Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 159
Das Geheimnis des Todes. Wesen und Bedeutung Mitteleuropas und die europäischen Volksgeister.
The Secret of Death. The Nature and Meaning of Middle Europe and the European Volk Spirits.
Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society
First German Edition published 1967.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition in this form, 1967. Reprinted 1980 with minor revisions. 3rd revised edition published 2005. Many indiviudal lectures were printed in periodicals from the 1920s to the 1940s. This edition based on stenograms made by non-professionals. For the most part only the transcription by the stengographer remains extant, the original stenogram being lost.
Lectures in this volume: 15
1915-01-31 Zurich
1915-02-19 Hannover
1915-02-21 Bremen
1915-03-07 Leipzig
1915-03-13 Nuremberg
1915-03-14 Nuremberg
1915-05-07 Vienna
1915-05-09 Vienna
1915-05-13 Prague
1915-05-15 Prague
1915-05-18 Linz
1915-06-13 Elberfeld
1915-06-15 Dusseldorf
1915-06-17 Dusseldorf
1915-06-19 Cologne
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.
Reverse Ritual
Spititual Knowledge is True Communion
Paperback, 288 pages. Published 2001 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Introduction by Christopher Schaefer. 3 lectures from GA 219, one each from GA's 54 and 159. 3 essays by other authors
A Vision for the New Millennium
Extracts from various lectures
Paperback, 132 pages. Published 1999 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Selected and introduced by Andrew Welburn. Extracts from GA's 26, 118, 136, 159, 191, 286 and 310.
Christ in Relation to Lucifer and Ahriman
1 lecture
Pamphlet, 40 pages. Published 1978 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Lecture of 18 May 1915. Translated by Peter Mollenhauer.
How Anthroposophical Groups Prepare for the Sixth Epoch
Community Above Us, Christ in Us
Pamphlet, 25 pages. Published 1957 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Lecture of June 15, 1915.
Preparing for the Sixth Epoch
Pamphlet, 22 pages. Published 1957 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Lecture of June 15, 1915. First edition 1957, reprinted 1976 and 1979.
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