Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 228
Initiationswissenschaft und Sternenerkenntnis. Der Mensch in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft vom Gesichtspunkt der Bewußtseinsentwickelung
The Science of Initiation and the Knowledge of the Stars. The Human Being in the Past, the Present, and the Future from the Point of View of the Development of Consciousness
Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society
First German Edition published 1964.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition in this arrangement, 1966. Reprinted 1985. Previously published in serial form in a periodical 1962-63. The Dornach and London lectures wereProfessionally stenographically recorded by Helene Finckh. The stenographer for the Stuttgart lecture is unknown. The text is based on the initial typed reconstructions.
Lectures in this volume: 9
1923-07-27 Dornach
1923-07-28 Dornach
1923-07-29 Dornach
1923-09-02 London
1923-09-10 Dornach
1923-09-14 Stuttgart
1923-09-15 Stuttgart
1923-09-16 Stuttgart
English Complete Works Version: This volume is available in an English Complete Works edition:
Initiation Science
and the Development of the Human Mind
Paperback, 216 pages. Published 2017 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Translated 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.
The Druids
Esoteric Wisdom of the Ancient Celtic Priests
Paperback, 78 pages. Published 2001 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Pocketbook edited by Andrew Welburn. Excerpts from GA's 227, 228 and 232
Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the British
Lectures and Adresses in England and Wales -- compilation
Paperback, 303 pages. Published 1998 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Lecture of 2 Sept. 1923
Man as a Picture of the Living Spirit
Pamphlet, 27 pages. Published 1972 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Indicated as second edition, 1972 with a 1972 copyright. Translator and changes over the first edition are not indicated.
Man in the Past, the Present and the Future
Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science : 4 lectures Stuttgart, Dornach
Paperback, 82 pages. Published 1966 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Translator not named.
Man as a Picture of the Living Spirit
Pamphlet, 27 pages. Published 1952 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..
Notes on this edition: Lecture of September 2, 1923. Translated by George Adams.
The Descent of the Spirit - Gaining a Relationship to the Dead
Man as an Image of spiritual Beings and Spiritual Activities on Earth : 2 lectures London
Paperback, 34 pages. Published 1946 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Translated by Frances E. Dawson. Lectrues of August 30, 1922 and September 2, 1923.
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