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Notes: Metamorphoses of the Soul Paths of Experience Vol. 1
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Notes: Metamorphoses of the Soul Paths of Experience Vol. 1
NOTES
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The “Libellus de hominis convenienta” by
Francis Joseph Philipp Count von Hoditz and Wolframitz is a manuscript
which was discovered in the Fürstenberg Library in Prague and
which was written approximately between 1696 and 1700.
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Aristotle, 384–322
B.C. Cf.
the Parva Naturalia.
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René Descartes, 1596–1650. Cf. for example the work
“Meditationes de prima Philosophia”, 1641/42.
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With this answer Hoditz goes back to the Neo-Platonist
Philo of Alexandria (see Rudolf Steiner's comments on him in
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1972) who in turn revives the Old
Testament tradition; I Moses 1, 26/27
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Goethe: Winkelmann, “Antikes” and
“Schönheit”; in: Goethe,
Werke, Weimar Edition, vol.46 (Weimar,
1891).
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Cf. for example Goethe's essay “Wenige
Bemerkungen” in
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
edited by
Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, 1975, vol. 1, p.107 or in “Entwurf einer
Einleitung in die vergleichende Anatomie”,
op. cit., p.262: “We learn to see
with the eyes of the spirit, without which we grope around blindly as
everywhere so also in natural science”. Also
Faust II, sc. 1, 1 1.4667.
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Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804. Cf. the chapter “The
time of Kant and Goethe” in Rudolf Steiner's
The Riddles of Philosophy,
Anthroposophic Press, New York 1973.
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Goethe, “Anschauende Urteilskraft” in:
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
edited by Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, 1975, vol. 1, p.1
15/116.
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Cf. fundamental account of the stages of knowledge in
Rudolf Steiner,
Occult Science, An Outline,
Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1979, in
the chapter “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”.
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The symbol of two intertwined triangles, the one pointing
upwards, the other downwards.
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Eliphas Levi, 1810–1875, occultist. Pseudonym for
the originally catholic deacon Alphonse Louis Constant from Paris.
Dogme et Rituel de la haute Magie,
2 vols, 1854 and 1856.
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Philo of Alexandria (25
B.C.–50
A.D.) describes the life and thought of
the Therapeutae in his work “De vital contemplative”. Cf.
also Rudolf Steiner,
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1972,
p.137.
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Decisive in this respect are the writings of Thomas
Aquinas, especially the four books of the
Summa philosophica.
Cf. also Rudolf Steiner,
The Riddles of Philosophy
and The Redemption of Thinking.
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St. Augustine, 354–430
A.D.. Had
the greatest influence of the Church Fathers on theology and
philosophy.
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Faust I,
sc.1,11.443–446.
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Cf. Hermann Diels,
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker: Herakleitos aus Ephesus,
Nr. 45. Also:
The art and thought of Heraclitus.
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An edition of the fragments with translation and
commentary by Charles H. Kahn. CUP, Cambridge, 1979, No. XXXV.
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Francesco Redi, 1626–98. Italian doctor, scientist
and poet. Cf. his work
Osservazione intorno agfi animafi viventi che si trovano
negli animali viventi, 1684.
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Giordano Bruno, born 1548, was burnt in 1600 in Rome as a
heretic.
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Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788–1860. Cf. his work
The World as Will and Representation,
Book 1, par. 1.
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Cf. for example the polemic “Eine Duplik”
(1778), part 1.
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Edward Henry Harriman, 1848–1909. North American
railway magnate.
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Herman Grimm, 1828–1901, in his essay “Ernst
Curtius, Heinrich von Treitschke, Leopold von Ranke”, in:
Fragmente,
vol 1, Berlin & Stuttgart, 1900, p.246.
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Heinrich von Treitschke, 1834–96. German
historian.
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Karl Friedrich Solger, 1780–1819, from 1811
Professor of Philosophy in Berlin. Cf.
Erwin. Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst,
1815, and
Vorlesungen uber Asthetik,
ed. Heyse, 1829.
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Robert Zimmermann, 1824–98. Professor in Vienna.
Member of the school of Herbart. Cf. his
Asthetik,
1858–65.
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The first quotation is from the poem
“Vermächtnis”, 1829; the second is from the
“Sprüche in Prosa”
in vol V, p.402 of
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
edited with a commentary by Rudolf Steiner, 5 vols, Dornach, 1975.
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Faust 1, 11.1224 and “Prometheus”, a dramatic
fragment, 1773.
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From the poem “Sprichtwörtlich”.
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From the poem “Bei Betrachtung von Schillers
Schädel”, 1826.
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Faust I,
11.1112–1117.
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Cf. 19th Book, 1.137ff.
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann, 1717–68. Cf. his
“Geschichte der Kunst im Altertum”, part 11.
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Agesander, a Rhodian sculptor, is mentioned by Pliny as
the creator, together with Polydorus and Athenodorus, of the Laocoon
group, which dates from the period 42–21
B.C.
Now in the Vatican.
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For his concept of asceticism see
The World as Will and Representation,
Book IV. Particularly from par. 68.
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Cf. also the chapter “Sleep and Death” in
Rudolf Steiner,
Occult Science, An Outline.
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Cf. also the chapter “Knowledge of the Higher
Worlds” in Rudolf Steiner,
Occult Science, An Outline.
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Last verse of the poem “Selige Sehnsucht” from
the Westöstliche Divan.
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See note 20.
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Immanuel Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason,
Second Division, Book 11, Chapter III,
Section 4: “The impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the
Existence of God”.
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Pythagoras of Samos, c. 580–495
B.C.
Cf. also Rudolf Steiner,
Christianity as Mystical Fact
and
The Riddles of Philosophy.
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From
the poem “Das Höchste”, 1795.
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From the “Cherubinischen Wandersmann” by
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677), Book 1, Verse 289.
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End of the poem “Welt und Ich” by Friedrich
Rückert (1788–1866).
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See note 5.
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“Sprüche in Prosa”,
vol. V, p.495 of
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
as note 27.
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See “Entwurf einer Farbenlehre”, vol. III,
p.88 of
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
as
note 27.
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Rudolf Steiner is here presumably referring to the
sentence from Schopenhauer's introduction to his treatise “On
Vision and Colours”: “That the colours which ... appear to
clothe the objects are really only in the eye”.
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In the conversation with Chancellor von Müller of
22nd January 1821.
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“Spruche in Prosa”, vol. V, p.482 of
Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
as note 27.
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In the conversation of 29th May, 1814.
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762–1814.
“Vorbericht” to
Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten.
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Rudolf Steiner is here referring to the lectures on 22nd
and 24th October 1908: “Goethe's Secret Revelation, Exoteric and
Esoteric” and on 11th and 12th March 1909: “The Riddles in
Goethe's Faust, Exoteric and Esoteric”.
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Cf. Pindar (522–C.448
B.C.)
Pythian Odes,
8th Ode, 5th Epode.
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In connection with this lecture cf. also: Gautama Buddha's
sayings from the middle Majjhimanikayo collection of the Pali
Canon;
The Gospel of Buddha according to old Records
by Paul Carus,
Chicago & London, 1917; Hermann Beckh,
Buddha und seine Lehre,
Stuttgart, 1958.
For a contrast of Buddha and Christ also Rudolf Steiner in
Christianity as Mystical Fact.
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Max Muller, 1823–1900, Orientalist, religious and
linguistic researcher. The quotation about the grunting pig attributed to
him could not be traced.
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, 1831–1891. She founded
the Theosophical Society in New York together with H.S. Olcott in 1875,
which soon thereafter transferred its headquarters to India.
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Milindapanha (Milinda's Questions): Discussion between
Menandros (Milinda), king of the Greco-Indian empire (c.110
B.C.), and the
Buddhist saint Nagasena on the central questions of Buddhist dogma.
Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner, Luzac & Co., London,
1963/64.
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Matt. 5, 3.
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Matt. 3, 2.
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Cf. Rudolf Steiner,
The Riddles of Philosophy.
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See note 35.
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Faust II,
11. 1 1583/4.
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Johann Peter Eckermann,
Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of his Life,
conversation of 6th June 1831.
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden, 1804–1881, Professor of
Botany at the University of Jena.
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Gustav Theodor Fechner, 1801–1887, Professor of
Physics at the University of Leipzig. See
The Riddles of Philosophy,
1973 edition, pp. 279,
375ff., 376, 380, 383. Published by Anthroposophic Press, New
York.
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G. Th. Fechner,
Professor Schleiden und der Mond,
Leipzig, 1856, p.1 56.
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Julius Robert Mayer, 1814–1878, doctor and
physicist, discovered the law of conservation of energy in
1842.
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Goethes Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften,
as note 27, vol. 11, book 3, Meteorology,
pp.323–398.
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Johann Peter Eckermann,
Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of his Life,
conversation of 11th April 1827.
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See
Leonardo da Vinci, der Denker, Forscher und Poet,
from the published
manuscripts; selection, translation and introduction by Marie Herzfeld
(Jena, 1906), p.61 and following chapters.
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Johannes Kepler, 1571–1630. Cf. for example in
Harmonices Mundi
book IV, chapter 7.
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The
correspondence between the moon's orbit and the tides can be led back to
a joint cause, but the former does not cause the latter, just as the hand
moving round the clock corresponds to the path of the sun, although
no-one would suggest that the sun caused the clock-hand to move
round.
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Wilhelm Müller, 1794–1827, known for the cycles of
poems “Die Winterreise” and “Die schöne
Müllerin”
which were set to music by Franz Schubert. This poem is the last verse
from “Mondlied”, from
Liederder Griechen,
2nd edition, Leipzig, 1844.
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