Richard Wagner and the New Search for the Grail

In modern culture, Richard Wagner is considered the progenitor of the new search for the Grail. In his works, he sought to restore lost spirituality, to achieve a synthesis of knowledge, religion, and art. In lectures and esoteric lessons, Rudolf Steiner, drawing on rational mysticism, investigates the spiritual content of Wagner's works and reveals the occult significance of Germanic-Scandinavian myths. He touches upon the development of the human 'I', the separation of genders and its transcendence, the mysteries of great individualities — the heroes of Wagner's musical dramas, music as a revelation of the higher world, the wisdom of the Grail.