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Cosmosophy, Volume I
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Cosmosophy, Volume I
On-line since: 31st December, 2009
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Alice Wulsin.
GA 207
The modern, materialistic world conception is a product of fear
and anxiety. This fear lives on in the outer actions of human beings,
in the social structure, in the course of history ... Why did people
become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
is given in material existence? Because they were afraid to descend
into the depths of the human being.
With these words Steiner characterizes the relationship between inner
and outer realities. In a sense deeper than normally recognized, the
mind/body split is the result of fear to penetrate the mind, the inner
human being. This lack of inner courage rebounds on society and
civilization producing the terrible conditions modern humanity finds
itself surrounded by. Healing will come when we summon the courage
to penetrate the hidden mysteries within. These themes and many more
are explored in these insightful lectures.
Eleven Lectures by Rudolf Steiner, given in Dornach, September
23–October 16, 1921.
Translated from shorthand reports, unrevised by the lecturer from
the German edition published with the title
Anthroposophie als Kosmosophie,
part one (Vol. 207 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961). Revised
translation by Alice Wulsin. Lecture 10 was translated by Michael
Klein and edited by Alice Wulsin.
This edition in English is presented here with the kind permission of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Copyright © 1985
This e.Text edition is provided with the cooperation of:
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| Also by Rudolf Steiner |
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| Contents |
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| Foreword |
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| Lecture I |
September 23, 1921 |
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Eastern and Western civilizations in a spiritual light; love
and fear; world-knowledge and self-knowledge; the Western
mysteries (Ireland); Bulwer-Lytton and his novel Zanoni; the
inner nature of the human being as a reflecting apparatus;
the source of destruction within the human being as the
prerequisite of the independent, thinking human being; the
origin of fear in Western civilization; the mystery of evil;
the contrasting nature of Eastern and Western blood; the
Washington Conference; the comments of General Smuts.
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| Lecture II |
September 24, 1921 |
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Filling the inner source of destruction with moral ideals;
the Jupiter existence of the earth; ordinary consciousness as
the world of the Father God; Adolf Harnack as the advocate of
the Father God; Soloviev's differentiation between the Father
God and the Son God; the inner word; the declining and
ascending worlds; the rainbow and flesh color; Christianity
as the religion of resurrection; the world of the moon and
the sun as the world of the Father and the Son; the coming of
Christ and man.
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| Lecture III |
September 30, 1921 |
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Foundations of an occult psychology out of Imaginative
cognition; sleeping and waking in higher cognition; the world
of objective streaming thoughts and of subjective thoughts;
feelings as submerged dreams; the will as a sleep-experience,
independent of the body; thinking, feeling, and willing in
the spaces between the physical body, etheric body, astral
body, and I; past and future karma.
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| Lecture IV |
October 01, 1921 |
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Dream consciousness in the animal soul life; plant
consciousness in summer and winter; mineral consciousness as
consciousness of our deeds; the relationship of the human
being to the hierarchies in Imagination, Inspiration, and
Intuition; metamorphosis of the worlds of thought and will in
the life after death; the human being between the realms of
the higher hierarchies and the realms of nature.
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| Lecture V |
October 02, 1921 |
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The thought world in the region of the sense organization;
feeling as a subjective entity; Goethe's mood of soul in the
year 1790; the meeting of past and future in the mood of
soul; the will as a battlefield of moral ideals with human
instincts and drives; the preparation of the future out of
the nature of the will; the conscience; cosmic cold and
earthly warmth in the constitution of the human being.
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| Lecture VI |
October 07, 1921 |
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Anthroposophy as cosmosophy; the spirit of the human being
and life after death; coloring the mineral consciousness by
moral feeling; the relationship of the human being to angel
and archangel (folk-spirit); appearance of plant
consciousness in the Midnight Hour of Existence; descent
through animal consciousness in the realm of the archai; the
Zodiac; the human being as the experienced environment;
entrance into the planetary spheres; the soul-permeation of
the animal organization; the significance of the
soul-spiritual environment; self-knowledge and
world-knowledge.
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| Lecture VII |
October 08, 1921 |
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The human being in life after death; mineral consciousness
and plant consciousness; characterization of Goethe in
relation to Shakespeare; animal consciousness; the
relationship of the human being to the group-souls of the
animals and organ-formation; preparation of the etheric body
in the planetary world; the earthly germ as chaos; astral
fruit of the earth and etheric-cosmic fruit; the influence of
karma; the in-breathing and out-breathing of the cosmos in the
human being.
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| Lecture VIII |
October 09, 1921 |
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The past of higher entities and the spirit of the human
being; the mineral-plant realm and the plant-animal realm as
realms of nature in the future; the animal-human realm; the
human-soul realm; the manifestation of the inner being of man
in the outer physical element on the Jupiter planet;
Friedrich Nietzsche and “superman”; the bodily
members of man as seeds for future worlds; world past and
earthly future.
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| Lecture IX |
October 14, 1921 |
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Spiritual scientific presentation of today's intellectual
human being; spiritual science as the bestower of life
forces; quoting and characterizing a present-day human being
(Gottfried Benn) and the necessity of spiritual science for him.
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| Lecture X |
October 15, 1921 |
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Dull, I-like life of will and waking thought shadow-pictures;
the awakening of the dull I through the appearance of the
senses; union with the dead through concrete mental images
not through abstract thoughts; reversal of sense experience
in the life after death; the philosopher, Feuerbach, and his
teachings; Richard Wagner; the totality of sense perceptions:
warmth, light, chemical workings, life; refutation of
relativity; the problem of spiritual weight; the loss of
one's own being in intellectualism and regaining it in deeds
out of pure thinking.
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| Lecture XI |
October 16, 1921 |
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Viewing the Mystery of Golgotha in the age of freedom; the
appearance of the senses as prerequisite for freedom; the
modern human being's lack of freedom in the life after death;
overcoming this through the experience of freedom in earthly
life; the modern world picture without beginning and end; the
earlier world picture between cosmogony and Last Judgment;
Rotteck's World History; the senselessness of modern history;
Arthur Schopenhauer; the Mystery of Golgotha as the
sense-giving center to historical events; spiritual science
and the evangelists; Christ as spirit sun being; Overbeck and
modern theology.
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| Notes |
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| Back Cover |
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