By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Diane Tatum, Ruth Pusch,
Margaret Ingram deRis, and Alice Wulsin
Edited by Gilbert Church and Alice Wulsin
Bn 118.A, GA's 118, 130, 178, 182

Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The experience of Paul at Damascus will be repeated for more people. Humanity is challenged not to sleep through this event. Other related themes covered here are the etherization of the blood and the three realms of the dead.

The lectures appearing in this volume were selected from the Collected Edition of Rudolf Steiner's works in German. For complete bibliographic information, please refer to the back of the book.

These lectures are mostly from the lecture series entitled, The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World, published in German as, Das Ereignis der Christus-Erscheinung in der Aetherischen Welt. Multiple translators were involved in the translation of the lectures in this edition. Cover design by Peter van Oort.

This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 118.A, GA's 118, 130, 178, 182.