Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Serpent and the Beautiful Lily

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The Ferryman and the Two Will-o'-the-Wisps; Illustration of Goethe's Fairy Tale by Gustav Wolf (1922)

Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily is the last story in the cycle of novellas «Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten», which was first published in 1795 in the journal «Die Horen» edited by Friedrich Schiller. The fairy tale shows in pictorial form how man can enter into a conscious, free relationship with the supersensible world in a form appropriate to the age of the consciousness soul. Goethe's secret revelation, as Rudolf Steiner also called the fairy tale, formed the starting point for the development of anthroposophy (see below); Steiner's detailed reflections on this can be found, for example, in GA 53, p. 329ff and GA 57, p. 23ff. Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas were also based on the fairy tale (Lit.:GA 14).

Literature

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.

Musical settings

  • Wolfgang Krause Zwieback speaks "Das Märchen" by J.W. von Goethe, CD, HÖRSTURZ Vertrieb online
  • Lutz Görner: The Fairy Tale. Cassette. With accompanying book, vgs-Verlag 1998
  • Stefanie König reads "The Fairy Tale" by J.W. von Goethe YouTube