Occult History: Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritural Science : Six Lectures Given in Stuttgart, 27th December 1910 to 1st January 1911These lectures are concerned with spiritual forces and influences working in world history and in the karma of human beings. Steiner's penetrating insights into the events and personalities history are one of his major contributions to modern times. Steiner focuses here on the Babylonian and Greek cultures and the connecting threads running between individual personalities and the evolution of humanity as a whole. |
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About the Transcripts of Lectures | 7 |
Stuttgart 28th December 1910 | 27 |
Stuttgart 29th December 1910 | 49 |
Stuttgart 30th December 1910 | 66 |
Stuttgart 31st December 1910 | 85 |
Stuttgart 1st January 1911 | 103 |
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Page 119 - A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
Page 123 - I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age.
Page 119 - Quite true, Socrates. But if the knowledge which we acquired before birth was lost by us at birth, and if afterwards by the use of the senses we recovered that which we previously knew, will not that which we call learning be a process of recovering our knowledge, and may not this be rightly termed recollection by us ? Very true.
Page 122 - Solon, who was received by them with great honor; and he asked the priests, who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, when he was drawing them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world — about Phoroneus, who is called "the first...
Page 123 - ... and thus you have to begin all over again as children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves.
Page 123 - O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children and there is not an old man among you.
Page 122 - Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world - about Phoroneus, who is called 'the first man...
Page 122 - At the head of the Egyptian Delta, where the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the...
Page 123 - Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us...