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The Culture of Selflessness: Rudolf Steiner, the Fifth Gospel, and the Time of Extremes

The Culture of Selflessness: Rudolf Steiner, the Fifth Gospel, and the Time of Extremes

Selg, Peter
Creeger, Catherine E.

Paperback

Occult

ISBN10: 1621480119
ISBN13: 9781621480112
Publisher: Steiner Books
Published: Aug 24 2012
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
People will have to exchange the spirit of mere thinking for the spirit of direct vision, of direct compassion and shared experience of the Christ who is spiritually alive and walks at the side of all human souls...

We must first become selfless. That is the task of culture today for the future. Humanity must become more and more selfless; therein lies the future of right moral life deeds, the future of all acts of love that can occur through earthly humanity (Rudolf Steiner, Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha, CW 152).

In a lecture eight weeks before the outbreak of World War I, Rudolf Steiner, conscious of developments to come, coined the phrase culture of selflessness to describe the culture that would develop in the future. The far-reaching social implications of his primarily Christological lectures on the Fifth Gospel, given in 1913/14 under the same political circumstances, were foreign to many of Steiner's contemporary audiences, who largely failed to understand his dramatic accounts drawn from the Fifth Gospel (or that gospel itself) as a source of comfort for the future, or (as Rudolf Steiner said of them) as needed for future work.

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