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1、ANCIENTMYTHSTheirMeaningandConnectionwithEVOLUTIONbyRUDOLFSTEINERSevenlecturesgiveninDornach.4thto13thJanuary,1918Translatedfromshorthandreportsunrevisedbythelecturer,byM.Cotterell.TheoriginalGermantextoftheselecturesarepublishedunderthetitle:“AlteMythenundihre
2、Bedeutung”(Vol.180intheBibliographicalSurvey,1961).ThisEnglisheditionispublishedinagreementwiththeRudolfSteinerNachlassverwaltung,Dornach,Switzerland.PrintedinGreatBritainbyBookprintInternationalLtd.England1971AncientMyths:TheirMeaningandConnectionwithEvolution
3、ThefollowinglecturesweregivenbyRudolfSteinertoanaudiencefamiliarwiththegeneralbackgroundandterminologyofhisanthroposophicalteaching.Itshouldberememberedthatinhisautobiography,‘TheCourseofMyLife’,heemphasisesthedistinctionbetweenhiswrittenworksontheonehandand,on
4、theother,reportsoflectureswhichweregivenasoralcommunicationsandwerenotoriginallyintendedforprint.Itshouldbeborneinmindthatcertainpremisesweretakenforgrantedwhenthewordswerespoken.‘Thesepremises,’RudolfSteinerwrites,‘includeattheveryleast,theanthroposophicalknow
5、ledgeofManandoftheCosmosinitsspiritualessence;alsowhatmaybecalled“anthroposophicalhistory”,toldasanoutcomeofresearchintothespiritualworld.’Forthebenefitofreadersabrieflistofpublicationsrelevanttothemainthemehavebeenaddedattheendofthisvolume.ContentsLectureI,4th
6、January1918Thenatureofmythicalthinking.Egyptian,GreekandHebrewwaytoconnectoneselfwiththeUniverse.Osiris-IsisMythandthegenerationoftheGodsoftheGreeks.WhathadbeenspiritualexperienceinEgyptianandGreekmythbecameteachinginOldTestament.LectureII,5thJanuary1918Looking
7、backonthechangeofsoulindevelopmentofconsciousness.Changefrompicturewritingtoletterscript.Separationofthewordfromthesoulexperience.Formerlyachangeofconsciousnessatpuberty.Forcesunderlyingthefeelingsofnationalism.Developmentofabstractthought.Meaningofthecross.Lec
8、tureIII,6thJanuary1918HowcanOsirisbeawakenedtonewlife?ManmustworktowardstheexperiencingofImaginations.TheVeilofIsis.Mantolearntolifttheveilofknowledge.HemustlayholdoftheWord
