The Universal Human

The Evolution of Individuality
Four selected lectures by Rudolf Steiner

In these lectures, Rudolf Steiner describes the evolutionary task facing contemporary humanity as it prepares to enter the sixth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. In the past, human souls felt a strong connection with the group soul to which they belonged. Today, all group soul characteristics such as race and nation must be stripped off.
4 selected lectures, Munich 4 & 7 Dec 1909 & 12 Dec 1910, Berne 9 Jan 1916
Trans: G. Church, rev. S. Seiler, C. Bamford
96pp; paperback
ISBN: 9780880102896

£14.99

The Universal Human
The Evolution of Individuality
Four selected lectures by Rudolf Steiner
In these four lectures Rudolf Steiner addresses the evolutionary task facing contemporary humanity, particularly with regard to issues of race and racial conflict. He describes the origins of racial diversity among human beings and vividly describes the dangers of the ever-widening chasm separating different peoples. To avert this threat of the fragmentation of our species, we must strive for an awareness of ourselves and others as spiritual beings with unique and individual karma.
In the past, human souls felt a strong connection, even union, with the “group soul”—the race or nation—to which they belonged. Today, all such group soul characteristics must be stripped off. Therefore, as Steiner writes, “it is necessary that the anthroposophical movement, in preparing for the sixth epoch, should shed the character of race and seek to unite people of all races and nations.”‘
That such an inward, spiritual uniting of all human beings in their common humanity can now come about is the fruit of the cosmic sacrifice of the Mystery of Golgotha—which made possible a universal human community of self-aware individualities rather than humans still instinctually submerged in ethnicity, nationalism and other forms of ‘tribal’ identification. From this point of view, as Steiner makes clear in the last lecture, Christ’s deed was for the renewal of the common spiritual humanity, and therewith a sense of human fellowship, that can be experienced by members of all nations, ethnic groups and races once each person has transcended the instinctual habits that bind him or her to an ingrained tribal consciousness.
Weight 150 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.9 × 0.6 cm

The Universal Human

The Evolution of Individuality
Four selected lectures by Rudolf Steiner

In these lectures, Rudolf Steiner describes the evolutionary task facing contemporary humanity as it prepares to enter the sixth post-Atlantean cultural epoch. In the past, human souls felt a strong connection with the group soul to which they belonged. Today, all group soul characteristics such as race and nation must be stripped off.
4 selected lectures, Munich 4 & 7 Dec 1909 & 12 Dec 1910, Berne 9 Jan 1916
Trans: G. Church, rev. S. Seiler, C. Bamford
96pp; paperback
ISBN: 9780880102896

£14.99

The Universal Human
The Evolution of Individuality
Four selected lectures by Rudolf Steiner
In these four lectures Rudolf Steiner addresses the evolutionary task facing contemporary humanity, particularly with regard to issues of race and racial conflict. He describes the origins of racial diversity among human beings and vividly describes the dangers of the ever-widening chasm separating different peoples. To avert this threat of the fragmentation of our species, we must strive for an awareness of ourselves and others as spiritual beings with unique and individual karma.
In the past, human souls felt a strong connection, even union, with the “group soul”—the race or nation—to which they belonged. Today, all such group soul characteristics must be stripped off. Therefore, as Steiner writes, “it is necessary that the anthroposophical movement, in preparing for the sixth epoch, should shed the character of race and seek to unite people of all races and nations.”‘
That such an inward, spiritual uniting of all human beings in their common humanity can now come about is the fruit of the cosmic sacrifice of the Mystery of Golgotha—which made possible a universal human community of self-aware individualities rather than humans still instinctually submerged in ethnicity, nationalism and other forms of ‘tribal’ identification. From this point of view, as Steiner makes clear in the last lecture, Christ’s deed was for the renewal of the common spiritual humanity, and therewith a sense of human fellowship, that can be experienced by members of all nations, ethnic groups and races once each person has transcended the instinctual habits that bind him or her to an ingrained tribal consciousness.
Weight 150 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.9 × 0.6 cm
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