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The Mystery of Death
GA 159

Here are fifteen lectures, five of them untranslated as of this publication date, given by Rudolf Steiner at various cities in the first half of the year, 1915. They are from the lecture series entitled, The Mystery of Death (also known as The Secret of Death, published in German as, Das Geheimnis des Todes. Wesen und Bedeutung Mitteleuropas und die europaeischen Volksgeister.

The translation is based on Das Geheimnis des Todes, volume 159/160 of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works (Gesamtausgabe), published in German by Rudolf-Steiner-Verlag, Dornach (Switzerland), second edition in 1980. Copyright © 1967: Rudolf-Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung Dornach.

Except for the poem at the end of the talks, the translations of the verses were taken from Our Dead, volume 261 of Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works, edited by SteinerBooks, Copyright © 2011.

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.

I.The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members January 31, 2024
II.The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life February 19, 2024
III.Spiritual Science and the Mystery of Death February 21, 2024
IV.The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving March 07, 2024
V.The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events March 13, 2024
VI.Moral Impulses and Their Results March 14, 2024
VII.Cosmic Effects on the Human Members During Sleep May 07, 2024
VIII.The War, an Illness Process May 09, 2024
IX.The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies May 13, 2024
X.Central Europe between East and West May 15, 2024
XI.Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman May 18, 2024
XII.Spiritual Science as an Attitude June 13, 2024
XIII.Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us June 15, 2024
XIV.Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being June 17, 2024
XV.Overcoming Death through Knowledge June 19, 2024