The Rudolf Steiner Archive

From the Epilogue by Marie Steiner

Rudolf Steiner continued the train of thought that is not concluded here in other works. He himself describes the writings “A Path to Self-Knowledge” and “The Threshold of the Spiritual World” as a kind of continuation of what is given here. “Cosmology, Religion, and Philosophy” is a further enhancement in the power of the luminous description of meditative processes of knowledge, as is the little book “The Life of the Soul.” Rudolf Steiner reached the peak of his formulation of supersensible insights in the last year of his life, when he left us his “Guiding Principles for the Anthroposophical Society” and his “Letters to the Members” as a legacy, which have now been published under the title “The Michael Mystery.” They are the conclusion and crowning achievement of the work begun here for the esoteric education of the consciousness of humanity. Those who still find it too difficult to work their way through this alone should read and experience the profound explanations of Carl Unger in his work “Aus der Sprache der Bewusstseinsseele” (From the Language of the Consciousness Soul). You will gain immeasurable benefit from this. These letters, which Unger wrote for a circle of members and then for the magazine “Anthroposophie” and which were collected and published as a book after his death, are the most vivid elaboration of this powerful material, transforming processes of knowledge into processes of life. Here, in one soul, what Rudolf Steiner wanted to awaken in his students has been accomplished: thinking has become life again. The language of the consciousness soul finds its way to the lost word that Rudolf Steiner snatched from death and gave back to humanity.