PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The lectures printed here were
given by Rudolf Steiner to audiences familiar with the general
background and terminology of his anthroposophical teaching. It
should be remembered that in his autobiography,
The Course of My Life,
he emphasizes the distinction between his written works on the one hand,
and on the other, reports of lectures that were given as oral
communications and were not originally intended for print. For an
intelligent appreciation of the lectures it should be borne in mind
that certain premises were taken for granted when the words were
spoken. “These premises,” Rudolf Steiner writes,
“include at the very least the anthroposophical knowledge of
Man and of the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also what may be
called ‘anthroposophical history,’ told as an outcome of
research into the spiritual world.”
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