Rudolf Steiner - The Effects of Esoteric Development

The Effects of Esoteric Development
10 Lectures, the Hague; March 20-29, 1913 (CW 145)
Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880104203
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Read by Dale Brunsvold (http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/)

On February 3, 1913, the first General Meeting of the newly formed Anthroposophical Society was convened in Berlin. Six weeks later, in Holland, Rudolf Steiner spoke for the first time to an anthroposophic audience in a detailed, intimate way about individual esoteric training and the subtle effects of spiritual development on every level of one's being.

Beginning with questions regarding the body's experience of food and drink - meat, coffee, alcohol, and so on - he lays out the progression of anthroposophic spiritual inner work, up to direct perception of "Paradise" and the Holy Grail. He discusses the role of human beings in our evolution that takes place between the forces of Lucifer and Ahriman.

Included is Steiner's important lecture "The Being of Anthroposophy," which this volume introduces to the English-speaking world. This edition also includes Steiner's "introductory words," previously available only as an unpublished German typescript.

Contents:

1. Prologue: The Being of Anthroposophy, Berlin, February 3, 1913

2. Introductory words by Rudolf Steiner for the cycle in The Hague

3. Lecture 1: The Influences of Esoteric Life on the Human Sheaths (March 20, 1913)

4. Lecture 2: The Question of Food (March 21, 1913)

5. Lecture 3: The Senses and the Temperaments in Esoteric Training (March 22, 1913)

6. Lecture 4: The Differentiated Experience of the Etheric (March 23, 1913)

7. Lecture 5: Transforming Judgments, Feeling, and Willing (March 24, 1913)

8. Lecture 6: The Paradise Legend and the Holy Grail Legend (March 25, 1913)

9. Lecture 7: Astrality's Struggle with Egoism - Amfortas and Parzifal (March 26, 1913)

10. Lecture 8: The Guardian of the Threshold (March 27, 1913)

11. Lecture 9: Centaur and Sphinx - Lucifer and Ahriman - Christ in the Etheric Sphere (March 28, 1913)

12. Lecture 10: The Etheric Body as a Picture of Cosmic History (March 29, 1913)