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Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric Legacy of 1924
Series
2
The First Class of the Michael School
Recapitulation Lessons and Mantras (CW 270)
Rudolf Steiner and T. H. Meyer
Edited by T. H. Meyer
Translated by Jannebeth Röell, Paul V. O'Leary and James Lee
Edited by T. H. Meyer
Translated by Jannebeth Röell, Paul V. O'Leary and James Lee
Hardback
October 2018
9781621482130
More details
- Publisher
SteinerBooks - Published
9th October 2018 - ISBN 9781621482130
- Pages 250 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
$35.00
“Why does the Guardian of the Threshold stand there? The Guardian of the Threshold stands there because true knowledge can be achieved only when we approach it with the right, well-prepared, inward attitude of mind and a genuine desire for knowledge. There is nothing theoretical about truly striving for knowledge. True striving for knowledge is achieved only when the soul lifts itself above all that is offered by the sensory world.”
—Rudolf Steiner (April 3, 1924)
This volume supplements Rudolf Steiner’s First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps (2017). It contains the so-called recapitulation lessons given in various places, including Dornach, from April 3 to September 20, 1924. While the book does not introduce any new mantras, it offers new forms of presenting and explaining many of them.
This supplemental volume presents a real discovery—two recapitulation lessons given in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), on June 12 and 13, 1924. The lessons were discovered only recently in the archive of Eugen and Lili Kolisko. The lessons (first published in German by Perseus Basel in 2016) were written in shorthand and deciphered by Elea Gradenwitz, published here in English for the first time, with the kind permission of Andrew Clunies-Ross, grandson of the Koliskos. Attentive readers will find in these Breslau lessons a discussion of the Guardian of the Threshold not found in any other lessons.
The commentary in this volume by the editor T. H. Meyer sheds light on two striking modifications in the lessons. First is the introduction of Rudolf Steiner’s Michael and Rosicrucian signs. Second is the new function assigned to Ita Wegman following Rudolf Steiner’s return from England at the end of August 1924. Both actions were motivated by, as Steiner called it, a “betrayal” of the mantras that occurred in London.
The classes were originally published in German in Esoterische Unterwiegungen für die Angehörigen and der ersten Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum 1924 (4 vols.), Dornach 1992 (GA 270). This book was originally published by Perseus Verlag in Basel, Switzerland, with the title Der Meditationsweg der Michaelschule: Ergänzungsband: Die Wiederholungsstunden in Prag, Bern, Breslau, London und Dornach, 2016
CONTENTS:
Preface to the First English Edition by T. H. Meyer
Foreword to the German Edition by T. H. Meyer
The Recapitulation Lessons of the Michael School
First Lesson in Prague
Second Lesson in Prague
Lesson in Berne
First Lesson in Breslau
Second Lesson in Breslau
Notes of the Second Lesson in London
First Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Second Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Third Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Fourth Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Fifth Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Sixth Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach in Dornach
Seventh Recapitulation Lesson in Dornach
Passages Omitted from the Text
Mantras of the Michael School in English and German
Afterword: The Nineteen Steps of the Meditative Path and Its Expected Continuation
Rudolf Steiner’s Blackboard Drawings (in color)
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner (b. Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner, 1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. Steiner termed his spiritual philosophy anthroposophy, meaning “wisdom of the human being.” As an exceptionally developed seer, he based his work on direct knowledge and perception of spiritual dimensions. He initiated a modern, universal “spiritual science” that is accessible to anyone willing to exercise clear and unbiased thinking. From his spiritual investigations, Steiner provided suggestions for the renewal of numerous activities, including education (general and for special needs), agriculture, medicine, economics, architecture, science, philosophy, Christianity, and the arts. There are currently thousands of schools, clinics, farms, and initiatives in other fields that involve practical work based on the principles Steiner developed. His many published works feature his research into the spiritual nature of human beings, the evolution of the world and humanity, and methods for personal development. He wrote some thirty books and delivered more than six thousand lectures throughout much of Europe. In 1924, Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches around the world.
T. H. Meyer
T. H. Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1950. He is the founder of Perseus Verlag, Basel, and is editor of the monthly journal Der Europäer. He has written numerous articles and is the author of several books, including Reality, Truth, and Evil (2005) and major biographies of D.N. Dunlop and Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz. He also edited Light for the New Millennium (1997) describing Rudolf Steiner’s association with Helmuth and Eliza von Moltke.
