Aelzina BooksThe Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner: Volume 243
Das Initiaten - Bewußtsein. Die wahren und die falschen Wege der geistigen Forschung.
Initiation-Consciousness. The True and False Paths of Spiritual Investigation
Section of the Complete Works: Private Lectures to the Members of the Anthroposophical Society
First German Edition published 1927.
Notes about the German versions of this volume:
1st edition 1927. Reprinted 1955, 1960 and 1969. 4th revised edition 1983, reprinted 2004. Professionally stenographically recorded by Helene Finckh, the text is based on her initial typed reconstruction. For the 1983 edition the entire text was compared against the original stenogram, a process that revealed a number of errors in the reconstruction that were then corrected. Portions of the text that remain unclear are indicated in the notes. Additions to the text as of the 1983 edition are indicated with square brackets.
Lectures in this volume: 11
1924-08-11 Torquay
1924-08-12 Torquay
1924-08-13 Torquay
1924-08-14 Torquay
1924-08-15 Torquay
1924-08-16 Torquay
1924-08-18 Torquay
1924-08-19 Torquay
1924-08-20 Torquay
1924-08-21 Torquay
1924-08-22 Torquay
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:
True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation
11 lectures Torquay
Hard Cover, 224 pages. Published 1969 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..
Notes on this edition: New translation by A. H. Parker, 1969.
True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation
11 lectures Torquay
Hard Cover, 224 pages. Published 1969 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..
Notes on this edition: New translation by A. H. Parker, 1969. Reprinted 1985.
Initiate Consciousness
Truth and Error in Spiritual Research
Hard Cover, 180 pages. Published 1928 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker.
True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation
11 lectures Torquay
Hard Cover, 224 pages. Published 1927 by Anthroposophical Publishing Co..
Notes on this 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.
Alchemy
The Evolution of the Mysteries
Paperback, 96 pages. Published 2001 by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Notes on this edition: Three selected lectures; introduction by Andrew Welburn. Extracts from GA's 223, 229, 232 and 243.
The Goddess
From Natura to the Divine Sophia
Paperback, 96 pages. Published 2001 by Sophia Books.
Notes on this edition: Collection of lectures on the divine feminie. Excerpts from lectures (not complete lectures)
Nature Spirits
8/19/1924 : 8 Lectures
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
The Archangel Michael
His Mission and Ours : Lecture of 8/11/1924
Paperback, 319 pages. Published 1994 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Edited by Christopher Bamford. Contains appendix: Johannes Trithemius: "Treatise on the Secondary Causes, i.e. Intelligences or Spirits who Move the Spheres according to God." Lectures from GA 56, 93a, 110, 121, 152, 174a, 178, 194, 219, 223, 229, 233a, 2
The Archangel Michael
His Mission and Ours : Lecture of 8/21/1924
Paperback, 319 pages. Published 1994 by Anthroposophic Press.
Notes on this edition: Edited by Christopher Bamford. Contains appendix: Johannes Trithemius: "Treatise on the Secondary Causes, i.e. Intelligences or Spirits who Move the Spheres according to God." Lectures from GA 56, 93a, 110, 121, 152, 174a, 178, 194, 219, 223, 229, 233a, 2
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