Dying Earth and Living Cosmos
21 lectures, Berlin, January 22 - August 6, 1918 (CW 181)These authoritative lectures, delivered during a period of deep crisis and conflict in world history, present a comprehensive spiritual…
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21 lectures, Berlin, January 22 - August 6, 1918 (CW 181)These authoritative lectures, delivered during a period of deep crisis and conflict in world history, present a comprehensive spiritual teaching for contemporary humanity. Despite the raging World War, Rudolf Steiner was still touring Central Europe while also completing his architectural masterpiece in neutral Switzerland, the first Goetheanum.The building of the Goetheanum--built by a community of people from seventeen nations at war--forms a thematic backdrop to the lectures. In speaking of the walls of the new building, for example, Steiner describes how their forms do not confine but express openness to the surrounding cosmos. Similarly, the carved motifs on the wooden pillar architraves are not fixed "symbols," but are alive and continually metamorphosing.These observations are