By Rudolf Steiner

Translation by Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood
Bn/GA 23 and Bn/GA 330

In the social ferment of postwar Europe in 1919, Steiner presented his ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental, autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but it soon became impossible to bring about a “threefold social order” and he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as valid today as they were then.

Published in three volumes, this volume contains the Introduction to the 2nd German edition of “The Threefold Commonwealth” (vol. 23 in the Bibliographic Survey), and an address given by Dr. Rudolf Steiner at a meeting of the League for the Threefold Social Order in Stuttgart, 31st May 1919, entitled, The Impulse Towards the Threefold Order: No Utopia, but the Practical Demand of the Hour (vol. 330 in the Bibliographic Survey). This volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 330, GA 330.