CONTENTS
Dornach, 17 October 1920
Significant moments of world history. Study of the symptoms of
history. The dispute around 800 >AD
concerning the nature of death between the French philosopher
Alcuin and a Greek thinker. The influences of oriental spiritual
life on the Centre and on the West. Platonism and Aristotelianism.
The culture of the East — a decadent spiritual life; the
culture of the West — a thinking suited to the economic life;
the culture of the Centre — a logical-dialectical-legal thinking
occupying itself with what the human being experiences between birth
and death and capable of establishing the civic-judicial element. The
culture of the ‘I.’ ‘We have arrived at the point of
human development at which an understanding for all three areas must
spread equally over all humanity.’ Spiritual science as an
initiate culture is the means and path for this. The need to extend
the Free School of Spiritual Science and to establish a World
Fellowship of Schools.
Dornach, 22 October 1920
The
development of I-consciousness since the fifteenth
century. The threefold principle in the course of history. The
elemental beings in the West and the East who oppose the
threefold idea.
Dornach, 23 October 1920
Development in the three streams arising from the decline of
Rome. The human being of the Centre between East and West. New
economy, static jurisprudence, finished spiritual
life.
Dornach, 24 October 1920
Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and Goethe's
Fairy-tale in their relation to Anthroposophy and the
threefold principle.
Dornach, 29 October 1920
The
change in the soul-constitution of humanity since the fifteenth
century. The decline in the intensity of knowledge. The
emergence of intellectualism and the development of human
freedom. The power of intellect and the human longing for
knowledge.
Dornach, 30 October 1920
The
development of the perception of Christ from Gnosis up to the
present. The church ban on reading the Gospels. The path of
Imagination. The reappearance of Christ.
Dornach, 31 October 1920
The
future spiritual battle between the East and the West. The
imminent Christ-experience of the twentieth century. The change in
humanity's constitution of soul since the fifteenth
century.
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