Dying Earth Living Cosmos

Dying Earth Living CosmosThese authoritative lectures, delivered during a period of deep crisis and conflict in world history, present a comprehensive spiritual teaching for contemporary humanity. Despite the raging world war, Rudolf Steiner was still actively touring Central Europe whilst simultaneously completing work on his architectural masterpiece, the first Goetheanum, in neutral Switzerland. The building of the Goetheanum undertaken by a community of people from

featuring the acclaimed translation by Michael Wilson

Steiner asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education

’ I have always told myself that we live in an age today when everything spiritual has to be transformed in the human soul so that a new architectural style must arise from this transformation of spirit

Goethean science

there are countless means to achieve such experience

January 4–13

He initiated a modern and universal “science of spirit”

but also with Christ and angelic worlds

origin of the human being

which depends on knowledge of ‘the Mystery of Golgotha’ (Christ’s crucifixion

Enthusiasm no longer flows from mystical obscurity

Rudolf Steiner demonstrates how history and psychology combine to form different languages and how the inmost kernel of language can be accessed today