This is a First Edition English translation of ten never before translated lectures from volume 61 of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Work. Original title: Menschengeschichte im Lichte der Geistesforschung. This lecture series is also known as: Human History in the Light of Spiritual Research.
The translations of Goethe's Faust were taken from: Faust I and II, edited and translated by Stuart Atkins, Princeton University Press, paperback printing 1994. Copyright © 1984 Suhrkamp/Insel Publishers, Boston, Inc.
Some translations of Goethe's poems were taken from: J. W. von Goethe 103 Great Poems, edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York. Copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.
The quotations of the Bible follow the text of The Revised English Bible. Copyright © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1989.
Here are these ten new public lectures, and links to the six lectures that were already at the RS Archive. All were held in Berlin from 19 October 1911 until 21 March 1912. This lectures are presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 61, GA 61, CW 61.
Thanks to an anonymous donation, this Lecture Series has been made available.
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