CONTENTS

 

 1.        Introductory

 2.        Childhood and Youth

 3.        Vienna and the Discovery of Goethe

 4.        At the Goethe Archives in Weimar; Nietzsche and Haeckel

 5.        The Turn of the Century

 6.        Theosophy and the Beginning of the Public Mission; Christianity versus Orientalism

 7.        New Impulses in Art; Eurythmy and the Mystery Dramas

 8.        The Founding of the First Anthroposophical Society and the Building of the First Goetheanum

 9.        The War Years and the Threefold Social Order

10.       The Founding of the Waldorf School and Its Influence throughout the World

11.       Growth of and Opposition to Anthroposophy in the External World: 1919-1922

12.       New Foundations; The General Anthoposophical Society

13.       The Summit of Achievement; The Annua Mirabilis of 1924

14.       The Crossing of the Threshold

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

 

Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch