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The Michael Mystery
GA 26

This book is a collection of 29 letters to the members of the Anthroposophical Society. These letters are in addition to the eighteen letters contained in the previous collection, The Life, Nature and Cultivation of Anthroposophy.

These letters and guidelines were among the last writings by Steiner. Their significance has yet to be fully recognized. This is a human guidebook for the 21st Century. Translation by Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood,
revised by George Adams

Foreword to this Edition
I:At the Dawn of the Michael Age
II:The Human Soul before the Dawn of the Michael Age
III:The Pre-Michaelite Way, and the Way of Michael
IV:Michael's Task in the sphere of Ahriman
V:Michael's Experiences in the Fulfillment of his Cosmic Mission
VI:Mankind's Future and the Work of Michael
VII:Michael-Christ in Man
VIII:Michael's mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom
IX:World-Thoughts in Michael, and World-Thoughts in Ahriman
X:Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul (I)
XI:Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul (II)
XII:Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul (II, continued)
XIII:Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul (III)
XIV:A Christmas Contemplation: the Mystery of the Logos
XV:Heavenly History, Mythological History, Earthly History. The Mystery of Golgotha
XVI:What is seen on looking back into Man's repeated Earth Lives
XVII:What is seen on looking back into Man's previous Lives between Death and new Birth (I)
XVIII:What is seen on looking back into Man's previous Lives between Death and new Birth (II)
XIX:What is the Earth, in reality, in the Macrocosm?
XX:Sleep and Waking, in the Light of the previous Observations
XXI:Gnosis and Anthroposophy
XXII:Man's Freedom and the Michael Age
XXIII:Where is Man as a Thinking and Remembering Being?
XXIV:Man in his Macrocosmic Being
XXV:Man's sensing and Thinking Systems in their Relation to the World
XXVI:Memory and Conscience
XXVII:The apparent Extinction of the Knowledge of the Spirit in the New Age
XXVIII:Historic Upheavals at the Dawn of the Spiritual Soul
XXIX:From Nature to Sub-Nature