Awakening to Community: (Cw 257) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780880106672)

10 lectures, Stuttgart and Dornach, January 23 - March 4, 1923 (CW 257)

"We are firmly in our understanding of things of the spirit only when we do not rest content with abstract spiritual concepts and a capacity to express them theoretically, but instead grow into a sure belief that higher beings are present with us in a community of spirit when we engage in spiritual study. No external measures can bring about anthroposophical community-building. You have to call it forth from the profoundest depths of human consciousness."-- Rudolf Steiner

Steiner presented these lectures right after the fire that destroyed the first Goetheanum. Given during the year before the Anthroposophical Society was reestablished, they form an important part of the history of the anthroposophic movement.

Steiner calls for a "searching of conscience." He explains that in anthroposophic communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our encounters with others, and he describes how the reversed cultus" forms the foundation for a new community life.

Author: Rudolf Steiner
ISBN-10: 0880106670
ISBN-13: 9780880106672
Publisher: Steiner Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1975
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.95h x 4.96w x 0.47d