This collection of lectures surveys a wide range of scientific subjects from a spiritual perspective. This is the first time such a catalogue of Steiner's lectures on so many scientific subjects has  appeared in one volume, giving the reader a good general view of his heightened scientific approach as well as insight into many individual subjects as examined with spiritual perception.

At the time of these lectures Steiner was planning to inaugurate the second section of the Esoteric School, which was to deal in a direct way with a renewal - out of his own spiritual research - of ritual and symbolism. He gave these lectures as a necessary preparation, to clarify the history and nature of the cultic tradition. He thus discusses principally Freemasonry and its background, but also the Rosicrucians, Manichaeism, the Druids, the Prometheus Saga, the Lost Temple, Cain and Abel - and much else besides.

Theosophy is a key work for anyone seeking to know the fundamentals of spiritual reality as described by Rudolf Steiner.

In this foundational work, Rudolf Steiner describes the human being in terms of his various physical and spiritual principles, leading the reader carefully from the obvious physical component and successively bringing to view each of the more subtle members and their particular characteristics. He places the human complex within the stream of time, detailing the course of development of the various members in the distant past, those which are especially being elaborated in our present, and those which will only come to fruition in the distant future.

Theosophy is an essential work which should be studied before exploring more advanced subject matter.

Rudolf Steiner Press
Written 1904, GA9
Trans: M. Cotterell and A.P. Shepherd
164pp; paperback
ISBN: 0-88010-373-6

In Transforming the Soul - Volume 1, Rudolf Steiner describes various soul tendencies and predispositions which must be transformed in order to arrive at a healthy, mature and reliable understanding of oneself and of the spiritual realms which give rise to the world we live in.

In Transforming the Soul Volume 2, Rudolf Steiner speaks about the nature of the human soul and shows how it can be metamorphosed and raised to a higher consciousness, offering practical exercises to assist the aspirant's progress.