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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
Steiner focuses here on spiritual events as causes of transformations
in human consciousness as well as outer historical events. He also sheds
light on a variety of other topics such as speech, experiences during
sleep, and the future tasks of humanity.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond and Johanna Collis
Bn/GA 222
Steiner focuses here on spiritual events as causes of transformations
in human consciousness as well as outer historical events. He also sheds
light on a variety of other topics such as speech, experiences during
sleep, and the future tasks of humanity.
Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. In the
Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner the volume containing
the original German texts of the following lectures is entitled:
Impulsierung des weltgeschichtlichen Geschehens durch geistige
Machte.
(No. 222 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).
This edition in English is published by permission of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Copyright © 1972
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| Publisher's Note |
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| Contents |
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| Lecture I |
March 11, 1923 |
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Speech
and its relation to sleep. Effects of the materialistic epoch
upon the development of the souls of men. Spiritual backgrounds
of the Youth Movement.
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| Lecture II |
March 12, 1923 |
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Experiences
of the human soul during the state of sleep and their significance
for the whole of life. Goethe's Italian journey; its purpose and
effects. Establishment of relationship with Angeloi, Archangeloi
and Archai.
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| Lecture III |
March 16, 1923 |
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Spiritual
happenings as causes of the transformation of consciousness in the
4th century A.D. Rulership of the cosmic
thoughts passes from the Exousiai to the Archai. Experience of
divine worlds through music during the epochs of Lemuria and
Atlantis and the loss of this experience when perception of the
interval of the third became possible. Experience of melody in
the single tone.
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| Lecture IV |
March 17, 1923 |
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On
the activity of spiritual Powers in the historical events of the
Middle Ages and the dawning modern age.
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| Lecture V |
March 18, 1923 |
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Human
beings are led to the development of free thoughts through the
normally evolved Archai, to untimely nationalistic attitudes of
thought through the backward Spirits of Form.
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| Lecture VI |
March 22, 1923 |
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The
loss of nature-bestowed, living thoughts in the modern age.
Necessity of an active vitalization of thinking in order to
grasp the living content of the world. Effects of poisonous
and remedial plant-substances in man's etheric organism.
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| Lecture VII |
March 23, 1923 |
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The
descending evolution of consciousness during the post-Atlantean
culture-epochs and the future tasks of mankind. The mood and
attitude of souls in the fifth culture-epoch and Wolfram von
Eschenbach's ‘Parsifal.’
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