In his autobiography
The Story of My Life
(chapters
35 and
36),
Rudolf Steiner speaks as follows concerning the character of
this privately printed matter:
“The contents of this printed matter were intended as oral
communications and not for print ...
“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 was possible, and
moreover without misgivings ... to depart from the accepted
custom of circulating these publications only among the
membership. 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 he admitted only in the case of one who has
acquired the requisite preliminary knowledge. And in respect of all
these publications, this is, at the very least, the anthroposophical
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.”
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