By Rudolf Steiner

The translator is unknown
Bn 181.2, GA 181

Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. Lectures 8 and 9 of 21 from the volume: Dying Earth and Living World/Cosmos. The volume of the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner containing the original German text of the this lecture, among twenty-one others, is entitled: Erdensterben und Weltleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewustseins-Notwendigkeiten Fuer Gegenwart und Zukunft. (No. 181 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).

Two of twelve lectures given at Berlin in the Spring of 1918. The title of this lecture series is, Dying Earth and Living World/Cosmos ..., published in German as, Erdensterben und Weltleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewustseins-notwendigkeiten fuer Gegenwart und Zukunft, (vol. 181 in the Bibliographic Survey).

Other volumes in Bn/GA 181 are:

• Earthly Death and Cosmic Life,
• Anthroposophical Life Gifts, and
• A Sound Outlook for To-day and a Genuine Hope for the Future.

This English edition of the following lecture is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 181.2, GA 181.