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The Destiny of Individuals and of Nations
GA 157

Steiner started each of these lectures, given during the war years, with a verse for those who had died. He begins this volume with a consideration of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric bodies, and the prophetic nature of dreams. The last lecture takes up the question of the cosmic meaning of our sense impressions and of our thinking, feeling, and willing.

These fourteen lectures were given by Rudolf Steiner at Berlin during the years, 1914–1915, and were published in German as, Menschenschicksale und Voelkerschicksale.

Introduction
Lecture I September 01, 2024
Lecture II October 31, 2024
Lecture III November 28, 2023
Lecture IV September 01, 2024
Lecture V January 19, 2024
Lecture VI January 26, 2024
Lecture VII February 22, 2024
Lecture VIII March 02, 2024
Lecture IX March 09, 2024
Lecture X March 16, 2024
Lecture XI April 20, 2024
Lecture XII June 10, 2024
Lecture XIII June 22, 2024
Lecture XIV July 06, 2024
Original German Mantrams