Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 168
Die Verbindung zwischen Lebenden und Toten
The Connection between the Living and the Dead
Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society
First German Edition published 1968.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition in this configuration 1968. 2nd revised edition 1976, reprinted 1984. 4th revised edition published 1995. The lectures in this volume have previously been published either as single-lecture booklets (three of them) or in periodicals between 1927 and 1941. The text is based on the official stenogram from Helene Finckh. The earlier editions were based on her initial reconstruction. For later revisions the editors compared the text to the original stenogram.
Lectures in this volume: 8
1916-02-16 Hamburg
1916-02-18 Cassel
1916-02-22 Leipzig
1916-10-10 Zurich
1916-10-24 Zurich
1916-10-26 St. Gallen
1916-11-09 Bern
1916-12-03 Zurich
English Complete Works Version: This volume is available in an English Complete Works edition:
The Connection between the Living and the Dead
Paperback, 224 pages. Published 2017 by SteinerBooks.
Notes on this edition: Translated by Aria Jackson. Introduction by Christopher Bamford.
English Non-Complete Works Full Versions: No English translations exist that included this volume in its entirety.
Other English publishing history: Sections available
Sections of this German volume may have been published in English, either as stand-alone books, one-lecture pamphlets, or as part of a compilation. If there are any volumes listed below, then they have some percentage of this Complete Works volume in them. The amount could be as little as a part of one lecture (in a compilation), a single lecture or essay as a pamphlet. Or it could be a book that contains as much as 90% of the material in the source Complete Works German volume.
Staying Connected
Collection of meditations and talks 1905-1924
Paperback, 270 pages. Published 1999 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Edited and introduced by Christopher Bamford. Lectures from GA's 140, 154, 157, 168, 181, 182, 214, 237, 250, 261, 264 and 268
Spiritual Research, Methods and Results
Lecture of 10 Oct 1916
Hard Cover, 271 pages. Published 1981 by Garber Communications.
Notes on this edition: Translated by Paul M. Allen, Adam Bittleston, Michael Tapp, and Elizabeth Tapp. Lecture dates given in this volume are probably incorrect. Only 3 lectures (of 9) match a date on which Steiner is known to have given a lecture.
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