The Occult Truths of Myths and Legends: Greek and Germanic Mythology; Richard Wagner in the Light of Spiritual Science CW 92. Sixteen lectures given in Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg in 1904, 1905 and 1907 (from audience notes). Translated by Paul King.

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I: GREEK AND GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY

Lecture 1. Good and Evil (Berlin, 24 June 1904)

Lecture 2. Reading the Akasha Chronicle: Wolfram von Eschenbach (Berlin, 1 July 1904)

Lecture 3. Sacramentalism: Daedalus and Icarus (Berlin, 8 July 1904)

Lecture 4. Germanic Mythology (Berlin, 15 July 1904)

Lecture 5. Reincarnation (Berlin, 22 July 1904)

Lecture 6. The Mysteries of the Druids (Berlin, 30 September 1904)

Lecture 7. The Legend of Prometheus (Berlin, 7 October 1904)

Lecture 8. The Legend of the Argonauts and the Odyssey (Berlin, 14 October 1904)

Lecture 9. The Legend of Siegfried (Berlin, 21 October 1904)

Lecture 10. The Trojan War (Berlin, 28 October 1904)

II: RICHARD WAGNER IN THE LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

Lecture 11. Wagner and the Guidance of Humanity by the Great Initiates (Berlin, 28 March 1905)

Lecture 12. From Ancient Astral Clairvoyance to Intellectual Wisdom (Berlin, 5 May 1905)

Lecture 13. Wagner and the Birth of the “I” in the Fifth Epoch (Berlin, 12 May 1905)

Lecture 14. The Impulse of Wagner toward Reunifying Art, Religion, and Science (Berlin, 19 May 1905)

Lecture 15. Parzival and Lohengrin (Cologne, 3 December 1905)

Lecture 16. Richard Wagner and His Relation to Mysticism (Nuremberg, 2 December 1907)