Old and New Methods of Initiation
GA 210
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Colophon
- Lecture I Dornach, 1 January 1922
- The working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the human being's body, soul and spirit.
- Lecture II Dornach, 7 January 1922
- Distinction between human beings of East, West and the middle region. Contemplation of the Christ-being.
- Lecture III Dornach, 8 January 1922
- The development of religious life during the post-Atlantean cultural periods.
- Lecture IV Mannheim, 19 January 1922
- Intimate aspects of soul and spiritual life. Crossing the threshold. Contrast between West and East.
- Lecture V Breslau, 1 February 1922
- Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition as actions on the way to reincarnation. The individual's relationship to the folk spirit — the cause of disorder among nations.
- Lecture VI Dornach, 11 February 1922
- Ancient Mystery wisdom — ‘the prince of this world’, an opponent of Christ. Two main aspects of initiation. Cultivation of the will.
- Lecture VII Dornach, 12 February 1922
- Old and new methods of initiation. Thinking with exactitude. Impartiality.
- Lecture VIII Dornach, 17 February 1922
- Metamorphosis of soul aspects during life on earth and life in the spiritual world. The heathen and Old Testament streams.
- Lecture IX Dornach, 18 February 1922
- The threefold human organism and repeated earthly lives. The heathen stream and the Old Testament stream. Cyprianus (Calderón) and Faust (Lessing and Goethe).
- Lecture X Dornach, 19 February 1922
- Threefold man in relation to the four elements and to Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition. The need for spiritual life.
- Lecture XI Dornach, 24 February 1922
- Shakespeare, Goethe and Schiller in connection with the spiritual change of the fifteenth century.
- Lecture XII Dornach, 25 February 1922
- The spiritual struggle of Goethe and Schiller during the age when intellectualism triumphs over ancient spirituality.
- Lecture XIII Dornach, 26 February 1922
- Recapitulation of the previous two lectures. The search for access to the spiritual world out of a modern constitution of soul.
- Lecture XIV Dornach, 19 March 1922
- The ideal of freedom in the work of Schiller and Goethe. The French Revolution. How can man as a social being achieve freedom?
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