The Cosmic Year

By Rudolf Steiner
5 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 18, 1919–Jan. 1, 1920 (CW 195)
Lectures can be read, downloaded or printed from Rudolf Steiner Archive & e.Lib.
The Cosmic New Year book can be purchased at SteinerBooks.

During Christmastime of 1919 to 1920, Rudolf Steiner was in Stuttgart to celebrate the end of the first semester of the first Waldorf school and participate in its Christmas festivities. During his visit, he gave not only two courses for teachers (The Light Course and The Genius of Language), but also the five lectures for Anthroposophical Society members collected in this book.

As with all of Steiner’s lectures given around the Holy Nights, these jewel-like lectures are both inspiring and sobering. The Archangel Michael is once again the “world regent.” He shows us a new path to Christ and to the spirit world, calling on us to create new relationships to spiritual realities. Yet, inertia or lack of will, materialism, and powerful opposing forces make his and our task more difficult. World War I had ended, but peace was still a distant hope. Prescient to our own moment, these stirring lectures are more relevant than ever, still inspiring a call to arms.

There are five lectures in this series. We will read the first lecture independently prior to our December 26 Holy Nights gathering. We will be meeting four times during the Holy Nights to read and discuss these lectures.

Thursday, Dec. 26 - 7:00pm - Location: Santa Fe
Sunday, Dec, 29 - 7:00pm - Location: Santa Fe
Thursday, Jan. 2 - 7:00pm - Location: Santa Fe
Sunday, Jan. 5 - 2:00pm - Location: Albuquerque*

*Location details for Jan. 5 in Albuquerque: Michael Alberts and Amy Upperman; 505-440-6097 [Map]