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Things in Past and Present in the Spirit of Man
GA 167

Twelve lectures given in Berlin, February 13th through May 30th 1916. Also known as: Things of Present and Past in the Spirit of Man. Published in German as: Gegenwaertiges und Vergangenes im Menschengeiste (und erweiterte Inhaltsangaben fuer die naechste Auflage).

The translation of these lectures has been made from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer and published as Volume No. 167 in the Complete Centenary Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner in the original German. Translated by E. H. Goddard

I.Examination of Anthroposophic Literature February 13, 1916
II.Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature March 07, 1916
III.Shedding Light on the Deeper Impulses of History. Blavatsky March 28, 1916
IV.Secrets of Freemasonry April 04, 1916
V.Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia April 11, 1916
VI.Death and Resurrection April 18, 1916
VII.Man's Four Members April 25, 1916
VIII.Thomas More and His Utopia May 02, 1916
IX.Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay May 09, 1916
X.The Value of Truth May 16, 1916
XI.Fragments from the Jewish Haggada May 23, 1916
XII.Luciferic Dangers from the East May 30, 1916