The three lectures presented here were given in
Berlin in December, 1904, 1905 and 1906. They were
translated from the original German by Lisa D. Monges
with emendations by Gilbert Church, Ph.D.
Copyright (c) 1969
by Anthroposophic Press, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 70-94377
This translation has been authorized for the Western
hemisphere by agreement with the Rudolf Steiner
Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Printed in the United States of America
This special edition
has been prepared to commemorate
the one hundredth birthday on January 4, 1970 of
Henry B. Monges,
Founder of the Anthroposophic Press
and its President and Manager
from 1922 to 1954.