These lectures constitute an important chapter in Steiner's commentary on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to the "language of the macrocosm."

Introduction by Gunther Hauk
With an essay on the Art of Joseph Beuys by David Adams

Steiner began this series of lectures on bees in response to a question from an audience of workers at the Goetheanum. From physical depictions of the daily activities of bees to the most elevated esoteric insights, these lectures describe the organic wisdom of the beehive and its connection to our experience of health, culture, and the cosmos.

The path of an individual human life-our biography-is something of a mystery. Despite the abundance of published biographies and autobiographies of celebrities and historical figures, the scientific study of human biography remains in its infancy, with little understanding of the inherent laws in the path of an individual's life. Yet as Rudolf Steiner shows here, every biography, regardless of the individual's fame, perceived importance or outer success, is ruled by archetypal influences, patterns and laws.

Although he had previously presented his insights into the Book of Revelation a number of times, in 1924 Steiner ventured to give a completely new perspective — in response to a request by priests of  The Christian Community — by relating the subject closely to the work of the modern priest.

with an introduction by Saul Bellow

The widespread permeation of our thinking by material science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has created a troubling disparity between the inner experience of human consciousness on the one hand and the conclusions about life that have been drawn by science on the other. These two "worlds" conflict perpetually in our daily experience.

For this crucial dilemma Rudolf Steiner suggests a solution that goes beyond the "boundaries of natural science."