Reincarnation and Karma in the Work of Rudolf Steiner

Reincarnation and Karma in the Work of Rudolf Steiner
Study Week: 28 July to 1 August 2025

The knowledge of reincarnation and karma is a question that today moves more and more people existentially. Since 1903, Rudolf Steiner has worked on this theme in lectures, in the written works Theosophy and An Outline of Esoteric Science, and artistically in the Mystery Dramas. In 1924 he intensified the presentation of his research results in over 80 lectures.

From the perspective of the knowledge of reincarnation and karma, life is not a product of chance but a fabric formed by karmic preconditions that can be recognised with the help of meditative exercises. The human being’s origin from cosmic expanses, his rooting in earlier cultures and the task of destiny that places him in particular human relationships and community contexts are life riddles that are to be taken up as tasks of knowledge in the age of the consciousness soul. As Rudolf Steiner’s last address on 28 September 1924 shows, the engagement with the theme of reincarnation and karma contains a legacy of Rudolf Steiner. An acknowledgement and concretisation of the fact of reincarnation and karma makes it possible to arrive at a completely changed understanding of one’s own life and destiny. The encounter with anthroposophy and the life of the Anthroposophical Society can in this sense be experienced as a riddle and at the same time as a task. This riddle is to be made one’s own out of the presence of mind and made fruitful for the future.

In the Study Week we would like to approach this central theme together with you through lectures, working groups, workshop performances, conversations and exercises.