By Rudolf Steiner

Bn/GA 195

During Christmastime of 1919 to 1920, Rudolf Steiner was in Stuttgart to celebrate the end of the first semester of the first Waldorf school and participate in its Christmas festivities. During his visit, he gave not only two courses for teachers (The Light Course and The Genius of Language), but also the five lectures for Anthroposophical Society members collected in this book.

Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. In the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner the original German text is published with the title: Weltsilvester und Neujahrsgedanken (No. 195 in the Bibliographic Survey, 1961).

This translation has been made from the original of Rudolf Steiner by permission of Harry Collison, M.A., Oxon. It is presented here with the permission of the Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.