Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher

Contents About This Edition Introduction by Christopher Schaefer, Ph.D. PART ONE Terms and Conditions of Life in the Anthroposophical Society LECTURE ONE Dornach, September 10, 1915 Requirements of Our Life Together in the Anthroposophical Society LECTURE TWO September 11, 1915 The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being LECTURE THREE September 12, 1915 Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering Spiritual Worlds LECTURE FOUR September 13, 1915 Methods and Rationale of Freudian Psychoanalysis LECTURE FIVE September 14, 1915 Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer LECTURE SIX September 15, 1915 The Concept of Love as it Relates to Mysticism LECTURE SEVEN September 16, 1915 The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being PART TWO Documentation on the Dornach Crisis of 1915 with Two Addresses by Rudolf Steiner I. The Protagonists 107 Letter from Alice Sprengel to Rudolf Steiner undated, received December 25, 1914 109 Letter from Alice Sprengel to Rudolf Steiner Arlesheim, February 3, 1915 111 Letter from Alice Sprengel to Marie Steiner (Excerpt) Undated, received August 21, 1915 115 Letter from Mary Peet to Alice Sprengel Arlesheim, October 1915 117 II. Address by Rudolf Steiner, August 21, 1915 123 Letter from Heinrich and Gertrud Goesch to Rudolf Steiner (read by Steiner), Dornach, August 19, 1915 123 Letter from the members in Dornach to Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, August 21, 1915 142 III. Address by Rudolf Steiner, August 22, 1915 144 IV. Resolving the Case 169 Letter from the members in Dornach to Marie Steiner 169 Letter from the Vorstand of the Anthroposophical Society to Heinrich and Gertrud Goesch and Alice Sprengel (announcement of expulsion), Dornach, September 23, 1915 171 Marie Steiner's Address to the Women's Meeting Dornach, September 24, 1915 171 Letter from Marie Steiner to Julia Wernicke Dornach, September 29, 1915 177 Notes 178 Publisher's Note 191