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The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man
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The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man
Freedom and Love: Their Significance in World Evolution
On-line since: 2nd December, 1999
The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical
Constitution of Man
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
A study of the nature of the human being, this small book shows that
the moral world-order, though denied by the natural sciences, is the
source for all world-creative power. Three lectures given by Rudolf
Steiner at Dornach in December of 1920, they are from the lecture
series entitled,
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality and the Physical Constitution
of Humans, published in German as,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des Menschen.
Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
by
Rudolf Steiner
3 Lectures given in Dornach, Switzerland
December 17th – 19th, 1920
Bn/GA 202
A study of the nature of the human being, this small book shows that
the moral world-order, though denied by the natural sciences, is the
source for all world-creative power.
Three lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in December
of 1920, they are from the lecture series entitled,
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality and the Physical Constitution
of Humans,
published in German as,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des Menschen.
Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
Printed in Manuscript for the members of the School of Spiritual
Science, Goetheanum, Dornach. No person is held qualified to form a
judgment on the contents of these works who has not acquired —
through the School itself or in an equivalent manner recognized by
the School — the requisite preliminary knowledge. Other
opinions will be in so far disregarded as the authors of the works
in question are not willing to take them as a basis for discussion.
Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer, they are
presented here with the kind permission of
Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Copyright © 1958
This e.Text edition is provided with the cooperation of:
The Anthroposophic Press
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| Contents |
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| Lecture I: | Soul-and-Spirit in Man's Physical Constitution |
December 17, 1920 |
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The physical organism of man is considered today to consist of more
or less solid-fluid substances; but as well as his solid, physical
body, man has within him as definite organisms, a fluid body, an
air-body and a warmth-body. — The connections of these organisms
with the members of man's whole being and with the different Ethers.
— Thought and Tone; Ego and circulating Blood. — Man in
the sleeping state. — Man's relation to the universal
Spirituality. — Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition. —
The circumscribed view of the human organism prevailing today is
unable to build any bridge between the physical body and the
soul-and-spirit.
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| Lecture II: | Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power |
December 18, 1920 |
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Recapitulation of previous lecture. — Connection of the moral
world-order with the physical world-order. — The moral
world-order has no place in the natural scientific thinking of
today. — The positive effect of moral ideals and ideas and
the negative effect of theoretical ideas on the four organisms in
man. — The materialistic conception of the imperishability
of matter and energy. — Matter and energy die away to nullity;
but man's moral thinking imbues life into substance and will. —
The natural world dies away in man; in the realm of the moral a new
natural world comes into being; thus are the moral order and the
natural order connected. — Absence of spirituality in the modern
picture of the world which is based on the Copernican system. —
Kepler and Newton. — We need a spiritual view of the universe.
— The sun is not a globe of burning gas but the reflection of a
spiritual reality revealed in the physical. — The moral power
developed by man rays out and is reflected as the spiritual Sun.
— Julian the Apostate. — The connection of the spiritual
Sun with the physical sun is the Christ-Secret.
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| Lecture III: | The Path to Freedom and Love and Their Significance in World-Events |
December 19, 1920 |
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Man as a being of Thinking, Action and Feeling. — The connection
of the life of thought with the will. — Pure thinking: irradiation
of the life of thought by will. — This leads to Freedom. —
Irradiation of the life of will by thoughts leads to Love. — The
meaning of the ancient expressions: Semblance, Power, Wisdom. —
To speak of the imperishability of matter and energy annuls Love.
— The significance of Freedom and Love in world-happenings.
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