Rudolf Steiner Complete Works: Volume 177: The Spiritual Background of the Outer World. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness. Spiritual Beings and Their Effects, Volume 1.

The Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 177

Die spirituellen Hintergründe der äußeren Welt. Der Sturz der Geister der Finsternis. Geistige Wesen und Ihre Wirkung Band I

The Spiritual Background of the Outer World. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness. Spiritual Beings and Their Effects, Volume 1.

Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society

First German Edition published 1966.

Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition in this arrangement, 1966. Reprinted 1968, 1977, 1985. 6th revised edition 1999. The first 8 lectures were published as a book in 1933. The last 6 lectures as a book in 1935. Professionally stenographically recorded by Helene Finckh. Text based on her initial reconstruction.

Lectures in this volume: 14

1917-09-29 Dornach
1917-09-30 Dornach
1917-10-01 Dornach
1917-10-06 Dornach
1917-10-07 Dornach
1917-10-08 Dornach
1917-10-12 Dornach
1917-10-13 Dornach
1917-10-14 Dornach
1917-10-20 Dornach
1917-10-21 Dornach
1917-10-26 Dornach
1917-10-27 Dornach
1917-10-28 Dornach

English Complete Works Version: This volume has yet to be published in a Complete Works edition.

English Non-Complete Works Full Versions: There are one or more pre-Complete Works full-volume translations:

The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness

Paperback, 240 pages. Published 1993 by Rudolf Steiner Press.

Notes on this edition: The German volume was revised and expanded in 1999; this translation is of the earlier edition.

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.

Nature Spirits

8 Lectures

No Cover Available

Paperback, 192 pages. Published 1995 by Rudolf Steiner Press.

Notes on this edition: From GA's 102, 110, 136, 147, 177, 212, 230 and 243; Collection of lectures compiled by Wolf-Ulrich Kluenker, original published by Verlag Freies Geistseleben 1992