The Gospel of St. Mark
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Giotto di Bondone (c. 1266–1337),
Florentine painter and architect, noted especially for his
frescoes on the life of St. Francis.
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321,
Italian poet, author of the
Divine Comedy.
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David, second king of Israel, ruled
about the beginning of the first millennium
B.C.
Many of the most beautiful Psalms were attributed to him,
and it was their influence of which Rudolf Steiner was
evidently thinking in this passage.
Homer, Greek poet who lived probably
in the 8th century
B.C.,
author of the
Iliad
and the
Odyssey.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832.
German poet, author of
Faust.
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Schopenhauer, Artur, 1788–1860.
German philosopher, author of
The World as Will and Idea.
Hartmann, Eduard von, 1842–1906
German philosopher, author of
The Philosophy of the Unconscious.
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Ram Mohan Roy, 1772–1836,
founder of the Brahmo Samaj.
Tagore, Rabindranath,
1861–1941. Indian poet and philosopher, winner of
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913.
One of these followers —
reference is to Keshab Chandra Sen, 1834–1884.
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Empedocles of Agragas, c. 495–435
B.C.,
Greek philosopher.
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The two books of the Maccabees are
to be found in the Apocrypha, but not in the King James
Version of the Bible. The heroic deeds of Judas
Maccabaeus are recorded in Book 1, and the story of the
martyrdom of the sons of the widow in Book 2.
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Raphael. Raffaello Santi, 1483–1520,
Italian painter, famous especially for his Madonnas and for his
paintings in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican,
especially
The School of Athens
and the
Disputä.
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... proof to which I already
alluded in Munich. In a lecture of August 31, 1912, not
translated, entitled,
“Theosophy and the Spiritual Life of the Present.”
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Hermann Grimm, 1828–1901.
The books on Raphael written by him appeared under the
title
Das Leben Raphael (The Life of Raphael)
1872, 1885 and 1896.
Raphael als Weltmacht (Raphael as World Power)
appears in his posthumously published
Fragments, Vol. II.
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Socrates, Athenian philosopher, 470–399
B.C.
Our information about him comes
mainly from the works of Plato and Xenophon, the more
sympathetic and much better known picture being drawn
from Plato. Socrates is not known ever to have written
a word, his instruction having been all given orally,
in the form of dialogues.
Plato's picture of Socrates is
contained mostly in his Protagoras, Meno, Symposium,
Gorgias, and the three dialogues recounting the death
of Socrates: The Apology, the Crito, and the Phaedo.
Plato, 427–347
B.C.
Aristotle, 384–322
B.C.
A pupil of Plato, he never knew Socrates personally, but
credits him with many philosophical innovations,
especially the use of logic and dialectic.
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Gautama Buddha, c. 563–483
B.C.
His dialogue with his pupil Sona is recorded in
Vinayapitaka I, page 182
in the edition of H. Oldenberg (in German).
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Krishna is usually regarded as a
mythical figure, and a member of the Hindu pantheon,
one of the earthly avatars, or incarnations of the god
Vishnu. He appeared as the charioteer in the Hindu poem the
Bhagavad Gita,
in which he is endowed with
divine attributes. Rudolf Steiner does not date his
incarnation exactly, but gives it as occurring in the
third post-Atlantean cultural epoch, which lasted from
approximately 3000
B.C.
to 747
B.C.
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Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762–1814.
German idealist philosopher.
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 1775–1854.
German idealist philosopher.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831.
Extremely influential German philosopher, professor at Berlin for
many years. His
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline
referred to by Steiner appeared in 1817.
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
originally written in 1904 and
published in the magazine
Luzifer-Gnosis,
has appeared in many editions in English, including the
latest which appeared from Anthroposophic Press in 1984.
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Sinnet, A. P., 1840–1921.
His
Esoteric Buddhism
was published in London in 1883, and a German translation appeared
the following year.
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Rudolf Steiner gave his cycle on the
Matthew Gospel
in Bern in September, 1910. The last edition of this cycle in
English was published in London by Rudolf Steiner Press in 1965.
The question about the handing over of the power of the keys was
discussed in
Lectures 11 and 12.
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The lecture given by Michael Bauer
was entitled
“How did Hegel see the great Turning-Point in Time?”
Among Hegel's more important works was his
Philosophy of History.
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Pherecydes of Syros, 6th century
B.C.
Only fragments of his cosmogony have been preserved. For this
reason and the “unphilosophical” nature of these
fragments his name does not even appear in most histories of
philosophy.
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Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes (c. 636–546
B.C.;
c. 611–547
B.C.;
6th century
B.C.)
were all from Miletus in Asia Minor and are
regarded as the first true philosophers, Thales being,
as Aristotle called him, the Father of Philosophy.
Heraclitus of Ephesus, c. 535–c. 475
B.C.
Rudolf Steiner who discusses him at length in
Christianity as Mystical Fact
calls him an initiate priest as well as a
philosopher.
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844–1900.
German philosopher, author of
The Birth of Tragedy,
and
Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Parmenides of Elea, born about 514
B.C.,
who held that true change was impossible and all
apparent change was illusory.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, c. 500–428
B.C.
Philosopher who is credited with
founding the study of philosophy in Athens.
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Moses was discussed by Steiner in
two of the earlier Gospel cycles,
The Gospel of Luke
(1909) and
The Gospel of Matthew (1910).
An important
lecture was devoted to him on March 9, 1911. This
appeared in
Turning Points in Spiritual History
(London, 1934).
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Benjamin Smith (1850–1912).
His book Ecce Deus, which appeared in German
in 1912 bore the subtitle,
“The Early Christian Doctrine of the Purely-Divine Jesus.”
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The cycle
From Jesus to Christ
was given in Karlsruhe in October, 1911. The lectures
especially concerned with the phantom are six, seven
and eight.
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Christianity as Mystical Fact
consists of a series of lectures given in Berlin in
1902 and revised by Steiner for publication in the same
year and again in 1910. The chapter entitled
“Egyptian Mystery Wisdom”
contains the statement about the Transfiguration to which he refers
here. Available in English in three different translations.
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