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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
since the 15th century. I consciousness and individuality have emerged as
central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the possibility
of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human being
experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The time
is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Paul King
Bn 200; GA 200; CW 200
The constitution of the human soul has undergone a tremendous evolution
since the 15th century. “I” consciousness and individuality have
emerged as central to the life of soul along with intellectualism and the
possibility of free will. At the same time the intensity with which the human
being experiences knowledge has declined along with the old clairvoyance. The
time is now ripe for the awakening of new forces of spiritual perception with
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
These seven lectures comprise the entire contents the lecture series
emtitled,
The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the 20th Century.
They were published in German as,
Die Neue Geistigkeit und Das Christus-erlebnis des Zwangzigsten Jahrhunderts.
This translation is presented here with the kind permission of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung,
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 200, GA 200, CW 200.
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Lecture 1: | Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego |
October 17, 1920 |
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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.
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Lecture 2: | Lecture 1 of this series |
October 22, 1920 |
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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.
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Lecture 3: | Lecture 2 of this series |
October 23, 1920 |
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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.
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Lecture 4: | Lecture 3 of this series |
October 24, 1920 |
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Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and Goethe's Fairy-tale in their
relation to Anthroposophy and the threefold principle.
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Lecture 5: | Lecture 4 of this series |
October 29, 1920 |
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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.
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Lecture 6: | Lecture 5 of this series |
October 30, 1920 |
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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
reappear¬ance of Christ.
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Lecture 7: | Lecture 6 of this series |
October 31, 1920 |
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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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