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292. The History of Art I: Mid-European and Southern Art 15 Nov 1916, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The gradual entry of Christianity into the life of the people is also recognisable, or, rather, would be recognisable, if the dramatic representations which did, indeed, grow more and more significant toward the 13th century, had been preserved. All that we now bring to light again—the Christmas and Easter Plays, and Plays of the Three Wise Men—are of a later date, and are but a faint reflection of those earlier ones which tended to a more universal presentation of the Christian world-conception.
166. Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I 25 Jan 1916, Berlin
Translated by Pauline Wehrle

Rudolf Steiner
Today I would just like to add a few words about the following. When I was here at Christmas, I drew your attention to the fact that in our time especially, such contradictory things are emerging, that they are quite confusing for human thinking.
253. Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Address I 21 Aug 1915, Dornach
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
4 I will not discuss the matter of the “keeper of the seal” any further today; I just want to point out that her letters started coming around Christmas, mysteriously enough. It may well be that I shall have to say something about this at some point, but I really do not want to do it today.
223. Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man: Lecture III 30 Sep 1923, Vienna
Translated by Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

Rudolf Steiner
While in former periods of human evolution festivals like Christmas or Easter exerted a far-reaching influence on the entire social life and its manifestations, they have become but a faint echo of what they once meant, expressing themselves in all sorts of customs that lack all deeper social significance.
54. Esoteric Development: Inner Development 07 Dec 1905, Berlin
Translated by Gertrude Teutsch, Olin D. Wannamaker, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin

Rudolf Steiner
I have been able to give only a few indications to you about this matter. After Christmas, however, we will speak again about further and deeper things. I especially wanted to awaken in you this one understanding, that the higher life is not schooled in a tumultuous way, but rather quite intimately, in the deepest soul, and that the great day when the soul awakens and enters into the higher life actually arrives like the thief in the night.
62. Fairy Tales in the Light of Spiritual Investigation: Fairy Tales in the light of Spiritual Investigation 06 Feb 1913, Berlin
Translated by Peter Stebbing

Rudolf Steiner
This is in all probability a reference to Rudolf Steiner's friend and teacher Karl Julius Schröer (1825-1900), professor of literature at the Technische Hochschule (Institute of Technology) in Vienna, discoverer of the Oberufer Christmas Plays, and described by Rudolf Steiner as “a researcher in the style of the Brothers Grimm.” (Document of Barr, Sept. 1907.)
54. Inner Development 07 Dec 1905, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
I could only give you a few indications about that; however, we speak again about the other and deeper matters after Christmas. The one idea I wanted to wake is that the higher life develops not tumultuously but quite intimately, in the deepest soul, and that the great day when the soul awakes and enters the higher life really comes like the thief at night.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: The Goetheanum in Its Ten Years

Rudolf Steiner
On this occasion, the distinguished English educationalist decided to invite English teachers to visit the Goetheanum during the Christmas holidays. Together with a number of teachers from the Stuttgart Waldorf School, I was invited to speak again in the hall of the south wing about pedagogy, education and teaching practice.
180. Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution: Duality of the Human Being, Head and Trunk 12 Jan 1918, Dornach
Translated by Mabel Cotterell

Rudolf Steiner
And on the other hand the ‘bon Dieu citoyen’, as at Christmas we learnt to know him in Heinrich Heine's words, the ‘bon citoyen’ Jesus, who is divested of all divinity, the God of the liberal pastors and liberal priests.
186. The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times: Understand One-Another 21 Dec 1918, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
And yet, I know I am speaking in the spirit of the true Christmas peace in placing the following paradox before you. My dear friends, you know well that I am not speaking of the individual human beings but of the nations as a whole when I refer to these differentiations.

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