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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture III: The Time of Transition
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- Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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- FESTIVALS AND THE MYSTERIES.THE ADONIS MYSTERY.THE EASTER THOUGHT
- Easter is felt by large numbers of human beings as a festival
- we bear in mind the fact that Easter is a movable festival, the date
- associated with the Easter Festival for centuries customs and
- has gradually laid into the Easter Festival in the course of historic
- became a most important festival connected with the fundamental
- Easter is the festival of the Resurrection. Yet at the same time it
- leads us back into pre-Christian times. It leads us to the festivals
- points to those old festivals which were connected with the
- Easter as a Christian festival is a festival of Resurrection. The
- corresponding Heathen festival, taking place about the same time of
- the year as our Easter, was a kind of Resurrection festival of Nature
- essence and meaning with the Heathen festivals of the Spring Equinox.
- must connect the Christian Easter with certain festivals which,
- of the Easter Festival, which by its very content is obviously
- happened than that the Easter Festival has been confused with an
- turned into a festival of Springtime.
- evolution. Consider the content of this Easter Festival. What is it in
- Christendom as a festival of mourning the time between Good
- Festival: the Death, the lying in the Grave and the Resurrection of
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- Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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- The original idea of any sacred festival is to make the human being
- transcend the Earth. The Easter Festival especially can bring these
- celebrated the Easter Festival in its full human form, by which I mean
- the Act of initiation. For Initiation was in truth an Easter Festival.
- Thus what appears before our eyes in the Easter Festival today is
- Festival when we call this ancient sacred history to life again.
- time of the Easter Festival. For this alone has still remained. We
- Spring Equinox. The Easter Festival of the year is fixed for the
- structure of the Easter Festival something that must be determined
- Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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- the astronomical aspect of the Easter Festival. To this end it will be
- times transformed into a cosmic Festival. In later times men no longer
- Easter Festival.
- And so it is indeed with this Easter Festival. Our present spiritual
- Festival of Easter represents an event in the Mysteries which was
- idea of resurrection was brought home to man by such festivals as the
- Adonis Festival in Autumn time. It really led the human being into the
- celebrated a Cosmic Festival, a Festival which pointed to a real
- Adonis Festivals are celebrated, I behold the cosmic Autumn, the
- So you see our Easter Festival has in fact been burdened with things
- really to be a Festival of the laying in the grave, and as
- was the case in such festivals in relation to the spiritual part of
- man, so this Springtime Festival of the laying in the grave should at
- the same time be a Festival to stir man to work, a Festival such as a
- The Easter Festival was indeed a Festival to summon man to work during
- the Summer. And the Autumn Resurrection Festival was for the spiritual
- world a Festival celebrated in the time when man departed from his
- the inner structure in the order of our festivals throughout the year.
- Title: Lecture: The Mysteries of Ephesus The Aristotelian Categories
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- comes to expression in the festivals of the year. We have understood
- above all how the Easter Festival grew out of the principle of
- times of the sacred festivals, we shall use them by trying to plant,
- how the fixing of the yearly Easter Festival proceeds from the
- The continuous Easter Festival at Ephesus which had been contained
- things that are hidden. We are here to create an Easter Festival as an
- this imply? at the annual festival of mourning, at the time of
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- lectures. Yet if we trace the festival customs and cult rites that
- have become associated with the Easter Festival through the centuries
- which humanity has endowed this Easter Festival in the course of its
- Easter became an important Christian festival — not
- centuries; a Christian festival linked with the fundamental idea, the
- Festival of the Resurrection; yet it points back to periods
- antedating Christianity, to festivals connected with the spring
- festivals bearing on the re-awakening of Nature, on the life
- festival, Easter commemorates a resurrection. The corresponding pagan
- festival that occurred at about the same season was, in a sense, the
- equinox festivals. On the contrary: comparing it with those of
- ancient pagan times, Easter, as a Christian festival, would
- correspond to old festivals that grew out of the Mysteries; and these
- reminded precisely by this Easter Festival of the radical,
- than the confusion of the Easter Festival with quite a different one,
- with the result that it was changed from an autumn festival to a
- spring festival.
- evolution. Let us examine the substance of the Easter Festival
- celebrated in Christendom as a festival of mourning. Finally, Easter
- Now let us turn to the corresponding old pagan festival in one of
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- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- that the original purpose of festivals was to induce men to look
- extra-earthly things; and it is the Easter Festival in particular
- Undoubtedly, then, the Easter Festival as we know it is linked
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- up the astronomical aspect of the Easter Festival; and in order to do
- former times transformed into a cosmic festival. In later ages men no
- preserved, and this we have in the Easter Festival.
- what our present spring Easter Festival has come to be. It represents
- festival.
- the approach of autumn to celebrate a cosmic festival. But this in
- the year and its festivals. An old initiate of that sort could say to
- himself, I come to a place where the Adonis Festivals are celebrated,
- Easter Festival has really had something saddled on it that is not
- summer time: that is what such burial festivals were in their appeal
- to the human spirit. Easter was a festival of admonition regarding
- the work of summer, just as the autumn festival of the resurrection
- of the spiritual world was a festival celebrated in the season when
- structure of the order of the year, as indicated by the festivals.
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- to the world in a way that can be expressed in the annual festivals;
- Surely we make the right use of festivals if with their help we
- establishment of the annual Easter Festival grew out of a spiritual
- may say: the perpetually recurring Easter Festival of Ephesus that
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries
- mankind has come to invest this festival.
- but as such it points back to times and festivals predating
- These earlier festivals centered around the spring
- subject, which is the Easter festival as a stage in the
- corresponding pagan festival in a sense celebrated the
- to its inner meaning, the Christian Easter festival in no sense
- Easter, in the Christian sense, is related to festivals that
- completely different festival, with the result that Easter was
- pagan festival, for only in doing so can we grasp the relation
- Easter festival. One of these was the festival of Adonis,
- festival stood a likeness of the god Adonis, who represented
- the proper time these rites, of which the Adonis festival may
- Mysteries through the corresponding autumnal festivals. These
- festivals coincided in their first half with the withering and
- purpose of these ancient pagan Mystery festivals was thus to
- developments we shall discuss presently, to a festival in
- the form taken by the cult — the festival of Adonis, for
- can best be witnessed. The autumnal festival thus lost its
- Autumn simply became an unsuitable time for the festival
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- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries
- can say that the original purpose of festivals is to make human
- their dependence upon extra-earthly things. The Easter festival
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries
- experience, transformed into a cosmic festival. In later
- festival.
- festival was observed that pointed toward a Mystery
- Different regions stressed different festivals. In
- experienced the year through the various festivals.
- Coming to a place where an Adonis festival was celebrated, they
- as the spring festivals did for ancient peoples. Such
- festivals gave them the spiritual incentives they needed
- fall festival of resurrection was celebrated at a time
- the festivals, even though much of the festivals' hidden
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries
- connection could be portrayed in the yearly cycle of festivals.
- of the purposes of the festivals is to try to cultivate this
- developed throughout human history. Through the festivals we
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- The Festival of Easter
- beings have felt the Festival of Easter to be something that is
- attention is attracted to the connection of this festival with
- the festival of Easter, we realise the very special value that
- centuries — this has been a festival of the greatest
- Festival of Easter is the festival of resurrection, but points
- to times even before Christianity. It points to festivals
- festival that was associated with the re-awakening of Nature
- dealt with in words. As a Christian festival Easter is a
- festival of resurrection. The corresponding heathen festival,
- resurrection-festival of Nature, a re-awakening of the objects
- the winter. Here I must explain that the Christian festival of
- Easter is absolutely not a festival that, according to its
- festival held at the time of the Spring equinox; but if we
- think of it as a Christian festival, it coincides absolutely
- with very ancient heathen festivals that had their source in
- that the Festival of Easter has been confused, in the course of
- festival, and has on this account been changed from an Autumn
- to a Spring festival. This fact indicates something prodigious
- content of the Easter festival. What is most essential in it?
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- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- The Festival of Easter
- idea of Festivals was to make people lift their eyes, turning
- Festival that can especially bring about such thoughts. In the
- consider how the festival of Easter, which in those days was an
- Mysteries — the Festival of Easter was, in fact, an
- Mysteries — how this Festival did not take place at any
- Thus what rises before our eyes to-day in the Festival of
- fixes the time of the Easter Festival. This method of reckoning
- the Spring equinox? And they fix the Easter Festival of the
- of the Easter Festival, that comes from the cosmos and must
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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- The Festival of Easter
- cosmic experience — a cosmic festival. In later times men
- this remembrance is preserved in the Festival of Easter.
- This is the truth concerning the Easter festival. Our present
- day spring festival represents a certain occurrence in the
- of the Adonis festival in autumn, led them in about three days,
- of the cosmos, it happened that the autumnal festival of the
- approached, a cosmic festival drew near which again called
- this festival men were not to think of how they passed through
- Initiates experienced the year inwardly through its festivals.
- place where the Festival of Adonis is celebrated, I behold
- can gather that our Easter Festival is really burdened with
- should really be a Festival of Burial, and this burial-festival
- of the Festival of Human Spirituality; it was a festival for
- Festival was a Festival of Exhortation to work during summer.
- And the Autumn Festival, the Festival of Resurrection, was an
- structure of the order of the year in its festivals. But much
- of what was veiled in the festivals, much of what they really
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- The Festival of Easter
- in the annual round of festivals, and we have seen especially
- how the Festival of Easter has evolved out of the principle of
- festival seasons when we employ them to develop, and to some
- festival of Easter was determined; further, that the other
- say: the continuous Easter festival at Ephesus, enclosed as it
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