Rudolf Steiner, Public Lectures

The Architects' House in Berlin, Wilhelmstraße 92/93, where Rudolf Steiner gave many public lectures.

→ See also: Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works and Rudolf Steiner on the lecture transcripts

With the dawn of the 20th century, Rudolf Steiner began "to share publicly what anthroposophy contains as knowledge of the spiritual world". Recognising the signs of the times, he broke with the old tradition according to which esoteric knowledge could only be passed on in special places to a few personalities who had been prepared for it, and held many hundreds of public lectures in Germany and other European countries until the end of his life.

„I saw myself confronted with the conditions of the spiritual life of the present. In the face of these, secrecy, as it was a matter of course in older times, is an impossibility. We live in the time that wants publicity where any knowledge appears.“ (Lit.:GA 28, p. 389)

GA

Title

GA 51 On Philosophy, History and Literature. The Berlin Public Lecture Series ("Architects' House Lectures") GA 52 Spiritual Doctrine of the Soul and View of the World GA 53 Origin and Goal of Man. Basic Concepts of Spiritual Science. GA 54 The World Riddles and Anthroposophy. GA 55 The Knowledge of the Supersensible in our Time and its Significance for Today's Life. GA 56 The Knowledge of the Soul and the Spirit. GA 57 Where and how to find the spirit? GA 58 Metamorphoses of the Life of the Soul, vol.1, Nine Lectures, Berlin 1909. GA 59 Metamorphoses of the Life of the Soul, vol.2, Nine Lectures, Berlin 1910 GA 60 Answers of Spiritual Science to the Great Questions of Existence GA 61 Human history in the light of spiritual research. GA 62 Results of Spiritual Research GA 63 Spiritual Science as a Life Good GA 64 From fate-bearing times GA 65 From Central European Spiritual Life GA 66 Spirit and substance, life and death GA 67 The Eternal in the Human Soul Public lectures outside Berlin and university courses GA 68a On the Essence of Christianity GA 68b The Cycle of Man within the World of Sense, Soul and Spirit GA 68c Goethe and the Present GA 69a Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research. Spiritual Science and the Future of Man GA 69b Knowledge and Immortality GA 69c New Christ-Experience GA 69d Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science GA 69e Spiritual Science and the Spiritual Goals of Our Time GA 70a Human Soul, Destiny and Death GA 72 Freedom, Immortality, Social Life GA 73 The Complementation of Present-day Sciences by Anthroposophy GA 73a Specialised Sciences and Anthroposophy GA 74 The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. GA 75 The Relationship of Anthroposophy to Natural Science. Foundations and Methods GA 76 The Fructifying Effect of Anthroposophy on the Disciplines. GA 77a The Tasks of Anthroposophy in Relation to Science and Life GA 77b Art and Anthroposophy GA 78 Anthroposophy, its Roots of Knowledge and Fruit of Life GA 79 The Reality of the Higher Worlds GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy GA 80b The Inner Nature and the Essence of the Human Soul GA 80c Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and the Great Questions of Civilisation of the Present Day GA 81 Impulses for Renewal in Culture and Science. Berlin University Course. GA 82 So that the human being becomes fully human. GA 83 Western and Eastern World Contradictions. Ways to their Understanding through Anthroposophy. GA 84 What did the Goetheanum want and what should Anthroposophy do?

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: The Story of My Life, Authorised Translation Edited by H. Collison, CW 28, Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London 1928 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Mein Lebensgang, GA 28 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-0280-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated. Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com. Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English. Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA) Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.