Mystery Centres

CONTENTS

PREFACE

LECTURE I

Concerning the Soul-Life of Man, and the Perception of the Spiritual Foundations of the World — The Experience of Thinking — The Experience of Feeling — The Experience of Gesture. Nov. 23, 1923.

LECTURE II

The Activity of the Soul-Nature in Physical Man — The Influence of the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Beings on Man and in Nature — Heredity and Adaptation to Environment. Nov. 24, 1923.

LECTURE III

Identification with the Inner Life of Nature, through Imagination and Will — The Life of Memory — The Being of Gesture and of Physiognomy — Experience of Day and Year — Summer-Will and Winter-Will. Nov. 25, 1923.

THE EPHESIAN MYSTERIES OF ARTEMIS

LECTURE IV

The Connection of Man with the Earth-Planet — The Crystal Covering of the Earth — The Speech of the Metals — The backward-raying Forces of the Metals, and the Connection between Earth-lives. Nov. 30, 1923.

LECTURE V

Mineral and Plant-Animal Creation — The previous Earth-atmosphere — Plants as Gifts of Heaven — Animals as Earth-forms — The Cosmic Memory of the Metals. Dec. 1, 1923.

LECTURE VI

The Ephesian Mysteries of Artemis. Dec. 2, 1923.

THE MYSTERIES OF HIBERNIA

LECTURE VII

The Mystery Centres of Hibernia. Dec. 7, 1923.

LECTURE VIII

The Being of the Hibernian Mysteries. Dec. 8,1923.

LECTURE IX

The Great Mysteries of Hibernia. Dec. 9,1923.

THE CHTHONIC AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES.

LECTURE X

The Transition from Plato to Aristotle. Dec. 14, 1923.

LECTURE XI

The Secret of Plants, of Metals, and of Men. Dec. 15, 1923.

LECTURE XII

Mysteries of the Samothracian Kabiri. Dec. 21, 1923.

LECTURE XIII

Transition from the Spirit of the Ancient Mysteries to the Spirit of the Mysteries of the Middle Ages. Dec. 22, 1923.

LECTURE XIV

Human Soul Strivings during the Middle Ages — The Rosicrucian Mysteries. Dec. 23, 1923.