Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 157a
Schicksalsbildung und Leben nach dem Tode
The Formation of Destiny and the Life After Death
Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society
First German Edition published 1919.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition 1919. 2nd expanded edition 1960. 3rd expanded edition 1981. Lectures were stenographically recorded by Hedda Hummel and Helene Finckh, who appear to have collaborated on producing the reconstructed text. Only one stenogram remains extant, as does both initial reconstructions. Originally "Cycle 40".
Lectures in this volume: 7
1915-11-16 Berlin
1915-11-18 Berlin
1915-11-20 Berlin
1915-12-07 Berlin
1915-12-14 Berlin
1915-12-19 Berlin
1915-12-21 Berlin
English Complete Works Version: This volume has yet to be published in a Complete Works edition.
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.
The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death
6 lectures
Hard Cover, 80 pages. Published 1927 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..
Notes on this edition: GA 157a has 7 lectures in German edition.
The Christmas Thought and the Mystery of the Ego
A Christmas lecture by Rudolf Steiner: Berlin, December 19, 1915
Pamphlet, 30 pages. Published by Mercury Press.
Notes on this edition: