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300a. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Sixteenth Meeting 30 Jul 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
Steiner: I already noticed it some time ago, and mentioned it at Christmas and in February. I didn’t go into it then because it is so difficult for me, but it comes up so often, namely, that we shut people out.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Twenth-Seventh Meeting 11 Sep 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
Those who are less advanced will not be able to read A Christmas Carol. A new teacher: I think Dickens is much too difficult for this grade. Could we obtain a textbook for teaching language?
295. Discussions with Teachers: Discussion Ten 01 Sep 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by Helen Fox, Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
This was known to the people of ancient times, and that was why they placed Christmas—the time when we look for soul life—not in the summer, but during winter. “Just as a person’s soul life passes out of the body when falling asleep, and again turns inward when a person wakens, so it is also for the Earth.
261. Our Dead: Memorial speech for Sophie Stinde 26 Dec 1915, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Among the many things we may remember in these days of the Christmas season, the world's earthly motto stands before our soul above all: Revelation of divine powers in the heights And peace on earth to men, Who are of good will.
121. The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda. Twilight of the Gods. Vidar and the new Revelation of Christ 17 Jun 1910, Oslo
Translated by A. H. Parker

Rudolf Steiner
See also the lecture given by Rudolf Steiner in Basle, 12.xii.1916, entitled Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny. The Festivals and their Meaning. Vol. 1. Christmas. (Rudolf Steiner Press).
270. Esoteric Instructions: Seventh Recapitulation Lesson 20 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
My dear brothers and sisters! Since the Christmas Conference an esoteric impulse goes through the entire Anthroposophical Society, and those members of the Anthroposophical Society who have recently taken part in the general members' lectures will have noticed just how this esoteric impulse flows through all that is worked on within the Anthroposophical Movement and through all that is still to be worked on.
And through all that is connected with the impulse of the Christmas Conference, through all that has been brought forth, is the possibility of this being the kernel of the Anthroposophical Movement’s forming an esoteric school to be seen as the esoteric school inspired and guided by Michael himself.
282. Speech and Drama: The Work of the Stage From Its More Inward Aspect. Destiny, Character, and Plot. 20 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
At the opening of a play, before the plot began to unfold and reveal how character and destiny are at work there, an ‘Exclamator’, as he was called (for they used the Latin word), would come forward—rather in the way the Prologue does in our Christmas Plays—and give a kind of summary of the moral of the play. For the stage did a great deal in those days to influence social life and behaviour.
That is to say, at secular times of the year. For the Christmas Plays are survivals of the drama of destiny; in them we see destiny working in from the worlds beyond.
26. The Michael Mystery: Heavenly History, Mythological History, Earthly History. The Mystery of Golgotha
Translated by Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood, George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
[ 35 ] In the height of midsummer, Lucifer mingles his power with the Love, the Warmth of Nature. At Christmas-tide, the Divine Spirit-Beings with whom Man is from his origin united turn their power against the frozen Hate of Ahriman.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner II: Forty-First Meeting 05 Dec 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
Steiner is asked to open the new school building after Christmas. Dr.
159. Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman 18 May 1915, Linz
Translated by Peter Mollenhauer

Rudolf Steiner
The earth spirit is most awake in these twelve or thirteen days from Christmas to the Epiphany. In ancient ages when, as you know from the various presentations in my lecture series, human beings elevated themselves to a sort of dreamlike clairvoyance to reach a spiritual understanding of the world, in those ages the most favorable time for this process was summer.
A beautiful Norwegian legend2 tells us that Olaf &Åsteson, in church on Christmas Eve, falls into a sleeplike state and when he awakens on January 6 is able to relate the experiences he had in this condition.
It is her special mystery that she was born on the 6th day of January and had spent the time from Christmas to the day of Epiphany in a peculiar sleep-like state in the womb of her mother where she received her natural initiation.

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