A Streaming Online Course With Eugene Schwartz
Eleven Lectures plus Diagrams and a Video
December 26 through January 6
Fee: $100.00
In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s birth, Eugene Schwartz created the first online exploration of Rudolf Steiner's life and work. His aim was to both deepen and broaden our understanding of Steiner’s contributions to the modern world. The result is a series of lectures that explore Steiner’s biography, the times in which he lived, and, above all, the significance of his path of inner development for the individual, for humanity, and for the future of the Earth.
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Read More About the Course
- Over the years, Eugene has revised and refined the original lectures. Although their overall content is concerned with timeless truths, these lectures speak to contemporary concerns as well.
This online course contains twenty-four hours of audio and visual content, divided into short, 15 - 30 minute segments that you may pause at any time. The segments may be listened to or watched as often as you wish during your week online. Eugene's remarkable and unique interactive Steiner Timeline, with hundreds of entries, is also a part of this course.
For an additional fee, the entire course may also be downloaded to your computer. Look for that option on the Registration Form.
Although these presentations can serve as an introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, long-time students of Anthroposophy will find new insights as well.To read about the course lecturer, Eugene Schwartz, click here.
Rudolf Steiner, 1900
Part 1:
The Nature of the Human Being
We look at the “fourfold” and “sevenfold” constitution of the human being as described and examined by Rudolf Steiner in myriad books and lectures. This group of lectures can serve as a foundation for exploring all of the other sections of this course.
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View Contents of Part One
- SC 01 The Physical Body [14:45]
SC 02 The Etheric Body [16:19]
SC03 The Astral Body [14:44]
SC04 The Human Ego [19:55]
SC05 The Sentient Soul [20:49]
SC06 The Mind Soul [11:12]
SC07 The Consciousness Soul [13:44]
SC08 The Spirit Self [22:48]
SC09 Life Spirit and Spirit Man [18:48]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Rudolf Steiner, 1920
Part 2:
Fourfoldness in Time and Space
Each of our “higher members” has its own biography, its own path of incorporation, and its own “spatial” relationship to the physical body. We are not only a human being, but a human becoming, as well.
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View Contents of Part Two
- SC21 The Etheric Body’s Biography [11:48]
SC22 Incorporating the Astral Body [12:04]
SC23 The Role of the Ego [14:14]
SC24 Proportions of the Higher Bodies [15:53]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Ita Wegman, 1924
Part 3:
The Spiritual Hierarchies
Although the Hierarchies are a mainstay of Christian theology and iconography, Steiner spoke of them as active in all world religions. His expansive picture of the activities of the hierarchical beings portrays their intimate and dynamic relationship to human life and evolution.
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View Contents of Part Three
- SC10 The Third Hierarchy – The Angels, part 1 [16:17]
SC11 The Third Hierarchy – The Angels, part 2 [15:47]
SC12 The Third Hierarchy – Archangels & Archai [15:01]
SC13 The Second Hierarchy – Spirits of Form, Movement, & Wisdom [18:28]
SC14 The First Hierarchy – Thrones, Cherubim, & Seraphim, part 1 [17:21]
SC15 The First Hierarchy, part 2 [14:11]
SC16 The First Hierarchy, part 3 [15:06]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Marie von Sievers (Steiner), 1900
Part 4:
Reincarnation and Karma
Rudolf Steiner felt that one of his most important tasks was to renew humanity’s understanding of reincarnation and karma, particularly in the light of Christianity. The picture he gives of repeated earth lives and the journey of the human soul and spirit between death and rebirth is markedly different from Eastern views of these events.
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View Contents of Part Four
- SC17 Introduction: Death and Rebirth [15:34]
SC18 What is Karma? [13:39]
SC19 New Perspectives on Reincarnation [14:28]
SC20 Reincarnation as Education [17:39]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Rudolf Steiner sculpts "The Representative of Man."
Part 5:
Life After Death
Steiner noted more than once that Anthroposophy came into being so that the dead could communicate with the living. Eschewing the sensationalistic “spiritualism” and séances of his day, Steiner lectured frequently about the journey of the soul and spirit through the spiritual world, and the ways in which the living could help shed light on their path.
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View Contents of Part Five
- SC25 Links Between the Living and Dead [13:36]
SC26 The “Tableau” Experience and Kamaloka [31:34]
SC27 Shelley and Keats - Forming the Afterlife [12:27]
SC28 The Astral Body and the Inner Planets [17:00]
SC29 The Sphere of the Sun and the Outer Planets [18:48]
SC30 The “Cosmic Midnight” and Janus Experience [21:49]
SC31 Creation of the Hereditary Stream [15:42]
SC32 Thomas Traherne – Pre-Birth Experiences [22:11]
SC33 We Form the World We Need [23:02]
SC34 Sleep and Death [22:45]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
The statue after its assembly.
Part 6:
Evolution of the Earth and Humanity
Rudolf Steiner’s penetration of the concept of evolution lays the foundation for his teachings about history, Christology, and the genesis of evil. His metamorphosis of the evolutionary picture presented by Darwin and Ernst Haeckel led Steiner to a unique formulation of the way in which species, humanity, and the earth itself undergo ceaseless development and progress.
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View Contents of Part Six
- SC35 Introduction to Steiner’s Evolutionary Picture [13:32]
SC36 Perfection and Change; Saturn and Sun Evolution [23:22]
SC37 Light and Darkness [12:49]
SC38 Moon Evolution; Angels and Dragons [15:24]
SC39 Earth Evolution; Hindrance and Evil [18:57]
SC40 Densification, Lucifer & Ahriman [18:42]
SC41 Lemuria and Atlantis [29:28]
SC42 Darwin, Haeckel, Ontogeny & Phylogeny [14:24]
SC43 The Cultural Epochs [23:23]
SC44 Ancient Initiation Rites [29:46]
SC45 The Mission of the Israelites [23:10]
SC46 The Christ Principle in Evolution, part 1 [29:13]
SC47 The Christ Principle in Evolution, part 2 [33:26]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Rudolf Steiner models the First Goetheanum.
Part 7:
Rudolf Steiner in His Time
Rudolf Steiner’s life not only exemplifies the very same seven and nine-year rhythms of which he spoke so often, but is also rich in seemingly irreconcilable polarities. This biographical study is the first one to place an emphasis on these polarities and the insightful ways in which Rudolf Steiner strove to harmonize them.
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View Contents of Part Seven
- SC48 Biography or Hagiography? Telegraphy. First clairvoyant experiences. [14:19]
SC49 Geometry. The herb gatherer. Schörer, Goethe, & Otto Specht [17:59]
SC50 First publications. Weimar. Steiner meets his Master. [12:43]
SC51 The 1890s. Berlin and intellectual life. Zionism. Despair and revelation. [13:22]
SC52 Old & new clairvoyance. Thinking as a path. First marriage. [16:28]
SC53 First spiritual lectures. The Theosophical Society. Marie von Sievers. [22:15]
SC54 Luzifer-Gnosis. “Right & left wings” of esotericism. The Esoteric School. [21:22]
SC55 Growing activities in Europe. Experiencing a lecture by Steiner. [21:30]
SC56 Development of the arts. 2nd marriage. Theosophy & Anthroposophy. [20:51]
SC57 The First Goetheanum. WW I and an international artistic community. [20:19]
SC58 Threefold Social Order. Steiner & politics. The “daughter movements.” [23:35]
SC59 Fragmentation and chaos. Anthroposophy after the Great War. [11:31]
SC60 Burning of the Goetheanum. New impulses. Ita Wegman. Steiner’s death.[35:24]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
The First Goetheanum, 1924.
Part 8:
The Path of Inner Development
Rudolf Steiner not only shared a great deal that he had discovered in his own spiritual research, but he also shared his methods, making it possible for anyone to “replicate” his investigations and findings. We look at aspects of this path in the light of Steiner’s own development and in the light of the conditions of our own time.
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View Contents of Part Eight
- SC61 Did Steiner write in stone? Living in the moment. DIY: a modern path. [16:04]
SC62 A new path? Intensification of thinking. Being in the world. [18:22]
SC63 A book is the teacher. Contemplative exercises, often misunderstood. [21:11]
SC64 “Thought” exercises. The “looking back” exercise and its ramifications. [27:21]
SC65 Do these exercises really “work”? The centrality of the etheric world. [26:41]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Drawing of the stage of the First Goetheanum.
Part 9:
The Future of Anthroposophy
“The good [that men do],” Mark Antony tells us, “is oft interred with their bones.” Steiner’s life was a whirlwind of achievement and innovation, cut tragically short. What has lived on, and what is still unfolding? We look at Anthroposophy today and prognosticate about Anthroposophy in the future from a number of perspectives.
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View Contents of Part Nine
- SC69 A half century of struggle. The future of Steiner’s books. St. Peter. [44:55]
SC70 Fahrenheit 451. The fate of esoteric teachings. The Disciples & St. Paul. [17:09]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
The Second Goetheanum.
Part 10:
Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy
These three segments are especially directed to Waldorf teachers and parents, but will be of general interest as well.
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View Contents of Part Ten
- SC66 Waldorf & its stereotypes. Steiner’s choice of faculty members. [16:23]
SC67 The Waldorf curriculum & Steiner’s teachings. Cultural conservatism. [15:19]
SC68 Child development and Anthroposophy. Dogma or courage? [12:09]
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Register for the Complete Course
- How it works: Upon registering, you will be sent a confirmation letter. The day before your 9-day course time begins, you will be sent a username and password and a link to the online course’s web page that contains links to all of the lectures. You may visit that page as often as you wish throughout your nine days online.
Waldorf-Astoria Cigarettes Pack, circa WW I.
Part 11:
Toxins and Teleology
In 2011, Eugene Schwartz was invited by Anthroposophy NYC to give a series of lectures commemorating Steiner's one hundred fiftieth birthday. This talk was the first in the series. Although the theme is the interwoven destiny of nicotine, alcohol, and Anthroposophy, the lectures extend a number of themes mentioned in earlier lectures in this course.
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View Contents of Part Eleven
- SC71 Tobacco, its history and destiny. [17:00]
SC72 The Great War; nicotine as a weapon. Emil Molt and the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory. [13:41]
SC73 Tobacco and alcohol. [15:00]
SC74 Steiner’s “Agriculture Course,” and post-War problems in the vineyards. [22:20]
SC75 Waldorf education, BD agriculture, and California's vineyards. [20:30]
Colored glass windows in the Second Goetheanum.
Part 12:
Diagrams and Videos
To accompany this course, Eugene has created a unique Interactive Timeline that places Steiner in the context of the age in which he lived. The hundreds of chronological entries reveal the historical upheaval and promise of the times in which Rudolf Steiner chose to unfold his work. You will not find a timeline like this in any other presentation of Steiner's life, whether in print or online.
You can also access three "Dynamic Diagrams" that reflect something of the mobility of Steiner's conceptual framework, as well as He has also produced a remarkable video about the colored glass windows of the First and Second Goetheanums.
You can also access three "Dynamic Diagrams" that reflect something of the mobility of Steiner's conceptual framework, as well as He has also produced a remarkable video about the colored glass windows of the First and Second Goetheanums.
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View Contents of Part Twelve
- 1. A “dynamic diagram” concerning the Nature of the Human Being.
2. A “dynamic diagram” concerning The Spiritual Hierarchies.
3. A “dynamic diagram” concerning Life After Death.
4. A video about the colored glass windows of the Goetheanum and their connection to the path of inner development.
5. An Interactive Timeline that presents Steiner's life in the context of the age in which he lived.
6. A video presenting excerpts from the Timeline with commentary by Eugene Schwartz.
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