During
the year 1924, before his last illness in September, Rudolf Steiner
gave over eighty lectures on
Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies
to Members of the Anthroposophical Society in the following places:
Dornach, Berne, Zurich, Stuttgart, Prague, Paris, Breslau, Torquay
and London.
All
these lectures were intended to be material for study by those already
familiar with the teachings and terminology of Anthroposophy. The
following extract from the lecture of 22nd June, 1924, calls attention
to the need for exactitude when passing on such contents:
"The
study of problems connected with karma is by no means easy and discussion
of anything that has to do with the subject entails — or ought at
any rate to entail — a sense of deep responsibility. Such study is
in truth a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of
existence, for within the sphere of karma and the course it takes lie
those processes which are the basis of the other phenomena of
world-existence, even of the phenomena of nature ... These difficulty
and weighty matters entail grave consideration of every word and
every sentence spoken here, in order that the limits within
which the statements are made shall be absolutely clear ..."
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A
list of relevant literature will be found at the end of the volume,
together with a summarised plan of the Complete Edition of Rudolf
Steiner's works in the original German.
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