Chartres – 4
In the Middle Ages the School of Chartres flourished, where great religious scholars lived with the Platonic and Pythagorean idea that the mediation between God and the world lies in mathematics, especially in the principles of geometry, but these are also determined by the concept of ‘size’, which is an arithmetic concept that extends into […]
Chartres – 3
When visiting the cathedral, we first tried to experience the West Portal, the famous royal portal. As you enter the cathedral, you enter the gate of the New Jerusalem. But if we want to experience a reality, that is not the right entry. For the human being is far from perfect enough to present a […]
Chartres – 2
It is a very special experience to see how a spiritual doctrine, which was part of the spirituality of Europe, has become a formed structure, a cathedral. What was expressed in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ in poetic words has here in all its miraculous pythagorean wisdom of proportions been built in stone. It is because of […]
Chartres
On the eve of the seminar around and in the Cathedral of Chartres, Notre Dame de Paris caught fire and partly burned down. We were already in Chartres and sympathized with the French and worldwide emotions. The cathedral in Chartres, also a Notre Dame, mourned her sister with two intense chimings of the bells. In […]
Creation Out of Nothing
The next lecture was on April 9th in Freiburg(D). A year ago I had given a seminar on this theme in Zurich, and it became a booklet. In Freiburg I spoke again about this topic. I quote from the booklet (p.19): “Rudolf Steiner describes this creation out of nothing in such a way that everything […]
Nuclear Power and Christ Consciousness
On the 8th of April a lecture with the title Nuclear Power and Christ Consciousness took place in Freiburg. In the past, I have studied this topic extensively for seminars in Hamburg and Werkhoven, so it was possible for me to summarize the essentials in one evening – as far as I can judge. Of […]
Occidental Karma Knowledge
In Bern, on the 7th of April, the theme was ‘Occidental Karma Knowledge’. I tried to illustrate this theme with a quote from Rudolf Steiners ‘From Jesus to Christ’, the 5th lecture. Translation: rs-archive. I have elsewhere mentioned that if a Christian sage were to be compared with the Buddhist one, he would have spoken […]
Old and new mysticism
On April 6th we were in Zurich for a seminar on mysticism. Someone once said to me: “The person who gives the lecture learns the most…..”. I remembered my beginnings with anthroposophy when I got to know Rudolf Steiner’s book “Mysticism…”. I already had my experiences with the Philosophy of Freedom, I was familiar with […]
The wisdom lives in the light
Over the past year, I have published verses from Rudolf Steiner’s ‘calendar of the soul’ every week. After a whole year I am now back again to continue my weekly texts. I will start with an anthology of my current seminars. Sunday 31 March we were in Überlingen am Bodensee. The theme has been for […]
Spring
The turnaround is coming, the workings are turning from outside to inside. The increasing wealth from outside comes through the senses into the inner being of the human being. In the looking eye, the spirit of the world meets itself. But this human eye draws the strength to create itself time and again especially from […]