The Festivals and Their Meaning: A compilation of 29 Lectures by Rudolf Steiner on Christmas, Easter, Ascension and Pentacost, and Michaelmas. Translation revised by Matthew Barton.

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CHRISTMAS

1. Lecture 1: The Christmas Festival: Heralding the Victory of the Sun (Berlin, 24 December 1905)

2. Lecture 2: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival (Berlin, 17 December 1906)

3. Lecture 3: The Birth of the Sun-Spirit as the Spirit of the Earth. The Thirteen Holy Nights (Hanover, 26 December 1911)

4. Lecture 4: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny (Basle, 21 December 1916)

5. Lecture 5: The Proclamations to the Magi and the Shepherds (Stuttgart, 1 January 1921)

6. Lecture 6: On the Three Magi (Lecture Extract) (Berlin, 30 December 1904)

7. Lecture 7: The Revelation of the Cosmic Christ (Basle, 26 December 1921)

8. Lecture 8: The Birth of Christ Within Us (Berlin, 27 December 1914)

EASTER

9. Lecture 9: Easter: the Festival of Warning. The Event at Damascus and the New Knowledge of the Spirit (Dornach, 2 April 1920)

10. Lecture 10: The Blood-relationship and the Christ-relationship (Dornach, 3 April 1920)

11. Lecture 11: The Death of a God and its Fruits in Humanity (Düsseldorf, 5 May 1912)

12. Lecture 12: Spirit Triumphant (Dornach, 27 March 1921)

13. Lecture 13: The Teachings of the Risen Christ (The Hague, 13 April 1912)

14. Lecture 14: Easter: the Mystery of the Future (Berlin, 13 A;pril 1908)

15. Lecture 15: Spiritual Bells of Easter I: The Macrocosmic and the Microcosmic Fire. The Spiritualisation of the Breath and of the Blood (Cologne, 10 April 1909)

16. Lecture 16: Spiritual Bells of Easter II: The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualised Fire. (Cologne, 11 April 1909)

ASCENSION AND PENTECOST

17. Lecture 17: The Whitsun Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension (Dornach, 7 May 1923)

18. Lecture 18: Whitsun: the Festival of the Free Individuality (Hamburg, Whitsunday 1910)

19. Lecture 19: World-Pentacost: the Message of Anthroposophy (Christiania, 17 May 1923)

20. Lecture 20: Whitsun: a Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego (Berlin, 6 June 1916)

21. Lecture 21: Whitsun: the Festival of United Soul-endeavour (Cologne, 7 June 1908)

22. Lecture 22: The Whitsuntide Festival. Its Place in the Study of Karma (Dornach, 4 June 1924) [and the Whitsun Verse]

MICHAELMAS

23. Lecture 23: Michael Meditation (Dornach, 28 September 1924) and The Michael Inspiration. Spiritual Milestones in the Course of the Year (Stuttgart, 15 October 1923)

24. Lecture 24: A Michael Lecture (Dornach, 13 January 1924)

25. Lecture 25: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha I (Stuttgart, 18 May 1913)

26. Lecture 26: The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha II (Stuttgart, 20 May 1913)

27. Lecture 27: Michael and the Dragon (Das Goetheanum, 30 September 1923) [a written piece]

28. Lecture 28: The Creation of a Michael Festival out of the Spirit (Extract) (Berlin, 23 May 1923)

29. Lecture 29: The Michael Path to Christ (Extract) (Stuttgart, 25 December 1919)