Results of Spiritual Research

In a previously-unavailable series of talks to the general public,Rudolf Steiner builds systematically, lecture by lecture, on thefundamentals of spiritual science – from the nature of spiritualknowledge and its relationship to conventional science, the path ofpersonal development and the task of metaphysical research, tospecific questions on the mystery of death, the meaning of fairytales,the significance of morality and the roles of individual figuresin human evolution, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and JacobBoehme.At the time of these presentations, Steiner had already worked inBerlin for many years, and thus, ‘…could reckon with a regularlyreturning audience to whom what mattered was to enter ever moredeeply into the areas of knowledge that were newly opening up tothem’ (Marie Steiner). As a consequence – and through ‘a series ofinter-connecting lectures whose themes are entwined with oneanother’ – he was able to communicate a coherent and challengingspiritual perception of reality, based on his personal research.Presented here with notes, an index and an introduction by SimonBlaxland-de Lange, the 14 lectures include: ‘How is SpiritualScience Refuted?’; ‘On What Foundation is Spiritual ScienceBased’; ‘The Tasks of Spiritual Research for both Present andFuture’; ‘Errors of Spiritual Research’; ‘Results of SpiritualResearch for Vital Questions and the Riddle of Death’; The World-Conception of a Cultural Researcher of the Present, HermanGrimm’ and ‘The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century’.