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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture I
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  • participation in the changing times. In those days when the human
  • same time one of those images especially fitted, at present, to be
  • That was not the view in comparatively recent times: it was really the
  • People used to look back at a time when there were not so-called
  • stage of their evolution of that time, were not destined to be free
  • ancient epoch the time had not yet arrived in which beings could
  • to occur when the right time had come in world evolution. — It is
  • desired freedom of will before the time had come for their freedom to
  • time, of the then prevalent softer matter, so to say. It could only be
  • what was possible at that time is the form of the Dragon. Naturally it
  • cognition of the artist concerning what was possible at that time in a
  • Gemüt — and in the olden times of which I spoke, men
  • constituted for those times an integral part of human cognition. An
  • that out of which it all had grown in pre-human times. For
  • times lay in objective nature, when his task was to conquer the
  • been a cosmic one; and they said, in effect: Look back to olden times
  • behold the later time: man comes to earth, he takes into himself outer
  • the picture which suggested at that time to many people that it was
  • shortly before our time, a deed I should like to characterize in the
  • thought of as lying far back in the pre-human times; but then, man
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• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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  • Michael's conflict with the Dragon, an indication that for our time a
  • former times, we find that at bottom man has become a veritable hermit
  • memory of his prenatal life — a memory that at one time was
  • and in its true form, the form it must assume in our time.
  • resuscitated among men and that the time is ripe for assigning it its
  • people had the idea of instituting a festival at a certain time of the
  • whole being of man. And while it may sometimes seem — in view of
  • the peculiar tendencies of many people at the present time — as
  • what appears in our time as symptoms of decline is basically connected
  • longer sees spirit in things, which in the meantime has entered into
  • — Now I will say something wholly paradoxical: sometimes it is
  • this links up with the demand of our time that men be laid hold of and
  • confidence in a spiritual impulse, grasped at a certain point of time,
  • But in the meantime much has happened in the world. Man has in a sense
  • the sprouting, burgeoning life; but at the same time he will develop a
  • oxygen so and so many times, but will have participated in the
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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  • times, which is nowadays so superficially ignored; for those old
  • preserved from olden times we can find our way into this mysterious
  • was rather distasteful and even nefarious, but in the time of their
  • met their soul's eye how, at every time of day and at every season of
  • the time of March, this is the time of October. Through the perception
  • were none at the time of the old Druids, nor even writing: what the
  • for the sowing of wheat, or, it is the time to lead the bull through
  • comparison, the most mystical mysticism of our time is a kind of
  • those olden times. Within the cult — and it was a cult that had a
  • demanded by the social life of our time.
  • this sunlight. For a time these observations were applied to the
  • to set up their barrels in the same place at the same time. — the
  • We have often heard that in olden times men had not only that
  • exerted a mysterious influence on people of that ancient time, without
  • circulation that he willed. — Then came the time when human
  • time when primordial wisdom held sway on earth: they gradually became
  • planetary system since the beginning of time is preserved by the
  • underground all the time and only come out when it rains; but if it
• Title: Lecture: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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  • the allotted time to consider each separate planet, nor is it
  • strata, and so forth, in order to arrive at the time lapses. But what
  • earth was at its most spiritual — that was the time when it could
  • that in former times had to tell men when Easter should be celebrated
  • — the time when the whole earth opens itself to the cosmos. One
  • instituted the Festival of St. John. This was the time when the
  • time, during the winter solstice, I had to seek by gazing into the
  • the earth; and in the summertime he found them given over to the vast
  • starts inbreathing its spirituality again; and once more the time
  • Press, New York.} But the very necessity which in the course of time
  • the human Gemüt will in a short time undergo a schooling
  • feel winter merely as the time for donning a heavy coat, or summer as
  • — and anthroposophists will notice in due time that this can
  • during the spring and summertime, he prepares himself to live in
  • When he takes part in nature's dying, that is the time when his inner
  • full of life as was in olden times the glorious picture of Michael in
  • time goes on; and in addition to this festival that brings alive the
• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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  • At the times when the great festivals of the year approach our souls,
  • Let us first look at the Earth at the time of the winter solstice, in
  • this time we may compare the Earth's breathing with the lung-breathing
  • This is the time at which with good reason the birth of Jesus has been
  • the entire soul element of the Earth within it. At the time of the
  • reads the meaning of letters on a sheet of paper, in those times
  • “A time is at hand when the stellar constellations must no longer
  • those men who at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha still ranked as
  • at the same time they said, “Some Earth event must enter in,
  • its forces. At Christmas time it has breathed them in; its breath is
  • being held. If Jesus is born at this time, He is born at a time when
  • the Earth is in a certain way not speaking with the heavens, a time
  • Jesus is born, then, at a time when the Earth is rolling along through
  • Sun. At this time the Earth has not offered its soul-being to the
  • Jesus is born on the Earth at a time when the Earth is alone with
  • follow it up to the time in which we are just now, about the time of
  • Sun forces at Easter time; hence Easter falls at the time of the
  • This is the origin of fixing the time of Easter as the first Sunday
  • the Easter time: “If I have united myself with the Christ force,
  • those times in which whatever was important on Earth was referred to
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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  • thought soon died. Today the time has come when it must again awaken
  • In the course of time the Easter thought has lost this force, this
  • the physical sense world, should at the same time maintain that the
  • we must say to ourselves: The time of the Christmas festival
  • represents the time when the Earth holds its breath within it. The
  • summertime has now been completely drawn in by the Earth, to rest in
  • her deeps at Christmas time. Man of course does not dwell in the
  • the Earth at the time of the winter solstice, at Christmas time, as
  • the sphere of the esoteric mysteries. And in all ancient times when
  • time could be grasped only by initiation into mystery-knowledge, by
  • the time of the winter solstice the Earth is especially receptive to
  • secret of the ancient mysteries: that just at Christmas time one comes
  • In certain ancient times, for example, no one was entrusted with a
  • Moon forces, how at this time she permeates especially the plants with
  • healing forces, how at this time she makes the plant world, and to a
  • Earth as Moon forces at Christmastime, he comes into a state of
  • But then some time after the celebration of these Christmas Mysteries,
  • work within the Earth at the time of the winter solstice. But with the
  • Ahrimanic powers bring about. At a time when man was still endowed
  • time of the winter moon. But (so the initiates told their pupils) a
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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  • to focus the whole attention during the year on a festival-time.
  • Although in our time the celebration of religious festivals is largely
  • a matter of habit, it was not always so. There were times when people
  • within the course of time in such a way that they said to themselves:
  • Easter time, or in the fall, with the fading away of life, toward
  • that period at the beginning of our reckoning of time, when the
  • vision of the descending Christ, Who lives for a time in man on Earth
  • became paralyzed in the later Middle Ages and in modern times.”
  • time of the bursting and sprouting life of spring. At this time the
  • spring just around Easter time in the final stage of the individual
  • yellow, with green). I might say that during the wintertime these
  • had become individualized; before this Easter time they had a certain
  • Easter time we see them come together in a general cloud (red),
  • This sleep is deepest during St. John's time, when they are completely
  • beings with himself, if at a certain festival time — it would
  • of the forces that shape the time. It was a test of the human soul, of
  • to be perceived truly in all its time-shaping power and forcefulness.
  • souls does not become united with what is passing through the time as
  • This has always been known in ancient times from primeval elementary
  • clairvoyance. In ancient times it was not the custom for the young
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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  • festivals. Today I should like to go back to very ancient times and
  • lives. We know that in those ancient times the human consciousness
  • worked in an entirely different way from that of later times. We might
  • the ancient times of which we are speaking did not have a full
  • of ancient times. We can characterize the human by thinking of it, in
  • Strange as it may sound to people of the present time, it is
  • plant-like to the mineral, and thereby at a certain time of year
  • And so at the time of the St. John's festival, through the ceremonies
  • at this time of midsummer people could perceive the mineral realm at
  • festivals of ancient times, which took place under the guidance of men
  • unfolded in those times at the height of summer under the guidance of
  • done these things.” But in certain ancient times they would have
  • at a certain time of year the larks and the nightingales sing, what is
  • forth comes back to them etherically (yellow), for the time
  • but in the meantime it has been filled with the content of the
  • animal world. In those ancient times this was understood, and
  • in the air and warmth around the Earth, just about the time of the St.
  • people of olden times. In these times, as also in others, he has to go
  • on the time of year. In the doing of all this, man forgets that
  • But these people of olden times did feel how different the air and
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• Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture V
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  • cycle of Nature which was formed in ancient times under the influence
  • of the Mysteries, and to go into what was believed in those times with
  • Let us remind ourselves how, in midsummer, the time we know as St.
  • himself as moral impulse what is revealed at this time of midsummer
  • This was the season man perceived as the time of divine-moral
  • the time of the sun's sultry heat — if it sometimes happened that
  • There are vestiges from this ancient time in conceptions such as that
  • luminous Nature as it was during the daytime remained also into the
  • night time. Only he made a distinction, saying to himself:
  • at the same time the moral utterance of the gods, but that all kinds
  • conjured by human imagination that wove through this midsummer time on
  • diagram). And what was felt in a quite special way at that time,
  • time, man knew that he was lifted up above himself as he then was into
  • was no longer in a time of spirit-knowledge but that autumn required
  • The human being began to reflect about Nature. At this time also he
  • within the cosmos. In that time it would have been considered folly to
  • knowledge, with reflection. And indeed it was also the time when outer
  • diagram), which includes our Christmas time. Just as the human
  • other forces that are in the Earth. In these ancient times people did
  • man of that ancient time felt what was coming up out of the Earth as
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