The Seasonal Festivals as Soul Experience

Eleven Lectures held in Bern, Dornach, Prague, Stuttgart, and Berlin from April 6 to July 11, 1923 (CW 224)This volume, published here for the first time in English, contains lectures given in the first half of 1923, a year of trials for Rudolf Steiner and the anthroposophical movement. Having suffered the loss of the Goetheanum, that house of the Word into which he had poured his forces for ten years, Steiner was faced with the possible, and even likely, splintering of the anthroposophical movement and its Society. Representing an upbuilding impulse after the tragedy of the Goetheanum fire, these lectures have as a common thematic thread the connection of the human being with the work of the hierarchies through the rhythms of human life and the cycles of time. This book offers something to all who seek a deeper relationship to the cycle of the year and its festivals.

Pages: 280, Paperback, Steiner Books