities behind the festivals are discussed in
  • At the times when the great festivals of the year approach our souls,
  • spiritual cosmic connections, the meaning of the festival year. And I
  • of spiritual insights and over long ages, the festival year has
  • But here something else enters in. When festivals were established in
  • Him, was thus deciphered in order to determine the festivals. But if
  • you consider the fixing of the Easter festival as we have it now, you
  • that the fixing of the festivals had formerly been related to cosmic
  • places, those men who especially understood the festival of the summer
  • solstice; and so we see the St. John's festival placed at the time of
  • We may say that up until now Michaelmas has been a festival for
  • festival for simple folk. But once the significance of the yearly
  • with the in-flowing earth breath, so that the Christmas festival may
  • alive in ourselves at each of the four great festivals of the year,
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
  • Michaelmas. The esoteric realities behind the festivals are discussed in
  • spirit, it must come about that an autumn festival is added to the
  • festivals of the year. This should be a kind of Michael festival,
  • When we celebrate the Easter festival today, if we look about us into
  • thought, the Easter festival merely reflects an ancient custom, as do
  • the rest of the Christian festivals. In the course of the years we
  • we must say to ourselves: The time of the Christmas festival
  • something comparable to our present Christmas festival existed, it was
  • pole, and this Easter pole became paralyzed. The Easter festival lost
  • think about this festival in such a way that he can say to himself:
  • we have the Easter festival, which puts before mankind the picture of
  • faith man can still look upon what the Easter festival gives him: Upon
  • And the festival which contains this thought: “He is risen and
  • can confidently be laid in the grave” — this festival must
  • If we place the Easter festival at the time when life begins to bud
  • then the other festival, which contains: “He is risen and can
  • strongest forces. In the festival-thought at the time of the fall
  • the Michael festival in the autumn, is felt to be the counter-pole of
  • concretely that men can again become festival-creating. Then it will
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
  • Michaelmas. The esoteric realities behind the festivals are discussed in
  • to focus the whole attention during the year on a festival-time.
  • Although in our time the celebration of religious festivals is largely
  • consciousness toward a specific festival. Let us say, at the beginning
  • expression in the way they related themselves to what the festivals
  • later became the Easter festival — in that period in which the
  • Easter festival was livingly felt and perceived, when man still took
  • ordering of the festivals. They set the tone for the celebration of
  • the festivals. The priesthood was that group of men who presented the
  • festivals before the rest of mankind, before the laity, and who gave
  • the festivals their content. In so doing the priests themselves felt
  • from the inspiring effect of the festivals was expressed in the rest
  • always that which is experienced within all the festival moods in
  • festival in autumn a reality; if we were really to succeed, out of
  • autumn Michael festival something that would pass over into men's
  • beings with himself, if at a certain festival time — it would
  • this living-with-Nature to expression in an appropriate festival
  • have the Michael festival inspiring such a view in the same way that
  • the one-sided Easter festival inspired the view now existing, then we
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
  • Michaelmas. The esoteric realities behind the festivals are discussed in
  • festivals. Today I should like to go back to very ancient times and
  • To the people of very ancient periods on Earth, the festivals that
  • regard, and that is, how the festival of Midsummer, which has become
  • our St. John's festival, and the Midwinter festival, which has become
  • festivals by whose unusual effects man was lifted out above the
  • And so at the time of the St. John's festival, through the ceremonies
  • participants in the oldest midsummer festivals — those of the
  • summer solstice which have become our St. John's festival — the
  • festival was completely immersed in the musical-poetic element. What
  • festivals of ancient times, which took place under the guidance of men
  • festival, if I may call it by the modern name. Human beings sent this
  • to those festivals: not only the dancing, the music, the song, but
  • performance in the festivals; then the people were directed to listen
  • rain. Thus, the effects of the human festival performances arose and
  • John's festival. Of course the man of the present intellectualistic
  • Thus the festivals had a wonderful, intimate, human content. This was
  • And when the St. John's festival was past and July and August came
  • ask as we carry out the festival performances at St. John's time, as
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
  • Michaelmas. The esoteric realities behind the festivals are discussed in
  • yesterday as belonging to the celebration of these festivals during
  • Echoes of these festivals have persisted everywhere, so far as they
  • The understanding for the midsummer festival has quite naturally
  • knowledge of divine spirits. For this there is no better festival of
  • A turnaround must take place. The Michael festival must take on a
  • festival, however, that there will have to be a festival in honor of
  • This inner courage must have its festival in Michaelmas. Then from the
  • Festival of Courage, from the festival of the inwardly
  • festivals of the year also the right content.
  • holds true that the celebrating of festivals, I might say in a
  • If the festivals were formerly festivals of giving by the
  • divine to the earthly, if man at the festivals formerly received the
  • capacities within himself, the metamorphosis of the festival-thought
  • consists in the festivals now being festivals of remembrance or
  • festival of admonition and remembrance this festival with which autumn
  • begins, the Michaelmas festival, for at the same time all Nature is
  • we can conceive as a Michael festival must be a festival of
  • This is what will gradually give to the festival thought the character
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