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THE KARMA OF UNTRUTHFULNESS

Volume 1

THE KARMA OF UNTRUTHFULNESS

Secret Societies, the Media, and Preparations for the Great War

Volume 1

Thirteen lectures given in Dornach and Basel between 4 and 31 December 1916

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

Translated by Johanna Collis

Rudolf Steiner Press
Hillside House, The Square
Forest Row, RH18 5ES

www.rudolfsteinerpress.com

Published by Rudolf Steiner Press 2016
Published by Rudolf Steiner Press 2005
Previous edition Rudolf Steiner Press 1988

Originally published in German under the title Zeitgeschichtliche Betrachtungen, Das Karma der Unwahrhaftigkeit, Erster Teil (volume 173 in the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe or Collected Works) by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach. This authorized translation is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach

Translation Rudolf Steiner Press 1988

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 85584 489 6

Cover design by Andrew Morgan, featuring detail from The Kaiser's Dream, The Truth, London 1890
Typeset in Great Britain

CONTENTS

Fundamental basis for forming judgements: A sense for the facts. Rudolf Kjelln, Rosa Mayreder. The political situation in Europe since the final third of the nineteenth century. On the outbreak of war in 1914: Jakob Rchti's pamphlet; Georg Brandes. Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm on human dignity.

Inattentiveness and attentiveness. The role of the secret brotherhoods. Alexander III of Russia. H. P. Blavatsky. Moriz Benedikt. The British people and the Slav peoples. The so-called testament of Peter the Great. Parallels between Britain and ancient Rome. Pan-Slavism. The predicted fall of Austria.

Current events and the spiritual world. Hermann Bahr's novel Himmelfahrt. Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassination at Sarajevo. Archduke Rudolf. The Narodna Odbrana. Contradictions in real life. The betrayal by Judas as a precondition for the Event of Golgotha.

The Narodna Odbrana. Michael Obrenovich. Russian influence in Serbia. The Brotherhood of Ten. Murder as a political weapon. Rivalry between the Obrenovich and Karageorgevich families. Draga Masin. English and French imperialism. The outbreak of the war.

The question of necessity in world events. Brooks Adams on the development of nations. Thomas More's Utopia. Charlemagne, Dante, Venice, Counter-Reformation. The unification of Italy and her relationship to Central Europe and France. The Triple Alliance. The annexation of Bosnia by Austria, the assassination at Sarajevo. 1888 and 1914.

The nature of the fifth post-Atlantean period. Utopia and Thomas More. The mystery of evolution. The western brotherhoods knowledge of the development of nations. The decadence of the Latin element and the ascendancy of the English-speaking world as the fifth sub-race. The German language and Grimm's law of sound shifts.

Aversion towards Germany. Central Europe as a reservoir of nations and a theatre of war, especially during the Thirty Years War. The concept of the state in Germany. The great German and little German options; the foundation of the Reich in 1871. Sir Edward Grey, Jaurs, Delcass, Clemenceau. The European alliances. The outbreak of war. Word and thought in the French, English, German and Russian languages. The task of the German nation. Etheric vibrations and machines. The spiritual forces for the future in the different nations: the forces of coming into being and dying away, eugenics, medicine based on spiritual knowledge. Lord Acton, Michael Faraday.

Christmas at a time of tragic destiny. Jesus and Christ. The Christ concept of Gnosis and the dogmatic creed. Loss of the Christ concept in the South resulting from the rooting-out and dying-away of Gnosis. The newly-converted heathen in the North at first fail to comprehend Jesus. The northern Mysteries of the Ingaevones. Vanir and Aesir. Worship of Hertha or Nerthus. The Anglo-Saxon rune song. The revelation from on high and peace on earth. Shouting down mankind's longing for peace.

Christmas during wartime. Gnosis. The Mystery wisdom of the Ingaevones. Baldur, Loki and Hdr. The Christmas and the Easter Mystery. Exercising influence over crowds through the misuse of atavistic forces. Delirious consciousness. Cola di Rienzi and dAnnunzio, Whitsun 1347 and 1915.

Flight from the truth. The living connection between word and reality. Christ and Jesus. The year as sacrament. Bringing together Christ-idea and Jesus-feeling. The significance of the constellations for the links between earth and cosmos. Man's angel is now mistaken for God. The story of Gerhard the Good.

Spiritual knowledge in recent history. Spiritualism as an attempt to prove the existence of a spiritual world. The destiny of H. P. Blavatsky. Christ and the individual human being. Gerhard the Good in connection with the rise of commerce. The Reformation, the Thirty Years War. Frederick, Elector Palatine, son-in-law of James I of England. The Seven Years War and the battle for India and America. Ernst August of Hanover. On the outbreak of war: Racconigi 1909, Ernesto Nathan. Bismarck and Usedom. Austria and Italy. Prezzolini on modern Italy and the benefits of war. Shouting down the idea of peace.

These are not political observations and there is no taking of sides. Knowledge alone is the aim. On the outbreak of war. The violation of Belgian neutrality. The actions of states cannot be judged morally. England and India, England and China. The Opium War.

Poisons in the social sphere. No moral judgement of historical necessities. Judgements about history change with time. How can the seeming increase in world population be understood in relation to reincarnation? The spiritual background and the consequences of the Opium War. The Chinesifying of Europe. The social carcinoma. Effect and significance of poisons. Bearer of the ego: metamorphosed poison substances of ancient Moon. Consciousness arises through the forces of decay. The healing powers of poisons: luciferic forces balanced by ahrimanic forces. The Baldur myth as an expression of how poisons work. G. S. Fullerton on Germany.

INTRODUCTION

Rudolf Steiner gave the lectures collected in this book to audiences of anthroposophists in Dornach, Switzerland throughout the month of December 1916. The lectures were taken down by a professional stenographer, Helene Finckh, who was solely authorized to do so, and as a result there is only one of the frequent gaps in the shorthand reports that mar transcriptions of Steiner's lectures in the early years of the century. These lectures are not easy, but Steiner never wanted his work to be easy; he wanted people to work at it in full, active, wakeful consciousness. There is a wealth of historical detail and individual colour heremore perhaps than in any of Steiner's work, and readers whose grasp of the history is tenuous will find the notes indispensable.

Publication history

Given the importance of the content for an understanding of the events surrounding the First World War, it is significant that these lectures were not made accessible, even in the Dornach archive, until 1948 and even then Marie Steiner decided to bring out a restricted mimeographed edition which was handed out on a personal basis only. The first German edition in book form did not come out until 1966, and the second edition (from which this translation by Johanna Collis was made) appeared in 1978 (GA 173). Vol. 2 (GA 174) was not available to the public until 1983. The first English translation of Vol. 1 was only published in 1988 (Rudolf Steiner Press, London and Anthroposophic Press, New York), 72 years after the lectures were given, and Vol. 2 did not appear in English till 1992. The two English language volumes contain

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