WORLD BREATHING THROUGH THE ZODIAC, PLANETS, AND EARTH
Monthly lectures on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm
September 11, October 16, November 20, 2019
December 18, 2019; January 15, February 12, March 11, 2020
April 15, May 13, June 10, 2020 (CANCELLED)
The remaining three lectures in this series will be rescheduled for the fall. Dates to be determined.
$20 suggested fee per lecture
Through an in-depth study in a series of 10 lectures, we will discover how we, as human beings, are related to the entire cosmos. We will see also how we can reunite spiritually with the cosmos, and how physical substance can be redeemed through our spiritual activity.
In Rudolf Steiner’s depiction, the Zodiac and the planets of our solar system are a pathway for the creation of substance, originating in outbreath of high spiritual beings. We will trace the path of substances as they are potentized in the periphery of the cosmos; they condense, materialize, and become palpable physical minerals, metals, and atoms on the Earth.
The four main source books used are:
I. Apocalypse, the Transformation of Earth by Friedrich Benesch
II. The Nature of Substance: Spirit and Matter by Rudolf Hauschka
III. The Secrets of Metals by Wilhelm Pelikan
IV. The Living Earth: The Organic Origin of Rocks and Minerals by Walther Cloos
David Taulbee Anderson has taught drawing and painting around the world. He has an MA in Art and certificates from Emerson College (Waldorf education), and the Wagner School at the Goetheanum (teaching painting).
The Lecture Series Schedule:
I. Apocalypse, the Transformation of Earth by Friedrich Benesch
Lecture 1. September 11. The description of the Father god in the Apocalypse as a mineral being. The new Jerusalem as future Jupiter.
Lecture 2. October 16. Minerals. Supra-nature, Nature, and Sub-nature. Water, crystal, Jasper.
Lecture 3. November 20. The 12 precious stones. Gold, pearl, wood. 12 tribes, 12 apostles.
II. The Nature of Substance: Spirit and Matter by Rudolf Hauschka
Lecture 4. December 18. The three crosses in the zodiac. The atmospheric cross and the meteorological organs. The oceanic cross. The mineral cross.
Lecture 5. January 15. The relation between the zodiac-minerals and the planet-metals. The cosmic word and the Ephesian Mysteries.
III. The Secrets of Metals by Wilhelm Pelikan
Lecture 6. February 12. Metal-earth and world process. Lead, tin.
Lecture 7. March 11. Iron, gold, copper.
Lecture 8. September date TBD. Quicksilver, silver, zinc. Aluminum, nickel, cobalt, antimony, sulphur.
IV. The Living Earth: The Organic Origin of Rocks and Minerals by Walther Cloos
Lecture 9. Fall date TBD. Types of rocks, the solidification of the former kingdoms of nature, mineral-plant, plant-animal, schists as former world plants, limestone as former animals, salt and the human being, oil, sedimentary rocks.
Lecture 10. Fall date TBD. Volcanism, radioactivity, meteors and comets, minerals. Metals, world embryo(Adam Kadmon), cosmic development and the preparation for future Jupiter.
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Books studied are usually available at our bookstore. Email the Rudolf Steiner Bookstore manager
at rsbookstore (at) asnyc.org.
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