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• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 6: Creative Speech and Language.
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  • This happens directly as an inner experience as the human being is grasped by the imagination. One can no longer intellectually say and believe that when I say the words “Man is the image of God” that we are only talking about a comparison. No, the truth is expressed; super-sensibly derived similarities from the Old and New Testaments can be found not as allegorical similarities, but as truths. We need to reach a stage when our words are again permeated by such experiences, that we learn to speak vividly in this way. In the measure to which we in a lively way enter into vivid characterisation, not through contriving something intellectually, we come to the possibility of the sermon, which should be an instruction.
• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 12: Prophecy, Dogma and Paganism
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  • The first characteristic is that these writings have become dried up of an actual living understanding for the Old Testament. You will clearly notice how everywhere in these writings, up to the “Shepherd of Hermas,” the craving comes to the fore to depict the Old Testament intellectually, in this case interpreting it allegorically, therefore it is pulled out of a real encounter to a mere concept, into what is, so to say, intellectual. The restyling of concepts into allegory puts up with the tradition of the Old Testament as a tradition of facts, told as facts — in reality these are to be understood through the intellect. That is the first essential characteristic.
  • These three characteristics you will find in post apostolic literature during the first four centuries: the allegoric explanation of the Old Testament, the reference to the Second Coming of Christ and the destruction of the old world, and the admonition of obedience to the superiors. We need to focus our present interest primarily on the middle one, the reference to the Second Coming of Christ, because to this reference we need to link line 6 of the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Mark: Many will come as though they came in my name and say: I am he, and will lead many astray. — In this chapter you find a remarkable reference; many will come and appear in the name of Christ, and they will forthwith be referred to one or another person who also designate themselves as Christ. Here you see something extraordinary. On this basis it is extraordinary to see — I will speak more closely about these things but I’m leading up to it — that already at this point in the Mark Gospel the reference is linked to the view of the church fathers of the post apostolic time. By presenting it thus, that the Christ will reappear in this way, it is at the same time the fulfilment of the prophecy that tempters will come who all want to be designated as Christs; and this is what also happened in the first centuries, in this sense many came to the fore, who actually referred to themselves as Christ. An astonishing amount of literature has been lost in the first centuries — these things can actually only be found through spiritual science.
  • You see, I’m neither speaking allegorically, nor symbolically. If you felt that way, you would be putting it in my words. I’m speaking directly out of the situation experienced as it occurred, by me trying, certainly in the words of current speech, to indicate these things. I ask you to now take note of the situation. In order to experience the content of the 13th chapter of St Mark we are taken up the Mount of Olives. It ends with the word: “Awake!” — immediately followed by us being taken to the Last Supper — we are led to the first impetus for the coming of the divine kingdom through Christ placing it in front of us.
• Title: Foundation Course: Summaries of Lectures
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  • About predicting future events. Characteristics of literature of church fathers: allegorical interpretation of Old Testament, references to Christ’s return, element of law in church. Relationship of Catholic clerics to dogma and saints. Prophesies in Mark’s Gospel: fall of world and rise of God’s kingdom. Herman Grimm: the abyss between understanding Roman and Greek history. Heathen sensitivity of the divine in paganism, Judaism and Christianity, the ungodly in Roman Caesarism. Christianity today.