Rudolf Steiner Archive 

Calendar of the Soul

Northern Hemisphere
Week 19

In secret to encompass now
With memory what I've newly got
Shall be my striving's further aim:
Thus, ever strengthening, selfhood's forces
Shall be awakened from within
And growing, give me to myself.

Southern Hemisphere
Week 45

My power of thought grows firm
United with the spirit's birth.
It lifts the senses' dull attractions
To bright-lit clarity.
When soul-abundance
Desires union with the world's becoming,
Must senses' revelation
Receive the light of thinking.

—Translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch

See GA 40 for full calendar and German text.

Goethe's World View
GA 6

This edition of Goethe's World View is a new translation by William Lindeman from Goethe's Weltanschauung, published by Verlag der Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland, 1963.

The Cover Graphic form is by Rudolf Steiner (originally as a study for the book Truth and Science). The layout and lettering are by Peter Stebbing.

Preface to the New Edition, 1918  
Preface to the First Edition  
Introduction  


I.
GOETHE'S PLACE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
WESTERN THOUGHT

  
Goethe and Schiller  
The Platonic World View  
The Consequences of the Platonic World View  
Goethe and the Platonic World View  
Personality and World View  
The Metamorphosis of World Phenomena  


II.
GOETHE'S VIEW ON THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT
OF LIVING BEINGS

  
Metamorphosis  


III.
THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE WORLD OF COLORS

  
The Phenomena of the World of Colors  


IV.
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY
OF THE PHENOMENA OF EARTH AND AIR

  
Thoughts about the Developmental History of the Earth  
Observations about Atmospheric Phenomena  


V.

  
Goethe and Hegel  

Epilogue to the New Edition of 1918		  

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