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Foundations of Esotericism
Grundelemente der Esoterik (GA 93a)
A course of thirty-one lectures given in Berlin in autumn 1905 to a restricted circle, setting out Theosophical cosmology, planes, races and esoteric development; known from attendees' notes. The notes come mainly from Marie von Sivers.
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Authorship note
A lecture cycle: text established from stenographic transcripts or listeners' notes, for the most part not revised by Steiner; he himself warned that such texts lacked the reliability of his written books. Steiner died in 1925: the content is in the public domain; modern editions and translations carry their own rights.
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English
Rudolf Steiner
Foundations of Esotericism
The Conscious LibraryFoundations of Esotericism
Rudolf Steiner Press, 2019
ISBN 9781855845619
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- Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom · 1895
- Goethe's World View · 1897
- Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age · 1901
- Christianity as Mystical Fact · 1902
- Theosophy · 1904
- How to Know Higher Worlds · 1904
- Cosmic Memory · 1904
- The Stages of Higher Knowledge · 1905
- The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy · 1907
- An Outline of Esoteric Science · 1910
- Four Mystery Dramas · 1910
- The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity · 1911
- A Way of Self-Knowledge · 1912
- The Threshold of the Spiritual World · 1913
- The Riddles of Philosophy · 1914
- The Riddle of Man · 1916
- Riddles of the Soul · 1917
- Goethe's Standard of the Soul · 1918
- Towards Social Renewal (The Threefold Commonwealth) · 1919
- The Renewal of the Social Organism · 1961
- Cosmology, Religion and Philosophy · 1922
- Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts · 1925
- Extending Practical Medicine (Fundamentals of Therapy) · 1925
- The Course of My Life (Autobiography) · 1925
- Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900 · 1960
- Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901 · 1961
- Collected Essays on Cultural and Contemporary History 1887–1901 · 1966
- Collected Essays on Literature 1884–1902 · 1971
- Biographies and Biographical Sketches · 1967
- Essays from the Journals Lucifer and Lucifer-Gnosis 1903–1908 · 1960
- Philosophy and Anthroposophy: Collected Essays 1904–1923 · 1965
- The Goetheanum Idea in the Midst of the Present Cultural Crisis · 1961
- Writings on the History of the Anthroposophical Movement and Society 1902–1925 · 2019
- Letters, vol. I (1881–1890) · 1985
- Letters, vol. II (1890–1925) · 1987
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- Truth-Wrought Words · 1925
- Sayings, Poems, Mantras: Supplementary Volume · 2002
- Dramatizations I: Plays by Édouard Schuré · 2021
- Dramatizations II: The Oberufer Christmas Plays · 2023
- Drafts, Fragments and Paralipomena to the Four Mystery Dramas · 1967
- Anthroposophy, A Fragment · 1910
- The Temple Legend · 1904
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- Rosicrucian Wisdom · 1907
- The Gospel of St John · 1908
- The Apocalypse of St John · 1908
- The Gospel of St Luke · 1909
- Manifestations of Karma · 1910
- The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls · 1910
- From Jesus to Christ · 1911
- The Bhagavad Gita and the West · 1912
- The Fifth Gospel · 1913
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- Economics: The World as One Economy · 1922
- Lectures and Courses on Christian Religious Work · 1921
- The Christmas Conference · 1923
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Sources
- Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Dornach / Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Basilea: Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (GA).
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