For further study of different themes
taken up in this volume — Rudolf Steiner spoke
about many of them in detail, particularly also at
Dornach, see the list below, though no claim is made for
completeness; GA represents ‘Rudolf Steiner
Gesamtausgabe’ (Collected Works of Rudolf
Steiner). The list also includes other lectures and
courses given at the beginning of the war, to convey an
impression of the tremendous scope of Rudolf Steiner's
work at that time.
For a good account in English of the
trial of Joan of Arc and a translation of her evidence
see A.E. Jones: The Trial of Joan of Arc (Barry
Rose (Publishers) Ltd. 1980). See Joan's reply to Article
22 of the seventy charges made against her.
1
See Rudolf Steiner, Der Baugedanke des
Goetheanum (GA 290). In English as The
Architectural Conception of the Goetheanum Rudolf
Steiner Press (London) and Anthroposophic Press (New
York) 1938.
2
See Rudolf Steiner, Wege zu einem neuen
Baustil (GA 286). In English as
Ways to a New Style in Architecture.
Anthroposophical Publishing
Co., London, and Anthroposophic Press (New York)
1927.
3
Rudolf Steiner had given a first aid course in Dornach
from 13 to 16 August 1914.
4
The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls in Relation to Teutonic Mythology Christiania
1910 (GA 121)
5
Lecture given on 29 October 1914 entitled
‘Goethes Geistesart in unsern schicksalsschweren
Tagen und die deutsche Kultur’ in Aus
schicksaltragender Zeit (GA 64). In The
Dramatic Art of the Goethenaum I (tr. L. Dreher)
London: Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. 1936.
6
Rudolf Steiner, ‘Der Dornacher Bau als
Wahrzeichen geschichtlichen Werdens und kiinstlerischer
Umwandlungsimpulse’ (1914) Dornach 1937 (Proposed
for GA 287).
7
Rudolf Steiner, Die Rätsel der Philosophie in ihrer Geschichte
als Umriss dargestellt. (GA 18)
Riddles of Philosophy.
Tr. F. Koelin. Anthroposophic Press,
1973.
8
‘Goethe's Theory of Colours’ in Goethes
Naturwissenschaftliche Schrifien, hersg. und
kommentiert von Rudolf Steiner ( GA 1c).
9
Soloviev, Vladimir: Gesammelte Werke
(Collected Works), tr. Harry Kohler, with an
introduction by Rudolf Steiner; Stuttgart 1921. Also
Gedichte von Wladimir Solovjeff tr. by Marie
Steiner, 2nd edn (Dornach 1949).
10
Santa Sophia. the Great Church of the Holy Wisdom,
principal church of Constantinople, Built by Justinian
in 532 –7, it was converted into a mosque when
Constantinope fell to the Turks in 1453
(translator).
11
The German verb handeln means both ‘to
act, to take action’ and ‘to trade’
(Translator).
12
Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Der Antnarsch des
Pöbels (Tr. H. Horschelmann) Munich &
Leipzig 1907.
13
First Principle: When he established the
Anthroposophical Society in 1912/1913, Rudolf Steiner
formulated the First Principle as follows: ‘The
Society provides for all people to work together in
brotherhood who consider the basis of their work
together in love to be a common spiritual element that
is in all human souls, irrespective of differences of
creed, nationality, class, sex, etc.’
14
In the
Bhagavad Gita.
See also lecture of 1 September 1914.
15
Lectures given on 26 November 1914 (‘Die
Menschenseele in Leben und Tod’) and 27 November
1914 (‘Die Seelen der Volker’) both in
Aus schicksaltragender Zeit (GA 64). The
Human Soul in Life and Death (tr. V.
Compton-Burnett, C. Davy, D.S. Osmond and K. Wegener)
London, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. 1935 and The
Soul of the People (tr. not mentioned) London,
Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. 1934.
16
Heraclitus (c. 540–480 BC), Greek philosopher of
Ephesus: Fragment B53 in H. Diels Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker, Vol. I.
17
Constantine I (the Great) (274 –337), Roman
emperor 306-337 (sole ruler from 323). Victory over
Maxentius at Pons Milvius, a bridge crossing the Tiber
to the north of Rome, in 312. See also the lecture
given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach on 30 January 1915
in Wege der geistigen Erkenntnis und der Erneuerung
künstlerischer Weltanschauung (GA 161).
18
Julianus Apostata (Flarius Claudius Julianus)
(331–363), Roman Emperor 361–363.
19
See Matthew 28:6; Mark 16:6; Luke 24:5,6.
20
Lecture given on 14 January 1915 ‘Die germanische
Seele und der deutsche Geist vom Gesichtspunkte der
Geisteswissenschaft’ (GA 64).
21
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Die Erziehung des
Menschengeschlecthtes (1780) paragraph 98:
‘Why should I not return as
often as I am sent to gain new knowledge, new skills?
Do I carry off so much at one go that it is not worth
the effort to return?’
22
See Rudolf Steiner, Geisteswissenschafiliche
Erläuterringen zu Goethes ‘Faust’
(Vol. I ‘Faust, der strebende Mensch’; Vol.
2 ‘Das Faust-Problem’ (GA 272 and 273).
Engl. GA 272 in part translated and published in
different books and journals: GA 273.
The Problem of Faust
in R Series of typescript lecture courses
at Rudolf Steiner Library, London.
23
See J. P. Eckermann, Gespräche mit Goethe in
den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, 6 June 1831:
‘And of course you'll admit
that the conclusion, where the soul which has been
saved is taken upwards, was very difficult to do.
With something so noumenal, scarely to be intuited, I
could so easily have ended up in vagueness, but I
used the sharply defined figures and concepts of the
Christian church to give my poetic intentions the
much needed form and consistency.’
24
Anatole France, Vie de la Jeanne d 'Arc (49th
edn, 2 Vols.) Paris 1927.
25
Friedrich Schiller, 3rd verse of the poem Das
Mädchen von Orleans (The Maid of
Orleans).
26
See also Rudolf Steiner, ‘Welten-Neujahr —
Das Traumlied von Olaf Asteson’, Dornach 31
December 1914, in Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit
der elementarischen Welt (GA 158). In English as
extract ‘World New Year’ in
Anthroposophical News Sheet 14: 1, 2.
27
See, above all, Rudolf Steiner's lectures on 18 and 20
May 1913 in Vorstufen zum Mysterium von
Golgotha (GA 152). In English, Michaelmas
— The Festivals and Their Meaning (London)
Anthroposophical Publishing Co. 1957. Lecture of 18 May
also as typescript translation Z 136, ‘The
Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha’ in
Rudolf Steiner Library, London.
28
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c.1327).
Johannes Tauler (c.1300 –c.1361).
Jakob Boehme (1575 –1624).
Angelus Silesius (Johannes Scheffler)
(1624–1677). Concerning the above mystics, see
Rudolf Steiner: Die Mystik im Aufgange des
neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur
modernen Weltanschauung (GA 7). In English as
Eleven European Mystics (tr. K. Zimmer) (New York)
Rudolf Steiner Publications 1971.
29
Rudolf Steiner: Goethes Geistesart in ihrer
Offenbarung durch semen Faust und durch das Marchen von
der Schlange und der Lille (GA 22). In English as
The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethes World Conception
(tr.O.D. Wannamaker) (New York &
London) Anthroposophic Press and Rudolf Steiner
Publishing Co. 1940.
30
Rudolf Steiner, ‘Die Pforte der Einweihung’
in Vier Mysteriendramen (GA 14). In English as
‘The Portal of Initiation’, in the
Mystery Plays/Dramas
tr. A. Bittleston/R. and H.
Pusch.
31
Rudolf Steiner was referring to the eastern part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. Transylvania (Siebenbuergen)
is now part of one of the successor states —
Rumania (translator).
32
The Banat lies just south-west of Transylvania and
north of the Danube, in Yugoslavia and Rumania
(translator).
33
Henri Bergson (1859–1941). See ‘La
Signification de la Guerre’ in Pages Actuelles
1914/15 Paris 1915.
34
O. Binswanger: Die Seelischen
Wirkungen des Krieges in the series of political
pamphlets entitled Der Deutsche Krieg.
Stuttgart and Berlin 1914.
35
Copernicus, Nicolas (1473–1543).
36
Rudolf Steiner was using irony here, referring to a
rumour. Franz Joseph died on 21 November 1916.
37
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831). See
Phänomenologie des Geistes (VIb); Die
Aufkärung (Phil. Bibl. Bd. 114, Leipzig 1907
p.358).
38
Lina Grosheintz-Rohrer. See Rudolf Steiner: Unsere
Toten (GA 261), address given in Basle on 10
January 1915.
39
Sybil Colazza. See Unsere Toten (GA 261),
address given in Basle on 10 January 1915.
40
‘Time here turns into space.’ —
Gurnemanz in Parcifal, Act 1.
41
See Rudolf Steiner: Unsere Toten (GA 261),
address given in Basle on 5 February 1915.
42
Mach, Ernst (1838 –1916): Analyse der
Empfindtuigen und das Verhaltnis des Physischen vim
Psychischen Jena 1900, p 3.
43
Rudolf Steiner: Inneres Wesen des Menschen und
Leben zwischen Tod und newer Geburt (GA 153),
1914. English translation of some of the lectures in
The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and a New Birth
(tr. D.S. Osmond and C. Davy) (London)
Anthroposophical Publishing Co., 1959.
44
The child in question was Theo Faiss. See Rudolf
Steiner: Unsere Toten (GA 261), address given
in Dornach on 10 October 1914.
45
According to Leibniz, monads are the ultimate
substantial constituents of the world and these must be
unextended and therefore mental or spiritual by nature.
God and human souls are considered monads in this
philosophy. (Translator).
46
Rudolf Steiner, Geist-Erkenntnis in gliicklichen und
ernsten Stunden des Lebens. Berlin, 15 January 1915. In
Aus schicksaltragender Zeit (GA 64). In
English, extract in Anthroposophical News Sheet
14:37-8.
47
In the second of the available records (very detailed
notes), this passage reads:
‘We do not have physical
awareness of our birth, yet during the second half of
our period in the spiritual world we long for birth,
feeling it to be a necessity if we are to achieve our
human ideal. In the same way, death appears to man as
the most beautiful thing in the spiritual worlds,
because an awareness, a knowledge emerges in us when
we are there that death is the great one who
resurrects us into the spiritual world.’
See also Rudolf Steiner's approach
to the subject of birth and death on 16 November 1915,
again in Berlin, in: Schicksalsbildung und Leben
nach dem Tode (6 lectures) (GA 157a). In English as:
The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
Ed. H. Collison) (London) Anthroposophical
Publishing Co., 1927.
48
It appears that the theme was not taken up again in
this form and that none of the audience returned to it
either. For a consideration of the subject from a
different point of view. sec the lectures given by
Rudolf Steiner in Dornach on 17 December 1920 in
Die Brücke zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit and
dem Physischen des Menschen, GA 202 (Engl.
The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man,
trs. not mentioned: New York:
Anthroposophic Press 1958) and on 13 January 1924 in
Mysterienstätten des Mittelalters. GA
233a (Engl.
Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation,
trs. Mary Adams. London: Rudolf Steiner Press 1965).
49
Mosen. Julius (1803–1867): Ritter Wahn
published in 1831 (due to the interest created by
Rudolf Steiner. a new edition was published by Der
Kommende Tag AG, Stuttgart in 1921). Ahasver
published in 1838.
50
von Auffenberg. Joseph (1798–1857).
Alhambra, an epic work in dramatic form,
appeared in 1828–1830 in 3 volumes.
51
Goethe: Zahme Xenien III.
52
Fechner, Gustar Theodor (1801–1887): Beweis,
dass der Mond aus Jodin besteht 2nd edn. Leipzig
1932. [Jodin appears to be a spoof word made
up by Dr Fechner — it could perhaps be rendered
into English as ‘iodene’. (Translator)]
53
Berlin, 26 February 1915: ‘Was ist am Menschen
sterblicht?’ in Aus schicksahragender
Zeit (GA 64). In English. 'Etheric Man within
Physical Man' typescript Z185 (tr. not mentioned).
54
Letter of 13 September 1870 in Strauss D.
Gesammelte Schrifien, (Bonn 1876 –78)
Vol. I, p.311f.
55
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), German
idealist philosopher.
56
I Corinthians 15: 14.
57
See, for example, the lectures Rudolf Steiner gave (a)
in Augsburg on 14 March 1913 and (b) in Stockholm on 8
June 1913, both in Die Welt des Geistes and ihr
Hereinragen in das physische Dasein (GA 150). In
English as (a) ‘The Interactivity of the Good
Progressive Powers and of the Retarding Forces —
The Significance of These Truths for Teachers’ in
Anthroposophical News Sheet 16:45-8 (NSL 398) (tr. not
mentioned); and (b) ‘Nature and Spirit in the
Light of Spiritual Scientific Knowledge’ in
Anthroposophical News Sheet 3:42-4 (NSL 147) (tr. not
mentioned).
58
This is a subject frequently referred to, e.g. in the
following lectures: (a) Nuremberg, 23 June 1908, in
Die Apokalypse des Johannes (GA 104); in
English as
The Apocalypse of St. John
(tr. Johanna Collis) (London) Rudolf Steiner Press 1977; (b)
Kassel 6 and 7 July 1909 in Das
Johannes¬Evangelium im Verhaltnis zum den drei
anderen Evangelien, besonders zu dem
Lukas-Evangelium (GA 112); in English as
The Gospel of St. John in Relation to the Other Three Gospels, Particularly to the Gospel of St. Luke
(tr. S. and L. Lockwood) Anthroposophic Press, New York
and Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1948.
59
Steiner, Rudolf: Aus der Akasha-Chronik, 1904
(GA 11); in English as
Cosmic Memory: Atlantis and Lemuria
(tr. Karl E. Zimmer) Rudolf Steiner
Publications, New York 1971. Die
Geheiniwissenschafi im Umriss, 1910 (GA 13); in
English as
Occult Science: An Outline
(tr. G. and M. Adams) Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1969.
60
Steiner, Rudolf: ‘Die Erziehung des Kindes vom
Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft’ (1907) in
Lucifer-Gnosis: Grundlegende Aufsatze zur
Anthroposophie aus den Jahren 1903–1908 (GA
34): in English as
The Education of the Child In the Light of Anthroposophy
(tr. M. and G. Adams) Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1975.
61
von Schubert, Gotthelf Heinrich: Die Symbolik des
Traumes (Leipzig 1840) S. 10 f
62
See also Rudolf Steiner: Der Baugedanke des
Goetheanum (GA 290).
63
15 April 1915: ‘Der Schauplatz der Gcdanken als
Ergcbnis des deutschen Idealismus’ (incomplete
set of notes. unpublished).
64
Rudolf Steiner: Goethes Geistesart in ihrer
Offenbanmg durch seinen Faust und durch das Marchen von
der Schlange und der Lilie (GA 22): in English as
Goethe's Standard of the Soul
(tr. D.S. Osmond) Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London 1925.
See also note 22.
65
Rudolf Steiner in his lecture ‘Das Weltbild des
deutschen Idealismus’, Berlin. 22 April 1915. in
Arts schicksaitragender Zeit (GA 64) p. 431 ff.
66
Faust 1, verse 498.
67
Faust 1 verses 512-13.
68
This probably refers to verse 527 in Goethe's
Urfaust:
‘He acts as though he were a
prince's son.
If Lucifer had a dozen of such princes,
they'd be sure to bring something in for
him.’
69
Faust 1, verses 3456-8.
70
Faust 1, verse 357
71
Faust 2, verse 8326
72
Faust 2, verse 8330
73
Faust 2, verse 6855-6
74
Nietzsche: Also spach Zarathustra (In English
Thus Spake Zarathustra), Vorrede, 3 and 4:
also Part 3 'Der Genesende'.
75
See Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe. 6
December 1797. Goethe had already communicated to
Schiller on 22 June of that year that he intended to
complete his Faust and Schiller furthered the project
by showing continued interest.
76
Reproduced in the commemorative edition. Die
Faustdichtungen, Paralipomena Vol. 5, p. 541
(Artemis, Zurich 1949).
77
The lecture notes do not include the mantram which
Rudolf Steiner usually spoke in those days.
78
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82) American
philosophic writer and essayist. Quotes taken from his
Essays and Poems Collins, London & Glasgow
1954.
79
Yushakov, Seigel (1849–1910): Der
Englisch-Russische Konflikt Ptersburg, 1885.
80
Ormazd (German spelling ‘Ormuzd)’ is
equivalent to Ahura Mazda (translator).
81
Hebbel, Friedrich (1813-63): Tagebücher
No. 1335:
‘The transmigration of souls
makes it possible for Plato to be getting a thrashing
at school today because he is unable to grasp
Plato.’
82
See the lectures given in Berlin on 16 and 23 December
1904, in Die Tempellegende and die goldene
Legende (GA 93); in English as
The Temple Legend
Or. John M. Wood) Rudolf Steiner Press.
London 1985.
83
Mark 13:31.
84
Rudolf Steiner was probably referring above all to the
works of Charles Webster Leadbeater (1847
–1934).
85
Rudolf Steiner: Wie erlangt man Kenntnisse der
höheren Welten? (GA 10); in English as
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds: How is it Achieved?
(tr. not mentioned) Rudolf Steiner
Press. London 1976.
86
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Reden an die deutsche
Nation: Nr. 7 (Addresses to the German Nation No.
7) (Berlin 1808).
87
di Rienzi, Nicholas (or Cola) (c. 1313–1354),
Tribune of the People at Rome. See Robert Davidssohn:
‘Vom Mittelalter zu unscren Tagcn’ in
Süddeutsche Monatshefte 12: 121.
1915.
88
d'Annunzio. Gabriele (1863–1938). Italian poet,
airman and politician. For his address at the
dedication ceremony, see Süddeutsche
Monatshefte 12: 498, 1915. The widely held view
that his real name was Rapagnetta was based on the fact
that his father's name had originally been Rapagnetta.
though he was adopted by someone called d'Annunzio when
still a child.
89
At a later date Rudolf Steiner changed the line
‘Dich. tönend von Lob and Macht’ to
‘Dich, tönend von Licht und Macht’
(‘Thee ringing with praise and power’ to
‘Thee ringing with light and power’). See
Wahrspruchworte—Richtspruchworte.
Dornach 1951 ( proposed GA 41).