GA 216

The Fundamental Impulses of the World-Historical Development of Humanity

Die Grundimpulse des weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit

Eight lectures, Dornach 16 September to 1 October 1922.

Contents (selection)

The human experience between death and a new birth / On the interactions between the spiritual world and the members of the human body / The influence of the spiritual world on the historical activity of humanity / The intellectualistic fall from grace. The Elementary Earth Spirits and Modern Mechanism / The Egyptian Mysteries. Indian yoga schooling and Egyptian mummy cult. Resurrection forces of the earth from the development of a correctly understood cult / Goethe's metamorphosis thought / Three spiritual currents in Europe and their transformation into ecclesiastical dogma and belief in the 9th century.

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Grundimpulse des weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit, GA 216 (1988), ISBN 3-7274-2160-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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