The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth

The Cycle of the Year
as Breathing-Process of the Earth

Five lectures given in Dornach
31 March to 8 April, 1923

by

Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophic Press
Spring Valley, New York

In the collected edition of Rudolf Steiner's works, the volume containing the German texts is entitled Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier grossen Festeszeiten. (Vol. 223 in the Bibliographic Survey). They were translated from the German by Barbara D. Betteridge and Frances E. Dawson.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Steiner, Rudolf, 1861 – 1925

The cycle of the year as breathing-process of the earth.

Translation of: Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier grossen Festeszeiten: fünf Vorträge, Dornach 31. März – 8. April 1923.

“Translated from the German by Barbara D. Betteridge and Frances E. Dawson” — T.p. verso.

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