The Principle of Spiritual Economy

The Principle of Spiritual Economy

In Connection With Questions of Reincarnation
An Aspect of the Spiritual Guidance of Man

Rudolf Steiner

Translated and Introduced by Peter Mollenhauer

The eleven lectures presented here were given between January and May of 1909. In the Collected edition of Rudolf Steiner's works, the German text is called Das Prinzip der spirituellen Okonomie im Zusammenhang mit Wiederverkorperungsfragen (GA 109).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steiner, Rudolf, 1861–1925.

The principle of spiritual economy in connection with
questions of reincarnation.

Translation of: Das Prinzip der spiritUellen Okonomie

im Zusammenhang mit Wiederverkorperungsfragen. Eleven lectures given between Jan. and May 1909. Bibliography: p.

1. Anthroposophy. 2. Reincarnation. 3. Spiritual

life. I. Title.

BP595.S894P7513 1986 299'935 86-7915 ISBN 0-88010-163-6

0-88010-162-8 (pbk.)

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