
These four lectures reveal one aspect of how humanity has been guided spiritually throughout history: the etheric and astral bodies of great Initiates and avatars were preserved, duplicated, and woven into leading personalities of history. Steiner gives numerous examples of this process but says that such inspired people are now a rarity. We have, however, the possibility to elevate ourselves in future times to where we can receive into ourselves the Christ. This, indeed, is humanity's greatest goal. This volume along with Rosicrucian Esotericism completes the bulk of the German volume GA 109.