eighth sphereachte Sphäre

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selection principle. Rudolf Steiner uses the name in three ways that the headings keep apart: in the early lectures for the sphere into which falls what can no longer evolve, in 1915 and 1916 for a sphere Lucifer and Ahriman form from earthly substance, and from 1918 for the stage beyond Vulcan that the spirits of form have reached. The eighth sphere of medieval astronomy is not listed. Texts on a separate planet of Lucifer and Ahriman that do not name the eighth sphere have their own heading.

usage. This entry lists where Rudolf Steiner's collected works (the Gesamtausgabe, GA) treat the subject. It contains no quotations: the headings, scope lines and notes are this index's wording, not Steiner's. Under each heading Steiner's own books (GA 1 to 28) come first, then articles and notes (GA 29 to 46), then lectures in date order. A text is listed when it treats the subject or the point its heading names, not when the word merely occurs. A paragraph number marks the passage that is the point, and a range of paragraphs (at most twelve) the passages that are; a reference marked whole is a chapter or lecture that treats the subject throughout. A reference with neither a paragraph nor the mark whole was listed before this rule and names the chapter or lecture without saying where in it the subject is treated; such references are being read and pinned or marked. A book's defining paragraph is also listed in German where the German edition numbers or names it differently, and so is a lecture's paragraph whose German word the translation renders loosely; the two references are one passage. A lecture with more than one English translation is listed once. Texts with no English translation are listed in German, and so are the esoteric lessons (GA 266), whose German is the original record; each reference's witnesses name every language the site serves it in. A reference marked as listeners' notes was written down by others (a listener, a newspaper, the minutes), one marked report by others is another person's account of a meeting or event, one marked mixed sources comes from a volume that holds both listeners' records and texts in Steiner's own hand, one marked stenogram rests on a shorthand transcript, and one marked record unknown is a lecture for which no evidence of how it was taken down is on record, which is not an assurance of a stenogram. One marked may be abridged is a translation shorter than the German. A lecture names the place its own heading gives, and an English reference names its translator from that lecture's own source (never another lecture's or the volume's credit) or says that no translator is on record. Read a passage before saying what it contains.

What the eighth sphere is

7

Where Rudolf Steiner says what the eighth sphere is: a sphere apart from the seven planetary stages of evolution, in each sense he gives the name.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: III. Cosmic Epochs and Conditions and their Correspondence in Human Development. The Eighth Sphere10 November 1903Berlinp006en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: V. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology II6 February 1905Berlinp036en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: XIV9 October 1905Berlinp025de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XIV9 October 1905Berlinp025en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  5. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture V18 October 1915Dornachp017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  6. GA 172 The Karma of Vocation: Lecture X27 November 1916Dornachp021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton
  7. GA 194 Michael's Mission: III. Michaelic Thinking. The Knowledge of Man as a Supersensible Being. The Michael Path and the Deepest Impulses of the Social Question23 November 1919Dornachp004en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges

Sinnett, Blavatsky and the theosophical teaching

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Where the eighth sphere of Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism and Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine is described and corrected, with why it was made public.

Lectures

  1. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution II19 October 1904Berlinp006en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  2. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture IV17 October 1915Dornachwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  3. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture V18 October 1915Dornachp033 to p037en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  4. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture VI19 October 1915Dornachp047en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  5. GA 172 The Karma of Vocation: Lecture X27 November 1916Dornachp022 to p023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton

The eighth sphere and the Moon

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Where the eighth sphere is related to the Moon: the astral sphere or cinder of the Moon, the residue of the Old Moon, the Moon set by Jahve against it.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: I. World Wisdom and Human Wisdom28 September 1903Berlinp018en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: III. Cosmic Epochs and Conditions and their Correspondence in Human Development. The Eighth Sphere10 November 1903Berlinp006en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XL. Planetary Chains30 June 1904Berlinp036en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  4. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution II19 October 1904Berlinp006en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  5. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: V. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology II6 February 1905Berlinp045en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XVIII16 October 1905Berlinp013en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  7. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture IV17 October 1915Dornachp034en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  8. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Vierter Vortrag17 October 1915Dornachp053de:originalrecord unknown
  9. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture IV17 October 1915Dornachp053 to p054en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  10. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture V18 October 1915Dornachp011 to p021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  11. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture VI19 October 1915Dornachp047en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  12. GA 172 The Karma of Vocation: Lecture X27 November 1916Dornachp022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton

Lucifer, Ahriman and the eighth sphere

3

Where Lucifer and Ahriman are said to form the eighth sphere from earthly substance wrested from the spirits of form, or Lucifer is set against it.

Lectures

  1. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture V18 October 1915Dornachp013 to p024en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  2. GA 272 Faust, the Striving Human Being: 14. Insights into the True Reality Goethe Sought10 September 1916Dornachp036en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 172 The Karma of Vocation: Lecture X27 November 1916Dornachp021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton

Free will, visions and mediums

1

Where free will turned into visionary clairvoyance, mediumship and spiritism, or a teaching stolen from its teacher, are said to pass into the eighth sphere.

Lectures

  1. GA 254 The Occult Movement: Lecture V18 October 1915Dornachwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond

What falls out of evolution

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Where what can no longer evolve is said to pass into the eighth sphere: hardened matter, the unredeemed mineral kingdom, undeveloped souls, evil cast out.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: I. World Wisdom and Human Wisdom28 September 1903Berlinp018en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: III. Cosmic Epochs and Conditions and their Correspondence in Human Development. The Eighth Sphere10 November 1903Berlinp006en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XIV. The Second Logos2 February 1904Berlinp021en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  4. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXVIII. The Principle of Correlation12 June 1904Berlinp008en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  5. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXXIX. The Fifth Root Race: Fire29 June 1904Berlinp004en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XL. Planetary Chains30 June 1904Berlinp036en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  7. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: L. The Task of the Second Half of Development11 August 1904Berlinp012en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  8. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 1. On Meditation17 August 1904Graalp014en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  9. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 3. Helpful Concepts for Understanding Ancient Legends and the New Testament19 August 1904Graalp010en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  10. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution II19 October 1904Berlinp004 to p005en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  11. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution VI31 October 1904Berlinp011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  12. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution XII10 November 1904Berlinp034en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  13. GA 93 The Temple Legend and the Golden Legend: 6. Manicheism11 November 1904Berlinp030en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by John M. Wood
  14. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: LXXIX. Past and Future Rounds30 December 1904Berlinp017en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  15. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: V. The Apocalypse and Theosophical Cosmology II6 February 1905Berlinp036en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  16. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: XXVII. The Apocalypse of John II19 March 1905Colognep026 to p027en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  17. GA 93 The Temple Legend and the Golden Legend: 11. Concerning the Lost Temple and How it is to be Restored I (In connection with the Legend of the True Cross, or Golden Legend)15 May 1905Berlinp028en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by John M. Wood
  18. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XVIII16 October 1905Berlinp013en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  19. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XII21 May 1909Oslop016en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by James H. Hindes

Spiders, mistletoe and parasitic beings

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Where insects, spiders, the mistletoe and other parasitic beings that have gone beyond their evolution are related to the eighth sphere.

Lectures

  1. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution III22 October 1904Berlinp015en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  2. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: LXXX. The Feast of the Epiphany (Three Kings)30 December 1904Berlinp045en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library

Avitchi, black magicians and the doctrine of hell

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Where the selfish soul passes through Avitchi to the eighth sphere, black magicians and the colony of Sorat dwell in it, or hell is traced to it.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXVI. On the Apocalypse II24 May 1904Berlinp034en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: XIV9 October 1905Berlinp025de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XIV9 October 1905Berlinp025en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  4. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XII21 May 1909Oslop016en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by James H. Hindes

The Asuras and the eighth sphere

1

Where the Asuras are said to strive toward the eighth sphere, condensing matter and drawing the human being down to it from the Moon.

Lectures

  1. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-01-2929 January 1907Berlinp003de:originallisteners notes

The planes of the world and the first Logos

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Where the eighth sphere is set opposite the budhi plane, or related to the first Logos, which alone takes up again what has fallen into it.

Lectures

  1. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution XII10 November 1904Berlinp033 to p036en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1906-12-1818 December 1906Berlinp006de:originallisteners notes

The eighth stage and the spirits of form

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Where the eighth sphere is the stage beyond Vulcan that the spirits of form have reached, which permeates the earth and the human organism.

Lectures

  1. GA 184 The Polarity of Duration and Development in Human Life: Third Lecture8 September 1918Dornachp021 to p022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 194 Michael's Mission: I. The Power and Mission of Michael, Necessity of the Revaluation of Many Values21 November 1919Dornachp008 to p015en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges
  3. GA 194 Michael's Mission: III. Michaelic Thinking. The Knowledge of Man as a Supersensible Being. The Michael Path and the Deepest Impulses of the Social Question23 November 1919Dornachp004 to p005en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges
  4. GA 203 Human Responsibility for Global Development: Lecture III11 March 1921Dornachp024 to p027en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

Ahriman, materialism and the will

2

Where Ahriman is said to work on the human will and organism from the eighth sphere, and those who deny the spiritual world reach into it unaware.

Lectures

  1. GA 184 The Polarity of Duration and Development in Human Life: Third Lecture8 September 1918Dornachp032 to p033en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 194 Michael's Mission: III. Michaelic Thinking. The Knowledge of Man as a Supersensible Being. The Michael Path and the Deepest Impulses of the Social Question23 November 1919Dornachp015 to p016en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges

A separate planet of Lucifer and Ahriman

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Where Lucifer and Ahriman, or their hosts, aim to draw souls away from the earth to a planet or sphere of their own, in a text not naming the eighth sphere.

Books

  1. GA 17 The Threshold of the Spiritual World: VI. Concerning the Astral Body and the Luciferic Beings; and the Nature of the Etheric Bodyp002en:GPP1922no translator on record

Lectures

  1. GA 171 Goethe and the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century: 2. The Influence of Luciferic and Ahrimanic Beings on Historical Development. The clear Perception of the Sensory World and Free Imaginations as the Task of Our Time. Genghis Khan and the Discovery of America17 September 1916Dornachp007en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton
  2. GA 171 Goethe and the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Atlantean Impulses in the Mexican Mysteries. The Problem of Natural Urges and Impulses, The Problem of Death24 September 1916Dornachp010 to p011en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton
  3. GA 346 Lectures on Christian Religious Work V: Lecture XVIII22 September 1924Dornachp011en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record

distinguish from. the Moon, which Sinnett called the eighth sphere; Steiner calls this a materialistic error, the material Moon being the counterweight placed against the eighth sphere (GA 254 of 17 October 1915; GA 172 of 27 November 1916); hell, the doctrine the religions formed from the concept of the eighth sphere, to which the souls that pass through Avitchi go (GA 93a of 9 October 1905); the eighth sphere of medieval astronomy, the heaven of the fixed stars or the boundary of space beyond the seven planetary spheres, which Giordano Bruno showed to be no boundary (GA 15, chapter III; GA 323 of 3 January 1921).

see also. Lucifer; Ahriman; the Asuras; Sorat; evil; the spiritual hierarchies.

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