Karmic Relationships Lecture Series: During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws of reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of certain named historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner’s words, the study of karma is ‘. . .a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the course it takes lie those processes which are the basis of the other phenomena of world-existence. . .’

The various volumes cover different aspects of the complex nature of karma and how these have come to expression in the lives and influences of a large variety of historical figures as well as in the development of the anthroposophical movement itself.

Like all of Steiner’s descriptions of spiritual matters, the Karmic Relationships lectures are the result of fully conscious and discriminating spiritual examination of the karmic history of each historic individual under consideration and were not the result of mediumistic ‘channelling’, trance states, theory, tradition or speculative hunches.