Youth and the Etheric Heart: Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the Younger Generation (CW 217a)

Addresses, Essays, Discussions, and Reports, 1920 –1924 (CW 217a)“All knowledge, even purely scholarly knowledge, must merge into pure artistry.” —Rudolf Steiner, February 14, 1923Youth and the Etheric Heart, which comes to twenty-first-century readers in the somewhat deceptive wrapping of a historical document of Rudolf Stiener's addresses to young people during 1920 to 1924, is (at least for those concerned with the future of Anthroposophy or with the future of spiritual life in general) one of the most extraordinary and prophetic volumes in the collected works. This book is intended by its editors to be supplementary to the central turning point of the movement, the 1922 "Pedagogical Youth Course," published as Becoming the Archangel Michael's Companions. Together, they present Steiner's vision for Anthroposophy as he hoped it would permeate culture through young people able to take it up as a spiritual, intellectual, and socially transforming path. The task, which underlies the who