Introduction

This is a reading of Collected Works Volume 98 by Rudolph Steiner. The listeners notes of 18 lectures entitled, Nature and Spirit Beings, Their Activity in Our Visible World,. translated by Christian Fananam. This is Lecture 6, even in Cologne, the second lecture there, on the 9th of June 1908. Entitled the Huitson Festival of Joint Spiritual Striving and Working Towards Spiritualizing the World. For today's human beings, completely different conditions apply at night than during the day. People are also afflicted with a kind of plant consciousness during sleep. We can compare the state of consciousness of today's human being at night with the state of Consciousness of plants