The Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century

RUDOLF STEINER

THE OCCULT MOVEMENT IN
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
AND ITS RELATION TO
MODERN CULTURE

Ten lectures given in Dornach,
10th to 25th October, 1915

Translated by D. S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner Press
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First English Edition 1973

Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer.
In the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner the
volume containing the German texts of the following ten
lectures is entitled: Die okkulte Bewegung im neunzehnten
Jahrhundert und ihre Beziehung zur Weltkultur. (No. 2S4 in the
Bibliographical Survey, 1961.)

This English edition is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

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© 1973 by Rudolf Steiner Press, London

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The following lectures were given by Rudolf Steiner to audiences familiar with the general background of his anthroposophical teachings. He constantly emphasised the distinction between his written works and reports of lectures which were given as oral communications and were not originally intended for print. It should be remembered that certain premises were taken for granted when the words were spoken. “These premises”, Rudolf Steiner writes in his autobiography, “include at the very least the anthroposophical knowledge of Man and of the Cosmos in its spiritual essence; also of what may be called ‘anthroposophical history’, told as an outcome of research into the spiritual world.”

A list of publications in English translation relevant to the theme of the following lectures, and a summarised plan of the Complete Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works in the original German will be found at the end of the present volume.