Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher: From Recollections of Those Who Knew Him

“He listened extremely attentively, apparently not looking at me at all, but totally devoted to my words.” —Franz Kafka “The only love that you can show me is to call me anytime, day or night, when you need me.” —Rudolf Steiner to Friedrich RittelmeyerFor Peter Selg, if Anthroposophy to be a living reality, we must learn to know and love Rudolf Steiner as he appeared to those who knew and loved him: namely, as a spiritual teacher. To help us do so, he gathered recollections of those of who knew Steiner personally—“historical witnesses to the ‘living phenomenon’ of the ‘figure of the teacher.” It is his hope that these firsthand accounts will help readers see and experience the amazing, ever-mysterious person that Rudolf Steiner was—a dynamic, energetic “dual citizen” of both the spiritual and the physical worlds. He moved constantly between these two realities, while his whole life was dedicated in service to the spiritual evolution of humanity. Nonetheless, he was also deeply sociable