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Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum
Volumes One to Four (CW 270)
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Virginia Sease, PhD, Julian Sleigh and Simon Blaxland-de Lange
Translated by George Adams, Michael Wilson and Johanna Collis
Introduction by Virginia Sease, PhD, Julian Sleigh and Simon Blaxland-de Lange
Translated by George Adams, Michael Wilson and Johanna Collis
Hardback
January 2021
9781855845824
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Rudolf Steiner Press - Published
8th January 2021 - ISBN 9781855845824
- Language English
- Pages 1728 pp.
- Size 6" x 9.25"
$125.00
4 Volume Set: 19 lessons; 7 recapitulation lessons; 4 individual lessons, Dornach, Prague, Berne, London; Feb.–Sept. 1924 (CW 270)
During the reestablishment of the Anthroposophical Society as the General Anthroposophical Society during Christmastime 1923–24, Rudolf Steiner also reconstituted, as the School of Spiritual Science, the Esoteric School he had led in three classes from 1904 to 1914. At the same time, he also extended its scope by adding artistic and scientific Sections. However, owing to his illness and subsequent death in March 1925, he was able to make only a beginning by establishing the First Class and the various Sections.
The actual step from the Esoteric School to the School of Spiritual Science was nevertheless an exceptional one. The Esoteric School from Helena Blavatsky’s time had been secret. Its existence was known only to those who were personally invited to participate. By contrast, the existence of the School of Spiritual Science was made known in the public statutes of the General Anthroposophical Society. From the Christmas Conference onward, Rudolf Steiner worked within this publicly acknowledged framework.
The Class lessons comprise a complete spiritual course of nineteen fundamental lessons, given from February until August 1924, with several lessons given elsewhere, and seven more lessons from September 1924, which take up the themes of the first part of the nineteen lessons in a modified form.
This authentic, accurate, and high-quality bilingual edition—containing both English and German parallel texts—is published in conjunction with the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. This compact, four-volume clothbound set features plates with Rudolf Steiner’s handwritten notes of the mantras and reproductions of his original blackboard drawings in color.
The translations of the mantric verses have been reworked by a committed group of translators, linguists, and editors to express the subtleties of meaning, grammatical accuracy, and poetic style while retaining the original sound and meter of the German mantric forms. Three versions of the existing English translations are also included.
These volumes are translated from the German texts, Esoterische Unterweisungen für die erste Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum; 4 Volumes (GA 270).
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.
