TABLE OF CONTENTS OF "ANTHROPOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE APOCALYPS BY VALENTIN TOMBERG"

Note by the translator: See Ch. V and VI of the Contemplations for the two available chapter in this translation project with an introduction by the translator.

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A. ANTHROPOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT

Foreword by Valentin Tomberg
Foreword by Dr. Elisabeth Vreede

I. On the Nature of the Old Testament
1. The Three Principal Currents of Living Occultism
2. The Chosen People

II. The Jahweh‑Being: Its Significance in World Events and in the History of Humanity
1. Jahweh as Bearer of the Cross
2. The Mystery of the Moon
3. The Eighth Sphere
4. Jahweh in the Earth‑Process
5. The Knowledge of Jahweh

III. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
1. The Experience of the Trinity
2. Abraham’s Thought of the Father and Isaac’s Offering of the Son

IV. Jacob’s Spiritual Victory
1. The Origin of the Lie in Man and in the Cosmos
2. The Luciferic Sphere
3. Jacob’s Threefold Spiritual Victory
4. The Nature of the Twelve

V. Evil in World Karma as Reflected in the Bible
1. The Peculiarity of Daniel’s Spiritual Knowledge
2. The Trinity of Evil in the World
3. The Karma of Evil in the World According to the Prophet Daniel

VI. Spiritual Guidance in Old Testament History
1. The Birth of Conscience in Humanity
2. Buddha, Elijah, and Jesus

VII. The Karma of the People of Israel
1. The Two Main Karmic Streams in the History of Mankind
2. Jahweh and Baal in the Destiny of Israel
3. The Karmic Mission of the Elijah‑Being in Old Testament History

VIII. Moses
1. The Nature of the Wisdom of Moses
2. Moses’ Path Through the Desert

IX. David and Solomon
1. Judgeship and Kingship
2. David
3. Solomon

X. The Babylonian Captivity and the Wisdom of Zarathustra

XI. The Holy Spirit and the Working of Sophia in Old Testament History
1. The History of the Prophet Ezekiel
2. The Being and Activity of Sophia in Old Testament History

XII. Jesus of Nazareth
1. The Descent of Christ and the Jesus‑Being
2. The Jesus‑Being and the Innocent Sister‑Soul of Adam
3. The Jesus‑Being and the Nathan Jesus
4. Jesus of Nazareth as the Chalice of Christ

Appendix


B. ANTHROPOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NEW TESTAMENT

Foreword by the Author

I. The Temptations in the Wilderness
1. On the Distinction Between the Old and New Testament
2. The Solitude of the Wilderness
3. The Temptation of Humanity
4. The Temptation of Jesus Christ in the Wilderness

II. The Effects of the Temptation in the Earthly Mission of Christ Jesus and in the Destiny of Mankind
1. The Temptation in the Wilderness and the Temptation in Paradise
2. The Metamorphosis of the Inner Consequences of Humanity’s Fall Through Christ
3. The Metamorphosis of the Outer Consequences of Humanity’s Fall Through Christ

III. The Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount
1. The Fundamental Character of the Proclamation of the Kingdom by Christ Jesus
2. The Nine Beatitudes as Future Seeds of the Positive Karma of Mankind
3. The First Beatitude as the Future Path of Destiny of Mankind, Which Made the Its Physical Body Possible

IV. The First Three Beatitudes as Formulas of the Stages of Initiation‑Consciousness
1. The Nature of Intuitive Consciousness in Connection with the First Beatitude
2. The Second Beatitude as Formula of Inspired Knowledge
3. The Third Beatitude as Formula of Imaginative Knowledge

Appendix
To the Readers of the Contemplations on the New Testament

V. Soul Developmental Paths and Spiritual Paths of Destiny in Connection with the Beatitudes
1. Inner Transformations of the Soul‑Parts of Man on the Path of Christian Spiritual Schooling
2. The Spiritual Paths of Destiny According to the Last Three Beatitudes
3. The Cosmic Significance of the Beatitudes

VI. The Lord’s Prayer as Path to a Destiny-wrought Connection with the Father-God
1. The Sway of the Trinity in Human Destiny
2. General Considerations on the Lord’s Prayer as a Whole
3. The Seven Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer as Path to the New Destiny-Relationship to the Father-God

VII. The Signs and Wonders of Christ Jesus According to the Gospel of John
1. The Moral Significance of the Miracles in the Gospels
2. The Miracles as Signs and Healing Deeds

VIII. The Healing of the Man Born Blind and the Raising of Lazarus
1. The Judgment Through which the Blind See and the Seeing Become Blind
2. The Raising of Lazarus as Sign of the New Life‑Impulse from the Life‑Spirit

IX. The Passion
1. The Washing of the Feet
2. The Scourging
3. The Crowning with Thorns

X. The Higher Stations of the Passion
1. The Bearing of the Cross
2. The Crucifixion
3. The Entombment
3. The Resurrection

XI. The Mystery of Golgotha
1. The Origin of the Cosmos of Love
2. The Redemption of the Luciferic
3. The Victory over the Ahrimanic
4. The Risen One

XII. The Pentecost Event
1. The Organ of the Pentecostal Revelation
2. Sophia and the Pentecost Event
3. The Pentecost Event as Human Fulfilment of the New Testament
4. The Content of the Pentecostal Revelation and the Revelation

C. SPIRITUAL‑SCIENTIFIC CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN

I. Weight, Measure, and Number in the Spiritual History of Humanity
1. The Source of the Apocalypse of John
2. The Letters to the Churches of the Past

II. The Letters to the Churches of the Present
1. The Letter to the Angel of the Church in Thyatira
2. The Letter to the Angel of the Church in Sardis

III. The Letters to the Churches of the Future
1. The Letter to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia
2. The Letter to the Angel of the Church in Laodicea

Afterword of the German Publisher

Afterword of the Dutch Publisher

APPENDIX

THE FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION OF RUDOLF STEINER

Translator’s Preface
Foreword by the Author

1. SOME RESULTS OF THE WORK ON RUDOLF STEINER’S FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION

1. Past, Present, and Future as Portals to the Spiritual World

• The Exercise Spirit‑Recollection
• The Exercise Spirit‑Contemplation
• The Exercise Spirit‑Beholding

2.  The Cross of Space as a Streams of Revelation from the Spiritual World

• The First Stream of Revelation from the Spiritual World: The Portal of the Past
• The Second Stream of Revelation from the Spiritual World: The Portal of the Present
• The Third Stream of Revelation from the Spiritual World: The Portal of the Future

3. Summary


II. RUDOLF STEINER’S FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION AS BASIS FOR THE DEEPENING OF LIFE

Preliminary Note by Valentin Tomberg 

1. On Freedom in the Spirit as Foundation for the Development of Personality

• The Meditative Practice
• The Goethean and Spiritual‑Scientific Conception of Freedom
• The Christian Conception of Freedom
• The Oriental Conception of Freedom
• The American Conception of Freedom
• The Ideal of Freedom
• The Experience of Freedom

2. On Union in the Son as Foundation for Community-building

• The Principle of Spirit‑Founded Community
• The Supersensible Working of the Heart
• True Human Community‑Formation

3. On the Thought of the Father as Foundation for the Commonwealth of Mankind

• The Task of the Life of Knowledge
• The Primal Constitution of the Father

4. On the Task of Spiritual Science in the World

• The Task of Spiritual Science
• The Moral Word

III. RUDOLF STEINER’S FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION AS A REVELATION OF THE TRUE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE

Preliminary Note by Valentin Tomberg

1. The “Stone” of the Foundation Stone Meditation

• Man as Compendium of the Kingdoms of Nature
• The Responsibility of Man Toward the Kingdoms of Nature

2. The Dodecahedral Stone as Human Task and as Hope of the Mineral World

• The Stages of Meditation
• Microcosm and Macrocosm

3. The Work on the Dodecahedral Stone and the Future Redemption of the Mineral World

• The Dangers of Occultism
• The Twelve Streams of Revelation from the Zodiac
• The Victory over Petrification
• Persona as the New Ideal of the World

4. The Work on the Future Redemption of the Plant Realm

• The Victory over Dullness
• The Seven Moral Requirements

Bibliography of the Anthroposophical Work of Valentin Tomberg in English and German