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The Festival of Easter
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The Festival of Easter
A Page from the History of the Mysteries
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The Festival of Easter
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translation Authorized by Harry Collison
Bn/GA 233a
Rudolf Steiner leads us to an understanding of the true meaning of Easter
by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
A course of four lectures given at Dornach, from the 19th to the
22nd of April, 1924. This is the authorised English translation,
taken from shorthand notes, unrevised by the lecturer.
It is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf
Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland and Marie Steiner.
Copyright © 1935
This e.Text edition is provided through the wonderful work of:
The Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.
London
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| Contents |
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| Lecture 1 |
April 19, 1924 |
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The
development of the Festival out of the Mysteries. The Mystery of
Adonis. The continuance of the Mystery-thoughts into rightly
understood Easter-thoughts
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| Lecture 2 |
April 20, 1924 |
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Moon-birth
and Sun-birth. Constraint through the natural necessity of the paternal
Moon-forces, liberation through the dissolving Sun-forces. Stage of
ancient Easter initiation. Resurrection of the man of soul and spirit
out of the physical body into the Cosmos
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| Lecture 3 |
April 21, 1924 |
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Observation
of relationships on the heavens. The secret of the moon. The planets
and their influence on the etheric body of man. The moon's influence
on man. Man as bearer of the Sun-light. Moon-initiation: the decline
of spirituality in spring. Sun-initiation: the rise of spirituality
after the death experience in autumn
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| Lecture 4 |
April 22, 1924 |
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Decline
of the life of the Ancient Mysteries and the development of freedom.
The carry over of what is once experienced into knowledge. The
Ephesian Mysteries. The descent of the spirit into the light-ether
body. J O A equals man. Tone is light. Reading in the Cosmic script.
The Easter atmosphere in Anthroposophy which leads back to the
Mysteries, but also to the conviction of immortality and repeated
resurrection in the spirit
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