Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas

On the Mystery Dramas THE PORTAL OF INITIATION and THE SOUL'S PROBATION by Rudolf Steiner THE ANTHROPOSOPHIC PRESS Spring Valley, New York

These three lectures were published in German by Rudolf Steiner Verlag in the volume entitled, Über die Mysteriendramen, Drei Vortrage. They were translated for this volume by Ruth Pusch. The quotations from Rudolf Steiner's dramas are from Four Mystery Dramas, translated by Ruth and Hans Pusch, and are used by kind permission of Steiner Book Centre, Vancouver, Canada. Copyright © 1983 by Anthroposophic Press ISBN 0-88010-060-5 Cover design by Peter van Oordt Cover photograph of the Portal of Initiation, Scene 4, stage of the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publishers, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Published in the United States of America

Dedicated to the memory of HANS PUSCH whose efforts and devotion brought about the performances of Rudolf Steiner's four Mystery Dramas for three decades here in America and also — with these performances — the English translation of the dramas.