Rudolf Steiner e.Lib 

The ancient myths were an expression of great truths about the nature of the universe and human development. Through mysterious, lively images, they describe a people's knowledge of their origins, their place in the cosmos, and their particular state of consciousness. Because our modern consciousness has become so abstract, these stories challenge us to exercise another kind of consciousness if we want to experience their truths and reunite with the realities behind them.

In these lectures, Steiner looks at the Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew myths and illustrates how the myths expressed the consciousness of the people of that time. He sees in the Osiris-Isis story an expression of the loss of a direct experience of the supersensible world. He shows the connection between this loss and the challenge we face today to bring new life to our abstract ways of knowing.

These lectures are a tremendous inspiration to transform our head knowledge into heart knowledge and to lift the veil to spirit and know our place in the past, present, and future.

Known Publications:

• Mysterienwahrheiten und Weihnachtsimpulse. Alle Mythen und ihre Bedeutung. Geistige Wesen und ihre Wirkungen. Band IV. German language editions: 1980. ISBN 3-7274-1800-1,
• Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times, consists of 3 lectures: Schmidt numbers, S-3455, S-3456, and S-3457. They are in typescript form with London refs. NSL-58, 59, 60. The translator(s) are unknown.
• Ancient Myths, Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution, consists of 7 lectures: Schmidt numbers, S-3461, S-3462, S-3463, S-3464, S-3465, S-3466, and S-3467. The publisher was the Steiner book Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1971, and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1978, and 198?. The translator was M. Cotterell. ISBN 978-088010-377-0, Paper
  
• Ancient Myths and the New Isis Mystery, consists of 8 lectures: Schmidt numbers, S-3461, S-3462, S-3463, S-3464, S-3465, S-3466, S-3467, plus one additional lecture, The Quest for Isis-Sophia, Schmidt number S-4364. The publisher was the Anthroposophic Press, New York in 1994. The translator was M. Cotterell, with revisions by James H. Hines and Mado Spiegler. It is essentiall the same book as, Ancient Myths, Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution. ISBN 9780880103770 Paper
  

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