The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II
Theosophy, Christology and Mythology
GA 90b

The present volume contains lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Lugano in 1905 and 1906. It follows on directly from volume GA 90a, which contains the Berlin lectures to members from 1903 and 1904.

The lecture from January 10, 1906 in Lugano was included in this volume because it is close to the other lectures in this volume in terms of time and subject matter, and the other unpublished member lectures from 1906 are already reserved for other volumes (e.g. GA 111).

Often it is no longer possible to determine whether the notes were taken at Branch's lectures, at Rudolf Steiner's talks in smaller circles, or even at private lessons for individuals. Presumably, in the early days of Rudolf Steiner's theosophical work, the boundaries were also fluid.

Rudolf Steiner developed the majority of the topics covered in this volume simultaneously or later for his written work. Particular reference is made here to:

• Mysticism in the dawn of modern spiritual life and its relationship to the modern world view (1901, GA 7)
• Christianity as a Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity (1902, GA 8)
• Theosophy: An Introduction to Supersensible World Knowledge and the Human Condition (1904, GA 9)
• How to Know Higher Worlds (1904-1905, GA 10)
• From the Akasha Chronicle (1904-1908, GA 11)
• The Stages of Higher Knowledge (1905-1908, GA 12)
• Lucifer-Gnosis, fundamental essays on anthroposophy (1903-1908,GA 35)

I.	On the Root-Races of Atlantians and Aryans	January 1, 1905
II.	Elemental, Sidereal and Heavenly Deities — Human Development and the Zodiac	January 2, 1905
III.	The Deification of Man – The Task of the Arts	January 15, 1905
IV.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology I	January 30, 1905
V.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology II	February 6, 1905
VI.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology III	February 13, 1905
VII.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology IV	February 20, 1905
VIII.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology V	February 27, 1905
IX.	The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology VI	March 6, 1905
X.	Easter and Theosophy	April 21, 1905
XI.	The Sermon on the Mount	June 19, 1905
XII.	About the Gospel of John	June 26, 1905
XIII.	The Seven Principles	August 18, 1905
XIV.	Subjective — Objective Dharma In Karma	August 20, 1905
XV.	Spiritual Science as a Source of Healing	October 9, 1905
XVI.	Self-knowledge and Knowledge of God	October 16, 1905
XVII.	The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement	October 22, 1905
XVIII.	Theosophy in Daily Life	October 30, 1905
XIX.	Theosophy and the Concept of Freedom	November 6, 1905
XX.	Knowledge of the Higher Worlds I	December 11, 1905
XXI.	Knowledge of the Higher Worlds II	December 18, 1905
XXII.	Knowledge of the Higher Worlds III	December 28, 1905
XXIII.	The Apocalypse of John I	January 16, 1905
XIV.	About the Book of Genesis	January 17, 1905
XV.	On the Significance of the Catholic Mass in the Sense of Mysticism	March 17, 1905
XVI.	On Planetary Evolution	March 18, 1905
XVII.	The Apocalypse of John II	March 19, 1905
XVIII.	Novalis's Novel in Prose, “Heinrich Von Ofterdingen”	April 26, 1905
XXIX.	Yoga and Unio Mystica	April 27, 1905
XXX.	The Sermon on the Mount	December 2, 1905
XXXI.	On the Concept of God	January 19, 1905
XXXII.	On the Life of a Spiritual Seeker	January 20, 1905
XXXIII.	The Old Norse Sagas of the Gods	March 22, 1905
XXXIV.	Yoga	December 4, 1905
XXXV.	The Days of the Week — Sibylline Wisdom	April 9, 1905
XXXVI.	The Spiritual Development of Man	October 15, 1905
XXXVII.	On German Mythology	December 10, 1905
XXXVIII.	The Transient and the Eternal	January 10, 1906