Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 184
Die Polarität von Dauer und Entwickelung im Menschenleben. Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
The Polarities of Duration (remaining the same) and Development in the Life of the Human Being. The Cosmic Pre-History of Humanity.
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 arrangement, 1968. 2nd revised and corrected edition 1983. 3rd revised edition published 2002. Lectures previously published as three separate books in 1941. Stenographically recorded by Helene Finckh, the first versions were printed from her initial reconstruction. The 2nd edition was revised by comparing select passages to the original stenograms, which are still extant.
Lectures in this volume: 15
1918-09-06 Dornach
1918-09-07 Dornach
1918-09-08 Dornach
1918-09-13 Dornach
1918-09-14 Dornach
1918-09-15 Dornach
1918-09-20 Dornach
1918-09-21 Dornach
1918-09-22 Dornach
1918-10-04 Dornach
1918-10-05 Dornach
1918-10-06 Dornach
1918-10-11 Dornach
1918-10-12 Dornach
1918-10-13 Dornach
English Complete Works Version: This volume is available in an English Complete Works edition:
Eternal and Transient Elements in Human Life
The Cosmic Past of Humanity and the Mystery of Evil
Paperback, 336 pages. Published 2016 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Translated and Introduced by Anna Meuss.
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.
Evil
Selected lectures
Paperback, 216 pages. Published 1997 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Published in German by Verlag Freies Geistesleben 1993, compiled and edited by Michael Kalisch
Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind
Connectionn of the Luciferic-Ahrimanic Impulses with the Christ-Jahve Impulse -- 6 lectures Dornach
Hard Cover, 124 pages. Published 1965 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: GA 184 contains 15 lectures.