Rudolf Steiner and the Fifth Gospel

by Selg, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780880107075
• ISBN10: 0880107073
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr

Summary

Rudolf Steiner received the Fifth gospel-unrecorded events from the so-called lost years of the life of Jesus, obtained by grace and by spiritual research into the Akashic Record-as a "sacred obligation" to which he experienced a deep sense of responsibility. However, he never finished the project of unveiling it. Had he done so, not only Anthroposophy but also Christianity would have received an enormous spiritual gift: a concrete, soul-filled description of the Mystery of Golgotha. His deeply moving and often startling lectures in 1913 are thus fragmentary, giving the near-tragic impression that because those who heard or read them did not take them up with sufficient seriousness and inner dedication, humanity has suffered an inestimable loss.

Author Biography

Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, including Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher, The Figure of Christ, The Therapeutic Eye, and A Grand Metamorphosis. He is married with five children.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
"I owed it to the Fifth Gospel, which I hold sacred"	p. 5
Rudolf Steiner and the Lectures on the Fifth Gospel
"The facts of the life of Christ Jesus"	p. 37
From the Contents of the Fifth Gospel
"The evils hold sway"	p. 107
The Lectures Are Discontinued
Notes	p. 119
Literature Cited	p. 163
About The Ita Wegman Institute	p. 167
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