By Rudolf Steiner

The translator is unknown.
Bn 56; GA 56; CW 56

This is a First Edition English translation of volume 56 of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Work, original title: Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes. This lecture series is also known as: Perception of the Soul and of the Spirit. These twelve of the fifteen lectures have never been translated to English, and this lecture series has not been published in English before.

The translations of Goethe's Faust were taken from: Faust I and II, edited and translated by Stuart Atkins, Princeton University Press, paperback printing 1994. Copyright © 1984 Suhrkamp/Insel Publishers, Boston, Inc.

Some translations of Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems, edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York. Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.

The quotations of the Bible follow the text of The Revised English Bible. Copyright © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1989.

This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 56, GA 56, CW 56.