The Mystery of Death
GA 159
Here are fifteen lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at various cities in the first
half of the year, 1915. They are from the lecture series entitled,
The Mystery of Death (also known as The Secret of Death,
published in German as,
Das Geheimnis des Todes. Wesen und Bedeutung
Mitteleuropas und die europaeischen Volksgeister.
The translation is based on Das Geheimnis des Todes, volume 159/160
of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by
Rudolf-Steiner-Verlag, Dornach (Switzerland), second edition in 1980.
| I. | The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members |
January 31, 1915 |
| II. | The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life |
February 19, 1915 |
| III. | Spiritual Science and the Mystery of Death |
February 21, 1915 |
| IV. | The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving |
March 07, 1915 |
| V. | The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events |
March 13, 1915 |
| VI. | Moral Impulses and Their Results |
March 14, 1915 |
| VII. | Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep |
May 07, 1915 |
| VIII. | The War, an Illness Process |
May 09, 1915 |
| IX. | The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies |
May 13, 1915 |
| X. | Central Europe between East and West |
May 15, 1915 |
| XI. | Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman |
May 18, 1915 |
| XII. | Spiritual Science as an Attitude |
June 13, 1915 |
| XIII. | Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us |
June 15, 1915 |
| XIV. | Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being |
June 17, 1915 |
| XV. | Overcoming Death through Knowledge |
June 19, 1915 |
