Preface AT Whitsuntide this year an international Congress of the Anthroposophical Movement was held at Vienna under the title of East and West. Seventeen hundred people were present from all parts of Europe. It was an inspired gathering, held in a city where Eastern and Western elements have met and mingled for many centuries. Dr. Steiner gave two courses of lectures on Anthroposophy and Knowledge, and Anthroposophy andS ociology. The problem of East and West, spiritually considered, was the main theme. The Viennese public felt the message and gave him a great ovation, a sign that his lectures, with all their intensity of thought, had been appreciated and their impulse understood. The Congress opened boldly with the clear statement that the problems of to-day are to be solved neither on economic nor on political platforms, but only on the basis of a new spiritual understanding, a creation of fresh spiritual values and ideals. Dr.
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The ancient wisdom of the East is explored and examined through Western consciousness by Rudolf Steiner in this collection of nine enlightened lectures. Photographic reproduction of the 1922 English translation.
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