标题: 《EGYPTIAN MYTHS AND MYSTERIES》 [打印本页] 作者: 飛翔朱雀 时间: 2009-3-23 11:48 标题: 《EGYPTIAN MYTHS AND MYSTERIES》 CONTENTS
Lecture 1 . . . Spiritual connections between the culture-streams of ancient and modern times.
Lecture 2 . . . The reflection of cosmic events in the religious views of men.
Lecture 3 . . . The old initiation centers. The human form as the subject of meditation.
Lecture 4 . . . The experiences of initiation. The mysteries of the planets. The descent of the primeval Word.
Lecture 5 . . . The genesis of the trinity of sun, moon, and earth. Osiris and Typhon.
Lecture 6 . . . The influence of Osiris and Isis. Facts of occult anatomy and physiology.
Lecture 7 . . . Evolutionary events in the human organism up to the departure of the moon. Osiris and Isis as builders of the upper human form.
Lecture 8 . . . The stages of evolution of the human form. The expulsion of the animal beings. The four human types.
Lecture 9 . . . The influence of the sun and moon spirits, of the Isis and Osiris forces. The change in consciousness. The conquest of the physical plane.
Lecture 10. . Old myths as pictures of cosmic facts. Darkening of man's spiritual consciousness. The initiation principle of the mysteries.
Lecture 11. . The ancient Egyptian doctrine of evolution. The cosmic view of the organs and their coarsening in modern times.
Lecture 12. . The Christ impulse as conqueror of matter.
LECTURE 1
Spiritual Connections between
the Culture-streams of Ancient
and Modern Times.
September 2, 1908
GA 106 If we ask ourselves what spiritual science should be for men, then presumably, out of all sorts of reactions and feelings that we have developed in the course of our work in this field, we will place the following answer before our souls: Spiritual science should be for us a path to the higher development of our humanity, of all that is human in us. Thus we set up a life-aim, which in a certain way is self-understood for every thinking and feeling person, a life-aim that includes the achieving of the highest ideals and also includes the unfolding of the deepest and most significant forces in our souls. The best men in all ages have asked themselves how man can rightly bring to expression what lies within him, and to this question the most diverse answers have been given. Perhaps none can be found that is terser or more telling than the answer Goethe gave out of a deep conviction in his Geheimnisse: