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Goethe's Standard of the Soul
GA 22

Published in German as: Goethes Geistesart in ihrer Offenbarung durch seinen “Faust” und durch das “Märchen Von der Schlange und der Lilie.”

This treatment of Goethe's mystic/esoteric philosophical outlook approaches questions by examining two of his literary masterpieces, Faust and the fairy tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.

Goethe's Standard of the Soul (1925)

This treatment of Goethe's mystic/esoteric philosophical outlook approaches questions by examining two of his literary masterpieces, Faust and the fairy tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. This book, a First English Edition published in 1925, was translated from the German by D. S. Osmond. It is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung in Dornach, Switzerland.


Goethes Geistesart

Dieser Band vereinigt drei Texte in denen Rudolf Steiner auf die in Goethes Werk enthaltenen Spuren esoterischen Wissens eingeht. In diesem Zusammenhang ist in besonderer Weise die Interpretation des Goetheschen „Märchens“ als eine imaginative Verarbeitung und Weiterentwicklung von Schillers ästhetischer Theorie von Interesse.