Publisher's
Note
The
lectures printed here were given by Rudolf Steiner to audiences
familiar with the general background and terminology of his
anthroposophical teaching. It should be remembered that in his
autobiography
The Course of My Life,
he emphasizes the distinction between his written
works on the one hand, and reports of lectures on the other hand,
which were given as oral communications and were not originally
intended for print. For an intelligent appreciation of the lectures
it should be borne in mind that certain premises were taken for
granted when the words were spoken. “These premises,”
Rudolf Steiner writes, “include at the very least the
anthroposophical knowledge of man and of the cosmos in its spiritual
essence; also what may be called ‘anthroposophical
history,’ told as an outcome of research into the spiritual
world.”
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