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Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies - Volume VII
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Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies - Volume VII
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Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies - Volume VII
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Lectures Section
At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
special destiny; to bring to the West a knowledge of reincarnation and
karma. To do this he gave over eighty lectures in 1924 in which he
explicitly and concretely revealed the destinies of various individuals
from one life to the next in order to show how the general laws of karma
operate in individual cases. He also revealed many details of the karmic
streams of the members of the Anthroposophical Society. These volumes
constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
reincarnation and karma, and the tasks of the Anthroposophical Society
in connection with the Archangel Michael.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond
Bn/GA 239
At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
special destiny; to bring to the West a knowledge of reincarnation and
karma. To do this he gave over eighty lectures in 1924 in which he
explicitly and concretely revealed the destinies of various individuals
from one life to the next in order to show how the general laws of karma
operate in individual cases. He also revealed many details of the karmic
streams of the members of the Anthroposophical Society. These volumes
constitute an immeasurable contribution to the understanding of
reincarnation and karma, and the tasks of the Anthroposophical Society
in connection with the Archangel Michael.
Nine lectures given at Breslau, in June of 1924. Published here with the
kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach,
Switzerland.
Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer by Dorothy S.
Osmond. The original texts of the lectures are contained in Vol. VII of
the series entitled
Esoterische Betrachtungen karmischer Zusammenhänge
(No. 239 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).
Copyright © 1973
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| Publisher's Note |
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| Summary of Contents |
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| Lecture One |
June 07, 1924 |
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The Moon sphere and the primeval Teachers of Humanity.
Experiences after death. The first seed of karma.
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| Lecture Two |
June 08, 1924 |
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Experiences after death: in the Mercury
sphere, the Venus sphere, the Sun sphere, the Mars sphere, the
Jupiter sphere, the Saturn sphere. The work of the Hierarchies
in the forming of karma.
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| Lecture Three |
June 09, 1924 |
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Human souls and their ascent after death
through the planetary spheres. Communion with the Beings of the
Hierarchies. Our outer world during life on Earth becomes our
inner world in our life between death and a new birth.
Historical evolution is borne onwards by human beings
themselves. Behind the destinies of individual men are the
deeds of Gods. Heine, Voltaire, Goethe, Eliphas Levi.
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| Lecture Four |
June 10, 1924 |
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The effects of karma in world history. The
working of the Saturn sphere. In all the Beings of this sphere
there is an intense, all pervading consciousness of the Past.
The Saturn Beings gaze back upon the memory of all the Beings
belonging to the whole planetary system. Individuals whose
karma was given configuration in the Saturn sphere. Friedrich
Schiller, Ernst Haeckel, Victor Hugo.
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| Lecture Five |
June 11, 1924 |
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What karma signifies in the individual life
of man. The difference in acquaintanceships formed in life is
due to the working of karma. Karmic links formed between
individuals and groups of individuals lead, as a rule (although
there are always exceptions) to contemporaneous existence in
subsequent incarnations. Examples of karmic connections: the
geometry teacher and Lord Byron. Garibaldi and his ties with
King Victor Emanuel, Cavour and Mazzini.
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| Lecture Six |
June 12, 1924 |
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Three states of the life of soul: waking,
dreaming, sleeping; connected with thoughts and sensory
impressions, feelings, will. Remembrance and speech. The seven
year periods of life and their relation to pre earthly
existence and the earlier incarnation. The origin of the Youth
Movement in the twentieth century. The karma of outstanding
figures in history. Haroun al Raschid. Lord Bacon of Verulam.
Amos Comenius. Woodrow Wilson.
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| Lecture Seven |
June 13, 1924 |
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Investigation of karma. The cosmic nature of Christ.
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| Lecture Eight |
June 14, 1924 |
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The moments of waking and going to sleep in
relation to the karmic past and to karma in process of
formation. The forming of karma during sleep. Death at an early
age. Therapeutic insights.
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| Lecture Nine |
June 15, 1924 |
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The effects of our moral conduct and our
connection with the Hierarchies in the life between death and a
new birth. In the head formation the karma of a man's past is
revealed to sense perception. In the metabolic limb system lies
future karma, spiritually concealed but invisibly present. The
incarnations of Pestalozzi. The cultural task of Anthroposophy.
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