Nothing has ever been said that was not the purest result of
Anthroposophy as it developed ... Whoever reads this privately printed
matter can take it in the fullest sense as that which Anthroposophy
has to say. Therefore it has been possible, and moreover without
misgivings ... to depart from the accepted custom of circulating these
publications only among the members. But it will have to be remembered
that faulty passages occur in the transcripts which I myself did not
revise.
The right to form a judgment on the content of such privately
printed matter can be admitted only in the case of one who has
acquired the requisite preliminary knowledge. And in respect of these
publications, this is, at the very least, the knowledge of man and of
the cosmos, in so far as it is presented in Anthroposophy, and of what
is to be found as anthroposophical history in the communications
from the spiritual world.