The Destiny of Individuals and of Nations
GA 157
Steiner started each of these lectures, given during the war years, with a verse for those who had died. He begins this volume with a consideration of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric bodies, and the prophetic nature of dreams. The last lecture takes up the question of the cosmic meaning of our sense impressions and of our thinking, feeling, and willing.
These fourteen lectures were given by Rudolf Steiner at Berlin during the years, 1914–1915, and were published in German as, Menschenschicksale und Voelkerschicksale.
Translated by Anna R. Meuss
| Introduction | ||
| Lecture I | September 01, 1914 | |
| Lecture II | October 31, 1914 | |
| Lecture III | November 28, 1914 | |
| Lecture IV | September 01, 1914 | |
| Lecture V | January 19, 1915 | |
| Lecture VI | January 26, 1915 | |
| Lecture VII | February 22, 1915 | |
| Lecture VIII | March 02, 1915 | |
| Lecture IX | March 09, 1915 | |
| Lecture X | March 16, 1915 | |
| Lecture XI | April 20, 1915 | |
| Lecture XII | June 10, 1915 | |
| Lecture XIII | June 22, 1915 | |
| Lecture XIV | July 06, 1915 | |
| Original German Mantrams |