La lectura de Rudolf Steiner de "Novalis"

“The Evangelist St. Matthew Inspired by the Angel” /  Rembrandt, 1661

Queridos amigos,

This is lecture one of a four-part lecture series that I gave for friends and members on the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised and polished it a bit for distribution to a wider public, especially the more than one thousand subscribers who follow the Section work on the Section YouTube channel. As time permits, I will post the other lectures.

In this lecture I discuss the meaning and importance of “Novalis” for Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy and for the anthroposophical movement as it arose in the modernist first decade of the twentieth century. This is not a lecture on the literary Novalis, the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772 – 1801). Rather, it is a close look at the “Eternal Individuality Novalis” and how this being is absolutely foundational to Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and christology. “Novalis” is the rock on which these are founded.