The Riddle of Humanity: The Spiritual Background of Human History : Fifteen Lectures Given in Dornach to Members of the Anthroposophical Society, 29 July to 3 September 1916Steiner adds new insights to such topics as the evolution and development of our physical body, our senses, and our relationship to the cosmos. Steiner's view of the human being and the significance of aesthetic creativity and enjoyment clearly reveals the bankruptcy of conventional materialism. |
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LECTURE TWO 30 July 1916 | 15 |
LECTURE FOUR 5 August 1916 | 40 |
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able abstract accord with reality aesthetic already astral body aware backwards beauty become begin birth Christian von Ehrenfels clairvoyance concepts connected cosmic cosmos death described dreams earthly entirely Ernst Mach eternal return etheric body everything evolution example existence experience expressed external world feeling fifth post-Atlantean epoch forces grain of wheat happens head ideas imagine impulses incarnation inner judgements Jupiter kind knowledge LECTURE living Lucifer and Ahriman luciferic influences mankind materialistic matter memory moral movement nature neurasthenia nourishment observe occurrences Old Moon Otto Weininger perception person philosophy physical body physical plane physical world picture plant possible present processes realm relationship Richard Wahle Rudolf Steiner Saturn sensations sense of speech sense of thought sense of touch sense of warmth sense-zones someone speak sphere spiritual science spiritual world stream things thinking tion truth twelve senses understand Uranus waking consciousness Weininger whole words zodiac