The Arts and Their Mission (Lectures Section)

Steiner’s extraordinary insights on architecture, sculpture, painting, drama, costuming, music, poetry, eurythmy, and more. “The starting point for a new life of art can come only by direct stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world.” — from the contents
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Spiritual Science and Medicine (Lectures Section)

Rudolf Steiner Archive Document: Spiritual Science and Medicine These twenty lectures of Dr. Steiner’s on Spiritual Science and Medicine were given at the request of a number of practicing Doctors in Medicine. Some thirty doctors and students attended…. Continue reading

Preparing for the Sixth Epoch (Lectures Section)

Rudolf Steiner Archive Document: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch This lecture was given in Düsseldorf at the opening of Group II, on June 15, 1915. It was originally published in English with the title How Anthroposophical Groups Prepare for the Sixth Epoch, or Three Fundamental Characteristics of the Future Civilization of Mankind. Lecture 13 of 15 from the volume: The Secret of Death The volume of the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner containing the original text of the this lecture, among fifteen others, is entitled: Das Geheimnis des Todes. Wesen und Bedeutung Mitteleuropas und die europaeischen Volksgeister. (No. 159 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).
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The Temple Legend

The Temple Legend Freemasonry and Related Occult Movements By Rudolf Steiner Translated by John M. WoodGA 93 These lectures form part of the teachings of Steiner’s first Esoteric School, in existence from 1904–1914. Steiner elucidates here the esoteric content of symbolic pictures found in myths, sagas, and legends, focusing particularly… Continue reading