Second Lecture

Moving on, we come to the culture which, according to the findings of spiritual science, we must describe as the culture of the intellectual or emotional soul, which developed in the fifth post-Atlantean cultural period, primarily in the area of present-day France. This culture was destined, in a more concrete sense than was previously the case, namely as was the case at some point in the Italian-Spanish culture, to take up what comes from above and, precisely through this, to bring the intellectual or emotional soul to greater development, to a certain flowering. If one wants to have a correct symbol for this culture, one would have to characterize this symbol as follows: