num_pages: 143
description: "If we wish to understand the inner life of an individual we must study the soul as well as the body, and if we desire to gain real insight into national characteristics we must explore the psychic and spiritual element underlying them. This psychic and spiritual element, however, reflects not merely the activity of individual human souls working in concert, but has its origin in a higher order.... Either one must seek a basis for the psychology of peoples in a spiritual reality or one must abandon such a psychology in total."—Rudolf Steiner According to spiritual teachings, each "folk"—each race or ethnic group—has a kind of over-soul that interacts with those people, lending them unique characteristics that affect the karma and destiny of tribes, races, and nations. These lectures explore the nature and activities of the various folk souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern world.
language: English
title: The mission of folk-souls (in connection with Germanic-Scandinavian mythology): A course of eleven lectures given at Oslo, Norway in June 1910
titlecomplete: The mission of folk-souls (in connection with Germanic-Scandinavian mythology): A course of eleven lectures given at Oslo, Norway in June 1910
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Spiritual Research Editions