On Life

Episodes

• Introduction

  Episode 0 · 34:32
• Chapter 1 The essential contradiction inherent in human life

  Episode 1 · 6:50
• Chapter 2 Humanity has recognized from the earliest days the contradiction of life...

  Episode 2 · 9:04
• Chapter 3 The errors of the Scribes

  Episode 3 · 5:15
• Chapter 4 The doctrine of the Scribes substitutes the visible manifestation of man's animal existence...

  Episode 4 · 7:18
• Chapter 5 The false doctrines of the Pharisees and Scribes no more explain the true meaning of life...

  Episode 5 · 9:38
• Chapter 6 The division in the consciousness of the men of our time

  Episode 6 · 6:45
• Chapter 7 The division of consciousness proceeds from the confusion of the animal life with the human

  Episode 7 · 7:27
• Chapter 8 The division and the contradiction are only apparent: they are the consequence of false doctrine

  Episode 8 · 5:39
• Chapter 9 The birth of the true life in man

  Episode 9 · 6:13
• Chapter 10 Reason is the law recognized by man, in conformity with which his life must be perfected

  Episode 10 · 6:18
• Chapter 11 False direction of knowledge

  Episode 11 · 9:44
• Chapter 12 The cause of false knowledge is the false perspective in which objects appear

  Episode 12 · 9:01
• Chapter 13 The possibility of understanding objects increases not in proportion to their manifestation in time and space...

  Episode 13 · 10:55
• Chapter 14 The true human life is not that which is lived in time and space

  Episode 14 · 8:56
• Chapter 15 The renunciation of the wellbeing of the animal individuality is the law of human life

  Episode 15 · 7:32
• Chapter 16 The animal individuality is the instrument of life

  Episode 16 · 5:17
• Chapter 17 Birth by the Spirit

  Episode 17 · 3:25
• Chapter 18 The demands of the reasonable consciousness

  Episode 18 · 10:40
• Chapter 19 Confirmation of the demands of the reasonable consciousness

  Episode 19 · 10:22
• Chapter 20 The demands of the individuality appear incompatible with those of the reasonable consciousness

  Episode 20 · 5:30
• Chapter 21 What is required is not renunciation of our individuality but the subjugation of individuality to the reasonable consciousness

  Episode 21 · 10:01
• Chapter 22 The feeling of love is the manifestation of the activity of the individuality subjected to the reasonable consciousness

  Episode 22 · 10:01
• Chapter 23 The manifestation of the feeling of love is impossible to men who do not understand the meaning of their life

  Episode 23 · 16:54
• Chapter 24 True love is a consequence of the renunciation of the welfare of the individuality

  Episode 24 · 9:43
• Chapter 25 Love is the sole and complete activity of the true life

  Episode 25 · 7:58
• Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their existence, deprive them of the possibility of living the one true life

  Episode 26 · 7:01
• Chapter 27 The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unsolved contradiction of life

  Episode 27 · 10:06
• Chapter 28 Carnal death destroys the body limited in space and the consciousness limited in time...

  Episode 28 · 14:04
• Chapter 29 Men fear death because they have restricted life by their false conception, taking a part of life to be the whole

  Episode 29 · 7:19
• Chapter 30 Life is a relationship to the world. The movement of life is the establishment of new and loftier relationships...

  Episode 30 · 7:05
• Chapter 31 The life of men when they are dead does not cease in this world

  Episode 31 · 11:57
• Chapter 32 The dread of death proceeds from man's confusion of his different relationships to the world

  Episode 32 · 9:41
• Chapter 33 The visible life is a part of the infinite movement of life

  Episode 33 · 11:34
• Chapter 34 The incomprehensibility of the sufferings of earthly existence proves to man more convincingly than anything...

  Episode 34 · 20:40
• Chapter 35 Physical sufferings constitute an indispensable condition of the life and welfare of men

  Episode 35 · 11:30
• Conclusion

  Episode 36 · 2:44
• Appendix I

  Episode 37 · 5:24
• Appendix II

  Episode 38 · 4:23
• Appendix III

  Episode 39 · 3:30
• Appendix IV Mr. H. W. Massingham on "Life"

  Episode 40 · 16:36