GA 201

The human being in his connection with the cosmos, Volume I

Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos, Band I

Sixteen Lectures, Dornach 9 April to 16 May 1920

Throughout this volume - as in fact through all of Rudolf Steiner's astronomical lectures - runs the fundamental idea that the real events in the cosmos cannot be viewed in such a way that only what is discovered with telescope and graduated circle is decisive, but rather that which finds its counterpart in the human being.

Contents (selection)

Natural Necessity and Human Freedom. Abstract spatial dimensions / polarity between head and the rest of the body. Metamorphosis and reincarnation. Abstraction and Imagination / The Three Cosmic Planes and the Zodiac. Annual rhythm and seven-year periods / Platonic year. Nutation periods and their reflection in the life of the soul. Sun and Moon, Christ and Jehovah / The Astral Body of Man and the Zodiac. Four spheres / Waking and sleeping / Imagination and will / Orbital periods of the planets / Man and the elements earth and water. Egyptian astronomy. The Cosmic Significance of the Christ Being / Natural Science and Christianity. Conservation of energy. Destruction of matter / Destruction of matter and liberation of the spirit.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe. CW 201. Translated by G. Adams & M. Adams. Rudolf Steiner Press 1972. ISBN 978-0854402519 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Entsprechungen zwischen Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos, GA 201 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2012-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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