The Festivals and Their Meaning

What do the festivals mean to us today? In this selection of Rudolf Steiner’s thirty most important lectures on the festivals, he identifies and illumines the true meaning behind Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Michaelmas, emphasizing both their inner-spiritual and outer cosmic aspects. He shows that the festivals are not merely the commemoration of grand events in history or the truths of Christian tradition, but are in themselves—each year—spiritual events that manifest as seasonal, natural rhythms, carrying significance that grows and deepens with the developing of human evolution.