Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation

Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation

Mystery Centres of the Middle Ages

Rudolf Steiner

Six lectures given in Dornach,
4th–13th January, 1924

First Edition 1950 (printed as Part II of the volume
entitled The Mission of Christian Rosenkreuz)

Second Edition (revised) 1965

Translated by Mary Adams from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. The text from which this translation has been made is entitled: Mysterienstätte des Mittelalters: Rosenkreuzertum und modernes Einweihungsprinzip. The lectures are included in a volume of the Complete Centenary Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner bearing the general title: Die Weltgeschichte in anthroposophischer Beleuchtung und als Grundlage der Erkenntnis des Menschengeistes (No. 233 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961).

This English edition of the following six leciures is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassuerwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

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