These lectures demonstrate (to paraphrase Shelley) that artists truly are the unacknowledged legislators of the age
Translated by Robert Lathe
This volume of Steiner’s Collected Works is unique in that it showcases a survey of both early written works and later lectures to anthroposophic audiences
giving suggestions as to how they may be carried out
Encountering Rudolf Steiner - Intro to Essential Works health These lectures demonstrate (to paraphraseThe deep aim, or intention, of an introduction (understood esoterically) is a living understanding, or, as the poet William Blake put it, the ability to catch the bird in flight and fly with it. If successful, this makes it possible for any reader to hear or translate, into his or her own understanding, what Rudolf Steiner is offering, within and beyond his words, in these texts of The Collected Works. Christopher Bamford Rudolf Steiners writings and